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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28

while at another point, if he should exceed a. speed of fifteen miles an hour
 under the same conditions, the train
 would likewise be stopped It is pos- s1ble to install this stopping device so that a distant warning may be given by audible and visual signals without stopping the train, and if these sig na1s are not needed by the engineman the brakes will be applied in sufficient
 time to stop the train before reaching the point of danger.
 The other device is similar in a
 great many respects to a number that were submitted in the contest, but it contains certain additional features that the others lack The winning feature is that there is no electrical | therefore the device may be inspected by enginenen who are familiar with
 air brake apparatus and valves. The ground apparatus is so similar to ex-
 isting signal systems that a compe- tent Signalman would find no diff cu1ty in maintaining it. Should any
 moving part, either on the ground or on the locomotive, become damaged or
 briken in would give a stop indication to the train.
 Both systems can be installed so ! that they will not interfere with the third rail Or overhead wires rail
 roads that are operated by either
 method. They will not interfere with
 the present equipment or existing physical conditions of the right of way. Snow, ice and freezing weather will have no effect on them. The
 brake application vii be so gradual that there will be no tendency to in
 jure passengers or damage equipm ent in case brakes should be applied. They
 may both be installed regardless of whether they be connected with sig
 nal system Or not. This would apply in case a, railroad desired a train to slow down at certain places. such as
 sharp turns or at points where slow
 speed is required. They may also be installed and connected with any
 known signal system and will compel the engineman to slow down to the proper speed where it is desired to pass a train over 9, crossoSer in the
 direction of traffic from one running track to another.
 While there are a great many other devices that are similar in their re- suits, the two selected appear to have the greatest merit The fact that the
 New Haven road is about to expert- ment with these devices, which are being handled by the Union Switch and Signal Company of New York
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28

nings, member of the National Demo cratic Committee from this State The vote was all in favor of Noone whereas at the last meeting it was to 1 in favor of Noone
 As far the meeting of those pres ent was concerned it was unanimous, and the vote for Noone for judge was formally ratified by the caucus to be presented to President Wilson.
 In connection with the announce ment that ex-Senator Spellacy of Hartford, one of the original candi- dates for the judgeship, might be named for a referee bankruptcy, if Noone is made judge, in appreciation of relinquishing his candidacy in favor of Noone, it was interesting to note that he was one of those in the lobby waitin5 for the deliberations of the caucus, which lasted about an hour. At times he was seen in interested conversation with ex-Senator Charles B. Mitchell, of this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28

zation of their plans two years from now, when the question can again be put before the voters. Many of the commission boomers are also looking forward to the consolidation of Union Hill and all the other municipalities in the northern part of Hudson coun- ty including West Hoboken, North Bergen, West New York, Guttenburg, Weehawken and Sacausus, as one city If consolidation comes Hudson county will have it's fourth city, and the com mission plan boomers say with con solidation will surely come govern ment by commissioners.
 In Jersey City only one big mass meeting will take place during the campaign preceding the special cleo ton. It will be held in Jersey City High School, with Joseph A. Dear, president of theu Commission League, the chairman. The speakers will be Acting Governor James F. Fielder, Mayor H. Otto Wittpenn and County Judge Robert Carey.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
AUTOMATIC STOPPING DEVICES

Since the announcement by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail road Company of it's intention to try out two of the many automatic stop ping devices submitted in the compe- tition for the $10,000 prize offered by President MelIen, there have been many inquiries for the names Of the inventors of the two devices that will be given a trial. There has been also considerab b1e interest manifested in the mechanical principles involved in these devices. The company has therefore decided to furnish additional informa- tion regarding the devices to be tested and is moved also to do this by a, de- sire to prevent interruptions inven- tors from selling stock in their com panies under false pretences.
 The two devices to be tried out do not comply with all the requirements called for by the company's engin- eers, but both possess considerable m crit. They are similar in so far that they are both intermittent contact de- vices and the most promising feature of each is that the apparatus is test ed each time the train passes over it.
 The speed control feature of one of these devices is particularly promis- ing, as it is possible to vary the speed control according to physical condi- tions and speed desired, so that at one point if the engineman should exceed a. speed of twenty-five miles an hour while passing stop or slow down signal, the train would be stopped;
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
CONG. KENNEDY
 NOT AT MEETING

New Haven, March 28-When the Congressional delegates met yesterday afternoon in the Hotel Taft in the caucus adjourned from last week in the hope, it was understood, of Inak- ing unanimous the choice of Thomas F. Nloone for judge of the United States district court to succeed the late Judge Platt. it was found that Congressman William Kennedy of Naugatuck, whose vote was alone nec- essary for unanimity, had absented himself, and had gone, it is under stood, to Washington, with William E. Thoms. Kennedy stood out against
 all the others for the selection of Thon1s for the judgeship. His failure to appear yesterday at the call Of the chairman, Homer s. Cummings is in terpreted to mean that he will fight to tbs finish for his candidate. That he remained away, when he knew the postponed caucus would be held this week, and went to Washington, was construed as meaning possibly a de- sire to present his candidate to the President before the ca ucus ratifica- tion reaches him. Those present were Congressman Reilly, Donovan, Mahan and Lonergan, George E. Forster, chairman of the Democratic State Cen tn-l c>>,a4raaittAa- and Homer s. Cum
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
CLERGYMAN WILL
 TEACH TWO STEP

MiddIetown, Conn.,, March 2S-Loca1 dancing instructors who have been accustomed to teach the tango the turkey trot' and others of the lat est dances are hereafter to have a competitor in the person of the Rev. George B. Gilbert of this city, who today announced that he would open a Saturday night class for the young perons-
 MT Gilbert has been taking lessons in the terpsichorean art and will teach the members of the class Only fntructions in the old fashioned waltz and two step, together with some of the old time square dances, will be given by the minister.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
ECZEMA BROKE
 OUT IN PMPI-ES
oaArms, then Back andEegs. hched Very Much. Cared by Cuficara Soap and Ointment. Son in Ter ribIe Shape with Eczema Nov Face aud Body Good as Eyer.

42 Sidney St.. CanbcksEe, MasS-"Last Sec&eubr began to fed t1Cx&nG wuxaRd scrasch myself and could no&4s4eeD half the nigfzs- Tho ecssuza +bruaze ousfn r1Ez71hes. He hEtcame on my azuzssz1d then uy-faeRr and my logs My body and legs were 8 sag1zt- Water came from S1e p6zupaes- It tertEed Very naMch Inoee at ufgne than in the day ttmeaund would aczascFee eeiaernSo-Souoefaues I ypgzEd maAre ,t1aen bleed, trying to Eze& re- neE- I-gn6 64NE0tooeEaeS-Of uaeSHCAnes and aiaao s0me-oiutxle<lt lE4EAc1l- did uenoRnod Afeer ussd CAzt1czEa Soap and Oiu4znen4I got Ea11eR 1R1a6 very night and could s1eep- Fe<zook zflnUt szxsor seven weeks 6ozcHse me
 My son aged ten years was in terrible shape with eczsma- He-had it all over his body and also on sface. He waseo bad two weeks His scraAc4zing tzsshgured his fsoe- There vere-Racge soEesf sfroznl1 his scrascfl- ng Genightoo his body and on hasface- My wife used the -CSzticura Soap and Ointment Earee Amnes-a day The soreOn hsface was kb9 wors$- one. Tho scAb came of and left 3 rcd sEsct as large as a. quarter of a dollar fn seven or eSght days 6he red spot faded away and his face and body are as good as evez, noS a scar. no d1sAgnreznea6 wnaeso- svE-" Gstgned) saeo- E. Rogers, aep4- 2z. I912.
 soc arc sold everywhere L1Roeraf sample of each n1adEed free with 32-p. Skin Book Ad- dress postcard 'CuticIra, Dept I, Boston '
 A~Men who shave and shampoo with C1L- eAe1r@ Saap wHHhnd t5bess for skin and scalp.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28

City, is not intended to convey the impression that either one of them will be the final choice of the com pany, as it may be found advisable to test a number of other devices that may seem to contain sufficient merit to warrant the experiment. The con test is open until July 1, and there may be submitted before that time de- vices of much moro merit than those already presented.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
ANOTHER INVASION
 OF SUFFRAGISTS AT
 WHITE HOUSE MONDAY

Washington, March 28-President Wilson, for the second time in his short tenure of office, Monday, will face an intrepid committee of suffra giste who will invade the White House with the demand for the bal lot.
 Arrangement were made, today, for the reception of the women by Sen ator Chamberlain, of Oregon. The leaders of the party will include Mrs. Duboise, wife of the former Sena- tor from Idaho, and Mrs. Morrel1 and Mrs. Baker, wives of Representatives.
 Patron (who has ordered eggs)- Why this delay?
 Waitress-We are waiting for the parcel post. Sir.-Puck-
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
The First Gasoline Engine

Philadelphia Public Ledger: The
first attempt to apply gasoline as a
motive power was made by French
man, Pierre Joseph Ravel, who pat
ented As years ago "a steam gener-
ator heated by mineral oils, to be an
piled to steam locomotives on ordi-
nary roads" RavePs engine was fit
ted to small carriage and developed
three horsepower. The Franco-Ger-
man war put an end to RavePs expert
ment for time, but years later he
built a motor car in which petroleum
was used for the direct generation of
motive power.
In 1876 Lentz invented burner by
which a mixture of gasoline and other
naphthas, called massout, was used as
fuel on steamships. About the same
time gasoline was used as an illumin-
ant in street lamps, and later new
use was found for it in the manufact-
ure of varnish and oilcloth. Gasoline
amounting to per cent of the distilled
product of the crude petroleum, con-
tinued to be a drug on the market
until the invention of the gasoline
motor and it's application to the auto
mobile, boats, aeroplanes and hundreds
of industrial uses.
Several inventors helped to inaugua-
ate the "age of gasoline" but the
chief of them was George B. Selder
of Rochester, N Y, the father of the
automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Judge Myers Takes Hand,
Requiring Receiver To
Consent to Needed Work

ture of this money, but the expendi-
ture was ordered in spite of the op-
position.
This work is to be done in accord
ance with the plans already given ex-
clusively in the Press. 1t is to re-
ceive the endorsement of the en-
gineers of the receiver and the de-
positario, the work is then to be done
under the direction of the depositario
and is to be paid for by the receiver
from the accumulated funds.
1t is expected that work will be be-
gun early in the new year, that the
supply Of water during the next per-
iod of heavy irrigation will be ample
to meet all requirements of all sec
tions of the valley.
1t is believed this disposes of the
contention between the receiver anG
the depositario, at least so long as
Judge Myers presides over the court
and holds the reins.
Meanwhile the program is being
worked out for securing the irrigation
system north of the internati ,nal line
by the irrigation district, and it is be-
lieved that will be consumm tied be-
fore the expiration of Judge Myers
term.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
ROMANCE IN REALITY
OPENS CHRISTMAS SEASON
(By United Press Associations

Los Angeles, Dec. 24-Whisked
from behind the bars of the county
jail, through the office of marrying
justice to the most luxurious bridal
suit at the Alexandria Hotel. where
she found herself the bride of Viscount
Denman c. Campbell, of England, was
the experience today of Nettie Put
nam, pretty divorcee.
Campbell claims to be scion of
Lord Give, of Stratford- -On-Avon, a
descendant of Lord Give of Indian
fame He fell in love with the girl,
who was divorced in the east, follow
ed her to Los Angeles, where she gave
checks that later were questioned. She
was apprehended in San Francisco
and brought here, the Englishman
trailing her.
When the girl was jailed he cabled
for funds and appeared today with a
roll of bills as thick as his neck, peeled
off a thousand dollar note from the
top for the girls bail, married her
and then went to the Alexandria to
await trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Relics of Ancient Days

Louisville Courier-JOurnal: The
state fish and game commission has
ordered warden to go to Trigg coun-
ty for the purpose of destroying some
old-time fish traps in Little river.
The traps are said to have been in ex-
istence for nearly half a century.
Last year the warden destroyed one
of the contrivances near Cabiz. 1t
had been built so substantially that
the warden was compelled to resort
to dynamite to dislodge it. The fish
traps are built at low water seasons
and they are constructed of logs and
poles. The fish are caught at per-
iods of high water and the trap is so
complete that once inside they can.
not get out. When the high tide sub
sides they are to be had for the catch
ing and can be easily taken out with
a dip net or by other means.
The fish and game commission is de-
stroying these old traps wherever they
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
HOnOred for Peace Efforts
(By United Press Associations)

Rome, Dec. 24.-Pope Plus has just
called to Rome and conferred unusual
decorations and honors upon Signora
Angela de Oliveria Ceasre de Costa,
Signora de Oliveria is president OF
the South American Association for
Universal Peace and was called to
Rome from the Hague, where she had
just unveiled statue to peace which
she had presented as one of the orna-
ments to Andrew Carnegie's peace
palace.
Pope Plus, as did also his immedi-
ate predecessors, claims that as the
vicar on earth of the Prince Of Peace
he should be the legitimate head OF
the movement for universal peace. His
self imposed Imprisonment in the Vat
lean, however, prevents his exercise
of this duty, but he has never missed
the opportunity of granting unusual
recognition to those of the church whi
carry on the peace propaganda in his
stead.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

are found. 1t is not probable that
any new ones will be built, for most
of those that are being destroyed We're
constructed so or rs years ago, in
most instances as sort of neighbor-
hood enterprise. Those who engage in
fish slaughter nowadays employ meth
DDS which involve less time and labor.
A fish trap of the Little river variety
is permanent affair, not easily built
or concealed, and the modern fisher
man of predatory and destructive ten
denotes find seines and dynamite more
suitable to his purpose.
The advantage of the fish traps,
from The standpoint of those who built
them, was that they not only trapped
the fish, but held them in hopeless
bondage until such times as they were
transferred to the frying pan. The
disadvantages were that they made
poor fishing for the men who enjoyed
a days sport with the old-fashioned
hook and line. Also in times of low
water thousands of imprisoned fish
sometimes died in the traps, thus pol
luting the stream and the surround
ing atmosphere.
! The old fish traps will soon be a
thing of the past, but the predatory
fisherman with his nets and dynamite
and his utter disregard for law and
morals, is still more potent force
for fish destruction and will continue
to tax the energies and the vigilance
of the wardens.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Out After Seventeen Years

~
Moundsville, w. Va, Dec. 24.-Since
Wilbur Slaughter was Is years old
he has not eaten Christmas dinner
with his mother, a gray haired bent
little lady who lives in an obscure
town in Ohio. Slaughter is now 35.
He has spent seventeen years in the
penitentiary here. In 1895 he was
sentenced to imprisonment for life
for killing a fellow miner in one of
the West Virginia coal mines, where
he worked.
Slaughter's Christmas present was
a complete pardon by Governor Hat
field, according to his annual custom
of pardoning on Christmas eve the
most deserving prisoner, who has
served the longest number of years
behind the bars.
Slaughter's pardon came to him
shortly after noon today, and he left
Immediately for Ohio to eat Christmas
dinner. with his mother. Slaughter
since the day he entered Moundsville
penitentiary has been a model prison.
er. He has spent his spare time stud
wing and besides educating himself
above the average has learned trade
which he will follow. He plans to look
up the family of the man he was
accused of killing, and if they are in
want aid them.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24

Imperial Valley owes a debt Of
gratitude to Judge Myers Of the Los
Angeles superior court department
in which the receivership of the Cali
fornia Development Company rests,
for having brushed aside petty OBJ
stacles interposed and required Re-
ceiver Holabird to consent to the
cleaning of the canals below the line
and the reconstruction of the Encina
flume.
Judge Myers was in the valley over
last Sunday and personally inspected
the sites of the proposed work, the
work having been approved by Ches-
ter Allison, engineer for Receiver
Holabird, and c. N. Perry, receiver
for Depositario Andrade of the Mex
lean Company.
AS a result of the influence of Judge
Myers, Receiver Holabird asked per.
mission to spend approximately $780,
600 on the work across the line from
the money paid for water rents by
the several companies and which has
been accumulated by the receiver.
Claimants against the California
Development Company were given an
opportunity to oppose the eXpendi-
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Tackle Servant Problem
(By United Press Associations)


Washington, Dec. 24.-The House
keepers Alliance of Washington to-
day announced what will be said by
many to be the most important dis
covery since Isaac Newton solved the
problem of the law of gravity. The
alliance claims to have solved the
vexatious servant problem. The solu-
tion, according to the alliance, is a
sort of "both ends against the middle"
proposition. The solution is a school
for servants, so conducted that women
government clerks who cannot afford
to pay large rents will be able to
board at the School for a moderate
sum. 1t is planned thus to make the
servants school self supporting, for
while the prospective servants are
learning their profession" the rents
collected from the boarders will cover
all expenses Of teaching and mate
rials.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
CHRISTMAS FEEL IN THE AIR

They's kind O. feel in the air to me
When the Christmas time sets in
That's about as much of mystery
AS ever I've run ag'in.
Fer nstunce, now, whilse gain in weight
And gineral health, I swear
They's goneness scmers | can't quite state
A kind O. feel in the air.
They's feel in the Christmas air goes right
To the spot where man lives at!
1t gives feler appetite
They amt no doubt about that!
And yit they's somepinI don't know what
That follers me here and there
And hants and worries and spares me not
A kind O. feel in the air.
Theys feel, as say, in the air that's jest
AS blamed-On sad as sweet.
In the same ra-sho as feel the best
And am the spryest on my feet
Theys allus kind O. sort of ache
That can't locate nowhere
But it comes with Christmas, and no mistake
A kind O. feel in the air.
Is it the racket the children raise?
Why no!-God bless 'em. no!
Is it the eyes and the cheeks ablaze,
Like my own wuz long ago?
Is it the bleat O. the whistle and beat
O. the little toy drum and blare
O. the horn? No, no! 1t is jest the sweet
The sad-sweet feel in the air.
james Whitcomb Riley.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Use of European Discoveries

Without knowing anything of the
details and technique of the subject,
the average American is fairly well
aware of the fact that the electrical
industry in the United States is in a
very healthy condition; and that, if the
standard of comparison is the stand
ard of actual achievement, the Ameri
can electrical man can make very
satisfactory showing when compared
with the representative of any other
nation. .ince that point is very defi-
nitely established, there need be no
heart-burning in the knowledge that
this achievement has been made in
spite of the fact that, in point of scien-
tific discovery and commercial inven-
tion, most of the pioneer progress in
the development of the electrical in
dustry has been made by the scientists
and engineers of other countries, and
notably those of Britain, France and
Germany. Unfortunately, there are
many instances to be cited in which,
in the countries named, discovery has
been the end instead of the beginning
of the matter; and there has frequent
ly been lacking the enterprise to turn
discovery and invention to practical
account in the service of the COM
munity and the upbuilding of the ma
TONS industries. In the main this
somewhat general statement will be
found to hold true; while, in consid-
Grafton Of American progress, one of
the most conspicuous facts to be noted
is that the engineer has always been
eager to profit by the latest advance
of the scientist, wherever made and
recorded, the capitalist has always
been ready to support the engineer
and the investor has at least been
willing to entrust his savings to the
banker for investment in electrical
enterprises. There is nowadays no
such thing as pure engineering. En-
gineering is inseparable from econo-
mics. An engineer is man who can
do for so cents what any fool can do
for dollar; and it is the possession
of the commercial instinct which has
enabled the American electrical man
to get ahead of his foreign rivals. He
has done conspicuously less than the
English, French and German engineer
in the domain of pure research, dis
covery and design; he has done con-
spicuously more in the application Of
invention and theory to the worka-
day problems of commercial engineer
ing.-Douglas S. Martin, in Engineer
ing Magazine.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-24
Stringent Law Upheld
(By United Press Associations.

jefferson, Mo-, Dec. 24-The state
supreme court today upheld the con-
tention of the attorney general as to
twenty-five Of twenty-nine lumber
companies prosecuted under the Sher-
man antitrust law, with imposed fines
aggregating $246,000, and which GUST
ed twenty domestic corporations and
revoked five licenses of foreign COM
panies doing business in Missouri
with judgments Of forfeiture ordered
in the cases of twenty companies and
ousting from all corporate rights, priv.
ileges and franchises, and in addition
imposed fines for violation of law
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000, which
must be paid within thirty days.