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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09

ship reserved for this purpose, which is situated below, and must therefore be artificially lighted and ventilated. No appliance of modern surgical science is lacking. Motionless operat- ing tables, freely suspended, chloro- forming apparatuses supplied with oxy- gen, sterilizers for bandages and instru- ments-al1 this and much more are held in readiness so that if haste is neces- sary an operation can be undertaken. If at the close of a naval battle. the less protected and more spacious operat- ing rooms have remained intact, the patients are removed there.
 On the Sierra Nevada a hospital ship of the North German Lloyd line, the hospitals extend the entire length of the ship on the two uppermost decks Smaller rooms, strictly isolated, serve for patients with infectious diseases, and special provision is also made for the mentally deranged. The operating rooms are situated on the upper deck with adjoining rooms for administering anaesthetics, bandages and the like. There is a Rontgen room, an important factor in modern war surgery, and there are also special cabins filled with dentists instruments, where patients whose jaws have been injured may receive attention. There are rooms for electrical treatment and medicinal baths. Every department has it's own bath and toilet arrangements, and there is a disinfecttion equipment in connec- ton with the quarantine quarter of the ship. Commodious kitchens, cold stor- age and storerooms insure good food for the patients; and there are further washing and ironing rooms, as well as workrooms in which the physicians appliances and hospital clothing are re- paired. There is a library at the dis posal of the patients and the physi- clans find all the necessary reference books on board. Such an hospital ship is under the direction of a chief sur- geon assisted by three surgeons and three physicians. The staff further con- sists of a chemist, a dentist, the sani- tary corps and volunteer nurses.
 All kinds of contrivances are at hand for the rescue of the shipwrecked In order to facilitate the transport of pa- tients to and from the ship, there are a number of quick operating devices such as cranes, block and tackle and the like. In the interior of the ship there are lifts connecting the various decks. In addition to the specially ar
 ranged hospital ships, there are also so-called auxiliary hospital ships, which go alongside the former to take off the wounded and transfer them to safer quarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
Studebakers Going Fast

So anxious were E. W. Brownell and c. W. Richardson of the Brownell Auto- mobile company to secure Stakeholder cars that they jumped on the train Thurs day night and went to Atlanta, secured three cars from the dealer there and drove them back through the country.
 Studebaker business with the Brownell company is rushing and they are selling them so fast they are far ahead of the shipments. The waiting list is steadily growing, and right now the company has nine purchasers waiting for ship ments of Studebakers. The Brownell company are glad to get even three cars now and they adopted novel plan to secure them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
Helpless Coast Defenses

From the Popular Science Monthly. The high powered, long range 15-inch
 guns mounted on modern dreadnaughts of the Queen Elizabeth type have made it necessary for the United States of
 America to consider it's coast defenses, iT an interesting article entitled "Our Helpless Coast Defenses," the writer con- tnues:
 Remember that the Queen Elizabeth can fire her great guns accurately at a range of 25,000 yards and that our best coast defense guns could not touch her, partly because they are mounted on ob- sclete disappearing carriages which do not permit an elevation of more than 15 degrees, and partly because the guns on dreadnaughts of the Queen Elizabeth type represent the very latest advance 1 ir ordnance. Even our newst 14-inch coast defense guns, of which five were completed last year, have @ maximum | range of only 1S,0O0 yards, which has been increased to 19,3OO by enlarging the l powder chambers.
 1 Some idea of the power of modern 14-inch coast defense gun may be gained when it is stated that it's 1900 pound pro- | jectile gun will drill through nearly 23 inches of the best quality of armor at | 1000 yards and through 10 inches at 1900 1 yards. The 14-inch coast defense gun made at Watervliet arsenal, weighs when finished 180,000 pounds, costs $55, 900 and is wound about with 37,000 pounds of wire. Realizing that even this mighty weap- on is too feeble an opponent for a Queen | Elizabeth, we are beginning to build 16- inch coast defense guns They are the largest and longest in the world Un- | fortunately only two of them have been
 built, and these are intended for Panama to protect the canal
 At an elevation of 43 degrees such a
 gun will have range of 21 miles. The piece alone weighs 1N tons The she'll 24OO pounds, can pierce 21 inches of ar
 nor 2.S miles. The powder charge is
 400 pounds. The shell and powder alone cost 5000.
 "The most commendable feature of our Qualifications are our mortars. They are first class and their high angle fire Is as good as there is anywhere.
 "Our coast defenses are in reality har-
 bor defenses. Of our 5000 miles of coast
 line not more than 300 are under potential
 protection of Qualifications. The greater
 part of our seaboards is absolutely un-
 defended at the present time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09

estimate that the exportation of steel will be very large for at least two or three years after the war Is over. One of the minor reasons for the high price of crucible steels is the lack oi pure graphite for crucibles and the in- crease in price of the crucibles now in stock. In one or two cases steel mills have had to shut down their crucible plants until such time as they can get more crucibles for melting.
 'The steel mills are all expanding as rapidly as possible, but it will be sev. eral months before the additions vii be in condition to make any appre. ciable effect on the supply of steel.
 we cannot possibly escape the er' fects of this general increase. What we gain in one place by purchasing, man. ufacturing or designing skill or by get ting parts from companies which have raw materials in stock, we lose else. where. Many of our gains are tempor- ary, while our losses are permanent.
 ''Nor does there seem to be any re- lief in sight. At the present time it is impossible to tell what the outcome will be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
RECORD AMOUNT OF MONEY IN IRELAND General Prosperity of Coun- try Better Now Than
 Ever Before

Bublin, March 20.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press )-There was never so much money in Ireland as there Is at present. The general prosperity of the country was the theme of the speeches of the chairmen of all the lead ing banks which have just held their semi-annual meetings. The banks all maintained their dividends, they all showed increased profits and applied these profits to wipng out the deprecia- tion which occurred before the war on the securities they held. The securities have now mostly been written down to their present market value, though many Of them in war loans are repayable at par at a fixed period. Roughly 1t may be said that though e10,000,O00 was sub- scribed in Ireland to war loans, there is as much money in the banks as ever 50 well off are they that an absurd run1or was started that the government in- tended to commander the money in them. This rumar was apparently be- licved and was cited by the chairman of the National bank as an explanation of a drop of G200,000 in deposits, though the same bank had an increase of money on current accounts of s137,00o.
 Several of the Irish banks have author ity under an act of Parliament passed II ring of the war the crisis which had to be met in England by the issue of one pound treasury notes did not exist in lre- land, where the one pound note IS an esta blished feature of the currency. But as the act provides that money shall De held as cover against all notes issued in excess of the amounts scheduled in the act, and as there has been a great in- crease in the volume of business trans acted in connection with the war and at the same time contraction of the gold supply, the banks have issued notes great ly in excess of the figures provided in the act To cover these they have ac- cordingly had to lock up great deal of idle money. In the case of the National bank the chairman announced that while the authorized amount of bank note is- ssue was eS5O,00O they were issued s1,- S0o,0O0 beyond that figure. Suggestions have been made to the chancellor of the exchequer for the setting free or the money held as cover on certain condi- tions But he has not so far felt himself able to agree to the proposal.
 The secret of the strong position of the Irish banks is the fact that Ireland is mainly an agricultural country and that owing to the war, agriculture is a booming industry. The past year has been a very prosperous one for the farm CTS. Reports from all parts of Ireland show that the last harvest was very good and indicate at least a repetition of il this year. There Is an ample supply of hay and roots for winter feeding of cattle and in most cases the farmers are said to have all they need in the way of cattle as was feared would not be the case when at the beginning of the war the high prices induced exceptionally heavy sales
 
 German Hospital Ships
 Fritz Arno Wagner in Leslies
 During a naval engagement the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
SWIFT LOADING

If 1t takes a day to load IT cars ot automobiles, how long does 1t take R. O. Gill to load the same number?
 Try this on your mathematics class your adding machine or your slide rule
 The answer is one hour and 45 min- utes.
 R. O. Gill Is factory manager of the Saxon Motor Car company and he de- vised the plan that resulted in loading 54 Saxon motor cars onto IT flat cars and gondolas in less than two hours This was done Saturday, when the first section of train of 172 Saxons was shipped to G. w. Hanson, the Atlanta dealer for Saxon motor cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09

German Hospital Ships Fritz Arno Wagner in Leslie's. During a naval engagement, the wounded are removed to part of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
Ont of the Mouths of Babes

From Kansas City Star
 Little Nelly told little Anita what she termed little fib."
 Anita-A fib is the same as story, and story is the same as a lie.
 Nelly-No it's not.
 Anita-Yes, it is, because my father said so and my father is professor at the university.
 Nelly-I don't care if he is. My father Is a real estate man and he knows more about lying than your father.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
PACKARD FACTORY MAKES NEW RECORD Exerting Every Effort to Cope With Freight
 Situation

The Packard Motor Car company has delivered 43OS Twin Six motor cars. The factory is exerting every effort to cope with the freight car shortage and make deliveries With the coming of spring weather customers are growing even more impatient to receive their cars.
 c. J. Moore, operating manager of the Packard factory, has just returned from a visit to dealers establishments in the largest cities of nine western and Pacific coast states.
 Everywhere I went the reports I got of the car were more than satisfying" he said, "Owners not only pronounce it the finest car ever produced by the Packard organization, but the superior of any in this country
 A. F. Corbin, assistant sales manager, predicts that the demand for Twin Sizes will be even greater as soon as the roads are in good shape.
 'The men who have them are delighted, and the men who haven't been able to get deliveries will be more insistent than ever,' he declared. ''I predict a demand far exceeding any possible supply"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
Safety First At the Ford Factory

y
 Some months ago the Ford Motor company began publishing for Ford shop employees little booklet entitled, Safety, Health and Better Living" It consists of simple but vitally important advice from the medical and sociologi- cal departments of the Ford Motor company in the treatment of injuries, hygienic cooking and sanitary living.
 The popularity of this booklet among the huge army of Ford workmen and their families is extraordinary. Every two weeks 44,000 copies of it are is- sued in bulletin form to the branch fac- tory employees as well as the home fac- tory in Detroit.
 And here are some of the results of the precautionary measures of this in- struction. Although the number of employees in the Detroit plant has in- creased from 1S,000 to 27,000 since last July, there has been no increase in the number of serious injury cases. On the contrary, figuring the increase in men employed, there has been decrease of nearly 50 per cent in the number of serious injuries since this little Safety First booklet first appeared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09

Never before in the history of the automobile building have raw materials reached such high prices, F. E. Watts, chief engineer for the Hupp Motor Car corporation, has just completed very terial market.
 MT Watts gives the results of his in- vestigation and the above table shows the increase in prices of raw materials which go into the making of an auto mobile since the start of the European war.
 Prom present indica tions there Is not much hope for a reduction in prices of iron and steel products for sometime to come" says Mr. Watts. My reasons for thinking this are as follows:
 "At the present time the steel com panies are contracting for the third and fourth quarters of this year at the pres ent market prices which are high. In order to protect themselves on the raw material the steel companies are now contracting for their pig iron. coke, steel scrap and allowing elements, the prices of which are extremely.
 Practically all of the ferromanganese used in the manufacture of steel is inn ported from England. The latest quo- tation made on this product was $225 per ton in comparison with $40 per ton before the war started. Last week the British government declared an embargo on the exportation of ferromanganese and it will have to be obtained from some source as yet undeveloped. A com pany is being organized in Chicago 2t the present time, but it will be several months before it is in operation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
Drawing tho Line

From Judge
 ITS the play ono which you would per- init your daughter to attend?" we ask ol the lady who has been expounding hes views on the necessity for handling vital topics in the drama
 Certainly" she replies, 'sbut l wouldn't allow my son to see it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
RAILROADS ORDERING HEAVILY

'.The railroad companies are ordering very heavily to keep their rolling stock and rails in condition. In the first two months of this year 641 locomotives were ordered, approximately 10000 freight cars of various types, and the rail tonnage will be over 150OO0 tons.
 "The Russian government last week contracted for 6O,O00 tons of rails. The locomotives will have the tendency to keep the price of tubing up as there is approximately 1a00O rect of this ma terial used in every locomotive.
 "The shipbulding companies are buster than. at any previous time and the contracts now held by the American shipyards will keep them busy through out 1916, part of 1917 and some boats are being contracted for with delivery specified in 1918. The engines in these boats will also require an immense amount of tubing and the decks and plates for the hull will require large tonnage of sheet steel.
 "At the present time there Is very little steel being produced in Europe, and with the destruction of railroads and railroad equipment and bridges there is going to be an immense demand for steel after peace is declared. Steel men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
EnOrmOuS AdOdnce
 In RdW Material IS
 Shown by F. E. Watts

Chief Engineer Hupp Motor Car Corporation Presents Table Showing Advances in Prices of Materials Used in Max ing Automobiles Stays Purchases of Steel Both
 Domestic and Foreign, Have Forced Price Up
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16
RAVES ABOUT OUR GARDE
Writer Says They Are So Ravishl So sYnlit, Abounding in Fresh
 ness and Beauty.

can say enough in praise of
 American Eardens! I think I shoI rare abqut them if I ever let mys go," exclaimed Miss Carlisle. "Th are ravishing-so sunlit, abounding freshness and beauty! Do you real that they are so brilliant that 1 d never show paintings of American a dens in the same room with EnglH gardens, because they make them lOd quite dreary? Their one fault is tha there is often too much statuary them, and too much of it irreleyan Frequently, too, they are not ramb enough, and seem little selfcC scious. In English gardens sma stones mellow with years are use and the furnishings add that warm which breeds intimacy. It is the formal garden that attracts the arti In England these abound, with tht winding paths passing through uney hedges of many varieties of Howe That uneven hedge, flashing fol vivid colors, one seldom sees in Am ica, probably because of the fuetu ing climate and the vogue of m formal arrangement" ."-Ethel R. r ser, in Countryside Magazine.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16
SYNOPSIS.

Brouillard. chief engineer of the Niquoia irrigation dam, meets J. Wesley Cort- wright and explains the reclamation work to him. Cartwright organizes a company and obtains government contracts to fur
 nish power and material. Steve Massn- gale threatens to start a gold rush if Brouillard does not use his influence to bring a railroad branch to the place, thus opening an easy market for the Little Susan" mine ore. BrOuillard tells Amy Massingale of his need for money to pay off his dead fathers debts. She tells him to be true to himself. He decides for the extension. Mrapolis the city of num- bered days, booms. Cartwright perSuades Brouillard to become consulting engineer of the power company in return for $10O, O00 stock. Stoppage of work on the rail- road threatens panic. Brouillard spreads the Massingale story of placer gold in the river bed and starts a gold rush, which promises to stop the reclamation project. Amy tells Brouillard that her father is in Cortwright's financial clutches. He tells her he has made $l00, 900 and declares his love. She loves him, but shows him that he has become demor- affixed. real gold find is made. Brouil- lard sells his stock but does not pay his fathers debts. Cortwright's son shoots Dave Massingale. Brouillard threatens Cartwright with exposure if he pushes Massingale to the wall. The magnate promises to give the old man free field Stories of the dams abandonment revive. Foreclosure on the Little Susan is inn pending and Broullard loans Dave Mas Singale his $100,0 to clear him.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16
GOUGING THE PUBLIC.
Swiss Government Takes Action
 Against Food Speculators.

Berne, Switzerland.-The Swiss gov ernment finds itself compelled to take drastic measures against the specula- tors and usurers who are driving food prices to an exorbitant height. A number of these harpies, many of whom are foreigners, have already been arrested and will be mercilesslv prosecuted.
 On market day the speculators meet the farmers outside of the towns and buy the loads of all wagons as cheap- ly as possible. With the aid of agents they then bring the products to mar. ket and sell them at a profit of a hun dred per cent or more. If the grocers and vegetable and butter and egg dealers of the housewives refuse to pay the enormous prices demanded Inv the spectators, all supplies disappear from the market at once, only to be offered at still higher prices on tbe following day.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16
[F1lEI5s CHAPTER XVIII MssSS,Il! M},Il!
 The Setting of the Ebb

Contrary to the most sanguine eX- peetations of the speculators-con trary, perhaps, even to those of MT. Wesley Cortwright-the upward surge in Mirapolis values, following the visit of the distinguished citizens" proved to be more than a tidal wave; it was a series of them. Day after day the "curb" markets were reopened, with prices mounting skyward; and when the news of how fortunes could be made in Q day in the Miracle city of the Niquoia got abroad in the press dis patches there was a fresh influx of mad money hunters from the East.
 Now, if never before, the croaker was wrathfully shouted down and si. fenced. No one admitted, or seemed to admit, the possible impermanence of the city.
 To the observer, anxious or casual, there appeared to be reasonable grounds for the optimistic assertion. It was an indubitable fact that Brouil. | lards force had been cut down, first to one-half, and later to barely enough men to keep the crushers and mixers moving and to add fresh layers of con. crete to the huge wall of sufficient quantities to prevent the material-in technical phrase-from dying" The Navajos had been sent home to their reservation, the tepees were gone, and two-thirds of the camp shacks were empty.
 Past these material facts 1t was known to everybody in the frenzied market place that Brouillard himself was. according to his means, one oi the most reckless of the plungers, buy ing, borrowing, and buying again as i the future held no threat of a possible debacle. It was an object lesson fol the timid. Those who did not them selves know certainly argued tha there must be a few who did know and among these few the chief of tht reclamation service must be in th' very foremost rank.
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16

door of Haley's place, and when David Massingales daughter made as if she would go in, Brouillard protested quickly.
 NO, Amy" he said firmly. You mustn't go in there. Let me take you around to the Metropole, and then I'll come back alone"
 T have been in worse places" she returned in low tones. And then, with her voice breaking tremulously: Be my good friend just little longer, Vic tori"
 He took her arm and walked her into the garishly-lighted bar-room, bracing himself militantly for what might happen. But nothing happened. Dissipation of the western variety sell dom sinks below the level of a certain rude gallantry. quick to recognize the good and pure in womankind. Instant ly hush fell upon the place. The quartets at the card tables held their hands, and group of men drinking at the bar put down their glasses. One, Tri-Circ' cowboy with his back turned, let slip an oath, and in a single swift motion his nearest comrade garroted him with hairy arm, strangling him to silence.
 AS if guided by the same unerring instinct which had made her choose Haley's out of the dozen similar hells,
The Green Forest tribune., 1916-06-16

took the sheaf of bank notes from his pocket with trembling hands, fondling it as a miser might. Twice the old man made as if he would turn toward the door of egress, and the light in his gray-blue eyes was the rekindling flame of passion long denied. But in the end he thrust the tempting sheaf back into the inner pocket and went resolutely to the cashiers coun. ter window, finding Schermerhorn, the president, sitting at the cashiers desk.
 I've come to take up them notes O mine with John Wes.' name on 'em," Massingale began, pulling out the thick sheaf of redemption money.
 "H'm, yes, here they are. Brought the cash, did you? The Nittle Susan has begun to pan out, has it? I didn't know you had commenced shipping ore yet?"
 We haven't" David Massingale made the admission and regretted it ir one and the same breath.
 You've borrowed to meet these notes?" queried the president. look ing up quickly. That won't do. MT Massingale; that won't do at all. We can't afford to lose an old customer that way. Whats the matter with oul money? Doesn't 1t look good to vol any more?''
 ~/ Massingale stammered out some thing about Cashier Hardwick's ner emptory demand of few hours earlier but he was not permitted to finish.
 "of course, that is all right iron Hardwick's point of view. He wa