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THE SUMTER WATCHMAX, Estab j Consolidated Aug:. 2,1 GOOD ROADS I NOW IN SIGHT County Board of Commissioners Moving Kapidly with Plan for Improvement STATE ENGINEERS NOW MAKING SURVEY Concrete Bridges Will Be Built and Well Graded and Drained Sand Slay Roads to Be Con structed. The County Board of Commissioners met in regular monthly session on Tuesday, May Gth. \vitb_ all members present except Commissioner Lenoir. The minutes of the last regular and a special meeting were read and ap proved. Clerk D. M. Blanding called the attention of the board to the fact that the system of book-keeping is not a.s comprehensive as it should be and not adequate to the needs of the county. He suggested that the sys tem be thoroughly analyzed and that a system of double-entry book-keep ingr be installed. He also asked that the Board have the accounts of the office audited at stated periods by a certified accountant. The recommen dations were discussed and referred to the finance committee for further consideration. The applications of property owners and residents of the Horatio section for the opening of a public road from Horatio to Claremont. The Board de cided that if the interested citizens would obtain the rights of way for straightening the road and put it in condition the Board would work it. i Chairman McLaurin stated that he j had obtained a signed undertaking I from the members of the legislative delegation agreeing to have enacted a tax to raise $40,000 for road improve ment to supplement the funds now available for roadwork and to be ob tained from the Federal government. An offer of property owners in Shi- j loh -township to donate one mile of ; road leading from Trinity school: house to the Rhame road was ac-. cepted. j Mr. L. W. Jenkins appeared before j th<b--hoard and recommended that the j . pack lawi? of the Court House be used i for parking automobiles. The sugges- J tion was not approved, and the board j directed that hereafter no automo biles be allowed, to be parked on the I Court House square either in front or j back. The city police are requested by | the board to stop passage across the \ square by either pedestrians or cars. Signs forbidding trespassing on the square were ordered erected. A letter from Mr. J. C. Dunbar, of BalzeU, requesting that he be inform ed whether or not County Engineer McLellan had authority to purchase a car load of corn. The clerk was in structed to notify Mr. Dunbar that Mr. McLellan had been authorized by the board to make purchases for the county. Rerorts of Demonstration Agents were received and filed. Recommendation of County Pen sion Board that R. >!. Cook be added to the list of Confederate pensioners was approved. Reports of Rural Policemen were received and filed. The policemen re ported the following fines collected and bonds forfeited during month: J. B. Bradley??32r?. *"W?. x- Morris??}2*. H. B. Boykin??1*0. Sam Newman??210. Commissioner Mims stated that It had been reported to him that Rural relicem;<_ ^radley's son was carrying a pistol contrary to law. The cleric was directed to write Policeman Bradley to have the practice discon tinued: and also to enforce the law against plowing into the roads. Clerk of Court Scarborough ap peared and recommended that a book for recording the names of dis charged soldiers be procured and kept in the Clerk's office. Action was de ferred. The Clerk of the Board was direct ed to obtain bids on the manure in the jail yard stables and to sell same at best advantage. The Clerk was authorized to purchase needed office equipment and supplies. The County Engineer was author ized to obtain bids on dump wagons and tents. The Board ordered recorded in the minutes the following memorandum: "Referring to the item of Supervis or, the Board has further considered the matter, and on account of their personal feelings for the Supervisor, they dislike and hesitate to prescribe specific duties for him: but in re sponse to innumerable inquiries from citizens throughout the county to the various members of the Board as to what duties the Supervisor is now performing or will execute in future, the Board, out of consideration for the Supervisor, requests him to ad vise them, at the next regular meet ing, or any call meeting before same. aS to what duties he can perform in order to earn the salary h-- is now re ceiving." County Engineer R. F. McLellan re ported as to th^ expenditure of fund of $600 allowed him for road con struction and maintenance during month of April. His exp< nditures were approved. lie stated that $'.?00 would- be needed for May. Board or dered warrant for that amount to be drawn in favor of County Engineer ftfeed Apr?, 1850. Be Am *j 881. IpimItt?ck" i on petrogr? -Entente Forces Preparing For j Military Operations Against Russia IhelSingfors will be used as base ! News Comes From Stockholm j i And May Not Be Authentic! j Stockholm, May 12?The entente j ! forces are preparing for military op- j ! orations with Helsingfors as a base j i for an attack on* Petrograd according; j to a Helsingfors dispatch to Alton : [ Tidningen. Fifty thousand troops arc j expected to take part in the operation, j J according to the dispatch, which says j ! French cruisers are now in the Gulf I ! of Finland off Helsingfors. ) i I Brussels, May 12.?President Wil-j son will visit Brussels about May 20,1 according to the Independence Beige which adds that the visit will "dis sipate misunderstandings and estab I lish the good will of the allies to ! ward Belgium." McLellan. Mr. McLellan reporied-'on j repairs made on Ford car. He was directed to ascertain best price he j could obtain in trade for the car and ! i to report to the finance committee. Mr. McLellan advised putting back j ?into effect the system of maintenance: j of reads by contract for five mile sec-; I tions. He said he had prices from j j several parties, and recommended | i that contracts be made on the basis j j of $2 per mile for two round trips, i j He was authorized to make contracts j ! as above covering all main trade roads j j now in condition for such werk and | to make similar contracts for other; main roads as soon as they arc in condition. He was directed . to have split-log drags made for the use of road contractors as needed. Chairman McLaurin reported cor- j rcspondence with State Highway Com- i mission as to expenditure of funds j derived from the Federal road'appro-j priation. County Engineer "McLellan report-! ed that a corps of State Highway En- j gineers are here and ready to go to ? work. Engineer Carleton who is in j charge of the corps appeared before; the Board in consultation in refer-! ence to the cost of permanent road j construe ion and the cost of concrete! I bridges. Be stated that for perma- J : nent hard surface roads he favors j I concrete. This class of roadway at: i the present time will cost approxi- j mately $25,000 per mile. He esti ; mated the cost of concreto bridges for | j the streams in Rocky Bluff and, Scape i j O'er swamps at $2.000 each. He es- i I timated the cost of good sand-clay j ; reads, properly drained, at $^.000 peri [mile. The Board decided to eliminate j Shard surfaced roads (concrete) from! their calculations at this time. County Engineer McLellan stated Ithat the Slate Highway Commission: [advised him that they were at present] ou1 of funds to care for the entire ! cost of these surveys, but that they j would tak?- care of the cost of rail road transportation and salaries of] their surveyors, but the county would, have to pay their board and provide ?oca! transportation for the- crew; : while engaged in t: *3 survey On motion of Commissioner Brit j ton the engineers were directed to j [proceed with the work of making the; purveys at one-1, and to furnish esti mates of cost of weli mixed, well drained sand-clay roads and. concrete I bridges oh the following roads: Sumter to Mayesville. Sumter to Kershaw county line; (Camden road). Sumter to Clarendon county line (Manning Road). Sumter to L<^e county line, or as far on the road to Bishopyille as the funds available will permit. The estimates are to be given sep- i arately for each read and for bridges. All of these roads constitute parts of' the State Highway system, as form ally designated by the Board. The County Engineer was author ized to arrange to provide local trans portation, i Commissioner Mimms reported that the roads in Shiloh are in bad condi tion and that complaints in that sec- i tion are general and insistent, that something be done to relieve the sit uation. The chaingang has not work - ' ed the roads of that section in four years. After considering !ho work in hand the Board directed the County Engi-j heer to finish the work now being loiv on the road from Dalzell to Pos-, sards Cross Roads and fix the worst] places on the road from Myers* Store; to Dalzell and then to place the crew in the Shiloh section, which he esti mated would be about June fith. The Clerk reported the result of in vestigation as to negotiation of loan of $60,000 for county purposes and to placing $10.000 of read improve ment bonds immediately and $10.000 the first of the year, under the act of 1910. He stated that the county at torney advised thai it would bo prac ticable for the county to borrow $C0. ooo at this time and to place the road improvement bonds as indicat ed. After the approval of claims ihej Board adjourned, . i id Fe*r not?Bet all the ends Thou Aln SUMTEE, S. C? WEDN3 Bluejackets and Negroes in Seri- j ous Clashes?Many Men Wounded i _ I POLICE HURRY VICTIMS TO ROPER HOSPITALj Negro is Taken Off a Car?Beat-1 en and Shot Down on Marion j Square?Marines Detailed to Patrol Streets. (News and Courier, Sunday, May il). Beginning after a negro was ac cused of shooting down a bluejacket at Market and Charles streets, in a pool room, serious race rioting, in which bluejackets, assisted by some civilians, apparently, attacked many negroes occurred here late last night and early this morning. Seven blue jackets and eight negroes are reported to have been wounded severely. At least one man is believed to have been killed. Police were unable to step the blue jackets, from the naval training camp, naval officers despatched additional provost guards by motor car. while' a detachment of marines was hurried into town to serve as a patrol. A lit tle after midnight, because of the se riousn'-ss of the situation, policemen and n ..rincs instructed all persons in the streets to go home and stay there. Bear Admiral Benjamin C. Bryan, commandant c? the Navy Yard, kept in as close touch as possible with the rioting and gave orders that as rapid ly as possible all the bluejackets be sent by motor trucks back to the Navy Yard and the naval training camp. Soon after the beginning of the i trouble in Beaufain street, bluejackets were accused of raiding two shooting galleries. They are reported to have used these small caliber rifles indis criminately on negroes. The bluejack ets, steadily swelling in number until | midnight, proceeded uptown and as they went up King street, wrecked a colored barber shop. An army oili cer and a naval officer, who hap pened" along, took an actve hand here and compelled the bluejackets to leave. - * A Proud street motorman refuse.; to bluejackets, it is charged, jerked! off the trolley. They entered th" j car, took the negro out. beat him and then shot him down. Another i neuro was taken from a car on King; street near Market and shot down. ! Persons in a fashionable restaurant were unwilling spectators of this. While the several thousand blue jackets were in charge of the town.; excitement ran high and wild re- j ports circulated swiftly. At 2.30 o'clock this morning, it was still im possible 10 get accurate figures with respect to the casualties. Police and hospital j authorities were continuing their ef-1 forts to locale wounded men. It was believed that some- of the wounded negroes were hurried home by friends and that these cases will not be known for a day or so. Bluejackets sent as additional pro-! vest guards wore armed with. riotj guns by the city police department, j and began their duty just about mid-j night. It was then that the marines j also began service as patrolmen.] Tn the earlier stages of the rioting! Lieut. John It. Petersen, Jr.. Lie::.' .lohn it. Sandford and Lieut. John ('. Nicklas strove to break up the rioters and., at considerable risk to them-] selves, forced many bluejackets into line. Other naval officers, later arriv ing, also took a hand. All witnesses agree that the blue- i jackets were after negroes only. as no white civilians were molested. The marines doing patrol duty were instructed to search every person in I the streets this morning. Every pre caution is being taken to prevent a.: recurrence of the rioting. Over at. the Roper Hospital the ac-j commodations of the emergency room; as well as of the wards wore taxed to' the utmost by the constant in-pour of! wounded who demanded instant at tention. In fa et. so rapid was the flow of patients tint the hospital au thorities were practically unable to keep account of the admission cases. The nearest approach to a permanent record that could be obtained from 1 the Roper Hospital at an early hour this morning was the list of those cases which were or a sufficiently se rious nature to demand further at tention and confinement to :>. ward. The first case was registered as having been entered at 9.30 o'clock, and thereafter the internes and a number of surgeons who were on duty!/ found their services in continuous de mand. Tim police patrol was equally! busy, plying its grim trade between*1 the posts of call and the hospital. Aftermath of Riot Two Negroes Killed in Clash with Bluejackets i Charleston, May l. -Out of the confusion on the heels of the rioting ; here late last night and early this ; morning, it is established by city and]; county authorities today that two no-j' groes, James Talbert and Isaac < Docktor. are dead and at least 17 no- i groes sufficiently wounded to he treat- ; ed in the municipal hospital, Seven < is't at be thy Country'*, Tiiy God's tt 2SPAY, MAY 14, 1919. President Ebert Makes Speech Appealing to Wilson's Fourteen Points SAYS PRESIDENT HAS DESERTED PRINCIPLES, I He Says The Treaty Is a Mon-j strous Document. -_ I Berlin, May 12.?"Germany has seized and unfurled a new banner on j which are inscribed President Wilson's fourteen points which the president| apparently has deserted," said Fred-j crich Ebert, the German president, in j a statement to the Associated Press j today. President Ebert called the i peace treaty "a monstrous document." ! He declared that history holds no | precedent for such" determination to j annihilate a completely vanquished! people. Referred to Experts Notes of German Delegation Considered By Council of Four Paris. May 12.?The council of four at the meeting: today decided to refer the German notes on labor and war prisoners to experts for considera tion instead of answering them im mediately, as it did with the first two communications from the German delegation. Italy Going Mad Revival of Irritation Over Fail ure to Obtain Fiume Rome. May 12.?Discontent and irritation of the people is again grow ing on account of the news from Paris that Italy will not likely get what she claims en the eastern shore of the Adriatic. bluejackets are reported to have been wounded. It wus learned today that the leave of all bluejackets at the navy yard and the naval training camp has been indefinitely cancelled, only those with special permits to be allowed off their j reservations. Meantime the naval au-, thorities are carrying forward a) searching investigation into the se rious disorders between bluejackets i and negroes. John G. Mansfield, county coroner.; who has ordered inquests into the deaths of Docktor and Talbert, is care- j fully collecting the evidence in these cases. The rioting was precipitated after the fatal wounding of Docktor. who is alleged to have assaulted and shot a bluejacket. j Charleston was today au'og with comment on the rioting. Tiie police department has taken precautions against a recurrence, even though; bluejackets ore not permitted inj town. While the negro population | appears to be quiet the authorities do j not propose to take any chances. Ma-j jims from the navy yard barracks] will again patrol the streets should ? this be considered necessary. The pa-j trol by marines in the early hours this] morning was done through the co- : operation of Rear Admirals Francis' E. Bcatty and Benjamin C. Bryan.! commandant of the Sixth nav.il (Tis- i trict. and of the navy yard, respec- j Lively, with Mayor Tristam T. Hyde, j Practically all the rifles taken by j bluejackets from shooting galleries have been recovered. At the police: station where many persons were tak en during the heigh.:, of the rioting [here is a remarkable assortment of weapons, ranging from pistols and. ?il'es down to brickbats. A bullet Saturday night wounded a! negro girl on an up town street. She; n-d her companion were a consider able distance from the rioting and P. : is supposed that the wound was in- j flicted by a bullet that had been fired into the air. Her name was not re corded, as the wound was not seri 3 US. With respect to the origin of the rioting, reports are conflicting, but it appears that violent trouble broke ifter a quarrel betw< en Docktor and several bluejackets on Beaufain 3reet, near Charles. Bluejackets re-: 'used to say what they knew about it :nd negro prisoners and patients pro cessed their ignorance. Just how word of the disorder spread so rapidly among the bluejack ?ts in town on leave is no: explained. >Ut in a very few minutes about 2. )0ii were in the mob which shouted: "Get the negroes."' and similar ?hrases. According to the police ami >ther reports several of their victims vere innocent of any offense to the duejackets. One was dragged out of : Broad Street ear in spite of the mo orman's effort to save ban. Another vas dragged from a King Street car tnd shot down in front of a fashion- . ibio restaurant, which was crowded tt the time. A third was yanked rom a motor touring car of which he vas chauffeur. Chtil dawn negro chauffeurs refused to take out cars tnd the taxi business was broken'* lown for about six hours, . . I ad Tratb's." TBE TRUE Huns Fairly Sricken Dumb By - Peace Terms Which Are I ' Mild Comparatively j - STRIKES AND BOLSHEVISM HARDEN EUNSj i i i Continued Uprisings Said to Have Made Huns immune to Horrors of War. Berlin. Thursday, May 8 (By the Associated Press )? The people, though fairly stricken dumb by the peace terms, are now recovering suf ficiently to declare that Germany can not and will not sign the compact no matter what comes. Strikes are increasing and Bolshe vism and the Spartacan uprising of the past two months have if anything made Germans immune to the pos sible horrors which are to be antici pated if they are again plunged into war, according to the best opinion here. There exists a small group cf Ger mans, chiefly conservatives, who pre fer to see the entente occupy the whole country rather than to have it Bolshevik, but they are in the dwin dling minority. Reports from the Versailles corre spondents emphasize the feeling of amazement and excitement which pre vailed on the reading cf the terms of the peace treaty. All the correspond ents agree that no hasty decision will be reached. A fortnight is allowed the Germans for an answer, and this time will be used for careful consideration of the demands and the preparation of counter suggestions, the corre spondents say. There is much speculation in Ber lin as to whether the terms represent maximum demands which may be re duced or whether they are minimum and irreducible, j According to the Berlin Zeitung Am Mittag, the delegation at Versailles will carefully avoid any bargaining, but will present definite, clear-cut counter propositions, which in part have already been prepared. "These counter proposals." the ; newspaper declares editorially, "will I i>e based on the fourteen points so dis | gracefully abandoned by President Wilson. If the cGrman people had to ! vote on these terms. as a whole, j there would not be in the whole em I pire a single 'yes.' Force without : measure or limit that used to be a I Wilson phrase; and The Wilson peace I jOffered us yesterday falls in thisl category, instead of on his fourteen! points." I Mean Death for Germany. London, May 9.?An Exchange' Telegraph .dispatch from Eerlin says1 that after a five-hour session of the German cabinet Thursday, Philip Schiedemann, the chancellor, deliver ed a speech to the committee ap pointed to consider the treaty. After comparing the most important condi tions iaid down by the allies in con-l necti^n with President Wilson's! fourteen points, Schiedemann is re-! ported to have said: "These conditions are nothing else than death, for Germany, but the gov ernment must discuss this document j of hatred and> madness with sohrie-' ly." I The chancellor indicated (hat the! German delegation at Versailles had j been instructed to hand a note to the Allies showing the difference between I the treaty terms and President Wil-i son's fourteen points and submit j counter proposals and endeavor to: start an oral discussion. He expressed! the hope that the peace conditions; would be considered with good will i by both patries and that a satisfac- j '.cry result would be effected. In Deep Distress. Berlin. May 9 (Via Copenhagen) ?: The president of the imperial minis try has sent the following tele-ram to the governments of the free' States: "In deep distress and weighed downi by cares, the German people has' waited, through the months of the ar mistice for the peace conditions.! Their publication ins brought the bit terest disappointment and unspeak able grief to the entire poeple. A pub lic expression ought to be given the:; felings by all Germans. The imper-i hi government requests that the free States have public amusement sus-! pended for a week and allow ir. thei theaters only such production..': as cor respond to the. seriousness of these grievous days. Held By Weather Seaplane NC-4 Did Not Hop 0(1" From Chatham Chatham. .Mass.. May 12.?Weather conditions today were tin favorable for r'ne resumption of the flight by sea plane XC-l to Halifax and Trepassy. Xew found la nd. Delegates On Way To Paris , Vienna. May 12.;?The Austrian i peace delegation will leave Vienna to- < day and are die- to reach. Paris Wetl-li nosday. ij ?-?---> SOUTHRON, Established Jans, i-z** VoLXLVIIL No. 26.' The French Press Do Not Seem Greatly Enthused Over The Document * frx . . EL _ * ^ : ~ 7 EDITORIAL VIEWS oi Jj LEADING PAPERS GIVEN Temps Praises Far-Sighted Statesmen Who Framed the Massive Document . Paris, May S.?The peace treaty does not arouse much enthusiasm in the French press. The newspaper commcnatore generally condemn it with faint praise. M. Capus, in The Figaro says: "Evidently the treaty only repre sents the greatest possible approxi mation of a finished and definite arti cle. It is a human thing, not a dream and an abstraction. It assures energy to the victorious people, principally the French. If France gives way at the knees the treaty will be but a i vain pact between grotesque shadows" j M. Serve, in Victorie, says he is al i most satisfied with the treaty, and i adds: "It is just the peace we dreamed of, I without violence, annexations and I conquests, but containing nearly all j the restitutions, reparations and guar antees we could reasonably expect." { "Pertinax," in The Echo De Paris, ; is dissatisfied with the treaty, and J says: "What astonishes one at first glance ! Is the fiagrant disproportion between ! the plans proposed to us and the I means which we are given to carry i them out. Praises Diplomats. Paris. May S?(French Wireless Service).?After analyzing the chief ! clauses of the peace treaty, The 1 Temp.3 today makes the following ! comment: i "The experience of the war is still quite fresh. What we have learned ; from it is that France, the British Empire and the United States have, i thanks to their invincible soldiers, [crushed Germany and caused the I Hohenzcllem errrpire to collapse "~m j Berlin, although the Germans still ' hold territorial pledges and strategic ! positions in front of Paris. Premier Clcmenceau never gave up hoping that victory would be ours, and he was cicver enough to discern among the other difficulties that would arise from victory the new conditions need ed for French security, and he has managed trealizethem mcwyom m managed tc realize them. "Foreign Minister Pichon assisted the premier with the most unswerv ing devotedness and Andre Tardieu has contributed to the work of peace malting with clear-sightedness, pow erful will and capacity for the task. France will be grateful to them- for their good services." Rumanian Advance Stepped Political Reasons Assigned'for Halting of Troops' March Toward Budapest Geneva. Saturday. May 10 (By the Associated Press).?The Rumanian advance toward Budapest has been halted by orders from representatives of the allied and associated powers, according to the Rumanian bureau at Berne. The bureau sent the follow ing message to the Associated Press here: "The American and English govern ments, through their representative missions in Vienna, have stopped the advance of the Rumanian armies upon Budapest. The reasons are unknown, but probably are political.*' London, May 10.?The Hungarian war office reports a repulse of the Rumanians near Fzohiok on the Theiss River, says a Vienna dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. A Rumanian retreat is declared- to have been compelled. Dirigible To Fly Big Balloon To Make Trip From Cape May to St. John's St. Johns. May 12.?A landing party from the cruiser Chicago, today began .o prepare a landing place for the na ral dirigible which will make a test .?raise here from Cape May this week. Whether the big gas bag will be start ed oversea.s after its arrival here will ;ot be decided until after she lands. Sonnino See House Italians Trying to Reach Ad justment Before Austrian Arrive Paris. May ii'.?The Italian foreign minister. Son nine, conferred today vith Colonel House. The conferees liscussed the Italian situation with a iew to reaching a basis of adjust ment before the Austrian^ ajrive.