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submarine aid to be a RANCE has a new torpedo boat that is of her class. What she in advance of submarine boat ever built entor says he only wants a chance to show just what s craft. boat is called the Gustave the name of her inventor, and she has 1:any novel points in con- »n of boats of this kind. She from our own boat—the Hol- rincipally in being much larger d more tapering in the form of hull. is 131 feet long and has a dis- lacement of 266 tons. After making due allowance for the sm of Frenchmen at possess- craft that cannot be duplicated world, there is 1. denying that Zede is a wonderful ves- sven if she only does one-half hat is claimed for her she will make a most formidable enemy. All the reports concerning the new boat indicate that it is a step in ad- vance in submarine navigation. It only navigates the depths with sfety and discharges its torpedoes ith accuracy, but it is provided with artificial electric “eye,” whereby it produce light fo great distances ath the water. ing dummy torpedoes this boat has k a battleship going at full speed out giving her a chance to defend f. This is the first time such a t has been performed by a sub- narine boat. Gustave Zede, the inventor, was for many years naval constructor and his ie are certainly worthy of the test consideration. He, it is claimed, was the first inventor to ap- ply the electric motor to submarine 1o any comotion. The r.otor undergoes no ss of weight during its operation, re. quires no oxygen, disengages no gas, and is consequently well adapted to Special to The Sunday Call. \ XPERIMENTS have just demon- strated that one of the most amazing things in nature is the lifting power possessed by a growing plant. Science, which thought it knew a few things about iture’s forces, has been startled to T find that such an insignificant, com- mon-place vegétable as a squash is capable of elevating a 5000 pound weight by the mere force of its re- s living power of expansion. ven the requisite number of these s of nature and the squash could te a modern sky-scraper or rend a rock. The experiments that have shown the This Growing Squash Leashed Burst Them Asunder. THE- HARNESSED - SQUASH navigation under water. The draw- back of the storage batteries’ lack of endurance is claimed tohave been over- come, but just how is a secret the in- ventor guards carefully. No naval expert of any foreign coun- try has ever seen the working of the wonderful new torpedo boat, and no- body except the inventor and the crew has ever seen the inside of the vessel. But judging by her performances and the general working of her machinery there can be little donbt but that the general plan of our own Holland boat has been adhered to. The Gustave Zede was tested during the recent maneuvers at Toulon. The captain of the battle-ship Magenta de- clared that he could defend himself against any submarine boat. The Zede il!\'appeared under water and went for him. The Magenta was lying quietly at an- chor, when, bump! came a .Grpedo against-her-bottom. The captain had = no idea of his danger. The inventor of the Zede then prom- ised that he would hit the Magenta when she was going at full speed. This promise he also carried out. The Zede’s motors exert .so much power that, when going at full speed, she makes a considerable eddy on the surface of the water; but this is not perceptible in a rough sea and disap- pears when the speed is reduced. ‘When the Zede was first built her crew was unable to see under water, but since then a wonderful eye has been added to her whereby they can see ahead of them for a hundred vards or more. This in the invention of two young lieutenants. Two things make it difficult to see far under water—the density and the ob- scurity of the water. Of course if the water is very muddy it is impossible to see at all, but in any case the density of it and the salts in it make it impos- sible to see far. The eye of the Zede which overcomes this obstruction con- sists of an electric light surrounded by very powerful refracting lenses. These are similar in construction to the lenses of a lighthouse lantern. The strength FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1899. 21 FRANCE'S NEW TERROR OF THE SEAS, THE GUSTAVE ZEDE. Be More Than a Match for Any Navy in the World. of these lenses may be judged from the fact that if the sun were permitted to shine straight through them it would burn and melt up everything in the lighthouse. This powerful light has been placed in a conning tower and is almost like the illuminating power of the Holland. How long this flerce light can be main- tained has not been stated in the re- ports received, but the chances are that it is only to be used immediately be- fore an attack is made for the pur- pose of accurately locating the foe. For offensive purposes there are two torpedo tubes in the Zode. These are placed one on either side. This seems an almost impossible armament, but the inventors claim that below the surface it Is just right and that it real- 1y helps to balance the boat. The immersion of the boat is regu- lated by the simple action of horizontal rudders analogous to those of the Whitehead torpedo. Everything is done e RN P IUII 14)10 M 2 by electricity. The motor is extremely light. It actuates the screw directly without gearing and communicates to it a velocity of 200 revolutions. The current that supplies the motor is fur- C00CCO0000V000000000 Oim Furst Timoth; With It She Claims to nished by Commelin-Desmazures accu- mulators. The boat, after many trials, has been found to work with perfect and safety. It has gone up and® down a dozen times in an hour. It has been tried in a heavy sea and proved itself quite independent of that condition. So great is the interest of Frenchmen in this invention that it is now proposed to build one boat by public subscrip- tion. This action is intended to encour- age and hasten the Government in building submarine boats. The Matin newspaper has started the subscrip- tion with $1000. The boat will be called the Francais and will be modeled on the Gustave Zede. The total cost wili be about $60,000. —_——————— There are many who think that had they but been born in a higher sphere of life they would have known what com- plete happiness meant. That this would not have been the case the following story goes a good way toward showing. It was against the strict etiquette of the Dutch court for the young Queen Wilhelmina to be allowed to play with any other lit- tle boys and girls, and so she grew up practically alone. ‘Wilhelmina was only about 6 or 7 years of age when she was one day overheard playing with her dolls. One wax baby misconducted itself in some way, and the small mother, holding up a warning finger, said, sternly: “If you are so naughty I shall make you into a Princess, and then you won’'t have any other children to play with, and you'll always have to throw kisses with your hands whenever you go out driving.” This she evidently considered the most FEA P severe punishment that could be adminis- tered. ——ee—————— Tagleigh—Ragleigh never mentions the " Wagleigh—No. He was In it—Life. 00000000CO0000000 On RBascball and Prize Fighting. ¢ Hurst, who recently arrived here with Jim Kennedy, Michael, the midget bicyclist, and Frank Erne, the fighter, is one of the best known author- ities in the t on pugilism and baseball. cupied a prominent place in National League baseball, For the past decade he has -c- while for the last five years he has also figured as the referee in a number of the biggest “mills” that have been pulled off in the East. T was three years ago in Cleveland when Baltimore was playing there that I made a decision that took all the nerve supply that I had at my command. I have never seen a simi- lar decision made under such circum- stances, and in all my striped and check- ered career I was never as rudely called on to do my duty and read .the rules cor- rectly with no *home grounds" translation of them as I was on that occasion. Cleve- land and Baltimore were racing neck and neck for the pennant. The Orioles had had a very successful trip until they struck Tebeau's pets. Somehow the Balti- more players always had their hardest luck in Cleveland, and they were about the only club that could draw a large crowd there. Well, the two first games went to Cleveland by a score of 5 to 0 and 7 to 0, if I remember correctly. The third game Baltimore won and the two teams were playing off a postponed game, He was referee in the Sharkey-McCoy contest. It was in the eighth inning. The score stood 5 to 3 in favor of Baltimore. There were two outs and Childs and one of the other Cleveland players were on first and second. Tebeau was at the bat. Now you can imagine the situation. The crowd was simply wild. Like so many thousands of Indians they were raising the dead. Dr. Pond and Robinson were in the points for the Orioles. Well, Pond had just fooled Tebeau on an out curve and Pat was hot. I saw by the expression of his face that he wanted to turn a trick, so I kept my blinkers open for I was certain that something was going to happen. Sure enough; Pond sent in a slow curve that broke very quickly just in front of the plate. Tebeau’had edged up as far toward the front and end of the batters’ Dbox as he could get, and just as the ball broke he deliberataly stepped out of the box and kissed it. My, but it was a drive such as you don’t see once in a lifetime. TREMENDOUS LIFTING POWER OF ORDINARY GARDEN Way out into deep center the ball sailed and struck the fence. Childs and the oth- er player came home, tying the score, but Brodie got the ball back so quickly that Tebeau was held at second base. The crowd was wild. The noise was deafen- ing. I turned around as soon as I saw Te- beau stop and there was Robbie of the Orfoles with his mask off shouting blue murder, Imagine how I felt. I knew what I had to do, so with the easiest manner and my most annoying smile I called Tebeau out for stepping out of the box. I had offered up a silent prayer, for I never expected to see mother again, when, what, to my eternal astonishment, should happen but Tebeau left the base without kicking. He had tried to turn a trick and falled, but he was man enough to take his medicine. Well, all of the Baltimore correspond- ents who were along with the team gave me the glad hand, with the result that when Cleveland went to Baltimore they asked Nick Young to have me umpire the serfes, so I was ordered to go there. I shall never forget that first game. When I came on the field I was given a rousing reception as a result of my work in Cleve- land. I did not pay any attention to the’ bougquets, for long experience had taught me how little it takes to make a crowd of rooters change their opinion of a man. The first game of that series justified my mental conclusions, for all of the papers roasted the life out of me the next morn- ing. Baltimore went to the bat first and was quickly retired. Then the Spiders took a turn with the willow. - Jesse Bur- kett was the first man up. He sent a red hot one to Jennings at short. Hughey tried for it on the short bound, but he bench and take a quiet rest. When Kelly, who was captain of the team that day, saw that I had put Jennings out of the game, he started in from center like a racing vacht under full sail. ‘I saw him coming, so I went out to meet him. “You need not bring me in any violets, Mr. Kelly,” I said, “for if you come in any ’further you will have to go all the way This set him on fire and he came at me like a Kansas cyclone. He threatened to throw me over the fence,.but I asked him to take a $25 fine and made him join Jennings on the bench, where I expressed the wish that he would enjoy the game. You can imagine how the crowd was howling by this time. I can neyer forget the scene. The Baltimore players were wild. Next Brodie came to me, but I presented him with seven idle days and begged him to join the bunch on the bench. I thought that I had finshed, but “Mugsy” McGraw on third base ¢ould not stand it, so he exploded and fired himself at me like a skyrocket. I took all of the chesty out of him in a minute, and before he knew where he was at he had a fine and a nice seat on the bench. This rapid work took the wind out of the sails of the Baltimores. I told them that I was master and that I would put the entire team on the bench if neeessary to preserve order. They seemed to realize it, and there was no more kicking. Of course, Cleveland won that game, but for the rest of the series I had perfect obedience. The chief difference between umpiring a ball game and refereeing a fight is that when you are in the ring you have only two men to watch. In a prize-fight, as in a ball game, I am always on the lookout The Gustave % Drawn from a phot: The New French Submarine Boat Performing the Wonderful Feat of Hitting a Man-of- keep your eyes on more men. This, of course, is more difficult, especially when all'of them.are trying to turn a trick. I make a close study of every man, and above all I never take my eyes off the ball, for as long as I follow it I have the game where I can render any decision. No play can be made without the ball. This is the main thing for an umpire to remember. From long experience I can tell when the ball is coming in to the batter just where it will go if he hits it. This is a great help to me; and then, again, on close plays at first base when I am behind the plate I alway§ run out toward the pitcher, for the reason that I have a clearer view of the baseman and runner at the same time, which is not the case if I follow the runner down the line, as so many umpires do. It does not take me long to catch on to the signs of a team, and this is of great help, especially when a runner is going to try for a stolen base, as it gives me the opportunity of being prepared to get down myself. In a ball- game the man that requires the most watching is the batter. If he is an old hand at the busi- ness he can make.the catcher’s life mis- erable. There are many things and points that come to a man of long experience, and it is these same points that he alone sees and that so often provoke a howl from the spectators simply because they over- look them or do not want to-see them. —_—————————— William Edgecomb, better known as Sailor Jack, has entirely lost the sight of one eye.. Bdgecomb is a fisherman and lives at Bays(gde. One day last September he ‘was skinning a large eel, when the fish gave a flop and struck him in one of Zede Just Before Immersion. ograph taken from Le Monde Illustre 3% War Going at Full Speed With a Torpedo. made a fumble. However, he quickly recovered the ball and got it over to first. It was a close decision. but Burkett was safe, which made it an error for Jen- nings. When he saw that I called the runner safe, he endeavored to work the old gag that 1 have had tried so often on me. ““You professional robber, why don’t you get that sawlog out of your eye? Do you want to give them the game?"” He pranced around and puffed up like some pouter pigeon, but I was next to him and. told him that he need not stay out in the sun and work, but to go to the for what no ong else ever sees. In the ring I always sfand within 1" ree feet of my men. I keep constantly circling around them, watching every movement and studying their temperaments. By being 80 close I can at the very first semblance of a clinch make the men break, and not give one of them a chance to do any close punching, as is so often done when the referee stands in the corner of the ring. A referee, of course, knows the rules, and he must also be perfectly familiar with the articles of agreement under which the men are fighting. Now, in a ball game you have got to “VEGETA Scientific Demonstrations to Show That Immense Weights May Be Lifted by Growing Vegetation. marvelous force latent in the vegetable world were conducted by Charles H. Ames at the Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, Amherst. The attention of the preusident of. the college, W. S. Clark, was directed. to the matter and he,' together with other gentlemen in- terested in opening up new pathways to knowledge, made further experi- ments. A squash was procured and a harness constructed on such principles as would enable the plant to exert to the utmost its lifting powers. In de- scribing the preliminary experiments and the theories on which they based the}lrhplz;n{fi) Mr. Clark says: “The following considerati - gested the idea: ot “First—It is a well-known fact that beans, acorns and other seeds often lift comparatively heavy masses of earth in forcing their way up to the in Strong Bonds ) BOX + 1IN W/RIKH: SQUASH - WAS - PLACED FHE: LEVER TO - SUPPORT. THE WEIGHTS light in the process of germination. “Secondly—We have all heard how common mushrooms have displaced flaggingstones many years since in Basingstoke, and more recently in Wor- cester, England. In the latter case, only a few weeks ago, a gentleman, noticing that a stone in the walk near his residence had been disturbed, went for the police, under the impression that burglars were preparing some plot against him. Upon turning up the stone, which weighed eighty pounds, the rogues were discovered in the shape of three giant mushrooms. 3 “Thirdly—Bricks and stones are oft- en displaced by the growth of the roots of shade trees in streets. Cellar and other walls are also freugently injured in a similar way. “Fourthly—There is a common belief that the growing roots of trees fre- A BED OF SQUASHES UNDELR‘.Q NEW YORK SKYSCR ® quently rend asunder rocks on which A rich bed of compost from a spent hot- they stand, by penetrating and expand- ing within their crevices. “‘Having never heard of any attempt to measure the expansive force of a growing plant, we determined to exper- iment in this direction. “At first we thought of trying the ex- pansive force of some small, hard, green fruit, such as hickory nut or a near, but the expansion was so slow and the attachment of the fruit to the tree so fragile that the idea was aban- doned. The squash, growing on the ground, with great rapidity, and to an enormous size, seemed on the whole the fruit for the experiment. ‘Accordingly, seeds of the mammoth yellow Chile having been obtained, they ‘were planted in the propagating pits of the plant house, where the temperature and moisture could be easily controlled. ke WL AR v— =i T | I f “" bed was prepared, which was 4 feet wide, 50 feet long and about 6 inches in depth. Here, under the fostering care of Prof. Maynard, the seeds germinat- ed, the vine grew vigorously, and the squash lifted in a most satisfactory manner.” The experiment was watched day and night by relays of the scientists in- terested. An ingeniously constructed apparatus for testing the lifting power of the plant consisted of a frame of seven-inch boards. In this framework the harnessed squash was deposited, the harness consisting of iron straps completely encircling the squash. To the harness wa$ attached a lever, on which were placed the weights to meas- ure the lifting capacity of the vegeta- ble. As the growing squash elevated the weights, others were added. A care- 52 3 » A I @ THE -ROOT. FROM -WHICH THE: PRINCIPAL VInE -GR ¢ THE ROOT. OF ‘THE-VINE - S/HICH " WAS - EICHT WEEKS - OLD- AND: CONNECTED * wATH- 4 GAUGE VT OFF WHEN ful record kept shows that the lifting done was as follows: Dates: Pounds. Twenty-first of the month 60 Twenty-second of the mon 69 Twenty-third of the month. 91 Twenty-fourth of the month 162 Twenty-fifth of the month 225 Twenty-sixth of the mont 21 Twenty-seventh of the month.. 356 Thirty-first of the month. 500 Eleventh of next menth Thirteenth of next month Fourteenth of next month Fifteenth of next month. ,400 Twenty-seventh of next month.1,700 Thirtieth of next month. ,015 Third of third month.. Twelfth of third month. Eighteenth of third month..... Twenty-fourth of third month.4,120 Thirty-first of third month....5.000 When the squash had lifted this TABLES, his eyes, leaving some slime. Besides a smarting sensation he thought nothing whatever of it, but after a few days the eye began to hurt him and kept on get- ting so bad that he finally went to a phy- siclan. It was then thought a cataract was growing on the eye, it having that appearance, but later on it was learned that such was not the case and that his sight failing so fast was caused by the poisonous slime from the eel.—Philadel- phia Times. — c———— Creston—Barnes doesn’t look like an actor, does he? Clarke—No; doesn’t act either.—Town Topics. like one, be removed. The illustrations show the manner in which the harness was made and the appearance of the frame- work used. The measuring of the strength of the sap by means of a me- chanical gauge was a minor feature of the experiment that was watched with interest, but the enormous force developed by the squash itself was the chief point. The result proved that what have been regarded as fairy tales were act- ual facts; that a growing plant can lift a tree, split asunder the solid gran- ite, and move masses in a manner that prior to these experiments may well have been deemed incredible. General Guy V. Henry has been or- dered to report to Major-General Brooke at San Juan and Porto Rico, and Colonel amazing weight the harness gave way John B. Castleman is now in charge of the under the great pressure and it had to TO- -POSI T ) 3cAeTO INDIATE PosI TION Ponce military district, INTERIOR- OF - FRAME HOLDING S, This Squash in a Harness Raised 5000 Pounds by APER COULD RAISE THE BUILDING FROM ITS FOUNDATION.. Actual Measurement.,