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Wilson Teachers College
Dinner Tomorrow NIGHT

An interesting event in educational
circles of Washington is the dinner TO-
morrow evening at o'clock of the
faculty OF the Wilson Teachers Co..
1ege, sponsored bv the Philosophy Com
mittee of the college. The oinner will
be held in Tilden Gardens.
The speaker for the occasion will
be DR.. Joseph Sweetman Amcs, presi-
dent of Johns Hopkins University.
eminent physicist and author of many
scientific articles. Dr.. Ames is ali
honorary member of the Royal Insti-
tute of Great Britain and the French
Physical Society and fellow in the
American Academy of Sciences. AS
president of the college, from which he
also Is graduate, DR.. Ames has car
ried out the ideas of his predecessor
and close personal friend. Dr. Gilman,
the first president of Johns Hookins
University, in developing scholarship on
a purely scientific basis Since this is
also the trend at the Wilson Teachers
College, DR.. Ames' address is awaited
with a great deal of interest.
DR.. H. E. Higbie, president of the
Wilson Teachers College. will preside
at the dinner and will introduce the
speaker The committee in charge of
the dinner includes Miss Bessie Lacy
as chairman, Prof. Paul LutZ. Miss
Ethel Sunny, Miss Agnes Garrels, Mrs.
Elizabeth Smart. Miss Rose Parkman
and Prof Anna D. Talberg.
Wilson Teachers College will grad
uate its first class in June, the college
having been instituted four years ago
for the purpose of preparing teachers
in the elementary and junior high
schools for compliance with the ruling
of the local school authorities that per-
sons eligible for appointment in the
school system must have a college de-
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New York Society Dance
Set for February %

A meeting of the officers and trustees
of the New York State Society was held
in the home Of DR.. and Mrs. Lamar
Harris Wednesday evening, when plans
were perfected for the next entertain
ment and dance of the society. which
will be held Wednesday evening, Feb
ruary %, in the Shoreham Hotel.
The guest Of honor and speaker will
be Representative John Taber An out
standing orchestra will furnish the
music for the evening and an attrac-
tive program of dancing is promised for
a period of three hours, commencing at
9 o'clock. Favors will be distributed to
all those present.
The president of the society, Mr.. Will
liam r. Valance, will be assisted by
chairman Of the Reception Committee,
Mrs. w. A. Carr; chairman of the En-
tertainment Committee, Mr. Howard S.
Leroy; chairman of the Floor Com
mittee, Mr.. James E. Black; chairman
of the Membership Committee, Mr..
Maurice E. Sands, and chairman of the
Door Committee, Mr.. w. A. Carr.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all New Workers and their friends to
attend this function of the society
which promises to be a big, happy
event Membership and guest cards
may be obtained from the treasurer,
DR.. w. j. Davis at 1904 H street north
west or at the Shoreham Hotel on the
evening of the dance.
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Virginia Society Stages
Early Colonial Paeean,

An elaborate pageant depicting char
ecters and scenes in the early Colonial
days will feature the ninth annual
Colonial ball and Colonial pageant to
be given by the Society of Virginia at
the Willard Hotel Wednesday evening,
February %. Following a meeting of
the executive council Thursday evening,
Representative Patrick Henry Drewry,
president of the society, selected Mrs.
Maud Howell Smith to head the Pageant
Committee which also will include Mrs:
Lena Epperly Macdonald. queen of
sponsors; Miss Frances Carter Linfoot.
maid of sponors, and the nine young
ladies representing the nine congress
sional districts of Virginia.
Arrangements ere being made to make
this entertainment the most colorful
given by the society. There will be in
cluded In the entertainment a number
of tableaux showing scenes in the early
days of Colonial Virginia. Boxes will
be reserved for the Virginia delegation
in Congress and each box will be at
tended by sponsor of the society.
Officers and committees selected are:
Mrs. M. de Glare M. Berry, historian;
the Rev. F. Bland Tucker, chaplain;
Senator Carter Glass, custodian, and
Mr.. Oliver Durant, I'd, sergeant at arms
The Music and Floor Committee include
Mr. F. C. Baggarly, chairman; Miss
Frances Carter Linfoot and Mr. Fred P.
Myers. Mrs. Richard A. Allen was
named as hostess and Mr.. Fred p.
Myers was appointed chairman of the
Publicity Committee.
In addition to the ninth annual
Colonial costume ball, an Old Dominion
ball will be held March %. The officers
of the society recently elected include
Representative Patrick Henry Drewry,
president; Mr.. Alfred P. Thorn, first
vice president; Representative Menalcus
Lankford, second vice president: Mr.. R.
Page Irving, third vice president; Mr..
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Bene6: Arranged by
Pen Womens LEAGUE

Additional patronesses for the ''lit-
erary bridge" to be given for the bene-
fit Of the club house of the National
League of American Pen Women. Tues
day afternoon, are Mrs. Edward Ev--ett
Gam. Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, Mr.. Sol
Bloom, Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Mrs
Virginia White Speel. Mrs Victor
Kaufman and Mrs. Frank w.
Mondell.
Additional gifts for the auction sale
are paintings by Theo Morgan, Eugenia
Saugstad, Grace Ruckman, Natalie
Hancock, Mae Vance and Selma Bare
Autographed books, to, be given as
prizes, recently were received from
Mary Roberts Rinehart. Rachel Croth-
ers, Adele S. Burleson, Esther w. Neill
Violet Short, Carmea l.. Resting. Kate
Speake Penney, Natalie Morris. Alethea
Todd Anderson, Jessie Weber Kilt,
Oreon Mckee, Edith NJ Armstrong
Mary Meek Atkeson Moore. Adelaide
Baylor and Anne Darlington.
Those who reserved the last avail
able tables are Mrs. o. H. Graves. Mrs
w. w. Badgley, Mrs. Violet S. Shinn.
Mrs. F. B. Cogswell and Mrs. r. E.
Adams.
The party, which will be held at
340l Macomb street, will begin at .
o'clock, when Mrs. Clara Keck Hefle-
bower, national president of the League
OF American Pen Women, and Mrs.
John Mock, chairman Of the Club
House Committee. will receive the
guests with the hostesses, Mrs. Richard
L. Hoxie and her sister, Mrs. Robert
Clay Sheriff..
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Mrs. Wilbur Honor Guest
At A. A. u. w. Luncheon

Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur will be the
guest in whose honor the Hospitality
Committee of the American Association
of University Women will give a VAL
entine luncheon Wednesday at / o'clock
in the Club House.
The Hospitality Committee consists
CT Miss Anna Pearl Cooper, chairman;
Mrs. James K. McClintock, vice chair
man; Mrs. Dudley Wilson Willard, Sec
retary: Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, Mrs.
Lucius c. Clark, Mrs. E.. E. Danly, Mrs.
Karl Fenning, Mrs. Marion E. Hall,
Mrs. Bernard c. Hearn, Mrs. Thsmas D.
Lewis. Miss Elsie H. Marin, Mrs. Clyde
Heck Marvin, Mrs. James Brown Scott,
Mrs. Paul Shorb, Mrs. William A. Slade.
Mrs. Elwood Street, Mrs. Bertha A.
Sellards, Mrs. Merle Thorp, Mrs. Leslie
H. Whiten, Mrs. David L. Wing and
Mrs. Ellis H. Yost
Mrs. Dudley Wilson willard, chair
man; Mrs. Leslie H. Whiten and Mrs.
Cloyd Heck Marvin are in charge of
arrangements for the luncheon.
Miss Ruby Nevins will be the hostess
at the tea of the American Association
of University Women tomorrow at 4
o'clock in the clubhouse at 1884 street
northwest. Miss Nevins will be assisted
by Mrs. John Donaldson, Miss Ora
Cage, Miss Elizabeth Kilgore, Miss Ar
line Dufour, Mrs Hampton Percy, Miss
Florence Milliken and Mrs. Patience
Salisbury. At the tea table will be Miss
Elma Moulton and Miss Vera Brungart.
The business meeting of the Washing
ton Branch will follow.
Miss Erma Brown will be hostess Fri
day, club night, in the clubhouse,
when dinner at 7:30 o'clock will be fol-
lowed by bridge in the lounge. Miss
r. Lerch. Miss Elizabeth Kilgore and
Mrs E. W. Huff
Miss Mildred Green will be hostess
at dinner bridge for the Junior Group
of the association Thursday at $50
O'Clock in the clubhouse. She will be
assisted by Miss Margaret Cook and
Miss Mercedes Berry.
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Piano Recital
At Sulerave Club

Mr.. Norman Frauenheim, pianist, will
give a recital in the Sulgrave Club at
1901 Massachusetts, avenue Thursday
evening, February %. The list of
patrons and" patronesses includes Nine
Debuchi, Mrs. Laurence Townsend, DR..
Hans Kinder, Mrs. Franklin H. Ellis,
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Miss Ann
Carrere, Miss Mary L. McQuade, Mr..
Sigismond Stojowski, Mr.. william Van
Hoogstraten, Mrs. Joseph F. Edward, Mrs.
Henry c. Rowland, Mrs. Ernest Graves
and Mrs. j. S. Fiannery, Mr.. Frauenheim
began his concert career abroad by
playing command performance at the
court OF Spain in honor of Her Royal
HighneSs, the Infanta Isabella, after
which he was introduced to London by
the Marchionness of Carisbrooke at a
private hearing. He has since played
extensively in public, in Paris ana Lon
don, New York and other American
cities.
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Gard Party Saturday
OF Womans Home Club

Members of the various committees
in charge OF the annual dance and
card party, to be given by the Wom-
ans Home Club of North Beach Sat-
urday in the Carlton Hotel, have been
active in making this the most out
standing one sponsored by the cub
Patrons and patronesses are Mrs. Ed
ward Widdifeld, Mrs. Rosalie B. Shaw,
Mrs. Grace Ryan. Mrs. Edwin P. Hin
kel, Mrs. Ralph Fischer, Mrs. Franklin
Mades, Mrs. James Nealon, Mrs. A.
Mock, Mrs. Virginia Garlinger, Mrs.
Nina Hume, Mrs. Agnes Enright, Mrs
Selma Freikert, Mrs. Walter Roche,
Mrs Michel Lane, Mrs. Walter Redrow,
Miss Lucille Holland, Mr.. F. Mayer,
Mr.. Robert Mead and Mrs Elizabeth
Fitzgerald.
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Annual One-Act Play
Tournament Opens Tuesday

Miss Helen Collier will head the group
of Washington girls and young matrons
who will serve as the Committee of
Ushers for the seventh annual one-act
play tournament of the District of Co
lumbia. which will open its preliminary
contests Tuesday, st. Valentines eve
ming, at 8 o'clock in East Washington
Community Center, at Seventeenth and
East Capitol streets.
Assisting Miss Collier will be Mrs
Charles M. Hunter. Sd: Mrs. Herman P.
RieSs. Miss Ida Bush, Miss Sarah Craw-
ley, MISS Anne Earhart, Miss Alice Louise
Hunter Miss Christine Irish, Miss Judy
Lyeth. Miss Betty Peoples and Miss
Dorothy Riess. Mrs. Edith Sears, one
of the well known drama authorities
Rf the city, a member of the Womens
City Club and other women's drama
gtoups, will be hostess to the Judges
of the occasion, receiving and seating
tho five judges of the preliminary con-
tests-Dr. De Witt G. Croissant, Mr..
Robert Downing, Capt. Doyle 0. Hickey.
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Benefit Card Party at
Mavtlower Thursday

Sponsored by prominent religious
workers, one of the outstanding pre-
Lenten social events among church
groups will be the benefit card party
and dance In the Mayflower Hotel
Thursday evening under the auspices
of st. Martins Sodality of the Blessed
Virgin.
The card playing will be in the palm
court and the dancing in the Italian
garden of the Mayflower A leading
Washington orchestra will furnish the
music. Members of Congressional So
ciety and several of the embassies have
donated prizes for the event.
The patrons and patroneSses are the
Rev. Michael j. Riordan, the Rev.
Stephen McCabe, the Rev. Francis x.
Cavanagh, Miss Dorothy Barrett, Mr..
and Mrs. william T. Bennett, Mrs.
Thomas L. Brigham. the Misses Anna
and Mary Burke. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
j. Cleary, DR.. and Mrs. L. A. Cornet,
Mr.. T. F. Costello, Miss Elizabeth
Dolan, Miss NJ Catherine Dorsch,
Mr.. william B. Ellis, Mr.. F. v. Friz-
zell, Miss Catherine Furey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank p Cunning, Miss Margaret
n.
Hipkins, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hurson,
Mrs. Catherine " Jackson, Miss Anne
L. Jenkins, Miss Ann E. Kennelley, Mr..
G. Krogmann, Mrs Mary Larman, Mrs.
NJ. j. Locraft, Mr. and Mrs. Bart j.
McGuirl, DR.. and Mrs. Neil j. McHugh,
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Mohr, Miss Mary
J.. Moore, Mrs. Nora Murphy, Mrs. Jen-
ME E. Neagle, Mrs. James O'ConneIl
Mr.. and Mrs. James O'Connor, Miss
Johanna E. O'COnnor, Miss j. ODonog-
hue, the Misses ODonoghue Miss Ann
C. OLeary, Mrs. Mary c. OLeary, Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin T. Pairo, DR.. and Mrs.
Otto j. Rainier, Mrs. Mary L'Estrange
Reilly, Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Rupert,
Mr.. Francis de Sales Ryan, Mrs. j. E.
Schrider, Miss Margaret E. Sheehan
and Miss Mary F. Walsh.
The following is the personnel of the
committees directing the event: Cen
eral chairman, Miss Mary F. Walls.
Committee on Tickets: Mrs John a
Mohr, chairman; Mrs. Frank P. Guli-
mittee on Patrons and Patronesses: Miss
M. Catherine Dorsch, chairman; Mrs.
Joseph A. Bayer, Mrs. Walter c. Hip
kins, Miss Mary c.. Roland, Miss Marie
O'Connor and Miss Joanna E. O'Connor.
Floor Committee: Mrs. Sadie G. Trapp,
chairman; Mrs. Charles H. Grove, Mrs.
Elizabeth " Roland, Miss Anne L. Jen-
kins, Miss Mary E. T. Foley, Mrs Rich
ard Lawton, Mrs. John F. McCarron,
Mrs. George Klinker, Mrs. John e.
Mrs. A. c. Connell, Miss Nettie
Mrs Estelle Bayne, Mrs. N. |
E. Bombard and Miss Louise Warfield |
Committee on Prizes: Mrs. Bart j. Nc |
CURL, chairman; Mrs. Frank P. Gum
ming, Mrs. Mary L'Estrange Reilly, Mrs. |
Joseph Hurson. Committee on Tallies: |
Mrs. Anna E. King, chairman. Dance |
committee: Miss M Catherine Dorsch, !
chairman; Miss Joanna E. O'Connor, |
Mrs. John A. Mohr, Miss Agnes Bayer,
Miss Mary G.. Roland. Committee on
Publicity: Miss Mary c. Roland, chair |
man; and Miss NJ Catherine Dorsch.
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St. Marks Aid Society
Annual Dinner Thursday

Plans for the monthly dinner to be
given by the Aid Society of st. Marks
Episcopal Church, Third and A streets
southeast, Thursday. in the parish hall.
from to z O'Clock pm. were made
at the meeting Of the Aid Thursday
evening.
The officers Of the society, Mr.. w.
Sherman Frazier, vice president: Mrs.
r. H. Doyle, treasurer. and Miss Gladys
Allen. secretary, are in charge Of the
dinner, and win be assisted by Mrs.
David w. Gould. Mrs. N. L. Fitzhugh,
Mrs. Cecilia H. Smoot, Mrs. J. A. Null
10y and Miss Elizabeth Berry,
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accompanist. will be heard In joint re-
cital Tbs previous appearance Of these
artists at the University Club has made
them favorites with its audiences. and
reservations already made for dinner
parties to precede the program indi-
cate that one of the largest and most
distinguished audiences of the season
Will be on hand to greet them.
The Entertainment Committee will
be IN charge, and at the conclusion of
the program its chairman. Mr. Lewis
Lotion Moneyway, acting on behalf Of
the Board Of Governors, will be host
to supper party in honor of the musi-
clans Of the evening.
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Fred p. Myers. treasurer; Miss Frances
Carter Linfoot, secretary, and Mrs.
Hilda Neister Wiggin. financial secre-
tary The executive council includes the
officers and Mr.. F. c. Baggarly, Mr.. c.
Conway Baker. jr.; Mr.. Melvin G. Ely.
DR.. Henry Taylor Miller, and Mrs Maud
Howell Smith. The Society of Virginia
was organized November 8, 1923, and
now has on its roster 1,104 members.
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Junior Prom Planned
Bv Student BODY

The classes OF 1884 at Columbus Uni
versity, in the Schools of Law and Of
Accountancy, will hold joint Junior
prom Saturday in the Kennedy
Warren.
Mr.. Kenneth Collins is, the general
chairman for the prom and his sub
committee chairmen are Miss Anna
Mae Ryan, Miss Elizabeth Franzoni,
Mr.. Arthur Suit, Mr.. David O'Connor.
Mr.. Jefferson Dix, Mr. Ufnbert Aiello
and Mr.. Francis TAYLOR.
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Washington Marionettes
To Be Seen IN New York

Theodore Tiller, I'd, and his MARION
ette company, including Mrs. Carol
Wood Of the Detroit Little Theater.
Miss Romaine Stevens, Mr.. Clifford
Adams and Mr.. Everett Stevens, prom
inent young thespians in Washington
dramatics. left town yesterday for New
York City. where they will present
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U. S. A.; Mrs. Thomas w. Sidwell and
Mr.. Richard w. Westwood.
Prior to the opening play Tuesday
evening the judges will meet with the
Tournament Committee, which Is head
ed BY Mrs Elizabeth X. Peoples, direc-
tor of the Community Center Depart
ment, and includes Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest, Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, Mr..
Gideon A. Lyon, Prof. w. Hayes Yeager
and Mr.. Denis E. Connell, to complete
plans for the preliminary performances.
others to take place February Is and
18 at East washington Center, and Feb
ruary 81, % and Is at Theodore Roose-
velt Community Center. at Thirteenth
and Upshur streets northwest.
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The Private Life OF the. Sandman"
Monday evening at the Cherry Lane
Ineater, In Greenwich Village. Tues
day afternoon the marionettes will per-
form at the Convent Of the Sacred
Heart on Madison avenue, after which
the company will return to Washing
ton to fill local engagements.
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Ladies Night at
University Club

The University Club Of Washington
will hold open house for the ladies
Thursday evening. The ball room will
be converted into a concert hall. where
at $50 o'clock Miss Marjorie Lowe,
soprano; Miss Minna Niemann, pianist,
and Mrs. Gertrude Smallwood Mockbee,
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gree. The enrolment is now 460 stu
dents, with an equal number of in
service teachers who attend the after
noon classes
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.Desolate Dartmoor

DARTMOOR, most commonly associated with
u its prison, Is in reality the name Of a large
area of very rugged upland country in England,
measuring ughly IS miles long and 20 miles
wide The hills are usually capped with granite
crests while much of the area is desolate waste
land, trackless and in spots almost impossible.
From Dartmoor practically every stream in
England gets its start.
The prison for which Dartmoor is famous
was built in 1908 to handle prisoners captured
during the war with France. At one time as
many as $500 American sailors were kept there
when they refused to be impressed into service
against their own country in the War of 1872.
The treatment they received was reported to
be most brutal and caused much bitter feeling
between the States and England
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larger trunk lines have reported that 80 per cent
of their passenger traffic has vanished. The bulk
of these losses, furthermore, has taken place
between cities on the main lines.
Naturally, this development has caused many
passenger trains to be discontinued; and the
railroad men have discovered that when q train
is taken off for lack of passengers, those pas
sengers usually are lost for good. They do not
wait for later trains; they simply adopt some
other means of transportation.
TO meet this condition railroads need a way
of providing faster service than their COM
petitors can Offer, and doing 1t more cheaply.
1t was with this in mind that this new car
was designed. 1t came into being at the fac
tory of the Clark Equipment Co. at Battle Greek,
and the guiding geniuses were Eugene B. Clark,
president Of the company; r. j. Burrows and
Ezra w. Clark.
The car has no chassis in the way the auto
mobile world understands that word. Its back
bone Is a sturdy beam of aluminium alloy, with
cross members like those used in the building
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feet above the rails providing safety factor
for high speeds.
1t Is in its weight that the first striking diff
ference is evident. The ordinary passenger
coach weighs 10000 pounds. This car, loaded
to capacity, weighs $4,000 pounds.
At the blunt, rounded nose of the car there is
q power compartment, containing high-speed
16-cylinder gasoline engine Of the V-type The
rtve wheels are in the forward truck, and means
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- VERYBODY knows the automobile and
the auto bus have given American rail-
- roads the hottest kind of competition
for passenger traffic.
Railroad lines that used to run four
passenger trains q day now get along
with one and two Cities that used to be con-
nected by eight daily trains are connected by
three and four. The people who used TO rlde
those trains are driving their cars or going by
bus-or in some cases, getting there by aTpiane.
For long time it looked as If the railroads
could find no answer to this competition; COM
petition which, in some cases, was almost ruin
ous.
But not long ago a unique boat-shaped car
slid out on the rails near q factory at Battle
Creek Mich. It got on the main rlght-of-way,
picked up speed rapidly and presently went
whirling down the track at more than 10 miles
an hour.
And the railroad officials who watched it
began to wonder If the railroads answer to the
competition of auto bus and airplane had not
q last been found.
THIS odd-looking car was the autotram,
] creation which seeks to combine the advan-
tages of the railroad bus and airplane In one
vehicle
Like the bus, is powered by a gasoline
motor.
Like the airplane, it is stream-lined down to
the last strut to reduce wind resistance and built
Of the lghtest aluminium alloys to save weight.
Like the railroad train, it runs on regular
railroad track with flanged steel wheels.
It's designers insist its operating costs will
run between 10 and IL cents mile exclusive
of labor that it will get between and miles
10 gallon of gasoline, and that it viii be SO
fast cheap and comfortable railroads will find
It profitable to put it into operation on regular
main-lne runs
1t is that point which makes the autotram
unlike other gasoline cars which have been in
stalled on American railroads before.
Previously such cars have been used for
branch-line work. This car Is designed for
regular mainline service between important
cities
If it does all that its designers claim for it.
It may at last prove the weapon the railroads
have needed for the fight which so far has gone
steadily against them
Before describing this new car in detail it
might be well to consider the way in which the
railroads have been losing passengers.
The public nowadays is demanding fast. safe
and cheap travel The motor bus gives 1t cheap
travel the private automobile provides speed: :
and the airplane, of course, provides the most
speed of all.
The result of this has been tremendous
spread Of bus lines and a vast increase in the
use of privately owned automobiles for journeys
that formerly were accomplished by train.
This has hit the railroads with staggering
force. Traffic has diminished of the
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Of dirigibles. It Is supported on two trucks
like any ordinary railroad car, with hanged
railroad-type wheels
In its dimensions 1t is not unlike the regular
railroad passenger car. It is about 60 feet in
length and 10 feet inches in height-slightly
lower than the height of q standard coach. Its
center Of gravity is low, the floor being three
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have been provided to convey the tractive ef-
fort to the wheels despite the swiveiing Of the
truck the car rounds curves
The motor is mounted on rubber, and the
body of the car is rubber mounted on the trucks
Also, the wheels contain rubber between the
steel rims and the hubs and the car has been
designed so that rubber-tired wheels may be