The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 04, 1911, Page 2, Image 2
WHERE THE COBS GO.
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More Than 26 Million Were Used in
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Missouri for Pipes.
A business of twenty-six and onehalf
million corn-cob pipes netted the
seven factories engaged in their manufacture
in 1910 a total of $450,418.
This is according to the statistics of
Labor Commissioner Hiller. On this
+V./-V iroin rwckv thf> niltnut. Of
Uitsia me gum wf v? vuv ,
109 is $2,000. And 1909 was the
previous banner year.
In cob pipes alone the production
of 1910 amounted to 26,455,584, all
made from Missouri corn cobs. It
took
94 ordinary size freight cars to
haul this quantity to market. Fourgr*
.. .
teen ordinary cob pipes weigh a
pound. Figuring thus, the many
million pipes weighed 1,888,248
pounds. When 20,000 pounds of
pipes are piled into a car it makes a
. very bulky load. Many of the pipe
factories turned out wooden pipes
" - also. This production amounted to
397,752. And there also were 1,'350,500
extra stems, 190,944 pipe
-cleaners and 50,000 piths turned out
^ in 1910.?The Missouri Ruralist.
|| Way Out of Trouble.
^ New York, April 27.?The plan for
the establishment in the city of a
central office or clearing house for
cotton hills of lading, as decided on
at a conference of bankers, railroad
officials and a representative of the
Liverpool cotton bills of lading con
ference has been approved by nearly
all the Southern and Southeastern
cotton-carrying railroads. None have
g|p:. disapproved the plan, but several
^ have not been heard from.
Fred L. Keen, vice president of the
Bankers' Trust company, who is
r chairman of the committee having
Bp;'' the matter in charge, started last
night for Nashville to attend a meeting
(if the executive council of the
^ American Bankers' association and it
* .-V: Is expected that by the time he returns
all the rest will have been
heard from favorably and steps may
IT be taken for the establishment of the
central office. The prospect is
therefore that at last a way has been
ss&V. found out of the difficulties that
^ arose last year when English and continental
bankers suffered losses
through the issue of fraudulent bills
jgf of ladings, and there will be absolute
p| harmony in the handling of the new
|f cotton crops.
?Pv:i" His Frankness Won.
!The late Senator Dolliver s^id that
In politics it paid to be frank and
honest with the people.
"My predecessor in the senate," he
said, "was John H. Gear. On one occasion
the prohibition spirit was running
high, and a public meeting was
held, with a well known Quaker as
chairman. Gear was invited to the
meeting. He accepted the invitation.
The old Quaker called him to the platform
and said:
" 'We learn that thou dost not belong
to any temperance society and
also that thou dost drink liquor at
thy discretion. Is this true?'
, " 'Every word of it is true,' replied
Gear, 'but did you ever hear of my
doing anything dishonorable?'
" 'Nay, Mr. Gear,' replied the old
Quaker chairman?'nay, we have
l; . never heard anything else to thy disIfe'Scredit.
Thy frankness is more to be
commended than thy habits. But
U-A . thou hast not lied to us, and we will
|^/\> support thee.'
!*' "And they did," said Senator Dolliver,
"and elected him too."?WashWfe>.
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K i RAID "DOCTOR'S" HOUSE.
Atlanta Police Arrest Woman Sus
pected of Infanticide.
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Atlanta, Ga., April 27.?Suspicion
that criminal operations and infant
murders had taken place there led to
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a police raid to-day upon the home
of "Dr." Rachel Lynn, spiritualist and
midwife, in a fashionable section of
Atlanta, and the arrest of the Lynn
woman and two of her negro ser-if
vants. "Disorderly conduct" will be
* s*. the
specific charge against her wrhen
she is arraigned before Judge Broyles
to-morrowr morning, but the police
state that she will be held upon a
more serious charge if they are able
to produce in court the testimony
upon wrhich the arrests are based.
The woman stoutly denies all allegations
against her, and upon advice
of her lawyer, refuses to discuss
her case. She is a woman 67 years
old, and has lived here many years.
Her grandson, Charles Lynn, aged 12
and two white women are being held
as witnesses.
FOUR PERSONS DROWN.
Heavily-laden Boat Founders in Severe
Gale in Choctaw River.
Pensacola, Fla., April 27.?Loaded
to its capacity with 5,000 barrel
! cargo of naval stores, the river
steamer Belle, from Varnon, Fla., to
Pensacola, sank in a severe 50-mile
gale yesterday in the Choctaw river,
and four lives were lost.
Capt. Fred Burlison, of Pensacola,
j Engineer M. Belle of Vernon and two
j children, names unknown, were
I drowned with the sinking steamer.
All of the bodies were recovered.
Several members of the crew and two
passengers barely escaped the fate
[ of the unfortunate four.
The vessel and her cargo probably
will be a total loss. The Belle was
one of the largest steamers in the
| local river traffic, and was valued at
1 $18,000. She was built at Vernon in
1903 and had a gross tonnage of 74.
Four Women Arrested.
Knoxville, Tenn., April 27.?Today
four women were arrested here
charged with decoying Effie Hydrick
of Spartanburg, aged about 18 years,
into a house of ill fame. The four
women arrested are Nellie Gray,
Pearl Minnick and Hattie Wilson, of
Asheville, and Pearl Mayness, of
Knoxville. They arrived in Knoxville
last night with the Hydrick girl
and took her to the house of Pauline
Jones, a house of ill repute, where
they were found by officers to-day.
The Hydrick girl said she went to
Asheville to visit Nellie Gray, and
stopped at a hotel there. One night
she said, a carriage came for h^r and
she was told that the Gray woman
had sent for her. She was driven to
a house of ill fame and kept there
until brought to Knoxville. The women
will he arraigned before the
United States commissioner here.
A Murder in the Clouds.
There is a man living to-day who
has gone through the whole thrilling
horror-filled experience of killing a
man in the clouds. The marks of
grief and woe on his face and his
shattered nerves tell the whole story.
Robert F. Scanion was known
through the Middle West as one of
the most daring and even foolhardy
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aeronauts ana paracnute jumpers m
all the country. Rarely was a day
too windy or district too dangerous
for him to make his ascension according
to contract and on time.
Then in a day, in an hour, it was all
changed.
It was during fair week, at Cahokia,
111. People from all the surrounding
country and towns had
come in on th* last day of the week
to make merry when Scanion was
billed to make a balloon ascension
and parachute leap.
He himself superintended the filling
of the balloon with hot air and
coal gas by throwing light wood and
coal oil on the fire in the furnace a
few yards from the balloon. The
gas was sent into the canvas bag
through a tunnel and a pipe, the
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ing. The gas bag began to expand,
puffing up in little jerks almost like
the beating of a great heart. As it
began to expand the people packed
in closer and shouted -out in exf
!
citement. Around the balloon like
a fringe were rows of the hags of
sand to weight it down, and in ad-j
dition men from the crowd were
pressed in to hold the guy ropes
that the last possible mitre of gas
might be got in before it should be
released for its shoot up in the air.
The Balloon is Inflated.
Slowly the balloon rose until its
tail brushed the ground bearing itself
for a flight like some great creature
of the air. Scanion in his
tights and spangles had to keep
running from one side of the balloon
to the other and then out to the
furnace to give orders to his assistants.
It was hard work and the
thing might go wrong and that the
ascension might be a failure. Little
by little he ordered the men standing
around the balloon, their arms
upstretched holding the guy lines, to
slack their ropes. As the great bag
tugged the men would be lifted off
their feet, the balloon rolling from
side to side as though drunk.
Stretched out on the ground was
the parachute fastened to the bag of
the balloon so that when the balloon
shot up it would be swinging direct,
ly under it, fastened only by one
rope. A cord led up to a knife so
that when the aeronaut wanted to
descend, he would have to but jerk
the cord, cutting the rope and float
down to earth and safety. Under
the parachute the trapeze bar was
hanging, a bright brass rod on which
Scanion was to hang and go through
his gymnastics while being wafted to
the clouds.
As the bag straightened up it began
to tug so that the farmers and
townspeople swinging on it for ballast
began to grow afraid and anxious
to release their hold.
"Hey, Mac," he called to his assistant,
"throw in another chunk!"
Mac knew what that meant, and
on the fire tossed a small bucket of
coal oil. A blaze of fire leaped ]
through the tunnel and the balloon
tore itself out of the hands of the !
ballast men. The balloon wobbled I
up. i
A muttering shout ran through <
the crowd for the tension was at its j
height, and a man from their midst 1
was about to be whisked up into the i
heavens. Women threw up their
hands and shouted out words of
warning. j
"Hold on tight," called out an old j
man leaning on a gnarled cane for ]
support. i
"Oh, I know he will be killed,"
sobbed a woman, turning away her
eyes. ]
"Let Go, or You Will be Killed!" .
But all'this was met with at every ;
performance and served in no way to
unstring Scanion's nerves. All his ;
mind and energies were bent on
clearing the buildings and tree tops, i
"Let her go, boys," he called out
over the exclamations of the people,
and the cracking of the fire. "Cut
loose."
Running back Scanion picked up
the brass trapeze rod and seated
himself on it, one hand on each
rope. Then as the balloon slipped <
up into the air he ran forward under
it, the long-folded parachute tugging
him gently, thus saving himself
from being dragged over the
ground. There had not been a hitch,
the weather was perfect, he was getting
a good start.' The ascent seem- ,
ed no different from a dozen others
he had made. 9
But there is where the risk of a
balloon jumper comes in. He never
knows what moment something
win nappen.
Suddenly a drunken man burst
through the crowd and threw his
arms around Scanion.
He was a big muscular man and
in his eyes was the look of an intoxicated
man who cares not the least
what happen^. Scanion had to grasp
the ropes on the end of the bar to I
be kept from being pulled out backward.
The parachute bar was just being
lifted off the ground, and Scanion
had no way to fight back except by
kicking.
"Let loose, let" loose," he yelled '
frantically, but the man only tightened
his grip and buried his face in
Scanion's spangles, afraid to look
down. (
For a moment the crowd stood ]
too horrified to move, then several
of the men, coming to themselves, .
rushed out and sprang wildly at the
drunken man's feet. But they missed
and in a second more the balloon j
had risen above the tops of the trees
and the two men over the heads of
the people. ,
"Let go or you will be killed," <
cried Scanion, squirming in the man's
grasp and kicking as best he could. ;
But the man held on grimly without i
answering a word. <
The horror of it flashed through ]
Scanion's mind and made him fight
more resolutely. Here he was sit- <
ting on a brass nob 20 feet under
the balloon, riding a /balloon built j
I fnr nnlv ISO Dounds. dIus the weight
of the parachute, and he himself was i
overweight by 10 pounds. The man
clinging to his arms must weigh at <
at least 170 pounds.
To make the ascent this way would
be absolute folly. So he redoubled
his energies toward kicking off the l
unwelcome* passenger. Letting go
of one hand he clung to one swing- ;
ing, bending rope and with the other
hand tried to tear apart the man's i
fingers, kicking him madly in the
thighs with his heels.
"Drop, drop, you can make it yet," called
out Scanion, almost out of
breath.
But the man paid no heed, holding
on as grimly as death itself. Catch- :
ing hold of one of the man's hands
Scanion tore it away. The man i
freed his hand and fastened it in
another place. Surging back and ]
forth, Scanion tried to wriggle out
of the man's grasp, the combined
weight sending a wave clear up to
the balloon like a quick jerk travel- i
ing along a rope. Breathing with
quick intakes of breath, partly from i
exhaustion and partly from the ef- :
fects of the liquor, the man clung to 1
Scanion without speaking a word.
One idea was firmly fixed in his mind, i
and that was that he must hold on <
tight and with the grip and determin- !
ation of a drowning man he carried !
out his idea. 1
Working his hand up the man's ]
back Scanion got it against the man's i
face by a quick surge and pushed
madly and blindly, but the man
buried his face in the other side of
Scanion's back and the short advan- j
tage was gone.
Rapidly but with startled dignity
the balloon rose into the air each
second adding to the distance that
one of them must fall. Scanion's
hands sank deep into the bar ropes ;
and they came down almost to the
level of the bar, his head was pulled
back until he could see nothing but
the dropping skirts of the parachute
and the bulging sides of the balloon
over him. Squirming and kicking, !
he struggled until his breath was al- i
most spent, fighting against time,
knowing that each moment the balV
*
in space. As it got farther away it
ceased to struggle falling like a dead
mass. A sparrowhawk darted toward
it curiously then turned away.
Then the body struck the ground
?in a small pasture lot. The sound
which travels upward more easily
came to him with sickening clearness.
It seemed as though he was
only a few feet away. But look as
I
[oon was getting higher and higher.
Finally, twisting his head around,
Scaruion says that they were fully
500 feet high and that a drop meant
instant death. He could see the
3rowd standing almost as he had left
it, scarcely making a sound, all faces
tense and set, silent watchers of the
struggle for life in mid air.
A Single Chance of Escape.
Suddenly the man gave a lunge
and flung an arm over the bar, then
In spite of all that Scanion could do
he swung back and hooked a knee
over it, like an acrobat in a show.
Scanion looked down into the
man's face. It was wrinkled into
lines of fear and determination. His
eyes were wide open and staring, but
afraid to look down. There was not
the slightest sign of drunkenness
about the face, the terrible struggle
had completely cleared his mind.
Scanion could see that the man was
possessed of but one idea and that
was to hold madly to the swinging
bar. His whole strength and his
whole mind were set on carrying
this out.
As Scanion looked down at the
man he turned over every possible
cnance 01 escape.
To drop meant destruction. The
parachute was built to carry only one
man. Possibly one of them might
go down in the parachute and the
other ride the balloon down by
waiting till the night air chilled the
gas. It was a straw, but worth seizing.
"All right, it's too late for you to
drop off now," said Scanion gruffly.
"Swing yourself up on this bar."
The man looked up at him more
like a wild animal than a human being,
like a dog trying to understand
just what his master means. So
firmly fixed in his mind was the idea
that he must cling to the bar, that
he could not comprehend what Scanion
meant.
"Climb down, damn you!" growled
Scanion. "We've got to stick it out
together."
The light of understanding broke
into the man's eyes, and with rigid,
trembling muscles h,e drew himself
up on the^ bar and wound his arm
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around me sppurung ruye. iue
sat crowded shoulder to shoulder,
facing, with scarcely enough room to
move.
"Don't hurt me," whined the man,
speaking for the first time.
"Shut up and don't shake the balloon,"
snapped Scanion.
The man kept his eyes on Scanion,
afraid to look toward the earth. "Is
it very?very far?"
"You'll think so going down,"
Scanion shot back.
The Fight for Life.
The man whimpered and shrank
against the rope without looking
down.
"What are you going to do about
it?" demanded Scanion, taking the
chance to punish the intruder.. The
danger now did not seem so imminent,
and so Scanion was bound to
impress on the man what he had
done.
The man whimpered and shrank
away from the aeronaut. The fight
was gone out of him; he dreaded the
upbraiding more than the kicking.
"What made you do it?" demanded
Scanion.
"I thought?I don't know?"
A slight ripping sound over their
heads. Scanion became electrified,
but to the unwelcomed passenger it
meant nothing. Scanion glanced up.
His worst fears were confirmed.
One of the ropes fastening to the
side of the balloon and supporting
the parachute had ripped down a
few inches and the gas and smoke
were pouring out The bar rocked
back and forth again and the rent
enlarged. In a moment it might
tear larger and the two would go
rocking swiftly downward.
The only chance for safety was for
one of them to go in the parachute
?and self-preservation is the first
law of nature.
"Don't rock the balloon," shouted
Scanion fiercely, although the man
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was sitting quietly enougn. ine mau
said nothing.
"Why don't you look downward?"
demanded Scanion with all the fierceness
that fighting for one's life
brings up in one.
The man watched Scanion humbly
a moment and then turned his eyes
down. Wrapping his legs together,
Scanion lunged at the man and tore
madly at his fingers gripped around
the rope at the end of the bar. Silently
the two fought, their breaths
coming quick and fast, their nails
bringing deep gashes in each other's
hands. The bar and the parachute
rocked to the s.truggle, but that
alone told the story of the struggle
to the birds. Finally Scanion got
the man's fingers loose from the
rope, and in one surge of strength
pushed him off backwards. The
other hand of the man gripped
around the bar, undoubled, and without
a sound, he went whirling
through^ the air, turning grotesquely,
his arms striking out as if
they expected to catch something.
Fascinated, Scanion could not keep
his eyes off the whirling body. So
squarely under him was it that but
for the turnings it did not seem to
be moving. It seemed to be resting
he might, Scanion could not see
where the body had struck. It
seemed to have buried itself in the
ground.
His courage almost gone, Scanion i
pulled the rope that severed the
parachute from the balloon and
dropped to the ground. When the
people came running up he was so (
weak he could hardly stand alone.
That evening he was arrested, and
later stood trial for the man's
death, but was acquitted on the
ground of self-defence.
But it was Scanion's last ascension.
He is now as afraid as death
of a balloon, and will scarcely look
at a flying machine in the air. His
nerves are completely gone, and as
he talks he keeps moving his hands
aimlessly around over his lap and
knees. He makes his living during
the summer in small towns and during
the winter in vaudeville by doing
high diving.
"It's the nights that make me
miserable, he said, buttoning and
unbuttoning his coat. "I can stand
the daytime pretty well, for there's
people around then. But the nights!
I always see something falling, falling
and waving its hands.'"
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