The Newark Journal.
$1 Per Annum.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday July 22, ld()4.
Vol. 4, No. 30
THE BIG FERRIS WHEEL
It is 284 Feet High and Affords Mag
nifficent View of the Great
^ World's Fair.
T!*e {treat, Expositions held dur
% in<i the last fifeen years, have pro
duced two marvelous examples of
engineering and constructive utili
ty. One of these, the Eiffel l ow
er, was designed and built by a
Frenchman at Paris for the Expo
sition of IS89; the other, the Fer
ris Wheel, was designed and built
by the late (ieo. W. G. Ferris for
the World's Columbian Exposition
at Chicago, in 1893.
Paris again held a great Exposi
tion in 1900 but failed to produce
any feature to take the place of
the Eiffel Tower. In America, St.
Louis, iu 1904, planned and pro
duced the greatest Exposition the
world has ever seen. Scores of
attempts were made to invent
something more wonderful and
more attractive than the Ferris
Wheel, but as Paris failed to out
do her own Eiffel Tower, so did
St. Louis fail to equal the far-fam
ed Ferris \\ heel of the World's
Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Arrangements were accordingly
made to bring the Ferris Wheel to
the Louiiana Purchase Exposi
tion, anil it was given a location
near the geographical center of
tin* grounds.
Hie problem oi moving tin* r or
ris Wheel from Chicago to St.
Louis was stupendous f/joo toils
of material, including the 70-ton
axle, besides engines, boilers and
derricks and falsework, had to be ;
transported. One hundred and
seventy-five freight ears were re
quired to move this material.
A brief resume of the dimen
sions and description of the Ferris
Wheel may he interesting. The
Wheel is built upon the bicycle
principle, with immense tension
spokes, 2 lo-lrtths inches in diam
ater. The wheel is 250 feet i n di
ameter and stands 204 feet high.
In reality it is two wheels securely
braced together, between the out
er rims of these wheels the eleven
ton cars are suspended on 0d inch
pins, 0 feet long. These cars are
13 feet wide, 20 feet long, 9 feet
high and will carry 60 persons
each. There are 36 of them, so
the total capacity of the wheel is
2,100 persons. At several times
in its history the Wheel has been
filled to its capacity. The axle of
the Wheel is a solid steel forging,
9.2 inches in diameter and 45 feet
long.
The solid bronze bearings upon
■which it rests are each 6 feet long
.and contain nearly two tons of |
metal. The weight of the wheel is
carried upon two four-post towers, \
d feet square on top and 40x50
feet at the base. These in turn
rest upon solid concrete and steel
beam pillars, which are carried
<iown to solid rock, 20 feet below
the surface of the ground. The
towers are anchord to the bottom
of this mass of concrete by 2x6
inch eyebars, so that the Wheel is
perfectly safe, even in the most
violent storms. The side vibra
tion of the Wheel in an 80 mile an
hour wind is less than half an inch.
The Wheel is run by a double re
versing engine with cylinders 30x
48 inches, capable of developing
2,000 horse power. The power is
applied through a series of cogs to |
a sprocket chain which engages
I wide cogs on the outside of each
rim:
Two revolutions are {liven each
passenger, and the time required
; is from 20 to 30 minutes. The
view during this half-hour ride is
most interesting and instructive.
(Gradually, as the majestic and
mighty wheel rolls one up higher
and higher, a grand panorama un
folds itself-to view. A fifty mill
ion dollar Exposition in all its
grandeur is before you. The lo
cation of the Wheel in the center
of the Fair Grounds gives one an
opportunity to thoroughly famil
iarize themselves with the lav of
the grounds and get a better gen
eral idea of the Fair than the>
could by days of tramping. The
Cascades, the Plateau of States,
all the big buildings, the Pike,
Festival Hall, the Art Building,
Foreign Buildings, Phillipine Res
ervation. the Air Ship Enclosure,
in fact, (“very point of interest in
the grounds can be seen from the
big Wheel. In addition, one get"
a view of St. Louis, the Mississip
pi River, and the beautiful forests,
hills and dales for fifty miles
around. At night, the view of the
buildings and grounds is simply
magnithcent. Eye has not seen nor
ear heard of a more striking spec
tacle than the night view of this
great Exposition from the top of
the Ferris Wheel.
Hundreds of thousands of incan
descent lights bring the outlines of
all the buildings in bold relief.
The Festival Hall and the Plateau
of States are flooded in turn with
white, red and green lights, mak
ing a startling and very beautiful
effect. I he best point to view this
grand illumination is from the
I*erris \\ heel.
When you go to the Fair, do
not fail to ride upon it.
CRIMNAL THOUGHTLESSNESS.
A farmer named .Johnson 1 i\'i 11 <»■
ten miles north of Benton gave his
little son a knife and told him if
any one bothered him to “stick it
into him." Last Saturday the boy’s
little sister made him angry, and
he stabbed her in the side with his
knife. Her screams attracted the
attention of her mother, who was
drawing water at the well. She
lot go the windlass, not noticing
that tin* boy had ran up to the
well. The windlass struck him on
the head with such force that it
killed him. When the father re
turned he found both children dead
and his wife insane.
OSCEOLA GOES WET.
Osceola, Ark., .Inly IB.—This
morning Judge L. 1). Rozell gave
a final hearing to the petitions to
establish saloons in Osceola, and
there being a clear majority in fav
or of saloons issued an order au
thorizing the granting of license.
Five parties have made applica
tion for license. They are Bowen
& Hall, two; H. P. Liston, Chan
ey & Dalton, and H. J. Huckaby.
At a meeting of the City Council
Wednesday night the city license
was fixed at #1,000 a year, paya
ble semi-annually.
Found in the Swamp.
Cotton Plant, Ark., July 16_
Marthia Davis, an old negress,
was found in the swamp today dy
ing. She had lost her way and had
been thirteen days without food
and had been feasted upon by mill
ions of mosquitoes. She died short
ly after being found.
NEWARK IS THE WINNER
Local Baseball Team Wins Two
Games Out of Three Played
With Cotton Plant.
The Cotton Plant baseball team
Tame in Tuesday morning for a
series of three games with New
ark. They were accompanied by
a merry crowd of rooters, who
seemed anxious for the battle to
I begin, under the impression that
it would be an easy victory for
Cotton Plant. In this they were
somewhat mistaken, however, for
while Newark was beaten it was
by the smallest margin possible,
and after the game the Cotton
Plant aggregation were forced to
admit that they were up against
the real thing when they tackled
Newark.
Tuesday’s game.
The game was called at 3 o'clock
with Ivi Cunningham as umpire
and Cotton Plant, at the hat. The
playing was fast and furious for
several innings and nohod.v scored
i until the fifth, when Volte for
Cotton Plant got home safe. It
was a scientific game from begin
ning to end, and very few men
, got to first base safe. The two
best teams in the Southern League
could not have played a better
game.
The game resulted in a score of
l to <> in favor of Cotton Plant.
Batteries for Newark, Wood
ward and Littery; Cotton Plant,
Sutton and McGregor. The feat
ure of the game was Jimmie ('ar
gil’s 1. fi fielding for Newark.
Wednesday’s game.
Wednesday's game resulted in a
disasterous defeat for Cotton
Plant, the score being 10 to 2 in
favor of Newark. In the second
inning Newark scored three times
before the visitors hardly realized
what they were doing. In the
third the locals added another
score. This lowered the enthusi
asm of the Cotton Plant crowd
several notches. Newark added
one, two, three more scores in
rapid succession, and the game
stood 7 to 0 in favor of the locals.
Cotton Plant scored one in the
seventh, but realizing that they
were standing face to face with
defeat, the visitors changed pitch
ers and played the game out with
evident disgust.
Batteries for Newark, Bandy
and Emery; Cotton Plant, Ma
theny, McNally and McGregor;
umpire, (’unningham.
The feature of the game was
Bandy’s home run. lie made a
safe hit and the ball went off down
in the right field like a bullet.
Bobby “spun around like a button
on a barn door,” and reached the
home plate safe. It was a great
hit.
Thursday’s game.
The game was called at d:20
with Parsons as umpire and Cotton
Plant at the bat. It was an inter
esting game from start to finish
and resulted in a victory for New
ark by a score of 6 to 2.
Batteries for Newark, Wood
ward and Emery; Cotton Plant,
Sutton and McGregor.
THE UN E-UP.
The teams were well matched
and it would be a hard matter to
line up two better amatuer teams
in the state.
The following compose the Cot
ton Plant team; Echols, manager;
Sutton, pitcher; A. McGregor,
catcher: Parker, 1st base: Johnson,
2nd base: McNally, short stop:
Yolic, 3rd base;,], McGregor, cen
ter field; Terry, left field, Rich
ardson. right field.
The Newark team was as follows;
Woodward, pitcher; Emery,catch
er; Henderson 1st base; Grosser,
2nd base; Handy, short stop; Mc
Gregor. 3rd base; ('argil, right
field; Allen, center field; Ruddell.
left field.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Charles Uixey was struck by
lightning and killed near Jonesbo
ro Monday. If is wife and moth
er-in-law also received serious in
juries which may result in their
death. The lightning struck them
while driving along the road in a
wagon.
On the same day A. 1 >. ('raw
ford was killed by lightning while
sitting on his front porch during
a thunder storm at his home near
Prairie Grove in Washington
county.
1 his is nine persons who have
been killed by lightning in Ark
ansas during the summer, the oth
ers being L. J. Alexander and Al
bert Doilick in Pulaski county,
•lime‘JO; Robert Murphy, Spring
dale, .July ‘J; William Phillips,this
county, July 5; John Hubbard,
Cotton Plant, July 1.5; Mbert
.Jamison and Berry Edwards,
Mound City, .July IS.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Short Items of General Interest
Gathered Fresh From Our
Local Exchanges.
Sam Askew has been indicted at
Hardy for murder in the first de
gree and will be tried at the No
vember term of court.
The small island in the Arkan
sas river just across from the
courthouse at Pine Bluff is being
washed away by the floods.
David Turner of Hope has ship
ped a dozen potatoes, which weigh
ed 15 pounds, to St. Louis for ex
hibition in the Arkansas building.
Miss Lucy Howard of Newport
eloped with Finnis Dclaschmidt of
Evansville,' Ind., and they were
married at the home of the groom.
The youngest bank cashier in
Arkansas is Ed Atwood, cashier
of the bank just organized at New
Edinburgh. He is only Iff years
of age.
Mrs. A. \\ . Shirey, aged 16
years, was awarded alimony in
tlu» sum of *25 a month against
her aged husband at Walnut Ridge,
also *500 for attorney’s fees.
John Anderson, a planter at Cot
ton Wood Shoals, near Horatio,
Sevier county, was shot and killed
July 7 by a tenant, Henry Stevens,
in a dispute over some work.
About 4,000 people attended the
Annieville annual picnic and good
roads convention in Lawrence
county July 14. Addresses were
delivered by Senator Latimer of
South Carolina, Hon. II. H.Myers
and Hon. S. Q. Sevier.
Boh Hughes was killed at the
home of Irvin Bateman, two miles
southeast of Murfreesboro, last
Friday afternoon, by the accident
al discharge of a 22-calibre gun,
the bullet entering the body just
above the heart and causing death
within a few minutes.
1 WAS KILLED ACCIDENTALLY
l .
: Walter Strickland Shot in the Fore
head by Fred Southard While
Playing With Pistol.
Walter Strickland, a young man
living about twelve miles from
Hatesvilit*, was shot and instantly
killed by Fred Southard about two
miles from town late Monday eve
ning. Both of them were 20 years
old.
The boys were returning home
from Batesvilie in a wagon, anil
Southard had his pistol out play
ing with it, when it was accident
ally discharged, the ball entering
Strickland’s head between the
eyes. The coroner’s jury found
| that Strickland was shot accident
ally by the careless use of tire
arms.
CHARLOTTE CHIPS.
Weather line.
( Tops most all laid b.v.
Our Sunday School is progress
ing nicely.
Ilarry Kennedy is the proud
i owner of a new buggy.
Mrs. Lizzie Churchill visited
j relatives at Hazel Grove last week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. II. Harris and
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Yates attend
ed church at Pleasant Hill Sun
day.
Miss Nellie Churchill entertain
ed a number of her young friends
Saturday night, and all report a
nice time.
ANTS DESTROY BOLL WEEVIL.
(). F. Cook, discoverer of the
Guatemalan boll wee\ il-eating
ants, lias wired the Department of
Agriculture from Texas that the
new ants are destroying cotton boll
worms and are destroying similar
injurious insects with even greater
avidity than they do the boll wee
vil.
The ants do not injure at all th'e
larvae of the lady bird, which is a
beneficial insect.
Mr. Cook reports that the agri
cultural value of the ants now de
pends chiefly on acclimatization
and rapidity of propagation.
Arrested on a Serious Charge.
Conway, Ark., July 18. -J. Q.
Harrold. a teacher and lawyer,
was arrested today upon a warrant,
charging attempted assault upon
a Mrs. Wilkerson, near Beryl. Hi3
trial is set for July ‘23rd.
Crushed to Death.
M. German was killed Sunday
at DeQueen while trying to board
a through freight. In the third
etfort to swing himself in position
he fell and was crushed under the
wheels. He lived two hours. Ho
leaves a young wife. His brother
is section foreman at Gilliam.
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Negro Commits Suicide.
Forrest City, Ark., Julyr 16.—
William Dean, a negro living two
miles west of the cit.v, enjoys the
distinction of being the first negro
on record in St. Francis county .
who is charged with self-destruc
tion. Sick and despondent 6ver
the condition of his crop, he plac
ed the mu/./.le of a shotgun to his
breast, and the charge did the rest.
The frequent rains of late have
about killed the cantaloupe cro|>
in this section. Unless the weath
er continues dry for the next week
or so the entire crop will be ruin-?
ed.—Malvern Times-Journal.