The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 30, 1914, Image 1
l TOLOEE LII, >OTBER r?l ^ ^ NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1914. TWICE A WEEK, $U6 A YEAR.
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HEAVY WIND STORM 1
VISITS COLUMBIA
TELEPHONE AM) TELEGRAPH J
POLES I)0>V\ CITY IX DARKNESS j
Automobile Skids on Road After J
Storm and Occupants Are
Injured.
Columbia, June 2S:?For two hours |
this afternoon Columbia was visited j
"by a heavy storm of wind, hail and i
rain, accompanied by lightning and |
thunder. The disturbance was the
most severe of its kind to strike this
section for some years. Heavy damage
was suffered by public service
companies, stores and residences in
all pans cf che city. Plate glass windows
were blown in, signs and fences
were blown down. Office buildings
were flooded and ventilators were torn
from skylights. Te'ephone and telegraph
poles were blown down and
trees were mutilated, making the
streets impassable in some places and
filing roadways with wires. As a result
the city tonight is in darkness, j
At least eight hundred telephones are j
out of commission. Lightning struck j
in many places within the city limits
and resulted in one small c:nflagration.
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As a result of road conditions resulting
from the storm an automobile,
three miles out of Columbia on the
Two Notch road, skidded and the machine
turned over and the occupants
violently thrown out. Mrs J. D. Gcldson,
of Columbia, sustained a broken .
arm, broken collarbou'e and fractured
ribs. Miss Vickie Sauls, of Orangeburg.
suffered a broken collai\>one.
TWh wfirp hurried to Knowlton's hos
pital. Other occupants of the car escaped
with a severe shaking up. They
were James Goldson, B. B. Goldson,
P. C. Turner, A. D. Brownie, Miss
L.innie Goldson, aU of Columbia.
HITS AUGUSTA STOKE
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Failure Brings Receivership for J. B. J
U'I.Ua f.
1T iiiic; a \ \f
Aususta, Ga.. June 25.?J. B. White
X
^ & Co.. one of the Claflin stores, was
* placed in t':e hands o: a receiver today
following the embarrassment in
New York. F. P. Gracey. head of the
store, was named receiver. A statement
from Mr. Gracey is to the effect
that the Augusta store has always
made money, it is doing business undrr
the receivership.
>Y flit mire >e>vs.
Special to The Herald and News.
Whitmire, June 25.?Miss Lena
Young returned home Saturday from
k Reno, where* she has been fcr her
' health.
Mr.jW. Carlisle Fridy, who recently
o-raduatpri at tht- Whitmire High
school, left Monday for Spartanburg,
where he will attend the summer session
of Wofford Fitting school.
Misses Grace-and Nellie Hurt have
[returned from Anderson where they
hve been visiting relatives.
Miss Connie Shannon spent the day j
in town Wednesday
Mrs. L. G. Young, of Union, was in
town Monday visiting Mrs. J. B. Pitts.
^ IMiss Emmie Duncan was in town
Saturday visiting friends and relatives.
Mrs. G. P. Wren left Tuesday for
Newberry where she will visit 'Miss
Inez Darby.
^ Mrs. A. J. Holt and mother left
Wednesdav for Clinton where they
B& -will attend tee burial o. a relative.
Miss Belle Eison, of Blairs. was in
ft town Tuesday visiting Mrs. E. C.
Bance.
WT Mrs. E. C. Xance left Tuesday for
B~Maybinton where she will spend a few
V days with her sister. Mrs. D. A. Tho n- i
as.
Mr. Calhoun Boyd, a ca?!<it i' C'iem- |
sen c e. r< V'S'itiiiir i;i~; "ijot .? r,
[y>v. William Cg'ciumh ha^ rc-tnviiocl i
from New York where ho h:<
for sometime attending to i.is bus!- i
y<r. Thaddeus W. Coleman "is now in
rnion. on business.
Mr. George H. Lekner and wife, of
V:gu ta, Ga., arrived Thursday, and :
111 spond a few days v/itii friends. :
TO REHABILITATE COMPANY {
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Confidence in Its I'ltimate Solvency j
(Jrows?St<itus Mot Certain.
New York. June 26.?Although
plans for a reorganization of the H
E. Claflin company, which failed yes-!
terday with liabilities of $34,000,000, j
had not become definite enough for j
. . . i
the issuance of1 any statement touay, i
confidence in the ultimate solvency oi j
the company became general. !
Results of meetings oi' committees
of merchandise creditors and t.ie note
holding creditors were encouraging.
A C. Drew, secretary o; Ue merchan- j
dise creditors' committee, expressed i
the hope that by immediate coopera
tion the situation could be met. The :
claims f t.:e merchandise creditors j
amounted to about $2,000,000, accord- i
ing to his estimate. This brings the :
total estimated liabilities of*the failed j
. . . - .. i
firm to .$36,000,000.
James S. Alexander, chairman o:' i
the note holders' committee, announced
that up to early this afternoon
approximately $$,000,000 or between
2-3 and 30 per cent, of sutstand
ing notes of H. B. Claflin company
had been deposited, or intention of
deposit had been signified. It was understood
that satisfactory progress
had been made in the preparation o' i
plans for conserving the note holders'
Jntoroet ;
Confidence over the general mercantile
situation was increased by the
announcement that Cornelius X. Bliss,
newly elected president of the Associated
Merchants' company and the
United Dry Goods Companies, affiliated
with the Claflin interests through
stock control, had been offered all the
financial support that he needed. Receiverships
for the string of nearly .
30 Claflin stores throughout the country
which Mr. Alexander said yesterday
would take place at once, had up
to noon today been put into effect in
only six stores.
It may be several weeks before the
exact financial status of the Claflin
company and smaller mercantile concerns
that failed with it can be established,
according to one of the receivers
of the company t.night.
"We have to get an inventory of
the stock of the H B. Claflin company
and then ascertain the amounts of
bills receivable," said Joseph B. L\Iariindale,
who was named one of the
receivers. "After getting the facts
relative to that company it will be
necessary to ascertain the amount of
stock and the financial condition of ,
the outside stores. As these stores are
widely scattered it will require some
weeks to get the information.
"I believe," he continued, "t'.iat it
will be possibly .to get a condensed
statement showing the affairs of the
H. B. Clanin company rnucn sooner,;
but even this task will require many !
days of work;'
BANKERS ( LOSE MEETING.
('. .1. Shannon, ,lr? of Camden, is
President?Carter Glass Speaks.
The State.
Charleston, June 25.?The new federal
reserve banking law, a concise
explanation of its purposes and how
it will help business and benefit t'ne
individual business man, was the;
theme of a remarkably clear and in- i
teresting address by Congressman i
Glass, cf Virginia, this morning at the j
second day's meeting of the South j
Carolina Bankers' association. ^Mr.
Glass is an ardent supporter of the
new'banking and currency law. and is
an authority on all the details of this
complex propositon. He introduced
the new bank bill and was instrumental
in securing its passage by congress.
The session this afterno n concludes
t'/.e annual meeting as far as
the bu -iness of the association is con r:i("l
and adjournment will be ordered
at that time, thcug'; bannnei
tonight actu:;r.y clc^<-th ?<-stivi
v. i' a. TI;; b j iet w i.\
tender* .1 the visltin?r bankers and ac :
>ix a: . ! :.?v *;; a.'.-, by t';. lo
. . -en
for an e] :> rate ..
The Sollovving officers '".ere unanii
it. usly elected: President, C. .T. Sftan!
non, .Jr., Camden; vice president. W.
! Simpson, Spartanburg; secretary and
I treasurer, Lee 6. Roil jm lersoii;
a'tor:x.', Ihwi ??!' . Oi*a?. j;.rv
Hon. F. H. Domi,
Favor Fc
Mr. Dominick will in a f<
canvas of the district for C(
other candidates in the racc
ation from other counties in
will not only lead all the res
jority in the first primary,
sistant attorney general, ha
legislature, and was county <
and in all of the positions w
so with marked ability and
lawyer of experience and at
district with credit to himse
of his constituents.
Executive council from the congress- j
ional districts, First, \Y. King vuiio- ;
well, Charleston; Second, \V. E. Pro-1
thro, Williston; Third, W .T. Bailey,
Greenwood; Fourth, F. C. H!;gers,
Sprtanburg; Fifth, J. P. Stevens,
Kers-aw; Sixth. H. W. Frazer,
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Georgetown; Seventh, R. >?. Bryaht,
Oi angeburg.
SOI3IER SCHOOL NOTES.
A Large Crowd of Teuchers From
Newberry Attending Winthrop
Summer School.
Special to The Herald and News.
Winthrop College. June 29.?The
1914 session of Winthrop college
summer school opened June 1G
with an enrolment of nearly 6*00.
Among this number are the following
Newbury county teachers: Misses
Willie Mae Wise and Susie Langford,
Presperity; Elbertaa Sease and Clara
Brown. Little (Mountain; Iva Eaddv
and Bess Muggins, Zion; Mary Wright,
Ethel Hair, Elizabeth Dominick, Newberry;
Ola Miller. Tabernacle; Lottye
Lee Hall'acre and Mae Amick, HunterDeWalt;
Julia Sotzler. Pressley; Xell
| Fridy. Whitmire: Leila McTeer. Bur,
ton; Elizabeth Xeel. Johnstone; Georgia
Xeel. Ella Langston. Gertrude
Smith, Popie Webb and Sadie Gogi
gans.
Prof. C. W. Riser, formerly of Xew
berry county but now principal o.r tlie
Anderson high school, is'here taking
1 U u t
a course m the summer school.
The couri-os of the summer school
are varied. There ar c mrses to lit
teac ers who have liau no 40
1 raining and wis a to ;-iady . urtner,
( (.' .us' to m- el the ne--d-; of ers
v. : ;; 1 *. 1 had no 'raining it; u-'l'. o.Is,
: < h t tii-' ?i *. f i n? i t a. .1' in.
i. a Is givers th opportunity to
, . :;'ii the h test and 11 '*1 iaiprowd
' methods.
I Sept. George I). Brown arrived
Tuesday? to attend the s ;s. ions o: the
count}1, superintendent 5? cc/.ference.
I'-".-; el re/ u . a/i , session,
nick, Newberry's
>r Congress
3w days begin his active
)ngress. There are three
3, but from reliable mlormi
the district. Mr. Dominick
;t, but will have a safe maMr.
Dominick is now as,s
served his county in the
chairman for several years,
hich he has filled, has done
good judgment. He is a
)i)itv and will reoresent the
%J i.
ilf and to the satisfaction
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decided that one teacher schools are
a failure and that the salvation of the
educational system in this State de:
ponds on consolidation into three
I teacher schools.
Twenty-live county superintendents
i and nine rural supervisors have al|
ready arrived to discuss common
i school problems.
One of the chief advantages of ati
tending the summer school is that
j teachers have an excellent epportunii
ty to meet t':e school officials who are
; consulted by trustees in the selection
j of teachers Tor the various schools of
tne state.
At night the teachers are entertained
with music recitals, lectures and
stereopticon views along educational
I
I lines.
j One evening next week Miss Sadie
! Goggans will give a "Xewberry party."
This is anticipated with pleasure
by all.
Two Death In Family Within One
Week.
Columbia Record. 2.">th.
The funeral services of Miss Lenora
, uanace were neia i-.is morning <u
I the home. So" Calhoun street. Rev.
' J. P. Knox, pastor of the A. R. P.
! (vurch, officiating. Ar noon the reI
j mains were placed : n the C. X. & L.
i train and taken to Prosperity for ini
tennent fit the cemeterv of the ('anI
i non Creek A. R. P. church.
j Miss Wallace. 23 years of age, had
; been ili for several months. She is
j survived hy her n:ot':oi\ tiiree brotii;
".? an } a sister.
The family is doubly bereaved, as
() reek \uo her ' I'.hor. Roberi P.
\ Wallace, was buried at tli same cem'
etcry. His death was d.ie t > :cart
; trouble.
j !'!;?' family has resided in Goium,
bi about s -.v >! < c min.s here from
j 1 to. T?t ! ::y. y,r. \V: :::ice was a
i ri .idc-sm-n :i: i in bis craft.
I !> ;riiiu t . :r iv-b; mo in Columbia
the family made many friends who
j .-ymrraibiz? ;1 < ly with them in r'ze
i .* hr. > frlien upon
i -a.
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SALEM SWEPT BY FLAMES
Lacking Water to Fight Fire, Department
is Forced to I'se Explosives.
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Salem, Mass.. June 2T>.?Nearly half
the "old witch city" of Salem, rich
j in historic buildings and tradition,,
j was devastated tod::y and tonight by I
| a fire tnat caused an estimated loss !
| of $20,000,0( 0. destroyed 1,000 buildj
ings, including scores of manufactur|
ing establishments. and made 10,000
| o: the 45,000 residents homeless,
j The fire originated in the Korn
1 no + 1i f k >. f .1 r\r-\- r\n tllo VVDCt P f?T thp
| icauici lanuij wi ?v ?^
| city at 2 o'clock this afternocn and
j swept through the shoe and leather
j manufacturing district, ruining every
i building in a curving path two miles
| long and more than a half mile wide.
Burning embers, carried by a strong
northwest wind, started tires in two
otiier sections, the fashionable residential
district adjacent to LaFayette
street and a manufacturing and tene-!
! ment house district 011 the Peninsula,
| bounded by Palmer's Cove, South
I rivpr and the water front. Late in t-e !
! evening brands kindled a fourth fire j
\
| in the p'ant of the Salem Oil com- j
! pany in Mason street. The oil tanks
blew uj^ with a terrific report and
showers of sharks fell threateningly j
on a part of the town that before ,
i
had r.ot been in imminent danger, j
Th;s fire, however, was checked after j
\l had destroyed the oil Company's i
plant and 13 houses.
When the flames were believed to i
be under control at 11 o'clock tonight, j
! all the historic and literary land- i
marks had* escaped destruction. These j
included the Peabody museum. Essex ;
institute, custom house, where Xa:'
thaniel Hawthrone did much of his:
literary work, and "The House of t;ie i
Seven Gables," made famous by the !
novelist. ,
Museum Probably Safe.
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At midnight the '.ire was burning
on Derby street, not far from the j
Peabody museum but it was thought ;
j tie building and its valuable collection
of curios would be saved. "The I
j House of Seven Gables" also was in
j the danger z:ne. j
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j r Seven ouiiaings were ujnauuicu
i and la.e tonight it looked as though ,
' the fire had been checked.
I
Xo fatalities had been repoited up
I to midnight but in the confusion it
i was impossible to determine t>e casi
ualties. Some ">0 injured persons were
received at hospitals. Thousands o:
! homeless were camped on^Salem common
tonight and the city was policed
by militiamen.
Lacking water to pour on the
flames, buildings were dynamited by
the fire fighters in an effort to check
the progress of the fire. But no
sooner was the march of destrueTTon
i stopped in cue direction than the fight
had to be renewed in another. Driven
by a shifting wind the flames spread
first in one direction and then in another.
It was nearly 11 o'clock before
the area of conflagration had
(reached its limit. Starting, about 2
i o'clock this afternoon as a result of
I an unexplained explosion in the fac
tory of the Korn Leather company
just east of historic Gallows hill,
where alleged witches were hanged
200 years ago, the fire spread quickly
through the shoe and leather manrfacturing
district, then sbuth to the
Boston & Maine railroad tracks at
Jeffers n avenue and eastward to the
waterfront.
Late tonight fire brands carried into
I the business section on the north
j started a second fire at North street
a little later a tank of the Standard
: Oil company in the. extreme northj
west of th? city w aVaze and pre:,
^ntly a third fire WuS levelling the
j buildings in that vicinity,
i A determined eii'or: was made tj
^too [:o fire at th & Main'*1
stati n, c'osc to the centre o:' t ie ci'y
Several garages were dynamited af:?r !
; a tower in the railroad yard liad been I
' burned. I
The entire district occupied by th(>j
[ Italian and Greek colonies was de- J
: vas'atrl. Most of the 2.<K0 person &
. o hones in thai district were
i;.o:-ed l ;-."rari!y at the V. M. C
A., the H ate armory, police stations
| and other public buihiinirs.
j All rail.oads leading out of the
j city wore row.ied with refugees on
oot. in i bil i all scr
FAST TIME MAKE BY FIREMEN
(iood Records at Florence Tournament?Newberry
Wins in Hund
Heel Ila.e.
The State.
I?l AA Tim A O", T ? f V* rt rtA
i. i inivx, .j unc hi Lllc
Nation wagon i?nd hose contst toduy.
Greenwood won in the splendid time
of 31 seconds. Newberry gave an
exhibition, getting water -in 29 2-5.
The reccrds were as follows:
Chester, 34; Greenwood, 31; Marion,
31 2-5; La.urens, 35; Darlington, 34;
Florence No. 2, 33; Hartsville, 341-2.
Bishopville, Sumter, Abbeville, Bennettsville,
Florence,No. 1 and George*
town, no connection. y
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The following is the result of the
hand reel and grab reel-race; Hand
nose reel races, 100 yards?Sumter,
19; Columbia, 18 3-5; Newberry,
19 2-5; Georgetown, 20; Kingstree,
22 2-5. Columbia won first money ot
$75 and Sumter won second for $50.
/The grab reel races were as follows:
Sumter, 21; Columbia, 18; Newberry, ,
17 4-5. Newberry won first, $50, and
Columbia second, $25.
In the foot races, Paul Troutihan of
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Newberry won first, $15; time 11 seconds;
Kreps of Columbia was second,
$10, time 12.
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Columbia was the big winner of the
meet, the boys from the capital city
getting away with $360 in prizes.
The Florence baseball team won
the baseball game this afternoon, the
score being Sumter 5, Florence 7. The
feature of the game was the pitching
of Wilson for Florence.
conveyances. Many carried all t'cey
had saved of t'.:eir household possessions
wrapped in sheets and shawls
over their shoulders.
Fire Spreads Quickly.
Following the explosion in the factory
of the Korn Leather company th?
nre quiCKiy jumyeu iu auj<-'i.ii"5
erty. More than 20 factory buildings
and scores of dwellings and small
stores were quickly destroyed. Dur^
ing panic among employes, in the
Korn factory fallowing the explosion
one person was seriously hurt.
The first spreal of the fire was 0.1
the west side of the city at the foot
of Gallow^ hill. Territory about two
miles long and more than hali! a mile
i wide, fr m Proctor and Boston streets
, in tiie north, to Jefferson avenue on
the south, was devastated, in this ais
! trict are Proctor, Pope, Broad, Haw|
tiorne, Win:l>rop, Mt. Verncn, Endi?
( cott and Peabody streets, on which
I nearly all the structures were destroyed.
In the meantime falling embers
started fires in South Salem and the
more exclusive residential part of the
city. All the available fir.* fighting
apparatus was in the historic Gallows?
hill section, where it had t-espond^A
10 a general alarm and 'South Salem
was left unprotected.
spreads mere io?.
For several hours the fire in this
district was confined So a small area,
but as evening approached the flames
spread in all directions destroying
scores of residences in the district, including
many handsome homes on the
most fashionable thoroughfares in
Salem.
The city orphan asylum, sheltering
loO persons, was destroyed. All the
children were saved. (
The Salem hospital was the next
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prey of tue names, raueuo ?ac mmoved
on stretchers.
There was no apparatus here to
cbeck the flames, which licked up
scares of tenements and high wooden
apartment houses. St. Joseph's church
and the adjoining school and convent
buildings male ready fuel for the
fiames.
At the start the water pressure was
low and when t'.ie fight had become
d sperate a gieat water m?.in broke,
: 'ui .'riiig the firemen very helpless
Meantime calls for assistance had
een sent to nearby citi s and an
l < nor:no-..s quaiKltv of apparatus rei
. , t
j sponaea. i
Tire Manchester (X. tlEL) eagine^n<i<
rto..k to pump waUr from t'ne
c an. Hosron. Lyn and other cities
sent apparatus and details of police.
But the combined < ftorts of the greatest
aggregation or' Hre fighting machines
over s en l/ere were futi.'e and
v/] -:i darkness foil dynamite was