The Washington herald., 1912-06-30

The LocomobiIe Company OF America,
! bridgeport, Conn. has voted TO increase
its capital stock from 10000 to S. =
! go. being 50. 10000 in common stock and
81. 10000 preferred. II will also issue
Sl,50o,0oO s per cent ten-year mortgage
Londs, and &2.5OO,0OO per cent twelve
year debenture bonds. According to "a
statement issued the net earnings for the
company for the year ended December
81. 1911. averaged $3f7,52O.
The company proposes to almost dou-
bic its output. a very large percentage
Of the increase being the new five-ton
trucks which It has recently introduced.
1T is only natural TO suppose" said
Dr. Charles G. PercIval. editor Of the
Health Magazine. who is driving the Alb
bott-D Detroit OF its 10000 mile trip over
perience some unusual incidents and
pretty scenes. At Frederick. Nd. one
OF sthe quaintest towns in the coun-
try and famous for being the home
OF Barbara FrietChie and the birth
and burial place Of Francis Scott Key,
the author OF America" and Admiral
Schley. is the oldest railroad depot in
the world which was opened in 1888 as
the terminal OF the first railroad in the
Frederick. a distance Of fifty-seven miles.
Probably no other building standing in
the world to-day has played such an
important part in the industrial welfare
Of the entire world. for besides being the
FIRST railroad terminal II was the scene
Of the first telegraph which was Installed
by its inventor, s. p Morse. Like Full
ton. Morse was first successful artist
and portrait painter before the idea Of
- ..,la WH ha fa1aRrlnh found
birth in his fertile mind. Educated at
Yale. he graduated with fair hOnors in
science and then went abroad studying
for four years under Sir Benjamin West.
Lack Of funds forced him back 10 Amer
lea where he opened a studio with some
success In 1875 Morse again visited Eu-
rope to study the old masters, but soon
returned. On the return trip the con-
versation Of mis- fellow-paSsengeTs who
had just left Paris after attending lee
lures on electricity interested him. and
on board ship he evolved and worked out
the now present indispensable Morse code
Of dots and dashes and used the civilized
world over. After twelve years Of hard
labor in a New York garret, Morse in
vented and perfected the telegraph, and
many times, but for the aid OF friends,
would have literally starved to death.
He finally succeeded in getting a bill
so. 900 to build a test telegraph line, and
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was in
duced to let him build the line along
their track, but not until the fears and
the superstition Of its board Of directors
had been allayed, for seventy years ago
electricity was looked upon as a satanic
proposition Of dangerous proportions.
After much excitement and ridicule the
line was built, and after many changes
nd fhara In he uyIrFnpr
was perfected in such a manner that but
a short time interviewed before the use OF
the telegraph became general The first
What hath God wrought?
would indicate that. at that period at
least, a great invention was recognized
with some degree Of respect and awe"
NJ. J. Hammers, general manager of'the
Abbott Motor Company. speaking Of
How much car does a man need?" said:
This is not a question asked for rhe-
torical effect. I mean to examine-from
the viewpoint both Of a dealer and Of
man who drives his own carlow much,
in point of size, weight, and power a man
needs in his car.
When automobiles first appeared 9
man wanted as much car as he could
get, which resulted in a demand for
heavy cars. Presently II dawned on car
owners that the heavier the car the
larger the repair bills and the quicker
II went to pieces. Designers had been
entirely aware Of this fact for some
years, and had made important expert
NETS with aluminium, vanadium, nickel
steel, and other metals to replace iron.
the next two years saw
a gradual tightening of weight. At the
Abbott factory. for instance. two years
Of experimenting proved S.oo0 pounds to
be practically about the ideal weight for
an automobile. A heavier car knocked
Itself to pieces in three or four years. |
A lighter car lacked both safety and |
of motion. To-day the best /
engineering practice is in line with this |
result of our experiments.
with lighter cars came the demand |
for more compact bodies. Until quite re-
Gently automobile bodies were simply the |
coach and carriage bodies |
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