Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1921, Page 57

- THE ‘SUNDAY- STAR;- ‘WASHINGTON,: -D.- -C,, -FEBRUARY - ———— 13; - 1921—PART 4. FOUR “COUNTS OF MONTE CRISTO” AND |U. S. HAS MONOPOLY ON HELIUM, ONE OF GREAT TRADE OUTLOOK OF MARSEILLE| THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ] ol e ystored after extraction in concrets NE hears more about “helium’ I chambers ia mines. The suggestion 3 & e these days than about that i8 to build a concrete chamber in & .- drift. with reinforoed concrete enas Sterliny Helllg Inter- SEoedingly. moaro il {ana & m, - Whole To. be line t g Mool as it Gt and a manhole. the whole to i views Men Who Claim to Belong to every one knows all about radium, but-comparatively few know anything at all about hellum. This, too, despite the fact that at the present time it is one of the most discussed subjects in gas. It will neither burn nor explode. The United States has a monopoly on with eheet copper to prevent dif- fusion of the gas through the cop-' crete. The gas would be stoped un- dor a pressure of 490 or 500 pounds and the wzlk drift would take most of* \nls so that the { thizmness of concrete would the | might be as low as from one-tenth to 11 D K¢ | necessarily be small and largely re- the antes Famlly the bureau of mines of the Interior 5 d 3 quired for ..g‘v:f.:..i__,.“:.'u.,.uh surface b A = Department, Army and Navy clrcles, | | 1ts pro uction. EASie batppe i Ay of FICtlon_Tl'le the air service and the halls of Con- | L b in the St & sandstone fn the ) W the s d - . c s e e ] It makes travel by dirigible far less (e surace, and = puld be d o o President Wilson Ellfott of Indiana, surrounded by a dangerous - |Santsinne me dhn hropsr Al oAt and Docks and Prospect i e L ey , g 5 | chaaber 460 oF 560 Fast Sons mnd alx n| mn e value o elium to eigh e diamete be P T L It is compressed and carried safely. | | Sasimhi i, dsmeis men b for Trade With rupted with: “What is this hellum| | st G S r | " - America—What the stuff you are talking about? I'm will- ELIUM is extracted from natural | | | idirixlbles during the 'war, It was a war-time-invention, but is one-fifth of a per cubic foot ing to bite.” 1i . has also been susgbsied vhat 3 "Wl repliea Eutott, “as near ss| [useful in peace times. | helium might be stored in_some of War Didf F h Il:‘an hfl%\.\re out the thing, its just e | the sait deposits of New York. In plain hydrogen with the ‘hell’ taken Th d 1 = this state some of the rock salt de- or 'rench| out. O, fo put it another way, iUs e greatest production plant 1s lo~ | [oai e it Tecd tnivk and cons po Iike liquor or beer with the Kick ex- 5 ercd with « fairly heavy overburden. rt_ tracted—harmless. The use of helium d l | By drilling into the salt and flushing makes dirigible and all other kinds of cated in lexas. out with a stream of water. a circu- — lblllnuxl;l traveling as safe as a snooze = L = lar cavity could be made in the salt n a haystack. Before helium came ™ % s th a lo eck, such ity bein BY STERLING HEILIG. into use a single bullet might cause informed | petus about this time from a visit'po AR " fed Th diameter, The = a dirigible, costing millions of dollars,| me that if it had not been for the | to this country of Command. . o s hing like MARSEILLE, February 3, 1921 = Hh e 5 ‘b & |German dirigibles he had no doubt | Bridge and Lieut. Commander 1. ¢, ¢hamber would be something like a N Ml e it e o explode and crash to the ear e e Cpien ‘ret: would. have| Eocok of the Britien s bottle with a very long neck and 5 sy . . | i - ! natural gas it w to use chamber under pressure satisfac- and excaimed: “The world is|THE FOUR MEN OF MARSEILLE WHO CLAIM TO BE DESCENDED FROM THE nAi'ncs ALY (OF O A B eihans L) atick nele.;‘hu e LUl L S e e T s el e miner™ FICTIO! DISPUTE AS TO WHO IS-THE “COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. -~ ing a lighted match out of the win-f,, JThe Hreach, and o e | liquefy everything present except placed close together in the same de- Every visitor takes the boat trip to I ’ SRS raises has+bees|Dubilater) made haste! asirapidiy. as|(the heliuin (i To! do. this iaince POSiL It is necessary. of course. (o the isl etti is business | from the Mediterranean to this in-[do they want in return—paper money? 1@ bureau of mines has - been:p,sgible to repair the deficiency, They | helium AnNERTAEY know whether helium does or does and fortress to see where the | BN o Bood Ahare o il amn | 1And. sea of the Etans. It will be a|It seems o me_ that they had better | WOrking on the development of helium | Pecognized. however, on account of 'high in nitroken, it not diffuse through salt in order to Innocent youth, unjustly imprisoned to ultimately rea {from the ors dis- | ship_canal thirty-three feet deep to|accept goods. Marseille means Ku-|for a number of years, and the best|the experience they gained from the natels Ure | apply such a scheme practically, and for years (in fiction), met tre Abbe | jributing Lame St mites back | receive carEo boats up to 12,000 tons | rope the Tevant. the orient and|way to fnd out all about the details| gefence of London and other impor- |of Tauid witrogen, The ‘separacion 818V Uk % SRS RO e done Forta, tunneling his way out The|from the quays. The work is nearly |dead weight. Africa. Tut, tut! The world is ours|of it is to go down there and talk tof tant points” in England that the |of oxvgen from nitrogen by’ refrix |, Sy 5 irloy Of mines future Count of Monte Cristo joinea |{nished and Marseille will have the | Of course, it will open vast new dock | —and yours! those scientific gentimen.” dirigible was not oaly vulnerable. | eralian Tiho s, i ot experimenta, | ~The storage in @ concrete chamber P “Sonte first pipe line in France—the other, | space. § ut extremely e = B1C % s = & helne tete e exper! 1al the clandestine digging. received a!from Paris to Havre, will not be fin- | Big barges already enter the Eunz,l i i ganized attack. The Germans recog- | tion and Involved a large outlay of |is being tried out at the Sxherimenial first-class education in the slow,|ished for two years. Furthermore, |direct to Marseille by the famous:’The Secrets of a VISIT to that branch of ‘the fed-|niged this also and, therefore, in-|cap. _n.t Dhis Jmes rm'ml il I el Bl e heart-breakin; inerah d finally, | these Pinede docks are fuel oil docks. | Rove tunnel, completed in 1916, and eral governmental establishment | Yariably made their attacks on Eng:{per)cont obione lias [rom: 19 werioent] Hursan Jana (e iie: sxpeciod) kbl JEEn & partnership and finally. | The stuff is arriving and looms large. | up into all France by the Rove canal, b Fortune Teller e ¢lland at night and operated from aiof the other. n the preparation | practicability of this me | the dying abbe's secret of the Borgia| “They go back in ballast.” worries | of already thirteen draught, to the more than confirmed the ‘wisdom of|pigh aititude in order to minimize |of oxygen a puri ¥ of 8% ["J'd‘ Bt | determined shortly, billions. . | Pascal, “but coal boats ought not to | navigable River Rhone and the wa: / — Representative Elliotts suggestion. | attacks by airplane, for o single in- | in ohiained. the result is considered | © N0 S oiems contronting s is| B0 back empty—it is not good busi- | terways of central Europe. Barges of According to Dr. Richard B. Moore | cendiary bullet fired in | satis . ain : s e Mo and byivean| oF To the guides it is all real. This|po Marsetlle 15 Eetting o lot of 0 tons dead-weight capacity pass BY RACHEL MACK. oI (O D R tos 1n the | would probably bring the huge ship ' from natural Eas, however. it would |the Army and Nayy and b smooth stone was the good abbe’ jthat coal which America is shipping each other continually in both direc- AYBE You'll be surprised to blackboard; at this 1 wi !to France and is thankful to get it,|tions. It is the cheapest possible in- * taght Edcond Ta‘fiw‘":"w ¢! Our chamber of commerce offered |land transportation, practically un- know I'm not always pro- navigation by tFe pauxite (aluminum ore) and ochre [limited. smotin’ the June ‘bride idea stars. Here is where the government | (for yellow paint) in bulk, for the re- | “That inland sea” says Edmond, e i walled up the tdnnel, and it was|lUrn trips of the coal ships, but I'll [ “it's 4 suburb of Marseille!" y ) and applaudin e swee! ; from this platf | tell you something secretly. They are | “The world is ours!” takes up Henri | strains of the weddin' march. Just to Platform that Edmond|carrying back Algerian iron ore to|Radoub, who looks to me like the|pnrove it TI1 tell you about an inci- Dantes, substituting himself for the|America. for its richnessi n manganese.” | true Monte Cristo. “Marseille, to- . 3 z dead body of his friend, was heaved |l Could not have learned it from |day, has twelve miles of utilizable |dent that happened some years ago. : into the Mediterranean. Ripping himself free from the sack, he swam, wam picked Up by Hahers appear, they seem to be connectéd |steamship lines Marseille possesse maneuvered to bn mopers and fnally | by ramifications with all the business | The fourth claimant Scratches his[not beautiful, she's pleasant to look e left alone on theof the port. chin. He resembles an Irishman, but uninkabited little island where the| {fabulous fortume in jewels and gold Was hidden After years of priva- tions and patience, “the world is mine!” he said. s * * ¥ ¥ F/HERE are four men in Marseille who claim to be descended from Marseille officials, and am coming -to think that the Monte Cristo heirs are my best bet. “Plain” men as they Pascal's son, the contractor, owns a strip of real estate along the Etang de Berre. It is just where the big story comes in. “There are billions of dollars in it,” says Pascal, whose atavism makes him see big. “Billions for America and billions for Marseille. There is no other situation like it for Ameri- can manufacturers—the free zone of the Dantes family (which never exist- ed), and dispute which of them is the Count” of Mounte Cristo. But there are & million or thereabouts of the Marseille population who are con- vinced that the world is theirs—if * America would Marseille, when it becomes legally organized.” The Etang is an inland sea, practi- cally touching Marseille’s suburbs. It is fully deep enough for big ocean cargo boats—in fact, it is @ gulf of the Mediterranean, whose entrance silted shut long ago. Its shores are vast dock space, with deep water to the very edges, with any quantity of After years of privations and patience , Vacant land for American manufac- through a bad war, *® herself linked up Marseille sees| turers to set up “finishing” plants y with | When the land around the Etang shall magnificentl: America—in twenty years, without | Pecome the promised free zone. fail, if mot mow. But she wants it now! Marseflle has direct steamship ‘Hamburg did it.” exclaimed Pascal, “and Marseille will do it, in spite of the opposition of a lot of sardine ocean quays and nearly forty miles of poXt railroads. “Leon, tell the gen- tlemen how many distinct ocean is pure mouth of the Rhone. “One hundred and eleven lines,” he answers tranquilly. Citizens _of tationi for exa to improve their stories. So I looked up Leon's statement. as 1 have done for all the others. He underestimates. In the latest bulletin of the port, twenty print- ed pages of departures and arrivals. 1 count one hundred and twenty-seven ocean steamship lines. AlL of course, are not owned or controlled in Mar- seille, but their boats are period- ically bound for, enter and quit the port on their regular business. Before the war Marseflle received twenty-one million tons of shipping and ten million tons of merchandise. This year she run close to her pre-war figure, toward the eight million tons of merchandise. “We don’t want to emigrate; we want to do business.” says Edmond |(he speaks for Marseille). We are plain men. Tell this to the plain men | of America—France does not want to nection with the United States, with | fishers and wine growers, who claim |dump her undesirables on America— handsome passenger ships to New |that Portuguese and Spanish products ! France has no undesirables. York and Providence, R. I. ‘These considerations have led to the brand-new organization of a sim- would get fraudulently labeled French in such a zone, to the detriment of French marks. And-those manufac- ilar Marseille line to Canada—and | turers of north France. they're com- Marseille is convinced that she has ing to see that. as competition can- the grand situation of French trans. | not be avoided, it is best to have it + atlantic passenger ports (with the | Close enough to profit Fran®e and We want | simply to see commerce flourish and |pay off our debt. We shall never forget America’s generosity. Marse(ile was full of Americans a year and a half ago. We know them and appreciate them." Th; about into ‘While A young girl registerin® twenty-four summers hurries the studio for a consultation. at and neat to the last hook. She has that homelike personality that akes you feel like relaxin' and be- ing comfortable—one of the sort who could make a piano box seem like home, sweet home. “You wish a palm reading?” T ask. 1 do,” she answers; “I must make a decision, and I need help.” “Well,” T announces, “Clarisse can run up the periscope and give you a peep at the breakers ahead. What's the question that’s cuttin’ down your sleep?” “I can’'t decide” she answers, ‘which of two men to marry. For a month T've been fighting it out in my mind, and I haven't found the answer yet.” “Hm!" 1 says, rather thoughtful. “The mind's not exactlythe cus- tomary place to think this marryin’ question out. I believe the heart's conseidered the proper location. Something’s wrong. Let's consult the occult.” only country in the world able to se- cure helium in large commercial * ¥ *x ¥ f | quantities, which necessarily gives it GHE gives me her hand, which 181 J"3{iinct advantage over other na- large and firm and rather practi- | tions both in times of war and peace. cal. . Of course, I lend an eye to the | Helium is secured from a par! love lines first, expectin’ to see a | VATiely of natural (BEs e h couple of them ‘cutting deep through | Portion of W d in the vicinity of Fort the mount at the base of the littie | homa an Tt o But imagine my surprise | WOrth, Tex. Immense plan lace by when I find them among the missin | Deen established at the latter p] y fingor. ithi ments a mass | be necessary to start where the other i * ok et ofr, bwing 1o the fact that | the gas to be treated would contain inot more than 1 per cent | The undertaking, extremely difficult one. * x x x R this reason it was decided to use three processes, hoping that one, at least, would solve the prob- of flames. iSh recognized this aquite the war. In addition, crews, so that, perhaps. the di were not as efficient as they wise might have been. “The answer, of course., Was a non- The infiammability of the hydrogen was the one weak spot in this method of attack, and the Brit- early the c danger of such a death had a strong effect on the nerves of the opérating THE GOVERNMENT PLANT AT FORT WORTH, TEX., WHERE GREAT QUA’ —_— e 1 in | onstant rigibles | ¢¢ other- | therefore, NTITIES OF HELIUM ARE PRODUCED. _— helium. was an mines at present is the future dis- position of the valuable helium plants. in Texas. Obviously, these men want’ these plants kept going and ever cubic foot of helium extracted from: natural gas as it comes from the earth and safely stored for use in the years ahead. The whole problem is now up to Congress. If the necessa appropriation is made, America wil have a monopoly. of helium. know all about the proposed ; ™) A the government, where the helium is . S : ickly jently. At the beautiful “tourist trips up from the | keep France posted up to date. Look | jegisiati hich w. Girlie, 'I asks, “did I understand | {hg 8 n its way | inflammable gas sufficiently light to|lem quickly and efficiently. . south of France), it only—but—in |t the Lyon sample fair! It's the | smeriean ships to such s point mey|0u to sy that you loved two ke trom e R B s of Fort|take the place of hydrogen as a|time there were two commercial The Connoisseur. . first step to the free zone. Aren't We | think) that it would create a monopoly |21 couldn’t pick the heavy part: Worth, Dallas and smaller towns, |lifting force. There is only one Basj ompanies in this country making 7 The United States may stop emi- | SIart enough to protect ourselves | aeainst the new lines which Marsein by | . ‘No. emphatic, el known which has these qualities— gration just at the time when the |against fraud on our own land? growing lines of Marseille need emi- Marseille is the natural stopping fostering. “American ships would come to she says, ver: did not. I said I izuld not decide which of two men to marry. There was@’t any mention of love in the sStatement.” “Beg pardon,” I says, “my mistake! The truth is, -somebody’s tryin’ to shove you off the What?" _ “Well,” she says, “you might explain it that way. You see, I've been brought up with the idea that a wom- an must marry before she's twenty. five. If she doesn't she's a railure where it is used for heating and lighting homes and business houses. The removal of helium from the gas as it comes from the wells really im- proves its burning and heating qual- ities, due to the fact that helium will neither burn nor explode. It would seem as though nature had made it for the express purpose of use in Ameri- can balloons, thus enabling fighting men of either the Army or Navy to calmly sail over enemy countries with- out the least fear of being suddenly o you're tryin' to live up to the | hurled It will also tims?" “Hardly any,” she smiles, showin’ her sense of humors not dead yet. “One of them is a kind-hearted ship- an!' clerk and the other is a fat den- st. lnd neither one of them,” T put in, “thrills you any more than a cold po- !lln!"‘ “Perfectly true,” she agrees can’t decide which face will look the most monotorious 365 mornin’s in the year on the other side of the perculator.” “And there's that extra breakfast every leap year,” I says. “But, se- press and freight lines, making (ravel to all sections of the United States a matter of safety, speed and comfort. And, in the event of a little scrap, two or three helium dirigibles could calm an uprising with far greater speed and efficiency than half a dozen regi- ments of soldiers. A helium dirigible could in a few hours, prowl inmto mountain fastnesses and drop things into deep canyons that would bring the enemy into the.open and to terms. r. Moore, would you mind telling some of the ihside facts' concerning the use of dirtgibles by the Germans and your discovery and development namely, helium. “Helium is found in the atmosphere to the extent of one part in by: volume. springs, etc. stages of the war neither the nor British seemed to knowledge of source that would be sul pose outlined. of { * ok ok Gk investigated blowers, that our governmerit. There does blowers, but I am from Canada and the states.” 1t is found in gases from but during the have cient for the pur- February 28, 1915, Sir William damp rushes of gas, for helium for pear to be anything in the English getting samples “He then proceeded to state that personally he did not feel that the idea was at all practical, and also ex- pressed his opinion that owing to the fact that airplanes could operate suc- 155,000 early French any P elhny | addition, had a proces: to this work, orton process. coal-{ ing the not ap- trolia, Tex. Tex., helium. which could be app! called oxygen from liquid air—namely, the Air Reduction Company of New York, using the Claude process, and the|foisted on thé millionaire art col- Linde Air Products Company of New |lectors of America led Robert Henri York, using the Linde process. the bureau of been in touch with F. E. Norfon, Who [ to be connoisseurs, 100. d | though, that “as a matter of fact the Jefferies- three processes described above. Two of these plants (the air| o ol Ble fav gentleman with the reduction and the Linde) were placed | enormous diamond studs at my studio at Fort Worth and the feries-Norton) was located at Pe-|coat, who ate his cake The reason for this lo- Oh. cation was that the bureau of mines, making a quick survey, that the natural gas in the Petrolia, field contained In addition, .93 the In mines had third (Jef- had found |noisseur, pop? per cent volume of|at my studio tea drank my Orange. HE hundred or more spurious Renoirs that have recently been to say: _ “These millionaire dupes all claim I'm afraid, they are only connoisseurs in the sense in which Vandyke Brown em- into eternity. Punds W a opriaied to the o e W P family slogan and step off before the | make it possible for the business men Ramsay wrote a personal let- LSRR ) oy _the \_\n_rd v fatal ‘day?’ I suggest. “Any prefer- |of America to profitably invest their| .y to me from London, in which, | bureau of mines for the on \What's a connoisseur, pop? 1 ence between the two willing vic-|millions in dirigible passenger. ¢X|..,onp other things. hé said: ‘I have|three experimental plant: represent-jdyke Brown's little son once aske hi answered. ‘did ‘Well, Willie," tea last week? | ‘The one with the sealskin over- th his knife? I noticed him,' said Willie. . “Well, son, he is a connoisseur. “But how do you know he's a con y his actions, son.’ ‘His actions? “ Yes, his actions. ‘The other guests: Pekoe, smoked my Egyptian cigar: the gas was reasonably large, since| fics” gevoured my fole gras sand i i ime i - | wie . But he—he, it was possible at the time in ques-|wiches and took leav X tion flo pump as much as fifteen mil- |son, bought & picture! e lion cubic feet of gas per day from the wells. This gas was piped to Sound Camoufiage. Fort Worth, Dallas and other towns ° and an arrangement was made wim'A SENATOR said at & luncheon in Brooklyn: the Lone Star C L‘ompn_ny of Fort Worth and Dallas to use this gas from Prohibition is not being enforced. a'dot of loud talk about the main pipe line and allow the re-| turn of the processed gas after the|We hear v helium had been extracted to the pipe the dryness of our cities, and this lines of the company going to Fort|joyd talk:but drowns the pop of Worth and Dallas. This meant that .o ks, the clink of glasses and much the government would only have to[PoPih "N U L v he actual loss of gas durin S Pin;- * = “The thing reminds me of a Brook- lyn girl. This girl's father sat on riously, why under the sun should you matry either of them?* “Well,” she explains, “you might say it's up to me. My parents have spent all they can afford on me, and there are three younger sisters wait- ing to step into my shoes. Under- stand?” “I see,” I housewife. cessfully against dirigibles, their use was not as important as the admiralty seemed to regard it. At the time this letter was received, I was fully aware of the work of Cady and McFarland of the University of Kansas on nat- ural gases of Kansas and their inci- dental discovery of helium therein, although Ramsay and the British scfentific men apparently had forgot- teh this work. It was, therefore, a question of whether I should or should not inform Ramsay and the British government concerning this work of Cady and McFarland. At of helium as a non-inflammable and non-explosive gas?’ asked the inter- viewer. “Before the.war,” he replied, “the Germans had spent many years in the development of' a type of dirigible which received the name of Zeppelin, after Count Zeppelin, their inventor. These ships were constructed of a number of separate compartments, and had a rigid framework built either of aluminum or later of an al- loy of aluminum, called duralumin, which has a tensile strength of mild steel and a specific gravity only a little heavier than that of aluminum. With a capacity of from one to two and a halt million cubic feet of hydro- gen these vessels were.able to travel at from fifty to seventy-five miles says. “Regular little Just the sort of person for a five-room flat and a vacuum cleaner. It's not surprisin’ that you've tried to cultivate a taste for matrimony and the housekeepin’ career. - Natural mistake. “You think it is a mistake, then?” !he,ln;kn rl‘lhl‘r surprised. » now it is,” I says. “A woman tied to a man she doesn't love is about as contented as an Eskimo THE PORT OF MARSEILLE. SHOWING WHERE THE PRESIDENT WILSON DOCKS BEGIN ON THE LEFT. T g campin’ on the equator, and you 1 = e of the armistice 147.- i The = X P . d per hour and to make long journeys!the time all government officials were e T |nis doorstep with a neighbor. The ETants to carry. <Every line meeds place for American trade to the|Marseille just the same, 1 od, | momL Bee S, Cxception. Let's ‘ex-|without. serious trouble. ‘A "trip of |peing strongly urged by frequent|gq pos iont wan o e deos oEis | neighbor shouted: migrants” they admit anxiously, but | Levant. the entire Mediterrancan and | “and more and more AnEwered, L L 1,000 miles was a small undertaking, 93 per cent. was on the dock ready "SS5, 0" i, is that your Helen s—oh, no! The : communications to remain neutral in every sense of the word, and after several .weeks of deliberation I de- cided not to inform Sir William of the large source of helium which was available in this country. Whether I was or was not right in this matter i8 a question for individual judgment central Europe—not to mention the orient and Africa! Think of the barge, railroad and trans-shipped freights it can give France! Think of the French | labor and materials that will be mixed with American merchandise in a Mar- | seille free zone! Such “finishing” in France of partly * ok ok ok I BEGIN to study her hands in ear- nest, because I see it's a question to be loaded for Europe. This gas had been obtained during the experi- mental work. Altogether, about 200,- 000 cubic feet of helium was produced by plants 1 and 2. “Owing to the better /results obtain- ed by plant 1, it was’ decided by the Army and Navy that a large produc- There 18 no question, however, that|tion plant should be built based upon if the rnnt(erml:nd been talsen up zz{thv equipment and operation of plant that time. the history of the war|l. With this in mind, it was thought aud even' 2,000 miles was not impos- sible, Since the war the feat of the R-34, a British dirigible, in crossing the Atlantic is typical of what may be expected from these monsters of the air, uI. the early stages of the war the Germans used their dirigibles largely for bombing purposes, par- ticularly over London and the muni- tions districts of England. Although the damage done from these bombing excursions was somewhat minimized at the time, there is no question, from post-war information, that It was much greater than the public was al- lowed to believe while the war was in progress. ' “Another use for the dirigible which did not appeal so strongly to the public, but which was recognized by military and naval men as prob- ably being more important than the one already enumerated, is the spe- cial adaptability of the dirigible for scouting purposes. The Germans used their air fleet to good purpose along this line. The German fleet ‘would never venture from port with- out.twe or three dirigibles floating overhead, and these were able to in- form the ships below at all times of the near approach of British war vessels. In this manner the German fleet could or coult not, as it saw fit, accept battle or retire to its base. It has been stated that at the battle of Jutland a dirigible circulating above the grand fleet kept the Ger- i lomt eald” Pascal, ere’s business for all, We xh‘ln‘nlng you olivz oil, nulu.ar:ni';:: alsins, grapes packed i n nd ground nut ol from Afea Paum of choosin’ a career and launchin’ a soaps—big Marseille industry. We can |18dY Out on the sea of success. If take all the cottonsced oil you ean|MOTe People would study their hands send, " for soap-making and . otner|instead of their mirrors when they uses” g come go the cross-roads there would doub. hmaere ‘JorPoses Henrl Ra.|PSCNCT TIALKeR 1o, wetb over, from Lyons, your ribbong cig 30 00| “and you're not musical. I'm alse velvet from St. Etiemen® 1and cotton | certain that you wouldn't make & Marsellle. . And all yen b ;72 Of | second-rate stenographer. Sy zcriand and. central Burope pasit: | “RIEht” she agreen. “I've got fore- Sl tlsight enough toknow that I'd never It's th - est and most direct transporiating Dy Do nybocy's private ‘secretary in ire S faeerics Sor all of it. ‘We"“Zul*J0u have something elne in America to. get out thet men in|your hand, girile," T continues, “that caleulate.” T pencils and |about one woman in every fifty Is marked with. You've got executive ability. You'd be 100 per cent efficient in your line. And I'm in- clined to think.” I says, “judgin’ from the spatulate shape of your finger and the news you've already broken to me, that T know what your playin’ the piano in there’ ~“What say? Speak louder,” roar- ed Bill. “The neighbor roared back: Is that your Helen playin’ the piano?’ * ‘Sure is! she? . “ ‘Yep, but'—the neighbor's face was line now carries Portuguese and Italians. The transports carry Syri- ans, now being steered to South America, and of whom it is said that " 2,000,000 want to emigrate. ‘ They pass Marseille and feed Mar- seille prosperity by building up her p: senger lines. But Frenchmen do not| manufa bpiict. S e Do Mienchmen 9o ndt ufactured American goods was a | great argument before the war. Then, :’hnloznfi I.Ar}mn!!nes wl'::hlhrealen l“i Marseille dockers earned 6 francs per wverflow America are French. = 2 "We are too well off in Frances day—now, they get 24 francs. Skilled 3 8 t S . says Edmond Dantes, my friend Of | mawSthay o wom 54 'vo 30 rency the Marseille water front, who claims | but they are atill “French wages,: Jow to be the Count of Monte Cristo. if|t;, Americans, and the same is true he had his rights. “If 1 should con- {for French materials—a tempting sent to emigrate—I, Edmond Dantes, 100 & Treneh Gitisenemy Freneh govern: | Propesition to American manufactur- ment would settle 'me a3 a colon in | {[0 TEUSTE &N outlel in Europe and Algiers, with fruit farm, truck farm, | oy ®\3q5 5 bring your goods into Mar- yineyards, pheazants, flock!‘:ffl!;{ D | seille free zone duty free,” promises and pigs to make hams, and flowers | Bamond Dantes, “and find cheap land to make perfumes.” = b a4 the!in it to set up your warchouses and Igiers,” he points beyon 1 | plants. Here your goods cah lie shipping, “is just a short trip OVer ! heaply awaiting market—not in f: there, across our Mediterranean. 1 away America In the zone they ¢ could’ come home once a month ON|h. jnspected, regrouped or modified to vis ¥'am not so sure how truly these 'lnral requirements, and all 4 or quick shipment in bond to four jokers of the Marseille water- el : Al Count of Monte Cristo. although they | 10 " [0 0TAE-, e 6ads happily, are all the time talking about it |go6d4s sold in France—but only when What is certain is that they are fa- sold. The world ours: there's no thers of families, comfortably well off, { (U} combination 1ika 1ot retired from “affairs” with infinite Inisure to discuss every subject, and * * % x inat they have glorious confidence in | y r ARSEILLE - ¥rance—and in' the future of Mar-{ V] LSl Cambe s ot alcom: e merce seems to belleve In the aPascal. the elaimant No. 2, blames |zone. It fs a governing body, col- merican banks for the hitch in gen- tral trade conditions. Why do they | [cCUNE vast revenues, and,, bonding keep the dollar so high? How can|them with the Credit Foncier as se- curity for vast loans, it has been ea- France buy raw materials? His con- fidence that Americans can do any- |jarging the port of Marseflle all through the war. thing is beautiful. The President Wi * ¥ % % }),\sr.\n has a son who has taken a|latest completed w magnificent deep W subcontract on the pipe i yes, but * ok * * Some little player, ain’t not,” . * % % % JJOW wonderfal are these *ora men of Marseille! Edmond, Henri, Leon and Pascal sit around the waterside, apparently | ;o rticular line | rough and idle, and they may seem| “Do you mean to tell me,” she asks, lazy because they look 80 voung. As|leanin’ closer, “that you knmow of lives retired on a decent competence |proud to begin low. Furthermore, and each has children who are pros-|1 can have a job for you in twenty perous heads of families, Three of| tan wad sprear o " 0 0 Wear a them have been round the world ana| She says she is. the fourth owned his own ship. tearbick up the ‘Phone =nd ket in P louch wi e smal otel over on “Marsellle was already a port when |one of the lakes where 1'd just spent :\chucihndnczz:r was beating up the|my vacation. It takes me about thres Sgyptians and preparing to carry the |MiNutes to make the proprietor un- Biébrace intol GneG derstand ‘that T've got the dining says Hem. |room manager he's be g “Its situation always made it the key |all season. — S ook infox to the east and west."” Has she succeeded? T11 say she has! The next time you happen to Tcannot make you see the flooding | drop in at the Astorbilt for lunch, sunshine, nor the golden morning|look up their new host. She wears haze or crimson evening flush, nor|!MmPorted clothes and the queenly air DYl iear the deep organ notes of ocean|the sumer shew the. 1 gis wine Here comes the cat!"’ tensely Interested, Commanders A. K. Atkins and H. T. Dyer and G. O. Car- ter represented the Navy, and it is due to _the interest of these men and Col. Chandler that the on docks are its ork, spacious, . and now, in red with exertion—but does she al- ways play as all-fired loud as that, might have been changed to a con-|advisable to stop the experimental|Bill? slderable extent. work in connection with plants 1 and ( “'Of course @id Bl And “In April, 1917, I iqtended a meeting |2, and, therefore, on January 23,|he explain . she's got her feller in of the American Chemical Soclety in|1919, the two plants were shut down. °‘ll g ‘nd She's poundin’ out that Kansas City, Mo., where a paper on|a large production plant has since |the par] ‘""- - a8 to drown the sound the prosence of rare gases in certain|ihat fime heen slowly but steadily loud music o as to drown the sound natural gases of Kansas was read by | (A0t e POCR TN E A%, 990 “rag s of her mother washing Mr. C. W. Selbel of the University of FaD, O Satt Teguinr opera- |ETOWMSLES the 5 Kanmas, who had worked under Dr. i oty plant Involves an exmd Cady. Following this paper, in the 3 i = open dlsousslon. o mentloned the pos. | penditure of about two million o - Thg Dean and the Duck. sible use of hellum in dirigibles and |lars for both bulldings and equ i o advocated that the matter be taken|ment. It was constructed under di { THE e W illiam Dean Hawells, up seriously. G. A Burrell of the bu- [rection of- the bureau of ssn] while living in Boston, omoe en- reau of mines had a short time before will be operated under su = fley this learned of the interest of the :Zf:ffi,,:,:dnt ‘the bureau of steam en. | tertained Mark Twain, Thomas Baile: British in hellum and had alSo recog-| oi;cering of the Navy. It consists of! Aldrich. Bret Harte and other literary nized the possibilities of the natural|SMCEREE 80 "or which are operative.! celebrities of the past at a sumptuous gases of Kansas as a source of sup-| *1% Uni’s, be retained as a spare..dinner in his Beacon street resi-" ply. In the following June the whole|and one Is to be Ber@RCE S0 B o oe question was brought to the attention | Each unit is desiem While Mr. Howells was carving a of Dr. F. G, Cottrell and Dr. Van H, | proximately 44,000 cubic feet of nat-; Sis Knife slipped and the bird Manning, director of the bureau of|ural gas per hour, which gives lnndu“‘:kdh.lll = :h! gl-uer Tt tob mines, and approval was given by the | approximate total per dzy of five mil-; ro'lel. O : director to take the matter up with|lion cubic feet.” 1 100k outt the ‘Army and Navy. Maj. (now| “How do you propose storing your | 00 BUL_ _iT Col) Charles De F, Chandler, in|pelium until such time as it is needed ; "Ly, o)) ohe? said Mr. Howells.- charge of the balloon division of the| for war or commercial purposes?’ |. .U " e foot on the duck.” air service, was interviewed, and he|gnae the next question asked. BOIRY 7 o mmafl-jta;z s'ézre% Sreas lntdans-x in| ““prom the finandial l-mulxmlnc t!‘w & proje . ndler deserves. of helium is important. At : grent crodit for His brond-mindedness | fne presont fime the government Amid the Labor Unrest. - . and foresight in connection with this Vorth about one hundred . Whole work The matter was 180 | Sousand oyiinders: holding. approxic | «"'HE late William'Dean Howell brought to the attention of the Navy | mately two hundred cubic feet each. said a publisher, “was an in- officials, and they became also in-|ri value of these cylinders is over |curable optimist. two million dollars, and the upkeep | ., S is considerable. Serious considera- 1 ca'llled n:; M:. Howe}ls one ld- s tion of other methods of storage is, |2nd as I lighted a cigarette I complained o iportane about the quality of the matches. there! . . “This complaint brought out Mr. 1 a v a s a ¥ i v 11y informed of the position neeessary which an American oil company is|a decision last weck, they are to be the same, she's the little girl with|mans fu 1tim: m * ok ok X Howells' optimism beautifully. H line: e M ille. S th homelik. e i funds were ultimately ade avail- owells’ P! eautifully. running bick from the Pinede docks, [left in honor as “the latest,” and all [Loors OMiNE into Marscille. So, listen | {he, hom ho:ue'l;::fi?\fmgn al"dn;:; of - the British battleship division | o %ng tie helium project was ac- eyes twinkled and he sal . to the “plain” men—gay yet anxiou while they were engaging the British ‘American farmer cruisers. which are just In front of the new Emsicret Wikson docks. ‘Let us be grateful, in days like SaNly hmaG posaihles (The Imyortance] S, Las besn miEsested by I 0. i . ese, for. somethink that doesa't: strike™ of the production of helium as & war Lewis and G. 8. Rice of the bu- sopure: @ocoiend censiderably im- Pean of-mines:-that helivm.asight be ey o funds, for the next seven years, be from premature fanmded oo the enizanon ebip conat matrimony some .l