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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
Sturday Old Cadillacs
Still Doing Service

Hardly a week passes but the Cad
lilac Motor Car Company is given the
opportunity to buy in one of it's early
models. Ususally the writer ex-
presses the belief that his car, built a
dozen years or more ago, must be
among the last of it's race, and feels
sure the company would like to have
it as curio.
The first model of the Cadillac had
one-cylinder engine and hundreds
of these cars are running we'll to-day.
1t is true that not all of them are
used to carry passengers, though not
long ago the company received q let
ter from Minnesota farmer who was
still using one, after ten years of
service. 1t was a second hand car
when he bought it in 1906. Many of
these old cars have been turned into
delivery wagons and are running as
faithfully as ever.
Other owners have written in that
they have dismounted the engines and
now use them to operate farm ma
chinery. or for developing power in
small manufacturing plants. machine
shops, etc.
The cars offered to the company
may be old. but they have many
brothers and the most of them are
spry and lively in spite of their age
and their long years of active service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
CHANDLER HAS
RAPID GROWTH
Business Established Four
Years Ago and Now in Front
Rank Says Redmond

There is remarkable difference in
the manner in which the public re-
ceives motorcars. Some factories
that have been marketing their prod
ucts for fifteen or sixteen years or
more have had hard and doubtful
battle to establish themselves as
quality builders. There may be
nothing at all that can be attributed
as the particular fault of the car, but
it has simply not made a hit, and ac-
cording to Andrew Redmond that is
what is necessary nowadays, unless
the car is exceptionally high priced
and intended only for an ultra ex-
elusive clientele.
"The tremendous growth of the
Chandler Motor Car Company may be
cited as an example of car that
public, adds to its prestige year by
year, never suffers an off year, and
quickly establishes itself as a front
rank quality car" says Mr.. Redmond.
-Four years ago this season the
Chandler was just announced. Three
years ago it was an infant in the in
dustry. Two years ago it was very
much talked about car, and the de-
mand could not be supplied. Last year
the Chandler established itself very
firmly, and to-day it occupies one of
the foremost positions in the entire
industry.
THE claim that Chandler leader
ship is wholly due to legitimate rea-
sons can be justified, not in boastful
way, but as a simple statement of
fact which thousands of discriminat-
ing motorists have determined. The
Chandler was the first high-grade six
cylinder car manufactured to sell for
less than $4,000. 1t was brought out
at a time when men in the trade and
out of the trade considered it folly to
think of high grade six being possi-
BILE for such a price. But the Chan
dler proved that this was possible
and it's users the world over have
been convinced that it is properly de-
signed, gives all the power and fleX-
ibility of power that any motor can
give, that it has all the desired life
and snap and go and in addition Of
fers genuine economy in operation.
"The motor is the dominant feature
of the Chandler car of course. Own
ers have named it the marvellous mo-
tor, but the Chandler is not simply a
motor with a car built around it. The
complete harmony of every detail Of
construction, the perfect unity of the
whole car impresses even a casual OBJ
server. The motor is mounted on a
splendid chassis and on this chassis
the purchaser may have the choice of
an equally fine body in a number of
various fine types"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
CHALMERS HAVE
SPECIAL SERVICE
Trip Through Big Department
at, Detroit Reveals Eff
cheney and Speed

Probably more than 90 per cent. of
hll motor cars sold in this country
during the past two years, carried
with them in some form or other
the makers guarantee of satisfactory
Service. The owner of a new car has
q perfect right to demand that CO.
operation from the manufacturer and
dealer which will insure perfect per-
formance of his machine under all
normal conditions.
But all machinery has an age limit.
No piece of delicate mechanism ever
designed will withstand three or four
seasons pounding over rough coun-
try roads and ill-paved city streets
without meeting accidents or the ne
cessity of requirements.
The owners problem from that
time on is to secure such replace
ments with the minimum of delay and
inconvenience to himself. He is
willing to pay for the renewal of
parts, but naturally chafes at being
forced to do without his car for sew
eral weeks because OF factory or
dealer red tape.
A trip through the finely organized
Service Department of the Chalmers
Motor Company, located at the big
Detroit plant, affords the experienced
motorist new idea of the word
service Here is system in the nth
power. Occupying three entire floors
of one of the largest factory buildings,
and with a huge four-story, structure
recently erected for its purposes, the
Chalmers Service Department is a
affiniannU q N
Starting his inspection trip on the
third floor of Factory Building No.
J.. the visitor is first taken through
the offices of theSService Manager and
his assistants. The man who presides
over the domain of Chalmers Service
within a plant. Over 100 employees
come under his direct jurisdiction,
and as he provides the estimates for
the big Service Manufacturing De-
partment, his duties~must also include
a knowledge of production facilities.
He forecasts the amount of extra
parts to be manufactured for each
new model and decides as to the
number of parts to be carried for
older models.
Passing by for a moment the record
and stock inventory departments, the
visitor is next ushered into a huge
room containing a perfect labyrinth
of corridors Electrically Illuminated,
these corridors or aisles are lined
from floor to ceiling with racks and
bins, all filled to overflowing, and con-
tanning enough parts, seemingly, to
build a whole years production.
Although between $50 and 500 or
ders for parts are received and
shipped daily from this department,
there is no rushing about or sem
blance of disorder in view. A truck
rolls quietly up to one of the bins,
the stock man glances at a paper in
his hand, and the part is transferred
from bin to truck. He glides on to
his next stopping place and fills an
pther order. BY the time he has
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
FOR
THOSE WHO WALK
Treasurer of Jackson Automo-
bile Company Says Motorist
Not Only Offender

Howard A. Mathews, treasurer OF
the Jackson Autom obile Company, was
the guest, yesterday, of P. II. Keboch,
factory representative in this district.
Observing the tendency of pedestrians
to take a long chance when crossing
Market street during the busy hours
of the day, Mr.. Mathews said the pc
destrihn should be obliged to obey the
traffic laws for his own sake, as we'll
as, for the sake of the community as
a whole.
I'm arguing against the modern pc
destrian obeying the traffic laws, some
lawyers and others base their objec-
tons on two arguments which, in
their turn, are based son prehistoric
traffic conditions, dating, in fact, from
the time when traffic moved at the
pace OF the OK cart, and when the
world had no great cities. with their
congested traffic. as ~e have to-day"
says Mr.. Mathews.
These arguments are, first that the
pedestrian has as much right to the
road as the automobile, and, second,
that it is the pedestrian who must be
protected from the automobile and not
the automobile from the pedestrian.
Mote the narrowness of this alleged
reasoning. Note, also, how out of tune
it is with the times. The argument
that the pedestrian can do no great
harm to the automobile is based upon
the ancient regard for the sacredness
of property, and dates from the hoary
times when 1t was thought of more inn
portance to protect the property of a
man than to protect the man. Our
laws in general have become more
and more humanitarian, because of the
cry that the man, and not the mater
ial, senseless property of man, should
receive the first benefit of the laws
protection. But this humanitarian logic
has not been applied to our traffic
laws. The pedestrian is not required
to obey laws designed to protect him,
and thus such laws lose more than half
their force"
'"The pedestrian has as much right
to the road as the automobile con-
tains grain of truth that makes it's
falsity the more difficult to expose. OF
course, the pedestrian hasn't as much
right in the road as the vehicle. He
may deserve the same right to a road
as has an automobile, and he may be
accorded such right by law, but he
hasn't got it. One doesn't see pedes-
trians in our cities walking on the road
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
Almost a Year Motoring
Without Roof Over Head

A travel-stained but agile roadster
rolled briskly into Los Angeles the
other day with q record that will
doubtless warm the pride of it's maker
and also arouse the envy of many a
motorist who is longing for various
reasons to go out and do likewise.
The car bore Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
IL. Moore, of Newport, VT, who an
nounced that they had just completed
a leisurely conducted jaunt of some
$500 miles across the continent, dur
ing which they had not once spent a
night under a roof.
In October, 1915, Mr. Moore bought
Paige, but finding that in six weeks
climate would make motoring dis
agreeable If not impossible for many
months, he determined that as soon
as convenient he would motor away
from there to sections of the country
where the delights of the automobile
can be enjoyed the year around.
Consequently. in June, 1915. Mr..
and Mrs. Moore started out on their
long 1aunt which was eventually to
take them to the southern sections of
the country and finally to the Pacific
coast. After camping for several
weeks at various places in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire they
started on their way westward.
Wherever a spot looked good to them
they stopped and \camped until the
spirit moved them to go. on.
The most interesting experiences of
the trip were encountered in the
southwest and the travellers found q
great deal of pleasure in overcoming
the obstacles that were occasionally
presented On the trip from Flagstaff
to the Grand Canyon it was necessary
in several places to ford streams
where the water came up to the bot
tom of the radiator. There was also
great deal of mud to buck at times,
but in every instance, Mr.. Moore re-
ports, the Paige came through in fine
shape. A shovel and Pull-U-O Out
were the only equipment carried and
they were never used. No adjust
ments or repairs were required. Even
the heat caused no annoyance as the
water did not at any time boil in the
radiator.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10
Mrs. SARAH HERTzLER BURIED

Mechanicsburg, Pa. March 10. -
Funeral services were held this after
noon for Mrs. Sarah Ann HertzIer.
who died at the home of her son, John
Hertzler in Silver Spring township, on
Wednesday, of pneumonia. She was
aged 81 years and was a member of
the Presbyterian Church at Hoges-
town. The Rev. T. j. Ferguson, of
Silver Spring, conducted the service
Burial was made in the Stone Church
graveyard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-10

Your saving of garage rent will
quickly pay for a Butler All-Steel Gar
age, 10x14 ft., s71.00 f. o. b. factory;
larger sizes; fireproof, large doors. win
dow ventilators, tool shelf; write tor
descriptive booklet. c. Frank Glass,
Union Trust Bldg.-adv.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07

organizing the harvest and the gov
ernments will confscate all crops as
soon as they are harvested. Inc
earliest harvest being in southern
Hungary, arrangements have oeeh
made to rush the first products 10 Ger
many to meet the pressing DEMANDS
there. which will be repaid later Wneh
the German harvest comes in Inc iar-
mers are practically denied any rights
and must accept whatever the gov
eminent gives for their crops.
The Exchange Telegraph Company :
Amsterdam correspondent telegraphs
that according to travellers from GER
many popular discomfort because OF
the governments silence concerning
Germany's war aims will force the
imperial chancellor. DR.. Won Beth-
mann-Honweg. to make a dennite
statement OF his policy. The chancel-
Tor, IL is stated. has discussed the
question with the Kaiser and Talaat
Pasha, premier OF Turkey, while Count
Won Hertling. the Bavartan prime min
lister. discussed the matter with the
Austro- Hungarian cabinet at vienna
The chancellor. 1t is added. Is now
awaiting a complete agreement be-
fore delivering his promised speech 10
the Reichstag.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
GERMANS NOW FEAR
AUSTRIA WILL QUIT
Wife Of Kaiser Goes to Wen
ma to Ask Loyalty.
by JUDSON c. wELLIVER.
Especial Cable 10 The Times.

LONDON. May T.-Germany's trou-
bles with Austria are increasing. Ac-
cording to Geneva reports. the Ger
man empress went to Vienna to plead
with the Emperor Charles to suppress
the peace manifestations in Austria
and prevent discussion OF the idea
Of peace without annexation or in
demnity.
The German press is bitterly attack
ing Austrian suggestions OF an early
peace without taking any territory
from Russia. Germany Is getting
fearful lest Austria make peace with.
out taking Russian territory. inducing
the allies to compensate Austria by
giving her territory in the Balkans.
jealousy and distrust between Aus
tria and Germany are growing more
menacing. The German empress was
Joined at Vienna by the Bavarian
prime minister. who Is Ie-enforcing
her efforts to induce Charles to stand
Loyalty by Germany. Austria Is like
powder magazine, and the royal
family and government are fearf1l
OF exertinE pressure lest revolution
start The public feels that Germany
is preventing peace in order to save
the ambitions of the Hohenzollerns,
which IL gratiffed would make Ger
many more powerful at the ultimate
expense OF Austria
The food situation in Germany and
Austria is critical The military are
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
WILL STICK TO END
First Coast Artillery Of Local Guard
Goes Under Canvas.

When the sixty members OF the
First Company Coast Artillery. Dis
trict National Guard. went under
canvas at the Congress Heights r:ae
range today il was with the belief
that they would remain with the
colors until the end Of the war.
Capt. Walter Burns, commanding
the company. said all the indications
were that Immediately after com
pleting three weeks of training the
company would be ordered to Fort
Washington, on the Potomac. for per
manent war service.
This week will be spent on the
rife range, practicing with small
arms under the direction OF Col.
Thomas S. King. Next week the com
pany probably will be ordered to Fort
Howard, near Baltimore, for practice
with coast defense guns
The company made remarkably good
time in marching to the range today
and establishing camp. Owing to the
many details OF making a home under
canvas on the field. the soldiers prob
ably will not begin their rife prac-
tice this afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
BIBLE SANCTIONS WAR,
/ MINISTERS DECLARE
Held InactiOn by U. S. Would Be
Disgrace to Civilization.

Many and various reasons why the
United States should stand shoulder
to shoulder with our allies in Europe
were given by Washington pastors
from their pulpits yesterday.
1T is because of a passage in the
Scriptures that the United States is
in the world war" said the Rev. John
Compton Ball. pastor OF the Metro
politan Baptist Church. ITO have re-
manned inactive would have been 4
disgrace to civilization"
DIR. James L. Gordon. pastor of the
First Congregational Church, Tenth
and G streets northwest, pointed to
references in the Bible to a universal
upheaval upon the earth, the use of
gases in warfare. and a great food
shortage, and prediction of times OF
great tribulation."
The Rev d. II. Martin. pastor OF Wes-
ley Chapel. declared the newspapers OF
the country are carrying the flag TO
victory.
They put the Government and people
in touch with each other" he said INC
matter how bad the news. the people
must know IT. The newspapers are our
great preachers OF patriotism"
DIR. Wallace Radcliffe. pastor Of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
declared the people Of the United States
were in partnership with God In the as
sertion OF His right and truth.
The present war is not a sign OF the
second coming OF Chist. according &c
the Rev. II. !. Stewart. who preached
in the Second Baptist Church last night
DR.. Stewart declared il unscriptural &c
say any event must come to pass before
the second coming OF Christ.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
B. H. S. STUDENTS
ORGANIZE FOR WAR
Register in Card System
Their Useful Qualities.

In an effort to mobilize the full war
aid power OF the student body Of
Business High School. a card index
system OF the capabilities OF the stu
dents will soon be installed, accord
ing to announcement OF Allan Davis,
principal OF the school. today.
Each student will register in &C.
Cordance with the particular line III
work in which he is best suited with
regard for future plans.
Among the groups to register stu
dents are the Red Cross. first aid
work, gardening. collection OF reading
material for soldiers. clerical work.
stenographers and typewriters, and
interpreters.
DR.. Colyer Meriweather is general
chairman OF all the committees. He
Is assisted by a number of teachers
as heads OF committees.
Students Originated idea.
The idea originated with the gen
eral organization OF the school, the
student governing body.
The school has for some months ar.
ranged the pupils in vocational
groups in which instruction of q
more intensive character than is given
in school is taught during otherwise
idle moments This. II is believed.
will materially aid the development Of
the plan.
A number of the students were, be,
fore the idea was advanced, giving
Nheir services to various organiza
lions.
When cards are distributed, each
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
TO SELL BELGIAN RINGS
Proceeds Will Go to Needy Refugees
In Holland.

A curious collection OF rings, made
by Belgian refugees in Holland from
bits OF aluminium and tinfoil. is on
sale at the Belgian studio, 1928
Connecticut avenue. The sale will
continue tomorrow and Wednesday,
from 10 until 6 o'clock.
The proceeds OF the sale will be
sent to the refugees to help relieve
their sufferings and those of their de-
pendents. Miss Marion Howard will
be in charge.
Miss Howard does her "bit' by car
ing for thirty-eight Belgians. most
NJ them in the army. She writes a
N.eekly letter to most OF them, besides
sending various comforts.
Several curios from the warridden
districts will be on exhibition
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07

Colored people may work a great
beneft to themselves and to the ma
tion at large by taking up gardening
work in the suburbs or going to work
on the farms. said DR.. Ernest A. Rob-
inson. who spoke yesterday afternoon
before the Woman Wage Farmers
Association at 104 T street northwest.
A committee report showed that the
orchard owned by the association in
Herndon, Va, is in a fiourishing con-
ditiou
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
THREE HELD AS EMsEzzLERs.

Warrants for embeZzlement were
returned in Police Court today fol-
lowing the arrest yesterday OF VIII
lam J. Cooper, John w. Horne. and
Ernest II. Harding, employees OF the
National Electric supply Company,
charged with defraudinE their en-
ployers by removing unpurchased
property from the store. Horne and
Cooper are being held in $1,000 bond
each. and Harding is under $500 bond.
Their preliminary trial was set for
Thursday morning by Judge Pugh.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07

The monthly meeting OF troop cap
tains OF the Girl Scouts OF Washing
ton will be held at Mason House this
afternoon to consider how the organi-
cation can help the District chapter Of
the Red Cross Many Girl Scouts
have enrolled in the Red Cross, but
are anxious to md some way in
which their entire organization may
be made available.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
ASKS Sc, 1000 DAMAGES.

Damages OF $4,000 are asked in a
suit filed in the District Supreme
Court today by Robert Mcleod against
the John II. Parker Company. con.
tractors. McLead. who is represented
by Attorneys Mark Stearman and n.
A. Heitmuller. alleges that while
working for the defendant company
as a stone mason on the new Interior
Department building he fell down a
stairway and was injured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST
IN and ABOUT CITY
What Has Happened, What Is
Going On, and Where. /.

The Merrick medal for excellence IN
debate. one Of the most coveted trophies
at Georgetown University. has been
awarded Edward J. Callahan. Who with
John J. Darby. Jr.. last night Defended
the proposition That the proposed
treaty with Colombuia should be adopted
by the United States" The negative
was takens5y W. St. John Garwood and
Theodore W. Delaney. Both were COM
plimented by the judges. Chief Justice
Coyinrton Of the District Supreme
Court. Associate Justice Hitz. and J.
S. Easby-Smith. president OF the Dis
trict Bar Association.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
H.Ho. Relief Pro.perou..

Local employees OF the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad who are members
of the roads relief department will
on June IS and 20 elect delegates to
the annual convention OF the relief
which will be held in Bal
timore. There are now 52.TT1 en-
ployes enrolled in the department,
5.T91 Of whom are purchasing homes.
There is also $500, SOS deposited in
the savings division.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
CAR ACCIDENT FATAL.

William Smallwood. colored, forty
wears old. OF 606 Gordon avenue
died early today In Cas-
uaIty Hospital as the result OF IN
turtles received when struck last night
by a street car OF the Washington
Railway ana Electric Company. An
Inquest has been ordered Tor Weu-
nesday. He was crossing the street
At the corner OF Second and H streets
northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
Plan F..tIrnI for RnbIes.

A benefit festival and dance for the
Washington Baby Hospital will be
given tomorrow afternoon at 4:3O by
the students of the Friends School at
their country club. 1901 Wisconsin
avenue. An Old English May pole
celebration will be given by students
in costume, before an audience seat
ed on rugs and cushions. The dance
will follow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-05-07
nrnrrirt. Meet Wednesday.

The washington branch OF the
Pharmaceutical Association will meet
wednesday evening in the lecture hall
of the National College of Phar-
macy, sos I street northwest. DIT.
Frederick B. Power of the Bureau OF
Chemistry will lecture on The Prin-
ciples of Chemistry in Their Relation
TO Familiar Things"