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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS. MAY 3, 1912 HI' HEK 1ST II 01 LINE Movements of Giain Negw Murderei And Flour Jo? March Makes Escape TO SOUTH FORK General Manager Thomas on 27zd Charlotte News go Over Line Rapidly Nearing Com pletion. Passenger Service to The South Fork on Sunday Morning is Now Practically Assured- New Park is Suggested on River, There is practically do dobut now hat the line of the Piedmont Trac tion Company will be opened for pas senger traffic to South Fork on Sun day, day after tomorrow. Yesterday General Manager Thorn ason, of the Piedmont Traction Com pany and a staff man of the Charlotte News, made a trip over the new line from Mt. , Holly to McAdenville - and found a small army of men at work surfacing the track preparatory to opening the line to the South Fork on Sunday morning. A most excellent quality of hard gravel has been secured and the last of it was distributed along the lines of the track yesterday morning and it was the statement of General Davenport to Mr. Thomason that the two gangs would meet at noon today and that the remainder of today and tomorrow will be devoted to "smooth ing up"' the tracks in readiness for the service on Sunday morning. There is only a comparatively short stretch of this track that has been soft and the remainder has been ready for: fast travel for some days except for the telephone wire v.-hich was being strung yesterday. The greater part of the track was yesterday . in a condition to allow the engine carrying the general manager and the newspaper man to make 40 miles an hour without difficulty. Stringing Wire. A gang of men yesterday afternoon completed stringing the No. 8 copper wire for the telephone system by which trains will: be dispatched. This wire is strung from a fiat car drawn by a steam locomotive, the wire be ing played out from spools as the car is drawn ahead. About every two pole lengths a halt is made while the pola men attach the wires to the insulators on the cross arms, and it is with rapidity that this work is accomplished. This telephone wire has been strung now to the South Fork bridge where the Piedmont Traction Compa ny crosses the rives just above the old McAden country home at Mc Adenville and will be strung into Lowell during the coming week and into Gastonia within a few days more. A booth will be established at the river at once for the convenience of the operating department of the company". The service which will be estab- lisned cn Sunday morning will be to this sice of the river only, where a lay over of something like an hour will be made. At this point the na tural scenery rivals that of the Land of the Sky, in "Western North Caro lina. From Nlhe Charlotte side the new railroad approaches the river, (South Fork) in a beautiful e weep ing curve, and crosses on a bridge five feet less than 100 above the wa ters below. On both sides of the river the natural scenery is superb and will lend itself readily to a parking plan and what in -that section of the country yesterday The News repre sentative heard much which indicates that there are movements on foot to develop this natural beauty and put it in condition for its greatest ser vice to the people. 'The management will during the coming week string the "overhead" to Lowell and will be ready to oper ate into this town within another week. Ballast is now being hauled from the pit between Mt. Holly and Charlotte, to this track and as soon as it is distributed the work of haul ing ballast to the line between Low ell and Gastonia and it is safe as sertion . that barring rain the first electrically driven car will enter Gas tonia under its own power before May 19. The overhead is now completed to a point just beyond South Fork and the feed wire is strung to Lowell so that the work in this department is slightly ahead of , the completed irack and the trolley wire will be strung into Gastonia 'several days before th a' first car goes over. It is theplant of theg eneral man ager to operate a car or two to the river Saturday in order to test out the operation of the line and will on bunday maintain a gang of track walkers between Mt. Holly and the South Fork to guard against all pos sible accidents and misfortunes. Every energy is being strained to bring the new railroad into operation at the very first possible moment and the general manager iwll not leave this section until the line is in use cess ful operation between the two points. Nadhte Face Powder In Grtn Box Only.) Makes the Complexion Beautiful Soft and Velvety It Is Purei Harmless Money Back ifKa Entirely Fltaied. The soft, velvety appearance re. mains until pow der is washed off Purified by a nen croc ess. Prevent! toilet counters or mail. Price 50 cents. ttAITCWAX. TOiLET COMPANY Far. Tmm . The commercial movements of grain and flour during March, 1912, are shown in a report just made public by the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. Interior Grain Department: During the month of March, 1912, 53,060,415 bushels of grain were received at 15 primary interior markets. This figure shows a slight decline when conipar ed with the receipts at the same mar kefs in March, 1911, at which time there had been a decided shrinkage as compared with the corresponding month in 1910, the receipts of grain having been 54,351,274 bushels in 1911 and 67.368,470 bushels in 1910. The grain" receipts in, March of the pres ent year were also considerably small er than In either January or Febru ary. During the three months of the current year, taken collectively, how- ever, the aggregate receipts show a material increase, namely, 193,135,933 bushels in 1912, as compared with 174.150.9S0 bushels in the correspond ing three months of 1911. The de cline in. receipts was most marked in the case of barley, the March re ceipts. of which have decreased stead ily from 8,644,823 bushels in March, 1910, to 5.263.26S bushels m March, 1911, and to 2.947.596 bushels in March.. 1912. The receipts of wheat in March, 1912, 12,499.241 bushels, show a slight improvement over the corresponding figures for 1911, which were ll,747,23 Dusneis. une re ceipts of oats and rye likewise show a slight Improvement the former hav ing been 15,252,047 bushels in March 1912, and 12.66S.0S2 bushels In March, 1911; while the receipts of rye were 707.180 bushels in March, 1912, and 654,277 bushels in March, 1911. Corn. of which 21,654,675 bushels were re ceived in March, 1912, shows a slight decline when the receipts are com pared with'those of 1911, namely, 24, 081.348 bushels. If, however, the re ceipts of corn for . the three months of the current year are compared with those of the corresponding months of 1911 a decided increase is shown. namely, 93,605,S1S bushels in-1912. as against 75,693,809 bushels . received during the same period in 1911. . The receipts of flour at 12 leading nterior markets in March, 1912. were almost the same as' those in March. 911, namely, 1,383,996. barrels and 1,- 399,395 barrels, respectively, in March, 1910, the receipts of flour were 2.139.522 barrels. .The receipts ot flour during the three months of the current year show, a slight increase, however, when compared with the re ceipts during the corresponding per- od of 1911. Eastward Movement of Grain: The ' trunk-line movement of grain from Chicago to the East in March, 912. 15,942,000 bushels, was smaller than in March of the preceding year, although it shows a steady advance when compared with the two preced- ns months. The eastward movement of flour in March, -1912, 531,7o7 bar rels, shows a decided improvement, both when compared with March, 1911, and with the two months of January anH TTohniaTV. 1912. r.rain Movement at Seaports: The rprinta of erain and flour show slight improvement at New York in March, 1912, when compared with the same month of the previous year, namelv. 8.086.204 bushels and 7,197, 087 bushels, respectively. At Boston the grain receipts were about the same in March, 1912, as in juarcn, ts, while at the other seaports from which returns were received, namely, Phila delphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and Oo rv,fiiicrn thp TGCeiDtS ShOW a falling off. The total receipts at the six seaports were 16,963,140 bushels in March, 1912, as compared with 19.- 396.311 bushels in March, isii. ana 16,986,622 barrels in March, 1910. nra?Ti and Flour Exports: The wheat, corn and flour exports from the four principal Atlantic ports of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore show a decided decline in March, 1912, when compared with the exports dur ing the same month or tne preceding year. In March, 1912, the exports of wneat irom uie&e " bushels; corn, 3,624,538 bushels, and flour 358,342 barrels. In March, 1911, the exports from the Bame ports were 802,432 bushels of wheat. 6,414,958 bushels of corn, and 426,202 barrels of flour. TheLiles-Nix Contest Votes Below is the relative standing of charitable and benevolent Institutions, and the number of votes cast assisting the Liles-Nlx Company in the distribu tion of their $1,000.00 donation tor charity: Alexander Rescue Home tor Children. Charlotte .. .. .. ..331.J7 Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte. 26927 Y. W. C. A., Charlotte .. .. ..Zdaas Charity Ward, Mercy-General HosDital. Charlotte Colored Reform School Charlotte 2136 Southern Industrial' Institute, Charlotte - .. 2020 Charity Ward, Presbyterian Hos pital. Charlotte Crittenden. Home, Charlotte 1575 Episcopal Orphanage of Yorkvjile Yorkville-S. C. .. .. .. Jackson Training School, Con cord. .. .. 1056 Methodist Orphanage of Winston, Winston .. g0 St. Peter's Hospital. Charity ward t Charlotte .. 745 Old Ladles Home, Charlotte n5 Thomasvllle Orphanage, Thomas- ville . . .'. - Salvation Army, Charlotte . . Barium Springs Orphanage, Ba rium Springs I. . . . . Associated Charities, Charlotte.. Good Samaritan Hospital, Char- lotte St. Michael's T. & I. Hospital, Charlotte Charlotte Humane Association, Charlotte St. Peter's Church. Charlotte . . 725 484 470 396 255 160 64 5 Next statement will be posted. May 16th. ' . v : - WOMAN'S HANDICAP. "Laugh and the world laughs with you," Weep and , your nose gets red; But with some men, you have got to weep Or hand them a bump on the head. ' - . Special to Th News. Albemarle, May 3. John Harris, colored, in jail here awaiting trial at the July term of court for the mur der of Charlies Christian, made his escape late Wednesday afternoon. It appears that 'Mrs. Alex. Green, wife of jailer Alex. Green, went In to feed the prisoners. It is the cus tom to have all thep risoners go into one small ceu when the meal is spread for them, and the lock to this cell is turned from the outside The only other prisoner in jail went into the cell and the lock was turn ed, Mrs. Green thinking, that, Harris was also in the cell. Instead of being in the cell Harris was hiding under a "bunk" and when the outside door was opened he made his rush for liberty, knocking Mrs. Green down and making his escape. Sheriff Forest, and Jailer Green were at the . court t house nearb, y, they together with . Chief -. of Police Love and other immediately, gate chase, but the escaped prisoner had reached the -woods near-by and no trace was found. Tonight Sheriff Forest with a, num ber of deputies is making every ef fort to capture Harris, and it,, is be lieved he will be captured v shortly. Thee harge of murder, against him is strong and he is considered as ,a dangerous negro. Geiman Battleships to Visit ftew York Berlin, May 3. It has now been de cided that the German battleship squa dron will sail for America on May 11, where it will be pjoined by the German where it wil be joined by thesGerman armored cruiser Bremen, which has been in American waters for some time Later the warships will visit New York. The return home has been set for the end of June. The mission of the squadron is to make a return visit,- the second divi sion of the United .States Atlantic fleet having paid a call of courtesy at Kiel last June. 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Marfville N&W Ar. 11.40 am. 6.25 pm Ar Roanoke N&W Lv 9.15 am. Additional trains leave Winston-Salem 7.20 a. m. daily tor Roanoke. Conncts at Roanoke for the East and West. Pullman steepers. Dining cars. If you are considering taking a trip to California or the Qoast, get our variable Round-Trip Fare. The infor mation is yours 'for the askinsr. with one of our comDlete Map Polders. W. H. BEVIL, VT. C. SAUNDERS, Gen"' Pass Agt. sst. Gen'I Pass. Agt. Roanoke, Va. t Fire Insurance Catechism What Is a fire? : -r v : A condition . brought about by- the devil in which the element of heat predominates. ;What are the causesof fires? Chiefly crookedness and damfool- ishness. What is a fire insurance company? Some legislators say. it is a band of robbers. .' - Are the legislators correct? " Sometimes. What are the lunctions of a fire in surance company ? - To reimburse you for being care- ' Who starts a fire Insurance com pany? - ;-: .- A promoter? " What is a promoter? , A gentleman who sells stock to bankers i and other suckers. Does the promoter assist in organiz ing the company? - No; he simply gives it a name and then gets from under. - Do fire" insurance companies " have any assets? Some do; Mothers merely claim to. What is an agent? A fearful and wonderful thing1. Who may. become an agent? Anyone outside of jail. Do fire Insurance companies make money? . .s Not so that yould could .notice it. - If they do not make money, why are they continually being" promoted? ior the same reason that Mr. Bar- num went into the circus business. Are there any laws against fire-in surance companies? Many, very many. Sometime there may be some laws in their favor. A deal of truth In the above. Come in and we will put you In a company that win pay you, if your loss is straight, v,. .. C. N. G. Butt & Co INSURANCE HEADQUARTERS I J 1 l.f We wish we tv-i' li .1 X'.. T 1 ZJ, - I i- f tiff ' Xl'JJVUAi. 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