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FOUR THE AU6HSTA HERALD Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Rundny Morning. THE HER ADD PPBUSHINO CO. Entered nt the Augusta Poet of ft “ft as Mall Mntfer of the fieeond-elaaa. SUWSCRIPTION RATES 7 Dally and Sunday. 1 year 56.00 Dally and Sunday, per week 1* Dally and Sunday, per month M Sunday Herald. 1 year 100 PHONES: Ptmineaa Office 297 i Want ad phone *96 Sorlelv 261* I Manng'g Editor 299 New* Room ...299 I Circulation ...203* FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES—The rcnlatnln ft Kent nor Co.. 225 Ffth Ave . New York Clfv. 1219 Peop'e'a Ga« Build -Ing: Adnma St., and Michigan H'yd.. C'MrerO. TTUVKUNvi RFPmr PKTCTATfVES— .I KUnrk find W TV M Owon* nr* the cnlr *uthnr!*#«l r»pr***Tit*tlv*w fnr Th* T?*r.n d. Pnv no monrv to other* vnl*** th*v '•fln *bow authority from Bunin*** Manner of TT*rnM Pub *'-**<«» Co. __ <•*« 1 ' 1r f cnrr. *• ' fll- nl'on* *0 THE AUGUSTA HERALD, 7*R Brood St Aurt)*tft- DfU I romwm !' * 1 UptllKl ’n Th# Hrrnld tho nnm* of the Tr*r<t«r <* *»rns'* tn tis *HIH*. The Augusta lief aid ha* a larger city circulation, and a iarger total circula tion than any other Augusta paper, inis has be*n proven by tho Audit Co., of w York ihs risraid uuaigpuen Advertisers u 0 per cent, mo r* Homo Carrier City Cir culation In Augusta than m given by any other Augusta paper. This guaranty** will be written in every contract and The Herald will bs ready and willing at a I times to glvs full ac cess to its rscords 1 aU advertisers who wish to test the accuracy of this guarantee In comparison wtth the claims of other Augusts Newspapsra BUILDING UP AND TEARING DOWN. We hear a groat deal of fine senti ments about "building up* ’ and "tearing down.” They are rather gen eral and vague but most persona are ready to believe that it la a good thing to build up and a bad tiling to tear down. Kven the moat wicked and abandon •d Of heart will glow with righteous conviction over tho general proposi tion that tearing down la bad and building up la good, but no sooner nre these worthy loaaonn Inculcated than there comee a long list of exceptions. Home building up. It appear*, la very naughty Indeed und In such cases tear ing down Is not only excusable, but be comes a furious and frenxled duty. It Is Important to find out, In tho first place what Ih worth building up iinil what le worth pulling down. It Is unsafe to submit utterly to the leadership of any one on the Important question, since all human nature Is prime to err and none are so wise and Impartial u» to escape blindness anil distortion of vision when their own personal Intereetn happen tn ho ln i olved. Hr nor. when thr apostle of building uj• begins to preach tearing down, lot an take stock i-urcfully of thr right rod wrong of thr question, etch man thinking so fag ok te possible- for hlrnaolf and without thr guidance of any one even remotely Interested for or against the matter in a personal We think every citizen In Augusta honestly desires to hulld up Augusta each In his own way and each after his own particular fancy Nobody wants to tear down Aligns* to, though In pursuit of mistaken Ideas of progrrso there urn those who are unconeciously pursuing this mischie- vous course. one thing Is certain, and that is. that the general desire for progress progress anil growth, even though it may take wrong directions, even though the conflict between those who have varying and antagonistic notions of what ought to remain hulk up and what ought to be torn out and torn down may result In halts and confusions will hrlpg shout progress and growth very surely. In fact, wo have enough evidence st band right now to convince the most down heart ed that despite the strong antago nisms and the unnecessary conflicts and obstructions. Augusta Is moving forward at a great iiacs. She will move fusler still when her people find out that her resources are grent enough to support developments that apparently Infringe upon one another When her people recognise that competition means growth ana cease to fear It ami when the "live and let live" sentiment Is more widely felt and understood. THE BROAD GLARE OF GOOD CROPS. The rule or ruin policy of come of j the powrr* In Mk buslnse*# has It* ! limitation* Huccenc la fairly aasurod ao far a* giving psuse to public oonfl- j rteno* and obstructing large operations goea but even here. auecsss la not far teaching With record breaking crops coming In, with a thirty three million dollar 1 surplus in the treasury, with the tariff j stripped of Its sin* of favoritism and , oppression and rendered an effldentt ; revenue getter, prosperity I a Inevitable j and not to be disguised. We might have had bad years and poor crops, In which case, the privtl- I < ged classes would have had a fine op portunity to fool the public, but thanks to good fortune the prophets of evil have not l>een aided by outside cir cumstances They can create psycho logical conditions to suit themselves In their efforts to check the reform of ihe liemorrntlc administration, but they rannot control natural and trta terlal conditions. Tha moat persuasive spinners of slarmlng yarns and the most subtly magnetic of hypnotists are powerless to blind the great masses of the people to actual facts. Prosperity throws a searchlight s<> broad In Its luminous power that tt dulls the glittering eyes of the mea r crista and conjurers snd disperses their subjects. Had the fates decreed that the years of tha l>eniopratls In Washington were to Iw accomi>a/ilod by poor crops the Intelligence of the tnsssrs would have been put to a more severe test The Democratic measures sre wisely cal culated for the greatest good to the greatest number: bad crops might Lava hidden their wlsdgfn for a ttwi* out to the less ImpiOsslonabl# am! n ora thoughtful rlilieh ths justice ami good sense of these measures would SOU liavw been apparent. INDOOR SPORTS * * s By Tad H teim lafevgS"-);i pmwn «rfF% \ 1 T fit A (T BOSS ' aoa» roc fa . " m TMt FiKSr time. If f ; Turkey Being Equipped For New Conflict With Greece; Peace Pamphlet London—ln a striking peace pamph let circulated today G. H. Perris states that the twelve chief armament com panies of Great Britain have capital of $220,000,000 and that the total capi talization of the British armament Business Is nearer s£>oo,ooo,ooo tlkgu $250,000,000. "Turkey is being equipped for u 1 new conflict with Greece,” he com ments, "and with complete Impartial ity of any other kind of commerce Greece is being simultaneously equip ped for this eontjirt, which meal * i deal li to legitimate commerce, another 1 arrest of civilization, and a shame to j humanity. While the British foreign I office is endeavoring to maintain peace In the Near Hast, the British admiralty is lending "missions" of naval officers to both sides, in order to hasten, In co-operation with the contracting syndicates, the prepara tion of their war forces. So it is all over the World with ail accompnni | incut of varlagsted scandal. Russia, , Turney, Greece, llaly, Spain, Norway, Sweden. Japan, Chinn, Canada, Aus tralia, Jtrnzll Argentina, Chill, Peru, ; Mexico -there Is not a feud, or the j possibility of a feud, but these trades iron nro »t hand to egg on the rivil adventurers, ami to equip them with j the latest instruments of the seism e I and art of wolesaie .lomU-idi*” Issues More Stringent Orders For Suppression of Drink Habit-Czar Berlin—From at Petersburg I learn that the Czar has Issued more gtrln gent orders for the suppression of the think evil among his soldiers Oifi •ers are forbiddc i to drink vodka In I camp, on manoeuvers or while on any duty with their men. AM cases of drunkenness are to be dealt with in severe manner. Commanding officers ;>aro ordered to discourage (he drink -1 tug of alcohol and ar • ecominended Ito set the example themselves. Off! ! cers commanding regiments are or dered to Improve the mess live of the ! officers under them. Tito Introduc tion of games, the addition of ltbra i ne« to the mess premises, the fat-lib i ties for tu> Study of foreleg lan guages are especially recommended. Vodka Is forbidden to the men ai all times, nmi the most stringent measures will be taken to prevent i them from buying It No soldier will |be allowed to receive mone-. from home, If he h» known to he tncltnei i !o drink, without special permission I from his commanding office, Corn- mnndlng officers are especially rec ommended to Inv; rove the lot of the ntnn by Inatltutlng games which will keep them out of doors and occupied during their free time Special orders are also Issued 'or the spiritual welfare of the men, espe dally those young soldiers who may be addicted to drink Medical offi cers are to deliver lectures periodi cally to officers and men on the harm ful effect of alcohol. 1 - “S' * 1 Increase Teleqraphic Detachment German Army Bsrlln. October Ist will see an In crease of ths telegraphic detachment ! of the Orman army by a new liattal- I ton. The designation of these troops. however Is now only a reminiscence t for there will henceforth be no army , telegraphic eery Ice. The telegraph has hern replaced by the telephone j The only d'eadvantage of telephonic service that It Isavea no written re |(-ord Is considered to be much note ] than counterbalanced by the fact that , the telephonic service Is faster snd 1 does not require a specially trained ' staff. The general commanding will 1 hereafter have at his dls|H>snl thirty 1 wagons, drawn bv I*o horses and ] equipped yvlth slxtv telephones and about *B miles of eable and wire. WtNTKP: OOLOMCD B<~>YS TO C >R- I rv rspers In Colored Territory Apfdv Sub S'atlon No 1. WS: K lock St. ts THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA. WHEN BIG STEVE TOLD OF BLAZES IN A UGUSTA Looking Backwards in History of the A. F. D. Ding-dong! Big Steve is ringing from Its tower at the Intersection of Greene and Eighth streets. Looking Backwards. Let's glance back a bit to tile time when Augusta bad a volunteer fire department, when the citizens put-out fires for "glory” only, and went back to tied—ls a night fire—with ,a wet pair cf trousers and coat hanging on II clmlr in their room. Then they got up and went to work, iih usual next day. You see every able-bodied man was a fireman those days. They did well—God bless old volunteers. Aryl then came the paid department, anil we all know their splendid history, for Augusta has a fire protection sys tem second to none in the South (Sa vannah might be excepted). The Old Tower. The old Bell Tower. Well, It stood Just In the centre of Greene and Eighth streets, and the keeper of the bell kept Ids lonely vigil up on the sixth round of the tower (a room with a bed. etc., was his housekeeping), and hisi to keep an eye open for a blaze in the city limits and then ring Big Steves It seems there was no more senti ment ns to this good old hell than to the very nails In the tower that held It tip, for when the city council dretded to abolish (he volunteer sys tem of responding to fires, "Big Steve" was sold to a foundry In another city and so passed away along with the tower that was Its home for many yea rs. TH« Old Firs District*. Augusta, in the dais of the fir* tower, was divided Into fire districts, nine of them. These districts covered a large space, and the locating Just where a fire was. caused a good deal of hunting around. The districts were as follows: District No. 1 tvas bounded by Hous ton. Greene. Centre and the river. District No. 2 was in a square en closed by Houston, flreene Centre and South Tbuindary stress. District No. 3 by Greene, Centre, Jackson and the river. District No. 4 wns enclosed bv Greene, Centre, Jackson and South South Boundary streets. District No. 5 was lhat part of town within the limits of Marhury, Greeno, Jackson ami the river. District No. fi was houndsd by Greene, Fenwick, Jnckson and Mar bury. The seventh district was that which was en closed by Marhury, Greene, the river and as far west as a block be yond Mill* street, the city limits reach ing to a point along that way. The eighth district was that bound ed by Jackson, Fenwick, Marhury and Adams street The ninth district was the smallest, being between Fenwick, Marhury, Greene and a block west of Mills. An old record g'ves the following: First District One tap hell. Second District Two taps hell. Third District Three taps bell. And s<> on up to the ninth district, denoted by nine taps. Tsn Taps, Fir# in Hamburg. Ten taps told that a fire was In Hamburg. Twenty taos after 3 o'clock at night vyns the military alarm. The rules were: "The tower bell will strike the dis tricts only for fire; but the market bells wtll ring after striking the dis tricts. The military alarm Is left blank to be filled st any time when deemed necessary by the proper authorities Hinging for any public oecash n notice will be given. •'When an alarm of fire Is raise ' m the street, and no sign Is seen by the tower watchman he will not strike the bell until either of the market bel's strike the district, unless Informed by seme person the location of the fire Any person wilfully Informing the tower watchman or market watchmen icf a fire when there is none, for th-j I purpose of getting up a false sinrm. will bo fined the full extent of the law." The Present System. What a change now from the -jid tlme way of locating a fire! The pub lic well know the excellent, almost hu man devices that give the fire hoys almost the exact location of a blaze when nno occurs. The present electric alarm system was adopted In January, 1886, the mat ter having been fought hard in council for a long time. Chief Platt put forth every exertion to get the system es tablished anil he had a hard fight of it. Twenty street alarm boxes were the nucleus of the system. On June Ist. 1886, the system was first oper ated here. On the 7th of June, the bell tower watchman, Mr. Dominick ('onion, after serving that office for sixteen years, found his Job gone. When They Ran With Reels. The volunteer firemen did good work when they were in charge and they also provided great gala days for the Augusta public. These gala days came along in the first putt cf May. The event was called "Firemen’s Day.” It was the reddest letter day of the year in the old town. The event, of course, passed away with the inauguration of the paid fire department, but in the memory of many the day is tsill green. The rivalry was great in those days between the volunteer firemen. There were a good many companies and each had Its favorites and backers When firemen's day came around the boys ran with the reels and had a big time generally. The railroads ran excursions into town and the city was crowded with visitors. The town was given over to the firemen and they held it in trust for one day. ; Th* Volunteer Department During those days the volunteers who fought fires for glory made up the following companies. Washington, No, 1. Clinch, No. 2. Vigilant, No. 3. Gazelle. No. 4. Mechanic, No. R. Stephens. No, 6 Richmond, No. 7. Citizen, No. 8. Alert, No. 9. Dixie, an. 10. Clinch, Vigilant. Gazelle and Rich mond companies Owned steamers. Georgia, Independent company, also owned a fl.v engine For years No. 6 held the record for fast time In the reel races and Clinch and Richmond pushed each other oloSi in the honors for long distance Stream throwing In the steamer contests. Th* First Parade. The first firemen's parade that the annals of the city tell us about was on February 22. 1839. This was tin; beginning of the parades that we-c the event of the year In the city. After the parade mentioned above, the time of holding the Jubilee was put to the second Tuesday in May. Vital Statistics DEPARTMENT PUBLIC HEALTH. Report for the Week Ending July 11, 1914. Communicable Diseases. White Colored Typhoid Fever 3 0 Previously reported—not released White Colored Measles 0 3 Vital Statistics White Colored Marriages 3 0 Rlr -a 11 3 Uuatlts •"> 10 S. C. WILSON, Secretary. Cheap Mountain EXCURSION JULY 23, 1914 VIA = Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad Company From Augusta, Georgia To the Following Points at Rates Named. FARES To Asheville, N. C $4.00 To Brevard, N. C $4.00 To Hendersonville, N. C $3.50 To Lake Toxaway, N. C. $4.50 Tickets on Sale for Morning Train July 23, with Final Limit Returning July 28. 1914. Through Pullman Parlor Buffet Car between Augusta and Asheviflei Leave Auqusta 11:00 a. m.; arrive Asheville 7:30 p. m. For rates, etc., call on M. C. JONES, C. T. A. K. F. WESTBERRY, Union Ticket Agent. ERNEST WILLIAMS, General Passenger Agent, Augusta, Georgia. BLANCHARD & CO, UNDERTAKERS & EMBALMERS 1368 Broad Street. Phone 3138. Efficient Service Guaranteed THE LADIES of AUGUSTA are Cordially invited to attend a Gas Cooking Demonstration Conducted by MISS ELSIE G. CARING Supervisor of Domestic Science, Public School System Rochester, N. Y., to be held at The office of the Gas Light Company of Augusta every evening at 8 o'clock, week July 13th to 18th. A fine Cabinet Gas Range will be given to the lady holding lucky ticket at the end of the week. Watch Daily Papers for Menu. The Gas Light Company of Augusta Even Play Time Calls for Proper Clothes For the seaside, the mountains, for golf or for tennis, we have a new Shirt. Collar is adjustable, high up around tho neck or buttoned back to expose the throat, $2.50. For dancing, too, we’ve a very light weight soft pleated shirt .. .. $2.00 DORR Good Taste Apparel Augusta Herald JUNE CIRCULATION DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD. The circulation of the Dally and Sun day Herald for the month of June, 1914, was as follows: June 1 10,779 June 16 10,97(9 June 2 10,1169 June 17 10,9(5 June 3 10.864 June 18 10,934 June 4 10,884 June 19 10,980 June 5 10,885 June 20 11,478 June 6 11.489 June 21 10.840 June 7 10.865 June 22 10.928 June 8 10.898 k June 23 10,820 June 9 10,917 June 24 10,810 June 10 10.909 June 25 10,902 June 11 10,934 June 26 10,973 June 12 70.974 June 27 11,543 TTune 13 11,314 Jure 28 10,837 June 14 .....10,975 June 29 11,018 June 15 ..... 10,979 June 30 11,057 Total June 329,741 Dally average 10,991 The Augusta Heiuld. Dally and Sun day, has a circulation in Augusta ap proximately twice ks large as that of any other Augusta newspaer. , Adver tisers and agencies lnvted to test the ac curacy of these figures In comparison with the claims of any other Augusta newspaper. “VOTES FOR WOMEN ” STATIONERY The Official Water-marked Writing Paper approved by National American Woman Suffrage Association. The stock is a white SUPERFINE FABRIC FINISH and each 'sheet contains the water-mark, “VOTES FOR WOMEN.” RETAILS FOR 35 CENTS. Oan be had at Richards Stationery Co. WALL PAPER Mattings. Shades. Pictures T.G. BAILIE & CO. 712 Broad Street AWNINGS SUNDAY, JULY 12. For the Garden! —Bush Beans, —Pole Beans^ —Turnips, —Beets, —Collards, —Cabbage, —Tomatoes, —Squash, —Potato Plants. —Clet our July Bulletin ! N. L Willet Seed Go. AUGUSTA. GARDEN HOSE Large shipment of Garden Hose just ceived direct from factorv. Hose Reels, Hose Pipes. Large assortment Lawn Sprinklers. THEO. G. MULIFFE 115 Jackson Street. LADIES LISTEN For Experienced Hairdressing Phone 2621-J or 928. Save your combings and do not send your work out of the city Have work done by one of most experienced lady hair dressers In South —Mrs. J. Will Ergle, 502 West Avenue. North Augusta, S. C All work sent for and deliver ed. Satisfaction guaranteed. FORD IS THE CAR The Wife and Boys and Girls can drive as well as the men. See Lombard.