The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1900, Page 18

18 SRp MERICA for two centuries has led v progress, the = e ingenu- he diverse conditions of t} fon’s rapid advance- men & forced the other prepared under t ¥ rn and m e doors dows of the ng the st be called of this modest begin riumphs, present- famous t of Co- men soon She was one in her time a men wno supply t city of how to get duct of the cow, and have y started a plant which turns the 1 1 fluld into every com- pound which n be made from it, The machinery which is used converts the smilk as it comes from the cow into what $= called clarified milk, for the morning’s Goffee; into cream, icecream, butter and buttons, as well as combs, paper weights, prush tops and other articles can be mede. This is called lactroid, . The plant used is an old skating rink, where the ice was frozen artificially, The milk dealers formed a company, purchas- ed the place and use the refrigerating machinery for cooling purposes and for making icecream. The apparatus is so ar- ranged that from the time the milk is poured from the cans into the receiving vats everything is done automatically, the only hand work being to place the bottles in the cold storage dezn:::: e::d ::‘u:: v ; to flaver the :.'Ke'm'? :‘:étxom before grindipg it in the mills for buttons. Now The Make Milk T g > £ S wide and when! of water with No American h, as Se is the 1tion ang her numerous class that for fifty years ruled the seas there was 1yt little change 1 the advent of steam, and the next e represents two types of the earher m frigates, the Powhattan and The former was a side built at Philadelphia in 1850. tons, carrying 17 guns, and continued in active service until 1587, when she was condemned and sold. The Minnesota was of a class of six powerful am frigates which were in the best war vessels in ths To this class belonged the Roan- Min vess sota world oke and Merrimge, both cut down and converted Into ironclads at the beginning of the Civil War, o by the Federal andi the other by the Confederate authorities; anklin, in which Admiral Farragut of Eu n ports after the close of the war, and the Colorado and the Wabash. All were excellent ships and s St @ %o Buttone. The Baltimore plant is the only one of its kind in the United States, and it is claimed that less than 1 per cent of the products of the milk is wasted. The fluld comes in at one end of the building and goes out of the other in various shapes, the only waste belng a watery fluld which runs like a drain. The milk for coffee is tested in a laboratory and the proportion of cream it contains stamped on each bot- tle, The company supplies from 6000 to 10,000 gallons of coffee milk daily, while 200 gallons of jcecream an hour are turned out in the freezers operated by steam power, In addition to this nearly three tens of buttons, a half ten of schmeer kase and a ton of lactrold are produced every twenty-four hours, Buch has been the success of the plant that the machin- ery is being increased to handle 25,000 gal. lons of the raw material every twenty. four hours. An annex te the plant is a big icecream garden, where hundreds of people enjoy the delicacy every night to the music of an orchestra. This is also operated by the company, and considerably igcreases the consumption af 1ts icecream, ([ / performed splendid service. The Minne- sota was bullt at the Washington navy vard in 1555 and is still afloat as the prac- tice vessel of the Massachusetts Naval Militla. She is 204 feet §14 inches long, 651 feet ¢ inches wide and at 23 feet draft of water displaces 4700 tons, She carrled originally a battery of 48 guns, Her en- gines, of 1000 horsepower, were consid. ered only as auxillary power, her large spread of canvas being mostly relied upon for propulsion, The most radical departure from pre- cedent in the history of warship construc- tion came while the Minnesota and her class were still new and ene of them, the Franklin, unfinished, and is repre- sented in the next painting of the series, which shows the original Moniter, accom= THE SUNDAY CALL. panied by the latest development of the monitor type, the Arkansas and class now buflding. The Monitor was bullt by John Ericsson in 1881, and though Indi- vidually she was the first crude embodi- ment of a scheme to meet an emergency, she revolutionized the navies of the world, Her wonderful achlevements quickly showed that spars and salls must no longer be regarded as part of a war vessel's means of propulsion and that fighting ships must be protected by ar- mor to meet the improvements in ord. nance, While the low freeboard monitor type has passed out of favor as a deep- sea fighter, there are certain phases of national defense for which many authori. ties consider its latest development as the Pbest vessel that can be devised, and in the Arkansas, Connecticut, riorioa B..d ‘Wyoming,.now building, the only radical departure from the original consists in providing living accommodations for the officers and crew above the waler line. The sixth plcture shows the Katahdin and the Holland. The former is In a sense the outcome of the Confederate ram Tennesses, Admiral Ammen, who participated in the battle between that Vessel and the Federal fleet, always there- after held a fixed bellef that the ram was the most formidable weapon of marine ‘warfare, and finally persuaded Congress to authorize the construction of a vessel after his designs, which resulted in com- mencing the Katahdin at Bath, Maine, in July, i891, Owing te the difficulty in pro- euring her armor she was not completed unt!l February, 1. She 1s 251 feet long. forty-three feet five inches wide, twenty- ore feet deep and at a 15-foot draft dis- places 2155 tons. Her turtle-back rises o six feet out of water armored all over with steel plates aver- Ly AP Y eging six Inches thick. Fer armament comprises only four six-pounder rapid- fire guns and the coamings around these, the armored conning and the smokestack and ventilators are the only projections the deck, except the davits and gallows frames for stowing tower above the boats. Unufortunately, the Katahdin had no opportu to display her quali- ties during the Spanish war, when she was stationed near Cape Cod to defend Boston from a fleet that never material- 1zed. The o vessel in this picture is the submarine boat, lately purchased by the Government after exhaustive te which led also to ®ontracts for six ot by authority of Congress. Accompanying thesé two unique types is the steel tug- boat Unadilla, a type of several which 1cted in recent years for iit at the Mare have been naval u 1595, and 1s 110 feet leng, wide and at ten feet tons. The repre- sen power pro- gress sh going bat- tleship class for which eompleted, and the new rpedo boat destroyer I vania elass will b or more th stitut eteen knots per hour. dimensions are: Length, lcad water line, 435 feet, beam seventy-six fe t twenty-four feet. being The Main. st respectively Missour! and Ohlo are ed from identical plans, Philadelphia, Newport They are each 388 feet long, two and a half inches wide and have 12,300 tons dis- The Farragut was commis- oned just about a year ago on the Pacific ast, having been built at the Union Iron Works, to whose skill the triumphs of e Oregon was attributable. She is 213 fect 6 inches long, twenty feet seven an ree-quarter Inches wide and at six feet draft displaces 279 tons. She is the fastest vessel in the navy, her trial rec- ord having been 3013 knots with 5600 horsepower. The paintings are from the brush of Frank M: who was at Vells, -one years ago, and who studied under Kar! Neumann in t Royal Academy of Arts at Copenbagen. Mul- at ews and San Franeisco. seventy-two feet born ler’s father was a Danish artist and he is a nephew of Anton Melb; stol . whose “Eddy- e Light” and other notable marines natfonal gallery at London. best known work s perhaps the Point.” Muller sh navy and was before in the (ol the mast mn merchant smips for twelve years. He came to Washington for Department of Agriculture and for seven years painted plants, bu for offi- clal gove t publicati for the past four s he has painted steadily for the Navy able canv. as made Department. His more not- The Mayflower,' for Leland Stanford Uni- Jones' Victory,” which s and Navy Club; “The uted for the Amerfca for ses are * exec Scandfnavian soct presentation to the captain of the Mis- souri, who effected the rescue of 1300 per- sons in memorable disaster;: “The Battle Between the Merrimac and the Cumberland,” in orcoran gallery, and about twenty large paintings of rican warships, ch are exhibited in the Navy Cdds and Ends From Rverywhere country there exis In nearly every some superstitions with regard to th treatment of very young children. Some are supposed to bring luck, while others are used to dispel the evil spirit, which is belleved to be in the child from birth. In some parts of Ireland a belt of woman's hair worn around the Infant's body is supposed to protect it from harm, while the Greclan mother, with the child in its arms, turns three times around be- fore a fire to accomplish the same end. Cruel to be kind seems the Spanish treatment of sweeping a baby’s face with a pine bough, that good luck may follow it in life, Another treatment which seems almost barbaric to us is the custom m Holland of putting Inte the cradle of a newly born child, steak, bread and garlio, Amulets and charms of various kinds seem to the Turks te be the best bringers of luck to their babies, and many quite tiny children are laden with them, so great is the fear of harm to their off- spring. In Brittany, soen after birth, a child is rubbed with oll all aver the body and head in order to pigengthen it, ang in soms cases still a few drops of brandy are laid on the lips of the to make It a true Breton. Beslde these quaint customs, ours of putting an egg or coin Into an infant’s hand for luck on first visiting it looks quite insignificant. Some old wives have it that an infant’s temper Is Infly- enced for life by the person who = first kisses it. After these old wives’ tales are very harmless. After trying every concelvable fabrig and leather In the make-up of thelr “mo- toring clothes,” French chauffeurs have decided that kangaroo leather is the ideal material. It Is warm, pliable, sheds the rain and retains its appearance under the most adverse weather conditions. The Pennsylvanta Rallroad's ferryboaty are the only eraft around New York on which the law against the carrying of gasoline-driven vehicles is enforced, A saving ef fifteen minutes per trip 1 the result of the New York postoffice of- ficlals’ recent test of motor vehlcles in gollecting mails 1 the downtown districts,