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SPEED-A MANIA WE CANNOT RESIST.

EFFORTS TO BEST TIME SPRING FROM IMPULSES."

THE HUMAN MACHINE'S OBSTACLES AND HANDICAPS.

Can Man Stand It?

ing the offside radiator to burst. A little later the car struck a poo! The great difficulty with attain of water." "I thought the steer ing such high speeds is was so muching gear was going to be wrenched mecaszical as it is physiological out of my hands," Major Segrave Kan man withstand speeds of from said later. And subconsciously he 300 to 1,000 miles an hour! The must have been more than merely answer is plainly, no. We shall be alarmed at the prospect of dash able to put materials together that ing into that" black wall of specta will stand the strain, but we our

tors, for it takes only a split selves shall not be strong enough; second to cover a hundred feet And even if a mau could be found from the course when a car is going who were, it is probable that he at 338.8 feet per second, would not ve quick enough to steer a vehicle going a 1,000 miles an hour without meeting sure deatrus tion.

We may safely conclude that cars will not be driven much in excess of the present speed record.

Water Speeding.

As human beings we are for ever travelling faster. In the Stone Age the speed record may have been nade by an irate husband chasing a moonoy hieroglyphist with a club for writing love-slabs to his "wife. For centuries "speed depended on Forses and saila. To-day science supplies propulsive energy in tens of thousands of horsepower and the horse is relegated for the most part to the parks and sports and the sail has almost disappeared from the seas. Every year some man or woman goes faster in some vehicle than any one has gone before. The fastest train in the world aver- #ges 67.7 miles an hour. Last year

On water we are not much better in the world at a speed of 93.1 on land, sea and in the air. Even off. Any craft developing extreme- miles an hour, beating maring at 230 miles an hour a turn cau-ly high speed becomes super- locomotive by comfortable mar not be made with an automobile, scnsitive, and it would require gia. The automobile, the second A car capable of going so fast could little to wreck a hydroplane going fastest vehicle. W5 driven by never be driven, even over & per at the speed of Segrave's car, it Major H. O. D. Segrave at 231.36 feet racing track with backed turns, indeed the craft could be kept on miles sa bour along, the sandy shore without disaster.

the water at that speed. Its ten- at Daytona Beach. But the fastest

dency would be to leap into the man has ever gone, so far as the

air, which gives point to the saying records show, is 209.8 miles an

of a famous French flier who boast- hour, and that was last summer,

ed that he could dy a kitchen table when A. H: Orlebar few four times over a three-kilometre course at an

if it were powered highly enough..

And so it is evident that to at- average speed of 387.7 miles an

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And it is doubtful if a man could even drive a car at 300 miles an hour. He would not be quick enough, his nervous reactions would be far too slow. As a matter of fact they really are at present apeeds. Driving over a straight-tain speeds of more than, say, 300 away course safely is largely a miles an hour, air must be the matter of lack, Hemholtz measure medium.

Since more than this

ed the speed with which the ner-speed bas already been attained, But how (asks Mr. T. J. C. Mar-vous system carries messages to even including the turning of cor tin, in the New York Times) shall and from the brain at about 108.4 Ders, the question arises. How we account in a practical way for feet a second. Segrave at 231.36 much faster can we go! Very the attempts to raise the speed miles an hour was travelling 330.33 probably a man could fly at 1,000 record ou land by us of the auto-feet a second-three times faster miles an hour in a sealed cockpit. mobile? Let us simply agree that than his brain was capable of work. But could he turn at such a high we all-or by far the greater parting. This means that the machine speed. The opinion of the experts of us-thoroughly enjoy speeding, is virtually out of control, that the is that the limit of human endur- There is a big thrill in seeing a smallest swerve is fraught with ance will be reached at around 400 powerful car boing driven at op alarming possibilities; that before miles an hour. At speeds of be- ward of 200 miles an hour, and he could recover from a jar his car tween 500 and 1.000 miles an hour there is a bigger thrill, for

the might be wrecked; and that, any: the centrifugal force would be so person of steely nerves, in driving way to be thoroughly Irish-any great that a turn or a movement one at that speed. There is pos- danger foreseen would have, bean por down would immediately sibly no more exhilarating experi- passed before the driver was aware drain the blood from a man's brain ence than that of flying a plane at of it.

or send such a rush to it as either 100 or more miles an hour close to

to cause him to lose consciousness. the earth. Then the sense of

Segrave's Impressions,

or instantaneously to kill him, de- speed, the thrill of high adventure,!

Major Segrave found the difficul- pending on the rate of speed. is at its greatest. The danger of ties of steering enormous. To guide Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle, in execut it and the feeling of danger in it him he had a number of red bullying his famous outside loop, in merely add a zest to the enjoy eye lights strung above the centre which he struck 300 miles an hour ment, a sort of tonic invigoration of the course. At the end of the

on the downward thrust, felt, he So our pursuit of speed is a queer course was another guiding light. says, as if his eyeballs were being pioneering in thrills for On the front of the car was a small torn out of their sockets. There is them for the sake of their practical the cockpit an ordinary naked rifle will be reached definitely we may their own sake and in pioneering in circle with crossed wires, and in clearly a limit of human enduranc

in the air, although as to where "it sight. Without these guides be But what of greater speeds could not safely have obtained such at present dispute. Scientists have discovered a fly-high speed. When asked what it

mixture

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Technical Dificulties.

named the deer fly-that, can travelj felt like to go so "fast, Major difficulties stand in

for short distances at the incredible Segrave frankly answered: rate of 815 miles an hour, or almost don't know. I have not the slight 100 yards a second. Dr. L. "O. est idea. It is all pretty quick and Jloward, Chief Emeritus of the you do not have much time for Bureau of Entomology, describing l'obscure refcctions." Pressed to the deer fly, says: These pre- give some bare idea of his impres posterous fica appear to have the ions, he admitted that it was most perfect motor apparatus all over so quickly that my impres- among all living things. Their sons were brief, if exhilarating. breathing apparatus is such that On one flank. I saw the immense their bodies are virtually all air black wall of spectators; on the cells or chambers, which gives them other side the fingposts rushing by extreme lightness. Then, to what looked just like straight line is virtually an outside skeleton, are drawn across a piece of typewriter marvellously powerful paper. At one time the car struck muscles that operate their wings." a sand gully left by the tide, caus-

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An enormous number of technical the way. of higher speeds. We have to remem her that resistance in air or water increases as the cube of the speed. If to go at 200 miles an hour re- quires an ingine of 500 horsepower, to go at 400 miles an hour will re- quite one of 4,000 horsepower. The figures for the U.S.S. Saratoga are impressive. To go at nineteen knots an hour its engines must develop 23,300 shaft horsepower; to go at thirty-three knots, its engines must produce 155,543 shaft "horse- power

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Diary of Coming Events,

To-day. (March 90.)

Lammerta Auction: Refinery Stores, Taikoo Sugar Refinery, 11

0.10.

Architec-

Meeting on behalf of Y.W.C.A., Goverhment House, 4.15.

p.m. University Lecture on ture," 5.15 p.m..

Central British School, Prize Giving, St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, 5.30 p.m.

Helena May Musicale, Ballard. Concert, 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Trea- passer.

World Theatre: "Robinhood." Star Theatre: Four Walls.”. Tea Dances Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, pan.

Dinner Dances:

Hong Kong, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels,

8.30 p.m..

Maila Inward: Europican Europe vid Negapatam, letters only (Tuen Bang), uid, Siberia (Tenyo Maru). Outward...Europe Siberia (Lahn), & pim.

Friday.

(March-21.).

A. M.

Lammerts Auction: "Goods and Friendly Cricket:-Division I.: Chattels Metropole Hotel, 10,30K.C.C.. Navy, Division II: R.E.

10,30

and B. v. H.K. Electric, C.8.0.C. St. Paul's Institution, French #. H.K.C.C., Recreio v. K.O.C. Convent School, Causeway Bay, Football-Senior: Sunday Herald Prize Giving, 11 s.m.

Cup Final; Junior: Easterne. Hockey: Club . University IT., RA, Ewe v. Club, Kowloon King's Park, 3 p.m.

Navy, S. China B v. Somersets, St. George's Society: Annual Recreio v. University. General Meeting, H.K. Chamber af Commerce, 5.30 p.m.

Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong Kong, Din-

ner, 8 p..

Queen's Theatre: "The Tre paster,"

World Theatre: Robinhood." "Blar Theatre: "Four Walls,"

Tes Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 2.30 p.m.

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Saturday. (March 22.)

2nd Extra Race Meeting, Happy Valley.

Annual Varsity Sports, Half Mile open 4.15 p.m. and Relay Race open 4.30 p.m. stk.

League Cricket:- Division I.: H.K.C.C. v. C.6.0.C., Division II.:

Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m. Police v. Indians.

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H.K. Realty and Trust Co., Ltd.: Ordinary Yearly Meeting, Exchange Building (2nd floor), 11.30 .m.

Queen's Theatre: The Tres- Passer,"

World Theatre: "Robinhood." Star Theatre: Four Walls." Tea Dances: HK. Hotel, Peain- sula Hotel, & p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Maili: — Inward! Europe vid Negapatom, papers enly Talma) Oriward: Europe vid Marseilles (Kamo Maru), 3.30 a.m.; Europe við Biberíä (Chenan), 6 p.m.

Sunday, (March 23.)

3rd Sunday in Lent,

Special Sermon and Discussion, St. John's Cathedral "What are we to believe about the Bible! preacher Rev. H. V. Koop, 6.30 p.m.

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