Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-11-28
BRITISH AEROPLANE
ENGINES DEFICIENT
This Fact Brought Home so
John Bull When Prize
Awards are Lost.
%IoNDoNERs TOO ACTIVE
Great Highway Through Africa
Planned = Ensland's Board
Of Trade Rebuked BY the
Australians.
LoNDoNERs TOO ACTIVE

London-Special: British airnen
were impressed by the superiority of
foreign motors for %aeroplanes during
the military competitions held at Sails
bury Plain in July.
All of the %aeroplanes which passed
the test and others recommended for
awards We're equipped with foreign en-
glnes. Two of tho foreign engines We're
failures and spoiled the chances of two
aeroplanes of British construction, but
on the whole the foreign engines We're
trustworthy and efficient.
The British engines i'm the competi-
ton showed improvement. but are not
yet capable of equalling the perform
ances of the foreign motors.
The judges report asserts that the
importance of establishing first class
British air craft engine works connot
be ONerrated. 1t also points out that
while there is a natural reluctance to
flying In winds of 20 or 80 miles am
hour when there is no object to be
gained, such flights can be safely made
by most machines of a good type.
| That the London business man takes
too much exercise is the startling as
sertion of a physician at the conference
on hygiene for business men, recently
held here.
The city man is said to be too fond OF
rushing from the intellectual toll of his
office to the golf links. One
doctor stated that this practice is a
fruitful source OF neu%rasthenia. 1t is
simply draining your nervous system
and energy by two taps instead OF one"
he said. According to this expert. there
is no relation between the size OF the
muscles and health.
Most of he delegates preached the
simple life for city men, who were all
too busy to attend the sessions of the
conference.
All Of the heavy artillery of the med
ical men was brought to bear against
the business lunch and the business
man was told to either go without 1t
or to drop meat from the midday menu.
the crowded drug stores i'm the bust
ness districts. where HI tired Office
men resort for "bracers.'
Stamp collectors are delighted over
the results OF the Philatelic exposition
ever held anywhere. 1t attracted the
general public. as we'll as the collectors,
the mi of visitors being $4,000.
AT the banquet of the society there
were collectors present from the United
States, Germany. France. Italy, SWitZ-
erland. India and Egypt. A veteran
collector, who has attended all but two
of the international exhibitions. said
that the one just closed was
eddy the best ever held.
The Hawaiian series of the late II.
j. Croker. of San Francisco. was the
most admired exhibit in the hall. The
next exhibition will be held in Paris,
i'm May, 1913:
The plan of constructing a &. O0O-mtle
railroad through Central Africa has
been revived by the conclusion of peace
in Tripoli. The plan was originally
made 30 years ago by q firm of Lon
don contractors and engineers. but had
4 IA tn Ia lane Nm, ,ro 80 "A $50
between the Bey of Tripoli and the
J Sultan of Turkey. AT that time the
project was favored by the late King
Humbert of Italy.
The success of the undertaking is
conditional on the raising of a capital
of $50, 900, 900 and the consent Of Italy.
France and Belgium. through the ter
ritories of which the proposed railway
will run.
A London capitalist who was inter
ested in the original scheme declares
that both the capital and the consent
will be forthcoming. as the line would
provide for the great commercial in
terests OF Europe Il ready access to the
most fertile regions of Central Africa.
Starting from the city of Tripoli the
line will go through Fezze to Tibesti
and thence through the French territory
of Darfur. From there it will take q
southeastern route to the Stanley Falls
near Lake ~Tanganyika. where it will
JOIN tne cape 10 CAIRO railway III VIII
act as a very important feeder to the
latter line. The journey from Europe
to Central Africa will take one week
and the traffic over such a line would
be enormous.
A b to the British board of
trades shipping department has lust
been administered kE the IN
wealth of Australia In the shape of q
navigation bill passed by the legisla-
ture.
The bill will not become law imme-
diately, although 1t has passed both
ture. 1t has been reserved by the gov
ernor general for the consideration OF
the home government. The criticisms
OF the colonial Office, the board of trade
and certain Australian interests have
resulted In numerous notifications of
the act. blu it is hardly likely that it's
trainers Will consent to any further
emasculation.
The proposed law provides that ev-
cry foreign going ship, Australian trade
ship or vessel engaged in the coasting
trade carrying 30 or more persons. in
Guiding passengers and crew, shall be
equipped with efficient wireless %
tus for communication over distances
not less than 100 miles day and night.
Every ship shall be surveyed each wear.
No British ship shall be exempt from
these regulations unless u ef-
fective provisions are in force in the
regions where the ships are registered.
One settlement worker in New York
city has made a specially Of teaching
boys how to make articles of furniture
out OF old packing boxes. The BOYS
are said to be enthusiastic over tho