THE SUBMARINE BOAT.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JUNE 17, 1899
IN ZASION PROJECTS:
RAFFIC. THROUGH THE:SUEZ
CANAL:
and encouraging, an operator will be employed † THE BLUNDERS OF AMERICANS, to navigate the ship and make frequent trips in the vicinity of the place where it is stored, to give it an actual working test.
BY MURAT HALSTEAD,
V. S. Cousul at Birmingham.
first constructed in the eighteenth century. Napoleon originally intended to move an dry its spur torpedoes would be i'terrible source of One is the statement that opthaimia, the THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900. from sixteen firns all well known in their line:
There are some interesting features in the annual report of the Suez Canal Company,
cndcnic nulady of Egytian: children, has almost disappeared from the Company's works. Company has made to the wives of members This is attributed to the appeal which the of the staff to apply daily a lotion of boric acid statistics it appears that a reverine of 76,487,000 to the children's eyes. From the trafic francs was derived from the passage of 3-109 sengers yielded 3,082,000 francs, making, with accessory receipts, a total of 79,957,000 francs: Of this number of ships.z15 used the canal for the first time, 3311 ships passed through by night by the aid of the electric light. The aver nge time or transit was 15 hours 53 miantes, or
English, 332 Genman, 236 Italian, 218 French, 5 minutes less than in 1895. Petroicum vessels. elected 72 transits. Ofthe 3,409 ships, 2, 162 were Too Dutch, 71 Austrian, 62 Spanish, 47 Russian
[BYA... H. MATEON,
tesimal. Imugium the 1500 rams under 4the firm of 12-in. shrapuch, the fearful confusion The idea of the submarine boat goes back to . In a recent article in the Revue des dieux caused by the attack of squadrons of destroyers the very ancient days of Pliny, but vessels onder, perhaps the foremost review in France, with their torpedoes, set to run on the surface, which could dive and move and yr water were has been revived an anonymous author, an iminense iletilla, in which every vessel with the Napeleunir scheme of invading England | Difficult indeed would be the handling of such
They were, of course, very crude and imperfect of 150,000 or 170,000 men across the Channal danger to its neighbours. At Charleston in in design, and not unfrequently ended in re-
in a dotilla of 2,000 flat-bottomed vessels 1863 the monitor Weehawken carrying only maining at the bottom with their owners. One and Etaples. His idea wing that these bonts by her friends than any enemy. We may rest assembled at Boulogne, Ostend, Ambleteuse bow torpedoes, was noted as being more feared such descended in Plymouth Sound with its should seize the opportunity of, a calm which certain that while England commands the inventor, John Day, and never reappeared. In would disable the British cruisers and row Chancel there will be, and can be, no invasion, 1777 a submarine boat was for the first time cm across to the neighbourhood of, Deal. After a for what seems beautifully easy to plán on rican Turtle, was built by Bushnell, of would be a more than risky proceeding, and he Calais of Boulogne with a British squadron in Saybrook, Connecticut, and was propelled by thereupon attempted to concentrate a superior the offing--X, Waży League Journal, cars. The method of operating was to approach French fleet in the Chamel to keep off the an enemy's ship, drive screws into her huil, and British cruisers and cover the crossing. This attel to these mines fired by clockwork.led immediately up to the Trafalgar campaign, H.M.S. Crberus, when at anchor of New, in which, as every schoolboy knows, the French London, was thus attacked, and the fact that navy failed so lamentably, partly through de she escaped destruction can only be ascribed fective materjal, Ind organisation and inferior to the clumsiness of the appliances used for officers and crews, partly through Athiral exploding the mines. Her captain indulged in Villeneure's disobedience, partly also through perfidy, treachery und wickedness of the con's own orders. Americans in resorting to such devices.
Early in the present century another Amencan inventer, Robert Fulton, constructed two or three submarine boats. Two were built by hiny for the French Government, and one at
ployed in war. This vessel, known as the Ame time, böiyever, even he came, to see that this paper in Paris Lecomts quite another thing ships of 8,560,000 tons, while 308,143 pas dreds of thousands of people to Paris. The ex-
HAS THE CANCER GERM BEEN FOUND?
A few days ago I was shown sixteen letters in America. On twelve of these letters there. was insuficient postage must had only a two- tion in 1900. The gates of the exposition will irmingham man who wanted to buy from. France will hold its next Universal Exposicent stamp to carry them. This meant that the beopened on the 15th of April and closed on the some of these American firms had to pay double the opening eleven years will have elapsed and opinion of American business methods can 5th of November of that year. On the date of the deficiency in postage, and his fine of mind since the last great Gair which attracted hun; be inagmed. Stegner mails from the United position of 1900 will have a dual importance. Saturday, and if there is deficient.postage States frequently arrive after business hours on Not only will it be as significant and important letters will not be delivered at hotels, etc, until coincide with the close of the nineteenth cen- as are undertakings of this kind, but it will Monday, and the travelling representative loses try, which has been so remarkable, both from tener than could realized by any one not time waiting for home instructions much of scientific and economien points of view. As
aware how general is the failure of American France organized the first esposition ever beld, firms to pay full postage. One Anerican house it seems but natural that it should clain the tells its agent that a deficiency of postage is a honor of bringing the century to a close by an
guaranty that a letter will be delivered to the to which all civilized nations are invited. postigo penalty in order to get the letter.
It was on July 2nd, 1892, that the Chamber
If an English or a continental house sends a Exposition in Paris in too. From that date near by, containing a copy of the telegram. of Deputies passed a decree to hold a Universal telegram, a letter always follows, even to points
work, All the difficulties of the first days steady progress has been made in these with cablegrams, anil a failure to deliver means
Very few United States bouses. do this, even ̧
of the important problems are now solved. foreign point, a letterpress copy follows by the been vanquished, and all the immense details a loss of valuable time. Ifa letter is sent to a: On the 19th of April, 1900, after a period of next steamer as certainly, as the second of almost eight years of the most difficult work, exchange follows the first. there will be assembled at the Paris Exposi tion all the vital forces of humanity, and the, new century will be inaugurated by a wonderful and stately review of the inventions and improvements with which the bust years of the
sume fine scumanlike diatribes against the the want of precision and definiteness in Napo | yet too early, however, to say that this organist 39 Norwejgan, 37 Turkish, Portuguese, impressive manifestation of peace and industry, right party, as no one else would pay the
least did pretty nearly all that the Zedd or any harbour, and moved about under water with ease. She was not, however, accepted by Napoleon's Mi ister of Marine, though to the end of the war int 1815 experiments were made with similar
modern, submarine boat has done. She blew
hulk in up a
Brest
'craft.
A ROMANTIC STORY.
A
More interesting and romantic is the surry of the submarine boat constructed by Captain Joshua Johnson, who as lieutenant had served ...on in the dgir in Selson's bombardment of Copenhagen. He was engaged by the family af Napoleon to rescne the great prisoner from his confinement on the solitary island of St. Ele lean. Such elaborate precautions were taken to guard the island, several ships of the Navy Constantly cruising round it, that it was hope less for un ordinary vessel to approach or escape unexamined. A submarine boat, was therefore to make the attempt Its construction
was begun upon the Thames, but before it Could be completed the plot was, betrayed or suspected, and the boat seized. After Napo leon's death it seems to have been completed
and exhibited.
bour.
In the Crimean War Mr. Scout Russell designed and completed a submarine boat for uperations against the Russian ships in har It was tested at Portsmonth, and was as successful as any of those craft had ver been, but the war ended before it could be used, and for years it lay at Millwall It was supplied with air from the surface by a large tube and was propelled by hand. A few years later, in 186.4, the subinarine boat scored first and only success in war. A Confederate oat approached the United States cruiser Housatonic, at anchor off Charleston, and seni her to the bottom. The boat went down with her enemy, drowning all on board. She was cigar-shapa, and when running on the surface was propelled by steam.
THE SUBMARINE EPIDEMIC DEGINS,
During the eighties a perfect epidemic of sub, marine bout-building sel in. Spain constructed the Piral but, which was at first reported to be a great success, though for the last ten years
IMPORTANCE OF THE SCHEME.. The revival of this scheme is politically very significant. It shows that France has not for gotten or forgiven Fashoda, and that the Frenchi general staff, when pot engaged, ja suborning of a cheap war with England. And although evidence against Dreyfus, cherishes its scheme forty years ago a British student wrote of a pre- cisely similir invasion scheme. Notwith uttered by French officess against a people held standing the fiery denunciations occasionally by them in such strong aveision, no doubt is ever expressed by the more intelligent of them That it would be sheer asanity to dream of the the Channel had been first secured "the writer invasion of these istands until the dominion of of the Revue des Deux Mondes does not trouble his head with such trilles as a gominand of the sea,even localantemporary. He expectsthellri tish fleet to blockade the French ports-though we may say in pussing that it is very doubtfel whether even now England possesses a super- lority saficient to enable her to maintain continanus blockade. But under the strain of this binckade, harassed by night by torpedo boat attacks and by day by submarines. con stantly threatened by powerful French squadrons inside the blockaded ports, held at a great distance by the formidable guns which protect the appreiches to every important French harbour, the personnel and matériel of the blockaders will teak down. Boilers will be worn out by constaut hard steaming, Bulls will grow foul, men, and ships will need a prolonged rest. It is apparently at this moment that the invasion is to take place, when half the British deet is laid up and the other half neutralised by having to watch the French teel--which, of course, as it is lying in port, or just outside under shelter of the coast batteries, has not suffered at all.
78,652.
cancer has been anounced from Paris by the The discovery of the intcro-organisms of daily press in quite positive terms; It seems
for which doctors live 60 long been searching, has at length been run to earth. The Londra yptian, i Belgian, and I from Sarawith. The corespondent of The Medical News, New military passengers comprised 74,094 Italians, York, says the last Royal Society' meci 27.50 Spaniards, 26,692 English, 22,510 Turks, ing the discovery of a new solution of that ing a short report was read by Mimmer, alleg-
20,188 French, 11,722 Russians, 10, 299 Germans, 4,007 Dutch, 1,371 l'ortuguese, 91 Chinese, and ariero organism of cancer. He has succeeded is, emigrants, and convicts numbered pathological squaring-the-circle' problem, the 45 Japanese. Civilian passengers, 11,957; in isolating frồng human carcinomata “u yeast (saccharomyces), pure cultures, of which rapably, in a mall percentage of cases, of on injection imo the tissues of guinea-pigs, are preslucing a large number of disseminated Bodes or tumors throughout the entire body of the animal. As, however, these growths are certainly hardly be claimed as carcinoma, and all confessedly of mesoblastic origine they can from their rapid course (death in twenty days! and histologic characters they decidedly sug only one case did Plimmeo succeed in getting gest some form, of infectious" granuloma. In any epithelial proliferation in buds or processes, and that was in the comics and precisely such as occurs in the process of repairs after injury."
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
AN EXTRAORDINARY' STORY.
We remember remarking once before that Ceylon is one of the principal "arresting sta on in the British Empire. Boats from divers quarters of the globe come to a halt at Ceylon, and persons who are "wanted" are very fre quently found by the police of the Spicy Isle. We may imagine that at Colombo, above mast places, a detective is always on the watch when a boatload of passengers arrives from one part or another, and that while the arrivals are innocently concerned with the worry of coolies and back victorias, there are keen eyes scann ing their features, dechling whether anyone in the crowd answers to the description of some dishonest clerk or other who has bolted from such and such a bank or for some forger who has successfully cashed a bogus cheque for a thousand pounds. It must need a keen and experienced appreciation the difference of faces to be able to detect at a glance as it were whether the victim is present or not; and it occasionally happens that a wrong man is laid hold of. We remember, for instance, that some years ago, when a man named Lefroy, who had murdered an old gentleman in a railway carriage was at large undiscovered for a good many days, editions of Lefroy turned up in various edition was a man who was arrested night, while seated on a bench on the Thames Embankment at Westminister, and who prev ed the next morning to bea rather well-known member of Parliament enjoying the air after a
MAN CAN FLY AT LAST..
PROFESSOR LANGLEY BELIEVES HE HAS
SOLVED THE PROBLEM
Smithsonian Institution, the guvernment expert
WASHINGTON, May 8th, Professor S. P. Langley, secretary of the
experiment with his new flying machine.
arial, navigation, will soon make the bial
century have inspired the genius of man. The amount of space that will be occupied at the exposition, with buildings and palaces, landscaping and gardening, will be in the $5,000 appropriated by the last Congress for The air-ship has been constructed with the
neighborhood of 360 acres. Great as is this the purpose of experimenting with and develop
aggregate of space, it is not nearly sufficient in meet the demands. A great amount of this ing flying machines under the direction of them will be on the right bark of the River
Seine. war department. Professor Langley's new machine is being built at Quantico, Va., a short distance from Washington, on the Potos river. The utmost secrecy has been observed about its construction, only Professor, Landley's friends and co-workers being allowed to inspect plans or model.
From a conversation with one of his friends it can be stated positively he is working along the same line in which he has achieved mach success in the past, and developed a machine which has demonstrated its ability to navigate the air. Professor Langley calls his machine an eruraine, and it is purely a “fying ma- chine." That is, it is something much heavier than air, and entirely different in principle from a batioon, which floats only on account of its lightness, as a ship does on water.
It is patterned after nature's flying machines. the birds, and only differs in principle of action in that instead of being propelled by the wings, it gains and maintains headway, through the medium of a propeller fashioned on the order of a ship's screw.
of the exposition, concluded that :00,000,000 A Committee on Finance, at the very start francs ($20,000,000) was a normal estimate of the expense of building and running the exposition. This amount was adopted by the High Commission of Paris, in july, 1895. The estimate of 100,000,000 francs isjustifieil by the foremost among them being the extraordinary French Commissioners for several reasons, the éclat the French Government will give the great fair, the liberal participation in the exposition on the part of the foreign powers and the permanent establishment with which the exposition will endow the city of Paris. It what they were at the preceding exposition. is expected the receipts will be for in excess of The several international expositions that have been held in Paris within the last thirty cars he given the following results as to 1878, 12,765,000 francs ($315,000) 1589, gate mokey: 1867, 10,765,000 francs ($2,253,000); 21,584,000 francs ($1,316,500).
WORKING ON THE MACHINE. Professor Langley has chartered the steamer Bartholdi, and will visit the place where his ship is building in a few days. The experi-100,785,000 francs ($21,375,000) ments will continue until the machine reaches such a state of perfection that it can be publicly. exhibited and inspected by officials of the war department.
nothing has been heard of the craft. The when she entered shallow water. Such a vessel quarters of the world. The most pecuachines and placed at the disposal of the war
HOW IT IS TO BE DONE. The invasion is to be twofold, conducted by two different kinds of Vessel. In the Channel which, says our specious French author,, is really only a river, though a very wide river steam barges of the largest size as at present used on certain of the French tivers and canals are to be employed. The type is the From, a twin-scret barge build for work on the Loire, She is 134 ft long, 18 ft. broad, and 3 ft. 7 in. fleep. She is flat-bottomed and has no keel Her speed is about 8 knots when loaded, in which state she draws 2 ft. 3 in. of water. To give hor stability as ses it is proposed to fit her with a centreboard, which could be raised French inventor, M. Goubet, constructed a Small egg-shaped vessel which moved about
could carry 125 to ago infantry; a quick-firing feld gun, limber and waggons, 24 horses, and under water Mr. Nordenself built two boats which were as successful as any
a quick-firing 3-pdr. on a pivot mount. The of the type, one actually crossing the North Sea, on a voy-
vessel will have steel shields to protect the men age from Southampton to the Skaw, and re
on board, will be subdivided into numerous peatedly remaining under water with nine men
water-tight compartments, will carry Crtre un board for the space of six hours.
for disembarking the horses and guns, one mast, and spar torpedoes rigged out on the bows, stems and beam. Fifteen hundred of these vessels, costing only £6,000,000, can place an army of 170,000 men, or twelve divi sions, with 5oo quick-firing field guns, ashore on British soil. The steam barges are to be built by the State and hired out for service on the French capals in time of peace. They will, we are assured, prove a very profitable invest
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France built the Gymnote, which on her trial ten years ago was bailed as finally solving the problem of subma rine navigation, though since, then she has proved a practical failure. Finally, the large submarine Gustave Zide was laid down Toulon about 1892, and first tried in 1894. She is 131 ft. long, and displaces. 166 tons. Her motive power is derived from accumulators, which have, owing to their poisonous fumes, given a great deal of trouble. The radius of action only forty-five miles.
She is no doubt a vessel which might prove nt dangerous tutagonist neur a French naval, base, but she has no 'sca-going and sea-keeping qualities, and is of a type which is practically valueless to our Navy. An improved Zede, named the
pattern, known as the Narval type, are now building in France. The latter have steam for use on the surface, and electricity for use under water. They are cigar-shaped and of 106 tons, carrying four torpedo tubes. Similar craft have heen built in Italy, the United States, and Russia. The Italian at Spezzin, and is intended to be used for the hot the Define, is kept defence of that port. The United States boat,, the Holland, is propelled by steam on the surface and by electricity under water. Its value is considered very problematical in America, and it was not employed in the recent
ment.
men are shown in a story that came to hand from London recently in reference to same pro- cerdings between London and Ceylon. We will relate the story as it is quite a study in the way of evidence,
When the appropriation of $25,000 was first made available for experiments with flying
departmer numerous applications were re- ceived fro.. inventors all over the country for a share of the money to conduct experiments
trial irips,
Mors, and nine submarine boats of a new English army, ill-provided with quick-firing the young man's disappearance were hand keep up steam.
A SIGN OF JIOSTILITY,
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passenger, but whether any one will make a trip in it during the first experiment is not known. The chief point is that Professor Langley has adpoted some new motive
power which promises to make his flying machine a perfect success.
The admission to the 1900 exposition will be 1 franc (20 cents). It is estimated that 60,000,000 francs ($12,000,000) will be received from the udmissions of 1900. It is now estimated that the total expenses of the exposition will be Out of the fifty-five countries, that have been invited to participate in the exposition, Egyp: is the only country that will apt officially take part The Commissioner-General of the United States, Hon. Ferdinand W. Peck, says that "the struggle for supremacy at the exposition of 1900 will be a friendly one between nations, The United States will appear in this great; peaceful competition, which is to close the century in grand array, side by side with the
great European powers and all the sivilized nations of the world, making the most brilliant and noteworthy display the world has ever seen.
stoner-General of exposition. To his care the Mi. Alfred Picard is the French Commis French Government has intrusted the supreme direction of the greatest demonstration of peace the world will ever have witnessed. Mr. Picard He is an Alsatian by birth, and is a graduate is one of the greatest of France's modern men. of the Polytechnic School and National School of Engineers of France. During the Franco-Prussian, War, he first served in the Army of the Loire. He commanded a battalion Public Works in France he has been the of engineers at Verdum. As the Director of
and has built reservoirs, cannis, and railroads. Director of Roads, Navigation, and of Mines,
has occupied the high position of President of He has been State Councillor, and since 1889
Order of the Legion of Honor. To his pen is Agriculture, Commerce, and Industry in the State Council.
due the official history of the Paris Exposition of 1889. In the hands of this eminent engineer, the destiny of the Universal Exposition of 1900 has been placed.
IS SOUTH CAROLINA DEGENERATING }
Very few American houses are as systematic, and it is conceivable that a letter may be more valuable than a money ilmait.
With bills of lading, the European luxuse does. depend on the triplicate copy forwarded by the shipping agent, but itself sends the duplicate copy to the consignee, retaining the original. American houses are constantly neglecting this, and American goods are constantly being held ap foreign custom-houses,
If a United States house wishes to be successful in foreign trade, it must place its business in the hands of some responsible member of the concern who will look after the part of the regular business transactions, details. It should not be iderely an incidental
of Great Britain make articles on a "forty-line The jewelry and fancy-goods, manufacturers scale," an arbitrary system of nich'surement, the origin of which is lost somewliers in an early period of the trade. In the measures for the twelfth of an inch, but in the fancy trade a common metals and articles a "line" is one
line" " is one-fortieth of an inch
To-day a declaration af returned American goods" was sworn before me, meaning, of Course; a big loss to an American manufacturer, and due to his failure to make the goods in accordance with the exact specifications of the order. A Birmingham manufacturer or dered from an American manufacturer a lot of indestructible pearl," giving the measure- ments be required in "lines." Not knowing American, without making inquiry, had re what "lines" meant to the fancy trade, the
by this time on the way back to him. course to the metric system, and his goods are
Two weeks ago $500 worth of fountain pens were sent back to a manufacturer in an interior American city. The Birmingham purchacer. said: "They are without question better pens than I ordered, but they are not like the samp le, and am not in the business of educating the public to new things, but sell them what they want and these goods go back," I know the town of the manufacturer very well, but do not remember his name; so assume that his factory is sinall and his capital limited enough for the return of goods amounting to 3500 to hurt him; but he did not obey orders.
AMERICAN TRUSTS,
They are called Trusts, but we fear they possess the elements of distrust. This latest arrived in full array, and almost every branch product of Yankee speculative genius has of manufacture is undergoing change. To thoughtful men the whole condition is puzzling, and none can foresee the end. Theodore C National Association of Manufacturers, was an Search of Philadelphia, President of the interesting witness before the Industrial Com- mission at Washington the other day. We quote this succesful and wise
se merchant as follows i much favor, and don't even recognize them as "I do not look on the so combinations with
They are forced rather than a necessity. They the natural evolution of economic conditions.
in the world. There are large aggregations of are growing here as they grow nowhere else capital in foreign countries, as we all but they are not the result of combination, It appears to us that the present crate American-Industrials had its origin in Wall Street. The law, of supply and demand in the red rays of avarice and spoliation. "Good that locality is often interpreted under-
very
times followed pur Civil War, the buils and bears say; the destruction and waste of that war was followed by a corresponding amount of reconstruction and gain to the nation; why should not history repeat itself? Wennawer, history does generally repeat itself, but the baby Spanish war was not a repetition in vol- ume of the featfal amount of waste and con- sumption wrought in the Civil War. Between accruing from given causes there is a great speculative boom and the natural results po
gulf fixed...
in
late session in the House. The great possibind build models. On account of Professor lities in the way of getting hold, of the wrong Langley's past success in this line, to which he has devoted a life's work, the department put the appropriation practically at his disposal with carte blanche to build and experiment along such lines as he saw fit. Since that time he has been constantly engaged in the Mirs, Campbell Praed is a well-known lady window his new ship is ready for its novelist, nearly fifty years of age, the daughter of the Postmaster-General of Queensland, in Langley experimented two years ago succeeded The small model with which Professor Australia, where she was born. Her first in making a flight of almost a mile, describing novel was "An Australian Heroine pub-a circle, and only stopped on account of the While the twelve divisions in the 1,500 lished in 1880, and her last was "The Scourge steam contained in a small boiler, which was Frams are crossing the Channel, a second ex-Stick, publishes in London, and she has ried such a dead weight in proportion to its Mrs. Praed, fired at the start, giving out. This modal dar pedition, embarked in 150 British ships, seized who is a in the French ports on the outbreak of war, a son, aged nineteen, besides several daughters. size as would constitute a cargo in a full sized and three divisions, cross to Ireland, conveying a great quantity of appeared. The news was not published in the were enthusiatic over the success achieved by 42,500 men strong, will Some months ago, young Mr. Pred dis-ship, and those who witnessed the experiment rifles and ammunition for the use of the frish, papers, but all literaly Landori knew of Mrs. the inventor. The trouble was solely in the who will, of course, rise immediately. The Campbell Praed's distress. The facts prior to motive power and the inability to keep going
trained and without the proper number of off days lived a very quiet life in a lodging house of Professor Langley's private funds, and the without some one on board to tend the fires artillery, and die volunteers, insufficiently and it was discovered that he had for
This model, was built eus cers, will be brushed aside. It is pointed out that on mobilisation France cannot employ to the landlady as Mr. John Wallis, and told
in Euston-road, London. He gave his name personal cost to him was considerable. all the soldiers of whom she now disposes, and
NEW MOTIVE POWER. • her that he was going to Colombo, where he that her army on the German frontier will in no
The new model is to be of full size' for one said he had an uncle in the tea-trade, and he way be weakened by risking 200,000 men or added that he was likely to remain in Colombo more in descents upon England and Ireland for six months. Nexi a large trunk with "Colombo" painted on it arrived at his lodg The preparation of such a plan as this and ings, and was duly packed and sent off to the its publication in the pages of an influential docks. Two or three days later he said that be review are fresh revelations of mailgnant was off, and, in an excited state, he packed his hostility to England in France. On this side bag, and wentaway. Meanwhilethe young man's
"In point of motive power he has been of the Channel, though we may often mother had been distressfully concerned at his materially aided in the last few years by the DIFFICULTIES OF SUBMARINE WARFARE. Consider the possibility of war with France, disappearance from home, and very delighted progress made in adapting power for automo The difficulties in the way of submarine nav we do not go so far to suggest measures she must have been when the London police, biles, where the essential points necessary for igation are very great, and there is nothing to which would be a permant menace to our after busy inquiries, found a clue in the Euston propelling an air-ship, lightness and duration of show that they have as yet been practically neighbours' peace. Such the construction by lodging. The clue was not found, owever been observed. He has adapted to the use motive power on a small supply of fuel, havd overcome: The chief are (1) the difficulty of France of a special material for the transport until a considerable time had elapsed, long seeing under water or on the surface; (2) the of an invading army would be to us. It would enough for the young man to get to Colombo, of his ship it is said, one of the automobiles of difficulty of maintaining an equilibrium; (3) the be a proof of such deep and determined enmity and too late for the Colombo detectives to keep
to-day-electric storage battery, gasoline low speed; and (4) the limited accommodation that in the present state of British opinion it a look-out for the young man on his arrival at motor, or compressed air. Whichever power and unsenworthiness of all the types yet buist, might and probably would cause an explosion. Colombo, Nevertheless, the Colombo ploughly tested by him, machine been thor
police To overcome the first an apparatus has beenThe danger of a special material lies in the were supplied from London with copies o
and put in devised which is projected from the surface. fact that it reduces the time required for embark- notice with reference to the missing man,
the needs of his lavention. and It consists of a camera obscura and a prism to ing and disembarking an invading anny. A one of the notices was posted on the Colombo Speed is indispensable with Professor reflect the picture down a tube into the vessel. brief and temporary command of the Channel jetty. "It ran to Reward Missing on before it can begin to dy. For this Langley's fying, machine, and it must be in But the, so called."eye" is manifestly very im by a French squadron might thus permit of the Geofrey pass-The above reward will be perfect. In a heavy sea, the waves would cut invaders crossing.. Such u brief and temporary paid by the undersigned to anyone giving drive the huge propeller at the stern of the reason the power adopted must be able to off the field of vision, which can never be large command is by no means unattainable if our such information as will lead to the dis when the instrument rises only a few fleet is not maintained at a figure of very great marine would probably, in-conioquence, be times into its adversaries. There were near of a young gentleman aged nineteen, machine around at a high rate of speed, and they now commit? How rare it was to find than it can carry or it may be precipitated inches above the. Burface. The sub-superioriy
six feet, thin, stoops, has large feet, fair, to properly conduct the experiments a proper the Napoleonic war when the French came near obtaining It, and their navy is to-day eyes, delicat, haven, cars stand cut, dark platform for launching the machine must be any real crime, bribery, murder,, and the likes by admo' astute, prosecuting attorney or attor employed just on the surface with only its con-
looking Was wearing-blue provided. Ming-tower above water, when it offers but a relatively math ringan tees aways in
where the river it wide and the machine may The point selected for the experiments target. Even so the field of vision is while there is the Russian feet aways in the ing-bag and overenat.. Last seen in neighbor, tly without danger of running into an obstruc-years ago or mob violence to redress grievances, passibility of such a catastrophe it already very small, and itywould be very dificult to background. Were England without allies, hood of Euston-id, near St. Pancras station, detect a large ship, with lights out at night and were she attacked by France and Russia making his way to Aldgate station, on Tuestion and maintain a straight course at a given from it. As to the second dificulty, the slightest combined, her position would be a very critical day, 18th Oct., about half-past nine am. Said height without reference to the contour of the movement of the weights on board tends to one. Great naval superiority is absolutely he was going abroad-Maurice Moser, ex-In land. If any one operates the ship this is depress or raise the bows, and up or down the necessary to her safety. It is true that many spector, Criminal Investigation Department, i,
absolutely essential to guard against danger. boat goes with the most alarming suddenness of the best English authorities hold that a fleet Arundel street, Strand, WV. C., London.
NALAUNCHING THE SKIP. If the plunges to any depth her sides will be in being, even if far away, a potent to prevent driven in Hence a very low, speed under oversea invasion. water is essential, except in shallows. The pages ITS RISES.
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1am one of those people disposed to believe that this world is growing better, and am inclined to look on the bright side of things, but sometimes I doubt whether we in South certain pants of the Sinte, made great improve Carolina are improving or not. We have, in
ments in manufacturing railroad systems have been improved; there are greater and better
The fron Age of March 30th very ser facilities in these; we: tire spending more iously states "Prudent people are now money on schools, but what is the result of it thinking that they recognize in the continued all? The swift-moving railroade, the whirring formation of great consolidations our old ovil machinery, and crowded factory towns," and genius, whose insidious work will result some schools are infinitely inadequate to the glory fine day in a great crash, leaving the usual and civilization of a people. Sometimes I feel financial wrecks, and taking another wearisome rowing weaker instead of stranger, and variety of new projects comes out almost daily. the moral fibre of the people is period for recovery. A bewildering
of a negro committing such crimes as has underwritten a greater lot of such securities That there is a growing deterioration in The end will probably be found in the failure both races: Forty years ago whoever heard of some important financial institution, which
COUSIN OF LADY CURZON TO BECOME AN ACTRESS,
among them 1 Murder, arson, rape, burglary ney-general who finds a vulnerable point of and all aggravated crimes were exceedingly attack which may
excite apprehension ia rare. We look on our own race and what do the holders.
among of consolidation
tion securities, and we see? Who ever heard of a lynching forty cause them to unload in a panic of fear. The or the execution of people without a trial? Who causing sliced business iner to fortify them ever heard of the humble house of a man being selves as much as they can by reducing their burned and his family butchered? All of these obligations. Should such caution: become dings indicate that the law is no longerrespected general, the apprehended crisis will not take
anarchy; it means the distintegration of society. painfully interrupted." by communities and people; the law has lost its place. The fever of "speculation will subsido sanction. And what does that mean? It means without, a crasli, and our prosperity will not be It means barbarsim. That is what it means. But this doctrine is not recognised on the
The very essential foundation of civilization shortness of the boat, which is found necessary Continent, nor perhaps, are the risks which
is respect for the law, and when the people its the longer alia is the more
seem so very great to our seamen sufficiently.
lose that they are on the downward it is to confro far no submarine bost has been built abroad. We, on our side, do not always remember that
do something. And remember, thint the white plunges So app
appreciated by young Continental generals.
grade, This court can do little; all of us can which could be trusted on a of for such a Power as France, with over 4,000,000
people in South Carolina can not escape its miles, and those who had to do with the Nor- tmined soldiers, the risk of losing 200,000 men
responsibility. The white people have the denfelt vessel, the only one which has given is little against the possibility of striking a any proof of seaworthiness, are the least deadly, a disabling blow.
enforce the law they confess their impotence, government in their hands, and if they cannot sanguine of success in solving the problem. But with adequate naval superiority, and
and it is a confession of being incapacitated As with ballooning so with submarine naviga with a reserve fleet in the Channel-which, be for information had to be sent to England to Professor Langley is confident of success to manage the government, if they cannot tion, a careful study shows that the advance in fit remembered, Is nor the demand of the old the effect that the man detained in Colombo with his ship, and his friends who know his govern the State, with all the machinery of the - a contury has been very small, and leads us to women in the nation, but is required by, such not the
What in the immediate future no resulta oficers as Sir, Veray Hamilton, and the present reward is gentleman for whose discovery a plails are even more so, but as he has no specifaw.in their hands, without resorting to violent. Mrs. Leiter is a beautiful woman f practical value can be anticipated We Are First Sea Lord in the Tito Admirals report It is a most striking instance of circuited tiple in which to finish the work, and his means, it is a confession of incapacity, and the and highly talented, Sabaya
umstan expenses have not been heavy, he will probably sooner this is realized the better will be We object in going on the stage is stip as far from the ideal Vasilur of Jules and is shown to have been always maintainedtial evidence leading men astray and it is make a thorough test before exhibiting the can have no real civilitation of pron
ohtuin the Verne as we were twenty-five years ago through the Napoleonic war the chances Togrettable fact that the mother has still to look machine and turning it over to the war depuis we turn our faces to the 4}
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11. hape as posted up at Colombo, namely, ship will be built on a raft or barge in the A proper position platform for launching the in February last, there was a young man at water, and when the machine is ready to fly, Colombo, a visitor, named Wallis, who was in the wings outstretched and given the proper trouille with the police, being accused of chent-angle, the propeller will be set in motion and ing a Colombo jeweller, and being eventually the ship is expected to rise and sall straight Ceylon police declared that, except that their elevation to which it shall rise are governed contenced to six months' imprisonment. The forward through the air. Its course and the
man's cars didn't stand out, he agreed in every by the wings and two paddles on either side of respect with the published description of young the ship. The momentum is regulated by the Mr. Geoffrey Fraed. A photograph of Mr. rate of speed at which the propeller moves, and Campbell was then sent out to Colombo, and head winds do not seriously retard the move the Colombe police liave lost their fo reward; ment of the ship, we
Mrs. Benton Leiter, a cousin of Lady Curto who recently made her debut at an performanceur Chicago, sow in New fessional actress She says, I have several preparing to embark on a career offers, including a proposition. play shortly to be
produced
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