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Electric Cables in Japan.
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The Unsinkable Ship, Mr. Herbert Satterlee, Inte of who speaks. "The problem of the On this point, it is the Captain! consister ble progress has been the U. S. Navy, contributes a fireproof building and that of the male in Japan in the electrical fantastic yet eminently practical ansinkable ship are practically department of the rubber in-articlo on some lessons of the identical. That problem is to dustry and the immediate fature Titanic, to a recent number of restrict the area of possible dam- is considered to be promising, the "Outlook." This takes the The principal difficulty is in form of a dialogue between some which imperils the integrity of age so that no injury can occur connection with the lack of ex-pas-ongers on no Atlantio liner. the entire structure. It is tho perienced technical men, for, The following oxplains the in-ame question that the modical althon. h up to lato maeltinery is troduction of an extra skipper : employed, there are no 'native | rubbor chemists owing to the youth of the industry. The innufacturoof insulatod wiro luas already had its influence in chroking the imports of the European products Three of the largest mille have installed plant to inake lead-covered cables, and this stop is likely to have an important influence on the im- ports of thin class of manu factures,
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The "Commandant "Ho's the man that was in- vented after the Titanic disaster. ile is one of the ship'a ollicers. Sometimes, the fourth or fifth He has nothing at all to do with the navigation. Of course he is under the captain, like all the rent, but be has particular charge of the crew and the safety of the passengers in time of accident Ho drills the crew in port, in spects all safety device, and is. answerable for them. He makes
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water line. The coal bunkers or hemselves, who know the vessels oil tanks run fore and aft next to in their service and the require- the inner sides and are compartments of their business better ments in themselves. There are than any one else, cannot do more fore-and-nft bulkhoads as well as than impose general principle of transverse once--or those that conduct on their captains. Every hoads are carried up to the buat eretion of the captain of a ship. run doross the ship. All bulk-rule must be subject to the dis- dock. The engines and boilers He is the man who is responsible
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tures interrupted Ronald. The mortality returns for Sin-out what are called the station "Why; granting that steol is, gapore, issued by the Registrar bills for fire and collision quart and always will be, the ideal of Births and l'enthe show that ers. Those are the lists which material, it was the development during the week ending June show where every one on board of the water-tight compartiment. the oxport of the maritime nations 29, there were 300 deaths, giving is to go in time of amergonoy, The double bottom was carried could frame a code that would a ratio por mille of population of and just what each of the crow is up the sides well above, the meet all conditions. Moreover, 18.18, including 21 donths at St. to do. You will find the part Plimsoll mark, or sleep load the managers of the companies John's Island, and of 44.87 ex that applies to you posted up in cluding those deaths. Malarial, your room. He is probably going favor accounted for 45 deaths, over the boats at this present phthisis' 27, Canvulsions 20, minute, and instructing the deck beri-b-ri 21, chalera 25 (20 crew, or else opening and closing imported), bronchitis 15. vory water-tight door, or you' dysentery 20 parumonia 12 may find him looking over his Thirty-se on children under thres fire hose or getting the chief months of age died. The nation engineor's report on the pumpe alities were represented; na fol-He's busy avory hour, inspecting low:-Eu pens 2; Chinese 240, or drilling, will we roach there in a coffer-dam. The only for hor navigation. He is select- penings in this are for theed mainly for his experience and Malays 37, Indians 15. The other side." donths from malaria levor shows "How very instoresting!" in acending and descending lnd proficiency in senmanship. When a decrease in the minor roport.terrupted the lady, slipping herrs, the bunker chutes, and the captain is open familiar with the od best work of 14, while chitora arm through her husband's
tactical qualities of his ship, all these, except the ladders, can when he knows her turning returns have decreased from 42 "Yes," continued their infor
be shut off from the bridge. This radius, her steerageway, her load- to 25.
mant, and very necessary. You
hip has forty-eight main com- way, and her backing power, ho seo at the time the Titanic wos tmchod, the shipslad grown to be partments, and three times ne cau tell botter than any board or Mr. Harry Atwood recently too large for any one man to be re-any sublivisime between her commission what to do in an visited the plant of the Gour sponsible for everything. It was realize what a honeycomb she is, ther it is best to run slow, at a double skins. If you want to emergency. He must judge whe Company at Akron, Ohio, to inspect progress of the manufac-manly impossible. Of course turo of the parts of the special the chief steward ran all the hotel go with the commandant ou oue speed under which ho om atop art of it, but the very immensity of his inspections," he concluded, and back roadily but can only michino with which bay will ny of size made the inspections d
laughing. tempt to fly heross the Atlantio frills too much in connection noticed," said Ronald, her out-that ie, go fast-sp that chango his line of direction slow- ly, or whether he had botter let Ocean this year: Mr. Atwood is!
with the navigation, and so they that there were two aerials, or the speed will enable him to clear
27] very cer in that ho will be were not well done, and in port wireless antenna,' upuloft. Why successful his prior to captain had to have absolute taking, and exprobs to make the
is that? You know," he added, trip in 18 ms. "Atmospheric
freedom from responsibility and
urning to his wife, "I pointed con-lit-n," he says, "will be best got some baily needed rest."
nt to you two sets of wires over for-nch a flight in June or July. and I hope to have my apparatus fund twice as many boute as they
On the boat deck the travellers head whon we wore on the boat
deck." all roadly and arrangements all had seen on the Pacific steamer.
Becanes there are two sets of completo by then."
The davits were different from wireless instruments on board," Sixty Years without going Homeny they had over seon.
Rogul swered the Captain. Whon The "Cable-nows Ainerieso fund nover Pcon many-in fact, thore was only one set and it was glates that the venerable Father one except those on the P. & uod' for long distance, it could always rely on his own Lusioecio, ex-Provincial of steamer on which he had come not receive even the most impor- the Dominican order, is lying at ont from England, and the Marant message from a vessel just, the convent of his order in vosols, herause he had spent of fact, one 'perial' would be suf Manila, at the point of death, seven years in the interior of
Padre Asencio como to the China as a mining engineer-bufficient for both systems, but we Philippines in 1852 and has hosted all mechanical appliance carry two to provide for an omer- spent the entire sixty yours-fles with a trainod eye and was in-gency." life here without once leaving the torosted. country. fo was at one, time u He made the napunistrace of a parish priest and rose in the quartermaster, through the me ecolesi Brief scale until he bodium of an American coin loft came the head of the orier. He over from their flight by rail is now 78 years of ago.
neross the continent. British Vice-Consul's Marriage at "Now sort of davits, are they
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"Nover on my ship," he said, control of steamship lunes," said monoole or anything else that gola "Well, as for international with a laugh; "or spectacles or a Mr. Varmuun, "it has practically blurred with fog or dampness. existed for years, The great Glasses are all right for the stoomship companios themselves officers on the bridge to help inaugurated the idea. It cannot identify a light or object reported At the archbishop's paince."Yes, sir," answered tho quart-ba too rigid, however, and there- from the crow's-nest, but would Manili, on July 15, Miss Marineringster. "Automatica. The fore had better be kept free from ruin the value of a lookout. Good! Toreen do Lis, the third daughter boat's crew and passengers can officialdom. The captains and oyesight is the one thing for that, IN TENNIS, DAY, TONIO and of Senor Alverado Bertran de Ligot in the hont while she is in managers of the various lines have and the most alert men with of Manila was married to Mr. M. the chooks and load her to her always watched the matter very the best oyes are the only once sont B. T. Pauke-Smith, His Brittonie full capacity. When you got the closely, and the system must aloft." Majesty's Vice-consul General, order you press this button, if the be so elastic that the lanes can bo
Mr. Satterlee conoludes with! The corciony was performed by electric power is still on and the shifted very quickly. The advies the remark: The human brain Father Volz, O. P.
motors working, or throw this lev-nblo turning-points, or 'corners,' can calculate an eclipse, but it The young married couple left er if it's off, and the chocks, fall and latitudos for one season any cannot compute the combinations on the Minnesota for the way. At the same time the bont ba quite different the next. And of circumstances or unusual and United States, where they will swings outward, and both falls they differ from week to week. extraordinary conditions visit the bride's brother-in-law, pay out at the same time. Neither Our own Hydrographic Office (a may occur on the great ocean. Sr. Opisso, who is practising lewend can go down faster than the branch of the United States Navy) Man can avoid many dangers, he in Washington, D. C. They will other, and, no matter how heavy has always indicated them with can multiply the insans of safety thon make a trip to Canada and the lond, the boat can't lower fast promptness and reliability. It and methods of rescue, but ho from there to England.
er than the speed at which the is a splendid work, welt admi-cannot annihilate the peril of Well sinking in the Philippines. machine is set. When she rests on nistored, and most valuable to the sea. The prayer For those
The now deep woll apparatus the water, the books aro released seafaring men. For instance, a very at Sea proceived recently by the Bureau and she's free,
may be forgotten, but large but quite detached field or not until the Last Chantey" has of Public Works has been sent to "They were invented after the group of fields of ice may rift down been sung will it be superfluous.” Santa Cruz de Malabon, Cavite. Titonic disaster. For about two into the wost-bound or northerly It is proposed by the bureau to years wo did little but experiment lane. The lanes are immediately begin a campaign of a tesian wall with davits and every kind of drifted farther south, the ice making in Cavite province. The raft, pontoon, and all sorts of keeps on drifting and gets into The attention which the Tokyo first of a series of "welle now patent contraptions. But a thing the newly prescribod lane, and police have been paying to planned will be drilled at Sant has to be fool-proof to be of thon it may be better to shift udermann's Heimat Would Cruz de Malabon. Deep wells any practical use. It has to work back to the north again, rather have gratified the late Dr. Bowd will be sunk also at San Francisco in freezing weather, and when than to keep on shifting to lower ler, although the author Jay de Malabon, Novalota, flosario, everything's wet and swollen, latitudes ahead of the drifting regard them with different feel Cavito Viejo, Bacoor, Imus and and when a man's excited and ice. That is all thoroughly wellings. The play, which has just Dasmarinas,
all his fingers are thumbs, or it's understood and well earried out been produced in Tokyo, has Locust Destruction in the no good at all. But nothing's thanks to the modern system of been ex altered and expurgated,
Philippines.
ever paint-stuck or rusty now reporting."
that in the last not Magda sits at work of destroying the lo days, with a commandant on the
the foot of a olergyman and re- oust young is going on rapidly in job!" You seee, in n'ns hundrod several of the towns of Occidental all ninety-nine times out of a trol of speed?" Mira, Torbos- faithful woman. mg
"And about international con- forms into a good, dear, and
an. Whethor this|| A destructivo enter thousand you can only use the Smythe suggested, after a pause, treatment is due to Japanose pillar has been found in the boats on t the los side whore it's It would be absolutely, im- «dmiration of our; dramatic d3n-
arloane in some parts of the sheltered from the wind and sea, "acticable," answered the lawyer, grehin is an interesting specula
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