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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1910-6-23, Page 6rr VESTS FOR UATTLESIIIES PRO fNOTEID VESSEL 1$ MADE IN PARAFFIN WAX. t ovo1 '.Hulk Whieh las Iltevo111001 izod the Shipbuilding World. There is e, very simple piece of apparatus which has revolutionized slttpbeilding, and which it is be- lieved will play a prominent part in the formation of new types of aclvial vessels. This is a smaele, long, narrow tank Whenever the British Govern - wont decide to build a new Dread- ncught a model of the projected vessel is made in paraffin wax, .Che model will be possibly 14 feet long, and it undergoes a series of tests in one of the experimental tanks mentio ed. In the case of the "Gov- ernment the tank is at Portsmouth, its length being about 400 feet, and its width about 20 feet. Just abovethe water it a bridge which runs up and down the tank en a sort of miniature tramway, This bridge contains many very de• licate instruments which record ex actly how the model behaves as it is towed through the water at vari- ous speeds by the aid of the bridge. The model is usually weighted with shot so as to correspond with vary- iag loads, and also. VARIOUS DEPTHS OF WATER. The experts in charge are thus able to determine the speed of the projected battleship, its buoyancy, ane numerous other facts regarding its behavi r. At once the weak' spots are detected, and the model is modified until it achieves the best. results. In the old days it would have been necessary for the actual ship to have been constructed and then it might possibly have been discov- ered that she was not of a suitable left a colossal fortune made out of form to get the best results By ircn, octal, and railways. means of a simple tank the country One of the most tragic cases is is saved many thousands,probablythat of Mrs. Herbert M. Sears, a millions, of pounds whichother- noted beauty and society leader in wise would have to have been spent New York, who, not long ago, leapt before the defects were discovered. out of her bedroom window while - The use of the experimental ba- suffering from a, fit of suicidal en has spread from this country all over the world, with the result that of recent years the forms of steamships have been greatly im- proved. Shipbuilders have discov• ered by its use that steamers re, ]quire lines, quite different from those of sailing vessels, and that a great portion of the engine pow - or might be wasted by the boat not being of THE MAKING OF MILLIONS {i'IX7( WBALTUX RIEN'S SONS 00 CRAZY, Amazing Illustrattans of a Now Seo• eatifio Theory — Mental Breakdawes. Does the struggle for groat for- tunes produce abnormal brains in multi -millionaires, wind. develop Insanity or suicidal mania in their children? Snell is the question which has been agitating the minds, of American eoieutiets and doctors lately, and they have ar- rived at the somewhat startling conclusion that, there is a great tendency amongst the children of millionaires to suffer mental break- down early in life. And as a proof of this contention they cite a num- ber of recent cases of insanity and suicide among children and descen- dants of very rieh people: The cause, according to these doctors, is to be found in the fact that the fathers of these children subject themselves to snob mental strain in the race for wealth, and exhaust body and nerves to such an extent, that they minimize the mental and nervous' organization which otherwise would be imparted to their offspring. The conse- quence is that many children of such parents come into the world unstable in their mental powers. TAR CASE OF HARRY THAW "No one," ran a certain report, during the trial of Harry Thaw, "who saw those wild, staring eyes, the furrowed forehead, the drawn face, had any doubt as to his mental instability." And sci- entists quote the homicidal ten- dencies of Thaw as one of the most striking illustrations of the "mon- ey twist" in the brain of the child o..a millionaire; for Thaw's father A ,PROPER SHAPE. The most highly trained expert cannot provide designs anywhere equal to those worked out as a re- sult of tank experiments. By the use of the tank there is a guaran- tee that the huge sums spent on building vessels will not be wast- ed Tank tests frequently have shown how a vessel's speed might be won- derfully increased by exceedingly small alterations. Not only is this so, but the tank shows at once what especial form of screw is re- quired in order to obtain the great- ebt effieciency from the propeller. More than this the tank actual- ly will determine the amount of. .damage a warship can sustain without` sinking, whether this is =n- flicted by projectiles, an explosion of a torpedo in the ship's vitals, by ramming, and what not. In this ease the model is constructed of wood; that is to say, a model is Heade to just beyond the water line. This tiny ship contains a number of removable wooden blocks so. shaped as to represent the ship's water -tight compartments. For instance, the blocks in the middle correspond with the compartments for the ENGINES AND BOILERS; other blocks represent the maga- zines, and so on. Now, if a water -tight compact meet were injured, naturally it would fill with water; the method by which this is represented in the actual model is remarkably simple. The wooden block which represents tee compartment where the damage is supposed to have taken place .8 removed, and a piece of lead is ,tut in its place, the lead being in str'et proportion to th weight eF the water which wsaid fill the es,. p meat. Naturally' the etedel u:1 sink in. ib water, and %ill incline a o;.+'`t aI way. It tan be seen tit -,v ir. this - y ginner the experts can tell erases - :4i any tiamage wot ul alb et a Lig ship. The experim .Its are con- tinued until the stabilit_i of the. modes is so affected as to sh, w that sh'e tactual battleship we ell capsize. This is the method which is new appliVct tfi Chips, but it is believed that the experimental tank has a grerat,futuro with regard to aerial the resent time ex-. vosso.ls. ` At , ptesent n are being. made in tanks •� porinle is E:; ,'iith this end in vaeW.—Pearson, s t, 1 -40g nthgtl ;w dein is can only be heel on the M- ont plan. that stmt mania. Mrs. Sears had a personal estate of over $5,000,000 inherited from her maternal grandfather, John F. Slater, the noted financier rf Norwich, Mass. The nervous instability of Mrs. Sears manifes- ted itself during the first years of her marriage. She imagined her- self surrounded by enemies, and at last, in sudden fear, destroyed her- self in the manner mentioned. ILOCKEFELLER'S DAUGHTER. It is a curious irony of fate that Mr. Rockefeller's eldest daughter became haunted with the delusiou that she was on the verge of pov- erty, and she searched the house- hold garbage to rescue crusts of bread to bring bank for the ser- vants' supper. It was not until some months after her marriage. with Professor Charles A. Strong, a Columbia College instructor, that the taint began to manifest itself in her. Then she began to do the most curious things. She dyed her children's elothes, making them and her own, over and over again. She would buy only the most minute quantities of necessi- ties, and doled out the servants' shares, going at last to the garb- age for replenishment. No amount of persuasion by her husband or father could remove the impression from her mind that she was on the verge of poverty. On one occasion, it is said, Rockefel- ler drew one million dollars from his banks and, in thousand -dollar bills, showed the money to his daughter as an object -lesson that, poverty did not confront them. She only looked at them vacantly. At last, in the hope of curing her, she was taken to France. There she died, still under her delusion. A MANIA FOR SPEED. Particularly sad is the case of one of the sons of Cyrus Hall Mc- Cormick, the inventor of the steam reaper, who became President of tho Harvester Trust and acquired one of the biggest fortunes in Am- erica. McCormick's case, say the doctors, is one of those that reveal most clearly the danger which threatens the children of million- aires. McCormick lived the clean est kind of life, He graduated from Princeton, where he was not- ed as an athlete. He showed great. business ability, and took at prom- inent part in the organization of the Harvester Trust itself. Suddenly he went insane. There had been 'hardly any warning. His mania began to manifest itself in is de.siro for great speed. This was interspersed with periods of acute melancholia. After a few weeks, so rapid was the' breakage'. of the brain onee the strain had started that his wife found it impossible to crrnecaI his condition any longer. Hi' is now bapelessly mad, and un- der restraint at Santa Barbara, California, FEARED INSANITY, Tragedy, too, leas followed ` the „ great money -making schemes of 71 h d h' f ! ? If Queen Mary as Princess of Theodore Havomeyer,. one of the; inquired the boy, with an air of Wales bas taken less public prom - founders of the Sugar Trust. Two having the better of it, lit encrt at borne, she has performed of his'ehildren . shot themselves,. while another relative died insane. Natalie lie Havomeyer was one of the most charming, beautiful, unci aceomplished girls ever introduced into New Yerk society, . ,She had many suitors, until finally she married Mr. John Mayer. At the very he'glit of her life, with every- thing apparently a woman could wish for, the taint appeared in her. There was a brief period of melan- cholia, and then she shot. herself. There waa absolutely no reason for self-destruotiou—except that lack of stability by wbioh the brain was forced to break under the strain of life. The death of Charles Frederick Havemeyer, her brother, -is still flesh in the memory of his friends. With him, too, there was no rea- son for self-destruction, except an ever -haunting fear of insanity that would not be dispelled. This and the cases of Mrs. John Wilmerding and William S. Van- derbilt Allen seem to prove the theory. Mrs, Wilmerding was the great -grand -daughter of the old Commodore, and Allen was his grandson. Both were in asylums for years. Both were finally re- leased --more because their mania was not dangerous than that they were entirely sane. These, it might be mentioned, are but a few of the oases cited by Am- erican scientists with a view of bearing out their theory that there xray be .a sad reckoning to the Mak- ing of millions: GROWTII OF_ BIG CITIES. New York and London are the Two Largest. In an interesting study` of the growth of the world's great cities, 1'J. de Foville notes that in 1801 there were in Europe only twenty- two, which .had more than 100,000 inhabitants. These were London and Dublin, Paris, Marseilles, and yons, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg, Vienna, Naples, Rome, Milan, Venice, and Naples, Rome, drill and Barcelona, Lisbon, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Cop- enhagen, Constantinople. Two orly of these cities had more than 500,000—London, 950,000; Paris, 000,000. Naples came third with 360,000, and Vienna fourth with 230,000. To -day there are in Europe 160 cit- ies havi.:g more than 100,000 inha- bitants, of which fifty-five have more than 250,000. There are twenty-five pities with more than half a million people, and seven with more than a million. These are : London, 4,750,000;Paris, 2,- 766,000; Berlin, 2,000,000•; Vienna, 2,000,000; St. Petersburg, 1,430,- 000; Moscow, 1,350,000; Constanti- nople, 1,100,000. In the same class with these he p. aces the following cities of other parts of the world; New York 4.- 11.000; Chicago, 2,049,000; Philadel- phia, 1,440,000; Singan, in China, 1.000,000. Strangely enough, he makes no mention of 'Tokio, with its 1,818,655; Canton and Peking, the population of which is estimat- ed at 1,600,000 each; Calcutta, with 1,026,887; Beunos Ayres, with 1,000,000. There are thirty-nine cities in the world having more than 500,000 population, of which fifteen have more than a million. These tvren- tyfour that remain are in order; Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Hamburg, Bombay, Warsaw, Glasgow, Buda- pest, Liverpool, Brussels,, Bang- kok, Manchester, Boston. St. Louis, Cairo, Naples, Amsterdam, Madrid, Munich, Barcelona, Bir- mingham, Dresden, Madras, Balti- more, alti more, Leipzig. -3' ARZSTOCRATIO BEGGARS. Owing to the Russo-Japanese war, many rich Japanese: families were ruined, and some nobles were actually driven to beg for a living. Being ashamed of his trade, they wander from 'place to place with their faces carefully hidden by a curiously -shaped mask; and to avoid the shame of receiving alms by hand, they hold out a Japanese fan, on which any gifts of money are placed. Cookstown Urban Council has under consideration a scheme for the erection of 30 houses for the working classes which it is esti- mated will cost $25,000. Doyle — "Pfwae's th' rayson O'Toole do be afther haven a tin weddin', Oi wonder?" Boyle— "Faith an' it's because he's been married to his old woman tin years, Oi'm thinkin'1" Exasperated Purchaser --"Didn't you guarantee that this parrot would repeat every. weed he heard?" Bird -Dealer-" Cehtainly I did." "But he don't repeat' a single word." "He repeats every word he hopes, but he never hears any. He is as deaf as a post." "1 am', surprised, Bobby," said his father, reprovingly, "that you should strike , eiur little brother. Don't you know that it is cowardly to hit one smaller than yourself?" "'Then why o yon it me, father?" QUEEN MARY OF ENGLAND IDEAL WIFE AND 1110TITEll, ANI) KIND OF IIBAR'I'. Remarkable Knowledge of the Do- lniniells Over Which Icing Gdo1'ge V. Will Rule. Queen Mary once uleseribed hers eelf as a child as being -"very naughty, very happy and very un- interesting." We eau believe that she was a sufficiently healthy and natural child to bo naughty at times, we are quite sero that she was very happy, but we can hard- ly endorse the statement that she was uninteresting, says tlW Lon - doe Express. Her mother, the Duchess of Took, wrote of the princess when a baby, "She really, is as sweet and engaging a child es you can wish to see; full of life and fun and playful as it kitten; with the deepest blue eyes imagin- .able, quantities of fair 'hair, a tiny rosebud of a mouth, a lovely com- plexion (pink and white) and a most perfect figure! In a word a model of a baby i" Queen Mary was the first child of the marriage of the popular Prin- cess Mary of Cambridge with the Duke of Teck, and was born at Kensington Palace May 27, 1867, in the room which had once been 'the nursery of Queen Victoria. It seemed, indeed, of happy augury that she should have had the same birthplace, the same month and the same name as Queen Victoria, who was, also; one of her godmothers. PRINCESS AND SICK LAD. Though christened Victoria Mary, the Princess was from her infancy ,^ailed May, and as Princess May she first won the hearts of the peo- ple. Her mother was full of sym- pathy and abounding Ecooid-nature, a royal woman, in the highest sense of the term. She was parti- cularly kind to the poor, and the young Princess grew up to have the greatest sympathy with the struggling and unfortunate. Many are the stories told of her kindness of heart when a young girl to the people about White Lodge, Rich- mond Park. A poor lad dying of consumption in one of •tire cottages found Princess May a daily visi- tor. She gave time and trouble to her self-imposed task, and fre- quently'sat 'by the bed of the sick lad and talked to 'hi'm. On the Sunday morning on which he died she stopped and kissed him and mingled her 'tears with those of the family round the bed. A SOCIAL REFORMER. All measures of social reform ap- peal to Queen Mary which have for their object the bettering of the conditions of thelives of the peo- ple. The destruction of rookeries and the substitution of cheerful and wholesome dwellings; the pro- viding of playgrounds for the chil- dren in congested areas, and other such schemes find in her a hearty sympathizer. She has a clear and thoughtful mind and an intellec- tual grasp of the primary necessity of giving the people good environ- ment. DEVOTED TO THE HOME. Queen Mary is a wife and mother in whom her husband and sons find a high ideal of womanhood, and her only daughter a bright ex- ample. She and the Prince sup- erintend the edueation of their children, and have them instruct- ed on thoroughly modern lines. Up to five years of age they are taught in kindergarten methods and their powers of observation are culti- vated and their minds allowed free play. The Princess's own gouvernante and companion, Madame Bricha, had charge of, the elder children when they were tiny, and the tu- tors to the young princes are Mr. Hua and Mr. Hansell, under whose charge they have been taken to see many of the historic and show plac- es of London. They have paid their first visits to the Tower of London and to the Zoological Gar- dens with the fresh natural enthu- siasm of a country cousin. They are dressed plainly, live plainly, and have good serviceable toys which, are not easily destroyed. No pleasanter picture of an Eng- lishmother amongst her bairns could be seen than that afforded by the Princess of Wales when liv- ing, quietly at 'York Cottage. All the children, even to the youngest, come to thein` mother's room for tea, and when there was a baby it ,was !brought down and laid on the couch so that the, circle might be complete. WIDELY TRAVELED, It was no easy task to follow so popular a Princess of Wales as Queen Alexandra. She had, in- deed, almost created the position, for never before lead the wife of the heir to the throes) discharged to unfelt of the State and social duties belonging to the Sovereign, .1," ;el tNyil Has been Canada'sfa,vorit , 4Y"es.st over a quarter of a ,century. Enough for $ cts to produce 50 large loaves of 'fine, wholesome, nour- ishing, home-made, bread. Doo not experiment—there is nothing "just as good.' E. W. CQL.LETT CO. t.TO. Winnipeg TORONTO, ONT. Montrose Awarded highest honors at all Expositions l,n the very important work• of visit- ing the Britains beyond the seas, a unique record for a princess of the Royal house. She has an un- rivalled knowledge of the domin- ions over which her husband is new called upon to rule. "KILL THE WHITE SREGI'." Advice Given by Anarchistic Sheet Issued at Delhi. Seditious Indians have been cir- culating surreptitiously an anar- ichi tic broadside, secretly printed at Delhi. It is headed, "Killing No Murder," and reads in part as follows : "We once more appear :before you to preach our revolutionary doctrines to all for the redemption of our mother from the atrocious hindsof the Foringhis. Your life is not worth even a dust or a straw it you do not soil your hand with the blood of Our oppressor, the Feringhi. You must kill as many of these white sheep as you lay, hands on, whether men, women or children. This sort of killing we call no murder, but a sacred duty that devolves on the shoulders of every Indian` for the lifting up of our Bharata Mata. to the very lofty pedestal filled with glory and splen- dor. Rise up . Rise up, oh, sons of India! Rise up 1 Arm yourselves with bombs and de- spatch the white asuras soon to Yama's abode. (Yama is the Indi- an Pluto.) 'If you are in need of money, loot down the oppressors' houses. It" is the wealth of the poor Indian that fattens the Feringhi." Then follow directions as to how aims may be procured from arsen- als, assurances that British soldi- ers may be counted upon to offer only a faint-hearted resistance, and the suggestion that domestic ser- vants may assist in the great work of extirpating the British by pois- oning their masters, a method de- scribed as the "smooth despatch" in contrast to the use of cocoanut - shell bombs filled with poisoned needles, The article goes on to war. Indians loyal to the Euro- peans and who shelter them that they "will surely share the fate of the wretched traitor of London," referring probably to the late'. Dr. Lalcaca, who lost his life in at- tempting to save Sir W. Curzon Wylie. More warnings are followed by an abusive outburst, in whieh the British are described as "robbers, cowards, dastards, and nobody's sons,' And the article concludes with an assurance to patriotic In- diaes that the killing of Europeans is their "foremost duty," and that "killing is no murder." TO TILE CANNIBAL ISLES. Sea Captain is Going for a Cargo of Hardwood. Staking his life with cannibals against a big fortune, Captain W. J. McDonnell is soon to leave Se- attle at the head of a big expedition with the Old Glory of the Seas, an old-time sailing vessel, for the sav- a f:e islands of the South Seas. Here lie virgin stretches of hardwood timber to be had for the cutting and the payment of small amounts in trade stuffs to the tribal chiefs. Money is unknown, and the privi- lage of :cutting the hardwood will be purchased by beads, paint, cloth and trifling jewellery. The hard weed can be readily sold in both Europe and the United States. Captain McDonnell traded in the South Seas for a decade, forfive years living among the natives without a white companion, and while the islands are still populat- ed with ignorant blacks, to whom eanabalism is a religion, Captain MoD nnelfhas little fear' of his ex- pedition failing, Ile will take 250 men aboard the Glory and proceed to the Island of Malekttla, in the New Hebrides, to get his timber concessions. It was on.Malekula Island that the sailors from the French scheon- er Qualiteowete last year eaten by the natives, and it is not long since a eouple of overzealous missionar- ics venturing en the shores fell victims to the same fate, While Captain McDonnell's nils- sio, is ene of peace, he will be pre- pared for trouble with the natives, ices, and the bt bd of 250 wh take aboard the ship will be suitab- ly armed to prevent interferonoe with his lumbering operatietla, ENGINE -DRIVERS' FEARS CONSIDBR SEPTEMBER MOST UNLUCKY' M011TJI. Railwaymen's Peculiar Supersti- tions—One Accident Fol- lowed by Two. Hard-headed and practical -mind- ed though the majority of railway workers are reputed to be, there are by.no means free from super- stitious fears such as one usually associates tvith sailors. There is a peculiar belief, for instance, amongst the latter that it is unsafe +0 make a voyage in a vessel which has met with disaster, although they have no hesitation in serving aboard one which has experienced three mishaps, says London Tit - Bits. - One disaster will always be fol- lowed by two others, they say, and a belief also exists amongst engine drivers that accidents occur in cy- cles of three. The consequence is that, -when an accident happens to hi', engine, the superstitious driv- er feels uneasy • until two others have occurred. This superstition is even more prevalent amongst the men •employee, on shuntiug work, and the phrase, "We're bound to have a third, Bill," is frequently board when a mishap occurs. SIGNALMEN'S BELIEFS. Strangely enough, there are rail- wa.ymen who regard a station where a disaster has occurred as a dis- tinctly lucky one to work at. "Why, I could not tell you," said a cer- tain •superintendent of the line le the writer, when asked if he could explain this curious superstitious belief. "I know it does exist, but it is as inexplicable as the super- stition of some signalmen that the straying of a, sheep or dog on to the line is a sign that sooner or later a collision will tike place within a mile of the spot." Signalmen, however, seem to have quite a number of-supersti tions. The writer was told of one man to whom the fact that a train ear composed -of an odd number of carriages was distinctly omin- ous. Why he dreaded odd num- bers he could not say. There -was a reason, however, for the curious belief of another signalman. AN UNLUCKY ` MONTH. Some years ago, when be was acting as an assistant -signalman, he witnessed a collision between a passenger train and a freight train, The driver of theletterhad been given a bunch of flowers by a local stationmaster and had placed them Y in the window of'the cab of his en- gine, intending to take them home to his wife. The collision resulted in his death, and the signalman, in consequence, has always feared the sight of Rowers on an engine. September is regarded by many' drivers as the most unlucky month of the year, although it cannot be said that more railway disasters have occurred in September than in any other • month. "I always feel more comfortable, however," said one driver, "when September is over. Perhaps it is because it marks the cad of the holiday sea- son and the rush of summer rail- way traffic. Personally, I should not like to have a holiday in that month, neither would I care for any member of my family to go away during September. It may be silly fancy on my part, but I always dread something happening in the ninth month of the year, WHEN THEY STUMBLE. "Have you ever heard of engine drivers who thought it unlucky to step on to the cab with the left Eliot? Yes, I have heard of several, a d I also know of one man who, if he .stumbled over the line, would g., back and step over it carefully and correctly. He always used to say that it was as unlucky to stum- ble over a line and not go back and step over it again as it was to walk under a ladder andomit to look over your left shoulder. Of course, it was silly fancy, but we all have OLD' little peculiarities." It is said, by the way. that there is a distinct prejudice amongst railwaymen against cross-eyed'nav- vies. The story goes that the super- stitious dread against men so af- flicted became very prevalent af- ter an incident which occurred on a Missou-i railroad several years ago. • CROSS-EYED MEN UNLUCKY, A section gang was being made up to go out on the line and do some repair work. Ten men were needed for the work and nine had been ehosen. The tenth man was lacking, when along came one and applied for the: job. • But he was cross-eyed, and the foreman was about to turn him away whenhe discovered it was time for the train. Despite the black looks of the other nine, the cross-eyed .man was tak- en on. Bad luck followed the gang from the; beginning. One man had sun- steoke and had to be sent to the hospital. The gang was on the job ten months.' and every month re- moved one of the gang by accident, until there remained only the Groes eyed man, who was tun down by a train and killed. Marriage is seldom what it, is oortracted to. be. 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