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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 7, 1924 
The Switchboard Comes to Life 
Zero hour approaches. Wire chief and assistants are set 
for the “cut-over” that will bring a new central office into 
being. 
In the room above operators sit at the new switchboard. 
Two years this equipment has been building. It embodies the 
developments of hundreds of engineers and incorporates the 
scientific research of several decades. Now it is ready, tested 
in its parts but unused as an implement of service. 
In the terminal room men stand in line before frames of 
myriad wires, the connections broken by tiny insulators. 
Midnight comes. A handkerchief is waved. The insulators 
are ripped from the frames. In a second the new switchboard 
becomes a thing alive. Without their knowledge thousands 
of subscribers are transferred from the old switchboard to the 
new. Even a chance conversation begun through the old 
board is continued without interruption through the new. 
The new exchange provides for further growth. 
This cut-over of a switchboard is but one example, one of 
many engineering achievements that have made possible a 
wider and prompter use of the telephone. 
To-day, in maintaining a national telephone service, the 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, through its 
engineering and research departments, continuously makes 
available for its Associated Companies improvements in 
apparatus and in methods of operation. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
BELL SYSTEM 
One Policy, One System, Universal Service • 
Doylestown Agricultural Company 
ESTABLISHED 1851 DOYLESTOWN, PA. 
Doylestown Undershot Thresher No. 5 
Built especially for use with small trac¬ 
tors, such as Fordson, Samson, McCor* 
mick-Deering, etc. 
Light, simple, durable and efficient ! 
The result of 73 years of careful and 
practical development. 
A size to fit every need—from 4 H. P, 
engine to tractor size. 
Write at once for catalogue and prices, 
stating what kind of a THRESHER you 
are interested in ! 
CERtifTO seed 
vy ^POTATO SPRAYERS ^ V 
TRACTION POWER GASOLINE POWER 
made by FRIEND' MFC. Co. casport.ny. 
YOU'LL ALWAYS BE CLAD YOU BOUC11TA'TRIEND" 
USEFUL FARM BOOKS 
Fertilizers and Crop, Van Slyke. . • .$3.25 
American Apple Orchard, Waugh.. 1.75 
American Peach Orchard. Waugh.. 1.75 
Hook of Cheese, Thom and Fisk... . 2.40 
Butter Making, Publow.90 
Commercial Poultry, Roberts. 3.00 
Edmonds’ Poultry Account Book... 1.00 
Intensive Strawb’ry Culture, Graton. 1.00 
Manual of Milk Products, Stocking. 2.75 
Milk Testing, Publow. -90 
Pruning Manual Bailey.• • 
Successful Fruit Culture, Maynard, l.io 
Turkey Book, Lamon. 1*J® 
Vegetable Forcing, Watts. - 
Vegetable Garden, Watts. 2.50 
For sale by 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St. New York City 
OVERALLS direct from FACTORY, *138 
Write for special prices now. \ 
Service Overalls are the Guar- \ 
I anteed overalls. Guaranteed 
1 rip proof. Guaranteed strong 
stitches. Guaranteed fast color 
denims. Guaranteed to with¬ 
stand hardest use. Guaranteed 
satisfaction or money back. Buy direct from 
r actory. Somebody has to. Do it yourself. 
Mention waist and leg inseam measurements 
for overalls and chest size for jackets. Order 
today. We prepay postage. 
o. 578—Heavy 
weight White 
[Jack Blue 
Denim Bib 
Dveralls. Two 
5eam legs, all 
teams double 
ititched, six 
>ockets. Elastic 
ailroad suspen- 
lers. Sizes 32 to 
14. $1.38. 
lo. 679 — Same as 
No. 578 except has 
attached high back 
Buspenders. Made 
of heavy weight 
White Back Blue 
Denims. Sizes 32 to 
44. $1.38 
union MADE 
No. 680- 
Heavy 
weight white 
back Blue 
Denim Jack¬ 
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overalls 678 
and 679. Four 
large outside 
pockets. Sizes 86 
to 44. $1.38. 
KOHN 
Mfg. Co. 
34 Kennedy St. 
Bradford, Pa. 
Write for book 
General Farm Topics 
A Pennsylvania Potato Warehouse 
The picture shows a potato warehouse 
situated on North Main St., Couderepoi-t, 
Pa., the property of the Potter County 
Potato Growers’ Association. This build¬ 
ing was erected two years ago and is 100 
ft. long and 90 ft. wide, built of brick 
tile, and equipped with machines for sort¬ 
ing potatoes, hoisting, and loading from 
the basement into the car. There is stor¬ 
age room for 75,000 bushels of potatoes. 
This association makee a specialty of 
raising certified seed potatoes, and during 
the month of April and a part of May 
ships an average of about a car a day 
from this plant. L. o. A. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Reaching the total of 
$508,000,000. fire losses in the United 
States last year were higher than at any 
time since the San Francisco earth¬ 
quake of 1900, according to statistics 
made public May 22 at the annual meet¬ 
ing of the National Board of Fire Under¬ 
writers in the Hotel Waldorf, New 
York. Despite this, President A. Smith 
announced, average rates had declined 
from $1.08 per $100 in 1914 to $0.90 in 
1928. Three-quarters of the fires origi¬ 
nated in preventable causes, he continued. 
The cost of fire insurance, he said, should 
Police reported that part of the loot was 
found in an express company stable at 
85 Congress St., a few blocks away. 
Two men were killed and seven injured 
as a result of a head-on collision of two 
automobiles May 25 at Queens Boule¬ 
vard and Thornton St., Forest Hills. New 
York. Frank Darenne, 28, of 57 Fifth 
St., Dong Island City, driver of one of 
the automobiles, was killed instantly. 
Joseph Belliani, 22, of Dong Island City, 
riding in Larenne’s car, died in St. 
John’s Hospital. Dong Island City. 
Fire in the Mills Hotel, Newark, N. 
J.. May 27. caused the death of six men. 
May 27 tornadoes in Alabama and 
Mississippi caused the death of 81 per¬ 
sons, injured 67 others, and resulted in 
heavy property loss. 
WASHINGTON.—May 21 a motion 
to report Ford's Muscle Shoals lease bill 
out was defeated in the Senate Agricul¬ 
tural Committee. 
The Senate in executive session May 
22 confirmed the nomination of D. J. Pet- 
tijohn, of Kansas; Elmer S. Dandes of 
Ohio; M. D. Corey of Nebraska, and E. 
E. Jones of Pennsylvania, to he mem¬ 
bers of the Federal Farm Doan Board. 
The confirmation came after several days 
of heated opposition to the appointments. 
President Coolidge signed the Immigra¬ 
tion Bill. May 26, including the Japa¬ 
nese exclusion policy which he deplores 
and which he frankly stated he would 
have vetoed had it stood alone. 
Duplicating the action of the Senate, 
the House of Representatives overwhelm¬ 
ingly approved the conference report on 
Coudcrsport, Pa., Potato Warehouse 
be placed upon those who permit fires to 
start. 
Sending up a cloud of smoke that cov¬ 
ered the Greenpoint and Williamsburg 
sections of Brooklyn for half a mile, fire 
May 22 practically destroyed the four- 
story plant of the William Black Cigar 
Box and Dumber Company on Norman 
Ave., between Morgan Ave. and Sutton 
St. Damage was estimated at $100,000. 
Employes of the Standard Oil Company 
plant directly opposite succeeded in drain¬ 
ing all oil from tanks nearest the fire be¬ 
fore firemen, directed by Deputy Chief 
John F. O’Hara, who answered the third 
alarm, managed to bring the blaze under 
control. 
Robert David Kercheval was sentenced 
May 2D at Texarkana, Tex., to three years 
in the Federal penitentiary and was fined 
$600 when he pleaded guilty to a charge 
of fraudulent use of the mails in oil field 
promotions. Kercheval was arrested in 
New York after he had forfeited a bond 
of $5,000 for failure to appear Feb. 18 
for preliminary hearing. 
May 24, four men were killed and 10 
injured when a temporary structure col¬ 
lapsed when they were at work 50 ft. 
below the street level on the foundation 
of a building to be erected at 127-129 
West 46th St., a short distance east of 
Times Square, New York City. Over 
the heads of the 40 workmen in the ex¬ 
cavation were 50 ft. of timbering that 
supported a platform where scores of 
tons of gravel aud concrete were mixed. 
Near the workmen dynamite explosions 
from time to time loosened the bedrock 
and shook the mass overhead, the weight 
of which had been increased by many tons 
by the rain. It is believed that the shor¬ 
ing was injured or weakened by the blast¬ 
ing. 
After trussing up two watchmen, a 
gang of eight hold-up men, led by a man 
in the uniform of a city policeman, sit 
one o’clock in the afternoon, May 25, 
looted the depot and storage warehouse 
of the L T nited Cigar Stores Company. 82 
89th St.. Brooklyn, of merchandise valued 
by a representative of the firm at more 
than $250,000, and hauled it away in 
four of the company’s biggest motor 
•trucks. Two of the trucks, one loaded 
with cigarettes and tobacco, the other 
empty, were found, abandoned, by police 
at Columbia and Amity Sts., Brooklyn. 
the Tax Reduction Bill May 26 and with¬ 
in an hour thereafter the bill was at the 
White House, awaiting the action of 
President Coolidge. The report was ap¬ 
proved by 876 to 9. Some who voted 
for it announced they would sustain a 
veto. The composite character of the 
bill was indicated by the fact that of 
those who voted for it 187 were Demo¬ 
crats and 186 Republicans, with three 
scattering votes. All the opponents were 
Republicans. 
With only three dissenting votes, the 
Senate passed the $60,000,000 Postal Sal¬ 
ary Increase Bill May 27, 73 to 3. It 
now goes to the House. The Borah 
rider, requiring publication every 10 days 
during campaigns of amounts received 
and the names of contributors and limit¬ 
ing to $5,000 individual contributions, 
seems assured of passage in the House. 
The bill gives 800.000 postal employes an 
average of $200 more a year. Increases 
include: Clerks and carriers, $1,700 to 
$2.100; special clerks in first and second 
class offices. $2,200 to $2,300; watchmen, 
laborers and messengers $1,450 to $1.- 
550; railway mail service clerks, $1,900 
to $2.700; supervisory officers, $2,800 to 
$4,500. 
FARM AND GARDEN—An appro¬ 
priation of $11,294 to permit the Bureau 
of Plant Industry to conduct bulb inves¬ 
tigations has been included in the agri¬ 
cultural appropriation hill by the Sen¬ 
ate Appropriations Committee through 
the efforts of Rep. C. D. Abernethy of 
North Carolina. The bill as reported by 
the Senate Appropriations Committee 
carries total appropriations of $60,954.- 
633, $4,370,890 more than as passed by 
the House, and $3,724,808 more than the 
estimates submitted by the department. 
The Federal Horticultural Board has 
now extended the plant quarantine to 
cut flowers which might be propagated 
from the cut stems. 
Germany has begun guarding her 
frontiers against a possible invasion of 
the American potato bug. which is re¬ 
ported to be overrunning parts of France. 
The pest is said to have been introduced 
into France in the region of Bordeaux by 
the American Expeditionary Forces dur¬ 
ing the war. As a preventive measure 
the German government has prohibited 
importation of potato, tomato, and similar 
plants. 
