Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1917, Page 6

| sae ae all “5 Gen, Robert George Nivelle, who has succeeded General Joffre as com- mander in chief of the French forces, carried out one of tue most striking achievements of the »ar—the recovery at a single stroke of almost all the territory gained by the Germans before Verdun, General Nivelle, whose mother was English, is sixty years old and one of the numerous “discoveries” of “Papa” Joffre. At the beginning of the war he was a colonel in command of the Fifth regiment of artillery and about to be retired. He was promoted to general of brigade on October 24, 1914, and a few weeks later placed in com- mand of the Sixty-first infantry divi- sion. On December 23, 1915, he re- ceived his three stars and was ap- pointed commander of the Third army corps. Nivelle is said greatly to resemble the authentic portraits of Cardinal Richelieu. In action he is alert, quick, gesticulating and gives the impression of having great reserves of energy. both physical and mental. He has also the reputation of being a strict disciplinarian and possibly is the greatest gun- | ner in the army. With him artillery is the deciding arm. The general is a great admirer of England, speaks English and is foud of reciting old-time English war verse. More than this, he frankly asserts that he Is more than half English, because his father married a Miss Sparrow of Deal and he has several relatives in the British navy. Nivelle is the friend of Inventors. Let one get a pass to his headquarters and he receives the most assiduous attention, particularly if he has brought a product of his work with him, WHY DEWEY ENTERED NAVY Byer hear how it came that George Dewey, admiral of the United States navy, and hero of the battle of Manila, happened to go to Annapolis? It’s a funny story, as told by his third cousin, Col, Elias Dewey of Chicagd. “The fact that the West Point ca- dets got eight weeks’ vacation in four years, while the ‘middies’ received but one week in that length of time was the reason the future admiral was sent into the naval branch of the service,” says Colonel Dewey. “George lived at Montpeller, Vt., {n the middle of the last century, and my home was at Malone, N. Y. Our fathers were second cousins, and both of us youngsters received appoint- ments to West Point at the same time. My father wouldn't let me go because there were many Indian wars then and he was afraid I would get scalped. It happened that George was some lad in : — those days and had a good time gen- His father, after diligent inquiry, found that the West Point boys had erally, two months yacation in four years, while the ‘middies’ had to be satisfied with This meant that Dewey, Sr., would have had George around He thought he could get along with So he sent him to Annapolis.” a single week. a long time if he went to West Point. one wetk, that he could manage it somehow. Some time ago trachoma broke out in a dangerous degree in the Appa- lachlan regions of Kentucky, Tennes- see, Virginia and West Vriginia, and for a year the federal health authori- ties have been working to stop the spread of the infection. At a cost far less than the cost of a single torpedo boat, the government has checked the spread of this infection, which might have proved an expensive plague if it had been allowed to spr But the picturesque figure In the fight is the Miracle Man of the Moun- tains, the “gov’ment doctor,” Dr. John McMullen, who with his faithful nurses has wrestled with the power of dark- ness and brought light to hundreds of eyes. It was difficult to persuade these simple, childlike people at first to sub- mit to operations off their eyes; now during the latter months of the fight against trachoma Doctor McMullen’s slinics have lasted from daylight to dark and hundreds have waited patiently in Une for their chances, Doctor McMullen would not tell it himself, but it is a fact that in Muhlen- berg county he held a four-day clinic and In that time operated 60 times. He examined and treated 400 people, and at any time could look down and see a hundred in line waiting to reach him, To do what he did he had to begin work at sunrise, and, except for lunch, stopped only when the sun went down. The service has three hospitals in Kentucky and one each in the other three states where trachoma is prevalent. CARTER GLASS AND HIS SON Representative Carter Glass, who is secretary of the Democratic national committee, is not a lawyer. He is a newspaper man and banker, but one of the Virginian’s sons is now quite convinced that his da@ would have been successful had he followed the profession of the law instead of de- voting his energies to finance, It appears that Mr. Glass has a son among the troops on the Texas border. He is a bright youth and Mr. Glass is proud of him. The younger Glass, like other boys of his age, started to smoke cigarettes some time ago, much to the discomfiture of his father, who protestea against it. A short time ago Mr. Glass re celved in his mail a package contain- ing three photographs of his soldier son, all in uniform. Later a letter came, and in it the boy wrote that he stopped smoking cigarettes, “which no doubt Me. Glass read the letter, and read again. Then he took up the photo- graphs, In two of them young Glass held firmly between his fingers a clg- arette. Bas Pond gen Nap tensed pf amhse Rie bmeg4 Td like to believe that you have cut out -preponderance of evidence is against cigarettes, | gi would be gratifying,” the boy said... THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE BILLY EVANS SOLVES League Several years ago a play came big leagues, bu yet there are st saw the questi weekly that na editor, in answe all opinions to In the minc man out in the men on fi to left field, which was played bad! | play, and {t seemed that the home | batter crossed the plate the crowd It so happened that the man failed to touch third base. The | left fielder, the third baseman rece umpire thereupon declared out th | failed to touch that base. That, portion of the crowd was on the f The captain of the team in the insisted that since the batter had of him, because that runner had f. the claim, Thus, the team last at by a run, while the captain of the had won by the same margin. V ruling? fata a a a's a"es"s"e"a"s Major league umpires, and p have a uniform ruling on this play. called out. The run scored by th No attention would have been ps batter touched third base and the o technically passed the latter on th it would be decidedly unjust to pun all the rules simply because the pr the laws of baseball. ‘Thus, neither the score would have been a tie, ar coming to them, (Copyright by the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) SPOTTS WON AMATEUR TITLE Winner of Trap-Shooting Champion- ship in 1914 Repeats at Travers Island urnament. Ralph Spotts, York Athletic club, holder of the amateur trap-shoot- ing championship title in 1914, again won the title at the Travers Island traps of the Winged Foot organiza- tion. He not only won the champion- ship, but broke the record besides. He broke 196 out of 200 targets, Ralph Spotts, Amateur Champion. thereby establishing a new record for the event. The New York Athletic club's nimrod so far outels d his rivals that the competition was not ‘© years ago, Spotts, whose abili- ty won him international fame as a trap-shooter, captured the title with 188 breaks, and last year the late George L. Lyon of Durham, N. C., won both the preliminary and champion- ship events with 191 in each. SEYMOUR HIRED AS MANAGER Former Gian’ Southpaw and Champion Batter Expects to Land in New York State League. Cy Seymour, who was one of the best southpaws in the National league when he pitched for the Giants, and later became champion batter when he played the outfield, expects te get a job as manager in the New York State Teague next season. Seymour recently stated that he had received offers from two clubs, and that he expected to sign a contract with one of them. GAMES FOR CARLISLE TEAM Indians Will Schedule Contests With Colleges ahd Universities Only for Year 1917. The Carlisle Indian football team will schedule games with colleges and universities only for 1917. The Indians were not prohibited from playing foot- ball, but it was suggested by the fed- eral officials at Washington that the extremely difficult schediles of the rediskins be modified to about the scale of those carried by the average Ameri- can college, (Written Especially for This Paper by the Famous American created considerable discussion. Similar plays have come up in both adhered to, despite the argument created by the minor-league happening. tion have been thoroughly threshed out many times, ruling to that in vogue in both big leagues, stated so in his arswer, and Insists that he is In the right, teum needed thr: and th away from him and rolling to the fen baseman and also the umpire, Wh« be declared out and that run also rendered void. Answer to Problem. the runner who had failed to touch BASEBALL PROBLEMS Umpire.) up in one of the minor leagues that t the same ruling has always been Both sides of the ques- {ll some doubtful ones, Recently, 3 on brought up before a sporting swers all such arguments. The ring the question, took the opposite the contrary notwithstanding. 1e game in question, with one uf of the ninth, the home to win and two to tle. With , the batter hit a sharp single the outfielder, the ball getting All three men scored on the n had won the game. As the n to surge on the field. first, when the hit was made, © was noticed by the third n the ball was thrown in by the ed it and touched third base. The n originally on first who had course, cut off a run, <A large Id at the time. 1 then raised another angle. He hniecally passed the runner ahead d to touch third, he should also The umpire allowed bat bi ved it had won the game visiting team left believing that he Vhat would have been the proper ri t er n f te etles ly all minor league officials, Hud it come up in the big league, third would, of course, have been e batter would have been allowed. to the technicality that since the ther player did not, the former had ie nes, The opinion is held that sh a runner who has complied with eceding runner has violated one of team would have been the winner, id the team at bat still had an out eee ED SE REE EELS EEE CELE REE E EEC EEC SUESEREPUOLE OSE ULES erry eee Ee EEE EEE EE eh brane LITTLE PICKUPS - OF SPORT - How is your amateur standing to-| day? es a Yale has two fencing teams as well as a freshman squad, Aerie Washington (D. C.) billiard room keepers have formed an association, * * * The minor leagues will not’ open their ball parks at all if the players go on strike, ** © As one writer has very ably said— The Haughton system was successful at Yale this year. ** * If wrestlers were not permitted to wrestle they could hire themselves out as human corkscrews, "2 2 Frank Moran intends to be one of the busiest heavyweights this winter, Busy looking for dough. Py i Ier5 Vean Gregg, the veteran southpaw of the Boston Red Sox, would like to be traded to some other club. oetie made the elephants in the circus turn green with envy at his size. * 2 « The New York National league club is going to build a new grand stand at its training park in Marlin. ee Connie Mack really ought to take his players to a training camp In Mexico, where pepper is the national dish, "2. The Mobile Southern league club announces the sale of Pitcher Tiller (Pug) Cavet to the Nashville club. ee Larney Lichtenstein says Ad Wol- gast engaged in 30 fights last year. Ho, hum! It seemed like a lot more. se 2 Many a winter wonder will go home next spring all tanned and bronzed from his trip to a big league training camp. ss *¢ ¢@ President Weeghman of the Chicago Cubs says it is positively decided that the team will do its training at Pasa- dena, Cal, 2 * et * One could name several major league clubs that might benefit from a visit to the island of Jamaica, where ginger is cultivated. se. @ According to the riles of the New York state athletic commission, a referee cannot give a decision of any kind in a boxing bout. 7 * 2 The Blue Grass league is to be re- vived and is to be conducted on an economical basis, Going to let the players eat the grass, maybe? ee. @ 7 Tris Speaker is putting in some good licks for his old side-partner, Joe Wood, and as a result Smoky Joe probably will land with the Cleveland Indians, see The Giants hare always caused a lot of comment with their new uni- forms each year, but the announce- ment that the New Yorkers were to wear violet next year has caused a regular riot of publicity. | | | We've gotta hand Willard credit. He | NEW FIRELESS LOCOMOTIVE The Fireiess Locomotive Has No Means of Providing Fire—Outwardly, How. ever, It Resembles the Steam Engine. NEEDS NO FIREBOX LOCOMOTIVE THAT IS RUN ON BORROWED STEAM. Plant on Factory Site Supplies Motive Power, and It Is Stored In the En- gine Tank Until Gradually Exhausted. The locomotive illustrated consists of a large, round-ended tank with a false end at the front and fitted with only such appa us as is re quired for the control of the steam to the cylinders, The latter, all the driv- ing mechanism and the outside lag- ging to prevent heat radiation are ex- actly like those of an ordinary loco- motive. Three crosswise perforated Jaffle plates are fitted in the tank. These serve to prevent the water from surg- ing from one end to the other and to prevent the locomotive from rocking. In operation, the tank is first filled about half full of water. This ente through a valve at the front and 5 into and out of a long perforated pipe extending the full length of the tank near the bottom. Then live steam from the power plant on the factory site Is admitted to the tank through the same pipe as was the water. By the time the pressure between the boiler and the tank is equalized, generally at 150 pounds, the water level in the tank will be raised considerably and the temperature of the water will be near- ly equal to that of the steam by which it is charged, about 370 degrees Fahren- heit. The steam is then drawn off through a throttle-valve in a dome in the tank top and led through a pipe to a re- ducing-valve in the false front end of the tank. This valve reduces the pres- sure of the steam to between 60 and 65 pounds per square inch before it is led to the cylinders. These are es- pecially large in diameter so that the piston area is such that the locomotive can be moved when the steam is at a pressure of four pounds. The exhaust steam is carried out through a pipe in the stuck as shown As the steam is used, the pressure in the tank becomes less and less, al- flowing the water to evaporate gradual- ly and maintain a steam supply until it has been depleted to the point where it is no longer sufficiently effective — Popular Science Monthly. eS Much Equipment Ordered. All high records for equipment pur- chases by the railroads were broken during the first three of vember, no less than 14,000 being involved in the orders place? for that period for new kc 1otives: and freight and passenger cars. During the three weeks the railroad equipment manu- facturers have booked orders for a total of 34,008 freight cars conserva- tively worth $1,500 aplece, 2,000 ; 256 domestic locomotives averaging about $30,000 each, $7,680,000; 633 foreign locomotives worth conserva- tively $8,640,000, and 416 passenger rain ca $17,000 each, $7,072,000, a otal of $ 000. Last year the American railroads or- Jered 123,386 freight cars for their ywn use, compared with 84,298 for the norresponding period of 1915. Domes- sic orders for locomotives aggregated 1,886, compared with 1,023 for the ame period of 1915. Railroad Building in Russia. Russia has beaten all records in allroad construction, She has built a ‘reat double-track, broad-gauge line ‘tom Alexandrovsk, an ice-free port on ier northern coast, down to Petrograd, -nd completed it within six months. It 8 1,220 miles long and 10,000 men, nostly convicts, were employed upon t The Great Siberian railroad, 5,52 miles long, was built in eight years. The line stretches across wild plains -+nd forests and over great mountain anges in a climate where for five nonths in the year the soil is frozen as hard as granite. It cost $140,000,- 00 and since the date of its comple- ion another $22,000,000 has been spent n improving the line, New Idea for Bumper. A bumper to stop railroad cars has deen invented that consists of a series of curved elevations in the track which gradually reduce the speed of a car, the last one being high enough to halt it. Magnetic Buffers Work Well. Both safety and time-saving are found to be promoted by the magnetic buffers placed at each end of the shift- — | HOW SAFETY SYSTEM WORKS seks rg: Incident at Philadelphia Proves That it Has Almost Reached Point of Perfection. We take trains day and night and | travel amid real perils without the slightest knowledge of them. A lead- | ing eastern railroad system has a more | than two years’ record of transport- jing millions of passengers without the |loss of a single life. This is because of a system which has been developed through generations which makes for “safety first.” How complex and far- reaching is that system few persons imagine, It calls not only for rules, but for a set of men of quick pervep- tions and ready action. A freight train entering Chestnut | Hill broke in two and started down | hill at a rapid rate. Its starting point | was almost as elevated as the base of | the statue of William Penn on the city |hall, The train was finally stopped at Girard avenue in West Philadelphia, where it met an ascending grade and ; was easily caught by a switch engine, This brief statemeny of tle case gives no idea of the dangers involved nor of the measures taken to avert disas- ter. There were at least 50 chances that the runaway cars would encoun- | ter trains either on the Chestnut HiIl branch or on the New York line. These were averted by tie system which has been developed to such a nicety that not only local trains, but express trains were held up while the run- away was shifted into a tunnel and brought to rest where it could do no harm, Probably 50 towermen were in- volved in this operation, which also attracted the attention of the main of- fice at Broad street. If such an event had occurred @ generation ago the loss of life would have been terrible. That it proved bloodless is due to a system which has been evolved at the cost of possibly $100,000,000. We think of railroad ex- penses In terms of construction cost and of equipment, but in these days the cost of safety has become a very large factor. It is an increasing ex- pense.—Philadelphia Inquirer. BUILT THROUGH WILD REGION First Railroad to Reach the Arctic From Petrograd Went Across Unexplored Country. The first railroad built to reach the Arctic from Petrograd was the now ex- isting Vologda-Archangel railroad. This road was begun in 1895 and was openeé to daily traffic in November, 1897, The road was built through uninhabited re- gions, through forest wilds that had never known the foot of man, and over tundras and deep swamps. To- day one is able to travel through this country rapidly and without interrup- tion. The distance from Archangel to Vologda is 396 miles and the distance from Archangel to Moscow is 700 miles. The Archangel road is connect- ed with the Trans-Siberian by way of Kollars, in the northern Dwina. The Archangel line is a single track railroad and the tremendous business which has flooded Archangel since the beginning of the war has proved too much for the single track connection. All ac- counts agree that the quays at Arch- angel are glutted with goods awaiting forwarding. It was largely because of this situation that the Russian author!- ties decided to reach Ekaterina harbor and to build a double-track road while about it. Even with the Ekaterina line rvnning, Archangel will continue to be a port of importance, and it is freely predicted that the Russian au- thorities will double-track the Arch- angel route, Our Friend, the Cow. Since the cow is the most economl- eal producer of human food of all of our domestic animals, and as she can live and produce milk on a ration com- posed entirely of roughage, she will pe the animal that will be resorted to in order to convert half of the energy of our common crops, which is otherwise unavailable, into human food. Anoth- er reason why the cow is here to stay, and will always be of vital importance in sustaining human life, is that ba- bies and invalids cannot be’ nourished on cornmeal mush alone. For these reasons, even after the time comes that there is an actual struggle for hu- man food, the dairy cow will still be a vital and abiding factor in a system of permanent agriculture, if we are to retain a high degree of civilization. Aspirations to Leadership. “John,” said Mrs, Bracer, “you must learn not to eat with your knifg.” “Don't worry about that. If we get a few more millions an’ a little more pull you an’ me'll be able to set the style an’ make people that don’t eat ing locomotives of the great train] with their knives look perfectly am- yard at Berne, Swi fashionable.” ‘ +