South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 236, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 24 August 1919 — Page 26

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COLE AEROEIGHT

CL MBS PEAKS OF GASGADERANGES.

Negotiates Mountain Gorges I With Ease in Long Oneday Journey. Thr Ivindre 1 and eyrnty bd to five the rr.iles o er roads whl peak of the Cascade mountains. constitute a day's siht-seein trip, made recently In a Co aero eight; by i:. Kershaw of the l;. 1! Wy man company, distributors for the

yoi. moTor rar hi i an.-.a. .i" ,uth. harbor on the south side of the and a party of friends. ' J jvjan(i i3 rno 0f the gncst in all Detail of the tour have Just Wn!,rnr,i AmeHr-i

received at the o!Icvs of the Farnemari Tasher company. South lbnd Cole dealer. Mr. Kershaw ar.d hU party left Takima at dawn, w.th Iake Chelan, a beautiful body of water high up In the Cascades, a.4 their objective. Traveling through th Wnas valley., they made, their way northward toward ML Ilalnier. At Klb-nsburg, an hour and a half out of Y;kima, they turned eastward through the fagi brush desert, toward the Columbia river gorge. 3InilM lifiva Cliff. Arriving at tho Columbia, which they crosses! six times during their Journey, they were ferried to the opposite bank and began a long clim! up tho facof of a cliff wliich is thu result of an ancient la,v:i tlow. Iteachlng the crest they turned westward and began a lon descent; to tho Columbia river valley. Wending Its way along tho banks of the river, tho car arrived at Wenatchee, where for the first time the motor was stopped while, the gas tank wa replenished. Tho ppeedomet r showed that tho car had traveled 142.1 miles to this point. The actual time was six hour and five, minutes. leaving" Wenatchee, Mr. Kershaw directed the car northward and again begun to os-end. The aero eight traveled past the gigantic Ribbon cliff and on up Knapp's hill, oer a road which has l" n arved out of solid rock. Winding up this road they came, almost Without warning, to tho waters of Ivike Chelan and a few minutes later were at the town of Chelan. The speedometer registered 182 miles. Ikran Ileturii Trip. After a rest of an hour the party began tho return Journey by a route wlU' h led 10 miles along the lake, U) and over a mountain range, thenre back to the Columbia river valley, along the famous Sunset highway and home. Tho distance on the return Journey was 1'jC miles, making a total of :'.7." miles for the single day's trip. The rnsrt with which the Cole aero eight negotiated tho stern mountain grades occasioned much' comment among Mr. Kershaw's, guests, all of whom aro experienced! i'atomoblie men. The car's remark-! ablrt reserv power, which enabled it to leap from a conserv ative to the I maximum rpeed permitted by safe-! ty, was demonstrated frequently; during the Journey to the evident in terest of the rassengers. FORGET T LONDON. Aug. rn. Parliament, tfter five hard years oted to the business of the empire. is again learning to play. List wtek it occupied a stand alons: the M ill while fighting men of the alius passed in review. This week it continued its peace celebration by vi.itinr the licet otf the mouth of th Thames ! at Southend. And on both oc-i- ! sior.s it cast aside the d;g:::ty and j hoar.y custom of its ancient legi-.- ! latlve balls, and enjoyed the nov- j elty like a lot of school boys out for ' a fro'le. j Monday the lords paw the ships a comparatively small arid s I-'-T ! partv which left London late and j t-ume borne early. Tuesday it was) the turn of the 'ommons. who beere the b t ! a n ghting h:ps. Admin Halniorcl Tho Ri!;:;orel Castle Cn -tic. vhi-h carrle.i th- v "rers and th ir s r cs f.rs? clrcVd. the Lizzie" as tho o -i iitors a ffect iom t e!y termed Admir.il I'eittv's fi i-ship tho Qiu.-Ti F.i;.aeth. being 'spciriüx admtred. Then the Warspite wha h the (rrnars saui they had sunk at Jutland, the I. Ion. the Titrer and a b: f;f other : ig ships catne in for ndmu ati'U!. while the i o-. i ue 1 1 : the Tbundrer and some of the smaller t.thters were ut- i tcl as oM friends. . The Ri!moie! ir:.- then tamed -down thr-mcM the t . :itt r of thone side were he o t h r the s' : d d e t r o ;s ships. or SU Oil i rir .es. chaser au rr. u I e. i r A sühn. ir:m they took few ruir.at sr-ae task Ft-w sail- ' i t lie te' , .f . ( he ted as : .lei k f..r a j 'AeTlt abo-jt i o ai m a v l v 1 '.' V .''o;ted u-M. but e We! e b ml ! n f i ami thm t hv tb..:r A d r er ! Muoke. K.vhre.l ; tomo'ule ami tore Hu! that was all

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Virgin Islands Have History Full of Black Flag Romance

Annn;:r.r',m,nt that Islands, formerly the th Virgin Danish West In Ii-., arp to be beneficiaries of an annual appropriation of 200,000 from the nay department and are to be the objects of a peneral Americanization program, 1 the occasion for issuance of a bulletin nirKernSn? our nt'.vrst possessions by the. National ideographic society. Though the group comprises 50 bland?, on the northeastern rim of the Caribbean Fa. only three are Mg enough to have a name on any hut hytlrographic charts and local maps. savH the bulletin. These are ! St. Thorens. St. John and St. Croix. I vhib- St Croix has an area of about 4 square miles and St. I nomas but js square nines, m. I Thomas is the most important of i t Vi t rrnnn ct luliniln Thin Im. ! " . , " " I portance arises from the fact that ; The story of hox the war robbed St. Thomas of her one lone industry', and the possibilities the islands hold for rehabilitation, is told in the following communication to the society: Itcsort I'or IMratcs. "From the days of the buccaneers St. Thomas strategic advantage has 1 een realized, for when th. Spanish Main was the happy hunting ground of the. gentlemen of the Mack Flag this harbor was i their headquarters. Hehind Its out- I er hills the pirate craft found shelter from the open sea, and were well .screened from the sight of passing s':!ps until the moment came to pounce down upon them. In more recent times it has played the role of safe harbor for the thousands of vessels bound from Kurope to Panama and surrounding territory, or vice versa. With a free port, where repairs, ships' stores, and coal might be had. up on which there had been no levy of tariff duties, the shipping world found the harbor of Charlotte Amalie an attractive way station on most of its Caribbean routes. "The result was that agriculture in St. Thomas fell into decay, and nearly all of the activities of the island's population were devoted to the interests of its harbor, and one of the finest coaling stations in the tropical world was established there. "In addition to the coaling station there Is a floating dry-dock and a marine slip, where splendid repair facilities are provided. Was Island of llasc. "As long as these facilities were in demand St. Thomas was a fairly prosperous island. Men and women alike found it easy to get em-

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I'loyment, at least for a part of the time, at what was to them a living wage, which was one cent per basket of coal, weighing from S5 to 100 pounds. Some carried as many as two or three hundred baskets during the four or rive hours required to coal a ship. When not doln this work, thej- found considerable employment discharging coal from freighters which brought it to St. Thomas. "Hut then came the war in Klimpe and all was changed. The steamships of Germany, which made continual use of the harbor of St. Thomas, were driven from the seas, and where formerly all

was business and enterprise, only now and then a shin found its wav Into r,ort aml thp people of St. ti . i i i . i . 1 ''". i"'. A-namun- iit-Kien-fi1 for yearj,f found themselves unable to ain a living, either from j the land or from the sea. i l!ntc rtnlneil Columbus. I "The history of the Ianish West ! Indies is full of interest. Colum bus found St. Thomas Inhabited by Ca ribs and Arawaks in 14 93. In 1657 a colony of Dutch settlers occupied the island; hut when they heard of New Amsterdam, now New York, they left It to become a part of the new colony with such a remarkable future ahead of It. The Fnglish camo to St. Thomas next, but in 1666 It was formally taken T)ver by the Danish crown. In 176 4 j the king of Denmark took the govi ernment into his own hands and ' threw the port of Charlotte Amalie open, duty free, to all nations. In 1 SO 1 the British . took the island from the Dines, but restored it after 10 months. Again, in 1807, Ilritain took possessions of St. Thomas, but returned it in the readjustments growing out of the Napoleonic wars in 1815. "St. Croix was settled by Dutch and English, but they quarreled and the Dutch had to get out in 1630. The English In their turn were driven out by the Spaniards. Then the French from St. Kitts took a hand and expelled the Spaniards. France gave the island to the Knightss of Malta; but after a prolonged, but losing effort to put it on a profitable basis, the Knights, In 1720, demolished their forts, abandoned the Island, and removed to Santo Domingo. In 1727 the French captured eight Itritlsh vessels lying there and took possession of the island again, finally selling It to King Christian of Denmark." Advertisers make profits from volume not prices. BIG

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Helium, Incombustible Gas, to Revolutionize Ballooning; Production Greatly Raised

WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 23. Helium, the new incombustible balloon gas, so called because it was discovered cn the sun DO years before It wns identified on earth, which promises to revolutionize the .science of ballooning, is the subject of the following communication to tlie National Geographic society by Dr, (1. Sherburne Rogers: "When the United States Joined the allies, the military value of helium was at once brought to the attention of the army and navy authorities, and a vigorous campaign was begun for the production helium In quantities. "The two main problems were obvious: First to develop methods of extracting helium from the natural gas; and, second, to determine the geologic occurrence of the gas. ! and so locate adequate supplies. "Late in 1917 two small experimental plants using different methods were erected in Fort Worth, Tex., to treat the gas of the Petrolia field; and some months later a third pfunt, using a still different method, was erected in the held itself. Kansas Area Ijaro., "The helium-bearing area of Kansas is far larger than any yet discovered in Texas and contains a number of fields which in the aggregate yields much more gas than Petrolia. The old Dexter field, in which the helium-bearing gas was first discovered, is now exhausted, though the early difficulties inj the way of burning the gas were overcome, and for years it was produced in iarge volumes and used as fuel. "To light a gas stove in Dexter, however, always was a difficult feat, and it became a matter of pride on the part of every good housewife to develop the dexterity necessary to this operation. The stove was first fillet! with crumpled newspaper, which was set afire; then the gas was turned on, its tlow being skillfully manipulated, until by the time tne paper naa ournea out tne gas had become hot enough to take fire. "As the apparatus used in all these processes of extracting helium gas for balloon purposes require rather delicate, adjustment and manipulation, some time was naturally consumed in determining the most efficient working conditions; but Just prior to the armistice the first shipment of 150,000 cubic feet of helium, compressed and stored in steel tanks, had "been started to Europe. This wa senough to fill four of the ordinary kite balloons, thought the large dirigibles requide one to two million or more cubic feet of gas. - SIX

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"Although quantity production of helium was achieved Just too late to-be of value in the actual hostilities, it was In itself a great accomplishment, for the world's total output of helium up to 1915 was probably less than 100 cubic feet, the market value of which was about $1,700 a cubic foot. Our helium can be produced by the first two methods at less than 10 cents a cubic foot, and if the third process fulfills expectations, this figure will be still further reduced. "The details of the process of ex-

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but the general scheme Is easily understood. All of the main constituents of natural gas, including the nitrogen, become liquified wh?n cooled to about 328 degrees, fahrenheit; but the, helium remains a gas at this exceedingly low temperature and is thus easily separated. PrincJpIo Is Familiar. "The principle by which these low temperatures are attained is one known to every motorist who is unfortunate enough to have to pump up his own tires. When air is compressed in a tire it becomes hot; if the tire la allowed to cool to ordinary temperature and the valve Is then opened and the air allowed to escape, it becomes cool.

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