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I NEW SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL - ft 4 - WORK AT THE HARBOR OF REFUGE IS RAPIDLY BEING RUSHED FORWARD Col. Fred Olds Vi sits The Cape, Sees Operations There and Write an Interesting fiv me idea 01 th inUnd wter" - iwy. which Senator Simmons says is Account of it -Also Tells of the that Section Tells of the People of By FRED A. OLDS) waterway, which may become like Morehead City, July 10. Wouldn't the Kiel Cwil in Germany and may you like, gentle reader, to stand on a deepened to twenty feet all ih" big scow, the bipget fh.t-boat you way frora NorM' to FtoriJa, and ft ever sawr with 500 tons of stone on : nowhere too near the coast, so that board her, in fo p bias; on the deepjin ease of war it would be safe in blue sea, with a big iron sledge in .any emergency. It is a certainty in your hands, and at a signal knock the future, he says, that it will be out out an iron pin which released a cog- 'U the way through; quite possibly wheel, and hear 123 tons of the stone ' ing by New Bern and the Trent thunder into the briny? There's a thrill about this sort of thing, and all the more because the man with the sledge chances to be doing something very big indeed; in other words, dump ing the granite to make the founda tion for the biggest break-water on t ho South Atlantic coast, which is to form the Harbor of Safety. The writer and Lieutenant Josen hans of the United States Engineer Corps, went down to Cape Lookout, one of the finest days God ever gave His people, with the sea us quiet as a duok pond. We were on the ocean going tug Blanche, Captain William (launder in command, with Fred O. Dozler pilot; Setdon DeHemar, engi neer; Dozier being from Southport, the two other, Beaufort men. Bid Preparations. At the pier head of the Norfolk Southern men were very busy; there were lines of cars loaded with gran ite from the quarry at Neverson; a big steam engine to operate a hoist er inside the warehouse; and a fleet of scows moored beside the latter. This fleet included two bottom dumps, two deck scows and one double-entjer derrick barge which can load herself and which will carry 1,200 tpns of heavy stone, of weight, up to twelve tons eaeh;fhe deck scow carrying 800 tons and the dumps fully loaded about 600. Taking Out the Stone. It was 7:30 o'clock sharp in the morning when the Blanche put out from the' pier head and all about there was a picture. Behind came a scow, with about 600 feet of four inch towing line, with a "bridle" as the sailor men say; that is, instead of having the line tied to a post at one corner of the scow it is branched close to the latter, so it was attached to two posts of the scow and she came along as easily as a duck. Pas Fort Macon, and its "point" we went, and then across the bar, two knd a half miles away, the bar being marked by a buoy with a hill in a frame atop of it, ringing as the water lapped it and making a most mei.rn ful sound. Not Far from the Gulf Stream Down to the southeastward the light-house at Cape Lookout rose like the mast of a slip, ten miles away. Everywhere ahead was the wide ocean and the writer asked Captain Saunders about the distance to the Gulf Stream, that strange body of warm water which runs on the top of the sea from the Gulf of Mexico, and along off our coast, all the way to the ice-bergs, and thenee across the ocean to England. Cap tain Saunders took his measurements and said the stream was fifty-four miles east of Cape Lookout, ninety mles from Charleston, and eighty from Savannah, but it is so close to Cape Hatteras that its center point of strongest current is only twenty miles from the Hatteras light ship and within six miles of the light ship. The Cape Lookout lightship is seveneteen miles from the ' light house, so that it is thirty-seven miles from the lightship to the Gulf Stream. No doubt this accurate statement by Captain Saunders will answer a good many questions. For the Inland Waterway. At the bar the Blanohe gave the salute, three whistles, to a very mart steam tug, the Virginian, which was towing into Beaufort har bor two showy barges, each 300 feet long, and each loaded with 500,000 feet of lumber, bound from Charles ton to New York. The Virginian left her charges in the harbor and went back, while another tag pieked them up and took them through the inland waterways This inland waterway is now no deeper than the Beaufort .n. par u. .. ton rest, out Senator Simmons tells me that soon this canal is to be made at least twelve feet deep. Then barges big enough to carry a million feet of lumber can go through. The canal is to be made! wider also, and this means a lot. The big double-end derrlek barge of the D. L. Taylor Construction Company (which Is building the Breakwater) Is too wide to get through the canal, and so had to go to se U) ft to Mor head, City from Norfolk. It wouW hav cost only SHOD to have towed it through th inland waterway, but it odfet $4,000 to get it here the other way' and then, too, no insurance j cr,llM Vw nM 1 1 Tat t II rwkn it TViid will lone of the greatest things ever under- Senator Sim mom Looking1 Ahead! 1 he Senator sees a Vast future, both for peace and war uses, for this river, and other ways to Wilmington and thence southward, and not from Morenead City, southward through Rogue sound, which is only separated from the ocean by a very narrow strip of land. Forts Presently. It is easy, too, to !o:k ahead and see that there will be a big fort at Cape Lookout after the Harbor of Safety is finished by the construc tion of the break-water, and there will also be fortifications at Beaufort harbor, where there is now only old Fort Macon, gunless and soldierlcss, abandoned since 1876, and now little more than a ruin. Dumping the Stone. . . AH these things name into the writers mini as th Blanch", pill ing the scow belund her as a child would a toy wagon, made her way towards Cape Lookout over the bare ly wrinkled surface of the sea, the water of so dainty a green as to be enchanting. The light-house grew bigger and bigger, and presently loomed lofty and large, with its black and white painted diamonds. The shore wag only 1,500 feet away when the Blanche ran alongside the soow and took the latter to the precise po sition where the granite was to be getting -8-marker on the shore in range with the tight. Then it was that the writer at a signal swung the sledge and hit the blows that did the work; asjproud of what he was doing as any man in these United States. Three wishes were made for all our country, for North Carolina, and for the work itself, with the hope, expressed in words, that God would make it a harbor of refuge indeed, like His sheltering arms, for all sailor. men in need. The sledge was then handed to Lieuten ant Josenhaus and into the soa went mother Wn. Captain Saunders emp tied the third one, the man on the barge doing the trick for the last. Meanwhile the natives of the Cape dotted the ocean in their boats. Then the Blanche, her first work done, hooked on to her soow again and steamed away for Morehead City She had left it at 7:30, arrived on the line of the break-water a few minutes after 10 o'clock, and at 10:37 the writer unloaded the first bin of the stone. Thirteen minutes later the Blanche was on her way baek, and at one o'clock returned to the pier. The Forgotten Folk Somewhere there may be a lovelier bit of water than the bay at Cape Lookout, which the people call the "bight" or "hook" of the Cape, and which ever since men have had boat on this coast been a natural Harbor of Safety, but this writer knows not of it. In wonderful contrast to the tender green of the sea outside is the blue of this bay; an unbelievable blue. Tou think that surely Mrs. Nature has emptied her can of blue paint into it. - The shape of the bay is that of a wash-bowl, a miles in di ameter, with a piece of the edge bro ken off. It Is through this break you sail into this fairy-like harbor, an into one of the quaintest worlds you ever saw, the place of the Forgotten Folk. Really the writer cannot think of any better name for these people churchless and sehoolless, one might think that they were castaways upon some shore, marooned there, were it not for the trim lighthouse and the equally trim lifesaving station so rude are their houses, which are but shacks, set here and there without the least arrangement of order, generally in a wilderness of sand, but in some oases on a green sort of turf. No Charter At All. And yet, my lords and gentlemen , North the ,., n vy foIk on .,U(n .hit thev have hut m . fighting chanoe. They will divide the but things they have with you and are always ready to do you a service. There are 1 1 families, which have on an average of three children aged from two yawn to 1ft, and not one of them can read and write. Then are 2ft adult, of whom "bout three can read and write a fittl The place has neirer M a nhul. n , been NEW BERN, NORTH CARpLINA JULY 13 1915 -1 SSS BSSSBKvBSRr' TB I The above views were taken at Craven county's Farm boro, N. C J.jAt thetop is seen and at the right is a sewing the best in the South. It is settlement only about 12 years, when the moving sand began to overwhelm the little hamlet at Diamond City, a jnte north the bay. Then the . people moved out ana ten tneir shacks, some going to Harker's Is land, east of Beaufort, and others set-, fling at the Cape, on the south side of the lovely bay. Neither School Nor Church, The whole situation interested the writer intensely and he spent two days and a night at the Cape, the guest of Mr. William O Brien of Beaufort, who is doing special work for Mitchell & Seely, the contractors. At night the writer talked and told stories to the Cape folk, who sat, mighty good listeners, too, upon what might be termed the village green, hard by the shore. It was found that there never has been a church or Sunday school at the' Cape; that the men earn on an average from $200 to $250 a year, entirely by fish ing, and that it costs it all to live. The place is to have within a few weeks a post office fdr the first time. The people declare they want a school. The handicap on them is tremendous. None of them belong to the Coast Guar I, the eight members of which come from Beaufort, Harker's island, Marshallberg and Atlantic, but these Cape folks lend a hand in a minute )Continued oud age 4) ' Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Tilton of Delaware, Ohio, and H. G. Tilton, of South Dakota, who have been in New Bern for a few days left yes terday morning for Morehead Ci ty TWO PRISONERS TO THE CHAIN GANG Charles Jones and Will Hol- loway to Work on Coun ty Roads Two prisoners were seat to the county chain gang yesterday to serve sentences on the roads. Charlie lones, colored, who was fined ten dollars and taxed with the cost by Mayor A. H. Bangert at Police Court Friday was carried out to serve fifty days. Jones could not pay the fine and cost and the sentence was chang ed. He was charged with disorderly conduct. Will, Holloway, colored, was aim turned over to Mr. Milior, superin- seadmt of the oonviet eamp to serve a sentence imposed by Judge George W. Connor at the last term of the Craven Superior Court. He was given a road sentence with leave to the County Comsniesioners to hire out, but no one seemed to be in need of laborers and he was seat to the roads to serve the sentence. I. L. Odea, of RiverdaR speut yesterday in the city attewdu to A SCHOOL WfORTH - the admistf ation.building, class. This school! is excellently equipped and is one of under the Supervision of Frof. J. E . Turlington. - iMdMHsssssW 1 SLAIN El MEEKER DEBATE Dry Deputy Stabbed Shoots Wet Assailant in Quarrel After Prohibition Talk Bonne Terre, Mo., July 10. One man was killed and three were injured at a picnic at Desloge Mo., near here today, when a fight occurred at the close of a debate on prohibition be tween G. O. Nations of Farmington and Congressman Meeker of St. Louis. Sam Doss, deputy sheriff, was cut about the throat by Otto Hultt. Tho deputy sheriff shot and killed Huitt. William Allen was wounded in the hip, and G. K. Flack was slightly j wounded in the right hand. Three thousand persons were at the picnic when the shooting occurred. The picnic was under the auspices of tho Yeomen Lodge of Desloge. Nations was closing the debate when Huitt, it is alleged, approached Doss from behind, and made an in sulting remark. Doss requested Huitt to be quiet and Huitt pulled out a knife and cut Doss in the neck. In the struggle that followed Doss drew his revolver and shot Huitt five times, killing him almost instantly. Huitt was a former constable, and a wet supporter. Doss was for several years engaged in the saloon business, but a few years ago joined the church and became a dry supporter. Ho is a member of the Civic League, and has gained a reputation of running down the law violators of the county. Ill feeling had existed between the men for some time. Doss declares Huitt previously had threatened him. Huitt was a single man and Doss is married. Doss is out on bond. The inquest will be held tomorrow. Desloge is in St. Francois County. The county will voteon the wet anddry question July 17. Congressman Jacob E. Meeker, who returned from Desloge last night, wit nessed the killing. He related the in cident leauing up to the tragedy to a reporter. "i was tne nrst speaker at the joint Indications are that Kx-Lieu ten-1 ant Becker, who is said to have caus ed the murder of Herman Rosenthal, will pay the penalty in the electric chair and such ought to be the case. The only miscarriage of justice in this ease is that Becker did not pay the penalty along with Gyp the Blood, Lefty Louie and the other gunmen who killed Rosenthal. "Pull" has kept him out of the arms of the the electric chair thus far but With i Whit man in the governor's chair, t now leeks u Uxugh he is a goner. mm 1GB AFTER .... WHILE Life School located at Vance- next to the left is the faculty ., . debate on the liquor question, which was given fn a grove where the Yoe- men were giving a picnic. During my talk I was frequently interruDted bv la -.-:- . .... .. . . , , uiji auuereum, enro-nnu CfMeoni the chairman to keep thom quiet. At the third interruption Doss arose and counseled the drys to allow me to fin ish without interruption, and I did so. Just before the close of my speech 1 asked tho audience why they wanted to make a criminal out of a bartender who sold liquor, and an elder in the church of a man who bought it. "As I concluded. Doss arose and started out, shouting to me as he de parted: "You promised me this morning to let us Christians alone." Ho than left the grove. Judge G. 0. Nations, representing the anti iquor interests, my opponent in the dobate, then began speaking. Ho had spokon perhaps ten minutes, and I was sitting beside him on the platform, when I heard a woman scream, and observed a commotion among the crowd to one side, about 15 feet frora the speaker's stand. "1 did not see any weapon in Huitt's hands, but he may have had a knife, as some of tho spectators afterwards said. There was no attempt at a een- ral fight, and outside of the screams of a few women nearest the scene of the shotting, there was no panic. NEW SURVEY BOAT NEARING COMPLETION (From Morehead City Coaster) The U. S. Engineer survey boat Neuse under construction at the plant of the John F. Bell Company, of this city is on the railway at that plant to receive her propeller, and finishing touches preparatory to mak ing her official trials at this port. The propeller on the Neuse is made of Monel metal a recent product for marine purposes, and was made by the Columbia, Brass Company at Freeport, N. Y. This wheel though weighing less than one hundred pounds, cost at the plant throe hun dred dollars. At this plant some progress is being made on the 0. S. Engineer Tender La-Porte. AWAKES AFTER 84 HOURS Oromo, Me., July 10. After sleep- ns, amoRt continuously for forty pi-ht hours. Mildred Meister. outh- teen years old, recovered conscious ness today, after recurrent waking intervals last night. She is rather weak, hut her physicians say she will soon recover her strength Mildred, who is a domestic, retired one night last week and could not be awakened next morning. At inter vals she aroused momentally, only to say the was tired and sleepy. Her waking intervals were longer on Fri day, but she was much depressed. Physicians of Old Town, Orono and Bangor, called in consultation, were unable to agree on a diagnostioatkm of the ' SOULMATE" OF SINCLAIR NAMED IN BRIDE'S Divorce Asked of Rich Geor gian Who Is Accused of Taking Women Millen, Gal., July 10.- - Charging t ha ic broufht " a certain Mrs. Uptoa iinelak," whom he met at a Socialist tethering in Cleveland, into his homi mi informed his wife 'that he cared uore far Mrs. Sinclair then he did for ler," Mrs. Winifred Raoul has brou rht suit for divorce and rlimon gainst her husband, William G. 'iaoul. Jr., of Atlanta, who is known - a Socialist. Raoul is under arrest in the jail lere held within the jurisdiction of "he court, having failed to make a (25,000 bond. "I have nothing to say for publicv ion," he stated in jail today, "e ept that all my troubles are the re mit of misunderstandings, which, 1 think when understood, will briny ibout an adjustment satisfactory both to my wife and her relatives and myself." Mrs. Sinclair is described in the pe ' it ion for divorce as "the woman who was generally known by the press ae the soul mate of the artist, Upton Sinclair, these parties living together without the ceremony of marriage hav .ng been performed until the woman was deserted by the said Sinclair." The woman is described as Sinclair's irst wife, formerly Miss Meta Fuller. Mrs. Sinclair Leaves Millen. Mrs. Sinclair had been living in a 'lotel here until Saturday, when she leparted, presumably for Gulfport. Miss. Prior to the filing of the suit n Juno 22, Mrs. Sinclair was living it the home of Mrs. Raoul's relatives. laving been invite I there, it is said, y Mrs. Raoul at the request of her lusband. Mrs. Raoul was formerly Miss Winifred Wadley, a society irl of Macon, Ga. She is 18 years old, while her husband is 41. Because of groat difference in aire her parents opposed her marriage. and she eloped with Raoul in January In her petition Mrs. Raoul says: Defendant professes to be a So- ialist and atheist and believer in free love, and all of these theories he tried to make your petitioner embrace." We t3f 1tMu1r1ifrjymM land to attend a Socialist convention and says when he returned he asked her to invite to their home "a cer tain Mrs. Upton Sinclair," whom Itaoul had met in Cleveland. Mrs. Mrs. Raoul invited Mrs. Sinclair. "In due time she came," says Mrs. Raoul, "and before she had been in the home for twenty-four hours peti tioner noticed that her husband, the defendant, paid to this party most marked attention, being with her both day and night to the neglect of your petitioner. Defendant and this party Would go walking together. The woman would pay visits to defendant's room.' Mrs. Raoul says she tordered Mrs. Sinclair to depart and departed her- lf, going to her sister's home in an ther part of the state. NEGRO TO GET WATERMELON DAILY UNTIL HE IS HUNG. Fort Worth, Tex., July 10 Clint Williams, an 18-year-old negro, sen tenced to hang here August 5, for the murder of Oscar Scroggins, a white youth, will at least die happy. He demanded of the sheriff today, that he be furnished one waternelon aily until he is hung, and after con- ulting the court the request was granted and Williams smiled expan sively when informed of the fact. 1.500 MEXICANS STRIKE IN ARIZONA MINE CAMP. Phoenix, Ariz., July 10. Armed men were sent from here today to Ray, a mining camp 120 miles dis tant, where 1 .."'' Mexicans are threat ening trouble. All the Mexicans quit work at the mines of the Ry Consolidated Min ing Company upon receipt of a pub lication from Vera Cruz containing a speech by a Carranza officer, who stated that Mexico would declare war on the United States. After receiv ing assurances that war was not im minent the Mexicans decided to strike for increased pay. HORSE SCARED TO DEATH BY PASSING AUTOMOBILE. Hedalia, Mo July 10. The auto mobile of J. M. Pelot, a Sedalia type writer man, frightened to death the 15-year-old family horse of I. B. Allen when he met it on the road north of Pelot was on his way home from a trip in the oountry. A constable went after Pelot and after paying $15 for (he animal he was allowed to pro ceed, j Cart Blades, of Elisabeth City, passed through New Bern yesterday enrouta to Morehead City to spend the week-end. f r sr H. Worth a Prisoner tor Five Days Before Die covered by Men Joplin, Mo. .July 10. To the high price of sine ore, J. H, Worth, a mine operator, owes his life. He was held a prisoner in an old drift of a mine for five days, without food or drink, and soon would' have perished had not Sam Houston and Royal Cardell enured the old drift n aearrh of "jack." when ore had ,'uiir to the $130 mark. The ore was ;upjX)M'd lo have been all taken Out years ago, but the high price offered induct d the two. rum to go "serap ping" and thus they found the pris oner. V orth, who owns considerab m ug property, was accosted at a Jo stablishnu nt by a stranger, who sa le wished to examine some of Wrth' nining land, with a view of obtaining 1 . se. The man had a partner, vhom he introduced, but Worth does uot remember the name of either. All three drove out West of the city to where some of Worth's property lay. The rig was sent back to the city, and the party put in several hours looking over various "prospects." In the old drift mentioned, in one of the mines, the two strangers seized Worth, tied him to a pillar of the mine, then gagged him. They left him there a few minutes, then returned with a box which they placed at Worth's side, then stretched a long fuse on the floor of the drift. They then lighted the far end of the fuse, and one of them remarked: "It will reach the dynamite in a few hours and finish you." Worth was unconscious when found by the t vo prospectors. The eause of the dynamite not exploding was found to be in the fact that the two would be murderers in walking about had stepped on the fuse ,thus cuttin it against a sharp corner of stone, so that the spark was extinguished-when hit reached the gap. The box contain ed about 50 pounds of 40 per cent dynamite enough to have caved in the drift. The cause of the attack is not known. . . THEIR CO) MADE TO ORDER Craven County Home Taxed to Its Capacity Is St. Louis, July 10. When Anton Wieneke and his wife, old residents of Edwardsville, die they will be bur ied in caskets fashioned from material taken from the old home. With a sentiment unsuspected by their friends, the couple has just made arrangements to that end. Wieneke is a wealthy farmer. The children and grand children constitute an extensive re lationship. Wieneke confided his plans to Wil liam J. Smith, a member of the City Council from the Fourth Ward, who is Vice President of a woodworking establishment. He told Smith that the c rdinary coffin with its black cloth cover did not appeal to him, and said that years ago his wife and he decided that they wanted plain wooden cas kets. They have been living for many years on a pretty oountry place just outside of Edwardsville, and when they had reached their decision about a mutual distaste for' factory-made caskets it occurred to Wieneke that they might have their coffins made from timber cut on the home place. That was three years ago, and the results of his idea have been slowly seasoning since. He had a couple of black walnut trees out down, one selected by himself, and one chosen by his wife. The logs were then riven by hand into boards on the premises and the resulting lumber was stored in the attic until it should become perfectly dry and ready for shaping up. On .Friday Wieneke drove to the Edwardsville Planing Mill, with which plant his friend Smith is connected, and delivered the wagon load of wal nut lumber, which in itself was suffi ciently valuable to have purchased several caskets. To Joseph Rizzoli, the plant mana ger, and to Smith, Wieneke outlined the idea. He wanted the caskets for himself and his wife made uniform, complete of the walnut material fur nished, and hand polished. The cas kets were to be made carefully to measure so, as Wieneke said, they would "fit good." The lumber has been placed In the dry kiln at the plant. There Were very few river boat in port yesterday. The gas fretgww. Keyno arrived from North rianowe with a cargo of country and after dispos'nf ihm " loaded with merchandise for chants at North Hnmwe. ZINC OPERATOR I LOT TOPERS DRIFT OF OLD ! 4 1 9 S3l