Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 13, 1911, Page 2

B PAGE ElC" ~A6B TWO. - X-2-2-3-F-F-R-R-F-X-X-K-F-3-8-F-] o =] : CHURCH CALENDAR. : [-R-X-X-X-R-X-X-X-X-X-R-X-3-X-F-3] Presbyterian Church. Rev. U. P. Chalmers, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Morning sermon 11:00 a. m, Evening sermon at 7:30 p. m. Y. P. 8. C. E. meets in co-opera- tion with other societies at the Cum- berland Presbyterian. Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7:30. Ges. W. Weimer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Communion 10:46 a, m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Y. P. 8. C. E. co-operates with other societies at Cumberland Pres- byferian church. Evening sermon, 7:30 a. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Ceorner Florida avenue and Bay St. The Rev. Willlam Dudley Nowlin, : D. D., pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. H. C. Stevens, superintendent. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m, Weekly prayermeeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. Woman's Missionary and Aid So- clety Monday 3:30 p. m. Baptist Young People's at 6:30 p. m. Regular monthly business meeting first Wednesday at 7:30 p. m., East Lakeland Mission, Milton, superintendent. Prayer- meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. Meeting Episcopal Church. Rev. J. H. \Veddell, rector. Each Sunday excepting only the third Sunday of each month, Sunday school every Sunday at 10 & m, ’ Service 11:00 a. m. Evening Prayer 5:00 p. m. M. I, Church, South. W. K. Piner, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Morning scrmon 11:00 a, m. Epworth icogne 6:00 p. m. Eveninz service, 7:00 p. m. Prayermecting Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Lutheran Church. Rev. H. J. Mathbias, Pastor. Sunday school 10:00 a. m. Preaching service 11:00 a. m. Evening service will be resumed at ar carly date. Catholic Church, Rev. A. B, Fox, Pastor. Services are held on second and fourth Sundays at 9:00 a. m. Cumberland Presbyterian. Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hour Y. P.S. C. E. at 6:30 p. m. S. L. A. CLONTS DEALER IN Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts' Building. MILLINERY 3 § @ POPPhdd R ez o ol % Ladies' Tailored Suits and § MISS MINONA HERRON :z: Herron Block. - v L3 Tar «Real Estate Agent... City and Country Property; Im- proved and Unimproved Orange Groves a Specialty: WE HAVE SOME OF THE FINEST TRUCK LAND IN FLORIDA Room 1, Raymondo Building. Phone 309. i o TR AN ECHO OF A ROMANCE; The “Waving Girl”’ or ‘‘River Queen” of the Port of Savannah, 090203000 0F0POFOIIOINIUP O FQIOPOECE QBT O‘S-Q’. % Many citizens of Lakeland, as well as of other parts of Florida, know of the “River Queen,” who lives on a lonely spot on the Savannah River, a short distance from where that stream enters into the ocean, and who waves or signals every passing steamer. They will, therefore, be interested in the following taken from a late issue of the Savannah Morning News. Presenting Miss Florrie Martus, the “Waving Girl” of Elba Island light station, and her brother, Geo. W. Martus, the light keeper, with a handsome loving cup for rescuing sixteen of its members who were cast adrift in the Savannah river on the night of October 15 when the engine of their gasoline launch went dead, the Fun and Frolic Club of Savannah entertained Mr. and Miss Martus at the home of J. A. Stegin, No. 406 East Liberty street, last night. The rescuc was made when the party was returning to Savannah from a day spent down the river. There were sixteen in the party, eight girls and eight boys. They had gone to Tybee by train in the morning and from there to Fort Screven, where they secured a gov- ernment naptha launch. From Fort Screven they went to Fort Puaski, and on theway home stopped at Elba Island at about 5 o'clock for lunch. The engine had given them trouble between Fort Pulaski and Elba Is- land, but had been repaired. Entertained by “Waving Girl." The party were entertained at Elba Island by the *Waving Girl” and her brother and started back to Savannah about dusk. They had proceeded about three miles up the river when the engine again went dead, and the boat drifted down- stream about half a mile before it could again be placed in operation. The party had not proceeded more than another half mile before the|& engine went out of commission en- tirely. - Stranded in the middle of the river they could do nothing to help themselves. Several of the girls be- came hysterical and the men devoted all their energies toward repairing the engine. Finding their task hopeless they were forced to remain idle in midstream. Late at night the steamer Clivedon passed down the river, and tieing some rags soaked in gasoline around a board and ignitingthem the party managed to draw the attention of the pilot of the Clivedon, who promised to send them help. Launch Catches Fire. The flamesdropping from the im- provised signal set the awning and part of the woodwork of the launch on fire, however, and the party was confronted by a new dilemma. The men by dashing water on the fire managed to extinguish the flames, however. When the Clivedon passed abreast of Elba Island by signalling it man- aged to wake the “Waving Girl"” and her brother and to advise them of the plight of the excursionists. Im- mediately placing their launch into commission the “Waving Girl” and Mr. Martus went rapidly upstream and picking up the ill-fated pleasure- seekers in the darkness towed them to Savannah, arriving in this city in the wee sma’ hours, with a number of anxious parents staying up at their various homes. In recognition of the service ren- dered by the “Waving Girl” and her brother. the Fun and Frolic Club, by popular subscriptions, purchased a handsomely engraved loving cup set- ting forth the circumstances of the rescue, which was presented to their deliverers at an informal party last night. The cup, a handsome trophy is engraved as follows: How Cup is Engraved. “From the Fun and Frolic Club of Savannah to Mr. George and Miss Florrie Martus in loving apprecia- tion for their heroic services render- ed, October 15, 1911. Savannah, Ga.” The names of the sixteen ex- cursionists as engraved on the cup are: Misses Nellie Heffernan, May Glass, Annie Steigin, Marie Steigin, Perth a Fosterling. Minnie Fosterling Mary Beytagh, and Genevieve Bey- tagh, and Julian Harvey, Edward DeFour, John Bergman, Peyton Vick- ery, Edward Bero and Willlam Da- vis. The cup was presented on be- half of the club by Edward Bero, with an appropriate address. The “Waving Girl” has figured in many heroic rescues on the Savannab river. For year she has been one of the characters of the port, and her cheery greetings to arriving and departing ships, which have earned for her the title of the ‘“Waving Girl,” are famous in every port where men go down to the sea in ships. About twenty years ago, when Miss Martus was a young girl, the tugboat Cynthia, No. 2, Capt. Chas. Hayns, came to this port from Phila- delpha to compete with the local tag- boat company. Whenever the Cyn- thia No. 2 would pass up and down the river, Miss Martus would walve to it, and Capt. Haynes would blow the whistle three times in reply. When the Baltimore and New York steamers entered this port she waved to them, also, and finally she made no exceptions but waved to every passing ship, the customary re- ply to three whistles being given, The “Waving Girl" has become an institution of the port of Savannal. ivery entering and departing ship is greeted by her or waved a cheery farewell, as the case may be, and the “Waving Girl” is known in every port of the world. *Many of the cap- tains entering the port have pre- sented handsome trophies to the “Waving Girl,"” and in her house on Elba Island is a collection of trop- hies from all parts of the world. The rescues in which she has figured have lent an air of romance to the “Waving Girl,” and she has become a tradition of the port. * » * '!:O*KO’Z*O'!O'2050?0%40‘.&'*&0CQ‘E"‘) § THE RIVER QUEEN. ¢ O B0000:0005050500504 0400 (On a trip to Baltimore a year or so ago the editor of The Evening Tele- gram was first made acquainted with the history of the “Waving Girl,” or “River Queen.” and her custom of signaling passing vessels. The fol- lowing articie, apropos of this mat- ter, appeared at that time as an edi- torial in the Lakeland News,) If you should chance to sail in one of the ships that go down to the sea from the port of Savannah, as your vessel slips down the river and nears the open ocean, the while the languorous night and Southern starlit sky are eloquent of romance, you will note the search- light play for a brief space upon a lonely cottage onthe marshy shore. It will illumine the figure of a woman before the cottage door, lan- tern in hand, waving to the pass- ing vessel; and three hoarse blasts from the steamer will give acknowl- ecdgment to the salute. Then the light will be withdrawn, and the cottage and its occupant will again be shrouded in darkmess and mys- tery——waiting for the passing of an- other ship—-waiting in vain for one who cometh not. It was long ago—thirty-five vears,, they say-——that he who is watched for sailed away-—"for men must work, and women must weep —and the harbor bar is moaning!™ PO The sea. the unrelenting sea— which takes full toll of those who g0 down into it in ships. or who brave its terrors in quest of its treasures—alone knows where he fwas rocked to everlasting rest; and the grim secret, with thousands of others, it guards well. The days passed and the ship did not return: the places that had known the {young sailor knew him no more. jand he passed from the memory of men. A simple story--a story as old as the ocean and man’'s cease- less comflict with the elemental forces. But in one woman's heart the fires of love have steadfastly burn- ed through all the weary years, and though her eves have grown dim with long watching and her heart sad with hope deferred, she has never lost faith in the lover who failed away from her =0 many years THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., NOV. 13, 1911 Tie Company That Can, Will and i enjoy life ] B ago. In the cottage on the moor- land where he left her, fair and young and trusting and sweet, she keeps her vigil yet, signaling every passing ship, in the vain hope that e may see, and thus know that a true heart is still waiting to give him welcome. They do not know her name—the boutmen and sailors; they call her “The River Queen,” and the steam- ors shrill a royal salute as she si:- .uls them, by waving a handker- iief or a flag in daylight and a lan- rern after dark—for her tireless vigil knows no hours. Every sailor ot these waters knows her pathetic| Listory; and tMe traveler who hears | it for the first time marvels to meet| in every-day, prosaic life that vhich he has regarded only as be- longing to the province of the novel. As if there is ever a day that we! do not rub clhows with tragedy or walk side by side with unseen ro- mance! Oh, River Queen! They may gay that much waiting and watch- ing have made you mad; but in a world where so much change is, and so muchof fickieness and falsehood, it is good to have the lesson of your fidelity, the example of your love, lasting as life and stronger than death. And sooh, loyal heart, may you yet greet your missing one —it on this earth no more, then in that fairer land, where all our ships come into port, where all our dreams come true! | LOST THEIR LITTLE GIRL. Arcadia, Nov. 12.—Mr. and Mrs, Barney Hollingsworth are mourning the loss of their sweet little daughter Anita, which occurred Thursday night at the Central Hotel in this city. Mrs. Hollingsworth had been on a visit with her mother in Polk county, and while there the little girl was taken sick. She came home on Thursday, and on arriving at the de- pot she found little Anita dangerous- | Iy ill. Geing at once to the Central Hotel, a physician was summoned, and everything possible was done to! velieve the little sufferer. but all in| vain. Just about dark the little spir-l it took its flight. The funeral services were held :nl the Methodist church Friday after- noon.conducted by the pastor. Rer. D. B. Sweat, and the body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Owens. Plant City.—Plenty of rain at present for fall gardens. Weather prophets are predicting a wet win- ter. Tampa.—A canning factory is to be established here by a firm from Peru, Ind. 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