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The Washington times., 1905-12-31
Enqine Is But a Handful

The two entirely new features en-
bodied in its construction are
super-heating air process employed
and turbine engine. The moment
of the discharge from the tube an
alcohol burner is automatically ig-
nited, super-heatlng the compressed
air. causing increased expansion and
developing more energy and addi-
tional motive power, which is ap-
piled to a turbine engine, driving the
double set of four-blade propellers
farther and faster than 1t was pos
sible in the past with the Whitehead
and other makes. The propellers
rotate in reverse directions, prevent
ing undue rolling of the torpedo
while running its course.
The old style of three-eyIinder re-
ciprocating engine used in the i'm
proved Whitehead weighed ninety
pounds, and only gave 30-horse-
power, whereas the remarkable little
turbine of the Bliss-Leavitt weighs
but twenty pounds, and can be easi-
ly carried in a handbag or overcoat
pocket, yet develops 130-horsepower.
The rotary form of motion causes
the propeller blades to make 1900
revolutions per minute. This en-
trdordinary power-giving device Is
both simple and ingenious and may
be said TO resemble a hollow cylinder
split in half and a drum fixed to the
shafts The two cylinders are sup
piled with hundreds of rows of pro-
truding blades or pockets, one row
being set at reverse angle To the
other, The compressed air, with an
enormous pressure, is sent into the
blades of the two cylinders, exert
ing its full expansive force in each
change of direction, and causing the
drum, which is attached to the pre-
peller shafts, to revelve with great
rapidity.
The torpedo is cigar-shaped shell
Of steel. sixteen feet nine inches
long, eighteen iEches in diameter,
and weighs 1890 pounds. 1t is divid-
ed into three main parts, the war;
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Like q ReUoiUer Hammer.

The air chamber, of heavy forged
steel, seven feet nine inches long,
withstands pressure of 5000 pounds
to the square inch, though but p
$50 pounds are used in active opera
ton. The warhead is packed with
1872 pounds OF wet gun cotton. with
% per cent OF moisture. The de-
tonating charge is thirty-eight grains
of illuminate of mercury and prim-
er charge of dry gun cotton. incased
in copper cylinders. On hitting any
hard object, like ships side or
hull, the protruding striker of the
firing apparatus, which performs the
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ed to hit point not more than If
teen yards from the center and two
one-half feet above or below a i've
foot depth mark A distance gear
automatically shuts of the air and
stops the engine at the end of 1,200
yards, and the torpedo is towed hack
to be recharged and fired again.
Ordnance experts say that. not
withstanding the remarkably ef-
ficient work of the new model, the
torpedo is only in its infancy and has
not yet reached its final and highest
state of development. and predict
that before the last OF the battle
ships authorized TO be built have
been put into commission 1t Is not
improbable that they may be equip
ped with a five-mile turbine torpedo,
nearly equaling the present fight
ing distance of gun fire.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31

fourth of the elghteen-inch .torpedoes
have been manufactured and deliver
ed. These have been shipped to the
torpedo station at Newport, from
whence they are being distributed
to the various battleships, cruisers,
and destroyers of the navy.
This wonderful submarine terror
undoubtedly gives 10 the United
States the supremacy over all other
nations of the earth in the posses
sion of this particular style of war
engine.
This new invention puts the fastest
Whitehead out of service. as it is
now practically considered to be OBJ
solete, its new rival being able TO go
double the distance, and to travel
eight knots faster. The most inn
proved Whitehead now in use, in
this and other countries, can go but
1000 yards at twenty-eight knots,
while the present turbine device
plows through the water at the rate
thirty-six knots an hour, and has an
extreme range Of 1000 yards, the
guaranteed contract distance being
$500 yards.
These two combined advantages of
speed and range give it a tremend-
Gus and surprising value as a fight
inc m china anoI,1i,v ,ttaor-~ l., ~
future to be made at long 4,000-yard
ranges, and consequently farther out
of the dead angle Of gun fire, though
Admiral Togo's torpedo crew crept
up to the 2.000-yard range during the
battle Of the Sea of Japan, and sent
home well-placed shots which
smashed and tore up the Russian
fleet. This great sea engagement was
the first to show the full effects and
destructive possibilities Of the mod
ern torpedo when properly handled.
Scores of skilled men are at work
in the Brooklyn torpedo yard, where
the new weapon is being manuiac-
tured. putting together the delicate
automatic adjustments which enter
into its construction. Some 500 to
1000 pieces Of steel. bronze. brass.
and numerous valves go 10 make up
the interior mechanism. The Gov
ernment has several torpedo inspec-
tors on hand 10 see that ali parts are
tested and tried before they are
finally installed.
The first OF the great twenty-one-
inch terpedoes is now nearly COM
pleted, Just what it will accom-
plish In action is not known yet,
but in comparison with the smaller
model it will undoubtedly develop
inte the most terrible engine of des-
truetien SO far devised by man. The
eighteen-ineh torpedo costs about
5000. Jts larger brother will. hew-
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Y r NITED STATES navy ex-
perts have just complet-
ed a series OF secret tests
of the Sandy Hook Gov
ernment station with the
most marvellous engine Of war ever
invented. 1t is the new torpedo ac-
cepted for the United States navy,
lean, long, perfectly harmless look
ing cylinder, with rounded ends and
a screw propeller, Inside the shell
is delicate mechanism correspond
Ing closely 10 the human brain,
which takes charge or the torpedo
Immediately it passes out of the
operators hands. II steers the tor
pedo. attends to the turbine propel-
ling engines, regulates the speed,
changes the course if necessary and
practically controls the torpedo's
every action and movement until it
accomplishes whatever task it was
sent out to perform.
OtccIiuS ll5Cil SlIdtSll lDi lIo lOtos
returning TO its course if 1t be for
moment DETECTED from the proper
line Of attack. and regulating its
depth In the water with a skill pos
sessed by few human pilots. this
new missile of war is undoubtedly the
most formidable antagonist to be
faced by any feet Of battleships and
cruisers.
When hurled from the firing tube
the torpedo dives into the water at
the rate of thirty-six knots per hour,
sinks at once TO the proper depth
for making the most advantageous
attack, and by its pilot OF steel is
steered straight for the vessel
against which it has been aimed by
the gun crew.
An ingenious automatic apparatus,
called the gyroscope, easily held in
the palm OF the hand, acts as the
brains and pilot of the torpedo, keep
ing the ponderous, swift-moving mis-
sile at the proper depth during its
fight throught the water. and steer
ing IL in an absolutely straight
course again If it should run wild
either to the right or left.
AN impulse charge OF about ninety
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n TO MORE celebrated KISS was
ever given than that bestowed
on November p. 1851. in the
gallery of Greenwich palace, by
Queen Elizabeth upon the Due d'Alen-
con, one of the suitors for her hand.
whom, in the presence of Walsingham
and Leicester. she kissed upon his
coarse lips and, placing her ring upon
his finger, presented 10 her courtiers
as their future master
With true sincerity did another Eng
llsh queen grant a like favor, though
the kiss given was but that of friend
ship and esteem II was at the con-
cIusion of tho Crimean war. when.
France and England being, as at pres
ent. on the best of terms, Queen Vic
toria paid a visit TO Paris. Her meet
ing with her ally. Napoleon III. was Of
the most cordial description, and the
Queen reached every heart when,
throwing ceremonial 10 the winds, she
touched with her lips the Emperor's
cheek, with that kiss doing more TO
cement the good viii between the two
countries than any amount OF formal
courtesy would have effected.
Everyone has heard OF the famous
kiss bestowed upon IA butcher by Geor-
giana, duchess OF Devenshlre, In 1874
Fox was contesting Westminster In the
Whig interest, among his keenest sup
porters being the beautiful duchess,
who entered heart and soul into the
spirit of the election, gaining many a
vote for her protege by her golden
speech and sparkling eyes. One man,
however, butcher, remained imper-
Vious To i.er wilesi neither beseechIng
glance nsF persuasive wetd could move
him. But the duchess WAS reseiute on
gaining her endi she offered kiss for
the mans vote. Such a bribe was ir-
Tesistible.
The efficacy of a fair weman's kiss
was incentestabIy proved when. in 1874,
the famous Gordon Highlan6ers were
raised by the lovely Duchess of Gordon,
who was directly instrumental in gain
ing l.06e recruits by the donation OF a
guinea and a kiss apiece. In a sense
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ever, probably reach an eight or ten
thousand dollar figure. Their great
capacity for damage, however, is
thought we'll worth this large
amount.
There is, at present, no torpedo
armor nor any real efficient defense
against them. When sent on it's
straight destructive course, travelling
nearly mile a minute at first. a
good hit will blow up the most
powerful 1S,000-ton battleship now
afloat.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31

head, holding the explosives; the air
flask or chamber. and the tail. con-
tanning the engine, gyroscope, steer
ing gear, rudders and propellers.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
Makes United States Supreme.

"OtnCO OHitCH OtUCtO OUfIf SUH-
Under ordinary conditions the
work of the new torpedo can be de-
pended upon. Before the United
States Government could be brought
to seriously consider its adoption
in place of the famous Whitehead
torpedo the most extraordinary tests
were compelled, and these under the
critical eyes of the experts Of the
Department Of the Navy.
That the new death dealing device
exceeded even what had been claim
ed for 1t by its inventors. the fact
that the Government has decided TO
exDend from five TO ten millions OF
dollars In the purchase OF the Bliss
Leayitt torpedo shows. The ships
OF the navy are TO be equipped COM
pletely with these missiles which
steer themselves with more deadly
accuracy than could the NEST ceurag-
eous skipper.
Two contracts have been let for
the manufacture OF these destreyers
by the United Stntes. the first one
being for 105 eighteen inch and the
other for 800 twenty-ene-ineh tor
pedoes. Work has been rushed with
out cessation. and. already about one,
The Washington times., 1905-12-31
The Mavelous New Engine Of Destruction
Now Being Made for the United States
Navy Which Can Steer Itself, Travel d
Mile Minute. and Blow Up Any Battle
ship Afloat

pounds of compressed air sends the
glistening shell Of steel out of the
tube, with propellers in motion. A
dive of five feet is made. then, with
a white trail of foam In its path
way, sent up from the escaping air
rushing out of the tail end. the tor
pedo makes a bee line for the point
of attack.
Revolutionary methods have been
adopted in the construction Of the
Bliss-Leavitt torpedo which places it
in class by itself and leaves no
other similar engine of warfare to be
compared with it in formidability.
Turbine engines have been substi-
tuted for the old rsciprocating en-
gines and device for superheating
the compressed air in the steel shell
of the little vessel increases its ef-
fieiency and speed to a remarkable
degree.
The Washington times., 1905-12-31

MO MORE celebrated kiss was
IN ever given than that bestowed
| " on November D. 1851. in the
gallery of Greenwich palace, by
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
Death OF B O Hunt

The death of B. 0. Hunt, ife.long
resident of Morrisville. occurred at
his late home on Upper Elmore street
last Thursday afternoon at about
five o'clock, from the effects of shock
suffered the Sunday previous. He
had been in poor health for some
time and complications followed the
shock, which made his case hopeless
one. The funeral was held Saturday
afternoon at two O'Clock, Rev. P. A.
Smith of the Methodist church offici-
ating and interEent was in the
Wheeler cemetery, beside his wife who
died about 20 years ago.
The deceased was born in Wolcott
SO years ago last April. He moved
to Morrisville in his infancy and has
always made his home here. Every
one new "Odd" and will recall, not
unpleasantly, his hearty greeting to
old and young.
He is survived by four children,
George Hunt, who lives at home,
Mrs. Merton Spaulding and Mrs.
Frank Churchill of this place and Mrs.
Jesse Bishop Of Hyde Park. He is
also survived by two brothers, Asa of
this place and Lorenzo of Bro ckton,
Mass.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
To Honor termination Hero

A movement has been commenced
by the Vermont Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, to erect suit
able memorial to Col. Seth Warner
of Revolutionary fame. committee,
of which Henry l.. Stillson of Ben
nington, Vt , is member, will meet
this month to give the project from
and defniteness. Col. Seth Warner
was a resident of Bennington from
1865 to 1884, but died during the
last named year at his native parish
at Roxbury, Conn. Colonel Warner
was the captor of Crown Point, COM
mander of the Green Mountain Boys
in the repulse of Carleton at Languel
and at the battle of Hubbardton and
the associate of General Stark in the
victory at Bennington. He was dis
tinguished as successful defender of
the New Hampshire grants, and for
bravery, sagacity, energy and hu-
manity as partisan officer in the
war of the Revolution. When Colonel
Warner lived in Bennington, Vt, his
residence was in the northwest part
of the town and near the present resi-
dence of B. T. Henry. The house
was torn down some years ago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
OPTICAL WORK
A. r. Campbell
MOrriSville. VT.
An Advertising Thought

The man who doesn't believe in adj
vertising is apt to have no bargains
to offer. He is in it for the cold cash
from start to finish. The man who
has something to offer at a lower price
or best goods, will proclaim the same
through public print. 1t always pays
to trade with the man who advertises
for he makes better inducements as he
has to make his advertising pay.
Dealers take the choice of catching
the trade that dr. fits in at big profits,
or urging and tempting larger trade
at smaller profits. Both pay rent,
heating, lighting, Insurance and mis-
cellaneous fixed charges, and the tx.
ira sales make it easy for the wide
awake advertiser to pay for his ad-
vertising and extra clerk hire and at
the same time to give his customers
a benett.--Exchange.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
SIAM s Y XLzz2ZZHlZZzZZZEA
THE WATERBURY ASYLUM
Or D o Gruut Appointed Superintendent
The New Superintendent Native of Nor
risviIIe and a ,WelI-knOwn Physician,
FamiIiar With Affairs at the

Dr.. Don D. GrOut of Waterbury has
been appointed Superintendent ofthe
State Hospital for the Insane to take
the plr ce made vacant by theIe1igua-
tioI OF DR.. Hutchinson. This was de-
cided at Gne regular meeting of the
trustees OF the Institution held at
Waterbury last Wednesday. All the
members were present, D. D. Burditt
of Pi6tsfield, DR.. c. L. Erwin OF New
port and W. l.. Dow of. Hardwick.
DR.. GrOut is one of the best known
physicians of Waterbury and high
ly respected and prominent citizen of
that place. He is endorsed for this
position by the personal recommen-
dation of nearly all of the leading
physicians in the state as we'll as that
of d large number of prominent PRO-
tessional and business men of the
state.
DR.. Grout was born in Morrisvible
in April, 1S49. He prepared for cbl-
lege at Peoples Academy, Morrisvile,
and went to Dartmouth college, later
entering the medical college at the
University, OF Vermont from which he
graduated in 1872 He is agraduate
of the New York Post Graduate Med
ical school. After completing his ed.
ucation in these schools he spent the
early years OF mis- professional career
in general and lunatic hospitals in
New York. He moved to Waterbury
tor practice in 1890 and had pre-.
viously practiced in Stowe and VOL
colt.
He represented Stowe in the legisla.
ture OF 1888 and served on the com.
mittee of lunacy and public health.
1t was largely due to his efforts that
a bill was passed by the legislature
to establish state lunatic hospital.
He was appointed one of the original
trustees OF the institution and was
elected executive member of the
board. He had personal supervision
of the construction and furnishings
at the hospital during the term of Of
flee in which he served and the remov
al of patients from Brattleboro.
DR.. Grout is a her of the Wash
ington and Chittenden Counties, the
Vermont State and the American
Medical Associations. as we'll aIs
member OF the New York and INV
England Associations of RailwVy
Surgeons. He is consulting surgeon
to the Fanny Allen Hospital, surgdpn
to the G. V. Railway Company, Q, IS.
Pension examining surgeon dnd
health officer of Waterbury.
He is serving his second term as
president of the state tuberculosis
commission. He has served as one of
the village trustees and chairman of
the school board. He is and has for
twelve years been the chairman of the
Republican town committee. He is
a prominent Mason.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
One on Vermont

A Wilmington, Del, man in COM
munication to the New York Sun
says -
In your editorial of this morning
you say : "We bet there's plenty lof
Yankee accent in Vermont still. "
You win. l had to go up there the
other day to see a man about drag.
He told me about farm he pur-
chased up Green Mountain way.
81 he'd a yarlin' cult" said my
friend, can Teller come erlong one
day an says, 'Hummuch FIR tn cult?'
An says, Hundred an twenty an
he says, Trade yeh even 'r hundred
an twenty acres up Burlington way,
an | thought hell, they amt no hun
dred an twenty acres o. land amt
wuth's as much as yearliD' cult, so
| traded.
"WelI, sir, l went up t'other day to
see tn hundred an twenty acres-he
meanwhile a-hav'n of said cult
Hambeltonian goods yeh'd wanto
see--an' 'swaow II them hundred an
twenty acres WANT little more'n
perpendicular "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
Msf9sssl'SS !! &; <2aZ!zllknE!M
VaAsa zIESzS9

Mrs. Delmar e. Croft and son. De-
foe, who have been spending the sum-
mer with the formers mother, Mrs.
Ophelia Hall, returned to their home
in Boston last Friday.
Robert Eaton arrived home Friday
night from Nashua, N. H, where he
has been employed for several
months. He will spend about
month with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
M. B. Eaton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Smith, who
have been spending a vaca ton with
the formers parents in Stowe, ar
rived home last Saturday and How
ard resumed work in Sherman's bar
Der shop Saturday.
Martin W. Chaffee, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. W. Chaff4e, has gone to
Thetford, where he has post.
tion as vice principal of Thetford
Academy. Martin is a graduate of
Peoples Academy and also of the i.
V. M. in the class of 'O5.
A regular meeting of Rathbone
Lodge, No. "a will be held tO-mOr-
row evening, for work in the Esquire
rank on onecandidate. Special Dus-
ness will be brought up tomorrow
night, which is of Importance to
every member of the lodge. Let
there be large attendance.
mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kenfeld Flames
Reed and Althea Reynolds arrived
home last Thursday from a 1000
mile automobile trip, covered in the
past two weeks. During the trip they
visited the Wentworth Hotel at Ports
mouth, N. H., made famous by the
recent visit of the Observation-Disclosures
peacecommission The trip included
Portland, Me-, Boston and Lynn,
Mass, Old Orchard, Me-, and several
of the popular Beaches in the vicinity
of Boston.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
CAS- 'ORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature spass s1o Of LHzzzzSs
Vermont in the Navy

With the launching of the battle
ship Vermont there remains on the
ways only the New Hampshire of the
great war vessels named after the
New England states in the new Amer
lean navy.
Not the least interesting reflection
that the launching of the Vermont
suggests is that this state, the only
one In New England without a sea.
coast, has yet one of the most bril-
liant records in the annals of the
navy. Her waters have been the
scene of notable conflicts, and the
story of McDonough's exploit on
Lake Champlain in 1914 is one of the
most thrilling tales in American nav
al history.
In that memorable fight with su-
perior British force, McDonough frus-
trated the bold and carefully planned
design to gain possession of Lake
Champlain, the success of which
would have proved of the utmost
strategic advantage.
The Green Mountain state has pro-
duced brave and brilliant soldiers,
but none Drawer or more brilliant
than the two great sailors whose
names instantly occur to every one
that recalls the glories of the Ameri-
can navy in the Spanish.American
war. Dewey and Clark are sons of
Vermont, born and reared amid her
green mountains, but no seacoast
state has produced better types of the
great sea captain.-BOston Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13

Engaged people should remember
that, after marriage, many quarrels
can be avoided, by keeping digestions
ngoodIcondition with Electric Bitters
S. A. Brown of Bennettsville, s. c.,
says: "For years, my wife suffered
intensely from dyspepsia, complicat'
ed with a torpid liver, until she lost
her strength and vigor, and became
a mere wreck of her former self. Then
she tried Electric Bitters, which help.
ed her at once, and finally made her
entirely we'll. She is now strong and
healthy" L. A. Wadleigh, druggist
sells and guarantees them, at soc a
bottle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
Like Finding Money

Finding health is like finding mon.
ESQ think those who are sick.
When you have a cough, cold, sore
throat or chest irritation, better act
promptly like W. G. Barber of Sandy
Level, Va. He says: had a ter.
rible chest trouble, caused by smoke
and coal dust on my lungs but, af.
ter finding no relief In other remedies,
l was cured by eDr. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds" Greatest sale of any cough
or lung medicine in the world. At L.
A. Nadleigh's drug store SOC and
$1.O0; guaranteed. Trial bottle
rec.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
Rome MEAL S5.25 PER 2OOPOUND barrel

1925 pays for a 2oo-pound barrel
of absolutely pure, unadulterated,
natural Bone Meal, freights prepaid
to almost any station. Send your
name on a postal referring to this
paper and receive free sample.
c. S. PAGE, HYDE PARK, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13

He stall work hard, oh Yer
80 hard, aud in a year or two We'll
nave our Ownlittle home in the coun.
try" '5he-"Oh! how lovely. We
can rent ii and board in town; can't
we, dear ?"-Brooklyn Life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13

Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch; unable
to attend to business during the day or sleep
during the night. Itching piles, horrible
plague. Doans Ointment cures. Never fails.
At any drug store. so cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13

A little life may be sacrificed to sudden at
tack OF Group if you don't have DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil on hand for the emergency
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-13
Got off Cheap

He may we'll think, he has got off
cheap, VINO, after having contracted
constipation or Indigestion, is still
able to perfectly restore his health
Nothing will do this but DIR. King 8
New Life Pills. Aquick, pleasant and
certain cure for headache, constipa-
ton, etc. 25c at L. A. Wadleigh's
drug store guaranteed.