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All Sons of the McCrann
Family Now in War Work
Ray McNamara Gives
Chalmers Car Tryout
Expert testimony is always given
great weight in a court of law, and
therefore the findings of an expert in
driving should be real evidence in mo
tor tests of any kind. So, when it was
recently decided to try out a Chal
mers for economy, the driver chosen
was Ray McNamara, famous road en
gineer, who has probably driven a
motor car farther than any man who
ever lived. His records show that he
has driven far more than 800,000
miles and. by the way. he has never
had an accident nor broken a traffic
regulation.
Using a Chalmers car with no spe
cial adjustment, McNamara submitted
it to a test of 154 miles, every mile of
which was through congested city
traffic in Detroit. No special effort
was made toward economy, every-day
conditions were maintained in every
way and. with three passengers, the
result, 14 miles per gallon, was strik
ingly good. Even so, McNamara was
not satisfied and he determined to
make some single-gallon tests, also in
city streets. He maintained a steady
20-mile an hour speed and the aver
age was between 18.1 and 18.6 miles to
the gallon. These tests were made by
driving as the average Chalmers own
ers would. No trick driving was re
sorted to.
Seven and one-half miles an houi
was the dizzy speed attained by the
winning machine in the first automo
bile race.
In the infancy of automobile! a
windshield was called a wind screen.
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUL 14. 1918.
PULVERIZED FISH
IS LATEST THING
. IN FOOD FOR HOGS
Scrap Left After Oil is Ex
tracted from Menhaden to
Be Utilized as Tank
age Substitute.
Fish crushed in an immense cider
press and then dried and ground is
the government's latest found cheap
hog food.
E. Z. Russell of Washington, gov
ernment hog expert and formerly edi
tor of the Twentieth Century Farmer,
was in Omaha on business last week.
Mr. Russell has just returned from a
trip to Reedville, Virginia, where he
has been making investigations re
garding this new feed.
A small, inedible and extremely
bony fish called the menhaden, is
caught on the Atlantic coast in large
numbers. At Reedville, a little town
of 400 to 500 inhabitants, the fishing
boats land and the catch is put
through big presses, much like cider
presses, and the fish oil extracted.
The balance, called "scrap," has been
used for fertilizer in the past, but
there ha9 not been a very large de
mand for it and the price has been
about $30 per ton. Since the war,
with an increased demand and a de
creased output, the price has risen to
$85 per ton.
"I talked to a meeting of all the
menhaden fishermen in town," said
Mr. Russell, "and they explained that
after the war they feared the price
would go to the old level, making
it inexpedient for them to spend
money in enlarging the industry."
As Good as Tankage.
The government has been making
exhaustive tests and finds that this
fish scrap, after being ground, is just
as valuable a feed as tankage, which
is now used in large quantities and is
a by-product from the packing houses.
Tankage costs about $105 per ton. Ef
forts will be .nade to have the men
haden industry enlarged and to use
the scrap as hog feed in the eastern
states. This will release the entire
output of tankage and decrease its
price, for the use of th middle states.
Mr. Russell expects to pay a visit
to the western coast in the near fu
ture with the view of arranging for
the manufacture and use of fish scrap
as hog feed there. This arrangement
will decrease the amount of hog feed
that has to be shipped, making animal
matter available for feeding purposes
in the vicinity where it is manufac
tured. "Reedville is a very interesting lit
tle place," said Mr. Russell. "Every
body in the town makes his living
from the menhaden, either directly
or indirectly. While small, this vil
lage furnishes 20,000 tons of fish scrap
a year, or about three-fourths of the
entire output of the Atlantic coast.
Reedville is 90 miles from a railroad,
and there are two boats a week from
Baltimore. A daily mail is carried
by auto."
The signal corps was the first
branch of the United States army to
utilize the automobile in any capacity.
This was in 1899.
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Prominent among local patriotic
families is that of Dr. and Mrs. W. J.
McCrann, long noted as Omaha's big
family, because of the distinction of
having 11 girls and 3 boys.
All of the sons have enlisted with
the colors. Dr. William J. McCrann
is a first lieutenant in the medical
corps. He is stationed at the base
hospital at Camp Sheridan, Montgom
ery, Ala.
Dr. P. M. McCrann, like his father
and elder brother, has chosen the
medical profession. He graduated
at Creighton Medical college in June,
now holds rank of junior lieutenant
in the navy. He is at the naval train
ing school in Washington, D. C.
The third son, who was the eldest
child, died in the service in Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands in 1913.
Maj. Harold H. Elarth, who is mar
ried to Dr. and Mrs. McCrann' oldest
daughter, formerly Miss Eillen Mc
Crann. has won many distinctions in
the army. He has just been made camp
adjutant at Camp Taylor, Louisville,
Ky. He served for several years in
the Philippine constabulary, when
General Pershing was department
governor and commander of the de
partment which included Maj. El
arth's district. Before his recent pro
motion he was commanding officer
of the 7th battalion, 159th depot bri
gade. He is a native of Omaha.
A fourth member of the household
to serve with the colors is Ronald
Featherstone, a nephew of Mrs. Mc
Crann's who has made his home at
the McCrann residence for the past
several years. He is a flying cadet
at the Fort Omaha Balloon school.
His brother, Walter Featherstone.
is sergeant major with the signal
corps now in France. Another
brother, William, is secretary to Maj.
Elarth at Camp Taylor. James and
Herbert Hannan, cousins, who
formerly lived in Omaha, are enlisted
at Camp Taylor.
Truly Wonderful Value
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wheel base these and the powerful silent, sweet-running Reo
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