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WILL-KNON HOTEL BURNS TO GROUND Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort Destroyed. MAY BE LOSS OF ' LIFE ,Unable L ,st Night to Check Every nne-Building Valued at $,000,000-Simall Insurance. Old Point Comfort, Va., March 7. 'The Chamberlin hotel, famous summer and winter resort, erected by congrer sion permission on the government reservation at Fortress Monroe and nationally known for years by rea son of the prominent character of its clientile, was totally destroyed this afternoon by fire that startnd in a room on the ground floor at 4:40 o' clock, So rapidly was the spread of the flames through the hotel that in a -ittle over two hours there was no thing left but scanty ruins. The Cham berl in was valued aa S2,000,000 and! there was $350,000 insurance. It is reported tlt of the, 200 guest and 170 employees in the hotel at the time pf the fire several are missing buL ley are as ye tt unidentfield. AM P1 Of My Litt How many call boast 40-Pistons, 40-Fenders, 50-Springs, 10-Wheels, Complete Generators Starters, Transmissions, JDiiferenti;als, Clutches, Carburetors. I have all these in sto parts besides, and my st CoIplete every day by ad I don't just tell you tt I haven't the line, but I Iy vlock is not complete S $500.00 a month. Your i B L.A Cars of C SUMTE SSTOI Sand look 0v4 I have to sh aour line ne> Icome to tot Ibe you are I market jus~ % what we ha Sbut would g a privilege ar I of showing I anyway.W a you only su a Will give y I Prices and a ways in line I us when in I B.M Ba Fire departments from ,Uampton and other points in the Virginia pen. insula were rushed to the scene but were unable to do anything to stop the rapid headway. In addition to the Chamberlin th re were destroyed the large general stora adjacent and the Adams Express com pany building. Boats for Baltimore and New York and other points which were to have called at Old Point Coin fort this afternoon did not doe but continued on their way lighted by the glare from the burning of the famous pile. During the excitement incident to the sudden alarm and the reported de struction of the hotel several women guests put themselves in extreme peril in efforts to return to their rooms to save belonginks, jewels, etc. SeVeral of these were rescued by firemen who took them down from the halls by flame and smoke. The hotel was on the eve of the Eas ter season which draws many guests from all parts of the country and in a few days,there would h:I been sev eral times as many guests i., the hot'd asc were caught there in the fire. Many of these gucsts lost much personal vroperty of which no estimate can now be md e. ;tOUD le Stock RoomLS of more than: ;k and hundreds of other ock is being made more ditions. at I have a line of parts; have the parts, however [r I would not be adding ispection invited. LND haracter R, S.C. erwhat we i ow yui ra time you . vn. It mayi not in the ' ~t flow for I tve for sale,,i ~ive us theei d pleasurei you thru # e will show ( h goods asi ou service 1 terms al ~ . Stop witi town. Mai & Si l.: - It is inpossible tonight to ascertain definitely whethere or not there was loss of life, reports of which came from two firemen active in the early battle to save the structure. One of theqe men says that when he was di rectiing a stream of water i:to an up per window he heard a scream from the flames within. Another declareds that he saw for a moment an elderly man accompanied by an elderly woman appear at a window which was al most instantly obscured by smoke and that he did not Eee that they emerged from the building. In the confusion of the sudden alarm the hotel regis ter was either forgotten and burned or had been locked in the hotel safe. Army flicers of the reservation and the hotel management Ldeclared that so far as they have been able to ascertain there has been no loss of life but aree unable to state positively that there were no fatalitica. The total loss including the hotel with other buildings burned and the personal property of the guests is roughly estimatcd at between $3,000, 000 anld $4,000,000. One very weathy woman, Mrs. Schiwrnits, is rumored to h:ve suffered the loss of $100,000 in diamonds. Amonge the prominent guests who were present, at the hotel were: Maj. Gen. George 0. Squires, Chief of the United States aircraft department; Mr and Mrs. Schwirnitz of New York; Gereral and Mrs. Patterson of Al bany; Oliver S. Bond of Detroit; Mrs. Clarence Kenyon of New York. At the outbreak of the fire the of ficers took charge of the reservation an] excluded all except firemen an:1 newspaper men. Fire companies came from Camp Eustis Langloy field, New port News, Hampton Ana otner towns and there was a strenuous but unavail ing fight. Guests of the hotel are tonight be ing cared for by army officers and others who haVe homes within the res ervation. The Chamberlin was built in the early '80s by John Chamberlin, fa mous in his day as proprietor of Chain berlin's, a restaurant, at Washington, which was the gathering place of me:1 high in public life. A seven story frame structure, it s'nod on the water front, close by the fort, and in late years there was talk of raising it to make room for d'V(lopment of t13 army post. But the hotel become such a vital part of army an-t navy life at Old Point that it remained. Before the war when the fleets sail ed in and out of Hampton Roads the Chamberlin generally was filled with officers' wives, and the greatest n'val assemblage came here to witness the departure of the American fleet on its voyage around the world. Army officers who took charge of the reservation immediately after the fire started said tonight the hotel pro. bably would not be rebuilt, and cer tainly not on the old site. PARCEL POST MARKETING OP SIRUP BRINGS PROFIT. Maple, cane, andl sorghum siru. 3 may be really shipped by parcel post if properlyy prepared for shipment, accordling to investigators in the Bu rea of Markets, United States De partment of Agriculture, who have n.adle experimental shipments from muany parts of the country, over maily different mail routes. Of 394 ship ments only 31 showecd any material loss because of leakage and this was duec to unusually rough handling. Th'le average dlistance co~,eredl by these shipments was greater than siruips are likely to be sent by mail under ordinary conditions. Two' types of 1-gallon tin contain (ers were found satisfactorily for par cel-post shipments. Both types have screw caps andl are provided with outer cartons of corrugated paper hoardl. Snugly fitting 'l(eces of cork in the caps) cover the opening in the cans when screwedl down tightly. Such packages properly wvrapped and se curely tied, marked "fargile " as re quiredl by the postal regulations for packages containing liquids, will carry without dlanger of leakage in the mails. While the 1-gallon can is most conmmonly used, any size up to 5 gallons may be shipped under the present parcel-pot wveight limit of 70 pounds. Light but substantial wood en crates should be suppliedl for the larger containers. Sugestions on obtaining customers and dlealing with them by parcel-post may be found in Farmers' Bulletin 922, "Parcel-Post Bunsiness Methods," which also suggests how consumers S"t in touch with producers. A this bulletin will be sent free -ipt of a request addressed to ited States Department of Ag e, Washington, D). C. 1919 wheat crop, according to received by the United States oent of Agriculture, is the see * est ever grown in Kansas, the f1914 being the only one one *ass it. It is also the largest crop~ harvested in any State -ar, the nearest competitor pro only 43 per cent. as much as I Your S4 You need the benefit The bank needs co-or a welfare of the communit, for yourself. Old age needs ready x a. Sickness needs a dc doctor needs his fee. Earning power needs A bank-account-man & nothing from anyone. Home Ban Frm ..M We. are agei o Farm 12 We ae A geind for oeofth ofFarmah The ae i clary eeds a Bank! of an account. >eration for, the y and obviously REMEMBER noney. THESE ctor, and the AND Save! saving power. needs to ask k & Trust Co. I achinery ats in this county e very best lines lachinery in the E RY L INE PU of .TORS, CUTTERS, PLANTERS, )RILLS, Etc. st anything in the ne line.4 us first. & R igby ye Stock Dealers