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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1911)
1 T J3 , . .... . TUB OMAHA SUNPAV r.V.r,: OCTOBER 1, 1311. Showing the Qualities of the E-M-F 1912 Car TO EXTEND ITS PLANTS Studebaker Corporation Will Spend $1,500,000 in ITew Building. E. M. F. CO. ACQUIHE3 PLANIS After Ihe Balldlns; of the New Ford IMnnt Btmlehakor Takes Over Old One Adjoining Their Present riant. Greatest Shipment of Automobiles Ever Made 4 )r-.. f iav v. T S 1 L. A. KELLER AT THE WHEEL OF THE MM E M. F. Jilt. KELLER IS THE NEW MANAGEK OB TUB K. M. F, AND KLANDEHS FACTORIES IN THE WEST. SHE STUCK TO HER SHIP Uaataaaallke Woman llarola of Thrilling ShlpwrrrU In UnH f Mesloo. Clinging to a fragment of a spar In a taiifle of wreckage, the decks awash all around her, the flimsy structure beneath her leaping and tumbling In the scream ln( hurricane, a woman iwiyi on the top of what la left of the rabln of the Bessie Whiting, coastwise schooner, at Port Arthur. Tex. Hhe Is snaked through to the skin be cause she wears only a petticoat and jacket, and her loose hair files all about her, the sport of the gale. Her arms are winging wildly and she Is shrieking something, of which a word or two may be heard here and there above the can nonading of the storm. But there Is nothing of fear In her axpeot. Her eyes glare, her lips twitch with rage. The reason for this was that men were abandoning the stricken vessel. "Cow ards," she thrilled; "there Is still food and drink." But help was at hand, and the crew would not heed her. Only she, her husband. Captain Lawry, command ing the Whiting, and the cook refuted to leave the schooner. All were In a piti able condition from exposure and lack of rest, but the provisions were not ex hausted. There were left a ham, two cans . am.4... mill, . and so she shouted to the men, but they were not to be held. That was the, picture presented to Cap tain L. A. Catea, master of the Llgonler, a tank steamship, when It went to the rescue of the Whiting In the gulf. The schooner was dismantled and water logged, and was In danger of sinking at any moment, but the woman was unafraid. The Llgonler was on the down trip on Its way to tli I port, with the Connoaut, a barge, In tow. Distress signals had drawn her five miles out of her oourse, and a very heavy sea was running. The schooner had loaded lumber at Jacksonville for New Haven, and It was .her cargo that kept her afloat. On deck everything was ruin. The upper works had been ripped away, and every article that could bo moved had been warlied out of the cabin, even to tho ship's stove. The crew of five men had endured enough, and no woman's chiding were to restrain them when the Llgonler came alongside. Tho Llgonler carries a wireless equip ment, and soon got In touch with the Yamacraw, a revenue cutter, which was about lfO miles distant, and then the crew of five was landed at Jacksonville. They wore willing to leave the solitary ham to the woman, and she and her two companions subsisted on It until the Yamacraw picked them up and towed them Into Charleston. Captain Cate was not sparing In his admiration for Mrs., Lawry, but there was a look In his eye when he told the story. "I can't help thinking that she's a pretty good business woman," he said, "and had calculated on being picked up by a rev enue cutter and getting a free tow, with out any of the usual salvage trimmings other than the fuel bill. Revenue cutters, you know, make no salvage claim except for the use of fuel during the tow, and as the Whiting was only forty miles off Savannah, she wasn't taking a very long chance." "All the same," added the mariner, "let us accord Mrs. Lawry her due meed of prslse. It takes heroism to wave away rescue and upbraid departing sailors merely on the strength of a ham and two cans of milk." Houston Post. POINTERS FOR THE MOTORIST The F.vlla of Insnfflclent Inflation ami Constant Overloading. Kay to the Situation Be Advertising. The first thing a driver does when on of his tires Mows out Is to look for somt. small sharp object that he Is certain caused the trouble. Tho next move very often is to form an Ironclad opinion that tho tire manufacturer Is wholly to blame for the aocident. As a matter of faot, It Is more than likely that the fault lies with the driver, for there are two results of carelessness that no tire can possibly withstand Insufficient Inflation and con stant overloading. Few motorists ever concede the fact that they have been guilty of either fault. Some drivers claim that they have been particularly careful before starting on the particular trip when the blowout oc curred to test their tlreji so a to be sure that the air pressure was abso lutely correct, and others claim that their ears were far from overloaded. Many drivers forget that previous careless treat ment affeoted the tire's strength. That, perhaps, with the exception of a few times, ever slnoe the first day of the tire's service, It had been compelled to carry an overweight of from 100 to 200 pounds, and had probably been Insuf ficiently Inflated most of the time. The fact that there was no overload or underlnflatlon at the time the blowout occurred proves nothing. To draw a tragic parallel, a man may die suddenly of some Internal disease which, unknown to him, has been developing for a con siderable time. The Studebaker Corporation of Detroit, Mich., has decided uion extensions to the local E.-M.-F. plants which Involve expenditures approaching $l,5uu.iXJ, and which will give enii'loyment to over 1,Mj men. The betterments are Intended to Increase the possible output by 20 per cent. The Btudebaker Corporation has ac quired property a short dletaice from Its present hus plant. This proj erty is to be connected with n.e main plant by means of a funnel subway,- on which construc tion work will be started early this weiK. Here Is to be a big steel stamping plant, storage warehouses, etc., which will cost approximately $l,000,0u0. The tun nel itself will cost above lOtX). More over, additions Involving an expenditure of ILM.oOO will be made on the I'Wuette avenue plant, while the re-equipment of the old Ford plant, recently acquired by the E.-M.-F. people, will Involve another f-M.WiO. The Intuition Is to have a capac ity of 60.0UU curs for the coming year. The subway la to be of reinforced con creto. It Is to be eighteen feet high, twenty-four feet wide and about lJ feet in length. The old Ford plant, which U being re modeled, and the building of the new extension to the E.-M.-F. plant will give " Ptudob iker Corporation an output of 166 E.-M.-JT. "808" and 200 Flanders "20a" per day. iKe-.i-W- . "V IW.. & r'Will GREAT TR.MNLOAD OF AL'TOS JUST UNLOADED IN OMAHA. When you have anything for sale or exchange advertise It In The Bee Want Ad columns and get quick results. LOW DOWN TRICK WORKED yiHpa,thtlo Vibrations of Toarful Letter Made a Crook Let Go. "The most low down trick ever played by one white man on another was played on me," said the mnn who admits he was not always as honest as he Is now. "It was the diabolic Invention of a man from whose pocket I one evening extracted a roll of bills. Along with the money which I did want, I secured a letter which I did not want, but which I could not return to the gentlemen's pocket .without ap prising him of my former meddling with his financial affairs. "When got to my own room I read this letter. I wished a hundred times after that I hadn't It was an appeal for assistance. The writer was a woman. She was living In a small Indiana town. Apparently she had some claim on the man. She told him of the death of two members of her family, of the sickness of another, and of her own overwrought condition. She was destitute, and she begged him to send her at once as much money as he could possibly spare. . "I don't mind saying that that letter made a powerful impression on ma. I read It several times before going to bed, and In my sleep I dreamed about It I saw that poor. , woman's tears, I heard her sobs and prayer,' I pictured tne dead and dying children. Along toward morn- When L, A. Keller, manager of the I3-M-F Omaha branch wants something, he usually goes out and gets it. The demand for E-M-F and Flanders cars Is so great In Nebraska, and Western Iowa that the regular allotment of cars received from the Detroit factories would not besln to take care of the business, and Mr. Keller decided to go to the fac tory and sco it he could not get a few extra car loads of automobiles for Ak-Sar-Een week. II y the time he reached Detroit, he made up his mind that a few carloads would not be enough, and on Monday he went to Mr. F anders, General Man ager of the Studebaker corporation, and told him that he had come to Detroit for a trainloud of E-M-F and Flanders cars, and was going to stay until he got them he got them. The "Rig Biws" sent for the manufacturing heads of the E-M-F and the Flanders plant, and said: "Gentlemen, here Is a man from Omaha and I have Rot to fire him or give him some automobiles to get rid of him. I want 1M E-M-F "30 s" and Flanders "20 s", In addition to rour regular out put ready for shipment to Omaha by Thursday." The Traffic department was notified, and on Thursday morning, twenty-five Rock Island automobile cars were at the loading dooks, and at 6:30 o'clock, Thurs day night the largest trainload of auto mobiles eevr shipped to one conslgne was ready to leave Detroit. This manu facturing feat has never- been equalled In the history of the automobile Industry. In addition to the regular output of ninety-five E-M-K's and IS Flanders ears per day, In two days the Studebaker corporation built, equipped and shipped 150 automobiles. One week to the day after Mr. Keller arrived In Detroit, a tralnload of ma chines was at the unloading docks at Omaha, and Mr. Keller Is now wearing his broadest smile. He pulled off one of the biggest scoops In ten automobile busi ness of the year. ig 1 sat up on the edge of the bed and called myself names. " 'You beast,' said I , .'you miserable brute, you' "But I won't repeat all the hard names I handed out to myself that morning. They don't sound well when you say them out loud. , "By and by I counted the money again that the man and I had swapped the night before. There was just 60. Since the money was wrapped In the woman's letter I had no doubt that he had scraped It together to send to her. I could not return the money to the man, for I didn't know where to find him, but my sense of humanity forced me to do the next best thing. The woman's name and address were on tho letter, and I resolved to forward It to her. I was hard up myself Just then, devilishly hard up; but I knew that woman's need was greater than mine, and I added the last $10 I had In the world to the other man's $50 and sent It to her. "That eugbt to have ended the In cident, but it didn't. Two years later I met that man again. It doesn't matter where or how, but I met him, and it was what I learned then that killed my faith In human nature. That latter was a fake. The man always carried it for the benefit of gentlemen -of my profession. A friend out west wrote It She wrote a fresh letter every week, and the man carried It wrapped around whatever money he happened to have In ha pocket. He figured that the most hard-hearted criminal alive would be melted by an Ap peal of that kind and would give up the boodle. He figured right in my case. It got me, and It got my 110, which, of course, tha man hadn't counted on; but I leave It to any unprejudiced witness if that wasn't playing just about as low a hand as It Is possible for any man to play." New York Times. SAVING MONEY ON FUNERAL Darsraln Rate Undertaker Reveals Some of the Profit In the t Duatness. Burial customs and costs have always and everywhere been considered to be either so sacred to the privacy of grief, or so dominated by the fetish-like cus toms superimposed by racial or religious precedent, as to preclude the analysis, criticism, and constructive treatment which the modern mind applies to almost everything else. It Is difficult to compare the costs of conventionally necessary items of fu neral , expense because -they vary so greatly not only In different lands,' but In the same country and contiguous ter ritory. The charges for essentially the same articles and service differ, far less because of any dlfforenre In actual cost than because of tho absence or operation of regulative custom and law. But wherever the wsy is left open for extor tionate charges to lie wrung from people, when least capable of protecting them selves either because of their Ignorance of the casts or because of the excessive generosity of grief, there prices rise and exploitation levies the heaviest toll that the distraught heart or strangely common prido will bear. The plainest coffin, for Instance, which Is furnished at St. Gall In Swltserland for $2.20 for an adult, costs $3 50 at Copenhagen and Glasgow, 120 at Antwerp, and an the way from $10 to $15 in American cities. The extent of the exploitation In coffins) . or caskets was disclosed In the under takers' war at Chicago In which tha Western Casket company advertised Its sale for $15 of a casket for which from $36 to $50 was charged elsewhere; $:0, for what others charged from $13 to $$0; $25 for the same article o.'fered at $75 to $100; $300, for what others charged from $600 to $700. These figures were followed by the claim, "We will save the people of Chicago $3,000,000 a year, which will be Invested in. necessary articles for the liv ing." raham Taylor- In the Survey. FF1V1 edby peoa ... ... w m o ram an AmtonioM ies EM 0s and FLANDERS IV I Studebaker E-M-F "30" IlirAf "20s" fa ClJw, "OA" $800 F. 0. B. Detroit JIUUCUttlVCl I milUUl O 4J Standard eauinment. J A The largest single shipment of automobiles ever made to any one territory. All of these cars will be delivered to E-M-F and Flanders customers during the Ak-Sar-Ben Carnival. 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