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FOR BUSINESS.
We are emphatically the children’s
friend. We study their tastes as
■well as their necessities, and we
originate the styles that suit them.
OUR
Children’s Suits
arc of the newest and most attractive
shapes,of the most appropriate mater
ial, and the handsomest trimmed to
be found anywhere.
THIS FALL'S STYLES
are supassingly lovely and we have
the
Loveliest Selections yet Produced.
IHB COMING PLAY3.
The Spectacular to be the Go ThU
Week.
Th theater will ba open three nights this
week wi'.h a Saturday matinee. The at
tractions are:
Thursday Night—“Kajanka.”
Friday and Saturday Nights and Satur
day Matinee—“At the Bottom of the Sea.”
"Kajauka” is the spectacular production
which accomplished such a successful run in
Jiew York last season, and will be seen for
the first ume in Savannah. Manager John
son witnessed a presentation of this play
north, and he regards it one of the Quest
spectacular put on the stage.
The great Havel, of Hanlon fame, is the
clows, and the prodigy, little Mlle.'Rertoto,
in her lightning cnanges is another at
traction.
“The Bottom of tha 3ea.”
Anew spectacular play of somewhat novel
materials will be produced Friday and Sat
urday and at a Saturday matinee for the
first time here. It is entitled “The Bottom
°t the Sea,” and is an adaptation by W. A.
Brady from the French of "Le Fond de la
Mer," which was presented in Paris several
years ago, and had a long run in the gay
capital at the Porte St. Martin.
The events center about the laying of a
’'"st India caole by a young French engi
neer, assisted by an American engineer.
Both love the tormer’s cousin, aud this
wads to trouble. A rascally Greek tries to
kill tho French engineer at the bottom of
the sea, and tho American engineer is
arrested for the murder. The supposed
dead man, however, turns up alive and
saves the accused man. Tho Greek is killed
in attempting to escape and all ends hap
pily. The play has received excellent
notices.
KAIL AND CROS3Tia\
On and after to-morrow Charleston and
Savannah railway train No. 36 will leave
Savannah at 8:05 a. m. instead of 7:40a. m.
as heretofore. Train No. 15 will arrive in
Savannah at 12:23 p. m. instead of 11:30 a.
m. as heretofore.
The contract between the Richmond and
Danville, and the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis, by which the f. r.ner is to
pay the latter }35,000 per annum for the
use of the union depot in Atlanta has been
signed. All that remains to be done before
the East Tennessee goes into the depot is
for the officials of that road to agree with
the officials of the Richm >nd and iianville
uto the amount of rental to he paid per
annum by the East Tennessee for the use
w the depot. There will be but little
Jrouble in doing this, as the *25,000 is to be
ojvued between only three roads —the
Richmond and Danville, Georgia Pacific
East Tennessee.
The separate-car laws of some of the
itbern states have been much debated. In
't&s it appears that white people are the
bt to complain. A colored passenger, who
Wared the law an infringement of the in-
act, was upheld by the commission,
(locument recently issued by the civil
suts committee of Minnesota sava: At a
estmgofibe A fro-Americau citizens of
held in St. Paul Aug. 24, 1891,
I 'nnnesota civil rights committee was
' Wfd for the purpose of devising means
|L te3t ing the constitutionality of the
gwate-coach acis passed by the
°f Tennessee. Texas, Louisiana
i-s*r ;:,slSß ippi. The committee was in
-nth full power to act. It has de
oT* 1 , ■ r Hie purpose of umkiug a to
s? ! ase of a delegate
■so. at ‘ . ul to “ convention of the Afro-
Aniii* 11 : '. ,atue elc * at Knoxville, Teuu.,
dum, ’ ta is year, wherein Ha*dy, having
t a first-class ticket from St. I’uul
tu.j- xv, lleand return, was. upon coming
to the accommodations
eoniJ” 1 **is contract wim the railroal
-a u eat * o9<l him. Ho ws forcibly
p,.j Iru m the ‘whit* coach’ aid oom
p, U ' r: do another a-d inferior
pvopi I* 1 “Wtft exclusively for 'colored
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We draw aside the curtain and reveal to Georgians the MOST SUPERB STOCK of wearing apparel for Men,
Boys’and Children ever gathered together by f// / a Southern house. Our skilled buyers have
been busy for months, with a silver sickle in their hands, reaping a harvest of the choicest
offerings of the world’s best markets, and 'Ga their stupendous purchases now fill every
nook and corner of our immense establishment, ready for the inspection of the critical public.
FINE
FURNISHINGS.
We have succeeded in making our
GENTrt’ FURNISHING GOODS
DEPARTMENT one of the
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of our business, and we can boast of
having the most complete line of
these goods that has ever been ex
hibited in this city.
NECKWEAR
in every style and variety.
OUR 40c LINE
of Tecks and Four-in-Hands are
equal to any 75 cent line
ever offered.
UNDERWEAR
and HOSIERY
"ARE OUR HOBBVS.”
We are showing an Immense Variety
of Styles to select from.
PRESS SHIRTS,
Wilson Bros. Celebrated Chicago
White Shirts, the finest fitting shirts
in the world. Any size, all sleeve
lengths.
Look out for OUR REGULAR FORMAL
OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT and
SOUVENIR DAY.
The statistician of the interstate com
merce commission says: There are about
30,003 locomotives ia the United States, of
which one-half are used in hauling freight
trains. It is estimated that these iron
horses cost 5450,000,0J0. There are 1,109,000
cars of all kinds, of which 20,000 are passen
ger cars aud the remainder freight or serv
ice cars. The former cars co3t about $250,-
000,000 and the latter 8800,000,000, or an ap
pro xlmatfc cost of rolling stock of SI ,500,-
000,000. To every five miles of railroad in
the United States there is a locomotive; to
every mile of road there are six freight cars,
to everys% miles thoreis a passenger car.
Each year 'a freight engine hauls 33,000
tons of load; each year a passenger engine
pulls 60,000 passengers. The railways of
the United States employ 750,000 persons.
It is estimated that the railway interest
provides a living for 3,000,000 in this coun
try or nearly ouo-twoutieth of tho popula
tion.
A recent article in the Timas of Loudon
commenting on the proposed Pan-Ameri
can railway has attracted much attention.
The Times regards the scheme as part of a
pew continental policy of the United States.
Tho Times remarks: “The railroad, when
completed, would have to compete with t be
great waterways on either side of the conti
nent from Buenos Ayres to New York and
from Valparaiso to San Francisco. The
existing means of transit are simoler and
cheaper than they could ever be made on a
rail route.” The Me rican Financier adds:
“The Brazilians and the Argentines, or the
Chileans and Peruvians are not going to
send freight by rail to the United States so
long as steamship lines exist; nor, on the
other hand, a'O the manufact
urers of the United States likely to employ
a moans of transportation vastly more
costly, for such extremely great distances,
than ocean steamers. How tne Pan-Ameri
can railway is over going to earn dividends
mud be left to be discovered b 7 men wiser
than ordinary mortals. The capitalists of
the United States have not sufficient sur
plus money for so gigantic an undertaking,
and, if they wont in for it, wou and have to
go to Europe to secure it. And it is not
probable that the Europeans would supply
the funds for so chimerical an uadertaklng.
A Pan-American railway may come some
dav through the gradual building of local
lines, but it will be when Central America,
by the growth of its population, requires
railways, and when Col >mbia, Ecuador,
Peru, Chile, ate., are joiued by railways
built because of their usefulness locally.
The •Thunderer’must have had a terrible
nightmare to have employed three c lunins
of its space in attacking the Pan-American
railway. _ _
MR. BBNNITT’S STATEMENT
Relative to the Affaire of Hoadley &
Bennitt.
Savannah, Ot. Oct. 2.— Editor Morn,
ing News: 1 refer you to your edition of
Wednesday in regard to the announcement
of the closing of Hoadley & Bennitt, in
which’, ou state that Hoad’ey & Bennitt
were closed and that I withdrew Monday
las:. Please correct same, i make you a
correct statement as follows, which please
publishes such: I withdrew by mutual
agreement from the firm of Hoadley*; 1 en
nitt last Thursday, Sept. 24, KM. Hoadley
assuming all liabilities of said firm. Al
though ha assumed the liabilities in
order to protect the only note of the
firm (*1,500), I insisted oa mortgaging stock
for that amount to the Farmers and Mer
chants’ Bank, Albany, N. a nd., w *o held
same. After Thursday last I was in n >
way connected with the business as it was
then iu the hands of F. W. Iload.ey and l
was F. W. H adiev who closed on account
of mortgages—not Hoadley & Bennitt—•
forbad 1 remained a partner ucb would
not have happened. I wish it stated thatl
was in no way connected with the bust.ion
at the lime of its closing nor have 1 any
thing wi.asevor to do with same.
Ziba Bennitt.
He - Shall wo try the tricycio or buggy this
mornmr. Laura? . ...
Slut—Either, ileorge. I'm yours lor wheel or
for who*.— ChiajJ Tribune.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
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HBBMir OF NEWPOi.iT.
An EccantricOld Bachelor Passes Out
of Existence.
From the New York Herald.
Newport, R. 1., Oct. I.—A very re
markable man die! here to-day, a man who
was enormously rich and related to half the
great families of New York, but who was
so parsimouious in life, so secretive in hab
its, as to have earned the title of "The Her
mit” of Newport.
Edmund H. Sehermerhorn, son of the
late Peter Sehermerhorn of New York,
died at liis cottage on Narragansett avenue
this afternoon. He was 74 years old, a na
tive of New York, where he is u very large
real estate holder, and was never mar
ried. Ho leaves one brother William
C. Sehermerhorn. Deceased, who was a
cousin of Mrs. William A-tor, belongs to
one of the oldest and best known families
of New York, and be leaves a fortune of at
least $10,030,000. He has been a cotton
owner at Newport for twenty years, and for
the past eight years he has resided here, all
the year round.
He had no love for society and he dreaded
sociability so much that ho had his front
gates locked, and during all his illness his
physician was obliged to drive up Ward
avenue and enter the grounds by a back
gate. Even the brother of the deceased was
obliged to frequent back doofs. He was a
veritab e recluse and was known as "The
Hermit” of Newport. For several years he
has never left the confines of his estate. His
illness dates back to last winter, when be
was a victim of the grip, but he recovered
and his death was a surprise to everybody.
HIS WILL.
He was very kind to his servants, six in
number, and it is understood that they will
all be substantially remembered in his will,
the details of which will be awaited by the
relatives of the deceased with peculiar
interest, and it is not improbable that there
will boa contest, owing, it is said, to his
ra’her eccentric and peculiar habits.
To the children of his private secretary,
W. L. Northrup, he gave a handsome house
and lot a few months ago, and he saw that
the details were carried out to the letter,
lie aiso gave Mr. Northrup a cemetery lot
with costly vaults, and it is understood that
he has also remembered Mr. Northrup in his
wil
A few years ago he gave a large burial
site in the Island cemetery for the burial of
members of the local graQd army posts and
of ail sailors and soldiers who served in the
war and might be buried in the potter’s
field. He proposed to erect upon this site a
costlv monument. For reasons best known
to himself Mr. Schermerhorn changed his
mind, and only gave one-third of the lot for
the purpose intended, and also declined to
erect the monument. The veterans felt
grieved and disappointed, but never moved
him.
ALONE.
Not a person save the doctor and under
taker had called at the cottage up to a late
hour to-night, and even if they had they
could not have gained admittance, even to
the lawn.
A 5-foot fence on Narragansett avenue
had to be scaled in order to get the particu
lars of the death of one of the former fore
most citizens of New York, and one whose
death will bring up memories of by-goDe
days. No arrangements for the funeral
will be made until the arrival of the brother
of the deceased from Lenox to-mor
row morning. Mr. Sciierrnerhoru started
for Newport this evening.
It is supposed that the funeral will be
strictly private and that it will take place
on Sunday. The remains will be taken to
New York, probably Sunday night, via
Fall River line, and interred in the family
ground at Greenwood cemetery.
FORGOTTEN IN NEW YORK.
A few old. vary old, New Yorkers will
lift their oyeb.ows when tbev read of tue
doatU at Newport cf Edmund H. Hcheriner
horn. He was a man who bad almost com
pletely passed out of the memory of the
present generation.
Strangers in New York ask wbat t the
meaning of the great dwelling hones that
WE DESIRE
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to draw you¥ attention fo
....OUR---.
ONE PRICE
SYSTEM.
Every article in our house is marked
in perfectly
PLAIN FIGURES
and these figures guaranteed as low
the lowest for first-class goods.
We give a receipt with every sale,
and in each and every instance where
your purchase is not satisfactory,
return your receipt with the merchan
dise aud we will
REFUND YOUR MONEY,
Ask your neighbor or friends if we
| have not lived up to this rule.
What we tell you you may rely
upon ; we are here to stay and we
want your patronage, not for once
but for all time.
"Savannah Ga.
occupies the middle of the block on the
north side of Twenty-third street, between
Fifth and Sixth avenues. With its great
facade and porte cochare there is no other
house in town like it. It was there that iu
bygono days Edmund Sehermerhorn used
to dispense a hospitality that was unequalled.
He had music rooms and organs and or
chestras and artists to satisfy a taste that
was totally artistic.
There are all sorts of stories ns to why he
never married, the most of them too old and
musty to be brought to life now.
His brother, William C. Sehermerhorn,
who occupies the big house next door, is tho
deceased’s only near relative, and if the oc
centrio old bachelor died in the belief that
blood is thicker than water bis nieces—Mrs.
Bridgham, Mrs John Kane and Miss
Soherraorhorn —should benefit largely by
his will.
“COL. SELLERS? AH I”
Bogus Promoters Who See “Millions
In It.”
From the New York Morning Journal.
“When it comes to floatlug big schemes
on nothing that stout little man with the
gray side whiskers can give Col. Mulberry
Sellers points.”
The speaker was the house detective of
one of New York’s most expensive uptown
hotels, aud the stout little man referred to
was one of America’s most expert and suc
cessful “promoters."
He was dressed In the bight of Jfashion
and in faultless taste, except that he wore
a profusion of showy jewelry, including
what appeared to be a diamond of large
size which was ostenta iously displayed in
the expansive bosom*of a shirt of dazzling
whiteness. Sitting opposite him at the
little table in a corner of the cafe in an at
titude of deep attention to what his com
panion was saying was a tail full-bearded
man who was a fair type of the prosperous
western merchant.
The promoter illustrated his discourse
with blank stock certificates, prospectuses
aud other documents which he drew from
his capacious inside pocket, all of which the
intended victim perused with evident inter
est. Several pint bottles of champagne
were consumed during the hour that the
couple were together, and it was only when
the merenant had become sufficiently mel
lowed by the drink to Hue his usual discre
tion that the wily promoter began to mow
bis hand.
Although he had done the most of the
ordering he had made no move toward pay
ing for anything. With a seemingly preoc
cupied air he arranged the accumulated bar
checks into a neat little pile, which he
slipped under a napkin and pushed over di
rectly in front of the half-boozy merchant.
Then with a quick look at his watch,
which he closed with a business-like snap,
the promoter arose, and with a parsing re
minder of the engageine: t at 12 tho next
day, shook the victim warmly by the hand
and hurried away.
‘These‘promoters’are all under police
surveillance,” he said, "bet there is no use
arreetmg them until specific oases of fraud
could be proved agaiust them.
“Why, I know one fellow who used to
come in here,” said Detective Jacobs of the
Hoffman house, “who must have made a
comfortable fertuno selling |harss to out of
town people in ‘a company for the recovery
of sunken treasure,' as he called it.
“That was onlv the prologue of tbe
drama.” said the detective to tha Journal
reporter. The promoter had merely been
trying to impras the merchant, whoao
name be had learned from the hotel register,
with his own business importance, and
would await a better opportunity before
getting bis s guHuro to an < rder for stock
iu some dea l and alive "business” enter
prise, or miuc.
“ This follow L'U-rcw lec >ngb in 10-op to
tbe windy side ql the law," the detective
wnt ou, “but Uteri are a lot U thorn who
wilt land behind tbe burs sooner or later
for obtaining fain* pi elenaes."
The idea was w fit but a piling vessel
fully manned with Msolute mo* w bo should
visit tbe Spots wiisr*- tre*ui§ laden Ships
wore k.iowu to have gone down, and by tbe
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aid of divers raise tbe sunken millions and
make off with them. When the vessel had
become filled with Spanish doubloons and
bars of virgin gold tho expedition was to
return and then the fortunate shareholders
were to divide the proceeds and live in
luxurious ease ever afterward.
The shares were put at SIOO each, but
when necessary the promoter would take
the responsibility of reducing this price to
any oxtont that the exigencies of the cate
might make necessary.
In his"apr.ments,”as he called the room
he occupied on a side slreot just off Fifth
avenue, tbe promoter kept tne preoious
charts on which were marked the exact
locality of one treasure-laden wrocks that
lay rotting at the bottom of the sea, waiting
for somebody to come along and relieve
them of their golden cargoes.
“It was through one of his victims who
stopped hero that I first learned the fellow’s
little game,” said the detective, “and the
□ ext time be came in I gave him a hint that
that was so emphatic that he has never
dared show his face around here since.”
“Another fellow, wh ) had his office In bli
bat, made a heroic effort to launch u;on
tho unsuspecting public sharei in ‘a com
pany for the manufacture of patent pie
crusts.’
“Tnis scheme was to start simultaneously
in the different cities immense factories,
where tbe crusts were to be made at a
ridiculously small price. The main factory
was to be located in Boston, of course, as
the demand there and in the surrounding
territory would naturally be greater than
elsewhere. Figuring ou a basis of 50,000,030
of people in the United States who were
able to eat pios, the promoter declar 'd that
with tbe low average estimate of a pie a
week for each person, the company would
have a yearly market for 2.600,030,000 of
pie crusts,
“The low price offered would soon give
the company a monopoly,” he argued, "and
at a net profit of even half a cent each the
stockholders would bo a T de to divide aunu
allv a sum equal to the income of the Czar
of Russia.
"A catchy feature of tbe scheme was that
each top crust was to bear the likeness of
one of America’s leading statesmen.
"Local sentiment was, of comae, to be
carefully considered, and while northerners
were revelling in Blaine and Harrison
pastry, their southern brothers could he
gorging themselves on tho counterpart pre
sentments of Arthur P. Gorman and John
G. Carlisle.”
“Most of these so-called promoters are
more or less harmless cranks,” sad In
spector Bvnes, “but those i have under sur
veillance are as shrewd a lot of rascals
as I have ever been called upon to deal
witn."
SHOT HIS FATHE7 DEAD.
A Family Quarrel Over Children the
Cause of the Ingedy.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 3.—Joseph Mimms, a
well-to-do and highly respected citizen of
Fairburn, twenty miles from here, was
shot and killed by his eldest son, St. John
Mimms, this afternoon. A family quarrel
was the cause of the tragedy. Tbe son was
abusing some of tbe younger children when
bis father entered and interfered. In a fit
of passion tbe young man, who is married,
drew a pistol and tired tte parr.cidal shot.
He was arrested and is now in jail.
Its Excellent Qua-lltee
Commend to public approval the California
liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. It is
pleasing to tbe eye, and to the taste and by
geutly acting on tbe kidneys, liver and bow
els, it cleanses tbe system effectually, there
by promoting the health and comfort of all
who use it. — Ad.
All Esquimaux sre superstitious about death,
and although they bold festivals ia memory of
departed friends they will usatlly carry a dying
[*raon to some eraudono I but, iberu u> drag
out bis remaining .lay. without food, medicine,
water or attendance After the death ot a huv
laiod or wife the survivor cuts the front hair
1 short aud fast, tor twenty five day*
“THE FIRST WEALTH
IS HEALTH.”
Emerson.
The indisputably, pernicious effects
upon health, due to the material and
form of ordinary elothiug of the
present day, were hardlv suspected
until
DR. GUSTAV JEAGER
Of Stuttgart,
began to publish the results of his
investigation ou the subject. The
fact is, however, now established and
the
JEAGER’S
T TO lil
is recognized as the best material for
the protection against cold, heat and
dampness, with the least obstruction
to the body’s exhalations.
ASK YOUR DOCTOR
about these goods. He will tell you
that they are the greatest boon to
humanity; that they afford great
protection to those exposed to the
weather and diseases of all kinds.
We keep a full line of these cele
brated goods 1n Ladles’ Gentlemen’s
and Children's Underwear. A
competent
SALESLADY
has charge of this department and
will take pleasure in showing goods.
Look out for OUR REGULAR FORMAL
OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT and .
SOUVENIR DAY.
FURNITURE and carpets.
the: RELIABLE
fiture and Carpet lose
oif 1 S-^^^nsrisr-^zEi.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ
125 and J 27 Broughton Street
Begs to announce that His lew Fall
Stock of
FDBNITIIM AND CiRTETS
Has arrived. Great Care has been exercised in the selec
tion of our Fall Stock; and as we have the exclusive
handling of different lines of the leading raanu
• facturers of the country we are enabled
to show designs and styles that can.
not be found elsewhere in this citj’.
WE ARE THE LEADERS
Of the latest styles and lowest prices, and in our warerooms
will be found the largest display and choicest selection of
Furniture and Carpets to be found in the state. We are
agents for the celebrated John Crosley <k Sons Wilton Vel
vet Carpets of Halifax, England. Bedroom Suits, Parlor
Suits, Dinning-room Suits, Library Suits, Carpets, Mattings,
Oilcloths, Shades, Portieres, Hugs, Crumb-cloths, etc., in
endless variety.
Those who contemplate furnishing their homes we es
pecially invite to examine our Stoclc and compare our
prices, as they will find it to their interest ao to do before
placing their orders elsewhere.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ,
125 and 127 Broughton Street.
FIRE SALE.
Kire Sale! Fire Bale!
STILL CONTINUES AT
154 r and. 156 Broughton Street.
The Clothing Sale to commence Thursday, October Ist.
COHEN & CO.
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OUR LINE OF
MEN S SUITS
is complete in every detail,
embracing all the
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OF THE SEASON,
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