Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 32

32 ' HINGOLN INVENTED SAND BAR CRAFT Bellows Below Water Line Lifted Vessel Over Ob- structions in River. By the Associated Press July v Abraham coln inven fully navigate the Sangamon River land owners along that river propose to ac- complish his purpose through an- other method—that of changing its d. On May 1849, a patent was granted at the United States Patent Office to A. Lincoln for a craft equip- ped to raise itself from sandbars aml other ol ‘tions found in the Fangw mon. The model for this invention, Patent No. 6469, was whittled from clgaf boxes. Used Toy Steamboat. The story goes that the “gang W gathered in the store of Col. John W liams on the Springfield square dis- cussing the possibilities of navigating the meandering stream. Lincoln was @ listener for a while. then he said: “Gentlemen, 1 will demonstrate by actual exhibit that it is both possible and practical to navigate the Sanga mon. § will show you a model of a steamboat. in the big water trough at the corner of the square opposite my office, having had experience as a navigator on the Sangamon, Illinois end Mississippi rivers.” The day of the test came and Lin- coln appeared with his model. Placing it in the trough, a_ number of bricks were used to weight it down. Then with a small air pump the bellows on each side of the boat were filled and the boat rose about six inches under the load. “Each inch represents a foot on a full-sized steamboat,” Lincoln told his audience. Some of the spectators were skeptical, but the model was ad- mitted to the Patent Office as having “great mechanical value.” On the model, bellows were placed in each side of the hull of the craft, Just below the water line. When the craft became grounded the bellows were to be filled, and the lightness thus obtained was to float the craft again. But the invention was never applied to river eraft, SEPREE SR Medical Officers Ordered Here. The following named first lieuten- ants in the Army Medical Corps have been ordered to this city for instruc- tion at the Army Medical School, Walter Reed General Hospital Loren D. Moore, Arthur B. Welsh, Eugene W. Billick, E. G. G. Standlee, Charles A. McDowell, and Merritt Ringer at Fort Sam Houston, Te: William O. French, Hugh D. Phillips, Verner E. Ruedy, Charles H. Beasley, Hobart D. Belknap, Clifford Emery E. Alling, Alvin L. Fayette P. Monson, and Armstrong, at San Fran- W. Dingham, William Kraus, Robert S. Lilla and Willlam aimbora, at Denver. Colo. THE_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. AUGUST T, 1926—PART 1. sity to Condult road, is the richest fleid for the blackberry pickers. The land has been abandoned by farmers and the builders have not quite caught up. Consequently the bushes flourish and scores of colored children can be seen heading In that diréction with buckets and cans every morning. There is not a little martyrdom in thus catering to the prosperous home- made wine industry, for the little black legs are covered with sores wheré the chiggers have dug in, and arms and faces are red with scratches from the vicious thorns. i The purpose 4o which the heaping 1 buckets will be put éventually only » van be surmised. Ostensibly, they are for canning and making jam and jelly. Doubtless hundreds of crates do go for this purpose—but the increase in the popularity of blac! WILD BLACKBERRIES FOR JAMS OR “OTHER PURPOSES” POPULAR Hundreds of Colored Families Make Living Catering to Industry Developed in Recent Years by Change in United States Law. Hundreds™ of acres of blackberry Last bramble in southern Maryland’ were waste land 10 years ago. The bunches were pests, Among them chiggers abounded. Poison ivy <lung to them. Thousands of bushels of juicy berries rotted. But tuday, due to certain changes in the organic law of the land, they have become a source of wealth. Scores of ecolored residents of Prince Georges County villages this Sum- mer are invading the chigger-in- fested jungles, and making a _good living. From dawn , to dark women and chil- dren fill buckets and dishpans, and dispose of them for 5 cents a quart Bringing from $5 to $8 a4 case. week $3 was a high price. Thé District it- self is perhaps the center of the wild blackberry zone. Thers s iy . notsing short of ; By N TAcka have replaced all other jams in Wi DUl suotos. . 4 ington homes during the past five s ) 2 hY not a juley-tangle, yoaLs. watched with cov- etous eyes from some quarters and frowned upon from others. ‘The rapid bullding de- velopment of the outlying districts is speedily cutting down the ' black: berry area, but little short of & steam shovel can eradicte permanently the stubborn, pestiferous bushes. cations_in English and Spanish so The extreme northwest corner of [that all interested workers might Washington, from American Univer- understand. —_— . - Julian Street’s Wife Dies. NEW YORK, July 81 (#).—Mrs. Ada Hilt Street, 45, wife of Julian Street, author, died yesterday after an illness of several months. Her husband and two children, Julian, jr., and Rose- mary, survive. highway Habana drew up its A In planning for its proposed central || Midnight Will Be 24 O’Clock, Soon Under Germtan Plan BERLIN, July 31.—Rive o'clock teas will pre ly passiout of eX- istence in Germany. There'll be teas, but they will ho‘culled 17 o'clock affairs. i german_ national \railways and the post ofice departrvent, fol- lowing the lead of several Euro- pean countries have decided to adopt_the 24-hour time beginning next May. Clocks on raflrond sta- tions and post offices will recelve an extra circle of numerals s that 5 pro. will be 17 and midnight 2¢ o'clock. (#E The system may be extended gen- erally. The German air service al- ready operates on 24-hour time and reports that it elirainates confusion and simplifies printing of time tables. (LONDON HAS CLEAN MILK. Challenges America With Modern Pasteurizing Equipment. LONDON, July 31 (#).—London believes it has given-a lead to the world in- its arrangements for pro- viding a clean milk supply. Ninety per cent of the milk of the metropo- lis is pasteurized. The recent cere- monifal opening by Lord Kenyon of the United Dairies Pasteurizing Plant at the Valley Farm, Streatham, took the form of & challenge in up-to-date methods. The plant has been in- spected by visitors from America and the continent, and all have borne testimony to the zfficiency of the equipment and the hygienic con~ ditiohs * under which the milk iy treated. Ir+. Charles Porter, medical officer of Lealth for Marylebone, sald that the medical officers relied on the milk companies here to show Amer- icp what this country could do to provide pure and wholesome milk. LEAGUE PROBE OF RUM, LIKE OPIUM, IS URGED ‘World Temperance Congress, Clos- ing Session, Asks Society Fully to Recognize Evil By the Associated Press. DORPAT, Bsthonia, July 81.—Bishop James Cannon, jr., of Richmond, Va., said yesterday that the World's Tem- perance Congress, which has con- cluded its work, was the most fertile of any temperance gathering within his memory. Twenty nations were represented by 390 delegates. At the flnal session yesterday a resolution was passed afirming thrt the sale of alcohol was one of the chief soclal evils of the world and urging that, aithough the Temperance Congress had not decided respecting means for removing the evil, society should not underrate it. The resolution also appealed to the League of Nations to examine into the question of alcohol in a similar manner to its investigation of opium traffic. It supported local prohibition and urged more thorough investiga- tion into the results of prohibition in the United States. Chaplain John Hall Relieved. Chaplain John Hall has been re- lieved from duty at the Army Medical Center, Walter Reed General Hospital, this cl!y,GAnd ordered to Fort Me- a. Tyroler Ear Conformer Cen N\ \ ) Tyroler Co.. 176 West #' tomorrow and Tilesday will be to produce dealers. Season Was Delayed. Now s the hightide of the blackberry season. Due to the un- seasonable Summer, they are about two weeks behind time, but their product, it is understood. will be suf- ficiently “along™ by the Thanksgiving and Christmas hofidays, so that there need be no letup in the customary festivities of those occasions. The Farmers' Market. at B street and Louisiana avenue, is the center of the wild blackberry activities of Washington. There Washingtonians comé in the early morning to carry home two or three cases, and with the advance of the blackberry season there comes also, it is understood, an appreciable advance in the de- mand for earthenware jars and char- red oak casks, and the odor of mash permeatés from many a kitchen. Long appreciated as a medicinal cordial, blackberry wine during the past two or three into wide popularity as a beverage. In Washington it is the cheapest and easily obtainable, due to the abundance of the berries in nearby Maryland. Southern Crop Passing. Several thousand crates have been sold at the Farmers’ Market during the past few weeks, it is estimated. now there is a little let. up because the southern Mary land crop is passing and the Mon gomery County crop is just coming in—a notable peculiarity in the agri- cultural territory near Washington. Regardless of the season, nearly all crops on one side of the District are from one to two weks earlier than on the other side, it was stated at_the market. The Derries sold in Washington for about 10 cents a quart last week. The bottom has dropped out of the market with the flush-tide of the wild crop. Week before last they were Environment! 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