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CARRIAGES FOB ALL.
EDISON SAYS THAT HORSELESS VE
j\ HICLES WILL SOON BE CHEAP.
1 Market Will Be Flooded With Motor Car
riages- Great Keductiou In Prices Will
Follow—The Poor Man May Have a Con
's>■ ▼eyance of His Own,
* Horseless carriages at $ 100 each is
the hope now held out to those who
would ride—motor vehicles for the
masses and every man his own motor
man.
Experiments have been in progress at
the factory of the General Electric com
pany at Schenectady, N. Y., which
have brought forth the announcement
that the market is soon to be flooded
with horseless carriages at a price that
will bring them within the reach of ev
erybody. Every man who is now able
to own a bicycle will soon be able to
own a road cart' or a landau or a vic
toria for the use of himself and his fam
ily. He will need no stable in which to
keep horses, no hostler or footman, no
hayrack or harness, but merely a shed
or a back porch or a cellar in which to
shelter from the weather his motorcy
cle or automobile or autocycle or horse
p less carriage or whatever else he may
i choose to call it.
I Thomas A. Edison was credited with
\ having devised the motor by which
’ these cheap machines are to be fitted.
This is not the case, however. When
seen at his home on the crest of the
pretty hill at Llewellyn Park, West
Orange, N. J., on a recent afternoon,
he verified the statement that the Gen
eral Electric company was preparing to
offer cheap motor carriages to the gen
eral market, but denied that he had de
voted any time to them.
“Oh, yes,” ho said, “the boys up
there tell me they have a cheap motor
and that they are going to turn out a
large number of low priced vehicles,
but it is not my work. Inventing mo
tors is too dead easy for me to devote
time to it. I have dabbled at such a
thing during spare moments, but purely
on my own account.
“Tho thing I am making is to be
used on a tricycle, to pull mo up this
hill every day. ” And he pointed to the
steep decline leading through Lewellyn
park from his residence to the labora
tory at the foot of the slope. “That,
however, is only for my private use. I
am building for the purpose a tiny mo
tor that will generate a great power.
Yes, electricity, of course, is the force.
This motor will be attached to the axle
and will be hardly large enough to be
noticed at all. That can be done easily
because I only intend using it for this
short distance. Whore a motor is to
serve for several miles it must of neces
sity be larger.
“The wliolo problem rests in the con
-"Btruction of cheaper and lighter motors.
Over 2,000 men are at work in this
country alone trying to invent better
motors for horseless vehicles. Hundreds
m)f othors in Europe are also engaged in
~.he same task. It is only a matter of
[ aime. The automobile is bound to be in
(general use before long. Take the bi
i. cycle, for instance. The high grade
—WheeiH which cost SIOO each today will
in a few years nt best drop to SSO, and
tho machines that can now be bought
for from SSO to $76 apiece will cost
only sls or s2o._
“The sarno thing will be the outcome
ef tv > H experiments with horseless car-
The motors now cost from $250
•0 each. The price will eventually
luced, if the boys in the factory
rSchenectady have not already re
./ joed it, to from $25 to SSO each. The
(jtors will also be made smaller and
/OU be more easily manipulated. Then
/ tricycles and light road vehicles can
be put on the market at a cost of
SIOO to $125 each. Of course the cost
of the superstructure can be made little
or much—just as carriages cost more
than buggies—but a serviceable light
vehicle to carry two or even four poople
can be made, very much after the prin
ciple of the tricycle, at a cost of from
SIOO to $125.
“In the construction of the motor
there are three different kinds of power
to consider—gas, petroleum and elec
tricity. Electricity should be the best
and cheapest. The most successful auto
mobiles made thus far are those in
which electric motors are used. They
cau go 25 miles or more without being
recharged, at a rate of ten miles an
hour. I expect the horse to disappear al
most entirely so far as his use for street
traction is concerned. Delivery wagons,
buses, express wagons, broughams and
all of the heavier class of vehicles can
be driven as easily by a storage battery
as any other kind if the battery is'im
proved sufficiently, and that will un
questionably be done.
“Horseless carriages at such a low
cost would permit the poor as well as
the rich to crowd the purks and boule
vards on every pretty day. It is a revo
lution that is bound to come, and at a
very early day.”—New York Journal.
She Warmed Him lip*
As Oscar Stiefel of West Randolph
Btreet, Chicago, was passing the house
of John Faulliaber in West Randolph
Btreet early yesterday morning he was
shot at twice by Bertha Risener, Faul
baber’s stepdaughter, one bullet wound
ing him slightly in the side. Bertha
and Stiefel were sweethearts, but the
latter, it is said, had lately grown cool
in his wooing, and the woman took this
method of showing her scorn. She was
locked up on a charge of assault with
intent to kill, and Stiefel was taken to
the County hospital.—Chicago Tribune.
A Tip to Greece.
Poor Greece is whipped) The reason why
Is easy to discern.
Her soldiers brave were handicapped
By costumes that should burn.
Wliut man uould find, attired In skirts,
A pistol pocket, pray?
Yet this is what King George’s men
Were foratel to do each day!
* In future wars the Ureoks should make
k Their women fight, not flirt,
' For only womankind cau find
The pocket In a gklrt!
- Cincinnati Commercial. Tribune
AN UNEXPECTED TINT.
Lotion That Wan to Make Negroes White
Turns Them Red.
Some time ago there was advertised
at Noreross, Ga., by a corporation do
ing business in a northern city a lotion
that was guaranteed to make colored
people turn white. The first one to in
vest was a very black young woman,
who is the wife of Alfred Bolton, who
operates a creamery near Noreross.
She secured a quantity of the stuff,
and, following the directions on the
bottle, rubbed it vigorously into her
skin. The operation caused intense suf
fering, because the lotion was hot as
cayenne pepper, but the woman perse
vered, and in time her skin changed
color, as the advertisement said it
would, but it turned red instead of
white.
Ugly scarlet spots appeared on her
face and body and her hair came out.
She appealed at last to Dr. Richardson,
a physician, who found unmistakable
evidences of poisoning. The woman is
now critically ill, and if she gets well
will be disfigured for life. Her case
sounded an alarm among the negroes,
and nearly a score of others suffering
from the same trouble have gone to
physicians for treatment.—Exchange.
A PHENOMENAL PICTURE.
Image of a Woman Taking a Bath Ap
pears on a Window Pane.
South Kankakee, Ills., furnishes a
phenomenon that is astonishing the
people of the district.
P. C. Hutton occupies a cottage in
South Fourth avenue, and in one of its
windows there appears daily the picture
of a woman taking a bath in a wash
tub, with one hand raised above her
head.
The picture or photograph, which is
a puzzle to scientists, but which is be
lieved to have been caused by electric
ity, is most distinct after sunrise and
just before sunset and has been ob
served by hundreds of persons.
The glass on which the phenomenon
is seen is 18 by 80 inches and is plain,
ordinary window glass.
Mr. Hutton threatens to turn the
window into a money making scheme
in order that he and his neighbors may
secure enough money to replace their
lawns and gardens destroyed by specta
tors. —Chicago Times-Herald.
DUCKS FOR CLEVELAND.
They Were Place,*! Conspicuously About
11U Premised.
One morning not long ago, when the
servants of the Cleveland household
came down stairs for their day’s work,
their astonished gaze rested upon ducks
by the score. There were ducks before
the porch and ducks upon the window
sills. Whole flocks of ducks nodded from
the branches of the trees surrounding
the house, aud still others squatted up
on the lawn before tho front of the
dwelling.
Little streamers of ribbons and flags
fluttered gayly in the morning breeze.
Tho opening of windows and doors had
no disturbing effect upon the flock of
birds, and a moment’s investigation
showed that they were all decoy ducks,
with which some industrious young
men had decorated the ex-president’s
premises during the night. The men
about the place had a half day’s work
in collecting the decoys from about the
house and from off the trees. —Phila-
delphia Record.
HIS STONY STARE.
A Dead Vlan Sits by a Window Apparently
Gazing; Into the Street.
Louis Miller, a boiler maker, who
boarded with Louis Krauss in Jefferson
Btreet, Williamsburg, N. Y., became ill
ot the supper table oue night recently.
He got up from the table and sat down
at an open kitchen window. He was
still there when the others in the house
went to bed.
At daylight on tho following morn
ing August Medtoke, a railroad motor
man who boards in the same house,
while in tho yard, saw Miller staring at
him from the kitchen window. Miller’s
head rested on his left arm, and in his
right hand was a fork. Medtoke spoke
to him, and not receiving a reply he
went closer to the window, making
some joking remark as he went. Still
Miller did not move. Then Medtcke
discovered that Miller was dead.
An investigation showed that death
was due to heart disease.—Exchange.
Humbert Taken It Kaay.
‘ ‘lt is only one of the little perquisites
of my trade,” King Humbert is report
ed to have said recently to Queen Mar
gheritn when telling her of Aociarito’s
unsuccessful attempt upon his life. But
in saying this the gallant king only
parodied, or rather repeated, if perhaps
unwittingly, the words uttered by
Prince Bismarck on returning to his
hotel at Kissingen after being shot at
and slightly wounded by Kullman, the
fanatic of the knltnrkampf. “Ob,
well,” exclaimed the chancellor, “inci
dents of this kind are only part of the
trade!” And this wis the second inci
dent of the kind in which he had fig
ured. But King Humbert has run the
gantlet of attempted assassination of
tener still tbau the Iron Chancellor.—
Loudon Chronicle.
Methodist Laymen Will Meet.
A large number of prominent Metho
dist laymen of Indiana have issued a
call for a mass meeting in Indianapolis
on Sept. 15 to advocate larger represen
tation for the laity in the general con
ference. “Two and a half trillion lay
men,” they say, “have but one-third of
the representatives in the general con
ference, while 15,000 preachers have
two-thirds. The laymen furnish the
millions of money to carry on the work
of the church in all her various depart
ments. The impolicy, to say nothing of
the injustice, iu denying them an equal
voice iu its disbursement and in the
general management of the church is
painfully apparent ”
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA„ SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 30, 1897.
AGAINST THE GREEK.
#AR CORRESPONDENTS MAKE SWEEP
ING CHARGES OF COWARDICE.
Hellenic Force. Might Have Made a Strong
Stand Along the Salaanwia—Sacked Their
Own Town, and Deserted Their Sick.
Diplomacy Exchanged For War.
In discussing the Turco-Grecian
struggle and the relative merits of the
opposing forces it is impossible to ig
nore the fact that many writers are
making sweeping charges of cowardice
against the Greeks of every rank. The
prejudices of some of the correspondents
will account for this only partially. In
order to make an impartial chronicle of
the war it is necessary therefore to
quote some of the testimony on this
point. Thus the correspondent of the
London Times at Larissa writes:
“The remainder of the Greek army
after distinguishing itself by setting fire
to the barracks and looting the shops of
the civil population, in company with
, the revolutionary scum that rises to the
top at such moments, judged discretion
more serviceable than valor and fled
pellmell. Even the doctors and the hos
pital assistants left their charges, some
of whom died nntended and alone be
fore they were found out by the Turk
ish medical officials. The crown prince,
indeed, endeavored to restrain the ex
cesses of his disbanded soldiery and to
prevent what might have once been an
orderly retreat from lapsing into the
miserable debacle whose effects are now
before ns. No doubt as a prince and a
gentleman he did his best. But it is evi
dent that the army under his command
was as lacking in organization as it
was in real morale.
“The position along the Salamvria,
the ancient Peneus, was certainly not a
good one from a tactical point of view,
and the instant that Tyruavo had final
ly fallen the fate of Larissa was sealed.
But some organized attempt to defend
the bridge heads would at any rate
have gained time and enabled the main
body of the army to retire to the heights
at the southern end of the plain and to
make some dispositions for the defense
of Volo and the road to Athens.
“As it is, not only have the troops
disgraced themselves as soldiers and citi
zens by sacking their own town and de
serting their sick and wounded, but in
their flight to the mountains they have
left behind the greater part of their am
munition, many of their guns and the
best of their war material, and have di
vided an already dwindling force into
two portions, either of which is incom
petent to support an attack from a sin
gle column of the Turkish army.”
A correspondent of the London Tele
graph at the same point is even more
outspoken. He says:
“In an evil hour for herself Greece
exchanged diplomacy for war. It may
be hoped that hereafter her people, by a
vigorous defense on the old frontier, may
win back something of the national rep
utation. But for the present the Greeks
have publicly shown that they are de
ficient in the great manly quality of
courage. The miserable fact remains
that 30 or 40 battalions of infantry,
with cavalry and guns, ran away from
strongly intrenched positions, without
firing a shot for their country. The
Turkish officers, though always confi
dent of victory, could hardly express
their astonishment at the result. They
had always despised the courage of the
Greeks, regarding them as a nation of
talkers, better in speech than in action,
but still they could scarcely believe in
this sudden and ignominious flight.
“Edhem Pasha, dnring the very day
on which his preparations for a general
advance were completed, said that he
expected several hours of severe fight
ing. It was anticipated, even if the
Greeks should be driven from their in
trenchments between tlieXenas and the
Salamvria, that they would make a
stand in the fortifications before Laris
sa. The river, which runs broad and
deep on the southern side of the town,
would have proved a strong line of de
fense, and its crossing must have cost
the Turks some severe losses. So hurried
was the flight that the strong stone
bridge, which forms the southern ap
proach from Turnavo, was left unin
jured.
“Greek courage began to ebb after
the first day’s fighting round the block
houses at Milouua. The steady, business
like way in which the Turks pressed on
from position to position, thrusting back
their enemy indifferently from breast
work or intreuchment, must have dis
pelled the easy dream of Macedonian
conquest. Then the splendid assaults up
the rough, steep slopes on the block
houses, when the crests were won, gave
the Greek anew and unpleasant notion
of a Turk at close quarters. It was far
easier to shout vociferously for war in a
crowd at Athens than to parry the
thrust of a Turkish bayonet. It is prob
able, too, that some of the best and most
courageous of the Greek soldiers fell in
those early skirmishes, leaving a reserve
of more commonplace material. Then
the night assaults, by which Nesehat
Pasha carried several hill summits, dis
played another quality of the Turkish
soldier, his tireless endurance. It was
of little use protesting that the Turks
were ill fed and starving when, after a
day and night spent in fighting, they
showed their red fezee over the earth
work. Well fitting uniforms may win
on a dress parade, but when a line of
powerful men is advancing with the
bayonet there is small consolation in
the holes or patches displayed by their
garments.
“Personally, after spending three
weeks in the Ottoman camp, and seeing
the Turks and Albanians every day, I
cau quite appreciate the feelings of
those who bolt even from intrench
ments before a rush of these terrible
soldiers. It is more than probable that
bad the Greek officers or the leading
members of the Ethnike Hetairia en
joyed the same facilities there would
have been nc unauthorized raids, and
th frontier would have remained aa
sacrosanct as any vestal virgin."
TO SAVE YOUR WHEEL.
Don’t ride a bent crank farther than
the first repair shop.
Don’t jump curbstones because horses
race in steeple chases.
Don’t fail to clean the bicycle every
time you ride any great distance.
Don’t ride it at full speed over street
crossings, ruts and depressions in the
road.
Don’t let the tires become so much
deflated that you can feel the jolts as the
rims strike the pavement.
Don’t let the chain sag perceptibly
either on the top or the bottom. It puts
it under a constant strain that soon
wears it out.
Don’t fail to inspect every bolt and
nnt at least once during the week.
They wear loose, and the machine is
easily racked and strained if they are
not properly adjusted.
Don’t pour a gill of oil into the bear
ings as often as yon start for a ride of
five miles. A little oil once a week is
enough for any bicycle, and some need
oiling but once a month.
Don’t skip the teeth of the sprocket
wheels when you clean every other part
of the bicycle. The grit that accumu
lates at those points is enough to wear
out the best chain ever made.
Don’t take chances on a loose saddle.
Riders have been injured for life by
trusting that good luck would pull
them through with improper saddle
fastenings. One upset might mean the
everlasting smash up of the wheel, even
if the owner wasn’t injured.—New
York Journal.
THE FAST RIDERS.
Lee Richardson, the trick rider, who
has been very ill in Europe, is reported
to be rapidly improving.
Lozana, the Spanish champion, has
joined the racing brigade in Paris and is
expected to make a good showing.
Frank Dampman thinks that he can
reduce the record between Philadelphia
and New York a trifle over five hours.
Fred J. Titus has announced his will
ingness for a match race of one hour at
Grand Rapids, Mich., some time in
July.
Porta, the Italian, recently won the
25 mile championship of Australia, the
prize being $75, a gold medal, a ribbon
and a badge.
Willie Arend, the German craok, who
lately was successfully operated on for
a tumor in the neck, went in training
too soon and suffered a relapse.
Jimmy Michael will ride a wheel
geared to 105 in his trials against time
this year, while Stocks, the English
man, will ride one geared to 120.
PROMINENT CYCLISTS.
The king and queen of Wnrttemherg
and the Princess Paulina have become
bicyclists.
Cissy Loftus is one of the prominent
figures on the roads in England, where
she takes a daily bicycle ride.
Li Hung Chang now owns a bicycle,
and the czar of Russia is bicycling in
Denmark. That sounds as if old em
pires were ready for new customs.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago
has accepted an invitation to lead the
annual run of the Associated Cycle
Clubs on May 23 over the park and
boulevard system.
The ameer of Afghanistan has be
come a victim to the cycling craze; but,
as he is too lazy to propel himself, he
uses a triplet wheel and leaves all the
work to his two pedalers.
Forced Astor to Dismount.
The fine roads of Ferncliff, the home
of the Astors at Rhinebeck, are closed
to cyclers because of an unpleasant in
cident occurring recently which resulted
in John Jacob Astor being crowded into
the ditch on his own property. Mr. Astor
and his wife are both enthusiastic bicy
cle riders, and when at home may be
seen any pleasant day riding on their
wheels, enjoying the air and scenery. On
the day referred to Mr. Astor met a
party of wheelmen inside the gate of
Ferncliff, who, instead of making room
for him, forced him to the side of the
road, pocketing him so that he was
obliged to dismount.
At once orders were issued forbidding
entrance to cyclers to the domain of
Ferncliff. The deprivation will be se
verely felt, as Ferncliff embraces miles
of road built with the famous iron ore
which abounds in Rhinebeck and makes
the smoothest and hardest macadam
surface in the world.—Exchange.
A New Paris Parcel Carrier.
How many girls would use wheels
out shopping if circumstances were all
favorable cannot, of course, be stated
accurately, but the chitf difficulty is
that the shopper has no handy means of
carrying home whatever small parcel
she may have purchased. A Parisian
has devised an ingenious parcel carrier
which may be attached to the front of
the wheel and which, when not in use,
may be folded up neatly. Being attached
to the wheel, there is no danger of its
being forgotten when the forgetful shop
per starts on her tonr. Artisans and
office workers who carry lunch with
them would also find such a contrivance
very handy.—Brooklyn Citizen.
For the Young Men.
Certain disgruntled philosophers have
soutended that the woman yon see is
teldoni the woman you think yon see.
Mounted upon the bicycle, most women
have to tell the truth about themselves,
says Arsene Alexandre in Scribner's.
One cau distinguish at a glance the dar
ing, willful beauty from the timid, ten
der girl. The woman is reduced for the
moment to the plane of a boy, whose
good looks or lack of them, health, vigor
of mind and body are apparent. Some
will even go so far as to advise a man,
not to get married until he has seen the I
object of his choice disport herself upon
a bicycle.
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FIGHTS AT WEST POINT.
They Occar "Frequently and Are Fought
With Dare Fists.
With bandaged eyes and bruised aud
battered fart* two West Point warriors
toss restlessly upon iren cots in the ca
det hospital. They are the defeated vic
tims of two sanguinary pugilistic con
tests which were fought recently at the
military academy. One of the young
men is Cadet Sergeant Curtis G. Ot
well of Ohio, who was put to sleep at
the. end of a hotly contested, bare knuc
kled six round bout, which he fought
with Cadet Humphreys. Otwell’s
bruised and disfigured colleague is his
classmate, Sergeant J. B. Cowan, a
fiery young representative from the Em
pire State.
Cowan met his pugilistic Waterloo at
the hands of Cadet Private W. L. Mur
phy, a pugnacious young lowan, who is
a member of Cowan’s class.
A dispute over an order caused the
youth from New York and his lowan
classmate to meet in battle array just
before daybreak. IMurphy tipped the
scales at 165 pounds, aud on his 5 feet
I 6 inches was not a superfluous ounce of
flesh. Cowan weighs about ten pounds
more than his antagonist and is about
two inches the taller, but he lacks the
ability to use Ms fists as dexterously as
the man from tflie far west.
It was an uneven contest from start*
to finish. In every round Murphy land
ed with telling effect. New York’s
plucky sem bravely stood up under his
terrifie punishment, but was unable to
offer any to Musphy’s pound
ing or to Hand any return blows where
they would do dunnage.
For four rounds Cowait resisted the
appeals of his Seconds to acknowledge
defeat. A tithe end of thefaeurtb a slash
ing blow from Murphy’s right caught
Cowan square in the eyes and nearly
blinded him. Unwilling still to give up
the sponge, the New Yorker again
struggled to his feet, but just- as the
call for reveille sounded Murphy again
landed on Cowan’s jaw, which made
the New York boy go down in defeat
before the fighting sou of lowa. Mur
phy was not badly damaged anti' was
able to report for duty.
I
OUR JUBILEE SHIPS. '
Three American Ironclads Will Take l’art
In Victoria's Celebration.
This country is to have naval ronra.
sentation at the queen’s jubilee ceremo
nies. Secretary of the Navy Long is
now giving the subject careful consid
eration, and during recent days ho has
had in consultation on the matter sev
eral bureau chiefs of the navy depart
ment.
Tho plan as now arranged is to send
to England three of our most powerful
warships. The ships which have been
decided upon, all but to tho issuing of
the orders, are the armored cruiser
S Brooklyn and the battleships Maine
and Indiana.
The Brooklyn is the most powerful
fighting cruiser in the United States
navy. It is doubtful if there boa vessel
in the cruiser class in any foreign navy
which would be a match for her. Her
final acceptance by the United States
government from the hands of tho build
ers took place recently.
The battleship Indiana represents the
highest type of coastwise battleship in
the service of this country. Compared
with foreign battleships, the Indiana
carries more guns to the ton of ship
than any battleship afloat.
The battleship Maine stands for the
highest type of seagoing battleships of
the second class. She is a powerfully
armed vessel, .and naval men every
where credit her with being the supe
rior of almost anything afloat of her
Hize.
He Knew.
The whale spouted in triumph. “Nev
er you mind!” shouted Jonah vindic
tively. “You’ve given me a good deal
of trouble, I’ll admit, but you just wait
till the latter day theologians tackle
you. ” With a hoarse chuckle he struck
out over the sand dunes toward Nine
veh.—New Y’ork Press.
How About Him?
Jones—Do you believe in the Scrip
tural injunction, “Let not thy right
Sand know what thy left hand doeth?”
Bones—Yes. Why shouldn’t I?
Jones—Well, how about the man who
spends his money right and left?—New
York Journal.
English people are said to spin both
flax and wool by turning their wheel
from left to right, while foreigners spin
flax from left to right and wool in tho
opposite direction.
1 Circumstances are the rulers of the
weak. They are but the instruments of
the wise.—Samuel Lover.