THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913.
PAGE THREE
PLANS TRIP FROM
EARTH TO
Parisian Engineer Tells How
It Gould Be Made.
WOULD USE A CLOSED VESSEL
M. Peltorie Asserts by Soientifio Fig
ures That Object Could Bo Projected
Through Ether Like Skyrocket and
Journey to Other Planet Mado In
Forty-olght Hours.
A stir -was caused by a paper read
recently before- tho members of tho
French Physical society, In Paris, bj
Robert Esnault Pelterle, the brilliant
young cnKliieei, on how to get from
the earth to the moon In forty-eight
hours.
M. Peltorie Insists that his idea Is
practicable, based on scientific calcu
lations, and not reminiscent of Jules
Verne's romance.
The vehicle for the first travelers to
the moon will, he says, be a closed
vossel of extreme lightness, provided
with a motor of great power, a com
bination which the astonishing ad
vances of locomotion during the past
100 years brings well into sight.
Since there Is no atmosphere in the
space between our plr.not and the
moon no system of propellers would be
of any use. and the only possible
means of driving tho vehlclo forward
would be an adaptation of tho rocket
principle, which, he says, works as
well In a vacuum as In air.
To Use Rocket Device.
The motor then would work a kind
of continuous rocket, and M. Peltorie
has made calculations of Just how
much power tho engine must havo to
carry tho vehicle along the 240,000 odd
miles between the earth and its satel
lite. For a vehlclo weighing ono ton the
motor would havo to be of 414,000
horsepower. For added weight the
horsepower must be proportionately in
creased. When this combination was
realized the journey would bo divided
into three parts. Tho first would be
to drive the vehicle with increasing
speed until tho sphere of tho earth's
attraction was passed. During the sec
ond the vehicle would continue its
journey by Inertia until It reachod the
point where the moon's attraction be
gan, while tho third would be tho sim
ple matter of dropping on to tho let
ter's surface, no motive force being
necessary.
Trip In Threo Periods.
The first of these phases, according
to the lecturer, would last twenty-four
minutes and nine seconds, the second
phase forty-eight hours and five min
utes and tho third three minutes and
forty-six seconds, giving a total of
forty-nine hours, seventeen minutes
and fifty-five seconds.
During the first 4,000 miles, he says,
tho passengers would have the sensa
tion of weighing one-tenth more than
usual, but afterward they would cease
to weigh at nil and have the sensation
of falling indefinitely into space.
To remedy the bad physical effects
which might result from these phe
nomena special appliances, saya M.
Pelterle, might be installed.
STAMPS OF CZAR CAUSE STIR.
Emperor's Portrait Deemed Too Sacred
For Postage Stickers.
Philatelists will be concerned to
learn that the new Russian stamps
bearing the likeness of the czar aro to
bo withdrawn at the closo of the cur
rent year. Tho reason Is that the
stamp bears on Its face rather an efflgy
than a proper likeness of tho reigning
sovereign and Is considered a degrada
tion of the august dignity and sanctlt
of the reigning monarch and an offense
to tho sacred memory of his Illustrious
predecessors.
Twenty archbishops of tho state
fiiiiri'ii 1 11 vh iirwii mini ii iumiikiii 111
T. 1. 1 1 r1 J.Ii.l J-
tho holy synod protesting against tho
use of tlie imperial portraits on these
ctnmno n-li I r 1 nrn con ml In nnmnmfn
oration or tuo tnreo hundredth nnni-
manoff dynasty.
Postofllco employes have also for
warded to tho general postofllce at St
Petersburg a petition in which they
declared that they regard their duty
of obliterating tho commemorative
stamps as a repellent form of lese maj
estv. AERIAL POSTMAN'S BAD LUCK.
Harry Jones Takes Fifty-three Days to
Go From Boston to New York.
It required fifty-three days for Avia
tor Ilenry M. Jones, first aerial post
man, to carry mall from Doston to
Now York, nnd oven then ho had to
complete the Journey by train.
Jones arrived at tho general post
office In New York recently with a
mall bag containing sixty letters and
a dozen parcels. lie had gone by
train from Rye, N. Y., where his aero
plane finally collapsed after having
met with many accidents since tho
start was made from Boston Jan. 10.
Postmaster Mansfield of Boston gave
Jones a crock of genuine Boston baked
beans for Postmaster Morgan of New
York. Jones handed the empty crock
to Mr, Morgan, explaining that the
beans bad soured and been thrown
away on the protracted trip.
PENNSYLVANIA D. A. R. REGENT
FOR. EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
At tho Convention of tho Pennsyl
vania Daughters of the American
Revolution hold in Philadelphia on
May 1st, Mrs. Louise K. Keay, tho
Regent of tho Pennsylvania Society
in referring to woman suffrage said,
" This reform has become essential
to good government In this country.
It is time for American women to
cease frivolities and take a more
active part in tho world's work."
The Pennsylvania Senator who
thought ho had scored a hit against
Votes for Women by asking "how
would you like your wifo to go to
tho polls and be approached by some
woman who had led a prostitute
life?" found something of a boomer
ang in the reply of Senator Powell,
"I resent tho Imputation that the
women of this State aro afraid to
talk to a prostitute at the polls. I
want to say that thoy would very
much prefer to talk to them at the
polls than havo their husbands talk
to them in houses licensed by men
for tho purpose."
The Pittsburg Leader in comment
ing editorially on the great Suffrage
parade in New York on May 3rd,
says: "Men are looking more at
women now as fellow human beings
with the same social and industrial
and economic problems to solve as
themselves, rather than as women,
as representatives of their sex.
Men are coming to see more every
day that their interests as men, as
representatives of a sex, are less Im
portant, reach to a less distanco,
than their interests as human be
ings. It is this view, broadening stead
ily, that has driven so many men in
to the active propaganda for woman
suffrage.
Tho Pennsylvania Woman Suf
frage Association has been invited
to send a speaker to the Annual
Convention of the Pennsylvania Fed
eration of Labor to be held in Read
ing on May 13th.
A suffrage speaker has been a
feature of Federation's Convention
for a number of years and the con
vention has enthusiastically endors
ed Votes for Women.
Pennsylvania makes the 11th.
State this year where both houses
of the Legislature have given major
ity votes in favor of submitting a
constitutional amendment enfran
chising women. And yet the Antis
say "It Is adying cause." Whoso
cause!
Miss Margaret Wilson, eldest
daughter of tho President is "very
much in favor of woman suffrage,"
She said so at the reception given
her at the Greenwich village social
centre in public school 41, New York
Miss Jessie Wilson has been an
avowed suffragist for some time. The
gospel seems to be making headway
in the Wilson family.
Cardinal Gibbons has announced
that tho Catholic church takes no
stand either for or against votes for
women, and that his own opposition
to woman suffrage represents mere
ly his personal opinion.
The late Cardinal Moran who had
watched Equal Suffrage in operation
for ten years believed it a tremend
ous power for good.
AVILD PIGEONS SEEN.
A pair of wild pigeons was dis
covered in the woods near Allentown
a few days ago by a woodsman, who
in his younger days trapped and shot
thousands of these birds. For some
years ornithologists have been put
ting up a cry of distress over the
extinction of tho American wild pig
eon. The wild pigeon was onco so num
erous in Wayne county that it was
one of the chief delights of the
sportsman, and it formed in the
colonial days and even as late as
18C0 a not inconsiderable article of
food. Even 30 years ago It was very
numerous on the West Branch, in
Potter county, as many Tioga county
sportsmen well remember. Within
the last two years an enthusiast offer
ed a reward of $5,000 for a pair of
wild pigeons.
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
Farmers and Me
chanics Bank,
OF HONESDALE. WAYNE COUNTY. PA
at the closo ot business, may 1. 1013.
RESOURCES.
Reserve fund , $
Cash, specie and notes, $13,7Ui 00
Due from approved ro-
, servo nsents $10,530 0133,200 01
Mckcls, cents and fractional
currency 210 17
Checks and otner cash Items 1,021 01
Duo from banks and trust com- w
panles not reserve '
Hills discounted : Upon ono name 10,700 00
" " Upon two or...
more names 113,151 53
Time loans with collateral 26,701 E0
lxans on call with collateral 33.K7H 88
Loans on call upon one name 350 00
Loans on call upon two or more
names 28.C27 10
Loans secured by bonds and mort
gages 7,371 00
Bonds. Stocks, etc.. Schedule D.. . . 78. 003 00
Mortgages and Judgments of record
Schedule I)-2 05.073 00
OMce Jlulldlni: and Lot 18.MX) 00
Other Keal Estato $1,102 18
I'urimurcununxiures z.uuu no
Overdrafts
Miscellaneous assets
$ 151.001 10
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in $ 75.000 00
Surplus Fund 20.000 00
Undivided Profits, less expenses
and taxes paid., 0,075 85
Deposits, subject to check $70,180 20
Individual deposits, Time 270,728 31
Cashier's checks outstand'g 10.02-316,928 C5
$151,001 40
8tate ot Pennsylvania. County ot Wayne ss.
I, C. A. Emery, Cashier ot the above named
compan) do solemnly swear that the above
statement Is true to the best of my knowledge
and bellel,
C, A. EMEKY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
8tn day of May. 1813.
My commission expires Jan. 19, 1915
. Kena 8, Kdqett.N, P.
Correct attest:
M. E. Simons, )
J.B.Broww, S-DIrectors. ,
M.J. Hamlak, I 37w
ELECTRICITY WILL
TERRORS OF
I To Be Used by MacMillan
; Expedition For Cooking,
Heating and Lighting.
LANS for tho exploration of
Crocker Land, which was sight
ed by Admiral Peary from Capo
Thomas Hubbard in 1000, are
rapidly ncarlng completion. When tho
MncMllIau expedition sails In July it
will carry tho most complete and mod
ern equipment ever taken into tho po
lar regions. A seismograph and n com
plete wireless outfit will bo Included
and apparatus for electric lighting,
electric cooking nnd electric heating
also will be taken.
It is proposed by members of tho ex
pedition to establish a seismograph sta
tion at the home headquarters on the
shore of Flagler bay, which will bo in
charge of Ensign Fitzhugh Green,
U. S. N.
The object of the expedition Is to
discover nnd explore tho unknown
area north of the present map of tho
arctic regions and, if conditions aro fa
vorable, to penetrate tho Greeland Ice
cap.
When the expedition was first plan
ned Donald B. MncMIUan was a co
leader with the late George Borup,
whose death by drowning about a year
ago off Crescent Beach, Conn., caused
a temporary delay of ths starting of
the party.
According to Peary, who was accom
panied by Messrs. MacMillan nnd Bo
rup on his dash to the north pole: "Of
unexplored regions in the north there
are remaining but two of first Impor
tance, the inland ice cap of Greenland
and the area represented by the largo
blank space on tho map bounded by
Bering strait, the pole, tho western
border of the Arctic nrchipelago and
the known open sea north of Siberia.
The theories of tho coastal experts
have It that within this region lies an
undiscovered arctic continent or a se
ries of large islands, tho whole not
greatly distant from Banks island,
Prince Tatrlck Island and Grant Land
(tho western limit of tlie Arctic archi
pelago), while tradition among tho Es
kimos strengthens tho theories In fix
ing the southern edge of the unknown
land not far north from Point Barrow
and America."
Funds Contributed.
Several thousand dollars have recent
ly been contributed to the expedition
fund. The American Geographical so
ciety has ndded $3,000 to Its previous
subscription of $0,000, nnd Zenas
Crane has increased his subscription
by ?2,500. Other subscriptions include
$1,000 from George B. French and $100
from Colonel D. L. Bralnard. Tho
University of Illinois has mado an ap
propriation which provides for tho ad
dition to the party of an expert zoolo
gist. Dr. M. O. Tanquary, a graduate
of the university.
It is also proposed to establish a
moteorological station on .Bachc penin
sula. This equipment will bo provided
by tho weather bureau. MacMillan
has known tho hardships of tho polar
regions and has voyaged off tho coast
of Labrador in an open canoo studying
the Eskimos of that country.
By moans of the giant wireless mem
bers of the expedition, which will
spend three years exploring and map
ping tho land far to tho northwest of
Canada, expect to be able to report
dally progress of tho work to Now
York city to be able to "talk" to the
Museum of Natural History, father of
the quest, and to their families and
friends during tho long absenco in the
arctic wastes.
Tho wireless calls sent out from ex
pedition headquarters in Flagler bay,
Ellesmere Land, will bo picked up by
tho big Canadian government station
at Wostenholmo island, 1,100 mllos dis
tant in Hudson strait, and thence will
be relayed via Port Nelson and other
stations to New York.
In addition to tho hugo wireless
plant which will be established to con
nect tho arctic with the United States,
sledges used by members of tho ex
pedition In exploring tho polar wastes
will be equipped with portablo wire
less outfits that at any time can bo set
up and put into communication with
the main station at headquarters on
Flagler bay. In this way scouting
INDIAN IS MOTOR EXPERT.
Long Time Sleep Is Wide Awake When
It Comos to Autos.
Long Time Sleep, a wealthy Indian
of tho Glacier National Park reserva
tion, Mont, joined the American Auto
mobile association at a recent meeting
of motorists held In tho Minneapolis
Commercial club, and ho will enter his
car In tho national reliability run
which starts from Minneapolis July 11
and ends at the eastern gateway to
Glacier National park July 10. Tho
tour covers about 1,200 miles. This Is
the first Instance on record of an In
dian joining the American Automobile
association.
Long Time Sleep enjoys tho distinc
tion of being tho most fluent "talker"
in the universal sign languago of tho
American Indian's. He is of tho Fo
lgan nation and does not speak a word
of English. Ho is an expert handler
Of the automobile and turn enjoyed
motoring with his Indian friends In
tho new Notional park.
BANISH THI
THE ARCTIC NIGHT
i
Giant Wireless Station Will
Keep Explorers In Touch I
With Civilization.
parties and tho sledges that make the
dash across the frozen sea for Crocker
Lund will always be within "talking"
distance with the base of supplies. ..
Had Captain Scott, tho ill fated Eng
lish antarctic explorer, been equipped
with such portable wireless and a big
receiving station nt his base of sup
plies he could have sent for aid when
lie and his heroic companions were
trapped in a blizzard on the great
Ice barrier.
Hopes to Grow Vegetables.
In addition to the wireless, Mr. Mac
Millan has several other innovations in
arctic work he will put into operation
on his Crocker Land search.
He hopes to grow fresh vegetables
In hothouses by tho aid of burning
glasses which will be brought to focus
on the sheltered plants during tho sum
mer season, when the sun is visible.
Scurvy is ono of tho chief enemies
he expects to encounter, and he hopes
that if ho is successful in raising fresh
vegetables during the period while the
sun Is up ho will be nblo to hold at
bay this grim vlsaged specter of the
deep arctic silences.
Then, too, bo may take with him a
Great South bay scooter, the first of
her genus to invade tho arctic circle.
Tho scooter Is an amphibious craft,
native of tho Great South bay of Long
Island. She Is built like a boat, but
equipped with runners on the bottom,
nnd goes as well on the water as on
ice. On smooth ice the scooter sails at
tho speed of sixty miles an hour nnd
in the wnter at tho speed of a regula
tion sailboat.
The trip MacMillan and six comrades
will make is bolloved to be one of tho
most perilous that could have been se
lected. The safety of tho expedition
depends wholly upon the consistency
and duration of tho winter ice in tho
polar sen, and thoso who have spent
much of their lives in the far north
havo lonrned that polar sen ice is an
uncertain quantity on which to pin life.
Briefly, the plan of the expedition is
to push north, with several stops for
tho last supplies, until Cape York,
Greenland, Is reached about Aug. 1.
From there tho party will proceed to
Flagler bay, Ellesmere Land, where the
headquarters camp will be built.
Tlie ship will return to New York,
and the seven members of tho explor
ing party will sot about preparing for
the long, dark winter.
Some of tho party will then push
north through the mountains of Elles
mere Land into Eureka sound and
through Nansen strait to Cape Thomas
Hubbard, tho point from which Peary
saw the dim outline of Crocker Land
northwestward across tho polar sea.
Moon Will Help.
"We hope to reach tho capo before
tho winter night shuts us in," Mr. Mac
Millan said recently. "All along tlie
300 mile trail between our headquarters
and tho cape wo will have made caches
of food for our return Journey. Then
when the night sots In we will wait for
the moon, and with its help we will re
turn to headquarters on Flagler bay,
where wo will wait for spring and the
time for us to start on our dash for
Crockor Land.
"All winter in camp, while we are
waiting for this time to arrive, we ex
pect to bo comfortable, for we will have
electric lights from a power plant spe
cially constructed, and we will be busy
collecting food for tho next two or
throe years' work. Then there will be
tho wireless to occupy us and the gar
dening with the reflecting glasses,
which I hope to experiment with.
"It is my belief that we can grow
radishes and somo few other vegeta
bles, such perhaps as Swiss chard, un
der glass that Is heated with reflecting
glasses, though I am by no means cer
tain. Tho first year we will bo in no
danger of scurvy, but after that it is
always well to prepare for Inroads by
the disease. I do not think we shall
be troubled, however, for fresh meat is
a preventive. Tho Eskimos, who have
plenty of fresh meat, never havo
scurry, and we expect to kill plenty
of polar bear and musk ox."
CIRCLING GLOBE IN BARREL
Venice Blacksmiths Making Freak
Journey on Wager.
Thero seems to be no limit to th'o
foolish things somo people will do for
tho sake of a wager. Early In 1010 two
Venetian brothers named Vianello,
blacksmiths by trade, made a bet that
they would travel around the world in
a barrel.
During tho month of Juno they duly
set out from Venice and later arrived
nt Berlin, where thoy received' an en
Ihuslastic reception. Tho barrel was of
special construction, open at the end
and having a "perch" inside so con
structed as to remain always upright.
On this one brother elts while tho other
trundles the barrel along. Food Is
stored along tho sides, and at night, if
no other shelter is available, both
brothers sleep In their queer rolling
home.
They estimate that the trip around
the world will occupy at least twelve
years.
A Few Honest Pointers
In Regard toTnint.
When you go into a storo and ask
for paint don't be misled If the pro
prietor or the clerk begins to sell you
paint by weight. Don't bo fooled be
cause the greatest weight does not
always mean the greatest value, for
Instance green and dark colored
paint do not carry as much white
lead, as whlto and light colored
paints, therefore, if your dealer
weighs up a gallon of his competi
tor's paint, say green or some dark
colored paint, surely it will not weigh
as much as a gallon of his white
paint. Then again there Is a way of
making a gallon of paint weigh
heavy without much cost, but we
hope no dealer In Honesdale sells
this kind; a paint that is adulterated
with Barytes, which costs about $20
per ton while pure white lead is
worth about $160 per ton, but tho
Barytes has very little if any cover
ing capacity, although It Is heavy and
very white. Theso are only a few
facts that everybody should know. If
you want an absolutely guaranteed
paint a paint that ono gallon will
cover 300 square feet, two coats
and a paint that will be cheap In the
long run, you will surely make no
mlstako If you buy DEVOE. Erk
Bros, aro agents at Honesdale, Pa.
34eoltf.
The Bell Telephone
"Brings Them Running"
In times of peril or less urgent need, the briefest
message by Bell Telephone gets action gets results,
regardless of the issue or your requirement of the
moment.
Any hour, any day, the necessity may arise when
you'll regret that you have so long neglected to order
a Bell Telephone.
Call the Business Office, without charge, from the
acarest telephone.
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HONESDALE, PA..
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BECAUSE of our TOTAL ASSETS of $3,000,000.00.
BECAUSE GOOD MANAGEMENT has made us the
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BECAUSE of theso reasons we confidently ask you to
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whether their account is LARGE or SMALL.
INTEREST allowed from the FIRST of ANY
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TENTH of tho month.
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