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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
GIANT SEAPLANE
GIVEN TEST
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Aug. 30.-A giant
sea-plane, with a sixty-foot wing
spread, dead load capacity of 1000
pounds, with two gasoline motors,
rated at 100 horsepower, was given
a preliminary try-out today in a
fight over the Potomac.
The craft was designed by naval
constructors and was built at the
Washington navy yard.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
To Remobilize Greek Army.

London, Aug. 30.-A rehabilitation
of the Greek army is under considera-
ton at Athens, a Reuters dispatch
says. The entry of Rumania into the
war it is said has created a profound
impression in Greece and the question
of a ministerial reorganization, pro-
viding inclusion in the cabinet of
former Premier Venizelous, has
arisen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
Austrian Major Cen. Removed.

Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 3d.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg ac-
cording to dispatch here today re-
Gently removed the Austrian Major
General Puhallov from command of
the army corps defending the Kovel
section of Volhynian front, and gave
the command to General Friedrich
Won Bernhard the latter one of the
best known military writer's.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
REAR ADMIRAL
BENSON PROMOTED
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Aug. 30.-Rear Adj
miral William S. Benson, chief of ma
val operations, was promoted today
to the rank of admiral in accordance
with the provisions Of the naval bill
recently passed by congress.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
TEXAS PACIFIC IS
Refusing LIVE STOCK

New Orleans, Aug. 30.-The Texas
and Pacific railway today issued or
ders placing an embargo on ship
ments of live stock and perishable
freight from all points on its system
which will not reach destination by
September 8. Notice also was given
that after today all passenger and
freight traffic viii be subject to de-
lay.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Aug. 30.-Former off
GERS, directors and counsel of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road were made defendants today in
liability and restitution suit for
more than $4,000 fled in the UrL
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
AN EMBARGO ON ALL
CLASSES OF FREIGHT

Cincinnati, Aug. 3o.-The Cincin-
natl, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
railroad has issued a notice stating
that in view of the critical state of
conditions respecting labor, it prob
ably would be necessary within the
next twenty-four or forty-eight hours
to issue an embargo against the &C.
ceptance of all classes of freight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
FORMER r. r. OFFICERS
DEFENDANTS IN SUIT

ted States district court by five Mas
sachusetts stockholders.
The suit is based on evidence taken
at the recent trial Of William Rookie
teller and other former directors of
the road for criminal conspiracy IN
der the Sherman antitrust law.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Columbia, 5. G., Aug. 30.-That
Cole L. Blease, former governor Of
South Carolina, and defeated candi-
date for United States senator u
1914, will run in a second primary
for the democratic gubernatorial
nomination with Governor Richard 7
Manning, is indicated by return:
from yesterdays statewide primar,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31
VIII Mean a Tie-up of All
Trains, Both Passenger
and Freight.
L. & N. SHOPS WILL
ALSO BE CLOSED
Unless Order Is Rescinded,
Not a Train Will Leave
Pensacola Monday.

Unless orders already is
sued are r1scinded, (Which
will only be done in case the
national committee repre-
senting the railroad EN-
ployees and the representa-
tives of the railroads come to
an agreement), Pensacola
will be in the thToes of q
railroad strike next Monday.
Not a train, passenger or
freight. will leave the city.
The Louisville & Nash
vile shops will also be clos
ed. Although the men work.
ing in the shops are not
affiliated with any of the or
CARNATIONS involved, there
will be no work for them to
do when the trains stop
running.
Something like two hun
dred men, belonging to four
labor organizations, besides
the men working in the
shops, will be out of employ
ment until the strike is
ended.
Pensacola will be minus a
payroll of from fifteen to
twenty thousand dollars per
month, or a proportionate
amount for every day that
the men refuse to work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31

These are only few Of the results
to follow the order issued to local
members of Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen and Fnginemen,
the Order of Railway Conductors and
the Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men.
The local order, which becomes eff
fective at o'clock on the morning
of September 4, the day set for the
"walk-out" all over the country, il
dated August IA, but was not is
sued to members of the various or
CARNATIONS until yesterday after
noon. The general order, signed by
A. R. Dye, general chairman, was is
sued locally to the various organiza-
cations involved, reads as follows:
August IA, 1915.
To all Local Chairnen, Members, and
others employed in classes of SER
vice represented by the B. Of L.
E., B. Of L. F. & E., o. r. C. and
B. R. 7.
Sirs and Brothers:
This is to advise that the vote Of
the employees in train and engine
service on the eight-hour day and
time and one-half time for overtime
Continued on Pare T'wo-1
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-31

Scattered showers and thunderstorms
Thursday and probably Friday. Increas-
ing east winds on the south coast
Yesterdays temperatures: Highest, So
degrees: lowest, a degrees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
SWARM OF MENDICANTs

From the New York Telegram
 If the Society for the Suppression or Mendicancy is still in existence 1t should be heard from in regard to the increase of beggars on the already sorely con gested streets. A
 There is no lack of sympathy for the afflicted, but it is not forgotten that the begging privilege in charitable New York is a lucrative one and investigation has shown that it is trade; protected in dustry.
 One peculiar thing noticeable is the number of mendicants exhibiting powder stained faces and gruesomely made up stumps of arms or legs, while many oth- CTS are blind. Most of the blind men are new here and not the ones who have been seen on the streets for 15 years or more.
 Their placards say nothing about tho wearers having been soldiers, but the powder marks and stumps suggest war and fiji in so with the horrors reported from Europe that the effect on pitying pedestrians is obvious.
 It occurs this should be stopped be- fore the streets become absolutely inn passable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
BIRMINGHAM's PLIGHT

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Birmingham is in this sort of a pickle: It wanted to raise its tax rate, but the voters of the state wouldn't give it the right to do it. Then it wanted to pay interest on some old bonds and voted the money to pay the interest, but one of its citizens got out an injunction against the use of the taxpayers money for such ignoble purposes. Now Birningham's S commissioners propose an extraordinary street tax, and a lawyer is seeking re- straining order to prevent the city from collecting the tax Meantime, Birmng- ham is hard up for money. If we ever have another constitutional convention in Alabama, Birmingham vii get relief but meantime what to do is perplexing the best minds in the fast growing city, which lies adjacent to Flat Top and up against Red mountain.
 The popular mind in Alabama took a queer turn a few months ago when it refused to amend the state constitu- ton so as to enable Birmingham to raise
 it's tax rate at will. The amendment could not have affected any county out side of Jefferson. but old Vox Pop. spake from valley and hill against the infer nal outrage. He didn't know what the outrage was. but he was against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
NORTH CARoLINA's WEALTH

From the Charlotte Observer
 Two cubic yards of soil and gravel taken from the earth near Albemarle in stanly county yielded gold nuggets of ap- proximately $1O000 value. One nugget weighed almost 10 pounds. Another mug get weighed nine pounds. This discovery was made a few years ago.
 According to State Geologist pr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, there are very valuable de- osits of gold in North Carolina. He says that while the annual production of gold in this state is now but $160,0o0 year, there is promise that the industry Will DC developed on a much larger scale during the next few years. When the real value of existing deposits are known to con servative business investors, the develop ment will follow Doctor Pratt has most interesting article on the mineral re- sources of the state in the Land and 1n- dustrial Edition of the Observer, which is now being prepared for the press. The article contains much information that IS not known to the people of North Caro- lima. It will perhaps surprise many to know that diamonds and other precious gems are found in the state. Practically all the minerals and metals known to science and some that are not found any where else in the world are found ln North Carolina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
LOOKING INTO THE TOMORROW

From the Richmond Times Dispatch
 In his book, What Is Coming?" H. G. Wells, one of the foremos. men now writing in English. pronounces the va rious dreamy, formal peace movements amateurish, and sets out his belief that there will be no world peace until the governments accept some superior power, some head force, established by them al! as sort of supreme court to which each surrenders some elements of it's sov- ereignty. Allowing for what may be called the novelists license which car res the idea closer to the ideal Mir. Wells plan is almost precisely that to which President Wilson announced this country would become a party
 Neither plagiarized the others thought neither addressed, in a large sense, the others public. Yet both reached the same conclusion because both, the nov elist and the statesman, thinking for different purposes. so to speak. have the vision that enabled them to see beyond the today and into the tomorrows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08

lis practically prohibited from owning his home, and city taxes have made it no longer profitable for the owners of rental property. There is no satisfaction in this condition for the renter. The rent he
 pays is based on the amount of taxes
 required of the property. The business
 man includes his taxes in fixing the price
 of the article he sells.
 "The result has been that many peo-
 pie have, with much inconvenience, moved
 outside the city boundary in order to escape taxation. The price of cleo tric lighting is practically the same as in the city, and the price of water is but little more than the city price ana street railway facilities are equally good.
 As result every person who removes from the city leaves behind a burden
 which must be assumed by those who re-
 main in the city" And the cause of this distressing blight?
 The Banner does not once mention it.
 For the Banner professes to favor pro- hioition, and its exposition of Nashville's
 ruinous plight was made not as an argu-
 ment against prohibition, but in urgence | of taxpayers organization to take steps to prevent the further increase of
 taxes and to promote the more economi- cal expenditure of the revenues. The Banner studiously avoids articulat- ing syllable of prohibition" but that
 will be the first word to shape itself on | the lips or in the mind of every unprej-
 udiced reader of this somber story at all familiar with the recent history of a once | thriving city whose most flourishing in-
 dustries now are those of the tax collec- tor and the bootlegger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
THE SOCIETY EDITOR

to describe intimately the behavior, the dress, the fine affairs. the thought, the conversation, sometimes the sordidness, of the worlds grandees.
 The business of society reporting thus has it's traditions, it's technique, it's great names, and its permanent achievements The society editor is limited mainly by her own limitations. The same remark nat urally applies to the magazine critic of society editors, who, incidentally. seems to take her own successful entry into the magazine field rather too seriously
 Her contempt for society reporting is akin to the proverbial literary dislike once expressed effectively by Stevenson for an daily journalism. The society edi- tor is the reporter. the observer. the lab- oratory worker. Her immediate func- tion is to feed real appetite for infor- nation about the pageants of the rich, who are ever the great. Her daily rou- tine does not include undertaking scandal mongering, character analysis. novel writ ing. playmaking, nor any of the higher" literary activities.
 But apart from her society columns she may and often does indulge in all of these activities. She may attain the excellence of an Edith Wharton or the sociological vision of an Elsie Clews Pasons. She has an unparalleled opportunity. She may be as stupid as a museum grind or as wise as Fabre or a Darwin. Her material is boundless. Her achievement is her own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08

but lost his fortune in the Grand & Ward failure; Hayes was always frugal and added to his fortune, while Gar field was only moderatelly well off; Harrison died worth $250,000, while Cleveland's fortune was large: Mckin- ley and Taft were not well off, while Roosevelt had substantial com petence; Wilson has royalties from his books and his second wife is a woman of wealth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
FORTUNES OF THE PRESIDENTS

From the New York Mail.
 Washington left an estate valued at more than ss0o,0o0; John Adams died moderately well off, leaving about $75.- 900, Jefferson died so poor that if Con, gross had not purchased his .-5rary at $o)OO0 he would have been a pauper; Madison was frugal and left about $150,000 Monroe died so poor that he was buried at the expense of his rela- lives; John Quincy Adams left about $55,000; Jackson died worth about ESQ., 900; Van Buren left some $400,000 It is said he did not draw his salary while in office. but at the expiration of his term of service drew the whole $100,- 900. Polk left an estate valued at $150. .000 Taylor had saved something from his pay while in, the army and died worth sl50ooo; Tyler married a lady of wealth; Fillmore was always frugal and added to his savIngs by mar rying a woman of wealth, and was worth about $a00,000 Pierce's estate was valued at s50.O00; Buchanan left $2O0,000; Lincoln about $75.000, and Johnson s50.Ooo; Grant was wealthy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
"A BLIGHTED CITY"

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 A sour 1000 pieces of real estate now 4 figure in the delinquent tax list of z A Nashville
 The Courier-Journal the other day printed the news of the impending loss by Nashville of it's first class hotel through the operation of its prohibition system. The Nashville Banner recently published an editorial reporting "a crisis in the financial affairs of the city, and disclosing conditions which it described as "deplorable." bond issue of s1, ,Ooo, ,0oo has already been made to meet the de- ciency in the citys revenues and still further increases of taxes are threat ened
 Read this picture of the once prosper ous capital of Tennessee as drawn by the Banner.
 Nashville is staggering under a bonded indebtedness. Property is as- sessed out of all proportion to it's value in many instances, and the income from property is often exceeded by the levy of the taxgatherers.
 This year there is an increase pro- posed of $9,000,0o0 in the assessment of city property.
 There is much property in this city that simply cannot stand the contem- plated raise.
 There is no disputing the fact that property values in Nashville have de- preciated. Property recently sold at pub lie auction at a figure far less than the assessed valuation.
 The oppressive tax rate has brought 10 Nashville innumerable vacant houses, many of them on the most desirable res ldence streets The man of small means
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
The Merchant Submarine

"The continual rumors regarding the whereabouts of the Deutschland and Bremen leads the casual observer to be skeptical," said Frank Robertson, owner of the Granada hotel.
 ''The feat of the Deutschland in crossing the Atlantic was indeed rev. elation to the American citizen, as we'll as the belligerent countries I have read in the New York papers of wagers being make at the odds of eight to one that the Deutschland would not arrive safely in Germany I doubt whether the bettors will ever be able to find out who won. It is almost certain that the capture of the Deutschland would be kept secret by the allies in the event they were suc- cessful. On the other hand, Germany would not be prone to announce to the world the landing of its submarine mer chantman.
 The Deutschland, arriving in America to carry back cargo of rubber and nickel, discounts all rumors of that na- ton starving. On the whole. I am willing to believe what l read in the papers that carry authentic news wires. but the status of the submarine merchantmen traffic be- tween the United States and Germany seems to be a matter of conjecture at the present time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
Business Man Optimistic

Notwithstanding the floods and other visitations of Providence, I believe Bir- n1ingham is destined to rise above every working of fate and reach the true great ness for which it is destined said Abe H. Williams, one of Birmingham's most progressive young business men, yester- day. The tablishment of the Birming- Tam traffic bureau will be of great aid to this city in securing equitable freight rates, and we certainly should go forward with bound when this is done.
 Conditions here are now excellent There is plenty of money, and those who have it are not averse to putting it into circulation. I believe Birmingham now is enjoying real prosperity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
Howard Freshman Class

From present indications it would seem that we are to realize our expectations of freshman class of 100 students this fall,' said pr. James M. Shelbourne, pres ident of Howard college, who returned yesterday from a trip over the state. We have planned to have 100 new stu dents at Howard this year, since the Howard High school has been disposed of Last year we had the largest freshman class In the history of the institution, the number being sS. Seeing this big inn provement, we decided to work for 100 this year, and if only part of the fel- lows who have said they were coming do come, we will have that number"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
"TwELvE THINGS TO REMEMBER"

Fl om the Manufacturers Record.
 Men who have achieved greatly in this world have kept steadily before them fixed principles by which they were guided When published these principles have always been found impressive and of universal usefulness and application. Take for example, Marshall Fields Twelve Things to Remember viz: The Value of Time.
 The Success of Pei severance.
 The Pleasure Of Working./
 The Dignity of Simplcity
 The Worth of Character.
 The Power of Kindness.
 The Influence of Example. The Obligation of Duty.
 The Wisdom of Economy.
 The Virtue of Patience.
 The Improvement of Talent.
 The Joy of Originating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
THE FOLLY OF GRUBB1NG.

In the quest of riches mortals go All up and down the world and show Humanity's least kindly traits. But love O money naught abates, Nor sufferings, nor keen despair, Nor disappointments hard to bear. Still lured on by the thirst for gold, Ere they're aware. they're growing old And at the close of life's mad race Death folds them in his chill embrace. They might have known contentment
 sweet,
 And gentle loves and joy complete, But one voice and one only heard. A single thought their bosoms stirred The dream of wealth; and dying slaves, They rest in unremembered graves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
From the Chicago Herald.

' LILLIAN MAkEPE FACE THACK-
 " FRAY was perhaps the most il-
 lustrious society editor of his day. Vanity Fair" is still considered very good piece of imaginative reporting. Bulwer-Lytton was another. The picture he drew of English society in Pelham" continues to attract ts readers. George the immortal cunning of his greater con erary society editor perished.
 Dsiraeli, too, had fame in. this now re- viled field. but the great statesman lacked the immortal cunning of his gerater con temporary and so his stories are being forgotten. Albert Smith had a great name in his day. His society reports are sold now only in secondhand book stores, and there merely because "Phiz' was his il- illustrator.
 Anthony Trollope once seemed to be Thackeray's legitimate successor. His narratives. however, are so faithful to society that they have become the exclu- sive property of students in college Eng fish courses and of curious scholars con- cerned in the history of manners and cus- toms. Nor has the tradition of the lit erary society editor perished. fl
 Arthur Schnitzler in Vienna. Bernard Shaw in his own manner in London, George Meredith. Henry James while he was yet alive, William Dean Howells in America, even the great Ibsen, all these master minds have concerned themselves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
WITHIN HIS RIGHTS.

Early to bed and early to rise "- began the lightweight philosopher.
 "Stop right there," interrupted the irascible man. You needn't finish that old maxim, so far as I'm concerned"
 Why not, sir?"
 After making the rounds of the I'm lucky to be in bed by midnight and I'm not going to crawl out at daybreak for anybody"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-08
CAN'T TAKE IT IN.

What is MT. Jagsby's attitude to- ward prohibition?'
 "Oh, the sane he has always had"
 And what is that?" anyone being so inconsiderate as to place obstacles in the way of a: man who wants drink"