The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 1

Si JAM DAILY MET T7EAII132 TEKPESATURE Sho-wcrs tenirfit and Satur- Maximum yesterday 87 MiDimnm last night 78 day; moderate rinds. Larger Paid-in-Advance Circulation Than Any Other Daily Paper Published on the East Coast TEN CENTS A WEEK; SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS TEN PAGES NINETEENTH YEAR: NUMBER 219. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES MIAMI FLORIDA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1916. ThoLost for an Entire Day RESIDENT Railroad Presidents Summoned to Conference With the President SELL THREE BOND ISSUES TONIGHT AND TOMORROW Hurricane Makes Apperance Right at Miami's Side Door Alt OTHER Sealed Bids Will Be Received for CONFERENCE high winds and rain would probably not last long.

Nothing definite on ropical Disturbance, Lost Yester Municipal, County and School Bonds to Total of $363,000 day, Hits Miami Shortly After Noon With Wind of 38 Miles an Hour TO PR EVENT MAKE RAii ROAD POTWATCHH ON CROSSINGS the situation could be given out at this hour. Wind 38 Miles An Hour. Between 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock five inches of rain fell in Miami while the wind reached a velocity of 38 miles an hour, blowing from the In the down-town section the water over the sidewalks and i lose to the atore rooms, while a itstely procession of wood bloc paving swept down the street tow THE STRIKE Ah there you are little hurricane. CITY ISSUE THE LARGEST right at Miami's side door: Kvur since that tropical disturbance, as tha weather man calls it, started ou on a tangent 'across Porto Rico sev Representatives ef Railroads and ard the sewers. The lightning play- eral U)a ALU IUC1C IM3 UrU or less anxiely among local people as the Brotherhoods Again Sum Promise to Flag Crossings Over to the path the gale would probabiy ff rJ Metropolis ol.ice was shut off, caus- take.

It reported off Turks Is moned to White House to Talk Municipal Bends Are in Sum cf $253,000, County Bonds for $100,000 and School Bonds for $10,000 was ing the iaper to get to press late. land, headed northwestward, and then yesterday morning the weather Orer Situation The court house yard was practically covered with water inside of an hour after the storm started. The Terminal Dock Spur Not Be-. ing Kept by F. E.

Officials bureau officials stated that they were sorry but tney naa lost we storm. No trace of it could be found. flooded streets proved disastrous for PROBLEM YET UNSOLVED and no one couid find out which way a repair truck of the Miami Electric Municipal, county snd school i a i i nil sii vA it had gone. And then this morning "gm ior me iruca, in turning Hfj I 1 I I it'fY I I 1 II il i i li I I F. T.

UNDERWOOD, SAMUEL RE A. ir, ii pp- yrr)l if 1 iy A 1 IT II 4 il iVvf Presto! The hurricane showed up ur Minutes of the city council show i I lrn cht qtiH timnrniv. all to tha right off Miami, between Miami and I wel.tn street Dogged down in a noie that F. W. Kirtland.

assistant to Brotherhoods Unable to Offer Nassau to be exact, but somewhat i "'e lun "txa closer to the Florida coast than the washed away, and it was some time Bahamas. And this morning the I before the machine could be moved. au I oroiters mailing me uiguesi. bcim Vide President Beckwith of the Flor- bids. The municipal bonds will be Ida East Coast Railroad company, goW by the my Jnacll tni8 wnin many months ago promised, on be-, the county bonds by the county corn- storm was just about thirty miles Just how long the blow will keep Proposition Which the Roads Will Accept Says Spokesman! east of Miami, headed northward.

half of the company, to flag all missioners tomorrow morning, and street crossings over the terminal the school bonds by the comity The tail end of the storm struck for Brotherhoods dock spur whenever a train was school board tomorrow afternoon. Miami shortly before 1 o'clock. Weather Forecaster Gray stated at 2 o'clock that apparently the storm up cannot be stated until further reports are received from Washington, but Forecaster Gray is of the opinion that the storm will soon abate, and that it will be found that the center of the storm struck inland to the north. When discovere-l this morning between Miami and switched over that track, but while The municipal bond issue is for the spur track is used nearly every the largest amount, $253,600. These, day seldom is a flagman seen.

As a 'are street and sewer improvement result there has been a number of bonds issued for the purpose of tak- had passed inland to the. north cf Miami and that this city was on the southern edge of the blow. Hov-ever, no reports had been received near accidents. Nassau the disturbance had greatly Within the week Joe Orr escaped decreased in intensity and even the here from Washington at that hour. by a "fraction of a second, he said, from being run down by a string of wind and rain of this afternoon was not looked for.

although the barometer in Miami this morning stood ex and it was impossible to locate the center of the disturbance. In case Miami was on the southern edge of it Mr. Gray stated that the present box cars switched over the Avenue crossing. There was no watchman and Mr. Orr did not see the train ceptionally low.

until it was too late to stop his car. WASHINGTON, August 25. President Wilson today summoned to the hite House the representatives of the railroads and of the brotherhoods for separate conferences to discuss the proposals which have developed from his original settlement plans. The president, conferred wlta the four brotherhood leaders for an hour and a half, it was understood that he wanted their views legislation to prevent future recurrences of the present situation which threatens a nation-wide railroad strike. After the conference A.

B. Gar-retson, spokesman for the hoods, stated that the situation was unchanged and that no complete and and got out of the difficulty; by put ing US' the liens against the property abutting on the-streets recently improved. At least nine bids will be1 made for this issue, said City Auditor C. H. Reeder today.

Five sealed bids had been received by mail np to noon, and representatives of four other bond houses are in the city. The Connty Issue Clerk F. J. Magill of the hoard of county commissioners received three -bids this morning on the bonds, which the commissioners expect to tell at a special meeting tomorrow morning. Two of the bids were for the entire $100,000 issue, while the third bid was for the road bonds only.

The bidders are Bolger, Mosser ARE TOURISTS TO ting on all speed and crossing the track an instance before the train arrived. A few day before the Orr escape a freight train backed dowi the track just as Roddy Burdine was SHORT LIVED WAS THE ROMANCE OF HOTEL CLERK WHO crossing, and he escaped being run down by driving his car into a This happened at night and the train 3P concrete proposition to which the i railroads had agreed had been tend- could not be seen. Several months AGAIN ENTER THE CITY ON UNPAVED BISCAYNE DRIVE? Sc. illaman of Chicago, Perry Briggs ago a train on the same track bumped the rear fender of B. H.

Klyce's ALFEEDH. SMITH. of Toledo, and Elston, Clifford of Chicago. The $100,000 Here are lour of tne eighteen railway presidents summoned to Washington by President Wilson, for conferences regarding the threat issue is divided into three items. WED RICH WIDOW $25,000 being for a sew jail, for bridges and $40,000 for gen ened of 400,000 railroad employees.

Top, left to right are: F. T. Underwood, of the Erie, and Samuel Rea, of the Pennsylvania. Bottom left te right: Alfred H. Smith, of the New York Central, and Daniel of the Baltimore and Ohio.

eral road work. It is expected that a- number of other bids will be receiv ed before the commissioners meet to car, and only recently he had another narrow escape. Make I- It. Cum? to Time Councilmvi F. H.

Wharton, to whore department as street committeeman has been referred all questions pertaining to the street crossings over the railroad tracks, said today that he knew the railroad officials had promised to flag the crossings over the terminal dock spur and that he knew this promise is not being kept. "The only way to make the company keep its promise, as I see it. Harry Hamilton Hines, Baritone Delay in Securing Street Car Rails morrow, while it is probable that several representatives of bond houses will appear before the meeting" MM! EFFORTS DONT HELP ered to the brotherhoods. W. G.

Lee, of the brotherhood trainmen, accused the Northern Pacific of starting the propoganda against the president's plan by sending its station agents copies of the protests which they were to send to President Wilson protesting against settlement other than by arbitration. After continued conferences yesterday between the president and Wright railroHrt committeemen the was described as having narrowed down to the railroads, or at least their committee, being to accept the eight-hour day and in return C3k for th assurance of getting freisht rates, and thit congress cieate neraisnent commi3-hinn to investigate future differences and make public its report before a strika vote would to taken. These proposals were communicated to the brotherhood leaders, who seemed to regard ihs.n favorably. Singer, Swell Dresser, Hotel Night Clerk, Sued for Divorce and Water Mains is Preventing Improving Dixie Highway Kill CAUSE SAYS CSTTS CAMP is to pass an ordinance requiring the flagging of these crossings," said the councilman today, "and I propose to As usual, Biscayne Drive is in ex Harry Hamilton Hines, baritone bring it up at tonight's meeting of ecrable condition, say residents singer heard in nearly all the churches of Miami during the last the council. The company is not flagging the crossings there at all nagging lue iTussiuEB mere a Nominee's Headquarters in Jack' i I two and formerly night clerk anA manr ccldenta nav- wn nar- in the Plaza hotel, has lost his rich rowly averted.

It Is time that some- along that street and autolsts who frequently travel over It, and as the pavement deterioates and the time for the return of the winter visitors approaches the demand that the street be improved is Decerning more bride, according to the Atlanta Geor- thing was done." gian, for the Forsyth, widow he sonville Makes Statement Regarding Most Recent Activities and submit bids. In addition to opening bids for the bonds tomorrow the commissioners will canvass the returns from the causeway bond election held last Tuesday. Nothing else of importance is on the books to come np before the meeting. The School Bond Bids for a $10,000 issne of Per-rine school bonds will be opened by the county board of education at a. meeting this afternoon, and it is expected that when the board holds its October a contract, for the new Perrine school building will be let.

A number of bids for the bond issue have been received by County Superintendent R. E. Hall, the following firms having sent in bids: First National Bank of Miami, Bank of Bay Biscayne, G. L. Miller and C.

H. Coffin of Chicago, dimming. Prudden of Bond of Chicago, W. L. Slayton of Toledo and tha United Savings and Trust Co.

The Perrine school district bonds were voted some time ago upon the married on February 2, last, after a GERMANS FAIL TO RECAPTURE LOSTjWIGN French Won Signal Victory in the strenuous courtship, has brought suit for divorce and also to recover DANISH UPPER HOUSE AGIST THE SALE OF DISH 1ST HIES CITY WINS FIRST HEATIN THE TRAP The Glen St. Mary Recount and the property she gave her husband. Included in the list of properties she hopes to recover is a wedding ring insistent. As the Drive is the last mile of the famous Dixie Highway from Chicago to Miami it is believed that it should at least be in as good a condition as any other section of the highway; If possible it ought to be better, as last impressions count say the automobile drivers. But there is "nothing doing" in the line of Biscayne Drive improvement, and City Engineer Klyce fails to see how which she claims Hines bought for her out of money she loaned him but which ring he himself wore.

Some $3,000 of the bride's money Part Played by R. B. Stnrkie Showed Up by Catts Supporters DOOR ARGUMENT Maurepas Sector on the Som-me Front and Hold Position went toward defraying the expenses of their wedding tour to Cuba, and $18,000 more was invested in a fash JACKSONVILLE, August 25. Ef Legislature of the Islands, However, Urges Sale to United States as Speedily as Possible Kress Company Fails to Get In forts of bungling supporters of ionable hotel in Atlanta, Hines becoming manager of this hostelry. Of the domestic difficulties of Hines and his rich bride the Atlanta paper anything can be done at this time as the street car rails and the water mains ought to first be laid.

V. Knott have Caused considerable says: Romance Reaches Climax, junction Preventing Passage of Anti-Trap Door Ordinance "It would be money thrown away to pave the Drive now when it must be torn up in a few weeks or months by the street car company and the LONDON, August 25. Alhough the Germans made a heavy attack last night north of the Somme in th) Maurepas sector, the French hold on the village, the complete occupation of which they announced last night, has not been shaken, according to a French announcement this afternoon which declares that the Germans lost heavily in trying to retake Maure- amusement here and no small amount of chagrin to Mr. Knott himself, when the first discovery was made in Greenville precinct, Marion county, that the ballot boxes w-ere opened and changed to give Mr. Knott the benefit of 57 votes.

Such a wave Mrs. Minnie Farley Hines, former rich widow of Forsyth, who, following a romantic courtship of two waterworks," said the engineer. Just when the traction people and months at Palm Beach, on February LONDON, August 25. The Danish upper house has rejected the proposal To sell the Danish West Indies to the United States, according to dispatches from Copenhagan. This does not necessarily mean that the sale is definitely off.

the water company will secure ma 2, last, became the bride of Hcrry Hamilton Hines, manager of the petition of a number of residents of the Perrine section. The $10,000 will be used in erecting a handsome new school building at Perrine, the plans for the building now being drawn byj Architect E. A. Nolan, The details will not be ready for the next meeting of the school board but 4t is expected that a contract for the work will be let at the October meeting. In addition to receiving bids for the Perrine bonds this afternoon the school board will receive brds for the transportation of school children in several of the districts.

Transportation arrangements for children in the Larkins and Arch Creek districts will be made this afternoon. Silver Palm will not make these arrangements for some time yet, as the newly elected trustees have not had time to get down to work. terial for their extensions northward of indignation spread over the state Attorneys for the S. II. Kress failed to secure a temporary injunction restraining the city of Mi- Peach on the Drive is problematical, as no Jar.hionable Imperial Hotel on definite promise as to when steel and 'three street and popnTarly kn known as ami from passing the sidewalk trap vas.

mumaiioDB in me press uis-1 that the Knott forces discontinued patches of a possible extension of the claiming these votes in their gain French offensive south of the Somme from the recount, but Mr. Knott in for a distance of thirty miles seems an open statement claimed that these born out by the official announce-! precincts "were slated that hi pipe will be shipped can be secured a baritone singer, Tuesday gave up door ordinance, or from interferring her rooms in the Imperial and re-jWftii the operations on the new turned to Forsyth just after Attor- i Kress buiidins: on Twelfth street in ment of continuation of a heavy ar-1 industrious henchmen might find neys Iowry Arnold and Reuben R. ST. THOMAS, Danish West Indies August 25. The local legislature has unanimously adopted and cabled to the finance minister of Denmark, resolutions urging the sale of the Danies West Indies to the United States as speedily as possible so as Temporary Improvement X.

G. Only three months ago Biscayne Drive was scarified, some new rock was hauled in, and the pavement was placed in good condition. But oil was not applied and it soon went to pieces again. At the time these connection with the sidewalk excavation, for D. J.

Heffernan, sitting as court commissioner, decided adversely to the builders and refused to grant the injunction. Lilburn R. tuiery bombardment in that sector, them, and be set upon by Catts fol-Petrograd dispatches announce lowers who would howl fraud. This that the Russians have resumed is what Mr. Knott called a frame-up.

their advance along the entire Turk-1 It is now charped by the Catts ish front and. recuperating from re- faction that Mr. Knott thought so cent severs reverses, have reoccupied i well of the scheme that he tried it Railey and Price Kylea were attor to end the uncertainty of the present situation which the resolution days are causing business depression. Mush, while it is reported that the over in Glen St. Mary, and by way of jutks nave evacuatea tsuiis, it Diversion tne Dallots were stolen miles southeast of Lake Van.

t'nfortunately, it is claimed bv the Italy announces a new Italian at- Catts followers, news of the disan- Arnold had filed a sensational divorce suit in her behalf, and, through bail trover proceedings, had recovered from Hines a $1,250 automobile and a $400 diamond ring. The domestic relations of Hines and his wealthy bride were understood to have been strained for several days, and, according to the divorce petition, reached the climax Monday in a lively scene between the two in the office of the Imperiial. Mrs. Hines set out that she went into the office to ask her husband for the return of her diamond ring whereupon he seized and twisted her erm, sprained her thumb and put her out of the office. Seizes Auto and Diamond.

It was immediately following this tack in the Dolomites on the north- pearance of the ballots and a vitriolic ern part of her frontier. This action statement from Mr. Knott denouncing is being hindered by unfavorable the act was already returned and in GEORGIA MILITIAMAN IS FATALLY SHOT BY WOMAN MACON, August 25. Capt. E.

J. Spratling of Company Fifth regiment of the Georgia National Guard, was shot and killed in camp here today. Mrs. II. C.

Adams, of Atlanta, was arrested in connection with the shooting. neys for the Kress company and K. V. Labarre, contractor in charge of putting up the building. The matter was first brought up when Adolph Freedlund, who had the sub-contract for the excavation, was arrested and fined $10 in the city police court for excavating under the sidewalk without first obtaining a permit from the city engineer.

The engineer later refused to grant such permit, stating that he did not have authority so to do. The sidewalk excavation was for the purpose of installing a sidewalk lift, or temporary repairs were made it was not deemed advisable to oil the street because of the work to be done by the street car and waterworks companies. However, it is stated that the street could be brought down to grade and paved, the public service corporations later reparing that part of the street which they would be compelled to tear up to maife their contemplated improvements. Councilman Romfh stated that he saw no reason why the Drive could not be taved with the exception of a space in the center for the street car lines, the traction people to pave that strip immediately upon the laying of the rails. There has been considerable agitation for concrete pavement on Biscayne Drive, but Engineer Klyce is weather but some progress has been made.

Russia today tells officially of the repulse of an Austro-German advance before Kovel in Volhynia ana of Teutonic repulses on other parts the hands of a representative of the Times-Union before the mares nest at Glen St. Mary had actually been discovered. The following statement addressed to Mr. Knott, was then issued by the Catts headquarters here: Relaying Miami-Cuba Cable Across the Bay The Miami-Havana rable is being relaid across Biscayne Bay. the digging of the ship channel necessitating moving the cable from where it rested for nearly twenty years.

When laid, the cable went straight across the bay and crossed the peninsula just north of the Government Cut. It is now being moved to the north of the ship channel and the spoil bank on which the causeway is to be built. The Miami-Havana, cable was laid before the railroad was extended to Key West. W. II.

McDonald, local manager for the Western Union, says that the Nassau cable has been out of commission for some time, and that all the business with tbf Bahama islands requiring speed is now conducted by wlreleps. or mat iront. or them seem more than local affairs however. Zojip Raids Kngland. LONDON.

August 25. Eight per- Statement From Catts Camp Dear Sir: In a statement appearing in the Florida Times-Union you conclude that ballot boxes which you and your corporation attorneys went leum-shoeing to Precinct No. 4, Glen St. Mary, to have counted on a writ f)f hnatiW a .1 that Mrs. Hines instituted bail trover proceedings for the recovery of the diamond ring and the automobile, which were turned over to the hheriff on Mondav night.

The divorce suit was filed in Superior LEJIVE FOR U.S.SUNDAY sons were killed and 36 injured last night in a Zeppelin raid, according to trap door, to take goods and merchandise into the store building, and the Miami merchant's bureau and board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce protested against such action, declaring that a trap door would be a menace to the safety of the public and would also interfere with the rights of the public. Ordinance Introduced today announcement, which says I Court Tuesday. that one Zeppelin reached the out- secured, had been removed by sup- of the opinion that it would be more expensive than asphalt. Nine-tenths of the material in the asphalt pave- i Mrs. Hines made bond in the sher-' ilf's offire for the automobile and KKins 01 i-onaon.

porters of Sidney J. Catts. The pre- the ring, pending the final outcome' nient is sand, he said, and this does of the case, and took them to For The city council was appealed to syth with her sumption is entirely in accord with' BERLIN. August 25. It is canmaisn you have inaugurate.il cially announced today that a Ger-jjn an effort to wrec the democratic! man airship last night made an tack on London.

When VV. T. Cowles, of Jaekon- Tiie an(i c.ii -lrn rit-r Railey-Milaut Building Material. Hardware Co. Mrs.

Hines' attornevs also an ordinance promoting tainorl frnm John Pl.tn. building Of trap doors the busl- rot have to be imported, while all the material for concrete pavement must be shipped in and it would he found that the cost would be far in excess of the cost of such pavement in Sioux City, Iowa, where it has been successfully used. MEXICO CITT, August 25. The Mexican commissioners who will partake in the conference with the Americans on Mexican conditions expect to leave for the United States Sunday. United States Special Agent Rod-gers in Mexico City has notified the Carranza government that the first conferences of the American commissioners and Mexican representatives to settle the differences will begin in New York city on September 4.

The final conferences will take place some place in New England. a temporary restraining order section was brought up in the' prevent Hines from altering in a week a and read twice-wav or disposing of his lease of the In tne meantime attorneys for the Imperial, and further to prohibit Krees company asked for a tempor-, 1 MOW is the opportune time for renting houses. List yours in the classified columns of The Metropolis. TAX, ON INSURANCE IS 1 went to Glen St. Mary armed with a kRICKEN FROM MEASURE WASHINGTON, August 25.

The cierks of their coming, but summon-democrats of the senate finance com- ert them their arrival and took mittee this morning struck out from cnaw of the situation The ballots the emergency bill the proposed stamp tax on insurance policies. I (Continued on Fag Two.) him from drawing on a cash account! ry injunction restraining tne city in the Lowry National Bank. Judge! from passing the ordinance and aiso Pendleton set the injunction phase restraining the chief of police and 1 NEW YORK. August 25. The epidemic of infantile paralysis showed another big drop today with only 22 deaths and 94 new cases.

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