Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-10-30
viii Attend National Compe.
titi0n Of firSt.Aid -tO.ln.
jufed Teams
Centennial Of Western River
Steam Navigation to
be Observed
10y Associated Press.)

I'll 0DO4IU, d., wv. OV.- a
strenuous and varied entertainment
filled with unique features, has been
arranged for the visit of President
Taft to this city on the last day OF
the month. The main events are the
first annual meeting Of the National
Mine Safety Demonstration ad First
Aid-to-the-Injured competition of the
United States Bureau of Mines; the
centennial of the beginning of steam
navigation on the western rivers, and
at night. the banquet of the Pitts
burgh Chamber of Commerce.
The President will reach here at
$50 a. m. on October 81 from Chica.
60 and leave here for Morgantown, w.
Va, early the next morning. Pitts
burg was to have been the last stop
of the President on his present trip
before returning to Washington but
the trip was extended.
After breakfast n his private car
the president will 60 to Forbes field,
where will be held the competition of
the first-aid-to-injur,d teams from all
parts of the country under the aus
pices of the United States Bureau of
Mines. The mine safety demonstra-
tions will be held at the conclusion Of
the competitions. In the test of ex-
plosives huge gallery. or miniature
coal mine, will be used.
The permissible explosive, equal
to one-half pound or 40 per cent. nitro
glycerine dynamite will be first placed
in the gallery. Within will be 1873
pour ds of fine coal dust distributed
uniformly throughout with twenty
pounds on a wooden bench at the
mouth of the gallery. With the fir
ing of the permissible explosive no
explosion of coal dust is anticipat-
ed. The same experiment, however
will be repeated for the President and
this time black blasting powder will
be used as the explosive. An 'explos-
ion of coal dust is expected to follow
the firing of the black powder I'm
mediately after the coal dust explos-
ion foreman miners equipped with va
rious types of artificial breathing ap-
paratus will enter the gallery and
recover supposed victims of the
death dealing gases. AS the rescu.
ers bring out the victims, the first aid
miners will be or hand to resuci-
tate those overcome, demonstrating
the use of artificial respiration and
oxygen respirative apparatus.
A number of doves will be carried
into the gallery Immediately after the
explosion. Biologists have discover
ed that carbon monoxide, or white
damp" which follows the ignition of
gas in coal dust affects birds much
more quickly than men. When the
birds show distress it is warning to
rescuers to seek safety and take
measures to dissipate the gas. In
he tests here anti-vivisectionists will
nave no complaint to make because
he birds will be resucitated by the
lSe of oxygen and will suffer no i'll
effects afterward. At the conclusion
# the mine experiments and the CON-
,etitions President Taft will present !
Medals to the victors.
Following this parade of 1927 ;
representing one of
he 1922 men killed in the coal
1ines of the Unit d States in the
ast twenty years-will silently pass
efore the Presidential reviewing
tand. Thirty thousand miners are
expected to attend the meeting.
After luncheon President Taft will
o to the Water Street Wharf on
he Monongahela river and assist the
Western UPennsylvahia Historical So
iety in commemorating the begin
ing of steam navigation on the
'estern rivers. The New Orleans,
he first steamboat To- navigate the
hio and Mississippi rivers in 1911
as built by Nicholas J. Roosevelt.
replica of the New Orleans hs been
instructed and will make a short
'ip down the Ohio under her own
cam. Mrs Nicholas Longworth.
,e daughter of former President
oosevelt and a great niece of Mich E,
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