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The Penn's Grove record., 1915-12-24
Get Your Mems Furnishings Here

All the new creations await your coming.
Hosiery, NeckVear and Handkerchiefs, beautifully boxed, at 81 and $50 each
Neckwear OF al the new creations, 25c, SOC, 75c, 81 and $15O each.
Silk Shirts from $3.50 to IS each.
Lap Robes orSeamer blankets, priced at $3.50. S., S, So So p to $40 each.
Smoking Jackets, priced at S. S. and 81 each.
Bath Robes, beautiful styles, full and complete line. Priced So, 81 and IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02


Back to the company with which
he\ was first associated when he be-
came resident of Harrisburg, Ross
C. Barrett has again accepted the
management of the East End Auto
Company, whose garage and sales
rooms are at Linden and Shrub
streets, near Thirteenth and Walnut.
This company has the agency for the
Studebaker and Oldsmobile gasoline
cars and the Detroit electric. Mr..
Barrett has been associated with the
Crispen Motor Car Company for sew
eral years. Prior to that he was in
charge of the East End Auto Com
pany's business. In fact, he came TO
Harrisburg from Washington to as
sumo that position. Before becoming
resident of this city Mr.. Barrett
was associated with leading automo-
bile establishments at Washington
and Philadelphia, and has travelled eX-
tensively as factory representative.
The service feature of the business
is given special consideration by Mr..
Barrett, who has the necessary equip
ment and experienced mechanical
help to render proper service to
Studebaker and Oldsmebile owners.
Edward Cavender, we'll known local
automobile salesman, has accepted q
position on the sales force of the East
End Auto Company and will assist
Mr.. Barrett ir pushing the famous
cars represented by this agency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
AUTO SHOW OPENED
At NEW YORK TODAY
Exhibits Valued at $3,560,000
Requires $4,000 Additional
So. Fl. Of Floor Space

The Fifteenth Annual National Au-
tomoblle Show opened at o'clock this
afternoon in the Grand Central Palace.
Lexington avenue and Forty-eighth
street, New York city. Displays OF
goods conservatively valued at more
than ss.500.0O0 occupy the 10000
square feet of floor space on the four
floors of the huge building. This is
about $4,000 more square feet of floor
space than was available in previous
seasons. There is a total of SsS ex-
hibits. Gasoline pleasure cars are dts
played by eighty-one manufacturers.
Six companies are showing electric
cars. Thirteen are displaying motor
cycles. Then there are 2SS makers of
accessories Five hundred and twenty
eight cars are shown. The lowest
priced car is S295 and the highest
$4,000. The decorative scheme is
Persian palace, with lobby represent
ing a California outdoor setting. The
show colors are white. gold and GRIM
son. Exhibits include famous racing
cars and trophies.
The show will be open every day at
10 O'Clock and remain open until 1890
In the evening for seven days. with the
exception of Sunday, when the build
ing Will remain closed. Wednesday will
be society day. when the usual double
admission will be charged Monday
will be theatrical day. upon which day
representative players will be guests of
the management. No commercial cars
will be shown this year, but a special
information bureau will be maintained
for commercial vehicle manufacturers.
The formal opening of the 1915
salon. as the annual exhibition of for
eign cars in New York is known, took
place at l o'clock in the grand ball
room of the Astor Hotel This exhibit
has the distinction of beign the only
automobile exhibition. including cars
of European manufacture. to be held
anywhere in the world this season
The famous Paris salon and the Lon
don Olympia. and in fact all the for
eign shows have been abandoned for
1915 at least. Practically all OF the
importers have been able to secure the
new models and special jobs intended
for the 1915 show season abroad and
In this country. The construction of
these cars was we'll under way and in
some cases completed when the war
started.
The usual number of motor enthusi-
asts and leading dealers are expected
to leave Harrisburg and vicinity the
first of next week to attend the ma
tional show and keen in touch with
the greatest assemblage of motor cars
and accessories that has ever been dis
played under one roof.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
Cadillac Eight" Draws
Large Crowds at Shows

In the automobile shows each year
some one car or some one advance
made in the industry during the year
receives major portion of the interest
of the visitors.
1t seems that, in this seasons shows.
the eight-cylinder Cadillac is to be the
focusing point of this attention by rea-
son of its having been the first eight
|, cylinder car produced and marketed in
large quantities by an American
maker.
In automobile engineering circles
the Cadillac achievement has been and
is regarded as the most noteworthy
forward step recorded during the year
in motor car construction in this
country.
Rumors that the Cadillac Company's
new production would be an eight
cylinder car flew thick and fast during
the late summer; and the actual an
nouncement was awaited with the
most intense interest Since the cars
have been placed in the hands of own
ers their performance has been
watched with interest no less intense.
1t should be said that disappoint-
ment awaits those who seek the Cadil-
lac exhibit with the expectation of
viewing a car of radical external ap-
pearance. One who does not know
that the hood covers a motor of eight
cylinders might assume that the power
Hldul was the COINenllOllal IOuf-CNlln-
der design, for the hood is no longer
than that used on last years Cadillac.
This is due to the fact that the eight
cylinders are not arranged in line, but
are set opposite each other. at right
angles, or in N-form, four on each
side. The advantages of this construc-
ton may be classified under four
heads. sibe, weight, torque and cool
ing.
The compactness of construction re-
suits in correspondingly short crank.
shaft and camshaft, which practically
eliminates the periodic vibration or
thrashing to which long shafts are
subject.
On a given power basis, the cylin-
ders are smaller. as are the recipro-
eating parts, which-together with the
shorter shafts and crank case and the
lighter fiy-wheel-results in material
reduction of weight.
Torque or turning power is abso-
lutely continuous and uniform with
eight cylinders. according to engineers.
and additional cylinders could not con-
fer any appreciable advantage in this
respect. Hence, eight is regarded as
maximum so far as number of CYL
inders is concerned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
MOTORCYCLE NOTES

Peoria, ILL.,, is contemplating the
addition of several machines to it's
motorcycle police squad in the
Spring.
New Orleans motorcyclists will
stage a New Years road race to
Oracle and return.
Fully realizing the importance of
the motorcycle police squad, Column
bus. Ohio, is planning to purchase a
number of additional machines in the
Spring.
February Is to 20 is the date set
for the annual motorcycle show at
Omaha, Neb.
A motorcycle turkey hunt in the
Menard country is being made by
Morton, e. r. Fitzpatrick and II. e.
Harris.
About thirty riders are expecting to
participate in the fourth annual New
Years run of the Toronto Motorcycle
Club.
A new motorcycle club has been
organized at Admission, Alabama, with
organization will affiliate with the f.
A. NJ.
The Argo Creamery Company of
Atlanta, Ca, has installed a motor
cycle delivery service for delivering
fresh milk on special orders.
Motorcyclists of Detroit plan to re-
organize naming their club the De-
troit Motorcycle Club. They are also
going to start a campaign to increase
the membership to 200.
"I have ridden 10000 miles on my
motorcycle without any mechanical
troubles" says Frank Havlichek. of
oxford Junction, Ia.
C. A. Pete, of Des Moines, Ia, says
he has ridden his motorcycle $4,000
miles in two seasons. and at a cost
of less than one cent a mile.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
Maxwell Company Makes
Prosperous Report For Year

owners of Maxwell cars. and par
ticularly automobile dealers. will be
pleased to hear. that despite the war
and rather depressed business condi-
uons during the early part OF 1914,
the Maxwell Motor Company. the
great Detroit motorcar manufactur-
ing concern, enjoyed the most sue
cessful year in its history.
Under the sllillful and able man
agement of President Walter E.
Flanders, the Maxwell company this
year concentrated on one model and
brought out a low-priced car which
met with an enthusiastic reception
from the public. AS a result, Maxwell
dealers made money and their cus-
toners were delighted with their
cars.
Not only this. but what is equally
important. the Maxwell company
made money too, as the last annual
statement showed a net income of
over $500. 100000 as against dividend
requirements on the first preferred
stock of 1853. 9.553.00.
The management. however, deemed
1t advisable to conserve the liquid as
sets of the company for the develop
ment and extension of it's business.
So, no dividends were declared and
the Maxwell company has now ap-
s6,00O.000.00 of net
working assets of which $1,TS5,992 90
was in cash, as of July 31st. the date
of the annual statement. The COM
pany's business this year is running
more than twice as large as last year
and earnings should be in proportion.
AS result of this wonderfully sat
isfactory showing of the company,
their securities are to be listed on the
New York Stock Exchange. This at
first glance may not seem remarkable.
but when one considers the fact that
only two automobile companies out
of over 400 doing business in this
country have been able to get their
securities listed on the Exchange, it
means that the Maxwell company has
been able to pass the acid test re-
quired by the governors of the lead
ing security market of the United
States.
1t also means that the Maxwell
company. before its securities could
be listed. had TO give a full state
ment to the Stock Exchange officials
concerning its organization, resources
and Indebtedness; and that the state
ment was satisfactory is indicated by
the fact that its securities have been
officially listed on the Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
MYRTLE EINYN


The music lovers of Harrisburg have
rare treat in store on the evening
of January s. when Myrtle Elvyn will
give a piano recital at the Technical
High School Auditorium.
This talented musician comes after
unusual success in recitals in conti-
mental Europe. Her technic and the
wonderful understanding which she
brings to the most subtle moods of the
composers whom she interprets makes
her popular.
She possesses a nerve. a strength,
virility of style. which, shaded by
her feminine warmth of feeling leaves
nothing to be desired. The passion of
Liszt, the strength and grandeur of
Bach andy Beethoven. are rendered
with the same sureness of expression
as the tender poetry of Schumann or
Chopin.
The rapidity with which this artist
changes from one mood to another,
the emotional force which is displayed
with equal skill is the most ponderous
passages or the most delicate phrasing.
Is remarkable both for it's brilliancy
and rich emotional feeling.
Miss Eivyns program has been care
fully selected to show her full re-
sources.
Seat sale starts Monday. January 4.
at the J. II. Troup Music House, I5
South Market Square.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02

Augustus II. Kreidler last night was
re- elected president of the Hope Fire
Company for the fourth successive
year. Other officers chosen:
Ephraim Painter. vice-president;
William l.. Windsor. Srd, secretary
John c. Kinder, treasurer; Edward
Halbert, GEORGE Shoemaker. Edwin
Keys, trustees; Ralph McCord. hora-
rian: the Rev. Harry Nelson Bassler'
chaplain: Samuel Olsen, company en-
gineer; II. a. Chayne. r. f. Mckee. f.
L. Kinder. auditors; William Mccoy.
James Wolf. w. l.. Windsor. William
Stewart. L. L. Kinder, safety commit
tee; James Wolf. Samuel Olsen. a. w.
Mahaffee. delegates TO Flremen's
Union o. f. Osler. delegate to Fire
mems Relief; Charles Sprucebank'
Ralph McCord. Harry Mile, inVestlgat-
ing committee; \; ". Meha5teei, F; IL 4
Kinder Harry Miller, Ralph McCord,
George j. ) oemaker. William l. Wind
sor. 3rd. Charles Sprucebank. William
Halbert. James Wolf and l.. Brinton'
board of trustees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
DODGE BROTHERS
ADD FIVE ACRES
Additional Floor Space of 100000
Square Feet at Cost of
$650,000

Contractors and builders are busy
at the big Detroit plant of Dodge
Brothers. erecting additions to their
already extensive group OF factory
buildings. At present the plant OF
Dodge Brothers has over Is acres OF
floor space and with the addition OF the
new buildings, five more acres or man
ufacturing space will be added TO the
factory. ,,,, I'll,
be known as the pressed steel snop' @
This building will be 400 feet IONS
- feet wide and four stet; Store; nis ara ~,
designed with a strength TO carry ul-
timately six stories. ,,,,,a,,y
To give access to the new puil ilo,is .Is
from the new assembling plant, tae
latter will be extended lSs feet AZ It's
east end, giving it a total length OF
about LOGS feet wins VIII ,ist ne forn, orrn'
railroad tracks and driveways TO con-
meet with the south end OF the presseo
steel shop. ,,,.,.
area Of about 10000 square feet, while
there will be about sO.OOO square iSet @
in the extension 20 tn the & asseniosiiHds sss ~ sids
of the building about one-quarter lts
length from each END are two wings
25x52 feet, in each of whlca tnere VII, an
each floor OF these wings Will be toilet;
wash and locker rooms. stairways and
Steel frame construction covered with
concrete will be used throughout the
first and second stories of the pressed
steel shop, while the remainder OF II
and all the addition to the assembling
building with the joining wing VIII De
of reinforced concrete construction:
The exterior is to harmonic in de-
sign with the present buildings, all eN-
posed brick corresponding in color and
quality. All window sash and glazed
doors will be of steel unit sash, glazed
with the best quality OF ribbed factory
glass. Hard maple flooring dipped in
parafne oil will be used to finish the
The large shipping platform along
the assembling building will be eX-
tended the full length of the addt-
tion and provision made for extension
of the electric crane tracks. At the
north end of the pressed steel shop
will be a covered unloading platform
with necessary crane equipment. EN-
tending the fun length inside of the
new building are to be two crane run
WAYS just under the third floor so that
material can be handled both TO and
from the first and second floors.
Additions to the office building or
Dodge Brothers will make that struc-
ture nearly eight times larger than
ing is a two-story structure, 116N52
feet. Alterations under way will make
II n four-story building, 320NI2 feet at
cost of about 100000.
II is estimat ted the cost of the press
ed steel shop and office building will
be about S650,0O0 With the new
buildings, Dodge Brothers will be one
of the three largest automobile plants
in Detroit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
Automobile a Time Saver
to Travelling Statesmen

The matter of providing statesmen
with automobiles, instead of requiring
them to depend on railroad trains and
trolley cars in calling up the trade. is
a question that is now receiving care
full consideration by the heads of
many large wholesale houses and
manufacturers.
A number OF representative firms
have already adopted this plan. and
report that it works adavntageously
particularly in States closely settled
with small towns, such as Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, New York, Con-
nesticut and Massachusetts,.
In line with this idea, the Metz
Automobile Company, of Waltham,
Mass. has just issued for free distri-
button. a neat and cleverly illustrated
booklet addressed to the heads of
sales departments, and entitled Sell
ing by Automobile"
Its text is confined to plain business
argument. To read it is to gain valu-
able ideas, for whoever wrote it GER
tainly is familiar with the ways of
statesmen. Among other things it
says:
''All statesmen study timetables.
They try to make connections. They
figure on train schedules and inter
urban trolley car connections. Un-
consciously, they allow these compu-
tations to weigh more than they are
worth, as compared with the impor-
tance of getting the order"
A number of interesting compari-
sons are made between railroad sales
men and automobile statesmen, and
the story continues:
Driving a car makes a man of a
salesman. 1t steadies him. 1t keeps
him alert and wideawake. 1t is the
opposite from sitting in stuffy rail-
way coach and nodding himself to
sleep. 1t develops his nerves. 1t
quickens his thoughts, it puts more
red blood in his veins. Tt makes him
a better representative of your house"
The responsibility or necessity of
making" a certain train is a dis
turbing element with anybody, and
with some people 1t is a nerve
wrecker. No salesman can sell goods
if he is nervous. He needs d clear
mind and calm demeanor, and he
cannot possess either If he is worry
ing about getting back home.
AS the Metz Company's argument
puts it, what you want to do to
make a good salesman is to take out
of his head. and keep out of his head,
all thoughts of getting back
In short. this little book is so plumb
full of good things in the way of mod
ern, practical salesmanship, that we
advise every sales manager to write
for a copy of it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
Woman Seriously Burned
When Clothing Catches
Fire at Mechanicsburg
Special TO The Telegraph

Mechanicsburg, Pa, Jan. "A SER
ious accident occurred here this morn
ing, when Miss Mary Young, living
in East Main street. was seriously
burned. Miss Young was raking the
fire in a range when her apron caught
fire and in a moment all her clothing
was ablaze. In her excitement she
ran into the yard and neighbors.
hearing her screams. went to her
assistance and extinguished the
flames. She was badly burned all over
the body, her face and arms being
severely blistered. Physicians were
called and treated her at once. but
were unable to determine whether she
had inhaled flames or not. Her con-
dition is very critical.
Miss Young is about So years old
and lived alone. She was taken to the
home OF her brother-in-law. Chris
tian Martin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-02
FORTIFyING TERRIToRv

Petrograd, via London. Jan. 9, 7.15
A. M-The inactivity of the Germans
in the neighborhood of Warsaw for
some days past is explained according
to reports reaching here by the claim
that they have employed this time in
fortifying the territory already taken
up to the Bunra river and along the left
bank of the lower and middle vistula
river.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05

not in love with the railroad business in Alaska. It operates a railroad to get out it's copper ore only because no one else can. The syndicate, he said, is more intent on mining than on railroading. If it were assured of transportation for it's ore at a req sonable price it would be quite willing to let the government have the road at bargain sale or lease.
 And also the Alaska Northern might readily be taken over.
 Of course the difficulty about all this is the political capital that would accrue to the enemies of the admins tration should the administration be found dickering with the predatory in- terests in business deal.
 Hence the careful-and prayerful- consideration that Secretary Lane IS giving to the whole subject.-Seattle Post-Intellinger.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-It is ex-

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-It is ex- pected that the report of the Alaskan engineering commission on it's surveys for a system of government railroads in Alaska will be ready about Febru- ary 1.
 After it is prepared Secretary Lane will make his recommendations as to routes and terminals. It appears to be assumed in many quarters that the commission in its report is to recom- mend routes and terminals.
 Tonnage is the consideration that is much in the secretary's mind. The ad- ministration would regard it as dis tinct achievement to have real gov ernment owned railroad in operation before the close or US term, MaICh 4, 1917. If that railroad is hauling much tonnage and is on a paying basis so much the better.
 An entirely new system of railroads in Alaska will have to be built on the assumption that the pioneer builders who constructed the Alaska Northern and the Copper River & Northwestern overlooked tonnage possibilities; that they did not build on the best routes, or else on the assumption that by gov ernment edict another route can be made just as good.
 Mir. Morgan plainly told the secre- tary that the Alaska syndicate was
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05

owing to bad weather. They had look ed forward to 1914 as likely to make up all deficits; the weather from the beginning of the summer was excel lent and the rush of tourists in June and early July was unprecedented.
 The few tourists who remained af- ter the warcloud appeared were frightened away by the panic among the Swiss bankers, which caused the refusal of all letters of credit and even foreign money.
 At present, many of the big hotels are closed, and the number of guests in those which remain open is almost negligible. Nor is there much likeli- hood of any improvement in condi-
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05
(By The Associated Press.)

ZURICH, Jan. 4.-Switzerland's lot since the war began has been a hard one. The cost of maintaining the army in a state of mobilization is esti- mated at fully $4OO,OOO a day. The loss to the hotel keepers in three mon- ths is figured at $25,OOO,OOO.
 The hotel keepers probably suffer more than any other class, especially as they had lean years in 1912 and l9
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05
NRutH frnnt All
 Barta nf tlrF N Nnrthlanh 1

PARIS, Dec. 21.-Horace B. Dun bar, formerly proprietor of the Rain ier-Grand Hotel at Seattle is dead here after long lingering illness. He came to Europe to seek restoration of health at several of the noted springs. He was we'll known by AlaSkanS.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05

Some inspired genius W. Langley Kentucky month according
 story published Alaska that he intends to introduce repeating the Alaska railroad bh Just short time previously proposed the exchange of the Alaska panhandle British somewhere another
 Nothing the Langley affair but he would probably print of his home village grass attention bray" good another of animal whO noise is bigger himself
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05

Another which the Alaska column today the story Washington correspondent Alaska railroad commission will be ready presentation about February The is printed which stated that Lane thinks better of buying the correspondent that he does know And h he the COrdOa built what would the
 think good bargain The lord love that
 Guggenheims sell that railroad anyhow admittedly purpose than ship copper absolutely nothing sight glacier scenery would be absolutely getting to the fields would perfectly gateway pasture Never mind Washington correspondents any
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05

tions in time for the winter sports season.
 As a matter of fact, living cOndit- ions in Switzerland have changed very little. There is a shortage of coal and petrol but food prices have probably increased not much more than ten per cent.
The Seward gateway., 1915-01-05

Manly Mayhood was reported late this afternoon to still be unconscious, struggling for life after the terrific shock received from falling down the shaft on Cleary creek and it's after re- suits. Dr. Hall, who has his case, states that some of his symptoms are favorable and some otherwise. It is impossible to predict the outcome, yet the physician seems to feel there is a good fighting chance.