THE WORLD'S ADVANCE 



The Return of a Motorcycle Club that Made the Ascent of 

 Mount Wilson, Calif. 



MOTORCYCLING A MILE HIGH 



The modern high power motorcycle is 

 adapted to mountain climbing as well as 

 to pleasure trips on the easy valley 

 grades. The adjacent view shows the re- 

 turn of a motorcycle club that made the 

 ascent of Mt. Wilson, California, a peak 

 more than a mile high, over a nine-mile 

 road that has grades of from 14 to 28 

 per cent. This narrow and winding road 

 is considered quite difficult for automo- 

 biles, but the motorcycle party made the 

 ascent without trouble, many of the ma- 

 chines carrying two passengers. 



THE WORLD'S GREATEST DREAD- 

 NOUGHT 



The United States battleship Pennsyl- 

 vania, recently launched at Newport 

 News, is greater in size and gun power 

 than the famous Queen Elisa- 

 beth of the British Navy, which 

 has figured so prominently in 

 the operations against the Turk- 

 ish defences at the Dardanelles. 



The main battery of the Penn- 

 sylvania consists of twelve 14- 

 inch guns set in four turrets, 

 there being three guns to the 

 turret. This is the plan of big 

 gun arrangement which has 

 been employed in the sister ships 

 which preceded her, the Nevada 

 and Oklahoma, each of which 

 has a tonnage of 27,500, as 

 against 31,400 of the Pennsyl- 



vania. In these three ships, as 

 well as in the case of the Queen 

 Elizabeth, all the turrets are on 

 the center line, so as to concen- 

 trate their fire on either broad- 

 side. 



According to well informed 

 experts, the Pennsylvania will be 

 able to hurl seven and one-half 

 tons of steel on either broadside 

 from her enormous main battery 

 upon pressing a single firing le- 

 ver. In addition to this, the bat- 

 tleship will have a secondary 

 battery of twenty-two 5-inch 

 rifles for defence against torpe- 

 do boats and submarines. 

 The interior furniture of the Pennsyl- 

 vania, including wardrobes, berths, din- 

 ing tables, chiffoniers, bureaus, toilet 

 cases, book cases, desks and office fur- 

 niture, will be made of art metal. The 

 ship's complement will consist of 65 of- 

 ficers, 863 bluejackets and 74 marines. 

 The trials of the completed dread- 

 nought are set for November, 1915. The 

 finished craft will cost about $13,000,000. 



TAKING THE CHILL OUT OF THE 

 MORNING BATH 



The chill of the morning bath is no 

 longer to be dreaded, because a device has 

 been perfected that absorbs the shock 

 and leaves only the exhilaration of the 

 plunge. The new device is known as the 

 rowing bath, because in its operation the 

 muscular activity occasioned by rowing is 



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The Chill and Shock of a Cold Bath are Removed by this 

 Helpful Form, gf jcerciser. 



