About The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1889)
.Cfcf ? - ■ \~-tt VOL. 1 -NO 144. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, -=A. N= We have heard people wonder why it is that at Lohn stein’s you can ai rways find more customers than at any other place in town. This question we can easily answer: The people like to trade at Lohnsteins store, 1st. Because they receive every possi ble attention and consideration from . the proprietor, as well as from the salesmen. 2nd. Because they find a better selection of" goods at Lohnstein’s than at any other place in town, and Last, but not least, because a dol lar goes farther and reaches deeper at Lohnstein’s than anywhere else. Politeness,square honorable dealing, excellence and great variety of stock, small mar gins and quick sales; These are the cardinal reasons for our flattering and unprecedented suc cess. And the good work still goes on. Come and see us this week. We will divide profits with you. Dry goods, cloth ing, shoes, hats, complete in every department. Bar gains in every line. They are waiting for you. Come and pluck them. It will pay you. iiigl The Great Leader, and Benefactor, 132 BROAD ST. GATHER LEAVES AND GRASSES. Gather Iciycs and grasses, Lore, to-day, For the autumn passes Soon away, Chilly winds are blowing, It will be snowing. Fill the vacant places With them, dear, And the empty vases, Brown and sere. Sprays and leaves yet hold Glints of summer’s gold. “In the dear December" When it snows, And the dying ember Faintly glows, Leaf and spray bring Thoughts of rosy spring. Ah, we fondly cherish Faded things That had better perish. Memory clings To each laaflt saves, Chilly winds are blowing, It will soon be snowing On our graves. —John Henry Boner. FRUIT SOLD AT AUCTION. An Effort Made to do Away With Com mission Mem • Now York 8tar, cf yesterday: Commission men in the domestic fruit business are panic stricken according to a story told mo yesterday by E. L. Goodsell, a wholesaler. He says that in a very short time the entire re ceipts of fruit in this city will be sold at auction. “The first sale of Eastern fruit by the new plan took place at n Park place bouse last Tuesday,” said be “and it was a great success. The sale consisted of one carload of Con cord grapes shipped by a grape grow ers’ association. The fruit arrived on the same day, each bosket' being stamped with the associations’ brand, and also tho grower’s name. It was packed in ten-pound baskets and evenly graded. Each grower’s fruit was placed in a separate lot and sam ples of each were exhibited. In this way, if any grower had packed in ferior fruit or graded it imperfectly his negligence would have resulted in his own injury only. The grapes were offered in lots of forty baskets, the highest bidder having the privi lege of choosing from any lot that number, or taking tho whole lot. Then the balance were offered in the same way, and so on until all were sold. It took fifteen minutes to con clude the sale. It proved,' this first experiment, that in the matter of quick sales and prompt returns the auction system is beneficial to the grower. The carloadof fruit averaged 27 cents a basket, and within twenty- four hours the check for settlement wgson its way to tho shipper. “At the time of this sale,” contra ued Mr. Goadsell, “commission mer chants were selling the same grade of fruit for 25 cents per basket in lots to suit tho purchaser, and many were carrying stocks that could not all be sold, and would bo thrown on tho market next day at, in many cases, greatly reduced prices “This new plan of disposing of fruit in New York will revolutionize the business. Twenty years ago the auction system of disposing of perish able fruits was adopted by several firms in Loudon and Liverpool, in deferenco to the growers, who were dissatisfied with the system of selling and the returns they, were receiving. Three years ago the California fruit growers did uot believe in this system. To-day the by-laws of two large unions of growers say that the fruit must be sold at auction.” “What are the principal advan tages ot this system over the old meth od of consignment to commission mer chants ?” “They are many. One of the most important is the immediate and total sale of the fruit on its arrival in the city before it has'had achanoe to deteriorate, losses of this kind, of oonne, being borne by the grower. In selling through the commission merchants, fifty growers ship to ns many different agents or commission men. The jobbers in search of fruit go from ono commission man to an other bcatiug down the price, and these fifty commission men are virtu ally competing with one another to make sales. This cannot fail to de preciate prices. Under tho auction system the fifty growers will combine and ship their fruit together to one house in this city. The time of arri val is definitely known and the sale can be advertised. The jobbers meet and are forced to become competitors, and the highest bidder take the fruit/’ Do you believo the auction system will succeed 7” *T have no doubt about it. Of couree there are many obstacles to overcome. Florida orange growers are adopting tho same plan and there is no reason why the system should not extend to include all perishable fruits and vegetables. The system is firmly established in England and California fruits are sold in this way in all Eastern States.” “Will not the commission mer chants be a source of powerful oppo sition? “To be sure they will fight the new plan bitterly because, as they say, it takes tho bread and buttor out of their mouths. The commission men number hundreds and they are very strong, too. As the auction houso nets as an agent of the shipper a vast number of middlement are dispensed with, and this, ot course, must result in a considerable saving of fees ” “What about the grower??” “Before tho new method of dispos ing of fruit hero is a success in this city, the producers must combine. They must ship ail their goods to tho auction house. This gives them con trol of their product? anu ibe JUDMra charged on the run, and though hund reds went down, other hundreds kept on. We shattered and schorched and withered them with our musketry fire, and I finally heard some one sound "retreat!” We sprang up, gave them a last volley, and then dashed forward a few rods with the bayonet. Out of the smoke and darkness suddenly Jap- peared a figure. There was a blaze, and a man on my right went down, shot in the shoulder. There was a whiz z z! and the butt of a mus ket just cleared my head and knocked the man on my left flat to the earth. I had my musket at a charge, wlien a voice called out: “Hold on. I surrender!” I went forward and took, hold of him, and who or what do you suppose he was? A boy not yet fifteen years old, and as pale laced and gentle spoken as a girl. More than that, he was wounded on the side and the leg and in the head. We had them driven back to stay, and our boys were cheering and yelling, and I took the boy on my back beyond the creek into our lines, He must have been suffering painfully lrom his wounds, but he never uttered a groan, I heaped two or three blank ets together and made him a bed, but I could get no one to do for him. There were dead and wounded ’ men almost without number around us, and that last desperate charge had hardly been driven back when McClellan is sued his orders to fall back to the river under cover of the gunboats. As my brigade was nearest to the confederate lines, we were the last to move, and it was long after midnight before we got the word. Meanwhile, I had inspected the boy’s wounds and soothed him as best I could. It was plain that he was fa- must como to them. Then, again, all products must bo evenly graded, and packages must be ot uniform size. This necessitates organization and co operation on tho part of the shippers and producers.” THE LITTLE CONFEDRATE. Heroio Chargo and Death of a 15-Year- Old Soldier. ’ When the confederates came swarm ing across the Crew farm to meet ’us on Malvern hill, we knew they were cbming to death and defeat. Wc had been driven hack from the Chlckahom- ioy, step by step and day by dayi lighting fierce baitlcs at every rallying point, but this was the end. Malvern hill, crowded with troops and bristling with canncn, was Impregnable I was posted on the point looking towards the Crew house, in the dry bed of a creek. It was a capital rifle pit, and we were packed in there so thick that we scarcely had elbow room. As the legions in gray attacked, our rapid fire, assisted by the batteries above us, was enough to demoralize their lines without the infantry, higher up, firing a gun. Magruder must have been insane that day, to se d the men to their death across the open field as he did. We could see them come out of the forest in splendid formation, and as they got the order to advance, their step was like clock work. There was a meadow with hardly a stump in it stretching away before us lor half a mile, and the confederates hadn’t the slightest cover. Being so low down, we could see below the smoke, and it was enough to make our flesh creep to see the havoc worked by our shells before the lines came within gun range. The man on my left laid down his musket and prayed God that the con federates would go bark and thus put an end to the horrible work. Then, when they pushed on and got within range, there was a flame all along our mile Iront—flame alter flame—and not a confederate got within a stone’s throw. • * The last charge, made just at twi light, was the most desperate of all. The lines started with a yell and urt, and when^rc re sals': I—I don’t care for myself, but mother—poor old mother! And sister Mary—and little Jim.'It will break their hearts.’’ Bye and bye he fell into a sort of a stupor, which lasted for a quarter of an hour, then he roused himself and exclaimed: • It was a glorious charge! We knew that wc were going to death, but never a man hung back—never a man lost the step. Were they driven back?” • “Yes.” “But we reached your lines? - ’ "Yes, a few.” “And I was one?” > “Yes, poor boy. Never a one came nearer than you.” “That’s grand! They said I would be afraid, but I wasn’t. I didn’t leel it when I was hit. We were on the double quick. I was cheering. Hur rah! Hurrah!” Half an hour later he was dead. There were three of us bending over him, when he suddenly sat up, waved his arm and sought to cheer, but the blood choked him and he fell back dead. Twenty long years alter, in a Geor gia farm house, I found his mother, old and bent and gray, and little J:m, now grown to manhood, and sister Mary, now a woman, wife and mother. They knew he fell at Malvern hill, but he had been buried among the un known, and how he died they knew not.—Detroit Free Press. A Massachusetts republican paper very wisely says: “We have not ob served a consuming desire to give the negroes office among the negro-loving population of the north, concerning which we hear so much. What colored man in New York, or Massachusetts either, has been given an office above that of Janitor or messenger? Let us remove the beam from our own eye, and then wc may be able to see the mote in the eye of the democratic par ly in the south.” Insurance Agent—“Now that you are married, I suppose you will take out a policy?” Young Bigg—“Oh, no, I guess not, I don’t think she is going to be dangerous.”—Terre Haute Express. Philadelphia Record. The bridge across the Frith ol Forth at Queen’s Ferry, Scotland, now ap proaching completion, is a work of such magnitude and presents so many points of novelty that it has attracted the attention of the whole engineering world. In 1804 a surveyor published designs lor a bridge across the Forth at the same spot, and with spans of the like magnitude. That, however, was to be a suspension bridge, with chains like the cable of a filly ton yacht, and the total weight of iron was estimated at 300 tons, as contrasted with 50,000 tons of steel in the present structure. While a bridge 1,700 feet in span was thus conceived of nearly a century ago, it may also be said that the can- tilevei principle ot construction can be found in Egyptian and Indian temples built before the introduction ol the arch. An eminent engineer says that the cantilever was in all probability in vented by some intelligent savage, wanting to get across a stream too deep to ford and too wide to jump, utilized the projecting branches ol two opposite trees as cantilevers or brack ets, and connected them by a short independent piece of timber, and so formed a cantilever and central girder structure. The true principle ol construction and the nature of the stresses may be illustrated in a simple way. Two men who sit on chairs extend their arms, which they support by grasping sticks hutting against the chairs. This rep resents the two double cantilevers, ntral, girder is represented by each man, and the anchorage by ropes extending from other arms to two piles of bricks. When stresses are brought on this system by a load on the central girder the arms ol the men and the ropes come into tension and the sticks and chair legs into compression. In the Forth bridge we must imagine the chairs to be placed a third of a mile apart, the men’s heads to be 360 feet above the ground, the pull on the arms 10,000 tons, and the pressure on the legs of the chair? on the ground too.- aoo tons. As regards size and weight no exist ing bridge at all approaches the Forth bridge. There are two spans, each 1 700 feet long; the width ot the bridge at the piers is 120 feet; there is a clear headway lor navigation at high water of 150 feet; the deepest foundation below high water is 89 leel; the highest part ot the bridge aoove high water is 360 feet, and the depth of water in the centre of lh« channel is 210 feet. With this depth the bridge could never have been built had it not been tor an island in the middle of the Fotth. The train weight that will be put upon the bridge will be small compar ed with the wind pressure needed to be overcome, and to resist wind the lofty columns over the piers are 120 teet apart at the base and 33 teet at the top. As furnishing an idea of the enormous lorce which the cantilevers arc capab’e of resisting, it may be said that a pull of 45,000 tons would be needed to tear asunder the top ties. The greatest pull from passing trains can be only 2,000 tons. * The bridge is looked upon as a rail way necessity. Indeed it will furnish the missing link in a great chain ot communication throughout the United Kingdom. When we read of such structures and know that trains reach a speed of sixty miles an hour, we cannot but smile at what the staid old Quarterly Review said in 1825: "We trust that will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured on with safety.” The rolling seasons in their round Have brought us autumn still and solemn And chestnuts in the woods arc found Aa well as in the Innny column. Noi Going on LEVY’S DrjUHna Our Mr. Levy having closed out, while in N e w York, large lots of -IN~ ... . . . New Markets, Modjeskas. ALSO A URGE LOT OF Misses’ and Childrens’ Cloaks & Reefers, direct from the manufacturers, we feel confident in as serting that our Prices on them are FAR BELOW the cost of manu facture. Call early before the choice ones are picked over. Levys Mitchell House Block 1 MS iikaM;
