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bowl. but when we went to Greenwich
to get q hold OF place to live We
found they wasn't nothing at leisure
was without no roof to cover our head
SO she says she had been wanting for
q long vile to visit her family at Wa
wasee Lake. Ind. and i said yes and I
have been anxious for long time to
visit my folks in Niles, Mich. 30 we
packed up and went to Wawasee Lake
and when her family seen us comeing
they forced a smile.
Well the time past quick down there
as it is the biggest lake in Ind. and
over your head in some places and
every day l went fishing up to the time
I finely caught the fish and after that
I played golf as they have hole
takes care Of it and the horse also acts
as a rowing hazard when he isn't busy
moving the fair way with his teeth
and they say you can tell how old
horse Is by looking at his teeth but
this old codger never cracks a smile
so all as you can do is guess. but judy
ing by the fair way would say ne was
about wks. Of age.
One day they was bird from n.
Wayne playing the course and he was
sore because YOU half to play all your
brassey shots with a niblick and ho
was on the Sd. hole which runs along
the b. and o. from Gary to Fostoria
and it looked like he would get on
what they call the green with his 18th.
and maybe sink his putt for a eagle IL
and just then the old man and Rover
popped up from nowheres and ne asked
them II you played winter golf on this
course. Well the horse didn't pay no
tension but the old man said he guest
not as it gets pretty cold down here.
Well, l been staying at my aunt in
law in Goshen since the world serious
and they keep q chicken and believe
me I am never late for breakfast
though sometimes set up till $3.50 play
ing halma but now I guess l better
cut this letter short as II the genial
editor prints this letter in toto to use
the Latin. am afraid he won't have
no RIM. left for the dead people ana
gags SO l win save the rest Of the news
for the next time.
RING w. LARDNER.
Goshen. Ind. Oct 81.
Copyright. 1910. BY the Rell Syndicate. hi
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sRsE IS ny HIS TEETH. nut

low barometer area that was moving
steadily toward the southern states.
4
The next chapter In the hurricanes
brief history Is told in the weather re-
port of September 3: ''The tropical
storm was central Tuesday night and
little south of Key West, where the
barometer read 2s.0s inches. with wind
velocity Of sixty miles an hour from the
northeast. The storm Ia apparently
moving northwestward and will pass
Into the Gulf Of Mexico during Tuesday
night
How speedily and decisively the fore
caster had acted in the face of the on
coming peril is indicated by the next
sentence: warnings TO shipping and
ether interests have been regularly sent
since Monday morning. when storm
warnings were first displayed OH the
south Florida coast"
The following forty-eight hours were
laden with grave responsibility for the
star Of the weather bureau. 1t was
theirs to decide at the earliest possible
moment consistent with accuracy In
what direction the storm. now moving
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KING w. LARDNER'S WEEKLY LETTER

Many of my friends all ready knows
that am going to move east from
dear old Chi where 1 been located on
and Off for the past 10 yrs. but per-
haps a few Of you is curious as to
how ] come to make this decision.
Well they was a show name Chu Chin
Chow that come to Chi last winter
and the bird that owned IL was name
Mr. Gest and / night we become ac-
quainted and he asked me why didn't
l write him play. So I says ] haven't
never wrote and don't know If I can
or no, and vile I was makeing the
experiment the wife and Riddles
would half to live on memorys so
when he got through laughing at the
quaint way 1 put it he says yes but
suppose I was to give you enough
jack to keep them in fruit and cereal
wife you are writeing the play so 1
says o. X. and he set down and wrote
out a check and come to find out 1t
was good.
Well, I told about it at home and I
says we must not leave this wild bird
get out of our clutches, but we have got
to move somewheres within touching
distants of him so she says what do we
half to move for, as when this jack is
all spent you can 60 down to his hotel
and tell him you will write him 2 plays
in the stead of l. So l says just be-
cause his name is Gest that is no sign
he always stays ~ a hotel and she
laughed out loud.
Well found out that he makes his
home in N. Y. so says we would move
down there. but she said she wouldn't
live there. but she had heard they
couldn't nobody sleep acct. of the Brook
lyn base bali fans acrost the river so
said we would find quite place some
where's close so asked friend of mine
from n. Y. where he would recommend
us to and he said Greenwich, Conn. So I
asked him where was that and he says
on Long Island Sound. So l says how
could that be quite place and be so
near the sound. but he said he had
heard that one before or read it in q
book.
Well the next thing was getting rid
Of our lease in Chi and they wasn't no
trouble about as people IS SO hard up
for homes that some of them has even
sold their gold fish and moved into the
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the chief forecaster at that time could
only conjecture.
Despite his long experience In his pro-
fession It was inevitable that the fore
castor should be anxious: every me-
teorolocist who 10 forecasting at such
time IN anxious. He had been on duty
in seasons past when not single hurri-
cane appeared, But In other years. be-
tween July and October. more than one
such storm had left trail Of dsvasta-
tion across many states. The for >caster
know that millions Of dollars worth of
carroes about to sail from the Atlantic
and gulf ports might be lost IL he failed
to make . proper forecast and issue
adequate warnings. The fate Of whole
cities rested on his decision. As he
turned from his study Of the Geographic
reports received from the eastern and
southeastern section Of the country. he
soked O Nttle, but In the manner of one
whose joviaiity was tribe forced. FER
haps. about his repeated hard luck at
being on duty every time one Of these
storms hove In sight" There was an
unmistakable tenseness in his manner
A he studied the map. pointing to the
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with increasing power and rapidity.
would travel as II came nearer the
mainland. On Wednesday. September
10. the report read: Tho tropical storm
passed Key West. Fla. about midnight
Tuesday night with the barometer read
ing 2S.A inches and estimated wind
velocity Of lilo miles an hour from the
east" Here was evidence that one of
he most violent storms Of recent years
was about to strike at some point on
the gulf coast.
With all its scientific data regarding
the course of previous storms instantly
accessible, and with reports from all
available PORTS of o5sei walton tabulated
and recorded on the weather map, the
weather bureau foretold many hours In
advance the peril that threatened the
gait coast. Thus the people were fore
armed.
II will be recalled that storm warnings
were displayed regularly on the south
Florida coast since Monday morning.
How accurate the weather bureaus
forecasts had been Is shown by the
press dispatches dated Wednesday night
September 10 Lower Florida was
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Moving to
theEaSt.
o the editor: No doubt your
subscribers is wondering W hat
mas became of me and the

TITO the editor: No doubt YOUR
SUBSCRIBERS is wondering what
has became of me and the
last time i was in your citv
the genial editor of this paper whom
this letter Is addressed made the re-.
mark that it was to bad that man
like l whose friends was legions fac.
cording to the editor) did not keen
In touch with their old friends in the
different citys and correspond with
their friends in all the different citys
So l says maybe some people has
enough spare time to write to all
their friends but personally time
means money to man like myself
and IL was to even take time to drop
card once in while to all nv old
pals why they would not be time for
me to do nothing else. vile the wife
and kiddies went out in the forest
and gathered Herbs and wild hurtle-
berrys for the evening meal -
The editor laughed heartily at the
way l put it. but after he had re-
covered made the remark that this
paper AcoSHSa oil my Olu lTleuQS as
we'll as people that takes interest in
a man like l and feel like they know
me though we have never met and If
cared to keep my old friends posted on
my movements and etc. why he would
feel highly honored would / write in
n letter once in while that he could
publish it in this paper containing
news of my family and l as we'll as
items of interest occurring in the big
world which have the privilege of
comeing in contact with them more
so than YOU dear people of this old
town beautiful though it is.
have excepted the kindly editors
genial offer and vile l do not claim
merits as literary man the editor
says that does not matter and II l will
Just write in my own breezy style
(the way | talk as he expressed iD
he and his readers will be more than
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paralyxed today rs a result Of the vio-
lent hurricane that passed over tina.
section last night. Not q house In this
city ,(Key West) escaped damage: $50
frame buildings practically were razed.
two church edihces wrecked and Ave
retail stores overturned The d.. mage is
estimated at more than $4,000. 900. Ship
ping Off the coast met with disaster.
Several vessels were sunk and others
were driven to the reefs"
Il
BY this time the weather bureau, In
it's fight to keep destruction and death
at tho minimum, was able to act with
more dehniteness. even though there
vas no adequate means Of ascertaining
atmospheric conditions In the center
urea Of the Gulf Of Mexico. The report
Of September IL flashed over the wires
from Washington read: 1.-The tropical
storm is apparently central tonight In
the Gulf Of Mexico with latitude II de-
srees and longitude IS degrees. Absence
Of reports forhids the definite location Of
he storm center, and 1t is therefore i'm
possible at this time to state the portion
of the mainland that It win first reach.
although 1t Is fairly probable that 1t
will be west Of the Mississippi river.
Storm warnings are displayed from the
Louisiana coast eastward to central
Florida and OH the northwest coast to
Texas
In the next twenty-four hours the
storm burst upon the Texas coast in
full fury. While the papers the next
few days were filed with the accounts
Of tue damage and death caused by the
hurricane, the fact Of Greatest sissEif-
canoe and which the public has come
TO take almost as a matter. Of course,
only partially realizing the skill End re-
sponsibility involved, was that the
weather. bureau had been able to an
t;cipate this storm long enough In ad.
v.nce to prevent a loss that probably
would have totaled thousands Of lives
and millions OF dollars in shipping. Ac-
counts of the disaster. therefore. Wis
ualize what would have been only g
fraction Of the total destruction had
there been no weather bureau. Reports
from Houston. Tex. dated September
IS declared that 120 bodies had been
found on the reefs eight miles from
Portland, Tex. Most of the dead. the
II essase stated. had been rscofnixed as
residenss OF Corpus Christi. The dam
sc in the latter city was estimated at
"a, O00.0 900. Relief trains were hurried to
the scene and, as II to add the latest
touch II modernity. airplares were
called upon to assist in relieving the
suffering, six planes being sent Oh Sep
TENDER is from Kelly Field with food
supplies for the ,anded inhabitants.
Among the supplies dropped was thirty
pounds Of yeast to be used by the re-
lief committee in making bread for the
emergency.
The tragic life history Of the gre
denly rs II had begun.
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- struction than the mightiest Of
volcanoes and leaving in its
wake a no mans land rivaling
wars scars across the face Of Europe,
the hurricane Is chief among natural
forces contending for the title, "Cham-
pion Of destruction"
To fight the hurricane extensively Is
folly. For ages mankind has been apie
to wage only a defensive war against It's
terrifying drives" and these efforts
have been. until modern times. pitifuiiy
feeble Mans only defense Is to be fore
warned. That it has been possible In the
present generation to reduce the death
toll of hurricanes in the United States
to a minimum 10 due to the service
maintained by the United States
weathe, bureau.
The headquarters of the bureau Is the
nerve center Of thus unique organization
which extends across the continent and
also far out to sea. since many vessels
cooperate with the bureau by making
daily reports to 1t. Early in September
a hurricane, destined to devastate a
vide area bordering the Gulf of Mexico,
reared it's head like great monster a
thousand miles to the southeast OF the
United States, among the islnn IS OF the
Caribbean. AS to what gavC 1t birth,
not even the scientist knows. The
forces that propagate all Of these storms
are shrouded in mystery. This parficu-
lar hurricane was born In remote tropi-
cal waters, probably about September b.
center Of disturbance the sea was rela-
lively calm. and passengers on steamers
passing this way had no intimation Of
the terrific force that was generating
CT to the south. Likewise. the south
land Of the United States lay placid. In
part bathsd In sunshine and In part
shaded by far-stretching blankets OF
clouds, many of them 90 feecy that to
the casual observer they carried no sug-
gsstion Of the coming storm. But the
hurricane In the tropics gathered
strength quickly and soon flung itself
in fury over the slender chain Of islands
constituting the Florida keys.
In the face Of every such rising peril
tho meteorological upon whom rests the
responsibility for making daily fore
casts stands like one facing thief In
the dark. Beyond the mainland coast
and . few scattered stations In the
West indies. he has no means OF learn
ing Of the changing atmospheric condi-
tiona in those seas to the south and
east. save chance reports from ships.
Early reports Of this hurricane were
meager. indeed. The first lntimation OF
the coming Of disaster was received
September 8. The daily forecast for
that date stated thai tropical storm
had appeared to the southeast Of Key
West But as to Its extent or Its course
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assessing a longer arm Of de-
struction than the mightiest OF
volcanoes and leaving in it's
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-11-03

York in the last six months than in
all of the preceding six years: all of
which, he said. may go on. but the
day Of the pinch is coming
Concerning some of the conditions
existing in this country DIR. Green re-
turned his attention TO the military
draft. He said that Of the 1000 600
of men who were called in the first
draft, IS l5 per cent were found ply.
sically unfit to become soldiers. and
% Is per cent. were UNIT because Of
diseases. He said that 100000 of the
young men could neither read nor
write. and OF S,50o,0o0 people in this
country from figures compiled in
1915. 62la per cent OF whom were
white. were similarly lacking in educa-
tion. Pointing 20 the great havoc that
is wrought among the people by tuber
culosis. Dr Green said zee 0o0 people
in this country died Of this disease last
year. He declared this disease is taken
through breathing through the mouth
He also referred 70 the heavy totl
taken by typhoid. together with the
stupendous mortality among infant
through lack Of proper cleanliness and
attention He said that - per cent
Of the flies breed through manure piles
and being great disease carriers. han
dreds OF thousands III infants fall vlc.
Tins thereby Or King recited these
among many other figures. 20 drive
home his question How are you go.
ing to deal with such conditions with
out home service campaign by the
Red Cross
Capt. John Kaiser. who is chairman
Of the drive to be made by the An.
napolis and Anne Arundel county
chapter. presided over the meeting.
Opening prayer vas offered by Rer
Edward y. Johnson, Rector Of 81
Anne's Protestant Episcopal church.
Ridgely T. Melvin, chairman Of the
local chapter. since its organization,
was introduced as the first speaker
Mr.. Melvin spoke of the peace time
program and the work the local chap
ter is doing and has yet to do. He
said that while the Red Cross needs
the American people the American
people need the Red Cross and need il
more this year than ever before This
is because, he said, there are abroad
in the land forces of unrest and any
thing that can best be combatted by
the spirit of the Red Cross-the spirit
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of service and unselfshness Mr. Mel
vim referred to these antagonistic
forces as being un-Ameriean, inhuman
and unholy and said that they were
aimed at the very formation of law
and order and were losing no chance
to breed discomfort and strife. and to
make mOckery of the brotherhood
OF man The Red Cross. he said. could
Offset this in large measure by giving
the people something really worth
while 10 do and think about and this
was not only to carry oNk a program
for material things but to keep alive
The spirit that made the Red Cross
a decisive factor in winning the war.
Mr. Melvin gave "A summary OF the
things this chapter has accomplished
and paid a glowing tribute 10 the
department 81 women's work and tho
home service section The future pro-
gram was outlined and shows that
the local chapters activities viii be
concentrated ON the continued work
of The home service. on public health
and home care n the sies. on produc.
tlen u hospital and refugee garments
and 90 ladies Red Cross
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-11-03
BRING PRESSURE ON
OFFICIALS To CALL
OFF BIC COAL STRIKE

Washington. ID. C.. Nov. 3.-Continu-
Gus pressure is being brought to bear
on officials of the United Mine Work
ers of America to call off the strike
of bituminous coal miners. Definite
assurances have been given the union
officials that President Wilson and At
orney- General Palmer stand ready to
attempt an adjustment of the contro-
versy as soon as the strike orders
have been rescinded.
This assurance was renewed today
by Palmer in telegram to local
union in Ohio At the same time it
bcame known that Samuel Gompers
had informed John l.. Lewis, acting
president of the American Federation
of Labor. of the Governments attitude
and that Warren S. Stone, grand chief
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, had been in communication
with Lewis over the long-distance tele-
phone.
Gomper's message was sent Friday
night after his interview with the
President and probably gave rise to
the report yesterday that he had at
tempted personally to end the strike.
The result of the efforts to bring
about a recall of the strike order is
not known here.
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sThe Fall OF Babslen.

'sThe Fall of Babylon" perhaps the
finest motion picture film in existence,
will be shown at the Palace theatre
tonight 1t is said by many to be the
masterpiece of d. w. Griffith, the man
who produced THE Birth of Nation
Intolerance. and many other of the
greatest pictures of the day.
The picture has to do with the at
tack of the Modes and Persians on the
most famous city of ancient times. The
repulse of the attacking hords and
their final victory, which is due to
treachery.
The sumptousness and decadence
of the civilization of the day are por-
trayed in a banquet in the palace.
which is interrupted by the attack of
Persians.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-11-03
NnI Judge At
Calvert Fair

Mrs. Georgiana Linthicum. County
Demonstrators of Home Economics,
will leave here the last. of the week
Tor Calvert county where she will be
/ judge at the county exhibit Mrs.
LInthicum was Judge last week al
several county exhibits. She said that
he work in another county could not
compare with that in the community
exhibits in Anne Arundel. where 1t il
IF much higher class, especially at
the community exhibit at Davidson
gilIe and Glen Burnie. Work done by
women and girls at Jacksonville Is
par excellance, and cannot be excelled
anywhere.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-11-03
Party In Honor
OF Young Guesf

Miss Augusta Wattenscheidt was
hostess Friday evening at the resi-
dence OF her mother. Mrs. j. Bernard
Lloyd. Murray Hill, at a Halloween
party in honor OF her young guest.
Mss Lucinda Henkel. OF Baltimore. a
student at the Western High School.
that city. who won the scholarship
al the Maryland Institute OF Art and
Design. where she is also a student.
The hostess, her guest of honor, and
al the others invited were in fancy
dress. The decorations were in keep
ing with Halloween. yellow and black
being the color scheme From a large
Japanese parasol were suspended
steamers of yellow and black to
which the faYors were attached.
Lighted pumpkins formed a feature
OF table decorations After games of
all kinds were INDUCED in, feast OF
good things was enjoyed by Misses
Helen Wilson, Rose Kane, Lucille Fur
man.
Ada Wilson, Marion Jewell. Flor
ence Russell Amelia Hammond. Mar
guerite Murray. of Washington, and
Masters Rudolph and William Smith.
William Wilson, Frederick Brown and
r. Klakring.
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Baby Brashears
Ranilzed At st. Anne's

The sacred rite of baptism was ad-
miniyered yesterday in st. Anne's
Church. after the morning service to
baby Brashears." infant daughter OF
Mrs Elnor and the late Capt. James
b Brashears, u. S. M c., whose
death of pneumonia occurred last win
ter at the Naval Hospital, here, dur
sg the flu epidemic, six months
mor to his daughters birth. The
gGe baby girl was given her fathers
mnc James Hamilton Brown Bras
bears and the rite of baptism was
administered by the rector of St
Anne's, the Rev Edward d. Johnson
D u. The god-mothers of the chile
we're: Mrs Owings, the materna!
grandmother; Mrs. Brashears, the
paternal grandmother, and Mrs. Daniel
r Magruder The godfather wa.
William Owings. the baby's uncle
The ceremony was witnessed by many
friends of the family