HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-6-14, Page 6Ancient Tunnel
Revealed By Cow
Looking from his bedroom win-
dow one mottling recently a grand-
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. II, John-
stone, owners of a country estate
at Gramponnd, near Truro, .Corn-
wall, saw a hole in the lawn in
front of the nlalsion which dates
back to 172.3. It had not been there
when be went to bed.
An estate employee descended
twenty feet down the Dote on a
ladder and, with a lighted candle,
advanced cautiously several yards
before discovering a valuable pedi-
gree Guernsey cow belonging to
the estate.
The weight of the cote had
caused a snbsidence which disclosed
tunnelling and -underground pas-
sages cat through solid reek below
the lawn.
Why the passages were ever built
retttains a mystery, but they may
have heeu a secret -hiding place
used in the. Middle Ages when
fends and strife of all kinds were
prevalent. Some hunted priest or
some fugitive from justice, may
have lain hidden there.
Workmen demolishing a 17th
century house at La Meutte,
France, in 1930, found beneath
the ruins a vaulted room appar-
ently built as a secret refuge. They
first found a trapdoor under the
floor. Opening it, they walked with
lamps down some rickety stairs.
To their astonishment they found
themselves in a comfortably fur-
nished room with several chairs, a
bed and the dried-up remains of
some food. •An airpipe connected
with an old well had long before
crumbled into ruins.
The workmen found six empty
worm-eaten chests bearing arms
dating front the time of Louis
x iv.
The farmer -tenant of Chaulber-
combe, Old Manor, near Ilfracombe,
Devon, discovered in 1865 a
bricked -up window and got busy
on it with a pick. Behind he found
a double -floored room in the middle
of which stod an ancient and valu-
able bed. And lying on the bed was
the skeleton of a woman.
It was believed the roost was a
relit of smuggling days and that
the woman had been captured from
a Spanish ship that sank off Ilfra-
combe.
Many years ago an underground
passage was discovered at Arundel,
Sussex, running from the castle in
the direction of Amberley. But
when a ratan lost his life in trying
to follow its windings the passage
was blocked up,
Testing Windmills
s Power Tants
The Orkney Islands are notori-
ously windy. The principal source
of power on the islands is the dies-
el engine, Diesel ail is relatively in-
expensive yet too expensive for the
Orkneys. After surveying the is-
lands, the North of Scotland Hydro -
Electric Board has decided to build
a windmill on the windiest spot
in the Orkneys, which is Costa
Hill. A windmill is now being
erected there—one of 1100 kilowatts
capacity, which is not exactly gig-
antic, yet big enough for research.
The experimental plant on Costa
Hill will be subject to gales which
are exceeded in severity only by
those that prevail at times near
the poles.
The tower will be built of steel
on solid rock, The sails will be
each thirty feet long. The nacelle,
seventy-eight feet above ground,
will contain a gear box and gen-
erator. It will rotate to keep the
rounded or propeller end facing the
wind.
Little Now Known
This experimental windmill is to
generate alternating current which
will be fed into an eleven -kilovolt
transmission network. Its rapacity
is less than the minimum local
s'imnter-night demand, so that it
is not likely to stand idle f:equent-
ly. The plant will be automatic.
The research engineers mho will
watch this windmill will be prin-
cipally interested in its annual out-
put and its trustworthiness, Fifty
or more different kinds of meters
will be placed here and tnere to
measure generator output and con-
sumption of the control circuits,
count the number of starts, hours
of operation and hours of idleness
when winds are too high.
Larger Plants Foreseen
If this experiment indicates that
windpower is more than a roman-
tic • possibility, Scotland and Brit-
ain, too, will probably be dotted
with plants. The more hopeful en-
gineers in Scotland believe that
windmills to drive 1,250•i:ilowatt
generators are around the corner
end that 5,000 -kilowatt genera-
tors, the probable maximum cap-
acity, are not wild improbabilities.
It still remains to be determined
-whether or not a large windmill,
este of 1,250 -kilowatt capacity, for
example, or larger, will be efficient
even if it can be built. the only
stay to answer is to experiment
with windmills, operate them in
and hydro -electric plants and thus
get the facts still needed.
She may not have been a photo-
grapher's daughter, but she rer-
teinly was well developed. '
Historic Canadian Beauty Spot
Standing at Tadoussac is this stockaded log hut, a replica of one in which French Traders
passed the Winter of 1599.
J0 T
pY A SlXBITC
As one who has for many years
held—and spilled—the firm opinion
that baseball gives the customers
less real action for their money
than any other game, tournament
chess possibly excepted, we were
recently both surprised and heart-
ened to notice that one diamond
magnate not only holds similar
views, but is prepared to do some-
thing about it.
k * *
Hank Greenberg was a smart ball
player—smart enough to quit the
game before the game quit him;
although, of course, the fact that
he married a girl worth several
millions might have made such a
decision somewhat easier for Hint
than it is for the average profession-
al athlete. For one of the saddest
things in sport is to see a former
star trying to hang on long after
everything else but the urge has
departed. As Lorelei Lee's maid
said, in GENTLEMEN PREFER
BLONDES, "The time to leave
them is when you're still looking
good."
k * *
Anyway, the aforesaid Mr. Green-
berg is now general manager of the
Cleveland Indians—a club that per-
forms in a ball pasture which takes
a heap of filling, especially when
the team isn't going so good, and
more particularly in tines like
these when the sports dollar is get-
ting a bit more choosey about what
it gets spent on. At all events,
Greenberg leas purchased a jeep for
Itis relief pitchers, to save them—
and the fans—that long, funereal
trek from the bull -pen to the pitch-
er's mound.
* * *
Now, at first sight this nlight'ap-
pear to be nothing more than a
piece of smart showmanship—like
telling the strip -teaser to go into
her routine when your theatre
catches fire—and designed to take
the Cleveland clients' minds off the
fact that the Indians were winning
just about as many games as they
lost, and getting nowhere fast. But
Greenberg seems to be really sin-
cere in his desire to speed up a
sport which gives every evidence of
becoming slower and slower to
watch.
* 5 *
In the interests of science, we re-
cently did a lot of tedious research
—a whole three minutes of it—
checking up on the elapsed times of
eight major baseball games contest-
ed on a certain afternoon and eve-
ning. Those eight averaged pretty
close to two and one-half hours
apiece -2.25 to be exact—which is
a lengthy stretch of time for any
but the most ardent bugs to hold
still, looking at a couple of teams
trying to get through 8/ or 9 in-
nings of run -of -the -mine ball.
In addition to his jeep innovation,
Hank Greenberg is also suggesting
that pitchers should await their
turn at bat in the "on deck" circle
like other players, instead of sitting
in the dugout 'til the last possible
second; also that umpires should be
instructed to make the players
hatstle when changing sides be-
tween innings. All of which would
indicate that Hank, for one, really
realizes what a menace to, the cash
customer th ese marathon contests
are becoming.
5 * *
Just who or what is responsible
for the slowing-up—well, your
guess is probably as good as ours,
or even better. There are some
who blame the lively ball, on the
grounds that it gives the batter too
big an edge over the pitcher. But
Uncle Ed Barrow, whose views on
baseball we respect more than
those of any other man, reminds us
Dramatic Gesture—A wife's "long shot" and the generosity of
a tIollywood star combined to give actor Tom Colixtrtl of Lon -
ion his big chance for a break. Actress Jeanette McDonald is
seen taking down her own caricature from the wall of Holly-
wood's Brown Derby restaurant to make room for Colburn.
Mrs, Colburn wrote Bob Cobb, Derby owner, asking him to
post her husband's pictttre In hopes some producer ]night see
it and bring the actor to Hollywood. After several Hollywood
personalities had turned down Collh's request to give up their
spot on the wall, Miss McDonald consented graciously, anel
even volunteered to appear in person to make the switch,
in his highly readable reminiscences
now running in Colliers that the
souped -up horsehide was introduced
by the short-lived and long -defunct
Federal League.
* * *
And you don't need to go back
nearly that far to recall when they
hustled through games in 90 min-
utes or so, and one could enjoy a
Saturday afternoon double-header
of two nine -inning games and still
get out in plenty of time to do a
little tonsil -cooling before the oases
shut down for the Sabbath week-
end at 6 p.m.
* * *
There are others who put the
blame on the sports writers who
tern out books on baseball at the
rate of judging front publishers'
lists—something like one a minute.
These authors have written so much
about "inside baseball" and the
like, that' the managers are so busy
with their master -minding they en-
tirely lose sight of those folks in
the stands and bleachers whose cash
contributions make their large sal-
aries, and larger reputations, pos-
sible. What is laughingly known as
a duel of wits between a couple of
bench managers may mance very in-
teresting reading. But looping at a
parade of 10 pitchers in one game
—as happened in a game reported
in today's paper—can be, as the
Englishman put it, nothing but a
beastly bore.
• * *
As for our own personal opinion
--well, we would just paraphrase
the old saying, "All of the world's
troubles began when they first
taught women to read," by sub-
stituting "ball players" for "wom-
en." Not so long ago we sat at a
ball game right next to another
ancient. Two batters in succession
had made hits, and the pitcher could
be seen glancing, first at the bench
and then toward the bull -pen, plain-
ly expecting—and wanting—relief,
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"Imagine," we said, "guys like
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enough."
* * *
"The whole trouble is," growled
our seat -elate in reply, "that most
of these modern pitchers go into
the game unable to do themselves
justice. THEY'RE SO TUCK-
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* * *
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rte even identified the brand of
soap)
Further inquiries pointed to the
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front the United States to London.
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20,000 ft. over the Atlantic:
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iu readiness to land as it approach-
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ISSUE 23 — 1950
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