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GUIDES SHIPS
THRU STORMS
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The principle of “follow the
line,” used successfully by the
management of New York’s subway
system in handling crowds at congest
ed transfer points has been adapted
in a measure to insure safety to ships
at sea around crowded harbors. In
stead of a visible “green line,” how
ever, a device has been perfected
whereby vessels seeking their way into
harbor in thick weather can follow
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with safety a submerged and ener
gized wire.
In the outer reaches of New York
harbor where deep water meets shoals
there begins a marine passage way
»wn as Ambrose channel. This
nnel leads up through the narrows
into the inner harbor and to the docks
and in this channel the guilding cable
has been laid. Ships properly equip
ped to take advantage of its guiding
powers can follow it through any kind
of weather with the same degree of
assurance as can the passenger who
seeks to make his way from Grand
Central to Times Square.
The device consists of a cable 16
* miles long laid in the center of the
channel. It is energized with an alter
nating current from the shore.. Ships
to take advantage of it must be com
pletely equipped with audiphones or
listening devices attached to the hull.
Approaching the channel the sound
waves emitted by the cable can #be
heard for some distance, and the in
creasing or decreasing strength of the
sound enables the ship to be steered
until it is right over the source. It
is then a simple matter to follow its
course through the dredged channel
despite storm or fog which would
make the marking buoys invisible or
would tend to confuse the warning
notes of automatic bell whistle mark
ers in the harbor.
This cable is but an additional pro
V tection for shipping entering American
ports. It supplements the radio com
pass installed and operated by the
naval communications service now in
successful use all along the Atlantic
coast. By the compass, ships can
ascertain their exact position in any
kind of weather. Another protection
re^^fcy tried out by the navy depart
ment is a machine for determining
depth of water and proximity of other
ships through the readings of sounds
from the propellers reflected back
from the bottom or nearby bodies.
MANY RESIGN
FROM RANKS
>. IRISH POLICE
DUBLIN, Aug. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Resignations from the ranks
of the royal Irish constabulary con
tinue to increase and are now about
200 a month. Recruits to take the
places of the men who quit are now
mostly men from England, ex-service
men and others attracted by the pay,
£3, 10 shillings a week. Formerly
the men came from the Irish family
class. Part of the resignations are
attributable to the constant read in
which the police are now forced to
live in anxious apprehension of at
tack.
The recruits from across the chan
nel and soldiers specially detached
ff,r police duty arc nicknamed the
“black-and-tans.”
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AVIATORS GET
REAL THRILL AT
DAYTON FIELD
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (by Associ
ated Press).—Army aviators have
long since ceased to get many thrills
out of the routine or even “stunt” fly
ing, it is said, but an exception should
be made in the case of two sergeants
who recently set out to break the
world’s altitude record for a parachute
jump at McCook field, Dayton, Ohio,
according to an air service announce
ment. The men were Sergeants
Strong B. Madan and Ralph Bottreil.
The sergeants, without intimating
the nature of their objective, took the
air in a Le Pere two-seated plane
with Madan as the pilot and Bottreil
wearing a standard army parachute of
the double-pack type. After flying for
an hour the plane had reached an al
totude of 20,600 feet and Sergeant Bot
treil started to climb out of the cock
pit to make the jump.
The release of his parachute, how
ever, accidently caught on the fusel
age of the plane and the parachute
opened prematurely dragging the ser
geant out over the. tail of the machine.
Bottreil’s arm struck the rudder of the
plane as he went by, tearing some lig
aments of his arm and ripping off a
sleeve of his fur-lined coat. A strap
of his harness at the same time caught
the rudder and tore it from the plane.
The parachute itself was damaged
but opened as the sergeant cleared the
; machine and started his long descent.
Sergeant Bottreil lost considerable
blood from his injured arm during the
! drop, but made a safe landing in a
plowed field and received medical at
tention in time to prevent any serious
result from his injury.
Meantime, Sergeant Maden, in a rud
derless airplane, 20,000 feet in the air,
was having troubles of his own. He
finally found a position where he
; could maintain a straight flight by
keeping the throttle in a certain posi
tion and tilting the planes with the
ailerons. In this manner he glided
down to within about 8000 feet of the
earth where he managed to make a
wide turn by juggling his throttle and
aileron controls, straightened out his
machine and made a perfect landing
without further damage to the ma
chine.
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NEW METHODS
INAUGURATED
IN U. S. MINTS
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—The Philadelphia
mint turned out 501,000,000 coins in
the last fiscal year.
Raymond T. Baker, director of the
United States mint, gave out the fig
ures after inspecting the institution.
New die-cutting machines, electric
furnaces and carrying devices have
been installed within the last year
and efficiency methods have been
adopted which greatly increase the
output of the mint.
The increase last year was about
25 percent over 1919. In 1916 a lit
tle over a million coins were pft>
duced.
Mr. Baker recently returned from
the San Francisco mint, where he is
preparing to install improved machin
ery similar to that in the Philadel
phia mint.
“With the recent additions,” said
Mr. Baker, “the Philadelphia mint is
now not only the largest mint in this
country but manufactures a larger
number of coins than any other mint
in the world.”
BEES MAKE" UP
FOR SHORTAGE
I BEET SUGAR
ROME, Aug. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Italy is devising means to
alleviate the beet sugar shortage.
She has been urged to put more bees
at work producing honey. Italy in
1917 had nearly 67,000 miles of rail
ways and at regular intervals along
the lines are little homes where the
railway employes, signalmen, track
walkers and repairmen live. The
manager of the National Institute for
Agrarian Assistance recently recom
mended that they each be given a
hive of bees. In conformity with the 1
suggestion the experiment is to be
begun at once on the lines in the
province of Rome and, if successful,
it will be extended to all the rail
ways of Italy.
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