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The Detroit times., 1911-04-22
AUTOMOBILE
ELECTRIC LIGHTING
A Great Improvement on Old Fash
toned Methods of Hum
nation.

Time was, not so many years ago
that the swaying, rafting coach dash
ed through the dark city streets AT
the terrific rate OF 6 miles per hour
lighted on its way by crying link
boys, running on ahead with smoking,
flaming torches. Then kerosene oil
made 1t possible to place Kicker.
ing light ON every street corner and
the link boy became lamp hghter'
The appearance of gas made another
revolution and soon the city streets
were brilliant with gas lamps, and
oil lamps were relegated TO the VII
lage and the country hamlet. Then
came electricity that set the streets
of the city, village and country ham
let ablaze and extinguished both the
oil and the gas lamps as street IL
luminant
II Ia a far cry from the link boy
to the electric light, but not farther
than from the olden coach TO the
modern automobile that Is pushing
it's way into every country OF the
earth. lighted, in most instances, not,
II ia true, by the link boys torch,
but only a step in advance, by nlck-
ering, smelly, unreliable ana oiteh
dangerous oil and gas lamps hecos-
nizing this danger, the United states
government inspector OF STEAMBOATS,
has prohibited the Transportation oi
automobiles equipped with acetyiene
gas tanks on steamers carrying pas
sengers, except under welldenneu re-
strictions.
MANY n man who would not THINK
OF using gas, much less oil, as an
illuminant in his home, or even ms
barn. still uses it for his auto. When
one ia stalled or dark night In
mourning rain, the wind blowing q
gale, matches, patience and profanity
all exhausted, what a comfort IL is
to have a passer-by fash his electric
lights and regret that he has no
matches to offer!
The electric light is destined TO De
as universally used on the automo-
bile as ii is in other branches OF
lighting. One reason why 1t has not
made more rapid strides Ia that many
of the manufacturers OF automobile
lighting apparatus have their money
tied up in machines and tools for
the manufacture of old-time lights.
lney are naturally "oANiuS 49,
public to demand new lights.
Ask them about electric lights and
they will reply, "Oh, yes, We can
make them when the public demands
them" They forget that the electric
light is a matter OF growth and de-
velopment as much as is the auto
mobile itself. Another and, perhaps,
an even greater hindrance TO ts
advancement Is the fact that many
equipments have been put on that
were not successful. Many things
go to make success or failure in this
work. The lamps themselves, the
battery, the wiring, all play an I'M
portant part. 1t is folly to expect
weak improperly-built battery, or
one built for ignition purposes to be
a successful lighting battery. II is
worse than folly to use small I'm
properly insulated wire and loosely
made connections and then expect
The Detroit times., 1911-04-22

Perhaps, one OF the greatest ad-
vances along this line, however, II
the acknowledgements electric
generator This generates all the
electricity required for lighting and
ignition while the car 10 In motion.
absolutely without expense. A stor-
age battery 10 provided, "fioated on
the line," into which the surplus
electricity Is stored and a supply is
thus provided for lighting the car
when IL Is not in motion. Various
devices for controlling the generator
have been invented but IL goes with
out saying that the best are the sim
plest, those that are purely mechanl-
cal In their action, positive and auto
matte.
Electric lamps have been devised
for every possible automobile re-
quirement. Some manufacturers, max
ing specially OF them, have several
complete lines OF pleasing designs.
The tungsten filament has been DO
perfected for use In bulbs that break
age is practically a negligible guam
tity. New devices have been invented
for holding the lamps In the socket
SO that they cannot be loosened by
the jolting OF the car. From one
half TO twenty-five candle power
bulbs can be secured. The tail light
ordinarily carries two candle power,
side lights four candle power and
head light from 16 to "a candle pow
er. Special devices are provided so
that any or all lamps can be removed
from the car without disturbing the
wiring and small switch controls
the lights. All the lamps may be
burned at once or they may be burn
ed in any combination desired. Ev-
cry lamp on the car can be instant
ly lighted or extinguished In any
wind or weather by simply pushing
switch without slackening speed
or leaving the seat
With all these advantages. why
not electric lights?"
The Detroit times., 1911-04-22
BODY Of AUTO
GIVES IT CLASS
Steel Is Rapidly Taking the Place
of Wood in Its Con-
struction.

There Is an old saying that the
coat doesn't make the man." but the
coat often makes a difference in the
way the man is received in the circles
in which he moves. What the coat
meaning general attire, is to the man
the body" is to the automobile. The
body is the thing that lends char
acter and class to a motor car. IL Is
the thing above all other features
that appeals to the eye OF the aver
age man or woman and frequently Is
the determining factor IN the sefec-
ton of a car.
In the last decade styles in auto
mobile bodies have changed about as
frequently as the styles In women's
hats and dresses. Every season has
brought it's new models and the
changes noted were chiefly in the
bodies, though, of course, great ad-
yances have been made In the way
OF increased efficiency, durability, etc.
The tendency nowadays is toward
greater uniformity and the establish
ment OF permanent general standards,
all of which is in line with the eff
forts TO place the industry on a sane
safe, conservative and firm business
basis.
Up TO two years ago automobile
bodies were constructed wholly OF
wood, except in rare instances, where
other materials were tried largely by
way OF experiment. Since then, how
ever, this branch OF the industry has
been revolutionized. Body makers
everywhere are changing from wood
to steel, and, in isolated cases. to
aluminium. Wood Is still used by
these makers, but merely as a shelton
or framework for the steel shell.
Once the advantages of the steel
body were recognized this form OF
construction came rapidly TO the fore.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-22
PROGRESS MADE
IN AUTO AXLE
Far Different Article Today Fr m the
Crude Affair Of the Autos
Earlier Days.

Although in the minds of great
many people the automobile industry
Is new one, yet, as a matter OF
fact, it has been in the process OF
development for the past Is or 20
years, but IT is only in the last eight
or 10 years that the expansion has
been rapid and of size to warrant
the fixing of public attention on II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
ALL STOMACH MISERY GOES.
No Indigestion, Sourness, Gas or
Dyspepsia Five Minutes Later.

Every year regularly more than a
million stomach sufferers in the United
States, England and Canada take
Pape's Diapepsin and realize not only
immediate but lasting relief
This harmless preparation will di-
gest anything you eat and overcome a
sour. gassy or out order stomach
five minutes afterwards
If your meals don't fit comfortably,
or what you eat lays like a lump Of
lead in your stomach, or IL you have
heartburn, that is a sign of Indiges-
ton.
Get from your Pharmacist 50-cent
case of Pape's Diapepsin and take a
dose Just as soon as you can. There
VIII be no sour risings. no beIching of
undfgested food mixed with acid, no
stomach gas or heartburn, fullnesS or
heavy feeling in the stomach, Nausea,
facilitating Headaches. Dizziness or
Intestinal gripping. This will all go,
and besides, there will be no sour food
left over In the stomach to poison your
breath with nauseous odors
Pape's Diapepsin is a certain cure for
out of-order stomachs, because 1t takes
hold of your food and digests it Just
the same as if your stomach wasn't
there.
Relief in FIVE minutes from all srom-
ach misery is waiting for you at any
drug store.
These large 5O-cent cases contain
more than sufficient to thoroughly cure
almost any case of Dyspepsia. Indiges-
ton or any other stomach disorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
ROW EXPECTED IN THREE EYE.
Waterloo Making Last Stand to Retain
Franchise

Chicago, Jan. PAN exciting session
of the adjourned annual meeting of the
Three Eye league is looked for when
the Waterloo, Ia. franchise comes up
today.
The last attempt of the league to hold
a meeting was frustrated by the in
junction obtained by Waterloo re-
straining the magnates from voting to
terminate its membership. That order
was modified by the superior court so
as to permit the league to vote on the
proposition. At the same time the
court forbade the other club owners to
exclude Waterloo's representatives from
the meeting. President Tearney said
he thought the four southern clubs
would vote to vacate Waterloo's MEM
bership, in accordance with the agree
ment under which the club was adj
mitted, and take in Quincy. If the
northern clubs stick by Waterloo, a
deadlock is likely, with prospects of in
definite delay before it is broken.
The formation of a ten club league
by the admission OF Quincy and De-
catur has been suggested as one solu-
ton. Another is the absolute divorce
Of the two factions, which have been
at war for years, and the formation of
two circuits. Meantime, the Quincy
club finds itself in an embarrassing
position. Quincy withdrew from the
Central association, its place has been
filled and now there does not seem TO
be any place for it to light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
WHITE MANS HOPE is RED HOPE
Carl Morris of Sapulpa Has Indian
Blood.

Cincinnati, Jan. 26.-Some joke on the
boosters of the last and biggest white
mans hope,'' dear brothers and lovers
of the ring. Yea, DO! For Carl Morris,
the huge Oklafoman, touted as the
grandest young elephant of many sea-
sons, is an Indian and, therefore.
shouldn't count as white mans
hope at all. When Morris was visit
ing the Kansas City newspapers a few
days ago a scribe CHANGED to comment
on the young giants high cheekbones
and dark complexion. Morris explained
that he came by these features natur-
ally, as his mother was a Cherokee In
dian of Oklahoma. His father IS an
eastern man, said to be part Yankee
and part German. Morris is probably,
considerin the mixed blood of the
Cherokees, 80 per cent white man. but
he counts as an Indian under tribal law
and under the rules by which the gov
eminent gives allotments to the abort
gines. Some horse on the white mans
hope enthusiasts, isn't it? And yet
how appropriate it would seem should a
black man be beaten by real Ameri-
can. descended from the genuine Amer
leans who were on the job before c.
Columbus discovered this large area!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
Interesting Reading for
TubercuIar Invalids

the makers of Eckmans Alternative
the medicine that is curing tuberculosis
all over the country-wiil send direct, a
pamphlet and other literature that every
eonsumptive should read. It tells in
their own language the story of those
whom Eckman's Alternative has cured.
Such straight-from-the-he evidence
as this booklet holds is convincing.
NO matter If you have unfortunately
spent time and money experimenting with
nearly every cure under the armament
Investigate Eckmans Alternative. If
SHOWN the heart-touching affidavit of
a father whose only son was cured OF
tuberculosis by Eckmans Alternative after
all hope had been abandoned, would it
not carry some weight with you? A Speci-
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Gentlemen: In July, 1905. first noticed
the conditions that showed I had Con-
sumption. lost weight rapidly; had a
hollow cough, hemorrhages and very Sc
we're night sweats. Ny brother recon-
mended Eckman's Alternative. In the Fall
or 1905 began to take it At this time
L am perfectly wen and robust. My ap-
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trace of my old trouble remains. will
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to anyone"
(Signed) NJ L. GERHARDT.
Ecknan's Alternative cures Bronchitis,
Asthma, Hay Fever; Throat and Lung
AFFECTIONS For Sale by Geo. W. STAINS
Held, 6S2 Kansas avenue. and other lead
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
MO. p. SHOPS IN WICHITA.
Railroad Equipping Plant for Repair
of Engines.

WICHITA. Kan. Jan. 26.-Three large
new machines have been ordered by
the Missouri Pacific railway for use
in the shops of that company at Tween
ty-first street. These three machines
will cost about $4,000 and will be an
other step toward making the Mis-
souri, Pacific shops in Wichita COM
plete unit for the repairing of any
sort of engine trouble.
One of the new machines will be a
monster wheel press for engine wheels.
The machine will be used for pressing
engine drive wheels onto axles. This
process requires one of the most pow
erful pieces of machinery used in rail-
way shops. This big machine will be
the only one of the sort in this section
OF the state.
The other two machines will be used
for other engine repair work. They
also will be the finest machines to be
had. With the new equipment the
Wichita shops will be able to repair
almost any sort Of engine trouble.
1--WE expect to gradually build up a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
LEWIS KNOCKED OUT SUMMER.
n Retains English Championship in
Four Furious Rounds.

London, Jan. 26.-Harry Lewis, the
American welterweight, who won the
welterweight championship of England
a year ago from young Joseph, last
night knocked out Johnny Summers,
the English aspirant for the title, in four
rounds.
A big crowd witnessed the go, every
seat in the Olympia being filled. 1t was
a savage fight while it lasted, and hon
ors were even for the first two rounds
The men insisted on clinching at every
possible chance and the referee fire.
uuently was compelled to step in and
separate them by main strength.
The third round was the hottest, both
men trying desperately for a knockout.
It ended in q clinch. In the fourth
Lewis rushed Summers to the ropes and
knocked him with a straight right.
After Summers had taken the count
Lewis picked him up and carried him
to his corner, amid great cheering.
The men were matched at IA pounds.
but when they weighedin at o'clock
in the afternoon it was found that the
American tipped the scales at 14SA.
Summers weighed 140%. AS a result
of his overweight. Lewis paid forfeit
of $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
RIPLEY OPPOSED TO PASSES.
President of Santa Fe Would Abolish
Them in Colorado.

ln0In III OOlOfdAAOs
E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa
Fe system, declares himself in entire
sympathy with movement to abolish
the railroad pass privilege in Colorado,
as undertaken by John Brisben Walk
ers special chamber of commerce
committee on Colorado industry and
just freight rates. His sentiments are
given in letter to Mr.. Walker
Fearful of Results.
Presidents Ripley's letter follows:
'I beg to acknowledge your letter of
the 9Th inst, saying that the special
committee of the chamber of COM
merce on Colorado industry and just
freight rates has instructed you to ask
the cooperation of this company in Sc
curing legislation which will do away
with the issuing of free passes by the
several railroads doing business in
Colorado.
IT find myself in entire sympathy
with that special part of its program
in which you ask my cooperation. If
there ever was justification for the is
suance of free transportation to state
and municipal officials, or large ship
pers, that time has long since passed,
and the practice as it now exists in
Colorado is in my opinion absolutely
without justification. or excuse.
81 do not know in what way I can
be influential in helping to abolish it
because it has long been my opinion
that we were without political in
fiuence in Colorado or elsewhere. but
you are quite at liberty to voice my
opinions on the subject as above ex-
pressed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
FAST EXPRESS CONTEST ON.
Rival Roads Fight for Time Between
Chicago and Seattle.

Rival Roads Fight for Time Between
Chicago and Seattle.
Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 26.-All records
for the transportation of express mat
ter from New York and Chicago to the
Pacific coast are to be broken IN
speed war between the James ]. Hill
railroads and the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul.
A fast express and passenger train
on the Burlington, beginning Feb. /,
will run from Chicago to st. Paul IN
ten hours and fifteen minutes, two and
half hours faster than the present
time, and will shorten the time on ex-
press from New York to Seattle by
twenty-four hours, in connection with
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cif1c.
The train may also bring about a
contest between the Hill line and the
St. Paul for the mail contract to the
Twin Cities now held by the st. Paul.
AS the mail weighing season is ap-
preaching, it probably will be neceS-
sary for the ST. Paul to equal the time
made by the new train in order to hold
its present contract.
Aside from the express feature the
Burlington expects to build up heavy
passenger traffic for the train, and
new improved type "lounging' coaches
are now being built for this service.
The present fastest Burlington train
to st. Paul takes twelve hours and if
ty minutes, which is approximately the
same as that made by the other Twin
City roads. The st. Pauls train is
twenty-five minutes faster.
Both great railroad systems have
been grooming themselves for such a
struggle for years. The st. Paul has
spent over 500, 100000 in building an
extension of $1,000 miles from the
Missouri river to Tacoma and Seattle,
thereby invading the territory former
~ occupied exclusively by the Hill
lines. In the last two or three years
the Great Northern has spent many
millions in equipping its line for fast
time, strengthening curves, reducing
grades, building new bridges, rebal-
lasting, and laying heavier steel
tracks. The Burlington also has spent
two or three millions in the last two
years in improving its line to st. Paul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
1T DOESN'T HURT CONSUMER.
7. r. Koontz Tells of Freight Rate
Conditions in Denver.

Denver, Col, Jan. 26.-The Denver
Chamber of Commerce last night
listened to an address on the subject
eral freight agent of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fa Railway company.
Mr.. Koontz said that while the freight
rate was a factor when applied to car
load shipments, it really amounted to
a trifle when applied to the average
family's cost of living.
within the past three months" Mr..
KoontZ said, ST made an investigation
as to the effects of the freight rate
ticles used and consumed by the aver
age family of five, including the rate
on the wearing apparel. tok a list Of
articles as purchased at the grocery
store, the meat market, the dry goods
and clothing store. In fact I took the
list of articles as purchased by my
own family. excluding the item of fuel.
q use, I regret to say, in zero weather
as fuel, a very unsatisfactory article
natural gas.) I applied the demonstra-
ton to As cities end towns of the state
tof Kansas. I traced the freight rate on
the carloads of grain from the fields
into the milling point, and thence from
the milling point the rate on the pro-
duct to the point where it reached the
consumer. I traced the freight rate on
the cattle or hogs in carloads from the
pastures and pens to the slaughtering
markets and the rate on the fresh
meats and packing house products to
the point where it reached the consum-
err. I traced the rate on the canned
goods from the canneries of southwest
Missouri, Iowa, Maryland and Cali
fornia into the jobbing points AMI
thence in less than carload lots to the
point where they reached the table of
the consumer. I traced the rates OH
the wool from the west and the cotton
from the south to the factories of New
England and thence on the finished
articles back to the point where they
were purchased by the user. I gave
the most careful test. not only from the
standpoint of a freight-rate maker. but
all of the articles, and. Mr.. President,
to the point in the list of 40 towns
which would produce the greatest
freight rate application of the test, I
found that the amount which Mr.. Con-
sumner was called upon to contribute to
the carriers that transported all these
articles, excepting as I stated. the item
of fuel, was less than eight dollars per
year, or to be exact, it was seven dol
lars and sixty-five cents. Suppose we
allow. for the purpose of an illustra-
ton. to the family of five for the ar
ticles of food and wearing apparel an
allowance of $50 per month, or S720 per
year. we would have as the railroad
assessment as against this allowance
less than one per cent. If the rates
were reduced or advanced 25 per cent,
Mr.. President, would the result be of
material benefit or detriment to Mr..
Consumer on the strength of the show
ing which have just nader"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-26
Family Cough Syrup
Cures ANY Cough in Five Hours.
NEW PRESCRIPTION HERE.

Here is given the most effective
cough prescription known t , the medi-
cal world. 1t is a mild laxative, too,
and this is what a body needs when
suffering with cough and cold on the
lungs. A cough or cold indicates pois-
ons in the system, causing int1amma-
ton and congestion. Nearly all
cough syrups relieve, but make the
trouble worse by their constipating eff
fects. This prescription MOI only re-
lieves quickly. but 1t cures any cough
that is durable. Get one-half ounce
fluid wild cherry bark, one ounce COM
pound essence cardiol and three ounces
syrup white pine compound Mix in a
bottle. Take for acute cough or bron-
chitis twenty drops every half hour
for four hours. Then one-half to one
teaspoonful three or four times daily.
Give children less according to age A
few hours treatment will cure and
heal the throat and lungs of all but
consumptives. Cut this GU. and give
it to some friend who may need it to
be saved from an early death by con-
sumption.