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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
NORWOOD SEES !.
 NEW BUILDINGS
Number Of New Type Bungs lows Being Constructed By
 Ben Cheeseman

One of the most attractive sub divisions being developed in Birmins ham is on the Norwood boulevard. Bei Cheeseman of the Cheeseman Realtf company is building several bnngalowl in this part which he says will bi ready by March 1. 5N
 Within the past six months the sed tion around Norwood boulevard hal had an enormous spurt in the buildinA of homes. Homes have been construed ed not only on the boulevard, but ol both sides and the streets crossing it.
 The Circle, as one part of it il called, runs around one end like for3 ward pass in beautiful curve oil which are built and in the process oi construction more than one attractivi residence.
 Logical Section Norwood has been always resi- dential section, and it is declared only logical that many people should be at tracted to, this part of Birmingham.
 The homes on an average are being planned On the different styles of bun galows with seven or eight rooms. con sisting of three bedrooms, living room dining room, breakfast room ana kitchen.
 All the modern features are repre- scented, such as built-in bath tubs sleeping porches and tile porches. Thd floors are finished in hardwood and are double. The prices run from $S,00C up. Er
 A new school has just been conn pleted in this section, which makes < desirable from educational angles Phillips High school is nearer from Norwood than almost any other resi- dential section of town.
 Cannot Build Enough
 Homes here, as in many other sub divisions under development, cannot bs built fast enough for the people ts move in, it is said. The usual case il for the home to be purchased bef0rp il has been near completed, and many art bargained for when the basemtni, u being laid, according to realtors.
 Considered from a matter of paved streets, there are few suburbs of Bir mingham which have a greater mum Der of paved streets and larger val riety of entrances to the business sec tion to choose from, MT. Cheescmar said.
 The Norwood car line is block td two blocks from these houses which are being constructed, making it 2 great advantage to the man who de- sires to arrive home quickly when hii car is in the shop. J
 Demand Increases
 The demand for homes is greater than ever in the past, and there ara no signs of it slackening up, said Mir Cheeseman. He observed that a nun. Der of years ago it was actually hard to find people to buy property. ' But at present the situation has changed greatly, according to the real estate man, and where a man would rent formerly, he will now buy s house.
 The situation is aggravated, they say, by the renting situation, making it hard to find a desirable place where the rent is reasonable. f
 Buying a home is at once more prof. itable for the man who sells and the man who buys, realtors say. A man will take more care of the place he owns, it is said, and the man will nat. urally gain more by payments on . place than upon one he rents. as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
WHEN TRAIN STOPS
 TO CHANGE WHEELS
Italian Writer Finds Much Gull ture And Attraction In Siberia

TURIN, Italy, Feb. 2.-All Siberian towns can be described in a very few words. They consist of broad, unpaved streets that become seas of mud after heavy rains, bordered at considerable intervals by small detached cottages or log cabins, writes Armldo Cipoiia, in La Stampa.
 However, in the center of Omsk are fine avenues lined by the big business structures. These sidewalks are thronged with people who suggest nothing of the Kirghiz; many of them are beautiful, elegantly gowned women. Is this indeed Siberia? I have heard people on the train lamenting because 1t Is not possible to buy Coty's per fumery at Chita.
 noticed on the kiosks at Omsk post CTS announcing that I'll Trovatore" was to be given at the opera house that evening. If it took six hours to change the wheels of our train, as some said, there would be time to go! I chose instead to visit the university, which nas QUO students and did not seem in- 1erlor In any respect to the metropoli- tan universities in Russia.
 But the railway station is the most picturesque place in any Siberian city on the days that the Trans-Siberian passes through. Everybody who can possibly do so is on hand to see the train-and in this instance to watch us change our wheels.
 In any other country the travellers would have been asked to change cars Instead of delaying for such a lengthy operation as this. But Russia must get along with such cars as she has. The third class carriages had broken down. and in soviet Russia third-class pas Sengers receive special consideration. including the right not to be inconven- fenced
 In fact, the railway authorities de- cided that our train was too heavy to make the grades to the plateau ahead. Rumor had it for time that Comrade karakhan, ambassador to China, would have to surrender his beautiful private car and put up as best he could with one of our sleepers. There was no ques- tion of dropping a third class car.
 1 heard the railway employees at ODsk criticize unpleasantly the am- bdssad0r's expensive and stylish cloth Ing. However, when a real Kirghiz shepherd, one of the kind that wears the same sheepskin coat and tall fur kolpak winter and summer. tried to en- ter the dining car, the walters, who are courteous, attentive fellows, drove him out without ceremony.
 l observe that the train is kept scru- pulously clean. There is ';comrade" who spends all his time sweeping and washing the floors, and notices are posted to the effect that anyone throw ing cigarette stubs on the floor will be fined three rubles gold,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
NEW POWER PLANT
 VERMONT WONDER
Device Operates In Solitude And Meets All Emergencies

SEARSBURG, Vt, Feb. "A hy- droelectric plant which is not only the largest of it's kind in the world but, by operating automatically and requiring an inspectors attention only at rare in- tervals, furnishes power to many in- dustries of New England, is located at Searsburg. The device is so construct ed that it operates in complete soli- tude, even to meeting whatever emer- gency may arise.
 It is only when serious trouble in it's mechanism occurs that the plant shuts down until experts make things right again. If the trouble is trifling, how ever, the big waterwheel and genera tor rest for a time until conditions are again normal and their functions are automatically restored.
 The Searsburg plant is the upper most of the seven stations of the New England Power company on the Deer field river. Its generator, with n ca pacity of 6,5OO-hOrse power, is driven by turbine rotating at 360 revolu- tions per minute. The huge mechanism can be timed in it's activity by the set ting of an alarm clock. If, for in- stance, the company's dispatcher down in Millbury, 100 miles away in central Massachusetts, decides to tie in the Searsburg power at 6 o'clock the next morning, man visits the station and sets an alarm clock for that hour.
 The control circuit is closed when the alarm goes off, the gate of the gigantic penstock is opened, the waters pour through the wheel and the gen. orator begins to convert it's power into electric current. This is delivered to the high tension wires by the same generator, the wires stretching along the right of way to the NIillbury dis tributing station at Millbury. Again the dispatcher, knowing the flow of water let down from the company's Somerset reservoir, which impounds Ihe flow of the upper watershed, may decide that the automatic device shall generate two or three thousand horse power. In sucL case dial on the governor is set for that power, at which the station will generate until the setting of the dial is changed.
 Other characteristics of this auto matic machine are equally unique. If allowed to run as it wants to. the turbine will start up when water ar rives in sufficient volume, and will shut down when the water falls be- low the efficient limit. When a bear ing becomes heated the penstock gate closes, in which case the wheel will remain idle until experts come to rem edy the trouble. When the generator windings become too warm, however, tee l.nit shuts down only long enorgh 10 allow the temperature 10 become normal again. Then turbine and gen orator run as though nothing ainiss had happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
RUSSIAN DEFENDS
 OUR JAZZ MUSIC
Thinks In Hundred Years It
 Will Be Classical

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2.-"Jazs music is a powerful force for develop- ment of music in America, and in at hundred years will be accepted as class sical." .
 The individual who gave utterancel to that declaration was Paul Kochan-I ski, Russian violinist. He said re- gently:
 T cannot imagine how anyone cam say that your American jazz music is @l destructive force. I consider such aa statement as being wholly ridiculous To the contrary, jazz music today has done more to stimulate love for music in the United States, and other coun- tries for that matter. than any single thing of'which I know.
 'I will admit, however. that this dis tinctively American music has under gone tremendous change for the bet-I ter since l first started making annuall tours in this country three years ago. Today one finds a delicate, harmoniousl weaving in practically all of your bet ter jazz. compositions. It shows that your composers are putting their very souls into their work just as the great artists do.
 There is only one -untoward feature HI thAS JhLL IuuSlC IS WrlILeul primarily for the money. The com posers strive to place something on tth.1 market that will take thereby bting-l ing large returns over long space ofI time. That is bad.
 If the creation itself were para. mount, jazz music would reach t,y classical stage in half the time it will take under present conditions. But itI will arrive there sooner or later.
 T have never yet met a truly great musician who deplored jazz music. Those with whom have discussed the question were unanimous in predictius that this new and pure musical form is destined to be placed with the clns- sics. l
 T imagine it was those who would affect superior musical discrimination and appreciation who are responsible for the prevailing idea that jazz music acts as a destructive force to the music future of America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
STEAMER IS DAMAGED

NEW YURk, Feb. 2.-The freight steamer Patrick Henry. en route from New York to New Orleans and the Far East, was headed for Norfolk, Va, today with one blade of her pro- pellor broken and the others badly bent, according to wireless message re- ceived here. Details of the accident to the vessel were not given.
 The Patrick Henry left New York yesterday and it was estimated was about 150 miles out this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
NOTED SURGEON EXPIRES

LOUISVILLE, Ky Feb, 2,-Dr. Lewis $. McMurtry' 7S, internationally the American Medical association, died here today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

Radio loud speakers were successful ly used in place of "barkers'' and "bal- ly.hoosD at recent southwestern stats fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

The land under Chicago office build ings is rated at higher value q square foot than the land in any other city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
MUST PAY DAMAGES THOUGH NOT IN CAR
Large Verdicts Against Brook
 lyn Woman Confirmed

BROOKLYN, N. Y., Feb. 2.-The appellate division of the supreme court in Brooklyn confirmed verdicts aggregating $30,000 awarded in suits brought against Mrs. Cora Riggi of 421 East Twenty y-first street, Brooklyn, wife of wealthy candy manufacturer, as a result of collision April 19, 1922, in which her automobile was involved. The plaintiffs were MT. and Mrs. Ho- ward c. Smith and their two children and Frank H. Trecartin, all of 136 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn. They al legged they were thrown from the au- tomobile with which Mrs. Riggi's car colGded at Garfield Place and Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs. ,Riggi was not in her machine at the time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

Capable of furnishing enough steam to develop electrical energy approxi- mating 400.000,000 kilowatts hours a year. partly extinct volcano in Bolivia is flor sale or rent" according to q recent report.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
DON'T sTARvE YOUR PLANTS

The Age-Herald probably gets more inquiries about various plants not growing or doing wal, than from any other subject covered by this feature. It should be understood that plants need and consume food the same as humans and animal life. We daily feed thousands of worthless animals, but we seem to overlook some of our valuable house and potted plants, as- suming that they can thrive and live forever on water alone. It is the pot ted plants that are the chief victims To make growth, the plants must be fed because when the roots have eaten up all the food in the soil, the plants can not make further progress unless the old soil is taken out as far down as possible so roots may not be dis turbed and then refill the pot with some good, rich loamy soil. When this is done, the plant will soon speak it's thanks through manifestion of new life. Unlike animals, they only re- quire feed every year or two. Feed a plant helps to enable it, through vigorous growth, to resist the attack of disease and insects
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
By GEORGE B. M,vAY, sR.

The time for planting the Irish po- tato crop is close at hand and it be- hooves the planters to be very careful in buying his seed. One of the chief reasons for low yields of potatoes fin the south is the quality of seed planted All Irish potato seeds planted in the south, with but few exceptions, come from the northern states. The business is handled chiefly through brokers and commission houses, who are not inter- ested in seeing the south produce a large crop or become a factor in the potato trade; consequently the south becomes the dumping ground for thou sands of cars of diseased, culls and frost-bitten stocks; absolutely unfit for seed purposes. This game has been go- ing on for years and will continue to
 flourish unless some form of protective legislation is enacted that can be made effective. Farmers should examine the seed himself by cutting up some of the stock and see if he finds any hollow potatoes or black spots inside, any scab on the outside, depressions, decay, etc
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

actual operation cf the plan 81 de.
scribed az follows:
Instead Of endeavoring to buy =
car that Is beyond his present means
the nlotorigt trades in his old car for
d good used car Of q better make.
He drives this car six months or q
year, and when he IL In q better
financial position he again makes 3
change. trading in q still better used
car. Within two or three years time
he II driving q car In the $4,000
class without IN any way straining
his pocketbdolE.
"A variation OF the plan enables the
rnotOrist to reach the latest model
Of his fav0rite car by easy stages,
plain that his ultimate aim q to have
of each six-rnonth period.
Speaking Of q typical instance
the bulletin OF the w. Al. n. A. used
car committee reads:
A motorist who had driven q Ger.
tain car for seven years. found that,
having enjoyed 80 per cent Of It's
transportation, he could not trade
1T In for more than $500. The new
model was selling for over 81. 900,
and he did not happen to be In q
position to carry the difference as
q monthly charge, Being in need
Of newer car, and knowing defi-
nitely what car he was aiming for
eventually, he hit upon the plan
Of trading in his old car for q good
used car of the same make only Of
q later model. This cost him $500,
an expenditure which he was in q
position to make at the particular
time. Several months later he found
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
C NNoN BALL" BAKER
hi NEW COLUMBIA six

Cannon Ball Baker. veteran
transcontinentai automobile plot,
who holds more road records than
any man living. passed through
this city today IN the Tiger, 4
a sport model roadster created
BY the Columbia Motors Com
pany 0f Detroit. Mr.. Baker
stopped 1t the sales rooms Of
Glen Young, the local Columbia
representative long enough for q
States. Introducing the new model
Mr.. Baker - making q i've
thousand mile tour Of the New
England and Middle Western
states, tIEducting the new model
to the dealers and distributors.
At the same time giving the car
the mileage and wear n four
weeks that the ordinary tourist
requires of an automobile In &
years driving. The Columbia
Company Ii the first automobile
concern to conceive this novel
idea of introducing q new model.
cannon Ball" II giving tlne
power plant 81 the roadster q
thorough test aa to liz roadi-
bility. power on the mountains IA
high gear, speed, ease Df riding.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
OVERLAND AIDS IN
CEoLO CICAL SURVEY

Judging from the report made
By Prof. Henry ". Howe. who
holds the chair Of geology at the
Louisiana State University. an
Overland roadster which he drives
has done more than its share to
advance this science.
Since last May, Professor Howe
has driven his car across the con.
tinent to Oregon and Washington
and return, 9 distance Of more
than $500 miles. This trip was
taken for the express purpose Of
making geological surveys and the
collection Of specimens, which re-
quired that the greater part OF the
journey be made over stretches Of
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

seen. IT ii d delight to the eve.
There are many new refinanlents.
The new Coach would be i mar.
velOus value even II Hudson had
not decided to cap the climax ~
bringing IL out as the first IN
closed ear In nctordOmss history
to be offered At the same Identical
prices as standard open car.
Hudson sales continue IN their
sensationally rapid up-curve. Ihe
SuperSix liz now enjoying its
biggest volume we ever knew.
The Coach Ii rs per cent Of our
Hudson business, yet the old
standby demand for the Hudson
sedans and the Super-six open
cars II also running ahead OK
previous years. The Hudson FAC.
tory ii now at Its highest point
Of Euper-Six production, yet We
are actually short OF cars
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

q
posed difficulties have been over
come. Hudson aid not rush into
balloon tires, but took plenty OF
time to experiment on all the
steps necessary to make them
safe ana convenient under all cons
ditione.
Having driven this new Hud-
son with many owners Of pre-
yious Super-Sixes. can join
them ii saying that the balloon
tired Hudson 81 the steadiest and
easiest steering car on the road
We have ever had. The nechaJl-
zeal changes which bring this
about are original, simple, exclu-
sive. and perfectly effective.
with the new tenders, fh0
cIean-cut and loW.hung lines. and
the balloon tires, the Hudson
Super.Eix Is one o. the hand
soonest motor cars have ever
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

an opportunity to purchase . 1922
model Of his favorite make at a
cost Of $500 and his old car. "A
month ago he purchased the 1924
model, having arrived ct Il by easy
stages.
Many motorists apparently do
not realize that II ID not necessary
to go along with their old cars
until they feel in q position to jump
into new proposition. The used
car market offers an excellent OPP
portunity to step up the ladder
gradually, enjoying the advantages
of better transportation and gradu.
ally increasing ones actual market
able investment in cars.
The plan Is greatly facilitated
by reason Of the Standardization Of
many makes Of cars and fiat rate
charges for repair work. BY going
to the dealer for the car, the motor
LIST Is interested In Il as It Ii pos
sible to buy used cars with guaran-
tees. And IL the motorigt win ex-
plain that his ultimate aim to have
one Of the latest models. the pro.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

With full sire balloon tires, the
new Hudson cars are. neverthe-
less, steering with greater case
and stability than any previous
Super. Skies. according TO Walter
Lambert, Hudson distributor for
this territory. This u due he de-
cIares to 4 newly designed steer
Ing mechanism which has been
incorp
When we heard sthAt Hudson
had gone III for balloons. said
Mr.. Lambert, we expected won
derfuIly fine and cary riding re.
suits, but we wondered IL there
wouldn't be parking and steering
troubles. We had heard gossip Of
such troubles
I'VE discovered that tho Hud-
sons. while essentially the same
cars as previously. have been no
re-designed that all these sup
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

psssiSsns and cAaiuaan q ne Beard
1AxwEzI MOTOR GALES CORPORATION pETRoVT. MICH,
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

country where no roads existed.
Professor Howe adds that the last
$500 miles Of his trip were over
roads hub deep IN mud.
Despite the handicaps," writes
the professor, II was greatly sur
prised to find that the car had az
All times an abundance OF power,
both for the steep mountain grades
ana for the heavy pulling in deep
sand and mud. As q matter 81
precaution had q mechanic 20
over the car every 1900 miles. The
charges for this work and for q
new cork gasl1et on the oil filter
the sole replacement amounted TO
but $780,"
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
What Makes the Kol
Stop, He Wants
To Know

Following II 3 copy Of letter
received BY one Of the leading
anufacturers AZ ignition equip
nent. The answer, pleases
Gents The kohl you sent ne
for my car stops when there Iii
nothing the matter with II, that's
the trouble. IL wOuldn't be 50 bad
IL II had stopped 4cr some reason
and anybody knows there are
reasons enough for II TO stop.
| have received the book what
you sent me which Is named
what Makes the Kohl Co.. 4
ainf read ii vet because whats
the use reading it when / don't
care what makes the kohl 20 so
long as it goes which mine don't
only occasionally. What ] want
To know IS Whist makes the kohl
stop. IL you got 3 book called
that send me one. / want tO
know what makes my kohl stop
when everything is 81 K. and
that it must be : rotten kohl.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
SHIRE WD BUYING.
Of USED CARS
EFFECTIVE
Careful Owners by Trading
IL Often Acquire High
Type Machine

Something new Ia car buying and
car ownership has Just come to light
ii tie Districts automobile row. ac-
ccrding to & bulletin just issued By
the used car committee Of the Wash.
ingtor Automotive Trade Aasccia-
ton.
The committee reports that pro.
g~essive vet conservative motorists
are stepping up the ladder IN car
ownership by aIxillfully using tho
used car market to enable them to
own better car each year. The
The Washington times., 1924-07-23
Announce
Now Standard Equipment on All Models

The outstanding buying choice
this year is CLOSED Car Comforts
at Open Car Cost" The Coach
alone provides them. It is exclu-
sive to Hudson and Essex. Every
one knows it gives highest closed
car value. Because no other type
and no other car shares its adj
vantages it is the largest selling
6-cylinder closed car in the world.
And now ballon tires enhance the
worlds greatest value.
The Washington times., 1924-07-23

and economy on gasoline con.
sumption. ne has several stunts
planned that win be worked ii
connection With the tour.
The Tiger selected BY the
Columbia Company as the most
appropriate name for the sport
roadster, was submitted BY George
y. Donahue Of Brooklyn, M. III,
III the 800 prize contest o1
dealers and distributors for the
naming of the car.
The famous Cannon Ball, who
has driven more than three quar-.