Evening star., 1918-12-31
little =! = ,:se. g. trouble during the sr'st.'


disputes arising during. the wAS
should be submitted to b board -o1
mediation. This agreement was ad-
hered to by both employers and en-
ployes and comparatively few strikes
occurred during tho remainder Of the
year. E;
April 1s Charles M. Schwab. master
shfpbuflder, was made director gen
eral of American shipbuilding. and
better conditions in the shipyards of
port made public April 30 that the
output Of the shipyardS for April was
100000 dead weight tons, an increase
Of SO per cent over the March output.
AS feature Of the celebration Of In
were launched in the American ship
yards on July 4.
DISASTERS. Fires. railroad acei-
dents and explosions
claimed q heavy mor-
tality list on land during tho year
1918 while the elements combined
with the torpedoes Of the German q
boats to send thousands Of innocent
persons, including women and chfi-
en-, to their death at sea-
On the first day OF the year a great
fire at Norfolk. Va. caused q loss Of
$2.oo0.000. A fire in the industrial
district of Indianapolis caused loss
of approximately S1.ooo.ooo on jan
uary- 13..
Fifty-two children met death in 8.
fire 5-.lich destroyed convent At
:Rohtteal, Canada, February II. Feb
ruary "a the liner Florizel, bound
from st. Johns, N. F.. to New York.
80, Z.
Race and ninety-two lives were
lost.
A tornado in northwestern Ohio
killed five persons and caused less
of IS, 100000 March 9.
Seventy inmates of an insane aSy
a fire which destroyed the institution
April 13. The towns OF Hamet and
San Jacinto. in southern California,
were destroyed by an earthquake
On May 1 the Savannah liner City
Of Athens was sunk in collision
with a French cruiser of the Della
ware coast and sixty-six lives were
lost. On May IS nearly a hundred
persons were killed by an explosion
in the Aetna Chemical plant, near
Pittsburgh. Pa.
sofa August 81, killing fifty persons
at Tyler and Connors.
On October 6 the United States
transport Otranto was sunk In col
lision off the Irish coast and $50 per
sons lost their lives. Four hundred
were lost when the Irish mail boat
Leinster was torpedoed and sunk
October 10.
A series Of terrific explosions In q
sheI1-loading plant at Morgan. N J.,
on October 3 killed ninety-four per
sons and destroyed a vast amount OF
kArrnr II
caused the death of $50 persons. was
reported in Porto Rico October IL.
Great forest fires ragged in north
eastern Minnesota during October.
Many towns were destroyed and
about 1000 lives we're lost On octo-
was wrecked on the Alaska coast
and 343 were lost.
Ninety-eight persons were killed
November / in a wreck on the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit lines. On Noven-
Der 81 about 1900 persons were re-
man punition trains en- route from
Belgium to Germany.
One of the most unusual cases in
maritime history was that OF the
United States Navy collier Cyclops.
which disappeared at sea while bound
Atlantic port.
THE YEARS Death took q heavy
NEUROLOGY. toll among men and
women prominent III
public life during the year 1919. The
list includes the following:
January 5. DR.. John S. Foley, Cath
olic Bishop of Detroit; January 13, e.
S. Senator James H Brady Of Idaho !:
January IA, Maj. A. P. Gardner. for
mer representative from Massachu-
setts. who resigned to enter the Army
January 80. U. s. Senator William
Hughes Of New Jersey. $50.
February 2, John l.. Sullivan, former
heavyweight champion. at West Alb
bington, Mass; February 10, Abdul
ruary IA. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. for
mer British ambassador to America
February %, Terry McGovern. former
worlds featherweight champion. n
New York.
March 8. John Redmond. Irish Ma
tionalist leader. at London; March :,
George Won L. Meyer, former cabinet
member and diplomat, at Boston;
March 13, Mrs. James A. Garfield,
widow of President Garfield. at Pas-
adena, Cal, and Charles Page Bryan,
diplomat. at Washington: March 10.
former Senator Isaac Stephenson OF
Wisconsin. and James Stillman. imam :
cier of New York; March %. Maggie
Mitchell. famous actress. at New
York; March 26, Claude Achille De
busy, composer, at Paris; March -
Martin J. Sheridan, famous athlete. al
New York
April 3. Charley Mitchell famous
ator R-.F. Broussard of Louisians:
Anil IA. u. S. Senator William Joel
Stone of Missouri,
Nav 8: Mrs. Potter Palmer OF Chi
cago; May s, Marcus Mayer. fSmoIs
theatrical manager. at Amityviile, L.
l.; May IL. Federal Judge c. C. kohl-
saat, at Chicago; May IA. James Cor
, dom Bennet. rsroprietor of New York
Herald, at Paris; May %, Gen. john 3
Castleman. famous Confederate SOL
dier, at Louisville
June 8, Ramon N. Baldez, prfsidenr
| of Panama; June 4, Charles warren
Fairbanks. former nice PresiqenS H. d.
| ris. head of BuriAgton railway. ano
Arrigo Boito, italian composer: June
20. j. A Mitchell, editor of Life, az
New York -,
July 3. Rev. DR.. Washington Glad
| den. at Columbus. Ohio; July g. MO MO
count Rhondda, British FOOD con
| troIIer. and United states Senator
| BENJAMIN r. Tillman Of South caro-
| lina: July Z, Gustav Kobbe, American
| author and critic.
| August 3. Max Rosentha1, famous
| artist at 2hiladelphia: August 8. John
3 Shoop, superintendent of schools
| of Chicago: August II. Anna Held,
] famous acresS, at New York: Augrst
IL. United States Senator JACOB n.
| Gallinger of New Hampshire; august
| % tinted states Senator Ollie Y.
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