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e i i iy"'.y VOL. 1X.-NJ. :8. LINCOLNTON. N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 13. 1915. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR f f MEMORIAL DAY AT UNITY CHURCH Next Sunday, May 16th, Hon. Walter C. Feimster of Newton, Delivers the Memorial Address Rev. Dr. Hob son of Cornelius Preaches The An nual Sermon. The Memorial occasion which has been observed annually at Unity for many years will be held next Sunday the 16th inst Hon. Walter C. Feim ster of Newton has accepted the in . vitation to deliver the annual memorial ...Idress at 11 a. m., and Rev. Dr. Hob son of Cornelius will preach the an nual sermon at 2:00 p. m. Unity is one of the oldest churches in the coun ty, and one of great interest histori cally. It is situated near Beatties Ford on the Catawba river, and the first house of worship was a log building called Beatties Meeting House, erec ted in pioneer days. The headstones in the grave yard date back to the American revolution The second church was erected in 1808 when James Connor, Alexander Brevard, John Reid and Joseph Graham soldiers and officers in the American Revolu tion constituted the board of trustees. The rresent building was erected in 1833 when John D. Graham, Daniel M. Forney and John Knox were trustees. With its high pulpit, gallery, commun ion tables and session house it is a quaint edifice still preserving the ar chitecture of ante-bellum days. In this community live and have worshipped families of Abernethy, Bal lard, Beatty, Black, Burton, Cherry, Graham, Hager, Johnston, Kelly, King, Little, Long, Lowe, Luckey, Mc Lean. Mcintosh, McDowell, Morris on, Nixon, Proctor, Rankin, Regan and scores of others. Being an old and noted place of worship, and the bury ing ground of a large connection, these occasions bring together a great con course of people not only from Lincoln but the surrounding counties of Gas ton, Mecklenburg and Catawba. CORONER'S JURY CHARGES WHOLESALE MURDER. Kinsale, Ireland, May 10. The coroner's jury investigating the deaths of five persons drowned when the Cunarder Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland last Friday, returned a ver dict here today charging "the officers of said submarine and the Emperor and Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of wholesale murder before the tribunal of the civilized world." Captain Turner of the Lusitania was the principal witness. He told the jury he did not see any subma rine either before or after his ship was torpedeod. He was on the bridge when his vessel first was struck and immediately gave orders for the low ering of the boats and the placing of the women and children in them. He said there was no panic; that it was almost calm. Many of the boats could not be lowered because of the list of the steamer the witness continued. He was unr.ble to say how many boats were put overboard, nor was he able to tell the extent of the damage to the Lusitania. He gave it as his oninion, however, that the water tight compartments were blown asunder by the force of the explo sion. These compartments he said were all closed when the ship was struck and yet she remained afloat only 18 minutes. Carried Out Orders. Captain Turner said that, after the warning at New York that the Lusi tania would be torpedoed he did not make any application to the Ad miralty for an escort. "It is their business, not mine. I simply had to carry out my orders to go, and I would do it again," declared the wit ness with emphasis. - Among other witnesses heard was Ship's Bugler Livermore. He testi fied that all the water-tight com partments were closed, but that the force of the explosion and rush of water must have burst them open. In summing up the case Coroner Horgan charged that the responsi bility "lay on the German Govern ment and the whole people of Ger many who collaborated in the ter rible crime." SANDY RIDGE NEWS. Dear Editor: Will you please allow me space in your valuable paper for a few dots. . There was preaching at St Matt hews church Sunday in honor of moth er's day. There was a large crowd present; and there will also be preach ing the third Sunday evening. There was a singing Sunday even ing at the home of Mr. Theo Bumgar ner and all present reported a nice time Misses Minnie and Eula McGee spent Saturday evening with Misses Lillio and Martha Bumgarner Mrs. D. F. Finger spent Sunday with Mrs. E. E. Boyd Ascension day will be ob served an Sandy Ridge and most of the young folks have planned to go fishing South Fork Institute at Mai den closed Wednesday and Thursday, May the fifth and sixth with a good entertainment both night and day Miss Lena Finger was in Maiden Tues day Miss Ruth Shrum gave a pound party Saturday night. Those present had a nice time. Most of the farmers are about through planting and cotton chopping will soon be the order of the day. Wishing the News much success I will ring off. COUNTRY GIRL. FRANK RESENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER. Atlanta, Ga.,May 10. Leo M. Frank was today resentenced to be hanged on Tuesday, June 22, for the murder of Mary Phagan. Sentence was passed by Judge Ben H. Hill of the Fulton county Superior Court. Mary Phagan was killed April 26, 1913. .Before sentence was pronounced Frank made a statement to the court reiterating his declaration of inno cence. The State Normal College com mencement embraces May 22-25. Gov. Craig will deliver the annual address a the 26th. RICHNESS OF LINCOLN COUNTY Beside a Section Like Lincoln Coun ty The Bonanza Mines of Nevada , Are Like Handful of Pennies Dropped in a Contribution Box. (By Bion H. Butler.) Lincolnton, May 8. One of the most troublesome of all maladies that af flict mankind is that of the restless foot. You no sooner think that you have it suppressed in one foot than it breaks out m tne other. i had barely reached my home from wand ering in eastern North Carolina than I found myself out again parting with my small income to the railroad com- fiany for setting me down in the up ands of Lincoln county. , ' No matter where we go in North Carolina there is the samo charm of landscape, of scenery and of historical tradition and tale. It is hardly fair to offer comparrisons, yet it is lair to say that the traveler will journey a long distance before he will find a spot that has been more kindly dealt with bv nature and circumstances than Lin coin county. Spring is a time to see the hills or Worth Carolina. A hill has its own advantages. A hill is the home of the panorama of Nature. From the summit you can see the world spread out before you. In the clear air of the highlands the range ui vision is cxiennivts, anu in me pic ture is the abridged history of the race. The church tops the eastern rise, with God's acre beneath the giant tree. The school house is a com panion guarding the opposite knob. There is the alpha and the omega. At the baptismal font of the ancient sanctuary life commenced, and there on each recurring Sabbath day came the little feet on their constant pil grimage to the shrine. About that hilltop cluster the memories of child hood, and of manhood and of old ae. What romances are woven by the feet that hove trod the road that disap pears beyond the farmhouse at the end of the bridge. History is wrapped up in the fragment that the guide gives you as he points to the slope on which are still found traces of the graves of men who fell in the battle of Ramseur's mill in the days of the rev olution. You get interested in these things as the field is opened in front of you. The battle was not a great one, the historians telling that some seventy men were killed and probably two hundred wounded, but it was an Im portant event in local affairs, and had its influence in discouraging the Brit ish in their efforts to control the colo nies. Cornwallia Passed Through. Cornwallis, in his march to catch Morgan in 1781, passed up through the hills of Lincoln county and camped on January 24 at Ramseur's mills, close to the Bcene of the battle. From the hill tops the folks point out the locations of the old iron fur naces, and tell you that back a hun dred years or so ago here was the seat of a right thriving iron industry. Iron is tho name of a station on the rail road to this day, and the older ones tell of the Vesuvius furnace, and Bre vard's forge, and of the Famous Bre vard family, and the Forneys, and the Grahams, who were iron masters a century ago, and that Graham, . the Secretary of Navy, was one of the Grahams of Lincoln, and presently you are thoroughly alive in the mem ory of colonial and early history of the country. Lincoln is a fitting village to crown one of the most interesting hills of the county. A quaint old court house stands in the center of the time honored public square, and two hotels of the older day stand sentinels on opposite sides of the square to give an ancient setting to the scene. One of the taverns under the compulsion of modem progress has added a large new wing, but it has not had the ef fect of robbing the old house of its picturesque old appearance. New things and old things stand neighbor to each other all up and down ' the village streets. Old homes that were homes of the first inhabitints of up land North Carolina are sharply con trasting with the homes that have been built bv the folks who have grown out of the earlier notions. Old houses with gardens about them that tell of yesterday, with big trees and roses and sweet Williams and lilacs, and the posies our grandmothers fa vored. New houses that know nothing of the little windows and low roofs and gables of their neighbors. Roads that go out among wheat fields and thrifty country places. Roads that go down long hills and come to creeks with big bridges. --... Getting Good Roads. Lincoln county is getting good roads. The infection for improve ment is at work, and presently from one end or the other of the county will be highways of the most sub stantial type. Then all signs indicate a revolution. It is kind of a pity, but the old atmosphere of Lincoln Is destined to give way to marked era of modern things. Probably the old will always have influence, and it would be a mistake to do away with the signs of the early days. People l:ke those things that tell where the race came from. When good roads are all over Lincoln county, and peo ple can come from all over the big common country and idle around here over the hills and dig out the story of development they will come m numbers, for romance is one of the snices of life that we are all after. Books are merely the romances set down on printed pa?Qs. Books are not half so fascinating as the chapter that is written in disconnected para graphs on the hill side itself, when you can stand on the hill and see be fore you the ridge where the British held a position, and whore the colo nial troops under Colonel Locke were arranged in the road below, where the charge was nude, where the British fell back over the hill they had held, you begin to take some actual share in the battle. You throw books away and want to ramble over the fields that for a century and a half almost have been fertilised by the blood of the patriot who went down that a PEACE KEYNOTE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH Hearers Interrupted With a Tumult of Applause, Arose En Masse and Waved The Stars and Stripes Am ericans First, Last And All The Time. Philadelphia, May 10. President Wilson gave to a gathering of 4,000 naturalized Americans tonight the first intimation of the course the United States probably will pursue in the situation' resulting from the loss of more than a hundred American lives on the British liner Lusitania. He spoke by implication, but his hear ers interpreted his remarks as mean ing that,- while the United States would remain at peace, it would seek to convince Germany of the injustice to mankind of the tragedy. "Let us unite in singing America.' were the words with which Mayor Blakenburg opened the meeting. The President stood with the crowd and joined in the singing. Rev. Henry M. Couden offered prayer. Doctor Couden prayed that "peace be made stronger than war and love stronger than hate," and also that the people of the United States might "stand behind their President in nis righteous endeavor to lead the Nation rightly." Mayor Blankenburg called attention to the fact that like the other aliens he hr.d "come from foreign shores," to find in the United States a home." "Let me beseech you," he said "to be Americans first, last and all the time, no matter what may happen in the world at large. "No matter what our personal feel inps for the country we left behind, our first allegiance is to the country of our doption. I cannot impress this too strongly on account of the occurences of the last eight months. Thank God we have a man in the White House who knows , who is just, a man who knows what to do." The crowd interrupted with a tumult of cheers, arose en masse and waved the Stars and Stripes, It was i remarkable demonstration of ap plause. In introducing the President Mayor Blankenburg said : "I present to you God bless him the President." Mr. Wilson's address follows: "It warms my heart that you should give such a reception, but it is not of myself that I wish to think tonight, but of those who have just become citizens of the United States. This is the only country in the world which experiences this constant and repeat ed re-birth. Other countries depend upon the multiplication of their own native people. This country is con stantly drinking strength out of new sources by the voluntary association with it of great bodies of strong men and forward looking women. And so by the gift of the free will of inde pendent people it is constanly being renewed from generation to genera tion by the same process by which it was originated created. It is as if humanity had determined to see to it that this great Nation, founded for the benefit of humantiy should not lack for the allegiance of the people of the world. "You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who tem porarily represent this great Govern ment. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great nope of the human race. "You have said 'We are going to America, not only to earn a living, not only to seek the things which it is more difficult to obtain where you were born, but to help forward the great enterprise of the human spirit' to let men know that everywhere in the world there are -men who will cross strange oceans and go where a s;, :ech is spoken which is alien to them, knowing that whatever the speech, there is but one longing and utterance of the human heart and that is for liberty and justice. And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave in them. Certain ly would not be one to suggest that a man cease to love the home of his birth and the Nation of his origin these things are very sacred and ought not to be put out of our hearts but 'it is one thing to love the place where you were born and it is another thing to dedicate yourself to the place to which you go. You cannot dedicate yourself to American until you become in every respect and with every purpose of your will thor ough Americana. You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular group in America has not yet become an American and the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes. "My urgent advice to you would be not only always to think first of America, but always also to think first of humanity. You do not love hu manity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice; not by jealously and hatred. "I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the fiassions of his fellowmen. He has ost the touch and ideal of America, for America was created to unite mankind by those passions which lift and not by the passions which sepa rate and debase. We came to Ameri ca, either ourselves or in persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them seek finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite. It was but an historical accident no doubt that this great country was called the United States, and yet I am very CoaUmed ea last page DEADLY CRUSADE ; HAS ONLY BEGUN Other British Ships Will Meet Fate Similar To That Of Lusitania Dr. Dernburg Makes Threat Evea Am erican Flag No Protection If Any Contramand Is On Board, ) New York, May 9. Dr. Bernhurd Dernburg, former Minister of Colonies of the German Empire, and recognized in this country as the Kaiser's spokes man, said tonight that Germany had only begun her. deadly crusade against Great Britairfs commerce and that the sinking of the Lusitania would be fol lowed by the destruction of other Brit ish ships, whether or not there were Americans aboard. The American flag would afford not the slightest protection for vessels which carried cargoes that the Ger mans regarded as contraband. He said that even parts of flying machines, au tomobile accessories and cotton were now considered contraband by the Ger man admirality. Finally he said: "Any ship carrying goods to Great Britain is to be sunk. England has cut off Germany from the outside world, and we intend to isolate her in like manner, so that all communication with other parts of the earth will be immnossible." Hundreds of Americans Will Be in Pe ril Today. When shipping men heard of Dr. Dernburg's threat against all- vessels bound to England, they called atten tion to the fact that a numbeisof ships will enter the British war lone to morrow with several hundrecf Ameri cans aboard. - i With closed eyes. Dr. Dernburg be gan the interview. He spoke with much deliberation. ( ... . "The Americans have always been friendly to Germany," he said, slowly, "and we want to maintain their friend ship. These facts, however, must be borne in mind to appreciate the pres ent situation in the proper light. "There were 6,000 cases of war ma terial for the allies on beard the Lusi tania. I undertsand that something like 159 Americans were killed. I re fret that very much. It was most un fortunate. Nevertheless, if this mate rial had gotten into the hands of the allies, it would have been used against us, and they might have been able to pound their way into Germany through our lines, and many more than 150 of our people have been kill ed. "The British orders in council were to exclude all kinds of material from reaching our civil population.- They even placed an embargo on'Ttolland, Denmark and Sweden on penalty that they would be blockaded ana tney practically are blockaded. Is it. there fore, reasonable to believe that the German admiralty will permit any thing to get into the hands of the al lies? "Suffering is recognized in war. Un fortunately, that must be. England is building submarines in her home yards just as well as having them built in the Fore River Plant in the United States and put together in Montreal. Old Rules of War Pass With Modern Weapons. "England admits t!iat with modern weapons of warfare she is not able to maintain all the old rules of war. Therefore, she proclaimed a. long dis tance blockade. It has been the usage of war that vessels could be stopped, seized and searched. "Vessels that carried contraband could be destroyed if they could not be taken into port. That has been done in England. It has been cus tomary to give innocent people warn ing and a chance to get away. A sub marine is only 150 feet long. It has no accomodations for others than its crew of probably twenty-four men. Consequently, they are unable to take off passengers. "A submarine can be rammed at any minute, and if the Lusitania had been warned, she could have put on steam and run away. So, instead of giving warning to the Lusitania, Germany gave specific general notice before she sailed. That notice was ample." "How can Americans, being neutral have the right to travel the high seas in safety?" asked the former Colonial Secretary, and, answering himself, he said: "Any "American traveling on an American boat under the American flag will be safe.Theie is only one dan gerthe use of the American flag by a belligerent vessel. There are any number of neutral ships. 'There is also this condition: an American ship, or any other neutral vessel, must carry no munitions of war. It is easy for an American who wants to travel to find out what ship carries. All ships make their mani fests to the custom house and they are public. "Announcement could be made of these and lines held to the announce ments. Everybody takes a risk if they want to. Anybody can commit suicide if they want to. Stopping of Submarines Depends on England. . Germany has issued her order fixing a war zone. England replied by her orders in council, requiring nations to ship nothing to Germany. Now, shall Germany stop her submarine war fare? We will stop it as we announc ed, providing England stops her policy of starvation. Germany is willing to maintain The Hague convention rules. She does not want anything that is contraband." - "What do you want?" was asked. "Cotton and all foodstuffs," he re plied. "Give us an open sea, and no such thing as happened to the Lusi tania will happen again. We regret that it has happened, in spite of our warning. "We have done, and will do, the best we can to avoid such trouble; but we cannot allow Americans to rm used as shields to get articles of war into the hands of the allies. The death of the Americans might have been avoid ed if our warning had been heeded. I am quite sure the Cunard Line is to blame for not telling travelers they were earring large quantities of con traband. "I am satisfied that if Americans knew that they would not have sailed Continued ml editorial page. UNCLE SAM SENDS NOTE TO GERMANY Washington, May 12. The United States Government in a note to Ger many today formally demands of the imperial government a strict account ing for the loss of American lives in the war zone. It also asks guarantees that there will be no repitition of such practice. With the plain intimation in it that the United States is prepared to meet any eventuality that may arise from a non-compliance, the communication phrased in unmistakably emphatic language, was prepared to be cabled to Berlin by nightfall. Written by President Wilson and aproved unani mously by radical and conservative members of the cabinet the note was being carefully examined by Counsel lor Lansing and other luw officers of the state department today to make sure its phraseology cove?d every point of law involved, The white house officially announced that the president finally had deter mined the course of action to be pur sued. The following statement was issued by Secretary Tumulty after a conference with the president: "The course of the president has been deter mined. It will be announced just as soon as it is proper to publish the note now in preparation." This was taken to mean that the American government, observing the usual diplomatic amenities, would await receipt of the communication in Berlin before making it public. At first, there was some suggestion that the communication be sent personally by the president to Emperor William but Mr. Wilson determined that it should be addressed not to an indivi dual but to the German government and through it to the German people. The United States naturally seeks financial reparation, but its protest now is in the name of international law and humanity to obtain a guar antee that such tragedies will not be repeated, and the lives of non-combatants sacrificed. While high officials were reticent in discussing its con tents, it was agreed the note voic ed the intense feeling of the United States over recent occurrences in the war zone. The communication lays Btress on the inhumanity of attacks, without warning, on merchant vessels. It re views in a general way every case In the war zone in which the rights of American citizens are transgressed the sinking of the Fulaba with the loss of Leon C. Thresher, an American; the attack by German airmen on the American steamer Gushing; the tor pedoing of the American steamer Gul iight while flying the American flag; and finally the destruction of the Lus itania, with the loss of more than 1,000 non-combatants, and more than 100 of them Americans. The note, while firm and pointed, does not abandon tones of friendliness, giving room for a disavowal by Ger many of her acts or an abatement of her practices. Germany is called on for an explanation of her past and fu ture course, but the note leaves open the steps the United States will take to compel an acquiesence in its posi tion. It calls attention to the fact that while warnine advertisements anDear- ed in the newspapers the United States government never was omcially infor med that the Lusitania would be tor pedoed. Irespective of that, however, the position is taken that the serving of notice to do ah unlawful act neither justifies it nor makes it lawful. Cabinet officers known as the advo cates always of vigiorous steps in for eign artairs are highly pleased with the note. They said it was the kind of document that fulfilled the desires of every American and upheld the dignity ttllU UUMU1 Ui LUC UI1UCU OUUCS 1I1U1- cating that the American government was prepared to go the full length of its ability. , ..'..'. STEAMERS CONTINUE TO SAIL AS USUAL. New York.May'll. No general can cellation of the Railings of steamers or of passages engaged from New York to European ports has followed the sinking of the Lusitania, according to agents of steamship lines here. They say, however, that there has been an increase of the popularity of vessels flying neutral flags; The report that the American line bus stoppeo! booking third clas's passengers for the St.Louis due to lepvc here Saturday was cit ed as evidence of this. It was estimated that 2,250 passen gers are on board steamships from American ports for destinations that will take them within range of Ger man submarine activity. ROOSEVELT SAYS U. S. SHOULD ACT. Syracuse, N. Y. May 7. Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States after learning details of the sinking of the Lusitania late to night made this statement: "This represents not merely piracy, but piracy on a vaster scale of murder, than any old time pirate ever prac ticed. This is the warfare which de stroyed Louvain and Dinant and hun dreds of men, women and children in Belgium. It is warfare against inno cent men, women and children, trav eling on the ocean, and to our fellow country women, who are among the sufferers. ""It seems inconceivable that we can refrain from taking action in this mat ter, for we owe it not only to human ity, but to our own national self re spect." The United Presbyterian, nublish- ed at Pittsburg, Pa., says the vote of rresnyteries and sessions of the Unit ed Presbyterian Church on an over ture looking to union with the Pres byterian and Reformed Churches of the United States, will be announced as unfavorable to a merger when the General Assembly of the United Pres byterian Church meets in Loveland. Col., May 2fi. The vote is the result of a poll by the paper. The sale of spring Iamhs is a big industry in Watauga and the Boone Democrat says several car loads have already been sold for June delivery at 7 cents a pound. i HEAVY FIGHTING ON BATTLE LINES London, May 12. Another big bat tle has been added to those taking place in Flanders and western Gali cia, the Russians having taken the of fensive in eastern Galicia, Bukowina and along the Dniester. River. ' According to the Russian report the Muscovites have driven the Aus trians back along a forty-mile front, capturing many nrisoners and making a great haul of booty. The Russians also are said to have taken energetic action against the Germans who raid ed their Baltic provincesand to have recaptured the town of Sharle, while in central Poland they are ort the of fensive along the Bzura River. Heavy fighting is also reported from the Gallipoli peninsular and the Dardan elles where the Anglo-French troops last Friday had advanced to the vicin ity of Knthia, some five miles from the point where they landed and from the entrance to the straits. Since then the fleet has re-commenced a heavy bombardment of forts in the Narrows, an indication, it is believed here, that the troops have got in such ?ood positions that they no longer re quire the support of the ship s fire. The greatest interest, however, ?enters in the great battles raging from the Belgian coast to Arras, in northern France, and the battle in western Galicia, where the Russians still are falling back before the Ger manic Allies. In the battle in Flanders the Ger mans continue their attacks against '.he British lines east of Ypres, where Saturday and Sunday and almost dai ly since then they have launched tre mendous attacks. Swiss Insults Germsns. Basel, Switzerland, May 12. The Swiss Government is today sending more troops to the southern fron tier, especially to Lugano, because of recent anti -German demonstrations. Agitators have marched in procession in front of the Lugano hotels, particu larly those occupied by Germans, calling out to them insulting phases. The Lunago police apparently are finding difficulty in dealing with the crowds. London Rioters Attack Germans. London, May 12. The sinking ot the steamer Lusitania has aroused to a violent climax the smouldering hatred and suspicion of Germans liv ing in England. This animosity has found expression during the last 24 hours in attacks on Germans and their shops in London and Liverpool while there have been minor distur bances in Manchester, Birkenhead, Glassgow and a few other places. Windows of many German shops were smashed and some shops were pillaged. The proprietors of the shops generally were driven-away by angry crowds. None of the persons attack ed are reported to have been serious ly injured. One or two shops have been set on fire by the rioters. Claim is Decided On. Geneva, via Paris, May 13. The correspondent at Rome of the Journal de Geneva, says he is able to affirm that Italy's intervention in the war has been absolutely decided on. "The Government," the corre spondent adds, "shortly will take steps which will leave no doubt about Italy's intentions and when the Cabi net appears before Parliament May 20 that body will ratify an accom plished fact. Bombs Dropped on Paris Suburb. Paris, May 11. A German aero plane flew over St. Denis, a suburb of Paris, this morning and dropped two bombs. One missle wounded five persons.. The other fell on a building without causing damage. THE LUSITANIA'S BABIES. A Mother Gives Two Dead Infants To The Sea; a Third Dies Later. London Dispatch to The New York Times. The illustrated Sunday Herald of Cork says there was on the Lusitania 50 babies who were less than 12 months old and more than one hundred others whose ages did not reach two years. They all have been drowned. " The babies were the talk of the ship and everybody tried to look after them . when the time came. There were numerous cases recorded where both passengers and crew stripped themselves of their own lifebelts to put around the little ones, but it was useless and about 150 of the infants, it is calculated, died from shock and exposure. They were afterward seen floating in the water with lifebelts tied afound their little bodies, but they were past saving. Their mothers recovered conscious ness in the rescuing boats only to find that the little ones they were hugging to the bosoms were dead. One mother lost ull her three young children, one six years, one four, and the third a babe in arms, six months old. She herself lives. She held up the three of them in the water, all the time shrieking for help. When rescued by a boat party the two elder children were dead. Their room was required on the boat and the mother was brave enough to real ize it ,.: . ' "Give them to me," she shrieked. "Give them to me my bonnie wee things. 1 will bury them. They are mine to bury as they were mine to keep. With her hair streaming down her back and her form shaking with sorrow she took hold of each little one from the rescuers and reverently placed it in the water again, and people in the boat wept with her as she murmered a little sobbing prayer to the great God above. But her cup of sorrow was not yet completed, for just as the rescuers were landing her third and only remaining child died in her arms. Ex-President Roosevelt was invited to attend the 20th of May celebration in Charlotte. He declined but ac companied his declination with apprec iative expressions of regret. I vrnr nmi nivr", States Library x OF COCA COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Messrs. J. E. and T. H. Cansler Have Shown Much Enterprise In Invest ing Capital In a New Sanitary and Modern Bottling Plant, Equipped With the Latest Machinery This Home Enterprise Deserves the Pat ronage of the Thirsty in This Ter ritory. Declared to be one the best arran ged, most sanitary and modernly equipped bottling plants in any city of the size in the country, the new building of the Lincolnton Coca-Cola Bottling Company, on corner of Pop lar and Water streets, is attracting wide attention, not only from home folks, but visitors who are acquainted with the bottling business in all sec tions of the country. They are unan imous in praising the building, the bot tling plant and the business ability of the managers, Messrs. T. H. and J. E. Cansler. who are buildincr up a splen did business by strict attention to de tails. The buildine of the company, in which they have just gotten comfort ably installed, is of brick, two stories, and in a splendid location. A large door for the truck gives easy ingress and egress to the loads of goods con tinually arriving at the plant, while windows on all sides give splendid light and ventilation. It is the light that attracts the greatest attention of the casual visitor, for eood lighting and ventliation are hard to get for a plant of this kind. There is not a dark corner to be found in the entire structure. Sanitation has received the greatest share of attention in the designing of the new building and its equipment. Perfect cleanliness 18 found on every side and the importance of this is im bued into the minds of every employe of the plant. The walls are spotlessly clean, the tioor kept clear oi all re fuse, and perfect cleanliness abounds throughout the establishment. The first floor is t.".ken up with the bottling works. The most modern cleansing machine is on the left, dl -rectly in front of a series of windows that give the place its splendid illum ination. This machine, the most mod ern made, contains a solution of sev enty per cent causitc soda, kept at 140 degrees heat continually. In this the empty Coca Cola bottles are placed. In this tank they are thoroughly steri lized, every germ being killed instant ly by contact with this solution. After remaining in this tank for a length of time the bottles are automatically passed to a rack, where they pass through four automatic washers and rinsers. These washers, equipped with brushes, completely reach every por tion of the bottle, washing it perfect lv clean and rinsing it well. There is not the slightest chance for a speck of dirt to remain after going through this process, all of which is automatic and cannot fail in its purpose. It does the work with human-like precision, but with care and attention that no hu man could possibly give it. As the bot tles pass along the automatic path to the filling machines they are spotless ly clean, just as they come from the factory. Its an interesting sight to see this process and it is an education al treat for one who has never seen the mechanical process of washing bot tles. The filling machine is located close by the washing apparatus. Here a young man fills the clean bottles with the amber fluid that has the reputation of being the largest seller of any soft drink in the world. Urate alter crate is filled in amazing time, and yet the waiting motor truck sends the mout to the customers in rapid succession. The accumulated piles dwindle to nothing and still the automatic work iroea on. - Judicious advertising has created a de mand for Coca-Cola that nothing but lU- i . u . J .1 L . of work can satisfy, and even then the company is usually hours behind m their work and their orders. Contrary to current opinion there is no stock of bottled Coca-Cola kept on hand. As fast as the bottles are filled thev in rripW nut. n tha atnraa anrt homes of Lincolnton and Lincoln coun ty and part of Gaston county. There is a demand for this product that seemingly cannot be satisfied. Even in the cold winter months the plant con tinues its operations, for Coca-Cola is an all the year round beverage. Of course, sales are larger in the hot summer months, and then the force is increased,the hours are longer and fre quently the plant runs night and day to fill the orders that come in over the phone and by letter. the second floor of the new Coca Cola building is devoted to the use of the bottling works. The rear, has been designed for storage of the crates bottles and syrup used in the business. The Coca-Cola syrup comes from At lanta, where all Coca-Cola is made. It Comes to Lincolnton in huge barrels. A barrel is placed in this upstairs room and by gravity is fed to the bot tling machines in the room below. A compressed air tank supplies the air necessary to give the bottled drink its unequaled flavor. The whole arrangement of the new hnilrlivt Mnfiil iLui-Li 1 a tention to the requirements of the bus iness, Dotn present and luture. It is located where easy access may be had to any department and where the pub lic can easilv see the entiisl nrocesa of bottling this world famous drink. ii. is an uiuervBung ana instructive sight to see the plant in operation and Manngers T. H. and J. E. Cansler are always glad to have patrons and users of this beverage call and see just how mis product is prepared lor market. They believe that all will agree with The News man that it is the most tan nery and modern plant of its kind that could possibly be imagined. The owners of the local bottling plant are taxpayers of this county and city and are interested hi the upbuild ing of this city and county and deserve the patronage of all in this section who may want anything in their line.
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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May 13, 1915, edition 1
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