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VOLUME XV.
ALBANY, GA.. THURSDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 7, 1906.
NUMBER 194.
C RAILROAD CLERKS
GET BIG GRAFT.
The “Lusitania,” the Larg
est Liner in .the World,
Launched Today—It Will
Carry 2,350 Passengers.
Glasgow, June 7.—The new Cunard
line steamer “Lusitania," the world’s
largest liner, waB safely launched at
Clyde Bank today. Her sister ship, the
“Mauritania,” will follow a month lat
er. The “Lusitania” Is 790 feet long,
breadth 88 feet, depth 60 feet, displace
ment 40,000 tons. Her turbine en
gines are expected to drive her 24
knots an hour. She will accommodate
2,350 passengers, and carry a crew of
HOUSE STRUCK
BY LIGHTNING.
Dwelling Occupied by Mr. W. R. Bear-
ley Damaged.
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock a
house on State street owned by Mr.
Ben Adams and occupied by Mr. W. R.
Beasley was' struck by lightning. The
lightning first . struck the chimney,
completely demolishing it,’ and ran
down into a bedroom below. Strange
to say, nothing caught flre, although
things were smoked up badly.
The bricks from the falling chim
ney were thrown with terrlflce force
against a neighboring house, planks
being split open by the impact.
Beyond the damage done by the
chimney falling and part of the roof
being torn up nothing was especially
damaged. No one was in the house at
the time, a fortunate’-thing.-for the 1
room was used as a sitting room and
ordinarily it would have been occu
pied.
Mill Supply
Department:
Genuine Gandy
Belt, Atkin’s Cir
cular and Cross
Cut Saws, Marsh
Steam Pumps.
/
Implement
Department:
Harvesting Ma
chinery, Thresh
mg Machines in
stock, all sizes
Gasoline
\
Engines,
Towers
and Tanks
Albany
Machinery
Go.
MORE STARTLING TESTIMONY BEFORE THE
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Philadelphia, June 7.—Testifying to-,
day before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the investigation of
railroad conditions, Joseph K. Aiken,
former chief clerk in the office of the
superintendent of the Monohgahela
division of the Pennsylvania road, re
vealed evidence almost as startling as
that of J. H. Boyer yesterday. Allcen
said that on a salary of from $30 to
$126 a month he purchased $75,000
worth of stock in different coal com
panies. He admitted that he received
cash gifts from coal operators on the
Pennsylvania line and that he received
$50 a month from the company store,
Boyer, who testified yesterday to
having received large sums of money
from coal companies, was dismissed
from service’ by order of President
Cassatt.
ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF GUN
WOUNDS TW0--0NE SERIOUSLT.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT IN A PICNIC PARTY
AT PALMYRA.
This morning at about 10:30 o’clock
Mrs. R. F. Dunlavey was seriously^
but not necassarily fatally shot, and
Mr. Ed Holley painfully shot through
the hand. The shooting was entirely
accidental.
Mrs. Dunlavey and Mr. Holley were
members of a picnic party that had
gone out to Palmyra from Albany.
After the party had arrived at Palmyra
several of the ladies wandered off into
the woods, and Mr. Holley heard them
screaming as if something were wrong.
He hastened to the drag and got u
shotgun that he had brought along.
As he pulled it out, the hammer of the
gun in some way struck the body of
the drag, and the load was discharged
through his hand, passing on and strik
ing Mrs. Dunlavey, who was standing
hear, the charge taking effect in the
abdomen.
Dn Hilsman dressed the wound. He
states that while not considered fatal,
It is of a very serious nature. Mrs.
Dunlavey’s age is one thing that
makes it worse.. Mr. Holley’s wound
is of a very painful nature, but not
serious.
Mr. Holley regrets the accident very
much, but he is not to be blamed for
it.
Board of Education Organ-*
izes New System.,'
Election of Superintendent, Principals
and Teachers—Most of the Present
Tteachers In the Academy Re-elect
ed—The New Ones.
The Board of Education having con
trol of the new system of city schools
met yesterday afternoon for the pui
pose of organizing the system and
electing officers and teachers for the
next school year.
There were many applicants for the
places to be filled, and there was an
abundance of material from which to
select. At a previous meeting of the
board a special committee had been
appointed to go through the applica
tions, credentials and recommenda
tions and select such applicants as ap
peared to be most meritorious, and
this committee submitted to the boat'd
three or more applications for each
position to be filled.
Salaries.
Before proceeding with the. elec
tions, salaries were fixed, as follows:
Superintendent of Schools, $1,600.
Principal of High School, $900
Two teachers in High School, $80
per month oach, for nine months.
Principal Grammar School, $900.
Primary teacher, A„ $60 per month;
Primary teacher, B., $50 per month.
Six grade teachers, each, $50 per
month.
ELECTIONS.
The elections were by ballot, and
resulted as follows:
Superiptendent of Schools — S. R.
DeJarnette.
Principal of High School—Prof. B.
T. Hunter.
High School Tteachers—Miss Mamie
Brosnan and Mrs. Annie Muse.
Principal of Grammar School—Prof.
W. A. McGregor.
Primary Department, Grade A —
Miss Marla Davis.
Primary Department, Graie B —
Miss Madelyn Robinson.
Grade Teachers—Miss Annie Mock,
Miss Gertrude Mock, Mrs. Jessie Wal
ters Wallace, Miss Marie Forrester,
Miss Willie Adams, Miss Nellie Cor
bin.
Prof. S. R. DeJarnette is a former
principal'of the Albany Academy and
a resident of Xlbany.
Prof. B. T. Hunter, the principal-
elect of the High School, formerly
taught a school for boys fn this city
and is well known as a teacher
throughout the state. His last work
was as principal of a high school <n
Atlanta.,
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Prof. McGregor, the principal-elect
of the Grammar School, comes from
Buena Vista, where he has been as-
eistant principal of-tho-iloktr Sniitfr
High School during the past school
year.
All the other teachers elected, arc
local, except Miss Nellie Corbin. Her
home is in Griffin, Ga., and she has
been teaching this year in the school
at Jefferson.
No elections were held for the two
special departments which are con
templated— Music and Domestic Sci
ence. The board decided to eloct a
man to the position of music teacher
and to get the best man to he had for
the place, the purpose being not to
have instrumental music taught in the
schools, hut to have sight Reading
taught as part of the regular course.
The action of the board with reference
to this position contemplates bring
ing a man to Albany who will be an
acquisition to the musical interest of
the city.
For the Department of Domestic Sci
ence it was deemed advisable to defer
the election until, a future time, with
the view of combining this department
jvith some other desirable department,
either drawing or physical culture,
perhaps, provided a teacher for such
a combination could bo had.
The matter of looking further into
ithese departments and forming a more
definite plan for them than the board
seemed to have at its meeting yester
day was referred to the superintend
ent and the two princlpals-elect, the
board to.fill the places at a later time.
Mr. L. E. Welch was re-elected sec
retary and treasurer of the board at a
salary of $300, and his bond was fixed
at $1,000,
Colored Schools.
The election of principal and teach
ers for the colored schools was post
poned, the board not having such in
formation as was desired, until a fu
ture meeting to be called by the
Mayor.
Mr. Joseph Ehrlich was appointed
to confer with the Masons with refer
ence to the program for laying the cor
nerstone of the new High School build
ing and to prepare a suitable Inscrip
tion for the stone.
Prof. DeJarnette, It is perhaps prop
er to state, was not an applicant for
the position of superintendent. When
nominated, however, it was stated by
the gentleman placing his name before
the board, that he would accept the
position if elected. After his election
he was sent for and appeared before
the board, and signified his accept
ance.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER
JOSEPH M. BROWN
IN A LETTER TO PEOPLE! OF GEORGIA, EX
POSES JOURNAL’S CAMPAIGN METHODS.
8peclal to The Herald. takes as Its text, are based on the all-
Atlanta; Ga., June 7.—The following water rate from Burlington to Sevan-
letter from Railroad Commissioner nah. I will show that our old familiar
Joseph M. Brown, addressed to the friend, the "port rate" horse, 1b led
people of Georgia, was given to the into the ring here; but as he gets his
press today: , tall over the dashboard in too disturb-
Office of the ing a manner, the Atlanta Journal
Railroad Commission of Georgia, wantB to unhitch him and take him
Atlanta, June 5, 1906. , out—In this case.
To the People of Georgia: | Since writing the above, my atten-.
The Atlanta Journal, in its efforts to tion has been called to statements al-
bolster up its attack upon the railroad leged to have been made by me to
commission of Georgia, published in Mr. J. B. Rqberts about marble rates,
display type, May 26, what it said were published June 1 In the Atlanta Jour-
“rates (on marble) fixed l^y the Geor- nal, whllo I was absent from the city,
gla Railroad Commission from Georgia and as usual the Journal has grossly
quarries, i. e„ Blue Ridge, Ga.," its fig- exaggerated. I will give the facts
ures being aB follows, in cents, per 100 later,
pounds:
Respectfully, ,
JOSEPH M. BROWN,
Commissioner.
JOINT DEBATE
caution Taken To Keep
Down “Rough House.”
SPANISH CABINET
ALL RESIGNED.
Madrid, June 7.—Premier Moret to
day presented to King Alfonso the res-
ignatlons of the entire cabinet
To Bainbridge, Ga., 61; to Bruns
wick, Ga., 42; to Fitzgerald, Ga„ 47;
to Quitman, Ga., 61; 'to Savannah, Ga.,
42; to Tifton, Ga., 45; to Thomasvllle,
Ga., 49; to Valdosta, Ga„ 48.6; to
WaycroBS, Ga., 48. |
The Railroad Commission of Georgia
disowns the bantling. The rates in
question are the Atlanta Journal’s'
baby, not ours. And let me say that
the Atlanta Journal haB not only in-1
vented some rates on marble to charge
to the discredit of the Railroad Com- J
mission of Georgia, but it has trenched
upon the power of the Most High and
has created some “Georgia quarries" Rigid Rules To Be Applied,
from which to make these “excessive j m — , .. . _
freight rates" for which it must hold, and ^very Possible Pre-
the Railroad Commission in the glare
of condemnation. These “ Georgia
quarries" it locates at Blue Ridge, Ga„
a Btation on the Louisville & Nash-
ville railroad, forty-one miles north of 8peolal to The Herald.
Tate, Ga., where the "Georgia quar- Atlanta, Ga., June 7.—All is now in
rles" really are. With specious art readiness for the joint debate here to-
the. Atlanta Journal takes the name of morrow evening between Hon. Cleric
the Blue’ Ridge Marble Co., whose Howell and Hon. Hoke Smith, two of
works are located at Nelson, Ga., two the several candidates who aspire to
ml)es.souJh of Tate ( ^anjl. ap^Hes it to the chair of the governor of the state,
the station Blue Ridge, 'Ga., and seeks 'The lltthThTtch which came in the ne-
to deceive the people Into the belief gotiatlons between Ihe two sides has
that the works are at a quarry and the been straightened out, and there iB
quarry at Blue Ridge, Ga. nothing to do but await the hour for
But from ono attempt to deceive it the speaking to begin. The debate is
leaps to another, for even the rates it to take place at the Peachtree audl-
names as being “fixed by the Georgia torium, which is next door to the Ara-
Railroad Commission” are not correct; * gon hotel. It has been decided that
if there wore any “Georgia quarries” thOBe who introduce the speakers can-
at Blue Ridge, Ga. v That seltadver- ‘ not use laudatory language. No flags
tised railroad rate expert went away j n re to he permitted in the auditorium,
from the fact that these rates on, mar- Police will be stationed in all parts of
hie are made by combining the local the auditorium. The doors will open
rate of the Louisville & Nashville rail- at 7:30 o’clock and the meeting will
road from the quarries to Atlanta with begin at 8 p. m. Reuben' Arnold will
the rates beyond, and, instead, based introduce Mr. Smith and Chas. T. Hop-
them on the combined locals of the, Kins will do the same by Mr. Howell.
Louisville & Nashville and Western Both are prominent ■ attorneys of At-
& Atlantic railroads from the quarries ^anta. The speakers will not he’ al
to Atlanta. That combination which i owe d to be disturbed by questions
the Railroad Commission's rules broke from peruana In the audience. Mr.
up more than a year ago when the smith will open tho debate. Mr. How-
Louisville & Nashville trains began j 0 n w m rop iy „nd then Mr. Smith will
running through to Atlanta. The At- have the* last word. Four or five hun-
American Medical Associa
tion at Boston Figuring on
the Value of Man in Dol
lars and Cents.
Boston, Mass., June 7. — The
thalmplogical Department of the
American Medical Association yester.
day considered the value of man in
dollars and cents, Dr. Holte, of Port
land, Me., insisting that such value
be expressed in figures with a dollar
mark before them. He declared that
the economic value of a laboring man
decreases from his twenty-fifth year,
and of a professional man after hie
fortieth year. He said a boy 10 years
old is worth $2,601; at 16 he is wprth
$2,633; at 25 he is worth $5,48$, from
which time his value decreases until
at 70 he Is worth $17. At 80 he is u
drawback on the community, by’ $873.
Professional men are worth at 40
years, $29,344,
HEAT PROSTRATIONS
AT THE NORTH.
Intensely Hot In Chicago and New
York Yesterday.
j
( New York, June 7.—One death, and
several prostrations from heat wero
reported yesterday, which, althoug
not the hottest day of the year so fa:
brought more distress.
I > In Chicago, Too.
Chicago, June 7.—Yesterday
the hottest day of the present
here, the temperature rising ;to 91 i
groes, causing the death of six p
sons and several prostrations,
normal temperature of this date is '
8
ome
Idnta Journal revives because it en
ables iti to thereby publish higher fig
ures with which to attack the Rail
road Commission — figures which to
some points work out nearly $20 per
car more than the "rates fixed bjj the
Railroad Commission of Georgia.”
The people of Georgia can therefore
see to what depths that paper is will
ing to sink itself in its assaults upon
their Railroad Commission. And . that
the people may know that the charge
made in the editorial columns of that
paper, May 25, was not a sporadic one,
the Atlanta Journal returns to its
vomit June 3, naming specifically its
former rates "from Blue Ridge” to
Bainbridge, Brunswick and Quitman,
saying In black, capital letters that the
“RAILROAD COMMISSION PER
MITS” the roads to charge a rate of
61 cents per 100 pounds from Blue
Ridge, in North Georgia, to Bainbridge.
This is 5 cents per 100 pounds higher
than the rate the "Railroad Commis
sion permits" from this fictitious quar
ry! And its rates ’to Quitman are 5
cents per 100 pounds higher than we
would "permit,” and to Brunswick 6
cents per 100 pounds higher.
The Atlanta Journal has published
many silly statements about the rail
road commission of Georgia within the
past year, but if there has been an
other out of the number which was
so absolutely disreputable as that
herein exposed I confess I have failed
to see it.
That paper has also published some
other fictitious rates which it says
were “fixed by the railroad commis
sion of Georgia.’’ I will show up that
attempted fraud later. In the mean
time,'! will remark that the marble
rates from the Burlington, Vermont,
group of towns to Savannah and
Brunswick, which the Atlanta Journal
dred seats will be reserved immedi
ately in front of the speaker’s stand
for ladles and their escorts. The two
committees declare that there must be
no disorder and that anyone who at
tempts to start a “rough house” will
be fired out of the building in quick
time. Local Interest In the affair ap
pears to be such as to warrant the pre
diction that the auditorium will he
densely packed tomorrow night.
OHIO MINERS
AND OPERATORS
CANT AGREE.
We are showing
a beautiful lme
bristle goods, inch,
ing
Hair Brushes,
75c to $4.
Tooth Brushes,
10 c to $1.
ColumbUB, O., June 7.—The miners
and operators of Ohio have practically
come to a deadlock in their attempt
to reach an agreement on the wage
question. The committee mpt today,
hut negotiations will probably be de
clared off, This statement Is from
authoritative sources.
CECIL OUTZ
SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Young
Man in Inflrrpary In Atlanta
Attempts Suicide.
Special to The Herald. ’
Atlanta, Ga„ June 7.—Cecil Outz, 20
years old, a patient in the Tabernacle
Infirmary,'shot himself Just over the
hqart today, and will probably die.
Outz was despondent over 111 healtff.
He was so much Improved that he
would have been discharged from the
Infirmary in a few days.
When the nurse left the room for a
moment, Outz shot himself with a re
volver which he had concealed.
Outz belonged to a prominent family
of McRae.
I i’.vl I
Nail Brushes,
25 c to $1.
Shaving Brushes,
25c to $1.50.
Clothes Brushes,
25 c to $1. (
Bath Brushes,
Hilsman-
