The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
NAVY DEVICES 0F WAR SHOWN
 AT EXPOSITION

New York, April 17-America's first National Marine Exposition was thrown open to public inspectfoH
 last night at o'clock, after the show
 had been formally inaugurated by Secretary of Commerce Joshua w.
 Alexander and Admiral William S Benson, chairman of the Shipping Board. Three governmental de- partments-the Navy, Department ot Commerce and the Shipping Board and nearly two hundred maritime in- terests have displays in the Grand Central Palace building, where the 1 exhibits will remain throughout the week.
 Surprise was expressed by the frs
 group of visitors, who made their in | itial inspection of the show, at the | attractiveness of the displays and the
 many novel features. Virtually all of the industries, directly and indirectly
 related to the merchant marine, were
 represented Shipbuilders, ship re- pair yards, steamship companies, l marine engine builders and the kin 1 dred interests are represented at the ] show.
 i The Government departments have
 contributed three interesting exhibits.
 The Shipping Boards world opera
 tions are graphically outlined on a | mammoth bas-relief map of the 1 world It is IS feet in height by 3S ! feet in length, and shows all of the i liner services established to all ports
 of the world The map is divided in-
 to 22 panels of equal size, each panel accom- nodating 40 degrees longitude ] The chart is arranged so as to show the Eastern Hemisphere on each end, i making possible the displaying of ship routes completely encircling the
 globe. The map shows that the
 Shipping Board is maintaining more
 than 50 regular services at the pres
 ent time.
 The system by which it is possible
 for ships at sea to obtain their bear
 ings by radio was shown as one o1
 the features of the Navy Department
 exhibit The seaboard in the vicinits of the port of New York has been re produced and, by wireless control, the
 Naval Communication Service showE how it directs the merchant ship. i when they are in danger of goins | aground
 Many of the appurtenances whicr , assisted the navy during the war art shown for the first time. The para [ vane, the ingenious apparatus fol tripping up mines, was on display a
 the opening The original painbing of the transatlantic flight of tn
 NC-4 by C. E. Ruttan, are included
 in the exhibit, while other prominen marine artists, including Henry Reu , terdahl, have paintings hung in tn , navy section. There are a number O 7 models of the super-batt1e cruisers, model of the eagle boat, a North Sec Inine~and the latest submarine desig1
 being shown. The navy is showing tn < various listening devices, triple torpe do tubes. German naval guns Browning, Colt and Lewis machin' guns, shells from one inch to sixteel | and various other adjuncts of war. The Department of Commerce i represented by exhibits of the Bu
 reaus of Navigation. Light Houses I Steamboat Inspections Service an 1 Fisheries. The latest safety device j. are on display and the departure en T shows the extent of it's assistance t 1 the merchantmen.
 : Among the most attractive exhibit y are those of the ship repair and dr dock companies. The Morse Dry Doc
 & Repair Company has reproduced e miniature it's entire plant at Brook s lyn. The 30, ,000-ton floating sectiona l. dry dock, which is the largest of il a kind in the world, is shown with e large steamer, flying the Barber Lin T. house flag, berthed. With character l. istic enterprise, the Morse compan ,- launched a daily newspaper, chror of icling the events of the exposition e The paper edited by Bert Barnes,
 called "The Exposition Daily ct model of the Cunard liner Mature of tania,, 35 feet long and 5 feet wide, at on display in the Morse exhibit. ,- The Todd Shipyards Corporatic d has an exhibit with many striking ol is
 ts which Senator Borah said he regart = ed as entirely reliable that large sun