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The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
5000 AMERICANS IN GERMANY.

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 19.-Per-
lection of plans to bring war-maroon-
ed Americans from Europe occupied
the Government Relief Board. Orders
for Quitting army transports for re-
lief voyages stand, and for the present
there will be no acceptance of Ger
many's offer to ocean liners to put
temporarily under the American flag.
The State Department had received
no replies to its suggestion to nations
at war that the liners chartered for
refugees be recognized as neutral. Be
lief was expressed, however, that ia
vorable replies soon will be forthcom-
ing.
More definite knowledge of trans
portation facilities required was re-
ceived from Ambassador Gerard at
Berlin, who cabled that there were
about nine thousand Americans in
Germany, who wanter TO return home
Immediately.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE THE QUESTION.

The CiyC ounc last night refused
fobds the moving shows Sunday
not believe, majority the
stated time that they responsibility
undoing what their predecessors had done
The lawmakers be criticized
duty and The Tribune
faith by doing what he did
But believe the Council submitting question a
the The petitions which picture presented
Council evidence that the Gdau
Of doing what majority of the cities
The Tribune would plan submit the question the people,
but will the that has been made the
defiance the Councils
and the question taken the
doubt be approved by the
Tribune does not believe in the principle involved
The people of this city the decide the question If
submitted to them and they it, the theae
Sunday majority
against opening
To the would precpae
always Objectionable The show have the friendship
The Tribune will
themselves they have heretofore Their
1t better to be deprived of their rights
flee that friendship
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
DIR. Wichterich Says Exposure
Made by The Tribune to
Be Taken Up
DEMURRER OVERRULED
Judge Ranney Orders Utilities
Company to Go to Trial On
Its Merits

DR.. r. F. Wichterich stated yester-
day afternoon that the Board of
Health will take up the water situa-
ton as exposed by The Tribune in a
recent issue.
Immediate steps are to be taken and
doubtless special meeting of the
Board will be called in order that nee
essary investigation may be made
without delay.
DR.. Wichterich declined to discuss
the plans that had been considered by
him or other members of the Board,
other than to say that test would
be made of the water.
The demurrer filed by the Water
and Light Development Company to
the petition of Giboney Houck, who
brought suit to enforce contract, for
damages, was overruled by Judge
Ranney in the decision handed down
yesterday.
The question involved was the con-
tention of the defendant in its demur-
rer that one of the stockholders in the
street railway company could not sue
on the contract between the railway
and the water and light company, and
that in order to make the action valid
all of the stockholders should join in
the suit.
The demurrer was overruled, and
the water and light company was CIV
en- until the middle of October to file
an answer to the Houck petition.
|. r. Kelso, attorney for the Light
and Development Company, when in
terviewed by Tribune representative
last evening, stated that he knew of
no contemplated arrangement between
the railway company and the water
and light company for the withdrawal
of the suit.
Notwithstanding his statement, a
report has been current in Cape Girar-
deau for several weeks that an agree
ment would be effected before the case
came up for trail, whereby the street
car company would be taken over by
the Utilities Company.
A man who is interested in the suit
indirectly stated to a representative
If the Tribune short time ago that
if the case goes to trial, some promi-
nent people will be placed on the
stand to testify to the details of the
deal which turned the Missouri Pub
lie Utilities over to the st. Louis con-
Germ.
While the contamination of this deal
was in every way honorable, it will be
used to show other promises made by
the Light and Development Company
to the City of Cape Girardeau have
been broken.
A man connected with the Utilities
Company, who made promises as to
what the company expected to do, will
also be quizzed.
A bale of newspapers and other lit
erature containing promises will be
offered by attorneys who are suing
the company.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
Intake Pipe Enters Mississippi
South of the Mouth of
Sloan Creek
REPORTER FINDS PIPE
NEAR OOZY BLUE MUD
Water Works Employe Says This
Pump is Used Only in Times
of Fire
BY Richard w. Frissell,

After having heard numerous re-
ports from various sources which |
believe to be authentic, concerning the
source Of intake of the water distrib-
uted for household use throughout the
city, concluded to make a personal
investigation with the intention of re-
porting the result, and without any
feeling of prejudice or favor l here
with submit correct statement of
conditions as l found them.
In company with professional man
whose standing in the community is of
the highest rank, / rowed in a skiff
to point almost opposite the location
of the plant that furnishes water and
power for the city of Cape Girardeau.
At the foot of the abrupt bank lead
ing down to the river, at point about
It's feet south of the mouth of
Sloan's Creek, discovered portable
pumping station, located in blue,
Shiny mud few feet out in the river.
A pipe that l would Judge to
be about six inches in diameter was
connected up with the electric pump,
and at the time of my visit, about
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, was being
used to convey the water from the
river. The pump was in operation and
the water was leaking from the joints
of the pipe.
A perpendicular section of the pipe
extended from the pump into the wa
ter for a distance of perhaps two and
one-half feet and by using one of the
oars, l discovered that the mouth, or
end, of the intake pipe was not more
CD hn
mud bottom of theriver, and waslo-
Gated at a point not more than six
feet from the waters edge.
worked the oar freely beneath the
end of the perpendicular intake and I
know it was not connected with any
pipe extending further out into the
river.
The water in which this station is
situated while not entirely stagnant,
is so impregnated with impurities
from above that an offensive odor
arises from it,
The station is so arranged that it
can be readily moved and adjusted to
the stage of water in the river. 1t is
built on a sled-like platform and with
block and tackle, permanently at
tached and can be moved forward or
backward as conditions require. OF
course, during the process of moving
it becomes necessary to disconnect the
pipe.
In order that no injustice might be
done the water company, after leaving
the skiff, called up the power house
and asked how long this intake had
been in use. The party answering the
telephone advised me that it was
never used except in case of fire.
visited the scene at about o'clock
in the afternoon and again at about
$50, and at each time / found the
pump in action.
My companion advised me that he
had visited the plant day or two
previous to my trip and that he had
found the engine in active operation,
and watched it work for a considera-
BILE length of time, and when he de-
parted it was still running.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
DOG BITES NEWSBOY.
Fred Walsh is Attacked by Vicious
Brute While Delivering
Papers.

Fred Walsh, carrier boy for The
Tribune, while delivering his papers
along South Spanish street yesterday
morning was attacked and badly hit
ten by vicious dog belonging to
George Chappeil, who lives at 7!2
South Spanish.
The dog dashed out of the Charpell
yard and attacked the boy, burying it's
teth in the muscular part of his left
leg, above the knee. The lad screamed,
but the dog held on until he was
chased away by pedestrians.
Young Walsh's leg was badly torn
and his trousers were ripped into
shreds. He went to the office of a
physician, who pronounced the bite a
bad one. The wounds were cauterized,
and no complications are expected.
The dog is known in the neighbor-
hood as a vicious animal and has been
a source of worry to the parents of
children in that section Of the city.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
]. A. Johnson, an Illinoisan,
Hit by Freight Near Frisco
Depot
LIES UNNOTICED ONLY
FEW FEET FROM CROWD
When Found His Condition is
Serious and Relatives Are
Summoned

Manned and crippled, too weak to
make an outcry and too lame to move,
j. A. johnson of McLeansboro, ILL.,,
was compelled to lay unnoticed for
many hours last night within a few
feet of the depot in this city.
johnson was struck by a passing
freight train at about o'clock in the
evening, while walking along the
track short distance north of the sta
ton.
He was passing his time away pend
ing the arrival of the st. Louis train,
and inadvertently stepped too close to
the passing freight.
His means were heard at about l
o'clock this morning by a young man
named John Delaney, who CHANGED to
be walking near where the injured
man had fallen. Policeman Kahn was
sought and with Delaney they con-
veyed the sufferer into the depot,
where a comfortable cot was provided.
Assistant Superintendent Frazier,
who was at the depot when Johnson
was discovered, summoned the COM
pany physician, DR.. d. H. Hope, who
appeared short time later and after
a hasty examination, had his patient
conveyed to the hospital
DR.. Hope stated that from his hur-
ried examination, he did not believe
the man was fatally hurt, although
his injuries were of very painful ma
ture. His back had sustained a severe
sprain, and his right thigh and hip
also were badly injured.
johnson came to this city with a
wholesale fruit dealer from Nettle-
ton, Ark, and had assisted in disnos-
ing of number of carloads of ban
anas in this city. His employment
ended when the fruit was sold, and it
was his intention to go to St. Louis.
His relatives in Illinois have been mott
fled, but no reply to the message sent
had been received at an early hour this
morning. = be., ,, .t
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
Opening OF
State Normal School
The Missouri State Normal
School at Cape Girardeau
Will Open for the
Fall Term on
Tuesday, September s, 1914

This strong, well-equipped school is
in your own Normal School District,
within a few hours travel of your
home. The future leaders in South
east Missouri are being educated here.
Come to your own Normal School and
join the fine body of young South
east Missourians here in fitting your
selves to use we'll the splendid oppor-
tunities that this rapidly developing
country offers.
The school has an excellent prepa-
ratory department, strong college
offering courses leading to college
degrees, and an unsurpassed profess
sional department for teachers.
For catalogue and descriptive circu-
lar, address
w. S. DEARMONT, President,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
CLEANING RIVERS BOTTOM.

The dredging machine recently
lowed to the foot of William street,
clearing the bottom of the river of
debris and foreign matter along the
foundation line Of the sea wall that is
soon to be constructed.
Scrap and junk of every description
were brought up in the massive iron
bucket. One large log several feet in
length was dislodged from its resting
place in the bottom Of the river, and
thrown beyond the foundation limits.
When the dredging work has been
completed as far north as the concrete
wall at the foot of independence
street, great quantities of cement will
be dumped into the excavation to
serve as a foundation for the wall.
The cement will be conveyed
through sluices extending from a
tower on the west side of the track
above the trains.
If the river continues to fall the
work of constructing the foundation
will soon be in progress,
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
CIGAR IGNITES BAKERY.

Yesterday morning at about 10
o'clock great volumes of smoke issued
through the grating from the cellar
of Charles Kaess' bakery at 624 Good
Hope street, and passersby who were
attracted by the sight rushed into the
building and advised the occupants
that their house was on fire.
A hasty investigation developed the
fact that some one walking along the
street had dropped a match or lighted
cigar stubb through the grating, ig-
hitting a pile of excelsior that had
been stored in the cellar. The flames
were subdued quickly and no damage
resulted from the blaze.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
DOG CONCEALED GRIP.

Hud, the magician, who has been
entertaining for the past few evenings
at the Broadway Thcater, finished his
engagement last night and departed
for Charleston.
Mr. Hurd has valuable little An
CORA dog that he carries with him in
all his travels. He has a leather grip
in which he conceals the pup before
boarding the trains. 1t is supplied
with concealed ventilations and was
constructed especially for the accom-
mediation of his pet. Tootsy, as he calls
her, seems perfectly content with her
close travelling quarters and has never
yet expressed her dissatisfaction in
such way as to make her presence
known to the watchful conductors.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
FOOD INQUIRY is BEGUN.
Government to Investigate Cause of
Quick War Raise.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 19.-Legal
forces, State and Federal, all over
the country are now in action to carry
out President Wilson's suggestion for
an investigation of whether food
prices are being increased artificially
nthe pretext of the European war,
and for criminal prosecution if that is
found to be the case.
The national capital led off the
campaign with grand jury investiga-
ton to which commission merchants,
wholesalers and retailers, buyers for
hotels and restaurants were subpoen-
aed and citizens having evidence were
invited.
Reports of other investigations be-
ginning in many localities by United
States attorneys and State and
County authorities began pouring into
the Attorney Generals office. Special
agents of the Department of Justice
began their search for evidence of
manipulations or other methods of
price-fixing and Secretary Redfield
sent detailed instructions to agents of
the Department of Commerce on car
rying out their part of the investiga-
ton.
After a conference between Presi-
dent Wilson, Attorney General Nc
Reynolds and Secretary Redfield, at
which the plan was generally dis
cussed, the Attorney General said, so
far he was considering the conspiracy
section of the Sherman antitrust law
as the only existing statute to cover
the situation and that he would not
be able to report whether additional
legislation was necessary until after
receiving detailed reports from his
agents.
President Wilson, officials said,
aroused by what he considered wholly
unjustifiable increases in the cost of
food, is giving his personal attention
and encouragement to the investiga-
ton.
Consideration of several Congress
sional resolutions for inquiry were
blocked in the House today by parlia-
mentary tactics.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
WHEAT is MOVING TO EUROPE.

Galveston, Tex, Aug. 19.-Nearly
million bushels of wheat cleared
from Galveston for England and
France. The steamship Welbury took
10000 bushels for London; the AS
trae, for Bordeaux, took 204 1000: the
Indiana and Carlton took $4,000 be-
tween them. Two other ships are COM
plotting their cargoes and will sail to-
morrow, and two others began taking
on grain today.
All elevators are at work and the
number of loaded cars is being rapidly
diminished. At the rate grain is now
moving the embargo AGAINST this noint
will be removed by the end of the
week. Only about 1000 cars are now
in the yards to be unloaded.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
POPE Plus X DIES
OF GRIEF OVER WAR
Continued from first page


was for the poor among his parishion-
ers. lie barely allowed himself neces-
sary food and even sold his horse that
the proceeds might be used to relieve
the condition of the unfortunate. On
| one occasion he gave away his own
| dinner. A poor man came to say that
his wife was ill, the doctor had said
she must have broth and he had not
the means to provide it. Meat was
boiling in a pot for Father Sarto's din
ner and, without hesitation, he gave it
to the man. Reproved by his sister, he
answered that the mans need was
great and there was nothing to do but
give him the food. Then he smiled be-
nignly and assured her that the Lord
would provide for them.
Recognizing the extraordinary abil-
ity of the Canon, Bishop Zinelli, head
of the See, promoted him from one
! office to another, one of the most i'm
portant posts he filled being that of
the rectorship of the diocesan semin-
airy, giving him supervision of the in
tellectual and spiritual training of the
future priests of the diocese. He was
successfully appointed Chancellor and
Vicar General of the diocese and when
in 1879 Bishop Zinelli died, Sarto was
unanimously elected vicar to admins
ter the affairs of the diocese until a
successor to the Bishop should be
chosen. Such was the high esteem in
which he was held by the Bishop who
succeeded iZnelli that Sarto retained
all the offices to which he had been
appointed.
November 10, 1884, he was conse-
Grated Bishop of Mantua by Cardinal
Parocchi, Cardinal Vicar of the Pope
for the City of Rome. After his con-
secration he was received in a special
audience by Pope Leo KILL, who, as a
special sign of the favor in which he
was held at the Vatican, conferred a
number of important orders upon him.
The dioceses of Mantua contained
100000 souls, and was one of the most
important in Italy. Here the future
Pope labored for nine years, until the
purple of the Cardinal was conferred
upon him in 1898. 1t was on the recon-
mendation of Cardinal Parocchi, who
loved him devotedly, coupled with the
splendid reports of his work in Man
tua, and the favorable personal inn
preston he had made on the Pope
himself, that induced Leo XIII. to Sc
lect Sarto for the high office of Car
dinal Patriarch of Venice, one of the
highest offices in the gift Of the Vati-
! can. There was great rejoicing in
Mantua, as well as in Venice, when the
news of the elevation of the Bishop to
the See of Venice was announced.
His aged mother witnessed his CEN
secration, and after he had been in
vested with the purple robes of his
new office she accompanied him to the
Vatican, where she and her beloved
son were received in private by the
Pope. In the February following his
mother died. .-
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
LET'S HEAR FROM THE NJ. p. L. c.

by Public Company for
pumping the Creek
impure into the whether
Why could this be
the rivern north of Sloan Creek?
pipes during
the mains the blaze
tngshed And does in the pipes after the fire, which
with ordinary intelligence knows be fact then be
drinking mains and consumed by the public.
the need for the
unable understand why pick
The extending the
certainly considered health
stake.
Company give
make of what they do.
Tbunes them without If they have
refusing the conditions
frank Surely the
not forever?
months the Utilities Company
franchise furnish light heat and this
that would take the line
sell randw wholesome
1t has few which light
this work actively begun only recently.
the Missouri Public Utilities has delay,
ought make confident the public SO
day of these will take the the State
and then it will be take people
What the
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21

Edward Langevin was given pre-
liminary hearing in Judge Willer's
court yesterday on the charge of car
rying concealed weapons. After hear
ing the testimony of number of wit
nesses the defendant was acquitted.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21
GOING AHEAD BACKWARDS.


the dispatches today that the
farther into the enemies than they yesterday
show that they still backwards But the this
than the scribes
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21

Howard Black, who was kicked by
his pony Tuesday morning, is re-
ported to be resting we'll and improv-
ing rapidly.
The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-08-21

Ben Bruihl came up from Illmo YES
terday afternoon on his way to Jack
son, where he will visit friends and
relatives during Home Coming.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21

fication play a very important
part in the sale of car? Buyers
everywhere know that If the manu-
featuring company is in business on a
solid basis, 1t must build-a good car.
There can be no great difference in
the motor dimensions and other
specifications of the driving and run
ming gear in cars selling at practf-
cally the same price. Out of all you
will probably get very nearly the
same amount of power and the same
amount of speed.
Real disable value goes a long ways
back of the bore, stroke, the number
of speeds, or the type of rear axle
used.
1t finds its foundation in the first
car built by the manufacturing COM
pany; it furnishes its own proof in
the subsequent development of this
car through years of manufacturing
into the present-day product.
Real disable value means giving
everything to the buyer that
is of vital Importance to him in the
satisfactory operation of his car, and
then charging him a fair price.
1t is folly to incorporate into the
car some spectacular feature as a
selling argument and then sacrifice
in real usuable value of the car and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
BOSTON LADIES' ORCHESTRA
TO PLAY ALL WEEK AT SHOW

The Bostonia Ladies' Orchestra has
been engaged for the week at the
armory auto show. ? The orchestra
will be heard in excellent concert
programs under the direction of Miss
Belle Renfrew The aggregation Of
talented artists have earned an en-
yiable reputation for themselves and
have been awarded the contract to
play at Asbury Park next summer in
place of Pryor's Band, which was q
feature there for many seasons. The
Bost onia Ladies' Orchestra is no
stranger to this city.
Miss Mae Sutton, a popular soprano.
who was heard at the show in pre-
vious years, will appear again, as
will also several other well-known
singers. The musical program at the
show this season will be very at
tractive and will interest local
music-lovers to large extent.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
"CADILLAC" FISHER PREDICTS
ADOPTION OF TWO-SPEED AXLE

ing all technicalities from the subject,
the advantage of the high direct gear
ratio consists in the fact that through
it a given speed of the engine pro-
duces an increase of ~ per cent. in
the speed of the car.
Unconsciously, when you change
gears you look forward TO the APP
parent effort and labor of the engine
to be increased. 1t does not come.
The trembling does not come. No
shock, no disturbance, is communi-
Gated to the car or it's occupants.
The steady pressing onward of the
car is uninterrupted and the smooth
ness is continuous. You forget the
engine, you forget the car-there is
only quiet and a soft swinging
through space.
Keeping in mind the more slowly
moving engine, you sense at once
that infinite greater steadiness must
follow. Hold fast the same mental
picture and you see that vibration
must be reduced almost to vanish
ing point.
Imagine the car with the low direct
gear operating at an engine speed of
700 revolutions per minutes Shift
the electric switch and pass into the
high direct gear ratio and the speed
OIL Ine car increases TO thirty miles
an hour with no increase in the speed
of the engine,
We believe that the two-speed axle
viii be generally adopted in the fu-
ture. as was the electric self-lighting
and cranl1ing introduced first by the
Cadillac Company on their 1912 model.
1t should be a direct benefit to six
cylinder cars as well as four. De-
creasing the number of engine revo-
lutions AZ per cent should greatly
decrease the cost of maintenance,
fuel, etc.