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Trapshooters Compete in Match at Pinehurst SHOW TEXAS AS LAND GRABBER Testing New Bullet-Proof Glass : —, * ■ . '■ ' * ■. « 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 Individuala 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. , Inventions Increase Safety. Many war discoveries aid in increas ing the safety of airship travel. The wireless direction finder makes it pos sible for the ship to find her location at all times and so navigate success fully in fogs. The increasing range and sources of information of the meteorological service aids in giving weather forecasts that will warn air craft of approaching storms, which can be avoided by a change of course. Laboratory investigations are now being made of the nature of the parti cles of moisture that forms fogs, and it is hoped that some way will be found of dispersing fog, so that a local clear area may be maintained about the landing places. All landing places are marked with brilliant electric bea cons and lighthouses are being erected No Proper State Map. to guide night flying ships along aerial There is no map published showing routea Airships are even now a safe form even approximately the physical fea of travel. When rain, high winds or tures of the trans-Pecos section, the electric storms approach they can seek mountainous portion of the state. Many the higher air levels and so avoid dan of the ranges and peaks are entirely ger. The risks from fire have been omitted and others are located inac reduced to a minimum, end the dan curately. Doctor Hill has made a spe ger of engine trouble, ever present in cial study of these sections of the state the airplane, is nullified by the fact . and Will make known many inaccu that repairs always can be made with- | racies through the maps he is prepar out descending. Rigid airships never ing for the government. The Davis mountains, well known to hâve less than four engines, and it is improbable that all engines will break down at one time. Even if half the engines broke down the ship could travel at four-fifths of her normal speed. Public Demands Speed. The airship has the advantage over both the airplane and the steamship as a passenger craft. The airplane can only travel 300 miles without stopping at a base for fuel and is thus imprac United States Plans to Make Ani ticable for long distance routes. It is, mal Important Factor in furthermore, of limited carrying ca Meat Industry. pacity, and the disagreeable features of noise and vibration cannot be done | away with. The great rigid, moving steadily day and night and hav ing a cruising radius of 2,000 to 3,000 miles, makes a far better passen Alaska Has 200,000 Reindeer With ger ship. It has been suggested that Range for Several Millions—Multi airplane routes could be used as feed ply From Original Importation ers to the airship lines, small airplanes of 1,280 In 28 Years. carrying passengers to a central point, whence they could embark on the air Washington.—Santa Claus’ reindeer ships of transoceanic and transconti have promise of becoming a factor in nental lines. When the lines are established the the meat supply of this country as steamships also will find them serious they are in Scandinavia, where rein competitors. The airship is infinitely deer meat last year sold at a higher quicker and does not have the pitch price than beef or mutton. The gov and toss that makes steamer travel ernment is going to aid in putting the unpleasant. The demand for great infant industry of Alaska on its feet liners that cut down the time spent in by experiments in increasing the rein transatlantic travel shows that there deer’s weight to about double thé pres is a large class of travelers who want ent average by scientifically breeding and will pay for speed. These people them, locating ranges and studying the will be the clientele of the transatlan animal's diseases, parasites and graz ing problems. Provision is made in tic airship. The shipment of valuables, bonds, the agricultural appropriation bill of stocks and bullion on the speedy air this year for that purpose. liners will save the money lost in inter Alaska Has 200,000 Reindeer. est. and urgent malls should be shipped Dr. E. W. Nelson, chief of the bio In this way. Even at an ad logical survey, in urging the appropria vanced postage rate a letter of thou tion, told congress there are about sands of words could be speedily trans 200,000 reindeer in Alaska, of which mitted In this way at the cost of one about three-fourths belong to the na word of a cabled message. tives and one-fourth to the govern Advantages Over Steamship. ment and to white owners who have The advantages of the airship over started a commercial industry in grow- the steamship and also the relative cost of travel are shown in the follow PEREZ AND HIS BRIDE ing table compiled by Brigadier Gen eral Maitland: Air Liners to Link World ------- *-------------- -—------ - Plan to Fly Giant Dirigibles From London to America, Aus tralia and Africa. SPEED 60 MILES ÄN HOUR Craft, With 100 Passengers Aboard, Expected to Fly From England to California In Four Days— Commercial Airship Is Al ready a Success. London.—Plans are now under dis cussion here for linking up all parts of the world by passenger air routes, on which giant dirigibles, flying two miles above the surface at 60 miles an hour, will join London with North America, Australia, India and South Africa. If these plans are carried out air liners 800 feet long, equipped with berths, dining rooms, smoking rooms, libraries and observation plat forms, will speed from England to San Francisco In four days, stopping to discharge passengers and malls at New York and Chicago. Each ship will carry 100 passengers, and the fare will be only 50 per cent more than present steamship rates. Ships capa ble of this service are now in com mission, and a trial passenger flight will be made to Egypt by a British government airship to determine the feasibility of opening such passenger routes. "The commercial airship already bus proved Its success,” said Sir Tre vor Dawson of Vickers, Limited, when asked whether he thought the plan practicable. Vickers, Limited, Is now building airships for 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 ami equipping suitable landing fields, sheds and mooring stations on both sides of the Atlantic. The air- ships are speedy, safe and reliable. They can carry large cargoes, have a wide cruising range, and cun ride out almost any weather. "The day of the passenger air liner Is here, and if 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 six 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. We need such a service, and I believe that it will come." The R-34 Is the type of craft sug gested for the proposed service, but the contemplated ships, although built on the R-34 lines, would be much larger and have a far greater cruising radius. It Is said that a rigid airship could be built that would be 1,100 feet long, 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 lu the plan for 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 of flying through practically any type of weather, and the larger air ships of the future, fitteti with more powerful machinery, necessarily will be even safer. Fogs do not prove a real menace to airships, as with the present methods of navigation It is not necessary to see the ground In flying between bases. It Is true that at present the moat violent forms of elec tric storms are an undoubted danger to all forms of aircraft, but at the most this danger appears to be less than the danger of rocky coasts and shallows to the seagoing ship. "Airships of this type of the R-38, which is now being built at Bedford, or the German L-?1, would he capable of flying from England to Egypt, a distance of 2,200 miles, without a stop In two and one half days. Three ships would carry about 80 passen- gers, with 100 pounds of baggage for each passenger, and about two tons of mall and merchandise. To put It another way, 15 tons would be avail able for passengers, mails or mer chandise. “Comfort In aerial travel is essen tial If it is to have any extended fu ture. The advantage of speed is thrown away if the passenger is physically or nervously exhausted on landing. But ample accommodations can be provided for day and night travel.” Sleepers Are Provided. A proposed car has been designed by Beardmore, at Dalmuir, In which spe cial attention has been given to the importance of 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. If they wish, they can ar range the chairs and tables for bridge. “Sleepers are provided in the shape of bunks which fold down and allow the passengers to sleep athwartship. “The whole of the car will be heated by steam generated from the engines, and air will be admitted at the forward end of the car, where it will 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 seasickness is also an 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 Air Travel company, formed in 1016 and financed and managed by the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line, ran regular passenger excursions and town to town services from 1010 to 1014. During this period these airships made 800 flights, carry ing 18,000 passengers without a single mishap involving personal injury. One of the airships, the Vittoria Louise, made 200 trips In 250 consecutive days. The company was able to make 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 of 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 for 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 of 80 miles an hour for this run. The ships will carry 100 passengers and their baggage, as well as six or seven tons of mall. Valuable War Reserve Faroe. 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 rigida were used to locate and pursue the submarines and were able to detect a U-boat far below the sur face. The new ships. In addition to their duties as passenger vessels, can easily be converted to purposes of war and will thus form a valuable air re serve force. One of 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 la a tall structure, with a swivel mooring device at the top, from which the airship swings. Plans are now being prepared for a mooring tower especially arranged for use with passenger-carrying airships. The revolving head of the mast will be provided with a powerful winch for hauling In and a shock absorbing buffer will enable the ship to be coupled up without difficulty even in winds up to 80 miles an hour. Within the mast there will ho a passenger elevator by which the passengers will ascend to an u| per platform, where they will cross a gangway and enter the ship. Pipe linee to carry hydrogen, gaso line and water to the ship also will be run np the mast, and the vessel can thus refuel at her moorings. Austin. Tex.—According to Dr. Rob ert T. Hill, former state geologist, who has just finished a study of the topo graphical features of Texas aud is making a report on the subject for 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 of the Rio Grande on the South and the Red River on the north. Mr. Hill suys that all current maps of 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 of 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, when special surveys of the border were made by the War de partment, nothing was known of the Rio Grande district. These maps, since published by the department, revealed the mistake in current maps. A demonstration of the value of a new-process glass, designed to protect bank cashiers and others from bandits, was staged in Boston recently. “Nick Carter,” of dime novel fame, in private life Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey of Nyack, N. Y., is shown in the photograph firing an automatic pistol at the new bullet-proof glass, the only damage to the glass being slight dents. Texas residents, are not included on ranges. But none of these features any map. They form one of the prin has been placed on a map. cipal range districts in the state. To Baaed on Settlers’ Notes. the west of these mountains is a long, The county and state maps of Texas narrow strip of desert country, low- are inferior to those of other states. lying valley plains about 200 miles in Doctor Hill said; because of the differ length, running along the Rio Grande, ent systems of land survey used in northwest Into New Mexico. These Texas. In other states the land has valleys are not defined on any map been accurately surveyed and divided published. into townships and sections. The sur The Diablo country consists of un veying was done and field notes made dulating plains, with peaks of various under United States supervision, as sizes and kinds, extending into the maps of the country were always nec Sacramento mountains of New Mexico. essary to acquire land. The Texas The railroad follows a valley scoured systems were inherited from Mexico out of the vast plain, extending north- and Spain. Scrips or warrants were west into New Mexico and southwest issued to individuals, who went out, into Mexico. The traveler from El took some natural object for a corner, Paso to the New Mexico line is always measured off a block of acres called either upon or in sight of this plain for for in the shape and direction chosen, about 250 miles. The surface is so and sent the notes to the land office. smooth, except where it is broken Current maps were compiled from 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 all sides by a wall of higher mountain plied was nearly always meager. Up to 1860, when the geological sur- vey began in Texas, there was only one point in Texas with its exact loca tion on the earth's surface known. This was a monument to David Crock ett near the old land office, on the cap itol grounds at Austin. It was located by the United States geodetic survey. About 1880 some women were giving Ing reindeer for meat These rein a bazaar for patriotic purposes in Aus deer multiplied from an original im tin. They desired some souvenirs to portation of 1,280 animals made 28 sell at the bazaar, and at their request years ago for the benefit of the Es the old monument was broken into kimos. pieces and taken to the bazaar. Thus “People have asked me what the perished the only point In Texas defi future of the industry is likely to be,” nitely located on the earth’s surface. said Dr. Nelson. "I have replied by asking them the question: Tf 1,280 reindeer In 28 years produced the One Little Pig Is present 200,000 animals, what is like ly to be the Increase from 200,000 ani Cause of Furore mals In the next 28 years? The in crease is almost unbelievable. In oth Cincinnati.—“This little pig er words, the industry, properly han went to market, and this little dled, should have a great future. pig stayed at home.” and this is a story about a little pig that “The Alaskan firm which has started didn’t want to do either, and in the industry exported 1,600 head to its efforts to get out of staying Seattle last year. The firm has es home and going to market tablished four small cold storage caused a Cincinnati fire depart plants at points on the Alaskan coast ment to go clanging away on where the reindeer pan readily be a fruitless trip. driven down for slaughter to be re The pig was in a pen in the frigerated and loaded for shipment. Meyer packing house. It got “I believe Alaska contains available out, and soon had a throng of range to maintain from four to five employees chasing it madly million of reindeer. The estimate has around. The pig rebounded been made that it would take care here and there in the factory, of 10,000,000, but I think that is too finally coming full tilt against high. an automatic fire alarm. An en “Five million reindeer would give gine company, hook and ladder an average output of about 1,250,000 and the district fire marshal re reindeer a year. Dressed for market sponded. Also a great number an animal now averages 150 pounds. of citizens, who for the time be Taking this weight and the present ing were disengaged. value of reindeer meat, the fully de The pig eventually was cor veloped reindeer industry in Alaska ralled, with the aid of the citi should yield approximately $43,000,000 zens. a year. Reindeer have been in Alaska AID BREEDING OF REINDEERS ----------- »---------------------------------— TRY TO DOUBLE HIS WEIGHT Airship Time of England transit. Cos passage £50 8. Africa.. 6 ‘ Australia .10% 100 120 190 Steamship Time, Cost, flrat class £45- io 65- 70 70 115-128 Speed, safety, and a new and thrill ing form of travel will be thus com bined at a cost that, in view of the sav ing of time, is relatively little greater than the present steamship rate. “The continental air routes will come first," says Sir Trevor Dawson, “but the most important part of air travel will be that between Europe and North America. They are the two great continents, the continents that have between them a steady flow of passenger travel. Air travel must come, cutting down the time distance between countries, and thus strength ening the ties of business, trade and international understanding. 1 am looking forward to the time when air liners will bring London within two days of America."—Otis Peabody Swift In New York Tribune. Thugs Return Here Medal. Connellsville, Pa.—While a negro woman held up Mrs. Annabelle Gemas, along the West 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, bad been awarded for service In the Spanish- American war. $ 4 fe. 1 Joseph R. Peres of Santa Mana. P. L, and Miss Salvador Q Espiritu of Manila, both students of the Univer sity of Chicago, were married in that institution, the other day. This is Mid to be the first Filipino wedding to lake place In this country. 28 years ( and their increase under crude methods of handling has been almost startling. Under proper scien tific supervision and modern methods the industry should develop very rap idly. “There are big herds of wild caribou about the Mount McKinley region, some bulls of which dress up to about 400 pounds. We plan to capture some bulls of this stock and use them with an experimental herd of reindeer cows for the purpose of building up a high er grade of reindeer, having greater weight and increased hardiness. I be lieve It will be practicable in less than ten years to have the reindeer of Alas ka running from 250 to 300 pounds to the carcass, instead of 150 pounds as at present “The increased weight would in crease the value of the fully developed Alaska reindeer industry enough to bring the potential output around -60,- 000,000 at present value. That Is more than the fisheries of Alaska produce. “Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, was here recently. He is Interested in the lease granted by the Canadian government for a great area for rein deer grazing in Baffin's bay region. He Informed me that In the Scandinavian countries of Europe about 200,000 rein- deer are killed for meat each year. “We are talking about helping to build up Alaska, and here is one thing that is right in sight today, a ane, big industry, and I do not know of 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 I outcome to likely to be." - ------- ------------------------ ------------ Wants to Pay Old Bills. Nortonville, Kan.—After being ab sent from Nortonville for 20 years, John J. Sheeran writes from Cali fornia that he wishes to atone for his wrongs by paying all his unpaid bills in Nortonville. Sheeran says tn his letter that he realizes now that “nothing spotted or unclean can gain heaven," and that he had made scan dal and desires forgiveness of those he has wronged. He indicates that If he does not get the bills in a certain length of time he will give the amount or more to charity. His Purse Returned. New Albany, Ind.—Dr. John F. Weathers of this city has recovered a purse containing $21 in money and his Southern Railway pass as surgeon for the company, which be lost in a store Thanksgiving evening. When he went to his garage the next morn ing he found the purse, with the con tents intact, on a poet near the door, where it evidently had been left by some conscience-stricken person. Bars "Yellow Streak.” Washington.—A yellow streak to well enough In a gold-mine, but has no place in the make-up of humane er noodles. In noodles It denotes use of a dye in place of eggs, the Depart ment of Agriculture holds in an an- nouncement, and federal food Inspect ors have been instructed to shut the gates of interstate commerce to such dubious characters.
