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DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24
Diversity Your Crops.

II our friends of the cotton zone
are long-headed they will do two
things in 1910 that they ought to do.
They will remember the Is.cent cot
ton of 1900 and plant a greater acre
age OF the white staple than they
planted this year And they will at
tend to the raising OF stock as we'll
as to the growing OF the cereal crops.
We never shall have cheaper beef.
Judging from the present outlook, I'M
til the farmers of the south and east
like those of the west and southwest
i'm TO raise at home all the stuff that
they are TO consume at home The
age Of universal veSetarianiSm is not
vet and the day OF South AMERICAN
beef, though coming, not decided
Intelligent farmers all over the land
are aiming, SO far as possible, to feed
their families OFF the home acres and
this, primarily, is what farms are for.
Pensacola Journal
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

You'd scarce expect one of my age
in merchandising to engage and hope
TO get paying trade without the local
papers aid And yet did that very
thing; | opened up a store last spring
this month the sheriff took my stock
and sold it at the auction block Don't
view me with a scorntul eye, but sim.
ply say as pass by. there goes 4 fool
who seemed to think he had no use for
printers ink" There is truth as
broad as earth, and business men
should know its worth; It's simply this,
the public buys its goods from those
who advertise. Ia llahassee Democrat
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24
How the Deficit Is Caused.

THE railroads chargt the United
states government nine cents per
pound for Transporting second-clAss
mail matter, says Mr.. Taft. in his
message to congress. The express
companies carry newspapers for one
cent per poand-thc rate charged
the newspapers by the government.
Ii the railroads charged the express
companies min, cents per pound rs
they do the postoiice, the express
companies woHld lose eight cents on
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24
A Hearty Appitite.

is wha. most babes have, but is of no
benefit TO them il they have worms.
BE sure Your baby is not troubled
with them. Sure syinptoms-always
lungry, rings under the eyes. not
gaining i'll weight and yellow COM
pleNion, y few doses of Whites
Cream Nermiiuge will eXpell all worms.
|, is positive cure and reliable Price
:; cents per bottle, Sold by all drug
glStS.
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24
Fire from Unusual Cause.

\ peculiar conhlgration occurred
at the Dunnellon Co.'S commisary
near fernando one night last week. 4
driver Went into the building to get
some hay. and in opening a bale the
wire sprung and hit lamp he was
holding in his hand. resulting in the
destruction OF the building and its con-
tents
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

every pound OF newspapers carried.
But the railroads are more generous
to the express companies than to
Uncle Sam. The express companies
pay the railroads just one-halt cent
tor transporting newspapers Taft
wants to raise the newspaper postage
rates, appeal to Reason.
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

There is no way of improving a
place So much as by encouraging good
merchants. good schools and good
people ~ settle among YOU, and this
can not be done unless YOU spend your
money 1t home.
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

The peculiar properties of Chamber
.ain's Cough Remedy have been
thoroughly tested during epidemics OF
OF influenza, and when il WAS taken in
time we have not heard OF single case
OF pneumonia. Sold by All Druggists.
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

MIS-. Jones has new hat. o." We'll,
YOU look nightly pleased about it,,
on Just ought 10 See how it looks or,
her, Houston Post
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

Ii YOU are kicker and see the
shadows Of failure in everything that
is proposed to help the town, for
heavens sake 60 into some secluded
DeLand news. [volume] (DeLand, Volusia County, Fla.) 190?-1921, 1909-12-24

lie clay bank and give the men who
. working to build up the town
Wr Al; 's" sa::a: a5;y::S:ss
W keep away b business .a sand and capital a
nch bugs cyclones and biz
The Washington times., 1909-08-29

present at the time the accident oc-
CURED. and, while the exact cause viii
never be known. we are convinced after
a careful consideration Of all the par
~ticulars obtainable that Mr.. Bourque's
strength failed him. and that he prob
ably lost consciousness n control OF
the car before 1t left the track
In this same race another young driv-
er, Ellis, had driven his Jackson car
go miles. He had fought from near 10
last place up 70 first. He had just pass
ed the grandstand when his engine
stopped. and he coasted as Bourque had
done only a little while before to the
side Of the track, Although the Jack
son repair pits we're some distance
away. the youth and his mechanic
jumped q where they were and cranked
feverishlv. They had u thirty miles
TO go. They were sixteen minutes ahead
Of their nearest competitor II they
could only get their engine started.
Then they found the trouble. The mag
neto was out Of order And as Ellis
turned 10 the mechanic TO explain the
latter sank To the ground in a faint.
The driver stopped. picked up his COM
rade. and bore him off the track. Then
he. too. tainted.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF IT.

WYE have all Of us a proddins sym
w patty for the young woman who
waited up i'm Springfield for the racing
season to end that she might make a
home With her driver sweetheart But
here the suffering had for an hour a
more poignant character. Mrs. Ellis
was in the stand and saw her husband
of ONLY a few short months carried to-
ward the hospital. As n a through
the door she saw the physicians bending
over him. With an uniformed cry on
her Inns she sank to the floor. The az
tendants caught her up and helped her
70 the operating table. At that instant
he reraiued mis- senses. stretched out his
hand took hers, and smiled From that
,~oinute. while the badly blistered hands
u-are dressed and the sand and gravel
wore picked out Of the eyes, these two
he'd each other tightly. ard, we will
hope, forgot the whole cause OF auto
mobile racing
Tbis same contest provided a fine il
Iustration Of the danger that arises
the car independently of the
driver.
Much was expected Of Louis Strang
and Barney Oldheld by everyone. In
thIs race the latter was not entered
The former followed his practice Of let
tin the others win the first part Of the
race. and for the first lap took last
place willingly. But as Strang finished
the second round and approached the
pit where stood the men ready TO re-
pair his car. the whole bottom Of his
Buick gave forth flame. This make is
the one exception 10 the rule that rae
ing cars have their exhausts at the side
In the Buick il leads 10 the bottom Of
the car. Some gasolene had leaked into
a pan there and the exhaust had ignited
IL.
A FIRE e~xtinguisher was pushed up,
and Strang's mechanic uGed it TO put
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MANY EXPLANATIONS.

r HERE were many explanations. Of
1 course. The first accounts were
that Bourque mad looked back. The
second that something had broken.
But we shall probably not find
any better testimony than that Of w.
r. Wright. vice president of the Knox
Company. and i'm an official statement
given out by him for his corporation
he says.
we have 5eeo privileged with op-
p%ortunity to gather as many facts as
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
CARNIVAL OF SPEED
IS 4 BLOODY TOLL
New Dementia Americana
Which Keeps Abreast With
Demand to Hurry.
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
The seat and find it shaking like a
Sitter in a threshing machine. The
cold in your stomach is a dull pain
now. There are quick twinges in
your eyes. You have a vague idea
sn the rushing forward, with the
yellow showing underneath in a
blurr, that your fear is like that of
looking down from a great height
=
You have gone once around the
track. The car pulls so viciously
that you forget the confused pro-
Cession of poles, trees. stands, and
white posts and carefully put one
of your feet back on the rest. The
buzz lifts a note higher in the
scale. You grow accustomed to
the curves and lean before you get
T. them. You know you are twice
around by the coming Of the big
Erandstand. The only sensations
you feel are Of dust swirling
around your head, the smell of
gasolene, and Of being in the heart
of a whirlwind. You find yourself
waiting for the end. After another
curve the driver looks around at
you. Then the engine slows down
and stops.
You wonder why you step out
go stifhy and your whole body
trembles2 One knee gives way
but you catch your balance. Your
whole body is hot and sticky. You
aook about at the still trees and
fence. You laugh awkwardly. But
ycu have the courage TO say it
81 guess I've had enough"
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
THE RACING TRACK.

WE viii do well. before we go into
these several phases Of automo-
billing. 10 look around that track at In
dianapolis. and see one Of the races
from tho grandstand. We will do well,
too. if we assume certain manifest facts
about the automobile. II has come 10
stay. II is an unquestioned benefit 70
the world. Il has a claim on us al for
intelligent support almost as great as
the claim Of the steam railway. Every
test OF IL. WITHIN reasonable limitations.
ought 10 be encouraged, and there can
be no doubt OF the value Of such tests
as hill-climblng contests and relis biIitv
runs. Finally. speed tests have their
value. also. i'm that tho extra strain
they impose assuUedly reveals weak
nesses of structure and material before
those shortcomings could possibly OF
manifested through ordinary road use.
Four Indianapolis business meu-C. q.
Fisher. A. G. Newly. T. n. Wheeler,
and J. A. AIlisOn-aIl identified with
s~utomobiliHg. constructed the Indlansp-
oils Motor Speedway with n purpose 10
provide an American track At least the
equal OF the great English course at
BroolJands. The latter Is an oval OF
two and three-quarter miles The new
American couTss is an ellipse Of five
miles. II has been designed by Mr..
Fisher, himself a successful driver sew
eral years ago. and located on the
prairie about four miles northwest OF
the state capital.
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course was over go miles. Their were
nine entries. One was that OF the Knox
Company Of Springfield. Mass. and the
car was driven by Wilfred Bourque. Of
the factory force. with Harry Holcomb.
Of West Granville. as his mechanician.
At Richmond Springs a week earlier
Vice President Sherman had presented
Bourque with q cup for his splendid driv-
ing in finishing only a few minutes be
hind Chevrolet. This was his first sea
son I'm racing and # was intended TO be
his last. according to an agreement with
Miss AIexina Boivin, Of West Spring
field. 20 whom he was TO be married
within a month
The cars had gone about 10 miles. It
was the first race of the meet, the bap-
tism Of the speedway, and the onlook-
ers were wild with enthusiasm. The
Knox had fallen to seventh place. then
come up to fifth. then to fourth. then
back to sixth. then up to fourth. then
up to second. II had become a danger
Gus factor. The car came within clear
view Of the Grsndstand. whirling a cloud
OF dust and smoke. and pIunging ahead
at full speed. Suddenly it seemed to
dive. II turned out of it's course and
skidded across the track. Straight ahead
il rushed into a ditch and mp the side
10 the wire fence where stood perhaps
a dozen spectators. Then the car top
pied and turned ver and over like a
topsy-tUrvey toy. Ii crashed through
the fence before the thousands I'm the
grsndstand could take their hands from
their eyes or do more than cry out. HoI-
comb went through the air and struck
a fence post. covering the grass with
splattered red. Bourque was found near
the machine, still living, but uncon-
-,F,vy-.
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
Bourque a Sacrifice
To the Craze for Speed.

4 press car was first TO come up. Its
men sprang out and cut the wires OF
the fence 20 let a stretcher through.
Mhitiamcn rushed up and guarded the
crowd away. Bourque was hurried TO
IN operating table i'm the Speedway
Hospital But the blood was pouring
into his lungs and he was drowned, lit
orally, i'm his own blood. And an this
time. while thousands We're hurrying
across the track. and women bound
closer to certain Of the drivers than
Miss Boivin to poor Bourque, were hold
ing their hands to their lips and pray
ing. eight other cars where pounding
and swirling their way for the Prest-
O-Lite trophy and the credit OF winning
the race.
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
Two Big Tracks On
The Indianapolis Course.

In reality there are two tr~acks-the
ellipse with curves banked TO a height
Of sixteen feet; and inside that. a wind
ing track. as though two ovals had been
made Of a trunk strap and The inner one
buckled back and forth-of FIVE miles
length. without any banking Of the
curves. The one is a speed course. the
other a road course. In appearance the
two grandstands, the timing devices.
the little special stands for manufac-
turers. the bridges across the track. the
pits for the repair men, and the occa-
sional towers. make # not quite k
anything else. But one gets from IL the
impression Of a mixture OF a league
baseball park and a county fair ground.
The tracks bave cost more than S3O0.00
Accordingto i. A Moross, director %
contests for the speedway, the outer
course Is bu1ded Of crushed stone and a
binder Of ~tarviated sand and stone. Ac-
cording 20 some Of the drivers It IS only
a surface Of sand and powdered stone
with oil sprinkled and rolled upon II.
The Br0oklands course is OF concrete.
Thi, looks like an adaptation OF a track
! for horse-racing.
The Washington times., 1909-08-29

lets, and usually three extra pairs Of
goggles hang below the chin.
All this seems putting on" a great
deal. I'm reality IL is only half protec-
ton. Driver Aitken-who made two new
world records at fifty and 100 miles by
making the first in a minutes and q
seconds and the latter IN ] hour, 81
minutes and Al seconds-let me see the
effect OF the meet on him. Sand and
gravel had filtered through his hair and
beneath even such a cap. His fore
arms were stiff and sore. with muscle
strain revealed in long lines Of black
and blue. His gauutlets were abundant
.Iy heavy; yet this man had worn great
blisters through the hare little mounds
Of his palms. Another driver was
bruised everywhere about the trunk.
The ~unending rocking OF the waist
makes every muscle of the abdomen
ache. And when the trial is ended
there is almost invariably p reaction in
the form Of tuitching and uncertain
muscle control.
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
Jumps Into Race
With Renewed Spirit.

The driver jumped into the race with
all spirit. He began TO recover the lost
ground. He had cleared the 2oG-mile
mark and was nearing the bleachers
when the Nemesis Of automobile r1clng
overlook hin His right front tire
burst. a few feet ahead the track
Irnntirrad IN Eth pa-aN
The Washington times., 1909-08-29

IDENTITY expects the races to continue
and looks forward as a reasonable
probability TO the day when automo-'
biIes will make 800 miles an hour on
uch a track as that at indianapolis.
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CONTINUED on Fifth Page.3
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
WHAT THE RACING is.

c 0 YOU realize for the first time what
~ this racing is that cost five lives a
week ago az Indianapolis. and has just
added two more 70 the toll Al Brighton.
You understand the danger now when
p tire bursts. You can see why cars
turn turtle. II is easy for YOU 10 ne
sieve that when a steering knuckle
breaks a car viii cut down fence posts
as a scythe cuts down grain. You have
gone only siXtv-foUr miles an hour
while racers have made 10. But YOU
ca understand.
The sight OF a race accents every de-
tail OF your experience. But the two
together do not prepare o for the
revelations OF your talks with the men
who drive IN races for a living. II is
pretty hard 10 believe all that those
men tell and that YOU know must be
true. Think for a minute on this:
That. according 10 Louis StranE,
every car racing AZ Indianapolis was
on The ground practically all the time.
Drivers Sick After
Initial Try-Out in Cars.
That many Of the drivers were sick
from pain after merely warming up
their engines by "a spin around the
HTnFka fMnN HNtN tNthII VLt went NFiil-
porarily blind that M OF the drivers
whose car ran into a post is believed "a
have gone asleep. and that several who
were risking their lives 10 a degree We
can only imagine arter our siXty-four-
miles-an-hour trial were suffering all
these things ar once.
That Strang's car set itself on fire
and that every car entered not only
ran that risk. but was Ga danger of
being set adre by a competitor.
That these men All think aeroplaning
"safe as ridin' In a baby carriage
compared with the sport in which
they are engaged.
That these races are man testers,
rather than car testers, and that they
have only q secondary value as indi-
eating trustworthiness Of design and
reliability Of construction 10 an intend
ing purchaser.
That. Notwithstanding All this. al
least one among the drivers conf
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
THE INDIANAPOLIS RACE.

THE race was for a trophy donated
L by the Prest-C-Lite Company and
containing 1Jo pounds troy OF silver. The
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
OFF,

THE cars are started directly in
L front Of the ~grandstand. AS they
draw through the policemen and off,
The Washington times., 1909-08-29

Gals TO the line whitewashed across
Zoe packed dirt, one wonder why more
Fas not been said OF the noise they
make. A single car pierces the air
with its sharp explosions. Half a dozen
make Il impossible TO talk in any Of
the nearest seats. The honklng Of a
thousand automobile horns from the
spectators heightens the uprOar. AS
you note the hubbUb and the throb-
hing Of the machines YOU would UNI
derstsnd even without your ride why
the driver Of zach car must signal to
his merchandising by holding up fingers
instead Of talking. Every minute the
cars stand increases the smoke In
several Of the Indianapolis races there
were two or three lines Of entrants.
Not a single one Of those contests was
started before the rear cars were en-
veloped IN great. dirty, hame-pierced
clouds so that the drivers IN the rear
could not possibly see ten feet ahead.
The pan OF smoke. the fIsshcs Of FIRE
and the reverberations Of the engines
make the scene realistically like a bat
tie. Before the initial meet on this
course had ended there were fruits 10
confirm that impression.
The starting round is by everyone the
most feared. Tie cars are theu In
little groups. They plunge ahead 81
multaneously and keep together until
the break for tine first curve. Even
here the cloud Of smoke is so heavy
that one wonders how half a dozen
drivers, eacn with his distinctive meth
Cd Of making the turn, can avoid crash
ing into each other. BY The end of the
first five miles. however, they have sep
arated. and are trailing after each other
with clear light between and only oc-
casionaI crossings. Each car sends be-
hind a separate thunder cloud and de-
tonates the news Of its coming from
half 2 mile away. With more than
three or four contestants on the track
# is hard TO make oneself heard in the
grandstand even on a fve-mile course.
Garb of the Drivers
Unlike That Ever Before Seen.
The drivers and their helpers have
made ready for this sport IA a garb
unlike any clothes ever worn by men
before. Tl+y cut on the toes Of their
socks and fl the tips OF their shoes
with talcum powder. All OF them wrap
themselves In waist bandages like Arab
camel riders. inns one IN woven ruphef,
that in a strip Of flannel ten inches
wide and three yards long. They bind
their forearms in tape, most OF them.
and put heavy straps on their wrists.
The head is the rlost curiously covered
Of all. In France are manufacture
caps which at the hair closely. like the
red costume Of Mephistophelcs. Nothing
shows through save the face, and Mr..
Strang has improved his until il in
cludes a masque that makes him look
like a goblin. Two cords bind the nds
Of the peaks under THE chin and round
the neck. ana the fastening Of them
/ springs open two pockets which let air
and sound into the ears from the back.
The outer clothing is of the leather we
have come to associate with automobile
driving, there are the inevitable gaunt-
The Washington times., 1909-08-29
Imminent Danger Of
| Being Made Totally Blind

Most appalling TO YOU and me rs the
jp,wirenf danger that tho drivers will
be blinded. Every ear shoots from ITS
rear wheels dirt. little globules Of OH
and sand, pebbles, ana wen stones. II
Won drive YOU mean 10 win, and II YOU
win YOU must expect 70 pass other cars.
So IL is inevitable that one driver must
ride into the storm OF grit thrown mp by
another. Again and again in these In
dfapapoIis races the hail broke the
classes Of drivers coming up behind. II
the position of the car permits the
driver then lifts a new pair 70 his eyes.
But If II doesn't he must expect 10 have
the dirt thicken his iasbes, then COP
tract the field of his vision, then let
tiny pebbles under the lids. and finally
blind him for the moment altogether.
Chevrolet. an experiences and resource
ful driver. was seen 20 stop his car be
side the rail opposite the grandstand
when well ahead in the 25O-mile race.
lie stepped down Uucerta .ly. reached
out his hands and fouuG thc shoulder
or his helper. There was q motion Of
his back as though he we're sohbiug
Men rushed 10 him and led the way 10
the hospital tent. There r. was found
that he could not see at all. His Cog
giles had been broken and, while he
reached for a second pair. his eyes filled
with dirt and pebbles. The mechanician
understood the trouble n reached mp
10 clear away the particles with tho tip
Of his glove. Chevrolet's eyes We're
opened. But they looked out on a glis-
TENNIS white track and were blinded i'm
s%tantlv. In a second more they were
filled with powder again. When this
happened ne was five laps ahead. When
IL was cured he was nopciessly out Of
the race.
The strain is greater upon others than
you and me. In the sight Of 5000 per
sons. on the opening dav OF the In
1ianspolis meet, there was sorry. tcs-
timouv Of that.