Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-30
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DR.. Thomas Addison Of San Fran
cisco Is guest At the New Livingsior.
lie Is IN the city 20 visit he old college
chum, Clark III. Gleason. DIR. Addison
is manager 81 the Western Electro
supply company. "a great deal Of
fault 8 found with the troll ey street
car systern,' he said last night. s.bat
nevertheless IT'S utility more insn com
pensatss for ITS lack of hesniy, aud the
little annoyance Il causes. TIE storage
battery system hss never proved . cue
cess financially. Ii - too expensive.
The term storage battery Is really q
msnomer. Many persons think the
electricity is stored IN cell, a. ar may
be condensed IN a jar. Lead plates ar
ranged 50 as 10 present the greatest
posslble surface and moot any
salt that val. be deoomposed
by the chemical action that takes
place when Il comes IN contact with
the lead. are the substances used in
the storage battery. To develop =
high electro motive force with snch y
battery is very costly" DIR. Addison
was formerly q resident of Grand Rap.
ids.
81 have nothing against Governor
Luce" said X Il. Biacker. secretary Of
state, in the lobby OF the Morton yea
terday. ''BuI If Michigan must send .
republican 10 the United States senate.
l hope il will be Francis b. stockb,idge.
So far as the people of Western Michi-
gan are concerned, he has been most
valuable representative. lie has
worked INCREASINGLY FIR our river and
harbor appropriations, and their pres
ent condition is due largely 10 bic
efforts. When We have gone TO WASH
ington on MISSION and asked him TO
aid ne, he has gone the TO unds with ne,
and invariably used his influence TO
the beet possible advantage. lie 10 .
valuable man and has done excellent
work, not for the republican party
alone, but for the state of Michigan,
and 1t would be q long time before
Governor Luce could begin where Sem
ator Stockbridge left Off,"
l.. b. Bossler, q Philadelphia manu-
facturer Of cotton goods, 10 = guest in
Sweets. "The American manufac-
turers of cotton goods can compete
with the world" he SAID. Thousands
of yards OF our muslins are sold IN Lon
don and Paris every year in competi.
ton with the foreign goods. We either
make better fabrics than the English
manufacturers or else We can cell them
cheaper. While this is true OF cotton
goods 1t is not true of woolens. We
own and operate one of the largest felt
mills In the country, and until the tariff
was placed on felt goods we were un-
able to compete with the foreign man.
ufacturers. 1.-THE coming congress re-
moves the duty on WOODEN goods and
places wool on the free list, the Amer
can manufacturers will De forced TO re-
duce wages in order to compete"
Everybody in Kalamazoo. demo-
Gratis and republicans alike. nope TO see
Senator Stockbridgc reelected" said
II. A. Bennett of the asylum city ia the
Morton last night. HE may be mill
ionaire. but there Is no more free
hearted and generous citizen OF Kala-
mazoo. This autipathy toward a man
simply because he Is q millionaire is all
nonsense-most OF it is rank hypocrisy.
The fact that q man is wealthy ought
not TO make any difference in sena-
torial or any other contest. The error
is not in eiectlng mlliionalres TO Office,