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New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

marketing the company's products in
the large and important territory tribu-
tary to Detroit, he had the added duty
of selling tires to Detroit automobile
and truck manufacturers as original
equipment.
Mr.. Morehead started as shipping
clerk in the Detroit branch He became
city salesman and later travelling rep
resentative. He was made manager of
the Detroit branch in 1908 and of the
New York branch in 1916.
Mr.. Oliver is still young man in
spite of his twenty-five years expert
ence in the rubber indus try He first
became a member of the B. F. Good
rich organization and then joined the
ranks of the Diamond Rubber Company,
which later was absorbed by the Good
rich company. Mr. Oliver was a men,
tion and later was in charge of Dia-
mond sales at the Goodrich Buffalo
branch wnen it was managed by Mr.
Ruthe rford. 1t was at Buffalo that Mr.
Oliver became closely associated with
the man who was later to become the
chief sales executive of Goodrich.
Mr.. Oliver when not engaged in bust
ness is conducting first hand tests Of
the product he sells. He is an ardent
motorist, and there arc few spots in
the East he has not explored in one
of his cars.
The New York Goodrich territory
comprises most of New York State and
parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The en-
tire line of Goodrich tires, rubber me-
chanical goods, footwear and clothing
will be marketed by Mr.. Oliver and his
organization. Under Mr.. divers juris-
diction are the following branch stores:
Brooklyn, Albany, Hartford, Newark.
New Haven and Scranton.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

serving the public. STANDARD mer-
chandise at a standard price is
good motto for buyer as we'll as seller,
and the property owner benefits By
having such an organization for
tcnont
when it first became apparent that
prohibition was inevitable some retail
ers thought they could wait until July
ID &c. ared tat at that time many
valuable cafe locations would be obtain
able II low rentals. The chain store
merchant, however, recognized this as
his great opportunity TO secure more
central and active locations. As re-
suit the market boomed saloon men re-
ceived large cash bonuses for their
leases, and owners were offered induce
ments to extend these leases. Retail
business both grew and profited. This
activity is rot local, as every city with
population Of 10000 or more reports
the same healthy demand for retail
S.or-s adv need rentals
Concrete proof OF the rerenting o.
centrally located Manhattan cafes 81
higher prices is evidenced in the south
vest corner of Forty y-second Street and
seven Avenue now occupied by the
United Shirt Shops; the southeast cor
ner OF Fiftieth Street and Broadway.
where Schulte's Cigar. the Paramount
Shirt and Nedick's Orangeadc shops are
now located; the southwest corner of
torty-second Street and Sixth Avenue
now converted into six small retail
stores; the Longacre Cafe. northeast
corner OF Fortysecond Street ard
broadway, leased to the Tyson Theatre
Ticket Company; the southwest corner
Of Fortythird Street and Broadway,
now occupied by the st. Regis restau-
rant; the southwest corner of Forty
eighth Street and Broadway, now occu'
pied by the National Shirt Shops; the
southeast corner of Forty fourth STREE
and Broadway; the Claridge Hotel nov
occupied by the Tiffin Candy Shop; the
southwest corner of Fourteenth Street
and Fourth Avenue, part OF LIchows
t e mort cost corner of
Forty-seventh Street and Seventh Ave"
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New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

The chain store merchant is best able 10
appreciate the certainty of this test and
act quickly in making his decision; in
other words, basing his deduction on the
population of a city and the average
number of men and women passing a
certain location in ten hours, the chain
store manager from his desk is able TO
determine exactly what rental store
is worth for his particular business. He
knows that if million men pass a
gwen corner In d year q certain def
mite percentage of them will make daily
purchases at an average which would
give this store gross annual business
Of, let US say, $4,000
"As he may safely allow per cent Of
the gross sales as rental value, such
a store is worth TO him $4,000 a wear
II due consideration has been given
the future development OF the district
such method of determining rental
values is mathematically certain. The
same skilled methods of organization
by the real estate department of the
chain store merchants are also applied
in the buying of the merchandise and
fixtures and the hiring of managers
and clerks.
Few people realize to what a prea
extent the public is becoming depend
eHI OH the cnaln store merchant for
personal service, men and women alike
The chain store idea is not especially
new, nor is it confined to few lines of
business. for there are chain store
established as specially shops, selling
shoes, hats. haberdashery. millinery
and cigars, in addition to which there
are many chain store grocers. restaur-
ants, druggists, dentists, banks. tele-
graph Offices, opticians, automobile
salesrooms, and even Uncle Sam HIM
self with his postal stations everywhere
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Sees Clearly Ahead
To Window Demand

Even though there are more than
100000 motor cars equipped with
Johnston plate glass windows, the
business Of the William R. Johnston
Manufacturing Company seems to have
only started, according to this state
ment by this company's presidents:
I'VE have not scratched the surface.
Very shortly our daily production will
be up to 5000 curtain windows u day.
We know that will not be enough. A
large tract Of land has been purchased
for additional factories. We are also
expanding to takH care of new lines
that are to be added and announced
shortly"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Don't BE Careless i'm
Carrying Spare Tubes

The Importance of the proper care
of inner tubes cannot be too strongly
emphasized. Many motorists carry
their spare tubes loosely in the tool
box. where they come in contact with
grease and tools. The grease causes
the rubber to dcterioratc. and the
tools, with their sharp edges. often
tear gashes in the tubes. Then often,
in hurried search for some necd dcd
tool, the tube is shifted about and
there is danger Of chatting later from
the vibration Of the car.
Spare tubes should always be carried
entirely Debated and kept folded in a
ba~. ~fooAv"s- Tire md Rubber Co.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Hard to Devise
A New Plan of
Motor Taxation
Casolene, Tires and Weight
Are Suggested Indexes to
State Impost; Controller
Travis Considers All Plans
By Eugene M. Travis,

Controller, State of New York
Various ingenious schemes have been
put forward for taxing gaso!ene and
tires, instead of the present scheme
horsepower only. Regarding horse
power, nominal or actual, it is prob
ably the most unsatisfac ctory standard
to take as a bass. Experts themselves
basis upon which the power Of the in
ternal combustion engine can be cal
culated.
Taxation by weight alone has not
proved satisfactory, for whether the
matter be looked at from the point
of view of the ability to pay, of the
mileage covered in the year or of the
destructive qualities of the vehicle
upon the road, weight alone is a very
imperfect guide. Over a century ago
the laws OF England recognized this
and it was provided that toll should
vary in accordance with the width of
the tire. The effect was to encourage
broad tires, for there is nothing more
destructive than the heavily laden,
narrow steel tired vehicle.
There are precedents, therefore, for
varying taxation so as to encourage
broad tires on vehicles designed to
carry heavy loads. The question is
one that should be considered in re-
surveying the problem of motor car
taxation. A combination of factors,
however, must be considered to ascer-
tain how different methods should
work.
A gasoline tax would be difficult to
carry out in practice. Gasolene is used
in many other trades, and it would
obviously be unfair to tax for pur-
poses totally unconnected.
If tires were taken as basis great
difficulties would present themselves.
a broad tire does in ,initely less harm
to the roads than narrow one, and
pneumatic tires are admitted to be
less destructive than tf csc of solid
'.sbber, which in turn are better from
the road point OF view than pain iron
or steel.
1t is impossible, however, to insure
than any tax shall he absolutely fair
in all its incidents, but by levying the
several taxes above suggested no class
of traffic could escape payment Of
some share larger than at present
toward road upkeep. However, any
change in the present system will pro-
woke strenuous opposition, but it is
clear that if the system Of taxation
for road upkeep is altered new
before long become inevitable.
Finally, the question Of taxation for
road purposes is, moreover, bound up
with the reform Of local taxation gen
orally and the whole question of the
appropriations made by the legislature
toward local expenditures. To sum up
the arguments, however, an effort has
been made here to show that a larger
share of the expenses Of road up-keep
should be paid by the actual road user,
whether mechanical or horse-driven
| vehicles.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Growth of Chain Stores
Causes Few Vacant Shops

At no time during the last eighteen
years have retail stores been in such
demand or commanded such high rent
als," declared Stanley X. Green yester-
day, while calling attention to the great
growth of chain stores and the increased
rental value which they have brought
to retail store property.
Mr.. Green has charge of the DEPART
mcnt handling retail business locations
and thoroughfare stores for the Charles
f. Noyes Company. For eighteen wears
he has specialized in this line of work
not only in this city, but in Boston. in
Pennsylvania and in a number of large
Western cities.
1.-THE merchant who is optimistic over
the future of American thorouphfare
retail stores," said Mr.. Green. twill
soon realize that if he has no long term
lease tucked away in his safe he is
likely to suddenly find himself forced
out of business. owing to the fact that
farsighted and active concerns are rec
ognzing more and more that the lease
itself is large and very valuable part
of the assets of healthy business. The
landlord, on the other hand, shows wis
dom at this time in making leases in so
favorable n market, where, after all, the
nmble of success is taken by the tenant
when he contracts to pay the rent.
Zone of the methods of determining
he rental worth of retail store is to
clock the number Of persons passing
he store during a given period of time
I'D to 'ay rental in proportion to
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Saving Mileage in
Tires ON ssDead' Cars

Many motorists may soon put
their cars up for the winter and
think no more of motor riding until
about the ides of March. Many
automobile tires will go into stor-
age with thousands of miles of
wear left in them, and car owners
should take the few precautions
necessary to keep them from dam
age while they are not in use.
Here are some recommendation
made by the service department of
the United States Tire Company to
the motorist who wants to put his
tires away and find them in good
shape next spring:
l. Wash tires carefully en- out
side to remove oil and other harm
full substances.
2. Remove tires from wheels pnd
wrap in paper or oil carpet.
3. Store in a cool, dry place away
from light. Heat, light and moist
ure are enemies of rubber.
d. Cold has no bad effect on ti~cs,
but they should be properly housed.
s. If tires are lett on car jack
up the car, dehate tn tires and
wrap them in covers.
6. Don't let car stand on tires all
winter. To do so means weakening
them in the parts that rest on che
floor.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Bird Body Lines
Are Followed in
Holmes Design
Designers of the Improved
Air-COOled Car We're I'm.
hampered by Necessity
for a Radiator i'm Front

eve are unhampered by the necessity
for a radiator in 'front.'" were the in
structions given to the designers of the
body used on the Holmes improved air.
cooled car; give US body with a
definite reason for the type of design
used"
TIE result has been one which closely
follows the lines of fast birds of flight
and that also shows distinct tendency
toward aeroplane fuselage design.
There are no fiat body surfaces, there
are no straight ang.es and wind re-
sistance is cut to minimum,
Bearing in mind the mechanical
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Atkinson Faculty Grows

Frank f. Tenncy. a licensed aviator
and formerly principal of .he Y. NJ. C.
A. A1rplane Mechanics School, has
joined the staff of the Atkinson Auto
mobile School, 235 West Fiftieth Street
Clifton A. Phipps, an Instructor at tn,
aviation ground school at Princeton
during the war. has returned TO tho
Atkinson school. The teaching staff
alreadv includes ff.ner .-,.....hrrs
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
CITY REAL ESTATE
BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE

FACTORY AND BUSINESS WATER
front, 100 feet on water by $50 deep
with Z 20 room house. barn and shop
Price $4,000; cash required IS. 500. balance
mortgage. minute Walk from r O..
r. j. station. tcN, So Fairfield
ave, Bridgeport. Con-.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Real Estate Opportunities
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN
CHANCE OF LIFETIME :

- CHANCE OF LIFETIME--
Vicinity Fifth Avenue-1sth Street,
low; price $3.50 600; :o good "e;Y terms.
Also number OF other loft and busi-
ness buildings, very cheap: in all
sections. What do you want?
Vicinity Broadway e6th Street ele-
CANT. large apartment house. s large
room apartments. suitable for altera-
ton IN small apartments. Rents
S1.l00' very low; no leases; rents
would be % about $4,000 If altered;
Fine apartment house. g. rooms.
near Broadway-1O3d Street Rent
$1,000; price $4,000.
Corner elevator apartment house. S
70 Z rooms. elegant location Rents
$23:O00s price $4,000; want $4,000
cash.
Great future. at Broadway Subway
Station. apartment houses. s and 6
rooms. Rents $4,000; sell for $685.
600. tt settle estate.
Corner elevator apartment house.
TO rooms. near Broadway. 16Sth
Street Rents $4,000; price $1sO,0OO;
desirable terms.
Fine. large Broadway corner ele-
vator apartment house, stores and 8
to room apartments Big future.
Rents $1,000; price $36O,OOO.
Choice apartment houses, taxpayers,
etc. in Bronx. and also desirable ex.
changes. 1t will pay you to investi-
gate. What do you want: What have
you Tor sale or exchange?
HI. t. WOOD.
220 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
RENT FURNISHED, IMMEDIATE
POSSES SCIOAr

US ESSION
Eleven rooms five baths hot w.,..
heat, electric light; near trolley: to rem,
furnished until May l: SIPS per month
Telephone 222. -
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
l.. M. T. Seeks to
Make Roads Safe
For All Users
Reckless Automobile Driv-
ers Are Being Prosecuted
in Campaig nto Improve
the General Conditions

1.-THE activities of tho League for
Motorists Protection will be pre-
setted regularly hereafter in tho
Sltnday issues Of Tho Tribune. The
ledgHe is acaging campaign against
reckless automobile drivers and 10
making other efforts to Improve
general motoring conditions. Tho
league has been in existence less
than ninety days, but in that length
OF time it has attained very con-
siderable membeyship.l
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Vicinity Fifth Avenue-1Sth Street,
loft building. Rents $4,000, very
low; price $500, 600; good terms.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Also a number of other loft and busi-
ness buildings, very cheap; In all
sections. What do you want?
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

BY way of an
opening announce
ment through the
medium of The
Tribune to the
members Of the
League for Motor
lists Protection
and to the public
generally, Harry
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Fine, large Broadway corner ele-
vator apartment house, stores and 3
to 6 room apartments. Big future
Rents $6l 900; price $35O,OOO.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
MORTGAGES TWO
HORSES AND COW
TO SEE SICK SON

NEW YORK, July 26.-Mrs. Will
mother of eleven children, summoned
by telegraph to the bidside of her
critically i'll soldier son, Ruel K.
Hammond, % years old, arrived at
St. Mary's hospital in Hoboken to-
day. She mortgaged two horses and
a cow to raise the money to get
here and said she was paying ten
per cent interest on the loan (which
Ruel will help pay off when he gets
we'll"
Warned of the high cost of living
in New York, Mrs. Hammond brought
with her a large bag of homemade
Texas bread. which,, she hoped,
would last until her return to Cor
man. Nurses and friends at the
hospital raised fund to supply the
impoverished but happy mother with
shoes, a hat and new dress, and
when she was ushered into the sick
ward to see her boy he smiled wan
ly and after embracing and kissing
the whitehaired woman, remarked:
well, Nom, they can put you in
fine city clothes, but they can't take
the Texas walk out of your feet"
Young Hammond, who is the eld-
est OF the family, and younger
brother volunteered for service at
the outbreak of the war. He saw
active service in France and his
brother, sailor, is a member of the
crew of the army transport PaWhat-
an.
Mrs. Hammond said she had writ
ten to Secretary Daniels asking that
he be honorably discharged, now
that the armistice has been signed,
so that he can help US run, the
farm
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

MATHER FIELD, SACRAMENTO,
Cal---It's a bumpy road, the air-pa5sh
1000 feet high above the Sierra Ne
.vada- mountains of California, but
after two, months Of experimental
ton, the United states Forest Serv-
i've has decided that it's worth the
trouble and danger
The new airplane fire-patrol is
a success. Since its Inauguration on
June l, nearly twenty forest-fires
have been discovered by the army
flyers, promptly reported and as
promptly squelched. Only one at
tanned serious proportions, and the
loss this year from fire in the Sier-
ras has been less than ever be-
fore.
When the pilots take the air in
the morning 70 rtheif 250-mile run,
the air is nice and smooth. Coming
home in the afternoons, it is de-
cidedly "bumpy"-and Mr.. Aviator,
in the event of having to land sud
denly, has no place to go" Find
ing a landing field in the pine-clad
cliff-scarred Sierras is considerably
harder than finding a drink in July,
1919.
= Sergeant Mckee. covering the FL
dorado and StanisIaus Forests from
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Wife Too Fond of Poker,
Saws Husband in Court

Doubtless if Mrs. Selmo Hlhll1eto
man, of Harlem, N. Y, th1rty-tW0
years old, had held a few roya5
Pushes she and her husband would
not have been standing before Mag
istrate Charles E. Sims IN Harlem
court. 1t was Mrs. Zimmerman
persistent tough luck at poker tnat
coused the rupture in domestic rela-
lions, and according to Louis Zlm-
norman, the husband, her tough luck
was no more persistent than her
fondness for the game.
Zimmerman told the court ne was
starving because his wife regularly
took ali the available family cash
and hied herself to a poker game
at Coney Island. Recently he told
the court, he held out $40 and lay
awake three nights guarding 1T, but
Mrs. Zimmerman finally located 1t IN
the toe of one of his shoes, and APP
propriated it. Mrs. Zimmerman de-
MED the charge, Magistrate SIMS
referred the case to the Domestic
Relations court. -,
Aftec the couple had left the
room a scream was heard, and at
tendants who went outside found
Mrs. Zimmerman seated on the floor:
She said her husband had knocked
her down with his umbrella. A
charge of disorderly conduct was
made against Zimmerman and he
was paroled for hearing Friday.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Huge Hound of Death with Human Mad imam
Brain Was Unknown Terror Of the Trenches

reality-a giant hound with the
brain of human mailman"
Captain NeWhouse says that the
papers show that this hound was the
only successful issue of a series of
experiments by which DR.. Hochmul-
Ter hoped to end the war in Ger
many's favor. The scientist had
gone about the wards of German hos
pitfalls until he found a man who had
gone mad as a result of his insane
hatred for England. Hochmuller, with
the sanction of the German govern
ment, operated on him and removed
his brain, taking in particular the
parts which dominate hatred and
frenzy.
At the same time like operation
was performed on a giant Siberian
wolf-hound. It's brain was taken out
and the brain of the mailman in
serted. By careful nursing the dog
lived, The man was permitted to
die
The dog rapidly grew stronger and,
after a careful training in fiendish-
ness, was. taken to- the firing line
and released in No Mans Land.
There for two years it became the
terror of outposts and patrols.
mo one knows said Captain New
house, what became of the hound OF
Mons. It simply disappeared. No one
ever returned to tell the tale of it's
attack and it was never known to
modest a. German soldier"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Poisoning of Wife
MNStifieS Cantain

Captain George f. Aker, who is
stationed at the rehabilitation cen
ter at Camp Dix, is unable tonight
to throw light upon the poison"
letter mystery that is puzzling Gin
clnnati police in their investigation
OF the alleged attempt to kill his
wife with poison pellets. These were
received by Mrs. Aker in a special
delivery letter postmarked from
Wrightstown, N. j., adjoining Camp
Dix - :
Mrs. Aker received the package of
tablets last Wednesday, according
to the information that has reached
the captain. The first inkling he had
OF trouble at home, he said, came in
telegram he found on his desk yes
terday morning from his wife In
1t, she asked whether he had "bills,'
and said she was much improved"
and sent love-"
Il couldn't understand the mes
sage" said Captain Aker. Il had
had letter from my wife, written
last Tuesday, in which she said moth
ing about being i'll. l got long
distance telephone connection with
Cincinnati, and talked to my wife.
Then learned of the attempt on her
life. The bills in the telegram
should have read pills w
L could not learn the contents of,
the letter over the telephone. As,
far as L know, neither of us has an
enemy We have been very happy
together l shall take every posi-
bic step to find the person who sent
the packard"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Abyssinian Chief Takes
Home AirpIane and Auto

An American airplane and an au-
tomobile are among the souvenirs"
which will be taken home by Prince
Dedjazmatch Nadao, head of the
Abyssfnian mission to President
Wilson, it was announced when that
descendant of King Solomon and the
Queen of Sheba returned to New
York with his retinue to leave for
nome after week of sightseeing.
In parting word to the American
people, the representative of the en-
press and heir apparent of Abyssinia
declared he was "astounded" bv
what he had seen in the United
Sta ties. He said it was the hope of
his government TO interest foreign
capital in the development of his
country, whose area is as large as
that of France and with a popula-
ton estimated at 20,000,000, as well
as to &esta blishf all ossible economic
and political reforms LAS a token
Of his appreciation Of what the UnitE
ed States accomplished in the war.
Prince Nadao said he had just sent
$4,000 cash to the American Red
Cross for the benefit Of wounded and
invalid American soldiers. rf
The mission has been at Washing
ton, Detroit and Niagara Falls since
It's arrival in this country a fort
night ago