Dayton tribune., January 29, 1925, Image 7

Spillway of the Great Wilson Dam Is Opened
The » ■ plllwny of the Wilson dam nt
Muscle Nlioul« went Into notion with
n rush and roar, and the turbulent
of the Tennessee river •!«*-
part of the crane track Used
during the construction of the huge
project.
Sailless Sailing
Ship For Future
San Juan Memorial to Roosevelt Is Dedicated
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Major General Harbord (in front of flag) speaking at the dedication of the Roosevelt Memoria1 " ’S battlefield
San Juan Hill, Cuba, Just after It bad been unveiled by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.
Meteorite Is Memorial
for Heroes of War
Beatrice, Neb. — A gigantic
•tone, weighing many tons, said
to be a fallen meteor, accord­
ing to the stories told by old
settler« of the vicinity, has been
removed from Its earthly bed.
south of the city, and placed In
the city park. Sixteen horses
and two weeks’ time were re-
qulred to transr>ort the stone
half a mile to the park.
It will be uMd as a memorial
to those who gave their lives
in the World war. Their names,
engraved In a bronze tablet, will
be set In the stone.
Driving Your Own
Motor in Europe
Washington Man Tells of
Nove! Adventures.
and alone over roads which have cost
more than tlie thoroughfares In Amer­
ica and which were built centuries ago
and come after a while to discount
every derogatory remark of the inhabi­
tant as regards to the bad roads of his
country.
"Years ngo a Dutch friend of mine
who was in Johns Hopkins as profes­
sor predicted that the bicycle would
disappear because It was only a fad.
Imagine my surprise to find bicycles
In bls country in such quantities
that, like locust swarms, they blocked
tlie wheels of traffic. I never saw bo
many. Every family must have one
for each member of It. And they nev­
er try to get out of your way at all, but
take up as much room as they want
and crowd you off Into the ditch, so to
speak. But the streets are so narrow
and so crooked that it is impossible
to go fast, and consequently it is quite
as safe driving about as it Is to run
a machine through a crowded garage.
Frontiers Easy to Pass.
“Before I came I heard that at each
boundary I would have difficulties of
ail sorts to go through with. This Is
a mistake. It is about as easy to pass
a frontier now In a car as it Is to
back up to a gas tank and take tn
ten gallons of gas. You show your
carnet de voyage, the officer writes out
a leaflet and the stub and detaches It
and bows you through. Not one ugly
word or sign of Impoliteness have I
had shown me either by customs offi­
cials, Immigration officials, or police­
men. Even when I was arrested on
Piccadilly by two policemen because
my car had a bumper and the bumper
concealed the license rag and the po­
liceman didn't understand what the
bumper was for. Anyway, I parted
with a laugh on their faces when I
told them that we had in Washington
104,000 cars with bumpers, and that If
I bad done what they directed me
to do—viz., turn right around in a
crowded street—they would
have
me for that act The
arrested
only real quarrel
I have with
London Is that they will not allow
you to park cars on the deserted side
streets unless you tip someone to
watch the car. I think the Idea comes
down from the days of horse traffic
when the horse might run away. There
are a few widely separated parking
places designated by the police, but
utterly useless to one who wants to
do any business. And this, mind you.
where there are but a small fraction
of the cars which we have in our
American cities.”
Washington. D. C.—S'celng England
by paddling a Canadian canoe, touring
Hons a minute. In the case of a Mil- •
Holland In a canal boat, and, more
New Invention Relie» on Air Ing te««o| therefore its per cent of the : J
recently, viewing the continent from
power
Is
produced
by
the
wind
acting
«
for Power.
the air afford new'th. ills—and so
Opon tlie cylinders, while only 2 per : J
did
the novel adventure of a Washing­
cent
Is
contributed
by
the
small
lieriin.—The «ailing vessel of the
motor ; »
ton man w ho drove his o vn auiomo-
future will be without »all* if the new that oue person can attend to.
blle through London and continental
Tlie rotor Kblp can be - made
Anton Flettner.
.. -— to re j t
Invention of
cities.
verM
Its
direi
tlon
by
merely
reversing
|
J
known in th« Flettner rotor.
David Fairchild, famous plant ex­
the motor.
Io turn the boat about,
to be all that I» claimed for It.
plorer,
writes
to
the
National
Instead of wooden masts, rigging one cylinder Is made to turn In one di­
Geographic society of his expo, iences
and aalla, tlie new equipment will coii- rection «nd the other In the opposite,
E amid new traffic conditions, lunging
«1st only of metal musts, resembling juat ns In rowing one turns by pulling
from horse dray and pushcart obstruc­
at
one
<»nr
and
pushing
the
other.
•inokesiack«, rei oli ed on tlielr axl»
1 he fact that the changes of speed dent of the society, explained that th» tions to a congestion of bicycle riders,
by a mot or. Esperimenti wlth n 050-
organization win directed, under th« as follows:
ton hull, lltted a» abovc set forth. bave or the reversing of the motor can be
i terms of Its constitution, to preserv«
“Well. I should say the wny to have
done
Irmtnntaneously,
the
ma
kps
shown that with one-fifth
11 pos-
' and restore buildings connected wltt experiences in Europe Is to come in
welght of the customary masts anil Bible for the new ship
n storm
the early history of the United States your own hand-driven car, leaving ev­
•all« the rotor «hip can develop 15 quite ns en si I y as It move« In clear
( Before the World war it sent 13,000 t< ery vestige of a professional chauffeur
time« the wind power of the ordinary
: England to restore the manor.
behind, nnd poke around through the
The Flett nor
look upon the
•ailing vessel. 1 he rotor ship docs
The greater part of the $100,00( narrow streets and the beautiful high­
not huve to be hauled out of the har­ rotor »Up in n mere beginning along
was given by the dames themselves ways of these remarkable countries.
bor by a tug It «tarts the minute the the road of gaining energy froIn the
i but generous aid was also receive«
"It win something of an accident
cylinders, driven by a »mull Diesel air. Some day the wind may be glv-
from the public. Not a dollar has beer which landed us In Europe with the
Ing
us
bent,
light
nnd
power.
Doctor
begin to rotate. Tills motor
deducted from the subscriptions on ac one hundred and fortieth automo-
handled by one person on the Flettner observes. He Is therefore ..1
count of collection expenses, all oi bile to cross the Atlantic this year. It
bridge, end all the crew formerly nec- work on the construction of n windmill
which were paid by the societies or by was my stubborn disbelief In the In­
essary for sailing cun be dl«|»enwd or wind tower which. If perfected. will
Individual dames.
formation I got. which varied from the
mean
thnt
the
American
farmer
with. From an economic standpol int
can
statement that It was just as expen­
the Inventor claim« that from 30 to reduce his coni bill to n minimum, and
sive to travel in Europe as it Is in
It will
HO per cent cun be saved on fuel If take energy out of the air.
-- —
Snow Worms Bore Into
America, to the discouraging one that
mean,
the
Inventor
declares,
that
fly
tlie rotor device is Installed.
Glaciers Like Hot Wire It would be difficult to drive in London
The Hamburg American line has or­ Ing across the ocean will become a
because they drive to the left there,
dered the construction iff a HMMSMon •Itnple tiling, for instead of running the
Seattle, Wash.—Snow worms have
and the streets are so congested that
freighter which Is to «all with rotors I rl-k Of getting out of fuel the aviator been found In the Cascade mountain-
<—---------------------------------------------------- -
a man cannot drive for himself at all.
Instead of anils, nnd the whole ship­ will draw his energy from the wind.
of Washington and on glaciers and
"The misinformation about motor-
are very fond of a certain vari­
Their Horn» Easily Harmed, They
ping world Is Inquiring into the adapt­
mountains In Alaska, Trevor Kincaid,
Ing In Europe which exists on your
ety of tuber that grows in profusion
professor of zoology in the University
ability of the Invention to passenger ! Raise $100,000 Fund
Says Hunter.
side Is colossal. If you can Interview
In Africa. Therefore snares are bait­
»hips.
of Washington, declared after an in
people nnd speak a little of the lan- !
ed with this luscious food, and in that
vestigatlon.
The principle on which tlie new
New York.—The most difficult ani­ way they are easily captured. Onca
guages of the land you visit, .motor-
New York.—The ancestral home In
ship operates has been explained by
“The mow or Ice worm Is not really
Ing In Europe is the only way by mal to catch alive Is not the ferocious caught in the snare, the guards rush
Herr Freudenberg. Doctor Flettner'» England of George Washington. Sul pink an many assert, but Is more of a
grave manor. In Northamptonshire, will brownish hue," said Professor Kin­ which you can compare It with Amer- Hon, the tiger, the elephant, the hip- forward and throw nets over the
right-bund num, ns follows:
henceforth be maintained nnd pre­ caid. "The brown pigment in its skin Ie on the same plane. If you have a popotamus or the bear, but the Atri- heads of the monkeys, thus preventing
Air Course Studlsd.
car at home and run about every can antelope, according to Ellis 8. them from escaping.
"Supposing n current of air »trikes served by the Income of n fund of is a source of heat which enab’es the
where and come here and depend on Joseph, who has spent a lifetime,
“I had a pet chimpanzee which {
a smooth cylinder, such as a smoke- $100,000 raised In this country by the worm to bore its way through glacier taxis, you
will not learn any more nearly, studying the habits and the took with me on one of my journeys
National
Society
of
the
Colonial
Dames
ice
like
a
heated
wire.
It
grows
to
• tack or the cylinder of our rotor,
the country than you would haunts of wild animals of the jungle Into the interior of West Africa. In
a length of about an inch, feeding on about
whut will happen? Tlie air will paM of America.
and the forest. He has captured alive the Jungle I took the chain off my pet
with
taxis
In America.
Mrs.
John
IL
Lamar,
national
presl-
debris In the Ice."
to the right and to the left of the
I have found the garages small and nearly every kind of aulmal known. and,let him roam at large in his na­
cylinder about evenly. Now suppose
dark affairs, but they cost only from i His catches are always In great de- tive haunts. No, he did not run away
one half of the cylinder were covered
25 cents to 50 cents a night. I have ma nd by zoological gardens and cir- and return to his natural element. He
with some rough surface, such as
left tools In the car continually and cuses.
disappeared Into the wilderness, but
sandpaper, what would happen? The ,
Mr. Joseph claims Australia as his he returned after a few days, glad to
nothing has disappeared. I have been
air current, 'oilowing the Unes of
arrested in London and have a letter home, though it is apparent that he see me again.
least resistance, would pass off toward
from Scotland Yard excusing me—for spends the greater part of his time In
Homs for a Visit
the smooth side *11011 only very little
really, the reasons for the arrest were wild, out-of-the-way places, where wild
“It was as though he had simply
of It toward the roughened side.
technical ones, pure and simple.
animals and savages ..bide and where gone home to visit his relatives and
"In other words, the air current will
the face of a white man Is still a told them that he was prospering In
A “System” for Driving.
go where there la least resistance to >
I can find my way all over that strange and terrifying object. While civilization and Intended to remain
It. Suppose next thnt we begin to j
town, nnd my ’system' is as simple as । In New York, Mr. Joseph makes his among men. Thereafter the chimpan­
turn the smooth cylinder by some me­
A B C. I get the best map possible home at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
zee came and went at will. Sometimes
chanical means, «uch ns an electric |
“The African antelope is extremely he would be gone two or three days,
nnd place my son on the front seat and I
motor. As it revolves, one side of It, I
he calls out the streets, and unless we , difficult to catch alive and unhurt," but he always came back.
the disappearing side as you look at |
get started wrong, we go right through said Mr. Joseph, “because of Its ex-
“Chimpanzees grow to be very
It from the front, will be moving In I
the narrowest streets and alleys of 1 treme delicacy, particularly of Its large. It Is not unusual for them to
tlie name direction In which the air,
thnt great Jumbled up thing called horns. Unlike the horns of the elk or reach the weight of 300 pounds when
current Is moving, while the other
deer, the horns of an antelope are per­ full grown. It is not known Just what
London.
• Ide will run counter to the air cur- I
"I wandered In and out of the tiny manent. They do not shed them In the average length of their lives Is.
rent. Nnturally the air, following the |
little streets and got an idea of Lon­ certain seasons, and If these horns are Eighteen years Is the longest any have
Unes of least resistance, will pass off ;
don which It is Impossible to get wlth- broken or injured the damage is Ir­ been known to live In captivity, but,
toward the side where the cyllndei 1
out n cur of your own. London has a reparable.
on the other hand, the age when cap­
turns with the wind.
"The traps set for antelopes must be tured was not known.
terrible traille problem to face. She
“It follows thnt If the cylinder Is
must either give up the idea of speed- watched day and night. As soon as an
"The chimpanzee is extremely In­
turned faster than the velocity of th«'
Ing her commerce and get it up on antelope la captured the guards must telligent, and there seems to be no
wind there Is absolutely no friction
tires, or broaden scores of streets and rush forwai I Immediately to pre\ ent limit to the things they can be taught.
on the one side for the air, and the
run through broad avenues somewhere. the high-strung animal from smashing They become very attached to hu­
whole current will be deflected to that
“In Holland there are still so few his horns.
mans and are very affectionate and
one side with such vehemence and
Lions Easily Caught.
automobiles that there Is not yet any
demonstrative—too much so at times.
with such crowding together of cur-
“Lions, on the other hand, are the I had a big chimpanzee at one time in
problem of traffic. You travel solitary
rent that auction ensues on the side
easiest animals to capture. A cage 1« Australia.
Once when going on a
revolving with the wind,
while on
made In the jungle by setting tall, j
I left him in the zoo at Syd­
n
the side coming up against the wind
9 strong stakes firmly in the ground, | Journey
ney until I should return. I was gone
n pressure against the cylinder Is
J Gigantic' Bust Found
upon which a roof is fastened. A about eight months that trip.
produced.
sliding door that drops from the top
“When I came back I went to see
in Old African Tomb
"This combination of auction on one
is then arranged with ropes, pulleys my pet. As I entered the cage he sim­
«
Tripoli.—While Count Glusep-
side of the cylinder nnd of pressure
and weights In such a manner that the ply went crazy with delight at seeing
* pe Volpl. governor of Tripoli,
on tlie other forces the ship forward
llghest touch of a rope will cause the me nagin. He threw his arms about
» was visiting the excavations at
and sails enn be dispensed with.”
door to drop. The rope is placed in me and began to bite my face, which
J Snbrnta, the most important of
Steel Supports Cylinders.
such a position before the opening of is one of their ways of expressing af­
» the Phoenician tombs, recently,
The revolving or rotating cylinders
the cage that the lion is sure to touch fection. But this time his Joy over­
J
there
was
unearthed
a
glgnntlc
nro mounted on strong musts of
it as he bounds in to get at the bait— came his Judgment, and Instead of bit­
f bust which is believed to repre-
steel. In the enke of the experimen­
usually a live animal—which is used ing gently, as he meant to do, he Just
J sent the African Jove. In ad-
tal ship, the Burkau, the steel musts
to lute him within.
about tore my face to pieces. It took
projected above the deck for a dis
• dltlon to the bust, n number of
“Once the door Is slid Into position 43 stitches to close the wounds.
tnnce of 40 feet, while the cylinders a h
( funeral urns and vases of great
Mr. Lion Is securely captured. Then n
"The chimpanzee is about the near­
which nre set upon the pivotal mast«
* value were discovered In the
cage with steel bars is rolled up to est approach to man In the scale of
like hoods, were 25 feet higher. They
« ruins of n neighboring temple.
the trap, with Its door Just opposite animal life. I have been much Inter­
revolve about Ilie pivots on ball bear
J The excavators also found a
the trap door.
The door is then ested in experimenting with finger­
Ings nnd turn noiselessly. The motor,
« statue of 11 Itoman emperor and
opened and. Just when the lion thinks prints of these monkeys. So far I
using only 2 per cent of the power thnt
he is making a dash for freedom, he have finger-printed about fifty chim­
Tlie newest mid fastest scout cruiser In the United Stines navy, the U. 8. J 11 quantity of decorative mar-
would be needed to drive the ship 8. Trenton, shown on speed trials In mld-Atlnntlc making 11 speed of 34.7 knots » Ides of the highest artistic qual-
tinds himself securely fastened In the panzees, ami I find that there Is as
with n propeller, enn turn the cylin­ per hour. The Trenton Is the ship thnt recently brought back to the United ; By.
steel cage.
much difference In the prints as there
ders at the rate pf about 110 rovolu- Suites the body of Captain Imbrle who was slain by fanatics In Persia.
I:................................................. u “Monkeys are captured by guile. Is In the finger-prints of men.”
African Antelope
Hardest to Catch
Trenton Showing Her Great Sn^ed