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THE WEATHER.

. Generally fair "Wednesday and Thurs

aey. light east winds.

Teaterdays temperature? Highest. 73

degrees; lowest, 60 degrees.

WEST FLORIDA MUST

FEED ITSELF!

VOL. XX. NO. 268.

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1917.

PRICE 5 CENTS.

PENSACOLA COMMITTEE

IS BUSY I1SUGT0N

With Noiseless Machine Gun Italians Ambush Austrians

ARRIVES AT PEIiSACOL

IfMfflli

TARPON",

UN DAMAGED

Belated Telegram Announ

ces Arrival and Activities

of West Floridians.

MANY POINTS ARE

SEEKING THE CAMP

All Florida Men Pulling

Together for Favorable

. Consideration.

Washington, Oct. 1. (Delayed)

The delegation of about forty men

from Pensacola, DeFuniak Springs,

E&nifay, Crestview and Chipley. ar

rived here today to lay facts and fig

ures before the officials of the war

department, tending to show that

Western Florida has the ideal sites

on which to locate the machine guns

training school for the army at which

the department plans to train aDouc

40,000 men.

J. S. Reese is chairman and R. E. l,.

McCaskill is secretary of the dele

gation which is composed of Post

master Ben Hancock, George Ward

and many of the most prominent men

in Western Florda.

A rather remarkable thing about

the delegation that all are pulling to

gether hard, and no group in the

party seems to have an individual axe

to grind for a site in his home town,

but all seem content to have to go

to the site selected J war depart

ment provided it is in the Western

part of the state.

j. he party spent the day conferring

with Florida senators and congress-

me i, and preparing plans for laving

full facts before the war department

garding the West Florida Lites.

fney also called at the war depart

ment, but founl that the report of

the commttee had not reached the

department and that it would be use

less to discuss the matter before the

arrival Of the report and recommenda

tion. William Clements, secretary of the

Mobile Chamber of Commerce,

reached Washington today, in the in

terest of securing the camp for Mo-hilr-

The army officers who examined

sites about Pensacola performed sim

ilar work about Mobile, and that city

is a worthy rival of Pensacola.

At the war department it was said

today that about 20 delegations had

called in regard to t:?is machine gun

camp, some coming frrm Columbus,

Ga.t and points as far away as Texas

and Oklahoma City.

KEIIOE WIRES HE'LL

SUPPORT WEST FLORIDA

A telegram was received toy Dr.

Louis deM. Blocker, president of the

Chamber of Commerce, from Con

gressman Kehoe, yesterday after

noon pledging his support to the

training camp in West Florida.

Charles B. Hervey, manager of the

San Carlos, sent a telegram to George

H. Hervey, of the Traylor Shipbuild

ing company, at Cornwells, Penn.,

asking him to go to Washington and

assist in presenting the advantages

of West Florida as a site for train

ing camp to the war department.

READY TO ERECT

COMFORT STATION

Blue prints for the comfort station,

which will shortly be erected by the

city for the especial benefit of men

of the service and visitors, were on

file yesterday in the office of Mayor

A Johnson, and Commissioner Hinrichs

announced that shortly, or as soon as

specifications could be prepared, an

advertisement for bids for the erec

tion of the station, would be insert

ed. The prints show a real fancy struc

ture, with a band stand atop the en

tire building, and it will be quite

nn addition to any section. It will

be erected in some park, the exact

location of which has not yet been

determined.

CATTS INCREASE THE

BLACRWELL REWARD

Tallahassee Bureau.

The Pensacola Journal

Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 2. Gover

nor Catts has issued a proclamation

setting aside Friday, October 12. as

Farmers Day in Florida, and calling

upon his constituents to celebrate in

proper manner.

He has also offered one hundred

and fifty dollars each for the recap

ture of the Blackwell brothers.

He has also appointed one hundred

and three delegates from Florida to

the Southern Commercial Congress in

New York October 15 to 17. The

two named from Pensacola are E. R.

Malone and Mr. Torter of Porters

Bazaar.

REPORT OF BOARD

REACHES CAPITAL

SOME TIME TODAY

LOCAL DELEGATION, WITH OTH

ERS FROM SOUTH, CAMPING

IN WASHINGTON TO TALK

BUSINESS WITH DEPARTMENT

Washington Bureau,

The Pensacola Journal.

Washington, D. C, Oct. 2. The

delegation from western Florida,

which arrived here yesterday to urge

th selection of a site near Crestview

on which to locte the proposed ma

chin gun school to train about 70,000

men for the army, called on Secre

tary of War Baker today, accompan

ied by Senator Fletcher and Tram

mell and Congressman Kehoe.

Secretary Baker told them that the

report of the committee which inves

tigated the different sites in Alabama

and Florida and other states has not

yet reached the department, and that

it would be idle to discuss the matter

with them without the full report and

the recommendation of the investigat

ing committee.

Senator Trammell received a tele

gram today from General Duval, com

mander of southeastern department

at Charleston, stating that he re

port of the officers who made the in

vestigations, together with their

recommendation regarding the loca

tion of the camp, had been received

and reviewed by him, and forwarded

to Washington. It should reach here

tomorrow and there are about a doz

en delegations camping here to talk

business with the war department

when it is received.

Florida delegation is i

Th West

still rnnfident of success and will call

on Secretary Baker again Wednes

day morning.

THIRD CONTINGENT

BEGINS MOVING TODAY

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Octo. 2 The third

contingent of the National army will

begin moving to sixteen cantonments

tomorrow, where approximately half

of the six hundred eighty-seven thou

sand drafted men are already mobi

lized. The quotas range from seven

teen to forty per cent. It is not

known what number, of drafted men

will be transferred to National Guard

organizations. It is probable the re

maining seven million registered men

will be examined as soon as classified

for service, so they may know their

status. Congress must act in the

' matter first, owing to the cost of

much examination as estimated in the

war deficiency bill which has not

passed yet.

FISHERMEN TO BE

PAID y2 CENT MORE

An increase of one-half cent a

pound for Red Snappers in payment

to the fishermen was announced by

the Saunders Fish Company and the

Warren Fish Company yesterday.

This will mean a material increase

in the earnings of the men who make

up the crews of the local smacks, and

will satisfy a demand which has been

increasing for some time.

SHORT TIME NOTE

OFFER PAST LIMIT

BT ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, Oct. 2. The govenv

ments latest and largest issue of

short time certificates of indebted

ness of four hundred millions, offered

in anticipation of the second liberty

loan receipts, has been oversubscribed.

DETROIT ROTARIAN TELLS

HIS MANY FISHING FEATS

Carlos Wiltenmeyer, a Detroit Ro

tarian, was guest of the local club

at yesterday's luncheon and enter

tained the meeting with an interest

ing talk which was well received. He

told of the pleasures of fishing at

Camp Walton and Eaid that he glad

to have been in Pensacola during the

hurricane, as otherwise he could not

have believed it possible for so strong

a wind to o little damage. After

the starm abated he personally in

spected all of the recently planted

groves at Fig City and found only

one tree injured by the wind. Mr.

Wiltenmeyer told of the advantage

of Rotary and said that he holds it in

such high esteem that he has only

This action picture from the Italian front shows a squad of General Cadorna's victorious trocps Iving in am

bush on the Austrian flank during a r ecent attack. They are equipped ith a new Italian invention noiseless

guns. Most of the sound of t-i" exulosijn is carried off bv tho t j. which can be seen leading from the muzzle

of the gun fcrto the ground and the firing of the gun produces only a dull, faint thud. As the Austrians leave

the trenches bafore the Italians ivtta ck this machine gun squad, undetec ted, scourges their retreat.

BRITISH PUNISHING THE

GERMANS ! MERCILESSLY

ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY.

British Headquarters in France

and Belgium, Monday, October 1.

Once more the Germans have essayed,

in a series of counter attacks, to break

the new British lines between Poly

goon wood and lower hamlets, across

the open road to the south. Again

they have been hurled back with

heayv losses. The principal result of

rnree Ditter attacKS Dy tne enemy oe

tween dawn and mid-afternoon has

been the merciless shattering of his

ranks and a still further advance

over the front south! of Polygoon

wood by the British, who pushed their

line forward some hundred yards in

depth behind the fleeing Germans.

The first assault was delivered at

6:15 o'clock this morning. The ene

my advanced in three waves toward

the British, but immediatelv met with

such a fierce fire of rifles and artillery

that he was compelled to retire. It

was apparent, however that the Ger-

CREW OF LOCAL

SCHOONER FELT

BRUNT OF BLOW

ITALIAN STEAMER HAPPENS

ALONG JUST IN TIME TO SAVE

PENSACOLA MEN FROM FURY

OF THE STORM.

Wireless advices received at the

aeronautic station yesterday morn

ing from New Orleans state that the

schooner Flora J. Sears of the maund

ers company had been towed to Port

Eads and that no lives were lost in

the hurricane which swept the Gulf

Coast Friday.

Until the radiogram was received,

considerable apprehension was felt

for the safety of the vessel, as she

was several days days overdue when

the storm hit, and it was almost cer

tain that she was in the track of the

gale. As supplemental reports are

received, each tends to reduce the

damage estimates mad immediately

after the storm, and to prove that this

city escaped with very little injury.

According to meagre information

obtained yesterdav the Sears was dis

masted, and rudderless when picked

by a steamer out of New Orleans, but

(Continued on Page Three.)

failed to attend two meetings in the

five years that he has been a mem

ber. C. E. Dobson gave a brief account

of his recent visit to Washington

and paid high tribute to the efficiency

of the naval intelligence bureau,

which is the secret service of the

navy department. He stated that the

West Florida site is receiving favor

able consideration as the location for

the army training camp.

The Rotarians will invite the sons

of Rotarians who are in government

service here to attend the weekly

luncheons as guests of the club.

Rev. J. H. Brown, vice-president of

the club, presided at yesterday's meeting.

mans were not through with the at

tempt and the big British uns turned

loose such an avalanche of shells as

is seldom seen alonjj the front.

This is the first dispatch re;;ardin?

the military situation on the British

front to be receved from the Associ

ated Tress correspondent at British

headquarters since last Friday, when

notice was given that the sending of

press dispatches from the field head

quarters had been stopped tempor

arily. . . . , .

GERMANS ALARMED BY

GREAT ITALIAN DRIVE

Washington, Oct. 2. Alarmed by

the success of the Italian drive over

the Bainsizza plaza, Germany is

withdrawing large numbers of Aus

trian troops from France, and from

Galacia and Bukowina, and rushinT

them to the Italian front to meet the

renewed offensive of General Car-

MALE AND FEMALE

COUNTY CONVICTS

WILL BE LEASED

PROPOSITION MADE BY W. C.

BARRINEAU ACCEPTED BY

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AT

TUESDAY'S MEETING.

All county convicts, both male and

female, will be leased to the highest

bidder, for light manual work, this

having been made possible by action

of the board of county commissioners

yesterday morning. Male prisoners

have been leased before, but the new

plan includes all those unable to do

heavy work.

The proposition for lea-Tij the con

victs was presented to the board by

W. C. Barrineau, who stated that he

would hire them for use on his farm

The plan met with immediate favor,

and resulted in unanimous action by

the board.

Robert H. Anderson appeared be-

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HORRORS! THE COUNTY

BEAN CROP IS RUINED

BY THE STORM!

About 75 per cent of the bean

crop of Escambia county was de

stroyed by the storm according

to estimates made yesterday by

county farm demonstration agent

C. A- Fulfcrd, who had just re

turned from a tour over part of

kis territory.

Mr. Fulford said that practical

ly all of the crop that had not

been harvested was lost, and that

sugar cane was badly damaged.

Rice that had not been harvested

was a total loss, accord inrr to re

parts, though much of the corn

that was in the fields can yet be

saved if sufficient labor is obtain

able to do the work.

Bams and outhouses were blown

down in several parts of the coun

ty, Mr. Fulford said, and a mule

at C. W- Barrinau's place v as

killed and a horse injured, when

the barn was blown down.

doma. Official dispatches received i

here from Rome today say the second !

phase of the great battle is about to I

open. j

Great as was the Italian victory on

the plateau, the gieat battle there is J

by no means finished, according to i

today s dispatches. Only the first

phase of the campaign is past and

the Italian troops are now preparing

for a resumption of the action on a

greater scale. The Austrians award

of f e Italian purpose are making

ready a strong defensive.

From Austrian sources the Italians

have learned that the recent visit to

the battlefields of Emperior Charles

was planned to encourage the Aus

trian defensive by his personal ap

pearance. Further evidence of the

Austrian preparations is found in the

withdrawal of nearly all Austrian

troops from Galacia ami Bukowina,

where they had been holding in check

the Russians.

CITY ENGINEER

L. E. THORNTON

RETURN SOON

ASKS TO BE RELIEVED FROM

DUTY IN WASHINGTON. AS HE

SUFFERS FROM STOMACH

TROUBLE

City Engineer L. Earl Thornton,

who has been on special duty in the

office of the chief of engineers at

Washington, will probably return to

the cty in a short while, to await fur

thur orders, as ill health has prevent

stomach trouble, contracted in camp,

in the engineers corps.

His father says that Mr. Thornton

has been suffering for, a couple of

months from a severe attack of some

stomach trouble, contracted n camp,

and was finally ordered to the hospital

and came out of the hospital with or

ders from the surgeon in charge not

to resume camp duty for some time,

and to be very careful in his diet.

This precluded the possibility of

his gettinjr into active service for a

long time, and he was then assigned

to duly in the office of the chief of

engineers, where he has been ever

since-

Although his health is improving

(Continued on Pa?e Three.)

DAMAGE BY STORM UP

SOUND IS CONSIDERABLE

Garniers, Fla., Oct. 2. The storm

of the past week did considerable

damage to wharves, fences and tim

ber. Messrs. D. F. and M. H. Sulli

van, E. R. McKee and S. M. John

son lost their wharves, and the sea

wall at the forest station was wash

ed entirely out. -The timber is full of

fallen trees. It blew down the fence

at the homes of S. M. Johnson, Mr.

W. M. Hartgrove and Mrs.' D. S.

Mobney. Mr. Hand had no injury to

his saw .mill but his lumber was all

scattered about and the saw dust

washed all over it. It will take a

week to get things in shape to work

again.

Manuel Brown's schooner, the

VY

:WJ4if A

CAPT. Wr. G. BARROW

Brings Steamer Tarpon Successfully

Through Late Storm

STILL ON TRAIL

BLACKWELLS IN

ALL DIRECTIONS

EVERY RUMOR RUN TO EARTH

WITHOUT SUCCESS STATE

OFFERS REWARD SHERIFF

SUTTON JOINS IN HUNT.

Every possible clue, reporting eith

er the presence or supposed presence

of the Blackwells, was followed to

the end yesterday and the night be

fore by officials, but last night no

success was reported. An incentive

which will probably sharpen the vigil

of watchmen in all parts of the coun

ty is the announcement that the man

who captures the brothers will be

$500 richer, as the amount in rewards

now totals that figure. Announce

ment was made from Tallahassee yes

terday that the .state would add an

other $300 to the $300 already of

fered by Escambia county officers.

Considerable interest was mani

fested in the report of a taxi driver

yesterday who reported taking a

couple of men a few nights since to

a point outside of the city, who had

manifested the greatest desire to get

over the river. It developed, howev

er, that the passengers were heads of

families who resided at Gull Point,

and they were anxious to get to their

folks. The taximan's report, howev

er, caused the officers to run it down

without loss of time.

To keep in touch with developments

relative to the escape of the Black

wells. Sheriff Sutton of Okaloosa

county, arrived here yesterday anfl

will probably remain for a few days

lonsrer. That the visiting sheriff will

assist in hunting down the Blackwells,

was admitted yesterday, although to

what extent, and for how long, is

not announced. Sheriff Sutton, in

the course of time, would have been

the logical man to have executed the

brothers for the murder of the aged

couple, and he had them brought to

one of the safest jails in the state

for safe keeping. His surprise when

he learned the men had escaped can

be imagined. He met Sheriff Van Pelt

yesterday and secured first-hand ex

planation of the manner of the escape

of the men.

WAR TAX BILL TO

PRESIDENT NEXT

BT ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington, D. C, Oct. 2. Con

gress has sent the great war tax to

the President for his f signature. The

Senate followed the example of the

House by adopting the conference re

port without a record vote. The

measure carries levies of more than

two billion and a half dollars in ad

ditional taxes.

"Lonsomc Girl,"' was washed ashore j

near his ways.

Mrs. W. M. Hartgrove and son, W.

M. Jr., called on Mrs. R. A. Batten

field and found things on the bay

beach very much cleaned out The

dye plant had things in a bad condi

tion, the railroad was all washed

away, the machinery, vats and drying

kiln are all out of commission, and

it will take them several days to get

in working order. Their wharves on

that side are all swept away.

The schooner "Viola," that carrie

the supplies for the Garniers Naval

Stores Co., had come as far as Camp

Walton on her return from town an-1

was put on the beach at Camp Wal

ton. :

Capt. Barrojw Brings Long

Tried Coast Steamer

Into Port Safely.

GALE HEAVY, BUT

DAMAGE IS SLIGHT

Skipper Took Precaution

to Secure Advice Before

Venturing Into Sea,

At 12:30 p. m. Tuesday, the steams

Tarpon, piloted by Captain W. G

Barrow, slipped into her berth at Jef-

ferson street wharf, after weathering

the tropical hurricane safelv at Car

rabelle. It took only a few moment

to warp the vessel into the dock, and

while the. unloading was in process

the captain agreed to give The Jour

nal an interview.

"First of all,' said the captain, "I

want to correct the report which was

sent to Pensacola from St. Andrews

that I had said "God makes the

weather but I make the trips. No

man outside of an asylum would make

a statement like that, much less a

man who has run a ship as long as I

have. No, sir, the weatfier is some

thing beyond human control, and

while I know I have a fine little boat.

I realize that the Tarpon, or any oth- '

er vessel could not have weather that I

hurricane in the open sea.

"We left St. St. Andrews Wednes

day for Apalachicola, and made the

trip without dfficulty, though the

storm was brewing at the time.

"I wired the weather observer at

Pensacola for information concerning

the approaching gale, and he ans

wered that though the hurricane had

apparently passed Pensacola. it mav

recurve, and strike along the gulf

coast. That is exactly what it di I .

alright, and it struck pretty hard

when it came, but the damage at the

coast towns where we touched was

not very great, and reports indicated

that little damage was done to the

east of Pensacola on the gulf coast.

"Tides were pretty high, and some

of the warehousemen along the coast

put their stocks up on racks several

feet high to prevent damage by the

rising water. With this precaution

many escaped damage, which other

wise might have been severe.

"Reports reaching St. Andrews,

and Carrabelle were about as untrue

as those brought to Pensacola from

those points, for rumors stated that

Pensacola had been badly damaged,

and that fourteen lives had been lost

in the city alone as a result of the

storm. Of course that is not so, and

it seems to me that we didn't fare so,

badly after all."

MUNSON REPORTS

MUCH DAMAGE THERE

Damage to the timber near Munsottt

and Milton resulting from the hurri

cane of Friday is very great accord-,

ing to J. M. Hanna, who walked from

Munson to Milton, and then came to

Tensacola, arriving, in this city yes

terday, bringing the first direct re

ports of the timber damage ntiar Mil

ton to reach here since the storm.

Mr. Hanna estimated the damage,

to the trees at seventy-five per cent,

and stated that Postmaster Collins,

stood at the Bamhill's house in Mil

ton, and could see the buildings at

Munson, six miles away, over an area

which before the storm wa3 a dense

forest.

Water in Coldwater creek, accord

ing to Mr. Hanna, stood five feet

higher than ever before.

CHIPLEY SUFFERS

FROM THE STORM

That considerable damage was done

by the storm to the timber near

Chipley, Clearwater, and other near

by points was the statement made to

The Journal by Rev. D. P. Slaughter,

who was at Chipley during the storm

of Friday.

Mr. Slaughter said that he went

from Dothan to Montgomery, return

ing to Pensacola Monday by motor

from Flomaton, as train service had

not been resumed up to the time oZ

his departure from Flomaton.

Heavy rains were encountered at

all points visited, the local minister

said), and small frame buildings were

blown down at many places.

FUNERAL OF F. C. DAVIS

WILL BE HELD TODAY

Funeral services over the Temains

of the late F. C. Davis, who died

Tuesday morning at an early hour

at his late home, 819 East Belmont

street, will take place at the home,

at 9:30 o'clok this morning, the in

terment to be made in St. John's

cemetery.