Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-18

S1,339, 600, equal to Sl9 per share,
for the corresponding period OF 1916.
The increase OF cars shipped during
the 1917 period amounted 10 33 per
cent over "A year ago. Total quick
assets amount To S4glg,774, against
which there is only ssS2,74i I'm quick
liabilities and OF this $4,000 Is the
dividend requirement
Chicagos truck fender ordinance
has been held valid by the appellate
court in an opinion handed down IN
injunction proceedings brought
against the city last May by the Con
sumers company and other owners OF
heavy motor trucks The suit was
filed to restrain the city from enforc-
ing the fender ordinance, which re-
quires tenders on all motor trucks
with n capacity Of more than l,5OO
pounds. The petition alleged that the
ordinance was invalid and could not
he enforced In that in unreasonably
and arbitrarily discriminates between
heavy trucks and other motor We
hicles OF equal weight and carrying
capacity but used as passenger cars
Tho International Motor Truck
corporation has received govern
Utnl OIufI IOI 4ftUNutVuU NbIlb WI
motor trucks five hundred of which
are TO be delivered January !. fol
lowed by two hundred in January and
two hundred In February. Following
the delivery of this minimum order of
nine hundred the contract calls for
two hundred a month until such time
as stopped by the government under
"a siNty-d day clause. The trucks are
OF the Mack AC model with load ca
pacities varying from o y to Z y tons
These trucks are for the engineers
corps OF sthe army. Production of
Mack trucks Is now at 250 per month,
and the company will enlarge its IA
cilities to take care of necessary in
crease.
Colorado roads are in a sad way.
The main sources OF their construc-
tion have departed from the earth.
1t happened this way. January / the
state went dry AS n result there have
been 229 fewer inmates In the peni-
tentiary, one cell house Is entirely
vacant, and the skilled labor such as
Colorado uses to build It's good roads
is short.
An interesting announcement has
recently been made of the perfection
of a threaded rubber insulation for
starting and lighting batteries by the
willard Storage Battery company
Cleveland, Ohio. The principle used
involves the employment of thousands
of tiny threads, 10000 to an insu-
lator, which serve as wicks and thus
permit me circulation of the electro
lyte. These threads are imbedded In
the rubber and are only as long as its
nIat Ion 10 nd
surface to surface. The battery so
luton is drawn thru the threads by
capillary attraction, but there are no
holes thru which a contact can be
established from plate TO plate by
freeing
A feature OF the new extensions TO
the plant OF the Holt Manufacturing
company, maker OF the Holt cater
pillar tractor, Is a training camp in
which quarters for one hundred Of
ficers and five hundred men will be
provided for training in the construc-
tion, operation and repair OF tractors
to be used by the army abroad. The
plant Is to be doubled Contracts for
new buildings and machinery aggre-
gate $1,000, 600. The company has
acquired 80 acres adjoining it's plant
tAHu WIZ lilNl'tA0t lAS lOlNt " lllICb
thousand workers.
Motorcycles viii he admitted to Yo-
semitic national park from now on,
according to announcement by Secre-
tary OF the Interior Lane. Hereto
fore use of the roads has been denied
to motorcycles within the park be-
cause the driveways have been con-
sidered dangerous for such traffic.
improvements In the roads, however,
have made 1t perfectly safe, accord
ing to Secretary Lane.
The rasping and banging Of gears
that one hears on occasions must be
II great source OF comfort to the re-
pair man, If he is within earshot.
Such driving usually results in the car
being eventually housed in the repair
shop for new gears, universal joints
or something similar. The man who
is gifted with the art of precise driv-