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. V - . ;.t y - A -V- . : r ' MS OBRLOTTE' EVENING :ONIOLE, MONDAY, DEC35MBEB 30. 1912. WE A THER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. "Correct Dress For Men" : NICE DAY-for.ducks and Rain Coats Best Rain CoatsV 50, 52, 54-inch, $5 up- Guaranteed. V ; - 1 - - , . . c GtBSON'WOOLLBY GOMPMNY ' Start The; NEW YEAR -Right' . FOR MEN WHO KNOW y': Charlotte, N. C; 8 a. m.. - 0, 3 8mT5 '- Dec. 30. .Local forecast " wWlfflJn Y - - j- Rain this afternoon and to- o . j . P 6P MtCVH? " tnonShtor Tuesday; coider, " Observa tions' taken at 8 a. m ' xpNATORylKjT'El fc74 oreaurrTAssurl Ioth?roM throng points O clear;, partly cloudy; O cloudy. ($ in- ! telmPerat'ei drawft only for ero, freezing. 90. anofloaV teturest'l hours: iecond. 'epor.t. ng.v. A with the wind. First flares, lowest , Preqpiuuon of .Bl Inch or boots fog past 24 hoars; third, maximum wind velocity. THE WEATHEB. lr " ' " " , " ' v;'"" ' 'r ' 1 . Forecast for North Carolina: Bain thisa fternoon, probably fair tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight and on "the coatt Tuesday. Brisk to high south shifting to west winds. EXPLANATION OF TODAY'S MAP. The main feature of the "weather map today is an extremely large area of low pressure covering practically all .f the country with the exception of the Facific coast States. The area has two centers, one over . the northern peninsula, of Michigan and the other over North Dakota. The barometrio reading In the latter center is 28.96 , inches. The temperatures are much " higher over the Eastern sections, also in the Northwest, but an area of colder appears in the eouthwest. Precipitatio nhas occurred in the past 14 hours over the Eastern part of the country and in the Pacific- Northwest. Snow is falling today in the upper laJs region. . The indications are for rain this after noon and tonight or on Tuesday, with colder tonight in this vicinity; O. O. ATTO, Local Forecaster, BULLETIN : ym Summary of observations made at United States weather bureau station Monday. December 30. . r - - Temperature . Stations and ' .& wr J .jf reatheratfr f gf (Eastern Ttoe.1 , a'V ' - if! 3 3 : i ji Atlanta ... ...... 64 48 " 44 J .30 Augusta .. .. ,. 64 f& -60 .t Boston ...,.. 40 45 40 ,00 Calgary .. ...... 22 38 20 .00 Charleston 64 AO '52 .00 CHARLOTTE .. 0 44 40 .00 Chicago.. .. .. .. 38 0 36 .0 Corpus Christi . . 48 00 48 .02 Denver ........ 49 40 36 -0 Duluth ., 40 28 40 .30 Galveston 48 60 48 .30 Havre 12 42". ' 10 .00 Huron 24 38 14 .CO Jacksonville .... 66. 73 62 .00 aKnsas City 28 48 26 ,00 Louisville ., ,, 44 38 88 j .81 Memphis -. ,. ... .. '. 40 46 40 .48 Montgomery .... 52 56 52 2 New Orleans .. .. 52 62 52 .St New York ,, 38 43 38 ,12 Oklahoma 30 52 1 28 .00 Palestine. 38 52 38 ,8S Salt Lake City . . 40 36 34 .00 San Francisco . . 50 54 46 .10 Savannah ,. 62 64 54 .00 Sheridan. .. .. 34 46 34 .01 Shreveport 40 64 40 .38 St. Louis, ,. .. 33 42 32 ,03 Swift Current , 22 30 22 .J0 Williston .. .. ,. 40 34' 28 ,01 Wilmington".'. 64 60 52 .00 Winneraucca ,., 40 44 38 .06 (Baltimore American,) "Darling, I will telj you in poetry of burning meter that you are the light of my life." "All right, but don't do ft with the gas meter." Surprise Them You Could Search The World and Find no Better Piano Than a Stieif or Shaw flnement and happiness. It i a piano that will UrUlty VOM JSJJ beyond words! "The True Mfe-time , Stieff- We have ail makes let us show you. Come In today,- , - - Are You Trying to Get Along Without , a Piano? You Need Ore. Onr "Easy Plan" Helps You Own One. Ask Us! r-MEaJWWf, : STREET SEVENTH BANQUET OF SOUTHERN POWER Elaborate Affair MarKed Aonnal Gatberlog 01 Employees And Officials -The seventh annual banquet given by the Southern Power Company and affiliated interests to its employes Sat urday, night was a., notable social af fair as well as an, event epochal in the life and activity of this mammoth corporation. 'Plates were prepared for about 600 guests and while not quit so many attendedi, the scene in the Auditorium has seldom been par alleled in Charlotte. The seats were artistically arranged, the officials be ing at one head table facing the en tire assehblage. Following the servlhg of an elabor ate banquet, Mr, W. .S. Lee, chief en gineer .and Vice president of the com pany, presented-Dr. W. Gil Wylie, as "The Man With the Idea," Dr. Wylie also. being recognised as the founded of the company that laid jthe; t atmda tion for 4 the enormous . development that has followed in "this- community within recent-years. Dr, Wylie gave some Interesting historical 'facts- rel ative to- the .discovery of available water-power development, saying in part:. :. ; . , "About 36 years or more ago, while on ft visit to my old home in Chester, 8. C, I went to look over Doctor Cloud's plantation, (afterwards known as Boyfeston'n plantation), which I had learned was for sale. On this property was several locks c the old Stats eanal and a considerable fall in the river which would make a development of the .waterpower at this point practical and easy. At that time l could have bought the entire 1,600 acres for 110,000, but it was not bought until some 30 rears later, at which time I paid M5000 for it. The Beginning, "Some time during 1895 or 18 H Mr. William C," Whltner, who was a graduate engineer of the University of South . Carolina, went- North wnn Mr. John Hoddey. of RockHill. S. C. to interest me and my brother, Pr. R. H. Wylie in a steam plant which was ted for supplying the city of Anderson, S, C. with water and lights. My brother ar,d. I took a large amount of bonds and stock tn their company,' and we ctecMoct to purchase a small piece of property on which to build an experimental Jiydro-electric plant. This was at Portman shoals, 10 miles from An derson. The plant was finished in 1896. It had a fall of 83 feet and developed about 1.800 horsepower. The 11,000-volt electric generators used here carried probably the high- With a Piano r Blood humors Commonly cause pimples, bolls, hives, ecaema or salt rheum, or some other form of eruption: but sometimes they exist In the system, indicated by feel ings of weakness, languor, loss of ap petite, or general debility, .without causing any breaking out. They are expelled and the whole sys tem Is renovated, strengthened and toned by Hood's Saroaparllla Get it today In usual liquid. fOrin or chocolated tablets called 8aratab est voltages that were then in use. Meets Mr. W. S. IiOO. "On one of my frequent visits South I met Mr. Leiland of Colum bia, s, C, who was a Government engineer in charge of some Govern ment river improvement. I tried to get him as resident engineer, but could not do so. However, he recommend ed Mr. W. S. Lee, 3r.t who had worked for the Government under him, and who had been resident en gineer at Portman Shoals when the first . dam was built, and had also done similar work at Columbus, aa., I then - employed Mr. Lee and toe, went to. Rock. Hill. Mr. Lee was at that time employed on a . develop ment at Columbus, Ga . " and they re leased him .with, evident regret, pay in him a salary for a whole year Just for ; the - benefit of. his occasional consultation about the Columbus work, . . "I explained to, Mr., Lee , at that time that if he succeeded .with ' th Catawba plant, his reputation as an engineer would be made, and I .'ex plained to him at that time -the scheme I had for building dams all along the Catawba so that we could utilize a large part of the 700-foot fall which occurred through its length of 180 miles from Camden. 8. C, to Hickory, N. CI also explained my scheme for keeping the silt scoured out of canals and pounds. Big Scheme Approached, "The completion of the Catawba plant in the following January and the distribution of the power to Char lotte and other points marked the be ginning of our comprehensive hydro electric development. My brother and I put $850,000 of our own money into our scheme, and this seems to have . convinced the bankers that we were in earnest in the matter, "About this time I met Mr. B. N. Duke, and had the good fortune to successfully perform on him an-, op eration' for appendicitis. , When 4 this power development was first started, Mr. Duke sent an engineer, Mr, Hayes, to examine the work, but Mr. Hayes advised against gom intu ic But after the Catawba Power plant had successfully run for nine months, Mr. J. B, Duke enquired about my waterpower and I showed him a copy of our first annual report. He said: 'If you will send for that man Lee and let him bring the plans and specifications for development and your mapi for other dams, on that river, maybe I will go in with you,' The Dukes Interested. v The result of all this was that we organized the Southern Power Com pany and raised two million dollars, Mr. Duke raisin most of it. My brother and I put in the Catawba Power Company as cash. Nobody else had any stock in the company. Then with Mr. Lee as engineer and manager, and Mr, W. A. Leland as superintendent of construction, we commenced the development of Great Falls. S. C, finishing the first dam 18 months from the time we first went on the ground. This produced 40,000 horsepower, making in conneo tion with the Catawba plant 60,000, In two years more we finished 40, 000 horsepower more at Rocky Creek, two miles below Great Falls. Then in a little less than two years we added 24,000 horsepower at Nmety Nlne Islands on the Broad River. "The southern Power Company now has something like 1,300 miles of transmission lines, and besides . the hydro-electric development, we have auxiliary steam turbines creating 10. 000 liorsepower. We now have one of the largest hydro-electric develop ments in the world Controlled by one company,! We can deliver at the same time for 24 hours use about 12,000 horsepower, and could deliver f or 10 hours use over 150,000 horsepower. We have on' hand sufficient property to at least double the above power, and most of this is on the Catawba, which with the exception of the Pe nobscott River is the best river east of the Rockies for power develop- ;. The banquet was featured , by a number of novel incidents, including songs : in the way of parodies and flashing of numerous 'sidelights from the shop" on a large illumined canvas. There was a regular program of Vtalks" Interspersed :with these origi nal and grotesque features Which add ed " wonderfully to the pleasure , and enjoyment of the occasion. The pro gram of speeches was as "follows: ' Messrs. J. T. Arnold, vice president of Greenville Light & Power Co., "Let Your Light Shine;" F, S. Michel, su perintendent of steam plants, "Keep Up your Steam;" Judge Ti I. Osborne, A'tfojw, .Tberefore;MH.-c MlUwr et til?. Learn, the Way of. "Correct Dress For Men" From Charlotte . bar, Home Runs;" R. M, Coffee, general claim agent, "Care lessness;" W. Rameeur, agent of In terurban at Gastonla, "Serving the public." and W. 8. Lee, "Jt." Vice President Lee brought the oc casion to a close with one of his char acteristic crisp and incisive sort of speeches in which he gave sound and buainees-Hke advice to the employes. "I often say." he remarked, "that I own1 this whole company, excepting only the stoclc" . . ? . y . r. r.. 'Gratitude was expressed for the en thusiasm and interest . manifested . by the men tn the welfare of the work as a whole. Only insofar as .they are loyal and are' individually successful can the men above succeed. ."And do not think that because you hold a subordinate position, noth ing matters much," said Mr. , Lee. "Remember that the harder you push the man above you upward the faster you will be bound to rise yourself. Th success of tha roan above is bound up in a large measure with that of th man below." Mr. Lee' paid his respects to the man who is forever writing petitions to headquarters asking to be removed from his present location because his wife Is in poor health and the ollmate. Is unealUd to her. "Boys, we don't be lieve that sort of letter," sold Mr. Lee. ''You have no idea how our of fices are swamped with them, The truth Is we usually do move that sort of fellow, but we move )xim out of the orgftntefcUon. "We will not interfere with the suc cess of a man who has rejainfd with us and earned promotion by bringing back one who has left e and made a mlsoue," said Mr. Lee, Nearly everyone, said the speaker, wears a placard of some sort which, while invisible to him, proclaims to others in box-ear letters, some weak ness. "It would be better for all of you if you would throw away those old placards," he exclaimed, "On how many is it written, 'if only I had & better position. " G.M. Co., Will Surely Have It If footwear for Men, Women and Children is ever made any daintier, more enug fitting or more substantlai-OHl mer-Moore Company will hav it first, Evening Styles Street Styles Dress Styles Tney are all 1 Here in any leather or shade de sired, -v - 1 We make a specialty of .fitting the hard to fit Gilmer-Moore many TS THKRE AjrYTECRTG TOO COULD A WMfifX AX FOQ TO-DAXf Coi , SOUTHBUi RAILWAY "Premier Carrier ot tbe Sontlu! N. B. The following ecneauie figures published only information and are not guaranteed, -' No. 29-4:SS a. m.Dally, Birminsharo Bpecial for. Atlanta and Birmingham, Pullman drawing room sleeping ears, observation ears and day coaches New York and Washington to Birmingham. ' Pullman 'drawing room sleeping ear Richmond to . Birmingham. Pining ear Service ' No. 8830 a. ra. tafiy local for Pan- . vllie, Esmond and alt intermediate points, , - " '- " No. I1-8-05 a. ra. Dafly, the Bouthem's Southeastern Limited for Columbia, Savannah, Aiken, Augusta and Jack sonville, Pullman drawing room, sleep ing cars for Aiken. Augusta and .Taek ' sonvUIe. Day eeachea to Jacksonville. Dining ear service. No. 44 a, m Dally, local lor Wash ingtor D, C No. 85-4:40 a. mDafly, local train for Columbia and Intermediate points. No. 23-7:15 a,, m.--Local for Atlents- No. 1MM s. ta.pnr. loesl for , Statesvllle and TaylorsvUie, eonneetmg at Mooresville for Winston-alem. ; No. 3710:05 a. ro. Daily, New York, At lanta and New Orleans Limited. Pull man drawing room sleeping cars and observation cars New York to New Orleans. Atlanta and Macon. Pining ear service. Solid PuUman train. No. &-10:13 a. m. Dally, United States fast mail for Washington and points North. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars New Orleans and Birmingham to New York, Day coaches to WasMag ton. Pining' ear service. No, M lino a. m. Dally, -loeel for At lanta and Intermediate points. No. jlrOl p. m. Daily, for Winston Salem and local points. Connecting at Barber with ko. a for AshevUle and intermediate points and at Winston Salem for WUkesboro.Mount Airy and Greensboro, tJo. 4ft-3:S9 p. m. Daily, local for Greens boro and intermediate points. No. 0T 4:S3 p. m. Dally, local for Co lumbia and Intermediate points. No. 4140 p. m. Daily, except Sonday, local for Seneca and intermediate polnta No. 120:00 p. m Patty, for Richmond and x Norfolk. Handles Pullman cars Charlotte to Richmond. Charlotte Now York and Salisbury to Norfom, No- f 4-4 40 p. m. Dafiy, except Sunday, local for Mooresvnie, 8atesvCJe , and . TaylorsviiLt . No. 3S 70 p. m. Daily NeW York, At lanta and New Orleans Limited e ; Washington and points North. PraW- --lag room sleeping" ears, observation ears to New York. Ptntng car service, Solid Pullman train. , , No. tt-:30 p. mPally, TJuHed States fast matt, for Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans. Pollman drawing room sleeping eai New York to New Or leans and Birmingham. Pay eoaches Washington to New Orleans. v Pining car- service. No, p. jn,-any. th Southern's Southeastern Limited, for Washington, New York and points North, Pullman drawing room sleeping ears for New York, pay eeeehes to Washington, Pining ear service, . No, 4-10jW P pv-DaHy, for Atlanta and points. South, Randies PulimaR sleep fng car Raleigh to Atlanta. Pay coaches Washington to Atlanta, No. JO-UjJO p. m Dally. Birniiaiam Special, for Washington and New York. PuUman drawing room sleeping cars observation ear to New York. .Pay coaches tQ WashtnstoB, Pullman drawing room, sleeping cars Binning ham to RIebond, Dining ear service. All New York trains of Souther Rail way wfl! arrive and depart from the magnificent Manhattan terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Sever1 and Eighth avenues. Thirty-first to Thlrty thtrd streets, and will be composed pf modern electrle-tlfhted steal eonstrsetiofi PuHntan ears. Tickets, sleeping ear aoeommodatlone and detailed information can be obtained at ticket office. Ne, 11 South Tryon street R, R. peBUTTfl, P, P. A. CTharlotta, ?f 3, R, L, VBRNON, p. P. A Charlotte, N, a ft. P. CART, a P. A.. Was&in$e. P, O , R. HARP WICK. P. T, Mgr., Washlngten, P. .0, B. H. COAPMAN. V. p, O, Msrr,, Wshlnsten. V, 3 THIS OFTfCNER YOUR AP TS fN thf cmomGm tot optknek IT WILL BT5 SBaEN. AND THIS MORIS POPULAR YOU . ARK THE MORE TRADE "VOU GET. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY TRAINS LS1AVB CHARLOTTBV-JlP- pipcrnra April t, im No. 40 5;00 .a, m., through tram for : Wilmington with porter ear attached. Connects at Hamlet with No. M for Portsmouth and Norfolk, NO- for Raleigh, Washington, Baltimore, Phtta: delphla and New York. Dining ear service and vestibule coaches to Wash ington. Pullman sleeping ears to Jer sey CI' .. - .'. No, 48-7.-39 a m- for Monroe, connect- Ing to all points South, No.. m-lo-JS a. tn., loeai for Wneolnton, -Shelby and Rutherford ton, connecting with C. O. A O. a Bostte. No. 47 i 'M p., ra. for Llneolnten. Shelby, Rutherfordton and points West. No. 44-8:00 p. m., for Wilmington and all local stations. 1 No, W-T:45 p. m. Randies local sleeper for Portsmouth Norfolk; connecting at Monroe with No, - 41 for Atlanta and Southwest with through sleeper to Birmingham; at Monro with No. fA fast train with sleeper to Portsmouth . and Norfolk and Jersey City. Con nects at Hamlet with No, Si with through vestibule coaches for Washing ton. Dining car Klchmond to New -York, Pullman sleepers to New York. TRAINS ARRlVSJ AT CHARLOTTE; No. 183-10:25 a. m, from tba" east , No. 40-10)6 a. in,, from the west. ; r No. 45-12 n. ra. from Wilmington and . ail local stations. No. J33 T30 p. m. from the west. , No. 4-7;a p, m from the east : No, 2-U:Q0 p. - w,t from the east, v a B. RYAN, a. P.v -. Portsmouth. Vs. . v JAMES REB. T. P. . Charlotte, N. O.. R. ft WARP, P. P. Ah Raleigh, N- C . H. T, JpRR P. A . . Charlotte, W. v We have the best selected assortment of Cigars in the city, both imported and domestic stock. United Sales Company, TS'S1 SAVE THE COUPONS J 13 Q M s J, V. STARNES, President : JNO. V, Pres. Auditorium Building.. F Plipue 850 f 'Master Sign Builders' Electric Outdoor Adv'tfg ; Commercial Winter Ice Pho ne mm Standard Why not prepare for it ri . for Men and BbysV. Quite com plete and moderately priced. .' ',. . , ' - ' Edo MeBMim . 'Tou Can Always Get It At Mellon's" Traveling Men! Going Out From Charlotte These- cold mornings, do you have any difficulty, catching your trains? ' Wt are satisfying the "Knights of The , Grip" with our Auto Service. Leave your call with us the night before. We will wake you and then speed you to the station in first-class style,' R. WENT2J, , and Gen. tfsr. M. A. COOOAN, " Sec & Trees, Is flereCC To make deliyery of coal during bad Winter weather 7 and with streets torn up will bo hard on man and btast. Let ns have your ordew for your requirements now. & Fuel Co 19, - 6 off bwr our assortment
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