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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

Government OF Panama, making a
yearly charge of S13 for the privilege
of riding. We go back and forth
quite freely between the Canal Zone
and the adjoining Republic of Panama
In the City of Panama they have bull
fights on Sundays and are altogether
more free and easy than in the Canal
Zone, which is under strict military
authority. A moving. picture man who
went from one end of the Canal to
the other in a hydrop1ane, taking NOV
ing pictures of locks, fortifications and
the whole works from an overhead
viewpoint was not allowed to exhibit
them.
II left the Isthmus June 18th, COM
ing home by way of Cuba, wheer we
spent a week in riding about the
Island. Cuba has such fine roads and
there are so many advantages to the
motorcyclist in climate and so on that
theer should be more riders. There
is no speed limit and the police of
Havana and other places treat the
riders white. You wonder what kind
or a motorcycling paradise you've got
into when you see them holding up
cars and street traffic for you to go by.
The people of Cuba everywhere treat
the Americans fine, showing quite a
difference in this respect from the
Panamanians.
"A rider going to the island with
his machine should be prepared to get
consular invoice, as. otherwise he
will have to do a lot of chasing around
to get matters Strengthened out, as
did in an automobile for two or three
hours. The customs and brokerage fee
cost me about s21 and 1 also had to
deposit a bond of 5000 while 1 was
there. The young lady who is now
my wife came back to this country at
the same time I did, our marriage
taking place at New Orleans, and the
people in Cuba ran to their doors in
surprise when she went by, driving my
machine. She learned to ride while
we were in Panama. When we were
in Cuba we made one trip from Ma
tanzas to Havana, 70 miles, in two and
half hours.
up to, the time I got 10 Atlanta I
had ridden $500 miles in Panama,
Cuba and this country without TAX
ing the motor down or even changing
one of the Duckworth chains"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

pany of New York City placed their
order for $1,200.o 900 worth of Nit
chell "The Six of '16" cars to be de-
livered within ten weeks.
When the Carl H. Page Motors
Company was organized to distribute
Mitchell cars in the New York Met
ropolitan district it anticipated the
delivery of approximately $1,000,00O
worth of cars in one year but busi-
ness prospects were so promising and
the whole tone of the automobile
market presaged such an increased
demand that this amount is going to
be exceeded three-fold.
A full hundred per cent. increase
in business on the 1916 Mitchell
models is shown no matter which way
you turn.
Boston, Washington, Buffalo, Pitts
bureh and Cleveland cannot get
enough cars to fill all their orders
Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Om-
aha, Des Moines, st. Louis and Dem
yer keep up rapid fire of orders.
orders from Seattle, Portland,
Frisco and Los Angeles indicate the
largest automobile business the coast
has ever known.
The South is recovering in great
shape and Dallas, Houston, New Or
leans and. Atlanta are showing the
effects of the betterment of condi-
tions over last year.
Since announcing THE Six of '16"
the new Mitchell Six model and THE
Perfect Eight" the Mitchell-Lewis
Motor Company have booked approx
mately S5,000,000 worth of business
for delivery as the product comes
from the factory. Only by working
the big plant night and day. includ-
ing Sunday, can this business be
taken care of.
The capacity of the big plant is
taxed to the utmost and new men are
being employed as rapidly as ex-
perienced men can be brought to that
city-the increased output having al
ready absorbed all the skilled work.
men in Racine.
Production Is mounting rapidly but
the influx of orders from all over
the States continues to mount rapid
ly above even what they can hope to
produce for six months to come.
Surely the automobile manufactur-
er and the automobile dealer can
safely look ahead to the greatest of
all the great years in the automo-
bile industry. For those who may
still carry the business killing bug
of pessimism, the sight of this big
forty-five acre plant of the Mitchell
Lewis Motor Company working night
and day with the glare of the big
lights streaming out in the darkness
through the hot summer nights and
one crew of 1900 men coming in the
gates while the other crew leaves
would serve as an effective anti
toxin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Climbs Mt. TamaIpais
Over Railroad Ties

Driven by Walter G. Collins, of Los
Angeles, Dodge Brothers touring car
recently established a new record on
Mt. Tamalpais, one of CALIFORNIA; high
est peaks, by climbing eight and one
half miles over the railroad ties to the
summit
The railway which scales the sides of
Tamalpais has earned the name of be-
ing the most crooked road in the world
There are scarcely 100 yards of straight
track in the nine mile course, which
meant constant watchfulness on the
part of the Iver.
Added to the uncertain route was the
tremendous strain on the car, caused by
humping over the ties. Probably no
sitter test was ever administered to
the springs of a car. but Driver Collins
came through without a broken leaf in
any of the four springs.
Strating from Mill alley, at the foot
of the mountain. Collins drove the
Dodge Brothers car on train schedule
time to the summit, checking in at each
staten en- route. in order to prevent
colliding with any OF the regular train
service. Grades varying from s to is
per cent. were encountered at various
stages, but 1t was never necessary TO
use first gear except in starting, the
trip being made on intermediate and
high.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

WIN. TauI of Birmingham. Ala. who
is on his vacation from the Electrical
Division of the Panama Canal Com
mission at Balboa, Canal Zone and
who has been an Indian rider on the
Isthmus for nearly a year, says that
conditions are in some respects favor
able and in others make 1T hard to
enjoy the sport of motorcycling.
THE climax makes carburetion per-
feet and starting the engine easy
he said in an interview at Springfield,
Mass, a short time ago, but there
are only 80 miles of ridable roads on
the whole Isthmus and these are so
narrow that If an automobile and a
motorcycle want to pass, one has to
go into the jungle and let the other
by. There are about rs Indian riders
in the Canal Zone notwithstanding.
One boy got 1915 Indian three speed
as the result of luck in the Panama
lottery, drawing prize of H500 on
an investment in so cent ticket.
The motorcycle cops are strict on
speeding, but the limit is so low, eight
miles an hour, that it is hardly fair
to the riders. The minimum fine for
speeding is $25. 1t was out riding one
day and a motorcycle cop who had
been laying for me, instead of getting
out and chasing me like a good sport,
road and waited for me to come
around the loop, taking my time, 3J
miles an hour, as evidence. The limit
seemed so low that I took the chief out
one day and rode with him at 20 miles
an hour, showing him just how slowly
we were moving at that gait and as
result l understand that the motor
cops got instructions to allow the boys
a little more leeway.
"Employes in the Government serv-
ice have a fine chance to save money
in getting a motorcycle on the Isthmus
as anything in the way of personal
property of a Government employe
can be shipped up to 500 pounds from
the States for a charge of one dollar
i Gasoline costs 22 cents a gallon and
| the best oil we can get is Monogram
marine oil.
"The license fee would surprise the
riders from the States accustomed tC
small State tax, as we have to pay
$11 in the Canal Zone and 50 to the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Cadillac Eight Again
Skaters Record:

The Cadillac Eight has shattered an
other record-this time racing with a
Union Pacific Special train from Denver
to Cheyenne, and arriving at the sta
tion two minutes before the train
The regular schedule of the Union
Pacific between Denver and cheyenne
is three hours: but Engineer Charles
Burgdorf, of the Denver Post Special.
which carried one hundred of Denver's
most prominent businessmen to
Cheyenne for the Frontier Days cele-
bration, was instructed to make the
run in two hours and fifteen minutes.
Burgdorf was true to his trust-but
when he pulled his train into the Chey-
enne station after his record run he
found that the Cadillac Eight had pre-
ceded him by two minutes.
All Union Pacific records for the run.
however, were broken; and the Special
at one time touched a speed of eighty
miles an hour. which is said to be the
fastest a locomotive have ever travelled
in Colorado.
Much interest was evidenced in the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Car Goes Along Street
With No One Aboard

A six-cylinder, seven-passenger tour
ing car without a soul aboard, but
calmly ambling up one of the prin-
cipal thoroughfares of New Haven,
Connecticut, threw the inhabitants of
the celebrated home of Yale Univer-
sity into a state of considerable excite
ment few weeks ago. Before the
mystery had been solved, trolley car
conductors, pedestrians, automobile
drivers, and even the chief of police,
volunteered for a role in the little
drama, only to discover that no as
sistance was necessary.
Automobiles have been driven up
hill and down, through sand and mud,
on high and on low through the city
traffic. In fact. it seemed as though
every form of demonstration and test
had been utilized to prove the quality
OF motor cars. But the lonely, pilot
less car in New Haven was doing
something absolutely new. 1t was
proving flexibility and dependa bility
and ease of operation in a manner
That was both new and startling.
The car that stirred New Haven
was a Paige "Six-46" and 1t was
turned loose in the city streets by a
salesman of the New Haven Paige
distributors. The Paige was started
In whitney avenue, in high and throt-
tied down, and then left to its own
devices. 1t rolled along at about two
miles an hour with the salesman in
charge walking along the sidewalk to
keep ambitious and over-excited peo-
pie from running to an ill-advised
rescue.
The Paige proceeded thus for sew
eral blocks, passing automobiles and
trolley cars running in the opposite
direction. While the phantom car
shattered the nerves of a few, the
demonstration was certainly complete
and entirely successful. There is M
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Paige Capital Stock
Increased to $1,OOO,O 900

Evidence of the prosperity of the
automobile industry in general and
of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Com
pany in particular is disclosed in the
news that the Paige directors have
made arrangements for the increase
of their capital stock August second
from $25O,000 to $1,000,000. This ac-
tlon was taken at recent meeting of
the directors when the payment of the
regular monthly cash dividend of ten
per cent. was ordered.
Ihis significant move on the part
OF the directors, coupled with the fact
that an army of workmen are busy
night and day constructing a large
addition to the plant that will enable
the Paige to double its capacity is
calling attention again to the sensa-
tional achievements of this company.
The success Of the Paige has been
won in four years. Three hundred
cars were manufactured its first year.
This season, with production confined
to Skies, light five-pasenger Six and
seven-passenger model, the schedule
calls for about $4,000 cars. Such an
extraordinary growth in such a brief
period is almost unparalleled even in
an Industry that is filled with sensa-
tional achievements.
One of the biggest hits the Paige
company made was its production of
the Fairfield "Six 49," launched last
January. This is the car that gave
the company its greatest forward i'm
petus. The 1916 model of the Fair
field has been put out just few weeks
and one dealers orders for the month
of July total 232 cars.
Much credit for the success of this
concern is due to the men directing its
policies and activities. The board of
directors of the Paige company COM
prises some of the keenest business
men in the Middle West, every one
of whom is a recognized factor in
financial circles, having already won
success by good business judgment
and ability.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

race. and .the towns along the route
covered by the motor cars permitted
tne racers to pass through al top speed.
work was suspended in most places
along the route Where throngs turned
out to watch the contest. At times the
ROAD parallels the railroad tracks
which made the race the NOSE excit-
ing, especially when the locomotive
ana the Cadillac fought for the lead.
The motor cars were forced to travel
1I6 miles, while the trains mileage was
III. It's smooth tracks gave the train
another great advantage, for part of
the distance covered by the motor cars
there was practically no road at all
Despite these handicaps Harold
Brinker averaged better than fifty
miles an hour with his Cadillac Eight
and reached the goal two minutes
ahead of the fast-flying Special.
engineer Burgdorf had the satisfac-
tlon. however, of beating the other ten
motor cars entered, as the second one
to finish is said to have been thirty
minutes behind the Cadillac.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Proper Weight and
Right Springs Essential

In the early days of the automobile
industry, heavy weight was deemed
necessary to hold car to the road,
but experience and experiment have
done much to explode this idea and
to create the present tendency to-
wards light weight.
Holding the road, 1t has been found,
depends on the proper relation of the
weight of a car above and below the
springs, and the type of spring sus-
pension. On this principle, light
weight properly distributed and prop
erly supported, is better suited for
holding the road than heavy weight.
In the case of a heavy car going over
the road, its heavy aXles and wheels
strike Instructions with greater force
than in the case of a light car, with
the result that the corresponding re-
bound off these distractions is greater
than with a light car. This condition
naturally keeps the wheels in tn air a
greater length of time, so that the
heavy weight of the car as a whole
is given the chance to swing the car
from side to side, since 1t meets no
resistance from the road.
Light weight in parts below the
springs makes it easy for the pressure
of the springs to hold the wheels in
contact with the ground. With the
aXles and wheels being light In weight
the pounding effect against the springs
from below is not as great as If these
parts were heavy, and the effective
ness of the springs in resisting this
pounding is so much the greater.
Few people realize the fine point in
volved in the use of the proper weight
above the springs. This must be
chosen in order to produce the proper
amount of pressure to help the spring
action in holding the wheels to the
ground. If this weight is made too
great, 1t WILL in turn. make 1t neces-
sary for the axles and wheels to have
greater weight, which is undesira Bile,
If it is too light, then the proper
pressure through the springs will be
affected.
T,ncom otives of the nondarY, tvna ara
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

examples of what spring suspension
means to holding the road. No engi-
neer would run locomotive around
curves at the speeds commonly made,
were 1t not, for springs that permit
side sway. This sidewise flexibility in
an automobile will permit the body to
swing from one side or the other with
relation to the chassis. Springs that
are rigid in this sidewise direction
permit the weight of the body and pas
sengers to pull the chassis with 1t, pro-
ducing skidding, while lateral flexibil-
ity allows the body to move to the
side while the chassis remains in it's
course
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
PRESIDENT ARISES HaRLY
BY AsSocintcd Prett

Cornish, n. H., Aug. Z. = President
Wilson got up early to-day to play golf
with DR. Cary T. Grayson, and Prof.
George Howe. of the University OF
North Carolina, his nephew. They
were out on the private links of F. A.
Kennedy near here before a. m.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Gigantic Deals Show
Remarkable Increase

Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company at
Racine contracted to deliver $1,000, 900
worth of autos to one territory.
On July 9Th was placed what is
said to be the largest single motor
car order ever placed for delivery in
the States.
The Carl H. Page Motors Com
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

longer any question in the minds of
the New Haven citizens that the Paige
is flexible and will throttle down to a
walk on high Even the chief Of po-
lice admits il.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
S5 FOR ICE FUND

A contribution of SIS to the ice fund
of the Associated Charities was re-
ceived to-day by the managers. The
name of the donor was withheld.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-28
Inside Information.

Various doctors, among them many
specialists, we're called as witnesses
in a case in San Francisco court,
with a view to ascertaining what
killed a woman whose death was In
ouestio- In an insurance litigation.
They I'll testified they had examined
tic wor q pre- ssionally, and the con.
sensus { opir IN was that the dead
woman had 81 red from an affection
of the liver which caused that organ to
shrink materially.
The last doctor on the witness stand
was a young hospital inferno. He
testified that instead of shrunken liver
the dead woman had an abnormallJ
enlarged liver.
do you mean to sit there on thu
| stand and swear that this woman hat
an enlarged liver when all these emf
nent authorities have sworn her live
| WAS wasted and shrunken?" demanded
a lawyer.
81 do" replied the young doctor.
"How comes 1t you set yourself u
against these eminent practitioners
YOU. a young squirt Of doctor Wit
no practice and only a few months GU
OF a medical school? How do yo
know this woman had an enlarge
liyer?" Numbered the lawyer.
81 performed the autopsy" answere
the young doctor.-Chicago Evenin
Post,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-28

and up to her room. The fashion
magazines she hid under the bureau
and the samples were consumed ruth
lessly in the open crate. Two RED
spots burned in her cheeks and sne
had forgotten that she was hungry.
Presently she heard the sound OF
wheels on the hard road outside the
gate.
"IM just drive on down to the cars
and wait for her there" the grave.
tender voice floated up to her. and
she threw herself on her bed IN
agony. stufing the corner of the
spread into her mouth lest she call
him back.
Next mornings mail brought her
letter.
"My darling" 1t ran, II was so dis
! appointed at not finding you last
night. How could you go away with
out letting me know? l had a wire
today calling me to New York al
once on some preliminary business IN
connection with my new job. and l
must leave at eight tonight. love
you, Electra. Arthur T. Palmer"
Electra turned hot and cold as she
read the note. He was called to New
York. Yes, after last night. he had
all the material he needed! He was
false, false. false, and he had kissed
her and made her say she loved MIN!
She buried her face in her hands.
For a week daily letters came from
him. but she hid them away-un.
opened. A paper came also. addressed
in his writing. and that was saois
put away with the letters.
And then one day after dinner she
slipped off down by the big pines &c
be alone. but her mother, glancine
out Of the window, had seen her go
So when Mr.. Palmer called she SEN
him there.
Electra, sobbing with hidden race
did not know any one was near untl
she was gathered up In his arms
) Her protests were smothered in kisse
and her struggles were Gained by MI
: strength. Her head lay YEARLY pacl
; on his shoulder. Little by little n
got the whole story Of his per1d
from her.
"But surely when the lady cam
you understood"
"Nobody came. Oh, did you dar
: to send her here?" she moanee
: straining away from him.
Suddenly he took his arms froi
about her shoulders and shook ne
: soundly.
:. "Stop it," he commanded and Sc
: tied her back against tree. NOW
: y. said, folding his arms and looKin
in her eyes, do you mean to tell n
4 that you didn't get my letters"
\ 81 got some, b-but I didn't open an
K after the one where you said you wei
going away"
"Then l suppose you did not ope
The Lady of the House" either?"
N "What?"
v "A sample copy of the magazine
am to edit in order to afford to mar
Y YOU. Go up to the house and rel
Il those letters and open that magazil
I and look it over, and then II y
( want to see me. come back here.
y March. now!"
\ Electra stared at him with VIC
omen eyes as he settled himself co
fortably on the soft brown needi'
and then-she marched.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-28
The Lady of
the House
BY Ward Trail
Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)


Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
She met him first at the oyster
supper in the Memorial church base
ment where she was helping to serve.
Coming from the little kitchen with
q large tray heavily loaded with
FRY" she had looked very pretty
with her face framed with little
curling tendrils and flushed from ex-
ertion. and he had gone to her in
stantly.
He relieved her of the heavy tray
and masterfully took her over to eat
supper with him. and she did not
serve any more that evening. They
were never introduced because every
one thought from the look of recog-
milton that passed between them
that they had met before. He laugh
ingly called her attention to 1t, ex.
planned 1t to her obvious satisfaction
and demanded her name in exchange
for his.
All her life Electra Arnold had
lived in Rockville, and all during the
grown-up portion of her life she had
been waiting for the right man te
come and take her away. She hoped
he would take her to New York. She
had spurned the tentative attentions
OF the village SWANS that she Nigh
be fancy free when he came. In hel
dreams his name had always beef
Charles Algernon. nothing else, bu
when he owned up to Arthur Taswel
Palmer, she thought that even better
! He saw her every day and escorted
her to all the village social functions
and she was much envied and NOR
quizzed by the neglected bellies
Others there were who loved Electro
and they warned her Of the danger
of taking up with a man who's
people no one knew. He might eve
be married. The warnings fell o
deaf ears.
He told her of his work; he wa
writer, and one day he told her tha
he had succeeded in landing in a
editorial chair at salary that pc
mitted him to marry and live in Ne
York. She never knew exactly whs
1t was he had said or what she ma
answered, but he had kissed her aga1
: and again and slipped a ring on h