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.THB RUF4.A.L NEW-YOHKER 
March 27, 
THE SAFEST WAY TO BUY 
A USED MOTOR CAR IS TO 
CONSULT THE 
IDatfearb 
USED CAR DEPARTMENT FIRST 
USED car is a good investment when 
it is bought at the right price and in 
good condition. Our Used Car De¬ 
partment sells used cars of practically 
every make—always at the right price—in 
other words at what they are really worth. 
Remember, we sell used cars to pave the 
way for the sale of new Packards—not for profit. 
These used cars are generally in exception¬ 
ally good condition, because the Packard cus¬ 
tomers for whom we sell them are people who 
have the means and disposition to give their 
cars proper care. It costs no more to buy 
safety of us than it does to gamble. 
Write to any of the following addresses 
for an up-to-date list of good “buys” 
—both used Packards and other cars. 
PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY 
OF NEW YORK 
1863 Broadway, New York 362 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn 
1108 Broad St., Newark, N. J. 296 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn. 
1227 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. 834 State St., Springfield, Mass. 
1317 Peach Street, Erie, Pa. 
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NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
ATTLE TUBERCULOSIS BILL.— 
The Wilson-Gillett bill, which makes 
important amendments to the agri¬ 
cultural law, had a hearing last week be¬ 
fore the Senate and Assembly committees 
on agriculture. The bill provides for the 
compulsory examination of all dairy ani¬ 
mals within two years, and as there are 
1,500,000 cattle in the State, it will be 
divided into districts with veterinarians 
at the head of each district. A State in¬ 
spection of all slaughtering places is also 
provided for. Another sweeping provis¬ 
ion of the bill compels the pasteurization 
of all skim-milk and whey from cheese 
factories which is used for animal food. 
The danger of infection from this source 
is said to be a great. The bill was drawn 
by Hon. Seth Low of New York, who is 
chairman of the committee appointed by 
Gov. Glynn last year to investigate tin- 
problem of bovine tuberculosis. 
Prospects for Peaches.— Experienced 
peach growers in the western part of the 
State are of the opinion that the peach 
crop this season will be a large one, judg¬ 
ing from the appearance of the buds and 
from the fact that there was a very small 
crop last year. The 1914 crop was tallied 
by baskets instead of by carloads. Ironde- 
quoit and Greece are in the centre of a 
large producing region and one of the 
growers there says that on his orchards 
<»f 70 acres he expects 50.000 baskets this 
year; last year he had 300. Another 
picked 18.000 baskets in 1913 and ex¬ 
pects a still larger output this year. Still 
another who has peach trees covering 
225 acres thinks the prospects are too 
good, and that if half the fruit buds 
should die it would be better for the 
grower. 
The Road Funds. —The Legislature 
will ask the constitutional convention to 
provide for further funds for good roads, 
beyond the $50,000,000 bond issue au¬ 
thorized, in order to complete the State 
and county highways. The amount re¬ 
quired by the county'roads is $08,000,000, 
but the total funds available amount to 
$43,332,000, and for the State highways 
there is a deficit of $7,676,000 in 34 
counties. 
State and National Grange.— It is 
generally believed that the 1916 session 
of the National Grange will be held in 
this State, this year’s being held in Oak¬ 
land, Cal. As next year will be the 50th 
anniversary of the organization of the 
Order, and as Fredonia Grange was the 
first subordinate Grange to be organized 
in the United States, the Chautauqua 
Pomona at its meeting last week set the 
ball rolling to get (he State Grange meet¬ 
ing in February, 1916 and then it will 
be proposed that one day’s session of the 
National Grange the following Fall be 
held with Fredonia Grange. 
The Cattle Plague. —The foot and 
mouth disease is a good way from being 
annihilated iu this State. From the vi¬ 
cinity of Syracuse the disease jumped to 
Utica, and at the same time there was 
an outbreak in Westchester county, near 
the New York city line. The epidemic 
seems to be well in hand just now in 
Onondaga county. Up to the beginning 
of this week there had been 514 head of 
cattle and 100 swine killed or that have 
died from the disease. The causes of 
the outbreaks iu these several localities 
are attributed to birds and to tramps— 
a curious combination of germ carriers. 
The danger from tramps lies in the fact 
that they sleep a night in a barn and 
then go on to another, and carry with 
them the possibilities of disease. The 
tramps in Westchester were ordered 
rounded up, and men got busy with shot 
guns, not to annihilate tramps, but to 
destroy birds and offending beasts. It is 
said that on two farms in Westchester 
county 200 head of cattle will have to be 
killed. J. w. D. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Gov. Whitman of New 
York signed the bill repealing the 
anti-alien labor law, March 11. The 
act takes effect immediately, so that the 
large number of alien laborers laid off in 
the New York subway work when the 
Court of Appeals declared the law consti¬ 
tutional can be put back to work im¬ 
mediately. The signing of the repeal bill 
relieves a labor situation with regard to 
public work, which, it was declared, was 
becoming more grave every day. The 
State Commissioner of Highways had de¬ 
clared that highway work could not even 
be begun if the law was not repealed 
shortly. 
Four little boys, the only children iu 
I two families, were playing marbles on 
the sidewalk in front of the Crews-Levick 
Oil Company, Montauk and Atlantic ave¬ 
nues, Brooklyn, N. Y., March 13, when 
an explosion which burst two steel gaso¬ 
line tanks filled with 2,200 gallons of the 
volatile oil wrecked the building. The 
playmates were killed instantly, crushed 
beneath the wreckage of the shattered 
cement and brick building. The manager 
of the plant, who had rushed into the 
two-story storehouse to shut off the over¬ 
flowing gasoline tanks, also was killed, 
his body being burned to an unrecogniza¬ 
ble shape in tho fire which followed. More 
than a score of persons were injured and 
windows within a -radius of half a mile 
were shattered. 
Lincoln Beachey, the aviator, was 
killed at San Francisco, March 14, when 
the new German Taube in which he had 
hoped to demonstrate his complete 
mastery of the air folded its wings and 
plunged from a height of 2,000 feet into 
the waters of the bay, before 50,000 
persons who had witnessed his flight 
from the Marina in front of the Palace 
of Mines at the exposition. In looping 
the loop a few minutes before Beachey 
was evidently in complete control of the 
machine and also as lie made the upside 
down flight. It was when he attempted 
to straighten .out after a perpendicular 
dive that the wings of the new mono¬ 
plane failed him. Beachey had often 
dipped from as great height in his bi¬ 
plane, but the double wings had with¬ 
stood the tremendous pressure. 
The Missouri House of Representatives 
passed. March 15, the honest advertising 
bill. It has been engrossed in the Senate 
without opposition and is certain of final 
passage. The bill provides that any firm 
or corporation which with intent to sell 
merchandise, securities or service to the 
public publishes in any way an advertise¬ 
ment which contains any representation 
which is untrue, deceptive or misleading, 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
upon conviction subject to a fine or im¬ 
prisonment in the county jail. The pro¬ 
visions of the bill do not apply to pro¬ 
prietors or publishers who print such ad¬ 
vertisements without the knowledge of 
the unlawful or untruthful nature of such 
advertisements. 
Walter Filley, Connecticut State 
Forester, said, March 13, that 120 forest 
fires were raging in Connecticut, due to 
the drought. For six weeks almost no 
rain has fallen, and the ground is dryer 
than in many years. The largest fire re¬ 
ported was in East Lyme, where 500 
acres have been burned over. Several 
other fires have consumed 100 acres each. 
Every section of the State is affected. 
An unusually large number of prosecu¬ 
tions for setting fires have been started. 
Convicted of conspiracy to violate the 
pure food law by the sale of rotten eggs 
for food purposes, seven egg dealers from 
Jersey City and Newark were sentenced 
to prison terms by Judge Rellstab in the 
United States District Court at Trenton. 
N. J., March 15. The case is the first 
tried under the conspiracy clause of the 
Federal statute which provides a prison 
term for violating the pure food law. 
Morris Sladkus, Hyman Lewis, Bern- 
hard Edelberg and Samuel Edelberg wen- 
sentenced to one year and one day in the 
New Jersey State prison; Herman 
Zwicker and Harry Lewites to six 
months in the Essex and Hudson peni¬ 
tentiaries and Schier Weisman to three 
months. 
Frank Stiles, an aviator employed by 
the Universal Film Company, lost con¬ 
trol of his biplane, March 16, and 
plunged 150 feet to his death. The acci¬ 
dent occurred at Los Angeles, Cal., dur¬ 
ing the making of a motion picture of a 
supposed battle in the air between two 
aeroplanes. Apparently a premature ex¬ 
plosion of a bomb in an anchored aero¬ 
plane just as Stiles flew over it caused 
his machine to somersault earthward. 
Express companies representing 92 per 
cent of the mileage of the country and 
doing 95 per cent, of the business ap¬ 
pealed to the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission, March 16, to reopen the express 
rate case. They seek to present testi¬ 
mony to show that the rates prescribed 
by the commission have proved “dis¬ 
astrous” and that unless the commission 
changes its order the companies will be 
obliged to go out of business. The peti¬ 
tioners are the Adams Express Company, 
the American Express Company, the 
Southern Express Company and Wells 
Fargo & Co. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Indictments 
based on alleged violations of the anti¬ 
trust law were announced at Boston. 
Mass., recently, against five members and 
agents of the Aroostook Potato Shippers’ 
Association. The indictment charges that 
the defendants conspired to restrain 
interstate trade in Maine grown potatoes 
by black-listing receivers of potatoes in 
Massachusetts, who would not agree to 
do business according to the methods of 
the association’s listing company. 
Forestry is receiving much attention 
in China, as the country generally is 
suffering from lack of tree growth. A 
very practical movement in this direction 
is being conducted by the Nanking Uni 
versify under the direction of Prof. Jo¬ 
seph Bailie, an American citizen, and si 
School of Forestry in the University of 
Nanking has been established. 
An appropriation of $150 for the pur¬ 
chase of purebred seeds to be distributed 
among the pupils of the Douglass County, 
Wis., rural schools was authorized at 
the meeting of the Douglas County De¬ 
velopment Association in February. 
A quarantine against seed potatoes 
from certain infected areas in Maine and 
New York has been declared by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. The quarantine 
took effect from March 3. It was stated 
that the powdery scab had been dis¬ 
covered in the potatoes grown in .Aroo¬ 
stook County, Maine, and that to date 
there is no practical system of inspec¬ 
tion which will detect the presence of 
the disease on the field. On this account 
the Department lias been compelled to 
refuse hereafter to certify seed potatoes 
from the known areas of infection in 
Maine and New York. The Department 
will hereafter certify for shipment only 
table stock potatoes from these districts. 
The embargo on a part of the Chicago 
stockyards because of the foot and mouth 
disease was lifted March 16, and as a 
result the shipping to Eastern points of 
cattle for slaughter was resumed. 
