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THE ROAO
W. BLAME
For Yesterday’s Tragedy by
Reason of Failure.
TO PROVIDE* PROVOSTS
For the Vineville Cars —Conductors
Forced to Protect Themselves
and Passengers.
Th*' most urious trouble that ha* yet oc
curred with the negro soldiers now in
c<imp here took place yesterday afternoon,
<u- a direct result of Manager Winter's fail
ure .to have provost guard* on the Vine
ville ears. •
Conductor Thrower, one of the mo*t
peaceable conductors of the VineviJle line,
wan forced to shoot and kill Private Tur
ner, of Company B, Sixth Virginia regi
ment at the Wesleyan College switch
shortly after 3 o'clock.
It is the general opinion that had there
been a provost guard on the car, as de
manded by The News sometime ago, the
ly would have been averted. As It
was, the conductor had to shoot the savage
: gro in his own defense and in defense of
the passengers on his car. Had there been
a provost on the car the negro would have
tbeen arrested at least ten minutes before I
the tragedy occurred, and -the people of
Macon thus spared the excitement that fol
lowed the killing.
The News made the situation very clear
to the Consolidated management several
days ago, and its statements were endors- ’
*by every patron of that line. Manager
Winters pretended to 'place guards on the
cars immediately, but as demonstrated by
yesterday's tragedy, he utterly failed to
■provide adequate protection for his passen
gers and employes. It appears that he I
ohly arranged for provosts to ride on the
cars from St. Stanislaus college to-Crump’s
Park and return, a distance of less than
on- mile. But, as everyone knows, the
ears are almost empty after passing -the
■college, hence the presence of guards is
less necessary there than anywhere else.
It is also true, as everyone knows, that the
'trouble with the negro soldiers always oc
curs b/tween the Vineville branch and the
'business portion of the city—in other
words where they enter the cars. For the
Simple reason that It is their drunken,
boisterous conduct when they board the
ears that always makes ithe trouble. If
trouble occurs i-t. is invariably over with
Jong before the cars reach St. Stanislaus
college. In the meantime the patrons of
the tine have heen forced to submit to the
Avorst ’forms of rowdyism on the part of
drunker? ftegm'g, unless the conductors
manage to enforce Older, which is a'lmOst
nrposrfilj|g A Esoe'da’Ty so In velw of the
fact that every conductor on the line feels
more or less hampered by the policy of the i
'’onsolidattd'H management. They do the i
best they can, but they are almost .pOwer-
Jess to cope a car full of drunken,
rowdy negroes. f- ,
Yesterday’s tragedy was a. case in uxmit, (
but it was by no means the first one, al
though it was the first, time a conductor
had -been actually forced to use a. pistol.
On the afternoon before, four outgoing ne
groes took possession of an outgoing car.
cursing in the -presence of ladies and abus
ing white people. A young white officer
finally forced them to leave the car. In
doing so one of them dropped a pistol from
ibis pocket.
On Wednesday night a conductor was as
saulted from behind by a negro soldier.
The day before ladies were forced to
leave a ear short of their destination ra
ther than listen to the profanity of three
negro soldiers. Had these been a provost
on the car this would not have happened.
Last week a gentleman was forced to
strike a drunken negro who was cursing
in the presence of ladies on the car. Had
there been a -provoct on the ear it would
not have been necessary for a patron of
the line to thus endanger his life.
i All of these things are known to Mana
ger Winters, but not until yesterday af
ternoon did he secitf? provosts for the cars i
coming into the city.
These are but a few eases. Almost every 1
pal’Yn of the Vineville line has a story of I
his own to tell of similar troubles, and 1
naturally everyone of these rigorously
condemns the Consolidated management -
for the indifference heretfore displayed.
A News man asked Major Winters this
morning if he had anything to say in de
ft use of his policy. He said, that he was '
rot to blame, that he had placed provosts
on the cars where he thought they were ;
necessary ■.
He admitted that there was no piovost .
o.i Conductor Thrower's ear when the trag
edy occurred yesterday, but said the trag
edy might have occurred anyway.
He denied that he hampered the condtjc- I
tors in any way in -dealing with the ob- |
sireperoue negroes. But many of the con- i
ductors themselves have an entirely differ- j
ent understanding of iris policy.. They ad
mit that they have instructions to make
the negroes ride on the "trailer,” but they
are almost powerlees to do this without
the aid of a provost.
Manager Winters is being generally and
deservedly criticised for his failure to pro
vide provosts for -the cars. Indeed, some i
of the talk in this direction is quite em- :
phatic.
It is due to manager Winters, however, ■
to say that he now ses his mistake and has
at last secured provosts for the cars. In ;
the meantime a tragedy has occurred, and
the entire city seriously disturbed by the j
occurrence. All of which, as said before, -
could have been averted had the coneol
idated's management provided guards for 1
the cars at the outset.
Chamberlain’s Cclic, Cholera and Diar- I
Thoea Remedy can always be depended
upon and is pleasant and safe to take.
Sold by H. J. Lamar & Sons.
See the big line of fine
hand-embroidered handker
chiefs that Dannenberg Co.
are showing. A large manu
facturer’s entire line bought
at less than cost for this sale.
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WELL KNOWN OUT WEST,
Some Noted Men With the Seventh Regular
Cavalry.
j Mr. W. A. Wai 4, generally called "Red”
Ward out West, is perhaps the most wi-dt’y
known, as well as one of the host wagon
tartn in the Un'.tfd State ».rviee. Mr.
, Ward was born in Kentucky and hos been
i a United State* army wagonmaster for
thirty years. For five year.- ha was wiip
; r >- :n Mb L. v.on and S ~f cr in th’-. In
, lian ■campaign of 1873-1877 — His employ
ment In snny wagon service was under
■ Colonel N. E. Eno*, chief quartermaster,
j in New .Mexico. 'Mr. Ward, like most gen
: nine plainsmen, is modest, and will not talk
about himself, but those who know him
;!iat he has .ha 1 some thrilling expe
rience- out on the plain*. Friends who
I'know him say that the hottest Indran fight
. "Red” Ward got into was in 1572 between
j .lack-borough and Fort Richardson in
Texas, with Major Bacon and the Nin- r h
I colored, regular cavalry, at, Catfish Creek,
and wi;h General M Kenzie, who fought
the .Vpac-hes at Canon Blanco on the Stak
ed Plains of Texas.
At the beginning of the Spanish-Ameri
can war Mr. Ward was with Colonel Scul
> ly at New Orleans, from which point he
fitted out a great many wagons for our
i army. He was wagonmaster of the Fifth
regular cavalry at Tampa and at Hunts
ville, Ala., was -transferred with twenty
| now at Central-City Park. "Red” Ward
is silent as the plains, but if he can only
- be drawn out and induced to talk he can
if he will, tell a great deal about the plains
j'and Indian fighting—much more and much
| more truthful than some -long-haired show
I man who exploit ,themselves all over the
■ United States every summer. "Red” is
known to nearly every regular cavalry of-
I finer, and they vouch for him.
•Mr. A. J. Galor, of Lander, Wy., is pack
master of pack train No. 27, United States
army. Mr. Gaylor i* a born plainsman,
being a native of Fannin county, Texas,
from whence he went to Wyoming, where
he has been thirty-one years, thirteen of
which he was perhaps* the beet known and
most skillful cowboy in Wyoming. IMr.
Gaylor has been in the pack train service
ever since the Custer massacre. He was
at Pine Ridge against .the Sioux and later
in Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, when the
Shahones, Crows. Arapahoe* and other va
grant Indians left their reservations and
had game-killing troubles with -the set
tlers. IMr. -Gaylor has seen plenty of fight
ing, and those who know him say that he
is a very able packmaster and only needs
I a little more war -to boost him up higher.
I’. W. Coyle, the Texas "Kid,” is a man
whom it is a shame to call a "Kid.” for
he was born on July .16th, 1822, and is
76 years old. lHe says he was born in Ar
kansas and raised in Texas, where people
have good manners enough to call him
"Old Tex,” and not. "Texas Kid.” He was
a Confederate soldier, served in Troop E,
Eleventh Texas -Cavalry, C. S. Army, un
der Joe Wheeler, was wounded several
times in Tennessee, after war was over be
gan to drive teams for the United Sta-tes
army and has continued driving for that
army all through thirty-odd years since,
has seen a. great deal of Indian and civil
war. One Christmas day in 1861 fought
Indians alii day 100 miles north of Fort
G'ibson, Indian Territory. They were a
split off or secession from the Cherokees
and Chickasaws and were called "The
Pins,” whatever that means in Indian lin
go, Thirty-three whites were kille'd and
Sixty wounded, and hundreds of Indians
were killed and wounded. lHe has been in
a score or more other "brushes” and skir
mishes which the old mail modestly says
are "hardly worth 'mentioning.” In the
spring of 1878 a number of friends .and rel
atives from everywhere went up to the
Custer massacre on the Little Big Horn, in
•Montana, to see if they could identify an-d
recover the remains of their beloved heroic
dead buried there. General -Miles was -with
them. He left the party and went 'down
the Yellowstone River on the noted steam
er. "Guiding Star.” It is the -pride and
crowning glory of this honest, simple old
man that on that occasion he was detailed
to drive 'General Miles’ own staff wagon
from Fort Custer to Fort Keog in Mon
tana. and he did it skillfully and safely
over about the wildest and roughest road
less piece of Bad Lands i-t was the writer’s
ild fortune to creep carefully over years
later on pony back. "Old Tex,” as he pre
fers to be called, drove for the Fifth reg
ular cavalry through all the hard Spanish
campaign, when men sickened and died j
all around him. and never a day sick or
absent from duty was he. He was trans
ferred from the Fifth ito the Seventh reg
ular cavalry and is serenely driving his
team every day in “Red” Ward’s wagon
train 'down at -Central City Park. IMr. P.
•W. Coyle. "Old Tex,” is simply a wonder
ful old man to be driving a government
team out in aill sorts of weather after such
a hard campaign. He is a noted veteran j
army teameter and ait his 76 years of age ;
there is no better —so his comrades and i
his wagon master say. He is also a Confed- '
erate veteran who fought under Joe i
Wheeler, and our Confederate people '
should make “Old Tex's” Christmas in
Macon the biggest and best he ever ha'd. :
This wonderful old -man seems able to take
care of himself, but he cannot possibly '
'team much longer. He is very ertd, being
six years beyond three score and ten. and
may not live many more years. Treat ,
“Old Tex” kindly and well. D»
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on your Christmas liquors.
RATES INTO LINE.
Atlanta to Get Some Important Concessicns
From the Roads.
Both the freight and passenger officials
of the roads in the South have held con
ferences in New Orleans this week says
the Atlanta Constitution.
The freight traffic official* met there on
Tuesday. They were called together by
Mr. W. W. Finley, vice president of the
Southern railway. The information given
to the newspapers was that the meeting
was called to discuss the cotton rate sit
uation at Memphis, and also to bring rates
on cotton ties into line.
■Among the freight officials at the con
ference were: Vice President and General
Manager R. Carroll, of the Mobile and
Ohio: Vice President and General Manager
J. T. Harahan, Assistant Traffic Manager
M. C. Markman . and General Freight
Ager.: W. 1?. Hurlburt, all of the Illinois
Central; Vice President Stuart R. Knott.
General Freight Agent C. B. Compton, and
Assistant General Freight Agent F. C.
Shepard, of the Louisville and Nashville: i
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Wlr r»N NEWS FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23
I
Big Bargains in Ladies Jackets
: Alex E. Harris, who is now in New York buying
goods for his wholesale trade, has just wired of his big
> purchase of the
a Ctklirffiil Jstes,
F.. 3* tiie £°°ks are too fine for his jobbing trade, he will sell them at retail
■I At Than the New York IT’holesale Prices.
\ This is a rare chance for the ladies to buy such fine quality of la-
dies jackets at such remarkably low prices. The goods will be sold at
NEWMAN MILLINERY CO.
555 CHERRY ST.
! Alex E. Harris.
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’ General Freight and Passenger Agent E.
A. Niel, of me Mobile and Birmingham;
Second Vice president AV. W. Finley,
Trahic Manager John 'M. Culp and Assis
tant General Freight Agent R. L. MaKel
lar, of the Southern Railway; General
Freight Agent J. D. Reddell, of the Kan
sas City, Foit Scott and Memphis; Gen
et al Freight Agent W. A. Winburn, of the
■ Central of Georgia; Traffic Manager H. F.
j Smith and Freight Agent R. H. McClan,
|of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
I Loui*.
It will be observed from -the foregoing
' list that the roads represented at 'the
j meeting were chiefly those interested in
-1 the Memphis territory. While the Central
'of Georgia does not reach Memphis, it
j participates largely in the divisions of cot
' ton business out of Memphis for the South
Atlantic seaboard. The Nashville, Chat
tanooga and St. Louis, the Louisville and
Nashville, the Illinois Central, the Mobile
and Ohio, the Southern railway and the
Memphis and Birmingham are directly
| concerned in the Memphis territory.
The railway men stated that they met
i at New Orleans because they felt assured
that they would get a mild temperature.
They held a conference In New York re
cently and had a rough time of it up there.
It is understood that the rates on cotton j
ties from the North to Chattanooga have !
been raised and will be increased again ,
slightly. This is done to meet the com- I
plaint that the rates to Chattanooga were
not in line with the rates to Atlana on
i ies, dealers here being compelled to order
their shipments consigned to Chattanooga,
whence they were r-eshipped on local rates.
Rates from the east to 'Memphis and
Nashville on the merchandise classes,
boots, shoes and such gods, are to be
raised January Ist, or about 'that time.
'An effort was made to increase these rates
last summer, bu the trunk lines would not
follow suit and the cut rates were restored
all around.
It is r&psrted that some important con- j
cessions have been made to Atlanta. Vai- |
dosta is to be made a basing point and
this will give that city better rates. Rates
from Atlanta to other Georgia cities are
to be brought into line by reductions, but
just what rates will be put in may not be
known for a few days.
The passenger officials are reported to
have conferred on the subject of organ
izing a local board at New Orleans.
The New Orleans Picayune, commenting
on the presence of Mr. S. F.Parrott, chair
man of the Southeastern Freight Asso
ciation, gave the railway visitors and Mr.
Parrott himself some information which
must have been rather surprising to them.
The Picayune said: "Mr. Parrott has juris
diction over passenger affairs as well as
freight matters, and passenger people fear
him. for they say he is a strictly business
man, and when violations of agreement
come about he never fails to impose a good
heavy fine.’'
’ If the interstate commerce commission
l gets hold of this information there may
be trouble, because the maintenance of
agreements and fines are strictly against
the law. No doubt the courts would be
particularly severe, too, on the chairman
of the freight association who imp%?d
fines for shortcomings of passenger men.
Even Chairman Richardson, of the South
eastern Passenger Association, does not
attempt to impose fines.
I Mr. Finley passed through Atlanta yes
i terday on his way back to Washington.
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Closing Out Sale!
OF THE
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Out Prices on Everything
Wines, Whiskies, Cigars, Etc
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To the Soldiers.
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Christmas is nearly here and you will
want to send the loved ones at home souvenirs
of your stay in Macon.
We have the prettiest liue of Christmas
goods in Macon. Everything in the way of
Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds, Silverware,
Novelties, etc., at reasonable prices.
Call and see us.
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see us before buying your material. If you
desire to build by contract, we are contractors
and builders ana take any nouse, large or small
by contract.
Macon, Sash, Door and Lumber Co.
Office, Fourth Street, Phone 416.
Factory Enterprise,JSouth Macon, Phone 404
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