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The not so gentle art of hoaxing,
The most talkative woman in the brief announcement In Mr. once one of the merriest of past London, la Mins M. Curtin, a rosy Bridgeman's memorandum on the times, seems to have been lost in checked Girton girl, whose homo Navy Estimates that "the cruiser the shuffling industry of a world is at Golders Green, and who for Vindictive, after successful trials that is busier than it once was the last four years has been in launching aircraft from says New York writer. The the International Labour Office at catapult, has proceeded to the very fact that an English clergy-Goneva.
China Station," for hitherto almost man could make the world take no
It is her prosent task, says the completo Becrcey has been pro- tice of his practical joke by radio. not many days ago is evidence of Daily Chronicle of March 20, to served about this branch of naval the infrequency of the attempts.attend daily the international aeronautics,
New York, before it put on the eight-hour day conference, which
It may seem simple at first sight] long trousers of a roaring metro- is sitting the Ministry of Labour, polis, was not without its pranks and interpret the speeches for the to propel an aircraft along a hori zontal track at a high speed in order ters, and echoes of their laughter benefit, of foreign delegates,
are still to be, found in the all-too- Every speech in German or that it shall, with the aid of any few pages of the city's history. French has to be cross-interpreted wind within some 50ft., Have at- Curiously enough, their Jests dol and then reduced to English, and tained flying speed, but actually not sound uproarious enough in us matters of detail and technical the problem bristles with difficul this day and age to warrant all the knowledge are constantly cropping tios. The value of its solution lies trouble they took. But perhaps up, the work if by no means light. people were more easily amused It means that for every speech in the fact that the cruisers of the made Miss Curtis has to make two. Navy can carry their own "air
years ago,
One of the earliest, and one of
A pleasant-faced woman with eyes" with them instead of having the most notable, of these statsdark abingled hair, wearing a bust to depend upon the proximity of was foisted upon a gullible publienees-like green knitted frock and an aircraft carrier, and in the case in the distant day of 1835, and large horn-rimmed spectacles, of vessels operating away from a through the columns of the old Miss Curtis stands at the back of lect a practical catapult apparatus Sun. It had to do with the moon, the speaking statesman, taking
Interpreting All Over Europe,
and no doubt was prompted by the notes in abbreviated long hand makes them a self-contained unit interest man always has taken in she does not use shorthand-and in respect of getting an aircraft that benign and open-faced planet at the end of the oration gives a into the air. The Admiralty are. It seems, then, that on January rapid interpretation, with only still withholding any details of the 10 of that year there appeared in occasional glances at her note-apparatus used, but it can be stated Shat it was designed in co-operation the newspaper's column an account book..
with the Royal Air Force, and was entertaining to say the least, of a
actually made at the Royal Aircraft new telescope the invention of which was attributed to Sir John "Miss Curtis can literally get Establishment, Farnborough. The the mind of M. Albert results obtained with this, the first Herschel, a noted scientific man, into and his assistant, Sir Davis Brew. Thomas, the Director of the Inter- of its type, are, it is understood, ster, who at that particular time national Labour Office," a Geneva sufficiently satisfactory to justify | departure to a far station with a were doing some experimental official told a Daily Chronicle re-further orders, and the vessel's work at the Cape of Good Hope.
catapult may be taken as an indica- This exclusive announcement
"M. Thomas is a very quick-tion of success. made bold to say that the tele-thinking, quick-speaking man, find
So far as is known, only three scope had been developed to the it, is wonderful to note the manner antions have been seriously expert- catapults-Great point where it enabled man to gaze in which Miss Curtis picks up his menting with apon and study the most minute words, and the spirit of his speech. Britain, America, and Italy. Dur- of objects on the far-off neighbour she is, in fact, the Director speaking the war a catapult operated And then it went on to describe ing in English. several of these objects that hari and been seen by the Sirs John David.
presentative,
ences."
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by compressed air was tried out at THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY "She has had wonderful experi- the Eastchurch station and some ence, and has travelled all over successful launches were made, Europe to interpret at confer-but under conditions which could These included "basaltic rocks,
not be repented probably at sea. covered with poppies," "felds and
The general principles of operation Miss Curtis herself attributes are the erection of a horizontal trees and rivers," "amethyst moun-
convenient tains" and
"verdant valleys." her gift of tongues to learning girder track at some
point on the fore-part of the ship, Bison were to be observed roam.Latin at Girton. ing these realms and uniecin- Another wonderful interpreter along which a small trolly can be goats and pelicans and strange at Geneva is Mme. Agrest, an propelled. The aircraft to be sheep. But the strangest of all English girl who married an launched-in the case of the Bri- was a winged creature, resembl-Italian, and who is always in tish Navy Fairey III.D. seaplanes ing an orang-outang, but with evidence at League of Nations are used-is anchored on the trolly human face, who was called "a hu-meetings. She takes no notes,in such a way that it is held rigid man bat."
but her memory is so perfect that until the actual moment when it is Bhere were grave doubts at the she can give a faultless interpreta-released towards the end of the track. The engine of the seaplane very start that all this could betion of a long and difficult speech.is, of course, running, and the pro-i true, and yet many people took "She is the supreme interpreter blem is to raise the speed of the all in with such seriousness that of Europe," said the Geneva aircraft from zero to, say, about even Edgar Allan Poe could not official. "The longer the speech persuade them they were wrong. the better she seems to like it." Mr. Poe, it happens, was writing a yarn called "Hans Pfaall's Journey to the Moon," at the time) and the hoax se completely ruined his own imaginative creation that it was halted in the middle.
But even college professors fell for the stunt, and Poe and others couldn't save the day for legis. One plan was to detach Long use of compressed air working in It was weeks before the story was 19land and float it out to sea until pistons to which pulleys and cables thoroughly discredited. It was the "grand turn". was made, then are attached to control the rate of blamed at first on a French a-bring it back to its former place, acceleration, and during the early tronomer named Nicollet, but later Lozier sald he was authorized to experiments at Eastchurch this HONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
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doned this system in favour of one Locke. Just why he did it no one Some were engaged to build which actually shoots the pilot into knows yet
barracks to accommodate the hun the air by means of a gun. The Perhaps the whole affair gave dreds of workmen to be used, force generated by the explosion Poe an idea, for he is credited others to make the large sweeps, is transferred to the trolly by means ' with the next notable hoax in the 200 feet long, which were to be of cables working over pulleys, city's history, which was perpe used at the opposite sides of the and so successful were the experi- trated on the same newspaper extreme ends of the island, toments carried out on the U. S. S. some nine years later. This was sweep it around after it was sawed Mississippi that the aircraft was an account of a flight across the off.
able to shoot off in level flight; Atlantic Ocean and was summed
without the usual drop below the Lozier must have chuckled allevel of the track required. in the un in this journalistic fashion:
"Astounding News by Express most to the point of self-betrayal carlier compressed air apparatus. via Norfolk. Atlantic Crossed in when he questioned the various This, it is reported, will enable the Three Days. Signal Triumph of workmen who presented them catapult gear to be used on vessels Mr. Monock Mason's Flying Mn-selves on the point of whether to which the earlier patterns could chine. Arrival at Sullivan's Is- they were.tong-winded, explaining not be applied owing to construc- land, near Charleston, No C., of that he wanted a large number tional or other difficulties in placing Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland of "pit-men" who could go below the track high enough above, the Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ains- und do the sawing..
water level.
The rapid and increasing accele- ration required from the trolly la secured in the case of Italy by the
worth and four others' in the
Finally the day came when work Steering Balloon Victoria', after was to be begun.
Two of the main advantage: One part of claimed for the explosively operated, passage of seventy-five hours the army was to gather at the catapult are that the delay caused from land to land."
forks of Broadway and the Bo- by re-charging the containers with. The account went on with thewery," a quaint way of describing compressed air is eliminated, so full particulars of the remarkable the spot which is now known as that a seccession of aircraft can voyage. Mr. Poc is said to have Union Square, The others were be sent away, while there is a enjoyed some sardonic Inughter to meet at Spring street and the considerable saving in the weight. on his own account. And then Bowery, where were to be a large and space of the aircompressor the stunt was exploded. It is a number of hogs to be driven up apparatus. The Italian Navy, little unfortunate the poet couldn't to Kingsbridge for food, has lived to see the trip actually accomplished.
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The workman gathered all right launched a Macchi flying-boat But before eithor of these but Lozler had promised to meet weighing 8,000lb. successfully. RESH STOCK affairs, a retired carpenter named onch gang and, ne a matter of fact, Unfortunately, the further pro- Lozier had had his fun without he, met neither. It didn't take blem of getting aircraft back to a INE QUALITY the aid of newspapers in as merry them long to learn they had heen naval vessel still remains, for it AITHFUL SERVICES ect. That was in 1823; and Mr. They set out to find Lozler. He, aboard. This is a process walch, Lozier, in a moment of amusement, however, was carefully hidden if the vessel is rolling, is attended
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