The Standard Out of Temper

New York, 1895

Giving Way to Anger When Compelled to Compete for Public Work.

The Standard is very mad. The Town Board passed a resolution to have all public printing and official supplies furnished under contract. This was done at the suggestion of Republican officeholders, who had been bored almost to death by patronage hunters. These Republican officeholders had been censured by the Republican town committee for not giving their orders to a Republican printing office, which meant the Standard. These officers gave their work to the office that could do it best and for the least money. This action in the interest of economy was not pleasing to the Republican committee and the Republicans who own Standard stock.

A representative of the Standard went to Supervisor Everitt and complained that the passage of the resolution to throw the work open to competition would place all the work in one office. He meant THE FARMER office. The Supervisor said: "Why, not at all. The Standard office has a chance to bid for the work the same as every other office, and if the Standard can do the work cheaper than any other office, then the Standard will get all the work."

The representative of the Standard said his office could not do work as cheaply as THE FARMER office did it, because the Standard has not the facilities, being scantily supplied with type and having no first class presses.

Of course this is the truth. The Standard "farms out" nearly all of its work to city offices. Consequently two offices are getting profit out of it. THE FARMER does all kinds of work right on the premises. We have five splendid presses, one alone costing $2,800, and we run them by steam, and cut paper by steam, and we tons upon tons of type, having added....

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1895, p. 1.

Note: The article ends early because the page is ripped and the rest is missing.

A Track For Cyclers

New York, 1895

THE QUEENS COUNTY JOCKEY CLUB HAS A BIG SCHEME ON HAND.

Proposing to Build Half and Quarter Mlle Tracks at Aqueduct and Make it the Racing Centre of Eastern Wheelmen — Their Plans.

Cycle racing will probably enjoy a big boom on Long Island next season. Arrangements are being made to make it the cycling centre of the east, and if the plans of those interested in the movement do not miscarry there is little doubt that the attempt will be successful. The necessity of having a thoroughly equipped bicycle track near the cities has been made apparent during the past season, owing to the numerous injuries sustained by riders on local tracks, and the inability of crack men to do anything approaching record time. Attempts to interest capitalists in ventures looking toward the construction of a track up to the present-time have been in vain.

John S. Johnson has succeeded in finding men who are willing to take the chance of making bicycle racing in the East a success, and they are almost prepared to go ahead. The men whom Johnson has succeeded in interesting in the matter are the officials of the Queens County Jockey Club, whose track is situated at Aqueduct, in the town of Jamaica.

It is intended to make the track the fastest in the world, and have trials for records made on it. Training quarters will be established at the track and every facility offered racing men to prepare themselves properly for contests.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1895, p. 1.

Note: The article ends early because the page is ripped and the rest is missing. These details can still be gotten from the dangling half-paragraph: David Holland was vice president of the Queens County Jockey Club. "Our idea is to construct a track that will eclipse either the Waltham or [Fo——] Ferry tracks."

54 Hits in 58 Shots by the U. S. Ship Florida

1916

Norfolk, Sept. 23. — Fifty-four hits in 58 shots with 12 inch guns is said to be the record established by the battleship Florida, in the Atlantic fleet's individual target practice at short and intermediate ranges off the Virginia coast this week. Officers tonight predicted that this record would put the Florida at the top of the gunnery list by a wide margin.

The fleet came into Hampton Roads tonight for the week end. The records of the various battleships are not available, but it is known the Texas made the second best showing and the Wyoming was third. The Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Arkansas, the newest superdreadnaughts, have not yet finished their initial firing.

Practice will be completed next week and the ships will proceed then to their home stations for repairs, preparatory to winter maneuvers in the tropics.

Teen Breaks Arm Five Times

1909

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Forbidden by his parents to play football after he had broken his left arm three times in the game, 15-year-old William Eminger found that he could not even watch the game with safety to his delicate member. He was a spectator on the sidelines at a high school game and the team in a scrimmage fell over his chair. Eminger's arm was broken when one of the players landed on top of him. This makes the fifth time the arm has been broken. The only time football was not responsible Eminger broke it falling out of bed.


Love's Young Dream

LOS ANGELES, Cal. — When Levi Hall, who is of the impressionable age of eighty-nine years, went to call on Miss H. W. Coe, a fair and sprightly maiden of seventy-five summers, he was greatly surprised when John Moore, ninety years old, emerged from an adjoining room and began to belabor him with a stout hickory cane. Hall hurried from the home of his inamorata to the receiving hospital, and then to the police station, where he caused the arrest of his rival on a charge of battery. Hall does not believe that Miss Coe will think any the less of him because he retreated.


Makes High Flight Record

POTSDAM, Germany — Orville Wright, the American aviator, broke his own and all other records for high flying. He reached the unprecedented height of more than 1,600 feet, although an official measurement was not taken. He had a red-letter day in a double sense in his experience as an aviator, taking up Crown Prince Frederick William as a passenger and more than doubling the altitude record which he made recently over the same field.

Deceased is a "Graded" Body in This Cemetery

August 1926

Folkstone, England — Folkstone's new cemetery is to have first, second and third class graves.

The question whether the graves should be graded has been agitating residents here for months, and the controversy was finally settled by the town council which adopted a resolution in favor of the grading system.



Miners' Dogs Have Day

London — Miner's dogs had a "day out" at the fashionable and exclusive Ranelagh club to which they were brought by their owners to compete for the Sporting Chronicle Lonsdale trophy for "whippets."

Fashionable Mayfair dames rubbed shoulders with miners' wives and West End aristocrats hobnobbed with miners during the excitement of the racing. The Duchess of Newcastle acted as judge.



Dog Wrecks Car

London. — When his pet dog leaped into his lap, K. B. Harris lost control of his automobile. It ran into a ditch and turned a somersault. The man was unhurt, but the dog suffered serious injuries.