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Evening journal., 1912-10-15

Captain Malcolm Billsborough. of
the speedboat Tech, Jr.." owned by
General T. Coleman DUPONT, whose
speed of mile at the rate OF 5S.3
miles an hour is the fastest ever
made by boat. has written for the
New York World Magazine a story
of the sensation of travelling over the
water at nearly a mile a minute.
Captain Billsborough's article is as
follows: --
/ had never been in a real speed
boat until Mr.. dupont bought the
Tech. Jr" Mr. DUPONT came to me
and said. Say, Billsborough. how'd
you like TO drive that new boat?"
I'D been steamboating since / was
si-tetn. and didn't see any particular
reason why / shouldt be able to run
a little twenty-five puff of noise like
the Tech, Jr.," and | told Mr.. du-
pont So
go right" he said. you're the
driver" ----t> 4 ssfI
mise that time the Tech. Jr." and
have been through a good deal to-
gether. She's caught fire under me
two or three times; smashed herself
up against sundry driftwood; run
dAOuAlU 'O'id0atUdAtN III NIOA1os anu
when things didn't exactly suit her,
stuck her nose into the water, and
gone 10 the bottom Altogether,
she's been a good deal less certain
than woman. and considerably more
trouble than a transatlantic liner
I have not changed my conviction
that | can run anything that sails, but
the Tech" doesn't sail She flies.
When she doesn't fiy. she bumps, and
when she doesn't bump, she dives. II
she stops too quick, her propeller
shaft goes out through the bow, and
II lie starts too sudden, her en-
gine falls into the gasoline tank The
Tech, Jr." is only an excuse. When
you're i'm her, you're not in a boat at
all. you're all a propeller. The wood
works Just to give the judges some
thing TO see.
The Tech" is twenty feet long. six
feet wide. and a. half-inch thick.
Adolph APPEL Of Atlantic City, who
designed and built her planned to
get a boat that would plane the wa
ter. He succeeded. She doesn't 60
through the water at all: she goes
over it. There isn't enough spray
to get ycu wet
nave heeN dSitu 10 tell what "
feels like TO drive the Tech al sixty
miles an hour. There's only three
comparisons that come to mind. One
is that it's like riding on cast-iron
bubbles You see. the Tech hav-
ing a concave bottom. actually rides
on a bubble. all the time. II makes
the bubble as II goes But IL isn't
light. genteel littls bubble like
those you blow out Of a pipe. Not by
= iugfull It's a rough, corrugated
castsiron bubble. that Jars YOU from
head 10 foot and shakes the life out
of YOU When J come in from a fast
ride in the Tech Iim bruised all
over That's tho kind of a bubble
il is And that's part of the exper-
fence that cones to anybody that
goes sixty miles an hour in mono
plane that.ca'ls fself boat
Next to the aforesaid. the Tech
when going az full speed reminds you
chiefly Of a bucking horse in a high
sea I've never rideu a bucking horse
but Two been on a good many high
seas, and I know that none Of them
Evening journal., 1912-10-15

an hour The Tech" has to be con-
sidered in class by herself
All Of this sounds discouraging. The
reader may imagine that I don't like
motor-boating. To be honest. there
was a time that | didn't At present
wouldn't trade my job as driver
Of the Tech" for a Cunard captaincy.
It's full of sensations, but they're all
worth having.
I'll never forget the record mile.
We had a light. choppy sea, Just the
kind the Tech" likes best Ii was a
running start. Booye started the en-
gine; ! threw in the clutch: and
the Tech after sliding fifteen yards
on her hind legs dropped down and
began "planing" just like bird
When we passed the judges boat she
was touching the top of the water
and going sixty-five miles an hour #
she was going a mile The eight
cylinders of our big Sterling we're
singing prettier than a tea kettle
There was just little spray and the
steady "shock-shock-sh shock" of the
bottom as we hit the waves. Flying
wasn't II. We'd have finished that
mile in less than one minute except
for one thing.
Adolph APPEL knows more about il
than ! do The gist Of it is that the
speed was too fast for the propeller.
Twenty-eight hundred revolutions a
minute caused so much friction that
the blade lost temper This spoiled
the "pitch"-the angle at which the
blade takes the water-and cost us
ten miles an hour in speed for the
last quarter Of the record mile. That's
why We didn't make it in less than a
minute that day
Mr. DUPONT is experimenting now
With a new metal When We find one
that will stand the friction and hold
its pitch. the Tech. Jr.' will do it's
sixty without turning a hair.
Upsets. of course. are a little dan
gerous, but not particularly so. We
always wear life preservers and know
how to swim. The only real danger
lies in getting caught under the boat.
With the "Tech" it's slight enough.
The hard thing about the Tech" is
staying in Il, not getting out.
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
LET'S
Get
Together
Sporting Gossip
and Comment.

The Boston Nationals want George
Stalings as manager, under one
year contract George wants three
year contract. Hence the hitch.
Nobody who saw Yerkes play dur
ing his Southern league days ever ex-
pected he was slated to prove the
hero Of a worlds series game
Then, on the other hand, nobody
TO see George Robe bat these days
In a Southern league would ever
Judge thae he once broke up a
worlds series with his sNatstick
The Athletics surely made hash of
the Phillies in the post-season series
Wonder il Fogel is laying that to the
umnires. too
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
LET'S
Get
Together

Jack Murray organized a Wilson
club just before the worlds series
started and got twelve members. II
hc keeps his present clip he ought to
get million Immediately after. II he
asked for them
man aud woman Travelled a
thousand miles to see Billy Evans
umpire In the worlds series But
then there were extenuating circum-
stances. The lady was Billy's sister.
Mrs. George Bickerton, and the man
is her husband. ~
The worlds series has rum with
marvelously few kicks thus far.
Nothing in the way of oftrouble was ex-
pected from the Red Sox, but Nc
Graw and his men are awful beefers.
Charley Schmidt, former Tiger
catcher, das filed a petition In bank
ruptoy. it's often enough that ball
players 60 broke. but it's seldom they
take their troubles TO the courts
WELL you've read EN- all. maybe
now who's writing the best stun
dNNhi iiit .N'iih = 0tAifNt| Aht .itEh"
lar base ball writer's, Of course And
that goes two ways
What good is Chicago's new $780,
600 park going to do the Cubs if they
have no manager?
The directors of the Missouri Pacific
railroad advanced directors meet
ing one hour in order to take in the
worlds series game in New York
The Sox won the first in New
York. They tied and lost in Boston
They won again in New York
What good is home diamond 10
champions?
The second day Of the worlds SER
les Dick Finley, who caught for the
Giants when they won the worlds
series in 1889. died of heart disease
at Asbury Park.
The sympathy of all baseball man
ayers goes out TO Joe Birmingham
who has just signed his contract as
Nap manager for 1913 This is one
time where '13' is likely to prove an
unlucky number for Joe.
The Highlanders have promised
first Of the next season, but Farrell
doesn't give the Rochester mognl
much Information as to who they will
/ be
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
EXPLANATION OF CURVES.
Professor Tells Why the Ball EIudes
the Batter.


The why OF a baseball curve
should no longer be a mystery, at
least to the students. Of the Columbia
University summer school In lee
ture on the Science of Baseball
Curves Prof w S Franklin ex-
planned il as follows
The whole secret OF the curve ball
lies in the relation of the pressure
TO the velocity and vice versa. each
ball creating its own pressure by tho
velocity and the spin that the pitch
or gives it as it leaves his hand
Daniel Bernouilli. a Swiss physi
cisi, who died in 1882, was the man
who discovered the principle He
was observing a stream of water that
flowed through wide pools and mar
row shoals In the pools he soon
found that the pressure was very
great. while the velocity was almost
nothing; i'm the shoals he saw that
the velocity was very swift. while the
pressure had almost disappeared
This is the principle that governs
the flight and curve of a ball If tho
hall sails straight through the air
with no spin. the air is pushed asid
equally in all directions and the bali
Is directly under the control of gray
ity, so far as its cure is concerned,
and it soon falls 10 the ground
Whereas, If the front of the ball is
given q downward spin there is in ad
dition to the straight forcing aside of
the air circulation motion Of the air
around the ball This motion being
over and then under the bali. tends 10
increase the speed with which the air
passes beneath the bali and retards
IL above the ball"
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
PREDICTS SEVENTY MILES An
HOUR.
By AdOlph r. APPEL, Her Builder.

| built the Tech Jr.' for speed n
has justified its construction.
The bottom is concave and is pro
vided with side keelsons. This holds
the air below. The Tech Jr." runs
on air. Its propeller uses the water
to push it along The entire principle
Of motor-boat speed may be explained
in this way.
My great effort in building the
Tech Jr." was to minimize the water
resistance. II was necessary that I
construct boat which would "plsne"
the surface. All hydroplanes are
constructed on this principle: the
difference in the Tech Jr." is that
she planes from bow to stern. The
concave bottom does this. If anv-
thing else will do II, don't know
what IL is.
When We get a propeller blade
which will withstand the tremendous
friction Of 2s00 revolutions a minute
the Tech. IT." will establish a record
Of 20 miles an u
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
sI.OOO ZOE HITTING SIGN.

At Fenway Park, Boston, there is .
large sign erected by Thomas W Law
son, which if hit by batted ball. will
net the lucky batsman $3.50, or If
slate on the sign is hit the player
making the hit will receive 1000 Of
Mr.. Lawson's coin The sign reads as
follows: Thomas w. Lawson Of
fers $3.50 to any batter who hits this
sign and $1,000 to the first man who
smashes the systems slate" On the
sign was a picture of a slate four
feet long by three feet wide. AS luck
would have il the two-base hit made
by Snodgrass in the first inning OF
Wednesdays game fell short of the
mark by only a few yards
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
WHAT HAPPENED TO 2?2i
G. Roger Daniels, 9Th Spasm

Matty. Tesreau and the Rube,
That was the Giants dope;
And they took the last for a boob,
Have they changed, we'll l should
hope.
Tesreau was wild and he blew.
The first and the fourth to Wood;
And Matty died and he few.
To the realms of the might have
been good.
But the much despised Rube,
Just bit off a larger chew:
And he they had called the boob.
Walked off with game numbered
two.
Now there is a moral to this bum
rhyme,
Take heed you Gothamites wise;
If you weren't so sure, and had bided
your time,
You might have copped the prize.
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
OLYMPIA TEAM
.WORKSOUTTONICHT

Manager Cole calls all the Olympia
football players to practice tonight
and Friday night at Front and Union
streets for their big game on Satur-
day with Riverton-Palmyra This
will be the biggest game of the sea-
son here. The Olympia team is cham
pion of Delaware, while Riverton is
the champion of New Jersey. not hav-
ing been beaten in four years. A
large attendance is looked for at the
Saturday game.
Evening journal., 1912-10-15

game at the Polo grounds. when in
the ninth inning with two men on
bases, one. out and the Giant rooters
yelling like mad, he famed Fletcher
and Crandall and saved the game.
The picture shows Joe waiting his
turn at bat and the way I'm which
he holds the ball for a sharp break
ing out drop. In the second game
in New York, Joe pitched only ninety
eight balls in nine innings. Thirty
three we're strikes and only twenty
five we're balls
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
O'BRIEN GOES SKYWARD
ALLOWING GIANTS TO WIN
GAME IN FIRST INNING
nv The United Press.

15The fell all
pitcher
at
Smoky
the the
six hits.
the inning
twobagger,
60 the second
cold falling Oh
endanc
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
FLAG FOR ST. GEORGE SONS.

Members. of the Windsor Lodge. No.
S2. Order Sons of st. George. are
making great preparations for next
Thursday evening, when Vice-Presi-
dent Robert Sandarrs, Of Philadelphia,
will officially present to the lodge an
American and an English flag.
Evening journal., 1912-10-15
MAPLE LEAF WANTS GAME.

The Maple Leaf Football team
would like to arrange games with
any 100 to 125 pound teams in or
out of the city. They would like to
have a game for Saturday next. Send
all challenges to John p Ruth at
Newport.
Evening journal., 1912-10-15

year was decided frost Last year
he pitched very fair ball. but this sea
son the little speed merchant has
outdone himself, mixing his fast one
ing curves Furthermore, Wood has
Evening journal., 1912-10-15

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ANSWER TO PULLING STICKS.
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Evening journal., 1912-10-15

BOSTON. Oct. 14-"Smoky' Joe.
Wood. the Boston Red sox star Slab
man, who won the first and third
games Of the worlds series by won
derful pitching, is only twenty-five
years old and has been. in the major
leagues only three years. His first
Evening journal., 1912-10-15

tendance
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
Soft New Porcelains.

Have you seen the fascinating Dan
ish porcelains In soft gray and white
that are being shown in interesting
vases, candlesticks and fruit bowls?
One attractive piece that could do
duty for flowers or fruit is a Danish
peasant girl in her native costume,
with quaint cap and sabots. Her frock
is gray, her apron cap and sabots
white. She leans gracefully forward,
apparently walking. and drags beside
her great baskets, each fully six inches
In diameter. of plated gray and white
porcelain.
Besides the beauty of this vase. It
permits delightful effects with short
gtemmed flowers, and is especially
graceful as center piece filed with
purple and white grapes, or blue
plums and green cages.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
Foremost Place in Life Is Never
for One VINO viii Not
Strive to Attain.
NOTHING BEYOND THE REACH
Mistake is Made When Beginner Be-
comes Satisfied With the Posi-
ton in Which He Has Been
Placed, and VIII
Stay There.

In his book. Getting on in the
World Henry Brummond emphasizes
the value of high ideals. He would
have every young man aim high in the
development of his character as well
as in choosing his life work. de
would do SO Notwithstanding the risk
of failure, for he seems to think that
it is better to have risked and lost in
noble purpose. than never to have un-
dertaken something really worth
while. Perhaps Mr.. Drummond is
right Let's talk it over.
Several years ago boy in his teens
answered an advertisement for a
young man qualified to be private Sec
rotary to large manufacturer. The
boy was SO young that the manu-
facturer was inclined to regard his
application as a joke, and dismissed
him. The advertisement soon appear
ing again, the boy applied the sec
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
CHURCH SHOULD ADVERTISE
Rev. John w. Hoag Declares Paper
Would Have Been Used by
Christ

Had the newspaper existed an0
been the factor in their day that it
is in our day, Christ and his disciples
would undoubtedly have used it to
the fullest extent" were words ut
tered by Rev. John Wellington Hoag
In his sermon at the Calvary Baptist
church, New Haven, Conn, recently.
The theme under discussion was
Making the Church Known" and in
his remarks Mr.. Hoag paid the above
tribute to the power of the newspa-
per. Added interest is created by the
fact that Mr.. Hoag is himself a great
believer in the widest publicity, not
alone for the commercial house, but
for the church as we'll
In the discussion of the theme Mr..
Hoag acknowledged that the news
parer stands at the head of all the
secular forces of modern life The
church. he said, that would adapt it's
ministry to the conditions of the age
must avail itself of the services of
the daily press. This affords the
best way of reaching the people and
the church is not only warranted but
practically compelled by the condi-
tons of the age to use the newspaper
in making known its work and in call
ing mems attention to it,"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
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softly as yelling, and yet looking
warm and permitting rich fur edges.
But to return to the coat of dinky
cut which is SO popular now. and
which always offers splendid idea
for the top garment of tailored suit
In one fabric; for 1t Is the difference
between the coat and skirt materials
which makes this model trying to
most figures. The style is shown by
the figure illustrated, the material be-
Ing tan wool ratine and the trim
ming black panne velvet. AS one
piece dress of black panne Is worn
with this garment 1t is here presented
in its most aristocratic phase, and the
get-up is admirably topped by very
dashing hat of black panne and vel
low and black paradise plumes.
Ready made, coat in this STYLE
can be had from fifteen dollars up.
Woolly coatings in two colors, wide
vale serge coating wool cheviot,
chinchilla, ETC., are some of the prac-
tical materials. If the garment is to
be made at home it can be varied as
the type needs, and if the dressmaker
wants very swagger coat cut for a
stout suit of corduroy or serge she
could do no better than to use this
model. If the coat get-up is to be for
reception purposes, and there is every
chance Of its being as well the only
garment for the theater, have the coat
OF veiveteen and the dres OF cloth I'm
the same color Taupe, in that very
smart shade called eclipse, would be
a splendid color for it, although many
rich shades of plum are equally fash
ionable.
MARY DEAN.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
CARE OF THE CANDLE SHADE
Lace Covers May Easily Be Arranged
So That Laundering Work VIII
Not Be Hard.

Keep the lace covers on candle
shades separate from the lining SO
they can be Numbered easily. They
are quickly tackled to the linen or silk
Inning with bead fringe and mica
lined, that comes in various shades
of green, white, pink. blue, red and
yellow and costs about 40 cents
apiece. according to the New York
Times.
Another cover for these Innings is
the lingerie one made of sheer
white linen, embroidered in mer-
cerized cotton in eyelet designs. A
distinctive set has fine buttonholed
scallop at top and bottom, bunch Of
conventional forget-me-nots at one
side and on the other medallion in
eyelet work with the monogram OF
the owner done in raised satin stitch
within.
A popular shade is made of over
tapping silk petals with bead fringe.
These come In green, yellow, red, old
rose, blue and pink. The same shades
can be found in the electric shade
made to flt sixteen-candlepower
bulbs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
British Wealth and Wages.

At the British annual trade union
congress which opened at Newport,
England. September 2. the president.
William Thorne. in his opening ad-
dress was particularly urgent in de.
handing a better distribution of the
country's wealth. He declared that
the amount received by the workers
is now much less in proportion to the
total wealth production than ever it
was before About the time the first
trade union congress was held in Man
chester, in 1869, the annual wealth
production was about E800, 000. 600
and the amount received by the work.
ers was about G400.0 100000, or Just
half. Last year the total wealth pro-
duction was about s2.00O.O00,000 and
the amount received by the wage earn.
ers was not more than about $780,
100000 which was less than one-half,
according to Mr. Thorne. When work.
men are told that wages In some cas-.
es have doubled during the last fifty
years they answer that wealth has
far more than trebled during that pc
riod In the country. There is suf1i-
cient proof, said Mr. Thorne. that
there cannot be any satisfactory So
luton to the wage system so long as
small class in the. community own
the means OF producing wealth.
In education they were a long way
from their ideal Of equal opportuni-
ties for all children. They still had
underfed children in the schools. and
official statistics showed an amount of
disease among the children which was
disgrace to the nation. No child suf.
fering from consumption should be al.
lowed to remain In classroom. The
great question Of child labor was still
unsolved. and would be SO until the
state provided for the child the main.
tenance toe make 1t possible to raise
the school sSe.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
Age and. Profitable Service.

At what age does a man cease to be
useful to his employer? There is to
this question no proper answer that
may be expressed in figures. Much
depends upon the kind Of work that
is done; more depends upon the man
who does the work. The trouble with
the dealing in general terms with the
problem of age and service lies in
the fact that individuality has so di-
rect bearing upon it.
Yet 1t is not to be denied that there
is a perceptible tendency in practi-
cally all branches of industry to shift
its burden to young shoulders. Many
employers look with growing suspi-
cion upon men whose hair is grazing
at the temples, whose shoulders have
begun to stoop or whose face wrinkles
are beginning to grow deep. By such
employers young men are given the
preference, notwithstanding that their
experience is relatively small.
A striking exception to this modern
rule of industry is furnished by one
of the great railroads. It has on its
payroll 2,O4O active employees who
have served the company 40 years or
more. 4S9 OF its men have been with
the company more than half cen
fury, and one has been receiving his
pay envelope for Sc years. Although
the table of mortality used by insur-
ance companies shows that the ex-
pectancy OF mal OF Fl Us 4O.75 years,
yet this railroad company has 4.015
employees who have exceeded this sci
entifically established limit.
This railroads management evil
IDENTIFY does not believe that it pays to
discharge or otherwise retire man
simply because he seems to be grow
ing old. Which raises again the ques-
ton of the age limit for employment
from the point of view Of the employ
er who intelligently seeks a fair profit
in exchange for wages paid
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-11-08
WON BY CONFIDENCE =

At that I got away with the short
hand dictation, for | could remember
what he had said, but when it came
to the machine and l tried to tran
scribe what ! had written he stood
behind me, and when struck a wrong
key and then another, 1t was s'all off. =
heard the noise and clatter of the
other machines and was trying to do
as fast work on a machine ! was un-
accustomed to operating. This. coupled
with my nervous condition, made the
attempt failure.
made my exit with the best grace
possible Did | make the same mis-
take twice? No, indeed. The next
position / held l assumed an air OF
profound knowledge. l told the adver-
tiser had three years experience in
legal and commercial work and had
just completed long case in law pro-
cedure; that / wanted a couple hours
of slow work in order to rest my
nerves, as the speed at which. / had
been working had unstrung them for
time. He was glad to allow me the
privilege, and after one hours work
my sel;-confdence was entirely re-
stored.-Frank A. Hilker, in the Chi
cago Tribune.