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BEST SELLERS IN MUSIC
A while ago I spoke of the hard
uek of Septimus Winner, the Phila
lelphia composer, who wrote that
rlobe-girdling song, “Listen to the
docking Bird,” and sold it for 53 j
0 publishers who mad" 53,<>00,00C
ut of it.
A publisher just paid 525,000
or a wartime song, and insists that
t was a good bargain.
Arditi was paid S250 for the pop
lar “Kiss Waltz.” His publishers
lade 580,000 out of it.
Of Chaminade's song, “The Silver
ling,” more than 200,000 copies
ave been sold, and Eugene Cowles
Forgotten,” belying the title,
eached a sale of 313,000, bringing
ae author 515,750 through the r y
Ity of five cents a copy.
In all musical history, the "best
slier” has probably been “The Mer
y Widow,” which sold to the ex
Jnt of more than 3,000,000 copies
1 Europe in three years, and added
lany hundreds of thousands to that
umber in this country.
But a close rival would be Carrie
aeobs Bond’s “The Perfect Day,’ j
ith its circulation of 4.000,000. i
ELDON GIVES HULL
TO HELP YARN FUND
H. O. Beldon. well known motor '
oat fan of Chena. has presented i
le Red Cross ladies of Fairbanks
•ith the hull of a gas boat, ready :
or the installation of machinery,
ith the request that they raff'j;
oe boat for the benefit of the yarn !
und. Steps are now being taken
o do that, and the ladies are nr pe-;
ul of realizing a substantial sum'
trough the sale of raffle tieitets.
ULIA B HAS CREW;
MANY MEN APPLIED
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Advices received from Chena state j
tat the steamer Julia B now has ’
full crew, made up mostly of men !
ho intend to work their way to !
t. Michael with the object of go-1
ig Outside from that point. Many 1
pplications were received t y the j
wners of the boat and several crews 1
Duld have been obtained without
ifficulty. The demand for trans
ortation, on pay, is much greater
lan usual at this season of the
ear.
Mr. Williams, the roadhouse man
t Indian river, reports finding a
iver bar about seven miles above
idian river on the Susitna river,
aowing good values in gold and a
snsiderable showing in placer plati
um. Williams plans to thoroughly
rospect his claims this summer.
AVIATORS ML BE
ABLE 10 ASCEND
I 10 EIGH! MILES
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| An oxygen apparatus has been
| devised which will enable our fight
ing aviators to ascend eight miles
in the air and far outstrip their
enemies.
At present aviators rarely ascend
above two miles, because the thin
ning of the atmosphere makes active
exertion impossible at that great
height. The greatest height claimed
i for any of the aviators now fight*
| ing Europe is three miles.
If our aviators are able to rise
j far above their enemies they will
j have them more or less at their
| mercy. The machine that can win
I a position above another is able to
| keep a steady fire of machine gun
; bullets directed upon it, while the
I other cannot reply effectively. it
j is well recognized that the machine
i able to keep the upper position is
sure to down its opponent. The
power to rise to a great height will
also enable a machine to escape
when necessary. Many other ad
vantages of such a device will be
apparent to all experienced airmen.
A human being at an elevation
of four miles can with difficulty sur
vive even for a short time. At five
miles the air is so thin that he can
not get enough exygen to supply
his lungs. He loses his mind, be
| comes unconscious and quickly dies
—as has been proved by experiences
of balloonists.
The “Liberty” oxygen apparatus
however, enables the aviator to take
enough oxygen with him to last
in the most tenuous atmosphere for
three hours. He could get along
for that length of time if there
I were no oxygen at all in the air
J through which he was flying.
The contrivance weighs only a
few pounds There is no helmet,
j A rubber mouthpiece fits inside the
mouth, with "lugs” on which the
teeth are clenched to hold it in
position. An attached nose-clip (re
sembling a football player’s nose
guard I is used tx compress the nos
trils, preventing the wearer from
breathing the outside air.
He breathes into and from a
small bellows. When the latter is
sucked flat, a valve opens, allowing j
oxygen to enter from a steel cylind- j
er in which the life-supporting gas I
is compressed. Thus the oxygen
supply is automatically controlled I
by the aviator's breathing, adjust-1
ing itself to his needs, which con- j
stantly vary with the activity of i
his muscular exertions.
The air he breathes into the bel
lows is, of course, laden with car
bonic acid gas, but the latter is ab
sorbed by soda lime, thus getting
rid of it. On other words, the oxy
gen is replaced as fast as he con
sumes it, and the carbonic acid is
removed as fast as he exhales it.
By this process the air is kept
continually fresh.
Experiments have already been
made with the apparatus, not in ac
tual flying, but at various elevations
on Pike’s Peak, in Colorado, and
even on the summit of that highest
mountain in the United States, which
is 14,090 feet, or not far from three
miles, above the level of the sea.
The air pressure at sea level is
thirty pounds to the square inch.
At the top of Pike’s Peak it is only
eighteen pounds. This means, of
course, that the atmosphere so far
aloft is not much more than half
as dense as at the level of the sea.
Up there nobody can attempt vig
orous exercise without suffering ex
treme breathlessness and distress
because of the limited oxygen
supply.
But it was proved by trial • that
a man wearing the oxygen breath
ing contrivance on the summit of
the Colorado mountain could in
dulge in arduous muscular effort
without the slightest inconvenience.
It was all the same with him whether
the air was thick or thin
At an elevation of five miles
above the sea level the air has only
one-third of its sea level density.
Ten miles up its density is reduced
to one-ninth. But no human be
ing (unprovided with an oxygen
supply) could survive even for a
few minutes at an altitude of five
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miles.
Five miles is not far from the
altitude of the loftiest clouds, which
by reason of the intense cold that
far aloft, are supposed to be com
possed of snowflakes or ice crystals.
At ten miles the air is so thin that
only flying machines of extraordin
ary swiftness could keep afloat in r.
The thinner the ice over which a
small boy skates the faster he must
go to avoid breaking through, and
the same principle applies to the
aviator and the medium in which
he navigates.
Physiologists call oxygen a "food”
But, whereas, one may go without
eating for a considerable period, the
supply of oxygen must be continu
ous and uninterrmittent. Even a
slight deficiency of it impairs in
telligence and judgment, and induces
almost immediately a condition of
intoxication or delirum, the muscles
being inc-idently paralyzed, so that
the sufferer cannot stand or walk.
Recent experiments by govern
ment experts have shown that the
effects of insufficient oxygen sup
ply resemble those of alcoholic in
toxication. The mind is quick'y
affected. The lips turn blue; the
hands tremble and lose their power
to grasp. Acute excitement is mani
fested, followed by complete loss
of consciousness.
Obviously these facts have a
direct and most important bearing
upon problems of military aviation.
It is manifest that an attempt on
the part of a birdman to ascend be
yond an elevation of three miles is
suicidal unless he carries a supply
of oxygen with him.
The "Liberty” oxygen apparatus
is substantially the invention of W.
E. Gibbs, a mechanical engineer. It
was originally developed for the use
of the Bureau of Mines—that is to
say, as a mine-rescue appliance.
But the war department has adopted
it, by a curious diversion from its
original purpose, for aviation
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disbursing office for the week end
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