The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 12

MONDAY, JULY 15, 1918 With F loating Lighthouses | As Landing Stations at Sea, Transatlantic Flight Easy Plan of Col. Tulasne, Chief of French Aviation Mis- THESE TRA | sion in America, Provides for Flight by Easy Stages Rather Than Long, Unbroken Trip, as| Best Means of Sending Huge American Air Fleet to Europe. By Sophie teresting suggestions made the erection of floating lig! @ountry and “over there,” fing overseas direct hundreds of aerop! Tulasne, facilities of Fran Col. Tulasne, and has thirty-tiv fields throughout rant Lome Col. Tulasne, it will be remembered, came here with Gen. Joffre. He Was one of the first aviators on the the Marne. That he has been a fearless flyer, especially In night flying, is at- tested by his decorations. Among @erving under Col. Tulasne are Capt. Alfred Hourtaux, Lieut. Soulier, Flachaire, Licut. Max Benois, Andre Tardieu, Marquis Melchior de Poll- gnac and L “I believe the plan of transatlantic fying is feasible with a construction @f @ series of floating lighthouses or fanding stations,” said Col. Tulasne When I talked with him on this sub-| Ject, which is the talk of the hour in @viation circles. “These lighthouses could be properly equipped with powerful guns, and Would not only prove of value for the Protection of the seas but would pro- tect aviators who would need to come @own for gasoline or for repairs. “The landing places coult be prop- | e@tly engineered for tho safety of avi- | @tors, In this way there is a fair ) @psurance of safety in making a long {| Miight,” said Coi. Tulasne, “and also ) they would facilitate the work of @viators in this important endeavor. | . “While it is possible to cross the AWantic without such devices, yet the feasibility of sending planes in large Bumbers without some such landing Stations would be most diMcult and fertainly more hazardous, “Also, with the floating lighthouse @cheme the planes would not need to ‘Be built s0 powerfully or of such large eapacity as would be necessary in a ontinuous trip. \ “Flights of long distances are com- fieg—and coming fast,” continued the Colonel, “but, of course, it is obvious why greater care should be given in @evising the best mothods for such a significant venture as the transat- antic one presents. _ “These lignthouses that I speak bout could be provisioned from pass- fing ships, and could also act as in- telligence stations for the benefit of the aviators.” And while we discussed this most absorbing topic, Col. Tulasne told how important it was to choose men who G0 into the aviation service for their particular and pcculiar qapabilities. “For example,” said the Colonel, the dispositions and character of Lieut. | ut. Henri Sarre, W's: is generally regarded in aeronautics as one of the most tn- This interesting possibility for safe transatlantic flying and for send- Chiet of the French Aviation Mission America, who recently was promoted to his present rank for his remarkable organization of the aviation is credited with havine advanced aviation activities in| this country to an unprecedented degree. He is now here aiding the American Government ve oMcers acting in various aviation the American aviation | Irene Loeb for successful transatlantic flying 14 hthouses in mid-ocean between this lanes is the conception of Col. Joseph in ce. together with three of his assoctates, | the United States in co-operation with battlefields and was in the Battle of) the prominent Frenchmen who are are those who show tendencies of| fearlessness right off, and also reck. leasnems, “There are others with a very care- ful turn in their nature, The flela of flying and tho technicalities are now | so vastly different from what they were in the beginning that personall- ties of men for particular work is of paramount importance, “That is to say, one man may de- velop as an excellent flyer in the daytime, but couldn't very well tly at) night. Another would prove valua‘le for scouting purposes, and still an- other for skilful bomb throwing, and 80 on. “So that great care must be shown as the various necessities of war de- mands are manifested.” According to prominent authorities there are seven ways of crossing the Atlantic with land aeroplanes, flying boats and hydroaeroplanes. All the roads, however, lead to Ireland. The seven ways are: 1—Large aeroplanes capable of fly- ing 3,000 miles from New York to Iro- land without a halt, assisted by trade winds, 2-Flying boats and hydronero- planes to Ireland, stopping to secure fuel from shifts located every three hundred miles along the route. 8—By means of land aeroplancs, large or small, starting from New- foundiand and flying to Ireland, a distance of 1,860 miles, without stop- ping. 4-Flying boats and hydroaero- planes, starting from Newfoundland and flying to Ireland, 1,860 miles, tak- ing on gasoline from ships stationea at every three hundred miles along the route. 6—By moans of land machines, large or small, flying from Newfoundland to Azores, 1,195 miles, and from the Azores to Portugal, 850 miles. 6—By means of hydroaeroplancs | flying from Newfoundland to the! Azores and from the Azores to Ie- | land, taking on fuel from ships | tioned 200 miles apart along the route. 1—Flying boats from Newfound- land to the Azores and take on fuel men are of utmost importance, There there. Famous Movie Actresses Tell About Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), By Mae Marsh * WASN'T ambition that led me into the field of motion pictures—I insist op not saying movies—so much as a girl's longing to be up and doing something. I wanted to be like m, ‘who spent her days ut a wonderful studio instead of tn a dull schoolroom, asidid. Soe was surrounded by a glamour which seemed to me the greatest hing in the world, In those days ereen actresses were not @o well known as they are are to-day. I sup- pose if Marguerite had been @ real @inema queen, with her picture in the magazines and her automobile and her | maid ani wonderful Fifth Avenue frocks and hats—why, then I would have just eaten my heart out. But My sister was just a dear girl who was occupying a small niche—and I wanted to stand in one beside ber, They wouldn't hear to tt, though. $ wasn't pretty and I was much too ‘Phin and my freckles simply wouldn't give me a chance with the very pretty Marguerite. So what could 1 @o but pine? And stay at achool. There was something in me, though, © @hat wouldn't be downed. Bo I re- @olved to take matters in my own fands. If my mother wouldn't let me Be to the studio and try my luck, and My sister smiled at me because I “\qranted tv, then I would go withont |) my mother's permission and in spite @f Margverite’s superior sort And I dia. % Themselves y grown-up sister, Marguerite Marsh, MAE MARSH, I went to Marguerite's studio when! she was away on “location"’—that's when @ company leaves the studio! to act (nm out-of-door scenes — and of asked if they didn't want me, There,gave me a tiny part in a photoplay wasn't @ chance that day, I was! \ on a WN \ Oy 7 \ <a e COL. TULASNE ASW) WPS > \ ye \ “\ ue Seven Possible Air Routes to Europe SATLANTIC ROUTES, CONSIDERED FEASIBLE BY EXPERTS, IN CONJUNCTIO} S “FLOATING LIGHTHOUS: oe J PLA , MIGHT OPEN A WAY TO LAND A STREAM OF AIRPLANES “OVER THERE.” HYDROAIRPLANE TYPE STOPPING . AT FLOATING UGHTHOUSES , LIGHTHOUSE SHIP GETTING SUPPLIES FROM alata iN p ad = yo = Mogens , PORTUGAL _HXDROAIRPLANES, ‘ 5 Sect ve HYDROAIRPLANE © ‘LANDING FOR) ©) 9? SUPPLIES AT. > ARMED LIGHTHOUSE, A Bone Dry Law Will Mean That We Can’t Even Get Our Skulls Shampooed— Columbus Discovered America and the Kaiser Will Never Forgive Him for It— Pumpkins Will Soon Be Ripe, but the Kind You'll Get in Your Pie Will Have Been Ripe for the Last Five Years—Epidemic of Influenza Is Raging in Germany and the Clown Prince Already Has a Medal for His. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ?OR' summer resort for two R' how it made its bankroll last that record. Wish the U boat would come back and tell us Everything official and under control in Butte, Montana. zens are boycotting the pro-Germa slackers, Fierce to be boycotted, but we'd Tough luck, but the silver handles on Von Hindy’s lumber kimona will be pewter. Dry law will be a blow to the patriots who have been drinking for their country. that a U boat hung around a fashionable Long Island days. Which is a pretty good long. Citi- ns and the girls are girlootting the hate to be girlcotted. told. Still I wouldn't leave. I sank box in the courtyard and} the lucky girls parading Ja thelr make-up and spe- cia! costumes, Tears sprang to my eyes and crept down over my| freckles, I didn't care how I looked —red eyes or anything. Just then @ man passed and looked down at me. I looked up at him In view of what happened later that look was the turning point in my life It got me into motion pictures. I didn't know it, but I have since learned that it was a “wistful” look ‘The man saw possibilities in it and watched around that play alwaya ‘It was “Sands o' Dee” and the man was D. W. Grif- fith. Both my mother and Mar- guerite forgave me when I told them and my truancy was condoned, I stayed on at the studio and became my sister's rival, Some years passed and now I find my name ahead of the title of the picture. That means that I am a star, And people write serious re- views of my plays and stacks of clip- pings come in and droves of giris ask me to send them photographs. So what more is there for my “wist- ful" look back there in the old days to bring me except the ambition to| do better day by day? For I AM Don’t know what's happened to the birds who used to tell us how to live on eight cents a day. Probably up in the Arctic telling the Eskimos how to keep cool on eleven icebergs a week, Kaiser is still picking shrinking violets on Flanders battlefields, although his chemists are busy working on a new synthetic unshrink- able kind. Giving your wife a twenty dollar bill to buy a seventeen dollar hat and expecting her to bring you back three dollars change is as foolish as going into the Bronx subway to get the air, The new Prohibition Law will sure extract the fun from funnels, Laws will be strict. Won't even be able to buy furniture polish unless you really have furniture. Is the bloom to fade from the glorious American nose? Bill Bryan is coming back into popularity again. Bill was all right. All he needed was a little one-night corn cure on his head, Over 300,000 Americans in the front line trenches and each one as diplomatic as a. Atlesnake buzzing the bad news with his tail but- tons, Hotel de Gink went out of business just in timé to escape that 1919 tax on eight dollar neckties, eleven dollar meals and fifty beans a day hotel suites. Austrians running so fast their feet are stuttering. Looks like their shoes are made of rabbit hide. Retreated twenty miles in one day, which ain’t so bad for a flatfooted army. Looks like the Rus- he was then producing. I have loved Ne tg ean cence eae ihe ambitious now, sians will have to organize another army to defend their record. oh $ MONDAY, JU aw x Nee LY 15, 1918 Of America ce | | four years to do this job. That is the spirit of America. Her | judge from the sc: Lieut. Coningsby Win.” last winter by th the war. | my heart is always with you.” Born in England, Lieut. Dawson vious to the opening of the war, win | dian regiments to see service, this cit: prectates us; yet, in his own words, |have my standards of comparison by “My purpose,” Lieut. Dawson be- jgins his book, “Is to prove with facts | that America Is in the war to her last | dollar, her last man, and for just as ‘long as Germany remains unrepent- ant. Her strength is unexpended, |her spirit is un-war-weary. She has a| |greater efficient man-power for her| population than any nation that has Her resources are continental rather than national; it is as though a new Jand undivided Europe had sprung to arms in moral horror against Ger- many.” Lieut. Dawson finds that America takes the war primarily as _ job which must be carried to Its ruthless, successful conclusion. “What has impressed me most in my tour of the American activities in France,” he writes in “Out to Win,” “is the busi- nesslike relentlessness of the prepa-! rations. Everything is being done on a titanic scale and everything is be- ing done to last. The ports, the rnil- roads, the plants that are being con- structed will still be standing a hun- dred years from now. There's no ‘Home for Christmas’ optimism about | America’s method of making war.) One would think she was expecting | to be still fighting when all the pres- jent generation is dead. She is invest- ing billions of dollars in what can| only be regarded as permanent im-| provements. | “The American as I have met him| in France has not changed one iota |from the man that he was in New York or Chicago. He has transplant- ed himself untheatrically to the scenes of battlefields and set himself undisturbedly to the task of dying. There is an amazing normality about |him. He is absolutely himself, keenly lefficient and irreverently modern. | Rverywhere, from the Bay of Biscay to the Swiss border, irom the Medi- terranean to the English Channel, you see the lean figure and the slouch hat of the U. S. A. soldier.” What are the concrete accomplish- ments of the American war machine as it is functioning {n France? Lieut. Dawson speaks glowingly of some of them. ‘here is, for instance, the tenth-rate French port which Amer- leans are remaking to accommodate the enormous tonnage by which we are taking across the men and ma- ity of her harbor basin multiplied fifty times, the is being berthing capacity trebled, the unload- multiplied by ten. laid which will ing facilities A railroad yard is being contain 225 miles of tracks and 870 switches, An immense motive works is being erected for the repair- ing and assembling of rolling stock from America, Reservoirs are peiny built at some distance from the town loc: | which will be able to supply 6,000,000 | gallons of purified water a day. Six million cubie yards of filling were of the railroad yard to the proper level.” Another spot which Lieut, Dawson visited is be the intermediate point in the American line of commu- nicacions, Here are the figures given him for this mammoth undertaking when completed Six and a half miles long and about one mile broad. |¥our and a half million feet of cov- Jered stora,e and 10,000,000 feet open storage. Two hundred miles of track in its railroad yard and enough of the materials of war housed to keep a million men fully equipped for thirty days. A plant for the assem- bling of aeroplanes which would em- ploy 20,000 men, And one out of several American necessary to raise the ground to of Real ‘Out to Win’’ Spirit planning for thirty. ‘That is the inspiring message from a distinguished Englishman to us and to his own people—the text of | to convalesce from a serious wound last aatumn. yet entered the arena of hostilities. /storage in the War Seen by British Soldier New War Book by Lieut. Coningsby Dawson Tells Not Only of Fighting Spirit of Our Soldiers but of the Earnest and Huge Preparations of the Nation to Make Our Part in War Count, and Keep On Counting More and More Until Germany Is Beaten. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HE American troops have set words to one of their bugle calls. To the song of the bugles they chant as they march: ‘We've got We've got four years to do this job.’ soldiers give her four years, but to ale of her preparations she might be America is out to win.” Dawson's new war book, “Out to Lieut. Dawson was detached from his regiment e British Foreign Office and sent to France to make a careful study of America’s part in The choite was peculiarly apt, for I fancy tt Corer is with Lieut. Dawson as with Sir Gilbert Parker, who, ews speaking of America, once told me very simply, “Half lived in New York for ten years pre ning success as a novelist of modern | manners; and although he quickly enlisted with one of the earliest Cana- y is still his home, to which he came He understands and ap- “as a combatant of another nation, I which to judge.” That his verdict is | warmly appreciative should be a boost to the optimism of all of us, an ad- | ditional proof that after all our war machine has not broken down. chanical bakery for American troops will take flour direct from raflroad cars and convert it into bread at the rate of 750,000 pounds a day. “Here are some facts and statistics which illustrate the big business of war as Americans have undertaken it,” writes the author of “Out to Win.” They have had to erect cold- plants, with mechanical means of fce manufacture, of suffi- nt capacity to hold 25,000,000 pounds of beef always in readiness. They aro at present constructing two salvage depots which, when completed, will bo the largest in the world. Here they will repair and make fit for ser- vice again shoes, harness, clothing, webbing, tentage, rubber boots, &c. Attached to these buildings there are to be immense laundries which wil undertake the washing for all the American forces, Under the Ameri- can system every soldier, on coming out of the trenches, will receive a complete new outfit, from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. ‘The Quartermaster Depart- ment alone will have 36,000 motor propelled vehicles and a personnel of 160,000 men. “American military hospitals in France are being erected to accom- modate 200,000 wounded “What I saw in France,” Lieut. Dawson concludes earnestly, “in the early months of this r has filled . me with unbounded optimism, I feel the elated certainty, as never before, even in the moment of the most suc- cessful attack, that the Boche's fate is sealed. What is more, I have grounds for believing that he knows it—knows that the collapse of Russia will profit him nothing, because he cannot withstand the avalanche of men from America, Already he hears them, as I have seon them, training in thelr camps from the Pacific to the Atlantic, racing across the ocean in their gray transports, marching along the dusty roads of two continents, a procession locust-like in multitude, stretching half about the world, ing and singing indomitably, ‘We've got four years to do this job.’ From behind the Rhine he has caught their singing; it grows ever nearer, stronger, It will take time for that avalanche to pyramid on the western front; but when it has piled up it will rush forward, fall on him and crush him." F “Out to Win" is published by John Lane Company. Most U. S. Patents for Transit Devices NCLE SAM granted the first patent of the present serics just eighty-two years ago to- Patent No. 1, issued on July 13, for a device to keep car Is from slipping. Several years ago the millionth patent was issued, on @ pneumatic tira, which proves that inventors are still much con- cerned with wheels. The constant de- mand for better transit facilities is respoasible for the largest proportion of patents, Flying machines at the present time are the particular’ ob- ject of inventors’ minds, and scarcely a day passes without an application |covering some new and novel type of machine for nay the a THE DEEPEST OCEAN, HE average depth of the oceans ar is from two to three miles, At the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, off the-coast of South America, jthe depth of the Atlantic is said to be aviation camps is to turn out from 360 to 400 alrmen a month, One ne- more than 45,000 feet, or s excess of eight miles, ething im X