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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
BATTLING FOR ITS LIFE
Trolley and Auto Stage Fight to
Finish i'm Small Community

The Danbury and Bethel Street haIi-
way Danbury, Conn, now i'm the hands
or j. Moss Ives as receiver is battling
Tor It's life. Its antagonist is the auto
mobile. There is no effort on the part
OF the railway TO hide its fears. In fact,
through public notices and by appeal
direct to such patrons as still remain 10
II the company says frankly that the
community will have TO choose between
the two forms of transportation, AL
ready the company has been compelled
to abandon one line on account of un-
fair jitney competition. Other branches
VIII have TO go If conditions do not inn
prove. Each Of the three appeals which
have been posted asks the public TO
choose between the jitney and the troll
ley, and reminds the reader that the
public cannot have both.
The same hostility to the electric rail
way that has manifested itself i'm 80
many other instances seems to be pres
ent here in exaggerated form, saws
Public Utilities. A combination OF
conditions that lead up to a receiVership
do not make for amiable public reIa-
tions, and in this case the tendency per
sists TO carry over. and infllct punish
ment on the receiver for sins fancied
and real of the managements OF the
past. In other quarters there is an air
OF total Indifference. As the matter nov
stands things seem to be half 1Itnev
half trolley II the jtneys are forced 10
go there appears to be doubt about IN.
trolley, despite its appeal for confidence
on the other hand II the trolley is
forced to go there appears 10 be, hone
that a permanent, reliable motor bIs
system will then result.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
AUTO CHAMBER
WARS ON REDS
Bolshevism Figures Too
Prominently in News
Columns, 1t Says
ACCRAVATES u NRES
Manufacturers Report Rapid
Return of Industry to
Full Production
AGGRAVATES UNRES

Chasing news of the Bolshevistic move
pages of American daily newspapers is
the aim of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, which at a
recent meeting in New York adopted
resolutions deprecating the tendency to
give prominence 10 activities Of the
rReds."
"Bolshevism is getting an undue
amount of publicity" say the resolu-
tions, which tends to aggravate ttrs
national feeling of unrest" Following
Is the text of the resolution: '"r
Whereas. The general public is form
ing a false impression of the extent of
Bolshevistic movement in this country,
through the prominence given such news
in newspapers and magazines generally,
and through the tendency of some edi-
tors and writer's TO fasten the terms
Boshevism and Bolshevistic to ordi-
nary labor movements: and
Whereas, Bolshevism in that way is
securing an undue amount of free pub.
licity: and
Whereas, This fact tends to aggra-
vate whatever tendency exists toward
national feeling of unrest and uncer-
tainty; therefore, be 1t
Resolved. That the best interests Of
general business and the entire nation
demand that such articles should be re-
moved from first page prominence wheys
their real news value precludes excluding
them entirely from the columns of pub
lie print"
At this meeting also the chamber dis
cussed the abandonment this winter of
national automobile shows, and decided
unanimously to resume the promotion OF
national passenger car shows hereafter,
Action on national truck shows in the
future was deferred pending decision
of the leading truck manufacturers.
Trade reports submitted indicated that
makers of all classes of motor vehicles
are rapidly coming back to production.
Carload shipments for February totaled
approximately 10000. a substantial in
crease over the 12,030 carloads shipped
in February last year.
Hugh Chalmers. vice president OF the
chamber, presided
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
Personality MirrOred
in appearance of Car
Our Girl Reporter Says Auto Eventually
GrOlUs Like OWner, Rejecting individual
Habits-NerUOus Person DriUeS NerUOusLy

II a man keeps his car long enough It
viii grow to look like him, just as his
clothes do and his handwriting, For
instance, suppose you start out not
knowing thing about cars as cars
that Is. nos knowing whether it's the
differ 2tial that makes the spark or
the cylinders that keep the cut-out open,
or the cut-up out. or whatever you say
to stroll out the Drive of Saturday
afternoon. You have asked a friend.
VINO knows even less about cars than
you do. to go with you so that you won't
have to talk TO yourself.
AS you cross the Drive TO get to the
river side where you can walk without
lodging. nervous little runabout al
most runs YOU down. eyclaiming with a
worried little contralto horn. And, with
out second glance, you know that the
man who owns that car is the same
kind of nervous little person who al
ways wears derby hat, let's his collar
button rise above his necktie in front
and smokes thin golden brown cigars
outside the house.
Like Car Like Owner
And when smart roadster whirs
down the drive-Ignoraut Friend doesn't
know what kind of car it is, but you
nave "A sneaking notion ON account of the
wire spCkes on the wheels--it's not a
bit of surprise to find that the driver
and owner is a member Of the Red Cross
motor CORPS in snappy little gray cap
and leather coat. The car is done in
light gray. of course. But on the other
hand passing her you see just that
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
DOUBLE HIGHWAY
TO SAVE HORSES
Scott Fosters Scheme to
Parallel Roads With
Sod Paths
DOBBIN CONES BACK"

Harrisburg. March 12.--m Spite of
Ithe almost universal use OF motorized
kehicles and the persistent relegatlon Of
Ithe horse as "A relic Of past ages. Dobbin
Threatens TO come back strong in Penn
sylvana through the aid Of his friends in
the Legislature. among whom is Repre-
sentative John H. H. Scctt. of Phila-
delphia.
Farmers. who. because of tender
sentiment, perhaps, still> cling TO the
horse as a beast Of burden, are said to
be giving their support to movement
to compel the state Highway Depart
ment to build bride paths and road
ways suitable for horses" along the
permanent highways it is now planning
to construct. Country gentlemen. whose
favorite sport is following the hounds
and who maintain stables of fine riding
horses, also are said to be fostering the
scheme for double highway system.
The state Highway Department has
deferred the whole matter to Governor
Sproul Representative Scott has a bill
on the subject. and Senator William Il.
crow has a measure that he may intro
duce, Representative Scotts proposition
is to add the following amendment to
the road law:
provided. That no highway shall be
built or &C ntracted Of such materials as
to prevent or interfere with the use
thereof by horses, unless. where the
highway is of sufficient width. dirt or
other road of some rough materials suit %
able FOR horse travel is constructed at
the side of the improved portion of the
highway"
Representative SCOTS bill. If enacted.
would require what would amount to "A
double highway system throughout the
state. No estimate has been made as to
the cost.
Robert r. NJ. McCready, of Edgeworth
another re cad-for-horses advocate, in a
statement. says:
The most improved highways are
virtually prohibitive for the use OF
horses for all pleasure purposes. They
vary from unpleasant and harmful TO
highly dangerous. No satisfactory dual
surface has been found, or is ept to be
found. Every farm in the state is de-
pendent upon the use OF horses. and most
OF them will always remain SO.
"It is only by attempting to ride or
drive horse in such highly developed
district as Allegheny County that one
can appreciate the tremendous difficulties
of the highways, with no
thought for the horse
II have no hard and fast notions upon
the legislation beyond the general prin-.
ciple of acting before 1t is too late 10
secure some reasonable provision for
the use Of horses !.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
TRADE CAR MEN
CALL CONFERENCE
Great Gathering Tomorrow
Night for Exchange of
Better Methods
TO SEE TRADE FILMS
Advantages of Bonus Plans to
Cut Operating Cost Will
Be Discussed
TO SEE TRADE FILMS

Practical operators of motortrucSs
IRON many states will gather in New
York tomorrow for the opening tomor-
row night at the Hotel Astor of the
three sessions of the National Trucl,
owners Conference. under the chair
manship of Harold p Gould.
Exchange of ideas and better methods
OF operation is the purpose of the con-
ference. which. according to Mr. Gould.
who has been in the metropolis two
months arranging for the meeting. will
be the largest of its kind ever held
Last year scores of owners came
from eleven states, and a larger out-of-
town delegation is expected this year"
he said. This is the ninth national
conference given by the same staff along
exactly this line. seven meetings having
been held in other cities
How many New York truck owners
ever spend weeks in travelling to see
the best operating methods used in other
cities or even their district" Very few,
ana yet if theyl CUd, they would learn
how they are sitsing thousands Of dol
lars year by short cuts and better
methods
BY attending these sessions the
owner will get precisely the same result
AS II he took AN extended trip. for the
star viii show hundreds of scenes where
these better methods are in successful
use by means Of motion picture films
thal hYNe taken especially for these
meetings.
The films show clearly the Pittsburgh
Coal tompany's loading methods that
enabled one truck TO deliver 37l tons
of coal I'm less than twelve hours, and
the simple dispatching system that
saved Standard Oil in Detroit $50 900 by
causing thirty-siX trucks to haul greater
tonnage than fOrty-two had hauled be-
fore.
Thirty bonus plans have been found
by the STAFF in other cities each one with
advantages. For instance. the Chicago
Motor Bus Company saved $500 in gas
oline per month by paying $500 In bon
uses 10 the men; Timken- Detroit cut
their ton-mile cost 66,4 per cent with a
bonus plan.
The surprising thing about these
plans is that after they are Installed
owners wonder why they had never
used them before
"lf a transportation man at $4,000 a
year fails to use better loading plan
that could save $4,000 a year, and better
inspection methods that should save
$4,000 more. and dispatching plan that
would SAKE one truck or $4,000 q year
again. he has really cost the company
$4,000 year over his salary, or per
cent interest on 5000, 900. He is a third
of q million dollar deadweight against
progress. Every executive should check
up his truck methods against the best
in this and other cities TO protect his
concern against possible losses like
these.
This conference charges no admis-
sion 10 owners and business men gen
orally. but excludes the trade unless by
special invitation, because il is users
and not sales meeting"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
LAUGH DOCTOR
IS HIGH FLIER
Walter Catlett, Comedian,
Expects to Thrill City
With Air Stunts
AN EXPERT AVIATOR

Walter Catlett, the famous comedian
of the Little Simplicity company uhicb
Is coming to the Sam $. Shubert Theatre
March 81, Is the first actor to purchase
an airp,ane for pleasure purposes.
Catlett will bring his air car with
nm when he comes to Philadelphia. and
the sight of him taking the air over the
housetops of Philadelphia will be a IA
miliar one during the stay of the com
pany at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre.
The Little. Simplicity" comedian is
an expert in aviation. He has watched
the development of flying during the
world war and he believes that more
progress was made in the science of fly-
ing during that conflict than would have
been made in generation of peace.
Flying today" he said, lis not dam
gerous. 1t Is almost as safe as auto
MODELLING. II is much safer than auto
racing. OF course. II took millions of
dollars. many lives and the brains of
many countries to make aviation as IL is
today. a possibility, and the one who
has given most toward the successful
development of aeronautics has been
the pilot, and the training of this pilot
Is a great work in itself.
Given Thorough Training
"A civilian, upon entering the Royal
Air Force and after being duly sworn in
was sent to a disciplinary camp for a
period of about three weeks. Here he
received the rudiments of military dis
cipline. He was then sent to a univer-
sity to study the theory of aviation and
modern warfare. Upon completing his
studies at this institution his real work
began, for he was then sent TO flying
camp and taught to fly in the slow
training machines, which are mostly
Curtiss, j. y. As.
"Once having mastered the elementary
or simpler problems of Hying-that is.
straight flying, turning and taking Off
and landing-and after the flying in
structor was satisfied that his f1edgllne
was capable of competently handling a
machine alone, he was sent solo, He
was allowed TO fly a certain number OF
hours alone, the length of the time be-
ing governed by the intelligence of the
pupil. and he was then taught advanced
fyjng and higher maneuvers. which in
chded ali the stunts of the air, such
as looping, spinning, rolling, forced
landings. Immelman turns, stall turns
and various other acrobatics.
"All this usually took the pupil (oadet)
about thirty hours In the air. Upon
reaching this state, the young aviator
was sent upon cross-country flights.
which included aerial photography. man
reading, bombing, formation flying and
reconnaissance. His work at the ele.
mentary camp having been completed.
he was sent 10 the artillery corporation
A ..I'|.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
automobile Exposition
Statistics at a Glance

Passenger Car Show-March s to
10, inclusive.
Commercial Car Show-March Il
to %. inclusive.
Passenger Car Show open daily,
except Sunday, from 10 a. m. to
10:30 p. m.
Commercial Car Show opens
Monday. March Il. at p. M. and
daily thereafter from 10 a. IN. to
1880 y. M.
TUtai number of exhibitors for
passenger-car week, eighty-four, of
which forty-seveu show passenger
cars and thirty.seven show acces-
sories.
Different makes of passenger
cars, fifty-seven, of which fifty.siX
are gasoline and one steam.
Prices of passenger cars range
up to $4,000.
Estimated value of passenger
cars exhibited. Sl.000.0O0.
Professor Snyder's Orchestra of
forty pieces afternoon and evening
for the duration Of the show.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
Coming Racing Events
In Automobile World

March 15-Speedway, Santa
Monica, Calf. .s.
March >17-Uniontown, Pa, prob.
ably 1121a miles.
March 23--Los Angeles, Calf,
Ascot Speedway Association, Ascot
Speedway. $50 miles.
March 3l-Indianapolis. Indian.
apolis Motor Speedway Association,
500 miles.
July 5-Cincinnatl, Ohio, Speed.
way
July 19-Uniontown, Pa, Speed.
way race. "a
July 26-Sheepshead Bay, l.. I.
Speedway race.
August 22.23-Elgin, III. Speed.
way.
August -Sheepshead Bay. l.. /.
Speedway race.
September / Cniontown, Pa,
Speedway race.
September 20-Sheepshead Bay,
L. l. Speedway race.
October Cincinnati, o. Speed.
way race.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
PROVIDE AIR LANE MAPS
Auto Association Looking 1
Needs of Aerial Pilots

Automobile Association, which for wears
has made and provided maps for tour
lists, has now added the production OF
air maps for flying, and at the recent
gantic maps of the United States with
the established air lanes, landing fields
and prominent landmarks. together with
compass readings.
needs of the aviator In flight, an aero
map of Long Island, and some of the
sDeclal government aerial maps. which
the organization helped 70 prepare, were
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12

II hear that lightning struck Speed
er's automobile"
well. speeder claims II was his auto
mobile that struck the lixhrnmg-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12

Baker Talks OF Tanks
OF the artillery tractors. tanks ana
tank corps, Secretary Baker says
THE results of the war have also
served the interests of peace in the
development of small caterpillar trac-
tors to replace horses used with heavy
artillery. There have been designed
and put into production ten-ton. fye-
ton and twO-and-a-half ton tractors.
Large tractors had for some years been
used extensively in farm work lumber
ing. etc. where heavy hauling must be
done over rough ground. 1t is probable
that the small tractors which have been
developed under the pressure of war
needs will be extremely useful in tasks
where smaller unit would be suitaS,le."
To carry through the production re-
quired new plants and plant extern
sions, to the value of about $500 ,OOO.-
OOO, have had to be erected under the
direction Of the ordnance department.
The number Of contracts placed during
the fiscal year was approximately II, 900.
or an aggregate value of 5000, 600 600.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-20
Donaldson Is Flying
Second to Maynard
In the Aerial Race

CHICAGO. Oct. 19.--F7ycrs trailing
Lieutenant Is. W. Maynard, first to finish
the army's rans-'Untincntal airplane
race. rested today at the control sta
tions they reached before sundown Sat
urday. and mad" preparations for con-
tinuing the cross country contest at sun
rise tomorrow.
Barring an accident. second honors
wil 20 TO Captain J. .. Donaldson. who
reached Binghamtnn, y. Y. only li1
miles from Mlncola, y. Y, Saturday
evening.
Captain DonaldSon'S closest CompCti-
tor is Lieutenant r.. II. Manzclman. who
spent Sunday at Rock Island. Ill. On
niles from Mn"ola. captain Lowell h.
smith. and Lieutenant II. T.. Queens.
flying westward. wcr" At Cheyenne.
Wyu.. l.OO5 miles from San Francisco.
Close behind them was Lieutenant r. {.
Kirl. who spent tn" Weekend at Sidney,
Nrb.. l.O9S miles from IN" western term
mus.
The rul" providing that flyers who
had not completed the first lap by sun
down Saturday would be incligloie 70
make tho return flight eliminated all
but 80 contestants. This number had
completed tho first lap but only II start
"a the return flight.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-20
D EA H
For Two and Injuries For Five
When e. & P. Flyer Runs
Down Automobile

Special Dispatch TO The intelligence.
TORONTO, o., Oct. l9.--pcath for twa
and injury for five. two probably fatal
was the toll exaCtrd here late this after
noon, when the Cleveland & Pittsburgh
flyer for Bellaire dashed a. forty miles
an hour into Ford Sedan car n the
Loretto street crossing.
The Dead.
MRS WILLIAM r. TAGG ART. Of To-
ronto, ~, neck broken. killed instantly.
JEAN TAGGART. her frv"-y"ar-old
daughter, back broken. killed instantly.
The injured.
WILLIAM +. TAGGART. or Toronto
husband and father. 45, cut on head and
shoulder dislocatcd. will recover.
EDITH TAGGART. II. left arm hr"k-
en-, head injured.
ELIZABETH TAGGART. 8. hurt ou
head and body. unconscious. r"udI,l"r
critical.
LILLIAN SMITH. S. suffering from
shock and convulsi"ns condition cri,ira!
ADELAIDE SMITH, -. cut aud
bruised.
The two Smith girls arc daughters Of
Wendell Smith. Of Toronto. aud w"r" 'h'
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. TagGart for Az
afternoon outing III their car. MIR. TIr
CART failed TO SEQ tn" apprua, hing pas
scngcr train until too late. Th" aUto
was lifted upon the engine and rirrI"h
moro than 100 feet before tn" train could
be- stopped The injured wrr" taken ,u
the Mccullough hospital in Toronto. nf-
t,r having received attpltion by pr. H.
". Quinn. of Wellsvillr. O., who happen
cd 10 be a passenger on the flyer.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-20
EX-5OLD|ERS
HO[D-QP MEN
DEPUTY SHERIFF
FATALLY WOUNDED
Many Held Up on the Dixie
Highway Of the
Highwaymen Captured

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. Oct. 10
Rarricading themselves at a lonely spot
on the Dixie Highway two boys said I"
be James Oliver. aged twenty and a
companion. Ed Martin. both discharged
soldiers, held up at the pistol point an
plsscr-by from sunset until near mud
night last night. rnhhIng travellers. cap
turcd citizens who went out t. arrest
them, fatally shot Deputy sheriff W. Il.
Mcintosh and finally Capitulat"d only
after Oliver. himself. had been w"und"d.
Realizing that his Comrade was SLOWLY
bleeding to death, Martin is said 10
have ordered the captive citizens 10 take
Oliver 10 Oultcwah SO that h" might be-
attended by a physician. After the CIT
zcns had started. Martin slipped away
In the darkness, and throughout me day
posses have been securing the hills OF
James county for him.
When Oliver reached Ooltcwah. in
dignant citizens took him from his Tor
mer victims, placed rope around ms
neck and strung him TO III" limb .! \
tree. He at last broke down and Slid
that Martin was his aCcnmPliC" III IN"
holdups.
After several automobiles had boon
robbed early I'm Tho evening by tn" two
road agents" citizens armed them
selves and went to the scene. only to be
held UP themselves. At ono time. II is
EalQ, tTdt NIX anu "'H''''
huddled along the roadside. cove[cd by
the pistol Of one robber while the other
waited behind the harricadc for vehicles
70 bring fresh victims.
Deputy Sheriff Mcintosh was onc ~
the first TO attempt 10 arrest the pair.
and was rltally wounded. The sherifrs
assistants held captive. said they were
not permitted by the two boys To go 10
his aid and were forced 10 stand by and
see him die.
Oliver was being held tonight in the
Ooltcwah pail. His wound il not be-
lieved TO be serious.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-20
VIENNA APPEALS To AMERICA
FOR AID IN HOUR Of NEED

cnt quantity for tho masses. Clothing
stocks on hand have risen thirty fold in
price.
Neither the industries still going nor
the transportation and power agencies
Know from on" day Ia another whether
tho; can operate the next. Th"r" is
scarcely chance that NOR" than II
small percentage uf the pCopl" Will b."
ah1n TO cook their meals during tn"
winter.
Our hospitals arc about 10 =" closed
nnn .lftcr another so We are prepared
,or n terrible death rat. Our schools
A." without fuel and must be closed.
Tho number oC unemployed increases
daily and il now seems certain tha;
within few weeks there will h. ~"
railway transportation whatever w!'h:n
our country. Tho great d"pr"clAii"n IN
Gar currency mak"s impossible IN" pur-
rhnSe OF fncl or raw material from
abroad thus Ia r"SUn" our industrial
lif". Only n foreign loan can ~av" us
aud "" app al 10 .tmrr:"a.
With The Temperatures Just above
freezing 4 larc" part of IA" population
now = seeking IN" C'Fi'' houses. wh"r"
they herd all day H. avail themselves "f
the combined warmth Of their bodies.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-20
NO GERMAN REPLY
ON RUSSIAN BLOCKADE

BERLIN. Saturday: oct. lS.-(By the
Associated Press. )-rontrary I" reports
from London and Paris. Germany has
not vet replied 70 tho note from IN" En-
tcntc urging a common blockade OF So
Wet Russia according 4" official inform
alton obtained today hy tho Associated
Press.
Th" statement was mad" that the
German cabinet has not yet taken up
th. subject for serious dclihration.
Tho correspondent was Informed that
'hG foreign office strongly suspects that
the cxcluSiv" or alleged premature trans
mission Of the note To Germany is poorly
defended 10y tho "prrtcNt" that II was
due TO clerical hlund"ring and is incnn-
cd to view tho matter rs n diplomatic
trap which was sprung before II was
set ="