Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 150, 6 May 1918 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, MAY, 6, 1918

2,900,000 BIKES NOW IN USE IN UNITED STATES ...

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Saving of $80,UUU,UUU to Legions of Mechanics. With Pershing's troops fighting for .world democracy in the trenches of France and Flanders, and thrift the 1 watchword of a determined nation in arms; the bicycle, like the automobile, now is commonly recognized as an oKjsential and indispensable factor In American life, saving both dollars and time for the thousands who ride, and providing the most economical means of transport known. Largely used by American workingmen for the daily trips between the home and factory, the bicycle represents a saving of approximately $80.000.000 annually to the legions of skilled mechanics, who not only are guarding the industrial frontiers at home but producing the machines, munitions and supplies that must be sent across the Atlantic to our fighting men, and the ships in which they are transported. According to the latest census, there

are now 2,900,000 bicycle3 in use In the United States. Eighty-six per cent of these owners, or 2,494,000 cyclists, use their wheels for riding to and from their places of employment, a farreaching and most exhaustive questionnaire showing that only 14 percent use their bicycles exclusively for pleasure. It Is not unreasonable to suppose that each of these 2,494.000 owners, using their bicycles In their work, save at least 10 cents a day, $2.60 a month, or $31.20 a year in street-car fare, which means an annual saving to the American worklngmen awheel of $77,712,800 a sum sufficient to keep thousands of homes warm and thousands of mouths fed In these days of soaring prices for fuel and food. The thousands that pedal, to and from work,, instead of depending on electric and steam lines to transport them, also are relieving the common carriers, already overburdened, of an enormous task. The men who ride on bicycles to the shop and factory, moreover, are almost sure of punching the time clock on the second, no matter how stormy the morning, for they are independent of trolley cars, interurlans and railroads, that often are

"WE'LL BRIDGE' THAT OCEAN OR BUST'

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. Honor Men in Europe Hy Associated Press) EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 6 Knights Templars from all over Indiana will gather here May 8 and 9 for. the 64th annual conclave of the Grand Coramandery of Indiana. As many members of the order are cow with the colors, it is believed that the attendance here will not be so large as at the conclave at Kokomo last year. Special service will be held for the Knights who are now in Europe. A feature of the conclave will be the annual parade Wednesday afternoon, May 8. There will be a boat ride on the Ohio river at night. The business sessions of the conclave will be held May 9.

Cowboys at work building wooden ships at a Gulf coast shipyard.

"Comrade" Wesley Leads Red Guard

ORANGE, Texas, May 6. "We'Jl bridge that ocean or bust," is the slogan of cowboys who In increasing numbers are being employed in Texas shipyards. Attracted by the good wages paid shipbuilders, hundreds of men who

never saw a ship much larger than a good sized skiff are coming in direct from the western prairies to do their bit in the construction of America's new merchant marine. Although they are, of course, entirely inexperienced

when- they first reach the shipyard, they very quickly learn the intricacies of shipbuilding and soon become expert They are said to possess initiative and foresight to an exceptional degree.

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"Comrade" Wesley In "full uniform." "Comrade" Wesley is the leader of the Russian Red Guard. He led his forces in the recent fight at Viborg. in which the Red Guard was all but annihilated by the German-led Finnish White Guard.

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forced to. cease operations or abandon regular schedules because of storms. To these 2,494,000 workingmen, the bicycle affords the most efficient, dependable and . economical means of transport possible. The saving in dally street-car fare alone pays for the $50 wheel in less than two yaars, but at the expiration of that time the bicycle is good for many more years of service, the average life of ths bicycle being computed at 7.8 years.

TWO FELL DEAD.

New York, May 6. Jacob Shaptow and Mrs. H. Smallbach both fell dead from heart disease in a house at Rockaway Park where with others .they were spending the week end. Mrs. Smallbach collapsed when she saw Shaptow fall.

Seaford Pictures Are Exhibited at Library

GRAND JURY MEETS

Twelve Nek Remain in - Class One in Preble

EATON, O., May . Only twelve Class 1-A draftees remain in Preble county so states Hugh Gilmore, secretary of the conscription board. From these twelve it will be necessary to select six to be sent May 14 to Fort Thomas, Ky. The list has not been selected. ..

Some fellow's idea of helping to win the war is to sit down and hope that

I it won't last much longer.

It Pays to Advertise1

Presented By Grads

EATON. O.. May 6. An immense audience greeted "It Paya to Advertise," the class play presented Friday night by members of the graduating class of the high school. The play was presented by the following per

sons: Miss Martha Vaughan, Mlsr. Alberta Raney, Miss Helen Silver,! Miss Loretta Poos, Joseph Lugar, Jr., I William Hiestand. Leonard Blackweil, Robert Acton, Francis Jackley. Clem-,' ent Pitsinger, Morris Highland and! Robert Ayers. '

NEW MOTOR-SHIPS

COPENHAGEN, May 6. At the annual meeting of the East Asiatic Company, the president said the company is providing and ordering twenty-one new big motor-ships.

Lumber, shingles, laths, etc., win be manufactured by the White Lake Lumber Co., Garland, N. C, organized by North Carolina and Maryland lumber-

mill operators. This enterprise Is cap- j

italized at $300,000, and it will develop at 11.000-acre timber property estimat-! ed to contain 40,000,000 feet of North I Carolina pine, 25,000,000 feet of cy-! press and 35,000,000 feet of other tim

ber. Mills have been built and 15-mile '

railway has been constructed.

Glen Miller Stock Yards Market Every Day Call Phone 3744 SHURLEY & GAAR

EATON, O., May 6. The grand jury for the Mav term of common Dleas

John Albert Seaford, Boston artist, rourt met here Monday. Court at-!

has placed on display in the public J taches thought the jury would be able .

library here a number of his sketches

made of interesting buildings and localities about Boston. The majority are pencil sketches and several that have been used in book illustrations, have been done in sepia wash. Mr. Seaford expects to add to the exhibit a number of sketches from Ann Arbor, Mich., and several taken from the older parts of Richmond.

to finish its work by Monday morn

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An expenditure of $150,000 is announced by the won Air Coal & Iron Corporation, Nashville, Tenn., for Its charcoal-iron furnace at Lyles, Tenn. This furnace will be rehabilitated, a washer will be added, and the furnace will blow in with a daily capacity of from 75 to 100 tons of charcoal iron. It will consume as fuel the charcoal by-product" of th $1,300,000 woodchemicals plant which this company will build to supply the Government.

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