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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR SUMTER WOULD B.F benefuted BY COUNTY FAIR IN KNTIIt to; nn laiericus Woull lta[i Bent -11l likewise Americus will not be the scene this fall of a county fair, as the Timgs-Re corder, together with many of the progressive citizens of the town and county, had hoped. There is no good reason for this neglect of our oppor tunities, as the proposition was put up strongly by the Times-Recorder and chamber of commerce and ample av gument presented in advocacy of the county fair and benefits resulting therefrom. In years agone Sumter had many anr \ fairs here in Americus. each CQ "J» -ccc 'fcon proving a splendid success. It could be done again and even more successfully now. According to reports from almost all sections of Georgia there are going to be a great many county fairs in this state during the coming fall. Counties which have been holding expositions of that kind in the past will have larger ones along in October and No vember, while a great many counties that have not Ijad them heretofore are planning for them now. The Macon Telegraph notes the fact( that among the most specesful fairs that have been held in Georgia were ♦vose at Douglas, Thomasville, Dublin, ■ ‘A j --Valdosta, Eatonton and a number cf other towns. The displays of county products at some of these fairs have' been very fine. At Valdosta plans are being made for the Georgia-Florida Fair and already five or six counties have arranged for exhibits. The fair will be held on the grounds where the big state fairs were held several year§ ago with the addi tion of two or three new buildings. While the work of getting up a first class county fair is considerable the value cf such an institution is very great. The rivalry between exhibit ors is worth a great deal in develop ing high class products, while the socia l side of a county fair, where the people come together and discuss their methods of doing their work, is bound to produce good results. In all of the counties w'here fairs are to be held the farmers, espeically, ought to take a lively interest in the exhibits of farm products. They ought vo plant “prize patches” of dis ferent crops for the purpose of ex hibiting them and making the best showing possible for their counties. ANGLO-SAXONS WILL PEOPLE THE TROPICS Mobile, Ala., May 30.—The tropics will eventually be peopled by Anglo- Saxons, but their wav must be paved with sanitation, Surgeon General Wm. C. Gorgas, U. S. A., declared in an address before the alumni of the Uni versity of Alabama medical depart ment here tonight. Science had so ad vanced in-the last decade, he asserted, that it is now safe for any white man to make his home in the tropics if he follows the adivee of sanitarians. Dr. Gorgas today was the commence ment orator at the closing exercises of the University School of Medicine, his subject being “Sanitation and ’the Pan ama Cana!.” ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ THE WEATHER ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ For Americus and Vicinity— ♦ ♦ Probably Fair. ♦ ; ♦ ♦♦♦♦-ttFFHtFF + 4* PLANS TO SELL OLD mooes to for eign POWER It Is Understood Greece Wants to Pur chase the Idaho and Mississippi - Scheme of Daniels Meets With Ap proval. Washington, D. C., May 29. A plan for the disposition of the battle ships Idaho and Mississippi to a fer eign power for just what the United States paid for their construction was laid before the senate naval affair? committee today by Secretary Daniels. Greece is understood to be the power negotiating for the battleships, although no official confirmation of ill's was obtainable. The Idaho auh Mississippi are 13,000-ton ships and ba\e been in commission since 1308 They carry four twelve and eight eight-inch guns each. The Missis sippi cost $5,832,000, and the Idaho $5,894,Q00. Secretary Daniels asked the committee to amend the naval appropriation bill, permitting (he sale of the two battleships and pro viding that the money so received bo used in the construction of an addi tional dreadnaught. Two dread naughts already have been provided for in the bill as it passed the house. Secretary Daniels explained that he would be able to make up the $14,- 000,000 needed for a new dread naught by economy in other lines. j The Idaho and Mississippi, Mr. Daniels said, are efficient ships for harbor defense work, but are not modern enough to go into line of bat tle with 3,000-ton dreadnaughts. Meets With Approval. Mr. Daniels’ proposal met with approval of a majority of the com mittee and an amendment embody ing the plan tvas prepared for pre sentation to the senate. The secre tary said he was confident that little opposition would be manifested to the project. The United States has never be fore sold old battleships to a foreign power, although it has condemned them and afterward sold them without armament. Mr. Daniels asked the committee to re-insert in the bill a provision ruled out yesterday on a point of order which provided that one of the two battleships authorized be built ia a government navy yard. W T ith this provision stricken the ships could be built anywhere, and Mr. Daniels was said to be anxious that there be a law to provide that at least one ship be under construction in a govern ment yard at all times. He also askel the committee to restore another pro vision which would allow the navy to keep a separate accountin for the upkeep of yards and for actual ship construction. This provision was eliminated yesterday on a point of or der by Senator Martin, of Virginia. An effort will be made to put both provisions back before the finally is pissed. m FELDES, BACHELOR RUNS FOR SENATE Atlanta, May 29. —For some time local politicians have been wondering why in the dickens Thomas S. Felder chose to run for the United States sen ate instead of for the state governor ship. Now the secret is out. “It’s just this way,” explains one of Mr. Felder's friends, generally with a sly wink. “Tom is a bachelor, you know. Suppose he ran for governor and got elected and told to live in that nice, big mansion on Peachtree street all by himself. \VJiy, it would be a case of now that you’ve got it, whatch er gonna do with it? So he chose the senate race instead.” AMERICUS. GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. MTIY 30. 1914. GIGANTIC ICEBERGS IN PATH OF ATLANTIC STEAMERS The United States revenue cutter Seneca, which is patrolling the North Atlantic, recently reported sighting these immense icebergs that were moving rapidly southward in the path of ocean liners. They were about one hundred and twenty-five feet high above the water line. 1030 LIVES ARE LOST WHEN CANADIAN STEAMSHIP SINKS MANY GOING TO ANDERSON TODAY FOR A HOLIDAY No Observance of The Day io Americus While there is a national holiday, there will be no observance of the occasion in Americus beyond the clos ing of the delivery windows at the postoffice and the operation of the us ual Sunday schedule there. No deliv ery of mails will he made by carriers either in the city or on the rural routes. Heretofore the hanks have observed May 30th to an extent, but there will be no suspension of business with the banks today. As usual, there will be quite, a large assemblage at Anderson ville for the memorial exercises at the National cemetery. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS WILL MEET IN SELMA Selma, Ala., May 29.—Knights of Pythias will hold a big meeting this evening at the lodge rooms of Advance Lodge No. 3, Grand Keeper of Records and Seals J. M. Dannelly, will be pres ent and will tell the local lodge some of the facts and history in connection with the movement to establish a home for the widows and orphans of Pyth ians in Lhe state. Past Grand Chan cellors J. B. Ellis and B. J. Schuster, Grand Inner Guard R. H. Mangum and A. D. Davidson, representative of Advance ledge, No. 3 to the grand lodge, wiii also be present and the meeting will end with a smoker and luncheon. FIREMEN OVERCOME IN DETROIT FLAMES Detroit, Mich., May 29.—More than fifty firemen were overcome, by smoke and ten partly conscious foreigners were dragged to safety from the flames which swept the basement of the un ion station here last night. The fire was not completely extinguished until early today. The cause has not been determined. The loss is estimated at $30,000. STEAMSHIPS CUSH 111 ST. LAWRENCE RIVER FRIDAY MORNING EMPRESS OF IRELAND BOUND FOR EUROPE IS RAMMED BY COL LIER DURING A DENSE FOG WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERISH—3SOARE RESCUED i — T ♦1,039 LIVES LOST SAYS ♦ ♦ AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ♦ .♦ ♦ !♦ Montreal, May 29.—(Special.) ♦ ♦ —An official statement issued to- ♦ j ♦ night by the Canadian Pacific ♦ ♦ Railway company, owners of the ♦ ♦ ill-fated steamer Empress of Ire- ♦ 1+ land, shows that 1,030 lives were ♦ ♦ lost in the disaster. Three hun- ♦ ♦ dred and thirty-seven persons ♦ ♦ were saved and twenty-two died ♦ ♦ whiie being rescued, according to ♦ ♦ the statement. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Timouski, Que., May 30. —The twin screw Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland, carrying 1,437 persons, pas sengers and crew sank in the darkness before dawn today in the St. Lawrence river, near here with a loss of per haps 1,000 lives. Estimates of the dead vary from 678 to more than 1.100. The vessel, bound from Quebec for Liver pool, with 77 first, 206 second and 504 third class passengers, was cut wide open by the collier Storstad and sank within 20 minutes in nineteen fath j omß of water. Os those saved the majority appear ed to be members of the crew or from the steerage. Many were badly in jured, and 22 died after being picked ; UP . The crash occurred about 2 o’clock this morning off Father Point, Quebec. The collier, bound for Quebec, struck the Empress of Ireland on the port side about the middle of the ship. She literally tore her back almost to the liner's screws, leaving a rent through | which the water poured in auch a del 1 uge that she sank before many of the passengers were aware of what had happened. J Eries wireless calls sent out for help by the Marconi operator were heard ■by the pilot boat Eureka, ten miles ! south, and the Eureka, followed by the I Lady Evelyn, a mail tender, made all speed for the spot. I It was these two boats that found afloat the few lifeboats that were launched from the stricken boat and picked up the survivors these con tained. Three hundred and thirty nine were saved by the Lady Evelyn, j and sixty by the Eureka. Among those saved was Captain H. G. Kendall, of the Empress of Ireland. Most of the first class passengers apparently perished. Among those in the first cabin were Sir Henry Keton, a noted English lawyer; Sir Henry ; Irving and his wife, Mabel Hackney. Os a party of 140 Salvation army mem bers on board only 20 were rescued. They had left Quebec yesterday, bound for the army’s international conference in London. i Nothing in Ship Saved. • So quickly did the Empress sink that those passengers fortunate enough to get into the lifeboats found themselves garbed only in their night clothes. No baggage was saved. The condition of the survivors was pitiable. Some had broken arms and legs and all had suffered terribly. E. Gossetin, a prominent lawyer from Montreal, saving himself by clinging to a raft. When the rescue ships dock |ed here the station platform was con verted into a hospital and the towns people, bringing food and clothing, united in a common effort to aid the sufferers. Twelve bodies with faces covered, lay side by side on the lit tle wharf. They were passengers who had made the liftboats, but who wen fatally hurt. The stricken vessel sank as if she were lead. An explosion apparently originating in her engine room, hast ened her end, and those persons who were able to make their way from . their cabins found themselves on a perilously slanting deck. Many leap ed and were drowned. Others were for tunate enough to grasp driftwood or were picked up by lifeboats. It is ap parent that the great hole torn in the ship's side admitted such a deluge of water that many must have been over come in their beds. I The rescued, fighting their way to the lifeboats from the 'careening deck, clinging desperately to the rails, or leaping blindly overboard, broke arms or legs or otherwise in- BRADLEY GETS HEAVY VERDICT IN DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST THE CENTRAL BY. $6,750 For Injury Sustained in Wreck In Sumter Superior court yester day, Judge W. M. Harper presiding, the case of Bradley versus the Central railway consumed the greater portion of the day. Mr. Bradley, a resident cf Buena Vista, was injured in a wreck on the Central railway on December. 24th, 1912, at a point three or four miles out of Americus. Mr. Bradley sustained severe injur ies including three broken ribs and in ternal injuries, which, he asserts, in capacitates him from work, perma nently. Suit for personad damages in thei sum of SIO,OOO was instituted in the local courts and the case was tried ( yesterday. Judge Littlejohn was in j capacitated, and Judge Harper, of the city court of Americus, presided in his j stead. The jury remained out several | hours, returning a verdict last night for ..6,750. Aboard the same train with Mr. | Bradley were Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Thur man, of Americus, who also sustained very serious personal injuries. BECKER’S FITE IS SEALED; DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR New York, May 29 . —Chas. Becker was today sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison dur ing the week ebeginning Juljf\ 6 for the murder of Herman Rosenthal. When he received sentence Beckr appared calm. He even turned to frinds in the courtroom and smiled. Prior to the sentencing, Martin P. Man ton, Becker’s lawyer, ’ cited ten reasons why death sentence should not be pronounced. He said that an appeal would be filed next Monday. This will act as a stay of execution and a year may elapse before the court of appeals hands down its decision. Becker was taken to Sing Sing ly automobile in the custody of six dep uty sheriffs. BEAVERS AND BROVLES BAN BATHING SLEEVES Atlanta, Ga., May 29. —Two stalwart defenders have come to the aid of Atlanta swimmers who have been told they cannot bathe in Piedmont Park this year without long sleeves on their bathing-suits. The two recruits are no less personages than Judge Nash Broyles, city recorder, and Chief cf Police James L. Beavers. “Os course sleeveless suits are ail right,” said the recorder today. “To the pure all things are pure.” “Sleeves are good protection against sunburn,” declared the chief. “But they're not necessary to preserve decency.” jured themselves so badly that twen ty-two died after being picked up. Groaning and in some cases practi- cally insensible, others were landed j here while the populace of the village gathered with medicines and stimu i iants to relieve their suffering. A secial train was made up this after noon, on which many were taken to Quebec and Montreal. Laurence Irving, son of the late Sir Henry Irving, is among the missing l and other prominent persons in the first cabins are unaccounted for to night. . I THOUSAND FOLltrf ENJOY nrCASIBK-1 MYRTLE SPIHNGS - PICNIC THE GREATEST EYM l Foyal Feast And Good Timi For Kiddies 1 Rarely has an occasion affordeß greater pleasure to so large a nun® 1 her of Americus people, little folks aim grown-ups alike, than did that of yefif terday when the Sunday school • 'MM First Methodist church picnicked- Myrtle Springs, togethe'r with hull dreds of invited guests. A splendfjßt occasion, every moment replete wijjS pleasurable interest —it was an evefß that will be recalled with greatest IkH terest —until another like it co®mJ| next year. r ji The day was ideal for such an oiinl ' ing, and rendered possible the carrJlH ing out of all plans made by the organized committees in charge. Thei* Methodists do'things method-icalljM and their annual picnics, anticipatsjjH with keenest interest by hundreds, &MJM never short of absolute and perfe|ja| success in minutest detail. M Before 8 o’clock a half hundred autf|j| mobiles and huge auto trucks, ( down with merry, light-hearted kli|sfl 1 dfes, were speeding away to MyrSH Springs, and by 9 o’clock nearly I thousand picnickers were asensh®| there. Others came more during the morning hours, and by higL<M noon, the multitude easily reached j|*| numbers the ten century mark. oil Myrtle Springs has been the scelT ffl of hundreds of picnics, but no ious one surpassed in pleasurable tures that of yesterday. Hundreds bathing suits were provided, and solfjH the fine swimming pool was literalllS alive with giggling kiddies who splaslj|j| ed and screamed in unalloyed deligs|Hj Many of the “grown children” coi|l|B not resit the temptation to take a di?JB and many good Methodists thus weyaß down under the wavelets. The dinner, a feast royal in thejfisMii est meaning of the word, was m ■|l at. 12; 30 o'clock, and the cj£ ; viands in superabundance graf BH well-filled tables. Conventionality"NMEif an unknown quantity. It was a ’odist love-feast, which the Baptists ai»,; other brethren enjoyed with eqtaHi gusto, and it may be said in all trtt»|| that a dinner more regal and molfifl abundant has never before spread The Methodist school, and more. pecially the thoroughly organized mittees having the picnic in charPH are, indeed, to be complimented upA® the splendid success of their aamH entertainment, which not only AbrJp church, but Americus, enjoyed to |tfl utmost. - ATLANTA MARK TWAIN TO I RUN FOII RECOiifl - - m Atlanta, Ga., May 29. lbeSKm nouncement of Tom. Goodwin, time candidate for mayor of Atlan*BS that he will run for city recordiilßßi place at the next election has brotiMHli joy to the hearts of the three poral!! reporters from the Atlanta paper A police reporter’s lot is at beef HH hard one, but his one chance for | H|j ting a “runny 11 story each day is corder’s court, where the dry wit|HHj th.- judge in charge always lends ittjHHj to newspaper publicity. Tom Goodwin is a recognized orist, and if he is elected, as highly probable, police reporters |M||| have enough material for a second ition of Mark Twain from the reaCU9H er’i bench. ..jfl 9| - - NUMBED y th l