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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30
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bought at public auction the st. Louis
Evening Dispatch for $500 His pur-
chase he soon found was almost u white
elephant, inasmuch as the plant con-
tanned no fuel, the presses were almost
useless, and there was no paper on
which to bring out the publication.
Nevertheless, on the evening of that
first day Mr.. Pulitzer was able to get
out 1000 copies of the paper. Primer
pally because he needed n newspaper
plant Mr.. Pulitzer. who had brought
out his first edition of the Dispatch on
December 10, 1879, got hold of the Eve
ming Post one day later. and on the
evening of December /: on the streets
appeared the first issue of the Post
Dispatch.
Looks Toward New York.
The new paper was successful and
Mr.. Pulitzer began to look toward New
York. On May 10. 1883, he bought
tho New York World from Jay Gould
y presidential campaign was looming
ahead, and Mr. Pulitzer launched into
the fight to elect Grover Cleveland.
During the campaign Tammnny re-
warded him with the nomination for
Congress from the Ninth New York
District. and he was elected. During
lHlS ChH1pdiBn the cultof nude his last
speech In German. He resigned his
seat in Congress three months after
his election. gave his salary to charity.
and returned to his editorial work
In 1886 lie purchased the Park Row
property. where the Pulitzer Building
now stands. For more than score
of years he had been in the building
but rarely. only about two or three
times. but there had been no time
when he had not been in intimate touch
with the editorial and business depart
ments of his properties. The building.
at one time the tallest In the world,
was not finished until after Mr.. Pulit-
ger had become totally blind.
OF late years he had spent most of
his days aboard his yacht, surrounded
by corps OF readers and s. <'ctaries,
who read the newspapers to him care
fully and then carried out his orders.
II was an ordinary occurrence for him
to wake up his staff aboard the yacht
at or 3 o'clock in the morning to
aid him In some new work he had sud-
denly thought OF.
Mr.. Pulitzer in 1903 endowed Column
bia University with s1.000.O00 for the
establishment of a school of journalism,
and he gave large sums to charity dur
ing late years, contributing especially
TO charities to aid the blind.
He leaves. besides his widow, three
sons and two daughters. His oldest
son. Ralph, Is married to daughter
of DR.. Seward Webb. His other. sons
are Joseph. Jr.. and Herbert, a lad OF
thirteen, and his daughters are Edith
and Constance. The second or his SIS
children, Lucille. died in 1897.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30
store. Are Destroyed.

Tuscaloosa, Ala. October 29-Four
stores in the principal business sec
ton Of the city were destroyed by
are early to-day. the estimated loss
being 100000. two-thirds of which 81
covered by insurance. Practically all
the men of the city formed themselves
into fire fghtins force and man
aged to save business block which
was threatened by the flames.
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pia Not pro,yn Hereelf.

Thomasville. Ca, October 2s.--Afiss
..etru Gaddy. the young woman who
disappeared Friday after leaving
note saying that her body would be
found in the river, to-day was located
at the homo Of friends In the country.
She had slept last night In an opon
field Her mind Ia believed to BIO
temporarily unbalanced.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30
GOVERNMENT TURNS BURBANK.
Grows 80 New Chrysanthemums for
It's Show, Finest Ever Produced,

It's Show, Finest Ever Produced.
Washington, D. c.. October 29.-The
United States governments tenth an
nual chryanthemum show, which be-
gins Monday and continues until the
following Sunday night, will be one
of the most complete and magnificent
of It's kind ever held in this country.
The Department Of Agriculture's ex-
perts, under whose supervision the
show Is to be held. promise fifty new
varieties OF chrysanthemums. which
they pronounce the most beautiful
specimens ever shown. Hundreds of
other varieties will be on exhibition.
They are the work Of not only the
hortculturists of the government, but
those Of the ontire country and parts
Of Europe.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30
Fatal Train Wreck.

Fort Worth, Toxas. October aa.-For,
Worth and Denver City passenger train
No. D, northbound. wsa wrecked at 10
O'clock fortnight one mile west OF neiie.
yue. Engineer Gus Cunningham 10
dead, snd Hs arsnaa and score %
nassauhcsFa are reoorted iaiurs6
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-30
from Branchs Church. Intermcnt will
be made in Maury Cemetery.
Colonel william w. Glass.

t-PNS'st " lIlc -D1SDatCh
VI, Winchester. Va. October 2s.--colopel
urday at his home in the western SUB
uros OF Winchester in the seventy
s ssyenth year Of his age, was direct
"S s s,moI A., OF samuel Glass. known as
wire, Mary Gamble. came from Balm
oridGe. County Down, Ireland, In l73s
ana located near the head OF Opeouon
GHreek. In the vicinity OF Kernstown.
Siass. who served as n lieutenant in
Sne War Of 1872. His mother was
Woo Woo and niece OF General James
Inc tier came to this country as a
british naval lieutenant. and after
doing much service for the mother
country In the vicinity OF Richmond
ne rounded Winchester in 1852. A map
hanging in the city clerks Office here
shows large extension he made to
the town.
0n c9i0 N n, Glass was nsutsnspt;eol
broke out, and after serving about a
year in the Confederate army he was
honorab!y discharged on account OF his
health. He inherited the Glen Burnie"
estate from his aunt, julia Wood, and
IN the house. which was built in 1890.
are still preserved many valuable let
tiers from Washington, Thomas Jeffcr-
son. Lafayette. Nathaniel Greene and
Hancock, John Jay. Thomas Nelson, Jr..
and Governor William Gooch
Colonel Glass's first wife. who was
Miss Mamie L. Luckett. of Loudoun
county. died several r.-<ths after her
marriage In 1861, and in 1865 he mar
ried Miss Nancy Rebecca Campbell,
daughter of Robert Madison CampScll,
who survives with the following sons
| Glass, of Oklahoma; w. w. Glass. Jr..
OF Waynesboro. Va; DR.. Robert McC.
Glass. Of Winchester; Miss Katharine
r. Glass. president OF Fort Loudoun
liam b. Davis. Of Washington. D. G.,
and Mrs. Harry Strider. of Winchester.
Mrs. Sarah Doughty.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch]
onancoek. Va. October 2s.-Mrs.
daughter, Mrs. George w. SturgIs, yes
terday, aged ninets years. She waS
the widow OF James Z. Doughty. Burial
was this afternoon In the family grosnd
league. Three children. one son. Mayor
L r. Doughty. OF Onancock. two
daughters. Mrs. George w. Sturgis and
Mrs f. T. Martin; twenty-five grand
children and eighteen great-grandchil-
dren survive.
Mrs. Annie q. Beattie.
Alexandria, Va, October 2s.-Mrs.
Annie f. Beattie. wife of Captain
Fountain Beattie. deputy collector of
internal revenue of This district. died
last nigh. at her home. 422 North
Peyton Street. after long Illness
Mrs. Beattle had been an invalid for
| several years, She was sixty-four
years old. and besides her husband
leaves ak sons and four daughters.
DIR. Forest A. Williams.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
Alton, Va, October 29.-Dr Forest
a. Williams, a prominent physician of
Avon, died at his home there at
o'clock this afternoon. The funeral
will be held Tuesday. with interment
at Hebron Church Cemetery.
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Children Cry
FOR FlETCHER'S
e. s II O RIA
Adverti sing Results

can be produced when the money 10 3udioi.
ously expended We have planned and ex.
ecuted many large and small advertlsing
campaigns. We know how to get prontabls
resuits. Consult. us and be convinced,
FREEMAN ADVERTISING AGENCY. INC,
Mutual Building.
''a'A9a'' 'paonss N. .l:se s,s- WRISTS
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
BY FRANK S. wOODSON,
Industrial Editor.

1t may sound little ugly just at
this happy Christmas season TO put
in noto OF protest against anything.
mean report. which has becn growing
by leaps and bounds, there Is much
OF a disposition to say Amen" to the
following from the industrial section
OF an Ohio paper:
There is protest against express
companies arbitrarily fixing boundaries
in city, beyond which they will not
deliver express packages. This is
Swimming the cream with a vengeance.
IL the express company was puny
infant and needed this Discrimination
there might be some justification for
this limitation.
An express company, or a telegraph
company or any other public corpora
ton, enjoying the trade OF "A great
city. should minister TO the great city
1t has no right to make flosh OF the
centre and fowl of the circumference.
The outlying portion of a city con-
tributes as much to the value of the
city as business point. as the cen
trail portion, and Is entitled to as much
of the advantage and convenience OF
trade.
This equality OF opportunity should
be insisted upon. The business part
and tho residence part OF the city
should stand together on this propo-
sition. The merchants don't lay down
any rule by which they discriminate
against residents Beyond --tecnth ave-
nuc, and they know their business"
The Ice men and the milk men and
the grocery men go to the uttermos It
limits in their delivery service. They
have to do It, Cor they have opposition
and competition. The express men arc
different. They dictate terms to their
patrons. So do the telegraph men.
Why? They own the earth, or think
they do, and in busy season like this
they do to certain extent. Why
should they have any more privileges
+, in big oity like Richmond than tho
other fellows? Well. here Is the in
terrogation mark (?). 1t is up to some
| body to answer
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
ND-wAsH1NeroN LINE,
Decrease In Several Important Items Ara
Noted-Markfd Innraye1r,enta :

bocfea6e In Seyernl Important Items ARD
Noted-Markfd Improvements.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto.
mac Railroad Company through President
w. II. White. has Just Issued its seventy
ninth annual report which covers tho AS
cni year ended June 80 last. 1t shows total
operating revenues. S2,Ss6.6l5. increase a.
compared with last year, s5S,oS7; operating
expenses, Sl,iSl.3o3. increase. SIS, 0ol; opsrat-
inS expenses. including taxes, $i.49all5, in
crease, S'9.la; not revenue from operation,
sssiooo. decrease. s2i.lg7: gross income, $685.
sd'. decrease, s@o.t65; net income after total
special contingent fund and expenditures
and appropriations for maintenance, etc.
ShoSlS. increase. Ss5oit; balance to probe
and loss after payment OF dividends. slsI-
Us: tota! TO credit OF profit and loss, $685.,
SIS $50
The company completed the reballastinss
OF It's tracks with washed gravel, accordins.
TO piaas previously announced. this worl,
covering seventy-slx miles o! line. Thu
change has proved economical in mnfnte-
nance, and the new ballast also clsmins ties
dust. Tn James River Branch has been
rebuilt and tho alignment and grade reduce
cd. Two reinforce concrete road bridgss
wero erected. The roadbed will DO prepsr-
ed for douhle-trackins from n point near
James River bridge TO -Acca The improves
mcnts At Fredericksburg on the main limo
We're completed. These Include !nteriock-
ing plant aud tower. new passenger and
freight siationS. water station and freight
yard. Their total was SOS, SsS The new
freight station at Marshall and Harrison
Streets, lii Richmond, Is being built and
should DO finished this year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
POULTRY RAISING
NEAR RICHMOND
A Pastirne Enterprise That 1:
Being Made a Great and
Profitable Industry.

The Industrial Section has time and
again shown. or tried TO show, that
the Virginia poultry farm is a paying
proposition. The Virginia Poultry AS
ISOLATION has been Understanding the
Industrial Section in its contention,
and for the past five years folks have
been taking notice. Poultry farms
within circle of forty miles around
ltichmond arc beginning to be some of
the best paying investments within
that circle. For long time the
trouble was TO convince the average
chicken raiser that chicken raising Is
really a business and not pastime
or a plaything. Now, to show that
1t is really a business. and good
paying business. l am going TO use
some information obtained from an
accurate advertising publication. 1t is
the story of an Englishman who has
como to this region to make poultry
raising business. 1t may be a Tree
advertisement to the Englishman and
also TO the advertising Journal, bur
that is all right. for the experience
OF the Englishman is an object lesson,
and what he has done can be done
by several hundred other people II
they Will so at the business right.
Here is the story:
One of the finest and most modern
poultry plants in Virginia is that to
be found at Eaglchurst Farm, in
Chesterfield county, near Richmond.
This place IL owned. by Henry Eagle
ton who came to this section in
December, 1910. from England, be-
ginning the poultry business on a
small scale, and who in the one year
since starting operations in Virginia
has increased his income greatly, and
has the foundations well laid for a
great poultry plant.
Mr.. Eagleton began business In
April, 1910. with 1877 pullets. costing
$3.50 each. and twelve cockercls. cost
ing SO each. These birds were of the
finest strain White Leghorn to be
found. as the owner started out on
the principle of having only the best
on his place. Three incubators with
capacity OF $40 eggs each were in
stalled, with the ordinary colony
houses and runs. To-day. just n year
and a half since purchasing his place
this poultryman has $50 White Log
| horns on the farm and has sold, be-
tween April l and November l. 1911
| over 10000 csSs, at an average price
OF 81 cents per dozen. in addition to
| having incubated nearly $500 eggs
| for chickens to be sold for marke,
| or breeding, or to be kept on the
| place. Five incuhators are now run
ming, and several fine houses and much
equipment have been added to the
| plant.
Mr.. Eagleton gets from 30 to 2i
f, cents dozen for eggs. and often as
high as IS cents per pound fol-
| chickens. He states that. by careful at.
tention. and adapting his methods tc
| tho great advantages of climate and
market which his location possesses
no usually sets from to cents
more per pound for his chickens and
! (Continued. on Second Page.l y
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
new INDUSTRIES
PLANNED IN SOUTH
Recent Devclopmental Announce
ments From Various
Sections.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch. ]

Especial to The Times ispatchl
Baltimore. December "3.--Among tho
numerous Southern industrial and
other dcvelopmcntaI announcements
reported in this weeks issue of the
manufacturers Record were the fol-
lowing:
o. y. Robbins, Charlotte. " c., and
New England capitalists arranged to
organize 100000 company TO build a
$4,000 spindle and 500 loom mill for
manufacturing fine fancy cotton goods.
c. W. Post, Battle Creek. Mich. de-
ctded to invest about 100000 for
building 10000 spindle and 200 loom
cotton mill at Post City. Tex; will
handle cotton from unginned staple to
finished sheetins ready for use.
Kentucky Fuel Company. Green
Vile, Ky, organized to merge fourteen
coal mining operations on Illinois Cen
trail Railroad; properties are reported
valued at s5.oo0.oOo.
Des Moincs, Iowa. Investors pur-
chased $4,000 acres of land near Plain
View, TEX. at about 100000; will di-
vide property into forty-acre tracts:
including 900 acres demonstration farm
and irrigation system; plan extensive
| improvements.
Interstate Chemical Company.
Charleston. S. c., awarded contract for
erection OF fertilizer factory at Char
lotte. y. c.; plant will cost about $780,
900 and have annual capacity of $4,000
tons.
Consolidation Coal Company. Balti
moro, Md. awarded contracts for con-
structlng and cquipping 100000 CEN
trail power plant at Hutchinson, w.
Va; concrete and brick construction.
Phosphate Mining Company, Savan-
| nah, Ga. awarded contract for $3.50,
900 plant. to have annual capacity of
| $4,000 tons of acid phosphate.
! North American Chemical Company
! Rome. Ga, was chartered with 100000
capital stock to mine haloysite and
| treat this ore with sulphuric acid for
producing aluminium sulphate.
! Alabama Iron and Mining Company
Birmingham, Ala. purchased SIT acre.
| of iron ore land, and expects TO &C
| quirc 1000 acres adjoining at Coll.
bran, Ala: cost about SIS per acre
will install $4,000 plant with daily
! output OF 500 tons OF iron.
Travis +. Jones and James 4. Log
| wood, San Antonio. Texas, purchased
1900 acres Of land. the price report
] ed being about 100000 will divid,
into tracts for farming. improve Will
| dwellings and wells and colonizc
! plans include fruit and . vegetable
| cannery.
| Georgia Overhead Irrigation Com
/ pany. Rome, Ga. was incorporated will
100000 capital stock to promote lant
irrigation by overhead system provid
ing for erection of poles to carr.
\ pipes with sprinkler nozzles.
Virginia Zinc and Chemical Corpora.
tion. Bristol, Va. was incorporate,
with s1.soo,ooo capital stock by Brls
tol and New York capitalists.
Spruce Dond Coal Company, Bend
w. Va, was Incorporated with 5000,
(continued on second Page,)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
Wonderful Business in.
All Lines During
Past Year.
BIG YEARS DOINGs
JUST SU M NJ ED UP.
Richmond Stands Right in the
Big swim-No Falling Off in
Real Estate Values-The
Good Year Past and
the Better Year
Coming.

10 sum up the real estate business
'hat was done during the last week
OF the year, preceding the holiday
season. would be 10 carry over a whoIa
lot ot deals and options that must
needs so over Until after the holiday
season EFIT'I
IL would be useless to so into partic-
oiars' ! is enough to say that never
IN the history of Richmond was there
quite as much real estate business
uone in the closing week bctore
CHRISTMAS Day rs was done this year
-hhu tncn 10 add to all of, this the
options that go over for new year con-
Sideratton are intensely encouraging
one real estate man tod me yesterday
lhat lie closed options amounting to
very close to II quarter OF n mtil:nn
doiars. options that may muteriali.e
Within the next two months. possibly
sooner, none of them extending he
yond sixty days.
OPTIONS aud Things
oplonS arc curious kinds of things
Sometimes they may mean much and
theh again they may mean little or
nothing, except as "A contingent fee Tor
'ne rGa' estate man. and so questions
! cd this man little closely. He o.s,,r
ed me that among these options were
some on business property tnat he fell
| sure would SO through carly. in Janu
| airy and other options on home prom
critics were largely contingent upon
thesc business deals. IL the business
and development propositions 60
| through the others must necessarily
follow This man argued from his own
standpoint that the outlook for the
| new year was mighty bright
thought SO. too. If he was tgurine
! from facts.
| round three other big agencies
| mat heid similar options and OF course
hau similar views as TO the new YEARS
outlook. guess these fellows arc
risht. It looks very much as If hust-
| ing. lndustdial Richmond is going to
| Keep right in the swim for another
year Certainly there is nothing to
Indicate Il falling off in real estate
| values so far.
a Wcck's business.
But coming back to the weeks bus
mess. From all of the data obtainable
| IL seems that very near to S750Ooo
worth OF real estate changed hands
last week. and all of that was done In
Inc hurry of Christmas tide occa-
| sion Possibly many OF these deals
VIII hold over during tho holiday sea-
son. but that all or them Will DO con-
hrmed there can be very little doubt
among the real sales that went on
record may be mentioned about S9O,Ooi
worth OF property on Monument Ave-
| nue., beyond Robinson Street; about
| $4,000 worth of good lands over on
Church Hill; fully $4,000 worth OF dir,
on West Main. and very nearly as much
as 100000 In suburban values. BY the
way. l hear that 1t has become much
OF a habit among young husbands TO
| make Christmas presents to their
young wives of suburban lots in Gintcr
| Park and other out flown doinEs
At least $4,000 of the recent real estate
deals may be OF this character.
Anyhow. there has been somethIng
doing In this holiday season in subur.
| ban business.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
HOG KILLING TIME
. IN OLD VIRGINIA
Coming Back to the Old-Time
Way, With Modern Improve
ments Added.
j. VI. BELL,

or all the manifold indications OF
good cheer that announce the advent
OF the Christmas season on the South
ern farm hog killing time takes pre-
cedcncc. The reason of this is very
apparent to any one ut Il. familiar
with farm life in the South, for in
| the tirst place. the true Southerncr. be
no OF nigh or low degree, loves
"hawg' meat. and agrees with the
great Roman epicure. who Is accredited
with the saying that there were moro
sorts Of good eating on hog than
on any other animal, or words 10 that
effect.
No Southern farmer Is SO rich tina I
no does not look forward to hog
killing time with Il degree of pleasure,
and few are SO poor that they Will not
have AT least one or moro fat porkers
10 kill jus bcfo' Chrismus'."
Therefore, TO all alike some visions
Of sausage sparsrib. chine. sousc,
brains and pork chops. AS soon as the
hogs are killed and cut up: a. fresh
ham, maybe. while the supply OF cured
meat that Will hang in the smoke
house insures good eating for months
to come.
In recent years the Southern farm
crs have been paying moro attention
hog, and on many plantations the
large majority of these animals are
practically pure bred, the choice of the
particular breed being largely left 10
the fancy of the farmer himself for
IL can be truthfully said that all of
the breeds possess desirable traits;
therefore. whether IL man raises Berk-
shires, Poland Chinas. Tamworths,
Jersey Reds, or what not, he is pretty
To n IA m
meat al Christmas time II he has had
the benefit OF Il good sized Gavin" pile.
Even the despised razor back" the
subject OF so many jokes, can be
taken seriously as table dellcacy if
he has had liberal ratious OF corn in
place of pine roots and wild mush-
rooms. with green broomscdge and
coarse woods grass "on the side"
f, Along with the Improvement iii the
breeds of hogs on the Southern farms
have come improved methods in fat
tening and butchcring, better and
moro sanitary pens. and in numbers of
| cases rations of miNet grain in place
of the "ail-corn ration"
The readers Of tho Industrial Sec
| ton may be interested in hog
killing scene, which the writer Wit
| messed this week On neighboring
! plan tation, plantation that has tho
reputation of having a fne killing
every year, and can truthfully say
that I have known the owner for
close to a quarter Of century, and
in all this time he was ready for
| Christmas when 1t came to fine sup
| ply OF "hnwg meat"
| Twenty-Five fat hogs were read,
| (but not Willing pcrhaps) for the knife
| Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock. The
stars were shining brightly when the
1--WE negro farm hands got ready, fol
business. Thirty PAGES from the fat.
l (Continuod on Second -Pagel ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS;
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
Express and Telegraph Companies Cigars and
Cigar Business New Year Offers Big Things.
Virginia. Use for Dynamite-South'
Unlimited Resources-Var and
SundrV Hints Along MANY Lines

opening of them was held up, pend
ing the divorce of the Cigar Stores
Company from tho American tobacco
combination. and in pursuance of the
Supreme Court decree. Tho separa-
ton which the court ordered is now
in effect.
According to the announcement at
the United Cigar Stores Headquarters,
the American Tobacco Company will
distribute its holding in the Cigar
stores Corporation to The 10000 indi-
vidual stockholders.
The further report is that there are
to be more cigar stores in Richmond,
and 1t may be that smoking may be
cheaper, and yet there are folks, attor-
eys-Eeneral Of three States, for In
stance, who pretend TO think the in
reference OF the courts with the to-
bacco situation was fake.