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disclosing new properties in the earth's
mineral elements or new applications
of old ones.
At present. however, Mr.. Gilbert is
combining his attention to the setting
up of the models which teach graph-
cally the origin and making of the moth
ball. the lead, pencil and kindred OBJ
jects of everyday acquaintance. Some
of the models have been donated by
eNpositions, others have come direct
from manufacturing plants, but most
of them are being made in the museum
shops by expert model makers. These
men follow plans and maps sent to
them from the concerns whose activi
ties they are reproducing in scale.
They display such care of detail and
nicely of workmanship in the construc-
ed hill that If the exhibits We're of no
value from an educational point of
view they would still make an appeal
to ones sense of artistry.
The last model to be set up is re-
production of a baking soda plant Civ
ing the housekeeper.who every morning
puts a pinch of powder in her break
fast batter. the story that lies behind
that small but necessary ingredient. A
narrow strip of land is shown in plan
and profile, with brooks and other run
nlng water; woods, houses and roads
as they are found in the region: the
salt beds at a depth of ZOO feet under
the surface, and the manufacturing
plant itself, with ovens, tanks. lime
kilns and quarry from which the lime
is obtained.
Fresh water is forced through pipes
into the deep-lying salt beds and then
drawn off in the form of salt water.
emptying into a nearby reservoir. A
pipe line is laid from here to the fac
tory. twenty-one miles distant, which
carries the salt water into the plant
stills it is needed. The observer
sees the stills where ammonia gas OBJ
tanned from the coke ovens saturates
the salt water, leaving a precipitate of
ammonium chloride. This, in the form
of a solution. is in its turn saturated
with carbon dioXide gas, obtained from
the burning of lime. producing bicar-
Donate of soda. Further processes dry
and refine this initial product, convert
ing II INTO the various commercial
forms of sodium carbonate.
There are uses for sodium compounds,
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having David Watson Taylor. chief
constructor and head of the bureau
and the corps. in it's own establish
ment. for it has good reason to know
the quality of Admiral Taylor. and, on
occasion. with the consent Of this gov
eminent. it has borrowed his services
in an expert capacity.
To understand all this you must
know something of the genesis Of this
corps and of the career of Admiral
Taylor himself, for he is typical of the
corps he heads. To go back a bit:
In 1912. when the United States Navy
went in those days. and long before it
fell upon those evil days which fol-
lowed the civil war. the construction
corps was organized. Up to the period
were chosen by promotion from the
ranks of civilian foremen and drafts
men. This continued. with modifica-
tons until 1879. when Secretary Rich
great advances that had been made in
naval architecture. determined on
policy of having the corps made up of
officers of high technical education.
each with an Annapolis education as
basis for his technical education. Ac
cordinsly in that year he selected two
graduates of the Naval Academy.
Bowles and Gatewood, and, with the
permission of the British government,
sent them to the Royal Naval College
at Greenwich, where British naval
architects are educated. These two
gentlemen were the pioneers of the
corps as now constituted. Later other
graduates of the Naval Academy, in
like manner. were sent abroad for the
same purpose. some going to France
and some to Germany, but most of
them to England.
-
Late IN the '90s the British govern
ment began to repent of its generosity
in giving its educational facilities to
American officers. Other nations were
asking like favors. and to grant all
would prove embarrassing. Hence,
having received the hint. the Ameri-
can government ceased the practice Of
sending it's officers to Greenwich.
Then was devised the plan under
which officers of the corps are now
given a technical education. The Mas
sachusetts Institute Of Technology es-
architecture. which course had to be
approved by the naval authorities, and
now. each year. the required number
of Annapolis graduates: after having
had two years sea duty following
their graduation and having shown
special aptitude for the profession. are
sent to the institute to take that
course.
Up to 1899 there were only forty Of.
f1cers in the corps: few years after
the number was increased to seventy
i've. md this year an increase to nine
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" \ BACK IN tne SDS, When Sec
M rotary Whitney started to
IN build the new navy for the
y y United States-that navy which
afterward took the pleasing name of
the white squadron''-he had to send
abroad for the plans of the first mod
ern ship of war, the Baltimore, which
he proposed to construct.
That was because this nation had
fallen far behind in naval construction
Uncle Sans so-callod warships We're
mostly wooden craft that depended as
much upon sail as upon steam for pro-
pulsion. Very graceful appearing craft
they were, but of about as much mill
tary value a feet of excursion boats
No modern ships of war were being
built in this country: no one had skill
in building them.
But times have changed. Within the
personnel of the navy there has been
developed corps OF naval architects
the superior of which does not exist
anywhere. This corps makes the plans
for all OF the governments war craft,
except the submarines, which have
been built on plans furnished by the
patentess OF the several types in use,
and now the corps IS making some
plans for submarines also.
There are seventy five of these naval
architects in the navy. They make up
what Is known as the construction
corps Congress at it's last session
provided for a gradual increase until
the number reaches 80 From time to
time different members of the corps,
after having given their allotted years
al service. have resigned to enter pri-
S.itc employ as highly paid executives
of shtpbut!dins plants. Their going is
not = dead loss to the government, for
they contribute to the Shipbuilding re-
soUrCes of the nation. and. as the coun-
Ivy has com" TO realize. particularly in
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REAR ADMIRAL DAVID w. TAYLOR,
Chief constructor. United States Navy.

ty-nine has been authorized. which
number will not be reached for several
years.
Admiral Taylor was in an early
Greenwich crop. Greenwich remembers
him we'll. A virginian. he was grad
uated at twenty-one from the Naval
Academy in the class of 1885. His
record there was sensational, for not
only did he graduate at the head of
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his class, but his marks excelled the
highest record ever made there up to
that time. Joyously the authorities
packed him of at once to Greenwich.
for this was the sort of material it
was looking for.
Three years later the young Ameri-
can was graduated from the Royal
College. and again was there a sensa-
ton, for he had duplicated his per-
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ter of resistance the null offers 10 I'M
water This is a subject an which Ad
miral TAYLOR has specialized. Twenty
two years ago he wrote Resistance o
Ships and Screw Propulsion, a stand
ard work on the subject. Since ther
he has written speed and Power o.
Ships" and other volumes that also ra +
as standard. Stream lines are no mys'
terry to him.
Out of all this came the tank idea
For every vessel being planned, whether
it be a giant dreadnaught or a iran
destroyer, a model twenty feet long Is
constructed in experimental form. This
with weights properly distributed, Is
drawn through the water of the tank
and delicate instruments record the
exact amount of resistance. FROM the
data obtained the exact lines Oh 'He
hull are worked out. $500.
Following in the footsteps OF inns
modest. studious. quiet-spoheH ois
boned builder of seaworthy shlps otner
men like him are coming UP III INC
corps. AS each years class Is grad,
uated from the Naval Academy ana
sent to sea likely material Is mark s
down for observation. Then, at inc
end of two years, the chief conStructol :,
going over the records, makes his
NAVY of the few to be chosen for the
construction corps. High marks at the
academy are not the only thing consiu-
cred in making selections. put IL
a significant fact that always the
Young men chosen are dinoiS eie ~
ten of their classes.
Then those who are selected are sem
to the Massachusetts Institute OF Iech-
nology for the three years course'
work in the academic halls during the
orb Y
Yards during the summer. And that
latter work is of the most practlcal
kind. The five who entered this year,
for example, during the summer are
taking a period of work as helpers IN
the Boston navy yard-machlnlsts
helners. ioiners' helpers and the like
hard. dirty work in overalls and grease,
learning the principles of the several
trades which enter into the business OF
building ships. -
All this sort of thing helps. 1t lays
up knowledge and experience against
the time when these embryo naval
architects will e In charge OF a build
ing job, handlinE men. 1t gives them
knowledge of the men as well as OF
the trades an understanding OF the
mems point of view. 1t is one of the
brides of the corps that 1t knows now
to get along with the men-and that is
a big thing IN any constructive Woi h
If-and this happens occaslona!lE-t -
round that a member of The corps lacks
that very necessa ability 20 hannl
men thou beng in evety othtr WY
a yaluab BILE officer, it is seen to that he
is placed on that sort OF 3uty where
handling men is not necessary.
In spite of the vast aJAolnt of Work
which the bureau of construction and
repair and the construction corps has
to do. il is not a large body. OF the
seyenty-f1ve officers of the corps. only
seven are on duty in Washington at the
bureau, the remainder being at the
navy yards and private plants super
yising work In the bureau no more
than fifty civilians. craftsmen and the
like, are employed.
AS indicated by the title of the bu-
reau, it has to do with repair worA as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29
IMMATURE REPRODUCTION GYPSUM PLANT.

building which grades the coal through
q series of screens, over a little railway
leading from the mine in the side of
the mountain. When dumped from the
cars the coal passes over a screen
thirty feet in length through which the
fine Sits. 1t next runs into screen
which is cylindrical in shape and not
unlike a locomotive boiler in appear
ance. AS the coal is handled in this
device it falls through perforations of
different sizes, each size dropping into
separate chute. On benches at inter-
walls on these chutes sit the breaker
boys. AS the coal passes slowly down
the chute at their feet. these lads pic k
the slate from it and throw the refuse
into parallel chute. The inexpe-
rlenced boys are at the upper end Of
the chutes. They succeed in picking n
part of the slate from the coal and
then it passes to the next workman in
line, who continues the operation until
by the time the product has reached
the boys at the bottom of the chutes it
is we'll cleaned.
The finest screening, which was for
merly discarded as useless, is now
blown up through a large pipe into
what is called the washer house. Here
it is washed to free it from dust and
to dissolve sulphur and ammonia COM
pounds. 1t is then sent over to the
coke oven, whore it is converted into
coke by process of dry or de
structive" distillation. in which its VOL
atile portions are driven off from the
main body.
The coke plant shown i'll connection
with the Fairmont exhibit is the old
fashioned style or beehive oven. in
which is made three-quarters of all
the coke produced in this country. In
a row of dome shaped ovens, each with
double purpose of charging hole and
gas outlet, the charges of coal are in
serted alternately, SO that when fresh
charge is put in an oven- combustion
is at it's height in the ovens on either
side of ii, the heat from these two as
sisting in starting combustion in the
third. The door is then sealed up.
leaving only n small opening for the
admission of air. and the gases from
the coal burn in the top of the dome,
leaving the coke as residue in the.
bottom.
All of the by-products of coke manu-
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Technology Gives Public Everyday
Baking Pencil
Foundations Output
c1--The of
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in building. Hardly that You see, the
corps has no authority to plan a build
ine program. Its duty is to plan ships
after the authorities have decided on
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In short. to educate the uususpecting
observer through his interest in the
bottle of ammonia on the bathroom
shelf, or through the sugar which he
puts in his morning coffee, is the in
teresting aim of this depa rtment of the
National Museum.
Created back in the SOS. with c. D.
Walcott. the present secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, as honorary
curator. it was not until July, 1913, that
the division began actual work. With
greater room made by the completion
of the new museum building, giving
space for offices and exhibits, it was
thought worth while to appoint an
active curator and to launch a depart
ment which had had its inception in
the minds of number of the foremost
scientific workers of the country a
rumber of years previous
Chester D. Gilbert. its first curator,
has visions of widening scope as the
time goes and the department is
more firmly rooted. 1t will. in all
proha billty. become an advisory bureau
to the great industries whose founda-
tions rest upon the output of the earth
in metal and rock. and its trained
scientists will devote time to research,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-29

Greenwich half a century ago, he I'M
proved on the idea and added features
and built the tank in Washington, in
which models of every vessel to be
built for the American navy are tested
before the plan is finally adopted.
Naturally, a big factor in the speed
of a vessel is the amount and charac-
ter of resistance the hull offers to the
water. This is a subject an which Ad-
miral Taylor has specialized. Twenty
two years ago he wrote Resistance OF
Ships and Screw Propulsion" a stand
ard work on the subject. Since then
he has written speed and Power of
Ships" and other volumes that also rank
as standard. Stream lines are no mys-
terry to him.
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a WAY back in the sos. when Sec
IN rotary Whitney started to
IN build the new navy for the
= = Enited States-that navy which
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
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DEATHS .

Mrs. Deborah Wilcox, age rs, a
resident of Tacoma for 81 wears;
Sunday at her home. GAG No.
Sprague ST.; survived by Two
daughters, Mrs. Charles Haskell
OF Tacoma, and Mrs. Lillian Fra
ter of Iowa; two sons, Henry II.
Kennedy of Chicago, and william
j. Kennedy of Tacoma; funeral
today at 2 p. m. at First Congre-
gational church under direction
OF C. C. Mellinger.
James s. Hubbard, age 80:
Thursday at Eatonville; funeral
today at G. C. Mellinger's, Rev.
w. A. Moore officiating.
Infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Vedder, of Fern Hill: Sun
day at a local hospital; C. c. Mel
linger in charge.
Pietro Morano, infant son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Marano; Sun.
day at 1913 So. G St; funeral to-
day at 8 a. m. from st. Leo's:
interment in Calvary cemetery,
under direction Cassidy, Allen
and Mcdonnell.
Mrs. Alice G. Kelly, age So;
Sunday at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. James Powderly, 1416 e.
10th st.; survived by father, J. F.
Kelly, two sisters and three
brothers; funeral today at 8 a. M.
from Holy Rosary church; Inter
ment at Calvary cemetery under
direction OF G. o. Lynn.
Henry f. Paul, age So; Sunday
at local hospital; funeral an
nouncements later from 4. o
Lynn's.
Mons Aaland, age 81, last night
at 401 Z. 35th St; survived by
widow and IL children; funeral
Wednesday at $3.50 p. m. from
Buckley-King's chapel.
John ID. Cunningham, age 10,
/ last night at a local hospital;
lived with his aunt, Mrs. w. Nan
nary, 341O South X ST.; funeral
announcements later from L.. M.
Gaffey's.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
THE GREATEST
CATARRH DOCTOR
in THE WORLD
Medicated Air Kills the Germs OF
This Dangerous Disease.

Catarrh is q disease caused by
q Catarrh Germ. The sore, in
famed membranes, the blowing,
hawking. splitting, choking ana
other disagreeable symptoms are
merely conditions brought about
by these germs which have found
lodgment in your nose and throat.
There is preparation called
Hyomei, made from pure oil of
Eucalyptus combined with power
full germ destroying ingredients
which does successfully treat and
cure Catarrh to stay cured by
destroying the germ causing it.
You neither snuff 1t up your noss
nor do you swallow it. You just
breathe this indicated air
through a little hard rubber in
haler which druggists furnish
with 1t.
The penetrating germ killing
air of Hyomei enters every nook
and crevice of your nose, throat
and lungs, where ointments, To-
tons, stomach medicine, etc., can
not possibly reach. You breathe
great drafts of 1t far up in your
nose. throat and lungs. Its air
soothes and heals the inflamed
passages, stops the nasty mucous
discharge, promptly relieves the
stuffed up feeling and makes
breathing easy. And 1t does more.
Its powerful penetrating air is
positive, certain death to the ca
tarrh germs themselves. It seeks
them out wherever they are hid
Ing and breeding in your system
and destroys them utterly. When
you haye destroyed the germs you
have DESTROYED the cause of Ca
tarrh and the disease leaves you.
A complete Hyomei outfit in
cludes both bottle of the Hyomei
liquid and the rubber inhaler
through which you breathe it. Be
sure to ask the druggist from
whom you buy for both as the in-
haler Is quite necessary. It Is
packed right in the box with the
liquid. Crown Drug Co., Tacoma,
and other druggists in this VI
cinity sell the Hyomei outfit this
way on positive guarantee of
successful use or your money
back. Hyomei Is without doubt
the greatest Catarrh doctor in
the world.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
CROSS, FEvERIsH
CHILD IS BILIOUS
OR CONSTIPATED
Look, Mother! IL tongue is coated
give california Syrup
of Figs"

Every mother realizes, after
giving her children California
Syrup of Figs" that this is their
ideal laxative, because they love
its pleasant taste and 1t thor
oughly cleanses the tender little
stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish
or breath is bad, stomach sour,
look at the tongue, mother! II
coated, give a teaspoonful of this
harmless fruit laxative" and in
a few hours all the foul, consti-
pated waste, sour bile and undi-
gested food passes out of the
bowels, and you have a we'll, play
full child again. When its little
system is full of cold. throat sore,
has stomach-ache, diarrnoea, in
digestion, colic--remember, a
good inside cleansing" should
always be the first treatment
given.
Millions of mothers keep "Cal-
ifornia Syrup of Figs" handy I;
they know a teaspoonful today
saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask
your druggist for a 50-cent bot
tie of California Syrup of Figs"
which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown
ups printed on the bottle. Be
ware OF counterfeits sold here
SO don't be fooled. Get the gen.
uine. made by California FIG
Syrup Company"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
FARMERS
TOLD TO
ORGANIZE

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Farm-
ers of the nation face financial
ruin unless they combine soon
into a national products distribu-
ton organization under govern
ment charter, with cooperative
state, county and township unit
bodies.
This is the prophesy today of
David Lubin who, as u. S. dele
gate to the International Institute
OF Agriculture at Rome, has de-
voted II years to the study of
agricultural marketing and rural
credit problems.
Gold government figures show
that this nation of farm owners
is rapidly becoming a nation of
farm tenants" he said.
On German Model.
THAT is because each farmer
tries to borrow for himself and
market for himself instead of de-
ing it through an organization OF
the kind outlined"
LuDiu pldH Is ulOuclcu dttei
the German Landwirtschaft, and
is in operation in the countries OF
continental Europe.
Not only does he advocate ma.
tional, state, county and township
commissions in the farmers mar
keting organization, but he sug-
gests the formation of a national
rural credit system along the
same lines.
Hold the Security.
1t is a system owned and con-
trolled not by bankers, not by
business or professional men
whose interests would conflict
but owned and controlled dbso-
lutely by the farmer.
THE farmers must not forget
that they own the land; and that
the land is the basis of all
wealth: that therefore they l,old
the fundamental security" he
says. 1T is only question OF
putting this security in acceptab bic
FORM
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
STOCKADE READY
FOR THIS REV

SEATTLE, Oct. 10. = David
Brown, who says he is an or
dained Methodist minister, was
given a fine OF 500 and 80 days
in the sotekade yesterday by Po-
lice Judge Gordon. lie was charg-
ed with soliciting funds from Sc
attic pastors and church members.
Rev. George King was the prin-
cipal witness against him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
SUIT AGAINST
BUS ON TRIAL

Jury trial was started today III
Judge yesterdays court by H. w.
Garlick and his wife Alice against
William Hummon for $4,250 dam
ages.
Garlick and his wife claim they
started for Seattle from Sumner
in Ford early in the morning OF
Dec. 2. While turning out to
pass another machine, the plain
tiffs' claim, they ran into the
Sumner bus driven by Humnlon,
who, they declare, was on tie
wrong side of the road.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
8 WASHED FROM
ROCKS. DROWNED

PURT ARENAS, Car, Oct. It.
Swept by the waves from the
rocks where they sought safety
after they had escaped from the
wreckage of the gasoline schooner
Alliance No. 2, six men and two
women were drowned here yester
day. The little vessel was pound
ed to pieces on the Nal Pass
rocks,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
ROUND UP OPIUM
WORTH $4,000

SEATTLE, Oct. 19.-Customs
officers seized 500 pounds Of
smoking opium, valued at $751;
600, on board the Blue Funnel
liner Calchas. The drug was con-
tanned in 900 tins and hidden in
an airshaft.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
AVIATION SCHOOL
GRAFT CHARGED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. -
Graft charges and accusations of
incompetence and favoritism in
the management of the army
aviation school at San Diego were
made yesterday in the court mar
tial of Lieut.-Col. Lewis e. Good
Ter, Judge advocate of the western
department of the u. s. army.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
RANCHER CHARGED
WITH KIDNAPPING

A warrant charging kidnapping
Is out for the arrest OF w. +.
Thompson, Port Hadlock ranch
er, alleged to have spirited away
his l2-year-old daughter. Il is
sworn to by his former wife, who
claims he seized the little girl
while she was crossing from the
detention home TO the courthouse.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-19
Q PHOTOPLAY HOUSES o

the close relationship it bears
with the present great world-war
in Europa. The plot closely GEN.
tiers about map of Japan's coast
defenses which is in the hands of
Russian secret service agents. Po-
litical intrigue and romance go
hand-in-hand through the picture,
opposing each other during many
a tense moment.
Blanche Sweet takes the lead
ing part.