The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [27], No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1915 Page: 6 of 8
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United States Submarine F-4.
Honolulu, August 29. — The
United States submarine F-4,
submerged outside the harbor
here since March 25 last, was re-
floated late tonight and towed to
the quarantine station in Hono-
lulu Bay.
Although the F-4 has been
brought into the harbor, the
wreck is still submerged to a
depth of six feet and probably
will not be dry docked until Tues-
day. Nothing has been divulged
by the naval officials regarding
conditions, if known, inside the
vessel.
The actual raising operations
occupied two hours, the plans of
the engineers working without a
hitch. The still submerged ves-
sel was towed slowly into the
harbor where all the shipping,
including the interned German
gunboat Gera, half-masted their
flags.
When the submarine has been
drydocked a board composed of
Rear Admiral Clifford J. Boush,
commandant of the naval station;
Lieut. Kirby B. Crittenden and
Naval Constructor Julius A. Fur-
rer will begin a thorough inves-
tigation for the purpose of ascer-
taining if possible the cause of
the disaster.
The submarine F-4, command-
ed by Lieutenant Alfred L. Ede,
and with a crew of twenty-one
men, went to the bottom off the
harbor off Honolulu March 25,
1915, during maneuvers of the
“F” squadron. She was located
two days later and Diver John
Agraz of the navy descended 215
feet, establishing a new world’s
record, in an effort to faciliate
the work of bringing her to the
surface.
Her crew, it was said, might
Jhave been alive at this time, but
attempts at rescue failed, and on
March 30 Rear Admiral C. R. T.
Moore, commanding the Hono-
lulu naval station, reported that
the F-4 lay in 270 feet of water
and would have to be raised by
pontoons.
Secretary Daniels announced
that the boat would be raised at
;any cost in order to determine
the cause of the accident, and
diving apparatus and divers were
sent out, leaving San Francisco
April 6 on the cruiser Maryland.
One of the divers, Frank Crilly,
went down 228 feet and found
one of the compartments of the
F-4 filled with water. Another
diver, William Loughman, de-
scended 220 feet the next day and
was seriously injured by water
pressure. These men put lines
on the F-4, by which the boat
was dragged slowly up the shelv-
ing bottom, but in the process
the stern was wrecked and brok-
en and work was halted to wait
the arrival of pontoons. Six of
these, capable of lifting sixty
tons each, were sent' from Mare
Island Navy Yard early in Au-
gust on the Maryland.
At the time of the accident, re-
ports gained circulation that the
F-4 was not in good shape when
she went below water. These
were officially denied.
Bought New Fall Goods.
X a pent a large part of last
week in Galveston and bought
largely of the goods which went
through, the late storm there.
These goods will be arriving in a
few days and will be sold at less
than half the ordinary prices.
Many of the goods were not
damaged in the least, but the
wholesalers were anxious to dis-
pose of them, and so they will be
here to show you in a short time.
Drop around and see what we
have to offer. Bargains in every
line of Dry Goods. Watch for
further announcement.
J. S. Taylor.
How Do You Rest?
If you swing a heavy sledge
all day, take your “exercise”—
rest yourself—by doing some-
thing that will make you forget
the sledge.
If you grind at a desk or coun-
ter all day, take your exercise,
your rest—by doing something
that will make you forget the
desk or counter grind.
If you earn your bread and
butter by thinking—mow the
lawn.
If it’s your work to push a lawn
mower—do something that will
make you think.
If a man has a job at being
happy, it will rest him to be sol-
emn. If a man has a solemn
job, it will rest him to laugh.
The little lady who makes high
priced gowns for richer folks, can
find rest looking at flowers in the
woods. The man who works in
the woods or fields is rested by
looking at the pretty dresses in
the city show windows.
If your work compels you to
wear a red coat, sneak away
once in a while and put on a blue
coat.
A change, that’s the cure—
that’s the “exercise”we all need.
This is nothing new we are
telling you, but it is something
we don’t think about enough, the
same as we don’t think enough
about a lot of little things which
are really important.—Shreve-
port Times.
Mexicans Quieted at San Antonio.
San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 30.—
With the arrest of twenty-six
Mexicans, twenty-three of whom
were detained this afternoon,
Chief of Police Lancaster and
federal authorities believe a plan
to incite the Mexican population
of San Antonio to deeds of vio-
lence has been nipped.
The prisoners according to
Chief Lancaster, are all followers
of the plan of San Diego, an ex-
travagant manifesto which pro-
claims the republic of Texas for
Mexicans. The uprisings in the
lower Rio Grande valley caused
the program to go amiss and at
the same time federal officials
were put on their guard.
Three of the leaders were ar-
rested Sunday night while ad-
dressing a crowd of 1,000 Mexi-
cans on the market plaza. Their
remarks were of an inflammato-
ry nature and were calculated to
arouse the poorer class of Mex-
icans to deeds of violence.
Since the disturbances in the
Brownsville territory special
agents of the United States de-
partment of justice and police
officials have been keeping a
close watch to prevent a possible
uprising in San Antonio. They
learned that the agitators® were
here in great strength.
But until Sunday night there
had been no open attempt to en-
courage disorders. Then three
speakers gathered about 1,000
Mexicans and in passionate
bursts of oratory pictured to them
a tale of persecution of their fel-
lows. Chief Lancaster, Police
Inspector Mussey and Captain
Welch heard their remarks.
“One speaker,” Chief Lancas-
ter said, “after abusing the pres-
ident of the United States, the
government of this country and
the white race generally, openly
declared: ‘It iB no harm to kill a
gringo and an Allamain (mean-
ing Americans and Germans).’ ”
charged the crowd, arresting the
leaders, but it was not without a
fight. As the officers were with-
drawing one of the] Mexicans
shouted:
“Now is the time to rise. Let
us rise and kill the gringos.”
The arrival of the police for
the time being quieted all martial
spirit. Following the arrest of
the leaders the police instituted a
dragnet which resulted in the ar-
rest of twenty-three Jothers.
They will be placed in. the custo-
dy of federal officials who prob-
ably will file charges against
them of treason, alleging an ef-
fort to set on foot an armed ex-
pedition againstN the United
States authorities.
Take Time.
The speaker was Dr. J. L.
Kessler, dean of Baylor Univer-
sity at Waco. He took as his
subject “Kadesh Barnea,” or
“The Hill Call,” and said that
God and nature call for the high-
est in every man and that a man
is largely what he chooses to
make himself.
“There are three things which
I would have you men do to make
successes in life,” hesaid. “The
first is to take time. The great
crime of today is that men do not
take time. We are too super-
ficial. Christ spent thirty years
preparing for the three years’
ministry which meant so much to
mankind. Moses spent eighty
years in preparation for the forty
years of service as the leader of
Israel. We need to go more
slowly.
“The second is that you be
sure to get on the right road.
That means mucji to a man.
Take all the time you want, but
if you do not get on the right
path you will be a failure. The
third is that you keep at it.
Many men are failures today be-
cause they give up too quickly.
I was talking to a workingman
at the depot in Nashville the oth-
er day and he said, ‘Do you know
I started to work with Major
Thompson, the president of this
railroad? But today, look what
I am and look what he is. I have
just found out the reason^ for the
great difference. I found out
that I have been working^for the
$50 all the time, and he has been
working for the road.’ A man,
to succeed, must stay by the
thing for which he is working
and stay at it on and on.”
* “Give me the money that has
been spent in war and I will pur-
chase every foot of land upon
the globe,” says Henry Richard.
“I will clothe every man, woman
and child in an attire of which
kings and queens wouldjbe proud.
I will build a schoolhouse on ev-
ery hill and in every valley over
the whole earth. I will build an
academy in every town and en-
dow a college in every state and
fill it with able professors. I will
crown every hill with a place of
worship consecrated to the pro-
mulgation of the gospel of jpeace.
I will support in everyfJpulpit a
teacher of righteousness, so that
on every Sabbath the chimes on
one hill should answer to the
chimes on another around the
earth’s wide circumference, and
the voice of prayer and the song
of praise should ascend like a
universal holocaust up to heav-
en.”
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Huerta to Send Family Inland.
El Paso, Texas, Aug. 29.—
Fearing there might be a demon-
stration here against his family,
General Huerta has arranged to
send his family and servants,
numbering forty-three, to San
Antonio or some other inland city
to remain until after his hearing
in the United States Court at San
Antonio in November.
Following the scare of Wed-
nesday night, when it was feared
that an effort would be made to
liberate him from Fort Bliss,
General Huerta has been much>,they work untiringly to corr
worried over his family’s safety,
as he fears that his enemies will
attempt to even old grudges by
an attack on his family. It was
announced at the United States
Marshal’s office tonight that Gen-
eral Huerta would send his fami-
ly to San Antonio tomorrow. His
family 6onsists of his wife, his
daughter and son-in-law, sisters
and many nephews and nieces,
and in addition his body serv-
ants, who were with him in Mex-
ico City. v
J. C. Dunn, who has had
charge of the Southland hotel for
several months, has gone^ to the
west with his family, and will
probably settle in either Brown
or Coleman county. He is a good
citizen in any country, and his
friends here wish him well wher-
ever he may locate.
—f--.
United Efforts Necessary to City Building
City builders are inspired by
altruistic as well as business mo-
tives. They believe in their city
and they love it. This is an
opinion expressed by E. J. Bod-
man, president of the RealHEstate
Bureau of the Little Rock (Ark.)
Chamber of Commerce. He
argues that cities are not built
haphazard. Effort is required,
concentrated effort, and where is
found a live, wide-awake city
there will be found, too, busy
men who are never too busy to
devote some of their time to Vari-
ous plans to better local condi-
tions, to attract capital and in
other ways to build up their city.
The limit of progress of a com-
munity is determined by the
amount of time and money the
business men are willing to de-
vote to such movements—for it
takes time as well as money and
also team work. Without the
pulling together spirit little good
can be accomplished.
City building requires effort on
the part of all classes of citizens.
There are those who, having lit-
tle or no money, give their time,
their brains, their co-operation
in every plan for civic better-
ment. If they are" employed in
the day, they work nights. They
attend meetings, work in the
commercial organizations, act on
various committees and, in vari-
ous ways, help the work, for
there is work for as many as will
lend their assistance.
Mr. Bodman says that he
knows of a southern city which
is being made big only by this
progressive spirit. In paved
streets, in modern buildings, in
public works, it ranks among the
finest of the land, he says. Pro-
gressive ideas and a work-to-
gether spirit has brought about
this condition and that only with-
in the last few years. Continu-
ing, he says:
PROGRESSIVE IDEAS CATCHING
“It is remarkable how catching
progressive ideas are. The wave
has even gone into its city poli-
tics. This same progressive city
put into office city officials who
are capable and honest, who run
the affairs of the city with the
same care and attention as are
given their own business. Re-
sult—paved streets, municipal
light plant, fire-fighting appara-
tus that is second to none, mod-
ern sanitary laws and the affairs
of the city conducted along strict
business lines.
City builders are ever ready
to defend their city and to pro-
claim it the best. They know of
the existing faults and fight hard
to correct them. The true city
builder appreciates the value of
truth and when there is an un-
favorable local condition existi
it; they appreciate the value
publicity, recognizing the f
that public officials will not lo
thwart an aroused public opin
and the press is called in for
sistance.
Every movement that pro
ises more industries, more p
pie, more business, benefits
whole country. It means m
prospective clients for the 1
yers, more patients fur the do
and dentist, more marriage ee
monies for the minister, m
funerals for the undertaker,
fact, tl^ere is not one line of
man endeavor in a commun
that is not benefited by an
crease in population and con
quently more business. All
hold aloof from assisting in
veloping a city are parasites s
Mr. Bodman.
Not to be harsh in judgme
he continues, it must be admit
that many, perhaps the major
of those who have taken no p
in civic endeavor, are unc
scious parasites. They have
regarded their responsibility
citizens from the' • proper li
The old idea of business sue
was never to give something
nothing, except as a matter
charity. But it was not consid
ed good business to devote m
ey, time or effort to anything
promising direct returns. Ma
business men who are willing
devote some time and money
legitimate new enterprise
balk at demands on them to
sist in plans for city cleanr
beautifying, advertising and
artistic uplift, such as provid'
music in the parks, music fe
vals, health measures and ot
plans conducive to the city bes
tiful, the city healthful, the (
artistic, the city pleasing to
eye and soul.
TO ATTRACT NEW RESIDENTS
Yet all these things are ess
tial to permanent progress
prosperity. Such a city attra
alike capital and labor. W
man of means will invest
capital and make his home i
city unhealthy, ugly,'with str
unpaved or badly paved, with
good sewerage system, with
attractive places of amusem
without good schools, churc
fine buildings and the many ot
essentials to make life worth 1
ing. If efforts are made to
tablish factories and labor m
be imported, how will wa
earners be induced to leave ci
having these advantages to co
to a city to work for same wa
and be deprived of the thi
they value outside of work
hours. Mr. Bodman says:
“It is quite true every
cannot give either money or ti
to every project that comes
It is true that the demands
heavy. But every man who lo
and takes pride in his city can
something. Let every man
dprstand that the good of
concerns all. That every citi
is interested in every movem
having the city’s good for its
ject. Let all who can lend fin
cial aid do so cheerfully. Let
who can lend their service
whatever way their talents
whether in making, writing o
necessary detail work. An
one can neither devote time
money, he can at least brin
it his enthusiasm, his good
and encouragement.”—San
tonio Express.
Miss Will Berry, of Rogers,
spending a time here with
sister, Mrs. D. C. Thomas,
She expresses the intentio
attending the Canybn City S
Normal school the next term.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. [27], No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1915, newspaper, September 3, 1915; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth894600/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.