Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 12, 1913, Page 2

RENTERS AND OWNERS Wenting PROMPT action will do well to see M. G. WILLARD 17 Kentuckyi Building LAKELAND .. FLORIDA Just So Ourlosity s finding out something about somebody else that don’t coe eern you and which would make you mighty mad 1f somebody else found it out about you when it didn’t oo ¢srn somebody else. —————— e e ————— .The Protessions- e ——— . IR SAMUEL 7. SNNR, "“ : EPBCLALANG, . By, Bex, Hete snl e Ofies, 141; Dusiaglh S Beyuad Mg, Lobelond, Pl Qe e e ‘I.LM‘: Estaditslod in Juiy, ibet Rerms i4 and 15 Kewinoky Bt 'w. Phenes: Ofice 100; Restne 3 3R, 0. 0. WILEOX— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON @pecial Attention Gven to Dissnse ‘¢ Women and Childrea. OB +“Desn-Bryant Bldg., Suite 9. Phone 387. SHLARY ELAW® LAWTER - 2. 6, Bhg. Phens 010, uiniend, B 8. GARAX A WENEED PADITAYE PRTMCAN v - > ¢ G ® t ¥IM EVENING YELBORAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., AUG. 13, 1913. WHY SUFFER With that old sore that’s never easy day nor night, when it can be cured for atrifle. Makes no dif- ference how old the sore may be, it can be cured. For particulars, write to P.0.Box 440 Lakeland.Fla 12 you figure on getting full val- ue fer yeur mone iullt on haviag CEMENT CONSTRUCTION Yeu'll figure right thea_it will mean & better locking result, the chospest alse in the long rua. @et our flures on the SIDEWALKS, CELLAR, PIERS, CURBS, FOUNDATION, FENCES. Lakeland Artificial 1Stone Works H. B. Zimmerman, Prop. FOR DRUGS Surgical 6Goods, Household and Sick Room Sup: plles go to Lake Pharmacy Bryan’s Drug Store We wil' send them up te you and will try te treat you right, PHONE 42 Our Display of watehes, lockets, ehalna, .. Sresehes, otc., is nellesadle e perfost taste as well as seld-evio.-. goed quality. The Jewelry we haadle is the kingd that eson> ues (o give mtistaction R mar how long i§ ls wera. 0 you G 18 give pemotibag off permonesd v . our case will supply 0 il. C. Stevens L.W. YARNELL Snctemer to W. I Milea TRANSFER LINES Oraying and Hauliag of All Kiab connsunsesaseced UL, SARTS SKT00L NAVY YARD % NCLE SAM is a schoolmaster | tory for their various duties, At 11:30; of the old type. He neither| g'clock the students “knock off* for spares the rod nor spolls the! junch, but promptly at 1 o’'clock they child. He has many pupils,| are again in the shops or in the lec- those who enter his service | ture room hard at work. in the government departments and the army and the navy. His course vere, for he requires every man who enlists for service under the Stars and Stripes on sea to become a skilled artisan. Probably the most interest- ing of all of Uncle Sam’s trade schools is the school for seaman gunners, at At 4:30 an hour's drill under arms is held. This takes place on the drill the men for three-quarters of an hour. At b o'clock comes the event of the day, dinner. Dinner to the seaman gunner’s class is always something to look forward to. The menu is large and the food, the navy yard in Washington. It I8/ although simple, is the best that here that the men who aim and fire | money can buy. The class has a ca- the great guns learn their prineclple | terer who makes it his business to and mechanism so thoroughly that the ' gee that the same dishes are not efficiency of the United States BAVY gerved too often and that the food is unequaled by any navy in the i3 of the best quality. world. | From dinner until 10:30 o'clock the There are more than 125 men in the | men are at lelsure to come and go seaman gunners’ class at the present | ag they please. They may “go ashore” time, enrolled for six months of the | or vigit friends in Washington, or they hardest kind of study in the 8hops| may remain in quarters and study and in the classroom, Every one of | their lessons for the next day. The these men is picked, and in the serv-' men are allowed to use civillar ice it is considered a great honor t0 elothes. For the most part, the stu- be chosen to join the class. Only gdents restrict their liberties to mot men wiio have been in the service | more than two nights a week and all four years are eligible, and then only | day Sunday. of training in the navy is rather lO‘ ground of the navy yard and keeps | | when their conduct and service record are exceptionally good. Graduates of the school are the backbone of the navy. Here the men are taught the only really distinctive naval trade, and it 18 here that the men wtho load, train and fire the immense guns are made. Requires Much Study. They learn the making of the large and small guns, They learn by prac- tical experience how to take them down and assemble them again. The breech mechanism, everything to do with the practical part of ordnance, the manufacture of shells, fuses and powder and torpedoes all require thorough and extensive study. The work is equally divided between the naval gun factory shops and the class- room, where they have instruction at the hands of skilled ordnance experts and special instructors. In addition to the ordnance course they are re- quired to become proficient in the sel- ence of metallography, and skilled in the manufacture and principle of the storage battery. Work on the big guns start from the raw casting. This huge, 76-ton eyln- der of steel is bored out, trimmed and grooved. The casing, another huge eylinder of steel, is bored out, heated white hot and shrunk onto the groov- od lining. The manufacture of this part of the monster 14-inch rifies takes about four weeks. Then the gunnery force enters the forge and hammer shops, where they remain for two weeks. After this the class is divided into small squads, some of them going into the black- smith shop, others to the machinists’ bench, the carpenter shop, the tin- smith, the coppersmith and the plumber for instruction. Each man must hammer and turn out from raw metal every piece of steel which goes into the complicated breech block me- chanism and the firing devices. Pro- Jectiles and smokeless powder also get a great deal of attention, this last phase of the work taking the school to Indian Head, Md. for several weeks' work. When these men graduate and leave Washington for the various ships of the Atlantic fleet to them falls the duty of keeping in repatr every of the ship's armament. If dun I ! ; s L 4 E [H ] It is so great an honor to be sent to the school and the advancement, after graduating, is so rapid that none of the lucky ones care to risk their chances of being dismissed and re- turned to the service under their old rank. Then, as many written prob- lems are required, and several oral recitations occur each week, they burn a great deal of midnight oil. A vis- itor to the navy ward any night ex- cept Saturday will find forty or fifty clean-cut young men working out ordnance problems, studying from a dozen text books, and quizzing each other on the questions that the officer- instructor is sure to ask them the next day. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, is particularly fond of the sea- man gunners' class. To his mind, the rushing dreadnought and the crash of mighty guns are not all that go to make up a perfect naval service. He believes that a ‘ouryear course in the navy should be equal to a four-year course in the best vocational school in the country. As far as the seaman gunners' class is concerned, they get an excellent vocational train- ing in just six months. A graduate of this wonderful school can take raw metal and turn out the most complicated steel mechanism; turn sheet copper into symmetrical pipe and ducts; make and charge a storage battery; wire a turret for electricity; make a set of plans for about anything, and make and use smokeless powder. Plant Grows Under Snow. The Alpine flower called the so) danella, produces heat sufficient so that it grows even under a consider- able covering of snow. If the snow is not too deep the plant sends its stem. up through the snow, which is melted by the heat. If the snow is deeper the heat melts a little hollow chamber out about the plant, thus giv- ing it room to expand and blossom. It has been found that some of the plants of the arum family, which are common in the Mediterranean region, develop a temperature of as high as 100 degrees when their buds are open- por-|ing. To a less degree probabdly all plants furnish their own heat under certain conditions, but ordinarily veg- etation, being by nature adapted to its surroundings, gets the beat it meeds from the soll, air and sun. Aaimals are of a higher order than plants partly decause they are more inde pendent of their surroundings.—The Pathfinder. Ducks an Important Food Supply. certain features of Ee- kimo life along the north coast of Alaska, the account written by Vil jalmar Stefansson says: “Ia the spring and summer ducks and geese, espe clally the former, are an importamt item of diet. They are pursued ia kayaks when molting and killed with clubs, and large numbers of them are also secured by bolas throwing, for the migrant route of the ducks along the ‘coast is 8o definitely known that a man can stand all day and rely on it that three out of every four ducks will iy within throwing distance, Se thickly do the birds come that nowa- days a competent man with a shot- gun bas been known to secure ag mauy as 600 ducks ia a day.” You wish to achieve it of course— Remember though that {t's enly one case in a thousand where it is- achieved without CASH CAPITAL, If you start bankiag your surplus earnings instead of spending them ou will not alore safeguard your fu- ture but also place yourself in the front rank of those ready to seize opportunity when it comes your way. Three pe> cont. interest pald. [THE STATE BANK- LOF LAKELAND FLA PIREICEFOR LAKELAND PEOPLE The ICE | am handling is made fr "' well water and double distilled. 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