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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1922.
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The etnuusmp BlaKejy, now outfitting on the Delaware river near Phila
delphia. for an expedition to the spot where the Lusitania was sunk off un
coast of Ireland during the war, to make on attempt to salvage the huge treas
ure carried by the 111-fnted Cunarder. Inset Is Benjamin F. Leavitt, chief
diver of the vessel, who has Invented a diving suit In which he says he can go
down 500 feet.
200,000 Killed
by Earthquake
Word of Appalling Disaster in
Kansu Province, China, Just
Reaches United States.
MOUNTAINS MOVED IN NIGHT
Villages Were Swept Away Under Ris
ing Sea of Loose Earth, Crevices
Swallowed Houses and Camel
Trains—Dragon Waggles Tail.
Washington.—“ One of the most ap
palling catastrophes In history and,
perhaps, the most poorly advertised
calamity that has occurred In modern
times,'* Is the way the National Geo
graphic Magazine describes the earth
quake in Kansu, China, '‘Where the
Mountains Walked.”
“Though the tremendous shaking-up
occurred In December, 1920, the story
Is only now beginning to spread be
yond the narrow defiles which guard
the entrance to Kansu province,’* says
the article.
“Mountains that moved in the night;
landslides that eddied like waterfalls,
crevasses that swallowed houses and
camel trains, and villages that were
swept away under a rising sea of loose
earth, were a few of the subsidiary oc
currences.
“Mr. Josef W. Dall (Upton Close),
who visited the earthquake area under
the auspices of the International Fam
ine relief committee, has brought back
one of the first accounts of the devas
tated country and the strange things
that happen when the earth turns it
self into a contortionist. The area of
destruction, 100 by 300 miles in extent,
contains ten large cities, besides nu
merous villages.
“One of the most dramatic episodes
of the disaster was the burial of Ma
the Benevolent, a famous Moslem
fanatic, and 300 of his followers, Just
as they had met In conclave to pro
claim a hoij- war. The cave in which
they had gathered was sealed by a ter
rific avalanche, while the group knelt
on their prayer-mats.
Watchman Alone Escaped.
“By some miracle, the watchman nt
the entrance tt» the cave escaped with
his life, but the others were burled
so deeply that, despite months of dig
ging over an area of a mile, the Mos
lems have failed to recover the bodies
of their leaders.
“In another district Mr. Hal)-and
his party found that a whole mountain
topped by a temple had slid into a
valley. A little beyond they found
that a road bordered by poplar trees
had ridden the crest of a slide for
three-quarters of a mile, without ap
parent damage to the trees or even to
the birds’ nests In their branches.
“The most appalling sight of all was
the Valley of the Dead, where seven
great slides crashed Into a gap In the
hills three miles long, killing every
living thing In the urea except three
men and two dogs.
“In a small town on the highway
' two strangers had put up nt the Inn
on the evening of the disaster. In the
terror and confusion that followed
the earthquake, the landlord complete
ly forgot hl3 two guests. It was not
until several days later that he re
membered them, and when, after con
t'idarable digging, their room was
brought to light, both men were found
alive.
“The subterranean dragon of Chi
nese cosmology who, according to»the
northwest China tradition, waggles his
tall every three hundred years, this
time played havoc, such as was never
before recorded, with the face of the
earth and the habitations of men.
Likely no other earthquake in scien
tific annals ever changed the physical
geography of the affected region to
the extent of the Kansu cataclysm.
“The remoteness of the district In
which the earthquake occurred cannot
hut Intrigue interest. Although the
concurrent quakes In-Chile and Salva
dor, the tidal wave of Yap ar.u the
eruption of Mt. Asama, Japan, are all
history, the Kansu disaster Is still
oewa. What actually happened Id this
frontier province of China is only now,
through the reports of the relief in
vestigation expedition of which Mr.
Hall was a member, being made
known' In any comprehensive way.
even in China’s capital and port cities.
Life Loss May Be 200,000.
“Although the density of population
Is not more than one-tenth that of
Shantung or the East China plain, the
loss of life from landslides, collapsed
cave homes, and falling buildings, to
gether with death from exposure of
the unsheltered In mid-winter in this
high altitude, was, according to official
U. S. Completes
Record Fleet
Last Ship on War Program Is
Finished and Turned Over
to the Government.
1,000 ME HOW LYING HUE
2,312 Vessels Built by Shipping Board
In Last Five Years—New Liner,
Western World, Marks End of
Plan to Bridge Sea.
Washington.—When the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding corporation delivered to
the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
corporation - the new liner Western
World, for operation by the Munson
line to South America, the greatest
shipbuilding enterprise in history was
brought to an end.
From May <24, 1917, when the wood
en cargo carrier North Bend, the first
vessel to be built under war contracts
was turned over to the government by
Kruse & Banks. North Bend, Ore., to
May 9, 1922, the shipping board con
structed 2,312 ships of various types
of 13,626,711 deadweight tons. At
present more than 1,000 of these ships
are lying idle, due to the depressed
conditions lu world trade and to the
Inability of American shipowners to
meet foreign competition.
In announcing the end of the war
time program, which extended for
three and a half years after the armis
tice because of the contracts entered
into during the"war, the shipping board
made public some interesting state
ments showing the size of the great
fleet.
Capacity of 388,363 Freight Cars.
If all the vessels on the program
were placed in a straight line, stem
to stern, they would extend for 158
miles, and if steaming a mile and a
quarter apart they would reach from
New York to Southampton, England.
The total tonnage is equal to the car
rying capacity of 388.363 freight cars
loaded 35 tons to the car. As there are
approximately 2.800.000 cars in the
United States, nearly one-seventh of
them would be required to load the
slilps. For mapufacturing the rivets
alone n steel rod three-fourths of an
Inch In diameter and 87.500 miles long
would be necessary. This would ex
tend one and a half times around the
cart h.
The building of the gigantic fleet
was not confined to the United States.
Japan constructed 30 steel cargo cur
riers of 243.200 tons each, and China
four steel ships of 40.000 tons.
The original program called for 3,270
ships of 18,407,276 deadweight tons.
After the armistice all construction
was canceled except when It was
found that the government would lose
more by giving up the project than by
completing them. This reduced the
program by 958 ships of 4,770,562 tons,
which represented approximately 50
per cent of the vessels that were not
85 or 90 per cent finished.
1,017 Wooden Ships Built
In August, 1917, 431 vessels under
construction in United States ship-
figures, 200,000, and according to the
estimate of the foreign Investigators
more than half this number.
“Following the Slanfu-Lanchowfu-
Turkestan highway, we ascended a
small valley of steep grade directly
west of Tslngnlng. Suddenly the
high road for a length of a quarter
of a mile dropped out of sight. It had
been cut as if chopped off with an ax.
leaving the fifty-year-old poplars and
cottonwoods with which It is lined
partly uprooted, like sentinels stricken
at their post
“It was In this Valley of the Dead
that the most arresting freak of the
cataclysm occurred. Two sections of
the ancient, well-packed highway, ac
companied by the tall trees which bor
dered it, were cut from the line of
road following the side hill, swept hun
dreds of yards over the stream-bed,
and set. Intact, upon an angle on top
of the heap of loose loess.”
Drops Half Mile in
Log Chute; Uninjured
Snoquolmle, Wash. —Stepping
out to the edge of a snow-cov
ered precipice to point out some
scenery to his wife and little
son, Howard Rupert, a sales
man, disappeared Into * loose
snow.
Mrs. Rupert quickly notified
men nearby, who looked for
Rupert. They were about to
give up the search on account
of darkness when the missing
man appeared. He declared be
had dropped into a loose snow
drift and falling through, land
ed directly into an unused log
chute to carry timber in summer
to the river far below.
Rupert said the chute was
filled with Ice ami that be to
bogganed down into the valley
as such a high rate of speed he
could not yell loud enough to
be heard. Loggers found he had
taken a ride of fully half a
mile in the ice-bound log chute.
Rupert was uninjured, but was
minus a large part of his wear
ing apparel.
yards were requisitioned by the gov
ernment. The wood ship program had
reached a total of 1,017 boats at the
time building was reduced. Os this
number 428 were subsequently can
celed, 474 completed and 115 partially
completed.
When the Emergency Fleet corpora
tion adopted the plan of building fab
ricated ships and awarded contracts
for a total of 390 of 2,675,000 tons,
doubt was expressed as to the success
of this type of construction, which
was a radical change from the accept
ed methods. It was recognized, how
ever. that by having the hull steel
fabricated at bridge and structural
shops throughout the country and
then assembled at the shipyards, a
considerable expansion of the ship
building Industry was possible. The
experiment proved to be successful.
To the Atlantic coast goes the dis
tinction of having turned out the
greatest number of ships and the
largest volume of tonnage. On this
coast were built 848 vessels of 5,625,-
188 tons. The Pacific const was. sec
ond with 759 ships of 5,254,150 tons.
The Great Lakes was third with 479
ships of 1,625.000 tons, and the Gulf
fourth with 192 boats of 849.000 tons.
Women Replace Men.
Seattle, Wash. —Encroachment of
women In jobs formerly occupied by
men is shown In a report Just Issued
by the Seattle chamber of commerce.
In 1920, In the State of Washington,
there were 581 women barbers, hair
dressers and manicurists; 48 women
fishermen and oystermen; seven wom
en dairymen, teamsters and express
men ; five women longshoremen; 24
women laborers In shipyards; 261 build
ing laborers. 233 sawmill and planing
mill laborers and 53 lumbermen,
raftsmen and woodchoppers.
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Tills photograph of Prince Umberto,
heir to the Italian throne, •..•as trans
mitted by telegraph from Rome to
Milan In the presence of the king. This
was a feature of the opening of the
Commercial fair at Milan.
THE HAT-
Lllu EIS OF
■ ATS are as old as history,
says a bulletin from the
Washington, D. C., head
quarters of the National
Geographic society.
“Perhaps the origin of
the hat was the fillet,
which was in almost uni
versal use among smooth-
I haired peoples to keep
back their stray locks.
We have made additions
i
from time to time in both horizontal
and vertical directions until the cre
ations worn in New York and Paris
have come about, as well as the pic
turesque hats and caps worn with
various national costumes, for fickle
Fashion makes her influence felt
wherever people live.
In Persia the headgear worn proves
very useful to a stranger as well as
to the natives in identifying both the
residence and the social standing of
the wearer. The Kurds in that coun
try wear a hat which looks like a
huge inverted black coffee-pot bound
around with a gay silk handkerchief.
The Bakhtiaris, who live in the
mountains near the British oil fields,
wear a white felt hat that looks like a
preserving kettle.
Tbe peasant or artisan wears a
rough felt dome, the merchant or stu
dent the black pill-box, the porter a
skullcap, the police officer a white
lamb’s-wool hat, and the ecclesiastic
a cushion-like turban.
In the Holy Land, too, the hat Is in
dicative of the station of the wearer.
The Bedouin, the dweller in the
“houses of hair” in the desert to the
south, east and northeast, wears a
large flowing scarf of silk or cotton,
called the “kefeeyah,” bound round
bis head by a twisted rope of goat's
or camel’s hair, generally about two
Inches thick.
The Turkish soldiers of Bagdad dur
ing the World war, though they adopt
ed a uniform much like that worn '
by British and American soldiers, re
tained the kefeeyah. which artists cal!
the most picturesque headdress worn
by men.
The fellah, or farmer of Palestine,
wears a turban consist’ng of four
parts, a small white felt bkullcap, over
this another skullcap of white cotton,
which in turn is surmounted by a red
cloth fez with a large black tassel, and
about the whole a scarf or shawl.
Most of the Apostles belonged to this
class.
The third class in the Holy Land,
the merchants, artisans, teachers,
scribes, and governing officials wear
a turban similar to that worn by the
farmers, except that the scarf is larg
er cleaner, and of lighter and more i
delicate colors and materials.
An enormous chignon made of j
sheep’s wool is worn by the nuns of '
the Ta-Tshang Nunnery of Tibet,
which one traveler says lies In one of
the, most desolate and wind-swept j
spots imaginable.
Much of the charm of the Turko
man of Transcaspla is due to his huge
and fantastic cap made of shaggy
sheep’s wool, two or three times as
large as his head, which he perches
nt a characteristically rakish and In
dependent angle.
The Arab woman of Oman wears a
peculiar headdress that to the Amer
lean mind suggests “blinkers.” since
it fits around her eyes and down her
nose from its bridge to its tip after
the fashion of football gear.
The Hindu woman’s dress is made
glorious by the sari, as distinctive a
touch in her attire as Is the mantilla
“FIDDLE BOWS”
The instruments of the "string
choir” are all played with r. bow,
-rtth occasional pizzicato, or plucking
of the strings, aa required by the
music. A bow is an instrument of
wood and horsehair employed to set
the strings of the violin or other musi
cal instrument in vibration. As its
name implies, it was originally
curved. The violin bow is usually
about twenty-nine Inches long and tbe
y.
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of the Spanish lady. She drapes it i
about her body for a skirt, allows its |
graceful folds to pass over her ghoul- •
ders and head, where, by a trick of |
moving it before her luminous eyes |
when the inspiration prompts, she
makes it a luring instrument of co
quetry.
The children and young girls of
Savoy wear little caps in shape like
those an American baby wears, except
that the turned-back frill stands out
over the face at the top. They are
made of vivid red and blue or blue
and green combinations and are tied
under their chins with a ribbon.
There is Just a slight difference in
this “begine” in each village, and it
soon becomes easy to tell just where
any peasant comes from.
In Mont Rond, for instance, the stiff
part of the begine slopes back at a
rather acute angle, while In St. Jean
D’Arves the lace of the begine stands
up straight.
In St. Soriin D’Arves the lace in the i
front of the begine is bent down flat 1
and its back is squarer than that of I
St. Jean D’Arves. When it rains these '
[ women put on over these caps a very |
large flat felt hat. which takes the |
[ place of our umbrella.
When the Osmanli Turkish woman ■
! goes on the streets she wears a gar-
I ment enveloping her whole person
which resembles a scanty double pet
-1 tfcoat made of any kind of cloth. The
upper part is drawn hoodwise over her |
head and fastened under her chin. '
Her face is then completely hidden by
a small square of dark-colored silk or
muslin.
Despite the fact that there is a tend
ency to do away with the cioak worn
by Turkish women. It is siill used to
a great extent in the towns and some
Christian women living in close ‘prox
imity to Moslems have been forced to j
I adopt the attire.
| The Bulgarian woman wears a lltth*
round skullcap covered In gold braid i
DECLARED SUPERIOR TO GOLF
Northern Italians Devoted to “Boccie*'
—Sport Has Some of the Princi
ples of Curling.
The game of “boccie” is the national
sport of northern Italy. The crowd
follows It us our crowd follows base- j
ball. The people spend uli day Sun
day after mass playing it. There is
always betting on the game. Every
one with an estate of any size has a I
course for “boccie.” On the private
courses, men, women and children
alike play.
Each player uses two wooden balls
about tbe size of bowling balls. Each
stick has a slight curve Inward. The
violoncello bow is a little shorter.
The double-bass bow has a large arch
ami Is shorter. The early bows were
sc crude that they added little to
tbe delicacy of tone. The earliest
Improvement was made when a metal
band with teeth-like edges was In
troduced with the design of regulat
ing the position and tension of the
hair at or near the handle. It was
reserved for Francois Tourte (1747-
1833) to devise the plan of keeping
hair flat by means of a clasp,
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I with a long fringe hanging down the
I back which she covers with a large
; white scarf embroidered around the
i edges and fastened to the. cap with
I innumerable ornaments and strings of
: coins.
Everyone is familiar with the cute
little white Dutch cap with its becom
ing flaps on the side, and knows the
grace with which the Spanish lady
; wears her mantilla.
The Alsatian woman wears a huge
bow of black ribbon on her head. Oc
casionally you see a red or a plaid
ribbon and sometimes it is ornamented
with large bright flowers.
The women of the Canal! valley
wear a snowy-white starched cap.
The Herzegovinian women in Ra
gusa wear fascinating long white lace
veils attached to tiny red caps, which
they decorate during festivals with
bright yellow marigolds.
The Sardinian farmer wears an en
larged edition of the Scotch cap,
I which serves him not only as a head
I covering but as a lunch bag from
which he will take a loaf of bread nt
noon, and on which he occasionally
sleeps at night.
The Wallachian farmer affects a
small derby, smaller than Charlie
Chaplin’s well-known “lid,” which he
often adorns with a wreath of flow
ers.
The elegant Saloniki dame wears a
flat-covered frame that could scarcely
I be termed a hat. It is usually crowned
■ with an oval gilt plaque ornamented in
; seed pearls, and invariably has a
fringed tail of dark green silk, also
ornamented with a similar plaque, in
which she keeps her hair.
But in one particular the peasant
woman of Russia has the advantage
of all of us. She wraps about her
’ head one of those soft beautiful I’ers
-1 lan or cashmere shawls which is gen
erally richer in texture and color than
any creation of a Fifty-seventh street
milliner.
{team, of two or four, as a rule, has
I one ballino. This is a little wooden
j ball about the size of a baseball which
[ls rolled down the alley first. Wher
ever it stops Is goal for the
' big bails which are pitched after It.
■ The game is to pitch them so that
they do not strike it out of position,
but stop as close to it as possible. Os
I course if an opponent places the ball
I well the game is to use your first ball
to knock his out of place, and then
try to get your second shot into posi
tion. says an Italian enthusiast who
insists that golf is a stupid game if
one has ever learned to play “boccie.”
and the screw and batten for slack
ing or tightening the hair at pleasure.
—Scientific American.
Got Policeman’s Goat.
“It’s a bard life,” said the traffic
policeman. “What’s the trouble?’’
asked the genial old gentleman. “I
had to call down a fashionable dame
just now for violating a traffic law.
The look she gave ae was bad enough,
but the way her poodle dog yawned
in my face was positively insulting.”
—Birmingham Age-Herald.