The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 05, 1925, Image 7
Kir* Ruin* Stock of Goods.
Fire was discovered in the store of
W. I, Biackmon Jr., on East Marion
stm t a little aft?r 11 o'clock Monday
night and the prompt response and
effective work of the Are department
in ? luing the flames within the
(Milding prevented what otherwise
might have -been a most disastrous
tir* . The store room la just behind
the drug store of Hayes & Gregory
and there are three other rooms in
the same row with thg Biackmon
j tore > all occupied. A strong wind
A'(is blowing at the time and the time
ly discovery of the fire was indeed
very fortunate. Mr. Biackmon who
stated that he was -in the store about
tin o'clock, was unable to account for
the oritfin of the fire. He had partial
insurance on the stock, which is prac
tically a total loss from both fire and
water damage. The building, which
belongs to J, C. <Cook? was also con- !
siderably damaged.? Kershaw Era. !
The
BULL'S EYE
Editor mnd Qcntrmt Manaqer
WILL ROGERS 7
Another "Batt" Durham
advertisement by 'Will Rogers.
Ziegfeld Folfies and acreen star,
?nd leading American humorut.
More coming. Watch for than.
What Good
Does It Do
You to Know
Something?
* Advertisements in all Papers and
Magazines are all trying to appeal
to the intelligent. Now this one is
for the great majority. Reliable
authority, in fact it was the Draft
Boards during the War, figured out
that the intelligence of the average
Adult of this Country was that of a
13 year old Child. (Now that is
giving us the best of it because a 13
year old Child is about the smartest
thing we have in this Country), but
the 13 year old Child they referred
to was one who had been raised on
the milk of human Kindness (which
is mostly Water) and weaned on a
Hard Boiled Egg. You know jhe
smarter the Man the more dissatis
fied he is, so cheer up, let us be
Happy in our ignorance. What do
*c care how little we know if yrc
eet what we want? "Bull" Dur
ham needs no Literacy Test, it is
with minority in quality, and with
the majority in usage.
P." s. This last sentence is all that
*avcd the add. >v.
P- P. S. There will* be another jpiecc
here two weeks from n cm. Look for h.
SIXTY-FIVE YEMS ABO!
In 1860 a blend of tobacco
was bom? 4 'Bali" Durham.
On quality alone It hat
won recognition wherevei
tobacco known. It still
offers the public this? more
flavor, more enjoyment and
a lot more money left at the
end of a week's smoking.
TWO SMS for IS emit
m efgarvHttfor ISoMfa
it
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HARDEST WORK IN WORLD
T* ^ , ? |
Down in Stokehold of Great Liner h
, Men Feed Ever-Hungry Fire*
pr I i m
The men who do the hardest work
in the world stand in little groups on
South street east from the Battery
basking in the spring sunshine And
cursing the tastelessness of American
post-war beer, says a story in the
Sunday New York World. The num
ber of them seen during one after
noon contradicts the rumor that the
days of the coal-heaving marine fire
man are numbered and that his placo
is being taken by thfc oil-burning five
wan.
All Huggons, born and raised in tho
gray shadows of tfc'e Liverpool docks,
and Jack the "Yank" first conscious
.of- life in the tangled back ways of
Boston's waterfront, do not know thai
the tight aches of their backs are con-,
trolled by important men who play !
chess with the world's oil supply.
They hear rumors that oil is obtaina
ble at ports of rail of major import
ance and that many of the smaller
freight and passenger lines have not
only stopped converting their coal
burning ships into oil-burners, but are
actually building ships equipped to
burn coal. They are glad, not because
they have qn articulate pride in doing
the hardest work in the world, but be
cause jobs will be more plentiful and
they are less likely to have to panhan
dle dimes on Broadway during the
slack winter months.
Steamships plow the Seven Sea? be
cause the stoker, "The Hairy Ape",
still finds himself up the blind alley
of industrialism and is willing to
slave eight hours a day in a tempera'
ture ranging from DO degrees to more
}*than 150 degrees Fahrenheit for as
mueh as a month at a time, Firemen
on American Shipping Board boats
receive ?67.60 a monfh and work
under the three watch system as do
all firemen and coal -passers sailing
under the flags of socallcd civilized
nations. A coal passer* or "trimmer"
receives $60. Wages- are slightly less
on all independently owned lines ex
cept the Standard Oil, which usually
meets the shipping board wages.
At sea the firemen and coal passers |
work four hours and sleep the drug
ged^ sleep of exhaustion for eight
hours before returning to the fire
hold for another four-hour watch.
During one comparatively short voy
age one fireman handles enough coal
to keep a fair-sized town warm during
a hard winter. The bending strain of
his back moves the delicate dials in
the engine room and the ship drives J
across the Atlantic because of his
imperfect philosophy that "some one
has to do the bloomin' work."
The first watch is drawing to a
close by the time the penciled flicker
of Ambrose light is lost astern. Most
of the 32 firemen and coal passers
who compose the soeond watch of a
large liner sit about on the canvas
covered hatches of the aftetdeck and
gaze at each other dumbly. They
wear ' tight-fitting black caps with
short visors, heavy woolen sweat
shirts, much washed dungarees and
he^vy ammunition boots. Knitted
"sweat rags" are twisted about their]
nicks. They spit, watch the gray
scud race by the rail or swear dully
at one another. They pay no heed to
the steerage passengers, who wfttch
them from a respectful distance. One
thing may enliven their wait for the
bell that sends them below. One of
the passengers may have brought his
seasickness above decks. Slow grins
spread as they watch the luckless pea
ant grope toward the rail. One of
them shoves him with playful malice
"What's the matter, John, sick?"
A bell clangs far forward. They
arise and hasten through a door which
bangs to and fro as the ship catches
the' long heaves of the ojjen Atlantic
They cluster for a moment about a
perpendicular iron ladder as the men
of the first watch ascend in tired file.
Burned out eyes, black, grimed faces
and red >lips strain upward toward
light and air. Blasts of hot air come
Up from the bowels of the ship and
far below sounds the scrape of steel
shovels.
The last man of the second watch
swings down into the hold and the
men break to their posts at a jog
trot. Not a moment is to be lost. Al
ready the fires yawn for more coal
and the gong calls sternly for the
first "pitch" of the watch.
A large liner has from three to
five fire holds.* They extend the
width of the ship at its widest beam
and arc usually about 12 feet long.
They are connected by a narrow pas
sage which runs keelways between the
towering boilers. Each hold has its
coal bunker from which the coal is
trumped by -the coal passers, who
damp it in froT>t>i>f the firemen. Elec
wire, vie futilely with the gloom of
steam and coal dipt. The muffled
beat of the engines trembles distantly
white bfcxsts of heat lesp ft csa
the fires a* the doors are flung open.
|? Certaiu fires must be '" cleaned.
I frflU ttia flrUflL
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$30,000 LOSS IN SUMTBR
N?w Mud titled Care (jo During Blat?
In Afternoon
Sumter, May 28.? Fire starting in
the rear of the Kryatal Motors Com*
puny here this afternoon practically
ruined the stock of new and old cars
in that building and damaged the
stock; of furniture of W. H, Shelley
& Son, next door, to very great ex*
tent, totalling an estimated loss of
$30,000 or more.
The building damaged was owned
by C. G. Rowland & Sons, about
?10,000 being the estimated damage
on them.
Miss Kristlanson, owner of the
Krystal Motors Company, stated that
the stock in her place was valued at
approximately $12,000 with practi*
cully a total loss. In the stock were
a new Durant and two new Star cars.
Miss Kriatianson and her entire force
were away on a fishing trip, and she
did not know of her loss until her
return tonight.
W. II, Shelley stated that he esti
mated his loss at about $8,000 or one
third the value of the stock, from
water and smoke, as the fire did not
get into his store, The Misses Wilkes,
a millinery store; was also damaged
to fi considerable extent, tne stock
being moved across the street.
Several offhees in adjoining build
ings also suffered nominal loss from
water and smoke. The fire started
about 2:30 p. m. and spread rapidly
and the firemen did splendid work
in confining the blaze to the one
building.
Winter Home Horns at Aiken
Aityen, May 29.? Whitehall, the
"winter home of Abram Shapiro, of
Boston, was completely destroyed by
fire Jiere tonight. Only one part of
the furniture was saved. Whitehall
was located on a ninety acre tract of
land on Whiskey Road in front of
Sermata, a preparatory school for
girls, an^j' near the Palmetta golf
links. ' It was in the midst of the
winter colony. The building was con?
s true ted eighteen 'years ago at a cost
of $122,000. It was insured for $100,
000, the building and contents.
firemen stab at stubborn clinkers
with eight-foot slice bars. Sparks fly
as the slowing coals jump out of the
doors to. the deck. Clouds of steam
arise as the coal passers douse them
with buckets of water.
The firemen dodge through the
gloom as the trimmers heave the
smoking clinkers into barrows and
wheel them across the hold. They are
shoVeled into huge canvas bags and
thrown over the side. Some ships are
equipped' with pneumatic ash lifts,
but the majority still use the cum
bersonVe sacks. These are tossed be
low' as .soon asi they are emptied and
the trimmers duck them mechanically
as they drop to the deck.
- The cleaning of the fires completed,
all hands settle down to the steady
grind of the watQb. The coal passer^
hurry across the hold with heaped up
barrows of coal, which .they dump be
fore the doors., At the clang of the
gong the firemen throw open the
doors and, with beautiful long lunges,
send the coal whirling across the
'fires. The sweat pouts in black riv
eulets from the ends of their noses
and they grunt ,unintelligible warn
ings to the' coal passers, who tread
wearily behind them. Some ships do
not have gongs to time the pitches.
On such ships the chtef fireman or
^'leading hand," claps his hands and
shouts "fire". Large ships average
about 13 pitches a watch.
The work becomes harder As the
hours of toil sap the strength of the
men. The chief fireman or one of the
water tenders keeps his eye glued on
the steam gauge. One moment of neg
ligence and an engineer comes run
ning in from the engine room saying
strange and awful things. One man
"soldiering" on his job or craftily
fasting his \y^?rk off on his neigh- J
bor Is enough to cause warning i
trembles on the dial.
?
Deaths are not uncommon during
trips thryugh the tropics or even '
across the Atlantic. A trimmer is 1
missing and searchers discover him
?wandering blindly in n bnnker in the
last stages of delirium. He is hoisted I
top side, dosed by the .ship's doctor j
and left to his fate. He die*, or re
covers in proportion to the number
of years which he has-spent burning
out his heart before the fires.
Firemen and trimmers work strip
ped to the waists only in story books.
The fireman would as readily think
of removing his shirt as he would
thifik of going up into the first class
dining room for dinner. During the
closing pnoments of the watch the men
revive a little with ^he prospects of
the last pitch. The trumntia prepare
the ^nubbins of coal {or the following
watch and are exhorted by the chief
fireman to leave thfcir successors a
"good waUii." Thai is, a auffictent
ly large pile of coal to last until the
fires are cleaned, when the next watch
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THE BIGHAM CASK
Thirty-Seven Exceptions Filed By
Attorneys of Noted Prisoner
Columbia, May 29.-~-Ait&her mile
stone was reached today in the case
of Edmund D. Bigham, Florence coun
ty man, who ha* three times been
sentenced to die for the alleged mur
der of his brother, L. Smiley Higham,
in January of 1021, and who is charg
ed also with the murder of his mo
ther, his sister and the two small
adopted sons^of the latter.
The formal appeal from the ver
dict of "guilty" returned last Oc
tober by a jury of Horry county far
mers after a two weeks' trial at
Conway was formally entered today
in the office of the clerk of the South
Carolina Supreme Court, which has
already had the Bigham case before
it in some phase five times. Thirty
seven exceptions are noted in the ap
peal, which was filed by former Judge
Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, who was
associated with A. L. King of Flor
ence in the defense.
Whether or not Solicitor L. M.
Casque, who, with Philip H. Ar
rowsmith, of Florence, has fought
the long legal battle to send Big
ham to the chair, would attempt' to
have the Supreme (Court hear the
appeal at nexj, term, which is sche
duled for the week of June 8, was
not known here today. The docket for
that term was announced this week,
prior to the completion of Bigham's
appeal, hut it was said, under a rule
of the court, a case that has come up
on a second or later appeal can be
given precedence over other cases, al
though they muy have been entered
first on the docket. The next regular
sitting of the court will not be held
until October.
Notice of intent to appeal was
given immediately after the verdict
was returned agrfinst Bigham, but
the amount of testimony taken
during the trial was so vast that
it required the court stenographer
a number of monhs to .complete the
transcript as a part of the appeal pro
cedure. Since that trial when Judge
Hayne F- Rice sentenced Bigham to b?
electrocuted on October 21, -the de
fendant has been in a cell of the
death house at the penitentiary here.
Previous to his second trial he had
spent approximately two j/eats in
the death house.
The 10 year old Florence farmer,
son of a former state senator, was
first convicted and given the death
penalty in Florence county in April
of 1921, shortly after the tragedy
which resulted in the death of Mrs.
Dora Bigham, his mother; Mrs.
Margie Black, his sister; Leo and
John McCracken, adopted sons of
Mrs. Black, and his older brother,
L Smiley Bigham, surveyor and
farmer. -That tragedy wiped out
the Bigham family, with the excep
tion of Edmund, and a brother, Dr.
Cleveland Bigham, who4 fled the state
several years ago while out on bond
EXCURSION!
Washington, D. ?. Richmond, Norfolk
Portsmouth, Va<
Friday, June 12th
Round Trip / 1 A M n n \] (Proportional
Fare From v/ J\ IT* Lf Ij 11 Other Points)
TO
Washington - - ? $12.00
Richmond .... - 9.50
Norfolk ------ 9.80
Portsmouth 9,50
Return Limit June 1G
Tickets and information from any A. C. L. Agent or
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE
Uneasy
Tight Feeling
"I used Thedford's Black
Draught first (or constipa
tion," said Mrs. 0. & Buntln,
of R. F. 1>. 6, 8tarkvllle, Miss.
"I would (eel dull, stupid, and
have severe headaches, even
feverish. , I had an uneasy,
tight feeling In my stomach.
1 read quite a hit about
BLACK-DRAUGHT
Liver Medicine
I began using it and soon my
bowels acted regularly and I
was greatly relieved. 1 used
It every once In a while for
about 18 years.
"About two years ago I
found I tfas having Indiges
tion, a tight smothering in
my cheat, then severe pain,
especially after eating sweets.
I commenced taking just a
pinch of Black-Draught after
meals, and by doing this I
could eat anything.
"1 gave Black-Draught to
my children for colds and
headaches. I can certainly
recommend It."
Black-Draught is used, with
satisfaction, by millions.
Get Thed ford's.
Sold Kverywhere
E-Hl
following his conviction in connec
tion with the shooting: to death of his
wife.
An appeal to the supreme court
was taken and was denied, with the
result that the sentence of death was
once again imposed. Later, however,
largely on a plea of after-discovered
evidence, u motion for a new trial way
successful and upon a change of venue
being granted the case was moved to
Horry county.
Bigham has maintained that he
is innocent, and in his defense has
set up the theory that Smiley com
mitted suicide after, shooting the
other members of the family.
The Increase of Crime
Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, for
mer circuit judge and one of the lead
ing lawyers of the statu, in u strik
ing address at Greer called attention
to the fact that the enormous crime
wave is not decreasing although the
state is spending an unprecedentedly
Immense amount on education of its
children. The average home, school r
and church are falling short of their
opportunity and duty, he, decided,
adding that the only remedy is for
each to "teach the oncoming gener
ation the right human relationship."
"Whoever thoughtfully considers
this perplexing problem will reach
the conclusion that, however much
it may help toward solution, educa
tion is not the answer. Education
would be far more effective in build
ing up the right sort of citizenship
if lessons in the value of good char
acter and good moral^and the neces
sity of religion were more directly
and thoroughly stressed in all our
schools. However, v the problem can
not be solved by the schools alone.
There must indeed, be a moral and
religious revival throughout the state
if the present deterioration and de
cay arc to be stopped and if immor
ality and crime are to be checked.".
? South Carolina Gazette.
? Potato flowers rarely set true fruit
inclosing seed, because nearly all
patatoes are female. Good potato
pollen, capable of fertilizing flowers,
is very rare.
TJ/lcrf / f/l VlOYirllp Pi^ss of traffic, the driver of a
vU ilclllvliv Ford experiences little strain and effort.
He finds that its simplified control and quick get-away enable him to thread
the crowded thoroughfares with an ease that only a Ford can give.
He finds that the problem of parking, which proves so serious in a large,
city, is of little consequence to him because of the simplicity with which
a Ford may be maneuvered back and forth into a very small space.
4, Many owners of larger cars use a Ford for daily city driving because of
its easy control. Good will towards this car it increasing year after year
because it has proved to be a sound motoring investment for everyone.
Detroit
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Camden, S. C.'
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