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CLOSING SESSION OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
Extra Session Will Be Necessary to Act on Convict Lease Question
and Other Important Matters.
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A WHAT THE LEGISLATURE ACCOMPLISHED DURING *
1 THE SESSION JUST CLOSED. A
A Passed measure appropriating $3,000 to pay expenses of convict A
A probe, directing committee to report to extra session. A
A Passed Henderson resolution delaying renewal of school book A
A contract for two years until January 1, 1911. A
A Passed measure creating Greater Atlanta. A
A Passed constitutional amendment by Mr. Foster, giving^ pension A
A to every confederate veteran and widow with less than $1,500. A
A Passed the telegraph bill, forcing companies to deliver promptly A
A all messages received, under penalty of fine. A
A Passed a pure registration bill,, which was urged by Governor A
A Smith.
A Passed the primary election law, another measure favored by the A
A governor.
A Passed measure making pension commissioner elective by. the A
A people. . r f
A Passed a bill allowing firemen and policemen to ride free on A
A street cars.
A Passed bill providing for support of agricultural schools and ag- A
A ricultural college at Athens. A
A What They Did Not Accomplish. A
A Started an investigation of the convict lease system, and after A
A discussing and killing many proposed measures, bearing on the A
A disposition of the state convicts, let the matter go over to an ex- A
A tra session. A
A Spent much time over the anti- lobby bill, another measure fa- A
A vored by Governor Smtih, but did not act on the matter. A
A Bill to tax near beer places S2OO killed. House passed measure, A
■ A but senate refused.
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On the last day of the session both ।
houses worked hard, each holding
three sessions. With the usual
(scenes the solons adjourned at 3 a.
m. Thursday morning, though the
goodbyes were not as solemn as usual,
owing to the fact that in a few days
the two bodies will again be in ac
tion.
As the big bell in the court house '
clock tolled the hour of 3 Thursday |
morning, the gavels of President
Flynt of the senate and Speaker Sla
ton of the house went “bang” and with j
It the valedictory:
' “This house stands adjourned, sine
die; God bless you.”
According to the official clock of
the house, which had been stopped,
it was only 8:23 p. m., while that
in the senate pointed to 9:50.
। This was made necessary by the
law, which makes the legislature ad
journ by midnight of the fiftieth day.
, During the closing hours of the ses
sion of the general assembly the offi
cials of both houses were handsome
ly remembered with testimonials from
♦he members of the legislature.
IN THE HOUSE.
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August 12.
The house adopted resolutions la
menting the death of former mem
bers Wednesday morning. The gov
ernor’s message, stating that an ex
tra session of the general assembly
would be called was read. After a
lengthy and heated debate the house
passed the bill which makes the reg
istration laws of the state more strin
gent.
Two important senate measures
were passed by the house at the as-;
ternoon session and with the signa- !
ture of the governor will become laws (
in Georgia. ‘
The first extends the present school
book contract, which expires January ;
1, 1908, to January 1, 1911.
The other is a primary measure
which fixes the date of state prima
ries at some date not sooner than
60 days before the general election |
in October.
The first means that there will be
no school book war in the fall, with
its consequent fluctuations in bids and .
change in textbooks.
T>he second means that there will ■
be no more primaries on June 4.
Another important action taken was
that of tabling the resolution which
sought to set as a special order the i
senate measure which gives the right
of eminent domain to water powers.j
: In addition the following bills were [
passed at the afternoon session; By
Senator Bush of the Eighth, to amend ;
the charter of the town of Colquitt;
by Senator Dobbs of the Twenty-fifth,
to repeal act incorporating the town
of Edgewood in DeKalb vounty, to,
extend the limits of the city of At
lanta, to repeal act incorporating the ;
town of Battle Hill in Fulton county;
by Senator Hawes of the Thirtieth,
to incorporate the city of Union City
in Campbell county.
The first bill passed by the house
at the night session had already been
passed by the senate, and will soon
become a law.
It punishes as a misdemeanor any
person who puts a carcass in a road,
running stream or property of anoth
er without burying it deep enough to
destroy all stench.
This measures, which provides that
one-third of the wages of 75 cents a
day or over of journeymen mechanics
and day laborers, not now subject to
garnishment, may be, after the pass
age of this act, was tabled after a
heated debate.
Following this the famous fight over
establishing a secondary national.
guard for Georgia, to be known as the
Georgia Volnuteers, which organiza
tion is to do home guard duty in the
event of the regular national guard be
ing called out of the state by the
president of the United States, took
place and was passed.
The bill by Senator Dean of the
fifth district, to allow street car com
panies to make, manufacture and sell
gas, was defeated.
The house passed, then, the bills by
(Senator Felder of the twenty-second,
to quit the titles to real estate in
Georgia under foreign wills, and that
by Senator Overstreet, to provide for ,
county advertising in Tattnall county. 1
In removing the front of the brick
building of the J. H. Kelly company
pt Monticello, which was built in 1886,
preparatory to the placing of new show
windows, a jar containing the follow
ing named deposits was found in one
of the corner stones: A copy of the
Atlanta Constitution bearing date of
September 1, 1886, in which was con
tained an account of the Charleston
earthquake, a copy of the Weekly
Madisonian of same date, a copy of
the Jasper County News, a copy Or
Grier’s Almanac of 1886 and coins of
various kinds.
i The following bills were passed by j
the house at the night session: By
Senator Felder of the Twenty-second
District, to quit the title to real es
tate in Georgia held under foreign
'wills; by Senator Overstreet of the
Seventeen District, to fix the adver
! tising of official notices in Tatnall
; county; by Mr. Cander of DeKalb, to
supplement and increase the appro-
I priations for the railroad commis
sion; by Mr. McMahan of Clarke, to ‘
pay Mrs. G. Houser, the per diem for
\ this session of the legislature that
i would have been earned by G. Hou
ser, former doorkeeper of the house;
<by Messrs. Taylor and Martin, to
more thoroughly carry out the pro
visions of the pure food act; by
Messrs. Blackburn and Bell of Ful
ton, to appropriate $5,000 to the con
federate soldiers’ home of Georgia;
by Mr. Barrett of Stephens, to pro
cide how and in which way pensions
due confederate veterans shall be
paid; by Mr. Barrett of‘Stephens, to
amend an act to make appropriations
for the ordinary expenses of the exec
utive, legislature mid judicial depart-'
ments of the government; by Senator'
Gordy of the Twenty-fourth, to fix the
age for road duty in Muscogee coun
ty; by Senator Camp of the Thirty
first, to authorize the governor to take
options on terminal sites in Chatta
nooga.
IN THE SENATE.
August 12.
Most of the session of the senate
Wednesday morning was devoted to a
discussion of a bill to appropriate $25,-
000 for the fiscal year 1908 and $50,000
for the fiscal year 1909, to the Uni
versity of Georgia for the support
■ and maintenance of the State Agri
cultural college at Athens. After
I much discussion the senate voted'
these appropriations in addition to
I the sum of $30,000 for expenses of
that institution up to June 1 of this ■
present year. Under amendments,
$5,000 was also appropriated for the
(erection of certain buildings at the
experiment station at Experiment,
Ga., the necessity of which was earn
estly urged by Senator Flynt. Five
thousand dollars for the year 1908 and
1 $5,000 for 1909 was voted for the car
rying out of experiments in connec
! tion with the preserving of sugar
cane syrups at the state branch ex
perimental station at Waycross.
I The governor’s message was read
and the senate agreed to let the con
(vict bill await the extra session.
The afternoon session of the senate
। was given over to the passage of ap- ■
propiiation bills. These bills having
already been passed by the house I
I need only the governors signature to ,
become laws.
The following bills were passed at ’
the afternoon session: By Mr. Foster!
of Cobb, to appropriate $5,000 to im
prove the confederate cemeterj' at Ma-1
rietta; by Mr. Davison of Greene, to'
pay Mrs. L. H. Ledsinger for copying 1
pension rolls in the pension office; by :
Mr. Ellison of Harris, to pay pension
to Mrs. Nancy M. Collier for the year
1908; by Mr. McMahan of Clarke, to'
appropriate $7,000 to the trustees of
the University of Georgia for the sup- ‘
I port of the State Normal School at
.Athens;; by Mr. Hines of Baldwin,
to appropriate the sum of $7,671.76
for the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville to supply a
deficiency in the appropriation of said
college for the year 1908; by Mr. Hines
of Baldwin, to appropriate the sum
of $15,000 for the year 1908 and $30,-
000 for the year 1909 for the support
and maintenance of the Georgia State
Sanitarium for the insane; by Mr.
Jones of Mitchell, to authorize the
payment of pension due Mrs. Queen
Shiver for the year 1908; by Mr. Wil
liams of Dodge, to Incorporate the
town of Leon; by Mr. Ward of Coffee,
to repeal an act incorporating the
town of Buchanan; by Messrs. Cham
blee, Dean and Wright of Floyd, to
amend an act creating the city court
of Floyd county; by Mr. Pope of
Brooks( to incorporate the town of
'Dixie; by Mr. White of Madison, to
’establish the city court of Daniels
ville- by Mr. White of Madison, to
abolish "the city court of Madison
county; by Messrs. Alexander and
‘Candler of DeKalb, to amend the
‘charter of Kirkwood; by Mr. Cook of
Claiming that the city of Macon
’ was negligent in allowing a pile of
cotton to be stored on the street. J.
' H Shaw, who was seriously injured
by collding with the obstruction, has
’ sued that city for SIO,OOO damages,
s Macon citizens have raised a fund
;! of SIO,OOO to be used for the purpose
!i of holding a state fair in that city
-1 It was deemed advisable to ad
i i journ the Spalding county superior
'I court, and allow the farmers to re
[ turn to their work, as a very season-
E • able rain has fallen in the last two
E days, which will be of vast benefit to
. the growing crops.
i Telfair, to provide for the creation
of a board of commissioners of roads
1 and revenues in the county of Tel
fair; by Mr. Hines of Baldwin, to
amend an act to create a board of
1 commissioners of roads and revenues
for the county of Baldwin; by Messrs.
Matthews and ClaYke of Lowndes, to
, amend an act to create a board of
commissioners of roads and revenues
in the county of Lowndes; by Mr.
| Adams of Chatham, to authorize the
municipal authorities of certain cities
( to provide for municipal prisons; by
( Mr. White of Madison, to Incorporate
( the city of Danielsville.
At the night session of the senate
the Foster pension bill, which, it is
estimated, will add $1,000,000 annual
ly to the budget of the state, was
passed. This bill involves a constitu
tional amendment and must be sub
mitted to the people for ratification
before it becomes effective.
The bill by Representatives Slater
and Dykes, providing that telegraph
companies must put the date and time
of receiving messages on the mes
sages, and fixing a penalty of $25 for
failure to deliver within a reasonable
length of time, was passed.
A number of local and pension bills
were also passed. Authority was giv
en for policemen and firemen to ride
free on street railroads.
While the senate was waiting for
the report of the confreres on the agri
cultural bill, the members improved
the time by singing, more or less mu
sically, such pious selections as “Jesus
Lover of My Soul,” “Nearer, My God,
to Thee,” and finally, “The Old Time
। Religion.”
The sale of near beer may be con
tinued in Georgia unhindered by any
tax by the state.
By the narrow margin of two votes
the senate failed to provide a tax of
from S2OO to S3OO on dealers, manu
facturers and warehousemen engaged
in producing and dispensing that non
intoxicating beverage commonly call
ed almost beer.
‘ The following bills were passed at
the night session: By Mr. Hines of
Baldwin, to pay Mrs. O. M. Case for
dwelling house which was burned by
convicts; by Mr. Candler of DeKalb,
a resolution for meetings of the gen
eral assembly to investigate the pris
on commission; by Mr. Candler of
! DeKalb, a resolution to appropriate
money to pay the expenses of the
special joint investigating committee;
iby Messrs. Slater and Dykes, to pre
-1 scribe the date of electric telegraph
companies as to receiving and trans
mitting dispatches and messages; by
Mr. White of Screven, to establish a
system of public schools in the city
'of Sylvania; by Mr. White of Scre
' ven, to amend an act creating the city
court of Sylvania; by Mr. Strickland
of Pike, to establish the city court
of Barnesville; by Messrs. Slade, Rus
sell and McMahon, to exempt police
and firemen of cities by the cities’ re
' quest, from the general exclusion from
free passes; by Mr. Barrett of Ste
phens, to pay pension of F. M. Rice
to W. A. Mitchell; by Mr. Bond of
| Forsyth, to pay pension to W. J.
Standford; by Messrs. Blackburn and
Bell of Fulton, to appropriate $5,000
for the maintenance and use of the
state board of health; by Mr. Noyes
; of Butts, to appropriate $2,000 for im
proving the state’s property at Indian
‘Springs; by Mr. Foster of Cobb, to
amend article 7, section 1, paragraph
il, of the constitution, relative to the
payment of pensions; by Mr. Black
burn of Fulton, to-pay pension to Mrs.
Tallulah of Towns; by Mr. Goode of
Perkins, to pay pension to Mrs. Mary-
Blackstock; by Mr. Tyson of Eman
uel, to pay pension to George M. Brin
son; by Mr. Fowler of Bibb, to au
thorize the re-recording of deeds,
mortgages and other liens in new
counties.
HEADLIGHT BILL NUT A LAW.
Railway Men Claim Senate Made Mis
take at Last Session.
Atlanta, Ga.—While its supporters
thought the bill requiring that all lo
comotives on regular railroads be
equipped with headlights had been
! passed by the legislature, opponents
of the measure declare that through
’ an unintentional omission on the part
(of the senate the measure is dead.
It will probably be tested in the
! courts, whereby a peculiar question
■of parliamentary procedure will be
decided.
The bill was introduced in the
house by Mr. Tift of Dougherty. It
1 passed. In the senate it passed by
(substitute, by which the railroad com
! mission was merely empowered to
require headlights, the mandatory
I feature Jreing omitted. The substi
tute was passed by a clear constitu-
1 tional majority.
! The house refused to concur, and
on the last night the senate voted to
(recede from its action in passing the
substitute. The vote was 18 to 12.
! This was sufficient to recede, but not
enough to pass a bill.
i The matter was dropped, the sena
| tors thinking the bill had been en
■ acted. Railroad attorneys claim that
' the measure has not been passed;
' ‘ that if by receding from its action
.; the senate made the measure law
' such did not succeed in its purpose
i because of the vote being less than
• that required for the enactment of a
‘ law.
The bill was bitterly fought by the
1 railroads on the ground that the re
quirement is unnecessary and would
1 cost them between two and three
hundred thousand dollars to carry
■ out.
I _
i The Southern Commercial Secreta
■ ries, at their convention in Chatta
, nooga, Tenn., selected Atlanta as
i their next meeting place and elected
I W. R. Royster of Chattanooga, presi
> dent, and Jehn A. Benjamin of Alba
: ny, vice president.
i The cotton crop in thirty south
t Georgia counties is reported to State
. Entomologist E. L. Worsham to be
1 suffering from black root, w-hich he
i estimates will reduce the crop in that
section of the state by 10 per cent.
1 The counties which report this black
3 root are Columbia, McDuffie, Washing
r ton, Bibb, Talbot, Harris, Muscogee,
. Chattooga, Marion, Sumter, Ma
r con, Houston, Pulaski, Dooly, Stew
. art, Webster, Randolph, Terrell, Cal
. houn, Dougherty, Early, Worth, Col
) quitt, Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes, Ber
> j rien, Montgomery, Tattnall, Effingham
I and Pierce.
LATEJEWyOTES.
General.
“A $50,000 widow for $5.” This and
many other matrimonial bargains
were temptingly offered by a matri
monial agency run by Charles A. Hud
son, in Chicago, but federal officers
did not believe that Hudson intended
to fulfill his promises and they had
him arrested in Minneapolis.
As a result of eating toad stools
for mushrooms, Harry Jarrell and
Mrs. Lillian Jar-ell, his sister-in-law,
died at Rochester, N. Y.
Filing of the will of the late Robert
Pratt, former mayor of Minneapolis,
revealed a romance. A share in his
estate, valued at $20,006, is left to
Mary Bettin, Mr. Pratt’s housekeeper,
“who has agreed to become my wife,”
reads the will.
The twelfth annual convention of
the National Association of Fire In
surance agent which has been in ses
sion at St. Paul, Minn., elected the
following officers: President, Edward
W. Beardsley, Hartford, Conn.; vice
presidents, I. W. Alexander, E. B.
Case, Illinois; L. W. Childrey, Virgin
ia; E. H. Forry, Indiana; A. W. Neale,
Ohio; secretary, Henry H. Putnam,
Boston; treasurer, W. H. Mandeville,
Olean, N. Y.; chairman organization
committee, C. W. Olson, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Silas Griffin, aged 70 years, a high
ly respected citizen of Alexander City,
Ala., was killed by vicious hogs on
his farm near that city. Mr. Griffin
had entered the pen to feed the hogs
when he was attacked by them and
literally torn to pieces.
Kingdon Gould, son of George J.
Gould, the multi-milionaire, is work
ing as a miner at Guanajunto, Mexi
co. Young Gould is studying mining
engineering and has taken this meth
od of gathering the practical rudi
ments of mining.
Dr. John Miller Moore, an ex-sur
geon in the United States navy, is
detained at the Villevard asylum in
Paris, whither the police conveyed
him on acount of his peculiar beha
vious in certain Paris hotels and
which led them to believe he is suffer
ing from hallucinations. He is said
to have left the battleship Kansas at
San Francisco.
James H. Stevenson, a millionaire
mining engineer and landowner, of
Pueblo Col., was inspecting land in
Meeard county, Texas, when he acci
dentally met Wilbur Stevenson, a
farm laborer, who proved to be his
own brother, whom he had not seen
or heard from for forty years.
A fully equipped daily newspaper
plant, with a special telegraph service
and in charge of a competent news
paper man, is the plan of the board of
curators of the Missouri State Univer
sity of Columbia, Mo., for the depart
ment of journalism. The daily paper
will be known as the University Mis
sourian.
Edward Guerr, who drove a horse
attached to a buggy over a railroad
trestle one hundred and fifty feet
above the Cuyahoga river, in Ohio,
the horse trotting over a plank a foot
wide, was arrested on a charge of lu
nacy.
Richard Harding Davis, the novelist
and playwright, has been sworn in as
a deputy sheriff in White Plains. Af
ter he had taken the oath he left New
York, accompanied by the sheriff, to
purchase a big badge, which he will
wear in the discharge of his duties.
Washington.
Liberty L. Bailey, dean of Cornell
college of agriculture, who was re
cently appointed by President Roose
velt to be chairman of a commission
of five to investigate the social, san
itary and economic conditions on
American farms, has declined the ap
pointment on the ground that he can
not give the subject the time he con
siders would be necessary to such an
important matter.
The navy department has awarded
a contract for a $25,000 coal handling
plant at the navy yard at Brooklyn.
This is a feature of the consolidation
of power plants which has been un
dertaken at all the navy yards. In the
New York plant there are twelve boil
ers for which coal must be delivered,
and in this fuel handling system the
motive power will be electricity. Sim
ilar plants will be established at oth
er navy yards.
A report received in Washington
from the Hague says that definite ac
tion by the government of the Nether
lands regarding the dispute with Ven
ezuela will chiefly depend upon the
attitude of the United States, which
probably will be favorable to the
Netherlands.
According to a report issued by the
treasury department the government
redeemed paper money to the value
of $912,000'000 in the year 1907. This
redemption was either for the pur
pose of securing clean, fresh notes or
to get change of some other denomina
tion.
Awards for supplying 750,000 yards
of cotton khaki at Philadelphia for the
war department has been made. Two
New York firms presented bids but
neither was entirely satisfactory, so
the department split the contract,
awarding to the John H. Meyer com
pany the privilege of furnishing 375,-
000 yards at 25 cents a yard, and to
the Otto Goetze company a contract
for furnishing 250,000 yards at 24 8-10
cents and 125,000 yards at 25 2-10
cents. .
The Hochi, Japan’s leading newspa
per, publishes an interview with
Count Okuma, in which the Japanese
leader states that the sudden rise of
the United States navy was due to
the expansion of the Japanese power
into a world force.
G. C. Bantz has been appointed as
sistant treasurer of the United States
in place of the late J. F. Meline. Mr.
Bantz has been an employe of the
treasury department for thirty-five
years. William H. Gibson, assistant
cashier of the cash room, succeeds
Mr. Banz. James A. Sample, now a
chief of division, was appointed to be
assistant cashier.
Robert H. Todd, who was Porto
Rican delegate to the national repub
lican convention at Chicago, has been
nominated by acclamation for the of
fice of resident commissioner for Por
to Rico at Washington.
STILL PICKING.
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—Week’s cleverest cartoon, by Ketten, in the New York World.
PREDICTS AN AIRSHIP TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Mr. Walter Wellman Says Count Zeppelin’s Achievement Gives Promise
of Great Things in Aerial Navigation and Warfare.
New York City.—Mr. Walter Well
man writes as follows regarding the
achievement of Count Zeppelin in his
airship:
Count Zeppelin’s record breaking
voyage with his great airship sur
prises no one familiar with the pres
ent state of the science of aerial navi
gation. That a modern motor balloon
can be depended upon to make voy
ages of from one to two thousand
miles, under fairly favorable condi
tions, has long been known to men
who are familiar with aeronautics.
Count Zeppelin’s success is epoch
making in that it convinces a scep
tical world of the practicability of air
ships and of their utility as engines
of war and as instruments of ex
ploration of the upper air as well as
parts of the earth otherwise inacces
sible, like the great unknown area
surrounding the North Pole.
His latest demonstration without
doubt will assure the rapid building
of aerial navies by the chief military
Powers. In fact, Germany, France,
Great Britain and the United States
are already moving in that direction.
France has the Lebandy and La Re
publique already in commission, and
Count Zeppelin’s ship, it is under
stood, is to be taken over for the
German army.
The modern airship or motor bal
loon will prove to be an effective en
gine of war. She can make recon
noisances of an enemy’s position, fly
ing at an altitude giving her im
munity from the enemy’s guns. She
cannot only gain invaluable informa
tion, but she can make attacks upon
strategic points, such as cities, bridges
and forts and the camps of hostile
armies by dropping explosives down
upon them.
Can Drop Explosives on Enemy.
This phase of the aerial warfare of
the future has been declared imprac
ticable by some critics because the
dropping of a thousand pounds of ex
plosive from a ship of the air would
instantly cause her to shoot up to a
great altitude. The critics who think
this is a fatal objection are not famil
iar with the art of airship construc
tion and operation. Dropping one
thousand pounds of ballast or weight
of any sort from a small balloon
dirigible like the one Captain Bald
win has built for- the United States
Government would, of course, be
either impracticable (because the ship
could not carry so much) or danger
ous if she could carry it. But that
weight suddenly released is a baga
telle compared to the total lifting ca
pacity of such a ship as the Zeppelin
or my polar airship, the America.
The Zeppelin has a total lifting power
CONSUMPTIVES’ LING CAPACITY.
French Boftor Finds in Chest Measurements the Best Source
of Diagnosis.
Paris. —While awaiting the discov
ery of some means to cure tubercu
losis scientists are searching for some
means of early diagnosis, which hith
erto has been most difficult. Dr.
Boureille now describes a series of
experiments whereby an easy method
can be established.
He examined every year 1200
women and girls. He measured the
thorax at the moments of extreme
inspiration and expiration and noted
BIRDS SLOWLY INCREASING.
Audubon Society's Efforts Saving
New Orleans. —The census of the
bird islands on the Louisiana coast
has been completed and shows a con
siderable increase in the number of
the birds in spite of heavy losses
through recent storms.
The islands are nineteen in number
and were given by the Federal and
State governments to the Audubon
Society as a bird reservation. At the
time of the gift the sea birds on the
Gulf coast were nearly extinct.
The census shows that 62,000 more
birds have been added to the popula-
China Bars Morphine,
Asks Japan’s Aid.
Pekin.—China has asked Japan to
consent to the restriction, of the im
portation into China of morphine, as
well as the instruments used for the
injection of the drug. All the other
Powers long since agreed to this re
striction.
It is highly desirable that Japan
consent to this proposal, particularly
in view of the opium congress to be
held in Shanghai in January, when
measures for the control of the opium
traffic are to be devised.
of between 25,000 and 30,000 pounds,
while the America lifts 19,500
pounds. The altitude gained by such
a ship through dropping one thousand
pounds in a lump presents no prac
tical difficulties whatever.
In the airship of the future, wheth
er used for military or scientific pur
poses, size is sure to be a factor of
prime importance. Interesting ex
periments may be made with small
ships. But real and important work
requires large ships, built by en
gineers on a scale great enough to
admit of the employment of steel and
other metals, instead of flimsy struc
tures of bamboo or such materials.
Breaks All Records.
Count Zeppelin has broken all rec
ords for length of run. But there is
no reason why the military cruiser of
the future should not have a radius
of movement of three or four thou
sand miles. Os course the greater
the speed aimed at the greater the
quantity' of fuel that must be carried
for a given distance. A ship like the
America carries three tons of gaso
lene in her steel tank, and if the in
fluence of the winds be regarded as
neutral she can motor 130 miles at
about twenty English miles an hour.
Count Zeppelin’s remarkable cruise
is only a foretaste of what is to be
done with motor balloons in the near
future. Within a few years I expect
to see the Atlantic Ocean crossed by
an airship of the Republique or Amer
ica type. In fact, the America could
cross the Atlantic without much risk
of accident with a little help from the
winds. A voyage from New Y’ork to
Chicago, or vice versa, is within her
scope, and I am strongly tempted to
bring her over from Paris this fall
and give Americans a demonstration
of what a first class engineering con
struction can do in the way of a long
voyage through the air.
In view of the success of the Zep
pelin, of the Lebandy, of the Re
publique, and the undoubted ability
of the America to make a longer voy*
age than Count Zeppelin has just
made, many experts regret that the
first venture of the United States
Government in military motor bal
looning should be with such a small
affair as that of Captain Baldwin.
It lias no class. It is too small. It
has no endurance. Captain Baldwin
is a skillful man, but his machine is
not large and powerful enough to
give him a chance against a great
cruiser like the Zeppelin. When the
United States Government enters the
aeronautic field it should not be con
tent to begin where foreign experi
menters ended years ago, but should
be up to date in size and engineering.
- the difference*. For normal females
- he found thSrthe difference always
j exceed.^ two and one-third inches,
- while for tuberculous women it never
. reached one and one-sixth.
f He then measured a thousand sol
l diers and found a differenece of from
three and one-half to four and one-
I half inches. The tests on tuberculosis
> patients show that in ninety-eight per
> cent.'of the cases the difference never
I exceeded one and one-sixth.
Many Species Now Nearly Extinct
tion of the islands this summer. They
are mainly laughing gulls. Next in
number are the Louisiana herons, the
royal cabots and Forster’s terns and
black swimmers. Some of the varie
ties are nearly extinct. There are
only twenty-five snowy herons left,
twenty-two black crowned night
herons and thirty-five Caspian terns,
all once abundant on the Gulf coast,
but killed off for their plumage. A
number of eggs have been destroyed
and young birds killed by recent
storms.
France to Use Posters
to Gain Recruits.
Paris.—The vote on two years of
military service releases a number of
men in the French regiments. There
is also a scarcity of re-enlistments.
The Colonel of the Twelfth Dra
goons, station at Pont a Mousson, has
decided to adopt the American sys
tem of recruiting through brilliant
and artistic posters depicting the ad
vantages of service, including fancy
cloth uniforms, the regulasflife in the
service and at 10 p. in. bed for the
petty officers.
