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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
PAIGE TR|UMPHS IN FRISCO HILL CLIMB
Salmesman Shoots Car Over Steep Grade Several
 Times

Since the days of the first automobile
 hill climbing has been one of the most
 popular and impressive ways of demon
 strating a cars power and stamina" says
 Henry Krohn, sales manager ot the
 Paige-Detroit Motor Car company. Tt
 certainly is inspiring to see a motor car
 mount a steep grade and roll triumph
 antly over a lofty crest. The ambitious
 demonstrator, however, had best be sure
 that his car can make the grade for
 if he fails not only is the impression , bad, but he may be placed in an unhappy comparison with a competitor who suc~
 ceeds
 Tn San Francisco just now one of the
 best advertised spots in town is Duncan hill. Public attention was first espe-
 cially attracted to the hill by one man failure. and then it was centered With renewed force by anothers man trl- umphant success.
 'The hill had long been regarded as an extremely difficult grade for a car to negotiate. A certain motor car dealer, however, advertised confidently that at an hour named he would drive his car up and over the hill and he invited the public to be present and see him turn the trick.
 The public came in large numbers and they watched the over-ambitious dealer try to drive up the hill. Four times he tried and four times he failed. Then he gave it up and the spectators had to go home. This unfortunate incident gave a great deal of publicity to Duncan hill and probably brought it to the attention of people who had never heard of it before. "One of our Paige salesmen in San Francisco determined to take advantage l of the situation He had absolutely con- fidence in his car, believing implicitly that it would make the grade. Taking a "Six-40' out of stock he drove to the hill one evening and tried it out The Paige mounted to the crest without trouble. 'Fhereupon a large sign was prepared and wrapped around the body of the | Paige. It announced that this car would 1 climb Duncan hill every day for 10 days 1 as often as anyone cared to ride up and the load was limited only to the capacity of the car-seven people And so climb ing Duncan hill in Paige became the l popular outdoor sport for 10 days, hun dreds of people taking advantage of the i offer, which proves that you must know 1 what you can do and then do it at the psychological moment, so to speak,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
HUPP CLIMBS THE
 CHINESE WALL Demonstration of Hill Climbing Qualities of
 New Model

A cabegram from Picking, China from Charles Denby, vice-pesident of the Hupp Motor Car corporation, an nounces the latest performance of the Hupmobile, which is noted, for it's many feats all over the world.
 To demonstrate the hill-climbing ability of the model "N', Hupmobile Charles De Wette, representative of the Hupmobile agency at Picking, China drove one of the cars up the Tartar City wall at Picking carrying five pas sengers.
 This is the first time an automo- bile has ever been driven to the top of the famous Chinese wall, and it re- mained for an American car to be the first to accomplish the feat. Moving pictures were made of the performance of the Hupmobile going up the incline
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
RACES EXCLUSIVELY
 FOR FORD MACHINES
Race in North Bend, Ore, With Only Fords Entered, Proves Diverting
 Affair, Says Letter

Races with nothing but Ford cars en- tered. Would this prove an attractive entertainment for Birmingham? If it didn't, the residents of this city would be in class by themselves TOT Ford races are proving popular in other S.ts of the country. One has just been held in North Bend, Oregon, and it was a great success.
 In a letter to E. w Brownell of the Brownell Automobile company, from a friend at North Bend, the following is contained:
 "The North Bend race was held over 12 city blocks. The course covered F times made 25 miles. The winner made it in 47 minutes, which considering the numerous turns around the city corners, was excellent time. It was a great race, Ted. Why don't you Ford owners in Birmingham pull one. The race up here was witnesses by an enormous crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
s OF INTEREST TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS AND DEALERS

used by the troops. to the submit of the wall, and several hundred spectators saw the performance.
 De Wette, in making this climb, car- ried distinguished list of passen- gers which included the American min ister to China, Paul s. Reinch; Colonel Donald, of the American Range; Chas Denby former American consul general at Shanghai, also vice. president of the Hupp Motor Car Corporation, and a Chinese journalist.
 The climb up the Tartar City wall was made last Monday, May 15 the ca- blegram having been received by Presi- dent Drake at the Hupp factory of the successful attempt to make the wall The Tartar City wall is the wall around the inner or Imperial city. of Peking. It is higher and much more difficult to climb than the outer Peking wall. The Tartar City wall is fifty feet high and sixty feet wide at the base, tapering to forty feet wide at the top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
"Half-Past Sarah"

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 If you happen to ask c. w. Humberd of St. Joseph, Mo-, what time it is by his watch and chain he is apt to reply: Just about half-past Edith" or "a quarter to Calvin" or fifteen seconds after Albert D And then, of course, you are shown the watch and the mystery begins to unravel
 itself.
 Humberd who is contractor, has a wife and 10 children, just a big enough family for every hour in the day. Hum berd had their pictures arranged-one for each hour-on the dial of his watch. Thus his watch has 13 faces-12 of them smiling.
 Humberd himself starts off as 1 o clock. Then comes Mrs, Humberd an hour be- hind him. The eldest son is 8 o'clock, | followed by two other sons, so that it is | 6 o'clock before the first daughter ap- pears. At g o'clock there is another daughter, and so on down through the whole happy family of children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Swimming by Searchlight

From the Popular Science Monthly for
 June.
 For the benefit of the tired business man and the tired business woman, un- able to take advantage of Chicago's P miles of lake front during the daytime, the city has installed along some of the beaches powerful electric searchlights, so that the bathers can see just where. and with whom, they are swimming. Aft CT nightfall, the lights are turned on. throwing their rays in various directions. SO that the bathers have plenty of illumi- nation both on the beach and at gen. erous distance into the lake,
 Aside from giving the Chicagoans a. new form of water sport, it makes their swim ming perfectly safe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

If all the money spent on the mainten- ance of the Twenty-first street viaduct during the course of the last four years was added there is little doubt but what a new bridge could have been built.
 There is scarcely a week that passes when it is not necessary to fix up this old viaduct The strange part of it is that the repairs never seem to be of permanent nature No thoroughfare is more popular than the Twenty-flrst street bridge, and the use of it is the means of preventing many accidents tAat
 might occur if all the traffic used the grade crossing on Twentieth street.
 Would it not be wise and at the same time economical to rebuild the bed Of the bridge out of some material that would be durable? Maj. Frederick H. Lewis made an exhaustive report on the condition of this bridge and went into detail as to what was necessary to put it in first class shape His report died a natural death at the city hall.
 The great majority of engineers in Bir- mingham consider this viaduct unsafe, and menace to the public. What will be done to eliminate this state of af- fairs?
 Lawrence Pennington, for the past four years a member of the board of revenue, who was recently defeated for re-elec- tion, has joined the forces of the De- troit Motor Car company, and at the expiration of his term will take an ac- tive part in the distribution of the Paige and Grant cars. There are few men who can boast of the number of friends Pen
 nington possesses He is capable of success is assured
 T may not have been able to be re- elected to the board of revenue, but
 Grant" you I will put some "Paiges' on
 the streets of Birmingham" says Law renee Pennington.
 At this writing, number of the bub-
 ble boys are organizing a crowd to so- journ to Girard for a little outing. The pr ess reports to the effect $100O,0O0 worth of booze has been corralled by the mi litia, has had demoralizing effect on some of the gang
 Ted Brownel brought a coat of strange contour back with him from Detroit Frank Gafford says it is known as the barrel coat"
 It is well known fact that Gafford has tried to purlon this barrel coat of Teds. Rumor has it that 1t will ac- commodate as many as several quarts without bulging. A patent should be ap- piled for if this is true.
 
 True love never runs smooth" And now they call him Double Sam. When Roy Rays two weeks were up he responded like a true sport and opened up the ingredients Then he bor- rowed Sam Jones' Hup for a few min utes,' while the boys were instructed to "dig in. The few minutes proved to be several hours, and when the de- pleted Roy threw her into high and reached the destination of his departure few hours earlier, all he found was 1 the remnants of what would have beer
 the means of spreading joy. Roy should worry. The automobile ride netted hin that which the others lacked, and ht | says he is now ''in soft for a month"
 Tt is a wise head that waits unti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28


 ham. and Bob knows whereof he speaks,
 SOCIETY NOTE
 MT. Jewell Taylor, manager of the Bir- mingham branch of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, was a visitor in Crard and >Eufaula last week. MT. Fay
 for visits Eufaula quite frequently, and his trips are said to be replete with joy.
 J. D. Kemp, manager of the Good rich company is placing quite a few of his famous Silvertown cord tires on the streets. This tire has found s~vor with most of the race track drivers through out the country.
 Shock absorbers are all right on au- tomobiles, but some of those corn fed chickens might be abI% to use them to advantage.
 gation, says the accessory business is fine. T think we will come out of the big end of the horn, all right" says Teddy.
 If the wind keeps bloWSlg at such a wicked angle, some of these automo- bile boys will forget how to steer a machine, when their mind Is not on their business
 Bradley Saunders has gone to De- I troit again. The old boy likes the breeze and ease of the gasoline city He says he is after super siXes. He didn't mention the other things, but he generally gets what he is after Just because she weighs 90 pounds and looks like she and food were 1 strangers is no sign she can't read out 1 queer names on the bill of fare until l her boob" tries to change the conver- sation by remarking the war is the | cause of hard times l The Flint Motor company, distributors or |! the Chevrolet, Frisco and Velie, have ! been placing a number of cars with i satisfied purchasers lately | Red Smith the vermilion topped Tar, l tar, is helping out the Birmingham Motor l company for a few weeks. The old boy l has enough pepper to distribute it from Birmingham to Pratt City and still have some for sale.
 l Johnny Tomlin has bought a grapho- phone He has sold enough Fords dur l ing the last month to buy barrel Of rye.
 There will be a skating party for the benefit of the automobile boys next | Wednesday night The party will not be held on smooth floor The brand of skating material has been left to a com mittee of four. The exact location is Tot known generally, and no amount of persuasion could be used to learn this 1 important fact
 l Jack Robinson continues to maintain | a high batting average in the Motor | league.
 The Saunders Motor Car company un- loaded eight super-sixes and two Sax ons last Monday. They were sold Tues day. Pretty soft for Hewson 1 The ancient and honorable rocky road | to Dublin cannot compare to the con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Used to Warfare

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 CorporaI-This is terrible business. Sergeant-Oh. I don't know. I've lived with my wife's relatives for the last four years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
RebelliOus

RebelliOuS Cyl hear as your son is taken with angina pectoris. Ceth-The young devil! He promised me he'd stay away from all turin gals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

J. D. Kemp, manager of the Good rich company is placing quite a few of his famous Silvertown cord tires on the streets This tire has found s>vor with most of the race track drivers through out the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

dition of Twelfth avenue. south, from Twetieth street, west. One wishes for the old days of OK carts when one tries to get by on this street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
Passing the Buck On
 the FllUDer Route
By ALLEN J. KREBs, JR.

the boss coos off So says Bob Bad
 ham, and Bob knows whereof he speaks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

The DeShazo Motor company continues to sell the little Maxwell wonders. Their excellent service combined with cour- tesy makes it pleasure to do business with these people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

Charley Nolan sold and delivered three Smith form truck last week. The olo boy is coming to the front. Here s hoping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

AND THEN HE FELT DIZZY Don't tell me the barber put that Kind of perfume on your face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

Charles Denegre worries only about shipments on Packards. He has enough orders on hand to' make anybody satis- fled, but his delivery proposition has been a source of much worry recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

A. l.. Boorse is doing an excellent Chal- mers business. He is prepared to give
 the best possible service on these cars. IA large stock of parts, factory me chanics and hustling salesmen tend to make any business profitable There are few automobile men who have anything on this peppery individual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

SOCIETY NOTE
 MT. Jewell Taylor, manager of the Bir- mngham branch of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, was a visitor in Girard and >Eufaula last week. MT. Tay- for visits Eufaula quite frequently, and his trips are said to be replete with joy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

If the wind keeps blowing at such a wicked angle, some of these automo- bile boys will forget how to steer a machine when their mind Is not on their business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

The ancient and honorable rocky road o Dublin cannot compare to the con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28

TIBHI UT tomobles but some of those corn fec chickens might be abk to use them tc advantage.
 Teddy Carol of the Brownell aggre- gation, says the accessory business is fine. T think we will come out of the big end of the horn, all right" say Teddy.
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there will be no such thing as a civil
ian chauffeur attached to military
column.
During the progress of the march of
Pershing's men southwark, 1t was
found best to maintain the same night
formation of the motor trucks that has
been usual with mule or horse drawn
vehicles since the days of the prairie
schooners." Manly, to draw them up
in a circle. each truck broadside on to
the point from which the attack would
come In this manner temporary
fertilization is erected which would be
well nigh impregna BILE to the attack of
any force not armed with artillery.
Ensconced behind the barricaded side
of a truck. with the additional protec-
ton provided by the baggage and pro-
visions that form the cargo" of the
would have little difficulty in repulsing
even the concerted attack of a superior
force The ammunition trucks and the
cook trucks are placed in the center
of this fortified circle and the entire
force is prepared to render a good ac-
count of itself
In spite of the fact that the taxi
drivers of New York do not bear the
reputation of being the most peaceable
body of men in the world. it is inter-
esting to note that the civilian chauf-
feurs were always quartered in the
Tense of the organization, if such were
necessary, left in the hands of the
regular soldiers attached to the col
umn.
The progress of the expeditionary
force across the sandy wastes of north
ern Mexico. according to the reports of
eyewitnesses. resembled that Of q huge
gray-green snake. The olive drab of
the uniforms. covered by the alkali
dust, rendered the men almost invisible,
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or a sufficiently adventurous spirit to
invest in Carrollsburg lot:
Buzzard Point, as has been fire.
quently mentioned. was a part of the
Carroll farm. That farm. usually
called Duddington. seems at an earlier
period to have been known as Cerne
Abbey Manor. A long time ago the
Rambler. in writing of the farms on
which Washington came to stand, said
that adjoining on the west the lands OF
Abraham Young, George Walker and
the Widow Wheeler was a farm the
northwest corner of which was near
what is now I'd and II streets north
east. This property on the old maps
was set down as in the name of Will
liam Young, whose house stood in the
line of Sth street, between l. and NJ
streets southeast. The north to- south
boundary line of this farm followed in
a general way the course now taken
by I'd and Sd streets southeast, to the
Anacostfa river, and included within
its limits the navy yard, the marine
barracks. the old Naval Hospital. Stan
ton Square and the reservation on
Pennsylvania avenue east between 4th
and 9Th streets.
The next farm on the west of VIII
liam Youngs property was Abbey MAN.
or, borne on older records as Cerne Alb
hey Manor. On this farm came to stand
the Capitol, which was built on the
eminence called Jenkins Hill: the Lii
brary of Congress. the office buildings
of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives. the Union station and the
eastern half of the Botanic Garden. At
the time of the propaganda for the re-
moval of the seat of government to the
Potomac this land was the farm of
Daniel Carroll. and in his time the farm
was called Duddington. this Carroll al
ways being referred to as Daniel Car
roll of Duddington, to distinguish him
from the numerous other CAROLS in
this vicinity. His house stood back
from the south side of f street be-
tween LIST and ID streets southeast, and
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city archives and. District records"
which John Morrison of the Library
of Congress dug out from some dusty
shelves for the Rambler. one will find
in that book the agreement between
the owners of the plantations or farms
on which Washington was laid out
and the commissioners on the estab-
lishment of the capital. In that agree
ment is the following proviso: Moth
ing herein contained shall affect lots
any of the parties to this agreement
may hold in the towns of Hamburg
or Carrollsburg.'' Following the SEN
hereunto set our hands and seals this
Our Lord 1871" are these names:
Robert Peter, David Burns, James NJ.
tingan. Uriah Forrest. Benjamin stod-
dert, Motley Young. Daniel Carroll of
Duddington. Overton Carr, Thomas
Beall of George. Charles Beatty. An
thony Holmead. William Young, Ed
ward PIERCE. Abraham Young. James
Peirce. William Prout. Robert Peter,
as attorney in fact for Eliphas Doug
lass. BENJAMIN 7Stoddert. for James
Warren. by written authority, etc. and
William King
Mr.. Thatcher. after recounting the
agreement between the property own
ers and the commissioners says:
And subsequently by their several deeds of
trust the owners of the plantations and farms
and the owners of lots in Carrolsburg and in
Hamburg conveyed their lands to Thomas Beall
of George and John NJ. CAN'T trustees for
the purpose of establishing the federal city.
The Rambler recalls with distinctness
that in some old work he has seen
a list of the names of the owners of
lots in Carrollsburg. but at this writing
he is not able to lay hands on that
interesting list. There are many
names on the list of men who lived
in this vicinity who had money enough
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the service even more picturesque anu
romantic than the pack mule. mas
much as number of motor Trucks
could transport brigade of infantry
twice as far in one day horses coulo as
the installation of the truck VIII reie-
gate the cavalry branch OF the service
to a mere patrol, efficient wheN only a
few men are concerned, but practically
useless where massed force is
needed
The European war has proved that
the days of the wild. spectacular cav
airy charge is past; thtat the aeropiane
has superseded the cavalryman as a
him as a messenger. The cavalry" OF
the future, therefore, may wei De PIC
tured as motor cycle corps or imam
try specially drilled and equipped to
ride in large motor trucks; mounts
that need no food other than gasoline
and oil: mounts" that are tireless.
and, when properly armored. incapable
of being wounded by rife fire.
Another gerat advantage of the mo-
tor truck over the horse or mule
drawn vehice is apparent in the am
bulance corps. where motor-driven
ambulances not only rush the men
rapidly to the rear. wheer they can
but also make the journey with far
less discomfort to the patients.
Those who remember the hours Of
torture spent in mule-drawn ambu-
lances during the Spanish war, Jounc-
ing over every rut in the road ana
consuming an apparently interminable
period in reaching the field hospital,
ern, pneumatic-tire ambulance. well
equipped with medical necessities. and
the finest of springs. almost heavenly.
by comparison.
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contemplated that the seat of the gov
eminent would be established in this
locality. A town was in being In this
remote part of what was to be the city
of Washington eighteen years before
the Maryland legislature passed AN
act to cede to Congress a district OF
ten miles square in this state Tor the
seat of the government of the United
States" This old and vanished town
was in being twenty years before the
bill for locating district of territory
not exceeding ten miles square on the
Potomac between the mouths OF the
Eastern branch and Conocheague.
which originated in the United States
Senate. was passed by that body June 1.
1890, and which was passed by the
House of Representatives July 9. re-
ceived the executive sanction, July is,
1890
The name of that old town was Car
rollsburg. The southern, or river-front
part of the Carroll farm had been sub
divided in 1870 for the establishment of
a town. Bladensburg, farther up the
Eastern branch, was prospecting.
Georgetown. farther up the Potomac.
had become an important city. Here on
the Eastern branch a deep channel ran
close to the shore. and the site being
also close to the Maryland channel of
the Potomac the promoters of the plan
reasoned that new town would -four
ISh.
DIR. William Tindall. in his History
of the City of Washington" says that
CarrollSburg was located between the
north bank of the Eastern branch and
James creek. TT was bounded on the
north he says, by line from a point
on James creek a few feet north of the
present Street bridge over that
stream. to a point on the Eastern
branch about midway between the ter
limitations of n and o streets SOUTH
DIR. Tindall says that it contained ap-
proXimately $50 acres, subdivided into
26S lots. under terms of deed of trust
recorded at Marlboro. Md, November 90.
1770. This deed runs from Charles Car
roll, jr., to Henry Rozier, Daniel Carroll
the grantees to subdivide Duddington