New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1927, Page 27

AILING the ocean on a cigar! S Queer thought, yet not so foolish as it sounds, for every year at this time mammoth cigars may be seen head- ed south down the Pacific Ocean 1100 miles from Washington timber sources to mills as far south as San Diego. izars made of logs; short logs, long logs, thick logs, thin logs—oespecially long ones, for they form the backbone of rafts 835 feet long containing 5,000,- 000 feet of timber and cut lumber. Sea-going log rafts have dispelled the thought that all goods to be shipped on the high seas must be cargoed within the walls of sea-worthy ships. Lumbermen learned many years ago that they need only tie the logs together so they would withstand the batterings of angry seas, and they would “ride” many hundreds of miles. The length of the Pacific Coast they travel, from”the Columbia river to San Diego, and seldom is a log Jost. Behind an absurdly small tug, the millions of feet of timber destined to be cut for homes, plough at snail’s pace through the Pacific waves, finally reaching their destination. Four miles an hour is their maximum speed. Expert workmen make up the rafts at their source, at the mouths of rivers in the timber-producing country. Two methods are employed. Small rafts con- taining less than 1,000,000 feet of tim- ber are built by laying a floor of long logs and tying these together by means of interlaced cross wires; on the floors are built the super-structures. As the logs pile up the floor submerges. Once the complete load has been piled on the the ocean. Larger rafts (those con taining up to 5,000,000 fect) are con structed in floating cradles or forms, made in sections so they may pulled apart when finally the raft and in the water alone. Onc sed to hold them nd with all complete the raft is launched, the dle . floor, cables made fast to the floor arc 3 Gt > Ll 4 Jjoined together again, ready to = i pulled over the top and ticd—and an- ; Josihelaehil - R e i thousands of new logs. The largest rafts 7 SHISROLL 8 TEREY JO8 & WE JONIDED W 0y b Sest wits, 95 fest from top to . bottom, 835 long and extend into the water from 26 to 28 f¢ hundred and seventy-five tons of chains One i f iy od 2 e the | place by the e road, a il career tudicd no ¢ ! an auto tourist, attracted by th and p. But I kno display, pauses to inquire w} 1 11 know what folk ] about, Frank sells him someth cular Is. Youll find my nse - “I'm no woodcarver, of th | that 11 ! Small, when interviewed about )t down Winnisquam tur ac sm ug 2 Frank Small of Winnisquam, § f‘ N. H., and some of the whittled novelties that bring him a com- DT Swhod hava sal tentleneyato fortable income k of Jupanese wivls as quaint . maids in tricky kimonos who S a “barefoot boy with checks ot : 5 ¥ : A Tl tan,” young Frank Small of o o their lives if they were to D, Wy e, mect Miss Fumiko Terzo and see her ir \\-:.T lifm»: u("ml to his mother, his sister Y action. Clad in her running to; and and his aunts. £l . . oo looking a little Ii Nur “Quit whittlin’, Frank,” they used to ! 1 Lot el e . urge, when they came upon him in the _§ 1% It 5200 i woodshed, wiclding his jack-knife, when } : b e e s he ought to have been in the kitchen, L ]“" "] ’-‘"“ £00¢ ne's | shudylng his lusspan mily, .m: a tudent, is the the § “You'll mever get rich by whittlin’,” fleetest wirl aliv 3 zuu\:ri her rioht an they would continue, as a rule. “Whit- to the vhen she won the one hun ers, tlin’s a lazy boy’s accomplishment, like dred-meter sprint i the pancse aid, § wagglin’ your ears or whistlin’ through Sp! rnival held recently near Tokio rop | your teeth. The boy or man who has it Fumiko’s time was 10.8 seconds fqp the e down really fine is never much good for demeters, and if you don't anything else.” On such occasions young Frank wowld mutter something under his breath, pocket his beloved jack-knife, and go mutinously in to his fractions and his Fourth Reader. i g 5 That was a long time ago, and times % Miss hat is traveling. stop long enough v Paddock’s time for e is only four-tenths of a see- And they call Charley Pad- re fastest human,” with no dis- . N erao is a dramatic and charm- 1 have changed quite radically in the in- Fumiko reminder that times are changing in { tervening years. Terao, 0ot Nippon, land of little houscs, i Mr. Small, now a respected middle- the little i1 dens, little women. With all i aged resident of the town in which he Japanese i i o iict o their honotablelancestors, | was born, hasn't got rich whittling, it is C°"e§° E"" (08 1SR 038 B o B 0 ;‘; true, but he has accumulated a modest bw'° ‘fi their own lives, just like the girls of ! competence practicing hie hobby, and Eater g America. i makes his living at it. His shop at Win- speed rec- " p i s considered ot one whit less i nisquam is one of the sights of the coun- ords for womanly because she aaz beaten all the [ tryside. All winter Frank whittles to his WORIEN \le runners of her own country and SR heart’s content, making wooden wind- y, TUNRETS ) the women runners of the world. The Fire ||| mills, weather-vanes, dolls, boats, houses Japanese maid is self-taught, so far as onn 11| and other tricky little novelties. In the running is concerned, and does not wish ik 3 ,"i! summer, he sits in the shade outside his {5 shri sk of i brofessionallcdadts on 1 B Sopyri 0 Dpavt il ! pyright, 1 | oo oo aaaian s P h and the powerful 1 the pile and the water. hed boards y and seldom do hu- ich them in the process. A crowds them against a i through an far too nar- At the left, a s huge “cigar” of logs leaving on a long voyage down the Pacific coast and, be- low, two of the “cizars” that contain 15,000,- 000 feet of logs, at the end of 1100-mile tion of journey : clamped ag: to i, th g and in less two feet in diameter I the sawing except es place under equipped rt pieces from the -cutting d poles them and, to a steel belt cyor, which car- 1 into the S room where .‘i they are reduced to boards of stand- ard Each . on is wholly cal and with- in 30 minutes from the a log is he raft it cuttir T e Sty ik Bl admmaden e, a4 Oregon, > b t. Ast t t -foot r » Columbia river, where some im- urally were noths that float at ) rt ti ed piling and ofar ¢ ) con ble that s and lengths and sev- i feet of sawn tim- complete sawmill 3 1fts have been thout serious mishaps from e first they down the coast. At times lar poles, spars, 2d fence posts have been The average time is s, from port to port. n Dicgo s g . Stk st X At the right, motorcycle equipped with a sea-going sidecar and, ove, the sidecar detached and in use as a very seaworihy boat SEA-GOING motoreye has been d od by a e I cording to word reaching sidecan ned and construct :r mechanic livin, d, near Hampste from London ached from the motorcyc turned into a pontoon ks will mect the problem. invention of the sea- ccar is a reminder that motor- les are taken more wind used more generally in d across pon car pontoon not only is stout t enough to bear a pass d even bicy ger or two, but in | well shore used to f the ted as to England than in the United States. In motoreyele itself over to dry land. Sci y choppy A , only very young men entists who have observed the inventior sttt wind, and Ve to ask their sweet- riding, of a Sunday noon. In England it is quite the of the Whitestone Pond genius v that it is of importance, and the idea d ed can be applied to other and In nd, motoreycles have more essential thi I purposc to visit wever “gone out,” d show no sign of Captain George Malines and Charl b America, as w loing so. Oliver of Hampstead intend to tour the erics i they ap For touring, both Englishmen and world on two of the motorcycles hend that many tin ey will have Americans admit the worth of the motor- eqiupped with the sea-going to provide their own transportation over eyele, which will stand up under rough On land, they will scorch along with vivers and ponds. In primitive coun that would be fatal to an automo- sidecars loaded with their ess tr with a is picked-up passenger. . On reaching a not heavy enough to ferry over motor- ordinary method of river travel . will go many places a motor car en at a higher ge; occasionally, perha d canoes are as a noe, not, and can be of speed. b9 Johnsun Features Inc G b