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PROCLAIMED A DAY OF REST
The Mayor Calls lor Services of
Thanksgiving by the People.
A General Suspension of Business
Throughout the City - The Banks,
Exchanges and Public Offices to be
Closed and the Courts Adjourned.
The Parade of the Labor Organiza
tions.
To-day is Lalior Day, and will be ob
served as a holiday by all of Savannah's
working people as well as by business
ni -n. who will hood the proclamation of
M tyor McDonough declaring the day a
legal holiday in the city.
Mayor McDonough’s proclamation was
Issued in view of the uncertainty of the
act of the legislature which set aside the
first Monday in September as Labor Day,
and also as there is some question with
regard to the legality of the act
Mayor McDonough says in his procla
mation that it is the manifest policy of
the state that to day should be observed
as such a holiday, and that every person
Should have an opportunity of celebrating
the occasion.
A I)AT Or THANKSGIVING.
He has invited all the citizens there
fore. of every calling and profession to
Observe to-day as a day of thanksgiving
and rest, to abstain from their unual la
bors and to assemble at their respective
places of worship andtgive thanks.
The First Presbyterian church will
hold a sunrise prayer meeting this morn
ing at 7 o’clock in accordance with the
mayor's proclamation. The banks will
be closed as is usual on a legal holiday,
and the courts will do no business.
THE PAnAIIE.
The chief feature of the day will be the
parade of the Federated Trade and La
bor Assembly this afternoon. There will
be two divisions, and Too to 800 men are
expected to be in lino. The organizations
will be the Workingmen’s Benevolent
Association, Blacksmiths' Union, Tailors’
Union, Machinists’ Union, Savannah Ty
pographical Union, Carpenters and Join
ers’ Brotherhood and unorganized labor.
The line will form on Liberty street,
with the right resting on Bull and will
move at 4 o’clock The route will be up
Liberty street to West Broad*, to Congress,
to Barnard, to Broughton, to Bull, to
Bay, to East Broad, to Liberty, and
thence to the starting point, where the
parade will be dismissed. To-night
nearly all the organizations will have re
unions at their halls.
THE WHEELMEN’S MEET.
An Afternoon’s Brilliant Racing at
the Wheelmen’s Park.
The opening fall meet of the Sava
nah wheelmen at the Wheel
men's Park this afternoon will
be the great event of the day, out
side of the parade. Counting all the
races there are over sixty entries, the
greatest number in any meet ever given in
the south. There will be nine races in
all, the obstruction race having been
abandoned and the prizes added to the
other events.
A force of,,men has been at work at
the park since last Tuesday repairing
the damages from the storm,
and yesterday everything was
complete and the track in readiness
for the race. Everything has been . done
that will add to the pleasure of those who
will attend. A force of police will be on
guard that nothing may occur which will
give any annoyance.
THE MTSIC.
A programme of music will be rendered
by both brass and string bands during the
intervals between the race# and during
the balloon ascension and parachute leap
which will take place during the lattor
part of the races.
With good weather the meet will be
one of the most brilliant yet given. The
fastest riders in the south will be here.
The Bairds of Charleston, whose riding in
previous meets here and in the internation
al meet at Chicago and throughout the
north has won for them a reputation, are
entered for all the handicap events which
adds greatly to the interest in the races.
The competition among local riders is
sharp. The last month lias been devoted
to hard training, and some surprises are
looked for when the races are finished.
The entries will bo posted at the track
and on the race programmes.
EVERYTHING IN READINESS.
Chairman Denhardtof the race commltte
has devoted almost his undivded time to
the arrangements for the meet, and last
night they were complete. The Electric
railway will run a.special schedule of
cars from all points on its lines to the
park gates. Superintendent McFarland
has arranged a complete service and there
will be no trouble in handing the crowds.
The races will start at 4 o’clock. The
Officers of the meet are:
Referee—Samuel M. Whiteside.
Clerk of Course—Win. Denhardt.
Announcer—W. ,1. Lindsay.
Judges—R. D. Lattimore, C. W. Saussv.
C. M. Bushing.
Time-keepers—Fred Meyers, Jr., W. E
Grady. H A. Stults.
Scorer—A. L. Stokes.
Umpires—C. W. Goodman, T. ,T. Lynch.
The visiting wheelmen will be met on
their arrival this morning and will be
tendered the courtesies of the club house
during their stay in the ettv. Chairman
Denhardt will be at the clubhouse to
night and will deliver the prizes to the
winners.
HILTON HEAD SWEPT.
Many Lives Lost on the Island by the
Hurricane.
The first news from Hilton Head was
received yesterday. The storm swept
the island and many negroes lost their
lives. A colored man, -who took the pas
sengers oft the Camusi, when asked how
many had been drowned on the island,
said: ‘We couldn't count them; there
■were a plenty.”
The shores and bluffs at many places
show that no such storm has visited this
section within the memory of man. Huge
live oaks and other trees have been tum
bled into the rivers by the waves and
Wind.
Hague’s Point light-house station,
while a picturesque spot on the north
end. is almost washed away. What was
a beautiful landscape is now a naked,
ragged bluff.
The steamer Camusi arrived from
Beaufort early yesterday morning, and it
was intended that she would depart yes
terday with a load of supplies for the suf
ferers amoug the islands near Beaufort
and Port Royal. An accident delayed
her however, and she will leave this
tnorning at 5 o clock.
There was some damage done to the
steamer s fire wall and the flues of the
boiler were stopped up. The repairs
were made yesterday and with the assist
aneeof a pump from a tug boat, she will be
ready to take the mueh needed supplies
to the starving islanders. The steamer
will ue loaded to her utmost capacity
with provisions of all kinds, shipped by
tv LucKenkeimer & Sons, who have in
terested themselves in the charity and
are superintending the distribution of
tne donations of the Bavanah merchants.
io cure nervousnesyour nerves must be
fed by pure blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla
makes pure blood. Take it now.—Ad-
A REAL AND MIMIC WRECK.
Coincidence in the Loss of the Savan
nah and the Production of a New
Play.
A strange coincidence In life is that
while the City of Savannah was lying on
Hunting Island breakers last Monday
night with her passengers clinging to the
rigging, a play was being enacted for the
first time in the grand opera house at Co
lumbus, 0., in* which the steamer was
being wrecked on canvass waves.
Elmer E. Vance, wtio Las written sev
eral plays, among them, “The Limited
Mail," has just put the finishing touches
to his latest effort. “Patent Applied For,’’
and it was given its initial performance
in Columbus last Monday night.
The scenes are laid in Savannah.
The play is of the realistic order.
The first act shows the repair stiop
of the Empire machine works at Savan
nah, with its forge in full operation, em
ery wheel and other shop equipments.
It is in this scene that the trial test of the
triple electric wire-braider, which has
been the pot scheme of the inventor, Hen
ry Milburn, and on which he expected to
secure letters patent, is made. It is on
this machine and the patent ttiat the
story of the play hinges.
The first scene of the second act is the
Clift villa, with the Savannah river in the
distance. The second scene of the act
represents the whirlpool into which the
hero of the play has been thrown by the
designing villain, and from which he is
rescued by the heroine.
The climax is reached in the fourth act,
which represents the steamship Savannah
in a storm at sea. It is in this act and the
production of the play at a time when the
real steamship was battling with the
waves and her passengers were strug
gling for their lives that the strange coin
cidence comes m. The scene in the play,
as described by the Columbus papers,
represents the deck of the steamer with
its cabins and immense funnel, pilot
wheel, etc. The landingand departureof
the ship from the Savannah pier is shown.
Presently the storm bursts upon the ship
in all its fury. The wind whisties and
shrieks, the sails are rent and the vessel
turns almost on its side. The pilot is
swept from the deck and the ship goes
scurrying before the gale at the mercy of
the lashing waters. The hero who was
struck down on the deck by the designing
villain recovers to find the ship without a
pilot, and bracing himself on the deck,
which is almost at an angle of 46 degrees,
lie grasps the wheel, and, with the aid of
the heroine, rights the ship and gets it in
position to weather the storm.
The finale of the act is not that of the
City of Savannah which is still lying in
the breakers, but the fact of the wreck is
singularly coincident. The last act of
the play shows the corridor and court
room in the edited States court at
Washington, where the forgery on the
assignment of the letters patent is dis
closed by the aid of a stereopticon.
The Columbus critics say the play is
ingeniously constructed, and that it con
tains some very bright dialogue. The
plot is sufficiently indicated by the
various scenes to need only a recapitula
tion. The patent papers are stolen from
Inventor Milburn after his sudden death
in the repair shop of the Empire machine
works, by the owner, Crafton Chase.
The theft was wifilessed by Steamship
Bill, a tramp artist. Chase tries to throw
the crime on Robert Lansing, his fore-
man, who is in love with Helen, the
daughter of Inventor Milburn. A deed
of assignment of the letters patent is
forged, and on the case being tried in the
court at Washington the crime is exposed
and Chase is punished.
If Mr. Vance could arrange a produc
tion of his play in Savannah just now, or
oven later in the season, he would not
lack an audience. If nothing else, the
local interest and curiosity in the piece
would make it a drawing attraction.
THE WORK ON THE LOWLANDS.
The Sanitary Forces Clearing Out the
Drains as Rapidly as Possible.
Chairman Folliard of the drainage com
mittee of the city council has reported
to Mayor McDonongh that a thorough
examination of Hutchinson’s Island has
been made by the drainage forces at work
there, and no dead bodies of persons or
cattle have been found. The have all
been buried or were carried down the
river aud lodged on the south side.
The stench arising from Hutchinson’s
island, which is very perceptible when
the wind is from that direction, is said to
come from the quantities of decaying veg
etation. This will be disposed of as rap
idly as possible. The ditches and drains
on the island are being cleaned out and
repaired. Mayor McDonough’s orders
were to cremate all dead bodies of cattle
found on the island.
The same conditions exist Back of the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
wharves below the city, and the Central
railroad wharves abovo, and on the
Springfield plantation as on Hutchinson’s
Island.
The quantities of dead fish and frogs
in these localities is something remark
able. Cattish and bullfrogs predominate,
with numbers of other fresh water fish,
and occasionally salt water fish. That
salt water fish should have been driven
in numbers so far up the river shows the
severity of the storm.
River men are at a loss to explain how
so many fish and frogs came to be killed
by the storm. No amount of mud would
kill a catfish unless he was kept high aud
dry for a week, and this fish can easily
undergo a fast for the same length of
time, yet there are thousands of them
dead. It does not seem reasonable that
the force of the Hood should have been so
violent as to kill them by wholesale. The
cause of their death seems a mystery.
It seems strange too, that the bull
frogs should have been destroyed in such
numbers, and yet they are there to show
for themselves. Any quantity of live fish
and frogs were brought in by the waters,
and the negroes had a great time catching
them form few days.
It will be necessary to make away with
the decaying fish and frogs at oiice, or
sickness will be caused in the localities
in which they have accumulated.
TO HANDLE PACKAGES FREE.
The Southern Express Co.’s Contribu
tion to the Storm Sufferers.
Agent F. L. Cooper, of the Southern
Express Company, has received instruc
tions from Supt. Myers to forward money
and packages weighing ten pounds or less,
to the sufferers at Port Royal and Beau
fort and vicinity free. The order applies
to all o dices of the Southern Express
Company in the Florida division, which
embraces all roads iu Florida and the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western and the
Charleston and Savannah railways.
Mr. Cooper is uninformed why the limit
of ten pounds is placed on packages. It
may be to facilitate the handling of the
matter at its destination. All packages
for the storm sufferers will be received at
tbe Savannah office of the express com
pany in accordance with Supt. Myers’ in
structions.
WHEN WEARY AND LANGUID,
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
When you are weary and languid with
the neat of summer, and svuive in vain to
keep cool, and your temper also, the use of
Horsford's Acid Phospato will materially
aid you.— ad.
“Have you received any pie yet?” said one
oflU-eseeker to another.
' No, but I've received provisions of another
sort."
"What sort?"
‘Cold shoulder."—Pittsburgo Chronicle
leie^rph.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 18U3.
BIG LOSS OF NAVAL STORES.
Ten Per tent, of the Boxes Destroyed
by the Storm.
Entire Forests Blown Down in South
Carolina and the Loss Complete—The
Naval Stores Business Practically
Suspended for the Past Week—An
Arrangement to Get at the Stocks
on the Wharves Will Probably Be
Made To-day.
The turpentine operators, whose farms
were in the path of the storm, are heavy
sufferers, as is shown by this reports they
are sending in to factors here.
Reports from the section just west of
Savannah traversed by the Sam and Cen
tral railroads show that the operators
will lose about ten per cent, of the boxes
by the blowing down of their trees. This
means a loss of ten per cent, of the crop
that would have been made from now on
if the storm had not occurred. Mr. John
It. Young has received reports from seven
operators in that section, and they all
state the damage to the boxes at about
the samfi figure, ten per cent.
Reports from along the Savannah. Flor
ida and Western railway from Savannah
as far as Jesup indicate that the damage
to the crop nas been about the same as
from the other section, but the other side
of Jesup the damage has been compara
tively slight, and further on there has
been none at all, as that was out of the
path of the storm.
AM. GONE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
In Soutli Carolina the naval stores busi
ness is not quite so extensive as it is In
Georgia, but the storm increased in in
tensity as it left this section, and reports
from over the river show that practically
nothing at all is left of the turpentine trees
in that state, or, rather, in the southern
portion of it. The operators over there
consider their forests almost a total loss
and their business’ is practically sus
pended. Trees were blown down every
where, and in some places stills were
blown away. The operators in that state
probably suffered worse than those of
any other section.
TIIE UNIDENTIFIED ROSIN.
Mr. Edward Nash, of the firm of Pat
terson, Downing & Cos., from New York,
will be in the city to-day to look after the
matter of straightening up the differ
ences, so far as his firm is concerned,
with regard to the immense quantities of
the unidentified rosin, which is now lying
on the wharves of the Central and the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Companies. This firm owns probably more
than 60. per cent of the 187,000 barrels of
rosin onthese two wharves, and the ques
tion of making some arrangement in or
der to get at this rosin for shipment is a
very important one to them.
MAlt-REACH A CONCLUSION TO-DAY.
It is very probable that the factors and
the buyers will arrive at some conclusion
to-ilay witli regard to this rosin and
spirits, so that it can be made available
for shipment. Several of the plans, as
already stated in the Morning News, pro
posed have been rejected either by one
side or the other, but neither can afford
to let matters run on
in this way much longer,
as the rosin is needod for shipment. They
will probably arrange to draw on the un
identified rosin and spirits after that
which can be identified is exhausted, and
then give bond to make good any losses
which mayiaccrue therefrom, each paying
their pro rata of such loss.
BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL.
So far as the naval stores on the
wharves is concerned, the business during
the past week has been at an entire stand
still and it has been impossible to do
anything whatever. The delay caused
by the differences between the
railroads and the naval stores men
has been responsible for this. There
hasj been a few shipments of newßgoods,
however, which have been received since
the storm. Outside of this the naval
stores business at this port has been stag
nant for the past week.
ADJUSTING THE LOSSES.
Many of Savannah’s Buildings Were
Covered by Storm Insurance.
The storm of 1881 evidently taught
many of the owners of buildings in Savan
nah a lesson, for the great majority of
them that were damaged by the storm
were insured to the full amount of their
loss.
Mr. H. C. Stockdell and Mr. Frank
Stoekdell. of Atlanta, were in the city
yesterday on their return from Charles
ton, where they had been to look after the
losses of the Phoenix Insurance Company
of Brooklyn, which they represent. The
Phoenix carried a heavy amount of storm
insurance in Charleston and their losses
there will reach almost $60,000.
In Savannah their losses were lighter
on account of the fact that far less dam
age was done here by the wind. But the
Phoenix will pay out about $13,000 to own
ers of buildings in Savannah. Other
companies have lost quite extensively
here, and their agents are now in the city
adjusting the losses.
It is said that the Continental Union In
surance Company, of Irondon, will be the
heaviest loser in Charleston, as its
losses there will aggregate SIOO,OOO. The
oilier companies which sustained losses
in the path of the cyclone are the Hart
ford, the German American and a number
of others in London and New York.
MORE WRECKS SIGHTED.
The Nacoochee Passes a Burning Dere
lict off Frying Pan.
The steamship Nachooehee arrived yes
terday from New York. Capt. Smith
reports that on Sept. 2, 12:30 p. ro., 30
miles southwest by West from Frying Pan
shoals, he passed a burning wreck, with
the tug Alexauder Jones, of Wilmington,
N. C. lying by. When last seen the tug
had left, steering towards the land.
in all probability the buring wreck was
that of the barkentine Freeda A. Willey,
of Thomaston. Maine, which was aband
oned at sea, tbe crew being taken off by
the schooner Annie E. Franz, and trans
ferred to the steamship Tallahassee and
brought to the city.
The schoouer James Moran of Savannah
is sunk opposite Spanish Wells, near the
mouth of May river.
The schooner William and John of Sa
vannah is ashore, high and dry, on Pine
Island, near Cooper river. She is appa
rently all right and can be gotten off by a
little digging. ,
The schooner Vineyard of Savannah is
also on Pine Island, about 500 yards from
shore. She will probably be a total loss.
There appears to be nothing left but her
hull.
Trains All Right.
All the railroad trains were running on
regular schedule yesterday and no further
damage from rain and storm was reported.
The railroad men are in hopes they will
have a rest now from storm work and
are glad that the storm that was pre
dicted for Saturday did not come in this
direction, but moved out to sea.
New York Oysters.
New York oysters and Little Neck
clams, the first of the season, will be
served at the Cadden Saloon to-night.
DOWN AT THE BARRACKS.
Arreats aa the Reault of Sunday Fra
caaea and Disorderly Conduct.
Recorder Wiisou will have a lively time
of it this morning. There are just thirty
two cases on the jiolice docket as the re
sult of Saturday and Sunday's business.
Ashby Smith and Frank Iverson, two
Yamaeraw negroes. had quite a lively
fracas yesterday morning between land
2 o'clock, down in the heart of that sec
tion, and the result was that Iverson got
a severe cut in the shoulder. He reported
the matter to the police and Smith was
soon lodged in the barracks.
Hardy Gordon will probably be turned
over to the city court by the recorder for
carrying a concealed pistol, as he was ar
rested on that charge yesterday.
Willie Crosby, Tens Moore, Estella
Jackson, Mamie Brown and Selvina
Young, a crowd of colored wenches who
reside In the neighborhood of Liberty
and East Broad streets got hold of Frank
Murphy yesterday and succeeded, he
says, in duping him out of his watch and
chain and the money he had on his person.
He made a complaint against them, and
had them all lodged in the barracks.
The remainder of the thirty-two cases
are either for drunkenness or disorderly
conduct on the streets, and to all appear
ances, it is a hard crowd that the recor
der will have to tackle this morning.
Cases have been made also, it is under
stood, against several more of the Greek
fruit venders for keeping open their
places on the Sabbath. There were three
of them in this last lot, and their names
will probably be presented to the grand
jury of the city court at its next meeting
for indictment. Very few of the cases
made against these fruit dealers some
time ago have as yet been disposed of.
TO LEAVE THIS MONTH.
The Southover Land Company’s Com
mittee to Go to New England.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting of the Southover Land Company
to go to the New England states for the
purpose of interesting northern capitalists
in the cotton spinning industry in this
section will leave for the north on or about
Sept. 15.
The committee originally appointed con
sists of Messrs. G. B. Whatley and E. F.
Bryan, but it is probable that Mr. Bryan
will be unable to attend and that Mr. W.
L. Wilson will go in his place.
The Southover Land and Improvement
Company intends to interest New Eng
land capitalists, in the building of cot
ton milis here in the midst of the cot
ton growing country, besides which loca
tion this section has every advantage in
the way of climate and facilities for trans
portation that can be found in any other
part of the country. When the showing
made by the Savannah cotton mills is
laid before these New England capitalists
they will see at once that the south is
the place for the industry of spinning
cotton yarns, or at least that the section
around Savannah has every facility nec
essary.
The Southover Company has a large
tract of land out at Southover Junction
which would be improved and more than
doubled in value by the establishment of
these mills at this point. The committee
selected to lay the plans and prospects of
the company before these capitalists is as
good a oue as could have been selected
for that purpose, and there is no doubt
but that they will be able to accomplish
the object of their trip. They will go to
Boston, Lowell and other points in Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire
and Rhode Island, and will lay the matter
fully before those interested in the in
dustry.
A LETTER FROM DR. WHITE.
He Wants a Bottle of Savannah River
Water to Analyze.
Health Officer Brunner has received a
letter from Dr. J. H. White, now at Ham
burg, where he was transferred from Sa
vannah by the marine hospital service, in
‘ which he says thatfbrders hay# been is
sued that emigrants from that port to the
United States must bo quarantined and
disinfected before leaving for this coun
try.
This is the order which Dr. Brunner
thinks should have been issued a year
agß, and should now be applied to all "emi
grants to this country from European
ports.
Dr. White requested Dr. Brunner to
send him a sample of Savannah river
water taken from the river at low water
below Bilbo canal, and also one taken
further up the river. He requested that
the samples be sent in sterilized bottles
only half filled so that the “ani
mals” contained therein would not
perish in transit. The water
is wanted for Prof. Dunbar, a scientist of
the Hygienic institute at Hamburg, who
is collecting samples of river water from
all over the world for scientific experi
ments. Dr. White’s request will be com
plied with.
Dr. Brunner says any comma bacilli,
cholera germs, which might be deposited
in the specimen of Savannah river water
would die a sudden and horrible death.
He considers this an unnecessary cruelty
to the bacilli which should not be al
lowed.
Dr. White says in his letter that cholera
bacilli or germs indistinguishable from
them exist in the Elbe, Salle, Spree and
other German rivers.
For insomuia take Bromo-Seltzer
Before retiring. Trial bottle lOc.
Also cures disordered stomach.—ad.
World’s Fair Rate Reduced
From Savannah via Central railroad to
$34 20 round trip, limit fifteen days. W.
G. Brewer, C. T. A., No. 19 Bull street.—
ad.
THE HEAVIEST WEEK KNOWN.
The Western Union Handled Nearly
200,000 Words of Special Tele
grams.
Among the hardest worked men in Sa
vannah during the past week, besides the
newspaper men, and all on account of the
storm, were the Western Union opera
tors. They were at their post night and
day during the week, some of them eat
ing and sleeping in the office in order to
be on hand to attend to the rush of work.
The office handled an average of 30,000
words of special newspaper telegrams a
night for six nights, the biggest night be
ing Wednesday, when tlfey sent 43.000
words, iu all about 200,000 words were
sent out to the newspapers alone.
Besides this immense amountof matter,
they had, in addition to their regular
daily business, from 300 to 400 personal
messages of inquiry with regard to the
condition of people and affairs after the
storm. Manager Maxwell says this is the
biggest week's work lie has known since
he has been connected with the office.
‘ CUTTING DOWN THE FORCE.
Ten Clerks Dropped From the S., F.
and W. Offices.
The Savannah, Florida and Western
railway made a general reduction in its
clerical forces night before last. About
ten clerks were discharged, or suspended,
as it is called, in the office of the freight
agent and on the wharf. The clerks were
not discharged outright, but suspended
for from one to three months.
The reduction was a painful surprise td
those who suffered by it, as it was sup
posed that with the busy season just be
ginning there would be no more suspen
sions now Those of the employes sus
pended will seek employment elsewhere.
BAKING POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
D o y*A Baking
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE WRECK OF TYBEE.
Not More Than Thirty People Left on
the Island.
The Town Council to Hold a Meeting
to Discuss Plansy r Improvement—
The Houses on tWßeaeh Nearly All
Demolished or Damaged—The
Woods Filled With Wreckage and De
caying Fish—The Necessity for Im
mediate Sanitary Work.
Chief of Police R. F. Higgins of Tybee
came up to the city yesterday afternoon
on the tug Regis. Chief Higgins has
been at Tybee ever since the storm and
came up yesterday for the first time. He
has been busy since the storm in burying
the dead and attending to the wants of
the living on the island.
He eays there are only about twenty
white people and half as many negroes
left at Tybee, and they are in a destitute
condition. He did not talk about the
part he took in the storm, but it is naid
by others that the chief did good work in
assisting in the removal of the women and
children on the north end of tne island to
places of safety.
a general wreck.
Tybee, he says, is a scence of wreck
and desolation. There is little left of
Savannah’s popular summer resort ex
cept the Hotel Tybee, the Naylor House
and the club house.
The police headquarters near the Cen
tral railroad pavilion were blown down,
killing the chief’s horse, which was in
the stable. The horso was dug out two
days after' and cremated by Chief Hig
gins.
Chief Higgins had coffins made and buried
the four negroes who were drowned Sun
day night on the upper end of the island
at Beach's Pond. Deputy Coroner W. T.
Dixon arrived Tuesday night with coffins,
but the burial had already been com
pleted. There was only one lantern with
which to light the burial and the scene
was a grewsome one.
A WOUNDED SAILOR’S DEATH.
On Thursday Chief Higgins had the
body of tlie dead sailor aboard the j
wrecked bark Harold on the south end
of Tybee taken out the hold of the vessel
and buried. The funeral was attended
by the sailors of the Harold and the
burial service was read by Chief Higgins.
Tne name of the drowned sailor was
Walter Finkenshar of Ellafeldt, Ger
many, His death was a pitiable one.
He had fallen from a mast and injured
his head about twenty days before the
storm and was in his quarters in the hold
in a delirious condition when the bark
went ashore. His companions had to
take to the water to save their lives, and
he was left aboard to drown. Finkenshai
wus only 17 years old. He was buried on
the sandhills near the lighthouse.
THE BEACON BLOWN AWAY.
The beacon light on the north end cf
Tybee is down and has been since the
storm. The beacon was blown down at
full length, foundations and all. The
beacon was at a dangerous point of the
channel, and was considered a valuable
signal by mariners.
The Beacon pond in the same
neighborhood is very offensive, being
filled with decaying vegetable and ani
mal matter. The pond is on the govern
ment property.
The object of Chief Higgins’ visit to the
city is to arrange for a meeting of the Ty
bee council to be held this week, which will
decide what i steps are necessary in the
present condition of the island and what
improvement can be made in the condi
tion of the people remaining there.
Acting Mayor J. G. Butler of Tybee was
also on the island yesterday and returned
last night.
A TRIP OVER TUB ISLAND.
A large party of young
men, members of the Alantic
club, went down on the Regis yesterday
morning and spent the day on the island.
They had quite a timegetting ashore, it
being necessary to leave the tug in a yawl,
which went as far as possible and they
were then carried ashore on the backs of
the crew. Several secured conveyances
and took a trip around the island.
The railroad track is shifted up to the
north end of the island, beyond the But
ler cottage. The beacon light is lying
fiat on the ground, foundation and all.
Mr. Butler's cottage and the Knight's
of Pythias club, in the north end, are 'a
mass of wreckage. The planks and tim
bers belonging to the two buildings are
only distinguishable by the different
coloring of the paint.
Sheriff Ronan s cottage was shifted
some distance and entirely gutted.
THE FURNITURE UNDISTURBED.
Frank Storer’s cottage is shifted clear
across the railroad track. A curious thing
was noted at his house. Not a picture or
any article about the house appears to be
out of place. A lamp is standing on the
mantel just as it was left, and the whole
interior remains as it was before the
storm.
Mr. Kehoe's cottage is unhurt. This
cottage stood the storm of 1881 also. The
postoffice is still standing, and the Naylor
House is not much damaged. Henry Solo
mon’s cottage was taken off its founda
tions and set down upon the ground. The
water works appear to be all right.
The Atlantic Club is unhurt except for
a few panes of glass blown out, and tha
members had a very enjoyable time there
yesterday.
The woods are full of wreckage, which
appears to have been all swept to the
southwest. There are masses of house
timbers and portions of ship cabins and
furniture, with any quantity of dead pel
icans ami other sea birds and fish and
frogs. The stench from the wreckage is
nauseating. No more dead bodies have
been found on the island, and it is not
thought there are any.
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THE BELLEVUE’S EXCURSION.
About 400 people made the trip on the
Bellevue. The steamer was crowded to
her utmost, capacity and to
such an extent with “shifting
freight” that she listed fre
quently, causing considerable excitement
among the ladiesAknd a degree of anxiety
among the male passengers. A large
proportion of the crowd ap)>eared per
fectly contented, however, under
the circumstances, and notwithstanding
the many disadvantages those who
went to visit the wrecks were amply re
paid. The scene isone which could not fail
to impress itself upon the memory of all
who viewed the once massive and sturdy
shijis lying imbedded in the marshes. It
was a curious and novel sight.
The Bellevue left her wharf at 8 o’clock
and arrived at the bell buoy' at 4:45
o’clock, where a view was had of the
wreck of the Norwegian bark Harold on
Tybee point.
Tlie return trip was not so pleasant for
those who were satisfied with the results
of their excursion aud wanted to get
home. The steamer seemed to labor
heavily, and her passengers became vexed
at her slow progress. The engineer ex
plained, however, that it was dangerous
to run faster with such a crowd, and the
kickers subsided.
Altogether the trip was a pleasant one,
as many appreciated the novelty which
they expected in seeing the wrecks, and
those who were otherwise engaged kept
to themselves, while the babies inhaled
the bracing sea breeze, and slept through
it all.
WILL TAKE SOME TIME
For Charleston to Got Itself Rehabil
itated.
Capt. Luigi Trepani, Italian consul at
Savannah, returned from Charleston last
night, where he has been looking after
several Italian vessels that were wrecked
in that vicinity. Capt. Trepaffi said that
Charleston has not yet recovered from
the effects of the fearful storm of a week
ago, although it is rapidly doing so. The
streets are still littered with the roofs of
houses and the wreckage of the storm.
The gas mains are broken at many
points, and the smell of the escaping gas
mingled with that of decaying vegetation
is very unpleasant. The greater portion
of the city is still without gns.
It will require some time yet, Capt.
Trepani savs, for Charleston to repair the
effectsof the storm.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Mr. J. L. Macwadly of Augusta is at
the Pulaski.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mohrman of Au
gusta are stopping at the Pulaski.
Rev. F. Leadegar returned from the
north yesterday, on the Nacoochee.
Mr. W. Trenholm Hopkins returned
from the north yesterday, on the Na
cooehee.
J. W. Huger has gone to Chicago to
spend a two weeks’ vacation at thj
world’s fair.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Asendorf and family
returned from the north yesterday, on
the Nacoochee.
A. L. Grant, Geo. F. Ricker and E. F.
Ricker of Beaufort arrived yesterday
from New York on the Nacoochee and
registered at the Pulaski.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Puder and Miss
Eleanor Puder returned from the north
yesterday, on the Nacoochee. Mrs. Pu
der has been spending tne summer at
Cortland, N. Y.
The marriage of Mr. Joseph Timothy
Walker to Mary Hale Sheafe, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Rumford Walker,
is announced to take place at St. Paul’s
church, Concord, N ow Hampshire, Sept. 19
CITY BREVITIES.
The bridge across the Bilbo canal, at
the foot of St. Julian street extended, has
been repaired so as to allow the passage
of light vehicles. This will allow com
munication with the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway wharves by way of
the plank road from Bay street and the
Gordon wharf.
The tug Regis will make a trip to Ty
bee Island this afternoon, leaving the city
at 11 o’clock and returning between 7 and
8 o'clock to-night, giving about five hours
on the island. A limited number of tick
ets will be sold, the party already num
bering about twenty-five ladies and gen
tlemen. Mr. E. M. Hopkins has charge
of the party, and will arrange with any
who desire to make the trip.
The Postal Telegraph wires, all of
which left the city in the direction of the
Central railroad track, and most of
which were between Savannah and Mil
ieu, were tom all to pieces hi'the storm,
but Manager Orr has got them in shape
now and they are all right, with the ex
ception of the wire to Charleston. Things
were torn up so badly in that direction
that it has been next to impossible to put
them in shape up to this time.
Received To-day at EstiU’s News De
pot, 2114 Bull Street.
The Century Magazine for September,
Outing for September, the Cosmopolitan
for September, the Review of Reviews
for September, North American Review
for September, Leslie’s Budget for Sep
tember, Carpentry and Building for Sep
tember, Le Bou Ton for October. French
Dressmaker (formerly La Conturiere) for
October, McClure’s Magazine for Septem
ber, Farm-Poultry for September, the
American Journal of Politics for Septem
ber, the Housewife for September, Loco
motive Engineering for September, Fet
ter s Southern Magazine for September,
Public Opiuion, the Amusement Globe.
Toilettes for October, New York Fashion
Bazar for October, the Book Buyer for
September. —ad.
Mamma—My darling, have you been a good
girl this summer?
Daughter—Yes, indeed, dear: I’ve been a
best girl—Life.
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WEATHER probabilities „
DAY: Generally fair, with partialclouua V
warmerr variable winds. °-id.ue \
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We have in slock a few sample
| Pianos and Organs entirely r,ew
and a few others that have been
used a trifle, but just as goad
as new.
STEINWAY,
CHASE,
KURTZMAN,
MATHUSHEK,
MASON & HAMLIN,
And others,
Which we will sell at very low
prices for cash. Splendid chance
to get a good piano at a bargain.
Bring in your cash and pre*
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if you must have lime we can
give you easiest terms imagina
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Is “too soon.” You can
wear fall weights for three
months yet, especially when
under the auspices of our
35 Per Cent. Reduction Sale.
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Grass Hammocks, 4
Linen Hammocks.
Fly Fans,
Gastnets and Seines,
Fishing Rods and Reels,
Enterprise Fruit Presses,
Cider Milis and Presses,
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So?no°” TO BUILD?
WINTON & BURGESS,
Contractors and Builders, Whitaker st.
CIVEe stimates on vork of all kinds, and
execute j<Tbs with perfect satisfaction.
CLOTHING.
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811 mi CBS.
-Every one should grasp :
:this opportunity. It only
rcomes once in a great:
'while. These are not all
.Suramer Suits, a good:
: many of them are Fall:
: and Winter Suits left
lover from last year. We
:wish to start the fall
season with an entire:
inew stock. Hence this
*C 1e a ri n g Out Sale.:
GROCERIES.
118 CUM m Mall W.
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California Claret $3 perjj o2
California Sauterne • • • 3 per 502
California Riesling— 3 P er
These wines seven years in
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