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WOMAN’S SENTIMENTS.
They Are Little Understood by but they Cause
Her Untold Happiness or Misery.
The girl ofto-day is the mother of future
generations. Humanity is absolutely de
pendent !'i>r*tscontinuance and preservation
on the knowledge and stamina and health
of women. Woman's lot and her relations
to the world are such as to deserve a great
deal more attention and consideration from
science than she lias yet received.
'1 he American race of women in particu
lar lias questions to settle that are much
more important than the extension of the
suffrage to women or the enactment of a
national divorce law.
Why is it that there are so many feeble
and sickly women all over the land? Why is
it that nor an average of over one child is
born to American women? Why is it that
hundreds of thousands of American men
will not marry at all?
Have you ever thought of these things?
It is because disease is striking at the very
root of the American race. It is because most
diseases can trace their cause to one source,
viz: troubles of the kidneys and adjacent
organs.
The kidneys are the great organs of the
body,but ibis is little realized or understood.
A healthy,happy woman with good complex
ion, good appetite and hopeful spirits never
has diseased k'dneys.The same is true of men
But kidney disease is so deceitful, so
treacherous, so strange in its approaches that it often steais into the body und deceives the victim before he is aware.
Bright’s disease, like consumption, was formerly considered incurable. Now it is known that it can positively be
cured, and it is also known that there is but one absolute cure for diseases of the kidneys and the female organs, and
that is Warner’s Safe Cure.
This great discovery of modern science has been before the public for more than twenty years. It is acknowledged
by the medical profession and scientists generally a* the only cure whicli lias ever brought sufferers from Bright’s dis
ease back to health or checked‘it in its first stages. II is the only great remedy of the present day, which sufferers
from kidney complaint, men, women or children, can take with positive certainty that they will lie relieved.
DID NOT INFLUENCE THE CUT.
llVv.%l> OP S. \. 1.. S\ \OI( \TK B\YS
it hah not \ shi >ii:o rovrno^.
Air. .Volin Skelton William* Snlil the
Sealionril Air Line'* Cut in t’otton
Hate* To Fort* mouth From At
lanta anil Allien* Hum An Connec
tion With the Itcccnt Trnnnfer of
the Controlling lntere*t to the
Syndicate—Not Hclleveil the tut
Will Materially %fTect the Cotton
Outlook—Slii| Kate* on Cotton \rc
] ciiiu Cnt Al*o— Staple One* to
PorHun Port* at Very Low Hate*
on Account of Small Foreign Ile
um nil.
Mr. John Skelton William*, president of
the Georgia and Alabama Railroad and
the head of the big syndicate that recently
bought a oonlroling share in the stock of
the Seaboard Air Jane, was in the (ity
yesterday.
Mr. Williams was seen by a representa
tive of the Morning News, lie was very
busy, the spreading affairs and under
takings of the Georgia and Alabama and
the Terminal Company in ami near Sa
vannah demanding his attention and keep
ing him in close communication with local
officials of the companies all day. He left
last night for his home at Richmond.
The new jx>wer in the Seaboard** affair*,
however, found time to say that the big
cut that has been made by that road in
cotton rati* from Atlanta and Athens to
Portsmouth is not a consequence of the
deal through which he and his associates
wen red control of the road. Mr. Wil
liams would not intimate, though, whether
he was in accord with the cut or whether
the policy of getting bittiness, even thougn
rates had to suffer, was that which will
be followed by the Air Lane.
Mr. William* said the transfer to the
syndicate has been made, but that nothing
in the way of organization or reorganiza
tion has yet been effected. He did not
*<ty when the shake up, if shake up there
is to be. among the officials of the big
system will come.
The cut made by the Seaboard to Ports
mouth, or to Norfolk, as the cities He vir
tually together, was one of 24 cents on the
hundred, thus bringing it down to 25
cents. The Central Railroad, the princi
pal route from these cities to Savannah,
will meet the cut tit once, thus bringing
its rate to 19 cents on the hundred, as
there Is a differential in the rates in favor
of Savannah in Atlanta and Athens ter
ritory.
An effort was made yesterday to obtain
the Central Railroad's side of the ques
tion, but none of its freight officials were
in the city. President Comer and Vice
President Egan wen* also absent. It sim
ply became a necessity for the Central to
make the reduction to meet the Seaboard’s
siash, however, as the road would get no
tot ton from the citie* from wnich the rale*
are cut if shippers could send to Norfolk
lor 18 cents a hundred pounds less than
to Savannah.
Cotton men do not see that the cut is
to have any special effect on Norfolk’s,
Savannah’s or any of th* ports’ receipts
to whicli the reduction is to be met by
other lines. As the rates will remain rel
atively the same, there will be no differ
ence in the situation. The same differen
tial will have the tendency to give Savan
nah the share of freight that should come
from Its legitimate territory, and it is be
lieVed the receipts at the several ports
will not be materially affected.
The reduced rates went into effect yes
terday. It is believed as soon ns the roads
have all put their rates on the reduced
equality, notice will be given to the com
merce commission and the state commis
sion of an intention to advance to the old
iigures. This advance cannot be made,
however, until ten days after notice of
the intention is given, so that, as a great
deal of cotton may be expected to move
during the season of low rates, the rail
roads will lose considerable, and the own
ers of cotton will lie the gainers.
The Seaboard made tin cut because It
thought the other road* Interested n
handling cotton from the points from
which the cut was made had not l*>en
“totin’ fair.” The roads apportion the cot
ton from points ot large shipments, and
every one of them is expected to get so
much of the season’s movement. Home
time* it happens that a road gets a little
ihe better of the other parties to the
agreement, and shippers get u reduction
in rates or a rebate. Soon the other lines
begin to grow tired of this and u kick is
made. If the kick is ineffectual, another
l>kan is resorted to and rates ar- cut. the
very thing happening for the avoidance of
which the apportionment had been agrees!
upon. Traffic men say these apportion
ments are the best possible- way to handle
the cotton situation and give shippers sta
ble and uniform rates.
Th f complaint of the Seaboard was that
cotton was going to Charleston lu greater
quantities than the agreement allowed
This was partleulary true, it was said,
from Athens, and it was the idea that the
South Carolina and Georgia, which has
been a sort of free lance for some time,
has been cutting or that one of th<* steam
ship lines from Charleston to the East was
responsible.
Cotton men here have the same com
plaint to make. They regard Athens and
Washington, Ga., as the legitimate terri
tory of Savannah, but the staple does not
come. They believe it is liecause it find*
its way to Charleston at a reduced freight
rale. A buyer told a representative of the
Morning News that h. has offered as
much as 1-1 G above the market price to
cotton men at those points, but was un- 1
able to secure cotton, lb* .said there wa
a reason for this, and his belief was that
it is because Charleston gets it through
the favor of the South Carolina and Geor
gia.
It is believed lh< roads will try to ad
just th< qu< tion oi*ra tea bj fixing up th
cheaper Charleston outlet. It is possible
that the matter may bo considered by the
conference committee of the Southeastern
Freight Association, now in session a'
Palm Reach.
Some have seemed to think that at was
the Southern that secured control of the
Seaboard, but the Southern has always
been particularly zealous in the mainte
nance of rates, and the action of the Sea
board is taken as an indication that the
Southern can have no connection with it
or any voice Ln dictating i* policy.
Railroad rate* on cotton are not the only
kind that have been undergoing cuts re
cently. Ship agents here and at other
porta, owing to there being more tonnage
for January to be filled than there is de
mand in foreign ports to 1111 it. have been
compelled to cut rates in otder to induce
offers from Bremen, Barcelona, IJvcr
jooi. Havre and Genoa. These places
bought heavily some time ago, and there
is no demand for cotton at the price at
which it stands now. They bought when
it was cheaper, and do not now need
more. Ship agents anticipated a heavy
movement about this time to foreign ports,
so they chartered steamers to handle it.
Now the steamers are here or coming, and
nothing remains for the agents to do but
save demurrage by making as favorable
rates to themselves as possible under the
circumstances. They, therefore, take the
cotton cheap.
Just now a rate of 45 cents a hundred
to Genoa. 30 to Bremen. 45 to Barcelona, SO
to Liverpool and 35 to Havre is quoted,
though it is well known that shipments
have been received at rates far lxlow
these. Some three weeks ago the down -
ward tendency in rates began, and it is
not known how much farther it will go.
The agents have mere vessels than they
have cotton to fill at the price offered by
Bremen and other ports, so they have to
give the foreign buyers the benefit of re
duced rates, in order to move cotton to
the other side.
Liverpool has lately been selling to
Bremen, and this has ha<l its effect in
cutting down the demand here. Liverpool
has the biggest stock on hand it has had
for several years, and Is willing to dis
pose of a part of it.
On this side Hie demand remains very
good, and the rates to Eastern joints re
main stable, Southern mills are also buy
ing.
Cotton men here believe the same condi
tions confront ship agents In other |>ort*.
and that they are all losing money on their
vessels now. If the demand increases
abroad, so will the rates.
A cotton man said yesterday he believed
it possible that there are too many ves
sels at Norfolk for the amount of cotton
there, and that the Seaboard may have
been induced to make the cut ip order to
divert cotton to that port to load them.
IN THE It AILROAI) WORLD.
Matter* of Interest In Savannah and
ISl*e*vliere.
Mr. John M. Egan, vice president of the
Central Railroad, is out of the city on a
business trip.
Mr. \V. A. Winburn, general freight
agent of the Central, and Mr. James Men
zios. general freight agent of the Plant
System, are at Palm Beach attending the
meeting of the conference committee o.
the Southeastern Freight Association.
When one consults the registers of the
Do Soto it may be seen that the tourist
business, in its effects on Savannah, has
begun. Every day of late has shown an
Increase in the number of arrivals over
the day before, and the winter season
may be said to lie on. The other hotels
in the city are also doing very well, and
the proprietors say busings is good.
For some weeks workmen have been en
gaged m making repairs and renovations
at the De Soto, and they are now almost
through. Work is now going on in the
rooms that were occupied as headquarters
by the officers of the Seventh Corps.
These are the last that are to have any.
thing done to them in the way of repairs,
and the painters and others who have
liceti engaged will have but one job re
maining when they havo finished these
THE MOBNJNG NEWS: SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1890.
rooms. This wi. 1 is- to paint the celling
in the hotel lobby. The writing room has
lately lieen handsomely done over, an at
tractive design having been followed by
the painters in their work.
ln two or three weeks the tourist sea
son in Florida will be at Its hight. On
their way down from the North many
of the passengers stop over at Savannah
for a stay of several days. Their tickets
admit of this privilege, and the hotel and
railroad men expect the tourists to exer
cise them.
The latter part of March, however, Is
the busiest time with the De Soto. It
is then that the greater number of those
who have spent the winter in Florida are
lon their return lo the North and are
ready to stop over for a few days at
any tioint along the route that may offer
sufficient inducements to attract them. Sa
vannah has always been considered such
a place, and no doulk is felt that there
will lie many who will interrupt their
Northern passage for the sake of a short
stay,to see the city and the points of In
terests in the vicinity.
Vice President and General Manager
Feell Uabhett of the Georgia and Alabama
Railroad, Is In Amerieus.
Mr. G. W. Perkins, vice president and
gene ral manager of the Wrightsville and
Tennille Railroad, was in the city yester
day.
Mr. E. If. Ulntor., traffic manager of
the Central Railroad, was in Birmingham
yesterday on business.
Mr. Harney Cubbedge, “Handsome Bar
ney," as lie is known to his friends and
the ladies who travel by the Central, has
given up his position as baggeg agent of
the road and returned to his okl work
punching tickets. There were few more
popular conductors in America than Mr.
Cttbbedge when he ran between Atlanta
and Savnnah, and the patrons of the Cen
tral will be glad he has been put back
on the line. He was conductor for sev
eral years, and was one of the best
known of the men employed by the Cen
tral.
To Address the A'. M. f. A.
The Young Men’s Christian Association
has secured lor its speaker Sunday after
noon Rev. Arthur J. Smith, pastor of the
Fust Presbyterian Church. Dr. Smith's
subject will be "Disciplcship," and those
who attend will hear an address which
will be of profit to them.
Installed a Nev Pastor.
Rev. Arthur J. Smith, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, installed Rev.
D. R. Cyum pastor of the church in Dar
ien on Wednesday evening.
TO LOOK INTO THE STRIKE.
General President of Textile Work
ers Reaches Augusta.
Augusta, Jan. 20.—P. W. Greene of Co
lumbus, general president of the Textile
Workers of America, arrived here to-night.
He declined to lie interviewed as to his
idans, further than to say that he came
to look into the strike situation for him
self, and learn the true condition of things.
He said until he had looked around him
and conferred with the press committee
of the strikers, he could say nothing more
than this.
MuJ. J. E. Sawyer, quartermaster of the
First Division of the Second Army Corps,
left to-night for Washington, wliene'e he
will go io Manila as disbursing officer of
the Philippine commission. He is a very
popular officer, whose departure from
Camp Mackenzie is regretted by his as
sociates, though his present assignment to
duty is a desirable one.
DEATH OF EDITOR ADAMS.
One of the South’s ltest Ktiown
Newspaper Men.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 20.—A. N. Adams,
city editor of the Florida Times-Pnion and
Citizen, died at his home in this city .this
morning of pneumonia, in the thirtieth
year of his life.
Mr. Adams was one of the lies! known
newspaper men In the slate, and in the
entire South. Although a young man, he
had established a reputation as one of the
liest of the younger Journalists of the
country, and he was well known to many
of the Northern ami Western papers as a
correspondent of ability. He had many
friends throughout the South, to whom
he was known as a man of sterling In
tegrity.
—Rev. Dr. John Robertson, pastor of the
City Temple, Glasgow, Scotland, and ed
itor of the Christian Scotsman, Is conduct
ing a series of revival services in Balti
more. He has been In America since l ist
May and has traveled from New York to
San Francisco, working in connection with
the Christian and missionary alliance.
DR. BOGGS APPEALS TO BOYS.
TM.I.N THEM THE NIM tH’UIKH
THE t NI \ Elt SIT V OFFERS.
They ( an Go Through on an Expend
iture of I.ess 'llian *2(W a tear.
• lose Intimacy Between Faculty
and Students One of the Features
of the Institution Wliieh Tell* for
the Benefit of the Hoys—Strong
Plea for Attendance at the Home
I diversity.
Chancellor Boggs of the Slate University,
addressed the boys of the High School
yesterday in the interest Of the universiiy.
Dr. Boggs carefully presented the univer
sity’s claims, pointed out the advantages
it possessed in the way of cheapness,
c.ireful training, varied curriculum and
high standing, and urged the boys to lake
advantage of every opportunity lo secure
the finest education that lay within their
grasp, seeking to develop to the fullest
(he powers with which they have lieen
gifted.
Dr. Boggs stated that a boy could at
tend the state university without his ex
penses for a year exceeding SA and at
the same time secure good accommoda
tions, ample and nutritious food, and be
in excellent position to avail himself to
the utmost of the advantages offer* and there
for the acquirement of a scholastic or
scientific training. The influences sur
rounding the university arc of the lust,
there is less temptation than at Hi* in
stitutions m the large centers of popula
tion. the distraction of tiie mind from the
serious purposes for which a boy attends
college is less, and there is a closeness of
intimacy between the faculty and the
students which is productive of the best
results.
Dr. Boggs referred to the duty of < very
boy to make himself us close an approach
to a perfect man as lies within his power.
To do this it is necessary that he should
get the very best education that can be
brought within his grasp.
Dr. Boggs spoke briefly of the early his
tory of the university, after paying a trib
ute to the excellence of Mercer and Em
ory Colleges. While tlie revolutionary pa
triots of Georgia were fighting for the
liberty of their state and country they
were at the same time planning for a sys
tem of education that would develop their
descendants into the highest type of man
hood am) citizenship. T* n months and
eight days after the signing of the treaty
of Baris the Georgia legislature endowed
the university. They had not gold to give,
but they gtive liberally of the best they
had. Forty thousand acres of the finest
virgin land of tile state was eiedicated to
the proposed institution. When it opened
its doors, in a log cabin, in 1801, five Geor
gia boys were present, each of whom dis
tinguished himself in after life. It '”fias
been a characteristic of the University of
Georgia that it has furnished to the state
and nation many of its noblest-hearted,
most patriotic and best endowed men. Ev
ery class that had gone out had in some
way cast now luster on their alma mater,
and been of grant! service to the comfion
wetilth anil the nation.
The same general lines of study, he said,
are followed at Athens as at other lead
ing colleges nnd universities, with the ad
ditional benefit that it adapts its lines of
study-, as fat as posable, to the condi
tions of the youth of Georgia, ere they
can find all the branches of study and it
is just as good for the undergraduate stu
dent as the better known institutions else
where. One tremendous advantage its
students enjoyed. Dr. Boggs said, was that
whereas in the great moneyed institutions
the men of vast intellectual power and
training, who have been engaged as pro
fessors. do very little, if any teaching,
giving themselves largely to the making
of books, tutors doing nearly all of the
drill work just at the time when young
men most need contact with the best
trained minds and finest developed char
acters; at Athens, on the contrary, there
1* the daily contact of the faculty and
the students, the development of the feel
ing of personal friendship, and confidence,
and mutual esteem between teacher and
pupil that telis for so much in the prepa
ration of an all-round man for the work
of life. At Athens the central thought Is
to develop every one of the faculties with
which nature has endowed man, and at
the same time give widest scope to those
special talents or preferences by which na
ture distinguishes one man from another.
For those bom with special aptitude for
languages and literature there is offered
the curriculum Of the Bachelor of Arts,
two-thirds study in .anguages and litera
ture and one-third in the sciences and
mathematics, while for those who prefer
it there is the scientific course in which
the conditions are reversed.
Boys, before entering on any profession
al course. Dr. Boggs held, should have a
general training to develop the mind. Ger
many. the leader in industrial and scien
tific education, would not receive into her
technical manual training schools boys
who have not had a libera! general edu
cation. That country does not want to pro
duce narrow-minded men for the great in
dustries. It wants them broad of compre
hension as wefl as drilled in the details of
their business. Before coming to Athens’,
he accordingly maintained, the boy should
have received this foundation for lii.s work.
Dr. Itosgs expressed the belief that it was
inadvisable for boys to enter college be
fore they nre 17 years of age. Until then
they should avail themselves of the insti
tutions at home and remain where their
character will be moulded by home influ
ences. where they can have the advice,
encouragement, sympathy of their parents
and family. Education, he pointed out,
is not merely a mental training. It is to
make the mind, heart, conscience, will
Keep
Your Youth
If you are young, you naturally
appear bo.
If yon are old, why appear so ?
Ayer’s
Hair Vigor
will surely restore color to gray hair,
and it will also give your hair all the
wealth and gloss of early life.
Do not allow the falling of your
hair to threaten you longer with
baldness. Do not be annoyed with
dandruff. $1 00. At all druggists.
Wrtta to the Doctor.
If you So not obtain all the benefit*
you expected from the use of the Vigor,
write tno doctor about tt.
Addresa, Da. J. C. AYER.
Lowell, Mass.
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power, just as strong and mighty as they
can be in a human being. The value of the
training in a good home prior to the de
parture for college was alluded to.
Dr. Boggs spoke of the success that the
scientific schools at Athens have achieved.
The engineering school has been a suc
cess. The man in charge of the Southern
Railway, who controlls all of that mighty
machinery, Samuel Spencer, is a graduate
of this school. The same school educated
another Georgia boy, who Is now the con
ildential advisor of wealthy men of New
York, reporting to them upon railroad
properties before they invest in them. He
referred to the good work being done by
.the law school, by the new school of elec
trical engineering, and the medical de
partment at Augusta. His entire address
was a strong plea for the Georgia boy to
struggle far a college education and attend
the university that was so peculiarly his
own, whose advantages he presented in
such a manner as to leave a strong im
pression on all present.
TO COMPETEMTH THE BELL
(Continued from Eighth Page.)
we have made these improvements volun
tarily, and you now grant anew company
the rights to set poles within the fire lim
its you will give them an advantage over
us. We cannot come before you with the
request that you do not grant a franchise,
hut I think we are not asking too much,
when we ask you to put them on the same
basis with us, and at the same time avoid
more poles and wires in the business dis
trict.
“It is only natural that you want first
class service at the lowest rates possible.
This we are making effort to furnish. If
however, others promise to do better, I
cannot blame you foi; seriously consider
ing it. It will work no hardship on the
new company to require them to go un
derground now. If their poles and wires
were up, and you then required them to be
taken down, you would be putting a hard
ship on them. If you will investigate the
cost of underground work you will And
that il is not great enough to stop anew
enterprise, which has no overhead poles
and wires to throw away. Again, some re
striction as to when the work is to begin
and when completed should be added and
protected by bond. Continual agitation
injures us and docs not help the citizens.
The opposition company in Norfolk put
their wires underground in the beginning
and now claim to he in good financial con
dition. The city passed ordinances re
cently compelling us to put our wires un
derground, and I am now engaged on the
work and have it nearly completed. The
opposition company In Richmond put up
au overhead plant under an ordinance
grunting them three years in which to
complete an underground system and take
down their overhead wires. The time has
expired and no underground work has
been started, and they say if required to
go underground now, it will confiscate
their property and feu ve the Bell again
a monopoly."
Alderman Owens asked Air. Gentry his
idea as to the approximate difference in
cost of tlie underground and overhead sys
tems in the section of the city in which
the underground system is In use. He re
plied that it should be about SIO,OOO, but
nof over $12,000. Alderman Krouskoff then
inquired as to the cost of the Bell Com
pany's underground system, but Mr. Gen
try did nol reply in figures, simply stat
ing it was constructed with cement, and
was indestructible. He said it would last
100 years.
Mr. Anderson'made a brief, but (jointed,
statement in behalf of Mr. Bisbee. It
seemed to him that the talk that he was
not acting in good faith about construct
ing another telephone system In Savan
nah was discounted in the appearance of
five of the Bell Company's representatives,
whose faith in the prospects of competi-
tion had caused them to make a strong
effort to crush it. It seemed to him the
Bell Company was satisfied that compe
tition was in sight. “We will have anoth
er telephone exchange in Savannah the
same as they have in Jacksonville and
other plices,” said Mr. Anderson, “pro
vided you do- not see proper to close the
city's doors to us."
Continuing his argument, Mr. Anderson
urged that Savannahians are paying high
prices for telephone service. In putting
down the underground system, which was
voluntarily, he said the Bell company had
taken the first step to perpetuate its ex
istence in this city. He desired to know
why It was the citilens could not get
cheaper rates, at the same time reminding
Council that the gentlemen he represented
proposes to give better service and at lower
prices. All present and future ordinances
would be gladly complied with, he said,
but his client wanted to come into tile
city on the same footing as the Bell com
pany. After sufficient business had been
developed, the new company would be en
abled to put down the underground and
would gladly do so.
“The people are In a measure at the
mercy of a telephone company where it
has the field alone,” said Mr. Anderson.
“They are compelled to have the service,
and there are few who have the nerve to
'fire' it out, even, when the service de
serves the severest criticism. I only know
of one man' in Savannah who had the
courage to ‘fire’ out his telephone. For
this reason the companies in control have
things pretty much their own way. If the
Bell people would cut prices 30 to 40 per
cent, they might be allowed a monopoly,
but they will never maintain it at present
prices.”
Mr. Anderson concluded his remarks by
the assertion that the city has not adopted
the policy of having all wires put under
ground. For this reason the petitioner felt
warranted in asking the privilege of using
a system five years, which the Beil com
pany had been allowed to use for ten.
“Would you be willing to include In the
bond the condition to go underground in
five years?” asked Mr. Gentry.
"Most positively no,” replied Mr. An
derson.
“We agree to it and that is enough. You
should not expect a condition not required
of your company."
Council wont into causus at this juncture
to consider the report. Meantime, Traffic
Manager Pope talked with a representa
tive of the Morning News about the disad
vantages accruing from Having two com
panies. The service in Savannah is the
very best, he said, but such might not be
the case if the company is compelled to
reduce rates below a possible profit. Where
the company Is not making anything, it
could not afford, he said, to keep the serv
ice on a par with that in towns where op
position does not compel a reduction be
low the actual cost of service. An effort
has been made to give Savannah an ex
ceptionally fine telephone service, and he
said tt was the intention to furnish none
other so long as the company could be
reasonably expected to do it.
After a short discussion, Council again
weni into open meeting, and adopted the
resolution. Aldermen Thomas and Krous
koff voted against it. When asked if he
was interested in the Bell company, Al
derman Thomas stated he owned a few
shares, which he had not sought, but he
said he would rot allow a consideration
of this kirn! to influence him in the posi
tion he look against anew company. He
did nol think citizens would gain any
thing by hiving two companies, which
would necessitate subscribers patronizing
both. It would lead to confusion, he said,
and wouid compel many persons to have
two telephones, where one wou'.d serve
the purpose as well.
Mr. Bisbee was seen after the meeting
and ask?d as to whether the terms of the
resolution were acceptable.
“I am satisfied with the conditions," he
replied, “and will probably begin opera
tions soon. W e will comply with every
agreement entered into with the city, so
that no fear need be felt about putting
the system in the section named under
ground at the expiration of five years
"Will there be any local subscriptions to
the stock o( the new company?" Jlr Bis.
bee was asked.
“I an not prepared to say, but tho
probability is several Savannahians will
be interested.”
Public sentiment is largely against mom
poles, as may be found by casual in
quiries. The people are tired of having
tho sidewalks monopolized by poles and
property owners feel that jamming ur
sightly stumps at their doors is an imposi
tion. Only the exercise of the best judg
ment by the street and lane committee in
allowing the new company to place its
poles, it is said, will keep the people in ac
cord with Council’s action in granting tha
franchise.
FOREST FIRES.
All Varieties of Tree* Do Not Suffei
In flit* Same Decree.
From the Forum.
Forest fires differ greatly in intensity#
and in the amount of resultant dam;t*e
The great majority merely run along the
ground, licking up the grass, underbrush
and forest litter, and doing no damage ta
trees, other than scorching the outer bark.
Some develop sufficient heat to destroy!
the young saplings, and to burn through
the hark of the mature trees. In the Id
ler case, fire scars are produced which
may develop disease, and eventaily de
stroy the trees. Others, still fiercer and
more destructive, make a more or less
clean sweep of the forest. Fires of the
last mentioned kind are not common: hue
on the other hand, they are naturally the
most extensive. Among them may be in
stanced the “big burn” in Western Ore
gon, near the Pacific coast, which extend
ed from Tillamook southward to tha
neighborhood of Coos bay—a distance of
150 miles, with an average of twenty w
twenty-five miles—and the burns in What
com, Skamania and Cowiltz couniies
Washington, which swept the timber fofi
hundreds of square miles.
Different species of trees suffer from fir*
In different degrees. Resinous trees. es
pecially those with thin bark, such a?
pines, and particularly the yellow pine,
are very combustible, and fall an easy pre/
to the flames. The red fir, the most valu
able tree of the Northwest, is much *c- s *
combustible, as it possesses a thick bars
afyj contains comparatively little resin:
while the California redwood is so Wrt
chat no fire can sustain itself among them.
There have never been fires among 1 c red
woods. In burnt areas it is common
fires to make selections among th<
limiting the destruction to certain sp-•'>*=•
Although forest fires were long r- •ofi
nized as* an evil of the first magnitude
concerted attempt was made until i-centj
years to abate them. It was everybody*
business; therefore, it concerned no 01
in particular. The federal government
ing the largest oA*her of timber land.
naturally expected to take the lead in ,n ®
matter. Until very recently, however.
did nothing; and it was long befor* any*
the states took action. New York was
first to tae up the matter In earned-
In 1885 a law was passed by the
ture, providing fines* and impriponrcv ni * #of
setting fires, whether by intention or care
lessness; and an organization of fir*
dens was made. This organization
proved efficient; and we now hear liuc <>*
forest Area in New York elate.