Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-09

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aboard the Lick Observatory eclipse
expedition. Prof. j. NJ. schaeberle,
senior astronomer at the Lick. Is Ia
charge of the party. and Mr.. Charles
Burckhalter, astronomer OF the Chab0t
Observatory In Oaklnnd, Is first assist
ant. With them will 60 two volun-
teers, Mr.. Lewis c. Masten Of San
Francisco and DR.. A. g. Shuey Of Oak
land. All the members Of the party be-
long to the Astronomer Society of the
Pacific, observes tho Examiner OF San
Francisco. and all those who contrib
uted toward the expenses OF the expe-
dition are also members of the same
society. Mr.. Charles +. Croker placed
mt the disposal Of the Lick Observatory
a sum sufficient to defray all the travel
ling expenses. Prof. Schaeberle has
twice before gone on long eclipse
voyages in the name of the Lick Obser-
vatory. Some point inland from Kus-
hiro, on the Island Of Yezo, will be the
station selected by Prof. Schaeberle's
decided upon until japan Is reached.
They hope to transport all the apparat-
us to some mountain elevation II this
Is found practicable. While the chances
Of clear weather In northern Japan dur
ing August are only reckoned ut 20 per
cent, Prof. Schaeberle believes he will
stand a somewhat better chance at an
elevation inland than IL he remains
near the fog-laden coast.
The United States Church Army is the
latest demonstration of the church mill
tant In America. The new army Is to be
recruited and Differed within the ranks
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church
1t Is military in its organization, and
has the sanction Of the Bishop of the
church; will in time have a post" in
every considerable Episcopal parish in
post being formed into regiments, the
latter in turn constituting divisions
within the limits of Episcopal dioceses.
The army is devoted, as its banner
shows, to Total Abstinence and Res
cue Work." The army will of necessity
be uniformed, not garishly or in a
spectacular manner, and its mission
will be carried out on lines less theatric
than those pursued by the Salvation
Army, and the later Volunteer Army,
but the purposes will to a certain ex-
tent be the same. The enrolled men,
bers will all be in more or less public
manner apostles Of total abstinence,
and proclaim the fact by their daily
walks and in their regalia. Systematic
work among the unfortunates and out
casts Of either sex in the slums of large
cities will be carried out. Behind the
soldierly zeal of the members Of the
army detailed to this work will be the
great wealth of the Episcopal church.
The banner adopted by the United
States Army is that of the red and
white stripes of 'Old Glory" with the
stars on the blue field. replaced by a
white cross and legend Total Absti-
hence and Rescue Work.
81 have had an interview with Ed
ward Joel Pennington, the scientific en-
gineer from Racine, Wis, whose name
has been Of late prominently before
the public i'm connection with the horse
less carriages which are just now Gre
likely to come into even greater notO-
riety," writes Julian Ralph from Lon
don, "by means Of the aerial torpedo,
which he is on the eve Of perfecting.
This is an invention which he believes
will altogether revolutioniZe the art Of
war. Mr.. Pennington Is at the Hotel
Metropole, where he has a suite of
apartments given up entirely to the
work he has on hand. The sitting room
are occupied by staff of dfaughtsmen,
who are engaged in making drawings
and facings, and in the ante-rOom are
models of the machinery which will be
brought into reQuisition, and in the bed
room Mr.. Pennington receives his
guests. L have he said, been working
out this idea for great many years. l
should like you to understand that it is
neither flying machine nor a balloon:
it is simply an aerial torpedo, and will
do in the atmosphere what the White
head torpedo will do in the water 1t
carries no passengers and no freight ex-
cept the explosives with which it Is
charged. An ordinary man-of-war could
carry several hundred of these tor
pedoes. and from distance Of forty or
fifty miles they could let loose sufficient
to destroy the whole city Of New York
in few hours. The principle of the
thing Is this: Each vessel carries a GER
tain quantity of dynamite which it au-
tomatically discharges over the city
or fortress which we are attacking
This may be twenty or forty or even
a hundred miles distant, but ut present
propose to fix the limit at forty miles.
OF course the rate at which the tor
pedoes would travel is matter Of the
regulation Of the machinery, but 1 sug-
gest that the pace should not exceed
twelve miles an hour. You would then
be able to send off your vessel before
dusk, and it would arrive at it's des-
tination in the dark"
Chauncey NJ. Depew was asked re.
Gently regarding the moment in his life
which he deemed most critical
"My life has been replete with Incl
dents" he answered.: "but there Is none
to which l can look back with more in
terest than one which occurred when u
was boy. Our father was kindly but
strict. He did not believe in repeating
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