miles.

This invention is in the nature of a powerful foghorn. It is, however,
made somewhat like a musical instrument, so that different tones can be
produced by it; and the idea is to have these tones arranged into a
signalling code, after the fashion of the flag-signals, so that a
conversation can be kept up in a similar way to that done with flags.
G.H.R.




LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.


We have had a very large and interesting mail this week from the young
friends of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.

We take pleasure in acknowledging and publishing R.R.'s graphic and clever
description of the fire near Wanamaker's in Philadelphia, Helen Z.C.'s
pleasant chat about a Chicago suburb, and Seymour U.P.'s nice little note
from Saranac Lake.

We also acknowledge the receipt of relief maps for the competition from
Adrian Van A. and Harriot M., of Brooklyn.

DEAR EDITOR:

I have just arrived home from school. I wish to tell you of the
very large fire down-town. I go to school about one block from