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VOLUME TI.
US SIEPLESS CARS
Will Save Gothamites 125,000
Miles a Year in Steps.
3ov«rnor of Now York Expected to
Sign Bill Doing Away With the
Ancient Type— Old Horse
Cars Are Doomed.
New York.—By the. introduction of
t new style of street car the New
York Bailways company is about to
lave the' good people of this city
in annual ' climb from the level of
the street of!25,000 miles a year, ahd
i despent to the-street of exactly the
lame -length. It has come about
hrpugh • (ts ' engineers recognizing
that if was ridiculous to make their
passengers continue every time they
Boarded^ a street car to climb above
ill the machinery and that a little in
genuity would enable them to de
sign a car with practically no climb
rig at all.
Once the figures are given anyone
can verify, this calculation for him
self. ' Jn she ydar ended June 30, 1912,
the New York Railways company and
ts predecessor, the Metropolitan'
Street itailway company, carried just
under 264,000,000 passengers. The
leight of the step of the so-called
stepless car from the street is ten
Inches and the height of the old-style
car, which it is to replace, is . about
40 inches. Consequently there is a
saving of 30 inches every time a
passenger gets on or oft the car, and
this works out at 125,000 miles a year
tor the entire system.
The double-decked, stepless car,
which bears so strong a .family re
semblance^^e 'other "neW btyle of
car, will continue, however, for some
time alone in its glory.
It was only after considering care
fully the many different brands of
street car in use in other cities that
the New York Railways company
evolved the side-door, stepless, prepay
ment car. Montreal, for example, has
a side-door, prepayment car, and Phil
adelphia prides itself on its “near-side
car.". ,Tjift l :lalter .was inspired by the
d^l^ to-^i^^% repm . tor-more pas
sengers'and to’enable them to enter
sl^l.a ppidt jthat they
would encounter as little as possible
ot?the mud of the street
*sVhile the newest thing in street
ca'rs is being installed in New York,
the oldest is about to be abandoned.
Npw York has for several years been
the only one of the big cities to re
tain horse cars. In some instances
this was necessary because of con
gested traffic, but new subways have
relieved this to such an extent that
electric power now is practical.
-Governor Sulzer now has under con
sideration a bill requiring all street
car companies of the city to cease op
erating horse cars after January 1
next. This measure has passed the
legislature, and if accepted by the
goymnor, will affect six lines in Man
hattan, but even without this legisla
tion it is probable that in • a few
months the last of the old horse cars
will have been driven •to the barns.
''When the public service commission
took office on July 1, 1907,-there were
16’horse-car lines in ; operation. Os
these four have been abandoned and
six are now wholly or partially oper :
ated by storage battery cars. The
six still running are the Avenue C
line, from the Desbrosses street ferry
across town to East Twenty-fourth
street; the Bleecker street line, from
Bleecker street and Broadway to
F^irteenth street and Ninth avenue;,
,tlfei Chambers street line, "from Cham
bers street ferry to Grand street ferry;
tris Metropolitan cross-town line, from
Desbrosses street ferry to Grand
street ferry; the Seventeenth 'and
Eighteenth streets line, from Broad
way to the Twenty-third street ferry,
and the Sixth avenue-Desbrosses
street ferry line, from Sixth avenue
and Third street to the Desbosses
street ferry.
NEW TROUSERS LEAD TO WOE
Motorman Falla Downstairs In Hall
> way “Dressing Room”—Gets
Damages of $125.
..Chicago.—A new suit of clothes al
njost led to the death of; Martin E-
B^rry, 707 South Forty-fourth court.
Imping and holding ;bis;'hand tb his
bsck, he appeared before Judge Mar
tia.
..fishing to visit his mother in lowa
1$ some of the glory ^scribed? to. Solo
mon, he first joined a "suit' club'.* HO
drew a suit and went to the • tailor
shop.
jitter he made a second visit to the
sb^p to try on his new suit. The
coat and the vest caused no difficulty;
ije, could see they had the correct
lirfes without inconvenience. But he
v^heb to try on the trousers. There
whs no vacant room for the accommo
dation of particular customers. So
the tailor shoved Barry into a dark
hallway to disrobe.
;No sooner had Barry thrust his
rightmost ^nto^yiefr^^ of his
n&v Tniweers 'than- Be lost iris balance.
NUMBER 24.
MR. DANIELS’ SON LIKES SEA LIFE
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Frank A. Daniels, the nine-year-old son of the secretary of the navy,
has developed a strong liking for life on shipboard. The picture shows him
sitting against the wheel of the Dolphin, his father’s official yacht
JOHN D. ALMOST A PAUPER
OH Magnate’s Cleveland Property Was
$3,000 More Valuable in 1912
Than at Present
Cleveland, O. —John D. Rockefeller
is rapidly losing his wealth and 1$
becoming practically a poor man, ac
cording to the report of John T. Fish
er, tax assessor for Cleveland Heights,
in which place the Forest Hill es
tate of the oil king is situated.
The figures show that a year ago
Mr. Rockefeller returned his personal
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John D. Rockefeller.
property as worth $7,190. This year
Mr. Rockefeller is poorer by $2,905
than he was a year ago, his return of
personal property being $4,285.
The figures show that John D. has
nine horses worth $55 each, ten head
of cattle worth S4O each, and furniture
worth $3,300. He has no automobiles
here at this time of the year the as
sessments are made, so none is re
turned for taxation.
Fears to Be Soldier; Dies.
Geneva. —A Swiss, twenty years old,
committed suicide at Schaffhausen by
shooting himself with a revolver in a
case because of his fear of military
service. It was said at the Inquest
that he communicated his intention to
his younger sister, aged eighteen, who
offered to replace him secretly, but
the young man refused the bargain.
He fell down stairs leading to a cellar
and lay a bruised, crumpled heap on
a hard cement floor, one foot In his
new trousers and one in the old.
Fifty-six days passed before Barry
pould take up his work as a motor
man, and his visit to his mother in
lowa was postponed. He nursed his
■back and his grievance until he ap
peared in court craving SI,OOO in dam
ages from the tailor.
The jury returned a verdict award
ing Barry $125.
LEAD DONKEY TO THE COAST.
Election Loser^ Is Walking From Port
land, Maine, to Portland, Oregon,
In Payment
Newburg, N- Y.—Paying an election
bet, Benjamin H. Anderson, formerly
general secretary of the chamber of
commerce, and now secretary of the
Butler Ad-men’s club of Butler, Pa., is
walking from Portland, Me., to Port
land, Oregon, leading a donkey. He
passed through Newburg.
Anderson is a strong admirer of
Theodore Roosevelt, and was so cer-
lie Setieth
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1913.
CITY GETS MODEL CHARTER
Cleveland, 0., Is to Abolish All Party
Elections and Have Recall
Syetem.
Cleveland, O.—Non-partisan elec
tions, with the absolute abolition of
political parties, as far as municipal
affairs are concerned, is assured to
Cleveland in the terms of the new
city charter, which has been com
pleted. Experts declare the proposed
charter is a model.
Nominations by petition instead of
by primaries and the preferential sys
tem of voting in elections are to be
leading features of the new govern
mental system of the city.
It is aimed to simplify election ma
chinery and give the greatest possible
expression to the will of the voters,
who not only are to have their first
choice for each office counted, but
their second and other choices as
well.
The mayor and twenty-six members
of the council are the only city offi
cials who are to be elected under the
new charter. All the others are ap
pointive. Candidates for the elective
positions are to certify their names
backed by the signatures of voters to
the board of elections and be placed
upon a non-partisan ballot, carrying
no party designations of any kind,
and on which the names are to be ro
tated.
There are to be three columns in
which cross marks indicating the will
of the voter may be made. These will
be headed. “First choice,” “Second
choice” and “other choices.” Each
voter may mark his first and second
choice for each office, and then may
designate as many ‘other choices” as
he sees fit. If no candidate for office
receives a majority of the first choice
votes, then the second choices are to
be counted with the first choices. If
no one has a majority of both first
and second choices, the “other
choices” are to be added, and a major
ity of all reckoned in determining the
victor.
The recall is to apply to all elective
officials. The mayor may be recalled
upon the petition of 15,000 voters, and
a councilman may be recalled upon
the petition of 600 of his voting con
stituents.
The mayor and councilmen are
elected for two-year terms.
The mayor is to have the veto, but
it is to be nullified to a large extent
by the provision that any measure
may be passed by the council over the
veto by a majority vote.
Ordinances may be initiated by peti
tions which contain the names of 5,000
voters.
tain that the colonel would be elected
president that he made a wager with
James Gillespie, a Democrat of Pitts
burg, that Roosevelt would beat Wil
son. The loser must walk from Port
land, Me., to Portland, Oregon, lead
ing behind him the animal emblematic
of the victorious party. The wager
also includes the stipulation that the
loser must call on the president of
the United States.
Anderson started from Portland.
Me., March 4. He does not have to
finish until March 4, 1914. ,
Sovereigns Are Always Hosts.
Ixmdon. —When the king and queen
honor any of their subjects by being
present at dinner the banquet differs
from all others in one respect; the
sovereigns, although actually guests,
are nominally the hosts of their en
tertainer. It Is they who lead the
conversation and keep It up, for when
royalty Is disinclined for speech less
exalted mortals perforce remain quiet.
A French scientist declares that man
is descended from the bullfrog. Which
may account for the croakers.
The W. S.
Myrick Co.
Incorporated
The Store of Quality
and Service
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
A Most Extraordinary Sale of New and
Stylish Dresses That Brings Crowds
of Eager Shoppers to Our Store to
Take Advantage of the Great
Opportunity Offered By
This Timely Sale
One lot of SIO.OO Silk Dresses 8.90
$15.00 All-wool Schallie Dresses 10.90
Beautiful All-wool Serge Dresses, Q QA
value up to $15.00, for 27 ■ Sr v
Beautiful line of Linen Dresses, in all
the popular colors, that sold for J QO
$7.50, to go in this sale for *TbS7O
Up-to-date line of White Corduroy / Q Q
Dresses, values up to $7.50, for “Tb 27 O
A very attractive line of French Ging-
ham Dresses that sold for $4.50 "T Q
and $5.00, to go for , Jaa Z Sr
Cash Discount Coupon
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For the distribution of many useful and beau
tiful premiums we have inaugurated the “CASH
DISCOUNT COUPON.’’
Whenever you make a cash purchase, whether
it’s 10 cents or SIO.OO, call fora Cash Discount Cou
pon, they are valuable in exchange for goods in our
premium department. We now have in our Prem
ium Department a beautiful line of China, Cut
Glass, Aluminum Ware, Brass Ware and many
other useful and beautiful premiums that you will
like.
When in our store don’t forget to visit OUR
PREMIUM DEPARTMENT.
TheW.S.MyrickCo.
. Incorporated
Milledgeville, Ga.
SI.OO A YEAR.
