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MORE RESTRICTIONS FOR DRIVERS OF AUTOMOBILES SKARN AGAINST

DISREGABD OF NEW SIGNALS

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Police to inaugurate another cam­paign tomorrow; threaten

arrests

NO TURNTGAWST RED form new traffic lanes aj Shelton

square and Erie street

Beginning Monday morning, two separa te traffic lanes will be estab­lished at Shelton square and Erie Street where motorists make the tarn into Main street or into South Division streets. The left hand lane ifccing south will be solely for traffic •turning into Booth Division street, while the right hand lane will be ex-ftuslvely for traffic which is to pass feto Main Street ; ^Patrolmen will be stationed at this point to divert motorists in the pro­f s * traffic Lane and once a car Is in out lane it must follow the courso frescribed for it in these regulations. TtUs intersection htm become one of S i , o u s t dangerous in the city, in the B s f t m of Police Chief Migglns' traffic board, and the new regula-tious will be enforced strictly in an • sor t to reduce the hazard which is Crested there.

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New Overhead Signals Traffic Engineer William Powell

«Biled attention of motorists to the fact that new overhead stop and go Signals are being erected throughout

City with an installation being ipleted each day or two. A n e t tal has been installed at Delavan

IWmore avf nues and others are seeing placed about the city. Motor­ists t i e asked to be on the lookout f t r these installations as patrolmen wSt be stationed at the intersections to make arrests of those who fail to

Gd the stop warnings. I campaign to enforce this traffic trol to a greater extent than ever

beforo Is to be 3tarted by the police once, according to members of traffic board. Reports have been sived that many motorists are

ig the signals by starting their iWhiie the red warning is against

em, thus depriving pedestrians of I deliberate intonations that Buffalo I ̂ fgfJiMKetloBa, H t t aaOTlcta to tins

THINK SUICIDE WAS HOTEL MAID, VICTIM

Sixty-Three Years Married; Life Holds Charm for Both

OF UNREQUITED LOVE & Bertha Stockman leaves last

message on picture on Indian maid

FRANK M. BARKER \ [ E N who have hobbles usually ac­

quire them as a safety valve through which they release the strains and cares of business life. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred s hobby Is some form of play.

But here is a man who has a hobby that means work and plenty of think­ing for every man, woman and child In this whole Niagara Frontier Other men have and have had this same hobby, but with this man It is a passion; a favorite and ever recur­ring subject of discourse. He likes to talk about it—and not himself.

The man is Frank M. Barker, superintendent of the Buffalo div­ision of the Lehigh Valley railroad, and his hobby is the development of Buffalo and unification of the Niagara Frontier. If you want to know something about the man you would have to follow him through a maze of offices, railroad yards, shops and signal towers. He is on the go always. Say something to him about Buffalo and out of the din of his great workshop you will hear

FENTON M. PARKE QLOCKS—grandfather clocks of the r * sere and golcen past—but clocks, everywhere. In and out of his office stand ancient clocks that look down on a new order of things.

And pictures of Abe Lincoln—eigh­teen of them neatly framed depict­ing various phases of the Great Emancipator's life—hang around the walls of his office. Three pictures of George and Martha Washington take up one wall.

When he is not about his business as a realtor and appraiser of indus­trial properties Fenton M. Parke spends his time acquiring antique furniture, old clocks and pictures of Abe Lincoln and George Washington. He has just received a great massive grandfather clock from England that must a century or more old. As in his office, his home at Derby-on-the-Lake is filled with antique furniture and old clocks.

Mr. Parke is known nationally as a realtor and appraiser. Through his work as an appraiser he had aided many lasge bond issues and finan-

t i e i r opportunity to cross busy Streets when automobile traffic is m a standstill.

No Turns Against Signal Attention of motorists again has

and the Niagara Frontier as one U n e a r Q w e U > l t n o w n ^ connection community is hitched to a s t a r « i L ^ t h e M a r i a e > S u perlor ( Dakota destiny as the greatest steel and mill­ing center In the world.

"Buffalo has the greatest oppor­tunity cf any city in the United

called to the recent ruling that states for the development of in-right hand turn wiU be permitted j dustry," he told me In a break in his

hers In the city against a tralffc Formerly such turns were

ted, but the new ruling is that safeguard pedestrians such turns

work. "Buffalo's location, its harbor and its railroads. Say there is nothing in the way of making this Frontier district the greatest steel and milling

not be permitted. Patrolmen C € D t e r i n t h e W 0 T i a . It's coming. That b in, ructed to make arrests day may not ba far off.

violation of this provision start-Monday morning.

I! Ill NATIONAL CONVENTION BEGINS

HERE TOMORROW Sheer party tonight wul include

high officers of supreme nest

He paused. And then: "It means a lot of hard work by everyone to gain this supremacy^industriaUy and commercially. Let's get to work on it now."

He cited facts and figures shout Buffalo as rapidly as a n - adding machine, not far off, rolled up some tremendous totals on railroad busi­ness.

It was his hobby and he knows his Buffalo and Niagara Frontier which he hopes some dap to so one great mertopolltan city,

Just back from the Pacific coast, Mr. Barker said Buffalo's climate i is ideal from every possible view Pffeme officers of the Fraternal

*r of Drt0ff>s, who this week will, UHHIIHW »•.* «:*«* » ^ u ; m iu<- m» leipate in the nation* j convention J ^ A ^ u V * " J$£"Z* ™t office of the late Judge Hammond,

thalr order at tho local Oriole

and Great Eastern elevators, several large apartment houses and for all railroads entering Buffalo. During his thirty years in business here more than 500 manufacturing and other business concerns have been established in the Niagara frontier through his firm.

Mr. Parke was born in Leon, Cat­taraugus county, N. Y., September 21, 1886, son of the late Andrew G. and Mary D. (Hall) Parke, of Day­ton, N. Y. The family removed to Dayton, where Fenton M. attended school, and was subsequently s Btu-dent in the Chamberlain Institute at Randolph, N. Y., whence he graduat­ed in 1888.

After graduation Mr. Parke taught for three years, one year In a dis­trict school, a similar period as prin­cipal of the school at Leon, N. Y., and another year as teacher of the commercial department in Chamber­lain Institute. In the meantime, he be­gan the study of law in the office

j of Henderson & Wentworth, at Ran-i dolph. In 1891 he came to Buffalo to

continue his legal study in the law

at in Genesee street, will hold first assembly tonight at a

IT of the supreme lodge to be at the Buffalo Catering audi-

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another subject to which he cons­tantly reverts, he had to leave on some important matter to do with the railroad.

And now something about the man. Mr. Barker was born in Delaware September 2, 1S72. At the age of six->reme President

will preside and with the off 1-1 teen he became a telegraph operator of the n*4ronal nest those of the ' ou the Pennsylvania railroad and has

o organisation will meet to ex-welcome. Among the officers

supreme nest who will attend dinner are Fred J. Seames of

o, past president; Thomas F. Hartford, Ct , vice-president;

d N. Fair, Reading, P*., chap-Charles F. Pfaffman, Buffalo,

W, Lawrence 8ummers, Md., treasurer; John W.

y, Boston, Mass., warden; , A, Miller. Fleetwood. Pa.. a l ; J. R. WUletis, York, Pa..

Otto J. Paul. Dayton, 0., William C. Tenjost, Buffalo;

P. S tuber, Dubuque, la.; Ed-P,*Barker, Philadelphia; Philip

Fink, Lancaster; Robert Lawton, Tonawanda; Michael F. Leonard, Xynu, Mass.; Edward J. Merkef. BUs, Pa.; John H. Rudy. Harrisburg, Pa. ; trustees; and Frank S. Leary, Buffalo, counsel

Begins Tomoreow Holiday, meetings of the supreme

• s e t will begin snd 600 delegates, 500 j afjpabers of uniformed patrols, visl­

and Buffalo members will enter J four flays of sightseeing snd ree-tloa. The entertainment program ! vldes trips to Niagara Falls and |

Erie, evening dances at the clubhouse of the fraternity and attractive features.

been In the railroad business ever since. From Delaware he went to Colorado where he went to work as trainmaster for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, later going to Kan-

and subsequently with James C. Beecher. Later, having decided to en­ter real estate business, he took a special course In real estate law in the University of Buffalo, and until 1902 was engaged in real estate busi­ness with Spencer S. Kingsley. He Is now president of Parke, Hall & Co., the first real estate firm in Buffalo to handle industrial and business properties exclusively, and the only one which has confined its operations to this class of property,

sas City in the same capacity with **ong with departments for apprais-the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific

WILLIAM E. WEAFER T I E writes the recipe of life for

thousands of boys and girls. He compounds the formula that sends them out into the world fit to fol­low their chosen vocations.

His is a mighty big and a mighty important job. Thousands have and thousands will look back with pride on his teachings. He has been doing this work for thirty years and he loves i t And moreover he is the originator of the system in Buffalo.

In 1905 William E. Weafer con­ceived the idea of instituting in the public schools a department to teach business practices in their many phases. And so in that year" he opened the first commercial depart­ment under the board of education in old. Central High school. He has continued as head of that depart­ment ever since.

The growth and development of the commercial department in Buf­falo schools Is a romance in Itself. Today it is one of the largest in the world. Hutchinson High school, over which Mr. Weafer presides as assistant principal, alone has more than 6J700 students in commercial courses.

It was Mr. Weafer'i ambition when he started the commercial department to build it up to the best in the state. Statistics in the depart­ment of education In Albany prove that his high goal in this field has been attained. The courses now taught In this department are book­keeping and accounting, shorthand, typewriting, commercial law, Eng­lish, arithmetic, writing, geography, mail order, salesmanship, advertis­ing, real estate, telegraphy and traffic management.

Mr. Wearer's early background was commercial. So, the experience he had in the commercial world was so varied that it stood him in good stead when he began teaching to others. He has seen the depart­ment grow under his direction from one teacher to twenty-six in tho day classes and to twenty-six In the evening classes a t the Hutchinson building.

When Mr. Weafer entered old Central High Frederick A. Vogt was principal. Upon Mr. Vogt's death he became assistant principal and six years ago assumed a like posi­tion at Hutchinson school under M. S. Thomas, the principal. His com­manding personality and his like­able qualities make him a man well fitted for this work and gives to Buffalo schools an outstanding ed* ucator."

When he Is not at his desk, in­structing teachers or classes, Mr. Weafer Is a man of the great out­doors. He loves nature's wonder­ful creations and his playtime is under the blue skies. His garden at his home, 111 Warren avenue, Kenmore, has been called the most attractive in this section of the state. Aside from this, he has what might

Positive identification of the wom­an who jumpef to death in Niagara

: river from the ferryboat Jamaica Friday night Still awaits recovery of the body although police were practically certain yesterday that she was Bertha Stockman, thirty-eight years old, maid in a downtown ho­tel, whose fathtr, George Stockman, lives in East Aurora and whose aunt, Mrs. Joseph Cramer, lives at 200 Chelsea place.

A picture post card left by Miss Stockman at her hotel room was turned over to Deputy Police Chief

i Marnon and In short inscriptions gave the suicide motive as disap­pointment iu love.

Picture tf Indian Maid

"I loved St«pre dearly," was one! [ sentence.

"I hate to leave you, but I loved him too much. He don't love me.

j Please notify Taunt Bert," was an-j other.

"I hope all my people will learn about It. I'm sorry," was a third.

The best indication of the writer's | Intention came, however, from a phrase that referred to a photograph on the other fide of the card show­ing an Indian maiden in a canoe go­ing over Niagara Falls. This read:

"This is where I am going to end it all: Love to all. Aunt Bert, 200 Chelsea place."

Mrs. Wilson Will Visit in England

Southampton E&C. Vui *_ t .p. -1 Mrs. Woorirow \\ 1!>OH >* :do» of ;he j late President, arrived «oua\ on .;>«

Leviathan from Now York Sii* s.*jj ! she ha** come to England ic rest .<nd

would not divulge her plan* Sere She is to stay In England se\eral

j weeks before leaving for ;he contl [ nent.

Charles Ide and Mrs. Ids and thetr daugrtter, Miss Harriet Ide; and ttheir comfortable home at Eden.

An old-fashioned schoolmaster who f years of wedded life is still his didn't believe in the switch but, used sweetheart. That is the story of the icrce of kindness and understand- Charles Ide, veteran citizen of Eden. Ing Instead. And thereby won him- Mr. Ide, who was a county employe self a bride, who after sixty-three | in the tax assessors' office for years

after he gave up teaching in ine schools of his birthplace and ad joining villages, went iegularl> baek and forth by train to his wotk at the city hall every day uuiil about thrve years ago, and meanwhile worked his extensive farm with the aid of his son.

Pupi l Then, Long Partner

Mrs. Ide. who was Evelyn Powers, was his pupil in the old days of the little red school house, and she is bis side partner now in the job of happi­ness, of which they are both suc­cessful exponents.

"We never had a quarrel. At least we never both got mad at the same time, which is just the same th ine" Mr. Ide laughed a few days ago, looking back over the long but swiftly moving years.

Their home is a substantial and pleasant old farmstead built for wear and comfort alike, and in front of it is an English walnut tree, said to be one of the finest of this scarce variety in the country. Mrs. Ide Is eighty-two snd her husband eighty-six, and they both relish life as kees-ly as ever, perhaps because of the devoted attendance of their only daughter, Harriet, who is shown with them in the accompanying photo­graph.

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In 1906 he came east, locating in Rochester" as station agent for the Lehigh Valley. He was promoted to trainmaster and assistant superin­tendent Next Mr. Barker became superintendent of the Wyoming div­ision ot the Lehigh.

On July 1, 1922 he was transfered to Buffalo as superintendent of this division. Mr. Barker is president of the Rotary club, vice-president of the chamber of commerce and a mem­ber of the Buffalo Athletic club. He has three children, all college gradu­ates. They are Robert Barker of Buffalo; Dorothy Barker Mahoney, Chicago and Frank Marvin Barker of California.

Mr. Bakers' recreational hobby Is golf. And he plays as he works— with a vim and a dash.

and as an official of city, state and national organisations of resrrors, his reputation extends far beyond the actual sphere of his operations. In civic affairs, it has been his priv­ilege to have opportunities for valu-uable service to his city and to his fellow citizens.

Mr. Parke is one of - the charter members of the Buffalo Real Estate board, and was for three years its president For two years he was president of the New York State As­sociation of Real Estate boards, and has taken an active part in its up­building. In 1921 he was elected vice-president of the National Association of Real Estate boards of the United States and Canada; is a member of the Buffalo chamber of commerce, which he has served as director and vice-president, and was secretary at the time of its amalgamation with the Manufacturers' club. He has traveled extensively on real estate matters for Buffalo.*

During the World war, 1917-18. Mr. Parke was one of the seventeen of­ficial negotiators for the United States Housing corporation, for

I Saturday at the local prohibition I which he appraised and bought val

tag. leasing and insurance. As a spe- b e c a l l e d a n o t n e r hobby—that of cialist in industrial properties, Mr. j shorthand. He is a master of five' Parke is widely known in real es- j Sy8tems and has written a book on tate circles in Western New York, | shorthand practises.

Andrews' Secretary, F.C.LpChance, Spends

Saturday in Town T Learning Ete@ins

»%* . f€ F. C. La Chance, secretary of Brig. UUtteS aS Manager Ceu. Uncoln C. Andrews, assistant

*t D . . . . ; ^ - - - D secretary of the treasury in charge 0/ DUStneSS BUreaU of prohibition enforcement, spent

Mr. Weafer was born in Hamil­ton, Ont , March 3,1872. His parents were John and Elizabeth Weafer. His first job was in a lithographing plant at the age of sixteen, where he earned $1.50 a week. He mas­tered the lithographing business and came to Buffalo thirty-five years ago as secretary to Peter C. Doyle, then general manager of the Lehigh Val­ley railroad. His next position, after serving apprenticeship, was city ticket agent for the Lackawanna railroad. During this time he de­veloped and established the commer­cial system he introduced in old Cen­tral high school in 1905.

Mr. Weafer married Daisy Mcllroy of Hamilton, Ont They have one son, Jack Weafer, who enters his junior year at Alfred university this September.

$9 Burn Hole in Safe. Get Utilizing two acetylene torches

they, found in the place, burglars early yesterday burned a large hole in a safe In the office of the Truck &. Equipment Co., 1791 Fillmore ave­nue, and escaped with 59 in cash and some valuable papers. The yeggs are believed to have entered the

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0 f l a D i 1 1l n T i . 3 ! 0 ' « ^ C through an open window. s as merchandise manager of rival here he conferred briefly with i Watertown, Niagara Falls, and Erie.

Pa. His office at that time was a sort of unofficial headquarters for United States government officers

8. CBtles the Buffalo Better Business bureau. ] Administrator Roberts and his sub-

Mr. Learning comes to Buffalo with I ordinate? on the problems and poll-H strong background of experience I cies of the prohibition. l a asarchandise and advertising prac- j Mr. La Chance left for New York represen < e the war ticaa, both from a practical and a . last night, where he will meet his and supply service and others who ' tion of his vacation on duty as chap-theoretical standpoint. chief, General Andrews, on his ar-1 desired warehouse space, appraising ! lain of the 578th Artillery, Pennsyl-

When a better business bureau rival from England, where he nego- lt&n$ o t l w services ! vania National Guard, at Camp Fort

was first organised in Richmond, tiated several treaties calling for the . . . . , , , Eustis, Vs. Mr. Learning wss selected asfcu-operatloa of both countries In the H e h a s t a r C e n a n a c r ? ?* .

constructive educational development

Is Artillery Chaplain The Rev. James C. Crosson of S t

department I Paul's cathedral is spending a por-

degree in M?er, serving there for more than i suppression of liquor smuggling.

two years. He left Richmond to ss-1 Major Roberts left yesteraday for a B d l e g a t i o n for Buffalo and̂ the ; holds the thirty-second Slit In organising and to manage j a four-dav Vacation in Detroit. He S u t e o f N e w Y o r k - H e w a s f o r s e v* j Scottish Rite Masonry.

Is better business bureau in Provt- will visit his brother, Paul Roberts I e n U y e a r a President of the Public He is a trustee of the Jesse Ket-lauce, R I. He was manager of' former captain of Yale football team. Education assoclaUon. and is now j chum medals.

the Providence bureau for a perod of | Captain Leo A. Regan, revocation i chairman of the educational interests j Mr. Parke married April 9, 1902, t i r e s years and was also with the ' judge, will go to the Buffalo General! committee for the chamber of com- Margaret Kidd, daughter of James

hospital tomorrow to undergo^ a rnerce. Mr. Parke belongs to the Buf- and Mary (Watt) Kidd, of Buffalo, slight operation. He will be confined i f*io dub. the Buffalo Athletic club.: who died only a few months ago. He

— . .„ . . , M w w , „ « w»n«., jmt. for about ten days. and the Buffalo Rotary, Greater Buf-> has three children, Robert a gradu-saming has served as sdvertising j In the absence of Major Roberts i falo Advertising and Westminster ate of Hutchinson-Central high

I S&ireaandlje manager in depart- [ John McGovern. legal advisor to the \ clubs. He is a member of Westmin- ; school, class of 1922, now at Antloch

national Better Business bureau for Mx months on special work.

In addition to bureau work, Mr. »ing ha* served as sdvertising BWCBandbe manager ia depart I stores in New EmuAM M 4 tb# I prohibition unit here, will act as ad- ster churth. of De Molay lodge, No.{ college; Richard J., and Margaret ' I* r fn ln iStrStOr. i f i t . Pr**»an,HI i ^ v r , ' A , t MaftATi* And K i d d 498, Free and Accepted Masons, and Kidd.

THERE IS ND SATURATION POINT FOR HONEST VALUE Honest value is a priceless commodity. Every purchaser seeks it, but not always with complete success.

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During periods of careful buying he takes unusual to find it, and products of inferior merit fail to attract hs* patronage.

Reports then'drculate that the "saturation point" in the auto­mobile market has been reached, when in reality there will NEVER be a saturation point for honest value*

During the first six months of this year, for instance, Dodps Brothers sold 207,115 motor cars and trucks* This repre­sents a gain of 49.3 per cent over the first six months of 1925, acd continues Dodge Brothers in the enviable position of THIRD m THE INDUSTRY. Prom June 24th to August 1st 41,866 motor cars and 'trucks tvere delivered to customers in the United States—an in­crease of 80 per cent over the live weeks ending August 1, 1925, and impressive evidence that Dodge Brothers great sales gain is continuing through the quiet weeks of mid* summer* »

The more carefully people investigate and compare, detail by detail, the factors that constitute genuine motor car value, the more inevitably Dodge Brothers market expands and will continue to expand, year after year* '

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