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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
FEARS FOR FAMOUS
ANCIENT EDIFICES
New York Architects Anxious as
TO Fate of American Acad-
envy in Rome.

New York architects are anxious for
comprehensive reports from Italy
which will set at rest the fears now
felt for scores of ancient monuments
and churches in Rome and other cities
in the earthquakes path. Especial in
terest is felt In the fate OF the build
ings of the American Academy in
Rome. the Villa Firatiore, the Villa
Aurela. and the recently completed
structure ia which L.. American art
schools are housed
Cass Gilbert. the architect of the
Woolworth Building, said last night
that 50 fa4 as he had been able TO
Judge from the newspapers no ire
parable damage had been done in Rome.
From what l have read" said Mr..
Gilbert, 81 can see no reason why the
Column of Marcus Aurelius and the
facade Of ST. John Lateran should not
be repaired. From the damage done
these two buildings ! should Judge that
the force of the earthquake traversed
the centre of the city. From this
should be inclined 70 think that 81.
Peters and the Vatican suffered very
little.
Architects believe that st. Peters
has been shaken by previous earth
ouakes. There are cracks in the dome
and the buttresses which support this
theory. ] do not think that you will
find that the cathedral has been greatly
damaged"
Mr.. Gilbert said that he was con-
cerned over the report that the town Of
Treni, near Perugia, had suffered heav-
ily.
There were a number of buildings
of ancient and remarkable architecture
there" he said. 81 should be sorry TO
hear that they had been injured"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
INJURED BEING
TAKEN TO TIVOLI
Many Living Still Buried
Under Ruins Of
AVeZZdnO.
OF SIX
TOWNS CONFIRMED
Tempest, Unusual Tides and 10
Degrees Below Zero Drop
Elsewhere.

Rome. Jan. IL. Trains are running
from AvczzanO 90 Tivoii without inter
ruptIon, taking the injured there for
treatment. Survivors arriving IN Ilyoh
say many persons are under the ruins
ia AyezzanO. Thousands Of cubic
metres o.. @ebris are piled IN the town,
making rescue work very difficult
The .atest information received mere
confirm previous reports that the
greater parts of Samtelimo, Palermo,
PcscIna. Cerchlo. Collarmele and San
Bcnodetto were destroyed.
Reports received from Naples say
thar the fears that the province OF
Potenza. which was isolated. had been
DESTROYED are untounded Some dam
age was done there. mostly 10 the vii
lagos in the vicinity OF the extinct vol
cauO Vulcan No fatalities have been
reported from this region.
AncOna. on the Adriatic, 1874 miles
northeast Of Rome. reports that a tenn
pest accompanied the seismic disturb
aucc and there were exceptional tides
coincdcut with the disturbance At
Naples A. Venice the temperature
was the lowest IN years and was ac-
companled By a violent snOwstorm. In
the Alps the temperature went TO -
degrees below zero.
The Ministry has approved the plans
undertaken by the authorities to send
aid TO the localities affected by the
earthquake.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
ARRIVE: HEAR OF DISASTER
Quake Won't Affect Italy's
War Decision, Says Consul.

When the Italian steamship Verona
came into Quarantine yesterday from
Genoa, Naples and Palermo the TWEEN
ty-oEe saloon and l57 second cabin
passengers Oh board received calmly
the ucwa o. the earthquake. An effort
TO keep the catastrophe unknown TO
the CSC steorage passengers soon
proved vain. Practically all Of them
were from Northern Italy, but many
bad friends and relatives in the strick-
ca districts.
Count Sayerio Ranuzzi, Italian con-
su,ar agent at Altoona, Penn, main
tanned that the disaster would in no
manner govern the decision of the
Italian government as 10 entering the
war. All the passengers expressed a
belief that Italy would eventually be
dragged into the European conflict
Among the saloon passengers was
Mrs. F. J. Carr, of Winnipeg, who,
with her father. John Brittenbach, had
been at the Rumanian border. They
declared that If Rumanla entered the
war the doom of Austria-Hungary was
sealed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
RED CROSS APPEAL
FOR STRICKEN ITALY
American Branch Recalls u. S.
Gift of S1,OOO,OOO for
MesSina Relief.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE following
statement was issued tonight at Red
Cross headquarters:
The press dispatches indicate that
another dreadful calamity has visited
Italy, occasioned by an earthquake,
which is reported TO have destroyed
many thousands of lives and 20 have
devastated a large city. The number
rendered homeless by the Messina
earthquake in 1908 was upward Of fifty
thousand. and the American public re-
sponded in relief by raising, through
Ike American Red Cross. the munif-
cent sum Of approximately 100000
20 assist those stricken people.
Now there is another opportunity
for the charitable people Of the United
States. whose population includes many
hundreds Of thousands of Italians, to
help in providing relief for those rem
dered homeless and destitute by this
latest catastrophe at Avezzano, Caserta
and other places in the earthquake re-
giOn.
The American Red Cross will be
glad 10 forward funds to the Italian
Red Cross for those needing aid in
the distressed territory"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

prisons, jailers and the doctors and
patients in the hospitals were carried
down in the wreckage.
A tour Of the towns and villages
around Lake Fucino disclosed vast de-
struction. The town of Magliano, IN
the territory of the Marsi, seems TO
have been ripped open. Its historic
belfry, which rose about 300 feet. col
lapsed. In the church below all the
chapels were ruined except that OF the
Savious. where AN immense crucihX is
standing intact. while everything about
is scattered and broken.
At escina the cathedral belfry and
the house Of the Bishop have entirely
disappeared. 40 trace Of Monsignor
Bagn6li, the Bishop of Pescina, and
twenty Carmelites living with him has
been found, and it is feared that all
nave persisted.
The work Of rescue at Avezzano was
carried on with much greater yigor
this afternoon by the soldiers and
skilled workmen who arrived from all
sections. and still despairing appeals
could be heard from those buried. One
boy was found uninjured inside a
stove. Two nuns were rescued from a
cellar. and an old man was taken from
the basement of a house where he had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
CAUSED By LAVA OF
ETNA AND VESUVlUS
Professor Kemp, of Columbia,
Ascribes MeSsina and Present
Disasters TO Earth Fractures.

Frequent earthquakes are 10 be ex-
pected in Italy, according 20 Professor
J. F. Kemp, head of the department OF
geology at Columbia University. The
natural conditions that exist in the
southern peninsula Of Europe are those
which make vibrations of the earth oc--
cur az irregular intervals, he explained
yesterday. 81.
The activity Of Italy's volcanoes"
he said. "Etna and Nesuyius, especially
noticeable in the last two decades, has
probably been the chief reason for the
Nessina and Ayezzano disasters. The
immense quantities of lava that have
poured from the craters OF these two
volcanoes have left faults. or fractures.
in the earths crust. In the mountain
Gus regions Of Italy these fractures
have been inclined. and when the re-
adjustment has taken place by the
upper portion slipping down on the
lower. the movements have created
jars. propagating vibrations when
cause the shock.
The readjustment is very. abrupt,
and is probably started By the move
ment of q small stone falling out Of
place. The great mass Of earth then
shifts, and the result is the quake. An
irregular coast line is singularly an
adjunct to earthquakes. Geology mas
never derived the reason for this. 9ut
a study Of practically every earth
quake reveals il.
The Messina disaster was very SIM
liar 10 that of Avezzano, so far as cause
is concerned. Mount Etna had poured
forth 80 much lava that a fracture had
been created in the earth's crust. and
the natural result cssne IN the form Of
a readjustment. Ii Is probable that
other fractures now exist, and It Is GER
tainly 10 be expected that other earth
0uakes will occur in Italy. When the
readjustment has not been complete a
second movement occurs, sometimes
u.ithir Z feM minutes.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
LIVING IMPRISONED WITH
DEAD IN AVEZZANO
Survivors Go Insane on Finding Bodies of Loved Ones
in Ruins-200 Children Buried Under School
Walls Collapse Rescuers.

cue those penned under the fallen
walls. They could not seem 10 under
stand the delay in dispatching aid 70
them from Rome and other centres,
forgetting that more than twelve hours
passed before knowledge Of the gravity
Of the disaster reached the outside au-
thorities.
Nearly all the civic officials of Avez-
zano. including the Mayor, the under
prefect and the judges; the commander
Of the carabineers and parish priests,
monks and nuns persisted. The col
lege, with more than a hundred girl
students. COLLAPSED. Inc governor Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

Rome. Jan. 1.-The destruction Of
the town of Avezzano, community Of
some 1900 people in Aquila Province,
by the earthquake yesterday is virtu-
ally complete. There is good author
ity for the statement that not more
than 10 per cent Of the population
survived.
Avezzano is filed with dead and
wounded and wrecked houses. IL is like
the ruins Of a cemetery. Those who
escaped the destruction Of the earth
quake went heroically 10 work 10 res
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15

,-.,.;,- bopri, for
ne OF No"e -. .ho
these camps as volunteer
list including the Duchess OF Aosta'
=. ~ como 90 Nonterocuui Queen
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her recent illness Wheh she H"'' ''' '''
20 q daughter continually expresses
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'"e 81 s.-..,~ ,, she did in
TO the seeheS %
the Messina disaster.
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.;es % handle successfully. Every
-..... .. rlof to ,ensc-
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lty. Prince Co.orna. 'ne N"''. ""'
placed At the disposa. O. The refugees
..,.o~si .o.cls vre~c food and loug-
r...,.-4 r-..
ing WIZ "'
Pope Benedict is "N"'.''-
from M0usignor Sacn'' Areh o'snop OF
Aquila, on 'ne 49, itrc lie
ron Sho 'ne f'~-f -, ,rrl 90 to he
mas eve" $3.50 -,'. .. ,,,,cs,.r,- 20 en-
spo. ~ "'e ---,f,,. .rc distressed
S0u' 90. ~. 1900 .,ot',- 10 'he aid
- - sts,e authorities. and some Of
ne noost valuable assistance rendered
bss becr through priests. whose init
mate knowledge Of the ruined dis
,,,cts has ruf fhc- IN command Of the
rei,ef wort IN MANY sections.
Nodicei men ~lrcsdv arc beginning TO
eli 81 .bo ,robs..lstv OF an epidemic
80 s,,-,,vors
Di-cc+or Frica.a~der o. She Irterna-
.so~.l VoIcaroIor.cal Institute. at
Nsnles says the origin Of che earth
or.tc a. Geological and not volcanic.
,.,,,b So cer+rc in thc valley OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
THE BRITISH DROP
BOMBS ON ANTWERP

Amsterdam, Jan. 1.-THE "Tele-
graf" in ITS issue to-day, says IL has
learned that British aviators last Mon
day dropped bombs on the German
positions az Antwerp. The damage in
ficted mas not been leaned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-15
Lionel Mackinder Killed.

lBy Wireless 20 TIE Tribune via Lols5lrg y J
London, Jan. II. News was received
in London tonight that Lionel Mackin-
der. a favorite comedian with London
audiences, had been killed at the front.
He appeared with success IN many
plays at the Gaiety Theatre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Fatal Accident

We learned yesterday of the death
near Alexandria, of young man
named Plymot from the careless
handling of firearms. The deceased,
in company with another man, had
been out hunting and was returning
home, the two carrying deer with
them. When within about a half a
mile from Alexandria, they stopped
to shift their load from one shoulder
to the other, and in doing so young
Plymot set the butt of his gun on the
ground in front of him, the muzzel
leaning against his breast. While en-
gagged in removing his burden the gun
was accidentally discharged. The ball
passed up through his neck and went
out at the top of his head, killing him
instantly. The deceased was a bro
Their of Mr.. J. Plymot, who used to
drive a stage between Sank Centre
and Alexandria.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

that in the course of year birds des-
troy an incalcuable number of insects,
and it is difficult to overestimate the
value of their services in restraining
the great tide of insect life.
In winter, in the northern part of
the country, insects become scarce or
entirely disappear. Many species of
birds, however, remain during the
cold season and are able to maintain
life by eating vegetable food, as the
seeds of weeds. Here again is another
usual function of birds in destroying
these weed seeds and thereby lessen
ing the growth next year.
The new publication discusses the
food habits of more than so birds be-
longing to IL families. Many are
eastern forms which are represented
in the West by slightly different spe-
cies or sub-species but unless the food
habits differ they are not separately
described. Among the popular birds
included are the Robin, blue-bird,
wren, brown thrasher, catbird, bobo-
link, oriole, crow, cuckoo, and the
American sparrow.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Personal

There is joy in the house of Oak
ford. 1t is boy.
Mr.. Trumbull, general Agent of the
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co.,
is in town attending to insurance bus
mess.
D. M. G. Murphy, of the firm of
Murphy & Co., wholesale grocers, St.
Cloud, was in town this week. The
business of the firm is constantly
increasing all through Sank Valley.
Merchants will find it to their inter-
est to deal with them.
L. M. Loss, w. C. Vaughn, H. B.
Brainard of N. Y, and D. H. Plat of
Chicago, who have a contract for
grading on the N. P. R. R. between
Ottertail and the Red River, returned
on Tuesday from trip up country
where they have been viewing their
field of operations. They will COM
mence work early in the spring. Mes
srs. Wright and Parker furnished
their travelling conveyance and they
expressed themselves as highly pleas
ed with the trip.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Free Dance

Alex Moore will throw his large and
spacious brick block open for Free
Dance on Friday evening, December
End, and invites all his friends (and
enemies if he has any to make them
selves conspicuous on this occasion,
and "trip the light fantastic" to music
by the band. This is intended to be
the dance of the season, in which all
irrespective of politics or religion, are
invited to participate. There will be
more room, more music, more fun,
more dances and more dancers on this
occasion than there has been since
Moore started the town dozen years
ago. The rooms are large enough to
hold all that may come, and still be
be room for Mo(o)re. Turn out, We
dancists, one and all, and prove by
your presence that you appreciate
Alexis enterprise and the liberal spir-
it evinced by throwing open his new
building to the public before occupy
ing it himself.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

derful standby is one of the best sell
lers, together with gabardine. Cheviot
is the novelty, and a very practical
one, Checks in black and white are
shown in a variety of materials, also
dark blue and white. A very fine in
visible check is considered very smart
it comes in many smooth fabrics, like
prunella and novelty chiffon broad
cloths or lady's cloth.
Of the heavier cotton fabrics, cot
ton garbardine stands among the first
sellers. This fabric has a high lustre
and is very effective. Materials with
a corded effect are used almost more
than anything else for dresses of eth
er heavy or sheer weight. The lighter
weight was first introduced by French
and English manufacturers is called
"filete." And, hence, any fabri. with
corded weave such as wolfe or crepe
are said to have filete finish. Wolfe
is the most fashionahl. of the cotton
fabrics, because of its softness and its
durability. Dottel Swiss and mar
quisette are two other materials
which rank very close in popularity to
wolfe. Net in black over white or taft
feta as we'll as white a I'D colored nets
are very smart for elaborate frocks.
Pink and blue nets make delightful
evening frocks and are trimmed with
jet.
The styles of the summer dresses
make it certainty that embroidery
and lace flouncing will be used a
great deal in their development. The
embroidery founcings have a back
ground of wolfe and crepe as well as
very sheer lawn and batiste. Organdy
too, is embroidered and makes a
light and airy flouncing for summer
dresses.
The Belgian lace centers are pro-
ducing no lace and the French very
little, so most of the imported lace
comes from Plauen or st. Gall. Chan
lilly, Spanish and Lire lace are among
the more expensive ones, while sha-
dow lace may be had in a wide variety
of designs and prices, and its light
and delicate designs make exquisite
frocks for evening wear.
Belts and girdles are forming an
important feature on the gowns Of to-
day. Some are plain, and of the fab
ric of the dress it is worn with, others
are of contrasting material and en-
broidered richly. Some of the girdles
are extended in to what seems like
peasants basques, or wide girdles,
lacing up the back or front and point
ed or rounding, made of contrasting
silk or of velvet.
Ribbons, especially of velvet, are
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Doings on the Northern Pacific

A gentleman who returned last
week from a trip up country, to the
line of the Northern Pacific, handed
us the following: "Some of your num-
erous readers will probably be inter-
ested in what is doing at Brainerd, a
new town on the Northern Pacific
railroad, at the Mississippi crossing.
September last the place now occu-
pied by the town was a complete wild
erness. 1t now contains one saw mill
cutting fifteen thousand feet of lum-
Der per day, two hotels and another
building by the town proprietors, four
stores doing a good business and
about thirty or thirty-fve dwellings,
and all of them full of boarders at
from seven to ten dollars apiece. Ev-
erything is alive. From this point of
the road grading is in progress both
to the east and west, and the cars are
to be running in the spring"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Osakis Mill

The first of this week several loads
of machinery for the steam Touring
mill at Osakis, belonging to our en-
terprising friend, Don Stevenson, was
taken through this city for that place.
The mill is for two run of stone, and
will be put in operation in a few
weeks, which will be a great accomo-
dation to the wheat growers of that
section of the country, and canot but
prove lucrative for our friend Steven
son, the enterprising proprietor, of
Osakis. H. D. Seeley the manufacture
er's agent for the Northwest, will SUI
perintend the putting up of this mill.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

having a strong vogue, as they seem
to belong to the crinoline period from
which so many spring dresses are de-
signed.
The hats of the year continue to
be mostly small, although few large
ones are to be seen, and very smart
they are, too. This vogue for small
hats has made the wells extremely
popular, and they are shown in num-
erous styles. The wide floating veil
which comes almost, if not quite, to
the shoulders is very becoming and
popular. These are in different mesh
es, plain and dotted and usually have
either a bias fold on the edge or a
narrow piece Of ribbon stitched on.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
BIRDS DESTROY INSECTS

How birds which destroy harmful
insects and weed seeds may be useful
to the farmer is described in a new
Farmers Bulletin (No. 63O) of the
department entitled, "Some Common
Birds Useful to the Farmer" The new
publication has 81 pages and % illus
trations (not colored) of the birds
described. 1t contains much of the in
formation included in one of the de-
partment's former publications EMIT
led, Fifty Common Birds of Farm
and Orchard" The departments sup
ply of this latter pamphlet has been
exhausted and it can now only be OBJ
tanned from the Superintendent of
Documents, Washington, D. c., where
it is sold at Is cents copy. 1t con-
tains numerous colored illustrations
of the birds mentioned. The new bull
letin, "Some Common Birds Useful to
the Farmer" will be furnished free to
all applicants by the department.
Whether a bird is beneficial or in
furious depends almost entirely on
what it eats, says the introduction to
the new bulletin. In the case of spec
les which are very abundant, or which
feed to some extent on the crops of
the farmer, the question of their av-
erage diet becomes one of the SUI
preme Importance, and only by stom-
ach examination can it be satisfac-
torily solved. Field observations are
at best but fragmentary and incon-
elusive and lead to no final results.
Birds are often accused of eating this
or that product of cultivation, when
an examination of the stomach shows
the accusation to be unfounded. Ac-
cordingly, the Biological Survey has
conducted for some years past sys-
tematic investigation of the food of
those species which are most common
about the farm and garden.
Within certain limits birds eat the
kind of food that is most accessible, es-
pecially when their natural food is
scarce or wanting. Thus they some
times injure the crops of the farmers
who have unintentionally destroyed
their natural food in his Improvement
of a swamp or pasture. Most of the
damage done by birds and complained
of by farmers and fruit growers aris-
es from this very cause. The berry,
bearing shrubs and seed bearing
weeds have been cleared away, and
the birds have no recourse but to at
tack the cultivated grain or fruit
which have replaced their natural
supply. The great majority of land
birds subsist upon insects during the
period of nesting and moulting, and
also feed their young upon them dur
ing the first few weeks. Many species
live almost entirely upon insects, TAX
ing vegetable food only when other
subsistence fails. It is thus evident
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Literary Club

We are requested to give notice
that meeting will be held at Minor
& Barto's office on Saturday evening
next, for the purpose or organizing a
club and devising ways and means for
winter amusements. All who feel an
interest in the Inauguration of ser
les of exercises that will relieve the
monotony of the winter months, and
promote a healthy state of mind in
the community are requested to be
present. The ladies are especially in
vited to be present and assist in the
organization.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

being paid for wheat and arrange
ments will soon be made so that
farmers can always receive cash for
wheat. Mr.. A. Moore thus far has
been the heaviest buyer, and has now
in his warehouse here and at his mill,
between sixteen and seventeen thous-
and bushels of wheat and oats, and
three thousand bushels of potatoes
besides a large quantity of beans and
other farm produce. His receipts of
wheat average about three hundred
bushels daily.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25
Lumber Contracts

A Moore has been contracting for
logs to be delivered at his mill at the
head of the lake during the coming
winter. On Monday last he bought
100000 feet from one man, and con-
tracted with ]. Collins to haul logs to
the mill, distance of twelve miles.
The lumber will be brought down to
town in the spring in RATS on the
lake.