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Newspaper
Hamilton Democrat Sun
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1907
Page
2
A French Beilvaire shipyard launch introduces a racing motor boat by M. Andre Gambin. The 59 ft overall craft uses two 60 hp V four engines driving a bow propeller with a six blade typhonoid design claimed to reach 100 kmh.
Two gold prospectors in the Santa Susanna mountains about fifty miles from Los Angeles report finding the largest cave in western America as described by Scientific American. They also note a mighty centrifugal pump used in irrigation. Two large centrifugal pumps in southwest Texas claim a capacity of 95 000 gallons a minute with no flywheel needed.
America's first large turbine steam ship Creole was commissioned recently. Built at Fore River yards Quincy Massachusetts she joins Southern Pacific's Atlantic fleet as a turbine propelled vessel. The 440 foot long ship displaces 10 600 tons and reaches 18 ½ mph with 4 500 tons cargo. It carries 12 staterooms and accommodations for 250 steerage passengers.
Scientists in Washington report that linden wood provides the greatest heat when burned, despite its softness. Fir ranks a close second, with pine following, while oak yields about 8 percent less heat than linden and red beech about 10 percent less.
British battleships are being equipped with forty eight powerful searchlights giving illumination strong enough to read a newspaper at eighteen miles.
Clarence Hungerford Mackay born 1874 in San Francisco inherited wealth after his father John W. Mackay died. He ran Mackay-Bennett Cable Postal Telegraph and Pacific Commercial Telegraph companies, rivaling Western Union. He married Katharine Dyer in 1900 and is active in New York social life with Long Island estate and sports interests.
Jacob Hope of the phonograph school for parrots in Philadelphia described a swearing parrot from a German ship. The owner, a sailor, swore the bird knew no profanity, and a lady bought him but later brought him to Hope. The parrot mimicked shipboard life, often gasping and hiccoughing then faintly crying steward bucket.
Charles Frohman narrates a court tale about a refined wealthy woman who shoplifted. A lawyer reports the case to his wife and the judge asks how the downfall began. The woman confesses that she started by picking her husband’s pockets at night, leading to her fall.
The Nation's head educator, Professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, U S commissioner of education under Roosevelt, is linked to his boyhood educational methods. Born in Chautauqua County, New York, in 1861, three months after the killing of his namesake Colonel Elmer.
E Ellsworth is named as the first officer to fall in the civil war. Professor Brown, a graduate of Illinois State Normal and the University of Michigan, studied in Germany and has taught education theory and practice at the University of California after previously holding a similar post at Michigan.
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