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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22
\ Page Devoted to the Automobile industry
BARNEY OL.DFIELD
MAKING RECORDS

indianapolis, March la.-For Il man,
supposedly has-bcen and wuoldbc-
come back champion Barney Oldhcld.
The dean Of them all. is showing sur
prisins signs OF life. To date he Is
talked Of IN connection qvith no loss
than three teams for the next Indian
apolis 50o-mii. race. the Last being
StutH. who, II is said. wants 70 put In
"A third chr featuring oldhcla. Cooper
and Anderson IA drivers. The other
bidders for hts services arc Maxwell
nad Mercer. with the former supposed
H. having shade in the negotiations.
II Stutz succeeds it, lining mp Bar
ney. II VIII mean for the Indianapolis
outfit one % the greatest combinations
ever seen On an, track Each man !.
n champion, capable or giving battle
TO the best or them. For oldneld, the
rest of the team has the highest adj
narration stating Barney - 30 ono OF
TIL. topiaost drivers In tho game Ills
recent work In tho WcYt. gays Harry
Stutz. tho manager. stamps him not
only as the man who care back, but
also AS the man who ~ going to stay
there. II he can sign him, II IL thought
Al safo bet that he viii do SO.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22

WHY'S has departed radically from
tho conventional. in that the worm is
located beneath the large driving gear
instead Of above The latter location
has been the generally used construc-
zion In American made cars for some
time.
IN pointing out the virtues of this
Inherent style o. drive. the WHY'S
Knight engineers Law particular stress
On the feature OF fabrication. Their
contention is that this under drive
worm gear is the one design in which
perfect fabrication can he maintained
ut all times and under all conditions
IN the more familiar type OF top drive.
they point out. il has always been a
difficult matter To eliminate friction
Tor no matter how tightly tho housing
Was packed with grease, tie lubricant
soon We're away from tho point or con
t""' tt,tw"cn worm aud gear. and
trouble cnaucd. With the worm 10
a-ra at the bottom 81 the gear. as In
f#iii VIVA ef drive. there
never can he Il lack OF fabrication
unless the supply is entirely exhausted.
The law of eravitation. il IS pointed
out. insures fabrication for the worm
as long as any grease remains in the
housing.
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shows. st which tho little Aristocrat'
is exhibited, are but an indication o.
the world wide business OF tho Empire
Automobile Company. In short PC
Rod OF six weeks recently, Empire
shipments were made TO England,
Scotland. ireland. Wales. France rortu-
gal. sweden. Denmark. Norway and
Finland: 10 Melbourne. Sidney, and
Adelaide, Australia: Tasmania New
zealand; Philippines: three cities
in India; Malay Peninsula. Java; Jap
an: Arabia; Algoa Bay, Springfontein.
Mossel Bay. South Africa. and Argen-
tine and Chill. Mr.. ]. Y. Meers. for
"isn sales manager for tho Empire.
saws that his foreign customers are
quite rs finicliy and progressive as
Americans. and demand the very la
test things In equipment even to cleo
trio starting aud lighting.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22
EMP|RE'S ROUND
WORLD SHOW ROUTE:

The Empire Automobile Company. of
Indianapolis. either directly or through
us distributors. Is In the midst OF a
lohS SHOW route. which began ut the
New York show. January 3. when tho
new series model 81 was exhibited
along with two new Empire creations
the Empire steam line roadster and tho
Empire electric started and lighted
models OF touring car and roadster Tho
Now YORK show had hardly begun
when the Empire distributor for the
sydney territory OF Australia appeared
ana entered into negotiations for tho
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22

complete Empire exhibit Tie wanted
10 take the cars direct from the En-
pire exhibit TO the wharf and load
them for tho long trip to the other
side OF the globe, in order TO 10 sure
~ their arrival III Australia I'm time for
the great sydney show. which is said
To be the most important auto show
held IN the Far East. 1t was found
wiser. however, TO ship from Indiana
to Van Couver, ana then over the Pa
cli1c, which is the route the Empires
Tor the sydney show are now follow
ing.
The Scnarang Java show is also an
other Far East exhibit, where the En-
pre- Win be on view TO motorists OF
tho Orient, but this show Is held ear
aer in April so sydney holds the rec
ord for distant shipment ut tho end Of
the Empire show route. These foreign
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-22
NEW WORM DRIVE
NOW BEING USED

While the new Knight motorod car,
which President John n. WHY'S. of the
Willys-Ovcrland Co, is building, has
many features of design and construc-
ton which are different from those
found in most American ears. none Is
more important than the design OF the
worm drive employed. In providing
Il worm drive for his now creation, Mr..
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only a little over seventy thousand,
forty years later IL had risen to over
two hundred thousand, and in 1911
the census showed it to be a city of
nearly four hundred thousand per-
sons. Its growth of property values
has been even more remarkable as
these have increased ten times over
in the same length of time. Belfast
Is the headquarters of the linen in
dustry of Ireland. The work in these
factories Is done almost entirely by
women and children, over twenty
eight thousand of them being en-
ployed and only six thousand men,
The wages are low, but the cost of
living Is far less than 1t Ia in the
United States, The greater part of the
operations can be done by unskilled
labor and the conditions under which
the work is done are not always the
best. Although there is a Child La
Dor Law it does not seem to be car
rted out strictly TO the letter, for one
finds children almost in infancy work
ing in the linen factories. One of the
curious clauses of the law Is that chill
dren under fourteen years Of age are
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and Pittsburgh, where heretofore the
National had things all their own way
in those cities. The baseball patron
age of Chicago and St. Louis must
now be divided between three clubs.
There Is not a field that the Ameri-
can League clubs exclusively con-
trolled that the invaders have entered,
which may be construed as another
indication that some understanding
existed between Ban johnson and the
outlaws. 1t might be doing johnson
an injustice to even hint such a thing,
but all straws point that way.
Good Men As Pilots.
1t Is interesting to note that the
eight Federal League teams are IN
charge of shrewd men to guide their
players. Tinker is handling the Chit
cago outfit, while William Bradley is
leading the Brooklyn team, Otto
Knabe is In Baltimore and Larry
SchlafIley heads the Buffalos. DOC"
Gessler is handling the Pittsburgh
outfit and Miner Brown, once star
slabman of the Chicago cubs, is guild
ing the destinies of the st. Louis play
ers. Bill Phillips is the indianapolis
manager, while George Stovall holds
the IeIlS over tne Kansas City team.
From this II can be cleaned that all
these men know baseball In and out.
and while some Of them never had big
league managerial experience never
theless they have been in the game
long enough to have picked up all the
tricks of the trade.
James a. Gilmore, president OF the
Federal League, Familiarity known as
"Fighting Jim" Gilmore, has a big
fight ahead of him but those that
know him best confidently predict that
he will win with bells on. Backed hv
that young multi millionaire, Charlie
Weeshman, Of Chicago. and William
Walker. also of the Windy City. and
both close friends of Fighting Jim, "
Gilmore was given plainly to under
stand that he could "go the limit"
All he had to do was to make good
and they would pay the bills. Weegh-
man made his fortune out Of a chain
Of lunch rooms, beginning in a small
| and smoky little room where he per
sonally served patrons with their
Beef and" His fortune grew to
colossal proportions and now he is
willing to take a chance and buck one
Of the strongest combinations ever
formed in this country, for many con-
tend that no trust in existence is as
powerful a. Organized Baseball.
Big Job Ahead OF Him.
Study the cold hard figures of
finance revealed in pages from the
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installed for life and clothed with all
the powers of a Car has prospered
better than the National which, until
the election of Governor Tener, was
torn by internal disscnsions and its
htty-ScVcn varieties of presidents
were little more than figurehcads. The
National was ruled by a little clique
OF masnates and the head of the body
was but a puppet in their hands
When they pulled their strings he
danced, and it mattered not whether
he liked it or not. Tener as presi-
dent, doubtless will correct all this.
Play Bail. The Glad Cry.
But the season is on now, and that
time-worn but ever welcome cry
PLAY Ball" has resounded through
the breadth and length of the land,
bringing JOY to the hearts of millions
of fans. OF course all eyes are TO-
cussed on the Feds. Sporting writer's
at first hostile to the new league, and
seemingly dominated by the influence
of the older bodies. were prone to
make fun of the newcomer. They
have changed their tune now, for with
the millions of dollars that are be-
hind the Feds they are an orSaniza-
ton that must be reckOned with, and
they have spent too much money al
ready to even consider the proposition
to sell out to the older bodies. They
want recognition and they will get it,
This may not come this year, but
the time Is not far distant when both
Ban Johnson and Governor Tener will
be glad to approach the camp of the
enemy beneath the folds of their flag
of truce and seek some scheme by
which the raid on their playing forces
cen be obViated. thereby bringing
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playing salaries to a saner level.
OF course the players have profited
tremendously by the new order of
things. Joe Tinker, the first of the
real stars to jump from Organized
Baseball into the camp of the out
laws. only did 80 when a fabulous
sum was guaranteed him as player
manager of the Chicago Feds. Otto
Knabe left the Phillies to pilot the
Baltimorcs under the all-wse guild
ance of Ned Hanlon, at a salary far
in excess Of what he ever dreamed
of earning in Quakertown. He took
others with him and all went at big
increases.
In order to hold players that the
Feds had made overtures to, the men
of Organized Baseball were compelled
to guarantee salaries on long con-
tracts in excess of anything they had
ever contemplated. Iris Speaker, for
instance. upon his return from the
world-tour with the Giants and White
SoX was resigned by his Boston man
ager at a salary said to be the highest
ever given a player. The sum re-
ported Is to be SIS, 900 n year. The
honor of paying the biggest salaries,
however. has been disputed by sew
oral of the magnates of the older bod
les. Navin asserts that Ty Cobb, of
his Detroit team, is still the highest
paid player in the world. The con-
tention also is made that John Nc
Graw, in making out his income tax
returns, took oath to the fact that his
annual salary as manager of the
Giants is 100000 a year. His contract
has several years to run yet. Tinker's
salary is in the neighborhood of S15,-
900 a year and he received a big cash
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Opening Gun - Fired.


The loss of Tinker to the Cincin-
natl and Brooklyn teams was the
opening gun fired in the baseball war.
Tinker was sold to the Brooklyn team
for $4,000, and of this sum $4,000
was to go to the player as d bonus
for signing his contract with the Eb-
belts clan. The money was paid to
Cincinnati but Tinker baked and
then came one of the biggest bombs
ever fired in baseball ranks. Eb-
bets was out his money and the sew
eral players he was to toss into the
trade, and Cincinnati was without the
man it was to give. The matter was
finally adjusted on some basis and
Wilbcrt Robinson came from the
Giants, where he had oficiated as
McGraws chief aide and trainer of
pitchers. to take charge of the Brook
lyn team. Herzog was sold by the
Giants to Cincinnati and he is plotting
the Reds.
The baseball situation as 1t now
stands is this: The National League
is entrenched in Boston, New York.
Brooklyn. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati. St. Louis and Chicago.
The American is lined up in Bos-
ton, New York. Philadelphia, Wash
ington. Cleveland. Chicago, Detroit
and st. Louis.
The Federals have installed them
selves in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Pitts
burgh and Buffalo in the East, and
indianapolis, st. Louis, Chicago and
Kansas City In the West
From the foregoing it can be seen
that the National League is hardest
hit as far as competition goes. The
Feds oppose the National in Brooklyn
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allowed 10 work only three days each
week and the other three days they
must so TO school in compliance with
tha comnulsorv educa,ion law ,rba
ouastio, Of me betternant Of cordi-
ions as IN the working of women ana
obiIdrep in tho factories of tho North-
ern nart Of ireland has been a cru-
cial one for several Years ana baa
Iad IA number NJ raforre
'eh'cr OF Linen industry.
The linen factories of Belfast are
most interesting, Tor here one may
watch the process of linen manufac-
ture from the spinning Of the lax
until il comes out n finished product,
such as handkcrchiefs, napkins, table,
cloths or linen by the yard.
you know America is our best
customer" said the foreman, land we
nearly Always nave some particular
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is said to be not more than six feet
above high water mark, being built
on ground reclaimed from the river
or the sea. The harbor, originally a
creek of the Lagan, has been greatly
extended and improved, and is now
one of the finest in that part of the
world The picturesque bay is well
sheltered by the hills from the north
and west winds. 1t affords "A safe
anchorage although not altogether
free from sand banks, The Quays
extend for about mile below Queens
Bridge on both sides of the river,
The city is beautifully laid out with
wide streets lined on either side with
splendid business houses and fine res
licences. 1t has the best street car
system and the oleanest hotels to be
found in all Ireland. Its banks are
prosperous, occupying splendid quar-
ters, and its public buildings are i'm
posing, especially tho massive City
Hall-the scene of 50 many demon
STATIONS against Home Rule.
Belfast mas grown rapidly, espe-
cially during the last seventy-fve
years. In 1s4l its population was
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! history of Organized Baseball andE
you will gain some conception of thc5
task undertaken by Fighting Jim Giles
more when ne accepted tho presi~s
dency of the Federal League. FortysS
three circuits operate under the pro@s
lection of the National Baseball,
Agreement. which means that his two;s
chief opponents, the National and thS,
American League have forty-one ess
tablished organizations, feeders OFF
talent to the major circuits which Gil +.
more must count as powerful aids to
the two big bodies now opposing him.
| 1t has already cost Organized Base +,
! ball $500. 900 to uphold it's end. To- i
/ the club owners in the association or
minor leagues the National and Amer
/ lean leagues paid S371,000 for young%
players last season. Some OF these
are now in the big leagues, destined )
to travel onward and upward in tho I
path Organized Baseball points out. (
| but others, rather than go back to
the minors" needed the lure of the {.
| Feds and are receiving good salaries
and will make good. Organized Base
| ball represents investments Of up
wards Of S10,00O,O0O and this does5
not include contracts with players
J " ulCu tOulu ne luIUtu luIp DI6 CASH
sums at a moments notice. Minor
! league players, in upwards of 300 cit
! les controlled by Organized Baseball
draw salaries aggregating more than
| $500, 900 . month during the playing
season. 1t costs more than $500
to operate a major league team for
| one season, this sum being far below
/ the expenses of a team with pennant ,
aspirations or one encountering re-
verses outside the won and lost col
umns of the league standing.
Gilmore Has No Fear.
But Mr.. Gilmore proudly proclaima
that he has fifty million dollars be-
hind him and that he intends TO give!
Organized Baseball a battle it never
expected from a body Of less than two
years old.
An announcement made by Mr.. Gill
more a day or two before his playing
season opened shows just how the
teams are being financed and the men
in each city who are behind the move
ment. They are all representative
citizens and the prediction is further
made that one of the cities now in
the circuit will be bought out next
year and that New York will take its
place. In fact the Feds already have
an option on grounds in the big city
and these are admirably located as
far as transportation facilities are con-
cerned.
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ing plant, a number OF cigar factories,
and the huge manufacturing plant OF
the famous Belfast ginger ale which
Is known throughout the world, AS
in all factory districts ii large number
OF Socialists are to be found, out IN
the recent agitation the wOrkmen
seem to have forgotten their views
on this subject for hundreds of them
enlisted with the Ulster volunteers
TO fight Home Rule.
Belfast is an educational centre as
well, for even in the days of Lord
Macauley he deemed Queens College
as worthy TO stand in the High Street
Of Oxford" The number of its stu
dents now runs into the thousands and
many Of the most influential men of
ireland claim 1t as their Alma Mater.
Queen Victoria was greatly beloved
and 1t was this good and gracious SOW
ereign who in 1892 conferred upon
the Mayor of the city for the time be-
ing the title Of Lord Mayor, and upon
the corporation the name and descrip-
ton of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and
Citizens Of the City of Belfast. A
beautiful statue OF queen Victoria
stands in the centre of the city. The
Albert Memorial erected to the mem
Dry or the cOnSOIl or queen NlcloEld-
is perhaps the most imposing monu-
ment of the city. being in the shape
of huge clock tower
Breathing Spots.
breathing spots" as the FISHERMAN
calls the parks, are numerous-slx in
number and all well kept, especially
the botanical Gardens where some of
the most beautiful plants grown in
the British Isles are to be found. Bel
fast is without doubt the Cleanest city
Of Ireland, and has none of the i'll
smelling slums such as are to be found
In the cities farther south. 1t has an
excellent supply Of pure water. a fine
sewerage system, and well paved
streets-in fact, were it not for the
number of jauntng cars to be seen
upon its streets the visitor might i'm
agine himself in an up-to-date Amer
lean city.
The fisherman Is shrewd In bust
ness, and while more or less a bigoI
as far as his religion is concerned, he
is nevertheless a good citizen anG
loyal subject to the English crown
so loyal that England cannot afford
to impose Home Rule upon him
AGAINST his consent
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|THE COVENANT WHICH STARTED
|verse
OF
We whose Ulster, his
fathers confidently trusted hereby
TO stand
TO
In the OF
Cove
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it was found that the phillies had
been shot full of holes, several of their
very best men having jumped to the
new league at greatly advanced sal
aries. Worse still, they carried many
a promising youngster along with
them. Pittsburgh suffered In the same
way, and by the loss OF Johnny Evers
and other stars the Chicago Cubs were
dealt heavy blows.
McGraws Luck Clings To Him.
McGraw was more fortunate. While
Shafer quit him ii was not for the
purpose of joining the forces of the
outlaws Artie is temperamental and
besides he is exceptionally well-off and
not dependent upon baseball for
livelihood. He was ever the butt for
the jokes of his teammates, and cha
fing under the constant tWitting and
jibing of his fellow players he re-
turned to California at the close OF
the season and there he remains.
Wilson, second string catcher, did
jump to the Feds, and a pitcher as
well, but their loss is not material
and will not have direct bearing on
the playing ability Of the team. Nc
Graw is still looked upon as a for
midable foe and unless the spring
dope goes strangely awry he will be
there fighting it out at the end of the
season for pcnnant honors.
Cleveland lost several good play
ers. but on the whole the American
League was less hard hit than the
older body. This, perhaps, may ac-
count for the attitude Ban Johnson.
president OF the American, has taken
from the first for It will be remem-
bered, he said there was ample room
for another league. 1t is we'll known
that the American League, under the
guidance of Johnson. who has been
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the Reformed faith. When the King
drove through the streets to Belfast
Castle the crowds shouted, God save
the Protestant King" The same spirit
reigns in Ulster today and Belfast
Castle which housed the Protestant
King In the seventeenth century was
the first place given over to the u
ster volunteers. The estate, which
stands on high hill on the outskirts
of Belfast, Is now owned by Lord
Shaftesbury. AS Is usually the case
whore religion is an issue both sides
have waged bitter warfare and there
has been more or less bloodshed In
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the agitation. The present cris't
seems 10 have been brought about
by the practical certainty Of MIR. As
quith's Home Rule BIN becoming a
law without the consent Of the House
of Lords, together with Sir Edward
Carson's sudden determination to re-
sist such Bill for this part of Ire
land and the organization of a vol
unteer army for that purpose.
Descendants of Cromwell.
Ulster is Inhabited mainly by de-
scendants Of the men who We're sent
to Ireland by oliver Cromwell as
farmers after he had subdued the
country and of the Scottish Covenan-
ters It is these people, descendants
have made Belfast and the surround
ing counties, and rather than bow to
what they term Popish rule they are
content to plunge England into a civil
war The animosity between the Cath
olics and Protcstants in Ulster Is CON
fined to no special class of people, for
It exists In all grades of society from
tho four hundred down to the hum
Bile Scotch-Irish stevedore who has
frequently refused to work beside an
other stevedore because he hung his
hat on a Catholic peg"
Rapid Growth.
The City of Belfast IS pleasantly sit =
uatcd on the low banks of the River
Lagan. A great part Of the town