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FRUIT GHOWEBS MEET
Damage Resulting Rrom
Car Scarcity.
TALKS ON SITUATION.
Over One Hundred Growers Attend
Meeting—Much Interest
is Manifested-
A special dispatch from Adairs
vilie dated August 23. says. In
response to ihe call for a meeting
of tile fruit growers ot this section
who had grievances against the
railroads and refrigerator car coin
paries about one hundred and
twenty five of them responded to
d . v.
T;ie meeting elected Col. John
W. Gray chairman and Colonel
Roever Thomas, secretary. The
object of the meeting was stated by
several of the growers and a session
of two hour was held.
Fact is that over 1,000 cars of
peaches \\4re grown and shipped
from a section not more than 11
miles in diameter. The fact was
further brought out that peaches
lay out in the rain and . on the
ground in our town for as long as
thirty-six hours at a time waiting,
and that during this time they had
to take the rain and sunshilie.
Statements were made by the
growers that they were badly dam
aged. and in some cases had to be
repacked. This occurred day after
day. The second day of ship j
ment had no cars to put them in. 1
In ajl this, in the face of the fact ;
that the estimate on our road by
officials was 1,050 cars. The total
shipment on the Western and At
lantic being not over 1,100 cars.
The total number shipped from this
territory, including all of north
west Georgia crop was 2,837, an d
the refrigerator people claim 2,250
was handled in twelve days.
The growers think they have
shown by their meeting today that
a sufficient supply of cars were not
given them and that a supply of
ice was not on hand, Mr. Wallcott,
of the American Company, admit
ting that at the beginning of the
season be only had 300 tons in
Chattanooga to supply.
The Western and Atlantic rail
road had several of their officials
present, as did the refrigerator
company. Iu the statement made
by Mr. Sams, it was brought out
that refrigerator cars have to be
retained by the company from
whom they receive them. This
was a surprise to our growers as
they bad the idea that the shipper
had the right to route his goods
over any route he choose. They
during the rush attempted this and
the routing changed and the cars
directed to other roads. At times
two days shipments arriving at
market on the same day.
The question of icing cars was
discussed and the growers express
ed themselves very strongly.
One grower made a statement
that he had a loaded car of fruit
that was picked up among empties
and carried down the Western and
Atlantic and side-tracked for thir
ty-six hours and then returned to
him. The gentlemen of the rail
roads and the car people made good
impressions on our people and did
all they could to convince the
grdwers each and collectively that
they were not to blame. This,
from the hape things took, failed.
At the mass meeting appointed a
committeeof three to take evident,
employ a stenographer and to take
up the matter in a clear and con
cise manner. This committee has
not as yet been appointed but is
under advertisement and will be
announced in a few’ days. Another
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committee of Hon. G. A. \ eacl ,
chainni ; R. L. Franklin and C.
P. Lamar, to get up money to
prosecute the examination and in
vestigation.
A large number of growers from
a distance attended the meeting,
many of them prominent men of
I their several localities.
Another important point discuss
ed at the meeting ana raised by
Postmas er Akermau, of Carters
vilie, was the fact that all the top
row of crates in cars inspected by
1 him in market was in bad order,
j He had splendid opportunity to
j learn the facts as he was in the
i market all during tlie season. This
the question that the south Geor
gia growers have had up and
known °s the minimum car rate.
The present minimum car is 550
crates, not over 425 cars can be
safely loaded. When Mr. Wolcott
was asked about his he replied that
if the number of crates was reduc
ed the ra e pei crate would be
increased, so they had as well load
the 400 crates notv if they wished.
The amount of peaches for the
length of time in moving from this
section was greater ' than ever
hai died before in the United States,
not only of peaches, but all fruit,
The meeting adjourned awaiting
the invevestion committee’s pleas-*
ure. When they are ready to
report the growers will be called
and their case submitted.
Mr. Walcott in closing his re
marks stated that he did not know
what the Armour Company would
do, but that if the growers fought
the company, they might withdraw
from the association.
The growers do not fear this
when they and the roads secured
about 65 per cent of the gross sales
of the fruit this year.
The statistics of the growers
along this line will likely be pre
pared as will the condition of the
peaches. Some growers submitted
for The Constitution’s inspection
returns showing a-, mauy as five
grades of prices for fruit in the
same car from the same orchard
picked, packed and delivered in
first class condition to the trans
portation company. One grower
made the statement that he rcceiv
ss2 for a car wi ll the stateme* t
that the center of the car had a
few sound j e iches, but that first
next the ice bins wasmushy rotten.
He was offered here S6OO for this
same car.
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Till-; NEWS AND COURANT, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 1, R )(> R
ROMANCE OF A HOUSE
New Imposing - Structure
Hides from View.
facts little known.
Small House Still Stands Where
Jefferson Davis Married Zach
ary Taylor’s Daughter.
A little frame house that stands
amid great beech trees in the rear
of an imposing structure ot recent
date near Crescent Hill, and a rec
ord in the Jefferson county court,
are all that is left to tell of a ro
mance involving famous names
that was consummated 69 years
ago.
It is little known by Louisville
people that in this house, which is
now used as servant quarters, Jef
ferson Davis, afterward president
of the confederacy, on June 17,
1835, married Miss Knox Taylor,
daughter of Gen. # Zachary Taylor,
afterward conqueror of Mexico and
president of the United States.
In the Jefferson couuty court’s
archives there is a record of mar
riages for 1835 which contains the
following;
“Jefferson Duvis and Miss Knox
Taylor, of legal age, daughter of
Zachary Taylor.”
It is a romance with a sad sequel.
Davis took his bride to his planta
tion in Mississippi. The climate
was not favorable, and the young
woman, accustomed to the purer
air of Kentucky, could not stand
the miasmatic exhalations of the
swamps. Soon alter her arrival in
Mississippi she grew ill, stricken
with malarial fever. Within three
months of Jthe time she became a
bride she was dead.
The pathetic seqtlel makes Gen.
Taylor’s objection to the wedding
seem to have been due to the pro
phetic feelings of a devoted father.
He strongly disapproved of the
match between liis daughter and
Jefferson Davis, who was then a
sildier, with nothing to indicate
the great, though mournful, career
that was before him.
The opposition was not due to
dislike or mistrust of Davis, it
seems, but to Gen. Taylor’s fear
that as the wife of a gallant soldier
on what was then the frontier his
daughter would be subjected to
many hardships.
But Miss Taylor was willing to
face any future for the man of ner
heart. Mrs. Gibson Taylor, her
aunt, espoused the cause of the
voting lovers, and when Miss Tay
lor came to visit her she added her
pleadings to those of her niece.
After a long course of persuasiou
Geu. Taylor.though not relinquish
ing his objections, was prevailed
on to permit the marriage, which
took place at the home of Mrs.
Gibson Taylor, It is not know’n
whether Gen. Tayior attend*d the
wedding, though Hancock Taylor
is of the opinion that he was not
present.
It was from this house that the
young soldier and his bride, after
the usual merry-making, congrat
ulations and blessings, set out on
a journey with happiness that was
soon to be changed to grief.
Such is the story of long ago
that centers around that little
house, which now stands to the
rear of the residence occupied by
A. Levy on the Brownsboro road.
At the time Jefferson Davis and
Miss Taylor were married within
its walls it was a two-story struct
ure, with board verandas built after
the then prevailing style for south
ern homes. Now it has been re
duced to one story, and has been
transformed into a cottage. —Lou-
isville Evening Post.
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