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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
SOUTH OF MAKkhl 10 YEARS AGO

OF the railway virtually noisoiess, n boon
to the residents OF the vicinity reached
by the "a"
This branch OF tho road, which Is to
extend from the terminal OF the Broad
street, subway, consists Of succession
of elliptcal arches Of steel ribs. carrying
solid concrete floor, the panels Of which
appear as spandrel arches. An appro-
PIRATE design for stations has also been
worked out whereby the spncc under one
span is utilized for mczzanine floor
which will accommodate the ticket office.
This will only require the platforms and
waiting rooms along the tracks. BY this
arrangement economy win be effected
both In structure and space.
The elevated railway is designed to
pass along the south strip OF parking
area, which is Sc feet wide, the Boule-
ward being 300 feet wide. A macadam or
granolithc walk Is designed to be con-
btructed underneath It, affordlng a pleas
ant promenade. with shelter from sun or
rain. The structure will be so light and
open as not to seriously obstruct the view
across the Boulevard
SAVING TIME IN STATION STOPS.
The schedule speed of a rapid transit
line is largely influenced by the number
and length OF the station stops, hence II
Is highly important that the cars shall
be so designed as TO load and unload
passengers with minimum delay during
the period of maximum traffic, which Is
crucial In determining the capacity of the
line.
Modern cars for rapid transit lines have
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
Transit Program IN Brief

The transit program provides 10 10, In n
Conjunction with tho surface .s, syr't sor ~.
when will serve as the aeent s,sn. 80
gathering and distributing .s Win.
gers using the hish-speeu i'''
out extra charge. .td tran
s,t Viii be extended as equally
msrscs,cabie m to every front door ih
Passengers will be enabled to traye. N,..
IN a forward direction between eseIy
important section OF the city ~ NY.
every other important section ol ~.
~, orickiv. conveniently and COM
fortabIy by way Of the combined sur
foce and high-speed lines. regardless
~ the number Of transfers required
In so doing. for one 5-cent fare.
Elght-oont exchange tickets are 10
be abolished.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
UTILITY AND GRACE
COMBINED IN PLANS
FOR NORTHEAST u
Boulevard Will Not Be
Maned by r ailwa a y j.,
Which Will Be Virtually
Noiseless in Its Operation.

The elevated railway. designed to run
or part Of the Northeast Boulevard COM
blnes both beauty and utility in design.
as shown by the accompanying skctch
Built on graceful lines, tho structure will
ut harmoniously into the surrounding
landscape in manner which will not
mar the attractlveness OF the avenue.
The design decided upon is the result
OF an exhaustive study Of elevated rail-
ways, both in this country and Europe
by the city transit engineers. They have.
IN addition to providing for the orna-
mental features OF the structure plan
ned an Improvement In road bed con-
struction which will render the operation
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
STUDYING TAYLOR PLAN

Cincinnati Man Here to Investigate
Transit Program.
A study of the rapid transit system Of
this city and also Of the plans OF Director
Taylor will be made by Alfred Bettman,
one OF tho leading corporation lawyers of
the Middle West, who came here to attend
the conference of Mayors.
Mr.. Bettmen is deslrous OF obtaining
suggestions for the proposed rapid transit
system to he installed In Cincinnati. He
said that 3l0,0OO,ooO would be spent on the
system Speaking OF the plans recon.
mended for this clty's high-specd lines,
Mr.. Bettman said they were the finest
that he had ever seen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

reached a length OF about so feet and
are provided with at least three doors In
each side. of such size and so located
as to minimize the time needed to load
and unload passengers.
These doors should be operated by COM
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14

automatic air-brake system. The esti-
mated weight Of the car without passein-
gers is 10 tons. Care Of this type can %
buiit so as to operate with entire sue
cess in subways having a clear head TOO"
of 70 feet between top of rail and roof
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Butterfly Decoration.

Many artists have employed the put
teriy in decoration but neither brush
nor crayon is as effective as nature
itself. No inJimation, however good,
can do justice to the gorgeous colors
of the tropical butterfly. One might
as well try 10 reproduce a rainbow IN
oils. most effective novelty-a but
terhy tray-was shown me recently
by a charming North side hostess. II
was made on the same principle as
the tapestry tray. A glittering butter
fly, the spread OF whose wings must
have been all of ten inches, was
mounted on a stalk of milkweed. The
pressed butterfly was then covered
with glass and Theoretically sealed in
To say that the tray was stunning Is
to speak very feebly of its attractive
ness. With this object dart as cen
terpiece a clever hostess could easily
arrange a butterfly luncheon. CHI
cago Inter Ocean.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
BLOTCHES COVERED LIMBS

10 Roach ST., Atlanta, GA lew
months ago l had some kind OF skin
eruption that spread until my limbs
and feet were covered with blotches
and watery blisters. 1t looked like
eczema. When the trouble reached
my neck and face l was almost driven
frantic. 1t itched and stung 30 In
tensely that | could not sleep or wear
any clothing on the affected parts. Att
er two months / commenced to use
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and after
two days | noticed Improvement and
In six days the trouble left. My skin
was fair and smooth again and the
eruption never returned.
MY cousin was sufferer from pim-
pies, known as acne. on his face and
seemed to grow worse all the time.
recommended Cuticura Soap and
Ointment to him and now his face
is smooth for the first time In three
years and he owes it all to Cuticura
Soap and Ointment" (Signed) Wal
ter Battle, Oct. Z. 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment solo
throughout the world. Sample OF eacf
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura. Dept. l., Boston ADV
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
JUST SAVED THE SITUATION
British Royalty's Narrow Escape From
What Might Be Called Simply
Awful" Position.

When truth gets fair inning she
rarely fails to be much funnier than
fiction. Strange to say, old England,
where truth is supposed 10 be always
dismally sober, now and then makes
quite a merry record. A rector of the
Church of England, in remote par
ish in Wiltshire recently discovered
among his parishioners a fine old flg-
ure of a woman, age one hundred and
four. the widow of an innkeeper. This
ancient dame has eight sons living,
six of whom have served in either the
army or the navy. The rector wrote
informing King George of these things,
and the king ordered a warm Congrat-
ulatory telegram to be sent to her.
Just as the telegram was sent of,
the rector. having received additional
testimony concerning the old I'm,
wrote a2ain. explaining that she had
been twice divorced. and had not gone
through the marriage ceremony at all
with tine man of her latest household
Another wire was promptly set al
work at the kings command, ordering
the postmaster at the other end &c
stop delivery of the royal congratu
lations. and that functionary haC
barely time to grab the coattails OF th'
messenger with the bicycle as he wa
/ about to make delivery.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23

the time for the final issue OF their
patents. This cleaning up or ousl-
ness which has been delayed through
no fault of the men in the patent or
f3ce, but because Of the applicants
themselves, has resulted in greatly in
creased receipts by the office. In the
belief of Commissioner Ewing II may
become possible, with proper admins
tration. to limit the time during which
an application for patent may be kept
pending in the office to less than nye
years, and perhaps TO less than three
years. The commissioner of patents
hopes that the announcement that the
patent office officers dislike the dlla-
tory tactics of the applicants in de-
laying the issue OF patents VIII be
sufficient to insure the speeding up
Of the work and the cutting down OF
the list of delayed applications. If
the announcement is not sufficient the
commissioner viii consider the pro
prictv and wisdom Of having old appli-
cations published, thing which has
not been done in the past. There is
no law against this. although the rules
and custom Of the office have been TO
preserve applications in secrecy. II
these means. which the Office has
: adopted to encourage lawyers TO trans
act their business promptly, are not
effective it is likely that Commission
er Ewing Will recommend corrective
legislation at the next regular sea
sion
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Bankruptcy Decision.

The supreme court Of New Jersey
holds in Bolton VS.. Bolton that when
a wife goes into bankruptcy the trus-
tee in bankruptcy is entitled to take
possession of arrears of alimony due
her for the benefit of the creditors.
The court said:
when it is considered that during
the period of non-payment the wife
has in all probability been contract
ing debts for her support on the faith
of recovering these payments. and that
alimony is awarded for the express
purpose of her support by paying in
cash as she goes along, and when 1t
is considered further that by her dis
charge in bankruptcy these debts are
wiped out, it seems manifestly unjust
that the creditors should have no re-
course to the very fund that the di-
vorce court provided to pay them"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
REPORT ON PATENTS
Official Document Shows lnven-
tors Increased Activities.
Uncle Sans Patent Office Is Prac'
tIcally the Only Branch OF the
Government Which Is Entire
w SeIf-Sustaining.

washington .-Nineteen fourteen Will
no banner year in the history OF
American invention if the business oil
the United States patent Office CON
tinues at its present rate OF increase
In a special report prepared for Pat
eDt Commissioner Thomas Ewing tbs
other dav much interesting informa-
ton is made public. As is generally
known. the United States patent Of
fee is practically the only branch OF
the government which is entirely SELF
sustaining. its income received from
patent and trade mark fees and sales
of printed copies of patents amount
ing each year to more than the total
expenditures for running the Office.
The report made t. Commissioner
Ewing showed that on the second
Thursday of April the Office had total
receipts of more than $4,000, the
largest for any single day since the
government began to grant patents
in 1896. There have been days, OF
Mondays OF on the day loi
lowing a holiday, when two days re
ceipts were counted as one-When
this amount has been exceeded. Du'
business for Thursday, April
reached the high Secord for a single
days receipts. The report shows thai
the patent office receipts for the frs
three months of this year were nearly
$685. 900. against less than S537.OO'
for last wear. March business was
the largest OF any of the three months
/ and the increase promises TO continue
through the year. II this proves t
be the case the total amount of casl
receipts for the year would be far il
excess of the record business for 1917
when the total income was S2,llS,OO(
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES.

There are 219,910 employees in post
offices of the United States. according
TO figures just compiled by the post
office department. The compilation
of these figures is In line with the
general inventory and stock-taking OF
the department ordered by Postmas-
ter General Burleson some time ago.
These figures do not include depart
ment employees or those in the service
at large.
There are in all 5S,O21 postmasters
Asa frst-class, 1886 second-class
36 .O53 third-class and 49,59S fourth
class.
There are 116.415 clerks and as
sistant postmasters, including 35.54t
clerks in first and second-class offices
1852 assistant postmasters, 4,107
clerks in contract stations, 10,s0(
clerks in third-class Offices and 81.
600 clerks in fourth-class Offices. Ii
addition there are 1854 watchmen
messengers and laborers, and 45.f'
city letter carriers.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
ANrEpATEs THE GOVERNMENT,

II is 1873 years since Benjamin
Franklin became the first postmaster
general in America as representative
of the colonists, and the postal serv-
ice of the United States antedates the
government by just one year. The
first declaration of independence ever
made by the colonists was In the
establishment of a postal service OF
their own to evade the Crown post
masters. who spied upon the mails.
This service aided in bringing the col
onists together and raising the voice
OF public opinion. Though Benjamin
Franklin was postmaster general at
81 900 a year. Maryland editor named
Goddard, who printed the Maryland
Journal-Post, established private
service a year before the colonists
took charge.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
SOURCE OF FOREST FIRES.

Exhaustive inquiry has established
the fact that lightnin" ranks next TO
railroads as a source Of forest fires.
Forest officers say that the increasing
care with fire in the part Of the rail-
roads and the public generally tends
to make lightning the largest single
contributing cause.
This statement represents a change
of view from that held less than a dec
ade ago in this country, when forest
journals gravely argued whether light
ming caused forest fires. though II was
known that trees were the objects
most often struck Trees are said TO
/ be oftenest struck simply because they
are so numerous, and extending up
ward they shorten the distance be-
tween the ground and the clouds; fur
Their, their branches in the air and
! roots well into the earth invite cleo
! trical discharges
While certain trees are said TO in
vite lightning. and others to be i'm
mune from stroke, it seems to be
fact that any kind of tree will be
struck. and the most numerous tree
species in any locality is the one most
likely to suffer.
Other things being equal, lightning
seeks the tallest tree, or an isolated
tree. or one on high ground. A deep
rooted tree is a better conductor than
shallow rooted one. and a tr"a full
of sap, or wet with rain. is of course a
better conductor than dry one.
Lightning sets fires by ignitfng the
tree itself particularly when 1t is
dead. or partly decayed and punky. or
by igniting the dry humus or duff az
it's base. The forest soil. when dried
out, ignites readily, because it Is made
of partly decayed twigs and leaves
and it can hold a smoldering fire for
a considerable period. 1t is probable
that most of the lightning-set fires
start in the duff.
In the mountains Of southern Call
fornia. Arizona. and New Mexico ther'
are likely to be each year a number o
electrical disturbances known as "dr.
thunder storms" They come at tn
end of the long dry season. and bein'
unaccompanied by rain are very like
" to start many serious fires. Flo
K this reason the forest service has Z
q keep I'D it's maximum fire hghtin
S. strength in those regions until tn
q rains are fully established. In tn
Ie plans and organization for fire figh
,r ing the service aims particularly t
O. catch these uppreventable lightning
t. set fires at the time they start.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Exact Copy Of Wrapper
ixcN Ork SSrsiSs.

Not long ago." relates ex-Speaker
Canon. "a young couple came in from
the suburbs to New York city to see
the Hippodrome. They arrived very
early and decided to have a lunch.
They visited a tearoom and had the
place all to themselves.
In serving them the waitress omit
ted to supply a teaspoon and the fair
young BRIDE whispered the fact to her
husband.
"Summoning the waitress. the young
man asked:
May we have a SPOON
why, certainly replied the girl
I am Just tidying up, and you car
have the whole room to yourselves II
a minute or two "-Lippincotts.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Army's Fight on Typhoid.

The efficacy of the treatment OF ty-
phoid by vaccination is established by
the remarkable statistics for the
United States army during last year.
when only two cases of typhoid fever
among the enlisted force Of sO'OOO
we're recorded. OF the two cases, one
was that of a man who had not been
treated with the vaccine; the other
was among the troops in China. This
man had been immunized in 1911, but
the history of the case is in doubt.
Before the vaccine treatment was
adopted the typhoid average was 3 to
1000; in 1910. before incubation was
practised, the rate was 1923 1,OOo;
in 1911 it dropped to O.SO, and in 1917
to O.26.-Engineering Record.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
DONKEY IN LONESOME MOOD
Somewhat Peculiar Appeal Made BY
Small Maid, Touched by Sadness
of Her Dumb" Pet.

This summer Mr.. Cakes. an eminent
lawyer, sent his wife and young daugh-
ter 10 d farmhouse in the Nhlte
mountains for vacation ShoFLy
after, he received an urgent request
from the little girl TO send her pet
donkey TO use while there. She mad
read about donkeys and heard about
them, but was not at all familiar WIN
their peculiar yocalism.
The donkey arrived and the child
had many rides around the vicinity.
She enjoyed it all hugely except the
animals strange noises, which inspir d
her with the profouudest pity Tor his
evident distress.
one day. after vainly trying TO sub
due his voca.ism, she wrote "a letter
10 her father. in which she said.
Dear Father. l DO wish you would
come up here soon; my douhed IS 81
very lonesome. National MOnth.y-
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
so sst!fE sSis
EHicaclous, But

Ex-Speaker Alfred Z. Smith, who
defeated the Goethals police bill at
Albany, n. Y, said at a dinner:
There are better ways to improve
the force than this Goethals bill
They're not such snowy, not such at
tractive ways, but they're better.
And the mayor, turning from them
with repugnance. is like the girl who
said:
How can l learn to stand and sit
in the new round-shouldered, bent
over, slouching attitude, MAJ"
THE girls mother stopped her
work. and. leaning on her broom. re-
piled:
"a good way. perhaps, would be tc
tire yourself a bit each morning by
helping with the sweeping and dust
ing and dish-washing.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Couldn't Blame the Pump.

A lumberman having awakened on
a Sunday morning in a dry town, y
after a big spree Of the night before.
searched his pockets in vain. Being
very thirsty, he remembered STUN
bling over a pump in the alley back
OF the hotel.
He fastened to the pump and be
gan pumping, but without results. as
the pump had not been primed. He
slowly backed away and, cycling the
pump, said: We'll. l don't blame you
for not working, anyhow. l wouldn't
patronize you when l had money"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23

There Is an interesting story back
Of the figures which show Uncle sam
Increased activities in issuing patents.
When Commissioner Thomas Ewing
came into office about year ago ne
felt that long-delayed applications for
patents and the operation OF time
consuming system of amending pat
ents were the principal abuses of the
American patent system. Many old
cases had been delayed by the appli-
cants for the patents for a long time,
in some cases as long as fifteen years.
One reason for delaying applica-
lions is that on a certain class OF
patents inventors believe there will
be a greater demand for the article
In future years than there is at the
present time. For this reason every
thing possible Is done to protect their
idea after the application has been
once filed and to delay the date of
final issue of the patent as long as
possible. The law allows one year in
which to make answer to various let
tiers. Commissioner Ewing found that
there was a scientific system of de
laying applications by certain patent
attorneys using the limit of time al
lowed to make answer to letters writ
ten about the patents for which they
had applied.
The number of applications for pat
ents delayed more than five years IL
less than 5000. AS there are 125, 0O(
applications in the patent Office, 1t cal
be seen that about four per cent o
the applications have been slowing VI
the work of the Office. The fact tina
90 per cent Of the applications wen
through the Office in less than fiv'
years and that the average applica
ton went through In less than tw'
years convinced Commissioner Ewin
that most Of the delays were due Z
time-consuming tactics Of the appl
cants. OF the 81 applications whic
he found In the office January l whic
were older than Is years, he has a
ready reduced the number by Is. @
nearly 20 per cent
Commissioner Ewing has not bee
slow to let those patent attorney
know that he does not like this dill
tory and time-consuming system {
delaying applications for patents. HI
expression Of disapproval has had tn
effect Of speeding up dilatory app
cants who have tried to hold BAG
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Pleasant for Preacher.

A mother sent her little daughter
down to open the door and entertain
the minister, Mr.. Black, while she fin-
ished dressing. When she appeared
the little kitten ran in ahead of her,
and the tiny maiden jumped up and
down and screamed at the top Of her
voice: "Oh, kitty. kitty, go out, quick.
The mother was Mortified. and said
Daughter, what makes you act So?
We'll, mother. dad said last night
that Mr.. Blacks sermons were enough
to make a cat SICK and l don't want
mine sick"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Forever Parted.

George, who lives in London, hap
pened to meet the vicar Of his native
parish the other day, and eagerly
asked for some Of his old acquaint-
ances.
And old Mr.. Jones?" he asked
Have you seen him lately?"
The vicar shook his head. Il shah
never see him again." he answered,
slowly. "Mr. Jones has gone to
heaven"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Glorlfy God.

A skilful engraver makes you
statue inherently Of wood or store
or marble, as they are put into his
hand: and grace forms a man to
Christian way of walking in any es-
tate. There il q way for him In the
meanest condition to glorify God ane
to adorn the profession of religion
Leighton.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
New Modern Dancing

The leading Rupert and Instructor in New fors
CIV writes: .Dear Sir:-I have used ALLEN
Foor-RAsE the antiseptic powder 70 be shaken Int
the shoes for the past ten years. IL blessing
all who are compelled to be on their feet dance
eight or ten hours daily, and find that ALLEN
FOoT-HAsg keeps my feet cool, takes the friction
from the shoe prevents corns and sore Aching Feet
1 recommend IL to all my pupils
(Signed) K. FLETCHER HALLAMORB
Sample FREE Address Allen s. lmsted, lie Roy N.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-05-23
Easv PAYMENTS.

Please, sir" said the maid to the
head of the house, there's a gentle
man here to see you on business
Tell him to take chair"
"Oh, he's already taken them all,
and now he's after the table. He's
from the installment house. New
York Herald.