Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 270, 6 August 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY AUGUST 6, 1911.

UNCLE SAM TO BE AN AERIAL POWER ;iTo Lead Other Nations by building' a Fleet: of Twenty Airships.

. BY RODERICK CLIFFORD WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. Within another year the United Stateu will take the lead In aerial defense among the nations of the world. There is now In the military budget for the next appropriation bill an iter for 125,000 with which to purchase twenty or more heavler-than-alr machinese, and with 'its fleet the country will be in a more formidable poHltions, bo far aa the air Is concerned, than any nation in the world. Every modern military expert now agrees that much of the fighting of ,the future is to take place in the air, That is, war wll be carried on above ithe earth, Just as it is now carried on beneath the seas. That in why the United States army, wants more aor'oplanes and more men trained to operate them. Not only will aeroplaneue bo valuable for scout and observation work, but they wll be used to diop projectiles and explosives on hostile armies and shlpB of war. The fact is, the uses to which aeroplanes may be put are not fully calculated yet. It may be that they will revolutionize modern warfare. Army Is Preparing. However that may be, ti e army is preparing to keep ahead of the times ,lf possible In the employmsnt of airships for both offenseive and defensive purposes. Congress will be asked to co-operate, and there is every reas5 on to believe that the lawmakers will tvote all the money needed. General James Allen, chief of the army signal corps, is quoted as saying ithat within a year the. army will have a fleet of twenty airships, manned by forty officers, giving the United vgtates a distinct lead in aero strength. 'At the present rate of progress this ; prediction will undoubtedly be borne out, for the aviation work of the army tis progreseslng by leap3 and bounds. Since April four aeroplanes have ' Venn niirhraspd bv the Sltrnal COrDS

two Wrights one Burgess-Wright andl

one Curtis machine. Two of these are nowat College Park, Md., the airship school of the army, one is at San , . i

AniOniO, 1 eXHs, nuyiiicmcuuiis vuo 1909 Wright model which has just been presented to the National Museum; and one Burgess-Wright machine is now on its way to College Park. It is the scartciy of airmen, and not aeroplanes that is bothering the Army just now. The number of graduate aviators of the Signal Corps can still be counted on the Angers. Lieutenant Foulols, Beck, Milling, Arnold. Klrtland. and Kennedy as a student, com

prise the enure list.

Officers are being trained fast, and it is likely that the army will have from forty to fifty expert aviators by the time the appropriation for the purchase of more machines Is available. There Is a sharp bidding among the

various aeroplane manufacturers for the government"! business. Each manufacturer understands that it is a big recommendation for his factory to I have the government as a patron. Therefore all the companies are worklng hard to get the government con- ; tracts. The Wright company has the advantage In army circles. These brothers

were the first successful flyers of this type of machine, and their demonstration tests at Fort Meyer two years ago have given them a position that is hard to compete with.

Has Big Following. ' The Curtis machine has a strong rfollowlng In the Signal corps because of the brilliant exploits of Curtis and (his aviators in the past, and on aci count of the results they have gained in their experiments with the hydroaeroplanes atvilammondsport. N. Y. i It has already been agreed among i aviators that the hydro-aeroplane is jinore useful in the navy than in the ! army. Professor A." F. Zahem, the avla-

tlon expert of this city, recently went

J to Hammondsport to watch the work of the hydro-aeroplane and was delighted with it. We insisted along with other experts, however, that this type of machine will do better work on naval vessels than on land. .The control system of the Burgess.Wright machines has gained many

advocates for it, and the prediction is made that in the end the army will purchase more machines of this type than any other. The work of Harry N. Atwood in his long flight from Boston to Washington, and his flights in this city, with the Burgess-Wright machine have been highly praised by the officers of the Signal Corps. ' It has developed too, that the bidding for the government contracts is not confined to the United States, but that the manufacturers in: foreign countries are offering their products to this country and are guaranteeing some remarkable results. The Ferman concern of France has announced its intention of establishing a manufacturing plant in the United States, and it will select a site somewhere near the Atlantic coast. Singular as it may seem, the Signal Corps has not shown the slightest interest, in the monoplane. There is no standard monoplane manufacturer in the United States, and, besides, this type of machine Is regarded as far less safe than the biplane. The only real advantage which the monoplane has is that it develops more speed in most case3 than the biplane. It is more dangerous of operation and has therefore been left out of the calculations of the army. Inasmuch as there has been no real war since the flying machine has been made a perfect product, the actual use of it in war has not been demonstrated. Yet the military experts are convinced that this weapon will be an important element in the fighting of the future. The machines are capable of great altitude and speed, and that fact makes them a difficult target.

Germany's A ction in Morocco Was Not Meant as a Threat

GIGANTIC TREE STUWIPS. Big Enough to Be Hollowed Out and Used For Houses. The fine tirs of the Pa cine northwest are so colossal that after the trees are hewed dowu the stumps are used for children's playgrounds, houses for families to live in or for dancing platforms. To make a sU:."ip house the material from the Interior is removed, leaving only enough to form walls of suitable thickness. A roof of boards or shingles Is put over the top of" the stump, boles are cut for windows and doors, and a family of tivi can and often does make It their dwelling. The stump houses are sometimes used by settlers until they can build larger and more convenient homes. After the stump home has been vacated it Is turned into a stable for the horses or sometimes loto an inclosure for chickens or bogs.Next to rbe big tree of California the Or or sequoia of Washington and Oregon has the largest diameter. As they

decay rapidly, the hollowing out Is t

easy. Sometimes they are used for dance platforms, some of them accommodating as many as four couples. Another custom Is to turn the big stumps into playgrounds for the children. The children reach the top by pieces of wood nailed ugainst the sides or by ladders. A beautiful use of the large stumps is making them into flow, cr beds and covering them with trailing vines. Chicago Tribune.

THE WAISTCOAT.

It Became Popular by the Patronage of Charles II. Few men realize how much they are being influenced in their dress by King Charles II.. and yet it is to that monarch we owe the adoption of the waistcoat as a regular urticle of gentleman's dress, says London M. A. P. At least that is so if we are' to accept the statement of Pepys. who in his diary under date of. Oct 16. 160$ states: "The king has declared his res olutlon to set a fashion which he would never alter," ancf "This day King Charles II. began to put on bis vest. It is a very tine and handsome garment." Prior to this date they were exceptional garments, and there is even some doubt whether they were originally worn by ladies or gentlemen, though there is good reason to believe they superseded the doublet, sucb as was worn by ltalelgb. Essex and other notables of the Elizabethan age. A neat waistcoat "wrought in silk and gold" is mentioned in "Patient Grissell." 1002. and there is a painting in distemper of a rest on the walls of Winchester cathedral, dated US!), so that what Charles II. took was merely an existing garment, which he remodeled, and by his patronage so popularized it that it became a standard article of gentleman's dress.

Special Cable from the International News Service.) BERLIN, Aug. 5. An eighty-year-oldl German diplomat, now retired from active service an4 a close friend of Herr von Kidderlcn-Waechter, with wiiom I have just had a long talk, assures me that at no time was there any reason whey the statesmen of Europe, sweltering under the heat of an unusual summer, should have added to their distress by imagining that the dispatch of a German Warship to Morocco ever meant an attempt to break the peace of the world. The idea that the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, he said, should be such a fool as to believe that Great Britain would ever permit the foundation of a "German Mauretania" on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, is bo preposterous, that nobody would have given it a moment's consideration had the summerheat been less trying. Germany has no wish to found, at least at present, a great Colonial empire which would tie down a great part of her newly created navy. What she does want is a certain quantity of foreign territory in various parts of the world, which she can acquire in a peaceable manner, and which will make it possible to make the growing industry of the country independent of foreign raw materials. We have a promising cotton industry, but at present we are dependent on the American market, and this is why we inveset millions of marks in promoting cotton growing in our African colones until we are in a position to do without the American product. We need iron ore and coal in enormous quantities which we hope to get in China, probably by leasing Chinese territory, rather than invading it, and we want rubber, millions of tons of rubber, and this we must get from Africa. We get considerable rubber from Cameron now, but just north of our boundary line in French Congo there is a strip of land which abounds in rubber. If this strip were ceded to Germany by France, we would gladly permit France to swallow as much of Morocco, as she thinks she can manage and I sgpuld be very much mistaken if France will not find a way to come to an amicable settlement of this kind, which would be equally profitable to both countries and which no power could object to. In its desire to overshadow any other city in Europe in rapid development the city of Berlin has greatly over

reached itself and house owners and speculators who a year or two ago could not put up buildings fast enough are now bitterly complaining because they have to pay taxes on their new built houses while they find it impossible to tenant then. There are at present - more than 65,000 flats standing empty in Berlin and its suburbs, according to an official report just issued. Of those flats 28,987 are in Berlin itself and over 21,000 of them consist of two rooms and a kitchen intended for workingmens families. The workingmen, however, are more and more adopting the American system of building small

ilies of German soldiers -who lost their lives in German South West Africa. - . '' - .

houses for themselves outside the city limits, and are encouraged to this by building societies, railroads and trolley companies alike. If the movement continues to grow in a few years

all the "Hinterhauses" that is to say tenements in rear of the palatial buil

dings that line the main streets of the

city, and which are all visitors ever see, will be empty and. the well to do people will have to pay enormous rents to make up for the loss on the

empty houses in their back yards. A "Men's Dress Reform Society'

has been founded in Berlin, with the

object of bringing masculine attire to a higher hygienic standard. The society protests against the "airtight armor plating" of the starched shirtfront, the cast-iron rule of black frock coats for weddings and funerals alike, and the general system of dress which involves the wearing of many tightfitting garments each overlapping the other. The society is greatly in favor of knee-breeches for everyday wear, in place of conventional trousers, which, its members declare, require great skill in cutting and are a source of considerable trouble to the wearer. Stiff collars and cuffs are also taThe society lecognizes, however, that the fight is going to be a hard one, particularly as the leaders of fashion high officials, society men, and others are. creatures of convention, and will not of their own accord go outside the beaten track. The first propaganda will, therefore, be made among men of independent standing for instance, writers, artists, physicians, and sportsmen. These circles will be carried along by force of development, and will thus make the reform style of dress sociably possible. "Memories of My Journey to India. William Crown Prince," is the title of an album of photographs, just published in Berlin depicting various scenes from the recent Eastern tour of the German Crown Prince. The volume of 72 photographs is elegantly printed and arranged, and bears its title on the outer cover in facsimile of the Prince's handwriting. Every one of the 72 photographs, with the exception, of course, of those

j on which he himself is shown, was 1 taken personally by the royal travj eler, and in his compilation of the I work the Prince has taken the great

est care and trouble. The photographs are so arranged as to give a complete review of the Prince's travels, and clearly indicate what mostly interest the heir to the German Throne during his sojourn in the British Indian Empire. A note on the flyleaf of the volume states that the proceeds of the sales will be devoted to the benefit of fam-

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Herr Maximilian Harden, the intrepid and talented editor of the "Zukunft" who has always been known for his iconoclastic delight in blasting the popularity of the Kaiser's friends and the nation's ideals, has declared war against "the greatest man Germany has produced in this century." Count Zeppelin.

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been iu the ascendant in recent times

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cient court records to show that it

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Count's financial backers acquired the Austrian engineer's patents. The Zeppelin airships which have fired the imagination of the German race for the past three years, says Harden, the result. The belligerent editor of the "Zukuft" gives chapter and verse

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