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Evening star., 1914-09-26
COTTON ABOARD CRET|C
BURNS At HER PIER
Fire Causes Panic Among italian
Reservists Ready to Sail
for Genoa.

NEW YORK, September 26.-Sixteen
hundred bales of cotton. stored in the
lower hold of the White Star liner
Cretic caught fire this morning as the
vessel lay at her pier under steam and
ready to weigh anchor for Genoa Sew
eral hundred italian reservists. crowded
into the steerage overnight. we're routed
by smoke and fled in scant attire to the
pier.
The fire gained headway rapidly. With
in fifteen minutes from the time that
the first wisp of smoke curled up from
the second hatchway the blaze in the
hold appeared to be a roaring furnace.
and soon smoke hung in heavy clouds
over the river. For nearly an hour the
fire ragged practically unchecked. Then
there came alongside the burning vessel
two of the city's fireboats. These boats
pumped hundreds of gallons of water
upon the Cretic's decks.
Damage Confined to Cotton.
1t was after 10 o'clock before the fire
seemed to be under control. The ship
herself. it was said. did not catch fire.
and the damage was confined to the cot
ton in the hold.
This cotton was consigned to Naples
Officers Of the line said the Cretic
propably would be unable to sail today.
The origin of the fire was not deter
/ mined. but it was thought that the
blaze might have been started by a
lighted cigarette or cigar tossed into
the hold.
Evening star., 1914-09-26
POLICEMAN CREAGHE DIES.
WAS TAKEN ILL SUNDAY
Captured Benjamin Smell in 1899
After Latter Had Murdered
Little Girl.

Mounted Policeman Patrick Creaghe of
the third precinct, one of the best
known members of the metropolitan
morning at his home, 357 H street
southwest.
Policeman Creaghe was taken i'll Sum-
day. and had been confined to his home
since that time. Death was due ia
uremic poison. He was born in Eng
land August %. 1852. and when a
young man came to Philadelphia. He
enlisted in the United States Army, and
in 1886 received an honorable dis
charge. July 1. 1887. he was appointed
a member of the metropolitan police
force. and two years later was
mounted.
Caught Slayer of Girl.
While mounted and connected with
the ninth precinct August 6, 1899. he
made his most noted arrest when he
captured Benjamin Snell who had but
a few hours before murdered a little
girl. Policemen throughout the Dis
trict were searching for Smell Police
man Creagh was patrolling the Benning
road, when he saw Smell, who was
thought to be making an effort to get
out of. the city. His arrest followed,
and he was executed for his crime June
90, 1900
A wife and two daughters survive
Mr. Creaghe.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence at 8 o'clock Tuesday
morning. thence to St. Dominic's
Church. where solemn high requiem
mass will be sung at $50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

It's easy for woman to discover
that a man has brains-if she's his
moSAer.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

Marriage used to be q lottery; now
it's game Of skill, ~ ~,
Evening star., 1914-09-26

Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Leeare have con-
cluded their visit to Mr.. and Mrs John
Thompson Spencer in Newport. and
are in New York to await Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Legare. who are expected from
Europe.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

Mrs. Champ Clark will return today
from a trip to New York and the upper
Hudson. While in New York Mrs Clark
was the guest of her cousin, Miss
Frances StockWelI.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

BRAXTON. After a lingering Illness. departed
this life on Thursday. September "a, 1914.
at pm. WASHINGTON BRAXTON, he
loved husband of Ruthana. father Of Ella
and devoted brother of Mrs. NJ Ellen Curry
OF 1910 Montelo avenue northeast
Funeral from his late residence. Fairmont
Heights. Nd. Sunday. September 81. ut
pm Relatives and friends respectfully
invited to attend. &c.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

Mrs. Calderon Carlisle returned from
Europe yesterday on the Mauretania.
Evening star., 1914-09-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic Crowninshield,
who have Lieut.. Col. ]. F. Reynolds
Lands and Mrs. Lands Of Washing
ton as guests, gave a dinner last night
in Lenox, Mass, in their honor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-06
Carbonate - A Ruined CITY

The readers of the Illinois Issue will be delighted to read
the following from the pen of the former president of the
board of directors of the Illinois Anti-Saloon League, Hon
orable Sam 7. Brush.
MI. Brush is now a resident of Boulder, Colorado, but
still has property interests in Illinois and has never for a mo-
ment lost his enthusiasm for the county local option cause in
this state.
The above was a headline appearing in the bril-
liant personal liberty organ, known as the East st.
Louis Beacon.
Under this dark picture the editor indicted the
writer of this article as the arch conspirator who
brought dire calamity to his home town by leading
the crusade which drove the ten revenue-producing
saloons from the "once fair city of schools and
churches and challenged him to answer.
The defendant pleads guilty and asks the court
to have mercy on him because more than half the
voters and all of the women and children of the I'm
fortunate city were his co-conspirators. On a recent
visit to my old home, instead of being greeted by a
hostile mob and marched out of town as might have
been expected, | was congratulated on every hand for
my part in running the place" The only evidence of
ruin was the absence Of ten saloons and in their
places meat markets. bakeries, clothing, grocery,
millinery and dry goods stores and restaurants,
all occupied and filled with well-dressed and sober
citizens.
The saloon business certainly had been ruined,
but it is a pleasure to be able to say that some of the
former saloonkeepers are now engaged in decent and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-06
Brutishness
Uncleanness
Disgrace
Woe
Excess
Insanity
Shame
Exclusion
Ruin

profitable business and are helping to boost the most
progressive city in Southern Illinois.
The following statistics are my best defense to-
the charge of my friend of the Beacon.
In the year 1894, when licensed saloons were
opened in Carbonate for the first time in its history,
the full assessed value of all property in the city linn
its was ST ,5oo,oI5.Oo In 1904, after ten years of sa-
loon domination, the valuation was ST ,63o,oooOo. In
1913, six years after the saloons were driven out, the
valuation was $3,247,245.oo. These figures are from
the official records.
Instead of mud streets and township roads, the
only kind in Carbonate and the township of the same
name in 1907, there are now ten miles of we'll paved
streets and eleven miles of good, hard roads, all built
by the city and township without state or county aid,
fine granitoid sidewalks in front of almost every lot
in the city. In place of two old frame schoolhouses
the cityis now building two commodious brick school
buildings on which the people lately voted 500 100000.
Business blocks-a large hotel repaired and re-
built at a cost of over $3o,ooooo, a city building to
cost about S4o,oooOo, and Elk's Home and hundreds
of dwelling houses, all built, or under construction
since 1912, when the third and last attempt of the
liquor people was made to discontinue Carbonate
as anti-sa1oon territory" failed.
The closing Of the crime and poverty-breedine
saloons III 1907 which diverted in the six years since
more than one million dollars of wages paid to labor
from saloon tils to the cash boxes of merchants and
building associations, accounts for the wonderful
prosperity and contentment of Carbonate people.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-06
Budweiser Spells Temperance?

corresponds answers his own quer, Foes 1T" with the following:
The brewers who make BudweSr beer are er the puGc by means of Elaborate billboard
posters, that" BudweKT Spells Temperance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
FINDS FAULT WITH THOMPSON VEWOF
 COLORADO VOTERS
Mrs. Stern Not Disturbed by Fact That Negroes Go to Same Polls as
 Whites
To the Edltor of Tho Age-Herald

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In your issue of September 15 you pub llsh statement eminating from MT. H. A. Thompson of Greenville. who claims to have been disgusted at the sight of women voting in the election held in Dem yer on the 9th instant
 MT. Thompson Is quoted as saving: T saw men and women--white and black Hooking together. preparing ballots and casting them
 When we remember that the negro population of Colorado is exceedingly small, we must be excused for wonder ing where all those negroes came from, and how so many came to be voting in one precinct, and that apparently a fash ionable one, too. That they were there in disgustingly large numbers is indicated by the employment of the word flock ing" As no such condition exists in Alabama, where negroes are plentiful as backberries in June. we are moved to feel great sympathy for Colorado and fear that we have been derelict in our duty in not pointing out to them a better way. viz: the Alabama plan.
 One wonders whether MT. Thompson has ever been to market on a bright Sat- urday afternoon and observed the white people and the negroes Hooking to- gether to buy their Sunday supplies? It is also evident that Mir Thompson has never seen deicately nurtured white ladies Hooking" around bargain coun- ters on Monday mornings in the closest proximity to their cooks and wash ladies" Nor, has the gentleman from Butler observed the common spectacle of a white woman riding in a buggy, side by side. with coal black driver. These sights and many others that could name are of daily occurrence In the south, and I have never observed thai any one was disturbed by them. hence, see no reason why he should be- come distressed at the possibility of few negroes voting at the same booth at which white men and women cast their votes, do I see any reason why an Alabama politician should lose sight of the fact that the colored vote in Alabama is a negligible factor in our political life.
 Regarding the effects of equal suffrage in Colorado on which Mir. Thompson re- ports, We are reminded. of the Yankees who used to come south from New Eng land and in weeks time knew more about southern conditions than did we who had lived here all our lives. hence. trust I shall be pardoned for remark ing In closing that the views of the gen tleman from Butler county are in direct contradiction to those repeatedly expressed by such citizens of the state of Colorado as Senator Shafroth George Creei the well known journalist Judge Lindsey and hosts of other prominent and well in- formed men who have lived in Colorado for years. LAURA J. STERN.
 Montgomery, September 1T. 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
COAL OPERATORS BACK KFROM HEARING
 ON HIGHER RATES
Beginning Tomorrow They Will Present Their Argu- ments Agailst Increase
 by the Railroads

J. w. Mcqueen, Walter Moore. Ben I' Roden, Henry Debardeleben and Charles Debardeleben, well known coal operators returned last night from Montgomery where they remained during the past week watching the fight of the railroads foi permission of the railroad commission to increase their rates on coal to and from the Birmingham district During the week, the railroads pre- scented their side of the case which 1n- sisted in the main of a mass of figures tending to show the bulk of their opera tions on freight to and from the sir mingham district. The coal operators who have studied the proceedings are of the opinion that the railroads are en- deavoring to impress the members of se commission with an idea that in north Alabama they are operating at loss.
 This week the battle will be renewed. Beginning tomorrow, the coal operators and consumers will take the stand and give testimony. It Is understood tuet large delegations from Anniston, Gadsden. Talladega and Sylacauga will be present, for these cities have been raised on 70 cent coal" according to their statement. and coal which costs more would they contend, do them as much damage in proportion as the increase would do dam age to Birmingham.
 The operators who returned preferred not to be quoted in regard to the stua- ton, but it was gathered from them that their participation in the fight is regarded by the railroads as not only unnecessary, but impertinent in that the railroads con- tend that the operator will not be made to suffer- but the people will-in that the people will have to bear whatever bu den is imposed.
 It is reported that the railroads will contend that since the general reduction in practically all freight charges which resulted from a compromise effected by the railroad commission and attorneys representing the railroads, they have lost money in Alabama, and that relief in tho form of increased coal rates is necessary. Their movement in this regard is taken to mean that in the future they will be- gin. battling against the reductions rs- gently ordered, and that another long drawn out contest will be in order. The coming week the people will represent that fin this financial crisis. the railroads should aid rather than take steps tending to increase the cost of living, and that judging from recent political history, the common carriers should not return to politics in Alabama.
 Marriage Licenses
 The following marriage licenses were yesterday recorded in the office of the probate judge:
 J. H. Franklin, Sayue, to Mrs. Georgia Davis.
 G. H. Ogletree. Birmingham. to Miss Birdie Gunter.
 o. B. Diffley. Birmingham. to Miss Mamie Maloy.
 J. F.. Luque. Birmingham, to Miss Effie Dorsett.
 William Penney. Kimberley, to Miss Claribel Hayes.
 J. J. Love, Avondale. to Miss Clara Steadley.
 P. J. Elliot. Mount Pinson to Miss Laura Bradford.
 Victor Ward. Birmingham, to Mrs. Fronie Bowen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Woodld7vn Cemetery Sold
 to Thompson For $1OO,OOO

The Woodlawn cemetery, consisting Joseph O. Thompson by the Forest Hill Cemetery company of which E. r. Ems len was the principal owner. The deal was handled by A. A. Gambill. head of the A. A. Gambill company. The price YVES $100,000 It was announced that in the trade Mir. Thompson gave one farm at Montevallo with all live stock and equipment worth s50.000 and his residence on Eleventh avenue. south, valued at $30,000.
 It is stated by MT. Gambill that Mir. Thompson paid that for his residence when he bought 1t sometime ago. The difterenceAof s20.000, it was announced. may be paid in cotton at 10 cents per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Tightens Her Skin
 Loses Her Wrinkles

T want to tell you how easily I got rid of my wrinkles" writes Luella Marsh. While in London a friend. much envied because of her youthful looks. gave me d formula for a homemade preparation which has the effect of in- stantly tightening the skin. thus smoothing out wrinkles and furrows.
 The principal ingredient is powdered saxolites which can be had at drug dissolved in d half pint witch hazel. After bathing my face in this but once the transformation was so marvellous crows feet were affected. and the an- moving creases about my neck. It seems difficult to believe anything could produce such results Several to whom I recommended the recipe have been similarly helped. one an elderly lady whose cheeks had become quite baggy."-Social Mirror.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
BOND ISSUE WILL
 PROBABLY WIN BY LARGE MAJORITY
Disinterested Observers Feel That Weatherly Jones Race Is Close Enough to Make Outcome
 Matter of Consider
 able Doubt
THE JONES PREDICTION

In speaking of the outcome of the race. Solon Jacobs, campaign man. ager- for Harry Jones, said yester- day: There is no doubt but that Mr- Jones will be elected. have Zone over the field carefully and in person. It is difficult to find the Weatherly strength when one leaves the environ of lawyers There are several suburbs which are close, West End, Vivian and East Lake. But 1 do not concede either of them to MT. Weatherly, Mir Jones will sweep old Birming- ham like a cyclone, and will poll heavy majorities in most of the suburbs. MT. Jones should win by majority of 20o0. which will be increa sed in the event that as many as 10000 votes are polled.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

pound, MT. Enslen having. II was stated. agreed to accept cotton for the balance. Mr. Thompson, who tills more iand than any man in thls state if not in the south. will have plenty of cot ton but it Is stated he does not ex- pect to pay the difference in cotton
 The Woodlawn cemetery is said to be arranged so that with the final sale of lots therein there will have been secured over s4.oOo,oo0. according to the calculations entering into the trade
 This is the most recent large trans action that has been made in Bir- mingham during the past few months. While it does not involve the exchange of any money at the same time the sale indicates that there is at this time an opportunity for trading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON WRECK Is ISSUED
 BY EXECUTIVE DEPT.
Railroad Officials Had Expected Startling Developments During Aft ernoon, But No Arrests Were Made-Mute Evidence of Jones'
 Efforts to Save Passengers
NO ARREST YET

There was such a belief that there would be startling develop ments late yesterday in the Ala bama Great Southern wreck that local railroad circles fairly quiv- cred in expectation. It was re- ported that special agents would cause to be detained a person who is said to reside near klondyke spur, where the wreck occurred, who Is said to harbor a deep-rooted hatred for the Alabama Great Southern and all of its officials. However, up to a late hour nothing was given out. The officials said that nothing had been reported which would indicate that an ar rest was imminent or that any per son was being shadowed who would likely explain the catastrophe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
THE wEATHERLY PREDICTION

When asked for a statement Mor- gan Flowers, in behalf of James Weatherly. presented to The Age Herald a table of figures in which the total vote was estimated at 1926, Weatherly majorities at 1887, Jones majorities at 329 Weather ly's total vote at 5292, Jones' total vote at 3634, and Weatherly's net majority at 1858. The following precincts are conceded to Jones' Elyton, Harris Transfer, Gate City and the Southside fire department Weatherly, according to this state ment will carry West End, East Lake, Courthouse, Pratt City, East Thomas, Woodlawn, City Hall, North Birmingham, Ensey. East Birmingham, Avondale and Wy lam.
 sydney J. Bowie said: "The bond issue will carry by an overwhelm- ing vote, probably 80 or 90 per cent. It will carry every box" in the city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Dr. Branscomb to Speak

The meeting for men at the Young Men's Christian association Sunday after noon at o'clock will be addressed by the Rev. Dr. L. c. Branscomb. presid- ing elder of the Methodist church. A special invitation is extended to all visitors and strangers in the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Acquitted of Shooting and Fatally Wounding Mrs.
 Catherine Copeland
DEMONSTRATION
 BY HIS RELATIVES
Surrounded by Weeping Kin Who Shout Congratulations-No One Ap- pears From Solicitors Office
 to Conduct Prosecution

"i am embarrassed nt the absence of any member of the solicitors office in Il case of such magnitude. but have tried in fair and impartial manner to ascertain the truth of this affair." IL seems that Mrs. Copeland made four semi-dcathbed confessions. The first two accused the defendant and the others were assertions that she shot herself. As the first two statements were nude without notice from phy- sicians that she was about to die. and the last two were made after she was Informed that death was near, the court Is naturally bound to give great CT credence to the latter statements The court is also of the opinion that the grand jury would not find a true bill against the defendant and there fore he is dischnrged.-
 The above was spoken in a calm dis passionate voice by Judge Cunningham Hickman late yesterday afternoon in the dingy courtroom occupied by the second division of the court of common pleas. He had hardly terminated his statement. however, before a demon- stration was started by the relatives of George Doak, the young defendant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
ONE ENGINE ON l.. & \.
 PULLS 1OI FREIGHT CARS

The heaviest and longest train ever operated in the south was hauled into Decatur yesterday with one of the giant type locomotives recently secured by the Louisville and Nashville to increase it's load on freight trains operating south of Louisville. The train consisted of 101 cars, of which so were loaded to their capacity. 20 were empty and the other was the caboose. The train was the first test made of the power of the locomotives on the Louisville and Nashville. Local officials believe that the newer To- comotives will be brought on this division when the tunnel at Blount Springs is completed. but not before then. On this division. of which Decatur is the northern end, the arrival of the phenomenal train excited wide interest and attention
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20
Negroes to Fight Tuberculosis

A. c. Gamble and c. c. Beverly an- nounce that a meeting has been called
 at the sixteenth Street Colored Baptist church tomorrow night for the purpose
 of organizing an antitubercuosis associa- tion for colored people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20


 The government of the United States. Tn compliance with the request of Horace Baker general manager of the Queen and Crescent route, rushed special agents from Montgomery yesterday to the scene of the Friday morning wreck on the Ala bama Great Southern railroad, which re- suited in the death om 10 persons and the injury of nearly two score. In an effort to delve to the bottom or the horrible affair, the detectives co-operat- ing with special agents for the railroad and law officers in that section of the country are leaving nothing undone to fa sten upon some person the full respon- sibility of the wreck to the New Orleans limited Friday at 3:07 o'clock.
 The fact that the government hau promptly answered the request of General Manager Baker. was given out here yes terday from the offices of l.. Sevier, gen eral agent for the Alabama Great South ern executive department. In statement that was issued the essential facts of the wreck were recited in the bare words of a typical railroad statement. In addi- ton the executive department reiterated that the wreck was the result or plot, and that person was seen by William Jones' the heroic engineer. to flee across the tracks in the path of the light from the engine It was added that the head light was tempered with, that the lock was broken and that the switch lamp showed alternating green and red lights until it finally fickered out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-20

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