Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-06
British Board Of Trade Plan.
ming Iceberg Outlook Ships
for Atlantic
viii Cruise Along the Bound.
aries Of the Iceberg Regl.
OnS for Warning

iceberg lookout ship in mid-Atlantic
is suggested by the British Board Of
Trade as a sequel to the report Of
Lord Mersey ON the Titanic disaster.
At present the plan is being con-
sidered by the advisory committee OF
| the Board of Trade. If the proposals
are carried out, the vessel will be sta.
toned in the track of Atlantic travel
and she will cruise along the bound
aries Of the ice region. She will then
be in a position to warn the hurrying
liners by her powerful wireless equip
ment of the exact position of various
ice fields. The proposed ship will al.
so send warning of drifting icebergs
and any derelicts which she may en-
counter.
According to reports. made to the
advisory committee, the most suitable
iceberg ship would be about Of 1000
tons displacement; $50 feet long and
80 feet broad, with a draft OF IL feet
6 inches. She would have a speed OF
| 10 knots and consume about IL tons of
coal every "a hours. Her wireless
telegraph equipment would be of the
most powerful type and widest range.
The Board Ct Trade officials express
the belief that the stationing of such
a ship in mid-ocean would add i'm
~measurably to the safety of ocean
travelling.
American bred race horses have
Won more events this year than ever
before on the English turf. Among
them the offspring of James R.
Keane's once famous sprinter, Voter,
figure the most frequently, two of his
sons, Election and Selectman, having
| upset theorists on breeding by win
ming long distance races.
Golden Rod and Coney Island, two
English bred grandsons of j. B. Hag-
gins Emperor of Norfolk, also proved
themselves good winners this season.
August Belmont's Tracery has won
$4,000 and H. B. Duryea's Sweeper
II, 100000 during the year. Duryea
has also Won as much more in France
with Shannon, an American bred colt,
sired by the brilliant race horse, Irish
Lad, out of Census by Ethelbert.
The greatest winner of the eason
Is not American bred but this horse,
] Prince Palatine, has been ridden in
all Of his STAKE races by the American
jockey, Frank DWELL, who comes
from Paris each time the horse races.
Danny Maher, who has again taken
his old place as head of the list OF
winning jockeys, has signed renewal
of his contract for first call on his
services with Lord Roseberry. Maher
has refused offers of second and third
call On his services, and when he is
not required to ride for Lord Rose
berry he will be a free lance. ,
The worlds consumption of cotton
is increasing rapidly, according to the
annual statistics of cotton stocks and
consumption issued by the Interna'
tional Federation Of Master Cotton
Spinners. The figures rose from H..
599,4O1 bales in 1901 to 13,957,33O
in 1911-12. At the same time spin
ners' stocks Of American cotton have
increased by nearly a million bales.
The report points out that as the
worlds spindles have only increased
in this time from 137,27S,752 to 49,
693, 103 IT. is clear that the season just
ended has been extraordinarily free
from "short time" and labor disputes
involving long and expensive stop.
pages.
Depending upon reports of a bumper
cotton crop in the United States, the
lancashire spinners are looking for.
ward to a season Of unprecedented
prosperity.