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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-26
FL PasO, Thursday, Oct. 26, 1911
Forecasts

FL Paso and vicinity: Showers to-
night or Friday; cooler Friday.
New Mexico: Fair west portion; local
rains east portion tonight or Friday;
cooler tonight.
West Texas: Tonight and Friday, un-
settled; showers tonight or Friday;
colder tonight in north portion; colder
FRIDAY
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-26

A Marvel For Sore Feet. Acts Right Off-
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
NO EXCUSE NOW
FOR NOT WRITING
Easy for Railroad Travellers
to Mail Letters.

In order that the travelling public may
enjoy the cUnvenienCes of the postal
service, Postmaster General Hitchcock
has directed that all postmasters in cities
operating free delivery be instructed TO
place a street letter box at all railroad
stations.
These boxes are to be located in con-
spicuous places as near as possible to
the center of the platform, and painted
a distinctive color such as may be recog-
hizable at a distance. At stations where
there are double tracks and passenger
platforms on each side, a box will be
placed on each platform at the most
convenient point for the travelling public
Collections will be made from the sta
tion boxes bS the city letter carriers at
regular intervals; all letters will be han
died with the same dispatch as the usual
first-class city mail. Notifications are
now being sent to the various postmas-
ters. and it is Mr.. Hitchcock's purpose
10 have the system perfected and working
In all parts of the United States at the
earliest possible time.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
ANAC0STIA.

The East Washington Heights Citizens
Association has been called together for
tomorrow evening for the first time in
several months, and many matters of
importance will be discussed. Notably.
will be the extension of the District wa
ter service to the suburb, which has
been before that body for several years.
but nothing definite accomplished.
The yearly harvest service Of the Con-
gress Heights Baptist CONGREGATION will
be held this morning in the :own haIl
In Alabama avenue. The platform Is 10
be decorated with most every kind of
vegetable and fruit
The Epworth League of the Anacostia
Methodist Episcopal Church has ar
ranged series OF interesting meetings
to be held on each Sunday during inc
month OF October. To-day Frank Craw-
ford viii have charge of the meeting.
On October u Simon Bube viii be In
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
FOURS AND SKIES
NOW PREDOMINANT
Day of "One-lung" Cylinder
Car Has Gone.

The evolution of m6tor-caf engineering
has moved toward the increase in the
number of cylinders as we'll as refine
ments and improvements in mechanical
construction, until to-day the one cylin-
der car more commonly known as the
''one lunger'' has been relegated to a dark
corner of the garage.
\ few years ago this same car which
was advertised by factories as their latest
model as well as their pride was some
thing to be given more than mere pass
ing glance and a sighting remark. a
little later the two-cylinder car came into
use, while the more ventursome expert
mented with three cylinders.
With the start just made, the number
of cylinders has steadily increased, until
to-day the six cylinder is a common sight
and eNcites no more than passing COM
ment, and tat usually on its body de-
sign rather than mechanical construction.
y recent canvass of lI9 automobile
makers in this country shows that 164 are
making fOur-Cylinder cars. OF this num-
Der 1lS make four-cylinder models only.
leaving fifty-One concerns who specialize
on the cars of six cylinders.
1t will be seen. therefore. that the
"fours" and the skies are now the pre-
dominant types of pleasure cars. The
construction and operation of the four
and six cylinder cars have been Simpli-
fed to such an extent that they offer no
obstacles to the average driver over
models of fewer cylinders. This fact. in
connection with the added power. has
effeCtually converted car owners to these
types. As to the choice between the four
and the six cylinder models. it has been
narrowed down largely to a question of
r1,..
pay for a car.
The car makers have been quick TO
grasp this change in the attitude of the
buying public While eight companies
still are making the two-cylinder models.
only two are making threes. But one
factory. so far as can be learned, is put
ting out a single cylinder car.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
GLIDDEN TOURISTS
HAVE ADVANTAGE
A. l.. Westgard Prepares
Graphic Directions.

Participants in the Glidden tour of 1911,
which starts from New York October IA.
with Jacksonville. Fla, as its destina-
tion, and ten days of running time in
which to make the trip. will have the ad-
vantage of the most graphic road direc-
tions with which an event of this sort
was ever favored.
y. L. Westgard, the official pilot. is a
civil engineer by trade and a map-maker
by speciality. On the trip of the Flanders
90 pathfinder, he divided the entire run
into strips of about forty miles each,
and made of each strip a road map
showing every crossing, bridge. ford
or other landmark, including grades, road
surface and other information. All of il
will be available for the use of each
tourist. In fact. one will be able to tell
at glance every detail of the highway
which lies ahead. The graphic nature Of
the strip map system will make the high
way an open book even to those who
have never travelled it.
: To those who accompanied Mr.. West
gard on his pathfinding trip. his ability
TO chart the highway was a source OF
nuending admiration. It was in Florida
that Mr.. Westgard's abilities were most
severely taxed. When the Flanders %
covered the stretch from Madison to
jacksonville, Il large share of the high
way was undergoing grading, and this.
combined with the fact that in many
places the regular road was under water
required many detours
From each Of these Mr.. Westgard
would work out. as nearly as possible,
the route which would be in the best
shape by the time of the tour. Inter-
views were held regularly with promi-
nent citizens interested in the improve
ment of the highway, and promises of
a definite route were secured from each
Florida's part of the highway will
surely be much better than at the time
when the pathfinder made the trip to
blaze the way. Enthusiasm over i'm
proved highways, so evident all over the
South, had made its appearance along
the route Of the tour and the large amount
OF road construction bore witness there
to. But the final days run of the tour
VIII, nevertheless, be the hardest of the
entire Glidden. When it is reached, the
Glidden tourists will find themselves
lucky in their ability to wind their way
in and out through the cypress swamps
and across the sand plains. by means of
a map which will show every crossing
and foreteIl every bit of treacherous
footing
The change of the Glidden route neces-
STATED quick work on the part of the
Flanders '!20,' and this the car certainly
delivered, as 1t laid out one days work
Tor the tour on every days run, setting
/ new record for pathfinding expeditions,
despite the most unfavorable sort of
weather and road conditions on several
stretches. The ease with which the car
performed this herculean task resulted in
noteworthy stimulation of interest In the
our all along the line, prospective en-
rants being all delightd to hear that
he pathfinder had gone through her trip |
absolutely without repairs or even ad- |
ustments, and with but one tire change !
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

plug, and the same may be said to be
true of "ne in which the grip is not great
enough.
The constant vibration and jar of the
car will loosen the battery and other
terminal connections after the car has
been operated over rough and difficult
roads. These should be examined from
time to time in order to ascertain IL
they are tight, as well as to determine
whether any deterioration has resulted
from contact with acids or other ma
terials which would be apt to affect the
wiring. If the contact points of all the
wiring are first scraped and then rubbed
with piece of emery paper before the
binding posts are screwed into position
the contact will be much better than il
-the connection were carelessly made, and
the spark will be hotter and hence more
satisfactory.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
RITES FOR AUGUST GRAGEs.
Aged German Merchant VIII BE
Buried This Afternoon.

Funeral services for August Grages,
ninety years old, who died at his home
yesterday morning, will be held from his
residence, 623 Third street northwest,
this afternoon at o'clock
Mr.. Grages was born in Germany and
came to this city before the war and
established 4 wholesale tobacco busi-
ness in Pennsylvania avenue He was
a member of the Concordia German
Church. Rev Paul A. Menzel, pastor of
the church, will conduct the funerals He
is survived by a wife. Interment will
be in Glenwood Cemetery.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

day will be observed, with Miss Pearl
Zirkle in charge. The final meeting, on
October %, will be conducted by Samuel
r. Campbell
Anacostia Council of Maccabees con-
vened last evening in the Masonic Hail.
and started its winter work in earnest.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
AUTOMOBILE DIRECTORY.

OWNER WILL SELL FOR QUICK
cash his 5-passenger Jack Rabbi"
Apperson car for 500 less than half its
cost: frst-class condition; is being used
every day. Phone Lincoln 2311 for par
ticuIars 2S2
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
Fined ON 1n.ta1Iment Plan.

AS the result of an assault on Morris
Coltraine, a small negro, Lorenzo Rey-
nolds, eight years old, of 1O3 Concord
street northeast, will plod to the Juve-
nile Court every Saturday for the next
twenty weeks to leave FIVE cents with the
clerk, as installments on the fine of 81
which was imposed 10y Judge De Lacy
yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
May BE Assigned to chicaro.

Maj. Gen. William H. Carter, Assistant
Chief Of Staff, probably will be assigned
to command the Central Division, with
HEADQUARTERS at Chicago. within the next
few months. Brig. Gen. Clarence r. Ed
wards, chief of the Bureau of Insular
Affairs, is mentioned as a successor TO
Gen. Carter as Assistant Chief Of Stan.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

work done in the Goodyear factory may
be gained from the statement that the
| balloon is 26S feet long and 45 feet thick
at its largest diameter. 1t contains over
| , 200 pieces of fabric and something like
1900 feet of double seam. In order to
make the envelope gas tight it was nee
| stitching it and then to cement pi-ce
of tape on each side of it.
The fabric of which the balloon is
made is built up OF three layers of cot
ton cloth sandwiched in between four
layers of rubber. OF course, only the
finest materials were used in this work,
and the result is that though the fabric
is only .O3 OF an inch thick, it will stand
tensile strain Of 160 pounds to the
inch. and is practically gas tight.
When completed the big bag weighed
T. 100 pounds. and loaded into a box 6
feet high, 8 feet wide, and 80 feet long
it was a heavy package to handle. To
get it down from the fifth floor of the
factory, where It was built it was nee
essary to take out a section of the wall.
BY means of a crane on the roof It was
lowered 10 a fat car and then put into a
special end door express car which car
ried it to Atlantic City.
The Haverford Bicycle Company has
brought out the Haverford-motorcycle
and 1t bids fair to make a hit with the
motorcyclists of Washington. The new
machine is Of the one-cylinder type with
the upright roller-bearing engine and
is equipped with Bosch magnetic. It is
lfSfel at
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

The area Of the "abandoned'' farms Of the
United States Is aid 10 Be equal to that Of strip
Of land frcn Maine to FloVida. ten miles wide.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

Australia exported Us, 81 pounds Of butter in
the first five months Of 1911, compared with
S. 404 80 pounds in 1910.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08
Cleaning the spark Plugs.

Another teature which may be given
attention in the final tuning up of the
car is the distance between the points
of each spark plug and whether they
are choked with SCOT or are bright ana
clean. A. considerable falling or in DOW
er win be the result of dirty spark
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

David F. Weaver expects to leave this
week in his Olds Autocrat for a trip
down through Virginia as far as Staun-
ton. going via Warrenton and Culpeper
and thence back up the Valley route
through TO Hagerstown. Md. and on to
Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-08

w. A. Ward. Of the United Motor
Washington Company, leaves to-day for
Richmond. Va, where he will remain
all week attending the State fair.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25
BRITISH VESSELS
LOOTEDBY PIRATES
Chinese Bands Kill and Rob
on the High Seas.

Hongkong. Nov. 2L-Chinese pirates
last night looted the British steamship
Shuion, which ran aground near Kong
moon. The vessel was fired upon from
the shore before hordes of pirates clam
bered aboard.
Chief Officer II. ]. Nicholson, of Lon
don, held the gangway, and shot four of
the robbers before he fell with a bullet
wound in the stomach. Capt. Johnson. a
ScotChman, defended the bridge and shot
two of the pirates.
Chinese passengers were attacked by
the boarding party and two were killed
and many wounded After cutting off the
legs of the passengers, the pirates rifled
the vessel and escaped with valuable
booty.
The British naval authorities ordered
four torpedo boats to Honeymoon to-
day.
The Chinese ship Kwongywen was also
attacked last night near Shamshui and
all her wood work smashed. The pirates
who boarded the ship as passengers got
away with booty valued at $4,000.
There was much bloodshed at Wuchow
when a torpedo boat, a launch, a pas
senger boat, and two cargo boats en-
tered the harbor and their pirate crew
demanded the contents of the treasury
and the submission of the soldiery. Tho
more than one hundred pirates were
slain before the majority of the marau-
ders escaped.
Throughout the province bands of arm
ed robbers are everywhere plundering
and killing.
HOngkong steamship companies are
considering the withdrawal of ali their
vessels
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25
TECH Us. CENTRAL
WILL STIR CROWD
Many Seats Sold for Post
season Game.

Indications are that the Tech-Central
football game next Tuesday will be the
biggest scholastic contest ever held in
the District President Taft yesterday
accepted the invitation of the Play
grounds Association to have the White
House represented at the game on
Georgetown Field, The proceeds will be
given to the Fairgrounds Association.
Five thousand seats have been sold and
practically every box has been purchased.
A section of the Marine Band will fur
nlsh music during the gridi-on battle.
Inc game, aside from its charitable in
tent, Will be such as has never been
seen In high school football even in the
days of Jack Fields and Logan Cum
bingham.
Tickets for the game are on sale at
whites and Spalding's. Admission to
the general public is so cents, and 25
cents to any student Of the high schools
In this city. Reserved box seats will sell
FOR 81. The football tickets of the high
schUol athletic associations are of no
Nalue, as this Is a game not scheduled
in the interhigh school football cham
pipnshtP- Members of the committee on
arrangements will be stationed at each
OF the five high schools to sell tickets to
the students at the special rate offered.
The clevens of both schools are putting
In strenuous practice every day, as this
Will be the hardest fought game either
team has participated in this year
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25
EDDIE COLLINS WAS
A STAR AT FOOTBALL

When men play baseball folks
forget that they may have once
answered a quarter backs sig
nal and plunged into a line of
flesh. moleskin, and jersey, in
stead of blowing a furrow in soft
loam toward a square Of bullying,
hair filled ducking. Mathewson
and Collins, of the present day
big league stars. are also the
football stars of baseball. They
still tell story of the wonderful
play philadelphia second base
man made when he was a ''rah-
rah" at the University of Co
lumbia. Collins starred in the
Columbia Amherst battle of 1905
just as he was starred in world
series games since.
Collins was only a sub on the
Columbia varsity that fall. which
was coached by Bill Morley. Col
Inns didn't get his chance until
the last five minutes, with the
score standing 10 to S in favor
of Amherst, with the ball on Co
lumbia's 2O-yard line.
II replace Donovan" yelled
Eddie to the referee when he
dashed out from the side lines.
just as full of pepper as he is
now prancing about second.
Collins could run in the open
neid ana Morley knew II. EOOlc
had orders to call his own sig
nal. Donovan had been playing
quarter back. Eddie did.
He was thrown for a loss by
the Amherst ends.
Eddie called 1t again.
The Blue and White crowd OF
Columbia arose en- maSse as they
saw the streaks of Collins blue
and white socks going around
the end he had been thrown by.
Five, ten, fifteen, twenty yards
he ripped OF, before somebody
got" him. Collins finally, in
four plays, took the ball to the
2O-yard line.
Then Eddie sacrificed"
81 replace Collins!" yelled a
fellow named Schultz, who had
never been in a varsity game be-
fore, although he had been four
years on the squad.
Schultz yelled his own signal,
too.
It was for a try at goal from
the field. Schultz could kick.
Punk The ball sailed into
his hands from the center.
PUNK! 1t sailed over the
cross-bar from the spot Collins
had carried it to.
The score was tied and Co
lumbia's honor sustained.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25
CAN COUNTERFEIT GRAVITY.
Inventor of Stability Device In
terests Army Men.

inventor OF STABILITY Device In
terests Army Men.
New York, Nov. A-Experiments will
be conducted in the near future under
the auspices of the United States gov
eminent at the Army and Navy aero
plane camps with a device invented by
Edward S. Farrow, of Asburys Park,
which experts believe may Provide a
way of counteracting gravity.
The inventor has been successful in
lifting small objects from the ground
and keeping them suspended in the air
It is purposed to place an enlarged copy
of the device on aeroplanes in order to
discover if it will hold the flying ma
chimes stationery in the air without re-
course to any other methods. II the in
vention is successful in counteracting
gravity with an aeroplane weighing al
most ton, scientists who have seen the
apparatus in operation believe that it
will means a revolution in many OF the
heretofore accepted as fundamental prin-
ciples in physics.
The inventor is patenting his device,
and, therefore. declines to discuss de-
tails. But he says that 1t involves an
application of the hertZian waves which
are used in wireless telegraphy.
Farrow is a consulting engineer He
was in the same class at West Point as
Maj. George o. Squier, of the Signal
Corps, who invented the telephone i'm
provement which he presented to the
people of the United States AfterS leav-
ing the army Mr.. Farrow began working
upon his device. He says that he has
been engaged upon it for forty years.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25
CANADA CAPTURES
HORSE SHOW HUNT
Picturesque Day at Madison
Square Garden.

New York, Nov. 24.-All that was want
ing to-day to make the horse show at
Madison Square Garden like a motor
pictut of a fox hunt was the notes
of the -pnds as they fly to the cheer"
1t WI \ gay day. nevertheless. 1t
opened a those who like fox chasing
when qualified hunters, meaning the
horses ridden by amateurs who were
members of a hunt, came into the ring
either in military uniform or in regula-
ton costume of their club.
The Dutch started the game with
Lieut.. LaBouchere and Baron Worst
Tot Voorsts Dreadnought Perhaps,
which made a perfect score Jumping.
Besides the two Dutch entries, there
were eighteen Canadian, twenty-four
American. and five English.
None of the United States army en-
tries took part. Their horses are not
hunters, but cavalry mounts.
Judgments were as follows:
First, GodstOne. owned by Lieut. Cox.
of Canada; second, Coronet. owned by
Miss Celestine Hitchcock, of the Meadow
Brook Hunt; third, keswick, ownedi by
Z. H. Weatherbee. of New York, and
the Keswick Hunt, of Virginia; fourth.
The Viceroy, owned by Hon. Clifford
Smith, of the Ottawa Hunt, OF Canada.
Thus Canadians got two prizes and
Americans two. The interest was keen
when the several hunt teams late in the
evening came into competition for the
Woods Cup. They rode in threes in the
uniforms OF their hunts.
Decisions gave first to the Ottawa Hunt
OF Carada: second to the Essex Hunt Of
New York, and third to the London Hunt
OF Canada.
It had been Canada's day.
One more victory remained for her en-
trants TO capture-the high Jump-and
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25
W. & L. STARTS BASKETBALL.
Three of Last Years Team Report
for Practice.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Lexington, Va. Nov. o. - Basketball
practice at Washington and Lee began
this week. There are three members Of
the White and Blue team who are ex-
pected to continue their good work for
another season. Capt. Hannis will be at
his old position at a forward and Baer
is expected to get his old position at CEN
ter. Burke is out again for a place at
guard.
A good schedule has been nearly COM
pleted by Manager Null, but he will not
give 1t out until all the games are closed
It is certain that w. & L. will have it's
two annual games with Virginia and
Georgetown, and 1t is hoped that V. P l.
will agree on some of the dates which
are being offered to them. There will be
about eight games in Lexington and then
an extended trip in February when a
good many of the strong teams of the
East will. be played.
With such a good schedule to call forth
all the best material in the university it
Is the general feeling here that the COM
ing basketball season will be a great
success, even more successful than was
the season of 1911.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-25

Referring to Investigations by himself
and Charles z. Foster as evidence OF
the feasibility of the plan, Commissioner
Cuno H. Rudolph yesterday advocated a
municipal pawnshop as the best method
of eliminating loan sharks" and declared
that II a loan of $4,000 could be obtained
from some business man the project
could be carried forward.
Commissioner Rudolph's statement fol-
lowed the announcement that the city
of Cleveland, Ohio, is seriously consider
ing the idea of a municipal pawnshop.
A law has already been drawn up there
which would enable the city to begin at
once on its new duties.
This idea" said the Commissioner,
has been considered here, and needs
only the assistance of some man who Is
willing to invest his money with the re-
turn of about 4 or per cent. Similar
institutions to the one now planned for