The morning Astorian., June 21, 1908, FIRST SECTION, Page 6, Image 6

THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 03.
IN NORTH WATERS
Interesting Experiences in the
Far Nortnern Watersj
TOLD BY CAPT. JA. M. BABER
Explains How the Natives of the
Siberian Coast Hunt Whales and
Other Thrilling Tales of Naviga
tion in Distant Sea. s
As interesting as the tales of early
pioners are the stories of Captain A.
M. Baker, of the schooner Sophia
Johnson, which left last week for the
Siberian Coast, and other far north
ern points says the Railway and Ma
rine News. The Johnson is a craft
of about 25 tons and has been recent
ly purchased by Messrs. Baber and
Compbell from a Port Angeles party.
She has been fitted out with an Auto
matic engine from the Hallidie Ma
chinery Company, and installed by
C. H. Markey & Co. Captain Baber
formerly owned the schooner Evie
and has been engaged for a number
of years in trading, on the northern
coast. On this passage out the little
schooner will carry everything to
delight the heart of the native of the
northern land. Among her cargo is
much bright colored cloth for the wo
men folks and many guns and am
munition for the men. Speaking of
his work, Captain Baber says:
"There is nothing like this life for
me. We leave Seattle and go down
the straits and out into the broad Pa
cific. There is that sense of freedom
that the folks at home can never feel, j
We have our hardships and the taste
of danger, but at the same time we
do not care much wether school keeps
or not, and we do not look every
morning for the daily paper. From
Puget Sound we will go to Pribloff
. Island. Here I have permission from
Secretary Strauss to stop, and secure
pictures of the seal herds. These are
for moving picture concerns and will
be the first ever taken. From here we
head off in a northwesternly direction
and bring up on the Siberian Coast
at the Adnir River, where I meet the
governor and secure my permit for
trading there. Next we work along
the coast and probably across to
Nome, sometimes in July, and then
back to the Siberian Coast again.
hardly thing this coast suitable for
the American trapper or hunter, be
cause the natives can sell so much
cheaper. The coast here is like that
of Nome. For several hundred miles
back it is treeless and with sparse
vegetation. Then the country gets
mountainous and heavily wooded
Here is the home of the cinnamon
bear, while along the coast is the fox
and many other fur bearing animals
The coast natives go whale hunting;
too, and secure the whale as they
swim down the narrow chanels among
the ice floes. They use the whale gun
for getting them. This gun is practi
cally thrown at the whale and is ar
ranged so when the whale is struck
the charge in the gun is' fired by
spring trigger. This is turn gets off
the heavy bomb loaded with "tonite."
This may be, perhaps, six or eight
feet in the body of the whale. If the
shot strikes in the back of the neck
it means the death of the whale, as
the destruction wrought by this bomb
is trrilk. The whale will turn over
and float bottom up and is soon in
the hands of his captors. If the shot
is not effective a dozen may be fired
into him before he is killed. 1 have
seen twelve shots fired into one of
them. The bone is a good source of
revenue, though last year I lost some
money on it. When I reached Seattle
I was made an offer for my bone, but
as the market was sliy I thought I
cotild do better in San Francisco. On
the way down on the President I re
ceived a wireless message which stat
ed that the whaling fleet had reached
San Francisco with a record cargo of
whale bone and the price had taken
a big drop. As this was just before
luncheon it rather took my appetite,
but I have laughed about it since.
"We have some heavy weather in
the north, and I must say I have seen
the wind blow there. I remember
one instnee when the wind blew so
hard that the seas were fairly smash
ed flat. When the wind died down
there was a swell that made one sigh
for green fields. In this storm we had
to cue and run before the gale and
the schooner seemed to jump from
one swell to the other, and I thought
she would pound herself to pieces.
Again we have the ice and sometimes
it picks a boat up and we drift along'
with it for a time, i remember one
time when 1 was busy trading and the
crew were nil below I felt the boat
grate and upon looking out found
that we were surrounded by an ice
sec. We were carried by this several
t.i v
"Navigation in some of the localit
ies there is extremely difficult. I re
call one time in the Kuskowim River
there had been a hard wind that had
banked the water up and we went
sailjng along before a gale until we
piled up on top of a sand bar. The
wind failed; the water went down
and left us about five miles from the
channel. I thought we were there for
a long time, and went up the stream
a couple of miles to get a steamer,
that was moored there, to help us out
They would not move to our aid for
less than two hundred dollars and
this I had to pay before they would
start. They came down the next day
and just as they got a line on and
h.nl hrenm tn null tlir wind ram nn
again the water also, and we floated
off and I was just $200 in the hole."
Captain Baber can spin yarns by
the hour of adventures in this north-
ern country. He is a great believer I
m the gasolene engine and states they
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going in mere strung, ne nas i
traveled a great many miles as ship-
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imucs wuii uns power nu u nas nui i
failed him yet. His schooner carries I
a crew consisting of two engineers,
master, mate and two sailors. He will I
probably be back on Puget Sound at
the close of navigation.
M'CLOSKEY'S WOES
St. LOUiS Nationals Badly In Need
nf PJXinnprl Ptavpr!
HAS GOOD PITCHERS GALORE
Willing to Trad Any On of Them For
Crack Infielder or Outfielder to Steady
Hi Team Triad to Gat Lobert, th
Redi' Infielder.
Manager' John McCloskey of the St
Louis Nationals Is having bis troubles.
Many of the Mound City critics are
prone to deride Mack, all because his
"kid" team is not playing first cIsbs
ball.
The great trouble with McCloskey
has been that his Inflelders are too
young. He is suffering from too many
"kids." Mack would give some of bis
seasoned pitchers if he could get a
seasoned man of thirty for his infield.
Where will he get the inflelders?
Echo answers. "Where?" But with a
couple of clinking pitchers to trade in
the National league a man should be
able to do some business. Every team,
save Chicago, wants pitchers. Me-
Closkey needs a good shortstop to
steady his team. But where can he
get a shortstop? How many of tnein
are there In the National league?
Pittsburg would not part with Wag
ner under any consideration. Phila
delphia would not let Doolin go.
Tinker is not obtainable. The others
-Dahlen, Bridwell, Hulswitt, Lewis
would not lie of any use to strengthen
the team or to ruu an infield. For a
shortstop McCloskey is up against it
McCloskey also needs an outfielder
of the Fielder Jones or Fred Clarke
sort Even a man like Davy Jones of
the Detrolts, with leading qualities.
would be a treasure to McCloskey. He
could trade a pitcher for such a man.
But where Is the man in the National
league? Arthur Hoffman of the Chi
cago Cubs would do in either position.
aicuosKey can afford to give up a
great pitcher like Karger for Hoffman.
But, then, the Cubs do not need Kar-
ger. iney do need HOiTraau. So what
can you do.' I-or another good man
lie could give up another good pitcher
But where is the man ?
W ith his great pitching staff, with
the weakness of pitchers of all other
clubs save China go. McCloskey mb-'bt
be able to do something In the way of
trade. Yet could he get Arthur Devlin
for Karger or Joe Tinker for Raymond
or for Karger? McGraw's pitching
staff at prenent Is very weak. Yet
would he trade Devlin for the best
pitcher lu the league? Hardly. Devlin
is all McOraw has to trade. Plttubur;
has uot much in the pitching line. Yet
would Clarke trade Wagner or Leaeli
for the best of McCloiikey's twhiers?
l'tiiiaueipiiia s pitebitig staff Is not
very strong. Hut Murray probably
would deride the offer of Karger for
Sherwood Mageo.
The Bostons have uot any Inflelders
or, outfielders to trade that would help
Mack any. Hans Lobert of Cinein
nafl, whom Mack tried to uet ox
hanged for McOlynu and Beebe,
would have strengthened the team.
but still Mnel: should have a veteran to)
steady the out ru:d in field.
Pitchers r.re said to be 05 per cent of
a baseball team's strength. Eighty per
cent of a perfect team would svln tbe
hamplonship. If McCloskey could add
1') per cent more strength to his team
he would probably nave nearly a pen
nant winner. He cannot even get 1."
per cent, which would give him a posi
tion iu the first division.
In other words, outside of his tea:n
pitchers, McCloskey has a weak tea:;:
which, it must be admitted, js bar
lueii.
THETANTALUM LAMP
A Great Improvement In Incan-
I ' daerant I lnk wwr
MORE LIGHT AT LESS j COST
Tantalum Was First Discovered at
Finland in 1803 and is Harder Than
the Hardest SteelMakes an Ex.
cellent Filament.
Through all the long ages of arti-
fical light man has hungered for the
natural sunhine. Every new illumin
ant from thc ''rcbnd to the electric
arc has bef " heralded as approaching
nearer the white light of "Old Sol"
which is the goal for which the inven
tors of electric light are striving. The
light from art ordinary carbon fila
. ... ......
mciu mcanuesccnt electric lamp is
inclined to be yellow and this fact
. i .- i ..
ucuars u irom such tine work as
matching colors or selecting cloths
under its rays. If the carbon would
stand a higher degree of heat thi
fault could be easily remedied by
raising the temperature of the fila
ment until it was white hot. But to
raise the temperature lowers the life
of the lamp.
Exepriments to improve tbe incan
descent light have been continuous
since Thomas A. Edison first produc-
ed the lamp twenty-five years ago,
but until a few years ago nothing was
ivuitii lane llic l-'iaiC Ul W1C
carbon filament. The chief fault
the carbon filament is that it
consumes too much current and can
not be mantained at a sufficiently
high temperature. Experiments were
carried on for years to find a sub
stitute for the carbon filament which
would not only stand higher tempera
tures but give more light with less
current and consequent cost per
' hour.
All efforts to make a suitable fila
ment out of well-known metals result-
i ed in failures because they melted too
easily. It remained for Dr. Werner
Von Bolton, of Germany, to discover
a pure form of the rare metal tanta
lum which could be made into lamp
filaments. These new filaments made
a tar better incandescent lamp than
was ever known before. The new
lamp sJved over a third in the amount
of mrent med and fc .f ,
, . ,. , , , .
whl hht of almost thc same com-
position as sunlight.
Tantalum is a rare metal found by
the scientist Ekeberg, in 1803, in a
material obtained from Finland. It is
black in color with a metallic luster
and is so hard that it is soluble only
in hydrofluoric acid. The ores from
which this metal is extracted are
found only in a few places on this
earth. Pure tantalum is harder than
the hardest steel and can barely be
scratched with a diamond; it will not
rust; its fusing point is exccedinglly
high; it may be rolled into the thin
nest sheets or drawn into the finest
wire. At first the metal was very rare
and costly. It existed previous to
Von Bolton's experiments in a very
impure form so brittle that nothing
could be done with it. N'ew deposits
of tantalum have recently been open
ed up in North Dakota and Australia
which have reduced the cost so it is
even planned to use the metal in
tools and delicate instruments.
The new tantalum lamp is practic
ally the same size as the ordinary in
condescent lamp. The length of the
filament is about twenty inches and
owing to this fact it has to be stretch
ed on a spider-frame in the interior
of the bulb and anchored at both ends
This accounts for the peculiar con
struction of thc interior wiring of the
lamp. So fine is this wire that one
pound of the metal will supply 20,000
lamps. The lamps can be buried in
any position and while they give the
longest life and best results on direct
current they can be economically used
on alternating circuits.
Thc real argument in favor of the
tantalum lamp is a saving of 35 per
cent, in the illumination of a building
now lighted by the ordinary incande-
scent lamps. This means that the
new lamp will give 35 per cent, more
lifht at the same exepense for cur
rent or a 35 per cent, reduction in the
ight bill , for the same illumination.
There is an increase of a few cents in
the first cost of a tantalum lamp but
this difference is more than made up
in a few weeks by the great saving in
current and the increased illumina
tion. ' :
This saving is best understood by
the following figures: One 16-candle-
power carbon filament lamp burned
six hours a day for 30 days at a IS
cent rate wuld cast $1.35. One 22
candlcpowcr tantalum., lamp burned
for the same length of time would
cost but $1.18 and would give 40 per
cent, more light. ,
The incandescent lamp is by far
the most popular light of the age. It
Is used the world over and any re
search or discovery which will re
duce the cost of maintaining and in
crease the illuminating power of these
lamps will be welcomed throughout
civilization. The old carbon filament
incandescent are nearing the obsol
ete class of illuminants, although the
General Electric Company alone pro
duced nearly thirty millins last. year.
The clay is far distant when they will
not be used in this country, although
the metal filament lamps are rapidly
taking their place.
Thc future of electric lighting is
speculative and transitory, Electri
cal engineers are constantly experi
menting in this field and coming re
sults cannot be even estimated. But
the results already attained are truly
wonderful.
COBB HAS EYE ON BALL
Detroit's Great Slugger Banging th
811 at Hard Ever.
Ty Cobb, clmmptou batsman of last
season and right fielder of the Detroit
team, la again demonstrating that be
Is tbe king pin sphere walloper of the
American league. Cobb Is now lead
ing the select circle of swatters in Ban
Johnson's dominion.
I.ast year, after the Tlgors won the
championship of their league, they ;
were defeated lu straight games by the j
Cubs for the world's championship
honors. Cobb was a rank failure aa
batsman In tbat series, and his slump '
was the talk of the baseball world. !
There has been much speculation as to
whether he would round to his last '
summer's form iu this year's race, and
that much talked of question has been
answered by Cobb himself.
The young right fielder of the Tigers
will 1h pveii a stronger man this year
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TYnuS COHB, CHAMPION IIATrF.lt AVP
JUUHT FIELUEU OF fcKTBOIT AMKK1CANH.
than he wu last, according to the wise
men in baseball, for his experience Inst
fall will he a good lesson to him. and
also his experience all through a hard
season like the Tigers went through
with last year should fit him better
for his work and help him make a
finer record.
F.M.Hanlin Lessee, Mgr.
Starting
Sunday, June 21
Indefinite stock engage- t
ment of the
Georgia Harper
Company
' With the charming t
emotional., actress, Miss X
Harper, and supported I
oy an exceptional cast ot I
lb artists.
Opening production
"NELL GWYNN" t
Box office opens Sat
urday at 11 a. m.
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mean from "Factory to wmm" with the leant pos
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Immune aoven finely itiulmiwd (uctorle covering
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one buyln; erntnr thrliy ruduclna- ih axed central
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pina to the tlmn you hur mini he Included In tha
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daily true of the Kimball Fatorb-e, and ttmn the,
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Shasta Route and Coast Line of the
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Through Oregon and California
Over 1300 miles of scenic beauty and interest attractive and instro.-
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scenic attractions, and introduces the traveler to the vast arena toon to
become the scene of the world's greatest industrial activities. There is
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presented excites wonder and admiration.
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