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THE R URAI> NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—As a result of the eon- 
elusions reached by the naval board which 
investigated the sinking of the subma¬ 
rine F-4 in Honolulu harbor all the re¬ 
maining submarines of the F class will 
probably be brought to the Mare Island 
navy yard for a thorough overhauling. 
The investigating board which examined 
the wreck of the F-4 found that the lead 
plates in the batteries were badly cor¬ 
roded. It was also discovered that corro¬ 
sion had taken place in a number of steel 
plates. It is stated that the danger from 
corrosion lies in the fact that the salt wa¬ 
ter will sometimes reach the batteries 
and cause the deadly chlorine gas to be 
generated. The construction of the sub¬ 
marines of the F class was authorized 
in May, 1908, and the completed vessels 
were accepted in 1912 and 1913. 
Vilhjalmar Stefansson, the Canadian 
explorer, who was believed lost in the 
Arctic, is alive and well, and has dis¬ 
covered a new land in the North, accord¬ 
ing to word brought to Nome, Alaska, by 
the power schooner Ruby, which arrived 
Sept. 16 from Ilerschel Island. Stefans- 
son, with two companions, Storker Stor- 
kersen and Ole Anderson, set out from 
Martin Point, Alaska, March 22, 1914, 
over the frozen Polar Ocean, to search 
for supposed new lands in the Beaufort 
Sea. Captain S. F. Cottle, master of 
the Ruby, says that Stefansson is now 
in Banks Land, east of the Mackenzie, 
outfitting for continuance of the explo¬ 
rations to the westward to ascertain the 
full extent of the new land he has dis¬ 
covered southwest of Prince Patrick’s 
Island. Stefansson discovered a contin¬ 
uance of the continental shelf several de¬ 
grees west of Bank’s Land, and even de¬ 
termined its southern limits, but was un¬ 
able to continue his explorations to the 
north and west. It is the intention of 
Stefansson to establish a base on Bank’s 
Land ami continue his exploration from 
that point. The time of the return of the 
expedition cannot be foretold, as Stefans¬ 
son intends to continue until he has 
fully ascertained the limits of the new 
land he has discovered. He will also 
seek other new lands. 
A recent ruling of British prize courts 
confiscates American meat products to 
the value of $15,000,000, which were 
consigned to neutral countries. The 
packers have the right to appeal the 
cases in British courts, and no action 
will be taken by the State Department 
until the shippers have exhausted these 
legal processes. 
Revenue officers discovered a large 
plant for making “moonshine” whiskey 
on United States Senator Hoke Smith’s 
country place near Atlanta, Ga. The 
still was a large one and there were in¬ 
dications that whiskey had been made 
in the last 24 hours. No one was found 
at the still when the revenue officials 
made the raid. The moonshine plant 
was within 300 yards of Senator Smith’s 
residence and 500 ; ards from the home 
of United States District Attorney 
Hooper Alexander, who is a radical pro¬ 
hibitionist. Senator Smith signed Geor¬ 
gia’s State-wide prohibition law when he 
was Governor. 
The dreadnought North Dakota, one 
of the most powerful battleships of the 
United States navy’s “first line,” will be 
virtually useless until she is equipped 
with new engines at an expenditure of 
between $500,000 and $1,000,000. The 
statement was made at the Philadelphia 
navy yard Sept. 19. It will take possi¬ 
bly eighteen months to make the changes 
necessary. Turbine engines installed in 
this ship have proved a flat failure. 
A serious slide in the Panama Canal 
occurred Sept. 19 north of Gold Hill on 
the east bank. There has been a previous 
slide at this point, but the new move¬ 
ment is much greater. The mass almost 
entirely fills the channel, so that the 
earth shows above the water where ships 
ordinarily pass. It has not been possi¬ 
ble as yet to estimate the yardage in¬ 
volved, but it amounts to more than 100,- 
000 cubic yards. The belief is that it 
will be a week at least before vessels, 
even of "ght draught, will be able to pass 
through. 
The bodies of the twenty-one officers 
and men who went, to their deaths in the 
submarine F-4 outside of Honolulu ar¬ 
rived in port at San Francisco Sept. 20 
from Hawaii on the U. S. S. Supply. 
In her holds were eight flag-draped cof¬ 
fins. Four contained the identified bodies 
and in the others were sealed the bodies 
of the seventeen unidentified. The body 
of Machinists Mate Ivan L. Mahan is 
to be interred at Mare Island. The other 
identified bodies, those of Gunner’s Mate 
George A. Ashcroft, Machinist’s Mate 
Charles A. Wells and Electrican Frank 
N. Herzog, will be sent to relatives. The 
seventeen unidentified bodies will be 
taken to Arlington National Cemetery for 
burial. 
The Greek steamer Athinai, which 
sailed from New York Sept. 16 for Pat¬ 
ras, was lost at sea Sept. 18, when a fire 
was discovered in her hold 24 hours 
after leaving New York; it got beyond 
control, the seacocks were opened, the 
crew and passengers abandoned the ship, 
and the vessel sank. One passenger 
leaped overboard and was drowned. On 
the Anchor liner Tuscania 408 of the 
rescued were returned to New York. 
Sixty-one others, members of the crew, 
were picked up from the small lifeboats 
by the British oil tank Roumanian 
Prince. No theory as to the cause of the 
fire could be advanced by officials of the 
National Steam Navigation Company of 
Greece. 
Anthony Comstock, secretary of the 
New York Society for the Suppression 
of Vice, died at his home at Summit, N. 
J., Sept. 21, aged 71. He was a native 
of Connecticut, a veteran of the Civil 
War, and was first aroused to his life¬ 
long fight against vice by the free dis¬ 
semination of indecent literature among 
the young. In March, 1873, the so-called 
“Comstock law” was enacted by Con¬ 
gress, and Mr. Comstock became an in¬ 
spector in the postal service, In that 
place he put a stop to the dissemination 
of obscene matter through the mails, and 
also to the circulation of lottery tickets, 
fraudulent advertisements, etc. The pres¬ 
ent efficient system of . investigating and 
checking fraudulent transactions through 
the mails must be credited chiefly to him. 
Several persons were killed and many 
injured Sept. 22, when a street car 
fell into a subway excavation at Seventh 
Avenue and 24th St., New York. The 
collapse of the big timbers shoring up the 
roadway smashed the high pressure 
mains, and a flood of water poured into 
the excavation. The gas mains were 
broken also, the escaping gas hampering 
the work of rescue. Several other ve¬ 
hicles crashed down and many subway 
workmen were caught under the debris. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture has ordered every 
available cotton demonstration worker in 
Southeastern Georgia and Florida to aid 
in halting an advance of the Mexican 
boll weevil, which has brought the pest 
to the edge of the valuable sea island cot¬ 
ton territory. The wind attending the 
Galveston storm of a few weeks ago is 
held responsible for the surprising ad¬ 
vance of the weevil. 
Owing to late Spring frosts the Cape 
Cod cranberry crop promises to be 
smaller than that of last year, but the 
opening prices indicate that the growers 
will fare as well financially as when the 
output wa.i greater. They are receiving 
$6 a barrel for the fruit, against an open¬ 
ing price of $5 last year and $4.50 the 
year previous. 
An edict of the United States bureau 
of foods barring beans affected by an- 
thracnose will prove extremely costly to 
Michigan bean growers and dealers, ac¬ 
cording to James N. McBride, Michigan 
State market director. The federal au¬ 
thorities have already confiscated a large 
amount of canned beans Under the order. 
Anthracnose merely discolors the beans, 
Director McBride says, and does not af¬ 
fect their food value. Some beans merely 
evidence the disease by displaying small 
spots l’esembling iron rust. Michigan 
farmers annually raise from five to seven 
million bushels. Because of the high 
prices paid last season, an unusually large 
acreage was planted this season. Mc¬ 
Bride appealed to the State Board of 
Health to test anthracnose beans so that 
the people of the State can be informed 
as to the harmless nature of the disease. 
He thinks that such a campaign will have 
its effect in Washington and possibly 
bring about a repeal of the order. Be¬ 
cause of the wet and cold weather a large 
proportion of the bean crop is affected by 
anthracnose. If the federal edict stands, 
Michigan farmers will lose millions of 
dollars, the beans so affected cannot be 
shipped out of the State for food. In the 
October 2, 1915. 
past such beans have been canned and 
sold for food. 
Orders releasing the Pittsburgh and 
Buffalo stockyards from the foot-and- 
mouth quarantine, effective Sept. 22, were 
issued Sept. 21 by the Department of 
Agriculture. Shipments originating in 
quarantined areas, however, still are 
barred from the yards. 
Sept. 13. This is an Alfalfa section ; 
dairying, some grain and potatoes. Alfal¬ 
fa is selling at $15 per ton; cows from 
$50 to $100, good grades. Milk at this 
time is bringing $1.30 per 40-quart can. 
We have two stations here, one owned 
and run by Isaac Cohn of Brooklyn, and 
the other owned and run by a stock com¬ 
pany of farmers. We are selling Mr. 
Cohn 50 cans of milk a day at $1.50 per 
can of 40 quarts, and remainder made up 
into cheese, which is much more satis¬ 
factory than when we were selling to the 
other stations before we built our factory. 
We have received next to the top notch 
for our cheese so far; we ship to New 
York. We have the largest hay crop in 
this vicinitj than we have had in years, 
but our potatoes are about a failure; 
owing to rain and blight they are small 
and rotting badly, will be a short crop. 
Cabbage not much in this locality ; corn 
is a very good crop with us; if the frost 
holds off will have good yield of corn as 
well as fodder. Potatoes are worth from 
75 cents to $1 per bushel. Onions are 
selling at 70 cents per bushel, with pros¬ 
pects of better prices later. The fruit 
is not very plentiful in this section; 
plums are quite plenty, selling at about 
$1 per bushel according to the quality. 
Perryville, N. Y. p. b. 
Tires 20% Larger 
In Sizes 30x3 l /2 and 30x3 
30 % More Rubber at the Rim 
Here is the best piece of news we have 
ever announced to users of small-size tires. 
A few months ago we announced a big price re¬ 
duction. It will save Goodyear users some five 
million dollars this year. It brought our total reduc¬ 
tion in two years up to 45 per cent. 
But here is something better still. We have held 
the announcement until every Goodyear dealer was 
supplied with the new-type tires. 
Three More Extras 
This year we built new molds for Goodyear small- 
size tires. Our experts found a new design which 
increased the tire’s endurance. 
In making these new molds we increased the air 
capacity of these small-size tires by an average of 20 
per cent. That means extra mileage—Just as a 4/^- 
inch tire gives more than a 4-inch 
on the same car. 
And we added 30 per centto the 
side-wall rubber, at the rim. That’s 
where constant flexing and chafing 
break so many thin-walled tires. 
These new extras cost us 
$317,000 on this year’s small-tire 
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output. They will save our users, beyond doubt, at 
least ten times that much. 
No Question Now 
Note that these bettered tires are Goodyears, the 
dominant tires of the world. For years, because of 
super-merit, they have outsold any other. 
Even size 30x3 has long been a four-ply tire. 
And the All-Weather tread, since its adoption, has 
been made double-thick. 
Now we enlarge these tires by 20 per cent. 
We give you an improved design. The side-walls 
are made 30 per cent heavier at the vital point. 
And our prices this year were immensely reduced. 
Now there can be no reasonable question about 
Goodyear superiority. If you have such a question, 
make a comparison. You owe that to yourself. 
The added mileage will vary. Mishap and mis¬ 
use, the roads and the loads affect 
it. But it must, on the average, 
vastly excel smaller and thinner 
tires. You know that. 
OOD YEAR 
AKRON. OHIO 
TIRES 
$317,000 in Extras 
Every neighborhood has a Good¬ 
year Service Station with your size 
in stock, which renders full Good¬ 
year service. Look it up. 
THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO 
Makers of Goodyear “Tire Saver” Accessories; also Goodyear “Wing” Carriage Tires and Other Types 
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