Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-29
SAFETY FIRST SPECIAL
LEAVES MONDAY
A Tour of the Country Promises
to Attract Popular Attention.
SOTH WAR DEPARTMENT CARS.
Navy Men On the Car Will Explain
Torpedo Costs---A Glimps at Man
ner in Which Uncle Sam is FIRE.
pared to Deal With Emergencies.


With the present interest that is be
ing taken by the people in national
preparedness, the exhibits of the two
military branches of the Federal Gov
ernmeDt on the Safety First special
which starts from Washington Mon
day. May l. on tour OF the country.
promises to attract much attention.
Both the Navy Department and the
War Department will have cars devo-
ted exclusively to displays of appara-
tus used by these departments. These
VIII give the citizens of the country
g glimpse of the manner i'm which Tn
Gle Sam is prepared TO deal with the
emergencies that may arise. The Navy
Department will show moiiels of the
great guns that are on the battleships
and viii have men from the navy to
explain their workings
There VIII be a modern machine
gun, similar TO those now being used
in the European war, and also a rapid
fire Hotchkis gun, of a type formerly
used by the Navy A six-pound gun OF
the latest design used on ships will
be exhibited. Exact models of the
pre-dreadnaught 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 places.
Perhaps the greatest interest in the
Navy exhibit will be centered in a tor
pedo, the type of instrument that has
caused so much death and destruction
ia the European war The Navy men
on the car will explain that each tor
pedo costs from $4,000 to $4,000 and
that many of them are used in warfare
The Navy has obtained from one of its
submarines a portable wireless outfit
which viii lie carried with the car and
VIII be in working order at all stop
ping places of the exhibit.
Messages viii be received and sent
daily and the visitors will be permitted
to witness the station under actual
working conditions The War Depart
ment is preparing an equally interest
Ing exhibit Tor its car, but has not yet
gone far enough with the details TO
permit a description Of the apparatus
TO be carried for exhibit
lhe Weather Bureau. Department OF
Agriculture, is now installing on its
car a. mammoth weather map. which
each day will set forth the prevailing
weather conditions throughout the
country, Including the temperature.
rainfall and storm conditions. The
bureau viii receive the forecasts from
Washington every day and the map
VIII be corrected accordingly. The
powerful Arlington wireless apparatus
at Washington twice daily sends out
the weather forecast with special
storm warnings. ana arrangements are
now being made to have the Navy De-
partment wireiss catch these reports
to be displayed on the traveling-map
Il is claimed by the Weather Bureau
that the storm ami flood wal things
given out at various times have saved
20 the citizens of the country millions
of dollars worth of property and, per
haps. thousands OF human lives
The great lesson of sanitation as q
preventative OF diseases will be illus
trated in many ways by the Public
Health Service This service is the
deadly enemy of the rat. which is con-
sidered one of the most prolific car
| riers of dread disease. and Will show
the visitors hcw houses and stables
can be built so as TO exclude the plague
| rodents. Il is sah that the Public
| Health Service is responsible for saw
ing the country from an epidemic of
yellow fever by reason of its heroic
work in driving the rat out Of the
| city of New Orleans.
In addition TO these displays there
| will be exhibits of the life-saving appa-
ratus of the Bureau of Mines. Depart
ment of the Interior, the Coast Guard
| Service. Treasury Department, and OF
| lhe Forest Service, Department Of Ag-
riculture. and also special exhibits Of
/ the home-making work Of the Recla-
| nation Servioe,tho National Parks Ser
| vice ana the Indian Office ali of the
/ Department of the Interior.