Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 13

STUDY HARNESSING [Church Thievery * OF BAY OF FUNDY i’remndon- Tides in Funnel- Shaped Opening Potential Source of Power. Harnessing water power has meant in the past making rainwater “stand and deliver” its energy while it was hurrying from high ground back to the sea. But there has been much talk in recent years of imprisoning tide-water that has ventured far up inlets and exacting an energy toll from it before it flows back seaward., The famous Bay of Fundy, one of the tide record ders, known to every geography ::.dent, which s the ob- ject of the latest suggestion along this line, Is the subject of the follow- ing bulletin from the headquarters of the National Geographic Society: “Because it has a short, distinctive name and an extraordinary reputa- tion, Fundy is probably better known by name at least than any other bay in the world,” says the bulletin. “Twice every day a tremendous quantity of ocean water swishes up this 145-mile bay, reaching depths of 30, 40 and 50 feet toward the head. Then it turns rather quickly and rushes out agaln. The thing has gripged the imaginations of genera- tlons' of juvenile geography students and has ‘stamped ‘Fundy’ into their memories. Now it is taking a de- layed grip on technical imaginations, and engineers are wondering why these thousands of tons of rushing water cannot be made to turn power wheels, “One big factor in Fundy's super- tides can be seen from a map. The inlet has a funnel-shaped opening, into which the ocean tide s “wedged.’ But a more important factor {s not ap- parent from maps. The bottom of the bay is a huge inclined plane, which, ‘starting at a depth of more than 400 feet at the mouth, slopes up with remarkable regularity at a rate of about four feet a mile to the head of the bay 145 miles away. The in- rushing water, then, is not only queesed from ‘the sides by the nar- ng channel, but is ‘squeezed up- w s0 to speak, by the gently sloping bottom, and as long as the push comes from behind it continues to pile up in the upper bay. When the ocean tide subsides and the mo- mentum of the inflow is exhausted the piled-up water simply runs down- hill again. ‘Wharves Sixty Feet High. “The high waters of Fundy are in some s disconcerting. Wharves for some of the little ports near the | head must be perched on piles! feet high. When the tide flows outward many of the settlements are left behind iwo or thres miles of mud_flats. “The most ambitious scheme for harnessing Fundy's great tides pro- vposes to throw huge dams across the mouth of the inlet which is there! forty-eight miles wide. This would: entail international co-operation, for the western portal of Fundy’s door is territory of the United States, the northeastern corner of Maine. Such' a dam, too, would impound water in Passamaquoddy bay and the St. Croix river through which the international boundary runs. The plan has been opposed because it would set up a barrier to _commerce into and from Eastport, Me, and numerous other communities in Maine, New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia. “The head of the Bay of Fundy is separated from the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the north by a neck of land only fifteen miles wide. At high tide sea level is twenty feet lower on the northern side of this neck. One of the many suggestions for harnessing the ba tides, the practicability of which is not appar- ent, looks to the buil%ing of a dam far'up in the inlet to capiure the suc- cessive tiday flows, and the cutting of a ‘mill race’ to the north along which power could be generated continual- 1y from the tidal reservoir. “Fundy has a significance aside from its tides. Champlain, the famous Freneh explorer: of the new world, helped to establish ‘on its shore in 1604 Port Royal, now Annapolis, the first permanent French settlement in America. In 1613 English settlers from Virginia, taking a hand in the Franco-British struggle, attacked Port Royal and almost totally de- stroyed it. The Annapolis valley to- day_is described as ‘the garden spot of Nova Scotia.'"” Arousing Police; Warning Planned, Anxious to put a stop to thefts in churches, police are consider- ing having pastors warn members of their ocongregations against leaving handbags, pocketbooks and other valuables where strag- glers may get them. - Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fisher, 505 B street northeast, was in St. Mark's Church, 34 and A streets south- east, yesterday afternoon, when her pocketbook, containing $5, a key and papers, was stolen. She described . young white man who was in the church when she was robbed. POSTAL RECEIPTS HERE $363,265 IN FEBRUARY Gained 12.40 Per Cent on 1923 Fig- ure—Average Above Rest of Country. . The Washington city showed a gain of 12.40 per cent in postal receip's for February above Teceipts for February, 1923, In _con- trast to an average gain of 9.45 per cent for the fifty largest citles of the country. Local receipts totalled $363.265.74, as contrasted with $323,178.84 in Feb 1923, an increase of $40,086. post office A decrease of 48 per cent was istered at Fort Worth, Tex., due, ac- cording to the Post Office Department, to the clean-up by the department last year agalnst oil speculators, who flooded that office with circulars and advertising matt, SPRING PAPERING AND PAINTING Don’t put off louger having what is needed around the home done now—Reasonable charges—No dirt or inconvenienc CORNELL WAIL PAPER CO. 714 13tk St. N.W. Main 5373-5374 Joints Must Go! New Discovery Limbers| ’Em Up and Even the | Creaking Ceases. Yes; it's true—the world pro- | resses. 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The oh&E * Opp. Crandall's fon Shops Taslion &h FRED PELIMAN, President ¢ 15th &G Next to Keith's ily have the kinks taken out of | COFFEE CONSUMED REACHES HUGE TOTAL Statistics Show 12.4 Pounds Per Citizen Used in Year 1923. Mr. Average Citizen last year con- sumed 12.4 pounds of coffee, accord- ing to figures made public today by the Department of Commerce. The United States, the figures showed, is the greatest coffee consumer in the world, consumers in the United Statel using 1,407,855,966 pounds of the Dbev. erage during 1923, Consumption df coffee has in- creased notwithstanding the increas- ing price of green coffee imported into the United States. The price of green coffee has risen from 50 to 85 per cent in the last six months, most of which has been absorbed by the roasters. 5 Torrential rains in Brazil have washed away stocks in the process of drying and caused serious damage to stocks in storage. With no relief in sight, predictions are made that the roasters cannot long continue to absorb any part of the increased price and the consuming public may shortly expect to pay & higher price for its coffee. Only ....... WAR THEMES DISCUSSED. Capt. Todd and Others Address Reserve Officers. Capt. Irvin V. Todd, assistant executive officer of the Organized Reserves, last night addressed the re- serve officers of the 2d Battalion of the 313th Field Artillery on ‘the mobllization plans for the general mobilization to be held of the Army of the United States. The plans as pertaining to eaeh officer and man of the regiment were fully explained by Capt. Todd. The meeting was held in the Graham building. First Lieut. H. P. Long, a regerve officer of the battalion, spoke-oh fir- ing and the preparation . of fire. Lieut. Eugene B. English, who is also a reserve officer of the battalion, spoke on field gunnery, including dis- person. Lieut. 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