davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Cars That Swim as Well
as Spin

NJ AV1GATION has been added to the
I field of service of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit system, remarks "The Electric
Railway Journal" This comes in the
nature of car with the motor built
above the floor, so that cars may be
operated through flooded streets.
AT one point in particular in Brooklyn
the houses along both sides of the street
are built at much higher elevation than
the street, and whenever there is a heavy
rain or melt from heavy fall of snow
the drainage is so inadequate that the
street becomes veritable canal. AS the
result of melting snow such food recently
reached maximum depth of three feet. and
the deep sea transport car known as tn.
Canarsie Ferry was pressed into service
carrying passengers across the deem n
safety on the dry land on either side of
the young food.
Before the Canarsie Ferry was built for
ocean voyages this line has several times
been compelled to discontinue operation for
periods OF twenty to thirty-six hours"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Hunting in Snow Noun
tain

II ERE is story of big and little
game. It's scene is laid a long,
long way from Manhattan, and it is told
in full (this, of course, is but snatch)
in "Harper's" for May, by Roy Chap
man Andrews, who was in charge of the
Asiatic Geological Expedition Of the
American Museum of Natural History,
New York. Mr.. Andrews writes:
con the Snow Mountain we found serow
living at attitudes of from ten to thirteen
thousand feet in dense spruce forest
among the cliffs. The animals seemed to
be fond of sleeping under overhanging
rocks, and we were continually finding
beds which gave evidence of very extern
sive use. Apparently serow seldom come
out into the open, but feed upon leaves
and grass while in the thickest cover, so
that getting a shot at one as l did at Hui
yao is merely a matter of extreme good
fortune and might never be duplicated
Besides coral and serow, the Snow
Mountain yielded US the blue, or crested,
muntjac, the rarest specimen which we
obtained uron the entire expedition. These
beautiful little deer have a dark, slate-blue
coat and rather bushy tail, white beneath.
which, when the animal is running, is dis
played as prominently as the flag of the
Virginia deer.
"The red muntjac is one of the most
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

companying diagram, what was done to
prevent repetition of the accidental
pumping dry:
"The original suction pipe extended
straight in, while the new arrangement
has a tee on the end of the pump suction
pipe, and an open-end standpipe extending
above the overflow level, SO that when the
water level reaches the suction level, air is
admitted to the pump through the stand
pipe and the pump gets no more water,
leaving a seal OF several inches. The oil Is
disposed of through the overflow by allow
ing the tank to fill and overflow occasion
ally, SO it goes outside instead Of into the
boilers. This arrangement is cheaper than
float valves, etc, and is sure to work"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
4 Nezv Rapid Fire NavaI Gun

\ MODEL of rapidfre naval gun,
"A made by j. j. Pike, postal official
Of London, is described in Everyday
Engineering" by Thomas S. Curtis, who
credits "Model Engineering,' book by
Henry Greenly, published in 1916, as the
source of the information for his de.
scription. Mr.. Greenly states, this writ
er says, that
"The little gun has smooth bore to fit
22 caibre, rim-fre cartridge. The breech
block is threaded standard seven-sx-
teenths inch, the length of screw being
three-eghths inch. 1t is divided into six
parts, three parts Of which are cut away;
a corresponding steel bushing is fitted to
the gun, so that by single movement of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Il Dr. w. G. Hudson, writing
in "The New York Medical
Journal" The war has simply magni-
fed condition which existed in slight
degree for at least ten years prior to the
present conflict. Indeed, while number
of cases Of poisoning have occurred in
the manufacture of INT
"the number has been negligible when
compared with those who began to drop on
all sides as soon the thousands of work
ers in all countries commenced the whole
sale loading Of high explosive shells. The
reason Is plain: it does not take many en-
ployes to operate INT factory having
tremendous output, and preventive meas
ures and medical supervision have always
been maintained in such factories. On the
other hand, many times the number of en-
ployes are required to load the output of
a factory into shells. The early loading
factories were generally put up in a hurry
without much knowledge of the poisonous
nature of the substance to be handled, and
the work itself actually involves far greater
exposure tso poisoning by the compound
than does its manufacture"
Some Of the more obvious symptoms
of TINT poisoning are thus listed:
IF there is an appreciable quantity of
TINT vapor or dust present, bitter taste
is soon noticed. Even if the mouth is kept
closed, what is inhaled through the nose
will be tasted. TINT is an irritant, so that
what is swallowed leads first to gastro-in-
testinal Indigestion, later to vomiting.
Some cases are obstinately constipated, q
few develop diarrh9a. The irritant effects
are also manifest on the skin of some per-
sons, varying from the mere building up
of an excessively thick cuticle to an erup-
tlon resembling papular eczema.
"ln the course Of few days a severe
general malaise appears, with headache,
pain in the chest, vertigo, and weakness in
the limbs. If the exposure is allowed to
continue, it will not be many days before
cyanosis is noticed about the lips, with a
slckiy yelowish pallor of the rest of the
skin. Still later, a true jaundice appears,
condition where treatment will not avail
and the man will die of toxic jaundice.
There are three other points in which
our experience has differed a little from
others. First, quite number have shown
as much as three or four degrees of fever.
Second, we have noted changes in the
blood with sufficient frequency as to aid
often in diagnosing doubtful cases Third,
in old chronic repeated mild cases we
have seen a number of them develop a
neuritis, generally in the lower extremities
but by far the most important means of
detecting the incipent cases is for the resi-
dent physician himself to make trips of in.
specton through the plant every day and
closely observe the employees at their work.
There is peculiar facial expression and
manner of carrying ones self when poisoned
with this material that can be quickly
recognized by any observant man after a
little experience Our own physicians pick
them out without the least hesitation and
have the foreman send them over to the
dlspensary for further investigation and
treatment"
Oddly enough, one will very largely
recover from mild attacks Of this poison
ing provided further absorption of the
gasses is stopped.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

the lever and connection rod the breech is
closed and turned in sixth of a revolu-
tlon This action locks it securely
"The revolving breech block is bored for
spring and firing pin; this pin is one-eighth
inch in diameter, and it has two flats made
with file. A forked trigger is fitted to
engage these two flats; this trigger on be-
ing withdrawn while the spring is COM
pressed, releases the firing pin and ex-
plodes the cartridge.
"The whole breech block turns in car
rier which is hinged to the righthand side
Of '',e gun by means of brass plate
forced up to shoulder turned on the back
of the gun barrel. This plate has three
lugs underneath which are drilled for rods
carrying pistons and springs in recoil CYL
inders. On recoiling, the barrel slides in a
jacket, which is fitted with trunnion ring
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Defects in Fliers

HAL a startling percentage of men
now being accepted for air service
have hidden physical weaknesses that
may prove their undoing is indicated by
new scientific tests that have been made
on large number Of newly enlisted air
men, says John Arson Ford, in the May
Popular Mechanics Magazine" These
tests, which reveal 80 much of vital inn
port for our armies, have been made by
a Chicago specialist, Captain Charles
Moore Robertson, of the Medical Reserve
Corps, who has fitted up for the purpose
a cabinet in which each flier-to-be was
placed and subjected to atmospheric
conditions identical, so far as pressure
is concerned. with those obtaining in fly
ing, the air being rarefied by means of q
powerful pump.
Each man was examined both before
and after being confined in the cabinet,
each examination consisting in taking
the blood pressure, ascertaining the mus
Gle tone by measuring the duration Of
one nerve impulse with a dynamometef
and stop watch, and in revolving. the
subject in pivoted chair.
The records show that the first exarn;-
nations gave no indication of the condi-
ton that would exist after the flight.
over 25 per cent of the men proving unfit,
according to these tests. For this rea-
son, it is strongly contended that most
serious mistake is being made in ACCEPT
ing men for air service merely on tha
basis OF physical examination made
without taking into account the effect Of
sudden changes of air pressure,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
length and project far beyond the back

length and project far beyond the back.
"Our month on the Snow Mountain
yielded splendid results. Not only did we
secure an unrivalled series of serows and
gorals, but the small mammals proved to
be abundant and Of great variety. Meadow
voles, Asiatic white-footed mice, spiny rats
chipmunks, squirrels, weasels, bats and
ten different species Of shrews kept us
busy preparing skins. OF the larger ami
mails we obtained foxes, civets, cats, pam
das, palm civets, flying squirrels, polecats
genets, pangolins, and other animals pecu-
liar to Asia, some of which undoubtedly
represent species new to science"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
At Evian: "The Ears of the
Boche Are Everywhere!"

NV1AN is called, by George Bu-
~. chanan Fife in "Munsey's" "tho
-A> gateway of the French repa.
triates." Refugees released
from German captivity are now return.
ing to Belgium and France, where they
are received by the American Red Cross
workers. Especially pitiful is said to be
the spectacle of the return of little chill
dren, whose experience has been un-
speakably narrowing In one place the
writer recounts:
"As each little refugee comes UP, nurse
IN attendance asks it's name and age, which
are noted, and then the physician examines
IL Tor Its condition of nourshment and
whatever else may be wrong with it. The
children requiring treatment are DISPATCHED
forthwith to the hospital; the others are
dismissed perhaps with warning or sup-
gestive word to their parents.
1.-The lives these children have lived.
either in their own harried home places or
IN drained Belgium, have left most of them
thin and yellow. Sngularly enough, very
few, even of the youngest, are normally
rebellious when the tongue depressing part
Oh the examination comes. The very spirit
seems to have been worn out Of them.
"one little boy, when asked why he did
not loln IN the singing of the 'Marseil-
laise, replied, with look of terror:
NO, no; the ears of the Boche are
everywhere!'"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Paper Cups for Plant Pots

a DRUG store in Nashville, Tenn,
saves all paper sanitary cups used
at the soda fountain, turning them over
to truck gardeners in that locality to be
used as individual pots for starting
Seeding tomatoes, eggplants, cabbages,
melons, etc. The seedlings are started
indoors and afterward set out in garden
or field in the cups, thereby giving
plants an early start-Ths Scientific
Amey1c1,A +
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

sweet potatoes, peas, ,annias, cassava--
against that morrow when a ship would
not come And still they will plant sugar,
and nothing but sugar, or lines, and moth
ing but lines, and look to the blue horizon
for their bread.
"Of course there is dribble of home
grown vegetables and a little hand-to-
modth picking Of fruit. We found them
at their marketing in square, a gaunt
furnace of a place, kindled with tamarind
and silk-cotton trees They were mostly
women, thick-set, easy-moving negresses
with bandanna turbans on their heads, their
legs bare to the knees and their arms to
the elbows, squatting on the everlasting
dust"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Transformed Mesopo-
tamia
tamla

4 CCORDING to Eleanor Franklin
q - Egan, writing in "The Saturday
Evening Post" the business of war has
been very efficiently organized. She says:
"On the way up the River Tigris went
ashore at one point after another, follow
ing the course of the long-drawn-out
struggle for Kut and of the subsequent
operations which eliminated in the capture
Of Bagdad.
"Che lines Of communication from the
base at Basra to the furthest outpost on
the wide circle of defence round Bagdad
are now SO thoroughly organized that it is
difficult to visualize conditions as thew
once were, but one has a record of the
facts-unbelievable as they are To-day
there are more than sixteen hundred boats
paddle -wheelers, stern -wheelers, barges,
tugs, hospital ships, launches and steam
craft of every iption-plying in an al
most unbroken double line up and down
the River Tigris. but when the first ad-
vance was made there were less than a
dozen bottoms all told, and none of them
OF the best. Moreover, the great unruly
river is now patrolled, it's channel is buoyed
and its narrows are under block-signal
control, whereas in those days it was a
constantly changing puzzle to be solved
with varying degrees of success and not
infrequent disaster by each man at boats
wheel on each trip up or down.
"Where now there are railways along
the banks of both the Tigris and the
Euphrates and branch lines spreading fan
wise from fully stocked rear bases of sup
ply to advanced bases at points behind the
furthest battle lines, there were then no
rails at all, and the armies at the front,
depending solely upon the iniquitously in
adequate river transport, were living liter
ally from hand to mouth
NOW every town and military station
between the gulf and Bagdad is ablaze
with electric lights, where before all wa.
in absolute darkness; and whereas now the
overland routes for troops and animals and
wheeled conveys marked, protected
from floods by bunds along the river banks
and broken at intervals by strongly stock
AIDED and defended marching posts, then all
was practically an unmapped straghtaway
into the desert and the treacherous
marshes"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The Beleagured Island

TN "HARPER's" for May is to be
4 found an article by Wilbur Daniel
Steele, from which comes the following:
"Though it is printed Santa Cruz on
every West Indian map, one finds it COM
monty pronounced with an English, or,
rather, an American Saint and a Yankee
version of the Frenchman's 'Croix-'Saint
Croy.' The southernmost of those new
Virgins bought of the Danes, it sits in
sea Of special turquoise blue, drenched with
the illumination of tremendous sky, YER
dant, beautiful and shivering with an end
less and nameless perturbaton-an island
beleaguered by something.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

to the top of the mounting, which has two
lugs fitted for the purpose. The two size
plates are split to allow the brass trunnion
to swing and are made from three-six-
teenth inch steel plate. The two brackets
carrying the worm gear are bolted on by
means OF counterbored screws, which make
the assembly close and firm"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Fine Toothed Rake With
Detachable T'ooth.Holder

\ N amateur gardener who found the
4 \ ordinary garden rake too coarse to
use among the plants just appearing
made himself a small rake, with wire
nails for teeth, which he found highly
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

satisfactory. He says, in Popular
Science Monthly:
THE tooth-holding section should have
the tooth-holes bored out to prevent split
ting when the teeth are driven in. By
having tooth-holders equipped with teeth of
different sizes and set at various distances
apart a combination rake is obtained"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Keeping Oil Out of Feed
Pump

<kXX TE WE'RE troubled with oil
W M in our boilers following
w the time the receiving
tank got pumped dry"
writes correspondent to Power" and
then he explains, with the aid of the ac-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

a CCORDING to Eleanor Franklin
4 n Egan, writing in "The Saturday
Evening Post" the business of war has
been very efficiently organized. She says: ::
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

he OF the mode may also be vdred should the bude,
des" out the size represented by the d,angs guen here
With is undoubtedly ve,y desirable
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Medicine
and
Surgery
TINT" Isn't New-Only
Magnihed

( (<VNNT" poisoning is not new
phenomenon, according to
n DR.. w. G. Hudson, writing
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
God and
the
DeviI
so.nking the Pastor of fremont
Temple

.R CORTLAND MYERS, pas
i tor of fremont Temple, was
- properly spanked-using the
adverb in the sense of correct
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

AVIAN is called, by George Bu-
~. chanan Fife in "Munsey's" "the
-AZ gateway of the French rena.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-06
BOLSHEVIKI GREET
YANKS WITH SHELLS
Americans Find Plenty of Ac-
ton in North Russia

WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN NORTH
ERN RUSSIA, Oct. 6.-Many of the Ameri
can soldiers forming a contingent OF
the Russo Allied forces received their
baptism of fire twenty-four hours after
they had left their train at this little
village. Some OF the boys were a little
piqued when they first learned they
we're going TO Russia instead OF France,
but those here soon learned they would
get action much quicker in Russia than
II they had waited their training period
which precedes actual fighting on the
western front.
One little command of Americans had
scarcely walked into an outpost here.
relieving a squad of Frenchmen. when
the Bolsheviki gave them a welcome OF
shrapnel bouquets.
officers, both American and those OF
the British staff, are high in praise of
the way these American lads arc stand
ing UP to shrapnel and Bolshevik ma
chine guns.
The Americans in this sector are gen.
orally housed in little peasant huts or
in the log constructed stations that dot
the railway every four or FIVE versts.
Wood from the forests which has
long been cut and piled in heaps for
transportation to the cities for firewood
gives the soldiers plenty of fuel and.
in addition. makes It possible to con-
struct breastworks and trenches
speedily.
In peasant houses in the villages the
Americans are treated as guests. living
in the best rooms, and are courteeously
offered the best shining samovars, or
tea urns, by the housewives.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-06
ALLIES TELL CHINA
SHE HAS BEEN REMISS
Formal Charges Laid Before
Government by British.

PEKIS, Nov. 4.-The British Minister
20 China. with the concurrence of the
other Allied legations. has handed in
formally to the Chinese Foreign Office
u memorandum concerning matters In
which China is regarded as having been
remiss as an ally. Among the instances
mentioned are the following:
The wasting in party quarrels of the
Boxer indemnity RENTED for the pur-
pose Of fostering industries to enable
participation in the war.
Lack of results by the Chinese War
Participation Bureau and the diversion
CT Chinese troops to civil warfare In the
south
The appointment of a Papal Minister
without consultation. creating an i'm
Preston of friendship with the enemy.
Failure to confiscate enemy property.
q impose restrictions on enemy enter
prises and to impose penalties for trad
ing with enemy subjects.
Refusal to retire the Governor-Gen-
e.al of Heino for supporting the enemy
and the Bolsheviki in spite of the pro-
tests of the Allies.
Failure TO imprison intriguing enemy
subjects.
Failure 10 permit Allied Consuls tc
witness the trials of arrested spies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-06
SPRoUL LANDSLIDE IN PENNA.
Republican Nominee for Governo,
Leads by 100000 Votes.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 5.--William c.
Sproul. Republican, has been elected
Governor OF Pennsylvania by a large
plurality over Eugene Bonniwell. DEM
ocrat. some estimates placing his lead
as high as 100000.
Returns from LEO districts Of 1851
gave Sproul 1886. Bonniwell 65,1l6.
Philadelphia complete shows: Sproul,
l51,7i6; Bonniwell. $500.
OF the nine candidates Of the non-par-
tisan ballot for Supreme Court. two 10
be elected. Alexander Simpson, Jr.. Phil
adelphia, present Justice. and John w.
Kephart. now a Judge OF the Superior
Court. are elected.
William d. Porter. Pittsburg, Is re-
elected to the Superior Court.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-06
VOTE SATISFIES SOCIALISTS.
Erwin Predicts London's Reclec-
tion at Headquarters Meeting.

More than 500 men and women in the
auditorium of the Peoples House. East
Fifteenth street. headquarters of the So
cialist party. last night read election re-
turns as they were posted on tho plat
form.
Charles w. Erwin. Gubernatorial can
didate. said:
THE feature of the Manhattan cleo
ton was the splendid Socialist vote, es-
pecially in the Twelfth, Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Congressional districts"
At $3.50 o'clock he thought II sure that
Meyer London would be reelected Nor
ris Hillquit was making a splendid show
ing in the Twentieth Erwin said.
Scott Nearing. candidate in the Four
teenth. was polling a remarkably heavy
vote. Although the Fourteenth Is
strongly >Tammany. Erwin believed the
Socialists were making great Roadway
there. adding that Algernon Lee. leader
Of the Socialist party in the Board of
Aldermen. was making a strong fight
against Christie Sullivan. in the Thir-
teenth. Erwin thought Kings County re-
suits were all that was expected.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-06
sERBIANs' STATE DEPLoRABLE.
Ex-Prisoners Returning Home Die
On Way.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-An official
despatch to-day to the Serbian Legation
from Sslonica said Serbian prisoners
were returning home from Bulgaria In
deplorable condition after three years OF
suffering, apd that many had died on
the way almost within reach Of their
native land.
The number OF prisoners had not been
determined. It was stated. because OF the
great haste OF the Bulgarian Govern
unent TO get them home as rapidly as
possible, so that Serbian military and
Government officials would not see the
camps in which they had been living.
But unfortunately for the Bulgarian
Government" the despatch added,
other elements belonging to the Allies
lived alongside the Serbian prisoners
and were eyewltnesses Of the atroclous
regime TO which they were subjected.
These allied prisoners narrated stories
that made one shudder."
Two hundred thousand civilians de-
Jorted by the Bulgarian authorities also
are struggling home.