Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 272, 8 August 1909 — Page 8

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We have closed 1910 contracts for the cars named above. The first three cars are well known here and we beg to state that their points of superiority over other cars have been maintained in the new models. There are also some improvements. The Stoddard Dayton is manufactured at Dayton, Ohio. The Overland, Marion and Empire are manufactured in Indianapolis. The Lexington at Lexington, Ky. It means a great deal to the automobile owner to be in close touch with the factory. The Empire is a four-cylinder, thirty horsepower car, either three or four passenger and sells at $850.00. The other cars range in price from $1,000.00 to $2,750.00.

1910 cars will be ready for delivery within thirty days. -.. . The Lexington made a perfect score in the Glidden tour to a point only five miles from Kansas City, the finish. Penalties were for a loose hub cap and a slightly bent truss rod. Practically a perfect score after 2,600 miles terrible grinding. We have a 1910 car on our floor now. Come and see it. We carry Prest-O-Lite tanks, Diamond Tires, etc., In fact everytWng that the automobile owner needs. We solicit livery work. We have the best equipped garage in Eastern Indiana.

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WOMAN ARRESTED FOB USING EYES

Indiscreet Enough to Try Flirtation With Suave Atlantic City Detective.

WAS REAL MEAN OF HIM

AVALANCHE OF VISITORS HAS STRUCK SEASHORE RESORT AND OFFICERS ARE BUSY ENFORCING ORDINANCES.

Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 7. Arrested while "making eyes" at a suave detective, dressed in the height of style, in a beach-front cafe, Helen Sharkey, young and pretty, and claiming Washington as her home, was carried shrieking to the county prison to serve a ten day sentence as the season's first victim of the anti-flirting rule. Although the girl begged piteously for release and promised to leave the city at once. Recorder Keif fer refused to accept her plea and insisted that she be made an example of the crusade against flirtations. According to the police, a lot of young women are especially fond of obtaining attention from wealthy Pittsburgers. Series of complaints of loss of money and jewels taken from the victims, while they were under the pell of the- pretty girls, led to the crusade. Dapper young plain-clothes men, well dressed and furnished with rolls of money for the purpose, have been started out to round up the girls, and

the hard-hearted officials assert that the arrest of the young Washington woman Is to be followed by others. Visitors Pour In. An avalanche of visitors and bagcage poured Into the resort this morning, bringing tales of sultry weather In the cities that is expected to carry the rush through tonight and the morning hours of tomorrow. Buses and baggage wagons whirled heavy loads hotelward on arrival of every train, while those who elected to walk made a baggage-laden parade' strung out from the stations to the boardwalk and hotel district. ' . The boardwalk was jammed during the afternoon. Every sort of amusement enterprise is running full blast to crowded houses, while cafes and drinking places have put their tables at a premium tonight. Another move in the war between Sunday amusement men and the authorities was made when W. H. Barrett, manager of the Criterion Theater owned by prominent Philadelphians, was fined $200 by Judge Keiffer for giving a vaudeville show on Sunday.

More Than Mite of Street Car Tickets and Transfers Needed Time has brought change in way Street Cars are Conducted and Fares are Collected each day

SheDo you tlihikshe loves him? , He Desperately. She Why desperately? lie Because he's her last chance.

..Positively.. $15 Vs!es.

NO MORE

NO LESS

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Perhaps the purchaser and disburs-1

er of that humble and unpretentious bit of printed paper, a street car ticket or of the slightly larger and somewhat more elusive transfer slip, rarely if ever stops to reflect what an impressive total these representatives of hard cash would present could a year's output of the Richmond traction lines be gathered together. It may readily be conceived, after a careful compilation of statistics and an examination of the records in the offices of the local street car companies, that could the car tickets and transfers used during the course of a year be fitted together as closely as possible the ensemble would prove truly amazing in magnitude to one who has not devoted his reflective and mathematical faculties to the subject More Than Mile Long. One of the officials of the company when asked for statistics relative to the number of transfers and tickets used on the local lines in a year stated no statistics were available. Off hand, however, the aggregate number used in this period of time would amount to at least twenty thousand he believes. Therefore it can be easily seen that if the number of transfer tickets and street car tickets were pasted together edge to edge, it would cover a space sufficient to equal the floor space of the largest room in the city. If these tickets were pasted end to end, the aggregate length would be more than a mile. If you apply an inch rule to a car ticket you will find that its dimensions are one inch in width by from

one and seven-eighths to two in length; that is to sav, it contains an area of approximately two square inches. A transfer slip is found to meas

ure two inches in width and four and a half inches in length, and it consequently contains nine square inches. Cash Fares Count Up. The number of car tickets issued and purchased on the different lines does not give by any means the extent of travel, as the proportion of cash fares daily rolling into the coffers of the companies is very considerable, constituting, on an average, at least one-third of the total. Observant conductors note the fact that apparently economical people, who guide their lives on the saving a penny principle, almost mvs-A;' pay in cash, thus losing 5 'jT'r on every six trips. StrangerTccustomed to the ticket system spay, for the most part in cash fares, and during any notable influx of visitors, as, for example, during .fall festival week, the cash fares were greatly In excess of the tickets. Thus, the immense business done by the street railroads on such occasions can hardly be computed by the Issue and receipt of tickets, while, as only the initiated are acquainted with the ramifications of the transfer systems, these elusive strips of paper also fail to afford a record of the extent of travel. ' ( No More Glass Boxes. The majority of Richmond residents will doubtless recpll the period of history when fares were deposited in a glass-fronted box at the upper end of the car, a warning note upon the bell serving to remind the dilatory that the watchful eyes of the company's employes were upon him. This was, however, abandoned after being in use for some years, and the principle of the conductor's hustling among the passengers for the required dole was sub

stituted, to extend down to the present day. Some cynics have declared that there is a disposition upon the part of the employes of the street car companies, in many instances, at least, to regard the public as their natural enemies. This impression, it is stated by sociological students who have devoted their attention to the subject has been brought about by divers causes. Among the latter, the transfer slip, inoffensive and harmless as it appears to the eye of the casual observer has figured to no slight degree. The sting of the transfer slip is in the little hole punched by the conductor, which indicates to the learned the time limit set upon the document. Between- many passengers and conductors there exists a continual difficulty in regard to this time' limit, and to the signification of the punch denoting the same. As arguments accruing from this condition' of affairs usually result in the triumph of the conductor and the company,

there is about them a sort of monot

ony, but the baffled passenger, of course, is at liberty to retain his opinions. Improvement is Shown. At the present time there is to be noted a late improvement in this regard, however. The passenger is expected to ask for his transfer when he pays his fare, thus enabling the conductor to exercise coolness and discretion in the operation of punching the time on the former. Before this salutary innovation, the request for a transfer went unheeded by the man in charge of affairs until the point of transfer was approached, when the operation was often conducted in a hurry. The result was

found to be, in some instances, that transfers were punched for several hours previously, while, again, they were made good for the remainder of the day.

SAID THE CORPSE WAS HER FATHER

Mrs. Florence Grange, of Brooklyn, Identifies Body About To Be Buried. HAD BEEN PARTED LONG

DAUGHTER WILL FIGHT FOR ESTATE ABOUT TO BE TAKEN OVER BY DECEASED PARENT'S HOUSEKEEPER.

COMMISSION MUST DECIDE PROBLEM When Does Railroad Journey Really Begin?

Pasadena, Cal., Aug. 7. At the funeral here yesterday of Frederick Fackner, a veteran of the civil war, Mrs. F. Grange appeared at the undertaking parlors where the services were being held and asked to be permitted to view the body just as the lid of the coffin was about to be placed upon it. 'That is my father," she exclaimed, as she gazed upon the features of the dead man. The woman then told of having read

of Fackner's accidental death and of having come to investigate, in the belief that the man might be her father, whom she had not seen for thirty years. With her husband, Mrs. Grange lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Two weeks ago she came to California and has been staying in Los Angeles. A woman who had been a housekeeper for Fackner had claimed his estate, amounting to about $1,000, but the daughter will now lay claim to it.

patching the reptiles, all of which measure five feet each. "It was the most terrible experience I ever had in my life," declared Johnson in discussing the battle with the snakes.

NATURE FAKIR IS TRAVELING SOME

Claims Woman Raises Legged Chicks.

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OLIVER C. C FETTA has located his law offices, 411 K. of P. Building, Indianapolis, whin he will be glad to meet all his friends from Richmond.

Rising Sun, Md.. Aug. 7. After experimenting for two years, Mrs. William C. Rilley has at last succeeded in raising one-legged chickens. Several years ago rats ate a leg from each of several young chickens, two of which survived, a hen and a rooster. From this pair there have been hatched a nest of one-legged chickens, sorr.e with their left limb missing, some with their right. Mrs. Rilley considers that her fortune is made, for chickens that will be unable to scratch, particularly in neighbors" gardens, will be in demand, thus preventing many exchanges of cross words over back fences.

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BOXED WITH SNAKE Pennsylvania Man Found Unusual Morning Exercise On His Home Lawn.

HE HAD TO USE A STICK

Washington. Aug. 7. "When does a railroad journey begin?'' This is the curious question which ha3 been presented to the interstate commerce commission. It involves some intricate lepal points and therefore is a problem about which already there is serious contention. . Several railroad lines hold that passenger's journey begins when he passes through the gate from the station to the train and his ticket is punched by the gateman. Although for any one of many reasons the passenger may not take the train, the companies refuse to refund-to him tha amount he paid for the ticket, maintaining that the passenger btgan his journey when he passes the gateman. The question will be fought before the commission next fall in a formal hearing unless the railroads should accept as final an administrative ruling of the commission on the subject.

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Chester. Pa., Aug. 7. Having no other means of defense. Councilman Willam W. Johnson of Eddyston sub? urb, boxed a bout for his life with a hissing snake on his dawn the other morning. As long as the reptile fought fair. Johnson manfully stuck to the London ring rules, though in the end he had to kill the snake and three others with a club. The fight began when Johnson step

ped on the snake's tail as he walked

through the grass on his lawn. In

! stantly the reptile reared . itself

straight in the air and attempted to

dash its fangs into the man's face. Johnson sent a straight right from the shoulder and floored the snake, but it proved a wiry adversary and never waited for the count to come

back. This time it struck below the

belt focusing on Johnson's leg. Thn Johnson delivered a savage stroke with his foot in French fighting style, and the second round likewise was his. All the time that the battle between man and reptile raged the snake kept up a hiss that was evidently meant as a call for reinforcements, as two other snakes appeared And were later joined by a third. By this time Johnson had obtained a club and succeeded is des-

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Train leaves Richmond 5:20 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. Stop over on return trip at Philadelphia. Baltimore, Washington, Deer Park, Harpers Ferry. &c Final limit for return to leave destination August 26. For particulars call C. A. BLAIR, Pass, and Ticket Agent, Richmond. Home Telephone 2062

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