MOUNT AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA
JANUARY 7th,
of tiov. Tmkle Seriously
When Mansion Ignite
TrfakU mmi CklMrw Ee.
frmm TkW
114 Yman Old
Va, Jan. 4.—tlH «
of the governor «f Vi*
*M transferred tonight t
hoepitsl hers, where Mr<
tA tw Trinkle, wife of the executive
the k • very serious condition fro*
lined thi» morning whei
thro-j/h a wall of flame
floor of the e*ecutW
I op the stairway t
her sleeping son on the ne«
floor. A* operation will be perform
«i DO Mr*. Trinkle tomorrow morr
tmg to relieve her eufferinir froi
> >01 wm about the, face, neck and am
g-and the governor, deprived of hi
I Mm by the fin that fitted virtua
T tjr the entire lower fl<H>r of the mai
I taken a suit of roomi in til
to be near his wife.
Trinkle ie suffering froi
physician* deacribe aa "firat d<
tree' horn* about the fare and nee
and "second decree." or more ser
i Me home on her armi Dr. Mori
y WO lie of this city, will operate c
/ her IWXiliua morninr to relieve hi
' eafMnf and in the hope of keepir
1 the bet ue from leaving acara. Tl
''MWMr'l wife VII in mich jfrei
Je*a Way and tonight that phyi
7 dan* confined their efforts entire
f» relieving her suffering, and hai
aa yet made a thorough exam
of her injur it's
CMldrrn fiitipf
An •xjuninatioii thii afternoon
thrw-y«r-old Bill it Trinkle, who
•parkier ignited the Chri«tma» tr
in the parlor of the mnnnion. ami 1
year-old E. I-ee Trinkle, Jr., who
hJ' mother wan trying to arou»e whi
the wan burned, sh wcrj rifjth*-:1 w
burned, nor was the elder boy hu
when he wan forced to follow hi» m
th«r in leaping fri>m hU bedroom wi
dow to the ground three *torie» h
low. Mra. Trinkle nlao whi* not hu
. in the fall from the window.
/ fcrrparable damage wan done to t
J 114-ye«r -old structure by the fil
f which deatroyed pricele** patntini
J antique" and other heirloom*. T
tiftll Woodwork placed in the mann
bjr Jame* Monroe, when he had t
Structure built after the Jeffem
ttracture atyle of architecture, i
ruinad
Started by Sparkler
Mrs. Trinkle was in the kitchen
1 the Munition when the alarm v
W apread that the building was afi
' little Billie in extending the Chri
maa holiday, had got near the I
tUN in the parlor with a sparkler «
ignited it and from there the flan
| spread rapidly through the lot
f floor
Clayton Set*ray, a negro Mitler, <
deavored to extinguish the burn
tt*e when V entered the room, I
finding thii impo«.iible, run to
door to call for aid. It was proba
kb eaB that Mr* Trinkle heard wh
eauaed her to rush to the phone I
o*M for the fire department.
Mr*. Trinkle then remembered
eon Lee wa« sleeping en the tV
' TVlW and tried to mount the b
i Stair*, ftut found these blocked by
Taking the only other
jpre^vh to the upper i>«.rl of the hoi
had to pat* through the par
wa» probably in going thrw
she received her
the front atep* ai
■mob* that poured t
•he fell twice before rei
roan of her son she m id
weVe trappednhe called
•he Ml lor the third tine r
it look* like it", he anewe
helped kit to the wM
that ahe tamp flrat
Try te Help
h»
'activities, Destroys First
i of the Priceless Historic
I»r«mly fell from the window
The fir* captain Mixed her by an
ankle and Policeman J. T. Took, aerv
eral runs* below or the talkie; caught
Mrs. Trinkle's suspended •■oily a* the
three fell from the ladder to the
ground In the fall Rusl broke hie
shoulder. I,ec followed hi* m >kh«r,
but the ladder r»ne, he had to jump
tie whole three storie*, his fall being
clocked when he fell into the arm* of
Rotgray.
(iovernor Arrive*
I (iovernoi Trinkle arrived juat an
Mr*. Trinklf wan beinir helped from
thi ground He had been writing a
let'er . ^jmpat^y to n friend when
Ac imr liudget '/irertor J. H Brad
ford informed hl/n of the fire. Rush
ing over he had thought of I>ee, Jr.,
Hmi started through a «ide door to go
after him, thinking, he said. that Mrs.
Trinkle »a» not at hosr.*. But the
«m<>ke drove him out.
lie went to the back, knowing, he
said, that it wan there only that hia
tor might escape. He un that Billy
»w *afe in the hands of hia nurst
ts he went to the back, and knowing
hat HeUn Sue, his young daughter,
*a- at school, only Le* n*«d b* wor
i*<] about.
Governor Trinkle arrived at Mrs.
"rinkle's side just as she was stari
ng for the hospital across the street.
Kiremen in the meanwhile had
■ronght the flames under control,
"hrouirhout the lower floor* they had
•ip"d. but fighting them was made
H*:er by the portals on the side or
he mansion.
tv i»r»i I'amasrr in nrior
It wn in the parlor that the ser
wac Hone, although the
rr>* floor rooms suffer damage, as
ij ♦he mom* upstair*.
T large reception ro<«m. «>r parlor,
»<• s'-ene of brilliant hall? and re
pt r» since it?- building waf» redur
4' m ■ ompJete wreckage. Stand
j • iadian« at the entrance t»- the
N mom f jr massive col imnc,
H ai-ed and ruined. are reminiscent
r f <■ grandeur that wan l»ef»»re the
•arms: blaze* from the ("hristma*
•♦•e made fkelet<»n* of 14 priceless
• rtraits, erased the over a rentury
Id woodwork, wiped out antiques
athered through the 114 years and
•»dured the room and its contents to
reck a jftv
a! .A magnificent grand piano was a
b ctim of the flames as wVre beaut i
0 u| nigs and furnishings, hut the ir
J i• parable loss came in the destine -
ion of woodwork around the rooms
f the l«.wer floor of the grandeur of
( he days of James Monroe. Enough
1 f this remains, though badly damag
r d, to allow for its reproduction, how
i ver, it is believed.
'! Paintings Dent roved
A moiiR the most valuable of the
Tortraits were those of Lady Spots
'f'ood. Colonel Archibal Cary, and
j^lnry Randolph Carey. All three of
These were onjrinals painted between
4 i 35 and 1750. Portrait# of Patrick
I'iit-nry, John Smith, James Madison,
Tenry Clay, King Carter, and other
amour Virginians also were destroy
<1.
The fire whs brought under control
»fore it reached the tpstair* or the
>ur rooms which surround the larger
eixption room, but the intensity of
'Jhe best and water did considerable
''.image to these, particularly to the
Woodwork and walls. All of these
'iinst be gone over.
1 Before going to the hospital Mrs.
'JYinkJe's first request after learning
|pat hrr sons were safe, was that he'
Tiolins be rescued An accomplishes
Violinist, she played often for chari
table performances. Firemen maa
ged to rescue one bf her violins, bat
wo, including one valued at 110,000,
5er oldest, were lost
The mansion was built during the
p -mi of Governor James Monroe and
4 its majestically In one corner of the
*plt«l square As are the other
ulWtings of the square, the executive
I innslon Is of Jeffersonlan arAitec
i ire, having been modeled after the
I 'her bulMlrgs for which Jefferson
i rought the plans froas France «
11 mil Damage
The Ore t<*4ajr was %• first that
140,000 Insurant* mmi HOftOO fei ear
rM on It* nmlmU. the <lnm
wroaght h thmight irrsparabla. Esti
mation* on the coat of r»p»lr» place
the loaa at from 120.000 to |BMto.
During tkt next faw day* GMnm
Trinkle will remain at tha Memorial
hospital with hi* wife. A fiva-rooM
• uite ha* bam a«t aside a* a tem
porary "G«/»arnor'» Manaion " Tha
three children wara to tha
tha homm of frimOTSnawy of whom i
offered thalr home* to tha chief txa- |
cutive.
Throughout tha afternoon telegram*
of tympathy war* pouring into tha
governor'* offlra from over tha itata
ami from chief executive* of other j
■tate*. Half an hour after the fir*,
Governor Trinkle said, flower* had
begun io arrive et the hospital
Mrs. Trinkle wa* resting comfort
ably tonight under the influence of
opiate*, but earlier- in the day *he
suffered considerable pain. Dr. Wil
li*. a *peciaH*t in burns, expressed
the belief that no scars would be left
to mar her face, though her arm* and
hands were more neriouily burned.
Physician* con*idered it nothing short
I of miraculou* that Mr*. Trinkle wa*
burned so badly and escaped without
even scorching her clothing
The reception of .the governor and
hi» wife to the members of the gen
eral assembly, which was to have
taken place th* night of January 13
vii definitely called off lata thi* af
ternoon. Whether Governor-elect
Harry F. Byrd and his family will
find the man«ion ready for occupancy
when Governor Byrd assume* office
February 1 could not b« definitely
stated. He is expected shortly to
oversee redecoration of the building.
Another Side cc Co-op Question
twivnu ua/a i|fu infre ippnrMi
in the iitaU press dispatches aent
nut from Waahirxton which printed
a letter sent to Senator Overman by
John H. Kolgrer, of Mount Airy, in '
which Mr. Koljfer gave hit opinion a*
to the »ucre«* of the association in;
this section. In answer to Mr. Kol-|
gvr'i lett«r the following was sent to
Senator Otbnnan which (fives the
»ide of the cooperative question an
*een by one of it* members—Mr. W.
S«al of Round f'iak section of thi."
county:
Mount Airy, N. ('
K f i). No. :t
Dec. .'{J-I. lit-'.".
)!i>n. I.ee S. Ovirmsn,
United States Seriate,
Washington. D. t .
My Dear Sir:
1 nave ju»t rend the letter »r'tten
to you t>> Mr John H Folger, of
Mount Airy, N. about the Tobacco
Growers Co-o|«rativc Association,
{>ublished yesterday in the Greens
>oro Daily New*. As a member of
thi* association, I want to write you
about the information contained in
this letter.
Mr. Folder say* that he in speaking
for the farmer* of this county and for
all the farmers of the Piedmont sec
tion. He to have a wide circle 1
of clients. He mays be speaking for
hit clients, the contract breakers, but j
he is not speaking for the fanners >
and is aifuinst their best interest.
He state* that the preeent associa
tion is unsatisfactory and that 95 per
cent of the member* have found it det- |
rimental and are dissatisfied and
disgusted. I know that thia is not
true of my section and do not think
it true of this coenty. In my school
district we have what is called a local,
and meet at our school house to dis
cuss association matters. Every man
in our district is a member save one,
and every member ii satisfied and
loyal and will sign a contract for the
next five years. I know three other :
districts near ours that feel the same
way toward our association. I be- j
lieve that instead of 95 per cent of the
members in these four locals being ,
dissatisfied, 99 per cent will sign a
new contract, for we will regard it as
our only mean* of aalvation from our
present financial distress.
He says that the members of the as
sociation suffered severely and have
lost heart ami hope. It is true that
tobacco farmers have suffered for
the past twenty five years, with the
exception of two or three years dur
ing the war. It is also true that we
wul continue to suffer far more than
we have unless we have sense enough
to organise and stay organised. What
ia true just now of tohaeeo l—l1
is true of all one crop farmer* over
the United State*. We have all fall-:
en upon hard tint** on accoont of •
one crop system and extravagance in
the buying of automobiles, of liutd at
inflated price*, and of hand red* of
things we could well do without. These
are the causes of oar prssar.t suffer- 1
ing, not co-operative marketing.
It is My belief that the members of ,
our association to Burry County are
in a better condition than the fanners
on the oat*kit. ana have not giver, as ■
many nMUuH. The secretary and
treasurer of the Sorry Farm Loan
Board told M today that a list of
loan* fqg this county was appro wed
last sssst hjr Ike Federal Fana Loan
BM* for tl men, and ojrt of ths tl
on* 4mm Wuri to *• Cs up—j
WALKER NOW MAYOR OT
GREATEST CITY
New York. Jm. 1.—Jimw J. Walk,
ar. ri-xmf writer, ri-alaU
*nd Tammany prate** at 0
Smith. btruK mayor of New Tork
today.
Thus for the first IHM tn tte his
tory, Tommany control* both itafe
»nd rlty Intinwnla at the MM
tin.
Mayor Walker iik(m4) John V. Hy
lan, for eight yrari stormy petrel of
Metropolitan Democratic poMtics, who
resigned a full day la advance of the
end of his term to insure his peaskm
rights. , •]
Although formal inaugaral eare
monies were set for nooo today. May
or Walker was sworn hi jrir1ii«rfr so
that he might bar out* tfca rhy'i thief
executive at aUdnight when wrtiny
Mayor William T. Collins stepped out
of office after a rule of but one day.
Mayor Walker's »npointeaa Include
many officials of 1.1* Mylar
indicating that the split in the
ocratic rankn occasioned by tbs pri
maries has been healed.
Mr. Hylan froes out of office with
a pension of M.206 • fnA His re
tirement from office follows <*na of
the bitterest inter-pvty fights fc^tha
local democratic rank* in year# ^
His renocnination waa vigorously
opposed by Governor Smllfa last fall.
Byron W. Huhn, silk -^at manufac
turer for most of the Presidents sh»ce
the time of Grant, recently at hip
Milwaukee home.
1.1 * Ai>«ocuicion. A similar lint of 17
w»» approved a few week* before and
only tnree of this li»t were member*,
and two of the three were contract
breakers. Not over 15 per cent of
the men in this county who have bor
rowed money from this bank during
the past four year* are member* of
the Association, and over two thirds
of tn« farmer* of Surry County Iw
loni; to the Marketing Association.
Thru the Credit Corporation for
Surry County, members of the asso
ciation arc enabled to secure n*ne
month loans thru Federal Intermed
iate Credit Hank at a very reasonable
rate of interest to pay cash for their
fertilttw and supplies No farmer
in our county. unless he is a memiier
>f the Marketing Association, can se
cure these loans, for our Surry Atrri
•ultural Corporation was organized by
"Co-ops" who subscribed *<5 per cent
of its capital stock, the other 15 |*r
cent being subscfcjl>ed by *ome^>>f our
he«t business nte«. Tb»>" County
Hunki't tell me that the "Co-ops"
pay their note* at the bank m<>ro
promptly than the outside farmers.
So it would seem that the mortgages
and suffering, Mr. F'olger speaks of,
arc outside the association; at any
rate they are not caused by it.
I fear that his information is not
so wide after all, but is rather con
fined to complaints nade to him by
his clients, who are oc ltract break
ers. It is to be expected that these,
together with tk* warehousemen,
abuse the association. And I fear
that it is from this source that he
gets his information and inspiration.
As a matter of fact our association
has had about 00 suits in this county
against contract breakers from a
membership of over two thousand and
Mr. Kolger, aa an attorney, has rep
resented at least fifty of these and
has lost every suit save one, and the
Judge balled the Jury out in open
court for relieving this one of his con
tract.
Air. r (Hirer s uiiormation or:erect
you may be disinterested. He says it
i». I do not know who p*y« him u
attorney for hi* serrices, whether the
rontract breakers, or the warehouse
men or the Imperial Tobacco Com
pany or whether anyone pay a him.
But I do know that I am a farmer of
Surry County, a tobacco raiser, a
member of the association, and am
very much interested, not only for
my own welfare but for my neighbor*
and friends, who mak^ their livvn* in
th* nr.me way I make mine. I also
kr ow that I have gfVef^ereTVed one
cent from the association except for
tobacco delivered, and I am satisfied,
and know that c>-operative marketing
is our only hope.
I do not mean to tell you that there
are only a very few farmers h» our
county, who are dissatisfied, nor
that all locals are as well satisfied as
■y loeal or the other onea mentioned.
For I know there are • great many
who are discontented and Man the
aaaociatkn for a mat May things.
But fro* my knowledge and Informa
tion these kickers were either former
warehouse pets, or have heea simple
enough to fall for the fa4la mil
PimwUo TMak CUnMi
Pap Wh A rUtrmry b Mat
tor and DM N«t Cm All l»
torMtod n Oppirtwiti to
b. Heard.
Washington, Jan. 2.—A fight to
tween membera if the Stat* High
way Coamiaaion to expected to be
staged at tha na rt meeting of that
body over tha propoee^ designation
of federal highways in North Caro
lina, which was adopted by the Joint
Hoard of Interstate Highways on tha
recoauMndation of Stat* Highway
Comwtaafcinn Frank Para, it waa
iearnod Wrt today.
Thoee diacontented over tha pro
pound deaignationa will carry tha
fight bafora tha State Highway Com
mission as a matter of covrteay, but
they have every intention of rarry
inr the fight on unlaaa they gat wh»t
they want from tha State Commi-a
ion. A hearing haa already baan »r
ranK#(i bafora T. M. McDonald, Chief
of Vke Bureau of Public Road a, on
HT S bafora the meeting of the
iv<* committee of the American
Aiiirfiatiorr of State Highway offi
cials in ChW*go a week later. Mr.
Page ia pr»*jdent of the association,
which it expected to finally paaa on
U< propuaed designations at the exe
cutive committee meeting.
Opponent* of the propoaed desig
nations insist that Frank Page made
the designations and that all inter
e»ted parties were not given oppor
tunity to be heard. It wan atated
here today that the win he* of Sena
tors and Rrepreaentativea from North
Carolina were disregarded by the
board unleaa they were approved by
Mr F'nife. Those who have conferred
with Mr. McDonald stated that he ia
unwilling to make any change with
out the approval of Mr Page.
Object to Number
I hp chief right center* around the
r"Ute number given the Atlantic
r..astal Highway. Advocates of the
Atlantic Toast*) Highway want that
r .lit" designate ax Route 1 and oh
Mnt t»> the giving of that numeral
t" the route across the .'tat* via N'or
Ima. Henderson, Raleigh, aSnford and
Pinehurst.
Highway Commissioners W A.
Hart, W A. MrOirt and Wheatley,
"have already filed protest with the
Joint Hoard of Interstate Highways,"
according to R C. Dunn, of Enfield,
president of the Atlantic Coastal
Hiirhway.
While th« fight over »he designa
tion of the Atlantic Coastal Highway
is assuming large proportions, it is
by no means the only objection to th»
North Carolina federal highways ap
proved by Mr. Page. Hugh McRae
well-known promoter, is yendiiif cop
ies of a controversy by maQ which he
has been having with Commissioner
Page to members of the state dele
gation. The Rlackbear Trail, a seer ic
highway which la dear to Mr. lie
Rae's heart, has been left off the
map and Mr. McRae is very rifcom
about wanting it on.
I lw Tollowinjr telegrtm rrotn lv»-1
re»entative Ahemethy to T. P. Mof
fett, secretary of the New Bern
Chamber of Commerce, (texrihM the
nttitndea of the opponent* of the
present denizations and the situation
with regard to them:
"In company with Congressmen
Lyon, of North Carolina, Casque, of
South Carolina and Edward* of Geor
gia, I called on T. H. McDonald, chief
Buroau Public Roads, relative to
mark me of hirhway« running north
and *oath. Tentative map propooid
i* very unfair to «ntir» eastern aec- |
tioa of iMa tVoible we are having
la the tlrtilh i mop fcaa boon approv
ed by Chairman Pile* of the State
Highway Commission. flsffwl yap
confer with ftovator IMnm and got
Ma vWwa. We too* aakod McDonald
»• rttil tagMt
i-MM and —turn the actios we ds
«lr» tkroofli them, if pociWs, mmi
if 9<X able to aocar* tiM actios W
desire through them. to thai carry
tfce fight to Dm Bureau of flood Mi
at. Washington."
"The Atlantic Coastal Hi*hway
along the general root* from Mat—
a* far aoath aa Richmond, Va , is 4s
sifrnated aa Fedsral Route Rnte
I."write. Mr. THmn. "and the mm
number ia riren to tha southern link
of the taid Atlantic Coaatal Htgfc
*->y from Miami northward to Jack
sonville, while the territory wbrac
ed In the Atlantic Coastal Highway
from Richmond. Vs., on the north la
Jacksonville on the sooth is gl»sn var
ious federal markings and cumber*,
thus breaking the continuity of tks
Federal Rout* Number 1 already giv
en to the larger part of said Atlan
tic Coastal Highway. There is ns
reason why the marking federal
route Number 1 should not he con
tinued sll the way up the Atlantic
Coastal Highway. The marking ss
proposed h« the joint boaid of Inter
state highways would be decidedly
confusing and would discriminate
against the Atlantic Coastal Highway
in a way which we do not think would
be at all fair. To change this mark- _
ing and give federal route Number 1
to the Atlantic Coastal Highway and
to allocate to the territory ■—t of the ,
Atlantic Coastal Highway other num
Sers except Number 1 would not dis
criminate arainxt such territory."
"You Don't Believe I Will Do
It," Girl Said A* She
Drank Poison
Salisbury, .Inn. 2.—Mi** (trace Mat
rhowv ami n mcmh+r of a family
emup which have Seen furnishing a
musical vaudeville pr .trram
r»! theatre for the pa.«? week. Vfim
mittcl suicide shortly after midnight
this -nomine
Th«> (rroup of players, which in
cluded the father of Mi** Matthews
and -\ «i*tcr nnd brother and brother
in-law, were apparently enjoying Mfe
in the reception room of t'-f theatri
cal ripartmenta when the young wo
man pia.ed a rial of ljraoi to her lips
and **v>g, "you donl Seliere I will
do it, co yoo?" drank the contents.
She «-»■* taken to a hnpital where
iho ilkd.
The t.irl was a men. or- of the
rhi.ru* and was also a cornet and
*ophone player as well as taking
part in acrobatic art* with her broth
er. No reason is assigned for tlw
art.
Raleigh, Ju. 2.—North Carottaa**
nearly 400.000 «o>—ntill* iiww'j
paid tba iWt of North Carolina am