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q 7OW French army scientists utilize
I'll many of the latest modern de-
q vices for testing steadiness of
nerves, acuteness of vision, regularity
of heart action and general fitness of
those who seek to enroll as members
of the French army or navy air services
is told in a letter from. an American
whose exploits as an officer of the
French corps aviatique have been re-
lated in many news dispatches in re-
cent months.
Formerly, according to the America
airman, who is now somewhere in
France" army doctors, overworked al
most to the limit of physical endur-
ance, summoned candidates for the avi-
alton corps before them, stripped them,
noted height. weight and chest meas
urement, briefly tested regularity of the
heart action and lungs and acuteness of
sight If no obvious defect was found,
such as bad teeth, varicose veins or the
like, the candidate was taken on In
the air service.
It was found, however, that in many
cases the newmade birdmen were not
physically fit to render efficient service,
although during the trial period each
man had spent considerable money for
equipment. instruction and mainte-
nance. Further expense might be en-
tailed by the smashing of machines or
other serious accidents.
Today, the American aviator writes.
examination of prospective aviators Is
n, al hnr 70 and 6at~ h@I 4
is conducted with the aid of the latest
devised instruments of scientific exact
ness. In the new system the principal
object is to obtain what Is termed the
that is, the stamina of his nervous sys-
tenn or the time taken to react from
such sensory impressions as hearing,
sight and touch. An invention of Prof.
d'Arsonval, called the chronoscope, is
used to record this phase of the exami-
nation.
The instrument consists of dial with
one hundred divisions, and needle
which makes the complete circuit of
the dial in one second The apparatus
is controlled by electric current
coming from a small hammer held by
the examiner, and the current can be
stopped instantly by pressure on a
handle held in the subjects right hand.
In the hearing test the examiner
raps a metal box with his hammer,
when instantly the needle begins to re-
volve around the dial AS soon as the
candidate hears the sound of the rap
he presses his handle. stopping the
needle The angle that has been made
by the recording needle in the interval
between the blow and the nervous re-
action of the subject, recorded by his
pressure on the handle. marks this
phase of the personal equation.
The applicants sense of touch is test
ed by the same device. In this test the
candidate receives a light tap of the
hammer on the head or arm. Also. in
the sight test, the visual impression is
recorded by causing the candidate to
press the handle in his right hand and
thus stop the progress of the needle
around the dial the instant he sees the
examiner rap on the table with his
hammer.
A good candidate, the American
writes, will stop the needle In one
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Desert Island. In a little vessel of a
hundred tons. which the historian Park
man refers to as 1.-The Mayflower of the
French a number of colonists sailed
from Honfieur. on the coast Of France.
early in the spring Of 1913, to form, for
short time, the only colony, from
oversee ever established by the French
upon the northern shore of this couu-
try during the long struggle with the
English for America.
Landing on Mount Desert Island late
in May, 1913 the colonists erected a
cross. and. in Thanksgiving for the
guidance given them in crossing the
ocean, named the spot Saint Sauveur.
Later, listening to the advice of the In
dams on the island. the French sailed
around and settled on the hillside over
looking Somes sound the only true
ford on the American coast. 1t was
into this bay that the English fleet
came sailing short time later and
wrecked the little colony.
Thus says Parkman, in seml-
piraticai descent an Obscure act of vio-
lence done at Mount Desert began anew
the strife between France and England,
between Professionalism and Rome, which
for a century and half shook the
struggling communities of North Amer
lea and closed at last in the memorable
triumph of the English on the Plains
of Abraham.
June s, 1s30-twenty-o years after
the planting of the French colony, John
Winthrop, bringing the charter to the
Massachusetts colony. sailed in between
the island and Mount Desert rock and
found there fair sunshine weather and
so pleasant a sweet smell as did much
refresh us: and there came smell from
off the shore like to the smell OF
garden" From this time dates the Eng
fish occupation of the island, and this
section merged into the united colonies
during the revolution and the period OF
reconstruction which followed.
The free grant Of between five ana six
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pieces and granite peaks. Tho Hawaiian
reservation contains mountain.
Mauna Loa, 1855 feet high, three ac-
tive volcanoes. pit craters with per-
instance, for $500 feet, and innumer-
able other craters, cones. pits. wells,
Sinks caverns. lava tubes and other
volcanic structures with every possible
diversity in color and structure, form
ing such a fascinating study of the
world in the making as is to be found
nowhere else.
The Yellowstone. Yosemite and Sc
quota Parks containing trees. beaus
tiful groves and landscapes beloved Of
artists. The Hawaiian Park contains
groves of sandal wood. now nearly ex-
tinct elsewhere on the Pacific: magnif-
icent Hawaiian mahogany tres. with
trunks over twenty feet in circum-
ference: forests Of tree ferns forty
feet high, with leaves twenty feet long;
tropical jungles with scores of varieties
of the most delicate ferns and MOSES
hues. many of them Indigenous only to
this section and nearly extinct even
here.
1.-THE spectacular qualities Of the
lakes of lava at Kilauea are indescrib-
able. but those who visit them pro-
ident Eliot Of Harvard University Wis
tied the crater in 1912 after q trip
around the world, and stated that 1t
was the most remarkable sight he had
ever watched. 1t is a lake of fire a
banks with a noise like the waves Of
the sea, while great fountains boil
through 1t fifty feet high, sending
quantities of glowing spray over the
shore with the kissing of gases, ana
through the crevices.
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Crews of Interesting Village

Germans. Every man who passes into
the village is one more lost to the Ger
man service during the war. Hence to
gain in population, thing ardently
desired by most villages. means loss
to the fatherland, which is not to be de-
sired now.
Inside. the village is very, very Ger
man. They speak the German Ian
guage, they sing the German songs.
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ing of these birds has left only pitiful
remnant of them upon the Mount
Desert coast and the neighboring Is
lands; therefore the establishment of a
expected to work wonders in bringing
the bird life back to it's former high
standard and to preserve to future gem
erations many species which would
otherwise have been exterminated.
The Sieur des Monts Monument, how
ever. does not lay claim to distinction
snf"'- - -----,-,- % 80 o-,'- - 3.
or the multiplicity of the animal life to
Monument is also halIowed with MI
merous historic associations and init
mately connected, not only with the
tory Of France and England In the
early part Of the seventeenth century.
Mount Desert island was the nrst
land to DO approached and named-with
the name II bears to this day-in the
earliest recorded voyage Of exploration
along the coast of Maine to the east
ward of the Kennebec river. 1t was
early In September. 1904. that Cham
plain set sail down the Wild ana un :
known coast of Maine until the bold
range of the Mount Desert hills. with
their bare rock peaks and ice-eroded
valleys. rose before him.
Wishing to explore this new land. the
French commander sailed into the large
bay which bounds the island on the east
and anchored for the night. after chris
tening the inlet with the name it bears
today-Frenchman's bay. On the next
day Champlain sailed around the island
ND nd
making friends with the Indians who
guided him up the Penobscot river.
1t was nine years before the French
founded a formal colony upon Mount
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windmill, a chapel and other structures
that go to make up the village have
been constructed. They line pretty
streets.
and their back yards are filled with
garden truck. Nor is the end yet. To-
day you see a load of old boxes or dis
carded ends of boards going into the
village and tomorrow new house, of
which they will be a part, will be under
construction. Building operations al
ways are under way.
The start of the village came with
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which would return the captured ves-
sci to her English owners.
That Appam case recalls the state
ment previously made that the village
has no desire for more inhabitants.
There is some fear that the Appam crew
may be added to the village, If it should
be decided that it was the duty of the
United States as neutral to intern the
men. And that is not desired by the
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thousand acres of this land to the gov
ernment will, in all probability. mean the
erection of suitable monuments and TAD
lets commemorating the part played by
the little island In the history OF the
western hemisphere and the careful
guarding of the reservation for the bene-
fit of the generations to come
Beyond the fact that the Sieur des
Monts Monument and the Hawaiian Ma
tional Park were both secured to the
people of the United States without the
expenditure of any money by Congress,
there is little in common between them.
The Maine Monument stands on the
rock-bound and forhidding Atlantic coast
cold and bleak-a house Of snow. The
Hawaiian Park nestles into the broad
swells of the Pacific, alive with tropical
foliage and birds of brilliant plumage
while its three active volcanoes give fire.
qlent evidence for the reason OF its native
name-the House of Fire.
The Sieur des Monts Monument Is hal
lowed by association with important frag-
ments of the history OF two of the great
nations of the world; the Hawaiian Ma
tional Park has little history of its own
but 1t is the cradle of the mythology Of
a living race, people who still venerats
its three peaks as the dwelling places
OF the gods of ancient Hawaii.
The Hawaiian National Park-whicf
will possibly be christened with more
poetic name before long-consists of the
craters of the active volcanoes of Mauns
Loa and Kilauea, on the Island of Hawaii
and the great crater of Haleakala, on thu
Island of Maui. total OF about 1923;
acres. the greater portion of which i!
government property and the remainde
belonging to private owners who signifiet
their willingness to deed the land to thu
government in the event of the estab
iishment of a national park in this sec
ton. Thus, here, too, have the Ameri
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they follow the German customs. But
IL one tires of that, he soon can turn to
things that are American. For instance,
just outside the village there is a long
row of as fine suEfowers as are grow
ing anywhere in the state of Kansas.
and running in and out of the navy yard
there are some taxicab drivers who
surely are direct descendants of some
of our pioneer American road agents.
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the granting of the use of the east end
of the yard. near where the great in
termed ships lie. by the commandant to
the informed men. 1t is composed of
several acres cut Off from the remainder
of the yard so completely that 1t seems
a little Germany within itself. On one
side in the Potomac river lie the two
ships. Another side is bounded now by
the immense United States collier
Organ, in the making. Green grass, a
wood and some water form the other
two sides.
The village must be approached
through guards from the Organ collier
side; SO. unless you have a pass, there
is little chance of seeing it. Tho ex-
ecutive officers of the informed ships
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ional Parks; One i'm Maine, Other i'm Hawaii

lava are common. in addition 70 vapor
cracks so hot that stick may DO cnaf-
red in them in q few minutes. line
of thirteen pit craters extends south
east from the active vent for about ten
miles. sMniS d.h eve every Sspth some being
only a few feet across and $50 feet
deep. Then there are walks and horse
back rides in all directions through
splendid forests or barren deserts. with
weird lava forms built into pinnaeles
or festoons or rifted into mighty
chasms.
snow and ice is to be found in cracks.
as a source OF water supply. even In
summer During the winter there Is
every variety of climate TO be found on
the sea level to the arctic billiards.
which sweep around the mountain top.
There are petrifed trees in ma
tional reservation in Arizona: In the
Hawaiian National Park there are trees
of lava formed by an intensely liquid
now rushing through forest, con-
RealinR around the trunks and then
flowing of. leaving standing a perfecs
posits at kilauea of yellow ana green
pumice as light and airy as sea toam'
side by side with rocks weighing thou,
sands of pounds. all having fAineo
down after an explosive eruption about
1890 Then there are fields OF 'fele
hair lava blown out like spun eiess
by the wind as the merry SPRAY 70 ~
ed into the ar on .he
hi. mention Of Pele, the pale goddess
Of eternal fire. brings TO mind the UNIQUE
mytnoiogy OF tne aiit ,e Mt S,ed n,,t 20
this dav and which still persists in the
conviction that Pele and other members
OF tne Hawaan HWamaa and Ha,ea-
maumau.
Pele. according to the teachings OF inc
ancient Hawaiians. dweiled In inc oloeh
days in the crater OF Haieakaia. out' grow
ing weary OF this abode, she moved to the
Slow. =, L,,.,.a wbere hep brothers re-
-. ~, ,,a ,>
SIDED, leaving Haieakaia 10 the gu VI
the sun. II was on the sides Of Kilauea.
M .av tho Hawaiian myths. that Pele
90 w, -. 80 ,,-,r. e,,t
ana her Drothefs Ioush' 'hen ".s IS
against Kama-Puaa, deity hair human
ana half hor Beaten. Pele and her fol-
ur. "a 70
lowers bufrowed INTO hiiaueA u
manned there, Furnishing with visitations
of Aerv Lawn all those who offended the
hre soooess.
It was on the brink OF Haleamaumau
thar tina Emnress Kapiolani flung her de-
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Special Correspondence.

NORFOLK, Va, September !, 1915
n the Portsmouth navy yard.
I\ near Norfolk, Va, there is
S\ village of almost thousand
q & persons that has been scarcely
six months in the making, which is at
tracing attention throughout the
country. Visitors to the yard vie with
one another for the precious and some
what rare passes which Will admit one
to the peculiar place, and thousands of
postcards showing scenes within it's
limits are sold daily.
The village is unincorporated and
without legalized form OF government.
It's residents though filed with civic
pride rare in its intensity, are abso-
!utely opposed 10 increasing the popu-
lation. They toll and spin in the viii
la@e only as it pieases them, yet they
eat regularly, sleep regularly and are
assured of a comfortable existence. at
least. until the end of the great Euro
pean war.
And. now that ar has been mention-
ed. you have the key to the identity Of
this strange municipality in the MAX
ing. II is the village built by the in
,erned crews of the Krouprinz Wilhelm
al the PriEz Eitei Friedrich, German
war vessels Which ran INTO the VIZ
-irt:a capes within thirty days OF each
otEs! for safety. about year ago. and
since have been informed by the United
States government for the duration of
he war.
cast into the waters of a neutral
country and realizing that their stay
probably would be long. these sturdy.
decks and mourn their fate Instead,
tney sprang upon the land, grabbed
every scrap Of wood and metal and
cloth and leather and every drop of
paint that came their way and began
lage
From scraps gathered from hither and
son in the navy yard and out OF II,
more than 300 little model houses
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Frequently islands form in the mol
ten lake, owing to the infall Of large
pieces of the shore. Cascades, whirl-
pools and rapids of glowing liquid
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NORFOLK, Va, September I, 1915.
q the Portsmouth navy yard.
h\ near Norfolk, Va, there is
N\ village of almost thousand
q = PERSONS that has been scarcely
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-07
FAIRFIELD man
DROPS BOMB ON
HARvARD'S navy
H. L. F. Kreger, '16, Says That
He Would Rather Not Be Cox
swain Than to Submit to Pres
ent Condition of Affairs

CambrldS, Mass, April 6.-(SpeciaD.
III. l.. F. Kreger. Harvard 1916, of
Fairfield, Me-, created a bombshell in
the crew tangle today, when he is be-
lleved to have stated before the Ath-
letlc committee that he would rather
not be coxswain on the crew than to
have things running as they are at the
present time
Backed by the. Grim son, Harvard un-
dersraduates are demanding a rigid
reform in the crew system. and Kre-
gers action is universally regarded as
slSnl11cant. The general feeling is that
many men are on the crew simply be :.
cause they belong to the same clubs as
the captain. while better oarsmen are
rowing on the second and third crews.
This state of affairs is made possible
by the archaic system in vogue at Har-
Vard which says that the captain shall
choose the crew.
w. j. Bingham, 16, first marshal of
the Senior class and captain of the
track team, came out with a statement
today, in which he says that several
undergraduates would not feel sorry to
see the crew defeated until Harvard
learned that her system is not ONLY
wrong but unfair.
kreger's action in refusing to be
party to such an undemocratfc system
until it is changed, Is regarded as one
of the finest actions for the good of
the college ever undertaken nv an
undergraduate. kreger is himself a
member of seven clubs, and treasurer
of the Senior class, but he has real
lzed if Harvard hopes to have a crew
that is to beat Yale. it must be COM
posed of eight of the hest oarsmen, re-
CARELESS of whether they be LowelIs or
Finnegans
In a spirited communication to the
Crimson today, Bingham says: "At a
recent meeting of the athletic commit
tee one former crew captain made the
arrogant remark that although our
crew had been defeated by six lengths.
it was composed of eight of the finest
men in the university This is Just the
spirit that we Harvard undergraduates
interested in Harvard sports resent"
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GENERAL GALES
AT HERMOSILLO
FROM GUAYMAS

Douglas, Ariz., April 6.--General +.
Elias Gales, military governor OF So
nora. and commander of the troops OPP
Grating in the Yaqui valley, is in Her
mosillo today, after brief visit in
|Guaymas and vicinity. according to a
Telegram received from Hermosillo by
Ia. S. Mareno. acting consul. General
|Calles expects to return to Aqua Prize
|ta in a few days to inspect troop con-
|d,tions in the eastern part Of the state.
A despatch from Nogales said General
|Cales is placing his men with view
of beginning active operations against
the Indians. Reports from the Yaqui
valley stated that the Indians are re-
ported to be gathering in force. but no
news Of outrages has been received.
The seemingly complex troop move
|ments Of the last three weeks in So
nora were explained by Acting Consul
Moreno and others by the statement
that General Gales has taken his own
forces into the Yaqui valley, while the
forces formerly operating there have
moved north and east.
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BERLIN REPORTS
GERMAN VICTORY
ON VERDUN FRONT

Berlin, April 6. Via London, $40 p.
M.-German troops have stormed the
French village of Haucourt on the
Avocourt- Bethincourt front, northwest
of Verdun, the war office announced
today.
The text of the official statement is
as follows:
western front: There was great ac-
tivity west of the Meuse during the
day, chiefly on account of the prepara-
tory fire which we directed against the
district of Haucourt. During the af-
ternoon the activity of our infantry
became more pronounced. 1t stormed
the village of Haucorrt and the strong
ly fortified French point of support
east of the village. in addition to very
considerable losses in killed and
wounded, the enemy lost II officers and
531 unwounded prisoners, belonging to
two different divisions
ION the right bank Of the Mouse the
French renewed the attempt against
positions we captured in Caillette for
est and northwest thereof on April 2.
This attack was checked quickly.
Eastern and Balkan fronts: There
.s nothing to report
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A. the Front in Mexico, Gen. PERISH
[.,os Camp, April 4, By Aeroplane and
.,o,or Courier to Columbus, N. NJ,
.,r, "a cavalry officer. coming in
[.rom an so-mile ride last night, said:
En- never saw a country where men could
Lido as hard without sleep and still
|reen we'll as in these mountains.
This officer had ridden on a scout with
f.be $50 picked men of the cavalry.
"1t seems to be the air at the al
|.,,ude of $500 to 10000 feet that keeps
|the men up" he added.
4 The troops in the course of their 80
nile ride in two days made So mile
eide literally up and down the tops Of
! ridge of mountains. The IS miles
was made in So hours. through can
lions through heavy snow at 10000
Efeet high and up and down mountain
sides. There is neither road nor trail.
After taking their mounts safely
Through this ride, the cavalrymen made
u 81 mile dash across country to head
oe the possibility Of a Villa rally at
|. Mace which has been under suspi-
|1ion for several days. In the noun
balm work the cavalry men led their
horses over the worst places. The hor-
|ses have shown that they can climb
almost any mountain that man can
ascend.
Pride in their horses has become
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BATH D. A. R. after
C|TY'S HISTORIC
SCHOOLHoUSE

Bath, Me-, April 6.-Bath's Oldest
school house, the Erudition, originally
built in 1894, on High street. corner of
Center, on the site now occupied by the
palatial residence Of Hon. Albert H.
Shaw, may be used by Col. Dummer
Sewall chapter, D A. r., If a petition
presented the city government is grant,
ed.
The building is situated in the rear
Of Morse high school and is no longer
used for school purposes. The city
cherishes it on account Of its histori-
cal associations, Joshua Page for in
stance, having been the teacher for %
years at a stretch. Many Of the fam
Gus persons who helped to create Baths
history were educated there.
Col. Drummer Sewall chapter asks
that the building be turned over to them
and that it also be used for exhibiting
the treasures of the Sagadahoc historic
cal society and that permission be given
by the city to remove it from its pres
ent location.
The city government has referred the
matter to the committee on public build
lngS.
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CAVALRY SCOUTS
BEYOND REACH OF
COMMUNICATION

san Antonio, Tex, April 6.-The
most advanced cavalry detachments
engaged in running down Villa were
oeyond communication today, and at
MAJOR General Funston's headquarters
Il was believed they already were as
iar south as Satevo from whence trails
extend towards Parral.
only unofficial and conflicting re-
poFts as to Villas whereabouts have
oeen received here, but General Fun
son and staff place most credence in
'ae report that he was in the vicinity
VI satevo Tuesday and travelling south
or southeast.
from Satevo the American forces
souid send a courier to Chihuahua
"''h reports for transmission by the
'esuiar telegraph lines, but the local
a; ~ in Mexico have persisted
:" their refusal to accept code mes
ages from officers of the punitive ex-
petition.