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smple-remains to be found or recog-
nized What came nearest to it, the
floating ships bridge" was never
given a practical trial
The Arts and Trades set up two beau
tiful Pollock rooms where models col
lect The floating ships bridge or
floating deckhouse." notably, won
money and honor from famous jury
some years ago, presided over by Capt
William S. ~SmmS, L. 5. n, then Amer
lean naval attache in Paris 1t is de-
scribed as "a covered barge or flatboa
about forty feet wide and as long as
the width of the ship carrying 1t. 1t is
of steel with water-tight compart-
ments. This thing, which is really a
strong boat or ark. is to be Installed or
serve as ships bridge or decllhouse
and is so mounted that four men can
get it overheard in three minutes"
You see? The ship goes down. The
smoking room floats like an ark. The
deck restaurant floats like an ark. The
ships bridge floats like an ark. Tw"
or three each may be adapted to exist
ing ships. ! quote from the jury's re-
port: Each single bridge of this kind
would support 500 persons" But what
would German frightfulness do to the
floating smoking room?
French government contracts have
gone to very different devices. The in
yentor of the hermetic rubber ioater
overhaul suit has shown me orders.
even, from the engineers at AVignon
and the hydro-avion service, running
from 200 to 100 suits each.
X y
His name is Chamion, and he was
an enthusiast before the war. He gave
public demonstrations at the seashore
at Dieppe in December. 1912: at Bou-
logne in January. 1913; at Etretat in
September 1913. and at LIE Crotuy in
early July. 1914. He sold more suits
than you might think. but few to ocean
travellers. The purchasers We're sea-
shore dwellers. for their pleasure and
utility. and inland parties who desired
to potter in rivers or slosh about in
ponds and mud and cold rain.
But Chamion was ready when the
fp:ghtfulnessi arrived He is sincere,
enthusiastic, prosperous and claims to
be completely protected by patents. l
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the American continent. in Europe. in
the orient and is especially brilliant in
central and eastern Asia. The Greeks
knew the tree well and they called it by
a word which we now spell "circis.
which is the best rendering of the
Greek word to be made without using
Greek letters The Greeks called it
"circis" because they saw in its fruit a
fanciful resemblance to weaver's i'm
plement of that name. There are seven
recognized species of this tree, but the
two so much. seen around Washington
and Circis canadensis and Circis texen-
sis. In the California Sierras there is a
shrubby form of this tree called Circis
occendentalis
The flowers of the red bud appear in
spring in advance of the leaves. The
blossoms are In sessile clusters, about
half an inch long. with roSy-pink petals
and dark red calyN. and grow four or
eight together. The wood is coarse and
not strong. and the leaves turn a bril-
liant yellow in autumn. 1t seems to
have been first described botanically
by Plukenet in 1896, and there Is \
relation of the date of 1920 that it was
then cultivated in English gardens. As
the season advances and after its flow
ers have vanished. one can observe a
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liam Deakins. jr., September %, 1854.
There was three-story brick house on
the lot and the price was s1,6S4. In
1902 Nathan Luffborough sold part of
this lot to Elisha Riggs for S637 and
Riggs built his house, a three-story
brick. next to Luffborough's house. A
deed dated March 16, 1904. shows that
Nathan Luffborough bought from John
Bridges of Georgetown a certain ne
gro woman, Kizzie, thirty years old,
and her two children, Reuben. three
years old. and Maria. six months old,
for S375."
BY deed recorded December IA. 1905,
Addison Murdock sold to Nathan Luff-
borough part of Friendship, "a tract
conveyed to Thomas Bea1l. son of
George, facing on the old road to Fred
erick Town and on the Falls road" Ad-
Olson Murdock was the son of Col. John
Murdoch. who had bought this land
from the Bealls by deed, dated April 30,
1888. At the time of the conveyance
Addison Murdock's wife was not of age
and could not waive her dover right TO
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ing army engaged in making iron and
steel of one kind or other, and the
additional men i'll the foundrieS and
machine shops are more than one-thlrd
of a million. We have about 100000
hands engaged in the lumber industry
and more than 900 employed in the
cotton mills. Altogether we have more
than 1000. 900 men and women who are
earning their living by the work of
their hands. and their wages are great
er now than ever before.
Our manufacturing product steadily
increases, and the variety of our in
dustries extends from year to year. The
great war in Europe has forced US
into new lines of labor, and we are
now making hundreds of articles which
we formerly brought at high prices
from over the oceans.
1 want to Investigate the new chem
ical factories which have recently been
esta blished in different parts of the
United States, and to show how they
will make Independent as to paints,
dyes and drugs. Germany has invested
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worth more than one-third of all the
gold that is annually mined.
We have the biggest oil fields of the
world. ] want to visit those of Cali
fornia and of the great southwest This
is the age of gasoline and fuel Oil
Gasoline moves the war tractors. the
military automobiles and the scouting
aeroplaneS; and fuel oil sends the
trains over the railroads and our naval
vessels through the water at express
speed. Petroleum has become Il vital
necessity in time of war, and nation
. is powerful or weak in proportion to
its supply of this mineral. Here again
the United States leads the powers. 1t
is now producing more than half of
all the oil that comes from the earth
and our annual product from Texas,
Louisiana and Oklahoma alone is worth
more than $500. 100000. SO far. we have
furnished so per cent of all the petro-
leum that has ever been used by mankind.
and today our oil fields are turning out
four times as much as those of Russia,
with the war Spurrlng the latter to
their fullest activity. / want to de-
scribe the new things in oil production.
The fuel has become so valuable that
they are increasing the flow and eIimi-
mating the waste. They are also spend
ing large sums to save the natural gas
which so often lies in a great bed over
the oil. This gas sold for more than all
we got from our gold mines and mil
lions more were lost in the waste. Our
output of petroleum is now so large
that if it were divided evenly it
would give ten gallons n week the
year round for every family under I'm
Gle Sans flag.
The farms and the mines are only
the basis for our great manufacturing
Industries. Here is another asset of
Uncle Sans wealth. which is so great
that the human mind cannot compre-
hend it, We are only at the beginning
of our national existence, but we have
become the workshop of the world. We
nave more than $4,000 millions of dol
dars invested in factories. and our
product Is worth more than $25.000,-
900, 900 a year. We have about twice
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am not afraid to advertise a man who
cannot possibly accept orders, outside
of Paris, until after the war
The true danger of the ocean," says
Chamion, lis congestion and eXhaus-
tion from long soaking in chilly waves
or even in a lifeboat or on raft. In
these days of crowded maritime traffic.
when wireless calls bring aid in few
hours and transatlantic liners are con-
voyed through danger zones. any trav-
eler who can stand wet and cold tand.
possibly. short floating in a chilly
ocean,, is sure to be rescued. The her.
metic suit protects from wet and cold
as long as you please
He says that the longer you are in it
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Work of German Submarines Stirs p French Inventors

tresses-you take up your bed and
float
They serve as ordinary mattresses.
but they are covered with triple water
proof canvas and linen and are filed
with "kapok," vegetable wool tof the
kind used to pack lifebelts). whose
buoyancy supports twenty-five times its
weight when the mattresses are float
ing. Each mattress has numerous
leather straps around its edge, with
cork balls at their extremities. SO that
four, six or more mattresses tied to-
gether make a raft to hold as many
people, while the sinking grab the cork
balls.
AS every stateroom has from two to
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bushels per family. OF this. almost
three billion bushels were Indian corn,
the best all-round food ration for the
body of man. We raise almost all the
corn produced by the world. Our crop
was equal to $50 bushels per family,
and in 1915, we led the world in wheat.
We produced that year one peck of
every bushel Of all the wheat raised
upon earth. The amount equal to
fifty bushels per family and it sold
for more than S1.50 per bushel. The crop
was worth more than three times all
the gold that was dug from the earth
in that year.
So much for the bread. Now for the
meat. We have. altogether, about 5000
million dollars worth of live stock, and
our domestic animals are more than 200
millions in number. We have so many
farm animals that if we could round
them up and divide them evenly among
US every family in the United States
would have five hogs. three cattle, two
sheep and a horse. In addition. there
are countless turkeys. chickens and
ducks. and more than four million
mules TO spare.
Moreover, this industry is at its be
ginning. We are raising more and bet
ter animals every year. Just now the
boys of the south and west are start
ing pig clubs and baby beef clubs and
the girls have their fowl clubs. and
with the aid of Uncle Sam they are
teaching their fathers how to raise
better stock | want to visit the great
packing centers in different parts OF
the couGtry, and also to talk with the
farmers as TO the meat supply of the
future.
want to show you the enormous
wealth we have buried in the rocky
heart of Old Mother Earth. We have
more minerals than almost any other
country, and we are now digging them
out at the rate of something like
S2.400,0 100000 a year. If the product
were divided. it would annually give US
S24 per head. We lead the world in
copper and zinc. minerals of enormous
value in war. Last year we got $780,
100000 out of our copper. and slI3, 3,0O0,-
600 from the sale of our zinc. The
zinc of that year brought in more than
our gold mines. and the copper sold
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ed, ready, awaiting the device of
genius.
And now. no one need hope for a big
slice. but, say, 81 1000. from accumulated
yearly interest Evidently. the inventors of
the present hour, stimulated by hopes
of government orders. public interest
and submarine frightfulness. will ap-
ply for Pollock prizes. The point is
that the foundation, in peace times,
was not sufficiently stimulating to in
ventors. The great device-probably very
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A TRAIL that is rougher in some
M than in other places leads
~ southwesterly from Bethesda
y q to Glen Echo. 1t marks the
course of one of the early trolley lines
in the vicinity of Washington. For
long way this trail leads through Wales
and meadows, for. as those who re-
member that old railroad will attest.
It would rather tie itself into double
knot than climb a hill or cut through
a ridge. 1t sought the easiest grade
no matter how many curves or twists
1t had to make. But for all this many
gray-haired Washington men and
women hold this pioneer electric road
in kindly memory. Along much of its
course it follows Little Falls branch.
The Rambler did not walk far on this
abandoned roadbed, but followed paths
that led through woods, up and down
hills and over open fields until he came
out on the River road near its junction
with the track of the steam railroad
which connects the Metropolitan
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio with
Georgetown by way of Laytonsville,
Chevy Chase lake. Bethesda and Chain
bridge. The object of the walk was to
revisit the site of an ancient mill of
the Falls branch-a mill that stood on
the great and beautiful estate of Mel
ton. 1t was Loughboroughs mill. be-
cause a century or so ago Melton came
to be one of the farms of Nathan
Loughborough, who, by the way. seems
throughout his long life to have writ
ten his name Nathan 'Luffborough."
**
Great patches OF pink and white en-
livened the woods-in fact, the woods
on that day of backward spring re-
vealed more pink and white than green.
The pink patches were the flowers of
the red bud" or the Judas tree. \
pretty girl with an armful of the bios
SONS came along the road and asked
the Rambler if he knew the name of
the flowers. The Rambler did, and, be-
lieving there are other persons who
gather the pink purple pealike flowers
or who whirl by these wonderful trees
without knowing much about them, he
is going to jot down few facts con-
cerning them.
Why this beautiful tree is called the
Judas tree is one of the many things
the Rambler does not know. There are
several men by the name of Judas re-
ferred to in the Bible, and the story of
Judas Iscariot is told according to st.
Matthew. St. Mark, st. Luke and st.
John. but the Rambler believes that
only in st. Matthew is it said that Jul
das hanged himself. 1t is in the twen-
ty-seventh chapter.
How the tradition arose and how per-
petuated that Judas hanged himself on
the red bud tree are problems not to be
solved in the course of a Sunday walk
along Little Falls branch.
The red bud was known to the world
long before the time of Christ. 1t grew
in Palestine. 1t is found throughout
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the warmer you get, from the bodys
warmth, retained by the thick rubber
treated material. French engineers
wear the suits for working in rivers
and harbors, mud and cold rain. The
hydro -aVion service, equally, fears
shipwreck less than congealing in
soaked clothes, from splashes and mist.
You keep warm feet, you know, in rub
Der overshoeS.
l saw the suits. Much depends on
the strong, rubber-treated texture,
much or design and detail For example,
the French authorities will accept no
suit with hook-button or other metal
part. to rip the material if grabbed by
"A sinking comrade, or under eNertion
of the wearer. All one-piece suits. they
pull on from the feet up (Which are
light rubber boots). as you pull your
self into a sleeping bag. II is bag.
roughly the shape of the body. Wrists
and face are stretched through strong
elastic rubber. water-tight; and when
fully in you tie the bag shut, over the
crown of your head, by a draw string
of heavy cord. rubber cap. tied un-
der the chin. protects it, Inside the
suit, attached. are several ''foaters' of
fiber composition. whose buoyancy ag-
gregateS 600 pounds per suit.
Young women, in demonstrations"
get inside, street dress and all, in about
six minutes. But it rumples the skirt,
girls,
Many are buying them. Renting them
on board for the trip. like deck chairs
Gas is proposed). has the objection that
elastic rubber, when not kept in con-
slant use, tends to become brittle. and
suits rented out during. say, fifty trips,
packed in their bags and only now and
then knocked about by the inquisitive
or conscientious. might. on emergency,
be found to have deteriorated. Even
lifebelts deteriorate rapidly. The per-
sonal element here enters. On the
other hand. it is deemed a good busi-
ness proposition.
l returned to the Pollock rooms.
Prizes have been awarded to- cylin-
drical steel lifeboats. "unsinkab~e and
safely carrying sixty passengeys.'
quote the award. There are raft mat
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T g 9::' :: q: SINS. n. .. '.. ... Safety
< of peace travellers from
ocean risks Is evolving from the evil
of German submarine frightfulness.
Yesterday 1 went with a professor of
Brown University to buy forty-dollar
hermettc rubber foater overall suit
the longer you float or sit in it the
warmer you get-and in the Pollock
rooms of the conservatory of arts and
trades (patent office models and indus
trial school and museum) l have
seen-
Really. if all that is being done
might be told, the story would be in
tensely interesting. Here is novelty.
anyhow. French inventors are making
money. selling life-saving appliances to
the French government. while others
are busy seeking devices which prom
Use glory and business fortune. There
is still opportunity for American in
genuity. but no time should be lost.
X !,
For instance, we hear of life buoy
to shelter forty persons, recently ex-
hibited in the Willamette river, at
Portland Ore. 1t is intended as a sub
stitute for lifeboat and is claimed to
be unsinkable. -collapsible and will
ride upright in the toughest sea. The
device is entirely of steel and reSem-
bles huge top Entrance is gained
through a trapdoor, which is water
tight when closed. The buoy is intend
ed to be kept on a vessels deck. and.
in time of danger. if there be no op-
portunity to launch it, passengers need
only get inside and wait for it to float
off and bob up serenely when the ship
sinks. The upper portion, fitted with
windows. serves as coming tower,
where distress lights are displayed. A
storage battery, for fresh-air circula-
tion and lights: circular tiers of seats,
stored water and provisions and an in
genious anchor with cement for ballast
complete the description. 1t weighs
1000 pounds.
The novelty of all this interest may
be judged by one word-Pollock.
Before the war the travelling public
cared nothing for safety at sea In a
certain number of the Army and Navy
journal steamship owner told a
United States naval officer that if his
line should install perfected 1ife-saving
inventions it would not attract a sin
gle extra passenger. The public want
ed speed and luxury. Inventors knew
it.
The late Anthony Pollock, chevalier
of the Legion of Honor, a patent law
yer of Washington, had his scientific
education at the Ecole Centrale in
PARIS. and commemorative tablet at
the conservatory of arts and trades
tells how his beautiful home was al
ways open to visiting French scien-
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Luffborough, but Murdook made sec
ond deed to the effect that when his
wife came of age she would waive her
dover.
A survey of the land made by George
Fenwick shows that IL had an area OF
I47% acres. beginning the survey at
stake standing in the road leading from
Pierce's mill to the Little Falls Of the
Potomac" Fenwick's survey seems TO
indicate that there was land In that
neighborhood already owned by Luf-
borough. On the other hand, this may
have been the first Luffborough pur-
chase, but the records show number
of other purchases of adjoining and
adjacent lands. There is a deed record
ed May -. 1870. between Marianne c.
French and Nathan Luffborough or
Washington county That by decree
of the circuit court of the District OF
Columbia. sitting as chancery court
in which George French was complain
ant and Marianne C. French and May
Virginia French. sole heirs of Charles
French. defendants, bearing date jan
uary Is. 1SlS,' setting forth that Mari
anne C. French should sell the estate
of the late Charles French. AS trustee,
Marianne French sold to Nathan Luff-
borough "All that piece, parcel ana
property of a tract of land called
Friendship. lying in Washington county.
being moiety of said land called
Friendship. which was conveyed by
Thomas Beall. trustee OF the late COL
John Murdock. to the said Charles
24th day of May, 1872"
There were fifty-five acres in this tract
and the price was s35 acre. Wit
nesses to the deed were James 4. Ma
gruder and James S. Morsell. On the
same day Marianne French also sold
the rest of Charles French's holdings in
Friendship to Clement Smith at S36 per
acre and Luffboroueh subsequently
bought the land. In 1921 the land of
Jacob Colclazier in the fork of the
River and Rockville roads was sold at
auction by Tench Ringgold. marshal of
the District of Columbia. to satisfy
judgment obtained against Colcazier
by Henry Hozler. Nathan Lufboroush
bought that land. There is = record of
the qualification of Nathaniel Lough-
borough" justice of the peace for
Washington county on June 3. 1926.
The last Loughborough of Grasslands
was Hamilton Loughborough. son OF
Nathan, and whose will. recorded July
II. 1865. is before the Rambler. The wit
nesses were Mary /. Nourse. II. g. Davis
and James B. Nourse. He directed his
son. Alexander Hamilton Lough-
borough. to sell Grasslands. and to ad-
wise with his other son, James Henry
Loughborough, as to the proper distri-
button of the estate. He also refers to
the farm Melton. which he spells Mil
ton as being nearly contiguous TO
Grasslands. He directs the prosecution
of claims against the government for
stone, timber, earth and sod taken from
his farms for the fortifications of WASH
ington. and says that the occupation
by troops in extensive encampments Of
infantry, cavalry and artillery. and de-
struction of fencing and crops for sue
cessive years. have inflicted on me
heavy pecuniary calamity"
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AS to our mineral resources, they
alone would make US the richest of the
nations. We have coal in thirty differ
ent states. and if our coal fields could
be brought together, they would make
one great bed seven times as large as
the coal fields of all Europe. and more
than thirty-five times the area of those
of Great Britain. West Virginia alone
has more coal than Great Britain, and
Prof. Tyndall has said that the seat of
that country's greatness lies in her coal
mines. AS it is now, we are supplying
40 per cent of the worlds coal and at
the present rate Of consumption we
have enough left in the earth TO keep
us going for 1000 years We took out
enough last year to equal twenty-five
tons for every family in the country.
and the black diamonds were worth at
the mines more than S700.000.0 900. There
is one little patch of anthracite in
Pennsylvania. whose yearly output is
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four berths and couches. which also
contain mattresses. it is easy to imag
inc RATS constructed by passengers
themselves. You might prefer a stout
lfeboat Tor a buoy from Portland. ore,
with circular couch seats and electric
lghb, but waiting ones turn or found
de. trop, it might be comforting TO sit
on such mattress raft. assured that
should the ship go down meanw nile
You would float off Q. X.
Nor smile not at the floating um-
brella' of Master Mariner Tuale, deep
cod fisher of Cancale. France. 1t
has attracted immense attention and
is big enough to hold sixteen persons.
fioa ating, merrily. handle up. like the
six aldermen. The small model is
shown in the Pollock rooms. but "A
French minister of commerce built a
full sized one at Toulon arsenal. Three
months ago, in the Mediterranean-but
no, L may not tell that one
/ will tell you about Tuale. He 10
one of those hardy Bretons who make
the voyage to Newfoundland or Iceland
in their crazy little fishing ships.
Tuale carries his umbrella lashed to
the mast.
Two trips ago the boat went down
and all was lost, except it-and the
crew, They cut it loose in time. Five
men. hauling on a rope, Opened" the
umbrella 1t is pear-shaped, of quad
ruple heavy-tarred sail canvas over
steel rips, impossible to tear or break,
yet with material for repairs. Once
overheard. it floats. stick up. partly
submerged, unsuitable. for sixteen
men to tumble comfortably into its
bottom and be safe.
How do they get out?" was asked
They don't want to-" he answered
my crew was glad to sit snug until
help came-the only trick devised for
saving a whole crew."
Perhaps you don't feel sure about
Tuale's umbrella. 1t is good enough
for humble fishermen.
This story takes the place of others,
which must wait.
For evil is only the servant OF good,
and the harbor bar is moaning.
STERLING H/~,
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for more than six times the amount of
our silver; this. on account of the high
prices of those metals caused by the
war.