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Adv. to Defeat the German Submarine Campaign GILDING new ahlps to replace losses la not the only way to defeat the German submarine rutnpalgn, V Saving ships that have been (lain- aged, lifting those, even, tliut have been sunk, and restoring them to seagoing condition, are among the methods which have gradually been '! "1 improved In England as the strin gency of the shipping shortage became greater each month. The reason why the British authorities were not fully equipped to raise ship that was sunk from jhe very start of vhe war Is purely commercial Salving ships costs money. Building new onef costs money. So long as the cost of salving wus equul or even slightly In excess of the cost of building, so long It was not worth the while of owners to order salvage iterations Just so Jong were Invention and progress In the art of salvage laycd. 'When the salving of ships becume urgent In the course of 1910 Inventors of new appliances and new methoda, sulvage experts of many years standing, set their brains to work, and the result Js that today ships can be raised and re paired from positions that two years ago would have been abandoned as hopeless. As showing how need stimulates Invention, 1 may instance a discovery In- - chemistry which has proved to be of the utmost value in salvuge work, writes 1L C. Ferruby In Country Life. It is obvious' that when a ship, laden with grain, beef, or other perishable stuffs, gets water-loggewith" seawater,' something "fery unpleasant 1st- - going to happen to her cargo. , In point of fact; it turns Into miniature polsm-ga- s fuctory. Grain produces sulphuretted hydrogen, and the salvage men who stumble on a pocket of that In a beached ship would be seised with violent sickness, would be purtlally blinded for some time, and Would turn a dull leaden color In the face. Experiment brought an antidote to this trouble, and now the cargo of a ship that Is to be salved can be spruyed with a special solution as soon ns there is any reason to suspect poison gns. This spraying removes all dungor, Salvage work before the War was purely a private enterprise. The admiralty had no salvage branch, and when warships went ashore or were , beached after collision the private firms, like the Liverpool Sulvage association, were called in. War altered that, like many other things in the murltime world, and today the whole of the salvage work around the United Kingdom is carried out by an admiralty department. But since the men manning that depart-t-eare, without exception, the former heads of the salvage business, the difference Is mainly in titles and not In methods. Warship salving is confidential, and the work done by the department In this direction cannot he described. Its share in keeping the allies supplied with . merchant ships, however, is not secret, and the record of work done since Octjr her, 1515, is an excellent one.' Down to the end of 1917 the admiralty salvage section, under the guidance of Capt. F. W, Young, had rescued 200 wrecked, mined or torpedoed ships and sent them In for repairs. All that time their experience was growing. New material was being built for the work, new Ideas were being put into prae-tlcshape, and the result Is that the year 1918 lias so fur seen a remarkable increase in the number of ships saved. The figures for the early part of this year are: January, 14; February, 41 ; March, 37 ; April, 30 ; May, 19 ; giving a total of 147. Thus In 32 months 407 ships have been restored to the world's mercantile tonnage. The Germans count all these uud some of them twice over, In their calculations of the tonnage loss Inflicted on the allies by the submarine campaign. Every salvage man will tell you that the only thing certain about It Is that you. never know what Is going to happen. A ship may be ashore in the simplest position, with just one big hole In her to be patched up, and It looks like a Job that will take a few days, la the end you are, with that perhaps, six mouths haugtng-arou- nd one ship before you can get her to float. Weather, tides and the condition of the cargo all play a h ading part In the work. The only thing the salvage man has got to do all the time Is to be patient That perhaps, is why they all look so tired. Waiting Is a weary business. The weather Is the worst enemy of salvage men. It Is very nice on a fine summer's day to stand on the cliffs and look down at the busy humming workshops that we call salvage era clustered round a wreck that shines red with rust in the sunlight The motors of pumps drone Incessantly, and the great pipes send out cascades of gray water whose stale scent travels far before It la lost The d divers clamber up and down, sitting for a while in the sun to make report of their progress below, receiving orders fpr the next .stage, or Just resting. It is different when the southwesterly gales blow, when rollers pour In from the Atlantic and pound down like Nansmytb hammers tm the decks of the wreck. The salvage boats and tugs all have to run for shelter, work has to be abandoned, and only the still, silent hulk is left to weather the storm. j5o long as she Is firmly Imbedded n the sand or i ngle., "howeverTaud there is plently of water Inside her" as well as outside,' It takes a good muriy months of storms to knock a ship to pieces. It is often necessary, in order ro- save- a from' tlie effects of weather, to flood compartments In her that had remained watertight Tne problem of dealing with the water !u wrecks and la ships that have been holed hut are still afloat has been advanced very fur toward solution during the war ly the general adoption of a new British Invention, which has been described as a miracle of 'modern electrical engineering. Described simply. It is an electricully driven, pump which can he entirely .submerged and will stih pump as efficiently as If it .were above vn'or. The submersible pump, as It is - 'l, b things that no one ever believecj s.lfl do. I saw one in the hold of a A pump covered with a black, Creel r wj) 9 te metal-helmete- -- 1 j-h- - -- - '!, evH-sinel- l- did so and got relief right away, f can certainly this valuable medicine to ' Express. The Talkative Golfer, Parke I see you have been playing golf with Perkins wife. Is she a good . player 7 Lane Fair. She goes round In about a hundred BtrQkes and a couple of thousand words. London Tit-Bit- Si Massachusetts has 300,000 voters able te read or write English. un- One Sure Thing. Who Is back "of this show? I dont know who Is back of It, but I know the sheriff Is In front. , Its not the backsets that set a man United States has horses and mules. back se hopelessly as the upsets. 839,593 5 if; gKJ S 1 f - WfV W5-- H v-x- ? i " S3 ? TJiAZZ OW UWTTR - A WRtCRCD &U.MGhW?R AT IT bTWT . Ing ooze, looking for all the world like a bit of wreckage Itself. But It had just finished a long bout of pumping under water In that hold, which waa filled with floating barrels, beams, tangled Ironwork and a sludge that wus Indescribable; and when It had been put over the side and had pumped a few tons of clean sea water through Itself, that pump was ready to start work again anywhere, The secret of the pump Is that It Is not watertight which sounds absurd. It is, Jhowevcr, perfectly true that the water can flow in and around the whole of the works of the pump while It Is at work. No one has ever hitherto succeeded In making electricity work under water In this way; but the uses of the discovery are plain even to the layumn. A ship fitted with these pumps, for example, ought never to sink, if she has enough of them on board, because they can be set to work In the flooded compartments and pump the water out as fast as It comes In. Damage to the engine, rooms does not affect the pumps, because they do not rely for their current on the ships dynamos, but on their own portable outfit. Sulvage experts tell one rather amusing tale of the versatility of the pumps. A fire broke out In the hold of a ship that was carrying a very valuable Inflammable cargo. Two submersible pumps were on board, and the captain slung them oVer the side Into the sea. attached a good length of hose to them and set them going to pump water at the rate of about 350 tous an hour each into the burning hold. They soon put the fire out, and the captain then lowered the pumps Into the hold and made them pump out the water they had previously pumped In. . AT CARGO &0AT x. Fire at sea, collision,' weather and other marine rlskk 41 re all dealt with by the admiralty salvage section' juBt as much as war risks such as mining and torpedoing; but It Is, of course, the war risks that provide the hulk of the cases. The work of the section falls really into three parts. There are, first Ofall the rescue tugs. These proceed to any ship that is In distress, whatever the cause, and eudeavoK to tow her into port, or at least to get her Into shallow water, where she can go aground or even sink and still be sulvnble. In the latter case the second part of the sections work begins the patching up, emptying and lifting. This may take anything from six weeks to six months. When she is lifted and afloat again she Is towed to the nearest sheltered anchorage, and there temporary repairs are eK fected, she is cleaned up Inside and her engine-roorestored to something like order. It Is the aim, a far as possible, 'to enable her to proceed to a shipyard under her own steam-Therare cases, of course, where the torpedo or the mine has exploded Just by the engine-rooThen the and blown everything to fragments. hull, 'patched up, has to he towed to the pairing yard; hut In the majority of cases the damage Is in the bows or in the stern, and the vessel can limp along by herself after first aid from the salvage section. British Rulvage experts have little hope of salving any of the ships that are down In deep water. The physical limitations of divers alone would make It an Impossibility to raise, for example. the Lusitania, and, so far. no mechanical devices that have been suggested or made .hold out any hope of doing' the work of the diver" with , any success. You 100 Miles Away Preparing meat is only a part of Swift & Companys usefulness. The finest meat in the world wouldnt do you any good one hundred miles away from your e m , table. I told him that the Bonaparte family considered this the very image of their mother. fOVben Madame Mere was In Naples, her daughter. coni Is Its the of body, Back torpedo j?ueen Caroline, Induced her to sit by the statue, after'-ran- d Steer and made a large party remark on the to drlve the all machinery talnlng striking resemblance." it has been launched. From forward aft we find compartments as follows : A compressed air resbalance or Immersion chamber, engine an GREAT PLAY NEVER PRODUCED. ervoir, chamber. The a tiny engine and buoyancy space Gen. Lew Wallace wrote a la driven by compressed air, which Is compressed tragedy entitled to a high degree, and it rotates the propellers Commodus," which was founded on the story of Maternua,' an escaped slave, who rebelled whereby the projectile Is curried through the water. The Immersion or balance chamber proagainst his country, placed himself at the head of a band of outlaws, planned the capture of vides the means of maintaining the depth at which Borne and his own elevation to the the torpedo shall travel through the water after throne but chamber is there In the was finally betrayed and killed. It was never lauuched. engine being also the device for keeping the projectile to its produced, but Lawrence Barrett, to whom It was This la - submitted, wrote- General Wallace designated path during Its- travel. that tt Was the nchteved by means of a gyroscope. The buoyancy - best play since Richelieu," and that both as a chamber, which is placed aft of the engine cham poeiu and as an acting play Commodus is the best English drama." It was printed, but never ber Is virtually a vacuum. Without this chain- d p - . - J)erLtbetoritHbwouldKlnk.fl'bpriiiHdlersunditageiL Bostum-Globe,-rudder- - s are usteru and outside the torpedo's body. UP, SEE, UP. WONDERFUL RESEMBLANCE. 1tt-jTWt-da- Dion BoucicnuU, the actor-dramatis- t, was the seventeenth-centur- y very image of Sir Kenoltu Dlghy, Jhe and MontJerrold philosophers Douglas have of balloons, might inveutor golfier, the Mqntagu1 Williams had twin brothers. as passed become a perfect only to don a black periwig to U as Charles by Sir Peter depicted of double and J. L. Motbetween likeness llyrou The Lely. of the Putefy republic, was deley, the historian scribed- by the poets widow ns most wonderful." Charles M.vcFarlane In his Reminiscences of ft Literary Life, describes how, in 132ti, he met Shelley In the lloaI Burbon museum, Naples, and showed him a statue of Agrippina, the mother oir h.ew By 'those 'trap -- wnr i Swift & Company efficiency has made it possible to place complete lines .of products in the smallest and most remote of Nero. fish-shape- Cant Eat Meat m - , awful pams-a- nd nothing seemed to do me any good. A friend advi3ed me to take Lydia T. Pinkhams Vege. table Compound. I ms d 12-ln- ch Oskalooea, Iowa. For years I was simply to misery from a weakness and other women who suffer, fer it has done such good Jerusalem to Gaza by Rail. and woric me know it will heln for I The modern Ethiopian travels from will give it a fair trial if others they to his Jerusalem to Gaza on the way Mrs. Lizzie Courtney, 103 8th Ave home country far up the Nile by rail- West, Osk&loosa, Iowa. road train. 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