The National tribune., 1910-11-24

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leum lands belonging to the United
States.
With this official order President
Taft has put the oil lands of Alaska,
the value of which is unknown, on the
same footing as the coal lands, pre-
yiously withdrawn other orders, it
was learned. will be issued from time
to time. until the value of the deposits
below the surface can be aScertained.
Several conservation bills are pend
ing in Congress, and action on these is
expected at the next session. 1t is the
hope of President Taft and the Secre-
tary of the Interior to systematic land
properties of the Government in Alaska
may be fully protected.
Gen. George S. Chappell, one of the
best-kroWn Grand Army men in the
country. is at his home in Hampstead,
Long Island, in serious condition as
the result of injuries sustained in an
accident last week at Garden City.
Gen. Chappell, who is 81 years Of
age, left Hampstead to attend a dinner
at Garden City. When the train pulled
in at the Garden City station the Cen
eral was thrown heavily to the plat
form by the sudden starting of the
train before he had alighted.
The naval authorities are much
pleased with the success of the OIL
burning equipment OF the new torpedo
boat destroyers recently placed in COM
mission, and the tentative designs Of
the boats of this class which Congress
will be asked to authorize at the next
session will call for oil-burning appara-
tus for the generation of steam for the
turbine engines. The latest battleships
have provision for the auxiliary use of
liquid fuel, which is carried in the dou-
BILE bottoms, and probably those next
to be designed will call for more ex-
tended use of this fuel The authori-
ties, however, are not prepared for
ships, depending entirely upon liquid
fuel, on account of the fact that it is
not so universally available at present
as coal Therefore, it is likely that
battleships of the near future will have
their fire-rooms equipped for the con-
sumption of both coal and oil, so that
the one can be used when it is not pos
sible in distant parts of the world to
obtain the other
It is a thousand pities that our rich
American women can't be satisfied TO
spend their money without ostentation.
American women are the laughing
stock of the world, not only of their
own world here at home, but of the
foreign world of society, for their Law
ish display of jewels. They are just as
liable to wear them on a bicycle cos
tune or when riding astride in the
parks as when they are in full dress at
evening affairs. They wear silk stock
ings and opera shoes to go climbing up
in the mountains, and seem to think
that a passe afternoon carriage dress
will answer perfectly to wear to mar
ket in the morning. In other words, so
a Paris correspondent declares, Amer
lean women make themselves utterly
ridiculous in their attempts to spend
money. Partisan women eye askanee
of women who come to call on them
in the afternoon loaded down with dia-
mond combs. diamond earrings. rib
bon of diamonds around her neck and
with gloveless hands displaying yet 9TH
er diamonds. She thinks it is very,
very bad taste, and it certainly is. 1t
is one thing in our American women
that no sensible person can applaud.
Considerable attention continues to
be given to the cooling Of magazines
on board naval vessels. Various types
of refrigerating apparatus have been
examined by the ordnance experts. on
the new battleships authorized at the
last session of Congress there will be
installed six refrigerating machines.
four of which will be used for cooling
the magazines. They will be of suffi-
cient capacity to keep a uniform tenn
perature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit in
the magazines when the surrounding
atmosphere is at lis degrees. The cool
ing systems are not intended, as many
people suppose, as precautionary
measure against explosion of powder
in the magazines, but to maintain the
requisite ballistic qualities of the con-
tents of the magazines.
Mrs. Bellamy Storer. whose husband
was formerly a member of Congress
and later Minister to Brussels and to
Madrid, is a woman of fine artistic in
stincts. More than 20 years ago Mrs.
Storer made a specially of commercial
ware for table and household purposes.
After a year of experiments she turned
| out many breakfast and dinner services
and various articles of bric-a-brac. She
| had her own kilns and did her own
painting. At the time of the death of
her first husband, who was tremen-
| dously wealthy, she had become quito
| famous. and after her marriage to Bel
| lamy Storer her signature to original
| bits of work became listed among mas
| ters. This peculiar art industry which
Mrs Storer founded reached such di-
| mensions under her personal supervi-
sion that she found herself unable to
devote much time to it. and turned the
work over to commercial company,
| and has only worked occasionally in
| fine pottery. She has now taken up
work in repousse brass, and has become
terest in repousse bronze and copper
| led to her study under noted Japan
| csc master, and she has advanced SO
rapidly that she is one of the few
| Western artists to receive a decoration
from the Mikado, who thus expressed
| his appreciation of an exquisite
| bronze dragon which Mrs Storer made
and sent to him. Mrs. Storer says that
she intends now to devote large par,
| of her time to modelling vases and MAX
| ing repousSe bronze and brass articles
and that she is going TO cut out a good
| deal of her social labors.