Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 146, 4 April 1909 — Page 8

tHE RICH3IOJTO PALLADimi AND STJN-TEIEGRAM, SUNDAY, APRIL, 4, 1909.

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Mett Common Class of General Delivery patrons Are People of Small Mean The Giddy Girl and Her Love tetter Fraudulent Use of the Mails Qeduced to the Minimum Oisappointfaent is the Emotion Most .Frequently Oirplayed at in Window The Genital Delivery Helps the , Police to X"ace Traveling Criminals. . PmwA i,b patrons of tbe gcnI.. M ,Eir eral delivery! Their name is legion. Some times they leave the window with a smile. More frequently they leave It in tears. UsuAir it Is the case of the remittance tfeat did not come.' Sometimes il ls jftorse. than that. 'ZZOt course there are tbe old, old tfories of how the crooks use the gen Cffal delivery office; how the pretty gjrl comes to the window, blushes find asks for a letter, or how the poor, Drn lady In deep mourning; goes away dying when told thece is nothing for Sr, and a thousand and one other stories. A a matter of fact, the large percentage of those who visit a. general fltlivery window at any city post office (they are all alike and there is IS tie about the Richmond office that different from that of any other flty of the same size) go there for Xlgltimate purposes. Of course, some persons have to conceal their correspondence to an extent that makes IS em fearful of halving it delivered to CBeir regular addresses. The most common class of general delivery patrons are tbe travelers, peripns of small means, who generally do not know when they start for a certain city just where tbey will stop Xhen tliey will get there. They are generally patrons ' of small hotels and boarding or lodging Souses, where they fear that the best $J care will not be taken of their Slail. m Then there are the trained nurses, jjho are always 'changing their addresses; traveling salesmen, who sometimes are uncertain a3 to how Ipng they will remain in a city and atlso as to the hotel in which they will stop, and many others of that large floating population of every City. " "2 Naturally there are many who use P3K m 1 724 and

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the general delivery for what might be called illigitlmate purposes. Thieves and crooks who wish to keep in touch with each other without meeting; unfortunates who do not wish their families to know exactly where they live, and more or less respectable persons who carry on a correspondence they wish to keep a secret from the other occupants of their, ' homes form this general clas3, but it is not a large class after all. Of course, it makes a fine, yellow story to tell about the crooks who use and all that sort of thing. There is nothing particularly wonderful about such a thing, after all. If any person has tbe price of a two-cent stamp and wishes to convey a piece of information to another, why shouldn't he use tlie mails? Fraudulent use of the mails is fought vigorously by the legal department of the Post Office Department, but most of the cases deal with persons who send letters through tht mails .to regular addresses and not to the general delivery. What brings them within the pale of the law is that the schemes that they, advertise or in which they collect money are fraudulent in themselves. They are not only forbidden to make use of the general delivery, but any part of the postal system in carrying out their fraudulent business. But at the window of any general delivery office pathetic sights are frequent. Tragedies of equal sharpness might be witnessed in private homes when the letter that is longed for fails to appear. It is the publicity of the general delivery office that makes it a shifting panorama of human emotions. The man who spends a few months behind the wicket of a general delivery window sees really more of the seamy side of human nature than does the man who hangs around the law courts, the lawyer who handles criminal cases, the newspaper reporter who covers al! sorts of assignments for a city paper, the physician, the keeper of a lunch room, the bank teller or the cab driver. Any one whose calling brings him into close touch with humanity soon grows accustomed to these evidences of emotion. At the general delivery window disappointment is the emotion that is most frequently displayed, for at least five out of six persons who call for letters receive the information that

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Richmond; Ind., March 4,

To the Public : We are sending you today, by mail or special messenger, our Bulletin of Exclusive Styles in Spring 1909 Footwear. It is in the form of a 16-page booklet, profusely illustrated with attractive cuts and descriptions of the latest and best models of the shoemakers' art. This booklet will aid you in selecting Spring footwear that is beautiful in design and finish, absolutely correct in style and pattern, and of highest quality in material and workmanship. THESE ARE ESSENTIAL POINTS IN THE ESTIMATION OF PEOPLE WHO CARE TO DRESS WELL. But this booklet will tell you more than that: If you will take the time to peruse the reading matter it contain it will explain to you WHY WE CAN AND DO SELL THESE SHOES FOR LESS MONEY THAN YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE HABIT OF PAYING ELSEWHERE FOR COMMON, ORDINARY SHOES! While we consider this PRACTICAL FEATURE of sufficient importance to merit any attention you may give the booklet, we think you will find it interesting enough IN ITSELF to well repay you for the time you may spend in reading it. ' UNDERSTAND: This is not one of those stereotyped catalogues published by manufacturers for general distribution to their trade all over the country by simply supplying the names of the different dealers in the different localities where distributed. Such catalogues describe ONLY the shoes of the particular manufacturer by whom and at whose expense it was prepared and published. THIS BOOKLET was prepared by US and published IN RICHMOND at OUR EXPENSE, exclusively for our own trade in this particular locality, and contains descriptions of the BEST MODELS of ALL our leading lines. If anyone should fail to receive one of the booklets by mail, we will be glad to hand you one if you will call at either one of the stores. We want everybody in this community to get one AND READ IT. They are free. Very respectfully. Charles H. eiSman.

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there is none for them. Several mail3 j come in every day and if one is anx-j iously awaiting a letter he is apt to j call and ask for it Jialf a dozen times

between the hour of arising and going to bed each day, until the letter finally annears. It is but natural, then, that the average man or woman who J is looking for a letter should suffer half a dozen disappointments before that letter comes if it ever does. The greatest trouble of the general delivery' clerk comes from the stupidity of the callers at the window. "It's a funny thing," said one of the clerks whose words pass out joy or woe to a number of persons from the general delivery window at the Rich mond post office every day, "but half the people who come to this window appear to have little or no sense, while most ot the other half think we have all sorts of time on our hands to talk to them, or rather to listen to what they have to say. "If you were to stand he?e half an hour you would notice that nine callers out of every ten ask us, after we have told them there is no letter for them, if we won't look again and be sure. They have seen us go to the box marked with the initial letter of their name and look over every piece of mail it contains, yet invariably they say, " 'Are you sure there is nothing?' "The other kind want to tell you all about the letter they are expecting. Some old lady is, looking for one from her daughter. She is on a visit to the city and her daughter's baby was just about to cut a tooth when she left the farm, and she is anxious to know about It. The letter hasn't come and we have the hardest kind of a time choking her off from telling us all about the whole family connection." The fun comes when some foolish girl wanders up in search of a tender epistle. She is usually about sixteen or seventeen years old. To get a letter at the general delivery office has a touch of the mysterious about it. She is fooling somebody. It is really only herself, but she likes even that, and whenever she appears at the general delivery window she blushes and giggles and gives herself away in various ways. On the surface she is amusing, but to the experienced eye she is far more pitiful than funny. The letters she gets are usually from somebody she has met in a clandestine fashion. That kind of a man suggests the general delivery fre-

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quently, because he is saving his own 6kin. The breed always thinks of, a possible brother or father who may upset his plans with a stick or a gun. When she gets her letter and she is one of those who usually get letters at the general delivery office every time they call she blushes a little more, sticks it in her muff and goes away to read it elsewhere. Other feminine fools there are, too, who patronize the general delivery middleaged fools, who ought to . know better, but who are glad to receive masculine attention at almost any cost. They, also, give themselves away and are far too silly to be interesting. Reutar patrons of the general delivery are the unfortunate women of the town, whose last vestige of respectability is evidenced by their desire that their home folks should know nothing of what they are doing. If they gave their families their real addresses some one. familiar with the location of the different sections of Richmond, might give them away. So they have their mail sent to the general delivery. The busiest days for the general delivery clerk come during hard times. When men get out of work the tide of letters at the special delivery increases. Regular addresses grow to be luxuries and remittances from home are eagerly looked for. As for crooks, they consider the general delivery a good asset, but somewhat risky. If a crook cornea to Richmond and the police of other cities tip the Richmond police off about him he has to be careful about going to the general delivery window. If he has an accomplice or an acquaintance here he sends him. If he goes himself he stands a fair chance of being arrested. Frequently a professional crook will drop off in Richmond just to see how things are going. As soon as he gets here the Richmond police hear about him, and as soon as they locate him they tell him to move on. It there is any evidence that he is "working" they arrest him. If not, they quietly warn him to pick some other city as the scene of his activities, escort him to the railroad station and tell him to beat it. Tl? general delivery window is a favorite place with the police from which to trace the traveling crook and give him his walking papers. 1909, 3 1

POOR INFLATION CAUSES TROUBLE Morgan & Wright Expert Gives Valuable Advice To Motorists.

CAN CUT UPKEEP ONE-HALF SEVENTY-FIVE PER CENT OF ALL AUTOMOBILE TROUBLE IS CAUSED BY THE TIRE CAN BE OVERCOME. Tire trouble has from the first automobile produced been the motorists' "big bogie." The mechanism of the automobile has been perfected to such a point that it is now estimated that IK per cent, of the stops for roadside repairs are due to tire trouble. In an effort to ascertain some of the causes, effects of and possible remedies for this condition, Mr. Clinton, the repair department manager, of Morgan & Wright, the Detroit makers of the famous "good tires," was interviewed. "In your opinion what Is the chief j cause of tire troubles?" was asked him. "Improper inflation," he answered. "I can prove by the repair records we have on hand, that fully 75 per cent of all tire troubles are directly due to this on cause. "It is so easy," he continued, "for a motorist to neglect this important ! point. Some car owners seem to think , their whole duty is done if they test the pressure when they first inflate the tire. They forget that a minute leak may daily decrease this pressure and bring the tires way below the danger line. Again, a new tire will stretch a perceptible amount during the first day or two of service. This naturally- expands the air chamber and decreases the pressure to which it was originally inflated." Mr. Clinton showed the interviewer the mill room, where the huge machines were preparing the rubber, gum and fabric, thence up the long room occupied by a double row of men who were building Morgan & Wright clincher, Dunlop and quick detachable tires. "I can," he said, "explain to better advantage up here why inflation should exert such influence on the service life of a tire." Leading to one of the building "spiders," he carefully explained each step of tbe operation in making a tire. 4 While very interesting throughout, it will suffice to simply explain that the tire is built up of strips of the heaviest cotton fabric, thoroughly impregnated with compounded rubber gum. This is laid up, layer upon layer, on annular iron cores into the familiar shape of a tire casing, the side walla being made only about half as thick- as the tread proper. "The side walls of a tire," Mr. Clinton explained, "are built comparatively thin for a purpose. When the tires are in use they are subjected to constant flexing, or bending, as the car srikeB the ridges and bumps on the road. "The life of a tire depends to a very large extent upon the amount of bending to which these side walls- are subjected. You will perhaps better appreciate this if I use an illustration. A willow switch can be bent back and forth gently an indefinite number of times without breaking, whereas a willow stick of double the cross section would break in two or three comparatively slight bends. This same princple is applied to the building of an automobile tire to make side walls as thin as is consistent with the air pressure they, are compelled to withstand. The destructive effect of the side-wall flexing is thus reduced to a minimum. "We have reduced the effects of this bending as much as possible, but it is entirely up to the automobile owner to reduce the bending itself. A soft tire will bend down nearly to the rim every time the wheel goes over a bump or ridge in the road, whereas the same bump will give the side walls of a properly inflated tire a slight bend or none at all. Do you see now why we place such importance on proper inflation? "While we make our tires as wearproof, as puncture-proof and as trouble -proof as it is possible to make a combination of rubber and fabric, so far we have found it utterly impossible to make them, careless-proof. A driver can ruin the best tire on earth in 500 miles of driving if he so wills. On the other hand, we have a record of 14,500 miles without a puncture from a set of M. & W. tires. But they were well taken care of. nnesTj't it seem absurd for a man fieurine how he can cut down his gasoline and lubricating nil Pxnenses and then utterly negieci his tires the biggest expense of all. u a fw moments snent eacn cay in seeing that his tires are properly inu Tnio-ht m si iv reduce nis liaicu, 4iv - - maintenance bills by one-nan. mis accurately only with a pressure-gauge, which can be obtained at any supply sxore ai uuuug "Following this all important point. t rn!ter the next in order tne uremakers to be the carelessness on the part of car owners in repairing -n it Renair immediately every cut that exposes the fabric to the slightest extent. Sand and water will destroy fabric in short order. A oii fnsicmificant-looking cut that can be repaired at the start for a tri fling sum may in time totally aesiruj an otherwise perfect casing. iin Before The Bar. H. Brown, an attorney, of PlttsX. field. Vt, writes: we nave usea ur- . v.. t if rails for vears and King's find them such a good family medicine we wouldnt ne wimuui iunu. .mKtiniiiioii. , Biliousness or

THE ELBE RIVER.

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PLANS A LONG BUM It Is Expected That Fifty Ma chines Will Compete For Prizes. ON HISTORICAL GROUND ROUTE OF THE TOUR WILu TOUCH GETTYSBURG. HARPER'S FERRY AND WASHINGTON AND OTHER PLACES. Harrisburg. Pa.. April 0. More, than ?SO miles of road will be covered by the contestants In the 1909 reliability contest of the Motor club of Harrisburg. May 3-6, who finish the run. It is expected that at least fifiy competing cars will be entered for the handsome trophy cups which will be offered as prises; half of that number of entries are already assured the officials of the local auto club. The rules for the contest are now ,n the printer's hands and. with the. entry blanks, will be issued early next week. The contest will be held under tbe sanction of the American Automobile association an agreement having been reached whereby the Harrisburg club will use Its own rules, which have been approved by the A. A. A. contest board. The contest committee has made ar rangements to survey the Washington end of the tour on Anril 5. 3 and 4. and will go over the Scranton end during the latter part of the following week. A prominent Philadelphia motorist will likely act as pathfinder and pilot for the contest, and many entries are expected from Philadelphia branch nouses. Contesting cars will be divided iuto four classes, the same as last year, and handsome trophies will be award ed to tbe car in each class finishing with the most perfect score. All working parts of the cars will be sealed, but provisions have been made for a noonday control each day, where oilers may be filled . under, the, ; hoods without penalty for the breaking mt the seals. Each night tbe drivers and mechanics will be allowed half an hour in the night garage to lubricalo the working parts of their cars, turn up grease cups and prepare for "the morning's start, , but during the entire four days no repairs will be allowed without penalization. At each night's control the technical committee will re seal the cars and prepare them for the morning's start. . The decision of the club to make Washington the night stopping place on the first day has aroused much interest in the national capital, as it Is the first time any important tour or contest has included Washington in sts route. Arrangements have been nade for a high government officials to review the contesting ears as they finish the day's run. In other respects the first day's run will be a memorable affair. The first checking station will be at tbe main entrance to the battlefield of Gettysburg. Another checking station will be In front of the John Brown monument, at Harper's Ferry, and a third will be in front of the old house in Frederick from the windows of 'which Barbara rnetcnie is said to have waved her country's flag. The last checking station of the day will be in front of tbe wane nouse at Washington. Congress will be in session at the time, and for that reason Washington will surely be crowded with visitors and the contest thus assumes national importance The trip to Washington will be approximately. 165 miles, while the return to this city, via Baltimore. Hanover. York and Lancaster, will be 175 miles. On the third day it has been decided to take in Wllliamsport on the trip to Scranton, giving a mileage of about 187 miles. The return rrom scranton. via Delaware Water Gap, Easton. Allentown and Reading, will cover 185 miles. During the stay in this city, on the second night of the run, the contestants will be entertained by the Motor club of Harrisburg. LAVAL CORN REMEDY NOW

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