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DSV 1 HE VOL. XXV, NO. 14. $1. PER YEAR. REIDSVILLE, N. C, APRIL 23, 1912. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS V BWo ft-"- t' - The upjwr picture U a combination o Collision With Icebergs Has Brought Grief to Many Ships GREAT PRECAUTIONS The appalling catastrophe which one week ago befel the White Star liner 'Titanic, when she was sunk la collision witii aa ice berg off Cape Race, with the loss or more than 1,500 Urea, Is the greatest of all ocean disasters. The sensation al details, the failure of water tight compartments to protect against epeedy sinking, the inadequacy of wire less telegraphy against the failure of a hip to keep afloat, are already mat ters of history. Of former collisions of steamships .with Icebergs the last before that of the Niagara, reported about the same time as the Titanic tragedy, was the encounter of an Iceberg by the Anchor liner Columbia, from Glasgow, on Aug. 2, 191L The collision occurred In a dense fog, when the Columbia was 180 miles north and 67 miles east of Cape Race. Huge tons of Ice fell npon her forecastle, and her stem was uiYiaoYiA1 In frrv ttiA ixrfitor Una TTlA upper parts of her bow plates were A CONFIDENTIAL TIP To gti your money's worth have your laundry done at Starlaundry. The constant endeavor of the establishment is to make people talk about the quality of the work it turns out and the moderate asked. .HENRUUBBARIUgent Phone 26. 1 9 r n 4 W photoiraph of the Titanic and drawing of an Iceberg. Photo of th Co- lumbla by American Press Association. forced back ten feet. Several mem bers of the crew and one paseenger were Injured. The Columbia was able to complete her voyage to New York. On July 8, 1907, the North German ! Lloyd liner Kronprmz Wllhelm struck ! an Iceberg off the banks In the nncer- j tain light of early morning. Her bow was dented, and her starboard side was scraped badly by the Ice, Into which she had plowed her way at a speed of sixteen knots an hour. The Bteamship . Volturno, on her way to New York from Rotterdam, also had a narrow escape from an ''eberg In May, 1909, when, off the coat , of New foundland, she plowed ier way Into an Ice field, which ground deep soars Into her sides. Some bergs passed so near her that great chunks of Ice fell on ber decks, but Rhe escaped without serious damage. Iceberg Peril Next to Fog. The giant freighter Naronic of the White Star line, which disappeared from the eastward winter track across the Atlantic some time after Feb. 11, 1893, with seventy-four persons aboard. Is also believed to have encountered anjceberg and to have, gpnejiown lu H I f'7 Is NWuVjsl collision witn it The facts of this dis aster were never ascertained, nor overturned lifeboats were found float ing derelicts long afterward 300 mill's southeast of Newfoundland. In August, 1S99. the Donaldson liner Concordia, a cattle steamer, outward bound from Montreal, collided with a berg Id the Belle Isle strait off the Newfoundland coast and had her bow crushed. To go farther back, there was the disaster to the old Gulon line steams -.hip Arizona on Nov, 7, 1879. She crashed Into a berg off the New foundland banks and Immediately b" gan to sink at the bow. But she wa steaming only at the rate of fiftee: knots, and her collision bulkhead tli only thing that stood between her 3W passengers and crew and destruction withstood the Bhock, and no lives wen lost Next to fog, Icebergs are regards as the source of gravest peril to vus sels navigating the north Atlantic. Ac cording to all accounts brought by in coming ocean steamers, this menac has been greater during the last few weeks than In any recent year. Thf presence of a great number of ice bergs In the lane of transatlantic traf flc Just now does not however, neces sarlly Indicate any extraordinary con dltlons in the arctic during the past winter. According to the most relia ble estimate of scientists, It require as a rule from three to four years fot an Iceberg to drift across the pa' basin and reach that region of the At lantlc In which disaster overtook tin White Star giantess on her malde; voyage ; ' How Ice Fields Are Formed. The greatest precautions are take on board the big ocean liners to guars against collision with Icebergs. No' only are the officers on the bridge aiu! the lookout In the crow's nest lmpres ed with the fact that they must exer else the greatest vigilance when ve's sels approach the Newfoundland banks, where the danger from Ice bergs Is the greatest at this time o! the yea?, but the temperature of thf water ' Is -tnsen frequently, and any striking drop Indicated by the ther mometer Is certain to be accepted as warning against the prWuce of Ue bergs In the vicinity. This and the lowering of the rem perature of the air If one should ha;v pen to pass to the leeward of an ice berg are about the most reliable t all the danger signals set against thl perlL To the eye. Indeed, an IceltfW though the weather should happen be clear and the moon, perchance shining. Most of the Icebergs have a Intense-wblte-and -bluish-hue; blends with moonlight In a fasbi n that may confound the most season? ' and vigilant of mariners. Had the, course of the Titanic car OTHER GREAT LOSSES OF LIFE. The following ere some of the previous heaviest counts In the toll of death that marine disastera have coat In the laat half century: Uvea lost. 1867 Royal Mall ateamera Rhone and Wye 1,000 m-Whlte Star liner Atlantic M7 lSDO-Turklah frigate Ertogrul.. S40 1881 Anchor liner Utopia........ 574 lSMSteamahtp Norge .......... 600 1SSS Steamship Bourgogne .... S71 190 Steamboat General Slocum 1.000 190& Japanese warship Mlkaaa. (99 rled her about a hundred miles to th southward of where the dlsastron crash occurred she would In all pro! ability have steered clear of all da; gers from Ice. According to the roo expert mariners, an Iceberg is rare) seen at this time of the year or at an season, Indeed farther south than degrees north latitude. The Titanic! wireless operator gave the position of the steamship when the collision came as 41 degrees 40 minutes north, or 100 miles to the north of the southern boundary of the Atlantic region where the danger from icebergs la an ever present one. . The hydrographlc office of the navy department from time to time has sent out much detailed and reliable lnforma tloa regarding the formation and trav Is of the icebergs and ice fields In the north Atlantic. Until within a comparatively recent period it hud been presumed that the Icebergs that infested the Atlantic dur ing the spring and early summer nionths had broken off from the border of the great arctic Ice fields. This, ac cording to the light of later research. Is an erroneous theory. The Iceberg that drifted directly in the path of the Titanic,' It is almost certain, was a small fragment of a huge glacier that years ago uad disengaged Itself from the Interior Ice cap of western Green land, sliding with Irresistible and dev astating momentum toward the coast and finally plunging into the deep sea. . It Is when the edge of such a huge glacier reaches a steep coast that from time to time fragments are broken off by their own weight caught u by the oceaa 'currents' and carried off.""" " The stee of these fragments varies greatly, but according to the reports) of the hydrographlc office an Iceberg from 00 to 100 feet to the top of Its walls, with pinnacles and spires reach ing from 200 to 250 feet In height are cot unusual in the arctic sea. These measurements apply only to the mass of ice above the aurface of the water. This constitutes from one-elgth to one-ninth of the whole mass. It would be futile to seek to render an estimate of the depth of an iceberg below the surface of the sea because this depth varies with the weight of that part which is above the water. A few years ago an iceberg which had a pinnacle of about 100 feet in height did not ground until It reached sixteen f athomp of water In the Belle Isle strait, near St John's, N. F. Carried Sooth by Labrador Current. Thousands of such fragments drop off every year. As they reach the water they are caught up by the polar currents. Nansen, during his expedi tion with the Fram; Amundsen, during the arctic trip he undertook in 1001. and the Duke of Orleans in 1905, made a study of polar sea physics. The course of the currents is pretty well known from the published result i their observations. Along the northern part of the West Greenland coast where most of the ice bergs are created, there Is a current setting off shore and toward the pole. This current carries the Icebergs somo distance northward until a junction Is made with what Is known as the Lnb rador current This sets In in a due southerly direction along the coast of Baffin bay and Labrador. While at times it ceases entirely, and while its speed varies greatly, being greatest near the coast, after winds from the northward. It has been estimated by scientists that usually an iceberg is carried south by this current at a rate of from ten to thirty miles in twenty four hours. It is not by any means smooth sal! Ing. All along the Labrador coast r rugged promontories and numberle islands and cliffs surrounded by reef and shallow , water. Some of the ice bergs are crushed against the ro;-k bound coast others are caught in the deep fiords of Greenland before they reach the open sea at all. Others agaii are aground in the shallow waters alonj portions of the coast until only a smnl percentage of a y'iir'i output oi iw bprfrs ever reachea far uough dul'u u UiiiB' lusioiiduc to traunatlantie ship ping. According to the reports Iskuh by the hydrographic office at Wash yngton, the 1 e lu such bergs is of irdluuiyUltt.aiess. Therein uUUhmi tic information showing that a blow with an ax, the concussion of a gun hot or th hoavy-blaat-ot a BteamaUi whistle has had the effect of eplittlut the huge mountain of drifting ice. Tli--: are more readily broken In warm we i ther. On the coast of. Labrador, dji lng the short summer that prevaHi there, when It is packed with icebergs there Is a constant and almost deafen ing crash as icebergs collapse in col lision with the coast or with otbei bergs.-. . : Modern Safety Devices. In these days of progress in marlnt architecture, when the up to date liner Is a floating hotel, with every devicf for the safety, comfort and amusement of the passengers, the loss of such r vessel as the Titanic comes as a shod to steamship men, and especially t those who have been figuring on hcv to build "he largest vessel in th world." The Titanic, with her fifteen automatic self closing bulkhead doors, was considered unslnkable, not only b; the officials of the White Star line, bin by those who had made a study oi modern shipbuilding. Up to date vessels are all equipped with these water tight compartmer. which In Wine of danger are of prin. Importance. The captain on the bri ' standing at the routral control of ,'; bulkhead doors, can by the lm; -pressing of a single electric butf".. close every door the length of the vt se.l and transform her In a few Becom! Into a craft which the modern ship builders have claimed would float Vttl many of her water tight compartments flooded. If the ele-tric signal indicated a nil nor accident In a particular part of tlu ship by pressing buttons on the ' bridge her skipper could close the compart ments In that section; Submarine Bell Device. Another device for marine safety l the submarine bell signal,, with whit! every vesswl is fitted. These bells are also mounted on reefs and points il land. Their action is by wireless or hand ringing, and they come into pla wheneyer two vessels approach wlthh, range or when a ship nears the Ian.; station to which they belong. Th' notification usually comes to the skip per or man In command of the brUs" in time for him to change his course'oi check his headway. The range of noti fication Is several miles. i.Jhla device enables vessels swallowed iip in the dense fogs off the banks or in mid ocean to loam of each other's proxim ity long before any fog siren or sound ing bell would be audible. It is alsi of course, -omch inore efiicienj; thathfc most powerful searchlight Since their Installation on the moderi ocean liners many collisions have bw averted by their use, it is said, and ex perts have declared that many a Alsas ter of ships running on rocks Into collision could have been avertel if these submarine bells had been in ust One Test of the Bell. As an example of the efficiency of the submarine signal bell, the tug Eu gene F. Moran was piloted from h point three miles out in the open sea to the Ambrose channel lightship by a man blindfolded. He followed the course by the guiding sound of the bell ringing some thirty feet below the surface of the sea. This took place on Feb. St 1900. - The Moran went down the lower bay to Ambrose lightship and ran alongside to request that the subuia rine bell on board be kept ringing. In a short time the man who had the tel epbone headpiece connected with tlif microphone receivers at the bow o' the tug reported that the bell wa ringing. Three miles beyond the nook Assistant Engineer Fay was blindfold ed, and the tug was put out of nor course to confuse him. With the re celvers at his ears, however, he cor rected the course and brought the tn . without much difficulty back to thf Ambrose lightship. Within a few months, with a ne type of wireless equipment, which k Marconi's latest invention, steamship caught In a dense fog need have n more fear of It than they hive now of the starlight or the morning's sin Bhlne. This new device Is known a the wireless compass, Marconi sail! In a recent Interview tlfat the dread of the fog Is the last remaining anxiety of seafarers. By means of special wireless waves he proposes to info-n the commanders of vessels the ex- direction froth which each message .comes." ' Mr. It. F. Swann, of Ituffin town ship, was a caller Thursday. He said he wanted to square accounts with his favorite paper, and he did so and felt the conscientiousness of a noble deed performed. Absolutely Pure " --Tho.onIy-Ba!dng-Povdc?-mado---fromRoyal mo aluh, no Line PHOSPHATE GOV. GLENN SPOKE Delivered an Edncalional Ad dress at WentwortL ' To the, Seventy-Seven Young People Who Successfully Passed the Exam (nations and Are Ready to Enter the, County High Schools. Ex-Governor Glenn was greeted by a nne audience Friday at Wentworta when he made an educational ad dress to the 77 young people who had successfully completed the eie mentary co.ri in the count .h rf wvuvuwt ine .court .louse w-. ii.led and there was parcel- any room left In the galkiy. Notwithstandinir thA h... times with framers several hundred were in the audience. Ex-Governor Glenn took the place of ex-Governor Aycock on the program. He handled his subject la a masterly manner.and discussed the development of the child s mind and body in a most en tertaining manner, giving many fine illustrations to show the Import ance of proper training of the child ren. ; Some of the, older citizens who had heard the ex -Governor on many for mer occaeions.declared that hl8 speech, of Friday seemed better than any he had made before. . Prof. Hickerson, county superin tendent of public instruction, grace fully introduced ex -Governor Glenn to his audience, referring to hUa as a citizen of whom the entire county feels proud, and also as a distinguish ed citizen of the United States. . The Judges of the declamation con test we're Messrs. William Cummings, Prof. O. V. Hicks, of Ituffin and Mr. I. O.' Soaub. Those contesting were T 1 . r . , . , ' . : . ... jouu jvim-un, ot tne inompsonviue schooljp Floyd- Gentry, of tjie Gold iinr school ; Fla C. Turner;- of the Reld'a school; Ernest McCollum, of the Mt. Oak school; Sam Williams, of the Dan Valley school; Charlie Roberts, of the Mt. Oak school; Sam Scott, of tfie Went worth school; William Neal, of the Elllsboro school. The' Judges awarded the medal to William Neal, and Mr. A. W. Dunn made the presentation speech. The Judges of the girls' contest were Rev. P. H. Gwynn, Prof. T. Wingate Andrews and Rev. C. J. D. Parker. Those contesting were Miss es Edna Caruthers, of the Vaugh school; Louise Shreve, of the Sharon school; Willie Bennett, of the Gold TT1 11 crVVl vrvl Annla T anrallv n rf it . Dan Valley school; OUle McColum, of the iMt Oak school; Luda Comer, of the Pleasantvillo school; Lizzie Gooleby, of the Sylvania school; Al sla Bailey, of the New Hope school; Louise Alcorn, of tfye Ruff In school; Lucy Sharp, of the Elllsboro school. The Judges decided la favor of Miss Louise Alcorn, and the medal was presented by Prof. T, Wingate An drews. Miss Louise Shreve was presented with a medal by County Superintend ent Hickerson for scholarship and de portment. The medal was offered by an old student of the Sharon school, Mr. Wilburn .Carter, who is now a member of the regular army. The speech of welcome was made by Mr. Roy Waynkk, of Mclver, a member of the clajft, andhe did the" 'hoTbrsfygTaoeuHy. There were about 50 members of the county's corn club present and these were addressed by 'Mr. I. O. Schaub. of the department of agri culture.; ' The 77 young people who had pass ed an examination on eight subjects, completing the elementary course In the county's public schools were giv en their certificates by Superintend- ' (Continued on Page Five.)
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