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roanipulatlfl® craft. T§i at is also W cated there in a soundpro o f apartment, complete telephone and voice-tube systems communicate with all parts of the ship. Water Is carried as ballast for the ZR-1 in bags homing from 500 to 2.000 pounds. When the ship drops too rapidly during a descent her speed can be cheeked appreciably by dumping this water overboard, treating the earth immedintely below to something approximating a young cloudburst Nothing that human in genuity can devise has been omitted and no tests have been neglected to guarantee that the ZR-1 will be is safe as any air craft that can be con stracted. It was deter mined that there should be no repetition of the ZR-2 disaster In Btagland $ such tragedies cai> be prevented A romance of science-- for science has its romancer*-- is responsible for making the ZR-1 the first really successful lighterthan- air ship. It will pot burn. Every lighterthan- alr ship before this Forty-Six Railroads Affected by Raise Given Telegraphers and Agents. * of me Stats,' 3have the Arctic Next E*N .V.Ksssjfe HTBNANDOAH, Daughter of the Stan --ZR-1--will point her head toward Polaris and Aurora Borealls in tin spring and majestically sail away into the Arctic. So says Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of tl»e bureau of aeronautics of the United States Navy department. When and where she will start and where will go--these details have not announced at this writing. Shenandoah, nevertheless, will carry with hf* the good wishes of the millions of Americans who wUl never forget the sight of Jxer in the a%. calling in majesty • over their heads--a sight ^ strongly suggestive of the supernatural even In this materialistic age surfeited with mechanical* and scientific marvels. And news by radio % l»er progress will be flrst-page news. % I Shenandoah's journey into the Arctic stlmtK lates the Imagination mightily. For the Arctic Is no less a cegion of mystery by reason of the *act that Peary "nailed Old Glory to the Poltf*-- | April 6, 1909. It Is the same region of fascinft* . tton for the adventurous that it has been sln<* the day of. Brick the Red and his Icelanders 900 years ago. The long Hst of illustrious explorer# "who have made Arctic history calls up many a" romance, many an achievement, many a tragedy. UYoblsher (1576), Davis (1585), Baffin (161«), Ross (1818), Parry (1&9), Ross (1829), Franklljl <1845), De Haven (1850), Kane (1853), Hayea (1800), Greely (1881), De Long (1878), Nordenekjold (1879), Nansen (1893) are some of these » adventurers into the Arctic. . ' It was Stefansson who taught the world that the efficient Arctic explorer could live off the country, instead of carrying his supplies. It waa ' Peary who most fully utilised the aid of the IB*' klroo. It was Wellman who planned a voyag# to the Pole In a dirigible balloon, the America. What does Admiral Moffett hope or expect Nos. 1, 2 and 0 show ?R-1 over Washington. No. 3 Js Admiral. Moffett. No. 4 is a formation of pursuit piafci* lift* ( showsthe LaMmrMt Louie route. . tlcally complete In the Zeppelin company's factories at Friedrlrhshaven, Germany, and is being made ready for Its transatlantic flight. The ZR-3 has a length oyer all of 656 feet, with • maximum width, of 90 feet and a maximum height. Including -landing buffers, of 103 feet. -Two thousand horsepower, produced i>y Are enseek to find? He did not say. He made no more!'/ :glne* made b-v the Maybach company to Frledthan the bare announcement. Possibly, like th* rest of us, he wants to press on toward the unknown* to look over the next rtdige. But It Is more likely that the commander and crew of t|( ZR-1 will have some definite quest before, theip. Is It to take possession of Wrangell island, in the n; name of the United States? Is It to discovert* unknown lands, rich In mineral treasures? Inch dentally, Capt. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, plans an expedition of three air- . planes next summer from the Spitzbergen islands across to Alaska, and he says that in the otirf million square miles of unexplored exparise be>*r' tween the North Pole and Alaska there is land, with coal and gold. Again, Knut Rasmtfssen hall •• started on a sled journey through tjie Behring strait of 3,000 miles; he expects to 4nd Eskimo who have never seen a white man. Millions of Americans have gazed in aw* andfascination ur*m the ZR-1. On her first trial trip In September from Lakehurst, N. J., she \islted New York. A little later she made a trip t» Washington circling over Mount Vernon and dipping low ijver the "Unknown Soldier's" tomb at Arlington October 3 she finished a round trip to St. Louis Navy day sha'Hjpis' to the Shenandoah valley in Virginia and retdXKfd, passing over Fhifc adelphlii, Washington and Richmond. . , *v Ccmmander J. C. Hunsacker ana Commander ; Ralph D. Weyerbacher of the Naval Oonstructioh •corps codesigners of the ZR-1. Commander Frank N. McCrary is commandant of the naval air statloi at Lakehurst. Mrs. Edwin Denby, wife of the secretary of the navy, christened the ZR-1 Shenandoah in October. A noteworthy Incident of the Lakehurat-St. Louis flight was the dropping by parachute by Commander Weyerbacker of a bouquet to his mother, as Shenandoah passed over Boonvllle, Ind. Another thing that added Interest to this crosscountry trip of Shenandoah was that the people knew Admiral Moffett was on board. His naiue Is a household word in the West for the reason, that he was in command during the World war of the Great Lakes Naval station, which turned out many thousands of efficient "gobs." Another interesting thing that the people did not know was that one of the crew is Norman O. Walker, a Texan, who was a rigger on the ZR-2 •when that giant dirigible dropped In flames into the llumber two years ago. Sixty-two of his companions perished and he was the only American survivor. He climbed up on the shell near the tail-cup and jumped into the river as tlitt wreck was about to strike the water. It was originally planned that the United State# should have three ships of the ZR-1 type. ZR-2 was purchased from the British and on her first trial flight in England met wltl a tragic end that shocked the world. ZR-3 is. at this writing, praerlchshaven, under the supervision of United States ' naval experts, will propel the airship. The ZR-3 "tontains sleeping quarters like those of a Pullman car, with a passenger cabin of six compartments, a kitchen and dining room. Twenty enlisted men can be quartered in bunks along the corridor, which runs the entire length of the airship's keel. No less than 2,500,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas, requiring 30Q tons of coal for Its production, are needed for one Ailing of the hnge bag. This gas, however, fill last for a quick, 'nonstop flight of 7,000 miles with the ship loaded ' to capacity. ) -t ' The official name of ZR-1 In "the Navy Air . service is Fleet Airship No. 1. The ZR-1 Is . truly Immense. It Is 680 feet In length. The diameter Is 79 feet. The gas capacity Is 2,115,000 cubic feet. There are 40 miles of wire In her. Jt brought down In a city street--enlarged for the occasion--she would extend nearly two ordinary city blocks and top the average eight-story ^building. The hangar, of course, Is" bigger still-- *800x250 feet and 170 feet high. It would co~er the capltol at Washington, except that the dome of the capltol would stick out about 80 feet. • The ZR-1 was built in tlfe naval aircraft factory at Philadelphia, the parts being shipped to Lakehurst, N. J., and there assembled. The ZR-1 Is driven by six engines, each of 300 horsepower, ihnd a maximum speed of 75 miles an hour can be Attained. Her cruising speed is 65 miles an hour, and folly loaded and manned the ship will be fqitfpped to fly about sixty hours, during which the should cover at least 4,000 miles. The frame of the ZR-1 Is constructed of duralumin, an alloy developed by the aircraft Industry that Is as strong as steel but only one-third as heavy. The fabric which covers this frame has been weatherproofed and rendered resistant to the Seating effects of sunlight by painting It with a innterial known as aluminum dope. Living quarters for officers and crew are situated l»n the keel inside of the hull, where a runway 000 feet long Is divided Into messing and sleeping apartments. Cooking Is done on special ntoves that are heated by the exhaust gases of the en- • fines. The Interior of the ship Is illuminated by means of detached light units energised by special batteries. Ladders lead from the living quarters to the top of the ship, where they terminate in observation platforms. * « Helium gas, which Is ttonlnflammabte. Is used "* In the new air monster. Altogether there are twenty gas cells, each one of which Is a separate tinit. These cells are made of goldt>eater's skins, obtained from the Intestines of cattle, and It took approximately 650,000 cattle to supply the skin. Suspended direcfly below the hull are the six power cars and the control car. Tbe control cat Is the nerve center of the ship, where are assembled all the operating, steering, shifting and has been as explosive as dynamite, and "many of them have burned In air. But the ZH-1 will not take fire. It is filled with nonlnftammable helium. In 1868 the astronomer Janssen was looking at an eclipse of the sun when he saw a shining id of a different color from any fire ever seen It was a cloud of red hot helium gas, floating in the sun's air. 8ir William Ramsey, a chemist, set himself to find if there was any helium on earth. After analyzing many minerals he detected minute Quantities of helium in the air and in the rocks. It was a dear, transparent gas. much lighter than air, and was remarkable because It obstinately refused to combine with any other substance. Fifteen years ago helium was so rare, even In laboratories, that tubes of It were kept In safes. .But the World war came along, and the oldfashioned hydrogen balloons were shot down In flames as fast as they could be launched. One flaming magnesium bullet could often destroy a whole gas bag. The United States government set out to find a way to prevent balloons from being fired. ta Kansas and Oklahoma there were gas wells that produced a gas that wouldn't burn. The owners of the wells thought themselves out of luck and generally let their property blow off Into the i|ir when they found, as they thought, that it had no value. Government chemists analyzed the gas and found that It contained some 4 per cent of helium. Refineries were at once boilt In Texas and the gas was liquefied with liquid air. As It condensed the helium separated and could be stored in drums. During the war helium for balloons was one of ou.* great seci+ts. The sight of Shenandoah surrounded by airplanes suggests to the thoughtful observer that the giant dirigible would be at the mercy of a fleet of hostile little flyers In time of war. Obviously llghter-than-alr craft of her type are for purposes of peace. How great will be their usefulness can only be conjectured. Admiral Moffett has said that a two-day mall service between New York and London will be Inaugurated when the ZR-3 Is in operation. Eddie Rlckenbacker, American ace, predicts that In ten years transatlantic passenger liners will be obsolete. These are two of the many predictions by men who should know whereof they speak. "Money talks," says the old saying. Apparently Am rican money is now talking in terms of dirigibles. All rights to the manufacture and sale of -Zeppelin dirigibles have been purchased by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company of Akron, O. The contract Includes the rights to manufacture all engines and other machinery controlled by the German company. The purchase price was not announced, but is said to be large. The giant air liners' will be manufactured at the Wlngfoot Late aviation field, near Akron, and at the Goodyear factories. Plans contemplat# the establishment of a 2^4- day transatlantic air service. Surveys also have been made for the establishment of a twelve-hour New York to Chicago air service. Under the peace treaty the German plants must be razed after the ZR-3 Is completed. - • The German engineers have evolved five types of Zeppelins, capable of carrying freight and fuel for long-distance flights and from thirty to one hundred passengers at the rate of 60 to 87.5 miles an hour. CAN SEC NO BEAUTY IN WOMEN -tenth .African- Natives Ham No s. Mltrd Meaning BeautlM|_ exclusively. ; ; The indifference of the African natives to human physical beauty, which practically amounts to Its total elimination as a factor in the relations between the sexes, has often been commented upon, , ' A* native whoslattention you draw to the handsome features of another native--either woman man--always responds vaguely. Indifferently, giving the Impression that he does not quite understand what you mean. It is significant that there exists in the Swahili language no word which expresses handsome or beautiful, exclusively. The word zurl, the only one used In this sense, means "good" as well as beautiful, the first Idea conveyed, when U is applied to a person being always that of moral, rather than physical, excellence. The Incongruity which often sdfe between parties forming a union almost suggests the absence of even individuality as a factor In these relations. And yet It would probably be incorrect and unjust to explain the phenomenon by the preponderance of mere brute sensuality over all finer feelings; for It cannot be denied that native* are by no means devoid of a sense of beauty. They admire It In attlinala, In flow* ers, In pictures, landscapes, and music; they have clever artists; and tbeh perception of what Is ridiculous In expression or appearance is perhaps keener than that of the average European, notwithstanding their passion for the odd ahd the baroque. One might say that their indifference to beauty Is confined exclusively to sex relations or that their esthetic sense is- in default only where theso relations eomtr Ifcte - play.--Atlantic Monthly. DBflEDJR SIX ROMS Chicago. -- Twenty-seven railroad companies, with 19 of their subsidiary lines and a large group of employees, situated In every part of the country, are affected by a decision rendered by the United States railroad labor board. This ukase orders that a series of wage increases In the pay of telegraphers, telephone operators, station agents, agent-telegraphers, towermen, levermen, tower and train directors, block operators and staffmen, employed on twenty-one of these carrier*, ranging from 2 to 5 cents an hour, be placed In effect as of November 16. At the same time -the board frowns upon the wage pleas of employees on six of the roads, but reaffirms, with or without revision, working rules of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and the Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employees. The particular carriers named In the decision are: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, no increase; Boston Terminal company, no Increase; Chicago & Western Indiana, 3 cents; Chicago Great Western, 5 cents; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, 2 cents; Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul, 2 cents; Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific subsidiaries, 2 cents; Colorado St South- 4 cents; Denver b Rio Grande Western and subsidiaries, no Increase; tiulf Coast lines and subsidiaries, 8 cents; Houston Belt ft Terminal, 8 cents; Kansas City Southern and subsidiaries, 2 cents; Lehigh Valley, 3 cents; Maine Central and subsidiaries, no increase; Seaboard Air line, no increase; Washington Terminal, 8 cents; Western Pacific, 2 cents. qnvttty if Her Finish. Tour daughter recites very weil."* the pastor's wife remarked to Mrs. Muddleby at the church social. "Yes," said Mrs. Muddleby. 'Tm goin' to give her a course In electrocution," she smiled and added, "To sorter finish her off, you know."--Boston Transcript. • Interested in Both Sidee. While the c6urt awaited the arrlvtt of the* parties to the suit, the judge turned to one of the lawyers and asked: "For which of the parties ai%" you concerned, Mr. Moriartyr* "Well, your honor, I represent tlM plaintiff, but I am concerned for tki defendant," replied Mortnrty. . ;v * *» Chicago Man Shot antf Thrown From Auto; Police Baffled Chicago.--The police are baffled by the murder of Freeman Louis Tracy, a $(500-a-month technician for the Commonwealth Edison company, whose body, bullet-drilled and apparently thrust from a speeding automobile, was found Sunday morning lying across the curb at Fifty-eighth Btreet and Woodlawn avenue, almost under the walls^ of the Univers||)? #£ Sixteen Die In Ruhr Riots; Hungry Mobs Pil'age, Slay Essen. -- Sixteen killed and fortyaeven wounded mark the week-end death toll of hunger riots In the occupied area. Five persons were killed and twenty-seven wounded in clashes here between pillagers and police. Food rioters and guards clashed at the Stophenberg mine and two were killed and five wounded. Nine persons were killed and thirty-five wounded In clashes at the Rathenau mine. war --It depends on the Baking Powdw foa use. Tea canst at a heaping spoonfal if many tiianiVi because they CALUMET Tlf goonomy POWBIV Level spoonfuls are all that are necessary when you use CALUMET--it makes more bakings which mean* a real saving on bake day. , Sales mofs+ mmuyc oht ahse trh at ; & .>> rnumO WAUOHBLQD lPt OOMWMQAIgBSSrT •'ip®' *'1# >» 5'-% • ' ••-'. Mi$ H J First Arrest of Man fcr Flying While Intoxicated San Antonio, Tex. -- Sergt. Lloyd Hefling, Thirty-second Aero squadron, Brooks field, was arrested on the ctrtirge of operating an airplane while under the influence of liquor. Sefling appeared to be stunt *fi.vlng in the aerial circus staged here, but his condition was discovered when he smashed Into a tree on landing. He said he thought he saw two trees and tried to go between them. Germany Has Enough Gold, Financier Says Berlin.--"There is still enough gold and foreign currency in the hands of Herman business men and Industrialists to enable Germany to do without foreign help," HJalmar Schacht, well known Berlin banker and at present the relch's currency commissioner, declared In an address before the executive committee of the chief organization of German business men and Industrialists. For Charity. Two men attended a village church tea for which the tickets were sixpence each. The profits were to go toward providing a home for the aged poor of the village. Bllison, after accounting for ten cups of tea, eight ham sandwiches, three plates of bread and butter, two teacakes, five jam tarts and four small buns, was passing his cup for the eleventh time when he turned to his companion and said: "I think everyone should encourage a thing of this sort, as It Is for a good cause." Those who win success fey practice haven't time to preach. Wanted to Be Sure, Tbe tramcar was full and the oM lady tired and feeble. Quickly a ywog man offered his seat "One minute," 4m nmML /3>e IJMfc eccentric?" ^ **No, madam." "Or as if I am likely to go Btratolit home and alter my will in your favorl* "Such a thing never occurred to me," stammered the young man, while tha other passengers stared and giggled. "Then I'll take your seat," said tfcf, old lady. "But I don't want avg n understanding." --- j- • , ' • Giants In the closet ara aftea taw > ,*« pigmies In the world. w"' fer Jbr »ihttie TT vt-; •. ry ' -."W•=-?» ' - ;f • If!! ^ li-tf Quality Cars at 1 Quantity Price* r Snow Blocks Berkshire*; 200 Autos Stalled on Rdatf Eenox, Mass.--Berkshire highways are blocked with snowdrifts from three to five feet deep and 200 automobiles are stalled ^>n the Lebanon Mountain state highway between 4UUl Albany. " $herrolet now leads all high-grade ears ia dumber sold. Out new low prices have been made possible fhrough doubling our productive capacity. , We are now operating twelve mammoth mano* lecturing and assembly plants throughout the fj nited States in which thousan ds of sldiled workgien are turning out 2500 Ciievrolfcts per day. See Chevrolet First ttotwidutaadlng our recent big reductftoa la prices the quality and equipment of our cars have been steadily increased, until today Chevrolet stands beyond comparison m the best dollar value of any car told at any price and the asoat economical car to maintain. Chevrolet Motor Co., Detroit, Michigan Four to Be Electrocuted in One Day at Sing Sing Osslning, N. V.--A w holesale execution In which four men convicted as murderers will die in the electric chair will take place at Sing Sing prison (Mi Thursday night, Dec. 13. Warden Lewis E. Lawes announced the fourfold execution. •Utility ComnMHncteTGdtaii • 499 Superior Commercial fTiawll , • •. ; «40 S--n lot Light IMIwt . . 795 IMUty Expt*«a Track Mussolini 8colfs Reparations* Ilome.--Premier ilussolinl declared that though Italy has not formally renounced reparations cj^ilms, it has no illusions as to the probability of payment. In the meantime, he declared, the country is building itself up. A! a "Poor Man" Leaves |13,800,00ft, London.--Maurice Marcus, whom body considered even moderately wealthy, and* who died last September, left £3,146,000 (about $13,800,000), it was learned when his will was filed.. Is This Luck? Madrid.--Juan de la Cr«ira» a former cabinet minister, when a struggling lawyer y&irs ago won a case for Marquise Koinaguera. She has died and left him 190,000,000 pesetas ($20,000,000). Dealer* and Sendee Bmtfowj Everywhere iiiisiiaiil Brokerage Firm Fails. Cincinnati, O.--Failure of Channer it Sawyer, brokerage firm of this city, owing between $800,000 and $900,000, was recorded in Common Pleas court wheo Judge AMERICAS HOME SHOE POLISH Black - Tan - White - Ox-Blood - Browa ia die handy box that opens with a tin el tb« key. No Woken nails or soled hands. Softens and preserves leather. Sheds moctme. diinmt widi SwnA » » ufor thrifty ~H»Sfca*fc»M»a* * V .V - > „ . • * *J ' "Y" - "l J'1