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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
Atlanta Gets Another Camp.

Washington, May FLA second
&raining camp site was designated to-
.day by the war department in Atlanta,
making two for that city, 1t was on
LciaJ,y announced that Columbia. S. c.,
had been selected as a cantonment. or
Ia,visional training camp site
In addition to the cantonments pre-
L,,ously announced. the war department.
To-day announced locations of sites at
S. C. and Amityville, L. |.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
L7NCHBURC TO HOLD
NO FAIR THIS YEAR

ESPECIAL to The Richmond NlrGlnian)
I.ynchburg. Va. May 2i.--on account
|of present war conditions and those
|likely to follow, the board of directors
In the interstate fair. which was to
have been held here october 2. g. and
TX have decided to abandon the fair
|this wear and to hold the organization
|.ra nroperty intact for n fair in 1918.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
Cotton Tax Killed.

washington. May 21.-A proposed
amendment to ne war revenue oiil by
Moore. OF Pennsylvania.
~ tax raw cotton $3.50 a bale. was
En1ed out on a point Of order In the
hnuse today. after prolonged and heated
dsbate.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
For Nine Hours Firemen Wage
Heroic Battle With Three
Conhagrations
LOSS ESTIMATED TO
BE FIVE MILLIONS
No Loss of Life Confirmed
Although Several Persons
Were Hurt-Soldlers Patrol
Burned District

Atlanta, Ca, May 21.-Ten
thousand persons were made
homeless tonight and thirty.six
closely built city blocks are in
ruins, the result of a disastrous
fire, which swept for nine
hours, first through the negro
sections, and then to the pala-
tial residences in the fashion.
able Ponce de Leon section.
Dynamite was resorted to time
and again to check the path of
the flames, and not until late to.
night were the fires practically
gotten under control.
National guardsmen from
Camp Mcpherson are on guard
in the whole swept region.
Looters will be dealt with by a
firm hand. The loss is esti-
mated by insurance men at S.
100000.
Although there were scores
of minor injuries, no one was
fatally hurt as the result of the
fires.
Three Fires At Once.
The fire started-or at least
two of them at 1880 O'Clock
this morning. The fires were
sweeping a block on East Fair
street, and in the West End.
They were demanding the eff
forts of the city's entire fire APP
paratus. The third alarm came
in that a fire was raging IN the
block bounded by Decatur, Fort
and billiard streets and Edge
wood avenue. 1t was impos-
sible for the tiremen in the
other sections to reach the third
fire in time to prevent its
spreading.
Aid was summoned from
other cities. In special trains
and in fast automobiles FIRE
men from nearby cities came to
help the Atlanta fire fighters.
The flames, shooting skyward
and catching on nearby build
ings. began to get away from
the fighters. On Edgewood
avenue they jumped across the
street to sun-dried roofs of cot
tages. Every single h t
caught a spark burst into
flames. The fire spread north
ward and eastward aided by
a high wind.
Blaze Plays Old Tricks.
The firemen were also hamp-
cred by an odd trick of fate.
The flames leaped over the
houses on the edge of blocks
and eaught houses in the mid
die. This made the firemen's
work most difficult and helped
the spread of the flames. Reach
ing north, the flames swept out
Hiliard and Houston streets,
licking their way t through
negro dwellings toward the
neighborhoods where more sub
stantial residences stood.
A path two blocks wide was
cut across Auburn avenue and
onward it swept. travelling
RAPIDLY toward Irwin street.
There it was checked, but only
temporarily. 1t quickly leap
ed across the intervening space
into another block and came on J,
y H@A HNn
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
FIVE HUNDRED GALLONS
Of LIQUOR seized
Taken When Creamery Run by o. T..
Hatcher Is Raided-Brother
of an Old Offender.

Especial to The Richmond N!rginian,)
Danville, Va. May 21.-The police
tonight raided the Danville Creamery
company's plant and there discov-
cred about five hundred gallons of
wines of various kinds, including
champagne and fine imported whis-
kies.
G. L. Hatcher. president of the COM
pany and the man in active direction
OF the creamery. takes the entire
blame upon himself. stating that when
he retired from the saloon business
several years ago he stored the rem
nant of his stock there 1t is claimed
that one of the containers with liquors
therein bore a shipping tag addressed
tosthe Danville creamery. Mr.. Hatch
err and other officers of the creamery
company were arrested and released
on bond for a hearing. The police
department took possession OF the
liquors.
News of this raid was received last
night by Prohibition Commissioner J.
Sidney Peters in telegram from
John w. Carter, Jr.. commonwealth
attorney of Danville and member
OF the formers staff.
Hatcher is a brother of Nj. H.
Hatcher. who was recently convicted
on a charge of violating the prohibit
ton law. He appealed his case to a
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
Do Your Part

it Is just rs necessary to helm
Mt home as II is to go on tho
firing line. Through the Rcd
Cross you can do your part.
Join today.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22
The Red Cross

T" lighting tho nations battle
H nome. Arc you doing
houR share by joining the
ereat force for aid?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-22

Washington. May 21.-We need bis
cults quite as much as we need bull
let's.
1t is more necessary to provide for
an adequate crop than il is to send
what we have already produced to the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
SAYS AUTOMOBILE HAS
IMPROVED HUMAN RACE
Author Shows Motor Car Is First
Aid to Eugenics.

II never occurred TO us that the hu-
man race might be physically i'm
proved through the use of the auto
mobile, but we can see how 1t might
be, after reading STORY of the Auto
mobile"
This Is q book which has about ex-
hausted the automobile as q subject
to write about. 1t appears to have
approached the subject from every
angle. 1t plays on its chords as the
skilled musician strikes those of the
piano.
The Job seems to have been com
pletely done, even to showing that
the automobile Is first aid to eugenics.
The way this is done is very plausible.
The author OF the book shows that
before the advent of the automobile
the one horse buggy could carry a
counting swain only a few miles from
his home to visit the opposite sex. and
that this limitation OF the horse re-
suited in close intermarriages in
many sections OF the country, espe-
cially the South.
The automobile. being able to go
twenty miles to the horses I'VE, now
takes the prospective Benedict further
aneld, away from nrst and second
cousins, into the region OF non-rela-
tives, and presto, we have a stronger
and sturdier race Of people. The
book makes out as good a case for
the automobile as an agent for the
mental development OF our citizens.
through bringing them more fire.
quently together to derive the advan-
tages OF the inter-communication of
ideas
1t is to be doubted whether STORY
Of the Automobile" could have been
written in exactly the same vein by
anyone other than a writer Of the
authors wide knowledge of economic
and investment subjects. An ordinary
recitative or descriptive writer does
not possess the experience enabling
him to delve so deeply into the we'll
springs of Industrial and investment
enterprise.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
MOTOR CARS NEEDED
TO CARRY TROOPERS
Rapid Time Made Where AutOmO-
'biIes Are Available.

When II comes to matters military,
little visalis, Cal, is not only patri-
otto but strictly modern. A short time
ago the recruiting officers in that
town were Informed that a machine
gun company was needed in a hurry
by the Second California Infantry.
A rapid-fire recruiting campaign
produced the men in twenty-four
hours and then a dozen business men
of Visalia, who own Dodge cars, Of
fered to set the new recruits at the
Preside at San Francisco in record
time.
This was the first attempt at NOV
ing troops long distances by motor
in the San Joaquin valley and 1t was
watched with much interest by mill
tary men.
The 230-mile run was made in eight
and one-half hours, with an average
speed of twenty-seven miles an hour.
The first half of the trip was COM
pleted with a thirty-five-mile average,
but rain and slippery roads cut the
average to twenty-seyen before the
ferry at Oakland was reached.
While the number Of men moved in
this particular instance was small. the
run demonstrated that the number Of
troops 1t would be possible to rush
to a given point would depend wholly
on the number Of motor cars avail
able.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
DISTRICT A. A. A ADDS
NOTABLE MEMBERS
Many Distinguished Names Found
IN Capital Cubs Roster.

Maintaining its reputation for haN-
ing more distinguished and nationally
and internationally renowned mem
bers than any other motor organiza-
ton In the world. the A A A. Dis
trict OF Columbia Club last week
added to its roster the names of Mrs.
Robert E. Peary, wife OF the noted
Arctic explorer; NJ de Freyre, charge
d'sffaires OF Peru: United States At
torney John E Laskey, and Admiral
John NJ. Hawley, U. 8. N.
Practically every embassy, every
legation. and every high Government
office in Washington is well repre-
scented In the club. The army, the
navy and both houses Of Congress
have contributed generously OF their
numbers to make the club the ster-
ling organization It Is, while distin-
guished social leaders. literary work
ers, actors. authors. artists. and mu-
sicians are found in great numbers
upon its membership roll.
Other new members are W. B.
Westlake. Ord Preston, NJ NJ. Macomb,
Miss NJ. l. Beckwith. Henry E. PelIew,
Joseph NJ. Furnas, Hennen Jennings,
D. F. Asbury, Lemuel H. Windsor, A.
A. Richards, Conrad NJ. Clancy. and
Fred A spicer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

today to order the regiments into
service at such times a. their ser
vices are needed under the plans for
organization and mobilization
-Four OF the nine regiments already
are filled to war strength: four 9TH
srs are recruited to more than half
their war complement From the At
lanta regiment figures are not yet
available.
The regiments already filled are
those at New York. Chicago, Pitts
burgh, and Detroit The ST. Louis
regiment has reported 54S enlisted
members: Boston, 426: San Francisco
547, and Philadelphia. T5s.
within q few weeks the War De-
partment expects all the regiments
will be completed and undergoing .
course OF Intensive training. The
fun strength of the nine regiments
Is approximately 10000 men The en-
listed men are being drawn largely
from railroad workers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
CONCERN is OPTIMISTIC
Bailey Corporations Activities shoW
Confidence In Conditions.

A hitting example OF the confidence
felt by larger manufacturers in gen
eraI business conditions, despite the
war situation. is found In the activi
ties of the Bailey-Non-Stall Differen
tial Corporation, OF Chicago.
The chief claim to distinction on
the part of the Bailey differential, &c,
cording to its makers, is that IL en-.
ables passenger cars. trucks, and trac.
tors to travel through mud, sand,
and snow and out OF bitches where
machines with bevel differentiaIs
would stall. This is because the Bailey
product gives a positive drive to both
wheels on the straightaway, and when
one wheel gets into trouble, all of
the power OF the motor Is thrown TO
the other wheel Neither wheel can
travel slower than the motor. and be-
cause this type OF differential elm
mates spinning. the skidding is great
ly reduced.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
ORDERS ENGINEERS
into WAR SERVICE
Department Calls Upon Nine
Regiments to Mobilize.
FOUR COMMANDS COMPLETE
Five Others Still Lack Enough Men
to FIJI Ranks.
-FOUR COMMANDS COMPLETE

The War Department today order
ed into active service the nine regi-
ments Of Engineers Corps that are
to go to France to work upon the
lines of communication.
The regiments probably will be
mobilized for training before sailing
for France. BY direction OF the Pres
ident the commanding generals OF the
various departments were authorized
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

bers whispered by the examiner TWEEN
ty feet from you. This test Is giver
both ears. Next you remove your
clothes and are weighed and meas
ured. Remember that the table OF
weights given are the weights with
out clothing.
The next step takes you to the ex
aiming doctor, who first tests your
lungs and heart with a stethoscope
Then you are asked to swing your
arm violently for a few times and
your lungs and heart are again tested
to ind the result of the eXertion
Next you will be examined for hernia
then piles. You will have to satisfy
the doctoS that you have no venereal
disease. that your joints are all In
good working order, that the arches
OF your feet are not broken and that
you are not afflicted with goiter. II
you get through this examination
with a good record. marks of identifI
cation are recorded and you pass.
First class sergeants get S45 q
month while serving in the United
States. Hawaii. Porto Rico or the
Canal Zone, and s54 a month when
serving in Alaska. China. or the
Philippines. Sergeants get $50 and
1920, respectively. in these two
service divisions.
Priority = Factor.
Members of the quartermaster's en-
listed reserve corps take precedence
in each grade OF said corps according
to dates Of their certificates OF en-
listment therein and when called out
for training or for actual service take
precedence next below all other en-.
listed men Of like grades In the regu.
lar army.
Railroad fare IL paid from their
homes to the places ordered, when
called for actual service, and return
to their homes; an allowance OF so
cents per meal while travelling is paid
by the Government. No retirement
or retired pay Is allowed, nor will a
pension be given except in case OF
physical disability incurred while in
actual service or while travelling un.
der orders.
All applicants must pay their own
expenses TO the place of enlistme--.
Branches OF the central department
are maintained in the principal cities
Of the fifteen States embraced in the
central department of the army. This
is true OF the Eastern, Southeastern,
western, and Northwestern depart.
ments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
0LDFIELD TO BE IN DERBY
Veteran Speed Vender viii Be at
Wheel Of Own Special.

Barney Oldfeld, who starts his six
teenth year as a motor car race driver
this spring, will make his first ap-
pearance at the wheel of his new
speed creation, the OIdheld Special, in
the third annual Auto Derby to be
run on the Chicago speedway June I6.
The Oldhed Special. a description of
which appeared in Motor Age recent
ly, now is nearing completion on the
Pacific coast. II is so constructed
that 1t conceals both the driver and
the mechsnician from view. and.
being thickly upholstered, protects
them II the car turns over.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
FIEIEEN euARps NEEpEp.

Fifteen more men are needed a.
guards at the Navy Yard. The guards
enlist as second class seamen in the
naval reserve. They work only four
hours q night, with every fourth
night on The pay Is S45 q month
The naval reserve Il also in need
of telegraphers and wireless opera
tors
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

fringed the patent, owned by the
England Manufacturing Company.
The court held that the making of
the flange and door panel one piece
Of metal was not invention, being the
exercise OF nothing more than the
common knowledge and skill of the
sheet metal worker"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
KILLS AUTO DOOR PATENT
Court Decides FIanse Device Is Not
InNention.

The England patent, No. 1.OOs. sos,
covering a metal automobile door
having a flsnge projecting over the
crack between door and body, has
been held invalid for lack of inven.
ton.
This is the decision of the United
States Circuit Court OF Appeals, sit
ting in the appeal of the Edward G.
Bucd Manufacturing Company. Phile-
delphiR, from the decision OF the
lower court holding 1t to have in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

The motor vehicle act (Acts 1918.
c. 231), section 16 OF which provides
that no city, town, or borough, or
any board or officer thereof. shall
make any ordinance respecting the
speed OF motor vehicles or respecting
the regulation. use. or equipment OF
the same, prevents municipal corpora
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
BOILING POINTS
OF THE RADIATOR
AFacade Of Fact, Fancy, and
FaceiOuSneSS.
COMMENT ON CARS AND PEOPLE
Chukker Of Chatter By The Times
Automobile Editor.
By MONTE w. soHN.

Washington racing fans-lovers OF
the pulse-Quickening motor sports
are in a yawnsome disgust over the
hopeless fasco OF Wednesday at Ben
ming. The Sunday clothes of our best
conventional excuses are soiled. They
haven't a thing to wear.
There wasn't a single excuse for the
the psIlid program of Decoration Day.
Barber was as clever as ever. He
drove as brilliantly as we have learn
ed to expect of an able mechanic at
the wheel OF a crack car. But Barber
Is not a race meet
And the long string of cripples,
saved only by the Kline cars from
utter burlesque, do not contribute
much.
What Benning track needs is about
$1,000 worth of speed-built into its
candy bosom-and the earnest efforts
of an association with enough money
20 make its race meets attractive to
q dozen or more good drivers Of fast
cars. There are plenty Of dirt track
drivers available IL they ara assured
enough in prizes to make It worth
while for them to risk their necks.
1t Is not pleasant to say.
But the meet just staged by the
Middle Atlantic Motors Association
was rotten, fierce, and terrible.
And washington is surfeIted, full
ard sick of seeing withered remains
OF once fast cars, immature tin ideas,
and ilIegitimate speedsterE, locked in
lazy contests for second place, two
laps behind Barber.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

Our nominations for a proper war
tax on motors are the Chappawamsic
Swamp and Thirty-ffth street hill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
"EIther sort.

A Chicago junk firm is almost
frightful in its frankness. il we are
to judge by an advertisement in the
Tribune, which is captioned, WE
ARE CAR RS-MECHANICS
BY TRADE"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

- B. Thomas, Of Chicago" chat
tiers a story emanating from the Path
finder publicit,- factory. will be the
first tourist this season to make the
trip from Chicago to Los Angeles
For the life Of us We can't recall the
date on which the Los Angeles tour
fist season opens.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

The owner Of a Marmon 81 won q
wager Of Sl,4OO from another motor
list for making the best road time
between Cumberland and Baltimore
the othe- day. The winner is a coal
operator. His name is W. F. Coal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02
AUTO LITIGATION
In NEWS OF DAY
Rulings Of the Courts Of In
terest to Every MOtOrist.
A RECORD OF WEEKS CASES
Why's and When Of Both Criminal
and Civil Suits.

It is not negligence per Sc to tow
one vehicle with another.-Wolcott v.
Renault Selling Branch, Inc, 1872 N. I.
S. 400.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

And then there is the hrm in New
York which advertises a need OF
'colored chauffeurs for White trucks"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

lions from regulating motor vehicles
as such, but does not exempt the
owners or drivers of such vehicles
from liability to pay the license fees
required by a municipality of all per-
sons engaged in a particular business.
State v. Schneider, 90 A. (Conn.l 492.
Inc ordinance of Norwalk, requir-
ing licenses for all'motor vehicles and
their drivers carrying passengers for
hire except street cars and those
charging more than a minimum Of
~ cents and containing certain regu-
ialons as to the use of such vehicles,
Is regulation Of the use Of motor
Venlcles, not merely an ordinance
imposing license on persons carry
ing passengers for hire, and is con-
LISry to Acts 1918, c. 231, SIC, pro-
hloitlng regulation of motor vehicles
by municipalities.-Sta v. Schneider,
30 A. Comm 1872.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

A written automobile sales contract
is not subject to be varied by a con-
struction which the buyer placed upon
it.-Stanley v. Weber Implement and
Vehicle Company, 100 S. w. CMo.) $40.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

Where the buyer paid part Of pur-
chase price of secondhand automobile
which the seller was to put in rum
ming condition, such payment was not
conclusive of its acceptance by the
seller.-Lane v. McLay, 90 A. Comm
49s.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-02

In an action for the amount paid
on the price OF a second hand auto
mobile which the seller was to put in
nrst-class condition. but neglected to
do' where the seller denied that he
was 10 put the car in first-class con-
oItion, put admitted that he was to
put ~ IN running condition, an in
sHuctioh that running condition or
oroer meant that II would run under
ordinary conditions and continue to
run under such conditions for a rea-
sonaole time, except for causes there
aIter arising due to the fault or neg
Isct OF the buyer, was favorable to
me sehers contention so that he
~ hOt complain thereof.-Lane v.
The adJuster Of a comnanv which
insured plaintiffs automobile against
loss or damage by theft by a policy
uniting the company LIABILITY to the
actual cost OF repairing or replacing
tne parts damaged or DESTROYED, while
ne may be assumed to have authority
70 bind the company in the ascer-
.ainment OF the damage actually sus-
talneo because of the theft and the
cost or repairing II, and might have
authority to delegate to a third party
the determination OF what repairs
were made necessary by the theft,
has no implied authority to bind the
company to pay for putting the ma
chine In as good condition as new, in
GLIDING the cost OF repairs made nee
essary by wear and tear and by a
previous accident not covered by the
policy.-Chisholm vs. Royal Insur-
ance Company, ia N. E. (Mass.) us.
Under Civ. Code, . 233s, declaring
q principal responsible for his agents
negligence in the transaction of the
business Of .ne agency, including
wrongful acts committed by the
agent In and as a part of the transac-
ton OF the business. and for his will
full omission to fulfill the obligations
OF the principal, a building company
which furnished an automobile to its
superintendent OF construction for
use as a business car in carrying out
its instructions and experimenting
its work was not liable to the owner
of the taXicab into which the super
intendent negligenIly ran while driv-
ing a friend into the city from a
country club after having driven ear
lier in the evening to a theater in the
city and from thence to the club,
since the negligence of a servant,
where he is not acting within the
scope OF his employment Is not at
tributable to his master-Mullia VS.
Ye Planry Building Company, 161 P.
(CaL) 1908.