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THE EVENING LEADER \
VOL. 3. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
MAGNIFIC’NT PAGEANT, MONSTER PARADE
A Brilliant Blaze of Frolicsome Children, Beautifully Decorated Automobiles, Gor
geous Costumes, Wonderful and Appropriate Business Floats, Sparkling Ladies
and Attentive Swains Applauded by Enthusiastic Thousands on the Streets
TRUST OPPOSES
DEFENSE PLAH
AMMONIA CORPORATION SEEKS
TO HAVE GOVERNMENT RE
FRAIN FROM BUILDING
BIG PLANT
If efforts being made by the ammo
nia trust, one of the most powerful
monopolies of the country, are suc
cessful, the big nitrate plant, author
ized by congress to cost $20,000,000,
will not only not be located at a south
em waterpower site, but will not be
established at all. The ammonium
trust is the corporation which controls
the output of the byproduct coke ev
ens of the country, and it is naturally
opposed to the construction by the
government of a plant that will obtain
the nitrogen of the air and supply ni
trate for ammunition and fertilizer at
a much lower price than that obtained
as a result of coal distillation and sold
at the figure set by this corporation.
Those who realize the value of the air
nitrate plant, and not only to tliac
part of the country in which it will he
located, but as an addition to the coun
try’s defensive strength and to its ag
ricultural resources, are beginning to
feel that all patriotic citizens should
cease striving for sites for this plant
that have no oportunity to bep select
ed, but should center on the one avail
able location and oppose the efforts of
the coke oven interests. This is, ob
viously, Muscle Shoals, on the Tennes
see river, which has been suggested
by the board of engineers for rivers
and harbors of the war department
and the chief of engineers of the army
for this purpose.
The coke ammonia interests are
largely appealing to the chemists of
the country for support, and in addi
tion, are bringing pressure on the of
ficials of the government who are be
ing consulted in this project. This, of
course, can only be resisted by press
ure from the air-nitrate side of the
question. The Iron Trade Review, one
of the organs of this industry, recent
ly published two papers by represent
atives of this business, declaring that
there was no reason why the presi
dent should proceed with the expendi
ture of the $20,000,000 appropriation
when there was a source, already es
tablished, for all the nitric acid to be
required by the government in time of
war.
These arguments do not account for
. the fact that Germany, which, in nor
mal times, produced three times the
amount of ammonium that is recover
ed in this country from coke ovens,
has found it necessary to establish
great air-nitrate plants, and that Eng
land, France and Italy, with undisput
ed control of the seas to obtain ni
trates from Chile’s saltpetre beds,
have also had recourse to this method
and have built great atmospheric ni-j
trogen factories. They also overlook
the fact that only a small percentage I
of the coke ovens in the country are
using methods by which the ammon
ium can be recovered. That the coun
try cannot depend with any degree of
security upon this method of obtain
ing the material for its ammunition is
shown by a comparison of the present
production, together with the normal
growth of the industry and the use
of ammunition in modern warfare.
The greatest oversight, however is
that the air-nitrate plant will be avail
able for producing fertilizer for the
benefit of the farmers of the coiftitry,
and indirectly for the nation's great
er prosperity, while the coke oven
companies cannot produce nitrogen at
a cost to cause its purchase by the
farmers of the country in the amount
necessary for increasing crop pi o
duction.
It would be a great mistake, there
fore, to permit the coke oven interests
to continue their campaign, as they
ACCIDENT ON STREETS YESTERDAY
ROY NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH
Yesterday afternoon there was an
accident on our streets which came so
near costing the life of a boy that the
spectators held their breath. A Ford,
driven by Mr. Brownlow, of Suther
land with a lady passenger turned the
corner from Safford avenue going
north into Tarpon avenue. A boy
riding a bicycle was ahead of the ma
chine. The auto struck the wheel and
the boy in the rear, the boy being
thrown forward managed to crawl out
of the way in time to save his life
but the wheel went squarely under the
car and was completely demolished,
besides breaking some of the connect
ing pipes under the auto which let all
the oil out.
The lad was badly bruised on the
knee and arm and had a huge bump
on his head. A bystander was heard
to remark: “That kid sure did crawl
some.”
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AT EMERY AS HE
FALLS DYING
! Enrico Toti, One-Legged Italian Sol
dier, Hurls Hand Grenades for
Hours at Austrians
Rome.—At the forty-sixth anniver
sary of the complete Italian liberation
and the restoration of Rome as the
capital of Italy, the Gold Medal for
Valor was awarded to soldiers who
distinguished themselves on the field.
Posthumous honor was conferred
upon Enrico Toti, once a sporting
man, who determined to volunteer de
spite his having lost a leg. He was a
fine type of the stalwart Roman,
swarthy, bright-eyed, athletic. The
officials at Rome refused him. He
went to the war zone and demanded
to see the Duke of Aosta, the king’s
uncle, who commands an army. Peo
ple laughed at him. Why did a poor
Roman with one leg want an audience
with the Duke of Aosta?
However, persistence got him into
the duke’s presence, and he pleaded
so hard to be sent into a regiment of
Bersaglieri that the duke finally con
sented.
Toti could shoot well, and did good
service with his rifle at Selz, last
April. When his regiment went to
Monfalcone last August he managed
to get into the front line as it march
ed to the assault of Hill N. 85. The
fighting was hard..
Hurled Grenades for Hours
Leaning on his crutch in the front
line of Italian trenches, Toti bom
barded the Austrians with hand gren
ades for hours. Twice wounded, he
stuck to his post, throwing grenades
and encouraging his comrades by his
brave example. Finally a third wound
proved fatal. Feeling he was about
to die, Toti struggled to his one foot,
held himself up by the parapet of the
trench and, hurling his crutch at an
Austrian, fell dead.
The king was so impressed with
Toti’s story that he ardered his mem
ory to be honored with the Gold
Medal for Valor, only given for acts
of distinguished bravery. His old
father received the medal in the pub
lic park of the Borghese Villa, amid
the cheers of a vast multitude.
have been. To overcome their oppo
sition it will require the united aid of
all those who see in the air-nitrate in
dustry its great value to the country.
The south, which has the opportunity
to secure this great plant, should have
a special interest in lending this pro
ject vigorous and united support.
TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1916.
Marshal Jones was right on the job
and arrested the driver of the auto
and notified the boy to be in court this
morning.
Mr. Brownlow was fined $5 and costs
for reckless driving, and is also to pay
the doctor bill for the boy and pur
chase him a new bicycle. This is all
that could be expected and Mr. Brown
low is thankful that the boy (whose
name we did not get) was not killed.
This is only an advance of what will
become almost daily occurrences at
the corner of the Sponge Exchange
bank if Pinellas avenue is not opened
through to Eagle street to relieve the
congestion. The council meets next
Tuesday night and there is little doubt
but that they will pass the ordinance
which has been drawn and which will
put the matter of opening Pinellas
avenue up to the people. That's all
that is necessary, for the people will
surely vote to have it opened as none
of them can tell who will be the next
victim of accident.
Tarpon’s streets are too narrow.
The marks put in the middle of the
streets are a good thing though they
are not all that is necessary, for big
autos have trouble getting around the
bank corner without hitting the street
markers in the center of the street.
The people are all aware of the crying
and daily increasing need of opening
up Pinellas avenue, and as Mr. Lowe,
the president of the Sponge Exchange
bank, who is a constant observer of
the congestion at the bank corner,
says: “It is not a question of what
it will cost, it is a thing which must
be done and a wise council will open
Pinellas avenue at the best terms they
can make.”
The cost of opening the avenue is
very reasonable when it is considered
that the street will run through one
of the most valuable pieces of prop
erty in the city.
The council under whose direction
Pinellas avenue is opened up will
leave a record behind them as a wise
body of men who did something of
real and lasting value to their city.
Virginia Goes
Dry To-day
650 LIQUOR DEALERS DRIVEN
FROM BUSINESS BY MAPP ACT
—CITIZENS STOCKED UP
Richmond, Va., Nov. I.—Virginia
will join the sisterhood of prohibition
states today, when the Mapp act, pro
hibiting the sale of ardent spirits, ex
cept by bonded drug stores, and
throwing stringent restrictions around
its shipment, will become effective.
About 650 liquor dealers will close
their doors. They have been prepar
ing to close for several weeks and
stocks are being disposed of rapidly.
Liquors valued at hundreds of thous
ands of dollars have been purchased
by consumers and stored up against
the “dry” days to come.
It will be unlawful after November
1 for any person in the state to manu
facture, transport, sell, advertise, give
away, dispense or solicit orders for ar
dent spirits, which are defined to em
brace alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum.
gin, wine, porter, ale, beer, all malt
liquors, absinthe, and all compounds
of any of these with vegetables or
other substances, that will produce in
toxication. In the same category are
placed fruits preserved in ardent spir
its and all beverages containing more
than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol by
volume.
The law permits every adult male
and every adult female who is the
head of a family, to receive not oft.en
er than once a month one quart of
whiskey, one gallon of wine or three
of beer. Newspapers published with
in the state are prohibited from carry
ing liquor advertisements.
MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND SPECTATORS WATCH
PARADE AS IT WOUND THROUGH RESIDENCE
AND BUSINESS SECTION “GLISTENING LIKE A
DIAMOND OF FIRST WATER.”
It was an ideal day.
It was more than an ideal night.
It was the greatest day and night
in the history of Tarpon Springs.
If the weather had been made to
order for us, it couldn’t have been bet
ter. Dame Nature smiled; the even
ing was such a one as even the Bay of
Naples never saw; such a one as only
Florida can produce, and in, conse
quence the good citizens of Tarpon
Springs smiled with a smile tltat will
never wash off.
Brilliant with electric lights, spartc
ling with floods of colored glow, punc
tuated here and there with glistening
sunbursts, rivalling the brilliancy of
diamonds, the great procession of
children, of merry maskers, of his
torically dressed characters, of won
drous floats representing the indus
tries of the city and the surround : ng
country, of beautifully decorated au
tomobiles loaded with the fairest of
Florida’s sons and daughters, wound
its way through streets shaded by
tropical foliage, past mirrored waters
whose surface flashed back a glad wel
come, thence through the business sec
tion and back to theMittle gem of a
city park, on the streets surrounding
which the second annual celebration
of Hallowe’en disbanded and the
sports of the evening were held.
To say that the great procession
was a revelation does not express it
It was more than a revelation—it was
a spontaneous outburst of civic pride,
of faith in the future of Tarpon
Springs, of a realization of its natural
beauty—of a vision of what it will be
come in the near future.
It was an object lesson, and the
strangers who witenessed it so regard
it, and will forever afterwards be a
walking advertisement for the sur
rounding country and the thriving city
of Tarpon Springs, the most superb
jewel in a big cluster of gems await
ing the proper setting, better polish
ing, and in the march of progress a
firmer place in the commerce of the
nation.
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One of the Prize Winners—lt Won the Hat.
Long before the hour of assembling
the children thronged the streets in.
the neighborhood of the high school
building, where they were taken in
charge by the teachers of the grades
and classes, who had worked hard and
faithfully for several weeks to make
the festival a success. As fast as the
automobiles arrived they were assign
ed places on streets leading off from
Eagle street, and the same procedure
was had with the commercial floats.
Everything worked smoothly, and
promptly at the appointed time, 7:30,
the parade started up Eagle street to
Orange, thence to Spring boulevard,
to Tarpon avenue, thence through the
business section on Tarpon avenue as
far as Ring avenue, where the parade
countermarched back through Tarpon
avenue to Pinellas avenue. The auto
mobiles and floats then ranged them
selves closely along Pinellas avenue,
on the west side of the street in front
of the city hall for inspection by the
judges, while those who participated
in the parade on foot were at this,
point disbanded.
Where every feature of the parade
was so good it is difficult to discrim
inate and single out any one particu
lar feature for special praise. What
might be said of one would apply with
almost equal force to all.
The City fire department made a
magnificent show and their apparatus,
automobile fire truck, hose cart, etc.,
was gaily decorated and the entire de
partment, in fire fighting regalia,
marched immediately behind a horse
covered with a blanket of Evening
Leaders, led by a man, also gowned
with Leaders and who acted as Leader
of the procession.
Following the fire department came
the grades from the public schools,
each with their respective teachers in
charge. Every child was furnished
with an appropriate lantern and their
long wavering line, with their bob
bing lights certainly would have
made an inspiring spectacle in any
country.
TEN CENTS A WEEK. NO. 250. \
Then came the Royal Italian band
from Tampa, a musical organization
famed throughout the state, and who
had been brought over from the Cigar
City by public spirited citizens in pri
vate automobiles for the occasion.
Following the Royal Italian band
came the masquers and merrymakers,
several hundred of them, armed with
every sort of grotesque equipment,
born of a fertile imagination, and
their antics would have made a clown
in a great circus laugh. They em
bodied the true Hallowe’en spirit of
the carnival.
These funmakers were followed by
the Tarpon Springs band which was
warmly applauded by the crowds who
lined the streets in dense masses.
When the local band ran out of wind
the Tampa band started up so that
there was no lack of inspiring music
from start to finish.
Then came the artistic and classical
part of the procession—the decorated
automobiles —dressed in the most ar
tistic manner, and all of them so su
perbly beautiful that we dare not
attempt to describe them singly. The
judges of the prizes that were offered
wrestled earnestly with this question
and we refer the reader to their decis
ion as to which was the prettiest; they
were all bewilderingly beautiful to us.
Bringing up the rear came the long
line of floats, representing the busi
ness interests of Tarpon Springs and
vicinity. These were numerous, ap
propriate and tastefully gotten up.
Sponges, the chief industry of Tar
pon Springs, was represented by a
most magnificent float, showing a
Greek sponge boat, with a diver in
full uniform. This was the float of
the United Divers Supply company.
On the canopy over the boat reclined
a beautiful mermaid, smothered with
sponges from the Gulf of Mexico,
The Sponge Exchange Cigar com
pany had one of the most costly and
beautiful floats in the procession, with
cigarmakers at work, walled in with
favorite “Smokes” and leaf tobacco.
This float won first prize. It was a
dandy.
The Coca-Cola company had one of
the finest floats ever shown in a pa
rade of this character, and was award
ed second prize. Frank Wharton had
a large and appropriate float repre
sentative of the grocery business. The
Chero-Cola company also were repre
sented by a large float, beautifully
decorated. George Kaber made a fine
showing of natal hay; the City Meat
Market, meat products, and the River
side dairy, milk, all worthy of special
mention.
Autos
Best classically decorated automo
bile: First prize, $lO in gold, given by
United Divers Supply Co., Mrs. I. J.
Belcher; second prize, $5 worth of
meat coupons, given by City Meat
market, Mrs. C. C. Hill.
Most appropriately decorated Hal
lowe’en automobile: First prize, $lO
in trade, given by Tarpon Springs
Furniture company, Miss Elsie Lutz;
second prize $4.00 in trade, given by
Tarpon Springs Hardware company,
Decosta Arvenitas.
Best decorated commercial float,
first prize, SIO.OO savings account,
given by Sponge Exchange bank,
Sponge Exchange Cigar company;
second prize, $5.00 in gold, given by
D. A. Alissandratos, Coco-Cola com
pany.
Bicycles—First prize, $1.50 cash,
Malcolm Hill; second prize, SI.OO, U.
Forsyth.
Best show window, prize 8-inch office
fan, Tarpon Springs Electric compa
ny, F. Wharton.
Best
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