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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
THE WORK OF THE TRIUMvIRATE.
Act of the Legislature Transferring Waterworks
and Electric Light Plant from City Council to
Board of Commissioners of Public Works.
Text of Act Election to be Held Shortly

people Of the city last Tuesday that would give
copy General Assembly by which the
transferred Commissioners of Public Works. Tho Act not
for Fridays and it is accordingly inserted today The
people The following the law:
AN ACT. ..u..,. p. .tsa.
To Amend Section 3o16 Code of
carona Volume Civil Code Relating the
Commission oransebug Approved the
Day February Striking Abbeve
Said Act and Adding the End Thereof
Relating to Abbevile County '..r.
General Assembly of the State of South
Of February 5h
1915 striking the words nd
Abbeve" said and adding tho end of said
following Provided the Commissioners of
Public provided for
general election municipal officers for said city, next
of this Act that said secon when amended
shall as follows:
Section electors shall for
of Office shall be
following of the short and until their
The Classification above designated
after election by
general municipal officers following the e1pir
holding tho short and at
thereafter such Commissioner
until his elected
qualified and their Office shall be
Public Works of such municipality and by
sued of the Courts of this State At
meeting after election and after eec
they shall organize by the election of one of their
The clark of the municipality shall
secretary The Mayor and Aldermen Of tho city,
Wardns shall fill
elected appointed to such Office
the election officers of the muni
tn. the ntendan of the town shall
elected members of the of Public
within days after the reauts of such election
shall be Board of Commisoners OF
the of Lauren and the city of Camden and the
all Of the dut and responsibilities or the
Roard of devolvd the
City of and city of Camden and the
And Provided further that there shall be no
sf Public Works the city of Chester but
duties of the Board Of
of devolved the City Council of the
Provided That the city of orangburs which city mas
the Board Works hereby abolished and all
of said Commissioners of Public
duties relation to issuing and selling
doed the City Coun-
Oangeburg: Provided further That the Commissioners OF Pub
lie elected provided for herein
following
the passage of
Approved the of February A. D. 1918
RICHARD /. MANNING,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
PETTIGREW-HADDON.

A marriage that was great sur
prise to their friends was that OF
Mr.. R. B. Haddon and Miss Idelia
Petigrew of the Midway section.
They came to Abbeville to the home
of their friend, Mr.. Will Cason, and
Rev. H. w. Pratt performed the
ceremony last Sunday night. Mr..
and Mrs.. Haddon will make their
home for the present with the
groom's brother, Mr.. James Haddon,
of. Santuc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
MR.. DEWEY SICK.

Mr.. D. A. Dewey, accompanied hGs
DR.. ]. E. Pressly and Mr.. Waltz
McCord, went over to Chester Srrs
day. Mr.. Dewey has been inS bs1
health for sometime and he has gone
over to DR.. Pryor's for treatmsnta
His friends are wishing him a speedy
recovery so that he can be among
them again. !ssS:5e$s
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
MR.. PARKER DOING WELL

Mr.. L. C. Parker underwent a
serious operation at Johns Hopkins
last Monday. News from him yes
terday stated that he was getting
on as we'll as could be expected.
Mrs. Parker and Mr.. M. B. Reese
were with him at the time. Mr..
Reese is expected home today.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
BACK HOME.

Mrs. B. S. Barnwell and Miss
Mary Aiken have returned to the
city from Florida, where they have
been spending the winter. They had
q most pleasant stay and have been
greatly benefited by the change.
They both look well.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
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AMERICANS CAPTURE
NUMBER GERMANS

With the American Army
in France, Sunday-An Am
erican patrol in the Chemin
Des Danes sector in conjunc-
ton with a French patrol
each yesterday penetrated a
few hundred yards into the
German lines and captured
two German officers, 20 men
and one machine gune.
There was some sharp
fighting and a number of the
enemy were killed and
wounded. No American cas-
ualties are reported.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-26
Will Give Up Much OF
Her Valuable Proper
ty to Huns =
WILL WITHDRAW
FROM FINLAND
win Give Back to the Turks thu
cronnd Taken From Then in Bat
tl.-Surrender Abject.

The Bolsheviki government IN
Russia, represented by Nikolal Len
inc and Leon Trotzky, has accedeo
N the demands of Germany and
announced it's readiness to accept
the hard peace terms which Ger
many has laid down.
Thus, apparently, without furtner
hesitation, the Russians are prepared
in an effort to stop the inroads tne
Germans now are making into their
country, to add to the enemy's al
ready vast holding more of Russia's
most valuable western territory, ex-
tending from the Gulf Of Finland
southwark to the Black Sea, and ev-
en- to withdraw her troops from Fin
land and give back to the Turks
what has been taken from them in
battle. ... }
Abject Surrender.
The surrender seems abject. Rus
sia is Immediately to send delega-
ton to Brest-Litovsk, there to dis
cuss with German representatives
the final details of the peace and
sign the compact.
At last accounts the German arm
les in the east were giving no heed
to talk of peace, but, on the con-
trary, were methodically pushing
forward their line over the more
than 500-mile front from the Cult
of Finland region to Volhynia, and
still nowhere meeting with any sys-
tematic attempts to hinder their
progress.
No Big Fights.
On the battle fronts nowhere has
there been an engagement of great
dimensions. On the line in France
there have been several patrol en-
counters, with the French the aggres-
sors against the Germans, of great
,er than usual violence. The artil-
lery activity all along the front con-
tinues violent on isolated sectors
The Germans again have tried to
outgun the Americans in their Sec
tor northwest of Toul. AS on sever
al former occasions, the Americans
retailiated with such fierceness and
accuracy of aim that the enemy de-
sisted.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
Rent and Pork Chops
Worry Congress
House Disputes Over Bill AL
lowing Washington Land
lords to Raise Rates

WASHINGTON, March 11.-Prices
of everything householders must pay
for, from pork chops to rent, were dis
cussed in the House to-day during con-
sideration OF the bill designed to pre-
vent exorbitant rentals and hotel rates
in Washington While admitting that
some rentals, particularly those for
furnished houses and apartments, were
very high. opponents of the measure
disagreed with the theory of trying to
regulate these charges on the ground
that it would lead to the fixing of
prices of everything sold in the capital
Charges that prohteerng was run
ming rampant and that the people whc
have come to Washington for war work
were the chief sufferers were met with
declarations that similar conditions
obtain in all cities that are centres OF
war activity, and that the great ma
iority Of people coming here now do so
in the hope of bettering their own
conditions.
Representative Graham. of Illinois,
said prices of delivered groceries here
were SO 1-3 per cent higher than in
cities of similar size, and Representa-
tive Howard of Georgia, declared that a
single man in Washington earning 500
month had little left after paying
actual expenses.
The bill, which will come up for
final vote Tomorrow, provides for
percentage increase Of rents over last
year, and certain charges for furniture.
and allows consideration Of heat and
ether services when arriving at rents
Tor apartment houses.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
May Order O'Neil to
Refund Draft Fec

Justice Dnlchanty. of the Supreme
Court, indicated yesterday that he
would sign an order directing Frank S
O'Neil, attorney and former chairman
OF the State Athletic Commission, to
pay back about $500 which, it is al
legged, he accepted from three persons
for his efforts to cause the exemption
Of men from military service.
Max D. Steuer, appearing for the
three petitioners who want their money
back, questioned the jurisdiction Of the
District Attorney in the matter, it
having been reported that District Al
torney Swami had been asked to inter-
est himself in the activities Of O'Neil.
O'Nejl was not in court to show cause
why nc should not pay back the money
which he accepted without giving re
turn, as it IS alleged he did not obtain
the release of the relatives of his
clients. Mr.. Steuer said he was in
formed that O'Ncil would refund the
money if the matter is dropped by the
District Attorney. "When the matter
was first brought TO my attention." said
Mr Stcuer. ~ could not see how any
attorney could undertake to accept a
retainer in such proceeding. 1T seems
TO me that man who helps otters to
cvade service in the National Army is
q menace to the community"
"No more so than your clients" Jus
ticc DeIehanty rotortcd. "It seems to
RE that they arc all tarred with the
same stick"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
To Exempt Aliens
Working ON Ships
American System VIII Be
Made to Apply to Allies
Nationals

WASHINGTON. March 11.-Negotia-
tions are in progress between the
United States and the Allies for the
exemption from draft Of the Allies
nationals who are working in ship
yards of this country, but who are sub
Ject to draft under treaties now being
negotiated. The United States desires
10 have The Allies recognize ship
building is vital war service IS the
United States has recognized it. by
eSemptng Americans VINO ere doing
such work
Officials said the negotiations affect
a good many thousand workers, trained
IN shipbuilding, whose loss would prove
serious handicap to the building pro
gramme and might possibly entail de-
lays III special lines of work that would
be disastrous to the effort to provide
tonnage for supplying a great Amcri-
can army in France. Eastern ship
yards especially employ large numbers
OF aliens, including Scotch. Irish,
Italians and Slavs. many Of whom are
highly skilled carpenters and iorn-
workers.
Approximately 250,oOo Englishmen
and 10000 Canadians would become
liable for service under treaties nego-
tiated with those countries. but not
vet ratified by the Senate The treaties
permit the drafting Of men between
the ages of twenty and forty years.
who include the most vigorous and
productive of the shipyards' alien en-
ployes. Similar treaties with Italv and
France arc being negotiated.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
General Scott Fit
Fer Overseas Duty
jStaf Co,',vspondsncel

WASHINGTON, March II. Mai ior
General Hugh l.. Scott, formerly chief
of staff of the army. now commander
of the Camp Dix Division, National
Army. was advised to-day that he had
successfully passed the medical cx-
animation and has been declared "ilt''
for overseas service.
While here General Scott appeared
before the special board Of medical
officers selected to examine general Of
ficcrs, and made an unusually high
average physically. Because Of his
general military knowledge and his
long experience in campaigns. army
men generally predict that the veteran
Indian fighter is certain 80 go TO the
war theatre.
General Scott was enthusiastic about
the progress made by the men at Camp
Dix. He saiG
"Thcy'rc as fine bunch as have
ever he'd undei. my command. The
progress made by the boys who less
than six months ago were for the most
part unfamiliar with even the simplest
military requirement is remarkable. ]
am extremely proud Of them"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12

hon, are Miss symphonies Bristed and
Miss c. Z. Grace Bristed, Miss Marion
Tiffany Mrs. Lawrence Villas. Mrs.
Lewis Morris, Miss Edith Williams.
MIS-. ]. Gibson Maupin and Mrs. r. W..
Sherwin, of Boston. They will be as
sisted by number of prominent ac-
tresses, headed by Nine. Frances Aida
and Bijou Fernandez.
The box holders include Ambassador
Jusserand. Governor Whitman, Clar-
cnce II. Mackav. Rear Admiral Usher
Henry Clay Frick. Mrs. William X.
Vanderbilt, ir., Harry Payne Whitney,
Mrs. Oliver Hartman, former Senator
W. A. Clark, Nine. Amelita Galli-Curci,
Jacob Werthcim Adrian II. Larkin,
Frank Seaman and Frederick w. Allen.
R. H. Burnside, Of the Hippodrome,
will act as stage director. The other
members Of the committee are Theo-
dore Bauer, Cleofante Campanini Sam
II. Harris, David Belasco, George NJ.
Cohan. Mark A. Luescher, Edward l..
Rernays. Robert A. Franks, Paul
Meyer, William A. Brady, Daniel Froh-
man. Florenz Ziegfeld ir., Giulo
Gatti Cazazza, Edward Ziegler and j. !.
Bernat
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
Training Ship Brings
200 for Service Here
Men Start at Once in Various
Capacities in Merchant
Marine

With the largest class Of merchant
mariners aboard, the United States
Shipping Board training ship Governor
Dingley, reached New York yesterday.
The Governor Dingley brought 200 New
England youths, who have received di-
plomas and are ready for service, and
$50 others who are yet in the under
graduate stage.
The Governor Dingley is at Pier "a.
North River. AS soon as she docked
the work of transferring the graduates
to American merchant ships as sailors,
tiremen and coal rassers, was begun.
it is expected that they viii all be
placed within few days.
This is the Governor Dinglcy's first
trip to this port. She was preceded
here by the Calvin Austin, a sister ship,
which brought 104 sailors a few
weeks ago, and placed them on NOR
chant ships almost at once. The Cal
win Austin returned to her base at Bos-
ton.
Announcement was made yesterday
by Henry Howard, director of the
United States Shipping Board Recruit
ing Service, that u free government
navigation school soon will be opened
hv the board at 25 South Street, for
training experienced men for chief and
assistant engineers on merchant shirs.
Eight free government marine engi-
neerirg schools are already in opera
ton by the Shipping Board throughout
the country and have sent out hundreds
of graduates within the past nine
m ont his
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
Sailors Not Hurt Abroad
Brooklyn Hospitals Deny Ru-
movs; Give Figures

There are 200 or moro sailors still
under the doctors care or convalcscing
in the Brooklyn hospitals. SO far as
can be learned. however, none has been
hurt abroad and, in fact, ii was said
yesterday, only a few OF those at the
hospitals have been abroad at all
Severe colds and in a few cases pneu-
monia, have brought most Of the sail
ors to the hospitals. Many have been
there since IS far back as last Septen-
ber, and at the present timc there are
in the hospitals no more than q score
who have been across the ocean since
the war began.
This statement was issued by the hos
pitfalls yesterday in order to allay y
number of baaeless rumors being given
widespread publicity that the hospitals
were ovcrcrowded with men who had
been injured whilc on duty abroad
The sailors assigned to Brooklyn have
been distributed from the Naval Hos
pita on Flushing Avenue. st. Mary's
at present had the largest number Of
patients. forty-eight having been as
signed there
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
Great Artists Appear Tonight to
Aid War Thrift Stamp Campaign
Society and Stage Join. in
Making Concert at Metro
politan Opera House a
Success

This is Der Tag Tonight at S
O'Clock the War Savings Stamp Concert
viii De held in the Metropolitan Opera
House and thrift will so over the top
The concert will nit the high water
mark of the thrift drive in New York
City. The W. S. S. Committee sent cut
bulletin last night announcing that
there were "still few boxes and a
few tickets left. The bulletin added:
There is standing room to be had pro
vided you get there early"
There is an interesting event on to.
nights programme that has not vet
Leen announced. That is the appear
ance of Augustus Thomas dean Of
American playwrights, who is scheduled
to make brief address. He will be
introduced by the Rev. Nehemiah Bovu-
ton. the chaplain at Fort Hamilton.
Louise Homer is to sing THE Star
Spangled Banner" That will be the
first event of the evening. Sixteen
other musical numbers appear on the
programme. They will be given by such
artists as Lucien Muratore, Mabel Car
rison, Georges Bakianotf. Percy Grain
ger, Giovanni Martinelli. Riccardo
Stracciari. Florence Macbeth. Alice
Nielsen, Sascha jacobson, Grace Hoff-
mar. Helen Stanley and Leo Ornstein.
Nahan F1anho Will De the orchestral
director.
Among the society women who will
sell souvenir programmes. under the
direction of Miss Julie McNein Lentil-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
Sailors Coming for
Great Garden Meet

Sailors from the Pelham Bay train
ing station who are to participate in
the military and naval meet at Madi-
son Square Garden on Friday. Satur
day and Sunday will arrive in this city
day. There viii be 1000 of them
under command of Lieutenant B. C..
McCulloch.
They VIII emerge from the subway
at Columbus Circle at 10 Il. M, and
will march down Fifth Avenue from
Fifty-ninth Street to the Goth Regl-
mcnt ArmoIy. where most Of the time
before the events at the Garden will
equipment, including provisions to last
throughout their stay at the armory,
which will be cooked there.
Another novelty to New Workers. in
spircd by the Garden benefit for the
Women's Oversca Hospitals, is Troop
X of Squadron A of the state police,
which will canter into town tomorrow
evening and probably will parade
Thursday morning.
The mcr will be quartercd in Unit
No. of tho War Camp Community Ser
vice ct 55 West Twentyseventh Street,
formerly the Hotel Darlington. n. The
troop consists of sixty mon. It's com
mundcr is CAPTAIN James NJ. Skif.
The organization is regarded as the
crack troop of the force and is now
stationed at White Plains.
Other organizations that will take
part in the Garden meet are the Ma
rine Corps, the National Guard, the
Red Cross, the Boy and Girl Scouts,
sailors from the navy yard, French
sailors. Junior Police. Womens Motor
Corps and Police Department.
Women drove armored motor cars
about the city yesterday selling tickets
for the meet. They sold many thou
sands Of them.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
New Clubhouse Opened
For Soldiers and Sailors

The Patriotic Service Leagues new
club for soldiers and sailors, occupying
the whole of the six story building at
3l6 West End Avenue. opened its doors
yesterday Mrs. Louis II. Lehmaier,
who he's two sons in the navy, has
leaned the house to the league for the
duration of the war. and patriotic citi-
zens provided the furnishings. Mrs.
Charles S. Ruhe fitted up the canteen,
and furniture for the reading and re-
ception rooms was the gift OF Mrs. Dor
othy T. Cummings. chairman Of the
house cc.nmittee.'
Al reception in the evening visitors
were received by J.. Arnold Frye. Mrs.
G. l.. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. A. 7. Stew
art and Mrs. William Cumming Story,
and an address was made by William
B. Kelsey, of the War Camp Community
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12

song, composed by al American
woman, has been adopted as the most
i!ttlng and appropriate motto for the
Soldiers families of America, Judge
Wadhams said.
Patriotism is the fuel that keeps
the home fires burning brightest" de-
clarcd Judge Wadhams. "Thosc fires
refuse to respond to any ether. This
IS but part Of the great task we have
before us. We ask and need the CO.
operation of every true American whose
circumstances will not permit him or
her TO get INTO service abroad. That is
why the Soldiers Families Of America
has been organized"
The originator of the idea of such a
movement was a woman, Mrs. Walston
Brown, daughter of the late Robert G.
ingersol! and president Of the Interna-
tional Child Welfare League Her in
interest in this organization put her in
touch with the families of soldiers.
Mrs. Brown brought the idea to the at
tention OF Major General Johnson,
commander Of the division at Camp
Upton. He became an enthusiastic sup
porter of her plans. aud steps were
taken at once to organize the families
of the 307th Regiment.
To Organize on Military Lines
Wherever possible the civic organiza
tion OF relatives Will be duplicates Of
the actual military organizations in
umhcr Of regiments and officers will
be elected. In cities and towns where
the men are scattered in different reg-
ments other plans will he relied on to
knit the tenders of the home fires.
Judge Wadhams. who soon will sail
for Europe on governmental mission,
said yesterday that there will be no
duplication of work that is being done
by existing war organizations. He said
it would be made matter Of pride that
ali members of the association also
were members of the Red Cross. Judge
Wadhams has been appointed national
director of the work. and Mrs. Brown
is chairman of the committee on or
ganization in New York. The first
meeting OF the 307th regin,ental family
was held a. her home, III East Twenty
irst Street. on February %. the day
following the parade OF the Camp Up
ton soldiers in Fifth Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
s Drafted Socialists
Get Long erms
Refused to Obey Military
Orders-2O and rs Years
Are Sentences

CAMP DODGE, Iowa, .darch IL
Found guilty by a general court mar
tial. Of refusing to obey orders, eight
National Army men from st. Paul,
Mimi, all professed Socialists, have
been sentenced to long terms Of i'm
prisonMent in the Leavenworth peni-
tentiary. il was announced to-day. A.
S. Broms was given twenty years, and
the other seven were sentenced to
twenty-five years confinement, all at
hard labor
The seven are: w. II. Trescler, r. A.
Carlson, Carl w. Johnson, AXel W.
Carlson. Gunnard Johnson, Forris KAN
man and Nickolaus Ungar.
Broms and Treseler were native
born Americans. The others were born
in Sweden, but had declared their in
tention TO become American citizens.
The court martial ends proceedings
in which the eight men had been in
volved since shortly after June 5, 1917.
when they refused to register for SER
vice in ST. Paul. They were arrested,
found guilty of draft evasion and sen
fenced to eight months. The Federal
sentence was commuted and tho men
brought to CAM Dodge. Here they
refused to recognize the authority of
their officers.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-12
Social Service Bureau
Organized at Sing Sing

CSSINNG. \. Y, March 1l.-An-
nouncement has been made of the
establishment OF the Social Service
Bureau of Sing Sing Prison, an organ
ization which is distinct from those set
on foot by Thomas Mott Osborne, tho
purpose of which are to relieve want in
the families OF prisoners and to assist
in the rehabilitation of convicts. The
bureaus headquarters will bc at the
prison.
Adolph Lewisohn is vice president Of
the organization, and other officers are
Herbert S. Carpenter. Mrs. Helen Jen-
kins, Mrs. f. c. Lockwood. DR.. Bernard
Glueck, Mrs j. Nelson Shreve and Miss
Alice Preston