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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
HAS OPENED ALLIGATOR
FARM AT AVON PARK

Inc latest new industry in Avon
Park is the alligator farm and
Harry Cutler, thepromoter of the
new industry, is enthusiastic over
its prospects. The farm was started
last week with sixteen young
gators, to which the proprietor ex-
poets to add new supplies just as
fast as he can make room for them
Mr.. Cutler says that the future Of
the project is limited only by the
ampuntof energy and money in
vested. He said that while, like all
wild animals, the alligator is getting
scare, the demand for his hide is
ever on the increase and herein lies
i the future of great industry"
Harry says he will construct a series
of ponds on his land in the south
east end of the Park These ponds
Will be arranged with a view to the
habits of the gator in his native
haunts. No expense will be spared
In the effort to make the surround
1ngs as nearly like the weedy banks
in which this creature likes to live
as possible The promoter does not
expect immediate profits. He thinks
several years will be required to
fully develop the project. He says
that he has thoroughly studied the
subJect-in fact, several years ago,
on his first trip to Florida, he cap
tured two alligators which he took
back to Massachusetts,, where they
have been the subjects of observa-
tion and experiment ever since. Mr..
Cutler thinks that he has started an
industry that will constantly develop
in Importance and expects in a few
years to be ready to supply the
opening stock of gators to the many
firms that will soon be entering this
new industry. Hedeclares hat this
business will soon be as important
to Florida as citrus fruit, because
1t is the first step toward MAKING
Florida manufacturing state. The
present tendency is toward manu-
featuring as near the raw product as
possible and in time we will not ONLY
raise the gators, but also make tho
handbags and pocketbooks. Zolfo
SPRINGS Truth.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
Former Miami Man Killed
In Battle In France

have driven the Turks out of Con-
stantinople.
Fornel has seen several engage
ments in the northwestern part of
France. has aw life and several chill
dren residing in Miami, who are
awaiting the end of the war to well
come their husband and father on
his return. The last information re-
seived from him was that he had
been sent from the front, because
OF injuries, and would be perma-
nently located at an interior sta
Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18

st. Petersburg, Sept. lS-Work OF
preparation for the Adventist camp
meeting to open in this city Sep
TENDER 80 began yesterday when Dr.
A. L. Gregory, superintendent of the
grounds, arrived with his assistants
and a supply of tents to house the
workers while they are engaged in
laying out the camp and otherwise
preparing it for the meeting.
The ministers in a conference are
generally the workers who prepare
camp for this reason. During the
summer season these men and their
assistants are engaged in what they
call tent work. that is they go in
to cities and towns where there is
no Adventist church and hold
series of meetin2s in a tent, the
meetings continuing for several
weeks and generally ending with the
establishment of new company Of
believers. This experience pitching
tents and maintaining ten meetings
make all connected with it experts
in their line, so they are always
chosen to get the camp ready for the
annual gathering.
Probably all the workers will be
on the ground, including Bishop W.
Fl. Hickman, the president of thc
Florida conference. who, of course,
will oversee the whole. This gentle
man has had years of experience in
every detail connected with camp
and this will insure model meet
ing if the weather and other things
all prove favorable Possibly the
real work of erecting tents may not
begin before next week. but when !
tn surveying is completed and
guides all set the work goes fast.
Many tents have already been en-
gagged and many rooms in adjacent
homes have been ordered by a2ed
people and feeble persons who do not
feel able to stand the exposure in
tents
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18

News reached Miami yesterday In
letters from Mrs. NJ. Bernigaud ana
her daughter, Miss Louise Berni.
gaud, concerning the death of their
son and brother, Philip Bernigaud
a former resident of Miami. The
letters were written from France
where the young man was killed
while courageously fighting for his
native land, to Mrs. Albert Sergent,
of this city.
| Philip Bernigaud and his brother
Henry, will be remembered by many
Miamians, as they worked in this
city for long time, the former at
the E. Il. Brady grocery store and
the latter for the Miami Water Com
pany.
I'm her letter Mrs. Bernigaud says:
Philip, the poor boy, died the
/ 18th of June. He was hit in the
head by bullet while in a trench
taken from the Germans on the
18th. after bayonet charge where
he did not get a scratch. | did not
receive the notice from the govern
ment until the 18th of August, so
that YOU can imagine our sorrow.
Henry was all right on the 18th
of August but since! A bullet,
shell quickly arrived to deprive US
of sons and husbands. What a life
we have been leading for the past
year. Always thinking that our
loved ones may be dead, or wounded
or made prisoners. 1t is a terrible
thing, this war,
Philip had many friends in Mia
gmi. and wish they could know of
his death. But | haven't their adj
dresses. The sons of Mr.. Butler and
Mr.. Graham were great friends of
his.
The daughters letter reiterates the
statements made by the mother. but
asks that The Herald be requested 20
'.nhlish the following notice:
I'VE beg to announce the death.
on the field of honor, in France. of
Philip Berniguad, killed by bullet
in the head, in trench, near
Ards.
hope that this horrible war
Will soon be finished, and also that
it will bring back to us our brother
Henry. 1t is year ago the 21st
of August past, that they left for the
front, she concludes.
Others who left Miami last year
and are now at the front, include
Leon Dermigny and Leon Forncl.
Dermieny is now an Interpreter
for the East Indian troops, in the
campaign of the allies against Tur-
key, and is now stationed near Gal
lipOli The last news received from
him, which was about four months
ago, was to the effect that he was
in good health. He declared the al
lies would not turn back upntil they
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
SENATOR HUDSON REACHES
ORLANDO ON STATE TOUR

State Senator Fred NJ Hudson, ac-
companied by Mrs. Hudson and their
two younger children, James and
Mary Warren, arrived in Orlando
last evening from kissimmee and
stopped over nieht at the home of
Mr.. H. G.. Mcdaniel, kinsman Of
the senator's, whom he had never
met before.
Senator Hudson spent the greater
part of the forenoon in meeting the
people of Orlando, being piloted
about by Messrs. S.. s. Griffin and
Carl Damn, and later to attend the
picnic at Pine Castle in company
with Mrs. Griffin. Mr.. Hudson ac-
companied the senator. They expect,
to leave this afternoon TO continue
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
FOOD FOR ALL THE w,

This year promises tia !,
wheat yield ever raised in i
Last year, because of the T.,
war it was taken for gran,
the wheat crop would be sb,.
Jacksonville Metropolis. Conn
upon this, says:
And it probably is owipg :.
very belief that the result has
otherwise. Every nation =,
larger acreage and took mo,.
with it. And so. to evervhod,
prise, there is promised tho :.
wheat crop ever raised in ii.
According to London as,,
only one country, France i,
wheat than it had last ye ;
even that is not real fall;n,
large section of French wbs,.
is in Germans possession.
not credited to France. Tv.
tries, Argentine and Austr.
expected to equal last wears
ton. All the rest surpass i
the United States and Rus.
greatest wheat producers i
gains respectively of about !
600 and 100000 bnshe,.
last year.
The worlds total whea, i
estim"ted at 51S.5CO, 600 nuqr
quarter is eight bushels +,
456. 100000 in 1914. That
sents a gain for the world Of
500, 100000 bushels. Their
enough for everybody to eat
properly distributed.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18

the best suited to bp;,,
plant on and the cheapes5 W =.
whole expense is considers -
You can instruct your :.
sioners to buy the new si,. "
the old site now or at -
or to accept the proposltias
have for an exchange =,
properties or any other :. y
you may deem best, but W.
tatingly say that after invo..>.
we believe it will pay Won -
the new site.
BOARD OF BOND TRr-c,,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18

Every year the farce of ms--
the roads is gone through !,
sections of the country. Ng,.
the roads is usually done h
who have no more idea Of r.
make a good road than they n.
fyin? to the moon. 1t general
sists of blowing or scraping Ii.
until there is a high ridge Of
in the center, which ridge =
far too steep grade to the rOa.
is converted into mud with Ii.
rain. Far more money has
:Dent in making the roads wot
the so-called "mending" than ,
have sufflced by the use of :
methods in giving the whole 70.
really 7ood roads that coul:
travelled with comfort at all 81
OF the year.-Gainesville Sun.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18

TO the Taxpayers of Lakeland:
| BEFORE YOU vote on location of the
new light and water plant it is due
YOU that the board of bond trustees
should give you at least some of the
reasons why the engineers advised Il
change iii the site.
No Room for Reservoir
A plant the size of the new plot
to be built should have reservoir
of about a half million gallons ca
pacity with room to increase this to
as much as two millions gallons as
the town grows. There is no room
for this reservoir at the old site
without buying more ground that
would cost as much or more than
the price of a new site.
Old Building Could Not Be Used
The old building could not be used
at all for the new plant; it is not
fire-proof as required by the insur-
ance companies, the foundations are
insufficient for a fire proof concrete
roof, the walls are badly cracked
and settled by the vibrations of the
engine, the entire building includ-
ing foundations would have to be re-
moved and new building with
deeper and broader foundations
built, the concrete floor would have
to be torn out and new foundation
made for the large engine and dyna-
mo that is now in use. This founda-
tion is large enough but it did not
extend down to the clay which is
quite good ways down at this point
and the foundation has gradually
worked loose until there is consid
cradle vibration, the old boilers are
not economical and would not be
used and would be very much in the
way if they We're not removed be
fore the new boilers were put in, the
economic arrangement OF the new
plant would he entirely different
from the old one and but few pieces
of the machinery could remain as
they are.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
Plant on Present Site Would Cost
More

To build the new plant and install
tho machinery and at the same time
operate the old plant, the engineers
estimate would cost somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and 5000 more than
it would to do the work on a site
free from these conditions. Tho
most vital objection to the old site
is the lift of the immense amount of
cooling water from the lake that will
be necessary to operate the condens-
ing engines and will Offset in a large
degree the economical gains made by
the use of these engines. This lift ic
81 feet as against about feet at
a new site making a difference of
abort II feet, which will run into
money very rapidly when the volume
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
BOND Trustees Give Facts
Regarding L. 8 w. Site

of cooling water that will be used Is
taken into consideration There are
several other minor objections to the
old site that are not of great or vital
importance, probably the most i'm
portant is the high cost Of the air
lift of the water put into the reser-
yoir which would take about II feet
more of this expensive lift at the old
site than 1t would take at a new
site.
No one now doubts that the light
plant now has strong and success
full competitor in the privately
owned gas plant if the price of cleo
trio lights can not be materially re-
duced in cost of production and a
corresponding reduction of the price
of electric lights to the consumer. IT
is therefore important that you place
in the hands of your bond trustees
every means by which they can build
you the most economical light and
water plant that can be made with
the money you have placed in their
hands and help them in every way
that you possibly can to make your
plant the successful competitor Of
the as plant.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-18
Proposed Site the Chearest

We have taken into consideration
six different new sites for your pls ut
and have found the one offered by
Clayton and Deem the most avail
able and cheapest when location and
foundation conditions are taken in+o
consideration This site is almo st
ideal as to railway trackage and
foundation conditions of soil. Tho
west portion where house and ma
chimes would be put is clay and the
east rcrt where reservoir woulr be
put is sand down to about bottom o:
reservoir. 1t Is also close in so that
the minimum amount of big pipe
would be used to connect with the
mains and is the right level in re-
spect to the cooling water from the
lake.
The four sites we examined fur
Their east all have poor foundation
conditions which would more than
take UP in the extra cost Of founda-
tions of building and machines the
difference in the cost of the land.
The site offered to be given by Dr.
Adair would necessitate the throw
ing away of the well we now have,
the moving of the tank and tower,
the laying of 200 to 500 feet ex-
ira of the 12-inch water main. the
building of long railroad spur and
about 20 feet more air lift on the
water than at the Clayton & Deem
site. making this site although free.
probably the most expensive one Of
the whole six.
So your bond trustees recommend
to YOU the Clayton & Deem site as
Evening star., 1915-01-03
Ventilation.
om the New Britain Herald.

From the New Britain Herald.
The state board of health is endeav-
oring to impress upon the people the
Importance of fresh air, pure food and
ventilation of steam and trolley cars.
Just how the latter Is to be accom-
plished Is not explained and the board
frankly admits that no satisfactory
system has yet been devised for venti-
lation Of cars, but thinks that more ex-
tensive use of the ventilators would
produce good results.
There does not appear to be any
reason why ventilators cannot be used
to remove foul air from car and the
same system operated in, perhaps, a
little different way would permit of a
more thorough and satisfactory ventil-
alton. A smoking car on steam train
is an abomination to all except those
who smoke. The car is often filled
with smoke SO as to prevent view
from one end to the other. The air Is
suffocating and with the smoke added
the place becomes a most distressing
one for ordinary people.
AS there is nothing to prevent es-
tablishing the conditions desired by
the state board of health except a
system Of ventilation 1t would seem
as If the inventive genius of Connecti-
cut would quickly respond to the de-
mands of the hour. Ventilation has
been provided in all kinds of buildings
and it would appear as II it is only a
step from that to ventilating q rail-
road car, especially as health requires
it.
Evening star., 1915-01-03
Alaska aud Finland.
rom the New York Post.


Once American unfamiliarity with
Finland would have impaired the force
of Gov. Strongs comparison Of Alaska
with that country, and of the oonolu-
sion in his annual report that every
thing done in Finland in population,
wealth, material development
Is possible in Alaska on q much larger
scale. The prominence Finland has
gained from political troubles and the
war should now give the comparison
point. With a climate very like that
of Alaska, and with one-fourth Alas
ka's area, Finland supports 2,75o,000
people; she has over 100000 head of
live stock: she produces annually
some 100000 tons Of grains and
legumes. This development is in part
a result of good roads, Of which she
has nearly 10000 miles, and of her
railways, aggregating nearly $500
miles. 1t Is also partly traceable,
though Gov. Strong does not mention
this, to 4 huge canal system impossible
fact that Helsingfors and the central
part of lower Finland are less than
300 miles by rail from st. Petersburg.
On the other hand, mineral and fishing
opportunities in Alaska and the area
of available farming land are much
greater. The new government rail-
way and the wagon roads building in
Yukon and British Columbia should
also diminish one severe handicap as
compared with the older country. One
fact in support of Gov. Strongs COM
parison is the statement that Alaska
now has nearly $4,000 reindeer.
Evening star., 1915-01-03
Newman Traveltalks January II.

Beginning January II, on successive
Sunday evenings and Monday after
Moons, f. NJ. Newman, traveller and
lecturer, will deliver his new series of
traveltalks. Mr.. Newmans new sub
jects are to be as follows: France and
the War;" Berlin The War Capt
tails" THE Holy Land and Egypt.
Neither time, effort nor cost seem TO
be considered by Mr.. Newman to OBJ
tain views and motion pictures IN
which he believes his audiences to be
especially interested. Last summer, he
chartered the dahabeah Seti for his
trip up the Nile, SO as to be enabled
to stop at out-of-the way places seldom
visited by tourists. In the Holy Land
he organized his own caravan for the
journey across the Arabian desert to
Mount Sinai, and had a private car on
the Mecca railway. The great war in
Europe and the natural interest of
Americans in what is transpiring on
the battlefields caused Mr.. Newman to
arrange with his assistant to remain
abroad during the entire winter, SO
that the traveltalks may be kept con-
stantly up-to-date by realistic motion
pictures of the latest developments In
the struggle which he is sending back
each week.
Evening star., 1915-01-03
Peck Traveltalks Tonight.

Arthur K. Peck of Boston at the Be-
tasco Theater tonight opens his course
on European countries in the war zone
and neutral border countries. a series
of travel talks illustrated by col
lection of views in color Of photo
graphic and artistic merit and by NOV
ing pictures.
His first subject is Germany, Ber-
lin and the Rhine Country" Next
week he will turn to the country of
one of the allies, France: the following
week to neutral Holland, the kindly
host of war-stricken Belgium; then
England and Italy, and. finally, to an
American subject for the concluding
lecture, describing the work of peace
heroes, the United States life-saving
service.
Tonight. in the German travel talk,
will be shown Berlin, with its palaces
and imperial monuments: Dresden and
its art treasures. quaint old Nurem-
berg, historic .Strassburg, in A1sace:
Heidelberg, Cologne and the Rhine
country. Germany in the field will be
shown by views from the battle front,
including the modern engines Of war,
the Zeppelins, "the Jack Johnsons."
BLACK Marias' and Busy Berthas,'
siege guns, armored auto cars, army
life in the sp1inter-proof trenches,
troops shooting at air scouts, scenes
Of desolatien and waste after a bonn
bardnent, and other interesting things.
Evening star., 1915-01-03

Mrs. Mfgnon Ulke Lamasure will in :
augnrate her second series Of opera
lectures, with piano recitals, at the
Comstock studio, 1910 New York
avenue, tomorrow afternoon. Mt 4:45
o'clock. with Richard Wagner's sacred
festival drama, "Parsifal," considered
by many the musical masterpiece of
the world. for her topic. The operas
to follow are Debussy's "Pelleas ct
Suzanne and "LAmore Medico," by
Wolf-Ferrari, February /; "Eugen
Onegin," by Tschaikowsky, February
IS. and 'Mons," by Horatio Parker,
March /. Mrs. Lamasure brings out
the spiritual as we'll as the artistic
bueaties Of her subjects, Intervening
the story and music and defining the
themes.
Evening star., 1915-01-03
Jewish Relief Benefit Tonight.

The joint relief committee of Jewish
Organizations, representing thirty Jew
tsh societies and congregations Of the
District of Columbia, are directing an
entertainment and concert to be given
at Polls Theater- tonight for the bene-
fit of the sufferers in the European
countries and Palestine. Joseph L.
Topper u president Of the joint relief
committee. under, whose auspices the
entertainment is given. and Mr.. Daniel
Schiller is chairman and director of
the entertainment. The general COM
nafttee includes Simon Wolf. Rev. DR..
Abram Simon, Alexander Wolf and
Julius I. Peyser. The program is as
follows:
Overture, Prof Sol Minister and
orchestra; D. Gold and Miss N. Small
wood. American Maxixe" and 'Swade" :;
Miss Rose Krick and Maurice Shelter
man. duets from comic opera; Maurice
F. Lyons. cello solos, "Berceuse," by
GODDARD; Petite Valse," by Holman,
and "Traumerei," by Schumann, Miss
Florence Reynolds at the piano; Maur-
ice Yockelson, THE Artists Studio
Musical Club; the Collegiate Club in
'An Incident from Les Miserables,'
by Victor Hugo, presented by Miss
Anna Sandlberg, Miss Ruth Schwartz.
Edward Schwartz, Jacob Friedman and
Sol Glueck, produced under direction
OF Messrs. Brez and Glueck, assisted
by NJ. L. Kahn; vocal solo, DIR. L.
Glusahak; Master Milford Brctman.
Carnival of Venice and Variations"
Prof. Green. operate selections; show
eciat. interlocutor, Daniel Schiller;
chorus. Misses Dora Weinberg, Eliza :
beth Root, Lena Wolf, Cecilia Wolf,
MinIie HershowitZ. Jennie Weger,
Belle Tarshes, Ella Hershowitz, Jennie
Favelson, Cecilia Shefferman, Rose
Rrick. Rose Wolf and Lillian Cold
stein. Maurice Bernstein. Milford II.
Schiiicr, A. Shefferman, Maurice Shelf
erinan, Melvin Naiman, Dave Gold
Louis Luber, Leon A. Weinberg, Michael
Harris, Joseph Levinsohn, Louis Rosen-
ieid and Jack Small. The soloists will
be Percy Silverberg, Maurice Bern
stein. Myron Oppenheimer. Maurice
Shenerman. Abe Marcus, Misses Rose
hriek and Lillian Goldstein, Percy
Evening star., 1915-01-03
New York Symphony January IL.

The program for the concert Of the
symphony Society Of New York at the
Columbia Theater Tuesday afternoon,
January IL. at 4:5o o'clock, is excep-
tional, not only in the character of the
selections for the orchestra itself. but
for the opportunities it will afford
Maggie Teyte, one of the youngest and
greatest of prima donna sopranos
Starting with the Tschaikowsky Sym
phony. No. 4. with its four big move
ments. it will include the following
numbers In the order given:
Air from Magic Flute" Mozart, Miss
Maggie Teyte: Les Chasseresses.'
"Valse Lente," and "Pizzicati," from
Sylvia" Delibes: Rose Cherie,'
Gretry, and lie NIL" Leroux, Miss
Maggie Teyte; British folk songs and
dances, Granger; Molly on the Shore u
Irish Song and shepherds Hey"
Evening star., 1915-01-03
Boston Symphony Tuesday.

Fritz Kreisler, the great Austrian
violintst, will make his first appear
ance of the season in Washington at
the Boston Symphony concert in the
New National Theater Tuesday after
noon at 4:3O o'clock. Kreisler reached
America the end of November after
having been discharged from the Aus
trian army on account of physical dis
abilities. for he was wounded in the
fighting around Lemberg last Septem-
Der. Fortunately, 1t is said, neither the
injuries nor his military service have
had any effect on the technical side of
his art. IIe will play the Scotch Fan
tasia Of Max Bruch.
DR.. Muck has made a program which
clings closely to classical tradition.
The symphony will be Beethoven's
Eighth, in F Major, and the other num-
bers, Schumann's Overture to "Geno-
veva" and Brahms Variations on the
Chorale OF st. Anthony, by Josef
Haydn.