davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1911-06-11
MOTORING

CONTINUED from Fourteenth Page)
Farmer Bilr' Endicott. But despite
this the farmer race pilot says. II was
still among the cars that were running
at the finish and was going some. I am
proud of the fact that with this difficulty
] was able to pilot my car as we'll as /
did"
license privilege in New Jersey, because
those states have refused TO grant recipro-
raj rights to New Jersey motorists If
Pennsylvania and Delaware motorists
touring purposes in the future a regular
yearly license wifi have to be secured.
Maryland has acted in favor of granting
special touring license to New Jersey
automobilists, and there will be no re-
vocation as to that state As yet the
matter concerning New York and Con-
necticut has not been decided. pending
the action of New York officials.
l. F. Abbott and a party of friends in
a Pope-Hartford touring car arrived here
last week and are spending several days
visiting the National Capital. They
came over the road from Massachusetts,.
Some owners in cleaning chains use a
mixture of graphite with tallow, but
graphite sinks to the bottom of the melt
ed tallow. and, therefore, does not always
In order to prevent the accumula-
ton Of dust as much as possible,
when the chain is removed from the tai
low it should be- hung up and all super
into the tin placed beneath. There will
remain. Of course, thin Aim of grease
over the surface of the chain, but no
more than Is sufficient to protect 1t In
wet weather. though even this film Of
grease will collect dust.
e. Royce Hough. who has been con-
nected with various local automobile con-
Germs for several years past, leaves today
Cor Chicago. where he has been appointed
general sales manager of the truck de-
S.r,mens III, for New York firm; ;,, His ter
diana. Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa, Ken
ticky and Minnesota He will make his
headquarters in the Windy city He re-
signed yesterday from the sales staff Of
the Commercial Auto Company
One Of the most common causes for ,
motor refusing TO start after a nights
stay In the garage Is weak batteries.
When a motor II obdurate, test each dry
cell with an ammeter; IL 1t shows only
i've or six amperss, replace It with 9
put In a new one. II there are two sets
and each set is weak, connect the two
sets in series. which will suflice for a
time. 1t Is we'll to always carry an am
meter SO that in purchasing new cells
they may be tested. New ones
should test in the neighborhood Of
from fifteen to seventeen amperes
Storage batteries must not be
tested with an ammeter or a voltmeter.
Attach wire to one pole and snap the
free end across the other pole. II a
large, snappy spark results the battery
Is all right. 4 storage battery never
should be permitted to be completely ex-
hausted: nor should II be permitted to
stand without some use for any length Of
tine, otherwise 1t may be ruined.
Charles T. Young Of Easton. Md, mo-
Evening star., 1911-06-11

Charles T. Young Of Easton. Md, mo-
Evening star., 1911-06-11

was carried on for nine days and nine
nights and props were used to prevent
the roof OF the galleries excavated from
falling in. Cases were taken away which
the governor IL alleged to have stated
were filled with earth.
The Osmanische Lloyd adds that ac-
cording to information received by depu-
ties from Beirut, the excavations In
Jerusalem extended beyond the limits OF
the ground granted to the excavators and
that the objects purloined are of incai-
culabIo value.
Evening star., 1911-06-11

tored to this city last week, and after
spending a few days. returned over the
road in his REQ touring car.
H. B. Leary sr.. accompanied by his
son. H. B. Leary, jr.. returned the early
part OF last week from a visit to the
Hudson Motor Car Company, in Detroit,
Mich. During their stay there they In
spected the plant and were the guests Of
oflcials of the company.
through which most OF the breakdowns
occur Is as follows: SCOT or grease on
the spark plug: points of the spark plug
too far apart; contacts badly corroded; !;
leaky valves; seized piston. or breaking:
broken valve stem. or valve spring; bat
teries exhausted defective packing.
The gratifying progress that was made
In the building and repairing Of good
roads throughout all the United States
last year must be credited in great meas
ure to the campaign of education carried
on by motorists Reports show that this
work is to be continued on a larger scale
by the different states this season. Some
states, such as Alabama, Arkansas. Ken
lucky. Louisiana and some others, have
the road work done by separate county
commissioners, hut In the great ma
jority organized road building is In charge
of state commissions. The state high
way reports have been summed up and
show that for the states from which
figures were available more than $43. .OCO-
600 was spent for new building and for
New York spent about ss.OoO,ooO, but
will spend nearer $9.O00.OOO this year.
New Jersey built new roads at a cost of
more than $S25.0CO. with contracts of
s670.O0 not yet completed. while repairs
s.. 100000. Pennsylvania's expenditures
and contracts totaled 81, 100000. Road
making and upkeep for Delaware came to
$3O4 900: District OF Columbia, about
$4,000; MsryIsnd, s., ~, 600: Massachu.
setts. $1,000; New Hampshire. $500. GOD;
Rhode Island. 100000: Vermont $780,
600. and Virginia. $3.50 200. West Virginia
disbursed more NOR than 81 $4,000; -, North ortt.
Missouri. 100000: Minnesota. $4,000;
Ohio, 81. 100. 900: Arizona 500. 600: Kansas.
$500 900: Wisconsin. 100000, and WASH
ington, $4,000 In Alaska $26O.OOO was
81 .s9e. 900. and California. besides complet-
ing three out Of seven state roads that
had been planned for, voted $4,000, 900
for q comprehensive state highway sys-
tenn. Utah spent about $125,00O, and 1t
81. 10000 to care for its roads. while
estimates call for the expenditure OF $25.-
100000 there this year. At this rate 1t
should not be so very long before this
country may be the possessor OF high
ways equal to those Of Europe.
y +
The Motor Federation Of Pennsylvania
has inaugurated a vigorous campaign In
opposition to q proposed fvefold increase
in registration fees and other forms of
taxation on the automobile. Several
bills are now pending in the state legisla-
!. ture by which 1t Is proposed to saddle
the most Of highway maintenance on the
automobile. and which are to be strenu-
ously opposed.
One Of these bills would multiply the
cost Of registration just Ave times. The
present fees are IS for motor cars Of less
cars Of twenty horsepower and less than
Evening star., 1911-06-11

ment to make the intent Of the law per-
fectly clear on this point, and what the
man who will be able to draft such an
amendment in unmistakable language.
Evening star., 1911-06-11

u pays - feaA tAs want columns g
Tie Star. HyDero6s % situations asO
aIed through 1a1 -
Evening star., 1911-06-11
Workmen Were Bribed.

These societies bribed some workmen
and learned from them that small dis
oovertes were made from time to time. In
the second year after the commencement
OF the work the water supply to the
Jerusalem gardens began to fall. and the
government and the excavators each
paid 1900 20 place matters in order. The
work outside the walls was completed in
two years, and II was then carried on
secretly, as tho excavators wished to set
through the sacred rocks Immediately un-
der the Mosque Of Omar. The wages Of
the guardians OF the mosque were dou-
bIed and the commander Of the police.
who acted also % an excavation. CON-
rsaissionar. was recalled from Beirut,
where he. had been sent, This occa-
stoned considerable surprise. piEging was
". undor the rocks In the Rrofto
named the fountain OF Souls" and In the
so-caued Cradle Of Christ This work
Evening star., 1911-06-11

'hnd. An agreement was then signed un-
der the grand viziership Of Hussein Hilmt
Pasha: Djavid Bey, the minister OF
finance. also signed 1t. Hakki Pasha
confirmed the agreement when he be-
came grand vixier. In order not to arouse
suspicion the petitioners begged permits
sion to build hospital. and ground was
granted to them for this purpose. They
thereupon engaged 800 workmen, among
whom were number Of Eng1ishmen. and
no one could control the excavation work.
The attention OF several socteties-for
Axample. the German Archaeological So
ciety and tho Greek Antthi Society-and
the Dominicans settled in Jerusalem, was,
howAver. Attracted to if.
Evening star., 1911-06-11

A neW automobile concern made It's
debut last week. when the Speedwell
Motor Car Company OF this city was
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
WOULDD|vlDETA TAX
ON ROLLING STOCK
Parker to Make Fight-Richmond
Gets Money From Norfolk
Next Year.

1t is announced by w. q. Parker
who has been renominated by the
Democrats of Portsmouth as their
Delegates. that ne will advocate In
the coming session the division Of
assessment OF rolling stock OF ruN-
ways AT present, the city in which
the home office OF the company is To-
Gated gets the benefit OF the taxes on
this sort of property. 1t is proposed
TO pro-rate IL instead among the cities
and counties through which the lines
run in accordance with mileage.
The city OF Portsmouth especially
feels the situation. inasmuch as it
possesses a large part OF the system
of the seaboard Air Line. but in view
OF the fact that the home Office Of
the road is in Petersburg, that city
gets the rolling stock taxes.
More Money for Richmond.
1t Is also pointed out In this con-
, nectIon that beginning with next year
Richmond Will get the taxes on the
rolling stock OF the Virginia Rail-
way and Power Company, located not
| only in this city. but in Norfolk and
Portsmouth as we'll This is the re-
suit OF the recent sale OF the traction
lines In those cities to the Gould In
terests. The home office is IN Rich
mond Heretofore the stock there has
been assessed in Norfolk. including
that used in Portsmouth.
However, 1t is not believed here that
efforts along this line Will be produce
, tive of a change at the coming SEES.
sion. The State Tax Commission. fol-
, lowing two years OF study. will have
a complete report. covering all sorts
and kinds of taxation. including the
matter of rolling stock. Those in
formed do not appear to believe that
the existing system will be tinkered
with pending a complete revision OF
the tax laws of the State. which seems
to be in the air
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
LOCATING LINES
ON NORTHERN NECK
Promoters of New Feeding Road
to Richmond Apparently
in Earnest.
PRELIMINARY WORK DONE
Actual Course of Proposed Rail
way Is Now to Be De
termined. 4
PRELIMINARY WORK DONE

What is considered convincing owl
dence that the promoters of the Rich
mond and Northern Neck Railroad arc
in earnest is shown by the fact that
the engineering corps has been given
instructions to proceed to go over the
line again on locating survey. This
work Will consume between two and
three months. Plans for beginning the
work of actual construction are now
being prepared.
The preliminary survey of the entire
line between boswell and Sandy Point,
at the mouth of the Wicomico River,
in northumberland county. was COM
pleted few days ago. linn ediately
upon reaching Sandy Point orders were
given to retrace steps for the purpose
Of locating the actual trackage lines.
The corps of engineers. now In camp
at Wicomico Church. began the Ioca-
ton at once.
The line as now run from boswell,
where 1t connects with the Richmond
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
is eighty three miles In length, forty
OF which pass through the counties OF
Richmond. Westmoreland and North
CUMBERLAND, in the Northern Neck. the
remainder going through Hanover
Caroline. King william. King and
Queen and Essex.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
PLACING .BL A NJ {
FOR RECENT FIRE
Committee Will Inquire Into
Cause of Blaze at City
Hall.

Investigation Will begin this week
into the recent fire ct the City Hall
and it's cause. The Mayor has request
ed the Committee on Electricity espe-
cially to inquire whether any city en-
ploye or officer was negligent in the
performance of duty.
1t has become generally accepted
that the immediate cause of the fire
was the crossing of a wire OF the mu-
nicipal electric plant with one con-
nected with the private telephone sys-
TEN of the City School Board at some
point on Church Hill. The ordinance
requires such wires to be strung not
less than eighteen inches apart, but
there was a storm on the night the
fire occurred. and. even If properly
strung. 1t Is held to be not impossible
that they should have gotten together
The two parties before the investi
eating committee will be Superintend
ent Trafford. of the electric plant, and
his assistants and linemen. and City
Electrician Thompson and the linemen
and operators, who. under his direc-
ton. manage the school telephone sys-
tenn. The blame must apparently lie
on one or the other. Either. it Is
argued. the new wires of the municipal
plant were strung too close, in def.
ance of the ordinances. or else the
school telephone system was defective
and not properly equipped with safety
appliances Members OF the committee
have expressed the opinion that both
may be found to be true.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
union SEMINARY
WILL CELEBRATE
One Hundredth Annual Session
OF Famous School Begins
Thursday.

Union Theological Seminary, Ginter
Park, Will open for It's lO0th annual
session on Wednesday afternoon at 1
o'clock. The opening address will be
delivered in Watts Chapel by Rev
Theron II Rice. d. D.. OF the faculty.
Special arrangements are being made
for celebration in honor o: the cen
tennial OF the founding OF the institu-
ton. TO be held in connection with
the commencement exercises al the
close OF this session.
All of the members Of the faculty are
already on the ground excep, Rev. W
l.. L!ngle, d. D.. formerly pastor OF
the First PRESBYTERIAN church, Atlanta,
who was recently elected to the assoc
ciate professionally OF Hebrew. sue
ceeding Rev 4. D. p. Gnmour. D. D.
resigned. President Walter ". Moor,
said yesterday that the prospects foi
large enrolment OF new students wer,
excellent. Practically all Of the mem.
bers % the TWO under classes of last
year Will return.
The grounds have hecn put in gooc
order and repairs made to several o.
the buildings Richmond Hall. one o
the large buildings on the campus, ha.
been used durrtS the summer by III,
Young Women's Christian Association
for lis summer work.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
CAUSE OF WRECK
is STILL MYSTERY.
Unaccountable Spreading of Rails
Is Only Explanation
Given.
ALL INJURED WILL RECOVER
Bodies of Victims Will Be Taken
to Homes Elsewhere
To-Day.
ALL INJURED WILL RECOVER

Informal Investigation. conducted
| through those who escaped with tholr
lives and were enabled to tell what
little they Knew. has failed SO far to
determine the cause of the accident
on the Richmond, fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad at Laurel Station,
| which at 1855 o'clock Saturday after
noon resulted in the snuTing out OF
two lives-Brank L. Koontz, engineer.
and Robert Z. Byrd, flreman-and In
| the demolition of engine, mail coach
!. and baggage car.
The only thing which seems to be
known now Is that something caused
the rails to spread. and so the giant
engine left the tracks. and did not
stop its headlong course until 1t fell
on it's side in a plowed field. But
something more may be learned at the
inquest. which is to be held In Bon
nett's undertaking establishment, col
West Broad street, by DIR. j. Fulmer
Bright, deputy coroner. at Ii o'clock
this morning. The Jurors were sum-
| moned several hours after the acct
dent by Constable Burch and are (:
S. F. Ford, w. j. Ford. w. NJ. Smith.
n r. Powell. L. ]. Timberlake. and
Albert Snyder.
The injured, !. w2s stated at the
| Retreat for the Sick. where all were
| taken by DR.. ST. julien oppenheimer,
| assistant chief surgeon for the Rich
mond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
| Railroad, are doing we'll. and will fully
| recover in due time. Engineer Charles
| c. Cooper. who escaped from the
wreckage with a badly wounded leg
| and bruises and severe shock. will
leave this afternoon for his home in
Washington. as will the colored per-
ter, j. c. Lewis. all of the tendons
| in whose right arm were cut through.
John w. Bush, baggagemaster. OF 107
Colonial Avenue, will also. 1t is ex-
pected be able to so to his home
! to-day.
The funeral OF Engineer Frank L
koontz. of 712 West Clay Street, who
died from injuries received in the ac-
cident at the Retreat for the Sick at
10 O'Clock Sa surday night. will be
held tomorrow morning in Roanoke,
the home of Mrs. KoontZ The funeral
of Fireman Robert f. Byrd. who was
Instantly killed when the engine fell
on him. will be held in Clifton Forge,
the home of his father. He is sur
vived by his father w. w Byrd, and
| by two brothcrs-W. W. Byrd, Jr.. and
7. B. Byrd-and by two sisters-AIrs
w G. Dudley and Mrs. G. X Roper.
! Both bodies will be accompanied by
delegations from the Brotherhood OF
Railway Engineers. who will also act
as pail bearers.
The body OF Mr.. Kodntz will leave
Richmond this morning at 10 o'clock
via the Norfolk and Western while
that of Mr.. Byrd will be taken away
on the o'clock Chesapeake and Ohio
| train.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
.BEATT|E BROUGHT
. TO RICHMOND JAIL
Conveyed in Automobile From
Chesterfield Courthouse
to City.

On an order issued by Judge Walter
A Watson. OF the Chesterfield County
Circuit Court Henry Clay Beattie. Jr.
the convicted wife murderer. was yes
terday afternoon removed from the
Chesterfield County Jail to the Rich
mond City Jail. where he took up HIS
old quarters in the second tier. He
was brought to Richmond in an auto
mobile by Jailer N. H. Cogbill. who
was evidently relieved to feel that he
was rid of his important charge.
Bcattie maintains his usual poise.
He was glad to leave the rural scenes
behind him and to return once moro
to whore he can hear the hustle of
the street He reached the Jail at 5:A5
o'clock. and was at once taken to his
cell. which had been prepared for him
beforehand.
None of his family visited him here
yesterday. and none other was per-
mitted to see him. Judge Watson Is
sued an order some time ago barring
all visitors save immediate members Of
the Beattie family
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
PARK SUICIDE WAS
new JERSEY MAN
Charles Gallaudet, Who Took His
Life. Here, Identified by
Brother.

Identified by his brother. LOWS CAL
laudet. who had Journeyed to Rich
mond after seeing photograph of tho
dead man. the unfortunate who COM
mitted suicide In Reservoir Park late
last Wednesday afternoon. proves to
be Charles Gallaudet. Of Elizabeth.
n. j.
According to his brother. Gallaudet
left his nome on Tuesday, September
3. saying that he was going to Phila-
delphia to get work. From Philadel-
phia he evidently came straight to
Richmond, for his mother heard moth
ing more from him. He Is said to
have been a sufferer from locomotor
ataxia, and his brother believes that
dependency over his condition posi-
bly, unhinged his mind and caused him
to commit the act of self-destructlon.
Gallaudet was forty-eight years old
and single. He lived with his mother
In Elizabeth. and was employed as a
clerk by the Standard Oil Company at
Bayonne. Besides his mother. he
leaves three brothers
Mr.. Galiaudet first Identified his
brother by photograph sent to Eliza
beth by the police authorities. Tho
dead man had registered at the Lex
inston Hotel here as Charles White
OF Elizabeth. and II was for that rea
son that the photograph was sent 70
that city. linn odiatcly upon arriving
here last night Mr.. Gallaudet went to
the morSue in the Bennett undertake
Ing establishment, and there at once
assured himself that the body was
that OF his missing brother. Tho body
VIII be taken home tonight
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-18
AUTOMOBILE RIDE
FOR OLD SOLDIERS
Veterans at Lee Camp Home Will
Be rendered Sightsee-
ing Trip.

For the first time in the lives OF
most Of them. an automobile ride.
sightseeing through the city. will be
given TO the veterans at the Soldiers
tome at 4 O'Clock Friday afternoon
By ". F. Gordon and a party of young
men volunteering to lend cars for the
occasion.
The old soldiers have already been
appriscd Of the invitation which has
been so kindly extended to them ana
the whole force wants TO go. Every
man who is not too much disabled by
age or other intrmity will be taken.
for Mr.. Gordon is assured that enough
cars will be provided for the little Joy
ride. 1t VIII not be race, nor a
triumnhal procession. Many OF the
veterans have never really seen the
city in which they are spending their
declining days. and a few have never
seen the memorials dedicated to their
great chieftains of half century ago
Commandant John f. Graves says that
between lis and 100 of the old Con
federates Will 'be able 10 take the trip
They are wildly enthusiastic about It
and some OF the more spry danced a
hornpipe on the Home green when
they heard the news. They Will go
forth in full uniform, as IL on n gals
occasion. and will pass through all the
interesting points of the city. around
the Lee and Stuart monuments and
perhaps, to one OF the battlefelds nea,
the city. and out to the Country Club
Have Pictures Taken.
4 photograph will be taken at the
Home and another at Lee Monument
Beneath the shadow OF the great me-
mortal to q noble man, their leader
once. these old soldiers will gather
with their automobiles drawn in q
half-circle around them. and pose for
the last photograph which many OF
them will ever see of themselves.
Every precaution will be taken tc
insure their safety. and the machines
will travel far apart. SO that dust may
not blind the already dmming ewes
OF the relicts in Richmond OF the Los,
Cause.
1t is the hope of Mr.. Gordon that
this little ride may be the beginning
of a regular Old Soldiers Day, SUCH
as some other cities have and such as
Is Orphans Day. when the wallis are
taken out for an automobile ride by
kind-heartcd owners. For the soldiers
1t will be n rare treat They have
braved many dangers, and they have
no fear of automobiles, and all wan,
to go.