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3IILL MEN IN MEETING.
THE GEORGIA SAW-MILL ASSOCI
ATION AT TYBBK.
Lumber Rates and Schedule* Dis
cussed—New Buies for Classification
Adopted— Legislation for the MUI
Men to be Crged-A Bill to Author
ize the Governor to Appoint Com
missioners of Inspection—The Trans
portation Question -The Banquet to
the Association.
The Georgia Saw-mill Association held
its third meeting since its organization, on
Feb. 8, at Tybee yesterday. The members
ot the association lett Savannah for Tybee
on a special train at 7:30 o dock, and
breakfasted with the Savannah mem
bers at the Ocean house.
At 10:30 o'clock I’resider.t D. C. Bacon
called the association to order. The follow
ing is a list of the offlcers and membership
of the association:
D. c. Bacon, president, Savannah.
A. B. Bteele, first vice president, Atlanta
\Y. B. Stillwell, second vice president,
Bavannah.
& R. Weston, third vice president, Al-
bany.
C. J. Haden, secretary, Atlanta
J. W. Pope, treasurer, Atlanta
M. F. Amorous of Atlanta, chairman
of the committee on transportation.
G. V. Gress < f Atlanta, chairman of the
committee on legislation.
J. G. Foote of Atlanta, chairman of the
committee on inspection.
D. C. Bacon and >l. F. Amorous, Atlanta
Lumber Com pan v, Atlanta
J. W. Pope, Enterprise Lumber Com
pany, Atlanta
J. W. Hightower, Empire Lumber Com
pany, Empire.
C. J. Haden and J. R. Hosch, Hosch
Lumber Company, Atlanta
G. V. Gress, Gress Lumber Company,
Grets ton.
J. H. Ellison, Ellison & Coleman, Roun
tree.
J. G. Foote, Foote & Zuber Lumber Com
pany, Atlanta
C. M. Kay, A. B. Steele Lumber Com
pany, Atlanta
J. B. Spencer, Spencer Bros., Lumber
City.
W. B. Stillwell, Btillwell, Millen & Cos.,
Savannah.
M. W. Dixon, Dale, Dixon & Cos., Sa
vannah.
H. P. Smart, H. P. Smart & Bro., Sa
vannah.
A. G. Smart, H. P. Smart & Bro., Mid
ville.
J. F. Colcord, Amoskeag Lumber Com
pany, Amoekeag.
J. C. Forsythe, Normandaie Lumber
Company, Normandaie.
J. C. William*, Williams Lumber Com
pany, Eastman.
F. B. Stubbs, I.utoh & Stubbs, Godwins
ville.
Paul Castellanos, W. D. Wheelwright &
Cos., Brunswick.
J. J. McDonough, McDonough & Cos.,
Savannah.
George M. BrinsoD, Brinson & Brinson,
Stiilm-n.
F. M. Fremont, Southern Yellow Pine
Lumber Company, Atlanta.
E. G. Fay, E. G. Fay & Cos., Rocky Ford.
G. G. Harris, Bibb Land aud Lumber'
Company, Cox
J. T. Hannson, Hannson, Curry & Cos.,
Longview.
L. I. Rives, Pitts.
J. E. Marlow, Savannah.
T. R. Cooper, Savanna .
J. N. Evans, Colman.
X. J. Curry, Mcßae.
J. W. Preston. Martin.
George A. Baker, Brunswick.
S. R. Weston, Westoma.
Morris & Feley, Arabi.
J. C. Clark & Cos.
J. W. Preston, Rogers.
L Q. Earner, I mar,a.
H. a Tift, Tlfton.
Wilsoh & Pryor, Leslie.
G. B. Gray & Cos., Pine Bloom.
T. L. Kinsey, Savannah.
E- B. Hunting & Cos., Savannah.
Smith, Thorne & Cos., Williford.
Pax tan & Mattox, Chinch Haven.
Beckwith & Rogers, Glenmore.
Lecb, Vinton & Ob., Wenona.
Gar butt Brothers, Summertown.
H, M. Rountree & Cos., Swainesboro.
Thomas & W holey, Poplar HiiL
Murray & Dasher, Syracuse.
THE ASSOCIATIONS AIMS.
The association has been in existence but
a short while. It is an organization of the
manufacturers of yellow pine lumber, to
further the interests of the lumbermen of
the state in every manner posable.
Their objects are to secure
needed legislation in behalf of
the lumbermen, to obtain such rates from
the railroads as will enable them to com
pete for the Lade of the northern and west
ern markets, to secure proper inspection
apd classification of the output, and gener
ally to look after the interests of the lum
bermen.
The manufacture of yellow pine lumber
has within the la3t few year* become an im
mense Industry throughout the state, and
the manufacturers have seen the necessity
of organization.
The first business transacted was the
reading and adoption of the minutes of the
last meeting, held at Macrtn, March 8.
The chief business was the hearing of re
ports of committees appointed at Macon.
Mr. Amorous reacts a lengthy report
from the committee on transportation. The
discussion of rhe report wse lengthy. The
mill men have many complaints against
the railroads. They complain of
frequent overcharges on carloads
of fumber„and a difficulty In securing pay
ment of claims made for overcharges.
They also cotpnlain that the roads are insuf
fic-ently supplied with oars, and do not fur
nish them te needed. They want such rates
made to the western market* as will enable
them toaell In competttsou with the lumber
men of other states. The report covered
ail these points, whioh were discussed at
length by the association.
A QUESTION OF WEIGHTS.
When there is an overcharge made for a
carload of lumber now the rate set by the
railroad commission for estimating the
proper weight is 5,000 pounds per 1.000 feet
of lumber. This is much too high, they say,
because 1,000 feet of green lumber
wm not weigh ovor 4,500 pounds,
and dry lumber will weigh
very much less. The general opinion was
that it was moat satisfactory for the ship
pers to weigh their ipmber before shipping
and specify the weight In the invoice. It
was decided that each member of the asso
ciation should, on his return home,
secure the exact weight of each
variety of timber cut at his mill, make affi
davit to the weight, and forward it to the
cemmithee on transportation, which will
lay the affidavits before the railroad com
mission. Mr. Amorous stated that he
had been requested by Maj. Wallace,
chairman of the railroad commission,
to take this method of securing the actual
weight of lumber. The railroad commission
is preparing to change its estimate of
weights for lumber, and the affidavits of
the lumbermen as to the weights
the different qualities of
lumber will have great weight. The com
mittee was empowered to employ ail attor
ney to appear before the railroad commis
sion in behalf of the lumbermen on the
question of changing the estimate of
weights. The report of the committee was
adopted.
Mr, Grass of the committee on legislation
reported that the committee had secured a
charter for the association f ro m the Fulton
court, and the charter was adopted.
lbe committee on legislation was in
structed to draft a bill to bo
reported for the indorsement of the
association at its next meeting, to be pre
sented to the legislature, authorizing the
governor to uppoint commi siouers of in-
Pie.-eU'-p why KUftU examine license
•worn inspectors of lumber for the state,
and to further regulate the sale and inspec
tion of lumber.
THE CLASSIFICATION OF LUMBER.
Mr. Foote, chairman of the committee on
inspection*, reported a book of rules agreed
upon by the committee for the inspection
and classification of lumber.
The com mittee report embodied the bock
of rules adopted in 1383, with
certain additional rules to meet
the requirements of the western
market. This book is most important, as
it specifies in what class the quality of lum
ber entitles it to be placed. The rules as to
the quality of lumber for each class were
minute and distinct. The discussion was
was lengthy. The terms used were Greek
to anybody but a lumberman, and the
lumber vocabulary was shown to
be a full oue. Many hit* were
Mr. Gress—to the effect that every
member who should sell lumber for inspec
tion at the plaoe of businea of purchaser,
should be without redress at the names of
the association and should bear losses so in
currea without a murmur, created some
merriment. The motion was laid on the
table.
After some further discussion the book of
rules was adopted with many minor altera
tions.
The association decided to use uniform
temperates in all the mills of the kind used
by the Atlanta Lumber Company, so that
lumber from one mill will match with lum
ber from another.
Some merriment was caused by a motion
gotten off at the expense of members who
thought that the requirements for first
class lumber too strict.
Mr. Amorous didn’t want to define the
different qualities so carefully. He said
some of the buyers would kick on every
little point
A resolution to fix a minimum price for
lumber was offered and debated, but was
withdrawn on account of the opposition
manifested. The state of the market is
such that no minimum figure can be main
tained at present
The time and place of the next meeting
was fixed on the last Tuesday in October at
Macon. The annual meeting and election
of offlcers will be held in Atlanta the second
Tuesday in January.
MR. STILLWELL’S BOMBSHELL.
Mr. Stillwell exploded a bombshell in the
meeting by a motion to the effect that mem
bers be allowed to vote according to the
output of mills, and that eaob member be
allowed one vote for each million feet of
lumber cut each year. This motion aim oet
paralyzed the smaller mill men, but
Mr. Weston managed to get to
his feet to protest against its
adoption. He thought the association
was organized on a fair basis, and that it
had sufficient confidence in each member’s
honesty and ability to allow each the same
vote. Others expressed the same view.
Mr. Btillwell did not see It in that way.
The organization, he said, was similar to a
stock company where, each member voted
according to bis shares of stock. He under
stood the association to be organized on a
money basis, and it could not be a success
in any other way.
Somebody suggested that if a member
who cut 1,000,000 feet paid $lO dues,one who
Cut lUOJXJO,OJO feet, Mr. Stillwell, for in
stance, should pay f 1,000.
Mr. McDonough thought every member
should be entitled to one vote. The big fish
should not eat up the little fish.
Mr. McDonough offered a substitute mo
tion that each member make out a state
ment of the total daily output of his mills
and forward to the secretary for informa
tion. The opposition to Mr. Stillwell’s mo
tion was very nearly unanimous. The
gentlemen were r< quested to put the mo
tion and substitute In writing.
In writing Mr. Stillwell’s resolution was
shorn of its terror. It simply called for a
statement of the quality and power of eaob
member’s mill equipment, the information
to be used for the benefit of the association.
In this shape the resolution and Mr. Mc-
Donough’s substitute were adopted as one
resolution.
No other matters of importance came be
fore the meeting, and the association ad
journed at 2:15, to meet at the Brown House
in Macon on the last Tuesday in October.
The majority of the members plunged
into the surf shortly after adjournment.
THE BANQUET.
At 4 :16 o’clock the association wds invited
into the dining hall, where an elegant ban
quet was served, tendered tbe association
by the Savannah members.
The menu cards were a work of art.
Upon one side was:
Banquet—Georgia Raw-mill Association, at
Ocean House, Tybee Island, Tuesday, June 21,
lew.
With the following inscription:
Now, rest thee, merry gentlemen.
Lot naught thy heart dismay,
For plenty reigns, aud jolly friends
Are round the board this day.
Upon the other side was the following
ingenious and appetizing bill of fare:
gory.
Turtle, “square edge."
Sherry wine, ‘‘prime.’’
FISH.
Broiled and baked trout, "free of knots.*
Potatoes Dauphine. “merchantable.’’
BOAST.
Boston ribs of beef with mushrooms, “butt cut,"
Green peas, "grooved."
Claret wine, "tree (rota sap."
Deviled crabs, "dimensionsize."
Shrimp croquette and salad, “strips."
Duck with currant jelly, “clear of shakes.*
Asparagus, ’’top cuts.”
CHAMPAGNE.
Veuve cliquot, "bone dry."
PASTHY AND DESSERT.
Cabinet pudding, wine sauce; pumpkin pie,
lemon pie, “rift sawed."
Ice cream, “yard orders,"
Watermelon, “all heart."
Coffee, "clear."
Cheese and crackers, “culls.”
An hour and a half was spent at the table
in hearty conviviality.
Tbe majority of the members left for their
homes last night. All expressed in glowing
terms their appreciation of .Savannah’s hos
pitality. Secretary Haden said they had
nowhere been treated so hospitably as in
Savannah.
LUMBERMEN GOSSIP.
R. H. Wilson of Leslie, Qa., one of the
delegates to the Georgia Saw-mill Associa
tion, had a roundabout way of getting to
the Pulaski house from the Tybeo depot
last night. He was transferred from the
Liberty to the West Broad street car, and
when the oar was nearing Battery
park he inquired in an innocent way if the
car wasn’t a long time in getting* to the
hotel, and when told that he had gone a
mile and a half out of bis way, be was not
In the best of humor with the heedlessness
of the conductor on the Liberty street line,
whom he had told ills destination and
had been transferred for a round trip ride
of three miles, and an extra faro.
The laugh was on Mr. Amorous in the
Tvbee meeting when he failed to respond to
some query from a brother member, and he
as seen to be intently looking at some ob
ject in front of him. There was a
large looking-glass opposite, which
reflected the beach in front of the hotel,
where several young ladies were bathing,
and it was this sight which hold Mr.
Amorous’ attention so closely. A short
while afterward several members made a
break for the baloony, but explained it was
a ship they wanted to see.
T he Fords’ Benefit.
The box sheet for the Fords’ benefit per
formance to-morrow night opened yester
day at Butler’s Pharmacy. The opening
sale was larger even than was ex pected.
The performance will open with the forum
scene from “Julius Csesar,” followed by an
exhibition drill of the Busch Zouaves, and
will conclude with the laughable comedy in
three acts, “The Pink Dominoes.”— Ado.
Mrs. Laura E. Ganbate, 155% Market
street. San Francisco, Cal., writes that Bho
had been sick for fifteen years with a com
plication of diseases peculiar to her sex,
and nothing ever did her any good until
she took Radam’s Microbe Killer; now she
is perfectly well. For sale by Butler’s
Pharmacy.—
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1890.
THB NEW COURT HOUBB.
The Building to be Ready for Occu
pancy the First Week in August.
Work on the new court house interior is
being pushed with great vigor by the con
tractor*, Miles & Bradt, and if there is no
delay in getting tbe hardware and mantels,
which were ordered by the commissioners
at a late day, Mr. Bradt says the edifice
will be ready for occupancy by tbe first
week in August. There are no less than
fifty mechanics and laborers engaged on the
inside work, and by the close of tbe week
all the flooring wlil have been laid except
in the two court room*.
Everything on tbe second floor is finished
bat tbe court rooms and nanging the doors.
It Is expected to begin putting in tbe iron
stairways to-morrow.
Tbe interior of the building will te quite
handsome. The polished marble wainscot
ing of the halls O i tbe first and second floor
and in the court rooms is rich and at
tractive. The base is of Vermont dove
marble, tbe die of Italian veined marble and
tbe capof Knoxville light pink marble. Tbe
hall floor is of Georgia marble tiles.
All the rooms are finished in yellow pine
except the commissioners' rooms, on tbe first
floor, and the solicitor general’s room, on tbe
second floor, which are finished in cherry;
the private rooms of the judges of the
superior and city courts are finished in ash,
and the court rooms in antique oak. The
panel work in the superior court room is
now being put In place.
Tbe interior structure of the building
provides for every convenience on each
floor for tbe county and court officials. Hie
offices of the tax oollector and cjunty
attorney are somewhat small, but in tbe
old court house there was no provision for
the county attorney, and the quarters as
signed to the tax collector were not as
roomy as the new quarters will be. The
commissioners’ rooms, and tbe rooms as
signed to the ordinary and the clerks of the
oourts are a decided improvement on tbe
old quarters, and tbe vaults are large, well
lighted, weH ventilated and will accommo
date tbe records of tbe county for the next
century.
In tbe rear of each court room is a large
and elegant room for the courts to set m
chambers, and south of the chambers are
tbe private rooms of the court. The sheriffs
rooms are north of the chambers. The
solicitor general’s office is conveniently lo
cated at the head of the first flight of stairs,
and bis office connects with the rooms for
witnesses, tbe witness room for tbe superior
court being on tbe east and tbe city court
witness room on tbe west. The grand jury
and petit jury rooms are on the mezzanine
The third floor has been covered with
wire lath and plastered, so that no wood
work is exposed, rendering that portion of
the building Are proof, as Is the rest of the
building. A large room on this floor,
originally designed for a law library, it is
understood will, for the present, be as
signed to the county engineering depart
ment.
Mr. Bra lt says that there is no doubt but
that the county officials cau move in by the
first of August if the hardware is received
promptly, and he sees no reason why the
entire structure, as far as his contract goes,
cannot be turned over to the county com
missioners by August 10.
Tie plumbing work of the heating and
ventilating department in the basement is
not a part of Miles & Bradt's contract, but
It is progressing favorably. Tbe boilers are
in place, and a force of plum tiers were busy
at work when a Morning News reporter
visited the building yesterday.
The plumbing and marble work of the
olosets end lavatories throughout tbe build
ing, with their polished brass attachments,
are said by those competent to judge, to
rival that class of work in tbe De Hoto. The
walnscoatina and partitions of the water
olosets aro of veined Italian marble slabs
feet biffn. Only when the entire interior is
completed can justice be done the excellence
of tbe design and meohanical execution of
the work.
For a disordered liver try Beecham’s
Pills.— Ado.
RECRUITING THE CAVALRY.
The New Wayne Troop to Have a
Grand Barbecue To-morrow.
The Wayne Troop, Capt. J. Nelson
Clarke, mayor of Jesup, commanding, and
formerly sergeant of the Liberty Inde
pendent Troop, have organized and applied
to Gov. Gordon to be admitted into
the military eervico of the state, with a
view to being attached to the Fifth regi
ment of Georgia cavalry, commanded by
Col. AV. W. Gordon.
Col. Gordon said last night that he had
urged the governor to accent the Wayne
troop, as it would be a valuable acquisition
to the military arm of the state, and located
in a quarter where there should be an aux
iliary to the military.
The troop will have a grand barbecno at
Jesup to-morrow In honor of the organiza
tion of the company, and it has extended
an invitation to the field and staff of the
Fifth regiment of Georgia cavalrv. Col.
Gordon has sent the ofilcial invitations to
the out-of-town members of his staff. Col.
Gordon, Maj. P. W. Meldrim, Maj. T. S.
Wylly and Adjt. A. R. Lawton, Jr., will
attend the barbecue, leaving over the
Bayaunah, Florida and Western rail way to
morrow morning, reaching Jesup in time
for early breakfast. They will return on
the 5:30 train, arriving in Savannah about
8 o’clock, city time.
There is a decided interest manifested in
recruiting the cavalry forces of the stale,
and Col. Gordon says he hopes soon to add
three more companies to the Fifth Goorgia.
The Burke Troop, Capt. W. A. Wilkins,
baa applied to be accepted in the military
service of the state and also to be attached
to Col. Gordon’s regiment.
Col. R. G. Mitchell, formerly of the
Twenty-ninth Georgia, has raised a troop
at ThomasWUe, and has applied to Gov.
Gordon to be placed qp the rotter of state
troops, also to form a part of the Fifth
Georgia CaTalry. The company has uni
formed and armed itself and at its own
expense.
THftHS PRETTY HOU3BB.
The Title Guarantee Company's Oot
• tagee Sold.
The three new cottage houses recently
built by the Title Guarantee and Loan
Company at Henry and Habersham streets
were sold at auotiou yesterday by C. H.
Dorsett. The houses front north on Henry
street, east of Habersham, The lots have a
frontage of thirty-three feet with a depth
of about ninety feet. The houses are two
stories with a finished attic, and are among
the handsomest cottage houses in the city,
finished in natural wood and papered.
The westernmost bouse, at the corner of
Henry and Habersham, was sold to J. J.
Reily for 54,050.
The next house east brought 53,900, and
was bought by Mr. Elliot.
The third house was bought by Mr.
Collatt for *3,925.
The houses are all alike, except in the
painting and style of interior finish, and
are the same size. The terms of the sale
were *SOO cash and the balance in six years,
with 7 per cent, interest.
Going Over the Portfolios.
Supervisor Beckett added about fifteen
names to the census lists yesterday, and he
is investigating a number of other com-
SI amts of omissions by the enumerators,
ie finds that most of the omi&sions so
far reported were where the houses were
closed when the enumerator made his
rounds. He is going over all of the port
folios as they are sent in, to see what houses
have not been enumerated, with a view to
correcting the omissions. He will keep the
lists open a day or two longer for revision.
More adults are carried off each year
from kidney diseases than by any other
malady except consumption. If Lamar’s
Extract of Buchu and Juniper Is used there
, cau.be ao danger of kupjey trouble*.
ICE KEEPS GOING DP.
SMALL CONSUMERS PAYING 11-4
CENTS TO THB RBTAILERS.
A Month of High Prices Ahead—The
Fight Against the Building of New
Plante—An incorporator of the Chat
ham Company Refused Ice by One
of the Old Companies—The Price to
Another Incorporator Advanced $8
a Ton.
Retail dealers in ioe are notifying their
customers that hereafter they will be com
pelled to charge 1% cents per pound. This
is at the rate of $35 per ton, and it is dif
ficult to get it served even at that price.
One of the old companies yesterday refused
to fill an order of one of its customers be
cause bis uame appeared as one of the in
corporators in tbe application for a charter
for "The Chatham Ice Manufacturing Com
pany.” The gentleman is not a storekeeper,
and wanted the ice for household use. He
has been a regular customer
of the old ioe company for
years, and last month wed about
000 pounds of ice. He will doubtless be
come a very active spirit in the new com
pany. Another of tbe incorporators, who
nos been using a ton a day and has been
paying sl2 a ton for it, was" charged S2O a
ton yesterday. A retail grocer ordered 100
pounds of ice this week, and he was charged
ll for it. He took only fifty pounds, paying
50 cents for it.
A deal was on foot yesterday to corner
the output of the Winter plant at a good
round figure, and a $5,003 bond was ten
dered that its entire output would be taken.
It was understood that the offer came from
one of tbe bear men.
It is not believed that there w ill be any
let up In the squeeze for a mouth, by which
time the new plant of the Savannah brew
ery will be able to throw thirty-five tons of
ioe daily on the market to t-eir customers,
the grocers and retail beer dealers, when
there will be a drop in tbe present prices.
Charleston has been having an ice famine,
and the ioe monopoly there has kept the
Drice so high, to quote the Charleston press,
“as to exclude it from general use.” The
scarcity was somewhat relieved day before
yesterday by the arrival of a schooner,
with a cargo of natural k;e, from Maine.
This is probably the last cargo of ice that
will come south, os the Knickerbocker Com
pany of New York is said to have cornered
the Ice crop of Maine, and New York is in
the throes of an ice famine.
The situation is thus outlined by the Cin
cinnati Enquirer of Sunday, by special
telegraphic correspondence: “Tbe’local ice
barons sent discreet agents dowu into Maine
with instructions to buy up all the ice in
sight, especially cargoes which were packed
ready for the Now York market The
scheme worked like a charm, for Bixty
hours thereafter a sight draft passed through
cme of the big Wall street bank* for 10,000
tons of ice at $6 per ton, delivered at Baco,
Me., which the Knickerbocker company
promptly accepted and paid. Orders were
issued to buy freely, and the trust has
secured an option on the entire visible
supply, thus driving out from the Now
York market this important supply and
enabling them to advance the price from
week to week as the hot weather sets in.
Butchers in New York and Brooklyn have
raised the price of meat 2 cents a pound on
beef and 4 cents a pound on lamb and mut
ton. Dealers in bottled milk have given nottoe
to their customers that there is a strong
probability of an advance pf 3 cents a quart
in July, made necessary bji the high price
of ice.’’
DON'T GET LEFT. Shrewd people are buy
ing Rough on Dirt Soap.— Adv.
TO CLOSE ON TH3 FOURTH.
The Wholesale and Retail Merchants
Are Patriotic.
The merchants are circulating a paper
for signatures to an agreement to close
t'aoir stores so that they may themselves
commemorate Independence day and that
their employes may enjoy the holiday and
“properly celebrate the natal day of our
country,” to quote the language of the doc
ument being circulated. Although the
matter was only suggested yesterday, the
proposition was favorably received, and
thus far not a merchant has declined to
sign the agreement. The paper will con -
tiuue to be circulated until all the principal
merchants have been called upon. The fol
lowing signed the agreement yesterday:
Milius & Cos. Jackson, Metzger & Cos.
Crohan & Dooner. L, Fried.
C. Gray & Son. A. Falk’s Sons.
Apple it Schaul. Bennett Hymeg.
A. R. Altmayer & Cos. Butler & Morrissey.
P. Turberdy. A. S. Cohen.
Oollat Bros. F. Gutman.
P. Golden. L. Tlesbouil'.on.
A. S. Nicbols. Sleinhard Bros. & Cos.
Thomas West & Cos. Jos. Rosenheim & Cos.
I. Epstein & Bro. B. H. Levy & Bro.
E. Raines.
The clerks talk of having a basket picnic
at one of the cut of town resorts on the
Fourth if all the stores close, as it now
seems they will be. It will be anew depart
ure, and it is predicted that next year the
merchants and their sales people will unite
in an old-fashioned celebration of the
Fourth of July.
THE ELECTRIC OAR FRANCHISE.
A Syndicate Raid to be Willing to
Pay $50,000 for It.
The city council will have for considera
tion at its meeting this afternoon the appli
cation of the street railroad companies for
the right to put in electric plants with over
head trolleys for operating their cars,
A syndicate, in which are Capt. D. G.
Purse, J. C. Rowland, T. F. Johnson and
others, claims to be willing to pay $50,000
for the exclusive right to use electricity for
motive power on street cars and other
vehicles, and it has sent a letter to council
asking it to fix a price.
It it understood that the council
will not look with favor on such
a proposition. Some of the members
favor granting the petition of the street
railway companies and charging nothing
for the right. Others will seek to have an
annual tax fixed. It is believed that those
who seek to obarge for the right to use
electricity as a motive power are in a mi
moritv.
WEDDED AT BT. PATRICK’S.
Mr. John H. Clarity Marries Miss
Fannie Pickett.
St. Patrick’s church, corner West Broad
and Liberty streets, was well filled at C
o’clock last night to witness the nuptials of
John H. Clarity and Miss Fannie Pickett.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father Quinlan. The groom Is a well
known young gentleman, and is foreman of
Selig’s printing office. The bride is a
daughter of Michael Pickett, and is quite a
charming young lady. She is highly
esteemed by those who know her, and has
a happy disposition and winning ways.
After the ceremony the wedding supper
was had at the residence of the groom’s
mother at South Broad and Jefferson
streets, where the numerous elegant pres
ents to the happy pair were displayed.
Touriste.
Whether cm pleasure bent or business,
should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup
of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effect
ually on the kidneys, liver and bowels,
preventing fevers, headaches and other
forms of sickness. .For sale in 50c. and $1
bottles by all leading druggists. —Adv.
More Honors fbr Steinway.
By Cable to the American Musician.
London, June 19. —Steiuway appointed
piano-makers to the Prince and Princess of
Wales by royal letters patent. C. W.
[lt will be remembered that Steiuway &
Sons were but recently appointed piano
makers to her imperial inaj sty the Queen
of England.—Eos. Amer. Jl/us.j
Solirtluvr’sMusic House, qgpLts.—4cU.
WINDS, LIOHTNINO AND BAIN.
A Lively Storm With a Cyclonic Tem
perament
A stiff northwester visited the city yester
day afternoon about 1 o'clock, accompanied
by an electrical disturbance and a driving
rein. The blow lasted only about ten min
utes. The wind attained a velocity of
forty-two miles an hoar, but fortunately
no serious damage was done, and no fatal
ities were reported.
A few shade trees were blown down,
limbs were wrenched off in many instances,
and looae slating on some of the roofs in the
business quarter was blown off and went
scurrying through the sky with old newt-
Eiper* gatcered up with'cyclonic reach to
ep them company.
TLe large plate-glass window in the door
of Tax Coll ector McGowan’s office was
blown oat on the President street sidewalk
and was smashed into a thousand piece*.
Pedestrians got their eyes full of sand be
fore they could get to oover. It was a fleroe
blow while it lasted. The beat was intense
before the blow.
Signal Observer Whitney says that dur
ing the hight of the storm the wind reached
its extreme velocity of forty-two miles per
hour from the northwest and blew at times
in gusts of still higher velocity. The tem
perature stood at 92" before the beginning
of the storm and fell 14“ in less than twenty
minutes.
The storm was purely local, as no rain
at any cotton region station in the Sa
vannah district, with the exception of a
“trace” at Jesup, was reported.
A peculiar phenomenon,was observed by
Observer Whitney from the roof of the
signal office while the storm was in pro
gress Light discharges of electricity fol
lowing each other in quick euooession were
observed by him passing from tbfe
low hanging clouds to the light
ning conductors on the build
ing and to the network of telephone
wires which surrounds it. These discharges
were unattended by thunder or any noise
other than a peculiar craAkflr.g, such as
would be produced by striking a parlor
match.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 93°. This was only 3° warmer than at
Atlanta, Thomasville and Baiubridge.
Millen was the hottest plane in Georgia, the
mercury mounting to 103*. Eastman came
next with 98”, Jesup with 98*, and Augusta
with 94°, which latter was the maximum at
Charleston, 8. C.
Ttie local forecast of the signal office for
to-day is showers, stationary temperature.
The signal bureau’s local forecasts are
more accurate now than they have ever
been. The forecast for “rain and cooler"
by Observer Whitney, Monday night, was
verified yesterday to the letter. The fore
cast was a difficult one to make, but its
justification proves the care and accuracy
with which it was made.
THB VACATION BILL.
The Poatoffloe Clerks Favor the Bight-
Hoar Law.
The clerks in the postoffloe here are
deeply interested in the fate of the Ketch -
am bill, giving first and second-class pdst
offico clerks eight hours for a day’s work
and giving them fifteen days’ vacation an
nually, such as the mail carriers are
granted. The entire press of New York is
urging tbe passage of the bill as a simple
matter of justice to the clerks They are
required to work all the wav from ten to
fifteen hours and often on Sunday.
The postoffico clerks have petitioned
to Congress to be put ou the si me
plane with carrter* ia the large cities. The
fact that all other government employes
are required to work only eight hours a
day is pressed as a reason why the post
offloe clerks should have fair play, and that
tbe government should not require more of
them than of the employes in the other
branches of the government service.
P. A. 0. Maliey of New York, secretary
of the national association of postoffloe
darks, writes members in this city, urging
that a strong petition be forwarded to con
gress, urging the passage of the vacation
bill. A petition of this character wcuJd
only have to be circulated to be largely
signed, as the people appear to ba in hearty
sympathy with the movement.
PITY BREVITIES.
Capt. Jordan F. Brook* is erecting a
handsome residence on First *treet, between
Abercom and Lincoln streets.
The work on the Molotlre building, at
Congress;and Jefferson strcets,iß progressing
favorably. The window frames have beea
set in the brick walls of the second story.
There were six arrests reported from the
barracks up to 1 o’clock this morning
three whites and three blacks. Two were
for lighting, two for violating city ordi
nances and two for disorderly conduct.
The weekly meeting of the directors of
the Savannah Construction Company yes
terday adjourned for want of a quorum.
Several of the directors are in New York
aud others are at Tvbee entertaining the
lumbermen. The affairs of the South Bound
are getting on finely. *
Mrs. R. Webb and’the teachers of the
Mission Sunday school present grateful
thanks to the president and directors of the
Tvbee railroad and to the other kind
friends through whose liberality the chil
dren and friends enjoyed a delightful day
at Tybee on Saturday.
The mystery has been solved at last! All
scientific men claim microbes are the cause
of all diseaso, aud it has been their work and
study to get a medicine that would kill the
microbes in the human system without in
jury to the patient. This has been accomp
lished by Radam's Microbe Killer, whioti is
a scientific wonder in the medical world.
For Bale by Butler’s Pharmacy. —A dv.
’‘Vets” Thinking of Chattanooga.
The Confederate Veterans’ Association, it
Is learned, will have another informal meet
ing this week to learn what members will
attend the reunion of confederate veterans
at Chattanooga July 3, 4 and 5. It is desire
able that a club of twenty go, so that ad
vantage may be taken or the low rate of
13 70 for each person for the round trip.
Those who desire to attend from this city
or any neighboring town or city should
notify Secretary Cabacits of the Savannah
veterans’ association at once.
The New Artesian Wells.
The contract for boring two artesian
wells on the water works tract has been let
to Thomas Mulligan. Superintendent
Manning says that it ie expected that within
four or five days the work will be well
under way. He added that he wants to
get the wells started on the water works
tract before turning bis attention to the
uew wells to be put down on the Springfield
plantatiou.
MILITARY NOTES.
J. F. LaFar received yesterday twenty
eight new uniforms fay the Effingham Hus
sars.
Companies E and F of the First cavalry
regiment, or Liberty Independent Troop
and Liberty Guards, are fitted out with
new helmets.
TH3 RIVER AND HARBOR.
Happenings Along the Wharves and
Among the Shipping.
Chr. G. Dahl & Cos., cleared yesterday the
Norwegian lark Sigurd Joel, for Rotter
dam, with 1,337 barrels of spirits turpen
tine, measuring 95,402>£ gallons, valued at
$34,600, aud 550 barrels of rosin, weighing
269,365 pounds, valued at *1,193, Total
valuation of cargo *35,793. Cargo by Ray*
mond Judge and S. P. Shotter Cos. *
Get the Best Cotton Gin.
Don’t fail to write to the Brown Cotton
Gin Company, New London, Conn., for
their prices and testimonials of the tbou
euda why tu>Yi4id
LOCAL PJIRsORAi*
R. G. Willy of Adel is at the Screven.
B. M. Dunbar of Beaufort is at the
Screven.
George Kicaol returned from the north
yesterday.
J. EL Hartridge of Jacksonville is located
at the Screven.
W. EL Jones of Waynesboro is registered
at the Screven.
P. M. Adams has gone to Warm Springs,
Va., for his health.
D. EL Cooper of Gainesville, Fla., is regis
tered at the Screven.
Miss Bond left yesterday on the Wm.
Lawrence for Baltimore
C. R. Woods returned from the north
yesterday on the City of Augusta.
M. B. Whitehead of Montgomery, Ala.,
registered at the Screven yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Walker, and Mrs. A.
T. Walker of Augusta are at the Screven.
Miss Appleton is spending a few days at
Hotel Tybee as the guest of Miss Comer.
W. H Chisholm. Jr., Esq., left last night
for a summer tour in the mountains of Ten
nessee.
Capt. J. K. Clark of Dariep returned
from New York yesterday on the City of
Augusta.
The following people from Waynesboro
are at the Pulaski: Mrs. W. H. Wilkins,
Miss Wilkins, Miss Nina Jones and J. L.
Fulcher.
The Morning News has received an
invitation to attend the anniversary ball of
the Beaufort (S. C.) Volunteer Artillery, at
Beaufort Friday evening, June 27.
Frank C. Lovell, of Lovell & Lattimore,
returned yesterday on the City of Augusta,
after a four weeks’ pleasure trip north’
during which he visited New York, Sara
toga, Boston and the mountains.
Maj. J. A. Cro ther, principal of tbe
school for boys, left yesterday on the Will
iam Lawrence for Baltimore. Maj. Crow
ther’s continued ill health has necessitated a
rest, and he will retire from teaching for a
year.
The Alabama editors were evidently well
pleased with their entertainment in Savan
nah during their visit here a week ago.
The Birmingham News, alluding to the re
ception at Tybee, says: ‘Savannah began
entertaining as soon as the city was founded
and it has kept it up ever since. Its people
eclipse the world in the splendors of their
hospitality. Savannah now stands first in
the Alabama editor’s heart, after an Ala
bama city.”
A. L Alexander, law student with Law
ton & Cunningham and son of Gen. EL P.
Alexander, president of the Central rail
road, was admitted to the bar yesterday,
after having passed a highly creditable
examination, which called forth a well de
served compliment from the court. The
committee which examined Mr. Alexander
was composed of Judge A. P. Adams, A.
R Lawton, J., W. G. Charlton, Esq., aud
Solicitor General Fraser.
Wyatt de R. Barclay, Efcq., of Darien is
io the city on his return from Athens, where
he recently graduated in the university law
school. Mr. Barclay is a young man, and
has spent his life in the office of the -Darien
Gazette, working at the case and assisting
generally on that paper. He has also occu
pied the position of deputy clerk of the
Mclntosh superior court. He decided last
year, to finish his law course at the univer
sity and has now his sheep-skin authorising
him to practice. Mr. Barclay is the Dariea
correspondent of the Morning News.
Houston. Tex., Oct. 9,1838.
Messrs. Wallace O’Leary <£ Cos.:
Gentlemen—l have been using the Mi
crobe Killer for malarial fever aud general
debility, aud write you to certify that I am
again strong and healthy, and am satisfied
the Microbe Killer is a sure remedy for
those diseases. R. EL Lewis,
Prop. Capitol Stables.
For sale by Butler’s Pharmacy.— Ado.
SWEET WATER PARK HOTEL.
The Famous Southern Watering Place,
Lithla Springs, Ga., Open May 16.
Superb accommodations for 500 guests. Ele
vation 1,200 feet above sea level, insuring cool
breezes. No malaria, mosquitos, or low grounds.
Tne wonderful Bowden Llthia and Bromine
Lithia Springs waters free to guests. Hot
Springs system of bathing. Seven hundred
feet of wide porches. Table, service, beds and
linen irreproachable. Lovely drives and sail
ing. Elegant ball-room and first-class orches
tra. Only twenty miles from Atlanta, fifty
minutes ride, three trains daily. Every room
lighted by electricity. Park with fountains,
flowers and lawns, and ample shade. sl2 50 to
sls per week. Rooms with bath extra Hand
somely illustrated pamphlet free upon applica
tion, or can be secured from our druggist.
Good livery for driving or saddle. The great
Piedmont Chautauqua, leading educational in
stitution of its kind in the south, adjoining
hotel grounds, open Jnly and August.
Atlv. K. W. Marsh & Cos.. Proprietors.
The Sunday Morning News
Will be found regularly on sale at the fol
lowing places:
Estill’s News Depot,
Conner’s News Stand.
E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryne & Co.’s Drug Store, West
Broad and Waldburg streets.
St. J. K. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Duffy streets.
W. A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall
and Price streets.— Adv.
Why Suffer,
When for 40c dyspepsia, liver and all kid
ney troubles are cured by using the cele
brated Tate Spring Water, which at
Hoidt’s is only 400 gallon. Try it.— Adv.
Traveling gives violent headaches. Brady
cfotine cures it at once.—A dr,
DRY GOO DA.
Grrand
Milner Sale
Of Our Entire Stock of
DRY GOODS,
Notions, Hosiery, Laces,
DRAPE NETS,
EMBROIDERED SKIRTINGS,
And Fine Lockstitched Muslin
Underwear
.A.t Cost!
CBOBAN & DOONER,
137 Broughton St.
WOOD & coal
OP ALL KINDS.
DENIS J. MURPHY,
TELEPHONE 48.
office f, DraytHftgßaeW OiUiftß*’ Bankßußfiing
baking powder.
ps&t
&AKING
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of
strengtn and wholesomeness. More eonniLLi
than the ordinarv kinds, and
competition with the multitude of low , ?
short Weight alum or phosphate powders.
only In cahs. Royal Baxikq Powdsr Cos
Wall street. New York. uo >
LUDDXH <fc BATES 8. M. a.
NOT ONE
NOT HUNDREDS.
BUT THOUSANDS of satisfied
buyers of PIANOS and OR
GANS are the best evidence of
the unequaled instruments, prices
and terms offered by us for twenty
years. When you think of buying
that greatest beautifier of your home
—a good Piano— you will not be
safe without first visiting the ware
rooms of
LUDDEN & BATES S. 1L D.
flTktNixlratt.
The A. J .Hiller Cos.
Mosquito Nets
from $2 50 u
Cedar Olxests
from $lO up.
Cots from $1 50 up.
We guarantee our prices to be lower than
others for the same quality. Don't buy beford
looking at our stock.
Ik A l Miller (A,
FURNITURE,
171 Broughton Street.
DRY GOODS.
“30 Days’ Sale,”
Previous to our Annual
Stock Taking we will sell
at reduced prices.
JACKSON, METZGER’ k CO.
(DASHER’S OLD STAND.)
COAL AND WOOD.'
COAL AND WOOD
OF ALL KINDS AND SIZES PROMPTLY
DELIVERED.
33. IEZ. Th.om.as,
111 Bay St. West Broad St. Wharves.
Telephone No. 69.
DAVIS BROS
TRANSLATION.
DURING my sojourn here I
had frequent opportunies
to make myself acquainted with
the Knabe Pianos, and from full
est conviction I declare them to
be the best instruments of Amer
ica. Should I return here for
artistic purpose* -whioh may be
the case very soon—l shall most
certainly use the pianos of this
celebrated make. I give this
testimonial with pleasure, vol
untarily, and entirely unsolic
ited for by the house of Knabe.
ECGEN IP ALBERT,
New York, May 16, 1590.
DAVIS BROS.,
SOLE AGENTS.
