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The Townsend and 8. T. A. Contro
versy.
Valdosta, Ga., June 17. —Editor
Morning News: In view of the recent
charges preferred against mo in the
(now deceased) Savannah Branch, S. T. A.,
vn: “That I furnished certain information
to railroad attorneys for use at the recent
railroad commission freight rate hearing in
Atlanta, which information was not alone
inimical to the interest of Savaunah’s com
merce, but tended to |tbe destruction of the
influence and usefulness of .Savannah
branch,” I now ask that your
excellent paper will do me
the justice to publish this communication,
containing, as it does, the original letter
received by me in December, 1890, from
Col. S. G. McLendon of Thomasville, and
ray reply to him, which are now published
for the first time. Inasmuch as your paper
contained the fullest accounts of the rocent
proceedings against me, and as you have a
large circulation among the lumber and
naval stores people, the enclosed matter
will prove of interest, as it will show what
sort of “detrimental information” I gave
Col. McLendon.
It is hardly necessary for me to point out
that my letter, so'far from being prejudiced
to the lumber and naval stores industries,
was iu tact a strong argumont in their
favor in the matter at issue. I kept no
copy of the letter when written, and had no
idea of What was wanted with the informa
tion. I ouly secured possession of the said
letter last Saturday night, or it would cer
tainly have been published sooner.
I did not give ’ Col. McLendon any au
thority to quote or use my name in any
manner whatsoever before the Georgia Rail
road Commission, and I regret that be did
so. 1 also regret to find that he made a
serious mistake in quoting me as stating*
that the 30,900 acres or turpentine land
swept over by forest fires are "destroyed
for milling purposes.” 1 said no such thing,
as there is a great deal of difference be
tween "20,000 acres of turpentine boxes an
nually ruined” and (the same) “30,000 acres
of land destroyed for milling purposes.”
C. B. Townsend.
lixtract from S. G. McLendon’s argument
before railroad commission. in favor of
higher rates on lumber and naval stores:
When l say that turpentining injures the lum
ber and the land, 1 have gone no farther than the
first letter of the alphabet. When I say that fire
follows the turpentluemaD, alroost as the night
follows the the day, and that fire destroys and
puts a stop to the reproductive capacity of our
forests, I present a fact which is appalling to
all who will stop to consider consequences.
Mr. C. B Townsend, who represents the
Standard Oil Company, and who travels exten
sively through the turpentine regions, informs
me that there are now in use for turpentine
purposes 1,000,000 acres of land. The Georgia
legislature, which I have just put upon the wit
ness stand, say that 4,869,827 acres of land have
been boxed for turpentine purposes, of course
including that now in use.
Mr. C.B. Townsend states that, in his opinion,
at least 20,000 acres of land, per annum are de
stroyed by fires that sweep over lands in actual
use; that it to say, that 2 per cent, of the land
in use by turpentine men, notwithstanding their
watchfulness and care, is destroyed for milling
Purposes by fire every year. If this land con
tains 3,000 feet of lumber per acre then 60,000,-
M 0 feet of lumber has been destroyed during
this year.
Thomasyili.e, Ga., Dec. 19,1890.
Dear Townsend:
You travel through the turpentine region
more than any man in Georgia and you are a
close observer. How many acres of land do you
think were, or rather have been, fire swept in
the pine region during the current year? I will
be greatly obliged if you will be kind enough to
give me an esti mate. How many acres of tur
pentined land have been swept over by fire this
iear? Yours truly, S. G. McLendon.
Standard Oil Company op Kentucky, !
_ , Valdosta, Qa„ Dec. 22,1890. f
Col. S. Q. McLendon, Thomasville, Ga.:
dear OoLONkL— Yours of 19th inst. duly to
hand and contents are carefully noted. Your
inquiry is a hard one to answer, as information
Is usually withheld by turpentine operators
whenever they get any of their boxes burnt.
I am inclined to think, however, that trie area
of boxed timber sweet over by fire grows
smaller every year, owing to the increasing
Precautions now taken by the owners or lesse.-s,
10 aeep out the fire. The heavily increased
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In connection with above Sale, our Line of EXTRA-THIN
GOODS, such as ALPACAS, SICILIANS, PONJEES,
&c., at your service at 25 per cent Discount for the
THREE DAYS.
value of turpentine timber, together with the
fact that about 80 per cent, of the boxes now
cut in Goorgia are on trees whioh are sold ior
engaged) to neighboring saw mills, causes the
turpentine and lumbermen to use extra care to
prevent fires. Another thing, as you know,
there has been some county legislation passed
by different legislatures of late years, making it
a misdemeanor to burn woods except at a
stated period of the year. There was a convic
tion in Scrlven county under one of these acts
about throe years ago.
But I presume you would like some
thing in the shape of an esti
mate, large or small, for statistical
purposes I would therefore say that in my
judgment about 2 per cent, of the turpentine
or boxed land is annually swept with destruc
tive fires. Of course you know that it is the cus
tom of the turpentine men to ‘‘burn off” their
woods every year. This is done after the trees
have been "raked around.” and then the fire is
put out by the operator among the trees, and
only burns off the grass and broomsedge and
Sine straw, and seldom reaches a turpentine
ox. It is usual, moreover, to watch these
fires carefully. My estimate applies to fires
which get out unawares to the owners of the
timber.
According to an estimate made by me for the
Constitution (in March last), there were 300 tur
pentine stills in Georgia, with an average of
3.200 acres of timber land in operation to each
stilL That would mean about 1,000,000 acres
actually In use by turpentine men last March.
Therefore, if my estimate of 2 per cent, for
’burnt" or destroyed timber is correct, we
would find about 20,000 acres of turpentine
boxes annually ruined, and I am satisfied it will
not exceed that figure. But of course fires
sweep over and devastate annually more than
that number of acres of timber which has been
boxed and "worked out.” Yours truly,
C. B. Townsend.
Hartridge’s Suit Against Kessler & Cos.
New York, June 15.— Editor Morning
News: We have been furnished with
a copy of an article published iu
Tour paper under date of Tuesday,
June 2, purporting to contain a statement
of Mr. A. L. Hartridge’s alleged transao
tions with our firm in connection with the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad
Company. The statements contained in
that article, in so for as they
concern the relations of Mr. Hartridge and
the firm of Kessler & Cos., are false in every
particular. It is true that Mr. Hartridge
has brought suit against our firm, and it
will be time enough to discuss the facts at
issue therein when the same comes up for
trial.
We should be obliged if you would give
this note as prominent a place in your paper
as you gave to the article above referred to.
Kessler & Cos.
[The statements published in the Morn
ing News were obtained from the com
plaint of Maj. Hartridge, filed in his suit
against Kessler & Co.]
LOST HIS SAFETY VALVE.
How the Death of a Frofane Parrot
Affected One Churchman.
From the Hew York Recorder.
He sat on the stringpiece of a wharf on
the East river front with his back to a
moored canal boat.
He was melancholy. His thin, yellow
side whiskers drooped idly along his yellow
face. There was a dog fight going on up
the dock, but even to that he paid no atten
tion. A canal man who won’t suspend even
a business enterprise to look at a dog fight
is nothing short of a phenomenon. So the
oanal boat reporter determined to ask the
melancholy man if he was in any trouble.
“Trouble?” responded the man on the
string piece; “trouble, young man, ain’t the
word. It’s more’n trouble. It’s mebbe the
upsettin’ of a leader in the church. It’s
mebbs the uprisin' of the powers of wicked
ness. It’s mebbe the downfall of the right
eous. That’s w’at it is! Trouble! Why,
trouble ain’t a circumstance. In other
words, young man, this here person you see
before you hez lost his safety valve, an’ that
settles it.
"Young man,” he continued, “mebbeyou
be a theologin?’
The reporter disclaimed any pretensions
in that direction.
“You ben’tT’ said the melancholy one;
"well, then, mebbe you can't kinder grasp
the value of a safety valve like w’at I had.
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Well, you sea In me a regler out-an’-out
hold-fast Christian; not one of ttiern th-o
logins, but for more’n a dozen years I’ve bin
a church leader up in the Black River
country, an’ most of the time I’ve been a
deacon in purty good standin’.
“Now, I wuzn’t always that way. Time
wuz before I jined the church when I wuz a
purty tough nut. People along the line
use’ter say that I could outcuss any other
roan from Cohoes to Buffalo, an’ that’s
sayin’a good deal. Now, ’tain’t for rna, a
Christian man, to boast of such a thing
now, but 1 kin say that I could cuss along
with the next man. But w’en I asked
Marthy—she’s in the cabin now—to hltoh
up with me she said that if I wanted her to
hitch up with me I’d have to give up cussin’
an’ jine the churoh. As I wanted her I did
w’at she said.
"Now,young man, a mancan’t change him
self all to once. I meant to give up cussin’
an did w’at I could to. But it wus hard
work. I got along fust rate for a few weeks
and then fust thing I’d strike a snag and
break loose. Then Marthy she’d report mo
to the church, an’ fust time I wuz up that
way they’d try me! I wuz reported so often
that when I’d lay up on’ go home for the
winter the church’d be kept busy till spring
tryln’ me an’ prayin’ with me an’ kinder
straightenin’ of me up. That went on for
more’n two years an’ I must have been tried
more’n forty times, an’ wuz gettin’ tired of
it. Then somethin’ happened that changed
the whole business.
“I wuz sittin’ jest about where I am now
one Dight, thinkin’ the whole thing over,
when along comes a peddler an’ wants to
sell me a parrot. Well, I dickers with him,
an’ finally buys ft for $5. He wuz a big
gray feller, an’ seemed a quiet, decent sort
of a bird. I used to let him out on deck on
sunny days, with a string tied to his leg.
Well, it wuzn’t long before somethin’ hap
pened, an’ I broke loose as usual. When I
started thet parrot look 9 at me. Then he
begins to ruffle up his feathers an’ swear.
Marthy she came runnin’ up on deck to see
w’at the row wuz, and she finds us at it
like two pirates, but that air parrot wuz a
beatin’ me at every jump. He’d swear in
English and then he’d turn on some other
language, but there wuzn’t no mistakin’ his
meanin’, anyway. I just give it up, an’
when he saw I was beat out he gave a kind
of a satisfied croak an’ went to sleep.
“Marthy, she Baid he was the devil an’
wanted to throw him overboard. But I
wouldn’t have it. for I wuz tryin’ to think
somethin’ out. Well, young man, I made a
study of that parrot. I found if he heard
any one cuss he’d outcuss him. If you
poke 1 him with a stick he’d cuss; but it you
fet him alone he acted like a church mem
ber. Then I got an idea. It strikes me,
‘Why not have this parrot do the cussin’
for you an’ that’ll keep your church standin’
all right? ’Twuz only that day that I had
aohancetotry this plan on. I got In a
row at one of the looks an’ felt like oussin’
my best. But I didn’t. I jest poked ‘Jim’—
that was the parrot—with a stick an’ he
opened. Young man, he did some of the
prettiest oussin’ I ever heard. He jest set
the men on the other boats crazy.
“So that experyment wuz a success.
There wa’n’t any more need for me to
swear. Jim could attend to that. In less’n
a week every one along the canal knew that
I had a parrot that could cuss the roof off n
a court house. Then Marthy she goes an’
reports me to the church fer bein’ in league
with the devil—Jim bein’the devil. So first
time I gees home they puts me on trial an’
starts in to investigate me an’ Jim. That
air trial wuz as big a thing up there as this
here Dr. Briggs case, an’ the meetin’ bouse
wuz crowded that day. I took Jim with
me. Well, 1 wuz asked w’at I had to say
about the charge agin me.
“ ‘Ef you mean this here parrot,’ sez I,
‘he kin speak for himself,’ an’ then I jabs
Jim a little with a pin an’ he lets out. He
ontdone anythin’ I’d ever heard him do.
The minister nearly went into a fit an’ the
sisters into hysterics, an’ I wuz a bit scared
before Jim stopped. Then I wuz asked bow
I could purtend to be a Christian an’ a
church member an’ keep a oussin’ parrot
like Jim on my boat. I knew I wuz in fer
it then, but I jest thought I’d make a sort
of a fight for Jim's sake as well as my own,
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so I gets up au’ I sez, as near as I kin re
member:
“ ‘Brethren an’ sisters—As fbt this parrot
bein’ able to cuss, you’ve heard him, an’ I
needn’t say anythiu’. But it’s jest this way:
W’en I git mad I’ve either got to cuss or git
someone to do it for me. Now I’m a
Christian, and I’ve got a soul, an’ if 1 cuss
I’m in danger of losin' it. If I git another
Christian to do It far me, what then? Now
I gits Jira here to do the cussin’ for me.
Jim ain’t no Christian, an’ won’t be one.
He ain't got ne soul, an’ can’t get one. Now
w’ats the case? If I let Jim go I’ll drift
baok into sin agin. If I keep Jim he’ll keep
me from backslidin’, so instead of beiugSas
devil, Jim is helpin’ me to be a Christian
an’ a church member. Brethren, I leave
that case with you, an' I ax you them ques
tions.’
“Well, young man, them churoh leaders
wuz kinder puzzled. For a long time no one
said anythin’, but finally one ot the brethren
be got up an’ he sez:
“Brethren, there’s some questions tbat.it
seems to me no theo-10-gin kin settle off
band. It seems to nje tnat this is one of
them, so I move that we jest let this ftdse
stand as it is, an’ let it drop.’
“Well, do you know youug man they je6t
concluded to do that very thing. That wuz
ten years ago. an’ for all that time Jim dirt
my cussin’ an”! walked in the narrow path
an’ wuz a good church member, wuz never
tried no more an’ riz to be a deacon iu good
standin’. Jim he wuz my safety valve all
that time. When I felt like break in 1 out
Jim he'd do it for me, an’ he got to know
me so well that I didn’t hare to let him
know either. Even Marthy got to like lum,
for he got so after a while that he never
cussed except to save me.
“Well, young man, Jim’s dead. He’ll
never cuss again. Ha kinder piued away.
He didn’t seem to want to go, tor ha knew I
needed him. But he died to-day an’ I sunk
him in the river with an iron weight tied to
him. So you know what I mern w’en I say
I’ve lost my safety valve. Couldn’t I get
another parrot? Yes, I might get a com
mon, ordinary parrot, hut no Jim. There
ain’t none to be found like Jiui. So, as I
say, my safety valve is gone an’ there’s
trouble ahead. I shall breaa out befoie 1
get to Albany, I know I shall. Then w’at.
becomes of the solid church member an’ the
deacon in good standing? That’s w’at I
want to know.”
* ‘No,” said the old man mournfully, ris
ing from where ho sat, "I know jest w’at
will happen. If, some time from now, you
should hear of a prominent deacon au’
church member an’ all that up ray way
bein’ read out of the religious o’ummunity
for evil habits, you’ll know who it was. But
you cau’t know w’at it is to have a perfect
safety valve and lose it. No, sir, you can’t,"
and sighing heavily, he stepped on his boat
and disappeared below in the cabin.
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