The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-19
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now at the Washington Navy Yard
| will aid in an experiment to be made
with an aeroplane be.
Torpedo Boat longing to Represen-
as Base For tative Butler Ames.
AerOplane. of Massachusetts, who
is also trying this
summer to fly into seat in the
United States Senate as the successor
| of MIR. Henry Cabot Lodge. This ex-
pertinent with an aeropiane is to be
| similar to the one Mr.. Ames is maxi
ing with the Senatorship Mr.. Ames
| wants to ascertain the lifting power
/ of his aeroplane, as well as his own
| lifting power with Mr.. Lodges seat.
| At Mr.. Ames' request the Bagley has
| been ordered here by the Navy De-
partment to aid IN the aeroplane test,
and she is now being fitted at the yard
with a platform on her quarterback
| BY speeding the Bagley to a rate of
| about twenty knots against a ten-mile
breeze it is hoped that twill be shown
| that torpedo boats furnish the neces-
sary lifting poWer for aeroplanes
while under such speed. AS soon as
/ the platform is built aboard the Bag
| ley the ship is to be taken to Annap-
oils and the tests will be made on the
! Severn River.
There are no figures showing with
| accuracy the total value of the pro-
ducts of the United States Roughly
| estimated that value is now $780,
600, 100000 annually, in
Estimated Guiding the value of man
| in Billions. featured products, farm
products and the product
| of forests, 1tines and fisheries. APP
proximately six per cent. of it all is
| exported and 2inety-four per cent res
| tanned for mesticconsumption. Re-
| cent years have seen material in
crease in the export percentage. 1t is
probable that from the inauguration
| of President Washington in 1888 I'M
| til the present time the export aver
| age will not exceed three per cent. A
record of-eXport values has been kept
since 1890. The total value of ex-
ports for the 100 years is in round
| figures $4,000, 900, 900.
Assuming that the exports represent
an average of three per cent. of pro-
duction, there is fair ground on which
to estimate the value of products of
the United States from 1890 to 1916
at more than$1, 500, 700, 100000. This
sum represents billions of bushels OF
wheat and corn, billions of pounds of
iron and cotton, and tens of millions
of cattle and other animals.
To-day the value of the property of
this nation of $1,000, 900 is estimated
at $4,000, 900, 900.
X X X
Better fire protection for Washing
ton theatres, especially the five and
ten cent kind, is afforded by new
regulation framed by Plumbing In
spectot McGonegal.
Fire Curtains who has arranged so
For Washing that every hall or
ton Theatres. theatre with movable
scenery shall have a
water curtain" In case of fire on
the stage, by this water curtain device
sheet of water, thrown downward
with great force, would stretch across
the entire proscenium and prevent
the fire from getting into the front of
the theatre by that route.
4 X X
Thirty-nine Sioux Indians from the
Pine Ridge agency thought of the
Great White Father in Washington
and thanked their lucky stars that
they were still his
Red Showmen wards when they
Stranded in woke up in Brussels
Europe. Belgium, recently and
learned that the Wild
West show with which they were
travelling had gone broke and would
have no monthly pay envelopes to
hand out at the usual time. Brussels
is long way from Washington, and
a still longer way from the Pine Ridge
| reservation in Montana. And the In
dams had not saved their money
Frank Goings, a brother redskin, I'M
der whose direct charge they were
placed by this Government when they
started out, solved the problem by ca.
bling to the Indian Commissioner here
for help. Money for their passage
home was sent at obce, and they
will be none the loser. either fer
passage home or back salary as the
money for both will be deducted
from bond furnished by the pro.
moter of the show. Such bond is
required of every show promoter
who desires to employ American In.
dams off their reservations.
X 4 X
In the coming fiscal year the Post
office Department expects to- usa
about ,125, 900, 900 yards of binding
Irvine. Postmaster-Ge General Hitch
cock authorized the
Gets r. o. making of con-
Irvine Contract. tract for the pur.
chase of this Irvine
from the Planet Mills Manufacturing
Company, of Brooklyn, NY, at about
eight cents pound. deliveries to be
made in various parts of the country.
The contract will amount to about
$225 900 Many tests recently have
been made by the department with a
view to saving money on the purchase
of binding Irvine, with the result that
it was decided that twine of tless
strength than formerly used would7be
satisfactory for all purposes BY this
plan, together with economies in the
amount used, it is hoped by depart
ment officials to effect an annual saw
ing of about $4,000.