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Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-09-15
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kom6sfe Ancbof tam jest We
ysem n vaudc neivttsi konknren'
&c, ktera jcdnotliycc casio pfImn.
II We spojcni s nadbytkcm pra-
coynioh sil n lidsktho materidln
X yyhlcddydni takoy$ch prament
ygziyy, ~ nj n6kdy mad mini
zaspomc. PokIdddf cloy6k mno
bdy nGco podobnGbo "a bajku,
Jest oysem jcn We yclkom6stecb
dosti p1dy, nm ktcr6 sc mite da'
nj ysclikgm takovSm "tok6 IN
m%fstnhnim". Die yseho ySok ! tn
koyd "poyoldni' musi yynhseti
dosti X uhrazeni zivoinicb po.
tfcb ncjcn jednotliyee, ale ! rod.
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nikdo nemohl TAX vglufnc yGno'
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koy6 "c%xistcnce" nal6zti v jed
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m6sta . jingcb pr0vodnicb okol.
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gelkomfstcch Id, ktcfi Sc ziyi
"sy6dcctyimi'. Ma 6fad pride
.tfcba mladg pdrek n chcc bgti ci-
vino odddn Sytdei bud y6bec
scb1zeU, nebo We sptchu zapo'
mD1li osobnf prhkazy y l%cgitimaec
domn. Ncmobon tcdy p~odepsatl
oddlyaei protokoI IIued wax jc
IN obratug "sytdck u poyolanj'
. shatek ktcrg mnohdy byl v
den ieB m tech 0k0lnosti zccla
nemozny, 80 1pIp6 hIadce usku'
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nblazepi, v 1ernfm sat6, Y jeboz
kapsach eboyojf ~ysecbny svt prh.
voplatDf i prayt osobni prbkazy.
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k0Dp zaplaeenO r. ne Size Poole
nljakh psanh faxy, Me V mfstT
lN boporaf takoyl b9ya peyol
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Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-09-15

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u pax sc ntkdy Y 1ejy6tM blizko-
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padnt, aby byl okamzifc zpozoro'
yAn, odfiznnt y potion yypra
ynje . sven "pobmt6m Hiyote".
snmozfpjnt bFyd ~ koucc dobfc
pobostGo . jcstt 40 nan ' Dejbliz
Tin okoli mpofada pcnflitG sbir.
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Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-09-15

An pfam Iva ln hlAss
ctyh multi Ciyii katie Ctyli
n,teei
~ ~ pAFntl putel selnlAa W.
homf l'altei" Rama rafnrhuli.
h 4 sc,lm lasylhdnSe h IA teAt ,ch
lDil tlr ~ h hryi no Wmi A VI
meakt uheernslvu yolalu llrn
sol Gam firhliR
rnlni kufAt mel pax slo,u I'rn.
vlf ftchlo -eim soilua Ne pre-
tinilo y nSni isou ia usmifeni :
noham proiole svon VIM odpy
Halt 1sou iedy | nami smifeni
ramoiieme ~ ~ spaseni ieiich
dust"
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mudlili \ MIN PAX - zaenl mo.
dlii tesky, ale proiolc g 1 nj
ma nikdo nepfidal, pfcatol NJ
bomu ncchisln mndliti ~ W vi
siupcem liohn ma yemi kicrS vi
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IVA mvpldi u pax Sc mad MIN mo
lli.
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bnlcm DO plachct a do tai
hmsntrh q odporn5ch vistrcdno.
sit hyla IN yyhn6nn n6rodnostni
ldsf, 10 Scny ! deti hrnuly Sc l.
mrivJm ttl0m, ably 80 pokocholg
mn ncstasti acknowledgement cechh.
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r. odhdn6ti."
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styi mu hrozici ! pres kruion bo.
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ynndal.Iy zpustoscny, podup0ny.
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v9bor, kter$ Dude pecovaii o TO.
ably 6cskf krvi, kryi chud6ho II.
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sptykh cbudSch skldff severe.
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louskdho otroctyi n prvni stu.
pen nGrodni samostatnosti, zbro.
cen5 jinosslou krvi. n posle svfj
pfispdyck ma pomnik.
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-09-15
DR.. A. F. Srb
LEKAE A. EAHHoJiG
IN, 49, uice, 0maha. Tel, D, 1913
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Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-09-15
Rckovi upustiIi
cd svi expcdicc .
k Cern6mu mofi

II Gafihrad0 NJ ozuamuje, NJ od
expedite X hrccblmu pobfeM Ger.
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New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
5OO-Pound Suit

The diving suit to be used at
depths where water pressure is
severe, as at the level Of the Lusi-
tania, must weigh about 500 pounds,
and, in addition, be weighted with
lead at the feet. When lowered into
the water in one of these deep-sea
contraptions the diver is utterly
helpless until a certain amount of
weight has been offset by tons of
pressure. A diver equipped with
the ordinary rubber suit cannot de-
scend much more than 100 feet for
fear of the pressure tearing the rub
ber and causing death. On the other
hand, the heavy armored deep-sea
outfit becomes mechanical posi-
bility only with pressure, when the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

brown and a lighter tint Of yellow.
The wings are of several shades Of
brown. The total length of the
ordinary pheasant is about three
feet, but variety known as
Reeves pheasant has tail feathers
which give it a total length of eight
feet. This large bird is the most
beautiful of the pheasants, and its
original home was northern China
Amherst's pheasant is a native
of the same section of China and
has long, beautifully colored tail
that almost rivals that of the Reeves
However, unlike Reeves, it has
magnificent crest of scarlet, while
the tippet is snowy white, each
feather being tipped with velvety
black. The collar-like effect produced
by this tippet is very odd and at
tractive. Several other varieties of
pheasants are often called upon
to supply the scarcity of real fine
plumaged birds.
Modern methods and processes
have enabled feather dealers and
dyers to use almost any kind of
feather for hat decoration, and in
these days of high cost of living
many chicken or turkey feathers
are to f'e found on cheaper grades
of millinery. But the dyers dis
guise them with beautiful color COM
binations, and trimmers then ar
range them in such attractive styles
that it doesn't matter very much
after all.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

egret is large and handsome bird,
sometimes being four feet in length.
The beautiful loose feathers of it's
train are not fully developed till the
third year, when their pure white
and sometimes creamy-yellow tinge
is SO much desired by dealers. The
feathers of the train are so long
and flowing that they frequently
cover the tail and almost reach the
ground. The long, sharp bill of the
egret measures about six inches and
is rich golden brown in color,
darkening into black at the tip. It's
long legs are black and the eve is
pale orange, which gives it much
harmony of color. Of late years
hunting of the egret has been for
bldden in most sections of the coun-
try and its beautiful plumage is not
now so easy to get.
Scarcity Of other material has
caused the plumage of the pheasant
to become popular Originally the
pheasant was native of Asia Minor,
but now it has been domesticated
and is found in almost every coun-
try of the world, just as is the
chicken. The male pheasant is truly
a beautiful bird, with its neck and
head of deep steel blue, shaded
with greenish purple and brown,
and the upper part of the back
covered with light golden red
feathers, tipped with deep black.
The remainder of the back is of the
same golden red but is marked with
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

most prominent of which is the king
birds of paradise, which get their
name from the fact that they flock m
droves Of forty or more, over which
the leader or king has full control.
The king bird of paradise is as
beautiful as it is rare. The upper
parts of the body are chestnut, with
just a trace of purple, while the
under portions are white. A band
of light golden green is drawn
across the chest, and about the mid
die of the back begin the long
feathers, which are so much priced
Any lady who has a bird of para
disc has solved her hat decoration
probably for years, as they can be
used from season to season on
different hat shapes. The bird is q
native of New Guinea, but it is
getting scarcer each year, as the
taking of the feathers means the
death of the bird. Ruthless slaughter
of them by the native hunters has
been stopped to some extent by laws
which are intended to prevent these
beautiful birds from becoming
extinct
The egret is found in many parts
of America, though it's principal
home is in the southern sections,
from which it visits the northern
parts about the first of March to
spend the summer season. Its favor
tie haunts are marshy regions, where
it feeds on fish, frogs and various
other kinds of small creatures. The
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
New Yorker Has a Plan

Contrary to all pesstmism, how
ever a New York inventor is one
OF the latest to believe that he has
devised ways and means which will
float the giant Cunarder within the
next fourteen months. He is A. B.
Sallger, president of the Saliger
Ship Salvage Corporation, SAP West
Twenty-third Street. Saliger's pro-
posed method is unique. Surface
controlled burrowing machines
which will carry heavy chains under
the hull and Debated small pontoon
bags used in quantity to exert a
lifting power sufficient to carry the
hulk upward, while Graded in the
chains, is thumbsketch description
of the proposal.
Only three practicable and ac-
cepted means Of raising ships have
been employed by sea salvage men
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
MONG the birds whose
feathers flock together in
= the millinery stores, where

they wait for the ladies to
come in and select them for their
hats, none is more plentiful or we'll
known than the ostrich. However,
few who stop to admire the beau
tiful plumes give much thought to
the large, powerful birds which fur
nish them.
The ostrich once roamed abun-
dantly on the dry, sandy plains of
Asia and Africa, but at this time
about the only wild ones are found
in southern and eastern Africa,
where are also to be seen the larg-
est ostrich farms in the world. AL
most all of the plumes you see in
the stores to-day come from tame
ostriches raised on farms where
hundreds, and even thousands, of
them are herded together. Some
of these farms in the United States
are located at Jacksonville, Fla. ,
Hot Springs, Ark; several in Cali
fornia and Oregon, and one large
farm in the Salt River Valley, near
Phoenix, Ariz., now has more than
5000 of these big birds.
The male ostrich frequently
reaches a height Of eight feet and
an extreme weight of 800 pounds.
He is swift runner and can easily
outrun a horse when going at full
speed. 1t is claimed that they have
gone as fast as thirty miles an
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Birds That Flock Together in Millinery Stores

hour. Although the ostrich cannot
fly, it uses the motion of it's wings to
help pull it's body through the air
as it runs, and this enables it to
make the phenomenal speed claimed
for it. 1t is getting to be quite a
fad for these big birds to be ridden
at fairs and other places where nov
city and speed combine to make it a
general favorite with the spectators.
The mother birds usually pool
their eggs when they are not in
the captive state and are free to
roam wherever they wish. That is,
three or four of them place their
eggs in one common nest, scooped
out in the warm sand, and take
turns at setting during the day.
At night the male looks after
the eggs while the mother birds
group about him to give the
alarm if danger approaches. Each
VI eAe eSSo 10 iaiSel tlldH IWO uOAen
hen eggs and weighs about three
pounds. The heat of the sand helps
to hatch these giant eggs in about
six weeks, the little ostriches being
the size Of full grown hen. Some
naturalists have claimed that the
female birds break up the eggs that
do not hatch so as to attract swarms
of insects as food, for their young,
while others scout the theory and
say that the regular diet of grass,
leaves, grain and seeds is first given
to the newly Matched.
Commercially, farmers raise these
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

big birds for the sake of their
feathers, those of the wing and tail
being most desirable for trimming
hats or other purposes. The pluck
ing season begins when the birds
are about eight months old, and a
full grown one is expected to yield
one and half pounds of feathers.
The body feathers of the male are
black, while the tail feathers are
usually white or ivory-colored, and
the wings white, with occasional
streaks of glossy black The body
feathers of the female are dark
gray, the wing and tail feathers be-
ing white, with sometimes a mark
ing Of gray. The large willow
plumes displayed in the stores are
not taken from the ostrich as they
are, but are made by hand, which
is one of the contributing causes to
the high price they bring. Ostrich
feathers are not very large, so in
order to make them larger flowing
plumes the small ones are cut up
and sewed together. This is very
tedious process and requires excep-
tional skill in assembling so that the
finished willow plume will be SYM
metrical.
Probably you will be surprised to
learn that some birds of paradise
are no larger than sparrows, but, of
course, their beautiful tails are long
and flowing, and make them appear
to be much larger birds. There are
several varieties of this bird, the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
The Big Adventure That Attracts
Seamen's Imagination Is
Raising the Lusitania

man inside may manipulate his ma.
chanical arms and walk stifay about
In what position on the ocean
floor deep-sea divers will find tho
giant Cunarder is wholly a matter
Of conjecture. She was struck
amidships by torpedo, or two Of
them simultaneously, and remained
afoat with list toward her wounded
starboard side for eighteen minutes
before she nose-dived rapidly.
According to the testimony Of
Captain Turner at the official in
quiry in London all Of the l75
watertight bulkheads of the Lus;.
tania's hull were closed at the time
of the disaster. With this a fact
marine men are inclined to believe
that she lies to-day on her star.
board side, drawn to that position in
settling by the added weight Of
water rushing in when she was
struck. 1t is also regarded as posi-
BILE that lifting force Of $4,000
tons may not be required to float
the ship, as many Of these bulk
heads may still inclose the air which
was imprisoned in them over five
years ago. These would supply
added buoyancy and make the task
as outlined in the Saliger project an
easier one.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

automatically ard electrically oper-
ated from the salvage ship anchored
above the wreck. Divers, wearing
deep-sea armor heavy enough to
withstand the great pressure, will
start the burrowing machines only
leaving the hydraulic turnover to
describe it's downward and upward
curves necessary to bring the chain
to the ocean bed surface on the
opposite side Of the ship.
Once the chain is in position light
wire cables lowered from the sur
face are attached to either end
This completes the chain operation
which, in the Lusitania's case, would
be repeated five hundred times until
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Was 100 Feet Long

The average reader may, however.
gain some clear idea of the massive
bulk of the sunken Cunarder and
commiserate somewhat with the
marine engineers who regard her
recovery dubious task, by glance
at dimensions. The former cham
pion racing greyhound of the At
lantic measured 700 feet from bow
to stern, with a beam of So feet
The construction of hull alone re-
quired $4,000 steel plates, many of
which weighed five tons. The rivets
used to join these plates aggregated
500 tons There were four big pro-
pellers, each weighing in the neigh
borhood of 80 tons, and the rudder
was a matter of IS tons. Three
anchors weighed 10 tons each.
The great ship was built on the
Clydebank, in Scotland, by John
Brown & Co., Of Glasgow. Her
valuation was never made public by
the builders or owners, but insurance
estimates reckoned it at about &c.
100000.
The Lusitania was indirectly re-
sponsible for the creation of the
leviathans Vaterland and Impera-
tor, built by Germany in an effort
to wrest New York traffic from the
British ship owners. Until the ad-
vent of the Lusitania the Hamburg
American liner Deutschland held the
transatlantic speed record, from
Southampton to New York, Of
days II hours and 81 minutes, made
in 1908. Then came the Lusitania
in 1907, her powerful turbines tuned
to perfection by her British builders,
and the Deutschland's record fell.
The Cunarder's time was 4 days II
hours and AZ minutes.
Hamburg American line officials
sought TO challenge the genulneness
of the new record, but it was only
necessary for the world to wait un-
til the Lusitania again clipped min
utes off her own record to substan-
tiate the British speed superiority.
Some time later the Mauretania,
sister Cunarder, was built, and
proved equally superior to German
speed. This goaded the Germans
into spirited competitive building,
and the Vaterland and Imperator,
both Of greater tonnage than the
British ships, were built and sent
out to compete for American busi-
ness.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

greater weight of water than its
own weight and the weight of the
cargo. Once the hull is pierced it
goes down like stone However,
once under water the surface or air
weight of any object is decreased,
just as the bather notices his buoy
ancy in the surf.
The United States Navy built a
cofferdam around the sunken battle-
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Special Pontoons

special fOntOOHS
eve have tried out our apparatus
and it works 100 per cent perfect"
said the Saliger Corporations vice
president. "With the 500 lifting
chains in place and with 1000 of
these specially constructed pontoons
attached and inflated, there is no
power in the world that will keep
the Lusitania from floating. We be-
lieve that we can bring her up so
that she can be towed Immediately to
a drydock with perfect safety.
Each of the pontoons, or rather
large footballs, has lifting power
Of twenty-five tons. The weight of
the Lusitania with her underwater
buoyancy cannot be more than 25,-
600 tons. All the apparatus used
is extremely simple. 1t is what might
be called unit system apparatus.
1t is all light tackle and works unit
by unit. For example, you are un-
able to carry a ton of brick but
you are able to transfer that ton of
brick one brick at a time. The
chains to be put under the Lusi-
tania's hull are to be placed one at
time. Divers simply attend to the
operation. When one is placed and
there are no involved complications,
the operation is repeated. The low
ering Of the debated pontoons is
equally simple. When sufficient Of
these debated footballs are sent
down and made fast to the chains,
the compressed air is sent down
through tubes, with which every
football is equipped. Their lifting
power and the weight to be lifted are
mental mathematical calculation.
When enough of them have been in
fate5 the ship will rise"
These special football" pontoons,
now being manufactured in New
York, are approximately twelve feet
in diameter and spherically designed
in order to withstand the greatest
water pressure. Each weighs in air
about $50 pounds. Special anti
pressure valves are used. The inner
skin is of heavy rubber. Tough
marine sail canvas covers the rub
Der and the two are riveted togeth-
er. Over both is a meshing of the
heaviest weave of Manila hemp. AS
compared with any salvage pontoon
ever used these bags are small, re-
silent and designed by their con-
structors to live in any storm and
protect their quarry once they have
brought it to the surface.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01


Schemes Are Numerous
Some conjecturists have advanced
the feasibility Of constructing rigid
pontoons as large as the Lusitania
herself and lifting the ship between
them by means of steel chains Sc
cured to the hull. Marine engineers
again interpose that the depth at
which the Lusitania lies and her
great weight, now partially buried
in sand, would preclude such feat
even if the pontoons were not torn
from their moorings and battered
together and smashed by the sudden
storms of the Irish Sea.
Perhaps half hundred schemes
for raising the Lusitania have been
brought forward in the last two
years. All but very few have been
swept aside by marine salvage ex-
perts, and the others have been re-
jected because of the enormous ex-
pense involved. But invention and
experimentation may yet solve the
problem, says Captain Woolsey, a
leading marine engineer Of New
York, who has had long years Of
experience in ship salvaging along
the Atlantic coast. In his office, at
the firm of Merritt & Chapman, II
Battery Place, Captain Woolsey
said:
"It would be ridiculous for any
one to say that the raising Of the
Lusitania is an impossibility. But
don't ask me to say how it will be
done. Invention is making such
rapid progress nowadays in all lines
that it is folly to say that anything
is impossible. However, the Lusi-
tania is a great hulk, and no one
knows the exact damage done to her
hull. The greatest number of those
who have volunteered ideas regard
lrg her recovery and the means to
do it have had little sea experience.
According to soundings, the Lusita-
MIA lies in at least 2SO feet of water.
and considering that water pressure
is fifteen pounds to the square inch
at sea level, even the layman can
get an idea Of the terrific pressure
with almost 300 feet of water above.
[ can advance no practical theory
which would make the salvage of
the Lusitania possible, but I am
RIGHTLY interested in the subject
and look forward with keen interest
toward some method still untried."
Three days after the big Cunarder
went down Marine Superintendent
Dodd Of the Cunard Line at Queens
town said that the liner would never
lie raised. The marvellous ability of
the British Admiralty, demonstrated
IN hundred ways during the war,
seems also to have been baked by
the problem of the Lusitania.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

for the last sixty years. Before
that period most all ships were of
wood and salvaging was a surface
proposition. The modern steel ship
floats, not because it is lighter than
water, but because it displaces a
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

ship Maine in Havana Harbor and
pumped the water from the Golfer
dam. This was possible because
Havana Harbor is shallow. When
the Names hull had been patched
she was foated and towed to sea to
be consigned to depths where her
hulk would not be menace to nav
igation. Frequently divers have ac-
compllshed underwater patching of
steel hulls and the ships have been
raised to the surface by means of
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01


ONE of the many plans
~ proposed for the raising
of the Lusitamio and other
ships is that devised By A.
b. Saliger, a NeaO Yorker,
1uho has Invented q machine
qUhich qUiU ba11voW under
sumkem vessels, carrying
chains to aUhich balloon pom
too71s qUiI be attached. The
plan IS to be tried soon ON a
vessel sunk off the NeW
jersey coast. If this effort
is successful its promoters
say they qOlll be ready to
tackle the Lusitumid