The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-19
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subject the army has adopted a new
kind of underwear to relieve the burn
ing skins of soldiers serving IN hot
climates, like that Of the Philippines.
Experiments showed that certain colors
next to the body protect it more than
others from the violet rays of the sun,
which cause the most serious results in
summer, 1t was found that the film of
our skins was. like the film Of the pro-
tographer's S plate sensitive TO these rays
and Just rs the photographers long ago
found that they cannot penetrate
orangc-colored glass, the expcrimcnters
found that they would not enter under
garments of that hue. So orange.
colored underwear has Just been adopted
for these hot weather soldiers, and if ii
affords the promised relief civilians Will
soon be donning the same CANDY armor
as a protection against Old Sol's SHIN
meriDg blades.
Dust, blowing in from the streets,
when the windows are open TO give us
air, is one Of the arch enemies of sum
mer comfort. How the bureau of pub
lie roads Mt Washington is fighting it
tooth and nail / have Just learned from
the specialists there employed Their
campaign is one of education. With APP
propriations given to them by Congress
they experiment with various dust pre-
ventatives and then report results to the
state and local authorities who have
charge Of the country's 2,l55,O0O miles
Of public roads.
New War Against Dust.
fender in this matter of raising summer
dust and il is the worst destroyer of
macadamized roads, whose surface it
quickly disinteGrates, besides throwing
high into the air the dust derived from
horse traffic.
Tests with an automobile were lately
made, in this connection. by Logan w.
Page, director of the office Of public
roads. He had high.speed car driven
over macadam roads Mt speeds varied
from ten to sixty miles an hour and
discovered that dust raised by the driv-
ing wheels of the car increased In pro.
portion with speed. whereas that from
the front wheels was practically the
snme at all speeds.
Dust preventives of all kinds have
been studied by his bureau. Upon mac
| adam roads they find that water lays
the dust. but that its action is purely
temporary.
Bittern, the mother liquor obtained
| from the evaporation Of sea water, has
! also been tested, rs well as solutions Of
calcium chloride. cheap vegetable oils,
waste sulpbide liquor from wood pulp
mills, and mineral oils. Finally, he has
concluded that the solution of the dust
problem on macadam roads seems to lie
| in their treatment with bltuminous
preparations, such as refined water gas
tars, coke oven tars, gashouse tars, and
| asphalts. He believes that as automo.
bile traffic becomes moro severe a ce.
ment foundation will have to be sub
stituted for the loose stone foundation
on the macadam roads, whose present
form is rapidly nearing its end and will
gradually approach that of pavement.
AS dust layer for earth roads crude
petroleum is found very effective. while
gravel roads are being successfully
treated also with heavy asphalt oils.
Eliminating Noise.
Greater summer comfort is also re-
sulting from the "anti-noise' crusade
that is fast growing over the country,
The police department of New York
sors grinders to ring bells or blow horns,
roasters, cries Of street hawkcrs. cold
clothes men, etc; shouts by carriage
barkers Mt theatres and hotels, unneccs-
sary shouting Of any kind uon the
streets. the barking Of dogs, the I'M
necessary blowing of whistles on steam,
boats and factories or of horns on mo-
torcycles and automobiles, and tho
kicking Of tin cans on the streets, The
traction companies arc also forbidden
to allow fiat wheels on cars and auto.
mobilists arc required to use mufflers
preventing tho noise of exhausts., An
other strenuous anti.noise crusader is
Mai Richard Sylvester, in charge of
Washington IS police force, who, in addi
ton to suppressing such noise makers
as the above, Is waginp warfare against
noisy broad wagon drivers milkmeD