The Batesville Herald. (Batesville, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1910 Page: 4 of 4
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WOMEN
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|F THIS publishers of the Patent
Office Gazette ever conclude to
add a comic supplement to their
weekly edition, wo cun aupply
them with all the material with-
out their having to hunt In other
dlvlalonB."
ffo spoke an official In the
aeroplane aud airship section
of the examining division of the
patent office at Washington,
when asked as to the character
of inventions now being offered
for patent in this line
“Before Wright Btartled the country with his
flight of more than one hour over here at Port
Myer a couple ef years ago,’’ continued the offl
dal, “there were not many applications of this
kind Bled. Since that time, however, they have
steadily Increased, until now we are getting them
In at the rate of more than 150 a week. They
are now far ahead of ail other kinds of Invention
In number filed, and, I may add. in freaklshnees.
‘The large majority offered are not allowed,
and of these the public aan know nothing. But
these rejected ones have by no means a monop-
oly os examples of an unique form of lunacy.
Many of those for which we are obliged to Issne
patents would be mighty dangerous evidence if
offered In oourt against the sanity of the Inven
tor."
An inspection of a number of the patents late-
ly Issued to those aspiring to soar shows that the
patent eBce man knew what he was talklug
about. Were It not that these freak airships
were formally patented, and that It had cost the
Inventors at least |100 apiece to obtain such pat
ants. It would seem, from examination, that tunny
of them had been trying to perpetrate a prac-
tical Joke on the patent office officials
The wildest flights of whimsical Imagination
cannot reach beyond some of the crazy combina-
tions recorded as alrshl|>s and aeroplanes In the
Washington archlvoa. Could the claims made
by some of the fathers to these weird machines
be practically realized, the magic carpet of Prince
Ah mod and the fabulous rock of the "Arabian
Nights" would hide their chagrined heads under
tho bed aud go out of the Hying business.
What adds to the grotesque humor of these
pntsnts Is thst their clalniH are all couched In
strictly scientific language, reading like n report
of an aeronautic society
Also the strict attention to minutest detail Is
amusing; railings to prevent the passenger from
falling over in the scenery, muffs to keep hands
and ears warm while snaring through the zen>
latitudes of the upper air, comfortable sleeping
beds carefully arranged with springs, so that the
Jar of uUghtlng will not uwake tho folks, tele-
scopes arranged on swivels at convenient places
about the decks that the curious traveler may
discern what continent he's llyitig over those
and a score of other details arc carefully Insert
ed, doubtless to show Intending purchasers how
their comfort has been looked after
In many of the drawings the aeronaut Is
shown, Invariably sitting with hands placidly
folded, to show It’s Just us o-essy! All manner
of means of propulsion have boon brought Into
requisition from dynamite to ducks Wings, air.
aeriform and liquid torpedoes all come In for a
share.
Occasionally, too. ono comes across an In
ventor who has worked out all the problems to a
nlcoty - and then ban failed to provide a motive
power, iiut this trillo Is dismissed with some
such remark as "Any convenient form of motive
power may be used."
No single locality can boost itself the home of
those erratic genlusos. Thoy stretch across the
country and overlap Europe from Colorado to
Bu<Ja|>est. In Hungary. Washington has one. Now
York several, and a
man from Baltimore
tiptoed into the pat-
ent office not long
ago, cautiously
made his way to the
office of the chief
examiner of the air-
ship section, shut
the door securely
and Informed the as-
tonished examiner
thst his secret was
too valuable to com-
mit to pai>«r, and
hence he hfpl corns
over to couflde it to
hts ears, which he
would do only after
a solemn pledge in
writing Bigned by
the official, not to
divulge or take ad-
vantage of the
knowledge. The ex-
aminer declined the
honor, the Balti-
more man insisted, and upon further refusal
waxed wrathful, whereupon tho examiner called
the bouncer.
An Inventor in Highlands, Col., recently ob-
tained a patent upon an airship that contains all
the comforts of homo. In tho drawings It re-
sembles an enlarged picture of some sort of s
hug. with a row of eyes along the side and a
ruffle down Its hack; on tnsimctlon the ruffle re-
solves Itself Into tho railing along the upper deck
and the eyes luto windows of the various state-
rooms on the ship.
The lace curtains of each window are care-
fully looped back so as not to obscure the view.
A stnlroase leads down from the hatchway that
modest women may alight without undue expo-
sure of lingerie. Everything man can want Is
shown, even to tho buffet—that Is, all except the
machinery, which Is probshly In the cellar of the
craft with tho laundry tubs and the furnace.
A man of Bergen, N. J.f has patented what
looks like a large metallic box turned upside
down. There Is no bottom In It. In the side
walls are circular openings, and In these are ro-
tary fans, which suck the sir Into the box. The
aeronaut sits lu a car suspended from the box.
When the Bergen man wants to fly he turns
the power onto his fans, these pump air Into the
box. It can only escape downward, and ths reac-
tion from this powerful draft will force the box
upward, causing It to fly—so runneth the patent
specification.
An expert of the patent offico figured out that
a blast strong enough to lift tho combined weight
of machine and aeronaut would blow a hole In
the ground big enough to hide an elephant. What
happens to the unfortunate hero who sits helow
In the teeth of this tornado will probably he told
In the supplemental application recently (lied.
A genius from Clarksville, Tenu., would fly
by Incasing himself In a rubber suit, much like
that of a diver, to which are attached hollow
wings filled with liquid air. The release of the
air through valved vents downward and back-
ward propels him upward and forward. Thero
are no eyeholes In the casing, "hut," naively
remarks the Inventor, "the air pressure from
without will enable the aeronaut to determine his
direction," which Is rather a vague sort of com-
pass.
From gay I’aroo comes Edouard Wulff, with a
patented scheme for flying by moans of “eagles,
vultures or condors,*' True to the Instincts
of hts native city, ho (Its out his birds with "cor
sets," the specifications of which ns to trimmings,
binding, etc., nre carefully sot out.
It. S/antmlklosy, irom Budapest, Hungary, also
has patented a bird driven airship, hut limits his
motors to ducks; why ducks Is not set forth.
of course Chicago has to shy her castor Into
the ring She turns up with a combination
balloon-hotel boat airship, with tray windows and
balconies lu the body of the building, "eminently
adapted for living through the air or navigating
the water." sultli the patent. It has a hull shaped
liodv. and the vessel can go from air to water
and from water to air without disturbing the
poker game In the smoking room.
But n woman from Brooklyn goes the Chicago
man one better If some night the lonely way-
farer Is startled by the appearance of a huge,
nondescript bird thst alights In the roadway and
goes steeplechasing cross country with a Barney
Oldtleld speed until tt reaches a nearby lake, over
which It rapidly skims, until, landing on the fur
ther shore. It rises Into the air again, and disap-
pears over the horizon with a parting tllrt of Its
tall, let not that wayfarer hasten to the nearest
parsonage and sign the pledge The bird he has
seen Is real, for It ts only the !ad> from Brooklyn
taking an after-dinner spin In her newest Inven-
tion, a ship that can make a lightning change
c.
Into boat, aeroplane or automobile, with a rapid-
ity that would arouse the envy of a vaudeville
artist.
This craft Is operated by wings, and with an
Hesthetlc taste characteristic of Brooklynites she
hns fastened them on realistic figures of "birds,
griffons, angels and Uztle 8am," which stand
around the eaves of the ship, “to render tho
machine attractive,” ss she stated In her appll-
oatlno.
Oklahoma City, to show that the newest state
Is also in tho running, sends a sort of Venetian
blind, the slats of which, being moved back and
forth by the aeronaut, cause him to rise swiftly
In the air and sail away. to far-off lands. But
Brooklyn, bent on Improvement, In a patent lately
obtained by a man from that olty, has added
feathers to these slats, whether to aid In tho
flight or “to render the machine more attractive"
the patent does not state.
Indeed, there seems to be an epidemic of air-
ship bugs lu Brooklyn, doubtless escaped from
Mineola. Still a third flying machine has recently
been patented by an Imaginative man of that
town This oue stands up In his. If you want to
fly In It, you plant your feet firmly upon the plat-
form, grasp the Jointed rods that run from this
to tho wings overhead, work them briskly back
and forth so as to flap the wings, and there you
are—yet! Patent office experts estimate that It
would take forty fool-power to lift this appliance
from the ground.
A St. IajuIs Invention closely resembles a
clothes pin with the operator sitting between the
forks. Where tho head of the pin would be Is set
the electric dynamo, showing a contemptuous dis-
regard for the laws of gravitation. Tho machine
Is moved by the flapping of wings, which are
built on the plan of tho cellar door of childhood.
There Is something really unique In the patent
obtained by a Cleveland man. The device con-
sists of a cigar-shaped gasbag, much like that In
the Baldwin or Zeppelin nlrshlp. Around It, from
stem to stern, runs a spiral flu or vane like the
throads on a screw. The aeronaut sits on a
saddle suspended below. When the machine
rises Into the air he propels himself by operating
a peilal which revolves the gasbag. The fin or
vane, thus revolved, bores Itself through the air
like the propeller of an ordinary aeroplane. This
inventor carries along a sort of aerial bathing
suit with auxiliary flying attachment, whereby he
may disport himself In the great air ocean above.
No one can gainsay the foresight of the "Im-
provement In airships” made by a resident of
Hot Springs. Ark. The first claim In his patent
Is that his balloon ts so constructed that If tt
bursts the bagging will "nest In the rigging above
and form a purachute whereby the aeronaut may
descend safely to the earth.” This Is commended
to anxious mothers whose small boys have the
airship hug.
A Boston Inventor upholds the reputation of
that town for erudition by prefacing his applica-
tion for patent with a learned discourse on the
fact that heated atr rises.
"But,” he continues, "disaster frequently oc-
curs through the use of oiled silk or other fragile
or Inflammable material as a receptacle for such
air In balloons and airships." He remedies this
by substituting therefor a "large cylinder of some
light metal, preferably aluminum,” as his specifi-
cations state. Immediately beneath this cylinder
is placed a cozy furnace. The man who wants to
see his name In the paper gets out of bed and
builds a Are In this furnace. This bents the air
In tho aluminum cylinder, the heated air rises,
taking along cylinder, furnace and man, ami away
they go! This principle, according to a patent
office man, explains why ninny boilers go up with
furnace and engineer.
An Omaha, Neb., man shows a western predi-
lection for firearms by trimming tho rear of Ms
airship with cartridges When these are exploded
In succession he expects to lie driven through the
air to hi i destination with neatness and dispatch,
the exploding cartridges lending a homelike air
to the surroundings. When his cartridges aro
expended he loads her up again as one would tho
chambers of n revolver.
With so many bizarre airships in embryo In
her midst, Washington had to take n hnnd. The
man of the capital goes 0111* letter than (he Ar-
kansas Inventor nu ntloned, who turns his "bust-
ed" balloon into a parachute. This man's air-
ship wlien it blows up or he gets tired of sailing
among the clouds balloonwlse, turns Itself Into an
aeroplane without the slightest effort. When the
gas Is out of the bag the thing Is done. He car-
ries a gas generator on board so that when lie
wants a little more ballooning he can till It up
again.
This ship also has a lintel attachment with
twelve rooms In tho drawings. It Is propelled
by a kind of Archimedes srrew propeller which
he has been thoughtful enough to have "encased
In aluminum housings," so that ladles- skirts will
not become entangled. He, too, provides all man-
ner of comforts on hoard, each one painfully de-
tailed In tln> patent.
These are hut a few of the freak patents
lately issued for airships and aeroplanes, hut they
are enough to convince any Inventor that If he
wants to spring anything novel on the people
111 the line of hand made birds of burden he's got
to get ni) mighty early in the morning an.I work
as long as there’s light to zee.
BOOMERANG IS IMPROVED ON
Englishman Perfects “Curva" Which
la No More Than Crota Made
Out of Plain Wood.
Always the Australian boomerang
bas been Interesting to the civlll/.ed
general public. Many persons are un
familiar with ths fact that the boom
snrngs of thsse aborigines of the far
•If island continent have been of va
rtnus shapes and patterns. Most of
those former experimenters In ctvlll
zatlon have made a particular type of
the boomerang, deciding Anally for
themselves that "the blamed thing will
fly but It won't come back." It lias
remained for an Englishman so to Im-
prove on tho Australian cross shaped
weapon that It Is no more than a cross
of plain wood, the lower strip of the
cross being one-third longer than the
other arms of It tn throwing the
“curva." 11s thu maker has called It,
the long lower end of the cross is held
(Irmly between the thumb and linger
vertically, and with tho piano of the
eross beside hts face Thrown seventy-
five feet the boomerang will not re
turn, but for 100 feet or more, as It
whirls, the curva begins to turn to a
horizontal plane. Its revolutions In-
crease rapidly until, Just as Us maxi-
mum velocity has raised the cross to
the top of Its flight, tt swerves tr the
left amt begins Its return flight to tii
thrower
The Cause.
"Over Insurant e against Are Is 1
deplorable thing," said Senator Brim;
In a recent address at Trenton.
"A certain factory once burnt <!
I11 New England.
"'What eausid the Ore?' on
tor asked nilotl.t r 'Too much ;
• shoddy?'
I No', was the reply. ’Too
!surance'"
Monday's House Doings.
Austin, Tex.—When the house re-
sumed consideration of tile peniten-
tiary bill Monday Mr. Kennedy offer-
ed an amendment providing, as does
the senate amendment, that the three
prison commissioners shall be ap-
pointed by the governor, with the ad-
vice and consent of the senate, to
hold office for two years, except In
the case ot the first three commission-
ers, who terms of office shall expire
Jan. 20, 1911.
An amendment to the amendment
by Mr. Watson, providing that two or
the commissioners shall be democrats
and one shall be a republican, was
tabled, as was an amendment by Mr.
Kay, providing for the election of the
commissioners by the legislature.
Mr. Nickels offered an amendment,
providing for election of the commis-
sioners at the general election fol-
lowing the taking effect of this act...
that each commissioner shall be over
tiO years of age; that each commis-
sioner shall serve two years; that In
the event the constitution is amend-
ed so as to make the term of office
of each commissioner six years, this
act shall not conflict, and providing
that the governor may HU any vacan-
cy on the board.
An aye and no vote was demanded.
The first count showed three less
than a quorum present, being 45 to
40, one present not voting, in favor
of tabling the amendment.
A quorum was finally obtained, and
the Nickels amendment was tabled, 48
to 40, one present not voting.
Mr. Hill moved that all excuses for
absence based on reasons other than
sickness be revolted. Shouts ot "a/e,
aye" followed the motion, and the
motion was made an order.
Senate Passed Bill of Lading Bill.
Austin, Tex.—After several hours'
debate the senate substituted the Seu-
ter bill of lading bill for the "Gofer
bill and passed It finally. The Sen-
ter bill. In brief, prescribes that the
railroad commission shall settle the
bill of lading question.
With this business transacted tin
senate's calendar is clear. The body
adjourned until 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning In honor of Labor Day, up-
on motion of Senator Meachum. Prior
to that action all motions to recess ot
adjourn, of which there were several
were lost, and the senate ran along
through the noon hour, until the bill
of lading bill had been pushed
through.
Senator Senter's substitute
passed finally without a dts
vote. Upon the engrossment 01
bill Hume and Terrell of Wise voted
no. The vote by which the Senter
substitute was adopted in lieu of the
| Gofer bill was 17 to 7.
Saturday's House Doings.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 3.—With four
i sections of the penitentiary reform
i bill yet unconsidered, including that
section relating to the appointment oi
the prison commissioners, and further
j more, the likelihood of a renewed
tight over the Stamps' amendment re-
taining the "bat." the house adjourned
at 6:50 o'clock Saturday evening un-
til 10 o’clock Monday morning, thus
probably assuring that the legislature
j will he In session from three to four
1 days longer, as heretofore predicted
In the meantime the senate awaits ac-
1 tion by the house.
Confusion and dissension attended
; the closing hours of Saturday's dellli
i erations. For almost two hours be
j fore adjournment, the house was tin
' der call, with doors locked, in an cn
1 deavor to maintain a quorum, the
while the parliamentary waiiarr
! tended to disorder rather than legisln
: tive action. When ft quorum was tin
ally obtained through the aid of s< r
I grants at arms and aiur a futile at
tempt on the part of Mr. Davis, tin
-acting speaker, to hold the house lot-
two hours to finish tho penitentiary
bill, adjournment was taken by a vote
of 47 to 41. No material amendment
1 to the bill was adopted.
House Proceedings.
Austin. Tex.—The house Friday took
up the section of the penitentiary bill
providing for instruction for prisoners
In elementary branches of the English
language, and industrial education,
music and such other Instruction as
the prison commissioners deem advis-
able.
Messrs, italleng.ee and Bowles offer-
ed an amendment to eliminate all ot
the educational provision except that
part of it providing for suitable books
ami reading matter for the convicts.
Mr. Gilmore read from the Hunts-
ville Monitor a publication Issued by
the convicts, showing wonderful pro
gross made by some convicts in better-
ing their condition and making use-
. ful citizens of* themselves after dls
' ,-harge from the penitentiary, by rea-
son of Instruction In the penitentiaries
In practical professions. He said Mr.
Stamps explained Hint the Instruction
is only for after work hours.
Mr. l.awson contended that inas-
much as prisoners nre sent to the peni-
vnt arv for hard labor they should
00 kept at hard labor.
Mr. Maddox informed Mr. Lawson
that New York and Minnesota laws
providing for 'he education of Hilter-
I ale convicts had reduced the "return
per cent of discharged convicts from
j5 to 2 per cent.
Mr. Highsmtth was against provid-
ing schools or convicts.
Mr. Muller pitied "the heart of an
Nmcrlrnn citizen that Is so small It
Saturday's Senate Doings.
Austin, Tex.—There arc some legls
tutors who think that a bill of lading
bill may not be enacted this session |
while others see a chance. The sen- 1
ate Saturday adjourned and otherwise
refused to pass a bill of lading mea-
sure. Some of the senators say the
bankers themselves are uncertain as J
to what is desired, so much so that
some are now afraid of any law at all,
especially if it affects contracts. Fol-
lowing the noon adjournment there 1
was an informal conference of sena- I
tors and Senators Senter. Gofer and j
Murray were appointed a sub-commit
tee to draw a substitute bill of lading
measure.and report it back to this af-
ternoon, hut adjournment came early j
in the afternoon and the substitute
will be forthcoming Monday. It Is
being written by Senator Senter and
is to contain one concise section pro-
viding that the governor shall ap- |
point a responsible reputable notary J
public at each shipping point to at-
test bills of lading when requested to j
do so by the bank or railroad, and j
said bills will be negotiable. Signa-
tures will be acknowledged before the [
notary. More than one will be pro- |
vided for at large shipping points.
Bankers interested should communl- j
cate with the sub-committee.
Senator Gofer sought to secure ac- j
tion upon his bill of lading measure I
Saturday but adjournment was taken
to Monday by a vote of 14 to 10.
Senate Proceedings.
Upon reconvening Thursday the sen
ate resumed consideration of the peni- I
tentlary bill.
A long debate followed as to wheth j
er the bodv should resolve itself into
the committee of the whole senate to j
consider the bill. Senators Terrell ]
(McLennan), and Adams favored that
course in the interest of careful con-
sideration. Those opposed were Sena-
tors Terrell (Bowie), Katliff, Hudspeth
and Welnert, who complained of the
time lost.
A motion to table the motion to go
into the committee of the whole pre-
vailed 19 to 7.
Holsey withdrew his $200,000 ap-
propriation amendment actiou recur-
ring upon AVeinert’s $500,000 substi-
tute. Ward immediately offered an
amendment making the appropriation j
$250,000.
Senator Ratliff called the senate's at-
tention to the fact that some consid- ]
oration was due the judgment of the
Investigating committee and he spoke
along those lines.
He favored the appropriation of
$500,000; every cent of that was need-
ed, probably more.
A collaquy was indulged In between
Hudspeth and Peeler, the latter ask-
ing what would happen to proposed
reform should the commission expend
all this appropriation injudiciously or
prematurely, the former contending
that the commissioners could be trust-
ed.
Ratliff also thought it would be safe
to trust the expenditure of this ap-
propriation to the commission.
Senator Greer said a condition ex-
isted in the Texas penitentiaries so
horrid that no member of the Investi-
gating committee could describe ft.
Conditions were so utterly horrible
on the farms that a convict deliber-
ately cut hts fingers off in the Hunts-
ville penitentiary in order that he
might be incapacitated for field work
and not be sent to the farms. He
was whipped In the Huntsville peni-
tentiary for cutting off his fingers. He
knew he would be so punished, but the
farms were so repulsive he preferred
both mutilation and whipping In the
penitentiary to work upon the farms.
The system was wrong and the -ex-
tern need reformation. The theory that
convicts were Bars, perjurers, could
not testify and tell the truth, was al-
so wrong and this bill would change
the system, would permit convicts to
testify.
Senator Hudspeth Interpolated, "Yes
the cry is for reform and yet men
here are hanging back on a proposi-
tion of a measly $250.0(10."
House Proceedings.
Austin, Tex.—The house got down
to work on the penitentiary bill soon
after convening Thursday, tariff and
other resolutions being sidetracked on
motion.
The first move of the au'nors of the
bill was a motion bv .Mr. Gilmore to
ri consider the vote by which the Roe-
iy amendment of Wednesday provid-
ing that nothing In the bill shall be
construed ns restricting legislation
now or hereafter to work convicts on
public roads was adopted.
Mr. Reedy spiritedly opposed the
motion.
He moved to table the motion to re-
consider. The house refused so to do
by u vote of 51 to 46.
The motion to reconsider prevailed
by the narrow margin of onp vote—50
tc 4!'.
Mr. Gilmore's motion to table the
Reedy amendment was lost—56—4(1.
By a viva voce vote the speaker de-
lurcd the amendment readopted and
the bill was in the same condition
as when Mr. Gilmore first sought to
change it.
Austin. Tex.—A resolution was in-
troduced Friday by Terrell (McLen-
nan). and Senter, Instructing the peni-
tentiary board to report at once
whether an effort had been mnde to
sell the State Railroad, which runs
from Rusk to i'alestiue. The art of
this legislature authorizing $100,(but of
the school fund to be used In purchas-
ing the bonds of this railroad havih•;
provided that the penitentiary board
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A Shipping Error.
The young duchess of Westminster,
wife of the richest peer in England,
recently gave birth to her third child,
a daughter. Thus there Is no heir to
the Immense Grosvenor fortune, Earl
Grosvenor, the duchess' second child,
having died at the age of four.
Apropos of all this, a rather cruel
story is being told in Newport about
Lady Ursula Grosvenor, the eight-
year-old daughter of the young duch;
ess.
A friend, the story goes, oalled at
Eaton Hall, and as she sat in the
drawing-room, little Lady Ursula en
tered.
"Oh, good afternoon," she said,
gravely. "Mamma can’t see any one
today. She’s upstairs with the new
baby. They sent her, you know, a girl
when she’d ordered a boy, and she’s
so upset that she’t quite ill.”
Even the Children.
Ex-Governor Pennypacker, condemn-
ing In his witty way the American di-
vorce evil, told, at a Philadelphia
luncheon, an appropriate story.
"Even our children,” he said, “are
becoming infected. A Kensington
school teacher, examining a little girl
In grammar, said:
“‘What. Is the future of "I love?”’
" ’A divorce,’ the child answered
promptly.”
i ! not do Justtio to the convict.'
Mr Looney suggested that some I shall sell the railroad If possible,
ui i iulments being offered are want-j Senator Holsey moved to table, s
ng time. iject to call.
A Busy Life.
Sub-Editor—A dispatch from the
penitentiary says the convicts have
struck and refuse to work unless they
can have pie twice a day.
Great Editor (busily)—Counsel mod
eratlon and arbitration.—New York
Weekly.
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Good Breakfast!
Instead of preparing a
hot meal, have some fruit;
Post
Toasties
with cream;
A soft boiled egg;
Slice of crisp toast;
A cup of Postum.
Such a breakfast is pretty
sure to win you.
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