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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-04
CHAPTER I.
Chun5.

REX. old boy, it was great-great! Just
listen to emf The speaker, in the silken
gown of a Columbia student, stood grasp
ing the hand of the classmate who had Just
left the stage, while a great audience that
had risen to it's feet was cheering enthu-
siastically-wildly. They will have you,
continued the speaker. See, PreX is beck
oningt' and, releasing the imprisoned
hands and with a determined push, he sent
his chum, half dazed, half delighted, back
to the footlights, and the uproar in the vast
theater redoubled.
A sea of waving handkerchiefs and eager,
radiant faces greeted the young graduate
as he bowed his thanks and acknowledge
gents, then strove again to escape to the
wings. but they shouted the more and COM
PEELED his return, while from aloft great
garrison flag, the scarlet and white, the
spangled field of blue, came floating slowly
downward and the doubled orchestra crash
ed suddenly into the strains of The Star
Spangled Banner" The president. spring
ing to his feet, was waving his tasseled cap
over his grand old gray head; even the
staidest among the professors seemed car
ried away by the enthusiasm of the mo-
ment, and then, though TO cap the ell
max. two young men with the buttons, belt
and sash of the national uniform visible be-
meath the parted silk of their college gowns,
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portable living is quite within the reach Of
ms most humble workers, and by the cree
tlon OF the model tenements in HopedaIe
corresponding advantages are coming to
not only the town itself, but surrounding
places are feeling the elevation of the social
HE which this marked change In the home
surroundings of the Woodworking peopIe
OF Hopeda!e wrought. The model homes of
Hopedale have engendered the feeling of
self-respect among the Draper employees
which. above all others, goes farthest to
establish and maintain correct and
healthy atmosphere and Indirectly TO get
the very best work out of the workers
The model town was projected and laid
out, new church was established then
came the library and public schools and
public parks followed The streets are
macadamized and lined with shade trees.
Concrete sidewalks abound and both gas
and electric lights have been introduced
The water supply, sewerage and all the
modern municipal regulations required have
been thoroughly looked to as a fitting ac-
compartment to the picturesque homes
which have been erected for the work.
people.
Hopedale is not yet completed, as the
town Is constantly growing, and il is Gen.
Diapers endeavor to make each new Sec
ton developed and each new set of tene-
ments built more attractive than those
which have gone before.
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CINE, and. incidentally, another cause of It's
slow introduction. lies in the fact that the
principle involved in the manner of using
the steam is radically different, making the
resulting engine revolutionary in charac-
ter.
In the old-style steam engine, as Is well
known, the steam is introduced into a cylin-
der. where its pressure moves piston
When the piston gets to the end of the
cylinder steam is introduced on the other
side of the piston, which pushes IL back
again. This forward and backward motion
of the piston and of the rod attached to the
piston is communicated by means of a
crank to a shaft. which is thus given a
rotary motion. OF course, the shaft and
the piston are al right angles to each other.
and this is one of the reasons why the de-
vice takes up so much room and permits OF
only an incommodious arrangement of the
machinery.
There are other merits claimed for the
turbine steamer which are worthy OF very
serious consideration. One of these is the
absence of that vibration inseparable from
the reciprocating engine. Those who have
made the Atlantic trio in one of the great
ocean liners know the unpleasant effect by
the constant Earring and shivering caused
by the impact of the great quadruple en-
gines. And the unpleasant sensations Of
the passengers are not the only i'll results
of the Earring. The constant pounding OF
the engines has a very serious effect upon
the stanchness of the vessel itself shorten
ing its life considerably.
Tremendous Speed.
The merit claimed for the turbine engine,
in its practical application. the high speed
attained by the vessels with which ii has
been equipped, seems to be given proof by
the various trials made of it. Since the
Turbinia, first among craft of its kind,
made in 1897. speed on her trial trip OF
34A knots an hour, then unprecedented,
each new trial. if not making a record, has
shown a speed greater than any attained
by vessels equipped with the steam engine
The King Edward, a much larger boat
than the Turbinia, attained a speed of 2O5s
knots. greater by knot than thar of the
other boat, and she made this speed with a
smaller consumption of coal
The construction of the Queen Alexandra
followed that of the King Edward. The
same firm built both vessels. and the
Queen was very similar generally to the
king" but of larger dimensions Her
usual speed is u knots She has slightly
larger boiler than the King Edward but
the steam pressure is the same. The
Queen" makes daily trips from Dover TO
Calais. and in all kinds of weather has
proved most satisfactory craft
Two Sorts in Use.
There are now two sorts of turoin,J in
use-the Parsons and the De Laval. but IT
is the former that has been applied so sue
cessfully to marine plants.
The engine consists of a wheel with sew
eral rows of vanes, fixed and movable. the
rows of fixed vanes alternating with the
rows of movable vanes. The fixed vanes
are to direct the steam in its passage tn
the movable vanes attached to the shafo.
which are set at such an angle as to re-
celVe the steam with the greatest forca
possible while DETECTING it,
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THE TURBINE ENGINE.
Rear Admiral Melville's 0pin-
ion of It's Future.
STUDIED IT ABROAD
IT'S USE WILL MARK NEW ERA IN
OCEAN TRANSPORTATION.
Turbinia, King Edward and Queen
Alexandra Are English Ships
of This Type.

Written for The Evening Star.
Rear Admiral Melville, U. S. A, retired,
has just returned from abroad, where he
has been studying the efficiency of the tur-
bine engine for the Navy Department. He
is loud in his praises of the reciprocating
engine, declaring that 1t is great ad-
vance over present ship engines, and as
sure as the night follows the day, is bound
to revolutionize steam propulsion of the
future.
Shipping men are looking with great in
terest on a proposal recently made by
London capitalist to the Canadian govern
ment to establish line of passenger boats,
run by turbines, to ply between Canada and
England Their interest in the proposal
lies in the fact that it contemplates a trial
of the turbine steamer in transatlantic
travel. Since the notable series of sue
cesses achieved by the turbine engine on
British waters, eliminating in the unex-
ampled swiftness in a passage of the En-
glish channel all who are interested in
ocean transportation and marine engineer
ing, here and abroad, have been DESTROYS
of seeing whether the engine would be sue
cessful in larger sizes and in the supreme
tests needed by an ocean trip. If 1t does
as well, in an Atlantic passage as on chan
mel and coast waters, then new era in
ocean transportation will have begun.
I'VE are twenty years behind the times"
said Rear Admiral Melville a few days
ago when seen at his home in Philadelphia,
'in not having the turbine in operation.
Will Recommend It.
IT shall recommend it to the navy as
recommended it two years ago. OF course
the limit of experimentation has not been
reached, and in some ways the turbine may
be said to be in it's infancy. That is, no
engineer would swear to it or guarantee
a.G Pr1ttt &c far ct ae-%o~
of theory and the first stages of practical
experiments, much so that the Cunard
line, although the shipbuilders would make
no guarantee, has ordered two ships built
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Favorite Card Game of japanese.

From the Westminster Gazette. 9
A favorite card game of the japanese IN
played as follows: One hundred well-known
proverbs are selected, each divided into two
parts, and each part printed on a separate
card. The host of the evening has the hum
bred first halves, which he reads aloud one
by one; the hundred second halves are dealt
to the other players, who place their hands
face upward on the "tatami," or thick mat
of rice straw, on which they sit. AS the
first half of any proverb is read, the holder
sees 1t unnoticed among his neighbor's
cards, seizes 1t and gives him one of mis-
own. The player who is first out wins.
1t is a very simple game, but IL affords
great entertainment to the players; for the
quick-sighted and keen-witted are con-
stantly Selling the cards of their duller
and slower neighbors, and this leads to
much laughter and many good-natured
sarcasms.
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with the turbine engines The Cunard line
deserves great praise for their grit in thus
taking up the advanced idea.
THE navy will make a practical expert
ment shortly. Three scout ships are to be
built. One will have the reciprocating en-
gines now in use, while the other two will
be equipped with turbines, one of the Par
sons Westinghouse type and one of the
Curtis model
Il left here January 90 in the Kaiser Will
helm II and disembarked at Plymouth. In
London / had repeated interviews with
Lord Selbourne, first lord of the admiralty;
with Rear Admiral Sir John Durstan, Ad-
miral May, Admiral Dram and Sir William
H. White. former naval architect, and with
the members of the Cunard line commits
sion that was appointed to study the tur-
bine.
Watched the Building.
THE English admrals gave me much in
formation, and were much more liberal
than the Cunard commission, which found
was pledged to secrecy. 1 went to the
Clyde, to Belfast, and to several other ship
building places in the United Kingdom,
where turbines were building
Il found the whole of Europe alive 70 the
problem of the new engines, although none
was satisfied as to the claim of economy of
coal and weight which is made for the tur-
bine. There seemed to be no question as
TO the economy of space in the minds of
the great engineers over there All are
anxious to build, but none will guarantee
anything.
In my visits to foreign shipyards went
to Stettin. Hamburg, Flushing and through
some French yards. 1 found the French
yards dabbling in the turbine to a small
extent only On all the engines that ex-
amined 1 found the Westinghouse double
flow the best"
An Old Principle.
In its present form the turbine engine
dates back only twenty years, but the prin-
ciple was known before the Christian era
In 100 B. c. Hero of Alexandria applied
that principle to heat motor. his engine,
known as a reaction wheel, consisting of a
spherical vessel mounted on trunnions,
through which steam was admitted to is
sue finally from openings tangentiaI to the
sphere. By the passage and escape of the
steam the sphere was revolved with great
velocity. In 1929 Giovanni Branca brought
out the impact turbine, employing jet of
steam TO 1mpinge on vaneS blades of q
wheel. This latter is familiar in form and
principle in the hydraulic motor of the
Pelton type. The simple lung tester in
which the exhaled air is brought to bear
on the blades of wheel, is a crude type of
this same engine. The regular water tur-
bine is another example of the application
of the same principle, except that in water
there is no expansion. as in steam.
That the steam turbine, which now ap-
pears as rival, and in some operations a
successful rival of the piston engine.
should have been known at such an early
date, and not wrought with practical form
until now, seems astonishing 1t is not so
astonishing, however, when it is consid-
cred that not until recently did men have
the materials and tools of such refinement
and quality as now are known to be essen
tial in the construction of a practical steam
turbine.
Where Difference Lies.
The Importance of the steam turbine en-
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ART NOTES.

There have been recently installed in the
Hall of Statuary at the Capitol two new
statues. One is of Gen Sam Houston, the
ether >: Gen. Steven F. Austin, both of
whom played 4 prominent part in the his
tory of Texas, which state their effigies now
represent. These statues are the work of
Miss Elizabeth Ney, the grand niece of the
famous French marshal, who for some
years past has made her home in Austin,
Texas. To them have been accorded the
second spaces to the right and left of the
rotunda entrance, and when next winter
they are formally unveiled they will be sin
gled out among the most interesting monu-
ments IT this so-caled American Hall of
Fame" AS a rule there is little that is at
tractive in the portrait statue of a modern
hero For the last seventy-five years mas
culine attire has not lent itself kindly to
artistic interpretations, and few have had
the genius to rise above the domineering
force CT externals. There was something
picturesque however, about the early days
of Texas; something thrilling about the life
her oldest sons lived. And this to a great
extent Miss Ney has suggested In her stat
ues. They are out of the line Of the ord-
nary, unconventional, and altogether pleas
ing to look upon.
Gen. Houston, who stands to the right of
the door as one enters from the rotunda,
is pictured in a. hunting suit or fatigue uni
form-an army coat, fringed along its lower
edge; a wide, rolling collar, open at the
throat, and pair of plain, well-ftting
trousers, tucked into the tops Of high
boots. BY his left side, from his belt, is
suspended a sword, and over his left Shout
der in graceful folds, is draped his long
cloak-like cape. This has been handled with
special skill for, reaching tie full length of
the figure, 1t has been utilized as back
ground to lend soldity to the composition.
The pose, too, has been well selected, the
right foot slightly raised on a fragment of
higher ground, and the right hand claspiAg
the lapel of his coat give sprightliness to
the figure which is agreeable without being
aggressive. Miss Ney has pictured the VAL
liant Texan in his youth, and in the toss of
his head and the expression of his counte-
which later distinguished the man. One
may wish with reason that more care had
been shown in the modelling of this figure,
that it had been more plant and less for
NAL; but none can in like manner complain
of the workmanship of the head 1t is es-
sentially a character study in marble; 1t is
lifelike and vital, and its modelling shows a
great amount of feeling, and is both SYM
pathetic and terse.
While sharing many OF these character
istics, the statue Of Gen. Austin is far less
pleasing and worthy. It. too, is pictur-
esque and well composed. but by gilded
map Of Texas which Is placed In the gem
erals hands 1t makes a bid for popular
favor which Is inartistic and distinctly det-
rimental. Both OF these statues are sup
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A MODEL SETTLEMENT
HoPEDALE Is A vERITABLE
WoRKINGMAN's PARADISE.
What Gen. VIM. F. Draper is Doing for
His Employes-Unique in
Many Ways.

Written for The Evening Star
Gen. William F. Draper, the recent United
States ambassador to Italy, for the sake of
adding to the comfort, pleasure and enjoy
ment of his over two thousand employees,
has turned a section of the wild pasture
lands of Massachusetts, into beautiful
town, a delight to the eye of the artist and
a real paradise to those who are privileged
to live therein. All those who have been
privileged to visit the new settlement agree
that it is one of the best examples of 'prac-
teal philanthropy ever attempted in this
country.
This model town is named Hopedale. and
in many respects 1t is quite unique. No
where else in the world are to be found
such picturesque and comfortable tene-
ments Indeed the word when applied to
the dwellings of Hopedale assumes an en-
tireIy new meaning Instead Of conveying
the impression of rookeries in narrow,
crowded and ill-smelling streets, in the
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Live Nobly.

I will make use OF life.
Full use. best use. Let come what VIII,
It's life, and life my cup shall I'll,
Or sweet or hitter be the draught.
Boots not but how the cup is quahed. u
What but of aioes or sweet wine
Doth enter I'm becometh mine
From this my God-appointed fate,
What good shall | appropriates
Be such my spirits inquiry:
God fixed my lot-but left me free!
Out OF ali stress and strife,
Out Of all disappointments. pain,
What deathless profit shall i gainf
II sorrow cometh. shall IL slay,
Or shall bear a song awayf
When wave and tide against me lift,
Shall I still steer my course or drfftf
Soui. nerve thysclf TO such as these
Deep problems; secret destiniesi
1t matters not what fate may give;
TIE hest is thine--to nobly live!
JOHN BUCKHAx.
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church, see Apostle Smith testified
that he has five wives and forty-f1ve chill
.dren. What business is he imp
Gotham-"He is the head of the Smith
Manufacturing Company. ''-YonkeIs States
man.
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Mr.. George F. Watts, the painter of
Love and Life" is represented at the
Academy this year by piece of sculpture
instead of picture 1t is called Physical
Energy" and represents a nude, muscular
man riding spirited horse.
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The portrait of Gen. leonard Wood,
painted by Mr.. Sargent IN this city winter
before last. and exhibited for some months
in the Corcoran Gallery is now included in
the catalogue of the Royal Academy at
Burlington House. 1t is one of six por
received from the English critics high COM
mendation.
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In the recent death of Franz Won Len
bach the art world sustained very serious
loss. Following, according to the custom of
his country, the calling of his father, In his
early youth he became stone mason. From
this he passed to stone cutting, then to
sculpture, and, lastly, to painting. At the
beginning of his career painter it is
said that he often executed very humble
commissions, and was known to paint many
peasants portraits for gulden (about 40
cents) apiece. Before his death, however,
he had to his credit over three thousand
notable portraits. among which were like
nesses of almost every prominent man who
has lived in Germany during the past thirty
years. He was, to begin with, truly tall
ented, but he possessed what is almost
more, great good sense, indomitable cour-
age and runfaiiing energy. His brush work
was bold and forceful, his technique clever,
but his fame came chiefly through his power
to read and portray character. The por-
trait Of Prince Bismarck. which the Corco-
ran Gallery acquired q little more than a
year ago. admirably represents him.
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mr. part-n my happy part to do 50"
Hyde locked at her with an intense
interest. He wondered IL this angelic
little creature had ever known the
Sfraiities and temptations Of mortal life
and she answered his thought as II
he had spoken it aloud
Yes. cousin. have known all
temptations, and come through all
tribnlations My soul has wandered
and lost its way, and been brought
back many and many a. time, and
bought every grace with much suffer
ing But God is always present to
help while quest followed quest, and
lesson followed lesson, and goal sue
ceeded goal, ever leaving some evil
behind. and carrying forward some of
those gains which are eternal. But
why do You look SO troubled and re-
luctant?a
Before Hyde could answer, the Earl
came into the room and the young
man was glad to see his father.
Ny dear George, the earl said, 4
am delighted to see you. | was afraid
you would stay In the city this dread
ful weather, Is there any news?''
s great deal, sir. ] have brought
you English and French papers.
II will read them ait my leisure.
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Give me the English news first What
lis 1t In substance?''
The conquest Of Mysore and Ma.
dras. Seringapatam has fallen, and
TippoO has coded TO England one-hali
Of bis dominions and three millions
Of pounds. Faith. sir, CORVALLIS has
given England in the east compen-
sation for what she has lost here in
the west
10 make nations of free men is
the destiny of our race, replied the
l.earl.
Perhaps so. for it seems the new
colony planted at Sydney Cove. Ans
tralia, is doing wonderfully, and that
would mean an English empire in the
south.
Yet, have just read proclama-
tion OF the French assembly. calling
on the people of France to annihiIate
AT once the white, clay-footed colos-
sus Of English power and diplomacy.
Anything else?"
Minister Norris is In the midst OF
horrors uncomfortable. The other
foreign ministers have LEFT France,
and the French government is desert
ed BIZ all the world yet Mr.. Morris re-
mains at his post, though he was late
II arrested il the street and his house
searched by armed men.
Bnt this Is an Insult to the Ameri-
can nationl Why does he endure I'll?
He ought ia Taf41rn home,
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