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.'I-. , , ,. If-. . '1 - THE WEATHER FORECAST. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat up day. Little change in tempera tyre. '4 THE ORCULATI0N IN WILMINGTON. VOL. XXII. NO. 273; CAROLINA, FRID AY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1916ft PRICE 5 CENTS 7 V i M m QM p G OTi 'tt Uncle Sam Intends to See That Neutrality Is Strictly, Observed. SUBMARINE REPORTED NEAR N. Y. HARBOR Steamer Brings News of Sight ing Unknown Submersible. Whether Pursuing Vessels Not Determined. New York, Oct. 13. A dozen de stroyers of the United States navy today patrolling the ocean high- are ways to and from New York. At present it is not known for what pur pose except to the naval authorities. It was reported, however, that they are to maintain the neutrality of American waters from - foreign sub marines. The commandant of the na val stationat Narragansett 3?ay said ;hat no official action towttrd the establishment of such a patrol had been takenr The seaward dash of eleven de stroyers from Nejyport is causing much speculation. At least one United States destroyer is known to have been on guard since the Ger man submarine raid last Sunday. Efforts to explain the action of the destroyers range from the reported discovery of a fofeign submarine base 10 the rumor that a liner had been driven into Bar Harbor by a subma rine stationed off Rockland, Me. All these statements lacked verification. Sighted Submarine. Boston, Oct. 13. A submarine of unidentified nationality was reported about 200 miles east of New York by the steamship Bovic, in a wireless message today. The course of the submarine was not stated. It was admitted that the subma rine was "astern," but whether it was pursuing the Bovine or keeping, to Its individual . course was not sta4-.." . - The Bovine is a British freight steamer of the White Star Line and sailed' from Manchester, England, September 30, for New York. Patrol Goes Into Effect. Xewport, R. I., Oct. 13. A patrol of torpedo boat destroyers, charged 1 Police of Bayonne- Believe- That Strikers Have Been Awed. Big Masterpiece in Construc tion Completed and Ready For Dedication. 4- vy It is 318 feet higbfMHBfoun- dation to top of parapet wall. fr It is 1,674 feel long at the top, containing 610,060 cubic yards of concrete, and weighs one million tons. Placed on a city lot 125 feet by 25 feet,t the ,iam would make a block of concrete, lacking only fifty feet oi being a .mile high. The reservoir, -when filled, will contain 856 billion gallons enough water to cover the State 4' of Delaware two feet deep'. Elephant Butte, N. M., Oct. 13. After five' years' df work, during which 'dern engineerinsr skill has been taxed to the utmost, the famous Elephant Butte Dam is ready for the dedication " 1 ceremonies tomorrow which will mark its completion. The ceremonies will be in keeping with the importance of the occasion. The par ticipants will include two members of President Wilson's cabinet, the chief officers of the Reclamation Service, at Washington, and the governors or other official rpfesentatives of many of the Westerly .States. -Excursion trains will bring large crowds of vis itors f nwsu Albuquerque and El Paso. From the last named .itv will com delegations representing the Interna tional Farm Congress, the Interna- fHohal Irrigation Cpngrss and the Jn- aJT of which bodies are iomee in an nual session in the Texas city -the coming week. The Elephant Butte Dam is the chief feature of the biggest irrigation project ever undertakes, by the Rec lamation Service of the United States'. THAT SHOOTING WILL NOT CEASE Yesterday Was a Day of Disor der and Bloodshed Police Smashed In Saloons. iWhile Entente Forces Advance Teutons Rout King Fer- dinand's Soldiers. 4 LOOKING FdR SUBMARINE BASE. Washington, Oct. 13.-f Admiral Mayo, commanding thef Atlantic fleet,' notified the navy depart- ment today that he had ordered a survey of the New England coast to investigate reports that bellig- 4 erent ships had established a basethsre or were using parts of 4 the coast for wireless stations. 4 4 4 ' NO INFANTRY ATTACK i ALONG THE SOMME Only Artillery Busy There . Italians Have Made Furth er Gains Against The i Austrians. with enforcing neutrality observances rBy its completion the turbulent Rio and of Saving lives in event of further Grande has been conquered and the submarine raids on shipping was put into effect from Bar Harbor, Maine, to New York today. Official authority for the statement that such a patrol was established was obtained this morning. The limits of the line coast surveillance up to the present were shown by the arrival of the destroyer Paulding, offBax Harbor and the ac tion of the destroyer, Sterrett, in pa trolling New York harbor. Between these two outposts nine other destroy ers were operating. In Narragansett Bay several of the destroyers were kept at routine target practice with steam up. The fuel ship Jason which left here recently with a full supply of oil, came in for more today. All the vessels are well provisioned. The operations of the patrol are be ing directed from the flagship Bir mingham, in charge of Rear Admiral Gleaves. The Birmingham is ready to move at any moment. wealth of the valley through which it flows will at last be realized. While there are two other struc tures excelling this in height and sev eral in cubical contents, the Elephant Butte Dam outranks all other dams in the capacity of reservoir created. Behind this massive wall of masonry there has formed the largest body of water absolutely controlled by man. This artificial lake has an area of 45 square miles, a shore line, of 200 miles in length, an average depth ot 65 feet. When completely full the lake will furnish enough watef to submerge the entire State of Delaware to a depth of two feet. The combined flood and normal discharge of the Rio Grande for a period of another year or more will be required to fill the reservoir to the lip of the spillway. The engineering problems which were met and solved in the construe- here tion of the dam were numerous and difficult. Preliminary work before a Bayonne, N. J., Oct. 13. City au thorities hope today that the 57060 strikers from the oil company's works at Constable Hook, who have been rioting in the streets Xor the past two days, were awed by the demonstra tion of force by the police yesterday and that shooting from housetops and sniping would be discontinued today. The police plan to repeat theirN per formance of yesterday when they swept through the striking district In the Constable Hook section, driving the strikers off the streets into the houses, returning the shots of the snipers on the roofs, wrecking saloons that were kept open in defiance of the mayor's orders and arresting the proprietors. One man, a lawyer who took no part in the rioting, was shot and kill ed yesterday and nearly a score were wounded. Three persons, one a young woman, are dead and it is believed that more than 100 have been injured. It was reported today that many familes will move. The body of an unindentified man was found lying on the street some distance from the strike center with a bullet wound in his head. Noth ing is known as to the cause of the killing. ; ... ... ; iCuiet inre vailed miring !;theaart3H hours of today, following the battle IfJG COMMENT Is The Naming of Nobuzumi Aoki as Military Adviser To Government. While the entente armies in north ern France and the Austro-Italian war theatre continue driving at the lines ijDfHbeir Teutonic foes, the lat ter is continuing to counter heavily with crushing strokes on the Tran sylvania front. The Rumanians are being , forced back in- nortneast Tran sylvania, as well as aong tne Ruma nian border, according to the current- war office's report. " Vienna claims that the Rumanian resistance has' been broken, on both sides of the Maros river, where Ber lin yesterday announced an encir cling movement was in progress. The Rumanians are declared to be in flight, while the threatening forces near 1 Kronstadt, where King Ferdi nand's forces are falling back to the frontier passes. Italian jgains Wednesday on the Carso front, where General Ca'dorna is pushing toward Triest, are ad mitted- at Vienna. Elsewhere they are declared t ohave failed to have advanced and to have lost 2,700 pris oners iA the recent engagements. No infantry contests in the Somme region is reported by Paris, but in tense activity by the artillery is in evidence both north and south of the Somme In the former region the French X are preparing for another drive ;ln the , region of Morval and Bucbyesnes, where they again are pounding; their neighbor, Charlens; soutit of tfte "river. HJifelndfJthe-'Somme .Uhe JUST CREATED Master of Russian Steamer, Brings In News of Their Coming. Britislf advance south ot Baiipaume scenes enacted in the streets yester-, durin yesterday's fighting pushed in iurtner lowara tne jsaupaume-t'errone road and took about 150 prisoners. Some action has developed on the northern front ia. Russia. i,s The Ger- day afternoon and last night. "We expect to clear the rioters out and start the trolley lines in opera tion in the strike territory," said a police official today. "Probably we will have to send a large force of po licemen and deputies to that district again, but we think the strikers are cowed. If they refuse to get off the streets aagin today they will be ar rested." The police asserted that those that have been injured were injured by bullets from the guns of the strikers as the policemen have shot over the strikers' heads. Strike leaders have offered to or ganize a special force of 300 to aid in suppressing the rioters. Their offer was accepted, but has not yet been effective. Pekiner Oet 13 Phinn's nnnnint. ment of Major-General Nobuzumi j Aoki as first-class military advisor to' the Chinese government has pro voked much comment in the Chi nese press, and came as a great sur prise to foreigners living in China. Major-General Aoki will receive a sal ary of two thousand dollars Mexican per month, " together with an allow ance, for traveling expenses. Commenting sarcastically upon the appointment, the Peking Daily News says: "We heartily 'thank our Japanese neighbor for lending the services of so valuable a general of the Japanese army to China for the reorganization of the Chinese army. The next step is the purchase of at least half of the arms and ammuni tion required by the Chinese army from Japan, or the establishment of a Sino-Japanese arsenal in this coun try under Japanese control as de manded by Japan last year, but re fused by the late President Yuan Shi-kai even under the threat of an ultimatum delivere'd at Peking on May 7, 1915. When Major-General Aoki was as signed to Shanghai as an attache of the Japanese consulate there in the heat of the recent revolutionary trou ble, many Chinese papers charged that he was the forerunner of a Jap anese military movement designed to control the Yangtse Valley , and his employment as nn adviser to ihe ftMneee1 m&Mm? great apprehension by Chinese jour nals which demand information as to why China should place itself .in Japanese hands by the employment of the distinguished Japanese officer. Now An Assistant General Manager R. S. Marshall The Man. BRITISH DESTROYERS ON THE LOOKOUT Other Allied Ships of War Thought to Be Near Brit ish Shipping Moved Out In Consequence. Boston, ct. 13. A fleet of foreign cruisers and destroyers is off the Am erican coast, according to the captain of the Russian steamship Hesperus, which arrived here today from Spain. To the pilot the captain reported of the Georgia division, is appointed ! tnat a "lot of destroyers and cruis- superintendent vision. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 13. The position 6f assistant general manager of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad has just been created. R. S. Marshall, super intendent of the Virginia division of the system, with Richmond as his headquarters, has been appointed to that position, effective October 15. George R. Carlton, superintendent of the Virginia di- ers passed his vessel on cape saDie Wednesday, headed southwest. At the rate of speed they were going, he said GOLF CLUB PURCHASE.1 thaV th3y "J?6 off the AH cutis i, iiuw. i ue netiyci uB uo.pto.iii uau Cape Fear Country Club Is To Greatly Enlarge Links. For the probable purpose of enlarg ing the golf links of the Cape Fear Country Club by adding several courses, the Cape Fear Country Club Company has purchased from Mr. M. not heard of the German submarine raid Sunday, as he has no wireless. Pilots who were in Massachusetts Bay yesterday reported that three torpedo boat destroyers cruised off the coast all day. One pilot said he thought they were British vessels. Another thought they were American. , Ashore It was believed they were Am I erican destroyers. Belief that they were British was F. H. Gouverneur and wife, and Mr. H. M. Chase, nearly 30 acres of the,held bv man water front authorities Chase and Gouverneur tract, located jwno conncted their appearance with. just to the south of the southern, line o fthe Country Club. The considera tion was $2,975. The Cape Fear Country Club has' had under consideration the exten sion of the present links for some time and, this, no doubt, was the rea- the fact that yesterday the British vessels at this port moved out after being held here since Sunday. The British destroyers, they contend, cams here to act as convoys. Major-General Aako was the corn- man attacked and captured a trench mandant at Port Arthur in the Russo section on tne era river, out accord- . Japanese war ,and is probably the ing to Petrograd, were shortly after wards driven out. No heavy fighting is reported in the Volcania or Galicia regions in the Russian official bulle tin. East of the Struma river, in Mace donia, the British apparently are mak ing ready for further efforts against the Bulgarian positions. Their patrols have been pushed forward and their cars have been successfully employed in reconnoitering, according to London. most famous soldier in Japanese. He is 57 years old and has traveled much in Europe. On several occa sions he has been attached to the Japanese legation at Peking, and is an expert in Chinese art. GREAT BRITAIN WILL Confirmation that v the British rock was . placed in the foundation steamer Bovic sighted a submarine off the coast was contained in a statement by a navy official here to day. He said: "A passenger steamer reported to 'he Nantucket Shoals lightship that she had sighted a German submarine this mornine." No Dosition was given, nor was the direction in which the submarine was going told. WOULD HAVE DAY TO HONOR WASHINGTON St. Louis, Mo., OctJ13. Tbe Vir ginia delegation today asked the con vention of the Protestant Episcopal hurch to set apart a Sunday nearest February 22 each year as a memorial 'lay to eGorge Washington. A reso-l lution was entered in the house of f'oputies giving women the right to ar't as delegates. COTTON-BREAKS RECOR ON RALEIGH MARKET Raleigh, Oct. 13. Spot cotton on 'he local market, according to buy "rs, today reached its highest price in forty years when it sold at 171-16 -rnts for good middling. Mr. Wm. B. Boykin, one 'of - the Tidewater Power Company's gas em ployees, who was badly burned by an explosion of gas while aoout his luties last week, is now better, but ill be confined to his home 6n South Eighth street for some time. His f riends will be glad 4o ream that his injuries are not as serious as at first thought. v- - : consumed as much time as the actual building of the structure itself. A railroad 13 miles long in diflScult coun try was constructed A camp accom odating 4,000 people was established with complete lighting, water and sew erage systems. AUric was done by government forces and extraordinary care was given to the health of the people 'einployedV ; The completion of the dam brings to i end ythe bitter Interstate and International controversy which has raged in the Rio Grande Valley be tween New' Mexico ajnd. Texas and with old Mexico, It , Iras strife each year between the -farjners over water rights, and at times there was danger of rupture in the. relations between the United Staei an4 Mexico, whose rich valley wa- threatened with utter destruction by reason , of shortage of water, Mexico has canceled her claims for damages amounttnS to millions of dollars and J r Utki thereof will ac cept a supply ;of fwater drawn from the iwnrol-'B-'specialji treaty the United Sta baa agreed to deliver to Mexico-' Jl0,OOftlcnbi? feet of water annually without 'cost. In return, Mexico waives all rights to the waters of the Rio. Grande from the New Mex ico-Chihuahua line to Fort Quitman, Texas a distance of approximately 75 miles. The cost of the dam, originally es timated at 15,000,000," reached nearly twice that figure. The farmers whose land is to be irrigated are to pay the government 20 for each acre of land on which the water is to be used. This will reimburse the government in a IKE CHANGES Promises to Observe New Tac tics In The Search of Mails. Washington, Oct. changes in the search 13. Radical of mails on WILSON TO SPEAK CINTRA, PORTUGAL Portuguese Say It Is Most Wonderful of Cities There is the charm' of uncertainty about Cintra. They will tell you in Portugal, if you plan to go to Cintra, that it is the most wonderful of cities; also, the next man you meet will say that "it doesn't amount to much. Ar tists and poets have indulged in tem- teramental outbursts over its charm; and their disciples have made pilgrim ages to Cintra and returned disappoint ed. So there is no telling how it will strike you, and all you can decide in advance is that it seems to affect dif ferent people in different ways. These things being true, It is well IN NEW YORK Will Also Deliver An Address In Buffalo Said to Be Non-Partisan. neutral ships are promised in a to refrain from saying that Cintra is reply from the British and French J beautiful, that it has a peculiar and in- governments to the American pro-' dividual charm ; or that it is common- test against interfering with the mails. The changes, while short of the abandonment of the contention of the right to search for informa tion of value to the enemy, are re garded by the Allies as sufficient to meet with the demands of the United States. h STORM WARNING FOR ATLANTIC COAST Washington, Oct. 13. 'Storm warn ings from Reeding Island, near Phil adelphia, to Cape Hatteras and at Bal timore and Washington, weer issued by the weather bureau today. The storm is headed southwest and west winds were predicted for tonight, shifting to the northwest Saturday. place, and hardly worth visiting. It is, however, entirely safe to describe it as a town of some five thousand peo ple, standing on the slopes of a steep hill which is crowned by a Moorish pal ace. In these statements one can fall back on the irrefragable testimony of i the Portuguese census and his own eyesight. The hill is bold and angular in out line, so that it has been termed in Portuguese poetry a stern crag; but its angles are softened by a dense growth of rich green trees, on whose branches you catch now and again the golden gleam of an orange or a lemon. Philadelphia, Oct. 13. President Wilson today accepted an invitation to speak in Buffalo on October 30 and in New York on October 31. Both speakings will be arranged under non-partisian auspices, but the President's campaign managers are counting on them to help out in New York State. These two trips and those on the 19th to Chicago and the 26th to Cin-j cinnati, are his only remaining jour neys before election day. property. The additional land procur ed is in four tracts. The tracts con tain the following number of acres: 7.58, 4.56, 5.79, 9.96. The deal was handled by Mr. J. Frank Sears, presi dent of the Country Club. JSTSIS'-niAfrriFATJ THE METROPOLITAN OPERA New York's great opera house is more than a palace of song. It is an j turned automobile . . -f,f,' Concord, N. C, Oct. 13. T. V. Ter rell, 50 years old, secretary-treasurer and general manager Qf the Locke Cotton Mills here, and a well known mill man throughout the south, died today at his home in Coolemee as the result of injuries received .Sunday, when he was pinned under his over- Interment will be Tokio, Oct. 13. The Toyo Kisen Kaisha is building two large passen ger steamships each of about 17,000 tons gross register which will be used in service to San Francisco. One will be called the San Francisco Maru but the name of the second has not yet been selected. The liners will have a length of about 636 feet, or about 36 feet longer than the Em press of Russia or Empress of Asia, the two big sister liners of .the Can adian Pacific Steamship Company. They will have quadruple expansion engines and each will afford accom modation for about 300 saloon pas- The lemon is a most poetic fruit in ' sengers, with 100 second class and The Wilmington Bar Association met this morning and arranged 101 civil cases for trial at the two' weeks' term of Sueprior Court to be conduct ed here by Judge Connor, beginning Monday October 23. Eugene -Martin, Esq., dean of the local bar, presided at -the meeting. There are no cases on the docket for the Coming term that are. of great importance. Many of them are those that have been in the courts"for some time. It is thought that the majority lanre oart ft the- entire-cost of the of the bases will be disposed of during Zfzl r - the two -weeks of court. . its natural habit and causes the be holder to wonder why it should have fallen into disrepute and become a term of disrespect, not to say obloquy, in popular usage. The chief attraction at Cintra is tbe old Moorish castle, which has been lik oned to the Alhambra. The guide books, however, treat of the castle 800 third class. The speed is estimat ed at 23 knots, making them the fast est on the Pacific. The company will also build as soon as possible eleven freight steam ers, five of which will be utilized in the New York senrii by way of the Panama Canal. It is also learned here that Great at length, and so does the Portuguese i Britain has requested Japan to build guide who shows you through it. To 1 100 steamers in an effort to make up tour th$. castlft requires ambition and for the depletion caused by the raids enthusiasm. ii- i Jessr effort and more of enemy submarines. It will be im in keeping with the climate to sit be- j possible for Japan to turn out such a neath the lemon trees and watch the large number of ships but the Japan native wash women beating their ese shipyards are exerting every ef clothes in. the Utth, stream that hur-1 fort to increase their capacity of con ries down the-hill. Their bright-col-' struction. Steamships are especially ored garments glow like jewels in the needed in the Carrying ttade to South t institution, a landmark, a study in contrasts, a sociological syllabus and a museum of temperament all in one. It is also a brick building of unlove ly outline and a depressed and bilious hue, where the world's greatest mu sic Is poured forth for the delecta tion of American audiences in spite of the fact, which foreigners like to mention, that we are the most unar- tistic of peoples. The patrons of the Metropolitan Opera House may be divided into several classes. There are the ones who go to hear the music, and the others who go because it is the thing to do. There are tMe mighty ones who must attend because their sta tion in life demands it, and the curi ous ones who go to look at the lat ter class. There are the persons who seem to buy tickets for the sole pur pose of whispering in the pianissimo passages and applauding when the prima donna pauses for breath in the middle of the principal aria. Thls j gives yet another class its Innings j the erudites who hiss like overbur- dened steam radiators and show their superior knowledge. Add to- these the woman who comes to scan; the boxes and get fashion tips, and j the list is roughly complete. The music lovers of the more im pecunious sort are mostly foreign ers. This is the class that recruits the long waiting line which stands In the rain for an hour before the box I office opens, stretching 'up Broadway ; to Thirty-eighth street and half-way j around to Seventh avenue. wnen the doors swing back they buy stand ing room and fight for a place on the rail. They sit on the floor be-' tween acts and clutch you by the arm as the melodies move 'their souls. Meanwhile society arranges itself; in layers, like geologic strata, rang-j ing from the gold and diamond-bear-1 ing beds of the boxes to the common! clay in th topmost gallery. It is d. j monstrous sea of human faces thatj the singers see from the stage, ris- ing wave on wave in the dimness j until the last -wave is lost in the! semi-darkness under the roof. The curtain rises ,the conductor stabs tbe , air with his baton. The worship of the Muse of Harmony has begun. in Asheville tomorrow. a wife and two children. He leaves ALLIES' AIRSHIPS ATTACK MAUSER PLANT Paris, Oct. 13. Forty French and British aeroplanes dropped four tons of explosives last night on the Mauser works, at Oberndorf, in Germany, on, the Neckar river, the war office an-T nounced today. The six German ma- v chines that defended the works were v shot down. Meeting Business Ckances rick, sunlight. American ports. Friends here will be interested to know of the marriage recently of Mr. J. W. Orebaugh, formerly a popular teller at the American Bank, but now Cashier of a bank in Weldon. ' Mr. Orebaugh married an Ohio young lady. They- have already returned to Weldon to make their home. Consult the Business Local ads of The Dispatch daily. Possibly there are opportu nities presented today that may be of interest to you; or, send a Business 'Local ad. of your own, stating what kind of business appeals to you most, and inviting communi cations from those who hare established business, and who wish to sell or increase their.; scope by taking-in partners who are prepared to make the Investment. Some mighty big business bouses have been . built up just in this way. There are other opportunities looking out at you from these columns. There are many ar ticles for sale - advertised dally; houses to rent; houses wanted for occupancy. Get f the Business Local habit The cost is one penny a word worth a dollar. Confer with us! It Phone 176. I-' I'll 1 ' t,1 b