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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
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50. S:23, 1888 p. III.
Saturdays only, Az p. m, An'
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ncaIi 1902, 9:47 .. N. daily.
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rdays. Night train leaves 1870 I
n. daily for stations Lorton to Fred
.ricksburg inclusive.
NOTE-Timep Of ARRIVAL aar d.
arturo and connections not xp&ra
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
The First National Bank.

Alexandria, Va, Dec. &c, 1917
At regular meeting Of the Boar
of Directors, held this day, the re
eu!ar sc~ri-annuaI dividend OF six pc
cent, and an extra dividend Of tn
per cent, were declared, payable o.
or after January 1st, 1913.
Geo. E. Warheld.
3OS-4t. Cashier
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
Notice OF Annual Meeting Of Stock
holders.

The annual meeting % the stoc&-
.rldars Of tn. Atlantic Building Com.
any will be he'd en- the 18Th day q
'anoary, 1913, It II o'clock. a. nj
the principal Office Of the company
the State of Virginia, ll9 south
-airfax street, Alexandria. Virg MA
Or the purpose of cl"c.ing cliice
nd a board of directors and re.eir
,g and acting up"n the repo' IS i
he officers. and for the TRANSACTION
{ such other business a. may prop
Nv come before the meatin@.
Dated the 22d, day Of December
OIL.
Louis Boyer, lr.. Secretary
9O5-4w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
Notice of Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting CT The Dire
.ors and Stockholders CT the Odd Fol
lows JOINT Sock Company, viii b
held at Odd Fellows Hall, South Co
lumbus street. Alexandria, Va, Jan
Z, 1918, at T:30 p. n.
c. c. Brooks. President
". H. Skinner, Secretary
orr
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
SUPPLIES FOR U.BOAT BASE

Believed to Have Been Landed off
Brazilian Coast by Mysterious Ger
man Steamer.
Buanos Airas. Dec. 2a.-Rrazilian
psrers received here are filled with
.7cc"1:T:S nf tho nnavamants Of Ger
nan corSair OF the Brazilian coast q
few weeks ago. The newspapers
assert that the mysterious vessel Hras
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29

Thirty Norwegian sailors arc be-
,ieved to have been killed in the sink
:np Of five Norwegian steamers b.
German submarines, according to ?
statement issued by the Norwegian
Foreign Office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
Notice Annual Meeting.
December 5, 191 I

DeceMDeF ., III
The regular annual meeting Of tn
stockholders of the First Natinna
Bark Of !A'nxar!r;a. Va. vii Re hi
at the Ranking House on Tuesday
1anr'a~v 9 1919. p IL o'clock, moor
for the election Of directors md tran
sactio-. CT such other business 4!
may properly come before the NEE.
ing.
GEO. 2. WAKEFIELD. Caghiez
2es-2N, :.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
Maryland, Delaware end
Nirginia Railway Co

Steamers OF this line leave Alex
andria every Monday, Wednesday,
and Saturday at 4:45 p. N.
FOR BALTIMORE AND ALL THE
USUAL RIVER LANDINGS
Cuisine and appointments unexceii-
ed
Freight for Baltimore. ph!ladal-
phia and New York solicited and
handled with care. Through rates
and bile OF iadiEg issued.
Single fare to Baltimore. sS.25;
with return trip $3.50. State .oons
ono way a2ya0 and MP
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-12-29
Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat COMPANY
Grades
Guaranteed

Every day In the year for Fortre1'
Monroe, Norfolk. Newport News ano
points south via superb, powerful
steel palace steamers.
Through connections made al Nor
soIk with steamers Of the Old Denim
ion Steamship Company for Ne1
York and Merchants and Minsso
Steamship Cor Boston.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
Mulford to Guide Hudson
Super-Six Racers This Year

Ralph Mulford. who will hold the
star racing wheel for the Hudson Mo-
tor Car Company's team this year, in
addition to his place as driver. occu-
pies also unique, though unofficial
position in his connection with the
company. Mulford is an ambassador
of fact to the realm of theoretical mo-
tor engineering. In his hundreds of
big contests the daring driver has seen
with the vision that vivid moments
of excitement bring, where mechanical
constructions are at fault, where some
thing failed at a crisis, where the
supreme moment found out a weak
ness that theory would never have
detected.
Mulford and other members of the
Hudson racing team keep constantly
in touch with the engineering depart
ment of the company, and many Of
their suggestions have proved of
value.
This year viii be the first that the
Hudson has entered the racing game
on a large scale. At least five super
skies will be in the fiotilla that will
meet the motor world in every big
speed contest during the coming year
Arthur Hill, late of the Peugeot team,
will be the manager, and Billy Chand-
ler. who has given up active racing.
has been appointed master mechanics
and will be in charge at the pits, where
many q race is won or lost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
Lake Traffic Will
Relieve Car Shortage

Z. c. Morse. Vice-president and
general manager of the Chalmers Mo-
tor Company, has issued a notice of
meeting of Chalmers district men
and travelling representatives to be
held at the Detroit plant during the
first three days in March. Among the
big problems which will be discussed
at the meeting is the freight car
shortage. which has now reached an
acute stage with Detroit automobile
manufacturers. Although Chalmers
cars are being delivered to dealers
on their own power, by express and
on fiat cars, over 1000 orders for inn
mediate delivery are still uncared for
at the big Detroit plant. With the
opening of navigation between De-
troit and other lake ports, in April,
some of the freight congestion may
be partially relieved, but it is doubt
full if the freight car shortage situa-
ton will be materially improved for
some months ahead. At the meeting
of the Chalmers statesmen, business
sessions will be held twice a day and
will be addressed by Z. C. Morse and
w. j. Drumpleman, assistant sales
manager,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
Maxwell Crosses Florida
Swamp in Remarkable Run

Taking a route that involved the
risk of sinking out of sight in the
great Withlachoochee swamp in CEN
trail Florida if his motor stopped
Percy w. Gibbs, Detroit automobile
driver, this week established a re-
markable new motor car speed and
endurance record for the 276 miles
between here and Jacksonville and
attained the distinction of having
been the first man to cross Floridas :
second greatest bog locality in an
automobile.
Riding in the car with Gibbs was
Byron West, proprietor and editor of
the Florida Times-Union, one of the
foremost good roads workers in Flori-
da, who asserted here after the run
had been finished that the trip OPEN
ed up the possibility of developing
in the swamp the greatest adventure
field in America for motorists.
Gibbs used a Maxwell touring ear
on the run and he carried three pas
sengers beside himself. In addition
to the newspaper editor there was
another Jacksonville newspaper man
in the car and a representative of
the good roads committee of the
Jacksonville chamber of commerce.
The route through the % miles of
chee swamp cuts 20 miles off the
distance between the two largest
Florida cities
blppS IelI JdChSOHNllle at L a. m.
and was in Tampa at the start of
the business day. The total distance
covered was 2?6 miles and this his
car negotiated without car or motor
stop. His average for the run was
approximately 40 miles an hour.
The route through the % miles of
swamp was made with the aid of
a Seminole Indian native and guide,
who piloted the car from high spot
TO high spot and whose final caution
to the driver was to avoid allowing
the ear to stop at any point within
the water logged district. Frequent
ly the car was in water holes two
inches deep, while water stretches
aXle-deep often continued a half
mile or more. There is no sign of
life in the jungle other than the
alligators, their native reptile COM
panions and the tropical birds
The Withlachoochee swamp lies
northeast of Dade City, above the
Withlachoochee river. and the dis
trict is second only to the Ever
glades as an impentrable bog dis
trict- Gibbs crossed the swamp in
darkness, using two extra regulation
headlights attached to his Windshield
to light up the trail the Indian had
marked out.
It was asserted that a still higher
speed average could have been at
tanned had it not been for the smoke
banks frequently encountered in the
orange and grapefruit localities dur
ing the night, these arising from
smudge fires maintained by the cit
rus growers to protect against re-
currences of recent frosts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03

Although actively interested on
the board oh various cor
Jr., president of the Belding Brothers
Company, finds time to ride his daily
bit on his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Mr.. Belongs enthusiasm for the two
wheeled sport dates back to 1881
when he started riding one of the old
52-inch ''roadsters,' or high wheeled
safety bicycle, He piled up a record
of 10000 miles before the modern
style bike came into existence and
then he switched his allegiance to
the mount that carried its rider closer
to the ground and with much less ef-
fort.
Mr.. Belding is one of the charter
members of the League of American
Wheelmen and for three years was
New York State chief counsel. He
began riding motorcycles in 1912 and
his motorcycle mileage approXimates
that of the old roadster.
The riding suit worn by this million
aire sportsman has unique historical
interest. 1t is made of the old l.. A.
w. official color and weave and it is
said that Mr.. Belding bought the last
bolt of this material from Browning,
King & Company who, in the early
days, werethe official clothiers to the
l.. A. W.
Mr.. Belongs garage contains be-
side his motorcycle a touring car, a
limousine and two roadster type of
automobile, so it can be seen that his
motorcycle enthusiasm
from the love of the sport and his
spirit of independence. He has q
membership in the old Boston Bicycle
club, the first club of wheelmen or
numerous other athletic clubs in the
East,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03

Camp Hill, Pa, March 8. - At a
meeting attended by sixty residents
in the high school building yesterday
afternoon a permanent Parent-Teach-
ers' Association was organized. Rob-
ert L. Myers. president of the Lemoyne
Trust Company was elected president;
Mrs. William Denison, vice president
George Cook, secretary, and Prof.
Fred Rockey, treasurer
President Myers will appoint pro-
gram and membership committees in
the near future. A constitution and
bylaws was adopted. This constitu-
ton was drawn UP by Prof. Rockey,
Mrs. William Denison, Mrs. George
Cook, Mrs. Carl Deem and Mrs. G.. w.
Ensign.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
SAXON ROADSTER
MOST COMPLETE
Four Has Made Enviable Rec
ord Among Low-Priced Cars,
Says Hagerling

People to-day want completeness in
their automobile. They want COM
fort, convenience and luxury, and are
they are of the right sort.
'One of the reasons accountable for
the big sale of Saxon Roadsters," said
l.. H. Hagerling, 'is the fact that
the Saxon Roadster is the lowest
priced, complete car made. When I
say complete, 1 mean equipped with
those features which work for ease
and pleasure of operation, such as u
starting and lighting system and de-
mountable rims and other improve
ments which car must have to be
strictly modern.
Prior to the coming of Saxon -Four,
motor cars with luxury and appoint
ments for the complete comfort OF
the motorist had been for the wealthy
alone. Like the opera, the telephone
and other things, the motor car was
first luxury. Then the designers of
Saxon Four conceived this car as an
automobile for the man of moderate
means. yet one with every refinement
possible.
True there were those VINO doubted
Saxon Four demonstrated that it was
the motor car which had solved the
problem. Owners of Saxon Fours
have found that average driving on
average roads, not boulevards or
paved streets necessarily, can be ac-
complished with Saxon Four on an
average gasoline consumption of a
gallon to every so miles. They have
found that the light weight of the car
gives them an average mileage of
from IL 900 to $1,000 miles on a single
set OF tires and at the same time they
have found that requirements and
repairs have been much less than had
heretofore been expected of light
weight motor car.
1T has been touted in motor car
circles that economy of operation ond
upkeep, together with a low initial
cost, are the fundamentals for 4
highly successful automobile. To this
some have added the qualifications OF
beauty and refinement. The Saxon
Motor Car Corporation has always
adhered to the priciple that the
automobile purchaser has the right to
demand as many conveniences as the
purchase price could possibly afford
without sacrifice of quality in mate
rials and workmanship.
Saxon Four has demountable rims,
starting and lighting system and other
improvements, generally found only
in motor cars of a much higher price.
Its body designs and springs have
been worked out for the highest COM
fort and owners are unanimous in de-
claring that they are never fatigued
from riding in Saxon roadsters.
All these things have combined in
the success of the Saxon Four and
they have found a means to demon
strate themselves in the service which
the thousands of roadsters are giving
to-day and have given in the past. Not
only have Saxon roadsters showed
clean states at the end of the most
Srueling tests a motor car can be sub
jected to, such as transcontinentaI
journeys and difficult hill climbs, but
they have covered miles and miles of
rough roads day in and day out. in
every part of the country, without a
single hitch. And that, in the last
analysis, is the best test
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
Thirty-Eight New Stores
For Goodrich Company

The opening of thirty-eight new
stores throughout the United States
has just been announced by w. o.
Rutherford. general sales manager of
the b. f. Goodrich Company, of
Akron, Ohio.
Two of these, Allentown, Pa, and
Atlantic City, N. J.. will come under
the jurisdiction of the Philadelphia
Branch and serve to greatly increase
the Importance of the local division of
the Goodrich Sales Organization.
In announcing this important moI e
Mr.. Rutherford said: 1--WE have felt
for some time the necessity of adding
to the facilities of our Philadelphia
branch and this extension is not only
due to a substantial growth of our
business in these cities but rather to
the optimistic view of our company
with reference to the future of the
automobile and rubber industries. This
is in keeping with our we'll defined
policy to be as close as possible to tho
final point of distribution of our pro-
ducts"
In commenting upon this announce
ment, VIM. F. Mower. local man
ager. said: while these stores are
intended to act only as a source OF
supply TO the various dealers in their
territories, they will at the same
time give these dealers and their Gus
toners the advantage of that close
contact with the factory organization
that is so necessary to promote and
maintain absolute satisfaction. AL
of the thirty eight managers and rheiI
assistants have just completed ar
eight weeks course in our Educa.
tional Department at the factory un.
der A. Koehler, and the instruc.
ton they have received covers every
detail in our established methods o.
doing business as we'll as to familiar.
ize them with our various products
and the sales policies that apply tC
them"
In the Philadelphia branch terri
tory these stores will have as man
ayers and assistants Vim. Schlipf anC
J. E. Dulaney, at Allentown, and B
E. Virgins and Pierce ireland, at At
lantic City.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
Spring Touring Trips Will
Soon Be Popular Pastime


No longer does the chirp of the
robin presage Spring. Cock Robin,
the time-honored harbinger of that
season. has lost his job. To lapse
into the easy vernacular of Z. c.. En-
sminger. who spends the best part
of every working day boosting the
bort car with the enthusiasm of the
successful car merchant. The News
paper Touring Bureau and the motor
ing journal have beaten Cock Robin
to it,"
And so the case seems. Cock Robin
can still dig his worms in the front
yard, and the Spring poets can inn
mortalize his lay; but it's the Touring
Bureau that tells us to-day If the West
Road is good and where we have to
detour, and what we can expect to
find on the road between here and
there"
April seems to be the date set by
number of the motor publications
for their Spring Touring Numbers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03

will understand when you see them.
Consider carefully which type of car
will really serve you most accept
ably the year-round.
Like many another you may conclude
that the Touring Sedan or the
Touring Coupe is after all the ideal
year round car for you.
One advantage you have in consider
ing this matter with our help and
advice-you have the widest range
of selection. Our only interest in
your choice is that it be the car
that will give you the greatest
satisfaction in the long run.
Come in and see us and talk it over.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03

This is hnrdly month away. If you
have had the Little Old Last Years
Car" laid up In the garage this Win
ter, now is the time to think of get
ting it out and having 1t overhauled.
1t will run better for a thorough going
over, a grinding of the valves will
put new pep into it and a new
coat Of paint will make 1t look better
to you.
Prepare for Spring. If you can af-
ford new car, buy one. If you can't.
fix up the old one and make her"
do;-but. be ready when the bugle blows
a month from now to take trip. Get
out in the country. Health First is
Safety First every time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
CAMP HILL DEBATE

Camp Hill. Pa, March 8. - The
affirmative side was victorious in a
debate, Resolved, That the govern
ment has treated the American Indian
more cruelty than the American Ne
gro," at meeting of the Camp Hill
High Literary Society yesterday. The
debaters on the winning side were:
Miss Rebecca Kilborn and Edmund
Good; negative side, Miss Catherine
Smith and John Basehore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
jackson Uses First
American" Eight Motor

Although the eight-cylinder V-form
motor was first applied to automobile
use eleven years ago, the first distinct-
ly American type of eight-cylinder
motor to oe used is the Ferro-Jack-
son engine in the 1911 Jackson model,
the wolverine Eight" according TO
ii. a Matthews, treasurer OF the jack
son Automo bile Company.
Most persons THINK Inat the eight
cylinoer motor is only about three
years old, and speaking from the
STANDPOINT or wide use in pressure
cars lh this country they are rlght, ="
says MIR. matthew's. And lt is inter-
esung 10 know that, until the advent
OF the t'erro-JaeKson motor, this year,
all eignt-cylinder engines followed a
distinctly European style or design.
This is natural, tor the manurac-
turer of the first eIght-cyiinder motor
was q French firm which, in 1906,
AFTER the aeroplane had demonstrated
the possibilities OF the Eight, built
eight-cylinder motors of the type that
has since come into wide use IN Am
ecIca. six cars each OF the four, six
and eight-cylinder types were built
ana sent out on the road for 10000
miles oil experimental WORK. Compar-
isonS anu tests were iitauv at 49,
clusion of the experiments. oy wol,>.
ShSln6tTSs anu their ueNlSlOn
was unanimously in favor of the
freedom from vibration. Since then
this French manufacturer was built
eight-cylinder models exclusively
Various engineers have declared that
the eight-cylinder type engine will be
the ultimate choice of all the automo-
bile industry outside of the motor
truck field. We believe this is true;
we are equally confident that it will
be the American 'V' type that will
predominant.
I'm several important respects the
Ferro-Jackson W type eight-cylindeI
motor differs from similar motors OF
European design, and possesses re-
tinement and qualities which are not
ably lacking in the European models
For example, the cylinders of the
Ferro-Jackson Eight are of the ~
head instead of the "L" head con
struction, and are cast integral with
the case instead of in separate blocks
as in the European type. Valves are
in the cylinder heads instead of being
pocketed at the side as in the Euro.
pean 'V" type construction, and there
is an individual cam to each valve
while in the European type, the
valves on opposite cylinders are oper.
ated by a common cam. The crank
case is integral with the cylinders IN
stead of being of separate aluminium
cylinders as in the European build Of
engines.
"All these features combined NEAR
greater simplicity, economy and ac'
cessibility on the part of the American
type and explain why the jackson
Company, with its record of pioneer.
ing in the four, six and eight-cylindei
fields, has finally arrived at the con,
clusion that this type of motor was Il
be preferred above the common type.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
SUES FOR $4,000

Sunbury, Pa, March 3. = George
Is. Phillips. of Milton. was to-day
made the defendant in a suit for $10,-
600 damages brought by Valentine
Fratterolo, of Point township. North
cumberland county, as the result of
an automobile accident on the road
from Northumberland to Milton, ON
November 2S. Fratterolo's leg was
broken.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
NED -sTEEL Mill oFFICIAL

Lebanon. Pa, March 9. - John L.
SwayZe, for several years general man.
ager of the Reading plant of the Am
erican Iron and Steel Company, has
been appointed a department superin-
tendent at the American plant of the
Bethlehem Steel Company here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
AppOINTED CoNsTABLE

Hummelstown. Pa, March 8. ia
cob Thomas have been appointed Con-
stable by Judge McCarrell on petition
of the borough council to fill the un-
finished term of Robert s. Lower. Mr..
Thomas formerly served as constable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-03
MARRIED AT HUNINELsroMN

Hummelstown, Pa. March 8. -
The Rev.'J. Paul Hummel last evening
married Miss Elizabeth Snavely, of
Mechanicsburg. and William Wood, of
Enola. The ceremony was performed
at the home of the minister.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-06-27
RAINS ADD THOUSANDS
OF BUSHELS TO YIELDS
Potato Growers Enthusiastic - Red
River Valley Sees Bumper Harvest
Twelve Counties Report.

Minneapolis. Soaking rains over
every section Of the northwest have
added thousands of bushels to the sea-
sons crop, in the opinion of agricul-
tural men who have visited every Sec
ton.
! Potato growers express the opinion
that the recent weather has been the
best possible.
Throughout the Red river valley, the
greatest small grain producing section
of the country, there is every indica-
ton that the harvest will rival those
of the earlier days, when the average
crop produced was we'll over 20 BUSH
els to the acre.
Upland hay acreage will produce
many more tons of winter feed, and
lowland hay is sure to make a heavy
crop.
Favorable crop reports from the fol-
lowing counties have been received at
the Office of Fred D. Sherman, Com
missioner of Immigration: Murray,
Aitkin, Norman, Isanti, Wadena, Fill
more, Benton, Jackson, Grant, Mcleod,
Koochiching and Hennepin.