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LAKE SHORE NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919 RAILROAD PLANS WILL BOOM MIDDLE- WEST EXPORTS Cleveland Plain Dealer Middle west exports are to be given a boom through plans evolved by the railroad administration at Washing- ton. If recommendations of Director General Hines are carried out they will doubtless have an important in- fluence in increasing business be- tween many inland states and South American and European markets for all kinds of manufactnred goods. According to the head of the rail- road administration it is proposed to prepare tariffs which will provide class and commodity rates upon ex- port traffic from points in Ohio, In- diana, Illinois and cities on both banks of the Mississippi river from Dubuque, Iowa, to St. Louis, and from points in southern Michigan to South Atlantic and gulf ports, from Wilmington to New Orleans. The export rates to b*e established will be substantially the same as those which apply to New York on domestic freight from the same points of origin and special consideration will be given shipments destined for Mexico and Central America, because of the *low ocean rates from gulf ports to those countries. The action is intended to provide a more reasonable equalization of the rate on export traffic to all' Atlantic and gulf ports. It has been urged by many manufacturers and business men throughout the midde west and advocates of increased.use of south- ern ports. For this ' reason it will doubtless receive wide support. If the change will expediate' ex- ports .through the elimination of a large part of the cong£stion which retards progress of shipping from the port of New York, there is no doubt that it will meet a need which has been apparent for a long time. ESSEX AVERAGES 23 MILES PER GALLON ON 115-MILE TEST The Essex, which has been creat- ing so much comment in automobile circles recently, has added another notable achievement to its record by averaging twenty-three miles to the gallon of gasoline in a 115-mile test in San Francisco, according to word received today by Louis J. Sherland. "This performance is all th« more notable tuecause of the fact that im- mediately after the economy test, the same car was driven over the steep California street hill in San Fran- cisco, being the only four-cylinder car which has ever accomplished this feat," Mr. Sherland said. "Both these tests were made with the car filled with newspapermen who acted as observers. The start up the hill was made at Battery street and the trip ended at,the Fairmount hotel. Only two other cars have climbed this hill officially in high gear. One was a Hudson super-six and the other was an eight-cylinder machine. "At the close of the test the dif- ferential was removed to verify the fact that a stock gear ratio was used. In' fact, it was not only a stock car throughout, but it had just been re- ceived from the factory. All brand news cars are slightly stiff and it is not until they have been run several hundred miles that the develop their utmost power and efficiency. "In considering the meaning of the feat of covering twenty-three miles on a gallon of gasoline, it should be remembered that the motor of the Essex, although it is only twenty- nine inches in length overall, develops more than fifty horsepower. It was this smooth flow of surplus power which enabled it easily to conquer a hill which only tho other cars have ever made in high gear. "Extreme economy might be ob- tained at the cost of power or endur- ance, but these two performances taken together prove that in the Es- sex the utmost efficiency has been ob- tained without the sacrifice of any other element essential to a real au- tomobile. .MiiniiiiMiiiiiimummmiMiiiiHiuuHiuiiiimummiiHiiniiiimiitiiniuiHmuiuinHuiiiHiiiM MAY MAKE SILK STOCKINGS FROM AMERICAN TREES The production of artificial silk in the United State's has been greatly stimulated, during the war period. Formerly considerable quantities of this material, which, has been manu- factured in Europe for several years, were imported into the United States, but now the importation of artificial silk is about one-fourth as much as in 1914, while the exporta- tion of this product has in the last two years increased nine times in value, its sale having invaded' even those countries in which the natural silk is produced. This artificial silk is manufactured from trees, the pro- cess being a comparatively simple one. Wood pulp is treated with caustic soda to form a sodium cellulose- and then diss ;;'ved m car- b >ii disulphide. The resulting viscous solution is filtered and allowed to ripen and then forced through capillary tubes into a liquid which solidifies the threads which are, when completed, similar to the fibre produced by the silk worm. Some of l the early shortcomings of the arti- J ficial product, lack of strength and elesticity, have been considerably lessened and these artificial silks are now being put to practically the same uses as the natural article. SUBSCRIBE NOW The Enemy Seal In Labrador the fishermen regard seals as their deadly enemies. One authority says that he has known a seal to haunt a net so persistently that to get any fish at all the owner had to watch all the while at one end. 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