The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 19, 1914, Image 8
THE FEDERAL WORK
ON THE WACGAMAW
reasons viiy THE WORK has
not started on
TIME.
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AS GIVEN BY ENGINEER
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Oiif Item o!' Hid l.uck, and Then Another
Has Resulted in Trouble.?
Qther Arrangements Will Be
^lade if Contractor Fails Muchj
tourer.
*)'hc facts about the public work on
th$ Waccamaw River, which was giw;
enjout a long time ago, ami which has'
not yet been started, are given in the
following letter received by Hon. J. \V <
Ragsdgle from the engineer;
(copy)
ri- WAR DEPARTMENT
Office of the Chief of Engineers.
Washington, Oct. 110th, 1914.
Hon. J. W. Ragsdale,
U. S. House <?f Representatives,
Washington, D. C. .
My dear Sir
1. I have your letter in regard to[
the work on the Waccamaw River,
and the probability of its being started
by this month.
2. This Waccamaw River work is
an unsatisfactory piece of business j
and has given nic a good deal more
trouble than its intrinsic importance
would justify. The cause of the trouble
is the great lack of dredges and
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urecige coiuracLors aioug me ouuui
Atlantic Coast. Plant of this character
and contractors of this character
are almost non-existent south of Norfolk.
As a result the Government has
been forced to build a number of dred
ges in order to carry on the work
economically in certain of the rivers j
and harbors.
3. The.Government has not enough
dredges to take care of all the work.
and it is very undesirable that it:
should have enough. The best interests
of navigation requires that there
should be dredges and/ dredge con-!
tractors available, both for public andj
private wprfc. If the Government I
<>Vhs a large fleet of dredges then j
there will be little or no work to of- j
jfer to contractors; hence contractors!
will dispose of their plant and go out
of business, and then there will be no
dredges left to do private work, and
a man who owns a wharf or a slip
that needs dredging, or a city or a i
railroad that is trying to provide terminal
facilities, will find it almost impossible
to get dredging done at any
reasonable price. Of course, for bigj
work you can get northeren contract-;
ors to bid and to bring their plant I
south temporarily, but this is notj
good for the country. It is for the interest
of navigation that the Government
should have a few efficient dred
ges for specially difficult work, and to
serve as a regulator of prices and that
the rest of the work should be done
by contract.
4. I was Division Engineer of the
South Atlantic Districts from Norfolk
tn Tampa for a number :xf years and
am well acquainted with the dredge
situation down there. We knew every
dredge owner and every possible
bidder every time we called for proposals,
and it very often happened
that bids were very high for this kind |
of work or that there was no bid. The!
dredge owners could demand almost
any terms they wanted, and could fix
their on time for beginning the work,
and they could naturally force a high
price for its accomplishment.
5. I believe that there is today hut
one pumping dredge owned and available
for contract in the State of South [
Carolina, and that is a small and inefficient
machine belonging to a firm
of Charleston contractors.
6. When proposals were invited
last spring for the Waccamaw River
work, the district officer, in order to
secure a reasonable price, was obliged
to allow an unusual length of time
for the commencement of the work.
The lowest bidder was a Florida man
and his home port was Tampa. His
firm was not a large or wealthy one,
but they had been doing good work in
Florida. The dredge which they intended
to use was under a Government
contract, but they had every
reason to think that it would be available
by the 23rd of October at the latest,
and contract was made with them
on that basis. When it was found
that, owing to the slow progress that
the dredge was making on the Government
contract in Florida, it could
not complete the work, the contractors
were written to and urged to arrange
for other plant, so that the
work might begin at the proper time.
The district officer was at the same
time directed to look around and see,
without entering into any actual
agreement, what plant he could put on
the work at the contractors' expense
in case they failed to provide plant
themselves. The contractors assured
me that they would have plant there
on time, but only about a week be
fore the time for them to comment
I one of them appeared at my office anc
! stated, that he was unable to provide
a plant; that he could not be relieved
from his Florida work, and that he
hail been delayed there in consequence
of many unTorseen difficulties; that he
! had made an agreement with the
dredging concern in Charleston, hcrei?i
alluded to. to start the work for
him on tho Waccamaw River; but that
this lirm seeing tlie straits to which
ho was reduced took advantage pf it
and made the price so high that it
would cost him fiO cents a cubic yard
for work .he would receive only 14
cents for; that to. carry on the work
on this basis would carl fn no other
result than to force his company into
bankruptcy and put it out of business.
7. 1 think perhaps thnt this was
the result that the Charleston con
urn-cur uesiveu co aecompusn. i do
not liko to lend myself to this kind of
work. I do not think thilt it is good
public policy for the Government to
assist a man in ruining: his' rival. The
district officer reports that any plant
that he could put on would largely increase
the cost of the work to the
first contractor, and he also reports
that the condition of the river is such
that commerce will not suffer in consequence
of a short delay. I, accordingly,
instructed the district officer
to waive the time of commencement
for a reasonable period, and 1 have instructed
the officer in charge of the
work where the dredge is now employed
to report to me at frequent intervals
the progress that it is making.
If the indications are such as to give
assurance that the contractor will
finish his present work at a time that
will enable him to complete the Waceamaw
River work within the time
stipulated in his contract, I shall let
him go on; but if he falls into additional
delays and greater difficulties
involving further delays, I shall probably
be forced, most reluctantly, to
take such action as 1 can to accomplish
the work, even though it involves
a heavy loss to the contractor and
his bond. Very truly yours,
(Signed) Dan C. Kingman.
Chief of Engineers U. S. A.
Winter Gardens for the South.
Field agents of the department are
now urging upon the farmers in the
Southern States the need of winter
gardens to supply their families with
fresh vegetables through the fall and
winter. Farm fare during these
months is often dry and monotonous,
and the crops that can he easily raised
in a small home garden will not
only provide a welcome variety* but,
it is said, will, do much to remove the
demand for spring tonics and other
medicines.
To members of girls* canning clubs
who have been growing summer vegetable?
in tenth-of-an-acrc gardens the
agents are recommending that a plot
of well-prepared land, 50 feet long by
20 feet wide, be set aside and that the
rest of the garden be planted with a
winter-cover crop. In the reserved
area about four vegetables should he
raised?spinach, lettuce, radishes, and
cauliflower or. cabbage being among
the most desirable. In all the lower
sections of the south lettuce, radishes
and spinach can be grown throughout
the entire fall, winter and spring. In
the more northern regions and in the
high latitudes hothouses or cold fram*
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es must bo used during- me toiucsi
months. . ^
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Jack Johnson's Car.
Jack Johnson's racing car, whiel
two years ago was the talk of the
country, has boon purchased by B. C
Rosencrans, of the Old Sanitariurr
at Paririe du Chien, Wis. This mons
ter racing car was built by the Thorn
as Co. The solid aluminum body wai
cast in one piece in England, no man
ufacturer in this country being abh
to make it at the time. Its mechan
ism has a six cylinder engine, eacl
of the cylinders being 5Vl?x7 inche
which have a capacity of 105 hors<
power and will send the machine ove
the ground at a speed of 90 miles ai
hour. All the parts of this wonderfu
speed demon were especially made fo
Jack Johnson and cost $14,000. How
ever, the reckless career run by hir
in connection with his famous restap
rant in Chicago brought about tho los
of his rights in this country as we
as his wonderful machine, which wa
attached for a debt by the Heilma
Brewing Company of La Crosse.
James Wilson, a Grcensburg, Pa
farmer, wondered why his favorit
cow was not giving milk. He followe
her one morning and found the co1
was mothering a fawn that had escap
ed from the state game preserves.
Charleston, W. Va., went dry o
July 1st and at the first sesssion (
the grand jury, just completed lfi
indictments were returned, of whic
70 are for bootlegging or keepin
"blind pigs." This was a surprise t
the residents of the county for it wr
announced before the election that
the prohibition amendment would cai
ry it would put a complete stop to tf
sale of liquor in the Slate.
FIRST WHISPER Of
: PEACE IN EUROPE
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| CAME THE MIDDLE OF LAST
WEEK IN DISPATCH FROM
LONDON.
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OVERTURES FROM BERLIN
Gerutano Being Sw$|H Fropi Russian
Territory Causes First Overture
Looking to Peace.it Wis.Sujtg. >
As a result of the terrible onslaught
made during the past ten to fifteen
days a by the ' Russian : legions on the
Germans, the first whisper of peace
in the great European conflict reached
this country* the middle J ot last
week in a dispatch from London, dated
at thai place on November Uth.
The dispatch follows:
"Coincident with the news that ev- cry
German soldier has been swept
from Russian . soil comes a whisper
of peace negotiations in the report
from Petrograd that Berlin has approached
Russia with overtures looking
to ward a cessation of hostilities.
Contrary to the German report that
the Russians had been checked on the
frontier of East Prussia, Petrograd .
declares that a brilliant success in
that region has been sececdod by
an actual invasion of German territory.
An equal triumph fs reported
from the other end of the long Russian
battle line. With Corssacks raidj
ing within 20 miles of Cracow, the
| commandant of that fortress has or|
dered the civilian population of the 1
j city to leave. Przemysl is said to be
: fully invested again and the redue- '
1 tion of the fortress is Uikely to precede
i any further advances by the Russian
; left wing.'
Petrograd is not wholly satisfied
with the scope of the victories report- i
| ed against the Germans?for the be'
lief prevails in military circles that
| if the Russian strategy of the Napo
j iconic era Had been follower! farther,
i even to the extent of the surrender
: of Warsaw the invaders never would
have remained in the country with intact
fighting' organizations. Others
feel that political motives quite justified
the Government in its. determination
to defend Warsaw.
Contrary to practice infantry and
j not artillery has been the donninant
force used by the Russians ajong their '
j western front in pushing the invaders
back across the border. Showing dis-r
1 regard of the German batteries, s,yj
perior forces of the Russian in{lMltry
1 time after time have advanced and
! won positions by the use of steel.
| From Moscow comes a leport. that
t during the fighting near Aerodz, on
; the river Warthe, the Russians captured
Gen. Von Makenge, comnpander
of the 17th German army corps to
| gother with, members of his stftiT. It
J is reported also that Gen. VonLiebert
has been captured by lh? Russians.
| There is a report that the Austrian
army is abandoning entirely its po1
sitions in Galicia and will winter at
the foot of the Carpathians, renewing
Ithe war from that base in the springs
! KU ~J> r*? 1
I uui niuNuui'ii uuifust' or rrzcniym
land tiie evident determination to defend
Cracow hardly confirm this rc;'
port*.
j The food situation in Belgium is
daily becoming more critical. Even
Antwerp, which is best supplied of the
Belgian cities, is cvlamoring for the
* provisions brought into the country
by the relief committee.
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Farmers Take Initiative.
The farmers of Ingram county Mich
igan are considering the question of
erecting a canning factory of their
own at Lansing. They have become
, convinced that such a plant would
' take care of the market surplus and
e also would make it possible to increase
the acreage in that a section of
I* ?
sweet corn, peas, beans and fruits of
I all kinds. The men back of the proiect
have observed that wherever canr
t i
r ning factories have ' been located
Urge home market has been developed
and the necessity of shipping avoid
ed or greatly reduced. Such factories
II have proven to be boons to the rural
communities where they, have been
' placed. Without exception they have
given small farmers a chance an intensified
farming and have afforded
a market for what the small growers
had to sell. There are about 200
,e
I growers who supply the Lansing market
and thev have found out that orar
j dening is a good business. Many of
these want to work on a larger scale
and for that reason are in favor of a
^ factory to convert the surplus into a
marketable product. The experiment
^ will be watched with interest, for the
idea is applicable to almost any part
of the country.
is
if Two slaughter house proprietors of
r- Louisville, Ky., have been lined $100
le each and sentenced to fifty days in jail
for selling horse meat for food.
The!
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Will be over on
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II November 20th Xc
If; tfhbap that evdryl
I i:'.o the BIG SA-L1
II Now is the accept
I | for men, Women
II . cost. Buy you 01
J thing- snappy. F
11 has something in
fl 1 ?nd the quality s<
11 Extra Pants, Odd
KB Suits Waists and
M J Our Dress Goods
|1 and patterns at p
|1 We don't keep an
BE meet our prices i
n | soon find it out..
B| an wilt season is
It are unloading- the
|l miss the price.
I A swell line of Fl
BK vertised which is
II $H.24 bag-, olb can
11 Competitors in th
8 | 10c pound. Best
II Iv SI.60 for 25 p<
11 ets only 9c each,,
11 plain figures that
Sale will close N<
27th, don't delay
eil is money made
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ShP^g, Hair Cutting
f Sliampoing,
TMT - T*a
jiiasKy gmg, me,
Rasors Sharpened.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Your Patronage Solicited
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I. V. COOK, Prop.
In roar Norton Drug Co.
'summons.
Court of Probate.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Horry.
Ex Parte:
I Drake-Jnness-Green Shoe Co., a Coi
I Poratinn. in "R? Fatato nf Taoa/
B. Parker, Deceased.
To O. B. Parker, Docia Parker Burroughs,
M. B. Cox, Joseph Cabott
Parker, Edna M. Parker, Minnie E
Royals, John Parker Reaves, heirt
at law of Isaac B. Parker, deceased
I You are hereby required to appeal
at the Court of Probate to be holder
at my office in the Court House, foi
Horry County on the 2nd day of November
A. D., 1914, to show cause, il
any you can? why the proceeds of sal<
f the real estate of Isaac B. Parker
deceased, sold by me should not b<
paid over to Conway Savings Bank
the duly qualified administrator of th<
said Isaac B. Parker, to be applied bj
it to the payment of the debts of tb<
said Isaac B. Parker.
Given under my hand and seal thii
I <Hh day of October, A. D., 1914.
J. 8. VAUGHT,
Probate Judge of Horry Co.
H. H. WOODWARD,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
To Minie E. Royals and O. B. Parker
..Absent Defendants:
Take notice that the petition o
Drake-Inness-Green Shoe Co., pray
ing that the proceeds of the sale o
real estate of Isaac B. Parker, sob
by me, be paid over to the Conwa;
Savings Bank, administrator of thi
said Isaac B. Parker, for the paymen
of debts, was filed in the office of J
S. Vaught, Judge of Probate for Hor
ry County, in said State on the 6tl
day of October, A. D. 1914.
(L. S.) J. S. VAUGHT,
Judge of Probate.
H. H. WOODWARD,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Six Burned to Death.
Six men were burned to death in ;
fire which swept through a four-stor;
lodging house at 252 Eight avenue ii
New York last Thursday morning
Fifty men were sleeping in the struo
turc when the fire was discovered
, Firemen made many thrilling rescues
Big Sale a
i BARGAIN
i m t> z :f ft r\ /Wk
November. 23,}, C
B1 i I r.i IMI
closed on , Thursdaj
f: ' :. . . ,' : ... |
Thanksgiving, Wo anqe. going to sell ou
)6dy vwnll have a lot nu>ye to "be tfu\nkfn
3 '" * * t i ?
ed time to get your Shoes,! Hats; Clojthii
and Children, and, art kinds of Underv
ne of tho new Balmiic^n Overcoats, the
its well and looks well and makes a m
his COCOanUt whether v*? ?
- at\; 11UO \J L lU/lj it I 1
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3 high, you can't afford to miss one.
Coats and Vest for Men and Boys. All
Skirts, and more goods arriving daily.
Department is runn ing over with all tl
trices never before Ifeeard of. . <
ything, but sell everything, and the mar
inless he steals the goods is a fool and
All kinds Silks and Velvets being slaug
? now at its height,, we are stocked
mi daily, get you:r share while you can
lrniture and Matresses going daily at th
too low to repeat. The best Rice you 1
is Standard Tomatoes only 8 l-2c a can,
e Soun. Rr?ef fKww* 1 T - *
_ ... ct; HUWIIUU I>OU(U)ll l.il
stick candy only 7and l-2c pound,Gra
>unds, Rail Road Mills Snuff $5.69 Gros
every item in the House marked down
a child can buy with safety. Rememb
ovember 25th and Santa Claus will taki
but come at once and get your Winter s
> and the l$*ir?tiin House is the plac^ to
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m litKMAN SHIPS
SHORT ACCOUNT OF OPERATIONS
RECENTLY MADE ON
THE SEAS IN EUROPEAN
CONFLICT
The British navy got into the
war picture last week with two successes?the
destruction of the German
; cruiser Emden in the eastern waters
. of the Indian ocean and the bottling
up of the Koenigsberg, considered her
\ 9ister ship, in the western extremity
. of the same sea.
P Thest two raiders, especially the
5 Emden, have many successeaa to their
I credit, and their skill in evading the
| net thrown out for them has been a
? matter of chagrin to British naval
f raea.
* The Emden's end came in battle as
s befitted her record througout recent
history for, according to all accounts
even those of her victims, she layed
a clean game strictly in accordance
with the recognized rule of naval
warfare.
After a sharp action off Cocos Island,
with the Australian cruiser Sydf
ney, the German ship with heavy easel
ualties, was beached, ablaze. The
/ German cruiser Koenigsberg met a
? less glorious fate as she was bottled
up in such a position that she must
- either be captured or surrendered,
^ though in either case she probably
will be nothing hut a useless hulk.
rjii .! /~il 11 i
j. ne cruiser vniiipam, wnicn ran
down the Koenigsberg in the river
opposite the island of Hafia, German
East Africa, is a sister ship of the
Sydney which closed the career of the
1 Emden.
y
^ }>oth the Emden and the Koenigsp
berg have the destruction of warships
to their credit as well as the sinking
I of many merchant ships. The Emden
t* sank the Russian cruiser Jemtchug
' and a French torpedo boat destroyer
I HOUSE
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II* no^i MA c?4 A/^10 mm.
3U' 4 'I
1 foi' that 'jratron- ' I.
ig, Union Suits 'ft.
fear at wholesale '} 'ft
very latest, some- I
an look like he' 9. **1
(I the price so low , ft, ,
1 kindfe of Ladies. 1
le latest weaves. .'ftj
i that <lares try to Br
1 everybody wilt ft
filtered. Blanket ft
to a finish and a
buy them and" not ft
e sale price as ad- ft
ever saw for only - ' 1
this price puts, our ft
yer Raisins only 1
nutated Sugar on- I
s, 10 qt. tin biuvk- ft |
to rock bottom in
er that tho- Big
B charge on> the . ?
upply. morpty auvmake
monay. . ,1 - 'J
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HOUSE,
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sEA.
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Oi.ia uwt om be AbMkiMy Depended Upae
a^Cod ? the only attention w?W w ofliag?acting
-ct in prove to you why the RAWLEJGH he* be*
lot Big Surplus Power, Simplicity, Reliability. En'effect
Balance. The moedbeat mewing enginebuilt?
tr.no Vibration. The Rwl?AMWw?lin,ny ini't,
Mrvo? oct? hrrci. rejKiV. MOaMTI fat
t>??r word for tt. (Jo h*ih* plant where thl? po4t
m i> c I ** * in p operating tbi*. entire moat
?wl*'t4 mill aud o tarter engine. *
i MACHINERY WORKS, Atlanta Ca.
aw awl an taihn far. I
hB::Eh JOHNSONS
A ITONIC I
of Penang, while the Koenigsberg':
gvir?s made a hulk of the British ligh
cruiser Pegasus,of Zanzibar in Sept 1
torn be r. / * I
With the exception of Admirat^voJ I
Spec's squadron in the Pacific, all I
oceans now are believed to be free/ I
German cruisers and the British ai I
miralty already has informed tl
country that adequate measures ha' I
been token to deal with the victors I
the recent battle off the Chilean coa:. I
There were exciting scenec at L^yd Mt
and at the Baltic shipping agen<r
when news of the end of the dari I
commercial raiders wrro made knov H
Shipping to far eastern waters 1 I
been seriously disorganized owing
their presence. u
Luke McLuke Say a. ! 1C
Hush money does more talk H
than any other kind. M
When you see an overdressed H
man escorting a. man who looks I
a door mat, you know who is bos I
that house.
A eirl can nut in ten venrs* a"
ing culture. But that won't keep ^T1
from snoring when she is asleep 14
The man who beats his wife is HB
hit worse than the man who rob'
family by spending money o
fi'iends.
The old-fashioned man who us"
paddle his own canoe now
who owns a motor boat named 1 ^Bj
kabibble."
It is funny what a difference _
years make. The girl used to b
chew her "wax" in school whiltook
a whirl at her "all day s>now
has a daughter who carrii- ^^B
individual drinking cup so
get any germs in her mouth.
Justice of the Peace Oec^ ^^B
Pheifer of Alton. Mo., recentl , II
bra ted his fiftieth birthday by"
ing the cost of marriage ec* il I
ed BH