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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16

1t is missed very much indeed from
the Steel Pier.
BethePs Steel Pier Band now takes
its place, while Martins Symphony
Orchestra, which was heard every aft.
ernoen in the Steel Pier Arcade, ana
in the evening in the Casino has as
its successor Leman and his symphony
orchestra, which is very good. Muir
phys Ministries still perform in the
Casino Hall, while cake walks, mo
ton pictures and other amusements
keep their place on the pier.
The pier also has the attraction Of
quiet corners where one can sit and
look out upon the expanse of ocean.
or the bathers in the surf nearby.
Then quite close to this pier IS the
steeplechase Pier, the great place o.
amusement for children, whose happy
voices and joyous bursts of laughte.
tell how much pleasure they find in its
attractions.
Two other piers, the old 1oung's
Pier and Young's New Million Dollar
Pier. have their own attractions, which
delight large throngs. Then there a.
the regular trolley trips to Longport
and the Inlet at he respective ends
Of Absecon Island Or which Atlantic
City is built, and interesting trips by
trolley or boat to Ocean City.
From Pleasantville this trolley trip
10 Atlantic City is iLrigorating, as II
gives ore fine opportunity of breath
ing the salt air across the marshes.
The development of the residen:e
sections of Atlantic City known as
Chelsea and Ventnor, thence through
Margate, even to. Longport at The
southwest end of the island, is Won
derful. Ventnor is now a most beau
tiful part Of the city and has num-
her of attractive homes. Where you
passed by sanddune5 on the one side
covered with the coarse grass CT the
shore and on the other looked upon
the wide expanse Of ocean from the
car short time ago you now see or
both sides for great portion of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16

v:ay well-built cottages and broad ave-
rues. Both the fine hotels and resi-
dences testify to the solid and ad-
vancing prosperity Of this wonderful
c:ty by the sea. It's cosmopolitan
character holds the loyal visitor year
after wear. Here we feel that the
@ich, the well-to-do and the poor, the
.aptains of finance, of industry and OF
business. ard members of the great
armies Of industry meet together ard
the Lord is the Maker Of them all.
Here they refresh themselves for a
season by the sea, to strengthen their
minds and hands for doing their APP
rointed parts in the development OF
this mighty nation. Nor can we for
Get the clergyman and the teacher
and other professional men who rest
here, too. for awhile, and replenish
thejr weuried powers for their high
duties in forming character, healing
disease, judging righteously and adj
vancing the spiritual life of the peo-
ple.
Besides the friends We mentioned
IN our former letter we have since
had the pleasure of meeting Messrs
f. Y. Richardson and Vernon Ford, OF
Fairfax. Va. so we'll known in ole
Alexandria.
s A. w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16

as she is excluded from the league
of nations. Austria Hungary has
exhausted herself. She can Only Try
at he last moment to save her eS-
istence by transforming herself
completely.
"In the east the plans Of Germany
are falling to pieces, and Bolshevism
is lettering. Turkey is a prey to
anged and despair, and the Car of
Bulgaria, who allied himself with the
central powe-s against the wishes
of his people, is very seriously Ill at
Mannheim.
among the Central Powers the
rate Of exchange is being accumulated
Famine is necessary foodstuffs is be-
coming more and mere terrible anG
no use Of force can any longer assure
salvation. Even if the offensive OF
the entente could be arrested today
ard Germany could provoke a German
offensive, the inevitable issue would
be perhaps retarded, but IL no way
no ,:fieJ!. Thus, little 6y little, al
rar,rals wiz are following event:
a,4, arriving at the same conclusion
The defeat of Germany and hel
v..sals il certain"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16
THE CROWN PRINCES DREAMS.

1t has been the passionate and the
ambition Of the German
Grown Prince to lead a victorious
German army into Paris. He has
dreamed from the beginning OF the
war of another Sedan; Of another
overwhelming defeat of the armies
of France by forces under his COM
mand; of his own eXaltation as the
supreme military genius of the war
and of an all-powerful German ma
ton acclaiming him the superlative
hero and the master strategist of the
most resistless military machine the
world ever saw.
That his chinless, rat-faced con-
scienceless half-wit of princeling
has nurtured this ambition and he's
schcmed and plotted with every
brutal miitarist in the empire to
bring to pass is no secret. Every
intelligent German knows it is true.
Every German newspaper has com
mented upon it from tine to time.
and the record of events since 1914
is testimony enough that it is the mad
desire of the crown prince y seize
and occupy the French capital.
As contemporary observes, NOR
der that his consumation might be
within possible reach, his young man
had himself placed in command OF
the German army neares Paris. Ana
!. was he who murdero"siy threw
hundreds of thousands Of German
soldiers into the bloody maelstrom al
Verdun. For nearly three months he
battered away blindly a. the defen-
ses of this stronghold, sacrificing the
flower of his army in his futile at
lamps to break dcwn the superb re-
sistance Of the French.
Near:y two months ago threw his
forces again against the lircs defena-
ing Paris. For almost two weeks he
hammered and slashcd and hacked
;'is way over blood n1ired terrain.
but finally ne was stopped short at
the Marine, his forces shattered and
his hopes defeated. Then / few days
ago he again hurled his armies for
ward, still determined to reach Paris.
But for a third time this madness
has been checked and for third time
the princes dream has been turned
into q nightmare.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16
THE TRAFFIC LAW.
Most OF the time of the Police

MOSC o. TIC llilS VI ei'~
Court this morning was consumed III
the investigation Of one case, that OF
jitney driver, who was charged
with exceeding the speed limit ms
was the sixth case OF si@eiiar nature
disposed of this week. The accused
had been arraigned by a soldier-po-
liceman who averred that the man
was making about twenty-five miles
an hour on King street. between rat
rick and Alfred, yesterday afternoon.
The driver denied tte charge, alleg-
inc that his car was going at about
ten miles an hour at the time he was
overhauled. Several witnesses APP
peared for the defense. The accused
was dismissed.
There were present between thirty
ard forty drivers OF trucks ana Jlt-
new BUSES, and the court III dismiss
sing the charge took occasion 10 warn
all present Of the consequences OF
violating the city traffic laws. They
we're told that the people OF AleXan-
dria welcomed the army OF new
Corners to our city, and that the au-
thorities did not desire to do anything
which could. in the least, interfere
with the new citizens. The traffic
law, however, must be obeyed, and
those who ignore o. defy it will be
compelled to pay the penalty when
brought into court. 't'he audience was
further told that numbrs of auto
trucks and automobils are being OPP
Grated upon the streets without rear
lights at night, and in some cases
minus headlights. while cars are
parked on many Of our streets with
out rear lights. Attention was also
called to the fact that all such We
hicles must display their proper i
censes.
Alexandria is at present alive with
motor cars Of al patterns. If the
drivers of such observe The law the
danger of mishaps is minimized; buS
if chauffeurs are negligent or dclia:tt
accidents are inevitable.
All present acquiesced in the OBJ
servations Of the court, and there IS
reason to suppose more attention VIII
be given the law and pciicc rules
governing traffic in future.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16
GERMAN PROSPECTS.

Germany can, only Under the
NEST favorable hypothesis. postpors
for still a short time on the West
ern front a decision which will be
unpleasant to her. The submarine
has been a failure and has been the
means of bringing the United States
into the war. Germany has lost
from an economical point Of view.
Sh= Is eondsnnea TO Dis az 3 nttica.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16

ton and succeeded in sidetracking the
measure.
When Stevens learned Of the pro-
cedure he became frantic and next
day ventilated himself upon the New
York editor. 7 Among otehr things
ne said: "The bill met tn, approval
Of representative men of the House
until scarecrow here from New
York and caused several sudden SOM
ersaults."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16
LETTER FROM ATLANTIC CITY
CCorrespondence of The Gazette)

Turning from the ocean and the
hathers our next means of pleasure
and amusement, as every visitor to
Atlantic City knows, is found in the
various piers fronting the Boardwalk
end extending far beyond the shore.
Beginning some distance from the In
let comes Heinz's Pier, which combines
10th pleasure and business, being
built by the noted Pittsburgh pickle
and vinegar manufacturer, of ST
fame, some years ago as an excellent
point for the exhibition of his goods.
1t has one recommendation that ad-
mission is always free, and further It
affords splendid outlook on the
ocean, unimpeded by the proximity oil
other piers, and the curve of the beach
toward the Inlet. A good exhibition
Of all his products are found in
large building at the end of, the pier
with courteous Attendants to tell one
ali he wants to know about them, Civ
ing sample tastes of each as one goes
from table to table. But Mr.. Heinz,
icing a great traveller, is also Z col
lector of Oriental and European an
t:ques and curios, which he freely en-
hibits to all visitors to the pier. There
are number of valuable japanese
and Chinese curios, among them fine
cid bronZes, one of the finest being
large incense burner standing from
T to 8 feet in height, belonging in
the old days to some temple or palace.
Among the paintings formerly eX-
hibited there was the old Kaiser of
1870 fame, or notoriety, according to
the point of view with his wife, the
Empress Augusta, proceeding alorg
the Inter den Linden of Berlin, and
receiving the acclamations of the
populace. But realising that, in these
days, this picture would have a very
strong atmosphere of pro-Germanism.
Mr.. Heinz, being an American patri-
OF. has very wisely taken it down and
replaced it by the impressive and fine
painting of Clusters Last Stand
against the Sioux Indians in the bat
tie Of Little Big Horn when only one
Of his brave three hundred escaped to
tell the tale of defeat. This was an
exhibition some years ago on the pier.
The next pier in order is The Gar
t;en Pier, completed about four years
ago, on which may DE found all forms
of amusement from Keith's vaudeville
through motion pictures, band music
TO dancing and other species suited to
the tastes Of every visitor to this
city. Not far from this is the we'll
known Steel Pier, between Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia avenues. This PIE"
has always had a high standing and Is
a favorite resort for visitors from
far and near.
For many years among its best at
fractions was Vessala's Italian Band,
which under its famous leader main
tanned high reputation, and was list
ened to through the long period i
was here by thousands Of admirers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16

CASH FOR OLD FALSE TEETH
Don't matter if broken. / pay S2.Oo
to $500 per set, also cash for Old
gold, silver, platinum, dental gold
and old gold jewelry. VIII send
cash by return mail and will hold
good ten days for sender's approval
of my price. Mail to L. Mazer' 2co'
So. 5th St., Phila., Pa.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16
Notice.

The Jameson Studio will close Sat
urday, August II. After that Gey all
orders may be called for at the resi-
lonca 225 North Royal Street after
s p NJ. s-'
Notice.
There will De a called communica-
+ion Of Alexandria Washington Lodge
No % A F. and A. NJ, Monday
evening. August 10, 1918, q 5 o'clock,
for work. Come and help the sold
iers.
Bv Order Of the Worshipful Master,
4. q. UHLER, Secty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-16
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Editor Gazette-Apropos of the ex-
pansion and improvement; when we
have a new street t" name let's call
j. "The Marine" as that name has al
ready taken its place in history along
with that of Manassas.
OBSERVER.
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" ANTED-To buy small shoe store,
stock and fixtures, and to rent the
building. Address Box 200 Gazette
ofioa 191-6t
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WANTED-Boy, ii or over, with
wheel. Apply 81 King street.
1S5-tf.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

WALL PAPER-Five and Ten cents
per double roll lis South Fairfax
street. l92-3t
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WANTED-Men in car shops; good
wages; steady work. Apply Mr..
Shum, W. Va, Ry Co., Four-Mile
Run, Va. lo3-l2t
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y ANTED-Good kitchen man, So
week; also short-order cook; pay
SIS to $50 per week to good man.
Apply Monticello Cafe. 1S7-tf
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Mattresses, white; So a
week to those experienced. Apply
Monticello Cafe. 1S5-tf
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" ANTED to buy old Feather Beds for
Carsh; will call anywhere within
one hundred miles of Alexandra
to see them. Address f. r. Casper,
care Gazette. l9l-4r
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WANTED.

u ANTED--Reiined young couple de-
sire good room and board with good
family; Alexandria or Vlclnlty'
State terms. Bux 800, Gazette
Office 1885,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE


Il had delightful trip through the
country to Admission on Sunday last,
said j. Mercer Barnett. II was drivin5
a big Packard and took my wife, Mrs.
Charles A. Calhoun, my sister and Mar
garet, my niece, and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Chenowe.h. 1t took about four hours to
drive it. The road to Springville is very
good, but between it and Ashville it is
mighty bad, but beyond Gadsden it gets
good again. We saw a soldier trudging
along the road carrying a big grip and
we took him in. He seemed mighty
grateful for the lift. Camp Mcclellan is
looking fine. The boys to the number
of several hundred were taking a swim
in the lake as we passed. We had lot
of magazines with US and handed them
out to some of the convalnscents in the
hospital. II the roads could be put IN
shape it would mean that the trip could
be easily covered in a day and give au-
tomobile parties a chance to get some
time with the soldier boys"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08

and Tennessee-Alabama makes the
best percentage showing, and of the
cities Birmingham takes the lead in
oversubscription of its quota. This
city not only raised more money than
Atlanta, but the Birmingham zone is
far ahead of the Atlanta zone.
The patriotic fervor of the nation
was strongly in evidence on the last
day of the drive when subscriptions
came in large volume from practical
ly every section of the United States.
The masses were aroused and every
bond buyer showed his eagerness to
help defeat German autocracy. So it
will be to the end Of the war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
Public Demands Truth
About Airship MIDDLE

TT1HE nation has a right to know
y if the sensational charges
brought in connection with the failure
of our gigantic air programme are
true. That there has been woeful
laundering somewhere is self-evident.
An enormous sum of money, $780,
100000, was appropriated with the
purpose of making America Supreme
in the air" A large part of this
money has already been expended,
the remainder will be consumed in
contracts already let, we are. told,
and we have practically nothing to
show for it. Senator Chamberlain de-
ciares that not one American-made
battleplane has been sent to Europe,
yet our programme called for about
$4,000 planes, with from $500 to 5000
in France by July /. The further
charge is made that 1900 cadet flyers
were sent to France and could not be
trained because there were no ma
chimes available.
Senator Chamberlain, as chairman
of the Senate military committee, is
evidently determined to get to the
bottom of the airplane scandal, which
has becohAe a grave reflection on
America, and no doubt played its part,
as claimed, in preventing the sale of
Liberty Bonds to citizens who felt
that millions of dollars had been
squandered without producing air
planes. Senator Chamberlain declared
in the Senate yesterday, "The commit
tee doesn't propose to engage in any,
embarrassing process" The investi-
cation into the aircraft situation has
the Endorsement of President Wilson
and will be vigorously prosecuted.
Senator Chamberlain says the public
has never been told the truth. "This
whole business has been camouflaged
and misrepresented to the American
people"
There is an insistent demand that
this inquiry be put through and the
muddle cleared up. The blame should
be placed squarely where it belongs.
We cannot afford to make any more
blunders of such far-reaching i'm
portance to the cause of America and
her allies in this war, apart from the
wasteful expenditure of money appro-
priated in good faith.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
Merchants and Savings Stamps

"I have given a lot OF time to public
affairs" said Bob Ewing. and / think
il is nothing bur right that the busi-
ness rnen should sacrifice a good bit of
their efforts to better carry on the calls
which the war has forced upon US. but
fear my new job as stats chairman
of the retail merchants division of
the War Savings Stamp campaign is
going to .nahe re hustle tc organize
Alabama thoroughly.
THE National Retail Merchants as
ISOLATION has undertaken as it's part
OF the work to sell 500, 600, 900 worth
of War Savings Stamps through the
retail stores of the United States. 1t
means that the state chairmen will
have to go into every county in their
territory and appoint county chair
men and help organize their areas
The retail stores have a great chance
to aid the government, as they come in
direct contact with the buying public
and car sell popular priced govern
ment securities more advantageously
than any other agency. / am going
to do my best to put Alabama in the
lead"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
Il 4: X
To Continue the
Boston Symphony

THE last chapter of the Boston
4 Symphony trouble which began
with strong public protest against
DR.. Karl Muck for his ugly attitude
toward "The Star-Spangled Banner"
who was afterwards arrested and in
termed as an alien enemy, closes with
Col. Henry L. Higginson's relinquish-
ment of all connection with the famous
organization, which he had founded
and maintained.
Colonel Higginson was one of Bos-
tons most esteemed benefactors. He
was something of an idol. Other men
of wealth might have built up SYM
phony orchestra, but it required a man
of Higginson's love for music and en-
thusiasm to make it the popular in
stitution it became. Colonel Higgin-
son is now an octogenarian and in his
old age has become oversensitive to
criticism. He defended Muck and in
sisted on his retaining. the orchestra
Leadership. When comment was
heaped upon the benefactor for stick
i ing to Muck he lost his temper and
talked back"
The Boston symphony season had
been concluded and it was generally
believed that the orchestra would go
to pieces, but from the plans recently
formulated there is hope in musical
circles that it will be perpetuated in
charge of board of trustees COM
posed of prominent citizens of public
spirit and artistic taste. The SYM
phony has always been conducted by
eminent musicians. Among those who
have been it's leaders are Nikisch,
Gericke, Paur and Fielder
| In view of the recent troubles
brought about by Muck's ro-German-
ISN'T turned out that he was one of
the most active supporters of the Ger
man propaganda man of pre-
eminent ability and distinct person
atty will be needed if the orchestra
is to be kept up to its old-time stand
ard. Rachmaninoff. the Russian com
poser, will probably be engaged. In
the eighties, before fancy salaries
were common, the conductor was paid
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

This would be a wonderful world ~
every man would only live up to the
opinion he has of himself
You can call it a stag party. But II
is dear when you come to settle IN
for it,
And what has become of the old
fashioned magazine writer who was
known as a muckraker?
You need not fear the mouthea
man who is looking for trouble. Rut
look out for the silent guy who is try
ing to avoid it.
One of the best bets we know ar Il
that a suspicious wife is going to find
what she is looking for even when n
isn't there.
Every princess is going to marry a
king. And 80 out of every 100 mar
ry deuces.
One thing we like about a woman is
that she can make herself better look
ing when she tries. A man can't.
You can get more out of man by
appealing to his reason than you can
get out of him by appealing to his
pocketbook.
Mother won't worry about fathers
pants needing renovating about this
time of year. But she won't forget to
dig out his 1917 straw lid and use up
10 cents worth Of renovator on ii so
he won't pay two bucks for new one.
3 We hate to rub in that old fashioned
stuff. But what has become of the
o. I. young man who used to polish
his own shoes?
All we know about law is that we
would hate to be the attorney for the
plaintiff when the defendant is fe-
male who is actually pretty.
There are two kinds of arbitration.
There is real arbitration and married
arbitration. Married arbitration means
settling the matter with friend wife
by letting her have her way.
There are all sorts of folks in the
world including the adult who acts
peeved because Santa Claus didn't bring
h'~' the thing he wished for.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
WE ARE COMING. BROTHERS.

BY Elizabeth Bedford Phillips.
CA war. poem by a lady now in her sew
enty-sixth year, whose husband primed
the first gun fired at Fort Sumter, April
II, 1861 ses
We are coming brothers, coming;
Hold the line, hold the line
Flying, sassing. bombing
For Freedom we are coming.
Hold The line, brothers, mine!
We are speeding, brothers, speeding;
Hold the line, hold the line,
Though wounded. sore and bleeding,
No call of suff' ring needing,
Hold me line, brothers, mine.
We are rushing, brothers. rushing;
Hold the line, hold the line,
Foes of mercy, crushing
Their hope OF vict'ry hushing,
Hold the line, brothers mine!
You are fighting. brothers, fighting;
Hold the line. hold the line.
Flames ut Freedom lighting
The grim world-wrongs are righting
Hold the line, brothers mine,
Down the Hun, down the Hun.
With Freemen's all for Freedom,
The Victory will be won!
Down the Hun. down the Hun.
With Freemen's all for Freedom
The Victory will be won!
Bloomfield. N. j.