NEW NAVAL DIRIGIBLE !
FLIES FOUR HUNDRED MILES
(U S. Official Bulletin.)
The navy department authorises
tiie following:
Reports have reach* (I the navy de
partment that the tirst of the 16 non
rigid dirigibles be'ing built for the
navy department lias made a suc
cessful flight of more than 400 miles.
This dirigible left Chicago Monday at
midnight and arrived at Akron be
tween 4 and 5 o’clock Tuesday after
noon. As this was merely an experi
mental flight and not an official tod,
no attempt was made to attain idgn
speed. The contrast requires lh.il
these buloons make <0 miles an hour.
Tills is a new type of al<ship de
signed by the navy department and
is on the order of (lie "Blimps," the
nonrlgid dirigibles which Ragland has
been using witn such success. The
design was prepared by Naval Con
structor J. C. Hunan!*! •. of the bureau
i f construction and repair, under the
direction of Admiral Taylor, chief of
tlie bureau.
Sixteen Contracted for.
Sixteen were contracted for some
two months ago. The Goodyear Co. is
building nine, and the other are being
built by the (ioodifich Rubber Co.,
Akron, O., the Curtiss Aircraft Co,
Hantmondsport, N. Y., and one by the
Connecticut Aircraft Co., New Haven,
t is expected that they will here
after be completed at the rate of one
a week and that all \v*ill be delivered
by August.
The American “Blimps" will form a
part, of the coast patrol and will be
distributed along the coast as look
outs to watch for the approach of
enemy vessels. The English have
found this tyi>e very effective in de
tecting submarines.
Operators Now In Training.
The men who will operate them are
| now in trninjjng at the .station at
Pensacola, Fla., where the dirigible
DN 1, of an old type, which was
recently delivered to the government,
and aircraft of other types are being
used in the training. As fast as the
new di dgi bles arc delivered, after
thorough official tests and when the
crews are familiar with their opera
tion, they will be sent to the stations
selected.
The first of the "Blimps” will prob
ably be delivered to the government
within the next two weeks, during
which the official tests will be made
Within the next two months It Is
expected that a number of them will
be in service and nil the 1C probably
by the middle of August.
NOTICE.
I'or first eiass work and prompt de
livery phone Main 151 and the Peo
ple’s laundry will send and get yaur
laundry. W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop.
NEW AERO SYSTEM
TO GIRD THE WORLD
In the wireless communication sys
tem of tlie United States navy which
is nearing completion one of the
marvels of modern science is about to
lie consummated.
A powerful new radio station is
being erected at Cavite, Philippine
islands. With this in connection
\\ i111 the station at Pearl Harbor,
Honolulu, and a post at Sun Diego,
tlie central radio station at Arlington
will l>e enabled to coinmun'icate with
American warships in any part of
tile world. So powerful in the aggre
gate will he the chain of wireless
Malum Hull a message transmit led
from headiiuarters may literally cir
cle tlie globe.
The Cavite station will be of 350
kiiowat [lower with a sending radius
uf 4,700 miles. The Honolulu station
and the station at Quain arc practi
, cully of the same power. The San
Diego station, recently completed, has
a power of 150 kilowatts. Another
powerful station has been added,
Darien, Panama. Direct or by relay
each station of tho chain is in com
n unication with the central station
i ear Arlington.
Kven before completion the system
has proved its worth. A letter re
cently received by Commander David
W. Todd, in charge of the navy com
munication service, stated that news
dispatches, weather reports, etc.,
transmitted by the central station
were picked up In the Mediterranean
sen. Another report was that a mes
sage from Tuekerton, N. .J. to Sydney,
N. S. W., was received without dif
ficulty. The distance between the two
points is about 10,000 miles.
Naval radio stations on the New
Kngland coast are said to have heard
distinctly messages sent from Ma
drid, Spain, and have picked up also
news dispatches tiled front Beilin to
Say vi lie.
At the headquarters of the conimim
Ration service, it is explained, that
one of the greatest values of the
system is its ability to inform ships
in practically every ocean of the ox
act time each day. This provides an
additional safeguard for navigators
and practically supplants the time
honored method of determining lati
tude and longitude by means of chron
ometers.
Tests have proved the '•fthvicy jf
tile system in transmitiii: f rnossagts
to warships to every pi.'*, ot tue l’11 -
eific and Atlantic oceans. Recent
commmunlcation wt i ships off the
west coast of Aft'iea provided a prac
tical demonstration.
Because of the lack of United States
possessions in the Indian ocean and
near the coasts of Kurope, no wire
less stations could he erected in those
parts. To offset the lack the stations
erected were endowed with sufficient
power to overlap great distances so
that naval officers are conflilont the
system will be effective in any emer
gency and under almost all conditions.
With erecfiori of the stations at
Cavite and l*carl Harbor, the navy
department will have attained 'its
dream of years and the most remark
able wireless system in the world will
have been completed.
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TEMPERATURES
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lemperatmvs for this year aDd last
on the Jays tesignuted. The minus
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sign in fore a number means below
Eero.
U. S Weather Bureau.
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lune 3. 30 38
June 4. 36 42
June 6. 38 36
June 6 . 28 14 |
June 7 . 27 42 |
June 9. 27 40 '
June 10. 44 36
June 11. 44 34 :
June 12.43 35 |
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June 16. 36 48
June 16 .36 44
June 17 .35 48 j
June 18. 35 38 I
June 19 . 36 401
June 20. 41 36
June 21 . 41 44
June 22 . 32 37
June 23 . 38 38
June 24 . 42 40
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