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when he was married, und while his father gave the ground on which ids sou
built a home Louis declares lie didn’t get a larger salury or a bigger job. At
thirty years of age Hill was president of the Great Northern railroad, a position
which he had earned as a result of hard labor. Louis admits that opportunities
were made for him, but he had to take them and make good as an individual
before he could be advanced.
As a railroad manager Mr. Hill spends from 12 to 14 hours a day at his
office, but during spare moments he finds great pleasure In painting landscapes
and studies of members of his family. lie owns a comfortable home in which
there are ten servants, in addition to a butler und several other persons who
attend to the wants of Mr. Hill, his wife and five children. The walls are filled
with pictures, a number being of his father and others of the family of Louis
Hill, for whenever he finds an artist he sets him to work painting his children’s
portraits.
ARCHITECT OF NEW “TECH”
The architect of the new $7,000,-
000 home of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology in Boston is Wil
liam Welles Bosworth of New York, a
graduate from that college with the
class of 1889. After leaving Technol
ogy he spent some time in the offices
of Richardson & Olmstead, doing land
scape work for Leland Stanford uni
versity. Then for two years he was on
the staff of the American Architect
and made special studies in Rome.
In 1890 he began a second study
in the best architectural schools of
Europe, working under Alma Tadema
and in the atelier of Godefroy Ereynet
in Paris. lie finished under such mus
ters as Gaston Redon and Chausse
miclie, and passed considerable time in
Holland and Rome.
lie was resident architect of the
Pan-American exposition, desigued a
number of buildings for the St. Louis
exposition, and then opened an office
in New York for himself. The last six years his time lias been devoted to
architectural work for Rockefeller Vauderlip, for whom he desigued the
“Leteliworth Village.”
Mr. Bosworth is associated with the Society of Beaux Arts, the American
Institute of Architects, and the Loyal legion.
WILLIAM KARL DICK
Inheritance has been greatly increased. He is a member of the Metropolitan,
Hankers’, Piping Rock, Meadow Brook, Racquet and Riding clubs. He is also
chnirman of the Crosstown Transit committee of Brooklyn and is active in the
affairs of that borough. Mr. Dick is extremely enthusiastic about sailing and is
one of the experts on the Great South bay.
LEADS WILSON CAMPAIGN
Vance Criswell McCormick, who,
at the request of President Wilson,
was elected chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee, when asked
whether he would devote most of his
time to the campaign, replied:
“No. I will devote all of it.”
The statement is characteristic of
the man, who it has been said, plays
politics In much the same manner as
he played football when he was cap
tain of the Yale team. What he does,
say his admirers, he does with all his
heart and soul and strength.
Mr. McCormick, who is president
and publisher of the Harrisburg (Pa.)
Patriot, was born in Harrisburg, and is
a son of the late Henry McCormick, a
wealthy iron manufacturer. He was
elected mayor of Harrisburg at the
age of thirty in 1902, and served one
term, devoting much attention to pub
lic improvements and the beauty of the
city. He was the Democratic and
Progressive candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1914, but was defeated
by Martin G. Brumbaugh, Republican.
Mr. McCormick has long been one ot the priucipai financial backers of tli*
Democratic party in Pennsyl -ania.
The deatli of James .1. Hill, em
pire builder of the Northwest, made
his son, Louis \V. Hill, of St. Paul,
Minn., the most conspicuous captain of
industry west of Cleveland, 0., and
one of the greatest railroad men irf the
world. But Louis Hill isn’t self-con
scious about it. He does not propose
to go to New York city to become a
familiar figure on Wall street nor even
on La Salle street in Chicago. Instead
lie intends to remain in St. Paul and
operate the railroad lines controlled
by the Hill interests. In St. Paul every
one knows Hill as Louis and he is glad
of it. His father, for that matter, was
more often addressed as “Jim” Hill
than “Mr.” Hill.
Among railroad men In the West,
Louis Hill is regarded as a self-inude
man. Five years after he was gradu
ated from Harvard university he start
ed to work as a billing clerk at $75 a
month. He was receiving that salary
When Mrs. Madeline Force Astor,
widow of Col. John Jacob Astor, an
nounced that she was about to become
the wife of William Karl Dick of
Brooklyn, even her intimate friends
were surprised, for since her first hus
band's death in the Titanic disaster
she had seemed to be giving up her life
to the training and care of her little
son.
Mr. Dick, who is twenty-nine years
old, is the scion of an old Brooklyn
family and his business Interests are
principally in that borough. His most
active work is as vice president of the
Manufacturers' Trust company, but he
is also a director in many other finan
cial and commercial concerns.
Friends of Mr. Dick’s family say
that Mr. Dick inherited a fortune of
from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 from liis
grandfather, William Dick, one of the
pioneer sugar refiners of this country.
Through judicious investments this
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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Dispatches of Important Events Gath
ered From All Parts of The
World.
FOR THE BUSY READER
The Happenings of Seven Days Are
Given in Epitomized Form for
Quick Reading.
Mexican News
A Mexico City dispatch states that
the preliminary arrangements for a
conference of representatives of the
United States and Mexico to be held
in some city in the United States,
have been completed.
The Mexican government’s supply
of ground corn for distribution is re
ported to have been exhausted.
Starving Mexican women shouting
“Viva rGingoes,” have stormed the
governor’s palace at San Luis Potosi.
The de facto government declares
that the United States has no moral
or legal right to maintain an armed
force on Mexican soil.
It is reported that food riots are oc
curring in all the larger Mexican cit
ies.
The bodies of Capt. Charles T. Boyd,
Lieut. Henry T. Adair and seven troop
ers of the Tenth cavalry, who fell in
the fight at Qarrizal, were delivered
to the United States authorities at
FI Paso.
The Mexican government denies that
it has offered asylum to bandits who
committed depredations against Unit
ed States citizens and property.
European War
The Italians say the Austrians have
evacuated Tolmino, on the Isonzo
front.
The English port of Seahatn Harbor
was atatcked at night by a German
submarine. One woman was killed
and one house struck.
It is stated in Canada that Canadian
prisoners have been sentenced to jail
for refusing to work in munition
plants.
British gains in the battle of the
Somme after ten days continuous
fighting, cover a front of nearly eight
miles, and include the entire German
first system of defense.
The French army under General
Foch has moved up in the southern
section of the Somme until now he
holds the dominating hills around Pe
ronne, a town which has been strong
ly fortified by the Germans and the
possession of which they are likely to
contest with the utmost determina
tion.
The British have retaken Contal
maison and are again in control of
nearly the entire extent of Trones
wood and Mametz wood.
A Petrograd dispatch states that
the approximate total of prisoners tak
en by the Russians during General
Brusiloff’s operations up to July 10
amounts to 5,620 officers and 266,000
men. Guns to the number of 312 and
566 machine guns have been captured.
A London dispatch announces that
Russian torpedo boats have captured
the German steamers Lisabon and
Worms. The steamers were taken to
Finland.
The pressure exerted by the Italian
forces in the Trentino has resulted in
the recall of several divisions of Aus
trian troops which were about to be
sent to the eastern front. The Italian
offensive continues.
On the Pasublo front the Italians
captured the positions north of Monte
Corno, but the enemy succeeded in ob
taining partial repossession of them
by a violent counter attack.
Arabs have captured the town of
Kunfuda, Arabia. They have also
taken the fort.
A dispatcii from London announces
that a serious uprising against the
Turks has occurred in Arabia. The
rebels, under command of the grand
sheriff of Mecca, are reported to have
captured Mecca, Jiddali, the chief sea
port of Arabia, and Taif. The rebels
have proclaimed the independence of
the Arabs.
The Russian forces advancing in
Volhynia have crossed the River Stok
hod at various points, closely press
ing the Teutonic forces opposing them.
The total number of prisoners taken
by the Russian General Kaledines from
July 4 to 8 is given out as 348 offi
cers and 9,145 unwounded soldiers.
News emanating from Paris an
nounces that the French have return
ed to the offensive south of the Somme
and have captured German trenches
over a distance of about two and a
half miles east of Flaucourt and to a
depth of ranging from about two-thirds
of a mile to a mile and a third. They
also captured by storm the village of
Biaches.
The Russians on the eastern front
are going from success to success,
and for the time that theater of war
is overshadowing the western front
from the spectacular viewpoint.
A London telegram announces that
the entire German front on the east
is threatened by the Russian advance.
The Russian hospital ship Vperiode,
the sink of which in the Black Sea has
been officially announced, was pro
ceeding without escort from Batoum
to embark wounded soldiers. Seven
lives were lost.
The British steamship Pendennis,
with a cargo of timber from Gothen
burg for Hull, has been captured by
a German warship off the Norwegian
coast and taken to a German port.
The British have resumed their
sledge-hammer blows against the Ger
man lines in the Somme sector, and
hav carried the German trenches at
several points along the front.
Domestic
Lester Stillwell, 12 years old, was
killed by a shark while bathing in an
army of Raritan bay, near Matawan,
N. J. Stanley Fisher, who went to
his aid, was so badly injured in a
struggle with the huge fish that he
died while being taken to a hospital.
Joseph Dunn, 12 years old, bathing
some distance away in the same in
let, was attacked by a shark and one
ct his legs was so lacerated it prob
ably will have to be amputated. The
shark was finally driven off.
James House, Jr., first mate of the
British steamer Rosalie, in port at
Savannah, Ga., received a cablegram
from Cardiff, Wales, advising him that
his uncle, James House, a ship owner
there, had died and left him an es
tate valued at $250,000.
The river and harbor bill, which
passed both houses of congress and
which is the first general river and
harbor bill in four years, has come to
the president for his signature.
An explosion, said to have been
caused from lightning, wrecked the
major portion of the Dupont Powder
plant four miles east of Aguilar, Col.,
at a little village named Augusta,
shattered the windows of houses In
the vicinity for two or three miles and
cut off telephone communication of
the plant and nearby stations.
The engagement is announced of
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow of
the British statesman, to Rev. William
Hartley Carnegie, rector of St. Mar
garet and canon of Westminster, Lon
don, England. Mrs. Chamberlain was
formerly Miss Mary Endicott of Mas
sachusetts, daughter of William C. En
dicott, secretary of war in Cleveland’s
cabinet.
Rail and wire communications in
several Southern states are crippled,
business demoralized and thousands
are homeless as a result of the tropi
cal storm that lias swept the South
with a “remorseless drown” for more
than a week.
The federal government has taken
official notice of the serious flood con
ditions that have followed the tropi
cal hurricane in the Southern states.
The war department has ordered an
engineer to investigate conditions in
the Cahaba and Alabama river val
leys.
The floods have extended into east
ern North Carolina, and rivers, creeks
and branches in six Southern states
are out of their banks and flooding
thousands of acres of farm lands as a
result of the unprecedented rainfall.
The Southern tropical storm’s toll
is reported to be 78 dead and missing.
The damage following in the wake
of the Southern tropical storm will
total millions of dollars. In Alabama
conditions have assumed the most se
rious aspect.
At Selma, Ala., citizens organized re
lief parties for work among the flood
victims along the Cahaba and Ala
bama river valleys, where two thou
sand families have been driven from
their homes.
Prattville, Ala., 3,000 inhabitants,
wast mostly covered by the waters of
a small creek,, a dozen feet wide nom
inally, but which had grown to a min
iature Mississippi.
Ernest Schiller, a federal prisoner
who last March captured, single-hand
ed, the British freighter Matoppo, 24
hours after it sailed from Hoboken,
escaped from the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga., but was apprehended
by a teamster after several shots
had been fired at him.
Washington
The country’s foreign trade during
the fiscal year ending with June
reached a total of $6,525,000,000, ex
ceeding by many millions all previous
records.
Exports for the fiscal year ending
June, 1916, were valued at $4,345,000,-
000 and imports at $2,180,000,000.
Robert H. Barrett, formerly of At
lanta, Ga., and now of Alexandria, Va.,
and president of the Virginia Press
association, has been selected by the
department of commerce to study the
problem of increasing American for
eign trade in paper, paper products
and printing supplies in South Amer
ica.
A Paris dispatch received in Wash
ington announces that Duy-Tan, the
16-year-old king of the French protec
torate of Annam, on the China sea,
has been dethroned as a result of a
revolt of Annamites at Quang-Nagi,
which he is accused of having fo
mented. He is succeeded by Prince
Bun-Dao, who has been crowned.
Official dispatches received in Latin-
American diplomatic quarters say a se
cret agreement has been made be
tween Peru and Venezuela with the
object of taking vast tracts of lands,
rightful possession of which they dis
pute with Colombia and Ecuador.
Grave fears for the peace of the na
tions are expressed in Washington.
The administration’s omnibus reve
nue bill, creating a tariff commission,
imposing a protective tariff on dye
stuffs, repealing present stamp taxes
and providing for new taxes on in
comes, inheritances and war muni
tions profits, passed the house by a
vote of 240 to 140 over the opposition
of the Democratic leaders.
The four legations in Washington
profess to know little of the action
of Peru and Venezuela ill entering
into a secret pact regarding the boun
dary dispute.
President Wilson has signed the
good roads bill authorizing the expen
diture of $55,000,000 in five years by
the federal government on condition
that the states expend similar amounts
to those apportioned to them.
With full military honors, the body
of Capt. O. T. Boyd, Tenth cavalry,
who was killed at the head of his com
mand at Carrizal, was buried in Ar
lington national cemetery.
A MIXED DISPOSITION
By LOUISE OLIVER.
James Porterfield Morgan, known to
the world as Jim Morgan, looked at
his sister quizzically.
“Madge, do you mean to say that
Polly Love is your ideal of a wom
an?”
“Yes, Jim, dear, bright, wholesome
little Polly, with her silly giggle as you
call it is my ideal of a woman and I
wish you’d marry her.”
“Well, I like Polly, of course, hut —”
he flecked the ash off his cigarette and
failed to finish.
“I know what you mean, Jim. Your
type is the dashing kind with a dis
position like all the months of the
year combined. June one instant,
April the next and a regular January
freeze to follow. Jim, you men make
me tired with your queer ideas of
women. Take it from me, they aren’t
the celestial beings you think, any of
them —except Polly. She’s an angel.”
“If she were here she would laugh
at your wonderful wit,” answered Jim
sardonically. “No doubt that’s what
she’s doing now anyway, wherever she
is. She’s always laughing. And per
petual good humor bores me as much
as incessant sunshine.”
Had Jim known It, he was right
when he said that Polly Was laugh
ing. And this was the occasion. That
morning a letter had come from Cor
nelia Graham announcing that she
would visit them for a week on her
way to Boston.
Cornelia was pretty rich and spoiled
and the entire relationship held her
in reverential awe.
“Oh, we can’t have her with the
plasterers and paperhangers here,”
protested Mrs. Love in a panic. “And
the rugs are all up and away at the
cleaners, and we’ve no girl. Of all
times for her to come! Why couldn’t
she wait a week 1”
And then Polly giggled. “Isn’t it
the limit? Well—she isn’t waiting,
and if I’m not mistaken she’s here
now, for there’s a taxi just stopping at
the curb and —behold, milady.”
Polly rushed out to the porch. “Hel
lo, Cornelia! You dear! I’m so glad
to see you. Come right in, but don’t
you dare to sit down or you’ll ruin
that exquisite suit you have on. We
look like an accident ward in a hos
pital—all plastered up.”
Cornelia was led through shrouded
furniture and buckets of calcimine and
glue up to the second floor to Tolly's
room, the only room in the house that
hadn’t been dismantled.
Then Polly flew to the kitchen to
see what she could scare up to eat.
“There Isn’t much,” she declared,
searching the cupboard. “Here’s a
can of corn and some salmon, but I
believe there’s another thing. If I had
more eggs I could mix up a custard —
two aren’t enough. I’ll slip over to
Laura’s the back way and get some
eggs. I hate to borrow, but I must.”
Polly, got the eggs and went home
unseen by Jim in the library.
“That poor child,” said Laura, “is
in an awful fix. Cornelia Graham,
that rich cousin of theirs, has just
come and their house is a mess. Can’t
you do something to help them out,
jim?”
"Do you mean that girl that was
here last summer?”
“Yes.”
“By Jove, you don’t say! You bet
I'll help them out. I’ll telephone right
away and ask her to lunch and the
theater this afternoon.”
When Jim called at the Loves’ a
workman had put a ladder across the
front door, so he went around back.
Polly was at the stove getting their
own lunch the best she could. She
was lifting a saucepan from the fire
when she heard Jim’s voice. She
turned quickly, the pan bumped against
the high oven and the whole thing
turned upside down on the floor at
her feet.
She was tired, hot and excited,
company had come on top of con
fusion, and here was a man at the
kitchen door whose good opinion she
valued very much and who, she knew,
was very fastidious. Yet Polly gig
gled !
“You two get out of here!” she
laughed, “and I’ll clean up this mess.
No, of course you can’t help. I’ve got
corn all over my shoes.”
When they had gone, Polly called:
“Mother, can you come here? Moth
er !” There were tears of pain in her
eyes now.
“I—l spilled the corn and it was
hot. Some of it went on my foot and
it—hurts.”
Jim came in at six.
“Say, Laura, I take hack what I
said about a mixed disposition this
morning.”
“What! So soon?”
“Yes. I’ve had a taste of them all
this afternoon, everything from Janu
ary to December. I’ve been scorched
and frozen in turn until I am numb.”
“Then you don’t think incessant sun
so bad? Speaking of which, I have
some news. Polly’s in the hospital!
She spilled something hot on her feet
and scalded herself dreadfully.”
Then something happened to James
Porterfield Morgan. He thought of
Polly standing at the stove and laugh
ing through her agony.
“Dear little Polly,” he muttered.
“What a fool I’ve been!”
“Where are you going. Jim?” called
Laura.
“To the hospital to hunt some sun
shine,” he answered. “I’m thinking it
would be a good thing to have it
handy for the rest of my life.”
(Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
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