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DEATH'S QUICK SUMMONS.
PHILIP DILLON LIES IN A PHY
SICIAN’S OFFICE.
The President of the Brass Molders’
Union of the United States, and
Foreman of the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Brass Works,
Btricken With Congestion in Dr.
H. H. Nichols’ Office, and Dios in a
Few Minutes.
Philip Dillon, foreman of the brass works
at the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
road shops, and president of the Brass
Holders’ Union of tho United States, died
suddenly in Dr. E. 1L Nichols’ office at
Abercorn and South Broad streets last
night, of congestion of the lungs.
Mr. Dilion left his home about 8 o’clock
feeling badly, and taking his little 8-year
old son Joseph, walked to Dr. Nichols’ office.
Tho doctor was in consultation with a
patient when Mr. Dilion entered, but
noticing the man's unusual pallor, ho crave
him bis immediate attention. Mr. Dillon
shook hands with the doctor, and, putting
his hand on his breast, he said, "Doctor,
I’m not right.”
A moment's examination showed that the
man needed a stimulant, and the doctor left
him a moment to get a glass of brandy.
When he returned, Mr. Dillon had fallen
out of his chair and was lj ing on the floor,
frothing at the mouth nnd nose. He at
tempted to take the stimulant, but before
lie c< uld swallow it, his heart ceased to act,
and he fell back dead.
The remains were immediately removed
to h's residence, at No. 38 Taylor street,
where his wife and seven children wore
awaiting his return. The s -ene at the house
was heart-rending. A half hour ’before tue
fa- her was talking with his wife and children
and left them t-o consult a physician. Mrs.
."Dillon and her daughters sto.*t around the
bod} of the husband and father hopeful
that h 6 was not dead, until Di. Nichols
arrived. When the physician entered the
room they turned to him, and when he told
them the circumstances the wife and
mother was almost heart-broken. The
children wept over their dead father, aud
hugged and kissed his face until friends took
them aw ay.
Mrs. Diilon said that her husband had
been melancholy nil day. He usually
goes out to Thunderbolt Sunday after
noons, but he told her early in the
morning that he would remain at home
yesterday. He ate very little, and afier sup
per complained of shortness of breath. "I
saw him act as if he were choking,” sho said,
"and I asked him if he was suffering. He re
plied that he was not feeling well, and said
that he would go down to the doctor’s office,
but wouid l>o back soon. That was the last
we saw of him.”
Mr. Dillon was similarly attacked about
n year ago. Ever since then the family has
felt uneasy about him. When he left homo
last night his little son accompanied him,
and the family awaited his return anx
iously. Some of them were out on the
porch when tho carriage bearing tho re
mains drove up to tho door. They were
afraid to go to the carriage, fearing that
come ill had befallen their fathor.
Mr. Dilion leaves a wife and so von chil
dren, one of whom is a grown daughter.
He was born in Ireland, but cams to Sa
vannah at the age of 10, and has lived hero
ever since. He engaged in the foundry
business when a young man. By promo
tion he became foreman of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway’s brass works,
and he has been over twenty years with the
company. Ho was the inventor of a
metallic mold for casting white metal, zincs,
etc., which is very valuable in a brass
foundry, and is used all over the country,
lie was president of the Brass Holders’
Union of the United States, and was owner
of a foundry hero. He was 43 years old aud
served in the confederate army.
COOLER WEATHER AND BAIN.
Tho Cold Wave in the West and North
Likely to be Felt In the South.
There is a prospect of cooler weather and
rain. The signal bureau reports last night
Bhowed that extreme cold is prevailing in
the west. At 8 o’clock mercury was 14°
below zero at Bismarck, North Dakota, and
at Fort Buford. The cold wave is general
over Minnesota, the Dakotas, and lowa, and
is moving eastwardly.
A blizzard was prevailing at Kansas City
last night. Mercury was down to 13°,
nnd the wind was blowing 83 miles an hour,
•with a heavy snow. It is raining ail through
the lower Mississippi valley. Mercury fell
30' at Vicksburg, 10“ at Memphis, and 30°
ot Shreveport batwoen 3 o’clock yesterday
afternoon and 8 o’clock last night.
Observer Whitney said last night that the
effects of the cold wave will be felt here
this afternoon, and while meterologically
speaking, a cold wave is not expected on
the coast, probably the mercury will go
down to 48° or 50“ to-night. At 8 o’clock
last uight tho temperature was (54°, so that
there is likoly to be a fall of about 15°. The
change in temperature is likeiy to bring
rain. A cold wave is on in tno north, and
may be the beginning of winter.
FIRED BY A CIGARETTE.
A Btub Found Near a Bale of Burning
Cotton on Murphy’s Wharf.
The last of the damaged cargo of tho
British steamship Thalia has been shipped
by tho steamships Tallahassee and Kansas
City to New York. In removing the cotton
from the place where it was stored, Mr. D.
<T. Murphy, who had th; custody of it, found
i©ne of the bales burning aud was at a loss
to account for it. but on cl star examina
tion a partly burned portion of a cigarette
was found near the bale, which must have
beea thrown on the bale carelessly or in
tentionally by someone.
The "Vestibule" to Start To-day.
The first vestibule train from New York
to Florida will leave New York this morn
ing at 9:30 o’clock, and will arrive here at
10:40 o’clock to-morrow morning. It will
leave here at 11:01 o’clock, and will arrive
In Jacksonville at 3:45 o’clock in tho after
noon.
On tho return trip it will leave Jackson
ville at 9:40 o’clock, nud will arrive hero at
2:39 o’clock in the afternoon, and twenty
lour hours later it will be in Now York. The
leaving days from Now York on the south
ern trip are Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday; the arriving days in Savannah are
♦Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
To-day’s Corner-Stone Laying.
The corner-stone of the new Independent
jTesbyterian church will be laid at 4 o’clock
this afternoon. The church officials publish
in the Morning News to-day an invitation
to the public to attend and take part in the
ceremonies. The clergy and mayor and
aldermen will meet the officers of
the church at the parsonage, at South
Broad and Whitaker streets, at 9:45 o’clock,
and will march to the site of the church,
•where the corner-stone will be laid by Rev,
J)r. Axson.
At the Y. M. O. Association.
8. B. Adams, Esq., led the Y. M. C. A.
meeting yesterday at tie association’s
rooms, and the exercises were very interest
ing. The rooms were crowded.
The Ladies’ Auxiliary committee of the
y. M. C. A., announced to meet at 4 o’clock
this afternoon, will not meet until to-mor
row afternoon at 4 o’clock, on account of
the laying of the corner stone of the Inde
|>eudont Presbyterian church.
The French cannot pronounce cough, but
they use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. 25 cents.
A boon to suffering humanity—Salvation Oil 1
(ills all pain. Trice 20 cents a bottle.
THE QUARANTINE QUESTION.
The City to Begin Work on the New
Station Right Away.
“They should inform themselves bj get
ting both sides of the matter before they
venture to criticise; then they would be
in a position to substantiate what they say,”
said Dr. R. B. Harris, chairman of the city
council health and cemetery committee,
yesterday, alluding to tho sanitary in
spector’s report in the Mornino News in
regard to the detention of vessels at quar
antine.
"A clean bill of health amounts to but
little,” Dr. Harris said. "Any captain may
he able to show that and yet have fever on
board his ves el.” Dr. Harris said that tho
vessels referred to by Inspector I>-wvergers
were from a West India ;ort where yellow
fever often occurs. "It is not our purpose,”
he added, “to allow a vessel coming from
an infected or a suspected port to come up
to Savannah and unload ballast. There is
no telling w hat lime the fever may develop
from t at ballast. The health and ceme
tery committee lias decided to allow no
vessel coining from a West India, Span
ish or South American port to come up to
the city and dep -ot ballast.”
After the vessels are thoroughly fumi
gated ami disinfec ed they will remain at
quarantine until the committei deems it
advisable to let them come up. The present
arrangements at quarantine, Dr. Harris
said, ere not the best, but they are as good
as the city has had at any time, and a ves
sel may be fumigated and inspected within
three or four days. "The present facilities
are not as good as we will have,” he added.
"We intend to increase the quarantine fa
cilities so as to fumigate and disinfect a
vessel in twonty-four hours.”
Dr. Harris explained that the site decided
upon for the new station will be built upon
and improved in a short time. Si ce the
?.25,0iX) appropriation has been voted for
the station’s improvement, no time will be
lout in making the station equal to any on
the South Atlantic coast.
“What are the advantages of the new
site over tho present site?”
“When it is improved tiventy-five vessels
may come up to quarantine at a time.
Only about five can come up to the present
station at a time. The channel at the pres
ent station is by no means largo enough. It
is our purpose to make tho station compare
with that of New Orleans. Better quarters
will lie fitted up. Larger wharves will be
constructed, and, instead of tho small boat
used now for getting out to ves
sels, a tug containing a bi-chloride
tauk will be U3ed. This will enable the
quarantine officer to go out to vessels in
any kind of weather, and in a shorter time
thoroughly disinfect and fumigate them.
We calculate that twenty-four hours will
boa suflieiont time for doing this work
with the now facilities.”
"When will this work begin.”
“We hope in a very short time. Col.
Winn will present to council at its next
meeting the plans and Rp< cifications of the
wharves, etc., ami within ton days, it is
believed, work will be begun on tho new
station.”
Dr. Ha’ ris said that, while it may not bo
possible for Savunnsh to have as costly
equipments' as tho Now Orleans station,
every facility that New Orleans has will be
secured for tho Bavaunah station. Savan
nah has been thrown back in her quaran
tine. Dr. Harris said that if tho present
appropriation is not sufficient to make the
station what the committee thinks it should
be, additional funds will be secured to carry
out the projoct.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
W. J. Wright of Atlanta is here.
C. O. Jobun of Macon is in tho city.
T. H. Husk of Augusta is in tho city.
W. L. Moody of Augusta is in the city.
Thad. W. Uriffin of Petersburg, Va.JTs
hero.
A. S. Jones of Mobile is stopping at the
Do Solo.
H. C. Tindall and wife, of Macon, are
guests of the De Soto.
T. K. Leslie of Suwannee Sulphur
Springs is in the city.
C. E. Marvin of Macon came down to
Savannah yesterday.
J. D. Lindenborn and wife, of Now York,
are stopping at the De Soto.
J. A. Noland, Esq., of David, and Alva
Gage, of Charleston, spent {yosterday hero.
W. R. Brown, John I’eabody, and W. H.
Brannon of Columbus are guests at tho De
Sota
Mrs. Oemler of Wilmington Island is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Dixon, on
Hall street.
Billup Phinizy and wife, Mrs. F, Phinizy,
Barrett and C. H. Phinizy, Jr., of Athens,
are guests of tho Do Soto.
Miss Hattie Moses of Goldsboro, N. C.,
a daughter of tho celebrated rabbi, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Bohrman, No. 100 Presi
dent street.
By a runaway yesterday. Miss Tavlor
was thrown from a buggy and slightly
bruised about the face and hands. She hail
just got m tho buggy in front of her home
on Harris street, assisted by Mr. Uratz
Myers, when tho horse ran away. Mr.
Myers was uuablo to g.>t hold of the linos
and stop the animal. He ran against a tree
at W hitaker andJHarrps streets, damaging
the buggy considerably, and throwing Miss
Taylor out.
CITY BKEViTIEa.
Clinton Lodge F. and A. M. will meet
to-night.
Magnolia Eucampmont No. 1, I. O. O. F.,
meets this evening.
Regular meeting of Delvalb Lodge No. 9,
I. O. O. F., this evening.
Regular mooting of Oalanthe Lodge No.
28, K. P., will be held this evening.
The annual meeting of the Artesian lea
aud Storage company will be held next
Monday.
The January meeting of the Savannah
Volunteer Guards’ battalion will be held
to-night.
The German Friendly Society will hold
its fifty-third anniversary mooting tc-night
in Knights of Pythias hall
Missionary services were held at St.
John’s Episcopal church yesterday morn
ing. Rev. H. K. Rees of Georgia, Rev.
George Liucoln of Columbus, Ohio, and the
rector, Rev. Charles H. Strong, delivered
anniversary addressos.
Up to 1 o’clock this morning twenty-two
arrests were reported at police baraeks.
This number includes tho arrests for Satur
day and Saturday night. The prisoners are
all ohargod with disorderly conduct. There
are thirteen colored prisoners, and the bal
ance are whites.
Pooler Items.
The new churchos at Pooler are nearing
completion.
Rev. McDonnell filled the pulpit at the
Episcopal church yesterday.
A private masquerade party will be givon
to-night.
Bass' Ale and Uuinness’ Stout, Bog’s Head
Brand, bottled In London by Head Brothers, is
conceded to be the perfection of Burton and
Dublin Brewings. Lippman Bros., Agents.
Clubs.
The following named clubs, Commercial,
at Augusta, Ga.; Seminole, at Jackson
ville, Fla.; Cape Fear, at Wilmington, N.
C.; Guards, at Savannah. Ga, supply their
members with the "Hernan Cortez'' cigars,
made at Key West and sold by Loe Roy
Myers & Cos., Savannah, Ga
Have you au engagement for to-night
that you must break because you have a
Headache ? You can keep your engage
ment if you take Bradycrotino.
“It you will chew tobacoo, chow tho OLD
RIP brand.”
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1890.
NOT A BAIT FOR ROBBER?.
An Old Railroad Man Tells Why Pay
Trains Are Never “Held Up."
“Why is it that the train robbers never j
plunder a pay train V
“Because they know their reword would
be too insignificant.”
That is the way an ex-railroad man put
it last night.
“Less money,” he added, “is carried on a
pay train than on any other kind of train.
Some folks imagine thn: the pay of the
employes of the two great systems ter
minating here, aggregating hundreds of
thousands monthly, is piled away in the
cars, and is hauled over tne road.”
“Isn’t that tho case;”
“Great —, no. The trains would bo
robbed before they got well out of Savan
nah. Besides, who would lie able to keep up
with a carload of money I It is largely
silver, and the ton-ceal pieces au 1 the
nickels and tho coppers would run away
with things."
“ flow is tho business conducted, then?”
“Easily en ugh. In fact there is but one
way to properly carry it on. That way is
to draw on the banks at each city for
enough to pay off until the next city is
reached. For instance, in leaving Savan
nnh over either the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad or the Central radroad
just enough money is taken to pay off em
ployes, including agents, track hands,
operators, and others at each of the stations.
This amount is not very large. The largest
amounts are paid out in the cities; for in
stance, in Macon the engineers, firemen,
conductors, and yard hands, and others of
the Savannah and Westorn railroad, aro
paid off; in Columbus the Savannah and
Western force is paid off; in Augusta the
employes of the South Carolina division of
the Central are paid off; the same is true with
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way. By this means, tho large>t sums paid
out amount to little more than a transfer
of money procured from the banks, through
the paymaster of the railroad, to the em
ployes. The suras paid out on the line be
tween tho headquarters of each division are
small compared to the amounts paid out in
the cities. None of the engineers or fire
men or conductors or brakemen are paid off
at points along the line. They are the em
ployes that got the largest pay.”
The railroad man relatel an incident
which took place several years ago, which
ho said put matters in a bad light and made
the pay train tempting to train robbers. A
newspaper reporter on one of tho dailies in
a western town wrote a long article stating
how much money it required to pay off the
employos of tho road, and concluded by
saying it was singular that the robbers sel
dom held pay trains up. The figures the
newspaper mau gave wero corroct, and the
article attracted widespread attention.
Several officials of the road went to the
general manager about the matter, and be
gan to suggest a romedy for what they con
sidered a very bad practice.
Tho general managor explained to them
that the amount of money carried on pay
trains was small compared to what is carried
on a regular mail and express train, but tho
matter was not settled until the newspaper
man published an interview with the gen
eral manager giving tho facts and stating
the manner in which business was con
ducted on pay trains. Tho railroader said,
however, tiiat the danger of pay train rob
bery is very slight. Tho robbers have
posted themselves about these matters.
NOT A LIFE OF EASE.
What an 01d.-Xim9 Railroader Bays
About Railroading.
“A good deal of extravagant talk 13 in
dulged in by speculative pooplo about the
“princely” manner in which a railroad
man lives,” said an old-timer yesterday.
“They say that he sails around in his private
car, living upon tho fat of tho land, and
haviug everything that m ikes him happy.
Those very people do not know that the
railroad man is onvious of their estate.
They have not found, as ho has found, that
high places make men thrice a servant,
This car business is far from being a
luxury. It is a necessity pure and simple,
and there is nothing luxurious about it.
“ When a railroad official goes out over
his lino,” tho old-timer added, “he is on
business just as a man is who goes to his
store, lie cannot sit back in an easy chair
and smoko a cigar, and sleep away the day.
His perception, his judgment require to be
quicker and sharper than if ho were allowed
time to stand and inspect in his leisure. lie
keeps up hi3 correspondence on the car, and
instead of going out to a restaurant, or hotol
to oat, incurring oxponse to tho railroad,
ho dines upon his car, and lives liko a man in
a cage.”
IMPROVING THK ALTAMAHA.
The Benefits That Would Flow From
Deeper Water in That River.
Doctor-town, Jan. 11. —Editor Morning
News: The people who livo along the Alta
maha river, iu fact the inhabitants of the
counties of Liberty, Wayne, Appling,
Mclntosh, Tattnall, Glynn, and all the
country tributary to the Altamaha, who
are engaged in cutting timber, manufact
uring, lumber and naval stores; also, those
who are engaged in making cotton and
other products which require regular trans
portation, and who deal iu groceries, hard
ware, dry goods, notions, and drugs, look to
the columns of the Morning News to find
tho most enterprising merchants in Savan
nah from whom to buy their supplies. They
also look to tho Morning News to call tho
attention of their representatives in con
gress to tho great necessity for furnishing
the money to get their great water-way put
in proper condition to carry their prod
ucts to market. It is not alone the citizens
of the wire-grass country who are interested
in the Altamaha. Many of Savannah’s
most enterprising business men have
thousands of dollars invested along its
banks, and tho American Lumber Com
pany of tho state of New Jersey, whoso
principal office is in New York city, is in
vesting thousands of dollars in timber
lands. It manufactures an immense amount
of lumber, all of which goes to the eastern
states. Therefore it can be said that this
groat lino is of more than local importance.
There ore three linos of steamboats at pres
ent employed in carrying naval stores, cot
ton, staves, shingles, rice, tobacc i. and other
products to market. Tuey also are in
terested in having the river improved. The
great west is also interested, because it
furnishes much of the corn, hay, and bacon
needed by the workers along this river.
The western congressmen, therefore, ought
to favor on ample appropriation for the im
provement of the river. The improvement
work is in the hands of a competent officer,
Lieut. Carter.
The cost of improving the river so as to
make it navigable at all seasons of the year
would be insignificant in comparison with
the benefits that would flow from improv
ing it. The river becomes unuavigablo at
tho hottest time in summer, whan the pines
bloed the freest, and therefore when tho
product of the turpentine forms is the
greatest; and, as it is impossible to kooptur
peutine at that season in casks for any
length of time without leakiug, the stop
page of transportation entails a great loss
on naval store men. The over watchful
speculator takes advantage of such a con
dition of affairs. They know that thero
are largo lots of turpentine and
rosin oil hand which cannot reach
the market. They, therefore, raise
the prices and make large sums
of money. The people along tbu Altamaha
and the country tributary to it know their
representative in congress, and feel that he
is one of them. They feel that all that is
necessary is to let Col. Lester know what
they want, and he will do all that is possible
for their relief. Altamaha.
For SOZODONT all ladies cry,
And gentlemen, or high or low,
For nothing else that they can buy
Will give the mouth its freshest glow—
Will keep the mouth so sweet and white,
Aad uoakc the breath a sweet dul&ht>
TO GET UIGHT TO TVORK.
PROGRAMME FOR MERCHANTS’
WEEK BEING MADE UP.
The Executive Board to Meet To
morrow Ntsrbt to Appoint Commit
tees ar.d Adopt the Programme far
tho Celebration—Some of the At
tractions it is Proposed to Have.
New Features to be Added to Last
Year’s Programme.
The executive bnard of Merchants’ week
will meet to-morrow night at the travelers’
exchange to organize and map out a pro
gramme for tho celebration.
The business c iniratt'.eo appointed at the
last meeting will submit its report. Repre
sentatives of the cotton exchange, board
of trade, city council, and of
tho wholesale and retail merchants
will be added to the board,
and the necessary committee will be ap
pointed to inaugurate and carry out the
plans for the celebration, which it is in
tended to make the greatest merchants’ cel
ebration ever undertaken in Georgia.
AN ENTIRE WEEK OF FESTIVITIES.
The programme wiil include an entire
week of festivities, with a grand military
and trades’ parade, fantastic and grand
trades (procession, an address in the park,
two niguts of flroworks, and a grand dis
play of day pyrotechnics; a gala day at
Tybee, with ocean races aud fireworks, aud
barbecue on the beach; a parade of 3,000
school children, a cavalry tournament l-y
electric light ill the park extension, three
days of horse racing, boat races, aud base
ball, excursions down the river and off
Tybee, open house to visiting merchants
during their stay in the city, and other at
tractions yet to be oil led.
The great success of Mav week last year
and tho benefits that the merchants recoived
from it are an assurance that tho coming
celebration will not lack the encouragement
and support of business men.
TO TAKE IN MAY FIRST.
The dates fixed for the festival are April
28 to May 3. Tho executive board which
has undertaken its management is anxious
to get all of the committees organized and
everytliing in working order within the
next week, so that a complete programme
can be settled upon and the celebration njay
be advertised by tho traveling men who
go out from "Savannah all through
Georgia, Florida, and South
Carolina, and run into Alabama. An effort
will bo made to bring every country mer
chant in three states, who does business
with Savannah, here at some time during the
celebration. The movement has started
with a boom. Last week’s meeting of tho
executive board was an enthusiastic one.
AU of the leading trades interests of the
city wore represented.
ENGLAND’S PLAGUE OF RATS.
Menacing Farmors Despito all Means
Taken to Kill Thom.
Foom the London Standard.
Tho plague of rats from which moro than
one of our agricultural districts is at pres
ent suffering threatens to assume serious
proportions. In East Lothian, though the
vermin have been destroyed by tho
thousand, and all the terriers, stoel traps,
aud phosphorous paste in the neighborhood
are in requisition, their numbers ‘exhibit no
appreciable diminution, while from the
Fun district, in Lincolnshire, it is reported
that they have never been so numerous or
destructive. The potato pits are invaded,the
turnip fields constitute a browsing ground
for the swarm of rodents, aud every gran
ary has been compelled to pay an unwilling
tithe to the horde which has overspread tho
country,
Since “Hamelin Town in Brunswick
Land” was afflicted in a similar fashion,
such a pest has seldom been heard of. It is
true that, for tho present, the vermin have
not "fought tho dogs and killed the cats, and
bit the babies in their cradles, and ate the
cheese out of the vats, and licked the soup
from tho cooks’ own ladles,” but they are in
a fair way to commit all these misdemeau
ors unless their career is brought to a
speeay close. Indeed, the rats seem to have
come to stay. Unlike such vormin gener
ally, they are burrowing holes by the road
side, and when we remember tho amazing
rapidity with which they multiply, it is
hard to say whether wo should wish tho
farmers of Liuoolnsnire and East Lothian a
severe winter or an open one.
For though the frost might drive the rats
from the fields, it would certainly force
them to seek the shelter of tho stable aud
byre, while an absence of frost would favor
their increase. Meantime, the naturalist
who is not an owner or cultivator of the
soil cannot fail to feel a certain qualified
interest in tho latest inroad, which is simply
one more attempt on the part of nature to
assert itself. It is a protest against the per
severing efforts of civilization to destroy the
balance of life, since this undue increase of
ruts must be traced to the destruction of the
birds of prey, weasels, sioats, and other
animals which harry them, just as the mul
tiplication of weakline grouse has not un
reasonably been attributed to such feeble
iiedgeliugs being afforded, owing to a simi
lar cause, an extra chance in the struggle
for existence.
Through the Cigar Factory In Seville.
From Scribner's Migazize.
One of tho sights of Seville which no
tourist misses is the cigar factory, in which
the government employs about 5,000 women
and girls. Tho showing about of visitors is
accordingly looked upon as a regular source
of Income by tho porter and the matrons.
After getting permission to enter, you are
placed in charge of a matron who shows you
through bar department, and then passes
you on to another, and soon, until vour
stock of pesetas and half-pe’setas
put aside for fees is exhausted. Those
matrons accompany the visitors, not
in order to prevent the girls from
flirting with them (nothing couid do that),
but to see that no tobacco or bundles of
cigarettes may disappear. Before entering
each room a bell is rung to warn tho girls,
who are in great deshabille on account of
the heat, to put on their wrappers, aud as
the door opens scores of round arms and
pretty shoulders are seen disappearing,
while several hundred pairs of coal
black eyes are fastoned on you. The
passages are lined with cradles, and
the poor young girl-mothers to whom
they belong implore us with oyos and
hands for a penny for the Murillos of the
future lying iu them. These girls aro more
frank than subtle in their flirtations. There
is not one in tho crowd who will not be
immediately conscious of a man’s gaze fixed
on her, nor will she be the first to turn here
eyes away. Some will wink, and even
throw a kiss from a distant comer at tho
ricn Inglese (all foreigners are supposed to
be wealthy Englishmen). They are a
merry lot, on the whole, these poor
girls, the clevorest of whom make
only 2 pesetas, or 40 cents a
day, for which they have to toil twelve or
fourteen hours in a tobacco-rooking atmos
phere. Not that they object to tobacco at
all. They are allowed to smoke if they
wish, and many make use of this privilege.
They are remarkably deft at rolling cigar
ettos, but not all seem eager to make as
many as possible; for some are idling, aud
others are asleep; but no one cares, as each
is paid according to the number she rolls.
Sirocco Tea
Is the fashionable breakfast, luncheon, and
afternoon bevorige in England and the
continent of Europe, aud will soon be the
favorite in America. It is imported direct
from our own gardens in India and Ceylon,
and we guarantee its purity. The most
economical tea in tho world. In sealed
packets, at 60 cents, 80 cents, and HI per
pound. _ Davidson & Cos., 1436 Broadway,
New York. Savannah agent3, Lippmau
, BrOj.j.LU'PUlun block, Savannah,
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
The annual meeting of the Savannah,
Florida and Western and Charleston and
Savannah Railways’ EruDloyei' Mutual Re
lief Association will be held at the com
pany’* general offices to-night.
The Financial Chronicle's table of secu
rities, listed in 1889, makes the absolutely
new capitalization $207,000,000 bonds and
*70,000,000 stock. The listing of bonds was
$55,000,000 less than in 1888, but exceeds the
bond listings m 1887 over 14 percent., in
ISBG over 153 p*-r cent., and in 1355 over 09
per cent. The great listing of 1388 was due
to the 12,900 miles of new track laid in 1887.
The railroads just now are busy getting
out their annuals. Tne lists being sent in
are being closely scanned. One of the
requests of this character recently came to
Mupt. Sullivan of the Memphis route from
a railway in Louisiana. The circular read:
“Inclosed find our li3t for exchange of
annual passes. On receipt of the annuals,
and your list, we shall bo pleased to recip
rocate.” The list was made up of a presi
dent, vice president, general manager,
general superintendent, general passenger
agent, treasurer, and master of transporta
tion. On looking up the road it was found
that the company operated three miles of
narrow gauge track, and that it owned one
locomotive and four freight cars.
The Railroad Gazette has receives} re
turns from the car-building companies,
which enable it to make a somewhat accu
rate estimate of the condition of that indus
try in the year just passed. Reports from
thirty-six companies give a total of 70,516
freight cars built. Last year the Gazette
reported 71,719 built by forty-three firms.
Tiventy-six firms, reporting in both years,
built 57,000 cars in 1888 and 53,000 in 1889,
but, taking all who have reported in either
year, the average output per firm was 1,058
in 1888 aud 1,960 in 1889. If complete re
ports were obtained for all of the private
companies building cars, it seems probable
that the output for 1839 would be evon
greater than it was in the preceding year.
A now schedule will go into effect on the
Savannah, Florida aud Western railway
to-day. The south-bound train leaving
here at 7:55 p. m., will leavo fifteen min
utes earlier, arriving at Jacksonville at
7:35 a. m.. instead of 7:55 as heretofore.
The fajit mail leaving h-re at .7:09 a. m.
will connect with tho East Tennessee at
Jesup, landing passengers in Brunswick 1 at
10:30 a. m., instead of 12:53 p. in. The
north bound tram No. 78, arriving here at
7.45 p. m., will arrive five minutes later,
and No. 60, arriving at 11:55 p. m., will ar
rive at 11:53 p. m. A number of changes
on arriving and departing time at other
points dependent upon terminal points has
lieen made, and uppears in the schedule
elsowhere in the Morning News to-day.
The latest European railroad scheme is
for railroad communication from the north
of Ireland to Calcutta. A tunnel, ten or
eleven miles long, between Scotland and
Ireland, at the Mull of Cantire, Fair Head,
county Antrim, is proposed. The British
channel tunnel, of course, must bo com
pleted Trains thou are to run to Gibraltar,
be transferred by ferry, thence to run along
the northern coast of Africa, across Egypt
and the Suez canal, and skirt the Persian
gulf, and r,o on to Kurrachoo, wlioro the
road would connect with the system of In
dian railroads. By this moans Ireland
would be brought within twelve days’
journoy of India, and by means of a fleet of
fast Atlantic steamers lauding at Derry,
New York would be but seventeen days
from India. This lino may be completed
before that bysßohring Strait.
Anew electric train brake has recently
boon tried at Birmingham, England. It is
said that an entire train fitted with this
brake is being constructed for use in Russia.
The electric brake works upon the inside
face of the wheel, or rather upon an iron
disk fitted to it. The disk or annular ring
is a large plate of iron, of considerable
thickness and several inches in depth, and
is securely bolted to the inner side of the
wheel. Opposite this ring is another, which
encircles the axle loosely, aud is fixed by
stays in such a manner that it cannot re
volve with the wheel, but can be moved
laterally so as to corinfinto contact with or
recede from the ring attached to the wheel.
It is attached to a powerful magnetic coil and
constitutes a large electro magnet. When
the electric current is applied to it, it is
powerfully attracted to the plate on the
wheel, with the effect of arresting its revo
lution, and so acting as a brake.
In order to collect opinions on the subject
of legislation for the safety of trainmen,
the Railroad Gazette recently sent out a
circular asking the following questions:
1. When should compulsory equipment
with air brakes and automatic couplers be
begun? 2. At what rate should it proceed,
and should it be by percentage per annum
of all freight equipment, or as new stock is
built, or as cars go in for goneral repairs?
3. Could the roads bo required, after some
date fixed, to have enough cars air-braked
in each train to control the train? 4. Do
you approve of our suggestions as to the
kinds of brake and coupler to be used?
Gen. E. P. Alexander, president
of the Central railroad, replied:
1. Fix no time for beginning, but not les3
than ten years from date of passage of the
law for completing the equipment. Twelve
years would be but reasonable beeauso of
the enormous expense involved. The
amount of roiling stock will be doubled in
the next ten years, and the cost of the
changes in the old stock and of equipping
the new will bo $150,000,000 or more. 2.
No rate should be specified. Details once
entered iut > would be endless,and cause con
fusion and litigation; would require an
enormous organization and would work
hardship to the weak roads. The moral
effect of tho fixed date ahead at
which ail cars must be equipped
would force as rapid adoption of good
standard patterns as can practi
cally be accomplished. 3. Such acquire
ment would bo vague,would breed litigation
and bo superfluous and unreasonable. The
change once begun, tho economyjanil inter
est of each road would force it as fast as
practicable. There are many other neces
sities for continued change and improve
ment iti matters equally vital with this,
and if this one is forced by litigation there
will be danger of hazardous economy in
other particulars. For this reason I depre
cate any governmental interference any
where. 4. Legal requirements should be
limited simply to an automatic couplor and
a power brake.
MH. BULLY’S LIVEI STOCK.
The Ex-President of Richmond Termi
nal Starts in With Cats, and Xday
Wind Up With Elephants.
From the New York Herald.
Every one -within a radius of forty miles
from Hackettstown, N. J., knows Alfred
Sully, the great railroad financier. “Old
Sully” they call him, not, it would seem,
through any disrespect, but merely for the
sake of euphony.
Mr. Sully moved to Hackettstown some
ten years ago, aud purchased a tract of land
on Schooley’s Mountain, overlooking the
beautiful Muscouetcong Valley. A more
desirable residence could not well be
imagined. Here Mr. Sully built him a fine
duelling and set to work to improve his
property. From time to time he made
additional purchases of land and further
improved bis grounds, until to-day the
“Sully place" is recognized as one of the
finest landed estates in this section of the
country. Mr. Sully’s wife died some years
ago, and sinco that time Mr. Sully appears
to have developed a do gree of eccentricity
t hat to the average Jersey mind seems, to
sav the least, remarkable.
Tho Hackettstown tradespeople hold him
in some such awe as the peasantry in feudal
times might have looked upon some old
baron owning an estate on the hills. Uf
course, Mr. Sully’s credit was the best, but
it is said that ho is not always pleasant
when presented with a bill, as he has been
known to anathematize the trembling shop
keepers of tho town who imposed them
selves on his presence for this purpose. As
.one resident expresed it, “Old Sully is a
tuoo Old cnap wiiea jou striJw bum' right*
but when you don’t, jee, whiz! he can out!
swear any person you ever saw.”
“Ever hear of how Isaiah Swosev the
blacksmith tackled hiru?’ asked my inform
ant. “No? Why the whole town is
talking about it. Well, you see, Hwns-y
had a bill against Bully of some $63 for
horseshoeing, and ho wanted his money, so
he called at the Sully place one morning a:
10 o’clock and ask.-d to see him.
MtLI.rONA.IRE AND BLACKSMITH.
“ ‘Can’t see him,’ said t e servant, ‘he’s
not up yet.’ ‘Well,’said Swasey,‘l’ll wait
here till Ido see him,’ a- dso he pushed by
the servant and seated himself in the halL
Hr made such a racket about it that pretty
soon Sully himse f appeared, ad asked him
what the devil he meant by calling at that
hour.’
“ ‘By gosh,’ said Swasey, bracing up to
him, ‘I mean to collect a bill, that’s what I
mean.’ IVeil, sir, Old Sully just ht into tho
blacksmith iu a w ay that made the air blue,
but wbon be bad finished, Swasey took a
hand and he outswore Suliy.
“This seemed to stagger Sully for a
moment, but he finally reached out nis hand
and said ‘Shake, you’re the only man I've
met around here v.ho has any grit.’ Well
the bill was paid, and new Sully and the
blacksmith aro the best of friends.”
I heard so much about Mr. Sully while I
was in Hackettstown that I resoivod to call
upon him, I confess with somo trepidation,
os I was warnod fce was liable to fairly
annihilate me if ho was in a bad humor. I
had never seen Mr. Sully, and pictured to
myself some fierce-visaged old warrior,
with a stentorian voice, who would order me
off the grounds the moment I put in an ap
pearance.
From the Jehu who drove mo up to the
place, an old resident of Hackettstown, I
learned much of Mr. Sully’s alleged eccen
tricities.
RECKLESS DRIVING.
“You should see him drive down the
mountain,” said he, “when he goes lickety
split, rain or shine, mud or no mud, and no
matter whether it is light or dark. No
money would induce me to do his driving,
for I’d be in fear of my life all the time.”
I was thou told of Mr. Sully’s “live
stock” experiments. It would seem that ho
took a fancy a few years ago to raise cats.
These cats were the wonder of the people
for miles around. There were Maltese cats,
China cats, cats of high and low dogree aud
all manner a ad condition of hide, voice, and
temperament. They were seen at every
window, and night was made hidoous by
the strains of feline Wagnerian opera that
could be hoard all ovor the valley.
Tiring of cats, Mr. Suily’s next venture
was rabbits, aud then pigs. He had, it is
said, over 500 pigs of all sorts of breeds
wandering over his place. These, however,
soon went the way of tho cats aud rabbits,
and fancy breeds ef horses and cattle were
the next venture in this direction. The
latter are Mr. Sully’s present hobby, and he
is said to have some of the finest cattle in
the state. There is some speculation in
Hackettstown as to what Mr. Sully’s next
live stock venture will be, aud various
speculations aro indulged iu regarding the
same. “Just as liable to be elephants if he
takes the notiou,” I was told.
On reaching the house I wa3 impressed
with tho taste everywhere displayed. The
house is a large, commodious mansion, of
E ist'.ake styla The view from the front
windows is superb. The grounds are
beautifully laid out. There are extensive
lawns, fountains, greenhouses—everything,
in short, that w oalth could purchase or a
cultivated taste suggest.
NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL,
But if the house surprised me, the owner
was oven more of a surprise. Here was a
mild, blue-oyed gentleman, apparently
about 52 years of age, courteous in the ex
treme, who received me with all the grace
and politeness of a country “squire.” I
was not “eaten up,” as I half expected to
be. After I had enjoyed a pleasant half
hour’s chat I left, with a pleasant iuvitatiou
to return and stay longer.
“Well,” said my liveryman, “you struck
him just right, and lie can be agreeable
wiien he wants to be, but ”
“O, never mind,” I said, “I think you
Hackettstown people are prejudiced.” I
certairly left Mr. Sully and his beautiful
place with the best of impressions.
Declines to be Annihilated.
From the Crawfordville Democrat.
It is the custom of some subreribers to get
mad with the editor because he does not
run the paper according to their liking, and
they order him, with lordly air, “stop my
paper,” thinking thereby to annihilate both
editor and paper. Gentle reader, there is
where you get loft. Your paper is discon
tinued and another batter man, woman or
child fills the vacuum made by your with
drawal. You are forgotton, but the editor and
paper go bravely on, taking no cognizance
of human atoms that would impede the
wheels of the press. You could as easily
build a transcontinental railroad with a
nickel, bridge the Mississippi with a knit
ting needlo, make the Stone mountain with
a brickbat, or cross the Atlantic in a slop
bucket, as to bust a newspaper by tender
ing your resignation as a subscriber. Fret
not thyself in anywise because the perverso
editor differs with you on matter of pith
and moment.
Come wreck or come rak,
He will die with harness on his back,
And you should do the thing proper;
l’ay for your paper—then stop er.
Somewhat E mphatic.
From the Fannin County Gazette.
Another gander-shanked pigeon-toed
whapper-jawed son-of-a-guu in the persou
of J. N. Barnes, sends us word to "let him
know if we got pay for his paper bofore ho
does." Mr. Barnes will pay his subscrip
tion, and that p. and. q., too. Also, if ha will
show up, and we can’t put him four feet
underground inside five minutes, will agree
to caucel the insu ranee on our office, sot the
shanty on fire, aud leave town on foot.
A Boupcouce of Sarcasm.
From the Sumterville (Fla.) Times.
Tho cigarmaker that is trying to ran a
newspaper over tho river has about suc
ceeded in making a genuine ass out of him
solf. Wo would suggest that the people
over there cage this animal and exhibit
him at the Semi-Tropical exposition as a
“Florida curiosity.”
At Estill’s.
Savannah Daily Morning ’ News,
“Nanaebel” (a tale of Stratford-on-Avon),
by William Black; “All for Love of a
Fair Face,” by Laura Jean Libbey; “A
Struggle for a Heart,” by Laura Jean
Libbey; “Sweetbriar in Town,” by D.
Chri tie Murray; “A Far Look Ahead, or
The Diothas,” by Ismar Thiusen; Parish’s
Referee (a fine sporting paper, published by
Grant Parish, business manager of Robert
Downing Cos., at Chicago); The Season, for
January; L’Art de la Mode for January
Rand-McNally Official Railway Guide for
Jauuary; Peck’s Sun, Illustrated London
News (10c. edition), Horseman, Sporting
South, Sporting Times, Sporting News,
Sporting Life, Sportsman, Now York
Weekly, Saturday Night, New York
Ledger, Fireside Companion, Ftunilv Story
Paper, Public Opinion, New York Herald
World, Sun, Star, Press, Times, Tribune’
Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Balti
more Sun, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cin
cinnati Gazette, Pniladelphia Press. Phila
delphia Times. New Orloans Tiraes-
Democrat, Atlanta Constitution, Macon
Telegraph, Augusta Chronicle, Charleston
News and Courier, Charleston World,
Florida Times-Union, Louisville Courier-
Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago
Tribune, Washington Post.
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