r
.. i- - - -; , . - 1 - - j - ins,..
VOLLXIL No. 49 . , ' The Weather FAIR
-l.-".-' iEW'BBK-a-SATUDriw ioRiNr. November 15 1913
THREE CENTS PER OOPY,
:;:-.-,:...,.
V- "
IK
j :.:.i1:r;.
life
sEiiooLi xs .
llaisHlMEEIi
Rooms In Griffin Building
'' : : fe .-;: Not In Readlnes By
LIKE i HISTORY
- "s ,? ... .Several ' Aspirants For The Inter
States Debatlnj;;;'-;f
F ' J" r"-, "T Contest.
t' fr the Journal.) y .-
yP$0iSi now ifee'.jpupUi of the; 4B Grade
vf. wJ:;Swe 1 veryrmuch interested in history.
;v: -jiThey: h?ve been studying the : lives' of
- ! - !'The Carolina' and; 'Daniel Boone."
' : " 'V? f ' Next.week they will take up the period
ot iNonn varoaua '"',"
:Rexoufionii'-f CS'iJ: '
&TheVre!f SwaydeJightedX.when
f Tuesdays and Fridays come, for onjhese
Vlays they" have, music lesson I At
. -. present: they are .'learning songs f or
'Thanksgiving along with their scales
-And " exercise8;--;?-., :' '.i . :
. Special songs were sung in the Cbapel
xercises ' on. Friday, morning; ; One
: " of these was 'Little Pilgrim.: Maids,"
"(which was sung by" the little girls of
i-"the'2A,Grade; EacK little, girl was
. v-' ' ... dressed in Pilgrim style with their white
, : ' ' ' - -. ' ianrons and white' oinafores. - Another
'SMVf. tong;isy';was. very sweetly
- 'v , , , , sung by Sarah Pasman. ' :
In a ' Contest which lasted during
' the past week on definitions and spel-
linir between -the bovs ana Kins 01
: the 6B Grade, the boys won in each,
beating the girls by six on definitions,
"-and by three on spelling. Those that
missed nothing on both subjects were:
Elgie " Carraway, Bryan Duffy, Ester
Bell Newberry and Ruth Smith. While
. ' James Long and Ellis Smith were
-perfect in spelling only.
.. The attendance of the entire schopl
;x during the week has been as follows:
T Monday, 801 , present, 51 ; absent;
Tuesdayr8U,44 present; Wednesday,
' 814 present,- 32 absent; Thursday,
; : 819 . present, 29 absent;- Friday, 821
' 1 present, 24 absent
Ttjwas planned to bave1 the new rooms
v . in the basement' oLthe Griffin buildine
" . ready for use by Monday but, neither
.-; ?; fefe v-' desk nor blackboard have .yet arnved,
. C "'-"f'i And bo the rooms cannot Te occupied
'! ri-fof. several days yet As"sooii,as':the
-j;,v -furniture' amves,' the? 4A,; SB and 6A
' , i. 'C grades wilPbe divided,-' an4,a section
'Sai-H.v-Jof -each "placed' In'.-toe new rooms. f:
. ' . , In order to stimulate interest and -to
. :,'.-' '' ;;' a'dd"'a personal feature, to the ''.work,
. - 1 Ft hag been arranged for the second year
it German - students' to correspond wi$h
, second year tnglish students1 in
German High School. The letters
J. ' will -be1 written . in German,- and rthe
; ',- -" replies ironv. Germany will be in Eng-v-1
Iish. " ' Each , person: in?, the" class.. of
v -ii 'C' twenty-five - will have a ..separate cor-
respondent, school magazines and school
- J" picture will be exchanged, and the effort
t 4 will be made to have the letters as nat-
- - 'vral and interesting as possible.' s
;jj. !kp The following boys-have handed in
.- v their names as aspirants for the School's
; representative at the Inter-State High
. ' - School Declamation Contest to be held
e ' -!: .3 at Trinity College Thanksgiving night
'. - : Roderick j Davenporti. Robert iThorn
'.-.- ton and Lacy Meredith. . - t t
' , , " The L, Hendren Literary Society
. f , was honored to" have as" its guest 'at
i.,. ; .",,. the v Friday afternoon "meeting Prof.
,i f.-1C Heart- Bourdelais, who gave some very
:.; . " . interesting- and enjoyable 7 readings,
" i, and musical numbers.. -.".' -
- ',;. The girls on? the program for. the
-J'-" -v afternoon were: Corinne Blalock, with
-."a - !!'": recitation, antf Weii Bishop - with a
piano 'solo. ' . k '
The ,9B grade, and teacher wish to
express their .-thanks for tickets to the
v' . Athens - Theatre for the Matinee on
Saturday afternoom ,' f "'.-
i-.7iiW?i"A j Tjr;.:. ,::''-yt v-'V'-'''"rAii-ff'aa
-' -v, J ; . w! C, T. V, PROTEST." .
Don't Want Oration Over Brewer's
Body Jn Congressional Record.
- Washington; November 14.-Speaker
- Clark today dropped into the bill hop.
- r per of the House a protest, from the
.National Women's .Christian Temper
r ance Uniorr "against placing in the
permanent Copgressional Record - the
- funeral oration pronounced over the
- :- remains of the late Adolphus Busch,
a brewer of St. Loufs." The protest
- set. forth that a resolution to that ef
fect 1 was passed at a convention of
the organization at Asbury Park,- N. J.,
representing 300,000 women. -' , : :
The S'ls'jjioious man - always finds
what le ij l .vKi-T- f,...
OYSTERMEN ARE
o II OH lfiD
Eleven TV Maryland
i Glveni ' .: A .
; Dredgers I ; Are
Prelim- -i
', ;-'inary Hearing
BALTIMOREANS OWN GROUNDS
Offenders Claim -That The Plant
ed Beds Were Not
', ' : Marked.
; Princess Anne, Md.,- Nov. 14. The
It oystermen arrested yesterday by
Capt, T. B. C. Howard; of the State
steamer Governor Thomas, and sheriff
Tuli, of Somerset county, charged with
dredging on the planted ground of
George A.' Cox .& Co.; were given a
preliminary ; hearing before Justice
Charles Portei this afternoon and re
leased on 1 100 bail each for the .action
of the grand jury.
' The Cox ground is 1,700 acres in area,
divided in 100-are lots, held by several
Baltimoreans and ' Mr. Cox, is- gen
eral manager The lots on which the
oystermen were accused of working
were leased to John T. Harwood, John
E. Semmes, Jr., and W. C. Coleman,
of Baltimore, and the trial of the al
leged violators -was not held until one
of : the' Baltimoreans could come to
prosecute' the case.
''The justice explained that it was not
in his jurisdiction to try the casesj
but merely to hold a preliminary hear
ing to determine whether the men
should be held for the action of the
grand jury or the charges dismissed.
James E, and Henry L. Ellegood, of
Salisbury; Henry J. Waters and Robert
F. Duer, of Princess Anne, represented
the' oystermen ' and State's, Attorney
Tull conducted the prosecution.
The oystermen and their sympathi
zers packed the little courtroom and
filled the street upon which it is loca
ted. Mr.- Cox's testimony related . to the
leasing of grounds by Mr.. Harwood
and . his associates and the surveying
and. buoying off the grounds. He was
followed -by his" 'i wo watchmen, Isaac
H. Parks and John Helgison, who were
on the oyster grounds in a watchboat
whetfTthe depradations . occurred.
Xaptain Parks stated that he told
several of the men' under arrest that
they were working on private bottoms
arid ;", that - they would be prosecuted
He said they continued dredging after
the warning! He knew all of them, he
said, - having- lived among, them" for
nine years. -
Ihe delense then put several wit
nesses on the stands who swore that the
grounds-were not. properly staked off
and that no "names appeared on the
buoys -which 'mark Mr. .-Harwood's
lot as provided by s the Maryland
planting law. They said a large area
of . natural rock had been inclosed
with buoys, but that- there were no
division buoys marking - the ground
into'separate lots, and that there was
no r marK i oi - tdentincation on any
of the buoys to show who had the ground
unaer iease t . , -
According' to Mr. Cox, he and his
associates have invested more than
$10,000 in the oyster planting business,
and it is their purpose to fight the en
croaebment, of the oystermen by every
legal means. -,,"'.-
P. INSPECTOR
fJOT HERE YET
CHARGES 'AGAINST NEW BERN
, ' POSTMASTER ARE ' -
- HANGING FIRE.
SS&A 'MfStfp il.-v J i Xt & '
So far there have been, no, further
developments in the matter of ousting
Postmaster J.. S. Basnight from the
local postofficei and it begins to look
as . if there will be nothing doing along
this line. " , ' ' t
It was understood that an inspector
would be; in . New Bern this week -to
investigate : the . charges:, which had
been preferred against . Mr. Basnight,
but this gentleman has not put in his
appearance up to the present time.
Congressman Jno. M. ,Faison, who
is taking an active interest in the mat
ter, has stated that several days will
probably elapse before this inspector
can be secured. This is a matter of
much interest here-- and. 'New Bern
cil izens are awaiting the outcome .with
much anticipation. - . .
THOUSANDS WA K OUT
IN, RAILROAD STRIKE
tiSntkCondntiiTmen and Trainmen On
--. Sunset Route QuitNew Orleans to El Paso
All Trains
- ..'::,:?: -.--L
Houston, Texas
ov. O'lV
unions acting in . concert inaugurate !
a strike on the Atlantic system of the
Southern Pacific liailrady known." as
the Sunset Lines, at 7 o'clock tojiight.
Approximately 2,500 men, engineers,
conductors, firemen and trainmen'
from El Paso to New Orleans are af
fected. - Reports from division points indi
cated a general compliance with the
strike order. -The
walk-out culminated negotia
tions.of more than six months which;
failed to bring about an amicable ad-'
justment of differences. An eleventh
hour appeal to the Federal Board of
Mediation and Conciliation was made
by. the railroad. As a result of the
strike the Southwest tonight faced a
possibility' of one of the most serious
traffic stoppages in years. Railroad
officials were silent as to what efforts
were being made to relieve the situa
tion, but reports from other sources
indicated preparations . were being
made for the coming of strikebreak
ers. 1
AH trains due to leave terminal
points after 7 o'clock tonight were an
nulled before that time, it was stated
by union officials, will complete their
runs after which their crews will join
the other strikers.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, Order of Railway Conductors
and Order of Railway Trainmen are
involved in the strike.
THE DAFFY- ;
OIL GIRLS
Close their week's engagement at the
Athens tonight. Judging from rthe
hearty applause they have received
night after night, and the increased
attendance all through the week, our
patrons must- have been well pleased.
Come and hear them for the last time
tonight.
PICTURES.
"The Child of the Sea."
The danger attending those who go
down to the sea in ships, make the ro
mances of the ocean unending its
tragedies tense and terrible in the
telling, or merely oblivion lost in
the depths beyond . the plummet's
sound. This stirring story of a stormy,
rock-bound coast, of the child from the
wreck, cast up by the sea, has a depth
of sentiment and a red blooded romance
to make its interest strong and con
tinuous. - The girl in a lighthouse who has
witnessed a villian attack her lover,
and leaving him for dead, unhesitant
between love and duty, has climbed
the long stairs of the lighthouse, and
lighted the tamp as the storm blows up
with' a roar - over , the foaming sea
She hears the assassin coming; she
sees his head coming through the trap
door of the floor. She throws the door
and traps him. . - -:
"Pickwick Papres."
John Bunny , as Mr.'. Pickwick.
The adventures of the shooting party
wherein, he encounters many surprises
and .lands - among the stray animals,
wherefrom he is rescued by Sam
Weller. " - - .x , .
The scenes : of this ' photoplay were
all laid in England on the very spot
mentioned in Charles Dickens' memor
able works
' "The Baby Elephant."
A very. amusing comedy.
All next week Johnson and Man-
zte s . big . 'musical comedy company.
Twelve people, special musical director
new songs,, new dances;'- Hear. Bill
Leight, ' the ' world's ; greatest i tripple
piano player, Jim - Barton . and Lruy
Johnson ' as comedians ; will keep - you
constantly laughing. -.'' , -
M atinee daily at 3 :45. : . T wo. .shows
at night; first . starts- at 1 :30,...second
about 9 o'clock.,- '
No advance in Prices. '' .-
Christ Episcopal Church, Sunday,
Nov- 16thi 1913.--Holy :. Communion;
7:45 a.; m. Morning Prayer -and Ser
mon, ' 1 1 a. m. - Evening Prayer and
Sermon,- 7:30 : p.rim. Sunday . School,
3 30 p. m. . r"
Moreover, the freckled ; Criminal
bound to be spotted.
Annulled
The men claim they were unable to
-eiu.re a satisfactory settlement of a
list of 67 grievances and that General
Manager G. S. Ward, of the Sunset
Central, declined to meet a committee
of the unions to discuss the grievances.
Trains Annulled.
New Orleans, November 14. Two
passenger and three freight tarins of
the Southern Pacific scheduled to
start from New Orleans tonight were
annulled because of the strike of train
men and enginemen. An effort will be
made to run a passenger train leaving
here at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning,
No strikebreakers were in evidence
at a late hour tonight.
General Manager W. G. VanVleck
announced tonight that the Sunset
Central lines now has available enough
men to fill the places of the strikers.
Mr. VanVleck said he expected service
to be restored as rapidly as arrange
ments could be made to put new men
to work.
Reports from various divisions over
the system show that the walk-out was
without disorder.
The Godchaux Planting Company,
the largest producer of sugar in Lou
isiana late tonight telegraphed Presi
dent Wilson asking that he use his
good offices to have the strike set
tled. Jt is pointed. out in the telegram
that the cane grinding season now is
at its heighth and that without rail
road facilities it will be impossible to
get the cane to the mills.
THE BIG SALE
TO
COPLON AND SON'S STORE
WILL BE THE MECCA OF
SHOPPERS.
S. Coplon & Son's big department
store on Middle street will today
be the mecca of all shoppers. The buyers
for this biar firm have purchased an
elaborate stock of ready to wear gar
ments and it was the firm's intention
to hold them over for the Christmas
trade, but after considering the matter
they decided to put the garments on
sale a little earlier and today this big
sale will begin.
This will be the chance of a lifetime
for the citizens of New Bern. Prices
have been cut and slashed until the
goods are offered at rock-bottom prices.
On page eight of this issue of the
Journal, S. Coplon & Son tell all about
this sale. Turn to that page right now
and see what they are offering.
CARTERET GOUNTY
BOY IS KILLED
JAMES DAY OF CEDAR ISLAND
. MEETS DEATH AT
PHILADELPHIA.
. James Day, of Cedar Island, who since
May gad been at work on the lumber
barge, William B. Blades as mate, fell
into the water Tuesday from the bulk
head. at Fairmount wharf, Philadelphia,
and was drowned, Tuesday morning.
Day was walking along the edgepfthe
bulkhead and tripped. As he fell his
head . struck a projecting iron spike.
He - never rose to the surface. After
grappling for over an hour his body
was receoved by a police boat.
The body was brought to Beaufort
yesterday morning and was .taken to
Ledar Island in the afternoon to be
interred, in the family burying ground.
f Deceased, who was 20 years of age,
was. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Day
well: known residents of Cedar Island,
aritfwas;one of the neighborhood's
best liked boys. - He is survived by a
mother, and father, two- sisters MrsV
Luther Lupton-and Miss Emma Day
and six brothers Herbert, Kenneth,
John, "Earl, Charlie and Prescott - Day,
all of Cedar Islands Beaufort News.
Miss Nina Basnight who has been
spending- the past three months at
Connelly's Springs and ' Ridgecrest,
returned home ' lat night-". on the
BEGIN
TODAY
midnight train. , s. , '
FIFTEEN KILLED
IN THIS WRECK
Broken Rail Causes Heavy Loss
Of Life, Near Eufaula,
Alabama.
HUNDRED OR MORE INJURED
Train Was Loaded With Excursion
ists Enroute To The
State Fair.
Eufaula, Ala., Nov. 16. Fifteen per
sons were killed and more than 100 in
jured, some of them fatally, early yes
terday when three coaches of a Central
of Georgia passenger train left the rails
at a point 17 miles south of here and
plunged down a deep embankmnt.
The train which consited of five cars
crowded with excursionists, was en
route from Ozark, Ala., to Eufaula,
where a fair is being held.
A broken rail is said to have been the
cause of the accident. As the crowded
excusrion train rounded a curve the
three cars at the rear, literally packed
with passengers, suddenly left the track
and breaking away from the others
dashed down the steep embankment,
The wrecked coaches were practically
demolished.
Occupants of the two coaches which
remained on the rails immediately bent
their efforts to rescuing the hundreds
caught in the tangled wreckage. Word
of the disaster quickly reached Clay
ton, Ala., three miles away, and a relief
train bearing surgeons and nurses was
quickly dispatched from Ozark and
Eufaula, where most of the dead and
injured later were taken.
Many of the victims were cared for
at Clayton, where the citizens turned
their residences into emergency hospi
tals. Every physician within a radius
of many miles hurried to the scene of
the wreck.
Because of the isolation of the oaVV
Because of the isolation of the place
where the wreck occurred identification
of the dead and wounded was slow. Not
until night were the names of a nia
jority of those killed known with cer
tainty.
Many of the injured were brought
here from Clayton, those suffer
ing most being rushed to local hospi
tals by a special train. A majority of
the injured susttained painful scratches
and bruises from splintered woodwork
and cuts from flying glass. There were
many, however, who suffered broken
bones and similar hurts of a dangerou
nature.
Railroad officials tonight issued a
statement here in which they ascribed
yhe wreck to a broken rail.
IS
KILLED BY COW
MRS. J. D. FLETCHER, OF DUR
HAM, MEETS HORRIBLE
DEATH
Durham, Nov 14. Mrs. J. D. Flet
cher, sixty years of age, and wife of the
farm demonstrator of Durham county
was gored to death by a cow late this
afternoon. She was found by her son
and nephew, Messrs. W. W. Fletcher
and R. T. Rogers. Mrs. Fletcher lived
with her husband in Oak Grove town
ship about six miles east of the city.
While no one saw the terrible accident,
the supposition is that Mrs. Fletcher
went to the barn to do the evening
milking. She was gored through the
head and her clothes nearly torn from
her body. Her bonnet was found
on the inside of the cow stall while
the body of the lady was found lying
in the door of the stable. Her son
and nephew, who were returning to
their home stopped by to get come art
icles and were unable to find Mrs.
Fletcher. They walked about the prem
ises and finally visited the barn to find
their mother and aunt in the agonies of
death. She was lifted by them and car
ried to the house where she died a few
minutes later. Mr. Fletcher was not
at home but had gone to Lowes Grove
school for the exercises to be held there
tomorrow, when the farm life school is
to be formally opened. She is the moth
er of several children.
Success seldom comes to a man who
is'too lazy to go after it. -'j.
The more a man s thirst is irrigated
AGED
WOMAN
the faster it grows, " , if.' i
'S TOLL
Wm HEAVY
Eleven vessels and More Than
Hundred Lives Lost On
The Great Lakes.
LARGE STEAMER SINKS
Cleveland's Fears For Safety
Are Allayed And Pain
Ceases.
Port Huron, Nov. 14. Eleven ves
sels and 173 lives were lost in the storm
that enveloped the Great Lakes from
Sunday until Tuesday, according to
the compilation today of reports re
ceived from various ports on the lakes.
In addition two other vessels were
partially or wholly destroyed.
Their crews escaped.
The latest disaster reported was
that the steamer John A. McGean of
the Hutchinson Steamship Company
of Cleveland had sunk. The report
came in this forenoon.
Including the McGean, six ships may
be on the botton of Lake Huron and
a hundred or more sailors are almost
certain to have been drowned. Up to
this forenoon 27 bodies and wreckage
of all descriptions had been tossed up
on the Canadian shore from Point Ed
ward, opposite here, north to Goderich
Life belts, life boats and water-socaked
cargo bore evidence to indicate that the
steamers Regina, Chas. S. Price, Wex.
ford and James Carru titers are prob
ably at the bottom of the lake. The
bodies of two men who sailed on the
McGean are said to have beenpicked
up today below Sarnia in the St. Clair
river.
TK.v i: . r . . ....
i ne nsi oi recovered dead iollows:
Three from the steamer Regina, one
unknown; seven from steamer Price;
two from steamer McGean; seven from
steamer Wexford.
This is a total of 29.
All of these bodies are now distrib
uted in shore towns on the Canadian
shore.
Alarm was expressed on all sides to-
j ...i. i ...
u.iy wnen it Decanie generally know
that at least four oiher vessels on Lake
Huron have not reported for several
days. They are:
Northern King of the Mutual Trans
portation Company of Buffalo; I. M.
Scott, of H. M. llanna A- Co., of Cleve
land, and the Argus and Hydrus, of the
Pickands and Mather Company, also
of Cleveland.
The Argus was yesterday reported
lost but her fate has not vet become
definitely learned.
A report reached here today thtW
A report reached here today thai
twenty bodies from the McGean had
been washed ashore at Goderich.
Calumet, Mich., Nov. 14 The tug
Hebard left today in search of the
tug Lafayette of the Great Lakes Tow
ing Company of Cleveland, which is re
ported to have gone down durimr the
recent storm with a crew of twelve
men in the viciintv of the Huron Isl
ands in Lake Superior.
Cleveland, O., Nov. 14. Rain which
fell last night ceased fro a lime at
least this morning and a thaw is pro
grdssing that is materially- aiding the
city in resumine; its normal condition
after the storm.
The cessation of the rain has allaved
fears of flood conditions. While there
is a marked rise in the Cuyahoga river
it is not believed that the danger mark
will be approached.
TABERNACLE BAPTIST SERVICES
TOMORROW.
Rev. J. B. Phillips will preach at both
the morning and evening services at
t he Tabernacle tomorrow.
The morning sermon will be specially
for Christians and those who love the
study of God's word are requested to
come and bring their Bibles.
The ordinance of baptism will be at
7:30 p. m, and "im mediately afterward
Mr. Phillips will preach an evangelistic
sermon. There will be a live song ser
vice preceding each sermon. The
public are cordially invited.
MRS. L. Ti PHIPPS DIES AT
GREENSBORO.
Mrs. L. T. Phipps, of Greensboro,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Pigford of No. 16 Queen street, died
yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
The remains will arrive here this after
noon. Notice of the funeral will be made
later. .... " ' ,
... I ne, average man needs all the pa,
tience he has and then some.. : .-. -
STORM