The Washington herald., 1912-05-26

ments for conveniently Transporting Wis
itors from one building 70 the other
II was believed that Madison Square
Garden would remain up for q year. but
the announcement Of the Board Of Trade,
makes this q certainty, The Grand Cen
trai Palace people state that plans Tor
their arena, which is 70 be built along
fscted. and that Il win be ready for the
1914 automobile show.
The show COMMITTEES Of the Autonno-
bile Board of Trade that viii haYs IN
charge the big double exhibition next
winter, are Col. George Pope, chairman;
Charles Clifton. Alfred Reeves, and Merle
L. DownA
while the crew Of the Abbott Detroit
bulldog saw many strange and curl
Gus things on their i0oOoo-mils trip" said
DR.. Charles q. Percival, editor OF Health
Magazine, who conducted the tour, zone
Of the oldest was the little town OF
College Park. Ind, where the town on
GERS serve without pay and where no
arrest Of any kind has ever been known.
| The town has no police, and the incum-
bent elected to the ONCE never quallhed.
This town Of thirty-ive voters is put
down under the name Of Ubes IN the
United States Postal Directory, and IL
north Of Huntington snd totals possibly
$50 inhabitants. II includes a handsome
expanse OF college campus, and the build
ings are built on a square about the
campus The town was Incorporated In
1907, and is the smallest in the State. and
boasts Of macadam streets, curbingss
and concrete walks"
The general introduction OF the auto
mobile and the increased demand for
platinum and iridium for ignition points
in maEnetos a. used for ignition pur-
poses have proved to most people that
gold is not the most precious metal"
said Charles F. Splitdorf cold Is worth
about 800 q pound, while platinum runs
two and one-third higher, or nearly 1900
q pound. and iridium is cheap at 5000
a pound. but gallium, next TO radIum,
easily leads the list at $4,000 a pound
There are about thirty other metals
which have q greater value than silver
and gold. Galliun was discovered IN
.isb, IN the Pyrennes Mountains, In
Spain, and Is exceedingly rare. II fuses
at 80 low a point tS6 degrees Fahren-
heIO that II readily melts in the naked
hand. incidentally. we use almost two
pounds Of platinum a day In our mag
neto factories. Nearly all the platinum
used comes from the Ural Mountains,
and there was only 100 ounces mined in
the entire United States last year, and
this mostly all came from the Pacific
Coast States, that is California, Ore
gon, and Alaska. A press report last
week gave out the information that
Philadelphia man had discovered a de-
posit in the Grand Canyon Of Arizona, ,
which will yield $50 10000 worth OF the
metal II this is true It will tend TO
lower the price of this valuable ignition
metal r-- H-a.. f~-
a.
Mexican rebels are evidently not averse |
to using the modern means OF Iocomotion |
1.-The automobile for purposes Of war
fare whenever II seems feasible to seize |
machine and appropriate II TO their |
use, according 70 several experiences
that have come TO light. One OF their |
latest escapades was the seizinE Of an |
Overland roadster belonging to J. H. |
Butler, Overland dealer at ParraI, Mex |
leo. In the fracas Butler also was seized, |
but subsequently, escaped.
Butler opened his agency at Parral |
some time last fall when the federals |
were in control Of the country. Later the |
so-called Red Flag faction took posses |
sion Of the territory around Parral.
Conditions got so warm for Butler that |
he was obliged to leave the country in a |
hurry. He decided TO run his roadster |
through to FL Paso. He got as far as
Jimenez. but there was captured by the /
Red Flaggsrs." They Immediately /
seized his car and put It into service |
carrying dispatches between their sew
eral headquarters.
Three weeks Of rough usage put the |
car temporarily out Of commission. I'm
daunted, however, Butler freed himself /
from the enemy, worked all one night on
the car, got II in shape so Il would run,
and, with q friend, drove to Santa Ro-
salia, later making their own escape to