Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 28, 1915, Page 2

co and the like, witnoy, much of a target. Last month when am; denly ran low during a vicious attack, ang ¢; hot that it was out of to make one’s way t: l'hh: a'l[:(‘stm tion wagons, Jan beggeq f, y,: make a try for it, and, whe, i refused, made a dash for i He reached the train in sy, loaded himself down with (-anr?dm and began the return Journey ge’ hundred feet from the lrench' 4 soldiers saw him fal, struck l,.lh piece of shrapnel. wpj, e o regardl, of the fire, ran i him, hé worked his way onw; ward the trench until pe e ten feet away. Florida East Coast R’y To Burn Oil For Engines Instead of Coal Augustine, April 29—Vice- Lakeland, Fla., April 24, 1915. President J. P. Beckwith of the Editor Telegram:* You and some Florida East Coast Railway has just |others may remember low we labor- | nesses were completed an official tour of inspec- 'ed over a year ago through ads. in | Washington State, tion down the coast and while in | your paper to show the sufferers and ! Carolinas, Georzia, Mississippi Miami was interviewed by a repre- |others how they really owed it to |other states. Every step was fought sentative of the Miami Herald. That |themselves and their neighbors hard. The contracts of the company,' .ying their escape in a wagon Dbaper, in its issue of last Thursday | throughout city and county lo‘merature and all plans were placed ' o} ) o piece of shrapnel killed his ay 3 “drive them out—the foreign con- | before the jury in full, and the gen"{mhpr and mother. ‘“‘Because of a delay to the arrival cerns called ‘Building Associations,’ ; eral scheme of the company laid | Neizhbors took him in, but his of certain materials to be used in!that have despoiled of thou!-’bare in the court. The defendants' . ... hind clamored for revenge the construction of the Florida East ands of dollars, scores of the most claimed that their plans were legiti-1 =y o504 only until it was night | Coast Railway Company’s oil nnn!enterprlllnx men in LaKeland, by mate; that misrepresentation on l.hv,w run away and join the Austro- When the battle was ovee g at Seventh street and the railroad, |means of a local, co-operative Sav- i part of any agent was not nulh.un""”"ngarlfln forces. The soldiers let , removed to the field hospital by hi i the ?ll-burnln‘ system on the eom-jlnsu-!.oln Company, handled by ed, and that every co'flmfl'l printed him in the trenches and soon made ! wounds were too 8evere, howay, pany’s engines will not go into effect | yourselves and others whom ,you had been lived up m,_ g ~ 'him their favorite. He was so small | for him to survive them H veq and New York City will be boastlng| The F. W. Woolworth Compa II‘I’I‘I‘::IPI‘)OII:: June 1st, according to know, and confined to Polk county.” “Editor Ar!mri.(:an Building Asmm“"lhal he could wriggle from one | mourned by: “hig” R 3 once again as to how it has saved reported that for the three-year per-| . . @ cident 3. P Baokwiti whol This, it should be noted, was ad- ton Newas - . trench to another with food, tobac- other member has been. the country, while the fact is that 'lod ended December :”'\19” wnlis was a Miami visitor: recently. Ac- ‘.\'ocntlng the constructive method of The above rhppm; . 4 the greatest barrler and obstacles ' perlod includes the e of‘ 1912 lcompanylng Mr. Beckwith in his driving them out by supplying some- epitaph of the ]a.!l of lhp, .\ulmna.. that the business of the country has' 1913 and 1914, it had Did dlvlden(;a‘!p"""e car wen:e E. Ben Carter, road- ,thing better, which we may all con- ; Building Associations, so far as our had to overcome was the continual to the amount of $9,120,093 bo“gm‘master, and N. W, Mief, formerly gratulate ourselves has been com- information goes. If fhe_"‘, a_rc oth- ery of New York city interests'fdr amortization nr;d c“c'e“l"o“lchle( clerk to the late General Man- menced by our recently organized ers still engaged in \'ICllmW:mK the against prevailing conditions and 'sl,-lzm,ooo Jas vallie, pebfiseed !mcwnger Morton Riddle, and now an 'local, mutual, co-operative Lakeland public, this item clearly points the the wail of discontent that for years 'and had added $8 36’7 301 to sm_phm‘em‘ploye in Mr. Beckwith’s office. iSavings-Loan Co. But that every way by which their career may be Sad gou out trom Nese. | ocount, aillont o(’ enrlnln;s. ‘We have been delayed on the oil member, and every citizen, may be cut short. Only a few llmu.lhs a"o‘ These .people howled against That 15 & olendla; sascrd top ‘Itanks betause some of the mnterlnlu'lnduced and inspired to push our a similar concern doing buflm-. at! Roosevelt in many ways and at dif- business dependent upon the patron- to be used in their construction iwork with the greatest possible Vancouver, British Columbia, and > i comes from a great distance,’ said vigor, so that the good results may operating in the provinces of Can Mr. Beckwith, ‘and instead of oper- | blossom and fruit abundantly herc ada and many of the States, W 'B0Y, AGED TEN, BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS - Returning Has "Prosperity Lifted New York Out Of Its Dumps “Observer,” the Cincinnati En—'Electric Company reports that for St. quirer’s special correspondent at the first three months of 1915 its net H New York, sends the following re- earnings are $353,987 larger than view of the business situation as during the first three months of seen from that point: 1914, This was a week of sweeping ac- 4%. B. Thomas, president of the Le- tivities in every line of finance, of high Valley Railway Company, an- of commerce, of industry, in this city nounced on Thursday last that ow- and throughout the entire country. ing to improved business conditions, Downtown is in a whirl of ex-_’thal company was about to award citement over the advances in prices 'contracts for approximately $1,000,- of stocks and securities, and uptown ' 000. is already feeling the impetus of re- It is stated that this week French turned confidence and is showing it and English buyers have pychmd’ at the leading hotels, cafes and res- | from dealers of the United States taurats. A moth more of the crowd- {100,000 tons of raw suzar to be ing forward of business activities shipped during April, May and June. ! Munitioy sug the mjggy he fire ywaq 4 Vienna, April 27.—Jan Wisniew- The Difference In The- Lakeland SaVings-Loan and ! ski, aged 10, who died a hero, has Certain Foreign Concerns ;:"."s.. i weisireven. - e was one of the youngest, if not the youngest of the actual fighters in m b ] |,Stnndnrd Home Company and offi- . cials began two weeks ago, and wit- | this war. brought here from| jun's home was in Ryenwald, Virginia, the guop which he fled with his parents, and ' polish peasants, when the Russians came in December. The three were towar, ard tg ollapge an wy as writes the SPECIAL SALE — ferent times they expressed their dis- age of the masses of the people, and satisfaction with Taft and his ad- this in so-called dull years. ministration; the¥ have no love for | The Western Union Telegraph Wilson or his try to use it for their Company for the first three months purposes, and they have been com- of 1915 reports an increase in total pletely upset and astonished by see- |revenue of $747,895 and an increase ing this business boom assume such in net revenue of $622,287, as com- strength and volume without their pared with the first three months consent or approval. ‘o( 1914, The state banks of New York re- Howlers Drop Into Line. "pnrt an increase in deposits since Tt is well known throughout tbe pecember 24, 1914, of more than city that it is frowned upon by cer- $26,000,000. tain financial interests, but it has Last October a seat in the New got beyond the limit of their power, 'Ym‘k Stock Exchange was sold at which has been immedately curtail- ! $34,000. The highest price that any ed by the establishment of the FedA‘s‘,B! in the exchange was sold at eral reserve bankng system. during the year 1914 was $50,000, They will have to accept thisbut that was during the spring of | bulge of business as the real and|1914. Three weeks ago the quoted | genuine article, and go along with |price was $40,000 with no buyers. the procession, and they have drop-l To show the complete change in ped right into the line of the march- | conditions here and the absolute ers these past three days, but if op- confidence now felt in the future of portunity offers they will desert, for | business throughout the Union and they prefer a boom two years later. |the subsequent activities that will But it is here, and it is going to!prevail in the exchanges. I present stay with the country, for the most |the following facts: ating with oil-burner locomotives on {May 1st, as we had expected, we abroad that similar, {will not be able to do so until about | June 1st.’ ‘“The burning of oil instead of coal in the locomotives will occasion | but little change in the tenders’ construction, Mr. Beckwith advised. ‘We simply pljpce the tanks where we now put our coal,’ he explained, ‘and the capacity is about fifty bar- rels, which is equivalent to four- teen tons of coal. The fire box, in- stead of having grates is filled in with brick and walled up with con- crete and brick and the steam and oil burner is placed so that it takes up but very little room and is hard- 1y noticeable.’ “The tanks to be located at Sev- enth street are merely temporary and will serve as auxiliary to the main supply tank which later will be placed at Buena Vista. A large tank at Key West has heen installed, this being the first one erected, since the decision to burn oil instead of powerful factors of long-continued o . Sale of Exchange Seats. prosperity are at work for the people On Monday, April 12, one seat was obShe e piates: sold at $49,500, and one at §50,000; The world is their customer today. on Thursday, April A world that needs the products of were sold at $59,000 each, and one our lands and will need them for de- brought $60,000. caES fo oums, An advance in price of $10,500 in A world that needs the outputs of four days time shows the complete Sur Ly i ““0”",' our 8hoPs | ayolytion in the sentiment of the and our mines, and that with every street as to business affairs in the passing year will become a greater |yniieq States. The bankers' views uer. o thoss- outpuie \ on business are not accepted with When the demand for war mater- | the credence and faith of former ials shall cease (and every person times, as this quotation from the regardful of humanity hopes it ‘will financial column of a leading com- cease immediately) then the demand mercial journal, of this city, in its for our outputs for reconstruction, issue of April 16 evidences: for upbuilding, for the works of ‘“Bankers have little influence at progress and development will in-'present because they have been ab- creage, and these demands will call solutely wrong in every prophecy Tor stili greater enlargement of our they have made for a year, industries. : “If they had known the was was I desire to lay before the readers coming they would not have been of The Enquirer some most convine- :cnught short of sterling exchange ing facts as to the widespread area last August. of business improvement and cite “They were wrong again when some evidences of its strength and jthey predicted a flood of foreign actual results, liquidation to follow the reopening A telegram from Calumet, Mich., |of the New York Stock Exchange. announces that copper mining com-)They have been against the rise in panies of that region notified their |the stock market, but it has broken miners that on and after May 1|all records. their wages would be increased 10; “Now, that Consolidated Gas, In- per cent. This affects the wage |terborough, Metropolitan and other earnings of 12,000 miners. public utilities are booming even The Philadelphia Electric Com-|gloomy New York City sees hope for pany announced in its annual re- |itself in spite of Albany. port, just issued, that its gross enrn-l “0il stocks are now in the lead, ings in 1914, were $344,410 greater | both on the stock exchanges and the in that year than in 1913, and its curb, and mining shares are follow- net earnings $50,736 greater, not-'lng them close.” withstanding the depression oc- 1 quote the above to show how casioned by the war. public sentiment here has broken Earnings Greatly Increased !away from those who for years were The San Francisco Pacific Gas and in absolute control of it. TRAIN SOLICITORS i\ WILL BE BARRED. A LITTLE WHILE A little while the tears and laughter The myrtle and the rose— A little while, and what comes after No man knows. A committee substitute bill for house bill No. 124, introduced by Representative Davis, of St. Johns, will be reported favorably, and will at once eliminate what has become a real nuisance in parts of the state. The bill makes it unlawful for any person, whether such person acts on his own behalf or as an agent, ser- fon * * vant, or employe of another, to en- ) 3 s Exalt our baffled lives gage in the solicitation or canvass- And dream their vital bloom and ing in any manner or form whatso- Ppassion ever, in, upon or about any railway Still survives. passenger train within the state of An hour to sing, to love and linger** Then lutanist and lute Shall fall on silence, song and singer Both be mute. Our gods from our desires we fash- Florida, and such soliciting or can-iThe hen that vassing is hereby declared a publlc' nuisance and prohibited. A county |8 the woman known as a suffra- that another inspector named Car- But when we're done with mirth and weeping, With willow and with rose, Shall Death take Life into his keep- ing? No man knows. jail sentence of from three to twelve less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. This bil] will eliminate the hotel and transfer solicitors that board trains in different parts of the state, selling cab tickets and solicit- ing for certain hotels. There has much complaint from this source, and the best hotels and transfer men in the state have giv- et r endorsement to the bill. Orlando Sentinel. | ‘What heart hath not through twi- light places Sought for its dead again, To gild with love their pallid faces** Sought in vain. beer Still mounts the dream on shining pinion * * Still broods the dull distrust * * ‘Which shall have ultimate dominion, Dream, or dust? ! William Hale Thompson, the new A little while with grief and laugh- mayor of Chicago, believes that the ter, city ought to have adequate work- And then the day shall close; ing funds and will try to secure The shadows gather * * What comes [them by taxation. He is supported after in his fight for the amendment of No man knows! the Juul law by many of the Iefldlng' ireform bodies of the eity. —Selected .* . a pie coal was reached. AUSTRIANS OBJECT TO 15, four seats INCREASING MACHINERY PLANTS (By Associated Press.) | Vienna, April 28—Learning thatagainst the company and officials. lcertlil Austrian cotton mills plan- ned to‘increase the number of looms, the Association of Austrian Cotton- Weavers has issued an emphatic warning against any such step, It pointed out that while a large num- ber of looms are occupied with army contracts, the general trade situa- tion is far from satisfactory, and the present is no time for increasing machinery plants. The Association’s circular goes on to say that the future is no more favorable either. Exports will cer- tainly not be made easier by the war, but will be much more difficult. In the last three or four years seell- ing prices, through over-produc- tion, have been from five to ten per cent below cost of manufacture. It is absolutely senseless therefore, it is contended, to think of increasing in- vestments n the cotton business in Austria under present conditions. QUIPS ON THE SUFFRAGETTES Recently an advertising agency offered cash prizes for the best epi- grammatic definitions of a suffra- gette, says the Washington Post. Here are some of the results: A suffragette .is a woman who thinks she has been de-voted long enough. Not satisfied with the last word, ishe also wants the first. She is the corset needed to reduce the government waste. She is the woman who needs the “poll” for her vaulting ambition. A suffragette is a sting of beauty and a jawer forever. A woman who would rather break windows than clean them A woman whose troubles are cer- tainly not “little ones.” One who spends more time airing her views than viewing her heirs. A woman who will spare no panes to get her rights. A woman who would rather rock the country than a cradle. A female creature, queer and quaint, Who longs to be just what she ain’t. would cackle and never set gette, We love her still—the stiler the better! WHEN THE WORK PILES UP We can get any amount of work done by takin® it a moment at a time. It is when we try to take it several moments at a time that it gets Metond us. of work in front of him on his desk, and was “stewing around” over it and saying how tremendously busy he was, when another man said to him, “You're not busy; you're only confused.” Seeing and think- ing about more than one thing at a time brings the confusion that mul- tiplies burdens and hinders the work. It is sometimes well to clear our desk of everything except the one thing upon which we must be at home, and even be so sounded helpful asso- ciations may be established thruugh-l‘ out Florida, we think it well that our people should know and realize more fully the wutter badness of these concerns that have hereto- fore operated so extemsively in this State. Far as a matter of fact thev ! are not all dead yet, even though! their “epitaph” has been written. | K. V.'Haymaker, of Defiance, 0., ! vice-president of the Ohio Bulldinzi Association League, in the March is- sue of “The American Building As- sociation News,” gives the “Epi-! taph,” Birmingham clipping, ' and writes as follows anent the sup- posed “last of the ‘Nationals!” “Epitaph for the Last of the ‘Nationals.’ Birmingham, Ala., Feb, 22, | “After being out twenty-four hours the jury in the case against the Standard Home Company, a loan company, F. E. Whitehead, presi- dent; L. A, Whiteheard, vice-presi- dent, and 1. F. Harris, secretary- treasurer, charged with using the mails to defraud, brought in a ver- dict of guilty. “The verdict covers twenty-seven counts of the indictments returned “The defendants will appear be- The concern United nesday for sentence. did business all over the States. "cial Company.” The News has re-! they assess this burden on the in- fore Judge W. L. Grubb next Wed-| brought to book by the Canadian postal authorities, and it now being wound up. The (Canadian Company was styled ‘The National Commer- peatedly warnéd its readers and the public against these concerns, and (K the September issue of the News contained an extract from the re- port of George S. Walker, Commis-| sioner of California, in which he called attentin in scathing language to these concerns. He evidently had( the above named Canadian company in mind, since his description suits | that company very closely, and the literature which they sent out dis- closed the fact that it was operating quite extensively in that state. The! remedy which he suggested was that they should be barred from the We will add, for further informa- tion about these concerns, what Commissioner Walker of California, does say concerning them: ‘They do not depend upon the legitimate earnings of their current business to meet their expenses, but VW W) vestor in their contracts and make Me him the ‘goat’ under any and every condition; and if the investor gets (tired of waiting until ‘the loan is ready’ and lapses in his payments, they forfeit the contract and coolly ,appropriate the payments made. “Their big drawing card is ‘cheap “The trial of the case against the working; then to take up the next thing; and so on util the day’'s-work is done. Concentration routs con- fusion. Doing one thing at a time gets an amazingly large number of things done.—Sunday School Times. REASON FOR DEPOPU- LATION OF FRANCE (By Ascoclated Press.) \Paris, April 27—Paul Descombes, discussing the progressive depopula- tion of France, gives some statistics to show that the thinning of the woods and forests is largely respon- sible. There are thirty-one French departments more or less moun- tainous. These now have 8,094,940 inhabitants. If the old rate of in- crease had been maintained their populatin now would be 11,896,366, Monsieur Descombes points out that the mountainous regions op Switzer- land, which should not be any less favorable to repopulation than the mountainous regions of France, show an increase of more than 50 per cent in population during the last 60 years, and he attributes it to A bosiness man had | the fact that forest protection in Switzerland is far more rigorous than in France, WARNING—FRUIT TREE FAKER Information has been received by this office that one signing himself as A. D. Mcleod, M. D., of 9017 N. Hill street, Pensacola, and claim- | state ing to be employed by the board of health, is operating in the state as an inspector of orchard trees for blight in pear trees, and fungus and scale diseases in orange, pear, peach and plum trees. For this | he charges each individual $2 as a| registry fee, and recommends for placing beneath the roots of the trees a poisonous powder that he says is furnished free by the state. In case of refusal to accept his treatment, he informs the people michael follows and uproots the months is provided, or a fine of not | We can’t efface, we can’t forget her, | trees infested and destroys them." Warning is given to the public hat said A. D. McLeod, M. D., has no corinection with the state board :nl health—neither is he connected with the Agricultural Experiment station of the Unjversity of Florida, m= dnog he annene to be a registered physician in Florida. The public s further informed that the examina- *ion of froit trees for hlight is not a matter coming upder the jurisdie- tion of the state board of health, nor has the state board of health anything whatever to do with the horticultural industry of the state. | Th This man is a faker and a l'[n-g e Nexa Three Days dler extorting momey under false pretenses. Tf you see him, hojd on to your money and report h to the prosecuting authorities and the state board of health.—Fellsmere Tribune. (Continued on page 4) APRIL 28 IN HISTORY 1856—The receipt of the ratification of the treaty of peace by all the foreign powers announced official- ly in England and a day of|] thanksgiving throughout the Unit- ed Kingdom was adopted. 1874—The Citizen’s Mutual Reform Association of Philadelphia, Pa., finished its investigation of the i famous gas ring in that city. 1875—O0shkosh, Wis., destroyed hyl 1880—House passed vesolutions re- questing the president to sccure indemnity for American fishermen outraged by Canadians and to take | steps for abrogation of the treaty of 1871. 1905—Gen. Fitzhugh Lee of Vir- ginia died in Washington from 2poplexy; stricken while on board miners | lost their lives in the l‘\’plns|0nsl in twin mine shafts of a colliery at Eccles, W. Va. !914— Seven mine guards and one ! striker and an officer of the| miiitia lost their lives in the con- flict in the Colorado conl fields. a train. i914—About two hundred | Special Sale| Wed., Thur., Fri and Satu rday TOOTH BRUSHES * 25¢ Value 15¢ Tooth Brush soc Value.. . 35¢ We have filled 7766220 Pre- scriptions. . Why not let yus fill yours. We carry the best Drugs in town. . BRYAN'S SPRAY For Flies, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Roaches, etc. 3 SOAP :\m kind and all kinds, from From 3¢ a Cake to 50¢ While on Sale SHOE POLISH Any Kind and All Kinds HAIR BR $3.00 Value i $2.00 \'alue 312 Value 5% \alue line of $EY et et Ot e ‘-.-;a»q e seeiea. .38€ ATER BO 2.50 Value TLES $175 V 75 Value 1.9 Having had twenty-one £ ty- years’ léhit is Drugs don’t 1q and contracting in to Phone 42 and & . can get Servicne. 0 iehors you e —— mation, Lake Pharmacy _-\\ - All work guaranteed. Phone 169. Opportunity Our highest Ideals are Quality and Service Come to see us and let us supply your needs WILSO HARDWARE CO TOTRG e mails, and the Canadian antlmritivs;I ::} orderedthat to be done.” 3] ° ° Wilson Hardware Co. Place of Business Is where you SHOULD GO at all times for HARDWARE Building Material e Such as Lime, Cement, Brick, Wal | Plaster, Sash, Doors, Oils ¥ Paints, Stains & Varnishes Stoves, Ranges, Oil and Gasoline Boss Ovens { Farming Implements, Plows, Cultivato Garden Tools, Hoes, Rakes, Hand Plo - J.B. STREATE CONTRACTOR AND BUILVDEF experien in build Lakeland and vicinity, Ic:eel C\"!;‘ . fo render the best services in this s - is hine. If comtempy building, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all 1 J. B. STREAT Saturday and Monday