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THK RUKAL NliW-YORKER 
October 24, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Three were killed and 
14 persons seriously injured, Oct.. 
12, as the result of the wrecking of a 
Denver and Rio Grande train 1(1 miles 
from Grand Junction, Colo. The wreck 
was caused by a 20-ton boulder falling 
from a precipice and crashing through 
one of the cars of the train. 
The entire business district of Spencer, 
W. Va., was destroyed by fire, Oct. 12, 
with a loss of approximately $300,000. 
The fire started in a fruit store and 
spread rapidly because there was no 
water with which to fight the flames. 
Little rain has fallen throughout this 
section in the last two months. 
Thirty hungry sailors who experienced 
a narrow escape from starvation on the 
sea reached New York. Oct. 12. aboard 
the schooner Alice Lord, long overdue 
from St. Martens, in the Danish West 
Indies. The little vessel had been driven 
by a hurricane nearly one thousand 
miles from her course. For five days the 
only rations her sailors had were a plate 
of bean soup and two or three pancakes 
apiece. 
University Hall at Columbia Univer¬ 
sity. New ' York, was practically de¬ 
stroyed by fire, Oct. 10. The loss is esti¬ 
mated at $250,000. 
Mrs. Annette Abbot Adams, the first 
woman to be appointed an Assistant 
United States District Attorney, took the 
oath of office at San Francisco, Cal., 
Oct. 13, in the Federal Court. Mrs. 
Adams immediately went about her du¬ 
ties as fourth assistant to John W. Pres¬ 
ton, United States District Attorney for 
Northern California. 
An attempt to wreck St. Patrick’s 
Cathedral, New York City, with a bomb, 
Oct. 13, was followed at midnight by a 
similar attempt in St. Alphonsus Roman 
Catholic Church, at 312 West Broadway, 
near Grand Street. It was supposed that 
the two explosions were caused by the 
same person. 
Washington, Oct. 12.—Assistant Sur¬ 
geon L. W. Jenkins and five others 
were drowned when a boat from the 
revenue cutter Manning was swamped 
in a bad sea in Unalga Pass, off Cape 
Sariches, Saturday, according to a radio¬ 
gram received today from the comman¬ 
der of the Bering Sea fleet. The boat 
was returning with a sick man from the 
lighthouse at that point when the acci¬ 
dent happened. 
James J. Farmer, Colonel William J. 
Hartley, Samuel F. Warfield and others 
and the Anglo-American Authors' Asso¬ 
ciation, of 225 Fifth Ave., New York, 
were put on trial in this city, Oct. 13, 
on indictments charging the use of the 
mails in the operation of a scheme to 
defraud. According to the postal auth¬ 
orities, the defendants reaped profits 
amounting to nearly $10,000,000 in three 
or four years from the sale of ornate edi¬ 
tions of classic and modern authors. 
Men and women of wealth have been 
led to pay enormous prices for volumes 
which they could have purchased from 
reliable booksellers for one-third or some¬ 
times one-tenth of the price charged by 
the Anglo-American Authors’ Associa¬ 
tion. Two of the men concerned pleaded 
guilty, Oct. 14. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—In the 
boys’ corn contest held at the Lancaster, 
Pa.. Fair, Albert O. Bruekart of Litita 
won first prize on White Dent corn in a 
class of 13 exhibitors. lie was also 
awarded the grand champion prize of $10 
in gold for the best 10 ears in the entire 
contest. There were 89 contestants 
from all parts of the county. 
Consular Agent E. .1. White reports 
as follows on fox farming from White 
Horse, Canada: “While the fox markets 
of eastern Canada, principally in New 
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, 
are practically the same as last year, the 
prices paid here for young foxes this 
season are only about one-quarter of 
those paid last year. This is due to a 
law passed by the Yukon Territorial 
Legislature in March. 1914, providing 
that a fox from the wild state must be 
kept in captivity two years before i! can 
be exported. Animals born in captivity 
may be exported at any time. As the 
majority of the young foxes captured are 
taken by Indians who are not prepared 
to keep them for any length of time they 
are bought by ‘fox farmers,’ of whom 
there are now about twelve in Yukon 
Territory, and kept by them until such 
time as they may be legally exported. 
The result of the passage of the law 
forbidding the exportation of captured 
young foxes has prevented outsiders from 
buying for immediate exportation, as was 
done in previous years, and in conse¬ 
quence prices are now much lower. A 
silver gray pup three months old, which 
one year ago brought $800 to $1,050, now 
sells for $150 to $250.” 
The Vegetable Growers’ Association of 
America opened its seventh annual con¬ 
vention in Philadelphia October G, to 
continue four days. The president, W. 
J. Ritterskamp, Princeton, Ill., intro¬ 
duced an interesting programme, which 
included lectures, essays, and tours to 
places of trade interest. 
Another government nursery is being 
planned at the Great Plains Experiment 
Station, near Mandan, N. D.’ 
The first annual institute and conven¬ 
tion of the Lycoming County Farm Bu¬ 
reau will be held at Williamsport, Pa., 
November 17-20. In connection with 
this exhibit there will be held the fourth 
annual display of the Lycoming County 
Apple Growers’ Society; the fourth an¬ 
nual display of the Ilolstein-Friesian i 
Cattle Association; the seventh annual 
exhibition of the Williamsport Poultry 
Association and an official display, dem¬ 
onstration and institute of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State College. Premium list may 
be obtained from Win. S. Milliner, City 
Hall, Williamsport. Pa. 
The Maryland Week Exhibition will 
be held at the Fifth Regiment Armory, 
Baltimore, November 17-21. It will be, 
as last year, under the auspices of the 
Maryland State Horticultural Society, 
and affiliated with this organization will 
be the Maryland Crop Improvement As¬ 
sociation. Maryland State Dairymen's 
Association and Maryland State Bee¬ 
keepers’ Association. In the order 
named, these organizations will hold 
their annual meetings on Wednesday, 
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with 
three sessions daily, in the Armory gym¬ 
nasium. The formal opening on Tues¬ 
day night will be with an appropriate 
programme in which national govern¬ 
ment, State, city and various rural in¬ 
terests will be represented. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Antwerp 
surrendered Oct. 9. after a heroic de¬ 
fense. and is now occupied by the Ger¬ 
mans. The King and Queen, and the 
entire Belgian army, with its British 
auxiliaries, escaped to Ostend. A great 
proportion of the civil population lied 
to Holland, across the Scheldt. It was 
reported. Oct. 12. however, that several 
Antwerp forts still held out. The Ger¬ 
man government has notified Holland 
that it will not disturb the neutral 
status of the river Scheldt.The 
government of Belgium, with no place 
of safety, has abandoned the country, 
and its administrative offices are removed 
to Havre, on French soil. One reason 
for this was the dropping of aerial bombs 
on Ostend. King Albert has remained 
at Ostend to command the army. 
The University of Louvain has accepted 
the offer of the University of Cambridge, 
England, to continue its worl? there. 
.Oct. 10, the Russian cruiser l’al- 
lada was sunk in the Baltic Sea by a 
German torpedo.The British con¬ 
sul at Warsaw has asked the American 
consul to take over his office there, and 
it is believed that the capture of the 
city by the Germans is imminent. 
The forty-four lists of losses in the 
Prussian army which have beeu pub¬ 
lished contain a total of 211,000 killed, 
wounded and missing, according to a 
Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam. The 
lists do not include losses among the 
Bavarians. Saxons and Wurtemhurg- 
ians.Oct. 11 Germans made an¬ 
other aerial raid on Paris, dropping 
bombs at several points, but doing little 
damage. One bomb struck the Cathe¬ 
dral of Notre Dame.The cam¬ 
paign on the Aisne, called the Battle of 
the Five Rivers, continues: the Allies 
have advanced to Ypres. Belgium. 
K'ng Charles of Rumania died Oct. 10, 
aged 75. He had kept his country 
strictly neutral, but it is now believed 
that the country will side with the Al¬ 
lies.Martial law has been pro¬ 
claimed throughout the Union of South 
Africa as a result of a rebellion in the 
northern part of the Cape Province, 
which adjoins German Southwest Africa. 
Lieut. Col. Maritz. a Boer officer with 
a number of his officers and men. has 
gone over to the German forces. 
The Japanese and Germans have agreed 
on a brief armistice to bury the dead 
at Kino-Chan. The Governor of the ter¬ 
ritory is endeavoring to arrange for the 
departure of all non-combatants remain¬ 
ing in Tsing-tau.Portugal began 
mobilizing troops, Oct. 15. and is ex¬ 
pected to declare war on Germany. It 
is believed Portugal will be active in 
Africa. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
OMR-GROWN grapes are $30 per 
ton and 11 to 12 cents for seven- 
pound baskets. Apples of the home 
crop are not quoted at more than $2 a 
barrel, wholesale, with fair to good at 
20 to 30 cents a bushel. It still looks 
as though part of the local crop would 
not be picked. Pears are $3 to $4.50 per 
barrel wholesale. Quinces of rather 
poor quality retail at 40 cents a third- 
bushel basket. There is a good supply 
of prunes at 30 to 35 cents per six- 
pound baskets. Potatoes are down again, 
50 cents a bushel wholesale and 05 cents 
retail. The crop in this section promises 
to be large. Onions are GO to 05 cents 
per bushel, fancy. Cabbage is $1 to 
$2.50 per 100. Beans are high, $4 per 
bushel for Marrow. There are still 
string beans, at 75 cents to $1.25 per 
bushel. This is a great chestnut year, 
northern nuts wholesaling at eight, cents 
per pound and sometimes retailing as low 
as 10 cents a quart. Butter and eggs 
are higher, but cheese is dull and a trifle 
lower. Best creamery butter wholesales 
at 33 cents, fair grades at 2G cents. 
Cheese is 14 to 17 cents per pound, fair 
to best being about a cent off from last 
year and two cents from a year ago at 
wholesaling centers. j. w. c. 
The Winning 
Class Car 
For several years, among leading de¬ 
signers, a new-type car has been rapidly 
evolving. It came in response to motor¬ 
ists’ demands. It began with the trend 
toward Sixes. 
The aim was to remedy crudities and 
to end all over-tax. 
That meant light weight. It meant 
economy of fuel. It meant artistic lines, 
ideal equipment. And it meant a reduc¬ 
tion in quality prices. Most late-year 
efforts among high-grade designers have 
been bent in those directions. 
Howard E. Coffin 
Started in 1910 
Four years ago, Howard E. Coffin, the 
great Hudson designer, began to develop 
this Hudson Six-40 as the ideal coming 
type. During all those years he has had 
working with him 47 other engineers. 
Part by part,detail by detail, they worked 
out their final refinements. Now this 
Hudson Six-40 for 1915 shows their fin¬ 
ished conception of the new-day car. 
They have saved about 1000 pounds in 
weight, by better materials and better 
designing. They have saved about 30 per 
cent in fuel by a new-type, small-bore 
motor. They have devised and adopted 
countless new attractions in beauty and 
comfort, in equipment and convenience. 
Their car of today represents the last 
word in modern motor car engineering. 
Last year, by efficiency, they brought the 
price down to $1750. That broke every rec¬ 
ord on a quality car. This year, with a trebled 
output, they brought it to $1550. Now, at 
this price, which once denoted a low-grade 
car, you can buy this prince of class cars. 
$3,875,000 Last Month 
Note what a welcome men have accorded 
this masterpiece of Howard E. Coffin. 
In June, when our first-year Six-40 was 
all sold out, we had 3000 unfilled orders. 
On August 1, 30 days after the new model 
appeared, we had 4000 buyers waiting. 
Yet our output had been trebled. 
In September, motorists paid for this 
Hudson Six-40 $3,875,000. We built five 
times as many cars as in September a year 
ago. Yet we could not keep up with orders. 
Now this model outsells any car in the 
world with a price above $1200. 
Thus the Hudson Six-40 has become the 
leader among all the new-type class cars. 
The verdict of buyers, as shown by sales, is 
that no rival compares with it. Men waited 
weeks for this model when other cars were 
lentiful. It has multiplied Hudson popu- 
arity five-fold inside of a single year. 
Go see this car now. Next year’s models of all makes 
are out now, and this is the time to choose. Get your 
new car for fall driving; for the best motoring months 
of the year. Your dealer will see that you get prompt 
delivery, if we have to ship by express. 
Phaeton, with two extra disappearing seats, $1550 
f. o. b. Detroit. 
Canadian price, $2100 f. o. b. Detroit, duty paid. 
Hudson dealers are everywhere. 
HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY 
8173 Jefferson Avenue, DETROIT, MICH. 
