100 Years Ago – Winchester, Kentucky Expecting New Motor Hose Wagon

MOTOR HOSE WAGON IS EXPECTED SOON

Hose Apparatus For the Fire Department May
Be Here Monday or Tuesday

No doubt now remains in the minds of the firemen that they are to have the motor hose wagon.  Word was whispered around this morning that it was sure to arrive either Monday or Tuesday and in any case not later than the middle of the week.

Councilman Hackett and Dinelli were also busy trying to rent a room near the engine house in which to keep it while it was being tried out.  It is thought best not to move the old wagon and team out yet as the new hose wagon might not prove satisfactory and then they would be out all the extra expense for fixing for it.

The wagon will be kept in the Scobee building on Fairfax street for thirty days or until the Councilmen are satisfied that it will give satisfaction and then it will be taken to the engine house.  No arrangements as yet have been made for the old hose wagon and team, after the new one is installed, but in all probability it will be sent to the north end and another engine house established.

The Winchester News
Winchester, Kentucky
March 29, 1909

100 Years Ago – Eiffel Tower Used as a Weathercock

EIFFEL TOWER USED AS A WEATHERCOCK

This May Prove of Great Value to Aeronauts of the Future

A new use has been discovered for the Eiffel tower, which is quite important, although by no means of an exalted nature.  It is no less than that the falg on top of the tower serves as an admirable weather cock when read in conjunction with the structure itself, which has projections coinciding with the cardinal points of the compass, that facing north being painted red.  Occupants of balloons and airships can therefore, with the aid of field glasses, readily inform themselves of the nature of the wind at an altitude of 30 meters above the ground in that vicinity, and make their arrangements with more certainty in regard to any comtemplated aerial voyage.  –London Globe

The San Francisco Call
San Francisco, California
March 29, 1909

100 Years Ago – White Star Line Plans Two Mammoth Liners

WHITE STAR LINE PLANS TWO MAMMOTH LINERS

Vessels Will Be Largest Steamers Afloat When Finished

Consul Samuel S. Knabenshue reports that a Belfast firm of ship builders is constructing two new slips which will enable vessels 1,000 feet in length to be built to which he adds:

There are two gantries, 225 feet high, running the entire length of these slips. Each gantry is supported on 33 columns, each over 180 feet in height, and will be supplied with pneumatic riveters and lifting cranes. The new slips will be completed in November next. As soon as these slips are completed the keels of two new vessels for the White Star line will be laid, each 860 feet in length. These steamships will be completed in 1910 and will be larger than any vessel now afloat.

New White Star Liners—Length, 860 feet; breadth, 92 feet; tonnage, 45,000 to 50,000; speed, 19 to 20 knots; engines, turbine and piston combined.

The San Francisco Call
San Francisco, California
March 29, 1909