The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-17

of 150 foot pounds, but it's makers said 1t was calculated for a lighter blow. The establishment of a joint service of the Curnard line with the Penincular and Orinental and with the Orient-Pacifc steamship companies is announced. Pas sengers are now able to book through, via England or the Mediterranean, to Egypt, India China, Japan and Australia. Cunard steamers are fitted with wireless
 telegraph and submarine signaling ap-
 paratus.
 The experiments performed in the
 course of perfecting the system of sub marine signaling now coming into general use, showed more clearly than anything
 before discovered how strong a ships individuality is. It has always been known that two vessels built by the same
 men from the same plans, side by side sister ships to the one last detail-would act in entirely different fashion, once in the water But it was not known that Individuality of vessels went so far in its ! likeness to humanity that each vessel might almost be said to have a facial ex- pression Installing receivers for using submarine signals amounts to putting ears in a vessel. and it was found that
 just as the placing of mems ears dlner, so do the best spots to put the receivers inside the ships skin differ, according to her material, construction and shape. one vessel will have close set ears. another
 will do better with them wide apeart, where the curve of the bow begins A 10-inch steam whistle uses 109 pounds of coal per hour of running. third class Daboll trumpet uses 10 pounds per hour. a submarine bell uses less than pounds
 per hour.
 In the investigation of the grounding of the Sound steamer Rhode Island. NOV. 6. 1880, north of Beavertail Light near Newport. officers and passengers alike
 swore that the fog signal at the light
 house was not sounding They were
 ashore within IF miles of it, and 1t could i, not be heard, though 1t actually was sounding and there was little If any wind.
 The United States Navy department has ordered the vessels of the navy equip ped with submarine signaling apparatus | as fast as funds are available for the pur- nose. The North German Lloyd Steam ship company Is equipping eight more of | its great ships. the Main. the Rhein, the | Bremen the Neckar, the Barbarossa, the | Freidrich der Crosse, the Grosser kur' | fuerst and the GrlHcesS aiiSc. h'' i makes 4 round dozen of North German | Lloyd ships that use the signal; the | Hamburg the Cunard, the White Star, and the French line are al usinc the invention. and what with the l installation of more and more submarine | bells at points on the coasts, the use ol | the invention is now as general as the use of wireless telegraphy.
 | One of the first demonstrations of tho l new mower of submarine signals was en 1 tjrely accidental. A workman was dig | ging a well on Nahant, and complained | that he heard bell ringing in thu | ground. It was later discovered that what he heard was the sound of a sub marine bell which was being operated
 near Egg Rock Light.
 | President Roosevelt's commission ap pointed to investigate the wreck Of tht i Valencia on the Pacific coast, when 13 l lives were lost out of a total of 173 or | hoard censures the captain of the steam | or nrimarily but says at the end of if: | report. "Reserving the most importan l conclusion for the last, the commission l desires to emphasize as the primary ant greatest cause of the loss of life the de | fectiye state of the aids to navigation ant preservation of life in the shape of light l houses, fog signals, life-saving eauipmen and means of communication in the vicin | ity of the wreck.
 l The submarine boat is in practical ever | day use in every big navy in the worlt | today. though almost constant disaster shows that the submarine boat is stil