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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS; CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1921. 10 3 Drag S 1,744 1 CO ' Tvr letter hf Lucy Jeanne Price 1 If 1 Roman Cab Driver Scored Knockout in Boasting Contest Rome, June 9. They are telling a New York, June 9- Broown Bridge I story In the Roman cafes of how nn This week's Printers' Ink tells how to "Sell' it South" through these Southern Drug Stores. SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. Chattanooga, Tenn. as serves much more than an utilitarian purpose. No . other place in all Great-1 er New York; is so thickly spread with artists and their palettes as is this great crossways between Manhat tan and Brooklyn. "Some days they're so thick here, they almost hold up traf fic," said a bridge policeman the other day. "About all the young artists who come from other parts of the country go to Brooklyn Bridge the first thing. They say it's the sky line they're so keen about getting. This advertisement is appearing simultaneously in the New York Times, Chicago Daily News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News and 164 Southern Newspapers, in an endeavor to Sell the South to the Nation, in order that the Nation might Sell to the South. Are Available Here at Reason able Prices Sennits in plain and split straw, natural color or white at $3.50 to $6.10 Panamas, $6.65 to $7.75 ' (Prices include tax) Lou Big business methods permeate all ages. The boys who live near the Polo Grounds have always picked up a little loose change on Saturdays and holidays by standing in line for ball fans waiting to get tickets. Generally it meant 15 or 20 cents. But down town ideas have gripped the more am bitious. Nowadays several of them are hiring smaller boys to do the ac tual waiting while they solicit business I massive buildings occupying several up and down the line of those waiting I city blocks containing the Italian law to eret in. The boys who do the wait- I courts. ing in line get a fixed wage, while the promoters get the actual payments. American visitor to Rome came off second best in a boasting c6ijrtest with a Roman cab driver The American undertook to see Rome in a day and used the. cab driver as a guide. ,The American . was driven to all the great Roman monuments and took great interest in the buildings, a! ways asking how long each took 10 build. ' , At St. Peter's, the cab driver con fessed that it took 50' years to com plete that structure. The American did . not think that that was such a great feat for he was certain such a building could be built in America in two years. Other large churches, like St. John Lateran, the visitor said, could be built in a year or even sis months. Finally, they were passing the nw NEW SCHEDULES ON SOUTHERN Some of the Changes That Take Place This Month and Affect This Territory. How seriously New York is taking the blue law agitation is evidenced by the re-publishing of the whole lot of them gathered up from former times. One of the larger department stores in town is advertising it at consider able length as "particularly timely." "We want to know," reads the ad, with what seems to be dread significance, "what the blue laws were; the reason for enacting them, and the results of that experiment. "What's that," inquired the Ameri can. "I don't know," retorted the driver. 'It wasn't there last night." WATER A DANGER IN COAL MINES Hamilton Day Tells of Min ing Experience in Big Coal Fields. g Com pany Up in the Bronx river, just as it enters the city, stands a statue that would appear to be the guard to the metropolis or something of the sort. . It's a soldier in the uniform of '61, ! leaning on his rifle, and it is standing i on a rough granite shaft, hardly thick- I er through than the figure. It took me four days of questioning before I found anyone in this whole New York who could tell me the what and where fore of this lone infantryman. It seems that it was sculped by a man whose father was a private in the Sev enth Regiment during the Civil war and who himself was more of a pa triot than artist. " He presented it to the regiment, but their art censor "sin- ' cerely regretted" etc. And then said the sculptor, "This statue is going to stand, regardless of art and its censors or the whole Seventh Regiment." So out he went to the upper waters of Bronx Park, stuck his granite shaft into the bottom of the river square in the middle of the Ftream and placed his statue firmly upon it. When you gret over your surprise and wonder at it. there's something rather impressive I coal miners The greatest danger in coal mining lies in the water that drips through the. roof of the mine on the workers, declared S. Hamilton Day, of New York city, who has been visiting in Char lotte for several days. Mr. Day work ed for several months in the big coal mines around Uniontown. Pa., recent ly for the adventure of it. "I decided with a friend of mine several months ago to learn what the life of a coal miner was really like," said Mr. Day. "It was just before the big drop in the price of coal came, and we intended to buy some options or coal property in the mining section. Knowing little about the actual min ing part of the industry, we agreed to sign up as ' laborers and enter the mines. It did not take' me long to find out that coal mining is the most in teresting occupation in the world. That section around Uniontown is probably the largest coal mining area in the country. The great majority -f the mining property is owned by t'ie Harry Frick Company, widely known gained from its location. I Herman Sternburg. 23, weighs just 96 pounds. But evidently that is not the reason for his having failed to chal lenge M. Georges Carpentier. He was dragged into the police court the other aay by an abused policeman, six feet tall and weighing a fraction over 200 pounds. Herman had attacked him. the policeman said, assaulted him with violence. The officer wanted him locked up, not only as punishment for this misconduct, but to protect himself I ground digging into that ami sutieiy. it was quite apparent mat jiernan was a dangerous antagon ist. LUCY JEANNE PRICE. fit, 4 I , . for - RSfO' JSrlWI 2S - - - IP f ) ,"! m I L-JJ 'J--, ill 1 JPIIL liilii ( llf 1 1 (1 Jill ilfll iMLL'Jflii ifllfi UNI fiifiii 1 1 . . i i 7u ..P"18 a CaloriC on a Money-Back Guarantee that it wiU heat your home to the comfortable temperature of u in coldest weather. This guarantee is the definite pledge of the oldest and largest manacturer of warm-air furnaces in the world. It is also our pledge of your satisfaction or money back Jvevmo fcy, natural circulation of air, warms ZtZ roomtmore unjformly and more healthfully than other lS fuff Cr initial C0St 3X1(1 wik H ' fee2CS!if !deal heat for OT new No pipes to Sou? eial enstration and salesrooms are right at the 8toregych8uhrc. yU hOW to sa fuel heating your home,' CHAS. F. SHUMAN ' n DISTRIBUTOR CEO. K. HUMMEL, Manager of Sales Phones 1325-611 nfd) S) (fa I 1 s The large mines of the Frick com pany are interesting beyond descrip tion. Small electric cars run down in the mines for three or four miles in one direction. It is almost like a little city under the earth. Ventila tion is afforded by an occasional shaft sunk from the ground above. In these large mines rr.ach:nery is employed to dig out the coal, but the pick is most ly used in the smaller ones. The mine in which I did most of my work used picks, and I'm here o tell you, a month down under the hard stuff with a pick didn't make any humorist out of me. I felt like the deuce. We usually started to work at 6:30 o'clock in the morning and worked until shortly after 2 p. m. The miners quit early in order to get fresh air and sunlight. "The average mine is well protected from cave-ins. but I saw an accident one day which almost gave me my fill of underground life. I was picking away beside a miner who was testing the roof of the mine with his pick han dle. He would take the handle and punch the roof every few feet. A few yards from me he gave a pretty hefty punch. That was one time m my life I thought my time had come. About a ton of coal broke loose from the roof with a crash that almost scared me to death. The miner in some strange man ner escaped with his life, although ii his jump he slipped and had one hand smashed. How he got out from undnr that coal I don't see. I naturally ex pected the whole roof to cave in after that, and the company didn't make very much money off of me that dav. The real danger to the miner, how ever, is the dripping water from the roof of the mine. This soaks in from the ground above, and in the mine, m which I worked, was continually drop ping down on us. We were always sub ject to colds and pneumonia. One forgets the danger in the fas cination of the work, though. For me it was a strange experience crawlinar about down there under the ground. In one mine near Uniontown the minera are compelled to crawl for several miles through an underground passage Derore tne actual coal is reached. The passageway Is only about three feet mgn." According to Mr. Dav. coal which sold last year for around $10 a ton it the mines is selline now for about The mines are making no money at an, and are only running to keen the men employed. The dron was e:nisrd said Mr. Day, by the falling off of nume consumption, less aemana from foreign countries and an embargo t rance placed on coal. Experts pre- uicl a pre-war condition before long, however, he said, and the mines will again De on a paying basis. When the big rise in coal came a few years ago, Mr. Day declared the small holders of coal areas made for tunes. Coal land averaged about $1,200 an acre. The coal runs' in two veirs, the first reaching down about five feet In thickness and the next about nine feet. The small companies usually mine the five-foot vein and the large companies the nine-foot vein. The aren around Uniontown produces only soft coal. SHOULD RESIST " REDUCTION. Denver, Colo.. June 9. Joint action by all the metal working trades unions in the country to resist further reduc tions in wages and increases in the hours of labor was urged Wednesday by James O'Connell, -president of the metal trades department of the Am erican Federation of Labor, in his an nual address to the department's convention. TWO DROWN AT WRIGHTSVILLE. Wilmington, June 9- E. J. Kates and C. H. McBridge, special examiners of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, were drowned while surf bathing at Wrightsville Beach Wednesdav. Both were caught in an undercurrent ana swept1 out into deep water. Their bodies were recovered but all efforts at resuscitation were futile. NO FORWARD MOVEMENT. Berlin, J une 9. (By the Associated Press.) The British commander in Un- per Silesia has received a definite un dertaking from General Von Hoefer, head of the German defense forces, mat ne win refrain from any forward movement. This assurance was the outcome of recent Anslo-French repre sentations to the German authorities. Summer schedules of he Southern Railway, most or wnich are effective Sunday, June 26, have been announc ed, according to R. H. Graham, divi sion passenger agent here, and include changes of interest to Charlotte sum mer travelers and to Central Carolina. Among the more important changes is the change of the Charlotte-Norfolk Pullman line into an Asheville-Norfolk line, effective June 25, from Norfolk. These cars will be broiler buffet cars and will be handled on main line and western Nos. 11 and 12. This will en able passengers to get the benelic of meals on these cars, a thing badly needed in the past. On Monday, June 27th, the Goldsboro-Asheville car will be switched from the Asheville division train No. 12 to No. 16, departing at 4:50 p. m. and reaching Greensboro on No. 138, and leaving on No:- 112 as at present. This will give a much later departure from Asheville in the after noon and arrival at Goldsboro at the same hour. There is no change of the west-bound car handled on Nos. Ill and No. 31 to Salisbury. ADDITIONAL TRAINS The Southern had hoped to put the Winston-Salem-Goldsboro car through to Morehead City but has been unable to obtain facilities for handling east of Goldsboro on the Norfolk Southern, which line is now handling one car as far as New Bern, this being a New Bern-Washington car. In the Asheville district there will be a number of summer Pullman lines and additional trains. Among these are summer trains Nos. 3 and 4 be tween Columbia and Asheville, leav ing Columbia at 11:50 p. m. and reach ing Asheville at 7:30 a. m., leaving Asheville at 8 p. m., and reaching Co lumbia at 2:30 a. m. This train will handle the Charleston, Macon, Wilming ton, Savannah and New Orleans Pull man lines. NEW MAIN LINE TRAINS New main line trains will be estab lished from Atlanta to Charlotte as fellows: No. 14 will leave Atlanta at 9:15 p. m., central time, and reach Charlotte at 6:45 a. m. and will return as second 35, leaving Charlotte after the arrival of regular 35 and will han dle Charlotte-Atlanta, Asheville-Macon, Greenville-Atlanta and Asheville-New Orleans cars. These changes have made necessary the shortening of the Greensboro-Atlanta sleeping car line, effective May 29 to become a Charlotte- Atlanta car. The Hendersonville-Lake Toxaway service will be improved by operation of trains Nos. 5 and 8 through to Lake Toxaway, to be continued until Septem ber 24. Asheville division No. 42 will leave for Spartanburg at 7 a. m., arriv ing at 10:20, and Fletchers, Skyland and Flat Rock will be fla.g stops for Nos. 27 and 28, the Carolina Special during tne summer. The Asheville-Atlanta .car was . ex tended on May 29 to become an Ashe- ville-Macon car, and the Charl-iston- Spartanburg car becomes a Chafleston- Asheville, Jacksonville car will be ex tended to St. Petersburg; Fla., in con nection with the S. A. L. from Co lumbia and the Mf mphis-Asheville oar line will be established cn June 11 cars being handled from Asheville on Nos. 11 and 12 in connection with the Mem phis Special from Knoxville. On June 15 the New Orleans-Ash evil le line via Atlanta will be established on Nos. 36 41 and Nos. 10-35 from Atlanta via Spar tanourg to Asr.eviiie. The Chatta-nooga-Knoxville summer trains Nos. 25 and 36 wiil be re established on June 26, to handle traffic from Ashe- ille in connection with the Carolina special including the Ch ittanoog.i Asheville and New Orleans-Asheville cars. xne jincinnati-Asneville .me will cn June 26 be extended to Colum bia. The Charlotte-Atlanta car now- handled on Nos. 35 and 36 will be trans ferred on the 26th to new trains Nos. 14 and second 35 as well as the Green ville-Atlanta car. The Nashville- Knoxville line will be extended to Asheville on June 26, being handled on Nos. 11 and 12. The shor: service from Ashvill Weynesville will be started on July 2 ana" continue until September 4. leav ing Wednesville at 6:30 and reaching Asheville at 8 a. m., eastern time, and leaving Asheville at 9 p. m." and reach ing Weynesville at 10:30 p. m., eastern time, connecting with Goldsboro trains Nos. 21 and 22. Of interest to Winston-Salem is the adjustment of schedule of No. 13 from Barber to Charlotte and No. 27 from Charlotte to Columbia to protect con nections at Charlotte. This will en able the vse of train No. 21 from Winston-Salem for direct connection To Co lumbia. There is nothing to indicate that r.nything -will be done for some while with the suggestions cf the North Carolina Corporation commission for improved service from Goldsboro to Asheville and Cincinnati on a fast schedule. It now appears doubtful if anything will be done until railway picks up. The addition of a broiler car to western trains Nos. 11 and 12 will help somewhat to add comfort to a mountain journey. VERY SEVERE LOSSES. London, June 9. The fighting at Kandrzin, Upper Silesia, Monday night resulted in the repulse of the Polish insurgents with very severe losses af ter they had made five counter-attacks on the Germans, according to the Op peln correspondent of The Daily Mail. The Germans took 1,700 'prisoners. COUNCIL MEETING PAnFS. London, June 9. (By the Associated j-ress.) The proposed meeting of the -.uieri supreme council nas faded into the dim distance as a result of French pressure for a postponement until or der has bem restored in the plebiscite zone of Upper Silesia. FACE DISFIGURED WITH ECZEMA In Rash. Itchingand Burn ing Intense. Could Not Sleep. Cuticflra Heals. "My brother had eczema. It broke out like rash and the itching and burning were so intense that he would scratch and it would bleed. He could not sleep and his face was disfigured for a time. "We began to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment and it was no time nnH the rash began to disappear. After the use of two cakes of Cuti cura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment he was completely healed." (Signed) Miss Margaret Gillean. Wickas, Ark. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tal cum are all you need for all toilet uses. Bathe with Soap, soothe with Ointment, dust with Talcum. MWSMiirrMTlUil. Addiw "Cattcmtab. yjggi.frg- owrtsoj iwaZ: E?Ctacttr Smp shw witt tung. BLACK KID Beautiful black kid pumps French kid covered heel welt : sale $9.85"" This shoe is very dressy good for street, church; and any time when you want your feet to look nice. n's Thompso Phone 23. P reservin Q . Mz - WiV Jar Racks These will hold eight quart jars and may be ef- I fectually used with an ordinary wash boiler. N. B. We also have the Wash Boilers for sale in our Home Furnishings department. SMITH-WADSWORTH Hardware Company 'The Quality Hardware Store" 29 E. Trade St. Phones 64-63 Since 1868 The Home of Good Shoes Somebody's Always Go ing Away With Old Luggage Somebody's always wishing h'ed bought a new bag or suit case before he started for one's luggage never seems to be so noticeable as when some friend meets him and he wishes things were different. Don't wait until time to run for the train. Outfit here now TRAVELING BAGS, SUIT CASES. TVARDROBU TRUNKS, WEEK-ED BAGS, STEAM ER TRUNKS. Gilmer-Moore Co. Shoes Hosiery Luggage Lingerie When Is Economy a Vice? The answer is: When it really isn't economy. Buying a summer suit, for instance. It sn't economy to con tinue to make an unfor tunate appearance in your old clothes when everyone is wearing new. It isn't economy to suf fer the hcut in heavy weight garments when light-weight suits are so reasonably priced. Drop in today and let us show you REAL econ omy, in men's suits. Moll
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