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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-17

WANTED, a few good reliabl
colored men for steady wor
IN and around manufacturer
plant. G. +. Sauer Co, Meade,
and Broad Streets.
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Richmond, fredericksburg 4 Potomac K. Z.
To and from VI es h ncton aud b,,onb- nan.

kicn!iinh'i' " AK nSlon i.oca. l.v.;siU Nj
week days, :i.i5 II. sundays; Az. liz IL PSI
daily. fredericksburg Accom-. week days. Lv.
1i.l2 IN: A. ;s.l5 AM Ashland Accom- wees
lays Lv''.ia A Nj. Oh fM. Ar.s6.SG M. $50 pbi
At.iDA uckel ana baggage Offices 40, open
or lnis train. .Ma,p II Stu
Byrd ST Sta. stopping 3, Elbx) Eioa Sta.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DEATHS.

DEATHS.
HENDLES.-Dicd. at his residence. 1915
second Avenue. Highland Para. JOHN X.
BEA DIES
Funeral notice later.
fINt:I;Ai. DIRECTORS.
i....Lr lawn fnAup. r'uneIat Director ana
ErtUHlI'..r. LoS l. Main Mad IT.. Han 300
LOST AND FOUND.
CHECiiS-l Lost. last Saturday checks pay
able physician one or more small bills
81 reward. fost.oiiicc address $50.
GOLD wAATCii-,l;ost. gold watch In Muir.
chain. ladY's picture In back. Finder
turn to office VI hotel VIII give liberal re-
ward. q. NJ. kcinper.
LOST black folded pockc,book containing
t1t.aJ and rcgistra tion card. between
North Tenth and Bluebird Thcatcr Re-
ward II returned to NJ. Z. Brysun. ti0 North
Tenth.
MULE-Ca,nc TO nty place. Stop ii. Seven
fines line black mule. Owner
can get same by proving property and pay
Ing costs y $. Taylor.
rIN-Lost. pin between FITS, and Broad and
Gresham Court. or in iitney Call Ran
rOck ETnooH- between Holland and
S"iniIcs Avenue. ON Twenty sixth Street.
on Forest Hill car Reward II returned
TO $500 Holland Street. South Richmond.
Va. Louis ~ Shuiord
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AuroMnn,,.ns ron SALE. 10
THIS WEEKS USED CAR

KLINE Gus touring Number 1 condition
Painted bnttleship Eray. Bargain.
81 uDEltAE 7-passrnEor. Maroon color
Perfect mechanical condition
CuEvRol E;T 400 Good mechanical condi-
ton. Bargain.
MAXWELL touring, Good mechanical con.
dl;ion.
PREM TER 6.cylindcr. 10. horS". power. 7-paa-
scngcr. New tirrs all around At sacfi-
nccd price.
CAPITOL. MOTOR tpkrtiNIIoS.
Nest
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HOTELS And RESORTS
ATLANTIC CITY, n. J.
HOTEL MAJESTIC

Virginia Ave. und Beach. Ocean View
-, nana.iy 500; eicvai"r' pIlvate oalhs
running water IN rooms White service
American plan. $50 up daily. Special
weekly. Al. r. SMITH.
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AUTOMOBILES, I.ot SAFE.

no IVNVNIf'l.S I SJIt S.f III. IU
BUICK i,is SAX. I-pa ssrHsrr Packard, 5-pas-
SruS.! overland. s-CylInuer ScrIps- BOO
i-CSiinGCr Scrlps- Booth III N"~th Eighth
COLLIER TRCCES--C. u. Rows-y. auto
re:aLrinE ls2. " Broad. Kan AS.
FORD touring. Ia model. $50 Late mode.
Ford roadster GcnOuntablc rims. new
tires. 80. y. X. Ti!lcr 49,. West Broad
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

EFFEcT!vE septcmher l. Seaboard Air
Lin. freight station at South Richmond
viii be discontinued, All freight FORMERLY
handled at this station viii on and after
tina; date b. handled al Southern RAILWAY
Hull street Stallion
,Sign.dl q V. PEYTOS
" y .<'rE:p. the PERSONS who took Gran;
Sedan from garage in rear OF 2oG West
Grace Street I thursday afternoon for re.
pairs 10 tc!ephOn. Dr. ". a. shepherd
Madison J.9j
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
A Total Eclipse

NJ EXT Saturday will occur total
l. Y eclipse of the SUM- This, says
"The Outlook" will be the first total
eclipse in eighteen years, or, to be more
exact, in eighteen years eleven and three
quarter days, which is the length of the
saros or interval between eclipses, as de-
termined by scientists. This interval,
the writer notes, was actually determined
by the ancient Chaldeans. He gives the
following data concerning the eclipse:
"The shadow of the coming eclipse will
first appear at sunrise on June Git will be
June in the United States) on the little
island of Borodno off the coast of Japan.
1t will then sweep eastward, and, having by
this time attained speed of thrty-three
miles minute will arrive at 1855 p. M.
Pacific time, at the mouth Of the Columbia
River, in the State of Washington. (The
daylight saving law will make this time
as we'll as that noted in the next paragraph
but one, and in the almanacs generally for
this year, one hour later by the clock.)
During the next few hours people in
every part of the United States-in those
sections, of course, favored with clear skies
will be privileged to witness, in whole or
in part, an eclipse more imposing than any
that has been seen in this country in
great many years.
"From the Columbia River the path of
the total eclipse will sweep southeast leav-
ing the coast of Florida at SAB p. M, East
ern time. The path of the total eclipse
will be one hundred and sixty seven miles
wide. In other sections of the country the
percentage of totality will range from 80
to SO per cent, the latter being in Massa-
chusetts. The percentage of the eclipse
for any place may be found by de-
Quoting ! per cent for every thirty miles
the place is from the middle line of the
eclipse
an an eclipse of the sun the moons
shadow passes over part of the earth. At
the equator it passes over the observer at
the rate of eighteen miles a minute, but
for higher ATTITUDES the speed is much
greater, and when the shadow falls very
obliquely this speed may amount to eighty
miles a minute. The length of the moons
shadow varies between 22800O and 236,O5O
miles. The longest duration of a solar
eclipse is seven minutes and ffty-eght
seconds. In our latitude, however, the
duration of total solar eclipse can barely
exceed six minutes
photography has been of much assist
ance in increasing our knowledge OF
eclipses. The first photographs of solar
eclipse were obtained at the eclipse of 1851
In 1850 photographs were secured which
established the existence of the chrome
sphere, or incandescent gas envelope, as a
solar appendage. In 1868 the spectroscope
was added to the instrumental resources of
the eclipse observer, and in 1869 it's use
resulted in the discovery of an element un-
known to terrestrial chemistry to which
the name 'coronium has been given"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The Films

FINLAND is slightly larger than Italy.
1t is equal to the British Isles and
Holland put together. One of the busiest
agents in the land is gentleman named
Geology. According to Louis Z. Van
Norman, writing in "Sea Power
FINLAND is still rising out of the sea.
Rocks that were marked a century and a
half ago now show that the sea has gone
down FIVE feet. In places in the north
where formerly large ships sailed now a
rowboat scarcely finds a channel Cities
which at one time were ports have had to
be moved lest they be left in the interior.
Slowly but surely Finland is emerging from
the waters, just as, slowly but surely are
her people making their voice heard among
the nations"
And the writer goes on to say
"The Finns-so the ethnologists tell US
belong to the Ura-Altac stock. That is,
they akin to the Tartars, Hungarians
and Turks. Often the traveller can note
this in the high cheek bones of the peas.
ants.
Finnish is one of the softest of tongues,
closely resembling the Magyar. 1t is what
the dictionaries call agglutinative. This
means that it has practically no prepos-
tons. 1t sticks to the roots of the words
and makes grammatical changes by termna-
tons, or what the schoolboy would call suf-
fixes. 1t sounds as though it had nothing
but vowels soft, round and sweet with many
'umlautcd' letters begging the worlds par
don for using German term. The dotted
o is much like the French eu the German
ii. A great language it is for song and
poetry. Perhaps this partly explains why
minstrelsy still survives in Finland. Rune
singing and kantele playing almost as
popular as the harp playing and oratory at
Il Welsh esteddfod.
FINLAND has a noble, dignifed literature
of its own, and the Kalevala, it's fine ma
tonal epic, is almost Homeric in it's
sweep.
"The Firms very independent of few
words, slow to anger, and then, perhaps,
slower to forgive. They very stubborn
and never in a hurry. Life is a serious
matter in Finland, and this has made the
Firms very patient The writer remembers
them as honest, hospitable, peace loving, pa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Radio to Do Away With
Gables

THE Navy Department is erecting a
high-power radio station in France
at cost of $2,250,O00, which will be
ready for operation in August next. The
French government will take it out of
our hands after the war is over. It will
be used in connection with the great sta
ton fast nearing completion at Annapo-
lis, which will be greater than the one
at Arlington, Va. The present French
stations are not powerful enough for
communication across the Atlantic
Ocean. being of about the same power as
the station at Arlington. All Of the
equipment and structural parts. con-
tinues wireless Age" are being made
in this country for the foreign station.
A station is also being built in Porto
Rico. The British are establishing =
high power station in the Azores,
which will be valuable as a relay station.
At present about 10000 words day are
possible by wireless, and the new station
at Annapolis will add $4,000 words a
day. The greater part of the communi-
cation at the present time is by cable.
If the cables are cut, it is estimated that
the Annapolis station and Sayville and
Tuckerton would probably be able to take
care of all absolutely necessary military
business. There is but little necessity
for the use of the Pacific Cpast stations
at this time, as practically all Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Covers 145 Miles an Hour

g ERGEANT GINO, of the Italian Fly
~ ing Corps, startled the people of
Washington by Unexpectedly appearing
in the air over the parade viewing
crowds who were thronging the side
walks witnessing the Liberty loan pa
rade, swiftly darting low down through
the air, doing "stunts" of breath TAX
ing character. He had just arrived from
Langley Field, Virginia, covering the
distance Of las miles in one hour, that
being a record for such a fight. The
other day this speed wonder made the
round-trip between Washington and
Baltimore, a distance of seventy-four
miles, in half an hour.-A erial Age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

which is with but slight Improvements, the
modern Winchester rifle-was in the hands
of hundreds of sportsmen before the close
Of the civil War; but not in the hands Of
the soldiers. Army authorities were against
the adoption of the magazine gun of any
type for troops for full generation after
such guns were in common, everyday use
as sporting weapons.
he present war may-indeed, it is al
most certain that it will = produce some
great new invention. Whether that in
vention will be recognized and utilized
promptly remains to be seen. II it is
brought out by an unknown. dreaming
mechanic, living in obscurity, lacking
means. lacking also in push and aggres-
siveness, it will probably receive only the
cursory attention of some busy young
engineer, who has seen nothing like it in
the books, and who will reject it. together
with the hundreds of others that he has
been detailed to inspect, as mere freak Of
no practical military value. Thus history
will continue to repeat itself"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Every 100 Soldiers Garry
a Bale of Cotton

THE National Board Of Fire Under
writers, in pamphlet entitled
Safeguarding Cotton" states that the
safety of the world is dependent upon
American cotton, for the war is being
fought with the product Of the South
ern cotton fields, chemically trans
formed into explosives. 1t has been
computed that America produces three
quarters of the worlds cotton supply,
and that every hundred soldiers carry
bale of cotton in the shape of cart
ridges, while a battleship in action might
use ten to twelve bales a minute
Safety Engineering.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

for the reason that his retreat has been
that portion of Africa that alone has
been respected by the white man. Ac
cording to THE Philadelphia Evening
Ledger
"sportsmen. explorers, hunters, who have
tried to penetrate this region have gener-
ally persisted. Those who have returned
have come back pale and haggard from the
evil effects of the climate. A torrid sun
renders the moist atmosphere unbearable.
The natives have become cannibals, and
the graves of thousands of white men dot
the region.
"Within this belt the home of the okapi
lies in a narrow strip some 500 miles long
and hardly $50 miles wide, and about 700
miles from either coast
This strange animal is a survivor of an
extinc. species of giraffe, and resembles
cross between deer, zebra and donkey.
It stands five feet at the withers, and its
short, heavy neck carries delicately mod
clled, deer-like head. The body is glossy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

From "Vignettes of Old Kyoto," BY Ger
trude Emerson, in the June asia" rllus-
trotion By Edith Emerson
CLOSE to the Temple of the Dali
~ butsu is the bell of the Daibutsu
1t hangs under a roof of it's own,
supported by heavy wooden beams
Around the edge of thirty-foot platform,
and under the bell, are little tables or
benches covered with red blankets, where
one sips innumerable cups of bitter vel
low tea. There are stands, too, where
they sell postal cards and miniature bells
and little cast-iron effigies of Buddha
From the beams and ceiling notices,
painted on boards or printed on strips of
cloth, faunt themselves in black charac-
ters foot Nightmares of popular geisha
and tea houses.
An old woman, the one selling the cards.
came forward to ask with elaborate GEES
ticulation if the Honorable Foreign One
would like to ring the bell Her black
lacquered teeth and the faint blue shadow
where the eyebrows had been plucked out,
disf1guration indicating that the days of
her youth had long been put by. gave the
face an odd expression, as of a mask. It
seemed that one might ring the bell three
times for cent But one had to have
strength to ring the bell Of the Daibutsu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

the interpreter of photographs taken in the
air must be a man of seasoned judgment,
able to evaluate each streak or spot and
discover its true meaning. His work is
made doubly difficult by attempts to camcu-
Aage the positions of enemy guns. The
photograph reader, therefore, must be stu
dent of camoufage in all of its many varia-
tions. After picture is made, no attempt
is made to enlarge reduce it to some uni
power, as we'll as microscopes, which bring
the details out in relief, and the man who
reads it's message must be able to make the
proper allowances for the height at which
the exposure was made The usual height
for taking a picture from an airplane for
map making purposes, I was told, is $500
meters"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Imitation Periscopes

THE good old days when merchant
u ships tried to ram every subma
rine periscope that appeared in front of
them are gone, according to "The Popu-
lar Science Monthly" The reason is
simple. Mines with imitation periscope
tops have been discovered. Indeed, this
magazine is authority for the statement
that more than eighty British vessels
were lost in this manner before the
wary skipper learned to leave periscopes
dead ahead we'll alone.
The New York Public Library, with
it's forty-six branches, supplied nearly
four million persons with information
and reading matter last year.-Gas
Logic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
kkzazzzz3a Around the World and Back Again =

brown and purplsh black, with conspicu-
Gus white stripes on the limbs and zebra
like pattern on the buttocks
The okapi has highly developed sense
of hearing and is extremely hard to stalk.
1T was only after camping for several
years in the dismal country which it in
habits and after countless difficulties that
the museum expedition was able to secure
specimens and escape from the country.
THE okapi has long been mystery ami
NAL 1t was first seen By Stanley, in 1887.
who referred to it as a donkey-Gke animal
feeding on leaves, living in these swampv
forests"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

thus enabling the excavation to be done in
separate vertical faces. the escaping COM
pressed air from each chamber entering the
ground forward of the excavation in the
chambers above. Means are also provided
to close the space between the tail Of the
shield and the tunnel lining"
1t is the principle, he continues Of
the reduction Of pressure in escaping COM
pressed air as it ascends through the ground
that IS at the bottom Of the new plan for
having superimposed air chambers in The
forward part of a tunnel shield, in each Of
which an air pressure would be maintained
suitable to the pressure in the ground.watsr
at it's front"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

for the six-foot battering ram that hung
by two chains was very ponderous
At last the great beam trembled, COM
menced vibrating, swinging backward and
forward, each time a little closer, little
swifter, until it broke with the weight of
ton against the bronze breast of the
bell. Boom, A voice
as of god rolling down across the City
of Ten Thousand Temples, and out to the
blue ringed mountains far away.
Boom! Boom, Out of the dim
past it gathered and spoke, out Of that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
SHIELD Of a new type has been
designed by John F. O'Rourke, of
: the O'Rourke Engineering Con-

struction Company, in connec-
ton with proposal to construct shield
driven highway tunnel forty-two feet
in diameter across the Hudson River at
New York City. Mr.. O'Rourke, writing
in "The Engineering News-Record" of
the details of construction of his proposed
multiple-air-chamber shield, says in part:
THE shield has multiple air chambers in
its forward part, each ending three feet in
front Of the chamber Immediately above IT,,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

from three to five million letters are
handled daily, can be easily seen.
The machine is thus described:
lone of the units consists of ten indie
pendent distributing machines operating in
conjunction with an endless conveyor,
nearly 100 feet in length. 1t is equipped
with 1900 separate carriers which take the
letters from the distributing machines and
drop them into their respective cases, of
which there are 256 arranged along the bot
tom of the apparatus Each of the dis
tributors is controlled by board supplied
with 60 keys, capable of 256 distinct or-
erations. 1t is through their use that the
button settlers, devices that set the selectors
on the carriers SO that they will discharge
letters at the proper points, are actuated.
"Conveyors bring letters direct from the
cancelling machines to feed tables: where
power-operated chains move them into the
reading positions before the operators as
rapidly as the latter can dispatch them. A
separator at each of these places, embody-
ing the essential principles Of the cancel
ling machine, counts and records the num-
Der of letters handled and imprints on each
character identifying the operator When
sorted letters removed from the cases
they are conveyed to machines, installed
at one end of the apparatus, where they
are tied out
THUS, in operation, 256 separation.
are possible. The practically of the ma
chine has been demonstrated at the Chi
cago postoffice, where a model, with a
single keyboard, was used experimentally
for about a year. 1t is estimated that
thirteen machines would meet the present
requirements Of that Office"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
naval operations are on the Atlantic
coast.-Sciemtifc American
Will the War Produce
Some Great Invention?

HEVERY great war;" declares Beriah
Brown in "Munsey's," calls
forth host of new ideas. But" he
points out, "the record shows that how
ever good they may be their chance of
prompt acceptance is small.
For the record of the United States
Army in dealing with inventions, it is suf-
hclent to point out that the Civil War was
fought with muzzle-loadng muskets. most
ly smoothbore, although the breech- load
ing rifle had been perfected before the war
broke out The Henry magazine gun
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The Color of Gasolene
Does Not Denote
Its Quality

4 I ONE time the refneries turned
4 out yellow kerosene and gasolene,
and the methods used made the liquid
somewhat dangerous. For this reason
the public demanded pure white gaso-
lene. But the new cracking process
produces perfectly safe gasolene,
which has a slight yellowish tinge-
Popular Science Monthly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
II
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Combining the Charms of
the Deer, the Zebra
and the Donk ev

TNHE famous okapi. native to the
\ western half of equatorial Africa.
has at last been captured and his
remains brought to New York
hy scientists of the American Museum of
Natural History. For sixteen years, since
no first became known to science, this
animal has managed to escape capture.