Zurich Herald, 1930-03-20, Page 3How Britain Can Recover Atlantic
Steamship Speed Blue Ribbon
CAUSE OF LOSS OF THE PREMIER POSMON
Increasing Power Without Increasing the Weight DrivenWilli
Increase Speed
(By Sir John Biles) boiler at least one-half more surface'
Now that the fastest ship on the At -
'elate is not British, it may be of in-
terest to reflect on what is the cause
of the Idss of tbe premier position in
shipbuilding by the British Mercantile
Marine,
In 1906 the Lusitania and the Maure-
tania were undoubtedly the fastest At -
butes liners afloat, having a speed of
26 knots, and no attempt was made to
surpass thein in speed until the Ger-
man ships Europa and Bremen were
laid down in 1926.
The Vaterland (now the Leviathan)
ami tbe Imperator (now the Berens
garia) were built by the Germans.
'These were followed by the Bismarck
(now the Majestic) and some other
slower vessels.
The Aquitenia, of the ,Cunard Line,
and the three other named vessels had
speeds of about 24 knots. The most
striking point about the German. 'ships
was that they had boilers in which
the fire is outside the tubes containing
the water, called water -tube boilers,
while the British ships adhered to the
cylindrical boilers in which the fire
is inside tae tubes, usually called
Scottie's boilers.
The Lusitania and tbe Mauretania
were smaller ships than the Aqui-
tante, Imperator, Vateliond, and the
Bismarck, and 'it would therefore ap-
Veer that to obtain the greatest speed
it is not necessary to adopt water -tube
boilers, at any rate. the adoption of
water -tube boilers was not associated
with the greatest speed.
It is, however, the horsepower per
ton of weight. driven that determines
the speed, supposing that the ship de-
sigu is in all cases equally good. In
the case of the Mauretania this is
about 2 hasper ton of weight driven,
while in the other four ships it is
about 1 to 1.2.
Anything that can be done to in -
can be got per ton of weight. Hence
for every ton of weight we can get 60
Per cella snore steam from a water -
tube boiler than from a, Scottish. at
the same pressure, and we can get 20
per oent. more oil burnt. Also, Vre can
get a higher pressure and increased
efficiency.
Applying this to the weight of the
lafauretania's boilers, which are near-
ly one half of her total machinery
weight, we can get an increase of
power of well over 20 per cent., and
an increase of speed of well on to 2
knots, nearly sufficient, if not quite, to
equal the Bremen's speed.
Thus we see that the effect of bolls
er design is sufficient to deserve the
most serious consideration if we are
td get back the Blue Ribbon of the At-
lantic.
The whole of the weight saved in
boilers cannot be used for increasing
power unless we can get across the
Atlantic for the same weight of fuel.
The Bremen, which is the cause of
all this talk, carries about the same
weight of fuel as the Mauretania,
While her machinery weighs 20 .per
cent. less than the Mauretania's. Dr.
Bauer, the designer of her machinery,
announces that he is prepared to pro-
duce a 4 -day ship whose machinery
will be 10 per cent. lighter than the
Mauretania's. It looks as' if unless
something on the same lines is under-
taken by us we shall be out of the at
running. 1 recent launching
Some responsible officials are re- Mg of naval officers.
luctant to adopt water-tu boilers,
which will give the highest speed, 1
Globe-Trottina
though they have been at the root of
France Builds Wonderful New Cruieer
Ready for Anything i New TOW11 Safe
Kaye Don Prepared I Perplexing Problem of Water
British. Racing Motorist Will Supply for Port Churchill
Now Solved
Drive Mammoth "Silver
Sunbeam. welAir.g Ottaysa.—A tiolution hits just been
Buliet found for one of the Most perplexing
Seven Tons With Engines engineering problears 1u the deVelop-
slipsNazaire,
has 1 ,fromtells
Developing 2,000 Horse Ment of northern Canada, namely, sup-
Po-wer at Daytona Beach ply of water for the coining port and
New Yorke—Another carefree, Enda ecu Bay Railway,
city of Churchill, terrninue of the Ilud-
challenge death and man-made speeds Ordinary methods of piping water
ing Briton is in the United. States to
On the steel hard sands of Da,ytoua below the frost line fail up there be'
cause borings as deep Asir feet have
BeTahellis,
time it is Kaye Don, crack Bra readhed solid rock • before coming to
fish race driver, who will follow in the the end of the frozen soil. Churchill
wheel ruts made by his famous British will be founded on 'eternal frost—or
March, on the Florida sands that have ands of years ago.
rgoisateiatar ages,t liatebnesenaprtehsoeunst.
Predessor, Major Sir H. Segrave, last saltneleeasthtef
grave drove his roaring Golden Arrow Pipes laid through that frozen sub -
cos ttwo speed kings their lives, Se -
Sunbeam at the amazing speed of soil would freeze solid in an hour, ac -
231,33 miles an hour to set the record. cording to D. W. Lachlan, engineer of
Don, a goodeiatured *veteran et the department of railways and cans
Great War 'Days, will try to smash ale, who has been coping -with sub -
that record in a bigger, and he Waits arctic conditions at Churchill and Nel-
son. for seventeea years.
better Sunbeam. This one a main- Plans are being completed these
moth seven -ton creation In silver gray days tor the location of a pipe line to
turn to drive because Segrave, one of least four feet to protect the water
be laid in dry moss, to thickness of at
labelled the "Silver Bullet. It is leis
his best friends, has definitely turned from the long cold weather and the
from automobile record smashing to bitter sea gales.
his first love, the building of a speed The source of Churchill water will
boat that will conquer all tine stand- be Grassy Slough, a depression. not tar
Don is a bachelor of 36, tall, well from the famous Rosabella Lake,
named after the wife of William
ards on the water. •
set tp, With Sandy hair, a brisk tan Beech, who tomeateacled thete M1905,
mustache, bine eyes and a pair of deep Steam shovels will gouge out Grassy
dimples at the corners of his moth. Ile Slough to a depth of some twenaa,
• drives purely for the sport of the feet. TE necessary, Rosabella Lake
1 thing, was the I3ritish champion in and a large area to the south can be
1928 and 1929, has never piloted a drained into the reservoir. The land
machine faster than 162 miles an hour, has been. taken over by the govern -
and flew a bomber in France during meat to prevent squatters locating in.
the war. the water drainage area. A line is
at her
train-• a
If we consider," he said, "what is being located, with. two pumping sta-
done in the air, we can realize that tions on the escarpment above the s
a human being should be able to present site t. `.. the town and the docks
Legion
usea is the boiler from ahic
h the
greatest speed of a ship may be ex-
pected.
The water -tube boiler has two ad -
:vantages over the Scottish boiler:
First, it can burn more oil fuel per
!square foot of heating surface;
Second, it can deliver the steam at
a higher pressure and greater effici-
These highly developed types of ma- wr1.
iter had travelled North from Ed-
chinery involve the use of highly de -1 mouton- At :Port Vermilion he Plan-
ned to circle North and East on a Jour-
veloped brains for controlling, them, \
ney. ot almost 1,000 miles, most of
and the present state of the organize-
-whicls he planned to traverse on feats,
tionof salpowning companies 'Shay not
Dr. Faber had been sought by police
Ina Scottish boiler each 35 square .
eet of heating surface involves a ton I seem to encourage this kind of limo-
' patrols and by radio broadcasts fel
ot boiler weight, while in a water -tube ration. some weeks in au effort to inform ham
that his mother had died in Berlin.
Liplit Has Weight The Great
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Dr. IC. Martin, German Consul at Win-
nipeg, had been requested from Ger-
Emstein Claims Empire Red Cross many to transmit the information to
the globetrotting reporter.
Prof. A. I-1. S. Gillson, of Conference
reached y er-boat, to the 'Upper
From Fart Vermilion, which he had riv
Many interesting features will char -
McGill, Discusses Strange
Conclusions acterize the forthcoming British Em -
,Hay River Post, Dr. Faber had travel led by canoe, portaging from the
source of one river to the origin of
Einstein's experiments lead to some pire Red Cross Conference which is
extraordinary concInsions, one of to take place in May in London, Eng -
which is that the universe is a large land, according to information now ia
the bands of the Headquarters'
affi-
-. dais of the Canadian Red Cross So-
Calcultitione based upon the vela- ciety in Toronto.
tivity theory show that the sun came • -
into. being at a definite time and that
the' world. took shape three thousand
mllie
in years ago.
Other conclusions from Einstein's
greet experiments indicateal that the
geeinetry taught in schools is quite in-
accurate and that it may sometime be
replaced by a. geometry of curved
space.
Measurable Weight
That light has weight which is mea-
surable was also shown, the speaker
said. It has been estimated that 160
tonts ot light fall upon the earth daily.
At the rate which light is sold by a
local power company, the value of the
light energy falling upon the earth is
at the rate of $t90,000,000 per pound,
the lectnrer said. overseas parts of the EMPIre, large
Calculations based upon Einstein's or small, and irrespective of whether
find -tugs show that time and space are they possess organized Red Cross So -
The session at this unique gathering
will be held in the historic St. James'l that his body was washed as to .
Palace, which is now so prominently his canoe had been dashed to Piens
before the eyes of the world as the I in a rapids. •
meeting place of the Disarmamentonly
Conference. 1 ...---...a.
On May 20th its plenary nest= will "Man ti -day can fly like a bird, bet
be presided over by the Duke of York, i man will never be able to sit comfort -
while Princess Mary is scheduled to ably on a barbed wire fence."—Lord
inspect • the various V.A.D. detach -1 Dewar.
ments, present from many parts of the'
another in his struggle into the NOI t-
ern barrens. His death is believed to
have occurred as he paddled north
along the river toward tbe G-reat
Slave. The meagre statement from
the post of the Mounties may mean
that the journalist fell exhausted or
ft •
ing of this history be underta cen a
once; and that it shall be a true re-
cord of the sacrifice, the suffering and
the achievements of the soldiers, sail-
ors and airmen of Canada, with that
theme the predominant note in any
such history.
Tbe Legit...la's attitude is based part-
ly on. the prevalence of war histories
which pay very little attention_ to the
part of Canada's men in the field,
and. partly on the thought this his-
tory should be written while the men
who could make vital .contributions
to it, in the way of actual experiences
and accurate Tecords, are still alive.
It is believed, tco, that this history
should be undertaken by the Domin-
ion Government, and that when it is
-completed, it should be used as the
official text -book on the great war in
all the public schools and high schools
and collegiate institutes throngliout
the DCMillt011.
d. W
water
on land. Within five years, the re- miles down. to the port.
cord should be close to 200 miles an The water pipe itself will be sus
hour. It is all a question of stream ported on wooden. posts driven iuto
lining," he said. the clay and sticking up four feet or
The "Silver Bullet," which bas more above the ground. Above that
never been driven, but has a theoreti- in a mound reaching four feet above
cal epeed of 260 miles an hour is a the pipe dry moss will be piled. That
great improvement over Segrave's will be capped with sheet-irca and
"Golden Arrow" in evading wind re- thatched straw to prevent the moss
sistance, Don said. The new car is from getting wet, and. from turning it
30 feet long, weighs Seven tons, has into a good -conductor of cold.
two stabilizing- fins to keep it on the
ground, and is equipped with silk tires
37 inches in diameter and. lightly cov- Children's Aid
hour
The "Bullet" is powered by two 12-
.
cylinder aviation engines iu tandem,
developing 2,000 horsepower, three
times as numb. as Segrave's "Golden
Arrow." has th.__Teeas and
should travel at the Tate. et 90 miles
an hour in ftrst, 180 in second, 2130 •in
high.
Our Tourist Trade
According to the estimate of the
Provincial Minister of Roads, who
ought to know, tourists last year
brought a revenue of some sixty-two
million dollars to this province, and it
is estimated that they will bring
eeventy-tive millions during' the pre-
sent year. 'When it is borne in mind
that the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
shows a total revenue for the Do-
minion from the tourist traffic of. over
two hundred and fifty minion dollars,
Quebec'e share is seen to be a very
large Otte. tI is all the more neces-
sary that the people of this province
should be alive to the necessity of fos-
tering the tourist trade in every legiti-
mate manuer.—Montreal Star.
"The theatre to -day is not more vul-
gicaaril;eit's just more mithral."—Helen
ashamed to confess ignorance."—
Clarence Darrow.
"It is ignorant who are
Judge—"Prisoner, the jury finds
you guilty." Prisoner—"Teat.'s all
right, judge. I know you're too intelli-
gent to be influenced 'by what they
eay."
Does Valuable W rk
Children Placed in Good
Homes Are Average Good
Youngsters and Turn
Out Well
Furst Ilighwayman—"Say, is there
United Kingdom. 'There is not a woman living who is
Invitations to send delegates to this physically or mentally capable of tell- anY danger in this businees?"
Empire -wide conference of Red Cross ing the true story of her lifeless you get shot."
workere. have been issued by Briga- Hopkins Joyce.
dier-General H. B. Cbampaia of the
British Red Cross Society, who has
folloWed.7a now precedent by asking
attendance of representatives from all
not fixed as in ordinary t ioug
These depend upon velocity. A train
moving will be found to have a shorter
length than one at rest. Also a clock
indicates lesser time as its velocity is
increased. It it were possible to throw
a clock to' give it a velocity equal to
that of light, 1813,000 miles per second,
then time would cease to be recorded.
• Perpetual Youth
•
Perpetual youth would in the same
way bo attained if man. could reach a
velocity equal to that of light. How-
ever, the lecinaer added, the man
would not be visible to his friends as
his mass would become inflinitesinial.
Calculations. f rom one of Einstein's
equatioas demonstrates that there is
• enough energy in an ounce of cheese
lift a weight cf 30,000,000 tons to
the top of Eiffel tower while a pound
of chees could provide enough energy
to raiee 2,000,000 dreadnoughts to a
height or 2,000 miles.
The sun, it is estintated, is losing
, through dissipation of energy, 360,000
Million tons of its weight
cieties or not.
The agenda as foreshadowed by the
tentative programme will be very
broad as it will deal with not only Em-
pire and national activities but with
meny..internationnl aspects of Red
Cross work, Some of its propoaecl
features include addresses from pro-
minent health or educational authori-
ties, demonstrations in London Comity
Counbil Schools, an. elaborate Junior
Red Cross Empire Pageant, the possi-
bilities of co-operative effort of Junior
Red Cross with all other organizations
o2 juveniles within the Empire, and
the widest discussion of the interna-
tional and imperial aspects of the Red
Cross.
The Canadian Red Cross Society
will send at least•011icial delegates to
the 1.11111)ir0 Conference with several
additional representatives who will be
named by the Central ,Coun.cil on
March 27th.
Sho—"Now you pride yotu•seli
being able to judge a woman's char-
on
.
"—Peggy Second Higlawaymen—"No, not un-
Thrills of Mountain Motoring Becoming Popular
mask of the sun being kiiowhl, isact by her clothes. What: would be WHERE SHARP TURNS AND STEE
Quite ail extensive work is carried
on in Ontario in the direction ot pro-
viding orphan or destitute children
with good homes in private families,
and with a view to giving readers C,
some information regarding this laud-
able work our representative recently
had a tallc with. Mr. J. 3. Kelso, who
is in charge of the Children's Aid
Branch of Ontario Government Ser-
vice.
Naturally the first question asked
was, "Where do the children come
from?"
"Well," was the reply, "there are a
variety of ways in which children be-
come homeless. Very often the death
of a mother throws children on the
world uncared for, the father indiffer-'
ent and neglecting to provide proper,
home life for the children. Frequent-
ly, also children are placed in public
institutions or with private parties by
the parents, who then disappear: some
parents have no affection for their
children and cannot be made provide
for them properly; while ia other
caseS the relatives have fallen into
evil habits and the child for its own
protection has to be removed front
their control."
"Are not s.ueh children an undesha
able class for adoption?" Mr. Kelso
Was asked.
"No ,there is a goocl deal of miscon-
ception on this point. People frequents.
ly imagine that homeless children
must necessarily be plain -looking, bad
tempered and evil-minded, but such is
not the case. As a rule they compare
favorably with the average run of
children."
'Where should application be
made?"
Anyone wishing a child has only to
address a letter to the SeScretary ot
the Children's Aid Society of their
City or County. There are over sixty
organizations in this work, or they can
apply direct to my office." The cider
boys and girls are taken partly for the
assistance they can give, but the ma-
jority of people desire to satisfy the.
craving of lonely hearts for children
to love and chevish.'"
pet day. The
—.:,—
Fairy Tea
So make yourself at home, and then
A. fairy who went visiting
Her hostess said: "I tun so glad
For I have some honeyed aoseleaves
Arrived at lialf-past three;
You. came in time for tea,
And fresh dew brought by the elves..
We'll eat them all ourselves."
—ses.
"I do not believe in that word Fate.
It is the refuge of every selaconfeseed
fartare."—ar
Atiew Soutar
P GRADES PREDOMINATE .
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"le atheism wins over a whole 1)01(11
way, the Cava motor mita in the Jasper Na-
lation, the nation InitSt disapPear,"—
Will Durant,
t siatet over therer eye and a quicker foot an this moan -tabs higl
abutted that enough remains so that VOL. verd c on my
seam, 9ne needs a saa c
Years to go on giving Out its energY, tire)—"Insufficiett evidenee,"
the- sun still has 15,000,000 Million Ha (lookieg at her sister's : timial Park, Alberta,
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