New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1929, Page 11

BIGGEST PROPERTY CHANGE IN HISTORY Rail Purchase of Express Busi- ness Is Perfected Today New York, March 1.—(UP)—The greatest exchange of property ever made in the United States occurred at midnight when the American Railway Express company became the Railway Express Agency, Inc. It also probably was the smoothest transaction in the history of big busi- ness for the 100,000 employes involy- | ed merely went to 26,000 offices and took up their customary dutics. Today the final step of the trans- fer taken when bankers for the turned over a check for § 1,000 to R. E. M. Cowie, president of the American Railway Express company who will hold the same position with the T way Express Angeney, Tne. The taking over of the company by the railroads is ghe last of a series of consolidations in the transfer husiness which started dur- _ ing the World war when all the ex- press companics were merged into the American Radlway Iixpress com- pany. The deal consu d today left the American Railway Ixpross com- pany with cash assets of $40,000,000 but without an cmploye or an office. Cowie said no plans had been made for disposal of the assets Called Vital Advance Railroad execitives ofticials called the transaction the most important step in the develop- ment of th express bhusiness sinee the day early in the 19th century when William 1% Hernden conecived the idea of a “personal package so fee” and set out his haversack jammed with parcels which people naid him for carr It was in 1S40 that Alvin Ad atarted lar service on a ¢ ent route and expanded until built up the Ad Lspr pany which factor in the the World war. Gradually men began to utilize rail and river truf 1 the Pony Express became an institution in the west. The taking over company by the railr the first transfer of | the unan terstate comm Rail- express rv- from Boston with ving. sim 1 powertil these of the express is today was kind to h mous 1 of the in- pproy > comir STRIBLING 1S NoT SOUTHS 100, NOw Doubt Whether He Can Ever Again Draw Crowds to Fight Miami Beach, IFla., March 1 (UP) —An entirely new field in Losing hag been opened by the of comntract hetween Madison Square Garden and the city of M - ing for the promotion of an finport- ant heavyweight fight here each v ter for the nest five ye Tex Rickard's maxim that ty fistic spectacles a year public Wil €upport no longer apply. If the present heavyweig ble produces a fightir such as Jack Dempsey prime, there is no re: title should not he def anc summer. In any ¢ 50 per cent has been field of fight promotion. The big arena across the which Jack Sharkey Stribling before 40,000 Wednesday night is being down and hrought to Miami it will 1 fn- irs o hig the will are all ht scram- champion was in his on why the nded winter ent, at loas spectators where larzed and reconstruct- ed in preparation for heavyweight battle. W. 1. Carey and his associates who huilt the arcna are forfunate in heing able to dispose of it for semething other than kindling wood. The arena will be placed on a 20 acre Jot 86th strect and Tth avenue, a fow blocks from Biscayne Bay. Its roundings will lack something of the pleturesqueness of Miami Beach, but will be better adapted to the handling of a large fight crowd It was not the Sharkey-Stribling fight itself which persuad di- tectors of Madison Square Garde next winter’s sur- “THE HOME OF REAUTIFUL GIFTS” JACKA GIFT 58 West Main Street added to the | taken | |to enter into the five .* ar contract. [only 10 to 2¢ voits’ he says, “but | hurricane. But Doctor von Hohe- | duc with an alternation producing Ilumir.uu says water may explode §00,000 to 5,000,000 sccond. |1f was the fun they had promoting the affair, if the truth were known. he next heavywelght fight here, |unless it involves the championship |of the world, probably will not at- | tract as many people as did the {bout hetween Sharkey. and Stribling. | {1t "5 doubtful if Strib will be on |of the contenders mext time, an | equally doubtful if the south, dis- | |appointed in its young hero after | Wednesday night's affair, woull | flock to the support of the Georgian |as it did this week. | Then there is the question—what | wiil Jack Dempsey be doing at this | time in 19307 The ex-champion | hardly will be fighting—although if | |he is that will solve all the prob-| |lems of attendance and gate ve- | ceipts. | If Jack accepts one of the many offers made him here since the fight the other night, he may be filling !the role of promoter on behalf of others than the “600 millionaires.” I"or Mudison Square Garden to make the five year enterjrise successful, it will need a man like Dempsey. some one with the ex-champion | maknetism gnd popularity as a fiz urchead if not actually the director. Dempsey is considering offers from Detroit, presented by his close [ friend, Floyd Fitzsimmons; from Chicago, tendered by George 17 Getz, the coal merchant; from Hum- bert J. Fugazy and a number of others who can write sizeable 1t is difficult to see how Madispn can pay Dempsey money which others can offer, is role, save on the occasion of big heavyweights of this sort, must necessarily be a minor one. The Garden gave Jack 25 per cent of its ofits from the Sharkey-Stribling P which netted the ex-cham pion something like $20,000. This was a tidy litlle sum, course, but twice that amount would hardly be a yearly salary for Dempsey, his friends point out. WATER EXPLOSIONS VAY DRIVE AUTOS | e Garden for ir, ot v Bragilian Scientist Claims Crea: tion of New Fuel Gas London, March 1 (P —Water | new guises, us an explosive and a cheap fuel to run steam engi is described by Dr. Walter von Ho- wenan, Brazilian scicntist. By subjecting water to electro- magnetic vibrations of great quency, he reports for the proceed inzs of the world's fuel conference, he is able to release large volumes of hydrogen ard further to extract hydro from the remaining in fre- oxyE e lydrogen thus produced would furnish a fuel gas. Doctor von Holwenau cluims that the energy required to do all this is much ller than the energy which the hydrogen would produce. | “I am working with a voltage of HAPPY MueaLTHy | CHlLDREN A sickly child is a constant wore ry to mothers. Keep your chil- dren well and healthy by | giving them regularly, Mother Gray's Sweet Powders, | thattested treatment for headaches, stomach troubles, feverishness, worms, constipation, colds and other children’s disorders. Children like them and they give quick relief. If mothers only knew how helpful Mother Gray’s Pow- dersare, they would never be with- out them for use when needed. oy, N. V. “<Mother Gray's sweer POwders FOR CHILOREN | For Free Somple package. 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