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AH fio. 75 NEWERN. N. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1912 SECOND SECTION ; 35th YEAR BOTH f PLANT NOW Its Approximate Cost In - The Neighborhood ' of $150,000. OVER ONE YEAR REQUIRED 1H WORK Largest In The State . And Unsurpassed In En- ' tire South. . After having been in course of con s' struction for more, than a year the E. 11. & J- A. Meadows. Fertilizer Com pany's mammoth new plant at Gr&ys villu, two miles and a half from New Bern; on the opposite banks of Neilse rive.r, has been completed, all the ma chinery necessary for the beginning of "perations. installed and the plant is now in operation. For many years the Mcadow3 Ferti lizer Comnanv ha? manufactured ferti lizers" in New- Bern and. their, product has been "widely used. As the years passed by the demand for their goods increased and they were compelled to . adtf machinery to their plant at Union Point oii several occasions in order to supply the ever increasing demand. - In 1010 the officers of the company held a meeting and decided that in order to. increase their output it would be necessary for them to enlarge their plant or to build-a new plant. After considering; the matter the latter course tval decided upon and they at onre "began-to look around for a suitable location. There was no available site on this side of Neuse or Trent rivers and they finally, decided to construct the plant at Graysville where the Messrs. Mea dows owned valuable tracts of land. Plans and specification- of the build ingi were drawrt up and the contract for their construction was ' awarded 'to Blaloek Brothers, contractors and ' buildcrsof this city.' The contractors had thought to have the work complet- cd by the latter part of last January ' bur there was numerous delays and not until a few weeks ago did they turn '. the building over to the owners. ' " The' site now occupied by the main - building was on a high bluff over looking the river. Large steam dredges ' toiled for weeks in cutting this down to a desired 4c vel. Fourteen feet was removed before this was secured. .The work of .placing the foundation , for such a mammoth structure was then taken up. This is built of solid con crete reinforced with piling.. The main building is three hundred feet-long, one hundred and fifty feet wide and three stories-in height. All ; the limbers, used in its construction are of heavy heart wood and the whole is covered with corrugated iron.. On the first floor. of the building is located the bulk material which is used in the manufacture of the fertilizer. The first impression gained by the layman in viewing this floor is thatof a large bin, thousands of pounds of phosphate are seen dumped around ' in,; stacks. This is brought in on trolley cars which run along tracks "on the third floor and are dumped automatically There is - a distance of thirty-eight feet that . this, material falls and it naturally becomes packed. When it becomes necessary to excavate in this, after several-, feet ' have been taken - off the top, dynamite cartridges are used Jn loosening it up. Around the sides ; of the building on this floor run the trolley trucks and the cars traverse and circle the entire floor. CARBONATE OF LIMB '"liixcwisw : r. 'ty -is A. ' a. . td .r . ft 5 INTO . - Soluble Forms - Fertilizers C. L. SPENCER' -.DFALER IN- t yi X a- "Rron T4rm JnXT litiy. ViOril . Willi. llall XIUIIHHJ Axm AT T. Tmn5 Cd? FF.F.TY EEED A MD ED RYE. r.TcIl Orders Given Careful Lower Middle Street, INt OPERATION Ascending to. the second floor, one views thousands of bags containing fish scrap and also bags of cotton seed. These': are also brought: up by thp hoisting machine and are placed at desired points by the trolley cars. On this floor is also located a disintegrating machine; which is (ed from the third floor. This machine is used in crumpling up the. pieces-of fish scrap which pass through the 'other 1 machines an1 do notbecome pulverized. After passing through' tbiVmachine these scraps are plac'ecron an elevator and again taken to the. third . floor where they are mixd with other material. -v.-v. -The third floor is mainly occupied by mixing machines, and the trolley tracks. All material v unloaded from the barges is brought in on this floor and unloaded. There is a net. work of tracks and overhead trolley Wires. 359 Foot Pier At the north end of the building-is the pier which runs- out for a distance of three hundred and fifty feet? This pier is t hirty eight feet in height, at the north end islocated the hoisting apparatus and the house which con tains the apparatus used in this work, Scoop shaped buckets, each holding eight hundred pounds, are 'used in un loading the vessels. When these scoops reach the top of the hoist they auto matically release their contents and this falls into a funnel-shaped recep tacle from which it is emptied into the cars, these cars are operated oil the same system as the trolly-cars in any city and each one can carry two tons. As oou as the cars 'are loaded the motornian puts on the current and the cur. speeds toward the main building at a rate of six miles airhour. Arriving at a desired point a brake is released and the contents are automatically dumped.. The pushing of a lever brings the car back to its normal condition. With the use of this hoist and cars it is estimated thai one hundred tons of material can be taken from a vessel in a day's time. At the end of the pier runs the channel of the, river and the water at that point is fifteen feet in depth, making it possible for heavily loaded barges' to dock there without the least danger of running aground. Oil Burning Engines. Every piece of machinery is operated by electric current. This is generated at the company's own power plant located near! the main building. A sixty to seventy kilowat per hour generator is used in generating jhe cur rent. -This is operated by two oil burning engines. These engines con sume about "sixty gallons of crude oi in a day, . the approximate cost of i which is about - three dollars This means that the entire cost of the fue used in operating this mammoth plant is about three dollars a day. -This oi at present is contained in a small tank on the exterior of the building, but a tank which will hold eight thousand gallons is now on the grounds and will be placed in position soon. No fireman is required in the operation of these engines, the engineer being able to attend to every detail. The generator also furnishesthe electricity for light ing the plant. . , The electrical appratus used in the power plant and the main building was constructed by the Ceneral Electric Company and all the work of installing the generator, trolley wires, etc., was performed by George Smith of this city and it has been done in a very creditable and satisfactory manner Practically all of the work is done by electricity and this does away with much extra labor. .-J. J. Rhodes, who is the superintendent in charge WINS THE HONORS FROM Burned or Oxide of Lime by J75.00 per acre in a sixteen year test, and. proved beyond question that it is a superior fertilizing ingrediant. Brown' C C03 by analiticaUtest - . heads the list of fertilizing limes! For full Information write at once to CAROLINA COOT U"E M. New Bern.'N. C. TTIGH fi KADE CORN MEAIj. I'HTPTf FDR ?AI E in 8flcr t,,cir fcn'iVw- 1hc caP'iiy ! i'w number of' years Mr. Bailey- asthma were gotten under control, but JKU.ll run AL.1j of th.g pIant o( courM Hmited but has been out of -tunc with the domi- Sunday morning the exhaustion be AttsntlSn. it 'can easily supply the demand from nant of hU party. As he sees it the came extreme and he died from pu- New Deril, N. C GUT WILL BE II Results at Chlcage Presage Another Democratic Victory I.i " , Next Campaign. REPUBLICANS STIU. WARRING Roosevelt Refuses To Be Elimina ted and there's Life In The CVO. P. Yet. , Washington, 'Dec. 16. -If the con ference ofuProgresiv, party loaders in Chicago can be said to mean anything this'; far' ahead ; of: another . nation! campaign, it fneam a 'tnrec-cornereu fight in 1916 and a second Democratic administration. The very evident determination of the Progressives to nominate Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency again and the equally evident- willingness of 1 ho Colonel to accept the honor seems to end for another four -years at least all talk of "eliminating" the former Presi dent fr'om the. political equation. ' Mr, Roosevelt does not intend to bi eliminated.' His friends apparently do not propose to be parties to an, elimi nation plot, and there the matter eu'dsr Obviously Is it useless for the Roosevelt opposition to undertake to send the former candidate to a back seat,- when neither he nor his party even considers the idea. And this is the condition which will make it impossible for the oh! and new parties to get together. As long as Roosevelt is the big factor in the Pro gressive party, just that long will a union of the factions be opposed by the forces that now dominate the Republi can party and that dominated it when the former President ''was-defeated for the nomination at the Chicago Con vention. These forces have imposed but one condition in all the negotiations that have so far been initiated for a reor ganization of the Republican party. That condition has been that Roose velt be sacrificed. It these terms had been or should later be accepted by the Progressives, all other differences might be adjusted. Now that the term have been re jected no further overtures are likely to bejnade to Jhe. Insurgents to return to the fold. Any rehabilitation that takes place in the Republican party will be predicated upon the fact that the third party is a permanent organi zation and that the loss to it will sim ply have to be charged up a irredeem able.- There are no good signs either that the old party is dead or is about to be absorbed by the new. It will have more than 30 members of the next Senate. It will have considerably more than 100 members of the next House and with this ich salvage from the wreck it is in a position to maintain a respect able opposition to the Democratic pro gram. fherc is also enough life left in the old party to put up at least one more fight for the Presidency.' The fact that. Roosevelt is head of the Progressive party and without doubt will be its nominee furnishes all the incentive that many Republicans will need to keep up their own organization. All this summed up seems to assure the Democarts of at least eight years of control. With conditions in 1916 as they -were in the campaign of 191, it will be next to tmppssiblc to defeat the Democratic--candidate, whether he be BryM or W ilson or some one else. of the mill, says jhat not more than fifty men will be employed at any time. The plant will have a capacity of an output of three hundred tons a day with this force. There is a floor space of seventy :two thousand stiare feet in the building or more than a million and a half .cubic, feet.. . ; Spur Track Built. The Norfolk Southern Railway Com pany have completed a spur' track, running a distance of about half a mile from their main Hue to the plant and at the present time a large steam shovel and a force of men are making excava tions . preparatbry to laying another section of tracking, making in all three spurs which will be in use in the handling of the large number of cars which will . . . j cort 0f the erection of the. main building, . the building which covers the power plant and the long pier was i ... I I I .U .A A..l Everv ''niece of machinery is new and the latest models on the market and this item alone cost several thou and dollars. The approximate, cost of the entire plant is about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The plant is not only.the larget and most com- plcte in the State but there is not an- other in the Sotuh which can surpass it. . ' The plant owned by the company m.iA WstAit in thi rttv u ill rontiniir iREE-CQBNERED operate and will supply the local' think the Democrat Jcft the path of tr8d e .hat Is, the farmers living in the 'fathers and the Republicans where sect ons around New Hern who drive these eustomera. 1 King Ferdinand of . Touring Scene fill! i'V.i Mm w ,r'!i!r.T ' i Photo by American Press Association. R f :f. V- '5 S X v 1GHT up to date In every particular Is King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, leader of his victorious army in the war on the Turks. Here be la u bis army auto, snapped as be was on a tour of the territory from which bis soldiers bad driven the sultan's fighters. He covered In a many hours as wide a Held of activity as could bave been done on horseback In as many days. Perhaps the commanders In chief of the near future will go one better and use aeroplanes. War la truly evolution as well as revolution. ENDS HIS OWN I.IFZ Greensboro Contractor Cuts Jug ular Vein With Ki Ife. Raleigh, N. ( Dec. 17. W. A. Fries, a . cojitraijt.r of Greensboro, N. C, ended his life by cutting his jugular vein early Monday morning in a room of a local hotel. Djath occurred shortly after midnight and a knife was the instrument used. Fries, who had been in Raleigh i's inspector on the part of the State of the new ad ministration building, had spent Sun day with Ms family in Greensboro and returned lure at :.?() o'clock. A note to his wife four.-l on a table in the room gave the motive for the art as follows: "To My Dear Wife, I am accused of ugly charges, which 1 cannot, en tirely dispose of, Therefore, good bye, love. I take my own life hop ing you rol'cct the life insurance money, as it runs ror some time. Have one in Security Life Annuity for S3, ;000 and one in Mutual Life of New York for S5.;000. Amounts are d e on each one, which will reduce this some. Go)d:byc, love. I have never been what I ought to you, and hope you and the children will yet be happy." The note was unsigned. 1 he hrst , know ledge ot t he man s act of self-destruction was gained by a lodger next door, who heard Fries stumbling and fallirg. He telephoned to the clerk and asked what was the matter . When the clerk entered tnelpccted the plants. room rrics-was lound on the noor with his feet under a table. Life was nearly extinct. A doctor was called, but the dying man breathed once ohly or twice after he arrived. Fries was a prominent and well known Contractor of Greensboro, mar ried and had several children. For little over a year he had been here at the new State building representing the State building commission as inspector of the construction work. - He was regarded as an excellent business man and had many friends. The news of his death was a shock kt! . ......... L ' I ins umhh lilies iiere. TO SING SWAN SONG Senator Bailey Preparing to Take Ills Flight From Senate Washington, Dec. l Sen. J oteph. Wtldoi Bailey of Tetas is preparing to take his flight from the Senate, His programme is lixed. lie will go Jan. 4 and give Col. R, M. Johnson, editor of the Houston Pout, an oppor- tunity to be Senator for two months. ' Mr. Bailey., before he quits, will jell hi, fellow Senators what he thinks of "present-day.sms and ideas It is his purpose to devote two days to 'singing his trwan song. xhit time he wilj touch upon many phases National life ttnowina lust where they have always own wrongi times are out ol joint. -r- Bulgaria of War In Auto ' 4f (a 3 " " ", " " NEW BERN MAN&, PRESIDENT Owen G. Dunn Heads New News Paper Association. Durham, Dec. 16. A number of representatives of North Carolina af ternoon papers met here Saturday night for the purpose of forming a North Carolina circuit for press re ports. I hose present were Owen G, Dunn of The New Bern Sun, J. L, Home, Jr., of the Rocky Mount Tele gram, J. M. Reece of The Greens boro Record, J. F. Hurley of The Salis buryPost and S. J. Flickinger of the Durhsm Sun. Letters were received from the editors of The Wilmington Dispatch, The Wil son Times and The Concord Tribune saying that it was impossible for them to be present, but that they were to be counted on in the organization. The association organized by elect ing Owen G. Dunn, president, and J L. Home, Jr., secretary. The different phases of the press service were dis cussed at length, and plans for getting an improved service were gone into thoroughly.. Mr. Dunn was elected the representative of the association and will have full charge of the arrange ments. He will visit Washington and New York, at an early date and make such contract that will give to the af ternoon dailies of the State a much I better press service. The meeting last Saturday lasted until near midnight after which the visitors went to the I two-local newspaper offices and in WHITELAW REID DEAD American Ambassador To Great Britain Passes Away. London, Dec. 16. Whitelnw Reid, tl.e American ambassador to Great Briiian since 1905 died at his Loudon I residence, Dorchester house, shortly after noon yesterday from pulmonary loedma. The end was nuil peacful. Mrs. Reid and their daughter, Mrs. I John Hubert Ward, were at the'ln-d touidc. I n u j . 1. 11 I ne umuunaiiur uaij uccn uiiluiidiuus since 9 o'clock in the morning and at intervals during the previous 4 hours he had been slightly delirious at result of the drugs administered to induce sleep. Sir Thomas Bartow, physician to the King, who was called in last week after Mr. Rcid's illness became acute and his regular physician, Dr. William Hale W ite, is u.d the following bulletin as to the cause ordeath; fonnjght 'ago the American am-1 haJ , bronka tUck iimiiar f0 whfcfc he had ,lffpred imcrvaU. - 0n Wednes- w ,u)crvem,d and ,hf ... . of fc.ading t0 extreme exhaustion. he I "It was hoped that he might rally no pneumonic symptoms had appear onm-uuy me paroxysm oi monary oedema at 1:10 p. m." I STRIKES PUNITIVE FI Present Congress Notable For What It Has Accomplished In This Respect. WIPES OLT UNJUST STATUTES b Five Million Dollars In Claims Involved In New Construc tion of a Single Law. Washington, Dec. 16. This session of Congress has so far been notablv marked by steps taken by the Senate and the House to strike from the statue books punitive laws passed during the bitter:' days of and immediatley after the Civil War and aimed to hukviliate and embarrass the Southern people. The House the other day passed the Watkins bill, which permits southern people to prosecute their claims for property seized after the war ended by Cnion soldiers and agents witoiil ques tion of their Invaltv being considered Under the old statute, if the Southern could not show that he was loval to the Union, he was virtually kicked out of court with his claim. There are $5,000,000 in claims i n olved in changing this statute. The Senate has not been far behind the House in taking steps to efface all sectional feeling, despite the fact that a majorityh of that body are adherents of the Republican party. In consider ing the Omnibus Claims bill the upper chamber has agreed to an amendment which directs the Government to pay the heirs of Confederate generals who resigned from the Union army and afterward joined the South certain claims under the loncevitv allowance. Under this amendment the heirs of Gen. Fitzhugh l.ee will get S-US, the descendants of Stonewall Jaclcsop Si9 and those of Gen! Joseph Wheeler $i1. The total amount involved in this bill is aboi.t S100.0O0, and this s nr.Vill go to the children and grandchildren of the officers of the Confederate Armv who were graduates of West Point or who were in the Union Army before the war started. The-claims must be proved in the Court of Claims. WILSON SAILS FOR HOME President-elect Departs From Ber muda on Bermudian. Hamilton, Bermuda, Dec. 16. Presi dent-elect Wood row Wilson sailed yes terday for New York on the steamer Bermudian. A large crowd gathered on the ipiay and cheered Governor Wilson as the steamer sailed away. Governon Wilson declared that he was delighted with H vac.ion. The Bermudian was escor;-. 1 l vn the har bor by British official- i i st'. :n launches The steamer will be c moved ifti the journey by the Roy.d Mail steamer Oruba. Washington, Dec. 16. The steamer Bermudain ,with President -elect Wil son aooap.l, will tie practically con voyed to the shores of the United States by several American battle ships and the revenue cutter Seneca. With their powerful wireless sweeping the eas these vessels will be in constant communication with the approaching steamer. The battleships of the At lantic fleet left Hampton Roads Satur day for the high seas, while the Ae neca is cruising southward from New York. CONCERT. The girls and boys of Maysville, N. C.,'will give a concert Friday evening, Dec. i0. for the purpose of raising money for a Christmas-tree. Admis sion fifteen and twentv-five cents. LAWS ROM BOOKS TOLSON LUMBER & TIFG. CO FOR EVERYTHING Office and Factory 129 E.Front St. New Bern N. C We call your attention to our complete line of Farm Implements The John Deere Low Down Manure Spreader needs no introduction All you need is to see it. Our line oi Seed Drills, "Ontario," ' Buckeye" and "Pennsylvania," never fail to make friends. I I 1 - Our line of Stalk Cutters consisting 01 the John Deere "Avery," J1CASE and "Southbend" from which to make your selection can't fail to please you, and then Our I'rices are made to suit YOU. Your orders will be carefully at rtltended to. Phone 98. J. C Whitiy u Co. FAVOR PAGE FOli AMBASSADORSHIP President Wilson Will Be Urjed To Name Virginian For Important Post. NO APPOINTMENT BY TAFT President Will Let Woodrow Wilson Name Successor of . ' WhitelawReld. J Washington. ' Dec. 17. Announce ment is made at the White House that the President will not name a successor to W'hitelawr Reid, late : American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. At the.same time friends of Dr Thomas. Nelson Page, of Virginia, let t be known that they would urge . President Wilson to send the distin- uished author to this post. Several reasons were given for the ; President's decision. He believes that the important diplomatic questions in voking Great Britain and the United States can be handled auccessftil'ly in Washington by Mr. Knox and James liiyce, the British Ambassador. He understands that President-elect Wil son already is considering a man for ; he London post and he does "not wish to appoint some who can serve at best for only a few months. The post at London will now be vacant until March, and for the first time in many year3 the United States II be without an Ambassador in indon. ; The London Ambassadorship ill lie the first diplomatic appointment which President Wilson will make. The negotiations now in progress between this country and Great Britain over -the Panama Canal act make it impera tive that an Ambassador be, sent to England as soon as it may be practica ble to name him. In the meantime President Taft and Secretary Knox will continue their . interchanges with the British Govern ment over the Panama issue through the British Ambassador, James Bryce. It so happens that Mr. Bryce has asked to be recalled and that his resig nation is now pending before King George, but the British Foreign Office has asked the Ambassador to remain at his post until the acute-stage of the Panama matter have been passed. T!. suggestion that Dr. Page be sent to London as the first Democratic Ambassador to the Court of St. James since Thomas Bayard, of Delaware, was appointed by President Cleveland came trom a number ot influential sources. The Virginian is known to be a man of private fortune and can meet the requirements of the office, in spite of the expensive hospitality which is necessary for ouch an official to main tain. He is widely known as an author . and scholar on both sides of the At lantic and his friends believe he will be heartily welcomed by the English Gov ernment and English people. -. . EXPRESS RATES TO DROP. Washington, Dec. 16. -The enact ment of the parcels post law has brought the express companies into a competition that they have decided to meet. ' All express company rates will be revised before- January 1 to meet the parcels post rates and arrangements already arc under way to extend the' express delivery scverice -everywhere. Harvard . students pay more for clothes, tobacco and liquors than they do for books, but most young men do that' without having to go to school . to learn how. ' Going to Build? THEN SEE
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