•MEASURING OF
RACING YACHTS
FOR BIG EVENT
NEW YORK, July 9 (by Associat
ed Press).—Just prior t< the starting
of the first race for tie America’s
^ Cup this month off S tndy Hook,
Shamrock IV, the challenger and the
f American depender of the historic
trophy will be towed to a South
Brooklyn shipyard for official meas
urement. This is a very important
feature of the big contest and one that
is going to create considerable
trouble. Upon the outcome of measure
ment, will depend the time allowance
that will exist between the craft. No
one knows what this allowance is go
ing to be, although all who are fam
iliar with the situation state, that
the challenger will have to give time
* to the defender.
It is going to be an exceedingly dif
ficult task to measure the cup yachts.
For the first time, the big race will
be sailed under the Universal Rule
of Measurement. The rule reads, as
follows:
“Yachts shall be rated for classifi
cation and time allowance according
to the following formula: 18 per cent
of the product of length, multiplied by
the square root of the sail area,
divided by cube root of displacement.”
This is an exceptionally complicat
ed rule and one that only yacht de
signers understand. For the past 30
years in all of America’s cup races
the measurement of a boat for time
allowance has been one-half of the
sum of the load water line length and
the square root of sail area.
In 1903 and previous years Messrs.
Mower and Hyslop simply measured
the deck length of a boat, dropped a
plump bob from each end into the
water, floated a batten in under the
bow and under the stern, measured
on the batten the distance from the
plump line to the end of the water
line length. The sail area was meas
ured according to arbitrary methods
but it was assumed to be and very
nearly was the measurement of the
area of the sails. To determine the
square root of this area was a sumple
matter and one sum in addition and
one in division determined the rating
of the boat.
This was the formula even in 1903
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although the measurements of boats
>for other races of the New York
Yacht Club of that year were made
under a rule very similar to the one
now in force but this rule having been
adopted early in 1903, and the chal
lenge for the cup races of 1903 hav
ing been accepted in the fall of 1902,
the old rule of measurement prevail
ed in the last cup races.
This year however, the measuring
of the yachts will be more complicat
ed involving a lot of calculation. The
load-water line will be measured as
heretofore and then the quarter
'beam length will be ascertained. This
dimension is used as a corrective of
the load-water line and it must not
without penatly be more than a cer
tain percentage of the load-water
♦ line length, for a boat of 75-feet water
line, the dimension fixed by the chal
lenger, this percentage will be slight
ly over 91 per cent. Should it ex
ceed this percentage one-half of the
excess will be added to the load-water
line length, in order to constitute the
length factor in the calculation fori
rating.
In addition there will be various
tests to ascertain whether the build
ers have made any concave curves or
notches in the lines of the hull for
if so certain penalties are provided:
While quite different from that of
years ago the method of measuring
the sail area is really a method of
ascertaining practically the area of
the sails. These two measurements,
^ the length factor and the sail area
factor may of course be taken while
the boat is in the water. The really
n&hr feature of the measurement of
the cup yachts, however, will be the
measurements taken to determine the
spacing. The rule governing this
reads:
“Displacement to be obtained by
weighing or as follows: The load
water line shall be divided into 10
equal parts and the areas of the im
mersed cross sections found in square
feet. From these areas the load water
line length, the displacement in
cubic feet shall be calculated by
Simpson’s Rule.”
As it is impossible to weigh a cup
racer the area of the immersed
cross-sections must be determined.
In order to do this it becomes neces
sary to place the boat in drydock,
after the first mark in the water line
not only at the bow and stern but all
the way round, the vessel is allowed
to settle on the blocking as the water
is drawn off so that the load water
f -**plane should be horizontal.
If one were to erect a perpendicular
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wall at the side of the boat, parallel!
to her center line, and then measure ;
at intervals equal to one-tenth of
the load water line length horizon
perpendicularly, from this wall, hori
perepndicularly, from this wall, hori
zontally to the side of the boat, these
measurements would be offsets.
The effective of it is much like
slicing the boat crosswise into sec
tions, then dividing each section into
parallelograms a foot high, then cal
culating the area of each of these
foot-high parts, and adding them to
gether to make the area of the sec
tion and this, it may readily be seen,
is going to be a good deal of a job.
Simpson’s rule is rather a scareful
thing when you look at in the engi
neer’s field books, but it is not such
a bit of mathematical depravity as it
looks to be, and the application of it!
is a matter of plain arithmetic, al- j
though involving quite a lot of addi-1
tion, multiplication and division. Hav
ing divided the load w^ater lines into
10 equal parts, you have made nine
cross-sections. You add the areas of
these cross sections.
Having determined" the displace
ment, the length factor, and the sail
area and multiply it by the length fac- i
tor. He will then ascertain the cubic \
root of the displacement and with it
divide the product he has secured by
the multiplication of the length fac
tor by the sail area factor; and then
to get the ultimate result he will
take 18 per cent of the result of that
division, and that will be the rating!
for the time allowance.
PAID EXPENSES
OF DELEGATES
TO CONVENTION
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ST. LOUIS, July 9 (by Associated
Press).—Checks signed by Edward F.
Goltra, Democratic national commit
teeman from Missouri, were given to
delegates to pay their expenses to the
Democratic state convention at Jop-;
lin, according to testimony by mem
bers of the St. Louis Democratic com
mittee before the senate investigating
committee, which opened its hearing
here today.
D’ANNUNZIO AUTHORITY j
IN FIUME REPUDIATED:
FIUME, July 9 (by Associated
Press).—Repudiation of D’Annunzio’s
authority as commander in Fiume is
voiced in a protest by a group of in
fluential Fiumians to the national
council. The president of the council
has promised to take the matter up
with the poet-dictator.
RESUME SALVAGE OF
CRUISER LAURENTIC
LONDONDERRY, July 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Efforts will be resum
ed this summer to recover the 4,000,
000 pounds of gold still lying in the
wreck of the British auxiliary cruis
er Laurentic which was sunk by a
mine off the mouth of the Lough
Swilly in January, 1917, while on her
way to New York. The bullion is in
bars each of which is worth 1,200
pounds. Altogether the Laurentic
carried about 7.000,000 pounds in gold
when sunk. It is estimated that
about 3,000,000 pounds has since been
recovered.
Up to now the weather has been
unfavorable and, as the wreck lies
in an exposed position, the salvage
work can be done only in the finest
weather. It is expected that some
blasting will be necessary to get at
the compartments in which the gold
was carried. The work is being done
by the Racer, a salvage ship.
MILLION IN FISH TAKEN
FROM CANADA WATERS
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 9 (by As
sociated Press).—From January first
of this year fish to the value of $1,
300,000 were caught in British Colum
bia waters. The bulk of the catch
was herring. Seventeen varieties
were taken in provincial waters, in
cluding octopus which netted the fash
ermen $2,000.
NEWSY BUDGET |
HAPP NINGS
AT ICARTHYj
(From McCarthy News)
Daniel Jones, sueprintendent of
road work for the Alaska Road Com
mission paid a visit to McCarthy last
week to enquire into the needs of this
part of the country. He also made
a trip to Nizina river and the trail
where the wagon road is to be built.
He says that the A. R. C. has enough
money to do some good work if labor
can be obtained. Mr. Jones will use
every effort to secure funds for the
building of a bridge over the river
also, for, as he rightly argues, that
need is as great as the wagon road.
Two carloads of freight arrived, in
cluding horses, machinery and sup
plies. The camp is being pitched to
day and right after the Fourth the
work will be in full swing. Messrs.
Mike Johnson, Teddy Holmes, and J.
S. Taylor arrived on yesterday’s
train to be employed by the A. R. C.
Gus Johnson can use twenty men on
the road commission work. Four dol
lars a day and board.
Our local attorney, Joe Murray, ar
rived from the head of Young creek
where he has had a considerable
amount of dead work to do on his
property this season but expects to
be in good shape for mining very
shortly and then all the gold in the
boxes will be velvet.
Ben Jackson and his partner return
ed from their hunting and prospect
ing trip to the head of the Chisana.
They had a perfectly wonderful time
as per usual, but brought back no
bear.
Mail from Shushanna arrived on
Thursday evening.
The government survey party
which has been camped here for
some weeks is moving six miles out
on Sourdough trail today. George
Anderson’s teams were employed to
move the outfit.
Mrs Carvey passed through Mc
Carthy today, on her way to join
her, husband on Rex creek.
Through the courtesy of the offi
cials of the Copper River & North
western railway, our regular mail
service has been augmented by spe
cial trips, averaging at least two
outside mails per week which are
more than appreciated by the town
folks.
A. C. Baldwin, U. S. surveyor, ar
rived in town on yesterday’s train and
will leave in a few days to survey the
Tjosevig property.
A carload of horses arrived yes
terday, sixteen of which were sold
within an hour to Murie Transfer
Co.
JACK JOHNSON NOW
WANTS TO SURRENDER
LOS ANGELES, Jfily 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Jack Johnson today tel
ephone federal officials from Tia
Juana that he was willing to surrender
if granted certain privileges.
WANTED—Girl for general housework.
Apply Mrs. Brock. 6-tf
LOST—Brown hat in restaurant. Party
taking same please return to Times
Office. 6-tf
FOR SALE—American Bakery; half or
whole interest. 3-3t
WANTED—Two tie makers. Pay Titty
cents straight for both first and second.
Parties to batch themselves. Apply
Blum. O’Neill Co., Cordova or Harry
Christie, Mile 19. tf
FOR SALE—Restaurant.. Apply to Geo.
Dooley. tf
FOR SALE—Three-room partly fur
nished house at ocean dock. Phone
167-2 rings. 14-tf
FOR SALE—First-class pool table. In
good condition, Price $150. See F. H.
Foster. 11-tf
FOR RENT—Apartments In the Burk
hart flats. Phone 61. 3-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins.. Apply
to Cordova Abstract & Realty Co. 22-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished Cabins. See
Dooley.
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OVER THE STATES
PAUL BLOEDHORN’S
Jeweler and Watchmaker. Phone 132
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The treatment is relieving the impingment of nerves of different
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The science is taught in recognized Colleges, and confer the
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DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC.
The course is three years, covering a number of subjects to enable
the student to carefully diagnose your case.
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Histology Pathology
Physiology Embryology
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After July 1st, my wife, ELLA W. WIGHT, who Is also a full
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Thanking you, CECIL J. WIGHT,
Hours 11 A. M. to 8:30 P. M. Chiropractor.
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Guess the Answer!
Think of the number of let
ters in the name of your favorite
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Divide by two.
Subtract the number you
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Add one.
Subtract six.
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