STORES CLOSE FRIDAYS AT ONE O'CLOCK AFTER JULY FIRST
' In the column i of thla paper 70a
will find the advertisements of alert,
progressive merchant and manu
facturer! who are telling you some
thing they believe yon ought to
know.
WEATHEIt
Fair tonight and Sunday, norther
ly winds fresh on the coast. '
VOL.4
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1919.
No. 153
m
GREAT WORLD WAR
IS FORMALLY ENDED
AMERICA FIRST TO
LOWED BY BRITAIN, FRANCE, ITALY
AND JAPAN
GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT VERSAILLES
Crowds Madly Cheering
of Troon as Wilson
Emerge From Conference
Versailles, June 2&.-The World War was for
mally ended today by the signing of the Peace
Treaty with Germany.
The epochal meeting that marked the final
act in the great drama of bloodshed began at ten
minutes past three, and the German delegates
-were first to sign.
The German delegates were followed by the
.American delegates, headed by President Wilson
and by the plenipotentiaries of Gre.at Britain,
France, Italy and Japan.
Representatives of minor states signed in
their alphabetical order.
As Clemenceau, Ju, President Wilson and
Lloyd George emerged from the palace the great
crowd gathered outside swept aside the cordon
of troops, cheering madly.
Many soldiers broke ranks, joining the dem
onstration while guns boomed and low flying air
planes filled the air.
MMICANSSIGNEDAT3:14P.M.
Washington, June 28.-The official, report of
the signing of the Peace Treaty transmitted to
the State Department said that die President and
the American delegation completed the signing
of the treaty at 3 : 14 o'clock, Paris time.
It was signed by Dr. Mueller at 3 1 12 and by
Johannes Bell at 3:13 for the Germans.
News of the signing of the peace treaty was re
ceived at Washington over a special Government
circuit between Versailles and Washington.
Instantaneous transmission came to the De
partment; with London, New Foundland and
New York the only relay points on the long
stretch.
BRITISH SIGNED AFTER AMERICANS
Versailles, June 28. The other delegations headed by the
British signed after the American plenipotentiaries in the order
.set forth in the treaty.
General Smuts, one of the delegates representing the Union
tof South Africa signed under protest He objected to certain
territorial settlements.
PRESIDENT WILSON LEAVES PARIS
Washington, June 28. President Wilson and his party
leave Paris tonight for Brest to sail for home, Secretary Tumulty
: has been notified. The President has consented to an unofficial
recention on his arrival at New
.through Secretary Tumulty had
.an unofficial greeting.
PRESIDENT ASKS
Washington, June 28. President Wilson in an address to
the American people, made public today by Secretary Tumulty,
makes a plea for the acceptance of the Peace Treaty and the
covenant of the League of Nation
CHINA'S DELEGATES DH) NOT SIGN
, ' '' Versailles, June 28. China's delegates did not attend the
session of the Peace Conference today, declining to sign the
treaty because they were not permitted to make reservations.
SIGN TREATY, FOL
Break Through Cordon
And Allied Premiers
York. A committee of citizens
asked to be allowed to prepare
.
FOR RATIFICATION
without change or reservation
SAW SEASHORE HOTEL
. GO UP IN FLAMES
Mr. and Mrs. S. 0. Etheridge have
returned from Wreightsvillea Beach
where Mr. Etheridge attended the
Pharmaceutical Association and wit
nessed the burning of the Seashore
Hotel. Everybody was at Lumlna
when the fire started, said Mr. Ether -
ldge, from an electric iron which had
been left with the current on. Women
had left children asleep in some of
the rooms and were frantic when the
alarm was given. It was a tremen
dous Are and if the wind had been
blowing right the entire resort
would have been swept away. Many
of the ladies were in evening dress
and lost all of their clothes save
those they had on. The hotel con
tained over three hundred rooms and
the cost of replacing it Is estimated
at about 1 300,000. It was insured
(or $60,000.
EX-EMPEROR IS
FULLY CONFIDENT
(By Associated Press)
Amerongen, JBu'ne 28. Farmer
emperor Wilhelm and his advisors
are apparently fully confident that
the Netherlands government will be
unable to consent to the Entente's
forthcoming demand for his extra
dition.
COAL CO. INCORPORATED
(By Associated Press)
Danville, Va., Jnne 28. Local
capitalists have formed the Merrill
Coal Mines Co. Inc. to operate at
Henlawson, W. Va. in the bituminous
field. The company will be incor
porated in Virginia, headed by L. B.
Conwayn of this city as President.
The capital stock of $600,000 has
been subscribed.
TEXAS RATIFIES SUFFRAGE
(By Associated Press)
Austin, June 28. Texas today be
came the ninth state to ratify the
Suffrage Amendment.
SIBERIANS RETIRE
Omsk, June 28. During the last
fortnight the Siberian western army
has retired from the Viatka River to
the Kama, approximately 100 miles
before superior forces of Bolshevlkt.
Ufa Is vnder bombardment from Bol-
shevikl guns.
GERMAN MUSIC IN ROME
Rome, May 28. (Correspondence
of The Associated Press.) Italians
have 1iot for many months boycotted
German music. Works of Wagner,
Beethoven and other celebrated Ger
man composers are .constantly the
attractions In Rome music halls. A
recent program consisted of Beeth
oven's Fifth Symphony, Wagner's
"Die Meistersinger 'von Nurnberg"
and his Tannhauser overture.
LOCAL NOTICE
The advertisement of the North
Carolina State College of Agricul
ture and Engineering appears In this
Issue of The Advance. Young men
who contemplate fitting themselves
for efficiency and success In Agricul
ture, or In Civil, Electrical, Mechani
cal, Chemical, or Textile Engineer
lng should Investigate the advantages
which are offered at ' this well
known technical College. Fall in
formation may be had by writing
Registrar E. B. Owen at
Raleigh.
west
. '
Treaty
GETTING READY
FOR BIG FIGHT
Elaborate Preparations Being
Made For Staging of Willard
Dempsey Contest
(By Associated Press)
Toledo, O., June 28. Thrusting
its raw, yellow skeleton skyward, the
huge bowl-shaped arena, costing
1150,000 and originally planned to
seat 60,000 persons, is rapidly near
ing completion for the heavyweight
(Championship contest between Jess
Willard and Jack Dempsey here on
' Ju'y 4tn-
! The arena ,s located in Bay View
park a municipally owned plot of
erouni "ty acres m extent and di-
"ctly north four miles from the
heart of the city. Before being
.turned over to Tex Richard, promot
er of the championship contest, the
park had been used as a recreation
center and the arena rests on the
site of two baseball diamonds. On
the north side of the park Is Maume
Bay and to the east is Maumee
River. Encircling the plot Is a road
of crushed stone. The park Is of
artificial construction, most of It be
ing filled in land, but it is ideally
situated in every respect. It is per
fectly flat and treeless, making the
work of the engineers constructing
the arena easier than it otherwise
would have been.
Some Idea of the immensity of the
arena may be obtained from the fact
that It is four times as large as the
arena in which Jack Johnson bat
tered Jim Jefferles to defeat In
Reno, Nev., and capable of seating
four times as many persons. Approx
imately 1,760,000 feet of lumber has
been used in the structure. Not a
bolt has been used, the entire build
ing being held together by nails of
which two carloads or 50,000 pounds
have been driven. All new lumber .
has entered Into the construction
and this will be sold after the con
test Precautions for safety have been
taken in the construction. Careful
tests were made of the ground to
And out whether it could carry the
great human weight which would
rest upon It. The carrying capacity
of the lumber and the tensile
strength of the nails were deter
mined and a margin allowed for
safety.
Although the structure was ulgl-
nauy planned lor 50,000 pontons, a
load of 80,000 persons was taken as
the basis of the estimate and, in
stead of allowing 175 pounds per
person, as is done in ordinary con
struction for "live loads" an aver
age of 200 pounds was taken. This
gave a total "live load" of 8,000
tons, but to allow even a further
amount of safety margin, construct
ion was based upon a load of 10,000
tons.
As an insurance against any set
tling should rainy weather on the
day of the match, or even a few days
before, cause the structure to settle
slightly, heavier footings were used.
This entailed an additional, expense
of about $3,500 but Promoter Rich
ard decided it would be cheaper for
the greater safety afforded.
Nor is the actual safety of the
spectators thp only thing which has
been considered. Every effort has
been made to make it certain every
ticket holder will get the seat to
which . his ticket entitles him. To
take care of the big crowd, there will
be four grand entrances, one each at
the north, south, east nad west side
of the arena. At each of these will
be four runways, one each for the
$10, $15 and $25 seats, while , the
fourth will take care of the $30, $40,
$50 and $60 ticket holders. In order
to obtain entrance It will be neces
sary to pass muster of three separate
ticket takers to guard against any
one not holding a ticket slipping by,
Several hundred discharged sol
dleri, all having seen service
France, will act as ushers s:
id!
be
guards- at the arena. They will
REED STANTON
Mr. Horace Gates Reld and Miss
Maud Stanton, both of this County,
were married Thursday by Rev.
Rufus Bradley at his home on Eh
ringhaus street. The bride Is the
daughter of Mr. Addison Stanton and
the groom is the son of Mrs. G. L.
Reld.
armed. Bank clerks have been en
gaged by Promoter Rickard In hand
ling the ticket sales at the arena and
at the downtown headquarters on the
day of the contest.
Precautions against "rushing" of
the gates also have been taken. Out
side the arena eighty feet distant
will be a barbed wire fence, or en
tanglement, eight feet high and a
half mile long to keep the crowd
away from the entrances. Closer to
the arena will be a board fence
4. i m . a i l
stationed every twenty-five feet. The
$10, $15, $25 and $30 ana $40 seats
also will be separated from each
other by barbed wire to prevent oc
cupants of one section moving Into
better seats.
There will not be a stairway in
the entire arena, which is 600 feet
across. Entrance to the various sec
tions will be along inclined runways,
with a grade of one foot to every six
feet, making the climb scarcely no
ticeable. The runways to the $10
seats, which will be thirty-tour feet
from the ground, will be 180 feet ln
length.
An allowance of eighteen inches
seatway has been made for each
ticket holder. The rows will be two
feet apart for all seats cheaper than
$50 and eight Inches more for the
$50 and $60 seats. The seats' them
selves will be ten inches in width,
giving fourteen Inches leg room be
tween rows. The only difference be
tween the cheapest seat and the top
priced rows will allow slightly more
leg room.
The $60 tickets, entitles holders
to seats about fifteen feet from the
ring, 176 press seats for newspaper
writers taking up the actual ring
side. There will be forty-two seats
in the first row of the reserved seat
sections, while the last row of the
$10 seats will accommodate 1,800
persons. The first row of $10 seats
will be about 276 feet from the
middle of the ring.
James McLaughlin, an industrial
engineer of San Francisco, is the
builder of the arena. McLaughlin
Is known to fight followers from
coast to coast as the arenas of some
of the most Important battles of
pugilism have been constructed by
him.
When the Jeffries-Johnson fight
was switched to Reno, Rickard com
missioned McLaughlin to build the
arena there. McLaughlin completed
the structure, with a seating capac
ity of 20,000 in seven days.
"My experience at Reno taught me
a lesson," McLaughlin said. "We neg
lected to put up a barbed wire fence
in addition to a wood fence. The re
sult was that about 2,000 men
climbed over the top and saw the
fight without paying a cent. We'll
fool them this time."
Work was started on the Bay View
park arena on May 17. Two hun
dred men were employed in the con
struction. McLaughlin expects to
have It completed the day before the
contest.
CATHOLIC SERVICES
There will be Catholic services in
the Catholic Chapel Sunday morning
at 10:30, Room 338 Hlnton Bldg.
GOOD CROWD HEARD
ODD FELLOWS CONCERT
A good crowd heard the Odd Fel
lows 8inging Class at the High
School auditorium Friday night .
Mi
for '
Mrs. May Gulrkln leaves Sunday
iweive xeei mgu, uurmuumea Dyer way to make the headquarters
barbed wire, while at the top of the for the soldiers, sailors and marines
arena Itself will be a five foot fence at g south Water Street attractive,
of barbed wire with armed guards Sign, are belng painted which will
for Msgs Head.
- ;
PLANNING FOR
GREATPARADE
And Signs Will Be Posted
Showing Way To Headquart
ers For Soldiers And Sailor
On Glorious Fourth
Plans are now being matured for
the big street parade on July 4th.
The relative position of the different
units has not been determined as
yet, but the line of march has been
mapped out as follows:
The procession will start at Penn
sylvania Avenue, march to Burgess,
from Burgess to Road, from Road to
Church, from Church to Polndexter,
from Polndexter to Main, and then
march down Main and disband. .
Preparations are being gotten un-i
be posted conspicuously so that the
Teteran8 ln town on that day will
know where to go. The ladles in
charge of the headquarters are plan
ning to give the boys a royal wel
come. PLENTY MELONS
FOR THE. FOURTH
J. E. Cooke ; of Indiantown
Breaks Record For Early
Home Grown Product,
Mr. J. E. Cooke of Indiantown, '
Camden County, was In the city Sat
urday morning with a load of water
melons, the first seen on the local
market here this year. Mr. Cooks
says that it IS the first time he has
ever seen home grown melons in
Elizabeth City before the first of
July.
"I'll have plenty of them by July
Fourth, says Mr. Cooke, and am
going to have 'em here ln Elisabeth
City on that day."
One of the hardest showers of the
summer fell Saturday morning and
It rained off and on all day Friday
but Mr. Cooke was here before sight
o'clock with his auto truck' well
loaded with the ripe and Juicy
melons. Auto-trucks are coming into
pretty general use on the farms in
this section, especially among potato
growers.
NO FIGHTING
IN HAMBURG
(By Associated Press
Berlin, June 2. It is officially
announced that the government is In
complete control df Hamburg.
No fighting Is reported In the city
and it is Bald that sufficient troops
are arriving to insure the restora
tion of normal conditions.
CANADA DEFEATS
UNITED STATES
(By Associated Press)
Pershing Stadium, France, June,
28. Canada defeated America at
baseball 2 to 1 today. The contest
was the only event at the stadium.
It was a well played game and"
heartily cheired by the American
section.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. J. M. Ormond, the pastor will
fill the pulpit at both the morning
and evening services on Sunday. The
public is cordially invited.
A NEAT AND , COMFORTABLE
home on the suburbs of town of
fered free of rent until Janhary
1st, 1920. Apply at The Advance
fflce. ' J.lg-tf
1