Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 15, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX Health,” by John thlder, field secre- tary of the National Housing Asso- ciation, before the National Munici- pal Leaguc here today. Mr. 1hlder declared that American city officials are not i-«»:xlizinr, as rapidly as the men i coutrol of big manufacturing l'om'ui‘ns are, that better housing conditions mean higher efficiency and better health amongst workmen and citizens. wgome of our industrial leaders Lave begun to understand this,” said Mr. ihlder. “There are in the United States over 20 industrial villages or suburbs created by men or corporations who employ great The men re- numbers of workers. sponsible for them belicved that wholesome living conditions meant more efficient workmen. Unable to provide wholesome living in the cit- fes, they moved outside.” The value of a human life, he said, is being considered from an economic rather than a sentimental stand- point, with the result that slums and o unhealthy parts of the cities are be- ing done away with, “It is not due to pitiful tales of suffering and wrong that our cities are beginning to consider the |:os- sibility of wiping out the slum,’ said the speaker, “It is due to the growing realization that the slum means an economic loss, that its pres- ence indicates ignorance on the part of the citizens and ineficiency on the part of the government.” From an inquiry made amongst health and police officials of leading cities of the country, Mr. [lhlder drew the conclusion that in nearly a'l cities the full import of insanitary Lousing of the people is not known. In many places investigations are now being made to determine just what effect all the evils of crowding and slum living have on the people. “our miles from the workingman's district of Birmingham, Ala., is the model industrial town of Bourne- ville,” said Mr. Ihlder. “Out of every 1,000 children born in the ' first, 331 die; out of every 1000 born in Bourneville, only 68 die. Have we not passed the tinie when a few leaders shall monopolize the ben- efits of the knowledge that whole- some housing is a business asset?” FREEZING AT PENSACOLA MONDAY AND TUESDAY The coldest weather to be expe- rienced in Pensacola this early in No- vember since 1894 was that of Mon- day morning, when the official ther- mometer registered 30 degrees above zero. Only once in the history of the weather burean at Pensacola has this mark been reached before Nov. 13 and that was when the tempera- ture dropped to 29 degrees en Nov. 12, 1894, What made the cold be felt more than it would have been was its sud- denness in arriving. 1t was ushered in by a high wind early morning, accompanied by rain for®a short time. The wind then attained a velocity of 56 miles an hour for a pericd of about five minutes, then subsided to a gale of twenty to thir- 1y :ailes, which was maintained for several hours. In less thap one hour’s time after the storm the temperature had drop- ped 24 degrees, and during the day and night the thermometer continued goinz down until Monday morning it was below the freezing point. another freeze that night. Tie storm did not do any damage | eF overboard and vessels to amouut to anything. jury. “lllllafl ”VBS Are }:oouooonooooooooocooooo: - i ® e i M ° Commercial Assits y : 8 H 9 . ) Says hr. Inider ¢ Grandfather’s : M o : (By Associated Presso ‘: Story [ Richimond, Va., Nov. 1i- A life |9 i =| {5 coming o be regarded as a ""'“"‘= From the Kindness of His Heart : mercial asset. It must be mu.lu.lu : He Fell Into a Teap : yleld as much as possible on the in-ig ) [ vestment; and sad [hm!;h-'“n m'ix;\' E By EDNA L. TROOP E 2 soine S 10 @ . therein make some o us to admit i 1 l @ Copyright by American Press Asso- © lies our hope of making our citles H clation, 1911, : | what the boosting clubs are so fond gggge00000000000000000000 0 of calling them: “cities of l"'"i'"*' | My grandfatber, who was n seafar- f This was the f“”' ment made At gne man almost from the time he was l: -l the conclusion of an address O porn till he was sixty, told me this 3 “Private Housing and Pablic | gtory when | was a boy. There were certain incidents and pictures in his parrative that made a lasting impres- slon on my childish wind. | cannot give them as minutely as he who was the central figure of the story nor de- scribe the tropical scenery as he saw it, lighted by a full moon. | can only mention the salient points as | remem- ber them after an Interval of many years. “l was first mate,” be sald, *“of the resolved to make the best fight I conld and kill as many of my enemies as possible. T had a2board plenty of mus- | kets, cutlasses and a few hand gre- nades. I ran below, gathered balf a | dozen muskets, two plstols, two cut- lasses and a stock of hand grenades. ;The muskets and pistols I loaded. then | carried the outfit on deck, depositing 1t amidships on the side the boat was approaching. By the time I was ready for a fight the boat was within a ca- ble's length of me. “+Boat ahoy? I cried. ‘Keep off” “They stopped rowing, and & De gro’s voice called out: “‘Cap'n, can't yo' give us a little liquor? We bafn't had nothin’ to drink £0' a long spell.’ “ ¢You keepofforl'll give youhot shot! “I heard a discussion In a low tone in the boat, then every oar dipped in the water at once, und they made a spurt straight for the ship. 1 dropped the man at the tiller with a musket ball and fired another shot umong the oarsmen. The loss of thelr coxswain and the wounding of two men at the oars occasioned the check I hoped for. The two wounded men were both seat- ed on the port side of the boat, and when they were disabled the others pulled the boat around to the star- denth never seemed S0 near tome. U1 0 .0 the planter took to a thicker | Fearing trouble, they returned. but too j late to be of service. ] Lelieve | would have concealed | the facts of the narrow escape I bad had if I could have done so. But since the boat's crew had heard the reports of my firearms, and especially the deto- pation of the hand grenade, I was obliged to give them the story. There were some doubters as to the number of men | had beaten off. The tide bad carried away the leaders of the mne- groes, but the morning brought some of them back again to prove my state- ment. A party on shore got wind of § The Jackson & Wilson (o AT ALL TIMES the matter and came out to hear about the dispute between one man and a dozen negroes—us they gave the num- ber—only two of the attacking party escaping with their lives. This put a different complesion on the matter, and. the crew being convinced of the truth of my version of the story, | found my- self in the position of a hero. 1 was referred to after that as the man who had fought twelve, killed elght and pever got n scratch. Even that leaves out the two I might have killed. — IMPOUNDING NOTICE bark Ann Eliza. We were lying one | poard, ex ‘ night In the mouth of St. Johus river, | «z m,mnfh: md;l:l:mg a long Florida. The crew had gone ashore to | pole with an enormous hook on fhe a dance at one of the plantations, and | end was evidently the leader of the the captain had gove in the same | party, and he made an efficlent chief. boat with them to attend to some busi- | I heard him tell bis men In negro ness. | was left aboard in command | dialect that there was only one man of ten men. The captain had heard [ aboard the ship, that there was that there was a good deal of insubor- | enough loot there to buy the freedom dination among the negro slaves in |of every oue of them and that it that reglon and thaut bands of ne- | might be possible for them to take groes had cut loose from thelr masters | the ship and sall away with ber. and were going about looting what- | Then he ordered the places of the dis- ever of value they could tind. He |abled men filled, equalizing the crew charged me, therefore, to keep a sharp | on both sides, and under his direction lookout for boats approaching tbe ship | the boat wns hended for the ship. and not permit them to come too near. | “I felt that my life depended on pick- “] was sitting on the quarterdeck |ing off that man standing in the bow with a minimum of clothing on we, | with his grappling hook. | aimed for the weather was hot, smoking a |straight for his head, but at the mo- cigar. The full moon was about an | ment the boat lurched, and | missed hour high and lit up the palms on the [ bim. | fired ugnin and saw him stag- shores and the moss hauging on the | ger, but I could not bave wounded him forest trees, giving the scenery n pe | severely, for he maintained his post. cullarly weird effect. ‘There was mot | “My stock of loaded muskets was a cloud in the sky and no sound ex- |now half exhausted, and 1 did not cept the waves roiling in on the beach | from the first calculate on reloading. about a mile away. the monotonous | But | hadn't even time to use ene of rustling being occasionally broken by |those that were charged, for the boat's a song from a negro hut near the river | nose struck the ship's side, and while bank. “l was enjoylug the shimmer of the moonlight on the water when 1 discovered a black speck fn It The water was comparatively smooth, 80 that 1 could keep the speck al- ways fo view. It soon grew more distinct, and 1 could distinguisb what looked like a couple of paddies, one on each side, tlashing altervately in the moonlight. As the spot drew nearer I saw that these were not paddies, but the arms of some one swimming band over hand. the spot belng the swim- mer's head. “Pretty soon the swimmer, a mau, approached the ship. 1. leaned over the taffrail and asked him what he wanted. “‘Please, cap'n, be said, ‘let me come aboard and I'll tell you.’ “1 ordered a rope ladder lowered, and the man came up. He was wot much above the ‘poor white trash’ or- der. He said he owned a small plan- tation fronting oun the river bank just below us, with a few negroes. He had learned that they were that unight in- tending to wurder him and all bis family and take possession of his plan- tation. He had come to us for assist- ance. “According to the man's story-—-and he secmed very much affected—unless T sent a force to guard him and bis family 1 would permit their death. It one of the men below used an ordinary boat hook the lender endeavored to put his grappler over the guuwale, | fought it off with a cutlass till several of the men in the boat jumped into the water and xwam for the anchor chain. “Here was a division of the attack- ing force which | tad drended from the first. 1 did what | shonid bave done as soon as the bonat struck the sbhip. Neizing a hand grenade, | threw it downu on 10 the voat. It struck the water and did vot explode. ‘The man with the tong hook bad by this time got it tastened over the gunwale and was elimbing up by the pole hand over hand, earrving on one arin the end of a rope indder, He was an athietie ras- cal and brave as he was strong. ‘The distance be must climb was not over half o dozen feet, | waited til be bad come within a yard of the gunwale, then reached over and clove his skull with a cuttuss. (e dropped back into the boat in which there were but three others, and | =aw that his loss caused coufusion and faint heartedness among them. *l now had two =ets of men to deal with; but, their teader having been put out ot the fight, 1 fett more hope than at any time since the attack. With- out giving the men in the boat time to recover | seized another band grenade and, poising it with a deliberate aim, burled it down on those below. it State of Florida, Polk County, City of Lakeland. To UNKNOWN: Youn are hereby m_uiflod that your Sow, was on the 11th day of Nov, 1911, found running at large within the limits in which the running at large of such animals is prohibited, and was impounded, and you are hereby notified and required to claim said animal, pay charges as pre- scribed in Section 155 of the Revised Ordinances and take said animal out within twenty-four hours after the receipt of this notice, and upon you failing to so, said animal will be sold to cover such penalty and ccst as pro- vided. Marks: Crop in one ear and under bit in the other. Color, white and black spotted. This 11th day of Nov., A. D. 1911, W. H. TILLIS, Marshal. Spécial for Week Ending Nov. 18th 11-15. W SRR £ TR TR, SR FREIRIRRELINLS RN udor RE-ENFORCED HAMMOCKS THE KIND THAT LAST 1 sent only n part of my wen they | gk 1o pottom of the boat, esplod- might also be killed. If 1 =eat them % all it would leave the ship uuprotect- .::;::nr:‘:“ both boat and men to Sunday | 1t re- mained cool throughout the day with ed. A man begglug for the life of his wife and children is pretty hard to re- gist. 1 would be disobeying the cap- tain's orders and putting the ship in Jeopardy if 1 yielded to his solicita- tions and would permit murder it | refused him. “I never liked doing things by halves. Having decided to send a force to the imperiled family's assistance, 1 deter- mined to send every man | bad. This would give them the greatest strength |in face of danger and throw all the responsibility for the safety of the ship | upon we. If she were attacked during | their abseuce 1 would be killed. 1 didn’t wish any one kllled with me. 1 preferred to take all the risk or noue. “I ordered a boat lowered and every man on board In it. The planter got foto the stern with the coxswain In order to direct the course. I put the party under the command of an old salt named O'Nelll and told him that it he saw anything to cause bim to suspect treachery to tumble the plant- return at once. The men pulled out, and 1 watched them in the shimmer till they were lost un- standing the blow without any in-{gen'ena pank “They had scarcely disappeared when I saw a boat coming from the The DeSoto County Fair opened in|shore on which they were to land, but Arcadia Friday. A large number of | more nearly opposite the vessel spectators were present on that day. The exhibits are all said to be very & good and the farmers have received m‘:: .:' ;I-D. e many compliments on their efforts. koew in a moment that [ bad been tricked. The swimmer bad come In all all its F - qafaring life. with T T e “What | have told you as baving oc- curred after the meun started to swim for the bow occupled ouly a portion of & minute. As soon as one party was destroyed | turned my attention to the other. Three men were swim- ming forward, and before | had time to form a plan oune of them bad swuog himself up on to the chains under the bowsprit, another was within a few yards of the anchor chaln, while the third was still some distance away from anything to cling to. Seizing a cutlass, | ran forward. It was not my only weapon, for | bad two loaded pistols in my belt. Running under the gunwale on the deck that | might not be seen, | appeared on the bowsprit just as the foremost man was laying a hand on it. With my cutlass | dropped him into the water. “1 now realized for the first time that {1 was in no further danger. There were two men agaiust me, but they had uo other weapon than cold steel, while 1 had the advantage of position and a loaded pistol. 1 bad shed enough blood, so | called to the man climbing the anchor chain to let go or | would shoot him. 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