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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
BUILDING PERMITS.

Building permits aggregating $16,-
855 in value were granted by the
board of building commissioners last
night as follows: Chester Moore,
frame addition to dwelling, north side
William street; J. Seafnowicz, ONE
story frame store, south side Of Bar
mum avenue; M. Pronsom, frame
barn, south side Holly street; Andrew
Radel, veranda, south side Washing
ton avenue; Ida Parmley, cement
block private garage, east side Iran
istan avenue; Philip Schrom, two-fam-
lily frame dwelling, west side Poplar
street; Mrs. Susanna Seth, three
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
AUTO INDUSTRY AGAINST
THE SOLONS OF FINANCE

AS the great national game is food
ing the country with baseball lingo it
may not be out Of place to say that
'"Three strikes, batter out" exactly
expresses the status in which the fin
ancial world finds itself after it's third
and recent strike at the stupendous
automobile industry of the United
States.
When the business of building and
introducing motor cars in America
was in it's infancy the banks sudden
ly awoke to the fact that it had bor-
rowed few hundred thousand dol-
lars and they made rush to get
their money in wild alarm. After
wards they looked very foolish and
the automobile industry resumed It's
negotiation of loans just as any 9th tn
financial panic of 1867 swept the
country off it's feet the same thing
happened again, and the financial
world made it's third and last strike
at the automobile industry last au-
tumn and again failed to make hit.
cit is a case of history repeating it
SELF" declares Captain William Mitch
ell Lewis, president of the Mitchell
Lewis Motor Company, "and again the
automobile industry is coming OUT
with flying colors; I can recall sa I.3s,
bank in Chicago became alarmed
when he learned his bank was carry
ing the paper of three of the largest
automobile concerns. He told his
cashier to get rid of it because the
automobile industry would be wiped
out in the financial crash that was
imminent It is a fact that those
three automobile concerns were
among the first Of the banks indus
trial customers to take up their pa
per, and it is another fact that the
automobile industry was the least af-
fected by the panic. Within the lakt
six months the same thing has hap
pened all over again. The bankers
frightened up, and the auto makers
have come through finely.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18

WANT ADS. CENT A WORD
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
FOR
FIRE FIGHTERS.

Northwest fires have become less
of a menace to life and property since
the United States government fur
nished forest rangers with automo-
biles. In the vicinity of Portland,
oregon, and Spokane, Wash, where
great fires have occurred during the
past year, the United States rangers
have done effective work which
would have been impossible If they
travelled afoot or horseback The
shovel and the axe, which until this
year have been almost the only para
phernalia they carried, have given
away to more modern tools and
methods. Spades, picks, axes, dyna-
mite and a dozen other fire weapons
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
WORLD WILL RIDE IN
AMERICAN MADE CARS.

within year or two the Ameri-
can automobile manufacturer is 60
ing to capture the foreign markets of
the world" says G. Vernon Rogers,
secretary of the MitchellLewis Mo-
tor Company of Racine. Wis, and in
charge of the export department IF
the big 100000 automobile con-
Germ.
America will consume about $780,
900 cars this year and the rest of the
world together will need about 80
900. America is therefore the only
country having a sufficiently large
market to permit of manufacturing
in quantities to bring the prices down
to the lowest possible figures.
can English automobile factory
with a national reputation will make
800 cars a year; an American fac
tory with a name of the same stand
ard will make 10000. There are a
few French factories making 1000 or
1000 cars year which gives them
a much better opportunity to compete
than the English, but they spoil their
advantage by trying to turn out TWEEN
ty or thirty different chassis, losing
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
A GOOD JOKE ON
RAY MCNAMARA.

There are perhaps few AUTOMOBILE
lists in this country as we'll known and
mara, genial mechanical man on the
staff of the Premier Motor Mfg. Co.
Mcnamara has been widely known
for his contest driving, and during
the last Glidden Tour of which he
was declared winner by the referees.
papers as the dean of American re-
liability drivers. Mcnamara is not
ed for his imperturbable manner, to
which a great deal of his success in
contest driving has been attributed,
but Ed. F. Reynard, the famous VEN
he made Ray lose his temper. Mr..
Reynard in telling of the occurrence
near indianapolis. says: 1--WE We're
running at lively clip towards the
mier test cars with which I was anus
ing myself, when I noticed another
car speeding up the other fork to-
wards the main highway. I soon dis
covered that it was driven by Ray
Mcnamara and I knew that we were
road ON even turns and ran side by
side for more than mile. The road
was not what it should have been for
that kind Of work, and it was evident
that something would have to be done
quickly. I noticed that the man with
Ray was r. I. Eads, now manager of
the New England branch of the Pre-
mier Company. whom I had known
for years. Thae gave me an idea
and the next instant Mcnamara
thought he heard Eads yell. .'Ray.
we have fiat tire Mcnamara
threw off his power quickly, and we
jumped into the middle of the road
with good lead. Eads told me af
forwards that Mcnamara who was
not familiar with my peculiarities,
was furious when he found that his
tires were all right, and would not
believe until some other friends told
him that Eads had not played a joke
on him.
FEATURE IN STEERING GEAR.
One of the most important parts Of
an automobile is the mechanism by
which it is guided, and the steering
gear Of the Premier has been given
much attention by those who consid-
err only the nearest to perfection The
wheel is of Circassian walnut. mount
ed upon a strong spider, and acting
through an inclined shaft enclosed in
heavy brass tubing. At the bottom
of the shaft is regulation steel
gear, and to the transverse shaft
which carries this gear, the steering
arm is mounted at the outer end.
This gear travels less tnln one quar-
ter of it's circumference, in any one
position of adjustment, and in case
of wear can be shifted one quarter
of a turn. making practically a new
gear. The shaft is mounted upon
an eccentric bronze bushing which
provides an adjustment between the
worm and the gear. 1t is only by
the use of a full spiral gear that these
changes may be secured.
WANT ADS. CENT A WORD
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18

them, but a little growth, excepting
in the $1,000 class, which shows a
reduction all along the line. This
has undoubtedly been brought about
by the rivalry in this class in which
every maker is trying to Guido the
other in the amount of car he gives
for the money. In the $1,000 class
the sizes have jumped from 800 to
31.5. The diameter has not been in
creased. In the $1,000 car the tire
size has been reduced a little more
than one-quarter inch. In the So
500 car the increase all around is APP
proximately l lilo inches, which is
a very big jump. In the big cars
the increase Is over one inch on all
four wheels.
Recently statistics show that the
high-priced cars are reducing the
horsepower, and the lower-priced
machines are advancing 1t slightly.
They are approaching more NEARLY a
grand average of about 80 horse
power. The horsepower shows that
horsepower in the $1,000, $1,000 and
$4,000 cars. but dropping off in the
$4,000 car. These figures show pref
ty accurately the public demands.
There has been a demand for more
power in the lower-priced machines,
while year ago it was a case of see
how much horsepower could be CIV
en- for a certain price. it often was q
case of see how big body could be
given with that price. The result
was that many cars had too much
body. For this reason this abuse has
been rectified. In the case of the $4,-
900 car dropping off in horsepower
it would seem to indicate that there
has been too much power in some of
the higher-priced machines, This
may have been due to the great de-
mand for speed a year ago. This
demand is ceasing and now an own
er sooner would have car we'll pro-
portioned with power and body than
an abnormal creation that had too
much motor and not enough power.
DODGED EXPRESS STRIKE.
The United States Tire Company
of Hartford. put into execution nov
ell scheme the other day to serve it's
customers in the face of strike of
vented the filling of orders on prom
ised schedule. A consignment OF
500 castings, waiting for immediate
delivery in New York, seemed destin-
ed to remain at the rubber works
until the express drivers settled their
differences, when J. d. Anderson,
president of the Hartford Rubber
Work Company, conceived the idea of
moving the shipment from Hartford
to New York, a distance of 127 miles
by motor truck. At 4 in the after
noon he placed the task of moving
the tires in the hands of Superinten-
dent Charles B. Whittlesey, and at 3
that evening a fve-ton Mack truck
and an Auto-car truck were loaded
to their capacities and on their way
to New York. Over practically the
entire distance, the monster trucks
wallowed through mud which fire.
quently buried the wheels to the lev
ell of the hubs. Mr.. Whittlesey, in
a pilot car, picked the course and at
3 on the second morning exactly thir-
ty-one hours after leaving Hartford,
the mud despatched caravan drew
up in front of the United States Tire
Company's headquarters at New
York, and the 500 tires were unload
ed for delivery
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18

story frame dwelling. south side
GtratfOrdt avenue: j. B. Delleveckio.
brick tenement, north side Lexington
avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
DATEs ON AUTOMOBILES.

The theory Of the food expert that
canned and storage goods should be
marked with the date of their birth
has been put into practice in the au-
tomobile racing game. Hereafter the
vintage of a racer will be one of the
chief facts to be shown plainly to the
public, as dictated in a recent rul-
ing of the A. A. A. Contest Board.
Now the purchaser of an automobile
can readily know whether the car he
buys is Identical with the stock chas-
sis that wins speedway or road race.
While the revision of the racing rules
and registration was not carried far
enough to be entirely effective still it
is more satisfactory than the old way
of racing a particularly speedy model
of ancient vintage or one yet to De
built, and advertising it's performan-
ces as that of the current issue. IN
der the old system the public gets
the wrong impression. While the
victorious racer is in the strict sense
of the rules stock chassis, in the
spirit of the game it is not, as cars of
that model are not in the market. AL
though the new system does not
make it compulsory for the manufac-
turer to come out frankly and give
the year the competing car was made,
it amounts to virtually the same.
Each racing car will be registered
and given a number which it will
hold for the life of the car. The
records of the A. A. A. will be gone
over and numbers assigned to all cars
that are in the racing game. While
the details are not yet decided, the
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-03-18
POINTS OF INTEREST.
E.. I'll. Dillon. e. Co,

W,
1105 Main street, are showing all the
advance styles in spring millinery,
priced at least Ia less than else-
Where.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
VOX POPULI.
MERCHANTS SHOULD ADOPT
WEIGHTS FOR MEASURES
Camp Walton, Fla, Oct. IS, 1911.

camp Walton, Fla, Oct. Is, 1911.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
There is a practice in the trade of
Pensacola that it seems to me should
at least be generally defined and I'M
derstood, if it Is not best to have a
general reform and a more modern
practice adopted.
There has been considerable in
various journals recently about false
weights and measures, and the tax
they impose on the consumers.
l have no accusation to make against
Pensacola merchants regarding false
weights and measures. The matter I
wish to bring up is regarding measure
versus weight, for some classes of
goods.
In letter recently from one Of your
prominent grocers, 1t is stated: I'VE
purchase potatoes and onions by the
measure and not by weight.
We had one bushel of potatoes meas
ured UP and weighed in the presence
OF - and they weighed jusl
Al IL pounds, and a peck of onions
weighed IL IA pounds"
The above in explanation OF a short
age claimed in delivery.
I had supposed that the selling of
such goods by measure had been aban-
doned everywhere. because accuracy in
measure is impossible, and II, in fact
Pensacola business in such goods is
done by measure, and is to continue
the merchants Of Pensa cola should get
together and adopt some standard of
weights which they will deliver on
orders. for as 1t is no purchaser can
tell whether or not he is getting what
he is entitled to.
While the legal weight Of Irish po-
tatoes is, I think, everywhere 60
pounds, II measured about three
fourths of sixty pounds can be called
a bushel.
Suppose you call attention to this
matter, and get an expression from the
merchants of what they think should
be done in the interest of accuracy.
G. w. SOULE.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
ROGERS
DIES AS RESULT
OF ACCIDENT
PENSACOLA LADY, INJURED TEN
DAYS AGO AT ATHENS, ALA,
EXPIRES, LocKJAW PRODUCING
DEATH-THE FUNERAL TODAY.

News reached Pensacola early yes
terday morning Of the death in Athens,
Ala, of Miss Lizzie Rogers, an estim-
able young lady of this city, who was
injured at that place ten days ago
while out driving. Lcckjaw, produced
by a blow above the left eye received
in the accident, caused death. The re-
mains will reach here this morning.
According to information which has
been received in Pensacola, Miss
Rogers, who was an expert horse
woman, was driving one of the thor
oughbreds of Capt. T. Z. Welles, who
has a summer home in Athens. Sew
eral small children ran out from the
side of the road, and in an effort to
prevent the horse striking them with
it's hoofs, Miss Rogers pulled the ami
NAL sharply to one side. The front
wheel Of the vehicle struck a stump
throwing Miss Rogers to the ground
with considerable force, and at the
same time the buggy shaft broke and
a piece of this struck the lady above
the left eye, producing a very severe
wound, which extended to a point near
the left temple.
While the condition Of Miss Rogers
was considered very serious for sew
eral days, it was thought that she
would recover. but lockjaw then de-
veloped and this caused her death
early yesterday morning
The deceased is survived by her
mother, who was with her at the time
Of her death and will accompany the
remains home this morning. The body
will be taken to the home corner OF
Jackson street and Tenth avenue.
where the funeral services will be con-
Quoted this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
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in London at two cents a pound cheaper
than It does in this country and why
the trust says that it Is a shortage OF
crops which has made the prices go
upward.
Were the trusts allowed to have
shipped into this country free raw ma
terial for refining and manufacture
they would pocket the difference of
the tariffs on the manufa ctured articles
and the people would not be in the
least benefited.
The country is demanding a reduc-
ton in all tariffs and because the SEN
timent is turned that way Mr.. Ar
buckle thinks he can put one over on
the American people and have raw
sugar placed on the free list. He says
he is going to devote all OF his ener-
g,es to that end, and he no doubt will.
but the Democratic house will see TO
1t that the tariff on the refined article
Is reduced as we'll.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
FARM EXPERTS
TO TOUR STATE
IN A SPECIAL
ATLANTIC COAST LINE WILL
PLACE A TRAIN OF SIX CARS
AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE
FARMERS INSTITUTE OF UNI
VERSITY OF FLORIDA.

The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
has equipped a special train of six
cars and placed them at the disposal
of the farmers institute of the Univer-
sity of Florida, for a complete tour Of
the state, leaving Gainesville Nov. Is.
The consist of the train will be as
follows:
Two carloads OF farming implements
representing the most improved ma
chinery in the state.
One carload of hogs, 20 or % head,
representing four or five OF the most
improved breeds.
One carload of forage crops, grasses.
cereals. corn, legumes that have been
collected during the past six months.
One carload of citrus products. rep
resenting methods of packing, varieties
of oranges and grapefruits. etc, illus
trated with photographs and enlarged
charts to show methods of control OF
disease, application of fertilizer, etc.
Fifteen or 20 different samples of soil
and as many packages of fertilizing
materials: collection of preserved fruits
and vegetables; five or six thousand
bulletins published for the Florida ex-
pertinent station and United States de
partment of agriculture; about 60 en-
larged charts used in the farmers in
stitute work, which covers topics on
fertilizers, feeds, methods of tillage.
Seou SeleCllOll, I'VE SlONhs anu SASStS
lions that are of interest to every
farmer. About 200 photographs. 100 %
which enlarged, that have been care
fully selected for farmers institute
work.
The speakers will be: Prof. P. H.
Rolls, director OF Florida experiment
station and superintendent of farmers
institutes; c. K McQuarrie, assistant
superintendent; A. ?. Spencer, assist
ant in extension; H. 9. Fawcett, plant
pathologist, Florida experiment sta
ton, and H. W. Berger. state nursery
inspector. The speakers will be
changed from time to time according
to the demands of the territory
through which the train will pass. An
expert, whose name has not been
learned. will give important advice on
! he packing. handling and MARKETING
| OF citrus products. Everything will o.
| carefully labeled and displayed to the
| best advantage.
The detailed itinerary OF this train
| WIFI he announced later in The Journal
All Of the important points in the state
| will be covered.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
COMMERCIAL
ASSOCIATION
FLOUR|SH|NG
WATERMAN SHOWS, BY COMPARE
SON, THAT COLLECTIONS HAVE
BEEN BETTER WITH THE Asso-
CITATION THAN WITH BUSINESS
PEOPLE.

Speaking Of the recent accomplish
Association, Secretary G. A. Waterman
yesterday afternoon called the atten-
ton of representative Of The Journal
to the latest time table of the L. & n.
railroad, issued Oct. 1st in which 1t is
SHOWN that as a result of the efforts
OF the association, passenger train NO.
81, between Montgomery and Flomaton,
connecting with the one arriving here
at $3.50, now stops at certain places to
take on sleeping car passengers for
Pensacola at which formerly passengers
were taken for Mobile and New Or
leans, but not for Pensacola.
Speaking of the association in gen.
eral, Mr.. Waterman told of meeting a
met great many Pensacola knockers.
He said this man told him that he did
not believe that Pensacola had enough
OF the stick together spirit to support
the Comm ercial Association. Mr.. Wa
terman said that as a result of his
conversation with this man, ne had, as
soon as he arrived in Pensacola, de-
cided to do some figuring and see how
1t had been showing up. He said that
after figuring the amount of money due
the association between Feb. 1st and
Oct. ,5st, as-well as the amount not
collected, he had gone to several rep
resentattve men engaged in banking,
real estate and merchandise business
and that after submitting his figures,
he had been informed by them that it
was impossible in any of the bust
nesses in which they were engaged to
collect as high a percentage of the
money due, under the conditions which
have prevailed during that period ex-
cept through the legal processes avail
able in their lines of business, which
were not available to the Commercial
Association. as its debts are solely
debts of honor
Mr.. Waterman is Of the opinion that
this condition warrants a refutation Of
the Memphis mans statement and that
although not altogether satisfactory,
makes a very creditable showing for
the members of the Commercial Asso-
citation
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
EvERYBODY'S FRIEND.

The old family doctor. of whom so
few are now seen in this age of "spe-
eialistS. was the valued friend and ad-
wiser Of his patients. They depended
on him to keep them in health, and
cheer them with his counsel. He
taught them the wisdom of preventing
Illness by watching closely after the
health OF the family.
Mrs. S. H. Dubois writes from her
nome at Hampstead. L. l.: '"Vinol is
an old friend Of our family. We have
used 1t for years whenever any Of US
need tonic on account Of being in
q rundown state of health, and it al
ways gives perfect satisfaction. We
nave used nine bottles this winter"
There are thousands of families who
could and do say the same thing.
Ninol, our delicious cod liver and iron
preparation without oil, has proved its
value by bringing back rugged health
and strength to vast numbers of weak
rundown men, women and children.
That Is why we sell so much and guar
antee 1t to give satistac tion. II it dis
appoints you, you can have your money
back at once. Whites Pharmacy, Pen
Saeola, Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER IS, 1911.
Ferry Pass Bridge Site
Will Be Surveyed.

The Journal congratulates the COM
missioners from Santa Rosa and Es-
Gambia counties on their determination
to survey the Ferry Pass site in con-
nection with the other surveys which
are being made preliminary to the Sc
lection Of a place to construct a bridge
across the Escambia river.
It is only by these surveys that the
commissioners can finally determine
where the bridge can be built, and
Ferry Pass is certainly an important
point to be considered in selecting the
final location.
The Journal has always contended
that the Escambia river bridge should
be at Ferry Pass II 1t is possible to
build 1t there. We have also con-
tended that, when the survey is finally
made, conditions at Ferry Pass will
make possible the construction of a
bridge at but little more cost than a
bridge at any other point within rea-
sonable distance up the river.
Only two bridges at Ferry Pass will
be necessary-a draw bridge over the
main stream (the Escambia) and a
short trestle over the Little White river
on the Santa Rosa side. The route
will miss the main White river, East
river, and Simpsons river, and instead
of building a lengthy trestle, as would
have to be done anywhere farther up,
a grade or fill can be thrown up with a
dipper dredge at very low cost.
Anyhow, the survey Of the Ferry
Pass route will demonstrate whether
or not The Journals position is cor
rect. When the survey is completed
the commissioners will know how to
act.