. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. SchoonerJ. V. Taylor,the ChristmasTree Ship,at Dock in this special business, which has to beleft to as late date as possible, so that thetrees may be brought down in good con-dition, was lost with all hands. Theskipper Captain H. Schuenemann, anda worthy man was he, had sailed thegreat lakes for 30 years, and althoughwinter had set in early and the ice waspacking with stormy seas and winds, hepostponed his last and downward tripuntil two weeks before Christmas. Thiswas in 1912. He and his crew of sixteen her daughter Elsie, widow and daughterof
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. SchoonerJ. V. Taylor,the ChristmasTree Ship,at Dock in this special business, which has to beleft to as late date as possible, so that thetrees may be brought down in good con-dition, was lost with all hands. Theskipper Captain H. Schuenemann, anda worthy man was he, had sailed thegreat lakes for 30 years, and althoughwinter had set in early and the ice waspacking with stormy seas and winds, hepostponed his last and downward tripuntil two weeks before Christmas. Thiswas in 1912. He and his crew of sixteen her daughter Elsie, widow and daughterof the dead master, who for a week stoodbravely by on the Clark Street wharf,selling trees obtained from other sourcesand thus bringing some financial reliefto themselves and the families of thecrew. Our illustration shows the schooner Taylor of Michigan City, which thiswinter took the place of the ill-fatedcraft lost in last winters gales. It wasmoored to the wharf just west of the POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1179. waves are projected in precisely thesame manner as light waves, the con-cave screen reflects the music of theorchestra, songs or other music, toall parts of the hall or theater. North Clark Street bridge in the ChicagoRiver. From its deck the widow and herdaughter once more directed the saleof Christmas trees. A CONCAVE PROJECTING SCREEN Since the inception of the moving-picture industry practically all the in-ventive genius and talent has been con-centrated upon films and projectingapparatus; the equally important fea-ture, the screen, has been neglected. Realizing the inherent defects of theflat screen Ghosts, Glimmers andScratches, caused by unequal rays oflight being projected on flat surfaces, aChicago inventor has perfected andplaced on the market a concave pro-jecting screen. The screen is a segment of a sphere, thelens of the projecting apparatus being atits focal point; as a result the rays oflight are reflected from the screen at thesame
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