Newport High School - Live Wire Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL trucks bulldozers and gas driven dragllnes were employed by 500 picked men who worked in twentv four hour shifts During this work more than 1 000 000 gallons of gasollne exploded ln englne cylinders while S80 000 worth of electric current w s used by floodlights that blazed above 12 eighty foot towers all through the night Many thousand cubic yards of mater lal were moved before this Job was completed Then chemistry showed its wizardry Instead of stripping acres of land for the needed top soil chemists treated the old soll so that it could be used as a foundation for thls great exposition It took two years for scientists to find a way to convert th1s soil into high fertility for plant growth besides a In doing this the falr was saved a half m1ll1on dollars For landscaping of the grounds a regular forest started moving toward the site Experts with books giving the sizes shapes and kinds of trees had been scouring the country for hundreds of miles around They had chartered nearly 10 000 available trees for thelr purposes In the largest movement of the kind railroad flatcars and motor trucks started rolling for New York clty These cars and trucks bore trees of wide varieties and full grown some weighing as much as 25 tons and as tall and taller than 50 ft On one way streets and guided by police cars most of these trucks passed through New York City ln the early morning hours reaching their destination before daybreak Here huge machines hoisted the trees and they were stationed by machines equally as blg Of the manyjobs to be done here were the construction of 17 miles of roads 15 miles of gas mains ten brldges and 2 artificial lakes A tidal dam and an expensive marine basin are well under way In the meantlme the first bulldlngs of the Arabian Nights display were going up Scientists built an outside laboratory in which they experimented to be sure they got the best materials for their use Most spectacular of the structures being made are the trylon and the perisphere They are expected to be the tneme center of the fair The trylon is an obellsk 'rising 700 feet into the alr The perlsphere is a white ball 200 feet in diameter They can be seen for miles The IS formed of eleven miles of wood piling driven into the ground The cost of the construction will be about S1 200 000 In the hollow perlsphere there are magic carpets that will carrv visitors lfl a circle above an 1m mense model of a clty and country side of the future The magic carpets are two 100 ton platforms in the shape of gigantic washers Certain lighting will hide the supports as the platforms revolve at the speed of 30 feet a minute At night colored lights on the globe will make it appear as re volvlng The longest moving stairway in the world will carry spectators to the sphere s entrance which IS tive stories above the ground Sixteen thousand persons an hour will be able to ride up the incline After the trip visitors will return to the ground by a circular ramp from which they can see the en tire fair grounds in all its glory -r I 19 l 1- . a . . . . . . . 44 ,, . . L. . ,, . ,. H 1 - ,, . . . . . 45 7, . . . . . . . . . ,, . ,, foundation for buildings and displays. 23.000, 000 pound trylon's foundation . . ,, . .

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I'HE LIVF WIRE s1tt1ng down Pete shouted Hey boy brlng us two nlce JUICY T bone steaks potatoes for a hog black coffee strong enough to knock an elephant through the antlcs of the Hlghland Fllng and anythmg else ver ve gut fit fer two hombres llke us to eat a Pete s oke up B111 thought we werent gO1Ug to eat so much QQHSIVG stuff save our mon Qulte' lnterrupted Pete If we don t eat we wont keep so much money ln clrculatlon und that d be awful Well all rlght but I thought You thought' Huh' How could you? All yer ve gut IS a one track mlnd and the ralls on that are so warped that they derall the tram of thougnt Ah The cook put the feast on the table and an eatlng race began H1 boys' Wher d you drop IH from and when? Well blow me down and slap me SldQWayS' If It a1n t old Joe h1s self 1n person' eJacu1ated B111 look1ng up from eatlng to see who was speaklng to them and lnstantly recogmzlng thelr old frlend What s up now? Nothlng sept thet thars a gal down the l1ne whut s havmg some trouble Thought maybe you m1ght be lnter Well we a1n t helplng no gals now xnterrupted B111 Pete s begun ter spout a bram und IS go1n to leave em alone I hope Yep' Dots rlght' afflrmed Pete But ' contlnued Joe she s young and pretty and IS beln bull1ed by a pack o ruffalns to sell a m1ne She needs help' You ve got to help Nope' Not mterested lnterrupted B111 agaln hoplng to k1ll the urge to help another glrl that was begmnlng to show 1n Pete s eyes Dltto' sald Pete meekly and a Slgh of rel1ef escaped B111 s l1ps Bu contlnued Joe sh s a blonde Shes a what' ejaculated Pete Jumplng from h1sseat and beam1ng wlth lnterest and anxlety Th1s tlme a groan was heard from B111 She s a blonde and needs he repeated Joe S nuff sald lnterrupted Pete Come on B111 gxt yer barrel sprung legs out from under the table and f11l em wlth a horse' We re helplng a blonde' Aw w w fer gosh sakes' and I under yer cranlum groaned B111 But th1s IS dlff runt' Yeah they re all dlff runt Come on' Ql1lty9I'fl1SSlll and fetch yer skull plece Thar s work to be d1d shot Pete over h1s shoulder as he left the hotel Work to be d1d Shucks' Oh all rlght Elton Rlch 40 BUILDING A WORLD S FAIR QAdapted from Popular Sc1ence Magazmej IIIFTY m1ll1on people are expected to v1s1t the great 1939 New York World s Falr Th1s S175 000 000 show w111 dramatlze the progress and the promlse of sclence ln the future The ground of th1s falr IS founded or was once a dreary stretch of swamp land occupled by an ash dump on Long Island Steam shovels dump -r 1 18 1 1- 7 Y 1 ' I K1 A . , ' H ' 11 ' ' . , . . ,I . . . , . ' . 1 H t,77 ' , if 81 ' Y! 73 SGS y yy, xp 1 y 111 SIN 1 -71 ' , . . . . . , . I ,, . . . . . , -- . ss - yy 1 cc - 1 1 if 1 , , 1 - . . . , !7 if 7 ' 77 ' as - 7, rc - I - I 7 7 T' 7 KK ' 7 s I- 1 , a , Q ' 77 ' ' I 65 . , ' ' ' , . here comes grub! thought you were developing sompln' ,11 D . ,, . . . , ,, H ' 1 ' if 1 ' 1 77 Y, 55 ' ' Y an - , , . . . . , .- . . ,, . ' Y . . . 55 I . . . . . . ,, ' 54 7 K!! ' 7 H ' 7 7 ' 7 ' ..i - nl, . 44 - 1 ' ,, . . I . !! ' ' fl ! Y Y . I . . . , U 7 77 -- , , . . ll ' 7? ' - . . , ' 4: 1 ' ss 1 1 . . 7 7 0 . . , . . , , , . . 7 77 ' . s , , It ' li' . . . ,

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THE LIVE WIRE Spreadlng away from thus center wlll be other very lnterestlng exhlblts Among them IS the gas lndustrles dlsplay wlth ltS tall central plume of fire surrounded by lts four pylons Wlth wrxthlng snakes of fire runmng down thelr Sld9S The plume ln the center of thls Court of Flame wlll be varled colored by men operatlng batterles 1ns1de the court The largest slngle dlsplay IS the SBI 500 000 slxteen acre show of twenty SIX eastern rallroads There are many thlngs of lnterest here There IS a full S1Z8d englne thunder lng with throttle Wlde open wlth lts wheels runnlng on rollers In another place there IS a whole mlnature system There IS a world s falr wlthln a worlds falr for the chxldren and houses toy rooms marlonette work shops and theaters sclence and IH ventlon laboratory chemlcal labor atory and a whole system of photo graphlng for those interested There w1ll be amusement trlps also There w1ll be such ways of trans portatlon from place to place at the falr by an elevated raxlway system great brldges for automoblles and new hlghways to almost any place The Publlc Health exhlblt wlll be of lnterest also There m the Hall of Man IS an elghteen foot transparent figure of a man There wlll be other men WhlCh all look llfellke Thls exposltlon w1ll show to be one step ahead of the rest of the world George McGlauH1n 40 A R ECORD BREAK ER -l'HERE were only three persons ln one of the cars of a northbound tram Two of them were elderly women who were half whlsperlng as though they were afrald some one werellstenlng to thelr gosslp The other was a young glrl who sat IU the extreme back of the car She had an mterestlng face for besldes belng pretty It was rather mysterlous Every few mlnutes a smlle would Hlt across lt and then dlsappcar ln a per plexed frown Her name was Helen Peters and she was on her way to the Snow Carmval at Bently Unlverslty She was rather worrled because after all slxteen IS quite young to be start lng off for the Whlte Mountalns alone but more than that she wasn t exactly sure of herself and felt terrlbly green Ever slnce she had received her cousln s lnvltatlon she had dreaded It and yet wouldn t have mls sed lt for anythmg She told herself that any glrl would be abnormal lf she passed upa chance llke thls an what dlfference dld lt make lf she dld come from the country? She was ready w1ll1ng and able to learn' and here was her opportunlty Her tram pulled lnto the statlon at about 10 30 P M and she was dlS gusted wlth herself for shaklng a llttle as she descended to the plat form She looked vaguely around her and then saw hxm comlng hurrldly towards her She felt a surge of prlde at her tall handsome cousln who shouted merrlly H1 Helen' So glad you could come Gee you look swell all grown up' She laughed and allowed herself to be led though the crowd to a waltlng -r I 20 1 4- . . . , . . . - ' , - U . 77 ' 't . . I ' I 1 9 ' ' W ' ' 'D . . , . . . , ! younger people. There will be doll .. ,, - - , , ' - . , , . . . , - . , . . U 7 D D . , . . , . ! ' ' U ' , K4 ', I . , - - 7 ' 7 7?