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?,500 WOMEN RIOT TO GET MODEL JOBS j Hats, Hair, Fur Fly?Even the Fire Escape Is Filled With Willing Wearers of Gowns or Bath ing Suits New York Herald Frank L. Talbot and John C. Bernard, who intended to conduct a fashion show at the Pennsylvania Hotel in the near future, Advertised a day or so ago their desire for a few ladylike models who could wear anything from gowns to bathing suits in a manner warranted to sell. The selection took place last night. In addition to an assortment of models they accumulated the know ledge that a lady can remain a lady up to a certain point, when she be comes a battalion of Cossacks. The stage was set on the roof of the hotel. The selecting was to be done in the solarium and the ladies, as they ai'rived, were to be packed in the big ballroom. The solarium is connected with the ballroom by a j wide runway down the centre of which palms and rubber plants, box wood bushes and nice trim fir trees had been placed to lend additional elan to the scene. The judges?Al bert Tovel, Stella K. Talbot and Willie Dooley?sat around a table in " -i? mi the centre oi tne soianum. x ne re porters and photographers were given a nice mahogany table and red white and blue pencils near by. The advertisements1 besought the appli cants to present themselves . at 7 o'clock. At least 2,500 women appeared. To dispense with an attempt to de scribe them it shall be said that no manner, shape, size nor age of fe male* was unrepresented. Nor was the inundation limited to one race. Several huge negro women appeared announcing that they had come to get jobs as maids to the ladies. The advertisements had it*that those models chosen would be paid $5 a promenade and that they'd have three promenades a day. Fainting Begin* Quite Early At 7 o'clock the ball room was so jammed that the fainting began. At 7:15 o'clock the corridors leading to the ballroom were choked with fe males. Downstairs the hotel manage ment had roped off a passage way to the freight elevators and as the wo men appeared they were herded by J . strong bell hops into the wide, screen lists. Every freight elevator arriving at the roof until 8 o'clock was loaded to capacity. Finally, there being no more room on the roof, the management called a halt and refused to elevate any more. It was just about 8 o'clock that Talbot, with a look of apprehension darkening his erstwhile confident face, told everybody in the solarium to get set, inasmuch as he was about to open the narrow doors through which the applicants were to enter the judgment place. He advanced to thp doors fthev wpre class nanelled and padlocked on the solarum side) and unfastened them. If one could picture the chance one human being would have were he to stand in front of the sixty inch outlet pipe at the Kensico reservoir at the moment it was opened as wide as possible he can visualize the fate of Talbot. He simpl y disap peared. No fewer than a hundred wild Amazons used him for a rug. They came thrbugh that one door as though shot out of guns. They came hurtling through with all the force ; 2,500 strong women could put be hind them. Some lost sleeves, others coats. None got through intact. Some came into that approach to the judge's table with the remains of the chic hats grotesquely dangling from the sides of their heads. At least a dozen came through without their pumps and several came with their skirts gone. Furs, vanity' cases, pocketbooks, wrist bags, necklaces, lavalliers and sashes had no chance at all, and as j for false hair?it would be quite as. easy to pass safely along Eleventh avenue with a quart of whiskey in j each hand at midnight as it was for! a woman to arrive in the solarium j with her hair on straight. Overflows Fills Fire Escape They smashed a window at the side of the narrow door and climbed through it to a fire escape. They J thronged the fire escape and tried , to clamber to the stone sills outside > the windows of the connecting run way. They smashed the glass* in a door adjoining the single one through which they were supposed to enter in the dignity befitting a BRITISH HAVE BRAINS 1 ENOUGH BUT THEY ARE BARBARIANS, SAYS SHAW London, Feb. 22.?"The British t have brains enough, but they are in- 1 corrigible Barbarians," is the dec- ] laration of George Bernard Shaw, 1 answering the query, "Are British j brains inferior to German brains?" 1 "After making enough discoveries j j and inventions to place their coun-fj i try at the head of the civilization qf' | the world they keep right on as , they did before," says Shaw. "The Germans have no better i brains,' but they have willed to be civilized. They have a genuine re- j spect for intellectual achievement. , They use and develop their discov- j eries which the English make and neglect. f "It is pretty obvious that Ger many will profit more from the war that she lost (than England will come from the war that she won. "In the controversy about German I ] goods, for instance, nobdy in Eng- I land has as yet dreamed of the sug- ' gestion that- German goods be kept < out of English markets - by the simple plan of making as good or s bet artices at home. In short, Eng- < ish hrains are nullified by English 1 savagery and ignorance.',' < PARDON FROM WILSON < Gaffney, Feb. 22.?Sam Harris, a white man aibout 60 years of age, who has been-serving a seven month sentence in the Cherokee county jail after having been convicted of vio lating the national prohibition law, has been granted a full and com plete pardon by President Wilson. The defendant naa aireaay Deen re- j leasd from custody by Sheriff J Thomas after an official telegram j had been received from A. Mitchell ] Palmer, attorney general, advising ( that the pardon had been issued. ) The official document bears the sig- , nature of the president, witnessed i by Mr. Palmer. / I Legal blanks for sale?Press and 1 Banner Co. ] lady, but that door was padlocked ( and the smashed sashes were too < small to permit of their entrance j that way. < From somewhere four strong men ) were drafted, f and these four, sum- ( moning up their courage, bucked < the wave of femininity twice, three i times and again for full measure. ^ They forced the doors shut, threw { the padlock into place, picked the i trampled Talbot off the floor and 1 then the real riot began. Talbot had t lost his collar. He was of the opinion j that at least four of his ribs had been broken. They helped him to a s bench and called for ice water and ^ the hotel physician. Meanwhile the ^ women who had fought their way in- ^ to the solarium upset the reporters' v table, mistaking it for the judges', j and then descended upon the latter. Inside the ballroom, just as c crowded as ever at least a dozen s wild fist fights were under way. } they, didn't claw nor scratch each other. They walloped, thumped, up per cutted and swung from the hip. j It's hard to tell how many of them fainted For ten minutes the place " was a Bedlam, and then all became worse. The door was opened and for the third time the battle was on. The girls may have locked all right tyhen they arrived at the^ hotel but not ^ when they arrived in the solarium. , Stand back, stand back, try to be ladies for a minute," yelled Tro vel. "You alj come from Brooklyn and learned deportment in the sub way. Stand back before I forget you're ladies and bust some of you.' The last rush ended it. Tihey broke chairs, upset the tables, staged a few more fights and the judges fled. Someone began turning off the lights. "This fashion show," explained Talbot, "is going to give a good fat sice of the proceeds to a fund for a home for crippled soldiers. I shall be one of the inmates. Out West I used to stage fights and wrestling matches and do business with a lot! of rough birds who didn't care whe ther they went home with two ears I . or not. But I give you my word that 1 those birds I used to know were members of the Sabbath Day League compared with the bunch of,i two fisted, iron jaw females we had 1 here tonight. What? Who? The1 r cops? Oh, no; no use calling them t now. We should have thought of. that yesterday." {< UNTEMYER GARDENS COST HIM $1,000,000 White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 22.?The action of Frederick W. Smythe, a landscape artist and florist of New Rochelle and Manhattan; against Samuel Untemyer to recover a bal ance of $7,800 for his commission in laying out the gardens of Mr. Un temyer in Yonkers, was settled to day for $5,000. Hearings had been iroing on for several weeks before John F. Ringwood of Poughkeepsie as referee, Mr. Smythe's total com missi6n was $138,000. According to Mr. amyine, ivir. un temyer in 1915 told him that he want ed the finest floral gardens in Amer ica at Greystone. About $1,000,000 was spent on the estate. John A. Van Zelm of New Rochelle, counsel for Mr. Smythe, produced evidence to show that he had started work in 1918, laying out Grecian gardens, planning temples and great floral dis plays. Mr. Van Zelm said that Mr. Smythe went to England to purchase ;he finest Rhodendrons for the gar iens. The amount asked was on a ba sis of 10 per cent on the materials md flowers. Mr. Smythe said he pur :hased more than $20,000 worth of Rhodendrons in England. Mr. Untemyer set forth a counter :laim of $42,000 against Mr. Smythe intending that he had received a :ommission from florists in England A'hen he purchased the plants. Testi mony was taken in England as to the /alue of the Khodendrons. EATING OUR WEIGHT IN SUGAR When it comes to sugar the gen eral laws that control consumption have to bend. In 1913 sugar was 5% cents a pound. Americans used it at the rate of 86 pounds a person, [n 1920 sugar was from 20 to 25 :ents a pound, four times as costly as it had been before the war. Instead af stinting themselves the people used sugar at the rate of 92 pounds to the individual. It is rather alarming to think of the average American eating his or tier weight in sugar in a year, but when the 92 pounds is distributed aver 365 days it amounts to about a quarter of a pound a day. Full many i ?irl of purest appetite serene wiiil :onsume a pound of candy between unr>i<4nn nnH dinner. A small bov. ;ven ft he is not permitted coffee or ;ea, will" demand and get sugar a nounting in a year to more than his veight. For sugar comes not from the jowl alone. Candy, cake, preserves, ce cream and soft drinks are the uxuries that have caused Americans ;o triple their use of sugar in the ast fifty years. The fact that the consumption of ugar in 1920 exceeded by a billion >ounds that for 1919, when extrava gance generally was at its worst, in licates that the prophets were right vhen they said that prohibition would ncrease the call for sweets. The figures for the present year, onsidering the low price of sugar, hould be interesting.?New York lerald. i Legal blanks for sale?Press and Janner Co. NOTICE! CITY REGISTRATION. The City Books of Registration are low open for registration of qualified ilectors, and will Remain open until Vpril 1st, 1921, at the office of the Uity Clerk. T. G. PERRIN, Registrar. Feb. 9th, 1921. 2, 9-ltw-Apr 1 NOTICE TO CITY TAX PAYERS By order of the City Council a Penalty of 2 per cent, will be ad ded to all City Taxes from March 1st. 1921 to March 15th, 1921. and after the 15th a penalty of 5 per cent, additional will be added. T. G. PERRIN, City Clerk and Treasurer. Feb. 9th, 1921. 2, 9-4tc. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Abbeville. Probate Court. Notice To Debtors and Creditors. n the Matter of th<? Estate of P. Rosenberg, Deceased. All persons indebted to said estate nust settle without delay, and those lolding claims against the estate nust present them properly attested ;o Sol H., A. H. and A. P. Rosenberg, It. ltw-2-14. Executors. SEIZURE OF DRUGS MADE AT GREENVILLE NaVcotics Valued at Six Thousand Dollars Taken By Police of City Greenville, Feb. 24.?Forty-nine and one-half ounces of narcotic drugs, valued at over $6,000, were seized ar?d a man giving his name as' S. Epstein of Washington,, was ar-| rested at a local hotel here this af-j ternoon by the city police and turn-; ed over to federal authorities. State! Internal Revenue Inspector W. R. Bradley of Columbia has been noti fied and is expected here tomorrow in connection with the seizure. Epstein denied knowledge of the narcotics and declared that the handbag in wjiich they were found belonged to another man who shared his rcom, and who was registered as J. Morton. The police watched the hotel all the afternoon but Norton: did not return. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, j cblJNTY OF ABBEVILLE Probate Court Citation for Letters of Adminiitra j " > tion. By J. F. MILLER, Esq., Judge of I . Probate: Whereas, W. F. Rao cliff hath made suit to me to grant him letters of administration , with will annexed of the estate and effects of Mrs. Mary C. Radcliff, late of Abbeville County, deceased. These Arfe Therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Mrs. Mary C. Radcliff, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Ab beville Court House, on Monday the 28th of Feb. 1921/after publication hereof,, at 11 o "clock in the forenoon to shoW cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. , Given under my hand and seal of the Court this 14th day of Feb. in the year of our Lord one thousand 1 nine hundred and twenty one and in the 145th year of American Inde !pendence. I Published on the 14th day of Feb.] 1921 in the Press and Banner andj on the Court ouse door for the time required by law. . , J. F. MILLER, 2, 14. Judge of Probate j NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS AND CREDITORS Pursuant to an order of the j Court made in the case of William.' P. Greene versus Abbeville County i Fair Association, all parties noiaing. claims against the said denfendantj and all stockholders of said Corpora-j tion, who * have not heretofore j proved their claims against, and the! amount of stock held by them in the j said defendant Corporation, are ( hereby required to prove the same! on or before February 28th, 1921 when an order will be made disburs ing all funds now in the hands of the receivers. (Signed) Thomas P. Thomson, Master of Abbeville County. ; February 12th, 1921. 1 1 ti. wk. 2 wks i BOND SALE OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ($450, 000.00) DOLLARS HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS OF AB BEVILLE COUNTY. The Highway Commission of Ab beville County, South Caroliha, will receive sealed bids at the office oi the Highway Commission, in said Citji of Abbeville, up to noon of the 28th day of February, 1921 for the sale of Four Hundred and Fifty Thous and ($450,000.00) Dollars of High Way Improvement Bonds. These are coupon bonds of One Thousand Dollars denomination, ma turing'serially, that is, Fifteen Thou sand ($15,000.00) Dollars shall raa( ture on the first of January 1922, and Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars additional on January 1st, each year thereafter until 1951 in elusive, bearing interest from Janu ary 1st; 1921, (the date of issue) at six per cent. (6%) per annum pay able semi-annually, January 1st, and July 1st; principal and interest pay able at Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New York. Each bidder will be required be fore his bid will be considered to Hold Yoi FOR :: HIGH Conservative s~> .. o on] cotton v^c M. B. WAT Cotton Factoi Greenville, THAT ' :: GC k at OIL< GRB Drive your car ir and washing ste Church and Vie do the rest. i Sherar "Service first-Sa One Hiindrw the system oi' paying- bill and was quickly apprecif It reduces the perse funds; makes for conveni small amounts; provides record of money deposit lends a certain dignity to Von should enjoy 11 by opening an account h INTEREST PAID 0 Planter "The Frien ABBEVILLE, - - The Home of Over 1< i deposit with L. W. Keller, Secretary of the Highway Commission a check payable to his order, .for two per cent, of the bid and duly certified by some bank satisfactory to the said Highway Commission. The Highway Commission reserves the right to re | ject any and all bids. In case a bid is rejected, such check will be returned to the bidder, but if the bid is ac 1 cepted, the amount of said check 1 will be held by the Highway Com mission for the due performance of the bid within ten days after the bonds are ready for delivery, and if 1 the bidder fails to comply within the time above stated, the Highway Com mission reserves the right to offer s said bonds for re-sale at the risks of 'J the bidder or bidders. # The County has a population of 1 about Thirty Thousand. The estimat ed actual value of property of the County is $25,000,000. For more detailed statement of the resources of the County and au 1 il :i? -C~- :?.? ?t. it,. Liiuniy iui tut: laauc appijf iv mc undersigned. J. S. STARK, Chairman, L. W. KELLER, Secretary, Highway Com. of Abbeville Co., S. C. Feb .12, 1921. 2tw until 28th. ir Cotton 1ER :: PRICES Loans Made msigned to us. SON & CO. rs and Brokers, S. Carolina I )0D GULF )LINE 5 and ASE lto our new hlling ition at corner of na Streets-^--We'll d Bros. tisfaction always" 1 Years A an I * * VMM V s by cheek was'introduced, . iteri by discerning people. mal danger of carrying ience in disbursing large or for a reliable, workable ed and money spent, and i the transference of funds. lese advantages. You can, ere. N SAVINGS. a uaiirv idly Bank" SOUTH CAROLINA 900 Bank Accounts.