HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-7-2, Page 7NEW BRIM MR.
SHIPS TO CARRY 2
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LENGTH 800 FET WITH
SPEED OF 80 MILES
AN HOUR,
Great Saving in Fuel Predicted
by Burning Waste Hydrogez.
in the Engines.
The British government's recent de-
eision to Authorize the construction of
two big airship, one by the Air Min-
fetrY and one by a private coMeania
has Jed naturally to the questoe,
"What will the new ship; be like and
tow will they compare with present
fay Zef'Penne and Shenandoethsr The
ion g series of eisastere to hydregen-
/Med airships bes made the average
earth-boutd man somewhat skeptical
of their capabilities, so one may under-
Stand hie desire to be told why the
new ships should be any more success -
tui than those that have gone before
them.
It Is known that the proposed sky
liners wit have a hydregen capacity of
6,000,000 eubto feet. This will make.
them about twlce the size of the Shen-
andoah. They will be consIdershly
fatter in proportion to their length
than the Shenandoah, howeveie and
the designers believe that they should
therefore bo stronger. If figures, are
desired it may be stated that the pro-
peaed ships will probably be 800 feet
long, 116 feet in maximum diameter
and 125 feet in height. They will dis-
place 160 tons of air and be designed
for a speed of eighty miles an hour.
Capacity of Aircraft.
Such a craft, airship enthusiasts
cleirn, Will he able ees Carry Z00 paffe
eengere and eletee lona Of Ina 11 fuel
freight 2,600 pitoe without Alighting'.
Without a cargo and carrying only her
crew o thirty live the 1ilp would tate
a range of 11,600 ulnae at eighty miles
an tour and 4,00D nillea at half that
/speed. Oho vvettle or Mould bo ably
to remain $11 the air /Or 000 coareeele
eye home. Her cost, aszienitng that
throe elope aro venues:0d tau:wally en
a Miller bulleleg program, would he
close to a million 0ollare.
Per ally regular service, bases would
he necessary every two or three thous-
and miles. A. large and •efficient bane
wade include ez hanger for one ship,
two mooring Magee a gas plant and
las:tittles for storage, and` the 'fleetia-
eery workshops and accosunmeatiorre
for the ground men, and would cost In
the nelghborhooll o $1,800,000, A
smaller base, with only one meet and
no hangar, could probably be built for
a third of thlo. •
Heretofore the neceseity of letting
out gaaptittes of hydrogen to counterbalence the increasing buoyancy of
the ehip as the fad wars used up has
considerably diminished the potential
range ot dirigibles,. In his report On
the commercial aspect of alrehip trano-
port at the London Air Conference last
June Maim G 11 Scott deserlbed Ri-
cardo's experiments on burning the
watts hydrogen In the engine in con-
juction with gesoline, instead of de-
liberately Jetting it eaceere, Major
Scott declares, that these experitnents,
were very successful and that tills oe.
oration Is capable of effecting an enor-
mous saving in fuel and consequently
increasing the renege of the ehip,
"The range of airships may be in-
creased by 60 per mit. for the same'
amount of fuel carried," he states.
'Had the R-34 beeu fitted for hydro-
gen burning on her Atlantic flight, in-
stead of landing on Long Island with
barely 100 gallons of fuel she would
have had nearly 1,000 gallons surplus,
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- The parish of St. Clement's Danes, Strand, London, recently celebrated
the ancient ceremony of "beating the bounds." Photo shows members "beat-
ing the bounds" at Temple Pier.
Endurance Tests.
Life imposes tests of courage and
endurance that none can °Vette. Some
tipon whom the sun of prosperity ap-
parently blazes are in fact walking
through a vale of shadows, though the
world knows it not. The strange
thing is that much of the cheering
sympathy, with its tonic effect upon
the downcast, comes from those who
cue, beet able to understand and to
eomfort because they have had pro-
found experience of sorrow,
We are tempted to rail at fate when
it Imposes burdene; to ask why we
should•be singled out for this invide
ous distinction of punishment. The
rest seem happy and carefree; why
could we not be ranged wth their gay
and thoughtleas company? But, if we
'would observe, we Would note how of.
(en that felicity is transitory, and a
swift and sudden cloud eclipses the
noonday redirtnee.
.A. boy at school -- rich, popular,
hteelesonie and tileVer—fleeined to have
se °ay good thing in prospect to melte
him admired and envied by therm cue.
able of either senttment. Of a merry
dispositiom he despoiled gloom where
he came. Soon after leaving college,
while he wee "teaming the ropeee of
the banking beakless, he went blind.
Bringing a resit:elute temper to beer on
his problem he turnedto poultry -
keeping, with a courage worthy of Sir
'hur Pearson.
stand in bis shoes before the miefote
tete befell him who could not display
a tithe of his fartftude in the dark.
mess.
There is, of counter, a Certain test of
character in prosperity itself, They
deserve to bo commended who are
thoughful stewards of their riches and
are not vainglorious, puffed up arro-
gant became of the meaty they non -
Bet the coverer test is not the
saurden that the ismer 01 mony
pow, If you had money and beet it,
or If you lute 'health and it went, the
world leirene your oliarecrter from the
Way xournie,,to fee° the altered condi.
!ton. Tho,enteti :or 'woman In you Is
,known by the way you turn front joy
to Meet pain and ilailure.
Only in the Infantry,
•"Yeti mean to pay that youngster
has Joined the array?"
"Ilea only gene into the itifttntry,
•lent kliete."
Made a Hit.
"Johnson expected to make a hit
with his new car when he went to
town yesterday."
"Ile did—went into the first street
car he met."
;--AND THE WORST IS YET TQ COME
or sufficient to have carried her be-
rme, Chicago,"
Better Range of Engine.
Tee airships of the future probably
wt11 be fitted with ortod 11 engines
which will greatly reduce the danger
from lire and cut the fuel -costs to one-
seventh of what they now are. 011 en-
gines also require less attention than
gasoline engines, and it is expected
that, instead of running only 800
hours without overhauling, the pro-
posed oli engines will be able ter run
800 houra. In other words, an airship
running 00 a regular schedule to India
would require an engine overhaul only
once every two months. Six engines
of 600 horeepower earth -would be used
in the proposed gaps* These power
units easily <meld be made detachable,
so that engine overhauling oould, be
done on the ground and the ship de-
layed only long enough to lower the
old engine and hetet aboard the new
One. •
It is proposed to use hydrogen in
the new airships because it can be
manufactured practically anywhere in
the British Empire, -whereas helium In
any quantity can be Obtained only in
the United States. 'What is more,
hydrogen has e, considerably greater
lifting power than tellers', and, while
it is highly inflammable, the oil en-
gines are eximeted to reduce the den -
ger of tire to something like a mini-
mum. It le argued tat in previous
Ares and explosions aboard dirigibles
it was always the gasoline vapor that
caught fire first, and that this in turn
set off the 'hydrogen, The mere fact
that the hydrogen — 6,000,000 cubic
feet <4 it—is always there ready to be
set oft, however, must ause some of
the ship's craw to ponder, especially if
they are inclined to remember the
R-38 and Roma diszesters, to say noth-
ing of the Dixraude.
Teaches Parrots to Talk.
Teaching parrots to talk is the un-
usual way in,which one woman in New
York city errant; a living. It la s task
that requires patience and skill.
1111911.10
The Three Misses Barker.
Such tea party furies,
Ouch powdered head tossillge,
Such bright, angry glances,
Such shrill hot words—
But the three Misses Barker were like
a little garrleon,
And they held, out for their king
In a land a rebeits.
The years went by,
And the years went by,
And arguments Cooled,
And eyebrows went
And faehions changed,
And many things were forgotten
But the three Mimes Harker diet not
surrender—
They were leyeul to their king
In a land of rebele.
The grandchildren of their ecbool-
mates
Were young men and women
Who giggled and chuckled
At worn-out heartburnings,
But the three Misses Baxter hell their
- heads the higher
And died fifty years after the Declare,
tion of Independence,
Still true to their king
In a land of rebels.
—Elizabeth J. Clostsworth.
And Then Probably PerspIred.
"My, how dough -faced Mabelle looks
to -night."
"She ran out of powder and had to
use four,"
How the Sheik Servo
The more letCpColfferieueb. a el /elk the
larger and niore numerous, 11 geenize
are his coffee pots. The ehelk, by the "PellUSa prying eye nI the Most ob.
wa,y, is choles about bar 0011081 whets servant tnierneeoPes te l'elOaneit to he
please arrive lie must maim it him, the Peal 01 a vast ceramerolal under
tieetelf.4117;litielit7Irey, teeawy,sIsLotroeo oimaevelorteaulat nttletutnrgo,oiletolierchoY, beltrit wersedievtreiretalutdastizae
to be left to the women, His lordship 43/11/' In °Ur /3444) tGr tho 13°4""t 0t
Lbsall Arial e e
udeacribes a visit 10 .110nle oPo-oo and tittle/ sad theYietor
lo Trans-Jordaniel teatie the promotion a leleineee and
In Ore middle of the room isa the,, POlOngatiOn ot Mos Power le
eouare 01 69YQ0111:reoleatIlliftr°0trboeunn°11"1,41' 113411 thattal (Prrt:hE:;Iraialg' taherndIlln:talnini(1 4n"lidra411195u that 18 "
stand hall a dozen brass; coffee poet of viti'M the t 11 t'llradtt bus 4tir wlth
"brElo'keallhevell:e 40;14`116:111rndalt ner"hilsottlilaso'eella"TelVe°: light
bdeffetaorenextamelizueesa, ruiTdhethebe
rejected, are Dittoed in a buge free Power visible lead audible.
spoon with a handle memo, three feet In the Contact Of one human life up.
Oeliet
This MI the a3Q vt pewter/ fleelYed
ad developel. feom iU efaletres% Tnneri
gy linpateeneil in jiit attap, Where it 00"
leeig• In that they are roasted till 011 811°thOr Vitoria lo no power greater
eiteoey7 „terse ponicely bift-30teovn theneintobritteatki ivoithlechn 'fthee"tieethelaihhile;1019th,°°Olael farfehtezr Irfae:triela.
tht
aeayy and, like' the pestle, 13 toads, in 58 that Whet We preeatse we shall
411 tanul tutoim
eerferlidathisiottaldiatta au prot;
nineenptGlvetot
e sucot
0 b0208 of
the elders of the Mertarr, The task to
not to °Rey as 11 100113, and 'to do it
ekiljfully ie connicleeed something 'of
an accompliehment. Tbo coffee is
th�n wpoDtuerrodanindteaonpeinoefh Mepo
bng al chlteniarrilsoof;21..
ere added, and then it 13 brought 0pto
the boiling point several times without
being Allowed to boll.
Next the hot takes three Or four
faoaartaael,li gsit,:easteba esgatersyrieatbeatbieo,verlue. cannot haul down the flag sehile this
one roaming who believes in me."
Because -human belief in liuman be -
alma, pours out 1181 <mouth for throe
trimutret,hvitguischto:arseutaltgarenis sitalugyhtautod swpfotil 'angina ois thee, gtuiraelteeisfileanng fobruciem,
will nerer
the flavor, To pour out more than
three pips is ootundered a sign that
the guest is unwelcome, and if coffee
le poured carelessly for a guesei of
high rank he will spill it on the floor,
The boat hands coffee round three tuna atmlelvhetre there is a mind in
reward err:aides. Having a frien6, we
feel that We here a 'reason to petite -
vent, Therefore, to be a friend te a
far greater Matter than to feel a Manta"
melte lerleedship teems believing in
another Pigeon, with ouch unwavering
fidelity that the other says: "I cannot
disappoint this expectation, 3can.
not, bawls° DI this compact, give Mee
than my- beet to the whole of my duty.
If 1 was eve tempted to surreuder,
dispitiee those who made them, Per-
sons will still count in every creative
soheme, because the supreme aceom-
pltslimesnt to never an entirely imper-
fsonal process under a soulless &rase -
times, and afterward from time to which °Ulm minds hehe've- Wo who
time oue a his sons or eeirente ugitia- are molded in the image of the divine
ere able to do many thinge of our own
ly pasties It. To ask for it is not eon-
eidered bad manners, though to ask inothau; but we =not leave infinity
for food is rude. and its imponderable purpose out of
the anal reckoning.
We bate faith in a Power overwatch-
beittystricoking dfreotititohno odfempierostonal b
ing anti overruling. Our faith is the
r &cause, this redo of God,
Eastern university, "Any woman of
health and education is beautiful," be
says and adds as a corollary, "If
there is any lack of truth, there is a
leek of beauty." The really beautiful
pink cheeks are those that come from
healthful outdoor exercise, and a erican woman who manages a large
'beautiful personality is the result of shop in Chicago. This is claimed to
knowing something and being some be the largest sum secured on a WO -
one rather than of posing as some one. man's
11!.
there are human beings who believe
in us, in whom we believe.
An insurance for $3,000,000 has
been taken out on the life of an Am -
Nineteen -year-old Emily Bishop, of Chatham, England, who bas been or-
dained a minister of the larbultive Methodist Church.
Conspiracy Thw,... rted by Daylight Saving Strategy
WAYS TO SAVE
NIAGARA FALLS.
PLAN OF ENGINEERS TO
STOP EROSION OR
HORSE SHOE,
Artificial Iolanda .Also.SUg4
misted to Retain Beauty of
Paniecl Scenic Wonder,
The Si lataierenee Power Commis
sion and United States HSate 0.flui eogio.,
earn{ recently held it conference at
Niagara Mira Willett Strati attended by
Herbert Hoover, UM, feeeretary of
Coramerees
' One of the Pedrienle considered was
the erosion et the geneetes
which engineers say threatene to tura
the .cataract In a Vesheeed drop, Di'
vendor', of water from the centra of
the river, where the brink le 'taloa
WO% away, weelle avert this, , stay
POWIr pleat engineers. The proposed
200,000 hareem/seer development of the
Niagara' Pali& lerseter Company also
was leOked intos
delnonseration of the problem
confronting the coraralseion In regard
to diversion of Water from the tele
was give under the direetion of John
L, Harper, chief engineer and 'eke'
preident of the Niagara, Well* Power
Company,
A miniature Niagara was construct-
ed on grounds of the power company.
Two plans for pre -venting erosion of
Horseshoe Palls were demonstrated.
One provide* for the construction of g
wing dam, acrose the -river a short dia.
tante beck of the brink of the Mika
The other calls for the construction al
artificial islands further back from the
brink near the Goat Deland shore.
An indicator on the model showed
that the distribution 01 water over the
American Home:hoe Dells is 160,000
cubic feet a second, not including the
56,000 <sub'c feet a second diverted for
power purposes, Only about 6 per
cent. of this passes over the American
felts,
The reproduction allowed models of
the power houses and inte.kee along
the American and Canadian shorea
Water for the miniature river was Sup.
plied froze a pipe from the real river,
the flow being regulated by a pump.
Flow to Retain Fails' Beauty,
During the demonstration the diver-
sion was increased to 80,000 second
feet by removal of debt at intakes,
-which diverted the water frosty the
stream above the small Niagara. The
flow over the falls decreased to 130,000
second feet. Dernqgstrattng .fie plan
of Colonel W. D. Wa.•rren, tr. 2. Army
engineer, to distribute the flow of
water over the falls- more evenly and
oonserve the beauty of the cataract
even at a greater diversion, a minim,
ture dam was placed across the river
bank at the brink of the honseshoe,
The concrete pieces forming the dam
were curved. The flow was distributed
over the entire brink, decreasing the
heavy flow over the centre.
The dam was replaced by two is.
lands made of concrete blocks farther
back from the brink near the Goat
Island shore. Virtually the same ef.
feet was given as that produced by the
dam, the appearance being mora at-
tractive. Mr. Harper said the equal
distribution of water over the Amen,
can Palls was due to islands and that
engineers could do the same for Horse
Shoe Falls by placing artificial islands
in the river above the cataract
Mr. Harper said it has been sug-
gested that a mound of rock near the
American end of the falls; which re.
Made the flow of water, be blasted
away. Workmen chiselled away a re.
presentation of the mound and he
showed the reoult. By plecIng a small
island above Three SisterIsland the
ow of water was increased. A dam
Tho world Is, full of famous clocks of the AlSnAinn. This cloak not Only up the oldest part of Canton you mayi as they are—have bad nothing to do stroke ef twelve from the clock in the placed uPstreauri, slightly down from
and man0 great man has made time, delights the eye with ite fighters, but • easily become oriented by -asking al- • with the idea of "daylight saving," ; tower a simultaneous taidnIght abets* the intake of the hydro plant on the
yOanadian aide, gave a more equal dia.
pieces Ilia hobby. In the palace of the trIbution of water over the America
Iota Emperor Jesse at Vienna every sane and muletained the peecentage
room has st dock or two of. unique de- to which the fella Waa entitled..
algn and especially fine .workmanship.
The old Emperor had to leave home Wor'd's Most Fascinating
In order -to got away from the tIcks,
In old Nuremberg there is 0 cloak
over the Liebfrauereleirche klieWri as
the "Igarialeinlaufen." It seems that
the Esteems- Charles IV, took fl great
fancy to Nuremberg and istued a
"bull': le the year 1356 <leereeffig that
ovary succeeding Emperor should hold
his first diet In that city, . This was
no mean compliment, and the City
Loathers in celebration thereof swotted
the famous clock, It faces- the crowd-
ed ,marltet elope. Promptly at the first
stroke of 12 deerson either tide of
thegreat, clock ,swing open and seven
solemn 0}lieterS, slowly file peat .the
lemeeror Cherie*. IV, As each °teeter
is directly in front of the Emperor he
;taken a guide "right ranee—it sort of
.all "Wes right" in ealute to .the Bee
peror-e-ana restunea his inrcih,
Munich woulki play secontl ilddle to
no other DavartAn .towri, and It was
therefore 'enteral Diet these beer -tip-
ping saluachtion shottld -build them -
Betties a clock that .t. puke rank lligth
in the -cloak woeld, Thee Menials time -
pee* Is, in te tower 280 -,•feet high that
tune:runts the. Now teatimes. It pm -
forme et 11 au the Morning and itett
night, Na - Welter passing lir retiew
foe
Mar It is a Joust between
kniehte 'of old, The one represents
13tvor10;.tho ottior Aleatee, Ptirleesly
they','imb and parry and thruit, 110011
at length the fray endas all good
Mutiebeers would have it—the defeat trio maze of narrow alleys that imam Buctinghan Palace.
tickles the ear a bit with its -chimes.
Faces Wonderful Vista.
most any Chinese to thew you the ;which is only another tame for setting would be suede from within and with -
water dock, but it will do you very ; your pieces back an hour or moving ; out. Every contingency was carefully
little good as tar as determining the' them forward an hour. That honor , guarded against and the access of the
Venice boaste a dock that 'does time of day, To read the hieregmyhics belongs to an old clock In the Swifts schools seemed assumed, for, with the
everything'except eon you your birth- en the stone face of this cloak would city of Basle. The fishery of this clock exception of a few mentinels and watch -
day. It tette you what the sun end be an achievement akin to decipterIng '18 as follows: i men, the soldiers of tbo besieged city
moon are doing or ouglit to be doing
at any given hour; it tells more about
the stars than most books on astron-
omy, names the day of the week, the'
month, the date and the hour. • It
PerhaPe the largest clock In the world
knows. more about the Signs of the —but les principal claim to faze° Is its • her enemies and there was a discon-
Zodiac) then any almanac and it tops size only, and the twat that a popular tented, element within the city itself.
it all off by bearing' a. pair of litim°°8° braoes alarm, elack-1f an alerm clock! This diecontented element entered In -
bronze giants. atop the clock tower could ever be popular—has taken its; 10 an agreement with the besiegers to
look out upon the most, vivid picture asima,
I betray the city. It Was agreed between
to bo seen in any city, for they' are
these clerelts—aatneus and unusual the traitors and the enemy that et the
perched hlgh above the Piazza San
Marco. The matchless Cletheitral, *Rh
the four golden horses guarding the-
entranoe, the sky -piercing ,Campanile,
the Palace of the Doges, the Lion ob
St, Mark and St, Theodote, tiro patroe
;saint of the old Venetian Republic, up)
on their granite pedeatrele, and the
Grand Canal, eahose,blue waters ripple
over the marble steps of palaces, are
all a part of their wonderful vitta,
Inoome tax retuen. IL cannot be done _Onoe upon a time this city at Baa,..,1e1.170711,DeCtu eitiaTilsictthe wheehman In the
Just before the
the proper method of ellieg out pear ; Mem
n°t — clock tower g lead information 01 "Who Are the three Meet fascinating
except by expeets. which is on the River telane,
below the femme; 'falls of the river at i le
ta planned attaek. There eves not nm I" 1316 w°04? And WhIr
London towe beagle A. tem Tort( paper put these qua,
''Btff Eon"— Sohauffenhausen—was withstanding a
sutlicint time to arouse the garrison.
hard siege. She was sore pressed bY tau dons to A Jery ot twelve representie
Like Brave Horatlus, however,
Hee women, And their *Watt was Ise
watcher in the clock tower wee"con-
stain still in mind" and he quierkly f°11')"t 1, The ilrtxms of Wales, 2"
thought of the idea of moving the
hands of the dock torward one hour.
The traitor* -within and the enemy
without were all alertness and tetra
waiting for the last stroke of 12. The
groat clock struck one and stopped.
The traitors within enspeoted treede
ery bean without and the enemy with,.
out suspected treachery 'Within. Great
confuelon reigned in both CAMP% and
wells all this was going on the watch.
num waked the garrison and the teem
was saved.
Oldest of Clocks.
It is a long jump from Venice to
Catiton, China, but the • Cantonese
claim the oldeat clotk'in the world, a
'clock that ,Ime never been wound up
and- never will be. A clock that has
given trim tittle for many centuries
without the necessity far eo much as o
Auger beech from man. It is the fa.
mous water clock, The water power
wbich runs this enusuel timepiece
comes from tt never -faith% sprats,
watch supplies to it nicety the maces.
soy eurrent. It you should bo lost in
atle."4";4rIt ats,SA,
4 .1:sx,44:::Iie,:f*M011,
ev,:.?•• •••4:04 '0,44
ic •
Nms,:;;Sos....s.‘W;W
•Vkn,
. • ,,,;‘,A7Z.
This failure on the pant ot the one.
mies of Basle resulted lo the Meng of
the ,siego.
The Mayor, or the City Coundl, or
whatever it was cities had in those
days, decreed that, in horor of the
quic,k-witted wetehmata the hands of
the ' towu oink siteuld always remain
as Ile nad set them on that memorable
night—that is one hour ahead. Por
many, many years the great town
clock in Basle was always offs hour In
advance of all others—thie to the
great amusement of the neighboring
A photograph of. Queen Mary, the Queen of Italy and 01.11.00. 11ritine6A to‘vns, for they considered Beale mat
blefelde talten whilo they wore driving from. Victoria Station to rem% behind the times, when
reality it was an hour In adtalloe.
John Barrymora, the eetor; and 8,
eeven "dead -Pieta"! The King of
elpaln, Charlie Chaplin, Beetles Pelle
banks, rtodolph Vtateetino, rtioltar4
Dartheleless clonally Towle, and R,
L, hieneteu (the writer),
Nearly every 01)0 of rho twelve wee
Men on the panel plapitt the Print° of
Wales first and John Barrrolore
s,ecosszi, Mary Plokford Wes the only
woman to piece her ottel husband
Douglas Pairlienke, et the tend of ate
e011, 'Tear geeetion really eliould
reed: "Who aro the b000nd ao4 01111
most Tneolae.tinse ineol' " elle ft i
Madge Kennesly, alto come, epee;
put the Prinoo et Wales fire;. bosoms,
;the has Known that he hi Yell', Megl
of a hereon AO well NI 0 PlieeP
A, typist Saye the felleta 1/8 IsSteitiseel
for her rote; "The Petneet•taf ''gott le'
mY Brut (Melee, 810 IV, TINT iteint",
I
erotic, 0,114 a geslal den4A wiakkhi,
some ethee gels tliaea heals Tie tee et '
lova to typto 4 dentles WI11; 44441 0 ,
of nerve le fall oft hio honee es o i
as he slims,"
working in tanyerds Pr ettanalltkil
believed to be bouettelhl to 1100
who Defter froln diseaeee Of the 0 WIN
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