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PIN K SlO N’ S
AUTUMN OUTFITTING
with all its delightful problems, will soon
be in order. Pinkston’s wishes to an
nounce that ample stock await your se
lection.
Our buyers have recently returned
from the Eastern Markets and our
partment announces ready with an ad
vance showing of Suits and Dresses.
THE SUITS the DRESSES
In varied lengths to For early fall; Taffetas,
suit any figure. , anc j an( j gerge
braid or fur trimmed. combinations will be
Colors are navy, black, much seen. Best colors
Tete de Nigre, Field are Navy, Black, Afri-
Mouse,Green and Con- can Brown, Green and
cord. Materials are Concord. The styles
Serge, Poplin, Whip are sensible and may
Cord,Gabardine,Cloths be worn throughout
and Velours. the season.
TH£ SHOES
Black or “Sensible” shoes will predominate
this season, although neutral shoes,as gray
and blue will be shown in the better grades.
Also a few dark tans. Lace and button
will both be in favor.
Pinkston Company
71LW7IYS RELIA&LE
Stronghold of The Kaiser
Is Graphically Described
“Built up around the deep pocket of
the Kieler Foehrde, a narrow arm of
the Baltic Sea that cuts its way back
into the province of Holstein, the old
city of Kiel lies well-shielded from all
hostile attack and centrally placed for
the use of the fleet, either upon the
open ocean or upon the inland sea,”
begins a bulletin just prepared by the
National Geographic Society. “This
ancient port city is headquarters for
German sea strength, the first naval
station of the Empire, the point from
which the orders havve been issued di
recting the unequal duel between the
ships of the Kaiser and the fleets of
Britain.
“The great war-harbor of Kiel is one
of the finest and most powerfully pro
tected harbors ir the world. The sea
arm, whose base is enclosed by the
port, has a narrow entrance and a long
and irregular surface. The entrance
and the strategic points along the bang
are heavily fortified. Fort Falkensteir.
and Fort Stosh guard the narrows
about 3 1-2 miles above the town.
Flanking the northern termination of
the new Kiel suburbs, the Kaiser Wil
helm Canal, a triumph of patience and
engineering, cuts its way into the
sheltered bay. By means of this cana!
Kiel is in close communication with
the North Sea, and units of the Kais
er’s navy can be transfered rapidly
and safely from the war theatre of the
open ocean to that of the Baltic.
“The Kaiser Wilhelm canal or the
Baltic Ship canal is a product of an
idea which ripened throvghcenturies.
Projects for connecting the Baltic and
North seas by a water route through
the northern peninsula which should
avoid the dangerous voyage around
Jutland were considered spasmodically
from 1300 on, but it remained to the
military ambitions of a great empire
to bring about the realization of this
advantageous waterway for trade. Anv
number of bashful beginnings of the
projection were made before the con
struction of the present canal was
undertaken by the first German em
peror. Kaiser Wilhelm I. laid the
foundation stone of the canal in 1887,
and the costly avenue was formalb'
declared open by the present emperor
in 1895. The original canal has been
extensively improved.
“The canal crosses the peninsula
from Holtenau just beyond the north
ern suburbs of Kiel, to Brunsbuettel,
at the mouth of the Elbe, at sea leve’.
the locks at either end merely serv
ing to neutralize the tides. It is 61
miles long, with a depth of more than
30 feet and a width sufficient to pas'?
the largest men-of-way. A steamer
takes between 8 and 9 hours to pass
through the canal, thus bringing the
advance German naval base at Heligo
land within easy reach of the Kiel
headquarters. Th e whole way at night
is lighted by electricity. The first
cost of the Baltic Ship canal was $39,-
000,000. Other millions have been ex
pended in its improvement. Regular
steamer excursion service was main-
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
tained here before the war, but the
voyage offered little or interest besides
steep banks and here and there spirit
isss scenery.
“Great imperial docks, arsenals and
navy jaids are located at Kiel, as are
also admiralty hedqurters "and the
Imperial Naval academy. Foreigners
were not admitted to the docks and
yards. Many thousands of visitors
regularly attended Kieler Woche (Ki.-i
Week), the great German regatta held
each year during the latter part of
June. This regatta was an event of
first importance in the world of in
ternational sport, and yachts from
all nations interested in water sports
were annually entered in its famous
races. The yacht Hohenzollern, hous
ing the emperor and the imperial fam
ily, builded each year the central point
of the gay, rich, cosmopolitan throng
of sportsmen.
“Kiel is one of the oldest towns in
Holstein. The older parts of the
town are badly built, having twisting,
narrow, indifferently paved streetsand
being flanked by gnarled, tlme-tortur
ed buildings. The new town, how
ever, is filled with handsome structures
and is well-planned. The city has
grown in every way, industrially, com- 1
mercially, socially, artistically, since 1
becoming naval headquarters for the
empire, and of the greatest sport event
upon the German sport calendar.”
i
Attention Brethren.
I
There will be a call meeting o”
Americus Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 13,
Monday night at 7:30. Work in third
degree. All brethren urged to at
tend. S. A. JENNINGS, W. M.
advt i
AMERICUS MH
i STORM TOSSED
NEAR GALVESTON
TELLS EXPERIENCE IN RECENT
, WEST INDIA STORM.
Mr. Wm. Espey, formerly of Amer
icus but now residing in Galveston,
where he is engaged in the cotton
business, has written an interesting
letter to his sister, Mrs. John W. L.
Daniel, of this city, wherein he de
scribes vividly his experiences during
the recent West India hurricane pre
vailing there and which carried the
loss of scores of lives, besides a prop
erty loss of nearly fifteen million dol
lars. This storm was more violent than
that which wrecked Galveston several
years ago.
i Mr. Espy’s letter, in part, follows,
and will be read with interest by his
Americus friends:
, “Part of the Hotel Calvoz is only
fifty yards from the sea-wall and
Monday afternoon we gathered in the
front of the building and saw what,
to us was one of the most terrible
sights we had ever witnessed. No pen
can portray that awe-inspiring scene
of those mountainous billows dashing
madly against the sea-wall and throw
ing water now forty and fifty feet
above the top and steadily getting
worse. The wind was blowing at the
rate of 90 miles an hour and the rain
was coming down in torrents.
“Darkness came on and the electric
lights went off and also the water,
leaving us to huddle up in the lobby
around a few flickering rays of can
dle light. As the hours wore on to
wards midrflght we could feel the ve
locity of the wind growing higher. The
water by this time was being driven
against the bottom of the hotel wall
and we could see the spray being
thrown up against the window panes
I “Some ofthe ladies w’ere hysterical
and I along with the men were doing
what we could to cheer them up. It
seemed that at any moment part of the
and the water, so I was told was now
in the hotel lobby. The lady and her
I daughter stayed by my side until 5
o’clock, at which time they left to get
hotel might be blown or washed away,
som e rest as I was sleeping.
“By morning the worst of the storm
had passed and by that afternoon peo
pde were able to get around and view
the wrecks and ruins piled along the
beach front. Many remarkable things
were to be seen, but among them all
e the most striking sight to me fas a
-1 big two-story stone home with its
- front, both upstairs and donwstairs.
battered to fragments by the great
j slags and pieces of cement torn from
the cement walk behind the sea-wall,
and hurled by the huricane with viol
ence against the walls.
3 “The most remarkable thing which
*, happened was the washing away of a
’ ( girl by the ocean from the Volacco
1 1 life saving station to Galveston Island,
! . a distance of sixty miles. She was in
E | the water over twenty-four hours and
L | was picked up on the beach late Tues
’ | day night unconscious, but has now re-
I covered and is able to tell the story
’ | When asked how it happened that she
( did not drown, she replied, “That she
i could never stand salt water and that
. she kept her eyes and mouth tightly
( closed and the billows just carried he.
along.’
“Several thousand bales of cotton
I I were blown through the water from
' * Galveston across the bay to the main
■ | land and a soldier was carried by one
: l bale seven miles across the bay to
| Texas City and picked up there prac
i tically nude, as the wind and waves
had torn his clothes away.
| “The storm did great damage to
( Houston, and all towns in its path
through Oklahoma, Missouri and Illi
nois. Up to now we have no lights,
nothing but drinking water, no street
car nor railway service. The huge
cannery was mostly battered to
pieces and’washed away.
, “Galveston is facing its great crisis
with an unconquerable spirit and is
rapidly clearing away the debris of
the buildings and stocks of merchan
dise ruined and damaged by the flood.
The great sea-wall prevented the res
idential portion of the city from being
WAR SWEEPS AWAY COZY
TRIM ANO INFIFFERNT CITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 28.
“Nieuport-Bains was as sleepy and co
zy, as trim and as indifferent to what
went on in the world, as a seaside va
cation resort well might be,” begins a
war primer issued by the National Ge
ographic Society, today, which tells of
the modest little North Sea bath that
shell-fire has utterly swept away. “Os
tend, up the coast to the north, strove
for the correct cosmopolitan air, the
high-tension vivacity proper for the
modern, go-ahead summer -esort, and
left to little Nieuport-Bains, 12 mile'-,
down the strand, the business of be
ing a rest-cure and an abode of peace.
Fore nearly a year now, shells have
been screaming through this still re
treat.
“Nieuport, where the great battle
lines through France and Flanders
rest their flanks upon the North Sea
sands, lies two miles southwest of the
bathing resort. Here is the terminus
for the railway from Dlxmude, a brisk
morning’s walk distant. The veach
shelves out very slowly, and at low
tide the waters slip back for a great
stretch, while the prevalent west wind
drives the uncovered sands into dunes,
or whirls them into the little cottages
back from the shore. The Yser, that
most-contested of tiny streams, rune
just to the north of the resort, and its
waters provided excellent fishing for
the reflective summer guests who
passed by Ostend, to the south.
“Nieuport-Bains was quite a modern
resort, its foundation going back only
to 1869. It possessed a fine pier, ex
tending from the mouth of the Yser
1500 yards out to sea. and from a case
that stood nearby fine views could be
obtained of Dunkirk and Ostend, those
two towns that now might as well be
in separate planets for all the com
munication that is possible between
them.”
TOO MUCH GOLDEN
SPOON UNO NOT
ENOUGH CORN CAKE
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 28.—T00 much
golden spoon and peacocks’ tongues
and not enough corn cake and plain
deal table, has caused the break be
tween Huntington Wilson and his wife
formerly Lucy Wortham James of St
James, Mo., according to intimate Chi
cago friends of this brilliant young
pair. Mr. Wilson was appointed aa
assistant secretary of state by Theo
dore Roosevelt and served during the
Roosevelt and Taft administrations.
News that Mr. Wilson has been i r
Reno, Nev., for five months cultivating
the residence necessary to permit him
to file suit for divorce from his beau
tiful wife has shocked that portion of
Chicago society.
Mrs. Wilson is a daughter of Thomas
James, of St. James, Mo.
Mr. Wilson, who was born in Chi
cago in 1875, had attained his diplo
matic honors before arriving at his
30th birthday anniversary. Mrs. Wilson
married him in 1905 while she was still
in her teens. >
MISS VHUIHN APPOINTED
TO FEDERAL POSITION
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga„ Aug. 28.
Miss Alice Vaughn, until a few days
ago, assistant superintendent of nurses
at the state hospital for the insane at
Milledgeville, has been appointed su
perintendent of nurses at the govern
ment hospital for the insane at Wash
ington, D. C.
seriously flooded but the business part
was under from 6 to 9 feet of watej - ,
and consequently the damage in this
part of the city to stocks of goods and
so forth were practically destroyed.
“The citizens of Galveston now pro
pose to erect a sea-wall or levee to
protect its shipping front and business
section, and in other ways to profit
from the lesson of the recent storm
and build a greater and more endur
ing city.”
RAILROAD ISSUES
FIGURES FOR JULY
IN J. STATEMENT
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 28.—The
results of operation of Southern Rail
way company for the months of July,
1915 and 1914, exclusive of interest,
rentals and other income charge?,
were announced by Comptroller A. H.
Plant today, as follows:
Gross revenue, July, 1915, $5,211.-
635; July, 1914, $5,705,119; decrease
$493,484, or 8.65%.
Operating expenses, taxes and un
collectible railway revenue, luly, 1915,
$3,893,988; July, 1914, $4,535,647; de
crease, $641,659, or 14.15%.
Operating income, July, 1915, sl,-
317,647; July, 1914, $1,169,472; in
crease, $148,175, or 12.67%.
In addition to the foregoing operat
ing expenses the company spent dur
ing the month, for improvements to
its roadway and structures, $470,501.97,
as against $291,692.62 for luly, 1914,
an increase of $178,809.35.
Operating income as shown above
represents the amount remaining af
ter the payment of only those ex
penses incurred in 'the actual opera
tion of the railway and of taxes, and
takes no account of the charges for
hire of equipment, rental of leased
lines, terminals and other facilities,
and interest on funded debt (bonds;,
all of which are charged against
operating income.
: GERMAN MANUFACTURERS
ARE WORKING FOR WINTER
1
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 27.—A1l
the textile factories along the Rhine
and also those around Prague, Buda
pest t'.nd Vienna ,are said to be work
ing day and night, turning out winter
garments for the a’/mies. Large or
• ders Jiave been placed with Sw-ros m*u
. ufacturers of heating appliances for
the German army. A Berlin automo
? bile manufacturer is said to have dis
s covered a system of curtain for motor
, cars, which not only protects from the
rain, but also from the cold, and per
mits a ready change of color to accord
with the foliage of the country.
The winter campaign seems to be
looked forward to without much ap
prehension in Germany as the meas
ures taken to economize food sup
plies have been so effective that no
lack of provisions is feared. In Aus
tria, however, according to reliable re
ports, the situation will be more se
’ rious as the same precautions were not
taken, and their application is not so
. easy, as in Germany.
WIFE BEATER IS
SHOT TO DEATH
OF TEXAS MOO
SHRINER, Texas, Aug. 28.—John
Slovac, a farmer, who had been ac
cused of beating his wife, was taken
from jail by a party of masked men '
here today, beaten severely with a wet
rope and then shot to death.
The lynchers evidently had a key
which unlocked the jail. The door was
locked after Slovac had been removed
from it. No trace of the identity of the
lynchers has been found.
Slovac went home Monday and beat
his wife, his son and his father-in-law
Shiner officers were notified and after
arresting Slovac took him to jail.
Slovac and his family came to Shin
er from Bohemia about a year ago.
Money to Lend;
We are in position so obtain
money on farm lands in Sumter
county promptly at reasonable
rates. If you desire a loan cal!
on or -write us.
Jas. fl. i John 1 Fort
.. Planters Bank Buildiru.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1915.
A CHARTER FOR CHILDHOOD.
Ohio Codifies Child Welfare Laws, but
No Other State Does.
If any one asks what the laws af
fecting children are in New York state
no person in any position can without
considerable research answer the ques
tion. according to a statement made by
Homer Folks at the Eleventh Annual
Conference on Child Labor. The only
state in the Union whefe it could be
readily answered is Ohio, since Ohio is
the only state that has codified its
child welfare laws.
A committee appointed last May at
the National Conference of Charities
and Corrections, with C. C. Carstens
of Boston at its head and Edward N.
Clopper of the National Child Labor
Committee as one of its most active
members, is now at work drafting a
children’s charter that would show
how all laws relating to children
should be co-ordinated and that could
be adopted as a whole or in part ac
cording to the needs of the individual
state.
The benefits of the children’s charter
will not be confined to a clearing up of
the principles on which the various or
ganizations and committees which are
interested in the needs and rights of
childhood should base their work. In
fact, the friends of the charter are in
clined to believe that its greatest value
may lie in the simple fact that it will
encourage co-operation. The drafting
of the charter, which will be in itself
a co-operative effort, will teach work
ers in the various fields to think of
their work as a part of a larger whole.
The relation, for instance, between
the school attendance officer, the fac
tory inspector, the juvenile court work
er and the administrator of mothers’
( pensions will become a practical help
to each of them. For the child such
co-operation all along the line should
mean that the care that is now availa
ble for the child who happens to come
under the eye of the official or social
worker who is fitted to meet his case
will be extended to a larger proportion
of those who need it.
BOYS ON THE NIGHT SHIFT.
Pennsylvania Now Prohibits It, but
Maryland and West Virginia Do Not.
After Jan. 1, 1916, no more young
boys will be working on the night shift
I in the glass factories of the largest
I glass manufacturing state in the coun
try—Pennsylvania.
This means that West Virginia and
Maryland are now the only glass manu
facturing states of any importance
which permit children under sixteen to
work at night. An attempt, was made
in West Virginia last winter to pro
hibit night work to children under six
teen, but the bill did not pass. The
National Child L.nbor Committee,
which took an active part in the cam
paign for the West Virginia law, be
lieves that the outcome will he quite
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I 5 P. M., BEADY TO GO ON THE NIGHT SHIFT,
different the next time, because theglass
manufacturers there will no longer fear
the competition of Pennsylvania.
“We may not even have to wait until
the legislatures meet in 1917 to bring
these states into line,” said Owen R.
Lovejoy, general secretary of the Na
tional Child Labor Committee. “If the
federal child labor bill which will be
Introduced into congress early in the
next session becomes a law it will auto
matically establish a sixteen year limit
for night work in the glass factories of
Maryland and West Virginia. The chil- V
dren now exposed to the serious
physical harm likely to come from go
ing out into the air from the overheat
ed glass factory and the cramped posl*
l tions in which they work, combined!
I with the degrading and coarsening in-’
I fluences which prevail on the nighß
force in the factory, will be protected?
by Uncle Sam.
“If you could see the boys, as I hav»
seen them, working in a temperature
which frequently rises to more than 100
degrees, their shoes cut with the broken
glass which covers the floor, holding
tile mold for the red hot glass or walk
ing endlessly back and forth carrying
bottles to the annealing oven, you
would realize that the only thing that
mattered was to get them out the
quickest and surest way—by means of
a federal law.”