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Trapshooters Compete in Match at Pinehurst SHOW TEXAS AS LAND GRABBER Testing New Bullet-Proof Glass x% sss M mêê A Maps Give It 1,875 Miles That Don’t Belong to It, Says Geologist. NO PROPER STATE MAP MADE Texas System of Land Survey Inher ited From Mexico and Spain— Current Maps Made by Many Individuals. A view of the mid-winter handicap shoot on the famous traps at Pinehurst, N. C. Marksmen from many east ern and southern cities competed. Air Liners to Link World ■se- each passenger, and about two tons o f mail and merchandise. To put it another way, 15 tons would be avail able fo r passengers, mails or haer- chandise. “ Comfort in aerial travel is essen tial i f it is to have any extended fu ture. The advantage of speed is thrown away i f the passenger is physically or nervously exhausted on Craft, With 100 Passengers Aboard, landing. But ample accommodations Expected to Fly From England can be provided for day and night to California in Four Days— travel.” Commercial Airship Is Al Sleepers Are Provided. ready a Success. A proposed car has been designed by PIan to Fly Giant Dirigibles From London to America, Aus tralia and Africa. SPEED 60 MILES AN HOUR London.— Plans are now under dis cussion here fo r linking up all parts o f the world by passenger air routes, on which giant dirigibles, flying two miles above the surface at 60 miles an hour, w ill join London with North America, Australia, India and South Africa. I f these plans are carried out air liners 800 feet long, equipped with berths, dining rooms, smoking rooms, libraries and observation plat forms, w ill . speed from England to San Francisco in four days, stopping to discharge passengers and mails at New York and Chicago. Each ship w ill carry 100 passengers, and the fare w ill be only 50 per cent more than present steamship rates. Shiite capa ble o f this service are now in com mission, and a trial passenger flight w ill be made to Egypt by a British government airship to determine the feasibility of opening such passenger routes. . , “ The commercial airship already has proved its sucqess,” said Sir T re vor Dawson of Vickers, Limited, When asked whether he thought the plan practicable. Vickers, Limited, is now building airships fo r the Brit ish government, and Sir Trevor is an expert on the lighter-than-air craft. “Day of Passenger Liner Here.” “ The success of the R-34 showed the possibilities , of a transatlantic service,” he continued. “ It is now only a question of building more and larger ships and equipping suitable landing fields, sheds and mooring stations on both sides o f the Atlantic. The air ships are speedy, safe and reliable. They can carry large cargoes, have a wide cruising range, and can ride out almost any weather. “ The day o f the passenger air liner is here, and i f the task of organizing air routes is undertaken by big finan cial interests it should be possible to begin a regular passenger service over Europe within sis months with the ships and bases already in existence. The American service would require somewhat larger ships and landing stations in North America. But it could be in operation in less than three years. W e need such a service, and I believe that it w ill come.” The It-34 is the type o f craft sug gested fo r the proposed service, but the contemplated ships, although built on the R-34 lines, would be much larger and have a fa r greater cruising radius.; It is said that a rigid airship could be built that would be 1,100 feet lohg, carrying 136 tons of freight or passengers, and having a maximum range of 13,250 miles, cruising radius. Maitland Supports Project. Brig. Gen. E. M. Maitland, who commanded the R-34 in the transat lantic flight, is a believer in the plan fo r world air routes. “ Even the existing airship of- today can be regarded as a reasonably safe public conveyance,” he sayS. “ They already have proved themselves capa ble o f flying through practically any type o f weather, and the larger air ships o f the future, fitted with more powerful machinery, necessarily will be even safer. Fogs do not prove a real menace to airships, a s . with the present • methods o f navigation it- is not necessary to see the ground in flying between bases. It is true that at present the most violent forms o f elec tric storms are an undoubted danger to all forms of aircraft, but at the most this danger appears to rite less than the danger o f rocky coasts and shallows to the seagQing ship. “ Airships o f this type of the R-38, which is now being built at Bedford, or the German L-71, would be capable o f flying from England to Egypt! a distance o f 2,200 miles, without a stop in tw o and one-half days. These' ships would carry about 80 passen gers, with 100 pounds o f baggage for Beardmore, at Dalmuir, in which spe cial attention has been given to the importance o f giving each passenger a good view. The windows are so ar ranged that passengers can see both outward, and vertically downward should they wish to do so. The passen gers sit facing each other with a table between them, rather like a large Pull man car. I f they wish, they can ar range the chairs and tables fo r bridge. “ Sleepers are provided in the shape o f bunks which fold down and allow the passengers to sleep athwartship. “The whole of the car w ill be heated by steam generated from the engines, and air w ill be admitted at the forward end of the car, where it w ill be warmed over radiators. “ One is struck by the absence of noise or vibration in a large airship, and the absence of smoke or dirt is a great asset. The complete absence of s’eaSickness is also ap important con sideration.” Craft of the type described by Brig adier General Maitland already have been used in Germany on short pas senger routes. The German A ir Travel company, formed in 1910 and financed and managed by the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line, ran regular passenger excursions and town to town services from 1910 to 1914. During this period these airships made 800 flights, carry ing 18,000 passengers without a single mishap involving personal injury. One o f the airships, the Vittoria Louise, made 200 trips in 250 consecutive days. The company was able to make1 a profit, although the passenger rates were reasonable. Since the armistice, despite the unsettled conditions in Germany, airships have been built for a special mail and passenger service between Berlin, Munich and Switzer land. The first o f these ships, the Bo densee, ran regularly from June to October last year, carrying 30 passen gers a trip. It is said that the Zep pelin company is now negotiating with American interests fo r the organiza tion of an air Service from Spain to the United States and South Amer ica, and is designing giant ships with a speed o f 80 miles an hour for this run. The ships w ill carry 100 passengers and their baggage, as well as six or seven tons of mail. Valuable W ar Reserve Force. The knowledge of handling the light er-than-air craft greatly increased during the war. The ships were used under all weather and atmospheric conditions and did valuable service as escort and convoy craft and also in combat against submarines. Small rigids were used to locate and pursue the submarines and were able to detect a U-boat fa r below the sur face. The new ships, in addition to their duties as passenger vessels, can easily be converted to purposes o f war and will thus form a valuable air re serve force. One o f the developments recently made in airship landing stations is the mooring mast, which enables the air ship to come to the ground and be moored even during bad weather. The mast is a tall structure, with a swivel mooring device at the top, from which the- airship swings. Plans are now being prepared fo r a mooring tower especially arranged for use with passenger-carrying airships. The revolving head o f the mast w ill be provided with a powerful winch for hauling in and a shock absorbing buffer w ill enable the ship to be coupled up without difficulty even in winds up to 80 miles an hour. Within the mast there w ill be a passenger elevator by which the passengers w ill ascend to an upper platform, where they w ill cross a gangway and enter the ship. Pipe lines to carry hydrogen, gaso line and water to the: ship also w ill be run up the mast, and the vessel can thus refuel at her moorings. Austin, Tex.— According to Dr. Rob ert T. H ill, former state geologist, who has just finished a study of the topo graphical features o f Texas and is making a report on the subject fo r the United States geological survey, until recently all existing maps give an in accurate idea as to the geography of the state, particularly with reference to the courses o f the Rio Grande on the South and the Red River on the north. Mr. H ill says that all current maps o f Texas locate the Rio Grande, which has always been accepted as the boundary between this country and Mexico, inaccurately. The maps in clude in Texas a strip o f territory av eraging 25 miles in width and 75 miles in length (about 1,875 square miles), which does not belong to it. Until the World war,1 when special surveys of the border were made by the W ar de partment, nothing was known o f the Rio Grande district. These maps, since published by the department, revealed the mistake in current maps. Inventions Increase Safety. 7 Many war discoveries aid in inciteas- ing the safety of airship travet f o e A demonstration of the value of a new-process glass; designed to protect wireless direction finder makes Jt pos bank cashiers and others from bandits, was staged in Boston recently. “ Nick sible for the ship to find her location Carter,” o f dime novel fame, in private life Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey of at all times and so navigate sucQfess- Nyack, N. Y., is shown in the photograph firing a‘n automatic pistol at the fully In fogs. The increasing range new bullet-proof glass, the only damage to the glass being slight dents. and sources o f information of fthe. meteorological service aids in giving Texas residents, are not included on ranges. But none o f these features weather forecasts that w ill wam ^ r- any map. They form one o f the prin has been placed on a map. craft o f approaching storms, which *caa cipal range districts in the state. T o Based on Settlers' Notes. be avoided by a change o f course. the west o f these mountains is a long, The county and state maps o f Texas Laboratory investigations arq now narrow strip o f desert country, low- are inferior to those o f other States, being made of the nature o f the Ip^rti- lying valley plains about 200 miles in Doctor H ill said, because of the differ cles o f moisture that forms fogs, pud length, running along the Rio Grande, ent Systems o f land survey used in it is hoped that some way w ill! be northwest into New Mexico. These Texas. In other states the land has found o f dispersing fog, so that alocal valleys are not defined on any map been accurately surveyed and divided clear area may be maintained about published. into townships and sections. The sur the landing places. A ll landing places The Diablo country consists of un veying was done and field notes made are marked with brilliant electric bea dulating plains, with peaks pf various under United States supervision, as cons and lighthouses are being erected No Proper State Map. sizes and kinds, extending into, the maps o f the country were always nec to guide night flying ships along aerial There is no map published showing Sacramento mountains of New Mexico. essary to acquire land. The Texas routes. Airships are even now a safe form even approximately the physical fea The railroad follows a valley scoured systems were inherited from Mexico of travel. When rain, high winds; or tures of th e' trans-Pecos section, the out of the vast plain, ’extending north and Spain. Scrips or warrants were electric storms approach they can seek mountainous portion of the state. Many west into New Mexico and southwest issued to individuals, who went out, The traveler from El took some natural object fo r a corner, the higher air levels and so avoid dan o f the ranges and peaks are entirely into Mexico. ger. The risks from fire have been omitted and others are located inac Faso to the New Mexico line is always measured off a block o f acres called reduced to a minimum, and the ¿an curately. Doctor H ill has made a spe either upon or in sight of this plain for fo r in the shape and direction chosen, ger o f engine trouble, ever present in cial study of these sections o f the state about 250 miles. The surface is so and sent the note$ to the land office. the airplane, is nullified by the fact and Will make known many inaccu smooth, except where it is broken Current maps were compiled from that repairs always can be made with racies through the maps he is prepar rarely by peaks, that it seems as level these notes, made by many individuals, as a floor. The plain is inclosed on and the topographic information sup out descending. Rigid airships never ing fo r the government. The Davis mountains, well known to all sides by a w all of higher mountain plied was nearly always meager. have less than four engines, and it is improbable that all engines will break Up to 1860, when the geological sur down at one time. Even if half the vey began in Texas, there was only engines broke down the ship could one point in Texas with its exact loca travel at four-fifths of her normal tion on the earth’s surface known. speed. This was a monument to David Crock Public Demands Speed. ett, near the old land office, on the cap- The airship has the advantage over itol grounds at Austin. It was located both the airplane and the steamship as by the United States geodetic survey. se— a passenger craft. The airplane can About 1880 some women were giving only travel 300 miles without stopping ing reindeer fo r meat. These rein a bazaar fo r patriotic purposes in Aus United States Plans to Make Ani- at a base fo r fuel and is thus imprac deer multiplied from an original im tin. They desired some souvenirs to ticable fo r long distance routes.,^ It is, l mal Important Factor in portation o f 1,280 animals made 28 sell at the bazaar, and at their' request furthermore; of limited carrying» ca years ago fo r the benefit o f the E s the old monument was broken into Meat Industry. pacity, and the disagreeable fegAures kim os. pieces and taken to the bazaar. Thus of noise and vibration cannot yW?h)ri? “ People have asked me what the perished the only point in Texas defi away with. The great rigid,|ipwViBg future pf the industry is likely to be,” nitely located on the earth's surface. steadily day and night arid p a v said Dr. Nelson. “ I have replied by ing a cruising radius of 2,000 to asking them the question : ‘I f 1,280 3,000 miles, makes a fa r better passen Alaska Has 200,000 Reindeer With reindeer in 28 years produced the ger ship. It has been suggested that One Little Pig Is presCnt 200,000 animals, -what is like Range for Several Millions— Multi airplane routes could be used as feed ly to be the increase from 200,000 ani ply From Original Importation Cause of Furore ers to the airship lines, small airplanes mals in the next 28 years?’ The in of 1,280 in 28 Years. carrying passengers to a central point, crease is almost unbelievable. In oth Cincinnati.— “ This little pig whence they could embark on the air er words, the industry, properly han I went to market, and this little Washington.— -Santa Claus’ reindeer ships o f transoceanic and transconti pig stayed at home,” and this is have promise o f becoming a factor in dled, should have a great future. nental lines. . “ The Alaskan firm which has started I a story about a little pig that the meat supply of this country as When the lines are established the the industry exported 1,600 bead to f didn’t want to do either, and in steamships also w ill find them serious they are in Scandinavia, where rein its ■ efforts t o , get out o f staying Seattle last year. The firm has es deer meat last year sold at a higher competitors. The airship is infinitely tablished four small cold storage f home and going io market quicker and does not have the pitch price than beef or mutton. The gov caused a Cincinnati fire depart- plants at points on the Alaskan coast and toss that makes steamer travel ernment is going to aid in putting the where the reindeer can readily be | ment to go clanging away on infant industry of Alaska on its feet unpleasant. The demand fo r great a fruitless trip. driven down fo r slaughter to be re liners that cut down the time spent in by experiments in increasing the rein The pig was in a pen in the frigerated and loaded fo r shipment deer’s weight to about double the pres transatlantic travel shows that there M eyer packing house. It got “ I believe Alaska contains available is a large class o f travelers who want ent average by scientifically breeding I out, and soon had a throng of range to maintain from four to five them, locating ranges and studying the and w ill pay fo r speed. These people j employees chasing it madly w ill be the clientele o f the transatlan animal’s disease^, parasites and graz million o f reindeer. The estimate has around. The pig rebounded ing problems. Provision is made in been made that it would take care tic airship. f here and there in the factory, of 10,000,000, but I think that is too the agricultural appropriation bill of The shipment of valuables, bonds, "I finally coming full tilt against high. stocks and bullion on the speedy air this year for that purpose. f an automatic fire alarm. An en “ F ive million reindeer wopld give liners w ill save the money lost in inter Alaska Has 200,000 Reindeer. gine company, hook arid ladder est, and urgent mails should be shipped Dr. E. W. Nelson, chief of the bio an average output of about 1,250,000 and the district fire marshal re i n , this way. Even at an ad logical survey, in urging the appropria reindeer a year. Dressed fo r market sponded. Also a great number vanced postage rate a letter o f thou tion, told congress there are about an animal now averages 150 pounds. o f citizens, who fo r the time be- sands o f words could be speedily trans 200,000 reindeer in Alaska, of which Taking this weight and the present | ing were disengaged. mitted in this way at the cost o f one about three-fourths belong to the na value o f reindeer meat, the fully de , The pig eventually was cor- | word of a cabled message. tives . and one-fourth to the govern veloped reindeer industry in Alaska t railed, w ith the aid o f the citi- * should yield approximately $43,000,000 ment and to white owners who have Advantages Over Steamship. zens. The advantages of the airship over started a commercial industry in grow- a year. Reindeer have been in Alaska 28 years and their increase under the steamship and also the relative crude methods of handling has been PEREZ AN D HIS BRIDE cost of travel are shown in the follow almost startling. Under proper scien ing table compiled by Brigadier Gen Wants to Pay Old Bills. tific supervision and modem methods eral Maitland: Nortonville, Kan.— A fte r being ab the industry should develop very rap Airsh ip Steamship sent from Nortonville for 20 years, idly. Tim e ol John J. Sheeran writes from Cali England transit, Cost o f Tim e, Cost, “ There are big herds o f wild caribou to— days passage days first class fornia that he wishes to atone fo r E gyp t . . . . 2hi £60 4-6 £45- 60 : about the Mount M cKinley region, In d ia . . . . 6 100 14 65- 101 his wrongs by paying all his unpaid some bulls o f which dress up to about S. A fr ic a .. 6% 120 17-19 70 1 bills in Nortonville. Sheeran says in Australia .10% 190 26 116-126 400 pounds. W e plan to capture some his letter that he realizes now that Speed, safety, and a new and thrill-; bulls o f this stock and use therri with “ nothing spotted or unclean can gain ing form of travel w ill be thus com an experimental herd o f reindeer cows heaven,” and that he had made scan bined at a. cost that, in view o f the sav for the purpose o f building up a high dal and desires forgiveness o f those ing of time, is relatively little greater er grade o f reindeer, having greater he has wronged. H e indicates that i f than the present Steamship rate. weight arid increased hardiness. I be he does not get the bills in a certain “ The continental air routes will come lieve it w ill be practicable in less than length o f time he w ill give the first,” says Sir Trevor Dawson, ten years to have the reindeer of Alas amount or more to charity. “ but the most important part of air ka running from 250 to 300 pounds travel w ill be that between Europe and to the carcass, instead o f 150 pounds His Purse Returned. North America. They are the two as at present. great continents, the continents that New Albany, Ind.— Dr. John F. “ The increased weight would in have between them a steady flow of crease the value o f the fully developed Weathers o f this city has recovered passenger travel. A ir travel must Alaska reindeer industry enough to a purse containing $21 in money and come, cutting down the time distance bring the potential output, around v60,- his Southern Railw ay pass as surgeon between countries, and thus strength 000,000 at present value. That is more fo r the company, which he lost in a ening the ties o f business, trade and ; thari the fisheries o f Alaska produce. store Thanksgiving evening. When international understanding. 1 am “ Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, he went to his garage the next morn looking forward to the time when air was here recently. H e is interested ing he found the purse, with the con liners w ill bring London within two in the lease granted by the Canadian tents intact, on a post near the door, days o f America.”— Otis Peabody Swift government fo r a great area fo r rein where it evidently had been le ft by in New York Tribune. deer grazing in Baffin’s bay region. He some conscience-stricken person. AID BREEDING OF REINDEERS TRY TO DOURLE HIS WEIGHT Thugs Return Hero Medal. Connellsville, Pa.— W hile a negro woman held up Mrs. Annabelle Gemas, along the W est Penn street car line near the Gemas home, two negroes searched her, took her pocketbook, con taining about $30, but returning a gold service medal which the woman’s hus band, the late George Gemas, had been awarded fo r service in the Spanish- American war. Joseph R. Perez of Santa Mana, P. L, and Miss Salvador C. Espíritu o f Manila, both students of the Univer sity o f Chicago, were married in that institution, the other day. This is said to be the first Filipino wedding to take place in this country. informed me that in the Scandinavian countries o f Europe about 200,000 rein deer are killdd fo r meat each year. “ W e are talking about helping to build up Alaska, and here is one thing that is right in sight today, a fine, big industry, and J do not know o f any other like it in the immediate future. The future looks so promising that the expenditure which we contemplate is trifling compared with what the outcome is likely to be.” Bars “Yellow Streak.” Washington.— A yellow streak is well enough in a gold mine, but has no place in the make-up o f humans or noodles. In noodles it denotes use of a dye in place o f eggs, the Depart ment o f Agriculture holds iri an an nouncement, and federal food inspect ors have been instructed to shut the gates o f interstate commerce to such dubious characters.