The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-12
ouIeTIoys AND ANSWERS.

Kindly tell me ti) height above ses
level Of PaIenville. Windham and South
windham. n. r., .t2) the highest point
on Long Island, O., when there plays
we're first given IN New York "Secrs.
Service" 'Erninie." Sowing the Wind"
H) the date Of Charles A. Dana's
death and where he 10 buried.
b. McC. y.
"a P~aisnv,,ls. Union Church. 40 feet
Overlook. 1880 feet, on authority Of the
Appalachian Cub: windhsm. bronze
tablet OH Batavia Creek bridge. 1.S17
feet: Wvndham High Peak. $500 feet,
on authority Of the United States Ge,-
logical Survey. These figures are from
Henry Gannett's "A Dictionary Of Alti-
tudes" Government Printing ONCE.
Washington, 1900, which II accessible
At the New York Public Library. South
Wgndham In not given.
go An altitude ~ els feet at Jericho,
+. l.. is recorded.
HJ Secret Service" twillism Oil
lette). October 5. 1896. at the Garrick
Theatre; earlier play OF the same
ifiAc u cutV i'eScitbet So iS"v'
a. the Park Theatre. "krininie."
May 10. 1887. at the Casino Theatre
for cast see r. Aliston. Browns "A His
, tory Of the New York Stage volume
III. page lss. At the New York Public
Library Sowing the Wind January
2. 1894. at the Einp!rs Theatre; sss
Browns history. volume III. paEe 53s.
; TO- the cas-.
90 MI. Dana died October IL. 1897.
He was buried In the churchl AID OF Ut.
Paul's Episcopal Church. Glen cove.
Long Island.
Could mammoth magnets he erected
with sufhclent attraction to defect and
! thereby render innocuous shells of a
bombarding fleet, or can electric waves
he controlled for such a purpose"
j. =. L.
The inquiry was referred TO Mum 4
Co. publishers OF the Scientific Ameri-
con, vino replied:
" do not. consider Il possible to ar
range a magnet 30 that II should defect
a shell and render 1t harmless. The
! force OF a magnet falls on very rapidly
as the dls,ance .increa SEES bet~esn the
magnet and the iron or steel to he at
trac.ed and a magnet would eAer, but
an in~considerable force al 4 few feet
from II. That force would be an at
traction and not a reputation. 1t would
draw a shell toward itself"
The aitrn cted shell might destroy the
magnet.
Pleas tell me where ! shall be able
to obtain a brief histor. OF the. Hicks
family with y description Of its coat of
arms. RONALD A.. HICKS.
The history Of The Hicks family Of
Wi,eomhe Park. Glouces,ersh,re. Is given
by Mrs. william Hicks Beach in "A
cotswold Family: Hicks and Hicks
Beach dHeineInann. London, ISos).
The history Of the family in America
must apparently be cleaned piecemeal
from tw~enty-six. references given in the
Index to American GeneslOsies' tJoel
Munseli's Sons. Albany. 1907 and six
further references IN Munseil's supple
ment. issued In 1908.
How shalt I p~asteurise cream bsfnes
making butter Of it? ! make butter on
n small scale--a quart of cream al a
time. MONTGOMERY.
The Health Department says:
1T Ia suggested that the cream
should be heated to a temperature Of
1i2-l45 degrees for a period Of thirty
minutes in r small double boiler or by
placing a quar. bottle of cream in water.
heating the water 10 Il temperature Of
145-ilS degrees, so as to insure the
cream being heated 10 a temperature
of at least "A: degrees, and then hold
ing the contents Of the bottle at that
cooling"
About a year ago | read In your col
umn n statement that aliens were al
lowed to vote IN some States in the
Union. My assertion TO that effect hav
Ing been challenSed. will you please
name the states: r. NJ.
We said on September "a. 1914:
According to the latea. coils ton OF
the election laws o. the several State.
aliens who have taken out their NrSl
papers declaration Of intentionD and
who have not vet perfected their cit.,
xershlp by completion Of naturalixatior
are. having complied witt local cond!.
tons Of residence, admitted TO vote oy
this qualification in the States Of Ala
bar~s. Arkansas. Indiana, kansss. Mis-
sourl. Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakots
and Texas.
What was the oficial time Of tn,
ocean liner City OF Paris in 1899?
A. MITCHELL.
The lnman liner City of Paris ar
rived at Sandy Hook May 5, 1859, sfie'
a run OF S days % hours n : min
utes from Queenstown. Tit best pre-
vious time had been made by the Etru
ria In June. 1856 days l hour ant
a5 minutes. On May 20. 1889. the Cit,
Of Paris made an easthound record a.
q days 20 mute 10 Roche's Point
Queenstown. On August IS. the sam,
year. she reached Sandy Hook IN
days - hours and 1s minutes.
u there any International law to en-
able Great Britain. or other country
to claim and take her subjects for Ia,
purpose OF CONSUMPTION from the Unite,
States? D~oUBrvUt.
European countries require their sub