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VOL. 11. NO. 16.
El nl SM|IH
Editors Don’t Believe He Can Win
U. S. Senatorship, but That Is
What They Thought When He
Won the S. C. Governorship.
His Enemies Quote His Insults to
High Officials—He Relies Upon
Opponent’s Alleged Defection
From the Party in Bygone Days.
SPARTANBURG, S. C. July 18—
With the election six weeks distant,
indications are, accordirg to opinions
gathered from leading editors at the
annual mesting of the South Carolina
Press Association, that Governor Cole
1.. Blease will rot succeed in his at
tempt to wrest from Senator Ellison
Durant Smith the latter’s ‘seat in th
United States Senate.
Governor Blease and his principal
lieutenants will not concede, however,
that he is any weaker now than two
vears ago, when in the face cf ap
parently the most formidable opposi
tion ever encountered by any candi
date'in this State he was re-elected
Governor by a majority of 3,329 votes |
out of 140,757 votes cast. ‘
As was the case two years azo,
Blease is being opoosed by all the
dally newspapers in the State, most
of the weekiies, most of the clergy
men and by Senator Benjamin R.
Ti{llman, former Governor John Gary
Fvans and other politicians who were
influential before Blease came into
power.
Smith a Favorite. |
Blease, Smith and two other aspir
ants for the toga, W. P. Pollock and
L. D. Jennings, have delivered cam
paign speeches jointly at nearly half
of the county seats of the State and
will visit the others before the elec
tion. The enthusias‘uc reception given
Senator Smith by the farmers, who
credit him with having raised the
price of cotton by his bills to regulate
the New York Cotton Exchange and
to abolish trading in cotton futures,
has led observers to believe that Gov
ernor Blease will lose many of the
votes he formerly received from the
rural folk.
New rules for the srimary election,
adopted by the Democratic State con
vention, the delegates of which were
overwhelmingly opposed to Governor
Blease, will have the practical effect,
it is said, of disfranchising many of
Governor Blease's followers, especial
iy among the cotton mill workers.
Personal registration is a new rTe
quirement. The textile workers poil
about 35,000 votes, practically all of
which are conceded ‘o Blease.
May Bar Opponents, Too.
Governor Blease's lleutenants are
hopeful that the new rules will dis
qualify as voters as many of his op
ponents as adherents,
Governor Blease's campaign
speeches are principally attacks on
the record of Senator Smith. His
principal charges are that Senator
Smith was a member of the Haekell
convention of the early nineties,
which bolted the regular Democratic
party after the nomination of B. R.
Tillman as Governor, and that Smith,
at another perlod in his career, voted
in favor of a measure providing for
the payment of $2,000 indemnity by
the State to the family of a lynched
negro. Blease Is also excoriating
Senator Smith for his failure to drive
negro officeholders out of the employ
of the Federal Government.
Bitter Attacks Made.
Pollock and Jennings are making
terrific attacks on Blease, harping
day after day on the fact that he has
liberated more than 1,200 convicts;
that he appointed “Jim” Sottile, of
Charleston, the so-called “Dago king
of the blind tigers,” on his staff, in
stead of a native-born South Caro
linan: that he made charges against
Dr. Eleanora B. Saunders, a young
woman, which a committee of the
Legislature found to be without foun
dation, and that he has insulted Sec
retary of War Lindley M. Garrison by
calling him “a pug-nosed Yankee;”
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
lels by calling him “a peanut politi
cian,” and Senator John W. Kern by
g:gii:ga ‘\:nmm“that big Yankee from
vy ease has so far ignored
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SUNDAY:: TiF LAS E i RICAN
0 P lom oo} ;
S eeSyVNAN B e s
Easy to Go to Hell
Or to Heaven Now
But Delaware Churchfolk Are Going
to Change Names of Towns a
Century Old. ‘
HARRINGTON, DEL.. July 18.—1
Placed under the ban by church people,
Little Heaven and Little Hell, two Del
aware towns, soon will lose their ap
pellations. The churchfolk have decid
ed the names are profane and have be
gun a movement to have them changed.
The two towns are within half a mile
of each other on the road leading to
Bower's Beach. Veteran residents de
clare they were named nearly a cen
tury ago when a party of excursionists
was attacked while en route to the
Delaware Bay shore.
As they arrived in one of the cross
road towns a member of the party ex
claimed: ‘‘This is little hell!" referring
to his state of mind occasioned by the
attack. Further along the road the
fighting subsided and they declared it
was ‘little heaven,” -compared to the
first village. -
Although they do not appear in the
list of postoffices, mall addressed either
to Little Heaven or Little Hell is sure
of reaching its destination.
Insists Middies M
nsists Miadies May
Carry Girls' Parasols
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Holding
that gallantry is an inalienable right
in every male citizen, Representative
Britten, of Illinois, protests against
a Naval Academy regulation prohib
tting cadets from carrying suit cases
or parasols of girl visitors.
He appealed to-day by letter to
Secretary Daniels to have the order
countermanded. If the Secretary will
not do sp, Mr. Britten, who is a
member of the House Naval Affalrs
Committee, proposes to make some
legislative move in the matter.
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Aerial Tramway Over
The Whirlpool I{apids
TORONTO, July 18.—X Spanish
company, incorporated at Bilboa,
Spain, with €anadian headquarters in
Toronto, has obtained concessions
from the Niagara Falls Power Com
mission to construct and operate an
aerial tramway across the whirlpool
rapids at Niagara Falls.
The span across the gorge will be
1,180 feet, the longest of its kind in
the world, and will be utilized for
passenger traffic. The car will be
suspended by six huge cables.
Kissless Kiss Kisses
~ Wife in Peace Kiss
TRENTON, N. Jj., July 18.—The mari
tal troubles of Stephen and Laura Kiss
have been settied by a kiss, and the
couple will live together again.
A year ago the wife brought suit for
divorce, and the husband notifiéd her a
few days ago that he would rather face
anything than a court of chancery.
Then they decided to patch up their dif
ferences.
Mrs. Kiss left her husband soon after
he returned from a trip to Europe. She
charged him with non-support and
cruelty.
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Policemen Musn't
Even Pick Teeth
SPRINGFIELD, MO., July 18.—Mem
bers of Springfield’'s police force must
pick their teeth and do their smoking
at home as a result of an order just
made by Chief of Police Thomas Hun
ter.
He has instructed the forty men that
being seen smoking or picking teefh
while on duty will be sufficient cause
for suspension. He told them that
either practice is beneath a policeman's
dignity.
‘Ad’ Brings Man 9,000
rn}gs an v,
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Miles to ‘Stutter’ Cure
INDIANAPOLIS, July 18.—Frank Ley
land, of Auckland, New Zealand, has
arrived in Indianapolis, to be cured nr|
stuttering by a local institute for stam.
merers,
He traveled 9,000 miles and the trip
required twenty-seven days of continu
ous travel. Mr. Leyland heard of the
local institute through a newspaper ad
vertisement.
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@irl Charges Attack
.
By Naval Lieutenant
SEATTLE, July 18.—Miss Lulu Free
burger, a booßkeeper, to-day filed a
suit against Lieutenant James P. Old
ing, of the United States navy, charg
ing that he forced unwelcome atten
tions upon her and finally, on July 30
;lasl, attacked her. Lteutenant Olding
ig a married man, living with his family
{m Denny way, this city.
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Protection by Law
|
~ Sought for Calves
. WASHINGTON, July 18.—Interstate
‘transportminn of immature calves will
be illegal if a bill introduced in the
House to-day by Representative Carey,
of Wisconsin. becomes law. Carey ve
lieves that the beef supply would be
conserved if fewer calves were slaugh
tered.
(Copyright, 1913, b;
The Jwr{ihan Compu’m
Introduced by Letter, He Courtedl
Sweetheart of 74 12 Months, ‘
Met First.at Ceremony. %
EXCHANGED NO PICTURES
Aged Couple Have No Idea of
Each Other's -Appearance Un
til Day of Marriage.
DENVER, COLO., July 18.—Fred
erick J. Stanton, 88, has just mffarried
here Mrs. Eliza Johnson, 74. -They
had’ never seen each other until the
day of the ceremony. They carried
on a courtship for twelve months by
mail. They were introduced to each
other by letter, and never even ex
changed photographs. :
Stanton has been a constant resi
dent of this city for 54 years. He isa
professor of chemistry in the Denver
School of Mines and holds iand and
real estate throughout Colorado: and
Wyoming. He has been prominent in
politics, and is actively engaged In
the lodge work of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. i
His 74-year-old bride was a resi
dent of Ames, lowa.
A year ago Professor Stanton was
corresponding wWith Mrs. Lucile Tay
lor, a widow living in Casper, Wyo.
It was at her suggestion and through
an introduction by letter that he
started to write to his present wife,
Soon, however, his letters began to
go more frequently to lowa than to
Wyoming. His letters to lowa in
creased in volume and length, and he
recelved as many as he sent.
| Then the professor proposed mar
riage to the ‘“Widow of Ameés.” She
answered with a desirable monosyl
lable, and agreed to come to Deénver
for the marriage.
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Debs Catches Train
'
By Using Aeroplane
SANDUSKY, July 18.—When late this
evening, he concluded an address at
Cedar Point, where 1,000 Northern Ohio
Socialists assembled for a rally to-day,
Eugene V. Debs, several times a candi
date for President of the United States,
had 11 minutes in which to catch a train
for his home at Terre Hauté, Thd.
Nearly four miles of water and a mile
of land laid between him and the rail
way station. Accepting an invitation
extended by aviator Toby Jannus, who
had just pulled ashore after a flight
from Put-in-Bay, Debs got into Jan
nus' aeroplane, and five minutes later
was in Sandusky.
An automobile conveyed him te the
railroad station. »
Kansas Has 1 Auto
For Each 8 Families
TOPEKA, KANS., July 18.—There
will be a motor car for every family in
this State by June 1, 1918, if Kansans
continue to buv automobiles at the rate
they bought them last year, according
to Charles H. Sessions, Secretary of
State,
In a report just issued he shows that
there are now 39,889 cars and 7,430 mo
toreycles carrying State licenses in
Kansas.
“This means approximately one car to
every eight families,”” Mr. Sessions said.
‘““A year ago there was one for every
ten familles, At the present rate of
buying, in 1918 there will be an average
of one motor car to every.family.”
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Extradited on Charge
. |
0f Embezzling Snakes
SCRANTON, PA. July 18.—John
B. Miller, alias “Rattlesnake Bill,
formerly of Pike County, has be2n
brought baek from Baltimore to an
swer to a charge of “embezzling” a
box of rattlesnakes.
“Rattlesnake Bill” occupied a win
dow in a drug store surrounded by a
nest of rattlers demonstrdting the use
of snake oil for curing rheumatism.
Both “Bill” and snakes were missing
when the store opened the following
day, and the police were notified.
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Candidates to Bar
T t' i C ’
reating inCampaign
MARYVILLE, CAL., July 18.—The fa
mous election cigar and the stimulating
campalign drinks are a matter of his
tory in Sutter County as at a joint
meeting of the Sutter County and Dem
ocratic and Republican Central Commit
tees the candidates were urged to re
frain from treating their constituents.
As a result, a campaign which in the
Ipan vears cost a candidate anywhere
| from $l,OOO to $2,000 wil be made for
‘lul than $lOO,
ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, 19, 1914
.
‘Whisky Sundaes’ to
Beat State Dry Law
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Topers Order ‘“the Same” at Drug
Stores lin West Virginia—
Get Liquor, "
WHEELING, W. VA, July 18—
Whisky sundaes are the latest inno
vations in some progressive drug
stores of West Virginia. Known lov
efs of liquor are seen eating ice
cream frequently in certain drug
stores. The method, it is sald, is to
wink at the drug clerk and order “the
same.”
Instead of the usual syrup, whisky
{s the dressing. The new sundaes re
semble eggnog, and are filling a long
felt want in sections of arid West
Virginia.
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Missing Son Found
‘ .
By Vera Cruz Picture
PANA, ILJL., July 18.—A naval ple
ture of men loading rifles on the battle.
ship Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
which was published in a local news
paper, has resulted in the location of
’Waner W. Rench by his parents, after
he had been missing for more than five
years.
Mr. and Mrs. Rench took up cor
respondence with the Navy Department
and officials are now in correspondence
with officers of the Florida in Vera
Cruz Harbor, in an effort to bring par
‘ ents and son together once more. When
he enlisted Rench gave an assumed
l name,
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Woman Convict Costs
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State $6OO a Month
R |
OSSINING, N. Y., July 18.—Three
women attendants and three male
guards are provided by the State for
Mrs. Modeline Perrola, of the Bronx,
the convicted murderess, who occu
pies the room in Sing Sing Prison
once occupied by former Principal
Keeper Connaughton, which over
looks the cellhouse. She costs the
State $6OO a month.
One of the women is a cook. The
other two women are instructing
Mrs. Perrola in English and teachinz
her the alphabet.
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$30,000 Yacht Won
’ By Toss of a Dime
| DETROIT, July 18.—John F. Dodge
and Horace E. Dodge, milionaires, were
iJolnt owners of the $30,000 yacht Hornel
‘uptil the other day, when they were
Icross!ng Lake Erie on her. Horace
'Dodge recently built ¢ new yacht cost
ing nearly a quarter of a million, but
he did not propose to give the Hornel
away.
The brothers discussed for some time
‘tha amount John should pay for his
‘brmhers' interest. Presently Horace
‘nid: ‘“‘Let’'s toss a coin, the winner
to take the boat.” John weén.
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Dentists Are Nearer
Real Painless Chair
ROCHESTER, July 18.—Extraction
and treatment of teeth without the
slightest pain {s the goal sought by
American dentists. At the free clin
fes held in connection with the eight
enth annual convention of the Amer
jcan Dental Association progress
along this line has been demonstrated,
experts using a mixtise of gas and
oxygen, which deadens all paln whiie
leaving the patient wholly conscious.
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Twins Are Born in
.
Different Months
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO, July 18.
Twins were born to Mrs. Louis Bos
ton on different days and in different
months. A girl baby arrived shortly
before midnight, Tuesday, June 30. A
few minutes after 12, on the morning
of July 1, a sister came. |
Inquiry to-day at the Boston home
revealed that the two Misses Boston
show promise of long, vociferous
lives.
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Cigarettes Barred
.
From Harvest Fields
OBERLIN, KANS., July 18.——Cigarette
smokers found no haven on the big
farm of George Ames, near Oberlin. He
says:
“The man who spends half his time
rolling cigarettes and the other half
smoking and expects to draw $2 a day
will be summarily kicked out. We want
real men in harvest, and will pay all
they are worth, We will take no chances
on having our entire crop burned up by
careless help.”
.
Forest Fire Started
.
By Cigarette Stub
BANNING, July 18.—After an all-day
fight, forest fire recruits finally put un
der control a blaze near Cabazan at the
foot of Mt. San Jacinto. The fire start
ed in the dry brush from a cigarette
stub and burned fiercely for 24 hours,
threatening the water supply of the
Banning Ingdian reservation. |
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On Wager, Woman Weighing 130
Tries to Hoist 300-Pound
Neighbor by Pulley.
POLICE FEAR IT IS RIOT
o i
But the Noise Is Only the Stout
Lady Crashing to the Floor.
Ankle Broken. |
NEW YORK, July 18.—As the re
sult of a small wager yesterday aft
ernoon, Mrs. Elizabeth Weir, 42 years
old, of No. 12 Vine street, Brnoklyn.‘
who tips the scales at 300 pounds, Is
in the Long Island College Hospltali
suffering from compound fracture "fi
the ankle and probable Internal inju- |
ries. |
From what the police of the Poplar
street station could learn, Mrs. Weir
and Mrs. Mary Flynn, 30 years old, of
No. 5 Vine street, had a discussion
over their relative strength. (Mrs.
Flynn weighs 130 pounds.) They de
‘cided to hoist each other in turns up
a rope attached to a pulley.
Mrs. Flynn and Mrs. Weir entered
a stable near their homes, formerly
occupied by the police of the old low
‘er Fulton street station as a garage
for their auto patrol wagon. Mrs.
Weir was the first and last of the
‘dlspumnts to bLe hoisted. She had
risen ten feet above the ground when
Mrs. Flynn lost her grip.
When Patrolman Conway, of the
Poplar street station, entered the
Station in Tresponse .to what he
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Adele Blood,
whose suit for
divoree is com
plicated and
made sensa
tional by strong
hints that Gov
ernor Earl
Brewer of Mis
sissippi 1s inter
ested in its sue
cessful outcome.
thought was a full-sized riot, he
found Mrs. Welir in a heap on the
floor and Mrs. Flynn bewailing the
Four that she ever made a bet. Mrs.
Flynn accompanied her injured com
panion to the hospital and prpmlsed
to visit her every blessed day.
Why Do Bald Heads
Make Best Husbands?
WINSTED, CONN,, July 18—The pub
licity committee of the Baid Head Club
of America, which holds its next ban
quet here October 29, {8 seeking inform
ation on “Why do bald heads make the
best husbands?’ All replies should be
malled to the Bald Head Editor, Win
sted.
A woman writes:
“My husband {s not bald headed, and
no woman could ask for a beter hus
band than I have.
“But I have a bald headed brother-in
law, and my sisters assures me con
fidentially that he is conceited and
thinks more of his own personal appear
ance and comfort than he does of hers.
My answer to your question, ‘Why do
bald heads make the best husbands?”
is ‘because they don't.’ "
6 Inches of Floor to
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Yield $2,000 Radium
MINNEAPOLIS, July 18.—A piece of
floor six inches square was removed
from one of the rooms in a local hotel
to-day and forwarded to Philadelphia,
where it will be assayed for radiam.
The hotel is not a newly discovered rad
ium mine. .
Dr. Samuel S. Holton, a radium spe
clalist, recently dropped about $2.000
worth on the floor, and the only way of
saving it was to take up the fioor and
send it to the laboratory
Actress’ Divorce Suit Is Tangled
Gov. Brewer Said To. Be Interested
His Detective Active in the Case
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Husband Threatens to Sue Executive for Dam
ages, on Charge of Alienation.
NEW YORK, July 18. —The divorce
suit of an actress against an acior
husband rarely causes more than a
passing ripple of interest in this
town. But when the referee in the
case becomes obsessed with the idea
that a Governor of one of these United
States has interested himself in be
half of the actress' sult—why, then,
the most blase of newspaper readers
18 likely to sit up andsbegin to notice
things. A
Adele Blood is theg actress. Ed
ward Davis is the husband. Freder.®
C. Leubuscher is the refereey
And Earl Brewer, of Mississippi, Is
the Governor. :
The hearing, which is to be resumed
August 9, at present is in a tangle
that would have delighted the soul of
the contemplative Dr. Watson, as of
fering a new problem for the incisive
brain of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
_The Complications.
AnotHer divorce complicates the
case. A certain stage director, Fred
erick Esmelton Bryant, has brought
suit against his wife, Julie Power,
naming Davis, and thus supplying
Miss Blood with additional ammuni
tion in her own case against Davis.
Here is the circumstance that in
duces the referee to believe that Gov
ernor Brewer is concerned.
Ira Sample, a private detective, and
said to *be “confidential agent” of
Governor Brewer, gratuitously
scraped together a mass of evidence
concerning Davis’ alleged misdoings,
and offered the same to Miss Blood,
by way of making things easy for her
in obtaining a divorce from her hus
band.
This same Sample, also gratuitous.
EXTRA
ly, “promoted” the divorce suit of
'Miss Power against Bryant, at the
| same time lugging in the name of Da
vis; all of which tended directly to
‘aid Miss Blood in her suit against
him.
Brewer Saw Her Act.
And all this took place not very
long after the GGovernor of Mississippi
]sm. in the guest box at the Century
Theater at Jackson, Miss, and
watched Miss Blood in the star role
of “Everywoman.”
) Two statements, both attributed to
lSample, made to Harry B. Bradbury,
a lawyer connected with the case,
'.re supposed to be the principal rea
'sons for Referee Leubuscher’s sugpi
| cions.
Bradbury declared that Sample had
informed him that he (Sample) had
got into the case “because he was in
terested with the Governor of Mis
sigsippi, and that Davis and the Gov
ernor of Mississippi had something
tcgether whigh made Davis a valua
ble man and made Sample a valua
ble man to the Governor of Missis
sippi.” 2
Bradbury also told the referee at
one of the hearings that Sample had
informed him that the Governor
“held a grudge against Davis,” and
that he (Sample; was “out to square
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Husband Asks Damages.
Davis said last night at the Hotel
Flanders, No. 135 West Forty-seventh
street, that he intends bringing suit
against Governor Earl Brewer of Mis
sigsippi for alienation of the affec
tions of his wife. He did not state
what amount he will ask, declaring!
money is not his object,
“Heart Sickened at Shedding of
Blood That Silly Dog F=ncier
Might Wear a Crown,” Says U.
S. Envoy Who Resigned Place.
Accepts Mr. Hearst's Offer to Fx
pose “Conspiracy of Silence”
by European Press While De
fenseless Nation Is Ravaged.
In response to a cablegram asking
for a statement of the situation
which led him to denounce the “mur
derous government” of Prince Wil
liam of Wied, “King of Albania,” The
Sunday American has received the
following :
By GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS.
Who Recently Resigned as American
Minister to Greece and Montenegro.
Speclal Cable to The American.
ATHBNS, July 18,—As Mr. Hearst
was the first American editor to offer
the columns of his newspapers to
help the freedom of Albania, T accept
the <Zer to make a statement of the
case.
1 accept more readily hecause the
Furopean press is in a conspiracy of
‘silence. Great journals in Germany,
Italy and Austria suppressed my ar
ticle, but are now featuring the false
hood thet I resigned at the request
;ot President yVUson.
| Appeals to Americans.
Pven The London Times joins in
this game. These papers publish col
umns on the murder of Prince Franz
Ferdinand of Austria, while they re
fuse to expcse the murder of an in
nocent people by a German Prince
supported by Europe. 3
Hence 1 gladly appeal to the lib
erty-loving people of America.
Albania is a country of mountains
and fertile valleys on the Adriatic
Sea. Its people are shepherds and
farmers, simple and honest. They
are largely Mohammedan, though,
even in religion, they long ago broke
loose from Turkish control. There
are Catholic Christians in the north,
Greek Christians in the South, where
fn Epirus, of Greek blood, is domi
nant.
When at the end of the Graeco-
Turkish war the six great Powers
‘undertook delimitation of the con
‘quered territory, Albania was carved
;out from Montenegro to the Greek
‘line. The London accord declaréd
‘Alba.nia to be a principality whose
sovereignty and neutrality was guar
anteed by the six Great Powers.
The controlling influences in this
‘arrangement were Italy and Aus
tria, which wished to keep Servia and
‘Greece from Adriatic ports.
A commission of international con
trol, generally called C. L C,, consist
ing of Consuls from the six great
Powers, was created to establish a
government and was intrusted to
control administrative and filnancial
affairs. These officers were empow
ered to control the gendarmerie or
police force.
| William of Wied.
The Powers searched for a Prince
and filnally fixed upon one Wied, a
German major of Uhlans, related to
tne German Roumanian royalty.
Through its alliance with Roumania
the Greek Government was induced
to pledge its influence to support
Wied.
Then began a farce of govérnment
which would be the funniest exhibi
tion of international incompetency in
the history of diplomacy had it neot
been turned into tragedy. e
Essed Pasha, a local m: g
to Germany and ostentatiously ten
dered the rule of Albania to Wied.
He had the same right to present
Albania to Wied that the Mayor of
Schenectady would have to dispose of
New York State.
Wied came to Valona or Avolan,
an Albanian seaport, and demanded
a reception of g&reat pomp. ‘The
C. I. C. made preparations, but was
promptly snubbed by the Prince’s
chamberlain, The Prince treated the
C. I, C. with contempt and appointed
a ministry consisting of landlords,
pashas and beys. »
People Not Consulted,
Three points should be noted here:
Pirst, the people of Albania were not