Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-13
Scraps and fats.

New York last Saturday on the steam
ship Finland. 1T is impossible to
picture the condition Of Servia," said
DR.. Lane. I'VE found the country In
the grip of an epidemic Of recurrent
fever with a high percentage of ia
tality. Following the recurrent fever
came typhus, brought into Servia evil
IDENTIFY by Austrian prisoners. Deaths
We're so numerous that it was hard to
find mean to dispose Of the bodies,
cremation being the only solution. In
one day during the second week in
February $50 deaths were reported
from typhus in the city Of Nish alone
1t will require strenuous efforts to
meet the contingency. Surgeons are
not needed as badly as r trained
nurses. Sterilizing apparatus and dis
infectants are imperative"
American chemical companies,
say a Washington dispatch, are bend
ing every effort toward supplying tex
tile mills and other industries using
artificial dyes with home products to
replace German dyestuffs, shut off by
the European war. Reports to the
department Of commerce made public
Saturday, show that at least six
plants are in course Of construction
for the manufacture Of the coal tar
derivatives Upon which the colors
used in cloth manufacture, varnishes
and other products are based. APP
proximately Sc, 900, 900 is to be expend-
ed and within a few months 1t Is est-
mated that much Of the material for
the simpler dyes heretofore purchased
in Germany at a cost Of $12, 600, 900
annually, will be turned out in the
United States. The more complicated
chemicals, however, will require a
greater length Of time to develop. A
report Of the dyestuff situation called
for by a resolution Of congress, was
given out by the department. 1t esti-
mates that American o ovens are
wasting annually $780, 900, 900 in by
products that could be saved n en-
ployed in other industries. The Ameri-
can coke industry, the report states,
could produce twenty times as much
coal tar as the world needs Tor dyes
A dramatic air duel in which q
German aircraft was brought down
inside the allied ines by ROLAND q.
Garros, q famous French aviator, was
described last Friday by Major Raoul
Pontus, son Of the former Belgian
minister Of war, who witnessed the
combat, says a dispatch from Furness,
Belgium. The German at first rose
above Garros' machine but the French
man, by a clever twist, escaped n
then flew over the German. From
this moment the Germans position
became critical" said Major Pontus.
"Garros overlook him rapidly. Pres
emily he judged himself sufficiently
near to take the offensive. The German
also used his carbine freely. Sudden,
ly a long jet Of white smoke gushed
from the German machine, and then
a little flame which in an instant, en-.
yeloped the whole aeroplane. Not
w~ithstanding the extreme peril, the
pilot took to fight but his effort to
escape was converted into a horrify-
ing downward plunge. The a~eroplane,
a mass Of flames, struck the ground
with a sickening thud n a column
of black smoke poured from it. The
aviators, horribly burned, were dead
when l reached them. The gasoline
tank contained two bullet holes
The Seward Fairbanks route has
been selected for the government rail-
way in Alaska, Secretary Lane an
nounced late last Saturday. The prop
erty Of the Alaskan Railway company
from Seward over the first stage of
the journey has been purchased for
81, 500, 900. The government system,
the statement adds, win include a So
mile branch to tap the Matanuska
coal fields. w. c. Edes is designated
as chairman of the Alaskan engineer
ing commission which will build the
road by the presidents order. The
estimated cost Of the entire system Is
given at S26, 500, 900. Congress pro-
yided not to exceed $35, 000, 900. Sec
rotary Lane said construction work
would begin at once and that prob
ably forty miles Of the extension OF
the Alaska railway from Ship Creek
-.-. - ~.>lt4I fhto xynnr Cnn-
struction will be carried on under
contract, individual contractors build
ing separate sections. In n Of the
orders signed by the president, the
Alaskan commission was instructed
to guard particularly the health Of
the men at work and to adopt a sys-
tenn Of compensation for accidents
similar to that in force on the Pana-
ma canal. The interior department
in a signed statement, said in part:
The route adopted Is known as the
Susitna route and extends from Sew
ard on Resurrection bay, to Fairbanks
on the Tanana river, a distance or
All miles. This route includes the
existing Alaska Northern railroad,
which runs from Seward through the
Kenai peninsula, for a distance Of II
miles to Turnagain arm. 1t Is to be a
standard gauge road. The Alaska
Northern has been purchased for a
price less than it's physical valuation,
as estimated by the Alaskan engineer
ing commission and by the engineers
Of the interstate commerce commits
sion. The president has directed n a
the work be carried on by the Alas
kan engineering commission"
Along with the first announcement
of the proposed forcing of the Darda-
nelles by the allied fleets. the common
impression seemed to be that the task
was merely a matter of a few weeks
of steady pounding by the more than
half a hundred great warships engag-
ed. After the assault had been in
for q week or more, and 1t
was announced that the forts at the
outer entrance to the famous strait
had been demolished, the dispatches
continued to carry the idea that the
balance of the work would so on with
more or less Steadiness. But from
such facts as have been gathered, II
appears that the enterprise of forcing
the Hardanelles has not been alto
gether successful. 1t is certain that
four or five British end several French
ships have gone down. n the Ger
mans and Turks insist that the allies
have reported only a part of their
losses. Some reports have it that
more than half of the ships engaged
have either been sunk or so badly
damaged as 20 be worthless for a good
many months to m The losses o.
the Turks are about as hard to arrive
at as are the losses of the allies. The
allies say they demolished some of
the straits inner Notifications, bus
the Turks claim that they have suffer
ed no serious inconvenience except In
the case of Notifications that were
subject to unobstructed fire from long
range. There has been talk of as
saulting the Dardanelles forts by
means or strong land forces; but the
Turks are now claiming that they
have more tnan 1000, 000 men mobil-
lied ard equipped and are ready to
take care of n land forces that may
be brought against them. The idea of
forcing the Dardanelles has not been
abandoned by the allies; but it is evil
dent that the task is far more difficult
than vas at first anticipated.
Lord Kitchener has called on Can
ada for a second eXpeditionary force.
The news was given to the Canadian