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Unhurt When Struck by Train
TVom the New York Sun.
Jimmy McKenna, 8 years old. Jersey
City, fell in front of a fast Lackawanna
express train at Henderson and Nine
/teenth streets and lay flat between the
rails.
The locomotive, the flrst car and a part
of the second oar passed over him and
then the train stopped. Jimmy is small
and scrambled out unhurt.
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UNDERGROUND FORT!
ON ST. MIHIEL WEDGE
Germans Are Like Man |
With the Bear
NEED HELP TO LET GO
—
Neck of Arrow Fortninj: Wedjte Is
Steadily Narrowing—Most Brilliant
Engineering Feals of the War
Performed Here
—
Nancy, France, April 25.— (Corres
pondence of the Associated Press, u
“The rupture of Saint Mihiel," is the
soldier s characterization of the wedge. ;
at an angle of about 45 degrees, that I
The Germans have held in the French I
line since September. It is in the.
Woevre and its point rests at Saint
Mihiel upon the lower extremity of
• he Heights of the Meuse. Near the
d'Aillv and the suburb of Chauvon
poinl are the Boise Brule, the Bois
court, all of which have had their (lavs
of glory in the war. Along the lower
angle about 20 miles long which runs
toward Pont-a-Mousson are the Bois
de Mort Mare, the Bois le Pretre and
Flirrey.
The upper part of the angle about
the same length ran w'est of the Epar
ges until the recent engagements then.)
that made the French masters of the
eastern extremity of the Heights of the
Meuse. From L**s Eparges it iu.us
northeast and rejoins the broken bat- i
tie line near Etain. This position was
particularly strong for the Germans
as it had the frontier of Metz directly
at its back. In fact, it may he imagined
to represent the head of an immense
arrow that Metz launched with all Us
might at Verdun, and tvhich glancing
c ff from tne greatest French fortress,
lodged in the Heights of the Meuse at
Saint Mihiel. All round it there has
been heavy fighting since the first Ger
man advance and at Troyota, IMeu
louaid und the Saint Germain Hill,
some of the bloodiest work of the war.
Done by Crown Prince’s Army
It was the crown princes army in
its attempt to get at Verdun that in
dented the French line there by a
mighty rush while its artillery was
demedishing the interval fort of Trcyon.
It reqpired 80.000 men to hold it and
a simple glance at the map, and a ref
erence to the communiques shows ihut
the French are trying to do it.
At Ees Eparges and toward Etain on
one side of the angle and in the Mort
Mare Woods and Ee Pretre Woods on
the other, they are gradually closing in
and making the angle sharper. This
work is slow and costly to both sides.
Nowhere on the battle front has the art
of digging in and the art of digging out
teen more highly developed. The Ger
man earthworks here were first class
underground fortifications and from them
the French learned what they had to do.
Weeks of sapping and mining from both
directions at the same time were re
quired to get at these subterranean fort
resses.
The question was generally which would
get there first, sometimes they met in
their burrowing, like woodchucks come
together by chance. If the Germans were
masters In this sort of warfare at the
outset, the French were apt pupils. Their
facility of Improvisation and remarkable
Initiative soon enabled them to do bet
ter than their teachers—with their teach
ers' tools-otherwise the "rupture of St.
Mihiel" would be today what is was in
September.
Need Help to Let C»o
General R-, a specialist In the engi
neering arm of the service, was entrusted
by Joffre with the work of ferreting the
Germans out of their burrows into the
Woevre. His task is not finished, but
it is so well begun that the Germans at
St. Mihiel are somewhat in the position
of the man who had the bear by the
tall. They can't let go without grave
danger of being captured, especially since
the taking of Les Sparges gives the
French possession of the heights that
command the plains to the east inside
the angle.
In the Woevre. not far from the point
of the angle. General R- organized a
school of sapping and mining, where men
at rest were exercised in the construc
tion and destruction of underground for
tifications. There he has reconstituted
for their benefit an exact mode! of the
1 est specimen of German Intrenchment.
"You must improve on this," he told
them. "And, above all," he added, "you
must know how to make it useless."
A \eritable museum of underground
warfare developed from this school and It
was visited by officers from all sections
of the battle front It has now been
abandoned because General R-and his
ferreting troops have narrowed the
wedge and left behid them line after line
of German trenches, most of them blown
up before being captured. Now on both
sides of the angle they are finding
trenches already made for them. All
they have to do is to repair the blown
up sections and throw the bank of dirt
from their side to that of the Germans.
OILING SYSTEMS
A prominent automobile oit manu
facturer has recently published a com
plete impartial table, classifying the
oiling systems of all of the American
and European motor cars into lU
classes or groups.
Besides being of value to aulomo*
bilists, this table affords many op
portunities for Interesting comparisons,
^or instance, the most complete and
positive system, the full force feed
through hollow crankshaft. Is used on
only three high grade American cars
manufactured today, and five foreign
cars.
So Understood It
From the New York Globe.
"Bui she says she has never given you
any encouragement."
"Did she say that?"
"She certainly did."
"She told me that her uncle was going
tc leave her a fortune, and that he had
one foot in the grave. If that is not
encouragement I'd like to know what you
call it."
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MOTORCYCLE NOTES
Covering every town tn Stephenson
county, 28 members of the Freeport (111.)
Motorcycle club celebrated their first run
of the season.
Of the 341.Kb motor vehicles estimated
to be In use in Great Britain. 132,000 are
motorcycles.
Two high school boys of Washington,
D. C.. Wallace F. Baker and Richard
O'Brien, have started on a motorcycle
tour to San Francisco. They expect to |
spend about six months on the trip.
The proceeds of the 'Jno-mile motorcycle
♦'ace to be held at Phoenix. Arit.. on
May 31 are to go toward securing n
tuberculosis sanitarium for the Salt river
v alley.
The first girl in Quincy. 111., to operate
her own motorcycle is Miss H&Xel
Lavigne. But she doesn't contemplate be
ing the only girl rider there long, as sh >
expects to convert all her girl friends
to the joys of the two-wheeler.
On .Tune 18 and 19 the Wheeling (W. Va.»
Motorcycle club will hold its two-day
endurance run. The route selected is
from Wheeling to Bedford and return,
a distance of 300 miles.
Hally decaea motorcycles played a con
spicuous part In the recent Motor Pageant
at Newark. N. .1 . over tiO decorated two
wheelers being In line.
A four-day run to Mammoth Have.
Ky., was recently made by a nurtiber of
members of the Nashville (Tenn.) Motor
cycle club.
The sheriff's department of Bergen
county. New Jersey, reports that a motor
cycle In the service has covered 10,000
miles in the past nine months, and that
the cost for upkeep has been remarkably
low.
Pour riders finished with perfect scores
in the recent NO- mile reliability run of
1 he Grand Rapids <Mlch.> Motorcycle
club. f
Twenty-five thousand dollat** has been jj
appropriated m New York city for the
pure tuple of motorcycle* and bicycles for ji
use in the various city departments.
Of Course. You Never Did §
From the New York Sun.
Mahel—Why does Reggie always
point to the item on the menu wl,cn
he orders on? of those dishes *n
French?
Re: tie—-He probably considers it
I \h well to let the waiter into I’.te
secret.
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Maxwell
Wins Test Over 40 Cars
/ (I
Result of the great Yale University Sheffield Scientific School Test.
Of the forty automobiles tested at the famous Sheffield Scientific School
laboratory the Maxwell stands first in economy of Gasoline consumption.
l MECHANICAL CNOINCEHINO OCPANTHENT
•m«.rttio SciCNTinc Ich.ol
TALK UNIVCAAITy
N«W NAVI., C.ICTICUV
May 1st 1915*
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Gsntlaosnj
1 am enclosing report of test of your Maxwell automobile recently and* in
our laboratory.
I should like to add the following oomnentsi
1. HELIABILITT OF TEST.
A preliminary tost was mads on April 19th, using s new oar which was rather
stiff. Tho showing was so good that wo dsoldsd to make a seoond toot. This waa vtde
Ion April 30th, using same oar. On this test, the oar Miowed less stiffness and the
performance was better than on the first oar. The second teet was supsrrlsed by our
most earefhl experts, and the results, I bellows to be perfeotly reliable.
2. MILEAGE.
The offielenoy of the Maxwell mtoaoblle ae ladloated fey the saber of miles
on s lswsl road, is exceptionally high. This mileage record ie better than that of an
one of forty automobiles tested In our laboratory to date.
3. MOTOR PBHJCBMAHOB.
The efficiency of the meter and oarburetor as ladloated by the pounds of ai
ellne used per hour per horse-power at rear tires, Is exceedingly good, and lndloatea
wary perfect oarburetor aotloa ower the ifcole range of speed and lead. This reoord
like that on mileage per gallon. Is the best one that ws haws had.
Very tmly yours,
£33:y -OR mechahioal ffloiHmnra.
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The table furnished by the Yale Sheffield Scientific School
Fuel test made on high gear of Maxwell stock Touring Car on compara
tively level roads by Professors E. H. Lockwood and T. Q. Boyer, Sheffield Scientific
School, Yale University.
1. Name of car MAXWELLi 1915 Model “25” ■
2. Owner of car Biever Motor Car Co.. New Haven
3'. Date of teat April 30th, 1
♦. Weight of car with driver 2,000 lbs.
• 5. Wind resisting area 20 sq. ft.
6. Rolling resistance, declutched, high 36 lbs.
. 7. Rear ratio, direct, measured 3.55 to 1
t. Tires, size, front and rear 30 x 3.5
9. Tires, make, U. S. Non-skid Inflated to 70 ibs.
10. Wheel base 103 inches
11. Cylinders Four, 3 5-8x4 1-2
12. Carburetor K. D.
13. Ignition Battery and Simms Magneto
14. Starter Simms-Huff
15. Oaaollne spec. grav. 0.72
SPEED DRAWBAR PULL HORSEPOWER FUEL
Milas par Hour Pounds At Roar Tires Milos per Gallon
«. 1.2 33.8
60. 3.2 33.2
30.1 90. 7.2 23.2
60. 132. 14.1 19.3
Come in and tee and ride in one of these Record Breakinq Maxwell
Wonder Cars.
Pull S-P&Menger Ma m m Electric Starter
Touring Car $55 •**»
r
Call, write or telephone, and we will put one of our demonstrating
cars at your disposal.
J. C. BARRETT & CO,, Local Distributers
Ensley, Ala. Tel. 641 Ensley, Tel. M. 3346