The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 October 1928 — Page 6

Silk Dealers Now Have Their Own Exchange ' J||t ww .Xjw vIL \ IfSw * Hr Y v. JI "JKPK 1 v= i- yjffl W mft IWGK* JR1 EBtwEWI W HgUEjp^KWr 1 wR| r *zjlß • Scene on the trading floor of the National Raw Silk exchange which opened in New \ork recently. Ih.s is the first mart of its kind iy the country. The new silk futures market is expected to do an annual business of $1,000,000,000. Wilkins Is Off on a Trip to the Antarctic 1 S\ ’S~ >Jt # ; \ J t’j tHE ' v . «// ? < ’■ / ’i '* - -' x •X‘W»W«g^|gt»l» J WQI'AVWO. I W»WW^»A ,| ? JP ; JXA Z <”*“• ■ V\ ~‘*fr « jKg||| \ w -- f;.\ s • / 1 tli yc,^ x ** A 0 — ' a?' / ife ht /. X~ z a .v. IF / JEIM KB Air ' / 3nl 61 ~ F * HI j* « M/ • y Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins has started with his expedition for the Antarctic regions, sailing from New York for Montevideo, where a whaler will be taken for Deception island, which will be the base for exploration. Above is seen Wilkins’ Lockhead-Vega plane being hoisted aboard the steamer Southern Cross.

THRIVES ON CIGARS J fO> il Hr <v' f? K c **’' \ i Three-year-old Bobby Quigley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Quigley, in £>ite of the board of public welfare of Washington, is thriving well on his cigars before, after and during his meals. He acquired his" taste for strong tobacco from his father’s pipe when eleven months old and has smoked constantly ever since. MOST PERFECT TEETH * MB I ’ ’ll v. ** - /ws||ssS||& 'roSfibs. o Ms x *■ wk Frank Tilton of Metuchen. N. J„ ■seventy-eight years old, claims to have the most perfect teeth in the world. Not one of them is false, he never had one . pulled and never has had the toothache. Idea From the Orient The umbrella is a development of rhe movable canopy used In the Orient from ancient times in ceremonial professions for persons of rank. It was introduced into England from Italy early in the Eighteenth century. Civilization “What we call civilization.” said Hl Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “often proves little more than a desire to follow the fashion.” — Washington Star

This Stops Static on Airplanes Inn I ws__. < I I BkHNKh / D L__ Lieut. G. H. De Baun, U. S. N„ exhibiting the new spark plug for aircraft engines which solves the ten-year-old problem of suppressing engine ignition interference with radio reception on aircraft. In other words, the pilot will be able to receive messages while in the air without static from his engine. Boats Carry Florida Storm Supplies : *' '* js l> J ■L ' O' ' aC Wr*. k, jr? & ...r , ffz- z.. rl Through the storm-swept area in Florida supplies are being distributed by motor boats wherever this can be done. The photograph shows a boat being unloaded at Belle Glade.

FROM HERE AND THERE

Rubber balloons made in this country are popular in Spain this season. More than 10,000,000 tons of mineral oil is being produced in Russia this year. Fires destroy two human lives and $60,000 worth of property every hour in the United States. It is estimated that the world contains 24.000.000 square miles of land capable of producing crops.

Many of the game animals of India are decreasing at a rapid rate. Floods and great storms are the most numerous world calamities. Umbrellas as a protection against rain were first used in England dur the time of Queen Anne. The vibrations and jolts felt by pa sengers in automobiles afe to be sen tlfically investigated to obtain data « human sensitiveness to such shod.

THE SVRACf T SF .IOFRNAL

HANDLING 1 3 IRON ORE te Mechanical Unloaders Removing Ore From Lake Steamer.

(Prepared by the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.I MINING the ore that makes most of America’s steel is a vastly different procedure from the burrowing in dark tunnels that is usually associated with ?iining. Approximately five-sixths of the ore that gives the United States its age of steel comes from the Mesaba range of Minnesota, much of it from the single great Hull Rust mine near Hibbing. To get sime idea of this mine. Imagine a great terraced amphitheater cut out of rolling ground, half a mile wide and nearly two miles long. Dump Gatun dam into it and there would still be a yawning chasm unfilled. Put a ten-story office building into the deepest trench and the top of the flagpole would barely reach to the line of the original surface. Ordinarily one thinks of mining as an occupation for human moles that burrow in the ground and bring out hard ores from cavernous depths. But when nature laid down the Lake Superior ore ranges she made burrowing and blasting unnecessary for the most part. In the Mesaba rwtge —and. by the way, there are as many ways of spelling that word as there are of pronouncing Saloniki—the ore has largely the consistency of sand, and lies so close to the surface that it would be as foolish to burrow instead of digging as it would be to tunnel instead of cutting in building a railroad through a small knoll. And how they do make hay when the sun shines up on the iron ranges! Panama had its rainy season, but the iron ranges have their snowy season, beginning in December and ending with Easter, when that festival happens to be late enough. They have only eight months in which to meet the vast demand for iron and steel, and that demand has run as high as tons of ore. How do they do it? They do it with the most wonderful lot of man-elim-inating. time-saving, obstacle-conquer-ing machinery ever put to a thousandmile purpose. The Hull Rust mine, to begin with the ore in the ground, is a series of terraces, or benches, as the engineers call them, from the banks to the bottom. On each of these Brobdinguagian steps there is room enough to maneuver a steamshovel and a railroad train, and up and down the line go the shovels, shifting iheic positions as they eat into the bank, and loading a big ore train in less time tfian a child with a toy shovel takes to fill a little red express wagon. From Mine to Lake. The ore cars on the iron ranges are of the regulation pressed steel, bottomdumping. 50-ton coal-car type, and they run in trains a third of a mile long. The railroads from the mines down to Duluth, Superior, and Two Harbors are of the best construction. The haul from Hibbing to Duluth is 80-odd miles. Just before the trains reach Duluth they come to Proctor, the biggest ore yard in the world. Here they run across a scales unique in the history of the art of weighing. There would,be an endless congestion and a consequent shortage in steel were it necessary to stop each car on a scales and weigh it; so a weighing mechanism has been devised which permits the tonnage of ears in motion to be registered. A train slows down as it approaches and passes over the platform at, the rate of from five to eight miles an hour, the weight of each car being automatically recorded as It passes. From Proctor the trains run down to the huge unloading piers at Duluth. These piers are vast platforms built out over the lake, nearly half a mile long and wide enough to accommodate two tracks, which are at the height of a six-story building above the water. Beneath the tracks is a series of pockets, holding some two or three hundred tons of ore each. The ore is automatically dumped into these pockets and the train starts back to Hibbing. Even while the trains are dumping their burden ships are alongside wlttf huge spouts in every hatch and 4 hatch every 12 feet, with ore flowing down out of the pockets like water out of a funnel, at the rate of some SO tons a minute, as a rule, and as much as 300 tons as the exception. Some of them are more than 600 feet long with only 60 feet beam. With officers’ quarters and bridge in the bow and crew’s quarters and engine room in the stern, and all of the rest of the ship without superstructure of any kind, and with a fiat deck with hatches spaced six feet apart, a salt-

Church Bells Stolen A very astonishing incident took place recently in a little village in the Tyrol. Austria. The "Silage priest proceeding to the little church to conduct a service was mystified at the absence of the bells. On entering the church he made investigations and was astounded to find that two of the bells had been stolen from the tower. One of the l>ells weighed pounds

water sailor might well regard then, as uncanny apparitions of the unsalted seas. The William P. Snyder. Jr.. 617 feet long and 64 feet beam, drawing about 20 feet 6 inches of water, when loaded to capacity, broke the world's bulk freighter record carrying 13,604 tons of ore on one trip. Modern Ore Carriers. These ships, in spite of the fact that they are able to work only eight months and notwithstanding the won derfully low ton-mile freight rate thej offer, are veritable gold mines. With the progress in the art of bulk freight er construction that a quarter of a century has brought forth, miracles of efficiency have been wrought. Vessels of the largest type are operated today with engines of the same pattern ami power as were fitted into ships of onethird their tonnage two decades ago Indeed, so economical in operation are the big ore carriers of today that they use only a shade more than half an ounce of coal in carrying a ton of freight a mile—-a statement so remarkable that one could not believe it except upon the authority of R. D Williams, editor of the Marine Review Another authority puts the cost of operating such a ship at between s2o< and S3OO a day. Even at the latter figure and ten days to the trip, with cargo only one way, the cost of a trip to the owners is only $3,060. while the receipts may reach $6,000. But even at a dollar a ton. moving ore a thousand miles in these vessels costs only one-sixth as much per ton-mile as moving it on the railroads. When the big ore carriers arrive at the lower lake ports—Lorain. Clevelands Ashtabula, Conneaut. Erie and Buffalo—they hasten up to the ore handling'plants, every hatch open and ready for the unloading. Gravity may load a ship, but it has never yet unloaded one, and so machinery dot's the wqrk. Instead of the old way of hoisting shovel-filled buckets by horse-pow er and dumping them wheel barrows of picturesque longshoremen a method by whicly it cost 50 cents a ton to get the ore from hold to car oi pile, today gigantic unloaders, the most modern of them grabbing up 17 tons at a mouthful, save so much labor that it costs in some cases less than five cents to take a ton of ore out of the held and put it on the small mountain the ore folk call the stock pile, or in empty railroad, ears waiting on the track hard by. Unloading the Vessel. The Hulett unloader reminds one of a glorified walking beam of the sidewheel steamboat variety, with one of the legs left oft’. Instead of the other leg connecting with a crank shaft, it has a wonderful set of claws at the lower end. and above them an ankle of startling agility. These great claws open and shut by electricity, and they take up 17 tons with as much ease as you might close your hand on an apple. The operator is stationed inside the leg just above the claws and gets all the sensations of riding a rollercoaster, as he jumps in and out of the ship hour after hour. When the claws are full, the operator turns a lever; the walking beam seesaws baek to the opposite position; the load comes out of the hold and is dumped into a bin. From this bin it flows by gravity into big coal and ore cars to be hauled to the furnaces, or else is delivered to the buckets of the great cantilever bridge, which carry it across to the big stock pile. •' Once it took a week, with a regitnenk of men, to unload a small ship, whereas now half a day and a corporal’s guard can send the biggest ore carrier afloat on its way empty. There are several other types of unloaders. some of them having huge horizontal beams reaching out over the hatches of the ship and forming trackways for the big buckets that run out to the end on carriages, and then drop down on a cable into the hold for a load of ore. Whoever has watched a farmer store hay away in his barn with a modern hay fork will understand the roles the beam and the cable play. The mining and navigation season being only eight months long, the ships must bring in enough ore to keep the furnaces running during the additional four months, and so the red ore pile is seen everywhere at lake ports and furance plants. Many of the furnace plants are right alongside the unload ing docks and save the cost of railroad haul. But there are* still millions upon millions of tons of ore that must take a second ride by rail before it can reach the hour of its transformation into pig iron.

and the other SO pounds, so how the thief, or thieves, got away with their heavy haul remains a deep mystery. On the Tree Top Plants that perch on tree tops have been discovered in British Guiana They are air plants of the pineapple family, a flat-jointed cactus, and a yellow orchid, and they were found on the top of a fig tree growing in a mass that apparently existed as a par asite until its long roots were able t< find the ground.

JERSEY NOW IN HIGH FAVOR; QUAINT CHALLIS IS REVIVED ■ m w v* B HV < n * Vx “ ; U* : 1 A XL I*V : 1' LS I t w KrW t ® I®

A FT'EK dining and dancing in < * fluttery billowy tulle, and gorgeously bejeweled satins and velvets and like costumes of state, what a relief to turn from the formality of the festive raiment of the evening to the smartdy simple sports clothes which gladden the daytime hour. Not only are sports frocks eminently practical but when it comes to “style,” well, the word is written all over this season’s models, especially of jersey, for jersey is certainly outdoing any previous record in point of popularity. When one thinks of jersey nowadays one has to entirely reconstruct one’s ideas from those of bygone days, for jersey in the now and the then bears little

semblance. The new jersey is that light weight one does not mind wearing it the year round. Then, too, there is such a vast diversity in patterning. coloring and knitted stitch as interpreted by modern jersey. As was to be expected, the printed vogue has invaded the jersey realm, which means new triumphs for jersey in the autumn mode. One can buy the most fascinating jersey fabrics this season at the counter, either printed or metal-interknitted, or that which looks like tweed and scores ot other equally as intriguing types. Or one can find them made up in ensembles and suits and frocks in bewildering array. It seems that designers consider that jersey is presented at its best when it is made up in combination ot print with plain or a dark color with a lighter shade of the same color. Each, byway of contrast, contrives to emphasize the charm of the other. Which accounts for the presence of scores of chic costumes which stress the compose of contrasting jersey. — A typical jersey costume for fall is here pictured. The skirt is ot jungle green jersey and it is plaited, which gives it a very interesting treatment. The pullover and cardigan of jersey in a lighter green are trimmed with bands of the dark green. A threecornered scarf of silk completes the costume. In the realm -of dress fabrics, lightweight woolens are conspicuously in the foreground. Following the example set by sheer velvets, a large percentage of the wool fabric? is tak-

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ing to prints. It makes it still more interesting that there is a sheerness, transparency and pretty fluttering suppleness about these smart new woolens comparable to that of the daintiest silks, chiffons and other as equally esthetic weaves. There is, for instance, a sheer wool crepe called georgeana which comes in all the modish colors of the season. This is given the same soft styling as one would give a delicate georgette Flecked Velvet It is easy to say that velvets are in style, but they must be the right sort of velvets. The plain pile materials will scarcely answer that description. The printed and embossed fabrics are smarter but the most chic of any is the flecked velvet. New Undergarments Attractive new panties of pink silk have added merit of having garters attached to them, so that they can be worn without girdles. I *

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Typical Jersey Costume for Fall. or silk crepe. That Is. It is plaited, shirred and draped with jabots featured in profusion. For two-piece sports models the new kasha-like printed woolens are quite ie dernier cri, while the thinner challis and other sheer woolens are being much exploited for the informal frock of the one-piece variety. There is a touch of romance in the thought that the present vogue for printed woolens should have resulted in that old-time favorite., challis, coming into its own again. In the picture two types of printed woolen informal daytime frocks are shown. Each is made of challis. The one to the right is a one-piece frock of challis printed in a floral design '■of soft colors on a cream ground. This frock has rather a wide belt effect, a scarf or jabot at the right side of the bodice, and fullness giving the effect of a drape at the left side of the skirt. A step-in pump of black glace kid. collared and heeled with reptile, is worn with this costume. The kid pump, by the way. has become so great a favorite in shoe styles that it Is raking unto itself many versions, chief among which is the step-in. The challis of which the frock to the right is styled, is patterned in a geometrical design in red. white and blue, softly toned to a pleasing degree. The pipings, belt and buttons are red. The feeling for gay color is more pronounced than ever this season, and this lovely challis gives emphasis to the trend for gay hues worked to-

gether in effective blends and contrasts. The shoes are a one-strap model in taupe kid. which is a color somewhat the tone of natural blue fox fur. The felt hat matches the shoes in color. The hose are a shade lighter than the shoes. A vogue is developing tor colored kid shoes either matching the dress or relating themselves in some way to the general effect. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©. 1928, Western Newspaper ITnton.l Tiered Fur Coats Some of the new fur coats that strive for originality achieve it by means of tiered instead of plain skirfis. Naturally only very thin flat furs may be used this way. and only tall women ever should buy them. For White Hair A turban that is extremely lovely for a white-haired woman is composed l of black velvet and silver ribbon, the ribbon making a large bow on the left side.