Romans were watching with interest the development of the flying machine 50 years ago. Two re-cords were broken during the past week.
Glenn H. Curtis established a new world’s record for aeroplane flying when he made the flight from Euclid Beach, nine miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, to Cedarpoint, a distance of 60 miles airline, in one hour and 19 minutes.
Another new world’s record for altitude was reached by Leon Morano at Havre, France, when he ascended one mile and 1,609 feet in his monoplane.
The scarcity of labor here a half-century ago had set some plants behind in their orders. It was said that many men refused to work at $1.25 a day. Police were arresting idlers regularly, and some of them preferred to stay in jail and get three square meals a day, but it was costing the city 30 cents a day per prisoner. … In a sensational advance, August cotton reached the highest mark since the War Between the States last week in 1910, climbing to 20 cents, an advance of nearly 4 cents over the weekend. … Many were advocating increased authority for the sanitary inspector, which would allow him to inspect local restaurants. It was pointed out that conditions generally were unsanitary, that no screens were on any of the Broad Street restaurants and that bugs were prevalent in some of the kitchens. …
The Nine O’Clock German Club was organized last week in 1910 at a meeting attended by many of the dancing men of Rome, held at the home of E.A. Heard on Second Avenue, who served an evening luncheon afterward. Officers elected were Barry Wright, president; W.S. Rowell, vice president; James Maddox, secretary-treasurer; E.E. Lindsey, W.M. Towers Jr., Joe Fahy and W.B. Shaw, direc-tors. … Darlington School was to open tomorrow a half-century ago, with many improvements to the building and grounds on East 9th Street. The laboratory equipment had been enlarged to the extent that apparatus was on hand for more than 500 experiments in physics and 200 in chemistry. The en-rollment was to be the largest in history. …
Varnell Chambers had come in with the fifth Buick automobile sold by the new Studebaker Auto Co. in less than a month. It was a 40-horsepower toy tonneau machine with a very handsome appear-ance. … Chief H.C. Harrington was named state vice president at the national convention of fire chiefs field in Syracuse, N.Y. En route home he stopped in Columbus, Ohio, to inspect the new automobile fire wagon, the first bought by the local department, and reported that it would arrive November 1. … In the debate, “Resolved that the world is growing morally better,” was won by the affirmative when represented by the Fifth Avenue Baptist Baraca Class, defeating the North Broad Baptist Baraca Class. Winners were Louis Braden and Howard Higgins, while the negative side was argued by Silvey Echols and Dana Hendricks. … The newly organized orchestra at the First Baptist Church Sunday School was increasing in attendance. It was composed of W.A. Ford, Henderson Lanham Jr., Elwood Lowry, N.F. Williamson, violins; Charles Underwood, clarinet; Richard Jones, cornet, and Mark Hill, trombone. …
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