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An Automobile Accident Which Couldn't Be Avoided

AN automobile accident which caused . considerable interest because of its jiovelty occurred in Quebec recently. A seven-passenger car partly filled with passengers was fer- ried across a river on a scow operated by the old overhead ca- ble system. As the scow, with its load, approached the shore it was made fast to a stake and the auto- mobile proceeded to

run off. Since the

bank at this point

was steep, the ma- chine moved slowly,

but its front wheels

had gone only a

few feet before the

weight of the car,

now shifted to the

rear wheels, caused

the scow to sink by

the head. This

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��the water. A diver was later sent down to fasten a chain to the front axle, after which the car in spite of its weight was brought to the surface rapidly and with very little difficulty.

����Above: raising the submerged car. At left, how the acci- dent happened

��A Shirt Worth Two Thousand Dollars

THE head of a laundry in Rochester, New York, a man pos- sessed of imagination as well as of money, recently presented the local Y. M. C. A. with a shirt worth more than its weight in gold. It was nothing but an ordinary, white, stiff bosomed shirt. No costly studs were planted in its but- tonholes, but across the front were in- scribed words which made it a check for two thousand dol- lars to go toward the erection of a big, new Y. M. C. A. build- ing.

..Perhaps the donor felt that a suspicious public, its temper as well as its clothes frayed from many uncharitable en- counters with steam laundries, needed re- minding that even a laundry owner may have a heart.

��downward movement caused the stake to be pulled from its position and the next instant the scow was pushed out into the stream.

With brakes applied, the chauffeur did his best • to arrest the backward move- ment of the car, but it slowly backed into the river, settling on the bottom under fifteen feet of water. Fortunately, the occupants jumped before the car struck

���Tlie president of a laundry presented this unique check to a Y. M. C. A. building fund

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