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An Automobile Accident Which 

 Couldn't Be Avoided 



AN automobile accident which caused 

 . considerable interest because of its 

 jiovelty occurred in 

 Quebec recently. A 

 seven-passenger car 

 partly filled with 

 passengers was fer- 

 ried across a river on 

 a scow operated by 

 the old overhead ca- 

 ble system. As the 

 scow, with its load, 

 approached the shore 

 it was made fast to a 

 stake and the auto- 

 mobile proceeded to 



run off. Since the 



bank at this point 



was steep, the ma- 

 chine moved slowly, 



but its front wheels 



had gone only a 



few feet before the 



weight of the car, 



now shifted to the 



rear wheels, caused 



the scow to sink by 



the head. This 



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the water. A diver was later sent down 

 to fasten a chain to the front axle, after 

 which the car in spite of its weight was 

 brought to the surface rapidly and 

 with very little difficulty. 



Above: raising the 

 submerged car. At 

 left, how the acci- 

 dent happened 



A Shirt Worth Two 

 Thousand Dollars 



THE head of a 

 laundry in 

 Rochester, New 

 York, a man pos- 

 sessed of imagination 

 as well as of money, 

 recently presented 

 the local Y. M. 

 C. A. with a shirt 

 worth more than its 

 weight in gold. It 

 was nothing but an 

 ordinary, white, stiff 

 bosomed shirt. No 

 costly studs were 

 planted in its but- 

 tonholes, but across 

 the front were in- 

 scribed words which 

 made it a check for 

 two thousand dol- 

 lars to go toward the 

 erection of a big, new 

 Y. M. C. A. build- 

 ing. 



..Perhaps the donor 

 felt that a suspicious 

 public, its temper as 

 well as its clothes 

 frayed from many 

 uncharitable en- 

 counters with steam 

 laundries, needed re- 

 minding that even 

 a laundry owner may 

 have a heart. 



downward movement caused the stake 

 to be pulled from its position and the next 

 instant the scow was pushed out into the 

 stream. 



With brakes applied, the chauffeur did 

 his best • to arrest the backward move- 

 ment of the car, but it slowly backed into 

 the river, settling on the bottom under 

 fifteen feet of water. Fortunately, the 

 occupants jumped before the car struck 



Tlie president of a laundry presented tliis 

 unique check to a Y. M. C. A. building fund 



