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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
PLAY CULVER TODAY
NOtre Dame Freshmen Are Expecting
Hard Battle.

The Notre Dame freshman team
left South Bend this morning for
Culver The lineup that will start the
game against the Culver lads this aft
ernOon is. Ryan, lie: Murphy, II;
Jones. re; Callahan. C; Franz. Ig:
McInerny, 1t; Wolf. le; Matthews, OBJ;
Whalen. RI: Redwisky. fb Miller, In.
The substitutes are Spaulding, De-
gree, Hoffman. Mcmahon. DOrias,
Fitzgerald. Laughbaugh. Jones, Phe-
Ian.
Marty" Henihan Will direct the
team in the absence OF Coach Gargan
who accompanied the varsity or the
eastern trip. Henihans lads are going
we'll prepared for "A stiff battle for the
Culver lads put up a strong game
against Brownson hall last Saturday.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
redHiSRUPTURE

was badly rUptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago Doctors said my
only hope Of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally / got
hold OF something that quickly and com
pletely cured me. Years have passed and
the rupture has never returned. although
I am doing hard work as a carpen Ter.
There was no operation. no lost time. no
trouble / have nothing "a sell. but viii
give fun Information about how you may
find a complete cure without operation. n
YOU write 10 me, Eugene NJ. Pullen, Car
penter. 100 a Marcelus avenue. Alanas-
quan. :. j. Better cut out this notice and
show IL 10 any others who are ruptured-
YOU may save q life or at lesist stop the
misery Of rupture and the worry and dan
ger Of an operation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
Notes of Boxers

NEW YORK, Oct 17.-Bull Cas-
sidy. a local lightweight. oUtpointed
Johnny Moran in 10 rounds Friday
night.
Battling Champ, a local lightweight,
defeated George Volk OF the United
States navy in 10 rounds
Harry CREDIBLE OF Port Chester,
knocked out Burt Papp of Newark in
the fourth round.
Willie Doyle and frankie Callahan
fought a 1O-round draw.
A. Thomas knocked out Richard
Cooper in the third round.
Buddie Ryan OF New York and Leo
Baker of Newark fought a 1O-rOund
draw.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
X X X X X X X X X X X X j
x FOOTBALL GAMES !
X SCHEDULED TODAY =
< < Z :: Z = < < ::
WEST
Chicago VS.. Iowa at Stagg field.
Wisconsin VS.. Purdue at Madison.

NEST.
Chicago VS.. Iowa at Stagg field
Wisconsin VS.. Purdue at Madison.
Illinois vs.. Ohio State at Urbana
Indiana vs.. Northwestern at Bloom
ingtOn.
Minnesota VS.. South Dakota at
Minneapolis.
Michigan VS.. Michigan Aggies at
Lansing.
Nebraska VS.. Kansas Aggies at
Manhattan.
Knox VS.. Parsons at Fairfield.
Marquette VS.. BelOit at Milwaukee.
Wooster VS.. Oberlin at Wooster.
Olivet VS.. Detroit at Olivet.
Cincinnati VS. Kenyon at Cincinnati
Oklahoma VS.. Missouri at Okla
hOma,
Oregon VS. Washington at Portland
Wabash VS.. Rose Poly at Crawfords-
Vile.
Western Reserve VS.. Mt Union at
Cleveland.
Coe VS.. Simpson at Indianola
Lake Forest VS.. DePauw at Lake
Forest.
Earlham VS.. Butler at Indianapolis.
Heidelburg VS.. Wittenberg at Titfin.
Kalamazoo VS.. Hillsdale at Kala-
mazoo.
Illinois Wesleyan VS.. Lombard at
Bloomington, Ill.
Lawrence VS.. CarrOlt at Appleton.
Ohio VS.. DennisOn at Granville.
Ohio Wesleyan VS.. Case at Della
ware
EAST.
Yale VS.. Notre Dame at New Haven.
Harvard VS. Tufts at Cambridge.
Cornell VS.. Bucknell at Ithaca.
Princeton VS.. Lafayette at Prince
ton.
Navy VS.. Pennsylvania at Annapolis.
Dartmouth VS.. Vermont at Hanover.
Amherst VS.. Trinity at Amherst.
Pittsburg VS.. Carlisle at PittSburg.
Army VS.. Colgate Tech at South
Bethlehem.
Penn State VS.. Ursinus at State Col
lege.
Swarthmore VS.. Franklin and Mar
shall al Lancaster.
Syracuse VS.. Rochester at syracuse.
Union VS.. Stevens at Hoboken.
Maine VS. Norwich at OrOno.
Washington and Jefferson VS.. West
minister at Washington, Pa.
Williams VS.. Springfield y. NJ. G. A.
at WilliamstOwn.
Arkansas VS.. st. Louis at Fayette-
Vile.
Louisville VS.. Tennessee at Louis
willie.
Texas VS.. Rice Institute at Austin.
University of South VS.. Chattanooga
at Sewanee.
Mississippi vs. Louisiana at Baton
Rouge.
NIaylor VS.. Trinity at Dallas
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
HOLSTERS AWAIT
REPORTS Of TILT
South Bend Fans Are Showing
Great Interest in Outcome Of
NOtre Dame-YaIe Contest at
New Haven.

With every football follower in the
country watching anxiously for the
outcome Of the Notre Dame-Yale con-
test at New Haven this afternoon.
South Bend supporter of the gold
and blue are lingering jingleless
pockets and anxiouslv awaiting re-
ports Of the important conflict. Coach
farper's men. Judging from the mon
ey that has been staked on them
have the confidence of the South
Bend fans who are pulling with all
their might for victory 10 the cred
10 Of the HOosIer eleven
The students at Notre Dame are
receiving reports OF the game by
special wire direct from the New
Haven gridiron Every play comes to
the gymnasium at the university
where hundreds of students are col
lccted, listening 90 the story of the
game as IL ticks over the wires. Fol-
lowers of the team i'm South Bend
are collecting about the tickers and
newspaper offices reading the results
of the quarters as they are reported.
Football experts throughout the
country have been giving the western
crs the benefit of the doubt regarding
the result Of the Yale contest today
and NOtre Dame viii more than give
the eastern eleven "a battle according
90 the reports. The Hoosiers play
better away from home and. left de
termined to rout the Elrs from their
position But one factor the west
erners must overcome today is the
support of about 10000 Yale enthu-
siasts who viii be I'm the stands. But
the defeat of the army last year has
given the gold and blue confidence
while their style OF open play is ex-
pected TO whip the Yale crew
Much Interest.
All interest in sport did not die
with the departure of the football
team for the Yale game. as spirited
meetings of rOOters were held every
evening in the various halls TO pre-
pare for other contests and the recep-
tiOn of the team when they arrive in
south Bend Monday. The meetings
are preceded by speeches from the
various rOOters. Last night one of the
speakers called attention TO the fact
that the eyes of the whole country
were being focused upon Notre Dame
and its team. lie drew attention to
the fact that really il was no use To
be a member Of the SO called big nine.
when you We're already considered the
big one.
Another rooter was a "dopester"
and had it all figured out. Harvard
was TO trim Michigan, Yale was to
trim Harvard, and NOtre Dame was to
trim Yale I'm tOday's game and thus
~cinch the bunting"
Each Of the halls have an individ-
ual cheer leader and a number of new
songs and yells are being practiced
daily. The next athletic contest will
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
MAY NOT STAGE RACES
Lexington Track II Treated to An
other DOwnpOur.

LEXINGTON. Ky. oct. 17.-After
a fair day which dried the local track
out 10 such an extent that racing
Saturday was practically assured a
rain again fell Friday night and the
prospects for completing the program
Saturday are slim. In the event that
racing Saturday is not possible all
events with the exception of the trot-
teing and pacing divisions o. the
cham piOnship stallion stake will be
declared off
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17

Rubber Stamps and Aiphabets made
by II. A. Pershing. 203 L. Wayne St
AdYt
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17
NOT ENOUGH FOR BRITTON
Jack Gives House Once Over and
Then Becomes Ill.

NEW YORK, Oct 17.-Jack Brit
ton looked over the house at the En-
pire A. c. Friday night and not see
ing enough dough in sight became vi
olently i'll That threw the star bout
between Harry Stone and him into the
ash can. The club lived up TO its rep
utation handsomely by giving a free
show. The poor public that came out
in the rain was buncoed. however TO
a slight extent.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-17

san FRANCISCO. oct. I7.-AIil-
burn Saylor OF Indianapolis and Eddie
Moy OF Philadelphia. lightweights
night.
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Of flowers coming down from the noun.
tain farms, bringing their merchandise
In baskets borne on their heads, each
man and woman carrying lighted Ian.
tern. 1t was like nocturnal pilgrimag &c.
Flowers came too in all sorts OF GU.
rious vehicles In regulation baskets a
yard long. half yard wide and from
foot to a foot and half high. They
were trundled down in handcarts from
the dizzy heights. swung across the
broad backs Of donkeys. or rushed down
in gayly painted two wheeled carts.
Crazy. antiquated stages creaked up,
driven In the irresponsible Italian fash
ion, from uncharted villages hidden away
In the creases of the mountains, appear
Ing in the ghostly night like phantoms
of another age as most OF them were.
their roofs topheavy with flower baskets,
their drivers buried under bouquets.
Quickly and orderly the baskets were
lined up on the gray cobbles Of the mar.
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cornered rapid transit for flowers.
controls the only cut flower express train
limited.
At first the flowers were carried on
the fast passenger trains. then in 1909
was put on the first "rapide des fieurs."
taking no passengers and no other
freight but flowers, and devoted to the
exclusive use Of the flower growers OF
the French Riviera. once a day the
Riviera cut flower express leaves for
Paris. From Mentone at the Italian
frontier to Ollioules. a distance OF more
than 12O miles. 1t picks up its odorous
freight at some twenty flower growing
stations. after which it runs express to
Paris on schedule equal to that Of the
fast expresses OF America. with only
stops for fuel and water in more than
six hundred miles.
A dozen travelling express clerks are
on the train sorting out the flower par.
cells en- route. exactly as the mails are
sorted. The great bulk goes by parcel
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usually a little peasant family. includ-
ing a wideuwake child or two. All eyes
were on the station clock. All was
ready and it was but three minutes Of
the hour Of the opening. For people
who had risen at 3 or in the morning
and plodded down miles of mountain
paths they were wonderfully punctual
Two policemen came together In the
centre of the square. 1t was like n
formal function. The clock struck.
simultaneously the policemen blew whis-
ties. on came the wrappers and as
sleepy children being lifted to their feet
the great lunches Of flowers were stood
up in their baskets. Like incense the
perfume mounted in the violet dawn.
The gray market place glowed with
color, but not from the roses, which
were massed together their tight. un.
folded buds resembling huge punches
Of radishes and parsnips.
Nevertheless II was at the roses that
the buyers first jumped with feverish
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bargaining. There are no fixed prices
and values rise and sag according to
the ingenuity Of the wits at work, and
In this game the intriguing Italian
stands preeminent. Here In the gray
dawn was being fought out real bat
tie OF flowers between stOcky, sleek,
unsentimcntal middlemen and the drab.
workworn little peasant people who
had made the stony mountain sides
blossom with the rose, fighting to boost
prices few meaere cents at a time.
The italian Riviera, better known as
the ligurian Riviera. which produced in
the past only few olives and a thin
salty wine Of no value. has come to he
in the throes Of a horticultural boom
From the frontier Of France nearly up
to Genoa are some hundred straight
away miles Of flower farms, already
made or in the making. In a region too
where there was not even as much fat
land to deal with as on the French side
"Never mind" said these italian OPP
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| second biggest flower market at venti-
miglia and lay in a flower supply at
wonderfully cheap prices. All this Is
disorganizing trade.
Lately I have been backward and
forward through the diminishing lines
and have got an insight into the strength
OF the Italian position.
1t was In the warm indigo blackness
of Mediterranean night that climbed
down from the Albergo dell Italia at
Ospedalcttl to the square in front of the
railway station. where Is held every
morning from 6 to s o'clock, from the
middle OF October to the middle of May,
famous rose market. 1t was the height
OF the winter flower season-February,
with the temperature of May. over the
sombre TANKS Of the Ligurian Alps,
which here rose straight up from the
sea. Pickering lights were playing hide
and seek in the darkness like glow
worms. They were from the carriers
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
Pinching rosebuds for plumpnesS.
Smiling viOlets for age.

They are shipped out in baskets OF
100 lunches of nifty blooms each. Paris
consumes nearly 100000 francs worth
of Niolets year, while the world re-
nowncd bulb farms of Olioulcs are one
Of the biggest factors in bringing the
yearly output of this section to the
value of nearly 100000 francs.
The fourth region lies up "A high, warm
valley Of the Riviera BACKGROUND. be-
tween Nice and Cannes. around the old
Saracen stronghold of Venice. noted for
the safrano roses of international rcpu-
tation, grown for the most part by the
peasant proprietors of some l.200 acres
divided into tiny farms, hung prccari-
ously on the TANKS of the Maritime
Alps and bringing in 900 900 francs "A
year.
Those Of the population on both sides
Of the frontier who are not engaged IN
growing flowers are making the baskets,
in which they are shipped, of split cane
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
Flower buyers. Testing the product.
market inspector.

timists, carnations do better on noun
tain slopes, roses like elevation and vio-
lets need drainage"
They tore up their grape vines and
rooted up olive trees. For miles up and
down and around the sheer mountain
Hanks they have -laboriously terraced up
their little flower fields. You see how
the Italian gets his training for building
American skyscrapers as you watch him
on his home hillside pitching huge
stones about with the ease of throwing
n tennis ball and striking them into
their proper place with the accuracy of
a first class hard hitter.
At the headquarters Of the italian
Professional Horticultural Society at
San Reno. from which head centre
tools. seeds, fertilizers and good advice
are being lavishly distributed. I sat
on bag of flower seed amid horti-
cultural activity and awaited DR.. GUS
tavo NaGliasndi who spends his time
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
Bringing the flowers to market, 3 A. M.

etors who have grown plutocratic and
autOcratic with their increased power.
They have revolutiOnized freight
transport by rail- in France. They have
been able to impose their own distributing
pavilions In the Paris central markets
and have dictated the prices Of cut
flowers In the markets Of Berlin, st.
Petersburg. Vienna, London and Paris
practically controlling the flower trade
of London's Covent Garden for six open
months Of the season.
Now this monopoly is threatened. and
by Frances neighbors in a most I'M
neighbOrly fashion, those OF the Italian
Riviera. a region which the French Riv-
icra has always regarded with a certain
contemptuous tolerance and playfully
nicknamcd the poor mans Riviera"
These poor neighbOrs are now getting
their commercial revenge.
I'VE are but the continuation Of this
Wanted French Riviera" say the Ital-
ians the same soil, the same climatic
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post In flimsy baskets or pasteboard
boxes, at a pound and half for IL
cents, or five pounds for - cents.
Flowers come into the favored goods
class, the post office and railway han
die them so that there is no delay in
rcshipping at Paris. In thirty-six hours
after they are blooming on the sunny
shores of the Mediterranean they are
for sale on the frozen streets of st.
Petersburg twenty hours To the wintry
boulevards of Cologne, Hamburg and
Berlin; twenty-six hours sees them in
fog shrouded London.
Meanwhile all that poor Italy has Of
it, own to compete with this is a mean
little "accelerata" train. which in spite
of its name spends most of its time on
sidlngs waiting for the de luxe trains
OF tourists to go by. So throughout the
length of the Ligurian coast they have
combined To meet the French trust and
are trying To prod up that easygoing
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ket place under a few faint hearted cleo.
trio lights. Not blossom was in sight
The regulations are stringent. The bas-
kets must be in the market place half an
hour only before the opening, but not
a basket must be uncovered until the
signal Is given. The Italian Is fast alb
sorbing business methods.
The lights Of the motor cars of the
buyers from Nice. Cannes and Antilles
flash up the street. The last consign-
ment arrives. Five long rows are COM
plete. fifty or more baskets to the row,
from eight to ten lunches of n hum
dred flowers to bunch in each bas-
ket,'a thousand blooms to the package,
In the neighborhood. say, of quarter
Of a million blooms. the daily output
of this little mountain commune. Prin-
cipally they are roses, next carnations.
sprinklng of violets, stocks. marguer-
ties anemones. with little mimosa.
Beside each basket stood the vendors
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nocent travellers are wondering why
their letters are not delivered.
In Italy they are making the budding
flower industry political issue. Posters
are up for local elections and announce in
large type that 1.-THE present local repre-.
sentative. Signor Marsiglia. is neglectful
of the interests of his flower con-
stituents. besides being suspected of
French sympathies. ON the contrary.
Signor Teldlno is patriot, and If
elected will fight To the death any at
tempt 10y the French growers To impose
duty on flowers entering France"
An here is the club with which
French flower growers are ever threat
cning their Italian competitors. Up to
now, with some insignificant exceptions.
there have been no customs duties in
France on foreign grown plants or
flowers. 1t is this fact which has made
possible the growth of the Italian trade.
liut how long will It last? This is what
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
Annual Spring Struggle Is On Between
French and Italian Farmers to
Supply Markets of Europe

the French Riviera approaches 10000
900 francs yearly.
From this region nearly 10000 tons
OF cut flowers are shipped between Oc-
tober and May to the uttermost ends
OF Europe from 10000 acres employing
$4,000 laborers. in all some 5000 separate
horticultural enterprises. The Ligue
F'lorale ct Horticulturale du Sud Est,
which incorporates the flower business
OF the Riviera. is one Of the biggest
trusts which exist in Europe. composed
as 1t Is of nine-tenths OF all the various
horticultural enterprises Of the region,
and these are largely peasant propri-
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Their drivers smothered in bouquets.

conditions: scientists have taken our
temperatures and We are even warmer.
Very well, We will grow some flowers
ourselves to exc out our scantier tourist
SUPPLY"
The Italians began their scheme five
years ago. Only within the last three
years has the Italian cut flower industry
been factor in the market. but in that
time they have given the French grow
ers a scare. In these last three years
the French statistics of flower output
have stood still for the first time in
thirty years Of prosperity.
Nicc's picturesque flower market UNI
der the white umbrellas Is being showed
under with Italian floral products. Cheap
Italian flowers are unbalancing prices
at Canness magnificent ''marchc des
1curs" under the giant plane trees, the
morning haunt of the ars"cracy, while
il Is becoming the afternoon amusement
of Riviera society to motor over to Italy
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shipping centre. 1t includes the PENN.
sula Of Cap dAntibes. a vast flower
garden. and its powerful combine of
500 growers, who are at the head OF the
Hover trust, which has successfully
bulled the European flower markets and
whose glittering array OF glass rose
houses cover the good part of twelve
miles of this sunny coast. From the
mountains around Cannes Is gathered
the bulk of the golden harvest of mi
mosa. which. together with Collie
Jouan's specially of ornamental plants
makes this the richest section and
brings its yearly total up to $4,000 900
francs.
The third quarter. producing violets
and Towering spring bulbs. centres
about the popular resort Of Hyeres. The
violet growers of Hyeres rank neat in
importance to the rose producers Of
Antilles. ON 5000 acres worked by 500
growers, chiefly violets are grown. per-
fuming the air for miles around.
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Tanning carnations for size.

is worrying the italian flower grower.
And the moral? oh. Ia Ice sure. Well,
one may have the choice Of two.
First The bulk of the Franco-Italian
flower farmers are small propricturs,
mostly of the peasant stock, and tn.
majority of their little farms are we'll
within few acres. They must buy soil
cnrichrrS, buy water, not to mention
seeds and plants.
Who is providing the sincws of ware
How are they being financed? Ask tn.
Franco Italian Bank at Mcntune, with a
branch IN scvcry flower centre on both
sides of the frontier. the pioneer land
credit bank of southern Europe, which
has done more to foster the industry
than any other agent except the
climate.
Second France is not wholly a
carhir"t show, nor Italy museum of
untiuIIltlpS
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rushing about among the farms and the
workers. encouraging, directing the
work, he Is the field marshal on the
Italian side Of the fighting line. At
last he arrives in an automobile brist-
ling with garden implements and pot
plants.
"1t's land revolution which Is bring
ing prosperity to our people" he says.
I'VE have only within the year organized
our society and begun our real work,
which. first Of all. is agitat.ng for our
own proper transportation of the flower
crop; We too must have our cut flower
express"
All, there is the worm in the heart
of the rose for the Italian flower grow
crs. Their flowers must be dumped into
thermarkets Of the French Riviera to go
out to the world as the violets Of Nice,
roses of Antilles and carnations Of
Cannes. sold too at lower prices, and
this because the French Riviera has
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
Peasants of "Poor Mans Riviera" Began
Competing With French Five Years
Ago and Now Are Big Factors

corporation, the italian State Railway,
into giving them a cut flower express.
1t Is only question of time. From
King to day laborer the slogan Of new
italy Is agricultural: "Our farms and
the farmer"
The French Riviera is divided into
four floral quarters. corresponding to
the big tourist centres. The first. which
has Nice for Its hub with Beaulicu on
the side. specializes in carnations and
has 5000 acres under cultivation. pro-
ducing a yearly crop valued at 90
100000 francs.
The second quarter has Cannes as it's
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or reeds loosely bound together. There
are great heaps of cane coming from the
wind swept plains of southern France,
Spain and Italy stacked up in front of
every peasant house. with the entire
family. down to the youngest child. bus.
lily splitting the stock into threes and
tours with clumsy wooden instruments
and binding them together with wire.
basket can be made in from five to
ten minutes and is sold at from 3 to 6
cents.
The French and italian post offices
are stuffed with boxes of flowers sent
by mail from January to May. while in