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VoL XV. No. 12. WATERTOWN, CONM, FEBRUARY 2, I t t t , TWO DOLLARS VCAfb
OFFICERS ELECTED AT ANNUALTOWN FIRE DISTRICT MEETING
About SO legal voters attended theannual meeting of the Watertownfirst district on Monday evening Inthe town hslL John L. Scott, actingchairman of the district called themeeting to order. E. W. Wheelerwas elected chairman. Gerald C.Low, clerk of the district, read thewarning.
Officers elected were: Districtcommittee, John L. Scott William
,B. Reynolds, and Andrew W. Barton;clerk, Merrit W. Atwood; treasurer,P. J. Skilton; tax collector, John D~MeGowan; auditors, A. G. Evans,Arhtur P. Hlckcox; water commis-sioners, John L. Scott, Fletcher W.Judson and E. P. MeGowan.
John L. Scott read the annual re-port Reports, of the treasurer, audi-tors, tax collector, and the water andsewage departments were also read.
On a motion by John L. Scott a"memoriam" vote In honor of thelate Dr. Warren Jackson was passed.
The first annual report of the sew-er department, which was read byMr. Scott, follows:
''For several years preliminary sur-veys were undertaken to determinethe amount of sewers and locationof same necessary to care for thecollection of the sewage of the dis-trict
"A piece of ground was securedfor a disposal plant
"All of this was done under thedirection of Dr. C. W. Jackson, whoas health officer of Watertown sawthat in the near future sewers wouldbe not only nedessary but compuls-ory.
"'In 1924, Buck & Sheldon of Hart-ford, engineers of experience In sew-age, were engaged to make furthersurveys and It was deemed best toabandon the disposal Bite alreadypurchased, and a Bite with rights ofway to, was secured near Rockdale.
"In 1925 surveys were completedand the Main street and Cutler streetsewers started. They were, complet-ed in 1925.
. "In the year 1926, the disposalplant and trunk line from the plantthrough the right of way nearBteele's brook to the railroad stationwere practically coii^letai.v.^4
"This work was done under.thesupervision of Branson E. Lockwoodof this town as construction engin-eer. . ' '.
"Due to his watchful care we "be-lieve we have a very satisfactory
* construction."During the year sewers were in-
stalled in Scott avenue, Frenchstreet, Depot street, Woodruff ave-nue, Sunset avenue and Middleburyroad.
"In 1927 additional sewers wereinstalled in Academy hill and a por-tion of Woodbury road.
, "The disposal plant has been in- operation now for about one' year
and has proved very satisfactory sofar.
direction, assisted by Mr. Lockwoodthe .ground was graded and seeded.
"Bernard Kuntzweiler was engag-ed as caretaker of the plant.
H. S. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONPRESENT* MINSTREt-
The Watertown~ntgh school Ath-letic association presented a suo-ceaaful minstrel show Jfcst Friday
der the direction of AlfredLand of the high school faculty.
The show went off with a smooth-ness and polish that woott havedone credit to a professional produc-tion, and clearly snowed the hours-(hard work and effort that made It sosuccessful. It made a big hit withthe audience, some of the more per-sonal thrusts being especially appre-ciated.
The program, consisting for themost -part of popular music numbers,in between which were sandwichedsparkling sallies of wit and rapid orerepartee between the IrrepressibleBilly Murphy and his wise crackingpartner, Irving Doollttle, and the vestpocket edition jokers, Harry Dillonand Tommy Flynn, who played theend men rotes In the most approvedmanner. Was as follows:
Opening chorus, "Varsity Drag,"entire company; "The Best Thingsin Life Are Free," vocal solo, MissEleanor Richards; "ph Doris," vocalsolo, Billy Murphy; "Did You MeanIt?" vocal solo, Miss MarjorleHughes; "Going to Get a Girl," vocalsolo and dance, Harry Dillon; "Ham-let's Soliloquy" (according to Cohen)recitation, Charles Hlckcox; "YouOnly Want Me When You're Lone-some," vocal solo, (Miss' FlorenceDoollttle; "Everybody Loves MyGirl," vocal solo, Tommy Flynn;song and dance. Miss Mayme Boothand Oscar Joelett; "Let a Smile BeYour Umbrella," vocal solo, LeonardFUsher; "Go Home and Tell YourMother," vocal solo, Miss EvelynEd *rda;"
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launching of the new Imperial Japanese nary destroyer No. 41 at the"navy yard at Yokotiukn. She la of 1.700 tons displacement, equipped withsix 12-lhrli guns and has a speed f 34 knots.
Camera Slows Down Ma-chinery to One Two-Hun-
dredth of Speed.Detroit Feeding movie film
through a camera at the rule of.three mile* a minute to slow downrapidly moving machinery to about onetwo-hundredth of Its normal speed Ifthe feut accomplished by C KranclsJenkins of Washington. . At the meet-Ing of I he Society of Automotive Kn-glueers here Mr. Jenkins told ot Liu*"chronotelne camera." one of his lat-ent inventions, and how 11 may he *\>piled'to the study of automobile eng i n e > . ' ' : . . ' - ' .
Instead ot the 10 picture* a sec-ond, taken by the ordinary moviecamera, or the 128 tukeh by the "ul-tra-rapid" camera, now frequentlyused In filming athletic events, thechronotelne takes 3.2110 pictures a sec-ood in Its oormnl rule. If desired iican be speeded up even further, aniltake us many as lO.UNi a second
' When these are projected in the ordi-nary innchine at the speed of IS a sec-ond, the apparent speed of the motionis correspondingly reduced. Whentaken at 3.2UU per second, the reduc-tion or speed is 2W times, and at thehigher speeds it is of course greater.
, Uses New 8ystem.la the usual type of mot Ion-picture
camera, the Htm is stopped for euchexposure, so (hat It stops and starts10 times a second. At such highupeedM as those employed in. thechronoteine camera this Is IIIIIMISSIIIIO.for the Him. would be torn to niwes.
A further dllH.culty.iR' introduced,because with a single lens extrruiHy.short exposures would hnve lo i>emade, ' Otherwise the picture wouldtic hlurred. Just us If the object itselfWITC close to the camera und movingui such a high speed:- Mr. Jenkinslias avoided this difficulty by provld-IK 48 lenses, set In the periphery of l.".-iiifh disk.-which turns ut a spctv.lor 4.WK revolutions per minute, thetilin moves buck ot this dlek, so tliuitin- Image lormed hy the lenses movesright : along with the tilm. In riicl. theexposures -overlap, as the exposure isiN-gun' through one lens before thatthrough the preceding lens Is com-pleted. At 3,ao6. exposures' a second,enoh one is ubout one twenty-five him-(In-illl\ of a second In length. Wlrtitin; rapid loupes used, and, sensitiveHim. this Is easily Hliflicleul for-a fuliy limed 'negative In hiiglu sunlight.In the ordinary movie camera., at Hf uM-irond.' ench exposure is nhoul onethirty-second of it second in duration
Mr. Jenkins culls attention to thegooil photographic qunllty In the pic
lures, which Is unusual In such high-speed studies. "The pictures are truephotographic picture! having half-tonevalues like other motion picture*, notmere shadowy outlines of grayishsilhouettes," he soya "They aremade out of diuirs as well as In theluhoriitory. of large subjects or smullsubjects, and from a moving vehicleas readily us from a ttxed platform.
Has Photographic Quality."The chronotelne camera Is an In-
Ktrument for the study of'many prob-lems In science and engineering, someof which are not possible of accuratedetermination in any other way. Someadditional applications.of this instru-ment which immediately suggest them-selves are a study of gun recoil, shelltrajectories and plate Impacts, air-plane propellers and landing-gear ac-tion, bursting of balloons and air hose,tire net Ion over obstructions, waterstream*, propagation of flame, engine-.valve rebound at high speed, cam-roll-er Jumping, crankshaft whip; trans-former explosions and 'circuit-breaker
in New Saw
of a Stout Ae mrtbnd utrock Has con* Into ase In Hw Uali-ed State* this year as the remit of asexperiment mudurted under in*aupenrlslon of the bureau of mines.
The device, known as a wire aaw,proved Its otlllijr In Pennsylvaniaslate quanies by rnttlng large m i mof the rock mlthooftbe necessity ofdrilling, blasting and cutting, widenby old methndK have resulted In con-siderable waste.
Dr. Oliver Bowles, one of the bo-rean's expert*, arranged for. the ax-peri menu in co-operation with qaar-rymen after government engineershad studied operation of the wire N WIn Belgium. The saw Is merely along steel cable, drawn at -high speedacross a rock surface and fed con-tinuously with wet sand. The sandacts as an abrasive and enable* rbacable to sink Into the rock at rat* ofabout two Inches an boor. Opera-tlon coat, the bureau asserts, is halfthat of methods now generally Inuse, the speed of cutting Is murtgreater, and the waste of material Ismuch less.
Notwithstanding the thoroughlymodem aspects of the machine, tnebureau engineers find Its efficiencydepending upon the same phenom-enon which prehistoric man utilisedto make bis nrrow heads and toolsof stonethe effect of abrasion orgrinding.
Sea Lion b Trainerfor Rn miles,the border patrol cdusltfts of onlytwenty-live men. Although these menare scattered over a territory larger inurea than the average state, they paratory to charting maps of thp dis-trict; which Includes Opln. the ntirleniBabylonian city which wim wicked byCyprus 2,100 years ago. ' '
;,Pue^tO-the-dnngen>iiLimture_of theflying; most of which will be doio-over areas where ihi-re nn> no m-n-iiimodntlnnx for liiii'ling Hie k(iini Interent hus been iiiuiiireoted in tht
project. Further Interest has beenaroused by the fact that special typeplanes and cameras .will he used. PIlot und observer willbe so placed Inthe plune as to command an unob-structed view of the grou
