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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-01

Fair and slightly warmer today; Mon.
day fair; gentle to moderate south
winds
Temperature past twenty-four hourss
High. 81 at 4:15 pm. yesterday; low.
~ at am. yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-01

Continued on Second Page.)
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
ST. LOUIS BROWNS ON
THEIR WAY TO FLORIDA

st. Louis, Mo, Feb 13.-An initial
push was given the baseball season to-
day with the departure of a squad 81
the st. Louis Browns for the sprng
training camp at St. Petersburg. Fla.
Manager Hickey was in charge of tn
party, which included more than a doz-
en- of the young players. The veterans
will follow in about ten days and by
the last week of this month it is ex-
pected that he entire list of players
reserved by the club will be on duty
and ready for the warming-up prac
tice. The club will remain at st
Petersburg for several weeks and will
then play exhibition games through the
South and central West until the
championship season opens in April
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
MAY TALK TO PLANTERS
While IN AMERICUS
Officials of Agricultural DC-
paFtment Here

Two prominent visitors in Americus
last night were Hon. j. d. Price, state
commissioner Of agriculture, and Hon.
Z. Lee Worsham, of the state agricul-
tural department and the man who is
going to make it unpleasant in Georgia
for the bell weeyil when it crosses
the Chattahoochee. Mr.. Worsham more
than any other man in the south, per-
haps, is better posted on the boil wee
vii, and the best means available for
fighting it. In this warfare he has
the hsarty cooperation of Commits
sioner J. d. Price These gentlemen
have engagements in south Georgia IT,
day, but will confer, as far as possible,
with farmers hsre, making a more eX-
tended visit later to Americus and 9th.
er points in Sumter.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
OF GAMES
FOR NAVY BASEBALL TEAM

Annapolis, Md, Feb. 13-The Navv's
baseball schedule for 1914, is an
nounced as follows:
March 81 Maryland Agricultural
college, 25, swarthmore; %, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania
April 1, Lafayette college; A, Am
herst; s. Pennsylvania State; 9, Holy
Cross; II, Lehigh; IS, Johns Hopkins;
IS, University of West Virginia; %,
Harvard; 25, University of Georgia;
29, University of North Carolina.
May 2, Dickinson; 6, Georgetown:
8, Catholic University; 13, Maryland
Athletic club; 16, Notre Dame; 25.
ST. Johns; %, Georgetown; 27, Mount
st. Joseph's; 30, United States Mill
tary Academy.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
OULTRIE WILL HAVE
BASEBALL TEAM

Moultrie, Ga, Feb. 13.-(Special.) J
The Moultrie Athletic association
started busines for the coming sea-
son last night with a meeting at the
hamber of commerce.
Some fancy baseball is in store for
Noultrie this year and the boys are
getting ready to pull it off in first
class manner
OF course, a bal ground is the
first consideration and the executil {
committee appointed last fall has
nearly all the stock subscribed to put
up the fence and build a grand stand.
The committee is out today getting
he remainder of shares taken and
thus far they have met no rebuffs
The shares are only ten dollars and
they hope to pay a dividend on the
capital stock the first season.
The Moultrie High school team has
mads it's schedule for the
season which includes a series of fif-
teen games with Valdosta, Thomas
vile, Triton, Quitman and Sparks.
The local home team is not yet or-
ganized, but as soon as the weather
moderates, that will be attended to
and a circuit will be arranged with
the south Georgia towns so as to give
Moultrie some of the best ball that
is to be played in amateur class.
The High school circuit begins its
season within the next thirty days,
and the first game scheduled for
Moultrie is on March 7th at Tifton
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
SOUTHWESTERN rail Way
DIRECTORS ELECTED
AmGPiCuS Division is Under
Same Officers

j. F. Minis, of Savannah, was re-
elected president of the Southwestern
Railroad company at the sixty-seventh
annual maeting of the stockholders
held yesterday at the offices of the
company in the Georgia Life building,
al Macon. This is President Minis
second term John NJ. Walker will re-
main as secretary and treasurer.
The Southwestern system includes
the CentraPs leased lines, Macon 10
Americus, Albany, Dothan, Ala, Mont
gomery and branch lines, and is prob
ably the best paying division controll-
ed by the Central system.
Judge A, l.. Miller was the only new
director named, all others on the board
being reelected Judge Miller sue
ceeds the late w. McEwen Johnston
whose death occurred recently.
Directors reelected for the ensuir z
year were; w. H. FELTON,, William
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
ONE KILLED, FIFTY
INJURED WHEN TRAIN
HITS BIG SLEIGH
FREIGHT RUNS OVER SLEIGH
LOADED WITH JOLLY PARTY Re-
TURNING FROM A BIG COUNTRY
DANCE

Kingston, ~ Y, Feb 49, - Fifty
persons were injured and one was
killed when a freight rain on the
Waikiki Valley railroad struck i
large slaight in which they were re-
turning today from dance at Binne-
water. Three of the injured may die
Raymond Wood, a bookkeeper, was
killed; Arthur Rowland, a bank clerk,
julius Hoser, a railroad clerk, and
Miss Nellie Zimmerman, a clerk, suf-
fered fractured skulls. All members
of the party reside in Kingston.
The dance was given by "The Jolly
Four" a quartette of Kingston young
women 1t ended at late hour and
in a temperature several degrees be-
low zero, the dancers bundled into a
big four-horse sleight and started for
home. The accident occurred half a
mile from the dance hall The ap-
proach to the railroad crossing is
hidden by steep banks on both sides
and the dancers, muffled in blankets
and furs, did not hear the locomotive
or see it until the sleigh was struck.
The freight train was stopped, the in
jured put aboard the caboose and the
train carried the whole party to King
ston.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
OUIMBY MELTON
Sporting Editor
SUBMITS BRIEFS FOR
NATIONAL HICHWI

lbors! Ihes, 100, are OF local be
And to public buildings, and
other public enterprises
Besides, is it not illogical ant
practicable TO give or try to
joint authority and supervision I'll
states over a national highwa
over any highway? The supreme Il
has repeatedly said that there i
difference between a highway
land and on the water What vi
be the result if every state thrI
which a navigable stream may
had jurisdiction and control oveI
There would be no uniformity III
upkeep or in the navigation laws
erning its use.
"Joint control and supervision
impracticable and unworkable. EI
the state or the general govern
must be supreme. If each is supI
over its own system and only
its own system, there will be no
ton, no departure from the unit
practice of the government, no d
tions of state right, or Of paterns
concentrated federal power, no
fiiot of authority, no dodging of
sponsibility
And, after all is said, why tax
state or the people of the state be
permitting them to have any be
from taxs already paid? For, t
the whole matter as we may,
comes back to the ultimate fact
the people pay the freight whe
it comes out of the national treas
or a part Of it out of the state tr
ury."
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

W~sningto., - c., reb. 12.-At the
request OF the good roads committee
of the house of Representatives Judge
J. NJ. Lowe, of Kansas City, Mo-, has
submitted a brief of his arguments
in favor Of system of national high
ways and against a policy of federal
aid" to the states for road building,
Judge Lowe who is president of the
National Old Trails Road department
of the National Highways association
is one OF the most prominent men iii
the good reads movement in this
country
In his brief he says:
LAS federal aid in some form is be-
ing agitated as preferable to system
of national. highways, permit me to
ask why the states contribute an
equal amount or any other amount as
a condition precedent to any action by
the general government.
why make the state contribute 70
a national enterprise at all?
"If road is not Of national concern
ought the national revenues to be ap-
proprated to it?
IF it Is of national concern ought
the state to contribute?
But you may say that it will be OF
of benefit to the state Granted, but
shall the government refuse to enter
upon internal Improvement for fear
it will benefit the state?
"Shall the state be taxed because II
is benefited by such Improvement?
"If this is to be the policy, Thea
why not apply it to rivers and har-
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
CHICAGO BANKER SHOT
DOWN BY ROBBERS

Chicago, Feb. 49, - John c, Neelv,
Jr., a private banker who once rank
ed as one of the leading lawn tennis
players Of the west, was shot in the
abdomen and slightly injured early
today by one of two robbers who
attempted to hold him up near his
home. When approached Neely start
ed to run. Several shots were fired
at him, one taking effect. Ernest Hal
versen, who was recently released
from the Joliet penitentiary, and who
is alleged to be one o. the robbers
was arrested.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
ALL THE LATEST SPORTING news
CHARLES COMIsKEY IS
AGAIN CONFINED TO BED

Rome, Feb. 13.-Charles Com's-
key, president of the Chicago club of
the American baseball league, was
again confined to bed today, suffering
from stomach trouble. Professor Giu-
seppe Bastianelh, who was in attend
ance, forbade him to leave for Nice to-
night with the members of the visiting
baseball teams. The teams were oblig-
ed to abandon the idea of playing a
game here, owing to the wet grounds
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

All fans are agreed that for pitsch-
er designedly to pass a strong batter
when men are on bases is to lengthen
the game and weaken its interest. 1t
is very much as if the umpire at a crit
ical moment, were needlessly to call
time.
Pitchers are paid to pitch and bat
ters to bat; and the chaps in the
bleachers like to see both of them cara
their money.
Hence it has been proposed to credit
the. passed batsman with a base hit.
But that wouldn't enliven the game.
Another suggestion is to confne the
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
CONVICTED Of USING
MAILS TO OEFR.

valdosta, Ga. Feb. 10. In
Unitsd States court today, N. E.
Swain, Of Coffee county, was congiJ
ot using the mails to blackmaf
Dorminy a Broxton merchant
$1,000, and was sentenced to q y
and day in the Atlanta federal q
on. McSwain wrote Dorminy a
ter demanding that $1,000 bs pla
at a certain bridge. A trap was
for McSwain and he walked into it,
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
HOW TO PUT MORE pep IN BASEBALL

catcher to a certain area behind the
bat, so that the pitcher could not dodge
the plate, without running the risk of
being credited with wild pitch. Thai,
too, is Objectionable, since it would
increase unearned runs and look like
ragged play.
Hughey Jennings offers a third So
luton, which seems more promising
than the others. He would permit the
batsman to step outward to meet a
wide pitch, nus keeping up the duel of
wits between the twirler and his op-
ponent
Equally with other institutions, base
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.

GEORGIA. Sumter County:
All creditors of the estate of J. D.
Whittle late Of said county deceased,
are hereby notified to render in their
demands to the undersigned according
to law; and all persons indebted %
said estate are required to make inn
mediate payment.
This, the 18th day of February, 1914.
J. A. HIXON,
Executor Estate of j. D. Whittle.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
WITH THE BOXERS

Arthur Pelky and Fritz Holland have
been signed by Promoter Howe of
Australia 70 box him in the Antipod
Jim Corbett, former champion
heavyweight, has taken up court ten
mis- for exercise. Jim has picked ou,
a strenuous game
Jimmy Johnson, the New York mag
nate is directing the affairs of sixteen
puglists Some of them are fighters.
Champion Johnny Kilbane says he
can make 118 pounds and be right for
a battle. Let's see you do it, John.
Packy Mcfarland wants to be rein
stated in the good graces of the WIS
consin boxing commission. Why? They
still allow him to go in and see a fight
Sid Smith having outgrown the fly
weight class will tackle Alt Wye, the
bantomweight at Dick Burgess club in
London next week
3
Tommy Ryan, who is promoting ir
Syracuse, is trying to bring Packe,
Mcfarland and Kid Alberts together
for a 10-round fight.
+ &
Uncle Tom" McCarey, of Vernon
Cal, has cut out his afternoon boxing
shows, since he dropped $1,000 in tn,
recent williamsburg engagement.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

whoa Bill" Phillips, former big
league pitcher and now manager of tha
Indianapolis Federal league team,
believes he can come back. The fact
that he has a son in the game will not
deter Bill from doing a little pitching
himself this season.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

According to Clyd Milan, the SEN
ators' star outfeldar the jinkq will
surely tag any player who signs a con
tract before he arrives at the spring
training camp Clyde never signs up
until he is on the ground ready for
work
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

Two more redskins are to take 4
fling at the national pastime. Manager
cellar, of the Pittsfeld Eastern assocj-
alton team has signed Big Six Jocks
and Pine Tree Nelson, fullblood Iro-
quois.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

What with keeping tab on the head
quarters of the American league, the
Federal league, the Chicago White
Sox, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicag1
Feds Chicago baseball scribes have
nothing to do till tomorrow.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

Fred Glade, formerly a member OF
the St Louis Browns pitching staff, is
now base ball magnate. He is inter
ested in the Grand Island club of the
Nebraska State league.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

ball cannot afford to "stand pat" 1t
needs to keep moving Action and
more action is the public demand
There is action now, all right, in the
bleachers; let us have more in the
field.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

Terry Turner of the Maps, Joe Bush
OF the Athletics and Grover Alexander
Of the Phillies were the first big leag-
uers to reach Hot Springs for the an
nual tuning up.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

One worry Adam and Eve didn't have
there were no neighbor's chickens 70
scratch up the garden Of Eden.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

Theory and practice are a good team
to pull together but neither gets very
far when they dissolve partnership.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

A man will often trust his daus
ted's future happiness with a fellow
wouldn't trust his dog with.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
Baseball Told
InBriefForm

Maine is back on the baseball map
Portland and Lewiston will have teams
in the New England leage this season
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
LEAGUE MEETING CALLED
FOR TUESDAY IN vALDOSTA

le several substitute schedules
Th
meeting 007 anu accounts ~ i0-iN7
rtarya IN be
- - - tn meeting an turn over o n
N00"He D"' '00D N'"i0O - 00D''"'- secretary.
the eAue o 'De co Sean ana
TO settle matters OF Importance
of he
H
Qu STYLE hoped
dentK deemed % call
opposition
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14
BEER ON FLOOR ENDS TANGO QUICKLY;
FAIR DANCE CRIPPLED TEMPORARII

New Orleans, La, Feb. Midnight
merged into Friday morning and still
the tangoers at the Bush cabaret de-
fed danger by dancing the new aero
batic steps. Among those that so de-
fed were Mrs. J. B Furham, 22 years
old. Goodness knows how she was en-
joying herself Mr.. Furham was not
III attendance at the dance.
The musicians squared off and romp-
ed into "Too Much Mustard" Mrs.
Furham, who is a pretty blonde, and
her partner swept about the circle and
prepared for the dip.
"Now!" said Mrs. Furham's partner
"Now!" said the woman.
For the love of Mikel" said the
onlookers
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

NOW is The TIME
X/OUR good business judg-
ment will tell you that now
is the time to get suit or over
coat.
We hold these clearance sales
to clean up our stock; you get
a lot more out Of it than we do
its a real money saving OC-
CaSiOn for you.
Hart Scqfner & Marx
suits and OVerCOatS are money
savers" at any time; under spec
ial pricing like this the money
saving increases so rapidly
you really don't need business
judgment to figure out your
opportunity.
$4,000 Suits and Oyercoats $4,000
$500 " 1875
22.5O 1890
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14


Cox, Robert H. Brown, all of Mao
and ]. F. Minis. Malcolm Maclt
Samuel 3. Adams and A. r. Law
all Of Savannah. The lines Of
company are leased from year to y
to the Central of Georgia Railway c'
pany, which has complete charge
the operating end Of the line.
A special meeting of the board
directors will be held within the z
few days to transact such business
may come up for consideration.
Americus times-recorder., 1914-02-14

For as Mrs. Furham dipped,
small foot struck a slick place on
floor where some non-combatant on
sidelines had knocked the cover Of
his beer. Mrs. Furham and her D
ner crashed to the floor. The onlo
ers gazad fleetingly upon So worth
silk hosiery, and the music stopped
Mrs. Furham's back was injured
other tangoers helped her to-
room where she waited for a physic
Aftsr working over the martyr Of
dance the pillman announced that
would be dancing again in few d
So the dancers all went be
sprinkled a little sawdust over the
place on the floor, and the orches
took up the mustard where it had
off.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-01
CONTINUED on page ~
AUSTRIA

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
VIENNA, (via Berlin and London),
Dec. An official statement today
declares:
"The Russian defeat in the battle Of
Homonia was even greater than first
supposed. Our troops surrounded the
Russian position and from both wings
delivered double inward flank at
tack. Our artillery fire caused fear
full Losses TO the enemy. Our attack
was irresistible and the Russians were
forced to retreat, losing 1900 prison
ers. Their Casualties were more than
1,o0o.
Fighting continues In the southern
theatre Of war. suvubor 10 stubborn
Iy defended. A poeitlon on the high
road to vaijevo was taken by storm
yesterday after fierce fighting In
which 1884 men and "a machine guns
were captured. There 10 nothing Of
importance In the north"
somonna 10 on the railroad running
south Of sanok, GaIieia, across the
carpathians, In Hungary. It 10 143
miles northeast Of Budapest. The
Russians were able to cross the Car
pathians and penetrate fifteen or twen-
ty miles to Somonna but there met
with defeat and were driven back.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-01

United Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
LONDON. Nov. II. (By mail to New
York. k.)-Admiral e. G. T. Troubridge,
commanding the British Mediterran-
can squadron at the opening Of the
war, was ordered to permit the Ger
man cruisers Goeben and Breslau to
escape from the Straits Of Messina.
This is the information that comes
from an unquestionable authoritative
source, which explains how Admiral
Troubridge happened to be acquitted
when court martialed for permitting
the German warships to elude him.
The people Of Great Britain are still
wondering and will probably continue
to do so for some time to come over
the escape of the cruisers. But the
United Press is now able to solve
for America alone-the mystery Of the
episode For obvious reasons the
story is not permitted to be published
in Great Britain.
There was much astonishment when
Admiral Troubridge was absolved OF
all blame in connection with the es-
cape of the Goeben and Breslau. His
squadron was supposed to have the
cruisers securely bottled up in Mes
sina harbor. Troubridge had been
called home presumably in disgrace.
That he would be dismissed from the
service, II nothing worse, seemed as
sured. His complete vindication was
inconceivable. Here is the explana-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-01
Shepherds Diary is . Most Graphic Story Of His
Trip to the Front on Outskirts
Of Przemysl.
GREEN FACED CHOLERA VICTIMS seen
Constant String Of Wagons Taking Supplies to
the Front and Bringing Wounded and
Sick to the Rear.

a covered prairie schooner He
shows me letter he has Just writ
ten. It is addressed to Helen O..
The man who wrote the letter Is
Lieutenant Carr Hoffman,, OF tie 11th
army corps He is big, handsome
fellow who has lived in America.
$3.50 a. ma spherical balloon, q
dirigible balloon, and two asroplanes
are soaring or darting about above
the hills.
against the wall at the gateway OF a
convent, but the convent is only a
heap OF broken brick and stone The
Austrian soldiers have razed it be-
cause it obstructed the view from the
forts. The soldier has only, the ruins
to guard and he evidently considers
his task bore
1920 .. m.--We cross narrow
gauge railway track laid over plough
ed farms. It is an artillery railway
The cars are very small, but horses
pull them more rapidly than wagons.
There is Q string OF cars across the
horizon. They are feeding the artil-
lery in the hills two miles away with
shrapnel shells. The railway to Sanok
runs through this farm and when we
pass the depot of Hermanowice we
see wounded and sick men lying all
about the platforms. They arc wait
ing for trains which will carry them
back to the base hospitals
1890 a. m.-The sound of firing is
incessant and huge in volume. The
Austrian batteries fire one gun at a
time. The Russians are firing salvos.
"One. two, three. four. Ave, six" go
the Austrian howitzers. "Br.r-r-r-"
60 the Russian pieces. all firing at one
time. Before us are hills covering
miles OF territory: from hilltop to hill
top and from valley to valley the
battle Is raging.
How can man paint battle like
this?" asks Adams. who has just fin
ished picture of the emperor Of Aus
tro-Hungary, in seven sittings, and
who usually isn't stalled by important
assignments.
passed in wagons. ''Ill never paint
war pictures again OF men going into
battle singing and waving their
swords said Adams. THAT man with
the green twisted face on that wagon.
suffering from cholera is more tre-
mendous picture of war than all the
exploding cannon can paint" In the
midst OF all the life and activity. the
man was dying before our eyes. There
was no one to care for him. HIS
wagon was held in the end1ess stream
and must continue, whether it car
rcd only sick man " dying man
or poisonous green corpse.
1o:45 a m.-Three small deer run
across the road ahead of us. There
are thousands Of soldiers here.abouts,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-01
What the War Moves Mean
By j. w. T. Mason, Former European Man
ager of the United Press.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, Dec 1.-(11 a. nj
The failure of the Russian field army
to fulfill the optimistic predictions or
Petrograd, is now apparent. There
has been no huge victory gained by
the Slavs and Field Marshal Won Hin
denbers's army has not been split
into three parts, preliminary to Its
annihilation.
These highly colored narratives
seem specially manufactured in Petro-
grad by corresponds who apparent
ly are at the mercy Of highly imagina-
tive Slavs for their information. The
Russians are paying little attention to
th,, operations in France and Belgium.
The armies of the allies in the west
are chiefly thought of as being useful
for diverting a large part Of the Aus
tro-German armies from the eastern
operations. P.etrograd. therefore, re-
CARDS the Russian field forces as be-
ing opposed by numerically inferior
armies thus making victory for Grand
Duke Nicholas certain at every en-
counter.
The danger of serious internal dis
turbances If the Russian armies show
no improvement over their form dur
ing the Japanese war is also an i'm
portant factor in. explaining the illogi-
cal optimism at Petrograd 1t would
be dangerous to the security Of the
present bureaucracy if the news were
allowed to spread throughout Russia
that Won Hindenberg Is holding the
Slav armies far from the German
frontier: it would be more angerous
If the conviction were to gain ground
among til, people that the war may
end without anv German territory in
Russian possession. japanese were
outnumbered two to one when they
defeated the Russians in the Man
churian campaign Since then, heavy
additional taxes have been assessed
the Russian nation to reorsanize the
army and yet the army once more is