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MOVEMENT FLUSHED
IN EXPORTING THE
NEGROES TO NORTH
Many Dismount
The Train Early
Sunday
OUTGO BEEN MOVING
OJEBJIX WEEKS
Police Keep U p
The Work On
The Case
The effort of the police to arrest the
party or parties at the head of the
wholesale emigration of negroes to
Connecticut, continues unabated. The
greatest barrier to progress is offered
by the lack of firm evidence.
Reports became current here on
Sunday that a wholesale corralling of
negroes was made early Sunday morn
ing with a large number of arrests.
This proved to be untrue. One negro
vas arrested on the early Sunday
morning Seaboard Air Line train, be
ing charged with a felony in connec
tion with charges preferred by a white
man at Leslie.
A large force of the police, sheriff’s
office and other courthouse officials,
boarded the train here early Sunday
morning in an effort to catch the per
son who is heading the departing ne
groes.
A crowd of negroes estimated at
thirty-three, were put off the train
between the station and the Seaboard
shops by the conductor, as they had
no transportation, nor money to pay
their fare. Others were put off be
tween the shops and Leslie, at various
places.
Some Return Sunday Night.
A number of negroes, said to be over
(ne hundred, proceeded on to Savan
nah, as they held the Sunday Tybee
excursion tickets. It is reported at po
lice headquarters this morning that a
large number of negroes, estimated to
number thirty, returned to the city last
night on the return portion of the ex
cursion tickets. It is said that they
reached Savannah and nobody made
their appearance to take charge of the
further trip—from Savannah to Con
necticut by boat.
Some complaints have reached the
headquarters about the reports of the
efforts of the police being carried to
the parties at the head of the depart
ing negroes. The fact that the officers
were under way Saturday in a search
for the head of the parties of negroes
became known, and late Saturday
night general knowledge of their ef
forts were current on the streets.
Gather For Departure.
Acres of negroes gathered at the
Central of Georgia and Seaboard sta
tions Saturday night and Sunday
morning to pay their farewell to the
departing laborers in search of the
■ land of milk and honey.”
Ti e work of the syndicate through
their agents has not been halted. It
|as been temporarily flushed. Reports
; ie received constantly showing where
the vipers are carrying on their work
.n the rural sections, and the farmers
tre becoming exercised over the mat-
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ter.
The white people are unable to
fathom the reason for the negroes
leaving, under the delusion of high
wages and better times. Reports from
Tennessee and South Carolina have
come back, together with returning ne
groes of the many hardships, low
wages and trials. The fields of Con
necticut are said to be no more il
luminating for the negro. The Times-
■ Recorder has received information
from reliable sources of the failure of
the promised work to mature.
I Savannah is Exercised.
Savannah has nipped the flight and
destroyed the illusion. Americus and
Sumter county allowed the work to go
on without interruption until Saturday.
Six weeks ago the Times-Recorder
carried stories concerning the negroes
‘ leaving for Tennessee, South Carolina
■ and Connecticut. Repeatedly, men
» tion was made of the excursion of th»
> blacks, and, in some instances) of their
return.
It was only last Saturday that the
i police got busy. The movement had
gained momentum and rooted itself by
the free hand with which they work
ed until now. It is possibly more for
i this reason than any other, that the
■ work of catching the agent is made
• harder.
Some Back From North.
One negro who worked with C. H. I
Burke, at the Commercial warehouse, I
i has returned from his visit to Connec
, ticut, having left several weeks ago.
■ He states that he was promised $1.75
a day for work, but was offered only
85c a day when he reached his desti
nation.
Another negro working for Mr.
, Burke, who is now in the north, has
I requested money to pay for his return
[ to Americus.
Many other negroes have returned, >
. and they all tell tales of woe, of trials, ;
i of tribulations, proving the proffers of
good work and high wages to be ,
false.
AMERICUS PLAYS
FIBST GAME FOR
AMATFURHONQRS
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Americus and Albany are playing the
. first game of amateur baseball be- i
i tween the two cities staged in several '
■ years. The game this afternoon is the 1
1 first of a three game series, as the
two games will be played in Americus
on August 24th and 25th when the Con
federate Veterans hold their reunion ;
here. i
Glenn Colby, well known in base- <
bail circles, is piloting the Americus i
crew. Albany has several well known 1
stars in the diamond world, who will ]
bolster their team to good strength.
Several mishaps have occurred to i
Americus players which will affect the, <
front they expected to put up. Tomtny 1
Books has a bad eye which will keep <
him out of the game. ;
But on the whole, Americus will
have a team in the field—which 1b bet- <
ter than we have had. When the two i
games arey layed here, fine games are’i
■ slated. 1 ]
AMERIMSBIKJRffIIROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
j SUFFRAGISTS WHOSE ARGUMENTS HELF CHANGE MR. HUGHES’ OPINIONS
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the ablest, if not the ablest woman in the United States, president of
the National American Woman’s Suffrage association; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, former president, and Mrs.
Norman De R. Whitehouse, chairman of the New York State Woman Suffrage party, were the three whose ar
guments did more to cause Charles E. Hughes to announce himself for federal action on the woman suff
rage question than the work of any others.
Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Whitehouse called on Mr. Hughes in his New York headquarters July 17
and urged him to help the women of the country by giving an endorsement of suffrage, “without any strings
to it.” Mr. Hughes listened to them attentively for more than an hour and at the conclusion of the in
terview assured them that the National Woman Suffrage association be satisfied with his stand on the
suffrage question. The republican candidate’s assurances were lived up to by him both in his recent tele
gram to Senator Sutherland, of Utah, and his speech before the Women’s Roosevelt League at the Astor
Hotel in New York City, on August Ist. -
WILSON HAS THE
RAILROAD CASE
BEFORE HIM NOW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 14.
The railroad managers and brother
hood leaders continued deadlocked in
the negotiations which threaten the
country with a nation-wide railroad
strike early today. The contending in
terests have now laid the case before
President Wilson, but neither side ap
pears to have made such concessions
as will give substantial basis to the
assertion that a strike wil be averted
and the issue amicably settled.
President Giiarrettson, of the Order
of Railway Conductors, outlined to
the president the men s demands for
an eigh't hour day and time and one
salf for over-time. He contended the
demands were fair and reasonable, and
said they should be granted.
President Wilson then pointed out
the gravity of the disaster which must
result from a general strike all over
the United States. He asked the men
to specify what they insisted on, and
a conference lasting two hours was
then commenced.
The president showed surprising
knowledge of the whole situation, and
the men’s side of the controversy, ac
cording to one of the brotherhood
leaders, who said this made his hope
ful of a peaceful settlement. The im
pression seemed to prevail among the
brotherhood representatives late this
afternoon that as a last resort Presi
dent Wilson may ask congress to pass
legislation enforcing an eight-hour day
cn all railroads, thus preventing the
general strike.
After leaving the white house, one
of the brotherhoods leaders character
ized the conference as "most encour
aging,” and declared the outlook for
P’evention of a general strike to be
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the strike vote was taken by the men.
Later an official connected with the
Wilson administration expressed con
flrence in the ability of the president
to avert a strike, and from a source
' known to be in cordial touch with both
I interests in the controversy came the
informal suggestion that the men were
regarding the possibility of submitting
their contentions to arbitration, with
President Wilson as chief arbitrator.
The brotherhoods, it is known, re
main firm in their conviction not to
accept arbitratic a under the New
( lands act, representatives of the un
ions contending it wpuld be impossible
to get an unprejudiced arbitrator un
der provisions of thfts statute.
Representatives of the raiLoads
are in conference with the president at
, the white house thirf afternoon, but at
3.30 o’clock no announcement of prog
ress made or overtures considered had
not been made. The result of the
managers conference, it is expected,
will be published early Tuesday.
In placing the case before Presi
dent Wilson representatives of the
1 fcur brotherhoods presented their side
of the issue first, being followed close
ly by representatives of the railroad
managers. Later it was announced
that president planned to appeal to
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■ IS OPENED in CITY
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i A. Fort Holt, Jr., manager of Hardy
■ & Company, cotton men of Macon,
i will open up a branch of their office in
Americus, and will be located in the
i Bank of Commerce building upstairs,
in quarters directly across the hall
from J. B. Hudson’s officce. Mr. Holt
has been with Hardy & Company for
four or five years, and having left Cor
dele about a year ago, has been in Ma
s con for the past year. Mr. Holt is well
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500 IETERINS TO
ATTEND REUNION
HERE NEXT WEEK
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Five hundred Confederate veterans
are expected to attend the state re
' union in Americus cn August 24th and
2bth, according to the estimate of Com
mander E. A. Nisbet, of A. S. Cutts
Camp, Sons of Veterans, who are hosts
for the occasion.
Americus will entertain the veterans
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in the hospitable homes of the people
of the city. This is a change from
placing the veterans in tents and on
i ccts which has been practiced in many
cities.
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The final plans are being completed
for the events of the gala days of next
week. Confederate veterans, with
, sponsors and maids of honor, and the
, Sons of Veterans, will lend enchant
ment to the city and the occasion.
Extraordinary reduced rates have
I been allowed on railroads in Georgia,
, and besides the veterans there will
be numbers of visitors to come to the
city during the two days of the reun
ion.
The Chero-Cola Co., will furnish
their product at the convention hall
for the veterans with their compli
ments. This contribution was gladly
made by the well known drink peo
ple.
Commander Nisbet and Chairman H.
E. Allen, of the executive committee,
are making their headquarters at the
' Chamber of Commerce. Masses of
correspondence are being handled each
day and when the morning of Thurs
day, August 24th, comes the city will
be primed for the start of the events.
known in Americus, this being his old
home, and he and his company will be
welcomed, and, no doubt, will have a
bright future here.
ALL FRONTS IRE
PRESSING ON THE
TEUTONS SIDES
Brisk fighting continued last night
and throughout today on the French
Italian and Russian fronts in the Eu
ropean war.
The Italians and Russians both re
port a steady continuance of their
drives, the former gaining additional
territory in the direction of Trieste,
and the Slavs forging westward to
ward Lemberg, the Galician capital.
Both Italians and Russians are pun
ishing Austrian armies severely in
their offensives.
The French announces additional
succes along the Somme front in the
west today. Before Verdun German
thrusts last night and early today were
unsuccessful, being repulsed . with
sanguinary losses by the French de
fenders.
Along the British Somme front the
tide of battle has been more favorable
to the Teutons, London dispatches ad
mitting the Germans have re-occupied
trenches near Pozieres, wrested from
them by the British two days ago. The
Germans later were driven out of these
positoins, according to the London
war office, but Sir Douglas Haig's ar
my was unable to score any advance
in that region today.
Austro-Hungarian forces before
Lemberg, under heavy pressure on
both flanks and its center, is believed
to be retreating toward that posi
tion, which itself is said to be none
" too secure.
■ The Italian war office announced at
Rome late today that Italian forces
| commanded by the Duke of Aosti have
pierced a strong Austro-Hungarian
line southeast of Gorizia, capturing
eight hundred prisoners during the
fighting there. Sharp Austro-Hungar
ian thrusts directed against Italian
positions near the Isonzo river today
I were repulsed.
The French continue this afternoon
. pushing their advance on the north
, back of the Somme rapidly to a point
where German evacuation of Clery,
which commands the direct approach
to the Peronne from the northeast may ,
I be compelled.
FLYING MAN WILL
BE IT THE FAIR
OF THE. MIGT
Monte Rolse, the Frenchman with 11
, Lis flying machine, will be in Americus i
for the Third Agricultural District :
fair, October 23rd to 28th, is the an- ,
I'.ouncement of the committee which 1
met Monday morning at the Chamber i
of Commerce.
Rolse will loop-the-loop with his
machine and bombard the countryside
with bombs as in warfare —only no
one will be killed. i
The flying man comes from the i
Young Aeroplane Co., of New York, i
Their factory is at Kansas City, Mo. 1
Rolse will fly four days, of course,
barring accidents and the weather. <
The contract has been closed forl i
the showing of Paine’s fireworks each ) :
night during the fair. This is a sea-!:
ture which will make the district fair ,
widely known and advertised.
The plans for the fair are being i
rapidly developed and brought into
shape. A short time over sixty days
remain before the opening day of the) >
fair.
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V EDITION I
TOXAWAY WATER
IS SWEEPING BN
WAY TO THE SEI
ASHEVILLE. N. C„ Aug. 14.—What
are considered most reliable reports
from Lake Toxaway today are to the
effect that only a portion of the top
of the big dam there broke last night,
and that not all of the five hundred
acres of water Impounded there were
lost There has been no direct com
munication with Lake Toxaway up to
o o clock this afternoon, but reports
from the section below the dam. and
from throughout western North Caro
line show no loss of life has been
sustained anywhere.
Flood Reaches Portman Dam.
ANDERSON, S. C.. Aug. 14.—Water
from the Lake Toxaway dam which
broke Sunday night reached Portman
dam on the Seneca river, ten miles
west of here, at 9:30 o’clock this
morning. This shows the progress of
the flood water to be approximately as
forecast in warning sent out when the
great dam burst.
One hour before reaching Portman
dam, the flood waters struck the
embankment of the Blue Ridge railway
crossing and continued to rise for
some time. This obstruction is now
holding a considerable quantity of the
water in check, but when the inevita
ble break occurs, immense damage
will undoubtedly follow. Thep roperty
loss in this vicinity will be largely in
creased by the Blue Ridge railway em
bankment darning up so large a vol
ume of water, all of which must
very soon rush onward with the rest
cf the flood, but many lives may be
saved because of this temporary
checking of the waters.
Was Strong Structure.
The Lake Toxaway dam, weakened
by the recent floods, broke Sunday
night, sending a great wall of water
down the valley toward western South
Carolina. No lives thus far have been
reported lost, and warnings sent out
from several cities are believed so
have enabled most persons in the path
of the flgod to reach safety.
The lake, an artificial body of wa
ter, was created in 1902 by eastern
capitalists. It covers 550 acres to an
average depth of thirty feet. The (lam,
an eighth of a mile long and fifty feet
high, was completely destroyed. The
town of Lake Toxaway suffered only
minor damage, though the lake was
completely drained.
A message from the railroad tele
graph operator at Toxaway, describ
ing the break of the dam, said a sec
tion of the structure about the size of
I a box car gave way without warning
shortly after 7 o’clock Sunday night,
and that the entire structure quickly
collapsed under the weight of the
thousands of tons of water. One ver
soin of the case of the breaking was
that a small spring had seeped away
the foundation at a heavily pressed
point.
Toxaway is the third and largest of
the lakes in western Carolinas moun
, tains to go out since July 16, when
heavy rains caused serious floods in
that section.
Several years ago cotton mill own
ers whose plants were in the path of
the waters, should they escape, em
ployed engineers to investigate the
safety of the dam. Following the en
gineers’ report, the structure, which
iv built of earth and stone, was
strengthened.
Four weeks ago, during the flood
period, fears for the dam’s safety were
repeatedly expressed, and there were
I several reports that it had collapsed.
NUMBER 193.