North Carolina Newspapers

NOVEMBER 1. 1923. SUES TENANTS FOR USING ROOF Landlord Says Crowd Watching Picture Show Damages Building. Kew l'ork.?Whether a landlord bag a right to prevent tenants (rum cazigr.-g&iiug nightly on the root with iron. lOu to iXM f i leu da for a free Tl#v.- of an outdoor moving picture ehow next door la to he decided in the Snpreme court as the result of a suit flied by .Incub London, owner of the fcflpo six-story tenement houses at 64 Mid 68 West Une Hundred and SlxCseuth street, adjoining a theater, Afblch operates an outdoor moving gtcture show on the roof all summer. Mr. London in his complaint asks Co*- an injunction restraining lifteeu gsnants. all mimed as defendants, fcrt-in congregating on the roof at any time to witness moving picture per?p nuances; from holding meetings or 1 AMftmb luges on the roof; from gathering collectively on the roof for social or amusement purposes; from occupyto* windows connected with the corngym haila to witness moving picture performances; from Inviting, soliciting. en--our aging or urging pemons ts assemble with them, either on the liirfu or In the halls, on the stoop hf ?t the hull windows to witness mov|hf picture performances or for any 9&lawlul purpose, and from continubg to perpetrate alleged damage. Injfery or* loss to plaintiff's property. Many Views Shown Free. Isaac Stanislaw, agent of the property, said in an affidavit that there fere 24 tenants In each of the houses, fejcli were built 17 years ago. The IfOof- were recently recovered, with a Aas . slate rubber at a cost of $700. he agent said that each night from wiftO in 11:30 o clock the defendants Sangreguted on the roof adjoining the , teatcr, paving no heed to the watchrntn who ordered them away. They CCK>k choirs, boxes and other objects |D the roof, he said, and Invited jhlenla and relatives, ho met lutes as many as 200, to see the show for Bctning. "Tin- roofs ar* not rented to the defendfht*." said the agent. and are J>e exclusive property of the plaintiff, dtoce of the defenduuU has license or athorlty to go on the roofs for any purpose, and deponent has made voVaxuent protest." Alleged dan?age done by the nightly too' parties, he said, was aa followst "Coping on westerly wall ol No. 58 nUi - y broken; root damaged In vatdou places; rent pipes broken from their bearings; bricks over the stairway '.fading to the roof demolished." Reports Building Damaged. The agent said It would be necessary to reiuoTe the sntira roof oovertlg and raise ths roofs to th? proper lave?. because they had sagged under the weight of th* film watchers. He aid there was danger of damafe from water leaking through the broken roofs into the buildings. Repairs mav <vw?* thousands ?< rtolS?p? h*? Bided The Rgenr said that when he tirst learned of ihe r?.of parties, he found 85 persons there, but they would not mavc when be risked thein to, saying "they would g,? up there as much as they pleased, and If the landlord didn't like it ha could sell the house, for they would not stay off the roof for anybody.'* The aeent cot u police man. but th? tenants refused to budge until threatened with arrest, the agent Mid. Sluce theu. he said, -the tenants had been up there every night. und had broken down all the barriers he put to keep tbem off." The Janitor said in an affidavit that the roof-going tenants threatened him With bodily barm If ho Interfered, and Attacked the theater watchman, who tried to get them off. Fish Use Underground Channel to Reach Lake , \ London.?Unknown to millions of Londoner* who pasa Piccadilly circus dally there has been an aquarium under this famous spot. Shoals of dah lately have been making their way through an underground channel from the Serpentine In Hyde park to thg lake In 8t. James* park. The chief variety Is the stickleback, a real cannibal which wreaks havoc among the other fish, but these marauders have been unable to prevent large shoals of roach end other flab from using rhe same underground cwssage to St. James* park. Put 'Phones Out of Order. Baaton. Me-?All the telephones oq the 2* lines at Easton were out of fix - uKiknt QA I.Aura raromf. ly because a woman fastened a wire that supported her vines to the telephone wire on the walls of her house. Wh o Hurled Pies ai Her | Chicago.?Because she ob- 9 Jactsd to being s test of her has- 9 band's versatile employments, ? : Mrs. Joseph Fronmak has filed 9 J suit bore for divorce. ! She declared she was used as 9 J a sparring partner because her fl ft husband was an amateur boier, f| g and as a target for pie throwing jj X rehearsals because her husband a ft was a substitute comedy actor i ^in the || I SIGNED SHIPS' 1 PORT PAPERS Task Performed by Parly Presidents Is Now Done by Others ?Executives Too Busy. Washington. ? Modern presidents may have a large amount of routine work devolving upon them, but there are some details attended to regularly by their early predecessor?, that are hardly considered important enough nowadays to refer to the White House. Among these, according to Charles Kolien. Washington philatelist niid document collector, was the trilling d*?taii of signing ships' clearance papers. Among a number of ancient document? Mr. Kohen recently pick*1'! up , were two such clearances for small vessels, one signed Washington." the other bearing the large, scrawling signature of John Adauis Washington Paper Dated 1794. The paper signed by Washington In ; September 1704, attested to the fuct : that the 8-ton schooner Kllza of ; Wiv Vr.rk w.ic l.w g.?.f I ho now nation and was duly allowed i to sot sail for tho West Indies with . u cargo of flour, hoops, onions, stares, i J shingles and scantlings. The fortn was made out iu English, French and ! I>utch. The document signed by President Adams bore also as u countersign the signature of Timothy Pickering, secretary of state; was dated August. iT'JS: showed the proper nationality of the small sloop Endeavour, and gave leave to depart from Portland, Me., to Demerarra, with a cargo of boards, oars, butter, !?*h, flour, tar. pitch, and beet Pray for Recognition. The most interesting section of these clearance papers was an attest at the bottom of the sheet praying that "most serene, serene, most puissant, puissant, high. Illustrious, noble, honorable, venerable, wise and prudent lords, emperors, kings, republics, princes, dukes, earls, barons, schepens, judges, councillors" and a long list of other officers "of all the good cities and places who shall see these presents or hear them read" to recognize the American . reglst ry. Mr. Koheo has also a number of envelopes showing the difference lr. : postal rates and speed of service since the early days of the post office, (hie contained a letter signed by James Madison as secretary of state, la 1804, \ to James Sheafe of Portsmouth. N. II.. j and bore a stamp showing the foe for the trip to have been 10 cents. Another carried a letter from the j recent Amundsen polar expedition, addressed to President Harding, which | was sent by airplane mail to Nome, Alaska, and thence across the continent to Washington for 12 cents, In 1 ciucung registration fee. Tolls of Fairfax Estate. Another Interesting document In this collection Is one relating to the history i of the famous Lord Fairfax, who was granted larce in Virginia by | the king of England during early | ' colonial history. Ix?rd Thomas prayed the sheriff of London county, which \ adjoined his estates, to take into cua- ! lod.\ Ann Seward who was charged with trespassing upon the Fairfax ; estate in 1768. According to the yel- : lowed, torn manuscript, the said Ann had wrought damages estimated at WO pounds, for which the said Lord j Thomas required payment. Man Tossing Nickels to Boys Halts All Traffic New York.?A well-dressed benign appearing man of about 30 appeared at Broadway and Sixty-sixth street recently and tossed a nickel toward two boys near the curb. They scrambled for It and he threw another. More boys appeared and the stranger, entering Into rne zest or the game, went into a drug store ami got $1 worth of nickels from Miss Grace Wnlley. the cashier. By this time the crowd of hoys numbered a score or more and the wild scramble for the coins caused thd stream of automobiles to halt ami threatened to tie up traffic. The stranger threw $2 worth of coins before the supply In the drug store was exhausted and then he asked the boys tn to have strawberry sodas. There was only five seats and there was a near riot. The disturbance attracted Patrolman Cassidy, who put the dispenser of nickels on an uptown surface car after j the latter had told the policeman he , ' once lived in the neighborhood and i wanted to encourage young American j manhood. I , J************************* . 11 Belgian Queen Gets * j + Pardon for Princess j J Paris.?intercession of Queen J I ISlizabeth of Belgium for Prin- + . J cess Louise has ended the ban * i of more than twenty years + j X against the return of the eldest J j daughter of King Leopold to her j a native lan<L J I An allowance sufficient to en * able her to live comfortably also % J has been granted the princess. * Ti?e first installment reached her * in time to permit her to bury * the body of Count Mattachich, 4 X the Austrian nobleman and army T 4* officer, for love of whom slie sac X rificed everything 20 years ago. ? < THE WATAUG THE TRUTH OF HISTORY Kv. r -rice the Surrender at \ppor.jatcx i?i 1S65 the story has l>? or ? >thai Gen. liee "teudereti his sword" to General Grant at \he forma' Surrender arid thai General Grind. J ?d to accept the s'.vord <? : . back to the dv ; tain, "i he story ha; bcv a u,<- > * l.eiy denied ug-utn and again > ) r-ons pre.-ent ??n that hi.-toric -scion, ud denied by General G a- : I rin his memoirs. But noUvn.:; standing the denials, the old fak appear.- on all occasions. And the worst ??f it i.^ that it isn't circulated by irresponsible and ignorant ]> ..I. 1 S - - - - I- -1 ? I (' * I U' .. Altu MK-'UKI ll.Hl some knowiidjri* of history and repeatetily print*. <? in newspapers whose- editors should know better. And more astonishing -till, this story of something that never happened and which absolutely no foundation i- fact . oe?n< re. have most life in the South ??f all places. At least it is con tantly appearing in North ( arolma newspapers, it is accepted as a fact by school techers and passed on to | the children. Pictures of the Confederate Commander handing his sword to the victorious and niagnami mourn ion commander frequently appear, j and tend to tix in the public mind .an incident which never took place. The hoary fake is referred to h.-ie ' not with any hope of stopping its repetition. That seems hopeless. But to call attention to what Gen. Grant said about it. in the hope that those who prefer the truth of history will tix the fact* in their minds and paste this :t element of the highest authority in a convenient place for reference. An i vami nation of (Jen. Grant's Memoirs Vol. II, chapter 25, pages JM w.l! I reveal the following: "No coin creation?not one word? passed between General Lee and myself either about private property :?i? arms, or kindred siibiccis. fhc much talked of surrender of Genera! Lee's sword and my handing it hack this and much more that has been . aid about i'. is the purest rotna c< fhe word swonl ??r side arms was not tat ntioned by eithe rof us until I v rote it :u the terms. There was no premeditation and it did not occur to me until the mom.ml I wrote it down. If I had happened to omit it and Gen. lee had called my attention to it. 1 should have put it in the terms precisely as I acceded to the provisions about the soldiers retaining' their horses.'* General Grant's reference to aide arms means that he voluntarily wrote in the terms of the surrender as those present have testified and as history shows, that the Confederate officers were to retain their side arms, which of course included swords. His reference to, the provision about the s?.l diers retaining their horses means he first inserted a provision that the cavalry horses were to be surrendered ,%,*der the iniiirCooivii vl.i.t tliC** ??.?. the property of the Confederate government. General Lee called his a; tention to the fact that the hordes were the property of the soldiers- who rode them and that the men wouM need the animals to make a crop ? iinoui. a wora vienerai urain sinin. out the provision of the surrender of the horses. This is printed in the hope that the young people will fix in their mind.the truth of history. The story of the tender of the sword and its refusal is a pretty one. Possibly that \ why u lives, notwithstanding it is( as General Grant said, "the purest; romdnce." | REGULATION VS. DESTRUCTION The Suprene Court of Illinois ha-' rendered an important derision in the case of a motor bus company seeking to on--i.il in competition with electric railways. The opinion of the court contains certain truths showing the effect ?>:' duplicating transportation facilities ;-nd destroying real service. The bus company wanted a frun chise to operate in certain towns with considerable population which was posed by the electric railroad system connecting these towns. After a full showing the lower court held that the operation of the hi; iine was not a necessary transportation facility, though granted by a pi.-' Ie service commission. On appeal the supreme court show that it is not the policy of the public utility law of Illinois to promote com petition as a means of providing service. It holds that where one company can serve the public conveniently and efficiently to grant a competing franchise is to make the public pay more if both companies are to earn a fair return on their investment. The court say* that to authorize bus lines to carry passengers at a low er rate in the same territory where an electric line is charging a reasonable rate is against public interest. It says a public service corporator. has no right to make an order' regulating a public utility which amounts to a confiscation of its prop-, erty. A DEMOCRAT HOUSE IN WHICH I FOET ONCE LIVEO i Homes in Old New England Intimately Connected With Life of Longfellow. fa" Mass.?Th?* three fine ol'l New Kngland houses which ire inlinmo conriecttfl with the life of j Henry Wn osworth Longfellow should not ! frgotteu at this time when Bowdoin college, his alttm mater, is planning .? centenary institute in 1 to eeU- rate its share in making pos sible th?? work of America's most popu j tar poet up<) that of his classmate, j Nathan!-1 Hawthorne. Crainie house on Brattle street. | *Jontl?r: lge, the picturesque and state- J ty ltevi itlonary mansion to which | Longf.-i t came in 1K17 as a young j profes-or and whore he lived for many j years, l^est known of the three, j Will: the "House of Seven Gables" and ; the "Old Manse" alone it shares the i honors among historic New England j bouses. | Two "Shrines'* in Portland. Portland, lie., claims the other two ! Longfellow shrlneo. First comes his j birthplace, a square three-storied house ??n the corner of Fore and Hancock streets. In its day It was u fine house. tin- home of Capt. Samuel Stephenson. In those (lays only tii? doorvray, the street, and a little beach lay between it and the water. But for 50 or iiiore years now it has fallen uikmi hard times The water has receded and buildings have sprung up, I heruni UEr it in on all sides. The (mot's parents were spending the winter in this house, visiting his ! aunt. Mrs. Stephenson, when he was > horn en February 27, 1807. A little more titan t> year afterward they moved to the third house, which is today known as a Longfellow house. Then-, in the old Wadsworth home on Congress street, the poet spent his childhood and youth. Perhaps the two houses are not often confused as they were in the Monitor on September 1, when a photograph of the Congress street house was described sts his birthplace. There is no question about It: the lienor belongs to the less welllmou n house on Fore street But the Interest st til centers on the Congress Street house, for It Ik bound up with menio.i'-s all have shared by reading The Rainy Day,** "My Lost Youth," , and other poems. Longfellow's Boytiood Home. The Congress street house in Longfellow's boyhood was not In the heart ?f the business district us it is now but ou the outskirts of the town. In the midst of the fields. From the windows of the boys' room one could look then over the cot* and the farms and the w?mllanda toward Mi. Washing- i to?i; from the eastern chambers the I view wits unobstructed across the hay ; t? Wldta Fload, Fort Preble and the lighthouse on Cupe Elizabeth. Happy j days were spent there with music end j l>ooks and brother and sister. Nearby ' were Deerlng woods, where the poet ! tramped and bathed and dreamed. The I woods have beeji preserved as u city j park and Ihe house has been refurnished as nearly as possible as It was a little more then 100 years ago and 'S now open t?? the public as a museum. ( It is perhaps well that the three 1-ong | iVliow houses should have different 1 destinies; the birthplace, in other j hands; the boyhood home, a museum; and the Cambridge liouse still in possesion of the family. Bermuda's Only Auto Is Destroyed by Accident Now York.?Announoen<ent of the j destruction of the only automobile In Bermuda, a horse-drawn vehicle at that, was brought to this city recently j by Dr. M. F. MabardI, surgeon on the ; liner b\>rt Victoria. The car, owned by a hotel proprl- ' etor, came under a ban when the island passed a law barring motor j vehicles. The engine was removed and : used for pumping purposes and the car was converted into a cnrringe. On his last trip Or. Mabardi and a party of friends were riding in the conveyahce when it toppled over on a hill leading to Hamilton pier. The horses escaped, but I>r. Manardi suffered a sprained wrist. Prisoners Flog Police Chief in County Jail Marion, 111.?Monroe Owens, chief of police of Pittsburg, near here, charged that prisoners in the county Jail handcuffed him to a cell and g ive him 25 lashes. Owens was arrested recently on an assault charge and placed in jail in default of bond. NLne other prisoners, two of whom had been arrested by Owens on liquor charges, held a "kangaroo court over Owens for "breaking Into jalL" He was fined $10. but refused tg pay. The flogging followed. .1 | Triplets Victims of Auto Accident 8 Peekakiil, N. Y.?Triplets were | victims of an automobile accldent here recently when John |3 Morley, thirteen years rjd. was S killed and his sisters. Mabel and g Mildred, tnjureo. The car In g which they were riding, driven 28 by William Gilbert, vra overn turned. MORTALITY RATE FOR MEN LOWEf Women Fast Losing the Ad vantage They Formerly Had, Statistics Show. Washington.?W?men are f ist iosinj the advantage which they have pus sessed in tiie past of a lower rat" o niorta'ity than men. it Is indicated hi lif?* insurance statistics. The ex<-es: mortality of men oxer women, it 1: said, l as been one of the suppose* fixed r itionships in vital statistics. In the United ^ c.tes the death rati of males ban always been found tt be higher than that of females a every ge period from hirth til death and this condition has pre ailed auiie generally throughout tb( civilized world. In recent years how ever, he mortality of females haf actually been higher than that o! moles among the industrial policy holders of the insurance companies It the United States and Canada. In 1911 tfce mortality c*f white males insured In one company was more than 13 pel cent higher than among femaleo While the actual excess In male mor taiity varied aomewliat from year tc year, the condition continued up tc and Including 1018. Changa Also Noted in Negro Race. The year 1919 waa marked uy * udden drop to about 5 per cent, and by 1920 a reversal in the relationship had become a fact, with the female inerti.: ty 2.6 per cent above that o! mal--? In 1921 It was 1.2'per cenl higher in 1922 the oiidition was galx. hanged to an excess of 1.2 per cent in mule mortality over that ol females. In the negro race the difference between the death rate of the rwn sexes was never so strikingly marked, but. nevertheless, between 1912 end 1918 the excess of inule mortality was contluuous, varving from 2 to about 10 per cent. The year 1919 was the first year in which the mortality ol females actually exceeded that for mules and this condition has continued since. Including the year 1922. The fact that reversal appears among both white arid negro lives la considered significant. Very similar relationships In th" mortality rates of males and females are apparently h* dlCHted, it Is pointed out. In the fig ures for the registration area during the corresponding years, and light ia thrown on the possible factors by consideration of the nge periods of life where there changes were most pronounced. Greatest at Child-Bearing Age. It <a shown that among: white per sons the excesa of female mortality was ant!rel.v limited to the ages of twenty to thirty-four In 1921 and to fifteen to thirty-four In 19*20. Among the negroes It occurred between the ages of t?i and thirty-four In 1921, ten and twanty-fonr in 1919 and one end thtrtj-four In 1920. After age of thirty-fire the male mortality has continued te be higher than the female throughout the rest of life. The ages. s&ya the report, are definitely those of child bearing. They are alto the ages at which the influenza epidemic made its greatest In roads and in which tuberculosis showed t!.. most pronounced decreases during the Inst decade. It Is entirely conceivable, comments the statistician, that each one of these three items played an Important part in the phenomenon under consideration. Attention has been repeatedly called In recent years to the excessive mortality among women from causes Incidental to prctmancv nnd chlld-bearlna. these oxcewlvp maternal death rates having shown, it ie said. the srreateat reluotanre townrd improvement.. The Influenza epidemic, beginning with 1918. It !s thought, may have 1 SPE < aft A few of the Thoi a c i l-|5 w v are onermg tor the l? |? \V" T , 'j Men s Winter o.non sffii Lad eg Winter Union iys . |jrj Children s winter uni wool mixed hose . . . (us Dozen safety pins . . Doze n pearl buttons %rS njS Men s Lisle hose . . . . Snl !p Men's su penders . . . Crib blan .ets Hp Cups and saucers eacl tye Sewing thread, a spoc aS Cotton flannel gloves S3 For more bargains s circ Bg ? Davidson I SfSBE TffiHKBESBS PAGE THREE been the exciting cause tor much of this increased rnat?ma! mortality. !t having bnoted early In the Influ-, Ienza outbreaks that women at the child 1 <-?r-1''ru tges suffered excessively from *b?? ' ?ase. This condition has been mark-": with rich new outbreak of lnftiienza Tt N further brought forward !1 -t there Is no question as o the cui-sfer reduction of Tuberculosis mor: 1! r y amoDZ m??les *han amour females, and this Is strikingly marked in rhe ares nnder considerm1 tlon. Tenth Child Brini{? Prize of 150 Francs j Paris.?In these days of the depleted French birth mte it Is not stranec that the press of Paris should have devoted considerable space to Mm p. Just of the Nineteenth arrondissement. who J presented her husband with their tenth child, which consequently entitled her to a prize of ISO francs a warded by the municipal authorities. ; The prize >va? net carelessly bef flowed nor v.-as the ceremony private. . ; The happy father, who is thirty-five, i : with hi? wife thirty-two. attended by [ i th?* ten chl'.drw and hundreds cf their I J neighbors. proceeded to the Mai re of j the arrondJssetnent. la resjwmse to an official summons. The at tendance ot J the eotlr.* ten was necessary for tb??j bestowal of the prlfce There coasequently was much formality Begin j niiig with Almerttoe, aged sixteen, the j I Dames of the ten. their ages, places ofi birth, etc.. had to he properly verified, by the mayor's clerk; when the last. Owtton, onl> a few days old. was, reached, the clerk gave a si ph. the crowd ?. cheer, and the money was handed owr to medarae. who tnuttng ly handed It to monsieur THE ROMANCE OF W0R2S j "BEOLAM* t ' TD1 -hi.AM." the word by ^ *-' which we now designate u hubbub, mi excited crowd or * mi uproar, has b^en derived not 4 from "B.iM," as might be ex- $ peeted, but from "Bethlehem." the name of an Insane asylum In L.*Nv"l*r* ami formerly one of the most abominable term re-nous** of the British capital, t Bethlehem" Itself dates back f to 1247, when Simon Fit* Mary, j * n sheriff of London, founded a ^ j priory dedicated to St. Mary of 4 I Rethlehem. Bveryone connected f with thla institniton was com- J peliod to wear a black robe, with J i n single star on the breast, 'n | j memory of the star which guided J the Magi to the siuble at Ret Me- ! heir.. Some throe centuries letet t a London tailor named Stephen ^ {Jennings offered to start a fund t Ito purchase the Rouse of Rethle- i ' hem and turn It Into a hospital for the insane. hat It was not , until lienry VTT made a gtft of T the house to the city of London j j I that it became ni Insane asylum, f j (Owing to the fnct that lunatic were considered at thet time to ; 1 be possessed by devils, Bethle- t j | urui w<ir iiimiv n phi re of chains, i , I manacles ami stocks, while all t I ; manner of hideous tortures were j 4 devised to rout the evil spirits ^ I which haunted the bodies of th* t living. During the Sixteenth * i century the place became so 4, j filthy and loathsome that no one 41 4 would enter It and It fell Into do- Jj : cay. to be renovated In 167.~?. 4 f when a stone Image of madness, ? | carved in the likeness of one of \ 1 1 Cromwell's doorkeepers. was * | placed on the outer wall. In the . literature of the day we find, that ! the name of the asylum is .short- i ened, first to "Bethlcm." then to ; "Bedlem" and finally changed to r "RedlaoV In which form It re- \ mains. j l? by Winner Sy rullcr.t* Inc > ^ DIAL | H usands of Bargains next two weeks. Br; Suits 98c |5 Suits 89c . _ on suits 45c ty^i 19c g 2c | 2c ?j i 9c jg 19c ^ ' Hi 4 ~ cr ' - U 45c ^ ^ 4 i >1 2c i 10c H ee our b'g illustrated ular. Deot. Store I ?* dH iU2 *{l Ic?!UcT[l?z?nJffn." ' "~ 'y. ",r' '~*n mp T7=n r=r tcL"USflisrlrC-.'J "" " o