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ALL AGREE THAT II IS A GRAND SUCCESS
Gathers the eey Staple Rate Acre per Hour and Does
Not njure the Green Bos or Blooms Gets 90 per cent
ofthe Open Cotton

One hundred and twenty-five
years ago cotton and cotton goods
were practically unknown as
articles of commerce because the
lint fibre could rot be mechani-
cally separated from the seed.
The genius of Eli Whitney in
vented the gin. and the value of
the worlds production Of cotton
goods now exceeds three billion
dollars annually. The enormous
demand for cotton has strained
the productive capacity of the
South until the cotton farmer
unable TO compete with the mag
netism of city life for the negro,
finds himself entirely at the
mercy of a class Of labor which
IS as unsatisfactory as II is shift
less.
In this situation, the Price
Campbell Cotton Picking Machine
has arrived to solve a problem.
which. IN the South. has seemed
hopeless. and elsewhere threat
ened the prostration Of the
worlds greatest industry that Of
cotton manufacturing.
II means better organized and
more profitable farming for the
agriculturist II means education
and increased earning power for
the farm hand. Il means more
children al school and fewer in
the fields. and not the least i'm
portant II means the emancIpa-
ton Of the Southern lady from
the thraIdom OF being her own
servant. iu that 10 will make
available for domestic service the
negro woman now drafted into
the cotton field 60 save the
crop
The picking machine is opera
ted by a thirty horsepower gas
oline engine. II will pick an acre
an hour and get all the open cot
ton ou the plant. whether il be-
much or little Il has picked 800
pounds Of seed cotton an hour. or
al the rate of 5000 pounds day.
from well-fruited plants.
II is operated by one man. 1t
does not inJure the plant nor
harm the unopened bolls or the
delicate blooms.
But IL is not only a cotton pick
er. IL will break up the ground
with It's disc attachment: furrow
IT with It's cultivator attachment.
and then plant IL. chop Il out
after the seed have come up, pick
Il when II natures. chop up the
stalks when the crop has been
picked. and then the cotton .
picker can be put in the barn.
and with the simple device Of a
belt around It's fy-wheel. its
mechanical energy Of thirty
horsepower can be used to run
anything. from a sawmill 10 a
well drill or a cotton gin.
Throughout the year the machine
in'ts various functions. will do
the work Of fifty men or thirty
horses. n
The Avalanche man feeling an
interest in the future Of this
country, and having a great
curiosity % see the Price Camp
bell machine in operation on q
farm that resembles all the farms
In this section Of the country. We
boarded the southbound train ,
Friday afternoon and went %
Post from which place Ne were ,
taken 10 the Post farm. west Of
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toward keeping the theater open
TO run on Sunday, should also
be guilty. "
OTHER RULINGS
Remanded to the custody of
the sheriff was ordered by habeas
corpus proceedings instituted bv
Charles b. Northern from Dal-
las. held in connection with the
death of Bari Jones.
Affirmed was ordered in the
case Of Slim Edmonson. from
Lampasas. who drew a fine of
$500 and ninety days in jail for
orders for intoxicating
liquors without having license
which the law says shall cost
81. 600. All objections were over
ruled and the court sustained on
the ground that il was a police
regulation incident 10 the con-
troll Of liquor in districts which
had voted il out. Ii was farther
held that il does not discrimi-
nate in favor Of the citizens
residing without the state and
that no question Of interstate
was involved.
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the city, where one of the cotton
picking machines was in opera
ton. Through the courtesy OF
Mr.. Fairbanks, the genial repre-
sentative Of the owners and
manufacturers Of the machine,
we were shown 4he machine in
detail and in our judgment it is
about the smoothest piece of
mechanism that has ever been
conceived in the inventive mind
for many years. We saw in real
/ ity a machine picking cotton,
something that we had not even
expected 10 hive 10 behold with
our own eyes. Thousands upon
. thousands of dollars have been
spent and the brains of more than
one inventor added in the effort
10 produce a successful cotton
picker. Many principles and de-
vices have exhausted the genius
ness and energy of more than
one who believed that he was the
man TO solve the problem of pick
ing cotton with a machine. and
thereby eliminate the greatest Of
great problems in the South. of
gathering the cotton crop after il
was made Never before has
there been a machine invented
and placed on the market that
will mean more 10 the Southern
farmers and cotton raisers, eX-
cept II be- the cotton gin itself,
than the cotton picking machine
that we had the pleasure Of
watching gather in the snowy
white staple and deposit in bask-
cts ready 10 load into the cotton
wagon when 70 reached the end
of the row.
We have been asked a hun
dred or more times since return
Iug from our trip whether or
not we considered the machine
a practical success, TO which we
can only say that within our
limited knowledge OF machinery,
we believe there is no question
that the Price-Campbell cottos
picker is a success from every
point OF view, and hundreds of
others who have seen the ma
chine in operation on the Post .
farm are OF the same opinion.
The cotton that this machine
was operating in ranged in
height from twenty inches TO
two feet, and il was an ideal
place TO test the machine. as. il
represented the average crops in
this part of the country. The
of the bolls were open
ready 10 pick. still there were
numbers of bolls on the stalks
that were not open. still they
remained on the stalks after the
huge machine had passed over
them and did not seem any the
worse Of the operation. Not
scar could we find on them. but
every bit Of the open cotton was
removed from the stalk leaving
{ a. clean as IL an Alabama
Niger had been at work on il.
There is entirely too much of /,
his cotton picking 'critter" that
ne do not know anything about
% under take 70 explain how itis I
constructed. bat viii state inaIt
ew words that Il 10 made en-. ,
irely of steel and iron. being Z
'arried on four wheels similar q
o those Of other traction ma.
hines Il weighs a little over I
0O pounds. and travels when Z
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to one and three.quarter acres
an hour
On the first two fields mention
ed, the machine picked from $50
to 620 pounds of seed cotton per
hour, harvesting ninety-fye per
cent, of the open cotton. In
these fields. where the tops were
very green, the machine picked
a few Of the tender green leaves,
but it collected less Of the boil
stuff than the average hand
picker. ! saw the cotton ginned
the day after picking and it
made as good a sample in the
bale as that handpicked from the
same field.
In the third field, the machine,
travelling at from two and one
half to two and three-quarter
miles per hour, and covering
thus from one and one-quarter
to one and a half acres per hour,
picked from $50 to 900 pounds of
cotton per hour.
The remarkable thing about
the machine is that it does not
injure the unopened bolls, the
squares, or even the blooms, in
the slightest. The only opened
bolls missed were those on the
ground in the line OF the row i'm
mediately in front of or immedi-
ately behind the stalk, which
could not be caught up by the
arms, which slide along in front
of the machine and gather the
limbs Of the plant into the pick
ing apparatus. The picking
fingers do not engage the imper-
fectly developed cotton of diseas-
ed bolls, but they frequently .
pick the hocculent cotton from
one side Of an open boil and leave .
that clotted or glued in imper-
fectly developed boles. The .
machine is thus somewhat selec-
tive and gathers a better sample
than the average, careless hand
picker.
The machines saw were oper-
ated by one man receiving 81. 90 4
day and his board. Where the
cotton is heavy, a boy rides on .
the board at the back and packs
the cotton into the bags. He
was paid seventy-fve cents
day. The machine uses a gallon
Of gasoline an hour, on the aver
age. 1t is evident, therefore,
that il can be operated for not
exceeding $500 per day of ten
hours. There is no reason why
the machine can not be run al
night in all dry weather such as
that usually prevailing IN Texas ]
during the picking season.
When the machines were sent
over the rows the second time,
they got, at best. only two or ,
three pounds of seed cotton to J
the hundred gathered from the
same rows before. They knock -
DOWN very little cotton, so little
As to be negligible. Estimates
we're made by counting the A
,otton bolls for a distance IN
'ront Of the machine and collect
ng and counting the locks of
,otton after tte machine had
,een over il. and the machine
Ilways got ninety-hve per cent, I
II more of the open cotton. -.
An inquiry on two farms,
where the work was being done, U
'rought out the information that a
otton pickers had to 5e solicited /
nd hauled out of the towns on d
ionday morning and taken back o
gain Friday noon. They are v
aid seventy-five cents per e
undred. One hundred and fifty ol
ounds of seed cotton is consid- b
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I''i fNRhi i'h ~ hi'nH W. wv "
thick the cotton is, It is pro.
PEELED by a thirty-horse power
gasoline engine. The cotton is
gathered by being wound off the
stalks into a battery OF rotating
steel fingers each of which has
a saw-line blade on the side Of
them. these fingers are drawn
through a series of brushes and
the cotton stripped off which
drops into a box at either side
of the machine onto a conveying
belt which carries it upward and
deposits il in a basket on the
rear of the machine, much IN the
same manner that a thrashing
machine carries the straw to the
stack. AS stated above. only
one man is required to operate
the machine, and his duty is
to guide it, which is done almost
identically the same as steering
an ordinary auto.
The machine gathers on an
average of % per cent of the
open cotton, and after removing
the cotton from the machine,
examination revealed the fact
that il was as clean and as free
from leaves as when gathered
by hand. OF course a few leaves
and traces of trash were visible,
but neither in quantities greater
than is ordinarily found.
Mr.. Fairbanks stated when
asked about the cost of picking
the cotton with the machine,
that it cost from 10 cents
TO 80 cents per hundred to pick,
the price being governed By the
amount produced per acre, which
is quite a difference 10 what the
farmers are having to pay at this
time.
AN INTERESTING REPORT
The following is a copy or
letter from DIR. Charles w. Dab
ney, Of Cincinatti, Ohio. written
to Mr.. Price. the promoter of the
manufacture and sale of the
machine. which will be of great
interest % the cotton raisers Of
this section.
/ observed the operations of
five different machines Of your
1910 model. working in three
different fields. In all, ! made
seven different tests. None Of
the fields had been properly pre-
pared for the purpose, as they
could be-. without additional eX-
pense, by the planter who m
tended 10 use this machine The
rows. for example. We're some
what too close they should be
four feet they were crooked
and broken unnecessarily. The
cotton was very short After a
very dry season, late rains had
caused the plants TO put on a
heavy top of green leaves. bolls,
and squares. In two of the
fields, all of the cotton was on
the lower half of the plants and
the yield light: on the third field.
il vas better distributed and
heavier In the first two fields.
the yield. which had not been ,
touched, was apparently about
Dne-third of a bale per acre: in 4
the third, less than a half bale. Z
The rows were measured. time
Kept. and seed cotton weighed as \
brought in. watched the
operating. in all. on c
seven different days and they q
without interrup-
ion. except for corn stalks get a
ing into the elevator belt on one .
occasion and an oil can dropped h
rom the machine and caught iu .
he picking apparatus on an e
'ther occasion. The machines
an steadily at the rate of from .
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W r. Robinson is off on q
business trip 10 the eastern
market and will b. absent about
10 days.
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A. r. Grcenhill looked after
business matters Ia Amarillo
Tuesday and Wednesday Of this
week.
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FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
DROWNED BOY TOMORROW.
Six School Pupils Will Be Ig.
natius lannon's PaIi- Bearers.

Ignatius Hanlon, IL years old, who
was drowned Saturday in the Norris
Canal, will be buried tomorrow morn
ing. The funeral will be held from the
home, % Academy street, thence to st.
Patrick's Cathedral, where a high mass
Of requiem will be celebrated. Six pu-
pills of the Burnet Street Public school
will be pall-bearers. Interment will be
in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
Five minutes after young Hanlon
left his home, his mother. Mrs. Nellie
Hanlon, saw a crowd near Halsey and
Academy streets and wondered what
the accident was. Harry Wister. who
boards with the Hanlon family, ran
to the canal and learning that a boy
had fallen in, leaped into the. waters.
He brought the body to the surface.
DR.. D. L. Mccormick. of IA East Kin
ney street, worked Owe the lad for an
hour trying to revive him.
In the meantime a surgeon arrived
with a City Hospital ambulance. but
the boy was beyond help.
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DEATH CLAIMED
A. ]. BRECKENRIDGE
At HOME TODAY

nf Andrew J.. B~reidenbach, for many
years active in Republican affairs in
the Fifth ward, and deputy collector OF
Internal revenue for more than twenty
years, died at his home. 70 Congress
street, at II O'Clock this morning
Death was caused by a complication OF
diseases after an illness of seven
weeks. The members OF the family
and DIR. H. C. II. Herold and DR.. ID. A.
E,pler were present when death came.
Mr.. Breidenbach was born in
wurtzbath, Germany, sixty-three years
ago. Two years later his parents
came to this country and settled in
New York city. Mr.. B~reidenbach was
educated in the New York public
schools. When he was IA years old both
of his parents died, and he was left to
fight the battle of life alone. He
learned cigar-making n worked at
that trade seven years.
When he was Fl years old he came
to this city. and almost Immediately
became active in the political affairs
of the old Twelfth ward. He received
his first political position In 1885, when
he was appointed assistant superin-
tendent of public lighting He held
that office until 1899, when he accepted
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MYSTIC SHR|NERs
READY FOR THEIR
ANNUAL SESSION
Mobiles from All Parts of the
Country Will Gather in
~ Rochester.

ROCHESTER,, n. Y. July 1o.-The
thirty-sei enth annual session of the
imperial council of the noble of the
Mystic Shrine of North America will
conven in Rochester tomorrow. Da-
mascus temple. under whose auspices
the imperial council is to be enter
tanned, has outlined an elaborate PRO-
gram and one that will make every
Shriner in the land feel to hum"
This evening there will be a recep-
ton when the mobiles from all parts
of the country will get together. To
morrow will take place the parade and
escort of the official divan TO conven-
ton hall. In the evening the grand
parade of all the visiting temples will
take place, representatives OF every
State in the Union, together with Can
d n Mexico. The fun and ~frivolity
will end in a confetti battle.
Wednesday the grand drill of the
patrols n review by the imperial
divan will be given. A concert by the
massed bands of 1000 musicians will be
one of the features. In the evening the
browning feature of the imperial coun~
Gil will take place, a magnificent water
carnival. The council will officially
come to a close July IS with a grand
ball. The imperial council represents
125 shrine temples and over $50, 900
shriners in North America.
For the first time in the history of
the Northwest the imperial potentate's
mantle will fall upon John Frank
Treat, past %potentate of FL Zagel Tenn
pie. Fargo. n. D., n the present dep
uty imperial %rotentate. The election
will take. place Wednesday morning.
July II. The present imperial potentate
is Fred A. Hines, of AL Malaikah Tenn
pie. Los Angeles, Cal. The honor ZONES
to Noble John Frank Treat, present
deputy imperial ~potentate. after a serv-
ice of ten years in the imperial council,
he having been elected and success
fully filled all the intermediate offices
between that of imperial outer guard
and the imperial po~tentate.
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EDWARD [. MINK.

Edward L. Mink, for over twenty
years engaged in the grocery business
at Walnut and Mulberry streets. died
at the City Hospital yesterday. Death
was caused by a complication of dis
eases. He was sick for seven weeks.
Mr.. Mink was born in this city AZ
years ago. and had resided here since.
His home was at 81 Columbia street.
He was a member OF Trilumina Ma
sonic Lodge, and the Golden Rule
Lodge of odd Fellows. He is survived
by his mother, Mrs. Catherine Mink, a
widow, Mrs. Laura Mink, and one
daughter,
The funeral will be held from the
home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. M.
erty. pastor of st. Paul's Methodist
Church, will perform the services,
after which the body will be inferred
in Paramount Cemetery.
owens. of 1913 High street, Thursday
morning. The Rev. George p. Dough-
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SCAMP" MONTGOMERY DEAD.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Harry Mont
gcmery, who was known as Scamp
Montgomery to Broadway and the the.
atrical world in general, died early Sun.
day morning in Roosevelt Hospital
Montgomery. who was the original Abe
Gunther. the bus driver, in Get Rich
Quick W~allingford,' played with the
company until Wednesday night. when
he became so sick that he was taken
to the hospital the next day. His
health-he suffered from dropsy-had
not been good for q couple of years.
Montgomery was born In St. Joseph,
Mo, thirty-eight years ago.
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IS HEARTY AND
ACTIVE At ACE
OF N|NETY-N|NE
George Clinton Paine, Book
Agent, Happily Observes
His Birthday.

George Clinton Paine. bookseller and
pedestrian, who celebrated his ninety
ninth birthday at his nome, 80 Clinton
avenue. yesterday. is today on his va
cation visiting the places in New York
State where he spent his poyhood a
century ago.
Ii spite of the fact that he has al
most reached the hundred mark, Mr..
Paine is still actively engaged in bust
ness. He is a book agent well knkown
in those n~eighborhoods he eanvasses.
Blu. activity is a principle with Mr..
Paine. He owes his longevity, he says.
10 his active interest in life. Added to
that he name fresh air, temperance
and walking as the three other requi-
sites for living to a great age.
II have always done a great deal of
walking" said Mr.. Paine. Indeed,
it's the exercise in the fresh air that
builds and ~invigorates. My habit of
walking l may have picked up in my
boyhood days when | used to trudge
through the snow to the little, rough
old district school at Elmira. We had
to walk in those old days.
.sOnce my father told me that he
would let me get a pair of boots. That
meant just a trihe more than 1t does
now. Boots had to be made to order.
/ walked to the village cobbler. | re-
member, to be measured. / lie the
same thing sgain when the boots were
ready to be fitted. Then | walked to
the village and back to get them after
they were finished. That was forty-two
miles altogether. | wonder how some
of our youngsters of today would like
that. eh?"
And Mr.. Paine chuckled amusedly as
he pictured the modern boy plodding
along forty-two miles OF country roads
for a pair of shoes.
Mr.. Paine a tell many "reminiscences
of the Seneca Indians n other old
time people and places in New York
State.
He is the oldest member of he So
ciety of the sons and Daughters o; the
American evolution. For fifty years he
has been a member of the Odd Fellows
fraternity at Watkins Glen, n. Y.
The only one of an original family
of fifteen. he has a son 10 years old, oil
Odessa. N. Y. and a son, Irving Paine
In New York city. Mr., Paine lives
with his daughter. Mrs. II, s, Hagar, al
her home on Clifton avenue.
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the position of deputy collector in the
United States revenue office.
In 1895 he re med to enter The real
estate and insurance business. The
same year he was appointed superin-
tendent of city sewers and the follow
ing year was given a position as SER
g~eant-at-arms in the House of Assem-
bly,, Trenton. He served there for two
successive years.
In 1898 he was again appointed dep
uty collector of internal revenue by
President Mckinley, and held that po-
sition until his death.
Mr.. Breidenbach was one of the foun-
ders OF Atlas Lodge No 6s, I. o. o. F.,
and was a member of Newark Lodge
No. 81, B. r. O.. H., and the Northern
Lodge, Knights of Honor He is sur
vived by a widow, Mrs. Mary C. Brei-
denbach; three sons Frederick, Albert
and Andrew ~Ereidenbach. and three
daughters. Jennie and Clara Breiden-
bach, and Mrs. Charles Tedesco, of
BelIevil1e.
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time. The search is being made off
Sewaren. where he was drowned as he
was clinging to the end of his boat
for a dip In the cool water.
The party. including Blrney Eller-
man. 16 years old, of 695 Springfield
avenue, and Charles Vonhoff, II years
old, of 6s6 Springfield avenue, had just
returned from a fishing trip down the
river. and Hill, who had been rowing
and was hot, was towing himself at
the stern when suddenly he sank. The
water at the point is twenty-one feet
deep.
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FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR
HARRY A. S~CHICKHAUS,
Newark Business Man Dies
from Heart Trouble.

Harry A. Shickhaus. well known res
ident and business man of this city
died at his home. lo5 Stanley avenue,
yesterday, from heart trouble after a
long illness.
He was a brother Of County super
visor Edward Schickhaus, and was
connected with his brother in the firm
of Van Wagenen & S%chiekhaus for
many years. He was born in this city
In 1881, and was a son of the late Fire
Commissioner Edward Schickhaus.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday afternoon. the Rev. Louis
Shreye Osborne. rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church, officiating, Inter-
ment will be in Paramount Cemetery.
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PERSONALS

Miss Helen Koether and Miss Mary
Freeman, Of Kipp street. have just re-
turned from a weeks stay at Alta
mont, N. Y, Y. w c. A. summeI
camp.
Clifford Cook, Of South Orange i've
nue. and Smith street, has gone on a
two weeks trip to Niagara Falls and
Toronto.
II. c. Mitchell, of this city, is regis
tered at the Chalfonte, Atlantic City.
Mrs. M. Tetelbaum and children, of
142 Somerset street, left for South
Fallsburg, Catskill Mountains, where
they will stay until September /.
Miss Ruth Weinstraub, of Ferry
street, is visiting In Syracuse, n. Y.
Before returning to the city in the fall
she will spend some time at Niagara
Falls. Thousand Islands, Buffalo and
Canada.
Miss Emily Kline, of Fairmont ave-
Highlands. Upon her return she
Highlands. Upon her returned she
will go to Ocean Grove for the re-
mainder Of the season.