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We don’t intend to take any chance of having such men as Donn Roberts forced on the state.” Real Rescue of Down on the Bills— REEL CHRISTY, in the act of saving a man from drowning, has been shown in the moving picture houses of Terre Haute this week, where the reel has been taken as a posed picture without any of the thrills of real danger. Lee McNutt, moving picture machine operator, and Mr. Christy, manager of Forest Park, were on a raft last Sunday taking views to be shown as an advertisement for the park. They were making for shore on the raft when cries of peril were heard. Swimmers were seen making for Olimer Reeves, 23 years old, who seemed to be strangling in the water. Mr. Christy thought that others nearer Reeves would give all the assistance needed, but when three men reached the side of the drowning man their courage failed them. They were afraid to seize him, be cause of fear that a death hold might carry them down. When Mr. Christy took in the danger of the situa tion he dived from the raft and reached Reeves as he was going down for the last time. Reeves was unconscious by this time. Christy dived and got Reeves by the hair before the body reached bottom. Towing Reeves under water, Christy swam 12 feet to the bank and then carried the unconscious man oen shore, where restorative methods soon brought back his breath, and it was not long before Mr. Reeves seemed to be no worse for his experience. When Mr. Christy dived from the raft Moving Pic ture Operator McNutt had forgotten all about the machine in his excitement, but while Mr. Christy was under water he recovered his professional senses and with the camera turned toward the spot where the park manager disappeared under water, began turning the crank to get a picture of Christy as he emerged and carried the rescued man up on the bank. Mr. Reeves is a married man with two children. He is driver of a bread wagon for the Voight bakery. Evening It Up With Traction Company- OMEN employes of the downtown stores have it ‘found a way for evening up matters with the traction company. This corporation, without the slightest regard for the safety, comfort or con venience of its women passengers, has steps on its summer cars so high that no woman should be asked to attempt to reach them without a step ladder. It also refuses to sell six tickets for a quarter on its cars, standing as the only street car company in the state that has worked the political end of its man agement to a point of foisting this outrage on the public. Other cities in Indiana even sell eight tickets for a quarter during what is known as working hours, when the cars are most generally used by men and women wage earners. But while the Philadelphia owned company has been busy thinking up mean things to put over on the Terre Haute public, because it has had the politi cal influence to do as it pleased, the downtown clerks have found a way to equalize fares and make back some of the money that the traction company squeezes out of the public by refusing to sell six tickets for a quarter. The women who go to lunch at 11 o’clock have transfers upon their return to the store. They know what line to get the transfers on so the transfers may be used by other clerks who are off duty to go to lunch at 12 o’clock. This scheme is one that is meeting the approval of everyone. The traction company has been wild-eyed in its efforts to break up the practice. It cannot stand the idea of the public having the best of anything. This plan of the clerks is a legitimate one and ought to be extended to every store and business place in the city. It is most praiseworthy to be smart enough to get ahead of the traction company in any way that presents itself. The traction com pany has made a scientific study of ways to rob the public of Terre Haute and has bought the politi cal influence of Lamb and Beasley to make the rob bery plans go through. Mayor Roberts seems on the verge of entering into a deal with the traction company that will leave the public as helpless as ever. The only way, therefore, that the public can protect itself is to handle the traction company with the same tactics that the traction company handles the public. It is not likely that men on the street cars will let any conductor put off a girl who presents a transfer given her by another clerk. The public has ample grounds, in event of an attempted force able ejectment, to carry the defense of the girls to a point of riot, after all the company has done to cheat, and rob, and defraud and insult the public of Terre Haute though having the public officials in its power. Two Hotels One Too Many for Demas Deming— =HE Hotel World announces that Demas Dem ing, president of the First National Bank, has come into possession of The Iowa, a new hotel erected in Keokuk at a cost of $250,000. With its furnishings this hotel represents an investment of $300,000. Mr. Deming got the Iowa when he bought the common stock of the Interstates Hotel Corpora tion, a company that intended to operate the new Hotel Deming in Terre Haute. Promoters of the Interstates organization met a setback in financing the company. It is understood that Mr. Deming is satisfied to own one hotel, the one in Terre Haute, and that he will sell the Keokuk property. W. A. Cochran, the new $5,000 a year manager of the Hotel Deming, is busy perfecting an organiza tion for opening Terre Haute’s new hostelry. His temporary office is in the Foster Furniture Com pany’s store, where he is in close touch with D. Russ Wood, who has the contract for furnishing the hotel. A contract for the kitchen equipment of the Hotel Deming has been let at a cost of $10,000. There will be no finer kitchen equipment in the country. Three of the six store rooms in the Hotel Deming have been spoken for, but as yet no leases have been signed. It is said that the rental on these rooms will be either $1,000 or $1,200 a year, including heat. With a man as owner ready to give the Hotel Deming everything needed to make it stand in the front rank, and with a man of Mr. Cochran’s popu larity in the ranks of the traveling public in active charge, the Hotel Deming is expected to be a profit able venture from the start. Fort Harrison Country Club Opens Saturday. —NORMAL opening of the Fort Harrison Country (a Club will take place tomorrow, when there will be a Fourth of July celebration for the 130 members and invited friends. Visitors’ day will be observed, both on the Fourth and on Sunday. Contracts have been let for improvements to cost $2,100. These include a wide porch to extend around the club house, and a contract for lighting, heating, plumbing and water power, let to Freitag, Weinhardt Co. Workmen also are cleaning the grounds, cut ting the grass and trimming the trees. Swings, slides and sand piles are being arranged for the children. The Fort Harrison County Club will welcome children. This feature has caused a number of members of the Country Club to become members of the new organization, with the expectation of retaining their membership in both organizations. The river site, with its opportunities for boating and bathing, also has brought into the younger club a number of members of the older club. The two clubs, however, will not conflict and there is no rea son for anything but the most friendly feeling to prevail between them. Nearly all cities have two or more country clubs, and in most places they work in perfect harmony, having golf and tennis contests between their best playyers. The Fort Harrison Country Club is to pay Emil Ehrmann $900 a year for the first six years. At the end of that time there is a renewal privilege for four years at a rental of $1,200. Mr. Ehrmann also has given the club an option to buy at any time be fore the expiration of its lease, all rental moneys to apply on the purchase price. When the club opens, arrangements will be made for an hourly automobile service to take members from the end of the Collett Park street car line to the club grounds.
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Terre Haute Saturday Spectator
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Jul 04, 1914
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