Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 22, 1912, Page 1

3 Published in the Belt Town in the Best Part of the Best State. eration of this highly important ‘| matter, so vital to the welfare of our 3 WILL COMMENCE AS 800N A5 PLANS CAN BE DRAWN. e, iy & rpat Lakeland 18 0 have & tel is now an assured act, the. i last night having grant” ncessions to the grq,#’- six- flory ho 'fll." Counc o certain €O who mow guarantee of erection will start b soon as the plans and lfiew ons can be prepared. panhellon, -*Q” the work i The new hotel is to oCcupy t§,° lots % Fon South Kentucky avenue, !omor- j, the property of o Eugmn and 1.D. Lovell, and will have a frontage ot 100 feet and a depth of 120feet. f ghere will be from eighty to ninety- five rooms in the building. Each Jedroom will be equipped with pri- [ ate bath. There will be a spaclous b obby, parlors and dining room on ihe first floor, all handsomily fin- jshed. Evety room in the house wil. i an outside room, the plans ¢ calling for the hotel to be built with & court 4 the center, thus insuring splen- id ventilation and comfort for she‘ The building will be of reinforced wncrete with buff brick veneer fin- sh. The estimated cost of the build- | ing, exclusive of the furnishings will be about $100,000. ¢ In erecting this fine building in Lakeland, the owners felt that some. concessions should be granted them by the City Council, and the-Board of Trade and citizens generally enter- tzined the same opinion, and last night the Council was petitioned to grant the company the same rate of taxztion on the property for the next ten years as it is now assessed, and also to provide water and lights,at tost of production. This the Couneil agreed to after hearing the petitions, the citizens' petition being signed by a large number of the heaviest tax- _Payers of the city. ey The architects, Mclver & MecKay, of Ocala, are now prmyln§ the | Diaus, and it is hoped by the owners © be able to open the house soon after Jan, 1, i o Board of Trade's Petition, The following petition from ‘the Board of Trade was presented the Council relative to the hotelipros | sition: : “Whereas, in the opinion of Board of Trade of the cur'u 1 lend, there is great and W o2 new and mcdern hotel to take 1 of the largo tourist trade which | ¢ ¢ity has hitherto been wnable to' broperly care for, e 'FLA?d. Whereas, there is at the pres-| . time a proposition on foot. u{g lo tho immediate erection of a P five or Six-story modern hotel ; by ,p.:mf‘,‘ Who have already purchased ke site for the buflding, A Aud, whereas, the principal par ‘;; Trade to assist in obtaining ghe » * Dossible concession for them in :1::: A0d reduced cost of light and er for a certain , T ( Resolveq oo neq) ] m:i%yn x]w;ilcome the idea of the new ., 4nd desire to extend whatever U they may and can 18 ‘helping to secure \. b, and D.'B: Fiblerss ¢ matter of exemption from taxa- | city. . SAMUEL F. SMITH, D. Q. ROGERS, A. J. HOLWORTHY. * Committee. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 22.—0One _|of the most extraordinary wedding gifts ever presented to a bride is a three hundred pound wedding cake | given to Miss Mamie Morganstein by her father, Bennett Morganstein. It | is' said to be the largest cake eyer baked in this city. Among the in- gredients are oune hundred pounds of isins, ome hundred pounds of cur- nt irty dozen eggs, seventy-five nds of sugar and twenty pounds of butter. It.stands six feet high. Mr, Morganstein and his two sons spent two wéeks making the big con- f ‘They say it will last with- out crumbling or melting for twen- Ofiite Sanguine Over Prospects of Campaign’s Progress and Its Organization. 3 (By Associated Press.) ‘Seagirt,” Aug, 22.—Gov. Wilson strolled across the lawn of the sum- ‘mer capital this morning and for the first time visited Secretary Tumullis’ office. He had been so engossed in work since his nomination that he had not found time to visit this busy office a few yards away where a large |corps of clerks and stenographers handle some of the candidates’ mail. The Governor played ‘“‘catch” with his cousin, refusing to use gloves. He has shown a noticeable improvement in health and spirits, partly explained, he said, by the sat- isfaction he feels in the beginning of the active work of the campaign committee, and the organization of the campaign details. PLEASED WITH ROAD COMPLE- i TION . Arcadia, Fla., Aug. 22.—The com- pletion of the Haines City branch of the Aflantic Coast Line to the New- town of Sebring, caused & great deal of rejoicing on the part of the peo- 'Becker's strong arm squad. ple in that place. The entrance of & railroad into that territory marks the beginning of a prosperous era. . The grove of O. L. Whidden has somé immense grapefruit trees which were planted nearly 40 years They measuro 16 to 24 inches ‘diameter and 6 to 7 feet in cir- cumfererice. The trees bear 25 to 40 s of fruit annually.. They passed the freeze of 1894 and 1895 without material damage. i —e . D. N. Bareo has bought the 8. J. .| Carlton packing house in Arcadia, and will conduct the fruit business at that stand the coming scason. 1 interested have agked’ the Board | - (By Assoclated Press.) - That this Board of trade| - Moundsville, Va., Aug. 22.—Ed- ward Crim, a college student, secret- ly réturned home yestesday to sur- prise his mother and tiptoeing up to the '@ location for this eity, and|the window where he saw a dim i 3 Wived, That this Board of Trade 0 Urge thi ot ¢ this matter for the quick ac-[in her cofin. Crim fainted at the , § 00 ang O-Operation of ‘the City light, he viewed his mother’s corpse. shock and is in a serious condition. isking that honorable body | he owners of the m WHAT WILL ALICE ‘on DO ABOUT THIS, it mption fom | all for ‘,]'1 Present valuation of the site I make ’,r‘:ld of ten years; and also to < Such ownerg a M&l’«m\"n ‘| Gincinnati, Aug. 22.—It became known today that s Progressive par- candidate for congress will be put eity.|in the field in the district now rep- bers of thig Board, L I three businegs men - "0t members of' the! B Wointeq ¢, : ol Dresent thig € the Oty Coung v mmndlyn it ext, A ' Urge most Beir - trop Luously the “ e resented by Nicholas Longworth. It is also understood that this move made by dircct order of Theo- Ly, ) Roosevelt, father4n-law of the : matter be- | presont congressman. Great interest 'l at their meet-|4s being takén today in the prospee- ,and { tive split in tio political relations of respectfully. and | the family of the leader of the new Hoa Ry 3 3 'LAKELAND, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1912. TUESDY IS DAY SET FOR BECKER'S TRIAL INDICTMENTS CHARGING PER- JURY RETURNED AGAINST WHITE AND STEINHERT. \ _"(By Associated Press.) New York, Aug. 22.—Becker amd four of his under-world accomplices were arraigned before Judge Mul- queen . in court today to plead to im- dictments charging them with the Rosentha] murder. Becker’'s coun- sel said he was not ready to entgr plea, and the court set Tuesday nekt tor the pleading. Four othefs plead- ed not- guilty. with permission o withdraw or change plea by Tuesday next. . A gealed indictment charging per- jury was returned by the grand jury today against Charles Steinert and James White, former members of They are charged with framing the gun carrying the case against the gang leader, Jack Zelig. A Dbill passed Congress increasing the pensions of all survivors of the Seminole Indian war in Florida to $30 per month, SLATONNS GEORGINS NEAT GOVERNOR Bacon Re-elected to the Senate, All State House Officers § Back, (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, Aug. 22.—John' M. Sla- ton, president of the Senate, is to be the next governor of Georgia, hav- ing defeated Joe Hill, Hall Macon and Hooper Alexander, in the State- wide primary yesterday. Joseph F. Gray, of Savannah, George Hillier, of Atlanta, and Paul Trammel were elected railway commisioners. The race between J. D, Price, A. 0. Bla- lock gnd J. J. Brown for compmission- er of agriculture require all the re- turns to decide. The seven State house officers were re-elected. Sen- ator A. C. Bacoh was re-elected to the United States Senate for the fourth time. CAKE SOAP MISSING FROM HOTELS ' London, August 22.—There is a sérious abgence of cake-soap from the hotels on the tourist belt of West | Scotland, and nearly all of the soap (supply is in lquid or powder form. It might be thought that this was due to a bellef of Scotland in the mechanical appliances by which a skoot or spray of soap s delivered to the washer, but a correspondent who has just returned from the \West Coast tells us' that, alas! this is not 80. . He made inquiries of more than one big hotel and was assurcd at {each that the spray and the trickle were safeguards against the Yan- kees. No American tourist, he was told, can see a cake of hotel soap without puttnig it in his pocket, pro- vided he is unobserved. 1t i8 & grave charge, and it would be interesting to have the case for WQ Qf%&. “They are splendid peo= fl*w‘ Wwith,” said one of the ho= tel keépers, “but unchained, portable ‘soap is their undoing.” . The matter of soap is one of the intern: opal - quarrels of manners. The whitest American is as dishonest about & cake of soap as the blackest of his compatriots is about chickens. He will steal anybody’s cake of s0ap. And Just aétoss the channel you find countries where you carry your OWh goap, nd would as soon think of a public eake of soap as of a public tooth brush.—Cineinnati Inquirer. m fontract for the ercctiol the néw 8. A. L. depot at Bartow has alpeady beon awarded and wor will commence at an early dato of | STONTION 15 CATICAL I NG TWO AMERICANS KILLED AND MANY NATIVES HAVE BEEN ANNIHILATED, (By Associatéd Press.) Washington, Aug. 22-—Two Amer- icans, Harvey Dodd, of Mississippi, | and one named Phillips, are reported to have been deliberately murdered | in a massacre of the loyal Nicara- guan troops by rebels at Leon, on Aug. 19. S The two had been wounded and were seeking refuge at a hospital. According to State ‘department: dis- patches received today,tho. massa- cre of the Nicaraguans who were de- fending Leon- is confirméd by a be- lated cable received from the Amer- ican legation at Mangua, The fight- ing is more disastrous for the gov- ernment forces than first reported. FLORIDA GIRL HAVING HARD TIME WITH CUPID. Boston,, Mass., Aug. 21.—Twice in two days the wedding of Leo F. Mc- Cready, of Halifax, and Miss Kathe- rine Marks, of Miami, Fla., has been postponed. Monday the ceremony could not be held, because the groom did not ap- pear. Last night it was the bride who was missing. McCready is an officer on 3 steam- ship which plies between Boston and Halifax. He had arranged to be married in New York on last Mon- day, but the ship was late reaching Boston, and the groom could not get to New York in time for the cere- mony. : It was then arranged by wire for Miss Marks to come to Boston, and the couple be married last week. She missed the train, and McCrea- dy, still single, sailed with the ship, after leaving word that he would try to be on hand next Monday, when his steamer again returns to this ot s BG WIS D " HOBBLES WUST 60 Rebels have refused quarter andhave|Associated Press Takes a Foolish annihilated 500 with the excepbion of three or four who donned rebel @ uniforms. The situation is reported as critical. Americam troops are holding Mangua against the looters, but danger threatens Corinto. PENROSE ASKED SENATE 10 INVESTIGATE SPEEGH Clapp Committee Will No Doubt Delve.Into Roosevelt's (By Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 22.—Senator Penrose asked the Senate to direct the Clapp ommittee, which is inves- tigating the 1904 and 1908 cam- paign contributions, ta investigate the charge in the sensational speech of yesterday which connected Pén- rcse with the Archbold ‘correspond- ence. RESULT OF YEAR'S WORK BY ENERGETIC NAN. As a proof of what can be done by perseverance, energy and intelli- gence, Mr, Chas. H. Jacoby brought into this office today a collection of gome of the products. grown on his twenty-acre farm one mile west of Haskell in this county. +We were ghown corn grown on His place, one ear, being twelve int;-hes long and having twenty-four rows of kernels. He also had some of the stalks show- ing three ears on a stalk. He had a specimen of buckwheat which he says is doing splendidly ,also some fine specimens of white and ed kaf- fir corn, which has made a fine yield for the first year. Mr. Jacoby says he has not used a pound of fertilizer in growing his various crops and he certainly has a splendid showing, censidering shat he only started to clear the land last September, prior to which time it was a perfect jun- gle, being Righ hammock land. He brought in some fine honey from his bee colonies, of which he has a num- ber and it is excellent in flavor. We were shown a number of pictures showing the development at differ- out stages and from which it can be secn that Mrs. Jacoby 1s a thorough helpmeet. Great credit is due to this man who came form northern Michi- gan litlte more than a year ago and as the result of his own efforts al- ready has sufficient enthusiasm, over the result of his labors that he would put to shame scores of chronic kick- ers and wnockers who, seeming .to expeet gold dollar sto grow on trees | or sprout from the ground, talk non- gense instead of roing to work and doing things. We would adyice any man who Is discouraged with the results of his farm ‘abors in this vicinity to make a call on Mr. Jacoby and sce what he is doing, ‘chards in that section, Minute Off to Discuss _ " Fashions, (By Associated Press.) Chicago, Aug. 22.—Along with the banishment. of the tub amd hobble skirts, fashion has decreed that big hats must go. Headwear for the fair sex will be very much smaller this fall and winter, the size positively prohibiting the use of false hair, hay, alfalfa, rag carpet, cotton waste or any other auxiliary. Turbans wily be the most interesting, fltuxfg close- ly down over the ears, the head being compressed into apparently the smallest possible space. PEACH PACKERS RETURN Kissimmee, Fla., Aug. 22,—The 90 peach packers who left here July S for Horatio, Ark., to work in the or- are back again. The train was labeled with bannerg and the boys who made up the party were well stocked with ad- vertising matter, which was distrib- uted along the way. The peach érop of Arkansas, according to the Kis- simmee boys, was disappointing, ywith pocr prices realizéd and much of the crop ungathered. There werc between 3,000 and 4,000 packers in the six packing houses in Horatio, Sixteen hundred cars were shipped from that point, all Elbertag, 21 YEARS FOR $85,000 ROBBERY. ) New York, Aug. 22.—C. W. Yates convicted of robbing Aaron Bancroft, 2 broken, 6f $85,000 at the point of a pistol, 'in March, 1911, was sen- tenced today . to serve twenty-one years in Sing Sing. D 51Y5 BE NEVER HITS UNTIL ST (By Associated Press.) Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 22.-—“I hit pard. I never hit if I can help it, put I never hit softly,” xgald Roose- velt- today, referring to his reply of last night to Senator Penrose’s state- ment made in the Senate yesterday. Colonel Roosevelt refused to discuss the matter any further. He makes two speeches here today, visits a ball game at Harveys Lake and heads a parade of mine workers. WONDERFUL NAMES ARE MIXED,BY DAN CUPID. New . York, Aug: 22.—Walent§ Krutys and Karthatina Trela, Wil- lfam Waicekaucha agnd Veronica Vienckalezyutie, Andred Ulezockas and _Catherine Ludowicz, Walinik Vzkyzmolkrima and Madelena Phy- ronzaski and Papelo Zryzorkuxski and Cecelie Uzkalezka are five cou- ples who will be married in Queens- | boro this week. George Fremz, the | license clerk, today announged him- self a disciple of the simplified spell- ing school. No. 251 GTY COUNGIL GRANTED HOTEL CONCESSONS WILL ALLOW LOW RATE OF TAX- ATION AND WATER AND LIGHTS AT COST. Lakeland, Fla., Aug. 21, 1912, Regular session of the City Coun- cil with Messrs, Munn, Pillans, Eat- on, Haynes and Scipper present. The minutes of Aug. 7, 8, 15, 16, 17 and 19° were read and respectively ap- proved. A petition from H. D. Bassett and C. M. Clayton, representing A. B. and ‘ID. B, Kebler for concessions for a uix-litory reinforced concreta and brick hotel on lots I and K of block 17 of Munn's survey was plesented, together with a resolution from the Board of Trade asking that the Coun- ci] give the petition favorable consid- eration, and Messrs. Clayton, Rogers, S. F. Smith, C. M. Weeks, Bassett, and Melton each addressed the Coun- ¢il speaking for a favorable conmsid- cration. of the petition. On motion the petition was granted, and the or- dinance committee was iustructed to draw an ordinance nm{erlng the con- ditfons of the said petition as read and fixing the date of expiration as Dec. 31, 1921. The members were put under the rule, on the motion, and same was carried, all members present voting ‘“Yes.” To Celebrate Labor Day. Mr. Marshal] and others represent- ing the different trade unions of the ¢ity, asked for a permit to parade on tho streets on Sept. 2, Labor day, and the exclusive right to serve refresh- ments on the picnic grounds on Lake Morton, also for the fire department to have part in the parade. On mo- tion the petitions were granted. All Crossings to Be Opened. Messrs. Haynes, Pillans and Scip- per were appointed a special com- mittee to consult a lawyer and pro- ceed to have all the crossings at the Interscctions of the streeté and the A. C. L, rallroad omn‘rtot public use. i On recommendation of the finance committee the policy on the Em- ploye’s Liability Insuranteé was ac- cepted and premium ordered paid. On motion the extension of Rose street was declared a street as soon ac deeds were delivered to the city. On motion Mr. 8. A. Robinson was granted a deed to any lot in the cem- etery he might choose.as a token of appreciation for his furnishing plans for same without fee. " Petition of Alex Holly et al. for gtreet light in McRae & Bryant's ad- dition ,was referred to the light and water committee with power to act. Bills of W. E. O'Nelll for 810.§8 and of Mann Plumbing and Con- struction Co, for $16.25 wer ordered peid. i On motion the Counefl’adjourned to meet Thursday, Aug, "22, at § p. m, in adjourned. session. “To the Honorable Members of the City Council; v “We, the undersigned citizens, the property owners oft Lakeland ,urgent’ ly appeg! to your body to grant to Messrs. Kibler Brothers, of Dunnel- lon, Fla., their request for ten (10) years taxation gt the present valua- tion of the lots; to furnish them light and water at actual cost of produc- tion for a period of ten (10) years a8 an inducement -that they erect a handsome hotel on the property which they recently purchased on South Kentucky avenue. “We do this feeling that it is the best interest to the citizens of Lake- land, Fla.: “John F. Cox, C. W. Love, J. W, Secally, H. D. Bassett, C. M. Clayton, W. M. Bevis, L. M. Futch, B. M. Ted- der, J. R. Weeks, O. F. Brown, C. F. O’Doniel, M. M. Fadely, Guy W, Toph, D. 0. Rogers, Samuel F. Smith, A. J. Holworthy, W. D, Edwards, W. G. Waring, W. M. McRae, C. F. Merritt, J. B. Smith, R. R. Sullivan, J. D. Allen, C. F. Kennedy, George F. Kennedy, George D, Mendenhall, H. A (Continued on Page 4.)