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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
SOLDIERS Kl.L fast
ON TuRRtY TOMORROW
Hampton Banks and Postoffice VIII
ciose-some Merchants viii
Give Halt Holiday.

THANKSGIVING day tomorrow will be
quietly observed in Hampton ano
Phoebus and at the soldiers Home
and Fort Monroe The banking IN
stiIutions swill close for thu day. while
the post&nces will observe Sunday
hours. Some OF the business houses
will close for ths<ofternoon. thus Civ
ing their clerks and employees a hall
holiday.
All military duties will be, done
away with at Fort Monroe and at the
National Soldiers Home, while the
arti,lerymen and former soldiers VIII
be given a Thanksgiving dinner o.
turkey and all the deiicacies of the
season.
/ The public schools OF Hampton
Phoebus and the county viii close thii
afternoon until Monday In order thai
the children may enjoy a double holi
day. Most of the teachers OF the higf
school, including Principal G. w. Guy
viii go to Richmond to attend the co
vocational association meeting :.
A number % Hampton people vii
20 to Dichmond to witness the Viz
eiuia Carolina game, while others vii
see the battle in Norfolk between Wiz
zInia polytechnic Institute and Nortl
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanics
College.
Tuskexee Institute will come tomo'
row TO meet the eleven Of the Hamr
ton Normal school IN the annual cor
test
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
Association Changes Name.
3 (By Associated Press,

ATLANTA, GA. Nov. 22.--With the
adoption Of a resolution changing It's
name to the Association OF Southern
Agricultural Workers. the election OF
officers and the selection OF Nashville
Tenn. as the place for the 1911 con-
vention. the twelfth annual conyen-
ton of the Southern States Associa-
ton OF Commissioners of Agriculture
came to a close late today.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23

chief executive came to the wharf
preparatory to his taking leave on
the train.
Ii was said among the officers ano
men on the Tennessee that the cruis'
er made a record-breaking trip on the
return from Panama TO Hampton
Roads. clipping off nearly 80 hours
of any previous effort made by gov
eminent ship.
A large number of people of Hamp'
ton. phoebus. Fort Monroe and New
port News stood in the drizzling rain
to cheer President Taft as he was
being conveyed from the wharf to the
station.
Exchanges Greetings With TAFT.
NORFOLK, VA, Nov. 23.-President
William Howard Taft and Mayor
James G. Riddick,. OF Norfolk. ex-
changed greetings yesterday when tue
nations ruler reached Old Point Com
fort. en- his arrival from Panama.
Mayor Riddick sent this telegram
"The CITY of Norfolk congra'ulates
you upon your safe return from Pan
ANA. Rest wishes.
The president replied:
"Verv much Obliged for your cour,
teors message. Sorry | cannot WISH
Norfolk at this time"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23

To each of. the many friends who
minis,ered so tenderly and lovingly
during the long illness and death OF
our dear wife and mother. Cordelia
NJ Stuart. we wish to extend our
heartfelt thanks. They shall always
be remembered with grate-ui hearts.
For the expressions OF sympathy ana
for the many beautiful floral tributes
we wish 60 express our sincere APP
probation.
20. /. n. STUART 4 CHILDREN.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
Trassfers from Cruiser to
Train for Richmond.
SHORT STOP AT OLD POINT
President Arrives In Hampton Roads
Aboard the Tennessee from his
Visit 10 Panama-Leaves on Special
for virsinia's Capital City.

When President William Howard
Taft. who returned to Hampton
Roads on the United States cruiser
Tennessee at noon yesterday. came
ashore at $3.50 o'clock, he found the
entire soldier command at Fort Mon
roe waiting to escort him from the
wharf 10 the Chesapeake & Ohio sta
ton. where he boarded special tram
for Richmond.
President Taft was on the Old
Point reservation less than 0teen
minutes, for he remained aboard the
Tennessee until the hour for his de-
narture for Richmond. Shortly after
3 O'Clock the Fort Monroe artillery
men. nine companies in all, headed
by the Fourth United States artillery
CORPS band. and commanded by Col
onel Clarence p Townsley, COM
mandant here, reached the wharf ana
within a few minutes later Presidenl
Taft left the Tennessee for the wharf
on one of the cruisers smaii
launches. Other members OF the
Presidential party also came ashore
in small launches. AS President Iait
was cheered the band played Hail 10
the Chief" President Taft, wearing
his accustomed smile. bowed ane
raised his hat and was kept cons tant-
" bowling 70 one side and then TO
the other as he rode from the wharf
to the station.
Auto Awaits Him. !.
Awaiting the arrival OF the fresi-
dent was a large automobile from
Chiles' stable. in which Edward
Hone. The son of Officer r. d. Hope,
and an expert automiDbile driver was
Tho chauffeur. The President hurried.
Nv went to the machine and took his
seat in the rear seat He was accom-
named by several secret service men
apdsone of the gentlemen in his par
~ A soon as President TAFT was
seated Chauffeur Hope turned the
current on his machine and in sec
ond the big automobile was speeding
away 20 the Chesapeake ONO s'a'
ton. where the special train was al
ready awaiting its distinguished pas
senyers. President Taft went to his
nriyate car and at 3:47 O'Clock the
train steamed out for Richmond
- The twenty-five or thirty others in
the Presidential party were conveyed
from the wharf to the station also IN
automobiles, while the Fort Monroe
artillerymen marched to the station
lust in the rear of the Presidents par
ty. President Taft doffed his hat OF
Ten and his large. expansive smile
kept The crowd cheering all along
the route through which he passed
Short Time On Reservation.
As President Taft did not leave the
Tennesse e until the arrangements for
his special train to start on its jour
new to Richmond had been complet-
ed he spent but a short time on the
Old Point reservation. He was hur-
ried from the Tennessee to the sta
,ion in almost record-breaking time
and in less than fifteen minutes after
be left the cruiser on which he made
the trip to Panama he was gliding
along on the special train. which viii
tonight take him back to Washington.
AS the Tennessee came into oio
Point at noon with the President ana
his party the guns of Fort Monroe
belched forth the welcome by nrlns
the Presidential salute OF Il guns.
No saiuting was necessary as tne
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
johnson Gets heavx sentenee.

John sJohnson, alias Teggie John
son. the negro arrested In Newport
News for stealing a clock belonging
to Mrs. Burge. in Armistead avenue.
was fined 500 and sent to jail for
six months by Mayor Thornton +.
Jones. In. the Hampton police court
yesterday morning.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23

Cadet George Lancer, OF the Vir-
GINA sMiiitary Institute. reached
Phoebus yesterday to spend bis yaca-
ton OF six weeks with his father Capt.
George H Lancer. So
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
socrAI-pnRsoNAL.

ME-. Lizzie Clarke, of Phoebns,
who has been visiting her brother,
Mr.. VIM. Lancer in Indiana for the
past month. will return to her home
Nov. 2s accompanied by her brother
and his wife.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23

If you will only do yourself the
jus tice of having CHEYNE make
those Xmas Photos on time, you will
promote peace and harmony in the
family. g.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
GETS TWO TURKEYS.
wrsy Curtis Bags Large cobblers N
War~ick County.

Warwick County.
wray Curtis. the son OF Sheriff x.
K. Curtis. bagged two large Wild tur'
kew gobblers while hunting in War
wick county yesterday. One Of the
birds weighed twelve and a nai'
pounds and the other eleven and
half pounds Sheriff Curtis VIII have
plenty of Thanksgiving turkey tomor'
row as the outcome OF the days hunt
+. s. Curtis and J. vaaEan Jones
accompanied Wrsv Curtis on tie TIP
but neither succeeded IN killing tnr
key.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23
Ethel Leneve to Leave London
(f4v Associated Press,

LONDON. Nov. 22.-Ethel Leneve
has booked passage on the steamer
Majestic. which sails from Southamp-
ton for New York tomorrow.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-11-23

For the convenience OF my many
patrons. you may expect my place or
businefs open THURSDAY. Thsnkseiv-
lng. from 9 = m. 20 $3.50 2. n
cfIEYNE-S STUDIO, Hampton. Va
q.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.-Stories Of
riot and L,Oodshed, widely circulated
have brought scores OF anxious in
quirtes concerning Americans resident
in Mexico City.
While it is true that certain outlying
districts have -ituessed disturbances
of a more or loss annoying character
it is also certain that reports concern
ing them are greatly exaggerated, and
are in many cases the purest fiction
No one familiar with conditions in
Mexico will credit for an instant any
rumor Of a successful uprising or d
Widespread rebellion.
With the exception Of short-liVed
student ebullitiOn, which was over be
fore the eager correspondents had
reached their respective city editors,
there has not been the slightest dis
turbance in Mexico City, and business
has continued, as it will continue,
without interruption.
"The slight demonstrations which no
doubt were considerably magnified
continued for short time only said
Alexander Ross, general manager Of
the Mexican National Gas company,
today. Except for the unfortunate
killing Of two MeXicans and the break
ing Of few store windows, no dam
age was done beyond that resulting
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

the amount they takes sfor their noon
day meal The meat may be fried
ham. 1t is cut thick the long way of
the ham and each slice is cut in two.
These slices are fried and piled high
on Il platter and set before six men,
The platter will most likely have to be
filled again. Hot bread OF some kind
biscuits or corn breaC is sure to be
on the table at every meal and morn
ing and noon there are great pots of
coffee. At the evening meal these pots
are filled with tea. There is sugar and
milk for the coffee and tea. The sug-
ar is one of the most expensive items
on the bill of fare, especially in the
camps where Greeks are employed
The Greeks care little for tea or cof-
fee, but much for sugar. They will
fill their cups to the very brim with
sugar, pour over it just a little cof-
fee to make it past. and a few drops
Of vinegar to suit their peculiar tastes
and then eat the mess. They will do
that two or three times at a meal
The increased cost of all kinds Of
provisions and the enormous consump-
ton of sugar were the reasons that
Desmond demanded an increase in the
price of his meals from % to 80 cents.
At dinner and supper desserts are
served. At noon the dessert may be
pie or a tasty pudding and at the
evening meal 1t will probably be cake
with some kind of fruit. Canned
peaches of excellent quality are usual
ly served as they are a favorite with
the men. The pies and cakes are the
chief distinction between the meals
Desmond serves the aqueduct workers
and the meals that are served in rail
road construction camps. In the rail-
road camps every man pays 81 day
for his board while in the Desmond
camps the charge is but 80 cents a
day and the food Is far superior.
CAMPS IN THE DESERT
Everything served is of good quality.
Complaints have been made in some
of the camps that the food, as it was
served on the table. was not palatable,
but in every case where such COM
plants have been made it has been
found to be the fault of the cook and
not of the food itself. One of the hard
est features of Desmond's contract is
to secure good cooks, and the next
hardest feature is to keep them when
he gets them. working mans camp
in the desert is no more attractive to
cook than it is to any other human
being, and while Desmond pays his
cooks high wages, they become dissat-
isfied at the lonely life and when they
have accumulated a little money leave
for the bright lights of Broadway. The
many camps that Desmond must sup
ply with cooks and the proneness of a
cook to quit without a moments warn
ing, results in good, bad and Indifferent
cooks in the aqueduct mess houses,
just as it would anywhere else under
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

similar conditions. But the majority
of the cooks are satisfactory. At all
the permanent camps, such as South
and North Portals, Haiwee, Olancha
and others, the cooking is splendid
practically all the time. 1t is not likely
to be so good at the movable camps
where the steam shovelS are dredging
the bitches and moving along month
by month and taking the mess camps
with them.
Because they must be transported
from time to time, these steam shovel
camps have been portable canvas tents,
but Desmond Is rapidly changing these
to portable wooden houses. The first
of these was put up last month at the
steam shovel camp south OF MoJaVe,
but Desmond says that he expects TO
have such houses at all the movable
camps by the first of the year.
It was from these movable camps
that the complaints came about year
ago that the meat served at some Of
the meals was spoiled. Such a condi-
tion of affairs is not true now, If 1t
was at that time. DesmondS principal
storehouse is at Mojave, and I stood
on the platform of the building one
crisp morning late in November while
the supplies were being handled. A
wagonload of meat, covered with a
heavy canvas, drove up to the build
ing William Mulholland, superinten-
dent of the aqueduct, was standing
close by, and he threw back the cover
and looked at the meat.
That's mighty fine beef, joe" said
Mulholland.
And it was fine beef. 1t was prime
steer beef and the kind that a res
taurant would charge half a dollar for
a thin slice. This beef was on its way
to feed the workers on the aqueduct
and they were to have all of 1t they
wanted, and with the rest of the meal
1t would cost but 80 cents.
MESS INSPECTOR ON DUTY
But Just to make sure that the food
served will be up to the top notch
the board of public works has provided
for a mess inspector. The civil serv-
ice commission has just exempted this
position from civil service regulations
and the board will choose the man
without restrictions. 1t will be the bus
mess of this man to eat Desmond's
food and report If it is not all it should
be.
Neither Desmond nor the whole
salers who are behind him in this con-
tract are making a fortune off this
contract, nor even a fair profit. When
Desmond was serving meals for %
cents he found that he was losing
more than one cent on every man
every time he fed him, and he asked
the board of public works to increase
the price to 80 cents. The board of
public works made a quiet investiga-
ton on it's own account and found
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25

from exaggerated reports. Our busi-
ness of supplying gas to the residents
of Mexico city has continued without
interruption and we have installed
over $40 meters since June /, 1910 AS
for anti-Americ1n sentiment, one may
draw his own conclusions from the
fact that Mexicans are quicker to
adopt gas for heating, lighting and
cooking than the foreigners, although
our company Is largely owned by
Americans"
THE demonstration is over and its
participants have the 'katzenjammer
bad" said the local manager Of an
American company. 1--WE hear this
morning that armed Mexlcans re on
their way TO assault Rock Springs. II
the report is true somebody is going
to get a merry surprise. If, as L be
I've. it is false it is another example
Of the current hysterical stories.
"Our office is OF en- every day and we
have vet to witness the events reported
in American papers. Some rascal tried
to throw water on my assistant, but
he threw to windward and got 1t all.
We cant I IKE an international mat
ter out Of this"
Local business conditions are en-
tirely normal, reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
DESMOND MASTER
IN FOOD SUPPLY.
Contractor Provides Bone and
SineW for Human Machinery
in AqueduCt Enterprise
USES PORTABLE MESS HOUSE
Daily Menu for Men Engaged in
Bringing Owens River Water
to Los Angeles
BY WLFORD LEWIS

There are many mighty factors that
enter into the building of the great
owens river aqueduct but probably the
most important of them all is d. J.
Desmond. 1t is Desmond, who with
his mess contract, is furnishing the
bone and sinew of the human part of
the machinery that is boring the tun-
nels and digging the ditch.
l have sat down at the plain pine
tables in the mess houses with the
plain men who are Desmond'S board
ers and eaten the plain food that they
cat and 1 have found it good. l have
eaten much worse food in Los An
geles restaurants and paid much
higher prices than the 30 cents meal
that Desmond charges. There Is no
fuss about the service. The money
that a restaurant spends in cut glass
table lights and hemstitched napkins,
and charges in the bill, Desmond puts
into the meat and vegetables that go
on his uncovered tables. There are
no tables cloths, there are no napkins,
and there is no Haviland china, but
the men who eat at his tables don't
miss these things. They are the hardy
pioneers, the hard rock miners and
muckers, the men who live on the
edge of civilization and have no pa
tience with the table etiquette of more
complex communities.
benches before long tables on which
the food is ready for them. In front
of each man Is a galvanized iron
plate, a galvanized iron cup and sauc
er. a galvanized iron soup bowl and a
steel knife and fork. In iron bowls
on the table are teaspoons and soup
spoons of tin.
THE DAILY MENU
Great pitchers of soup are placed on
the tables and the men fill their bowls
by pouring it out. Great platters of
meat and great dishes of vegetables,
potC toes, stewed corn, stewed tomat-
oes, carrots, onions are all ready TO
be devoured when the soup is gone.
Every man helps himself and passes
the dishes to his neighbor. One plat
ter of meat and one pan of each vege-
table is usually served for each six
persons, but there is no danger Of the
supply running out for as soon as a
platter or dish is empty it is quickly
reflled by a watchful waiter. The
amount of food one man may eat is
limited only by his own capacity and
not by any restriction placed on him
by Desmond They are not dainty eat
ers, these hearty men of the desert
and mountain, and a city bred man
who considers n caviar sandwich suf-
ticiept for his lunch would have diff
Guilty in making place for one-fourth
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
Thomas Jefferson McCarey
Promoter of Fistic Sport

serted itself and made him a prominent
promoter Of fistic entertainment.
Hazards pavilion was in demand by
the Temple Baptist church, and al
though he had lease with ten
months more to run, McCarey proved
his liberality by abandoning his rights
in order to further the plans Of Rev.
Robert Burdette and his fellow church
members Boxing at this time was
restricted by city ordinance to a single
block in the industrial district, and the
promoter went to work to erect Il
pavilion here. being monarch Of all
he surveyed so far as fighting in Los
Angeles was concerned.
When competition in the shape of
Baron Long, Jim Jeffries and others
in the Jeffries Athletic club came
along McCarey met it like a sports
man, and with his superior knowledge
of the game was soon able to come
out on top. In q period of financial
stringency the Jeffries club lived less
than a year, and when it finally
closed, McCarey was able to buy in
the arena at Vernon and has since
conducted his longer bouts there.
Now the promoter is devoting his
time to amateurs. An ordinance re-
Gently passed by the council prohibits
any professional contests in this city,
amateurs to their proper place. His
opening entertainment under the new
rules was successful in every way, and
in all probability those who love Il
rafting mill will not be deprived of
their sport as long as he is at the
helm.
"This fighting business is just the
same fundamentally as any other,
says MCCarey. Nothing in the world
succeeds unless you are honest. Now
most fighters are boys who have grown
up without education other than the
worlds hard knocks have given them
and are naturally inclined to go wrong
when the chance presents itself to
make q lot of money for one crooked
act. The tempter is ever present in
the shape of some rich gambler, and
only by watching all the time can he
be foiled of cheating the public through
his poor tool ! watch the fighter and
his associates, and the least suspicious
action is enough Tor ME TO interfere
and spoil what they call a 'frameup. p"
Naturally, Thomas jefferson Nc
Carey lays great stress on honesty in
boxing, for despite the view persons of
religious inclination take of it. the
game is rather free from crookedness
and especially in this city. In his
long career McCarey has kept his bus
mess free of scandal, and with many
Of the most prominent business men of
the south among his patrons he is able
to look every man in the eye and hold
his head as high as any.
incidentally, McCarey is suaye,
educated man, whose chief pleasures
are found in his own family. Occupy
ing one of the prettiest homes in the
exclusive southwest part of the city,
he delights in passing every spare mo-
ment with his wife and clever chill
dren. Religion plays a prominent part
in the McCarey routine of life and ill
ness is the only thing that excuses the
members thereof from paying homage
Many are the charities which the pro-
moter has helped, and never a reason
able appeal for aid has he let go by
unanswered.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-25
NAMES OF FABRICS

Calico comes from Calicut, India.
Satin comes from Zaytown, China.
Serge is named after Xerge, Spain.
Mosul, which is in Asia. is the name
sake OF muslin.
The ancient city of Damascus is re-
sponsible for damask.
Cambria got its name from Cambria
and gauZe from GAIA
Taffeta is named after Bagdad
street where the material was at one
time sold
Alpaca derives its name from the
Peruvian animal from whose wool it
was made.
Cashmere was originally made in
Tibet, in the vale Of Cashmere, where
sheep growing a specially fine grade
of wool grazed.
Thomas Blanket, celebrated cloth
ier, who is said to have introduced
wool into England in the fourteenth
century, is responsible for the name of
our bed covering.-Detoit News.