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ALBANY, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20, 1906. VOLUME XV. NUMBER 153. \ Chicago, April 20.—A special to Tribune from Honolulu says earth vibrations felt , there six minutes yesterday. Feared repetition San Francisco disaster. , c. m q. 'I* And Two of Road’s Officials Soaked for $10,000 Each for Violating Anti-Rebate Law. i Chicago, April 20.—The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and Da rius Miller and Claud C. Burnham, of Jr, the same road, were found'guilty in the Federal court today of granting rebates ill violation of the law. The railroad was lined $40,000 and the two officers $10,000 "each. HIS GRACE’S 65TH BIRTHbAY. Archbishop Farley the Recipient Many Testimonials of Esteem. of New York, April 20.—Archbishop John M. Farley entered upon his 66th year today and was the recipient of numerous congratulations from nu merous churchmen and laymen in New York and elsewhere. His grace was born In Ireland in 1842 and came to the United States shortly before the civil war. In 1892 he was made coad jutor bishop of New York and ten years later became head of the arch diocese on the death of Archbishop Corrigan. Flags in.-Albany are conspicuous only by thqir absence. Thera...are flagstaffs in plenty, but they are bare. The only flag in the city is the one over Reich’s. There is no excuse for this state of things. / ' STILL RAGING IN SAN FRANCISCO. Three Hundred Thousand People Homeless and Hungry-All Who Can Are Fleeing from the Stricken City. San Francisco, April 20.—The care and feeding of three hundred thous and hungry people is now the main problem for the city authorities. Pro visions are lacking, but supplies are now on the way here. Three' relief stations have' been established under the direction of a- committee of with Mayor Schmitz at the head. fifty, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 20. —There seems now to be little hope of saving the choicest portion of the residence district west and north of Van Ness ave- nnue. The fire department is still making strenuous ef forts to check the flames, but without avail. FIRE REACHES TELEGRAPH HILL. The fire is now in full possession*of the houses on Telegraph Hill, and will probably take everything to the water front on Van Ness avenue and west of there. The main fire has reached Octavia street, and is ad-» vancing fast. The ferry buildings are crowded with i . • 11 i . . * _ . . i . people carrying small packages, trying to get 'away from the city. The fire came close to Fort Mason last night, and the big Fontail warehouse and nearby can neries will probably go. The fire will probably make a clean sweep to Golden Gate Park. BREAD FOR REFUGEES. The principal food of those remaining here is can ned goods and crackers. Refugees from here are met in other towns by bakers, who are selling them bread at ordinary prices. Food dealers here are charging exor bitant prices, but this cannot last long. 1 E We have in Stock the Celebrated and invite Inspection. One customer tells us he hauled two car loads of freight at one trip over an ordinary Country Road. ' We also carry Grain Threshers in stock in all sizes. SANTA CRUZ SUFFERED SEVERELY. OAKLAND, Cal., April 20.—An Associated Press correspondent arriving last night from Santa Cruz says 103 were taken from the wreck of Agnew’s state insane asylum at noon yesterday. Official estimates place the number of injured there at 207, of whom thirty are not expected to live. THE FIRE UNDER CONTROL. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 20. — Noon.— The fire is under control, having been checked at Van Ness ayenue, and also in Mission. It is still raging north of Mission toward the bay, but will not spread west. Prob ably one-fourth of the city is safe. Measures are being taken for the relief of the desti tute. Supplies of bread and milk are urgently needed. NEW YORK, April 20.—The Western Union re ceived a dispatch from San Francisco, at 9 o’clock, Pa- cific time, saying that the fire in the residence portion had been stopped at, Octavia street and was now con fined to Telegraph Hill. The flames will probably not spread much further in this direction. GEN. FUNSTON’S REPORT TO WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20.—The War De partment received, soon after 11 o’colck this morning, the following from General Funston: “Three hundred thousand people are homeless. The troops are co-operating with the police. Famine seems inevitable. All large supply stores are burned. The most’ energetic efforts from the outside only can prevent frightful suffering. I request that everything possible be done in the way of food and supplies, tentage and blankets. No more troops are needed now.” FROM A STOCK BROKER’S VIEWPOINT. E. F. Leland wired the following to the Albany of fice of Ware & Leland: , CHICAGO, Ill., April 20. — The amount of loss in San Francisco is yet unknown, but is now estimated in the neighborhood of $200,000,600, and probably much more. This will hit )the fire insurance companies, and may not only make them sell out their stocks, but it seems almost certain that quite a number of the fire in- San Francisco, April 20.—The |P port that the Cliff House has top-, pled Into the sea cannot be verified ! and Is probably untrue. Confusion ! makes It Impossible to reach It. '] Annual Meeting in Savan nah—Unveiling of Marble Seat Marking Spot Where Oglethorpe Spent First Night. 8peclal to The Herald. -j Savannah, Ga., April 20.—The prin cipal eventHp connection with the an nual meeting of the Georgia Society of Colonial Pomes, now in session & Savannah, will be the unveiling of the memorial to Gen. Oglethorpe on .street, near-the city hall, this after noon at 6 o’clock. The spot wK«(» Oglethorpe spent his first night in'JSa- vannnh is to he marked with a marble Beat appropriately inscribed. Mr. Walter G. Charlton is to dellvof . the address at the unveiling, andithe- mayor and aldermen of the .city will be present. There will be Daughters from almost every olty in Georgia, andj the occasion Is to be one of marked mnmnnl moment. The election of ofllcers, of tho Daughter? was hold this morning anil resulted in few changes. The present ofllcers have served with suoh marke'4 faithfulness that there rfas no dei 1 to change them. The annual medi this year has been a very pleasant, one. There has heeu much social W . tortaining for the visitors. !/< . .. l tJH In the early mornlngB now and at about 7 o’clock In the evening tile replaced cheaper later on. It is good business judgment to curtail your market risks at present. national Government sends a special REPRESENTATIVE. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20. — President Roosevelt and Cabinet devoted the cabinet meeting to day to a discussion of the San Francisco situation and detailed Secretary Metcalf, a resident of Oakland, to go immediately to the stricken city as the representative of the national government, advising with Governor Par dee and the San Francisco authorities. 'I ROOSEVELT SENDS HIS CHECK FOR $1,000. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20.—The President today sent his check for one thousand dollars to the Red Cross Society for the California sufferers. Senator Knox sent five hundred dollars. ies are alive with English sparrows chattering with a fervor ’wqrthy 'of.trij kfJAvnvVilnV nnmlnN Tl,«l In ears, without it something would Been* to be missing. The average Amerloan, • relishes the raoket of the energetic; 4 little oreatures. ' If you use any other ! brand of paint, it is.. , proof conclusive that; you do not know all tfe virtues of v . r DR. McCASKILL MAKES APPEAL In Behalf of Railroad Men — Those Ponds and Mud Hbles Near the Depot a Menace to Health. ING 61 M Mat tilery Albany, Ga., April 19, 1906. Dear Herald: Quite a number of railroad men (who, by the way, are my patrons) have requested me to appeal through The Herald, in their behalf, that some action be taken to place those low flats in a sanitary condition. Within fifty steps of the A. & N. shops is a pond which in my opinion is a cesspool of poisonous gases. It is thick with slime, and notwithstanding the recent rains, the place absolutely stinks. This is only one of many other such pools. It would be an easy matter to drain tbenf with shallow ditches. These men tell me that when they go to their work in the early morning that the stench is fearful, and as they pay their taxes and other dues imposed by the city they feel as if they should have some protection of health, etc. Respectfully, etc., ALEX. B. McCASKILL, M. D. THE COUNTRY’S GREAT FIRES SINCE 1700 Weather Forecast The following is the weather fore cast for the state of Georgia for the next twenty-four hours: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Probably showers Saturday. ' Bananas, 20c dozen. ’Phone 70. W. E. FIELDS. The San Francisco fire will probably go into history as the greatest conflagration that ever occurred on the North American continent. And it is not San Francisco’s first bad fire, by any means. In 1851 she was swept by flames three times, the losses being, respectively, $3,500,000, $13,000,000 and $3,000,000. She experienced still another serious fire during the previous year. Again in 1895 $2,000,000 went up in smoke in a single day, and another loss of the same amount was recorded three years later. The greatest fire experienced in the history of this country, with the probable exception of San Francisco’s last frightful disaster, was when Chicago was swept in 1871 by a conflagration which consumed property hav ing an estimated value of $168,000,000. Charleston, S. C., has been particularly unfortunate, the following being the years of her fires.and amounts of her losses: 1700, amount not known; 1778, $3,000,- 000; 1796, $1,500,000; 1838, $5,000,000; 1861; $10,000,- 000. The great fire of 1872 in Boston destroyed $75,000,- 000 worth of property, and in 1835 New York lost $15,- 000,000 in a blaze which threatened to destroy, the en tire city. Portland, Me., paid a tribute of $10,000,000 to the fire fiend in 1866. The Jacksonville, Fla, fire of 1891, is well remem bered. It cost $11,000,000, and the Baltimore confla gration of 1904, the greatest that ever occurred in the South, swept away $50,000,000 worth of buildings and their contents. There have been 200 other conflagrations in the United States since 1700 which destroyed property of the estimated value of not less than $1,000,000. SAVANNAH WILL AID SAN FRANCISCO. Unquestionably the Movement on Foot to Contribute for b eS t . .pint, for this cti* r Relief of 8ufferore. 8peclal to The Herald. Savannah, Ga., April 20.—Savannah will do her share toward alleviating the suffering at San Francisco. There is already talk of starting a movement to solicit fundB for a subscription and this will probably take definite shape during the day. The Savannah Benev olent Association, which has a very large reserve which it holds for Just such emergencies as this, will, it is expected, make a liberal donaUon. Savannah was so materially aided by the outside world in 1876, when she was in distress, that it is bard for her citizens to turn a deaf ear to appeals for help from any source. Acting Mayor jas. M. Dixon has sent a telegram to Mayor Schilf, of San Francisco, asking if there is-need of outside assistance. If he says that there la thea the city wilt probably subscribe something and the ciUzens will be appealed to to make donations for a fund Raised by private subscrip tion. { m.:. mate/ Any good paibter * will advise its use, be- ‘ cause it looks better and lasts better than other kinds. ■; This is the best sea- son for painting. If your house needs a fresh coat, figure with •; us. We can save you money. , Eull line of DIRECTS VERDICT FOR BLACKBURN. Greensboro, N. C., April 20.—Judge Goff today took the case against Con gressman Blackburn from the jury and ordered a verdict of not guilty. >, Floor Paints, Floor Stains, Wall Paints, Roof and;Barn Paints, Enamels, Varnishqs, Lead and Oil. * :; *• 'll V* Hilsman-Sale lasttikl