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and began talking. He Immediately be-
came involved in a long controversy with
the reverend protester. who straightaway
looked for the support of the rest of the
test became so widespread and powerful
that Winston Churchill shrewd politician
that he is, could do nothing else but
move in the matter.
X x
White tried to run the fight, involving
a small fortune in purses and expenses
and catering for $1,000 people. from a
bed-sitting room in the Midland Grand
Hotel. London, where he lived. He was
fortunate In securing the cooperation OF
Hal Lewis one of the Mcintosh camp,
who knows more about the fight game
than almost any other man in England,
but he was unfortunate in not delegat
ing to him the entire management of the
whole thing, aside from the financial af-
fairs, which are Whites especial forte.
Johnson insisted upon signing the ar
ticles governing the proposed fight in the
office of one of the London sporting dali
lies, the editor of which was close
friend of the black. White foolishly
agreed to this, despite the fact that they
could have been signed in his bedroom.
The consequence was that rival paper
Immediately came out in opposition to
didn't have a possible chance. and car
ried it's opposition to such length that
its editor wrote to the editors of all the
important newspapers in the country ask
ing them to express their opinion on the
matter. Following the lead of their cor
respondent the editors almost without
exception, came out against the match.
Even this heavy initial handicap might
have been overcome il Wn..e had used
a little diplomacy. Instead, he plunged
in deeper by making 1t as difficult as pos
sible for the newspapers to get material
about the fight. He. sold the photo
Ing of the two men. as well as of the
fight, to an agency which was free to
charge anything it pleased for pictures of
the fighters. He entered into contracts
with Wells and Johnson which prevented
them talking to any newspaper man for
publication. and tried to sell to English
and American papers the exclusive right
to articles from the training camps of
both men.
The browning act of indiscretion came a
few weeks before the fight was billed to
take place. 1t then became known to
men on the inside that White was at
tempting to sell the "reportorial rights
of the fight 1t was actually claimed
that one publication had agreed to buy
such rights. although how they Were
worth a penny 1t Is hard to see. But
White consulted eminent legal authority.
who assured him that he had the right
to sell such privilege, and that he could
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tons of water, or all that four horses
could haul, to make that food. 1t takes
even more water to make meat and eggs,
for the food of the animals comes from
the soil. and in addition they drink many
times their own weight every year. Every
pound of bread is equivalent to two
tons of water used by the growing
grain, and a pound Of beef is equal to
from thirty to fifty tons of water, which
the animal has consumed directly or in
directly through it's food. | can't tell
exactly how much water each of you
consumes in this way every year, but
if you should eat two hundred pounds of
bread and two hundred pounds of meat
you will have consumed altogether more
than four thousand tons of water in one
shape or other. and this is without count
ing that which you use for drinking or
bathing.
Moreover, as we have more or less food
we have more or less water, and SO, after
all, 1t Is water which regulates the size
of our bread basket. DIR. MCGEE says
that we have an annual water supply big
enough to make food for a. billion people.
and he estimates that at the current rate
of increase we will have shat population
in something like 300 years. This sup
poses that all the water be properly cared
for, and that is what Congress Is now
asked to do.
Now let us look at the water supply OF
the United States!
Dr. Willis Moore of the weather bureau
has estimated that our annual rainfall
averages about thirty inches the United
States over. The best way to measure
this is by acre feet-that is, by covering
certain number of acres with water one
foot in depth. The yearly supply meas
ured that way would cover five thousand
million acres which in area Is equal to
200 states the size of Ohio, Virginia or
Kentucky, or in volume to ten Mississippi
rivers running day and night all the year
through. All this comes from the rain or
snow which falls in one year
The distribution of this supply, how
ever is very uneven. Draw a line north
and south across the United States so
that II will bisect Des Moines, Iowa, and
more than half of all the rain that falls
will be found east of that line. The aver
age precipitation over that tract is forty
eight inches per annum. 1t is the humid
region of our country. From that line
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about 500 miles westward is another ter
ritory which may be called semi-humid'
where the rainfall is about thirty inches.
and the whole remainder, consisting OF
about two-fifths of our country. includes
the arid lands. where the average precipl-
tation is only twelve inches. The other
tract is the region OF the deserts, the
mountains and of the reclamation prof.
ects. 1t is country of few well wa
tered spots, but also of extensive tracts
which are bone dry.
Nevertheless, we have, all told. an an.
nual rainfall equal to ten Mississippi
and know that it falls. Where does it
go? l shall ask. these high-browed sci
entists to tell you the story. Here again
MCGEE is the best authority. His mind
and his vision so clear that he can fol-
low the drop TO the skies or to the bow
els of old Mother Earth. He divides the
rainfall into three-the run-of, the fly
OFF and the eut-oH One-thlrd OF all the
water that falls says he, flows into the
sea through the rivers and the smaller
streams. This is the run-off A smaller
amount soaks into the soil and saturates
the rocks and finds it's way into the sea
by leaking out into the streams. This is
the cutoff. The remainder, which is by far
the most of the supply, evaporates and
goes into the air to fall again as rain.
This is the fy-off This is the water
which. in connection with that from the
upon the land.
The fy-off is so large that if you could
freeze it into cubes a mile square it
would suffice to build an ice wall mile
high and mile wide all the way from
New York to Detroit. The run-off il so
frozen. would make such wall 800
miles long, and the cutoff, or the water
l,inh cirlyc infn m a
one long enough to reach from Philadel-
phia to Boston.
In addition to the water which falls
every year. wS have another great sup
ply underground which has accumulated
and is fed by the rain and snow which
fall from time to time. This water is
always moving, but the amount is so
great that it is equal to the entire rain
fail of the United States for seven years,
or to the run-off for twenty years. There
is so much of it under the surface of
the earth that it has been estimated that
IL it were equally distributed it would
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canal system will be canvassed from the
Atlantic 10 the Pacific and from Canada
to Mexico The matter is already before
Congress. There has been introduced into
the Senate a bill providing that five hun
bred million dollars he spent within the
next ten years upon the control OF our
water resources. and the scientists tell me
that if this is done il will result in a
saving TO Us of one thousand million dol
lars per annum. The proposed eXpend-
iture is to be made at the rate of nifty
million dollars per year. Ii Will cost us
each year about sixty-two cents per
capita and the saving will be at the rate
Of twelve dollars per capita. or twenty
times the amount of the expenditure.
This means 2,oo0 per cent profit. which.
even in these times of multimllionaires
and hillion-dollar trusts is a fairly good
investment The man at the head of the
movement i'm the Senate is Francis G.
Newlands who has for years ranked as
the leader Of our irrigation and reclama-
ton projects. and who, as DIR. w Nc
Gee, the secretary of the inland water
ways commission, says. is quarter OF
century in advance of the average states
man on such subjects.
for the regulation of our rivers l want
10 give you some idea of the water sup
ply of the United States. and the part 1t
has in the welfare of every man. woman
and child of us. The man who knows
more about this than any other In the
country Is DIR. w j. MCGEE. and 1t is
from him that the greater part OF my
information comes During the past week
we have been talking about the rain
fall of the United States and where 1t
goes We have discussed our mighty
rivers and the schemes for their improve
ment and DIR. MCGEE has laid before me
the plans for a great series of ship
canals which when completed will result
in a saving of hundreds of millions of
dollars in freight transportation every
year.
Our great irrigation sections of the
west, where an acre or so will support
a family, give some idea of the value
of water in the production of food. DR..
MCGEE tells me that every pound of plant
food we use has required on the average
one thousand pounds of water to make
it, So that IL you eat four pounds OF
vegetables today 1t would just take two
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James White, the Englishman who
tried to promote the Inflated Johnson
Wells contest, is held TO blame for the
ultimate action of the home office. Hugh
Mcintosh and Jimmy Britt promoted
series of heavyweight contests i'm Lon
don that were much more widely ad-
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tation against the Johnson-WeIIs
match.
much for them. The writer has known
evenings when everybody connected with
the management carried knuckle-dusters.
and Mcintosh actually went about armed
with revolver.
Absurd as seemed the claim of the au-
thorities. in their successful effort to stop
the proposed Johnson-Wells fight, that
they apprehended breach of the peace,
1t Is now known that the famous "Brum-
mic" gang of London. corresponding TO
the Paul Kelly gang in New YORK, mad
been commissioned by some one TO Gre
ate a disturbance on the night or the
fight. White was prepared for them,
however, and in addition to about 100
professional thugs and private detectives.
ARRANGEMENTS had been made to have
30 of the Irish Guard, i'll plain clothes,
on duty with loaded sticks. Running
JOhnson-Jeffres fight in Reno Is sun
day school picnic compared TO promoting
boxing match in London, the nome
of law and order.
One of the most laueable effects or the
recent controversy has been the institu-
ton of a boxing match censor Yes, the
sport is to have a censor hereafter, just
as the playwrights have Who he is has
not been revealed He is some mysteri-
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built connecting the lower Mississippi
with the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Tex,
and another system in the northwest by
which freight could be carried from the
Columbia river to Puget sound. The
projects embrace the deepening of the
Mississippi and the Chicago drainage ca
nal and Illinois river so that our men-of-
war could go from the Gulf OF Mexico
right into the great lakes. All sorts of
ocean transportation could go the same
way.
Another provision is for the improve
ment of the Ohio. This. il is estimated.
would result in saving in freight of
something like a hundred million dollars
a year 4 third is the deepening and
improving of the Missouri, that boats
drawing ten feet could so from the Mis-
sissippi at the gulf a. far as Great Falls.
Mont, distance of three thousand
miles.
Dr. McGee says that the Tennessee
river might be improved so as to give
slack water navigation for ten-foot
barges and that barge waterways Of
equal depth might be made all along the
Atlantic coast from New York to Florida.
There are many natural waterways there
and the land is such that canals could
be easily dug.
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here are illegal elsewhere 1t is hard
to realize the we'll nigh insurmountabl BILE
opposition to an independent effort to
run fights in England When Mcintosh
was holding contests at Olympia the
one hope of his enemies was that pub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

Copyright. 1911. by Frank G. Carpenter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-05

OUR Mighty Water Sup
~ ply-What the Rainfall
Means-The Run-off, the
Cutoff and the Fly-oH-
Where the Rains Go-Our
Underground Reservoir
Ship Canals for Everywhere
What Railway Freights
Cost the Consumer-One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars
Per Year Per Family-Some
River and Harbor Plans Now
Under Way.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
FIGHT TO SAVE
TALLULAH FALLS
INTERESTING COMMUNICATION
is ADDRESSED TO RAIL
ROAD COMMISSION.

The Tallulah Falls Conservation
association, headed by Mrs. Helen d.
Longstreet, is to make a great fight
10 preserve this great place. The
following communication on the sub
iect has been addressed to the Geor-
gia railroad commission by Mrs.
-Longstreet:
To the Railroad Commission of Geor-
sia:
We believe that your honorable
body will stand between the people
Of Georgia and the iniquity proposed
by the Georgia Railway and Power
company in the most gigantic and
dangerous monopoly ever undertaken
in the history of an American state.
But should our confidence in you be
not justified, and the merger and the
bond issue be permitted, the Tallulah
Falls Conservation association will
Immediately appeal to the attorney
general of the United States to dis
solve a corporation which will be op-
Grating in direct violation of the two
great underlying principles of the
Sherman law, with respect to fixing
prices and making competition prac-
ticallv impossible.
What spectacle, to behold the re-
publican attorney general Of the fed
eral government dissolving a mono
poly fixed by democratic officers on
the people of a Southern democratic
state in the hour of this nations
greatest struggle with the corpora
ton.
1t would mean that the two great
political parties are facing about
that in the day of trial the republican
party under a republican president
is championing the rights of the peo-
pie, while the democracy is surren-
dering to the corporations. Does the
railroad commission Of Georgia ex-
pect to write that decree across our
skies? Three million Georgians and
one hundred million Americans await
the answer, on the eve of a national
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
MANY ACRES OF
LAND IS LEASED
BY NEW COMPANY
NAVAL STORES PEOPLE BUILD
ING TRAM ROAD UP AT
OLD GRADE.
Large Sum of Money Being Expended
by the Company All over This Sec
ton in Securing Wood to Be Used
at Turpentine Plant.

The people of Brunswick little real
ize what the Southeastern Yaryan
Naval Stores company is doing out
side the city. Many of them have
visited and viewed the mammoth tur-
pentine plant in the city now almost
ready for operation, and which has
been built at a cost of thousands of
dollars, but the plant alone does not
near show what this company is eX-
pending in this immediate section.
In almost every direction the COM
pany has leased hundreds of acres of
land, from which timber to be used
at the plant will be cut. Already
thousands of feet have been prepared
for shipment and when the factory
begins operation a few weeks hence
it will have sufficient wood on hand
to keep it in operation for many
weeks.
Building Tramroad.
AT Old Grade, small station on
the A., b. & A. railroad, just a mile
this side of Fendig, the company has
purchased the timber rights of many
acres of land from M. l.. McKinnon,
and through this tract there is now
in course of construction a tram rail-
road, which will be built for a dis
tance of about six miles. Work on
the road has been going on for some
time and two or three miles have al
ready been COMPLETED
This will be finished early in the
coming year and most of the wood to
be used at the local factory will be
shipped from that point The tram
will extend from the line of the A.,
B. & A. to the end of the tract of land
leased, about six miles, and many
hands will be employed in cutting
the timber, etc.
This is only one of the few large
tracts that have been purchased by
the company. They have timber
leases on valuable land all over this
section of the state and at every point
they have a large force Of men at
work, cutting the timber and getting
it ready for shipment to this city.
Thousands of dollars are being ex-
pended in all of this preliminary work
and this amount will be greatly added
to as the plant begins operation.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
BUSINESS RAPIDLY INCREASING.
Brunswick Cigar Mandatory is Now
Working a Large Force.

The Brunswick Cigar Mandatory,
which started business in this city
only few weeks ago, in the build
ing on Monk street formerly occupied
by the Brunswick Cigar company, has
added so rapidly to its equipment,
worllmen, etc, that the success of the
enterprise is now assured
Starting out with only a half dozen
cigarmakers at work, the business of
the company has so rapidly increased
that it is now working daily any
where from sixteen to twenty-four ci-
garmakers and the capacity of the
plant is being taxed to fill the demand
for cigars. While nearly all of the
output of the company is now handled
exclusively in Brunswick, outside bus
mess is now being solicited and many
of the cigars manufactured by the
company are being shipped to other
cities.
Managers Artau and Prim, the pro-
prietors of the new factory are both
well-known business men who have
had much experience in the cigar bus
mess and it is practically certain that
they will make a success of the new
factory.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
MANY SPEAKERS
ARE ON PROGRAM
GEORGIA DRAINAGE CONGRESS
TO HOLD INTERESTING
MEETING AT WAYCROSS.

The Georgia Drainage congress will
meet in Waycross on December 20
and the meeting will no doubt be
one of the most interesting ever held
by the association. The program
which was received in this city yes
terday, includes number Of address,
es by several prominent men, VINO
are familiar with the question OF
drainage.
This will be the first meeting of
the association held since the Geor-
gia legislature passed a state dranl-
age law, and for that reason, more
than any other, the convention will be
Of unusual interest.
1t is expected that quite delega-
ton from this city will attend the
meeting. Following is he program in
full:
MORNING SESSION.
Convention called to order at the
courthouse at $50 a. m
Prayer by Rev. w II. Scrusgs.
Address of Welcome Professor y.
A. Pound.
Reclamation Of North Cardinals
Wet Lands" by DR.. Joseph Hyde
Pratt, Geologist Of North Carolina.
'The Wet and Overlooked Lands of
Georgia" illustrated lecture), by
Prof S. w. McCallie, Geologist of
Georgia.
"The Reclamation Of Georgias Wet
and Overdowed Lands" by J. V. PHIL
lips, United States Drainage Engineer.
Discussion of the Drainage Question
by Congressman William G. Brantley,
Hon. Charles G.. Edwards, Senator
Hoke Smith, Hon. l.. II. Aiken Of
Brunswick, Hon Walter McElreath,
and Gov John NJ. Slaton Of Atlanta.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
"The Relation Of Drainage to the
Agricultural Development Of tile
South" by Hon. 70. J. Watson, com
missioner of agriculture, commerce
and industries of South Carolina.
"The Value of Tile Drainage and
Results in North Georgia." by DR.. Len
G. Hardman of Jackson county.
"The Railroads Interest in Drain
age" by Col. Alexander r. Lawton,
vice president of the Central of Geor-
gla, Savannah, and Wade II. Leahy,
general passenger agent Of the Allan
ia, birmingham and Atlantic, Allan
ia.
General discussion by members and
visitors.
Report of legislative committee by
the chairman, Judge J. T.. Sweat.
Adjournment to meet at Coleraine
on st. Marys river, December 20, at
3 a. m, for real Georgia barbecue and
fish fry.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
RAILROADS MUST REFUND
"OVERCHARGEs" AT ONCE

Washington, Dec. 11.-Indictment
and prosecutions of railroads which
fail to refund promptly manifest over
charges on the transportation of
freight, hereafter will be requested
by the interstate commerce commas
sion.
The commission today called official
attention to the fact that "it is as un-
lawful for carrier to overcharge a
shipper as 1t is to give him rebate"
1t says also that refund Of over
charges should be made without an
order OF the commission. a
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mentally unbalanced, believing that
they were face to face With death.
Evidently they have missed the foul
air currents, and now that the noxious
gases are being drawn out by means
I Of suction fans in entries in the This
tie and Slate Stone mines, rescuers
believe that the two men will be
taken out alive unless they beat out
their own brains against the walls OF
the mine or run into an entry which
is illed with poisonous air.
This morning the efforts of several
men were centered in trying to la
cate these semi-maniacs. The work
Of rescuing others was retarded to
some degree as the rescuers fear ror
the lives Of the men who were run
ming wild in their underground prison
Miners were standing about the en-
trance to the channel all day, plead
ing that they be allowed to 90 under
the earth and join in the man hunt
but officials objected.
Upon the rescue of five living men
from the ill-fated mine last night, T.
]. Stephenson, president of the Knox
vile Iron company, which operates
the mine, announced to the families
Of the rescued party that the men
could be removed to any hospital in
the United States for care during
their convalescence and that the COM
pany stood ready to bear all expenses.
This announcement brought generous
words Of appreciation from the famil-
les of the miners.
President Stays at Mine.
Mr. Stephenson spent the entire
night at the mine. A telephone mas
been placed in the main channel back
about two miles, and the latest infor-
nation as to the findings of the res
cue party is being conveyed to him
over this wire.
Plans have been made for great
care to be taken of men found alive
in the mine, SO that no danger will
result from bringing them into the
open air after their long imprison-
ment When about 200 feet from the
mines mouth blankets were wrapped
around their bodies and plaster masks
placed over their faces by the physi-
clans who stood ready to administer
to them.
ever, protested against such precau-
tions, declaring they were able to
The men removed last night, how
take care Of themselves.