The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 by Various
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Various >> The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897
The way that houses are moved is very simple.
You of course understand that only frame or wooden houses can be moved any
distance. Houses of stone or brick would be likely to fall to pieces, and
being so heavy, the difficulty of moving them is greatly increased. They
are therefore seldom moved, and only for very short distances.
Frame houses are always put on stone or brick foundations. If the wood
were put right down on the earth, the damp would soon rot it, and the
house would fall, so strong stone or brick foundations are first laid, and
then the wooden house is built upon them.
When a house is to be moved, a carpenter puts beams across in all the weak
spots, the ceilings are shored up, and all is made snug inside. Then the
house is raised off the foundations on beams, and made all firm
underneath, and then is made to slide off its foundations on some huge
rollers that are laid in the high road.
Ropes are then fastened to some of the heavy beams under the house, and
horses are brought. The ropes are tied to the horses, and as they pull,
the house slips from one roller to another.
Houses can be moved very safely, but not very quickly, and it is of course
much less expensive to move an old house than to build a new one.
One of the strangest things about the moving at Katonah, is that the
villagers are trying to take their shade trees with them, as well as their
houses.
One of the residents had some very fine trees in his garden, and he hated
to leave them behind him, so he decided to try and see if they could not
be moved.
The neighbors made the greatest fun of him, but he did not care, and set
to work as soon as the ground was frozen hard enough, to allow of the tree
being moved without disturbing the earth around the roots.
The procession of houses is now varied by a great tree, forty feet high,
which is moving down the road in the same quiet, stately way as the cat,
and the barber's shop, and the yellow cottage.
GENIE H. ROSENFELD.
INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.
A great sea monster has been washed ashore on the coast of Florida, and
men who study natural history are much interested in it. What is left of
the creature is said to weigh eight tons, and no one can tell exactly what
kind of a fish it is, because it appears to have been tossed by the waves
for a long time, and has been partly destroyed by them.
Those people who have seen it think that it is a kind of cuttlefish, but
that the arms, or tentacles, as they are called, have been broken away
from it. These arms must have been from one to two hundred feet long. It
is now only a huge body without much shape to it. Photographs and careful
descriptions of it have been sent to the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington and to Yale College, and the scientific men there expect to be
able to decide what it is by comparing it with other known kinds of
mollusks. Scientists study these things so carefully, that they can tell
what the exact size of an animal was, and what it looked like, if but a
small portion is left; we may therefore expect to hear all about this
great creature ere long.
The size of this wonderful creature can be better realized, when we learn
that it took four strong horses, a dozen men, and three sets of tackle to
move it.
At first it seemed impossible to believe that such a terrific monster
really existed. Sailors have told so many yarns for the sake of making a
good story, that people are a little afraid to believe the wonderful tales
of the sea, but THE GREAT ROUND WORLD took pains to find out
that this eight-ton cuttlefish story was true, so we need have no doubts
about it.
The cuttlefish, which supplies the bone we buy for our canaries, is a very
terrible fish indeed.
The bone, as we call it, is not really bone, but a sort of half-formed
shell which the cuttlefish wears under its skin.
It has a large round body, surrounded by eight arms, which are many times
the length of the body, and which it can twist or turn in any direction.
The mouth is in the centre of these arms. Professor Winchell describes
this ugly creature for us. He says:
"Staring out from either side of the head (the head and body are really
one) is a pair of large, glassy eyes, which send a shudder over the
beholder. At the bottom of the sea the creature turns its eight arms down,
and walks like a huge submarine spider, thrusting its arms into the
crevices of the rocks, and extracting thence the luckless crab that had
thought itself secure from so bulky a foe. Each of the arms is covered
with what are called suckers. Each sucker consists of a little round horny
ridge, forming a little cup, which is attached to the arm by a stem. When
the arm is pressed upon an object, the effort to escape from the grasp of
the arm causes a suction which effectually retains the object."
Professor Winchell goes on to tell that these cuttlefish or octopods
sometimes attain a very great size, and that sailors tell wonderful
stories about them. In one of these stories, the captain of a ship
declared that, while sailing off the African coast, he sent three of his
men over the side of the ship to scrape it. While they were at their work
one of these monsters reached its long arms up from the water and drew two
of them into the sea.
Professor Winchell says that while this may be only a sailor's yarn, it is
at the same time well known that these creatures do attain a fearful size.
The recent discovery of the cuttlefish in Florida may lead to some
extremely interesting discoveries.
HORSELESS FIRE-ENGINE.
A monster steam fire-engine is being built for the city of Boston, and it
is to be a horseless engine.
For some time past the Fire Department has been seeking for some engine
powerful enough to throw water to the top of the very high buildings--the
skyscrapers, as they are called.
An ordinary engine is of very little use for these tall buildings. And an
engine large and powerful enough to throw the water to the necessary
height would be so heavy that no horses could draw it.
The difficulty has been met by the invention of this horseless engine,
which will throw a two-inch stream of water over 300 feet into the air.
The engine is propelled much in the same way as a steam engine. The driver
sits on a seat in front of the engine, and steers it by means of a wheel,
and the engine is moved by steam.
When it arrives at the fire, the driving arrangement is disconnected, and
all the energy of the steam is turned into the apparatus for forcing up
the water.
The engine is sixteen feet long, seven feet wide, and ten feet high. How
terrified the horses in the roads will be when this huge monster comes
rushing toward them, spouting fire, and appearing to move of its own free
will.
LIEUTENANT WISE AND HIS KITE.
We gave an account, in an earlier number, of Lieutenant Wise and his
efforts to make kites strong enough to lift soldiers into the air, that
they may overlook an enemy's fortifications.
He has almost succeeded. The other day he made a fresh attempt, and had
himself raised forty-two feet in the air.
He sent up four kites, with a pulley and rope attached. To this rope a
boatswain's chair was fastened, and when the wind was blowing steadily
enough for him to make the attempt, he seated himself in the chair, and
had the soldiers who were helping him draw him up toward the kites.
They succeeded in pulling him up forty-two feet, and when he was lowered
again he said that he did not feel uncomfortable while in his lofty perch,
and that the swinging motion was very slight.
The experiment was made on Governor's Island, New York Harbor.
G.H.R.
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[Transcriber's notes: In "Lieutenant Wise and His Kite" the word
Lieutenant was changed from Lieuttenant in the first paragraph.]