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L --v yjjjj GAZETTE-NEWS HAS COCIATED PRIBB0 BBBVICBL IT 18 IK EVERY RESPECT COMPLETE. SI WEATHER FORECASTS , ' , PAIR AND COOLER I TTQLUME XX. NO. 81, PRICE 2 CENTS i No Mow. u r : . r ' y 7..- i i t-qt..- t iy W'YAy (VJ Wt-'v'.- '""' ASHEVIU 2, N. 0., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1915. v ' MIGHTY ARMADA READY FOR PRESIDENT'S REVIEW Most Powerful Array of Fight ing Craft Ever Assembled in America, Now An chored in Hudson. DOUBLE GRAY LINE STRETCHES FOUR MILES Hundreds of Thousands Seek Vantage Points on Hudson to See Demonstration ".' Program for Day. . IT T BEGINS Government Experts Begin Campaign to Make Orange Co, Sanitary Other Campaigns Planned. About $800 Hidden in Piano Escapes Notice of the Prowlers. JUDGE CARTER STAYS WHILE IN RALEIGH New York, May 17 A 'mighty armada of battleships, destroyers, submarines ' and i auxiliary craft swung' at an 'chor in the Hudson river to !,day, groomed for review by President Wilson. It was the Imost powerful array of fight-i 'ing craft ever assembled in jAmerica 64 in all stretching ;for four miles in. a double line of solemn gray, touched with gayer colors where pennants land ensigns streamed from ifighting top and mast heads. Each warship was ready to (thunder forth the presidential salute of 21 guns when the iyacht Mayflower, with Presi dent "Wilson on the bridge, passed by this afternoon. The Mayflower arrived with the president and anchored off Forty-first street after mid inigbt. The yacht was escort ed by the Baltimore. Special guards of police and patrol guards from Secretary Daniels' yacht Dolphin were placed about the Forty-first street landing. Hundreds of thousands of people thronged .the streets to view the parade land later sought vantage 'points along the Hudson. .The president reviewed sai lors, marines and New York naval militia, nearly 6,000 strong. In the reviewing ,at Fifth avenue and Fortytsecond :stroet were Admiral Fletcher, Acting Mayor McAneny and : others. President Wilson at tended a luncheon at the Balti more hotel and immediately Heft for the Mayflower which is to leave for the review about 3:30 o'clock. The Mayflower will be es 'corted by destroyers and by Secretary Daniels' yacht, Dol iphin, the fleet tender Yankton, police patrol boats and the auxiliary cruiser Dixie. Tonight the president and ! official party will be the guests of Admiral Fletcher aboard the flagship Wyoming. Hefore the president's arrival ar iMngementa had been cnmplted for hli review of the Atlantic fleet to- !oay and Tuesday, whloh promise to joe one of the greatest naval apee jtucin aver aeen In the United States. The president was to apear.on shore itoday for the land parade, a part of line ceremonies attending the review. The laat part of the president's llrlp from Washington was unpleasant because of a choppy sea but tha pres ident, a good sailor, Is understood to have been affected but little. Re i Porta received from tha Mayflower 'li'e In tha. day Indicated that she iwonld put Into Qravesend bay for the pi'Kht and steam In to Join, tha fleet ( early today. She wa to be welcomed ilth all tha honors dua to tha bearer r tha president of tha United States. Convict Guards of Wake Are Again Accused One Guard Charged With Assault Investigation. Transylvania la Port Liverpool, May ' IT. Tha Cunard liner 'Transylvania ar safely at Greenock, Scotland. o'clock this morning. When Ins liner sailed from New Torlt It was supposed her des tination was Liverpool. Her eourae waa rhamred to mini nitre danger In paaaing through tha war aone. 1HSHBM 11UISUSIB ITALY MED TO DECIDE Oil Developments of Utmost Im portance Expected to Take Place Today In Ital ian Affairs. While Louis H. Pollock and the members of his family were absent from the residence, No. Ill Central avenue, last night burglars entered the hose and made a thorough search for money and other valuables. . Mr. Pollock returned home about 1 o'clock and hearing a nolae when he entered the front door he Immediately notified the police. Captain Mark Sprouse and Patrolman H. E. .Miller surrounded the house but the thieves had escaped. Inside tho piano of the house was a shoe box. containing . about $800 In currency which Mr. Pollock had neg lected to deposit in the bank on Satur day. Apparently the burglars had ex amined every other article of furniture In the house except the piano. A $150 fur coat was overlooked by the mid night visitors and left hanging In' the hall. By W. T. Bost. Raleigh, May 17. Grange county, which fond itself companion to ten strictly rural, counties . throughout the nation In which the government Is to put typhoid experts, has begun its warfare and Raleigh women who aid ed In the launching Saturday are back home with remarkable stories of the opening. The start was made In Cedar Grove church. Orange county, eleven miles from HlUsboro and six miles from Efinnd, which is to say that distance from any railroad, Six government experts were present with Prof. E. C. Branson of the University, Dr. Harri son of the marine hospital corps, Mrs. W. N. Hutt and Mrs. Jane McKimmhn of Raleigh, making the addresses. The country church had just; 638 men, .women and children on tho In side and quite as many on the outside esterday. In all the working careers of the several who spoke, no such ru ral audience had been met, they de clared. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Ormond, took such a part In the beginning of the great campaign as will guarantee the Interest of his flock. He spoke briefly but had his people there to heiir others. The campaign Is to be conducted it- ter the example of Yacama county, Washington, In which the governmen tal experts worked out a miracle In sanitation. They found that county a plague spot, the worst typhoid fever bailiwick In the world and one of the hardest to treat. Centering the work upon excreta and keeping it there the excessive death rate and the case lates were reduced to 15 per cent and in three years to one In the hundred thousand. And finally the one was eliminated. Orange county then became, because of Its peculiarly rural and agricultural nature, a good place for such activity. The same methods as those used in Washington state will bo employed, Wells will be Inspected and every thing about the outhouses, the barns and the farms will be examined by the best men that both tha state and the nation hare for this purpose. After the work of sanitation has been done additional precaution against typhoid will ba taken by use of tha typhoid vaccina which Is being liberally used h-r the state this summer, Tha tart Saturday in a remote county llstrtet with mora than 1000 present. eople drawn much less By tha attractive power of gregariousness than by tha deslra to hear something new. waa an overwhelming; sort ot in sptratlon to thoss who do not find a beginning so easy to make. Tha ast that only eleven counties In all tha union have any such campaign as this must have moved Orange to make itself something of a patriotic specta cle Professor Branson "preached." The Raleigh visitors declared no other atti ttide of address sufficed. Like all bur.r lng laymen ha said things that are not th tha canons. But ha was rah enough to believe that when a govern ment will wheel experts off to save hogs because two farmers had lost a few. It will also provide tha means tt saving human beings when tha world has lost so many. Other Campaigns. Synchronous with tha light In Hills boro, national campaign, the state board of health and tna oureau oi Rural sanitation will agitate against tvnhnM in Waka. Buncombe. Hender son. Northampton and Cumberland Aotmtlea. ' wka va an appropriation of f00, Northampton 1400, Cumberland $389 and Buncombe and Henderson $800 a&oh. Free antl-typhold vaodna, lit erature, posters, placada, a traveling typhoid exhibit, and other propaganSa will ba used In this county campaign. Jailiro Carter Hero. Judge Frank Carter, who has bam hnldlnsr court In Kdgecomue county, has returned to the east after spending . Amyr nr two In Raleigh, Anion candidates, actual and likely, Is a suspicion that tha Judge Is taking his seldom dsv off to discuss canaioa- oles with his friends. Ha Is vary greatly pleased with tha response to his announcement, soores of weekly papers lifting tha letter of ths Judge ISfllllTllti OF CD. K BEGIN RIFLE PRACTICE SALANDRA'S CABINET HAS FORMAL MEETING First to Be Held Since Crisis Which Resulted in Vir tual Vindication for - His Policies. USf ATE DEPARTMENT HE A 'iS FROM MR. GERARD MEMORIAL SERVICE OF EICLEHN MAY 23 Prominent Members of Frater nity Will Deliver Ad dress and Eulogy. Excellent Records Were Made Saturday on the Range at Grace. Fifteen members of Company K, North Carolina national guard nn Sat. urday afternoon began rifle practice on I the range at Grace.' Although some of the men had not before taken part In a long distance shoot the records made were excellent and Captain C. I. Bard was much pleased with the re sults. The competition on the range at Grace will relieve the militiamen from long range duty at the approaching encampment at Morfhead City. Thfl score, cards will be forwarded to the office of General Lawrence W. Young and the records will be credited to the members of the Asheville com pany. All of the national guardsmen of the state will take part In the con test for the Diupont trophy which will be presented at the time of the state encampment to the company which makes the best records. Five members of Company K who participated In the recent Indoor shoot conducted by the National association for the Promotion of Rifle Practice received Saturday the handsome silver medals awarded by that organization. Militiamen all over the United States took part in tha competition and the marksmen of Company K finished sec. ond. the winners being only three points ahead of them. Rome, May 16. -(Via. Paris, May- .17.) Developments of the utmost importance are ex pected tomorrow in Italian af fairs. Premier .Salandra has called the first formal meeting of his cabinet to be held since lie passing of the. crisis which resulted in virtual vindication for his policies. It was considered highly probable that a definite decis ion for peace or war would be made by the cabinet. Tension was increased by the report that there had been conflicts between-the Austrian and Ital ian frontier guards and by dis patches telling of a "women's revolution" at Trieste. Forty seven women are said to have been killed and about 300 wounded when tT.e gendarmes charged a crowd which threat ened the governor's palace, T. P. A. ENDS MEET; HENDERSON NEXT YEAR WrlghtsvIHe Beach, May 17. To meet next year In Henderson tha State Travelers Protective Association ad Journed Saturday after re-electing A. L. Byrd of Charlotte president, Geo. S. Edwards. Rocky Mount, first vice- president; H. T. Morris, Henderson, second vice-president; Geo. Bailey, Mount Airy, third vice-president; Q. C. Crutchfleld, Winston-Balem, secretary, It tn full. Many of the Judge's ac quaintances have been Impressed with tha opposite circumstance, but they do not read tha papers that coma from all parts of tha state. Many papers have discouraged Judge Carter In making a race for vin dlcatlon against "a memorial of Infam oua acusationa," a memorial which the Jurist declares was spread against htm In such a way as to constitute a sub version of tha Impeachment power. In that view he is supported by a large newspaper clientele. Judging from comments of the papers. There are very few papers, however, that look upon the report as of any eoneeqence at all. They think the commission did Its duty, conducted a useless examlna tlon beoause It had to do so, and made some sort of report because It had to do that. ' But what it says about tha Judge admittedly has helped him. .The judge's friends sea that. Tha juage near-friends sea It also and fear that it will make him attorney general. Guards Again Accused. Rev, Sidney Love, prison evangelist. Is after the guards at the convict camp and W. T. TUlery, one of them, Is charged with assault Two months ago a young and quits good-looking boy of Denver, Colorado, complained of mistreatment but Bollo-t Itor Norrls could find no facts upon which again to proceed against the camp officials. The solicitor hsd once before whipped tha county officials in a fight before the court, a scrap, by the way, projected by Judge Carter who seems to have a "nose" for this sort of news. Mr. Love goe tomorrow to another Asheville aerie No. 1,877, Fraternal Order of Eagles, has named Sunday, May 23, as the date for the annual memorial services to the memory of those members of the local order who have died since the foundation of the aerie here. Woody N. Carr of Union town. Pa., will deliver the memorial address; the eulogy will be given by William I Grayson of Savannah. Mr, Carr is one of the prominent members of the order in the United States and has the reptuatlon of being a very at. tractive speaker. Mr. Grayson Is grand worthy vice-president of ' the fraternity In the United States and has ulways taken an active part In the work of the order. It Is announced that Mrs. Carr will accompany Mr. Carr to Asheville and on Saturday evening, May 22, will be the guest of honor at a reception at the Eagles' home given by the wives, daughters and sisters of the local members of the aerie. An interesting program is being arranged for this event. CITY HEADS TOOK OFFICE AT HON BAPTISTS HAVE IMPORTANT DAY Again Take up Report on Sun day School Work and Hear Report on Temperance and Social Service. OTHER REPORTS ALSO TO BE CONSIDERED American Ambassador at Ber lin Gives Official Notifica tion of Delivery of Note to Berlin Gov't. OPTIMISTIC FEELING IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES Grounds for Hope That Ger- many Will Meet American Demands at Least Half- .... i Way Solutions. Women's Missionary Union Plans Council of Secretar ies and Feld Workers Adjournment. Marcus Erwin Elected City At torney and Frank L. Con der Secretary-Treasurer. At noon today tho administration of the affairs of the city government of Ashovllle passed into the hands of Mayor-commissioner J. E. Rankin, Commissioner of Public Safety . D. Hiden Ramsey and Commissioner of Public Works James G. Stikeleather. Judge J. Frazier Gleen administered , V. a not), tf nfPloA tn M.vnp Panbln Official Confirmation of the land he In turn swore In the other two commissioners. mnHHKK " "as. a w..kago.n4 printing camp to make invastlgatlons. report that the Salandra cabi net was to remain in power was greeted by one of the most remarkable demon strations ever witnessed in Rome. A crowd estimated to number 300,000 gathered in Popolo square and at the foot of Pin cian hill, on the slopes and summits of which thronged representatives of some of the most ' aristocratic families, wearing the tri-color of Italy and waving the Italian flag as they joined in the cheers for Salandra and Foreign Minis ter Sinnino, while bands play ed patriotic airs.' Besides the obelisks m the square were immense canca- ures of Emperor Francis Jos eph at which all kinds of mis siles were hurled. British, French and Belgian flags wore held aloft with the Italian flag. There was a great patriotic demonstration before the home of Kiciotti Garibaldi. There were lesser demonstrations in hundreds of cities and towns throughout Italy. Official announcement was made here yesterday afternoon that King Victor Emmanuel had declined to ac cept tha resignation of Premier Salan dra and that the Salandra cabinet would be retained unchanged. The news was greeted with great demonrtrations of rejoicing and popu lar manifestations In favor of war. Tha delay In making the official an nouncement is said to have been duo to efforts to bring about closer co operation among the various parlia mentary sections. During the interval the king received a number of promt nent statesmen. One was Deputy Ad mlral Bettlolo, former minister of marine. It Is asserted that former Premier Glollttl will make publto a statement that he had believed It possible to oh tain from Austria concessions suffl clent to avert war, but that onoe war Is Inevitable ha will support tha cao Inat. Foreign Minister Connlno received Baron Karl von Macchlo, temporary Austrian ambassador to Rome. It la reportsd Baron Macchlo asked Signer Honnlno whethor his retention of offloa The first session of the new city board was held Immediately after their induction Into office and the first business to come before the board waa the election of Marcus Er win to corporation counsel and Frank L. Conder secretary-treasurer. In the voting, Judge Henry B. tevens re ceived one vote for corporation coun sel and Mr. Condor was unanimously elected. Commlsloner sStikeleather was elected vice-mayor, receiving two of the three votes cast, Mr. Ramsey re ceiving one vote. The counci chamber at the City Hall was crowded by citizens of Asheville who were present to see the commissioners sworn In. Mayor Rankin made a short talk in which he spoke of the large responsibilities which were upon the commissioners and asked for the advice and help of the citizens In making the new plan of government a success. He was followed by short talks by Commissioners Ramsey and Stlke-4 leath. On motion of Commissioner Stike leather all city employes will remain in their same positions at the pres ent salary until the first meeting of tha board In June. Houston, May 17. Delegates to the Southern Baptist convention here had before them two important subjects to be acted upon before adjournment to day. These were the reports on Sun day school work . and the report on temperance and social service. The first mentioned report had al ready been made public and In this opposition was expressed to tho Bar-aca-Philathea movement. It was un der consideration Saturday when other Important matters forced a postpone ment. The report on temperance and social service, dealings principally with pro hibition, was to be taken up at noon Several other reports were to be made publio today, although none was ex pected to require lengthy considera tion. , The Woman's . Missionary union planned a council of secretaries and field workers. The report of the committee on tern perance pnd social service was sub mitted by Chairman A. J. Barton of Dallas, superintendent of Texas, in the Anti-Saloon league of America; to the Southern Baptist convention devoted the greater part of Its consideration to an optimistic discussion of prohibition and to urging the Southern Baptists to make further efforts to stamp out the evil. In conclusion the report declared that the beverage liquor traffic was not the onlv evil and that Its abolition was not the only needed reform; ahd it urged other reforms. "So long as there is social inequality, industrial Injustice and political crime, you and I have a message and a I mission"? said the report CONDITION OF KING I London, May 17. Tho" Clem lag tlon here has received a bulletin from Athens which said that yesterday the feverish condition of King Constan tlna Increased. His temperature reg istered 102, Fahrenheit, his pulsa 112, and respiration 22. v SUIT FDR $75,000 FILED T Suit has been filed in Superior court by G. W. Orpin against the Bee Tree Lumber company, A. M. Kistler and seeks to recover the sum of $75,00 for alleged violation of a contract., The plaintiff alleges In his com plaint that he entered Into a contract with the defendants In September 191 i, to mine garnet from the prop erty of the defendants, near the headwaters of Bee Tree for five years; that he went to large expense In time and money in preparing to carry out the contract, but that the defendants refused him entrance to the lands and refused to fulfill their contract. T OF E. S. DUDLEY TO King Constantlne of . Greece has been III for mora than a week. Re rent dfipatches said that his cold had turned Into oleurlsv. might ba Interpreted as meaning that Italy, had declared war. The Austrian consulate having noti fied the few Austrian subjects tn Rome to be ready to leave on a moment's notice, most of them decided to de part yesterday. The excitement at Milan subsided on receipt of the news of Premier Salan dra's retention. Tha general strike there passed off without srlous inci dent, tlhough there wss a crowd esti mated at 40,000. Similar demonstra tions occurred at Florence and Cata nia. Demonstrations at Balogna develop ed Into a free fight between the fac tions for and against war. At Genoa crowds attempted to pillage the shops of gunsmiths, but wera held In check py troops. w The trial of Earl S. Dudley charged with obtaining goods under false pre tenses, waa called before Magistrate W. A. James, jr., this morning and continued until 1, o'clock tomorrow. The defendant was arrested 'Satur day night at Hendersonvllle by Depu ty Sheriff Case on a warrant Issued by Magistrate James on comQlalnt of S, Barjak who conducts a fancy goods shop at Grova Park Inn. Tha defend ant gave bond In tha sum of $200 for his appearance before tha magistrate, "Washington, May 17. Am erican Ambassador Gerard at! Berlin has notified the state ! department of the delivery of , the American note to the Ger-' man foreign office. This waa the first official notice that the note had arrived at its destina tion, although its delivery had been reported in news dispatches. Official Washington attached much significance today to intimations in diplomatic quarters here friendly to Germany that the reply might contain an offer to suspend attacks without warning on merchant ships, if tho United States would renew its form al proposals for unrestricted passage of foodstuffs to German civilians. Well informed European dlplo- mats asserted that Germany most cer tainly would offer to settle the ques tion to abandon submarine warfare while the discussion was in progress. . Officials have been reticent in dls- cussing tho idea of arbitration, ot. a.., proposal with reference to foodstuffs, ,; but it is indicated that the situation , has progressed to the point where the United States would not be likely to be satisfied with any conditional acquiescence in the American posi tion. It was intimated, however, that if Germany accepted the Amer ican point of view, the natural ten dency would be strongly to press its contention on the right to ship rood- stuffs to Germany. There is a likelihood, too, that some understanding might bo reached through the medium of the American government whereby Germany could be assuerd definitely that no mer chant ships leaving the United States would be armed, making it possible for submarine commanders to exer cise the right of visit and search with impunity. Whether Great Britain would consent to disarm her mer- , chant vessels carrying contraband, however, is a matter of conjecture. The question of permitting Amer icans to travel on armed merchant men may be taken under considera tion soon. Is intimated in well In formed quarters. On the other hand, some officials believe there will be little necessity for this as Great Britain already has informally agreed not to arm her vessels plying between British and American ports. , What Is regarded as one pf the hopeful signs in the general situation Is the confidence reflected In official, and diplomatic quarters that Ger many will meet the American de mands at least half way and will suspend for the time her submarine attacks without warning during the diplomatic correspondence. In this connection there has been much comment here over the recent1 announcements from London that Great Britain did not understand from Germany's answer last March that the principle of submarine war fare would be abandoned. It was noted that the same misunderstand ing arose when the German and British replies were received to tha American proposal for the abandon ment by Germany of submarine war fare and the use of mines, In return for American supervision of the dis tribution of foodstuffs if England agreed to their unrestricted passage to Germany when consigned . to civilians. 1LEY US CLEARED FIRE IS REPORTED ON JAPANESE STEAMER Tokla, May 17. A wireless from the steamer Mongolian says there waa a fire on the steamer Chi Yo Maru Sunday night, according to the Afahl Rhimbun. There are no details. The Chi Yo Maru Is due at Yoho- hama tomorrow. The Mongolian sail ed from Han Granclsco yesterday. . The owners of the Chi Yo Maru tie ney tha report. Uprising of Yaqui Indians Put Down Admiral How ard Back to Base. Washington, May IT -Consul Hos tetter at Hermoslllo reports today that the situation In tha Yaqui valley, whore Indiana attacked a colony of Americana, appears to ba entirely un der control, and that It was CI C. Wil son, and not Jack Wilson, who was killed In tho uprising last week. Admiral Howard, who started from San Diego, In the cruiser Colorado for Guaymas, has reported that an Infor mation thnt the situation had clear.!, ha b"4 Uuced bark, 1 i I