davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-12-09
An Open Letter to the
Employers of Hamilton

Those who youparticualy thinking of
as-ofgfts their
Christmas they will time off
from their O do their necessary holiday shopping
In employers have waited until the last
late December grant them this time
fly wait until late December this employees will have
fair shopping opportunity.
They be they jammed
with lastminute shoppers
They will
picked thousands December shoppers
employees their
They
lines earlier
their best remaining shopping opportunity the 1927 Christ
Why the opportunity your
have
Of waiting
that they comfortably the complete Christmas
that Hamilton showing.
Signed
The Hamilton Merchants Association
of the
Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
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ing the duties of the superintendent.
we find in general letter-book:
Navy Department, January %
1900
g" William Marbury, Georgetown.
Sir: Capt. Thomas Tingey of the
Navy, an officer of great merit in our
service, has been ordered to Wash
ington with a view to superintend the
building of the 74-gun ship. and to
aid in the arrangement of the navy
yard the improvement of which he
will also superintend. The money, as
heretofore, will pass through your
hands. Captain Tingey being a man
Of understanding and having seen the
navy yards of England, will be able to
direct the layings of that in Wash
ington to the greatest advantage
"Mr. Marbury continued to act as
Navy agent to July 8, 1901. Upon the
election of Mr.. jefferson to the Presi-
dency, Mr. Stoddert retired and Mr.
Robert Smith, of Maryland, succeeded
him as Secretary of the Navy. The
new secretary Immediately abolished
the Office of navy agent for the yard
and included it's duties in those of
the superintendent, Captain Tingey
thus very much increasing his author
ity and responsibility. Under the new
order, Captain Tingey was required to
superintend all the public buildings
and improvements, to receive all pub
lie property of all kinds deposited in
his custody, and to be responsible for
their safe-keeping and expenditure
thereof All the officers and others on
board the ships in ordinary ships laid
up out Of commission at Washington
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Begins Story Tngey Ruler Navy YARD

Louis Mackall advertised Mackall' s
Square for rent and described it as
that beautiful situation on the
heights of Georgetown between Green
and Montgomery streets, adjoining
Mr.. Davidson's on one side and Mr..
Washington's on the other" He
would rent the place for $500 per
annum.
The Savage Cotton Manufacturing
Co. near the Washington turnpike
road wanted orders for it's goods, and
intending buyers should address Dan
lei Hack, or George Williams, at Bow
ly's Wharf, Baltimore.
c. T. Hinckley, portrait painter, had
removed his painting establishment
to No. CT, basement story of Gadsbys
Hotel"
T. w. Hewett, trustee, would sell
before the door of Browns Tavern,
Piscataway, 1.-The lands of William
Dent Beall. called Independency, ly-
ing in Prince Georges and Charles
Counties on both sides of Mattawoman
Creek, containing 900 acres, devised
to William Dent Beall by Richard
Dent"
This was an advertisement: Wash
ington Library-For the encourage
ment of literature the directors of this
institution have reduced the price of
shares from SIC their real value) to
$40 per share. Shares may be had
at this reduced price at Mr. P.
Pishey) Thompsons book store or at
the library a few PAGES south of
Pennsylvania avenue, opposite Caru-
sis assembly room"
This: Notice of the dedication of
the church recently built on Ninth
street for the Fourth Presbyterian
Society, Rev. j. n. Danforth, minister
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were to consider Captain Tingey as
the agent Of this Department and to
respect his authority accordingly. AS
compensation for such services he
was to be entitled to receive the full
pay without rations, Of a captain
commanding a ship of 80 guns and up
wards. The pay of a captain in such
command was 500 per month and
eight rations per day"
WE will now leap across almost
80 years and open the file of
the National Intelligencer of Febru-
airy, 1929. In the issue of Tuesday,
February "a. is this:
"Deaths-At the Navy Yard in this
city about 10 o'clock Am. yesterday,
aged 70 years, Commodore Thomas
Tingey, commandment of that yard
and for 2S years a resident of this
city in that capacity.
ITO his exalted worth every one
who has ever known him will bear
testimony. His irreproachable char
acter must be to his bereaved widow
and affectionate children an invalu-
able legacy.
His commission in the Navy was
nearly coeval with it's existence. For
almost so years he has sustained the
character of an officer of the Navy
with unsullied reputation.
GAS the head of a family he was
a venerable and true patriarch. AS
a man he was humane, kind and
generous. AS a citizen, faithful and
loyal.
His death, though it happened to
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him In the fulness of years, will be
mourned by all who knew him.
His funeral will take place from
his late residence tomorrow at -
o'clock The friends and acquaint-
ances and those of the family, and
the officers of the Army and Navy
generally, are respectfully requested
to attend the funeral without more
particular invitation"
The Intelligencer, Wednesday, Feb
ruary %, 1929, contained this:
Naval General order: AS a mark
Of respect to the memory of Commo-
dore Thomas Tingey, late of the
United States Navy, who died this
morning at 10 o'clock, the flags of
the navy yards, stations and vessels
of the United States Navy are to
be hoisted half-mast and Is minute
guns fired at noon on the day after
the receipt of this order. officers of
the Navy and Marine Corps are to
wear Grape for 80 days"
The Rambler does not find in the
Intelligencer an account OF the
funeral of Commodore Tingey.
The Rambler has gathered at the
Court House and elsewhere material
to be used in his Tingey narrative
and he will give it to you--that Is,
he will sell ii to you for cents
a COPY. accompanied by this picture
section, comic sheets and yards OF
articles by writer's almost as famous
as the Rambler. So, after reading
the Rambler, you may. by the use
of patience, find some excellent Things
to read. The facts which l have
gathered concerning Commodore
Tingey must serve me for one or two
other rambles. This is Thrift week
and | do not mean to be extravagant
with facts. One may be extravagant
with words, differences and interpre-
tations, but facts cost work to get.
TN looking for the death story OF
l. Commodore Tingey in the old In
telligencer, the Rambler came on
notices which are now antiques and
he offers these antiques for your eX-
animation, warranting that they were
published in 1929 and not fabricated
in 1927.
It was advertised in the Intelligence
err that q fair for the benefit of the
washington Orphan Asylum would be
held February 26 and 81 'in the new
part of the General Post Office which
has been kindly offered for the pur-
nose by the Postmaster General.
Signers of the advertisement were
Marcia Van Ness, Elizabeth Brown,
Henrietta Andrews, Rebecca Mclean,
Margaret Rush, Louisa Wadsworth,
Elizabeth Laurie, Sophia Towson,
Anna Clarke, M Mechlin, M. Coombe,
A. Edwards, A. Tingey. B. Lear, "A.
Henderson, Eliza Lee and A. j.
Larned.
The mayor, Joseph Gales, ir., an
nounced the following committee on
relief of the poor to appeal to the pub
lie: Thomas Taylor, Thomas Wilson,
Frederick Hines, John McClelland,
Erasmus Ward. Charles F. Wood, An
drew Coyle, Walter Clarke, Nathan
w Fayles, Benjamin O. Tyler, John
Coyle, jr.; Thomas l.. Thurston, Capt.
William Easily, John holland, James
Friend, Samuel L. Lowe. Nathaniel
Brady and H. Collins Lee. The fol-
lowing overseers to the poor are
named in the notice: G.. w. Colds
worth, Edward Stephens, Jacob Gid
con, jr.; James Young, Thomas How
ard and Edward Sims.
1t was advertised that at a public
sale on the plantation of Ignatius
Manning miles below Piscata-
way, the estate of the late Cornelius
Boarman Of Prince Georges County
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Rev. Mr.. Breckenridge of Baltimore
is expected to preach the sermon"
Another advertisement: The sale
of Mr.. Jefferson's Library will be con-
tinued this evening at o'clock Ma
thaniel P. Poor. auctioneer."
P. Mauro & Sons. Auctioneers. ad.
vertised that THE purchasers of fur
niture belonging to II. Clay, esq, are
Informed that we shall attend this
morning to deliver the articles sold
yesterday"
Richard Smith advertises Being
duly authorized by Commodore Porter,
the subscriber offers Meridian Hill for
SALE" The property is described as
one mile north of the Presidents
House, having a fine view of the city
and containing so acres.
IN looking for the death announce
ment Of Commodore Tingey, the
Rambler read the following:
Walter Boteler, 81 years. Funeral
from the residence of his son, Charles
W. Boteler, d street, between Sixth
and Seventh west.
At the residence of Mr.. John Addi-
son in Prince Georges County. sud
denly, Mrs. Rebecca Hanson. in the
seventy-ninth year of her age.
Mrs. Lewis, consOrt of Thomas S.
Lewis, sergeant of Marines. Funeral
from her home near Owners Wharf.
At the residence of his brother in
st. Mary's County. Md. George Wash
ington Neale, in his thirty-fifth year.
In Goochland County, Va. at the
residence of Hon. James Peasants,
Marcellus Smith, late one of the edi-
tors of the Richmond Whig.
The Rambler found two marriage
notices. There were:
Daniel Turner, a Representative in
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slip out with a Singing little sailboat'
right under the oars of a Waterman
in a scow. They took her around a
point, painted out her white and gold
stripe with black, packed in their
clothes and started south.
For a month or two they piled the
coast, fishing, carrying cargo occa-
sionally to make dollar or two, hav-
ing a sailors good time. Then they
water again. SO In Seattle they Of
fered their boat for sale. And when
they came to collect the money they
found the police waiting for them.
They were so naive and so young
that the judge, who had been q sailor
himself, let them go. He made them
repaint their borrowed craft and sail
it back to it's owner in Puget Sound.
They brought it up to the boat club,
all shining and trim.
I've hat stole your boadt, SIR" said
the blond young Viking FLAX to the
owner. And now We bring her back
once more" And the astonished
yachtsman gave them each $50 for
their honesty and hired them as at
PENDANTS at the boat club.
FLAX conducted picnics for the
wealthy in Puget Sound and helped
fine ladies in and out of their
launches. 1t made him remember his
origin and that long-evaded promise
to his father.
So, after several months, he found
a place aboard another transoceanic
sailing ship and returned again to
Hamburg. This time he had saved
5000 marks, and it was his determine
ton to become an officer.
He entered the navigation school
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power! To do things with his hands,
that seemed his destiny.
He ran away.
r. X X X
TODAY. sitting in the snug comfort
of his super-sailing vessel, his
eager smooth face and weather-lined
brow, his squinted blue sailors eyes
untouched by over 40 years, he is the
perfect example of the great.bodied,
eat.hearted, we'll educated nobleman.
One would not guess that even in
his early twenties he could not speak
proper German. Yet he was reared
in the atmosphere of the wharves,
taught by the rough men of the sail
ing vessels and the saloons in port,
His name, still listed in the almanachs
of the high born, bore after it for
many years the legend probably
dead
After trudging the weary way from
his castle to Hamburg, little Felix
turned up among the great ships
locked there. their bows pointed to
all the glamorous places of the world.
Ragged and dirty he was found by
some German sailors of the gunboat
Panther, and taken aboard. But
naval officer passed by, and calling
the urchin the vilest of names, had
his thrown ashore.
Those were bitter days. He dared
not apply for employment on any
German ship, for his parents permits
sion would be required before they
could book him. He slept on coils of
rope by the sides of the great ships,
or in corners offered him by paupers'
wives.
Finally, he was taken aboard as
galley boy on a Russian sailing ship.
He went under the name of Felix
Ludwige. and was soon nicknamed
FLAX He settled down to his work
in the hot ships galley. Accustomed
to the attendance of governesses and
buffers. he thought the Russians un-
bearab coarse and dirty and his
ia SKIS seemed disgusting. But he was
on the high sea! Now and again he
could go up in the prov and watch
the great waves slither and turn
white against the ships sides. Over
head was the snap and billow of the
canvas.
Felix knew this was the life for
him. He deserted the Russian ship in
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at Lubbock and began the long
hard grind Now. at 20, mathematics
seemed just as difficult as they had
when he was but IL. He dared not
use his savings, for he couldn't tell
how long this process of schooling
might take him. He lived in a gar
ret which he rented for rs cents a
month, and ate bacon rinds and
coarse bread. Only the encourage
ment of the master instructor, to
whom in secret he had divulged his
identity, kept him at his tasks in
those days.
His guardian was on hand when
the day came for the final examina-
ton.
What is the appearance of the sig
nal flag o." asked the examiner.
Filax's heart turned over and his
mind became a blank. The master
instructor stood beside him.
What is the appearance of the
yellow flag o." he repeated for the
examiner
Yellow" roared the young bucca-
neer FLAX, trimumphantly.
And so, after eight days of Ques-
tioning, he became a naval recruit.
One day, aboard a gunboat, assem-
bly, was sounded and the recruits
lined up. The commanding officer
came before them.
rs there Count Won Luckner
here?"
F7ilax's face dropped. They had
caught him, and before he had kept
his promise! He stepped forward.
He was told to report to headquar-
tiers.
Now, headquarters in German is
designated by the same word as that
which means police station" Poor.
ignorant FLAX, Count Won Luckner,
thought he was ordered to go before
the police.
"They have found out that stole
a boat in America" he thought. 'In
be kicked out of the navy
They put him into his first blue
uniform and marched him, under
guard of two sergeants, through the
streets Of Hamburg to a large build
ing. In a sumptuous room he was
told to wait for the admiral. "Oohi
ho"' thought the naive FLAX. He had
never seen an admiral.
Presently a pompous. medal-be-
decked man came in and roared at
him:
who are your"
"Sir, / am / am Count Luck.
ner"
"Poppycock! What Luckner?"
"Sir. 1 am Felix Luckner."
He's dead! What proof have your"
And so on. Questions and more
questions. Suddenly the admiral's face
changed He came around from be.
hind his desk. He put both hands on
the shoulders of the terrified Felix.
My boy, my boy! l am you Uncle
Fritz
X X * x
I TUCLE FRITZ proved to be Admiral
- Count Baudissin, commander of
the Kaiser's yacht Hohenzollern and
extremely influential at court. He
told his nephew that he would not.
under any circumstances, help him in
the service. But he made him come
once a week to the admirars head
quarters to be tutored in German and
In the ways of a gentleman. He gave
him, at the same time, much instruc-
ton which finally helped him get his
navigator's degree.
Before long, Felix was an author
lied mate in the North German Lloyd
Company, and a commissioned lieu.
tenant in the Imperial Reserve.
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would be offered The estate consisted
of "fifty-three negroes most of which
are young and likely"
The Stockton & Stokes mail coaches
were advertised to leave for Baltimore
daily and also daily from Baltimore
for Philadelphia. The steamboat Long
Branch was advertised to ply between
Washington and Potomac Creek, con-
Meeting at the creek with hte stage
line for Fredericksburg Richmond,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana. Stages left Sunday, Tues
day and Thursday.
Keert's rheumatic plasters could be
bought at the drug stores of John
F. Clarke and William Gunton in
Washington, John Little at George
town and John d. Vowel at Alexan-
dria. Henry Prather was selling or
chard grass, clover seed and Mercer
potatoes ON Seventh street, opposite
the Patriotic Bank. John Album
whose home was the Vineyard, in part
the site of the Bureau of Standards,
advertised to sell cuttings of table
and wine grapes at SIS a thousand, 50
hundred and so cents a dozen The
varieties were Bland Madeira, Cataw-
ba, Schuylkill. Muscadell, Constantia,
commonly called Cape of Good Hope
grape; the Worthington and the Luf-
borough
X X
TT was advertised that trustees
would sell the tracts of Warburton
or Warburton Manor and ben
Wheeler's, supposed to contain
about two thousand acres adjoining
Fort Washington and bounded by the
Potomac River and Piscataway Creek
and containing several valuable fish
cries"
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Now" said his uncle the admiral,
now Is the time to go home"
II will. sir" promised the adven-
turer, who was no longer FLAX
Ludwige.
And he took train for the castle he
had quit nearly Is years before.
He stood in the outer hail and sent
in his card: Felix Count Won Luckner,
Lieutenant, His Highness Navy"
In the huge room of the castle he
could hear his aged father growl.
WHO is this Count Luckner who
is in the navy? l know no Luckner
in the navy. l should like to see
this count"
His father came into the hall. Felix.
the boy who had made good, clicked
his heels and saluted with the open
palmed salute.
My dear fatherr' he roared, stand
ing there in his new uniform, with
a life-saving medal on his chest. 1T
is L, Felix. 1 have kept my PROMISE
A few hours later a telegram ar
rived from the admiral. telling the
elder count that he should be pround
of his son.
Felix went back to his steamship
and began plying the ocean again.
But this time he was in serge and
gold braid, and he ate with the passen-
gers, and had command over many
men. His strength and bravery were
needed here as always, however.
Twelve times there were men over
board, at sea or in port, and the mate
Luckner went over after them. in the
cold nights or on rough. stormy days
BY and by, naval friend heard of
these heroic deeds and summoned
him
why haven't you reported these
things? You should have military
medals
But this friend obtained more
medals. for Lieut.. Felix. Count Won
Luckner was soon invited to join the
regular navy. To his objection that
he was too old to start as a mere
lieutenant. his uncle the admiral and
Prince Henry, brother of the Kaiser
replied that he must not worry-just
leave things to them.
Prince Henry took an interest in
him He sent for him often and
asked him about his exciting and adj
venturous youth. Once he asked him
what had been the hardest period of
his life.
When I had just run away. and
the captain lieutenant of the Panther
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Australia, but he has never since, for
any length Of time, deserted sails and
the sea.
BY the time he was Is, Felix Lud'
wige had become an inveterate ad-
venturer. He joined the Salvation
Army in Australia and ran away from
it. He pounded tent pegs for an Aus
tralian travelling circus. He gave his
young strength a test in professional
boxing. Finally, he was hired by an
other ship. and was deposited in Van
couver. For a while he sailed from
Honolulu to San Francisco on an
American vessel, the Flying Fish.
and walking the ties" from San
Francisco, he turned up in New York
and got job shining the cuspidors In
a Hoooken saloon, until he could find
a ship at that port to carry him again
to sea. Finally. he was taken on the
British schooner Pinmore as able sea-
man, and had his first real experience
of the Atlantic. He ended that voyage
back at Hamburg, a little money in
his pocket, and a wealth of expert
ence behind him.
With another happy go-lucky sailor
FLAX went into third-rate saloon on
the wharves, and before long they
We're listening to the proprietress'
to take the sure at Carlsbad.
"Ho"' said FLAX. That's easy!
My friend and 1 will run your
saloon!'
So Mother Schrot went to Carlsbad
and new sign was put over the door
of the bar. The new proprietors hired
a blind accordion player and their ad-
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vertisement read Opened under new
management, with music.M'
All the sailors came to patron1ze
the careless barkeeps. From morning
till late at night FLAX, the little Graf
for whom his noble family was search
ing the four corners of the globe,
served beady beer and Chalked up the
accounts on a dirty blackboard behind
the wet zinc bar. But in the late
night hours, when FLAX, too, had
taken his share of the constant treats
his friends and patrons would sneak
behind him and with a damp sleeve
erase those chalk marks which meant
the profits of the establishment.
In the end Mother Schrot came back
and was paid her 20 per cent out of
Filax's personal savings. And FLAX
went again to sea.
X X
He FOUND himself after a time
once more in Vancouver. With
him, also out of job, was a bolster
Gus German youth named Charlie
Hoyer These two cooked up a plan
which later gave Felix Won Luckner
one of his few experiences of fear.
1t happened while they were wander
ing about Puget Sound, admiring the
yachts Of the fashionable boat club.
Charlie" said FLAX, I'VE, too, are
sportsmen. We should have a ship
and go salmon fishing and hunting
and have a good time. l think we
should take a yacht unto ourselves"
FLAX" said Charlie, II always
knew you had good ideas"
So the two youngsters crept UP to
a private dock under cover of night
and made use of a strong breeze to
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By DAVID CARTER.

~ ROM the North Sea to the har-
- bors of Australia, Count Felix
Won Luckner is known as the
a Sea Devil. His little sailing
vessel, Sea Eagle. captured
and sank Ia allied vessels in the
latter years of the war. At last, as
elimination of adventures which Nor
gan and Kidd might have envied the
count himself was taken prisoner by
the British, escaped, was recaptured,
and became a tabled pirate hero to
the people of the South Seas.
For the count is a genial, prodigious
giant of buccaneer. He carried on
war with only a single cannon he was
: loved by his prisoners as by his own
midShipmen. And, as he says, he
never killed a cat"
Today, one of the best known COM
manders Of the German navy. one of
the most decorated of living European
nobleman, he has gone back to a
four-master on the high seas. Re
Gently he sailed his little white gull
/, of vessel up to a Hudson River pier,
where he is preparing for a lecture
tour in behalf of his German charit-
able society.
In 1899 the 13-year -old count sat
in his room in the great Luckner
Castle at Bremen and contemplated
no such vivid career. He had been
born into a military family in a mill
tary nation. Before he was 10 he had
solemnly promised the aged count, his
father, that he, Felix. would one day
wear the uniform of an imperial off
Ger. And now. he, Felix Graf Won
Luckner, had stuck in the fourth
form of his German school for nearly
four years.
I, At this rate, he would never be able
to keep his promise-never become an
officer. What should he do? A counts
honor was at stake, and the honor
of his family
He looked down at mathematics
book in his lap. where his boyish tears
were raising welts on the pages of In
comprehensive figures. His brain
cringed at the recurrence of those
strange symbols. whose meanings he
had been supposed to master. No
power there. But there-he looked
also at his strong young wrists and
forearms That was where he had