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GZe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.— A  spectacular  fire  in  a 
great,  storage  warehouse  at.  Amsterdam 
avenue  and  130th  street,  New  York,  July 
27.  destroyed  750  vanloads  of  furniture, 
and  caused  a  loss  of  $1 ,000,000.  The 
collapse  of  a  clock  tower  injured  several 
firemen. 
That  they  shall  support  the  family  of 
a  strike-breaker  they  admitted  having 
beaten,  and  shall  obtain  employment  for 
him  when  he  is  well  enough  to  work 
again,  was  the.  unusual  sentence  imposed 
on  two  Brooklyn  men  by  Judge  Fawcett 
July  28.  During  a  strike  of  painters  and 
paperhangor.s  last.  Spring,  Charles  Dietz 
was  attacked  and  so  badly  pommeled  he 
is  still  a*  physical  wreck.  Daniel  Broil- 
stein  and  Harry  Swipuff  were  arrested 
and  appeared  in  court.  They  pleaded 
guilty  to  assault.  The  court  srntcuced 
the  men  to  pay  Dietz  $100  w'.lhiu  21 
hours  and  to  pay  biin  $15  weekly  until 
his  physician  pronounces  him  able  to  go 
to  work.  Finally,  they  were  ordered  to 
guarantee  Diets  work  at  not  less  than  $15 
a  week  when  he  recovers.  If  the  condi¬ 
tions  are  not  fulfilled  they  must  serve 
prison  terms.  Since  the  attack,  the  Dietz 
family  has  been  evicted  five  times  and  is 
dependent  on  charity  for  food. 
During  24  hours,  July  27-28,  5(1  per¬ 
sons  died  in  Chicago  as  the  result  of  the 
beat.  The  street,  temperature,  went  up  to 
100  degrees. 
Announcement  of  the  appointment  of 
Mrs.  Jane  F.  Armstrong  of  Rochester  as 
agent  and  warden  of  the  Valatie.  N.  Y., 
farm  for  women  was  made  by  Superinten¬ 
dent  of  Prisons  Carter  July  28.  Mrs. 
Armstrong,  who  is  the  wife  of  William 
W.  Armstrong,  formerly  a  State  Senator, 
is  the  first  woman  to  be  appointed  to  a 
warrlensliip  of  a  penal  institution  in  the 
State. 
Shortly  after  midnight  July  80  two 
terrific  explosions  shook  all  New  York 
and  surrounding  country,  the  shock  ex¬ 
tending  over  an  area  of  100  miles.  It 
was  caused  by  fire  on  a  lighter  near  Black 
Tom  pier,  the  Communipaw  freight  ter¬ 
minus  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  railroad, 
which  for  more  than  a  year  has  been  the 
chief  shipping  point  for  Allied  war  mu¬ 
nitions.  Thousands  of  tons  of  high  ex¬ 
plosives  blew  no,  and  this  was  followed 
by  bombs  and  shrapnel  from  loaded 
barges  which  caught  fire  and  drifted 
down  the  hay.  Ellis  Island  was  bombard¬ 
ed  by  this  arnmr nilion,  receiving  $100.- 
000  damage.  But.  five  persons  are  known 
to  be  dead  ;  about  80  injured.  The  prop¬ 
erty  loss  is  unknown,  but  is  put  at  $30,- 
000,000.  There  was  enormous  loss  of 
plate  glass  in  New  York  City.  The 
origin  of  the  fire  causing  the  explosion  is 
as  yet  unknown.  The  quantities  of  ex¬ 
plosives.  loose  and  in  boxes,  that  are  be¬ 
ing  washed  on  Manhattan's  shores  from 
the  Black  Tom  explosion  are  a  constant 
danger.  A  dozen  boys  Aug.  1  found  four 
half  open  boxes  filled  with  brownish  sticks 
an  inch  long  on  the  Hudson  shore  near 
110th  street,  which  they  carried  away.  A 
little  later  a  street  car  was  nearly  de¬ 
railed  by  an  explosion,  as  the  boys  bad 
put  some  of  tire  sticks  on  the  tracks.  The 
sticks  are  thought  to  be  dynamite.  Jer¬ 
sey  City’s  commissioners  decided  Aug.  1 
to  put  a  stop  to  the  storing  and  shipment 
of  high  explosives  within  the  city  limits, 
despite  the  rulings  of  the  courts  that 
State  arid  local  authorities  cannot  inter¬ 
fere  with  Federal  regulations  governing 
the  traffic. 
Appalling  forest  fires  in  Northern  On¬ 
tario.  Canada,  were  checked  by  rain  July 
31.  after  destroying  two  small  towns, 
many  settlements,  and  causing  the  death 
of  1S4  persons. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.  President 
Wilson  sent  to  the  Senate  July  27  the 
nominations  of  the  four  members  of  the 
Farm  Loan  Board,  which  will  have  gen¬ 
eral  supervision  of  the  farm  land  bank 
system  provided  by  the  recently  enacted 
sural  credits  law.  The  men  named  are 
Judge  Charles  E.  Lohdell  of  Great  Bend. 
Kan.;  George  W.  Norris  of  Philadelphia; 
Capt.  W.  8,  A.  Smith  of  Sioux  City,  la., 
and  Herbert  Quick  of  Berkeley  Springs, 
W.  Va.  The  nominations  are  made  for 
two,  four,  six  and  eight  years,  respec¬ 
tively.  .Messrs.  Lohdell  and  Smith  are 
Republicans  and  Norris  and  Quick  Demo¬ 
crats.  The  indications  are  that  there 
will  be  little  opposition  to  the  appoint¬ 
ments.  As  soon  ;ts  the  board  is  organ¬ 
ized  it  will  hold  hearings  at  State  capi¬ 
tals  to  obtain  information  for  dividing  the 
country  into  twelve  farm  loan  districts 
and  designating  the  cities  for  farm  loan 
banks. 
A  campaign  to  curb  the  practice  of 
watering  milk  has  been  instituted  by  the 
agricultural  bureau  of  Attorney-General 
Woodbury’s  office  at  Albany  N.  Y.  In¬ 
structions  were  sent  July  27  to  attorneys 
in  the  several  counties  to  prosecute  dili¬ 
gently  these  violations  of  the  agricultural 
jaw.  The  purpose  is  to  protect  the  milk 
supply  of  families  with  children.  Penal¬ 
ties  of  $5,000  for  the  adulteration  of  milk 
were  collected  by  the  Attorney-General  in 
June.  Total  collections  for  the  six  months 
were  $26,185. 
A  new  and  more  satisfactory  way  of 
testing  seeds  for  germination  has  been 
discovered  by  W.  L.  Oswald  of  the  State 
seed  laboratory  at  the  Minnesota  State 
University  farm.  Mr.  Oswald  has  found 
that  an  incubator,  such  as  jfs  ordinarily 
used  to  hatch  chickens,  can  be  made  an 
almost  ideal  seed  tester. 
The  annual  convention  of  the  National 
Commercial  Apple  Growers’  Association 
was  held  at  St.  Louis,  Mo,,  August  2-3. 
The  sixth  annual  Convention  of  the 
California  Association  of  Nurserymen 
will  be  held  at  Santa  Barbara  October 
111-21. 
Tlie  ( >bio  State  Horticultural  Society 
will  bold  its  Summer  meeting  with  the 
fruit  growers  <ff  Ottawa  County  on  Au¬ 
gust  16th,  at  Port  Clinton.  The  program 
will  consist,  of  a  few  talks  and  auto  rides 
to  the  various  points  of  interest  in  that 
section. 
WASHINGTON. — A  brief  protesting 
against  the  section  of  the  revenue  bill 
dealing  Avitli  dyestuffs  has  been  sent  Pi 
Senators  Simmons  and  Thomas  and  to 
Congressman  Kitchin  by  members  of  the 
Joint  Conference  of  Organizations  Affect¬ 
ed  by  the  dyestuffs  situation,  of  which 
William  R.  Cojwine  of  the  National  As¬ 
sociation  of  Clothiers  is  president.  The 
bill  contains  exceptions  from  tariff  which, 
according  to  the  organization,  would 
make  it  impossible  for  the  native  indus¬ 
try  to  progress. 
Charges  tiiar  the  manufacturers  of 
print  paper,  in  the  face  of  soaring  prices 
and  an  apparent  scarcity,  were  maintain¬ 
ing  a  large  reserve  stock  and  that  there 
was  collusion  among  them  to  force  up 
prices  were  made  Aug.  1  at  the  Federal 
Trade  Committee’s  investigation  of  the 
paper  situation.  J.  H.  Zorby,  chairman 
of  the  while  paper  committee  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Associated  Dailies  and  rep¬ 
resentative  of  the  National  Editorial  As¬ 
sociation.  testified  that  one  paper  concern 
held  in  reserve  more  than  $1,000,000 
worth  of  goods. _ 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Ohio  State  Horticultural  Society.  Ot¬ 
tawa  County  Summer  meeting,  Port 
Clinton,  <>..  August  16. 
Georgia  State  Horticultural  Society, 
fortieth  annual  session,  Albany,  Ga., 
Aug.  17-18. 
Summer  meeting  Maryland  State  Hor¬ 
ticultural  Society,  Hancock,  Md.,  Au¬ 
gust  29-30, 
International  Apple  Shippers’  Associa¬ 
tion,  New  York.  Aug.  2. 
Washington  Fair,  Washington,  Conn., 
Sept.  1. 
New  England  Fair,  Worcester,  Mass., 
Sept.  4-7, 
Sixty-seventh  Michigan  State  Fair, 
Detroit,  Sept.  4-13. 
Farmers’  Mutual  Protective  Associa¬ 
tion,  Indian  Fields,  N.  Y„  Sept.  5. 
Solelmry  Farmers'  Exhibit,  Doer  Park, 
Solebury,  Pa.,  Sept.  S-9. 
August  12,  1916. 
Northern  Nut  Growers’  Association, 
seventh  annual  convention,  National 
Museum,  Washington,  D,  C.,  Sept,  8-9. 
New  York  State  Fair,  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  11-16. 
National  Dairy  Show,  Springfield, 
Mass,,  Oct.  12-21. 
Farmers’  National  Congress,  thirty- 
sixth  annual  session,  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
Oct.  17-20. 
New  Hampshire  Horticultural  Society, 
Keene,  N.  II.,  Oct.  25-27. 
New  England  Fruit  Show  and  Ver¬ 
mont  State  Horticultural  Society,  joint 
meeting  Citv  Hall,  Montpelier,  Vt„  Nov. 
13-1.8. 
Indiana  Apple  Show.  West  Baden, 
Nov.  14-20. 
Paterson,  N.  .T.,  Poultry  Association, 
annual  show,  Paterson,  N.  J.,  Nov.  21- 
25;  Dr.  Gilbert  Johnson,  secretary- 
treasurer. 
Qnannapowitt  Poultry  Association, 
third  annual  show,  Wakefield,  Mass.,  Nov. 
25-25. 
Maine  State  Poultry  Show,  Portland, 
Dec.  12-15. 
University  Horticultural  Society  of 
Ohio  State  University  sixth  annual  show 
of  fruit,  and  vegetables,  December  1-1,  15 
and  16. 
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One  thing  we  can’t  forget  in  buying  cars.  That 
is  pride  of  ownership.  The  car  is  a  pleasure 
vehicle.  And  it  spoils  the  fun  to  be  hope¬ 
lessly  outrivaled  in  about  the  same-class  car. 
The  Hudson  Super-Six  has  proved 
itself  supreme. 
With  this  patented  motor — certified 
a  stock  "motor — it  has  done  what  no 
other  stock  car  ever  did. 
It  has  made  faster  speed.  It  has 
done  better  hill-climbing.  It  has 
shown  quicker  pick-up.  It  has  gone 
1819  miles  in  24  hours,  breaking  the 
best  former  stock  car  record  by  52 
percent. 
It  has  beaten  race  cars  by  the  dozen 
— cars  of  a  very  costly  type.  It  has 
shown  much  more  power  than  this 
size  motor  ever  before  developed.  It 
has  proved  matchless  endurance. 
Suppose  your  neighbor  gets  this  car. 
And  you,  while  paying  a  5  much  or 
more,  get  something  less  efficient. 
Ho^fc-will  you  feel  when  the  two  cars 
meet? 
Its  greatest  supremacy — that  of 
endurance — means  years  of  extra  ser¬ 
vice.  How.  would  you  feel  to  have  a 
like-class  car  excel  yours  in  these 
respects? 
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Means  80%  More  Efficiency 
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What  These  Things  Signify 
You  do  not  care  for  reckless  speed. 
Such  power  is  rarely  needed.  But  the 
Super-Six  has  the  capacity.  You 
know  it  to  be  the  master  of  the  road. 
It  will  do  what  you  want  without 
taxing  half  its  ability.  And  that  means 
economy. 
It  will  cover  more  ground  than 
lesser  cars,  without  going  any  faster. 
This  because  of  its  quick  get-away 
when  you  slow  down  or  stop. 
The  Super-Six  motor — a  Hudson 
invention — adds  80%  to  motor  effi¬ 
ciency.  That  is,  from  a  small,  light 
motor  it  gets  76  horsepower.  The  same 
size  of  motor  heretofore  yielded  us 
42  h.  p. 
This  result  comes  through  ending 
vibration,  the  cause  of  motor  friction. 
It  gives  such  smoothness  as  you  never 
knew  before.  And  it  means  a  long- 
lived  motor. 
It  comes  in  a  car,  evolved  under 
Howard  E.  Coffin,  which  has  long 
stood  for  the  acme  in  fine  engineering. 
And  it  comes  in  the  handsomest,  best- 
equipped  model  that  Hudson  has 
ever  designed. 
If  your  neighbor  gets  it,  and  you 
don’t,  it  may  mean  to  you  years  of 
regret.  In  looks  and  performance, 
in  prestige  and  endurance,  he  will 
have  the  advantage  of  you.  Your 
Hudson  dealer  can  prove  these  things 
beyond  any  possible  question.  And 
you  should  know  them  before  you 
buy  any  high-grade  car. 
Any  Super-Six  owner — there  are 
now  more  than  10,000 — can  tell  you 
what  it  means  to  own  one. 
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