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VOLUME XX—NO. 289
A. C. L ENGINE NO
210 HOLDS WORLD’S
RECORD FOR SPEED
Famous Locomotive Now Pull*
ing Local Passenger Train
on Brunswick-Albany Run.
NOTED OLD 10-WHEELER IS
STILL IN TIP-TOP SHAPE
Engine Which ,Now Runs IBe
tween Here and Albany
Broke the World’s Speed Rec
ord For a Steam Locomotive
in 1901, Which Record Still
Remains Undefeated -After
Lapse of 20 Years.
It is hardly likely that many Bruns
wick people, including the railroad
men themselves, are aware of the fact
that one of the world’s most famous
railroad locomotives is regularly pull
ing a local passenger train out of
Brunswick.
Yet such is a fact, for Atlantic
Coast Line engine No. 210, running
between Brunswick and Albany, is
the proud possessor of the world’s
speed record for a steam locomotive,
having-In the year 1901, just aftet* it
wag placed in service, made a record
of five miles in two and one,half min
utes, traveling at the rate of on*.hun
dred and twenty miles an hour, a rate
of speed greater than was ever before,
or since, attained by a raflro/d loco
motive anywhere. ,
The engine was originally Plant
System engine No. 111, and is new in
almost daily service, pulling trains
Nos. 90 and 91, and 96 and 97, be
tween Albany and Rrunswlck, alter
nating between these trains,
Engineer Jean Flanders is in charge
of the noted loocmotlve, and his fire
map it W,. V. tfjefit, |j|)th gf w horn
live in ’’Brunswick. They, ns well as
the shop employees, declare the fa
mous old •‘ten-wheeler” is still in ‘‘tip
top" shape, giving almost perfect ser
vice on its different runs, and hardly
ever bringing in its train behind ache
dule.
Old 210 does not much resemble the
giant of the present day,
but this does not alter the fact that
It has a record that none of the mam
moth “steam horses” of today have
ever surpassed, or **ven equalled.
The speed record of Engine No.
111, as it was then designated, was
made ono day twenty years ago, be
tween Fleming and Jacksonville,
when it., traveled at a speed greater
than any steam lpcomtlve ever built—
-120 miles an hour, and, Incidentally,
at the same time landed a IT. S. mail
contract between Washington. S). Cf„
and Jacksonville.
The world’s record was art near
Screven, Ga., twelve miles South of
Jtaup, where old 111 and her train
covered five miles In two minutes and
thirty seconds. On the same run the
engine made the 76 miles between
Waycroas add Jacksonville In 59 min
utes, an average. speed of 78* ijtile*
an hour. ♦
run was recalled several
days ago bv officials of the Coast Line,
to connection with the run recently
made by the old "DeWMt Clinton.**
from New York to Chicago, and the
publication of the noted speed records
of the Now York Central lines. The
|tory of No, 210 has, during the past
tew days, been carried to every part
of the country through an Associated
Press dispatch, telling details of its
remarkable speed record, which, after
a lapse of twenty years, remain* un
broken.
WAYCROSS CFREMONIAL
HAS BEEN CALLED OFF
4 Aniiouueeaneul that the Shrine cere
mental, scheduled to have been held
in Waycroas on Libor I>ay. has been
called off, was received in Brunswick
yesterday, and come* as a big disap
point meat to many members of Alee
Tample here, who had planned to go
over to attend,
It was stated that Alee would not
make the ptlgrimmage to Waycroas
because of the fact that the required
number of candidates —3ft—had toot
been signed up at the expiration of
the alloted time Monday night There
were two or three candidates from
Brunswick who had anticipated being
taken icroM the hot sands of the des
ert at tht gathering, but they will
now have to wait until a future date
to be inducted into tbe mvsteriea of
tffcrtaedtttt
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
SAVANNAH PREPARING TO
WELCOME LOCAL ROTES
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 23. —Arrange-
ments were perfecjstl at the weekly
luncheon of the Rotary Club held to
day at the DeSoto hotel, to entertain
the Brunswick Rotarians, who will be
the guests of the local club next Tues
day. The Brunswickians, it is re
ported, will visit Savannah 100 per
cent strong. They will be cordially
entertained during their stay in the
city. A quizzing of the members on
Rotary education featured today’s
meeting.
BRUNSWICK LADY
LOSES S3OO IN EIRE
Mrs. E. C. Bruce, of This City,
Was a Guest at the Wigwam
Hotel, Indian Spring, When
That Structure Was Burned
Early Monday Morning.—
Loses Clothing and Money.
Mrs. E. C. Bruce, wife of Dr. E. C.
Bruce, of this city, w-as a guest at the
Wigwam Hotel, of Indian Spring, at
the time that historic old Georgia ho
tel was destroyed by fire early Mon
day morning, and together with hun
dreds of other guests, barely escaped
from the burning building, which was
the largest woodern hotel stfructure
in the state.
While a great many of the guests
succeeded In removing their baggage
to safety Mrs. Bruce was not so fortu
nate, having lost practically all her
clothing as well as S3OO In money, ac
cording to a telegram received by I>r.
Bruce. Mrs. ilruce wired that all of
her baggage had been destroyed, and
fftat in the excitement and necessity
for haste in leaving the burning bo
yteL she loft her purse, containing
n+cmmM*, in hat room.
Mrs. Bruce reports that she was
aroused in the middle of the night,
and found the hotel to be in a mass of
flames. She barely had time to es
cape with her life from the building,
being forced to leave her belonging?;
to the flames. Her lose, it is said,
will total six or eight hundred dol
lars. She had been a guest or the
hotel several days, having gone to
Indian Spring. In the hope of ben
efltting her health. She l jf expected
to return home today. Numbers of
Mrs. Bruce’® fellow guests also lost
heavily, many escaping as she did,
merely with itio clothes they had on.
A coincidence in connection with
the midnight fire Is the fact that Sun
day ufternoon about dark a tire was
discovered in the hotel, and extin
guished without damage. Several
small tiros Imd occurred in the build
ing during the previous, week, which
leads officials to believe that the de
struction of the building Sunday night
was the work of Incendiaries. The
state fire marshal is coductiug an in
vestigation.
OFF TO BRING HOME THE
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Lieut Com. R. t. Byrd.
Lieutenant Commander Richard
Evelyn Byrd. Jr . 1. S. N.. U on his
way to England to brum back the
giant dirigible ZR 2. which will short
ly crus* the eceae under its own pow
er He hope* to make the trip it
nu>-- * -'V Hour*
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RAILROAD WORKERS
SOON TO VOTE ON
STRIKE PROPOSAL
Strike Ballot For Submission to
, 409,000 Members of “Big
Four” Being Prepared.
RECENT NEGOTIATIONS UN*
SATISFACTORY SAY CHIEFS
Form of the Ballot to be Sub
mitted For Action Has Not
Yet Been Definitely Decided
Upon, But It Tells Members
of the Unsatisfactory Negoti
ations of Recent Months.
(By Associated Press.)
Cleveland, 0., Aug. 23.—A strike
ballot for submission to the four hun
dred and nine thousand members of
the ‘‘Big Four’’ railroad brotherhoods,'
and the Switchmen’s Union of North
America, were being prepared at a
joint conference here today of mem
bers of the executive committees,
chief executives, and assistant grand
officers cf the five organizations.
The form of the ballot to be sub
mitted for action has not yet been
definitely decided upon, it was stat
ed, although in its present shape it
tells railroad union members of un
satisfactory negotiations the past few
months between the brotherhood
chiefs and the railroad managers at
conferences held in the East, West
and Southeast, as to whether the rail
roads intended to ask for further de
creases in wages, and seeks the elim
ination of time and a half for over
time, The ballot will also contain a
query as to whether the members
are satisfied to continue work under
these conditions.
There is every indications that the
form of the ballot will be completed
soon, after, which, it will submit
ted without delay to members
throughout the country, it is under
stood. Some time will be required to
get an expression from the various lo
cals.
INFORMATION ABOUT HOW
TO SEND A TELEGRAM
Manager Sapp, of the local Western
Union office, calls attention of Bruns
wick people to an article in the Sep
tember number of the American Mag
azine, entitled "Perhaps You Think
You Know How to Send a Telegtam."
Mr. Sapp says the article contains In
formation of real value to everyone,
regurdless of holv seldom t hey may
send a t elegram, pnd t hat it is well
worth reading.
POSTPONE HEARING
ON 6EORGJA RATES
I. C. C. Announces Deferment of
Date For Investigation Asked
For by Port Bureau of Jack
sonville and Charleston.—
Claim Discrimination.
Plans of traffic bureau represen
tatives of the ports-of ‘ Jacksonville
and Charleston L> secure a readjust
ment of intra-stnte rates In effect In
Georgia which. It is claimed discrimi
nate against the porta named in favor
of Savannah and Brunswick, have
been seriously blocked by an an
nouncement of the Interstate Com
merce Commission that the scheduled
hearing on the matter has been in
definitely postponed.
This postponement results in a vie
tory for the Georgia ports tn the first
round of the fight, and rigorous pro
tests, against the postponement were
made by both the Jacksonville and
Charleston bureaus. The hearing had
been s*>t for Sept. 6.
•Evidence gathered by the two pro
testing bureaus attack Georgia intra
| state rates as favoring Brunswick and
! Savannah gs against Charleston and
[ Jacksonville. The Georgia railroad
| commission is soon to conduct a for
| mal investigation of these charges,
jat which Brunswick and Savannah
1 will maintain that the rates now in
(effect are not discriminatory.
| The Jacksonville and Charleston or
ganisations are planning to carry the
! case to the supreme rate tribunal in
the event the Georgia commission*
ruling proves unsatisfactory to them.
1 The matter will be vigorously con
• tested at every point until definitely
settled
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24, 1921.
Col. Edward M. House (left) and Ellis Loring Preset.
Col. Edward M.'House, one of the powerful figures in the.*Wilson re
gime, now a newspaper correspondent, has been in Berlin. He bad
several interviews there with Ellis Loring Dresel, whp Is representing the
U. S. government in Germany, and the photo show! the two men together
in the German capital. * * 1
FOUR HOTEL FIRES
WERE INCENDIARY
M H
State Fire Marshal Sharp, Af
ter Preliminary Investigation,
Announced Last Night That
Burning of Hotels at Indian
Spring of Incendiary Origin.
(By Associated Press.)
Indian Spring, Ga., Aug 23.—State
Fire Marshal Sharp, after a prelimi
nary investigation, announced tonight
his belief that Incendiarism is re
sponsible for the destruction by Are
of four hotels here during Sunday
night, included in which was the Wig
wam, one of the state’s most noted
resort hotels, and skid to have been
the largest wooden hotel building in
Georgia.
Fire Marshal Sharp stated that he
intends to conduct an exhaustive in
quiry. and said that ten days would
probably be required to completely
clear up the matter. A loss of ap
proximately a quarter of a million dol
lars is entailed in the destruction of
the four hotels.
DARIEN ROAD DAMAGED
BY HEAVY RAINFALL
A rainfall which almost peached
the prodprtions of a cloudburst fell
in the vicinity of Darien Monday
night, as a result of which consider
abe damage was done to the recently
completed causeway, and to the high
way near Broadfleld. Sup! Burnsed.
of the state highway maintenance
force for this district, was notified
yesterday morning of the damage.
*nd he promptly hurried his crew of
workmen to the scene to make the
necessary repairs. Mr. Burnsed stat
ed last night, that while considerable
damage to the road resulted from the
heavy rain, the shgulder# being wash
ed away In many places, that traffic
was not delayed, and' that the repair
work will be‘completed within a few
days, fn the meantime, he stated, au
tomobiles. mhy get through without
the least difficulty, prompt attention
having been given to the more serious
breaks in .the road.
GOING OUT FOR BUSINESS
SAYS W. A. O’QUINN & CO.
The popular W. A. tVQutnn tt Com
pany clothing store announces in The
New* this morning that they are not
going out of business, but propose to
go out for business, with highclass
merchandise and unusually attractive
prices as an inducement to the buy
ing public. Mr. O’Quinn is getting in
his fall liaes. and advises prospective
clothing buyers to see him before
placing an order for the fall outfit. It
will mean money saved. In addition
to a guarantee that your fail clothing
wit! fully t-ome up t 0 your requ're
manta
Col. House and Representative
of U. S. Confer in Germany
CONGRESS READY
FOR 30-DAYS REST
Leaders Announce That Recess
Will be Taken Today For
Thirty Days Regardless of
What May or May Not Hap
pen to Pending Anti-Beer
Legislation.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. Aug. 2^,— Congress
was ready tonight to quit work to
morrow for a period of thirty days,
regardless of what might or might
not happen to the anti-beer bill.
Soon after the adoption of the con
ference report on the measure by the
house it was sent to the senate, sub
ject to displacement by the confer
ence report oh the agricultural re
lief bill. ,
The senate remained in session to
night in order to have the latter mea
sure before it for consideration.
Leaders agreed that the agricultural
relief bill is the most pressing legis
lation to be acted on before the re
GIGANTIC SWINDLE
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
Millions of Dollars Worthless
Notes, Stolen Blonds and
Fraudulent Deeds of Trust
Have Been Flung on the Mar
kets of the Country, Federal
Agents Declare.
* (By Associated Press.)
Chicago. Aug. 23. —Millions of dol
lars of worthless notes, stolen bonds,
fraudulent deeds of trust, and forged
certificates cf deposit have been flung
on the markets of the csuwitry. federal
agents declared here today after com
pleting an investigation of the opera
tions of band-aPeged to have been
headed by Charles US’; French and
John F. Worthington. ,
Banks, bond houses, broker*, and
wealthy business men are declared to
have been the victims of a gigantic
swindle. A total of six million dollar*
worth of *tolen bonds, three million
dollars or worthless note*, and a hun
dred thousand dollar* worth of trust
deeds and forged certificates of de
posit have already been traced by
agents of the department of Jnstice.
It was announced.
OVERSTREET AGAINST
REFUNDING MEASURE
Washington. Aug. 23.—Representa
tive Overstreet of the First Georgia
district voted against the so-railed
“handout" of *300.000.000 to the rail
road*. the railroad refunding measure.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO
WRECK A., B. & A. TRAIN
(By Associated Press.)
Tolbotton, Ga., Aug. 23. —For the
fifth time since the strike of trainmen
of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlan
tic railway has bean in progress, a
charge of dynamite was exploded
under a locomotive near here today.
No one was injured, and the engine
was not derailed. The dynamite had
been placed on the track, cleverly
concealed, and exploded when the en
gine passed over it.
PIERCE CO. SHF
SHOT AND KILLED
jk —.
Information Received in Bruns
wck Late Last Night That
Sheriff of Neighboring Coun
ty Met Death While Attempt
ing to Serve a Paper, Near
Patterson.
Persons arriving in Brunswick gt
9:30 last night on the A. C. L. train
from Waycrcss brought information
of the killing late yesterday i after
noon of Sheriff Robinson, of Pierce
county, who, it is reported was shot
to death near Patterson wkjle at
tempting to serve a paper on a white
man in connection with the sale of
a horse.
, Details otf the lulling of Sheriff
Robinson coud not be learned. As
sistant Chief of Police McGaulley, a
relative of the dead man. called up
the sheriff’s wife at his home in Black
shear, but Mrs. Robinson stated that
she had learned none of the particu
lars, further than the bare announce
ment that her husband had been kill
ed. It is understood that the officer
was fired upon from ambush, being
instantly killed.
CLEVELAND’S LEAD IS
CUT DOWN BV NEW YORK
(By Associated Press.)
Cleveland, Aug. 23.—New York to
day cut Cleveland’s lead in the Amer
ican League standing down to a bare
margin of J>ut one point by defeating
the Indians in the game here today.
During the progress of the battle Ruth
batted out h|s forty-seventh and for
ty-eighth home runs of the season.
NAME FOR STREET
RY. CO. SELECTED
Brunswick & Interurban Rail
way Company Will be the
Style Under Which Company
Now Being Organized by the
Young Men’s Club Will be In
corporated.—Mrs. C. W. Ir
win the Winner.
The Brunswick & Interurban Rail
way Company will be the name un
der which the new company, now be
ing organized to take over and operate
the local street railway system, will
be lncofporated, the committee hav
ing selected this name from among
the scores submitted, yesterday af
ternoon.
At the luncheon last Friday of the
Yeung Men's Club when the plan to
organize a comoany wax launched, it
was decided to offer a prize of SIO.OO
for the most suitable name suggested.
The contest was open to the general
public, and nanjps, by the hundreds
wefe received by Secretary Warde.
"The Brunswick A Interurban
Company," was suggested by Mrs. C.
W. Irwin, and the committee decided
this to be the -most fitting of the,
•cores considered, and Mrs. Irwin war,
therefore awarded the SIO.OO prise,
which she progfrfftly and very gener
ously donated to St.-John's-Haven.
The name selected is considered
especially appropriate, in view of the
proposed extension of the lines to
Arco. which will be one of the first
step* taken towards placing the car
system on a paying ba*4s. , In - the
meantime, details of organization of
the company, with every member of
the Young Men’s Club included among
the list of incorporators. Is going for
ward with satisfactory progress, and
it is believed that when the final order
of sale i* issued by Judge Evans suffi
cient . capital stock will have been
paid in to take over the property, and
carry out the plan* of reorganization,
aa outlined a few days ago.
IIPIIiIMB*-*-
I ROWERS
PikVV\E CENTS
FORMER\viEE
LOCAL POSkdCE
IS ARRESTED IN JAX.
Hosea F. Warren Takeoi Into
Custody by P. 0. Inspectors
on Embezzlement Chaise.
FORMERLY M. 0. CLERIC
IN THE BRUNSWICK P. 0.
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Man Arrested is Also a Brother
of James H. Warren, th®
Young Man Who Was Recent
ly Given a Light Sentence on
a Similar Charge in Connec
tion With Local Robbery.
News was received in Brunswick
yesterday that Hosea F. Warren, Jr.,
a clerk employed in the Jacksonville,
Fla., postofflce, was placed under ar
rest late Monday afternoon on com
plaiiit of F. J. G. Pulsipher, a post
office inspector.
Warren, it is reported, has entered
a plea of guilty to a charge of em
bezzlement of a letter, which contain
ed $4.00 in cash. 1 He wa3 placed un
der bond of $2,500 when arraigned
yesterday before U. S. Commlssisner
Carl Noble, at Jacksonville. The ar
rest was made by Deputy IT. S. Mar
shal A. B. Turner.
Formerly Employed Here.
The arrest of young Warren, whose
home Is at Waynesville, his father
being a well known citizen of that
village, will be learned with a great
deal of interest In Brunswick. The
young man was formerly an employee
of the Brunswick postofflce, having
served as money order clerk, and wai
well known here.
He was transferred to Jacksonville
a little more than a year ago, shortly
after his marriage to a Brunswick
girl, who had just graduated from the,
high scKftot/* ' ' * _ '
Brother Jas. H. Warren.
H. F. Warren, about 25 years of
age, Is a brother of James H. Warren,
who, it will be recalled, entered a
pie of guilty to the robbery of a mail
sack stolen shortly after last Christ
mas, while enroute from the Bruns
wick postofflce to the railroad station,
for which he-was given a light fine in
federal district court by Judge Evans
in February. The latter was an em
ployee in the local postofflce at the
the mail Hack was stolen, the
valuable contents of which were later
recovered.
ALMA TIMES EDITOR IN
' THE CITY YESTERDAY
Editor H. L. Jenkins, of the Alma
Times, was among the prominent vis
itors in Brunswick yesterday, coming
here to look after business matters
in connection with his splendid week
ly newspaper. Mr. Jenkins said some
very, complimentary things about
Brunswick, expressing the belief that
the port will one day take rank among
the leading ports *of the South Atlan
tic. f v „ *
He especially commended tie work
of the Young Men’s Club, saying
through the efforts of that live wink,
wide-awake organization, Brunswick
is rapidly coming to the favorable at
tention of people in all parts of the
state, and throughout the country. He
believes that the Young Men’s Club
is Brunswick's one best bet for future
development. /
In discussing the proposed
I bridge proposition, Mr. Jenkins
said the value of this project is so
great as td be beyond computation
in dollars and cents. He added thap
Bacon county people are very deeply
interested in the completion of tb#
project,, as it wJH make available tp
them one of the finest pogst regort
beaches Jn'Jhe country, fie expressed
the hope that Glynn cOunty people
would get behind the movement and
put it across without delay.
MANY WILL ATTEND
DARIEN DANCE TONIGHT
A large of Brunswick
young people have been Invited to
attend a dance to be held at Darien
tonight, and it is ezpeoted that many
will be present. Since completion of
the bjridges the drive over to Darien
is a pleasant automobile trip, and the
social bonds between the neighboring
towns have been much strengthened
as a result. The LorenUxon “Five
Jazz Fiends" orchestra baa been en
gaged to provide music for the event
at Darien tonight, aa well aa for •
dance at Waycroes Friday evening, -