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OHEAP MONEY.
•P 4 per cent, and 7 per cent, money now
ready for loans on Macon residence and
business property. ,8 per cent, money for
farm loans. Over 15,000.000 successfully
negotiated lu Georgia alone. Loans made
can be paid off at any time. We are head
quarters. O. A. Coleman. Gen. Man.,
356 Second street, Macon. Ga.
ESTABLISHED 1884.
WARSHIP FOR
SAMOAN WATERS
Natives Have Now No Re
spect for the Stars and
Stripes.
IMUS HOI RESENTED
' y the American Government, They
Say Report of Ex-Consul
General Churchill.
New York, Jan. 31--The American flag
will soon be displayed in Samoan water.*
by a inan-of-war, says the Herald's Wash
ington corn spondent.
Tin- vessel wll be the Mohican which has
b< ■ n converted into a training ship since
the arrival in Washington of former Gen
eral Chrucbill, the president and assistant
wcr.tary of state, Dixie, have become con
vinced that American Interests require
an American warship visit to Samoa.
Mr. Churchill has told them that the
natives have no respect for the American
Kovcrnint nt, because it has never sent a
man-of-war to support any steps for the
protection of American interests which its
representative in Apla might taKe.
i hurchlll reported an Insult paid to an
American from Arizona who has estab
lished a mission near Ap a. He demanded
eatisfactlon. but the ria .ven laughed at
him and u|M>n subsequent occasions when
he Hlvinptcd to get sati faction for some
wrog committed, they tainted him with
the outrage committed upon the mission
and th. further fact that he had received
no support from his gov'ernm.nt in the
stand he had taken.
The natives have quite 1. different feeling
for the English and German governments.
Each of these governments keep one and
sometimes two cruisers in J imoan waters.
The last American warshtf o visit Apia
was the Alliance, which d pped anchor
In the harbor In 1893.
Ujion the arrival of the A jican in Sa
moan waters it is expected at her com
manding officer. Corn mi,ado G. M. Book,
will confer with Consul <1 neral Osborn
In regard to the steps to be taken to cre
ate deeper respect among natives for
the American flag.
A» a remit of tlie representations which
have been made by former Consul Church
ill, the administration rnaj enter into
negotiations with the London and Berlin
gov. rnments looking to an amendment of
the tripartite treaty under which Samoa
is governed.
In the first place Churchill thinks that
th. 1 salaries of Chief Du.c.in and the other
officers appointed by the three govern
ments in Samoa are too high and these
may be sealed down.
There is no connection on the part of
the administration to abandon the interest
of this government in Samoa, and Church
ill dm ' not recommend It, although he
says the only rca-on why this government
should continue its hold upon the Island
is because it is morally Isiund to do «o
ny ine . iMtrso pursuen tn th? past.
Churchill states that if the United States
were to withdraw from the Samoa islands
it would be divided up by Germany and
Great Britain.
AN AUTHORESS.
Mrs. Julia C. Dorr is Critically 111 at Her
Home in Vermont.
Rutland. VI.. .lan. 31 Mrs. Julia C. R.
Dorr, the well known author and poetess,
is re-port.d to be critically ill at her home
in this city. Mi tubers of her family were
summoned from the country and are now
at h< r bedside.
She is the author of many works of Ac
tion, some of which have pass, d through
several editions, bocks books of foreign
travel and volumes of poems and is also
a popular writer for several of the lead
ing magazines.
RACE OF PIGMIES.
Extremely Ugly, But Peaceably Disposed
and Afraid of White Men.
Boston. Mass.. Jan. 81 -Eben J. Sullivan
of Boston, who has been in South America
has returned here. Mr. Sullivan said:
"1 met. while on the Rio Negro, one of
the tributaries of the Amazon, a race of
remarkably small people.
“They are very ugly in shape. The
stomach is (listened out of all proportion
to their tiny, spindling arms and legs. I
think this is caused by their anaconda
like pro tiee of gorging. 1 think they may
number 10,000 or l.Vth'O souls. These peo
ple are not over 4 feet S inches in height,
and the women are less than this. Their
hair is done up and stuck together by
mud in a most repulsive fashion. They
have tribal marks that cover the upper
body and head, made by slits in the skin.
They are p< aeeably disposed ..ml afraid of
the white man.”
JONES DENIES
That He Has Removed Any Member of the
National Committee.
u ■
Washington. Jan. 31 —Chairman Jones,
of the Democratic committee, says that
there is no truth in the statement that he
had removed William F. Horrify, the
Pennsylvania member, and substituted a
uiau from the Democratic state committee
us his successor.
Jones says that Chairman Garman, of
the Pennsylvania committee and a num
ber of Pennsylvania Ik'mocrats called up
on him last week and that Garman in
formed him of the action of the Demo
cratic comjnit'ee and suit the matter
wpuld be presented to Senator Jones in an
official manner and all papers and corres
pondence would be laid before him.
Senator Jones informed Garman that the
power of removal of a member of the
national committed rested wholly with the
committee itself.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The New Quarters Are New Ready foi Ail
Meetings.
The Chamber of Commerce’s new quar
ters" in the old Exchange Bank building
are now reardy for occupancy and will be
taken possession of tomorrow.
The new quarters are both handsome
and commodious. Carpets, handsome gas
fixtures, chairs, and everything needed in
the asembly room have been supplied.
Secretary George Ketchum is seeing that
everything is in shape. Macon can now
boast of one of the most active Chambers
■of Commerce in the country, and with
quarters thoroughly in keeping with the
organization.
Some good bargains In second hand sew
ing machines at New Home office, 131
potion avenue.
INDEFINITELY
The Strike Among the New
Bedford Operatives May
Continue.
New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 31.—The third
week of tip? big strike of the New Bedford
cotton mill employes began with affairs in
relatively the same position as at the out
set.
It Is thought that the exodus of mill
hands will continue this week. Hundreds
of them have already left town.
The manufacturers have not yet made
any statement as to their Ui;.ur» poli-..y.
It is the genenl opinion that th?y will not
make any effort to star* the mills for s'me
time. The mill ’ands are apparently as
determined as ever to resist the reduc
tion, and same predict that the strike will
last well iqto the summer.
Contributions from cities and towns
throughout New England and New York
state have come forward freely during the
last week and the union office holders as
sert that if 'there is no serious disturbance
in the other big mill centers the strikers
here will be able to hold out indefinitely.
PARENT’S AND CHILD.
Killed by an Engine on the Dayton and
and Ohio Road.
Columbus, 0., Jan. 31—‘At 6:30 o’clock
this morning, three miles from Greenville,
a Dayton and Ohio passenger engine
caught C. F. Young, wife and a 4-year-old
girl in a top buggy, killing father and
child and terribly injuring the mother. A
shed obstructed the view of the engineer.
hundrejTdying,
As a Result of the Blizzard
and Destitution on the
Newfoundland Coast
ABUNDANCE IS CLOSE BY,
But Cannot Reach the Sufferers—
Horrifying Tale Brought by an
Ice-Bound Vessel.
New A’ork, Jan. 31 —'The Red Cross Line
simmer Portia arrived today, four days
overdue from St. Johns, Newfoundland
aiid Halifax, after a desperate encounter
with pack ice off the Newfoundland coast,
.mil with a horrifying tale of blizzards and
destitution in the coast stations in that
country.
Hundreds of men, women and children
dead or dying from exposure and starva
tion with abundance close by and hundreds
more are threatened with a like fate, are
the brief details of the condition of affairs
brought by the Portia.
Four days the Portia was penned in the
huge —“■>* - Bicrht r.f at
jvh.rs unable to move. ; She managed to
escape by the merest accident.
Many other crafts, several of them re
lief vessels, sent by the Canadian govern
ment to succor the destitute fishermen,
had to abandon their errands of mercy
and return to St. Johns where they were
still in the ice when the Portia struggled
into clear water.
MORE PENSIONS.
The Bill by Allen of Nebraska Reported Un
favorably in the Senate.
Washington, Jan. 31.—John C. McLaurin
was sworn in as senator from South Caro
lina to fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator Earle, his term ending March 4,
1903.
Turpie, of Indiana presented an amend
ment to the legislative, executive and ju
dicial appropriation bill providing that in
the proposed reduction of the force of the
pension office honorably discharged sol
diers and sailors, or their widows and
daughters holding positions in that bureau
shall be protected.
Gallinger, chairman of the pension com
mittee. reported adversely to the hill in
troduced by Allen, of Nebraska, providing
that all pensioners now receiving less than
S7O per month, receive that amount after
the passage of the bill.
Gallinger said that the whole number of
pensions affected by the proposed bill was
468,463 and the total annual increase in
pensions would aggregate $15,286,000. The
bill was placed on the calendar.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
reported by Sullom, of Illinois, and was
placed on the calendar.
DESPITE HIGH WIND
The Fire at the Residence of Mr. A, A.
Cullen Was Outed.
At 2 o’clock today the fire department
responded to an alarm calling them to 653
Pine street, where the residence of Mr.
A. A. Cullen was found to be in flames.
The efficient work of the department
saved the house from burning to the
ground. The roof was burned off and the
household goods badly damaged.
The high wind which prevailed made it
difficult to keep the flames under control,
The damage amounted to about S2OO.
At 2:30 the department was callexl to
Oak street between Fourth and Fifth and
found a negro house in flames. They soon
had the fire under control. Only slight
damage was done.
IN EAST MACON.
The D. V. V. Club Held Its First Quarterly
Meeting.
The (D. V. V. club of East Macon held
its first quarterly meeting on Thursday
evening at the residence of Mrs. Sikes on
Church street. 'All the members were
present and it was certainly one of the
most interesting and enjoyable meetings
yet held. The following excellent officers
were elected for the ensuing term: Fred
IV. Rooney, president; JJ. IV. Umltey Rad
cliffe. vice president; Miss Hattie Syke*,
second vice president; Mias Nettie Schell
ing, secretary-treasurer. The club then
repaired to the spacious and elaborately
decorated dining room of Mrs. Sikes, and
were served with one of the daintiest and
most •? freshing prepared by the
deft hamfa of Bast Macon ladies. Profes
sor Layton’s Brown’s orchestra discoursed
sweet music throughout the evening. The
elub meets on next Friday evening at the I
residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. AV. Smith on
j Center street, and enters into the new
quarter wjth exceedingly bright prospects.
Th? New Home machine is light, sim
: pie and never gets out of order. Office UH
Cotton avenue. J. R. Burnett.
You can talk to 10.000 every day through
the columa* of The New*.
THE MACON NEWS.
Bf PARTY VOTE
IN COMMITTEE
Resolved That Teller’s Reso
lution be Reported With
Recommendation
THAT IT SO NOT PASS.
Vote in House Will be Taken This
Afternoon Leaders on Both
Sides Are Active.
Washington, Jan. 31. —The committee on
ways and means this morning decided by
a vote of 11 to 5 on party lines to report at
once the Teller resolution for the pay
ment of bonds in silver, with the recom
mendation that it do not pass.
The committee met on a special call at
10:30 this morning, there being a full at
tendance with the exception of McMillan,
of Tennessee.
Chairman Dingley at once brought for
ward the resolution, and without discus
sion Payne, of New York, moved that it
be reported to the house with the recom
mendation that it do not pass.
Bailey, of Texas, in behalf of the Demo
crats, moved to amend that it be reported
that it dp pass.
I'he vote on the Bailey amendment was
first taken, resulting in defeat by 5 to 11,
as follows:
Yeas: Bailey, Wheeler, Robertson, Swan
son, McClellan, all democrats.
Nays—-Dingley, Dalzell, Hopkins, Grosve
nor, Russell, Doliver, Steel, Johnson,
Payne, Evans and Tahney, all Republi
cans.
On the Payne motion the previous vote
was reversed, all the Republicans voting
in the affirmative, the Democrats in the
negative.
Following the session of the ways and
means committee speaker Reed and his
associates on the committee on rules as
sembled to determine on the course of
action.
The committee on rules decided to take
a final vote on the resolution at 5 o’clock
this afternoon.
A great deal of activity was displayed
by the leaders on both sides before the
house met today in anticipation of a very
exciting debate over the Teller resolution,
which those in control had decided to de
feat before sundown tonight.
The struggle opened immediately after
the reading of the journal, when Dingley,
representative from Maine, chairman of
the ways and means committee, reported
back the resolution with the recommenda
tion that “it do not pass.”
Henderson, representative from lowa,
one of the leaders of the majority, fol
lowed this by presenting the special order
agreed upon by the committee on rules
providing for the immediate consideration
of the resolution and vote without an in
tervening motion at 5 o’clock.
Mr. Henderson yielded a moment to Mr.
Bailey, the Democratic leader, who said
that while the minority strenuously op
posed the limitation of debate proposed
be the rule, still as his side desired as
much time as possible for the debate they
would not consume any of the time al
lowed on the roll call.
Wheeler, Democrat of Alabama, and De
Armond, Democrat of Missouri, protested
Jiat r s’ S u y ’ , ho , w «y er ' and the latter said
have proposed the Cuban bellfgerancy
amendment.
The speaker cut off further incident by
putting the question and the rule was
adopted by a vote of 143 to 115, the Demo
crats restraining from the demanding the
roll call. Then followed a controversy over
the division of time,
ALLEN IS HOPEFUL.
He Awaits Anxiously the Decision of the
Prison Board in His Case.
The story published in The News Satur
day afternoon, in which it was stated that
Allen would not hang, has inspired hope
in the bosom of Alien. He says he has not
seen his attorneys since he saw the an
nouncement jn The News, but he has
every reason 'to believe that it iis so. Some
time ago tile father of Allen sent word that
he need not fear, that he had heard things
that were favorable to his case.
Allen was seen by a News reporter this
morning, and said he was sorry to see that
there were newspapers that denied every
thing that appeared in his favor, and he
hoped that if they could not say some
thing good about him that they would not
say things t h ait were calculated to injure
him.
BABBITT’S BAD CASE.
He is Charged With Cheating and Swindling
by J. R, Hicks.
T. E. Babbitt, a young white man about
thirty years of age, .is in serious trouble.
He is locked up on the charge of cheat
ing and swindling, and from present ap
pearances will have some difficulty in
clearing himself of the charge. Babbitt
claims to come from some point down the
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad,
and came to Macon about a week ago. He
has been trading with Mr. J. R. Hicks, for
the purchase of eight mules, and produc
ed a letter and a check from P. J. Domer,
the superintendent of the Enterprise Lum
ber Company. The letter gives Babbitt
permission to draw on Domer for what
money he wanted in the purchase of the
mules. Hicks, however became suspi
cious and telegraphed to Domtr, who re
plied that the letter was a forgery. When
arrested Babbitt has a number of checks
and drafts in <his pocket. He will not be
tried before Wednesday, as it will be im
possible for bim to get up his witnesses
before that time, he says.
DARKER BREAD.
Miller’s Can Only Secure a
Poorer Grade of Flour on
Account of Leiter.
C .icaga DI., Jan. 31. —Joseph Leiter, ac
ccrdPtg to ex.H rts in the trite, is forcing
ihousials of jeople to eat lather bread
than has teen *:.<u since tae inued je u u
of Um patent' roller process of nnk’ng
flour. His control of 15,000,000 bushels of
contract wheat means, they say, that the
millers are grinding the best grain that
they can secure since their supply of the
choice No. 1 hard spring wheat has become
exhausted and that the best is not very
good,
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MACON NEWS MONDAY JANUARY 31 1898.
CORBETT WILL
BE POSTMASTER,
Says Col. Locke—The Presi
dent Has Promised
This.
HE TALKS UM
And Intimates That There Are Some
in the Party Who Should
Not Be.
• '■
Col. R. D. Locke, who is the leading
Republican of this section, and who knows
more of the inside workings of the party,
perhaps, than anyone else in ‘Macon,
was approached by a News representative
this morning and asked if he had seen
the interview published t’ - morning as
coming from Major J. F. Hanson.
When asked if he had seen the article
Colonel Locke replied that he had.
“What have you to say to that?” he was
asked.
“The president’s best friends in Macon
and Georgia, who composed the advance
guard of his active supporters in this
state in 1895 and 1896, are not alarmed,”
he answered.
“The president will not appoint Mr.
Edwards, who did nothing for his nomina
tion or election, and who did not liye in
Macon at the time of the presidential
election, and who does not live here now,
even if there were not other good reasons
why such an appointment should not be
made.
“When the reported interview between
the president and the major took place
last May, the president was not fully in
formed as to who Edwards was, and he
must have thought that the sentiment of
the Republicans was being presented to
him.”
“The statement of the major may affect
a few men, but the Republican who would
doubt the president’s doing right when
fully advised, is no better than if he be
longs to some other party. We know what
the president told us.”
“You seem to be very sanguine,” Colo
nel?”
“Sanguine does not express it. You can
give the people of Macon my word for it,
that Harry Edwards 'will not succeed
Postmaster Hertz. We hope the major
will be satisfied when the president does
make an. appointment, and that we can
pull together for the upbuilding of the Re
publican party in Georgia.”
Mr. Corbett s friends, and the leading
Republicans in Macon believe i ke Colonel
Locke does, that Mr. Corbett will be Ma
con’s next postmaster.
ALARM BOXES
Have Arrived and Will be Put in Place at
Once.
The new alarm boxes for use in the city
and are attrac'insr much .at-
Unlike the old boxes these are painted
white, which is accepted now as the best
color and distinguishes them from the let
ter boxes of the government which are all
red. The white will be more readily seen
at night.
Among the boxes is one of the latest
make, which is without a key and can be
turned by anyone in case of fire without
recourse to the old method while it is pro
tected so as to make it impossible for
mischievous persons to send in an alarm.
It is proposed to paint all the Are plugs
white so as to be in accordance with the
latest plans adopted by the fire depart
ments.
WON FIRST PRIZE.
Master Clifford O’Hara is One of the Sweet
Singers of Macon.
Master Clifford O'Hara. 12 years of age,
won the first prize for singing at the con
test offered by Mr. E. D. Irvine,
Those who heard the contest were
charmed with the exquisite sweetness of
the boy’s voice. If he develops his talent
he is destined to be one of the sweet sin
gers of the South.
IN EARNEST.
The Postoffice Fight is On
and the Straight Lines
Are at Work.
The Atlanta Constitution says;
The fight for the Macon postofflee is now
on in earnest.
The friend of Mr, Walter P. Corbett in
Macon are bending all their efforts and
energies in his behalf. Today they are
circulating a petition principally among
the negroes asking President McKinley fa
appoint Corbett, and protesting against the
appointment of Mr. Harry S. Edwards, al
leging that he is a non-resident and lives
in Sparta, and that he is not a Republican.
They are also examining the old files
of the Macon Telegraph to find an article
which they say Edwards wrote some years
ago, when he was either city editor or as
sistant edvtor of the Teltgraph, in which he
is said to have burlesqued the negro and
the Republican party. Euwards was born
in Macon and has always lived here, until
recently, when he removed with his family
to Sparta, the former heme of his wife.
Mr. Edwards voted for McKinley. Mr. Ed
wards has always been a protectionist and
sound money man. He advocated high
tariff when he was editor on the Macon
Telegraph long years ago. During the ad
ministration of President Grant Mr. Ed
wards held a government appointment in
Washington.
Mr. Corbett has always been a Republi
can. He was formerly United States mar
shall for the Southern District es Georgia.
A number of she pronounced Republicans
of Macon and of the state are advocating
the appointment of Corbett. He is a broth
er-in-law of ex-Postmaster Brown, of Ma- !
eon. who is one of the Renqbticau leaders ;
in Georgia.
Avcerdiug to the best information, Mr.
Edwards is backed by Major Haasop.
Without Major Hanson’s support Mr. Ed
wards would not ue an applicant for post
master. There ace some Republicans in
Macon who think that on account of Ma
jor 'Hansen's friendly relations with Pres
ident McKinley Edwards will win.
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PLAISTED'S STORY.
F.x-Governor of Maine, Who
Died Today, Had an
Eventful Life.
Bangor. Me., Jan. 31. —Ex-Governor Har
ris M. Plaisted, who died this morning,
was bo n at Jefferson, N. H., on November
21, 182 H? worked on his father’s farm
until 1 yerrs old and then acquired a col
lege education by teaching school during
portions of the year. He was afterwards
principal of the Waterville institute, and
later, superintendent of schools.
He graduated from the Albany law
school in 1855 and practiced law in Ban
gor until August, 1861, when he enlisted
for the war, in the Eleventh Maine regi
ment. He was commissioned lieutenant
October 3d, 1861, colonel May 12th, 1862
and commanded the regiment in the pe
’ ninsula campaign in 1862, taking part la
the seige of Yorktown in the battles of
Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and the seven
days tattle.
Whi ll in the service his command never
moved <.O the front without him. He was
twice promoted by the president for gal
lant and meritorious conduct on the field,
and was warmly commended- by all his
commanders.
General Plaisted returned to the prac
tice of law at Bangor. He s?.-ved two
terms in the legislature, three terms as at
torney general of the state and won dis
tinction as a lawyer and orator.
General Plaisted was elected to the For
ty-fourth congress as representative. In
1878 he left his party, having taken the
stand for government currency, as oppos
ed to bank currency, and was nominated
as the fusion candidate for governor in
1888 and elected for two years.
At the time of ithe greenback movement
the 'Maine elections excited prodigious in
terest thioughout the country.
BIG ELM
May Change Entirely the Base
for the Manufacture
of Cotton.
WILL FORCE IT SOOTH.
This Section of The Country Must
Take Care of Its Own Crop
of Cotton.
A prominent visitor to 'Macon in a pri
vate conversation with a News reporter
said that he Lad his own theory of the
cause of cotton strikes, 'and is prepared to
prove them, as he is a cotton manufactu
rer.
His 'theory is that there is no place to
manufacture the goods Like that where the
cotton is grown. It cuts off in part three
items in expenses.
First, sHRnneA
no l£eon<l, the item of power is extreme in
New England, as water power there costs
almost as much as coal, and in the South
it may be had for the guaranty o ferecting
the mill. Taxes are less in the South, and
the item of heating is reduced to a mini
mum. Wages are two-t'hirds in the South
what are In the North, because the cost of
living is less. The product of the mills is
almost as close to the market, 'and is of
as good quality as that made in any part
as the world,
In New England the severe competiton
has led to the employment of European
laborers at starvation wages.
The end of the strike, according to him,
will be that the South will within a few
years manufacture almost all its own cot
ton, and the New England mills will
manufacture the imported raw material.
Already the consumption of cotton by the
inland factiries has cut deeply into the
profits of exporters, and the inland brok
ers are doing less than before upon the
same size crop.
The half a cent a word column of The
News is the cheapest advertising medium
in Georgia.
CARTER’S CASE.
Counsel for the Defense Struggled to Pre
vent Introduction of Testimony.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 31 —Counsel for the
defense in the Carter courtmartial case
this morning a determined effort to
keep out all the evidence relat’ T e to con
tracts entered into by the accused previ
ous to 1896 and 1897.
The judge advocate placed A. J. Twiggs,
of Augusta, oh the stand to recall a con
versation held in 1891 with one of the
Gaynors about the work done in-the Sa
vannah river, near Augusta, during that
year.
Blair, counsel of the accused, objected
to his stating the conversation. The judge
advocate contended that he had the right
to introduce the testimony. The court re
tired for consultation and upheld the con
tention of the judge advocate.
E. R. Conant was put on the stand
again this mprpiug. He was at work on
Cumberland sound as an inspector when
Anson M. Bangs had the contract. He
testified that Captain Carter instructed
him not to be hard on the contractor as
he had taken the contract s© Ipw that he
could not make any money at all. The
Gaynors, the alleged conspirators with
Captain Carter, wer-e on Bangs' bond.
Personals
of the Day
J. W. Little, of Atlanta, is a guest in
the city.
James T, May of Augusta, is at the
Brown House.
R. J. Reynolds, of Atlanta, spent yes
terday in the city.
R. S. Settle, of Dublin, was a guest in f
the city yesterday.
•J, L. t'razer, of Crawford, is among the
guests at the Brown House.
Martin Amorous and son, of Atlanta,
spent yesterday in the city.
R. G. McLain and wife, of Shellman, are ■
Guests at the Brown House.
F. H. Turner, of Sparta, was among the
prominent guests in tbe city yesterday. j
W. H. Venable, of Atlanta, was among
the prominent guests at the Brown House
yesterday.
Mr. Adolph Sterne came up yesterday
from Albany and spent the day with his
brother Arthur,
John J. Barrett. J. Albert Fowler and
J. C. Moore, of Milledgeville, spent yes
terday in the city.
Ladies who sew say the New Home Ma
chines never gives them any trouble. For
sale by J. R. Burnett, 131 Cotton avenue.
Advertise in The News and reach the
people. _ __
PAVING BIDS
TO K OPENED
Limit of Time Expired at
Noon Today—The Board
is to Meet.
VENABLE TALKS OF MACON.
Says That the Pavement on Fourth
Street is the Best He Ever Saw.
Granite Cubes Preferable.
The bids for further paving as called
for in the advertisement for a continuance
of the work of paving in the prescribed
district will probably be upend by the
Board of Public Works at a meeting to be
held at 5:30 o’clock this evening.
The limit of time expired at noon to
day.
Only two bids have been made, one by
the Venable Company, of Atlanta, and the
othtr by the Georgia Quincy Granite Com
pany.
It is probable that the Venable people
will push the Georgia Quincy Granite
Company close on the bid for the new
paving as they are aware of the price now
being paid on Fourth street.
'Mr. w. H. Venable is in the city today
looking after the bid. He was seen at
the city hall by a News reported and ask
ed what he thought of the .paving now be
ing done on Fourth street.
It is the best paving I ever saw,” he
said.
“I have seen paving in a great many
cities and have never seen anything better
than yours. It is a better paving than
that now being put down in Cincinnati
which I thought was the best until I saw
this in Macon.
"The small size of the blocks used is
responsible for this and I think that the
smaller the blocks the more noiseless and
the better will the paving be.
“The concensus of opinion leans toward
the pavement with these granite cubes.
They can be made as noiseless as brick
and are infinitely more lasting.
“They are now using wooden blocks in
Atlanta and are making a great mistake.
It is the same old material used in Mem
phis and in other cities and is responsible
for a great part of the sickness that de
veloped there some years ago.
“The people of Memphis want no more
of it and they will be equally sick of it
in Atlanta before much time has elapsed.
We did not bid on it because we don’t
want to have anything to do with such a
pavement. It is both dangerous and ex
pensive to the last degree.
“Asphalt is a good thing, but you have
to pay sot it and you would be obliged to
have an analytical chemist on the ground
all the time to ensure the best work.
“In St. Louis where they take pains to
have a first-class pavement, they have re
cently sent a commission to investigate
the pavements of the big cities of the East
yet in Tam-confident. that’they“ftT n
in favor of the small blocks such as you
are using in Macon.
I am delighted with the pavement so
far done in Macon and I think that what
has been done has been one wisely and
well.’’
SATISFIED.
Railroad Men Feel Sure That
the Anti-Scalping Bill
Will Pass.
The representatives of the railroads are
perfectly satisfied that the anil-scalping
bill will be favorably reported by the sen
ate committee, as it was by the House
committee,” said Mr. S. H. Haridwick to
the Constitution yesterday. He had just
come in from Washington on the Southern
railway’s vestiibuled. “If the impression
exists that the railroads of the country
are indifferent about the bill, it is a great
mistake. Mr. George H. Daniels, of the
New York Central, and Mr. George W.
Boyd, of the Pennsylvania, made leading
arguments in favor the bill because they
were requested to speak for all the roads.
Mr. Paul Morton, vice president of the
Santa Fe; Mr. Truesdale, of the Rock Is
land, and the Suohtern Pacific and the
Southern railway have taken a deep in
terest in the passage of the bill, but they
are only a few of hundreds of lines which
have petitioned congress to prohibit this
business of scalping, not only because the
roads are victimized by it but also because
innocent people are duped and the busi
ness is full of fraud, forgery and misrep
resentation.”
Mr, Hardwick says that the interstate
comanerce commission does not desire to
load the bill with an amendment to the
interstate commerce act. The commission
is for this anti-gcalping bill, which i has
advocated time and again in its recom
mendations to congress, go far as the
commission is concerned, this anti-scalp
ing bill stands by itself.
The brokers claim that they have just
one less than a majority on the committee,
and they hope to get a majority report in
their favor. The railway men say that
this is impossible, because more than a
majority of the committee have expressed
themselves freely as in favor of the bill.
As for the proposition to have the bill
amended so that the roads shall be com
pelled to redeem unused parts of tickets
on any other basis than by taking out the
straight fare for the distance traveled, a
majority of the senators are believed to
be absolutely opposed to everything else
on this line. As the bill stands, the re
demption would be on this plan: Suppose
the straight fare from Atlanta to New
dork was $25, and there wgs a round trip
rate of S4O. If a passenger were to buy
a round trip ticket but on arriving at
New York should decide not to come back
the same way, he would be refunded sls,
the difference between the straight fg’a
and the round trip rate which he had
paid. One or two congressmen have turn
ed up who were in favor of making the
roads refund in a case of this kind S2O, or
half the round trip rate. That would en
able every man to be his own scalper. The
senate will report the house bill as
amended.
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cure Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles
when all other Ointments have failed. It
absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at
once, acts as a poultice, gives instant re
lief. Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment i
Is prepared only for Piles and Itching of ,
the private parts, and nothing else. Every i
box is warranted. Sold by druggists, or |
sent by mail on receipt of price, 50c. and
tl.oo per box.
WILLIAMS M’F’G. CO., Prop’s.,
. Cleveland. O.
Advertise in The News and reach the
people. _
Don’t And then stop, but pay a visit to our win
dows and see the stylish Hats—regular
| prices $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00
; ~. Now Going at $2.00.
1 HIS Also look at the SI.OO Shirts
No Going at 75 Cents.
Great values indeed.
Men and Boys’ Suits at
331-3 Per Cent Cash Discounts.
j Underwear at
25 Per Gent Cash Discounts.
Don’t be Selfish
While buying a coat, blow yourself and put
one on the HOUSE. It needs it. I will
take pleasure in coating your house inside or
outside with up-to-date schemes of coloring at
moderate prices.
G. W. LINGO. ™ Cfierru st.
MACON, GA.
F RESIT VACCINE DAILY =
From now until the scare is
over. We will receive fresh
Vaccine Points every day.
Price, 15c. each, 2 for 25c.
GOODWYN’SJJRUG STORE.
Buy of me and get what you pay for. Prices, $3.50
per ton and up.
Best Red Ash, Genuine Jelico,
Eureka, Nut and Egg Hard Coal.
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