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VISIT TO THE MOON.

PROFESSOR'S WILD ̧.

INTENTION.

TO BE SHOT IN A ROCKET."

[United Press. ]

Paris, July 15-Six men bave asked for the privelege" of riding in the rocket which may be shot into the sky for a visit to the moun within the next twelve months. Professor Oberth, creator of the plan for the rocket, has personally re- ceived

BRIDGING THE ANY LETTERS FÖR

HUDSON.

ENORMOUS SUSPENDED

SPAN. "

FOUR GREAT TOWERS.

Traffic conditions over a large part of New York City, and living. conditions for hundreds of thous unds of its inhabitants, will be profoundly altered when the great new bridge across the Hudson River, between the northern end of the Island of Manhattan and the three applications and State of New Jersey, is thrown Robert Esnault-Peletier. the

open for traffic. This bridge will astronomer, has received the others."be a difficult and cestly piece of Both gentlemen admit that the pos-engineering Bibility of a safe return is excred- ingly small.

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UNCLAIMED CORRESPON- DENCE, ETC., AT

THE G.P.O.

THE OFFICIAL LIST FOR SATURDAY.

A General Post Office notification, issued on Saturday, gives the following particulars with regard to unclaimed correspondence, etc., waiting at the Post Office, and also unclaimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph „Office:~

£750 FOR WRONGLY ACCUSED MAN,

MALICIOUS PROSECUTION,

DAMAGES,

Damages amounting to £750 with costs were awarded in the King's Bench Division for Mr. Albert Ed- ward Le Masrier, of Great Hermi tage-street, London Docks, against. Mr. Edward Albert Old and Mr. Soloman Meider, of Brondesbury Park, for malicious prosecution.

Mr. Le Masurier's case was that he was wrongly charged with the theft of a ten-shilling note and two postal orders. He was charged be- fore the Thames Police Court magi- strate, who dismissed the case against him after evidence for the prosecution had been given and without calling on him for an ex-

WILLIAM PRESENTS

Poste Restante Correspondence. J. Asbeek, Bakhtowar Singh,planation. Capt. E. M. Cotton, W. J. Chap- man, China Radio Co., China In- denting Co., H. A. G. Clark, T. J. Dwyer, R. Darnell, R. W. Fitz william, Louis Gorris, Mrs. M. M. Gray (c/o S. H. Gray), Dr. and Mrs J. G. Hill, G. Houston. Capt. D. S. Harvey, L. V Heinicke, B. Italiener, R. Jameson, Capt. Day Kearney (ss. Gogovale). A. L King, Mrs. D. MeRae, Mille. A. May, J. J. Mantier (Dir. Geo. of Rail Road). F. D. Norman, A. H. Nark, M. Namias, W. E. Priestley, E. C. Paulet, R. S. Pigott, C. Rit of the bridge and its approachester, Mr. and Mrs. L. O, Roes, M.

Its four great towers, two on each eide of the river, now nearly com- pleted, are 830 feet high, and the suspended span between them will be 3,500 feet in length, which, it is said is about twice na long na any other suspension bridge in existence. The side spans are each to be 650 feet and the total length

is to be 7,800 feet.

13 Feet High)

M. Stodghill, S. W. Smith, Miss E. Tasker, Charles True, H. B. Williards, W. M. Wyeth," F. M. Willer, Young.

The first danger lies in the rocket's "gang agley" before it clears the earth. The result in that case would be a crash and certain death. The second is the possi- bility of striking the moon or some other hard. opaque body in the beavens. The third, is in descend ing, in which case. Prof. Oberth has pointed out that the projectile is sure to be either dented or destroyed in striking the cushien of atmosphere "which envelops the earth. Finally, there is the ques-.partment engineers on plenty of

room for fighting ships to pass un tion of air although an American

Registered Articles, der. The bridge will have eight astronomer has devised a scheme for lanes of "vehicular traffe, four Matina Ayon, W. W. Brotherton, rapid transit lines, and two S. S. Blinde, Boris Bogoroditzky, supplying oxygen to the passenger sidewalks for pedestrians. It will Mrs. Maria Henkina, M. Marche- cost £15,000,000, and the traffe is Marchade, Mlle. A. May, R. S. expected to be so heavy that in a Moore, W. E. Hekenney, Messrs. few years' time this sum will have L. Pingamall, J. M. Rowan (ss. been earned back through the small Baron Minto), L. Roban, Peter fee of about two shillings which Tester, C. F. Tchou, Ad. Thibaud, will be charged cach vehicle which General Wa Chung Dok, General

Wa Kam Yu.

Certain Suicide.

above the water will be 213 feet, The height of the main roadway due to the insistence of War De

crosses.

Unpaid Correspondence." J. S. Flacks, A. Hitchcock, Manro-de-la Rosa.

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UNCLAIMED RADIO.. TELEGRAMS.

From.

Macao.

Batavia.

San Francisco.

If, however, the chosen passenger outwits the law of probabilities and comes' safely down to the soil of France and not the middle of the ocean he will become a "greater This bridge will cross from One) hero than Lindbergh and will pro-Hundred and Seventy-eighth Street, Manhatten. "to Fort Lee, New bably have a message for the

Jersey. It will be the first bridge. astronomers of the world that will ever constructed along the lower Addrets. add more te the solution of their reaches of the Hudson River, al-

Touhang though there are now several tun-Liassic .......... problems than a year of patient nels beneath the bed of the stream,

Hipchongjan labour in an observatory.

including one, opened nat long 480,Kwokkwanhing National ...Saigon. for the use of vehicles. The new Lyfatchin

Laokay bridge brings within the area of possible daily travel to and from Yale Club....

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Buffalo, New York. vast semi-circle of New York a

Bluebell

.....S.S. Ehiva. land in New Jersey, now rather Polestar

S.S. Namsaug. sparsely inhabited, and real estate 1395 3141 5686 2638 5894... Hoihow. interests have under way extensive

Wanderer.

Hanoi. plans for new, towns and new

Winglee

Canton. suburbs of existing towns in this

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Shanghai. district.

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Nanking. Semarang.

Mr. Esnault-Peletier stated that only those will be chosen who have bo dependents and who in addition are not subject to sea-sickness. Old Bailors or ex-aviators, in his opinion, would be ideal subjects for the experiment. One of the difficul. ties is that after leaving the earth behind, the passenger will lose all sense of direction, hence, will pro bably not be able to say what land he sees, or touchés...

This would remain a mystery un- less the ingenuity of astronomers devises a method of tracing the rocket's course in the sky.

German Solution.

A solution of this problem "has to a certain extent been supplied by the Germans who now frequent ly send up uninhabited rockets to ao altitude of sixty and a hundred iles equipped in each case with registering apparati. Prof. Oberth bas further suggested the creation of veritable laboratories in space by means of rockets with facilities for remaining aloft for some time,

The plan of the rocket, which bes been found feasible and been signalized by the award of the Hirsch-Rep prize for the year by the Societe Astronomique of France;

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The bridge will also transfer Upper Manhattan, which is now Tonicity something of a dend-end for Khaithaisang

into H main automobile trafic. artery, and several quiet side streets, now almost deserted during the greater part of the day, will become roaring arteries, light-con- trolled, with a policeman at every corner to supplement the authority of the red and green signals blink- ing overhead.

Another Hudson River bridge has been planned tentatively, its con- struction not yet being assured. This one would cross from Fifty- seventh, Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey, and would be as large as the one now being built, which will be opened in 1902,Owing largely to the higher cost of land in the heart of the city, the Fifty-seventh Street bridge would cost much more than the first, the estimated expense being £26,000,00.

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is such as to enable it to create net COUNSEL FOR BOTH SIDES.

only the pull of gravitation from the earth, but from other planets and the sin as well. It will there- fore be able to cruise the heavens free of danger of being forced down unless it goes square into a reef pro- jecting from the moon.

JUDGE'S REQUEST TO A BARRISTER.

Mr. Justice Swift took the unasu-

So far as the plans are now

al course at the Old Bailey of, ask- known the man in the rocket willing counsel for the defence to open the case for the prosecution of a have no means at his disposal for woman charged with manslaughter. controlling the course of the projec tile. His job will be to hold on The case had come on unexpected- with both hands and pray that no

ly, and Mr. Eustace Fulton and deity Jealous of this invasion of Mr. Senton, prosecuting counsel,

were engaged in another court.

his domain throw thunderbolt in his path.

MAN'S OUTBURST IN

COURT.

JUDGE SENDS HIM TO PRISON.

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Police Constable Beadle had given evidence at the Whitechapel County Court when a man sprang up in court and exclaimed, "He is dirty liar; he has given fals evi- dence.

Judge Cluer called the man to the witness-box and quietly told. him that for misbehaving in court

he would be fined 408.

The man I will pay nothing I would sooner go to prison. They are the people who are supposed to look after us, and the dirty liar has given false evidence.

Judge Cluer: Yes, you will go to prison now without the option of fine. You are committed at

once.

Pollock was taken to Brixton Prison.

Mr. Justice Swift said that he did not wish the jury to be kept waiting, and asked Mr. Seufert, defending counsel, if he would like to open the prosecution.

Mr. Seuffert said that he would, and proceeded to lay the facts be- fore the jury.

"You cannot, in the circumstan- 'ces," he said, '*'expect me to say very much against my own client, but I will try to state the facts purely as they appear upon the de- positions."

He bad not proceeded far when Mr. Seaton came in and took over the opening of the case.

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A doctor Shoreditch County Court: Her memory is at fault. Deputy Judge Thesiger: That is the polite way of saying she is, not telling the truth.

Man, at Southend: The worst day's work I ever did was on the

have burned greens, burned pota toes and meat like & cinder to eat.

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