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THE PASSENGER 'AGENT.
he and his assistants make or
BREAK A RAILROAD.
How Business Is Sought and Secured
From the General Passenger Agent's
Office Down to the Ticket Seller’s
Window—After a Party of Carpen
ter e.
from the New York Timet.
“So one would imagine." said a railroad
passenger agent a few days ago, “the ex
tent to which railroads seek individual cus
tom. I do not mean little cross-country
roads, but all railroads, from the smallest
to the greatest in the country. The general
belief is that a railroad is a great grasping
corporation that cares for nobody, and that
any one who wishes to do business with it
must go to it. But this is far from being
the case. A railroad will chase a man up
for a week, or a hundred miles, or send a
dozen men after him, if necessary, if it is
known that he is going to buy only one
long-distance ticket. All this outside pas
senger business is done by the passenger
agents. There is not a railroad in this
country that could pay a dividend if it were
not for the money brought in by its pas
senger agents.
“Here is an illustration," he went on, “of
bow the passenger agent works. A short
time ago,some builder in California, where
wages are very high, figured out that it
would be cheaper to hire eastern carpenters
at eastern rates for the winter and pay their
lares both ways, lie sent an agent east,
and the agent found the men in Auburn,
N. Y. —forty-six of them. I knew nothing
of this, but some other business took me to
Auburn a day or two before the men were
to start for California. On the way I met
another passenger agent, and we arrived in
Auburn together. We went into the Cen
tral ticket office there. as our custom is,
and banded our cards to the ticket agent.
He looked at them, smiled, and put them
Up in a rack beside nineteen others.
'"These are to day’s callers,’ he said,
pointing to the other cardß. ’There are
nineteen of them, all passenger agents.
You two make twenty-ODe The others are
all after the forty-six carpenters who are to
start for California to-morrow. You could
not fire a gun in Auburn to-day without
bitting a passenger agent.’
"It would 6eem impossible to any out
sider, ’’ the passenger agent continued,“that
so many agents should be after these men.
who could start from Auburn only by tak
ing the New York Central road. But I
will explain to you how it works. The Cen
tral goes only to Buffalo, and it was the
mileage between Buffalo and ban Francisco
that the agents were after. From Auburn
to Buffalo is only one stage of the journey.
The next stake is from Buffalo to Chicago,
where there are three roads, and the tickets
may read by any one of them. The third
stage is from Chicago to Kansas City, where
there are five roads. Each of those three
roads to Chicago and of those five roads to
Kansas City wanted those forty-six fares.
“But that was only a beginning. From
Kansas City the tickets might read either
by way of St. Paul or by wav of Omaha,
Denver and Salt Lake City. From Kansas
City to St. Paul there are four roads, and
to Omaha there are six. So the possibilities
increase all the way across the continent.
Each of these western roadß, you under
stand, has its eastern agents watching for
just such oases. The Centr d’s agent tu Au
burn would sell tickets reading by any of
the routes beyond Buffalo—it made no dif
ference to him wbioh. It was the business
of each of those nineteen agents to get that
party of forty-six carpenters over his own
road, and some of them had to be disap
pointed.’’
Tbe passenger agent appears in many ilif
ferent forms. Every railroad has its general
passenger agent, who has charge of all the
passenger traffic of his road and all the sub
ordinate passenger agents. He usually has
one or two assistants and the next man in
authority is the general traveling passenger
agent. This offioer has immedia e charge of
ail the traveling passenger agents, who mar
number 10 or a 100. Then there are the
general eastern passenger agents in Boston;
tbe New York passenger agents, who make
ao army in themselves, the emigraut
passenger agents, with headquarters
on Ellis Island; the western pas
•enger agents, stationed in all tbe large
western cities, and on some roads, the New
York Central for example, local passenger
agents, who look after the passenger traffic
over comparatively small districts, such us
between New York and Poughkeepsie,
Poughkeepsie and Catskill, or Catskill and
Albany. These men must be at borne in all
the towns in their districts, they must make
Intimate and particular friends of as many
people as they can, and must keep their
•yet carefully but not obtrusively upon
their neighbors’ affairs, ttuoh is, in brief,
the passenger agent outfit required by every
railroad of consequence.
By general consent among the passenger
Agents, George H. Daniels of the New York
Central is the father of the profession. He
bas been eo long in the business, and has all
ft* curves and sinuosities reduoed to such a
• lence, that his opinion is beyond discus
sion As an after dinner speaker he is a
dangerous rival of Dr. Depew, and be Is
often known to charm in business by wire
that men on the ground fail to secure. Here
Is Mr. Daniels’ account of tbe general pas
senger agent’s work.
“I can only,” he said In reply to a ques
tion, "repeat what I told the agents them -
selves at a dinner not long ago. It sounds
like a joke, but I assure you it is all true.
"Having been a pool commissioner for
eight years,” Mr. Daniels said, "I could tell
you a great deal about general passenger
agents, but I won’t do It. I oould tell you
individual inoldents that would barrow up
tbe souls of many, but I wtll confine myself
to what the press calls glittering generali
ties.
"The general passenger agent is the meet
Important man on the railroad— at least
•hose who ask favors of him think so. Tbe
general passenger agent is a man of varied
Attainments. Acknowledging tbs press as
the most mighty power of the nineteenth
century, he stands in with the editor.
With profound respect for the church as
the guide aud teacher of the world, he
makes reduoed rates for the clergy aud
rails excursions for the Sunday school for
Almost nothing. Believing that the stage
bas an elevating and refining influence upon
aociaty, he votes for party rates.
“ His duties are as varied and as arduous
as there are days iu the month. On Sun
day he must attend ohuroh to prove that
the railroads set a good example to tbe com
munity. Monday night he must take a
party of ticket agents to the theater and
•bow them about town, in order that they
may be impressed with the liberality of the
oompany, and in the hope that they will
seud their business over his line. At au
early hour on the following morning he
must meet tbe geueral manager at tbe of
fice to discuss plans for the reduction of
expenses. On Wednesday he must con
vince tbe advertising agent of each of the
daily papers that he is paying him more
money for time tables ami reading notices
than any other paper in tne country.
Thursday he devotes to trying to get a
lot of reading notices into tiie papers free,
upon the plea that they are really
items of news. Friday' he spends in mak
ing a map that shows his line the shortest
and most direct to every important point
in tbe United States. On (Saturday be
makes out a time table that no one but the
maker can read. He goes home on Satur
day night with the proud onusciousoees
Mat he bas done a splendid week’s work
and earned his princely salary.
"The general passenger agent by bis un
limited advertising makes possible suob
places as Denver. The geueral pa-senger
agent obeys the injunction of Bt. Haul of
being all t hinge to all men.
“1 might go on all night telling you of
tbs good points of the gensrul passenger
agent*, but Urns forbids, and I will only
•ay, tb the language of the street, that it
you will stick to us you will all wear
diamonds.
“It is related of Mohammed that when in
his wanderings be oame in sight of the City
of Damascus he told bis followers that man
could enter paradise but once, and they
turned their backs upon the most beautiful
oity of bis time. The general passenger
agents, without the superstition of the
ancient prophet, have made a prolonged
visit to a lovelier oity than Damascus ever
was, a oity that, in the language of one of
our western poets, 'it’e forever in the suu,’
and yet they hope for a paradise beyond
this life—after all the excursions are over
with and the lost banquet has been closed.”
Among the traveling passenger agents,
Fred Koblin, general traveling passenger
agent of the Plant system, covers more terri
tory than any other agent, his lines extend
ing from Halifax, N. 8., to Jamaica, in the
West Indies. Over this great seotlon of the
oontineut he travels almost constantly for
nine months in tho year.
“What do you do in this big territory!”
Mr. P-oblin was asked a few days ago.
“If you will ask me what I don’t do."
Mr. Roblm replied, “I can answer quicker.
In the summer time, after smoothing the
way northward for all the southerners who
have made a good year with their cotton or
watermelons, I go up to Halifax and oon
viuce the Nova Scotians that the only good
nay to reach Bostou. and, incidentally.
New York, is by the Plant Line boats. I
run out to neighboring Canadiau cities—
that is, cities within a thousand miles or
so—and see that tickets reading by our line
are on sale in all the offices; if they are not,
1 take measures to have them put there.
Alter my visit you can usually find a few
Plant system posters banging in all tbe
stations, and some choice literature about
our boats lying on the counters.
“Always and everywhere I get acquainted
with us many ticket agents as possible, and
trv to have myself identified with my terri
tory in their minds. Of course, I must
make friends of them, and this roquires
practice and a good disposition, which all
passenger agents must have. A few good
cigars are often effective. An invitation to
step out around the corner would please
some men and disgust others, and it is my
business to know whether tho agent prefers
a dog fight or a prayer meeting. This re
quires long prsctioe and a thorough knowl
edge of human nature, but when the art Is
once acquired It is no trouble to gauge a
man almost at sight.
"Why do I want to make friends of the
ticket agents' Because I want them to sail
my tickets, and because I want them to
know me so well that tbe moment a man
asks for a ticket for any northern or south
ern point the ticket agent thinks instantly
of Roblin end Hoblin suggests the Plant
system. I try, as I said, to identify myself
with my territory. There are a dozen lines
running north and south and the instant a
customer says ‘Florida’ to the ticket agent,
I want that to suggest Roblin and tbe Plant
system. Tbe more ticket agents I know
the better; and the better I know them the
better for me.
"Than for three months In the year I am
a travelers’ guide. When the Tampa Bay
hotel opens its doors that becomes my bead
quarters. That is a central point on our
system and there are hundreds of people
there all tbe time wanting to know how to
get to Cuba, when they can return from
Jamaica, wben the next train starts for
Atlanta, and what is the sleeping car rates
between Oshkosh and Kalamazoo. Tbe hotel
man’s reply to all these Questions Is to send
the inquirer to Roblin. Roblm is supposed
to know all time tables of all roads, routes,
rates and reductions, parlor car eervioe
everywhere, the movements of all steam
ships and steamboats, quarantine regula
tions, passport laws, aud the hygienic con
dition of every part of the world. lam
there to answer all such questions and to
come up smiliog every time.
*‘A great many funny things are con
stantly happening in traveling. Some
years ago I was going over what were then
the wild parts of Florida with Frank H.
Taylor, the artist and writer. Taylor was
writing and illustrating a book on Florida
and 1 was ‘prospecting’for my oompauy.
We both had to go to Silver SpriDg, but
there was uo railroad there in those davs.
We went to < >oala, six or eight miles away,
and just on tbe edge of the evening we hired
a carriage to take us over. The hotel man
iu Ocala was determined not to let us off,
saying that there were no accommodations
at tbe springs; that we’d have to sleep
under a tree, and that he’d be sure to
see us back again before midnight.
But we were used to such little games,
and we set out. It was a beautiful drive
through tbe pine woods, sometimes in a
rough road and sometimes right over the
trackless sand. anti about 10 o’clock the
driver drew up in front of a
shanty that he said was the only house in
the’piace.’ We knocked at the door, and
a head came out of tbe garret window aud
asked what we wanted. Wben we asked
for supper and lodging, the man said b
had no place for us to sleep, and he was
about to close tbe shutter, for there was no
glass, but we Induced him to let us in to
argue tbe matter. The whole family came
downstairs, old man, old woman,
and a very pretty girl of about 18. We
used all our eloquence on them, and at last
induced them to make up a bed, but supper
at that hour was not to be thought of.
“But while we were talking Taylor took
out his sketch book and made portraits of
the whole family. That captured their
hearts. Taylor became a hero at onoe. In
a few minutes the old man had a rousing
fire going in tbe kitchen, tbe old woman
sliced some baoon. and the girl peeled the
potatoes. Pretty soon we sat down to a
good Florida supper, and tbs family ate
with us, tor a man who can draw portraits
is not seen in that country every day. After
supper we went back to tbe sitting room
aud I saw aq old-fashioned meldeon stand
ing in one ooruer. It was an old-timer cov
ered with dust half an inch thick, but I
opened it and began to play some livelv
tune. Thistiokled the family more yet;
they hadn’t heard any music in that shanty
since tbe flood. Before long the old man
reached uader a table and pulled out a
violin case. I forgot how he said tbe
thing happened to be left there by some
body. He handed it to Taylor, who knew
about as much of the fiddle as I do of tbe
melodeon. But he made a great show of
tuning up, and we started in on a tune to-
S ether. Well, you never saw a family so
roken up in your life. They were simply
crazy with the pictures and the music.
They all dauoed, and I toll you we owned
the house that night. We kept it up
pretty late, and next morning tney would
not hear of our going away till they had
cooked us tbe best breakfast that couutry
could supply. This was only one little in
cident in a thousand, but it shows what
odd piaoes tbe traveling passenger agent
drifts into.
The immigrant agent bas perhaps as busy
a life as any mem tier of the passenger agent
family. He must be almost continually on
Ellis Island among the immigrants. He
must keep tbe run of all the emigrant ships
and be on good terms with every immi
grant boarding house keeper. He must, of
’ nurse, speak ail languages, aud be able to
tell a Pole from a Hungarian at sight.
There is strong competition and it is the
agent’s business to establish a friendship
with as many immigrants as be oau. But
his business is not all with immigrants. He
must keep the run of American citizens of
foreign birth wno are going back to Eu
rope. Why * Because those citizens are
sure to return, and to bring some friends
with them. Here is a German, for instance,
who come over a lew years ago in the steer
age and wer.t out to Wisconsin. He
has made a little money and bought a farm,
and now he is g ing back to tbe fatherland
on a visit. When tie returns to America he
will bring, perhaps, his father aud mother,
lierhap* a sister, or a cousin or two, and he
is pretty sure to have some more of his
Germau townsmen with him. The immi
grant passenger agent nyust make that
iiiau’s acquaintance, and convince him that
his line is the one that will take him borne
I quickest, cheapest, aud most pleasantly,
lie must convince him that his is the only
• llroct line to Wisconsin by way of Niagara
Falls, Washington, Key West, New Or
leans, and the Yosetnite valley, or what
ever other places tho uiau shows a desire to
see. H* must learu when tbe man expacts
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1893.
to return to America, and watch for him,
and capture him.
One city passenger agent for each road
devotee himself entirely to theatrical com
panies. He knows every traveling theat
rical company in the country, and all about
it—how many people, what properties,
where it is, where it is going, wben it is
coming to New York. If it is already in
the city, he knows when it is going to start
on a tour, and where it is going. He is
more or less intimate with every theatrical
manager. He knows that on a certain date
Smith's Uncle Toni’s ( abin Company will
start out to "do” New York state, making
tbe regular round of Yonkers, Poughkeep
sie, Hudson, Albany, Troy, Syracuse, and
soon. Before that time he must have a
talk with Smith. By a judicious
course of pumpiDg he learns whether
there is money in the treasury. If there is.
he sells Smith a round trip ticket for his
company and properties for tbe whole jour
ney, if he can. If there is not enough
money—and generally there is not—he sells
him tickets for the first stage. Then the
distriot passenger agent comes into play.
The tickets sold carry the company per
haps to Poughkeepsie. The city agent sends
word to the passenger agent of that district,
•‘Smith’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company will
play in Poughkeepsie on Jan. 25, leaving for
Hudson same night. Eightern people, four
bloodhounds, two horses, fifteen cases of
scenery—one rase requiring extra long bag
gage car with door open. Look out for
them.” On the date |uamed tbe district
passenger agent is on band to take them In
his arms, and sell them ticrets.
Another city passenger agent takes care
entirely of the traveling salesmen. He
would like to know them all, but that is
impossible; so he knows os many as he can.
At one season the hat salesmen go on tbe
road, at another the dry goods men, at an
other the hardware drummers, and so with
them all, except the grooerymen, who are
always going. He is acquainted in all the
big establishments that employ large num
bers of drummers, and at the proper time
he makes them a visit. He makes himself
popular with the men, not only because he
is a sociable fellow, but because he is al
ways doing them favors. He caunot
lower the rates, for they are fixed,
but he can do favors in a hundred
other ways. Here is one of them.
He sells Brown a round-trip ticket to
Chicago, and Brown starts out with his
samples. Somewhere between Buffalo and
Ctucinuatl Brown Joses his trunk, and is in
a peck of trouble about it. But he knows
what to do. “There’s Thompson,” he says
to himself, “the passenger agent I bought
my tioket of. I’ll telegraph him. He’ll And
that truuk for me.” He telegraphs Thomp
son, and Thompson knowing just what io
do and having free run of the telegraph
lines all over his road and svsry where else,
sets the searching machine in motion and
restores the trunk to its owner in a few
hours. After that Brown will always buy
his tickets of Thompson By a thousand
such guileless arts as this the patsenger
agent makes himself popular with the
drummers.
But to follow a man up just to sell one
ticket! This is the nay that ts done. The
tioket agent in some neighboring town, we
will say in Yonkers, hears that his neigh
bor, Mr. X., of South Kensington street , is
talking of going to California The ticket
agent sends word at onoe to th 6 traveling
passenger agent of that distriot, and within
a few hours the traveling passenger agent
appears in Yonkers and inquires his way
to Mr. X.’s house. If he is in
business in New York he may he
visited in bis office. He has heard, the
agent tells Mr. X., that he is think
ing of going to California, and has called
to show him what superior advantages are
offered by the Feedee and West Hoboken
route. He talks glibly, aad overwhelms the
man with time tables aud fancy railroad
literature. Mr. X. is surprised, and prop
ably a little flattered, to find that he is of
so much Importance. The surprise wears
off aftir the agents of a dozen other lines
follow him up in tbe same way.
AU the passenger agents speak of Gustavs
I -eve as a marvel in the business Mr. Leve
has been out of the business and out of the
country for several years, but many
stories are still extant of the wonders
he accomplished in annihilating time and
space He was the Leve of Leve & Alden,
the old tourist agents, and was inter
ested in the Monarch Palace Car Company,
the Bt. Lawrence River Steamboat Com
pany, and many other transportation vent
ures. He was noted for being in at least
five widely separated parts of the country
at the banie time. He used often, after
a day s work in the New York office,
to take a night train for Clayton and catoh
the morning boat down the at.
Lawrence. Looking over the purser’s
and steward’s accounts while on the
boat and making suggestions, lie would
transfer to an up-bound boat
and do the same thing on her, reach Clay
ton again at dark, row across the end if
Lake Ontario to Ganatioque and catch the
Montreal express, be in Montreal next
morning and do a day’s work there, take a
night train for Niagara Falls, go over the
accounts of the Buffalo office next
day, and on the fourth morning be
bock in his office in New York. Sleeping
well in the cars? Not at all, sitting half the
night on the tops of trunks in tbe baggage
oar, writing fliers and folders and advertise
ments to catch the cheerful traveler.
With all its millions ot monev the great
railroad corporation is not half as independ
ent as the peanut vender who stands on ins
corner and waits for bis customers to come
W. D.
BOSTON’S WIRIS BUDGET.
Th® Old Mayor Defeated for Ke-elec
tion by 13 Votes.
Boston, Ga., Jan. 9.— The election for
city officers passed off quietly to-day. A.
B. Cone, for mayor, defeated J. W. Car
mine, the old mayor, by thirteen votes.
More interest lias lieeu taken in this election
than in any previous election for city
officers. An entirely new hoard of aider
men was elected.
Mrs. Dr. Stacy whs buried here this after
noon at 3 o’clock. She was taken ill early
last night aud died at midnight.
Joseph 8. Norton has sold his furniture,
buggy and undertaker's business to J. J.
Parramore, who took charge to-day. Mr.
Norton is one of the largest and most
successful truck growers in Southwest
Georgia. His farms require bis whole per
sonal attention, and for this reason he gave
up his business in town. Mr. Norton will
begin shipping cabbage* in carlcad lots in
two or three weeks.
POGILIST'O SCRIBES.
Opening' of the ’lr.al of Atlanta's Ac
cused Newspaper Men.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 9. —Tbe oases against
W. N. Hurtell, city editor of the Evening
Journal, aud Messrs. Hastings and Harper,
reporters on the same paper, for assault
with intent to murder, were called in the
superior oourt this morning, but were con
tinued until Wednesday on account of
the pendency of another caso
In which tbelr attorneys are
engaged. The three newspaper men were
the aggressors in a street fight. In which
A. A. Murphey, president of the "1890”
Prohibition club, was tbe other party. The
light grew out of a local election, in which
the prohibition question was injected by
Mr. Murphey and hi* followers, Rev. Ham.
Email being associated with him in the agi
tation of the quislion. Tbe trial is likely
to prove of lively interest.
Death at Lumpkin.
Lumpkin, Ga., Jan. 9.—C. C. Humber,
an old an highly respected citizen, died here
last night. He had represented tt.e Twelfth
senatorial district and had represented
Stewart county iu the House four or five
terms with credit to himself and to the
satisfaction of his constituents. He was a
good citizen, a big hearted neighbor and
beloved by all who knew him.
A Barrel Factory Burned.
Charleston, s. C„ Jan. 9.—Blodgett's
tiile water barrel factory aud fOO barrels
of rosin on Marshall’s wharf were burned
to-night. The loss is about f 13,000, par
tially insured.
FIGHTING A RAILROAD.
The House Closely Divided Over the
Norfolk and Western.
Washington, Jan. 9.— The District ef
Columbia appropriation bill was passed by
tbe House this morning.
Then an hour was consumed in the consid
eration of the bill to promote the efficiency
of the militia, but there was no determina
tion.
The remainder of the day was devoted
to tne consideration of a bill permitting tbe
Norfolk and Western F.ailroad Company
to enter tbe District of C lumbia. This was
bitterly opposed, and after a three hours’
struggle, bv permission of both sides,a truce
was declared and the fight was postponed
until 11:45 o’clock to-morrow. If at that
time a sufficient number of members can
be secured to prevent an a ijournment until
noon, It will insure tbe passage of tbe bill.
If the Honse adjourns before noon, the dis
trict day will be forfeited and the fate of
tbe measure will be problematical.
ARGUMENT OP THE BILL’S FRIENDS.
The advocates of the measure took the
ground that the city of Washington was
entitled to larger railroad facilities, and
intimated (though they did not expressly
that tbe opposition emanated from
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This
charge its opponents denied, and they an
tagonized the measure principally on the
ground that it would increase the
grade crossing in the district
Various propositions to amend tbe bill
were presented by Messrs. Bergen and
Buohanan of New Jersey and Mr. Atkinson
of Rennsylvania, and though a good deal
of time was consumed by the gentlemen
calling for tellers, their amendments were
invariably rejected, except when some un
important amendment w as accepted bv Mr.
Hemphill, who was in charge of the bill.
The House at 5:20 o’clock took a recess
without action until 11:45 o’clock to
morrow (thus continuing tbe legislative
day), when the distriot committee hopes to
secure the passage of the bill.
PLANT’S NEW BRANCH.
Tne Silver Spring's, Ocala and Oulf
Road Secured.
New York, Jan. 9.—The Plant Invest
ment Company has acquired the controlling
interest in the Bi!ver Springs, Ocala and
Gulf Railroad Company, which operates a
line forty-three miles from Ooala to Inver*
ness, where it joins the South Florida road,
one of the r ads in the Plant system, and
also has thirty-two miles of branches to
Homostassa and the phosphate beds. Upon
the completion of a link of about sixty nnies
now under construction tetween Duunellon
on the Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf rail
road, and High Springs on the Gainesville
division of the Savannah, Florida and
Wesiern ruilroad, the Plant system will con
trol a continuous line from Montgomery,
Aia., to Tampa, Fla., making the ahorteat-
for western traffic with South Florida.
anew nkEP water outlet.
The phosphate mines on the Silver
Springs, Ocala and Gulf railroad, w hich
have hitherto been wholly dependent on
Fernandina as an outlet for their export
business, will now have a shorter line to
deeper water at Port Tampa, on the Gulf
of Mexico. The same phosphate territory
will uow have ready access to Brunswick
and Savannah bv this connection through
High Springs and the Savannah, Florida
and Western railroad. This new connection
also opens up to those ports and to Port
Tampa a valuable phosphatn territory lying
between Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf
railroad and tbe Cedar Key division of the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad,
and also the territory lying between the
latter and the Gainesville division of the
Savannah. Florida and Western railroad.
The plan for Improvement at Port Tampa,
recently begun, provides for additional
facilities for export business superior to
those now afforded elsewhere.
KIMSAL.L. COSJPKO iIISE3.
The Man Who Organized the Trust
Withdraws His Suit.
New York, Jan. 9.— The action of Theo
dore E. Allen to recover $30,000 from W.
8. Kimball & Cos. for services in organizing
the cigarette trust, which has been on trial
for several days before Justice Ingraham
of the supreme court, was withdrawn to
day, as a settlement has been reached. The
compromise provides for the withdrawal of
the other four actions against other original
members of the trust, hut the counsel would
not disclose tbe terms of the compromise.
Failure Follows a Quarrel.
Toledo, 0., Jan. 9.—The firm of Dewey,
Rohrers & Cos., the largest wholesale shoe
house in Ohio, felled to-day. Their liabili
ties are said to bi in the neighborhood of
$400,000. The assets are about $350,000.
The i allure was caused by a disagreement
among the partners, not by business re
verses.
Printers Strike.
Toronto, Ont., Jan. 9.— The union
printers employed on the Presbyterian
struok to-day by order of the executive
committee of the typographical union,
which had teen unable to come to terms
with the management regarding the price
for machine work.
Work on the South Bound.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 9.— A thou
sand bands are grading the new road be
tween Jacksonville and Havannah. Several
miles of grading has been completed from
Hart's Road northward.
CROWDER OUT ON BAIL.
Touchstone and Eia Friends Said to
Have Begun the Fight..
Griffin, Ga., Jan. 9.—Cad Crowder,who
cut James Touchstone at tbe election in
Mount Zion district Saturday, was to-day
admitted to bail by Judge E. W. Beck ot
tbe eounty court in the sum of $2,000.
Crowder was charged with assault with in
tent to murder, and as the condition of Dr.
Touchstoue is not favorable the grantiug of
bail was resisted by the friends of Dr.
Touchstone, but their bill wag overruled and
bond granted on the defendant’s showing.
Crowder could have given a bond of SIOO.-
000 in this case ae easily apparently as he
executed the one he did.
STORY OF THE FIGHT.
From what has developed this afternoon
Crowder is not so much to blame in the
affair os the report of Saturday indicated.
The old feud of long standing culminated
in an attack on Walter and Cad Crowder
by Dr. Touohstone, bis son and James
Touchstone, O’Maddox and Bob Gordon,
with knives, rocks and sticks. Dr. Touch
stone out at Walter Crowder, who only
saved bis life by the clever use of a stick.
At the same time James Touchstone was
after Cad Crowder with a knife, but was
cut by Crowder before he could use his
knife.
Dr. Touchstone's condition is critical in
the extreme. The knife entered his right
side between the eighth and ninth ribs,
making au iucision several inches in length
to the hollow, severing completely his
breast bone at tbe pit ot his stomach.
COMMITTED ASA LUNATIC.
A Carpenter Classes Himself as Crazy
for Going on a Epree.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 9.—This afternoon
M. R. Fenton, a carpenter who lives with
his family at No. 2224 Magnolia street,
this cit;•, called at tbe office of Ordinary
Calhoun and with a peculiarly significant
tremor in his voice asked to be committed
to the county jail as a lunatic. The ordi
nary questioned tho man aud found that
he had been on a protracted spree. To
oblige him and his family he tin rsforo
wrote out a commitment order. Then
Fant* >n carried himself to the keepers of
the jail, a.id was accordingly locked up
He will be kept there until he is thoroughly
satisfied with tils experience as a prisoner.
NOT FIGHTING THE UNIONS.
The Pennsylvania Road Denies tbe
Cincinnati Story.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 9. James Mo-
Crea, first vice president of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company, which company
operates the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg, is now in this city. Wben shown
the dispatch received from Cincinnati last
night stating that tbe freight handlers and
ether employes on the Indianapolis division
were being discharged for declaring
allegiance to their union organizations, be
said that be knew nothing whatever about
tbe matter beyond what be had seen in tbe
papers. He said no such orders in regard
to getting rid of union men bad
been given or even discuned, and
that it was not the policy of the company
to place themselves in antagonism
with the labor organizations of tLe country.
He added: “In regard to the action of
Freight Agent Perry I cannot talk, as I
do not know any of the circumstances. I
suppose he had trouble with his men and
took this means to get rid of them. There
will probably beau investigation as to tbe
reason of his action and remarks.”
Macon's Ball Club.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 9.— George
Burbridge of this city, manager of tbe
Macon ball team, has signed the following
players: Wells and Boland, catchers;
Nichols and Miller, pitchers; McGuirm,
first base; Carroll, third base; Gillen, short
stop; Hess, left field; York, center field.
Messett will probably be secured to hold
down second.
MEDICAL.
Mrs. Mary Asten
of Lewisburg, Fa., suffered untold agony from
broken varicose veins, with intense itch
ing and burning. On the recommendation of a
physician she took
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and used Hood’s Olive Ointment. Soon the
ulcers began to heal, the inflammation ceased,
she was completely cured, and says, “ I enjoy
health as I have not for many years.”
“We are personally acquainted with Mrs.
Asten and know the above to be true.” J. 8,
Griffin & Son, Lewisburg, Pa.
HOOD'9 PILLB euro Habitual Constipation oy
restoring peristaltic action of the alimentary canal.
SPECIAL NOTICES^
OIIDER OF GOLIILV CHAIN, SA VA N~
3AU LODGE NO. 72.
Thia lodge will give an oyster supper at Isle of
Hope THIS EVENING.
Members and guests will take Whitakerstreet
car at S o’clock; car will leave Second avenue at
8;20 o'clock. C. Y. RICHARDSON,
A. M. GLOVER,
J. H. BEHR.
Committee.
For zs Cents.
Cures all aches.
Cures all naias.
Cures all diarrhoea.
Cures the cholera.
PUNJAB BALSAM
BOWUNSKI. PHARMACIST.
He still bas the prescription
Books of Butler’s Pharmacy,
aud is the only one who can
repeat the prescriptions
NOTICE.
All bills against the Norwegian bark HEBE,
Andersen master,mu6t be presented at our office
before 12 o'clock noon TO-DAY. or payment
thereof will be debarred.
A. MINIS' SONS. Agents.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS OF THE
NATIONAL DANK OF SAVANNAH.
Savannah, Ga., Dee. 10, 1892
Annual election f directors at the hank. 120
Eryan street. TUESDAY, January 10th, 1793,
between the hours of 1! a m. aud ! o’clock p. m.
THOS. K THOMSON. Cashier,
SPECIAL NOTICE. ~
Savannah, Ga.. Jan. 6,1898.
The firm ot ROWLAND & MYERS having THIS
DA A - been dissolved. I beg to notify my friends
and the public that I will continue in the Insur
ance and Heal Estate Business at No. VA Bull
street, and respectfully ask for a continuance
of their patronage.
GRATZC MYERS.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Grove Point Plantation, Jan. 7, 1893.
All persons are warned not hunt, take oysters
or trespass on Grove Point Plantation, and the
marsh adjoining, bounded on the north by the
Little Ogeechee. east by Hell Gate, south by the
Great Ogeechee aud west by Mifflin, Prairie and
Grove Plantations.
RALPH ELLIOTT.
MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK.
Savannah, Jan 10. 1893.
An election for seven (7) directors to manage
the affairs of this Bank for the ensuing j ear
will be held at the Banking House, corner of St.
Julian and Drayton streets, between the hours
of 12 aud 2 o'clock THIS DAY.
WM. S. ROCKWELL. Cashier.
NOTICE.
Tbe Arm of ROWLAND & MYERS has been
dissolved by mutual consent.
I w ill continue the Insurance and Real Estate
Business at the same location. No. 122 Bryan
street, and respectfully solicit a continuance of
the generous patronage bestowed upon the late
firm. Respectfully,
JOHN T. ROWLAND.
B. C. MeCALL,
DRUGGIST AND PHARMACIST.
Corner Congress and Whitaker Streets.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
WE HAVE NOW RECEIEVED OUR SUPPLY
OF
HOLIDAY PACKAGES.
To those who have not left orders with us,
would state tiiat we ordered on extra supply,
amt now have on hand beautiful hnee of Fancy
Baskets and Boxes tilled with Huyler’s delicious
assortment of Caadies.
SOLOMONS * 00,,
103 Congress Street. 2 Bull Street.
MEDICAL.
; WOBTH A GUINEA A BOX.”
’TASTELESS-EFFECTUAL:
FOR A
DISORDERED LIVER:
! Taken as directed tbeca famoae Pills will \
> prove marvellous restoratives to all enfeebled <
> by tbe above or Kindred diseases. <
25 Cents a Box,
: bat generally recognized in England sailin'
,fact throughout the world to b "worth a,
i fruinos a nox,” for tbs reason that they,
i WILL CUKE u wide range of com. ,
i plaints,and thst they have saved tommy
i sufferers not merely one but many guiueae. in <
| doctors' bills.
> Covered with a Tasteless & Soluble Coating, i
lOf all drurglsts. Price 2lt cents a box.!
New York Depot. 3G5 Canal St.
DEATHS.
WILLIAMS.—Died, in this city Sunday after
noon, Jan. 8. Joan Henry Williams, aged 73
years Interment at Laurel Grove cemetery
yesterday afternoon.
FUNERAL INVITATTONS.
(I A ILL A I’D —Died, suddenly. Jan. 9. 1893.
Ron.p.T Gol’rdin, only son of George C. and
Sallie C. Gaillard.
Relatives and friends are requested to attend
the funeral services at the family residence. No.
193 Bolton street, at 8:30 o'clock THIS MORN
ING. Jan. 10,1893
The interment will take place at the family
lot. Corinth church, Effingham county, Geor
gia.
PINDER.—Died, on Sunday. Bth instant, on
Whitmarsh Island, Mrs. Anna E. Pindkk. Per
relatives and friends, with those of Mr. and
Mrs W. J. Marshall, are invited to attend her
funeral from the Independent Presbyterian
church THIS MORNING at 11 o'clock.
MEETING*. '
ANCIENT LANDMARK LODGE SoTdL
F. At A. M.
The regular monthly meeting will be held at
Masonic Temple THIS (Tuesday) EVENING at
8 o'clock.
Members of sister lodges and transient breth
ren are invited to attend.
JAMES R. SHELDON, W. M.
Joes S. Haines, Secretary.
CATHOLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'.
A regular monthly meeting of the Association
will be held THIS (Tuesday) EVENING at 8:15
o'clock. A full attendance is requested.
P. F. GLEASON, President.
J- M, Thomas, Recording Secretary.
THE SOCTHOVER LAND A AD IMPROVE
MKNT COMPANY.
The thirty-first (81st) regular monthly meeting
of the Stockholders and Board of Directors
of this company will be held at the office of
the president. 118 Bryan street. THIS DAY
(Tuesday) at 2 o'clock.
J. L. WHATLEY, President.
W. G. Woodfik, Secretary.
THE OGLETHORPE SAVINGS AND
TRUST COMPANY.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 6, 1893.
The annual meeting of stockholders for the
election of directors for the ensuing year will be
held at the Bank, No, 120 Bryan 6treet, on
TUESDAY, JAN. 10, 1893, at 11 o’clock.
JOHN M. BRYAN. Cashier.
THE IIOMESEEKERS’ MUTUAL LOAN
ASSOCIATION.
The 21st regular monthly meeting of this
Association will be held at the office of the
Treasurer. 1 42 St. Julian street, THIS (Tues
day) EVENING at 8 o'clock.
w. G. CANN. President.
W. B. Stcbbs, Secretary.
SOUTHERN MLT \L LOAN ASSOCIT
T ION.
The 78th regular monthly meeting of the
Southern Mutual Loan Association, Series B,
will be held at the office of the Secretary, No.
7 Drayton street, THIS (Tuesday) AFTERNOON
at 4:00 o’clock.
M. J. SOLOMONS. President.
Wm.D. Hardin, Secretary.
MILITARY ORDERsT
GERMAN VOUOTEERB
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 9, 1893.
Order JVo. 11.
I. The command la hereby ordered to appear at
the Armory on TUESDAY AFTERNOON. Jan.
10, at 2:30 o’clock, in full uniform, for anni
versary parade
11. Every uniformed member is expected to
attend. By order of
HENRY KOLSHORN, Captain.
C. H. Koeneman, First Sergeant.
mm
SPECIAL NOTILAa.
On and after Fob. 1, ’B9O, the hosts of meas
urement of all advertising In the Morning News
will be agate, or at the rate of $1 40 an mob for
the first insertion. No Special Notion inserted
tor leas than 51 00.
A FULL LINE
or
RICKSECKER'S COLOGNE AND EXTRACT
jtrsr received at
SOUTH SIDE PHARMACY.
Abercom and Henry Streets.
CONSULTING OPTICIANS,
DR M. SCHWAB A SON.
OPTICIANS,
No. 23 Bull Street,
win have special sales of Optical Goods for
the holidays. We have the largest and best
stock in the city. We make special prices on
holiday goods. Our stock consists of Gold
Spectacles and Eyeglasses, Lorgnettes, Opera,
Field and Spyglasses. Microscopes. Magnify
ing Glasses, Magic Lanterns. Stereoscopes,
and Greflscopes. Also a special line of Chate
laine Cases for spectacle and eyeglasses.
N. B.—Every pair gold gpeetaoles or eye
glasses bought for holiday presents can be ex
changed one year free of charge. This
Includes examination of the eyes and proper
glasses fitted without any additional cost to
purchaser.
ELECTION FOR DIRECTOR^
The Chatham Bank. Jan. 1. 1893.
Tb© annual ©l©ctiou for Qiructors to raana?©
the affairs of the Bank will be held at the bank
ing house, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th inst.at
12 o'clock ic. By order of the Board
R I BURDELL, Cashier
GEO. M. NICHOLS, ”
PRINTING,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
83} Bay St. Savannah.
KIESLING’S ‘NURSERY,
WHirK BLUFF UOAU
lII.ANTS. Bouquets, Designs, Out Flower,
I furnished tu order, ljsave orders at Savan
nah Piano Cm., cor. Bull and York st. Tbe Belt
Railway poser, through the nursery. Telephone
M 0
AMUSEMENT#.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!
ONE NIGHT.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th.
e
MR. RICHARD
MANSFIELD
And Stock Company,
Under the sole direction of Mr. John P. Slo
cum, in
BEAU BRUMMELL.
Seats at Livingston's Jan. 9, 9 a. h.
PRlCES—Reserved seats, $1 50; admission,
9 1 : first gallery, 75c ; second gallery, 50c.
Next Attraction—JANE, Jan. 12.
SAVANNAH THEATER^
One Night Only, Jan, 12,
400 Times London—loo Nights New York.
Presented by
CHARLES FROHMAN’S
BRILLIANT COMPANY.
The summer girl that’s bound to reign.
Is feathery, dusty, rollicking “Jane.”
Hamlet—melancholy Dane,
Would burst his sides if he saw “Jane.’’
Your buttons grasp with might and main
Or they’ll fly off at funny "Jane.’’
Let laughter titillate your brain.
You'll roar, and ruar, and roar at “Jane.”
Seat* at Livingston’s Jan. 10. Reserved seats
25 cents extra.
Next attraction “CLAY CLEMENTS," Jan. 18.
BAN ENTERTAINMENT^
Under the Auspices
Ladies’ lid, Savannah Volnntear Snarls.
Willie given at Catholic Library Hail
MONDAY, JAN. 16, 1893.
AFTERNOON AT 3:30 O’CLOCK.
PRIZE BABY SHOW.
DOLL SHOW—Prize to oldest, prettiest and
ugliest doll. Enter your baby, enter your doth
No charge for admission to hall.
EVENING AT 8:30 O’CLOCK.
Delightful recitation by a prominent younr
lady. Fine solo singing by some of society s
favorites.
Dancing. (Music by Cobb’s band). Icecream
cake. etc. Fortune tolling
Admission to hall only 10 cents, (pay at
the door). Dancing (all (tie evening) 10 cents.
Other things one dime.
bZkks. ~ ~
THE CITIZENS Bil
OF SAVANNAH,
Capital 3500,000
Transacts a general banking business.
Btaintains a Savings Department and altows
INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., compounded
quarterly.
The accounts of Individuals, firms, banks and
corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspondents Is
GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA and SOUTH
CAROLINA, we are prepared to handle collec
tions on the most favorable terms.
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK,
President.
M. B. LANE,
Vice ParsmsNT.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN.
Cash i Kit.
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST AT
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Collections on Savannah and all southern
points, we handle on the most favorable terms
and remit at lowest exchange rates on day of
payment. Correspondence solicited.
JOSEPH 11. WEED, President.
.JOHN C. HOWLAND, Vice President
JAMES H. HUNTER. Cashier.
ESTEVE &TcoT~
1-3 Hay Street,
SAVANNAH. - - GrA..
BUSINESS. BUY
oipi? E^iTS.4CH^ Na,C OH ALL THE PIUN-
°* SPAIN ’ FRANC* AND—
• DRAW ON
A. BUFFER & SONS LONDON
| PARTS,
j HAVRE,
CREDIT LYONNAIS ' BORDEAUX 3 *
I ROUEN,
| NANTES.
rSTFVT V- ™ (DUNKIRK.etc.
ESTEVE i CO BARCELONA
P- ALFARO &CO MADRID
BARROSO A CO LISBON
tSfSpecial rates paid for drafts of masters
of Spanish vessels an I for drafts drawn by
masters of vessels bound for Spanish ports.
photographers!
Another New Lot of Engraving,
ETCHINGS AND WATER COLORS JUST
RECEIVED BY
Launey & Goebel,
Who are also headquarters for tins Photo
graphs, Crayon, Pastel and Water-Color Por
traits from life or oopy; also, the largest and
finest line of Moldings and Frames ever shown
in Savannah. Now is the time to put In your
orders for the Holidays.
N. B—Studio now 81 Whitaker street, on*
door south of Broughton.
JEWILERY.
AUTISTIC ~~
SILVERWARE
TEA AND DINNER SERV
ICES.
And all other objects mads of Silver.
BAMUEL KIRK & SON,
At our New Store and Manufactory,
106 BALTIMORE ST.. EAST. BALTIMORE, MD.
Established 1817.
Also floe WATCHES, JEWELRY, VIA
MONDE,
