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o THE SUNDAY CITIZEN, ABBEVILLE, N. C, DECEMBER 13, 1914. John Hays Hammond, Jr. Son of Famous Engineer Hopes to Revolutionize Warfare by Light Beams Believes His Dirigible Torpedoes, Operated by Telauto : matics. Will Accomplish That End Could Be Sent Effectively Against an Invading Fleet r;; NEW YOOUC. Doc. M, ."Telauto .matics," stild John 'Hay Hammond, " 'Jr., . couple or year txto, "will revo ' luttonii warfare and, mdoed. many f pbsae of the husy day of peace. Th I term telautomiuio was cnined by Nl- kta TaalA, am aptly drscrfbe tho pawn; t direct or oorytrol from dls- ruechsnlnil movements by tnnar of wireless tvnve. "Lcdeed, I ro so convinced of the great future of, this mnd'U Infant lot science tbaf I purpoe making the study of It phenomena ami praotl o4 application 'my life work. It li M eoret, and the world will mn ow It, that I have planned a riant ainc'.M torpedo y means ot which ' I hope to add enormouily to the de- s tease A our oMt.n : Mr. Ht Jtwftd 'ha tfnojoestlonably cade long strido toward fulfilling hli promise, and the special board detail -led by" the war department to xmlne hie device has expressed Itself tat her Unthualaatloally abouf thU young In- ;vntor' achievement to date. What h. ha accomplished waa demonstrat ed tn the teats carried out last week. - ; Mr, Hammond ha equipped a lab oratory at Gloucester, Mann., with gen erator, many oostly mechanism and V towering aerial that represent a tidy fortune, and with thi plant he ha been Ule to do thing that struck the natives a but little short of 'wlry. If you have happamed to ba around 'Gloucester tn the last year or two you may hare en in the harbor a hot uncommon type erf houseboat with two fairly tall mast that seemed to 10 and 12 Biltmore Avenue. EMLAIS 1(Q)YA Let us again Remind You that Christmas i drawing near. Don't delay. Monday will be the beginning of a busy week at the Palais Royal People are beginning to realize that this store offers the best selection of Holiday Gifts to be found in Asheville. And Most Reasonably Priced. - Our advertisements mean something the public always responds. Extra salespeople throughout every department, eager and anxious to serve you. Shopping la a pleasure at the Palais Royal Now note these good things for Monday and all the week. ' Monday we will place on sale One Hundred Ladies' Suits, no two alike, range in price from $20.00 to $30.00, Your Choice $13.90. Twenty-five Ladies' Suits, the $15.00 and $1&00 kind. $10.00 i Three Hundred ladies' Velvet Shapes, come tomorrow and see them,$1.50, $2 and $3 Shapes. 75c All trinuuwl hats for ladies', misses' and children at half price. Bring your hats in and have them re-trimmed. All lints trimmed free. Something new every day this month. Elegant Display of Handkerchiefs Always acceptable as a gift. Thou sands of the prettiest and daintiest de signs to select from. See Our Special 25c Assortment. Handkerchiefs as low ns lc each 2 for 5c, 5c each, 10c, V2r, 15c, 25c on up to $2.50 each. You'll find displayed on our Center Tables Shaving Sets, Lady Dainties, Jewel Cases, Hand Hair Receivers, Etc. Don't Forget Our Big Sale have no reason for being, for they carried not ao Inch of canvas. In stead, there were only hare stars and, running from truck to truck to spreaders, wohllfce wires visible only at clone range. That oraft wm John Hoys Hammond, Jr.'s wlrsltss con trolled power-Viat, and from his ob servatory, far above on the bluff, he was able to guide the evolutions of the vessel by mean of Hertzian ave. In all of this, spectacular as It wss, thtr was nothing really new, because both the French and the Germans had been doing the same thing by means of Hertsian waves-for a num ber of yeans; but special credit was due to Mr. Hammond because of the nicer control wfoloh he was .ble to aeroi,' and in this he evldonoed the advance In the art which his own cun ning had made possible. But Mr. Ham mond was not content, for he wanted to do something more thn merely steer a houseboat propelled by a gas oline engine, and he destred at the same time to overcome a very practi cal) olbjrtlon t hi whole; scheme considered from a military stand point. Mr, Hammond reallxwl that an ene my could interfere with his control of a boat or torpedo by sending out a continuous eerie,, of discordant or unequal wave lengths, and this meant ruin to hli whole contemplated sys tem of dirigible torpedo defense, How did 'Mr. Hammond overcome this ob stacle? How did he make his pres ent method poawtble? Here Is where h was shrewd enough tj profit by the TIE -rllr experiment of other men and by combining tho principles employ ed separately by them to evolv a virtually new device, free from possi ble hostile Interference. John Gardner, of England some years ago built a small submarine boat and made- It just hs obedient to hi will as the craft at Gloucester has been subject to Mr Hammond's dom inance. Mr. Gardner employed sound waves transmitted through the water, whwe they travul muoh better and reaoh further than when despatched through the air. Mr. Gardner used audible sounds, and he made the re ceiver on his submarine sensitive only to tones of a certain pitch. He effected Oil by mean rut' mi talllc ribbons or reeds which would vibrate sufficiently only whn ths right note reaohed them. You know how you can awaken a response by singing Into a plana. When this moOil ribbon, we vibrated. with sufficient amplitude It completed an electric circuit, and started desired me chanical movement whloh, In thoir turn, were Impelled by suitable sources of energy. You must under- i stand that the sensitive receiver could not Itself, do any work; It played the part only of a mesBenrer telling Its dupable associate when to act The success of any telautontatlc in Htallatifm hlnxes upon Its degree? of selectivity, thMt Is response to certain srbllrnry impulses mode his controll ing medium a complex one so that his recovers could be Indifferent to other vibrations. In the first place he uses tuned, Inaudible sound waves, and these op erate In conjunction with the beams ot a powerful saroh tight so as to modify the degree of their Intensity. The Inaudible wawi are superposed or laid a a blanket upon the light waves, thus producing a peculiar character of ethe disturbance. The Ashe villa's Fast Growing Store. SPECIAL SALE OF DOLLS. Nothing in the city to equal ours at the prices. Beautiful Jointed Sleeping Dolls. Extra Large $3.00 Value at $1.93 Large size Kid Body Dolls, Lovely Hair and Fen- tures and drooping eyes, $2.75 values at . .$1.93.. One Lot of Large Character Dolls Specially ' priced at 98c One Lot of Prettily Dressed Dolls 65c value at " 45c Baby Dolls with long and short dresses, imd numerous character dolls, value $1.50 and $1.25 at 9Sc HAND BAGS IN LEATHER AND MESH. A very practical gift, always appreci ated. New line just in by express. Hand bags in leather or Mesh as low 50c, 75c, and $1.00 on up to $5.00. KAYSER SILK HOSIERY Always Received With a Smile Black, white and evening shades from $1.00 up. Famous Black Cat Hosiery for the Whole Family. lots of pretty things, such as Toilet Seta, Military Sets, Work Baskets, Mirrors, Manicure Sets, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Comb and Brush Sets, of Dolls Monday at the Palais Royal result may be likened to the step of a man that ha served a prison term and had t& draj a ball and chain. Ill' step I normal so far as Its span la concerned, but there is a lug in a part c4 the movement which makes his gait noticeable. This Is Just what hap pened with the Hammond apparatus, and this Is the key to the selectivity of his so-called system of light con trol of wlrelAs, In speaking of his invention, Mr Hammond has said: "This system oould be operated Just as well In the dnylig-ht, a Hue tuner has carried on light telephony very successfully dur ing the daytime. Therefore, I would not be limited to uso It ' merely for nlxht purposes. Kwttdes this, in th I daytime the system is far more high-' ! ly selective than is wireless, a the' . ii u- i . i 1 . . . -1 ! trated." i Hertirian wave radiate in circles after the fashion of th ever-wlden-I lng ripples from a stone dropped into a pond, and this Is so even though the waves may hr used for telautoma tio purposos, and, therefore, thceie wacies can be quickly detected by a fo and Interfered with even though the direction of their source Is not known. Trite, at nlitht a searchlight can be detected and its ortstn found by the trace of the beam against the gloom. Of course It direction Is Instantly revealed when the light Is thrown In on face. But In the daytime this is very muoh modified. The flash of a helio graph or a bit of looking glass catch tng the suns rays can be 'Keen only when the reflected beams come direct ly toward one, as tharo Is no visible tnuce through Illumined space of the light, as Is the case at night. There fore, by using a searchlight In the daytime Mr. Hammond can guide his beams upon a chosen path and effect his purpose with a vry narrow aro open to discovery Indeed, an enemy would not be likely to understand the object of the flashes and might reas onably think "them harmless and of an accidental origin. The boat which tho army board has Just examined has been controlled by means of ft 24-lnoh searchlight in con Sale Sale CENTEMERI KID GLOVES It is utterly impossible to list every ar ticle in this great Gift Shop. . We mention a few .of the many articles suitable for Christmas presents. Ladies and Men's Neckwear, Handsome Silk Scarfs, Men's, Ladies' and Children's Gloves, Boudoir Caps, Shawls, sweaters, Kimonos. Bath Robes. Shirt Waists, Blankets, Comforts, Sheets. Towels, Bed Spreads. Table Damask. Center Pieces, Embroidered Scarfs, Lace Curtains, Cur tain Materials, Silks, Velvets, Dress Goods, Royal Society Packages. Umbrel las, Valises, Knit Underwear, Muslin Un derwear, Ribbons and Laces. junction with a srlenlnm cell of ex-1 trvrae sensitiveness aboard the craft! Hr. Hammond ha used wive lengths, of but 1-44,000 of an inch !un;f, and' the receiver In the vowel Is respon-j sive only when Uw properly toned light beams hu.ve reached it- Then they complete the various circuit and are responsive to the Impulses that set In motion th various mecnaniceJ functions having tn do with the steering, Ac, at the craft. Not., what is the practical form this invention Is to take as medium of cosst defense? The Mrgest c-f modern automobile torpedoes carry not more than 300 pounds of explo sive In their war heads Even so. they have difficulties to. oombat which les sen their chances of reaching their mark. The torpedo can now travel quite 10.000 yards, the best of them starting upon their Journeys at a speed I! (tie short of fifty knot an hour. But they aro losing speed from the moment they begin their run, and it lakes some minutes for them to travfl their maximum distance. In the meantime tho foe may be mov ln and the problem Is to make al lowance for this period of travel and the point at which the target will arrive coincldently with the torpedo aimed at It. Mr. Hammond aim , to overcome the difficulty by making hi torpedo subject to directional control at every stage of Its run. To do this, he must have the weapon continually In view, and to that end either the body of the craft or a mast must ids abot-s the surface of the sea In th daytime this visibility I possible) for a dis tance of nearly nine mil., provided the atmosphero Is eler. At nl?Ist the following rays of the directive search light will serve to keei the host In view, but the same end can be made even more certain by carrying a light or combination of signal light upon the mast of the craft so placed that they are vtslNe rearward only. These are merely matters of detail. Tn order to control his vessel In a navigational sense Mr. Hammond em ploys the dlrectlonnl force of a pow erful gyrrescope which Is made to grip the ruftder and to hold It steady opce the tru path Is determined. In of Blankets of Comforts i r Thl Tea Set. Is a most ap- j 'gJld. fjfj. ' propriate gift for any house- I fUMffliivFwisJlOji keeper. We offer them foe AiIQ IrvCTima Y?ur Inspect icq. i. Quadruple Plat ' ' ' - !j r CUT GliASS f li W ' jHsig 1 M nJil JM Lend grace and. beauty :. to f jMjjhWl 1 tvw any table an1 naa tendency p r yj to make one relish a meU ' J r FlnoM Quality " 1 ( K U ajjaaffwwWj r K WrS'"'"8 ' X"! CARVISG SKTS. j vrfttrTTmVimmf ' ' ff' Ar lwa5rs needed on the) ' J table. They mak. a most ) p Beat of Steri. acceptable gift. I Ghas. E. THE XMAS STORE I.-U5 ESS, - '4 Lr-T- order to facilitate maneuvering, this grip can be broken by the wireless Impulse and the helm swung from lde to side until the observer ashore ha the vessel once more upon the desired course. This leave nothing to chance. ' A long aa the man at the oper ating! station can- sen the torpedo boat, for such the tnvetnion Is, It Is possible for him to shift Its course ao that it will certainly run down Its quarry. Instead f carrying s,n ex plosive charge of two . or three hun dred pound the Hammond craft 'can bear a much bigger and therefore a far more destructible burden. It I easy to understand the value of such1 a weapon used against a fleet of hostile battleships nearlng one of our ports. The ordinary automobile torpedo might mis its mark when essaying toljialt the enemy before his gun could come wrthln effective bom barding range. But not so with the Hammond weapon. A doacn or more of these craft could be sent after the foe and guided so that they might make their Joint attack from many different points. CAMPAIGNING I3f WINTER. That the coming winter will In troduce many difficulties for the warding .nations of Europe is quite evident, and some of these are illus trated in a striking manner by epi sode of other campaigns related in the fourth war issue of the Scientif ic American of December Kh, aa fol lows: That the coming winter will add greatly to the difficulties and hard ships of the warring European na tions cannot de doubted. It is true that improvements in military meth ods and equipments have made im possible such colossal horrors as thoso attending Js'apoloon'a retreat from Moscow or even those incidental to the operations of the allied armies In lha Crimean war; yet the rigors of winter are still a factor to be reck- oned with In both the strategical and the humanitarian aspect of war. j As to the sufferings entf.lled upon the soldiers, a few Illustrations will j Rhow that these are still inevitable, j Of the fiKhting In Manchuria In Jan I nary. 1905, during the Russo-Japan-i we war. Sir Ian Hamilton says: i "Horsemen galloped about the field i with the foam and dripping sweat of j their horses changing Into a crust like snow and long dangling icicles. , The fifth division only seventy yards distant from the Russians, near ; Heikoutai had th choice between ; frost and fire. When they stamped ! their feet to keep life in them, the i RuRsiaoa. expecting an advance, fired i on them. When the Japanese re ; mafhed quiet they' lost their toe?.. Four hundred of them were found to be suffering from toaho (frost bit el the next morning." An episode In the defence of Plevna in 1877, which might well be repeated today, is recorded by Capt. W. V. Herbert: The eentrv In our ' redoubt,"' he writss, "as well as ithroughont the camp, was of a cruel ! ly severe character In the rigor of a ; Bulgarian winter. The original four . hours Tiad to be reduced to two. and 'then to one hour.. Fixed,- almost burled alive, In a hole 4 feet deep, j with the upper part of the body ea- posed to the bitter blasts, the lower embedded In the froen ground, un I able to move (the slightest attempt ' at a trot, the very act of stepping out j of the hole, attracted the enemy's j bullets..). Insufficiently fed, compell ed to exercise ceasolesi vigilance, struggling against the dangerous drowsiness engendered by frostjjthe men. looked upon ientry duty a the hurt rsflMaent of tow Henderson 1 (2 PATTON AVB. -w iVT.Tr . . HERE'S THE REAL AND ORIGINAL TURKEY TR01 National Dinner Birds Dance to Music of Phonograph and Gobble for More. 1 BOISE, Idaho, Don. 1J. pleaaurt seekers on the mesa recently wit nessed a genuine turkey trot. On ol a group of equestrian was Probation Officer Lowe, of the Juvenile oourt. One of Mr. Lowe's special dutie 1 to see that turkey trotting is not per mitted in the city, It being against the ordinance, but despite the fact that this turkey trotting was outside the city limits, Mr. Lowe conoludd that he had better inspect It. H is now glad he did so, for he ha oomt to the conclusion that the turkey is the most maligned bird on earth, that genuine turkey trottlnc Is not I vulgar in the least, but Is quite a dis. nffled pastime. This particular turkey trot waa held at one of the country home in ths mesa close to town. The house ha a largo loggia, which Is screened in and extends across the entire side of the house. On this loggia wa stationed a lar?e phonograph, to the music of which a group of friends were danc ing. Crowded close to the side of the loggia wan a flock of forty or more turkeys, slossy and sleek, in prime readiness for the table. "The turkeys apparently were fas cinated by tho catchy raytlme music " said Mr. Lowe, "and they moved about In the funn!et war Imagin able. They would one-step to the right, then turn their, heads, cran ing their long neok.t to see what the other fowls thought of their be havior. Then they would one.step to the left, atrain craning their necka sometimes .giving a Httle hitchv Juffin In between and an occasional 'cluck.' "You can IrmKrin." mid Mr. Lowe "the effect of some forty or fifty tur keys all going throtigrh these peculiar motions to the music of Too Much Mustard' and 'You're Here and I'm Here. Tho minute the music would stop those turkeys would tmt up the greatest gobbling you ever heard and keep It up until the phonograph started .gain, i CnuM imagine eome thing of what they were saying prewlr, ther dellrht at th. B8w style of music, i suppme." WIMi PRESS TREATY. . WABHTNaTONTpe lJ.A4mtaf tration leaders today determined to press for ratification by the senate the ' safety at sea treaty drafted at London last year. Opposition developed today when ' Senator LafoHette offered an amend ment to give the United States' au thority to lea-Mate against involun tary servitude of sailors nnd for other amelioration of the condition of sea men. Executive sessions on ths treaty probably will be held dally. Members of labon organ! is Moris sent floods of telegram .throughout the country today urging" appeal tn senator In favor ot Senator lfo! lette's position. A Royal Standard Typewriter would make a dandy Christmas present. Educationalstrong, ,,u, durable , an modern, with many exclusive features. Offtoa Supply Co Paon UU, g
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