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June  9,  1923 
In  the  Public 
THE  first  link  in  the  New  York  Central 
Lines  was  the  sixteen-mile  pioneer  road 
from  Albany  to  Schenectady,  opened  in  1831. 
The  New  York  Central  system  now  comprises 
12,000  miles  of  lines  serving  eleven  of  the  lead¬ 
ing  industrial  and  agricultural  states  of  the 
Union. 
These  lines  carry  one-ninth  of  the  rail-borne 
commerce  of  the  country,  including  more  than  a 
million  carloads  a  year  of  agricultural  products. 
They  pay  $30,000,000  a  year  in  taxes  —  four 
dollars  in  taxes  for  every  three  in  dividends. 
They  are  owned  by  120,000  investors. 
They  are  operated  by  162,000  men  and  wom¬ 
en,  of  whom  12,000  have  been  in  the  service 
more  than  30  years. 
New  York  Central  Lines  maintain  high  stand¬ 
ards  of  public  service,  and  are  constantly  striving 
to  make  this  service  the  best  in  American  rail¬ 
roading. 
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NEW  YORK  CENTRAL  LINES 
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AND  THE  NEW  YORK  CENTRAL  AND  SUBSIDIARY  LINES 
Qeneral  Offices  —  466  Lexington  Ave.,  New  York 
Service 
USED  FROM  OCEAN  TO  OCEAN  FOR  35  YEARS. 
Sold  by  Seed  Dealers  of  America. 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.— May  25,  fire  at  the  F. 
B.  Rae  Oil  Works,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  de¬ 
stroyed  500.000  gallons  of  oil  with  heavy 
loss. 
Major  Thomas  Duncan,  of  the  army 
air  service,  and  Irving  II.  Kroupp, 
civilian,  were  killed  May  25  when  an 
airplane  in  which  they  were  flying  in  the 
vicinity  of  Bolling  Field,  Washington, 
suddenly  crashed  and  burst  into  flame. 
The  plane  dropped  from  the  air  and  burst 
into  flames  as  it  hit  the  ground.  Both 
men  were  burned  to  death  before  they 
could  be  extricated  from  the  wreckage. 
Both  were  residents  of  Washington. 
An  airplane  line  to  carry  express  pack¬ 
ages  operating  between  New  York  and 
Chicago  is  being  advocated  by  R.  E.  M. 
Cowie,  vice-president  of  the  American 
Railway  Express  Company.  Mr.  Cowie 
told  the  National  Aeronautical  Associa¬ 
tion  of  the  United  States  May  24  that 
not  only  will  the  American  Railway  Ex¬ 
press  enter  into  a  contract  with  a  prop¬ 
erly  organized  air  service  company  to 
handle  its  business  between  New  York 
and  Chicago  but  will  exploit  the  faster 
service,  advertise  rates,  pick  up  ship¬ 
ments  at  points  of  origin  and  deliver 
them  for  air  transportation  at  main  line 
air  points. 
Capt.  Donald  B.  MacMillan,  who  will 
leave  Wiscasset,  Me.,  on  June  16  to  re¬ 
sume  his  Arctic  explorations,  will  use  the 
radio  and  also  take  motion  pictures.  lie 
will  try  to  determine  whether  another 
ice  age  is  beginning.  The  American 
Radio  Relay  League,  composed  of  thous¬ 
the  furniture  store,  other  firms  in  the 
block  which  were  burned  out  were  the 
Seifert  tire  shop,  two  Woolworth  stores, 
the  Hills  hardware  store,  the  McCarthy 
milliner^  establishment  and  the  Strick¬ 
land  shoe  store. 
Jacob  Tannanbaum.  28  years  old,  and 
Sam  Ilirscb.  23,  of  New  York  City,  were 
arrested  at  Detroit,  Mich,  May  28  and 
aie  held  pending  investigation  of  the 
theft  of  furs  valued  at  $75,000  from  the 
Man  Co.,  Inc. 
WASHINGTON. — The  claim  of  the 
Bethlehem  Steel  Corporation  for  $8,500,- 
000  alleged  to  be  due  under  war  time  con¬ 
tracts  has  been  tentatively  disapproved  by 
the  Shipping  Board’s  claim  committee. 
The  decision  was  based  on  a  legal  opinion 
which  if  sustained  by  the  courts  will  re¬ 
sult  in  the  recovery  by  the  Government 
of  hundreds  of  millions  paid  in  settle¬ 
ment  of  emergency  construction.  In 
brief  the  opinion  held  that  a  contractor 
cannot  collect  from  the  Government  un¬ 
der  the  so-called  “savings  clause”  of  his 
contract.  The  Bethlehem  contract,  like 
scores  of  other  war  time  industrial  agree¬ 
ments,  provided  that  the  company  should 
receive  a  fixed  fee  plus  a  stipulated  per¬ 
centage  of  any  economies  it  might  ef¬ 
fect  which  would  bring  the  cost  of  the 
work  below  a  set  figure.  Under  this  in¬ 
terpretation  the  $20,000,000  already  paid 
the  Bethlehem  Corporation  as  fees  under 
its  contract  would  be  regarded  as  closing 
that  contract,  and  the  large  sums  claimed 
as.  “savings”  would  have  no  standing. 
Indians  at  the  Fort  Berthold  agency,  in 
North  Dakota,  have  decided  to  get  along 
on  two  dogs  each,  thus  solving  a  prob¬ 
lem  which  has  worried  the  Indian  Bureau 
for  years.  The  Indians,  at  a  recent  coun- 
Wm.  W.  Anderson  of  Connecticut  sends  the  picture  showing  the  children  help¬ 
ing  to  dig  bait.  They  are  getting  a  small  crop  of  worms,  and  tve  hope  that  as 
a  result  of  this  spading  a  garden  crop  will  grow. 
ands  of  amateurs,  will  co-operate  with 
the  expedition  and  every  evening  its 
members  will  be  on  the  alert  for  signals. 
Whether  communication  through  the 
northern  lights  will  be  possible  has  been 
hotly  debated. 
The  home  at  Cooperstown  of  Erastus 
F.  Beadle,  publisher  of  Beadle’s  dime 
novels,  was  destroyed  by  fire  May  27.  It 
was  built  in  1807. 
Two  death  were  caused  near  Fishkill, 
N.  Y.,  May  27.  when  a  motor  in  which 
four  men  were  riding  was  struck  by  an¬ 
other  car  without  lights.  Michael  Han¬ 
non,  an  insurance  broker,  was  killed. 
Richard  McDowell  died  of  injuries. 
Seven  persons  were  killed  and  several 
injured,  two  dangerously,  when  an  In- 
terurban  car  bound  from  Pontiac  to  De¬ 
troit,  Mich.,  struck  a  blue  touring  car, 
eight  miles  north  of  Detroit,  May  27. 
The  dead  include  four  young  women  and 
three  young  men.  The  accident  hap¬ 
pened  when  a  blue  automobile,  the  driver 
of  which  is  unidentified,  going  north  on 
Woodward  avenue,  swung  out  of  the  line 
of  traffic  to  pass  another  car.  The  ma¬ 
chine  swerved  to  the  Interurban  tracks 
and  was  struck  squarely  in  the  center. 
The  force  of  the  collision  threw  the  en¬ 
gine  of  the  wrecked  car  into  the  line  of 
traffic  moving  south,  wrecking  another 
automobile.  Five  of  the  dead  were  in  the 
blue  touring  car  and  two  were  in  the  car 
wrecked  by  the  engine  of  that  automobile. 
Robert  P.  Brindell.  former  labor  leader 
who  was  caught  May  27,  meeting  mem¬ 
bers  of  his  family  outside  the  walls  of 
Sing  Sing  Prison,  was  transferred  to 
Clinton  Prison  at  Dannemora  May  28. 
along  with  45  other  convicts,  most  of 
them  with  long  sentences. 
High  rents,  together  with  the  ban  on 
children  by  landlords  and  the  herding  of 
families  in  small  quarters,  have  started 
scores  of  families  living  in  tents  on  the 
outskirts  of  Detroit,  Mieh._,  not  really 
from  choice  but  from  necessity.  Greater 
Detroit,  with  its  1.250.000  population  and 
more  than  320.000  workmen  employed, 
is  destined  to  again  have  its  “tented  dis¬ 
trict”  as  it  did  three  and  four  years  ago 
when  housing  conditions  were  extremely 
inadequate. 
Monitor  Block,  one  of  the  chief  business 
centers  of  Rockville,  Conn.,  and  the  Hills 
lumber  yards  were  destroyed  by  fire  May 
28  with  a  loss  estimated  at  $500,000.  The 
fire  started  in  the  Burke  furniture  store, 
where  an  explosion  was  heard.  Besides 
cu,  soivea  rne  question  by  voting  the 
abolition  of  surplus  canines,  as  well  as 
placing  a  $1  tax  oil  each  dog  within  the 
limits  agreed  on.  Indians  are  fond  of 
dogs,  the  Indian  Bureau  said,  in  many 
cases  possessing  a  half  dozen. 
Secretary  of  Labor  Davis  laid  before 
(he  President  May  28,  a  campaign 
worked  out  by  his  department  to  break 
up  the  smuggling  of  aliens  over  Ameri¬ 
can  borders.  The  plan  calls  for  inter¬ 
national  co-operation  and  until  the  con- 
sent  of  the  Canadian  and  Mexican  au¬ 
thorities  is  received  the  campaign  will ‘he 
held  in  abeyance.  Secretary  Davis  told 
the  President  that  foreigners  barred  bv 
the  immigration  law  were  coming  in  bv 
hundreds  a  day.  Thousands  have  been 
brought  across  the  Canadian  border  be- 
tween  Montreal  and  Windsor,  and  hun¬ 
dreds  from  British  Columbia. 
Senators  King  (Utah)  and  Ladd  (N. 
D.)  and  Representative  Frear  (Wis  ) 
expect  to  go  to  Russia  this  Summer.  Ar¬ 
rangements  have  been  made  with  the  So¬ 
viet  rulers  whereby  the  Americans  are 
not  to  be  molested  in  their  investigation 
ot  the  workings  of  the  Soviet  and  no  ef¬ 
fort  is  to  be  made  to  supervise  or  di- 
reot  their  itinerary. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— The  coun¬ 
try's  Tiniest  dirigible,  the  U.  S.  M-B.  es¬ 
pecially  equipped  to  war  on  gypsy  moths, 
boll  weevils  and  other  insect  pests  from 
the  air,  started  from  Hammondsport,  N. 
Y..  Memorial  Day  for  Concord,  N.  II..  on 
its  first  official  flight.  The  dirigible  was 
built  at  the  request  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  for  use  in  spraying  insect 
infested  regions.  The  air  method  of  at¬ 
tack  was  first  tried  from  airplane,  but 
proved  unsatisfactory,  due  to  the  exces¬ 
sive  speed  at  which  the  planes  were 
forced  to  fly.  The  dirigible  has  a  gas  bag 
capacity  of  50,000  cubic  feet,  and  is 
capable  of  maintaining  itself  in  the  air 
for  14  hours  with  three  passengers.  It 
is  equipped  with  two  motors,  placed  on 
outriggers. 
The  value  of  the  rainfall  in  the  Edmon¬ 
ton.  Alberta  district,  May  26-28  .  was 
placed  at  $25,000,000  by  Prof.  Cutler  of 
the  agricultural  department  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity. 
Ivixd  Friend:  “I’ll  give  you  a  penny 
for  a  kiss.  Elizabeth,”  Bright  Kid :  “No. 
thank  you  !  I  can  earn  more  takin’  cod- 
liver  oil.” — Life. 
