THE “MILWAUKEE” AGAIN TO THE FRONT
Through the extensive main-line Electrification of
its mountain divisions, the "Milwaukee" lias again
made good its claim to being the Pioneer Line. This
colossal undertaking has attracted world wide atten
tion and wonderfully increased the safety and effi
ciency of the road.
For additional information call on or address
TOM TALLENT. Agent.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RY.
A. E. Harris, T. I\ A., Juneau, Alaska.
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HEADQUARTERS OF AN AVIA
ITION (lltOIIP, FRENCH FRONT.
May IS. — (Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) — The aviator Is
an early bird and here, where the
I nightingale abounds, it Is a close lace
between them to bed at dusk and to
the fields at down.
Tlie nightingales were rioting In
song this morning when the pilot is of
tlie Franco American flying corps
v ere making their way to the aviation
camp, and daylight had just peeped
over the horizon when Captain H-,
commander of the group, ordered:
1 Bring out the machines."
£ There was nothing new in this to
the seven American pilots who have
S been flying in different groups on dif
£ >’eront parts of the front for upwards
of a year. All of them had
£ been out with the nightingale a few
£ hundred mornings, but it announced
£ their first expedition together as a
£ separate unit of the French aviation
corps over German territory.
£ Long planed machines resembling
£ small sheds, and short winged nia
chines, which in comparison dwindled
£ to the proportions of devil flies, rolled
on the field, and were pushed on the
£ run to their places until twenty-eight
:•: were lined up. Captain H——• gazed
£ at the low lying clouds excellent
mask for a flotilla crossing the
:: enemy’s linos—and ordered: “Tell
the Americans to be ready." The
Americans, grouped behind their swift
chasers, listened to final Instruction*
front Captain T-, who c tnm.tnd
the Franco-American flotill.1. and is
proud of It. The din was then too
great for verbal orders to he heard,
and a soldier with a white signal flat',
ran into the field while pilots and
machine gunners leaped to their seats.
The flag was raised while the motors
buzzed like a swarm of gigantic
bumble bees. The flag dropped and
Captain H-'s big biplane rose to
lead the column. The flag was raised
and dropped at intervals of about
thirty seconds, and each time a pair
of the bigger machines followed, un
til nineteen of them were filing to
ward the German lines.
I me nig macnines were gone, uui
'the noise increased as the propellers!
I of the smaller but more powerful and
4 swifter biplanes were set in motion. ]
* It was time for the Americans —[
specialists in speed. The first big
plans was approaching the clouds ■
when, with a bound. Captain T
rose; then followed Lieutenant De-;
lange, of the French corps, Lieuten
ant William Thaw of Pittsburg, Ser
geant Elliot Cowdin and Corporal Vic
tor Chapman, New York; Sergeant
Norman Prince, Prides Crossing.
Mass.; Corporal Kiffen Rockwell, At
lanta, Ga.; Corporal J. M. McConnell,
Carthage, N. C.; and Sergeant Hall.
Galveston, Texas.
These little biplanes, with powerful
motors, are the fruits of the evolution j
i of aviation during the war — built
to match the best German machines!
in speed, carrying only the pilot, ft
! machine gun and the minimum re
i I quirement in fuel. Instead of rising
, gradually like their predecessors,'
they bound upward with an ascension
al power heretofore unattainod. They
are so dangerous in a fight that the
pilot has to go into the adversary's
! territory to hunt an engagement. That
was what the Americans, especially
chosen for these machines, were to do.
J There were nine of these, together
' \ ith nineteen of the big bombarding
[biplanes, in sight together for an in
! j stant; then the head of the line dis
| appeared in the clouds. The "hunt
ers," as the speedy machines are
called, overhauled the last of the big
ger fliers and went out of sight ahead
of them, while Thaw’s "Iris" and Cap
tain T-’s "Fram," the two pet dogs
of the camp, were still barking after
them.
Even soldiers habituated to this
spectacle for nearly two years never
tire of it. They watch the last ma
chine until it is out of sight, then turn
back without comment to the sheds
to await the return. The silence and
solemnity of the camp after the bustle
of the departure was depressing. The
seventy soldiers of the camp knew
that some of the hrave bo/a might
lie nils-ing when the roll was called I
again. 1
Time passes with marvellous rapid-j
ity on lighting expeditions, aviators
say, but the two hours mlxlmiim wait
!n camp to see If they all get back
Is always long. Watchers are out af-|
ter ninety minutes and ey es arc turned v
in the direction taken by the fliers. .,
At the ninety-ninth minute, perhaps, a
speck appears high above the horizon.
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"There they come," is the word that,
passes a round the camp, and everyone *’
is on the field. "It's a chaser,” says g
one. "Number two is a bombarder," 0
' another. In a few minutes 271,
h
. pecks arc counted; then there is an- ,
b
other wait and voices are hushed. A
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In liter" circles around the camp, .
It «
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along th ■ field without slowing up,
until brakuig against tho wind it 1 ^
.-ontcs to a thrilling stop.
The faster maehlnes. last awav, arOi,
if,
them is i oeotlnH's a close lit. and
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the mis sometimes a close fit, and «,
not a second Is to he lost. Seven!
chasers land at the same breakneck
pace, and with the same precision.
The eighth seems to flutter as it
approaches, Ups and dives fitfully.
Field glasses are levelled at him. "He
It’s had his tail piece carried away,”
cries one. "It’s Thaw,” says another,
"and there something wroing with his
propeller." Alternately rearing, div
ing and sliding on its wing, the ma
chine comes down convulsively like
a wounded bird.
“He’s going to break a bit of wood," —
exclaimed a French soldier, express- .;.
ing in characteristic aviation language :-!•
the prospect of a smash. The machine 8
rears again after a dive which took A
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it dangerously close to the earth, 'y.
v eers round abruptly against the wind, A:
bumps along the ground a hundred
yards and stops. "Thaw's one of the S:j
few pilots; who could bring home a j 8
busted machine like that." said a sol- 8
dier.
"Hut where’s Chapman?” All the
big biplanes are now in and pilots and
soldiers are all searching the skv anx
lonely. Then n cry comes from the •*
field. \ speck has just emerged from $
the clouds. Chapman, driven out of
his course by the shelling in which
Thaw’s propeller was damaged, had,
finally found his wav, and lands now
with the last drop of gasoline in his|
reservoir.
"The disgusting thing about It.”
said Thaw, while the machinists weroj
taking an inventory of the damage,j
“was that the fellows over across the
line woudn't come out to fight." I
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INVENTS ARTIFICIAL HAND
WITH REAL TINDERS
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MUNICH, June 12. — One of the
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many remarkable artificial hands in
vented during the course of the war
is one just perfected by a mechanic
named Will, who claims to have solved
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the problem of creating fingers which j:-:
can be moved independently of one
another, and which will grasp an ob
ject as does the human hand.
The fingers of this artificial hand -X
are made of slender pieces of steel,
three to a finger, connected and at
tached by tiny hinges to the metal £:
constituting the palm. By a system
of fine wires running to the elbow :•>
or the shoulder the fingers can, It is I
claimed, be crooked to any desired j
degree so as to supply the power to “
grnps. A twist of the arm releases
the grasp of the fingers o# the ob-j
jects they hold.
Wills’ invention was made possible,
it is declared, by the German museum
of Munich, one of the world’s famous
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technical institutions. Will conceived j
the idea of the hand and laid it before j
the museum authorities, who then j
placed at his disposal the necessary j
means and assistance to perfect it.
Now that it is completed the museum
has given the details to the larger
scientific magazines of Germany, and
offers to e(iuip free of cost anywhere ^
shops or laboratories tor manufactur
ing the hand on a larger scale. The
faith of the museum authorities in the
invention is considered by many per
sons as proof of its practicability.
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Five Ford cars were placed in one
day recently in Juneau by the Union
Iron Works, agents for the car in thit
city.
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A crew of seven men are at work at
Sunny Bay, near Seward, building a
•altery for Noon, Jacobaon, James and
Keating. ^
Mi GUN ON LAND AN
' EFFECTIVE WEAPON
PARI8, June 13. — The use of na
il guns ashore In the present war. It
pointed out by a naval expert, is
it a mere expedient, resulting from
’cidental or Incidental circumstances,
it as a well defined reason In the'
■eater initial speed of the projectile
a naval gun, and the consequently
nger range than that of field arlll
ry. The new services they render
e dm- to the aeroplane, which givps
ie gunner on land longer ranges of
re than he used to get.
The 15-inch naval guns with which
ie Hermans occasionally bombard |
iinkiik and Nancy are believed to be
om ships lying idle in the Kiel ca
ll. They are utilized because they'
carry farther than the big mortars.
The type of the naval guns would
have been more commonly used on
land had they not been so
much heavier and more difficult to
manipulate than the shorter range
field and siege guns. Seven-Inch to
eight-inch naval pieces m ly lie mount
ed on railroad trucks, but the recoil
if the larger calibres is so violent as
to require a solid concrete foundation.
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PAYS $200,000 FOR TAPESTRY.
NEW YORK, June 13. The tuiies
rv known as the Dolfus Crucifixion,
whit h was part of the .1. Pierpont Mor
;an collection at the Metropolitan Mu
seum. has been purchased by Joseph
K. Widener, of Philadelphia, for $20<V
uiii. The Dolftis Crucifixion once tie
longed to the Dukes of Alba and Der
ivieic and was designed l,v the Fletn
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“li painter, Bernard Vanorley. tt wa*
woven about 1323 in the itylt of the
'arlv renslssance.
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