The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23
RICH MEN SPEED MAD
NEW YORK IS TO TRY FOR MILE A MINUTE RATE IN AUTO
 BOATS.
Cityss Most Famous Cat Which Died Nine Authentic Deaths to he E,x- hihated--Barbers Declare War
 on WhfnAkerN.

City,s Most Famous Cat Which Died Nine Authentic Deaths to he Ex- hibited---Barbers Declare War on whishers.
 New York, Aug, 22-(Speciai1 1--New York autoists, not content with speed record of 2-miles a minute on land. are now out for one a mile minute on water. In this ambition Is found the very latest millionaire fad for expensive speed for while 1t is true that the speed attainable on land is more than twice that which has been accomplish ed on water, New Workers are likely more costly and on account of the greater chance Of making a name as aquatic speed kings.
 The recent races between American and English motor boats. in which the former achieved another victory over Great Britain with a worlds record for forty foot boat of more than thirty five miles an hour. has given added impetus to motor boat racing here. Already more than 10000 persons come to their offices in Manhattan daily in motor boats which can make more than twentytwo miles an hour and in this fact may be found reason for Americas recent triumphs over England in this class of sport in keep ing with the victories over Sir Thomas Lipton in his contests for Americas cup.
 While everything in this country, so. far as motor boats are concerned. has to do with speed, the tendency in Europe. according to Henry c. Row land. himself pioneer motor boatist. who is contributing to sAppleton's Magazine an account of one of the long est voyages of this sort ever under taken is toward a slower cruising boat Dr. Rowland whose voyage of over A. 900 miles extended entirely across Europe attributes Americas speed supremacy to her lack of long inland courses suitable to motor boat cruis- ing.
 While 1t may be true that America may not have the beauties of the Rhines the Rhone and the Danube which the Appleton articles describe, 1t seems safe to predict that New York's millionatres now seized with the water speed fever will shortly be building motor boats capable of making sixty miles an hour. ,
 Such toys, however, will be the toys of the wealthy few. since it is figured that for boat of this sort the cost would be $s,000 mile, making it the most expensive speed medium in the world.
 There will shortly be mounted in one of New York's famous museums alongside the statue of Sysonby. the country's greatest race horse. the body of the most famous cat which this city has ever known.
 The honor which is to be accorded to the feline is due not only to the fact that she lived through a number of &C., cidents' any one of which should have proven fatal. but because she demon. strated actually and for the first time that a eat has nine lives. Tn compari- son to her the cat that did various things in the house that Jack built will be nowhere. and under her stuffed body will be sign ''the first cat to die nine authentic deaths" So far as Ialne has to do with this cat her career began recently when she was observed chasing a rat along one of the city streets. She was likewise being chased by a crowd of boys. one of whom threw a paving stone which hitting her on inc head killed her. She arose from the first death. however. and true to her instincts pursued the rat The latter ran up a flight of stairs leading to the elevated railroad tripping up a cor pulent woman who fell on the cat squashing her and killing her for a second time. The cat arose again, how SfS@f Sh0 SOANAAu6Q the chase. Whan the elevated platform was reached the cat was knocked cold by a kick In- tended for the rat and then placed in a garbage can. -
 From this third death she revived and the rat having remained immovable through terror pursued him on to the eleVated tracks. At this point Tabby was snot by policeman and killed for the fourth time. but again arose and finally grabbed the rat. In inc strug- gle she fell on the third rail, carrying current which has killed many men thus accounting for her fifth deafb
 The shock knocked her through the rails to the street below accounting for her sixth death, where her seventh LOOK place through being run over by street car in front of which she fell Her eighth life was given up to A dog which grabbed her In his mouth and last to the bullet of a policeman who tried to shoot the dog.
 All her adventures will be tabulated beneath her stuffed body in the rnnss,,o, where she will represent the frs. actual proof of the right of a cat +o nine lives. 'o
 Tonsorial artists. otherwise. +to ,..
 oers of the State of New YorI in
 solemn conclave assembled. have at only prescribed the fashion in whisl-ags Tor the ensuing year. but have taken census of various hirsute adornments and declared war on various kinds of ereepeTs. 94 The only proper face adornmen+ for
 the coming season. If the tonsorisI mandates are correct, will be a Kaiser Wilhelm mustaohe with a very small l chin beard resembling the Hughes adornment will be considered correct
 Tn the research line the most import ] ant discovery was that of the aspar- 1 agus beard, which 1t is asserted flour ishes on Long Island. This decoration
 takes the form of a thin and strag-
 gling apendage to the chin and is de-
 clared to be in extremely bad form even
 in rural communities
 A sustained effort is to be made in favor of clean shaven faces, and war l ln l.nl.naH s.r. Hha nn Hnnrr .nnnn Erhn