Pathé's Weekly, No. 2 - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Bridgeport, Conn: The latest addition to the United States torpedo boat flotilla is the submarine G 3 (Turbot), launched at the Lake Torpedo Boat Yards. This is the first moving picture ever taken of the launching of a submarine in the ...See moreBridgeport, Conn: The latest addition to the United States torpedo boat flotilla is the submarine G 3 (Turbot), launched at the Lake Torpedo Boat Yards. This is the first moving picture ever taken of the launching of a submarine in the United States. Austin, Texas: Blind boys and girls of the state institution for the deaf, dumb and blind, pass in review before Governor O.B. Colquitt. St. Louis, Mo: Local fans witness the most exciting game of soccer football ever played in this city when the Knights of Columbus team is defeated by the Toronto Professionals, the undisputed champions of Canada. Montreal, Canada: A break in an intake pipe at the reservoir places this city in the throes of a water famine. All efforts to obtain a needful supply for family use prove futile and the city would be at the mercy of a conflagration. San Francisco, Cal: President Moore, of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, which will celebrate the union of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Panama Canal, arrives to supervise the work already accomplished. Glacier National Park, Mont: Tom Dawson, forty years a resident of Glacier National Park, the famous guide, trapper and Indian hunter, successfully climbs White Calf Peak. This is the first time the feat has been accomplished when the mountains were covered with snow and ice. Washington. D.C: Admiral George Dewey, president of the General Board of Strategy of the American Navy, as vigorous as when he commanded the squadron that destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manilla Harbor in 1898, celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday. Avery Island, La: The unprecedented increase in the demand for alligator hide for the manufacture of traveling bags, belts and other articles, has imbued fresh impetus into the industry of alligator breeding. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less