Life — June 22, 1916 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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SRAINS: IRS st arried pring.” rnest- rectly. tion. GE BLOS Wine Gi ice, Dri Anecdotes That Might Have Been CAESAR AND THE FILIBUSTERERS HE Correspondent of the Amalga- mated Press Association was sitting in a front row seat in the gallery of the Senate wing of the Capitol. It was the sixteenth day of the debate on the rider attached to Senator Whackhammer's bill for turning the Alkali Desert into an Italian Garden. Of this great project itself everybody in the country apparently was a staunch advocate. For years it had been con- sidered a deep reproach to American enterprise, to say nothing of American civilization, that this t stretch of territory should be productive of noth- ing but cactus and mesquite bushes, gila monsters, and alkali dust, when by the expenditure of a paltry three hundred million dollars—scarcely more than a day’s income of any one of a thousand industrial leaders—it could be made to sprout forth catalpa trees, mauve rhododendrons, and box-hedges in lavish abundance. And now here at the last moment, just as the dream of the century was about to be realized, along came Senator Blenkinsop, im- perilling the whole imperial project with an amendment to the bill, pro- viding for the exemption of all Plumb- ers, Undertakers and Car Conductors from the operation of the Sherman Act. Immediately a how! of protest went up from one end of the country to the other, even California objecting, and no man, however blind to condi- tions or out of touch with the will of the people, could have failed to see that the amendment was unpopular. Nevertheless, Senator Blenkinsop and his group were a determined body of men, full of a courage worthy of a WO cars—same make, same model, same year —used in the same service over the same roads for the same period, ultimately reached the ‘‘used car’? sales- room. Yet the sales tags read differently. Why? One car was equipped with the Ffartford SHOCK ABSORBER immediately after leaving the factory; the other was not. The Hartford-equipped car command- ed a greater price because it was in better condition. Any car unprotected from road rack- ing and vibration deteriorates in efficiency and depreciates in value far more rapidly than one protected by the Hartford Shock Absorber, which absorbs the jolting, jarring and vibration to which every car is necessarily subjected. To these facts more than 375,000 users of this pioneer shock absorber will attest There's a Comfort Chart compiled for car oteners. Your car—what its make or model—is listed. This chart tells how to realize greater comfort and inci dentally decreased depreciation. Send for it EDWARD V. HARTFORD, Inc. Heretofore known as Hartford Suspension Co. 192 Morgan Street JERSEY CITY, N. J. Makers of the Hartford Shock A\ 4 Hartford Shock Absorbers ~ Makes Every Road a Boulevard Hartford Cushion Spring, E. V. Hart beorbe: ford Electric Brake, Hartford Auto Jack, Hartford Bumper, Red Rack Jack. Branches: New York Distribators in principal cities. Dealers everywhere. Ge BILTMORE 43rd and 44th Sts and Madison Ave The Centre of Social Life of the Metropolis Close to theatres and shops. The Cascades, Italian sunken gardens. Special features, Bax Afternoon tea + Orchestra better cause, and in the very last weeks of an already overworked session had instituted a filibuster. The Senator himself had made a speech of a hun- dred and ninety hours long, introducing one of Bernard Shaw's Pale Plays for Pink Puritans, and thirty-four short essays by Chesterton into the midst of it, and using Longfellow’s trans- lation of Dante for his peroration. His colleague, Senator Bildad, had followed with another address lasting Boston Chicago Formerly Traffaalt-Harthord five full days, the main section of which was devoted to a reading of “Les Miserabics,” as rendered into English by Henry James, from cover to cover. This was followed by Senator Squillops with a four days’ account of the various discoveries of America from L Ericson to Carnegie, and now Senator Yallermug was in the midst of a stirring series of Fourth of July pyrotechnics that caused the Senate Chamber to echo and re-echo comicbooks.com PT OEE ETO