El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-09
ENGLAND WILL
BUILD Great
BATTLE5HIP
All Other Terrors of the Sea
to Be Outclassed by New
est Of Dreadnaughts.
AMERICAN TO GET
OLDEST PAINTING

London, England. Nov. 9-All bat
tleship building records are to be
beaten by the British navy If the plans
Of construction OF the latest British
dreadnought are carried out
The new vessel is ordered to be
ready for launching five months after
the laying Of the first Keel plates.
Somewhat of a sensation was caused
at Portsmouth when it was officially
announced Immediately after the
launching of the Iron Duke that the
keel plates of the super dreadnOught
which is TO follow were to be LAID the
next Monday In recent years II mas
been the practice to allow two or three
months TO intervene. between lhe
launching Of a new ship and the lay
ing down OF another.
1t is said that promises have been
made to the admiralty that the new
ship will be ready for Launching WITH
in the five months, and she VIII De
ready for service within one year
thus beating the record OF the original
dreadnOught by two months
It is also claimed that the new snip
Will be as great departure from pre-
vailing types as the dreadnought was
from its predecessors PROVISIONS Tor
oil fuel viii be made in the new vessel
and she viii be armored TO resist air
America Gets Old Painting.
The United States viii probably
possess the oldest painting on canvas
In the world in a short time.
The picture, which was discovered
by Robert de Rustafjaeu, or Luxor
Egypt, is about $500 years old, and II
IS executed in wonderfully bright col
Ors on we'll preserved cloth II belongs
TO the period when art IN Egypt nau
reached its zenith and the figures IN II
are not nearly so stiff as the usual
rock paintings ornamentlng the IN
terror Of Egyptian tombs
Rustafjaeu is associated with an
English company engaged in agrlcul-
ture in Upper Egypt and al OF ms
spare time is devoted to archaeology
Besides the painting, he has uncoY-
cred some valuable papyr ana the
largest collection ever made OF
Egyptian flint instruments
Before he left Luxor with the paint
ing, an American traveller offered the
finder a large sum for the work but
at that time ne was determined 10
keep 1t for his own collection and re-
fused to part with it. Since his return,
however. the offers have been raised
to such a figure that he has consented
10 negotiate for its sale. RustaIJaeI
declares that the most tempting offers
have been made by the London agents
of American collectors, and he feels
sure that the painting VIII be sent
across the Atlantic
The suffragets are pursuing con
stitutionaL as wen as militant meth
DDS Of gaining their ends. They are
about to present q petition to the
house of commons requesting parlla-
ment TO enfranchises the women Of
Great Britain This is signed by the
repres entatiVes OF the leading women 8
organizations Of Australia
They petition for this action on the
ground of the success which has at
tended similar action in Australia and
on the further ground that Australian
women removing to England are hu-
inflated by being disfrancmsed-
seek Mysterious Woman.
A mysterious American woman IS
sought by the English probate court IN
an effort TO prove the DEAN OF an
English banker. who, after disappear
ing on the eve Of his wedding day, IS
alleged to have died on board yacht
belonging to the American
The court has been for the fourth
time asked to presume the death OF
William Robertson Lidderdale, form
erIy manager OF a bank in minister
On January s, 1892, Lidderoales on
the eve of his marriage 70 MISS El11a-
beth Chapman in whose IaNOr ne Lau
made a will left for London after
drawing $4,000 from his private bank
ing account According to q. letter re-
ceived from him on the 1oHoWlng Gay
by Miss Chapman, on alightlng at PAD
dington station, he had met MISS Nln-
ing an old love. Nothing more was
heard OF Lddderdale until February 10
1872. Wlen LlE ADAAo " A--E7 --o--~G
peared in the obituary column OF
London newspaper:
'Iidderdale-On January 80, on MISS
B. A H Winnings yacht FORESIGHT
William Robertson Lidderdale, OF IL
minister. The result of an accident on
January s in alightiug from car
rage in motion
Subsequently Miss Chapman received
q registered letter containing $500 IN
bank notes some -trinkets and some OF
Miss Winnings visiting cards On one
of the latter in Undertakes hand
writing was written, Was true 70
you"
It has been suggested that Miss Vim
ing. never existed and until the present
hearing no proof of this fact has been
advanced. A director in Undertakes
bank now comes forward with the
statement that he knew Miss Vining,
who was a strikingly beautiful w oman
about forty years Of age. Her 1uu
name was Miss Beatrice Alice Hasle-
dean Vining- She had no fixed abode,
but was an American citizen. She evil
IDENTIFY spent most Of her time travel
inc on the yacht Foresight, which
was never. registered with LlOyds, but
which witnesses have described as
having been anchored off Westgate IN
1880.
The judge said he believed there was
a Miss Vining and expressed the nope
that through the numbers on the bank
notes some trace OF her or the missing
man might be found in America
The case has been adjourned in the
hope that the identity of the woman OF
mystery and her equally mysterious
Yacht may be esta blished-