TirE CITIZKN, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 1011.
PAQI3 8
GREAT GROWTH
OF THE NAVY,
Since the Columbian and tlie
Dewey Parades.
SHOWN BY REGENT REVIEW,
A Fleet of Twelve Warships In 1893 os
Against 102 In the Line Which Pass
ed Before President Taft at New
York Mobilization.
It la most surprising us well as In
teresting nnd instructive to compare
the great assemblage of 102 ships
Which recently was reviewed In the
Hudson river by President Taft with
former reviews, such as that held In
celebration of Admiral Dewey's return
In tho Olympla, his flagship, In 1S9!
tin I nfVinM winmnwn I.Ta nntnn In
April, 1893, which marked tho Colunv
reviews maUe n comparison of Amcrl
cud nuvui SLrUUUUl UUIUIU W111U1J
astounding and highly satisfying to
many enthusiasts.
It shows that for tho Columbian eel
ebratlon, to which nil tho great pow-
of twelve ships, tho flagship being. Un
protected cruiser Philadelphia Rem
Admiral Ghernrdi, and including th"
protected cruisers Chicago, Atlanta
nu loruiown ana mo dynamite cruin-
The American ships in this review
wpro rrrpntlv niitniimhprivl hv tlip lotnl
ent. Tho comparison of this dozen r'
show of battleships, to say nothing i "
uju iuiki; cruisers auu ouiur yussl-is d,
tbo Inst eighteen years.
Rut the little Araerlcaii fleet vliWi
iTPKHlpnr filovplnnrl r:iw nr. tho timn
Rspmnimi in tun ininnnn. -i nn i n
Boston, formed the famous VhI'o
,nn f 1 cor - .1 . . 1 - i !,,..
lino rn h nw mir iMifr nan en m m: winr
nr ( Snm wnc flrmirr in ( in tvn v nr
-Uila 11 UULIIIII U1UULT11 WUISL11IJS.
These vessels were built at the yard
he four. Tho Phlttiiro. whleh wns ihn
iiil'cmi. III i :iiki THUS f I 1 SI 1 1 1 1 f I 1 1 1 1 II I
jur mum uiiLLurv hud iiiiu luur eium-
nnii mins nnn pip nr r t. inn itiiiir.
C1U Ul OiUUU utu-u
Very smnll iudced would these ship:"
1UV I J111KHM 1 jri'lllirillllUIlIN. W II It'll II I I
j50 feet long and of 22,000 tons dls-
The Dewey parade, a little more than
dx years after tho Columbian review,
itrides in naval construction. In fnot.
other chesty. But even tho show!".
uado In '03. when President McKln'.e;
eviewecl the ships, seems mease
if tho present fleet.
As a squadron of welcome to Ad
nlral Dewey thero lay off Tompkins-
intin nnrf Mnaannlmcnf fa trir. Gnnfin,
lass battleship Texas and the ar
norcd cruiser Brooklyn, nil of these
essels having been In tho Santiago
icui. .iso in me review wnicn rn -
owed wore tho Chicago of vrhlvi
ither gunboats und half a dozen of our
irst tornedo boats. This fleet, which
volcomes the hero of Manila, repro
ented a great part of our naval
treugth at thu Spanish war stage,
md In comparison it made the fleet
I1M.
The Grant monument review c'
nrll. 181)7. was mnde un of a cool
uany or tuo snips tuat appeareu in t'!'
5owey celebration. In tho ITudson
'"ulton festivities of two years ago a
orooast was given of what might bo
tone in tho wav of mobilizing n b!c
vmerlcan fleet. But tho total number
f American ships In that review wa3
nly about a third of tho number In
he recent one.
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nexoocted Kesults From Experiments
by the Government.
Experiments conducted by Dr. A. K.
urvey in tho trapping and poisoning
f English sparrows have developed
nnxnecieu results. Tnn povprnmpiir
dentists havo established tho fact
IV II I.U L H UUHL'IVUUUU IIJML Hlllli ril VS
ling to 'prescribed localities and that
n entire space can bo trapped clear
0 . I.
The extensive grounds of tho agrl
ulturnl department, In tho heart of
Vushlngton, have been practically
nf'KN nr rnn niriiM ruiiifH uu mill imwii
be streets that bound tho depart
aont's park. It is tho belief of the
lsed cheap enough to be universally
ERS FIRST
0
TIE ATLANTIC
Took Him 49 Days, but He
Says the Trip Can Be
Made In 30.
WITH his descent at rasadonn,
a suburb of Los Angeles,
Cal., Calbralth P. Itodgctd
ended the first coast to coast
aeroplnno flight and established the
greatest cross country record in the
history of aviation. Itodgers started
from Sbeepshe&d Bay race track, New
York, for tho raciflc coast on Sept. 17,
nnd has covered 4,2,11 miles, which
more than triples the previous -world's
record of 1,205 miles made by Harry
N. Atwood In his St. Imls to New
York flight. Ills Journey to tho coast
was full of accidents in which his life
was endangered several times, and
weather conditions and delays pre
vented liini from winning the William
II. Hearst prlzo of $50,000, for which
he originally started as a competitor.
Uodgers mnde several flights of over
200 miles a day. Ho covered the great
est number of miles on Oct. 14, when
he flow from Kansas City to Vanlta.
Okla., 250 miles. The flight was made
with stops nt Moran and Russell creek,
where he took on a supply of gasoline
and oil. His longest flight without a
stop was made on Nov. 3, when he
flew from Stovall to imperial Junction.
Cal., 133 miles.
Eodgers an Athlete.
Rodgers is one of the tallest aviators
in tho world, standing six feet four
inches in height. He is a member of
the New York Yacht club, played on
the Columbia and Virginia university
football teams and made n motor cycle
trip from Buffalo to New York iu u
day. He won tho duration prize rtur
ing the Chicago nviatlon meet in Au
gust. Rodgers started on his long flight on
Sept. 17 from Sheepshead bay ut 4:23
p. m. and made his first stop at Mid
dletown at C:18 p. in., covering tin;
eighty miles in one hour and fifty-three
seconds. He might have made bettor
time on his first day's journey, but he
became confused by the railroad tracks
at Greycourt, N. J., and had flown off
his mapped out route for some distance
before he discovered his mistake. He
was up early the following morning,
intent on making tho longest one day
flight ever made, but met with his first
accident, when, at n height of twenty
feet, ono of his planes struck a tree,
which threw him out of his course, and
ho crashed full speed Into another tree.
The branches of tho tree partly broke
tho force of his fall, but his machine
was almost completely wrecked. The
next three days were spent in making
repairs, and he was able to resume his
flight on Sept 21.
With a favorable wind he left Mid
dletown, and, nfter covering n distance
of ninety-six miles in slxry-nlno miu
utes, ho had to descend at Hancock be
cause of engine trouble. An approach
ing storm forced him to abandon his
trip for tho day. Ho had better luck
on the 22d, reaching Elmlra after cov
ering 172 miles during tho day. On
the 23d ho was compelled to land at
Canlsteo, fifty miles further, becauie
of engine trouble. In making his de
scent toward what he thought was
farm land ho landed in a swamp so
heavily that the lower part of his bi
plane was smashed.
Crashes Into a Wire Fence.
He was able to continue his flight on
the 24th, however, but again met with
an accident at Red House, near Sala
manca, after a ninety-nine mile flight.
He alighted near Red House to repair
a spark plug which bothered hlra, and
after tuning up he took his seat for u
fresh start. Tho uneven surface of
tho ground and tho peculiar slant of
tho wind bore down on tho plane3 of
his machine, and he crashed into a
doublo line of barbed wire fence. Both
propeller blades were shattered and
ono wing was torn to ribbons, but Rod
gers escaped without a scratch.
Repairs and a storm prevented a
flight for tho next three days, but on
tho 28th he reached Kent, O., with u
flight of 204 miles. Another storm on
the 20th kept tho machine on the
ground and on tho 30th ho flew nlnety
flve miles, landing at RIvarre, Ind.,
near Decatur. Ho battled with three
violent rainstorms on Oct. 1, in which
his llfo was endangered several times,
but managed to reach Huntington,
Ind., thirty-six miles away.
Rodgers came to grief on Oct. 2
while attempting to make a test flight
at nuntlngton before resuming his
coast to coast trip. His biplane crash
ed into a sharp rise in tho ground
when he tried to dodgo some telephone
wiros, a swift wind preventing him
from gaining any altitude and forc
ing him to pass under tho wires. The
accident delayed him tho next two
days, and on Oct. 5 ho was again on
his way, reaching Hammond, Ind., nnd
bringing him 123 miles nearer Chicago.
Rodgers had planned to cross the
stato lino from Hammond to Grant
Park, 111,, but weather conditions
forced him to postpone the attempt.
It was not until Oct. 8 that he was
ablo to make tho flight which carried
him Into Chicago and 1,100 miles from
his starting point in New York. Up
to that time he had covered tho 1,100
miles in a total flylug time of 21 hours
and 58 minutes. Later in the day he
10 FLY
F9
TO IF PACIFIC
His Life Often In Peril In
Journey of 4,231 Miles
In Air.
from Chicago, increasing his total dis
tance from New York to 1,234 miles.
He was able to reach Springfield on
Oct. 0 after covering the distance from
Joliet In eight hours, including stops at
Strcator, Peoria and Mlddletown. Oct.
10 saw Rodgers at Marshall, Mo., aft
er a flight of 214 miles. In this flight
ho broke the world's record for a cro-w
country aeroplane flight by 133 miles.
The previous world's record of 1,205
miles was made by Harry N. Atwood
in his St. Louis to New York nir jour
ney, which ended on Aug. 25. Up to
this tltne Rodgers had flown 1.308
miles.
At the Halfway Point.
A flight of eighty-four miles landed
hlni in Swopo park, Kansas City. Mo..
the following day and brought hiiu
halfway iu his flight to the coast. A
heavy fog prevented a flight until Oct.
14, when he reached Vanlta, Okln., 230
miles from Kansas City, leaving him
1,300 miles still to go to reach Los An
geles. Bad weather held him back on
Oct. 15, and on tho 10th he was forced
to descend nt McAlester, Okla., owing
to engine trouble after covering 127
miles, and lie had to postpone his at
tempt to reach Fort Worth, Tex., on
tho same day. With a flight of 101
miles on Oct. 17 he reached Fort
Worth, and a thirty mile flight brought
him to Dallas, where he gavo an ex
hibition at the Texas State fair.
In his 100 mile flight to Waco on
Oct. 10. which he covered in ninety
five minutes, Itodgers had a race with
a big eagle, which followed him for
twenty miles at express speed nnd
nearly 1.000 feet below him.
The timely discovery of damage to
the rudder wires of his machine prob
nbly saved his life nnd delayed his de
parture from Waco a few hours. lie
descended at Austin on Oct. 20. A se
vere storm held him back on the 21st,
and he reached San Antonio on Oct. 22
after a flight of eighty-eight miles, in
which he had a race with two express
trains, overtaking both of them, nis
arrival in San Antonio made his total
distance covered since leaving New
York 1,789 miles.
Oct. 23 was spent iu having the aero
plane overhauled and rewired, some of
the parts having been worn through.
A flight of 132 miles brought him to
Spofford on Oct. 24, and he reached
Sand., .-son on Oct. 20 with a flight of
ICS miles. High winds prevented Rods
crs from leaving Sanderson on the
27th, but he got up early on the follow
ing morning with tho intention of mak
ing El Paso, 312 miles. At the very
start ho crashed into a fence when u
current of air struck his rudder, throw
ing him around and causing him to
lose control of the machine. Tho acci
dent delayed him almost three hours.
He remounted his machine, but after
Ave hours' flying he found that ho
could not reach El Paso and descended
at Sierrn Blanca, n 222 mile flight from
Sanderson.
Meets Fowler on Way East.
His flight to El Paso on tho 20th. was
delayed by more engine trouble, forc
ing him to descend near Fort Hnncock
to make repairs, no resumed his flight
and reached El Paso on tho same day,
ninety miles from Sierra Blanca. Rodg
ers laid up in El Pnso on tho 30th nnd
tho following 'day reached Willcox,
Ariz., n flight of 222 miles, with stops
at Deming and Lordsburg. nis en
trance into the latter town broke up n
circus performance, tho people nnd
performers gnthcrlng around him. On
Nov. l h'o stopped at Tucson, Ariz.,
where he exchanged greetings with
Robert G. Fowler, the other transcon
tinental aviator, who is flying east, nnd
continued his journey to Maricopa, hav
ing covered 177 miles during the day.
In many of the western towns Rod
gers had been greatly disturbed by
having the people gathered in the
landing places picked out for him,
making it difficult for him to land.
The lack of polico protection nt Phoe
nix and with tho people scattered nil
over the landing place prevented him
from making his landing, and ho was
compelled to fly to another part of tho
town. Ho took on a supply of gaso
line and oil and started off once more,
landing at Stovall, 108 miles from
Phoenix. Stovall, a tank station,
proved to bo tho best landing place ho
had encountered since leaving Now
York. The villages In that part of
tho country are about 100 miles apart,
and as ho Innded in a desert alongsldo
tho railroad tracks not n person ap
peared to greet him.
Rodgers decided to make Colton on
Nov. 3 nnd from thero fly to Los
Angeles and end his transcontinental
flight, as it is on tho coast, no left
Stovall on Nov. 3, but had to make a
landing at Imperial Junction, Cnl be
cause of motor trouble. The distance
between Stovall and Imperial Junction
is 133 miles, and ho covered the dis
tance in 125 minutes. It was also tho
longest single flight he has rando with
out having to mnko n landing for gas
oline. His arrival at Imperial Junc
tion left him 107 miles to go to reach
Los Angeles. On Nov. 4 ho reached
Bornlng, 100 miles nearer his goal,
and it was from thero that he flew on
Nov 5 to the end of his iournev.
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An Unusual Honor
For Miss Langford.
MIS IltENB LANGl'Onn.
Moving picture shows are a popular
form of amusement that appeal alike
to both juvenile and grownup audi
ences. But on account of the often
meretricious character of these shows
many parents have forbidden their
young children from frequenting these
places of entertainment.
Now this ban of disapproval may be
safely lifted for recently n board of
censors has been appointed to pas?
upon the moral nnd educational view
point of the picture piny, and not a
film can be used by nny manager with
out the stamp of Its approval.
In lino with woman's activities in all
branches of civic work Miss Irene
Langford of New' York city, a grand
opera singer, who has always been in
terested in stage uplift movements,
has been appointed a member of the
rensors' board.
This unusual honor came about at a
meeting of the board ut which Mls3
Langford was an invited guest. At
this meeting tho question of allowing
Alms to be made, depicting the life of
Beulah Binford, was raised. Miss
Langford protested on behalf of the
profession. The feeling aroused by
her vigorous words put an end to the
aspirations of the girl's manager.
To Miss Irene Langford, too, belongs
the honor of being the first woman to
make a deposit in the first postal sav
ings bank that opened Its doors to tho
public in Now York city last spring.
Suppressing the Grandmother.
Happy in having placed tho fathers
under control, the next great step tak
en by the promoters of the automatic
baby was tho formation of the "So
ciety For tho Suppression of Grand
mothers," according to Ells Parker
Butler's article in Success Magazine.
Tho grandmother is tho greatest ene
my of the sterilized, unrocked, un
klssed, uncuddlcd baby. Tho adaman
the stubbornness of a grandmother Is
almost beyond belief. She will kiss
the child! Regardless of germs, mi
crobes. Infusoria and rules, sho will
take the little cuddly thing in her
arms, hug it up tight -with cooing
words and kiss it right on the mouth
too!
Tho members of tho society had to
be exceedingly firm with tho grand
mothers. "Mother," the member would say,
"please do not kiss tho child on tho
mouth!"
"Very well, very well!" the grand
mother would say, Just a little huffed.
"But I am sure, my dear, I kissed
you on the mouth a million times
when you were a baby, and you seem
nono the worso for it."
"I prefer, mother, not to have my
baby kissed on the mouth."
"All rlghty, Mttle baby," tho grand
mother would say, patting the baby
on the cheek, "grnndma can kiss the
pretty 'ittle footsies!"
"Please, please, mother," the mem
ber would say appeallngly, "please do
not kiss baby on the foot! Baby
might put her foot in Ucr mouth after
wardl"
"Well," the grandmother would say,
pulling her shawl over her shoulders
and arising with tears in her foolish
old eyes, "I see this is no place for a
grandmother. Goodby, baby; I am not
wanted here."
"Goodness! Goodness!" the member
would exclaim as she washed out the
baby's mouth with an antiseptic nfter
tho grandmother had gone. "Mother
Is so old fashioned!"
A Millinery Hint.
Largo black velvet hats stretched
over stiff frames are trimmed with
what looks like nothing more nor less
than the fat, chunky cord nnd tassel
of a bath gown. Made of tho plainest,
softest white wool yarn, the cord goes
around the crown once nnd Is tied in
n knot nt one side, the ends finishing
with a tassel. The cord from one's
brother's dressing gown would trim
half a dozen hats, provided he did
not miss it and one did not grow tired
of an abundance of this kind of trim
ming, To clever people almost everything is
laughable, to wise people hardly any
thine. GoaUir.
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NOTICE PUBLIC SALE OF PER
SONAL PROPERTY.
There will bo a public sale of eight
maplo logs on Saturday, tho eigh
teenth day of November, 1911, at
two o'clock p. m at tho Wlnwood
station of tho New York, Ontario and
Western Railway Company, at Win
wood, Wayno county, Pennsylvania,
by the New York, Ontario and West
ern Railway Company for freight
charges demanded nnd unpaid, costs
of salo and advertising, the said logs
being on hand, and boing consigned
by Cox and Son Co. to Daniol Le
Barr, tho samo having boon forward
ed from Bridgeton, N. J., to Wln
wood, Pa.
New York, Ontario and Western
Railway Company, By JAMES E.
BURR, Attorney. 85tC
DR. E. F. SCANLOtM,;
Only Permanent Resident Specialist In
Scranton.
TEN YEAHS' SUCCKSS IN THIS CITY.
CURING VARICOCELE
Varicocele Impairs the
vitality and destroysthe
elements ol munliuod. I
daily demonstrate ttint
Varicocele can be posi
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they are prepurved and
strengthened; pnln
censes nlmot Instantly;
swelling soon subsides;
healthy clrculiition 1 s
rapidly re-established,
and every nnrt of the
organism affected hy the
Dr. K. F. Scanlon,
Varicocele Special
ist
uisenc is inoroueniy re-
stored. A written guarantee with every case
Tnrvent. Write If you cannot call.
(.onsultntloii and examination free. Credit
enn be arranged.
Office HourB! 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.,' and 7 to
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Offlces-433 Linden St., SCRANTON, PA
(Opposite I'ostolllce.)
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in Real Kms,
Plushes and
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Separate
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In our Ladies'
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stoclc
can be found
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lip" iSP
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HONESDALE, PA.
Roll of
HONOR
AtterMon is called to tne STRENGTH
of the
Wayne County
The FINANCIER of New York
City has published a ROLL Ol
HONOR of the 11,470 State Banks
nnd TriiBt Companies of United
States. In this list the WAYNE
COUNTY SAVINGS BAN.K
Stands 38th in the United States,
Stands 1 01 ! in Pennsylvania.
Stands FIRST in Wayne County.
Capital, Surplus, $527,342.88
Total ASSETS, $2,951,048.26
Honesaaie. Fii.. December 1. into.
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