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Aeroplanes with
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STUPID FILM INCIDENTS.
SOME EXAMPLES, "
SLIPSHOD METHODS EXPOSED,
SHIPPING MISHAPS.
**CADDOPEAK" IN DRY DOCK-
A FEW PLATES INJURED.
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An examination of the United] Scares Shipping Board steamer "Cad- dopeak," which went aground in
Public dissatisfaction is being every steam-turbine where expressed at the stupid dims engines, aeroplanes with an engine- room like a ship's to which the pilar exhibited in many kinamas. In an Touraine Bay, on the Coast of Indo- would telegraph " his orders, article in the Daily Mail Mr. W. G. aeroplanes flying with no pilot and Faulkner points out the absurdities directed by wireless, were spoken of of some of the new films, taken at at the resumed Air Conference in the random, recently shown to London
London Guildsall,
Air Vice-Marthal Sir E. L. Ellington, exhibitors
There are about 4,000 kinemas in Director-General of Supply and Research at the Air Ministry, binted the United Kingdom. Of this nut at new developments in aeronautical ber 600 are situated in the metropo- engines. The first was a swash plate engine, with an inclined disc on the shaft taking the place of the crank in the ordinary engine.
The second was a steam turbine, and they anticipated that a steam plant could be produced which would fulfil practically the required com ditions.
litan area.
Most of the kinemas book their pictures for three days only, some change them three times a week, and only a few give a week's show ing to the best pictures.
China, about ten days, and was brought to Hongkong, was made in
that the damage was slight, a few drydock yesterday. It was found
pected that the vessel will be repaired plates only being injured. It is er.
within a week or two.
The "Caddopeak," went ashore almost at the same time as the "Lake Faulk," another Shipping Board steamer, which was stranded on the Paracels. They came to Hongkong in company, The damage to the "Lake Faulk" also was slight.
STEAM SCROONER LOST.
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Exhibitors who select the pictures: they intend to show are guided very Following the news that the CMLS. Sir E. L. Ellington stressed the im- largely by atmosphere at what areHsintah had been wrecked near portance of having the engine or es called trade shows. A fine orchestra Ear Rocks, Southeast Promentory, that's a snake out there and fand Igines contained in a central engine will hide many blemishes which are comes news that the str * Wah looked again) it's an all-fired big room and under the supervision of an revealed, but which the music at the Chang" foundered 100 miles to the snake at that! What sort of dope expert mechanic. In such machines local kinema cannot conceal.
A South
of the Promontory OK have you in that bottle? Do you see the pilot would be relieved of control good orchestra of 40 instrumentalists November 4 as a result of the recent it, too?"
of the engines, and would signal his at a London theatre trade show will typhoon, and that of a crew of 39 Half a mile away, and travelling | orders as is done in a ship.
add $0 per cent, valce to a picture only II have been saved. Very our course but more to the south, The power to land in, and rise Too many exhibitors have the kinettle hope is expressed for the was what looked like a big snake, from a restricted area was most ma mind which is dulled to a se 28 others. including two about as large round as a nail keg. important, both from the civil and of the ridiculous, the stupid, and the eigners-Captain 0. Jorgensen and A Correspondent writes to the and with no beginning or end. Over military peints of view. The improbable. N.C.D. News from Singapore Sept. 100-ft. of him were in sight, and he power to land anywhere, would
the chief officer, Mr. Bachman, of The most successful depend for whom nothing has been heard up to 15
was going full steam ahead with enable the tactical movements of their guidance upon trained judges, the present time. The entry in her diary read like an effortless undulating metion, troops to be carried out by air.”* who bear all these things this
every three feet of the long body The all-metal aeroplane was be mind in appraising the enter- Headed 10 points east of south, bobbing ont of water with rhythmic ing studied. A machine was being and making 10 knots against a four regularity.
designed in which the engines could knot current, as the Captain said. "A beadless sea-serpent," said I be installed within the wing structure saw a sea-serpent in the Bay of Bengal to myself, and I've had only two Model tests showed that there were when I crossed from Calcutta to pegs." I asked Baller for his glass, great advantages in this design. Penang on the str. "Kumsang." He and his brown Irish eyes twinkled as was not very big around the body but I braced against the wheel-house and he made op for his thinness in length. I took a squint. for he was at least 150 ft. long. say "at least as quite that length was in sight, but as his tail and bead were invisible I have no doubt the reptile measured over 2001. over all. He was distinctly visible, travelling with in half a mile of the steamer on what ..was apparently a set course and was in sight more than an hour. We could have kept him in view several hours had not Capt. Buller changed our course so as to keep away from him. The captain tells me these hideous reptiles are not infrequently seen in this part of the world, in fact Mr. Builer says they are seen so often by the masters of ships runding between Hongkong and Calcutta that no men- tion of sighting them is ever made in the ships' logs.
I endeavoured to take a photo graph of him but that was impossible, as he was so low in the water and only half exposed to view. I consi der this the most remarkable sight
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Instead of 150-ft. of sea-serpent I saw about 50 porpoises playing their well-known game of follow-the leader, as porpoises will, you know, each following in the wake of the other, like ducks going to a pond.
GERMAN AIRSHIP· SECKETS,
The "Wah Chang” which was a tainment value of a picture. They of about 1,500 tons deadweight, and steam schooner built of wood, was know the public takes notice of the at the time of the wreck was bring. small things that destroy the realiting to Shanghai a cargo of coal from ies in films. When in London recently Chinwangtao. She was recently pu Mme. Olga Petrova; one of the chased from Japanese owners by cleverest of film stars, told me she Dong Trog-kee. the agents for whom Ead given up playing for pictures are Messrs. Wallem & Co. because she found herself so often up against", the producer who would persist in doing stupid things. He was always certain," she said, that the public would not notice them, but I am sure they do."
The surrender of German airships had giver at opportunity of com Parison. Their most interesting characteristics were the construction* of the gasbags and the arrangement and reliability of the machinery. The weight of their finished gas container was very considerably less than we What an item for the diary had been able to construct, though remarked, having in mind Miss their gas-tightness was not so good. Brady's black book, with its detal
The disadvantage of returning air of experiences with donkeys and ships to their sheds after dying had donkey-boys at Cairo, and fleas in been considered. To overcome the Palestine and India. Wonder if difficulty of high winds and the she is on deck."
SOMEBODY'S LEG PILLED.
I have seen since I left Ohio. I am joking," said the teacher-tourist, so glad I have been so fortunate as dropping Murray's
own native element, as
majrs.
I would rather have missed seeing true-enough sea-serpent! What willful landings were thus made. mystical India than to have missed you do, Captain?" seeing this monster."
Before getting nearer the sea serpent it will be necessary to explain that the tourist whose diary is referred
"Do, Madam? Do? What do you expect me to do? I shall make a course as far from that thing as can. Why, Madam, if...
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to was a certain Miss Brady who "Surely, Captain Buller, this must came from a little town in the south west corner of the state of Ohio, U.S. A. She had taught school for a sufficient number of years to have
ORGY OF VIOLENCE. Recent exhibitions
of pictures
STEAMER TURNS TURTLE,
Manila, Nov. 11-Particulars of the wreck of the steamer San Basilio" near the Island of Leyte during a typhoon, with a loss of more thas forty lives was told to day by Con- cordia Eardo, a survivor, He says that the ship turned turtle while the crew were attempting to lower the anchor, and all the sixty four persons on board were
which will be shown to the public very shortly indicate the continued existence of slipshod methods which result in stupid blunders.
thrown into the sea. Twenty are In "The Iron Foot,, for example, known to have been saved. Eardo
In
tained a life preserver which kept him afloat. until be collected wreckage and constracted a raft on which he drifted for two days, finally being picked up by the steamer Samal,"
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has "disappeared, another has started upon its way. It may be a more or less long time in arriving, but no one will begrudge waiting for it, and the waiting is often the best as man gets out of
mont, and she will bite easily, experiments were carried out last the elixir of life.ar is sent on the was compelled to jump into the sea Ladies'
necessity for a large landing party, a party of American millionaires seek says that he swam to a lifeboat but Gentlemen's Writing Cases, Attache Cases, said Baller, and we went down the year in mooring airships to a special ing lion-his rear silent on the by a man eating shark which attack ladder and strolled on deck. After ly designed rast. They proved that screen and must be taken for granted the boat. The shark devoured a turn or two we stopped in front of airships could remain at the mast-ed; one of them drops dead and another man in the boat. Eardo ob Miss Brady's chair and Buller excited-head in all conditions of weather.
there is nothing to indicate the cause A more complete mast was to be of death except a spot on the wrist ly clutched my shoulder with a grip erected at Howden, Yorks, which Every time the lion rears a mil that made me wince. "By Jove Look at that! A sea-serpent, by!
would be fitted with lifts, properly lionaire dies. gad! First I've seen this year."
controlled hauling arrangements, and
"Under Crimson Skies" is an orgy "What do you say, captain? A permanent petrol, gas, and water of violence. In one scene in a ship's sea-serpent? Do tell! You must be
cabin, the ship is rolling in an alarm.
WOODEN STEAMER FÜUNDERS. Investigations were going on reing manner, but the following scede Further reports as to the wooden of the deck of the ship shows the steamer which foundered in the Gulf China and garding the dispersion of fog. to see a real, live sea-serpent in his Japan" and reaching for her note ing of aeroplanes, Sir E. LEllington
Dealing with the mechanical land. I sea to be as calm as a mill pond, of Pechili say that she was originally never book. "Where is it?"
The Fighting Chance" theja Japanese vessel, was lately pur- believed such things really were. I "Straight off there, plain as the gave details of a device consisting of producer places a cock pheasant on chased by a Chinese Company and always thought sea-serpents were nose on your face."
an arm extending below the fuselage a nest to hatch the eggs.
was named the "Wuchong." Capt. pure fabrications, but now, I have:
In "The Dust of Desire" the Jargansen, who was in charge of her. For the lands sake! Sure and attached to the controls. When .seen one with my own eyes I shall enough! Who would have thought this arm touched the ground the con-husband is shot but continues to act was heard, before the "Wuchong
never again doubt the truth of what it? What, how long it must be, how trols were troved and the machine for another ten minutes before he left port on her fatal voyage, to say I read in the Sunday papers. Really, remarkable! Think of it, a real
Battered out." A number of success dies. Such is the unconcern of the that she was not sound, not only was family butler who hears the shots she leaking, but that her original Parachutes so far tried, said the that when the heroine, who had copper bottom had been stripped off Vice-Marshal, were of two kinds witnessed the tragedy, comes down her by the Japanese before she was One was released automatically when the stairs be hands her her cloak as sold to the Chinese. the man left the machine. The if nothing bad happened.
No further news has been received; other was carried on the man, who, The Lone Wolf's Daughter"in regard to the lost boat's crew of on releasing it was blown out of is a farfetched story of 29 men and the Captain.
in be so very extraordinary! You the machine by the opening of the conspirators
some huge
[From a book of short stories must make an effort to capture the Parachute the rush of air.
vaults in Limehouse. These plot to monster,
The 9,800 ton Barber Line freigh written in earlier days by "The it." Lt-Col. Moore Brabazon, M.P., poison all the gas consumers in the ter Eastern Cloud" grounded off Tiger and published to-day in an I know of no greater error than "Capture him! Holy smoke! (Sorry, appealed for a manless aeroplate area of the Westminster Gas Com- Honmoku just before she reached English translation, *Surprises of to suppose that extraordinary adven- saved enough money for a trip around madam, beg pardon). Why, my directed by wireless for war opera-pany, and proceed to pump poison quarantine outside Yokohama har Life." (London, Eveleigh Nash, 75. tures are what make life interesting. the world. (This was in 1908, mind dear Miss Brady, if this ship went
tions which meant the certain gas into the mains by raiding bour. The big vessel is in no 69.))
If one looks closely one finds you, when travelling was less a luxury within 100-yards of that there destruction of a pilot
electric power station. My danger and is resting easy in the The question of love and marriage that the truly marvellous things than now). She had "done" Europe, snake be'd swarm on board, the
Those taking part in the conference agents," says the principal conspira mad. She has a heavy cargo, of bas manifestly the most obsessing are those that happen to 114 Egypt, Palestine, India, and joined us middle part of him I mean, an' then
went to Croydon in the afternoon. for. will at may command turn on which about 3,200 tons of steel and interest-for humankind. Presum every day, and that duels, dag- at Calcutta bound for China. She he'd haul hisself taut, and the "Kem
Hovering overhead were the every tap in every house in the West general freight are for Yokohama. ably dissatisfied with the actual ger thrusts, even automobile" ac was spectacled and inseparable from seng" with her 1,700 soulless coelies airships R 32 and 33, which flew End."
Mr. Doa Tinling. Admiral Line experiences of life, men, women, old cidents, with accompanying hatred, a kodak and a feather-bound site-would go to the bottom, seven, miles
Rough people and crude conditions agent at Yokohama, said that they people and young, seek in fiction, jealousy, betrayed love, and trea- book diary, and she was continually under. Then, what would you do,
of life do not worry the producer of expected to have ber afloat early in dreams, the unattainable or the chery, are in reality the vulgar in- asking questions, the sort of questions madam?"
The Tiger's Cub" when be wants next morning. No reason is known unattained. Life passes. Those cidents in the enormous drama of our that cause sea captains to seek the
tc star Pearl White, "the heroine of for the accident, bat it is supposed among us who, on the brink of the common life from birth to death. seclusion of the bridge.
millions." In the midst of appalling that the strong current took her out grave, question themselves honestly, We cannot deny that signs of squalor Pearl White, her beautiful of her course. The channel at this recognise that more chances of altruism, born principally of love, bair looking as if it had just passed place is difficult to navigate and happiness were offered them than manifest themselves
ali through the hands of the most
they, fickle or wavering, made shift sides in the animal world. The and wearing a hundred-guinea fur States Shipping Board vessel which fashionable New York hairdresser, groundings are frequent.
The "Eastern Cloud" is a United to grasp.
defence of the young is the com coat in the latest style, lives out in was built at the Kawasaki Dockyard say, the woman and the child of the male is also marked by exhi To protect the weak that is to monest instance of it. The courtship Alaska as the daughter of one of the in Kobe last year. She was assigned against the caprice of the strong, is bitions of generosity, even as it is on lowest types ever created for the
to the, Barber Line Steamship assuredly the duty of society. But the boulevard. When a cock finds a Screen
Company and is on her maiden who will claim that marriage, as worro, does be not summon his entire In "The Terror of the Ränge..a Western story, the hero is tied by his voyage from Philadelphia. The ship instituted by law and practised by harem and magnificently toss to them the note-book came up to us and hands to a tree. The heroine, who Shanghai. From Shanghai she is does not oftener than not result in Everywhere in the world people
has cargo for Yokohama. Kobe and custopi, performs that office, and the savoury morsel ? remarked
comes up, can easily cut the rope, bound for Dairer to load a full cargo the triumph, whether just or unjust, are born, they live and they die with- arrival at Singapore, Captain Buller? shall fire at it until the bullets set Sherwin is the commander,
"Of course you will report this on but the producer decrees that she of wheat for Spain. Captain C. S. of man?
out knowing exactly why, and with- There are happy marriages, what out arriving at any reasonable ex Report what, madam?*
him free. This done, she goes to
ever novelists say. There are mar planation of the strange events. Why, the sea serpent, of course! help him.
ried couples who love each other. They seem, however, quite untrouU- Surely it is so extraordinary."
and live happily together to the end bled by the difficulty of the problem. **Report it, Madam? Why, we see
A Chinese aged about 30 years of their days. There are also un- When they come into the world their But the ship did not change her this sort of thing so often on this been shown in London to exhibitors was last night found by the police happy unions. "I alone know where first business is to lament. All their I lookeand then I looked again, course. The "monster" did, how-run we never think of reporting them. during the past two months. The lying on the roadside in Queen's my shoe pinches," said a celebrated life long they lament over the labour carefully. "Capt. Buller," I said, ever," and ship and "serpent" slowly We'd just be laughed at and be told public will not see them for many Road West and removed to the American when congratulated upon involved in preserving their lives, but this whiskey of yours is good stuff. lost sight of each other. At the end to change our brand of whiskey. months to come, but they will notice Government Civil Hospital, where an his happy home. Men or women, when it comes to dying they cannot No doubt straight from the Highlands of two pegs' time" Buller was calmi ***You don't say," was all the little these small things which destroy the examination revealed that he was great numbers can say the same. of bonny Scotland, and I've had only enough to go on deck again with a lady from Ohio said..
make up their minds to it without realities of the moving picture, which suffering from nothing more se lous two pegs of it; but Tve an idea sober face. Directly, Miss Brady and glad I saw it, anyhow."
"Life," said the wise Mokoubamba; lamentation? are its greatest asset.
than the effects of too much samshu.." is a procession of delights. A Humanity means weakness.
THE BOTTLE AND THE BEAST. Now for the sea-serpent: We had about 40 hours' steaming to do to reach Penang, and it was
But surely, Captain, can it be so dangerous as that? There must be some way of capturing the monster. It certainly must be of great value to the scientific world-such an unusual thing. Can't you shoot it, or, or, do something?"*
THE CAPTAIN FLEES,
near tea-time.
Captain Buller and I had sought seclusion and a bottle on the bridge "He would probably be worth to pass the time of day until the £5,000 to the British Museum, or to boy should decide it was time to your own Smithsonian Institute,” bring tea, for it's a thirty nine days' said Buller, "but the risk is too run, that from Calcutta to Penang, great," and the captain made a when the Chief Officer, Mr. Finnan hurried fetreat, reaching the safety (the Scotch engineer called him of the bridge just in time to escape Haddie" for short), came up and, bursting. The violence of the laughter, pointing over the lee quarter said when the pressure was removed, "There's a pretty sight, Captain." denoted the strain he had been en- Capt. Buller looked and turned to during, and he called: Boy" with ime." Take a look, sonny. What much energy.
d'you make it out to be?"
by the side of the train so low that cars could be seen plainly. The R 33 completed during the afternoon a 24-hours' non-s.op fight. »
fishing junk lying off Taitamtuk Revenue Officers searched a yesterday morning, and seized 1,300 taels of prepared opium. No arrests were made.
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