The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-26
Is to Be featured with Siren
uous and Unique
Program.


unique features, has been arranged
Tor the visit Of President Taft to THE
city on the last day OF the month.
The main events are the first annual
meeting OF the National Mine Safety
Demonstration and Firsf-Add-to-the-
IL5ureds competition Of the United
states Bureau of Mines; the centen-
NAL Of the beginning Of steam naviga-
ton on the western rivers, and, at
night. tho banquet OF the Pittsburg
Chamber ef Cimmerce.
The President VIII reach here at
$3.50 q. m. on October 81 from Chic
ago and will leave here 1or Morgan
town, w. Va, early the next morn
ing, Pattsburg was to have been the
last stop Of the President on his pres
ent trip before returning to Washing
ton but the trip was extended to in
clude participation in the installation
OF officers OF the University of West
Virginia, the dedication of the Lin
coin Farm Memorial at Hodgeusvilie,
KY, a brief rest at Hot Springs, Va,
a visit to several places in Tennessee
and stop at Cincinnati to vote on
November {.
After breakfast in his private car,
the President will go to Forbes Field
where there will be held the compe-
tition of the frst-afdzo-the-injur
teams from ali parts of the counEry
under the. auspices OF the United,
states Bureau OF Mines. The mino
safety demonstrations will be held at
the conclusion of the competition. In
TIE test of explosives huge gallery.
or miniature coal mine will be used
The permissible explosive, equal to
ore-half pound or 40 per cent. nitro
Iiiycerlne dynamite Will be first placed
in the gallery. Within will be 1873
Dolinds CT 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 anticipated
the same experiment, however, VIII
be repeated for the President and
this time black blasting powder will
| he used as the explosive. An ex-
plosion of coal dust is expected to
follow the firing of the black powder.
Immediately after the coal dust ex-
ploston foremcn miners equipped with
various types of art.fi-ial breathing
apparatus will enter the gallery and
recover supposed victims of the death
dealing gases. AS the rescuers bring
ont the victims, the first aid miners
VIII be on hand to resucstate thoss
lovercome, demonstrating the use OF
artificial respiration and oxygen re-
spirative apparatus.
1 A number of doves will be carried
into the gallery Immediately after the
explosion. Biologists have discovered
| that carbon monoxide of white
I damn which follows the ignition of
gas in coal dust affects birds mucS
more quickly than men. When the
birds show distress it is a warning
to rescuers to seek safety and take
measures to dissipate the gas. In
1.-The tests here Observation-Disclosures vii;
have no complaint to make becaus"
the birds will be resucitated by the
\ use of oxygen and will suffer no ill-
effects afterward. At the conclusion
! of the mine experiments and the com
petitions President Taft will present
medals to the victors.
Following this parade of 1927
iminers-each representing one Of the
i19,927 men killed in coal mines OF
the United States in the last twenty
years-wtll silently pass before 1.-THE
+, Presidential reviewing stand. Thirty
! thousand miners are expected to at
tend the meeting.
After luncheon President Taft Will
! 20 the Water street wharf on the
Monungahela river and assist the
western Historical Society in COM
Imemorating the beginning OF steam
navigation on the western rivers. The
New orleans, tho first steamboat to
navigate the Ohio and mississippi
rivers in 1911 was built by Nicholas
7. roosevelt. A replica of the New
Orleans has been constructed and viii!
make short trip down the Ohio
under her own steam. Mrs. Nicholas
lI,ongworth, the daughter OF FORMER
President Roosevelt and great grand
nelce OF Nicholas j. Roosevelt VIII.
christen the New Orleans. Descend
nnts OF Chancellor Livingston, partner
Of Nicholas j. Roosevelt ana Robert