Show THE NEW CRUISER The Cincinnati to Be Launched at Brooklyn Today Miss Mary Mosby Will Christen the Vessel as the Plunge Into the Great Deep It Taken BKOOKLTN Nov 6Tomorrow the new cruiser Cincinnati is to make the daring plunge into tho great deep and as she rolls off Miss Mary Mosby daughter of Mayor John B Mosby of Cincinnati will break the baptismal bottle of wino President George W Draper of the Cincinnati board of legislation Mayor Mosby and a host of Ohioans will witness the eventful launching launch-ing Tho preparations for tho launching will be completed early in the morning Hundreds of live oak wedges are piled up under the hull ready for use in the process of wedging up the ways The launching platforms leading up from the water in front of the vessels stern will be filled with visitors The hull which was at first painted a dull red has been changed to a gray lead paint to prevent rust Among the prominent officials who will attend the launching will be Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F Traoy Assistant Secretary of the Navy J R Soley the different ferent chiefs of bureaus at Va3hin ton tho commanders and officers of the different war vessels In port including those of the French squadron and the Italian and Spanish Span-ish cruisers Stands have also been erected at the bow of the vessel for Invited guests and for the navy yard band which will discourse dis-course patriotic music A special stand has been erected for the party from Cincinnati Cin-cinnati The stand is handsomely decorated decora-ted with red white and blue bunting and flags The bottle of wine which will be broken across the sharp bow of the cruiser just as the latter starts to leave the ways is of Ohio vintage from tho sunny vineyards of Cuyahoga county on the shores of the historic Lake Erie The Cincinnati is the second steel vessel ever built at the navy yards and Naval Constructors MIntouye and Fernald who have had charge of her construction have every reason to be proud of their work The naval officers at the yard take an especial pride in the vessel ves-sel because not only her hull but her boilers boil-ers and engines wore constructed within the yellow walls which bound the Brooklyn Brook-lyn navy yard The Cincinnati is 3000 tons displacement and will be classed as a protected cruiser The vessel will cost the government exclusive ex-clusive of armament about 1110000 She will carry eleven puna in her main battery Her complement of officers and men will ba about SOU all told WONDER WORKER A STOVB THAT MAKES FUEL The latest form of kitchen range is arranged ar-ranged to taKe the waste material from the kitchen and after drying it convert it into charcoal for use as fuel BUILDINGS MADE OF TAPER Paper properly treated with chemicals and them subjected to great pressure is proposed pro-posed for flooring material and for general use in buildings as a fireresisting material TAKING GAS FKOSI EARTh Two English engineers have applied to the Argentine government for authority to extract marsh gas from tho islands in the delta of tho Parana river with n view to using it for lighting and fuel purposes The board of public works has reported favorably on the proposition providing the government offices are supplied with light and motive power free of charge A WELL THAT SPOUTS COiL State Engineer G H Baldwin who has been Inspecting the artesian well at Spring ieli S D reports that the well is spouting spout-ing soft coal and slate A ton and a half of coal bus been picked up about the well The well has a pressure of 200 pounds and throws a stream thirty feet high LIFE BELTS MADE OF HAIR A life belt lately invented at Stettin is composed of reindeer hair confined in a canvas covering It is in the ordinary shape of a life belt but is very much lighter ligh-ter than those of cork weighing only two pounds and vU support tweutytwo pounds of iron in the water AN AERIAL POSTAL LINE A company has been formed in Chicago for the purpose of rapidly transmitting mail matter and packages by overhead cables the motive power being electricity I is proposed to construct a series of lines stretching high enough to void the tallest buildings the wires radiating from the lostoffice to all central distributing points and being strong enough to carry tons of mail |