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ADMIRAL FLETCHER THE SCIENTIFIC LIILOR OF UNCLE S9M'S BIG NAVY Noted Navwl Officer Has Invented Some of the Most Valuable Mechalical Contrivances in Use in the Service-He Is Also Exceedingly Well Idead in International Law Was Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1855. Washington.-Friday Fletcher ev • erybody in the navy calls him. He got his nickname in a rather odd way. It so chanced that the officer who now commands the American na val forces in Mexican waters was born on the sixth day of the week in the Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher. town of Oskaloosa Ia. The exact date was November 23, 1855. His fath er an this account used to call him "my little man Friday." When he was a little chap of seven his father died. -At fourteen he was appointed to Annapolis, and in due course was escorted thither by an older brother, who when called upon to put the youngster's name down on the roster of boys entering the Naval academy, wrote "Frank Friday Fletch er." This did not particularly please the family, because Friday was not really a part of his name. But natural ly under the circumstances it stuck. He was called Friday all through the five years he spent at the academy he dropped back one class, be;ng rath er young to keep up-and ever since that time his fellow officers in the serv lce have known him as Friday Fletch er and nothing else. Young Fletcher was graduated from Annapolis on Jane 31, 18756, and soon afterward was assigned to duty on board the United States steamer Tus carora, which was engaged in survey ing a submarine route for a projected cable to connect California with Japan. This, by the way, was a very interest tng job. It involved an exploration of the ocean depths, almost the first ever made, and specimens of the materials composing the sea floor were brought up from the bottom all the way across the Pacific. Just east of Japan the Tuscarora discovered the deepest hole ttht exists anywhere in the world, a marine abyss, known to this day as the Tuscarora Deep, the soundings ftaling to touch bottom at five and a quarter miles below the waves. Although accident first directed young Fletcher's attention to scientific matters, ncidentally to his profession al duties, he soon showed a special aptitude for such pursuits. He has an Investigative turn of mind, and if he had not happened to become a naval aeeer it is altogether likely that he weould have been an inventor. Indeed, some of the most valuable mechanical contrivances used in the mavy, especially in connection with Pnms, were originated by him. Among these are improvements in telescopic sights: :he well-known Fletcher breech closaing mechanism, and a fric tionless gun mount for quick fire rtiles Another very remarkable cruise, In 1879-1881,. took the young ofcer to Korea, on the steam sloop Ticondero ga, then a formidable warship. Com manded by Commodore R. W. Shu teldt, she was sent around the world In obedience to a speclal order of con gres, and Is behalf of the department of state, to make what was called a commercial and diplomatic cruise. The most important object of the ex pedition was to open negotiations with the government of Korea for a treaty which would insure the protec tion of the lives and property of Amer It was also desired to open Korea to American commerce, and Japan, being at that time on very cordial terms with the United States, had sig nlied her willingness to lend aasist ace toward this end. But when the ?leonderoga entered the harbor of Froan, May 14, 1880. the offmlcials re fuaed to accept the letter handed to them by Commodore Shufeldt. on the gruand that it was addressed to the kng of Korea, whereas their monarch was properly designated as the king of Chro-en-which, being translated, meaens "Land of the Morning Calm." oAccordingly, the American vessel was obliged to withdraw with nothing ac complished, her departure being sig FIND BIG PRE-GLACIAL LOGi Ples of Wood Neatly Hewn 40,0a Years Ag Ie i Unearthed by New York lulider. Nw York.-Whoever tt was that out t of the ave, near lower ,w. for some indling wood, aeveing mere than 40,0W yeasr and, after pittlng it with a se as ·a bbs a e the mu -. h m-mw 1 UwamM p nalized by a derisive salute from a Korean fort. Korea, although nominally an inde pendent monarchy, was in reality un der the suzerainty of China. Accord ingly, the expedition proceeded to Chi nese waters and, after spending a year there all difficulties were surmounteSl. and the Ticonderoga returned to Korea, thereupon negotiating a treaty which was signed b." the high contract ing parties in a temporary pavilion erected on an point of land opposite the ship. The next noteworthy duty to which Fletcher was assigned was an expedi tion of a purely scientific character, the object in view being to deterpnine with accuracy the longitude of a series of points in South and Central Amer ica. This work was accomplished by observation of the stars, supplemented by the use of telegraph, the task being part of a network of longitude deter minations made by various civilized nations and encircling the entire earth. On the way back from the Peruvian Andes, where the last longtitude ob servations had been made. Fletcher reached the city of Panama just in time to find that town suffering from a more than ordinarily severe epi demic of yellow fever. People were dy ing of the disease like flies, and during a fortnight which he spent in the har bor much against his will landing par ties were going ashore from the ves sels every day to bury victims. That was in 1884. Since then Fletcher's professional duties have been of a much varied character. At different times he has commanded the torpedo boat Cushing, the gunboats Kanawha and Eagle, the cruiser Raleigh and the battleship Vermont. Three years ago, although only a cap tain at the time, he was made aid for material to the secretary of the navy. a place ordinarily not assigned to an officer under the grade of rear admiral. For some time he was in command of the torpedo station at Newport, and in regard to torpedo boats and subma . . '.:t: The Battleship Rhode Island. rines he is considered an expert. Note worthy improvements in fleet tactics have been suggested by him. But his most remarkable inventive ideas have been developed in connection with naval ordnance. MR. AND MRS. FRANCIS B. SAYRE IN LONDON Mrs. and Mrs Francis B. Sayre in the home of Ambassador Page ti Grosvenor square, London. Here in the ambassador's splendid home the former Miss Jessie Wilson. daughter of the president, and her husb have been enjoying a few days of their quiet honeymoon. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - by in ULttle Old New York before that piece of wood would be picked up. But it has been found. Omeer. of the Thompson-Starrett company have it in their possession. It is a cedar log from the prelbacial period, found in the excavation for the Equitable buildint, which this company is erecting. Sclatists say the log has bss their sines the sl cers swept over this pertho of Nerth Amseriea n, or more yem aps. A tha sl t n a ar ball t Neo Amainu ias u td miN ae gl It is said of Admiral Fletcher that be is forever inventing something. He was born with a mechanical bent At the naval academy, however, he at tracted no special attention, being quiet, shy and studious. Modesty has always been a conspicuous attribute ot his, but when something important if to be done he is the readiest man in the world. Fletcher and efficiency are almost synonymous. Even his mechanical in ventions are suggestive of the same quality. The Fletcher breech closing mechanism shuts the breech of a rapid-fire gun in the quickest imagin able time ant with the fewest possible motions. The gun mount already men tioned is an arrangement of truncated cones on a roller path by which fric tion is reduced to such a point that a weapon weighing thousands of pounds can be trained literally with one finger and clamped instantly to fix it upon the target He is a man of medium height, neither stout nor thin, and too rugged looking to be handsome. Unlike most naval officers he did not marry until he had reached mid dle age. His wife was a Washington girl, Miss Susan H. Stetson. The Fletcher home is in Washington at 1441 Massachusetts avenue, and they have two young daughters. Admiral Fletcher's flagship in Mexi can water is the battleship. Rhode Island. In addition there are under his command the battleships Nebraska, Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, South Carolina and Louisiana; the cruisers Tacoma and Chester, the gunboat Wheeling and the supply ship Culgoa. It is a formidable fleet. CUPID A VERY "QUEER KID" Beginning and Ending of Romance in Which Not a Single Word Was Spoken. Huntington, W. Va.-For two years persons living near the railroad tracks here have watched for the Overland freight, which is due through here at 4:30 in the afternoon. To those who were disinterested watchers the event simply meant a glimpse at the "mad fireman," as they called him, for, as the train whirled by here that mem ber of the crew would hang out of the cabin, wave a piece of waste or a handkerchief in the direction of the long hill and presently throw kisses until the train was out of sight. "Some nut" was the verdict of. the spectators. But away up on the hill Miss Sylvey Price, standing on toe veranda of her father's house, waited for the daily performance, and when it had ended sighed "some dream." She had never spoken to the fireman, but more than two years ago begap to correspond with him. He waved each day, and finally one day when she stood on the platform at the little railroad station he dropped a card with his name and address near her. The courtship began by correspond ence and continued until all arrange ments had been made for their mar riage. She had never heard his voice, and her only impressions of him were obtained from his letters and his per formance at the door of the engine. Recently Miss Price went to Ash land, Ky., to be married to the fire man, who corresponded with her un4er the name of F. L. Francis. She wait ed at the church for hours and then went to the railroad offices. No one of that name was employed there, ehe was told. She returned to her home heartbroken. Next day the Overland pulled through town; an old man was stoking the engine, and he didn't even look up. Cupid's a queer kid, isn't he? Futurist Musicians on Job. Pari.-Jealous eof the laurels won by faturist painters, an orchestra of futurist musicians will give a concert and attempt to reproduce thd sounds of a railroad collision. Insure Pear Tree for $.0,00G Los Angeles.-An alligator pear tree, owned by H. A. Woolworth. has been insured for $30,000 by Lloyds of S.andnon ainat fi re or trost. Ice. The log has been neatly cut, and Is ti perfect phetioa. Is "Associate Head of Family." Chicago.-Mra. Caroline Polachek first woman applicant for a job a eles tion clerk in the next munleipal esoe tion, gave her occupation a "assoeste bead of family." She is the mother of 11'eMires. About the time we escape hem the M edpmesue and his birch red asle .semeuulmme wltk a mg ASM IJIPPING GREAT GUNS FOR THE PANABA CANAL The steamship Cristobal has be~n loaded at New Yor k with the big guns designed for the defns of the Panama canal. One of the monsters is here seen being put aboard the vesseL The averg weight of the cano shipped is sixteen tons. yea ýj ' ]y~ :::s} d + ý ý 1 n . ma y . ý " T A X ~ , 1 I 1~ . 1 1~ "j 1.·s;~ :~ NEW YORK STREETS City's Highways Would Reach to San Francisco. All Within 327 Square MIlesoLHow Conditions of Construction and Up. keep Have Changed With Con tinually Changing of Traflfr. New York.-If the streets of New York city were placed end to end. they would make a thoroughfare near ly 50 feet wide all the way to Ban Francisco. The population of the city would form a constant line upon each sidewalk of persons six feet apart; and at the busieit portions of this transcontinental highway duringa tea hours of the day, 1,400 vehicles would pass a given point every hour. Yet these 2,677 miles of streets are com prised within an area of 327 square miles, of which, accordingly, they con stitute one-twelfth. These are among the facts assembled in an article by Frederick F. Bachley in the National Municipal Review. In New York the borough president has control of the streets in his bor ough, with power to appoint and dis miss a commissioner of public works. For local purposes, the city is divid ed also into 25 districts, in each of which is a local board, composed of the aldermen from the district and the borough president., The board has power to initiate proeeedings to open, close, widen, extend and pave the streets in Its district. No resolution is valid without the approval of the bor ough president. There are 460 miles of streets in Manhattan, and all of these are paved with the exception of about 17 miles in the northern pert, in the section that is built up since the completion of the subway. When the present ad ministration came into power four years ago, complaints about the streets were loud and numerous, par ticularly with respect to the sheet as phalt pavement Not only was the sur face of these pavements in bad condi tion, but the foundations were detec tive. To make the matter as bad as possible, there were more miles of this type of pavement in the borough than any other. As, consequently, it formed the principal thoroughfares of Manhattan. the breaks, hollows and uneven surfaces in it were painfully 4 apparent. One reason for this unfortunate state of things was the Increase that had taken place in the weight of the average load since the pavements had been laid. Another was the larger number of motor ears and trucks, with their tendency to slip, and so to scoop out the pavement For some mysterious reason, which the reader can conjecture as well as any one, this inexcusable faulty meth od of construction was continued eten aftdr the time when the new kind of vehicles and greater loads made sound foundations essential. Thirty miles of pavement with poor foundations were laid in 1903, and it was not until three years later that the practice of lay ting sound concrete foundations be came general in the borough. Because of this lmsmy construction and the age of the pavements, the cost of upkeep had become. enormous. It soon appeared that the greater part of the pavement in the borough would have tb be renewed. Previous to 1910 about $1,000,000 a year had been spent in paving. In 1911 this amount was raised to $1,400.000, and in 1912 to $3, 500.000. As a result, 50 miles of streets were laid last year, making a total of 190 mile in three years, or nearly a quarter of the entire length of the pavement' in Manhattan. There is o economy in repairlag streets after they get into bad condition It is better to repave them. Purssuaee of this policy reduced the number of square yards of roadway done in 1911 from the 478, 000 of 1911 to 383,000. And despite the steadily rislng prices charged by the asphalt companhes this work was done at an average east of 13 ceats a s.luare yard, insted e the 17 aets TROPHY- FOR THE NEXT WAR 1andeem Prie is Ot red First United Mate UMp te Capitso or snL Enemy. Boaesto.-A troghy to be tgive to that armed vessel o tlhi United 8tates Snary whiek h shL Mt rptre or siLnk a ship of the emeu in the next war is among the a lr enreas -tn muInery St v theo sle I et the s t Mas tb Other -ss e he awad s. em ,,y to b eb m m eh e which it cost in 1911. The most inter tn esting outcome of the city's fight with u these companles, however, is the pro- r Ject for a municipal asphalt plant. PRINCE OF WALES' SLUMMING Heir to English Throne Takes Glimpses Into the Under. world of Londen. London.-The prince of Wales has started his personal acquaintance with the underworld of London. Accom panied by his detective with the idea Prioe of Wale of getting some view of the other side of life, visits are made Ionogntto to the slum districts, as his father and grand father did before him. FUNGUS LIFTS 200 POUNDS I With Quiet Perie toney Horevliea Toadsteel Raless Stiue Pave most In Leaden. I Loandon.-ome years age a portion of the ,avement it Goswell road. Lon don, was lifted out of its plaeo In a mysterious manner. Before it could t be repaired numerous toadstools made their appearance in the gaping spaes I between the stones. When the stones r were removed it was found that they rested on an immense spongy mass of P toadstool growth, which had oame on increasnlg until it made a way through a which it could push its head into the e air. One of the stones moved by it measured four feet by two feet aad a weighed 200 pounds. f The more exteonsive njury was done I in the same way some years ago at f the town of Basingtoke. Not many a months after the town had b"m paved s the pavement was noticed to exhibhlit ,-sigus of uieveanes, which could not - be accounted for. As soon as the un evenness was sucieat to make opem a tngs between the stones, the hidde. s enemy made his appearance In the L. shape of innumerable toadstools. So t completely had the spores sr spawn i got possesslen of the material on 0 which the pavemeat was laid that It t had to be completely takes up and the a whole town repaved, The toadstool and itt kind see to a flourish n plages where the light is rm. Scluded, as in dark cellars, under Iag a stoes and in bollow trees. They ro e quire the air, however, and a certain. o though it may be small, amount of y light, that they may reach their pes o feet condition. Unless they are able y to produce seend they go a develop a ing t)ls amorphous, spangy mass until -t attains sometimes a fabulous dl e mesion. ve one has bearof the Seormos orgro the o fergi iasde a th4 sitte volunteer maia, the 3s All the varleus toghlUs ad medals win be hnown as anox trophies, afar a oemeral Ktno of meutlenary fame a These for the battleships and 1e1 aw Stllery me to be large medam r plaues, the es s eo wleh have a bees aggred 4 the stae alt - A 'metry heles cf e sagy a, a -s m a Bab la three yealu, was at the terlnatkion on the surface of a mushroom growth ea- r til it was forced against the roof. The fungus, moreover, had got access to t the wine and had drunk it all, living upon its sugar, and so the more easily raising and gradually emptyting cask from the ground. Fungi have some , times taken. possession of worked out mines ahd occuplDed enormeus spaces. GAME WHERE GOODWILL ENDS "You Don't klev to Be On Speaklng Terms With a Man to Play PbIeoMe With Him." 8prlngseld, Mass-Pinochle Is not naessarlly a "triendly" ame. accord. Ing to evidence tatroduced tin the s perior court. The case involved a commission on a mereantile tranas.I tion, and the defendant, Isase Brown, fatly contradicted the testimeay of Eli Cohen that Cohen and the defend ant were on terms of the utmost In Umacy. "I haven't spoken to Cohen In a year." insisted Brown. "Now, look, here." thundered the plantiff's attorney. "Is it nat a fact that only two weeks age you and Mr. Cohen were playing plnohleT" "Sure we were." said Brown. "And yet" shoueeted the attorney triumphantly. "you any you sad Cohe I have not spoken in a year?" "Wel. you doa't have to be on speaking terms with a man to play pinochle with him." retorteod the wib seas. Amid the roeanet laughter the ab torney Indicated that the oemoesoam nation was over. Judge Crosby re served decision. GIVE $80,135,476 TO CHARITY Doenatleso I U. S. fee the Past Year Show $.91 a Seased Was New Yerh.- ut l In the United States during the last 1$ months amount to $0t.135,4t, er at the rate of U$2.1 or every tick of the clock, according to a empsilat pu IBshed her. The bequest of BeaJann Altman, valued at $1,430.000 to the Metropei. tan museum of New York heads the list and the gift of $10, 000, by John D. Rokefeller, Jr., to put an and to S"white slavery" Is seeond. The gift of I I 4f $4.6ter0 to Cornell comes ea in, t. oeandisd fi Mowed by Perris 11. e Thompson's t of 3,16,W to Pries. .ton utrsity. Andew Carmegles 15 Sdonatons aregatod PsA3m snd - the aet lagust dgift is P.0WD the -dsum given WashMi gna sad las sal. verultyr y Robert P. Derems. a Arter that the lit ohows the dean Rb tioa dropped i se toe an mJ r It Pass e Debt a5se Ye' d t. Kasis, Mt-@iisa V. Chna bedIMs, who e4Ll I baein I uI SIek a t ee Leum Prsyee WI e Wwa . N. - theer h se's tp ass ns FOUR RICH PUDDIN6 j RECIPa FROM PRnAM , NCAE " HOLLAND AND GERMANYgg Served a In Pompadeor, DeIh Should Be Eaten in Moderatie.. Deaert of Vermili IaIS qea thin New-Balled Puddi~lg By LIDA AMES WILLIS Pudding a la Pompadour.-Do res wish a French plum pudding? Ye' will find this gloriously rich: Add tae ounces of fine white bread crumbs to two-thirds of a cup of cream, balg hot. When cool, beat in fivre aseo . of finely chopped suet, one ounee f flour, two ounces of crushed ae roons, two ounces of stoned raiats two ounces of candled orange peel or preserved cherries, chopped; seat of lemon peel, grating of nutmeg. Beat well together and add yolks of mour eggs and a glass of brandy. Pouar into molds and steam Serve with a hot custard sance flavored with os ange, sherry or brandy. Italian Vermicelli Puddingth-Bol three ounces of vermicelli for 15 or n minutes in three cups of milk. Thea add two ounces of butter. Beat three eggs very light with three tablespoo. Mls of sugar, and when the vermaleel is quite cold stir to the eggs sad sugar. Add a few lae seeded rale ins and a little vanilla. Turn Into a baking dish and bake an hour In moderate oven. Serve with brandy or chestnut saue. A new eheetau t sauce comes from the same soaree as the pudding. PeeL blanch and dranl 20 or more large chetnuts Cook them In a strup of sugar and, water until teader. Flavor the sitap with vanilla or cordial. and mash the besth nuts through a sieve Mix with the situp, then with whipped caea' oa the beaten whiten white of an egg a serve with a plain band asee. usiag equaal quanttieer of each. Dutch Pudding or Souster.--Ta one pound of butter, half a pint of milk. two pounds of flour, eight eggs four spoofuls of yeast, oae pound of currants and a quarteiC o 1 a pend8 of sugar. Melt a pound oi butter to half a pint of milk. minx the ttwo pounds of flor, the beatem eggs, yeast and currants, washed and dried: them the sugar, sited. Bake n a aqui oven. Use three teaspoonals ( baking powder Instead of the yeast. It makes a good. pudding. eate hot and a nice irak when cold. Whemn tended only for ake, omit the eu* rants and use araway mseeds erman Bolled Pudding-Take belt a pound of mollases, balf a poud of , lur,"quarter of a poun d ree t, teaspoonful of baking soda, quarter i pint of milk and an canoe or m. of candled orange peel. Mix mik ads : molasses irst thee add tq sead ads wset, flour and peel. Rub all tohsthi until well med, pour Io the meai s~ and boll in a bowl e basln, Steak Mash. Take remnants of steak an t Rae, with one small oeaos sad toes, twohirds of potatoes aeme4M of meet Heat stook or water i . tog pan and add bLas. eit slowly for ten or Maitea watching it so It wn at bre , the tou end of ilrt 'lS idt hinhin house Ialwe egos on bash and It makes a ams" breakwnat dish it you use wMatW ;I stead of stock Put a pleefs o bah: perd ;r t -e hub. Ss nwith ask ale p .p a eeh BSame enad togther two ems.s of b*e title or waterm ad ad r rs (two tablespeoss of each) d i into it half the Jeo O a a ema. Maba, the aaoe t e a dealo bohor. IadMdal Pumprl Pa Three eap stewed ad sieved pe . kin, two eggs, oe ad oemso-l e sU : brwno suar, em ad ea-ha5 pa t - sweet milk. ,o Iem tev e t osi e s Mp s , two teespeoms elnasmca. em teaspam asleppkie lae geam pm wit rl ie ", crst, s11 wit above mitter ad t:, tn moderate ove. Serve with hipul,' oream. Tripe and LlWe Plea med. Take sequal weghs of ripe atn iver. rry the ivwr in stripe 'a ome cold boleod tripe in the uato wayV, sour it ad ry it aleso eThei cover with a thick broew Igravy stoeek. Serve hot armish with tfrie parsley and lttle heape 'ried oades Stareh tw Lsem,. ,r gum table starch, pat o'. tourth caoe of the best gum to a l mounthed bottle ad cover with a gd.i of water. t the bottle c a eleth h' a pan of water over the ire to -i.k solve, stirrin it until It iquale; s;itl strain threu@ a eoean eloth ad halMA for e. ood for .t.mingr lm s.. Way Uwe Laftlove Meat. Chop meet mely ad oenases btter. salt, ppe ad l pav; S o dish with mashed potataeesr Sithb better, ream, salt and pepp - aer top sprinkle cracker cremha te brow in the ov ib s Tbe Miatt dorts anre tbo atil i The iglt dessert should ade Irow a heavy deiser, ad vmi - I Knives are an eleanee more etbrogngly wth sd added' a the seeuars brickk. auedl bd e pOitat d .i.. I .. s. r es, n , l ' e eems