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Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
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ruary's SHOWS cover New England this stream begins To trickie and then run red with the first straw berries ripen- ed by the warmer sunshine of the south. Larger and larger it grows, and now the stream takes on a touch of green along with the red Green peas and spinach and the early greens are flowing northward. first a few cars. then more, then fifty, hundred. and finally sometimes as high as 300 ears day of strawberries alone when the crest is reached in early June. The berries give way to melons and more vegetables, then to peaches. DO tatoes and onions and % it goes until all New Englands own crops are reacy for the reaping
 The amount of perishabe freight borne northward to New England and distributed from Boston has grown enormously since the railroad men per fected this schedule. In 1902 there were handled in yard No. 1. in the South Boston terminal. 4.G63 cars of perishable freight In 1906 it had grown to 6,5G6. in 1908 to 7.S9S. and last year it totaled S,sS1 Here are some of the figures.
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
Byron D. Bugbee

ID order 10 maRe Il fnarNet uay with this kind of freight, the railroad must get it into Boston, say, between the hours of a. III. and 6 a. m. The market day begins promptly at 6 a. ID. That is the hour when the big bell rings out in the perishable freight yard and there begins a scene of ac- tiyity among the marketmen. When this bell rings the cars must be ready to open so that their contents can be inspected and sampled and tine fruit or vegetables sold right as they stand in the car. Ten minutes after this bell rings the contents of the train may be on the way to the market
 This hour of 6 a. m, then. is the goal upon which the eye of the operat- ing man and the traffic man in the railroad organization is fixed. It is the hour they must make, not one day, but every day. or lose the buSi- ness. Down in Virginia, through Mary land and Delaware a freight train loaded with the luscious early berries of southern plantations, the first to
 
 sunshine. may be rushing through the night toward this goal with the speed of a passenger train. The engineer has this goal in mind. the yardmen along the route have it in mind. and up in the railroad offices the operat- .ng men have 1t in mind too Like the man with the ball in the football game, thAsa fyr t~ At. train with it's produce over the goal line before the big bell in the Boston yard rings out as signal for the market men that another market day has begun
 New England has not always enjoy ed the privilege of having strawberries Tn February or even melons in May. 1t was not many years ago that the average householder had to rely chiefly on his local fruits and vegetables He waited until July for his stra wberries His melons and peaches he got later NeeetahieS out of season were rare This was when New England. by the then means of transportation. was many market days away from the south. These were the days of inten- Sive railroads. as Mir BrandeiS would probably calt them. short railroads connecting with one another. but op- erated separately and involving many transfer points. When freight has to go over s,veral railroads operated on the intensive principle it is bound to sufe7 delgrs. Between Boston and \
 the old S,oningtou road and the Bos-
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15

uce. Bosrons market day is now the same us New Works and Portland Me, Is but one market day later than Philadelphia Today carload oi strawberries can make tine Iournes be tween Norfolk and Boston is just thirty-siX hours and half.
 PeriShahle freight is the bspe of the railroad mans existence. He some times loses more sleep over it than he does over passengers. It involves problems not met with in most kinds of freight lt must G- delivered in the quickest time possible. and in this connection the railroad. like the ship
 pers and the commission men, must always reckon on the market day The loss of one market day ou periShable freight like strawberries often means the loss of the entire shipment The failure of d railroads freight schedule to insure delivery of this kind of freight for a certain market day may mean the loss to that railroad Of this entire business. to the commission men and maTketmen it means so much less business 10 get returns from. On the other hand. the ability of the time table experts and the traffic men to knock ofr half an hour even on the run ming time of freight train may mean to the road thousands of dollars of new business and for the commission men may open up brand new line of trade. For years men have worked over these freight train schedules try ing to lop of precious minutes ot time In the wards, in the stops eu route ag@ In the delivery Always their aim has been in the ease ot New England to get table luXuries, sAch aS early strawberries, melons and peaches, into RoSten by the second market day.
 There Is no fnore periShahle produce than straw berries, and next to them comes fish. The New England rail roads must bring the first into New England and carry the second out In the case of berries 1t is absolutely es- sential that they be consumed within sevenp-two hours from the time they are picked for them to command price that will make the business worth while When one considers that these early berries are picked in Yir- ginia and points farther south the problem confronting the New England railroads in getting them on the New Englander's table within this limit of Seventy-two hours is thus seen to be & big one. If carload of straw berries consigned to New England produce merchant misses a market day at the South Boston yard it means usually a depreciation of at least cents on every box. on melons it means prob ably cent apiece. That may not seem much, but in the aggregate it is enough frequently to wipe out the profit on an eL-sre shipment
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15

k this stream, rising and falling with the weather conditions, which feeds the summer resorts and has en, i abled New England's famous hotels to cater 10 the finest trade and made them 1 independent of local truck farms. IL 1 laS also greatly Increased the numuer i of Boston's commission houses
 The speed with which this stream fiows northward is equaled by the -eierity with which it is handled in the 1 south Boston yard. the great dfstrib- edng reservoir into which it pours It's tons of produce. There are seven yards and thirteen freight houses mak- Ing up the Boston terminal, and in and out of it run 1.S0O cars a day, of which this perishable freight forms only a part.
 AS soon as one of the fast express freight trains reaches the yard in the early honrs of the morning the cars sFe marked showing what yard they are intended for, this depending upon the firms to which they are consigned. Then the switch engines get busy It takes an average of twenty minutes to mark the cars. They have so re duced the time of switching or classi- hcation. as it is called that ill thirty minutes every car in a forty car train will have been put in its proper yard and place. On an average it is just one hour from the time the big Pacific locomotive lands its train of fruit in the terminal that the cars are ready to have their seals broken. That is when it is ready to be sold by the mar6etmen. though the sales do not begin till the bell rings at 6 a. m.
 There are few other cities where this kind of freight is landed so close te the market Ten minutes is all that is required in Boston to transfer it to the market from the ear. In this terminal. where 4,135 freight cars can be kept at one time, there is sufficient space provided 60 that teams can back up to 2.1oo of these cars.
 About 95 per cent of the nroduce brought into tias yard every day re mains there or is shipped out by ex- press. The cars destined for Portland and for northern New England begin moving out by noon again, but from Boston radius of at least twenty five miles is covered direct. Portland will get it's berries in time for breakfast the next morning.
 About I3 per cent of New England is affected by this fast freight service perfected by the railroad men. The sea has had to yield this traffic to the line of steel which ties the north to the south. Today the New Englander. even though he lives in Maine. Is ss certain of fresh strawberries for his
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15

--vre m me sprlng as ne is Of b,.
 garden truck in the summer "h
 When tbe great Hell Gate hria,a
 Connecting Railroad joining inc NJ s'.l Haven system with the Pen,.s..'' mia is completed in New yS.~,. '. this schedule may be shortena5 IVY more This great engineering fes. -..A dertaken by the two roads. win ,t,-.l. the long water transfer aroma at1 haitian Island It is only three rn.i- across New York bay from Gree,-sn4s where the PenBsylvania's trains ", in from the south. to Bay Ridge uha the cars will again take fha rsa bound for Boston. and the dancerons and delaying tides of Hell Gate ..rn thus be avoided. While it win a". mean the saving of another mar,.s. day. it will mean that more trains aa be handled and may result some dar ta making Portland's market day n. same as Boston's.
 The railroad is the great harvas... It gathers the grain in one corner a. our country and distributes if in a other than man may be fed with tb. staff of life: but. more than that ,.t sees that his table is supplied with tbo good things of the ground though ba live amid the snows
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
Work Begun on Thames Bridge

Preliminary borings for the new four.track bridge which the New York, New Haven and Hartford is to build across the Thames at New London are now under way and il is expected that they will be completed in the course of another three months, when the final plans, based on the results Of such bor- ings, will be drawn. This will take possibly another six months.
 1t has practically been decided to lo- cate the new bridge about i34 feet north Of the present structure and bor- ings made in the river At this point have disclosed bed rock at fl depth of % feet below hlghwater mark Bor- ings made at the site of the present bridge have failed to disclose bed rock, consequently the new site would seem much superior. In the construction of the bridge no eaisson work probably will be done. Instead the piers will be constructed on top of piles driven down to bed rock
 The new bridge will probably be shorter than the present bridge, as the company has obtained permission from the War Department to extend the abutments out into the stream be- yond those of the old bridge. This will mean that the new bridge will have certainly one pier less than the old bridge, and probably two.
 Like the Connecticut River bridge the piers will be four-track piers, but only two tracks will be built at first. One of the matters yet to be decided in connection with the new Thames Riv- CT bridge is the exact type of the draw, Engineers of the company are now en- gagged in making a study Of this ques- ton.
 Two types might be said to be under conside ration. One of these Is the so called hascule bridge, which lifts up perpendicularly, as if it were on hinges The lother type is lifted up between two towers. It will be some time be fore a decision is arrived at. It is eN- pected that there will be on the whole few changes in the preliminary plans drawn for the bridge and already made public The height of the bridge above the bottom of the channel will be llt feet. A rough esti mate places sI,000, GOO as about the cost of the new struc tufe. Upon its completion one of thC few points of delay in the service be tween New York and Boston will bt eliminated.
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
State Legislature Appropriates Millions
 for Tuberculosis
eliminated

Out of foriy-one state legislatures in session during the season of 1913, laws dealing with tuberculosis were enacted in thirty states, while in thitty-four states consideration was given 10 bills dealing with the prevention of this disease. This Is summary of the legislative campaign for 1918, issued by The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis today.
 Appropriations To the amount of over S5,0O0,000 have been set aside for the treatment and prevention of tuberculo- sis by the various state legislatures in session this year. Most of this money is for the maintenance of state Sanato- ria. There are at the present time 8 such institutions in 3l different states, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Penn sylvania, each having more than one sanatorium. Delaware IS the only state which has made provision for a stale sanaioFium for tuberculosis ne. groes. In addition to the amounts ap- proprialed by .the various state gov ernmenls, CesagTesS will be obliged to set asic. g. 'arly S,00 ,O00 for the main ienanee of the United States Public Health, the Army and Navy sanatoria, and the tuberculosis hospital of the District of Columbia.
 Among the notable advances in the legislative enactments of this year, are the tuberculosis registration law of i Colorado; laws providing for subsidies 10 local hospitals in Minnesota and 1 Wisconsin, an act providing for the es- tabhshment Of county hospitals in h. 1 diana, and the establishment of state bureaus for the prevention of tubercu. | losls in Ohio and California. A com plete analysis of the tuberculosis legis. lation considered and enacted in 1913, 1 is being prepared by the National As. sociation.
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
KEEPING THE TABLE SUPPLIED
How New England Gets Strawberries In february and Melons In May. What the Railroads Have Done
 to Accomplish This.

~TRAwBERRlES in March, mel ons in May! Today this Is the boast of no modern Bucullus,
 but the privilege of the many. You may even eat fresh strawberries away up in northern New England in February. Today the New Englander can cut his cantaloupe and eat fresh vegetables with snow still on the ground New potatoes when his own are being planted are to him no longer dream Fresh peaches on his table when his own trees are just through blossoming excite about as mHch curi- asity in him as the brides bouquet of roses in January. No longer does that strawberry patch out in his own gar den mean his first taste of the luscious fruit in June or July. II used to be so mapy years ago, but nowadays he has probably eaten quarts of berries long before his own have ripened
 An ths has h.cu brought aerut not 0Y some agricultural wizards work In our gudens uot lay eur metvarol- oeists work iu studying the weather, but by Inc railroads. If k the result solely of the perfeoling of our modern methods et transportation the bring iae up of our maiu steel highways of commerce tu a standard not surpassed anywhere else in the world, enabling the traffic men and operating experts SO to work out fast freight schedules that today the New England table is but forty hours from southern farms.
 There Is no faster freight service ip the world than that which carries straw wherries to the New England table from the southland in two days. There x no such terminal yard anywhere as ,he great yard or yards at South Bos- .on Of the New York. New Haven and Hartford, where this fruit and early vegetables are received, bought and sold and distributed As many as soo carloads of strawberries are some times received there in a single day. and so quickly are they handled that one hour after they have entered the yard they are either being unloaded lr are being sent out again to Port land or places even farther north where they can be eaten the next morning.
 The celerity with which tnss nest perishable of perishable frs ght is handled from the time it is put in the freight ear tn Florida. Georgia or Nir. ginta until 1t has reached the market men scattered all over New England S probably not exceeded anywhere in study. of painstaking work over rail road schedules, of the most effective cooperation between the railroads aud of the most scientific management So far as il relates to this phase Of tne railroad problem. II has created new business in New England. bust ness that practically did not exist twenty years ago. Ii has made new markets and new industry for many; has wiped out the enormous advantage which Philadelphia and New York once seemed to have over Boston and New England in this matter of table delicseies and the handling of the early southern produce.
 In the business world time IS counted by the business day. In the produce 1 dsy. and the market day begins. and ! ends practically between 6 and s m Thanks to development Of 6 fasi freight service for this Kind of pred I
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
Hurt Above the shoetop.

AS she was alighting from a trolley near her home late Monday night Miss Emma Sieger of Brooklyn slip ped and fell Patrolman James Slat tery was at her side in a jiffy.
 Where are you hurt?" he inquired,
 That is none of your business was the sharp reply.
 Madam, there are troublesome times in the police department ana unless I send in a report I am very liable to get a complaint" said tne policeman.
 Then just say I was injured above the shoetop," exclaimed the young woman as she walked to her home
 The report at the station house is that Miss Sieger's shin was scraped New York Correspondence.
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15

GBilly Boy has a bi- cycle-tired of it, and IS dying for a canoe the woods and streams are calling.
 q Ted has a canoe, pretty good craft, but he's cloyed with the water and only a bi- cycle can save his life. q What a chance for the busy little want ad tomake two boys happy.
Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15

Make Money in Fox Farms. Fox farming is a growing industry in southern Yukon.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18

Hal Chase They claim that Hal has not been doing his very best for Frank Chance.
 King" Cole, the former cub pitcher now twirling for the Columbus team' won the first three games he pitched in the American association.
 Spike" shannon is finding tougii picking his first season as a manager His Virginia, tMinn.) team got pad start in the new Northern League.
 The new Georgia Alabama League with clubs in Anniston, Talladega, La Grange. Newman, Dadsden and Ope- lika. takes the place of the old South- eastern League.
 Even if they do try to get away with that protest game wrinkle now and then. the Phllies are playing excellent ball and will bear watching.
 Miller Huggins has the Cardinals ul on their toes and fighting every inch of the way. The Cards are liable tf cause the Giants, Cubs and Pirates heaps of trouble before the curtalr falls.
 The way Bill Dahlen's Superpa' have been performing of late, ShoW' 1 that William intends to worry Natlona
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18
FRANKIE GAGE, COAST
 BOXER MEETS MAIN

Frankie Gage, native Arizonlan anu .na of those plucky boxers who have ,otu4d around with the class of the ..al,ntrv is to take on Jack McMahn' the Prescott rireman. wno won a very ,.lost. decision over Dan Matthews here .,-..l- ,ao Friday. This was the an uouncement of Manager Herb Cores 14, of the Phoenix Athletic club lhe ,.,i,a,. i,1 and printed in The Repub leans dope column some une ago. Now the bout has been So far arrahSeo that Gage is -on the ground ana Iedo\ Tor his lvhirlwind six days TalnlhS that Will precede his appearance ln the Nl,t+o,,,, with the redoubtable Mile High ringist.
 Cage was born in Florence Arlzoha' ,,,l k tyyentv-tzyo wears old He is of French spanish descent, and therefore in much the same class of nationality as Joe Nandot, the New Orleans hght- weight. Cages start in boxing came TWO years ago when Van Court, the well known coast sporting editor took him in tow and began to make use of him with the boys about the training camps in Los Angeles Since that time Gage has met some If the best or them
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18
Tioers TussIe to Tie.

SACRAMENTO. May 17-The Sac ramento Wolves fought hard uphli game today and went out into the field ahead by their score three 10 two in the eighth only to have Vei'lce bunch a walk and a double in the last
 inning for the tying run. The game
 was called with the score 3 all at the end of the ninth on account Of ram.
 Meioan's single and Hosp's home run
 inside the grounds gave the Ylsltors
 two in the first The same inning Snlhh walked and stole second and thlrd then scored on a sacrifice fly. In the slXth' two singles and an out put over the 1 tying run for the locals. Moran's nome l run inside the fence put the wolves ahead in the eighth In the ninth Arei- lanes famed three but sprinkled among 1 the strike outs. a walk for Carhsle ana | a two-bagger by Bayless Which tled 1 the score.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18

and not always come off second best. IT is one of Van Courts predictions that his protege will next year be among the top notchers in the light division.
 The boy is a boxer fighter combined He is fairly clever with both hands ana feet. never far out of condition ana al >ysNs anxious to mix in with q good boy. His punch. though not vet de- yeloped to it's best will be something to reckon on in year or two.
 Gage has decided to settle down in Phoenix to fight before the Athletic club here. He will be open to engage ments before any outside club, but ne wants it understood that his calling cards from now on will bear the ad- dress Phoenix.
 AIcMahn. with whom Gage will trade swats is a husky of the Mandot type of fighter He always defends as much as he can and often so wears his opponent by his tactics that it is>an easy matter to finish him.
 In the Matthews bout. although he was always going away, Mack man aged to deliver his kick fairly often.
 Other interesting stunts before the club will be the Tommy Burns-Young Choynski 122-pound go of six spaces Manuel Avilez. the husky Mexican fiehter will go on with Frank Pascal the blacksmith from Five Points. This bout is for four rounds at 142 pounds Young Flynn. who is a shark for pun ishment and Young Mex are the other pair at the light limit for four spasms
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18

Monday-Barnstorm Ts- SWedes' ]
 esday-Spearmints Vs. Han i yn's.
 Friday-Macks vs. Poke Easies.
 That is the revised standings accord ing to Hon. c. NV Brown, secretary of the league. and one of the most valued members of the "Face to Face" team Bv the way, how the No-Names hap pened to get that name, Face to Face" was this: Vic Hanny, who had Il team in the former league agreed to back another aggregation and was lined up to be sponser for the No Names. The result of his Angels work was that the No Names receiv- cd perfectly good appelation i e Face to Face" by which they shall henceforth be called.
 The game on Friday night. in which the Face to Face team held it's unsoIled banner at the thousand post was a three time defeat for the Poke Easies, who are persistently hanging onto last place. Lynn, captain of the Faces, done his darndest' with two scores above the 900 mark.
 The score keeper managed to glom the following figures out of the gen .raJ excitement.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18
Seals are "Gingered u

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-Ihe "gingered up" Seals took the odd game in the series from the Oaks today by a score of 3 to O. McCorry was rough ly handled by the Oaks yesterday put went back into the box today ana gave tt7o visitors severe drubbing. Inning after inning went by with not selii- h1anca of hit made until Leard reg istarad 2 two bagger. Malarkey, pitch or for the oaks was hit hard by the 1ocol hotters and gave way to Gardner in the eighth. Dolly Gray went lh'o tho hox for the Oaks in the ninth.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-18

league teams not. little before the pennant is won.
 That costly pebble of Fred SnodSfaS9 in the worlds series last fall must have caused Fred to brace up a bit. lie IS playing great ball for the Chants tillS season.
 The work of the Boston Braves kid battery Pitches James and Catchet Whaling is a delight to one George Stauings. The former Northwestern League stars have shown regular big league stuff.
 Catcher George Gibson of the Pir- ates. wearing a plaster cast on his broken ankle, has gone to his home near London, ont. George will be out of the ga me- for a couple of month at 1 least.