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Heto j- s. I No. 114 NEW BERN. N. (, TUESDAY, MAY, 6 1913-FIRST SECTION 35t ' fEAR TOWN OF U GRANGE IS AGAIN VISITED IT DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Good -Sized Portion of Busi ness Section Burned Yes terday Afternoon FIRE 03IGIHTE0 ID COLORED RESTAURANT Damage Estimated at From Fifty to Sixty Thou sand Dollars TELEPHONES IN BEAUFORT. Beaufort has telephone service now. Friday's Beaufort news says: "Yesterday telephone service was in augurated in this city by the Home Telephone and Telegraph Co. Gen eral Manrgcr F. C. Toplcman was here to help get the service underway. Beau fort now can boast of as good a tele phone sjstem as is possessed by any city in the state. Miss Norah Harrell of Emporia, Va., and expert telephone o.:er; t r, is here for a few weeks, helping to get the system in good work ing order." A. & G: CANAL NOW WAS BUSY OAK II A FREE HIGHWAY D.-ods Conveying It To the United States Government Formal ly Executed. FEDERAL COURT HALF MILLION PRICE PAID Sale Marks Notable Event The Realization Of the Efforts Of Over a Century. (By Long Distance Telephone.) Fields, May 2. Fire which origi nated in a restaurant located in the business part of town completely de stroyed a section of that part of La Orange this afternoon and caused damage which is estimated at be tween fifty and sixty thousand dol lars. The fire originated in a small building in the middle of one of the main business blocks and which was occupied by a restaurant. Wheiw first discovered the blaze could have been extinguished and the disastrous fire which followed might have been averted. However, there was somi delay and before the fire compa arrived on the sceue, this buildinr was in a mass of flames. From thi building occupied by the restaurant the flames sprang to an adjacent structure which was used as a bar ber shop and this was soon laid in waste. From this building the blaze swept into R. J. Creech's general merchandise store, destroying that and the following also: Mcwborn Jewelry store, A. W. Kennedy's gro cery store, Walter Wilson's grocery store, three colored rests u rants', J. P. .lovner's blacksmith Hliop, the Norfolk Southern passenger station and ticket office, Milton Hardy's gro cery store. Across the street con siderable damage was done to the building of the Rouse Banking Com pany, Barwick's grocery store aud Wooten & Kinsey's furniture store. The progress of the flames was rapid owing to the fact that a high wind was blowing at the time and the merchants had but little time to get any of the goods from their places of business. However, they succeeded in getting out some of the goods and these were placed just across the street, presumably at a point where the flames could not CIRCUMSTANCE. Two children" in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the healthy leas, l Two strangers meeting at a, festival; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall; . Two lives bound in one with golden ease; Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower, Wash'd with still rains and daisy- bossomed; Two children in one hamlet born and bred; So runs the round of life from hour to hour. Tennvson. BIG LAND SALE TO BE IIEDL AT POLLOKSVILLE. Rapid Progress Eeing Made Disposal Of Cases On The Docket. In SESSION MAY ADJOURN TODAY II. C. Cleve Found Guilty Of Re tailing And Is Sentenced To Jail. HYDRQGBAPHER IS ow AT ORIENTAL SURVEY BOAT 18 ENGAGED MAPPING OUT CHART OF THAT SECTION. There will be a big and sa le at Pol lokrvillc on Thur.day, May 15, an 1 fifty high class resitlcrce lots and twenty-five business lots will be dis posed of. This silc will be conducted by the American Realty and Auction Company of Greensboro, one of the largest companies of its kind in the State. There will be a big barbecue In which everyone who attends will participate and many valuablo prizes will be given away. The property is located on the west side of Main street just oppoistc the new bank building. ORPHANAGE GLASS HERE THIS WEEK TO GIVE CONCERT THURSDAY NIGHT UNDER MASONIC AUSPICES. The following is from the Watauga Democrat, Boone, B. C, where the reach' them, but sparks and burning Oxford Orphan Asylim Singing Class embers were flying jn every direc tion and within a short time the fire had sprad to these and much of the goods which had been taken from (he burned buildings were also de stroyed. spent two weeks last yesr attended and the annual Masonic picnic: "The exercises of the day were opened with prayer, followed with a song by the Oxford O.phanage Singing Class, which is composed of fourteen as bright, The eastbound train in charge of attractive and highly cultured boys and Conductor William Hlnnant and En gineer Jack Neal arrived at LaGrange before the fire had gained good hoadway and the train crew at once began to save the Norfolk Southern Railway Company's property. Fif teen box cars were pulled, oat of danger an the contents of the pas senger depot were taken on the train together with much of the freight in the warehouse and carri ed to Falling Creek. The passenger station owned by the Norfolk South ern Railway Company was burned to the ground. Several times the freight warehouse ignited from the flying embers but each time the blase was extinguished. There was scarcity of water and the small Are company assisted by the cltisens and the train crew se cured much of the water from the tender of the locomotive attached to the eastbound train. This was used In naiitinc the fire near the depot , and which could be reached with the short lengths of hose. The Harper Hotel is located ad jacent, to the buildings destroyed by lire and it was thought several times that this would be destroyed but fireproof shutters have recently been placed on this building and they sav ed it from destruction. The tele phone exchange was located in this hiiniin but all the wires were burned down and tonight the town has no communication with the out aide world. The last disastrous fire occurred Just across the street fiorn the one which took place this afternoon. On that site several new brick buildings. including the bank have been eject nA In these structures, so fierce was the heat from the burning build Inn. the big plate glass wlndowB were cracked and several times H was thought tint In spite of all that could be done the fire would extend to that side of the street but fort n natrly this did not occur. Spaiks and burning embers were carried over the entire town b: the girls as you could wish to see, who si e l lustre upon the great Institution they represent. "At 2:30 the children gave a concert in the court house and every available seat on the floor and galliry was oc c-jpied, and it is the general con sensus of opinion that it was the finest treat our people have had in a long time. The class will give a concert here next Thursday night under the aus pices of the local Masonic fraternity and a large attendance is bespoken by that fraternity. Miss Louise Hcrndon has returned from Cartersville, Ga., where. she as sisted Rev. J. B. Phillips in the singing and other details of a very successful revival meeting. From Cartersville Mr. Phillips went on to Macon, Ga. where at the church of which he wag formerly pastor he now is holding a revival. He will b : out of the city sev eral weeks longer. high wind and many persons living in the vlc'.nity of the blazo moved their effects out of their homes, ex pecting that the entire town would Baj,j w;thout the risk of invidious din be destroyed and according to the 1 tinction that Senator F. M. Simmons Norfolk, May 1. Deeds conveyirg to the United States government the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, a seciion of the intra-coastal waterway, were executed last night and Colonel E. E. Winslow, U. S. A. engineer in charge of this district, announced that commencing today the canal is a tree highway. The price paid by the government was $500,000 and that sum was turned over to the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company last night when the conveyance of the property was form ally consummated and the deeds were filed for record. Colonel Winsldw, through whom the transfer to the government was effected, stated last night that it is the purpose of the gov ernment to proceed immediately with preparation for beginning the improve ments contemplated in the plans adopt ed for the Norfolk-Beaufort link of the inland watercourse. Si rvcys arc even now in oroeress. he said, and it is the desire of the government to have some of the work under contract before the end of the current year. The appropriation available for the scctfon of the waterway, between Nor folk and Albemarle Sound is $800,000. In accoradnce with act of Congress providing for completion of the Norfolk-Beaufort link, some ol the appro priation was available prior to the trans fer of the Albcrmarlc and Chescpcake Canal to the government. Washington, D. C, May 1. After having received a telegram trom Col onel E. E. Winslow, army engineer in charge of the Norfolk district, . Repre sentative John H. Small of North Carolina made the following statement: "Today there will be consummated the purchase of the Chesapeake and Albemarle canal property by the gov ernment of the United States and forthwith this canal will become a free canal and dedicated to commerce. This canal is a part of the route of the in land waterway from Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort inlet, North Carolina. It con nects Elizabeth river on wnicn Nor folk is located with Albcmailc sound in North Carolina. . "This is really a notable event. It marks the realization of the efforts ol more than a century. There are about sixteen hundred miles ot navigatne river in North Craolina, exclud ing the Cape Fear, which empties into the inland sounds. There are no navigable outlets from these rivers to the ocean except at Beaufort inlet, and as northbound commerce from that in let must pass Cape Hattcras, this com merce is in reality denied access to northern points. The fathers, even be fore the beginning of the last century, appreciated this condition and the States of North Carolina and Virginia through private capital authorized the construction of whai was known as the Dismal Swamp canal. Later the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal was constructed, also largely by private capital. The exaction of tolls and in adequate facilities induced shippers and public spirited citizens many years ago to begin an agitation for a water way free to all commerce. A number of men in former ycarB most of them now dead, waged an active propaganda for this subject; among the most not able of whom was Commodore Mar shall Parks of Norfolk. "Being familiar with these condi tions, I resolved when first elected to Congress in 1898 that I would devote my efforts to the consummation of this most important work, and in an humble way have persistently followed that resolution. The delegations in Con gress from North Carolina and Vir ginia have co-operated, but it can be Rapid progress is being made in the disposal of the cases on the docket of Federal Court which is iff-session here this week and in all probability the term will come to an end this afternoon. Yesterday was a busy day for all connected with the, court and although not such a large number of cases were disDOsed of. there was not an idle moment during the day, Unlike th previous day when many of the de fendants either submitted to the charge or appeared" without attorneys to represent them, the majority of those before the bar of justice yesterday were renrcsented bv leeal talent and the taking of evdiencc and the argument consumed some time. A session of Federal Court always attracts considerable attention and at all times the court room is crowded with spectators, some who have friends or relatives on trial and, who are on the qui vive while other arc present merely to hear and see what is gcing on. it is inaeea a cosmopolitan crowu that one will find there, white citizens and colored people are seen and ihere is no discrimination in the nationalities. On one scat may be found a son of sunny Italy while on another one will see a placid-looking C hinamen. How ever, all are interes ed and the strict est attention is paid to the proceedings. During yesterday the following cases were disposed ol : Braddock Hansley of Onslow county pleaded guilty to a charge of retailing but owing to the physical condition of the defendant who is afflicted with palsy, Judge Connor suspended judg ment and dismissed the case R. C. Cleve who lives near Yancc boro was found guilty of retailing and was sentenced to four months jn jai and fined one hundreirdollars and also taxed with the costs of the case. This defendant had three attorneys exerting everv effort to clear their client but their work proved of no avail. E. W. Rogers of Wayne county entered a plea of guil.y in a charg retailing and was sentenced to serve four months in iail. taxed with the costs of the case and fined one hundrci dollars . Champ Benton of Craven county and Will Tew of Goldsboro, Wayne county, were tried on a charge of r tailing but the evidence was not suffi cient to convict and the juries returns a verdict of not guilty in each case. Rob ones of Lenoir county was found guilty of retailing and sentence iO serve four, months in jail, taxed wit the costs of the case and lined one hundred dollars. ELECTRIC ARCHES WILL ILLU MINATE STREETS. COMING LECTION (Special to the "Journal.) Oriental, May 2. The governmen 3urvey boat, Hydrographer, is now i: this port surveying and mapping ou a new navigation chart. Captaii Whitney is in command of this boa ant, he is conducting the work in i thoroughly systematic manner. Thi boat will probably remain here foi several weeks. The truck growers in and arount Oriental are making large shipment: of cabbage and peas to the northeri markets just at this time. The north ern commission merchants are pay 'ng a good price for this variety o produce and the local growers wil Drobably make some money on tin shipments they arc making. Captain Dryden of the Department ot Navigation at Washington, D. C. was among the visitors in town this week. Captain Dryden is on boan the motor boat Taragon and is in specting the motor craTTIn the wa ters of eastern North Carolina anC seeing that the owners obev. the navi ggation laws. ' Work on the new Methodist church still in progress and rapid pro- cress is ueing maae oy me carpen ters. Tiio congregation hope to bt ble to move into the new edifice bj the latter part of next month. A forco of laborers are now en- aged In tearing down the local plant of the John L. Ttoper Lumbei lompany. This company ceased tc operate this plant a few months age and arc moving the machinery, etc. to their plant at New Bern. John Gibson, who is connected with A. W. Haskins in the mercantile business, SDcnt yesterday in New Bern attending to business matters. The busineess sction of New Bern and parts of the principal streets will lie illuminated with the arches this week in honor of the visiting ladies who .-in h,c in attendance at the meeting of the North Carolina Federation of Wo- n an's Clubs. The North Carolina lruggists will meet here on June 11 for a three days' session and the arches will also be used for illumination pur poses on that occasion. E IS CHIEF T . m Much Interest Being Maniiesieu In Approaching Event By Local Voters. OPIG BOND ISSUE MUCH DIISCUSSED Many In Favor of Issue wntie Others Are Trying To De feat It. DEFEATING BONDS WOULD NOT EFFECT CHANGE IN SCHOOL POLICY. A singular error that is made in :Onnection with the proposed bond issue for schools is to regard supposed nist.ikes in the Dolicv of the Board if Trustees or Jhe superintendent as next Tuesday, May 6, is one of the elicit ihowing that there is-not any need for topics of conversation in New Bern nore room. The mistakes in manage- jugt at the pre3en't time. O.i that day ineni u mere are any win nut uc tui- , , . . ..... ,...,- ..... . the voters of this city will determine rcctcd as a - result ol deleating tn. ond issue. They will stand just as The election which will be held on he voters of this city whether or not there will be an issi ;ood a chance to be corrected, if there of city bonds in the amount of twenty - FOR BRYAN TO SUCCEED WILSON SENATOR MARTIN SAYS SEC RETARY WILL BE LOG ICAL CANIDDATE. ire any, if the bond issue does not carry. If the schools are not being :onducted in the most approved style, i he thing to do is to get the necessary changes in management made. To force the children to continue studying in crowded and unsanitary rooms would e the strangest way imaginable of iltcring the policy of the school management. Two matters are agitating the peo ple of New Bern at the present time. They are education and sanitation It's a sign of a live town to have those matters hotly debated. Good is sun to come of the discussion that has been rife in this town in the last few days Let us keep right on talking about thi problems cf the city, everybody keep ing cool and approaching these: hc and important questions in a tolerant spirit. MACHINISTS ARE UP TO THE IRK DIFFICULT PIECE OF WORK DONE IN REPAIRING BROKEN PART. .1ST YOUR THUS DURING THE MONTH OF ID A failure to list during May subjects you to a double tax, and is also a mis demeanor. Sec Machinery Ac Section No. 82. 1913. housand dollars to be used in the im provement of the facilities of the public schools. On almost every corner in the busine section of the city and in all the pubt"" - places can be found groups of men di"- cusing this proposed bond issue. Man" predict that the bonds will not carr-' while otkers are sure that '.he voters will rally to the aid of the schools and vote for the bond issue. Not before in some time has so much merest been manifested in an election. The recent primary for the nomination jf the city officers, who will also be lectcd next Tuesday, was a tame iffair in comparison with the proposed bond election. Expccially during the past few days has so much interest hrrn manifested. Not Onlv are the rien discussiug the bond iss'jc but the ladies and children are equally intcrest- d and it is one of the chief top cs of onveration with them. Those in favor of the bonds being issued are doing all within their power to bring about this result. One can hardly turn around down in the busi ness section of the city without casting their eyes upon some inscription urging them to vote for the bonds. Those opposed to the bonds being issued are , . , . . i The following list takers for the equally active ami me sirceis a..u places are UDerany suppneu wmi meir literature. However the result of the election cannot be lorecastcd to a ccrtannty and the result will not be known until after the votes are counted Tuesday night. Don't fear that you cant get any thing made in New Bern. INight be fore last a part was broken on the l.an s on Monotype caster, the machine which casts the body tpyc used in the Journal each morning. It was a very' delicate part, made of the highcsls tempered steel, and the management feared that such a part' could not be made in New Bern. But it was a snap for the skillful machinists ot ifavcn Foundry and Machinery Company. "That's easy , said Superintendent Walter Brinson of the shops when a Journal man showed him the broken nart. In due time the part, looking better and stronger than the old one. was forthcoming, in its place and work ing as smoothly as if nothing had ever happened. You will have to hand it to the New Bern machine shops for being well advanced in their line of work. There are probably only a few places in the utiJ.li f Nnrih Carolina where such a piece of work could have been done NAME LOST, BUT INTELLIGENT different Townships will be at the places stated below and da'.es named, to re ceive you list. Place be on hand and list your taxes according to law NOo. 1 TOWNSHIP Ernu, Wednesday May 7. G. A. Whitford's, Thursday May 8. Maple Cypress, Wednesday May 14. Remainder of tl c month of May in the town o Vantcboro. H. C. BUTLER, List Taker No. 2 TOWNSHIP Zorah, C. B. Knox store, Thursday, May 22. J. M. Willis, store, Friday, May 23. Truitts School House, Saturday May 24. Saints Delight church, Wednesday, May 28. Bridgcton, May 29, 30 and 31st. DINING ROOM SERVICE TO BE RESUMED. Beginning tomorrow night the din ing room of the Hotel James will be in service and the patrons of the house will not be compelled to secu e their meals at cafes and boarding houses. The dining room service was discon tinued several weeks ago and since that time the house has been taken over by a new management and they have de- NOAH T. FULCHER, List Taker cidcd t0 reoPen k- WILL AWARD CONTRACT FOR ERECTION OF NEW SCHOOL. No. 3 TOWNSHIP. Fort Barnwell, Saturday, May 3 Dover, Thursday, May 8. I nvo Citv. Saturday. Mav 10. Winter Green Church, Wednesday, Thc Board of Trustees of the Craven May 14, . County harm i.ilc scnooi win meet Lane's Chapel, Monday, May 19. in tlrc office ol S. M. Brison, supcrin- T. R. LANE, List Taker, tendent of the public schools of the county tomorrow morning at 10 o clock No. 5 TOWNSHIP. for the purpose of awarding the con- Winthrop Mills, Truitt's Store, Wed- tract for the erection of the Farm Life nesdav. Mav 14. School and other buildings. Ur. J. James L. Taylor, Thursday, May 15. Y. Joyncr, State Superintendent ol W. L. Harriss, Friday, May 16. Publi-c instruction, will meet with tne I. S. Morton & Son Store, Saturday Hoard as will Ur. J. E. lurlington, statement of an eye w lines, pande monium reigned supreme for more than two hours. At the Norfolk Southern Railway Company's depot the agent and the crew of the eastbound train, which remained there for more than an hour, succeeded In romoving the greater part of the furnishings, fix tures, etc., and but few of .the tick ets, records or books were lost. This Is the third time that this, company St. Louis Mayl. If William Byran, Secretary of Stale, is a candidat of the Presidency, to succeed Wilson, nothing in the world can itop him from being elected, according to senator James E. Martin, of New Jersey,' who came here as a member of the Con gressional delegation Irom "Washii gton Patient Suffering From Aphasia Fpur Years Formerly In Navy. St. Paul, Minn., May 1. That the mysterious "Richard Rowc,, who for nearly four years has been in the hospi t ,i UiL tiiaano at Rochester. Minn., unable to tell his name or identity, is of North Carolina, has been peculiarly effective by reason of his membership on the cSenate committee on com merce. "The entire waterway from Norfolk to Beaufort it to have a minimum depth of twelve feet, which will in volve the deepening and widing not only of the land cuts of the Albe marle and Chesapeake Canal, but of the natural Vaterways along the route. "After the purchase of the Albemarle to attend the dedication ol me jci.crsc n inteligiu,, man is the statement memorial. ' Hf ( j. Swednoen and Ralph W. "Bryan will be the logical candidate ', u ,K,(.1(K.ki Illcli(l,rs the State Board he said, "People have come to know ( unlrol who rctlirncd from Roch- and to understand him better, rco-1 (wlay "Rocy rase is to be pic think that he has become more wit he Navy Department stable in. his views, struck an cquili-j.n gn ,ttcmp t0 discover the man's brium, as it were, inc luci is, ni. Bryan is just as radical today as he Oast two months, the depot at Dover being destroyed a few weeks ago and a freight warehouse . at Ooldsboro being a prey to flames a few days later. The damage Is covered by some In surance, just how much Is not known, but the actual loss will In all probability be me re than twenty five thousand dollars. has been a victim of Are during the and Chesapeake Canal there will be available $800,000 ior continuing tne work of improvement during the com ing fiscal year. It is estimated that ubout, fou( years from this date will be requested to complete the entire length from Norfolk to Beaufort, at a total cost, of $5,400,000. It's b uman to attempt sh fting the was 2;0 years ago, but the people have grown up to him." He said that the fight on the tariff bill which is now being debated in the House of Representatives undoubtedly would keep the Senate in session all summer, and probably . there would not be a recess until next October. n " " A coldred boy employed as pprter at the Standard Shoe Store and who at the time was riding a bicycle, collided with an automobile on Broad street last night. The rider was thrown from the wheel but fortunately wa- not in juwl wf. The bio-U- wa, somewlia. identity. "I asked the man to write his name", said Mr. Swendsen, "and he put down the initials 'J. O. B.' He also was able to write the date he left San Francisco. May 27, 1907, to return to his position in the navy at Annapolis. Although oartlv paralyzed, he is able to walk about and, despite his inability to speak or express himself, he seems to be rational in every way and looks like an intelligent man." The Stale has interested itself also in the attempt to identify the man. Mr. Swendsen declared that the man had been examined by expert physicians but no pressure sufficient to cause lass of sDcoch or memory was found on May 17. Remainder of month at home at North Harlowc. W. C. WILLIAMS, List Taker No. TOWNSHIP. Croa an, Saturday, May 3. I.ecs Farm, Saturday, May 10. Havelock, Saturday, May 17. Cherry Point, Friday, May 23. Hunters Farm, Saturday, May 24. THOS! E. HAYWOOD, List Taker No. 7 TOWNSHIP Thurman's School House, Thursday Mtav 8. Fovs and Perrys, Tuesday, May 13 James City School House, May 20 21. and 22. Rivcrdale School House, Tuesday, May 27. All other days at my residence at Riverdale. H. C. WOOD, List Taker. who is to have charge of the school. THE MARKETS. May 5 1913 COTTON (Quotations furnished by G. W. Ty lor & Sou.) Middling 11 1-2 cents Strict Middling, 11 5-8 Good Middling, 11 3-4 " . POULTRY, EGGS, ETC. (Quotations furnished by Coast Ltae Meat Market). Chickens Grown, pair 60-80 Chickens Half-grown pair 40-70 Geese, per pair $1.25-$1.S3 Ducks. p?r pair 50 1.00 Eggs, per doz.. No. TOWNSHIP Rhcms, Saturday May 10. Clarks, Tuesday, May 13. Bcllair, Thursday, May 15. H. M. GROVES, List Taker. Hams, oountry, smoked, lb Beeswax, lb Wool, Wool,. 13 18 22 .16 to 1 16 tol7 he br mi. NO TOWNSHIP Watsons fetce on Washington road Frinay May 9. Tiiscarora, Tuisda May 13. latDcr. Friday May 15. v. E. Z. R. Davis' store Saturday May 21 T.m W. Wadsworth's residence, Tuesday May 20. H. P WAPSWORTH, Lk)t Taker Hogs, dressed, lb 10-10 Ul Beef, dressed, lb f9 Hldee-G. S., lb Green, lb Dry Flint, lb 12-14 Dry Salt, lb 10-11 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. (Quotations by New Bern Prodo Company). Irish note toes new crop 12.50 Sweat ootatoes, bushel Rutabaga, hundred Collards head, Turnip bunch, Cabbsge, barrel Spinach, boikrt, 11.00 .02 11.00 totMi 50 h "cnvlronmtnt" or "heredity" damaged. . -