The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-29
Starting Monday, Uncle Sam VIII Send
Safety First Special on Tour Of
Country 10 Show Work Of
Departments
MODELS OF BIG GUNS
INCLUDED IN DISPLAY
Torpedo and Portable Wireless to Be
Seen; WeaIher Bureau, Public Health
Service and Other Branches
Of Federal Activity
BY United Press.


Washington, April 29.-With the
present interest that is being taken
by the people in national prepared
ness, the exhibits OF the two military
branches Of the federal government
on the Safety Firsr' special, which
starts from Washington Monday, May
1, on tour OF the country, promises
to attract much popular attention.
Both the navy department and the
war department will have cars devot-
ed exclusively to displays of appa-
ratus and models of apparatus used
by these departments. These will
give the citizens of the country a
glimpse Of the manner in which I'M
Gle Sam is prepared to deal with
emergencies that may arise.
The navy department will show
models Of the great guns that are on
the battleships and will have men
from the navy to explain their work
ings. There will be modern ma
chine gun, similar to those now being
used in the European war, and also a
rapid fire Aotchkiss gun, of type
formerly use by the navy. A six
pound gun of the latest design used
on ships will also be exhibited. Ex-
act models OF the pre-dreadnaughts
Vermont and the commerce raider
| Columbia will also be shown. The
latter is an example of an obsolete
type. the scout cruisers now taking
| their place.
Perhaps the greatest interest in the
navy exhibit will be centered in a
torpedo, the type@of instrument that
has caused so much death and de-
struction in the European war. The
navy men on the car will explain that
each torpedo costs from $4,000 to $S,-
600 and that many of them are used
in warfare. The navy has obtained
from one of its submarines a portable
wireless outfit which will be carried
with the car and will be in working
order at all stopping places. Mes
sages will be received and sent daily
and the visitors will be permitted to
witness the station under actual
working conditions.
The, war department is preparing
an equally interesting exhibit for its
car but has not yet gone far enough
with the details to permit a descrip-
tion Of the apparatus to be carried.
The weather bureau. department Of
agriculture, is now installing on its
! car mammoth weather map, which
each day will set forth the prevailing
t weather conditions throughout the
! country, including the temperature,
t rainfall and storm conditions. The
Y bureau will receive the forecasts
!. from the Washington office every day
) and the map will be corrected accord
ingly. The powerful Arlington wire
less apparatus at Washington twice
daily sends out the weather forecast
with special storm warnings, and ar
rangements are now being made to
have the navy department wireless
catch these reports to be displayed
on the travelling weather map. 1t IS
claimed by the weather bureau that
the storm and flood warnings given
out at various times have saved to
4 the citizens OF the country millions Of
y dollars Of property and thousands Of
human lives.
The great lesson OF sanitation as a
preventative Of disease will be illus.
+ trated in many ways by the public
d health service. This service is the
d, IDEALLY enemy OF hte at, which is con
II sidered one Of the most prolific car
70 riers of dread disease, and will show
the visitors how houses and stables
Il can be built so as TO exclude tht
M plague rodents. 1t is said that th'
Of public health service is responsible
for savings the country from an epi
O. demic OF yellow fever by reason 0