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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
Normal Defeats Wesleyan

kentucky Wesleyan College sent
their baseball team to Richmond
yesterday afternoon to win a basel
ball game The Eastern Normal
sent them back to Winchester with a.
different story to tell.
When Wesleyan took the field for
practice it looked very much as if
they were to be more formidable
opponent than the score indicates.
But base ball is an uncertain game.
The game started promptly at
2:30 with Fox and Compton doing
the battery work for the local team.
The first three to face Lieut.. Comp
ton were easily disposed of. 1t look
ed too easy. Trosper, first up for the
home team, beat out a slow roller to
third. Holdcraft sacrificed Trosper
to second. .Pittman waltz up to the
plate, swinging his wicked club. The
outfeld moved back, but not far
enough. George smacked the old pill
on the nose and when the right field
er returned the ball to the diamond
Pittman was safely camping on
third-a triple to his credit. Comp
ton hitting in the cleanup position,
shot a sizzling grounder through
short scoring Pittman. Compton was
out stealing second. McDougle lifted
a long fly to center, which the gar
dener smothered.
Wesleyan was again out one, two,
three.
Fox opened the second inning for
our boys by beating out a hit to
third. Mayse flied out to center
Reed beat out one that went hopping
down the third base line, reaching
third on the play. Scrivner drove a
hot one thruogh the pitcher, scoring
Fox and Reed. After Trosper hi
safely, Scrivner was out on close
play at third Here the real fun
started. Holdcraft and Pittman hi
safely, Compton walked, McDougl'
doublde to left cleaning the bases
at this point Wesleyan pulled vii
liams out of the box and substitutes
Oldham. When the side was retire,
six runs had been chalked up fo
Eastern.
| From this time on it was eviden
that Wesleyan would drink the bit
! ter cup. Our boys played fas
game and deserved shu-tout, bu
with two men down-the unexpecte
happened-Reed misjudged a shol
pop-up to left and theonly run Yves
leyan secured was scored.
Our boys scored two in the fourt
) and one in the sixth, making the fiji
al score count II to 1.
The snappy work of Eastenrs il
| field brought rounds of applaus
from the spectators all through tf
game. Trosper at short picked u
the hot once with ease. Holdcra.
sent the ball from third to first wit
the speed Of q big leaguet. Pit
, man at second was all over his pa,
!. Of the infield, his splendid effort
get Texas Lacquer over second WI
I tac fielding feature. McDougfe I,
q first dug them out Of the dust q
!. jleaped high into the air to pull the
|. iodwn. He kept the base runne'
r3ued to the bag by his quick aeeie
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
Today's Live Stock Markets

Louisville, April 15-Cattle 300;
quiet; hogs 100; steady; sheep so;
active; all unchanged.
Cincinnati, April 15-Packers a
quarter higher SPOTS; others steady
cattle steady.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

ADMINISTRATORS Notice All
persons having claims against the es-
tate of the late Martin Gentry, are
hereby notified to present same, pro-
perly proven as required by law to the
undersigned administrative on or be-
fore January, 1, 1919. Mrs. Martin
Gentry, Admx. AZ 4w
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

Fruit md 4Aads Tsses, SlzswhGazy
Piants, Climhing ylnesy Seee -
tess, Rasph4zieA Gsa4s w. -
sanials. Hsdgins. No. 80 sesy;
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FA18 illuslseep1 eeta1s9 ~ Aeenes.
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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

FOR SALE-1 patrol wagon; 1 two
horse wagon, with 2 extra seats; 1
hose reel; sets harness; horse. The
wagons are in Al condition; to be sold
Saturday, April 10Th at 2 pm. City of
Richmond, by ]. A. Mershon and Robt.
Golden, committee. lib 6
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

FOR SALES. c. Brown Leghorn
eggs 81 for setting Of 15 or s. Per
hundred. W. T. Oids, Union City, Ky.
108 2wp
FOR SALE-A small gasoline e.
gine about 2 horse power; can be had
at bargain II taken at once. Apply
Daily Register once. s.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

CURTAINS washed and stretched;
lace or secrim; work carefully done;
35 per pain. Mrs. Belle Breck, First
street, phone 349. ia b
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
THOSE PESKY HUNS

Paris, April 15-An American
steamship laden with food for Poland
has been pillaged at Hamburg by the
Germans, according to a Warsaw dis
patch.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

WANTED Furnished rooms for
light housekeeping or furnished rooms
with meals, for two months. Preston
Smith, at this Office. l13 3
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

PAINTERS .WANTED-We need
at once 20 first class painters, so cents
an hour. Winchester Paint and Pa
per Co., Winchester, KY. 112 2
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

NOTICE. will not be responsible
Tor any debts contracted by my son,
Elvin Bowman, Accept no orders or
checks as coming from me. II. K.
Bowman. l13 6
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

WANTED-25 to 80 acres good
corn land, within five miles Of Rich
mond. Cash or grain rent. Plenty OF
teams to work. Telephone 601. Ill 6p
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

FOR SALE-A fine stallion, Rex
Breed, 6-years-old; will sell cheap. W..
P. Olds, Union City, phone 42S-R.
1876
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

WANTED-A medium size icebox
must be in good condition; phone
Hugh Million, 230@. lis 2
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
THE WEATHER

Rain and colder tonight; Wednes-
day fair; colder central and east por-
ton.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
MUST RAISE OVER FOURTEEN
MILLION IN THIS DISTRICT

Cleveland, April 15-The Fourth
Federal Reserve district Victory loan
figures give the Lexington area a
quota of $14,S45,600
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15

Washington, April 15-Holding that
the New England telephone strike
was without justification, the Postof-
flee Department today instructed the
manager of the company at Boston to
replace strikers or take other steps
necessary to maintain service unim-
paired.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
PHONE OPERATORS STRIKE
(By Associated Press)

Boston, April ia strike of 5000
women operators for wage Increase
tied up the telephone service of the
greater part fo New England today.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-04-15
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

fish ships coming up from India
we're often compelled to put up
running fight with their maritime
enemies, the Spanish. And the
Spanish, In turn, were harassed by
the English while returning from
the New World. The Azores, with,
their peaceful agricultural settlers,
have remained a junction, even
throughout the development of the
steamship.
Boats leaving France for Amer
lea take the Azores route on learn
ing of a storm. Ships within 1000
miles turn and run for the Azores
at the first sign of trouble, either
aboard ship or among the elements.
What would a tourist find, for
example, if his plane dropped him
at Ponta Delgada, the capital of
St. Michaels? On approaching the
islands he would find a great cloud
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Community washing in an
Azores village

houses edged with black trimmings.
The white lines would become
walls the next instant, disclosing
orange gardens, and the passenger
would drop into little harbor clut-
tered with tramp sailing ships of a
half-dozen nations. The harbor is
a busy one, far superior in COM
mercial aspect to the town itself,
which has been maintained in all its
primitive state by the early Portu-
guese settlers. The admixture of
Moorish and Flemish has not served
to quicken the pace of the COM
munity, nor that of any other in
the island groups, for that matter.
The clouds are most dense in the
morning. Toward noon the hunaid-
ity is a source of discomfort if one
is in the city, but not so on the
mountain slopes.
The thermometer has never been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
The damaged NC-3 at Ponta Delgada

Americans, these islands have long
figured in the eastern" Atlantic
traffic. They appear on incomplete
maps of the early fourteenth CEN
fury, nearly 100 years before
Columbus discovered America.
Phnnician coins discovered on the
islands strengthen the belief that
they were visited by the Cartha-
ginian traders. At any rate, they
were occupied by the Portuguese
and settled between 1431 and 1861
and during the next century were
terminals for the Spanish fleets
coming from America. Early ocean
traffic required them for ports, both
for food and water supplies and for
opportunities to repair storm-tossed
craft.
English sea rovers have also
used the islands for one purpose or
another since that time. The Eng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

up rolling motion which added to
the strain and threatened the entire
destruction of the craft if long con-
tinued.
cit was a dreadful night for the
men aboard the ship. There was
much to be done to ease the strain
and all did everything possible. At
times some would become exhausted
and one by one the men would sleep
for time. They went to their ham
mocks expecting that they would
awake to find themselves in the
ocean, but all they wanted was to
sleep, and they did so.
On o'clock Monday morning the
motors were started and the course
was set for the Azores. But the
wind played another scurvy trick
and came at the ship from the
northeast, the pilot this time deter
mining to make for the Bermudas.
The motors were again shut off. At
ter trying day Monday Mr.. Well
man wired that night:
'The weather turned cold and the
change Of temperature so affected
the lifting power of the gas in the
great bag that we found it necessary
to jettison more of the gasolene and
part of the machinery which had
been damaged, in order to keep
above the waves.
ct was 5:07 o'clock this (Tues-
day. morning when we sighted the
lights of steamship which after
ward proved to be the Trent. Irwin
signalled with a lamp by Morse code
Stand by, we need YOU She soon
neared us and in looking down from
the America we could see hundreds
of people on her deck looking up at
us in wonderment.
GAS the Trent approached US we
were 800 feet above the sea, but it
was apparent we could not hold that
altitude long. When she came be-
meath us one Of our crew slashed
the canvas covering of our car and
owered line, which the men aboard
the Trent endeavored to catch. Just
when it appeared probable that the
line would be caught, a gust of wind
whirled us away, carrying the line
out from the steamer.
MANY times the line was lowered
each time there was q scramble,
when the wind would catch us and
push us away. Finally the line was
caught and made fast aboard the
ship, but strong gust of wind
parted it and blew us away. The
ship followed US, undiscouraged, but
it was evident that this plan would
not do. We gave the signal for her
to stand by to pick US up, for we
would take to the lifeboat."
Mr.. Wellman described the deli.
cate task Of launching the boat and
its narrow escape from destruction,
Released from the weight of the life
boat and crew, the thousands of
dollars worth of America melted
into the distance.
So the quiet old gentleman-he
was born in Mentor, Ohio, Novembe,
3, 1S58-passes his years on Wash
ington Heights and reads of over
seas flights attempted and accom-
pllshed by. other daring souls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

~ PEAKING at a luncheon Of
the Aldwych Club recently.
Godfrey Isaacs, managing di-
rector of the British Marconi
Company, told of a new plan his
company had for enabling aviators
to tell where they were. After men,
tioning the wireless direction finder.
Mr.. Isaacs said:
ga further development had given
them new transmitter, which would
project into the air wide divergent
beam, something like a searchlight
without the light, which would extend
over any area required, or, if it was
desired, a concentrated beam over
some snail place, and those beams
would convey to the men in the sky
automatically the name of the place
they were passing over.
Assuming that a man was passing
over the town Of Guildford; from the
moment he traversed the. region over
which this beam was playing he
would receive the signal, This is Guild
ford and would continue to receive
that signal so long as he was over
Guildford and no longer. In the same
way, If he was passing over Windsor
Forest he would be told, This ia
Windsor Forest and when he came TO
his aerodrome a beam would tell him
This is Hendon Aerodrome.' In that
way he thought that one of the great
est dangers to pilots in fog and in
darkness was disposed of.
at required very little imagination
to see, little while hence, some thou
sands or tens of thousands Of names
being projected into the skies, so that
IN whatever part of the world an aero
plane might travel, it would be told
continuously and automatically where
1t was. 1t would be as easy to learn in
the skies where they were as in rail-
way train when they looked out of the
window to see the name Of station.
Similarly these beams could be
equipped to lightships or to buoys in
fixed and defined positions, so that
even when passing over the sea one
would know exactly where one was.
When that position of things had de-
veloped pilots would no longer lose
themselves, wherever they might be-"
Enlarging on the commercial
possibilities of wireless, Mr.. Isaacs
said:
"A cable required very big capital
outlay, its cost of maintenance was
very considerable, and its capacity
Tor traffic was limited. The cost of .
wireless telegraph station was moder-
ate, the cost of maintenance was small.
and the capacity for traffic was practi-
cally unlimited.
wireless to-day could do $50 words
a minute simplex and 800 words a min
ute duplex. 1t would require but a
very small mechanical Improvement to
double and quadruple that number Of
words transpitted by wireless. He
was quite satisfied that so soon as
wireless traffic needed the greater
speed OF transmission mechanical
improvements would be introduced. and
they would get something in the neigh.
borhood of 900 words a minute"
s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
The Rescue

The crew had been rescued four
hundred miles off Cape Hatteras,
but the airship had covered, in all
directions, over one. thousand miles,
breaking and making the world's
record for time and distance of
dirigible's flight.
After passing Nantucket Island,
the craft had proceeded 140 miles
east by northeast, with the motors
unused. At 8 o'clock Sunday night
the Wind shifted into the northwest
and took the balloon in that direc-
ton at twenty-five miles an hour,
with the equilibrator doing little
equilibrating, but everything else.
AS the lower end of it rode the
heavy seas which had been kicked
up by the stiff breeze" said Mr..
Wellman, sit jerked shockingly on
the lines which held it to the Amer
lea. Under this stress the ship set
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
The Weather Is Alscays Mild

The Weather Is Alscays Mild
Some Of the finest homes in the
world have been built there by
wealthy and often titled Continen-
tails, principally Portuguese. In the
farming districts (and there are
large farms among the various
islands) many of the natives wear
costumes :. entirely red short
jackets, vests and knee breeches,
with CATERS buttoned over the feet,
which are often bare. When any
thing at all is worn on the soles it
usually consists of leather sandals.
These people are of retiring dis
position, rarely visiting the COM
munities for fear that some one will
laugh at them and their dress. In
the towns, however, German, Eng
lish, Portuguese and American COM
mercial visitors have introduced
modern modes of dress and inf1u-
enced social and business life.
The natives do not overwork,
unless in caring for the many
travellers who come over the
sea in search of the health they
always find, either climbing the
volcanic slopes or bathing in the
warm baths of Furnas.
AS for scenery, where will one
find pine and elm trees growing
in the same neighborhood with
oranges, bananas, citrons and pome-
granates? Long known only as the
little islands where there are no
snakes, the Azores are believed to
have a destiny as replete with adj
venture as they are full of volcanic
crevices and craters, all extinct, but
alive with possibilities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

crew and craft still remained silent.
Incoming steamers reported no sign
of the dirigible. Hope was old on
Monday night when a brief wireless
from Wellman announced that the
theoretical equilibrator was not
proving practical at all. 1t was
struggling along like a poor relative
and straining the big craft in a man.
ner which made Europe seem very
far away, he wirelessed, in effect.
On Tuesday morning the Royal Mail
steamship Trent bobbed up before
the world in a prominent role by an
nouncing it had picked up the heroic
crew from very sick balloon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
is an elderly, quiet
S gentleman living on Wash
ington Heights who is con-

ScltlcIldIl living on w ASH
ington Heights who is con-
elusive proof that New York
City and the rest of the world has
a twenty-four-hour memory or less.
His name is Walter Wellman, and
in 1910 he attempted transatlantic
crossing in a dirigible. Clippings
from newspapers in the files a bit
yellowed around the edges and dated
between October Is and 10, 1910,
give him between two and four COL
umns on the first page.
About that time Mr.. Wellman, of
Washington Heights, and five COM
panions were suspended over the
Atlantic Ocean in a dirigible bal
loon, wondering whether their desti-
nation, determined by fate and the
winds because the "stabilizing" ap-
paratus was working badly, would
be Europe, the Azores or Davy'
Jones's locker.
Mr.. Wellman started other things
before he started on his flight over
the Atlantic from Atlantic City on
October Is, 1910. In 1879 he started
'The Cincinnati Evening POST; in
1894 he started for the North Pole
and reached 81 degrees north lati-
tude; in 1898-1899 he started again,
and discovered many new islands,
reaching 80 degrees north latitude;
during the spring of 1906 he started
in the neutrality-suspicious. operations.
The America was born, built and
blown in 1909. On August Is of
that year the pioneer was prepared
to fly with three companions to where
others had died in venturing.
ssNeuer Out"
For four years Mr.. Wellman had
worked toward and planned for this
trip. He was certain that every
thing was in readiness for a sue
cessful flight. Two automobile
sledges were to roll beneath the
dirigible, to continue the party on
it's way if the thin air deprived the
balloon Of it's Auoyancy.
The America got about thirty two
miles away from it's point of begin
ming. Because Mr.. Wellman was
not killed he merely regarded his
failure as temporary setback. The
Salvation Army recently described
his feelings in it's campaign phrase,
"A man HAY be down, but he's never
out" Certain it was that Mr.. Well
man came down.
During the early months of 1909
he considered and rejected numer-
Gus projects, until his active mind
wandered out across the Atlantic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Before Columbus

-, ana stopover at the Azores
-. ~ nos De in the nature of hard
1ss. .l :" overseas Passengers. Though
wig known to the majority OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

eve are going for a trial." Mr..
Wellman shouted, land if the going
is good, we are going up and over
the ocean,"
The crowd instinctively recoiled
before the restless rolling of the
ship. The army of strong men be-
low released their hold on the ropes
In the arms of crisp zephyr the
ship Of the sky rose fifty feet in the
air and foated off toward Europe.
The trailing chain of tanks COM
prising the equilibrator clattered
end tihkled before the playful at
tacks of the small waves and ratified
the only farewell.
Only tiny motorboat buffeted
the breakers and followed in the
uncanny shadow cast by this new
thing. 1t returned after a few
breathless minutes and passed the
word that Mr. Wellman was going
quite comfortably to Europe.
The crowd did not break up and
scatter to it's round of assorted
pleasure. The wireless station was
the hub of a nervous, inquiring
throng. After three hours came the
first message from the America.
Going northeast, by east; still in
fine shape" the crowd read on the
bulletin board.
Sunday afternoon waned and no
further message was received. Mon
day slipped by and Wellman and his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22

and he determined to follow it in
the America. Word swept over
all the continents that it would be
the "America first" over the we'll
known bounding main.
A huge repository for the dirigi
BILE was reared at the juncture of
an inlet and the sea. A crew which
appreciated death in exchange for
adventure and fame as much as did
the master of the aircraft was re-
cruited. Melvin Vaniman, famous
as an engineer and balloonist, who,
one year later, plunged to his death
when a gas bag exploded hundreds
Of feet in the air, was selected as
chief engineer. j. Murray Simon
was the pilot. A daredevil youth
named Jack Irwin, an Australian,
enlisted as wireless operator, and
Albert L. Loud, another careless
young man, as assistant engineer,
and John ALBERT as an engineer
rounded out the crew.
On September 3, 1910, the air
ship was practically ready to take
to the ozone for the European jour
ney. It's destination was marked
out no more definitely than Eng
land, France or Spain, and any
where in these countries, as it was
understood by the crew that the
mechanical propulsion of the ship
could be overwhelmed by any great
or near great ocean air currents.
Like a Cigar
The ship was the nearest thing
in shape to cigar which aeronau-
tics has produced. The gas bag
was 228 feet long, its greatest
diameter was So feet, and it's con-
tents were $4,000 cubic feet of
hydrogen gas.
Eighty tons of sulphuric acid and.
sixty tons Of iron turnings COM
bined in tanks generated the con-
tents, which was twelve times lighter
than air. When full the gas weighed
2,150 pounds and displaced air
weighing 25,8OO pounds.
The contents were we'll clothed.
The balloon itself was composed of
three thicknesses of cotton and silk,
gummed together with rubber,
weighing 1850 pounds, and reduc-
ing the carrying power of the ship
to $4,000 pounds.
The car, or as the professionals
of the air game call it, the nacelle,
was call first cabin and many yards
wide" 1t was 1866 feet long, made
OF the highest grade of drawn steel
tubing and inclosed in rubberized
silk and cotton canvas. The tubing
was adjusted in trusses, wide at