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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-19
EVERGREEN COURT TEAM
HAS BEEN ORGANIZED

Another junior basketball team has
been organized in this city for the
present season and will play travel
ing games. The new team viii play
under the name of the Evergreen
C.
Those who win probably compose
the roster of the new team are: Eau
BILE, Jago, Burbank, Hartley, EURO.
Sanford and Fauble. Several practice
sessions will be held during the
course OF a few weeks, after which
the local team will be ready to meet
any JUROR team in this vicinity. For
games write Manager Martin Zuro,
109 Fayette street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-19

The Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
wy baseball league schedule has
ended for the present season after a
SUCCESSFUL list OF games. The Presi-
dent A. T. Dice cup, given to the
team holding the highest percentage
during the season., was given to the
Philadelphia division nine which
compiled a .773 percentage, while
the representative team of Port
Reading ended the season in ninth
place with 1854 percent. :
At the present time a post season
series is going on between the cham
pions of the Philadelphia and Read
ing league. and the Pennsylvania
railroad baseball league. The Nor
folk, Va. division team won the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-19

Port Reading Players
Averages Announced

championship of the "Pennsy" league
and the first game between these
two outfits was played last Saturday
at Tabor field, Philadelphia, Pa.
Honors were copied by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad league representatives
by a I'll score.
Port Reading in the first part of
the Philadelphia & Reading league
won two contests and lost nine, while
during the latter part of the sched-
ule six engagements were won and
five lost by that combination.
The Port Reading averages fol-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-19

The score by innings:
South Amboy =. 0 0 0 0 2 4 x-6
Spinning Co. -. 0 2 I 0 l 0 o.
The summary-Three base hit,
Morgan. Bases on balls off Jacobs,
8. Struck out by Jacobs, 4; by
Maurice. 2. Hit by pitcher, Jacobs,
(McKenzie). Double plays. Let's to
French TO Thomas. Umpire. Rogers,
of New York-Pennsylvania League.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-19

A. team was done by Morgan and
French, the former securing a three
Lase hit for the longest clout of the
game. Maurice, the South River
twirler featured al the stick for the
the Spinning Mill representatives.
The box core:
v. NJ. G. A.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-06

to FaiTbanks-as it the purpose in spending many millions of dollars to build such railroad was to reach one small town, and nothing more. Their report mentioned no resources of any kind between Chitina and Fairbanks.
 At the special session of Congress held in the spring and summer of 1913 called by President Wilson, two Al aska railroad bills were introduced, and were considered in extensive hear ings before the House and the Senate Committees on Territories.
 "One of them, backed by the Nor -Guggenheim people under lead ership of Falcon Joslin of Seattle and representatives of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, provided in effect for continuing the Alaska Railroad Commission, which had already committed itself to the Chitina- Fairbanks route, and clothed that Commission with full authority to locate and build a Government rail- road or railroads in Alaska. No au thority was given in ii to the Presi- dent.
 The other, supported by Delegate Wickersham and myself, centered in the President alone unrestricted pow CT, and made it his duty, to locate and build a railroad or railroads in Alaska not exceeding 1000 miles, from an open harbor or harbors on the Pacific coast to the Tanana river, or to the Yukon, through such agent or agents as he might appoint.
 Both bills carried authorization for s35,OOO,OOO as the cost of the work.
 Delegate Kickersham favored the Valdez-Copper river route, and the Seward-Susitna route, but both of us recognized the frame-up hidden in the bill to continue the Alaska Railroad Commission, and in our common pur- pose to defeat that frame-up we join ed efforts in placing the whole duty and responsibility in the hands of the President.
 Tn my statement before the Senate Committee on Territories in May, | 1913 but more particularly in nv statement before the House Committee in July of that year, went exhaus- lively into the whole subject. It was a critical situation that could be met only by a desperate fight, asking and
Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-06

giving no quarters. So took the lid off. At successive hearings that extend ed at intervals from May to August, before both committees, I exposed and proved what was being attempted gave full particulars of the notice that had been served upon me by c. w. Perkins. The opposition did not try to refute my statements. They could not. I fortified them with official doc uments and other proof as I went along.
 The result was that the bill Wick ersham and I supported was reported favorably by the Senate Committee, g to 2, and by the House Committee, 15 to 2. It passed the Senate by 30 majority, and the House by 187 ma jority, during the regular session of 1913-14, without single word in it which the Morgan-Guggenheim work CTS had strived for, after extensive and heated debates in which my testimony before the Committees was quoted page after page.
 Tt authorized an expenditure of $35,000,000 for railroads in Alaska not in excess of 1000 miles,, to be located and built by the President, and was approved by the President March 12, 1914.
 (Continued in Tuesdays Paper)
Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-06

interested with the Morgans in the Copper River & Northwestern rail- road and the Kennecott mine, had re- fused their consent for the .Morgans to finance the extension of the Alaska Northern because they regarded the Tanana valley as their territory
 We will not allow the Alaska Northern to build into the Panama val ley,' were the exact words he used in my last interview with him. Others were present at that interview, so l had corroborative proof, by men Nat ionally prominent. He afterward ad- mitted publicly that he did serve that notice in precisely those words, and undertook to justify their stand as a business necessity in protecting the Copper River & Northwestern rail- road.
 II then began campaign to have the Government build a railroad from the coast to the interior of Alaska on the ground that the Government was the only power in America strong enough to finance and build it in face of the MorganGuggenheim opposition.
 Walter Fisher, Secretary of the Interior, came to Alaska in 1911, fol- lowing the allinger-Pinchot contro- versy, to find a solution for Alaska S problems He examined the routes from Valdez, from Cordova and from Seward. In his annual report for that year he officially recommended that the Government buy the Alaska Nor thern and complete it to the Yukon river. President Taft sent a special message to Congress in February, 1912, asking an authorization for $35,- O00,000 to carry Secretary Fishers recommendations into effect
 But at this juncture the Morgan Guggenheim influences got in their work by attaching to the Alaska Ter ritorial Act a rider creating The Alaska Railroad Commission, and ap' propriating $25,OO0 for its expenses. The duty of this commission as pro- vided in the rider was to go to Alas ka, examine routes for Government railroad from the coast to the inter for of Alaska, and report back their findings and recommendations to the next Congress. The real purpose. as afterward disclosed, was to undo Sec retary Fishers recommendation in favor of the Seward-Susitna route, and swing ii to the COrdOva-Copper River route. That Commission, ap. pointed by President Taft, was made LID of Mai J. J. Morrow of the Army Lieut.. Cox of the Navy, Alfred Brooks of the Interior Department, and J. J Ingersoll. who had been for 25 years employed by Morgan-owned railroads
 They spent the summer of 1912 ir Alaska, attended every step of the way by Falcon Joslin of Seattle, rep resenting the Morgans. In January 1913, after returning to Washington they published their report, which showed a prepondenance of resource: along the Seward-Susitna route, bu they closed it with a recommendation that the Government build railroad from Chitina on the Copper River & Northwestern through the Copper riv CT calley to Fairbanks. They set ul as their sole reason that the Chitina J Copper river route was the shortes
Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-06
BALLA|NE TELLS IF
 ALASKA GENITAL AND
 GOVT. RAILROAD
(Continued from Page One)'

Naturally, I was pleased with the results so far, after five years of hard work. It seemed that complete success lad settled over the Alaska Central, and that it was headed straight for he Panama valley in clear field. Substantial progress was made for the next two years.
 But the panic of 1907, coming suddenly out of a clear sky, the most sudden and acute of any in the his ory of the United States and Canada, caused the failure of the Sovereign Bank of Canada with it's twenty-three branches, and brought down with it he failure of Frost and Osborne and heir Chicago & Milwaukee Electric ,ailroad as well as their Alaska Gen. ral Both roads were reorganized by he trustees of the defunct Sovereign bank, the Alaska Central being chang d into a new company named the Al lska Northern.
 Tn 1909 the Alaska Northern had I standard guage track completed to mile T, north of Seward, with ten niles of additional grading partially finished, ties on hand for 50 miles and rails for ten miles ahead of the track The survey was made all the way to the Panama river, 412 miles But the railroad was at a standstill It had to be refinanced
 That was the status in January 1909, when I began negotiations with G. w. Perkins, then yice-president o1 J. P Morgan & Co.,, on a proposal tC back me in a new company to take over the Alaska Northern and com plete it to the Panama river. He came to Alaska that summer, investigated the railroad and field, had a traffic expert go along the route for data a! to possible tonnage, and told me h, regarded it as a good investment.
 But after he had returned to Nev York he informed me that the Gug genheim Brothers, who were equall.
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GATEWAY CLASSIFIED
 ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR SALE-One choice lot, Federal addition; 2 cabins and lot on Wash ington street; one two-story, 7-room residence on Washington street with furnace, bath, hot and cold wa ter. Part cash, balance long or short time. See Mrs. s. Tallason, Seward. Sat-tf
Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-06
ALASKA RAILROAD SCHEDULE

Time Table in Effect May z, 1923 Throuoh Service Seward to Fairbanks Train Leaves Seward Mondays and
 rTb,redovc o+ o.00 m
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
LIGHTNING Boil 7
HITS WISE HOME
PART of Ceiling of Porch, House
Boxing and Electric Wiring
Destroyed in Flash

Tuesday afternoon between 4
and 5 O'clock lightning struck the
home of j. p. Wise, at Plains, do
ing considerable damage, but for.
tunately no one was hurt.
The bolt struck during an cleo
trical display which accompanied
a heavy rainstorm and tore OFF
the ceiling of the front porch and
~ quantity of boxing around the
roof. The electric wiring was also
disarranged, and the sitting
room where several members of
the family were gathered was fill
ed with smoke, but none of those
there were hurt in the least de-
gree.
Thirty minutes later another bolt
struck a barn belonging to Mr..
Wise and located only short dis
tance from the house. In the barn
was a quantity OF feedstuff, in
cluding some newly harvested oats,
half a load of which was destroyed.
A fine mule quartered in the barn
was killed instantly. Plains fire
department assistd6 in Handling
the fire which caused damage es-
timated at 500, except that caus-
ed by the loss of the mule, which
was worth $3.50.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
POWER ENGINEERS ARE
BEFORE CITY COUNCIL
Project of West Florida Power
Company Would Supply
Thomasville and Others

BROWNSVILLE, June 13.-Tne
city council held an informal ses-
sion last night at which time Mr..
Mees, Of Charlotte, N. c., went
fully into the details Of the pro-
ject of the West Florida Power
company. He explained the loca-
ton of the project ten miles west
of Tallahassee on the 0chlocknee,
the style of the dam construction,
the water-storage and the amount
Of fall and power capacity that
could be generated there. The
dam will cause a pond of over five
thousand acres and covering a dis
tance of fifteen miles back toward
Iamonia Lake and about mile
wide at most of its distance.
The plant will generate about
five thousand horsepower or twelve
million kilowat hours per year. The
company is planning to get into
the construction game and with
that end have sought contracts
from the available municipalities
and industrial plants in connecting
distance. Tallahassee has signed
up with the use of the steam plant
that Mees and Mees built at Talla-
hasse as an auxiliary. Cairo has
signed and Quincy is being pre-
sented the proposition now. De-
velopments are planned to the west
with Attapulgus and several large
industrial Fullers Earth plants are
ready to sign up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
CONDITIONS IN CHINA
REPORTED WORSE NOW
THAN IN MANY YEARS
American Association in China
and Chamber of Commerce
Unites in Statement
SEND CABLE OF PROTEST
American Lives and Liberty Be-
ing Endangered by Lack of
Strong Action Is Claimed

SHANGHAI, June 13.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Conditions in
China is termed the worst since
boxer outbreak" in a statement in
which the American Association of
China and the American Chamber
of Commerce of Shanghai is unit
ed.
The organization agreed that
American lives and liberty are
endangered and their prestige in
business is being destroyed by lack
of strong action"
A cable of protest was sent to
the secretary of state in Washing
ton.
1t was charged that the Chinese
are continuing outrages against
foreigners, and that American yes
sells had been fired up up the
Yangtze river and the American
flag insulted. American gunboats
are, said to be inadequate to pro-
tect Americans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
WILL LAW LEAVES
ATLANTA HOSPITAL

Friends in Americas have receiv-
ed letters from William Law, who
underwent an 0 Grafton on his eye
in Atlanta this week, stating that
he passed through the ordeal sue
cessfully and has left the hospital.
Mr.. Law says that it will be Tues
way before he can leave Atlanta,
but at that time he "intends to
catch the first thing smoking out of
Atlanta" for Americas.
A number of years ago, when Mr..
Law was an infant he was playing
on the floor near fire and crawling
too close thereto, his clothing be-
came ignited. He fell against the
blaze, burning his eye seriously,
completely disfiguring that side Of
his face. The operation, it is said,
will restore his eye and face to
normal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
0'QUIHN TALKS ON
COMING BAPTIST CAMP
Plains Pastor Believs Many Win
Be Here to Attend Friend
ship Association Meeting

Rev. J. E. O'Quinn, pastor of
the Baptits church at Plains, was a
visitor in Americus today and
while here was busy arranging
some of the details Of the, big en-
campment which members of
Friendship association will hold at
Myrtle Springs, beginning July 2.
Mr.. O'Quinn is chairman of camp
activities and expressed the belief
that the encampment will be one
Of the most successful affairs in
the history of the association.
1t looks as though we will have
everything we need" said Mr..
O'Quinn, the Southern Cotton Oil
company has given us all the lard.
Wesson oil and peanut butter we
can use, and will also have Miss
Whitfield, who is said to be the
best dietetian and domestic econo-
mist in the South to direct the
cooking. She will give five lessons
IN domestic science and home eco
nomics during the encampment.
THE Smith Grocery company
has donated flour and we are ex-
pecting other dealers to furnish
teas, coffees and many other ar
ticles to help out in this gigantic
undertaking. It all comes in ans
wer to prayer. What a great privi-
lege it will be for our religions
workers to have week of outing
religious training. 1t is of Godg
it off. If it is His will it will 90
gloriously over.
ly over.
Il want some of our country
friends to give us some country
meat, and some meal, and then /
want every Baptist who can nos
sibly be there to come, and let's
make it the greatest week the
Friendship has ever had.
Next Sunday is booster dav in
all the chruches. I want some Ia
deliver four-minute address on
the eneampment in every church
that day and send in a list of vour
delegates at once to Mrs. Cars
well.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
L YUAN HUNG FLEES
CHINESE CAPITAL ON
SPECIAL To COAST
Chinese President Yields to Pres
sure of Militarism After Long
Resistance
MAKE SPECTACULAR DASH
Flight of President Leaves Pc
king With Neither Executive
Nor Cabinet

PEKING, June 13.-(By the
Associated Press. President Ia
Yuan Hung, with a hostile army
of his own countrymen at the
gates of his capital. ready to enter
if he refused to vacate his offiee,
today yielded to pressure by mill
tarists and left for Tien Tsin on
special train. General Feug Yu
Shiang, military inspector of the
metropolitan area, had threatened
to invade Peking unless President
Li-Yuan Hung left.
The president made a spectacular
dash for his residence to the rail-
road station in motor car, and
the special, which had been made
ready for an emergency, pulled
out Immediately. Only the vice
minister of war and a handful of
faithful adherents waved good bye
to the departing president, whose
flight left Peking not only without
president, but without cabinet
as well.
The entire cabinet resigned June
6, ostensibly because of disagree
ment with President Ii Yuan Hung
over the appointment of certain
petty officials, but in reality it
was said, beacuse of the financial
impasse faced by the government.
President Li-Yuan Hung had vain
ly endeavored to re-organize the
cabinet since that date.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
maritime POWERS IN
To ESCAPE
j. s. LIQUOR RULINGS
Department of State Initiates Ne
gotiations to End Existing
Situation Through Treaties
OFFICIALS FAVOR SCHEME
Rum Fleet to Be Broken Up
When Inconvenience to For
eign Ships Removed

WASHINGTON, June 13.-In-
formal negotiations initiated by the
State Department with the various
an2l itu.e powers contemplate "
solution on a reciprocal basis of
the ship liquor controversy and
rum smuggling fleet problem
through the exercise of the treaty
making power of the government.
American officials, it was reveal
ed, see in this method an oppor-
tuinty to eliminate Inconvenience
to foreign ships within the three
mile limit, due to prohibition en-
forcement regulations, while at
same time the sovereign fleet of
rum smugglers off the American
coast may be broken up through
the extension by treaty agreement
Of right of search for this specific
purpose up to the twelve mile limit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
H. V. CRUTCHER is
ARRESTED FOR MURDER

WAYCROSS, June 13--A war
rant charging murder of w. Tillman
Rodgers, young white man of Folks
ton, early Sunday morning at Bra
ganzia, was sworn out this morning
for H. v. Cruteber, quarter boss at
the lumber mill situated at that
place.
Crutcher is alleged to have done
the shooting from the dark which
resulted fatally for young Rodgers.
1t was stated by county officers this
morning that Crutcher claims to
have fired twice while standing on
the sidewalk in front of his home,
but that both shots were fired up
ward.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
MISS PARKMAN IS At
MEETING OF AGENTS
District Convention of Home
Economies Workers in Ses-
sion Today at Vienna

Home demonstration agents of
the Macon district, comprising the
southwestern section and adjacent
counties, are gathered today in VII
emma in convention of methods per-
tanning to state and county work.
Sessions are to be held in the ex-
perimental laboratory of the Vienna
high school and fifteen home agents
are present.
Miss Lois Dowdle, of the State
College of Agriculture, is on the
program for the four days, and will
give daily lectures on the work be-
ing done throughout the state by
home demonstration agents in their
counties.
Miss Rosa McGehee, general agent
of the Macon district, is also on
the program, and will have charge
of the programs each day.
Sumter county will be represent
ed by Miss Bonnie Parkman, home
agent, who will have a full report of
the splendid work done in Sumter
county this year by the club girls
and the work of the home demon
stration work recently organized
among the women of the county.
Studies will be made of the new
est and most improved methods for
canning, preserving, picking, these
to include fruits and vegetables, and
home grown products.
During the absence of Miss Park
man the women Of the home demon
stration work will have charge Of
her classes throughout the county,
they having perfected themselves in
this special branch of home service.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
DEMONSTRATES TRUCK
GROWING is PROFITABLE

MOULTRIE, June 13.-iL. y.
Marie, Sr., who operates a truck
and vegetable farm two miles east
of Moultrie is doing a great deal
to demonstrate the latent possi-
bilities of this section in growing
vegetables the year around. Mr..
Marie produce something like for
ty different vegetables during the
year, and he grows them "in sea-
son and out of season." He is now
selling an English cabbage that is
as fine as the world produces. he
is marketing a white rutabaga that
is as tender when cooked, both
root and leaf, as the fall curnips.
1t is a mild vegetable without the
loud flavor of the ordinary ruta.
baga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
ROME MINISTER'S WOULD
CLOSE ALL POOL ROOMS

ROME, PUNE, 13.-EndOrse1
ment of the Woodruff anti-pool
room bill has been given by the
Rome Ministerial association and
the state senator and representa-
tives from Floyd county will be
asked to support the measure.
The association also discussed the
Vacation Bible school and heard
an address on that subject by the
Rev. w. W. Carroll, who conduct
ed school of that nature last
summer.
The anti-poll room bill proposes
to prohibit the operation of licen-
sed pool rooms but not tt inter
fere with pool and billiard tables
used in clubs and homes without
profit
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-13
SUMTER CLUB GIRLS
WILL MEET MONDAY
Gathering Win Be Held in Newly
Finished Room in Basement
of Courthouse

Sumter county's nome demon
stration clubs will be represented
in Americus Monday afternoon IN
a called meeting at 2;30 o'clock in
the recently finished home eco
nomics room in the basement OF the
court house, Miss Bonnie Parkman,
Sumter's home agent, announced
today.
Three representative women
from the five rural clubs will come
to organize a county council for
promotion of home demonstration
work throughout the county. The
council viii be organized for the
sole purpose of enlarging county
community work, in which much
enthusiasm haS been manifested
since the beginning of the home
economics clubs several months
ago.
At the meeting plans viii be dis
cused whereby measures will be
taken to increase the membership
of the home demonstration clubs
throughout the county, to enlist
the interest of homemakers in can
ming, preserving, brdadmaking,
sewing, millinery and other fea-
lures of home economics.
Delegates will be appointed
at Mondays meeting to attend the
demonstration convention to be
held in Athens in July, when it is
expected number of club women
from this county will attend.
The premium list will be drafted
at Mondays meeting for home dem
onstration work which will be ex-
Monday afternon to represent
Sumter county at the state home
hibited in the fall county fair.