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This may surprise you. You know Kel- vinator to be the oldest system; the system of longest proved life; and the one ac- knowledged to be the world's standard- Yet Kelvinator's modern manufacturing. facilities and great financial resources place Kelvinator on the market at prices that are just as attractive as Kelvinator itself. Don't be satisfied with less than Kelvina- tor quality. You need pay no premium for it. A visit to our display room will convince you.

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or the Offices of:-

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REISS MASSEY & CO.,

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The Oldest Domestic Electric

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Tickets jesuod at Companies tariff rates. Inclusive Tours arranged to all parts of the world, covering travel by Reit Steamer and Air, Hotel Accommodation, Excursions, Guides, Baggage Transfors and overy assistance that è traveller can require.

The attention of travellòrä is drawn to the importance of safeguarding themselves in the carrying of their funds. Our system of Travellers Cheques and Letters of Credit exposes travellets to the least, possibility of fraud. Our Travellers Cheques are issued in Sterling in denominations of £20,, £10 and £5 and in U.S. Currency $100., 850, $20 and $10. Foreign currencies; Lotters of Credit and Travellers Choques encashed. Drafts and Telegraphio Rémiittäñcös öffected.

Shipments effected to all parts. Consignmopts élőkrod at 189 rates. Insuranco arranged. Invalbos Collooted against delivery of kodas. Curios packed for export. Dry storage accommodation for all kinds of Non-hazardous Goods. Léolɗóhé Läädänce Pollöled issue for aftý jöűrdőƒ. Bâgéngi Insurance effootod from departure to arrival at destination; Travellers are recommended to avail themselves of this insu- rance as Companies accopt no liability for loss of baggago,

A largo staff is main.ained for the purpose of answering enquiries ofther poreunally or through the mail and we offer to our clients the most complete travel service possible, based on an experience of over eighty years. Wa have a chain of 168 Officos throughout the world and for the special care of Far Eastern Residents, there is a FAR EASTERN DEPARTMENT at our Head Office, Borkaloy Street, London,

THE FAR EASTERN TRAVELLERS GAZETTE

Obtainable on application.

HEAD OFFICE-BERKELEY ST., PICCADILLY, LONDON,

SATURDAY, APRIL 21,

BIG THERMOTECHNIC

PROGRESS.

A CINEMA MUSICAL CHRONOMETER.

STEAM ACCUMULATOR BY A THE SOLUTION OF AN OLD

SWEDISH ENGINEER.

PROBLEM.

[By Prof. J. Stolting.]

FILM

[By Dr. Kruger.]

Many industrial undertakings Every frequenter of the cinema which make use of steam for heat-will doubtless have experienced ing or boiling, need this source of some ineldent such as the follow- energy in very fluctuating quanting on the screen a detachment ties. But they cannot readily of soldiers marches past, the band adapt the capacity of their boller playing an appropriate march; but to the fluctuations of their require the trend of the soldiers and the ments. Consequently one of two motes of the music fail to coincide, alternatives is adopted; either Sometimes the music moves faster dear boilers of high capacity are than the feet, sometimes the fest employed to meet the maximum move faster than the music. The demand, or smaller bollera are discrepancy between the two often

usod which fail to cope with that produce a disagreeable hot to say, maximum. In the former case, comic effect.

there is a great waste of energy, To obviate such occurrences, In the latter the works are ham: Carl Robert has invented a con- pered by lack of steam at the very trivance which ensures the abso- moment when it is most wanted. Juita coincidence of the music

Ruth's heat accumulator con- and the movies. titués à successful attempt to deal The musical score is written on with the dilemma. Dr. Ruths is a an ordinary filmstrip in such a Swedish engineer. He has de manner that the notes and pauses' monstrated his ingenious and sim- receive varying distances accord- ple invention to a number of Ger- ing to their various lengths. man exparts, and on their recom- Thus, every crotchet occupies the mendations the new accumulator sprice of 1 cm, every minim 2 has been introduced into 75 'Ger-em., every semibreve 4 cm: etc. man factories.

This filmstrip is operated in: The principle of the contrivance Blum's invention at a speed cor- Is expressed in its name, steam responding to that of the cinema clockwork ar- being accumulated when little.is film itself. A needed. The cheap surplus steam paratus which sets the score-strip produced is collected, to heat in movement. is enclosed in a chest! water in the accumulator, and containing a hole with an indica- itself condenses again to water, tor beneath which the propeller of When, now, the factory requires this apparatus is connected with a large quantity of steam, the that of the cinema in such way. determines the pressure in the accumulator is re- that the latter leased, and, the overheated water speed of the former. becomes steam; in this way, the The bandmaster in the cinema accumulator supplies supplementary and energy.

valuable. nuxiliary

A Brilliant Idea. Ruth's accumulator thus plays the part of.a regulator of thermal energy. The accumulation and supply of steam is automatically regulated. This is the brilliant idea apon which Ruth's invention is based. The increase of plant capacity when Ruth's accumula- tors are used varies between 40 How- per cent, and 50 per cent. ever, as fewer boilers are required, the initial costs of nccumulators are soon offset by savings in other directiona.

no longer needs to divide his an- between the attention xious screen and the score, a process which generally fails to hit off the correct time. All he has, to do is to watch the notes as they travel past the indicator..

RESULT OF ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.:

WOMAN EXPLORER LEAVES ENGLAND.

Because of an

attempted

Again, the demands upon the burglary at her home, Mrs. boiler-house are greatly reduced. Scoresby Routledge, the woman! The stokers can feed the fires more explorer, states that she has left

to an unknown | uniformly, which, of course, effects London and gone a very considerable saving of fuel. destination. In addition, it must be remember- ed that, where great fluctuations in the supply of heat take place, the output almost always suffers

She announces her going in the following fashion:---

Mrs. Routledge has left 4, Hyde

in regard both to quality and to Parkgardens, W., for the present, quantity. Consequently, the in- owing to attempted burglary, which troduction of accumulators means has led to the dismissal of the staff, an in-and is proceeding to the Near East, A great saving in costs, crease of output and an improve-As she wishes for entire reat, no

letters are being forwarded, ment in the quality of the goods.

SIR JESSE BOOTS £80,000 GIFT.

The servants were dismissed, and after a caretaker had been ar ranged for, Mrs. Routledge left on hte following day and has not re turned. It is not known when she will be back in London.

Mrs. Routledge was greatly per

TO AID NOTTINGHAM'S NEW turbed by the attempted burglary

'VARSITY,

(her husband was away at the time), and expressed her disap- pointment when the police inquiries There seems to be no end to Sirled to nothing. Jesse Boot's munificence to Not- tingham, his native city.

His latest gift is one of £80,000

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Saved by a Shower.

It will beprecalled that Mr. and to defray the cost of building a Mrs. Routledge wrote a most enter Great Hall and Women's Hall of taining book on their joint adven Residence for the future Notting- turres in the Pacific when making ham University.

survey of Easter Island, that Writing to the Mayor of Notting. mysterious land of giant statues ham from Cannes, Sir Jesse ex-hawn by a prehistoric people. plains that he "Terls so enthusiastic They made the voyage to Enster about the scheme." Lady Boot, he Island in 1 specially equipped anys, will defray the cost of the schooner yacht, and for 14 days Women's Hostel, while he will pay were lost in the middle of the for the Great Hall.

Pacific. Water and provisions ran The total cost of the University short and had to be rationed. The buildings will be about £385,000. ship was saved by a providential Sir Jesse's gifts to the scheme ex-shower of rain. ceed £400,000.

But when it rained the crew went The University College Council below leaving to Mr. and Mrs. are now free to concentrate on the Routledge the task of collecting provision of an endowment fund of the water!

a quarter of a million pounds.

Opening in July.

It is anticipated that the Creat

Hall will be completed in time for

the opening of the University by

TROOPER VANISHES.

the King in July: The Women's ON EVE OF BETROTHAL TO

Hostel is not likely to be finished; before the autumn.

The University is intended to: serve the East Midlands, and a

GREEK GIRL..

On the eve of his betrothal to a wealthy Greek girl, Thomas Jones

charter is expected when the endow young trooper of the 15th

ment fund justifies the privilege.

Hussars, disappeared nearly a year

About £100,000 a year is required ago. for the maintenance of the Univer-

been traced t

sity, and the present income is He has now about 500,000.Gifts to the scheme Australla, and his mother, who lives include:

at Blaengarw, South Wales; hos

An Anonymous gift of £50,000. cabled urging him to return. From the late Mr. Revia, for Jones had been serving in Egypt, scholarships,, £46,000.

..where he had become engaged to Late Mr. Herbert Lancashire and Mile. Mitsakis, the daughter of a Mr. George Spencer, hostery manu-wealthy Greek cinema owner at facturers, 910,000 cách

Mrs. Abbott £8,800.

A hundred thousand Nottingham people are naked to give 108, eath. Sir Jesse had previously given 15 acres of the Highfield estate as a site for the University; and the remaining 195 acres of the catate The gave to the city for playing fields.

Hellopolis.

He seems suddenly to have changed his mind and sailed for England, and his mother, who was not aware of his return, was up

caled to by his fiancee,

"Life is unbearable without him," the girl wrote, "and unless I find him I shall go into a convent."

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