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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
SAVING "RAPIDS
PRINCE" PROVING
DIFFICULT TASK

Montreal, August II Plans for the
release of the Rapids Prince, the
Canadian Steamship Line steamer
which stranded in the Lachine Rap
ids on Sunday evening, have been
completed bv John Donnelly, Of
Kingston. the Donnelly Salvage and
Wrecking Company having been
awarded the contract for the floating
of the vessel.
The contract calls for the release
of the ship from her position on a
ledge of rock in the lower Lachine
Rapids, and her conveyance into the
harbor.
Mr.. Donnelly declared last night
that it was impossible to judge how
long the task would take, I'VE real
ize that this is one of the most diff
cult jobs we have ever had, he said,
ION account of the swiftness of the
water, the narrow channel in which
we will have to work, and because we
will not be able to use any of our
special pulling tugs
calls for the installation of a pulling
engine on a small island about 1900
feet upstream from the Rapids Prince.
1t is from this barren islet that ex-
tends the reef of rocks around which
the pilot was steering the steamer
when her rudder chain parted.
cable will be strung from the
island to the ship and affixed to the
stern. The Rapids Prince lies across
the river, with her bow towards Her.
on Island. Her stern points toward
the Laprairie shore and slightly down
stream. She is grounded in the cen
ter section from the engine room to
the kitchen and from port to star
board. The channel to which she
must return is few hundred feet
from her stern. Between the channel
and the ship lies the whirlpool of the
Big Eddy. Above her is the Big Eddy
itself, running turbulently at over
twenty-five miles an hour.
The release from the shoal will be
effected by pulling the stern up
stream and allowing the boat to swing
into the channel above. The moment
she is fairly in the channel, the cable
will be sharply released and she will
shoot" the current as if she were on
regular trip.
Another preliminary step will be
the coaling of the ship. The shallow
draught of rapids steamers prevents
them from carrying a heavy provision
OF fuel The fires have had to he
kept going in case of any eventuality
and in order to furnish power for the
wireless, and the coal supply is prac-
tically exhausted. The ship will have
to be under steam in order to shoot
the rapids when released. The fuel
provisioning will be quite a problem.
The broken link in the rudder chain
has been replaced by strands of heavy
wire cable.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
Will CONGRESS TAKE OVER RAILROADS?
COUNTY SCHOOL
BOARD DISPOSES
USUAL ROUTINE

The Haines City Herald has this
to say about Polk C0unty's paved
roads and the need for constant watch
ing?
1T was called to our attention this
week that recent rains have damaged
the shoulders on the nine-foot road
down the Ridge and in some places
the foundation has been so badly
washed that there is danger of whole
strips OF road being destroyed. We
were also reliably informed that the
road between Lake Wales and Barlow
is suffering in the same manner We
think the commissioners are making
sad mistake in spending a single
cent on new clay roads if this makes
necessary the neglect of our main sys-
TEN of asphalt roads.
"Of course. we realize that to de-
velop the county, which in turn
build; up the towns, it is necessary
to build lateral roads out into the un-
developed districts but we maintain
that it is poor policy to neglect Il
SOOu Investment 10 make another, no
matter 'how desirable the new project
may be. The road down the Ridge
known as the Scenic Highlands has
been taken over by the State Road De
partment as State Road No. s and it
is understood that in due time it will
be widened out and cared for by the
state. At the present time there is so
much of this road which has not
been improved at all that there is lit
tie chance for any money being spent
on the section from Haines City to
Frostproof until the road is built over
its entire length. So it would seem
to be up to Polk county authorities
to keep the road in repair and thus
prevent the loss of the big sum spent
in the original outlay for good roads
in the county. The Herald would only
remind the commissioners that a lit
tie work at the right time will pre-
vent lot of damage and save much
money"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
HORSES BRING HIGH PRICE.

Saratoga Springs. Aug. III. S.
Cosden paid $4,000 for a yearling
colt by Trap Rock-Federal Girl from
the Pagebrook Virginia stud consign-
ment of Capt. c. M. Walker, at the
auction here last night. This young
ster. which brought the seasons best
price, is a half brother to Lady Bal
timore. Frederick ]. Hanson paid the
second best price and the seasons
record for a filly when he got the
daughter of Cudgel-Imported Torpen-
how for $4,000.
Algernon Dangerfied, acting as
agent, presumably for Rear Admiral
Carey T. Grayson, paid $500 for a
filly by Cudgel-High Pass, while the
Rancocas stable got a colt by Trap
Rock-Sous Marine for $4,000.
The Rancocas stable also bought
filly by Trap Rock-Imported Lady
Grey for $4,000. All the yearlings
sold were foaled in Virginia.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
Summary OF The
Strike Situation

Chicago Aug (By Associated Pres)-seriou
traffic the refusal of
outbreaks
DEATHS and the possibility wakouts
various roads, marked the
employees railroad gathered
today consider separately President ardng
ending the shopcrafts strike.
"Bg transportation
they consider strike conditions the
soldiers at terminals and junction points "unbearabe"
svitchmen trainmen protests
working situation
California aggravated entire
left t the notifying the they
would return until armed guards removed.
guards several
Reports senardno
indicated would California Arizona
al Mexico points the Santa Fe.
nonnion employees the New York Central lines in the
CoWood Cleveland dispatcher the other call
boy killed The
Hubert Ark shop Of the Chicago, Rock
probably fatally injured At Birm
ngham, attempt made to blow dining used for
The bomb missed
arrive at the police dynamite
yards the
attempt to blow shanty and
diner In the Railway yards at Ashevle N. C.
Ark in connection with
trouble there
repaer the St. Louis San Francisco railroad at
Gunshot wounds when he attacked and
robbed while his to work.
between railroad and labor officials In
Chicago a maintenance
way the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST Paul.
Posting circulars designating workers "cabs" and
restrained injunction granted ST. Paul
by Federal Judge Booth. y.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
Definite News Is Difficult
To Secure, But Avia-
tors Report Police and
Military Barracks In
Flames

London, Aug. 11-(By The AssO-
ciated Press .)-All the military and
police barracks in Cork are burning,
according to a report of a government
aviator who flew over the irregular
stronghold yesterday, says n Times
dispatch from Dublin.
Outcome in Doubt.
Dublin, Aug. 11.-(By The Associa-
ted Press )-Communication with
Cork, except by sea, is impossible,
and the exact results of fighting be.
tween the irregulars and the provision
al government forces are unknown
here. 1t is variOusly reported that
the regulars have entered and that
they have not entered the city.
The wounded brought here on
steamship say the irregulars were
strongly posted at the passage west
and the nationals had to fight their
way through intense fire. several be-
ing wounded and one killed.
The crew of another vessel arriv-
ing from Cork said the Admiralty
house and the British naval hospital
at Queenstown. both of which became
familiar to American naval men over
seas during the war, were blazing
when they left, as well as other build
ings in which frequent explosions
were heard.
1t was reported that the irregu-
lars have evacuated Clonmel.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
TUG DISASTER BROWNS TWO

New York, Aug. 1.-THE tugboat
Clarence C. Howland was overturned
and sunk in an odd accident off Staten
Island today when tangled tow line
caused her to capsize. and two men,
bers of her crew of six lost their lives.
The tug was towing a steamer and
when she slowed down the steamer
floated by causing the slack hawser
to become looped under the tugs
stern. The tug was whipped over on
her side and disappeared in two min.
utes.
Four of the crew were picked up
by passing steamers.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
ON
ADRIATIC KILLS
TWO OF CREW

New York, Aug. 11-(By the Asso-
ciated Press. 1.-TWO members of the
Adriatic's crew were killed, five were
seriously injured and one is missing
as a result of an explosion of unde-
termined origin in her number three
hold, according to a wireless message
received today at the White Star
Line.
S. o. S. Call
An S. o. S. call from the White
Star liner Adriatic today telling of
an explosion in her number three hold
was followed by series of radio mes
sages eliminating in the word that
no assistance was needed.
Everything is o. k, now" the lat
est message said
The Adriatic, bound from Liverpool
for New York, with $50 passengers.
gave her position as latitude 41.23
north, longitude 41.41 west, or about
300 miles west of Portland, Maine.
The early messages characterized
the explosion as bad and said Capt.
Day was trying to locate the cause,
but gave no further details. They
said the liner was proceeding on her
course.
The message said the Adriatic was
proceeding to New York at half speed.
Coal was stored in the number three
hold and officials at New York, in
the absence of definite information
thought that spontaneous combustion
might have caused the explosion.
The men killed were a fireman and
a trimmer. Those injured included an
electrician and other employees of the
engine room.
From NeVy Department
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE navy de-
partment which has been in constant
communication with the Adriatic on
which an explosion occurred during
the night, said their information indi-
Gated no one was hurt aboard the lin
er and that no assistance was needed.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
CORK IS UNDERGOING BAPTISM
FIRE TODAY IN FIGHT BETWEEN
IRISH REGULARS and IRRECULARS
PROBABLY FAMILY FEUD

Jacksonville, Aug. 11.-EG. Wingate,
II, and his son Scriven, Al, waylaid,
shot and killed yesterday, 10 miles
from Hilliard, in Nassau county, north
of here, met death at the hands of
unidentified persons according to the
verdict this forenoon of the coroner's
jury. The seven-year-old son of Scriv-
en- Wingate, whose life was spared af-
ter he had pleaded with the slayers
said the shooting was done by two
men whose names he did not know.
He added, however, that he could iden-
tify one of them if he saw him.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
SAID
TOBE WONOVER
TO THIS COURSE
Thomas L. Blanton of
Abilene, Texas, Ad-
dresses Telegram of
Protest To Numerous
Leaders Throughout
the Country

Abilene, Tex, Aug. l1.-By
Associated Press)-ThOmas L.
BIanton of Abilene today sent a
telegram to numerous leaders
throughout the country asserting
that President Harding has sum-
moned congress to take over the
railroads. This means national
bankruptcy and weak trucking to
autocratic unions far worse than
when they forced the passage Of
the Adamson law" the message
said.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
FIRE AT CAMP GRANT.

Rockford, ILL.,, Aug. 1D.-Fire in
the Camp Grant Barracks was brought
under control early today after eight
units in the hospital area had been
destroyed and 20 isolated buildings
damaged. Several soldiers were in
jured slightly while aiding firemen
in fighting the flames.
Four soldiers who fell through
burning roof, escaped with minor in
juries.
Camp authorities declared the fires
undoubtedly were of incendiary ori-
gin.
The barracks. erected during the
war. were built and equipped at a
cost of $1,0OOO00, but their salvage
value was said to be much less.
Immediate investigation of the fire
was begun by military and civil au-
thorities
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
FOR FLORIDA WATERWAYS

Washington, Aug. 11.-(By the AS
sociated Press Final allotment of
$35. 500 900 of funds appropriated by
Congress for river and harbor I'M
provement work for the fiscal year
1928 was announced today. The al
lotments include st. Johns river, Flor
ida, $53OOOO; Tampa and Hillsboro
bays, $25O.OOO; Kissimmee river, $10,-
600; Caloosahatchee river, $4,000;
Clearwater harbor and Boca Ceiga
bay, $4,000; removing water hya-
cinth in Florida, 100000.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
WOULD USE MIAMI CABLE

New York, Aug. 11.-tBy the Asso-
ciated Press.)-Newcomb Carlton,
president of the Western Union, an
nounced today he had wired Presi-
dent Harding for permission to use,
in the emergency caused by the seiz-
ure of Atlantic cables by Irish Irresu-
lars, the cable landed by the Western
Union at Miami from Barbados and
sealed by the government.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
A. B. & A. COLLISION

Brunswick, Ca, Aug. lin a head
on collision late yesterray afternoon
between two A. B. and A. railroad
trains at Anduilla, fourteen miles from
here, Mail Clerk Chestnut and wom-
an passenger, identity unknown, were
badly hurt. Other casualties were
avoided because of the slow speed
both trains were making when the
crash came.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
DE MuYTER DECLARED WINNER

Brussels. Aug. 11.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.)-M. De Muyter, pilot
of the Belgian balloon Belgica, in the
James Gordon Bennett cup race, has
been declared winner, says dispatch
from Geneva, the starting point. to-
day. He was credited with having
covered a distance of 300 Kilometres
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
POLK COUNTY FIRST.

Barlow, Fla, Aug. 11.-Polk coun.
ty is the first in the state to raise
its quota Of five hundred dollars for
the state fund of $4,000 to adver-
tise Florida at the American Legion
convention in New Orleans. This sum
was pledged by the county commission
ers of Polk county.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
DECISION NOT REACHED

Washington, Aug. 11.-(By the AS
ISOLATED Press. 1.-The heads,oof the
railroad unions considered President
Harding's proposal for two hours to-
day without reaching decision as to
what the reply would be.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
COMMITTEE APPOINTED

New York, Aug. 11.-(By the Asso-
clated Press. THE railroad eXecu-
tives this afternoon appointed a COM
mittee to recommend a reply to Presi-
dent Harding's latest proposal to end
the strike. There was no Indication
as to the nature of the executives
reply.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
TRAINS TIED UP

Ogden, Utah, Aug. 11.-Three pas
senger trains on the Union Pacific and
Oregon Short Line Railroads were
tied up here today as the result of
the firemen's and switchmen's strike
in the local yards. No reason for the
walkout could be learned.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-11
pREsIpENr STATES VIEWS.

Chicago, Aug. 11.-President Hard
ing in leteer to Secretary Honnold
of the Illinois coal operators associa-
tion. made public today, declared II
am frank to say l do not see how
your workmen can refuse the offer
made by the mine operators in Hi.
nois."
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11

making of lace. for drunkenness fo,
 freedom of language, and for un paralleled political dissension," wa. stevenson's point of departure on hi.
 travels with a Donkey" Monsieur Dnehein made 1t his as we'll
 The weather was fine. his hear hlgn' he was happy to be out of har. ness and again his own man. constant exercise tuned up muscles gone slack and soft with easy living A keen sun darkened his face and hands, brushed up in his cheeks a warmer glow than they had shown in many year, and faded out the heavier lines with which Time had marked his countenance.
 Moreover, because this was France where one may affect a whisker with out losing face, he neglected his razors; and though this was not his first thought, fair disguise 1t proved.
 Rain at length interned the trav- eler for three days In a little place called Meyrueis, long leagues remote from railroads and the world they stitch together.
 Here (said Duchemin) nothing can disturb me; and it is high time for me to be considering what I am to make of the remainder of my days. Too many of them have been wasted, too great portion of my span has been sacrificed to vanities
 Yet a little while and one must bid adieu to that Youth which one has so heedlessly squandered, last adieu to Youth with its days of high adventure, Its carefree heart, its sus- ceptibility to the infinite seductions of Romance.
 And for all this mood of premature resignation to the bourgeois virtues Duchemin was glad enough when his fourth day in Meyrueis dawned fair, and by eight was up and away, pur- posing days tramp to Montpelier le-Vieux (concerning which one heard curious tales).
 Long after noon. sheer fools luck led him to hamlet whose mean au- berge served him bread and cheese with wine singularly thin and acid.
 The one able bodied man in evil dence. a husking, surly animal. on learning that Duchemin wished to visit Montpellier-le-V Vieux, refused with a growl to have anything to do with him. Several times during the course of luncheon he caught the fel- low eyeing him strangely, he thought from window of the auberge. In the end the peasant girl who waited on him grudgingly consented to put him on his way.
 He followed her directions. con tinued his long tramp and in the silver and purple mystery of per feet moonlight night found himself looking down from hilltop upon Montpellier-le-Vi -VieuX.
 Rumor had prepared him to know he place when he saw 1t, nothing for ts stupendous lunacy. Heaven knows what convulsion or measured process of Nature accomplished this hing For his part Duchemin was Inable to accept any possible scien- fife explanation, and will go to his grave believing that some half-witted | yclops created Montpellier-l le-Vieux | n an hour of idleness, building him
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11

a play city of titanic monoliths, then wandered away and forgot 1t alto gether.
 To his mind there was something sinister In the portentious immobili- ty Of the place; in its silence, its want fexcuse for being. sense of age- old evil like an inarticulate menace.
 When abruptly a man moved from behind a rock some thirty or forty paces ahead, Duchemin stopped short. with tangled nerves and a barely smothered exclamation. Possibly a shape of spectral terror would have been less startling; in that weird place and hour humanity seemed more incongruous than the super natural.
 It was at once apparent that the man had neither knowledge of nor concern with the stranger. For an Instant he stood with his back to the latter, a stout body filling out too well the uniform of a private soldier iu the American Expeditionary Forces that most ungainly. inutile, unbecom- ing costume that ever graced the form of man.
 Then he half turned, beckoned hastily to one invisible to the ob- server, and furtively moved on. As furtively his signal was answered by fellow who wore the nondescript garments of a peasant. And as sud- denly as they had come into sight, the two slipped round a rocky shou- der, and the street of monoliths was empty.
 (Continued in Our Next Issue)
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
ALLIES MENACED BY
 TURKISH SUCCESSES
Fate Of GreCian Government Also
 Hangs in Balance

London, Sept. 11.-(By the Asso- cisted Press) the Greek forces from Asia Minor in a whirl- wind campaign lasting only two weeks the Turkish Nationalists under Musta- pha Renal Pasha have won a great military victory and at the sametime at least partly nullified the losses to their nation through the world war.
 Thus is created a situation full of the gravest possibilities, one demand ing the immediate adoption of a united policy by Great Britain, France and Italy-and such a policy is far from existent, according to the view generally held here.
 France and Italy
 France and Italy are accused in some quarters of having not only en- couraged the Kemalists, but of hav- ing supplied them with arms and munitions although it is now reported in the same circles that they are be- coming alarmed at the unexpected extent of the Turkish successes.
 1taly's concern is said to have been manifested in a freshly expressed de- sire for a preliminary conference of the allies at Venice to consider the sit uation but this finds no favor in Lon- don at any rate.
 The press greets with indications of alarm the big claims advanced by the Turkish representatives in Paris and Rome while soviet Russia's alleged desire to establish a bolshevist- -kemal- ist alliance aimed at control of Con- stantinople and the straits of Dardan- elles bring renewed demands that the neutrality of these be maintained at all costs.
 Another cause of uneasiness here is the effect the kemalists' victory is having in India where prayers for their success have been said daily in the mosques and every advance has been hailed with glee by the Moham- medans The Daily Telegraphs Cal | cutta corresponent says there were illuminations and fire works there Saturday night when the news of Smyrna's fall became known.
 Fate of Greece
 The fate of the Greek government in the face of defeat also is attracting attention here. An Athens dispatch .els of a recrudescence of the talk of King Constantlne's second descent rom the throne and the return to power of Venizelos.
 The popularity of the former pre- nier is flaring again with the dashing ,f Constantines military plans and Ireek soldiers reaching piraeuS from Smyrna marched through the streets
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11

that; and Monsieur Duchemin set tied down in the chair which his guest had quilted to grapple with his problem; where under Heaven to go }?
 He picked up in abstraction the book which Wertheimer had been reading--and wondered if, by any chance, he had left it there on pur- pose, so strong semed the hint. It was Stevenson's Travels With a | Donkey"
 If--he assured himself--there were any place in Europe where one might count on being reasonably secure from the soicitous attentions of the grudge- bearing Bolsheviki, it was the Cevennes, those litte-known hills of the south of France. well inland from the sea.
 CHAPTER II.
 A City of Lunacy.
 "A little place called Le Monastier, in pleasant highland valley 15 miles from Ie Puy notable for the
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
CONVICT WINS RACE

Osining, Sept. 11.-John Cancarato, weighing S05 pounds, won the fat mems race at Sing Sing prisons an- nual field day games inside the walls yesterday. All the inmates. Warden Lewis E. Lawes and several attend ants attended the prisoners athletic meet, which was to have been held Labor Day, but was postponed on ac-
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
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the eyes of the man whom England preferred to recognize as Andre Duchemin.
 But where on earth is one to go ?"
 Don't ask me-" the Englishman protested. And above all. don't tell me. l don't want you to come to a sudden end through somebody's es- tablishing illicit intercourse with my subconscious mind"
 He took his leave shortly after
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
,f the port shouting insults t

of the port shouting insults to the king and demanding Nenizeos' return The Greek newspapers are openly dis cussing the abdication of Constantine.
 Meanwhile Nenizelos is visiting at St. Moritz, Switzerland with his fami- ly but plans to go to Paris within day or two to confer with political and personal friends. While he refuses to discuss the Greek situation his friends openly declare he is anticipating the possibility of being recalled to power.
New Britain herald., 1922-09-11
BITTER HONORS

Vancouver. B. C.. Sept 11-The Vancouver Island Milk Producers as- sociation has won the highest honors
 for butter in competition with all the
 provinces of Canada, according to a
 recent report of the Dominion gov