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VOLUME XV. ALBANY, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 29, 1906. NUMBER 186. THE ELKS OF IRE FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF STATE ASSO CIATION—IMPOSING PARADE THIS MORN ING-BRILLIANT OPENING EXERCISES. v and The Elks of Georgia are here, the city Is theirs. They hare come from the four cor ners of the state, and are having the particular kind of a good time which Elks alone are supposed to know how to have. It is a fine body of men which has come to represent the lodges of Geor gia at the Fifth Annual Convention of the State Association. \ They are rep resentative men of the communities in which they live—attorneys, doctors, preachers, merchants and men of af fairs. They represent the best intelli gence and the best eociety of Georgia, and are animated by a spirit of fra ternity which is peculiar to Elkdom and which manifests itself to outsiders in a manner not to be mistaken. . The first delegations, coming princi pally from the upper part of the state, came in yesterday afternoon and last night. Although some of the night trains were delayed, representatives of the local lodge inet them at the de pot and escorted the visiting Elks and their ladles to their hotels or other stopping places. Most of the arrivals, however, weie by this morning’s trains. The Savan nah delegation, headed by Hon. R. L. Colding, president of the State Asso ciation, came in twenty-one strong, and there were large delegations from other lodges of the state. Brunswick, Waycross, Macon and Cordele are well represented. From 10 until 11 o’clock this morn ing there was an informal- "gathering of the herds” at the Elks’ Home <jn Pine street. There the visiting Elks and ladies were met by their hosts, and a number of Albany ladies were also present. During the hour pre ceding 11 o’clock Wedemeyer’s band, from Pine to Washington, Washington to Broad, Broad to Monroe, Monroe to Pine, and on the last named street back to the Elks' Home. It was an inspiring spectacle as the parade passed through the streets, with the band at its head. Many la dies in carriages, and wearing the pur ple and white of the order, were in line, and the Elks themselves stretched for two blocks in two parallel lines. Every Elk wore a white hat with a purple band, and carried a neat cane decorated with white and purple rib bons. Handsome badges were also in evidence, and all those in the parade carried big purple fans. The Opening Ceremonies. Immediately after the return to the Elks’ Home, the formal opening exer cises of the convention were held in the big lodge room on the third floor. There the attendance was large. Many ladies occupied seats, and the spacious apartment was comfortably filled. Mr. Morris Weslosky, former presi dent of the State Association, acted as master of ceremonies. The first speaker, after a beautiful opening prayer had been delivered by Rev. E. A. Landau, was his Honor, Hon. Chas. W. Rawson, mayor of Albany. The mayor is himself an Elk, and his ad dress was one to be remembered. It was bright and to the point, breathed the spirit of Elkdom and the spirit of Albany hospitality, and was greeted with frequent cheering. The address ojf welcome on behalf of Albany Lodge No. 713 was deliv ered by Mr. H. T. McIntosh, exalted ruler of the lodge and treasurer of the State Association. Hon. W. E. Martin, of Macon, dep uty grand exalted ruler of Georgia, en tered the hall while the 'exercises were of Atlanta, played lively airs, being j rl p r0 g re ss, having arrived on a de- stationed in front of the building. j ] ay€( j train. He is one of the most The Elks’ Parade. ; ! popular Elks in the state, and was The annual parade of the Elks of gfven an - ovatlon as he entered the Georgia left the building a little after After insistent calls from the 11 o’clock. The line of march was Mill Supply Department: 'Genuine Gandy "Dpi f C'lT "minutes, and said a great deal that AJLit, Jrx. LiVlll o wlu be treasured b^ those who heard cular and Cross Cut Saws, Marsh Steam Pumps. Implement Department: Harvesting Ma chinery, Thresh ing Machines in stock, all sizes Gasoline Engines, To wers an d Tank s M any ackmery Co. assembled Elks, he made a short ad dress, which was one of the most in spiring features of the proceedings. Mr. Martin is a gifted speaker, and was at his best this morning. Hon. R. L. Colding. After a brief hut charming response to the addresses of welcome, Hon. R. L. Colding, president of the state or ganization, delivered his annual ad dress. He spoke for about twenty him. He had prepared his paper with great care, and It was a decidedly val uable contribution to the archives of the State Association. Mr. Colding is a fluent and graceful speaker, who re ceived the rapt attention of his audi ence this morning. The Elks are keeping open house at their Pino street home. They are showing every possible attention to their guests, whose wants are being looked after by numerous committees, Business Session This Afternoon, The first business session of the convention will be called to order at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon. At 5:15 there will be a carriage drive for visiting Elks and the ladles. Reception and Ball This Evening. At 8:30 this evening there will be a reception In the parlors of the Elks’ Home. At 0:30 the hall will begW, music being furnished by Wedemeyer’s band. At 11 o’clock the “Eleven O’clock Toast” will be given In the open air before the Elks’ Home. At midnight, refreshments. TOMORROW’S PROGRAM. 9:30 a. m.—Session of State Associ ation tor consideration of business. Election of officers, selection of next place of meeting, etc, 11:30 a. m.—Adjournment 1 p. m.—Barbecue dinner, “Georgia style,” at Phllema. Elks and ladles will leave Union depot over the Al bany & Northern railway at noon. Returning, leave Fhilema at 3 o’clock. 3:45 p. m.—Georgia State League baseball. Albany vs. Valdosta,' Party returning from Philema may leave the train-at the ball park. 8:30 p. m.—Stag social session at the Elks’ Home. The Elks will keep open house at their home during the two days. The musical features will be Inter esting, and will be given generous recognition. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DECIDES ON COURSE. WILL SWALLOW PARLIAMENT S AFFRONT AND IG NORE DEMAND FOR RESIGNATION OF MINISTRY. ST. PETERSBURG, May 29.—The government has decided on its course with reference to the vote of lack of confidence of the lower house and its demand for the resignation of the cabinet. The government will swallow parliament’s affront and treat the resolution as a matter beyond its competence, and consequently not binding on the emperor. In other words, It will Ignore the demandB, but, on the'other hand, parliament will not be' dissolved. The ministry will continue in a conciliatory attitude, hoping that this plan will win eventually. SUNDRY APPROPRIATION BILL COMPLETED, NO MENTION MADE OF ANY APPROPRIATION FOR A PUBLIC BUILDING AT ALBANY. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.—The sundry appropriation bill was completed today by t>e House committee. It carries the largest total ever reported in a similar bill. The items for public buildings include $100,000 for Macon, Ga„ and the river and harbor appropriations Include $150,000 for Savannah, Ga„ and $309,750 for St. Johns river, Florida. IN LOUISIANA LAST NIGHT. HAD OBTAINED A CHANGE OF VENUE AFTER COMMITTING SHOCKING CRIME^ ,/L. New Orleans, May 29. — Governor Blanchard received a telegram from Madison parish today announcing the lynching at Tallulah, La., last night of Robt. T. Rogers, white, who was awating trial on the charge of murder ing Jesse Brown in Richland parish. Rogers had obtained a change of venue fro* the latter parish. y The lynching occurred near mid night. A mob of twenty-five arrived by special train over the Vicksburg railroad, at once broke open the Jail, and hanged Rogers before the sheriff could make an effective resistance. . The killing of Brown was a shock ing crime, and there was much bitter feeling against Rogers. U. S. Department of Interior Backs Action of Revenue Officers in Collecting Li censes for Whiskey. An interesting case that came up In Albany last summer, in regard to the collection of United States whiskey licenses from certain parties who had given orders for whiskey on local liquor houses, will be recalled by many of the readers of The Herald. It will be remembered that the reve nue collectors came to Albany and went through the books of ( the whis key houses In the city. Wherever they found that any whiskey had been de livered to a party on the order of an other party to whose account it had been charged, they held that the party giving such order was liable for the United States whiskey license for that year. ( Under this ruling several citizens of Albany were made to pay the whiskey license, amounting to $25 per year. Mr. M. D. Gortatowsky was hardest hit, having been made to pay nearly a ties were made to see the exact condi- r - - tlons aha understand post how these r bo extremely small in proportion to orders had . been given, they would re-1 the I ,ower obtained. Experts have es- fund the money collected for such n, | tlmated that the magnificent power nt censes. Judge Griggs at once took the matter up and has pushed It with char- MAY FOLLOW DEVELOPMENT OF 50,000 HORSE POWER PLANT ON FLINT RIVER— NEW YORK CAPITALISTS INTERESTED. It will be Interesting to everyone who has any Interest at all in Albany to learn that negotiations are in prog ress looking to the development of the magnificent waterpower on Flint river. If this waterpower is developed, as now seems nBBured, it may mean an electric railway from Albany ,to At lanta, the plan being to extend on to Albany the electric road soon to be built from Atlanta to Macon. Since the development of the splen did power on Klnafoonee creek by the Albany Power and Manufacturing Co., a great deal of interest from foreign capitalists haB centered in the water powers around Albany. A number of expertB have visited the city and ex- aniined this power, at th,e same time looking out for any undeveloped water power that might bo accessible to Al bany. Invariably these engineers have been attracted by the proposition pre sented by‘the power in Flint- river, which flows right at Albany’s feet and which has been wasting Its enormous power for centuries. ' A few weeks ago an engineer canjo here representing an Immense amount of New York capital. He made a thor ough inspection of the Flint, coming down that stream In a mol|>r launch for a distance of fifty miles. He was delighted with the conditions, and stated that the power In Flint river at Albany was one of the finest In the South. His estimate of the available horsepower was 60,090. As Is generally known, the cost of developing the power at the creek was considerably less than the average cost of developing the amount Of horsepower secured there- This made the Albany Power and Itanufacturlng Company’s proposition one of unusual attractiveness. The same is true of the river. The cost of developing will would surely build a line as soon as its plant waB completed. “The letters I have had from these New YorkerB show that they mean business, and there Is little donbt in my mind that the deal will go through.. I can see nothing right now that could cause any hitch. TheBe capitalists want a waterpower. Their engineer has found one for them which he Bays is the finest in the South, all things considered, so there seems nothing left now hut carrying out the definite ar rangements necessary for such a mam moth enterprise. I do not believe that a great time will elapse before the now wasted power of the Flint will be generating electricity to drive great manufacturing plants, to light all of the cltlos in Southwest Georgia and to speed trolley cars from Albany to At lanta." acterlstlc vigor ever since. In the let ter from the revenue department last September, in reply Co the papers thought she-was so much better that she' was allowed 'to take a drive out , td-'ihe park. When she came to the Powell’s Shoals on Flint river could ] ake ^ g 0 t ou t 0 f the -vehicle and leaped Into the water. «=. IS he harnessed at a cost of little more than half a million dollars. The banks of the river at this point are high, so that the dam would be a comparative- which Judge Griggs filed on the sub- ly short ono ' loot, It was strongly intimated that the collection of these licenses, while per haps sustained by the strictest con struction of the law, was unjust in these cases and the money would prob ably be refunded. After this letter, tjio parties who had paid this tax felt pretty well satisfied that they would get their money hack in due course. Consequently they were greatly surprised yesterday when a letter from Judge Griggs to Mr. Gor tatowsky announced that the Depart ment of the Interior had Anally ruled Judge S. W. Smith has been one of the prime movers In Interesting capl-l tal In the river power proposition. He gave a Herald reporter this morning the Information upon which this; ar ticle Is based. He has been working quietly for some time, but matters have just now reached a stage where there Is enough promise of success to tho public. Judge Smith Is very en thusiastic about tho matter and says that the development of this power will mean a great deal for Albany and the whole of Southwest Georgia. In that the collection of the licenses' was I ta,klnB of tbe matter ’ JudBe Smith In accordance with the law and thati Sald: the amounts collated could not be re- “ As you lloubtlesB know - thB1 ' e bave funded. ’ been a great many engineers here re- The'experience at these gentlemen' cent,y oxamlnlnB tbe waterpower <n will doubtless make others in this sec-1 tbe Fllnt rlver ’ 1 d0 not ,!now ot a tlon extreniely careful about giving j slnB ' e on e who has'.not been surprise^ orders for whiskey. at t ^ le volume of power and delighted 5,700 CARLOADS at the conditions which rendered its development a matter of such compar atively Bmall expense. A number of OF PEACHES ,ore,Bn capitalists are Interested In the - , » I development of -this power, but. a com- Is Railroad Man’s Estimate of Georgia' pany of New York caI,ltallBts bas Bone to work on the matter In earnest* “A few weeks ago they sent an en- and Florida Crop. glneer here and we made a trip down the river for a distance of over fifty Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., May 29,—Fifty-seven miles. It enthused me to hear this hundred carloads of peaches as the engineer’s opinions as we came down result of the crop of 1906 Is the pre- the Flint, and It made me think a lot v , diction of Guy L. Stewart, local agent more of the old strea|i from a dollar hundred dollars, covering a period of of the land and Industrial department and cents standpoint than I had ever over three years. Mr, Gortatowsky has of the Southern railway, who has Just ’ thought before. He made a very flat- returned from a trip through South terlug report to his company when he Georgia and Florida. He says nothing returned, and, acting upon this report, can now hurt the peach crop except an' the New York capitalists are going exceptionally heavy rain or hail storm, right ahead with the project. several large farms, and does a supply business with the hands who work on his plantations. He "runs” them, a* the expression Is, giving them supplies during the year and charging them to their account, which Is paid in the fall when cotton Is marketed. During the three and a half years pplor to last August *Mr. Gortatowsky has had occa sion to give his hands orders, at vari ous times, for less than $16 worth of whiskey. For doing this he was forced- to pay the regular whiskey license for each of the years during which orders had been given. The action of the revenue officers was regarded aB so manifestly unfair ANNUAL BANQUET. Of the Savannah Rifle Association . Tonight. 8peclal to The Herald. Savannah, Ga., May 29,—This even- "One of the first things they did was to take up the matter of extending the electric railway, soon to be built from Atlanta to Macon, from Macon to Al bany. They have ample capital to carry out such a plan if they can get the co-opertlon from the other company. “A street car system for Albany ing at Bannon’s lodge at Thunderbolt | will’take place the annual banquet of would conJe, of course, if that matter the Savannah Rifle Association. This had not been disposed ot before tfi|s is always the big social stag event of power could be developed. I say this | the spring in Savannah. There will be because I feel sure that it is a matter by all that Congressman Griggs was speeches tonight by some prominent of but a few months now before the requested to take the matter up with orators, and for the time politics will building of a trolley line in Albany will the nrnner nnthnritlpa at WooMno4n« ta i. a- a n. . _ _ « ' — . .. .. the proper authorities at Washington, be forgotten. It Is to be a great gath- be undertaken. But if there Bhould It was believed that when the authorl- ering of diners and wits. be no car line here, this company. YOUNG LADY JUMPED INTO LAKE. Attempt at 8u!clde by Miss Holmes, Atlanta. Rosa Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga„ May 29.—Miss Rosa Holmes, formerly private secretary, to. Rev. Lon G. Broughton, pastor of tho Baptist Tabernacle church, while de spondent beeause of ill health, yester day attempted to commit suicide by leaping into Lake Abana alt Grant Park. Park hands saw her and quick ly rescued the young woman. Dr. Broughtoh was notified. He came at once to the park and took Miss --Holmes back to the Tabernacle Infirm ary, Where- sho had been undergoing treatment for general breakdown. Her condition was di)e to overwork during the Bible conference, and it was ■ We are stowing a beautiful lino of, bristle goods* includ ing 1 ' Hair Brushes, 75c to $4. Tooth Brushes, 10 c to $1. Nail Brushes, 25 c ‘to $1. Shaving Brushes, 25c to $1.50. Clothes Brushes, 25c to $1. Bath Brushes, 75c. Hilsman-Sale