Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-14

were grouped with intent to teach 1t
would be something like the Paris Con-
servatory Of Arts and Trades.
Its night schools form a ver1table
of sciences applied to work, where
common people can start with the solid
basis of their trade and go on. adding
learning to knowledge up to the phil
osophy of things.
:. In this world Of Arts and Trades no halls
Of models are so pitiful and worthy as
those of the special museum Of devices
to prevent accidents in trades. and In the
midst Of them is great hall entirely de-
voted to this American, Anthony Pol
lok of Washington.
Fifteen years after.
Fifteen years have passed after the
Bourgogne tragedy.
For fifteen years three American wom-
en-. daughters Of two victims. have ex-
hibited to the world the results OF their
prize fund. quantities Of inventions to
save life in maritime disasters
Then comes the Titanic tragedy.
In the light Of 1t. let US take look
into the Pollok rooms Of the Conserve
tory Of Arts and Trades.
The floating ships bridge OF l. Colineau,
of Croisset-les-Rouen, France still Of
fers its hospitality-in vain. Would not
those who went down on the Titanic
have been glad to simply step inside one
of several smoking rooms or reading
rooms on the promenade deck. lock the
water-tight doors and windows-and now
let the Titanic go down.
The wounded ship dives into the depths.
but those promenade deck smoking and
reading rooms float TRANQUILITY away, lit
tie barges on the surface of the ocean.
Remember, a jury of British, French
and Russian specialists have passed on
the floating ships bridge or deck house.
Capt. Simms answers for 1t as a barge,
forty feet wide and as long as the width
Of the ship carrying it. built Of steel. with
water-tight compartments. Installed In
place Of and serving as the ships bridge"
says Capt. 8imms, lit Is 80 mounted that
two men can get it overheard in about
three minutes"
Colineau, its inventor, says that while
it remains securely fixed on the deck, IN
spite Of rolling and pitching, yet 1t sep
arates and floats instantly when the snip
goes down-this without any maneuver
of unmooring Of loosening. and no matter
what slant the ship may take at the
moment Of sinking.
It is a safety apparatus Zen masse' for
from 100 to 500. people. exempt from
mechanical intricacies which necessitate
presence OF HlIlQ WHICH pdeScuScIo dIiu
even seamen do not always possess In
moments of disaster. The apparatus
which makes it in ordinary times a solid
part of the deck is fully described: from
time to time it Is only necessary to
verify the fixed wooden mattresses-yet
this deckhouse is automatically looosened
when surrounded by a volume OF water
slightly greater than it's displacement
The inventor says that 1t Is perfectly
practicable to adapt two or three of these
foating deckhouses on vessels already
existing, but their perfection is to be ex-
pected when they make part Of new pas
senger ships designed to receive them.
The general aspect Of a passenger liner
need not be changed: at ordinary times
these astonishing safety barges can also
be used as restaurants, or even be d.
vided up into a quantity Of cabins for
passengers Their character of steel
barxes would not be visible; apparently
they would be parts Of the great ship,
yet. let the vessel dive head foremost. or
any other way. and as soon as a mass of
water rolls up to 1t, what seemed deck
house or smoking room, floats of serenely,
while the Titanic goes down beneath the
waves. It is made for this purpose.
Even its roof can hold a large number Of
refugees, and a number Of fixed ladders
around its edges permit such access. In
large passenger ships specially SO con-
structed the floating Lighthouses may
even be Of two stories, in which case &C