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Tour publicity-problem is half of your store-problem. It should have the attention at "the boss." VOLUME XIII., No. 238. COUNCIL APPROPRIATES 05,000 FOR RELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERS; AUGUSTA IS RAPIDLY ASSUMING ITS NORMAL ASPECT CAR LOAD OF SUPPLIES ON WAY FROM ATLANTA B!fi COMMITTEE NAMEDJO HELP 1 "‘PECIAL BODY OF COUNCIL ,VIEN WILL WORK WITH , ' CITIZENS COMMITTEE ♦ JUDGE EVE HELPS . 1 inounces That Board of Aue iu charities Has $4,000 ta ; t Available— Will Put One t{ le Hundred Convicts and 0 f v Twenty Five Teams to a ] c j Vork on City’s Streets. Souti ' for oi. -y council met in special session the r mornin S a t 10:30 o’clock and ap , dated $5,000 for immediate use reach Sieving the suffering people of Ml ,|ty popula ipecial committee was appointed and li in co-operation with the corn el r , a appointed by the citizens mass , , mg, thes e being Messrs. E. G. jisch, J. E. Woodruff, R. J. w -s, Austin Branch, J. P. Baxon, all moth council, and Messrs. E. B. Hook £ j C. B. Matheny from the city at have 1 p citizens committee is composed }j e apt. W. B. Young, chairman, and rs. Jacob Phinizy, Thomas Bar* ned a Jr R B Allen, F B Popei tives 1 • W. Loyless and Charles Estes. lacob Phinizy, who was first ap to the e( j CoU ],} no t serve and Mr. of Mrs* was substituted. Roys is o Wm. F- Eve was Invited by ianta T cit ' z9ns committee to participate - he meeting of council and In an gusta ega j)i] e( j f U ij 0 ( forceful expres passet s he tendered every aid within day a power to the work of relief in ev statei department. He told the assemb ' , members of council and the cltl °‘ Mr s committee that th e county board “I charities had SI,OOO available for Chat-mediate expenditure and it was all The their command. He further stated t he would supplement this official came to any extent needed, and person-' nouc ,• he would contribute to the work the a see that not one person Buffered sou fom the blighting effects of the dis th- ’ Bter Mr. Kalbfleiseh moved a rising vote co os thanks be given Judge Eve. Mr. Woodruff seconded the motion and it re was carried unanimously. _j_ Judge Eve further stated that the roads of Richmond county were intact P - and not much damage done conse -I.' quently he was In position to tender w he city the us e of 100 convicts and j 25 teams to help put the streets In shape. Mayor Dunbar announced that he 1 had over SSOO in ea-!i on hand besides SSOO from Atlanta council and author j ity to draw on the Atlanta Journal , for S3OO, Mr. Kent moved that a vote of thanks be extended the Atlanta sl -tirnal. the citizens of Atlanta, and that city council of Atlanta for the the flo generous spirit, which has been 'He \' ,0 Augusta in the hour of need, itlon was unanimously carried, engers, jneement was made of the re dying m f a check of SIOO from Davison St. Moui ;o to help with the relief work, time.'' ittle other business was trans- r j,n council and the two commit . once met and devised ways to Georgian ork of rP )| e f A )| applying for plorable e sent down to the court house - board of charities and relief LONE dly being given in every needy BELCHER I# NOTJJROIAINED sorted rowning of Robert E. \, is now authorstlveiy de ■e Is now at bis home, hav k. rescued some distance down the »i>«T He went on up to Grove town The body identified as his must be that of some other man and later In the day official information will be > given out by tbe coroner concerning the dead, which now number sixteen bodies. THE AUGUSTA HERALD UNIQUE CONTIBUTION BY GENEROUS ATLANTA ATLANTA, a.—Anything from a loaf of bread or a pan of biscuits to a dozen sacks of flour or a couple of hundred pounds of meat is being ac cepted Saturday at the door of a big box car behind the Union Depot in the car which "Bud" Brntian is load ing with contributions of food from the citizens and Mercahnts of Atlanta to the flood sufferers of Augusta. The car will leave at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon Tor the stricken city. Into hundreds of homes where food has been scarce for days, where chil dren's cheeks have grown front hun ger and where worry has haunted mothers till their eyes are sunken in to hundreds of such homes will flow the life-giving substances which the car will roll into Augusta as Atlanta's unique contribution of daily bread and meat. Money there is, accumulating on all sides. The city has given from the official treasury, and citizens have opened wide their Individual purse strings. But money purchasing powers are AMERICAN RED CROSS WILL AID SUFFERERS WASHINGTON —The executive committee of the American Red Cross has authorized Secretary Magee, to issue an appeal to the public for funds for the flood sufferers of the south. The need for aid over a large area of the south is declared to be very pressing. Mr. A. C. Kauf man. president of th e South Carpi ina branch of the Red Cross tele graphed : “Millions lost; end not yet." CLEANING UP NOT 10 CEASE ON SUNDAY Work will be carried on in Augusta throughout Sunday Just the same as any other day. In council meeting Saturday morning Mr. Austin Branch governing Sunday work and the res olution was unanimously carried, be ing seconded by Mr. L. L. Kent, moved to suspend the city ordinance Council cannot suspend the ordi nance for more than 30 days, but this will not be necessary for that length of time, and the ordinance is sus pended only until further notice. As the result of the ordinance the city will be busy throughout the day and the street cleaning forces will be kep at work incessantly. ELECTRIC CARS 10 BE IN OPERATION SUJDAY The Augusta Railway and Electric company officials, when seen Satur day morning said: The cars will be in operation Sunday. There will be two cars on the Lake View line, five or six cars on the belt line and two cars on Turpin Hill. The company are at work trying to get the lights to the city and It is possible that a few will be on Satur day night. Every thing will be in working order by Sunday night. The officials have stopped traffic on the North Augusta bridge as the track that the people were crossing on is held only by two smalt boltg There were * stream of people crossing early this morning and it il a wonder that the bolts hare not glv en away. The Railway company is Special Notice To The Public 1 daefra to warn the citizens of Auguata. In this hour of dlatreaa, to be xtremely careful in driving vehicles through the afreets. There are many where the ground Iscaved In Juat under th# surface of the road-way, rhlrh will brook through almost without warning f particularly urge our eople to discontinue ueLng vehlelea or horses after nightfall. W M DUNUAIt Mayor c. A. Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity— Fair tonight and Sunday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29. 1908 some times too small that even a loaf bread is more welcome to famished stomach than a sack full of gold. Such a condition will the car meet which is standing this morning on the track alongside the old Markham House, East of Union depot. Into tbe car are going sacks of flour and sacks of meal and meat and other necessities of life. Mr. Branan makes it clear, however though, the bulk of the food car's freight will be contributed by me diants of Atlanta, a great deal of it is being offered by individuals in small contributions Atlanta's citizens and Atlanta's merchants are responding generously and the ear will be heavily loaded with good welcome food when it rolls away on its Journey across to Augusta this afternoon. Colonel Sam W Wilkes, the com mercial Agent of the Georgia railroad who is a former resident of Augusta, Is also receiving contributions for the stricken city and will see that they are promptly forwarded. ALE TELEPHONES WORKING BY MIDNIGHT Saturday morning the Bell Tele phone company located all their trou bles and by noon had 1.800 telephones working. However 950 more are out of commission and it will be some time before they can all be repaired and put in shape for use. By Saturday midnight. Manager Peter J. Nix, estimates that almost 2,000 ’phones wili be in order. Most of the telephones out of commission are In th<. business district of the city where the conduits underground were disturbed by the swift currents of water. Many are out of us# in North Au gusta and down in the valley, especial ly. there being many 'phones In use there. 1 All the help that can possibly work on the lines are busy, sixty men be ing at work under management of E. R. Crews, chief of construction for the company. RELIEF OFFERED. Rev. Fletcher Walton, pastor of St. John Methodist church, has returned to the city. He would appreciate any information concerning distress among any of his membership as a re suit of the flood. SERVICES TOMORROW AT ST. PAULS. There will be two services at St. Paul's church tomorrow, Sunday morning At seven thirty In the morn Ing ther# will he the celebration of the Holy Communion and at it o'clock there will be morning prayer and a brief service. going to have supports put under the track Saturday and Sunday morning, when the cars start to running, the cars from the Carolina side will come to th« break and meet the cars from the monument Th# passengers will have to transfer by going over the platform that will be built Saturday. AUGUSTA'S UNION PASSENGER STATION WHICH ESCAPED MOST OF FLOOD WATERS DAMAGE IS LESS THAN FIRST FEARED unstained by wholesale gro ery and produce merchants on the Tri angular block is not ho heavy n« wiih first feared. The principal losers were of course Nixon & Co. The following table, showing careful estimates, vrni convey a fair idea of the damgc; Nixon Grocery Co. (round num bers) 1100,000 Murphey & Company 100 Hill and Merry practically none C. D. Carr National Biscuit Co s7oo Nelson-Morris S6OO Augusta Grocery Co. (to merchan dise $2,00') Augusta Grocery Co. (lo building) One corner of Ihe Auguata Grocery Company's building, at the Intersection of Twiggs and Walker streets, occu pied by Nelaon-Morrls, caved In when the foundations were undermined hy tic current, and ts being torn down. It will be rebuilt, stronger than aver. The Ntoxn fire left nothng tail a pari of the western wall. Other firms were elevated high enough to escape the water. ON FARM LANDS TRE DAMAGE IS IMMENSE Prabtibiy the most miserable peo ple In the entire flood were the neg roes marooned on the big farms In the valley below the city. There were scores of people In Augusta, mothers, wives, sweethearts and slstt rs. who experienced all the anguish of uncer tainty with their loved ones far away In some -distant part of the town, but the poor negro farm hands were piti ful In the extreme, according to :,tatu meats from people who were with them. On the big farms of the Warren estate Jnrf below Ihe city, Mr Jaime Gardiner, manager, was caught out with severs, of h!s laborer*; Tbe water rapidly surrounded them and kepi rising until the magnificent fields of corn stood ten to fifteen feet deep 111 water. The stock were taken Into the second (dories of the barn and the men climbed up and spent the night with them One negro was ought off alone In one of the smaller buildings and remained there with out food or drink from Wednesday noon to Thursday night when he wax finally rescued In a boat The farms below the city have suf fer*-d greatly On the Warren farm* water was still several feet deep Fri day night and Mr Gardiner made the frlp out In a boat to ihe lowet end ol the city Of course, h* hid been out before that time, going back to carry provisions to his workers there. The entire farm has been swept complete, ly and the big crop is « loss Others along the vallay are In tbo«aam« con- OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE COME FROM MANY POINTS The following telegrams, nil soli explanatory, have been received by Mayor Dunbar today: Atlanta, On. Il<»n. W. M. Dunbar, Augusta. Have Just learned of Augusta's great ealamlty and am wiring Hfcnrrtary o; War asking for emergency aid. II I can help will he glad in do so <:„ m . rnunloate with me here. THOS. W. HARDWICK. Wm. M. Dunbar, Augusta. Atlanta. On. Permit me to express my sympathy on account of flood which has com* upon your city. Blouse advise me how 1 can serve you. lIOKK SMITH, Governor. Hon. Wm. Dunbar, Augusta Palmetto G.i. Please accept my pledge of heartiest support of any emergency action you may take. KUGKNIS L. JOHNSON, M. c. lion. Will Dunbar, Augusta. Athens, On. Athens sympathises with Augusta In hnr misfortune. Can we render as sistance W. K. DOHHKY, Mayor. W. M. Dunbar, Augusta. Atlanta, On. Out Atlanta women etxend sympathy, to your city. Advise me how we run render hl<l to your women? MltH. SAM D JONES, President city Keedtu ithm of Womens Clubs, SIO,OOO WILL COVER ALLSTREETDAMAGES Mr Nnsblt Wingfield, Commissioner of Public Works, atnlrd to Tim Herald Sulitrday litut he had iravrlnd over all the streets damaged hv water and made a emeriti cuilitinlo of the damage ll> hiiHch’ Uni SIO,OOO will cover virtually all the loan and pul the streets buck In Hi •aim; condition they were before the flood. I tiiK | jis tin* wild stories of great damago Into hack ground »»:. Mi Wlngfloi* ; Statement on the matter cannot he refilled in anybody In the city. 11l Is recognized an an expert In the work and him hail charg or tin construction or the city’s streets for a number ol years With the large convict force which has henn placed at his disposal hy Judge Kve li In quite certain that repairs on the street will be cmri.il through rapidly. Washouts constitute a taige per cent ol lie damage The greatest destruction wiih probably In the limn of the i 'inter HI reel bridge, hot It Is slated by Mr. Wingfield Mini thin run he replaced |,y „ modern structure at a cost of not over $50,000 an the piers am stl,| Intact. The drawbridge problem Is now very rrmeti simplified, says Mr Wing. Held and it ts quite eertaln that ihlswill he taken In consideration when the row bridge Is put up. Negro Was Given Limit For Charging 75c Per Hour Damp Williams was before Ihe re eorder Saturday morning charged with violating the loitering ordinance Judge Plcquet. said: '*t am determined to break up this loitering lam - peelally determined to break It up j; RICH YOUNG SOCIALIST BUSY UIMUAGO--Joseph Medlll Patter son, the rich young socialist, hu. ccn sored A Little Brother of the Rich," and a second edition Is being prc. ed by the publisher* Alter th first edition appeared Mr. Patterson decid ed to lone down some of the savage arraignments of society In New York and the summer colonies. dltlon and the amount lost by farm ers cannot he estimated The large ha; farm (if Dunbar Bros, has been Inundated for three or four day- and th" acreage of arable land on th<'lr premises amounts to about five hundred acres so that tnetr mss will be great as hey cannot dp any more hay this season. Besides tho amount or growing nav lost, they also had quite a quantity of mown hay on tbs land. DAILY AND SUNDAY SO.OO PER YEAR. face of a public calamity. The man who asks exorbitant prices for Ills work Is a vulture and a thief, WII Hams was given SIOO or 90 days. He ad ask'd a gentleman 75 cents an ir, when h< offend him u Job Frl- THE IDENTIFIED DEAD. The following Is a list of the Identified dead that Coroner Ramsey liar, field Inipiei'is over: Mr. Harry Carr, bookkeeper; Mr llarvey VVlngurd, printer, Negroes John Holmes, James Harris, Caesar llarvey, |,evl Hatchett, Kd Owens, Tom .lone Hcyman Williams, Hcott Henry, and Nelson Thomas, TWO FIRE?, FRIDAY. Then were two tunall fleet Pride- At. o'clock the residence of a negro I preacher named ,laet*nn, on Orel no j ktroct near the Hat red Heart church, { '•'nigh , H 11. Kre*«' atore caught about Hint o'clock, the damage being $26. The fire waft catmed by a clerk haudllUK a candle carcleaaljr. Spend more for advertising’ this August than ever before —-and do more business this August than ever before. WATERIS TURNED a . J All mains lo.idlug from Iho reser voir Into Hit 1 city worn repaired dur ing Friday and Friday night and Saturday morning at exactly r> o'clock Ihe valves were turned loose at, the water works on the hill and the city wu er supply was made available. Koporto of water famine were heard on ever> side, but when the wilier discolored, hut alright, was turned mi another of the flighty s tories oi destruction by the flood wan put to flight. There Is enough water in the reservoir to last tho en tire city more than ten days and long before that time the pumping station up tin* river will be doing regular bus iness. While there Is n short supply of water being admitted to the olty I* is sufficient to supply every need and the situation in this respect has paus 'd the critical stage. Hupt. Wlng ileld hopes to have this feature of the situation well in hand not later than Sunday night SiIPT. EVANS GIVES SCHOOL LOSSES Tim Davidson and Central Splioolh Were The Only Olio* Hurt by Water. Hupcrlntctndent Lawton B. Evans Halil: "The Hoard of Education has suffered a lohh of about $3,000 iih near hh 1 can estimate It.” The IhivldHon Grammar school on Telfair si root Buffered more than any school. The dekks In the hlx rooma down stairs were washed away, and all the out houses arc lost. Tho dam age will roach $1,500. The furnlHhliiKK In the office of tho Hoard of Education ar*' ruined, and Homo supplies in the basement of tho Central school, such sh chalk, etc.. Die damage |» about SSOO Buperln lendeut Evans nold lie did not caro to make an estlinato of the damage to the Central school, but It will cost several hundreds of dollars to rebuild the lower. The oil painting of Governor John Mlll'dge that was at the office of the Hoard of Education was washed from Hh fast* nines and floated In the building during Ihe high water. Th« portrait luckily fell with the face up and the watei did not penetrate the canvas, and te otid a few mill dew Hpots it is uninjured. The puhlh schools will open on Heplcinlier 11, with the exception of the fine, second and third grades Ml the David on school. The kinder garten at Ihe Davidson will be In , the asKemhly room. , Th- Davidson and the Central were I ih" only schools injured by Ihe wa ter. EVERYBODy WILL HAVE 10 IRK I In Pi** council ju-ctlns last afternoon | the following actions were taken; "Arrangements wet*- mad* to rna.'t the i ominltKu selected at the tnsaa i.; ci us I', outline plans for tbs Yallaf sufferers. I perolulprrts Were pusaad to rigidly an* j force the viiKranry law To swear la ; deputies if necessary. Alt Id' t of building the new city hall ! rue -"tried Indefinitely. . ' tut-, of th< mayor In ftnnwt.rh'g j telcgrairir aid ol lit i matter a during tOa flood approved.