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PAGE TWO
THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS
WORK HAS BEGUN
ON PALAIS ROYAL
W 1 1 -V em a
MAJESTIC THEATRE
euuaing uccupiea oy morns
Myers' Store Is to Be
MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
Remodeled.
JOINING STOREROOMS
TO BE CONSOLIDATED
Extensive Interior Work Planned an
Solid Front Is to Be Built to
Establishment.
"Work has been begun on the build
ing on South Main street occupied by
the Palais Royal, of which Morris
Myers is proprietor, which, when
completed, will make ot it one of the
most modern stores in the city. The
interior and front of the building are
to be completely remodeled and it
' Is estimated that the work on Im
provements will consume about a
' month.
Two adjoining storerooms have
i been used by the Palais Royal for
some time, the two being connected
by an entranceway to the rear of the
building. The entire partition between
these two storerooms Is now being
removed In order to throw the two in
to one. When completed, this will af
ford a floor space on the ground
! floor of 60 by 125 feet, all In one big
'department.
The entire 60 foot front of the two
stores as they now stand will also be
taken out and a solid front installed.
A single broad entrance will be pro
vided and on each side there will be
solid plate glass windows. The en
trance will be laid with tile and when
i the improvement is completed the
front promises to be one of the hand
somest in the city.
A great deal of work is to be done
on the interior of the building, in ad
j dlOon to the removal of the dividing
I partition. Metal ceilings will be in
I stalled, the floors will be brought up
to a level and the entire Interior will
. be redecorated. The most convenient
I arrangement will be made for the
I benefit of the customers of this es
' tablishment.
The second floor of the building,
which Is now occupied by this con
; cern, will also be remodeled and re
arranged and a broad, easy stairway
will lead from the first to second
floors. The plans have been gone over
very carefully for some time, In order
that no necessary detail of the Im
provements might be overlooked, and
Mr. Myers is confident that when the
work is completed he Will have one
of the most up-to-date establishments
to be found in the city, or even In the
state.
The Palais Royal was established
here 18 years ago by Mr. Myers, and
when It was first opened there was
only one-sixth tf the floor space now
occupied taken by the store. Three
years later the whole of one of the
stores was taken over, and still later
an addition was built. The business
Continued to grow by leaps and
bounds until it has become necessary
for the additional storeroom to be
secured. This was done several years
ago and now the i mcern occupies
both the first and second floors of
these buildings.
The lines carried include dry goods,
notions, ladies' ready-to-wear gar
ments and millinery. These lines will
still be carried when the Improve
ments are completed. Mr. Myers states
however, that he expects to consider
ably enlarge each department and
carry a digger stock and a more ex
clusive stock than ever before.
ESCAPED CONVICTS IRE
IT
Zeke Austin and Paul Thomp
son, Wanted at the Local
Chaingangs, in Custody.
A message has been received by
the sheriffs office from KnoxvMle to
the effect that Zeke Austin and Paul
Thompson, who escaped from the
Buncombe county chalngang several
weeks ago, had been caught there
and would be held pending advice
from the local county authorities. It
la understood that an office- will be
sent to Knoxvllle, probably today,
for tha return of the two men. The
details of the message were very
meager and It Is not known just how
they were caught '
Thompson waa serving a sentence
for flra years for burglarizing the
store of I. W. Olasar several years ago
and had served about three year of
the time. It Is stated Austin was serv
ing a sentence of several months, hav
ing been convicted on charges of as
sault, retailing and larceny. Both
men have long court records and have
been convicted a number of times on
several different charges.
BANK AT LYERLY, OA.
IS ROBBED OF 14,000
Lyeriy. Qa.. Jan. Jl The bank Of
I.yerly, a Mate Institution was robbed
of tf.tfo during Thursday night by
a robber band which drew a barri
cade of barbed wire across streets
that approached th building, station
ed an outpost to keep the town tr
lUftald by firing occasional wild shots,
and than dynamited the bank vault.
Nana of .he cltlsens vestured from
oover on'.il the robbers had left
tM are la pursuit.
THE
BEST
YET!
"THE SUNNY SIDE OF BROADWAY"
Special Scenery and Electrical Effects. Best Dancing and Singing Show Yet. The Burlesque Quartet,
Sher and Austin, Tango Dancers. All the Newest Song Hits. Largest Chorus Ever at Majestic.
9 Absolutely the Biggest and Best Attraction Ever Offered at MAJESTIC Si
MATINEE DAILY
CHILDREN
ADULTS 20 and
CASE INSTITUTED BY
, FOREIGNERS SETTLED
Matters of Back Wages Claim
ed by Austrans and Rus
sians Compromised.
The eases against the Perley
Crockett company of Black Mountain,
instituted by the 20 Austrians and
Russians, who it was claimed had
been brought here from Pittsburgh to :
work for the company and who
brought suit against the company for'
back wages, has been settled, It was
stated today by attorneys for both
sides.
It is stated that the cases were set
tled by the attorneys and will there
fore not come up for the final hearing
tomorrow before Magistrate V. B.
Gudger, as was scheduled.
The cases attracted considerable at.
tentlon at the time they were started.
The laborers stated that they had been
hired in Pittsburgh by an agent and
told that they could get work with the
Perley-Crockett company; that their
railroad fares -would be paid to Black
Mountain. Upon their arrival, it was
stated, the company wanted to hold
out the fares from the wages due the
men. The company claimed that they
had made contracts with the men in j
which they agreed to have the fares '
taken out of the wages. The decision !
In the matter was held open until .
January 31, In order to allow the
company to produce the contracts
they had made with the men.
E
LIST GAME OF SERIES
Association Basket Ball Team
Won From Jacksonville
Last Night.
A message has been received by
Secretary Ed B. Brown of the Y. M.
C. A., from James B. Taylor, man
ager of the association basket ball
team, which brings U information
that locals Thursday night defeated
the association team of Jacksonville
hy tho score of 30 to 24. This Is the
first of the four games played on the
rood since tha team left here that
they have won, the last game played
against the Augusta association team,
having resulted In a defeat for the
Ashevllle boys by the score of HI to
27. They hsd previously been defeated
by the association teams of Spartan
burg and Greenville. The team will
return here tomorrow.
There is still a hope that the locals
may win the southern championship,
since games have been arranged here
during next month with all three of
the teams that defeated the locals on
this trip.
There Sm Only One
"Br onto Quinine"
Tmmi le
Laxative Bromo Quinine
Al'vayi remember the loll name,
tho ! ob ever box.
Look
S6o.
MAX
3:15
10c.
30c.
SALE OF
ORDERED
R. R. IS
Judge Directs That No Bids Be
Accepted Under 34 Mil
lion Dollars.
St. Louis, Mo.. Jan. 31. -The sale
of the Wabash railroad ut foreclosure
was authorized yesterday by Federal
Judge Adams.
Judge Adams directed that no bids
for the property lower than $34,000.
000 dollars be accepted and that the '
sale be made without appraisement.
Chester H. Krum was appointed I
special master to execute the sale. All
bidders will be required to deposit,
with him $1,700,000 or $3,'i00,000 in
Wabash first refunding or extension,
mortgage bonds.
The decree of foreclosure was hand- i
ed down on motion of the Equitable
Trust company of New York, which as
trustee holds $41,900,000 in bonds of
the Wabash. The motion was sub
mitted with the announcement that a
plan of reorganization had boon made
satisfactory to the trustee and the
receivers.
The decree directs that within 2u
days the Wabash sriall pay to the
Equitable $4,31!3,21 as interest on
the first mortgage bonds from July.
HtOO, when the road first defaulted in
Interest payments.
INJUNCTIONS PREVENTING
HT SUITS DISSOEVED
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 31. Injunc
tions against John T. Barker, attorney
general of Missouri, preventing him
from proceeding with suits to recover
$24,000,000 excess freight and pate !
senger charges made hy railroads
while the Missouri rate cases were In ,
litigation, were dissolved yesterday In i
an opinion by federal Judge Smith Mc-1
Phcron.
The original Injunction brought by
railroads to prevent enforcement of :
Missouri's two cent passenger and1
maximum freight rate laws also was '
dismissed, In accordanco with the re-'
cent decision of the United States Su
preme court upholding the laws. In;
addition the court held the $10,000,
bond put up by each railroad In 105 .
when the state rate laws were enjoin- i
ed has no reference to those persons
who have paid excess rates or passen
ger fares and they can recover what
ever is due them.
$50,000 STOLEN IN
RUSSIA DURING A
TRANSFER OF MAILS
Roeita-on-Bon, Russia Jnn. 30.
Fifty thousand dollars was stolen here
today durlifg a transfer of maila The
official In charge of the mall was arrested.
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BOYLE WOOLFOLK PRESENTS
BLOOM
TWO NIGHT PERFORMANCES
7:15 and 9:30
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Cabinet Will Be Called on to
Justify Deportation of
Labor Men.
Cape Town, Jan. 31 Riotous scenes
marked opening yesterday of the par
liament of the Union of South Africa.
It was apparent that General Uouis
Botha, the premier, and his cabinet
ministers would he prompetly called
upon to justify the iron-handed meth
ods they adopted in dealing with the
recent strike, particularly ti e deporta
tion of 10 labor leaders.
Viscount Gladstone, governor gen
eral, said the declaration of martial
law had been an "imperative duty."
General Jan Christiana Smuts, minis
ter of defense, gave notice that he
would move a bill to indemnify the
government for all its acts under mar
tial law and to prohibit the return of
the deported men, thus raising an
effectual bar to the efforts of the labor
representatives to move the immediate
discussion of the "surreptitious depor
tation of citizens without trial."
OE FEDERAL OFFICES
Office of Marshall Comes Here
And Revenue Office Goes
To Greensboro.
Next Monday morning the office of
Cnited States Marshal Charles A.
Webb will be installed in the federal
building here and the office, of Internal
Revenue Agent Thomas H. Vajtster
ford will bo In tlreensboro. All the
fixtures and papers of the marshal's
office have already arrived here and
will be Installed Just us soon as all
tho belongings of the revenue office
arc taken out of the old quarters.
Packing has been going on In the
revenue office for some days and a
purt of the fixtures'and papers of this
ortlco have already been shipped. Tho
remainder will be sent down this af
ternoon or tomorrow.
Revenue Agent Vanderford will be
nc'companled by all the members of
his office -force, with tlo exception of
Deputy Collector A. B. Froeman, who
left yesterday to tako up hla duties
under Revenue Agent R. U. Hams at
Roanoke.
NOMINATIONS MADE
FOR POST OFFIOES
Washington, Jan. 31. The presi
dent has fpcJc 'hese nominations for
postmustertr
Mississippi Ws F. MeCormlfk.
Yasoo City, Uasle Dillon Oltenburg,
Winona; Amoa K. Porter, Boyle.
Ixiulslana John B. Bewell, Bald
win; James M. Underwood 'Farm
vllle; James H. Deggett, Oakdale.
South Carolina Joshua L. Young.
Ware Shouts.
Virginia William E. Ramsey,
Uretna.
Alabama W. B. Jones, Camden;
Randolph St. John, flylacauga.
Georgia Thomas C. Splvey, Eaton -ton;
W. T. Thurmond. Commerce.
Florida O. K. PsjUon, , Jr., White
Springs.
Very True.
" Many a fellow make good impre
ioq without making good. Detroit
Journal
IN
REBEL MOVEMENT
TOWARD TORREON
Juaroz, Jan. 31. Rebel movements
toward Torreon began on a large scale j tne rebels strength exceeds that num
yesterday. The bulk of the urmy had ber.
encamped at Kscalon, more than half
way southward from Chihuahua and j nA1unun.CQTAM
more troops were joining them from j MOVq vUIftlUlBOAU
neeet SrS? lriyin??Xom ! ORDER INVESTIGATION
the eastward to attack Saltllk) and cut
off the federal communication from
Reminiscinces of the Old Stage
Coach Days in Piedmont Section
J. J. Korncr, in Kernera ville News.
On a cold, dark, rainy night, I think,
it was in November, 1855, my father was
then living in the old brick residence two
miles west ot Kernersvilte, on the main
Snlera road. Supper was over, and the
family ail seated around a big blazing
fire. At short intevals we could hear
a noise out down the road, as if some
one were in trouble. We all, old an
young, could- hiit wonder what it meBnt.
So, after wondering, my father said we
would go out and sec what that meant
and the "mystery explore." No 6ooncr
said than done, and olf we "run."
A short distance down the road to
ward the creek we found the stage coach,
four-in-hand and driven by a Mr. Ba
ker, stuck fast in the mud. The horses
were wet and tired, as thev had been
all day on the
goinp to Ralcm.
road from Greensboro
The horses refused to
go an- further.
My father wss asked to entertain the
entire "crew." To this he consented as
best he could do. The passenger's all
dismounted and soon were all seated
around a big tire, and horses made com
fortable. Supper was then ordered, al
though it was of only one course, as "a
.menu" ham, fried eggs, hot biscuits, hot
coffee, pork, butter, pumpkin pie. ' Al
though all this was of one course only,
you may well imagine it was relished by
the company of men who had traveled
all day in the rain without any dinner.
Supper being over, everybody rested and
warmed up and were feeling better.
You may well imagine there was mu.h
fine "jovial talk." The company of pas
sengers were K. Belo. of Salem; Rufus
I'ntterson, of Salem; a Mr. lie. of
California, formerly of Saiem, now on
his way back to his old home In Salem:
slso a gentleman from New York,
wheo- name I did not learn. These
names I well remember. There were
,
AthiPl I Ar nnl ., i n m , 1,
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K cry body wns now feeling better. The
question arose, "What shall be done
with our old stage coach down yonder,
shirk fast in the mud!" At this In-
lunrtion "my father spoVe up by suying,
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Monterey. General Villa proposes to
pit practically his entire army against
Torreon.
The federal garrison is variously es-
timated at from 6,000 to 10,000, while
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 3,1, Investigation
"I have a yoke of oxen that I believe
will ).,;,, Il.it ,,1,1 aaiTA in, mid not of
the mud At is up jumped Fufus
Patterson and saru goi
!" for it has
been raining oxen all day
bring them;
; and they were brought.
Let me say to the "everlasting honor"
, of the oxen, they were true to every
demand. Their names were John and I
Dick ; John was black while Dick was
a bav color. John wanted to go ahead
of Dick and pull all the load, while Dick
was perfectly willing that John should
or might pull it a!', so therefore there
was no discussion as to which one should
pull the load.
I hi, nvn von KtYitmiif Mil Pallar-
son demanded the whip and lines. Every- """norners wno wouia pay in o certaia,
bodv now went out to see the result, i Vf c1e,,t of wh stock would be .ntU
Everything and everybody ready. Pat-,: fled to a w1 in th tock-holderi' mccU
terson with whip and lines in hand gave ', ,nK' Accordingly he went and paid m
the word to move "forward," and amid i Pcr ,?ent" to r- Patterson, who affcf
shouts and hurrahs the old stage coach j h"(luig me my receipt, remarked: "Mr.
came out of th'. mud and was set at I rner. you the honor of being
the top of the hill on solid ground. The! Jhe firtt Pr1 'torn JCwnersville to a"
oxen wore highly congratulated and;"'" Pr cent- of "took" This was i
everybody satisfied, and soon all were th old ("Pe Fer bnk building, t
again seated around the big tire. It was : nJTer P" P'" without Ihinhiul
now toward the wee hours of the night I of ot two men' Tny hVi 'onB
In other words, it was now "bed time," ; P6 vr the river. There is another
but who cares for bed time, if you have j "P01 I w pass by without thinking o
no bed, nor any place to put a bed! j 4 November rainy night when I 6o
M father's ' house did not have .a old ,tBB stuck In the niud
hundred rooms, nor electric lights, and j Rufus Patterson with whip and linee
yet where there is a will there is a m band, with a team of oxen-pulling it
way: for lack of beds bunks were made ! out- At th,t '"ne pot along that same
on Mi floor, all made aa comfortable aairo'd from Greensboro to the old Butner
possible, lief ore retiring, it was agreed
by passengers to take breakfast at the
Old Adam Butner hotel, in Salem.
Soon nil were unnt in tho atiU Inm
j We sleep of that dark rainy "Novem -
j ber night."
j The next morning was bright 1
lovely. The clouds had all rolled away.
i Th .., onm,. wn. ,. ;ti, i...,.t ...a
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m .
grandeur. The horses were soon ready,
, grandeur.
but before getting aboard the iiassen
: gers called for their bills. My father
told them two shillings (26 cents) each
Phis they all paid, except the man from i
Nw York, who refused lo pay it hy
I "'"" "Mr. Kerner, mv accommodation
was worth to me one dollar, which 1
Insist on paying," and he did pay, and
soon all were aboard for the ' Hut n i
house." At this point the eurtain ML
rue civil war soon came on with- Iti
horrors and left with its "sorrow.
Time with iU lightning speed hsd blows
away the smoke and din of battle.
The old stage oach was becoming
: somewhat forgotten. A railroad from
1 Orsensboro to Winston must take the 1
' place of the old stage coach. A com
! peny of stockholders for the enterprist
j was organised. Mr. E. Belo was elected
' preside nt and Mr. Rufus Patterson see
rotary and treasurer. I took s small
umnlint nf atjwtk in I Via, rtsmA T .
took a small contract to grade part ol
the road. I had s little business with
the work o the road tha' made It nec
essary for me to go see the president
(Mr Hloi I borrowed a small pony
I of s neighbor to ride to Salem.
I found Mr. Belo in his office in tka
I north end of his store building. Aftet
. m.i nmsnra my misineeo whs mm at
asked me how I waa t ravelins. I told
; -.V. V ""J1
wei.i ' w """ WOUH gO to-
from hiss wse terrible ea me whli. 1
felt highly honored is be Invited to ride!
! n"'T"",7 "m,'!w wHh hr. h.,Joln us th. first of Swbruary t Will be 1
NIGHT PRICES
SEATS 20c
SEATS 30c
SEATS ....50c
of conditions In the Fulton county!
convict camps has been ordered by
the state prison commission as a result
of a hearing yesterday before th
grand jury investigating allegations of
mistreatment of convicts. Clyd
Thomason, in charge of the Adams
ville camp, who was indicted yester
day on a charge of assaulting a pris
oner with intent to murder, was sus
pended by the state commission today.
Several prisoners at the Adamsvills
camp appeared before the grand jury
yesterday.
up Main street by the tide of the presi
dent of the railroad, I thought it would
be too humiliating on his part to ride by
my side, I being on such a scrubby, aw-
ful little piece of a pony, whose height
I was barely sufficient to keep my feet off
! the ground. In view of those facts, I
made an excuse of some other, business,
and thus evaded his company. . i r- "
I never go up Main street, Salem, and
1 P"8" 5hosp "tm honored columns" with-
out thinking of and seeing in my mind's1
eye, the president of the Isorth westers
North Carolina railroad, riding on I j
large, fine horse, beside a common home1
spun kind of man, riding on a very shag-'
gy, sheeplike little pony. "Such a life,
we seldom see ourselves as others see
us."
A further remembrance is brought to
my mind about Rufus Patterson. 1U
was elected secretary and treasurer of
the railroad about the same time Mr,
Belo was elected president.
Air. Patterson gave notice that all
! not' ' a W turnpike road, sling
j wbich hundreds of autoa and all kind
of vehicles pass. Can't we give at leafi
i passins remembrance of those time
1 ani Pph? whom we admired and 1 ,d.
I wi nw have passed over the rlverl
I
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Young Men Stenographers and
Bookkeepers a Scarce Ar
tide So Say Business
Men.
A young man between the sges of
seventeen and twenty-five, who Is a
good stenographer and understands
bookkeeping, has no one to blame but
himself If he la not employed at fromj
.fifty to one hundred dollars a month.
Ashevllle Business College Se
cures Positions Readily
For Its Graduates.
A. successful course at this oollerM
can be completed la six to eight
months. Supposing then you were tf
'nlrit' fret of February, yoo w
comp'cl y the first of July
would earn ftlO.OO before the
ends five times tile ocst of your tul
tlon.
Our college Is almost full of brighl
energetic, ambitious young men am
women. A few mors enrollments wll
fill every vacant ' seat. Won't roi
i0n . IK. flr- aw,.,,... , Wi
w il- .L. ' ... ..a'
"range a scholarship. College .ntlrS
third floor, numhsr .1.1 I Nnrlh TllCB
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