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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
TOBACCO FACTORIES HAVE
SMALL FUEL SUPPLY LEFT
IT Curtailmcnt l. Enforced. Companic,
Hcre trr Confronted with Pos
NlhilitN Of ClONc- Down.

superintendent Of ninc Of tho larccs.
tobacco factories in Richmond stated
Yesterday that their supplies of cod
Ncr" 8" limited tina; without rcncwai
WITHIN Il few days IL would be impos
Siulc ior them to continue op.ratiou.
pih@iAlS OF only two factories stated
That they had amy large supply of coal
on RaEd. and thcs" two declared that
Two or three weeks without renewal
OF their supply Of fuel would ncccssi-
tate the cessation OF operations
None OF the factories here however.
application, as far as could lac learned
YES .crdAy- Notification tina, no more
coal VIII h" granted them has not got
been received bv officials Of Thu. TO-
hacco factories. it MAS dccll-cG
None Of thcs. factories have laid on
employees because or shortage %;
cipal companies state thar .hcv mr..
worEinE THOR employees fun time and
IN TWO Instances overtime
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
YOUNGSTERS DEMANDING
TOY A|RPLANES THIS YEAR
Shortage OF Flying Machines Found
by Richmond Buyers Follow
ing Heavy Sales.
GERMAN PRODUCTS BARRED
Stores Here Refuse to Purchase
Articles Made by Prussians-Alu
Jority OF Goods on Christmas
Market Produced i'm America.

Whenever Christmas toys arc men
toned these days. Richmond young
STEERS are demanding 2irplancs. This
managers OF toy departments in stores
here. Sti!i, there is shortage OF
planes.
planes 10 supply the demand already"
said the buyer for Il store on l:road
STREET yesterday. "Of course. IL the
children can't get an airplanc. they'll
take a ship or tin soldiers. or some
mechanical thing that goes. but they
really want airplancS--and we haven't
why do they wan, airplancs, do
you think. and nothing else
Why DO babies cry Tor the noon
lie replied with an expressive gesture.
play Of toys this year is the absence
of German. or, in fact any toys Of for
cign MAXI.
Have any TOYS come in from Ger
y 10 managers ana buyers of toys for
l..c,tmond youngsters.
No Toys From Germany.
Not for me- answered at least five
wiki convincing emphasis.
Hay" We 50 soon forgotten what
the Huns did TO helpless children over
there thdt We would offer a German
made 10Y - the children OF American
Not only has the ban been put upon
toys OF German manufacture. but
games. f0vurs and Childrcn'S book :
come under tho ban, according TO buy
crs for broad street stores.
Neither the public nor the buyers
want foreign TOYS this year and
we are Offering strictly 'madc IN
America" products. said the manager
Of = shop which deals exclusively IN
childrcn'S toys.
Prices Of toys this year are most
encouraging To mothers OF small boys
ana girls for the concrnSus Of orinjon
better assortment than last year and
prices no higher. and. in some in
stances. less than last year.
Inquiry developed the fact that tn"
toys which wcr. popuar during tho
period 81 tho war are sttll popular in
graduating scale with the ai-p!1nc
at the top.
War Hooks Arc Popular.
You Will be surprised TO Ind that
said a buyer of hooks, GaTc~. fovors.
Il think /, is for ,h" historical value
of books written during the war tina:
they want them. Md You would be
surprised at The number OF books we
soil on csoter!c philosophy and any
thing dealing with spiritualism and
life after death. Soldiers buy poetry,
history and rhilosophy They take life
more seriously than before tho war
SaleSpcoplc declare that the Christ
mas shopping had just begun Last
wear there was the urgent necessity
for Christmas packages FOR tho hoys
overseas to hc gotten off carly. and
this moved un the regular Christmas
shopping period several weeks but
T. has been easy 20 slip back into old
iahi-s
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
WINTERS COLD THREATENS
POOR WIDOW AND CHILDREN
Relief Fund for Struggling Family
short SIO3 in subscriptions 10
Meet Needs.

Contributions amounting % y total
Of $1I have been received by The
TINES Dispatch Relief Fun! ipr ;he
hcnc.it Of poor widow ana her thrc.
little children. known as Ilsc, No. 10.
Weather conditions ocent.uG The ap-
proach of winter prevail in Richmond
and such weather always bring IN
creased suncrings To those wnp are
in need. ms family is composed NJ
a mother and three small children.
They look to their mother to provide
for them. and flock about her N
anxiety for relief.
Although burdened vita the care.
Of her home. the mother rce sounded 20
the tacit appeals OF her children. and
did some sewing TO Keep he family
together. This added hut li..'c to me
already depicted resources % tho
family, and grim want and need he
gan 10 take form. that The oides;
child became i'll from the lack OF
covered by The Times Dispatch and
$50 is being raised Tor relief OF the
family.
Receipts acknowledged yesterda!.
follows:
T. !, :, H. >, Haid"n ..............,.' 90
o0
rreviouSI, acknowledged ii 90
So oc
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
.ANDERTON URGES W|P|NC
OUT SPEEDING STATUTES
PRESIDENT OF Auto Trades Association
Asks SiN-Milc Limit ut Street
Intersections.
AGAINST LEAGUE OF CITIZENS
Resolution to BE Drawn Up Advocat-
ing Laws Such rs Exist in Larger
titicS--CallS Present Ordinances
Incompetent.

obsolete traffic ordinances governing
tNe speed OF automobiles At street
CROSSINGS and giving east and west
bound ears the preference over those
travelling north ana south were
branded as the real cause for tho series
OF SauSu;nary accidents which have
happcncd ia Richmond recently. in a
statement made Yesterday by l.. {. An
derton: president of The liichmonl
Auto Trades Associations.
NitCr holding a conference with other
oHlcIa!S OF the association and with
mon prominent in the automobile bust
ness here, Mr.. Anderton declared yes
Terms Laws Foolish.
The trouble is that our laws gov
e GT1 traffic a. the present time are
realizing their incompctency.''
SpeaNinS OF III" proposed plan now
S.ii%Cns organization To report speed l.
erS. MIR .Audcrton declared that auto
nohhe men considered the plan alb
;;ng. and these accidents as any ono can
~. ne declared. They hurt our husi-
mss put tn. idea of masking a lot of
SnNS out OF YOUR neichoors IS pre-
Police should Get vio,ator<.
mere are about 200 policemen in
!.i,'s''il"n1 PAD TO stor violations OF
>i-ests N Richmond on wTicn !, *
possible - speed"
was pointed ont that any ono nav
srudEc against another could
q -S ieh" speeding charges against
Ai'N ana the victim of the forged
,htrSsS would bc com,lctcly in INC
i"rN concerning whore they came from
NJ. AhGcrton also declared that the
no'orlSt travelling north or south
~ AtS!ch!tN took his life in his hands
wen crossing intersections Of the
= 7esi ~ the present time lie 49,
Jared ttat autoistS moving in opposiic
.tL'ttb'NS made no attcmpt to SLOW
l!.'. carS when another driver was
- ..-S".pI'ne 20 cross the cast and west
'o"Pe"en To look out for themselves.
Draw In RESOLUTIONS.
a. ne meeting Of the Richmond
80 rha"s Association next Mondnv
'@fed that resolutions viii be
n.essGint",' calling for the doing away
OF all speed laws in RichmonJ7 "''
IN their place tho resolutions ,.,,,
ne laws "t New York and Thii,.a5%I'.
.,ea'I, Mn'cA VII place no limit on tho
'"pt AT street corners. /; is ~
u. th' resolutions 10 limit .hc enooJ
q 'hSh intersection Of the streets ~
nnn ,''.,eS an hour and provide a drastic
,It any breach OF This rul..
"rrncticaliy ali of tSS arriao,. !.
MhIcn happcn occur at stree, ccr,,,. !, :; =
~ .Nn""floN declared. "and no ,nn,or
~ an 'cHuire any dangerous snccd
80, "'oCk II compelled to Slow lis
~ the present tiimc , dri,: 'i"n.
,"N'l 20 c'chtccn miles an hour ,cror"
S'"" street without police ;nt.r
.,.'m,'' hut the man who slows IL,
s",.'I .m'rS and makes twenty mics
,,,.rSs,cI "ech intcrscct!ns streets is
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
AUTO VICTIMS ARE STILL
IN DANGEROUS CONDITION
"sr or fomnG l.lcveIlyn Continued
fchnihS outcome of Injuries to
Two Young Girls

Because o. the serious condi,jo. of
ne two child victims OF the autoinn-
Pie accident a, Floyd Avenue and
Meadow streets on November ~ which
resulted in the arrest Of I.anncS Ilcw-
ciiEn. seventeen years old. on ihr
'hhrG" OF reckless driving. Judge Rirks
Young man until December is
NncH Inc victims. Jane Fuller and
i"th"i i-"ahe. both seven wears of arr'
We're injured physicians held no hnnrs
Tor their recovery. This was rrjirr-
dted last night at tho hospital, no i'm
proNcmcnt having been observer in
the case of Ethel I.cakc. who has MOI
rrEalhcd consciousness. The Fuller
'h!Iu RECLAIMED consciousness foliowin Q
W." operations. hut is sim in y scriniI,,
condition responding SLOWLY to treat.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
BANK FILES APPLICATION
FOR ALTERATIONS PERMIT
rinns Left With building Inspector
Call for improvements to
Cost S2OO.OOU.

The Planters National Bank yester-
day fled application with building
Inspector Butler for permit 20 max.
alterations to their banking rooms
costing 100000. The plans o: the
bank calls for a complete interior re-
arrangement with small brick ad :
dition to the rear OF the building. The
work VIII he started Immediately the
permit is granted.
Permit TO-. the construction OF a
Sioo,oou storage warehouse on Main
street. near Belvidcrc stree. was
granted Yesterday 20 W. Fed Rich-
ardson. John II. Swartwourt was Given
= permit 10 construct two frame dwell
lnSS on North Avenue, between Cedar
Tree street and stuart Roai
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04


partmcnt Of Game and Inland Fisheries.
is seriously il! and confined 10 his home
in Ashland. His case has been diagnosed
as pneumonia.
Today tho Richmond Association of Credt,
II has been decided 10y tho board OF dir.C-
tors Of the organization TO meet but once
= month hereafter.
Members OF the Virginia Industrial Com
mission viii bc IN Petersburg TO-DAY wh.r"
two cases in which the extent OF disability
mick ~ l.. i,u Pom, dc Ncn,ours Co ana
J. l.. Kelly IS. 6. w. ilandcock " Sons Co
Mrs j y S,o-cr arrived in Richmond
from Nj. Cicnmons. Mich. YESTERDAY 10
Sior.r Is tho Wife of Lieutenant i. ~ Stprrr
At CAME Sc;irilse. Michigan. She was for
street.
son has been lett I" his wife. Mrs Moli"
i Eliyson. under the Will which has been
rr"b"t"d in the Chanc"ry Court Mrs. f:ilN-
son mas qualified as cA"cuiriN of tho estate.
which. :"al and personal. amounts II SOL
U0o.
r..ilroad which operates from Wayhi6s;an
~ Mount Vernon and 70 many points IN
This morning at 10 o'clock by tn" state Cor
rora ton Commission II IS cNrectrd ma,
VI the day.
Orders, received here Yesterday. nv Post,
suspended tho ruling which made card. and
letters with STAMPS and stick"r. other than
suspension order Will hc effective ihrouchoui
the month OF Dcc"mh'r.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
PLAN DINNER FOR statesmen
Trndc Extension Bureau VIII Eetc
Representative of Richmond
Firms December 80.

Al a meeting Of the executive com
mittcc Of the Trade Extension Bureau
OF the Richmond Chamber Of Com
mined TO give dinner to the travel
inS statesmen of richmond rnanufac-
turcri and wholesalers who belong to
mnnd on December 30.
Invitations are going out to over 500
road men in II few days. and il is OK
pccicd that nearly all viii attend the
dinner which is a part Of to Trade
ENtcnSion bureaus plan for advancing
the interests Of the Richmond market
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
Today and Tonight
in Richmond

Hearing OF application for in
creRsc In freight and passcny~r
rates by Washington and Virginia
Nnilrond Company. before the Stutc
Corporation Commission, Mt 10.
Intcrchurrh world Movement
convention at broad street Church,
at 9::IU.
Last weekly meeting OF Credit
Mems Association at Business Men.
Club. Mt Z.
Richmond Nurses Club at \. w.
4. A., nt &.
Richmond Community Chorus re-
henrSnl mt John Marshall, mt =.
I.Hric-NnudeHiIIc, .. :. 40 md o.
9::m.
Strnnd--"Our Naughty Bride" nj
S:"O.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
WILLS STATE 600 ACRES
PROPERTY Left nv Emmett ID. Gallo,
TO lie Used ps Virginia Game
Preserve.

Circuit Court OF Prince Edward conn,
Yesterday, the state comes n:o til.
possession % 600 acres OF land abctt,
six miles from Farmvillc decided 10 /,
by Emmett II. Gallon Mr.. Gallon died
last spring and loft his entire estate
10 the Commonwealth
state Forester u. q. Jones was named
ds executor OF the will II is under
stood that tho farm will be made 4,
part Of the forest reserve of tho state
and that The Department OF Gam. and
Inland Fisheries NIL. use it for breed
ing game
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
1909 BIRTHS IN 3 MONTHS
Health Department Report shows Al.
most Equal Number or Boys and
Girls horn.

That there arc many more males than
females born following a war has not
been horn" ont b" tho iiSurcs OF births
in Richmond for tho past three months
as Eiv"n out yesterday by the Depart
mont OF Health
since September | OF this year to
date. there hay" hcen 30 males born
and Il1 females, n difference of only
four, which disprovcs 50 far as Rich
mond Is concerned that the males far
exceed the females.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04

NuthorIlIcs Al INC Stuarl T'Tr''T.
I,l,al acc Jared yesterday thai OsLorTc
noheS VINO was Injured ~ M aIit4+
no, nooi'S crash on tic Cary street Eotd
hst Suhuay night, was feeling yr,.
pho,| HIS condition was dcscri,,, q
As being such that tclcphono r.,lit -"
,ls bFlNat" room we're not aIlowca
: nmmunich ton with Htchard !, I:IT
Ter. Jones companion in the c.,r ,,E.,
inc accident occurred. WAS also H..
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04

w NJ iIabliston. president oc the
hIotd street bank. way elected prnsi-
H"ht OF me l;ichmond Clearing House
association AZ the annual meeting
pjh"r "ficcrS for the cnsuing ycIr an
n@hncod, are: Thomas H. McAdoIns
vice pres dent. and = &. MCWhlricr
S"'fc'ary. nc association IL COMPOSED
q I'M. FIRST National. Planters MGR.
chants. Eroad street. National state
and Guy. American National and cen
"a! National hnnkN
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Commissioner OF Acriculturc George w.
k"in"r IS III Roan"kc attending the annual
convention OF tn" State Horticultural So
clctl- The sessions VIII come TO a close
FrlLay.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04

Malcolm n. Hart. chief clerk OF the De-
partnicnt Of Game and Inland Fisheries.
is seriously i'll and confined 10 his home
in Ashland Ills case has been diagnosed
pneumonia.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-04

Today tho Richmond Associa tion of Credit
Men will hold their last weekly meeting.
1t has been decided hy tho hoard OF dircC-
tors Of the organization TO meet but once
month hereafter.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

history is disputed. Many people
say that Lord Francis Hope and his
wife never owned the jewel, despite
the lady's professed fear of it. At
all events, it is certain that in some
manner the stone came into the
hands of Frankel.
The jeweller met with reverses
and was forced to part with the
diamond, which was purchased by
Jacques Colet, of Paris. A little
later Colet went insane and COM
mitted suicide. Prince Ivan Kani-
tovsky took the great blue stone
back to Russia with him and shortly
thereafter met his end at the hands
of nihilists, but not until the Hone
diamond had passed from him to
Mile. Ladue, woman of more at
fractions than virtue. She was
slain by disappointed lover.
The drift of the great stone was
now toward the East, its home. 1t
was purchased by Simon Moncha-
rides, Greek. A few months later
he was driving through the noun
talns with his wife and child when
his horse ran away and leaped over
a precipice, dragging the Moncha-
rides family to extinction with him.
But before this he had sold the
stone to Selim Habib, Persian.
believed to have been the agent of
the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid
whose morbid imagination had been
fired by the tales of the ruin
wrought by the flashing blue gem.
On the way TO Constantinople
the ship on which Habib was sailing
was rammed by another steamship
and sunk, but apparently this time
the diamonds hoodoo was not at
tending strictly to business, for gem
and its owner escaped unscathed.
Perhaps faced with the choice of
bringing misfortune to a mere agent
or to the Sultan himself, the dia-
mond relented at the last moment
and chose the larger game.
AT last the stone came into the
hands of Abdul Hamid, at a cost.
1t is said, of 100000. He intrusted
1t to Abu Sabir, the royal jeweller,
ordering it repolished. Sabir did
the job and a few weeks later was
ordered executed for an unknown
cause.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Continued from page one

ing continuously in the air for more
than half an hour-thirty-eight min
utes, in fact-and came down only
on account of an exhaustion of their
fuel supply. They state that the
velocity attained was one kilometre a
minute, or about thirty seven miles
an hour. The machine has aot only
sustained its own weight in the air
during these trials, but has also car
ried man and a gasolene engine
weighing 240 pounds, exerting a
force of from twelve to fifteen horse
power, and in addition an extra load
of fifty pounds of pig iron"
What comment is there necessary
more than that in a span of twelve
years one Of the Wright brothers and
DR.. Bell also have read the reports
and probably witnessed the trials of
planes with lifting capacity of 10,-
600 pounds and over? From the in
significant matter of it's own pro-
pelling device and driver plane has
carried a piano just as big and un-
wieldy as any other piano from Eng
land across the Channel to Paris and
landed it safely in the very city
where the Marquis de Bacqueville's
earth-made wings refused to work,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
ne Hope Diamond, Blue in Hue Ruby Red in Re1uatio

tragedy seems to have been as much
It's attribute as the cold blue hue of
the gem itself-unlike any other
diamond in the world.
Blood was split all along the trail
it travelled in the earlier days of it's
history. Sudden death, misfortune.
misery, have accompanied it since it
reappeared in 1880 and became
known as the Hope diamond.
Perhaps Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean
thought of the sinister stone as they
stood beside their dead child. They
may have remembered what thew
said when the diamond came into
their possession.
my luck thus far has been good
enough to counteract any hoodoo
that this foolish stone may carry"
the father Of Vinson Walsh Nc
Lean boasted shortly after he had
purchased the Hope diamond.
II have an abiding faith that any
thing given to me by my husband is
certain to bring me good luck" his
wife remarked when the stones rep
utation was brought to her atten-
tion.
The rock and steel fence around
Friendship, the McLean's great
home in Washington, has been
robbed Of it's main purpose now. The
gates that were always guarded, ex-
cept for that moment when the nine
year-old lad slipped through them,
need be guarded no longer. The
squad of private detectives who
watched over the boy lest he be kid
mapped will be discharged. Up to the
present the Hope diamond still lies
in the vault, waiting for the light to
quicken it into cold blue fame as it
passes into the hands of still another
owner. .. ~
No one knows when It was first
found or from where it came. Its
beginning is lost in a mystery as
deep as it's apparent evil influence
upon its owners.
Probably it was found in some
lost mine Of India, for no diamonds
OF it's hue nd composition are found
anywhere to-day. In India, where
men love jewels and are careless of
life, the earlier days Of the stones
career must have been ringed about
with violence.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

OF skepticism, confirmed by centu-
ries of failure to fly like a bird,
obscured the whole issue of me-
chanical flight. The professor near
the beginning of his work made the
confession that the whole subject
was generally considered 'to be a
field fitted rather for the pursuits
of charlatan than for those of the
man Of science" In the scoffings
which the press accorded his man
carrying machine he had the sad
opportunity of judging the correct
ness of his prediction. He concluded
in his Experiments in Aerody-
namics,' published in 1891, that
"the mechanical sustension of heavy
bodies in the air, combined with
very great speeds, is not only pos
slble, but within reach of mechani-
cal means we actually possess"
Furthermore, in 1896, he made
model with the now conventional
planes, equipped it with steam
engine and sent it for a successful
flight of half mile over the Poto-
mac River. Then, backed by an
appropriation from the War Depart
ment, he constructed what he hoped
would be practical vehicle and
found man to fly it. He placed it
IN a boathouse in the fall of 1908
and newspaper correspondents,
hearing the rumor of a possible
flight, camped about the boathouse
containing the professors "aero-
drome,' watching it day and night.
Their vigilance was disappointed,
first because Professor Langley dis
liked publicity and, second, be-
cause the two launchings attempted
resulted in failures. The "aero
drome" also dropped into the
ridiculous class. They nicknamed
the hapless machine "The Buzzard"
and the name stuck, as we'll as the
decree of failure which the unin-
vlted observers accorded it.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

Hope for $65, 5,00O-only a fraction
of what it had cost the crown of
france to obtain it in it's larger
form. A little while thereafter
Hope, who had enjoyed great in
tuence and power in the financial
world, failed in business. He never
recovered his earlier prestige.
Since then the gem has been
known as the Hope diamond instead
of by its earlier title, The French
Blue. Hope gave the stone to his
daughter in 1861, when she mar
rled the sixth Duke of Newcastle.
1t is said that on her death she left
it to her brother, Lord Francis Hope.
1t may have been the evil in
f1uence of the diamond that led him
to fall in love with May Yohe, a
vaudeville actress, in 1892. 1t is
certain that his marriage to her
was productive of as deep misfort
une as ever the stone inspired.
Reared in an atmosphere of which
publicity is the chief ingredient, the
newly made Lady Hope appreciated
the value Of the diamond as We
hicle to keep her name before the
public. She professed publicly a
fear Of its baleful influence and
attributed the smash-up which end
ed her life with Lord Francis Hope
to the curse laid upon the gem.
II have only worn the Hope dia-
mond twice." she said, eight years
ago when the McLcans had pur-
chased it, "but better that a mill
stone be hung about my neck than
that | should wear it again.
The immense blue. diamond has
cut trail down the centuries that
is red with blood, black with shame
and wet with tears. If Mr.. Mclean
is wise he will cast it into the bot
tom of the sea. The Hope diamond
bewltched me. Under it's spell I
committed the most unhappy mis-
take of my life"
Whether this referred to her mar
rage to Lord Hope or to her en-
suing elopement with Captain Put
nam Bradlee Strong, son of q for
mer Mayor of New York, is not
known. Lord Hope obtained a di-
vorce and May Yohe married Can
tain Strong, only to figure in a sec
ond divorce, after many sensa-
tional quarrels. She blamed this on
the Hope diamond, too, but has since
made third venture into matri-
mony.
Hope is said to have become ter
rlfed himself at the misfortune
which had fallen upon him since lie
came into possession of the diamond
and to have sold it to a New York
Jeweller named Joseph Frankel.
This phase in the gems unhappy