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Secretary Alger’s visit of inspection to
Chickamauga will probably not be fruitful
of a great deal of information showing
how the troops fared there. The camp has
been abandoned, and by the time the sec
retary arrives at the park it will have been
cleaned and purified.
The largest single treasury warrant so
far paid out on account of the war was
received the other day by the owners of
the four American liners which have been
in service as auxiliary cruisers and trans
ports. The amount of the warrant was
$1,475,000, in payment for the charter of
the four vessels.
The government will present Admiral
Dewey with a magnificent gold-mounted
sword, and the people of Philadelphia are
raising a fund of $2,500 with which to pur
chase a splendid sword for Admiral Schley.
Is not Admiral Sampson to have a sword?
So far nobody has said anything about
making him such a present.
Secretary of the Navy Long is, as a
matter of course, proud of the record of
the navy in the war, but he does not be
lieve we ought to hold all that the navy
captured, even in its most brilliant bat
tle. He is against keeping the Philip
pines, and it is to be inferred from an
Interview with him had in Boston the
other day that he does not even favor
keeping Ljjzon. “The territory would
prove a burden to us,” he said.
The white women of North Carolina are
taking a hand in the campaign of their
fathers, sons and brothers against the Re
publican-Populist combination which now
rules the state, and which has filled the
offices with objectionable persons.' The
spectacle of biack politicians without
character running the schools, the asy
lums, the courts and other institutions has
aroused the people as they have not been
aroused since they overthrew the carpet
baggers after reconstruction. If the
Democrats do not win the next election, It
will be a wonder.
France says the expedition of Maj Mar
chand, who was reported the other day to
have occupied Fashoda, is "quite unoffi
cial.’’ Just what the difference Is between
an official and an unofficial military expe
dition does not appear, unless France
means to convey the idea that her Mar
chand expedition on the Nile Is something
like England’s Jamieson’s raid Into the
Transvaal was. If Marchand’s move upon
Fashoda was not authorized, then the
danger of a collision belween England and
France in consequence is not as great as
was believed to be the case a few days
ego.
Mr. John Addison Porter, secretary to
the President, may shortly be a states
man out of a Job. He recently made a
epirited canvass for the Republican nom
ination lor Governor of Connecticut. He
was badly beaten. His close connection
with the administration naturally created
tlie impression that he was the adminis
tration’s candidate for the governorship,
and that the President was promoting his
plans. His defeat, therefore, has some
thing of the appearance of a rebuke to
the administration. In order to set itself
right before the Connecticut Republicans,
and let them know for a certainty that
tlie administration is still the friend of the
Bide which polls the most votes, Mr. Por
ter may have to make way for another
Secretary.
IS IT A MISTAKE?
In letters from Porto Rico the sugges
tion is thrown out that a mistake is being
made by our government in leaving so few
soldiers in the island. The soldiers have
been sent home freely within the last few
weeks, and now only 10,600 remain, and
of these less than 7,000 are fit for duty,
the others being sick. While if is true
that there is no disorder in the island, it
cannot be said with any degree of certain
ty that there will be none. The people
have been subjected to military restraint
for centuries, and may not know how to j
make a wise use of the freedom which is
being accorded them. They are being told
by. the officers of our army and they are
expected co govern themselves, and that
there will be no restraint placed upon
them by the military. Being a hot blood
ed people and quick to act upon impulse it
would not be surprising if there should be
a great deal of lawlessness. The people
have suffered much at the hands of the
Spaniards, and, therefore, nothing would
be more gratifying to them than opportu
nities for revenge. When they find that
there are not enough troops on the island
to maintain order they may give free ex
pression to the feelings of hate and re
venge which they entertain for the Span
iards, many of whom will remain after the
withdrawal of the Spanish troops.
It is said that for the purpose o( main
taining order one regiment of cavalry
would be worth a half-dozen regiments
of infantry, because of its ability to reach
places where there were disturbances
quickly, but it seems that* no cavalry of
consequence is being retained on the isl
and. Why this is so is not apparent to
those unacquainted with the policy of the
war department. It is hardly to be sup
posed, however, that the war department
is acting without a full understanding of
the situation.
It is probable that the anxiety of both
regulars and volunteeers to get out of the
service is one of the reasons why so many
of the Porto Rican troops have been
brought home. There is a very strong
feeling among the soldiers against doing
garrison duty in either Cuba or Porto Rico.
A strong sentiment against doing duty of
that kind prevails even among the negro
troops of the regular army.
It Will be most gratifying if it turns
out that our government has made no
mistake in leaving so few troops in Porto
Rico. From all accounts, however, the
government does not entertain the idea
that a few thousand troops will be suffi
cient to maintain order in Cuba. There
are about 100,000 Spanish troops there now,
and the opinion is expressed that at least
00,000 American troops will be sent to take
their places as they retire. The faction
feeling in Cuba promises to be fierce. If
It should be it would require a strong force
to keep the factions from cutting each
other's throats.
THE CITY COMMISSION'S.
We do not think that a majority of (he
people of the city are against managing
the different departments of the city gov
ernment by means of commissions. On the
contrary, the indications are unmistaka
ble that the majority sentiment is that
commissions in good hands and under prop
er restrictions are good things. If, there
fore, our representatives in the Legislature
should go to Atlanta with the purpose of
wiping out the commissions they would
probably find themselves without the bup
port of the people.
There are objections to the commissions
as at present constituted, and very strong
ones. But they are objections that can be
removed. For Instance, the commissions
should be subordinate to the City Council.
Unless such is the case it will be about
impqssible to have harmony between the
administration and the commissions. They
will be working at cross purposes most of
the time. In order to secure the best re
sults from the commissions they must be
in close touch with the Mayor and the
aldermen. At present the Mayor and
Council have no control whatever of the
commissions. For much of the life of the
present administration most of the com
missions managed their respective
departments without any regard to the
wishes of the Mayor and Council. This
condition of affairs kept alive factional
feeling, which is not conducive to the best
results in municipal government. The law
creating the commissions should not be re
pealed; it should be amended, and the
amendments should be of such a charac
ter as would make the commissions sub
ordinate to the Mayor and Council. The
Mayor and Aldermen are responsible to
the people for the proper management of
the various departments of the city gov
ernment and therefore ought to have the
power to say who shall manage those de
part men is. The Mayor and Council ought
not to have the power to remove a com
missioner for purely political reasons, but
they should have the power to remove
them for incompetency, neglect of duty
or for not complying with the policy of
the administration in respect to the man
agement of city affairs. In other words,
the city administration and the commis
sions Should be ih harmony in dll matters
pertaining to the city’s business affairs.
If the commission law should be amend
ed in accordance with these views it is
probable that there would be no further
trouble in respect to the commissions. It
would he a mistake to abolish the commis
sions. With them it is possible to get a bet
ter class of aldermen than without them.
Business men will not consent to become
members of the Council if they are re
quired to devote a large part of their time,
outside of Council meetings, to the city’s
business.
Surgeon General Sternberg of the army
makes a statement in which he points out
where rests the blame for inefficiency in
the medical administration in the various
camps. Hi! says the chief surgeons or
the various military organizations must
bear the charge, nut that they were badly
hampered by the*lack of previous military
experience of the volunteer regimental sur
geons apiiointcd by the Governors of the
slates and the contract doctors employed
almost at random to meet the exigencies
of the situation. He says the quarter
master’s department is responsible for de
lays In the transportation of medical sup
plies, and for the condition of the hospi
tal ships concerning which bo much com
plaint has been ruado
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1898.
the winter camps.
The administration has not permitted
the yellow Journals of New York to run
the army, and It is not taking advice from
them with regard to what ought to be
done In the matter of quartering the troops
for the winter or until such time as they
shall be ordered to Cuba. The yellow jour
nals, therefore, are using every endeavor
to bring the administration into disrepute;
and in their efforts to injure tire adminis
tration if the truth stands in the way, so
much the worse for the truth.
The New York World affords an illus
tration. The World thinks it knows more
about how an army should be handled,
and where quartered, than expert military
men who have made soldiering their pro
fession and have spent the greater part
of their lives in learning the business. It
has been decided by the army authorities
that the men shall be sent into winter
camp in the South, and a board of officers
is now in the Sourh selecting camp site*.
The proposed transfer makes the W’orld
furious. It says:
The war department, in spite of the
warnings of experience, in spite of the
pleadings of those who know what is sure
to happen, keeps right on with its plan
to concentrate the troops in Southern
camps, there to breed pests and fevers
and die of them.
This is much worse than an erroneous
statement. It is a vicious and untruthful
attack upon the war department, and a
malicious slander upon the South. It im
plies that the war department is abso
lutely careless of the lives of the soldiers,
which every intelligent person knows is
not so, and that the South is a hotbed of
pests and fevers, which is equally un
true.
In moving the troops South, the depart
ment will unquestionably be acting for the
good of the men. Within a few weeks
the weather in the North will be entirely
too cold for a camping life. To subject
the men to the rigors of winter at Mon
tauk Point or elsewhere in as high a lati
tude would result in a high death rate
from pneumonia, pleurisy, consumption
and similar diseases, not to mention the
suffering from cold that would be ex
perienced by those so fortunate as to es
cape disease. All of this would be escaped
in the South.
In so far as the healthfulness of the
South is concerned, it will compare with
that of the North at any season of the
year, summer or winter. In winter, how
ever, conditions at the South are far bet
ter than at the North. There has been no
epidemic of fever in either of the Carolinas
or Georgia for many years, and there
never has been an epidemic after frost.
Every epidemic of yellow fever that has
visited the South, experts say, has been
imported. There has been no yellow fever
in Savannah or Charleston for more than
twenty years, and there has been none in
the South for many years except in New
Orleans and a very small section of the
Southwest. And that small section of
the Southwest which has been infected is
not “the South.” There would be just as
much sense in saying it was dangerous to
live in the North in summer because sev
eral hundred persons died from heat in
New York two or three weeks ago as to
say it is dangerous to come South in
summer because there chanced to be a
few cases of fever away over on the Gulf
coast in the Southwest. To claim fear of
fever or pestilence in the South in winter
is simply ridiculous.
The truth is that there are no finer and
more healthful sites in the world for win
ter encampments of troops than there are
in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
Alabama. This is especially true of South
Georgia. The climate here is equable and
balmy, the water good and the ground
dry. It Is to be hoped that the World's
slander will have no influence upon North
ern public opinion. It certainly deserves
to have none.
CUBA MAY PROVE TROUBLESOME.
The impression Is very general that the
only trouble the peace commission will
have will be in connection with the Phil
ippines. There are reasons for thinking,
however, that it will not be altogether
plain sailing In the matter of Cuba,
What is the situation in respect to Cuba?
Congress has declared that Cuba ought to
be free and independent, but this country
has never recognized the so-called Cuban
republic, and no other nation has recog
nized it. One of our peace commissioners
is on record as saying that there was no
Cuban republic when war against Spain
was declared, and there has been no repub
lic established since. To whom, then, will
Spain cede Cuba? She cannot cede it to
Cubans, because they have no government,
and she is doubtless glad that she cannot
cede It to them. She will have to cede It
to the United States.
And in making the cession she is likely
to Insist tipbn rf sflffhlatlon that' they shall
maintain a force in the island sufficient to
protect Spanish interests, and Spaniards
who remained loyal to Spain. A stipulation
of that kind could not very well be re
fused. Would not such a stipulation mc-an
the permanent occupation of Cuba by this
country?
In this connection the New YorkrHerald
rather pertinently aSks, And when Spain
has ceded Cuba to the Uuited States and
the treaty has in it the stipulation that
an American force shall remain In the is
land to protect the Interest of Spaniards,
who were loyal to Spain, where will be
found authority in the constitution to
cede Cuba to the Cubans? Putting it that
way makes a very interesting question,
and one that may give our peace com
missioners trouble.
Col. Roosevelt is not only ambitious, but
ho is quite frank with it. He says he
wants to be Governor of New York, that
he would like to be Secretary of War, and
that he hopes some day to be a United
States senator. And, to follow the colon
el's manner qf frankness we may say wo
are quite willing to believe that he would
be a very good man in either place. Still
we think that New York’s Interests would
bo better protected by a sterling Democrat.
Combinations of local merchants for the
purpose of maintaining prices do not "go”
in Frankfort, Ky. The coal dealers of
that city some time ago entered into an
agreement with regard to prices. The
olher day they were indicted by the grand
jury upon the charge of having entered
into a conspiracy in restraint of trade.
Trusts and toll gates are not in favor :u
the Blue Grass stats
The city laws relating to-the handling
and storing of gr> • n hides and other bad
smelling commodities need to be revised
and amended. We io not know how it is
elsewhere in the b miness section, but in
the vicinity of tht Morning News office
a great deal of the pleasure of living is
taken away by fou ind nauseating smells
from such cotamodlties. It is often neces
sary to keep a,l windows shut, to the
prejudice of good ventilation and health.
In the effort to keep out the effluvia, and
sometimes that expedient fails of its pur
pose. There is no good reason why a con
siderable number of in thp heart
of the business quarter, should be as
sailed with the noisome, noxious fumes
of green hides, tainted meats and fish and
the like day In and day out. In these days
of telephones and quick transportation
such articles should be sent by law beyond
smelling range of the business section. City
Council should m once give attention to
the matter. A few persons may be bene
fited by the .present law, but hundreds are
every day offended and made uncomforta
ble, If not actually injured in health, by It.
There 4s a spontaneous movement on
foot to have every Southern state repre
sented at the funeral of Miss Winnie
Davis, the “Daughn r of the Confederacy.”
It is to be hoped that it will take shape
immediately, and that when the sad rites
occur the bier will be surrounded by those
who held up and sustained the hands of
her honored father through those terrible
years of the ’6o’s. A tribute to the mem
ory of Miss Davis would be a tribute also
to that of President Davis and the cause
he represented, both of which, as she has,
have passed away forever. It is probable
that a delegation will go from Charleston.
It is to be hoped that Savannah and other
Georgia cities will be well represented.
Ex-Secretary of Agriculture Morton of
Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet has been invited
by the government of the Argentine Re
public to spend next year in that country
as the adviser of the government in agri
cultural matters and to organize a national
department of agriculture. The farmers
of Argentina, like the cotton planters of
this country, have heretofore placed all
of their eggs In one basket. They raise
wheat, cattle and sheep exclusively. The
government wishes Mr. Morton to tell
them what else they can raise profitably,
and show them how to do It.
PERSONAL.
—Napier Lothian, musical conductor at
the Boston theater, is now in the thir
tieth year of continuous connection with
the orchestra at that house.
—Rev. Hannibal Goodwin of Newark,
appliied for a patent for a kodak film
twelve years ago. He has just secured
It after having fought a Rochester firm
during that period.
—King Malietoa of Samoa, who died re
cently could boast direct descent from the
oldest reigning house in the world, Ms
fathers for 500 years before him having
occupied the throne which found its last
champion in Robert IxhUs Stevenson.
—Senator Clarence Lexow of New York,
whose resolution inthe legislature of that
state was the inauguration of the famous
Lexow investigation that turned Tammany
out of power for one term In New York
city, Is to be relegated to the rear, it is
said, by the machine Republicans.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Papa’s Idea—Harry—Papa, what Is the
still, small voice?
Papa—lt’s the voice In which your moth
er makes suggestions to the cook.—Chicago
News.
—"Yes, sir,” said the man in cell 711,
“time was when 1 was admitted to the very
best houses.” “And what brought you
here?” “They caught me coming out."—
Tit-Bits.
—“Here is my picture—“ The Garden of
Eden.’ ” “Why man, you're crazy! This Is
a winter scene.” “Of course it is—that’s a
picture of the Garden after the fall.”—
Truth.
—Sunday-School Teacher—And so Nebu
chadnezzar was compelled to eat grass!
Now wasn't that an awful punishment?
Little Bobby Commuter—l don’t know;
but my father says Nebuchadnezzar was
lucky he didn’t have to cut it with a lawn
mower.”—Puck.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Santiago's Public Schools.
From the Houston (Tex.) Post (Dem.).
The Santiago public schools have been
re-opened under American supervision and
on a non-sectarian basis. There’s where
(he new life begins for Cuba!
Rotation In Office.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald (Dem.).
Mr. Day's successor in the state depart
ment is the seventh fti six years. ’Mr.
Blaine was Secretary of State six years
ago, and he was followed by Messrs. Fos
ter, Gresham, Olney, Sherman, Day and
now Hay.
Going to the Old Parties.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
The bolters from the Chicago convention
of 1896 have been silently leaving their
temporized party all along. Some have
been returning to the regular fold and
some have gone over to the Republicans.
All that are left will now choqse between
these two courses.
Democracy Means Freedom.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal (Dem.).
If Mr. Bryan should be nominated for
presidency by the Democratic party, there
is no good reason why any Democrat,
should decline to vote for him in 1900,
because in 1898 he made a speech against
territorial expansion. We have every re
gard for Mr. Bryan as a man and a cor
dial admiration of his gifts, but we con
tend that we have Just as much right 'o
our opinions on these! questions as he has.
Otherwise Democracy would be nothing
more than a sort of Bryan autocracy.
The Military Convention.
From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
The convention proposed by Gov. Blox
ham will afford an opportunity for the
development of many plans for the reor
ganization of our military system. It will
permit many influential military men to
compare notes and discuss Important
points. From such deliberations much use
ful knowledge which will prove of advant
age to our lawmakers will be evolved.
Fnless, however, care is taken to insure
the allendance of a large number of mili
tary men, the convention is not likely to
result in anything practical.
Got tin* Suit Slip Wanted.
"I didn't quite know what my husband's
attitude would be on the bathing suit ques
tion,” said the Juno-like girl who was oniy
married last fall, according to the Wash
ington Post, to some of her married wo
men friends before she went away to the
beach, ' and so I thought I’d just try him.
Some men are so funny about women's
bathing suits, you know. 1 hate a baggy
bid bathing edit tolth no style about it,
but I didn’t waht to buy one that George
would not like, so I borrowed Mrs. Annual
Leave's. Mrs. Annual Leave is very strict
in her id-a* you know, .aid her bathing
suit Is a fright. It is trimmed nice enough,
but well, ‘it is long, you know, and
baggy afkl full iff draw strings and all that
kind of foolishness. So a couple of nights
ago, while George was going over his out
ing shirts and things I put this bathing
suit on. Then I went into the room where
George was packing.
“ ‘How do you like my bathing suit?" I
asked him.
“You ought to have seen the funny in
spection he gave, me.
"Do you call_ that shroud a bathing
suit?’ he finally' asked me. 'And do you
think you’re going into the water with
me with a hay-bag thing like that on you?
For if you do, you're mixed, .that’s all. '
Why didn't you get one with a train to it
while you were about it? You look like a
pappoose with that thing on. You’re all
swaddled up. You don’t belong to any
nunnery yet awhile, you know. Just you
run down town to-morrow and change
that thing. It may be all right for my
grandmother out in lowa, but it don't go
for you, and you hear me. Why, you’d
get the laugh if you wore that. What’s
the use of being built the right way if
you’re going to make a show of yourself
in a rig like that?'
"Well, I didn't say anything, but yester
day I went down and got just the kind of
a bathing suit I wanted, and when I put it
on last night, and showed it to George he
said I looked like one of the colored sup
plement pictures in it, and that it was all
right, all right. Before I was married you
all told me that men were such queer,
contrary things, but I don't believe they
are at all.”
Cause and Effect.
Green owns a few lots out on the Boule
vard, so, of co.qrse, it was perfectly natu
ral for him to be there early yesterday
morning, about 9:30, to be exact, says the
Detroit Free Press.
He was standing on the sidewalk look
ing down the wide avenue when Brown
rode by on his wheel.
Green knew Brown had no lots on the
Boulevard, so he was surprised to see him
away out there so early.
He shouted to him. Brown rode along
side the curb and dismounted from his '96
model.
“What are you doing out here so early?”
asked Green.
“Came out to put my shoe strings in,”
was the reply.
“Came out for what!”
“To put my shoe strings in."
“Say,'old man, you want to take some
thing. Y'ou’re all run down.”
"I’ll explain,” said Brown, and then he
continued: “You see, my wife is away vis
iting, and when I came out of the house
this morning I left the latch key on the
inside of the door, so I can’t get into the
house. I broke my shoestring springing
to catch a car, and I’m changing offices, 1
so when I bought anew pair of strings
down town there was no place where I
could take off my shoes to put ’em in. So
I got my wheel—left it against the fence
in our back yard—and rode out here where
one doesn’t see anybody.”
“Weil, what do you think of that!” ex
claimed Green. “Why in the world didn’t
you put the strings in your shoes at the
store where you bought them?”
Brown’s jaw fell. “By Jove, old man,”
he said, slowly, “I never thought of it.”
And as he rode away Green remarked,
“Well, a ohap who will ride a ’96 model
is capable of anything.
Charged $5 for “Sas.”
A story is told of Fanny Kemble, whose
favorite summer resort was Lenox, that
on her first season there she employed a
self-respecting villager, who had a com
fortable turnout, to drive her about, says
the Boston Record. He, feeling it to be
his duty to make the drive as entertaining
as possible, began to call her attention
to the beauty of the scenery—which she
wished to enjoy undisturbed—and to tell
her who lived in certain houses as they
passed along, until finally Mrs. Kemble,
being unable to stand it any longer, said,
in the high tragedy manner somewhat
peculiar to her: “I have engaged you to
drive for me, sir, and not to talk.”
The driver ceased talking, pursed up his
lips, and in all their subsequent drives
his only remarks were such as he found
necessary to address to the horses. At
the end of the season he handed in his
bill for the summer services. Running
her eye down Us awkward columns, she
paused at an item that she didn’t under
stand'. “What is this, sir? I cannot com
prehend it.” With equal gravity he re
plied: "Sass, $5. I don’t often take it,
but when I do I charge.” She paid the
bill without comment, and continued to
employ the same driver during many
summers she spent there.
What She Found In the Banquet.
There is a member of one of the Little
Miami clubs who moves in the very best
of society and who dwells in Avondale,
who will not go out for some time to come,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer. His gal
lantry , and. peeuniafly means have never
been commensurate. To meet certain con.
tlngencies he proposed a plan which proved
to be a boomerang. He arranged with a
gardener to let him have a bou
quet from time to time in
return for his cast-off clothes. One
day he received a bunch of beautiful roses,
which he af once sent to his fiancee. In
sure anticipation of a friendly welcome
he called at the house of the lady the
same evening and was not a little sur
prised at the frosty reception with which
he met.
“You sent,me a note to-day,” the young
lady remarked, after a pause, in the most
frigid tones.
"I—a note?” he inquired, in blank as
tonishment.
"Certainly—along with the nosegay.”
’To be sure, I sent you a nosegay.”
“And there was this note inside—do you
mean to deny It?” With these words she
handed the dumbfounded swain a scrap of
paper on which the following words were
written: “Don’t forget the old trousers you
promised me the other day.”
Gen. Kitchener's Bullet.
The Sirdar of the Egyptian army, says
the Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle, once had
a very extraordinary experience, having
swallowed a bullet with which he now pre
serves as a memento. During the campaign
of ISBB Maj. Kitchener was hit in the side
of the face by a bullet during a skirmish
near Suakim, and was taken down tiie
Nile, and thence to the Citadet hospital, at
Cairo, where despite all the efforts of the
surgeons, the bullet could not be located.
The wound was a healthy one, and soon
healed, and the medical officers came to
the conclusion that the bullet had worked
Its way out. without being noticed, on the
passage down the Nile. The major’s nurse
one day tempted the patient’s appetite with
a tasty beefsteak, which the major had no
sooner attacked than he put his hand to
his throat, exclaiming: “Biiton, if there
was no bone in the steak, I've swallowed
that bullet. I felt It go down.” This proved
to be the cast*
AWFUL SKINBISEASE
Suffered Untold Agony Two Years.
Itching and Burning Terrible.
Had to Give up Work Entirely.
Instant Relief in First Application
OF CUTICURA REMEDIES.
At Work, Fully Cured in 2 Months.
I was afflicted tvith aYrriblemali?nant break
ing out all over the upper part of my body, I
wa treated by some of the very beat physicians,
who proDouuced it cdntugioua blood poison,
through whom I spent hundreds of dollars trying
to get relief, but it seemed to get worse. All th
time I was suffering untold agony, and finally
had to give up work entirely. I grasped at every
thing I saw advertised, and listened to every sug.
gestion from friends, but nothing seemed to reach
my case. The burning, itching fix I was in seemed
to be aggravated by every effort to relieve myself;
but, thauk God, relief came to me at last. Ccti -
Cuba Remedies were suggested to me, and I
immediately procured the Cirrict'KA (ointment),
Cuticura Soap, and ©CTicuRA Resolvent.
From the first, I experienced a soothing relief,
notwithstanding my intense pain. The warm
bath, with Cuticcra Soap, the anointing with
Cuticura, and the dose of Cuticura Resol
tent, seemed to start the good work from the
first. I improved right along, and in leu than
two months I was able to be up and at work ,
and continued to improve daily till at last I was
entirely cured , sound and well, no< a sign on my
body anywhere indicating that anything had ever
been the matter with me. It is now over two
years since I have been entirely cured, and not a
sign or a symptom has ever returned. I will
gladly answer any and ail letters with reference
to my case. M. B. BABTIKN,
156 W. Hunter St., Atlanta, Ga.
Witness : J. G. Ahern.
Georgia, Fulton County.
In person appeared before me. Edgar H. Orr,
a Justice of tne Peace in and for lugs District,
G. M., State and County aforesaid. J. G. Ahern,
who being duly sworn, deposeth and sallli that
the statements made in the above testimonial are
true. J. G. AHEiOi.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Oct.
28th, 1897. Edgar H. Ore, J. P.
Sold throughout the world. Potter Drug and Chbr.
Core., Props., Boston, flow to Cure Worst Eczema,free.
GEXEIIAL PRESENTMENTS
Of the Grand Jury of the Superior
Court, Chatham Coutny, E. J. C.,
Georgia, for the June Term, 1898.
To His Honor, Robert FaTligant, Judge
Superior Court, Chatham County, E. J. C.,
Georgia:
We, the grand Jury of the Superior
Court, A. D. 1898, respectfully submit the
following general presentments:
In accordance with the Vrevailing cus
tom, the duties of the grand Jury, as set
forth to them by your honor In your
charge at the opening of this term of
court, were divided and apportioned
among the members of the grand Jury, act
ing as committees for this body. In each
instance the report of the committee has
been adopted by this body, and ts made a
part of these general presentments.
COUNTY OFFICES.
Your committee appointed to inspect the
offices, papers and records of the cierk of
the Superior Court, ordinary, county treas
urer and County Commissioners, beg leave
to make the following report:
Clerk of the Superior Court—
We have examined the office, books and
papers of this officer, and find the eairie
In good order, and all records neatly and
properly kept, and as far as your commit
tee could ascertain, they consider the office
In first class order.
Ordinary—
Your committee makes the same report
on tliis office as above.
County Treasurer—
Your committee, upon examination, found
all books, papers and vouchers in order,
but we desire to call your attention to the
fact that the county treasurer states he
pays all orders drawn on him by the clerk
of the County Commissioners, when in
funds. Under the law, your committee
does not consider this the proper course,
and would suggest that the county treas
urer be furnished with a list of bills passed
for payment by the County Commission
ers, properly signed, and that no bills or
orders be paid except those shown on that
list. For instance, your committee finds
that the June list of passed bills was sent
in to the treasurer's office on the 12th of
July, while the May list was not sent in
until the 14th of July. In. the meantime,
orders had been drawn on the treasurer,
and had been paid without any list. This
your committee does not think a correct
way, under the law. of carrying on the
work of the office. We wish to say, how
ever, that these lists are checked up, and
that there are no irregularities as far as
your committee can ascertain. Still we are
of the opinion that the correct method
will be to have a properly signed list of ali
biHs furnished by the County Commission
ers to the treasurer before any orders are
cashed, except in one or two cases, such
as salary of the Judge of the City Court
and gas and electric lighting bills, which,
for economy in the latter case, should be
paid before the 10th of the month.
County Commissioners—
In this office your committee finds that
there are quite a number of matters that
needed more careful attention. We find
that (he clerk has been in the habit of
signing several orders ahead in blank,
which, while we do not find has led to any
loss to the county, still your committee do
not think it advisable to have blank orders
signed,, which, as we under*tand, if filled
up, could be cashed at the treasurer’s
office.
We also find that a book used for keep
ing a record of all bills passed by the
County Commissioners and should be so
kept that, if a bill is passed and paid, it
could be seen at once, is not properly kept,
and your committee finds that bills have
been paid that there is no account of on
this book. We would say, in explanation
of this, however, that we were informed
that this book was gotten up by the clerk
of the commissioners, for his own benefit
to assist him in keeping the bills passed by
the County Commissioners in a more con
venient way. If this was tfie Intention
we do not think it a success. We also un
derstand that the clerk draws an order on
the treasurer for salaries before the same
has been passed by the Board of County
Commissioners, which, as before stated wy
do hot think correct. We also find that
the messengers’ salaries are not usually
paid before about the 15th of the month,
and at times when they need money they
are in the habit of iiaving it advanced to
them, for which advance an amount Is
deducted in the form of interest. We do
not think this creditable in a public office
and consider that if the fact is brought to
(lie attention of the County Commissioners
they would so arrange their meeting as to
be able to pass all bill’s, salaries and other
wise, so that they could be paid by the
sth of the month.
Your committee ts aware of the fact that
a special committee has been appointed to
look into the matter of the County Com
missioners, and do not care to interfere
with any work they may be engaged upon,
we simply present these suggestions, feel
ing sure that the whole matter is simply
one that may lie called a lax in matters of
detail, which we do not think has result
ed in any loss whatever to the county, but
If persisted in, could at any time do so.
Respectfully submitted,
C. S. Connerat, Chairman.
Peter Reilly.
I ■ Adolph Berg,
E. G. Cabiniss.
Edward S. Abrams.
Our attention being called to the
charges appearing in the public prints
made by ex-County Commissioner Wil
liam Kehoe, we deemed them of sufficient
importance to investigate, Mr. Kehoe win
invited before this body, and testified un
der oath. A special committee was un
pointed to make a preliminary investiga
non. Their duties were laborious, nu
merous Witnesses being summoned under
oath, and a careful inquiry into each aid
every phase of the charges was made
Their report has also been adopted by this
body, and is here given In full, being made
Pa R l ° f ‘ hese Sneral presentment/
Mr. Foreman and Members of Grand
for J '."h Y ° Ur slK!Clal committee, appointed
for the purpose of Investigating the are
gations made before you by Mr. Wilfiam
Kehoe re.ative to the management of tne
affairs of tnis county, have minutely ex
amtned them, and after the hearing of
much oral testimony, and searching G f
™f n y. books of record, now request to sub
mit their report as follows-
We have divided Mr. Kehoe’s written
Statement in sections, and will take them
up separately and In order: “
Section I rends:
Superintendent Chaplin’s reports of rh*
cost of building the Waters road and E,
fill avenue, published in the SavamTih
Press July 9, 1&97. giving the cost of build
ing 6 1-30 miles of graveled road, cost uf
gravel, $17,485. ‘ ot
At */ 3 °K a yard, the price suppose
to have been paid for the gravel defiver, l
at Savannah, the $17,485 reported bv Mr
Chaplin as the cost, would purchase 13 tvi
cubic yards.
Mr. Brown, the assistant superintendent
stated that the average depth of the gravel
fivecr.nch n e3 ,hiStil ' lOm “ eS ° f was
At an average depth of five (5) Inches
13 400 cubic yards of gravel would cover
6 1-30 miles of road for a width of over >7
feet. The average width of the road is less
than 15 feet. 8
We report as to section 1—
The official records show that 962 cars of
gravel were used in constructing Estiil
avenue and Waters road, Montgomery v
roads, Skidway road, and Countv Farm
road, and we find that official daily reports
showing measurements of 962 cars an I
corresponding paid freight bills for <,!
cars, we know that the county received ko
cars of this gravel that they paid for ‘
°ut of these (962) cars, the official state
ment of the cost of the Estil! avenue and
Waters road originally showed 662 cars as
lieitig used thereon, but during the progress
of our investigation, an error has been
claimed as to those figures, and the state
ment has been amended by a note to the
effect that 614 cars were actually used In
constructing the road, 29 cars were placed
along the read for the purpose of repair
ing, and that 19 cars were charged to that
work that went to the Montgomery X
roads: we are unable to determine from
any source, except the statements referred
to, whether these 29 cars and 19 cars were
placed as stated, but accepting that state
ment as true, it leaves 614 cars to be ac
counted for in the original construction of
Estiil avenue and Waters road.
All of the evidence shows that the
length of the two roads is 6 1-10 miles, but
there being a diversity of opinion and tes
timony as to the width and thickness, or
depth, of the layer of gravel thereon, your
committee made a personal inspection of
the entire road, taking measurements as
to width and depth at various parts of it,
and also taking measurements of the
amount of gravel now standing alongside
of the road, to be used for repairs from
time to time, we find that the width, whilst
not uniformally 18 feet, will average that
much, the depth of the gravel varies from
2 to 4 inches on the-sides, our measurements
averaging 3)4, and from 3 to 6 inches on the
crown, or center, our measurements aver
aging 4%, so that we believe that the road,
as it now stands, would measure 61-10
miles long and an average of 18 feyt wide
and about 4 inches thick. We believe that
the gravel was spread for a thickness of
6 inches, all of the testimony being that
the pegs, which were set on the road to
designate the height to which the gravel
must be laid, before rolling, were 6 inches
high,’ and then it was roiled by a fifteen
(15) ton roller, compressing it to 4 inches,
the testimony being that under such cir
cumstances the shrinkage by compression
would be 33 1-3 per cent.; therefore, if the
road,before any rolling was done,was 61-10
miles long, 18 feet wide and 6 inches deep,
it would have required 536 8-10 cars or 10,-
736 cubic yards to cover that space, which
is 77 cars, or 1,540 cubic yards less than the
official reports show as being charged to
and used in the building of Estiil avenue
and Waters road. *
Sections 2 and 3 of allegations read:
Made private trade for thousands of dol
lars worth of gravel, when the law plainly
says it must be advertised eight weeks,
and successful bidder must make affidavit
that he or they did not influence any other
bid or prevent free competition.
After several shipments were made at
$1.20 per cubic yard, the price w as advanced
10 cents per yard to $1.30, without con
sulting either the committee on roads and
bridges or the board.
We report as to sections 2 and 3:
We find that ail of the gravel used by
the county prior to the Dale avenue work
was purchased without advertising for
bids; when Ogeeehee road was being built
the Augusta Gravel Company made a ship
ment of their material as a sample, which
proved satisfactory and cheaper than other
materials used on that road for which they
advertised for bids. The gravel being suit
able as to price and quality, the commis
sioners continued to purchase it from the
Augusta Gravel Company, as it was re
quired, for other roads that were being
built, the matter of price therefore being
arranged by Intc-rviews or correspondence
without any duly advertised bids being
called for; we find that after the samples
of gravel was tested and found satisfactory
that on Aug 12, 1896, Mr. Kehoe presented
a motion at a meeting of the board,
authorizing the use of the gravel
and udopting It as paving ma
terial. The commissioners claim
that bids were not regularly called
for because at that time they knew or
only one concern who could furnish the
material, and the price of their article
was cheaper and the quality superior t
other materials which they had adver
tised for and had experimented with; we
believe that the county secured its gravel,
purchased in this manner, at as low price
as said gravel was Bold to any one else,
difference in freight fates to different
points being considered; we find that tne
advance from $1.20 to $1.30 was due to a
transfer charge in Augusta on shipments
over the Central Railroad for use on Au
gusla and Louisville roads, but that the
gravel used on Waters road and Estiil
avenue, arriving over the Plant System,
with no transfer charge in Augusta, was
billed at the same price.
Sections 4 and 5 of allegations reads:
That even then there was no proper in
spection or measurements to protect the
county. The gravel paid for is not on the
roads. When the chairman was forced
to get bids on gravel for Dale avenue
which brought the price down to sl2'.
insisted on the inspection and measure
ments being done by some competent per
son as called for under sections 1 and
of the specifications. These two sections
were entirely ignored, while the county
employs an engineer, he was never allow
ed to measure or inspect one car load o
gravel bought for the county.
We report as to sections 4 and 5:
We find that all shipments of grave
were measured by Mr. Shuman, an em
ploye of the county, charged with tha
duty, and that settlements with Grave
Company were made on the measurement
made by this county employe; that there
was no arrangement made for, or any
other employe charged with, the duty or
inspecting the gravel to ascertain whether
or not it came up to the standard set forth
n: i.! I- ■ ei i ■ ions, bin quality w.is I
ed on entirely by appearance it present*
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