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MATTER SETTLED
Question of Who is to Pay
Guardsmen for Their La-
"bor Causing Comment.
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In all probability the question of
who is to pay the National Guards
men for the partthey played in re
storing order and preventing violence
here during the recent strike of the
t-treet carmen will be threshed out
and settled the latter part of this
week or the early part of next. This
matter has been hanging fire for a
long period and-has: occasioned quite
a bit of talk and much -speculation.
One county official stated thi3
morning that the county would shoul
der the expense if the attorney-general
ruled that it was up to the coun
ty to pay, but in view of the fact that
New Hanover residents pay their
State taxes, like all other counties,
he was of the opinion that the ex
pense of bringing the troops here
should fall on the State, for, in his
opinion, that is one of the things
State taxes are paid for and a Na
tional Guard maintained.
This official stated that the county
had been making a big effort to have
this matter settled, but added that
its hands were tied until the attorney-general
ruled on the maimer. The
county will not shoulder this expense
until it is definitely decided that it
belongs on the county.
In all probability a ruling on this
matter can be had by the latter part
of this week or the first of next and
if it sets out that the county must
pay, then the county will proceed to
straighten up the matter.
The expense attached to the bring
ing of the Guardsmen here and their
maintenance during that period they
were in the city aggregated approxi
mately $5,000. This is' a neat sum of
money and the county is not particu
larly anxious to shoulder it, but if it
is the duty of a county to pay under
such conditions New Hanover would
be the last to shirk. The only reason
this matter has not been settled earl
ier is because up until the present the
attorney-general has not ruled whose
duty it is to pay. Judge Stacy asked
for the troops and because of th:s
county officials are of the opinion
that it is the State's duty to bear
the expenser-
POSTMASTERS TO RECRUIT.
Will Be PaiaSJSjpdr Every. So Idler, Se
cured For Uncle Sam.
Postmaster H. McL. Green has re
centy received from the War Depart
ment plans for securing recruits for
the United States army through the
medium of the postmasters of post
offices of the second, third and fourth
class, and this will mean that there
will be a recruiting station in every
small town and hamlet in the United
States.
Each postmaster of the postoffices
of the mentioned classes will be given
: for every recruit that is secured by
them for the army. Recruits for the
navy will also be secured by the post
masters. -
The Wilmington postoffice will not
be affected by this newmethod of
securing recruits for the ramy as it
is in the first class, which is elimin
ated. SPEAKS TOMORROW NIGHT.
Hon. Cameron Morrison Comes to
Wilmington Tomorrow.
The coming of the Hon. Cameron
Morrison, of Charlotte, to Wilming
ton tomorrow and his address in be
half of Wilson's candidacy and the
Democratic administration in general,
is being looked forward to with much
pleasure by local Democrats and indi
cations are that a large crowd will
turn out to hear the Mecklenburg
gentleman. Mr. Morrison will speak
at the Court House at 8 o'clock.
ONONDAGA IN PORT.
Cherokee Will Be Put Back on Wil
mington Run Upon Her Return.
The Clyde Liner Onondaga will sail
tonight for Georgetown and will, on
her return to New York, go into dry
dock for a general overhauling and
the steamer Huron will transport
freight and passengers irom this port
until the Cherokee's return from the
West Indies. The Onondaga arrived
in port yesterday morning. The Hu
ron is one of the largest steamers
Hie Clyde Line has yet brought to
Wilmington and is especially well
f quipped for carrying passengers, as
she has two passenger decks and an
enormous capacity for freight. The
Huron sails from New York today for
Wilmington. The Cherokee will be
put back on the Wilmington run just
as soon as she rettffns from her trip
to San Domingo.
To Pay Off Indebted ness Two teams
have been organized at the Bladen
Street Methodist churcn with the Ob
ject of raising sufficient funds -to lift
the church indebtedness. The two
teams, one known as the "I Can Team"
and the other as the "I will Team," are
to compete with one another in rais
ing the necessary money to clear the
church of all debts. The "I Will Team"
will entertain the members of the other
organization at an oyster supper, to
morrow evening at the home of Mrs.
AlbrO. Nr 719 KTnvtK Flifil at-raot
swTtearostwwe ETAOiN' ETAOtNNN
MtUbU HtSUlt IHE PARADE WAS .REPUBLICAN PAPER - - d
RIMERATIOil BF HIGH ORDER ROASTS HUGHES We Will Appreciate An; ;
Suction-Dredge Henry ; Bacon
at Work Iri; Brunswick Cove
After Long Lay-Of f
After having I-been laid up at the
government yardhere since early in
the past summer because of the lack
of funds to continue the improve
ment and maintenance work on tike
lower Cape Pear rtyer, the big suction-dredge,
Hetiry Bacon, is being
moved, about fifteen miles below the
city today and wiH resume operations
late tonight; ' ;
The Henry: Bacon has just under
gone extensive Jepatrs and overhaul
ing at the Wilmington Iron Works.
The dredge is '.aco large capacity
and a big crew of men are employed
on it The first work to be done wil?
be at Brunswiek fCove, just below
Orton Plantation. - ., ;.: y
Th4 drede" HwnileW svhich " has
also been laid .up at the government
yard here, is now- undergoing repairs
preparatory tp&sumption of tne
dredging work "flown the river. Two
tugs, the Richard Caswell .and the
Cynthia, that are also employed in
this work will shortly be put in com
mission. GETS
I1IRY1EN MEET
Annual Convention of Tri-
State Association at Wrights
ville Beach In June.
Wilmington has landed the annual
the conyention of Tri-State Laundry
Association after a hard fight on the
part of members of the organization
in South Carolina, who wished to
have the next "meeting in Charleston.
Mr. J. O. Hinton, proprietor of the
City Laundry, a member of the Laun
dry Association, has just returned
from the National convention held
in Cincinnati, and announces that
Wilmington was selected for the next
meeting of the North and South Car
olina and Georgia associations.
The 1917 session will be held on
Wrightsville Beach about the middle
of June and Mr. Hinton states that
nearly,-150 persons will be in attend
ance from "this State, South Carolina
and Georgia. Definite plans as to the
program have not yet been made, but
Mr. Hinton says that several speak
ers will be here and will address on
subjects- such as the dye question,
cost and development, both of which
are of great importance to the laun
drymen. Mr. Hinton stated that the South
Carolina members of the Tri-State
Association made a 'strong fight for
the next convention, but at the Na
tional meeting in Cincinnati, where
the place of the next convention was
selected, Wilmington won out hands
down. The fact that there were no
South Carolinians there to boost that
State's cause helped to bring the next
convention here.
At the National convention in Cin
cinnati ..there were 1,300 persons from
all parts of the country present and
many addresses of a high order were
Vimwl 1M tlintnii ctaoc that nnp
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LABOR PLENTIFUL.
Current
Reports of Labor Trouble;
Denied by Agent.
When spoken too in regard to re
ports that were current today that
there was dissatisfaction among the
stevadors at the local Clyde Steam
ship terminals, Mr. C. J. Becker, local
agent for the steamer line, declared
that such was not true, as at
present sufficient labor was to be had
to unload and load steamers arriving
and departing from here.
Mr. .Becker said that he was not ex
periencing the least trouble unload
ing the freight steamer Onondaga,
which arrived yesterday morning with
a large cargo from New York, as
more than 100 stevadors were on hand
yesterday and about 90 today. The
Onondaga will clear for Georgetown
this afternoon.
It is a known fact that during the
past few weeks there has been a short
age of stevedors on account of the mi
gration of negroes to Northern term
inate, where they werepromisea niga
er pay. This trouble seems now, how
ever, to have been, overcome.
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Popular New Bernian Couple Married
and Will Live in New Bern.
New Bern. OcL 16. A marriage of
interest to the numerous friends of
the contracting parties occurred in
this city Friday night when Miss
Martha Elizabeth Clark became the
bride of Mr. John W. Burroughs, the
ceremony being - performed at the
Methodist parsonage by Jtev. Euclid
MoWhorter, the pastor, in the pres
ence of a few relatives and friends.
Mrs. Burroughs has made her home
in New Bern for a number of years
and" enjoys a host of friends. The
groom i the secretary of the Eastern
Carolina Fair and is well . and favor
ably known m tms secuuu
r. and,MrsClark will make their
WIL M
NGTDN
reds Turned Out to See
Buffalo ; BillTraffic Sus
pended , Traffic was suspended for just a
few minutes this morning and hun
dreds of Wilmingtonians, old anil
young; white and black alike, turned
out en masse to see Col. William V.
Cdy.' ("Buffalo Bill") and his pesky
redskins, -troopers and cowboys pa
rade the city's principal streets and
the crowd was not- disappointed, for
the parade was of a high order and
the : croWd lingered . until ;the steam
piano had come and gone. The pro
cession Was headed by Buffalo Bill
himself, and while Father Time has
left his marks and the ravages of
years have whitened the once raven
locks, it was Buff alo , Bill neverthe
less. Colonel Cody still carried him
self with the ease and grace that
has so often been referred to in hair
raising accounts of his adventures on
the plains and the younger people
could not conceal the admiration
they have for the most picturesque
man the country perhaps has-'ever
seen.
The long-horn Texas steer and the
bison attracted no little attention, as
did the Indian squaws and papooses.
The artillery with their mounted gun
was appropriate of these times when
"preparedness" is being sung the
country over, and the stage coach
with its lady passenger and mounted
guard carried one back to the time
when nickel novels were being wide
ly read back to the days when life
on the frontier was one continual
nightmare, and it was proof sufficient
of. what one can see inside the big
tent near the corner of Twelfth , and
Market streets this afternoon and
evening. Stirring music was fur
nished by the accompanying bands
and the prancing horses with their
gaily bedecked riders was a spectacle
that will live in the minds of the
city's younger generation for months
Of course, the clown was to be seen
and he rode his ' mule, not with the
ease and grace that Colonel Cody is
'capable of, but with the knowledge
that his antics were watched by hun
dreds o fadmiring people.
No parade would be complete with
out the clown and the clown was very
much in evidence this morning.
One doesn't want to get the, idea
that it was only the kiddies who were
out to see the parade, because it was
almost impossible to get in touch with
any of the city's most staid business
men during that time the pageant
was passing. Telephones were unan
swered and offices closed for a short
period. The older as well as the
younger geenration thought a few
minutes lost from business would be
well spent in watching the parade
and the fathers as well as the sons
lined the sidewalk until the entire
spectacle had come and gone.
LECTURE TO CLERKS.
Representative of Dry Goods Econ
omist at Bon Marche This
Evening.
The sales force of the Bon Marche
store will assemble immediately
after the closing hour this evening
and listen to an instructive talk on
scientific salesmanship by Mr. Larry
Altmayer, representing the Dry
Goods Economist, an expert salesman
and advertising man, who has spent
Jthe past sixteen years in delivering
talks similar to the one he will make
this evening at the Bon Marche
store.
Mr. Altmayer's address is expected
to be of a helpful nature to the clerks
and when they have heard what he
has to say will be better prepared
to wait on the store's patrons.
DOG IN A HOSPITAL.
Little Terrier Refused to
Leave
After Leg Was Healed.
i- Madison, Wis., Oct 16. A little
stray terrier fell under a street car.
One hind leg was broken, and after
the quick howl and three-legged scur
ry of the first fright, the little dog
dragged itself, sad-eyed and .trem
bling, down past the General Hospi
tal. A nurse, touched at the sight,
brought it in. An interne joked good-
rhumoredly at the nurse's pity, but he
set the leg m spirits. The little ter
rier was fed and petted, until now his
broken leg is healed and nearly as
good as ever.
But the little stray terrier has
made the hospital his home. He re
fuses to leave, now the cure, is accom
plishedso the saff adopted him,
and he wags welcome to all the pa
tients and . surgeons as they reach the
front porch.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
Nearly 2,500 at Churches . of Five
Denominations.
Tt will be of interest to know that
the Sunday Schools of - the Baptist, ism of the most routine and hum
Christian, Lutheran, Methodist and drum order that Mr. Hughes has
Presbyterianj denominations reported j made the staple of his speeches, so
a total enrollment of 2,457 in attend- 'far as they have been at all construc
9nM vesterdav and while this is not tive and forward-looking. A strong
the highest number ever recorded it
shows what-the average Sunday
tendance is.
..The -different denominations report-(
ed the following attendance: Bap-'
tist 789- Methodist, 680; Presbyte-
jmn. j nutneran. r '
rlan 632: ; Lutheran, vmnsuan,
Local Democrats Can Gain
Much Pleasure From Fol
lowing Helps' Wilson.
The following from the New York
Evening Post, a strong Republican
paper, is of peculiar interest locally
and what the New York, World has
to say regarding it also sets well with
Democrats who are working so indus
triously for President .Wilson's return
to power. The Post has been one of
Mr. Hughes' most ardent admirers for
the past ten . years, and like The
World; it supported his campaign for
Governor and during his administra
tions. According to The World, The
Post has endeavored to give him all
the support it conscientiously could
but the task is too great. According
to The World the disappointment of
The Post is the disappointment of in
telligent citizens the country over
even those who intend voting the Re
publican ticket. The World points
out that there is no pro-Hughes vote
left in the country. It is either pro
Wilson or anti-Wilson.
The following from The Post makes
good reading and is of much interest
locally as well as" the country over:
"Mr. Hughes is just rounding out
another speaking tour The nature of
his campaign may now be regarded
as fixed. He can hardly make an es
sential change in it- before election.
Indeed, there is no reason to think
that he supposes any change desir
able. He acts like a man proceeding
on a predetermined plan; and he is
not one lightly to abandon a settled
purpose. It is known that complaints
and even protests have been made
to him. Reports of dissatisfaction
with his course have been laid before
him. But in strong self-sufficiency he
has brushed them all aside. He is
entirely content to pursue the line he
has been following. There is no like
lihood that anything will cause him
to swerve from it before November
7. Isolated flashes of fire may come
from him more frequently, but the
main tenor of his speaking will doubt
less remain what it has been. Wj
need wait no longer to pass judgment,
on the character and effect of his
campaign for the presidency.
"That it has been a woful disap
pointment to his friends and admir
ers there can be no manner of doubt.
The evidence leaps .into one's face.
On all sides you discove the depres
sion, which the Hughes speeches
have caused. On every side, dejected
Hughes men are to be encountered.
They are going to vote for him, most
of them, but they will do it without
a particle of enthusiasm. They have
not been stirred or thrilled. More
than that, their intellectual expecta
tion and craving have not been met.
They looked up eagerly, but they
have not been fed. This fact is uni
versally admitted. People have left
off discussing it. The thing that in
terests them is the explanation of
the fact, if anybody can produce it.
How has it happened that the man
from whom so much was expected by
his friends, and feared by his foes,
has left behind him a trail of thicken
ing disappointment?
"No one could in advance have be
lieved it possible. In the presence of
the fact, now undeniable, people are
bewildered. They feel that the in
credible has taken place. Nisi imper
asset if Mr. Hughes has not left the
bench to run for the Presidency,
everybody would be saying what a
wonderful campaign he would
have made! What has become
of his old quality to which New York
rose ? The question has an import
ance that outstrips partisan politics.
It is a public loss that we have suf
It is as if one of our most as-1
fered
sUred National assets . had melted
away under our eyes. The Hughes
failure is, indeed, something like a
calamity. We feel intellectually poor
er, it is as it props naa Deen KnocK-
ed from under us. In no one can this
feeling of surprise and almost dismay
be stronger than in the Evening Post.
It is not necessary to say what hopes
we pinned to Mrv Hughes. If others
are cast down by the result, we are
more so. All that is left is sorrowful
ly to speculate about, the causes of
the great disappointment.
"Some hold that Mr. Hughes has
been hampered by bad advice, has
been dictated to by timid and narrow
party managers. It was said of Gen.
Taylor, in 1848, that he was 'n the
hands of his ' committee.' We cannot
believe this of Mr. Hughes. Whatever
the theory he has gone upon, it is one
which he had the chief part in fram
ing, and . which satisfied his own
mind. If he was misled by anything, ti
must have been his own judgment of
what the party situation demanded of
him. In the first place, there was the
need of bringing about Republican
harmony. Past differences must be
glided over. The common stock of
ideas must be emphasized, if there
was any - hope of inducing Progres
sives and Republicans to 'embrace in
a discrepant nnity.' But that common
stock of ideas turns out to be a very
commonplace, lot. It is Repubhcan-
and efficient government; a stiff
at-ldose pf. protection; a keen sense of
tne importance ..pi ,.ousmess. ;iaai
about all. But that s the kind of
Republicanism in which Mr. Hughes
was bred,, and it. is not so strange
ujai u uwupn vui.
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Account From You ;
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The Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Total Assets Over Three Million Dollars
TO SUBMIT PLANS
OF
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Directors Will Meet Within the
Next Ten Days Commit-
tee Soliciting Subscribers.
It was stated by Mr. W. W. Love,
of the Wilmington Packing House
Company, that a meeting of the direc
tors of .- ie organization, which was
formed.-rtsome time ago, would be
called jtyjthin the next ten days and
preliminary plans of the proposed
$100,000 plant would very probably
be submitted to the directors.
For the past several days members
of a committee of which Mr. Milton
Calder Is chairman, have been active
ly engaged in securing subscribers
for the stock in the city and surround
ing country and they met with much
success, despite the fact that the
city had already been canvassed be
fore. A meeting will be held in the
near future and the committee will
make report.
Already enough stock has been sub
scribed in the city and in the terri
tory adjacent to insure the erection
of the packing house, but the officers
and directors do not intend making a
start- until 'the entire amount has
been subscribed in order that a work
ing capital may be had.
VERY BUSY TODAY.
Club Officials Confident Grand Total
Will Be Boosted.
The committeemen soliciting funds
in behalf of President Woodrow Wil
son's return to office are hard at it
today despite the presence of Buffalo
Bill and his Wild West Show ( in the
city, and officials of the Wilson
Marshall Club are very confident that
tonight's report will boost the grand
total, contributed for the purpose of
Mr. Wilson's campaign, nearer and
perhaps beyond the $4,000 mark. It
will be necessary to raise something
like $150 today to carry the grand to
tal beyond the $4,000 mark. '
Republican party is the only one fit
to rule.
"If that is so, then the Democratic
party must be unfit; and, after a pe
riod of Democratic rule, the people
must be j dissatisfied. This appears to
have been the second thesis with
which Hughes set out on his cam
paign. He took the deep discontent
of Americans for granted .and sallied
forth to show what good reasons they
had for it. Hence the incessant and
acrid nature of his attacks upon the
Democratic administration. Nothing
was too small for him 10 notice; even
a minor slip might be the badly
drawn clause that vitiated the con
tract. But keeping this kind of thing
up for two months has necessarily
given Mr. Hughes the air of a chronic
and petty fault-finder. Carlyle's ques
tion might be put to him: Hast thou
only a torch to destroy? Hast thou no
hammer wit hwhich to build?' Mr.
Hughes has a' hammer, but : be uses
it only to 'knock' every Democratic
act or failure to act. Even his prompt
and bold attack on the passage of the
eight-hour law has managed to lose
itsel fin his general scolding The
sure consequence has , been to weary
the. country. People can't forever be
harking back to past blunders. They
want to hoar something of future ef
forts. And in the whole matter Of
passionate appeal, as a man with high
vision of what is to be, Mr. Hughes
has come painfully short. He has
been shooting squirts of vitriol at the
Democratic administration. He has
not freely poured out wine for those
whom he invites to . sit at his table.
"What may be the true reading of
the Tiddle of Hughes in this . cam
paign, the effect of his course is
known of all men. He may have of
fended nobody, but , he has won no
body. He has left the country cold.
Thousands who were ready to be
drawn Itq him are left halted between
rtwo opinions. Most or tne votes cast
for him will be without zeal, or vivid
two opinions. Most of the votes cast
anticination. The whole is an ex
traordinary thing; quite unforesee
able. The campaign in general can
not be said to have been stimulating ;
Mr. Hughes, part in it has been a pos-
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EL PASO EXPECTS
MANY VISITORS
El Paso, Texas, Oct. 16. Unless all
signs are misleading El Paso will en
tertain the largest crowd of visitors
in her history during the ten days
beginning today. Hundreds of strang
ers, from different parts of the United
States, are already here to attend the
International Soil Products Exposi
tion and the series of international
congresses which will deal with liverfigure8 of this place by giightlymore
problems of interest and importance
to those engaged in agriculture and
the kindred industries.
There will be practically three im
portant events in one the soil pro
ducts exposition, at which has been
assembled agricultural, industrial and
commercial products from 20 states,
all in competition for valuable prizes;
the annual session Of the International
Farm Congress, which draws its mem
bership from two hemispheres and
prosecutes an extended educational
campaign, and the annual session of
the International Irrigation Congress.
CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.
Bristol, R. I., Oct. 16. Edward Cure,
a farmer seventy-one years of age,
was given a preliminary hearing - in
court today on a charge of manslaugh
ter in connection with the death of
Elijah Craig, sixty-four years of age,
a farmhand in his employ.. Craig
died at a hospital two weeks ago of
wounds caused by blows from an iron
water pail, which the police allege
were inflicted during the fight.
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.Opposite Murchison Bank
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HIGH HUMIDITY HERE.
Portland, Oregon, Is One City Thaj;
Exceeds Wilmington.
Wilmington has a higher percenti
age of humidity than any other city
on the' Atlantic Seaboard, according
to Mr. George W. Felger, in chargfc
of the local Weather Bureau station.'
Portland, Oregon, is one of the cities
that annually has more moisture in
the air than Wilmington, the figures
or mat place exceeding tne average
than 7 per cent.
High humidity causes hot waves to
be felt much more severely than in
places where there is little moisture
in the atmosphere and also causes
cold weather to be felt to a greater
degree. Zero weather in places where
there is little humidity is felt with'
less discomfort than in places where
there is much dampness in the air.
GOES TO SLEEP IN BUGGY,
WAKES ON ENGINE PILOT.
Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 16. Jamos
Torre, a young farmer, awoke rather
suddenly some time after mid-night one
night recently, and round himself
perched precariously on the pilot of a
railway engine whizzing along about
fifty miles n hour. The last thing h
had remembered was wrapping the
lines about the whip and telling old
Dobbin to go home.
The train struck his buggy squarely,
killing the horse, smashing the rig, to
splinters and depositing him on the.
pilot unhurt.
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