Georgia Historic Newspapers

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KILLED IX AN ELEVATOR
BLAXCaO*S TRAGIC! DEATH IN THE
ODD FELLOWS’ BUILDING.
Fell Forty Feet Through the Shaft.
Hie Body Found on the Top of the
Car Where It Had Lain Over Twenty
Hours— 'opposed to Have Mistaken
the Elevator Door and Stumbled to
Hie Death Alone Sunday Night—An
Investigation of the accident to be
Held by the Coroner.
Charles F. Blanche met hit death by
falling through the elevator shaft in the
Odd Fellows’ building soma time Sunday
night. Nothing was known of the accident
until last night at 7 o’clock when the ele
vator conductor discovered the dead body
on top of the car just as be was about to
atart it in operation.
The elevator is always left standing
about a foot from the first floor when not
in use, and this is the condition in which
Fred Habersham, the colored operator, left
it Saturday night when be closed the build
ing. At 7 o’clock last night he opened the
first floor door and started the car down to
Abe level.
He noticed at the time that it
moved unusually heavy, but didn’t pay any
particular attention to the oircumstances.
As he stepped inside to start for the top
floor Habersham noticed a pipe bowl lying
on the floor. He picked it ud and remarked
to himself that things looked as if someone
had been using the elevator Sunday.
THK DISCOVERT OF THE BODT.
Then Habersham looked up to tho top of
the car and saw the body of a man lying lu
a crumped position. Jumping out of the
elevator, he locked the door and ran into
the street to find a policeman.
He met Officer Sam Davis and told him
what he had discovered. The of
fioer accompanied Habersham bank to
the ball, and ascending to the second floor
looked through the gratings of the iron
door. He saw at a glance that the man
was white, and dead beyond question, and
at once telephoned to tie barracks.
Assistant Chief Killourhy rode to tUe hall,
and, after seeing the situation of affairs,
telephoned for Coroner Dixon.
Habersham had in the meantime notified
Janitor Heller and others in the lodge
room and library, and the elevator doors
were opened. The body was lying on the
top of the car. but in the darkness it could
not be identified. -
THE CORONER NOTIFIED.
The news that no unknown white man
was lying deal in the Odd Fellows’ building
elevu or spread rapidly, and when the coro
ner arrived there was a crowd of people
anxious to learn who the man was. Coro
ner Dixon had the door opened, and with
hit ton, stepped onto the oar and lifted up
the body. As the light shone on the dead
face, he remarked: “Why it's Felix Bian
oho.” Nearly everybody in the crowd knew
the dead man. and with an exolamarion of
surprise pressed up to gaze at the body. The
polioe had a little trouble In keeping the
people bank.
SMOKING WHEN DEATH CAME.
In his mouth, clinched lightly between
the teeth, was the stem of the pipe which
had broken off, showing that be must h ive
been smoking when he met bis sudden
death. His eyes were partly open and as
Coroner Dixon laid the body on the floor
blood gushed out freely from a hole little
larger than a dollar in the back of the head.
The elevator doorsill on the second floor w as
spattered with blood, showing plainly
where Mr. Blancbo received the wound
wbioh had hurried him into eternity.
Everybody wanted to know how the man
could have got into the elevator shaft,
os the conductor hud stated there was no
way to open the door from the outside ex
cept the first floor one, and he bad the key
of that in his pocket since .Saturday night.
Assistant Chief Killourby began at once
an investigation of the doors on each floor,
and found all tightly secured until he
reached the top flojr.
FELI, FROM THE TOP FLOOR.
As he pulled the door there the look
sprang and jumped open. The spring was
broken and this fact explained the mystery.
Mr. Blancho had fallen through the shaft
from the top floor, a distance of about
forty-five fett.
Death must have been instantaneous, be
cause there wasn’t a trace of pain upon the
dead man’s face, and his hands, whioh wero
outstretched, showed that he had grasped
at nothing.
Mr. Blancho was seen alive the last time
at the supper table in George Schwarz’s
Congress street boarding bouse Sunday
night at 7 o'clock. The supposition is that
after lenvi g his boarding house Mr.
Blancho went around to the Odd Fellows’
hall, where he went almost nightly, on ac
count of his connection with that order,
end after he reached the top floor he be
came confused in the darkness and opened
the elevator door by mistake for the libra-y
or one of the other doors. Before he
could realize bis position he had shot
through the shaft to his death.
He was a man of very steady habits, and
was always in bis room at 10 o’olook at
night except when attending a lodge
meeting.
MISSED FROM HIS ROOM,
Mr. Schwarz remarked yesterday that it
was a strange thing for" Mr. Blancho to
have remained away from his room all
night and not come to breakfast. At
dinner, when he again failed to put in an
appearance, a little uneasinoss was felt, but
someone suggasted that he might have
gone to the brickyard and wouid be in for
supper. The boarders had just sat down to
supper when the news reached them that
Mr. Blincho’s doad body bad been found.
Coroner Dixon took charge of the body
aud removed it to his under aking establish
ment to prepare it for burial. He will hold
an inquest this morning to sen wnet further
facts he can obtain about Mr. Blanche's
death.
When it became generally known, that
Felix Blancho, as he was usually known had
meet a tragic death there was both surprise
and regret hoard on all sides. The dead
man was we 1-kuown by a majority of the
citizens,and wasjextremely popular. Among
secret society men he stook high. He was
an ardent member of many of the mystic
orders os Savannah.
A GREAT SECRET O RDER MAN.
Mr. Blancho was a paßt master of ( linton
Lodge No. 54, F. A. M. and a charter mem
ber of Forest City Lodge No. I, K. P.,
being the first grand ohancellor of the order
in Georgia and the oldest Pythian In the
state. He was also past grand of Live Oak
Lodge No. 3, LO. O. F., which lodge he
withdrew from to assist in organizing
Haupt No, 58, after which he returned to
Live Oak;a member of Magnolia Encamp
ment No. L I. O. O. F., and a charter mem
ber of Yemassee Tribe of lied Men.
These orders will attend Mr. Blancho’s
funeral from Odd Fellows’ hall this after
noon at 4 o’clook.
The deceased was a bricklayer by trade.
He was a native of Savannah and was 57
years old. He never married, and the only
relative he is known to have is a sister at
Beaufort, S. C. During the war Mr.
Blancbo was a member of tbe Republican
Blues, and gallantly served with that oorps
to tbe end of hostilities,
Tb 9 Bull Street Pavement.
The Warrer.-Soharf Company’s big steam
roller has arrived, and work will be begun
to-d iy grading Bull street for tbe asphalt
pavement. The bids for that portion from
the south side of Bay street to Congress and
Bryan aud Bt. Julian streets from
Whitaker to Drayton, will be opeued to
morrow. The Warren-Scharf people will
probably be awarded the contraot.
An Extended Popularity. Brown’s Bron
chial Thochsb liava for many years been the
most popular article In use for relieving Coughs
and Throat troubles.—Ad.
THE A. J. MlUjlh CO. DAMAGED.
Fire Breaks Out Among a Dot of
Kxoelelor.
The A J. Miller Furniture Company’s
store was damaged to the extent of several
hundred dollars by fire last night.
About 10:90 o’clock parties on Jefferson
street saw smoke issuing from the windows
of the third floor of the store. No. 171
Broughton street, on the lane side, end gave
the alarm. An alarm to the fire depart
ment was turned in by Ram Steinman from
box No. 13, at West Broad and
Broughton streets. The firemen responded
quickly, but found some difficulty in get
ting at the fire on account of the room
being filled with smoke to suffocation aud
the piles of furniture being in their way.
They made short work of it, however,
when they did get at it.
An entrance was made on the second
floor and the hose of the "chemical” was
dragged through that way. Firemen
Murphy, O’Neil and Wilmer, who had
charge of the hose, found the stairway in
accessible oft account of the smoke and
boldly shinned up the wire elevator rope to
the third floor. Fireman Murphy’s hands
were badly scorched by the hot rope.
Their prompt action doubtless prevented
great loss. The Are had burst through the
lane window, but the “ chemioal" soon had
it under control, and five succassi ve charges
of the engine completely subdued the fire
without the use of the hose of the large
engines.
The fire was entirely out In less than half
an hour after work was begun. It was
found to have originated in a lot of Excel
sior mattresses and bales of moss stored in
the back of the room.
The furniture on the floor was
considerably damaged by heat
and the damage by water was also
considerable. The la-mage to the building
was sight. The whole damage Is under
(I.UOO.
The company’s stock Is valued at (25,000,
upon which there is an insurance of (15,000,
placed with the agencies of Johnson &
Uuerard, M. A Cohen, C. A. Rehze and
Julian Sob ley.
PREPARING FOR CONFERENCE.
Bishop Keener to Preside Over the
Cordele Convention.
The South Georgia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will meet at
Cordele Wednesday, Dec. 2. Bishop J. C.
Keener of New Orleans will preside.
Next Sunday will be the last Sunday
which the Savannah ministers will have
at their churches before the conference.
There will be no farewelrsermons nor any
services out of the regular order.
The ministers in charge of the
churches at present have only beau here
oue year and as they have all given tne
greatest satisfaction to their congregations
they are not likely to be removed.
In fact, if uo providential circumstances
intervene the present pastors of the Savan
nah churohes are likely to remain here two
aod even three yenra longer, four years be
ing the limit of ssrvioe at oue ohurch for
an itinerant preacher.
The conference this year is held two
weeks earlier than usual, which may cut
off some of the collections. There will be
about 300 preachers, delegates aud vistora.
in attendauce, and the little city of Cordele
will have her Lands full to attend to them
ail.
The pastors are now making up their re
ports to present to the conference. Rev.
Dr. Dowman of Waslev Monumental, and
Rev. Mr. Mather of Adarvia mission, will
leave for the conference Monday night, and
Rev. A. J. Jarrell of Trinity, and Rev. G.
S. Johnson of the New Houston Street
church will leave Tuesday morning.
STRUCK BY A PROPELLEfi BLADE.
A Ship’s Boat Cut In Two and Four
Sailors Thrown Into the Blver.
A peculiar accident occurrod at the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western railway cot
ton wiiorf yesterday morning. Four sailors
were in a ship’s boat belonging to the British
steamship Mount Tabor, lying at the wharf.
They were under the steamer’s starboard
quarter painting the vessel wheu the pro
peller of tho steamer began to revolve. One
of the blades went through the bottom of
the boat. She filled aud sauk almost in
stautly.
A couple of sailors climbed up the rudder.
Two others were thrown iato the river, but
were soon taken out well soaked.
One of the engineers was iu the engine
room oiliug and cleaning the machinery und
had oecaslou to turn the shait which caused
the accident.
Thanksgiving in the Churches.
The churches represented in the Ministers’
Association have arranged for Thanksgiv
ing services in two churches, the Independ
ent Presbyterian church, in the northern
portion of the city, and the Christian
church, in the southern portion of the city.
Rev. Dr. V as! of the First Presbyterian
church will preach at the Independent Pres
byterian church and Rev. G. S. Johnson of
the New Houston StreetJiethcdist Episco
pal church will preach at the Christian
church. It is expected that the members
of the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,
Lutheran and Christian churches will unite
in the services at the oburcbes named. At
both churohes collections will be taken for
the Savaunab Orphan Asylum.
Be wise in time. You have too many
gray hairs for one so young looking. Use
Hall’s Hair Itenewer, the best preparation
out to cure them. Try It. — Ad.
Mack Was a Hall Thief.
Gabriel Maok, the negro hat thief ar
rested by Offioer Rodgers several nights
ago, turns out to be bigger game than he
was first thought to be. Detective Wether
horn found out, after a short talk with him,
that he was what is known as a ‘ ‘hall thief,”
and had been plying his vocation for sonie
time. The detective recovered a carriage
blanzet, which Maok had stolen from Mrs.
E. C. Gleason, an overcoat belonging to
George W. Drummond, a saohel belonging
to Mrs. Schley, containing various articles,
aud a el 'ak belonging to tho niece of I.
D. La Roche. Mack will probably get a long
term for his numerous thefts.
The New York Symphony Club.
The New York Symphony Club concert
Friday night will be the second attraction
of the Young Men’s Christian Association
course of entertainments. The club is well
known from its high standing in the
musical world. Messrs. Charles F. Thigpen
and 1L Cornelius are artists of remarkable
ability, taking foremost rank among tue
greatest of the world. They have asso
ciated with them for this season only artists
of 'he highest reputation, and the club pre
sents an array of talent that makes it one
of the strongest musical organizations in
America. It lias aohieved a success which
is almost phenomenal.
The Mail Carrying Contracts.
The bids foe the carrying of the mails
between the postofflee aud the depots are
not coming in lively. Tho time expires Deo.
1, and up to yesterday Postmaster Doyle
had received hut one bid. The bids will
have to be forwarded to Washington to be
acted upon by the postoffice department.
A Sudden Death.
Emma Stevens (oolored) died suddenly
ysiterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at No.
191 York street. Heart disease is supposed
to have caused her death.
Health brings happiness. Take Simmons
Liver Regulator for stomach, liver and kid
ney troubles Ad.
Abbott’s East India Corn' I’aint cures all
Corns, Worts and Bunions.— Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1891.
ESCAPED BY A WINDOW.
POLICEMAN CRONIN'S MAN,
WALK S OUT OF THE INFIRM ART.
The Would-be Murderer Feigned Un
consciousness, and While the Hos
pital Attendants Were Off Watoh
He Dropped Through an Open Win
dow and Fled—His Attack on Officer
Cronin Part of a Conspiracy to Mur
der the Policeman.
George Jackson, the negro shot by Poiloe
man Cronin Saturday night, has left his
bed in the Georgia Infirmary for parts un
known. He escaped yesterday about 13
o’clock.
Jackson was wsnted by the polios for
shooting a mau at Liberty and East Broad
streets several weeks ago, and is said to be
wanted also in South Carolina for a similar
offense. The negro knew if he remained at
the infirmary until be recovered he would
be put In jail and likely given a term in the
penitentiary.
This state of affairs did not exactly suit
Jackson’s tastes, and he planned a shrewd
game to escape. The game worked remark
ably welL He feigned a worse condition
than was really the case so that the infirm
ary people wouldn’t keep too close a watoh
on him.
feigned unconsciousness.
The comatose condition was his scheme,
and he seemed to know but little of what
was transpiring around him. Some of the
infirmary attendants thought he was surely
going to die.
Jackson’s bed was near a wiudow, and
his clothes were near the bed. About noou
be found the way clearjand quietly slipping
into his clothes got out of the window aud
made tracks. Bis escape wasn’t discovered
until some time afterward aud the wouuded
man had sufficient opportunity to getaway.
The barracks was Ju .titled, but up to 1
o’clock this morning Jackson had not been
captured.
The real faots of Jackson’s attack upou
Officer Cronin oame to light yesterday, and
showed a deliberate and carefully laid plan
to murder the offioer.
PLANKED A MURDI’.R.
The negro whom Officer Cronin killed
In Frogtown several years ago was a
friend of Jackson’s, The latter learni ug that
the officer was on duty on East Broad
street Saturday, coucooied a conspiracy
with two other negroes to murder him.
Jackson was to commenoe beating his wife
as soon as Officer Cronin made his appear
ance, and when he should dismount to
make the arrest the three inea were to
jump on the officer and kill him with his
own club and pistoL
Everything worked right until Officer
Cronin dismounted, and then Jackson’s
two companions backed out aud left him to
fight his own battle. This enrag<ed the big
ruffiau, and he determined to kill the officer
himself, which accounts for his failure to
heed tho warning to stand back; just before
he was shot.
Officer Cronin bad a close call, and but
for his quickness Jackson’s murderous in
tention would probably have been carried
to a successful termination.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Its record, of forty
years is one of triumph over blood diseases.
Ad.
DOLLARS HAVE THE CALL.
The Y. M. C. A. Decides Money Has
More Influence on Man Than Woman
Has.
The literary society of the Ybung Men’s
Christian Association debated last night
which haa the most influence over man,
money or woman, and decided in favor of
money.
Owing to the absence of some of the de
baters the debate was not us lively as was
expected. Secretary Stradtman opened
the debate for the affirmative sidf, and
argued that it was a very plain thing that
money had more influence over mas than
woman, lie said that in the consnming
struggle for the almighty dollar every
other consideration was forgotteu, and the
influence of gold outstripped the inflaenoe
of woman.
Mr. H. S. Turner argued in rebuttal that
the sweet influence of wotnau was necessary
to the happiness of man, and that he only
strove for money that he might bring hap
piness to her.
R. C. Wiight supported Mr. Turner and
cited the instance of the institutions of
Lycurgus, the Greek lawgiver, to encour
age marriage, and argued that as there was
no incentive to wealth in a oountry where a
dollar was as big as an iron cart wheel, the
influence of money could not have been
responsible for the celibacy of the Greeks.
W. do Bruyn Kops took the affirmative.
He said a man does not take the rebuff!' of
a lady near so much to heart as he does
those of fortune. He easily finds another
mistress for his heart, but he continues to
woo the goddess of fortune In spite of her
rebuffs.
A visitor who was present and who de
scribed himself as a “bachelor of 25,” said
that judging from his own experience the
average young man from the age of 17 to
23 will fling money to the winds and take
the woman every time, but after that ago
he comes to the conclusion that if be can
get money first he can get a woman any
time.
The debate was closed by E. Fairly Cun
ningham for the affirmative and W. R.
Hewlett for the negative.
The judges, VV. deßruyn Kops, W. L.
Grayson and the president, J. deDrXyn
Kops, after a short conferenoe, decided that
the victory was with the affirmative side of
the case, ana placed the society in the uu
gallant position of believing that money has
greater influence with mau than woman.
Other exeroisos of the evening were the
reading of an old English ballad by C. E.
Girardeau, a recitation by Mr. E. Fnirlv
Cunningham, "Prima Donna’s Disguises,”
aud an essay by Mr. W. deßruyn Kops
upon "Progress.”
At tho next meeting, Dec. 14, there will
be a reading bv A. M. King, an address by
8. B. Adams, Esq., and a recitation by J.
W. Wade. The following resolution will
be discussed:
Resolved, That the world’s fair should beheld
in New York or Washington rather than iu Cbi
cato. and that congress should be memorialized
to change the location.
Debates—Chicago, G. W. Stradtman;
New York, G. W. Hines; Washington, J.
Ferris Caun.
Charged With Stealing Clothing.
B -ssie Mornlngstar (oolored) was arrested
by Officer iiaudlon last night at the instanoe
of Mary Jenkins, also oolored, who charged
her with stealing various articles of wearing
apparel. Bessie was lockod up for safe
keeping, and will be taken out this morning
on a warrant.
The Beat Authorities,
Such as Dr. Dio Lewis, Prof. Gross, and
others, agree that catarrh is not a local, but
a constitutional disease. It therefore re
quires a constitutional remedy like Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, whioh effectually and per
manently cures catarrh. Thousands praise
it.
Hood’s Pills cure liver ills, jaundice, bili
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troubles of the digestive organs.— Ad.
Men’s Neckwear
And silk handkerchiefs—fine variety— at
LaFar’s.—Ad.
Everybody i anxiously awaiting the
great, offer of the News to-morrow. — Ad.
“Where ato You Going, My Pretty
Maid?”
"To buy an overcoat for my brother at
K H. Levy & Bro.’s, sir,” she said.—Ad.
THEY WANT TO S£X SLOAN.
Savannah Men and the Continental
Collection Union.
Half a dozen Savannah lawyers would
like to have a look at W. R. Sloan, whose
name figures at the head of the Continental
Collection Union of Cincinnati. 0., pub
lisher of Sloan’s Legal and Financial Reg
ister, but it is not likely they will have a
chance very soon, unless thev go outside of
Georgia.
What looks like an attempt to blackmail
some of the most prominent lawyers in
Georgia haa bwn going on for some time,
but it did not get to the outside world until
the distribution of the circular pub
lished in the Morning News day
before yesterday, characterizing some
of the leading attorneys of the
state as unreliable. Among the number so
published by Sloan are Lester & Ravenal of
this city. The high standing of the firm
caused considerable curiosity to know what
oonneo’.ion it had with the Cincinnati con
cern. A Morning News reporter saw
Mr. Ravenel yesterday and asked him about
the union.
• J subscribed to Sloan's Legal and Fi
nancial Register for one year, 1889," re
plied Mr. Ravenel. * ’and paid for it and at
the time of paying notified Hr, Sloan to
discontinue our subscription after that
year, as the subscription was for one year
only. At the commencement of another
year. 1890, he sent his book and a draft was
drawn for that year’s subscription, whioh
I also paid, again telling him to discontinue
at the expiration of the time for which I
was paying. In 1891, he again
drew on our firm for sub
scription and I refused to nay the draft,
whereupon Sloau wrote that he had our
written agreement to pay. I wrote him to
send the contract, and if it were as stated, I
would pay his draft. He sent the contract
through the Citizens’ Bank of this city,
with a draft. Upon inspeotiou of the oou
traot, I found Iw as correct. The contract,
while printed for three years, had been
changed by me before signing by erasing
the words “per annum, annually in ad
vance,” aud writing in ink
in its place, “for first copy.”
This change was made with the oonsent of
tho agent who took our subscription, and
was made for the purpose of limitiug our
subscription to one year. In sending our
contract through the bank there had been
pasted over it a notice to the bank whioh
excluded from view the change I had made
in it, and it was only by holding it up to
the light that the change could be seen. I
theu wrote Mr. Sloan, telling him I had
read the contract, and by its terms I had
paid for one year more than I had subscribed
for, aud refused to pay his draft. I beard
nothing more from him until the slanderous
circular was sent to our office Saturday,
together with a printed letter tbreateuing
to have the equivalent of the bill unless we
paid it. There can be little doubt that the
whole matter is a soheme to extort money.”
A number of other Savannah men, law
yers and others, were named In the droular
letter, the evident intention of which, from
its wording, was blackmail, among them
John Sullivan Schley, Fraser & Wilson and
C. H. Dorsett. A number of indictments
are pending in Atlanta against Sloan and
an effort has been made to bring
him to Georgia, but without
success so far. Judge Tompkins, who
was one of the men denounced by Sloan,
has been endeavoring to bring him to jus
tice.
A STORM OFF THE COAST.
High Winds Caused by the Dlsturb
ance in the Went.
The weather faired off Sunday night and
opened yosterday morning breezy and 0001.
It turned colder in the afternoon and by
last night mercury dropped to 50’. The
mean temperature laoked only 1° of the
normal.
Tho storm central Sunday night over the
Central Mississippi valley moved north
fast during the night, and centered yester
day morning over Ohio, with a consider
able increase in intensity. It continued its
northeast movement and last night was ap
parently central over New York state.
Fresh to high winds prevailed along the
lower lakes and along the ooatt from Bos
ton to Hatteias. During the day the
wind attained a maximum velooity of
40 miles per hour at Norfolk, 4fi miles per
tiour at Kitty Hawk, and 36 miles at Hat
teras.
Last night the weather was cloudy over
the lake region, Ohio valley and Northern
Tenne-see, North Georgia and along the
New England coast, with light rain falling
at Buffalo and Boston ana light snow at
Marquette, Mien., and Nashville, Tenn.
Generally fair weather prevailed along
the immediate North Atlantic coasts, over
the peninsula of Florida, Central and West
ern Gulf states and west of the Mississippi.
Th 9 following heavy rainfalls were reported
for the twenty-four hours ending 6p. m.
yesterday: Galveston district, Abilene 2,80
inches, Corsicana 2.60 inohes, Hearne 3
inches, Longview 3 and Luling 3. Augus a
district. Greenwood 1.60 inches, Chester
1.80 inches. The barometer is highest over
Eastern Texas.
The following telegram was received yes
terday morning from the acting chief of
the weather bureau: "Hoist cautionary
southwest signals at 10:15 a. m. Storm
central in Ohio, moving northeast, will
cause south gales on the South Atlantic
coast.”
The forecast for Savannah and vicinity
till 8 p. m. to-day is generally fair, contin
ued cool weather.
A Healthy and Delicious Beverage.
Menier Chocolate. Learn to raa ke a real
oup of No. 1 chocolate by addressing Menier,
New York, and get free sample with direc
tions.— Ad.
THE CHOIR FUND CONCERT,
A Delightful Musical Entertainment
at Armory Hall.
The Cathedral Choir Fund Sooiety concert
at Armory Hall last night was a delightful
musical event. The hall was filled and the
programme was an entertaining one.
Theooncert was under the direction of
Prof, L. W. Mebrtens, who played the
opening number, the piano duet, "March
des Phantoms" by Holst, with Miss M. Plat
shek.
The vocal numbers were by Miss Mamie
Nolan and Mr. Julian Walker. Both wore
enthusiastically received. Miss Nolan sang
a scene and oavatir.a by Verdi and “I’ll
Wait, Love, for Thee," She was recalled
after each appearance and gracefully re
sponded. Her high soprano voice was
heard to excellent advantage.
Mr. Walker sang "Thine My Thoughts
Are Margarita” and "Come Where Rhe
Lindens Bloom.” Eaoh time he was en
cored and responded to the recalls. Mr.
Walker is probably the most popular male
singer in Savannah, and his appearance is
always the signal for applause. He sang
with unusual ability.
The instrumental numbers were the piano
solo,“Cuius Antmarn," by Miss M. Platsbek,
variations de concert by Mr. Jake
Smith; the clarionet solo "Grand
Fantasia,” by Mr. Edward Rice, and a
rhapsodic by Liszt, by Mr. and Miss Rosen
heim, which was repeatedly applauded un
til the young performers reappeared and
played one part of tne rhapsodie. The au
dience was an enthusiastio one, and all of
the participants in the concert were un
stinted in their applause.
At the conclusion of the concert an in
formal hop was given by the society.
1 used Simmons Liver Regulator for indl
gestion, with Immediate relief.—O. U. Sparks,
ex-mayor, Macon, Ga.— Ad.
Dunlap’s fine hats, Stetson’s hate and
Naulmento’s flexible hats sold at LaFar’s
Ad.
Selling Out
Two lines of warm underwear, oheap, at
LaFar’A— Ad.
BAKTXG POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Drifal Baking
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
TOKIVAL DARIUS GREEN.
A SAVANNAH MAN INVENTS A
FLYING MACHINE.
Thomas H. GtgnilUat the Inventor—A
Stock Company Organized to De
velop the Invention and Give to the
World a Long Felt Want—The Secret
of the Inventor as Carefully Guarded
as Keely’s Motor, But Its Purpose
Entirely Different—An Experimental
Machine Being Built in Connecticut.
The achievement for which the world of
science has been striving has at last been
solved. A flying machine has been in
vented and a Savannah man is the in
ventor.
The machine is said to be a sure success,
aud the inventor only awaits its comple
tion to begin the exploration of the upper
atmosphere. The inventor is a gentleman
well known in Savannah, Mr. Thomas H.
Gignllliat, lately a resident of Guyton.
Mr. Gignllliat has been working upon
his invention for years, oonfident that he
was on the right line, but only recently has
he brought it to such perfection as to assure
its ultimate success.
A STOCK COMPANY ORGANIZED.
So evident was the success of the idea
that Mr. Gignilliat has bad no difficulty in
impressing upon the few whom be has let
into the secret its perfect rationality, and a
stock company has been formed for the
purpose of manufacturing and disposing of
the machines. Some of the leading busi
ness men of Savannah are subscribers to tho
stock.
W. B. Stillwell is treasurer of the com
pany, W. L. Gignilliat of Guyton is sec
retary aud T. H. Gignilliat is manager.
The present oapital required is only
(10,000, a great part of whioh has
already been subscribed. A modest
sum, indeed, upon which to be
gin the manufacture of au invention
which will revolutionize the present meth
ods of travel and transportation of the
world.
GUARDING THE SECRET.
Mr. Stillwell and Mr. Gignilllatt were
approached yesterday by a Morning News
reporter who had heard of the invention
and were asked to give some information
for the benefit of the public
of the wonderful undertaking
iu whioh they are engaged. Both gentle
men were averse to talking until their
plans have reaohed a more definite form.
Enough was learned, however, to
make it known that Mr. T. H.
Gignllliat Is the inventor of a maohine
which be is satisfied will fly. Mr. Stillwell
and the other stockholders of the company
are also satisfied on tho same line. No fly
ing has been done yet, however, because
the machine has not been completed, nor
has any model been made of it.
PERFECTING THE MACHINE.
Mr. Gignilliat is now at the works of a
prominent manufacturing company of
Hartford, Conn., where he has been for sev
eral months engaged in perfecting his in
vention. The first maohine will be com
pleted shortly and an experiment will be
made.
Mr. Gignilliat has thrown aside all the
old ideas of artificial buoyanoy by using gas
and is proceeling upon an entirely new
principle. The motive and sustaining
power will be mechanical entirely. What
the principle is upon which he depends is a
secret.
TO BE BUILT OF ALUMINIUM.
Ona of the features of the maohine is its
construction of aluminium, the wonderful
new metal which is just coming into use.
Heretofore the cost of producing aluminium
has been so great as to entirely debar its
use for mechanical purposes, but late dis
coveries have so reduced its cost
as to make its use possible in the higher
arts. The first maohine, however, is being
constructed of steel. The power ttill be
furnished by steam or electricity.
The result of the trial trip
will be awaited with a
great deal of interest. It may be possible
that the question of aerial transportation
has been solred and that soou aerial
motors, cars, carriages and other air vehi
cles will be on sale at all first-class carriage
and wagon depositories.
Simmons Liver Regulator is the foe of ma
laria as it throws off the bile and prevents its
accumulating.—Ad.
LAFFITBAU—FARRELL
A Quiet Wedding at the Cathedral
Yesterday Afternoon.
The cathedral was the scone yesterday
afternoon at 5 o’clock of a quiet and pretty
wedding. The contracting parties were
Mr. Gustave D. Lafflteau and Miss Maggie
Ford Farrell. Rev. William A. McCarthy
performed the oeremony.
There were no attendants and the
marriage wag witnessed only by a few inti
mate friends of the bride and groom, Tho
bride wore a costume of pearl gray, with
feather trimmings and her ornaments were
diamonds.
After the ceremony a reception was held
by Mr. and Mrs. Lafflteau at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Turner, on Henry
street, near Whitaker. Many friends called
to extend congratulations and wish the
happy young couple muoh joy and success.
The groom is a well-known young man
and holds a responsible position with the
Southern Express Company. The bride is a
popular young lady. For many years she
was connected with the millinery depart
ment of A. R. Alt mayor & Cos.
TSE SOLICITOR’S DETECTIVE.
Mounted Policeman H. M. Morgan to
Be Appointed To-day.
Solicitor General Fraser will to-day ap
point his special detective in accordance
with tho bill passed by the lost legislature.
Mounted Police Officer H. M. Morgau will
got the place. The detective will be a
valuable aid to the state In capturing crimi
nals, aud will devote his entire atten
tion to the work of the solicitor
Seneral’s office. He will also gather evi
ence for the state in connection with his
capture of offenders. It won’t be such an
easy matter boreafter for murderers to
escape from Savannah. Officer Mor
gan has been connected with the
police a long time and has been one
of the most efficient men on the force. His
appointment to his now office by the
solicitor general is a recognition of his
ability.
CITY BREVITIES.
A buggy and railroad hack oollided at
Liberty and Whitaker streets yesterday
afternoon, and when the vehicles were un
tangled tho haok was minus a shaft and
wheel. The buggy esoaped damage. Fast
driving was the cause of the aocident.
Indigestion! Miserable I Take Beech
am’3 Pills.—Ad.
local personal.
J. T. Fulcher of Waynesboro is at the De
ooto.
J. J. Dale of Beaufort, S. C., is at the De
Soto.
N. P. Wade of Sylvania is a guest of the
De Soto.
John E. Turnbull of MonticeUo, Fla., is a
guest of the De Soto.
McDonough is expected home
from New York to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wilson of Macon aro
stopping at the De Soto.
Mrs. L. W. Landershine is critically 111 at
her home on Bolton street.
nilhf We ' ls left for Augusta last
night to take in the exposition.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Black of Carthage.
N. C., are registered at the De Soto.
Miss Etta Upnman has returned from an
extended tour of the northern cities, much
improved.
Mrs. James V. Nungezer who has been
seriously ill for the past six tfeeks is now
very low and is not expected to live.
B - Get* of St. Louis, accom
panied by her two children, is visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Myerson.
*i ooner > Jr - nn <l bride returned
yesterday from their wedding tour. Thev
will reside at No. 42 Huntingdon street.
Uppman and youngest
daughter have returned, having spent the
dimmer in the Adirondacks and in New
York and Philadelphia with friends.
R. H. Brewer of Oliver was in the city
yesterday with hi. bride, uee Miss Scruggs
hrnrh doß w’ O ,Bent the d “F with his
brother, W. G. Brewer, on Liberty street.
Solicitor General Fraser has recovered
sufficiently from his attack of malarial fever
‘J 16 8t L rßetß - H e was in his office
yesterday for the first time in three weeks.
Rev James F. Higgins, one of Phila
delphia s well-known Catholio clergymen,
2 ■* th ®. He Soto en route to Florida.
Father Higgins has soveral relatives in
Savaunab.
IxiuijiWassman arrrived In the city Yes
terday from New York. Mr. Wass.nan is
a resident of Chattanooga, but is traveling
through the south on business for a New
x ork commercial house.
THINGS TALKED ABOUT.
The Oglethorpe Light Infantry proposes
to make this a gala week. Thanksgiving
day the corps will have a target practice and
on Friday the members will give their annual
drill hop at Odd Fellows’ hall. It is just
30% years and a few days since that oorps,
which was destined to be famous, paraded
through the town as volunteers for the war,
about to leave for Virginia. There were
not many dry eves in Savannah that day.
The St. Andrew’s Society will celebrate
Its 141st anniversary at the Screven house
next Monday night in the usual way. To
those who have had the honor of an invita
tion and the pleasure of being present at
the St. Andrew’s Sooiety anniversaries
further explanations are unnecessary.
They are occasions of whole-souled hos
pitality, and onoe enjoyed can ne’er be for
gotten.
The Chatham Artillery last night finally
settled the uniform question. The present
fatigue coats, with the additions of red
standing collars, red ouffs and red shoulder
knots, and the same trouserß now worn
were formally adopted. Privates will have
the gold braid removed from the red
trouser stripes, but the officers will retain
them, with the regular gold
braided fatigue caps. Tho privates’ cap
will be grav, with red crown and band and
i, wo crossed cannon in the center, flanked
by the letters C. A.
The Chathams will not make a company
affair of Thanksgiving day, but the majority
of the members will informally celebrate
it at tho Tybee club house with an oyster
roast.
Arrested for Cruelty to Animals.
George Brown (colored) was taken to tho
police barraoks yesterday by George Beyar,
the Thunderbolt oysterman, for having a
lot of ohickens tied together by the feet
with their beads hanging down. Cruelty to
animals is the charge opposite Brown’s
name.
The New Water ’’frorks Contract.
The bids for the sub-work of the new
water works will be opened at the meeting
of council to-morrow night.
C. A. Thompson, Seymour, Ind., writes:
“My si-ter Jennie, when she was a young
girl, suffered from white swelling, which
greatly impaire.l her general health and
made her blood very Impure. In the spring
she was not able to do anything and could
scarcely get about. More than a year ago
she took three bottles of B Annie Blood
Balm, and now she is perfectly cured.”— Ad.
To-morrow is the day for the Christmas
offer of the News to appear.—Ad.
Underwear, excellent, only (2 a suit, a
full assortment of sizes left at LaFar’s.—Ad.
Fisk, Clark & Flagg’s fine neckwear the
new puffs and four In bands, at LaFar’s.
Ad.
Anything Needed
By gentlemen, from half hose to a silk
neck wrap or a night shirt, at LaFar’s.
Ad.
The Morning News has been getting up
a great scheme for the people of Savannah
and neighboring towns, and to-morrow is
going to tell them about it.—Ad.
“Please, Mamma, Don’t,”
Screamed Tommy, as he was about to got
an application of slipper to his new pants,
which had just come from B. H. Levy &
Bro.’s. But they cost so little that mamma
took the chances of having to replace them,
aud the slipper foil with a dull, reverberat
ing whaolc.—Ad.
“I Cannot Sing the Old Bongs
Because they are ’chostnuttv’ and have been
retired to make room for B. H. Levy &
Bro.’s new songs of low prices on fine cloth
ing.”—Ad.
Overcoat Missing.
If the party who took my overcoat from
the cloak room of the society the other
evening will return it I will diroct him to
B. H. Levy & Bro.’s, where he cau get a
better one for small money. R. K.—Ad.
Old newspapers—2oo for 25 cents—at
business office. Morning News.—Ad.
LPDDW A BATES R. K, q,
I— B—i I.- Fin—t< ,
fiina or an Organ.
Nothlue completes the furnishing of a hou**
No present you oould make your family WOnM
be more acceptable or give them so much ™
joyment and benefit.
If you had begun paying $lO per month
Piano two or three years ago you would no*
have it paid for. "
If you don’t begin soon old age may overturn,
you, and you will go through life wuh an
furnished and cheerless home.
Why delay ?
Pianos are cheap, very cheap. Never so eon*
for the money. Less than one-half their oast
formerly.
And the terms are so wonderfully easy Onl
a few Dollars paid monthly will secure on-. 7
Start in aud it will be yours and paid for h
fore you know it. lOrb -
Do you want a Piano or an Organ' If gn
come in and talk it over. We can suit you
save you money. oa
H you can t come inand talk it over, just drop
We like to write letters.
We have tons of beautiful catalogues illujtrat.
mg our instruments.
Wouldn’t you like to see them?
They don’t cost anything'
LfIDDII i Ml
Stmt hero Music Douse.
DRYGOODS. -
Gilt-l|e firt Si
AT
Miniature Prices.
Scrutinize Carefully the Prices of the
Following Popular Goods:
Twenty five pieces best Double-bed Bleached
Sheeting, linen finished, at 25c, worth 35c
Two eases extra heavy Unbleached Canton
Flannels at worth 10c.
200 dozen-extra heavy and extra large All
Linen Hack Towels, wortli 35c, now 25 c.
130 dozen extra large Double Damask
Knotted Fringe Towels at2so, can’t be matched
less than 40c.
25 dozen 25-Inch Gloria Bilk Umbrellas, gilt,
oxidised and rustic handles, at (1 50 this week
only.
Positively the largest and best assorted stock
of Ladi-s’. Gentlemen’s and Children's All
Woo] and Merino Underwear in the city.
Gentlemen can save money by looking
through our Furnishing Department.
fflMMDfiOl
137 Broughton St.
CLOTHING.
Wear Pants.
A manufacturer's line of
PANTS, 250 pairs, all good
styles and splendid values,
offered this week at
$2 65 PER PAIR.
A TREMENDOUS BARGAIN.
A. It. ALTMAYKR * CO.
TO-DAY
The slaughter of $150,000
worth of
DRY GOODS, CLOAKS, ETC.,
Commences. The great aalejof
the season.
COAL AND WOOD.
GOAL AND WOOD
Of all kinds and sizes promptly delivered.
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