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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
GAS KILLS YOUTH
IN TESTING ROOM
Another Overcome in Labora;l.
tory of Light Company.
Found by Watchman.

One youth is dead and another IL
in "a semf-conscious condition at
Emergency Hospital as the result of
inhaling Illuminating gas in a lab.
oratory room Of the Washington Gas
Light Company at 25th street and
Virginia avenue early today.
The dead youth was Willard p.
Groves, seventeen. of SIS D street
northeast. The other is Leroy COL
Inns, twenty-five, $40 Goth street, who
probably will recover
The two were found about 1880
o'clock this morning in the labora-
tory. where Groves was employed
from midnight until am. for the
the heat units Of the gas
According to an official of the gas
company, Collins was formerly en-
ployed at the gas plant. but has not
been working there recently.
Found BY Wntchman.
When 1t was discovered that the
Z o'clock test had not been made,
a watchman went to the room and
found the two youths unconscious.
Groves died before he could be taken
to the hospital.
It was said at the Office Of the
gas company that Groves was found
lying on a table. with his feet near
a row of valves, three of which were
omen when the watchman reached the
scene. Collins was lying nearby on
the door.
Omcials of the company said It
was apparent the valves had been
knocked open accidentally. Coroner
Nevitt probably will wait for i'm
provement in Collins condition be-
fore holding an inquest.
Groves was a native of Remington,
Va, having come to Washington only
stx months ago. He lived with rela-
tives at the d street address. He was
the youngest Of eleven children. His
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Granville
Groves, live at Remington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
1921 AUTO TAGS READY.
-
Issuance Begins, But Few D. c
Motor Owners Apply.

Issuance Of 1921 automobile license
tags was started by Wade H. Coombs,
superintendent OF licenses. at the Dis
trict building today.
During the early morning hours
only q few persons called for their
tags and Supt. Coombs began to see
visions of another jam during the
last few days of the month, such as
occurred year ago.
Wise car owners, who would avoid
10 long wait In line later in the month.
will get their tags immediately.
lists to bring with them the engins
number, the year OF make and the
number Of cylinders OF the car. Mr..
coohnbs expects To- issue about 3e.poe
tAHDs f
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
COOLIDGE SNIFES
SNUFF, SNEEZES
WITH THE SCOTS

BOSTON. December 1.-The cup
that cheers was replaced by the
snuff that exhilarates when the
Scots Charitable Society revived
an old custom at its annual ban
quet last night to take the place OF
anti-prohibition toasts. Scotch
snufr from a silver-mounted rams
horn was passed about the tables.
First to take q cautious plncn
was Gov. Calvin Coolidge. vice
President elect. who was the CHIEF
guest. From him the horn went
down the banquet board. Sneezes
followed and handkerchiefs were
quite generally displayed.
Soon afterward Prof. Charlton
Black Of Boston University related
an anecdote directed to despondent
victims of the eighteenth amend
ment. 1t was the warning OF an
old Scotchman to his son against
too liberal use Of snuff. with the
statement that 1--WE been drunker
. on sneezum than / ever was on
whusky." The guests sneezed again.
and then the speakers had their say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
FLYERS ARE H0NORED.

Naming Of two aviation fields in the
Philippine Islands in honor of avia-
tors who lost their lives in accidents
was announced today by the air serv-
Ice. The field At Pampango viii be
known as Clark Field In honor OF Mai
Harold N. Clark. killed In the Panama
Canal Zone IN 1919. while the station
at Fort Mills, Correeidor Island. has
BEEN designated AZ Kindley Field, IN
memory Of Capt. Field Kipdley. killed
at San Antonio. Tex. last February.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
City Of
MayOperateM Mine
To Cut Coal Cost

LOUISVILLE. Ky, December
1-Purchnse and operation by
the city Of Ilouisville of a coal
mine and municipal yards to dis
tribute the coal to the city In
stftutions fs being considered by
Mayor George w. Smith.
This became known today
when Mayor Smith announced
that he had appointed a repre-
sentative to Investigate certain
Kentucky mines with q view to
buying one or more for the city.
High coal prices at local yards
are Safd to have caused this
move by the mayor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
0LDD0M|N|Qul LINE
f|EDW VIRGINIA
State Corporation Commits
:, sion Charges Road Failed
to Serve Public.

RICHMOND, Va. December 1.-The
state corporation commission of Vir-
gfnta today handed down a u1iani.
nous decision on the Washington and
Old Dominion railroad case. in which
fines aggregating $1,000 are imposed
on the carrier for alleged failure in
specified instances to serve the pub
lie properly; in which the general
condition of the road is scored, and
in which the railroad is ordered to re-
wise certain schedules and provide
rev equipment Immediately.
The fines are imposed as follows.
Failure to give proper freight SER
vide and provide cars. and failure to
move freight, $500.
Failure to maintain passenger
schedules, 5000.
Failure to provide sufficient pas
senger cars to handle business, 5000.
Failure to keep equipment safe and
in proper. repair, 800.
Failure to post notices of delay in
train service, $50.
For operating cars without head
lights, $100.
Arraigned for Indifference.
The commission in it's opinion ar
raigns the company for it's alleged
Indifference to public interest, partly
due, it is said, "to nonresident owner-
ship and lack Of sympathy for the
public" also for alleged failure to
provide motor power and "in general
to discharge the functions expected
and demanded of a common carrier"
The opinion charges the company
I,o svant H0fA all frio
and inspection of equipment; thar it
violates the law by changing sched-
ules without notifying the public; a
"glaring lack" of facilities for repair
ing equipment: delays in transporting
milk. and a. consequent loss and
son of a lack Of attention to the fore
going.
Outlines the Corrections.
The commission states that in the
case OF the above complaints. in which
no fines were imposed. the following
corrections shall be made:
Schedule on the Bluemont line .Sto
be corrected within fifteen days:
schedule on the Great Falls line to be
corrected within thirty days; the
company must provide eight new
passenger cars within ninety days,
and additional traction power must
be provided within the shortest possi-
BILE time to allow for 33 per cent
reserve power.
The opinion contains the following:
"The commission cannot. however,
by order change an attitude of mind,
and until the management of the
Washington and Old Dominion rail-
road realizes that 1t must faithfully.
adequately and sympathetica1ly dis
charge its duties as common carrier,
operating under the laws of this state,
its service can never be satisfactory" !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
MARRIAGE LAW LOSES.

PADUCAH, KY, December Hold.
ing the Kentucky statute barring
marriage of son-in-lslw to mother-in.
law would not be sustained by hieM.
er courts. County Judge Lang todar
dismissed Walter Thornton and In
wife and ex-mother-in-law, EmA
Hale. from custody. Thornton pre-.
viosisiy was divorced from h,e .preseut
IWife's daughter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
M0NDELL AT WHITEH0UsE
inquiries If President Will Person
ally Receive House Committee.

Representative Mondell. majority
leader of the House, called at the
executive offices at the White House
today and discussed switt Secretary
Tumulty plans for tila opAning of the
NEXT session of Congrsss, and to learn
II it will be possible for the Presi-
dent to personally receive the spe-
cfal notification committee which
win be appointed to wait upon him.
Secretary Turnulty said he could
MAKE no pase ns,yS 1nt tne iat-
deli know dknnitely within the next
few daYA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01
PERU WOULD BUY
BUILDING FOR
EMBASSY OF u. S.

LIMA, Peru, December 1.-The
government today promulgated the
law, recently adopted, which au-
thorizes the purchase of a build
ing to be presented to the Ameri-
can embassy here.
Acceptance from the Peruvian
government of a building at Lima
TO house the American embassy
will be impossible without an act
of Congress, State Department Off
cials said today. in commenting on
the PRONUNCIATION by the Peruvian
government of the recently enacted
law authorizing the purchase of
such building.
Officials, without attempting to
forecast action by Congress-, point
ed out that many such offers in the
oast had been declined by the leg
iSlative branch, which has held
that the American government
should not receive gratuities from
other governments.
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WEATHER.

Cloudy and somewhat colder to-
night; tomorrow fair.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at noon today: Highest. 48, at
noon today; lowest, AZ, at pm. yes
terday.
Full report on page II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-01

Member Of the Associated Press
The Associated Press 10 exclusively entitled 10
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to Il or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news Published herein.
An riehts Of publication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1920-08-27
GLOVES
LARGE ASSORTMENT
w. W. ROGERS
THE RAINCOAT MAN
COLLAR PINS. ROGERS.

Our quality is higher than
our price. "Currin Says So
Everything in Sweets and Soft
Drinks at BiRelow's Sweet Shop.
Wear ROGERS RAlNCOATS.
Dressmaking. Mrs. w. NJ. Me-
Cutcheon, 306 S. Leonard st. IL
Wanted to Rent Four or five
room modern house by young
couple. Call at this office.
Maternity cases taken reason.
able at 100 Princeton street.
near Burr. Columbia 90l. 43
RUBBERS for MEN $I25.
ROGERS.
Going fruit or hop pickingY
Take cold creams. insect bite
lotions, talCums and other body
comforts. Currin's for Drugs.
Have you tried our Vogan's
and Hoffler Chocolates at Bige-
lows Sweet Shop!
Apples for cider wanted at the
Home Kitchen, PA Fessenden
street; Columbia 1862.
For Sale 3 room house, quar-.
ter acre, corner lot. fruit and
berries; sidewalks i'm and paid
for. Price $3.50. John Winer,
1872 N. Smith ave.
For Sale-SiN hole Bridge Beach
Range, trimmed in nickel, only $50.
Il3l l.. Burr street, corner Hudson.
Maternity cases taken reason.
able. Can come at once. - sos
n. Jersey street.
For Sale Six hole Chicago
Range, splendid cooker. AL wa
ter coil, $50. Call nc T.. Blu.
chanan; Columbia 9l9.
For Sale-Brass bird cage in
good condition; cheap IL taken at
once. .-ll5 N. Leonard.
BLUE BUCKLE OVERALLS
$2.S5. ROGERS.
Quality Goods Squibb, Lilly
Nyal, 4. -. s., pcnSlar, East
man, NiclroluS, Merck. "Currin
Says So
Good family COW for sale cheap
also geese for sale. Call 90l
Allegheny street, or phone Col.
I3ll. 3Stf
For Sale or Trade for City
Property Good farm land. Deal
with owners only. Lock box
25l9. St. Johns. i3
Wear the latest JAZZ BOW
TIES soc. ROGERS.
We know The arl of prcpar-
ing medicines. Bring your
prescriptions here, Currin
Says So.
New Potatoes 81 to 81 per
hundred at the Home Kitchen
building, PA Fessenden street,
phone Columbia 1862. Az
HATS and GAPS that fit your
face and pocketboOk. ROGERS,
A S65 wicker buggy for sale
cheap; most as good as new. In
quire 9OS Oswego street.
Ford Roadster, fine shape, for
sale at 3l3 n. Syracuse street,
Col. 29l. 2t
Furniture for Sale Bed and
Dresser, used only two months,
Call 50l n. Syracuse street.
You don't have to be a TX. of
F." to wear ROGERS "K"hakl
"P"ants.
For Sale Four room house,
lot G0X1OO; all kinds of fruit,
Call or address 6l0 y. lyashoc
ST. A.
Mems Shoes. ROGERS.
For Sale Five room modern
house, lot 50X2OO,, full base
mcnt, eight nice bearing fruit
trees, cement sidewalk on each
end of lot, in North ST. Johns;
sewer in and all improvements
paid for. $1,000 down, balance
To suit, & per cent interest, Call
at this office.
Mems Socks. white feet, 25c
pair. ROGERS.
For Belgian Hares, cheap
If taken at once. -3O4 n. Cen.
tral avenue, st Johns.
On September morn you won't
| feel forlOrn in ROGERS WARM
UNDERW EAR 50, %. $2.75 per
ITpfOn Cuit
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-16
WHY NOT ACCEPT DOCK SITE

When the United States Emergency
Fleet Corporation decided to locate
plant in Florida, Pensacola was
chosen as the site, not only for its
splendid harbor but it's delightful CHI
mate, never too cold nor too hot for
work in the open. Again and again in
their publications. public speeches and
in columns of the press the officials
of the Pensacola Shipbuilding Com
pany have mentioned these two fac
tors in the development of their bus
mess. The Aberthaw Construction
Company, builders of the great Bruce
dry docks, at this port have also been
enthusiastic in their appreciation of
the bay and the climate. That the eli
mate is an important factor in the de-
velopment of any port, no one can
doubt.
A writer from Los Angeles 70 the
New York World tells how the de-
lightful climate which attracts tour
lists at all seasons also promotes eff
ficiency in manufacturing. The toiler
is never half frozen or overheated,
the even temperature permitting open
factory windows, practically the year
around.
Pensacola possesses the three essen
tials to health; pure air coming con-
stantly from the gulf, laden with the
ozone of the salt air. Pure sur
roundings all high rolling country, no
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-16
Revelations
Ofa Wife
Why Madse Dreaded the Dinner With
Jack
BY ADELE GARRISON.

Why Madse Dreaded the Dinner With
Jack
Eleven O'Clock! looked at my
watch again to make sure that / was
right 1t was time for me to tele-
phone Jacks old apartments to see If
he had yet arrived.
1 moved toward the telephone, then
remembered that 1 had forgotten the
number of the Hotel Alfred, the old
fashioned Greenwich Village" hos
telry, where Jack had established
bachelor quarters before when things
began to go well with him in his pro-
fession. The rooms were always kept
for him, so that when he returned
from any of his long trips he had at
least the semblance of a home to well
come him.
1 stopped short as realized that
had forgotten the number. Nothing
could have brought home to me so
wildly the strength of my feeling for
my husband as did this simple fail
ure to remember a telephone num-
Der.
1 had called that number literally
hundreds of times. My distant cousin,
Jack Beckett, the only brother 1 had
ever known, was the one person be-
sides myself that my invalid mother
trusted and loved most in the world.
It was one of her pleasures, during
her shut-in last year, to talk to him
over the telephone. 1 had called his
number for her daily for months be-
fore she died.
whats the Matter?"
And now in one short year my
mother had died and Jack had gone
for years trip to the wilds of South
America. In his absence l had met
and married Dicky. Until / received
Jacks letter announcing his return
had almost forgotten his existence, so
absorbed had L been in Dicl1y. No
wonder the telephone number had
fled my memory.
The telephone director lay upon a
stand near me. 1 picked it up and
turned to the AS.
What a bulky thing the directory
was, I carried it to the table, laid
it down and drew up a chair that /
might hunt for the number comfort
ably.
But no Alfred Hotel met my gaze.
1 ran my finger down the column, III
H. Alfred, L. NJ. Alfred, Mrs. S. H. AL
freds, The Alfredo apartments" but
no hotel.
was about to ask central for the
information desk, when with an ex-
clamation at my own stupidity turn -
ed 10 the HIS" OF course, here it
was under the heading, Hotels. -
Hotel Alfred, Stuyvesant 1898" How
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-16
Wolf Run.

Wolf Run.
The small stream that feeds the
waterfall at Fallen Rock is known as
Wolf Run. Following up along its
course the Pearlhunter presently came
| to a tiny thread of water that joined
| it from the west-probably the out
let of some small pond tucked away
among the hills. 1t is along the open
margins of swamps-and pounds, and
lnever in the thick woods, that the
elecampane grows. Believing from
the warmth and dullness of its water
that the tiny stream came from a
pond, rather than from spring, the
Pearlhunter followed it. Smaller and
smaller it grew as he trudged along
it's bank, never more than foot or
so in width, and sometimes almost
losing itself among the leaves.
1t had grown so small indeed that
the Pearlhunter began to fear 1t
would disappear altogether, when
there came a break in the forest line
just ahead. A scramble through a
dense fringe of hazel, and there it lay
"a little pond in the midst of mar
row glade in a pocket of the hills; a
delicate inlay in the forest; tiny
and very exquisite picture, with its
frame of flag and rushes, its mat strip
of skunk bba sc, at the heart a
glimmering little pane of clear water.
A bullfrog pumped into the pool as
he approached; shitepoke floun-
dered up out of the flag and wal
lowed away into the woods as II the
enormously distended Adams apple
in his throat unbalanced his awkward
wings. Butterflies fitted about the
blue flowers of the flag; dragonflies
flashed above the pool, or came to
rest upon pointed rushes.
The man glanced at the sun; turned
and hurriedly looked about for the
elecampane. Along the east edge of
the glade, not far out from the fringe
of hazel, he found it-a clump of
some dozen stalks, three or four of
them ready to bloom. The rusty
spade was soon at their roots-prob-
ably the first ground ever broken on
the margin of that pond. Three
plants he digged, cut their stems
close to the ground. shook the dirt
from their clusters of fleshy roots,
and hurried down the tiny outlet
back to Wolf Run.
A stream that feeds waterfall
could not very well afford to be any
thing less than picturesque Wolf
Run seemed to realize what was ex
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-16
NEW FLORIDA INDUSTRY.

The Palm Craft Company, OF ram
Ipa, is rebuilding its factory, recent
ly burned there. The company oiu
not lose an hour in leasing new quar-
ters and are making plans to contlnue
their rapidly growing business.
The product of the Palm CraIt
Factory is made of Florida's comrhon
scrub palmetto and cabbage Pains
which grow wild through the state.
The company manufactures a iine OF
furniture beautiful, substantial, use
full, and unique. This furniture mas
proven so popular that the company
has been forced to double is capacity
several times during Athe seven
months of it's EXISTENCE 1t now has
more than three times she number of
employees that it had four months ago.
So rapid has been It's increase that
several months ago it became neces-
sary to recall all the Palm Craft
statesmen from the road, as the fac
tory could not expand fast enough to
fill it's repeat orders from its old Gus
toners. The product has never been
advertised, the factory having been
over-taxed without advertising.
The history of the factory is inter
esting. Mr.. and Mrs. James Smith
came to Tampa less than two years
ago, as tourists. Together as pastime
they devised some artistic lamps out
of palmetto. This was the beginning
of the Palm Craft Company of which
Mr.. Smith is president. The payroll
of the company has grown nearly ten
per cent in less than four months. and
at the present rate will soon be thou
sands of dollars a week.
The new Palm Craft factory will be
a two story structure, 60 by $50 feet,
and will be located at 1902 Twenty
second street, the site of the plant
which was burned.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-16
PAPER COMPANY INCORPoR-
ATED.

The Grass Fibre Pulp and Paper
| Corporation of Leesburg, Fla, has
| just been Incorporated with a CAPT.
tai Of 100000. The company COM
prises Gilbert H. Leach, of Leesburg;
E. r. Lacy, Mt. ernon, New York; Will
liam Z. O'Neal, Cincinnati. The COM
pany expects to build several mills
for the making of paper from Florida
Saw Grass, others to be added as de-
mands warrant, each plant to cost
Sc, 900.
-Four years ago Mr.. Lacy began to
experiment with saw grass for hte
print paper. Millions of tons of this
grass grow in Florida and after four
years of experimentation success has
been achieved; at the recent meeting
of the Florida State Press Associa-
ton meeting in Pensacola samples of
the newsprint were exhibited. The
saw grass will also make bond paper
of good quality, according to the
members of the Grass Fibre Pulp and
Paper Corporation.
The experiments made by Mr.. Lacy
were conducted in secret, because the
investigator into the possibilities of
this fibrous grass which grows SO
prolifically in this state, did not wish
his rivals to profit by his labors, nor
steal his methods when success should
come to him, in which his belief never
Wavered.
Since success has been assured, his
operations have been conducted far up
in the wilderness of the Withlacoo-
chez river with DunneIlon as head
quarters. Mr.. Lacy made his home
for months in Dunnellon. without any
of the citizens having an linking of
his business.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-16
GROWING SHRIMP BUSINESS.

Shrimp boats are coming in every
day heavily laden, and shipments are
going forward from the several local
companies engaged in the shrimp
packing industry here. There is a
large fleet of boats. engaged every
day in catching the popular sea food
After the removal of the heads, the
shrimp are packed in ice in large
barrels, ready for forwarding by ex-
press to the big markets Of the east
and north, and even to San Francisco,
on the Pacific Coast. The packing is
done so carefully and scientifically
that the shrimp arrive in San Fran
cisco after five or six days, in perfect
condition, due to the system of re-
icing, carried out by the express COM
pany. Even shipments to New York
are re-iced at Jacksonville and at
Washington. Shrimp leaving here on
the night express are sold in north
ern markets on the morning of the
second day. The number of people
engaged in the shrimp packing bust
ness in ST. Augustine is about two
hundred at the present time.-St. Au-
gustine Record.