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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16

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MONEY.

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5 AND PER CENT MONEY fo 1o..
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GOOD milk cows. fat cattle and veal
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PATENTS.

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FOR RENT-Fine room modern house
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FOR RENT-HOUSES.

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FLORISTS.

HGYES GROWS THEIR OWN flowerA
Funeral designs a speciality 1O7 W sth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-14

process is repeated frequently. Both
vessels have alternating crews that stand
ready to act the moment 4 led Is trans
farred THUS on the average The battle
ship receives its fuel At the rate Of eighty
tons an hour even in moderately rough
weather which allows an increase in
comparatively smooth SECS to over l0,
tons an hour. IN other words. the aver
age ship Of The navy can receive enough
coal to fill its bunl>ers II less than twelve
hours.
What they do in case Of accident rep
resents how quickly naval mon can act in
an emergency. and it represents, also.
that such Il system was developed with
such a contingency in mind. Should the
towing haWsers part there would he
active things occurring overhead as soon
as the sea anchor had been drawn over
it's 400 feet i'm the rear of the collier to
the vessels main masthead, did not the
crew of the battleship take immediate
steps to release the galloway
Such case occurred in one of the
earlier trials Of the SYSTEM while the YES
sells were steamng at speed OF about
eight miles an hour When the towing
hawser suddenly parted the executive OFF,
GER of the battleShip issued lVe separate
commands in as many SECONDS IL re-
CURED forty SECONDS To tAScutt iHeiil,
which meant that the whole apparatus
had been released from the battleship in
much less time than that which threat
ened injury to the collier. And before the
collier had moved an estimated distance
of about 900 feet through the water its
steam WincneS mad wouiid an the cable
way, thus preventing loss OF the ap-
Daratus. Such accidents occurred, now
ever, in the days w en- single TOWING
hawsers were used. bat they have not
occurred i'm the use Of the system when
two hawsers We're used.
The entire equipment OF such system,
when slowed away aboard ship, occupies
a space less than 200 cubic feet ana
weighs out little more than seven iohS
The matter of coakng hattleshlp III
the harbor comes in as "A close second
in Importance to that of coallng at sea.
Three methods are in use in the navy
at present for this purpose, each or
which is the means of making the COZ
liers present such an unsightly appear
ance from the marine viewpoint: But
the modern navy is not, as in the old
days OF the clipper ship, built on senu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-14

ment. Those unsightly hooms and short
iackmasts mean power and rapid action,
which in turn means great ethcienc!
from the naval standpoint i'll times OF
war
Within the past ten years there has
been a great development i'm this APP
paratus used for harbor coaling From
enc of tile original GOLFERS mat was
purchased during the Spanish American
war there were transferred I'D tons on
coal an hour, requiring 100 men 10 Mo We
the system Nine years later the coiii'i
Hector, one of the first To be equipped
,,ith the Iidgerwood- Miller system. dis
charged $50 tons of coal IN one houl
from one hatch and used but two men
in the operation. This means reiiiai
able saving in labor and time.
\ modern naval collier Is perhaps w
like any other ship that floats. us hoiu
Is like a great coal mine, deep ana ea.
ernous and is large enough =" ho n,,
from $50 to 10000 tons OF cpai- ~.
deck there are two masts to each srea.
hatrhway from which swing great
booms that swerye to either size OF tne
ship Thus one OF these Nesseis may
transfer its cargo to the Dunkers VI
hattleship or from a barge Whlch may
lie on the far side of 1t. ana as com
na.nion to each mast small but power
full winch stands close beside It,
Coaling battleship under the ola con
dittons or before the adoption of the
Iidgerw ood-Miller SYSTEM meant a WORK
of several days and the enjoyment OF
something like 80 men 1t was piece
of work heartily hated by the crews OF
the various vessels, from the executive
officer down to the coal passers, and to
offset the grouches which developed the
ree11Iations prescribed extra lunches and
caused the ships band to mount the quar-
terdeck and play the entire day.
In modern days such a condition would
have A far more important bearing on the
efficiency of the fighting force. Coaling is
not only d rty work. but II is hard work.
Is, Ia several
more because of the scrubbing which the
ship must undergo Such work meant Ia
is1Ie for $50 men, which, though not inn
portant in times of peace. would be
most vital factor in times of war.
The modern collier has more or less
solved such a problem. To coal ship by
the present method in harbor means sim
DIV the lashing of one vessel to the other
and the operation of winches that require
not more than ten men.
This has developed a set Of men i'm the
navy who become specialists on the oper-
alton Of steam or electric winches. Oc-
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casionally such men are called fools,
not i'm tho common meaning of the term.
but because they let slip certain part
of their machine which spills "A lot OF
loose coal set of men who fling
out the exclamation.
Down in the great hold of the collier
there is a crew who see that the coal, as
ii is hauled out. is kept on a level. The
great buckets which lower and dig their
Jaws into the loose mass. then rise and
called clam shells and are operated en-
tirely by the winchman. who controls
the lines which raise and close them
Thus if he should slip on the Lines which
close the bucket on its upward path the
whole load falls.
Ii is not often. however. since the new
system has been adopted. that such ac-
cidents occur. and machines have since
been developed which are approaching the
.'fool-proof' stage This means, there
fore that the efficiency is becoming
greater as the experience of the men
grows. and he can transfer the coal 10
the battleship at a rate which keeps the
jackies aboard the fighting vessel on the
jump to dispose of the loads
To transfer coal in the harbor requires
for each load. On-a recent test of the col
lier Vulcan the test was reduced to sew
enteen seconds for the round trip. ms
means that to load the bucket. raise IL
and swing il to the battleship, then lower
ii and release the load Is about as quick
an operation as one could follow with
the eyes i'm the space covered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-14

with their tau fghting tops suggest y
crushing force. and the thick BLACK smoke
that pourS from the tunnels as the SHIPS
move. 10 and fro tells one that therein
lies the source Of all that power
Now. suppose that tho thick black
smoke suddenly stopped pouring from the
tunnels of both fleets. IN other words.
SUPPOSE the coal supply had become OK
haustod The powerful naval units
would hc i. helpless aS ships Nawl 81
tin open sen vithuut sails or oars "
means MOI only that their propeiIers
would stop revolving, hut. that gun tur-
rcts would stop circlin@, gun carriages
would cease a. respond - tho gun crew :
touch, ammunition hoists would be un-
able to lift the heavy shells and charges
from the magazines below. and loI
Of other apparatus that requires power
would fail ri then purpose.
This suppositicn has developed in Tn
cle Sam ) navy most complete auxiliary
naval force. II one should now follow
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Still PeriI0uS.

(OURTLAND FIELD BISHOP was
~ talking in New York about the dam
gers of flying.
lit is just as Well. he said, that n.y.
ing is prohibitively costly. In its present
state OF development ii is too dangerous
for us to wish il to be common.
II met a financier the other day, who
said:
II know man who has invented a
cheap biplane The whole machine-mo-
tor and all-will cost $50. Think OF II.
Flying within the reach of everybody. 4
great business undertaking should come
of this. eh?'
"A great undertaking business should
certainly come Of it, said / =
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overcome the uneven strains produced
by the motion Of the seas the end al
the galloway on the battleship Is fas-
tened to a great spring that operates al
Il pressure Of :s3,HD pounds over on
tile collier the galloway runs through
pulleys on both mastheadS and on be
yond the stern of the vessel to sea
anchor that floats three or four hundred
feet behind. The sea anchor is nothing
more than a set Of squares of canvas
arranged that as the vessel moves
through the water it eXertS pressure
or pull on the galloway at an estimated
strength of a4,GOo pounds Thus. whe
one vessel rises on sea and causes the
galloway to tighten. the spring pro
tects the warship's masthead, while the
sea anchor keeps the line from sagging
too much when the load of :.ccD more
pounds of coal travels over IT.
Usually there are from eight to ten
canvas bags, each containing about 40
pounds of coal. transferred at time.
On board the collier there men in the
hold who fill these bags in the short
space of a few seconds. When a load is
ready the carriage drops through the
hatchWay, picks up the :S,uO0-pOund pack
to the galloway. and is running forward
to the battleship before one has hardly
had time to follow it with his eyes.
X
On board the battleship there is the re
verse operation. On space of open deck
a body of active, white-bloused jackies
stand ready to tackle it. And tackle it
they do as soon as it is hauled down to
the deck In little less time than it takes
to approach the ship. they have dumped
the bags into waiting iron wagons.
hustled II off to the bunker matches and
poured ii into those yawning depths
Speed in coaIing ship in the navy is en-
couraged by the offer of prize for the
best record. Hence there has always
existed a great rivalry between ships in
this as well as in athletics, target prac-
tice and signal drills. So far the record
established in this work has been a little
over a minute for the transfer of coal
and return Of the bags. 1t takes the col
lier's men about twenty seconds to I'LL the
eight bags, the load carriage transports
them to the battleship in Twenty-Five
seconds, the battleship's crew empt es
them in about fifteen seconds, and the
empty bags are on their way back TO the
collier in twenty seconds.
Neither Goes the speed decrease as the
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required years to work out the details.
When the question first confronted the
naval authorities 1t was a problem that
had never created an attempt to solve.
but in less than year after the Spanish.
American war one of the leading naval
architects Spencer Miller, submitted the
present system for trial.
In the trials which followed there were
many defects developed. 1t was first
discovered that both vessels would have
to be moving in order to fulfill the re
quirements of the system. 1t is a we'll
known marine fact that any vessel, and
more particularly steamer, on account
of its build, will ''wabble when in tow
at sea. and TO partially offset this as
well as for strength, they used two tow
lines. Even this was unsuccessful, and it
was suggested that the collier also use
its engines to some extent 1t offset the
difficulty at once but it also developed
another fact-that the vessels could travel
at higher rate of speed while transfer
ring the coal In time of war this is
regarded as most vital improvement.
The usual rate of speed at which they
now travel while undergoing this oper-
alton is little more than twelve miles
an hour
IT used to be in those earlier days of
over the battleship the galloway.
would be dumped directly on the deck
of the vessel This meant not only an
injury to the vessels deck and the Gre
alton Of black spots that would take
days to remove but great deal of
labor in removing it to the bunkers.
one or two trials only suggested an
other improvement. and the coallng of
Il battleship is now a comparatively
clean Job
What the present system consists of is
merely n set If ,abiaWayS that stretch
from the MAST; of each vessel, a ear
riage that travels from ship to ship.
a Knockout or releasing hook. sea
anchor and the necessary canvas bags
to carry the coal. Trained seamen and
steam OF electric winches do the rest.
II Is estimated that this system can
he set up and placed in operation IN
less than forty minutes. When bat
tleship calls for coal 1t first secures the
towlines sent out by the collier. and
fastens aloft that marine galloway 10
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number of vessels to be coaled at frequent
intervals and likewise the possibility Of
war.
One now sees in the outgoing and in
coming fleets, no matter how Tar they
are going or how far they have BEEN
great steel vessels, almost ugly from a
marine viewpoint, with their short jack
masts protruding from various parts or
their decks and bearing the earmarks OF
huge merchant marine freighters, ac-
companying each fleet. They trail off II
the wake of the fighting vessels. But
in the great holds of each one there is
the precious mineral that causes the
black smoke to curl from the tunnels Of
the battleships and cruisers. that
causes them to pillow through the seas
with a sort of majestic grandeur. an
that fills the onlooker with pride for
such protectors. And although they I All
in the rear they are not slow One
signal from some one Of the ships ahead,
and one of the plain, unsightly hulks will
dart forward out Of the line. ready to
feed the empty bunkers of its consort.
Within the course of a few weeks two
new Golfers will be added to the navy $
list, bringing the present number up TO
twenty-seven. With the exception Of =
few of the earlier types, used now mostlT
for the transportation of coal to nava,
bases, all of these vessels have been sup
piled with the Lidgerwood- Miller c0alin :
apparatus which enables them to trans
fer coal in harhorS at the high rate of son
tons in an hour. Those OF the later
types and faster vessels have also been
equipped with the marine system Ey
which they can feed the empty bunkerS
OF a battleshp on the open sea The
total coal-carrying capacity Of this fleet
runs in the ncigHborhood Of .,.5,Gun ton (.
If one should happen to come suddenly
upon q naval fleet At sea and should see
a man-of-War apart from its neighbors
with one of these frcightiike vessels be
hind or in front Of il, the superstition
would naturally come that the freightcr
or man-of-war was disabled and was be-
ing lowed In reality il is being towed.
but there are toWlines aloft as well as
on deck. Then, even while one is watch
ing and bordering over the Use OF that
toWlinc aloft, great swinging mass
shoots out from the freighter and runs
toward the tighter. and once reaching
that vessel it drops to tine deck and dis
appears. This, in brief. is the method
of transfer al sea.
But there is much more TO IL. and it
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the fleets on their maneuvers one would
see that the modern American navy pos
seSses the most complete and effective
system of supplying the material which
develops the power that human ingenu-
ity can invent. If the vessels lie in the
harbor comparatively smooth water
that system transfers the coal from sup
ply vessel to fighting vessel at the rate
of $40 tons an hour; if they are COM
PEELED to be on the open sea, even in
moderately rough weather. ii swings from
50 TO 100 tons of coal through space from
collier to battleship in every hour. and
without the least danger to either ship
or crew.
If these were the days of the old navy
there would be no occasion to consider
the question of power. One of those old
nen-ofwar was a complete naval unit in
itself. Its sails were its power. II could
go wherever deep water existed and
could carry enough supplies and repair
material. including that necessary to re-
tit after a battle. for voyage that might
cover a year or more. which is as much
as TO say-that the naval arm of nation
could reach around the world.
The modern steam navy has wrought a
change. and that change brought the de-
partnent face to face with the problem
from which the present results have been
obtained. More particularly did this
change come after the Spanish American
war. when the navy began 10 grow an
nually by the haif-dozen ships more.
That great lesson 81 the difficulties of
cervera in procuring coal in the West
Indies. q fact which probably prevented
his fleet from striking the American coast.
and which ended in Ceryeras destruction.
proved a lesson that Uncle Sans naval
men were not slow 10 profit H..
Since tie spanish war the
United States Navy has increased rs over
-aa vessels. Likewise tho annual con-
sumption II coal has Increased by the
1EtGuo tons annually. In 100. tic vessels
required i2J.2tI tong 10 keep them II com
mission and on Tie drill and target
grounds, and by 1.sG, THAT amount had in
creased 10 s13.G1J tons. In 1910 that
amount care down b. nearly afnpOo tons
because the economy scheme penetrated
even tho operation Of our lighting ma
chimes and they inaugGFated what were
termed stcaming competitions Each YES
sci tried to Guido the other in steamin s;
the longest distance with the least amount
Of coal Yet there remained the same
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- look at tile pic
tiIre of a modern
naval battle one
would see power in
an immensely con-
centrated form.
The black gun
muZZles and white
clouds which they
emit SO rapidly
speak of irresisti-
hle blows the
great steel hulk :
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NCLE SANS Navy Has

- Developed Complete
Auxiliary Force-Thousands
of Tons of Coal Passed From
One Ship to Another With
in Short Time-Experiments
Have Perfected System
How Fighting Ships We're
"Coaled" in Early Days the
Navy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-14

the only conclusion attainable was
that the wild fnancier from Alaska
had gone lunatic. And Daylight had
grinned and confirmed the suspicion
by refusing TO see the reporter. lie
halted the automobile before Dede's
door, and met her with his same rush.
ing tactics, enclosing her In his arms
before a word could be uttered.
"l've done It," he announced.
you've seen the newspapers. of
course. I'm plumb cleaned out. and
I've just called around to find out
what day you feel like starting for
Glen Ellen. It'll have to be soon. for
| it's real expensive living in Oakland
these days. My board at the hote' Is
only paid to the end of the week. ana
cant afford to stay on after that
And beginning with tomorrow I've got
to use the street cars. and they sure
eat up the nickels."
He paused and waited. and looked
at her. Indecision and trouble showed
on her face. Then the smile he knew
SO we'll began to grow OH her lips and
I'm her eyes, until she threw back her
head and laughed in the old fortnight
bOyish way.
when are those men coming to
pack for me?" she asked,
And again she laughed and simu'
bear.like arms.
Dear Elam." she whispered: dear
Elam." And OF herself. for the first
time. she kissed him.
Now, I've got an idea" Daylight
said. We're running away from cit
les. and you have no kith nor kin, sc
II don't seem exactly right that We
should start of by getting married II
Il city. So here's the idea: I'll rur
up TO the ranch and get things II
shape around the house and give tho
caretaker his walking papers. fol
follow me In n couple Of days. comint
on the morning train. I'll have thu
preacher fixed and waiting. And here's
another idea. You bring your ridin'
togs In a suit case. And as soon Al
the ceremony's over, you can go Il
the hotel and change. Then out yo'
, come. and you find me waiting with
couple of horses. and we'll ride owe
the landscape so as you can see tn
prettiest parts of tho ranch the frs
thing. And she's sure pretty. tina
ranch And now that It's settled. u
be waiting for you at the mornin
train day after tomorrow"
, Dede blushed as she spoke.
, "You are such a hurricane"
, well. ma'am." he drawled. II sur
|. hate to burn daylight. And you and
q have burned heap OF daylight. We'v
!. been scandalously extravagant. w
!. might have been married years ago
A ITO BE CONTINUED)