The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 05, 1913, Image 6
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UTS HONEA PATH
ID TORNADO DOES DAMAGE IN
UP STATE TOWN
UT NO LIVES ARE LOST
Graphic Description of the Tornado
and the Havoc it Wrought is Given
by Kye Witnesses?Houses I mooted,
Church Steeple Blown Down,
Automobiles ()verturned.
A tornado of gigantic proportions
id revolving at a territlc rate of
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ecu, uiu u<t\niiii^ lumiuu oiuni},
vooped down on the town of Honoa
itli, Anderson county, about 1:30
clock Tuesday afternoon, doing
nsiderable property damage. Luckt
there were no fatalities so far as
n bo learned, lionea Path is cometely
cut oil from wire communitions.
Passengers arriving on the interban
from Greenwood at 2:30
clock, who watched the tornado as
advanced on lionea Path from a
?int two miles south of the town,
y that the tornado, in its usual fun>1
shape, came from the direction
st south of the city of Anderson,
id that it touched the ground for
e first time in the business district
lionea Path, smashing plate glass
onts in the stores and doing other
mage.
One side of the brick store room
cupied by the Latimer Clothing
impany was blown out. The steeple
id roof of the Haptist Church was
.rtially demolished. The seed and
ithouses of the oil mill were turnover,
as were the smoke stacks of
e mills. Many small houses in the
wn were knocked down. Pricks
id sticks were flying in the air and
e man, a lineman of the interurhan,
is hit in the head, causing considable
pain. One or two automobiles
id other vehicles were overturned,
rowing the occupants out and causg
some injuries.
Terra cotta roofing of the interur.11
passenger station was badly dam:ed,
while the roof on one side of
e frame warehouse of this road was
actically destroyed. This damage
emed to have been wrought as an
terthought by the tornado, as after
had passed over this building, a
ist of wind forming a suction of
eat strength reached hack and literly
sucked a hole, at least twenty
et square in the roof. It looked as
a projectile had been fired through
e room from the inside.
Several freaks are reported. A
>rse was blown against a box car on
e interurban yards and was instantkilled.
A box car left on a side
ack was picked up by the wind and
irled over the derail on the main
le. Then it was forced back at a
rrific rate of speed on to another
le track, jumping another derail,
thing which is considered practicalimpossible.
So far as can be learned, with all
res down, the tornado did no dame
before reaching llonea Path. The
;iount of damage wrought beyond
>nea Path and on this side of the
luda River is not known. Rain fell
torrents during the visit of and
ter the tornado had passed over
>nea Path.
Witnesses on the interurban car,
llch was stopped when the tornado
ok off the electric power, say that
ey could see the tornado approaclig
for several miles; that it extendfrom
the ground in Honea Path
ty up into the heavens, until enely
out of sight.
The tornado, as it came in contact
th other clouds, would burst thorn
U) pieces, hurling pieces of the
>uds for several hundred yards.
iu twi iiciiiu war> mudl DJiUUliU'U 151T
d yet very uncanny.
FIND IirSIlAND'S HODY.
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us Caught in Sand Slide and
Smothered to Death.
Frank Martin, a miner, was killed
a landslide while working- on his
operty along the Feather river,
nr Oroville, Cal. lie was found enaibed
in the dirt by his wife, who
mt to hunt for him when he did
t return to his home at the usual
ne.
Martin owned some mining claims
tich he had been working himself,
e other night he failed to put in
appearance at the usual hour, and
t wife, becoming anxious, went out
search for him. She saw the caveand
becoming alarmed hastened to
s claim.
She made her ghastly discovery
d found her husband crushed and
ad, buried in the earth and rock
it had fallen on him. She returnto
her cabin for help and with the
1 of her children dug the body from
untimely grave.
Killed in a Wreck.
Ten Italian laborers were killed
d three in lured at Don fJniiv w
(.?? Tuesday, when a Baltimore &
<lo passenger train plowed through
Mr gang. The men, employed on
i.lroad improvement work, running
Vm a blast, dodged a westbound
Mght and ran upon the second track
front of the eaatbound passenger.
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THAT CAMPAIGN FUND
SKNATOK WII-MAMS I'Oltt'KS A
COXFKSHIOX
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From Darwin I*. Kingsloy, PiCHidoiit .
of the Now York Life Insurance
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Company.
Darwin l\ Kingsley, president of
the Now York Life Insurance Company.
appeared Monday before the
Senate iinance sub-committee working
on the income tax section of the
i'nderwood tariff Dill to discuss provisions
relating to insurance companies.
Mr. Kingsley had a spirited exchange
wit It Senator Williams over
campaign contributions disclosed in
the Hughes investigation several
years ago.
"WMtnn vAitt* .,nLl ? - A
>1 II V II j u U I Will JK1IIJ J > <lin M ) '7|*
000 to a campaign fund," asked Senator
Williams, "none of that money
ever was participated in by the policy
holders, was it?"
"Xo, it was not," said Mr. Kingsley.
"Then that proved that your company's
assertion that policy holders
participated in all the earnings of the
company was false, didn't it?"
"It proved," Mr. Kingsley returned,
"that the judgment of the company's
officers who paid this campaign
contribution thinking it was
necessary to protect the assets of the
company, was bad."
"It proved more than that," .asserted
Senator Williams. "It was
absolute dishonesty. 1 was a policy
holder and a Democrat, and you took
part of my money and gave it away
to protect me against my own party.
Hut has all that sort of thing been
done away with in the insurance business?"
"Absolutely," replied President
Kingsley. lie explained laws which
prohibit it.
President Kingsley submitted a dotailed
statement of his company's
business and resources to show that
it conducted business actually on a
mutual basis. The total assets of the
company last year were $71 9,000,0
0 0, and he declared not a dollar was
kept back from the fund in which
policy holders participated.
AllOl T HANDLING COTTON.
Important Bulletin Issued by The
Bureau of Railway Economics.
The bureau of railway economics
has issued a bulletin relating to the
handling of cotton and in it the statement
corroctly made that cotton has
been the most slovenly handled of all
of the agricultural products of the
United States. The farmers often
leave it exposed to be damaged by
rain and infiltrated by mud. Even
when offered for shipment it is sometimes
in this condition. All too frequently
it is loosely baled and inadequately
marked. It lias been said
that upon receipt at foreign ports
hales of cotton look more like rag
bags.
For many years the railways have
sought to have the cotton shippers exercise
greater care, but the railways
in this country have no such autocratic
power as those of Germany,
where no shipment is accepted unless
it is packed and marked in accordance
with rigid specifications. Government
experts have estimated that
of the cotton crop of the United
States there is between the gin and
the spinner a wastage and damage
amounting to $50,000,000 per annum.
The Greenville Piedijiont says the
Japanese several years ago ruled that
they would not accept cotton that was
not clean, securely packed and plainly
marked. They get what they
want. The possibility of losing the
fliutnm r\f o ?
\/i ?v uaiiuii inaivt'o <i iniieronce.
The trans-Atlantic linos who In
recont yoars havo been mulcted in
heavy damages because of the poor
condition in which cotton has been
delivered to foreign countries have
now taken action that will re-enforce
the efforts of the railways. From
September 1, 1912, to March 2 1,
1913, on the average one hnle of cotton
out of every Hix offered at the
South Atlantic and Gulf ports was
condemned; one bale out of every ton
was improperly marked, Tleginning
July 1, 1913, their requirements will
be rigid; higher charges will bo exacted
for cotton loosely baled.
The information is given in the
bulletin referred to above that the
railways in the cotton growing regions
are therefore redoubling their
efforts with cotton compressors, cotton
ginners, farmers and shippers.
When those concerned in cotton
growing and shipping find that shiftlcssness
reacts upon their pocketbooks
it is probable that a better
order of things will come about. Not
only the money hut the good will of
the foreign consumer is worth while,
especially in these times when he is
endeavoring to stimulate the growth
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ui vuuuii in inner uuuiiines man me
United States.
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Killed at Target Pit.
At Raleigh, N. C., while looking
from behind the wall surrounding
the target pit at the close of the
Third regiment shoot Monday afternoon,
Lewis White, a well known
Raleigh boy, was shot through the
head by a stray bullet and instantly
killed.
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TARIFF IN StNATE
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METHODS OF THE RLPUBLICIANS
ARE SHOWN IP.
SMOOT IS THE KINO BEE
The Tariff Hein^ !ievise<l in tlie In(erest
of the l'cople Much to the
( hujrrin of tlie Republican Senaators,
Who Are the Active Agents
Ml' I I><> TniiiU
Iii 0110 of liia weekly Washington
letters Savoyard says:
The Hon. Penrose, a senator in
congress from the State of Pennsylvania
and a disciple of the political
school of the lato Boss Quay, lias
worked himself into a state of niiiul
over the tariff question. iMr. Penrose
is the leader of his party in the
United States senate, head of the Republican
contingent of the finance
committee, thus succeeding William
Pitt Fessenden, John Sherman, Justin
S. Morrill and Nelson W. Aldrieh
in that station. Pennsylvania, the
plum orchard, is a stall-fed State,
living olT provender supplied by nonprotected
communities, and as a mendicant
its hat is about as full as that
of New England. It is the home of
the steel trust, of the coal trust, of
the tin trust, of the carpet trust, and
numerous other insatiate tariff beggars.
1 nipregnably intrenched in her monopoly
of the American market,
Pennsylvania enjoys free trade in
labor, and here are some of the nationalities
of the "American labor"
she imported and put to work at
scant wages in the mines, furnaces
and shops of the steel trust -Arabian,
Austrian, Bohemian, Bosnian,
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dalmatian,
Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Massadonian,
Magyar, Montenegrin, Polish
Roumanian and Russian. The
trust imnortod these erentrv
li :n abroad, and each one of the
, thousands of them got the job of an
merican laborer, and here they are
?Penrose, (iallinger, Alden Smith,
Hoot, Oliver, Burton, the entire layout
of the henchmen of privilege, in
the United States senate?^prating
about the "dignity of American
labor". Mark you, I have no objection
to healthy and legitimate immigration.
On the contrary, I approve
it.
Penrose is not pleased with the way
the tariff was treated in the house of
representatives. Of course he is not;
the protected interests did not write
it. It was made by the representatives
of the American people in the
interest of those who pay the taxes,
and not for the benefit of those
gorged with tariff graft. That is
why Mr. Penrose objects to the bill,
and he will fight it to the last ditch.
That is the only mission he ever had
in politics?to tax one citizen for the
benefit of another citizen. That is
the only mission the Republican party
has had in politics the past third of
a century, and that is what killed it.
The Underwood bill was made in
the open and when it becomes a law
it will beefit fifty where it will injure
one. It will hurt nobody, but
somebody who ought to be hurt. For
example, those manufacturers who
are employing antiquated machinery
and poorly equipped plants will have
to go out of business or improve their
facilities. It is tho worst sort of husbandry
to use a machine that, with
the same labor, will produce only onethird
what a later and up-to-date
machine will turn ftiit ?
.. ... w?* 11 win, wi mi; DiiliiC illtide.
It is a hardship on the entire
community and a piece of stupidity
on the part of tlie concern that practices
it.
That is one of tho offices of protection?to
make an old and wornout
and ill equipped manufacturing plant
profitable. It is the very meaning of
the word "protection". It implies
inferiority. It. was developed before
tho Stanley committee that many of
the plants of the steel trusts are out
of date, fit only for old junk, incapable
of competing with the latest and
most improved machinery, hut the
steel trust, having a monopoly of the
American market by virtue of the
tariff, continues to operate those antiquated
plants and American consumers
of its wares pay the outrageously
enhanced cost of production.
The Democratic tariff will force
every manufacturer to go out of business
or build the best mill and equip
it with the most efficient machinery
than can he had. That is for the
common weal. It will benefit the
manufacturer even more than the
purchaser of his wares. It is good
husbandry. It avoids watse. It is
the soul of economy. Monopoly is
not energetic. It requires competition
to get the best results of human enj
deavor.
Doss Penrose?that, is, ho was a
boss?is distressed because of the]
"Spanish Inquisition" that he imagines
the Democratic party has fetched
into confess. Dope, dope, dope,
That is the way they made the Dingley
law and it is the way they made
the Payne-Aldrich tariff. Doth those
measures were writ by the manufacturers.
So much fat was fried out
i of them to buy the elections and they
were permitted to write so much
graft in the tariff bills. It was a bar
HOUSE BILL WIL L PASS
SENATE MAY AM KM) IT IN SEVERAL
SCHEDULES.
Hut the House Will Insist on Its Hill
iii Conference and Will Win Out
in the Kim I.
Democratic leaders in the senate
now fully expect that the I'nderwood
bill will bo amended in important
particulars in the Senate if not sooner
in the finance committee, or the
Democratic caucus. The belief is
growing that the bill when it leaves
the Senate will carry a duty on sugar
of between 70 and SO emits per
hundred pounds, and that wool will
be taxed 20 per cent, instead of being
on the free list as at present.
It is further expected that when
the tariff bill comes back from the
committee free wool and ultimate
free sugar will have been restored
as in the bill at present. It will then
be up to the Senate to engage in a
tug of war with the House over the
acceptance of the conference report.
The Republican leaders in congress
have information which leads some
of them at least to believe that the
shrewder of the Democratic leaders
look forward to such a result as the
best solution of the troublesome
problem presented to them by the sugar
and wool schedules in the Sonate.
They realize that at least two
Democratic senators will vote for an
amendment to put a duty on wool
when the Republicans offer it in the
oenaic, and mat the two from Louisiana
will vote for a duty on sugar.
Indications are that these four
Democratic senators, and probably
more, have reached an understanding,
or will reach one shortly, by
which they will pool issues, and be
able by joining with the Republicans
to amend the bill in the Senate.
The Democratic leaders believe
that when the final test comes on accepting
or rejecting the tariff bill as
a whole, after it has been returned
from the conference committee carrying
free wool and ultimate sugar
the recalcitrant Democrats will yield
and accept, the bill practically in the
form in which President Wilson has
approved it.
This course would allow the Dem
urram: senators to save their faces
with their home folks. Realizing the
possibility of such a denouement, the
Republican leaders are planning to
put the responsibility squarely up to
the Democratic senators who profess
to bo ardently in favor of a duty on
wool or on sugar.
gain and sale. The people of the United
States were put on the block and
knocked down to the highest bidders
?the trusts. There was no concealment
about it. It was open transaction.
The G. O. P. turned the government
over to the people who had
repeatedly bought the presidency for
the "Party of Great Moral Ideas".
Everything is grist that conies into
the Republican hopper. Once it stigmatized
the Mormon church as the
twin relic of barbarism along with
African slavery. Now that church is
become the very citadel, the last
ditch, of the party of Lincoln and
Grant, of Aldrich and of Cannon.
Reed Smoot, the high priest of the
(Mormon church, is the ablest and
best trusted champion of the G. O. P.
in the United States senate.
"When he speaks,
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still."
011 the Republican side. He is the
authority 011 all matters economic.
And, by the way, a devilish smart
man is the Hon. Smoot. He carted
the Mormon church into the camp of
the G. O. P. Vermont and Utah, faithful
ever.
Here is the way Schedule K was
made. The wool trust sent its secretary
here, a Mr. North. He wrote
Schedule K. Aldriph li 1 nionl f /li/l
know what it was. Not a single senator
or representative of either party
knew what it was. Only the wool
trust and Mr. North knew anything
about it. It became the law, and the
wool trust was so delighted with the
work of its henchman that U voted
Mr. North $f>,000 in excess of ills salary.
And that was not all?the wool
trust forced a Republican president
to make Mr. North director of the
census. And do you know, it is
worth a heap to the tariff grafters to
have the census supervised by one of
their henchmen? Fact.
Well, this Democratic tariff is not
made that way, and that's what's the
matter with Penrose. Why fiddle,
senator? Rome is not afire.
NINETY MILKS OF INSECTS.
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A Mighty Column of (irasshoppers
Seen in New Mexico.
Travelling northeastward, a column
of grasshoppers five miles wide
and eighteen miles long is reported
in Northeastern New Mexico Monday.
Reports that the millions of grassVlOimn.rH
spom trv o l .1 nn * I
? ? p?vu> vv ?)> vim cio im;jf travel,
,ind also the appearance of smaller
bodies of grasshoppers In sections of
West Texas, have caused fear of a
general grasshopper pest in the
Southwest, especially in Texas, Western
Oklahoma and New Mexico. Government,
State and railroad experts
have combined forces in New Mexico
to light the grasshoppers by using
poison.
FIGHT BILL HARD
SWARM OF LOBBIST WORKING
LIJE BEAVERS
PEOPLE HAVE NO VOICE
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President Wilson Says the Public
Should Know of the Schemes of
These Lobbyists and That the Cioveminent
Should be Relieved of the
Intolerable Harden of Lobbyists.
President Wilson stirred Congressional
circles Monday with an emphatic
statement denouncing the "industrious"
and "insidious" lobby in
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i> aoiiiilf^lUll tl 11III {) 1111g lO (TClltO
public sentiment against certain features
of the Underwood tariff bill.
This was accepted at the Capitol as
referring to the unusual efforts being
made against free raw wool and
free sugar.
While the President was declaring
it his opinion that the public should
be relieved "from the ^intolerable
burden", Senators and Representatives
were viewing on every hand the
evidences of the lobbyists which beset
them; and significance was attached
to a statement made by Senator
Simmons, chairman of the finance
committee, which now has the tariff
hill in hand, that, in his opinion, the
lobbyists were not making any head- j
way.
Tho President's declaration that
the lobbyists were so thick "that one i
could not throw a brick without hit- j
ting one", revived interest in two
bills recently introduced in the j
House and Senate to regulate lobby-j
ing 011 pending legislation.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, and Representative
C. R. Smith, of New York,
have declared their intention to
press bills they have introduced
which would restrict the work of
lobbyists, require their registration,
and require that they be licensed to
appear before any committee or to j
carry 011 a campaign for or against
proposed legislation. Heavy penalties
would be imposed for violations.
Democratic loaders were almost
unanimous in support of the President's
statement, maintaining that
they are well able to handle the important
pending tariff legislation, and I
that sugar and wool will be thoroughly
considered and discussed by
tho finance committee and Democratic
caucus before it is reported. No
change of policy relating to either
schedule has yet been determined, ,
however, it is emphatically declared
oy me members of the committee. ,
The President later issued the following
statement:
"I thing that the public ought to
know the extraordinary exertions be- ,
ing made by the lobby in Washing- j
ton to gain recognition for certain 1
alterations of the tariff bill. Washington
has seldom seen so numerous, I
so industrious or so insidious a lobby.
The newspapers are being filled with
paid advertisements calculated to
mislead the judgment of public men
not only, but also the public opinion
of the country itself. There is every
evidence that money without limit is
being spent to sustain this lobby and
to create an appearance of a pressure
of public opinion antagonistic to
some of the chief items of the tariff
bill.
"It is of serious interest to the
country that tho people at large
should have no lobby and be voiceless
in the matters while great bodies of
astute men seek to create an artificial
opinion and to overcome the interest
of the public for their private profit.
It is thoroughly worth the while of
the people of this country to take
knowledge of this country to take
knowledge of this matter. Only public
opinion can check and destroy it.
"The Government in all its branches
ought to be relieved from this intolerable
burden and this constant
interruption to the calm progress of
debate. I know that in this I am
speaking for the members of the two
liAiiooa "1 1 J_J
,.v,,.0^o, iyiiu wuuiu rejoice as ranch
as T would to lie released from this
unbearable situaVm."
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The Japs have no idea of having
any trouble with the United States
because they know they would get a
good thrashing.
BANK Oi
Conwa
HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SUI1
COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COM!
ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COP
CAPITAL ST OCK. . . .
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOC
SECURITY O F DEPOS1
TAT T) TV
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ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH.
M. L. ZUCK,
GEORGE J. HOLIDAY.
WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOC
COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE
Robert 1L Scarborough, D,
President.
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'IX) ADDllESS IWIAIETTO PRESS*
Norman liapgood Orator for Editors*
Meeting in ('hnrleston.
Norman Haneontl. nwnou *wi*
w w .. *1 \>i ivavi evil"
| tor of Harper's Weekly, will make
the annual address before tho South
Carolina Press Association in Charleston
on Juno 27. Mr. Hapgood is
one of the best known editors in the
United States, and the fact that he is;
to bo the speaker will add interest to
the approaching press meeting. For
several years Mr. Hapgood edited
Collier's Weekly.
In the last campaign 'Mr. Hapgood
was an ardent supporter of President
Wood row Wilson, while tho owners
of Collier's were backers of Theodore
Roosevelt. Differences, it is said,,
arising from this coused a break and
Mr. Hapgood resigned his editorship.
Recently ho bought out Harper's
Weekly, and will on the 1st. of June
assume editorial charge. A highly
educated and intellectual man, Mr.
Hapgood will bring to the South Carolina
press a message which is certain
to be one of the best ever heard
by that body. He will receive a
warm welcome to Carolina.
II oiso Runs Into Train.
The Spartanburg Herald says a
runaway horse, drawing an empty
buggy, ran into a freight train crossing
Kast Main street at 130 o'clocik
Monday morning and was so badly injured
that Policeman Alverson ended
the animal's suffering with a bullet.
The nnmn r\f " '
mn uwiiur oi tne horse
I was not ascertained.
' hohry,
y. s, c.
LPLUS OF ANY iBANK IN HORRY
1INKD CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF
INTY.
$50,000
12,500 ?
TKHOLDERS. . .. 50,000
TORS 112,300
;tors
W. A. .JOHNSON,
WILL A. FREEMAN,
D. V. RICHARDSON.
JOMMODATION WHICH THEIR ACJ
SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS.
,V. Richardson, Will A. Freeman,
Vice-President Oaahler*
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