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. Do you realize it is the immense popularity of these machines that makes it
possible for us to sell them in such enormous quantities? The most satisfactory thing you could ever do would be to
BUY If OTUIR
M O W
TIHIIE E-MI-IF OMAHA (COIMIIPAfMY
VI D Th S5 tf TK n G TCP -ra. s-i-4a tTZZ
aCaaal HJ' otaaal HJJ aaW JF afaSal Ci li CO.iL M. ft Ctl ii U. U is? H it H
Direct Factory Branch of the Studebaker Corporation, Detroit, IVIich.
a.
nr f i "f -IM ,r?''1T,M 'i'"1 .Hi --- - . - - -- .. ... . .. .. i
