The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 24, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
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SUBMARINE WARNINGS. |
t New Invention Will Make the Submarine
Valueless. j
It will make submarines valueless
against battleships in warfare, and:
will render still greater service in
time of peace by insuring ships
against collisions at.sea. either with
one another or with icebergs. That
is the claim put forward for an invention
known as the Fessenden electric
oscillator, says Tit Bits, whlct.
takes its name from Prof. R. A. Fessenden.
whose idea, after various
severe tests, is being adopted by European
powers.
Briefly, the Fessenden oscillator is
a submarine sounding apparatus, fix*
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signals through water, not through
the air. These signals travel more
swiftly than they would through the
air, since sound moves through the
water at a rate of 4,400 feet per seccond,
while through the air it moves
at the rate of only 1.100 feet a second.
For some time past submarine
beJls have been used with excellent
results on lightships and buoys, and
to some extent on moving vessels,
their warnings being transmitted for
miles through the water, and it was
while trying to extend the usefulness
of these submarine bells that Prof.
Fessenden evolved his present electric
oscillator and solved the problem
of protecting vessels from collision
at 6ea.
His system of submarine signaling
is really a kind of water wireless.
A vessel is fitted with a couple of
these oscillators or ears is able to
hear for a distr.nce of several miles
any disturbing influence in the water.
Furthermore, by means of these instruments
it is able to send messages
through the water itself, just
as messages by wireless are dispatched
and received. That is to say a
battleship equipped with such instruments
could talk to its own submarines
miles away and submerged and
could actually direct their movements
against enemies' vessels.
Already several American battler'
ships have been fitted with these oscillators.
and the tests to which they
have been subjected have proved that
they are in every way to be relied
upon. The oscillator makes it possible
for a ship's officer to hear the
propeller movements of an enemy's
submarine. These propeller sounds
can be distinguished at a uisuauce ui
two miles, while with a sound-amplifying
device the distance may be extended
to five miles or more.
Had the Titanic been fitted with
such an apparatus as the Fessenden
oscillator it might have received a
definite signal of the presence of an
x iceberg, for the mechanism of the
apparatus which is placed in the hold
of the ship?one oscillator on each
side?is so delicato* that U is possible
to detect an iceberg within a radius
of a couple of miles.
There is no doubt, according to
naval experts, that the Fessenden oscillator
will revolutionize naval strategy,
for it is obvious that a battleship
which can control the movements
of submerged submarines has
an enormous advantage over the
ships of the enemy. A single cruiser
accompanied by a half dozen deadly
craft steaming far below the surface
"and able to maneuver at the dictation
of the mother ship, which can
see what is going on. might easily
> whnt* snnadron of dread
n if^ vui. cl ? ?*v-v ? -x ? ?
noughts unprotected against this newdanger.
Our New Submarines.
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The submarines that broke down in
the recent war manueveres were all
built before 1912, with the exception
of the K-6, which has not yet been
accepted from the contractors.
Secretary Daniels acts wisely, however,
in ordering a thorough investigation
of all these accidents to de*
termine the cause. Plans are virtually
completed in the department for
26 new submarines which are to be
built at once.
The secretary declares that a submarine
two years old is more comparatively
obsolete than an'automo
bile three years old, and this is probably
a conservative statement. What
is known of the fighting efficiency of
submarines has been learned largely
from operations of the German navy,
and the effective work done by the
undersea boats of the most modern
type, many of them having been built
since the war began.
For years the American navy treated
the submarine as an interesting
and amusing top rather than as a revolutionary
instrument in naval warfare.
The attitude can no longer be
maintained.
The experience of Germany already
proves that the coasts of the I'nited
States could be completely protected
against hostile invasion of a sufficient
number of submarines such as Germany
has built and this country is
building. The new undersea boats of
the navy should represent the last
word in submarine construction.?
New York World.
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FA< TS ABOUT PRESIDENTS. L
Interesting Incidents Al>out Several "
Chief Executives.
Washington was the one president gl
to be elected unanimously. ?
The only president or vice presi- c
dent to resign was John C. Calhoun, si
I who gave up the vice presidency to ij
j become a United States senator. tl
I J. Q. Adams refused to ride to the ri
Capitol with Andrew Jackson and left
town when Old Hickory took the b
i oath of office. v
Jefferson and the second Adams a
were the only presidents who were a
I elected by the house of representa- p
j tives. neither having had a majori- 0
I ty of electoral votes. tl
| William Henry Harrison served the b
: shortest time as president, having tl
i caught a fatal cold the day he was r
inaugurated and died exactly one y
' mnnfh lntpr t.
j Impeachment was tried against but v
| one president or vice president, and y
failed by one vote even in the case of s
Andrew Johnson. \
Johnson was a tailor, and could v
not read until his wife taught him fi
how. i
j "Are you not President Harrison?" e
inquired a gushing young woman f
sometime after this son of Indiana t
. had left the white house. "No, ma- J v
| danle, I'm Benjamin Harrison, of In- j $
; dianapolis. Grover Cleveland is the' j
; only president in the United States."! s
, The senate elected only one vice^ j
I president, Richard M. Johnson, in i
1R27 havine failed to receive a ma-' ^
1 jority of electoral votes.
I ?Five vice presidents became president
by the death of the president:
Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur and
; Roosevelt.
j No physician, preacher or journalj
ist has become president,
j Grant and Roosevelt are the only
, two who sought three terms. j
| Cleveland was the only president to|
have someone sandwiched between!
' i
his two terms. Benjamin Harrison!
being the sandwich. |
j John Adams was not only the oldI
est of ex-presidents when he died, be,
ing more than 90, but he lived the
longest after leaving office, about 25!
, years. J
.Relatively, Washington was the
richest .president, 'but his private in- j
come was hardly equal to that of;
Roosevelt.
I Col. Roosevelt was the only vice
president to attain the presidency by
another's death and then be honored
by a reelection. j
There have been four ex-presiaenis f
! living at one time?Adams. Jefferson.!
Madison and Monroe. After Wash-;
ington's death, during Adams' term,
the country had no ex-president. Now
we have two, but they don't speak to
each other. j
Buchanan went through his term a
bachelor. j j
I Woodrow Wilson and James A. Gar- j
field were college presidents and Jef-' ^
ferson founded the University after j
he retired from the white house. j
j Washington. Monroe, Jackson, the1
two Harrisons, Taylor, Lincoln,!
Grant, Garfield. Hayes, McKinley and j i
Roosevelt were soldiers.. j a
; Lincoln's Gettysgurg speech and i
Washington's farewell address are 1
quoted more frequently than any
other presidential utterances. t
j Cleveland's "Public office is a public
trust." Grant's "Let us have f
peace." Jackson's "By the Eternal" t c
j and Roosevelt's "Malefactors of great1
. wealth" became universal catch 1
words.
Of cabinet officers, the luckiest in I
a presidential way were secretaries j s
of State, urant ana iau were sev.ie-|
taries of war. but there has been no i i
secretary of the navy in the white,
j house. | I
Washington and Lincoln were the| (
. tallest presidents, Cleveland and Taft i
the heaviest. * ?
I When Buchanan was a young man 1
I in Lancaster county. Pa., some one
told him that if he should change hisi *
politics he might become president, a
; He did both.
I Grant had always been a Democrat
! until after the war, when the Republicans
elected him president,
j The only president to turn his coat ?
1 after election was Tyler. Elected by
| the Whigs on the "Tippacanoe and
Tyler, too" slogan, he went over to
1 the Democrats when he had climbed 2
1 T]
i into the presidency over the coffin of
Harrison.
1 f
When the chancellor of New York .
1 administered the oath to Washington 1
he ended with this: "Long live
George Washington, president of the
I United States." That form was never
, repeated.
One president was inaugurated in
6
New York, two in Philadelphia and
s
, all the others in Washington,
j At first the salary of the president
! was $25,000. and that of the vice *
president $5,000. Now the president
receives $75,000.
I
Alexander Hamilton proposed that
z
a president be elected for life. |_
Others in the constitutional conven-j v
tion favored two or three presidents j \
instead of one. | b
The official salute for the president j r
is twenty-one guns. I heard a salute) 1
of 101 guns fired for King Edward! L
USES LIFE WHILE IX SWIMMING
eath of Carlisle Owen Said to Ifc
l>ue to Heart Failuie.
Mullins. June 18.?Mullins wa
locked this morning at an eany hou
hen the news reached here tha
arlisle Owen, the sixteen-year-ol
on of Mrs. John Owen, had lost hi
fe at an early hour by drowning a
lie Sansouci club, a private pleasur
esort just above Sandy Bluff.
The youth, in company with hi
rother-in-law, Wm. M. Mclntyrt
ent to the club house on Thursda
fternoon to spend the night fishing
.bout daylight the two got up an
repared to take a dip before startin
ut on the fishing trip. Owen wa
he first to reach the water edge anc
eing a good swimmer, he ran out o
he springboard and jumped into th
iver in about fifteen feet of watei
Ir. Mclntyre called to the boy an
old him to be careful, as the wate
. as both deep and swift. But th
oung man continued on down th
tream without heeding the warning
le had gone only about fifteen yard
. hen Mr. Mclntyre called to a negr
isherman to throw the boy a poh
"his was done, but the youth appai
ntly paid no attention to it, and in
ew seconds he sank and never cam
tack to the top. A hurried searc
tas made and then a messenger wa
lispatched to town for assistant
Automobiles filled with friends wer
oon speeding to service. Sand
iluff bridge is about a half mil
lown the stream, and at this point
rtre netting was stretched across th
iver. The water being very dee]
he searching party worked undt
;reat difficulties trying to locate th
>ody. Dynamite was procured an
.bout twenty charges were set off i
he hopes of raising the body, but 1
to avail. Alter ainner me searc
^as resumed. T. T. Martin and se1
iral other young men were divin
tear the point where the young ma
i'ent down. Mr. Martin discovers
he boy, clutched hands and lei
iround a log about twelve feet und<
vater. He realized that to break tt
told the boy might float on down tt
iver, and he struggled with him ui
il he came very near drowning hin
elf.' When he came up with the boc
ie was about exhausted.
The greatest sympathy is expres
(d for the boy's mother, who has ses
nuch trouble since the death of h<
lusband. the late Rev. John Owe:
i minister in the Methodist confe
snce, who, it will be remembere
vas shot and killed by a friend aboi
ifteen years ago at Johnston whi
>ut bird hunting. A few years a?
he oldest son. John Owen, died whi
indergoing an operation for appei
licitis, and now the death of tl
oungest son, Carlisle. The deat
>f the young man was not due 1
Irowning, it is believed, but to hea
~ ? ?*11 U*
ailure. ine runerai win ue uc
tere tomorrow, interment at Code
lale.
Tlie Visitor.
Opportunity knocked twice at tl
nan's door and was about to knot
i third time when the door was hu
iedly opened by a woman, relat<
jife.
"Where is the man?" said Oppo
unity. "Come! I've no time to lose
"You're the very one he's lookic
or," said the woman. "But?he
>ccupied."
"You're his wife, aren't you? Te
lim to come."
"He won't believe me. He'll thin
*m mistaken. He'll think you ai
iomeone else."
"That isn't my fault. I've dor
ny duty. Good day."
"Oh, please don't go. I'll tell hir
'11 try to convince him who you ar
Jive me a little time."
Just at that moment the man rusl
* * J
:a oui ana grauueu ypiwHuim,
Then he turned roughly to his wife.
"Why didn't you let me know si
ras knocking?" he said. "Why, si
Jmost got away. Just like you!"
Bright Salesman.
The depression in business cause
. local jeweler to discharge his e:
erienced man. replacing him with
ligh school graduate?a youth jus
ut of school. He appeared ver
.nxious to learn, and the proprietc
it the end of the first week was muc
leased with results. One day tb
nerchant was obliged to be awa
rom the store and upon his retur
nquired:
"Well Frank, did you sell anj
hine: while I was out?"
"Yes, 6ir; I sold five plain ban
ings."
"Fine my boy," said the jewele:
nthusiasticallv. "We'll make an A
alesman out of you one of thes
ays. You got the regular price fc
hem. of course?"
"Oh yes. sir. The price on the ir
ide was 1 Sc, and the man took a
hat was lett, sir."?Harper's .Mags
ine.
then the proclamation was rea(
Vhen the body of Napoleon ws
rought back from St. Helena and ai
ived in the river Seine, a salute c
,000 guns was fired.?Philadelphi
-edger.
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I. MEXICAN* A REAL STOIC.
e Bishop McConnell Telb? of I^atin Who
Would Stint Revolution.
s| Bishop Francis C. .McConnell, of
rj Denver, Co!., who has made five misI
sion inspection tours in Mexico durII
ing the last two years and conducted
s conferences there, tells a story about
11 one of his native preachers to illuse
trate the character of the Mexican,
says the Des Moines Register and
s Leader. Pan y Agua is the name of
this native Methodist preacher. Pan
y Agua, says Bishop McConnell, is an
' out-and-out revolutionist. He would
^ start a revolution anywhere.
g Pan v Agua was in Mexico City.
s He got into trouble. Bishop McCon'?
nell ordered him sent 500 miles in'*
land. He started a revolution. Bishe
op McConnell ordered him sent to
" Yucatan. Pan y Agua got into troud
ble. He was ordered to be executed.
r He was hid by a friend on a boat and
e reached New Orleans. Bishop Mce
Connell ordered him to Tucson. He
? asked for leave for private business.
s Bishop McConnell sent word to him
0 to be held. The- reply was he had
gone.
Pan y Agua was later in El Paso.
a Texas, the hotbed of revolution. He
e wrotfi an explanation of his sudden
k departure that he was to hold special j
lS services. His special services were
to start a revolution. He was ordere
ed into interior Mexico by Bishop
'y McConnell. There he started anle
other revolution. Carranza 6aid he
a would leave the country if Villa
ie would. Some one was to tell Villa
P- that he was to exile himself. It
;r meant probable death, for Villa
ie shoots without provocation, accord^
ing to Bishop McConnell. Pan y
n Agua and a friend deicded to be the
0 ones to inform Villa. They perform^
ed their duty. They were ordered
T" to be shot. While Pan v Agua faced j
S the firing squad, expecting each sec-'
n ond to be his last, there was an up-, ~
!(* roar outside the gate and his execu-]
's tioners stopped proceedings to In-.
?r ! ,-floticrotfl When thpv rpfnrned Pan
ie y Agua was gone. He went home
ie and started another revolution.
a" "He showed up at the conference!
a" with a good report. That is the kind
of persistency and stoicism American!
soldiers would meet in warfare in
s" Mexico," said Bishop McConnell.
in
;r Most Primitive Race of Men.
n,
r- The "north pole natives" alluded
d, to by Capt. Amundsen in a recent lec-'
it ture were discovered by him while he
le was navigating his little craft, the
;o Gjoa, through the Northwest- Pasle
sage in 1903-07. He christened them
i- "Nechilli," and considered them to
ie be the. most primitive race on earth.
:h No white man had ever before invad-j
to ed their icy fastness. Consequently,
rt they were ignorant of the use of iron. |
Id Their fishing instruments were long
r- spears, fashioned out of reindeer
horn. They were in short, still in!'
the stage of civilization reached byj
our ancestors of the stone age. So
cut off were they from others of their;
16
k kind that they imagined their tribe!
was the only one in the world, and
r" displayed the utmost astonishment
' when told of populous countries far
to the south where neither ice nor
~ snow was. The Gjoa and her crewj
they thought to have dropped from
S the moon and the first Nechilli to
s come aboard felt the deck, masts,
^ boats, oars all the while whispering;
to one another in amazement: "How
k much wood there is in the moon?
how very much."?London Standard.
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