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BBf .BWUES-VOL. M 0.38.
WILL BUILD
A FURNACE,
Tba' slow Say% for
. .. unit Associates.
GRAND OPPORTUNITY FORCITY
Blue Ridge company Must Have
the Manufacturer's Profit to
Utilize Ores.
A company of capitalists will
Tbuild a furnace to utilize the ores
of the Blue Ridge Company’s and
.other iron properties contiguous to
ttbis city. That is what Mr. A. D.
Meloy, of New York;, told Carters
ville citizens gathered in a meeting
at the council chamber Monday
•.night.
There was a good crowd of rep
resentative men of the city present.
Judge Milner was chosen chairman
:and ©. B. Freeman secretary of
the meeting.
Mayor Ford introduced Mr.
Meloy as one having large inter
ests near here and wanted to talk
to the people.
Mr. Meloy’s talk had the ring of
sincerity and all were impressed
that there was gum in what he
said. He said men who were his
clients bad a year ago come into
possession of the Etowah mining
property; they had had thorough
Surveys made and their ores care
fully sampled; the reports were in
and the matter thoroughly can
vassed, and they had come to the
conclusion that a furnace was a
necessity to utilize the mineral
product of their lands. Their en
gineer, Mr. Kennedy, was engineer
lor Carnegie for years, and three
fourths of the great Steel Corpora
tion’s furnaces had been built by
him.
'The company must have the
manufacturer’s profit. Thev might
build a furnace '.v.: it in easy reach
of the ore or within eu.iy reach of
fuel. Their fuel must come by rail,
and if they built close to it it would
be away from here. A separate
corporation from the Blue Ridge
Company would ouild the furnace.
It would require from a half mil
lion to a million dollars outlay,and
the money to build and operate it
would, in g'eat part, be spent in
the com inuni t>. It would require
ido to 500 hands to mine the ores
and a large number of highly paid
mechanics to operate the furnace.
He believed iron the one future
element of profit for Cartersville
and a furnace here would double
the value of every foot of ground,
every store, evcty franchise of any
kind in tiie city. Steel works na
turally follow a furnace. The con
ditions were never more favorable
for steel and iron interests than at
present, and furnaces are now sell
ing five and ten years ahead.
What he and his company desir
ed of the city of Cartersville, Mr.
Meloy said, was that any site they
might select might cost them noth
ing and any franchises or right to
run any railwav they might need
they would expect to be granted
them promptly and readily.
They were not obliged to locate
the furnace in Cartersville, and if
built at a point well away from the
city they might have their own
community It was not their in
tention, if locating in Cartersville,
to have their own stores, the city
thus having the benefits of what
might be spent from the pay rolls,
which would amount to no less
■than SBOO per week.
In regard to a site, Mr. Meloy
fcaid they would need 200 to 500
acres.
After Mr. Meloy had concluded
his remarks Judge John W. Akin
affirmed the readiness of Carters
vi 11 e people to respond to any wor
thy cause, and made a motion,
which was unanimously adopted,
to the effect that the meeting hav
ing heard with gratification, the re
marks of Mr. Mclov, would give
them hearty consideration and de
clared its sympathy with his plans,
and that the chairman appoint an
advisory committee of five to con
sider the matter and report pro
gress at a future meeting.
Remarks were made by Col.
and Judge Milner urging
the importance of favorable action
hy the citizens.
la lime. Soldby drootiHs.
THE NEWS AND COURANT.
A SECOND
EARTHqUAKE.
Throw* Mexican Town in the
Wildest of Panic.
THE PEOPLE OFCHILPANCINGO
I
Btlon, and ara Camping In
tha Fialda.
Mexico City, Jan. 18. —Chilpan-
cingo, the capital of the state of
Guerrero has had two days of in
describable panic and consterna
tion, for yesterday there came a
repetition of the earthquake shock
of Thursday, razing to the ground
many houses spared in the first
earthquake. The people are camp
ing out at the adameda and in the
field. Hundreds of families are
ruined. The buildings destroyed
include the barracks of the Seven
teenth battalion from which the
soldiers were marched, thus sav
ing their lives. The school build
ings are wiecked but luckily the
children were all saved, their
teachers having rare presence of
mind and giving the order for them
to march to the street when the
first trembling of the earth began
on Thursday. The parish church
which was being tepaired, having
been injured in a recent eathquake,
is destroyed. When the shock
began it was nearly filled with
worshipers who fled in dismay,
women being knocked down by
men, but fortunately all had gain
ed the streets when the heavy
1 arches fell in. It is believed th it
■ every one escaped, though the sol
diers are removing the debris,
which is piled up in great heaps.
Governor Mora and his secretary
escaped from the state palace in
time to save themselves, and pro
' ceeded to aid the wounded and
panic stricken populace. The
statute of General Nicholas Bravo
was thrown down and the town
i government building was bo badly
cracked that its fall is momentarily
■ expected.
Great fissures runs across the
streets. The church of San Mateo
in one of the outer districts was
nearly destroyed.
Among the dead already Tound
fare four young women and ._lwo
'young~girls. The list of gravely
wounded is a long one, including
many— promiTieut citizeus. No
oifieial list of the dead and wounded
has been given out as yet.
In the towu of Chilapa many
buildings were badly wrecked and
three persons were killed outright,
while four were injured.
Iu the towns of Tixtla and Mar
chitlau many building were crack
ed.
At Iguala several arches fell in
and there was general wreckage in
shops.
At Zumpango del Rio three per
sons were badly injured and the
prison, towu hall and courts are
wrecked.
The whole region affected by the
earthquake of Thursday and Fri
day has been the scene of marked
seismic movements for several
yea %i€S ***** '
EXPECTS SAM
Mr. Anthony Says He’ll Be Here
When Election Time Rolls Round.
Sivaunali News.
Rev. Bascoin Anthony says he
intends to impress upon the minds
of his fellow-members of the Min
isterial Association the need to
secure the services of Rev. Sam
Jones in Savannah, about the time
of the next city election. The
matter will be discussed at the
meeting of the Ministerial Associa
tion that will be held to-day.
“I have no doubt that the preach
ers will agree with me, and that
Mr. Jones will come,” said Mr.
Anthony. “They may say what
they please, everybody knows that
the need for his presence here
arises from the- condition of the
city’s morals, and the fact that law
is openly and flagrantly violated.
If he is to come when he is needed
and when he can accomplish the
greatest good, it must be when the
city is to decide wh shall manage
its affairs and enforce the law.
“I don’t care anything about
men or crowd looks
like the other to me. All I ask is
that some one shall be put in office
who win enforce the law and stand
in his public character for decen y i
and the right'. I think Sim Jones |
can help ns to elect such a man.”
CARTERSYILLE, GA„ THURSDAY. JANUARY 23, 1902.
WILL BUILD A
NEW DEPOT.
Western and Atlantic Raiiroad
te Erect Passenger Station.
OF MODERN APPEARANCE.
Will Be J-oeated In Front of and
Between Market Streetaind
Present Depot
Maj. J. L. McCollum, superin
tendent of the W. & A. Railroad,
was in the city Monday looking
after preliminory details for anew
passenger station waich the road
proposes to build. He had blue
prints of his plans which he sub
mitted to the city authorities, by
whom they were approved.
The building will be a pretty
little structure, about 35 by 35
feet, not connected with, but im
mediately in front of the present
depot, just about filling the space
between that structure and Mar
ket street. It will have all modern
conveniences.
The present depot will have
partitions removed and nearly all
the space utilized for the freight
business. There will be a ticket
room, however, at the north end to
which connection will be had with
the passenger station by a sort of
vestibule.
magnificently grand.
Suoh Id Florida's Palatial Hostfclryi
the Ponce De Lean*
Ponce de Leon Hotels
St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 16, ig§§,
Editors News and Couraut:
You may talk about fairies, and
you may talk about trips to Fair
land, and you may talk about trips
to Dreamland; but no tiip to either
Fairyland or Dreamland ever pre
sented a more beautiful vision or
gorgeous spectacle than the scene
witnessed at the opening of the
Ponce de Leon which occurred in
St. Augustine on the 15th inst.
The beauty, magnificence, and
grandeur displayed throughout her
walls —and I say “her” because
she was too beautiful to be called
a “he” surpassed even that of the
Fine Arts display at that great
never-to-be-repeated World’s Fair
at Chicago in 1893.
If the little cross roads hotel
keeper who, with all the pompous
dignity or dignified pomposity of a
king, reigns supreme around and
about his little shack, could have
witnessed the opening of the
“Ponce” and pierced his eyes up
and down her corridors he would
have felt like throwing up his
hands, ‘‘going away back and sit
ting down” and applying for a
position as bell boy.
All my life I have heard the
expression ‘‘money to burn,” but
this occasion offered my first oppor
tunity to see that phrase put into
practical operation. One could
certainly smell the smoke in every
nook and corner, and it was such
as not to be offensive to the most
delicate nostrils.
It takes women and music and
flowers (horses are not necessary)
to make a success of anything that
would be inspiring, and if any soul
ever witnessed an occasion that
presented more beautiful women,
more handsomely gowned; more
excellent music, more skillfully
executed; more lovely flowers, more
tastily arranged, it must have been
one who had passed into the great
beyond and gazed upon women,
music and flowers that savored not
of the things of this world, but
had rather imbibed of that divine
nature whish attaches not to earth
ly lassies, chimes, and blossoms.
The “Ponce” —the king of hotels
has been heralded in the columns
of perhaps every news sheet on the
continent She is indeed the
pride of the Company, and all her
material is “the pride of the mill,”
coming from the richest fields of
the country. And her grindings
are not in vci.\ for at the close of
the day the tolls show that some
thing has been doing.
To pa iyto detail would be a
colqssa) task Just imagine that
King coronation t< ok
place at)tne “Ponce*’ on the open
ing night, and that will come near
er telling the story than to try to
tell the story itself
Yours truly,
T M- Gil&eath.
' Ertticnto T'nir RownS Vf Ittj Cascaret*.
C.mdy On thartic, cm-* eouetfpation forever
?Cc 25c II O‘J C. fiU. dropletsrefnrS nouev
01 ENTIRE STOCK
, Is Thrown on the Market
AT
Auction Prices.
HUGTION
EVERY DAY,
Commencing at 10 O’clock.
-SCH EUER’S^
CROSSES OF HONOR.
Dlstributedto Veterans Lee’s Birth
day, at Methodist Church.
Crosses of Honor were distri
buted to quite a number of confed
erate veterans last Sunday night,
at the Methodist church. The ex
ercises were exceedingly inter
esting. They were under the aus
pices of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, whose work the de
signing, making and bestowal of
the crosses is.
The musical programme was ar
ranged by Miss Mary Munford.
It embraced solos by Mrs. J. W.
Harris and Mrs. A. B. Cunyus, a
selection by Mrs. Felton Jones and
Mr. Joe Calhoun and several
pieces bv the popular local quar
tette, Messrs. Calhoun, Milner and
Akin.
Rev. G. W. Yarbrough acted as
master of ceremonies.
Maj. C. H. Smith delivered an ad
dress which embodied observations
and experiences in the war the
narration of which proyed very in
teresting.
Judge John W. Akin in k his
usual eloquent style portrayed the
trials, priyations and heroism of
the men from among whom f hose
receiving crosses now were worthy
survivors.
The crosses were pinned on by
ladies of the U. D. C., Misst Marian
Smith, Mrs. John W. Akin and
Mrs. A. M. Foute performing that
pleasant duty.
SCosioi {Dyspepsia Cur*
Digests what you eat.
Notice-
Tbojse veterans desiring Crosses
of Honor, will please call on me
for blanks to make out their certi
ficates. Marian Smith,
Pres. Bartow Chapter U. D. C.,
• Cartersville, Ga.
Makes the food oiore dqtfdeus ijiftc!
co |-3TA.’, 1- r in ttimfir --atamms
DEATH OF FLETCHER SMITH.
His Early Life Spent In Cartersville.
Died in Rome.
Mr, Fletcher Smith, a leading
job printer of Rome, died in that
city Wednesday evening of last
week. He was 46 years old. He
was a son of the late Rev. Samuel
Smith, of this city, and was born
and spont his earlier years in Car
tersville. His mother, well known
here, preceded him in death only a
few months, her remains being in
terred at Oak Hill, having been
brought from Rome. He leaves a
wife, originally Miss Williford, of
this city, and three children, to
mourn his loss.
His remains were interred at
Myrtle Hill, in Rome, Mr. Smith
had $3,000 insurance in the Royal
Arcanum order.
CASTO3EIXA.
Bears the Ihe YOU HavO AIW3YS Bought
8i “„r &&#?£££
Death of *
Mr. S. S. Saggus, who came to
this county with Col. Rvals from
Taliaferro county, in 1853, and
who has lived on or about the
Ryals place, seven miles southwest
of the city, for 22 years, died Sun
day morning last, after an illness
of several months. Mr. Saggus
was 67 years of age. He was a
consistent and active member of
the Baptist church and was known
as an honorable upright man and
exemplary citizen. He leaves a
wife and three grown children
These are Mrs. Jack Beasley. Mrs.
Alf Greenwood and Mr. J. W. Sag
gus.
The funeral services took place
from Raccoon Baptist church at 2
p. m., Monday and were conduc
ted by Rev. L. C. Roberts.
OLD SERIES—2IST YEAR
MAY SHUT DOWN COPPER PLANT
Tennessee People Object to Fumes
of Roastlncr Sulphur.
Ducktovvn, Tenn.,Jan. 19. —An
injunction has been granted against
the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper
; and Iron Company and the Ten
nessee Copper Compauy on account
;of sulphur smoke and fumes that
I are emitted from their roast plants.
1 The injunction has not been served
j yet. It is said that the president
! of the Tennessee Copper Company
has notified Mr. Randolph Adams,
general manager of the company
here, that when the injunction is
seived upon him he will shut and
close down the entire works and
mines, pay off and discharge every
The Shadows, Cartersville, Ga.
I desire to thank sincerely all
those who so kindly assisted and
attended our “Lee Memorial.” But
especial thanks are due the follow
ing: Rev. Mr. Yarbrough, who
cheerfully resigned to us his
church, gave us cordial welcome,
and was a most graceful master of
ceremonies; Maj. C. H. Smith, for
his generous address to our Daugh
ters; Mr. John Akin for his stir
ring address on “Lee,” and also to
Miss Mary Munford and the effi
cient musicians who furnished the
music on this occasion.
Very truly,
Marian Smith,
Pres. Bartow Chapter D. O. C.
Card of Thanks-
I desire to express my sincere
and heartfelt thatiks to the many
friends who have manifested their
kindness in s 1 marked a manner
during the illness of my father.
The numberless little attentions
and ministrations are appreciated
alike with the great sympathy
shown in the bereavement of those
to whom he was near and dear.
Respectfully,
J. W, Saggus.
Partnership Dissolution-
The partership of Jones Brothers,
composed pf thjg is:
this day qissplvea by mutual "cbA-* 4
.rr H. B. -FvJtmes- stteeeeds to
biasness and John
• 4 J'-Vias succeeds to the unier
uikeuybisineslj Jauuary4, 1002.
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