The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-19
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finder Brief Review.
~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

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The battleshp Kearsarge which has re-
Gently been 80 prominent In foreign
waters, Is now on It's way across the
Atlantic under orders to "do her best
In the matter OF showing what sort of
time she could make for a long distance
In an emergency. This trial awakens in
terest In the possible speed of big war
ships and makes 6. review OF former ef-
forts interesting. The Kearsarge her
self made the trip to Sell from New
York few weeks ago at an average
speed Of 1852 miles or 14.40S knots per
hour 1he Oregon, with a trial record Of
about the same as that OF the Kearsarge,
made the great voyage of 1i,0oo miles
from San Francisco to Key West In six
ty-eight days, maintaining an average
speed OF over II knots an hour. The
fastest trip across the Atlantic ever
MADE by a war vessel was that OF the
cruiser Columbia in 1885 The columbia
made the voyage from Southampton,
England. to New York in SIX days.
twenty-three hours, and forty-nlne min
,ites. The best four hours run was SoHa
knots, or nearly % miles an hour. The
average speed for the seven days was
1874 Knots or nearly q miles per hour.
This speed record stands unequaled. The
Columbia at that time was the fastest
cruiser afloat, and 1t Is not expected
that any battleshp will equal her re-
cord.
| ports 10 the State Department new in
| venton relating to rapid biography that
| is undergoing n practical test the re-
| suits OF which should receive due consid-
| Grafton In the United States. The system
is known as the Pollah-Virag rapid tele-
| graph, and after a careful examination
| at the Polytechnic Institute at Chariot
| tenburg It was shown to the emperor and
empress Of Germany about the middle
OF last February. 1t was decided at this
| visit by the chief Of the German postal
| system and other inf1eutial persons that
| the new system would be given a prac-
teal test on the line between Berlin and
I{onigsberg. which Is some ITO kilometers
| (447h mies) long. The results obtained
| with the new system arc considered most
| satisfactory, as 1t has been demonstrated
that 10000 words per hour can be trans 4
| mtted under the most varying conditions.
| The imperial telegraph service has de-
| cided to introduce the system on the busy
| line between Berlin and Frankfort.
| The state OF Massachusetts has a Bu-
reau Of Statistics on Labor which was
| recently assigned to the duty Of making
| q full report on Sex in Industry. The
| bureau made its report last week anu
some facts were brought out that are
well worth pondering We make Tree,
use of the Boston Globes summary or
tho report 1t shows that more than ~
| per cent. Of the women workers OF
| Massachusetts are unmarried. They pre-
| fer freedom, work and income OF their
| own, and care nothing for romance. Dl-
| vorces. too, have Increased, being ABOUT
| to every is marriages. The truck farm
| ers are already having women as labor
ers Men are becoming house servants.
| and n general revolution In industrial
| affairs would seem to be taking place.
FOLLOWING are the answers to the dues-5
| lions put by these special census takers
| in their rounds. One table shows A wo-i
men engaged as hack drivers. team
sters, ETC.; 727 messengers and errand
girls, 5 butchers. Z marble cutters. 10
steamhtters, besides numerous other &C.
/ equations usually filled by men. More
than 100000 are in factories, 1900 are
servants and 10000 practice professions.
| All kinds OF political gossip has found
| its way to the open air during the past.
week and some Of it is interesting. For
| instance, there Is talk around Washington
| and In Boston at the same time about
| Il visiting westerner," who is showing
| that the Hon. Richard Olney, OF the last
| named city, Is the real Cleveland. that
| the Brooklyn Eagle and other enthusiast
| tic boomers Of the lone fisherman OF
| Buzzard's Bay is after springing upon an
! unsuspecting public and that the former
Attorney General is to be the real r., re
cipcnt Of the Cleveland strength Re-
| ferring to this gossip, the Boston Even
ing Transcript says:
| This news is important, II two Things
| are true: first If the statement Is correct:
and, second, II Mr.. Cleveland has any
| strength" to bestow upon Mr. Olney,
with his blessing and few precepts. AS
| this visiting westerner has been discuss
| ing politics" with prominent men In New
| England, it is to be presumed mat his
| inquiry, to Judge from his statement has
| been restricted to those Democrats who
| inc
! they were few years ago. but who hope
| to attain the same prominence again by
| naming the winner in advance of the
! race.
The great strike in New York, which
| has for nearly two months completely
tied up building operations has reached
curious and rather unusual stage. ~ Is
| described as no longer fight between
the employers and the labor unions. but
between the various unions and their
leaders over the acceptance Of an arbi-
| tration arrangement offered by the en-
| ployers. The end Is thus supposed to be
| not a great way off. The strike Is esti-
| mated thus far to have cost some S'o.-
| 100000, a large share Of which falls on
| labor, OF course.
Are automobiles to work revolution
| in this country in the matter of road
building, and be the means Of giving us
| Iltst-ciass 'i5H"aSs y -, ~,
| following, which we clip from the Cleve-
| land Leader, would seem to Indicate.
something of the kind:
| There is club of automobile enthu-
sasts in France which boasts 10000
| members. France has about half as
| large a population as the United States.
Think OF an automobile club IN this
country 10000 strong!
| "Cties like Cleveland naturally have
many more horseless carriages in prot
portion to the population than small
! towns or rural districts, In wide re-
| gions of the South and the mountains
| Of the West there are hardly any au-
| tomobiles Here the number is less
/ than nine hundred. Cleveland has more
than per cent. as many inhabitants
| as France. II all the automobile owners
| in this city were In one club the or
| ganlzation would be about as large, in
proportion to population, as the leading