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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-15
Pathfinder Making Coast
to Coast on High Gear

Miss Hilda Argall. of Denver, press
button at twelve o'clock. Pacific
time, July 8, which started the motor
of the Pathfinder twelve-cylinder car
in the Panama international Exposition
Grounds, at San Diego, Cal. and amid
the cheering of twenty thouand on
lockers, the car started on its record
making high gear run across the entire
continent to New York City. The cleo
trical equipment between Denver and
San Diego is the same used by Presi-
dent Wilson in starting the Exposi-
tion year and a half ago. The motor
started smoothly and the car rolled away
from the Exposition Grounds on the
first leg of its journey to San Francis
CO. From San Francisco the Pathfinder
viii follow the route of the Lincoln
Highway over the Rocky mountains
across the deserts and prairies on its
way east. The Pathfinder Twelve is a
regulation stock model with the excep-
tion that there are but two gears in
stalled, high gear and reverse. This
does away with any sealing of the
years or any chance to make use of
low or intermediate gear in all the con-
ditions OF cross country touring, and is
heralded by The Pathfinder Company
as the greatest test of which a stock
car was ever subjected. The car is
painted in the national colors, red.
white and blue, and carries the Lincoln
Highway emblem on the sides
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-15
Rubber Supply Increasing
and Lower Cost Possible

So many industries are face to face
with constantly decreasing supplies of
raw materials and ever-increasing de-
mands due to population growth that
the contrast afforded by the rubber
business looms up wildly.
In 1905, according to figures given
out for publication by the B. F. Good
rich Company, uncultivated or ma
tive" rubber comprised 60,S00 tons.
while in 1914 the production had
dropped back to $4,000 tons. But
cultivated or plantation rubber in the
same space of time had risen from las
tons to $4,000 tons.
In 1917 the Goodrich company esti-
mates that while native rubber pro
duction will have fallen to $4,000 tons,
plantation rubber will amount to
$4,000 tons. BY 1921, 1t is predicted,
100000 tons of cultivated rubber will
be available, while but 10000 tons of
native rubber will be produced.
Thus 1917 will show a total increase
of so per cent. in crude rubber sup
plies over 1914. due to the fast-growing
production on plantations And when
raw rubber reaches that level of cost
which vastly increased supplies would
indicate, myriad new uses will be
added to those for which the present
quired.
AS ranches and open ranges become
converted into farms, and the number
of cattle decreases. lessening the sup
ply of leather while the population
which must wear shoes and the fac
tories which must have betting in
crease, rubber will step in more and
more to furnish better service at even
lower cost.
Illustrations of these changes are
already at hand. The B. F. Goodrich
Company has announced textan, a
composition sole which is said to out
wear leather and is superior in many
respects. Goodrich rubber betting is
fast supplanting expensive leather belt
ing and is said to perform the work as
well or better.
Keenly alive to the Importance of
tomorrow in the rubber field, the
Goodrich company states that ii be-
heves in holding to fair and moderate
prices upo nall it produces. Thus it
hopes to hasten the age of rubber
which, in its conviction, means greatly
increased benefits to all humanity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-15
Hudson Speed and Power
Surprised High Officials

John A. Wilson, former president
Of the American Automobile Associa-
tion, has written President Chaplin of
the Hudson Motor Car Co., con-
graduating him on the performance
of the Super-Six," said L. H. Hager-
ling, Hudson distributor for this ter
ritory
In his letter the former head of
the A. A. A. said, I want to congratu-
late you and your company on the
performance of the Super-Six at New
York. When I was on the contest
board of the A. A. A. at one of our
Chicago meetings the question of a
mile-a-minute car came up, and when
/ made the statement that 1 did not
believe any 50-horsepower car then
built as a touring car would carry
four people a mile in sixty seconds, 1
got the laugh. Chairman Butler spoke
Up and said, why don't you offer a
cup?" I told him he could put the
offer in any one of his programs he
desired and make the price of the cup
anything he wanted, because I knew
l would not have to buy it. Stipula-
tions were made that the 4-cylinder
car was to have cylinders no larger
than II, to carry four people includ-
ing driver, each one to weigh at
least 160 pounds, top on but down,
no windshield, carrying no extras.
Only one person qualified, Barney
Oldfeld, who drove a Knox car of the
required specifications and made one
way of the track mile in l minute
II seconds, the other way of the track
J minute 8 seconds. This was the
record for carrying four people in a
50-horsepower car for a long time
Then along came the Packard, Mr..
Vincent driving, and he did better than
Oldfield, but his car is what is called
high powered car. Then came the
demonstration of your Super-Six at
Sheepshead and, to the utter astonish-
nent of the automobile world, you
reeled off not only one mile but many
miles at the rate of 70 miles an hour,
carrying four people, top and wind
shield up. Then to follow up with
the test at Daytona at the rate of 103
miles an hour and then at Sheepshead
Bay, making the wonderful run of "a
hours, averaging 1853 miles per hour
fer "a hours, including stops. We GER
tainly must all take our hats off to you
and your staff. Where you get your
power, how you get your speed, I, for
one. am not able to see, but am
rather inclined to think you have set
mark that will keep them all guess
ins for a while"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-15
Number of Cylinders
Not Main Consideration

Both the six-cylinder and twelve
cylinder cars of to-day are successful
and there is no occasion for a dealer
selling one kind to try and depreciate
the other type" said j. NJ. Davidson,
of the Pennsylvania Auto Sales Com
pany, Harrisburg, distributor of Ma
tional cars
THE fact that one manufacturer
has made a success OF twelve cylinder
cars is no reason another can not make
a success of siX-cylinder cars. If a
l2yman prefers a twelve-cylinder ma
chine, very well; he can get his
moneys worth in such a car, but there
is no reason why the builder of a six
should try to poison his mind against
twelve-cylinder cars as a class.
Any sincere manufacturer of auto
mobiles is entitled to his opportunity
TO tell of his product and to prove
that his claims are right. But no one
should try to tear down the good con-
structive work built up by another.
National builds both twelves and
skies. We say that the number of
cylinders under the hood do not de-
terminate the worth of q car. 1t is
possible to have perfect engine and
still have very imperfect automo-
bile as whole. One part, or one
feature of one part, is good only when
1t helps to compose a harmoniously
operating unit mechanism.
I'VE believe that good twelve is
q good car and a good six is a good
car, and that Is all there is to 1t. The
noise and row being raised over the
question are foolish. People who own
automobiles don't buy cylinders, gears,
axles, or any other separate me-
chanical things just to have such
pieces of machinery for themselves,
They want whole cars, complete units
of construction. Therefore, live and
lot live; let the public Judge automo-
biles by the only true test, by perform
anee. If the right materials are in the
correct place and the car is built right,
you will get the right results from it'i
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-15
WILL MEET IN LANCASTER

Lancaster, Pa, July 10. - The an
nual convention of the Pennsylvania
state Hotel Mems Association will be
held in this city October 16 and II
Lancaster won out over Scranton and
Bedford Springs in contest before
the executive committee meeting here
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-14

racing 128, horse racing 81, wres-
ting 15, cycling II, tennis 1, basket
ball 2, golf IA, field games 3, bowling
9, polo 3, other sports "a.
, Indoor Baseball
st. And. Shamrocks 4, Marcy 0.
De La Sale Is, st. Phillips 8.
Civil Service 4, City Attorneys 1.
Hennepin 6, Damen 2. {
Basketball Scores
Lake View Is, Austin 6.
Lane IL, Harrison 10.
Lake Forest 20, Winona Is.
St. Ignatius 26, Calumet 9.
North Division 10, Medill 8.
McCabe M. E. AZ, Y. M. C. A. 20,
st. Cyril 10, Bowen 4.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-14

weight I1IdI hOISSJ 'dnu CdII lOlIIo,
heavyweight failure, graduated, has
given another to the game-one
Lewis Boedecker, known as plain
Lew Bodie. -
Bodie is like Flynn in one other
respect. He was born in Pueblo.
In the matter Of size Bodie is not
at all like Flynn, but something like
Morris, only more so. Flynn is short
and stocky Morris is big and husky.
Bodie is bigger and huskier. He
measures 6 feet 6A inches. He is
taller and has longer reach than
Fred Fulton, who in turn has a
longer reach than Jess Willard, the
champion.
The Boedeckers ran big boarding
house for the steel workers of Bes-
semer, a suburb of Pueblo. This
boarding house finally passed to the
Spencer family, which also contrib
uted to the sport world in the person
of Joe Eat" Spencer, who played
with Hurry-Up Yost's football squad
at Michigan university.
Bodie, after he became big boy,
became a railroader. Then, like
Flynn and Morris, he went into the
fight game. He fought his first bout
in Pueblo and got the first defeat to
which he admits. RUDE Smith, a
veteran, turned the trick. Since then
Lew has had about Is bouts and he
claims he scored knockouts in II.
Now the big lad is looking for big
game. He has placed himself in the
hands of Harry Pollok, who also
looks after the affairs of Freddy
Welsh, lightweight champion. He
will be sprung on the unsuspecting
public soon.
Nine hundred and forty-three per-
sons have lost their lives in sports,
indoor and outdoor, in ten years.
The highest toll was paid in base
ball, in which 2S4 were killed. More
persons take part in baseball and it
Sc ToJouod ouor a oroo TOR nnTiOd fhop
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-14
is A MAN TOO OLD AT IS TO
HELP SUPPORT HIS WIFE?

When is man too aged and de-
crepit to be expected to contribute
to the support of his wife?
That delicate question came up in
the court of domestic relations when
attorney for Ignatz Swartz, 1916
Larrabee ST., asked that Ignatz be
relieved, for a while, at least, from
continuing to pay his wife 81 week
because his age and infirmities pre-
vented his earning more than SIS a
month
Judge Hopkins wheeled on his
chair and surveyed Ignatz, who
lounged at one side of the room.
"How old is this defendant"
asked the judge.
HE is So, your honor" softly re-
piled the attorney, with tears in his
broken voice.
"You don't call that old, do your"
snapped the Judge. "a man of 55 is
not old. He can get work all right.
That is no excuse on which to ask to
be relieved of paying 81 week to
his wife's support"
Whereupon the. attorney asked
leave to take the motion before
Judge Fisher, who awarded Mrs. Ig-
natz the 81 in July. Permission was
granted.
OskHiNboe nan travel a. q ra&o "a
The sun., 1916-11-26
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE

Boris Godunow' viii open tho third
week Of the Metropolitan Opera season
tomorrow evening. It will be sung
by Mines. Ober. Dclaunois, Sparkes
Howard and hatfield and Messrs. d.
dur, Althouse. Rothier. De Segurola,
Bada. Rossi, Audisio. Bloch, Schlegel
and Reschiglian- Mr.. Polacco will con-
duct.
"Parsifal" will Be sung at the specia,
Thanksgiving Day matinee, beginning
at l o'clock. In the cast will be Mines.
Kurt, Braslau. Sparkes, Mason. Garri-
son, %Sundelius. Curtis and Perini and
Messrs. Sembach. Braun. Well. Goritz
Ruysdael, Reiss. Schlegel, Bloch and
Audisio. Mr.. Bodanzky will conduct.
Other operas mex week announced
by General Manager Gatti-C aaazzs
are: La Traviata" on Wednesday
with Mines. Hempel. Egener and Matt
field. and Messrs. Carpi (debut), Amato
Bada, Rossi., Tegani and R%eschigiian
Papi conducting; LA Boheme" on
Thursday evening with Mines. Aida ant
Mason and Messrs. Martinelli. Scott
Do Segurola, Tegani. Malatesta, Au-
disio and Reschigiian. Papi conduct.
Ing; 'Tohengrin" on Friday evening
with Mines. Fay and Ober and Messrs
Urlus, Braun. Well and Leonhardt
Bodanxky conducting.
aida" will be given At next weeks
Saturday matinee with Mines. Rap.
pold. Homer and Sparkes and Messrs
Caruso. De Luca. Didur. Rossi ant
Audisio. Polacco conducting.
| m Hot,rAsv Avautu1 NJ thA RpnOk
liyn Academy Of Music. the company
The sun., 1916-11-26
OPERA FOR METROPOLITAN AUDIENCE
CONCERTS OF THE WEEK.

UNDAY-Phlharmonic Society CarneHe Hall. 3 !. 0yH
phony Society, Aeoian Hall, 8 p. M; Munel Symonds. soprano, Com
edy Theatre. 9 !. MI; Vladimir DahiGsky ,csni ,s. l%a G.s.. . ;oHH,sn no
sital, Comedy Theatre, s:l5 ?. M; chamber nude concert rM HAIL:
p. M.
MoNDAY-ossdp 0abrilowitsch. pdsnoforte recital Aeensn Han.
9 ?. NJ; Leila Holterhcf. song recital COMEDY Theatre . !. NJ; An
TUEsDAY-Jula Culp, Carnegie Hail. 8 P. NJ, osorgs Hemnn.
tenor, Aeolian Hall, 8 p. NJ; Edna Mampel, contralto, Comedy Thsa-
ts. 8 P. NJ; Trio De Lutece and Emma Robert. eontzslte, Co.t
Theatre, 8 p. NJ; Flonzaley Quartet, Aeonan Hall, 9d6 =. Nj Ed
ward Bromberg, song recital, Rumford Han. $40 Pm. 49,
WEDNESDAY-Eddy Brown, violin, L. I. Gruenborl piano,
sonata recital, Aeolian Hall, 8 P. M.
acknowledgements Schnitzsr, pianoforte recital Cafnege
Hall, p. NJ; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 8:16 P. n;
Victoria Boshko, pianist, Natalie Boshko. Nolinist, Joint recital, AsoE
ian Hall, 80 P. M.
FRiDAY-Ethel LesinsAs, .pianoforte recital Carnegie Han. .
P. M; George Harris, tenor, Aeolan Hall, 8 r. NJ; Percy Hemus, bary.
tone, Aeoinn Hall, sa5 P. NJ; Bilmore morning musicale. Hotel Bit
more, ii A. M.
sATURDAYI,Boston symphony oreh:str4. Carnegie Hall. $50
Bauer and Jacques Thibaud, joint recital. Aeoian Hal. s.16 +. N.
The sun., 1916-11-26

territory, but because the classic I'M
pulse had spent itself and the rise Of
the works Of Mozart. Weber and other
composers with clearly marked ma
tionalistc ideas had discovered to the
romance and history.
Perhaps II would not be Q formidable
task to show that the opera hbretto
was one OF the last stronghoIds Of the
conscious effort to he Hellenistic. Ar
chitecture still coquettes with the
italian Renaissance style or relapses
heavily into more massive Roman
esque. Greek purity occasionally
struggles for relncarnation in the col
umns and lintels OF a modern post
of'ce or railway station.
But wherever the antique orders are
employed they are indisputably adapted
TO the unitarian purposes OF modern
life. And not every adaptation IL such
a shining as Cass Gi.bert's ap-
p~lication of the perpendicular Gothic
to tho woolworth Building.
But In tho opera libretro there was
no erdeavor to modernize the classic
stories. The librettists labored to imi-
tate, not Poliziano, Of whom they
knew nothing. but possibly Rinuccini
or more likely Metastasio. When the
German public had onoe tasted h liv-
ing Joy OF Don Giovanni" and still
later OF Der Freischuetz," when the
Italians had learned that shakespeare's
"Othello" and Beaumarcha.s's Figaro
could live. whereas Rinaldo and Nero
and Tito had become ghosts and very
tired ghosts At that, the new era was
already in existence.
/. What . pity Il produced 20 much
The November scrtbner has q story
by James Huneker. II 10 called "The
Husband Of Madame" II you are
young you may read II without sus.
pic,on or regret. II the yellow tint,
Of autumn are IN your years. do moi
read II. Shades OF Murio-CelN! WHIT
of to-day recalls those wonderful
pupils concerts. when n from
operas were done by tho BUDDING
prima donnss on the Academy stage
Shades Of Charley Mapleson. tn,
"Tof." Of Joe siegrist, OF Buchisnani
OF Anna Do Belocca. of--oh. we'll. neve,
mind. But James Huneker must b.
and he centuries up spectres Of tn
past 10 mako merry with them for thu
idle tale readers Of to-day.
Yet all will be forgiven n he vii
teach some heavy handed mixer Of up
per Broadway how TO make Buchig
nani's champagnino.
The sun., 1916-11-26

most Of the habitual operagoers. and
n confesses to q secret toy at the
thought. They will miss tho pepper
and the salt. They will look in vain
for the sensational moments and the
instants OF shock. Dragged away from
their red. white and blue pictures and
cruelty confronted with a piece Of
noble sculpture they will be quickly
iulled to slumber or stung to rebellion.
But the lover Of pure beauty will be
thankful that for q time his driven
spirits Will be accorded repose. He
will rejoice that he may sit IN rcstful
contemplation. al who climbs the
Acropolt and pauses in tho presence
OF the eternal calm and majesty OF the
Parthenon.
After the "Alcests' Of Gluck there
were others, Schwcitzer's "Alceste'
given at Leipsic In i774; Gresnick's,
London. 1856: Portasallo's. Venice,
1898; Draghi's. Venice. 1893; DEL
warts, tho Odeon, Paris. 1s47; Staffa's,
Naples. 1852, and Gambaro's. Livorno,
1882. There were several opeyas on
the subject of "Orpheus and Eurydice."
inc dSt pIODdOiy uriHS w
produced in 1887. But these were not
as numerous as the "Alcestes."
After the production Of Gluck's "lph-
lgenie en- Tauride" there seems TO
have been no other attempt to deal
with the subject. P~uccini's opera was
brought out and that was tho END,
G.uck unknowingly had closed a most
interesting chapter in operate history.
That chapter has not yet been writ
ten. 50 far as THE SUNS reviewer oan
ascertain. But when It is It Will be
INCORPORATED in the history OF the
libretto. II will be the important chap
| ter treating Of the influence of the re-
| vtyal of lea rning In Italy on tho seleo-
ton of themes for the lyric drama.
The awakening Of tho secular drama
from its long medieval slumber TOOK
place when Angelo Poliziano's "Orfeo'
| was produced al tho Court OF Mantua
! in the closing years Of the fifteenth
| century. For 400 years tho story con-
| tInued to interest opera composers
| albeit in the last fifty Of them WITH
| rewer instances. In the early years
q, opera "Orfeo" was tho chief theme
of librettists and composers.
PERI n CdCclHi, Wno Ho'o U.s.
honored as tho fathers of the tahar
opera, both chose It. Monteverdi, th'
first real genius in the field, wrote nj:
greatest work on It Luigi Rossi
whose mission Il was (under the be
| nisn protection Of the Cardinal Ma
zarin) to introduce italian opera u
paris, was represented there by hi
"Orfeo."
when the opera spread into othe'
countries "Orfeo" led the march. TIT
celebrated Reinhard Keiser composed
an "Orfeo" for Hamburg In l7O2
Oraun wrote one in italian for Berlir
IN 1852; Christian Bach produced on
An ITO, and Benda n in German II
Vienna in 17ss, Even Papa" HaydA
wrote ono.
But little acquaintance with the his
tory of opera IL sufncient to oonvinc'
the student that in the first half OF tn
nineteenth century a new type OF SUP
Iects displaced those borrowed iron
1 Classic Antiquity. II was not mertl
becauss tbs triumphant achievement
~ 0luck In '1phigsnis on Tauride' dis
couraesd further adventures In n OIL
The sun., 1916-11-26
D. W. J. HENDERSON.

" ? LILLIAN CRAZY BROwNELL
W read . paper entitled STAND.
" ards" at ths recent annual
nserng Of the National Institute OF
hs and Lettsra Il was enjoyed
rtaty by a cultivated audience. This
passr and its author represented pre-
dssly the things for which the Ma
uenal Institute and American Acad-
my Of Arts and Letters stands
Neither Mr.. Browusll nor the stand
sds Of taste in art for which he made
NeA q n exquisite plea are known to
The seething mas Of hunters
Constituting the bulk Of the population
4 these United States.
. II election to the institute rested
with the 'peepul" Of even Congress
htters would be represented by the
author Of the best seller. music by the
composer of the latest music hal
hvorits. and art by the clever gentle
nm who draw illustrations for popu-
hr magazines.
It 10 an absolute certainty that such
IVA ~ "3llihAA GSOoCoC -
Ford Rhodes and Timothy Cole. &c
take q Few at random. would not get q
vote. To combat the downMard ten.
lsncies OF popular taste in letters
and arts every agency connected viii
them should direct its efforts. Vul-
purity IL running wild throughout tho
country. Every man who seeks cul'
ture Is teered at az a "highbrow" and
n the 1eering some newspapers car
TOO often be found among the mos
active shouters.
II is therefore with some satisfac'
Ton that the person whose business
II e TO write about doings In the worlt
Of music observes the metropolitan
: Opera House In one Of its "periodica
fits OF morality" For opera 10 sadly
IN need OF regeneration In this time O
tAwdry art. declamatory fustian ant
musical red FIRE.
Tho lyric drama in the last twenty
I'VE years has Vol had, perhaps,
clearly defined trend in any n direc
tion: but there has been an under
current o; evil influence. 1t begar
10 flow with force when the realist
eooded the stage with such "studae
II life" az "a Basso Porto"
The sgonies Of a butcher suherinl
from a grand passion OF a 'scrubwomal
tortured by a hopeless love n a
active thirst for CORY vengeance ma
Be a. keen and as worthy, of our sym
pathy a. the sorrows Of Werther o
the ~misfortunas Of Zphigenia; but tn
methods adopted BY the creators @
the condensed opera OF the n &C
variety bring before our minds not =
painfully the lofty tragedy which ma
slorify the lives Of the lowly AZ tn
ugliness and the ~sordidness Of It all.
The difference between art and wha
they give us 10 that between I'd
Merchant Of venics" end . mornin
report Of proceedin IN a police cour
: When Thomas Hardy wrote "Tess' n
accomplished precisely what these rae
pickers Of human life cannot reaci
He revealed the poetry Of . woman
misery, They would show W only tn
misery. -"
30 one hsayss . sish Of relief whs
contemplating the production Of
classic masterpiece. such an "Iphisen'
In Tauris." One knows It VIII Dol
The sun., 1916-11-26
THE WEEK OF OPERA.
Metropolitan Opera House

.oNpAY-"Bois Godunowt., Zines obsr and De'ao'0'' A'""
wEpNEsbHY." SIb p. Ms Travtata." Nine. HempsL Me'a%
rHuRsBAYsi =. M = Mms. Kurt. Mss"s. ssrnbach' Well
THURSDAY : SIS Il. M.-"La. Bohsms" Mines. Aids and Mason
FRIDAY. TaS r Mr-SLohsnYrln," Mines. Fay and ohsr' Ms'sr'
SATURDAY,. aP. MMES:Xias |. lgnps RappoN and Homsr. Mss~a