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BRITISH TRY TO
SAVE OLD SMITHY
Equal Rights Now in Brooklyn
Nevadana Recall
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The ohi timepiece, preaented
to the noted Nevada stage couch
driver In 1 StJ3. has works of
Englsh manufacture, and the
case, of 18-karnt gold and weigh
Ing 8% ounce* was made In
San Franflwn.
The watch bears this Inscrite
tlon: “Presented to Hunk Monk
us a testimonial of the apprecl-
atlon of tils friends for his skill
amI cnrefulm-sa as a whip.
“Keep your seat. Mr. Greeley;
I’ll have you there. December
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INVENTS BIPLANE
THAT HAS NO TAIL
By a recent order of the public service commissioner of Brooklyn, N. Y,
both men nnd women are permitted to smoke In the rear compartment of the
street car*. Here are seen the first two young women to take advantage of
their privilege.
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New Craft May Revolutionize
Art of Flying.
Photograph of the first portrait ever painted of George Washington, made
In 177« by Charles Wilson Peale,, when Washington was only forty four years
of age. It has just been brought back to this Country by the Jscques Selig
marni Galleries, and sohi to an American collector, after bring 150 years In
France.
Army Experts Have
New Rapid-Fire Gun
Seven-Millimeter Weapon
An Improvement
Washington. — Anny ordnance
attempting to solve the
perts
shoulder send automatic ride problem
through development of u new type of
reduced caliber weapon. This would
Increase by one-third th* amount of
ammunition thrt can t>e provided In
front lln*-a for the gun without any
Increase In weight.
J. 1». Pederson, Inventor and produc
tion engineer, has been rm doyed for
some time at Springfield armory to
turn out the new gun, known ne the
seven millimeter gun, and War depart
ment reporta siren ly show Important
advantages rlslmed for the weapon
an compared to the two types of stand
srd .BO-callber Shoulder automatics
with which the experts are also expert
ment lug.
The new gun s a .276 caliber as
compared to the 710 servite uni ni uni
lion standard.
nltlon would be resorted to. as the
shoulder gun Is designed only for use
against vhdble targeta
The gun Is the equivalent In weight
and size of the present Springfield
army rlfia It loads with a ten-car
tridge clip, ejecting the clip automat
ically with the last shot, and the gun
and 340 rounds of ammunition have
the same weight as the regular Spring-
field rille and 220 rounds of service
ammunition.
Because of the reduced powder
charge ano consequent reduced heat
ing effect, It can be fired more rapidly
and for a greater length of time with
out heating than either the Thompson
or Gerund ,30-callber guns, and Is also
said to be free of lubricating st-u
other mechanical difficulties which
make the bigger guns subject to
trouble under hard service conditions.
Santa Monica. CaL—A tailless Id-
plane, weighing leas than 600 pounds
which muy revolutionize aviation, waa
declared practical here recently by
Prof. A. A. Merrill of the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Cal., following what lie termed "sue-
cesaful trial flights’* at Clover field.
near here, of model planes.
Such a machine. In miniature. ■hot
catapult, sailed graceful Ij
from
through the air for a distance of more
than 100 feet and maintained a speed
of thirty-five miles an hour. It was
held perfectly balanced in the air by
artificial air currents furnished by four
motors
A man-sized plane, which will have »
wing span of twenty-two feet and a
length of nine feet from the propellet
to the tip of the fuselage. Is being
constructed at Venice, Cal., near here,
under the supervision of Professor
Merrill. It will be driven by a light
fonr-cyltnder motor-cycle engine. The
ship will be tested at Clover field upon
completion.
“The wings of the regular biplane
now used tn commercial aviation are
so constructed that the air strikes
them first and Is forced down and
upon the tailpiece, which eliminates
the pitch of the plane," Professor Mer
rill said In explaining his theory. “The
tailpiece was eliminated In the con
struction of models and gliders by de
termining a point of gravity, and sd
justing the lower wing of the tailless
plane so tiiat air currents strike the
two wings simultaneously. Although
the plane may have a greater tendency
to rise and fall than the ordinary type
plane. It will remain perfectly bal
anced."
“MY LADY OF MOP AND PAIL”
NOW FIGURE OF THE PAST
Against New A.nmunltlon Size.
The practical disadvantages of add
ing n new caliber of ammunition to
the supply line burdens are fully real
ised. and may ultimately prevent adop
tion of the sewn mHllmcter gun.
As the nrtny Is now eqttlpiicd, only
the regular JO-cnllber cartridges are
needed fo all rifles and machine guns,
nnd troops cnn be restocked with nm
munition from any depot or dump
Thia Is a very high power, long range
type of ammunition, and not suited t>
the probable short range use foreseen
In war for shoulder aemlautomntics.
Furthermore, It hns been found fnr
better results In the way of sustained
tiro, economy of weight nnd other par-
tlculaiz run be obtained with the
seven millimeter cnllhcr
One point already established Is thnt
the design of the Pederson seven milli
meter affords the best yet attained by
ordnance experts for quick quanltty
production. “There Is no reason to
doubt," the official report states, "but
thnt It will be easier nnd cheaper to
put Into production than any weapon
hitherto designed."
Electricity
Does
Work
Mor«
Satisfactoiily.
New York. —Office skyscrapers of
the $10.H()o,too type now entering
Fifth avenue mark the end of site» like
the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, nnd
also spell the passing of another fa
miliar figure of old New York, the
scrubwoman.
The scrubwoman, as sut h, no longer
exists In the latest office buildings In
the Wall street district downtown,
which Fifth avenue promises to follow.
Iler dlsnppearsncu In the older build
ings wl" *'o < nly n matter of time.
In the Equitable building, the larg
est office building In the world, scrub
women have been supplanted by men.
and her brush nnd water poll by on
electrical scrubbing machine.
The scrub woman herself, however,
does not exactly suffer by the change
She has been lifted from her knees
and her back breaking toll, It was said,
and metamorphosed Into a cleaning
woman. A dust cloth and light mop
are the weight of her present burden.
She Is even termed a “maid,’’ because
dusting of offices and freshening up
a linoleum floor Is deemed comparable
with housework.
A “motor-scrub,“ with a three-mnn
crew, takes care of corridors and main
hulls bearing the brunt of a building’s
foot traffic. The motor-scrub ptl t Is
closely followed by a mate plying a
rubber “squeegee." which draws up
the water, and by a third man, who
gives a finishing dry mop to the floor.
The trio I" the Equitable building
does as much as twenty ordlnar •
scrubbers In the snme time.
Solving Problems by Machine
Range of 1.000 Yards.
The new gun Is built for n rangi o.*
1,000 yards, the maximum distance nt
which rapid sustained fire would t>e re
quired. Beyond thnt range heavy tun
chine gun fire with regular .30 ammu
Public Accidents
Lead Death Toll
Hazard Tranaferred from
Industrie« to Street*.
By C. B. AUEL, President, National
Safety Council.
New York.—The world has become
mechanical—man power and horse
power (except as a unit of measure
ment) are falling Into desuetude.
"Harnessing .Niagara" was an achieve
ment. conveying Its force to great
distances was an accomplishment, but
to make Niagara freeze Itself into lit
tle cubes In the millionaire's kitchen,
brown the buckwheat cakes on the
foreman’s breakfast table and drive
the sewing machine In the thin) iloqr
back, transcends any of Aladdin's
mythical effort*
Not content with
harnessing mere coal deposits and riv
er* man harnessed the oil fields, and
with what result?—the development
of cheap anu light mechanical motive
power enabling him to flivver the sea.
flivver the air, and flivver the surface
of the land. See also what the gas
engine Is doing for the farms—the last
stronghold of horse power. First into
our Industrial life, next Into our pub
lic life and finally Into our home life
have crept the manifold applications
of power to dally need*
Power Takes Toll.
But, because power Is the applica
tion of the mechanical forces which
the human body cannot withstand,
power has taken and continues to take
Its toll of life and limb. The path >■(
Its application to man’s needs is
tracked with blood—first In the indus
tries some of which a decade ago were
called "slaughter houses," today upon
the streets where every man's life Is
In Jeopardy—perhaps tomorrow with
in our borne. Its latest field of con
quest.
Nature’s own efforts to project the
Individual of the species from the dan
gers of his environment are marvel
ous but they are Inexorably slow
Human efforts at protection will al
ways lag far behind the Inception nnd
even the conception of the hazard. It
seems thrt an Incredible number of
human beings must be killed or In
jured before the public conscience is
aroused. It Is true that the majority
of those Industrial establishments
which were termed "slaughter houses”
have at last become safe places in
which to work, but yet the automobile
has been allowed to take the toll of
100,00 Ilves In this country alone.
Notwithstanding our recognition of
wha' Is going on, the annual Increase
In automobile deaths has not been ar
rested. It Is our human falling not ">
foresee these evils and our human
weakness to close our eyes to their
appalling growth until we awake to
find. In their elmlnatfon. a huge no
tional problem.
Streets Now Danger Point.
transferring Itself to the field of pub
lie accidents. In other words to our
streets, our highways, our transpor
tation systems nnd our public build
ings. It Is following th« advance of
power, but whether, as we develop
public protective measures and there
by diminish public accidents. It will
transfer Itself to our homes, remains
to be seen—for today It is sufficient
to realize that the focus of the dis
order has moved into the public life
of the community.
The only new thing about the safe
ty movement in our day 1» that It is
a movement and not an Institution or
an Instinct n^d that Is wholly because
of the abnormally rapid development
of modern life. If life would slow
down as It did In prehistoric times
safety would be a family matter; it
would be part of the family discipline,
like not eating with one’s knife or not
lying In bed In the morning, both un
doubtedly prehistoric vices.
Hertford. England.—Strenuous effort»
are being made here and In other
agricultural districts of England to
save the picturesque old-fashioned vil
lage blacksmith from passing Into
oblivion.
The smith of England today is not
"tolling and rejoicing" to draw undue
attend«* to himself, but is “sorrow
ing” a great deal more than In the
days wi»-n Longfellow Idealized him—
all becatse of the advent of the auto-
mobile ajid the motor tractor.
In their desire to "save" the village
blacksmith the Hertfordshire county
council members announced recently
particulars ot a plan designed to keep
alive the decaying Industry which bas
been »♦ bard bit by the modern or
ganization of the big manufacturers
and their agents who supply standard
ized parts of farm Implements and
machinery on lines of mass production.
The ministry of agriculture, too. bas
become Interested In the scheme to
prevent the passing of the blacksmith
snd lias agreed to co-operate In th*
movement.
Special committees appointed to In
vestigate the plight of the smithy have
reported that there are many article*
in popular demand which cannot be
satisfactorily produced by factory
methods because of the skill end the
handiwork of the craftsman which
should count more than mere chesp-
With a view to giving the vili age
blacksmith a new lease on life, a spe
cial exhibit was arranged for the
recent Herts agricultural show, where
prizes were awarded for agricultural
Implements, wrought iron gates, scroll
work, door fittings, general utility
wares, such as weather vanes and um
brella and golf stands.
F. W. Spealght, director of the ex
hibit. has also proposed various other
schemes designed to prevent the
garage from replacing the blacksmith
shop and silencing the ring of the
anvil forever.
Cape May, N. J.—Cape May hens
have lined up on an economy program
and are conserving space by laying one
egg within another. Russell Scheilen-
ger, a farmer of Fishing Creek, near
here, while gathering eggs found what
he thought was a double-yolked egg.
On opening the egg he found another
complete egg Inside.
Tenement Army ot
Wall Street United
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Clubhouse i nd Playground
Provided by Corporation*.
New Y. rk.—Wall street with Its
skyscraper» houses an office population
of 800,000 Ly day and Is held by a
tenement garrison of 10,000 by night.
Wall street Is the sole livelihood of
thia skeleton force of nightfolk. In
discharge of a sense of obligation it
has quietly fostered an Interesting
piece of citizenship work the last ten
association operates either singly or In
conjunction with uptown agencies.
Irish pioneers, later joined by Aus
trians, Syrians and Greeks, bead the
census in downtown Manhattan, which
also Includes Slavs, Turks, Armenians,
Serbs, Rumanians, Scandinavians and
other nationalities seemingly too di-
verse ever to bring together. Yet
racial demarcations, socially conaid-
ered, are disappearing, association
beads assert.
Common Employment Has Helped.
Common employment bas helped to
The major result of the work, lead ward this coalescence. Wall street
ers say, bus been to convert the dis buildings like the Equitable, Empire
trict from New York’s most polyglot and the various banks carry on their
belt, with 1,400 families - representing payrolls for cleaning and other work
23 nationalities. Into probably its most some 3,731 women and 2,651 men of
closely knit, most homogeneous com- the neighborhood. They work spilt
tricks at the start and the end of the
munlty.
night, as a rule, and often double In
Financed by 1,000 Corporations.
restaurants at noon. Annual earnings
The work Is financed by 1,000 cor- for families in the district, with both
poratlotis. linns and Individuals under parents working, average $1,600 each,
the name of the Bowling Green Neigh according to Paul Franklin, .executive
borhood as.-oclations.
director of the association.
Group activities and the second gen
The activity Is expressed, for ex
ample. In terms of a model four-story eration of children have been the prin
dwellinghouse on West street for head cipal factors 4n the “get-together”
quarters ; a $500.000 playground cover phenomenon presented by the commu
ing nine city lots on the river front; nity, It was said. The association has
25 flourishing orchestras and clubs for long since dispensed with Interpreters.
young people; nine social and political Where grownups have not picked up
clubs and lodges for adults; educa English their offspring are on hand to
tional classes, health clinics and com piece out To all practical purposes
munity services in general which the , the 23 nations speak a common tongue.
years.
Unveiling Memorial to W. H. Hudson
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German* Seek Way
to Dodge Lightning
4 l I I I I I I H I I I I !■ W I I I H II
Eliminate
The center of gravity of accidental
deaths In the United States was prob-« ■|. Il l b I-l- h I I I I ■■l -H-b1 I I 1 I I 1 I I I I ! I I I' !■ I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I’ IbH-l-
ably nt one time sl uated in the Indus
tries, but since the Inception of the
safety movement it bus been slowly
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Berlin.— So ninny people hnve
been struck by lightning In open
fields In Germany recently thnt
German scientists have been
naked to find new safe places
where people cnn take refuge
during electrlcnl storms.
The belief hns always been
that open fields were plnces of
safety, but recently In Germany,
nnd especially In Silesia, people
have been killed nfter leaving
the protection of trees.
There Is n growing apprehen
sion thnt disturbances of the
ether by radio brondcnstlng
have upset the old fashioned
maxims, nnd thnt a new set of
Hiles about how to behave dur
ing electrical storms must be de
vised.
Tractor
Anvil Worker.
memorable ride In a stage coach
driven by Hank Monk when he
visited thia section of Nevada In
the early 'Ola was recalled re
cently when a gift watch to
Monk win brought to a local
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Mints Busy Turning
Out “Double Eagles'
Frank P. Gngc, Inventor, with Herbert R. Stewart, working upon the
machine devised by the former, and which Is Intended to solve all mathematical
problems. The Inventor claims for his device the mechanical ability to solve
within an hour a mathematical problem that ordinarily would take professor»
three or hour hours to solve. Students at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and at Harvard are keenly Interested In the machine.
Philadelphia. — The standard
coin of the old West Is coming
back Into Its own, according to
reports from the United States
ndnt here, as well as those in
Snn Francisco nnd Denver. AU
three mints have been specializ
ing In the coining of “double
eagles.” The Philadelphia mint
la turning out 31),000 of the $20
gold coins dally, which estab
lishes a new record for any one
plant. This coinage Is the re
sult of a law enacted by con
gress which provided that one-
third of the total outstanding
United States government gold
certificates must be represented
by actual specie.
Premier Stanley Baldwin (center left) watching the ubvelllng of the
W. H. Hudson memdrlal tn the bird sanctuary dedicated to that great writer
and nature lover In Hyde park, London.