HUS STEPLESS CMS'
Will Save Gothamites 125,000
Miles a Year in Steps.
Governor of New York Expected to
8lgn Bill Doing Away With the
Ancient Type—Old Horse
Cars Are Doomed.
New York.—IIy the introduction of
a new style of street car the New
York Hallways company is about to
/ save the good people of this city
an annual climb from the level of
the street of 125,000 miles a year, and
a descent to the street of exactly the
same length. It has come about
through its engineers recognising
that it was ridiculous to make their
passengers continue every time they
boarded a street car to climb above
all the machinery und that a little in
genuity would enable them to de
sign a car with practically no climb
ing at all.
Once the figures are given anyone
can verify this calculation for him
self. in the year ended dune 30, 1012,
the New York Hallways company and
Us predecessor, the Metropolitan
Street Hallway company, carried Just
under 264,000,000 passengers. The
height of the step of the so-called
stepless car from the street Is ten
Inches and the height of the old-style
car, which it is to replace, is about
40 inches. Consequently there Is a
saving of 30 inches every time a
passenger gets on or off the car, and
this works out at 125,000 miles a year
for the entire system.
The double-decked, stepless car,
which bears so strong a family re
semblance to the other new style of
car, will continue, however, for some
time alone in its glory.
It was only after considering care
fully the many different brands of
street car in uso in other cities that
the New York Railways company
evolved the side-door, stepless, prepay
ment car. Montreal, for example, has
a side-door, prepayment car, and Phil
adelphia prides itself on its "near side
car.” The latter was inspired by the
desire to provide room for more pas
sengers and to enable them to enter
and leave at such a point that they
would encounter as little as possible
of the mud of the street.
While the newest thing in street
cars 1b being installed in New York,
the oldest is about to be abandoned.
New York has for several years been
the only one of the big cities to re
tain horse cars. In some instances
this was necessary because of con
gested traffic, but new subways have
relieved this to such an extent that
electric power now is practical.
Governor Sulzer now has under con
sideration a bill requiring all street
car companies of the city to cease op
erating horse cars after January 1
next. This measure has passed the
legislature, and if accepted by the
governor, will afTect Bix lines in Man
hattan. but even without this legisla
tion it is probable that in a few
months the last of the .old horse cars
will have been driven to the barns,
never to run again.
When the public sorvlce commission
took office on July 1, 1907, there were
16 horee-car lines in operation. Of
these four have been abandoned and
six are now wholly or partially oper
ated by storage battery cars. The
six stUl running are me Avenue c.
line, from the Desbrosses street ferry
across town to East Twenty-fourth
street; the Bleecker street line, from
Bleecker street and Broadway to
Fourteenth street and Ninth avenue;
the Chambers Btreet line, from Cham
bers street ferry to Grand street ferry;
in- Metropolitan cross-town line, from
Desbrosses street ferry to Grand
street ferry; the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets line, from Broad
way to the Twenty-third street ferry,
and the Sixth nvenue-Desbrosses
street ferry line, from Sixth avenue
and Third street to the Desbosses
street ferry.
JUDGE AND JURY IN CLASH
Jurist Orders Verdict of Acquittal,
but Jurors Are Obdurate, and
Refuse to Sign.
Memphis, Tenu.—Judge and Jury
clashed in the second division of the
criminal court here, and as a result,
a verdict acquitting a man of a mur
der charge was made a part of the
court's record without the signature o(
the jurors.
C. E. Murrell, railroad fireman, was
charged with having murdered Moss
Todd. Presiding Judge Palmer ruled
that the evidence showed self-defense,
and directed a verdict of not guilty.
After consultation with members of
the Jury, Foreman Cooney refused to
write the verdict. Judge Palmer ex
plained that he could permit no other
verdict to stand, in view of the testi
mony.
"You have a right to your opinion,"
retorted Cooney, still obdurate, "but
you are not the keeper of my
conscience."
Finally, however, the verdict was
written, but the jurors carried their
> point to the extent of not affixing their
signatures.
Chicago Woman Praises Press,
Boston. Mass.—The further exten
sion of the juvenile courts system was
urged by Mrs. Frederic Schoff of
Philadelphia at the convention of the
national congress of Mothers' and
Parent-Teachers' associations. At a
round table on "The press in exten
sion work." Mrs. Edgar A Hall of
Chicago took the position that the
newspaper is one of the chief educat
or* of the day.
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MR. DANIELS’ SON LIKES SEA LIFE
Frank A. Daniels, the nine-year-old son of the secretary of the navy,
has developed a strong liking for life on shipboard. The picture shows him
Bitting against the wheel of the Dolphin, his fathers official yacht.
NEW TROUSERS LEAD TO WOE'
Motorman Falls Downstairs In Hall
way "Dressing Room"—Gets
Damages of $125.
Chicago.—A new suit of clothes al
most led to the death of Martin F. j
Harry, 707 South Forty-fourth court.
Limping and holding his hand to his
back, he appeared before Judge Mar
tin.
Wishing lo visit hig, mother in Iowa
In some of the glory ascribed to Solo
mon. he first joined a “suit club.” He
drew a suit and went to the tailor
shop.
loafer he made a second visit to the
shop to try on his new suit. The
coat and the vest caused no difficulty.
He could see they had the correct
lines without inconvenience. Hut he
wished to try on the trousers. There
was no vacant room for the accommo
dation of particular customers. So
the tailor shoved Harry into a dark
hallway to disrobe.
No sooner had Harry thrust his
right foot into the right leg of his
new trousers than he lost his balance.
He fell down stairs leading to a cellar
and lay a bruised, crumpled heap on
a hard cement floor, one foot in his
new trousers and one in the old.
Fifty-six days passed before Barry
could take up his wrork as a motor
man, and his visit to his mother in
low'a was postponed. He nursed his
back and his grievance until he ap
peared in court craving $1,000 in dam
ages from the tailor.
The jury returned a verdict award
ing Barry $125.
JOHN D. ALMOST A PAUPER
Oil Magnate’s Cleveland JN^perty Was
$3,000 More Valuable in 1912
Than at Present.
Cleveland, O.—John D. Rockefeller
is rapidly losing his wealth and Is
becoming practically a poor man, ac
cording to the report of John T. Fish
er. tax assessor for Cleveland Heights,
in which place the Forest Hill es
tate of the oil king is situated.
The figures show that a year ago
Mr. Rockefeller returned his personal
CITY GETS MODEL CHARTER
Cleveland. O., Is to Abolish All Party
Elections and Have Recall
System.
Cleveland, O.—Non-partisan elec
tions, with the absolute abolition of
political parties, as far as municipal
affairs are concerned, is assured to
Cleveland in the terms of the new
city charter, which has been com
pleted Experts declare the proposed
charter is a model.
Nominations by petition instead of
by primaries and the preferential sys
tem of voting in elections are to be
leading features of the new govern
mental system of the city.
It is aimed to simplify election ma
chinery and give the greatest possible
expression to the will of the voters,
who not only are to have their first
choice for each office counted, but
their second and other choices as
well.
The mayor and twenty-six members
of the council are the only city offi
cials who are to be elected under the
new charter. All the others are ap
pointive. Candidates for the elective
positions are to certify their names
backed by the signatures of voters to
the board of elections and be placed
upoij a non-partisan ballot, carrying
ne party designations of any kind,
and on which the names are to be ro
tated.
There are to be three columns in
which cross marks indicating the will
of the voter may be made. These will
be headed. “First choice,” “Second
choice" and “other choices.” Each
voter may mark his first and second
choice for each office, and then may
designate as many 'other choices” as
he sees fit. If no candidate for office
roooiuou o nin'lnritv nf tlio firct plinlpP
votes, then the second choices are to
be counted with the first choices. If
no one has a majority of both first
and second choices, the “other
choices" are to be added, and a major
ity of all reckoned In determining the
victor.
The recall Is to apply to all elective
officials. The mayor may be recalled
upon tlie petition of 15,000 voters, and
a councilman may be recalled upon
the petition of 600 of his voting con
stituents.
The mayor and councilmen are
elected for twd-j^ear terms.
The mayor Is to have the veto, but
it is to be nullified to a large extent
by the provision that any measure
may be passed by the council over the
veto by a majority vote.
Ordinances may be initiated by peti
tions which contain the names of 5,000
voters.
LEAD DONKEY TO THE COAST.
Election Loser Is Walking From Port
land, Maine, to Portland, Oregon,
In Payment.
Newburg. N. Y.—Paying an election
bet, Benjamin IT. Anderson, formerly
general secretary of the chamber of
commerce, and now secretary of the
Butler Ad-men's club of Butler. Pa.. Is
walking from Portland. Me., to Port
land. Oregon, leading a donkey. He
passed through Newburg.
Anderson is a strong admirer of
Theodore Roosevelt, and was so cer
tain that the colonel would be elected
president that he made a wager with
James Gillespie, a Democrat o.‘ Pitts
burg, that Roosevelt would beat Wil
son. The loser must walk from Port
land. Me., to Portland. Oregon, lead
ing behind him the animal emblematic
of tlie victorious party. The wager
also includes the stipulation that tlie
loser must call on the president of
the United States.
Anderson started from Portland.
Me.. March 4. He does not have to
finish until March 4. 1914.
Sovereigns Are Always Hosts.
London.—When the king and queen
honor any of their subjects by being
present at dinner the banquet differs
from all others in one respect; the
sovereigns, although actually guests,
are nominally the hosts of their en
tertainer It is they who lead the
conversation and keep it up. for when
royalty is disinclined lor speech less
exalted mortals perforce remain quiet.
Women Police for Frisco.
San Frauciseo.—The board of super
visors here have decided that of the
twenty-five additional police officers to
be appointed, three will be women
John D. Rockefeller.
property ns worth $T,190. This year
Mr. Rockefeller is poorer by $-.905
i than he was a year ago, his return t)f
personal property being $4.
The figures show that John D. has
nine, horses worth $55 each, ten head
of cattle worth $40 each, and furniture
worth $;l,300. He has no automobiles
: here at this time of the year the as
sessments are made, so none is re
turned for taxation.
Bride’s Room In Church.
New York.—Plans for alterations
to the Church of Incarnation, on Mad
ison avenue, of which Rev. Howard
Robbins is rector, provide for a bride’s
! room, which is believed to be an inno- I
j ration in church arrangements The |
j organ loft in the rear of the church
! will be removed, and in its place a !
j beautifully equipped room w ill be
j built. Here the bride may arrange j
her attire after the drive from home
and assure herself that she is in readi
ness for the march to the altar.
TO FIGHT THE TRUST
PRESIDENT WILL ASK NEW LEG
ISLATION TO STRENGTHEN
SHERMAN LAW.
^REYNOLDS WILL GET BUSY
Department of Justice Has Investiga
tors at Work Securing Evidence to
Be Used in Many Cases—To Force
Competitive Conditions.
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.—It has been made
plainly apparent that' President W il
soc and the Democratic leaders in
Congress think that if this country n
manufacturers and producers would
change their methods of work they
would have no reason to fear ap
proaching tariff changes. The Presi
dent has expressed himself as believ
ing that because high protection has
afforded such good shelter for Ameri
can concerns they have neglected
opportunities to conduct their busi
ness in a way which would make high
protection unnecessary and which
would enable them to sell things at
a lower price and to earn as much
dividend money as they earn today.
This is the expressed Democratic
vDw.
It was in connection with his words
on pernicious lobbying that the Pres
ident allowed his views on business
methods to become known. He thinks
apparently that this country can com
pete with the world and "with itself, ’
continue to pay high wages and con
tinue to make money even if certain
and sundry articles are put upon the
free list.
For New Trust Legislation.
When t1* 9 tariff biil is passed and
signed, taking fcr granted that the
law will read nearly as the bill reads
at present, American competition will
have an opportunity to show what it
can do when brought into the contest
against products which are manufac
tured or grown in other countries.
Attorney General McReynolds, who
under Theodore Roosevelt and Will
iam H. Taft had considerable experi
ence as a government investigating
and prosecuting officer, is still on the
trusts' trail, and when overtaken each
trust is to be led to court, in which
a good many of them already have
had experience. When the Sherman
law is amended in accordance with
Mr. Wilson’s view of what proper
changes should be, the Attorney Gen
eral probably will have to go into
court or send others into court for
him. to present cases under new con
ditions. Mr. Wilson’s thought, as he
bas expressed it s veral times, is that
every combination which is found to
be in restraint of trade can be dis
solved into integral parts and each
part forced to compete with every
Dther part for business, and that each
part can do it without bringing hard
ships to holders of stock or to the
Interests of the business community
generally.
Want Actual Dissolution.
It is the intention of the Democ
racy, so the party men say, to make
the dissolution of all combinations in
restraint of trade actual instead of
merely apparent. There are Demo
cratic leaders willing to say that the
great corporations which seemingly
have been split up can be actually
split up, and that they can be made
to compete, to sell their goods at a
lower price and yet continue to make
money and pay good dividends. To
accomplish these things is the job
which the Democratic party in Con
gress and in the White House has
ahead of it after the tariff and cur
rency are out of the way.
As things are now, the Attorney
General is busy. He has investigators
at work in the New England railroad
Held to get all the facts not yet
brought to light concerning the trans
portation monopoly there said to
exist. In Oregon and Washington
representatives of the Attorney Gen
eral s department are looking Into
telephone matters with a view to de
termining if a trust contrary to law
is there exploiting Itself.
Policy of Old Line Republicans.
Washington politicians of all parties
still continue to be actively interested
in the outcome of the meeting of the
Republican national committee which
will be called by Chairman Hilles at
any time that he chooses within sixty
days after the adjournment of con
gress, whenever that may be.
Republicans of the progressive and
conservative factions are still talking
about what was done when the exec
utive committee of the national com
mittee of the party met here and what
is to be done in the future, but it is
plainly evident from what they say
that the strongest belief of all of them
is that the regeneration of the Repub
lican party will not come from a con
vention, but from disaster which the
Republicans think and say is to be
brought about by a Democratic tariff
and a Democratic currency system.
It is the old line Republicans who
are the more insistent that the party,
instead of holding a convention with
the hope of getting the two factions
together, should “wait on the other
party's follies for the chance of restor
ation to power.” The Republicans
known as standpatters apparently do
not want the national committee to
call a convention. They seem to be
convinced that only a few reforms in
party methods are necessary and that
there is no need of giving heed tc
Progressive-Republican demands fot
changes looking to the initiative and
referendum, suffrage, presidential pri
maries or any of the ether things
which progresslvism has demanded
fcjr years and on the denial of which
bv the last Republican convention
some millions of Republicans split
away and formed the Progressive par
No Certainty of a Convention.
There seems to have been a very
wide misunderstanding about what
was done by the executive committee
of the Republican national committee
when It met In Washington. This mis
understanding has grown with Uie
davs since the committee departed, for
certain words of the leading commit
teemen were misinterpreted at the
start and it was taken for granted that
the national committee would be cer
tain to call a convention. The fact
is that all that was done by the execu
tive committee in Washington was to
call a meeting of the national commit
tee and to ask it to decide certain
questions.
It Is known definitely that the ma
jority of the members of the national
committee do not want to call a con
vention and that all they want to do
is to change on their own authority
the apportionment of southern repre
sentation in Republican conventions,
to declare for the principle of the pres
idential primaries and then to ad
journ.
progressives Are Content.
The Progressives in Washington say
that they are entirely content with the
action of the Republican party’s execu
tive committee. By Progressives are
meant the members of the new party
and not the progressive-Republicans.
The new party men say that the freely
expressed belief of old line Repub
licans that the results of Democratic
law making alone will be sufficient to
return the old party to power is in
itself enough to hold the Progressives
together as a party and to further
alienate from the old party the affec
tions of progressive-Republicans.
The Progressives, and the progress
ive-Republicans, too, for that matter,
say that unless the Republican party
declares for the advanced policies for
which progressivism, both with the
small p and a capital P has stood, the
Progressive party will have many ad
ditional members drawn from the
ranks of progressive Republicanism
immoriintplv nftpr it is made nlain that
the old line Republicans will not stand
for the platform of advanced princi
ples. The old liners, however, say
that the Democrats are bound to fail
and that hard times will put the old
Republican party on its feet. The
Democrats see no failure and are con
tent and perhaps happy as they view
the troubles of their opponents.
Senate Is Changing.
Hereafter members of the congres
sional committees of the three parties
—that is provided the Progressive
party shall decide that a congressional
committee is necessary—will have the
additional duty of directing the cam
paign for the election of United States
senators. The coming change in the
method of the election of senators is
affecting the proceedings in the up
per house. Realizing that they are
now directly responsible to the peo
ple rather than to the legislatures,
some of the senators are showing a
change of manner and method.
For years numerously signed peti
tions praying for or against legisla
tion have been received daily by the
senators of the United States. These
petitions have been duly and with
proper formality presented to the sen
ate, but only rarely has there been a
word said at presentation time con
cerning the nature of the petition or
the standing of the persons or organ
izations who had given it their sig
natures. Today some of the senators
are presenting these petitions with
spoken words enough to let the peo
ple back home who are interested
know that their upper house repre
sentative is on duty and will give
their cause all proper consideration,
and “support if it seems best.”
New Methods For Old Timers.
Some of the old time senators
seeking re-election will have to learn
new lessons in politics, or else must
restudy those which they learned
when they were members of the low
er house or of the home states’ legis
latures. It is one thing to prepare
for a campaign before a legislature,
and it is another thing to prepare for
one in which some hundreds of thou
saiius vi voters win nave a uireci
shot at the target. Time after time
the direct election of senators pro
position was voted down in the sen
ate of the United States. It finally
was given to the states to decide by
the votes of upper house men who
stammered with reluctance when
they voted "aye.” The dreaded thing
is to come and hereafter the honor
ables and more or less ancients not
to put it the other way, will be com
pelled to make a plain case before the
people.
Washington wants to know what
effect the direct election of senators
is going to have on the rules and the
general nature of the proceedings in
the upper house. Prior to the time
that direct election was assured
there were occasional threats that
the rules of the upper house would
be changed in order that debate
might be shut off and the passage of
legislation expedited. Former Sena
tor Aldrich once made a threat to
this effect, or rather suggested a
threat.
Some of the senators today fear that
the result of direct elections is to be
the making of a second house out of
the senate. Other senators say that
this fear is groundless because the
“deliberative character” of the senate
is the thing which makes for proper
consideration of legislation passed
hurriedly by the representatives, and
that the country realizes the necessity
of adequate discussion of all bills be
fore their final adoption.
Of Justice.
"They have a minister of justice In
Mexico.”
"He must be a humorist.”
ROOST CLOSET
Considerable Stress La;rl*
in Front o’ Houss
Experiment^ Station.'"He W
In the curtail,-front w, ,
house used a: tl„. M;.a ''^BcV
station a feature of .... rt
on which cc j^^B1
laid was the ctm-i^B
of the roosts. lul:i m
back wall of th ■ .^^B
pings bo; rd ■
a closet in which the M,,,". "'®'
up at night during ooM
When the front v ,S,^B
first devised u v. s hoi. •
to provide s-.h i. ; , . «««B.
the body heat the birds ^'"“^Erq
cold nights «!,, thJ^yWVS
might go well below
rience hr.s shown. hov.-,EVnil
was a mistake. a. trial
that the roost;::, ek^et is c-•
vantage, even in such
mate as thpt of Oror.o. (V?Mse(
trary, the bird; cenalnlv tu[Hn
ter without the roost n,rt*MJ
with it. It has ... a g"i®Kli
nervation among meTS of the'Cl^Ede
front type of home ,hat
roost curtains arc used tb- w '
particularly snseowibk to
is not hard to understand
should be so. The air in a rM^El<>
closet when it is opened
morning is plainly bad. flie^E’
that it is v\ arm in no way ^
physiologically the evils oi\s jHlt,
of oxygen and excess of car^B*.,
oxid, ammonia cal vapors, and
exhalations fro;;; the bodies ot^Elci
birds. Hf
For some time past it
that the roosting closet was atl^Y™
unnecessary, it' not in fact a pod^Bv
evil. Consequently the time oi^Br
ginning to close the roost cnrtai^Y*
the fall has been each year
delayed. Finally, in the fall o!^Bq(
it was decided not to use these'^B/t
tains at all during the winter. {^Y*
sequently they were taken outol^BsS
house, or spiked to the roof, as^Bc
case might be. The winter oi '.y^B 1
was a severe one. On several o^Y’1
sions the temperature dropped
degrees below zero. Yet during^B
winter the mortality was exceptii^Y i
ly low' and the egg productionei^Y
tionally high. ^B^
In view of this experience .tieBi
tion lias decided to discontinue
use of the roost curtain. It
seem to be generally midesirai^B
at least unnecessary.
FOR SHIPPING EGGS Sii
Holder Made of Corrugated Str^B
board Is Provided With Small^Bjj
Hole at Each End. Y
This egg holder is made froni^R
rugated strawboard. the egg being^t
serted by opening an overlapping
at the side. The container is proti^B
with a small hole at each endsotl^B>!
■ I
Safety Egg Holder.
it may be opened and closed
tearing it, says the Popular ^le”^B
ics. The holder is adapted fori^B
ing eggs safely by parcel port*
carrying them with the least
ity of breakage.
piiMN(ii|
Eggs shipped by express are °'^B
queered by baggage smashers.
The well-fed and well-cared-W V
is the one that brings the ?r0“ ' *
When the old hen begins to .. *
whip her chicks it's time Vrt
Fall chickens find a good marke*
roasters during Januar>, f e 'Tjj
March. zr0*tH
The poultry industry 18 8 JM
beyond the hopes of its nios jjj
friends. , „ c-cofl
Egg shells may be utilized a*
time if crushed and turne
chickens. . rP3cbH
The brooder has not, asjet, *
the stage of perfection a
bator has. .rcrbs*
Lack of moisture in the ■ m
means tough shells and de M
hatching time. indie*
To successfully use egg
fleial hatches one must, n P »
cure eggs of the highes b r and*
An egg laid In NovemW *
cember will bring Mart11 *
money as the one laid
April. . aS a
While heavy laying « d*
desirable, phenomenal egg
not a guarantee of Btrong, «
•pring. B