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VOL. XVII
WILSON, GREATER THAN EVER, LEAVES FOR
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After paving the way for the sale
of 10,000 bales of Georgia cotton to
the new Czecho-Slav republic, and
arousing the National Food Admin
istration to &' probe of alleged dis
crimination against Georgia farm
ers by hog buyers, Lem B. Jackson,
director of the State Market Bu
reaw;, left Washington Friday night
for Atlanta. He is expected here late
Saturday.
Mr. Jackson arranged for the sale
o 1 about $1,500,000 worth of Georgia
cotton to the Czecho-Slavs through
Charles Pergler, American commis
sioner to the new republic. He went
o see Mr. Pergler concerning the
cotton requirements of his country
men and was informed that a pur
chase of 10,000 bales was contem
plated. Pergler agreed to cable to
his country at once for further de
tails and then to come to Atlanta for
final negotiations. <
Mr. Jackson expects no trouble in
eccuring the export license and put
ting the deal through. Therefore he
pians to locate the cotton needed as
soon as he gets back to this city.
Another matter to be taken up by
the market director upon his arrival
home will be a thorough investiga
tion of the Georgia hog market. He
rerorted to Chief Snyder.n{ the meat
division of the food administration,
that at an auction sale at Valdosta
No. 1 hogs brought only 11 1-8 cents
in the face of the Government's sta
bilizing price of 17 1-2 cents. Allow
ing the 2-cent dmeronua% which the
trade has established against peanut
fed hogs in favor of corn fed logs,
Jackson claims that the prices being
paid in Georgia are too low. He is
rot willing to admit that peanut fed
hogs should be so penalized, but
waiving that, he still contends that
Georgia farmers are discriminated
agaiinst by hog buyers. Consumers,
he says, are charged the same price
fo:s pork, whether it be the peanut
or corn variety,
Jackson has been instructed by the
food administration to look into the
matter thoreughly to ascertain wheth
€. the buyers in Georgia are not
taking excess profits, and to report
to Washington. If conditions warrant,
the whole matter may be referred
w the Federal Trade Commission for
Investigation and action.
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(rlass Says Congress
. .
Should Aid Railways
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—1 f Congress
ils to provide the appropriation of
/.W,OOO,'\OO requested by Director Gen
pral Hines to add to the $500,000,000 al
ready provided as a revolving fund for
the raillways under Federal control, the
effect will be distressing, Secretary of
the Treasury Glass told the House ap
propriations commitiee during its hear
mgs on the hill, it is learned.
“If the railways are compelled to go
to the open market for the money they
nay need-—-probably SI,OOO 000,000-{t
would have a disturbing effect upon the
pext, and I hope the last, Liberty Loan,
\nd it may have a very distressbng and
Inmorultzln& effegt on business gener-
Mly,” the Secretary declared,
A bill embodytnfi the request will be
presented to the House,
ety
More Army Units Are
Scheduled for Return
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, ¥eb, 15~The fol
owing units of the American expedi
fonary forces have been assigned to
arly return to the United States, the
war Department announced today.
Bivacuation Hospital No, 1, Eighth
{quadron, base hospitals Nos. 29 and
7. and photograpnic sections of the
vr service, Nos, 17 and 23,
Full International News Servitge
.
Thirty Georgia editors, tepressnting‘
the principal weeklies and smaller
cailies in the State, were in aeuloz‘lj
Saturday at the Hotel Ansley to torm‘
an organization for increasing the‘
volume of foreign advertising in their:
papers and all other reputable pa.pers‘
of Georgia. ) ‘
The editors organized / the Select
Newspaper Association of Georgia
and elected the following officers: \
Tassavant Is Head. |
O. W. Tassavant, of Newnan, pres
ident; Otis A. Brumby, of Marietta,
vice president; Gordon Chapman, of
Sandersville, secretary-ireasurer, and
J. Kelly Simmens, of Mcßae; Ernest
Camp, of Monroe, and Isadore Gel
ders, of Fitzgerald, directors.
At.noon the newspaper men were
entertained at a luncheon in the
Ansley by teh State Automobile As
sociation. W. Tom Winn addressed
them on the geed of better highways
in Georgia.
The meeting was called by Paul T.
Harber. of The Commerce Observer,
president of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation, but he stated at the beginning
that it was not strictly a meeting of
that asdociation. It was called to
form a distinet organization, for busi
ness only, and was lntendwdl to em
brace all the pap:l‘s in Georgla which
desire to avail themselves of the ben
efits of co-operation. Mr. Harber said
that letters from many editors unable
to attend the meeting indicated their
readiness to abide by any action it
might take,
Want Definite Information.
“The big advertising agencies want
definite information, and we must
equip ourselves to furnish it,” ex
plained Mr. Harber, “They want to
know about the population in our
counties, the type of people, thelr
ability to buy advertised products,
They want statistics of a varied na
ture. There is no way for them to get |
this information n>w. |
“The advertising agencies and tho‘
Lig foreign advertisers are looking
for good newspapers which will fill
thelr wants and sell their goods. That
we have not had our share of this
business before now is largely be
caise we have rot met tle agencies
halfway. We have not gone after
their business, but have waited for it
to come to us. By working together
we can obtain a much larger share of
the big foreign advertising appropria
tions for all the good papers in Geor
gla.”
Many Editors Present.
Many of the most widely known
editors and newspaper owners In
Georgia were at the meeting. The Hst
included Errest Camp, of The Walton
Tribune; Ed A, Caidwell, of The \Vfl]—l
ton News, both of Monroe; Josephus |
Camp, of The Metter Advertiser; J.
W. McWhorter, of The Vidalia Ad
vance; Jack Patterson, of Covington;
C. D. Rountree, of The Wrightsville
HeadlightM Ralph Meeks, of Carroll
ton; R. B, Moore, of The Milledgeville
['nion Recorder, Isadore (elders, of
The Fitzgerald l,end(-r‘En!m'pri!e;
Jack O, McCartney, The Rome Trib
une-Herald, Gordon Chapman, the
Sandersvilie Progress; J. W. Mar
cock, of Lawrenceville; Callaway, of
The Eatonton Mesgeager; David Com
fort, of The Marietta Journal-Cour
ser; O. W, Passevant, of The Newnan
Herald; Hargraves, of The Thomas
ville Times-“nterprise; John Jones,
of The LaGrange Reporter; J. J. Har
vard, of The Hawkinsville Dispatch
and News, and Miss Emily Wood
ward, editor and owner of The Vienna
News, the only woman editor attend
ing the mecting. There were several
vititors, representing various lines of
businesses connected with the news-
Faper business.
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SAVANNAH, Feb, 156.—The fire god
has wreaked vengeance on Savannah
within the past twelve hours. Fol
lowing the 8. A. L. and Southern
Fertilizer and Chemical disaster yes
terday afternoon, half of a city block
at Habersham and Thirty-first was
wrecked by fire this morning. Six
frame houses were ruined by fire and
water, entailing losses aggregating
more than $50,000, One fireman was
badly injured, though probably not
fatally.
At the same time Savannah was
threatened 'with another Yamacraw
disaster such s visited the city sev
eral years ago. A blaze broke out on
Farm street in rdonsely populated
and Inaccessible €ection. Tt wasiex
tinguished with great difficulty, 'A
small flre occurred In Collinsville,
with small loss, this morning. During
the night the Aimar Woodyards suf
fered a serious fire, with SIO,OOO loss.
Two More Fires.
While the flames raged on the ter.
minals yesterday, two fires of minor
importance broke out In the city and
one near the city. A near-gale is
sweeping Savannah today, and the
fire-fighting forces are very anxious
ly awaiting possible calls with every
passing moment,
Included in the cotton losses by the
fire in the 8, A. L. wharves was a
solid train of 28 cars of Louisiana
and Texas cotton which arrived ¥ri
day morning fust in time to be placed.
The staple had not been removed
from the cars, but circumstances pre
vented the moving of the train. Ni
trate losses include three shiploads of
material which had just been dis
charged on the 8. A, L. plers. This is
valued around 380 per ton. 8. A, L.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1919
officials stood on their burning piers
as the fire progressed and offered city
literage firms any amount of money
they might demand for liters to
transport from the city to the island
pumps and engines of the city fire
department, .
Only One Pump Working.
Other efforts were made to procure
city fire engines to use both on the is
land and on lighters, moving them
about on lighters with tugs as regular
firehoats, An inspection of the situa.
tion this morning by S. A. L. officlals
showed that at the time the fire broke
out in their wharves there was steam
in enly one pump of the fire system,
Three other big pumps lay idle while
the flames spread from pler to pler,
swept onward under a light gale. A
huge electric pump, the largest thing
;bf its kind on the terminals, lay idle
during the conflagration because it
was wired overhead @nd the first fire
in the fertilizer plant broke its con
nections. The pump and its fireproof
housing stand intact now.
Late into the night Savannah, to
the farthermost limits, glowed with
the glare of the wharves, thousands
of bales of cotton and thousands of
barrels of naval stores, Throngs spent
half the night on the river front
watching the flames. Later the smoke
settled down hoavllfiy all over the city,
Threatened Entire Plant.
The fire originated in the fertilizer
plent of the Southern Fertilizer and
Chemical Company and early theeat
ened the entire plant, including the
chemical secticn, the huge Seaboard
Alr Line wharves, on which were
thousands of hales of cotton and
many thousands of barrels of naval
Continued on Page 2, Column 5, |
/AL LION AND
CLUBNIAN 1
BLIND Pl
EXPERT
Marvelous Invenfive Genius Is
Disclosed in Arrest of H.
Kelso Hailey.
~ CHATTANNOGA, Feb. 15.—Chat
‘tanooga is in a mixed state of mind
today. Developments following the
arrest of H. Kelso Hailey, one of her
foremost citizens, is responsible tor‘
this peculiar situation. |
1 In a sense it may be said that Chat
}mnooga is pained, pleased; chagrined,
charmed. In sections of the city—
‘not to mention H. Kelso Hailey him
self—there is pain over the fact that
80 prominent a member of the club
and social life of the city should
have come under the heavy hand of
the law. In the same section, how
ever, is profound pleasure in the dis
covery that this same H. Kelso Hai
ley’s name may go down in history
as one of the inventive geniuses of
the times.
‘ Chagrined and Charmed.
In other quarters there is chagrin
—born of the knowledge gleaned
only this morning that the mian who
has been made the associate of the
wlite at social and other functions is
unworthy. In the same breath it
may be said that the chagrrined also
are charmed-—charmed with the skill
of the man who but a day or two
ago was a close and welcomed asso
‘ciate and who today is credited with
‘mechanical finesse such as has not
‘been known before.
The mixed feelings of Chattanooga
come of the discovery upon close in
vestigation late yesterday afternodn
of one of the most perfect, most effi
‘;cient, most baffling and most pro
ductive illicit whisky distilling plants
‘yet found in the Southern Btates‘
by the revenue officers. The “still”
was located in the basement of one‘
of Chattanooga’s most respectable
downtown apartment houses-—the‘
property of H. Kelso Halley.
Pursued Ideals.
In the erection of the Altmore
apartments, which he owned, H. Kelso
Hailey indulged the pursuit of ideals.
Later, taking advantage of the idealg,
he apparently indulged the pursuit of
the plenty—for, be it known that H,
Kelso had developed an inordinate
desire for dollars and hai paved the
way to get them at the rate of some
thing more than $2,000 a day. ‘
Official investigation of the lower
regions of the Altmore has disclosed
that hidden away in the labyrinthian
passages belowstairs Is a confplete,
unigue distilling plant, capable of
turning out 100 galions of joy juice
each 24 hours. Cleverness in cover
ing the tell-tale characteristics of
making moonshine has enabled the
owner of the Altmore to evade cap
ture for something more than a year
--and to pile up wet wealth mean
while, ‘
Distillery* Is Unique. |
Hidden in secret passages, operated
by the waste steam from the heating
plant of the apsrtments and covered
with electrically operated exhaust
fans, were found the worm and vate,
In other secret recesses was disclosed
an electrically driven corn grinder
#nd the other appurtenances neces
sary to the brewing of the mash,
These, too, were carefully, even cun
vingly, designed with a view to turn
ing nrises into silence and vociferous
odors into the smell of coal smoke,
Hailey had so managed the ventila
ton of his basement distillery as to
exhaust the fumes of the various
operations of whisky making into the
tall smokestack of the apartment
heating plant and thus, releasing the
fumes high above the city, defy the
most crafty revenuer wh se nose
knows—and follows the trail, |
Search for Product.
Officers today are searching be
neath the floors of the apartment in
tne hope that they will he able to un
cover huge tanks of the past produet
of the distillery. This because, so far,
it has been impossible to form a con
nection with Hailey's sales methods.
Halley's' arrest is attributed to an
overweening desire for riches. He
had but recently enlarged his plant
and made it possible to turn out 100
gallons of whisky a day, which, at
the customary rate of $5 a quart,
would lflnve meant an income of §2,000
a day.
By marriage and because of his
wealth and long residence 'n the city,
Hailey has been regarded as one of
the leaders of soclal and club life, He
kas been prominent for many years
in this connection, So far Hailey has
refused to Jiscuss his arrest or to
have anything to say about the ex
tensive plant found in the Altmore
basement, |
THE WEATHER, g
Forecast—Fair and -omowhns
colder Saturday night; Sunday’
fair. ' ;
Temperatures—6 a. m,, 34; 8 a,
) m, 34; 10 a. m,, 34; 12 noon, 35; 1 g
p. m., 35; 2 p. m, 35.
Sunrise, 6:23; sunset, 5:22, g
DORGEY FIGHT
TENNESatE [N
JOVE AGAINGT
W. &7 ROAD
Governor and Lawyers in Chatta
nooga so Oppose Con
demnatiqn.
Governor Dorsey and a delegation
of legal officials are in Chattanooga
to eombat renewed efforts of the Ten
nessee Legislature to condemn proper
ties of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, owned by the State of Geor
gia, at the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis terminals, which are
wanted by the city of Chattanooga
for improvement purposes.
Accompanying the Governor are
Attorney General Clifford Walker,
John L. Tye, legal counsel, and J.
Grover Cohen, secretary of the West
ern and Atlantie Lease Commission.
The Tennesseé Legislature is re
ported to have sent a committee to
Chattanooga to investigate the situ
ation, and hold conferences with mem
bers of the Chattanooga City Coun
cil,
In the last ten or twelve years the
Tennessee Legislature has made re
peated efforts to condemn valuable
lands belonging to Georgia, through
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis, lessees of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad. Chattanooga has
continually agitated a' plan for run
ning a new street through the prop
erty and installing a sewerage sys
tem. Such a procedure, it is report
ed, will separate the tracks of the
rallroad from the terminal and neaes
sitate the abolishment of a num
ber of tracks. This would lessen the
terminal facilities of the Wesfern
and Atlantic to such an extent as to
be wholly inadequate, it is said.
The land in question is very valu«
able, rough estimates having placed
its value close to $1,000,000. Georgia
representatives contend that one
State has not the right to condemn
properties belonging to another
State, and this argument has staved
off previous fights of the State of
Tennesee. The late Judge John C.
Hart and other State officials have
found it necessary to go to Chatta
nooga in years past to fight against
this serious blow to Georgia and her
it'i‘ccome from the Western and Atlan-
- ‘
Senator Hoke Smith |
. .
Heads Georgia Sociely
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15-—Senator
Hoke Smith was elected president of
the Georgia Society at the meeting
held last night,
In addition to Senator Smith, the
following officers were chosen: Miss
Jessie Dill, first vice president; Jesse
E. Mercer, wno is the retiring presi
dent, second vice president; Miss
Laura Berrien, third vice pregident;
Lieutenant G. L. Willilams, fourth
vice president; W. A, M. Sheldon,
fifth vice president; Miss Nellie
Adamson, secretary, and Miss Anna
bel Matthews, treasurer, . ;
Atlanta Man Hurt
.
In Pennsylvania Wreck
(B’{ International News Service.)
PITTSBURG, Feb, 15, —Twelve per
gsons on the f‘ilmbnr;z and Cineinnati
train No. 104, east bound on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, were injured, none
seriously, last night, when a sixty-foot
girder on a west bound freight train
sideswiped three of the coaches at Oak
dale, near here,
Among the injured are: W. G, Mer
rick, of Atlanta, Ga.; Ralph, Davidson,
of Sandoval, 1ll.; Mrs, W. A, Keller, of
Steubenville, Ohlo, and C. C, Copeland,
negro, of terry, Ga
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British Liner, Afire,
Races Toward Azores
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 15—~The British
liner Moorish Prince, bound from
Philadelphia to Lordon, is aflre off
the Azores, said a dispateh to Lloyds
today. At lagt reports the vessel was
racing toward an Azores port,
(The Moorish Prince is a vessel of
6,943 tons, halling from Newcastle,
England.)
»
Former Reichstag Chief
Heads German Assembly
(By International News Service.)
WEIMAR, GERMANY, Feb, 14 (via
Berlin and London), Feb, 15-~Kon
ftantin Pehrenbach, former president
of the Reichstag, was today elected
president of the national assembly,
succeeding Eduard David, who re«
signed when he was appointed Min
‘eter without portfolio in the Cabinet,
v .
Golden Fails to Get
Conference on Strike
COLUMBUS, Feb, 15.--After spend-
Ing five days here in a futile attempt
to obtain a conference with Columbus
mill owners, John Golden, president of
the United Textile Workers of America,
left last nl;(ht for Tennessee and North
Carolina. He will return _here later and
attempt a settlement of the textile
strike
Approximately 8,000 striking oJorn
tives staged an orderly parade on Broad
streot yesterday. 4
lasued Datiy and Eutered as Second-Cass Matter gt
the PostoMce at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1379
. |
Dinner Hour 1
The Tired Business Man is coming |
into his own. He is to be given a
chance to dine with his own wife in
his own home, at his own leisure, and
not be disturbed eight or ten times
by a telephoned query as to the
exact hour the Somesorta Club is to
assemble week after next, or wheth
er there is any truth in the report
that Mrs. Neighbor did something
perfectly dreadful.
Several days ago a number of
prominent Atlanta club women were
gathered together and one of them
announced that she must resign an
executive position because the eter
nal--as she called it, or infernal, as he
caleld it——Jingling of her telephone
had gotten on her husband's nerves.
A chorus of similar sufferers joined
in, and finally a remedy was suggest
ed. The Atlanta Woman's Club would
be asked to take it up. |
Along with other movements for
public improvement, the Woman's
Club did take up the telephone situ
ation at a meeting Friday. It was
decided to ask every woman in At
lanta to confine her phone calls to'
matters of importance only, and then
to make the calls before 6:30 o'clock
at night. Business women and teach
ers are the only ones who will be ex
ceptions to the general rule, and they
are uUrged to make their calls in the
daytime, if possible. |
“You have no idea how it disrupts
the home for the woman to be called |
from the table six or eight times dur- ‘
ing the evening meal, and especially
for some useless question which ecould |
have been answered by reading the
daily paper,” stated Mrs. B. M. Boy-‘
kin, acting president of the Atlanta
Woman’s Club. “Our evenings are
the only time we have with our hus
bands, and it is no wonder they get
nervous when we are forced to spend
hours at the telephone in useless
conversation or idle gossip.
“We are going to adopt the policy
of having the hours of club meetings
announced in the papers and insist
ing upon the members referring to
the papers instead of using the tele
phone. Then if they insist upon call
ing us up, we will have our replies
delivered by the maids, ]
“We are hoping that the movement \
will not only quiet the nerves of our}
husbands and ourselves, but that it
will give the telephone company nnl
opportunity for better service.” {
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Grins and
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Groans in the
Day'’s News
NEW LONDON, CONN., ieb. 15.
The polide beliave they are on the
trail of a murder mystery today,
following the digging up of human
bones on a farm near Port Jarvis.
The bones were rooted up by pigs.
NEW YORK, Feb, 15.—Judge
Mclntyre, in the court of general
#essions holds that 'fe .8 held too
cheaply In New York. “Men are
shot and killed for a 5-cent piece,”
#hid Judge Mclntyre, in sentencing
Joseph Gatto'te fifteen yecars' im
prisonment for robbery,
LAFAYETTE, IND, Feb. 15—
Two men were injured today when
John King's glass eye exploded
while he was working in a locomo
tive boiler. The intense heat in the
boiler caused the eye to explode,
The men were injured by fiying
particles of the eye,
NEW YORK, ¥eb. 15.—~Two bhan
dits entered a jewelry store Friday
afternoon, shot an employec and
one of them escaped with several
thousand dollars’ worth of gems.
The chauffeur of a passenger auto
mobile hurled a monkey wrench at
one of the bandits. The missile
caught the bandit behind the ear
and knocked him unconscious. The
other bandit escaped,
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Berlin Police Arrest
.
Russ Bolsheviki Agent
BERLIN, Feb 14 (via London, Feb, 15)
Karl Radek, the self-confessed agent
of thg Russian HBolsheviki in Germany,
is being held here Incommunicado. He
is kept heavily fettered, even in his cell.
Anticipating his arrest, Radek had
conferred power of attorney upon a
friend, Slegfried Weinberg,
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American Executive Wins Inter
national Fame for His Work
for League of Nations,
(By International News Service.)
BREST, FRA NCE, Feb. 15.—Amidst
impressive scenes, President Wilson
[S.‘lflt‘d for the United States today
upon the liner George Washington,
| It was announced that he would
‘ land at the port of Boston,
Cheered by a great multitude, the
i]’wsmr-nt and Mrs. Wilson went on
Loard the vessel during the morning
and at 11:15 o'clock the ship weighed
i
‘anchor and sgeamed toward the open
13«:1, bringing to an end the first phase
of the historic visit of the first Ameri~
lmm President to set foot on French
soil. 4
| The departure of the American ex
‘ecutive struck deeper into the publie
interest than otherwise would Have
happened because his great victory in
the league of nations negotiations at
Paris was still fresh.
Accompanied by Leorat.
General Leorat, of the French
army, accompanied the presidential
party from Paris,
The train bearing the presidential
party pulled into the station beneath
@ vast erane which had been used for
unloading American war machinerg
from ships and past docks piled high
With American equipment ready for
shipment home.
The presidential train left Paris In
two sections, The first section reached
Brest at 9:15 this morning. On it
were Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin D. ‘Roosevelt and Mrs.
Roosevelt, 40 doughboys, all of whom
were wounded In action, and 22 tele
phone girls who operated the ;nd
dential wires during his stay in aris,
The doughboys guarded the Murat
residence while the President was
there. and he decided to bring them
home wi'n Lim,
The train arrtved at 10:40, just 25
minutes vefore sailing time,
French Sailors on Guard.
French sailors were drawn up on
the dock, making picturesque figures
with rheilr white collars and red top
knots on thelr hats, o
There were a gathering of American
officers of various ranks, -
General Helr!ck, commander of the
American base, and Brigadier General
Starbird, éommander of the part, rep
resented the American unite,
The French navy was represented
by Admiral Moreau and a number of
officers wearing numerous medals,
The red ribbon of the Legion of
Honor was a conspicuous decoration.
A naval band played and trumpets
sounded as the party left the train
and boarded the ship,
When the train came to a halt a
French sailor hurried forward bearing
newly constructed steps made on pur.-
pose for the presicential party's use
while alighting from the coach.,
Band Plays American Air
The band struck up “The Star-
Spangled Banner,” but there were
no cheers, President Wilson was first
to alight, followed by Mrs. Wilson,
Everybody saluted. Hurried fare
wells were sald before the party
boarded the tender,
Among those who wished godspeed
t othe President were Charles M.
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, and Dr, 8. A, Brown, of
Bellevue Hospital, New York, They
will sail on the Olympie,
A guard of honor, composed of sol
diers and sailors, was lined up on the
dock and stood rigidly at attention
while the President walked slowly by.
A group of movie men ground
ceaselessly at their machines, regis
tering the historic scene.
I'he streets leading to the ]pier and
the crowning hills overlooking the
dock were all filied with crowds,
Some cheered, others, touched by the
soleninity of the occasion, stood silent
and uncovered. Handkerchiefs flut
tered from tha hands of women.
Bouquet for Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. Josephine Lewis, of Cinein
nati, Ohlo, in charge of the Red Cross
depot at Brest, presented Mrs, Wilson
with a beautiful bouquet of violets
and was graciously thanked. The only
other women on the dock were Miss
Beatrice Allen, of New York, and
Miss Florence Harrison, of Chicago.
All wore their Red Cross uniforms,
President Wilson saluted this little
group of women warmly as he passed.
A French sallor accompanied the
party, earrying a huge bouquet of
roses with ribbon streamers attached,
The party went out to the (George
Washington on a French tender piled
with baggage. Thoere were trunks,
bags, cases, and even plles of golt
clubs. A French naval officer, wear
ing a gold-hilted sword, was at the
wheol,
Waves Hat to Crowd,
Once on board the George Wash
ington, the President hurried to the
rear deck, where he removed his hat
ind waved genially at the crowd on
the dock
Soon the liner got under way and
ag she pasgsed one of the French ports
a salute of 21 guns thundered out.
There was not a hitch and evetyw :
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