ENGLAND IS PLANNING TO BUILD
TWO HUGE LEVIATHANS OF SKY
New Airships to Make Los Angeles Look Like Baby
Say British Designers—Trip to New York to Be
Made in About Twenty-four Hours.
LONDON, Jan. G.—“The American ‘Los Angeles’ is a baby airship.”
The gallant American craft is dwarfed to comparative insignificance by the
two mammoth Leviathans of the air, which Great Britain is to start build
ing next July—mammoth airships to become the twin flagships, perhaps, ,of
the new British air navy..
One of these gigantic dirigibles—each of a gas capacity exceeding 5,
000,000 cubic feet—is known as the R-100, the other as the R-101.
To expedite the work so that the trial voyages may be made as soon
as possible, voyages to Egypt or Australia or possibly New York, the con
struction of the ships has been care
fully subdivided, the R-100 being de
signed by a private firm in Howden,
Yorkshire, the R-101 by the air minis
try itself at Cardington.
So far actual construction cannot
begin because no sheds big enough to
house these great gray monsters have
even been built.
Both the R-100 and the R-101, to be
designed as sister ships, will be as
nearly identical as practicable, ac
cording to information furnished by
the air ministry. Each will exceed
in displacement and length far and
away any other known air vessel.
The R-101, it has already officially
been announced, will be 720 feet in
length, 140 feet in height, 130 feet
in diameter, and will be driven by
seven engines of 600 horsepower each,
burning crude fuel oil instead of pe
trol. The displacement—5,000„000
cubic feet—is not considered exces
sive in view of the magnitude of the
other dimensions. It is expected the
specifications for the R-100 will be
closely similar.
Exhaustion Brings End
To Musical Marathon
MANILA, P. I., Jan. 5—Rivalry be
tween two brass bands became so in
tense during a concert at Pasig, Ri
zal province recently, that it was ne
cessary for the authorities to call out
a detachment of constabulary and the
entire police force of the town to
preserve c$der.
The reason for this display of force
was that the concert was a contest of
endurance between the bands, one
from the Tiuajeros, a nearby town,
and one from Kawit, Cavite, the home
of General Emilio Aguinaldo.
The supporters of the contestants
were there in force ready to defend
their organization with fists if music
failed. After playing more than 300
pieces during the contest, which last
ed from 7 o'clock Friday evening un
til daylight the next Monday morning
the bands agreed to call the contest
a draw, thereby avoiding bloodshed.
There were judges of the affair, it be
ing the custom for one side to play
until one admits defeat, frequently
from exhaustion. The two organiza
iions, which are considered among
the best in the Philippines, have met
on at least three previous occasions,
and eac htime the result has been a
draw.
One of the rules of the contests is
that all selections must be played
from memory, without written notes.
Endurance and memory are thus test
ed to the utmost. One band plays
five pieces and then the other has its
turn. This program continues with
out intermission, day and niglit, until
one side is beaten.
Playing from memory has been ah
acquisition of Filipino musicians from
Spanish times. Recalling an incident
at the St. Louis exposition in 1904,
where the Philippine constabulary
band played, a member of that organ
ization said that the lights went out
one night when the band was giving
a concert and that the audience was
amazed when the music continued
■withouta a break. He said the band
finished the piece and continued to
play until the lights went on again.
JAPANESE PRINCES ARE
FREE TO MARRY NOW
TOKIO, Jan. 6—An announce
ment by the Japanese Imperial fam
ily gives to royal princes, except
emperors and heirs to the throne,
complete freedom in the choice of a
wife.
Hitherto the princes have not
been permitted to marry any girl
who was not a member of one of
branches of the imperial
al announcement also
abolishes the custom of betlirothals
in childhood which dates back to
the earliest days of Japanese civili
zation.
Many a father who faces the prob
lems of life cheerfully is stumped
by sixth-grade problems.
Thank goodness, the rum evil is
ended. Rum is still evil, of course,
but it’s one drink you never see.
LATENT TALENT
ART DEVELOPED
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Latent tafent
in the arts is being brought out of
hundreds of men and women in all
walks of life here who are devoting
their spare time to the study of its
various branches. A dealer in rub
ber shoes is sho-wing proficiency in
illustrative work while the secretary
the president of a large steel mill, his
instructor says, could easily make a
living with pen and brush.
The director of one of Chicago’s
largest art academies has made a
study of his spare hour students and!
their vocations to determine if there
wras a profound increase in the arts
and if their appeal was noto broad
and deep. The found the larger part
of the students were in school because
of their interests in special subjects
or for general culture.
Some of the students are grand
fathers, some are grade school stu
dents. Virtually every trade and pro
fession is represented from bellboys
to university professors. Their calls
work usually 15 and one half hours
a week.
Many of these students have taken
up art work for the pleasure of doing
constructive study knowing they
will profit by it one way or another
some day. Old and young they all
take their wrork very seriously, deriv
ing real pleasure from it and broad
ening their cultural sense.
O. .A. C. FACULTY MEMBER
INJURED IN AUTO CRASH
ALBANY, Ore., Jan. 6.—Alfred S.
Schmitt, former Albany banker, and
at present a member of the O. A: C.
faculty, was seriously injured and Me
j ham Singh, a Hindu student at Ore
gon Agricultural college, and J.. Mac
kay, a traveling salesman of Port
land, were slightly injured, in a head
on automobile collision on the Albany
Corvallis highway late yesterday af
ternoon.
The Schmitt car was traveling to
ward Corvallis and the Mackay au
tomobile was coming to Albany when
the accident occurred.. Both drivers
were blinded by the falling snow and
by steam and smoke that was blown
across the highway by a passing lo
comotive. .
Eric Nord, who used to be in the
employ of Brown and Hawkins of
Seward and Anchorage, is now a
resident of Everett, Washington. Mr.
Nord is located at 297 Hewitt avenue,
and likes the Smokestack City almost
as well as he formerly liked the
North. .
KEWPIE DOLL GIVEN
GIRL CAUSES TRAGEDY
BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 6.—Enraged
because a customer presented a kew
pie doll to Miss Patsy Davis, a wait
ress in his establishment, John H.
Fotas, local restaurant keeper, fired
a shot at Miss Davis, the bullet
grazing her hair and inflicting no
damage.
He then turned the gun on him
self, succumbing a few minutes later
as he was being rushed to a hos
pital.
To give themselves more time for
escape, three New York daylight hold
up men carried their victim’s trousers
with them after a robbery.
E. F. Baker of Chicago and his
wife are before the courts, both
charged with bigamy.
George Voorhies, aged 12, of Chico,
Cal., has three times equalled the
course record, set by Walter Hagen,
on the links of his home town.
Alice McDermott, aged 12, of Pleas
ant Mont, Pa., killed with a club a vi
cious wolf wrhich attacked her in the
woods near her home.
“Boots,” a cat belonging to J. C.
Frestal of Montclaim, N. J., bit off
an inch of its own tail v.rhile chasing
it around in a circle.
Eastman Kodaks and Supplies at
the Alaska Shop. tf
CAN USE A FEW MORE CUS
TOMERS AT THE O. K .BARBER
SHOP.
STEAMSHIP STARR
S. S. STARR SAILS JANUARY FOURTH
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON. Agent
PHONE MADI80N 13*. 8EWARD, ALASKA
Orlando, Fla. policeman carry the
seat cushions of traffic violators to
court in addition to leaving the cus
tomary notices to appear for trial.
Members of a church in Rushdon,
England, made bets a’s to which ush
er would finish his collection first and
were publicly rebuked by the pastor.
Prof. W. R. Winslow of the Uni
versity of Porto Rico, formerly of
Carthage, Ind., died after a shark
had bitten off an arm while he was
sea bathing.
Miss Dorothy Webb, a Des Moines
girl dislocated her hip while giving
an exhibition of fancy dancing.
M. N. Cook of Springfield, Mo..,
has harvested two crops of applies
from one tree this year, one in
July and the other in November.
Hugh Smith, of Galesburg, Illinois,
saved a woman and four children
after they were unconscious from
smoke, by tossing them from the
sceond story of their burning home
into the arms of neighbors on the
ground below.
John Albright, 91-year-old hobo,
left Eseanaba, Mich., a few days ago
to walk to Florida, where he expects
to spend the balance of the winter.
An enterprising thief stole the bath
tub and other plumbing fixtures from
I the home of Chalmers Jeffries of
Philadelphia.
A Pennsylvanian picked up an In
dian tomahawk head with his auto
mobile tire near Pottstown.
Miss Rosamund Shaw of Canby,
Ore., 27-year-old high school teacher
married Clifford Samuelson, her 17
year-old pupil.
J. L. Simmons of Sheffield, Ala.,
broke open an egg a few days ago
in which he claims to have found a
snake four inches long.
To avoid delay due to necessity of
furnishing bond for a hired car driv
en across the Canadian border, Con
gressman Albert Johnson bought the
machine for $2,000 in order to catch
a train at Vancouver.
Peter Robbins, 58-pound living
skeleton, and “Baby Bunny” Smith,
467-pound fat lady, both side show
attractions, were married in New
York recently.
Mrs. Alice Kirk, of London was
granted a divorce because her hus
band had started a new religious
sect and used the family bathtub to
baptize women converts.
Capt. Joseph Jackson of the U. S.
Marine Corps won the match and
broke the world’s record in a recent
riflemen’s shoot at Lima, Peru.
Dr. H. L. Pelham, engaged for re
search work by the National Acad
emy of Science, is the second col
ored man to be so employed.
Wild ducks died by the thousands
when they lighted in crude oil tanks
in Louisiana, where their accustomed
ponds had dried up.
H. W. Carpentier, who gave $100,
000 towards a Chinese department
at Columbia, said it represented
money he had saved by not using
tobacco.
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel—
Yukon _
Alameda_
Alaska_
Yukon _
Alameda .
Alaska ...
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
-January 3
..January 10
..January 17
-January 24
January 31
February 7
Scheduled
Arr. Seward
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
Scheduled
Sail fm Seward
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
The steamship Redondo will discontinue operating to the west
ward until further notice, as soon as she completes her present trip.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle, December 30th.
Send orders by wire.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
ll Greetingl H
I& extending the Season’s Greetings to all its friends and patrons,
The Alaska Railroad takes occasion to announce a
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S
EXCURSION FARE
of one and one-third for the round-trip, between all stations. Reduced
rate tickets may be purchased at all agency stations December 20th to
January 1, inclusive; final return limit January 6, 1925. Passengers
boarding trains at non-agency stations may avail themselves of this
Special Excursion Rate by purchasing reduced rate tickets at first
agency stations.
It is the sincere wish of The Alaska Railroad that the year 1925
will be the most progressive and prosperous tor all Alaskan activities,
and towards the accomplishments of this purpose The Alaska Railroad
will continue to lend its earnest and whole-hearted co-operation at all
times.
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA