New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 19

LONG FINGERNALS PRIDEOF INDANS Part of Social Equipment of Early Florida Redsking By COLEMAN B. JONES (Associated Press Science Editor) | Washington, March 15 UP—Long | Srearest asset R (Apasese noep polnted finger nails were part of the | ing boats langely X 4 | cause of the reliability of radlo di- social and business equipment of In- | /20 Mo, 00 € P ) dian warriors in Florida 365 years ago. That is brought out in a study by David 1. Bushnell, Jr., collaborator | of the Smithsonian institution's bu- = reau of American ethnology, of one (C"”"""(':”"""' Asorisied Prom) of the first pictures ever made of | “HAPTER XVIL 2 an American Indian. Ha\-lng_ had two experiences in It is a portrait in black and red ren}cu|pg 53 men. 'from foundering crayon of “Saturioua, King of Flor- ships in mid-Atlantic during severe ida in North America in the act of #oing to war,” by Jacques Lemoyne de Morgues of the ill fated French expedition sent to Florida in 1564 | by Charles IX under the command of Renaud de Laudonniere. Describing the Indians, Lemoyne | wrote in his “Narrative” of the expedition that painful tattooing was yracticed by men and women, and | wudds: “For the sake of further orna- ment and magnificence, they let the nails of their fingers and toes grow, scraping them down at the sides' with a certain shell, so that they | are left very sharp.” | That this was not done solely for ornamental purposes is indicated by | another mention of the custom, in | which he said that “when they take | one of the enemy, they sink their | nails deep in his forchead, and tear | down the skin, so as to wound and | blind him.” | “All the men and women,” he re- | Tate > the ends of their ears| pier \d pass through them | small oblong fish bladders which, | when inflated, shine like pearls and which, being dyed red, look like a light-colored carbuncle.” | Lemoyne made a number of ple- | tures of the Indians, but the por-| trait of “'Saturioua Kinz of Florida," now in Mr. Bushnell’s collection, 18 the only original he has been able to tind. Others were preserved in the form of engravings, however, and he has a number of these. Suturiona is identified as a great Timucua chicf whose tribe claimed | territory up and down the Florida coast on hoth sides of the $t. Johns, then the River of May, where! for you in your home almost any audionniere’'s Huguenots built their hour of the day, that is employed to fort and entered into a treaty of |safeguard the lives of millibns at friendship with him. {sea at all times during storms and | f08. D CLASSIFED ADS | Radio as a science is still in its EST RESULTS | infancy, but considering how it has | sea disasters so he siders woreless one of naturally a con- current events through the gir. BY CAPTAIN GEORGE FRIED d storms and using the radio day after day while at sea for the navigation of my ship and communicating with consider wireless one of the sailor's greatest assets. It is the same medium that provides entertainment ¥ TOR BI the outside world, I naturally would | { Without the aid of the radio com- greatest assets, He foresees regu- (for me to locate either the British | Position at the time he | freighter Antinoe | freighter Florida. or the Italian I do not believe how the |it is very far off when radio beacons radio campass on | modern traveler is kept advised of | will be established at various points| Roosevelt indicated that he was 60 | |50 that a vessel in any kind of | weather will be able to get her exact | position, thereby preventing the | possibility of collision in a fog { with another ship. g Several radio beacons are already | in operation along the coast of the ! United States and I think that for- (0 / I, 7Y i 10 b Sl m—— / ! “The radio compass indicated he was 50 miles off the given position.” | cign governments will erect stations at other points. Greenland should have a radio beacon as well as the Azores with additional cnes along the Atlantic coast in this country as well as along the Furopean coast. | With every ship in the Atlantic equipped with wircless to take bea ,ings, navigators will virtually do away Wwith determining their loca- tions through observation from ce- lestial bodies. 1t is only a matter of | time before every ship will also be | eqquipped with short range radio Everybody’s dressing up YOU CAN TOO, WITHOUT . CASH AT THE SJtore PAY innew Spri-gcl:th:s. It'sanearly season WE LET YOV PAY A LITTLE EACR Wouldn’t you like to enjoy the senation of wearing a whole new Spring outfit THIS SUNDAY? _If the weather is nice, thousands will . be out walling, attracting attention by the newness and smartness of their clothes. Be modern .... wear new ‘things at the beginning, not at the pay will Ney $22.50, Smart Enscmble Suits and dress frocks ... end, of the season. You can little by littie, in amounts you never feel. 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Vessels with i radlo compasses can pick up these | stailons and accurately obtain their fixed position by planning on a| { chart the direction of the beams. | The position of the vessel on the Radio has played an important been developed it is beyond human chart is at the intersection of two!quotation on a stock and in a few role in Fried’s rescue of 57 men in | comprehension what we can expect | Or more of those lines. | When I went to the assistance of | sailor's | pass it would have been imponible" the Antinoe, the master gave me his | feel 8o inclined, an order to buy or sent the ;s O 8. As I proceeded to that spot, | T found that he had drifted. ; The the President miles away from the given position, | |so I changed my course and found ! him. The Florida was also off her position, being 150 miles away. I | Rarely ever do I make a voyage | i that T do not use the radio compass | in the safe and practical navigation | of the ship. When transatlantic| liners run on a regular schedule with the promptness of railroad trains the radio compass is one of the most in- dispensable insfruments. T firmly | believe that the maritime law should | compel every ship not only to carry a radio compass but to have three | operators aboard ship while at sea | | so that a man is at the key day and | night on a regular eight hour watch. | | Several airplanes have already | | successfully negotiated the Atlantic. | Aviation is also making rapid | strides and some day it will not be | uncommon to have a regular trans- | |atlantic air service. These planes, {carrying radio equipment, will find | these radio beacons established for | ships of great valug, in their naviga- | tion. But a good deal of study must ! yet be given to upper air currents ‘he(ore transatlantic aviation will | reach a degree of safety. T think that airplanes will prove more practical in use across the {ocean than dirigibles, because the former are faster and when suffi- ciently developed, will probably suf- fer less in a storm than a Zeppelin. | Storms will always be a hazard just Nature's elements havoc with the staunchest of ships and probably al- !t ways will, so thut only planes of sturdy construction will be in use. | There ‘are many other factors to he consgidered, however, and the day of a regular transatlantie plane service, “ven as a supplementary steamship service .is still some distance away, in my opinion. A steamship at sea Is a small world in itself. 1Tn the old days vessels crossed the. ocean and the officers, crew and passengers never had a word from the outside world. 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