Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, December 23, 1910, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XVI. NO. 13 EXPLOSION KILLS 10 AND INJURES 125 GAS EXPLOSION IN GRAND CEN TRAL STATION, NEW YORK CITY, SPREADS RUIN. LOSS WAS OVER $3,000,000 Motor Car Struck Illuminating Gas Pipe Line and Caused Explosion. New York.— A terrific explosion of Illuminating gas in the auxiliary pow er house at the Grand Central station which tore at the heart and sent a tremor along the entire rock back bone of Manhattan caused the death of ten persons, two of them women, the injury of 125 others, some of the latter fatally, and property damage estimated at from $2,000,000 to $3,- 000,000. Four persons are missing and are believed to be dead. Fire broke out in the shattered ruins of the power house, but with a great corps of police, searchers and firemen on the scene, the blaze made little headway before being checked A canvass of the neighborhood showed that few structures had es caped. Windows were smashed liter ally by the thousands. Handsome res idence fronts were decorated with blankets, sheets, newspapers, burlap or old rugs as the quickest substitutes for window glass. Several institutions in the neighborhood have appealed for aid to affect repairs, and order will not be restored for weeks. The Tiffany studios at Forty-fourth street and Madison avenue, fully half a mile from the scene of the catas trophe, suffered. Valuable stained glass windows, valued at $10,009, were smashed. For some hours it was believed that dynamite alone could have wrought such instantaneous and pulverizing havoc, but Fire Chief Croker., said he was convinced that the whole explo sion was due to a mixture of air and Illuminating gas, used in lighting rail road cars, touched of* by an electric spark. The gas had accumulated in the auxiliary power house from a broken pipe snapped off by a runaway passenger car. The force of the explosion ran north and south for two miles along the rock ridge that is the backbone of the island, and east and west laterally for a mile. Foundations were jarrea, walls were shaken out of plumb, windows were blown in by the thousand, ceil ings came crashing down on the heads of those underneath, and the pave ments were littered with a mass of pulverized glass. As nearly as can be determined this is how the accident occurred: A train load of empty passenger cars, hauled by an electric motor, in charge of Albert Seagroatt, got out of control ot the brakes, crashed into a steel and concrete buffer post, snapped the post oft and rammed a pile of lumber be hind the post into a 2 1-2-inch gas main, connecting with the taps from which the tanks of the passenger cars are charged at 250 pounds to the square inch. When workmen set to clearing away the strewed lumber, it is assumed that one of them dropped a steel tool across the third rail, there was a flash of electricity and the great reservoir of accumulated gas exploded. What happened then will never be adequate ly told. The roof of fire house No. 2, directly across the street from the power house, lifted like a magic car pet. A shower of glass, bricks, mortar and splintered timbers began to rain down on the pavements. In an instant the streets were filled with prostrate men and women, blown flat by the shock of the detonation and the rush ot air. Waiter’s Sweetheart Gets Fortune. Philadelphia.—By the terms of the Will of the late Robert Burst, the wealthy seedsman of this city, Rob ert B- de Janon, his grandchild, who disappeared from this city with a ho tel waiter last December, and was found in Chicago, is given in trust the bulk of his estate, which is valued at about $500,000. The will was execut ed on December 6, this year, after he had been stricken with his fatal ill ness. Justice White Takes Oath. Washington. — Edward Douglass White, for sixteen years an associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States, became the ninth chief justice of the nation. The oath of allegiance was administered by Asso ciate Justice Harlan. For the first time in history, as associate justice has been elevated to the chief justice ship, and for the first time a presi dent and senate of one political party has honored a member of a rival par ty by placing him at the head of the hjghest court in the land.. Smtutmi SulktttL HOW THE NATION’S POPULATION INCREASED n—• ? ‘ KOPMLATIdHy ■» 4 W OFFICIAL MAP PREPARED BY CENSUS BUREAU The Shading Shows the Increase Made by the Various States According to 1910 Figures Which Have Now Been Completed. CHAMPION CORN GROWERS The Boys Have Shown Old Farmers of the South How to Grow Corn. Washington. — Eleven Southern boys, the champion corn growers out of 46,225 contestants, none ot them over 16 years of age, were presented diplomas of merit by the secretary of agriculture, and shook hands with the president of the United States. They have demonstrated that from 83 to 228 bushels of corn can be grown per acre in the South, whereas the average is now 14 to 20 bushels. These eleven state prize winners posed for their photographs, each with an ear of corn in his hands. In the group was Joseph Stone of Centre, Jackson county, Georgia, who raised 102 5-8 bushels on his measur ed acre at an expense of 29 cents a bushel. The champion of the group was a South Carolina boy, Jerry H. Moore of Winona, who raised 228 3-4 bushels at a cost of 43 cents per bushel. But the real first prize win ner was Ira Smith of Silver, Ark., who raised 119 bushels at an outlay of 8 cents a bushel. The lesson of seed selection, proper cultivation of the soil and proof that the present average per acre corn pro duction in the South is unreasonably low was the object sought in the corn contest. The present trip of the state winners to Wasnington is the culmina tion of their year’s work. They are in charge of Prof. O. B. Martin, assistant to Dr. Seaman A. Knapp of the divis ion of farm demonstration work. Besides the trip to Washington for the state winners this year, prizes totalling $40,000 were given. This was not government money. Merchants, bankers and other public-spirited men in the South offered all sorts of things —cash, farm implements, trips, ponies, pigs, bicycles, watches and many oth er things such as boys would work hardest for. The boys studied seed selection in the winter, soil composition, fertil izers and the circulars on the prepara tion of the seed bed and subsequent cultivation which were mailed from the department. They plowed their ground from 8 to 16 inches deep, and cleaned stables and chicken houses for manure, and cleaned up the farm for wood ash and humus. ROOSEVELT ARADICAL. Ex-President Makes First Speech Since Recent Elections. New Haven, Conn. —Col. Theodore Roosevelt, as the guest of the cham ber of commerce at its annual ban quet, made his first public address since the recent elections. “It seems to me that nothing could be a better augury of the future of this country,” he said, “than that a Republican president should appoint an ex-Confederate of the opposite po litical faith chief justice of the Unit ed States Supreme court and receive the unanimous applause of his coun trymen. “I am a radical, but I am a radical who most earneetly desires to see a radical program carried out by con servatives. I wish to see great indus trial reforms carried out, not by the men who will profit by them, but by the men who lose by them; by just such men as you around me. I believe most emphatically in the progress which shall be. sane.” Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Has 13,395 People. Washington.—Population of Bristol, Tenn., is 7,148, compared with 5,271 in 1900. Combined with Bristol, Va., which has a population of 6,247, the population of Bristol, Tenn.-Va., is 13,- 395, compared with 9,850 in 1900. Congress Spends SIO,OOO a Minute. Washington.—Congress passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill in one hour and forty minutes. As the measure carried $1,060,615, this was appropriating public funds at the rate ,as SIO,OOO a minute. IRWINTON. WILKINSON COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 23.1910. TEN MILLIONS FOR PEACE FUND IS TO BE USED TO ESTAB' LISH WORLD PEACE BY AB OLITION OF WAR. Twenty-Seven Trustees Named by Andrew Carnegie to Care for the Fund. Washington.—Surrounded by 27 trustees of his choosing, comprising; former cabinet members, ex-ambassa-; dors, college professors, lawyers and; educators, Andrew Carnegie transfer-; red $10,000,000 in 5 per cent, first; mortgage bonds, valued at $11,500,000,' to be devoted primarily to the es-. tablishment of universal peace by the' abolition of war between nations and such friction as may impair “the prog ress and happiness of man.” When wars between nations shall have ceased, the fund is to be applied to such altruistic purposes as will “best help man in his glorious ascent' onward and upward,” by the banish-; ment of the “most degrading evil evils” then harassing mankind. DIRECT VOl E FORSENATORS Constitutional Amendment Is Favored by Senate Committee. Washington.—By a vote of 2 to 1, a subcommittee of the senate commit tee on judiciary authorized a favora ble report on a resolution for a con stitutional amendment to provide for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Southern senators in their discus sion and votes will seek to guard the states in their right to restrict the suffrage as they choose within the limitations of the fifteenth amend ment. A citizen’s right to vote comes from the state, but if congress pro vides for the election of United States senators, it may say who is entitled to vote in such elections. COTTONGINNERSREPORT. Reports Indicate 96 Per Cent, of the; Cotton Crop Ginned. Memphis, Tenn.—According to the report of the National Ginners’ aseo-. elation, about 477,000 bales of cotton were ginned during the period from December 1 to December 13, compar ed with 481,000 bales in 1909. The re port states that the crop is 99 per cent, picked and 96 per cent, ginned, The reports from ginners show that the ginning will be completed by Jan uary 5. The report by states was: Alabama 1,114,000, Arkansas 672,-. 000, Florida 60,000, Oklahoma 861,000, South Carolina 1,089,000, Tennessee, 265,000, Texas 2,862,000, various 64,-' 000. Total 10,617,000. 801 l Weevil Heads for Georgia. Montgomery, Ala.—Thorough in-, spection of territory in southeast Ala bama by bool weevil experts and dem onstration agents has shown the pest! to have gained a much firmer foothold than at first supposed. Reports re ceived by B. L. Moss, state agent of the government’s demonstration farm work, led by Mr. Moss to predict that the weevil may reach the Georgia line ..by next year. „ . —— . Confederate Monuments Discussed. Washington. —To meet the objec tions raised by many cemetery asso ciations in the North against the erecting of small individual headstones to mark the graves of Confederate soldiers who died in Northern prisons, the senate committee on military af fairs has indorsed a bill giving author ity for the construction of large ma sonry monuments, bearing bronze tab-; lets with the names of the soldiers upon them. The committee recom mends that the time allowed for mark 4ng the graves be extended two years. Back From New York--Our Buyer We are pleased to state our buyer has return ed from New York and other Eastern markets. He states that this has been his most success ful trip made in his six years’ experience. The market on all lines was found to be at alow ebb. Prices Were as Low as They Were When Cotton Was Eight Cents Per Pound. The reason of this is not known; all seem to think we will soon have big advances in all lines; but we are protected; have bought the largest stock ever brought to Milledgeville. Our prices will be low—lower than you could reasonably ex pect. We have the goods, not in New York, Phil adelphia or Boston —but right here in Milledge ville in our Two Big Stores We also wish to announce to the ladies of good old Wilkinson coun ty, our addition of a “LADIES’ REST ROOM,” with toilet and lavatoriei. This room we have long needed, and we are pleased to invite you to feel at home here. We expect in a few days to tell you some very interesting store news. YOUR FRIENDS, W. S. MYRICK & CO. “The Store Where Shopping is Easy” SI.OO a Year.