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VOL: XVI. No. 282
SECOND EDITION
KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6,1915
FOUR PAGES TODAY 28 COLUMNS
PRICE TWO CENTS
HUNDREDS OVERCOME DY SMOKE IN N.Y.
SUBWAY FOLLOWING STALLING OF TRAINS
BY BLOWOUT FROM DEFECTIVE CABLES
NEGRO BOYS DANCED OVATION TO WOOTEN HIGH SCHOOL NOW
TURKISH FORCES IN
SHAMEFUL RETREAT
FROM THE CAUCASUS
WITH WHITE GIRLS WHEN PRESENTED TO
TO CONSIDER FOUR
IMPORTANT TOPICS
IN CHICAGO SCHOOL HOUSE AS SPEAKER
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PRESS
IDA
842,000
Traffic In Tube Tied Up for
Dead and Others Reported to Have Suc
cumbed to Injuries
EVERY FIREMAN AND AMBULANCE IN CITY CALLED
Official Investigation of Worst Disaster in Tube Travel's
History to Be Held Hospital Holds 150 Victims-
Heat Unbearable in Stalled Cars and Windows Could
Not Be Raised for Smoke Firemen Worked in Short
Relays and Many Were Rendered Unconscious
(By the United Press)
New York, Jan. G. The entire New
York subway system was tied up for
hours today as the result of a blow
out in the tube at Fifty-ninth street,
which slatted a fire that filled the
entire system with smoke. The
trains were filled with passengers
and a wild panic ensued. All the am
bulances in New York were called
to treat passengers overcome by the
smoke. In answer to three alarms all
the firemen in the city were called on
to aid in getting the people out of
the tube filled with smoke for more
than a mile. All police reserves were
called out. Great danger threaten
ed the cars stalled in darkness and
filled with passengers. A hundred
were overcome by smoke and are in
a serious condition. It was impossi
ble to open the windows of the cars
and the heat became unbearable. Wo
men collapsed. All the lights on the
trains were out. Victims were
stretched on the sidewalks and given
first aid. Many firemen, overcome
by smoke, were carried out in an un
conscious condition.
Thirteen persons are in a very se
rious condition. Seven hundred are
suffering from shock and smoke as
phyxiation.
It was the worst disaster in the
subway's history. Three hundred
were overcome by the smoke and 150
were taken to the Polyclinic Hospit
al. Many were burned. The firemen
worked in five-minute relays. It is
reported but not confirmed that some
were smothered to death in the tubes.
Doctors giving first-aid reported th
two showed no signs of life. An un
iilentiied woman victim of the sub
way accident is this afternoon dead
in the Polyclinic Hospital. The dis
aster will result in a complete inves
tigation of subway methods, accord
ing to District Attorney Perkins. The
fire was out at 11:30.
Officials of the Interborough insist
ed that none of their trains were burn
ed. The fire was due to faulty in
sulation of cables. Fire Commission
er Adamson said as trains were stall
ed they were searched as rapidly as
possible for dead bodies. According
to E. J. Lewis, a passenger on one of
the trapped trains, the guards lock
ed the doors and deserted the impris
oned passengers. Men and women j
fainted. Those standing in the aisles
began dropping like ninepins after
the cars had been stalled a few min
utes. Windows were ' broken with
fists and heels.
STAND GUARD ALL NIGHT
TO FIGHT OFF OFFICERS
Joseph Boyer and Brother-in-Law
Barricaded Themselves On the
Island in Icy Stream With
Guns Turned on Pursuers.
(By the United Press)
Chicago, Jan. 6. Determined to
fight to the death to evade arrest on
a charge of robbery, Joseph Boyer
and his brother-in-law, Harry Sheft
er, all night stood with rifles in hand
to prevent a sheriffs posse from ap
proaching an lice-locked island in
Roche river,' where they had barri
caded themselves. -
DEAN SUMMER BECOMES
. ' THE BISHOP OF OREGON
Chicago, Jan. 6. Dean .Walter
Taylor Summer, long prominent in
social welfare work in Chicago and
chairman of the vice commission
whose work attracted national atten
tion a few years ago, was today con
secrated bishop of Oregon with im
pressive ceremonies, at the Catholic!
oi fcaint Peter and Saint PanLV
Hours At Least Three Are
N. Y. LEGISLATURE
CONVENES AT ALBANY
(By the United Press)
Albany, Jan. In accordance with
state law the legislature will convene
here today, the first Wednesday in
January. With its meeting, the wheels
of the new state government, begun
today, will be started on their revo
lutions. The make up of the Senate
will be: Republicans 33, Democrats
17 and Republican-Progressive 1. The
assembly will be composed of 99 Re
publicans, 49 Democrats and 2 Pro
gressives. The presiding officer of
the senate will be the lieutenant gov
ernor, luiwaru benoeneck. lne re
election of Thaddeus C. Sweet, Phoenix
as speaker of the assembly is prac
tically assured.
SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
IN NORTH CAROLINA MILLS
Washington, Jan. 5. Lewis W.
Hine, staff photographer for the Na
tional Child Labor Commission, made
the statement to the commission to
day at its eleventh annual conference
that while child labor conditions in
the South had improved he had found
two little girls six years of age work
ing in North Carolina cotton mills.
The statement caused a sensation
among the delegates.
"There has been a marked improve
ment in the general situation during
the last five years, but very young
children are working today in North
Carolina mills," said Mr. Hine.
MANY CLUBS WANT
THE NATIONAL OPEN
GOLF TOURNAMENT
By Hal Sheridan
(Written for the United Tress)
New York, Jan. 6. Unusual com
petition b yclubs to secure the nation
al open golf tournament has been dis
played this year. The Fox Hills
Club has for sometime been keeping
this fixture in view and tomorrow at
the annual meeting of the United
States Golf Association the decision
of the officials will be made known.
The Baltusrol club has also been a
keen competitor for the tournament
and contends that it is entitled to it.
The Garden City Golf Club has
look in and the Wilmington Country
Club is anxious to secure either the
open or any other championships
Many Western men have expressed a
desire to see the open held again
over the Long Island course. It is
regarded in the West as certain that
the open will be held near New York.
If the large delegation from Chicago
vote solid they will probably hold the
key to the situation.
Body checking in hockey has been
practically disbarred by the Amateur
Hockey League. No player who is
not actually handling the puck may
now be checked. Tht interpretation
of this rule depends considerably on
the referee for the rule is taken to
mean that the player is playing the
puck so long as he can reach it with
his stick.
A nlaver coming down the ice and
cafroming the pock against the boards
must be given the right of way and
not checked against the boards. The
hard checking which in the past has
been a feature of many games here
will thus be abolished to a great ex
tent A faster game is possible under
the new rule. -
In sDite of the fact that he had
declared that he would retire, Robert
n. Wrenn has consented to accept
the office of president of the United;
. . . v . rf..!M A ran. '
fat Vntlnnal Lawn Tennis Asso-'
ciation, if he is re-elected at the an-! of
nnal meeting next month, '
Principal, Protested to, Put
Stop to Mixing of Races
at Play Action Upheld
Ry the City Superintend-
cut of Schools
(By the United Press.)
Chicago, Jan. (5. Chicago's super
inlcndent of public schools today up
hold Principal Fanny Smith's divi
sion of the white and negro children
n her school's social affairs. Mis
Smith divided the whites and negroes
when the parents of whites protested
igainst negro boys dancing with the
white urirls.
CITY AUTHORITIES WILI
HEAR OTHER BIDDlRS
Jf Leach & Co. Defer Consummation
of Their Purchase Much Longer.
Note to That Effect Has Cone
Forth to New Yorkers.
If Leach & Co., of New York dilly
dally much longer about closing the
deal for the $100,000 worth of city
bond.-; they some time ago obligated
to take from the Kinston City Coun
cil, the council will call the thing on j
and sell the issue to somebody else.
A telegram to the Leach company on
Tuesday conveyed that information,
comhed, of course, in polite language.
A reply came immediately stating
that the delay in the consummation
of the negotiations rested with their
attorneys, and that they would hurry
their consideration to an immediate
conclusion.
A Toledo, O., firm of brokers has
asked the city authorities if the bonds
are still on the market and available
for an immediate transfer, and it
seems that there are plenty of other
would-be purchasers of the issue,
which is the one voted last summer
for street, sewerage and lighting im
provements.
The market for municipal bonds, it
is said by authoritative brokers, has
improved a great deal recently, and
it will not be difficult for the Kinston
city fathers to get above par for the
issue, which they wish to dispose of
immediately so that work may be
commenced on the proposed exten
sions.
IMMIGRATION COMMISSIONER
COMING TO THIS STATE.
Reidsville, Jan. 5. Anthony Cam-
inett, commissioner of immigration
in the Department of Labor in Wash
ington, will visit Spray and Went
worth during the next few days. He
was invited by Col. Frank Mobane
of Spray, owner of an tmmense Here
ford cattle farm and for many years
a prominent cotton manufacturer.
The natural advantages of Rock
ingham county and surrounding ter
ritory have for some time appealed
to Mr. Caminetti in connection with
his studies of the adjustment of farm
labor atnd rural credits.
NEW BERN NEGRO BANK
CLOSED BY THE SHERIFF.
New Bern, Jan. !. Acting upon
legal instruction, Sheriff Richards j
B. Lane this afternoon closed the
doors of the Mutual Aid Banking Co.
of this city, and telegraphed the Cor
poration Commission to send an ex
aminer to look into the affairs of the
institution, which is operated ;.y ne
groes.
During the past few months sever
al judgments have been secured
against this bank by different con
cerns scattered over the country. Ex
ecution of a judgment for one hun
dred and fifty-eight dollars by the
D.. I Arey Distilling Company of
Baltimore. Md., was the direct cause
of the closing of the bank.
WHEDBEE SAYS JUDGES
: WASTE MUCH BREATH. 1
Wilmington, Jan. 6, In charging
the grand jury at the opening of Su
perior Court here yesterday Judge H. .
W. Whedbee of Greenville, remarked
that he had come to the conclusion ; W. Bailey of Raleigh, who will pre
after his four and a half years expe- sent their case to the General As-
rience on the bench that 95 per cent,
what a judge says in his charge is'
useless consumption of time.
Unanimous Choice of Cau-
cus"" When Opponents
Read "Handwriting'
LEGISLATURE ORGANIZES
Governor's Message Thurs
day Kinstonian Says
Business Will Be Con
ducted With Dispatch In
the Lower House
(By W. J. Martin.)
Raleigh, Jan. (!. Emmett R. Woot-
en was iriven an ovation when nre-
sented to the House as Speaker to-
day. In acceptance of the office, Mr.
Wooten announced his determination
to see to it that the work of the ses-
sion both in committees and on the
floor of the House, will be dispatched
in such a way as to make sure to
avoid congestion in the last days and
weeks of the session, and that the
work will be completed within sixty
days, the constitutional limit.
Both branches of the Legislature
were duly organized today by the
election of officers chosen by the Dem-
ocratic caucuses.
Governor Craig's message goes to
the Assembly tomorrow.
Elected Speaker by Acclamation.
Mr. Wooten is being showered
with congratulations today upon his
success in the House caucus last eve-
ning, when his three opponents with-
drew to leave him the only candidate
for the speakership before the cau-
cus. It was conceded by all three
several hours before the caucus met
that Mr. Wooten had an ensy major
ity, and the other aspirants, T. C.
Bowie of Ashe, L. II. Allred of
Johnston and A. A. F. Seawell of
Lee, very gracefully served as the
committee which escorted the Kin
ston man to the floor after he had
been unanimously selected by the !)3
members present.
MARY GARDEN
few ite :"' "'Wtf
Mary (.anlen, the American prima
donna, came to America for the holi
days, but intends to return at once to
France, where she converted her home
Into a hospital and has been devoting
herself to nursing wounded French
soldiers. She intimates that she may
never return to the opera stage. . ,
Raleigh, Jan. 6. The short lines of
North Carolina railways today eom-
nutted their interests to uouector J.
sembly. They ask the repeal of sec-
tion 9 of the Justice act the long
and short haul clause.
Zi3r$r S3.1' h s'",Jn
iCitrvttn -a' "-Si
Grammar School Grades
Will Also Use Building
6o0 Children Will Be Ben
elitcd by Completion of
the Structure
The handsome new East Lenoir
street schoolhousc was occupied this
morning at 9 o'clock by the high
school and eight grammar grades am:
Superintendent of Schools Barron
Caldwell, who will have his office in
the building. Eighteen rooms are be
ing used by the (150 children entered
there,
Ihe new schoolhousc was to have
heen put into commission on Monday,
but the failure of the architect to
arrive to formally accept the build
i"K interfered with the authorities'
plans and kept the children out of it
for two days. Architect t rank II.
Thomson has not yet arrived from
Charlotte to accept the work, but the
officials were allowed to go ahead
with the use of the building since no
doubt exists as to the safety and nde-
quacy of the heating and ventilating
facilities of the house.
The finishing touches to the oxteri
or are being put on today. The work
does not interfere with the stucy of
the classes, however, and the children
were at work soon after their ndmis-
sion, and as much at ease as in their
old quarters. The interior of the East
Lenoir street building is airy, light
and altogether inviting. The appolni-
ments in every particular are of the
most modern. The structure cost
equipped, around $42,000, and is one
of the finest public school buildings in
iwtn Carolina.
KEITH GORE, SHOT BY
GIRL'S BROTHER, DEAD
Warsaw, Jan. 5. Keith Gore, who
was shot at Bowden over a girl, is
dead.
Gore was shot at the home of Louis
Anderson last week because, it is al
leged, he had threatened to kill An
derson's sister if she went with a
man named Coleman. There is an
other story, however, to the effect
that Gore and the Andersons had been
hunting during the afternoon and re
turning a misunderstanding arose be
tween them; that Louis Anderson and
Gore were scuffling over a gun when
Gore was shot.
CITIES PROTEST TODAY ON
RESERVE BANK LOCATIONS
(By the United Press)
Washington, Jan. f. Rival claims
of Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md.,
for financial and commercial suprem
acy were uired here today. Hearings
were begun by the federal reserve
board upon the protest of Baltimore
against the location of the regional
reserve bank at Richmond instead of
Baltimore. Failing to win out in a
fight with Richmond to have the reg
ional bank located at Baltimore, in
terests of the latter city, request, as
one alternative, that Baltimore Iks in
cluded in the Philadelphia instead of
the Richmond banking district.
Other protests of geographical di
visions of the new banking system
were heard by the board later. The
regional banks were assigned by the
"organization committee" before the
board was appointed. The board has
authority to re-district and change
banking districts at any time. As
secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and
Comptroller of currency John Skelton
Williams were members of the orga
nization committee making the origi
nal selections and are now members
of the board, it is thought that im
portant changes in the present geo-
graphical make-up of the new system ,
are doubtful.
Prominent hankers and business jay sentenced to two years in prison
men of both Baltimore and Richmond anj a fine 0f $0,000 by Federal Judge
appeared today. They, filed reams of Pollock. Chambers was the promoter
documents pro and con. The oral 0f the Chambers Land Company, or
arguments today, however, were the Kanired to sell land in the Florida
first held by the new board.
BIRMINGHAM'S GREAT I
NEW RAILROAD YARD, j
Birmingham, Ala Jan. oV Finley
yard, the new gravity classification
yard and engine terminal of Southern
Railway, just north or Birmingham, -
containing 30 miles of track" with a
capacity of 2,000 cars, has just been
placed in serv ice.
Fair, Better Roads, City
Manager and Enlarging
State School
COMMITTEE TO BE HEARD
Men Who Have Keen Con
sidering Five - County
Fair to Make Report Ex
pected to Be Favorable
for the Project
Four important matters will be
discussed by the Chamber of Com
merce at its regular meeting Thurs
day night, President J. II. Canady
nnnounced today. The meeting is ex
pected to have a full attendance, hav
ng been postponed from Tuesday
night for tho accommodation of mem
bers who were out of the city and will
eturn during the next twenty-fou
hours.
The proposed five-county fair will
be discussed and the committee ap
pointed to investigate its feasibility
will make its report. The commit
tee is comprised by Messrs,
J. F. Taylor, P. S. B. Harper, Dr. J.
M. Parrott, N. J. Rouse and F. C
Dunn. They are expected to make a
favorable report, and it is not at all
unlikely that the Chamber will take
definite steps to promulgate the
plans advised by them.
Good roads will be a matter of
discussion hardly secondary in im
portance to the fair. County com
missioners and others interested in
better highways will be welcomed in
the meeting and given a voice in the
consideration of the subject.
A city manager for Kinston will bo
another subject the merits and defi
ciencies of which will be threshed
out at the meeting. Since the city
authorities have taken the initiative
in bringing it up, numerous leading
citizens have suCcrosted that it be
given a place in the Chamber's pro
gram for Thursday night, Mr. Can
ady says. Members of City Council
re invited to join the Chamber in
its discussion.
The proposed enlargement of tho
North Carolina School for the Fee-
ble-Minded near the city, being
matter of more than ordinary local
interest, will be considered by the
lusiness men. The Chamber will de
termine Upon what course it should
pursue in aiding those behind the
movement for an appropriation by the
Legislature for the purpose of erect-
ng new buildings and increasing th
piipment at the institution.
ABOR DEPARTMENT
INTERFERES IN STRIKE
Washington, Jan. 5. Federal in
tervention in the eastern Ohio coal
miners strike was ordered today by
Secretary of Labor Wilson. Daniel
J. Keefc, labor expert and former
commissioner general of immigra
tion nnd Ilywel Davies, former medi
ator in the Colorado strike, were des
ignatcd to undertake an amicable ad
justment.
It was announced that the two con
ciliatories would proceed as soon a1
possible to the eastern Ohio coa
fields for consultation with the op
posing faction.
EVERGLADES PROMOTER
TO JAIL FOR TWO YEARS
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 6. Dr. E
C. Chambers, who yesterday was re-
fuse,i a new trial on the charge of
fraudulent use of the mails, was to
Everglades.
RALEIGH YOUTH LOST ON
BARK WHICH FOUNDERED
Norfolk; Va'Jan. 6. From reports
received here Earl Lloyd, twenty-one
years eld, of - Raleigh, was the only
member, lost of the crew of the Am-
erkan .. bark . .Pilgrim, formerly the
British bark Gale, which foundered
in mid-Atlantic December 15, ' r . J
Leave Behind Guns, Equip
ment and Standards of '
Their Regiments
MANY PRISONERS TAKEN
Russians Capture Corps
Commander and Fifty
Thousand Men English
men Dying From Rheu
matism and Pneumonia
(By the United Press)
Petrograd, Jan. 6. The entire Tur
kish campaign in the Caucasus has
failed. The Turkish army is in dis
graceful retreat, abandoning .their
equipment, guns, ammunition, and in
a number of instances their regimen
tal colors. The Russians have al
ready captured fifty thousand pris
oners. Iskhana Pasha, the command
er, and entire ninth corps are pris
oners. The Russian advance in Hun
gary is practically unopposed. In
Poland and western Galicia there is
practically no change in th situa
tion. French Attack St Mihiel.
Paris, Jan. 6. The French on the
east front are endeavoring to retake
St. Mihiel, the only point where the
Germans have crossed the Meuse.
Hundreds are dying of pneumonia ;
and rheumatism, mostly English. The
French advance is steady in Alsace.
Germans Claim Advance.
Berlin, Jan. 6. It is officially an
nounced that the Germans are gain-'
ing .ground in Alsace. The Germans
wiJ reinforce the Austrians in front
of Cracow. Reports from Constanti
nople say the Allied fleet has again
been driven from positions in front
of tho Dardanelles forts. A torpedo
badly damaged one vessel and the en
tire fleet was forced to withdraw be
yond gun range.
Germans Attack in Hard Rain
Paris, Jan. 6. The Germans, des
pite torrential rains, essayed two at
tacks today to attempt to re-take St.
George's. They were driven back
with heavy losses. The Germans in
the region of the Aisne and around
Rheims were forced back 100 yards
northwest of Rheims and near Courte-
chausse, the French dynamited and
demolished 800 yards of the Germans'
trenches, capturing half of the
trenches.
Germans Advance Beyond Vistula.
Berlin, Jan. 0. The French heavy
guns are bringing destruction to vil
lages behind the German lines. Near.
Houain, in the Argonne region, the
Germans have captured Beveral
trenches, two officers and 200 other
prisoners. On the eastern front the
Germans have penetrated past the
Vistula as far as the Sucho branch,
capturing several Russian positions,
1,400 prisoners and nine machine
guns.
DUPONT POWDER
MILL BLOWN UP
(By the United Press)
Wilmington, Del., Jan. 6. The
large mill of the DuPont Powder Co.,
at Rockland Yards, exploded today.
The mill contained many tons of
black powder. A watchman was in
jured. A whole district in Pennsyl
vania was rocked as if by an earth
quake. COAST STEAMER TRANSFERS
TO TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE
Wilmington, Jan. 6. Significant of
the attractiveness of the trans-Atlantic
freight rates and the scarcity, of ,
neutral vessels to transport Ameri
can goods to Europe, is the sailing
from here yesterday of the American
passenger steamer, City of Savannah,
with a cargo of 9,529 bales of cot
ton for Rotterdam. The City of Sa
vannah usually plies between New
York and Savannah, Ga., which run
the vessel left to enter the trans-At
lantic freight business.