Motono
ICHIRO, BARON, Japanese statesman; born in the ken of Saga in 1862, he was sent as a student to France, and on his return his knowledge of foreign languages and customs gave him a position in the government. He was appointed to a position in the Foreign office in 1890, and in 1896 accompanied as First Secretary the Japanese Ambassador to Russia. In 1898 he became Minister to Belgium, in 1901 Minister to France, and in 1906 Ambassador to Russia. In 1907 he received the title of baron, and later represented Japan at The Hague. He resided in Paris during the World War and died there in 1918.
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Motor (ELECTRIC cessor to Knute)
ELECTRIC cessor to Knute Nelson, who died. Magnus Johnson, candidate of the Farmer-Labor Party was elected, defeating Governor Preus, the regular Republican nominee, in the election which followed. MOON, TOPOGRAPHY OF. A new theory of the topography of the moon was advanced in 1923 by Colonel John Millis, army engineer and geologist. He rejects the theory that the moon's features could be the product of a volcanic agent and believes that it was formed by the coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation. According to the theory, meteors falling into the moon while the crust was cooling penetrated the surface, throwing up circular ridges, and the holes thus caused have been filled nearly level by molten matter from the interior. As the size of the ball grew, the diameter of the original craters became enlarged and in some cases broken up, thus causing the irregular arcs and mountain chains now visible. MOROCCO. Outstanding developments included the action of Raisuli, famous bandit, in declaring fealty to Spain, and the death at Tetuan, on October 24, of Sherif Mulay el Mehdi, Viceroy of the Spanish zone of Morocco, Royal honors were rendered at his funeral by representatives of Spain. A convention was signed on December 18, by France, Spain and Great Britain, providing for the neutralization of Tangier, together with a special zone, the entire district to be governed by an international assembly.
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Motril
town and port in Granada, Spain, 32 miles S. E. of Granada. Its industries include foundries, sugar refineries, potteries, and soap works. Calahonda and roadstead of Baradero constitute port. Pop. about 20,000.
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Mott
JOHN RALEIGH, General Secretary of Young Men's Christian Associations; born in 1865, graduated from Cornell University in 1888. The same year he became chairman of the executive committee of the Students' Volunteer Movement, an undertaking which has occupied most of his life. This movement was designed to stimulate the desire for Christian service among college students, and under Mott's leadership it became a deeply religious and effective force. In 1895 Mott became general secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation. Mott has always been deeply interested in the foreign missionary work of the Y. M. C. A. and this made him a figure of national and international importance. In August, 1916, President Wilson appointed him on the Joint Commission to settle the differor a grease. Various types of friction ences between the United States and Mexico, and the next year the President made him a member of the mission to Russia which was headed by Elihu Root. During the war with Germany Mott's energies were given to directing the great work of the Y. M. C. A. for the help of the American army and navy.
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Mott (LUCRETIA an American reformer)
LUCRETIA, an American reformer; born in Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 3, 1793. Early became interested in the movement against slavery. In 1818 she joined the Friends. In 1833 she assisted in the formation of the American Anti- Slavery Society, and in 1840 went to London as its delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention. She was one of the four promoters of the Woman's Rights Convention in the United States. She died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 11, 1880.
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Motte
FORT, a Revolutionary fort, on the Congaree river, S. C., about 33 miles below Columbia.
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Mottl
FELIX, an Austrian musician and conductor; born in 1856. Studied in the Conservatory of Vienna, and in 1881 became the court chapel master at Karlsruhe and conducted the philharmonic concerts there for the next ten years. From 1903-1911 he was general music director at Munich. In 1903-1904 he visited America and conducted in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. During his lifetime in addition to numerous single compositions he wrote two operas, "Agnes Bernauer" (1880) and "Fürst und Sänger" (1892). Died in 1911.
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Mottled Iron
The variety of pig iron which is evidently between the two extremes of white and gray. The fracture shows a decided mottle, seemingly caused by the distribution of detached portions of white iron throughout a matrix of gray iron. Pig iron is termed high or low mottle, according to the proportion of white iron present in the pig. See GRAY IRON; WHITE IRON; CAST IRON.
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Mouflon
MOUFFLON, or MUF- FLON, a wild species of sheep, formerly common in Spain, now restricted to Corsica and Sardinia. It is about the size of a common sheep, brownish-gray in color, with a dark dorsal streak, and a varying amount of white on the face and legs. Horns are present in the males only, and the tail is very short.
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Moulding
The art of preparing moulds from plastic materials of such a nature as will successfully resist the intense heat of molten metal,--as loam or sand,--in which may be formed the object to be produced in metal, the process being completed when the metal has been melted, run into the mould, and solidified. True, there are moulds used for special purposes in iron-casting other than those composed of sand; as for instance, rolls, car-wheels, etc., which require to be chilled in parts. This is accomplished by providing smooth cast-iron surfaces for the metal to lie against. Again, castings in zinc, lead, tin, or alloys made from these metals are frequently cast in moulds composed entirely of either brass or iron; by this means the castings are not only a true duplicate of each other, but are made much cheaper. For flexible moulds, see GLUE-MOULDS and ELASTIC MOULDS; also, "The Iron Founder" and "The Iron Founder Supplement," in which works the whole art of moulding is comprehensively set forth. Moulding in Dry Sand.--See DRY-SAND MOULDING. Moulding in Loam.--See LOAM-MOULDING.
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