The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, April 26, 1887, Page 2, Image 2

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2 WHERE TV/EED WAS HAPPY. His Country Place In Greenwich and How He Lived There. From the Feu- York Evening Sun. William M. Tweed is best remembered. And as he would most wish to he remembered, by the people of Greenwich. If there were two sides to his character, it was the kindly, sympathetic, and gentle one which was seen here, and never any other. There will be completed this week a beautiful structure of freestone and granite, exquisite in it- pro portions and most pleasing in its arrange ment of colors. It is built on the site of Tweed’s old home here, and for the residence of a New York family of great wealth, and yet in a certain sense it will always suggest the memory of Tweed. For it is so striking a building, and is so charmingly situated on the biuft facing the sound, where Tweed was so fond of spend ing summer afternoons, that strangers, ask ing what place it is. will be told: “Oh, that is the new million dollar house, built on the spot that Tweed passed his happiest hours in.’’ That is the way it is already spoken of. and the townspeople passing by. reminded of the man. say to one another now “Ah. but thev may say wliat they like of Sir. Tweed, but we have never seen one like him here.” This tender and grateful recollection of one who was known in the whirl of New York activities as the Boss, is due wholly to his hearty sympa thy with the poorer people, his charity, which was as unostentatious as it was great, the simplicity of his personal life here, and his willingness to listen to any appeal for aid. It was by accident that Tweed found his summer home in Greenwich, and arose out of the selection of a grove <>n Greenwich harbor for the Americas Club House. Those ■who knew Mr. Tweed best were aware that he was most keenly impressed with quaint or striking bits of landscape, and it was just such a bit that struck lus fancy as he was riding through the then little village of Greenwich, it was the farm of Alvar Mead, that was bounded on one side by the old Boston and New York turnpike, doped away to the southeast, and terminated in the bluff known as Put's Hill, and hardly a ston-'s throw distant from the alleged spot where bluff old Putnam dashed down the precipice with British bullets grazing his coat and cutting through his hat. Prom the bluff a fine view of the sound and of the white sands and green hills of Long Island was presented, and at the foot of the lank curled a little inlet from the sound, back from the old tide mill pond. This quaint old shingled mill, where thp tide furnished the power Pi grind grain for Washington's array, stood in the vista, and tig> whirr of its wheel could be heard. Tweed was charmed with the spot at the first glance he had of it, and decided to possess it that he might make it the place for peaceful retreat for himself and family. But he found it not so easy to possess it. The farmer who owned it knew the value of uidney . but land was even more than money tttß Mtn, and he refused to sell. Tweed jier stated and asked Parmer Mead to name a priwf without avail. One morning he met .tihßp-rmer in the depot, and in a bantering ttuMpn- said: “Now, I don't believe you kn sw the value of that piece of land. What '. Mnki l>e a figure that would make vou part Th farmer, with a whimsical look, ami ■Bflpriugh he meant to stagger Tweed, said: siWftil. Mr. Tweed, I guess i would sell for gMJtKI." “You guess. Will youf’ Tx-oauie nobody would pay that." 1 (Syfat Mr. Tweed had stepped pi the ticket ;p|nw and had called for a pen, and in a |H&d hail scratched off a check for $60,000. JHjKnndi and it quickly to Farmer Mead, who, took it. and Mr. Tweed laugh |Hgft said that they would make arrange- ISBit' later for the formal transfer. price was enormous, as land values : 9ii were in Greenwich, Tlie whole prop ■•■ißhr was assessed for less than one thousand 'oaptrs. Sixty thousand dollars for a farm land of fifty-odd acres away out in the country! The jx-ople thought this Ml a case of Tweed’s extravagunee and reJtlessneKs with money; and yet he never elofcii a shrewder bargain, as fie must have Tpwwn For Tweed saw seventeen years .gft with a keen business eve what laud val ;tw* were bound to lx? in a place naturally so .bespit,iful and less than an hour from New 'T(fk. began at once the work pf making the ‘JShit'c an ideal country home, and he found ■fecrnte,t relaxation front the worrv and wjftirl of the city life he was leading in adbrintending this work. The long sloping fft&i that bordered the highway was grade. 1 Sown to a gently undulating lawn, and the rough farm lot when; eorii and potatoes bad flourished for a hundred years became a tiling of beauty. At the easterly end, next adjoining the present residence of A. Foster. Higgins, a long lane, shaded by elm trees, led to the farm house. Tweed set competent professional arboriculturists to work upon this lano, and they converted it into what many now regard as the most perfect approach to a residence in this country. Tlicte is only one public street that can compare with it, and that is Temple street in New Huven. The elms are set near together, the branches were carefully tmmned, and no church nave is more regu larly ami jxirfectly arched. Of course, in Tweed’* day it had not reached the beauty of to-day, as the elms were not so well grown; but he saw w hat eould lie made of the lane, and what it is to-day is due to Tweed's thoughtfulness. Whether he can have a more enduring monument than that or not. in this community he can have none wore beautiful. There stood and still stands a very large elm tree on the ground near the house— which, by the way, stood some "SKI feet back from the highway—und when Tweed saw it he said he would' have a roust in it. The contour of the lower branches was such that a lurge platform could lie easily built to rest upon them, and the carpenters were instructed to put one there. Thus Tweed had iu this higolm a charming little chalet, approached by a winding staircase around the trunk of the elm, and here it was his great delight to tain; his guests on Lot summer afternoons, where the cooluess was most grateful. Many a time Strangers seeking Tweed have found him ‘there-leaning buck in his easy chair, his hat off, his feet, slipjtered am! on a foot rest,, and '■hero he fouuu the utmost comfort of his Inter days before his great troubles came. ■Many distinguished men in jtoiitica) or busi ness life have been entertained by Mr. Tweed in the big elm ti-ee, but while there he would permit no serious business or jiolitical con versation, but would only chat ou subjects that relax the mind. The old farm-house was n low, two-story structure, painted blown, very comfortable, but wholly inadequate to Mr.'Tweed's needs. Ho made temporary additions and repairs to it, but intended to Imild anew residence, in this he was making haste slow ly, because he wished to put up ;i perfect, You*-, and knew that could not lie done in u hurry, ye built, hoewer, a handsome structure fir n burn, bo.vling alley, billiard room und temporary picture gallery. Nome of t’nc pictures that be brought to" this place were so large that it wus impossible to get them into the house. A large mini was, there fore, fitted up on the second floor of tin barn, where the pictures were hung, and where they remained long after Tweed's imprisonment. His greenhouse* ware ex tern.; x-e, und it is icincmls-nsl dint at Ins •laughter’s wediling, wlutvij tin- flowers worn <> niuny and so rfjnicc n* to cause especial roiu-iteut, the plants and blossoms all enme from tln-se gl-MUiIIiHIMK. Tweed wax not only fond of flowers, but lie |*(*xefvKS(i some know lodge of them, their varieties, habits, and to mtu extern th-lr IsiuinJciil notne-i tfatuiv, and he had osj*eially that Irm- t-t Of a genuine floriculturist, the girt o| hunt ling flower* in plan’ ,M'.|-i U ib knowhow I-* tale* a blossom iu bis ii .-mi til inly. bo.diag it |*U]a-r|y up io light without uiju It win * a little tiling, fait a piofo-oouul floi nullin 'let can tell whetb>ra iiinji knows fhiweji, or simply winures Uiem very sni'-ly 1.-y t. Til ed kept u film 'unb-, Isit win e leie weue l *.o in. litl l-i I :iit.-It tor u. lug I'. Lunaas 'lki wars fivttv bsogu-wt rJci'.xi, ; a source of pleasureto his family, who were accustomed to tak>- long drives along the shores •>f the S- aid or back among the hills every day Tweed was content in the big i elm. or -:tting quietly on the lawn, looking <.ff over fie null pood and the old mill through the inlet to the Sound. It was in th * place that Tweed hoped to spend in quietness his old ug>-. but he en j. ved it i mly a few sea* ns. Nme years ago '1: -. Tweed sold it to the late Jeremiah Milibanks of New York. The old farm hcase was torn down and the beautiful building w hich is just finished was buiit a litth- nearer th< iiluff tlian the old house st- *l. A glimpse of it can be had from the train of the New Haven road, just before l eaching the Cos Cob bridge. Since Mr. Tweed's death a numlier of wealthy New York people have built in the immediaP' vi cinity, showing the accuracy of Tweed's forecast as to the value of property. William Rockefeller's stat. ly resilience is built within a hundred feet of the Tweed proj>- ertv. A. Foster Higgins lives the year around in a place aiijoming on the east, while not far away are the summer resi dences of Secretary Ely of the Stock Ex change. C. K. Willard. E. C. Benedict, the broker: James Kelly, of DeGrrutf .v Taylor, ami F. Georgia of Gunter A Cos. Two of the churches which Tweed helped liberally, the Methodist and Christ. Episcopal, to wh* h he gave the organ, and which his family attended are w ithin stone's throw. Christ church property adjoining on the north a ]xirt of th Tweed purchase. TT hat Tweed would have done for the town liad ho remain'd here is a matter of conjecture, but it is known that he intended to make it the most beautiful suburb of New York. He had in contemplation the pur chase of a pie-s' of woodland, developing it and presenting it to the town as a park. His -liort life here was the great event of the town, so that now when strangers come in summer there are always two rights they ask to see—one the place where Trim. Put nam drove his horse down the precipice, the other Tweed'- old home, and the two spots adjoin. UNCOMPENSATED OVERWORK. Women Not Doing Too Much, as They are Doing the Wrong Things. From the Herald of Health. Are the women of to-.lay working too hard; I don't mean the woman whose time is occupied from morning till night with bread winning, cares of family and real labor, but women who have time to talk about their duties. There is an epidemic of fatigue. “Tiled to death: - ’ What lias the woman txx-n doingr She has her best bon net on and is well gotton up. Bren fisticuff ing her wav through every cheap sale in town; rushing through mud and mire to match silks and get patterns: called here and there in remote districts on business, of course: no time for ceremonious calls; has tom liersell to pi.s-es figuratively, and re turns home with 10 cents’ worth of some thing in an elaborate velvet bag decorated with a sunflower. If she boards, she sits down that evening with her spine bent in a half circle and outlines noseless faces and vases all askew on unnecessary articles for the decoration (!) of her room. What makes us tired who liave little to dof Those even who have much to do seem not to de rive great benefit from all our wonderful la bor saving appliances. “Rise I shades of our grandmothers!” Up come the straight backed, hoopeless ghosts. “Tell us, beloved memories, what you think of your grand daughters' work. Here are our kitchens and all their belongings.” The shades express w onder. “What is this hot iron box?” is the first question. “Cooking stove, over there; put in coal here: let out ashes there; open this, cools; shut this, makes it hot enough to roast in the oven; place for keeping things warm; boiler of hot water: there, set tubs; there, sink and dish washing apaliances; a slide, your dishes art; away. This box with a handle? A carpet sweeper. This multi tude of queer arrangements? All for do ing work.” “My dears, what do you dof' “We are worked to death.” Listen to the voice of the first grand mother : “Children, we lived and worked like you. We arose at 4 in the morning and often sat down to spinning or knitting at daybreak, bight, heat, water provisions—each brought it.s own difficulty, tar fetched, dear bought with labor oi our hands and our husbands’. It wasn't a matter of turning on the regis ter to keep warm, but of back logs, four sticks, pulling, liauling and sweating. Wo bore our children and roared them in those hard worked conditions. The work of our immediate successors speaks well for our ex ertions. With our minds and our bodies we served the Lord according to our light, and we rest.” That Is their message for us. Does it ne<* ghosts front the grave to tell us that it is not too mu: h that we are doiug, but that it is not the right t hing f Many ot us whose in come warrants no display are working and fretting for display uloue. The great ae emulation of heterogeneous reading matter, the increase of church and society demands, the necessity upon all of knowing the whiehness of the wherefore of everything that does not vitally concern us, is not ail this bearing too heavily on minds enervated by lack of exercise upon the hurd facts of existence? The family work, is not much of it a mere fussiug over matters which are not necessities, and which could scarcely be called luxuries? No prejudice in favor of superior education and lady-like accom plishments should blind a mother to the fact that, if spared, her girl must, be a wom an, must fill the requirements of one and learn her life work in her own way. Cun your girl lift, null, reach up or stoop down without disturbing her entire economy?. If not her condition needs vour attention. A peasant girl gracefully lifts a full tub of water tounr uend ana trips nimbly over u stile. You admire it, but, she is only a common woman; you wouldn’t bare vour daughter shut out from the sphere ot’her privileges for the sake of vulgar lifting of tubs and hopping over stiles. Those crea tures, you say, ure without intelligence. There is a display of ignorance! In the healthy Ixidy dwells the same mind. Itmav not be cultivated, but it is there for the benefit of that woman’s sons, who may meet your sons in the race of life and dis tance them. Peasant boys have boon heard of who came to our shorn with bundles and sticks and attained to enviable distinction. Count ry lads from our own for-otT quar ters come to our bustling centres and take precedence of those who haveenjoyi and every benefit this eonutry affords. Aro’wesosii )rior, after all, or are we superior in a silly, self-conscious, scmi-scieulilie wholly un necessary way. Could we but simplify life, should wo not then make room for broader ideas aud greater happiness in the family, “Rough on Piles." lVhv suffer piles? Immediate relief and complete cure guaranteed. Ask lot “Uough on Piles.” Sure cure lor Itching, protrud ing, bleeding or any form of Piles. Vk\ At druggists or mailed. Bkinny MenJ Wells’“Health Ki-in-wt-r'’ restorer health and vigor, cures dys]K-)isia, iinp itenee, ner x mis debility. For weak men,urinate xvoni en. t-i. Woils' Hair Balsam. If gray, restore* Ui original color. An elegant div—ing, softens uit-i U-aufiliec. No oil nor gix-ase, A tonic i-fstoi-nti* H'ups liair coining out; strengthen*, cleanses, hud* s>sUp. hue. Advice to Mothera. Mi-*. Window's K-*nlong rixrup -hould slways Is- Us*! when children ore cuttilc tislli ll ii ieve* tl,„ Jitlle -nffei ut or ,‘i piodu nilJlttl, quiet sleep liv n,tiling tin- chihl fimii pwn sisi 111- lilt,.- cliaru • itwakns a* “islgiil it. u button, ” ll i* very pleasant to l.tsti Jl soothe* the • niM, vfftrtis lls-gum. alln> ill .sun, n w n- wind, rsgulaii-i tu bowels, mid i- lie b- i kuoMn i-m-ly foi ilisnhon, wneifu-i ur.-ing ii'-m loatitii.g oi ■ -tiii-i cuii-m* c. THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1887. MISS CLEVELAND'S PORTRAIT. The Difficulty the Newspapers Had In Securing It. Describing the extraordinary efforts which were required to obtain the first portrait of Mis- Cleveland print**! in the newspapers, the art manager of the American Press As sociation said the other day to a New York Mail write*: “I made arrangement with the <irap'n ic. and we conjointly engaged a clever lady art;st. Miss E. L. Sylvester, living a! the time in Washington, to sketch Miss < 'levektnd at the liret < p.pirtuiiity. The man ner in whi'-h she performed her work would have done credit to a veteran newspaper man. Mi— t 'leveland attended Sunday ser vices in Ir. Sunderland’s church, anu our art.-t managed for two consecutive Sundays to obtain a -cat in a pew adjoining liers. It was admirable vantage ground for taking a sketch. Miss Cleveland was absent the first Sundav, but on the second she was there, and Miss Sylvester made three splendid ski -tches of her. How she accomplished this feat in a crowded church without attracting observation i.s a miracle. I am sure if a man had lieen delegated to the task it would never have been suc e**ssfully accomplished. Perhaps she shaded her o|x-rati"ns with the cover of a Bible. When th -• sketch'-.'* were received we se lected th" b~st and had a fine crayon draw ing made from ii. Being somewhat uncer tain of a likeness taken in this surreptitious manner, we determined to make assurance doubly sure by submitting it to the criti cism of Miss C. Hallowav. the editor of Miss Cleveland's forthcoming liook. I caught her by surprise. No sooner had her eyes rested on the picture then she ex claimed with unfeigned astonishment, "Where did you get it f I knew by this that it was safe to publish the portrait. Miss Hallowav immediately telegraphixi the facts to Washington, and Mr. Cleveland wr<'te a personal letter to the Graphic ask ing them not to publish the jxirtrait. You may tie vrv sure that the letter was ignored. The outcome of the affair was that we published the likeness and Miss Cleveland withdrew the plate of her picture from her book. The likeness of the President's young wife was not so difficult to obtain. 1 always manage to be a trifle ahead of the times, ami when I heard of the President's probable marriage to Miss Fol som I made tie-greatest efforts to procure her picture. By making inquiries 1 ascer tained that she bad numerous relatives in Folsomdale. From one of them I ob tain'd a photograph taken when she was about 10 years old. [t is a beauti ful picture, and was taken at the time she gaimd the prize for lx auty at the church fair ill Folsomdale. This was the first like ness of her we publish'd. After she came from Euroi*' k-r pictures were plentiful enough. The President has always been oppotxs 1 to this kind of publicity, but ever sim-e he was Governor of New York we h:u e found do difficulty in securing his pictures.” A Manly Dude. From the Bouton Transcript. The Listener observed [the other morning] a printer's boy who had trundled an over loaded w heel-barrow into Cornliill, over the street pavement and had essayed hi got it up from the gutter upon the sidewalk. The barrow was laden with unbound books, evidently on their way to one of the book binderies on that street. It was a very big harrow anda very small boy; and w hen the little fellow attempted to get his load upon the curbstone, he was quite unable to do it. Here he had struggled, it seemed, he had become quite discouraged, and, see ing a little crowd gathering to look at his vain efforts to move his stalled vehicle, the boy liurst into tears. J ust at this juncture there came up a dude of the most extravagant type; an exquisite fellow, with quit*- an English Derby hat, you know, straight-brimmed and low in the crown; spotless light fawn-colored overcoat: pearl-gray kids: nicely bagging trousers with the crease down the sides; [jointed shoes, with gaiters over them; and carried level in one band a big cane. It seemed to take this exquisite specimen but an instant to take in the situation. Then he stepped up to the curbstone in front of the wheelbar row, daintily and dettly removed his kid gloves, gave them and the cane to the weeping boy to hold, seized the dirty wheel of the barrow with both hands, ana, lifting it clear of the gutter, set it fasrly upon the sidewalk. “Now, my little man, give me the stick and the gloves, and then vou can trot along with it, don’t you know:'* said the dude to the Imy, who, though looking grateful, put his hands to the barrow, after he had hand ed over the articles, and moved away with out a word. GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS. Matters of Money and Management About Various Lines. The Mexican National railroad. Capt. Raoul's road, lias contracted to otiiid a rail road bridge across the Rio Grande at Laredo, Tex. Jay Gould is having a private car made at Pullman, 111., wiiioli will cost $20,000. It will be seventy feet long, will have five opurtmmits—kitchen, parlor, private room, toilet room and observation room. It will lx; called Atlanta. Railway and Nowsjjnper Reciprocity. Ti e Pennsylvania railroad is now issuing State [Misses to editoi sand journalists, but interstate passes are only given on editors signing a contract to publish matter favora ble to the road, anil enough to pay for the transportation asked lor. In this wav ed itors become employes, and the railroad gets just the advertising it wants. In many in stances the flips to be published are’fur nished by the mad. This is done m cases of excursions and summer resorts. A FAMILIAR NAME. What, a Savannah Man Has Accom plished in Macon. Last September it was announced that Mr. J. H. Furbcr, a well-known confec tioner of Savannah, bad rented a store in Macon, ami would open up a confection ery, fancy bakery, ice cream factory, etc., here. There were many people who were ready to throw' a damper on the enterprise. They saiil if would lie a failure: that it had U-eii tried in Mtmon before, aud cited on their fingers several instances where ]duties had luuid. Mr. Father, who is a level-headed bttsi liess man, ivaliced that to make a success ~f Ihi' business he must put a good manat the helm—a man who was in every sense of Uie word practical, with a lai-s'vmg, cutcr pri ing head. IP selected Mr. D.Dan Eagan,xvho poxscss e- these quaiilleatioils in i very sense of the word. From the very beginning the “Palace ol Hwcets” has enjoyed a good run of custom, and is now- doing a splendid busi ness, Mr. Ragan is ready at all times and on short notice to liirunh iclresl.ments for balls, yerniun . p-enii-s, pu.-lii-s, etc. Beginning o:i Monday next, u wagon will i I*-pin-vd o i the-tm-ts and hot rolls, fresli bif id, Vienna bread, ami French i-olls will lsi delivered in any part of the city. Jlaii tin- w'uqoii or leuvi■ your address t the “Poke eof Kwoets,” l-'urlirr's i.v n i-nm the talk of tile town. The hulii-s, an-i gen li-'iiien. ton, can call at any hour and have the most dcln-iou* cri-aiii served to tie :n. When - ei arc down town don’t fail to . all ■it tin- "Polie-e of Hsv.-efs.''— Ifarim A.' i-n --ni'f .Veto* l ii'/I Harnett iiou - o. < oni-ei llin-t it i i.onl ir hotel m Haviuilmh, •is, tic- I'i-li nht 'file- Hr., on sa'.s; **W Mih liniii the leiii-i ni rival* as iMiiiil.Jiw! m the ivivit'iirdi paiM-j-*, Ihat tii- llariu-t. lion* till lend ill 1 tie other leSi-l* ill till cit). 11l fact they have a* man, a, rue obs-r i-iiinbowsi, Tlee i- j., a good InstaU •< tiik uftk• t'." You -mi tsiy l-M. To.-iul/* Ua hl oi can t ll Jl l,*air*. Weather Indications. Special indications f° r Georgia: FAIR lair weather, northerly winds, sta- tionary temperatun. For Georgia and Alabama: lair weather, northerly winds, becoming va riable; stationary temperature, except in northern portions; slightly warmer. The height of the riv.-r at. Augusta at 1 ;!£> o'clock p. m. yesterday < Augusta time) was!). 4 feet—a rise of 2.4 foot (luring the [last 24 hours. Comparative statement of temperature at Savannah April 25, 188d, and 1887: 1886. 1887. 8:80 a m flti 8.8? a m 85 2:30 p.M S3 2:36 P.M 72 9:30 p.M 69 9:3f>PM 86 Maximum 83 Maximum 73 Minimum 66 Minimum M Mean temperature Mean temperature of day 73 of day 64 Rainfall O.tt) Rainfall 0-®) Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Savannah, April 35, 9:30 r M.. city time. Temperature. Direction, j < Velocity Rainfall. Name or Stations. Norfolk 48 N 21 6o Cloudy. Charlotte 47 >; 1 3 Clear. Wilmington 52 W 'I 04 Cloudy. Charleston mmv 13 115 Cloudy. Augusta 52 X ''lear. Savannah 55 N i3 Clear. Jacksonville o'. \ r, .08 cloudy. Key West ;> N 2 Fair. Atlanta 1 60 XW !i Clear. Pensacola.,.. 65 XV, ( 1-nr. Mobile XW 7 Clear. Montgomery 67 V . clear. New Orleans j 05 NW Clear. Galveston os s J ~ .. Clear. Corpus Christ! 89 S K 15 Cl-ar. Palestine ilex i .. .... Pair. Brtiwnesville ; 65 P, Clear. Rio Grande 73 s n .... Clear. G. N. Salisbury, Signal Corps, U. S. Army. Local Personal. Maj. N. 11. Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Va.. one of the best known ra ii road men in the country, is a prominent, inemix'r of the Car Accountants Association, which spent yes terday 111 the city. The Major has a nation al reputation as the successful conductor of railway excursionists, and fifteen years ago paid Savannah a visit as the manager oi one from New York. He doesn’t appear a day older now than he did when he last honored the Mousing News with his presence in its old quarters at No. 11l Bay street. May the next fifteen years deal as gently with him as the past, and when he comes back at that time with 85 winters over his head, may he look and feel as young as he did yesterday. Among the arrivals at the Pulaski House yesterday were Robert C. Osgood, Mrs. Grace E. M. Osgood, Newqiort, N. II.: Ed wards J. Voids, Antonis Forwas, New York: Wni. Henry Clark. C. E. Hall, Boston: E. T. Sibley and wife. J. L. Worthy and wife, Springfield, Mass ; William Rice. H. S. KU ncy, Baltimore; Lee Kaufman, Berlin, Ger many: C. G. Stark. P'. Kunny, Albauy, N. Y.; Mrs. S. M. Sutlers, Macon. At the Screven House were Geerge TV*. Cheney and wife, VV. VC. Cheney and wife, Connecticut; C. TV. Pike, Brunswick: Mrs. Philip Carpnter, New York; T. H. Rouse and wife, Bellview, Fla.: L. H. Halloek, Portland, Me.; J. L. Lewie, New York; C. J. Mixsell and wife, Easton, Pa.P. Van Cortlandt. D. A. Unsworth, New York: Thomas M. Johnson, Baltimore; Mrs. John C. Nicholls, Blackshtar; G. E. Wallis. Miss TVallis, Baltimore; R. F. Bowman, Macon. At the Marshall House were Janies L. Gerety and wife, Miss Louise Howell, Col. Charles G. Otis and wife, Mrs. John War- Bold, Miss E. S. TVamold. Miss Sarah TVar 110M, Miss Mable Yates, New York: George P. Pearce, Chicago; .1 A. Griffin, Florida: Maj. C. C. Force, J. M. TVilkerson, Georgia: TV. J. Smith. South Carolina; W. C. Rob inson, J. G. Mau, Connecticut J. H. Powell, Eden. At the Harnett House were J. H. Wal dron and wife. TV. P, Neilson and wife, Bos ton;'!, H. Gignilliat, Darien; P. S. Cog gins, Madison, Fla : J. R. Anders. Fort White, Fla.; TV. F. Blakely, Cinciiumti; K. G. Upham and wife, J. J. (Holland, Low ell, Mass.; R. Hooper, Toronto; A. TV. Crawford, Columbia county; H. H. Hale, TV. L. Jones, Atlanta; S. li. Rogers, wife and children, J. J. Curean, Blue Point, N. Y*. A Drayton Street Growl. Editor Morning News'. We are certainly very fortunate in having t!u> services of Alderman Thomas, the very active chair man of the Street and I.ane Committee. The improve! condition of our streets and parks are so apparent that we have reason t o feel proud oi our beautiful Savannah. It is necessary, however, to draw the imme diate attention of our honorable Board of Aldermen to the terrible condition of the Drayton stroot pavement, the only street that is used for driving from the most ex treme north to the south side. The pave ment through its entire length is in a most shameful condition. Let it either lx? taken up mid properly repaved, or paved with asphaltum. lam snre the property hollers would favor an asphalt pavement. 1 trust the Aldermen will take immediate action 111 the matter. K. New Spring Butter at D. B. Lester’s. Small Pig Hauls at D. ii. Lester s. BPK< I A L NOTH ES. 137TH A VIV i;s;s vity OF THE I XIO.\ SOCIETY, Bet lies') a O*ph att House, Will lii 1 celebrated at BETHESDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887. The. anniversary address will he delivered by Rev. 1,. TV. BACON, I) V., Of the Independent Presbyterian Church. The meetinc will be held at 1 r. si. Members and their families mid friends, and those who have Ix-en Wards of the Society, and the public, ore cordially invited to join i-i the celebration. A Band of Music will lx? in attend ance, mid iiioins in the Orphan House placed at the disposal of those who wish to dance. TOR IIETH KSIt.V. Speelal arln-diilr City mid Nnbnrhan Railway. TO DAY .Tuesdayi APRIL iki. The following schedule will be in operation this day: LEAVE SAVANNAH. 9:30, tori', x. g„ liuoon. S:iv '••*. and 4:*> r. m. VUKIVE HETHESDA, 10:10, 11:10 a. m„ 1:30 -:05. 4:ia and ,*:or. r. m. LEAVE HETHEMIA, <1 ;45 .-„ u , uw 3;ii,*ti:33 und 1i..0 r. a. ! Railroad Fare From Anderson Street Depotto Bethesua and Return, 50c. l 'll ili 1 ii*ii *si-v r iiiit -11 nil' I "rice. Tu-m-Im ian l- prra-ur>-d from tie- Manag-rs a-'ll Htex*. arxls of llu- Socieiy and st the umud p:aec where tickets an* suM, i I 'ltn* i.i\ i:it i (ikmet t it. Thl* veyi inlik- pre|airalio-i is Itivulitabl* for tie- r litoratiu.i of tout and strength to the *y lein r r D>-K|-|(a, (ksnsl)iaitou and other Hi*, ra;ne l by a diwn-ileriel liver, it i-ixiiitol lsi ! 11l h—• petn • swuedsd. and lo uoTHMl ny emhieiit ne-le al men l or Ll luci Li n ? 'inxitnf and take u is'e-r, f | (ju Hi"'' I DEATHS. CLARKE.—Died, in this city. April 25th. Nel lie Hr dkon, infant daughter of W. S. and M. J. Clarke, aced four months and thirteen days* GREENE.—Died. April 25, INK?. Robert Mc- Clelland Greene, only s< >n of Captain and Mrs. h. D. <rr*ene. of Detroit. Michigan. Funeral siirvicea at Laurel Grove Ceme tery at 12:30 o'clock p. m. TO-I aV. Friends respectfully invited. ■ ■—■■■l II ■■l, ||,|,|| ~,, I "HI n MEET!N (iB. I. O. O. F. The member* of the several subordinate Lodges and those of the Grand Lodge are re quested to assemble AT MASONIC TEMPLE, Liberty and Whitaker Streets, AT 2:30 P. M. TO-DAY. A procession will he formed under the direc tion of the Grand Marshal, and escorted by Can ton Chatham P. M., will march down Liberty street to Drayton, to Bay, to Bull, to Broughton, to Barnard and Odd Fellows' Temple, when the Hall will be dedicated, with appropriate cere monies. to the purposes of the Order, after which the Grand Mister, REV. C. B. LaHATTE. Will deliver a short address. Friends of the Ortler are invited. By order of the Committee. II G. WARD, Chairman. A. X Mantcy, Secretary. OGLETHORPE LODGE NO. 1. I. O. O. F. Savannah. April 26th. 1887. Members are requested to assemble at 2:30 r. m . at Masonic Hall, corner Liberty .at 1 Vl.it - nV.er street*. to participate in the ceremony of dedicating our new Hail. Every member is earnestly requested to be present. By order of the Lodge. CHARLES till' tSS, Seor-tary. Lit E OAK LODGE NO. I. O. O. F. The members of Live Oak Lodge Xo. 3. I. O. O. F . will assemble at Masonic Temple at ha'.f --p-ist two o'clock THIS AFTERXOG'X. to join in the procession and dedication of the new Hall. Please be punctual. I. BECKETT, X. G. Attest: J. p. Collins. Secretary. lie KALB LODGE SO. <>, I. O. O. F. The officers and members of this Lodge are requested to meet at Must nie Temple i Libert v and Whitaker streets, promptly at 2:30 o'clock THIS AFTERXOOX for the purpose of assisting our brethren of Xos. 1,3. 58 and 12 in dedicating the new Hall. It is hoped that our entire memliership will be present on this interesting occasion. J. 5. COLLINS, X. G. John Riley. Secretary. GOLDEN RI LE LODGE XO. 12. I. O. O. F. The members of this Lodge are requested to assemble at Masonic Temple (Libert v and Whita ker streets, at 2:3(lo'elpck THIS AFTERXOOX. lor the purpose of participating in the dedica tion exercises of the Odd Fellows Temple. By order of C. S. WOOD, X. G. H. G. Ganahl, Secretary. PATRIARCHS MILITANT. CANTON CHATHAM, XO. 1. Chevaliers will report promptlv at the En campment Room at 2:30 o'clock Tills (Tuesday. AFTERNOON, in full uniform, to take part m the parade and dedication ceremonies. DAVID PORTER. Capt. Com'd'g. A. X. Manlty, Clerk. 4 CHIPPEW A TRIBE NO. 1, I. O. OF R. M. A regular meeting of this Tril>e will lie held THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock (and hereafter;, corner Bull and Bay streets. Visiting and transient brethren fraternally in vited. S. A. BORDERS, Sachem. C. F. M. Bernhardt. Chief of Records. SPECIAL NOTICE Savannah, Ga.. April 25th. ISB7. An important meeting of the stockholders of the OGLETHi IRPE REAL ESTATE COMPANY will be held at the Supper Room of the Arsenal of the Savannah Volunteer Guards, on THURS DAY. May .sth. pro*., at 8:15 p. m.. to consider offers made with a view to the final disposition of the property for hotel purposes. By order of the Board of Directors. ED F, XF.UFVILLE. See y O, R. E. Cos. SPEC IAL NOTIC ES. NOTICE. City of Savannah. 1 Office Clerk of Council. - April 26th. 1887. \ TO-DAY being a legal holiday the city offices will be closed. By order of the Mayor p t. FRANK E. REBARER. Clerk of Council. SPECIIL NOTICE. The steamship WILLIAM CRANE, hence for Baltimore, is appointed to sail on TUESDAY, 26th INST., at 8 o’clock p. m. JAMES B. WEST CO.. Agents. VKG ETABLE SHIPPERS State or W EATHER. Will please take notice that they will have until 6 o'clock p. SMith inst., to deliver freight to the steamship WILLIAM CRANE, for Haiti more. JAMES B. WEST A- CO., 'Agents. DIVIDEND NO, . Office Mutual Gas Light Company. > . Savannah, Ga., April isth. 1887. ( A Dividend of ONE AND ONE-HALE PER C LNTL M luis TilLs DA\ been declared from earnings of las* quarter, payable at this oftice on and after MAY 10th next, to stockholders of record this day. LEWIS C. LILLIE, Secretary. DISSOLUTION. The firm of FETZER & SANBERG is THIS DAY dissolved liy mutual consent. Mr. F.olicrt C. Fetzer withdrawing. C. E. Snnbcrg assumes nil the liabilities and wall collect all accounts due said firm. ROBERT C. FETZER. CHARLES E. SANBERG. Savannah. April 14th, 1887. In withdrawing from the late firimcf Fetzer ,t San berg I ask for Mr. Rnnberg a continuance of the iilieral patronage bestowed on the late firm. Respectfully, ROBERT C. FETZER. I Hill continue the business of Fetzer Sail berg. Carriage, Buggy aud Fine Wagon Manu facturing, Carriage. Buggy and Wagon repair ing, Painting aud Trimming, at the old stand, corner West Broad and DulTv str.vts. and asl, a continuance of the liberal patronage bestowed on the late linn. Re tally, CIIAKLI id E. SANBERG. DB. HKMn S dlimm,, SURGEON DENTIST, Ofttce corner Jones and Drayton streets. Graduate Baltimore College of Dental Surgerr. Memorial Day. A Convenient Schedule Will lie run by the Coast Line Railway -- TO Cathedral. Cemetery, COMMENCING AT O’CLOCK, AM. _ RE. COBB, skipt REX MAGNUS. - r*m aim —— C.M. GILBERT dt CO., A* * K# *> '1 ' . jtt DRY GOODS. Few Words But Solid Facts SPECIAL GRAND SALE On Thursday, Friday and Saturday Next April the 28th, 29th and 30th. Grand Combination Sale of the Following Desirable Goods; Ist. One lot of Fine hand-made Torchon and Fancy Lace? worth all the way up from loc. to 25c., at "the nn form price of 1(4 ™' 2d. One lot of fine very wide Embroidery, regular price from 40c. up to 75c.. at the uniform price of 25c. 3d. One lot comprising twenty different styles of handsome Ladies' Colored Border Handkerchiefs, six for 25c 4th. One lot of Assorted Alpaca, Silk and Satin Parasols, at 39c., 49c., 98c., $1 19 and $1 95. sth. One lot of nice Corsets, no better sold anywhere at 50c., at only 33c. • 6th. One lot of very fine Corsets, they are odd sizes of vari ous qualities, which we have been selling at 75c., 81 SI 25 and SI 50, we offer the entire lot at the uni form price of 50c. 7th. One combination lot of Fans, ranging in value at 15c, 20c., 25c.. 35c. and 50c., at the uniform price of 9c. On Monday Next, May 2d. 5.000 yards Figured Nuns’ Veiling at • ?c 3.500 yards Yard-Wide Sateen, worth 12 l-2c., at - 5c 5.000 yards Victoria Lawns, worth 12 l-2c., at - 6 l-4c 2.500 yards Seersuckers, worth 10c., at - - 6 l-2c 2.000 yards Fancy Dress Ginghams, worth 12 l-2c., at 6 l-2e 5,000 yards Best Solid Black Calico, worth Bc., at -3 34c 1.000 Marseilles Spreads, extra large heavy, worth S3, at 98c In Addition Thereto We will sell during this entire time our entire Dress Goods Stock at positively one-half of former prices. OUH BAZAR Is brimful of New and Choice Bargains. We especially invite you to examine the Immense Bargains we offer in Bovs' Cloth ing, Ladies' Muslin Underwear and Jerseys at 33c., 43c., 60c., 78c. and 95c. lad Wfiskin’s Ptipular Dry Goods Hi, F GUTMAN, 141 BROUGHTON ST. OUR El IT TIRE STOCK OK Ladies’ Muslin Underwear Complete! And we will offer this week-some rare bargains. Just received another lot of those celebrated GLORIA UMBRELLAS, and will continue to sell them at SI 85, worth $2 50. F. GUTMAN AM rsLM i:\TS. Base Bail. Base Ball. First Championship Game Between s„ F. & W.’S & c. R. 1!. - AT— base ball park, TUESDAY, April 2fi, 1887 (Memorial Day.) Admission 15c. Ladies admitted free. Grand stand 10c. Tickets to 1h had at Fernandez's Cigar Store and at the grounds. kxc fusions. lan to ChStoa! TT IT ATEILIIsrG- OF THE Will Hint! APRIL 26tli. $4 FOR THE ROUND TRIP, r pHK i 'harleston and Savannah Railway Com- I puny “ill sell round trip ticket* on April hath aridClth, good to return mull April doth. rieketK on aale at Bren's Ticket Office and roMtcnger Station. K. P. McKWENF.Y, General PaiMeflger Agent. PI,U M BBft, is a. McCarthy, Kucceomr to < lias K Wakefield, I’LHIBER, MS and STEAM FITFEII, P- Barnard tr—i SAVANNAH, DA. Telephone HLI ———— I MM.IITAUKH. W. Ii . I > I X( > N , U N DERTAKER uVs r.n \$ au. kl*tm nr OOFFINK Aitf J) OAHKETH, a Dull a* > - hmsU lew . Dlelt j Sum. ► IVAN 411. i.l.oluHi. SO AD. SOAP! STARCH! IF YOU WANT GOOD VALUE IN SOAP, SOAP, SOAP, STARCH, STARCH, STARCH. COME TO STRAUSS BROS, 22 and 22 1-2 Barnard Street. Soap by the box. Starch by the box. Soap by the dollar s worth. Starch by dollar's worth. „ , h . Soap by the nickel's worth. Starch by nickel's worth. Large M Low Prices, Strauss 13r05., 22 and 22 1-2 Barnard Street. _ MIL LI NEIIV . Nil GOODSL_W * Caps, Caps, and Sun Bonnets. Normandy Capa Name*’ Cap". Shirred Capa. Corded Ikinnet", Duv Ch|m. Eml'i "l lew! l ; ' Embroidered Capa, Cambric B°n Pique Capa. B-nn' I *' French Capa. Ruified U,>nne^ta. Mull Capa, ™' iea ' Bonnet a made to on let'- •1 -12 Htylen to Select from. A1 IS. K. Power, No 137 St KIKBLINO'B I Wlm* Bl'Hf rrtl IJUVI MOI'V * '*• f ( FL'DM Rt. Dumet-1 to .t ' d.v...t DAM* 88-n. S Ol,Mete, 4 . uhvlM, LUM !Mt n