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THE TRI i: SOUTHRON, I>tahlMied June. ItM.
Cont jlidated Aur. 3,1881.
SUMTER, S. 0., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913.
Vol. XXXVI. No. 18.
tJHB OF JIBE MEETING.
Annual Meeting and Banquet Held on
Wednesday Night Much Enjoyed.
INTERESTING TALKS MADE BY MI SSUS. H. I. MANNING, M ILL
OIMINNKU,, MAYOR (? IHRES OF COM Mill A AND OTHERS
?HniUN Ulli INCOMING FHKSlhKMs I I 1,1, or
WOKK MWI IN I* A ST AND TO ME DONG IN
I I TI KH ? REPORTS OF COMMIT*
TEES ? DFLKillTFl L BAN
uvkt SERVED.
Their artistic nennen pleased by
beautiful flowers, the inner man com?
forted with a delightful supper and
rendered complacent by the effect of
good cigars, the membership of the
Chamber of Commerce or ut leant the
160 who attended the annual bunquet
last night had their loyalty renewed
and their patriotism fortified by the
department heads on the work of the
past year.
The supper was spread in the ar
mory, and Mr*. Hogan and the ladies
who annlnted her were highly com?
plimented on their mingling of artis?
tic effect and eelinary excellence.
The supper van nerved at half faint
eight, and by nine o'clock sufficient
progrenn had i.enn made to permit
Mapgf CHVoes of Columbia to be call?
ed on. He spoke briefly and inter?
estingly on the relations between a
city government and a commercial
Organisation, pointing out steps by
Which they might cooperate and
drawing deftly the lines which neith?
er should cross into the other's pro?
per field of action. He closed with an
expression of hope that all the cities
Of South Carolina would work always
In cooperation with the capital city.
Which gnU In a way the property of
the whole state and which had, he
was sure, the interest of the whole
state at heart.
After Mayor Qlbbe's address, the
raUrlsur president. Dr. a C. BAk>rrj|
called on the department directors.
Mr. D. D. Molse, for the department
on membership, entertainment and
conventions, reported the net renylt
of the November mass meeting to have
been the signing up of III three-year
memberships representing $3219 a
year. There were more than that
?Igned .up. but removals from the city
and other coneellatlonn for sufficient
cause had cut the figures down. In
addition to this revenue of $3219 a
year, other memberships not as yet
on the 2-year basin represents $ S ?;.">
OS a year?a total of $4024 a year
indicated revenues counted as nafe
and sure, though the hooks include
others which may or not add to the
revenues counted on and reported an
certain.
Mr. Molse's report included Sum
ter's work, by cooperation of the
churches and Chamber of Commerce,
In handling the reca nt Sunday School
convention more natisf: torlly to the
convention itself than any other city
had ever done; sjgjg busing his remarks
In part on the two new hotels, he ad?
vocated WM* Mai effort! to make Suin
ter a convention citv.
Mr. It. R Helser's report on the
Rural Relations Department was my
pectaly Interesting. It net forth the
legislative results of the department's
activities under the polic y of a more
i onnec led and permanent system oi
raods and an increa** In the funds
available " I nder this policy the
department set gfOd the commutation
road tux, adding |t#td to the annual
road tuml of the county, and the im?
provement cd all roads hading out of
? the city.
The popart wt nt into the coopera?
tive ntepn of the chamber, local banks
and Farmers 1'ne.n resulting in ar
rungements for farmers to borrow got
exceeding an lU'Ktegite of half a mil?
lion at p? r < em to enable them to
hobt cotton and arrangements tor
warehousing other staple PTOpg in
standard puckugc*. warehouses to is?
sue certificates against the goods, and
told of ntepn under way to arrange for
modern marketing of melonn and oth?
er perishables that could be \?TV pro
fltsbly producfd ir thin immediate
rent ion
Mr Reiser also re no, * cd on Ibe
faim lmpr<.\ein?D' and diversification
work, ggjfftod on under the Ptimtef
nplnt by gsjapofattog] of the Chamber,
banks. and OOfg clubs and Other
agencies, private end public, He cit?
ed the newly ggtaMlahod Parrot! Mill
Inx Company, an a I? ? ? fof tie- pro?
eftsMUsen of gassier oors crops advu
rated prteew lor uttructlvo loon, eon
dttionn on farms and untnl th. giow
ins gf alfalfa, which. It hun bOOO
proved, cm be successfully done In
thin gggUap gg properly prepared
bind He exhibited Ig pioof of this a
beautiful sample ot ulfalfa more than
two fact high, grown on tho White
Siding farm west of Sumter.
Ho?.. L. D. Jennings's report on
Civic and Public uffairs consisted
largely of sketching the steps where?
by the Chamber of Commerbe brought
about the present svstem of city gov?
ernment. He told of the enormous fa?
vorable publicity that Sumter had
received through its eontrolled-execu
tive, or City Manager plan of gov?
ernment; and cited as proof of its mer
*lt a saving of nearly $2,000 a year In
the operation of the water department
alone. He attributed this to the fact
of having a man "on the job all the
time" whose training enabled him to
?OS smh opportunities. Mr. Jen?
nings also went into the matter of
paving, tolling of the steps taken
successfully before the legislature to
submit to the people an amendment
permitting property owners to consti?
tute streets and areas into paving dis?
tricts for the purpose of providing
funds for street paving, under a plan
whereby the city will guarantee the
BOgfJ and the property owners have
Ifl ytgjfi to pay their share of the
costs.
Mr. It. I. Manning made a very in?
teresting report on the work of the
transportation department, lie advo?
cated a union station, better conditions
at the A. C. L station in the way of
shedding and concrete walks, and
^sketched the history of the Seaboard
road Into Sumter. He stated that his
Information Indicated that It would be?
fore long he extended to Charleston,
and at his suggestion the special oin
mittee in charge of ?onboard matters
Was continued.
Loth Mr. Manning, and Mr. O'Doil
neii in speaking for the department of
common e, said that Sumter had done
so much last year, so many things
rO0,Ulrfng Capital, that the business
men Wort m?w taking it a bit easy,
It was "the swing of pendulum."
Mr. O'Donnoll, dlscuontng commerce
said that the past two seasons had not
been particularly good ones from tin
crop Viewpoint) and that it WOUld not
be unnatural to look for a reflection
in business conditions. The general
business conditions, however, hud been
better than might have been expected
from the basis of the cotton crop and
cotton prices. The batiks, for in?
stance, showed but a small lots of
aggregate deposits, and some of them
?hewed an mci ease over a year ago.
in the condition of wholesale and re?
tail trade In general was much to con?
gratulate ourselves on. He also spoke
o fthe two new bank buildings and
new quarters of s third bank as illus?
trative of the strength of the local
banks
Mr. J. W. McKeiver. the head of
the department of Industries, reported
tin- new factories established during
the past year, ths Parrot! Milling Co.,
tin- shoo factory, th ? broom and
handle factory, the new 3-M magneto
and tin- gas plant, and commented on
? he excellence of older Industrial en?
terprises, He beepoke home support
of bom.- enterprises, both in the way
of Investment in stocks and purchas?
ing oi their outputs. Stating thai in
all likelihood the options on Telephone
.Manufacturing Company stock at 50
per cenl premium would be taken up.
throwing a large amount of outside
capital into Sumter in addition to the
local capital to ho repaid to tlie in?
vestors, he urge.i intelligent Invest?
ing tit of that money in home con?
cerns, confident that Bumter afforded
the best sott of opportunities for all
legit Imale entet prises
The report on Publicity ami Rducn?
lion, Mr Q, a Lemmon, told of the
uses to which the Humter folder had
been put and of tho widespread re
musts for information nltoul tin- Sum
ter plan of government The - re?
quests com?- from all over the eoun*
ti\, from Maine to Texas and from
Oregon to Florida Fifteen hundred
copies of a i-ew pamphlet on the City
Manager plan have been sent to new
papers. Slid constant privat?- demand
is lieinc mudv for them
The report also told of the fine ri
suits ot tin- exhibit of manufactures,
pictures and sgrlcultural products
m th< trcade ..t Columbia during the
Com Exposition, and stated thai one
ORATORICAL CONTEST WIM; BE
HELD TONIGHT.
Twenty*two institutions to be Repre?
sented at Meeting in Columbia?
Trnek Meet Tomorrow.
Columbia, April 24.?The first ora?
torical contest to be held under the
inter-high School Athletic and Ora?
torical association of South Carolina
is an assured success, Twenty-two
schools will be represented in the con?
test. The preliminary debate will be
held at the University of South Caro?
lina in the chapel this afternoon at 4
o'clock. The final debate will be held
tonight at S.IiO o'clock.
At the preliminary debate this af?
ternoon the speakers will be divided
into four groups and from each one
the tWO best will be selected to take
part In the final contest.
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
the preliminaries will be held in the
track meet at the university. The
finals will be held on the athletic
field at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
There will be no charge for the ora?
torical contest, but a fee of 15 cents
for students and 86 cents general ad?
mission will be charged for the track
meet, one ticket admitting to the pre?
liminaries and finals.
Gold medals are offered for the hrst
and second places In the oratorical
contest and gold medals with athletic
figures for the first places in the trac k
meet. Ribbons will be awarded for
the second and third places In the
athletics.
The students and faculty of the
University Of Smith Carolina have
been busy for several days making
arrangements for entertaining the
visitors.
_
.Marriage License Itooord.
A license to marry was Issued Tues?
day to Mr. W. A. Shuler and Miss
Ada bV Bradley of Rembsrt.
lOCaJ manufac turer alone had 'Imok
? d orders because of this exhibit on
which his profits exceeded the cost
ol the exhibit. The corn show, but?
ter contest and tomato Work proved
of great publicity value as well as
educational, and it is now beginning
to look as If the Chamber will be- able
to place a tine exhibit in the A. C. L.
station For a while it looked as if
such an exhibit could not be placed
where the Chamber would want it.
but the situation tit present is more
< ncouraging.
1 >. R, McCallum. the retiring treas?
urer, reported receipts: February 1,
1911 to April 1913, of I6.466.4S; dis?
bursements 66,340.38, balance April
19, $116.04.
The Secretary's trial balance, cov?
ering the time he has been with the
Chamber Of Commerce, showed $2,
79:1.50 handled since December 1,
1912. The Secretary reported that Dr.
Baker, Mr. Manning and Mr. Jen?
nings had drawn one-year terms, and
the hoard, as constituted after the
election in March of this year, con?
sisted of the following members, with
terms as shown:
Retiring in 1914 ?1>. D. Moise, pres?
ident; R. If Reiser, first vice presi?
dent: I?. R. McCallum, Jr.
Retiring in 1916?J. W. McKelver,
second vice president; (J. A. Lemmon,
Nelll O'Donnell.
Re tiring in 191G (New members) ?
J. Z. Hearon, treasurer; Dr. H. M.
Btuckey, E. L. Wltherspoon.
Following the secretary's report,
Mr. L J. Parrotl at the invitation of
the chair, discussed local patronage
cd' new local enterprises, which he
declared was less than the e nterprises
deserved at the hands of their home
people.
I >r. Raker then delivered his ad?
dress as retiring president. lb- con?
gratulated Sc inter on Its past year,
thanked his executive associates and
the membership generally for their
seal in promoting Chamber of Com?
merce matters, congratulated the
Chamber on its selection <d new di?
rectors and the board on its selection
of officers, ami turned the gavel over
to Mr. Moise, who assumed the- chair.
Mr Moise made a ringing address.
Ills theme was "the Sumter spirit."
Sumter already had, he declared, ex?
cepting street ears and paved streets,
nil ih< things that made modern life
comfortable, und possessed u i|uulit>
ot community life that dellghtes visi?
tors IIS ntlteh as home people. SlltUte'
i wb;it it Is, he declared, because of
itie shouldei -1ii-shoubler, cach-and
every-man for- Sumter all the time
spirit. That .-pint must be fostered
ami encouraged, and Bumter, with hci
mans intages, natural and acquir?
ed, will continue t?? grow in six*
without lessening in the quality of life
that mole the <itv the- best place in
the world to live in.
TERRIBLE DISASTER OCCURS IN
MINK AT PITTSBURU.
Seventy Bodies Recovered <>f the
Hundred end Twenty Who Are Sup
poeced to Hnve Lost Their Lives.
Plttaburg, April 23.?The lives of
I'M) miners, possibly 120, paid the toll
shortly after noon today of D disas?
trous explosion in the Cincinnati mine
of the Monongahela River Consolida?
ted Coal and Coke company at Fin
leyvllle, Pa. Over three score of
workmen In the mine made thrilling
escapes, crawling most of the time on
their hands and knees through deadly
gas fumes and over debris.
1'p to 11 o'clock tonight 70 bodies of
victims had been recovered. The
bodies were located by rescuing
squads of the United States bureau of
mines, the Monongaheia River Con?
solidated Coal and Coke company, and
of the Pittsburg Coal company.
As the rescuers found bodies they
were carried to the entries. None of
the bodies, however, was brought to
the open.
Preparations are being made to
handle the dead. Box cars have been
ordered to a mine siding. The vic?
tims probably will be taken from the
mine at daylight tomorrow and
?hipped at once to Monongaheia city
where they are to he prepared lor bu?
rial.
Rescue work is hampered by af?
terdamp. Plre, which followed the
explosion, has been completely sub
1 dued, it is said.
Rescue work was carried on with
difficulty owing to the tire and deadly
fumes The coal company maintains
rescue corps patterned after the mine
force of tin- United States government.
Aid from the federal mining experts ,it
is said, was declined by the coal com?
pany.
Only a few of the miners who
reached the surface could talk. Suf?
fering from burns or fright the min?
ers only knew that an explosion h oi
occurred and that o large number
of men are either killed by the ex?
plosion or asphyxiated by the after?
damp.
Several hours after the explosion
seven foreign miners crawled from
one of the entrances. All were serious?
ly burned. They could give no con?
nected account of conditions in the
mine. They all said t,hc mine is full
of dead.
Relatives and friends of the miners
beneath the earth are frantic,
Many of them ha(^ to be restrained
After B time a guard was placed com?
pletely around the entrances to the
mine and all persons except rescuers
and mine officials were held at a dis?
tance.
(?IARGED WITH Ml RDKR.
Coroner's Verdict Says Allen Kirk
ley's Death Was Duo to Shooting
by O. T. Horton.
Camden, April 23.?Coroner Dlxon
returned to Camden today after hold?
ing an inquest over the body of Allen
Kirkley, who was shot and killed
about six miles from Camden Sunday
night at 10 o'clock. The coroner's
Jury returned a verdict to the effect
that Allen Kirkley came to his death
from gunshot wounds at tin- hands of
Sidney Horton. Horton surrendered
to Sheriff Hm kabee yesterday and is
now in jail at Camden.
Allen Kirkley was the son of 1). M.
Kirkley, a prominent planter and
owner of KIrkwood farms. Sidney
Horton is the son of T. O. Horton, an?
other prominent farmer, and neigh?
bor of Mr. Kirkley, both residing
ai out six miles from this place.
Allen Kirkley and Sidney Horton,
brooding over a family affair, met on
the public highway Sunday night ami
the shooting took place, Kirkley suf?
fered injuries to which he succumbed
while Hortoll was slightly injured.
Kirkley was shot in the hip and ab?
domen. A Rock Hill physician was
summoned by telegraph, hut his skin
failed to save the wound. ?1 youth, lie
was burled today at Shtloh church,
near his home. He was about 17
years of age und for a short time last
Near was a student at Clemson col
lege. Horton is about 19 years of
age.
PIRK VI MAVI\S\ 11,1.1
Residence of Mr, W, it. Hudson De?
stroyed Thursday Morning.
Maycsvtile, April 24.- -The resi?
dence nt H. \V Hudson of this place
was destroyed by lire about o'clock
this morning, causing a loss of be?
tween |3,000 and |4,000, The insurance
was 13,600.
The the caught in the celling from
an unknown cause and the whole res?
ident e wai d< itroj ed.
ALL CRITICISMS OP TARIFF HILL
TO BE RECEIVED BY SEN -
ATE FINANCE COMMIT?
TEE.
Policy Adopted by Upper House in
Order to Hasten Passage of Under?
wood Rill?Opposition from The
West.
Washington, April 22.?By a strict
party vote the senate iinance commit?
tee today dcided Anally that no pub?
lic hearings would be given upon the
tariff bill when it reaches the senate.
Interested persons will be given a full
opportunity, however, to tile briefs or
statements with the committee bear
ing on any of the tarin schedules.
The decision is expected to short*
materially the time that will he < <
sinned in getting tho tariff hill
fore the senate tor consideration.
Tariff debate opens in the ho?
?c*
11 (?Clock tomorrow and in th
?*?
that general debate can he lir >
live days Democratic Leader
wood will attempt to hold th. ise
to 1 li hours of continuous worl ,Hy.
Another week of consideration under
the rule permitting amendment will
send the hill to the senate soon after
May 6, it is believed.
The tariff hill came hack to the
house today from the ways and means
committee with vigorous supporting
report from the Democrats dn the
committee and an opposing report
from the Republican members. The
general debate that begins tomorrow
will he followed by concerted efforts
on the part cd" the Republicans to
amend the hill in all its important
schedules
While the senate finance committee
has decided that further hearings
are unnecessary the Democratic
members of the committee wil con?
fer tomorrow with Democratic sena?
tors from Pacific ccKist and Rocky
Mountain States who are opposed to
the free sugar and free wool pro?
visions of the new bill.
A number of West/rn senators, in?
cluding Senators Meyers of Montana
and Ashurst cd' Arizona, will not par?
ticipate in the conference as they
have decided to support the free wool
and sugar programme if it is ap?
proved by the hous
The conference tomorrow will dem?
onstrate the strength against these
features of the hill. Those who will
participate insist .however, that there
has been no effort to form an offen?
sive alliance against the measure, as
proof of Which they point to the fact
that the Louisiana senators and oth?
ers interested in a change of the free
sugar and free wool provisions have
not been included in the conference.
CHILDREN'S STRIKE CONTINUES.
Pew Demonstrations Mark Third Day
of Unique Walk-out in Pittsbarg.
Pittsburg. Pa., April S3.?Al?
though a majority of the school chil?
dren of the c ity remained away from
their studies today there were few
demonstrations in the unique strike
inaugurated Monday against the re?
tention of S. 1.. Hecter as superintend?
ent of public schools. Attempts of
the children to gather in front cd' the
various school buildings we re discour?
aged by police reserves. hi most in?
stances the sight of the police was
sufficient to frighten a majority of the
children.
An answer is expected tomorrow
from each of the seven prominent
citizens who have been asked by the
board cd' education to investigate
c barges against Heeler.
DENIES IT IS THE ROY.
Alleged kidnapper Declares He Is
Innoc ent of Crime Charged.
Columbus, Miss. April ?"Before
Hod, you and me. i did not kidnap
Robert Dunhar. Don't ask so many
questions, hut if you want to see Jus?
tice done, help me get tny witnesses
to prove the hoy taken from me is not
the missing Dunbar child. Von may
string nie up. hut the wrong will he
discovered latpr."
This statement was given here to?
day by W C Walters, the man who
is held mi the charge of kidnapping
the lumbar child. Walters insists
that the child is the son of an unmar?
ried Woman who lives at Rai Htm III
X C. and that its lather is bis
brother. He says he took the child
one veai ago vv lu n it was three years
of age.
The frost of Monday Is reported
to have damaged the young crops to
a considerable extent in sandy land.
Tomato plants were killed, and cotton
and other garden It in k acre nipp'1
by the cold.
FRAM MAY PASS CANAL
PANAMA DITCH MAY BE TOED
WITHIN YEAR
Amundsen's ship ( an Go ThPoagh H
Slide* ore Conquered ami Look (iau-h
Finished.
Washington, April 22.?CoL Geo
thals, chief engineer e?f the Panama
canal, in a report to the war depart?
ment today reiterated the hope he
expressed some time ago that he
v.ould pass a ship through the canal
before the close of the present year.
The statement came in response to an
i ? from Secretory Garrison as to
r it WOllld be possible to grant
* quest of ('apt. Amundsen, the
rer, that he be allowed to take
,hip Fram through the canal when
? starts for the Ar. tare tic regions
* ?in the west coast of South Aimr
a next winter. Col. Goethals said:
"The opening of the Panama ca?
nal for the passage of vessels has al?
ways been predicated on the question
of slides and the completion of the
lock gates. The present schedule
contemplates admitting the water
into Culebra cut early in October
and the completion of one flight of
locks at either end of the canal by
that same date. The passage of boats
then depends upon the condition of
the slides. It is hoped that we will
be able to pass a ship before the
close of the year, and if this can be
accomplished the Kram will have no
difficulty in making the transit of the
c anal and every faculty will be offer?
ed for its doing so. No assurance,
however, can be given in the matter
at this time."
SMITH STARTS WORK.
South Carolina Senator Active in
Behalf of Applicants for f ederal
.!ol?s.
Washington, April 22.?South Caro?
linians who are waiting for federate
places and in whose behalf Senatoj^
Smith Is working will be glsx? tt, km>w
that the latter today started out Im?
mediately after breakfast, while the
senate was not in session, and visited
a number of the departments from
which these appointments are ex?
pected to come.
When Senator Smith saw the secre?
tary of the navy, the attorney gen?
eral and other department heads, he
t tid that just at this particular time
be did not care to say anything about
these matters for publication except
that he was much encouraged and
believed that at least one good South
Carolina appointment might be an?
nounced when the senate meets again
Thursday.
STRONG ON SAMPLES.
Georgian in Court for Distributing
Liquor in Small Dom s
Washington. April 22.?There will
be a decided diminution in the sam?
plings of liquor In Georgia if the su?
preme court of the United States af?
firms a case docketed today. It was
an appeal of Boh Kirkpatrick of Car
tersvllle, Ca., found guilty of violating
the law against the sale or soliciting
of sale of intoxicating liquor within
the State. Kirkpatrick was charged
With distributing samples for liquor
dealers outside of the State. The case
was brought to the supreme court on
the ground that Georgia law Inter?
fered with interstate' commerce in
violation of the commerce clauaa ??f
the constitution.
MAYESYIIXE CUTTING SCRAPE.
Dais) Benjamin Seriously Wounds
Her Cather. Tom Jknses,
Mayesvllle, April It,?What may
prove a serious ?Utting affray occur?
red h? ic this morning when Dais)
Benjamin, colored, attacked her fath
er, Theos Jones, an aged negro who
is totally blind. No information can
be gathered as to just how the trou?
ble came- about, but Jones is painful?
ly and seriously wounded. The wo?
man was arrest, d and placed in the
town jail without any trouble. Jones
has been running ? restaurant here
for years and is regarded as a good
negro, having many friends among
the white people. It is thought that
the a?oman used ? rasor on her fath?
er.
He-al Estate Transfer!
The following transfers of real es?
tate have been recorded:
Mrs L K. Wright to .1 M. Harri?
son, jr., bu on Oakland avenue* |S#a,
s .1 T Young to .i *' Dunhar, et
si, trustees, two acres for Dalsetl
school, }-leo.
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