Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r Heavy Rains C Wit I Unprecedented Precipitation and Creeks Swell?Floods by Wind c TTnnrorpripntedlv heavy rains, which . IViiJf* vvvx-^. ? v v h^ve transformed creeks into rivers,! rivers into torrents and lowland into ' lakes, followed the tracks of the j coast hurricane which swept over South Carolina, starting at Charlesi ton Thursday night. The Pee Dee j section, which seems to have felt the j Jchief force of the disturbance, re- j (ports crops flattened, bridges swept1 away by raging streams, roads all; but impassable on account of debris i and railway communication badly | crippled. Thus far there nave been no re-1 ports of loss of life, but it is possible j that some lives have been lost in the j (j swollen streams. The rising 01 me rivers and creeks now becomes the most serious factor in the situation. The weather bureau has announced that warnings for the Santee, Wa IMMJREAT LOSS 15 CHARLESTON . (Sullivan's and Isle of Palms Fnseathed of Wind or Water. Jfegro Silled. (Charleston, July 14.?At 7 o'clock tonigfct Charleston was assured that it liad passed virtually unscathed j through the fury of the Caribbean! t hurricane which sti-uck it last night.; Only light damage ihas been suffered in the city and surrounding country and the summer resort colonies in me vicinity escaped practically untroubled. The wind fell at 1 o'clock last night and today it had not attained a higher rate t' an 42 miles an hour. Only one life was lost, a negro being killed last night by a live wire. Sullivan's Island was not harmed by the heavy storm last night. The island was not covered by water at i any time. Some damage was done to J the trestle of the electric railway, \ connecting the island with the main- j land, cutting off car service. i The Isle of Palms, a resort, north- | east of Sullivan's Island, suffered only! minor damage. Mayor Tristram T. j Hyde and his fishing party spent last night there. Word Of the party's safety was received this morning. UU1V %Jlie ucclcul nao icyvi tvu, a gro losing his life from contact with! a live wire. "Some anxiety was felt for the safe-J ty of Mayor T. T. Hyde and a party [ on a fishing trip, but it was rumored they had safely made the Isle of Palms. / i The Clyde liner lArapaho arrived safely early this afternoon from j - tt-Jll/\ XVrrr\ finao ao T*1 V 1 I ^avA.ovuviiic. a.' i ^ v I morning were successfully handled j by tiie department Some 1,500 local telephones were | disabled. Water front damage was j comparatively light, loss of river I boats being avoided by timely warn- j ing. Hold tight to your purse strings, its j coming, What! ! George Beoan in "Pasquale'' at the Arcade today (Monday). I FOLLY IN DEMAND FOR W U!-Ll I 1 - 111 ..II ? - I- A A T_ 11 nigni jusi as ffeii ask ucunuy iu n Washington, D. C.?To the public that pays every dollar of the railroad "bill (and forty-five cents of every dollar paid for transportation is for v/gg sy the leaders of the four brotherhoods of railway employees, o-r<a rtomnnfiiri? increased nav. "AiV twv O X * I aay: "All the railroads have to do to meet our demands for higher wages is to shorten their trains, move freight more rapidly, and escape the [penalty of overtime wages." The fallacy of this statemei. ~hich Is the last-diteh argument . i in support of the demand for increased rw&ges, well shown in the following ditorial which appeared in the iiirni.I?inarfnn Tl P, Timoe nf A 1Q under the heading "A Mad Freight Train Idea:" "Everybody in the ranks of the general public will agree with the railway managers that the campaign which the railway workers are wagf 1ng, particularly in the west, for shorter trains, while at the same time demanding higher pay- and fewer hours of work, is of all possible claims the moat preposterous. Indeed, in economI ics it is an ideal little short of mad. "The railroads have spent liunL 4Lreds of milions of dollars lowering ftk grades, eliminating sharp curves, , ome [ h Great Storm in Some Places?Streams Add to Damage Caused ' I ind Rain. teree. Catav.ba and Saluda rivers | stand, and re., orts from points on those streams indicate tliat the water* will be very i.'zh indeed. The precipitation was the heaviest etver seen in some sections. Florence had nearly 14 inches in nours anu Kingstree had more than tec. In Kingstree the drainage canal through the centre of the town lefts its banks and caused mu^. damage to property. Estimates of crop damage vary. Some reports have it that especially in the 'Fee Dee section the loss ha*i been terrible, while others indicate that first accounts were pessimistic. Reports showed that as the storm swept inland it brought its toll of * ?J tVi o carnage aiiu nicuiivcmcxivc w Piedmont, where rising streams embarrassed railway communication and damaged crops and bridges. \ JOHN H. CLARKE NAMED FOR BENCH dominated for Supreme Court 01 United States?Known as Progressfre Democrat. , Washington, July 14.?John Hessia Clarke, federal district judge at Cleveland, Ohio, was nominated b> President -Wilson today as an associate ins.tirp of the supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Evans Hughes to accept the Republican nomination for the presidency. Prompt confimation of the appointment by the senate is expected. The judiciary committee will meet Monday to consider it. Two years ago tno senate confirmed the nomination of Mr. Clarke as district judge after ati investigation had disposed of sugges tions that his service as counsel for railroads might have impaired his usefulness as a jurist. The president made his selection i after conferring today with the cabinet. Up to the last moment tht name of Judge Victor J. Dowling of the New York supreme court was seriously considered. Judge Clarke is a 'Democrat and for years was identified with progressive movements in Ohio, being associated with the late Tom Johnson, Newton D. Baker, now secretary of war, and other leaders of fthe party in his iState. Watch for big things in Newberry AATVk A 4- /\ TVA OO uvuic iv paoc. STIEFF I THE SOUTH'S MOST POPULAR PI A NO WritA fnr rnfnlno nnrl nrirp I list Box 165, COLUMBIA, S. C. IT TRAINS MADE BY UNIONS i etum To Sailing Boats And Ox Carts * ballasting roadbeds and putting in heavy rails, so that powerful locomotives, larger cars, and longer trains could be handled in one movement.' If this object had not been achieved) railway wages never could have been j advanced to the point at which they J already have arrived and traffic rates; never could have been held down i where they are today without the'* trVinlo railrnari svstem r?f tho TTnitoH I States being made a financial wreck.' "Any child can see that if, after! the principal railroads of the coun- j try have been reconstructed to haul the heavier tonnage in mass, you cut every freight train in half, the cost of operation must be increased stupendously, with two locomotives where one now does, with two engineers where one now does, with, two firemen where one now does, with twu UU11UUUIU1J) wucic unc Iiuw UUtJfc, with virtually two whole train crews where one now does, not to speak of the new equipment and the new terminal facilities that would be needed. "This proposal is not essentially different from urging that the world go back from the steamships of today to the sail barks of centuries ago, from the railroads themselves i to the stage coaches and ox carts of i the past. It is like suggesting that \ the farmer himself drive his wagon-; load of produce in small lots day aJf- i ter day to the distant market of the ! city instead of loading it in bulk into freight cars and shipping it all at once by rail." ROADS APPEALING < TO THE FARMERS i i mi manr naior UN nftut Itflldt I if Demands Are Granted The Farmers Will Have To Pay Big Part Of The Increase. TX7o cV?n-i rrf rvr* "Fk TTlAHO'h T7T1 tv xj. \~-. i. -? ers usually feel little interest in railway labor disputes and are disposed to think that such troubles are remote from them and cannot touch them directly. In the pending question between the Brotherhoods i of freight trainmen andvthe railways of the country the railways evidently are making special effort to inform the farmers on the points involved and to enlist their attention. | It is argued by the railroad managers that the final disposition of the dispute will be made by public sentiment. They reason that the farmer,' when it comes to a final "showdown," really controls not only the political power but the sentiment of nearly all the states. Therefore, they 5 ? 4- <-v VirvTOO are trying iu appeal tu mo sense. They are sending out a good deal of literature directed especially to the farmers?probably the first time such a course has been taken in any great labor struggle. They say they are convinced of the gene- j ral public's confidence in the horse i sense, the insight and the fairness of the American farmer, and that, there- (, fore, his influence must be powerful.' High Wages Now Paid | They are dwelling especially on the argument that the freight trainmen already are the highest paid laborers in the world. They submit figures to I show that in many instances freight train employees earn from 575.00 a month for the trainmen, or "brakeman" as they used to be called, to $250.00 a month for engineers, workinig from 22 to 25 days a month. They are asking farmers to inquire into the facts and convince themselves that most of the talk of excessive hours of labor on railways is empty and contradicted by the facts. More than sixteen hours of continuous work in railway service is forbidden by 'law. The instances of men kept on duty so long as sixeen hours are a very small fractional percentage of the total employment; they become less every year, and almost invariably are due to accident or some unusual weather conditions. The managers of the railway companies point out that the farmer himself accustomed to from twelve tc fourteen hours a day of steady worn I rarely earns in a year as much cash money as a trainman on duty from ten to twelve hours, and never continuously at work, can earn, resting from labor from one-fourth to onethird of his time. In the south it is a familiar maxim that "it takes thirteen months to make a cotton crop." The man who raises ten bales of cotton gets for it from $450.00 to $500.00, and from this must pay his fertilizer hiiic anH labor. The trainmen are said to average $SOO.OO a year, this being the estimate of the Brotherhood leaders themselves, and the engineers draw from $1,500.00 to $2,500.00 a year, the conductors and firemen earning wages between those of the trainmen and engineers. Farmer Vitally Interested Aside from the question of justice, j it is pointed out that the farmer's j direct interest in the matter is that j his welfare demands freight traffic adequate to the needs of the country, 1 and that whatever injures the railroads or hampers their operation or , prevents their development is a direct; injury to him. If the trouble should ! develop a general strike of the freight I train empl * yees, resulting in a tie-! up of traffic, the farmer would be unable to sjip out what he raises or j to get in what he wants. He will be 1 asked to consider whether the rail-; roads should be crippled by being! compelled to pay 25 per cent increase in wages to men already receiving ! far more than the average prosperous farmer, with resulting injury to ! the farmer himself?and if the rail- (I roads are compelled to grant the in- I i i ~ - A v ?:? I crease ana nave i.u raise iaen ueiguL rates, the farmer will have to pay a big part of the increase. The present agitation is nominally for the substitution of an eight-hour workday in place of the present ten-' Lour schedule, but in reality it is a move for an increase of wages.?1 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. + + +! + It is calculated that ;f a + + general tie-up and paralysis of *; + all freight traffic should result + j + from the demand of the freight +! + trainmen for an increase of 25 * | + per cent in their wages, a large + + number of the poorer people of + New York City would face star- + + vation within three days; in + + other words, these people have + J + available supplies of food for + j I ?fr not more than two days ahead. + I + Other large cities would lace * + like condition?. Milk supplies +, + would be cut off, and babies de- + + pendent on the daily milk jar +1 + for sustenance would be left +; + to perisfh. The distress would +; + reach all classes everywhere. + + + a ? ? 1 a t * r A J1 TP T tm T T V T T V nT TP ? ? sonross progressives to rally aroixd flac, Dauntless John >1. Parker, His Party iSlipped Away From Beneath Him, [ Calls New Convention, New Orleans. July ir>.?A statement and call "to the patriotic men and women of America" to hold a new national convention of the Progressive party in Chicago on August and nominate candidates for president and vice president and continue the party's existence as a distinct I political organization was issued i here tonight by John M. Parker, vico presidential nominee of the Progressive convention held in Chicago last June. He urges the Progressives to "eternally bury" the Bull Moose, which he asserts "led his loyal follow ers into uie wuuerness, ana to adopt j in its place the American eagle as the emblem of the party. Mr. Parker does not mention Col. Roosevelt or any other Progressive leaders or any candidates by name. He declares, however, that the Progressives had as supposed leaders "red blooded Americans" who promised with their life blood "to stay with the party to the finish," but that the party had been deserted by a large part of its officers, who could not stand the acid test. He charges the Phnnp 40 mMVUV AV CALDWEL / . "v Every day s once Sale thous> many values we every day a bigc siderably since ? tunity to show .1 mention a few c offered during < Colg? Value 25c, cut t Rose, Voilet, ( Baby Talcum, \ / i I 200 Silk Waists handsomely em plains, all sizes. Embrodiered 25 pieces beaui regular 25 c selle Greatest Hj This week we a hats and shapes out for the smal] all shapes. M New ^ot of Midd] TArifVi fpd. navv Ol Mat" 7 S at 49c, one at 95 ( Ladies Gauz Buy the "Fern W envelope. Two i New York. Ah* Caldwe The Ladies Store The 1 SHOP \ loaders for "steam roller reasons' have elected to be steam rolled,' anu , that the time has come when every , party working for human welfare i and the future of 'America should, unite against both dominant parties. j uUfL*mm Save your money, A Clean Sweep coming. m j '"Sudden Riches'' will be displayed at the Oprea House" tonight. Tuesday. with Robert Warwick in the leadins role. A miser leaves his fortune to his r.ephew. Robert, counting on the wealth wrecking the young man's , lite, the old miser thus hoping to get /v/\ T> r\ T-% A in n'if A o Y?/"} nubci l au mo ?? nc <aa , happy until they get the millions, when they fall. It is a good play. Gallant Confederate SoWier Dead, Jacob B. Addy, ex-Confederate soldier, well known farmer and a i Christian gentleman, died at the home of his son, Jas. B. Addy, near Peak, on Wednesday at the advanced age o. 89 years, 4 months and 13 days. Mr. Addy joined the Confederate army in answer to the call for volunteers in 1862, serving in Company C., 20th Regt., under Capt. G. Leapliart, until the surrender of the southern forces. He returned to his native heath and, together with his industrious wife, wlj^ was Miss Mahalie L. Setzler to whom he was married in 1849, began to build up Mail Orders I Jfc HAITI iii ix liniiij ;mce started 01 ands have taken ad are offering. W /er day, and have c Tuly 1st. Come gix you, we can save yu )f the many money our July Clearance ites Talcum Per 1 O/i v\ot* TW aj ivw pvi van<) jjthw Cashmere Bouquet Violet Monad, etc. Silk Waists 98c made of good qua broidered, some ^ $1.50 value cut to Flaxon Reduce* tiful Flaxons, strip r, clearance price yc it Sale Known to Newbe re making a special that sold as high as I amount of only 9 liddy Blouse Sal f Blouses made of g< copen collar, all siz< c. jauze vests oc e, 10c seller reduce< ^aist" always sold in lew styles every we rays $1.00. 11 & Halti\ Wooltex Store 1216-20 Mai VITH US BY MAIL. WE PR liis lost fortunes. He w.is successlui as a farmer, wnich occupation he pursued until his declining Leaiui some years ago. and until the death of his wife, which time he took up his residence with his son, Jas. B. Addy, former member of the lower linn co f rAvii T av in crt/~?n iiV'UOV I. Will Mr. Addv was the father of six children, five sons and one daughter, all of whom survive, except one son George Addy. who died at the age of 12 years. The living children are: J W'jir Addy, of Lexington; H. Frank and Thos. Addy, of Newberry; .las. B. Addy and Miss Elly Addy, both of Peak. The remains of the deceased were laid to rest in the St. Jacob's church yard on Thursday, with funeral services conducted by the Rev. J. J. Long, assisted by the Rev. J. L. Cromer. Mr. Addy had been a life long member of St. Jacob's. In the death of iMr. Addy, Lexington county loses one of her best ' * ? .Tt Citizens.?i^exmgioii xsi&yaiuii. CITIZENS' MEETING. (A. meeting of the citizens of Xewberry school district is called to meet on Tuesday, July 25,1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the court house, to hear the annual report of the board of trustees. A full attendance is urged as this is yery important matter. I "W. A. McSwain. Chairman Board of Trustees, Given Careful Attention IWANGER ir July Clearvantaae of the e try to make lit price? con)e us an opporu money. We i saving values tvder tfylis, La France , Eclat, Tinted, ility silk, some ;vith frills, and 98c each. J i? 1Q. VJ 1 IU 1J7C 1U ?es and checks, 1 19c. / ! iry People ? ?a 1 A y-J run uu iduic3 $4 to be closed 8c. All colors, e ood middy quill, ;s, two lots, one > j to only 5c the "Seal-pac" ek direct from , vanger / n St. Newberry^^!. ~ J M ..^i: