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SATURDAY JUNE 20, 1914.
GRAND ARMY OF POSTMASTERS
Postmaster General Burleson an
nounces that in fourteen months he
has appointed 23,317 postmasters,
5,161 of whom were of presidential
grade. The total number of post
offices in the country and its terri
torial possessions is 57,540.
The Grand Army of Postmasters is
therefore more than twice as large
as our entire regular army when the
war with Spain broke out. It is near
ly as large as our present regular es
tablishment within the United States.
There seems to be no army of post
masters in the world like ours. Rus
sia has our vast spaces but not our
universal education. Germany has
education but not our distances. The
revenue of our department in 1913
was $266,619,525. British postal rev-,
enhes this J'eai' ate estimated at only
$105,000,000. France receives less
than $80,000,000 from her posts, tele
graphs ahd telephones; the German
Empire has Ifess than $300.000,000 for
the saliie three services. We send
18,000.000,000 pieces of mail matter
in a year. No other two nations be
gin to do that.
The army of postmasters serves
peace, friendship, good understand
ing at home and abroad. Nobody
cares how big it grows if it will be
good enough to keep out of politics
and devote all its energies to hand
ling the mails.—Ex.
BASE BALL_ SCORES
Games played June 19, 1914.
National League.
Boston 7, St. Louis 5. Pitchers—
Rudolph, James; Griner, Sallee.
New York 6, Cincinnati 0. Pitch
ers—Marquard; Ames, Daustner.
Philadelphia 7, Chicago 8. Pitch
ers—Jacobs, Rickey, Mayer; Zabel,
Cheney.
American League.
Detroit 3, Washington 2. Pitch
ers—Dauss; Boehling.
St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 2. Pitch
ers—Weilman; Wykoff.
Chicago 3, Boston 2. Pitchers—
Benz; Collins, Bedient.
Federal League.
St. Louis 6, Brooklyn 8. Pitchers
—Davenport, Herbert; Marion,Ow
ens.
Kansas City 5, Baltimore 4. Pitch
ers—Stone, Packard; Suggs, Smith.
Northwestern League.
.Tacoma 4, Seattle 1. Pitchers—
Andrana; Dell.
Spokane 6, Portland 0. Pitchers—
Hughes; Brown.
TEAM STANDING. _
National League.
Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
New York . 30 19 612
Cincinnati . 31 24 , 564
St. Louis . 29 28 509
Pittsburg . 25 25 500
Philadelphia . 24 25 490
Chicago ..27 30 474
Brooklyn . 21 27 438
Boston . 21 30 412
American League.
Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
Philadelphia .. ...... 35 20 636
Detroit . 34 25 576
St. Louis . 30 25 545
Boston . 29 26 527
Washington .. ;. 29 26 527
Chicago . 25 31 446
New York . 19 32 373
Cleveland .. 19 35 352
Federal League.
Per
Gaines— Won Lost Cent
Indianapolis ...28 21 571
Chicago . 29 23 558
Brooklyn .. •. 24 21 ■ 533
Buffalo . 26 23 531
. Baltimore . 26 24 520
Kansas City . 25 27 481
St. Louis . 23 32 418
Pittsburg . 22 31 415
Northwestern League.
Per
Games— Won Lost Cent
Vancouver.. 44 19 698
Seattle . 42 24 636
Spokane . 39 26 600
Portland . 24 39 381
Tacoma . 25 43 368
Victoria . 19 42 311
Pentecostal Mission.
Regular meetings: Sunday, 3 p. m.
and 7:30 p. m., also Monday, Tues
day, Thursday and Friday at 7:30.
Bible study each Monday evening.
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NIGHT LIKE DAY ON
PANAMA CANAL
Wonderful Lighting System
Now Being Installed.
NEW TYPE FLASHING LI6HTS
Illuminated Buoys, Beacons and Range
Towers Will Allow Continuous Pas
sage of 8hipa—Sun Will Control
Gas—Its Flow to Be Regulated by the
Solar Hest.
The lighting system now being In
stalled in and along the Panama canal
Is so complete as practically to render
night into day, so far as the great ln
teroceanlc waterway Is concerned. In
the Navy, the organ of the Navy
League of the United States, is a de
scription of the wonderful system of
lights that is being installed.
“The completed Panama canal,” says
the Navy, “has been called a new won
der of the world. It is more than that.
It is a combination of wonders united
in one vast whole. Not least among
these wonders is the system of light
ing which has been installed through
out the entire length of the waterway
to enable vessels to utilize night as
well as day in their passage.
“The contract provided for the in
stallation £ Jfti Heven completj^llglit I
bhoyff oT the shape, slz\ and dlmen- j
sions specified by the IsthmTaff
commission, together with Installations
In some of the beacons aijd range tow
ers'
Acetylene Lighted Buoys.
“Accordingly the Panama canal is
lighted throughout by automatic unat
tended lights, each having a distinctive
characteristic. At the entrances and
through, the Gatun lake the channel is
marked by a double row of automatic
acetylene lighted buoys. The channel
is further defined by powerful, rapid
flashing range lights, one set at either
end of each successive tangent.
Through the Culebra cut, or wherever
the proximity of the banks permits,
beacons will be used Instead of buoys.
"The illumination used is dissolved
acetylene—that is, acetylene under
pressure dissolved in a tank filled with
a special porous mass and acetone. Ace
tone has a solvent capacity of twenty
five times its own volume per atmos
phere of pressure. The acetylene stor
ing capacity of the tank is accordingly
ten times its own volume for each at
mosphere of pressure. Therefore at a
pressure of ten atmospheres a tank
contains 100 times its own volume of
acetylene. Two or more of these tanks
are attached to each buoy or installs
tion.
"Tlie gas released rrom me uidks
passes through a governor or reducing
chamber and from there Into the flash
ing chamber nnd then passes through
a pipe to the main burner, where It Is
ignited by a constantly burning pilot
flame. The pilot flame is fed through
a bypass direct from the governor.
“The system shows an entirely new
principle In flashes which permits the
production of a very large number of
separate nnd distinct flashes compared
with the older types of flashing lights.
This new flasher may be adjusted to
give light periods of any desired time
down to one-tenth of a second or less,
alternating with dark intervals of any
desired length. The principles of the
system used are covered by the- Dalen
patents.
Ths Sun Valve.
“Although not employed on buoys,
but on many beacons and range lights,
it may be of Interest to give a brief
description of that ingenious Invention
of Mr. Dalen’s, the sun valve. The sun
valve controls the flow bf gas to the
burner, so that the light will burn only
in darkness. It is actuated entirely by
light, its construction and operation
being based on the well known phys
ical law that a body with a light ab
sorbing surface attains a higher tem
perature and consequently expands
more than a similar body with a light
reflecting surface when both are ex
posed to the same light
“A central copper rod coated with
lamp black to give it the property of
absorbing light to the greatest possible
degree is surrounded by three copper
rods that have surfaces of polished
gold, which causes them to reflect light
to the greatest possible degree. The
lower end of the centra! rod beans on
a valve controlling the flow of gas.
“When light is withdrawn from the
apparatus this central rod contracts,
the valve is opened and allows the gas
to flow to the burner, but when light
falls upon the apparatus It 18 absorbed
by the blackened central rod and trans
formed Into heat, which causes the rod
to expand, forcing the valve lever
down on the valve seat, thus shutting
off the flow of gaa to the burner. This
automatic light keeper effects great
fuel economy and Increases the service
capacity of the acetylene tanks.”
His Hearse Waa a Biplane.
During life Ivan Sopornowakl, a
Russian millionaire, refused to enter
a motorcar. In his .will, however, was
a clause bequeathing f100,000 to an
airman who would convey Wo coffin
to the graveside In an aeroplane. One
named Posoff placed tbe coffin In his
biplane and dew to tbe cemetery, but
be made ancb a bad landing tbat be
nearly killed himself. Bopornowskl’a
relatives reluctantly paid him $100,000
out of tbs estate.
CHURCH TO BE
HOTELAS WELL
Novel Features of Nine Story
Structure In Los Angeles.
WILL HAVE 350 BEDROOMS.
Purpose of ^1,000,000 Project le to In
terest the Whole Family—“First Cen
tury Christianity With Twentieth
Century Action," Says Pastor of In
teresting Experiment.
A nine story church thut will cost
$750,000 and will contain, besides the
auditorium for religious services, res
taurants, social rooms, 350 bedrooms
nnd a host of other unusual features,
Is now under erection for the Trinity
Methodist Church South of Los An
geles.
"Our Church,” as it Is called, is go
ing up on a corner lot 100 by 140 feet,
the material being brick and granite.
From the outside the building looks
more like an apartment house than a
house of -worship. The avowed aim in
planning the structure was to interest
the “whole family.”
The auditorium on the ground floor,
140 feet by 90 feet, with a concrete
gallery all around it, will seat 2,500
persons. Besides its use on Sunday,
It will be open every week day night
for lectures, musicals, etc., as it may
J»e needed.
Will Evan Have a Nursery.
Behfnd the pulpit are rooms for the
pastor'and Sunday school superintend
ent Above these is a choir room and
above it a nursery. There are four
large rooms for Sunday school work
and class rooms on each side of the au
ditorium. Four large rooms on the
third floor may be devoted to educa
tional purposes.
There will be a social and banquet
hall, open every night, where young
men and women may meet under the
tutelage of n Christian man nnd his
wife.
For men and boys there will be an
apartment for social work; billiard nnd
club rooms nnd a gymnasium. With
the women nnd girls they will have
the use of tennis and basketball courts
on the roof and n bowling alley under
the sidewalk.
The restaurants nnd cafe will be
available to all. The bedrooms in the
building will have bathrooms and
sleeping porches.
Pastor to Bo General Manager.
The general manager of this combi- \
nation church, hotel nnd club will be j
the pastor, the Itev. Charles S. Selec
man, who had wide experience in in
stitutional work In St. Louis and New
Orleans nnd went to Los Angeles from
Missouri three months ago to take
charge. Upon his arrival Dr. Selee
man announced that the new church
would be open seven days in the week.
“It is a poor business,” he said, "to
invest $1,000,000 as we are doing and
allow it to be idle six days out of sev
en. Just a place to drop in and pray
is like an ousis in many a dusty,
weary day. But worship is not all
men and women need social life. The
open church is the same old organisa
tion in its everyday clothes. It Is the
first century Christianity with twen
tieth century action.”
HITS RICH GAMp HUNTERS.
No Mor. Shooting of Mooao and 8hoap
In Southeastern Alaska Until 1918.
The shooting of moose In southeast
ern Alaska and of mountain sheep In
the eastern part of the Kenal penin
sula Is prohibited until April 1, 1910,
by new regulations of the department
of agriculture. In effect April 1.
Hitherto Alaskan game has been pro
tected only by n closed season and the
system of fees for shooting and ship
ping licenses. The excellence of the
big game shooting has, however, been
attracting wealthy sportsmen of all
countries in greater numbers each
year. The Alaskan bear Is the largest
known variety, and the Alaskan moose
head Is regarded ns the finest trophy
of the kind in the world, the horns
sometimes measuring six feet across.
In addition, there are splendid speci
mens of caribou, and the mountain
sheep when in condition nre distin
guished from all the varieties found
elsewhere by the peculiarly pure white
of their fleece,
STUDENTS TO RUN STORES.
Co-operative System to Be Tried at
Oxford University.
Stores on purely co-operative lines
and managed by members of tbe uni
versity will be opened next term at
Oxford. They will be run on a system
similar to that of tbe co-operative so
ciety started by Dublin university in
October, which has proved a great sue-,
cess.
As in Dublin, tbe stores will sell
groceries, tobacco and similar com
modities. The ambition of those re
sponsible for tbe scheme Is, first of all,
to teach the main principles of co-op
eration by practical experience of Ita
advantages, tbe aim being to provide
lees expensive foods and to distribute
tbe profits among those wbo support
tbe Stores. •
It is boped that the stores will deal
a blow to tbe credit system In vogue
at universities, which is a direct temp
tation to students to run up heavy
bills.
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A well dressed man is always in demand [for the best
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Come in and look over what we are prepared to show
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Copyright Han Schaghcr 4c Marx
PROFESSIONAL
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Washington, D. C.
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