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Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
BRIDGE ACROSS
THE MISSISSIPPI
PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR FlNAN-
cling 100000 STRUCTURE
AT NEW ORLEANS.
western Newspaper Union News ser,ler.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans.-Preliminary plans Tor
financing a $4,000, 900 bridge across
the Mississippi at New Orleans have
made sufficient progress to insure sue
cess, according to Arthur McGuirk,
New Orleans attorney, who returned
from New York. Mr.. McGuirk went
to New York for the Dock Board to
handle legal details connected with
the issuance and transfer of the 3d.
900, 900 of cotton warehouse bonds re-
Gently sold by the board. While IN
New York he took up with financiers
and engineers the bridge project. Re-
turned home, he says the project is
feasible from a structural and flnan.
cial standpoint, and will be put
through.
Mr.. McGuirk proposes to have the
bridge publicly owned and publicly
operated. He suggests that it should
be handled jointly by the Dock Board
and Public Belt Commissions. He says
that New Orleans traffic would easily
support 1t. No trouble will be ex-
perienced in getting the money neces.
sary to finance the bridge, he said. A
bond issue handled much as Dock
Board issues have been handled would
readily sell, he believes.
The plan is to build the bridge in
the upper section of the city. Pre-
liminary plans call for a structure six
and one-half miles long, including ap-
p~roaches. The total length of the
steel structure would be two and one.
tenth miles. The length Of the main
channel span would be 1866 feet;
length Of shore spans GOT feet; total
: length OF main span $3.50 feet; ex-
IRENE height Of towers above clear
1T6 feet; clear height OF spra above
high water 25fect; rangg aefi
low and high water Is feet. depth at
low water 100 feet; depth of founda-
tons below river bed 10 feet; total
height of structure 450 feet.
u have a letter from Col. Elmer
L. Corthell Of st. Louis, who helped to
build the Eads bridge at st. Louis,
and assisted likewise in the %ietties,
approving the project and pronounc.
ing it feasible both from an engineer
ing and financial standpoint" Mr.. Nc
Guirk said. He expressed regret that
there is q tendency to build q bridge
at point above New Orleans. Such
Q step would work harm to the mort
Of New Orleans.
THE structure could be finished
within live years from the time worl,
began. AS far as feasibility from a
financial standpoint soes. st. Louis
supports three bridges END is plan
ming 4 fourth; Memphis has supported
one SO we'll g second is in c%ontempla-
ton. New Orleans can certainly cup
port one.p'j
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28

RESOLUTION FOR g1rur'on,
Al AMENDMENT IL IN UP;
PER HOUSE. oFse p:ss,
VOTE ON MEASURE, J a.
Senator vardaman's ei,a to Repeal
Amendment Giving FRANCHISE to
Negroes Also Fails-suffrase
Not Yet Settled.

Washington.-The senate, by a vote
OF IS to "a, voted down the Ashurst
resolution to provide for a constitu:
tional amendment extending suffrage
to women Prior to this the Varda7
man amendment which In effect pro-
posed repeating tile fifteenth constitu-
'tional amendment, extending suffrage
to negroes, and then to grant women
the right. to vote, was defeated. 48 to
10, and another amendment by Sena-
tor Williams to grant votes to white
women only was lost, A to 81.
This action, following weeks Of de-
bate on the floor Of the senate, dur
ing which many leaders in the SUI
frage movement pleaded for postpone
ments Of the final vote, marked the
climax of a spirited campaign launch
ed here the day before the Inaugural
ton Of President Wilson.
Immediately after the vote, Senator
Shafroth of Colorado sought to intro
duce. a. new resolution Tor a cOhslilu'
tional amendment requiring each state
to vote on granting suffrage to WON,
en-, on petition from five per cent OF
its voters. The senate went into ex
ecadtive session before the senator
ectould get the floor. however, and the
resolution will be offered later.
The: resolution defeated was the first
introduced in the present congress. 1t
was presented by Senator Chamberlain
of Oregon, and the woman suffrage
committee later authorized Senator
Ashhurst to report it fayorably.
Though otherwise the vote virtually
was non.partisan, the southern. aena'
tors, all democrats, lined UP almost
solidly against the amendment. They
contended it would complicate' the ne.
gro question In the states. of the
southerners only Senator'S Ransdell
Of Louisiana, Sheppard Of Texas and
Lea Of Tennessee voted for the reso'
luton. : go ~: az
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
GREAT FOREST FIRES RAGE
Flames Threaten to Destroy the Fa.
mou. Natiopai. Redwood Forest
in California.

San Jose.-Fire, which broke out In
four different places in the Santa Cruz
mountains, is threatening destruction
to the famous; national redwood for
est, and the force Of zoo. men who
have, been fighting the flames for
twentylour hours have sen in an
urgent call Tor help,
The four fires have each burned
over a square mile OF forest, anu one
Of them, naw less than a mile away,
Is eating it's, way rapidly. coward The
giant; redwood trees. in the' national
forest reserve.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Resent Labor Emigration.

Bonaldsonville.7-0n account Of the
fact that the Miles Company has de,
cided not to operate its holdings this
year and a certain amount of labor
would be out of employment. 4 great
many labor agents have been attract
ed to this section with the result that
oil OF the surplus labor has been Re
moved to other sections of the state.
This surplus now being exhausted and
the agents still active, the planters
are nov beginning to resent this ac.
ton vigorously.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
To Norfolk for Alleged Defaulter.

Baton Rouge.-Deputy Sheriff J.
Hopkins left for Norfolk, Va, to bring
back for trial Robert Kyle. formerly
cashier of the local branch of the
Schwarschild & Sulzerger Packing
Company, who is charged with having
embezzled funds of the company to
the amount Of about 500. Kyle's sup.
posed shortage was discovered several
weeks ago and he Immediately alb
seconded when his alleged irregulari-
ties became known to the officers OF
the company.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
$4,000 Fire at. Monroe.

Monroe.-Fanned by a high wind,
fire Iere Tuesday DESTROYED the Mon.
roe Molasses 4Companys plant. Is
dwellings, 21sfreight cars, is of which
were loaded4 with dressed lumber,
and about s,ddGtfe et d track, property
of tie St Louis. ttqe Mountain and
Southern railroad. The. loss is esti-
matted at $4,000, partly covered BY
insurance. The flames started in the
molasses plant. from a, cal-a not de-
termined. Through service on the
Louisiana division was interrupted.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
20 ESCAPE IN HOTEL FIRE
milwaukee Hostelty Burns 70 the
Ground With Loss d. Two Hun.
<, dred Thousand Dollars.

Milwaukee, Wis.-About forty guests
OF the Windsor hotel We're compelled
to flee for their lives when fire broke
,out,ds a book binding nlaut in the
south portion of the building and
burned out the: four.story structure,
with 5000, 900 loss. At first it was
feared that a score of guests had been
trapped on the top floor Of the hotel,
but all are thought to have been res
cued. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
TWO DEAD IN DETROIT FIRE
One Man Missing and scores Are In.
jured as Result of Burning Of
Five Story Building.

: Detroit, Mich.rTwo 2 bodies nave
been recovered and q third is believed
to be in the ruins Of a fiyerstory brick,
building swept by fire. Two mel were
injured and two,score Of employees, IN
Guiding a. number Of young women, es-
capped from the blazing building. The
property loss was estimated at. $780,
600. John Law and Walter Libbey,,
who lost their lives, were employed in
a machine shop ON the fifth floor. A
man named Todd. who worked on the
same. floor, is missing.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Uses Unique Method.

Wheeling, w Va.-While tempo
farily insane. Timothy Kelly commi:
ted suicide at his home in Lanark by
exploding a, stick Of dynamite on his
chest. His body was blown to frag-
ments. Before. ending his own, life
Kelly had tried to- kill the wife and
daughter Of his brother.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Serious Automobile Accident.

Shreveport.-The bursting Of. a tire.
caused an automobile in which they
we're riding to be overturned on a high
embankment pm the, .Shreveport-Reis
road, several miles south Of here, re.
su!ting in the serious Injury of Mrs.
JIG. Reynolds aria the severe injury
of her husband, WHO was driving the
car. Mrs; Reynolds sustained frac-
lures of both hips an9 internal in,
.jiuries and is in a ~precarious condi-
ton. Near where this accident oc-
Cured an automobile party was pitch
ed over the embankment several
months, ago, causing enc. fatality. Rev.
,nolds. is a. local tailor.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
WANT EXPRESS RATE Relief
Many PonchatouIans Quit Certain
Crops on Account of Rates.

P%onchatoula. Asserting that ex-
press. companies have charged such
high rates that the industry has been
affected, many local truck growers
have discontinued cultiyating commo-
dities such as okra, squash, etc. The
Louisiana Railroad Commission will
be petitioned to rule against the ex-
press company in the matter Of a
more uniform rate between Poncha-
toula and points north.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
John 8, Dunn Commits snicide

slaughter.-John B. Dunn, aged
about Sc, who has been postmaster
here for eight years, committed sui
eide Saturday evening at the home ct
his brother, V. H. Dunn, by blowing
his head off with a shotgun. MI. Dunn
was Respondent over i'll health.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Minstre, Show for Firemen,

c~rowley.--In appreciation Of the
good work done from time to time by
the fire boys here whenever oc-
casion demands it, a minstrel will be
put on by a company of young men
in this city soon after Easter. The
minstrel will be managed and direct
ed by L. D. Israel, Of the Pelican Drug
Company.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
THREE Person. Burn to Death.

nTte ~ 0u'" % 1se'
sArdmore. Ok.-Threes persons were
burned to death as the result Of q
fire caused BY 4 gas explosion here.
Two Others We're. seriously injured.
The dead are, MI. Dora: Murphy, Cor
rine Murphy, her daughter, and Mis'
Mabel Cuts.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
r.r+h s,SaIlovvs TWO Miners.

.Pottsyille, Pa.-The earth opened
and swallowed two miners and a work
.shanty on the ,ountain side at the
Kelley Run coliiery at, Shenandoah.
Pa, No trace. OF men or building can
be found, They may have. been drop
per 500 feet.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Woman Has TWoiHusbands.

clayton; Mo.-Thrciigh the setting
aside Of the divorce decree granted
in 1912 to Mrs. Myrtle Beatley, who
since has married J.. 3. Schertz, finds
she has two husbands. The. first is
Lew s. Beatley, who got the decree
set aside. !.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Houma Shrimp Packers Busy

Houma.-The Pelican, Lake Oyster
and Packing Company, 1t, is. now re-,
ceiying daily consignments Of shrimp
from the gulf and is packing large,
quantities for export. The road COM
mittee has purchased several shell
piles from the oyster shops and will
continue the work of Smelling the up
per Terrebonne road, and will shell
the Bayou Black road from near Hou-
ma to Bayou DulaJge.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Mar. win sewed Heart Held.

Man, Win sewed Heart Held.
Londonderry Charles Butler.
who was stabbed some time ago and
had his heart stitched at the London
hospital, has been remanded at
Thames police court on a charge Of
numbering Catherine Bowler.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Il ot&ArI.e Under Fire.

Panama.-Goy. Metcalfe has issued.
an order to the zone police to maze a
rigid investigation as TO the extent
OF the alleged decentralization among
the canal workers from playing the
Chinese lotteries.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Teachers Get Deferred Salaries.

Amite.-The treasurer of the Parish
School Board last week issued. checks
to the amount of s~$13,466.sO, which
represents fAe unpaid balance due
the teachers of Tansipahoa parish for
services .in 1912-13.1 The board ex-
bects to settle ALI claims by March
1915, s.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Two Ohio Banks Close.

Toledo. Qhio.-The Chic Savings
bank, Liberty Center, Ohio, and the
Farmers and Merchants bank, Custer,
Ohio. have been turned over to the
state banking department.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Rlu Shin Men Meet.

Big Ship Men Meet.
Berlin.-Representatives Of air the
transatlantic shipping. interests are
here to attend a conference for the
purpose Of arranging a renewal of the
traffic pool.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Shin Sinks in Collision.

Bremen, Germany.-An unidentified
three-masted schooner was sunk and
her crew drowned through a collision,
in the North sea with the North Ger
man Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28

Old Road Caves in: Two Dead.
P~ottsville, PA. portion OF the
public road near Brandonvilie caYed
into an old mine. TWO persons are
known to be dead:
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
start. New Murder Probe.

Start New Murder Probe.
Atianta.-A new inquiry into. the
murder. of Mary Phagan, factory girl,
has been begun here by the head of a
widely known detective agency. The
Investigations is said to have the back
ing Of several pfivates citizens.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Kansas City Jail Delivery.

:, Kansas Cgty, Mo.-Eight municipal
prisoners escaped from jail here by
saving off tW9 window bars and slid
ing down a rope made of blankets. The
rope broke, preventing the esc7pe Of
thirty other prisoners.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28

New .aprh. announcement af tie
dealt, Il Madrid, Spain. Of Adolpf
Fraacis 4. Bandelier, "a, n OF The
autllorities in archaeology in
the United States, is contained 'n .
cable message.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28

aIMashineton Grocer Shoots Three.
Washington. Herman Aabansky. a
grocer, ran amuck with d reyolved.
shot three persons, one Of whom may
die. and was Wounded himself by >
policeman.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
-
IA nuv Waterloo Battlefield

London.-A committee, which in
cludes. the duke-of Wellington, Lord
Roberts, and the lord mayor OF Lon
don, has been formed to raise a pub
Tic. fund OF $4,000, to purchase the
Waterloo battlefield TO preserve 1t
from q speculative builder.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Two classes for ,ndiang

Washington. M The INDIANS in the
United States would be divided into
two classes, separate rolls Of "coppss
tent Indians" and "non.competent In
dams" under a hill introduced by Rep
resentative KonOp.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
Gas Expiosion Kills Three

Ardmore. Three women ala dead
and another WomaD and one maj are
seriously burned rs the result OF .
fire caused by an exploding gas pipe
in q. residence here.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
VIII Not Maintain REFUGEES

Viii Not Maintain Refugees
Mexico City.-The, Mexican govern.
mens has informed the Upited States
government that it will refuse to meet
the cost Of maintenance OF Mexican
prisoners hterned at Fort Bliss. Tex.
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
STAYS FAMILY AND SELF
Georgia Farmer Takes Lives oi HE
Hife and TWO Daughter While
They Slesp.

oaE-park, GA. a. Nnbanhs. :
farmer living zeal this place, Killed
lfs y7ifc and two daughter rs they
slept, set fire to his home and several
other farm buildings, and then fired E
bullet through his forehead. ars. Eu-
banhs' headwas almost completely
severed from her body WITH al axe.
The VIC children, one aged 4, The 9th,
e. d Daby SAX months old, were stab
bed to death. Mental delaugement.
:resulting IRON Ill health, rs believed
responsible for the farmers acts.
After committing she three lanrder&
and liring liS' buildings, lsubanhs
awakenes 9 neishoor and tolt him
what he HAD 1one. he hen shot him
SELF,
4 aotc leit by iinDanas near INC
place his wife and children we're allied
said leir domestic life lad been M
ilappy,
Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-28
PRIMARY PLANK is ADOPTED.
Indiana Democrats Also lndorse Unit
ed States Senator Shjyely at
Stafet Convention.

Indianapolis, 1nd.-Adopting q plat
form which includes a plank for state
vide primaries; renominating United
States Senator B. F. Shively;; paying a
high tribute to President Wilson, Vice
President Marshall and Secretary Bry-
an In the platform adopted, and nam
ing candidates for every state Office
except governor, Indiana democrats
held their state convention here.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-29

The Ocala Star is correct when it
says that Frank James was the elder
of the James brothers We knew it,
but had forgotten it; but Jesse had
so much more yirility, leadership
and cussedness in him that Frank
tcok nothing by his seniority and
followed always where Jesse led. We
We're not a member of that enter
prising firm, nor in its confidence,
but old Mrs. Samuels, the mother
of the James boys, mistook us for
Pinkerton detective once upon a
time in the long ago and gave us a
mighty unpleasant nalfs hour while
she worked ber vocabulary for all
it was worth, and during that mem
orable session we gathered a num-
ber of impressions of her unconven-
tional sons, including the above
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-29

The Orlando Reporter-Star files an
Indictment with many counts in it
against our Florida railroad COM
mission and says that it has grown
into a costly bureau constantly
reaching out for more authority
without producing the kind of tangi-
BILE net results that the people have
a right to expect. The Reporter
Star goes into details and tells of
freight inequalities and other con-
ditions which the commission is sup
posed to remedy, which make out
what seems a case serious enough to
suggest to the taxpayer to inquire if
the Florida railroad commission is
worth its keep Time was when R.
Hudson Burr would have leaped into
the fray with the JOY of battle in
his eyes and made ample reply to
such charges as these. Why not
now?
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-29
THERE ARE PUNCHES
AND PITNCHES

The kissimmee Gazette wants Il
know If the modern editorial has los
Its punch, and oplnes through :
column leader two columns wide
that it has. 1t all depends upor
the man behind the punch, and thai
was 1ust as true in those old mucl
lauded and much lamented days ot
Greeley and Bennett fifty years acc
as it is now.
Inc tine has never been and will
never come when superior ahilit,
VIII not make itself felt just in pro.
portion to its superiority, and this
is true in all the relations of men
ana In all the avocations of life
SO Tar from being in its decadence
the worthwhile editorial page is
read now by larger number of edu-
Gated, thinking people and exerts a
stronger influence In helping to form
public opinion and direct and crys-
talize sentiment than at any time
In the history of journalism.
And in the very nature of things
this must be so, for none of us lives
to himself, and until natural law is
reversed the superior mind EXPRESS
ing itself in cold type or oratory or
architecture or invention, or me-
chanics or commerce or aericulture
is going to take its lust toll of in
ihuence from the masses of people.
and if this We're not true we would
live in world working backward
IN which every sane and healthy
progressive function of the social
state was dead or hopelessly diseased.
The editorial page that is not worth
While IS just like everything else
that is not worth while-it is not
worth while and that's all there is
10 say about it. Hence the sound
and eternal truth of our openinp
proposition that the value of the
editorial punch all depends upon the
man behind the punch.
Also there is more good. honest
sound and effective editorial punch
Ing going on all over the civilized
world right now than ever before.
and while much of it is lost motion
and blows that never land, the same
is true OF prize-fghting, baseball and
all other forms of human contro-
Fersy, but the results achieved more
than compensate for the energy that
IS wasted or misdirected.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-29

Commissioners may cause work or tha ~,
sun OF construction upon any work 10 caass
when they shall deem it for the interas,
the people Of the City of Lakeland ,he s,is
Board of Commissioners then having the nowa,
to require immediate adjustments. or Ala,
atlons, or other protective or remedial act,
PROVIDED, further, that the Board of Com
inlssloherS snail meet and accept or reject tbe
work or works OF construction when com.
pleted and by appropriate act evidence snrb
acceptance, prior to which the Board Of rms.
tees may not. and shall not have the hover
to accept work or works Of construction
Section 3. Laws, charter provisions Of ,he
City of Lakeland and ordinances of the Sai6
city, are hereby ordained to govern all acts
in relation to the said proposed election
Section I. The laws and ordinances Of The
City of Lakeland, as they now are, shan
be deemed in force as the rules for and The
sahctlon OF the said election, and prescripve
of the manner of certifying the same
Section s. No trustees herein provided for,
or the Board Of Trustees, snail act under this
ordinance prior to the taking of the oath Of
office, hereby defined, and prescribed in form
as follows Each of us. as members Of
the Board of Bond Trustees, do undertake
upon our corporal oathS, to perform well and
truly, our duties as defined by ordinance mum.
bered 1863 of the City of Lakeland and the
laws and ordinances Of the City of Lakeland"
which said oath shall be administered by an
officer empowered to administer oaths
| hereby certify that the foregoing ori
nance, numbered l69 was duly passed at
regular meeting of the Board of Commission
ers of the City of Lakeland on the 18th
day of July, A. D. 1914.
O.. NJ EATON, Chairman
Attest:
H. L. SWATTS, Clerk. 1855