Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-12-26
y &*MMAVE you dreamed of fra
By ARTHUR BONSaI

Asa&*S1N" places Wnefe the worlds
history has been made. TO sea fo,
Yourself the grandeur and beauty +be
s~,1Dendors energy and the endlesslv
yarjed llfe not only in our ow, land
but ai>G IN the distant countries Of +bo
world:
The progress of scientific inventor
nov makes it possible for hundreds
OF thousands to realize this dream 10,
themselves and for their children
Travel q the truest kind is Within
yojr reach, and yet without using
f..@er slip or railway Or any OF the
~u,,jnaGy bodily eonveyances.
This statement is so extraordinary
II i}s r3alms that probably no reader
o. j&@se lines will believe it at first
Indeed TO one could have been uo~e
Serptital about it than the writer was
u@ti! he visited the New York esfab-
A>Ament Of Underwood & Underwood
thr business organization which is re-
spon>ib.e for this truly remarkable de-
v~.opHeDt of a great scientific iuyen-
tioa LAS wonderful in its way as the
telehhoCe.
ri The 1iEst few minutes OF my visit
T-ge devoted to some Interesting opti-
"a! EXPERIMENTS.
l was BANDED a neutral tinted card
on which steroscopic photographs of
q one Soene were mounted in the manner
win which many people are familiar.
two prints on Il card, side by side.
They .coked like duplicate prints from
a single well-made negative.
IT. the photographs l saw represent
Ell Il Tield with a cluster of houses
beyond. and breaking surf on a distant
so beach: it was down in Martinique.
\ .0uple of men stood talking in the
field close by, and 1 could see some of
tlp village houses in the space be-
tween heir standing figures.
| was asked to examine this also
through the stereoscope. 1t seemed
10 me hardly necessary. after the III
>%pertior l had already given the twin
photographs; however. l put the card
il the rack and placed my head
against The hood CT the instrument.
. Here / was astohished again. | was
longer looking at a Photograph
~aeeing out into actual space, into
N actual place, and, moreover. this
~place was startlingly different from
what ] had supposed when l looked
at the fat photograph without any
instrument. Instead of looking from
the side Of a field, l found | was on 4
high bluff, dropping abruptly perhaps
five hundred feet just beyond the two
men. The houses that had supposed
to stand 1t the farther side OF the
field showed up as they really were,
at least nalf a mile distant over at the
other side of 4 rayine. l couldn't be
lieye ny eyes at first. Then l asked:
What causes this effect Of being
right there with open space all
around:"
IN tie few minutes we have. there
would Tot be time to explain fully"
was ire answer, but the possibility OF
these effects OF reality depends first
of all G.: the principle of two-eye see
ing as distinguished from one-eye see
ing. Yoa must begin with this prin-
ciple i you are to understand this
travel system. Most people never stop
to think why they have TWO eyes. 1t
the question occurs to them at all,
they probably fancy the second eye
is merely a piece of reserve equip
ment-Eature's provision against help
lessness in case Of accident to one
Organ 81 vision"
Then NY informant went on to eE-
plain that q person with normal eye
sight sees very differently from a per-
son with only one eye. TO demonstrate
that statement 1 was asked to make
two OF three personal experiments.
First / held my right arm out straight
in front of me, on a level with the
shoulder, the hand open, the palm to-
wards the left. Holding it in that po-
sitiou / looked at the hand with my
right eye alone, keeping the left eye
si,,t. / found 1 could see the edge
OF my hand and a part OF the back OF
4lin hand. Next, keeping arm and
hand in the same position, l closed
the right eye and used only the lett
eve. That time l saw the edge OF my
hand and a bit of the palm. II L
could not see around on the back OF
the hard as before. Last OF all. l used
both ives together. Somewhat to my
OWE surprise, 1 noticed that L could
then see the edge OF the hand. part OF
the palm, and also part OF the BACK
OF the hand. Indeed. I found L actu-
ally saw part way around the hand.
The representative Of the steTe-
~ograpEers then explained that a pl-
norIoIor or stereoscoDic camera differs
from an ordinary camera as a TWO
r eyed man differs from q cripple Win
only enc eye. 1t has Two lenses seq
side by side as far apart as a person :
fyvo ewes. One lens taxes IN exactly
what would be seen by the right eye
Of 4 person standing in the amer .
mace, The other lens takes in Wh'tt
would be seen by the observer iell
exc Prints made from the TWO hs5a-
1ives aro of course, almost alike afc
YET never precisely alike. Their mount
ig~ cD the s~tereograpn card Is a pro-
ees: recurring exact, expert "ofAni"A-