DOG CARRIES GREAT LOAD DOGS OGS of Alaska are both pack ani

mals and draft horses to the travelers of that country. The sturdy servant shown in the photograph is ready to move off with a load which weighs between sixty and sixtyfive pounds. Until Alaska's new railroad is finished the four-footed carrier will continue to serve as the chief means of transporting man and baggage in our most northern territory.

This animal was caught by the camera. along the shore of Bering Sea, near Nome.

hauled on sleighs by horses. There were 50,580 feet of lumber on the sleighs, which were hauled fifteen miles by six

horses at a lumber camp at Pine Island, Minnesota. Each sleigh groaned under the weight of ninetyfive green logs, every log of which measured twelve feet in length and almost two feet in diameter. The total weight of the load was much greater than if the lumber had been seasoned, and came to one hundred seventyfive tons. The logs were felled far back in the forest and were on their way to the nearest stream. When the river is released from its surface of ice the logs will be rolled in and sent, with the others cut during the season, to the sawmill. This is the older method of logging which is carried on only in the winter. In

many places the motor truck is supplanting the sled.

"LONE MARINER" IS WRECKED

TWENTY years ago the world proclaimed Adolph Frietsch a hero. He figured in newspapers and magazines everywhere as "The Lone Mariner". One day a little boat, about big enough for one man, slipped into New York Harbor. "Where from?" he was asked. "Liverpool, 105 days out," he replied.

And thus the "lone mariner" broke into print. He told his hearers that he had wanted to come to Amer

ica. He said he

hadn't the money to ride on one of those "big ships".

But he owned a little boat that could be dragged by a sail. He laid in a supply of food and water. "And here I am," he remarked.

Though the newspapers and periodicals made

much of him there were scoffers. He was born on the hardy Finnish shores and he told them he'd show them. So he loaded his little boat up and sailed back to Liverpool. Then he found that he still wanted to "see America" so he straightway sailed back again.

WARNING FIFTY FEET FROM BRIDGE More automobiles pass over the Rush Street bridge, Chicago, than over any other in the world. The sign waves back and forth to warn drivers, for the approach is on an angle and many accidents have occurred here.

Captain Frietsch settled at Corpus Christi, Texas, and recently the people

of that city built him a little boat and urged him to make the trip through the Panama Canal to San Francisco for the exposition. He started, anxious for another

long voyage and more fame, but Padre Island, the Hatteras of the gulf coast, was his Nemesis and the new boat was thrown on the shore and wrecked there. The Captain declared the boat a hoodoo and refused to repair it and sail farther. He will spend the rest of his life in retirement.

the problem, for a number of electrical engineers proceeded on the theory that because conditions afloat are so different from those ashore it would, perforce, be necessary to devise apparatus wholly distinctive.

That the United States is to have the world's pioneer electrical superdreadnaught and to have it by means of electrical energy producers of the regulation, simple dependable form is directly due to the success which has attended the operation of the new collier Jupiter-the first electrically operated naval vessel. With the example of the Jupiter before them, the engineer officers of the Navy have voted in favor of pinning faith solely to electricity in the case of the giant California. With this electric battleship following closely upon the heels of the recently authorized battleships that are to be provided with oil-burning engines, it means that the records made by Uncle Sam's novelties in the battleship line will be watched with particular interest by all maritime nations. The California will be required to make merely the same

length; 97 feet breadth; 30 feet draft and will have a displacement of thirty-two thousand tons. Her efficiency as a fighting machine may be surmised from the fact that she will carry a main battery of twelve 14-inch guns and a torpedo defense battery, which is very important in view of the lessons of the present war, of twenty-two 5-inch rapid-fire guns.

In the electrical installation in the California there will be no direct-connected turbines but instead the power will be transmitted to the propellers through slow-speed motors, a scheme which will obviate much of the strain upon the crankshafts. The fact that the highspeed impulse turbine will always operate in the same direction-that is, will not be reversed-will tend to eliminate trouble with the blading.

Four screws will drive the California and the electric power plant will consist of two separate and distinct installations, each furnishing power for two screws. In an emergency the ship can be operated on one generator and, indeed, at low speed it will be practicable to shut down one.