davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27
MAY PIPE BOOZE
. INTO OHIO
STATE?
Socieyt for the Preservation Of
Life in Arid Areas to Dis
cuss Question.

CHARLESTON, Feb. 26.-When the
National Association for the Preser-
vation of Life in Arid Areas conyenes
in annal session In Portsmouth, o.. this
summer, plans for the construction OF
q subterranean pipe line between Cat
lettsburg, KY, and number Of West
Virginia cities and towns will be dis
cussed. This information was CLEANED
today from a Charleston bootlegger,
who Is a member OF the association.
The pipe line would be used in trans
porting whiskey, beer and other spir-
ituous liquors from wet Kentucky to
dry West Virginia. The liquor would
be forced through the pipe by means
OF air compressors stationed at var
ious places along the route.
The project is one that would in
volve an expenditure OF hundreds OF
thousands OF dollars. but the bootleg
gers believe that it could be made to
pay for itself within few years.
Moreover, it is realized that this is
the only way left open now by which
whskey could be brought into this
state in commercial quantities.
Whiskey distributing centers will
be established in each OF the cities
and towns traversed by the pipe line,
and In addition to these. private con-
nections will be made with the homes
and Offices OF large consumers. These
lines will he equipped with dime-in-
the-slot measuring hydrants.
Prominent bootleggers representing
the association are said to be in New
York now consulting with an expert
hydraulic engineer.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27

ticket, the guard said. was only a
half-rate clergyman's ticket, put
gained his point and was allowed 10
slip through the gate on bis promise
to run" for the next train.
You'll have to be Some runner.
commented the gateman.
~ am" replied Bryan, as he dart
ed away. Been running for twenty
years"
After the gates were relocked two
negroes entered. They explained they
were delegates from "the sunny
South" and wanted to go to Chicago
This here station Is closed for
the season." the gateman replied
az you wanta go to Chicago you got
ia walk. WALK, Walk"
other features Of the evenings en-
tertainment were a pantomime por-
traying Colonel Roosevelt shying ms
hat into an imaginary ring; a song
to the Chinese minister. sung to the
air Of chinatown, and a parody on
"Orpheus and Eurydice,' with a
stage setting depicting the lower
regions.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27
Shipbui1ding Industry
Is Enjoying a ReDiDQl

cured" The scarcity Of steel also
is mentioned from Detroit. The IN
ability to purchase greater quantities
Of building material, Detroit says,
has prevented several companies
from enlarging their plants.
At Chicago, the Calumet docks
which have been Occupied only with
repair work during the last eight
years, have just received an order 10Y
the construction of freigh steamer
$50 feet long and 1875 foot beam.
This boat, which is to be launched
the latter part Of April, was ordered
through New York agents for a COM
pan yin Norway, the name Of when
Il is not known at the Calumet docks.
Detroit firms have received orders
from eastern shippers which under
normal conditions would have been
built on or near the salt water. East;
en coast shippers. it is evident, are
buying ireighters wherever they can
| be obtained.
| OF the ships ordered at Cleveland
score will be built at Lake Eric
yards whence they will be sent to tn
Atlantic coast and q dozen or more
will be launched for use on the Great
Lakes during the current year. -Four
more are to be delivered to the coas"
in 1917.
Six Steam Frcighters.
The American Shipbuilding Com
pany at Cleveland has an order for
six steam freighters from Norwegian
interests and the Toledo shipbuilding
Company for four boats from the
same source. The latter company
also is building six auxiliary schoon-
ers for New York interests.
The Manitowoc Shipbuilding Com
pany has orders for three steam
trawlers from a Boston concern AMI
for a government survey boat to bo
used in Alaskan waters. Five huge
bulk grelghters are to be built by
the American Shipbuilding Company
at its Lorain yards in 1916 and ten
in 1917. Orders for seven other
such boats for 1915 delivery have
been distributed among smaller ship
Yards on the Great Lakes.
| At Cleveland 1t Is understood tnah
Italian interests are negotiating for
twenty-eight ocean-going trading YES
sells Of 1000 tons each. In addition
to all this building activity twenty.
four freightcrs with q total capacity
Of 112,70O tons have changed hands
In the Great Lakes n the vicinity or
Cleveland since the first Of the year
Since last October, when the present
BON first began to be felt, eighty YES
sells with an aggregate tonnage Of
500, 900 have been sold on the Great
Lakes. This is exclusive Of package
freigthers and Canadian ships.
A new shlpbuilding company has
lust been organized at Duluth by
Captain Alexander MacDougall. who
has been Interested in the Colling-
wood yards. The new company al
ready has an order for boat Of tho
lWelland canal size.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27

| rlne is about half that OF the battle
ship; submerged it is less, and the
greater the depth still less the speed
due, in the first place, to displacement
which is constant, and, in the second
place, to increasing density of medium
which is progressive. The swift craft,
our motor boats, are designed to run
as high out Of the water as is con-
sistent with stability, and when hydro
planes are used their bulls are &C
tually out Of water and into the light
er air above, and, when thus dis
posed the highest aquatic speed has
been attained.
Now, all phenomena in terrestrial
nature having to do with swift mo-
ton show high speed and density in
compatible. This is beautifully shown
when the meteors flick tho skies with
a gravitational impulse Of from TWEEN
ty to thirty miles second, glowing
with incandescence. The spectacle
serves to show the rotudlty Of the
earth, the depth of its atmosphere. and
Its graduation OF density downward
from nothing to that at sea level.
These unimpeded feet messengers
Of space enter the air at all degreeS
Of the arc OF armament, trailing fire
due to friction, thence continuing on
their orbits unilluminated and inyis'
ible. Their greatest brilliance coin
cldes with their greatest friction mid
way between the extremes Of visible
ity, indicating curvature and varying
density Of our atmosphere. At otheS
angles of approach they glow increas'
ingly, slacken speed perceptibly, dis
integrate or explode, or strike the
earth at or near the heat Of fusion
obviously due to increasing friction
with the denser air.
Observation-Disclosures way OF saying
friction-prevents speed and vibration
is its most effective destroyer. Many
observers of aeroplanes aloft say they
look as II they should go up two or
three times as fast So they should
and undoubtedly will, as the status
Of air transit is about that Of rail
transit when twenty miles an hour
was looked upon as extraordinary.
Flying machines travel the short
est distance between two points. They
are subject to less obstruction than
any moving vehicle. Like the bird
they are not subject to roadbed vi
bration. Their speed broadly depends
on horsepower rating like motor boats
and racing machines generally, but,
unlike any OF these, the aeroplane
may rise to other air planes Of lesser
density where speed is practically
unlimited. These things may sound
elementary, and they are elementary;
but when conjoined they serve to il
lumne this subject with amazing pos
slbilities.
1T IS calculated that at height Of
about three and one-half miles above
the sea level the weight Of cubic
foot Of air is only one-halt what it is
at the surface Of the earth, at seven
miles oae-fourth. at ten miles, one
seventh, at fourteen miles one one
slxty-fourth and at height of over
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27
OF Prosperity on Great Lakes
after Lying Dormant for
Halt a Decade.

CHICAGO, Feb. 26-The ship
building industry on the Great Lakes
after lying dormant more less fol-
half decade, is enjoying a revival
Of prosperity, according to reports
from shipyards at and near Cleve-
land, O., Detroit. Mich, Toledo, O..
Duluth, Mich, Buffalo, N. Y, Chica'
20 and smaller Great Lake ports.
The opening Of the Panama canal
the activities Of submarines and the
healthy increase in exports are con-
sldered the immediate causes of the
shipbuilding boom. The claim is
made, without denial from the build
ers, that old ships and vessels now
under construction are bringing bet
ter prices than in many years.
The demand is strong for both
lake and ocean vessels and only the
inability Of the builders to give as
surance Of delivery of the ships by
1917 stands in the way OF even heavl'
er orders. Foreign interests arc
prominent among the buyers.
War Starts Activity.
With the first clash Of arms In
Europe, shippers saw the necessity
for obtaining boats quickly to carry
merchandise to foreign and domestic
ports. One New York capitalist OBJ
tanned at least four huge Great Lake
package freighters. At the Welland
canal these ships had to be cut into
sections before they could continue
the trip to the coast.
The tremendous amount Of ship
ping that has gone to the bottom in
the war zone together with the fact
that many OF he shipyards in Eng.
land have been urned over almost
exclusively to ships of war. has
forced foreign buyers to look tc
American shipbuilders for new yes
sells and some foreign buyers arc
ready to pick up any ship for sale on
the seaboard.
Clekland alone reports the closing
OF contracts for forty-fve vessels al
an aggregate cost of more than $S,'
100000 and that negotiations are in
progress for thirty more ships. These
orders are being filled at Cleveland
Toledo, Lorain and Ashtabula, O..
Ecorse and Manitowoc, Mich, and
Buffalo, n. Y. The yards at these
cities are said to have all the bust
ness now that they can handle dur
ing the year.
The Toledo Shipbuilding Company
| is working on an eastern order fol
five schooners with auxiliary plants
to be used in coastwise trade. q
lake freighter 600 fet long also Il
being set up at Toldo. Tho total ton.
mage fthe Toledo contracts is said
to be 10000.
Scores Of Ships Ordered.
Detroit reports the receipt Of or
ders for score Of ships by Michigan
companies and Ohio firms not men
toned in the Cleveland reports. The
tonnage OF the vessels that will be
under construction in Michigan har,
bors during 1915 is estimated al
100, 900.
Duluth says the first ship to be
built at the Superior. Mich, yards
since 1910 will be constructed this
| year provided the steel can be Sc
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27
HUGE TR|PLANES
BUILT IN THIS
COUNTRY
American Manufacturers Con-
struct for England Mon
sters New to Warfare.

Ten huge, torpedo carrying, triplane
hydro aeroplanes Of a type never be-
fore used in warfare have just been
ordered by the British government
of American manufacturers, accord
ing to the recent statement Of a New
York paper. They are to DO built as
rapidly as possible, and will have every
latest development in aviation equip
ment. The new fliers will cost about
$4,000 apiece and will carry eight
men. and three and one-half inch
rapid fire gun. in addition to quick
firers.
Details OF construction and novel
features OF the machines and the uses
to which they are likely to be put are
set forth as follows:
1.-THE new aeroplane Is several
times greater than any now in use
in Europe. The most novel feature
of its construction is that it has three
planes instead of two, as have the
other big machines now part of the
equipment of the royal naval aviation
corps.
ats size places it in class by
itself. The wings are 1873 feet over
all and the body Of the machine is
sixty-eight feet long.
Cruising Radius OF $50 Miles.
"The motor equipment is widely
different from anything now being
used, even by the greatest German
or Russian aeroplanes. There are
four motors OF $50 horsepower each,
making a total OF 1000 horsepower,
and these will drive two tractor pro-
pellers and one pusher propeller, set
at the rear OF the machine. The aero
plane fully equipped will weigh about
21,O0O pounds and will have a mini
mum speed Of seventy-tivc miles an
hour. With fewer men and several
hundred pounds less load, it is esti-
mated that it will make 100 miles an
hour and will have cruising radius
OF about $50 miles.
THE three screws or propellers give
wonderful speed in climbing. and
for this reason it is expected that the
new triplane will be remarkably ef-
ficient in
Chasing ZeppelinS.
It will be able to rise to their IA
vorite altitude Of never less than TO-
900 feet, with speed enough to catch
them before they have become lost.
Their great mobility will then give
them the supreme advantage, and
shells from the three and one-half
inch rapid fire gun are likely to ex-
plode the Zeppelin. AS these tri-
planes are water boats, they will not
fear the channel and will be able to
follow their quarry almost to the
home hangers.
"ln addition to other Improvements,
the new machines are to be heavily
armored, so that they will have little
to fear in the air and will be almost
safe from attack by anti-aircraft guns
firing shrapnel.
"The torpedo launching device that
will be used is a new device also, and
is expected to be very efficient. The
torpedo developed for these aerial de-
stroyers will prove very deadly when
used against enemy vessels"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27

vince you that It couldn't be done?'
Not exactly confessed the man
who was telling the story. But, re-
membering my sensations when | saw
that century slipping away convinced
me that man is mighty foolish to
place himself in position where 1t
has to be attempted"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27

That there are airquakes, caused by
the explosion Of meteors in the atmos-
phere and entirely independent OF
earthquakes, is a theory advanced by
an eminent English astronomer.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27

By photography, with vibrating
lens, an English scientist has timed
a lightning flash at one-nineteenth OF
a second.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-27

About seventy per cent of the human
body is water.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23
PASSING OF THE PLUG.

From North Carolina, which is an
authority on such matters, comes re-
ports of the passing of the plug. Ac-
ccrding to The Danbury Reporter
THE whole world seems to be run
ming to the cigarette" new markets
for which are being opened in the
Far East, while the demand for chew
ing tobacco has ceased to grow and is
on the decline. The Greenville News
recalls the fact that here was at time
when every politician took greas
pains to prove his orthodoxy by bit
ting off a large chew in the presence
Of the sovereigns, or more subtly still,
borrowed 'chaw' from some deserv-
ing fellow democrat, who thereby
vouched for the Simon-pure democ>
Tacy of the aforesaid candidate 1t
wants to know what is going to be-
come of the fine art of long-distance
eXpectoration, practiced to the awe
and admiration of the inexpert by
stander,' and adds: IF the plug pass
es, how shall we be able to tell pub
lie building from a private one?'
1t will probably be good while be-
fore the point is reached in the South.
1t is not simply the people who sit in
the front part of the courthouse who
delight in their guilds of tobacco. Prob
ably a goodly number of the judges
would privately confess that they
could not sit on the bench if deprived
OF theirs. The plug may be losing it's
vogue in the South, as it long since
did elsewhere but for some years to
come there will continue to be a brisk
demand for Red Meat" Lucy Hin
tCn," Brown Mule" "Skeered Rab-
Bit and the like. If, however. the
women ever get the vote down this
way they can be depended upon the
first shot out of the box to make it
for a man to take a
chew. We confess that for our part
we wouldn't blame them a bit if they
did. 1t is a filthy habit, and every
body knows it.-Charleston News and
Courier.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

These are real strenuous days for
writing paragraphs. The circus was
here yesterday, and of course we had
to see it safely into winter quarters
last night. During today it was our
duty to see that everything passed
along all right, all of which things
causes a loss of time from this
column.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

= THE TELEPHONE AT OYSTER =
BAY. =
y = \ 4 r \ + \ y y \ =
What's that? Spell it! Wilson has
carried the West?
West what? West Hoboken? A regu>
lar nest
Filthy with Democrats; or do you
mean West street?
Or West Broadway, South Fifth Ave-
nue., where thy'd beat
The good Lord himself,
If there was plenty of pelf.
You talk through your hat;
We've conceded all that.
From the first we have known they
would all stand pat
For disloyalty, brazen iniquity, sin;
oh, no!
You think you are telling me what :
don't know.
What? MY West-THE West-the
WEST | have won,
California? Montana? Washington?
You Byzantine logothete, there's a va
cancy yet
In the club Ananias for you and your
set;
You talk like an ass!
A swizzled inordinary blass!
What was Hiram ADDING? What!
You say he got through?
And left ME- behind! Now that can
not be true.
What's the joke? Stop your obstrep-
torous yappen,
Don't you know such an infamous
thing couldn't happen?
Didn't ! pull him through with the
greatest ease
IN the glorious day when l was the
cheese?
1t was me that did it, and how in
Heavens name
Could he put it over without knowing
the game?
What say? The women!-well, you
never can know
What the petticoat, kirtle and corset
will do!
Now see what you get when you leave
them to choose
A slick, smoothly face and such wits
kers refuse.
Why. when I was engaged in winning
the West
The men all wore hair clean down on
the breast;
And then to turn grandmas; that's why
Heavens wept
At their choosing a damson-jam
daubed Mommathrept!
But don't laugh too quick, for the
Amalekite
Can't defeat chosen Israel without a
deuce of fight;
And we know how to get out of a
troublesome fix
For we learned how to do that in
seventy-six.
So don't be too sure for they still
have a Ted on
The job when they line up at old Ar
mageddon.
So you fellows had best Realizes
tina lente!
They'll have to take ME- in nineteen
twenty.
The Offices Devil.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

Cne week from today everybody will
5RiR hands, with their feets under the
aabss. all fguratively speaking, to
eaE@emorate Thanksgiving Day. 1t is
w1Rderful tribute for 264 other days,
% have one lonesome period set aside
fsss humble Thanksgiving, and Incl
droEaIIy eating Turkey if you have the
wAerewith.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

Same of these days when newspaper
wxzrk seems to be as pleasant to Edi-
KUr Satlive, of the Savannah Press, as
2 is now we expect to see him take
his pen in hand and compose box
xEgh all the humorous touches he has
given his paragraphs in all these
ygars.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

One of the Democratic electors in
Inc election of November 18th for the
Stale of Alabama, has been arrested
an a charge of embezzlement. 1t is said
Eaa8 Wilson may lose one of his twelve
wuxss from the state of Alabama
zs.oald the elector be convicted before
Fhe meeting of the electors at theiy
respective state capitals in January
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

There are some folks who didn't
give anything to the Democratic cam
Rzign fund before the election, nor
after They are the kind sometimes
waEo charge the parties with all of
their troubles, and think it was a
xzrnke Of good luck when something
beneficial comes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23
Americus, Ca, November %, 1916

The people who are spreading ru-
mUrs about an uprising against the
mxgxas.s in this section are liars-just
@tak. plain and simple.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23
THE CURSE OF LIFE.

Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria
and King of Hungary, died Tuesday,
after a reign of sixty-eight years,
marked with every form of success
and failure possible to a person in the
state of worldly life.
1t was in 1857 at bail of much
honor and consequence that the reign
and life of Francis Joseph was cursed
by a woman who died almost at his
feet. The mother of young Count
Karolyi, who had been killed in the
bloody years of the nations life, APP
preached the emperor and swore:
May heaven and hell blast your
happiness! May your family be
exterminated! May you be smit-
ten in the persons OF those you
love! May your children be
brought to ruin and may your life
be wrecked, and yet may you live
on in lonely, unbroken and horrr-
BILE grief to tremble when you re-
call the name of Karolyi!'
The events of the ruling life of over
a half century seem to bears out the
curse visited upon Francis Joseph.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

The county commissioners between
Macon and Thomasville will meet in
Americas Friday looking into the mat
ter of securing federal aid for the
Dixie Highway over this stretch of
fine roadway. 1t is to be hoped that
the necessary steps can be taken to
assure the federal assistance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

The New York World, said to be the
Democratic administration mouth
piece, has demanded the resignation Of
aIu of Wilson'S cabinet except Lans-
ing. Lane and Houston. OF course,
sH4z<TI be done-just because the
world insists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

The Americas school children had
Rnzaazy yesterday for the circus; an
saaagr next Thursday for Thanksgiving,
aE of which they enjoy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

THE Columbus Enquirer-Sun para
gUapher gets funny with lady in
gRlrer-by saying that he typewrites
writes all of those sayings Wouldn't
take it, nam.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

Judge Emory Speer will speak in
A4Rericus at the celebration of Robert
r. Lees birthday by the Daughters of
DEagederacy. He is a Confederate SOL
a5er and a great orator.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-23

IKE circus was here yesterday; it is
MIIh us today, and it will be here for
EyA months. A cordial invitation is
extended to Editor Duke, of the Griffin
NRRs & Sun, and Johnnie Spencer, of
Ghe Macon Telegraph.