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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
VALLEY is IN DANGER
Ohio River on Rampage and Much
More Damage is Threat
ened.

Akron, Ohio, March ga COM
pany of militia is rushing from
Athens to Middleport and Pomeroy,
where the Ohio river is on a ram
page, already having broken all flood
records. The crest of the flood is
not expected before some time to-
morrow.
More than 800 persons who have
sought refuge on roofs at Middle
port are said to be in imminent dan
ger.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Messrs. julius Hart, L. j. Trefren,
Thomas e. Hadfield, Jr., H. Adams
and @. E. Ehrmann made fishing
party to Rogue River Sunday, going
down in Mr. Hart's auto. They re-
port a good time and fair luck, Mr
Adams carrying off the honors.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
Start Referendum Against Univers

Salem, Ore, March 29.-Accord-
ing to reliable information today, a
movement to invoke the referendum
against all the state university i'm
provement appropriations made by
the recent legislature is ready to be
launched next week. The petition
will probably be put in circulation
within the next two or three days.
II. ]. Parkinson of Portland is re-
ported to be the active leader OF the
movement. ab4
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
soldiers shoot Looters of Ruins.

Columbus, Ohio, March "a
squad of soldiers detailed to hunt
looters on the West Side here today
shot and killed Edward Mckinley
and Edward White. Residents near
Greenlawn had complained that their
homes were being robbed.
Both Mckinley and White were
caught looting, each carrying a sack
filled with valuables.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
ASHLAND POOKLETS.
10000 Secured by Commercial Club
for Distribution.

The first installment of the 10. 600
booklets describing Ashland recently
ordered by the Commercial Club
have been received. If you have any
friends whom you wish to interest
in this city call az the Commercial
Club and get a copy. 1t sets forth
the possibilities of the country in
good saape.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

To demonstrate the stability of
the cars it builds, one automobile
concern tits them with the wheels
on one side four feet higher than
the other without upsetting.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

There are 247 newspapers pub
lished in South Africa, in which ST.
100000 is invested. They give en-
ployment to 1000 Europeans and
$50 colored people.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
]. PEIRPONT MORGAN PASSES AWAY
WORLD RENOWNED FANCR PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT IS REPORT
RECEIVED In ASHLAND THIS MORNING

According to reports received in
this city this morning, J. Pierpont
Morgan, the financier, is read at
Rome. Morgan, who has been very
i'll in Egypt, was on his way home
to America when illness compelled
him to stop in Rome, where the end
came.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

New York, March 29-J. P. Nor
gan, Jr., asked tonight in regard to
reports from Rome and from London
that his fathers condition is pro-
gresing unfavorably, said:
Il received a cattle message which
while it gave no details, gave it that
my fathers condition had been less
favorable for the last three days
and in view of his years is such as
to give rise to considerable anxiety. 81
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

The latest dreadnought, the Fuso.
being built in Japan, will be able
to throw a broadside three times
heavier than that of the original
dreadnought.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Rome, March 29.-J. P. Morgan S
condition is such that his physicians
have prescribed the rest cure" for
him. This means that he will be de-
prived of the privilege of seeing even
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Quartz lamps are experimentally
in use in the streets of Chicago, and
are said to put the other electric
lamps in the shade.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Minnesotans in 1911 paid $S,S02,-
669.S0 in premiums to old-line life
insurance companies.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Dayton, March 29.-Secretary of
War Garrison, General Leonard
Woods, chief of staff of the United
States army, and Captain Rhoads and
Captain Mccoy arrived here at 1890
O'Clock this afternoon. They imme-
diately conferred with Mayor Phil
lips, John Patterson, head of the Ma
tional Cash Register Company, and
a committee of citizens. After in
specting the flood districts, Secre-
tary Garrison wired report of con-
ditions to President Wilson.
At the request of Governor Cox,
Secretary Garrison took full charge
of the local situation. The city prob
ably will be divided into five health
districts with a government expert
in charge of each district.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

The camera is of great value in
training athletes to point out the
defects of form. ~.J
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
Seed Potatoes.

Early Vermont stock, grown in
Klamath county, 81 hundred. Ash
land klamath Exchange. S8-1t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

An instrument has been invented
for determining the intensity of heat
by listening to it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Porto Ricans are displacing bull
drawn carts on great estates by auto
mobiles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31
SEC. OF WAR in CHARGE
Government Official Arrives in Day.
ton and Takes Command of
Rescue Work.

Washington, March 29.-Secretary
of War Garrison today sent the fol-
lowing report from Dayton to Presi-
dent Wilson:
Majors NormyIe and Logan have
the situation well IN hand. The flood
is receding in the smaller cities, but
the Ohio is rising at Cincinnati,
where it is now 63 feet, and is threat
ening the towns below there. Off
cials have been spent down the
stream to observe and report to Lo-
gan at Cincinnati
Secretary Garrison states the ia
talities are greatly overestimated.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

There are 10,O1G,SO4 depositors in
United States savings banks, averag-
ing S444 each.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Bicycles and bicycle sundries at
cost at Settles Harness Shop. S7-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Shoes to close before May 1; at
less than cost, c. j. Coburn. S2-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Indianapolis, Ind, March 29-All
wires into the Wabash valley below
Terre Haute- went down today and
flood conditions at Vincennes and
Evansville are unknown. Residents
of the lowlying districts, however,
were warned in time to flee to high
ground, and fatalities are not be-
lieved to have occurred. The prop
erty damage will be heavy.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

--latest things in wall paper at
Dickersons.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Columbus, Ohio, March 29.-Talk-
ing from a telephone pole 70 miles
south of Lancaster, c. Brawleg today
informed Governor Cox that the
flood situation az Marietta, Ohio,
could hardly be worse. The river
there, he said, is six feet higher
than it was in 1884, when its flood
waters destroyed one-third of the
city. Supplies, Brawleg said, wehe
needed at once.
Reports received here today said
that the entire Ohio river valley is
in danger. Portsmouth and Ironton
are inundated and the crest of the
flood is yet to como. A 70-foot stage
is expected at both places.
Miami Floods Subside.
The flood waters here and at Day
ton, GAINESVILLE and Piqua are sub
siding rapidly. Governor Cox has
announced that relief has reached
all these points, but that clothing
and more food supplies are still
needed.
Eighty-five corpses had been re-
covered here up 10 1 o'clock today,
3S identified. Colonel Barger, COM
manding the troops guarding the
flooded districts, still estimates the
dead here at 200. Undertakers who
are fighting for possession of bodies
and removing them to private
morgues are delaying Identification
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-31

Scale receipts at Things office.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-10-31
Sees Finish in Seven Years


Philadelphia, October 49, Seven
years hence there will be no legalized
saloons in America, thinks Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor, noted Georgia temper
ance leader, who has been speaking in
this district, under the auspices of the
w. C. T. u, in the interests of the
no-license campaign.
Her experience in eight states
where she has led winning fights for
temperance, her prolonged services in
dry campaigns has made the Georgia
orator one of the foremost authorities
on the political side of the liquor
question.
From her platform experience, from
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-10-31
October 81, 1913.

Baltimore, October s. Mitch
Levy, the prize-fghter who recently
had a change of heart after many
Republican years and embraced the
Democratic faith, has decided to for
sake the boxing game for the stump.
lie will speak on the street corners
and has declared that from now on
the Republican party in Maryland will
have just as much of chance to elect
its candidates as it has in Georgia,
Louisiana and other distinctively
Southern States.
Mitch" plans to stump the entire
city i'll the interest of Democracy and
not confne his activities to one ward,
and with the success of the Demo-
cratic party he expects success for the
following platform, which he an
nounced today:
More saloons, saloons open after
church hours on Sunday, moving pic
ture shows open on Sunday, employ
ment for the hundreds of saloonkeep-
ers, bartenders and walters who have
been thrown out of work through the
coming into power in this state of the
G %. p"
Cali reformers is rummies," is the
philosophy of mitch" Levy. "They
just get down SO low that nobody
don't notice them no more, and then,
just to attract attention they fall for
this reforming stuff. Take Bill An
derson for instance. Then Mitch said
things that could not we'll be printed
without inviting libel suit But
he continued you got to hand it
to Anderson. He's making suckers of
a lot of rich guys whot ought to be
handing over their money for city i'm
provements.
"I been sticking to the Republican
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-10-31

party for good many years, but I'm
through now. Here, the minute those
guys get into power they close up
hundred and fifty saloons and throw
lot of honest bartenders and wait
ers out of jobs. And even then the
fellows that's running the Republican
party amt got common decency to
send for them that they's thrown out
of work and give them jobs in the
state capitol, or something like that
I'm for the saloons being open on
Sunday Amt it better to have the
front door of a saloon open so that
the fellows inside can get out any
time they want than to lock them in
and make them just keep on drink
ing cause the doors locked and a
cops waiting on the other side of
the street?
On the Divorce Question.
"And then, too, the closing of the
saloons on Sunday driving men
into the country on that day and
causing divorces. Why? Because
these here married men go out into
the country and maybe they meet
young ladies and take liking to them
What's the result? The wives get
divorces.
"Churches is all right, but I think
they ought to have moving picture
places open on Sunday where the
fellow that's too tired to take them
in during the week can go and get
educated"
In conclusion mitch" says that for
the time being he is going to confne
his activities to speechmaking in be-
half of the Democratic candidates..
Then he will pick out the political
place he wants and make a run for it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-10-31

She declared that those with business
interests in the traffic in this state
would do we'll to withdraw if they
want to be on the winning side of the
game.
She foretold that within the next
few years members of the legislature
and politicians in general will be as
eager to announce their sympathy
with temperance as they have been
in the past to uphold the liquor trade.
THE political upheaval in the state"
she said, "has sounded a warning to
the men who have used their posi-
tons at Harrisburg to promote the
liquor interests and not the good of
the people. The time has come when
voters will not stand for the domino
ton of the saloon over the govern
ment." She said:
at is late to tell sane men and
women of the mental, moral, political
and physical havoc that the liquor
trade has brought to the country. A
recent report of the New York de-
partment of health and hygiene shows
that insanity in that state has in
creased twice as fast as the popula-
ton during the last two years, and
gives as the reasons for this increase
immortality, alcoholism, disease and
mental worry.
II say that the three reasons can
be swallowed up in the fourth, and
that alcoholism is the real cause for
what is coming to be national prob
lem, the increase of Our mentally un-
fit. There would be little or no
disease, overcrowding, undertaking
and poverty if it were not for the
saloon. Mental anguish would be
lessened and immortality, which is in
separable from drunkenness, would be
on the decline"
Mrs. Armor fayed the liquor de-
tenders who argue in terms of reve-
nue. when they struggle for the main
tenance of the strang1e hold the
traffic has acquired upon the country.
She said that no man and no nation
ever drank himself or itself rich
"The revenue" she said comes out
of the pockets of the many and goes
into the treasures of the few. If it
pays for the nation to maintain the
saloon, why not pension the drunkard
as we pension our old soldiers? 1t is
only logical for the government to
pension the derelicts it creates"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-10-31
REDUCED RATES

From all points to Columbus, Ohio during the week of
November o16 for the big Biennial Convention
Saloon League of America There will be 10000 of
temperance there Won't YOU be of them? For in
formation address the AntSaoon League superintendent
your state.
DON'T MISS THE CONVENTION
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-10-31

her contact with politicians, from her
observations of signs of the times,
Mrs. Armor has deduced the fact that
the liquor trade is a declining one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16

Yards The boat had smashed her bow
against an iceberg of the coast OF New
foundand. and was brought to Brooklyn
to yet a new nose. The owners cabled
from Glasgow To learn how long il would
take 10 perform the operation. The snip
was then in the drydock ready for the
work TO begin.
Mr.. Morse cabled back: Seven days.
II WAS easy to conjure NJ mental pct
ure Of tie Glasgow owners. their mouths
gaping with surprise. when their answer
Ia thiS lightning estimate was received. IL
came in the form Of "A question:
Temporary repairs
NO. Permanent" flashed back Mr..
Morse.
"lmpossible" came the reply from
Scotland.
Repairs will be permanent, reiterated
Mr.. Morse. and only after this repeated
assurance were the owners convinced
that they had read the message Alright.
The Job Was completed in the specified
time. and the owners later told Mr.
Morse. when he saw them in Scotland
that the same piece of work in the yard
where the ship was built in Scotland
would have required three weeks.
I'm this lob each OF the plates forming
the outside of the bow had 10 be re-
moved by cutting off the head of each
riv.t with pneumatic chisel and pack
ing out" the rivet. Had the oXy -acetylene
cutting torch been used the time required
would have been even less.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

What would YOU do If you were a
millionaire" was the question PROFOUND
ed to the little boys Of an East Side
school the other day.
The little East Siders' answers We're in
teresting. Some of them wrote:
II would have house with rooms for
each kind Of use. such as sitting room
bedroom and dining room"
II would buy banks and be bank
president at large salary"
Il would live on Fifth avenue in a
clean house and buy autos and chariots.
II would be proud of my situation and
also glad. and I would own autos and
earn money by hiring them out"
II would go 10 the finest movies every
night, also matinces If possible
Il would buy n yacht and be elected
Mayor and corner the market"
Il would feast my peasants. also insti-
tute an education school
II would buy the subway and get rich
by charging 10 cents"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
Rivals Art Patrons Of Ancient Florence

alone. except for tho Burns detective
and. even at that. Mr. Rockefeller looked
10 be a lonely man
one thought again. and once again yet
Of M1ccnas ana Lorenzo and III" other
great patrons OF the arts who had Their
private armies as bodyguGrds.
But under the Rockefeller system the
sculptor's model gets &2o week whether
she works or not. The Mcdici family did
not require Michael Angelo 10 work by a
time clock. and because Of that they
frequently lost Il great deal.
Yet IL is true. on tho ether hand. that
tho patrons of old failed 10 provide trans
Iortation on the Putnam Division Of the
New York Central Railroad for tc!lini
and his staff Furthermore. all In all. li
spite Of the popular notion that they did
these things better in Florence and Rome
it mas remained for our time and coun-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
Continued from first page.

garden. Its interior is carried out III
Greek style-Mr Siebern's panels repre-
senting two classic Greek dancers. lie
has studied at first hand the revival OF
ancient dances in Greece: indeed. was
engaged in this pursuit when he received
al Athens the commission TO produce
the sculpture on the Rockefeller property.
in the ceiling Of the marble tea house
are paintings after the style of the time
OF Christ
II was noticed that the tea house was
extremely cOld-the only cold place that
the writer had found this open winter
There was an electric heater in the tea
house. but il. too, was cold.
An attendant carrying a bunch Of KEYS
was asked why the heater was not hot
He replied that IT was too expensive.
About % cents day. inquired the
writer
Seventeen cents an hour" replied the
attendant
When the outside. balmy air was again
reached it was natural TO recall MI
Rockefeller recent brief advice TO
young woman when he was giving a
party Of school teachers ride over his
grounGc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
Continued from fourth page.

the three inside decks of the vessel
Meanwhile IA. toat was brought down 10
dry DOCK ip brooklyn. but the men Kept
right on cutting. Tho decks were all OF
half-inch steel plates and the aggregate
cuts mad by thes, two workmen in the
two weeks amounted to neari half mile.
The work in the line of rapid repair
work to ships that this little flame viii
Dee called upon 10 perform I'm the future
IS enormous It's use Is apparently only
just beginning and tx destined To sup
plant other methods by which some
startling records ana results have been
obtained in recent years.
\ striking job of this kind was the re-
pair work. done to the steamship Columbia,
of the Anchor Line IN the Morse dock
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
ENTIRE VESSEL REBUILT.

Another Job that was looked on as rec
ord and which would have been fastened
even more with the aid of the cutting
torch was the rebuilding AT the Morse
wards of the steamer ontario. freight
and passenger vessel dying between Bal
timore and Boston. The boat caught hre
of Montauk Point and was beached there.
The flames were uncomfortable, and the
vessel was tortured by tie intense heat
of her burning contents into an almost
shapeless mass of steel She was iloated
bv wreckers and towed to New York,
where the Morse company undertook to
rebuild her. their bid callinc for the COM
pletion of the work within 40 days.
The vessel was put in drydock and every
piece of steel. every deck plate and every
girder that was warped or twisted out
of shape was removed and new one sub
stituted This work involved the behead-
ing of thousands upon thousands of steel
rivets with the pneumatic chisels.
In thirteen days less than the time Of
the bid the Ontario was delivered to her
owners, complete in every detail. even to
the napkins. tablecloths silverwarc and
full water bottles on the tables in the
dining saloon
Another fast piece Of work put through
NJ the Morse yards which would have
been greatly expedited by the cutting
torch was performed just about the time
that instrument was getting foothold
in practical repair work. This was the
removal and rebuilding Of the bow Of the
steamship Florida. which had rammed and
sunk the liner Republic In fog off Nam
tucket Lightship. 1t was this accident
tina, made the wireless cop message
famous ana sent Jack Binns skyhooting
into vaudeville.
Tho bou ,f tho Florida was sma shad in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
AMPUTATiNC A NOSE.

II took four DAYS. with the men work
irg until midnight. to cut off the bow with
pneumatic chisels To-day the job would
torch. and il would take one man less
than one working day 70 finish ii. NJ
that time. however. il was record work.
When the bow was lifted away by "a
huge derrick the big steel casting Of the
new stem was ready 10 le set in place.
and less than twcnty-four days after the
work began the vessel was ready for de-
livery 10 the owners.
No less remarkable than the foregoing
instances of fast repair work was the job
done in the yards OF the John y. Robins
Company. i'm Brooklyn. on the steamship
Howard II is said 10 have been the
quickest Job of it's kind ever done in this
country.
The vessel was one OF c0asting feet,
but her owners decided she would be more
valuable If forty feet We're added 10 her
length She was already "A big boat, be-
ing 2S3 feet from stem to stern.
The vessel was put in lrydock and a
gang OF men put to work with pneumatic
chises removing the rivets and slicinS
the boat in two just forward OF the en-
CINE room. There We're four decks TO lie
cut apart. as we'll as the sides OF the ship.
As soon as the parting had been COM
pleted, tackles were fastened to the bow,
which was dragged forward the required
forty feet by bic steam winches. A mould
of the ships frames and floors had pre-
vously been made. while she was on her
way to the yard and as soon az the tive
sections had been drawn apart these b.a
days after the Howard entered drydocN
she was relocated with her wasstband
forty feet wider than before.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
a 49ER.

The late James Il. keene, himself al
most 'l9er. used to tell many story
about the characters Of 40.
1T was difficult in those days he once
said, Ito be "A temperance man. for to re-
fuse to drink with 'i3er was worse
offence than 10 kiss the fellows wife.
"A 'i9cr. twirling his long and dropping
mustache, said To a tenderfoot In bar
room"
Have some red-eye with me.
Thank you-no.' said the tcnderioot.
a total abstainer. firmly.
There was "a tense silence in the crowd
ed bar. \ pin could have been heard To
drop Then the ser reached back To his
hip pocket and said with a weary sigh:
"'Heigho. cant even take drink
without KILN man