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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01

At least two steamers, which have
been seized by the local federal Off
GERS, will be affected by the above
action. These are the Vogesen and
the Rudolf Blumberg, which were
seized under instructions from Wash
ingtOn, after the actual declaration
of war.
So far as the Austrian steamer
Lucia is concerned, there has been
no disposition Of her case, it seems,
and whether or not the Lucia will
be retained by the government, re-
mains to be seen. It was stated in
a letter received yesterday that the
captain and crew of the Austrian
steamship Lucia had been released
and paid off" in New Orleans, which
by friends of the Austrians in Pen
sacOla, is taken to mean that the
government will no longer have Gus
tody of the Austrians who have been
interned. That leaves a question as
to final disposition of the steamer
on which the government is main
tanning guards all the time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
SANTA ROSA FARMERS
EXPECT A GREAT YEAR

Declaring that acreage planted is
larger and condition is better than
last year, f. NJ. Manning, demonstra-
ton agent of Santa Rosa county,
painted an encouraging picture Of
agriculture in that region.
From Mulat, shipments of fresh
vegetables are daily coming to Pen
sacola. Irish potatoes are the staple.
though there is abundance of other
vegetables. Strawberries, too, are d
great crop.
The Bagdad Land, the Pace Lumber
Companies are also big markets for
Santa Rosa truckers.
livestock is being improved" "
said Mr. Manning. land thousands of
acres are planted in peanuts, prin-
cipallv to feed hogs. Cooperative
shipping of livestock is planned for
the fall"
Thr.e watts have already been built,
and others are planned for immediate
construction. Mr.. Manning expressed
the hope that Santa Rosa would be
tick-free by the end of the year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Two-Foot Spinach Is Long
Green Furnished BY c.
F. Grosbernd's Garden
LIB. TOMATOES;
BEANS YARD LONG
Watermelons That Grow
On Bushes-Seeds That
Sell For re Each

Charles F. Grosbernd. of 8O4 De-
Leon street, has a garden in his back
yard that s a model Of intensive
farming. Mr.. Grosbernd has just a
small back yard for a "farm,' but has
almost everything in it that could
possibly be raised at this season or
the year. The Asparagus Vine or
Guada Bean brought into the United
States from Australia for the first
time last year, is doing fine on Mr..
Grosbernd's place. This Asparagus
Vine is one of the most expensive of
vegetables; just one seed sells for II
cents. Mr., Grosbernd has a contract
with a big seed company in Michigan
for all the seeds he can supply.
The soil in Mr.. Groshernd's ga.-
den is common Florida sand, below
the average in quality, if anything,
Of most land in Pensacola, and what
he has done shows what could be done
in the raising Of food stuffs in every
back yard i'm tho citv
Immense leads Of Chinese cabbage
German celery, English peas, tOma-
toes, bects, okra, green beans. Jan
anese climbing cucumbers, eggplant,
Brazilian clover corn, bush beans.
carrots, onions, cauliflower, s3jn@of,
garden huskle5errics. mushrooms,
ground cherries and climbing water~
melons are some Of the Times t at
can be found in Mr.. Gr0s5eTnd's ga
den. The climbing WatcTmolou~ .ra
new variety. imported from tai. ,
that are considerably smaller than
the ordinary melon, and it is said
they have a much better taste. Theses
climbing watermelons hang from the
vine like tomatoes and do not lie or
the ground.
One bunch Of spinach in the Gros-
/ bernd garden measured two feet
across, and some of his Chinese cab
bage is almost as big.
Tomatoes in this little garden are
already as big as Your fist. Mr.. Gros-
| bernd has a variety of tomato called
the Majestic" which makes toma-
toes weighing from three to seven
pounds.
The japanese climbing cucumber
( and the German celery are other new
and interesting vegetables in the gar
! den. The stalk Of the German celery
! grows into the ground as a root, and
not into the air like the ordinary
/ celery.
yard long" beans, a new variety,
| growing beans a yard long is some
thing else of interest in the garden.
/ Just one of these would make a fairly
! good mess. These beans are picked
for the table about a foot and a
half" before they reach majority.
In shed in his back yard Mr..
! Grosbernd has a bed of mushrooms.
Mushrooms sell for fifty cents a
pound.
Besides a bountiful supply which
the garden furnishes Mr. Grosbernd's
! table and another bountiful supply
/ for the neighbors and friends, there
is plenty left to sell. The other day
an armfull from the garden brought
$500.
Mr.. Grosbernd tends his garden
after work hours in the evening; the
garden is a side line, a hobby of his
which he enjoys for a few minutes
every day.
If everybody in Pensacola did as
Mr. Grosbernd is doing what would
become of the much-complained-of
| high cost Of living.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
CARY
ON COAL RATES
Pensacola Man Principal
Witness Before Inter
state Examiner
New Orleans Bureau,
The Pensacola journal.

New Orleans, April 3O.-R. VI.
Cary, representing coal interests Of
Pensacola, Fla, was the principal
witness today before Examiner
Brown, of the interstate commerce
commission.
Mr.. Gary declared that the propOs-
ed reduction of from ten hours to five
asked by the railroads, would cause
damage and congestion in the various
ports, and work injury TO business.
Attorney More, of the Louisville &
Nashville, combatted him at all
stages.
Among those present in which Flor
ida was interested we're; Charles
Marshall. of the Louisville & Nash
Vile; J. S. Taylor of Mobile &
Ohio, and o. H. Bum, Of the Biz
mingham Chamber Of Commerce.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Cultivate All the Ground You
Haze Says the u. S. Treasury
Department to It's Employees

With our own country at war, the
calls upon the usual tillers of the soil
which have been great in the past.
will be enormous in the future, and
it is most desirable that every pos
sible step be taken to relieve, even
in the slightest degree, the tremen-
dous pressure upon the worlds mar
kets at this time. Every foot Of new
ground placed under cultivation re-
lieves, to the extent of its yield, the
demand upon the usual source Of sup
ply. l am taking occasion to urge
you very earnestly to cultivate a gar
den on every spare spot of land
around your homes. In this way you
can render valuable and effective as
sistance. 1t will be a service Of pa
trlOtism.
Respectfully,
w. G. McADOO.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Even $4,000 Soldiers Would
Help, Says French Mis-
sion; Should Go Now
YEARS TRAINING
NEEDED, SAYS U. S.
Matter Up To President To
Dccide-Roosevelt's
Voice Heard
BT ASSOCIATED pREBs.

Washington. April 3O.-With the
judgment of the French war mission
and the American army general staff
seemingly in conflict as to when
American troops should be sent to
France. the decision rests with Presi-
dent Wilson as the constitutional head
of the United States army. Secretary
Baker refused to comment on the mat
ter, but it is known that the French
propose that twenty or thirty thous-
and troops should be sent at once to
European battlefields, while Ameri-
can army officers argue that one
year of intensive training is neces-
sary to fit men for actual warfare.
On one point there is complete
agreement between General Joffre
and the American general staff. Both
believe any force sent to France must
be given additional training on
French soil behind the battle lines
before taking its place in the trenches
1t is generally believed here the
French expect great events on the
battle fronts in May, June and July
hence are anxious the American
troops presence there will more than
swell the wave of French enthusiasm
in those critical months.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Appropriation For Taking
Care Of Work Was
Not Allowed
SMALL LUMP SUM
FOR PENSACOLA BAY
Committee In Wrangle, Ad-
iourns To Prevent Seri-
Gus Disagreement
Washington Bureau,


Washington, D. c., April 30.-No
provision for an appropriation to con-
struct the waterway between Pensa-
cola bay and Mobile bay, as was con-
tanned in the rivers and harbOrs bill
which met defeat in the last congress,
is provided for in the rivers and har-
bors bill laid before the house COM
mittee today, prepared from a draft
Of the bill recommended by the secre-
tary Of war.
The bill makes a lump sum appro-
priation of $4,000 for the maintenance
of the Holmes and Blackwater rivers
Choctawhatchee, EscambiR and Cone
cub rivers, the Narrows in Santa Rosa
Sound, and Pensacola harbor.
An appropriation of 100000 is
provided for the improvement of Mi
ami harbor; 100000 for improvement
of Tampa and Hillsborough bays, and
lump sums for maintenance Of the
other Florida waterways.
After the caucus of democrats of
the house of representatives a week
ago defeated the plan to pledge con-
gress to the passage of a waterways
bill at this session and adopted q
resolution that this congress should
only pass legislation desired by Pres
ident Wilson, Senator Fletcher and
Congressman Small, chairmen, re-
spectiveIy, of the senate and house
rivers and harbors committees, con
ferred with the president and secre-
tary of war to determine what sort
of Waterways bill should be passed.
1t was agreed that the chief Of
engineers should draft a bill tina
would meet the approval of the presi'
dent and forward it to the house com
mittee. These recommendations were
1Continned IN Page TwoN
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01

Local employees of the treasury de-
partment are urged in a circular sign
ed by Secretary McAdoo to employ
every foot of ground available to
grow food crops. The circular fol .
lows:
Confident that it is the earnest de-
sire of each and all of you to employ
every possible means in your power
to serve your country, l wish to point
out that a very simple and practical
way to be of great assistance at this
time is to cultivate every piece of
land in your possession or under
your control Millions of men have
been withdrawn from the fields of
production and sent to the fields of
battle; the worlds supply of food
stuffs has diminished in the face OF
an increased and increasing demand
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
ARMY DRAFT.
Is Up AGAIN
Legal Tangles Will Be I'm
raveled In the
Senate
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

washington, ApT7I 3U.-Ihe army
draft bill, passed Saturday by Goa
gress, will be taken up again tomor-
row in the senate in an effort -
clear up the legislative tangle delay
ing its reference to conferences AID
committees. 1t is necessary for the
senate again to pass the bill. and
there is little doubt of its ultimate
passage in the form as approved by
the senate Saturday. The volunteer
authorization and other proposed
changes can be offered again, reopen
ing wide field for debate.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
WAR COUNCILS
HAVE BEGUN
President Wilson, Balfour
And Viviani Discuss
Different Problems
BY ASSOCIATES PRESS.

Washington, April 3O.-Members
of the French war mission and United
States representatives began detailed
conferences, the most important of
which is between President Wilson
and Vivian, head of the mission. To-
night the commission was entertained
Ut dinner by Secretary Lansing fol-
lowed by the reception at the Pan
American Union building, which was
attended by President Wilson, mem
Nbers of the British war commission
Nnembers of congress and diplomatic
corps.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
OVER 800 ROCKIES
ARE SENT TO FORTS

! Three hundred and thirty-two army
recruits arrived in Pensacola late
Sunday night from jefferson Bar
racks, Missouri, and reported at Fort
Barrancas yesterday morning. Bltty-
six recruits came in several days ago
from Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and
with the 1872 recruits who arrived Sun
day night, there are now 3S8 army
recruits at Fort Barrancas. These
men are here for training purposes
and it is probable that Pensacola will
be made a mobilization station for
thousands of army recruits as the
war progresses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
BELGIUM ASKS FOR
LOAN FROM The U.S..

Washington, April 30.-In addition
to loans to France and Italy, the Uni
ted States will soon make 6 loan to
Belgium, and it is unofficially estj-
mated to be S15O,OOO,OOO. The Bel
gian minister asked the loan today
1t is understood the loan is wanted
for the Belgian governments needs
to maintain a large number of refu-
gees domiciled in France. Funds OF
the French and Italian loans will be
raised by a further offer of treasury
certificates.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
MILTON MILITIA
HAS CHOSEN OFFICERS

The Milton company of infantry
has been organized and officers
elected; DR.. P NJ. Bruno, captain; A.
D. Tomasello, first lieutenant, and E.
N. Manning, second lieutenant. A
large majority have taken the medi-
cal examination, and it is expected
the company will be mustered in at
an early date.
The medical examiners are Dr.,
Rufus Thames, of Milton, assisted
by DR.. Thames, of Munson, and DR..
Holley, of Pace.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Senate Passes Resolution
That Title Of All En-
envy Ships Be Made
TWO SHIPS ARE
IN PENSACOLA
Order Applies Only To Ger.
man Vessels Which
VIII Be Used
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, April Boy unani-
nous vote, the senate tonight passed
a resolution providing for the trans
fer of title and possession Of all en-
envy ships in American ports, and
their use in commerce under direc-
ton of the shipping board
Passage of the resolution was
forced by Senator Knox, former secre-
tary of state, who said it will be a
crime if the ships are not taken over
Immediately and used as targets for
German submarines. More than one
hundred Germans ships in American
ports are being repaired and several
are ready for sea.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
TO REPORT WAR TAX
MEASURE THURSDAY

washington, April 3O.-The war
measure, designed to raise not less
than one billion, five hundred million
by direct taxes during the coming
year, will be reported to the house
ways and means committee tomorrow
by the subcommittee, which drafted
the bill in secret sessions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
With Ralfour. Too.

Washington, April 30.-Arthur
James Balfour, Britain's foreign
secretary, dined with President Will
son tonight, when all important
phases of American cooperation in
the war are believed to have been re
viewed at length and ground laid for
major decisions to be worked out
later.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
"SHAMS, PRETENSES, MISTAKES,'
SAYS MACMILLAN HARDEN, THE
JOURNALIST, OF GERMANY
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Copenhagen, April 3O.-In another daringly
frank article the latest issue of Die Zukunft in
posing "shams, Pretenses and mistakes,' in Ger
many's policy, MaximiIan Harden a German pub
licst, warns the German people the entry of the
United States into the must be taken most ser-
ously, both a symptom Of weakness of Germanys
appeal to the neutral world and failure of her for
eign policy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
French OFF ON Tour

Washington, April 30.-The state
department has announced the French
war commission will leave Washing
ton Thursday on a visit to Chicago,
Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield,
NJ. Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton. At the end. Of their tour the
mission returns to Washington.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
AUTO CRASHES INTO
AN ELECTRIC CAR

At the corner Of Alcaniz and
Wright street, early last night, an
auto, driven by Lewis Mckay, yollided
with an electric car Of the East Hill
line, and suffered extensive damage.
Mckay was arrested and charged
with reckless driving. The auto was
said to have been left in a garage, its
owner driving it from Alabama a day
or two before.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
GERMANS IN BRAZIL
ARE PLEDGING LOYALTY

Washington, April 30.-Brazil's
foreign minister has advised the Bra
lillian ambassador the last trace Of
trouble between German residents
and Brazilian citizens has disappear
ed. Many Brazilian born Germans
are ple4gng loyalty to IL Brazilian
goverL.aIS-sk,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01

New York, April 3O.-Upon his re-
turn from Chicago today, Roosevelt
declared he hoped the people of the
country would realize the necessity of
sending without delay an American
force to the French front. He said
"to keep all our men here under
training of the regular army and ma
tional guard for a year and then try
to send them over as one army would
mean a discreditable failure to do our
duty during this year"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Ponds and Low Places Will
Be Oiled, That Larvae Of
Pest May Be Destroyed
CLEANUP WEEK WILL
HAVE GOOD RESULTS
City Health Officer Mobiles
Says Everybody Should
Do Their Share

Preparedness for the forthcoming
mosquito hosts was undertaken by
the city commissioners yesterday
when the board appointed Gus Sober
lind to look after the oiling of ponds,
standing water, low places, etc, with
a view to killing the mosquito larvae
thus early in the season.
Mr.. Soderlind has been at this work
for the past three years, and render
ed such satisfactory service that he
has been chosen from year to wear
without opposition He furnishes his
own team and apparatus, the city
paying him an agreed-On price. He
will go to work right away, starting
tn erAOnth of May with the pest war
fare.
CLEANUP RESULTS.
DR.. W. D. Mobiles, the city health
officer, in talking with The journal
about the cleanup week." said that
if everyone would just do their little
part and clean up their own places
without waiting to see if their neigh
bOrs were going to clean up theirs,
the matter of cleaning up Pensacola
would be child's play. Or. Mobiles
says Pensacola never has been a Dirt
city, but it is not so clean that you
can't notice the change after clean
up week The public health bureau
of the city, says DR.. Mobiles, is al
ways open for, and appreciative Of,
suggestions from people interested in
a cleaner and healthier Pensacola.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
Ex-Governors Explain.

Two eX-gOvernors Of FIOrida. Jen-
nings and Gilchrist, appeared before
a joint committee on drainage. to ex-
plain the work Of their administra-
tions on the Everglades proposition.
Both offered evidence in vindication
of the policies of the administrations
which had been questioned by the
supporters of the bills now before the
legislature.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-01
WEATHER FORECAST

Local thunder showers Tuesday; cool
er north portion; Wednesday fair, mod
crate to fresh south shifting winds.
Yesterdays temperature: Highest, 70
degrees; lowest, 70 degrees.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-15
Fern Asserts
Davis Opinion
Is All WrOn@
Mayor Says He Has the Right
to Name City Engineer as
Vacancy Was Created in
Office; Holds Board is H.
Advised on Subject

AAAYOR JOSEPH ]. FERN takes
III issue with Deputy City Attorney
Charles s. Davis on the legal OPP
inion recently rendered by the latter
holding that the appointive power of
the mayor does not include the nam
ing Of the city and county engineer.
Among other things, Mayor Fern con-
tends that the legal opinion is er-
foneous.
He relies on Section 1904 OF the
revised laws of Hawaii, 1915, which
reads as follows: The mayor, with
the approval Of the board of super.
visors, shall appoint all officers Of
the city snd county whose election
or appointment is not otherwise spe-
cially provided for in this chapter, or
by law. When a vacancy occurs in
any office, and provision is not other
wise made in this chapter, or by law,
for filling the sane, the mayor. with
such approval, shall appoint a suit
able pei son to fill such vacancy who
stall nod office for the remainder
OF the unexpired term"
Under the section quoted, Mayor
Fern this morning told the Star-Bul-
letfns that he believed the board Of
supervisors has been nladvised.
"a Have Appointed Wilson" 49,.
The appointing power is vested I'm
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-15
StoWaWay Is
Held For I. S.
As Stacker
Youth, Island Born, OF German
Father, Found Secreted
Aboard. Matsonia

-oUND lurking among some potato
sacks on the first night out from
] San Francisco, Fred Hollerson, a
stowaway aboard the Matsonia, was
held for delivery to the federal au-
thorities here on the suspicion that
he Is trying TO eyade the military
draft in California. Nominally, Hol-
lerson during the voyage was In the
custody of Arthur McDuffie, chief Of
the Honolulu detective bureau, but
he was forced to earn his passage to
the islands by working on the ship.
HoIlerson is an island youth and
was born In Honolulu Of German
father and Portuguese mother, but
has been in California for some time.
His father is still a resident Of the
island and q sister is married to an
employe Of local mems furnishing
store. ...
After Hollerson was discovered, he
was accused of being q military slack
ef. To this he replied by producing
registration card, which showed that
he registered in Solano county, Cali
fornia. But he could give no salts
Ifactory reason for his desire and
haste to get back to the islands. 1t
was surmised that he was leaving
California because his number had
been drawn in the draft.
HolIerson win be turned over TO
the federal authorities until they can
communicate with the California mill
tary boards and determine II he ID
,7anied there.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-15

R1T1sH FRONT, August 15-The fall of Lens now seems
reasonably certain within few days the utmost as the
result OF the latest British victory this morning when Hill No
~ an emnence dominating this holly contested objective fell
before the combined pounding of the British big guns and the
fierce swoop Of the English infantry Hill 70 is the last Ger
man stronghold in this section of the battle arena
AS in all previous important of the last six
months the honor of victory fell to the awart Canadians who
after days of ncessant artillery fire advanced to the attack
this morning at 425 under terrific baage fire. The adj
vance was carried out front of 1000 yards The Germans
put up stiff defense but with bayonst and machine gun fire
the Teutons forced back step BY step after fierce and
bloody onsaughts and finally forced yield the much coveted
ground. -. =s~ Z.
In military circles the capture is considered of the
most important of the year is believed the transfer of this
emnence to British hands will make Lens further occupation
by the Germans unenable Hill 70 was considered impregn
BILE by the Teutons and with its fall the city Lens with its
British armies.
British forces today also pushed German ouposs back
across the Steenbeke river