Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
ssntss-Dumslt Still Figures On Flight
ever Louisiana Purchase
NAVAL IMERTs ENDORSE THE NEW FUEL
Bfiqusttss Of Coal Dust and Petroleum
Reuse Enthusissm.
SHOES TO MAKE wATtR-wALnSe EASY
President LOubet Has an Astonishing
Encounter with the Faithful
ness of Discipline in
the French Army.

Copyright, 1902, by Press Publishing Coz
PARIS, Feb s.-(New York World Ca
blegram-Special Telegram)-Dr. Unschutz-
Kaempfe, promoter Of the much discussed
submarine Polar expedition, has arrived
here from Vienna to confer with some
French scientists, who will accompany the
party next year.
DR.. Unschutz- Kaempfe says he elaborated
the plan at Munich year ago and has now
perfected and tested the model Of power
full submarine boat capable Of rapid prog
ress at a depth OF ninety feet which, he
says, is sufficient to clear the ice in the
coolest regions He will go as far north as
possible in an ordinary Arctic vessel, then,
with his submarine boat, he hopes to reach
the pole in four days, breathing oxygen re-
newed chemically.
The doctor is confident he will be able
to rise to the surface often, openings being
numerous in the Polar seas. Polar scientists
agree on the theory that the water at the
pole proper is not frozen. The submarine
vessel will be built in France or in Amer
| lea, according to which country makes the
| better bid for 1t.
Santos Dumont arrived here from Monte
Carlo on Monday and returned today. His
! time in Paris was mostly spent In ascer-
tanning what arrangements he could make
for going TO America with profit to himself
and inspecting the work on his new ninety
horse power navigable balloon.
| French navy experts, after exhaustive
trials, enthusiastically endorse the new fuel
discovered by a French engineer recently,
called petroleum briquettes. By a secret
process petroleum is made semi-solid, then
mixed with coal dust and the mixture is
pressed into hard bricks. 1t constitutes the
best navy fuel makes neither dust nor
ashes, is easily stored and handled and an
equal volume represents four times the
heating power of anthracite coal
The management OF the Paris Alpine clut
| has Just received from Vienna several oi
the Captain Grossman water shoes. Ex-
periments made on the Seine at Bologne
though not quite successful owing to the
lack of practice. demonstrated that the
Austrian invention Is really practicable
Grossmans water shoes. which somewhal
IresembIk Indian snowshoes. enable tbs
experienced walker to glide rapidly on the
water.
In yesterdays trials the men seemed like
skaters on the ice for the first time
Equilibrium was preserved with dificulty
but after a few duckings each man wal
able to travel laboriously some distance
The Inventor claims he can walk on watei
three times as fast as on land.
Persistence of Military Orders.
President Loubet, while walking alon.
yesterday in the grounds in the presi
Dental palace, reached a secluded bencl
and started to sit down to contemplate fol
a moment the wintry landscape.
A sentinel near by, seeing the move.
ment, presented arms, because he knew tn,
president, but said: Don't sit here. It 4
against orders" The president remarked
What foolish notion has got into YOU
head. young trooper?" and again beEaI
to sit down. The soldier. hard headet
peasant, sternly lowered his bayonet
shouting as he did so the warning OF Frencl
sentinels. The president thought he had
lunatic to deal with and went away withou
further insistence and an immediate in
vestlgation showed that while M. Faur
} was president that park bench was hi
} favorite resting place and that more thai
J three years ago the bench was repainte
and a sentinel was placed there in order
to quote an entry in the guardhouse books
"to prevent the president sitting there,
and acquiring fresh paint. Despite N
Faure's death and fifty changes made in tn
presidential guards since then, the senti
nels ahve bee; continued day and nigh
winter and summer, with stereotyped or
ders to prevent the president sitin
there"
Among the soldiers a legend finally gre,
up that the bench was over a subterranea
: magazine Of ammunition intended for th
defense Of the paIaca In case NJ riot