The times., February 10, 1912, Image 4

THE TIMES
FORCE OF THE SEA
Terrific Power Is Generated When
a Cyclone Rages.
THEN THE WATERS RUN WILD
Ed Lewis, who rejoiees under the misnomer of “ orator” fo r the
PORTLAND CONSULAR AND
I. W . W., with a voice like a foghorn, stood on the streets the other
VICE CONSULAR OFFICES.
night and spewed forth anathemas against Portland clergymen, not
one o f whom has ever harmed, or attempted to. He heaped ridicule
The follow ing comprise the list upon the Christian religion. He even spoke o f Christ as “ the first
of consular and vice consular o f­
Baltimore’s police chief would punish pickpockets by amputating
fices represented in Portland:
their fingers, one at a time fo r each offense. Such a plan w ill never
Consular Offices.
become popular with the light-fingered gentry, anyway.
Chile— A. R. Vejar.
All Regularity of Wave Motion Cease«
aa the Sea Burets Its Bound»— G ra n­
ite Blocks Weighing a Thousand Tons
Tossed About Lika Pebbles.
WHITELAW REID, AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN.
O American diplomat has ever represented his country at the
court of St. James with such splendor as Ambassador Whltelaw
Held. His London residence is Dorchester House, one o f the
finest of the great houses in Park lane, the most exclusive
street o f the capital. His heme in the country is Wrest Park, Ampthill.
At both o f these the ambassador and Mrs. Held entertain most lavishly.
T h eir daughter, Mrs. John Ward, wifaTof the late king’s equerry, second
son o f the Karl of Dudley, Is one of the most popular young matrons in
London society. Mr. Iteid is the principal owner of the New York
Tribune and has crowned a notable newspaper career by service as
minister to France, ns member o f the Spanish-American peace commis­
sion and as ambassador to Great Britain.
N
M rs. W . H. Dewar, Fencer W h o
W o n International Laurels
China— Moy Back Hin, 233 Sec­
ond street.
Costa Rica— G. C. Ames, 732
Marquam building.
A pond troubled by a pebble elves a
comprebeuslve Idea of the mechanism
Germany— O. Lohan, 31 Hamil­
j o f the perpetual motion o f the ocean, ton building.
now slow, regular and majestic, run-
nine from horizon to horizon, now
Great Britain— James Laidlaw,
rushine In uneovernable fury nealnsf Ainsworth building.
I the land. When a pebble falls in a
pond It produces a fine circular line,
Japan— M. Ida,
219 Henry
which widens, multiplying until stop­ building.
ped by its boundaries. Just so is pro-
! duced the surelng o f the sea.
Mexico— F. A. Spencer, 4G Front
To judge from appearances, the street North.
swells transport the water toward the
circumference o f the poud. In point of
Peru— Barrette Carlos, care C.
I fact they do nothing o f the kind, as is II. Rasmussen.
easily proved by a match or splinter
Switzerland— A. C. Bigger.
o f wood being cast upon the water.
The match is hardly raised or lowered
by the passage o f the swell. The action
Vice Consuls.
In evidence is simply the transmission
j of motion, not the transmission of
I matter.
Belgium— C. Henri Labbe, Lab-
The fine waves of the sea are gen- be building.
1 erated by the wind as tine waves are
Chile— John Reid, 514 Lumber
generated by the wind when it ripples
j a Held o f grain ready for the harvest, Exchange.
j The waves that run over the field of
Great Britain— J. Ernest Laid­
grain ure real waves, often waves in
fierce action. The spears of grain are law, Ainsworth building.
immovably fixed to the ground by their
France— C. Henri Labbe, Labbe
roots, but every blade transmits its os­
cillatory movement to the next blade. building (consular agent).
Just so liquid molecules are formed.
Netherlands — John
W illiam I
In the middle o f a vast ocean, such
as tile equatorial Atlantic, for instance, Mathes, 213 Wells-Fargo building.
great regular undulations are seen mul­
Nicaragua and Honduras— R.
tiplying in parallels like the furrows
Chilcott,
306 M cKay building.
in a vast plowed field. On the broad
\ ocean the liquid mounds o f the sea rise
Sweden— Valderaar Liddell, 26
with every swing with more or less
North Sixth street.
- even regularity.
The muriner's imagination has given
the great waves of the high sea the
SUMMONS.
reputation of fabulous height. Relia­
ble authors have talked o f waves In the Circuit Court of the State o f Oregon,
For Multnomah County.— The Foott-Titus
mountain high and o f waves 120 feet
Machinery House, a Corporation, plaintiff,
vs. A. K. Carlson, defendant.
In height. Exact measurement has giv
To A. K. Carlson, the above-named defend­
en a closer estimate.
ant:
The waves of the high sea, o f the ma-
the name of the State of Oregon: You
1 jor oceans, attain the height o f fifty are In hereby
summoned and required to appear
feet under the exceptional conditions and answer the complaint filed against you
in
the
above
entitled action, on or before the
of a tempest in llio vicinity o f Cape
expiration of six weeks from the date of the
Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. first publication of this summons, to-wit: on
The surges here estimated are those iu or before February 10th, A. D. 1912, and, if
you fail to so appear and answer, for want
free circulation on the high seas.
thereof the plaintiff will take judgment
When a wave, whatever Its strength against you for the sum of Eleven Hundred
and Forty-Six and 22-100 Dollars and for
I or its weakness, meets a solid obstacle, the further sum of One Hundred and Fifty
whether that obstacle be a rocky cliff Dollars attorney's fee, and for the plaintiff’ s
and disbursements herein: and also for
or a ship, the swell rebounds to ex­ costs
the sale of certain attached property belong­
traordinary heights
Lighthouses ure ing to you, to-wit: 34 shares of the capital
of the Foott-Titus Machinery House, an
often swept by the sea from base to stock
Oregon Corporation, which property has been
summit.
duly attached in this aetjon.
The length of waves is between
This summons is published pursuant to an
twenty and thirty times their height, order of the Hon. W. N. Gatens, Judge of
the above entitled court, which order is dated
and the slope o f the sea's hills is very December 27th, A. D. 1911. The date of the
gentle.
A wave sixty feet high is first publication hereof is December 30th. A.
D. 1911, and the date of the last publication
I somewhere between 1,000 and 1.200 hereof
is February 10th, A. D. 1912.
feet long.
J. M. HADDOCK,
A t the axis o f the revolving tempest
Attorney for Plaintiff.
called a cyclone there are many wave
Date of first publication, December 30th,
systems, moving in all directions, A. D. 1911.
meeting and combining. When the cy­
Date of last publication, February 10th,
clone is in action the sen is said to A. D. 1912.
I “ burst its bounds."
At sueli a time all regularity o f wave
succession ceases, and the sea runs
I wild, with force beyond human power
to estimate. Blocks o f granite weigh­
ing from 1,000 to 1,200 tons are caught
by the sea and rolled like pebbles to
distances of 200 feet and more, and
sea walls are splintered ns by hatch­
ets. The “ live power" of a furious
seu is estimated by multiplying the
mass o f the surge by tile square o f its
speed.
When tlie surf. Impelled by the drive
j o f the broad spa. meets a solid obsta­
cle Its pressure Is thirty tons per
square meter of water. Tills estimate,
which Is close, explains bow water,
when continually sapping the foot of
a eliiT. breaks down the land, forces
i back tlie shore line and little by little.
(instantly and surely, increases the
‘ sea's domain
A wave from 33 to 3o feet high and
ti2o feet long—such a wave as tlie sea
produces every eighteen seconds—rep­
resents power of a Is >n t 1,350 horse-
power, steam, per square yard.—Hnr-
Itor's Weekly.
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Orators and Stimulants.
It Is believed that no modern legis­
lators keep themselves up to the mark
In the same danrerotis wav as some of
their predecessors In the Rrltish par­
liament
“ Husklsson told me." writes
I.ord Broughton, "that Lord Castle-
re n gh and Lord l.lver|tsd both took
ether to keep them golm: when speak­
ing He also tolti me that he once ask­
ed Mr. Wllberforee what made Ills fin­
gers so black, and Wllberforee told
him that lie was in the Imhlt of taking
opium before it long speech, 'and to
that,' said he. T owe all m y success ns
a public speaker.’ "
T
A Suggestive Song.
il K Uoloti\ Out) o f New York was recently the scene of an exciting
"Miss Soulshv lias not a particle of
fencing match between the Barones» de Meyer o f Kngland and Mrs
William II Pew nr o f Philadelphia, the contestants representing the tact.”
"W hat has she done now?"
women o f Kngland and the Knited States respectively. The baroness
"T h e other evening when Mr. Jng-
had been anxious for some time to meet a worthy antagonist among Am eri­
gles,
can society women, and. though, in the nature of things, it Is impossible
to who Is notorious for not paying
name a champion fencer among the women o f the United States and England, Ills debts, askisl her to sing she went
the victory o f Mrs Dewar may be said to entitle her to that complimentary to tlie piano and sang Trust Hint
distinction
The match lasted only seven minutes and was decided by the Not!’ " —London Telegraph
judges (who were men. though the Uolon.v is a women's club) as having been
won by the American by a score of - to 1. Mrs. Dewar has been studying
Not Affinities.
for the years under the direction o f a professional teacher o f fencing and ha»
Mistress—And why did you leave
had frequent practice with the members of the University of Pennsylvania your last place? Maid—Me and the
team and of the Fencers’ club of Philadelphia
The prize o f tlie Colony club missis was not congenial.—Harper's
contest was a silver cup given by Mrs Payne Whitney
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