1925-02-07 — Page 7

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925.

THE TERROR

THE CHINA MATE.

کرد

the

SNOWSLIDE

NORTHEIDIY FRY

مجھے نرد عید سهیم شد مردم کرد و کرم این سی سی

(Avaries

'COURTESY

سودی که بدر در ایالات الله بیر ہے

SERVICES

MALL. KILLED

SHEO AS HELL

Mighty Avalanches of Western Mountains Leave Trails of Damage and Loss of Life-Tree

-Planting As Means of Prevention.

[BY MEALCOLM MACDONALD,

There is a thrill is the snowslide.f. The forest is a natural antagonist of that makes vivid appeal in the imagina- Bioman Wang sadak alike.

What bog has escapest the feeling of aw which comes with reading, of Use

the avalanche As long is tross are present in dense arrangement, their tunky serve as anchors für the surface euvering, of sav., Foresters liken the

terrible avalanches of de Swiss Alptrues to the nails, in a shingle roof: thos mighty cufluents of nature which curvy a "before them in theirownward rul?

Who among us, in you of maturity, hu failed to be impressed with, the relentless force of the snowslides which Bensionually, find their way into the news coloring of the daily press

The snowslide is a lesson in the action of natural laws. In its uwis-inspiring. travels-it leaves a record of damage with far-ranching:

Tourists in the Alps ur in our own.

Rockist End the marka of sides which

occurred in past generations,, The mrmory,of the avalanche itself has been obliterated by the passing of the older Inhabitants, but the sear remaitis as an írfalible reminder af calamity.

There are stretches of the western nuntains which have had." and still have, a generous share of the disaster of the shows. Between Montana and Washington there are countless mute relies of the uvalancher of the past. Seurres and denuded muuntala klupes tell the story with impressive eloquendò, Slides Follow Slides,

It is characteristic of the snowalide that one such kuppening invites another: Lightning may not strike twice in the same place, but the avalanche ho a

•habit of Tullowing the trui binzel by a predecessor; or perhaps the trail of a devastating forest fire This is due to the dextrurin. by slide or flames, of the natural protection afforded by the

fail,

Whether living, or dend, the forest gɛnwth provides stability. Removal of the trees is akin to the removal of the nails in the shingles. Under such circumstances an avalanche is easily started in mition; and once started it knows no stop if it reaches the bottom of the slope.

How Slides Are Started The beginning of a. gnowalide in extremely imple. Rain ià ⋆ fruitless cause. A snow covered slope, subjected to soaking rain, has all the makinga of a first class snowslide. Not only does the ruth increase the weight of th snow, but it also makes it more apt to! slip down hill. In this respect the water serves to lubriente the surface of the earth. Lacking the protective “pajis” afforded by the trees, the snow is then prepared for its downward rush.

At a time like this a slightsimpetus "is all that is needed. The impelling force may come from the vibration of a Bossing, train on a nearby railway. Even the 'shock caused by a gunshot has been known to start the snow move- ment that results in ap avalanche. The trend of an animal of a human being may dislodge a small stone, or a falling limb from a dying tree may loosen a lump of now; vither of those things is suflicien to start a slide. From this trivial beginning the avalanche guns size and impetus as it moves down the site of the mountain. Within amaz- ingly short time the force has become tremendous,

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The destructiveness of this grent, swift-moving mass is the secret of the tendency of anowslides to follow one another. This is especially true in the narrow canyons. The original alie carries with it everything, that might prove an obstacle to future movements. Trees, boulders and kindred anchors are no longer present. Observers And that the first avalanche converts the canyon into a greased channel for others.

On the more gradual slopes the avalanche is less disastrous, because it is less concentratąd, but even here the damage may be of devastating character. The denuded mountain-side which has suffered a heavy avalanche covering a wide area is a common land- mark in some sections of the north- Went.

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handy with the moving mass in the work | developed highly perfected systems of of destruction. Tangled logs inter nowsheds. In this undertaking it mingled with the snow itself constitute became the custom to place a sturdy one of the most damaging factors in shed at the point most likely to be the movement of an avalanche... ... attacked by a downpouring of surface

snów.

An illustration of this combined mass of row and trees was afforded by the experience of a mountain railroad a few months ago, following a heavy slide The tracks of the road were buried under fifty feet of debris. Snow. ploughs made..no impression on the tremendous covering To.. free the tracks from their, burden required the

use of dynamite in liberal quantities. After the spring thaws it was discover- that the volume of logs carried down with the snow mounted to thousands of car loads

The influence of forest ftres in causing snowslides is widespread. By destroy ing the trees and undergrowth the flames leave the slopes and canyon ready prey to the disuster of the avalanche. As long na the dead trees remain standing they offer some resist- It is only within recent years that pace to movements of the snow! After serious attention has been paid to the years of gradual deeny, the ehnerodnetual provention of snowslides in the trunks topple and fall. Thenceforward mountains of the western states. Hero the trees not only lose their power to tofore the efforts were confined to pro- retard the snowslide, nt actually join teetion. The transcontinental railroads

Effective Snowsheds.

With the canyon slides this form of protection was comparatively effective. The well defined grooves. in which the avalanches repeated themselves made possible for the engineers to locate shers at strategie, points. From a practical viewpoint the shed is an arti

Helal tunnel, intended for the double purpose of protecting the tracka und chusing the sliding snow to pass over the milivay without piling up, wThe construction of such sheds has been a heavy item of expense in 'raitrondi operation.

stopes the shud is less efficient.

With the snowslide of the brander Lack- site, this type of avalanche is apt to ing the prescribed groove of the canyon

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"BEING RESPECTABLE”.

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the Respectable." photoplay attraction at the World exciting. screen solution to the

"WHY GET MARRIED" IS Theatre, takes quite a fingit vital question whether a women some of our pet beliefs. Grace' Flandrán wrote the story which should regard a business career was published in novel form some as more necessary than domestic anonths ago and is now enjoying fealty. The theme is decidedly quite a voguo in the bookshops. modern, covering a serious pro- Warner Bros. made the picture. with Phil Rosen directing.

blem of married life which bas some highly thrilling climaxes. To say that Mlle. Lafayette is pleasing and beautiful would be putting it mildly, Hailed as the

The story told is that of a lot of people of average social stund ing who tried to work out their Constance Talmadge is

destinies on the theory that they comedienne who knows the value didn't care what people thought most beautiful girl in France" she of a sure light touch in spon-of them and "were" in no sense is not only a beauty of rare grace taneous fun-making, and she bound by the so-called 'conven- and charm but is an exceptional more than fulfils the hopes and tions." The unhappy tangle that actress. She enacts the role of expectations of her many ad-résulted is the "red meat" of the Martia Wainwright in married mirers by her delightful inter- narrative and drama.

life but in business circles is pretation of Kitty Constable in

Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, known as Miss Heming. She is this play.

Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda and on the horns of a dilemma and The story is from the success- Theodore Von Eltz are some of 'there is ever the vexatious ques- ful play by Geraldine Bonner and the well-known players who ap-tion: "To be or not to be a mar- Hutcheson Boyd, adapted by pear in the interpreting cast. ried woman?" She rises to great Julia Crawford Ivers. Briefly it Mr. Blue is a young chap who is heights in a business way and also relates how John "Constable, a forced into a marriage with her handsome husband slowly but young writer, is working hard on 4 girl he hadn't the surely slips into a secondary back- his book, "Woman's Struggles." slightest thought of marry-ground. He becomes a big hero Mrs. Alloway, a widow, takes an ing through the machina- when he captures a band of Interest in his work and Kitty, tions of a designing parent of the freight robbers for the railroad the young wife, remarks that the girl. His subsequent "unconven- where he is employed in a menial widow is struggling to land John. tional" conduct leads him right up capacity. Promoted and trans- When Mrs. Alloway goes too far to the point of eloping with an- ferred to Chicago, he hurries to: in her designs, Kitty concocts a other woman and leaving his wife his wife to break the good news. clever retaliatory plan of her owo, and baby "flat on the lot." He Before he can open his mouth, she covers the widow with confusion finds it cannot be done.

calmly informs him she has come and wins her husband' back in'a The appearance, of Louise to the parting of ways. hurry. CAN · "AMBITION THROTTLE

The theme of the Fazenda in a serious role in the The husband receives an anony. neglected wife and the "other picture is worthy of comment. mous letter which cast an asper- woman" is old, but the handling Miss Fazenda is widely known asion upon the name of his wife, of it in this picture is now. a screen comedienne in fact; she and himself. He guesses correct- has never before played a screenly as to the writer and goes in- Dorothy Farnurn, who numbers part in which her business has not stantly to administer a sound among her screen adaptations been to make people laugh I thrashing. Then his wife seed "Beau Brummel," "Babbitt and Being Respectable she is the light, resigns-and-from-that- "Lover's "Lane," did the scenario sweet, quiet, unassuming young hour on takes up the way of her of "Being Respectable," tho

woman who seems to be getting a husband: screen translation of Grace particularly bad deal in the matri- In addition to Mile. Lafayette's Flandrau's best: seller now monial game. The manuer in splendid work, Jack Parrin is playing at the World Theatre to which she plays the part marks excellent as the husband while packed houses,

Miss Fazenda as one of the most Bernard Randall gives a capital capable and versatile players on portrayal of the young man who Monte Blue and Marie Prevost the screen.

tries to separate the Waln- are almost a pair of screen in. ---

Wrights and receives a good liek-

A MIGHTY MODERN STORY OF A YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL WIFE WHO TRIES TO SOLVE THE GREAT PROBLEM OF PRESENT DAY MARRIAGE. WOMAN'S LOVE? WHICH SHOULD A WIFE CHOOSE, HUSBAND OR BUSINESS? AKE THE VITAL QUESTIONS THAT MAKE THE THEME OF THIS EXQUISITELY BEAUTIFUL

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separables, "Being Respectable," means they form the only real Ing. Other rôles are cleverly

thair latest co-starving vehicle, is motion pl

team on the

break out anywhere. The location of this year's silde ja no index' to the place at which the next outburst 'will creur. For this reason snowshed protection is a difficult matter. To altempt to gover the trucks at every point of danger would involve prohibitive expense.

the study of

In

recent years

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the burial of the tracks in. uxponad One side of comparatively

avalanches has taken the form of pre-places.

ventive measures. The trends have

refaxed none of their efforts at protec- reecht date closed traffic for a full week tion, but have added to these thr

on one of the important lines connect-

attempt to make future slides imposing the, Pacifle slope with the eastern sible. Realization of the idenijis under- taken by a process of reforestation.

Planting Tree A Safeguard. The propagation of trees for snow protection is less simple than that of mere reproduction of the forests. After logging operations or a serious fire the one object, ordinarily, is restoration of the trees over the entire aren. In the case of the snowalide special considera tions must be given weight.

One of the particular problens is that of seeing that, the tree growth starts at the top of the area included

in the groove. Trees lower down will have litle feet after alide once starts. The find attention, therefore, is given to the tree growth at the higher elevation. This means that the plant. ing at the top`must have te to develop Lurdy resistance before the lower planting undertaken. The progrens of the planting down the slope then follows by degrees, with intervals of ten or a dozen years Breen "layers" until the entire slope.com.been covered. To bring this about in het effective manner is aften, a long and tedious process. The channel e. the slides may be a mile or more an ignorthy and the growth must be suffic.tech zone to hold the snow in place and keep it from sliding to the nex. i before the latter is planted.

part of the United States..

The local population also suffers from the calamity of the avalanche, which máy manifest itself in places previously considered immune from troubles of this nature. Houser are sometimes destroy- ed and serious damage sustained by local enterprises. Loss of life is not infrequently a part of the toll exacted by the sildes.

Death In The Avalanche.

Government mail carriers in the mountains often find themselves con- fronted with serious menace. from: avalanches. The records of the post- office department bear witness to more than one, tregtdy in which the carrier has been the victim.

The men of the postal service cover- ing the mountain region find their winters a constant battle with the elextents. During much of the year snowshoes are the sole

means of " locomotion. Mounted on this type of eu.pment the carrier makes his way through the mountains" with a fifty puun. had of mail, regardless of the state the weather. The trip is one of consignt danger. Recent years have number of carriers caught and d in avalanches. Once engulfed, Not all of the nerit of the snowslide the hut being has no chance of is experienced by the railroad com-

escape. Last year the body of one of panies. Passengers on the transcon-

the curriers was found where he had" fineptal trains have experienced png fallen, six months after the slide which delays and incgnvenience as a result of chung his death.

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Marie Prevost Irene Rich

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CONSTANCE TALMADGE

"THE SAUCE FOR

THE GOOSE"

STORY OF LOve, suspense & OMEDY.