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OPERATORS'RELIEF
Men Already Returning in
Some Instances Little
Objection to Work Order Is
Expected by Officials
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 11. —General
operation of bituminous coal mines
of the country, which have been idle
for nearly siS" weeks as a result of
the strike of miners on October 31, is
predicted for tomorrow. Coal will be
moving rapidly by the first of next
week, in the opinion of operators
here.
Officials of the union mine work
ers, who last night sent telegrams
to the 4,000 locals of the organiza
tion, telling of the action of the
miners' general committee here yes
terday in accepting President Wil
son’s proposal to return to work, to
day were condident there would be no
delay on the part of the members
of the union in resuming work. The
telegrams of last night, which in
structed the men to return to the
mines immediately were supple
mented today by a circular prepared
by international officials of the union
explaining in detail the action of the
general committee yesterday, the
basis on which the strike was set
tled and reiterating the instructions
to resume -work immediately. These
circulars were mailed to the locals.
Reports reaching here this morn
ing told of the return as early as
last night of some of the miners in
near-by fields, and in other instances
of some of the men reporting for
work, “today. It «ras pointed out.
however, that in most cases tele
grams directing an end of the strike
were not received by locals until this
morning, and that the locals in turn
must notify their members before
the majority again will enter thi
mines.
Operators Promise Co-Operation.
The mine operators on their part
promise to bend all their energies to
ward resumption of normal opera
tion, and promise if the miners re
port promptly movement of coal
from the mines will become general
within a very few days.
All sides in the controversy just
ended were highly satisfied today
with the agreement reached by the
general committee of the miners in
their session here yesterday. The
miners were especially pleased with
the idea of appointment of a com
mission composed of one miner, one
operator and a third member not af
filiated with either side to investi
gate wages and coal prices and fix
both at figures which they deem
reasonable. This commission, under
the plan, will be appointed by the
president, the miners in the mean
time to receive an advance of 14 per
cent in wages over the scale prior
to the strike.
The federal grand jury investiga
tion of charges of violation of the
Lever act and anti-trust laws, sched
uled to start last Monday, but post
poned until December 17, will pro
ceed when the jurors appear next
Wednesday, according to the best in
formation available. The probe will
be nation-wide in its extent, it is
declared, and will involve both opera
tors and miners.
The charges of contempt against
mine workers’ officials, which it is
believed will be dropped, are set for
hearing next Tuesday morning.
Palmer’s Statement
Two statements were given out
following adjournment of the con
ference, by Attorney General Palmer,
who first submitted tl -> president’s
proposal to acting President Lewis,
and Secretary Treasurer Green at
a conference in Washington last Sat
urday who came to Indianapolis
Monday to await the outcome of
consideration of the plan by the min
ers’ general committee.
Mr. Palmer’s first statement ex
presesd his gratification at the de
cision of the United Mine Workers
and commended Mr. Lewis and Mr.
Green for “their -wise and patriotic
action.” The statement follows:
“The coal strike is settled as the
government wanted it settled. When
Messrs. Lewis and Green came to
see me Saturday I restated what the
government’s position had been from
the beginning, and insisted on their
acquiesence. They finally agreed to
it. They have now persuaded the
officers of their organization that the
situation calls for cmopliance with
the court’s order and the govern
ment’s wishes, and I am certain that
all the miners in the country will
cheerfully acquiesce in the decision
of their leaders. I desire to publicly
commend the wise and patriotic ac
tion of Mr. Lewis, Mr. Green and
their associates. I am, of course,
gratified at the outcome, which is
one the entire country will ap
prove. Mining will be fully re
sumed at once, the danger of dis
tress and suffering during the win
ter is passed, the authority of the
government has been recognized and
upheld, the supremacy of the law
has been established, and a prece
dent of incaluculable value has been
set for the peaceful, orderly and law
ful adjustment of industrial dis
putes.”
Atlanta Girls Go to
Aid West Point People
The cAll of Joseph Logan, director
■ of civilian relief for the American
Red Cross, for skilled workers for
work with about forty families who
are Homeless at West Point, was an
swered Thursday afternoon when
Miss Mary Thurston and Miss Helen
Muse, who left for the flood-strick
en city at 2 o’clock.
Miss Thurston and Miss Muse
were schooled in case work with
the Associated Charities and both
saw service overseas.
Mr. Logan, who went to West
Point Wednesday with the Red Cross
relief train, also ordered additional
supplies, including many pairs of
rubber boots.
Fitzpatrick Declares
Strike Will Keep Up
’ CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—John Fitz
patrick, chairman of the national
committee in charge of the strike of
steel workers, in replying to reports
Wiat the strike was to be ended soon,
Saturday, asserted today
, that it would go on indefinitely.
SOME IDEA OF THE TREMENDOUS PROPORTIONS OF THE FLOOD AT WEST POINT, GA., WHERE THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER HAS
REACHED THE HIGHEST POINT ON RECORD, may be gained from these pictures by Floyd Traynham, one of the staff photographers of The Atlanta Journal.
Note that in the top picture, left, houses are almost completely inundated. The picture of the trestle, at the right, shows how impossible it is to operate trains.
Note the telegraph poles and the floating houses in the bottom pictures.
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General Pershing Asks
Congress Committee Not
To Abandon Camp Gordon
After inspecting Camp Gordon
Thursday morning, General John J.
Pershing expressed the opinion that
the tfantonment should not be sold
as recommended by the sub-dommit
tee of the military affairs commit
tee of the national house, but should
be retained by the government until
a definite military policy has been
formulated for the future and ap
proved by the congress.
Further than this, General Persh
ing authorized Congressman William
D. Upshaw, of the Fifth district, who
accompanied him on the inspection,
to wire Chairman Kahn, of the house
military affairs committee, request
ing the committee to make no dis
position of Camp Gordon until he
completes his inspection of the can
tonments and makes his full report
and recommendations.
General Pershing arrived at Camp
Gordon at 9 o’clock and spent two
hours going over its main features
with General Wil-ds P. Richardson,
the camp commander. He expressed
the opinion that the cantonment it
kept by the government as a perma
nent military establishment should
have additional ground for maneu
vering purposes and a rifle range.
The range used by Camp Gordon men
vzhile the war was on has been turn
ed back to the owners from whom it
was leased. Congressman Upshaw
assured General Pershing that the
citizens of Atlanta would assist the
government in every way to get
whatever additional ground might be
needed.
Reviews Fifth Division.
General Pershing passed the pa
rade ground while five companies of
the Fifth division were being in
spected. He stopped and made an
informal review of the husky regu
lars and remarked that they were
among the finest troops in the
regular army, most of them having
been overseas and many having been
wounded. While General Pershing
was busy with General Richardson,
members of his staff took different
departments of the cantonment an '
inspected them. The whole insp:
tion lasted two hours and was im.
thorough in every detail.
The members of his staff accom
panying General Pershing are as
follows:
Brigadier General Fox Conner,
chief of staff; Brigadier General
V. H. Moseley; Colonel George C.
Marshall; Colonel John G. Quekcn
meyer; Colonel E. T. Collins; Col
onel H. B. Eeuwkes; Lieutenant Col
onel E. Bowditch; Captain J. T.
Schneider.
Returns to Hotel.
At 11 o’clock General Pershing
left Camp Gordon and returned to
the Georgian Terrace hotel, where
began the procession in automo
biles through the city to Fort Mc-
Pherson. He was met at the hotel
by Mayor James L. Key, Colonel Al
bert Howell, Jr., Mrs. Samuel M.
Inman, Dr. K. G. Matheson, Rev.
Richard Orme Flinn and others.
Members of the War Mothers a'rfub
of Atlanta, headed by Mrs. Sam D.
Jones, were in the lobby and gave
General Pershing a most enthuias
tic ovation. The general congratu
lated them in graceful and appro
priate words on being the mothers of
sons who served their country in
the army and navy, and the moth
ers expressed in the highest terms
their admiration of the general’s
achievements as commander of
America’s army in France.
In addition to this reception for
the war mothers, General Pershing
was given an ovation by the mem-
bers of the Girls' Overseas club of
Atlanta, composed of girls who
served in France, and was presented
by them with a very beautiful gen
eral's flag bearing the four stars
of a general’s rank. It was made
by hand by members of the club,
of silk and gold braid, and was a
most exquisite piece of work for
which which he thanked them
warmly.
While these festivities were tak
ing place in the lobby of the Geor
gian Terrace, the entire student body
of Georgia Tech were lined up at
attention in Peachtree street, and
the Tech brass band was making
the welkin ring with patriotic music.
Shortly before 12 o’clock General
Pershing emerged from the lobby and
got into an automobile for the pro
cession through the streets.
Great Public Ovation
Never in the history of Atlanta
was a famous visitor given a greater
outburst of popular enthusiasm than
General Pershing as he rode through
Peachtree and Whitehall streets on
his way to Fort McPherson. Homes,
stores and office buildings were dec
orated with American flags and bunt
ing. Enormous pictures of General
Pershing were on display in scores
of show windows. Banners and pla
cards heralded in big letters a whole
hearted southern welcome to the com
mender of the A. E. F.
Beginning with Tech students at
the terrace, the procession passed
through an almost continuous lane
of students and pupils as far as
Brotherton street. At North avenue
the general was greeted by the lit
tle boys and girls of Miss Dargan’s
kindergarten who cheered him to the
echo and waved American flags in
his honor. At Forrest avenue he be
gan to encounter the main body of
Atlanta’s 25,000 public school chil
dren, and from there to Brotherton
street he saw them on nearly every
block, lining the curb in single file,
waving flags, throwing kisses at
him, cheering madly: “Pershing!
Pershing! Hurrah for Freshing! The
man who won the war!”
Legion at Five Points
Ranged in a double phalanx on
both sides of the street at Five
I’oints were Atlanta members of the
American Legion wearing red bras
sards on their arms with the words.
“American Legion. Welcome, Gen
eral Pershing.” As the general’s au
romObile rolled slowly through the
ranks of these men, who a few
months ago were fighting under his
command in a foreign country 3,000
miles from home, he was greeted
with a yoar of enthusiasm, and he
smiled and saluted to the right and
the left in acknowledgment of their
stentorian ovation.
And then came the veterans, the
wearers of the gray, the grand old
heroes of the southern Confederacy,
assembled in a body at the intersec
tion of Alabama and Whitehall
streets. They greeted the general
with the old rebel yell that always
thrills the blood of southern people,
greeted him with hats hurled into
the air, with tear-dimmed eyes where
blazed again the fighting spirit of
the thundering sixties. No ovation
given General Pershing in the whole
parade seemed to touch him quite so
deeply as the admiration of these
aged men. In fact, as he said in
his speech Wednesday evening at
the Elks Club dinner, it was in the
eyes of Confederate veterans who
have grasped his hand on this south
ern tour that he found the answer
to the wonderful aggressive fighting
spirit of southern doughboys who
broke the Hindenburg line. They are
the men, as he was proud to acclaim,
who have “done more than any oth
ers to inspire in the south its intense
love of country.”
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1919.
CARTER GLASS TO i
LEAD FIGHT FOR
FEDERAL BUDGET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. —Leader-
ship in the fight for an effective
federal budget system is expected
to fall upon the newest member
of the senate—Carter Glass, of
Virginia, now secretary of the treas
ury, who will leave the cabinet to
succeed the late Senator Martin.
Because of his long service on
the banking and currency com
mittee -f the house, and his expe
rience, while secretary, as ad
ministrator of the government’s
money chest, Secretary Glass is
probably better qualified to judge
the merits and demerits of the
various budget proposals than any
of the older heads in either house.
Secretary Glass will oppose ac
ceptance by the senate of the Good
budget bill, passed by the house
at the last session, as inadequate
and inefficient.
Effective budget legislation,
Secretary Glass declares, must
provide three things: the centering
of responsibility in the executive,
the exercise of self control in con
gress and the consolidation and ex
pansion of the audit system.
Government Great Company
“The government of the United
States,” Secretary Glass said, “is
like a great company whose operat
ing managers, publicity managers,
sales managers, purchasing depart
ment are given carte blanche to
make expenditures * conceived’ by
them to be in the interest of the
development of the business with
out consultation with or control
by those officers of the company
who are char. 1 with the business
of ascertaining its revenues and
borrowing the money to make good
their deficiencies.
“It is literally true that the sec
retary of the treasury, under ex
isting law and practice, is unable
to obtain from any department an
accurate or approximately accurate
estimate of its expenditures for
a few weeks in advance, not to
say months or years.
“Let us be honest with our
selves and honest with the Ameri
can people. A budget that covers
the appropriations asked by the
executive departments but does not
cover the initiation or increase
appropriations by congress will be
but a semblance of the real thing.
Villistas Loot Towns
In Revenge for Death
Os General Angeles
EAGLE PASS, Texas, Dec. 11.—In
reprisal for the recent execution of
General Felipe Angeles, four hun
dred Villa followers Tuesday attack
ed the town of Muzquiz, state of Co
ahuila, looting the stores and seiz
ing several prominen tcitizens for
hostages, according to information
received here today.
Air Mail Service
For Atlanta in Year
“WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. —Exten-
sion of the airplane mail service to
Atlanta is planned within the next
year, Assistant Postmaster General
Praeger today told the house post
office committee. The Atlanta serv
ice will be an extension of the New
York-Washington service. Mail be
tween New York and Atlanta would
we speeded up twelve or fourteen
hours, he said.
Mr. Praeger appeared before the
committee to request an appropria
tion of $3,000,000 for continuing and
extending the airplane mail service.
The committee deferred action until
it completes hearings no the postof
fice appropriation bill.
TRADE CONGRESS
TO SEEK ENLARGED
CONSULAR SERVICE
SAVANAH, Dec. 11. —A campaign
for the appointment of American con
sular agents at every port and in
land city of commerce in the world,
as a means of furthering American
and particularly southern Commerce,
will begin soon, under direction of
the Southern Commercial congress,
which at its closing sessions here
authorized Dr. C. J. Owens, director
general of the organization, to insti
tute the movement. Control of tuber
culosis, as an economic and public
health safeguard for the south, also
will be emphasized in the work of
the organization during the coming
year.
The next meeting of the epngress
will be held in Washington, D. C„
next December, and Thomas R. Pres
ton, of Chattanooga, Tenn., will hold
the office of president for the com
ing year, having been elected to suc
ceed Senator Duncan U. Fletcher,
of Florida, who was made honorary
president. Richard I. Manning, of
South Carolina, was elected first vice
president; Carl Espy, of Savannah,
second vice president; Dr. Owens will
continue as director general; William
H. Saunders, of Washington, was
elected treasurer, and Buist C Get
singer, Commissioner of commerce.
At its closing sessions, the con
gress went on record as favoring an
agreement by the United States sen
ate on ratification of the peace treaty
with its League of Nations covenant;
indorsing the metiric system, the
American Cotton association, and the
movement toward an American sugar
crop sufficient for American needs,
reclamation of waste lands and Com
pletion of the intra-coastal water
way from Beaufort, N. C„ to Gal
veston.
Wilson Thanks Miners
For ‘Patriotic Action’
In Calling Off Strike
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. “We
must all work together to see that a
settlement, just and fair to every
one, is reached -without delay,” Pres
ident Wilson said today in a tele
gram to John L. Lewis, head of the
United Mine Workers, expressing ap
preciation of the “patriotic action”
in ending the strike.
The message said:
Kay I not express to you, and
through you, to the other officers
of your organization, my appre
ciation of the patriotic action
which you took at Indianapolis
yesterday. Now we must all
work together to see to it that
a settlement just and fair to
ev ryone is reached without de
lay.
WOODROW WILSON.
Announcement of members of the
commission to investigate miners’
wages and operators’ profits will be
made at the “White House after At
torney General Palmer returns to
Washington late today or tomorrow.
White House officials stated defi
nitely that the third man on the
commission would not be anyone con
nected with the government.
The secretary of the treasury is
directed to submit to the senate a
statement of dividends paid during
1917 and 1918 by bituminous coai
mining concerns in a resolution of
fered totdav by Senator Johnson,
South Dakota.
Gould Divorce Decree
PARIS. Dec. 11.—The court at Ver
sailles late yesterday sustained the
decree of divorce granted Frank
Gould from Edith Kelly Gould. Mrs.
Gould’s attorneys had contended the
French court was without authority
in the case, since it could not try
a suit involving two foreigners -with
out eonsejlt of both. Rene Viviani,
former premier, represented Gould.
Record-Breaking Rains
Cause Disastrous Floods;
West Point Under Water
BY LAF4BDIN KAY
(The Journal’s Staff Coorrespondent)
WEST POINT, Ga. —The flooded Chttahoochee about reached
its crest here Wednesday at 31 feet, five feet higher than the
record of 26 feet in 1886. The business district, including prac
tically all the stores and business houses of the town, manufacturing
plants, and many residences stood late Wednesday in mud and water,
five to ten feet deep, the two central spans of the big highway bridge
over the Chattahoochee, connecting the two sides of the city, are
gone, stocks in some of the stores are floating away on the turgid
waters, and hundreds of people are without light, fuel, food and
drinking watbr.
Definite estimates are impossible as yet, but it is believed about
thirty residdnees have been washed away on the east side of the
river and as many on the west side. This does not include negro
houses. The river is about a mile wide.
Losses are estimated at several hundred thousand dollars. The
Sterling, McGhee and Houston bridges over the Chattahoochee are
also gone, and it is estimated that Troup county has lost hundreds of
thousands of dollars in bridges which it will take months to replace.
Fire broke out about noon in the big warehouse of the West
Point Iron works. The building was entirely surrounded by water
and the flames did not go beyond the building, although
the wind blew toward another warehouse not far away. There
was no one in the warehouse. The fire caught in the round house.
West Point business men are negotiating with a Norfolk firm
in efforts to get a barge from Columbus to ply on the river between
the two sides of West Point.
The big Goat Rock dam several miles from West Point is under
■water, and the plant of the Columbus Power company has been put
out of commission.
The merchants of West’Point will
lose heavily, inasmuch as their in
surance does not cover damages by
water. Some moved their stocks be
yond reach of the water and others
filled their top shelves. Some stocks
are floating on the streets. One
wholesale grocer had got in a big
shipment of flour only to have it
covered with mud and water.
The Moody bridge is the only one
left over the Chattahoochee in Troup
county.
When the big bridge at West
Point was swept away, a big water
main was carried with it, and the
part of the town on the west
side of the river is without
drinking water. There is no imme
diate prospect of getting food, fuel
or water to the people on that side.
Banks, manufacturing plants,
churches and some residences are
under five to ten feet of water.
The West Point Iron works is per
haps the heaviest sufferer, having
lost perhaps SIOO,OOO worth of sup
plies. A cotton seed warehouse is
practically submerged. In another
warehouse, practically $35,000 worth
of lime and cement has been ruined.
The Goat Rock dam of the Colum
bus Power company, which serves
West Point, LaGrange, Newnan, Car
rollton and Hawkinsville, is under
water and the power plant out of
commission.
The Wainwright-Roller covering
v’orks are under water.
The weather here is very cold,
probably 33 or 34 degrees, adding
to the inconvenience and in some
cases actual suffering of the peo
ple.
SIOO,OOO FLOOD LOSS;
15,000 IDLE IN COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, Ga.. Dec. 10.—With
SIOO,OOO as the estimated damage to
the machinery and stock, the cotton
mills, grocery stores, iron foundries,
and commercial concerns along the
river front; 15,000 workers out of
employment; the power plant sus
pending operation; no street car ser
vice; and the Chattahoochee river at
an estimated height of fifty feet,
the conditions around Columbus, re
sulting from the flood Tuesday night,
are quite serious.
Street railway service has been
discontinued and all textil eand oth
er large industrial plants have closed
down.
It is estimated some five hundred
tenement houses in Lower Girard are
inundated by water and work of res
cue is being pushed in efforts to get
women and children to places of
safety. Numbers fowls, dogs, cats
and even large animals are floating
down the stream. The river again is
rising slightly. At noon the last
plant furnishing power and lights to
the smaller industries was closed
down, thus shutting off everything in
the city, including the two news
. papers.
ANNISTON CUT OFF
FROM MANI POINTS
ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 10.—With
all streams out of their banks, bot
tom lands inundated and roads wash
ed in many places until they are im
passable, Anniston is cut off today
from many parts of this trade ter
ritory. Torrential rains have fallen
almost continuously since Saturday
“ morning throughout this district.
Southern railway trains from the
east are being detoured byway of
Rome, Ga., because of tracks wash
ed out. Snow creek, in the southern
part of Anniston, overflowed, flood
ing homes and factories and leaving
the city completely without gas by
reason of the flooding of the gas
works. Freezing temperature is add
ing to the discomfiture in the flood
ed areas.
OCMULGEE IS RISING
RAPIDLY AT MACON
MACON, Ga., Dec. 10.—The Oc;»h'-
gee river is rising steadily and is
now above its banks at a height of
twelve feet. Eighteen feet is the
flood mark.
No damage from the flood has been
reported here.
POWER DAM BREAKS
NEAR MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 10.—
The Montgomery Light and Water
Power Company suffered a loss of
between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 last
night when the dam at its hydro-elec
tric power plant at Tallassee Falls,
Ala., was swept away by flood, ac
cording to S. P. Ireland, general man
ager of the company.
Pearl Thompson, negro, was drown
ed at Prattville last night on the
main jftreet of the town when a
creek flooded the business section
of the place.
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WEST POINT FLOOD
DAMAGES REACH
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Red Cross Workers and La-
Grange People Furnish and
Distribute Relief —Opelika
Merchants Help West Side
BY LAMEDIN KAY
(The Journal's Staff Correspondent)
WEST POINT, Ga., Dec. 11.—With
practicaly every business establish
ment in West Point standing in three
to eight feet of water and with per
haps two score homes in the same
condition, the people of the flooded
city are showing a wonderful spirit
of cheerfulness and courage as they
go about the work of distributing
relief wherever the need is discover
ed. Thanks to the efficient work of
the citizens’ committee and of the
relief workers who arrived from At
lanta last evening about 9 o’clock,
together with thoughtful generosi
ty of the people of LaGrange, who
have sent truck loads of food and
other supplies, no unusual suffering
is apparent anywhere this morning.
Opelika Aids West Side
Conditions on the west side were
greatly relieved this morning when
trucks arrived from Opelika, Ala.,
with food an dother supplies sent by
the wohlesale grocers of that city.
A committee of seven has been ap
pointed to assist the Red Cross in
all relief work, and they have manv
people busy now carrying food,
water, aspirin and other medicines
to the people maroned in the stores
and other buildings. A few people
are slightly ill fro fnexposure, but
relief measures are being carried out
so rapidly with more boats in use,
that no serious illness is antici
pated.
With Opelika sending aid to the
west side and the Red Cross work
ers and others paddling around in
the business district under the di
rection of LeGare Davis, the whole
situation looks much brighter. The
water is now falling rapidly and
people are being taken from the
stores to the shores with more dis
patch.
Rough estimates of the damage
done in West Point and viefriity place
the probable loss at something like
$1,500,000.
The high waters have been reced
ing very gradually, but as the day
wore on the fail became more notice
able. If trfere is no more rain crew,
can beglq work In a few hours oi.
the work of repairing the railway 1
and telegraph lines. The water sit
uation is causing the most worry.
The big water main was carried
away when the big wagon bridge
was washed away. Business men
are now working on a proposition to
Lring a temporary main acrose the
river on a? pontoon bridge. Help on
this project is awaited from Camp
Gordon.
Adjutant General Harris has wired
from Washington that the military
authorities at Camp Gordon will fur
nish aid, and it is likely that the flrdt
thing they do will be to construct a
pontoon bridge on which a temporary
main can be laid for supplying water
to the west side.
There was comparatively little five
damage yesterday when fire broke
out in a warehouse of the West
Point lion works following an ex
plosion. The flames did not spread
beyond the building.
No lives have been reported lost
as yet. Leed Roberts, ‘proprietor of
a soda fountain in the business dis
trict has not yet been accounted fbr,
and searchers have gone out in a
boat to try to find out If he was
drowned.
Word came from Camp Gordon
this morning that Major Finley, en
gineer, would arrive here early in the
day. Two business men. Mayor Mark
McCullough and Ed Cook, have been
designated to assist him in the water
main pontoon proposition.
It is possible to walk across the
A. & W. P. bridge this morning by
wading through the water on the ap
proach to the far side.
Places Flooded
Among the principal places ol
business, public buildings, etc.,/sub
merged to a depth of from th/ee to
ten feet by the flood and constituting
the entire business district of West
Point are the following:
Charles hotel, West Point Whole
sale Grocery company, Adams Hard
ware company, Lee Stein’s Economy
store, A. C. Brooks & Co., general
supplies; Cohen Brothers, dry goods;
Hudson Hardware company, W. L
Barker, dry goods; barber shop, City
Drug company, Ferrell Tatum com
pany, dry goods; Miller & Erwin
shoe store; M. Stark, dry goods; Lee
Stein, dry goods; Solomop
dry goods; Lee Herzberg, men’s fur
nishing; Citizens’ bank, Neal Allen,
drugs; C. E. Hill, department store'
Reid Roberts, soda fountain; A. Pal
misina, restaurant; West Point post
office; Phil Lanier, Insurance; Firsl
Natnonal bank, J. T. Zachary Broth
ers, groceries; Ford Auto Supply
company; R. L. Williams, meat mar
ket; J. L. B. Barrow, gooceries; I
M. Scott, heavy groceries; Sunset
Tea Room, city council room, city
jail, Sid Johnson, bottling works;
West Point Iron Works, Welst Point
Coca-Cola Bottling company, Hugu
ley-McCollough, warehouse and
wholesale groceries; Batson & Cook
lumber and building material; Farm
ers’ Products company, warehouse;
Wainwright Roller Covering Works,
Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal and
Methodist churches, telephone ex
change, Standard Oil, Gulf Refining
and Texas company filling stations.
River club and West Point-Lanett
News.
Flooded Residences
Residences inundated were as fol
lows: Lee Herberg, P. G. Whitaker,
Dr. Norman Poer, Jamie Hudman.
Grigg Zachary, W. Kirby, G. F. Ir
win, M. A. Tice, Trox Bankston, I.
M. Scott. Charles Hill, W. S. Wood,
Forrest Sims, Charles Banker, Rob
ert Dixon, J. S. Booker, John Hors
ley, Jesse Johnson, E. D. ‘Fuller, T.
W. Johnson, E. C. Barker, Grady
Webb, Lee Hardy, Abbott Johnson,
L. Strong. S. L. Dickson, James
Moore, Robert Hogg, E. Lanier, Noe
Lanier, Phil Lanier, James Lanier,
Hollis Lanier, John Daniel, J. S. Mil
ler, Mrs. W. R. Lloyd, H. K. Lamp
kin, Mrs. William Myra, A. T. New
ton. Grady Perry, Norman Reed,
Causey Hamilton, Willie Johnson.
Mrs. T. M. Delamar, E. C. Bass, Dr.
Hugh McCullough, F. Paul, Mrs. Ed
ward Schafer, John McGlon, John
Mitcham, Mrs. Thomas Whito, Mrs.
Ed Rutland, Mrs. William
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