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SIMPLICITY OF CHALMERS
Important Points of the Popular Auto
mobile Explained

Simplicity, speed, non-stallable mo-
tor, silence, abundant power, one op-
GRAFTON in starting, reliability, indie
pendent ignition.
This startling system is built COM
plete, except the storage battery, in
the Chalmers shops. More than S60,-
600 have been invested in a thoroughly
modern and completely equipped cleo
trical department. "We build" says
Robert l.. Morton, manager of the
Keystone Motor Car Company, the local
distributors, every part of the gem
orator. This one fact alone is convinc-
ing proof of our absolute faith in the
superiority of the present Chalmers
starting system"
Perhaps the most striking quality of
this system is its simplicity of opera
tion.
While running. the starting motor is
constantly in connection with the mo-
tor of the ear. This gives a positively
non-stallable motor. Whenever the
speed of the engine is so reduced under
labor that it would ordinarily stall, the
starter at once takes up it's operation.
The instant the clutch is released 10
change gears the motor spins away on
electrical power, starting again with
out any perceptible intermission.
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AUT0SIN THEEUROPEAN WAR.
Good Substitute When Continental
Railroads Are Put Out of Busi-
ness in Conflict

Many continental railroads have
been deliberately put out of commits
sion to prevent their use or seizure by
the enemy. Bridges have been blown
up, road beds destroyed and much of
the rolling stock crippled beyond re-
pair. Great numbers of horses have
been slaughtered and there has been a
wholesale destruction of motor vehicles
thus materially decreasing the number
of automobiles and trucks on the con-
tinent. The cessation of hostilities will
ind all the countries at war without
adequate transportation facilities.
Motor trucks have proved themselves
Invaluable in Transporting supplies and
ammunition, and in contributing to-
wards the rapid movement of troops.
But no mechanism, however strongly
constructed, could Withstand the ter
rible treatment they have been receiv-
ing in the field. War has left neither
the time nor the facilities for giving
the care necessary to keep the trucks
at their high point of efficiency. In the
continual rush of the campaign. drivers
cannot stop to replenish the oil sup
ply or adjust small mechanical diff
ficulties. They keep the ear going Just
as long as they can and then are forced
to desert for another. On roads used
by the big armies, deserted motor
trucks are found at frequent intervals.
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PLAY FOR GOVERNORS CUP
Three SiXteens Start Fall Tourney On
Links at Harrisburg Country
Club

The match play tournament at the
Harrisburg Country Club for the board
of governors trophy, started this aft
ernoon. Play will continue until Octo-
Der "a. Three sixteens have been ar.
ranged, the drawings for which fol-
low:
First Sixteen-W. P. Macguire VS..
s. c. Todd. Carl B, Ely VS.. w. Me-
Creath. c. W. Reilly VS. 4. NJ. Sides. R.
McCreath VS.. L. McCreath, C. Dull VS..
R. H. Evans. D. Mccormick VS.. ]. P.
Dohoney, Jackson Boyd VS.. W. E.
Wright, Frank Payne vs.! ]. A. Glenn
ent.
Second Sixteen-R. G. Goldsborough
vs.. A. B. Hamilton, w. H. Gather VS..
w. w, Davis, H. NJ. Stine VS.. 4.
Kiester, H. L. Hosford vs. z. ]. Be-
van, C. +. Ryder vs.. R. G. Cox, C. B..
Miller VS.. F. j. Brady. J. X. Tener VS..
N f. Salsich, G. II. Brown VS.. R. A.
Hickok.
Third Sixteen-Paul Hooker VS..
John Fox Weiss, +. J. Hall VS.. 7. j.
Gould, B, F. Royer vs.. R. B. Abbott,
L. F.. Johnson VS.. !. V. w. Reynders,
R. " Mckay VS.. J. L. Shearer. Frank
Bell VS.. T. c. Baldwin, j. f. Ericsson
VS.. c. W. Davis, W. C. Wright VS.. D. R..
Palmer, W. B. McCaleb VS.. r. Davis.
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ace on account of the enormous amount
of money that is being spent for them.
Let us look into this subject for a
moment and see, comparatively speak
ing, the relative amount of money that
is being spent each year by the people
of the United States in luxuries.
There are s459,191,SS2 spent for
tobacco; s26S, 900 spent for chew
ing gum and candy; $3.50, 100000
spent in moving picture shows; $lS4,
1900 spent in carriages and wagons;
and only s249,202,O00 spent for au-
tomobiles, of which s31, ,254, 900 is
exported abroad, which leaves net, in
the year 1918, s217,94S, 900 expend
ed for automobiles in the United States.
1.-The automobile has increased land
values in the United States hundred
fold more than all the money spent
on them. Think of the wonderful in
crease in real estate values of subur
ban property, farm lands, etc, that
Is attributable to the automobile, be-
cause it gives quick transportation.
THE automobile alone is response
BILE for 10 per cent. of the betterment
of roads in the United States.
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TEST or AUTO CAR and TIRE
3,000-Mile Trip With REQ Machine
Equipped With Miller Rubber
Company Tires

For test of car and tire ehdur-
ance, Henry !. Adams. of Fostoria o.,
completed a ree-thousand mile trip
through the northeastern section of the
country with a REQ ear equipped with
Miller tires made by the Miller Rubber
Company at Akron, Ohio. Adams made
the following route which he recon-
mends as being an ideal tour. Cleve-
land to Buffalo. TO Rochester. down the
State road TO Montreal, back through
Rouses on Lake Champlain, across Yer
mont and the Green mountains up into
New Hampshire and the White noun
tains; across Maine to the Atlantic
coast; then down the cost to Boston,
through Rhode Island and Connecticut
to New York City and across New Jer-
sey to Philadelphia and on to Delaware,
Baltimore, Nd, from there 10 Washing,
ton, D. c., over into Virginia and
Mount Vernon. Washington : old home,
over the Blue Ridge mountains to Get
tysburg, Pa; Harrisburg, Bedford Cum
berland, Nd. across the Allegheny
mountains into West Virginia and back
into Ohio.
The tour lasted twenty five days and
Mr.. Adams, upon his return home, stat =
ed they were good for another trip. The
Sterling Auto Tire Co. are the local
representatives of MILLER tires at har-
risburg.
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FOLLOW THE GAME IN HALL
Baseball Fans Enjoy Baseball Contest
Reproduced on Wizard Board

The large crowd of fans that saw
the first game between the Athletics
and Boston Nationals reproduced in
Chestnut street hall yesterday after.
noon, went away satisfied that the
genius who invented the Wizard
board has produced device that gives
every fan in the country a chance 10
take in the big series.
Before the first inning was half over
the members of the audience had for.
gotten they were watching a mammoth
mechanical toy. To them it was the
real thing. They applauded, yelled at
the players and expressed satisfaction
or dissatisfaction with the turn of the
game in the usual vehement language
of the bleacherite. 1t was as much
fun TO watch the crowd as it was to
follow the game.
On Monday the board will be re,
moved to the Board of Trade audi
torlum TO make room for the food show
to be held in the Chestnut street hall
during the coming week
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SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
Number One

Number One
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section
one. article eight Of the Constitution
Be ii resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
sylvania be. and the same is hereby
proposed in accordance with the eight
eenth article theyspt:
That section one of article eight,
which reads as follows:
Section l. Every male citizen TWEEN
ty- -one years OF age, possessing the
following qualifications, shall be .enti-
tied to vote at all elections, subject,
however, to such laws requiring and
regulating the registration of electors
as the General Assembly may enact:
First. He shall have been a citizen
of the United states at least one month.
Second. He shall have resided in
the State one year Cor, having previous
ly been qualified elector or native
born citizen of the State, he shall have
removed therefrom and returned. then
six months) Immediately preceding the
election.
Third. He shall have resided in the
election district where he shall offer to
vote at least two months Immediately
preceding the election.
Fourth. If twenty-five years of age
and upwards, he shall have paid with
in two years a State or county tax,
which shall have been assessed at least
two months and paid at least one month
before the election" be amended so
that the same shall read as follows:
Section ]. Every citizen, male or fe-
male of twenty-one years of age, pos
sessing the following qualifications,
shail be entitled to vote at all elections
subject. however, to such laws requir-
ing and regulating the registration of
electors as the General Assembly may
enact: @NF
First. He or she shall have been a
citizen of the United States at least one
month.
Second. He or she shall have resided
In the State one year Cor. having pre-
Nlously been a qualified elector or ma
tiVe-porn citizen of the State, he or
she shall have removed therefrom. and
returned, then six months) imm mediately
preceding the election.
Third. He or she shall have resided
IN the election district where he or she
snail offer to vote at least two months
Immediately preceding the election.
Fourth. If twenty-five years of age
and upwards, he or she shall have paid
within two years a State or county
TAX, which shall have been assessed at
least two months and paid at least one
month before the election.
Fifth. Wherever the words "he,"
his. him." and himself" occur in any
section of article VIII of this Constitu
ton the same shall be construed as if
written respectively, "he or She" "his
or her: him or her." and himself or
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. l.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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following purposes,-rto wit: For the
construction and improvement of sub
ways. tunnels, railways, elevated rail-
ways, and other transit facilities. for
the construction and Improvement of
wharves and docks and for the recla-
nation of land to be used in the con,
structton of wharves and docks, owned
or to be owned by said city. Such in
crease, however, shall only be made
with the assent 'of the electors there OF
at public election, to be held in such
manner as shall be provided by law,
of said city of Philadelphia. at any
time, there shall be excluded from the
calculation credit where the work
resulting from any previous eXpendi-
ture for any one or more of the spe-
cific purposes hereinabove enumerated
shall be yielding to said city an annual
current net revenue: the amount of
which credit shall be ascertained by
capitalizing the annual net revenue
during the year Immediately preceding
the time of such ascertainment Such
capitalization SHAH be accomplished by
ascertaining the principal amount
which would yield such annual current
net revenue, at the average rate of in
terest and sinking-fund charges pay
able upon the Indebtedness incurred by
said city for such purposes, up to the
time of such ascertainment. The meth
cd of determining such amount, so to
be excluded or allowed as a credit may
be prescribed by the General Assem-
bly,
IN mourning Indebtedness, for any
one or more of said purposes of con-
struction, improvement, or reclamation
the city of Philadelphia may issue its
obligations maturing not later than
fifty years from the date thereof, with
provision for a sicking-fund sufficient
to retire said obligation at maturity,
the payments to such sinking fund to
be in equal or graded annual install
ments. Such obligations may be in an
amount sufficient to provide for and
may include the amount of the inter-
est and sinking-fund charges accru-
ing and which may accrue thereon
of ascertainment of such compensation
and the maximum and minimum limits
thereof. and providing special or gem
eral remedies for the collection thereof
but in no other cases shall the General
Assembly limit the amount to be re-
covered for injuries resulting in DEATH
or for injuries to persons or property
and in case of death from such iniur-
and the General Assembly shall pre-,
scribe for whose benefit such actions
shall be prosecuted. No act shall pre-
scribe any limitations of time within
which suits may be brought against
corporations for injuries to persons or
property, or for other causes. different
from those fixed by general laws regu-
lating actions against natural persons
throughout the period of construction
and until the expiration of one year
after the completion of the work for
which said Indebtedness shall have
been incurred ;and said city shall not
be required to levy tax to pay said
interest and sinking fund charges. as
required by section ten of article nine
of the Constitution of Pennsylvania
until the expiration of said period of
one year after the completion of such
work.
A true copy Of Joint Resolution No. ..
ROBERT McAFEE
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Number Three
A JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to section
twenty-one of article three of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania.
Section ]. Be it resolved by the SEN
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
General Assembly met, That the fol-
lowing amendment to the Constitution
Of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
be- and the same is hereby proposed
in accordance with the eighteenth ar
ticle thereof:
=, Amend section twenty one, article
three of the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, which
reads as follows:
No act of the General Assembly
snail limit the amount to be recovered
Tor injuries resulting in death, or for
injuries to persons or property, and in
case of death from such injuries the
right of action shall survive. and the
General Assembly shall prescribe for
whose benefit such actions shall be
prosecuted. No act shall prescribe any
limitations of time within which suits
may be brought against corporations
Tor injuries to persons or property, or
for other causes different from those
nxed by general laws regulating ac-
tions against natural persons, and such
acts now existing are avoided" so that
II snail read as follows:
The General Assembly may enact
laws requiring the payment by employ
ers or employers and employees jointly,
of reasonable compensation for iniur-
les TO employees arising in the course
or their employment, and for occupa-
uonal diseases of employees, whether or
not such injuries or diseases result in
death. and regardless of fault of en-
ployer or employe. and fixing the basis
and such acts now existing are avoided
true copy of Joint Resolution No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary OF the Commonwealth.
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!. OF INTEREST
TO MOTORISTS
AUTO owners Object TO
BEING taxed BY UNCLE SAM
State and Local Clubs of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association Almost
Unanimously Respond to Call of
Special Legislative Committee

Automobiles throughout the coun
try are thoroughly aroused at the evil
dent desire on the part of certain ma
honal legislators 10 place upon motor
ear owners large percentage of the
amount to be derived. from the war
tax measure.
State and local clubs of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association almost
unanimously respond to the call of its
special legislative committee, of which
DR.. III. NJ. Rowe. of Maryland, served
as chairman, to make known to mem
oers of Congress their positive obiec-
ton to being seized upon anew as a
source of attack for purposes of rev.
enue.
The protest sets forth the unfair
ness of any legislation which singled
out motor cars from other road We
hlcles. If gasoline motor ears were
called upon to pay, it was asserted, all
horse-drawn vehicles should be taxed.
frankly admitting that their mileage
is less and the tax should be accord
ingly graded.
The situation presented an oppor.
tunity to A. A. A. clubs to emphasize
to the national legislators the Just posi-
tion which the association has taken
IN contending that all road vehicles
should pay or none should pay.
In his communication to the Senate
finance committee. Dr. Rowe set fort h
the following:
In many States motor ear owners
now pay two and three taxes. and fur
themore, are Disseminated against as a
special class of road users in that
other vehicles go untaxed If il is right
to tax one class of road vehicles. all
vehicles should he similarly treated.
This would he equally true in the
imposition of any war tax, for it must
now be apparent to all that automo-
blles have an equal right with all
other vehicles to the free use of pub
lie highways, built and maintained by
general taxation. Furthermore, the
self propelled vehicle has become of
such common use that an extra tax
at this time would be a burden and
detrimental to the interests of the peo-
pie at large. Moderate priced and mod
erate-powered cars greatly exceed the
comparatively small number of multi
powered motor cars.
1T is conservative estimate to
say that over half of the 1,6OO.0 900
automobiles in use have a positive
commercial value, and the larger part
of the remaining fifty per cent. are
partially employed seriously; carrying
men to business or people to railroad
stations, and otherwise serving those
who abridge distance bv road.
1--WE would call your attention to
the fact that as citizens we shall paw
with all others whatever general taxes
may he imposed in any war measure
adopted. But we do vigorously protest
again any legislation which passes on
TO US an unfair proportion of the bur
den, and also carries with it a dis
elimination against one class of road
vehicles -
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Number Two
A JOINT RESOLUTION


A JOINT RESOLUTION
proposing an amendment to section
eight OF article nine of the Constitu-
ton of Pennsylvania.
Section |. Be it resolved by the Sem
ate and House of Representatives Of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in
General Assembly met, That the fol.
!i0Gwlng Is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of the Comm on wealth
OF pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth article
Amend section eight article nine of
the Constitution of the Comm on wealth
of Pennsylvania, which reads as fol-
lows:
Section s. The debt of any county.
city. borough, township, school district
or other municipality or incorporated
district, except as herein provided, shall
never exceed seven per centum upon
the assessed value of the taxable prop
erty therein, nor shall any such munich
paHty or district incur any new debt.
or increase its Indebtedness to an
amount exceeding two per centum upon
such assessed valuation of property,
without the assent oftthe electors there
or at public election in such manner
as shall be provided by law; but any
city, the debt of which now exceeds
uation, may be authorized by law to
increase the same three per centum, in
the aggregate. at any one time, upon
such valuation. except that any debt or
debts hereinafter incurred by the city
and county of Philadelphia for the con-
struction and development of subways
Tor transit purposes OF, for the con-
reclamation of land to be used in the
construction of system of wharyes
and docks, as public improvements.
owned or to be owned by said city and
county OF Philadelphia, and which shall
yield to the city and county of Phila-
delphia current net revenues in excess
of the interest or, said debt or debts.
and of the annual installments neces-
sary, for the cancellation of said debt
or debts. may be excluded in ascer-
tanning the power Of the city and coun-
ty of Philadelphia to become other
ing fund for their cancellation shall be
established and maintained" so that
1t shall read as follows:
Section s. The debt of any county.
city, borough. township, school district
or other municipality or Incorporated
district, except as herein provided, shall
never exceed seven per centum upon
the assessed value of the taxable prop
pality or district incur any new debt.
or increase it's Indebtedness to an
amount exceeding two per centum upon
such assessed valuation of property,
without the consent of the electors
thereof at a public election in such
manner as shall be provided by law;
but any city. the debt of which on the
first day of January. one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four, ex-
ceeded seyen per centum Of such as
sessed valuation, and has not since been
reduced to less than such per cenutm.
may be authorized by law to increase
the same three per centum in the ag-
gregate, at any one time. upon such
valuation. The city of Philadelphia.
upon the conditions hereinafter set
forth, may increase it's indebt edness
to the extent of three per centum in
excess OF seven per centum upon such
assessed valuation for the specific pur
pose of providing for all or any of the
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Two-base hits, Gowdy. Wyckoff, Ba-
ker. Three-base hits, Gowdy, Whitted.
Sacrifice hit, Oldring Hits, off Bender,
in . innings (and batters in the
SIXTH; off Wyckotf, 3 in 8 innings
(and to 3 batters in the sixth. Stolen
bases. Moran, Schmidt, Gowdy. Struck
out, by Rudolph; Barry, .; Murphy,
Oldring, Baker, Mclnnes. Schang; by
Bender: Connolly, Moran, Rudolph; by
Wyckotf: Evers, Maranville. First base
on balls, by Rudolph: Collins, McInnes,
=; by Bender: Whitted. Connolly; by
Wyckoff: Gowdy. First base on errors,
Athletics, l. Left on bases, Boston, 8 :;
Athletics, 6. Double plays, Schmidt
and Deal; Barry, Collins and McInnes;
Bender, Barry and McInnes; Bender
and Mclnnes; Baker and McInnes;
Lapp, Collins, Lapp and Baker. Time.
III. 5S m. Umpires, Dineen behind
plate, KLEIN on bases, Hildebrand in
right, Byron in left.
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NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that applica-
tion has been made to the Court of
Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Dau-
phin County by the following person
and corporations for licenses to engage
in the business of lending money, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of .the act
of Assembly of June 18th. 1913, entitled
Am act regulating the making of GER
tain loans. ETC." and hearing thereon
will be had October 30th. 1914, at 10
O'Clock a. M. al the Court House, Har-
risburg, Pa; that the said applicatio
are now on lie in the office of the clerk
of the Court of Quarter Sessions of
Dauphin County:
Name and Place of Business:
No. l. Profit sharing Loan Society,
No. 3 n. Second ST, Harrisburg, Pa, No.
337 June Sessions, 1914.
No. 2. Pennsylvania investment Com
pany, No. 1872 Walnut ST., Harrisburg
Pa. No. 33S June Sessions, 1914.
No. 3. Claude T. Davis, doing busi-
ness as employees Discount Com
pany," No. SO \. Third St, Harrisburg,
Pa. No. 233. September Sessions, 1914.
HENRY +. HOLLER
Clerk of Court
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MOTORCYCLE notes

The Motorcycle Club of Milwaukee,
Wis, has recently been incorporated.
The Freeport Motorcycle Club of
Freeport, H.. recently opened its win
ter season with a banquet in its club
rooms.
Prominent in the parade given under
the auspices of the Keystone Motor
Cycle Club We're both Mr.. Ray Heagy,
carrying six people on his single
cylinder, and Mr.. Harvey Heagy, with
side ear and two passengers-both
machines having the mark of Harley
Davidson. The parade attracted a
large amount of interest of the many
visitors and fremen Tomorrow the
club will run to Sunbury and return,
stopping in the mountains for chest
nut hunt.