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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Feb. 2 a gas explosion 
in a tenement in Chicago’s crowded West 
Side caused the death of 25 persons, and 
injuries to many more. Much suffering 
resulted from exposure in thin garments 
to a temperature below zero. 
There was a run on the naturalization 
bureaus, both State and Federal, in New 
York, Feb. 5, drawn mainly from Ger¬ 
mans and Austrians who wished to take 
out their first papers and thereby escape 
being placed in a detention camp in the 
event of war. At the County Clerk’s 
office it was estimated that about 140 
men announced their intentions to be¬ 
come citizens, as against a normal 50 a 
day. About lOO received their papers. A 
great increase in naturalization was re¬ 
ported from Chicago. 
The Saxon motor plant at Detroit, 
Mich., burned to the ground Feb. 3. The 
loss was $200,000, and 2,000 men are 
thrown out of work: 
Seven persons were killed and 52 in¬ 
jured, 12 dangerously, when Burlington 
Train No. 12, eastbound, struck a broken 
rail at Cromwell station, six miles from 
Creston, la., Feb. 2. The engine, mail, 
baggage and smoking cars - remained on 
the track, but six steel coaches and Pull¬ 
mans went down a 40-foot embankment 
into the ditch. 
Both Oregon and Idaho have killed 
anti-alien land hills under consideration, 
which were considered as embarrassing 
to friendly relations with Japan. 
Two men are under arrest as the result 
of a fire which wiped out the plant of the 
Brewster Cocoa Manufacturing Company, 
Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 6, entailing a 
loss of $600,000. The .Jersey City police 
are suspicious because it was the second 
fire in the plant within a few hours. The 
first fire caused little damage. 
It is reported from Washington that 
none of the 91 vessels belonging to Teu¬ 
tonic nations now interned in American 
ports will be seized by.the Government of 
the United States in case of further diffi¬ 
culties between the nations. There have 
been many sensational reports of injury 
to these vessels by the crews, in antici¬ 
pation of seizure. 
The plant of the Standard Garment 
Company, Columhia, Pa., was entii'ely 
destroyed by fire Feb. 7, at an estimated 
loss of $100,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual 
Eastern meeting of the New York State 
Fruit Growers’ Association will he held 
at Poughkeepsie, Feb. 21-23. The pro¬ 
gram includes an address by Dr. Van 
Slyke, of the State Experiment Station 
on “Fertilizers,” and one on “Humus in 
the Soil,” by Edward VanAlstyne. An¬ 
other session will be filled with a discus¬ 
sion of the apple packing law. Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture Wilson an^i others 
will give addresses on this subject. Prof. 
H. II. Whetzel, of Cornell College of Ag¬ 
riculture, will give two addresses, one on 
“Dusting,” and one on “Pear Blight.” 
Prof. W. H. Chandler, of Cornell, will 
talk on “Pi-uning.” Mrs. D. C. Noble, of 
Middlebury, Vt., will talk on “Our Insect 
Friends and Foes and Plow to Know 
Them.” Prof. Stewart, of the State Ex¬ 
periment Station, will talk about the blis¬ 
ter rust of currants. 
It is stated that Dean A. F. Woods of 
the Department of Agriculture of the 
University of Minnesota will accept the 
presidency of the Maryland State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture. No change will be 
made at either the University of Minne¬ 
sota or the Maryland college until the 
end of this school year. 
WASHINGTON.—The Senate Feb. 3 
passed a bill appropriating $150,000 to 
pay claims of letter carriers in Southern 
States for carrying the mails 53 years 
ago. There are more than a thousand 
claimants scattered over the States of 
Virginia, North and South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, 
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, 
Louisiana and Texas. A provision was 
appended to the hill limiting the compen¬ 
sation for the claim lawyers to 20 per 
cent, of the claims. 
The long struggle in Congress to im¬ 
pose a “literacy test” for the exclusion of 
immigrants, dating back to the Cleveland 
Administration, finally won, Feb. 5, when 
the Senate, following the same action by 
the House, passed the immigration bill 
over the President’s veto hy a vote of 62 
to 19. 
Senator William Hughes of New .Jersey 
called up in the Senate, Feb. 6, and had 
passed, after a brief explanation of its 
provisions, the bill which he urged upon 
the Senate Committee on Judiciary to 
punish threats against the President. The 
bill, which has passed the House and now 
goes direct to the President for his sig¬ 
nature, provides that “any person who 
knowingly and wilfully deposits or causes 
to he deposited for conveyance in the mail 
or for deliveiT from any post office or by 
any letter carrier any letter, paper, writ¬ 
ing, print, missive or document contain¬ 
ing any threat to take the life or to inflict 
bodily harm upon the President of the 
United States or who knowingly or wil¬ 
fully^ makes any such threat against the 
President shall upon conviction be fined 
not exceeding $1,000, or imprisonment 
not exceeding five years, or both.” 
Nearly $15,000,000 was added to the 
navy bill in amendments offered, Feb. 6, 
as an earnest of the intention of Con¬ 
fess to back up President Wilson to the 
limit in his stand for American rights. 
The amendments adopted by the House in 
committee of the whole represent every¬ 
thing the Navy Department has ask d in 
the way of emergency appropriations in 
so far as items reported in the bill are 
concerned. The army, on the other 
hand, got nothing in the way of an emer¬ 
gency appropriation, but, on the con¬ 
trary, the $,320,000,000 estimate of the 
Secretary of War was cut to $247,061,- 
108, or $20,500,000 less than the appro¬ 
priation hill for the current year. Feb. S 
the House voted the President a lump 
sum of $150,000,000 for the purchase and 
equipment of submarines, destroyers and 
merchant protectors. 
Distinguished Jerseymen 
At the recent State meeting at Tren¬ 
ton an Alfalfa Association was formed 
with the following committee: Col. W. 
F, Whittamore, of Sussex County; Fred 
Lippincott, Burlington; Wm. H. Reid. 
Monmouth; H. M. Loveland, Salem, and 
J. M. Evans, Middlesex. Also a Dairy¬ 
men’s Association with the following: 
W. W. Titsworth, of Sussex County; 
Daniel Y. Lewis, Bergen; F. T. Torbett, 
Passaic; John W. Hendrickson, Mercer; 
John V. Bishop, Burlington; W. W. 
Shute, Cumberland, and William Hackett, 
Salem. The committee appointed .John 
W. Bartlett, extension specialist in dairy¬ 
ing of the New .Tersey State Agricultural 
College, to act as secretary. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Farmers’ Week, Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 12-17. 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ 
Association, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 13-15. 
Michigan State Horticultural Society, 
midwinter meeting, Benton Harbor, 
Mich., Feb. 20-21. 
i" w York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual Eastern meeting, Pough¬ 
keepsie, Feb. 21-23. 
American .Jersey Cattle Club, New 
York City, May 2. 
Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica, Worcester, Mass., June 6. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
foi’ty-second annual meeting, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., June 27-29. 
Florida is a sorry sight this morning 
(Feb. 2). We have had Summer weather 
for weeks and last night the thermome¬ 
ter went down to 20 degrees. All vege¬ 
table crops are killed, the citrus fruit are 
ruined for this year, and possibly next, 
and no doubt many trees are killed. A 
freeze in midsummer in New York would 
not do more damage than was done in 
Florida last night. It is a hard blow for 
the farmers and fruit growers in this 
State, few of whom are prosperoujs. 
Farming is gambling pure and simple, 
the weather being the great element of 
chance down here. xj. p. H. 
Lake Co., Fla. 
The county jailer, although a well 
meaning man, is illiterate and spelling is 
a trifle difficult for him. One day last 
Spring, pencil and paper in hand, he went 
through the jail to get suggestions from 
the inmates* as to changes in the dietary. 
“We would like to have some rhubarb,” 
suggested one prisoner. “You may have 
it,” replied the jailer, who then com¬ 
menced trying to record the request. He 
began “ru,” hastily abandoned that for 
“reu,” and then put “I’oo” and “rheu” 
successively. Thoroughly exasperated at 
last he fiercely exclaimed: “Rhubarb be 
hanged ! You’ll get cabbage.”—Louisville 
Post. 
F. o. b. 
Racine 
$1150 
For Mitchell Junior—120-inch 
Wheelbase 
Racine 
$1460 
For 7-Pass. Mitchell—127-inch 
Wheelbase 
Now Also An $1150 Model 
With Nearly All the Mitchell Extras 
A Doubled Output to Meet a New Demand 
Thousands of men have wanted a 
car with all the Mitchell extra fea¬ 
tures. But they did not want a car 
so big and impressive. They did not 
want a 7-passenger car. 
We have built for them the Mitchell 
Junior—a Mitchell Six in little smaller 
size. Its 40 horsepower is ample for 
five passengers. Its 120-inch wheel¬ 
base gives plenty of room for five— 
more than most makers give. 
The $1150 price gives all of the sav¬ 
ing to the man who doesn’t want 
extra power and size. 
Last year we sent out thousands of 
these cars before announcing this 
new model. And Mitchell Junior 
has proved itself as perfect as the 
larger Mitchell. So we have more 
than doubled our factory capacity, to 
build as many Mitchell Juniors as we 
build of the 7-passenger Mitchells. 
Hundreds of Extras 
Both of the Mitchells embody hun¬ 
dreds of extras, paid for by factory 
savings. They give you at least 20 
per cent extra value over other cars 
in their class. All because John W. 
Bate, the g^eat efficiency expert, has 
cut our factory costs in two. 
There are 31 extra features—things 
which other cars omit. On this year’s 
output these extras alone will cost us 
about $4,000,000. 
There is much added luxury. We 
have added 24 per cent to the cost of 
finish, upholstery and trimming. 
That is all paid for by savings made 
this year in our new body plant. 
And there is now 100 per cent over¬ 
strength in_every vital part. That is, 
every part is twice as strong as need 
be. The evidence is that this double 
strength makes the Mitchell a life¬ 
time car. 
Twice as Strong 
The Mitchell standard for many 
years has been 50 per cent over¬ 
strength. Under that standard Mitch¬ 
ell cars have proved marvels of en¬ 
durance. 
Two Mitchells that we know of 
already have exceeded 200,000 miles 
each. Seven of them have averaged 
175,000 miles each—over 30 years of 
ordinary service. 
But in 1913 Mr. Bate spent a year 
in Europe. When he came back he 
started out to double our margins of 
safety—to more than match the high¬ 
est European standards. 
It has taken years to do this. But 
we announce this year this double 
strength in every vital part. 
Over 440 parts are built of tough¬ 
ened steel. All parts which get a 
major strain are built of Chrome- 
Vanadium. We use steel alloys which 
TWO SIZES 
lVfi'f'r‘hf‘11 roomy, 7-pas.sen- 
ger Six, with 127-inch 
wheelbase. A high-speed,economical, 
48-horsepower motor. Disappearing 
extra seats and 31 extra features in¬ 
cluded. 
Price S1460, f. o. b. Racine 
Mitchell Junior on 
similar lines with 120-inch wheelbase. 
A 40 - horsepower motor — K-inch 
smaller bore than larger Mitchell. 
Price Sll50, f. o. b. Racine 
Also all styles of enclosed and 
convertible bodies. Also 
demountable tops. 
cost US up to 15 cents per pound. And 
all the parts on which safety depends 
are made oversize. 
One result shows in the Bate canti¬ 
lever springs. We have used them 
for two years, on thousands of cars. 
And not one spring has broken. 
That one fact will illustrate what 
this extra strength means in every 
vital part. For you know how springs 
break under shock. 
Exclusive Values 
These extra values are exclusive to 
Mitchell cars. No other factory in 
the world could include them at the 
Mitchell price. 
This model plant, covering 45 acres, 
was built and equipped by John W. 
Bate. Every machine is adapted to 
build this one type economically. 
The methods employed here have cut 
our factory cost in two. 
That is what pays for these extras. 
That is what pays for this vast over¬ 
strength. 
Now a new body plant—building all 
Mitchell bodies—saves us a vast sum 
more. That goes into luxury—into 
heat-fixed finish, into rare-grade 
leather, into countless dainty details. 
The latest Mitchells are the hand¬ 
somest cars under $2000. 
Go see these extras, which are num¬ 
bered by the hundreds. See what 
they mean in a car. You will not 
want a fine car which lacks them. 
There are Mitchell dealers every¬ 
where. If you don’t know the near¬ 
est, ask us for his name. 
MITCHELL MOTORS COMPANY, Inc. 
Racine, Wis., U. S. A. 
