Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 254, 20 October 1907 — Page 3
PAGE THREE. LATEST IS A L He Is Carrying on Experiments With a Machine That Is Designed to Travel on Water And Travel Quickly. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT AT CONGO PIGEON POST.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, OCTOBER SO, 190T.
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Old Villa of Emile Zola Has Become a Home for Weakly Babies, Having Been Presented to the State.
(By Raoul De Saint Rene.) Paris, Oct. 19 Santos-Dumont is now carrying on experiments with his latest sensational invention, the hydroplane. It is the system of the teroplane applied to the water, and one very enthusiastic person not, be it said, the inventor himself has prophesied that if the hydroplane is found to work the wonders expected of it, the passage across the herring pond will in a few years take no more than twenty-four hours. The hydroplane consists of a long spindle eight yards long, and two smaller ones of two yards each, which are moved by a motor and carry the boat-like or raft-like thing along the water. The propulsion screw has three arms; the gearing is situated at the end of the spindle, and the seat of the pilot is at present a cyclist's saddle. M. Santos-Dumont's preliminary trials were highly satisfactory to the Brazilian, and the machine was found to keep the water well and ride with perfect equilibrium. He is now trying it loaded with dead weights before venturing on it himself so far It has only moved with the aid of tugs; then he will place his 120 horse-power motor on it. This motor is capable of achieving 622 miles an hour, and Santos has a bet on that in a short time he will attain 48 miles an hour on his hydroplane. ... News has been received here of the very successful results of the experiments in the pigeon post in the French Congo, which is found to be much more satisfactory as a means of communication than tho telegraph which is so frequently disturbed by natives and elephants who knock down the poles, or even than, wireless telegraphy, since the humidity and electricity in the air in Africa also militate against the success of this. Some hundred pigeons and all the apparatus for erecting a pigeon loft were taken out last year by Major Reynand, member of the French Geographical Society, who accompanied the mission of Dr. Martin to study the sleeping sickness. The pigeon home was set up at Brazzaville, and the post is now working with excellent re
sults over a radius from this spot of
375 miles. Lieutenant Gremillet, who has set
up a station soma 125 miles from
Brazzaville, sends daily communications by this means, and other mili
tary and colonial officials frequently use the carrier pigeons. The birds are
rarely lost, unless they are taken too
far. It is now proposed to establish
series of pigeon posts, each about 125
to 200 miles from each other, and it is reckoned that by a system of relays
a dispatch by the pigeon could be sent
quite 750 miles in one day.
The old villa of Emile Zola at Me
dan. the old and pretty little village a few miles outside of Paris, is now a home for weakly babies, having been
presented to the State to that effect
fcv th widow. Mme. Zola.
The Charitable Organization Socle tv has taken it over, and its inaugura
tlon co-incided with the annual pil
grlmage to the novelist's old home by
his friends and admirers.
Zola, contrary to what might have
been expected, considering his great
noDularity. did not leave a large for
tune, and his widow found it impossi
ble to keep up the Medan villa as well
as her town house. So It was a grace
ful act of charity and devotion to the
memory of the great novelist to pre
sent the house as a kind of foundation
in his name.
Meanwhile the date of the transfer
ence of the novelist's ashes to the
Pantheon has not yet been fixed, and
the Question seems to be hanging fire
somewhat. There are so many contrary opinions in influential quarters that it is not likely to be decided at
once.
The other day a proposal was
brought before the town council of a
small place near Paris by one of its
members to erect a statue of the nov
elist. Another member strenuously
opposed the suggestion, and to "un
derline" his words, as the French say
read a few passages from two or
three of Zola's works passages pick
ed for his purpose, of course. The
result was that the proposal regard
ing the monument was thrown out,
with only one vote for it.
Paris, like other capitals, now has
its society of lady balloonists, for the , fair sex here as In America have tak-j en up the aerial sport with enthus- j iasm. The president of the new so-;
clety is Mme. Surcouf, wife of an eminent engineer, and she and the secretary, Mile. Gache, have inaugurated it with an interesting voyage in the clouds. It was Madame's sixth ascent and the third time she has acted as pilot. .(Continued on Page Eight.)
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