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PER CAFiTA 0"T.'i
County is $1,61 1 j Popula
tion 31,242; total wealth,
12,575,749. ' ' '
good achooU and churches
good place, to Eve. Pepu
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GASTON I A, N. C TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 12, 1920
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BEST TALKER FOB THE
J DEMOCRATS THIS YEAR
! IS A TAX STATEMENT
W. T. Bost, la Greensboro News.)
RALEIGH, Oct. 10. Democrats lor
the remaining three weeks of the earn
iaign will have a celebrity' or more ia
every county of the state; but the best
talker of the Democratic party is not
Governor Bickett, Cameron Morrison,
Mux Gardner. Senator Overman, (Senator
bimmui, Secretary Daniel; not even
the hmretary's wife, 'i'he tax statement
ia the best argument.
The bills are going out levery day and
Xhe tax it amazingly small for very much
more than- half who are paying the bills.
Within a few day a the Democratic head
quarters will compile statements to show
ihat under revaluation the mass of the
voters will pay far less than they have
.ever paid in state taxes, while the coun
ties will got a benefit from the state that
.lias hitherto been unknown.
It is this single circumstance that has
"killed the Republican campaign, Sixty
'flays ago th Parker canvass looked to
impressive that many Democrats - were
fearful of Morrison's defeat Bat Par
kor was out damning "this damnable re
valuation act.' He wus making a cam
paign oa what he believed to be popular
aversion to it. The farmers' union was
assisting him and in its leadership were
not a few who had voted fur Morrison
ior the sole purpose of beating Gardner
in the primary and Mormon in the elec
tion. But Parker will not get the farm
era' union vote.
The Democrats have out politicked the
Republicans. Better evidence of good
headwork never was given. The Repub
licans asked only that the voter peruse
carefully his tax bill. The Democrats
met in the general assembly, worked out
the tax equations and put the Democratic
officials to work on them. The result ia
jto abundance of proof that revaluation
has operated equitably and lowered the
lax for the masses.
Nothing proves it so effectually as to
.read the statistics on farm ownership and
tenantry. Most of the tenants will
oscape property taxation by the $300 ex
emption. The poll tax has been reduced
by half. The income tafe has not been
.put on and not even the corporations
know what franchises they will have to
pay. The tax lists talk eloquently. They
jtre the urg omentum ad hominem from
-away back.
They answer every contention that the
Democracy was actuated by a desire to
destroy agriculture when it passed the
qualizing, truth-inspiriug measure. The
Democracy isn't altogether a fooL It
Would hardly have undertaken the de
struction of .83- per cent in order to get
'V voto cf 2 ptr cent. Ami tho income
tax affects only 2 per cent of the popu
lation, the farming folk" paying just $40,
00 of the gross raised from this source.
&t the Democracy "kills agriculture"
by making income earners pay $1,960,000
while agriculture pays on incomes $40,
OO.O Again the Democracy "kills agricul
ture" by making the tax gatherer ex
empt $3lJ0 worth of property before lie
lays his hands on it. That not only saves
$000,000 in taxes; it relieves almost en
tirely the tenantry and it is yet far
.greater numerically than is the home
owning class. Yet again the dominant
party "kills agriculture" by splitting
the poll tax in half or less, and that
catches everybody between the ages cjf
;21 and 50. The number is amaaing.
Almost 80 per cent of the voting popu
lation is embraced between these ages.
.A 50 per cent reduction of this burden
will touch much more than half the peo
ple, most of whom pay no property tax
this year on account of the big exemp
tion. -THINK GEORGE'S SPEECH
A DECLARATION OF WAR
LONDON, Oct. 12. Leaders of the
tiina Fein movement regard the speech
made at Carnarvon, Wales, on Saturday
"by Premier Lloyd George as almost a
-"declaration of war at Ireland." in that
he -virtually condoned acta of reprisal
.Against persons who have attacked police
forces in Ireland.
There are many signs, says the Dublin
correspondent of the London Times that
the, executive department in that city In
tends to bring maters to a head as
xjuickly as possible by a concentrated
campaign against disorder, which by in
flicting general hardships on the country,
anay make crime and lawlessness ' ' truly
unpopular." Projected measures are said
to include complete stoppage of the Irish
railways, drastic reduction of the postal
service until all railway workers agree
M. I ... .3 ..4.. 3 a M iL : a
o return tujuuijr ua unui lucic i
cessation of raids on themalls
"THREATS OF GIN BURNING
V CUJ FhivBl BISHOP VILLE
; COLUMBIA, 8. C.','Oct. 11 Threats"
" -of gin burning came from another
- .-tioB of South Carolina -today when Got-
' nror Cooper received advices from Bish-
. inniiK. in Lee county, oi a- wamincr hav-
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; lUK UWU v , uws - v& m K 11"
"house near that 'town. ' The governor
JoM mt take these warninirs aa mean In c
-" -aavtttSncr Mnt t h -Work f TDk'im
'. -;. The farmers of Anderson county held
at meeting Saturday ia-which they went
" -ih-r with the work of nieht riders.
BOTH TEAMS CONFIDENT
OF WHINING TODAY
Coveleskie and Marquard Will
Probably Face Each Other in
Seventh Game Indians
Confident.
' (Bfr The Associated Press.) ,
CLEVELAND, O, Oct. 12. The bat
tered and bruised Brooklyn Dodgers, and
the Cleveland Indians, thrice victorious
over their National League rivals in as
muny days, were ready to face each other
today iu t he seventh- game for tLe base
bull championship of all hemispheres
with the easterners determined to force
the 'annual classic into further games and
the westerners confident that after today
there would be no more world's series
contests until 1921.
With the world's championship possi
bly depending on today's game, Manager
Wilbert Robinson, of the Robins, and
Tris Speaker, guiding hand of the In
dians, were undecided early in the day
as to what hurlers they would select, but
indications were that "Rube" Marquard
would face the sluggers of the junior cir
cuit and that Stanley Coveleskie would
be given the task of trying to carry
Cleveland through to a world 's champion
ship in seven games.
Coveleskie, twice conqueror of the
Flatbush players in the present series,
ocfeged Manager Speaker to send him to
the mound, but George Uhle. side-arm
liuilex, who received his first training oa
the sand lots of Cleveland, also yearned
tor a chance in the big battle, and
speaker, with only one game' in three
needed, listened attentively to the young
ster 's plea. Final decision would not be
made, however, until just before the
game, he said.
Robinson also indicated that he might
change his selection before game time,
intimating that Burleigh Grimes, who
shut out Cleveland in the second game,
but was knocked out of the bcx Sunday,
might be given another chance. The
probability was, however, that Marquard
would be the final choice,, because the In-
dians are considered rather weak against
left handed pitchers a belief testified
to by the two splendid frames Sherrod
Smith has hurled against the American
Leaguers.
(Speaker felt that he had the edge on
Brooklyn in the pitching. Even should
Coveleskie lose today he still had Gagby
to fall back on, with Uhle and Morton in
reserve and Mails ready to go in again
it necesaary. The latter, a youngster
weighing close to 200 pounds, could
easily work again, Speaker said. Brook
lyn, however, has not a pitcher who has
not been pounded by Cleveland. Grimes,
M;nqu:inl, Smith, Mamaux, Cadore and
Pfeft'er have either lost games or been
hit hard. The National Leaguers, who
came into the series with a pitching staff
famous for its aces, today were handi-
I capped for hurlers. according to Speak
er's lew.
"Today's game will be the last," he
said. ' ' We are not going back to Brook
lyn fur any more gauies because it won't
be necessary. When the last out is made
this afternoon the series will be fin
ished." In the Brooklyn camp there was a dif
ferent tale. With Manager Robinson
and Captain Zack Wheat doing every
thing possible to straighten out the
ivuyeil plumage, the players were ready
to meet the Indians on .his own ground
and were absolutely certain that tonight
both clubs would be journeying east
ward for a final set-to on the Dodgers'
home soil. '
"We've got to have this game and
when we have to have something we
usually get it," said Manager Robinson
today, and his remark echoed the spirit
jl lite entire team.
Yesterday's game, while it failed to
produce the thrills and sensations of Sun
day's contest, was another, of those af
fairs which help to make baseball his
tory. With a youngster who had hurled only
six complete contests in his America,
League career facing former teammates
who had discarded him with the label
"N. G. " fastened prominently to his
baggage, Cleveland came through tri
umphant in one of the greatest pitching
battles of world's championship classics.
Walter Mails slow-balled and fast-balled
the Robins into a shut-out victory and
retired them with only three safe hits
scattered through three innings. Only
once was he In danger when a single
and two errors filled the bases but a
slow curve rebounded from Sherrod
Smith's swinging bat into Tris Speak
er's hands and after that Mails was
never in real trouble.
The pitching of the .big southpaw
who had a tryout with the team he de
feated was of the kind which might be
expecjted from some of the old masters
men who had played through season after
season and knew their opposing hatters
tk -oughly. m ' .
i... for Mails' great work, Sherrod
Smith might have come out of the
world's series as -one of the greatest
hurlers in the annual classics. The
Brooklyn southpaw, who won one game
from Cleveland, 2 to 1, pitched a game
that ordinarily would have gone into ihfl
winning eoluma 09 'out of a hundred
times. But with two down ia the sixth
Speaker sing) d and Sherry thea sent one
over the plate to George Boras' liking
aad the first baseman lined it to the
GOVERNORS TAKE HAND
IN 6IN BURNING
CASES IN SOUTH
Arkansas and Alabama Gover
nors Issue Proclamations
Negro Guard is Killed.
(By The Associated Press.)
ATLANTA, Oct. 12 Several fires of
undetermined origin, in which cotton has
been destroyed, and widespread threats of
night riders to burn gins whose owners
ignore warnings to discontinue operations
until the staple reaches a price of 40
cents a pound, have resulted in the is
suance of proclamations by Governors
Brough, of Arkansas, and Kilby, of Ala
bama, and statements of their position
by Governor Dorsey, of Georgia, and
Cooper, of South Carolina.
Governor Brough, upon being advised
last night of the shooting of Nora
Canada, a negro gin guard in Lonoke
county, issued a proclamation citing the
killing and "lawlessness in some of our
counties growing out of the prevailing
low price of cotton. ' ' The governor call
ed upon the state adjutant general and
sheriffs of counties "where there are
likely to be disturbances" to use all
power at their command to ' ' suppress
these night riding outrages . ' ' Posts
of the American Legion also were urged
to co-operate with the authorities.
The killing of Canada until late last
night had been regarded by the authori
ties as a possible outgrowth of night rid
ing activities as the owner of the gin at
which the negro was killed, ia said to
have received a warning to close it . Two
negroes have been arrested and charged
with the killing, however, and one of
them is said to have confessed that the
motive was robbery, refuting the theory
that the shooting was an act of night
riders .
In a proclamation citing the burning
of gins and gin houses in Alabama,
Governor Kilby has offered a reward of
$250 for the arrest and conviction of
any person guilty of the destruction of
property. "This character of lawless
ness dcliberataely violates one of the fun
damental purposes for which government
is established and threatens to substitute
for orderly government a reigu of ter
ror and violence, ' ' the governor declared
Governor Cooper in a communication
to L. W. Harris, solicitor of the tenth
judicial circuit of South Carolina, de
plored the acts of "fanatics" and gave
assurance that should any situation de-
. ii .a...
velop wlinri would require t-ira t-iion
on the part of the state he would not
hesitate to order it. Mr. Harris had
written the governor of the ioRtiiig of
warnings on gins and had asked if any
preparations had been made for the
seiulinir of detectives into 1he affected
districts. THe only over net so far com
mitted in South Carolina was the re
moval last week of mechanical parts from
a gin in Anderson county . These were
replaced and the gin resumed operations.
lieplying to a suggestion from a county
sheriff that the offer of tie state of a
reward for the arrest of night riders in
Georgia would h:ie a beneficial effect.
Governor Dorsey stated that threats
against property in Georgia constituted
a misdemeanor, only, and that in the cir
cumstances lie was not authorized to do
so. The governor declared, however, that
in the event property' was destroyed a
felony would have Wen committed and
that he would "be glad to offer the
highest reward possible under law."
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 11 Gins in
Douglas and surrounding counties are be
ing posted with warnings to close on ac
count of the price of cotton, Sheriff A.
S. Baggett, of Douglas county, reported
to Governor Dorsey today, and added that
he had offered a reward of $300 for the
arrest of the guilty persons.
The sheriff wrote that a "lawless
crowd" is trying to get control of the
situation and suggested that an offer
of a reward by the governor would have
a beneficial effect. Governor Dorsey
replied that threats against property in
Georgia constitute a misdemeanor for
which the governor is ot authorized to
offer a reward, but that in ease of de
struction of any property, which is a
felony, he would "be glad to offer the
highest reward possible under the law. "
Owners of threatened gins are guard
ing them at a cost of $10 to $15 a day.
he sheriff added.
No gins have yet been reported burned
or otherwise damaged in Georgia, but
many have leeu posted with threats of
damage unless they cease operation.
Mrs. Susie H. Orr left this mornine;
for Rtatesville where she will spend sev
eral days with Mr. J. B. Hall's fami
ly. center field bleachers for a two bagger.
Speaker crossed the plate with the only
run of the game '
The early lineups selected by the man
agers of the battling teams follow:
Brooklyn: I Olson, as.; Sheehan, 3b. ;
Griffith, rf.; Wheat, If.; Myers, cf.; Ko
netchy, lb,; Kflduff, 2b.; Miller, c;
Marquard, p. .
Cleveland Evans,. It; Wambsganss,
2b.; Speaker cf.; Burns, lb.; Gardner,
3b.; Wood, rf.; Sewell, sa.; O'Neill, .;
Coveleskie, p.- "
GASTON COUNTY MINISTERS
IN ALL - DAY MEETING
A meeting of the Presbyterian minis
ters of Gaston county was held Monday
morning in the parlor of the First Pres
byterian church. A permanent organiza
tion, to be known as the Gaston County
Presbyterian Ministers' Association J was
perfected, the association to hold regular
meetings on the second Monday in each
month, in (isstonia. Rev. W. 8. Haun
ter, of Dallas, was chosen as president
and Rev. R. C. Long, of Gastonia, as sec
retary for the ensuing year. Rev. J. J.
Uarrell, of Bessemer City, and Rev. Dr.
J. H. Henderlite, of Gastonia, were ap
pointed to arrange the program for the
next meeting.
Immediately ' following the adjourn
ment of this meeting the Gastonia Min
isterial Alliance held a short session to
discuss important matters of business
for the consideration of the ministers of
all denominations who assembled iu the
Sunday school room of the First Pres
byterian church at 2 p. m. About thirty
ministers from all towns and rural dis
tricts with one exception, made up the
representative body of this meeting,
which proved to be the interesting and
important meeting of the day. A tem
porary organization was effected by elect
ing Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway, of Gastonia,
president, and Rev. G. R. Gillespie, of
Gastonia, secretary. Many of the prob
lems immorality, illicit liquor traffic
and vice existing in Gastonia and the
county were freely discussed and disposed
of by the appointment of committees to
confer with city and county authorities
as to the most effective soluion of same.
The problems considered were: (1) How
to best check and control the wave of
immorality in our suburbs and along our
county roads, a committee being apopint
ed to recommend to the county commis
sioners the establishing of a system of
rural policing; (2) How to control the
illicit traffic of liquor and lewd women as
carried on by public jitneys, a committee
being appointed to confer with the city
council as to best method of controlling
same; (3) How to regulate gambling de
vices on the county fair grounds, the
committee on imomrality and vice to con
fer with the sheriff of Gaston county;
(4) How to efficiently and effectively co
operate with the county committee in the
building of a tuberculosis hospital. After
listening to a splendid presentation of
the matter by Rev. F. B. Runkin, of River
Bend township, a resolution was passed
that the body go on record as heartily en
dorsing this movement ajid inaugurate a
campaign of education In all the churches
of the county. Rev. G. R. Gillespie pre
sented the merits Of the American Red
''."oss Society and requested that Sunday,
November 14, be observed in all the
churches of Gaston county as Red Cross
Day. Before adjournment Rev. Dr. J.
II. Henderlite made the motion that this
assembling of county ministers Be made
a permanent affair and that adjournment
be taken to meet again the second Mon
day in January, with dinner at the Ixruy
Cafeteria, and the meeting in one of the
nearby churches. T'ie motion carried,
and the meeting was 40 adjourned.
HARDING LEAVES ON
SPEECH - MAKING TRIP
MARION, O., Oct. 12. Senator Hard
ing will leave Marion late this afternoon
on his fourth speech making trip outside
Ohio, a circuit which will take him
through Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennes
see, and will wind up with a Saturday
night meeting in St. Louis. It also may
be his last tour away from his home state
during the campaign 4f plans under seri
ous consideration are finally approved.
These plans contemplate cancellation of
the senator's date at Buffalo on October
21, and allotment of most of his time
after this week to front porch speeches
and other affairs here in Marion. A few
Ohio cities are to be visited, however,
regardless of the final decision as to an
eastern trip.
Two red letter days of the campaign
in the home sector will be October 18,
when delegations of first voters will be
addressed by the candidate here, and
October 20, when he will speak at a bar
becue at J'kson, O. Harding headquar
ters announced today that men and
women from every part of Indiana, Illi
nois. Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and Kentucky would be here for the first
voters celebration, and that seventy-five
special trains had been engaged to bring
the crowds from t"he same states to the
barbecue at Jackson.
CANCELS 10 CENT INCREASE
IN COAL SHIPMENTS
WASHINGTON, Oct 12. Cancella
tion was ordered today by the interstate
commerce commission of proposed in
creases of 10 cents per ton in the joint
rates on coal from mines on the Norton
and Northern rivers to destinations In
North Carolina and Southeastern terri
tory. The schedules were filed by the
Carolina, Clinchfield h Ohio Kaflway and
Southern Railway companies. The com
mission holds that the increases were not
justified. -, -..
France in the vicinity of Brest is in
creasing the manufacture of building and
paving blocks from emshed coal clinkers,
sand, lime and cement. , , , .i ,
GASTON MAN MAY SUCCEED
AS DISTRICT CHAIRMAN
Local Member District Execu
tive Committee May Be Se
lected as Successor to Late
Edgar Love A. E. Woltz
Mentioned For Place.
A meeting of the . '.'inocratic executive
committee of the Kinth congressional
district will be held Wednesday at Hick
ory for the purpose of selecting a chair
man as successor to the late Edgar Love
who died in an automobile accident lait
Friday.
Mr. A. E. Woltz, candidate for the
lower house of the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly is the member of the dis
trict executive committee from Gaston
county. Talk in political circles in
Gaston county is that Mr. Woltx is the
logical man to succeed Mr. Love, Bince
the Congressional candidate, Major A.
L. Bui winkle, resides in this county. It
is understood locally that Major Bul
winkle's choice in the selection will have
weight with the con. itee in the ap
pointment of the i..cessor. Concern
ing this. The Charlotte News says:
"Definite steps have not been taken as
yet, looking toward the selection of a
successor to Edgar Love aa chairman
of the ninth district democratic congres
sional committee. It is regarded as
probable that a Gaston county man will
be chosen, as the nominee for congress,
Major A. L. Bui winkle, resides in that
county. The choice will be made by the
committee. "
BELIEVE C0U6HUH BABY
IS STILL ALIVE
Officers Do Not Put Much
Faith in Story of the Crank
That He Smothered Little
Blakely Coughlin.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12 - Investi
srations oi,xthe latest confession of Au
gust Pasquale, "The Crank," in which
he is alleged to have told Major Lynn G
Adams, head of the state police, that he
accidentally smothered Blakely Couahlin
while stealing the baby from the home of
its parents in Norristown last June, was
continued today. Pasquale, according to
Major Adams, said that when he lifted
the child from its crib it started to cry
nnd that he placed it under his coat which
he buttoned tightly. After making hie
escape und running some distance he un
buttoned the coat and found the child
dead .
Search of the woods and swaiups
around Egg Harbor and New Gretna, N
J . , yesterday, failed to reveal any trace
of the child's body. It was in the
neighborhood of Egg Harbor that Pas
quale purchased a small farm shortly af
ter he succeeded in obtaining $12,000
from George H. Coughlin, the missing
child's father. 011 the promise to return
the hoy and it also was there that he was
captured when he attempted io get au
additional $10,000 ransom.
The authorities stated today the in
vest igat ion would be continued but de
dined to say what their next move would
be.
Kecause of the many falso clues Pas
quale is said to have given those working
on the case since he confessed the kid
naping, neither the Mornstown ponce
nor the Coughlins place much credence in
his latest story.
Magistrate O. H. Lenhart declared to
day that Pasquale has not yet told the
truth and added:
' ' I cannot tell all that I know, but the
real story will be out within a few days
and it will be found that Blakely Cough
lin is alive. I am certain of that and
expect to hear of Mrs. Coughlin making
a complete identification of her bab" be
fore Friday. "
FARMER CONFESSES TO
MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN
LANSING, Mich., Oct. 12. Earl
Klop, a farmer, living near here, today
confessed, acocrding to Sheriff Silsbee,
that late yesterday he chloroformed his
two daughters, aged two and three years,
and buried their bodies in the bed of
the Red Cedar river, a short distance
from his home.
The two girlr the sheriff said, had been
in tho fields wjth Roop. In the evening
the farmer returned to his home and as
sured his wife, who was ill in bed with
her six day old son, that the girls were
safe and would be home shortly.
A few hours later he started for the
sheriff's office at Mason, where he surren
dered and made the alleged confession.
After Roop had told his story, sheriff's
officers went to the river, led by Roop,
and uncovered the bodies.
Despondency, according to the alleged
confession, was the motive for the crime.
Roop is being held on a charge of mur
der. 15 CENT SOUP OUT
OF $100 PEDIGREED PIGEONS
NE WYORK, Oct. 12 Fifteen cent
soup made of $100 pedigreed pigeons
has been served recently in East Side
eating houses. PoMte discovered this
epicurean irregularity today after ar
resting a 16-year-old boy on complaint
of a pigeon fancier that his .coops oi
prize winning birds had been persistently
robbed. He valued the pigeons at $1
W. N. FOREAGRE DIES .
FROM ACUTE INDIGESTION
Vice - President and Gcnnl
Manager of Lines East
Found Dead in Private Car .
at Hendersonville Early ;
Tuesday Morning. v.---
ASHEVILLE, N. O, Oct. 12. WV L 7 V-
Poreacre. vice president and cencrat
manager of lines east for the Southern
Railway, was found dead in his private
car at Hendersonville at 8:50 o'efook
this morning by his porter, who went to- ',
als room on th car to call him. He wa
sitting in a chair in his night rlothes
with a light burning.
Mr. Foreacre. accompanied br O- BL'
Keister, general superintendent, aad 8.
Mulvaney, division superintendent.
were on a tour of inspection. The party
arrived in Asheville yeste llay and went
to Hendersonville ltd Brevard, returning
to Hendersonville last night. Mr. Tors
acre, who is about 00 years old, retired
apparently Jn good health. ,v: ' !
lie has been in the employ of -th
Southern Bail way since 1887, when he be
became a telegraph operator with th
company. He rose rapidly and before
the world war was appointed to tho posi
tion he , held at the time cf his death.
headquarters being maintained at Char.
lotte.
A special train has beta made up hara
and the 'body will be sent to Atlaata, hia ,
native home, for buriaL ' "r-
SOUTHERN'S EAR'illS 5i
SHOW BIG CGBCESE-
Special to The Gasetta. ;
RICHMOND, Va., Oct 1&Th ,
Southorn Railway system won its bet in
not taking the government's guarants .
for the six months from ' March , 1 ta
August 31, actual operating income for
this period having exceeded what would
have been received under the guarantee
by $642,078.46, according to announce- ; .
ment made in the annualreport submit
ted to the stockholders of the Souther
Railway Company by President Fairfax '
Harrison at the annual meeting held here
today.
Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, of Charlottes -villo,
Va., president of the University of
Virginia; Robert Jemison. Sr., of Birm
ingham, Ala.; Bishop John Carlisle'
Kilgo, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, Charlotte, and Charles
Steele, of New York, were re-elected a
members of the board of directors for tho
term of three years. -t,' v-;,- .
A large majority of THe stock of the
company was represented at the meeting.
5
WORK ON BIG TUNNEL
UNDER HUDSON RIVER BEGUN
NEW YORK. Oct. 12. Construction
of a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson -river
between New York and New Jersey
City starts today with the breaking of
ground for one of the' tube's big air
shuft. State, county and municipal offi
cials from both states have been invited
to participate in the ceremonies in Maa
hattan this afternoon. , , .. .
Engineers expect to complete the strue
ture by 1924. The cost, estimated at
$29,000,000, is to be borne equally hy i
the two states. Shore works, including .
shafts and approaches, wil require II
months to construct, after which actual
work of boring under the rtyer if tf
begin.
Continued congestion at the ferries ba : .
tween New York snd New Jersey prompt '
the belief of tunnel engineers that 5,600y
000 motor and horse-drawn conveyance
will use the tube in 1924. wth trafSer
showing a steady increase, reaching; am
annual figure of 22,000,000 vehicles hy
1943. Tolls based on the ferry rataa
will be levied for 20 years to pay for tha
tube, and thea it would be free for the)
use of alL
Four driveways, two in each direction.
will be provided. A sidewalk, two feat
in width, also is planned. Tho tunnel, '
comprising twin cast-iron tubes each with .'
an external diameter of 29 feet, wiB bo
six feet wider than the Pennsylvania rail-;
road tubes under, the Hudson East River. "
Traffic blockades, now common on fer
ried, would be precluded by providing at
each end of the tube derrick-equipped
trucks to tatte stalled automobiles in tow. '
Three driveways in each direction will ba
furnished on the approaches, because .
slight inclines there are expected to slow
down the movement of the vehieulax
queues. V?
Ventilation to rid the tunnel of carbon .
monoxide gases from automobile exhausts
will be furnished by four large shafts aad
also by an air duct under the roadway
and an exhaust above. Smoky vehicles
circulate poisonous gas freely ia closed
places but chemists working on the tunnel .
ventilation system estimate that at tha
highest point of saturation there wQl be
only 3 1-2 parts of carbon monoxide to
10,000 parts of air in the tube. It
quires 8 parts of the gas to 10,000 parts
of air, they figured, to give a man a head- .
ache. . -. ' . 1
MADRID, Oct "ll. The scenes of the
Spanish bullring were too harrowing f r
a section of the foreign delegate to t
international postal congress, now fa f
sion here, who attended the re rJ-ar T -day
bull fights yesteri.ir, and m. -
them found themselves cllel t) 1
before the fights were cor d.! ' '.