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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-11
SPECIAL MARK RESPECT.
FOR HIGHWAY POLICEMAN
KILLED WHILE ON DUTY

Officer Gooch Of Waterville,
Fatally Hurt When Machine
skids Near Mattawamkeag-
Dies on Way to Bangor Hos.
pital-Highway Police to
Wear Mourning Badge 30
Days-Capitol Flag at Half
Mast Day Of Funeral
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-11
PURITY OF BALLOT
IS GREATEST ISSUE
VIEW OF BREWSTER
Republican Nominee for Gov.
ernor Makes Clear Where
He Stands

Tells Lincoln Club Women VIII be
Governed by Republican Platform
and Constitution OF Maine-Quotcs
Section s, Article In Answer TO
Democratic Assault Regarding
Khan
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-11
WIDE BROADCASTINC
OF C00LIDCE'S talk
AT NOTIFICATION
Is Stations Will Relay Presi-
dents Word on Coming
Campaign

Has Been Listening to Reports from
Leaders Throughout County for
Several Weeks-Has Said Little of
What Plans are-Exercises Will
BE Held I'm Memorial Continental
Hall at Washington Thursday
Evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-11

Il u % che utmost Importance thas
you tell ysur ad news in this paper,
u yeu want rssults.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
BY RING LARDNER..

" o the editor: This article deals
with a few incidence in re-
CARDS to my little trip from
Long Island to Asheyille
which ! am informed my readers is
in a fever to hear about same.
Well in the list. place I visited the
Office of the Southern r. r. in n. Y.
city and told them whore 1 wanted
to go and the man says ] would bet
ter buy a All Year Ticket and saws
do you mean it takes all year to get
to Asheville. He laughed heartily
and exclaimed that a All Year Ticket
was just a round trip ticket which
you get il cheaper and come back any
time you want to within the year. So
he fixed me up with a A. Y. tick et
and / left Great Neck at 1855 AM.
one morning which is suppose to
reach n. Y. city at 1885 which would
give mo over a hour and X in ~.
city to have lunch with a friend of
mine before the Asheville train left
at 1:10 Pm.
But just as we left Flushing they
opened up the bridge to leave some
barges so through them and we laid
there a hour and a x while they tried
to close the bridge again and finely
reached y. y. at 1867 so 1 had TO
run like a dear to got on the board
Of tho train for Asheville. 1t seems
like the Long Island r r. have only
been having trouble with that bridge
for 10 years SO they figure that what
ever is out of order is just temporary
and will rectify itself il you give 1t
time.
Well they was a gal about So years
of age setting acrost the isle from me
in the Pullman and she kept looking
in my direction but my folks had
warned me VS.. these here train f1irta-
tions so / did not encourage her but
devoted the afternoon to silent prayer
and looking out the window at tho
scenic wonders of the states which
lays between y. Y. city and what
some wag has aptiy nicknamed the
nations capital.
Along about PM. we stopped in
Washington for oil and then con-
tinued southwards arriving early in
the AM at Salisbury. n. c.. which is
where the Asheville branch leaves
the main line. North Carolina is a
great tobacco raising country and
many of the towns is named after
cigarettes. A little while later we
passed through Nebo and Asheyille
Evening star., 1924-03-23
By FRANK g. CARPENTER.
PLOESTI Roun.ria

LNDREDS of gigantic oil der
" rlcks, black toothpicks, twenty
feet square at the base and as
= - high as ten-story apartment
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Great Pools Petroleum Mixed With shnekd by Women Oil
Bd Ien- vunnn sosSn
On deiBa

and to him and Mr.. Z. J. Daley, the
manager of tho Moreni field, and Mr..
Fredericks, the manager of the
Oil men employed here. that ] am
Indebted for much of the information
given in this letter.
In the first place, the oil formation
arc different from those of the Unit
cd States. In America the oil lies
largely in hard rocky stratum and
the crude petroleum flows or is pump
ed to the surface. Here the oil lies
in great pools from 1900 to 5000 feet
below the surface and is mixed with
sand as fine as -four and with the
natural gas which permeates the
whole. When oil is struck the gas
forces the sand out with the OIL
Sometimes nothing but sand will
come for several hours and even days
and then the mixture of oil and sand
bursts forth. Even after the wells
have been producing for long time,
there is so much sand mixed with
the oil that it is impossible to pump
it. For this reason, when the wells
stop flowing the oil is taken out by
dropping a long bailing bucket such
as is used in the making of any ar
tesian well, allowing it to fill with
oil, which is held in by valve in the
bottom, and then raising it by ma
chinery to the surface and emptying
the mixture of oil and sand. These
bailers are driven by electricity or
steam and the bucket, which is as big
around as quart measure and some
times as high as a five story building,
is raised and lowered, carrying up a
number of barrels each time. With
a bailer fifty feet long, as many as
five hundred barrels of oil are thus
raised in one day. Some of the
bailers I saw carried two and a half
barrels at one load.
Getting the oil out of the sand is
a large part of the production q
crude petroleum in Rumania. Every
bit of the oil comes up loaded, and
in a flowing well it pours forth in a
Evening star., 1924-03-23

from tho ground, but the mixture of
sand and oil lifted him thirty feet
higher and when he fell it was on the
side OF Il soft sand pile, copiously
tar-ed and ready for feathers. Strange
70 say. he WAS not injured and got up
and walked away.
] stopped at some Of the wells and
watched the drilling. The wells are
never shot here with dynamite or
other explosives as in the United
States. This is on account of the
sand. The drilling is difficult also on
account of the different degrees Of
density OF the various strata, which
causes the earth to slide in much the
same way as it does at the Panama
Canal This forces the drill out of
the perpendicular and often to such
an extent that Il second hole is put
down or the bent drill is cut through
and the hole extended. The soft
earth formstions add to the difficulty
of carrying the castings, and in Il deep
well the pipe sunk down at the top
may be twenty-five inches in dame
ter. After some distance 4 smaller
casing is run down from the top and
the drill continued, growing smaller
and smaller until the last casing
which strikes the oil is perhaps so
small that 4 cat could not run
through it without striking off cleo
trio sparks with it's fur.
] asked as TO the cost of drilling
and found that the average expense
of the well is $4,000 or $4,000,
whereas fifteen years ago oil was usu-
ally struck at Il cost of about $4,000.
Thirty years ago, am told, the cost
of drilling Il well at Lima, Ohio, was
about $1,000.
The queer feature of the Moreni
field, the producing area of which is
only about 400 acres, is a huge wedge
of salt, mile or so wide at the point
and broadening out as it extends from
the hills down TO the plains. This
salt goes down no one knows how far.
They have drilled into it more than a
half mile from the surface and have
not found the end. The wedge runs
east and west, with the oil on both
sides of it. and, strange to say, the
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Work in Ruann Oil Fields Reveals Some Queer Features

against the advice of Dr.. Nerasic, the
head of the Geological Institute OF
Rumania- That learned doctor said
there was SO little chance OF finding
oil in Moreni that he would agree to
drink every quart taken out of the
region. Nevertheless, the Moreni
field, as l have said, is now producing
more than half the output and it will
yield this year something like four
million barrels At 4 quart to the
person it would take twice the stom-
achs OF all people of our country TO
hold it. There are but few oppor-
tunities for wildcat oil men in Ru-
mania. American prospcctors como
in, look over the ground, and go awsy
in disgust. One reason is the Diff
culties of drilling and another the
expense, and last, but by 10 means
least, is the stranglc-hold which the
government has on the industry. Ac-
cordinS to the laws enacted before
and since the war, all the oil taken
out of the ground must be refined in
Rumania, and no crude oil, fuel oil
or naphtha may be exported. Two
thirds of every oil product must be
sold in Rumania at prices fixed by
the government This makes it pos
sibIc to export only one-third of the
product.
In closing this letter. want to say
word or so about the Standard Oil
Company here in Rumania- Its in
vestments amount to upward of SEQ
100000. 1t was one Of the first for
eign companies to aid in establishing
the industry and today 1t does bust
ness larger than any other company
with the exception perhaps of the
Royal Dutch Shell.
! have gone over its works and they
are wonders of efficiency and modern
invention in a land where most OF
the methods are crude to the extreme
1t has a high-class force of men, and
the American colony which lives here
at Ploesti is a refreshing oasis in
this great desert of east Europe.
Carpenters World Travels. Copyright, 1874
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Umbrella Story Amazes Lardner
Ring Reports Incidents of Rail Journey

no longer SO she pointed TO a UNI
brella which tho porter had placed
in my section by mistake and she ast
me was that my umbrella.
Sho knowed very we'll it was not
my umbrella because it was her urn-
brella and besides which / do not
look like the kind that goes around
the country totting a umbrella But
any way 1 says no is it yours and
she says ] think maybe it is SO
give it to her and by way of thanks
she told me a. very interesting Incl
dencc in connections with it's career
1t seems like ono winter she was
down in Florida and she was going
TO take tho boat from Jacksonville
back to y. Y, and She was riding or
a street car to the WORT in Jack SON
vile and when she got off of the
street car she forgot her umbrella
Well she did not miss it till she got
on the boat and she felt kind OF bad
as it was d high class umbrella, and
on moro than one occasion had saved
her from drowning ha ha ha-
Well the boat stopped at Charles
ton and her and several other pas
sengers got off and il was raining
and she made tho remark to another
gal that she had left her umbrella
on a street car in Jacksonville and
the other gal says why thcy's Il LADY
right on our boat that told mo about
finding a umbrella on a street car in
Jack sonville just before she got on
tho boat and / will see that you two
gets together. So she introduced tho
two of them and sure enough it was
her umbrella
So 1 thought TO rnvseif that is
very hair raising story but it would
of been a whole lot hotter il the UNI
brella which the lady found had OF
turned out to not be my gals UNI
breIla after all.
Tho friendship between this LADY
and l broke off as we entered Ashc-
willie station before either or bot:
had their heart scared. 1 clumb in a
costly motor and was Bisked out tc
an inn.
Meanwhile ] been enjoying south
ern hospitality and also been inter
viewed by Mr.. Holloway of the Ashc-
Vile Citizen, a newspaper dedicat ed
to tho upbuilding of western North
Carolina, which if they build it up
much more it will make Pixies Peak
look like d divot.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1924-03-23

After a while we come to a town
called Newton and they was sign on
the fence which says "Kiwanus Club
of Newton Wants a Station in Keep
ing with the Town so I kind of
looked over the station and the town
both and it seemed to me like the
kiwanis boys had got their wish.
By this time we had began to climb
straight up into tho Blue Ridges and
the scenery was getting so good I
wanted to devote all my tension to
same but the little gal acrost the
isle finely could not contain herself
Evening star., 1924-03-23

him there until satisfied" he pulmotc.
Ladies is doing this every day for
beauty. Elegant results. We have
only killed one % this week
j arose then from stool & sur
rounded those two wise scientists
with my eyes.
Gentlemen | say so. ''your treat
ment fills me up with delight.
shall order two CD of them. One for
me and one for Cousin Nogi."
so happy TO hear" they hand
shake. "& when you wish begin?"
April 1, 1887" I menagerie.
But on that date you shall be
dead" decry Prof. Smilax.
''Yes will.'' l explode. "And when
I are dead 1 do not care what are
done to fix me up"
Evening star., 1924-03-23

oils arc OF different character. Those
on the northern side Of the wedge
have a paraffin base and those on the
southern side have an asphalt base
Standing on the apex / could sec the
great derricks forming long lines on
both sides of the wedge. They were
all black and somber. made so by the
black sand and black oil spray. This
sonberness is one of the features of
these Roumanian oil fields. The
pitchy fluid paints everything the
color of jet. The buildings arc black,
the machinery is black and even the
ground is of a rich dark hue. In
walking / had to look out for my
steps for fear L might sink to my
shoe tops in one of the oil swamps
which are to be found here and there.
I had to be especially careful also
as 1 had an appointment to lunch
with tho queen the following day
and had no other shoes with me but
those on my feet.
:; K :;
A COMMON expression III gold
mining is that gold is where
you find it. 1t is much the same with
oil. Petroleum has been mined in a
very small way in different parts of
Rumania for centuries. The field is
known to be one of the Oldest in the
world in point of actual production
and its statistics show that it was
mined commercially two years before
the Drake we'll was put down in the
United States. For long time the
wells were dug by hand and large
basins about fifteen feet square and
fifty feet deep were made to hold the
oil. At first the drillers were not
able to go below $50 feet, and they
dropped snow into the we'll to purify
the air. At least they claimed this
purified it. Later wells were made
by hand six hundred or eight hun
dred feet deep and the oil sands were
washed in large wooden vessels half
filled with water.
After the foreign drillers came in
prospecting went on everywhere and
new fields were discovered. Among
those tested was this Moreni field,
Evening star., 1924-03-23

itself is said to Of derived it's soubri-
quet from u inveterate smoker.
As j set down to breakfast the
chairman Of the dinning car give me
free of charge d copy of the Char
lottc Observer which it says they
would give Bibles to new subscribers
and it struck me that in all the time
/ been in y. Y. never heard of d y.
Y. paper trying to get new sub
scribers by offering them Bibles
Maybe they are afraid their presses
could not cope with the increase
circulation
Evening star., 1924-03-23

LNDREDS of gigantic oil der
|" ricks, black toothpicks, twenty
feet square at the base and as
= - high as ten-story apartment
house.
To the back of them mighty noun
tains, the Carpathians, cutting the
sky.
In front the vast grain laden plains
through which the Danube is flowing
to the Black Sea.
Underneath hills Of black sand
tossed up in all sorts of shapes, with
black oil oozing from them and black
streams and pools of oil here and
| there. Huge, fiat, round, iron tanks
fifty feet high in groups, each holding
tens of thousands of barrels of petro-
leum.
Iron pipe of all sizes lying on the
ground, stacked in piles. and being
carried by long teams of white bull
locks to this place and that.
Donkey engines pumping and bail
ing and myriad of dirty men and
women toiling away at all sorts of
strange jobs.
These are some of the features of
Inc OH IIeluS OIL fIOu1ndnld, which lie
here within gunshot of PloeSti, in
southeastern Europe, not far from the
Balkans.
The oil of Roumania cuts d large
figure in the markets of the world.
This country ranks sixth among the
great oil producers. She is now TAX
ing out almost two barrels of every
hundred which are mined throughout
the world, and the bulk of her prod
uct comes from this little region
where / now am.
The Roumanian oil deposits lie in
three zones. One is in Maramuresctf.
along the Thesis river valley. An
other is in the county of Valcea, but
the most important is that of Prohova,
lying within two hours by motor of the
capital, Bucharest, and on the south
ern foothills of the Carpathian Noun
tains. Here in a district ten miles
wide and running for hundred miles
along the slope of the hills are some
thing like 1000 oil wells, which are
producing from seven to nine million
barrels of oil per year.
The oil lies in great pools scattered
here and there throughout this 100
miles. They are in fields about ten in
number, and the most important of
all is the Moreni-Tuicani field, which
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Charlie wrote.

Charlie wrote.
Entire face-This show signs of
dilapidation, elliptickle contortion &
curviture of the smile. This need to
be removed, stretched over portrait
of Apollo Belvedere and baked hrs
It oven mperature."
lie pause slowly. | listen to his
silence.
Are that all?" pronounce distinc-
tually.
"All except your complexion" he
denote. That OF course should be
bleached 10 match your new hair &
eyes. should snuggest the Wawaw
Treatment"
How you do that?' | jar afraidly.
Merely by placing your head in a
tub of hot pineapple jam and keeping
Evening star., 1924-03-23

| describe in this letter. 1t is a small
territory. Put it all together and it
would not cover more than four 100
acre farms. Nevertheless, il yields
more than half the Roumanian pro-
duction, and it is the great center of
Roumanian oil activity today. Not
far away is the district of Baicoi
which 1 also have gone over, and in
addition arc eight or nine other fields.
all of which contain pools of petro-
leum.
Ploesti is a city of 10000, in the
center of the oil-producing territory
The fields run in a great semicircle
around it, covering an area of per-
haps forty square miles, and the oil
is piped here to be refined. There are
a dozen or more different refineries,
the largest of which has a capacity
of 10000 barrels a day. You can see
the tank farms on every side of the
city, and the rich smell of petroleum
fills the air.
:: :: = =
THE refineries belong to the great
oil companies which are working
.
by the nations to which they belong.
The Steaua- Romano is the German
company; the Royal Dutch is the
Dutch nglish, commonly known as
the Royal Dutch Shell, and the
Roma mericana is the Standard
Oil Company of the United States.
In addition there are dozen or more
smaller esta blishments. for more than
one hundred companies are operating
in the territory.
The Standard oil refineries are the
best in the country. The machinery
szsis all new, for it was built since the
world war and there is no modern
process of oil reduction and produc-
ton which it does not possess. 1t is
now refining something like ten
thousand barrels daily, and it has
very large holdings in the several
fields. 1t was in company with Mr..
J. p. Hughes, the director Of the
Standard Oil Company here in Ru-
mania, that I went over the fields,
Evening star., 1924-03-23

But think, Togo" he bag. with
4 face like yours walking around
town you cannot tell Standard Time
from Daylight Saving because of in
jury to clocks
MANY will thank me for that" 1
6ib & step out OF there looking like
{. expensive Japanese idle.
Hoping YOU are the same
Yours truly
lIAHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1924-03-23
An Even Break.

Tovnly-Do you often have TO rusa
to catch your morning train?
Stubbubs-Oh, it's about an even
break. Sometimes I am standing at
the station when the train puffs up
and other times it is standing at the
station when / puff up.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Long Enough.

Dugan-Did you see that brick fal
on my head?
Finnegan-Yes; but what arc. yoy
yelling about? 1t stayed there only z
second
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-12-11
Chapter v

When she awakened II was morn
ing. The sun was streaming brightly
into the room. Through the window
Joan saw n scene OF exquisite beauty
in the rolling hills, the winding road,
the forest glades. Underneath the
chickens were scrambllng for the corn
which the matron was flnging to
them. thousand birds we're awing.
the universal robin and the blueblrd
OF her beloved home. The dew lay
heavy on the leaves and grass. Joan
felt sudden ecstasy. This was her
own country. and she had come back
to II. Her fears were dissipated with
the night shadows.
She would remain. She decided that
while she was dressing. And yet a
doubt was in her heart. And with II
came the remembrance OF something
that had disturbed her during the
night. Fllterlng into her conscious
ness came the recollection OF an auto
mobile rolling up TO the door. and OF
mems voices conyerslng In low tones
under her window. Then the machine
had rolled away. IL must have been
about two In The morning.
Perhaps a patient had been brought
to the Institute. thought the girl, as
she went downstairs. Mrs. Fraser's
door was closed. and the only person
astlr seemed 10 be the coiored maid.
who nodded and smiled as she looked
up from her sweeping. Joan began TO
pace the long verandab In front OF
the building. looking out across the
hills and thinking over her situation.
Perhaps II was only morbidness or
mental fatigue. that had made her
read things in the faces Of Myers and
Mrs. Fraser which did not exist there.
Perhaps the day would disclose her
position more definitely.
She was walking past the open door
OF the building when she saw man
leaving the doctors room. II was
Myers. the secretary. He saw Joan
and came briskly out upon the We
randall.
Good morning. Miss Wentworth"
he said. In his rasping tones "Plehs-
ant weather. isn't TT Much better
here than IN the heat Of Ayonmoutb :"
How do you %, Mr.. Myers" said
Joan. trying 70 overcome her instinc-
tive disgust Of the man. you have q
new patient here. haven't your"
He looked az her with sort Of
qulzzical shrewdness. What makes
you think that. Miss wentworthT' he
inquired.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-12-11

Isn't likely to be any work unless
some patient comes In. You we're not
TO attend Mrs. Dana. | thinkT'
II was told not"
THAT'S so. Miss Wentworth" The
matron's air was a very decided one.
and again conveyed the impression Of
something hidden, which was. further,
meant to remain hidden. "Tbe doctor
wired me that | don't suppose he
said anything about Mrs. Dana to
your or-or Mr.. Myers7"
Her stealthy watchfulness now
seemed OF ominous portent. and the
matron made no attempt to suppress
the eagerness with which she awaited
Joan's answer.
"No, Doctor Lancaster said moth
ing" answered the girl.
Then, seeing that the matron was
still regarding her doubtfuliy. she
added:
But Is not Doctor Jenkins resident
here1 I have not seen him yet, you
know"
The matron stared at her In aston
ishmenf- why. Miss Wentworth,
that was Doctor Jenkins who drove
you up from the stationi Didn't you
known she asked.
That was Doctor Jenkfns1-
II thought Doctor Lancaster would
have told you about him. He's a
graduate OF Johns Hopkins. Old Doc
tor Lancaster wanted TO build up an
Institution here where we bin people
could work among our own. But the
plan fell through. You see. the hos
pItal in Avonmouth got hold Of most
Of the money. and fhen--there were
other difficulties. don't know about
tberz-Tve only been here three
years. and Doctor jenkins wasn't
graduated then. and we never pay at
tentlon TO the gossip OF the viIIagers.-
She checked herself hastily. as n
she was afraId Of compromising her
self
Doctor jenkins has given up bis
life 20 the work here" she continued.
HE lives at MIlIville. but We hope
some tine that Doctor Lancaster viii
build I'D the place again. II only
II only be-"