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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

sary A gas tank will cost from ten to twenty
dollars, and radiator forty to seventy-five.
Rubber wheels may be purchased at seven to
fifteen dollars each. The very best and
straightest selected spruce must be bought
for repairs, and costs not much less than
seventy five dollars thousand feet Some
times You'll have to pay one hundred dollars.
A special grade of piano wire for bracing con-
nections costs about FIVE cents foot, and
over four hundred feet are necessary for an
ordinary biplane. In every wire turnbuckle
must be inserted. These cost about thirty
cents each, and from fifty to one hundred are
needed in every aSroplane. These never re-
quire replacing, as they are not injured IN
accidents.
Covering for the aeroplane is an expensive
item. The very best of course, is the only
kind YOU would want to use, and can be
bought patented alright cloth, for two
dollars and half a square yard. You can
figure that it will cost you in the neighbor
hood of one hundred dollars for cloth.
Your aeroplane must have a home, or
what aviators have learned from the French
to call hangar" the same as horse must
have a stable. A plot of ground can be
leased in the camp of the Aero Club or the
A ronautical Society for ten to twenty-five
dollars month, and on this you will have
your hangar built. If you live in New York
city, YOU will be likely to make your head
quarters at the Garden City aviation field,
or Belmont Park, or Mineola. There are also
aviation fields at Fort Meyer, Virginia, and
in ST. Louis A tent will do for the time be-
ing; but if real business is meant you'll need
something more substantial. You can spend
a couple of hundred dollars on such tent,
and from six hundred to fifteen hundred dol
lars on hangar.
share the opinion of Mr.. Curtlss that it
costs less to operate an aeroplane than it did
to operate an automobile during the same
early period of its history. Mr.. Curtiss
states that in his flight from Albany to New
York it cost only about one cent mile tor
gasolene, and yet he was going at the rate
of fifty miles an hour. The motive power
for the same distance and speed for an auto
mobile would cost about fifteen cents mile.
Gasoline may be bought by the tank for
about fifteen cents gallon, and lubricatlng
oils from sixty cents to dollar gallon.
One we'll known make of engine requires
castor oil. which is about one dollar for half
gallon.
One of the biggest items is trying to
alight. Every aviator starts out with the
determination to have no wrecks. If
man goes up alone without having made at
least sixty flights with an experienced pilot,
he's lucky" Captain Baldwin thinks, "if he
does not smash fifteen hundred dollars
worth of repairs out of his machine in the
first five gifts" According to Mr. Curtiss,
@the life of an aaroplane does not compare
unfavorably with that of the automobile.
While this may be true, yet models of aero
planes change SO fast that last years type
becomes antiquated next year; so "the life
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WHAT 1T COSTS TO FLY
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of an aeroplanc" depends on other things
than how long you keep it from getting
smashed "If given proper care, an aero
plane would average a repair cost OF per-
haps ten per cent. of the repair cost of an
automobile says Mr.. Curtiss. | am very
sorry to say that my experience in this item
has been very different from that of Mr..
Curtiss. My smashups average me about
four hundred dollars each. My Boston
wreck put me out of pocket to the tune of
fifteen hundred dollars. | could cite many
other cases, familiar enough, no doubt, to
you all.
Up to date manufacturers and aviators
have been at work mostly at developing the
machines; now they have become interested
in perfecting accessories. A Paragraph,
which can be bought for twenty dollars,
gives the altitude of the airship, and an
a6rometer which is to be had for about
fifty dollars, registers the speed. An appli-
ance soon to be commercialized, the "levelo-
meter" is fastened to the outrigger, in
sight of the driver. A swinging hand at once
denotes to the driver whether the craft is
sailing up or down hill.
Leather coats may be bought for from
fifty dollars up to as high as you desire to
spend; and heavy caps from ten dollars up.
1OHlOOIlS dIC OSlllS lioiluudIIulCo W LieihS
possible flights from the water. The United
States Government is this moment expert
menting with a thirty-pound rapid-fire ma
chine gun to be used on aeroplanes.
1t is not improbable that before the end
of this year it will be necessary for the avia-
tor to provide himself with regular set of
lights such as is required of automobiles.
The first bills governing aerial highways
have been introduced in the California Leg
islature They were prepared under the
guidance of the Pacific Aero Club at San
Francisco, and provide first for the designa-
ton of aeroplanes as "motor vehicles, the
registering of such vehicles with the Secre-
tary of State, and the taking out of license
number to be displayed as on an automo-
bile 1t is also provided that all aeroplanes
shall carry "at least four lights, one in the
center of the vehicle in front of the driver,
one at the extreme rear, and one at each end
of the lifting planes, these two to be one red
and one green, the red light to be placed at
the head of the right plane and the green at
the end of the left plane" Judging by the
arrangement of lights, it would seem that
California legislators take it for granted that
the biplane is to be the everyday type of air
vehicle
The prices for balloons are: one-passen-
ger, about $3.50; two-passenger, $3.50; three
passenger, 500; four-passenger, $500; five
passenger, $500; and eight-passenger,
81 200 The rubber balloon Captain Bald
win constructed for me cost four thousand
dollars The cost of gas at numerous places
runs from eighty cents to one dollar thou
sand cubic feet, and initiation usually costs
from eighteen to eighty dollars. This does
not include expressage, railroad, and hotel
bills.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
Uncle Joe on the warpath.

A committee went down to Cape
Henry to inspect site for a pro
posed new fort to protect Washing
ton and Baltimore from attack by
foreign navies in case of war. Ordi'
narily 1t is difficult to get commit
tee together for one of these field
sessions, but this looked like
chance to play hockey for a day from
sizzling Washington, and every mem
ber of the committee took a dozen
friends.
A camera fiend got focus on
Uncle Joe" Cannon while he was
cavorting around after clambake
that had been provided for the party
and was about to take his photo
graph. but the gentleman from Dan
VILE turned loose such torrent OF
cuss words that the amateur photog'
rapher fed.
Some day" said Uncle Joe, as he
looked at the fleeing photographer,
I'm liable to lose my temper and
throw one of those freaks into the
ocean when l get tired telling him
what he is"
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
Weather Bureau Kiosk.

Moss, 81 got a good many letters tell
ing me to keep my eye open for the
kiosks. Some of the letters said
these kiosks were tucked away In re-
mote parts of the country and were
no good to any one. 1 admit that just
then / didn't know whether a kiosk
was a kind Of animal or the name for
a new-fangled plant One day a fel-
low living down in Chattanooga sent
me a postal card with the picture Of
a kiosk on it. and then. of course,
/ found out what 1t was"
On the kiosk is displayed the
maximum and minimum thermome-
ters. They give the two extremes Of
temperature every hour of the day
and night. In the same space is the
hair hygrometer, the thermograph
and the rainfall gauge. The hair hy-
grometer shows the relative humid
ity, the rainfall gauge. the precipita-
ton and the thermograph the tenn
perature every hour Of the day and
night. Records are made on long
strip of paper by means of clock
cylinder. A pen marks the variation
in temperatures.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
comedy Of Stolen speeches.

Senator Bob" Taylor of Tennes-
see once played a mean trick on his
brother Alfred, and 1t was not until
they were rival candidates for the
governorship of Tennessee that Alfred
got even.
When they were schoolboys Alfred
was selected to make speech on the
last day of school and Bob" was a
little Jealous. 1t was suggested to the
teacher that some of the other boys
should be called on previous to the
main feature. Among those boys was
Bob" who had stolen his brothers
speech and proceeded to deliver 1t as
his own.
Thirty years later when they were
campaigning together for the COVER
norship Bob" had prepared a flow
cry address on music. but Alfred. who
spoke first, stole the speech and even
ed up for the schoolday affair by de-
ivering 1t.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
CITY KILLS THEIR CONCEIT
How the New Members of Congress
Are Regarded In the Nations
Capital.

There is nothing more pitiful on the
stage of national politics than the new
and verdant member of congress, be
he senator or representative, and espe-
cially is thus true of the new members
of the upper house. So vast is the
measure of Importance of new M. G.
in his own district or his own state
that for the first few months OF his
service he wanders about Washington
in a dazed state, wondering II 1t can
be really possible that the people OF
Washington realize he is the new
member from Podunk or the new SEN
ator from such and such state.
Little work of Importance is intrust-
ed to the green member, and from him
is expected a respect for his elders
not dissimilar to that exacted from the
little "plebes" at the national military
and naval academies. Most men who
have attained to the dignity of being
one of the 80 senators of the United
States come to Washington with a
large estimate of their Importance.
and never is this SO true as when
such a man has worn the ermine be-
fore entering the arena of politics.
But shorn of all power to fine for
contempt of court" assigned to the
craftsmanship of some such impor-
tant committee as that on the dis
position of useless waste paper" and
rarely or never consulted regarding
the affairs of state, even the jurist
statesman is obliged to submit to the
good humored patronage of the older
members until in due course of time
he comes to realize the actual meas
ure of his Importance in the affairs OF
the nation.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
TO HOLD HAWAI-. IN ISLANDS
War Department Decides That strate-
gle Point In Pacific Ocean Must
Be Protected.

'Tt would require $4,000 troops to
properly safeguard the Hawaiian Is
lands" This statement was made re-
Gently by Gen. Arthur Murray. chief
OF the coast artillery, who has charge
OF the defense OF Hawaii and who has
been on the ground making personal
observations
The war department knows that
even the formidable guns which are
now in Hawaii are not sufficient pro-
vision against a sudden attack, and a
definite plan is being carried out to
prevent the success OF such an at
tack. Every place where such an at
tack is possible II has been ar
ranged to place a sufficient number OF
mortars, and these mortars are now in
store at Honolulu and Pearl harbor
A part, and a most important part,
Of the strategy OF the joint army and
navy board is that in case of an at
tack on Hawaii to hold 1t at any cost,
because. as President Taft has stated.
1t is the key to the situation and Of
the Pacific AS one official put it,
Japan would be laundering around in
fog in the Pacific while the garrison
remained firm in Hawaii. OF course
there is a magnificent scheme of de-
fense from foreign battleships for both
Pearl harbor and Honolulu.
This is what is contemplated at
Pearl Harbor and Honolulu: Between
two stations six 12-inch guns, or the
two 12-inch guns how there and four
14-inch guns four six-inch guns. 16
12-inch mortars and eight 60-inch
searchlights. The present necessity
as shown in the plan revealed is that
large number of mortars be distrib-
uted at points on the northern part of
the island at various bays, which have
just been charted, to prevent the land
ing Of Japanese troops.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

tI putchu
Among the allegations Mr.. Berry
makes against the administration OF
Mr.. Moore is one intended to point
out favoritism in the location OF
weather bureau kiosks. What Is
kiosk? Webster says it's a Turkish
summer house. But that isn't the
kind of kiosk which has aroused MI
Berry.
In q recent bulletin issued by Mr.
Berry in following up his charges
against Mr.. Moore, he says: The
annual report of the chief OF the
weather bureau, page 20 and the year
book of the department of agricul-
ture $1,000, page so. says that kios8s
have been supplied to 21 of the more
important cities"
Then Mr.. Berry calls attention to
beautiful kiosks erected by the de-
partment in small cities, while New
York, Philadelphia, Buffalo. Cincin-
natl and many other large cities have
no kiosks.
Representative Moss didn't know
until he became chairman of the COM
mittee on expenditures in the COM
mittee of agriculture, what a kiosk
was. when word got out that my
committee was going to investigate
the weather bureau" explained Mr..
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
KIOSKS CAUSE A ROW
LOCATION Is A MATTER WHICH
STARTS INVESTIGATION.
iany cities Want Those Weather Bu'
reau Information Bureaus Which
Are Placed by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture.

Congress Is expected to invesu-
gate the weather bureau following
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
Whit. a Fan and Gem Expert.

In addition to being an ardent base
hall fan Justice White has unique
fad. 1t is that of collecting precious
stones. none of which he wears as
nersonal adornments. He never visits
New York city without going down to
Tiffany's and going over tray after
trav of rare and valuable jewels as
an expert. Whether he makes pur-
chase or not, as he sometimes does,
he is always welcome at the store ana
he is said to be one of the best lay
avnerts on the value of precious
stones in the country.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
U. 8. Imports Cargo of Bugs.

The United States has received its
first cargo of hugs. Recently several
thousands of bugs arrived in Boston
harbor from Calcutta. They are con-
signed to the federal bureau of ento-
mology and are to be used against
the vermin that infest the orange
groves of California and Florida.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
s.rv,d Sc Years in Army.

Fifty-six years Of service IN the
United States "in the rear OF the
army" won for David Robertson the
unioue distinction of being retired at
full pay, with the rank OF sereeah.
Robertson had served continuously as
a hospital steward since 1854. NOW
congress has retired him on pension
of sI13,56 a month
The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29

cnarKes IN u u .
concerning the
department by
James Berry. Mr..
Berry formerly
was the chief OF
the distributing
division under
Willis l.. Moore,
chief of the Unit
ed States wealth
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14

time down on the new wharf along.
side of the Alakea street structure
The ninth anniversary of the Sea-
mems Institute will be celebrated to-
night in the parish house of st. An.
drews cathedral, at eight clock. Tho
program consists of moving pictures
by f. K Bonine, presentation Of re-
ports, musical numbers AMI an address,
by Admiral Cowles of che naval sta
ton The banC from the Maryland
will play selections at Emma Square
from seven to eight o'clock. All friends
of the institute are cordially invited
AS well as the men from the flee
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14

Postmaster Pratt has received Off
cial notices as below, that referring
to foreign postage being Of especial
importance:
Holiday Mail.
"Ofice of the Postmaster General
Washington, Nov. il, 1911.
order No. 1912. The requirements
of Section eli, Postal Laws and regu.
lations, with reference to the back
stamping of mail matter, except in so
far as they affect special delivery and
registered mail, ar, hereby suspended
for the period beginning December
20, 1911, and ending January 3, 1912,
in order to expedite the delivery Of
mail during the holiday season.
FRANK II. HITCHCOCK,
POSTMASTER General"
At this Office the above refers only
to island letters as backstamping OF
mainland mail was discontinued in Ho,
nolulu sometime ago, in accordance
with special order from the postoftice
department
Short-Pad Letters for Foreign
Countries.
"Ofice of Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
Washington. Nov. %, 1911.
The department is advised that
many letters mailed in the United
States addressed for delivery in for.
eign countries, notably China, which
are subject to our Postal Union post
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14
HOLIDAY MAIL AND UNDERPAID
LETTERS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES

age rate, are prepaid only two cents,
the senders of the letters being under
the impression, it is presumed, that
our two-cent domestic postage rate
is applicable to said letters.
THE only foreign countries to which
the two-cent letter rate applies are
Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Newfoundland,
the Canal Zone, the Republic of Pan
anna, Germany Cby direct steamers on
ly), England, Scotland, Wales and Ire
land, and the city of Shanghai, China.
TO all other countries, including all
places in China other than Shanghai,
the rate is five cents for the first
ounce or fraction thereof and three
cents for each additional ounce or
fracti thereof which must be fully
prepaid, or the letters become liable
on delivery to charge equal to
double the amount of the deficient
postage. For instance, singlerate
letter prepaid only two-cents, being
short-paid three cents, would be sub
Jet on delivery to an additional post
age charge of six cents.
AS charge for postage due on short
paid letters give rise to much com
plant, postmasters are directed to eau
ton the patrons of their offices re-
speeding the matter and to give this
notice the widest publicity possible.
JOSEPH STEWART,
Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral."
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14

Mr.. EAscIMENTo, foreman of The
Star composing room, is down with
the grip.
MRS. LEIHULU KEOHoKALoLE re-
turned by the Lurline last night
from a visit to the Coast
L. B. NEVINs, who is interested in
the development of Hawaiian pine
apples, was an arrival last night by
the Lurline.
j. TORRANCE of Norway was an ar.
rival last night by the Lurline He
is on a visit to his sister, Mrs. e,
Knudsen of Kauai
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Page
The WEATHER.

Thursday, December IA, 1911.
Local Office, U. s. Weather Bureau,
Temperature, O a. m; S a. IN; 10
4. m; and morning minimum:
Il, %, y, a, G..
Barometer reading Absolute hui.
nidity Cgraius per cubic FOOT; rela.
i've humidity and dew point at 8
T. m:
1907, sos, 50, CO.
Wind velocity and direction at q
n; s a. m; 10 a. m; and noon:
SNE, lone. ONE, ONE.
Fainfau during "a hours ending s
a. m., 10 rainfall,
Total wlnd movement during "a
hours ending at noon, 223 miles,
WIN. B. STOCKMAN,
Section Director.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14

Tomorrow afternoon at three-thirty
o'clock, the regular meeting of the
members of the Hawaii Promotion
Committee will be held in the rooms
of the association, in the Young Hotel
building.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14
HE KNEW.

Don't you think that seeing is be-
lieving?'
mo. | see people every day that
| wouldn't believe.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-14

Treasurer Conklug his Mcl}ryde Estate 1t is
Office and he working wished
petition hecatOn filed that
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-26
SPOTSWOOD

Miss Maggie Walton is visiting
Mrs. George F. Holmes of Little
Silver.
Hardwood floors are being laid in
the residence Of Postmaster and Mrs.
Joseph Hodapp, ST..
T. Francis Perrine, of East Spots
wood, has purchased the Smock
property, in East Spotswood, from
the Smock estate.
Miss Martha Schroeder, of New
Brunswick, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Hodapp.
Mrs. George w. DeVoe visited her
daughter, Alice. at Trenton, Thurs
day; also her sister, Mrs. ]. w. Van
Dyke, who Is confined at Mckinley
hospital. where Miss DeVoe is stu
dying to be a trained nurse.
Thirteen shad were caught in the
mill race at Bloomfield Mills, East
Spotswood, Tuesday night. The
'hauls are made from a branch of the
South river nearly every night.
Miss Marion Behringer spent We'd
nesday in New York.
Mrs. Mary Madge has returned
from spending a few weeks with rel
atives in New York City and Hobo
ken.
Harry A. Skinner has qualified as
executor of the last will of his grand
mother, Mrs. Catherine A. Skinner,
who died here may IL. The estate.
valued at about $4,000, was left to
the deceased's daughter, Mrs. Ger
.trude Skinner, and two grand-chil-
dren, Miss Maude and Harry Skin
.ner, all of Brooklyn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-26
SOUTH AM BOY

Mrs. Disbrow Johnson, Of Borden
town avenue was an out-of-town Wis
itor yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Robert Hunt, of Augusta
street, was a Perth Amboy visitor
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. William Lewis, of John
street. spent yesterday afternoon
with her father, John Davis, In
~Sayreyille township.
Miss Bernice Boert, of George
street, was a Matawan visitor yes
terday afternoon.
Ross Hendricksen, of South River,
was a South Amboy visitor yester-
day afternoon on his way to New
York city.
Wyckof NJ. Rue, Of Jersey City,
was a South Amboy visitor yesterday
forenoon.
Mrs. Furman House, Of Second
street, attended the Christian Endea-
vor Convention at Manasquan yester-
day az delegate from Christian En-
deavor Society of~the M. P. church
Of this city.
Officer James Welsh, of Wood
bridge, was in town yesterday and
called on Chief of Police Mcdonnell,
o this city.
Mrs. A. Everett, of Henry street,
was a Red Bank visitor yesterday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. William G. Wyckof, of Sec
ond street, was an out-of-town Wis
itor yesterday.
Mrs. Israel Ward, of George street,
was a Perth Amboy visitor yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. G. Boutell, of Red Bank, re-
turned home yesterday afternoon af-
ter spending a short time with her
mother, Mrs. A. Eeerett, of Henry
street.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. George Stolte, of Mechanics
Vile, yesterday morning.
Mrs. R. B. Ravens, of First street,
was an Asbury Park visitor yester-
day.
Fred Leonard, of Mechanicsvil1e,
WAS an out-of-town visitor yesterday.
Rev. N. 3. Webb, pastor Of the NJ.
P. church, was a aMnasquan visitor
yesterday to attend the Christian En-
deavor convention.
Miss Edna Leonard, Of Mechanics
Vile, was a visitor at Manasquan
yesterday.
Mrs. Robert Van Dusen, OF FIRST
street. spent yesterday afternoon
with friends In Perth Amboy.
Frank Lester, of this city, who
was employed on the steamer At
~lanta. belonging to the New York
and Savannah line, came home yes
terday. he and the whole crew be-
ing laid of indefinitely and the YES
sci tied up owing to lack Of bust
ness.
NOTICE.
$1,000 reward for the information
that will convict the parties that de
stroyed the growing potatoes belonging
to me.
LAWRENCE McQUAIL,
M~echaniesville
;fSt 21471-5-26-1t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-26
WOODBRIDGE

Mrs. Frank Edgar spent Thursday
afternoon In Perth Amboy.
Miss Carrie Ensign was an out-of-
town visitor yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Blair, of East
Woodbridge, were Newark visitors
Thursday.
Miss Olive Turner, of Sewaren,
spent Thursday evening with Wood
bridge friends.
Miss Jensen, of Green street. visit
ed In Perth Amhoy yesterday after
noon.
Mrs. Rebecca Morris was an out
Of-town visitor Thursday.
J. H. Love, supervising principal,
visited the Port Reading school yes
terday.
James Numbers enjoyed a trim to
Philadelphia Thursday. Upon his re-
turn his brother-in-law, William
Boggs, of Maryland, accompanied
him for a short visit.
Richard Sattler spent yesterday In
Newark.
The Misses Stella Kelly, Mamie
and Helen Brown spent last evening
In Perth Amboy.
Peter Snyder, of the Hirnef ton
serial parlor, enjoyed d vacation yes
terday.
Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Perth
Amboy, was a local visitor Thursday.
Miss Mittie Harmed returned yes
terday from a brief visit out OF town.
Mrs. c, e. Etter gave a luncheon
Thursday in honor OF d niece ffom
Philadelphia
Miss CO. Miss Bessie