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UMBER 25.
BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY APRIL 3 1903.
. $1.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE,
©ffldal ©roan of Decatur Count? anb tbc Cit? of Batnbrlbae.
DIER’S experience with
SMALL-POX.
EN TLY we were very much entertained by an old sol
dier’s account of his experience with that cutaneous dis
ease which has visited our tow., during the past few
months. Our friend who was attached to Lee’s army in
well known in Hainbridge. The narrator explained that
captured while on a scouting expedition. For almost
e languished in a northern prison. His sleeping apart-
roonTten by seven and was occupied by six other prison-
a hio-h fever for several days he developed small-pox. On
iis “bunk fellow” who was frightened to destraction, he
is bed and walked to the hospital. T he firtt night was a
ost extreme torture. His bobv was racked by the pain of
1C , vet he was forced to sleep in a canvass tent (in Febru-
t about three feet wide which was also a resting place for
lent. The next morning he told the attending physician,
prisoner also, that if he did not give him better quarters
ave. The threat of being shot by the gua-d was no draw
th was the lesser of the two evils. He was finally remov-
hospital that held eighty small-pox patients. He was giv-
ine whatever but was left to recover if he had the vital
ist unaided the attack of the disease.
week he learned that the prisoners who had been cap-
him were to be paroled. He immediately informed the
at he intended to get up and go to his quarters, get his
h were not bulky by any means, and leave the prison with
, The doctor told him that it would mean almost certain
out in the cold in his then weakened condition. (He had
two slices of toast and a little coffee each day for a week.)
irobable death rather than certain continued torment,
; clothes he then had on, and donning his only other avail
ig he went to head quarters to have his name placed on the
st. When he presented himself to the clerk of the depart-
s informed by that official that he was not “himselt.”
lent was most emphatically denied by our narrator but all
. The clerk in proof of his position turned to the prison
pointed to a certain paragraph where our friend read that
had died of small-pox and been buried on Thursday of the
Of course there was no refuting such an argument,
rned that the exchange list had already been prepared and
too late. The most painful pa>rt of the whole affair was
turned to his tent and found all his comrades jubilant over
t of their early release, and he, of all the number who had
ler for 24 months, was to remain indefinitely longer in his
dition. Later in the dav however a message came from
that one of his comrades was too sick to take advantage
arge so our friend’s name was substituted^ and he reached
erate lines just in time to hear of Lee’s surrender.
/omen Need The
Ballot.
nen are the conserva-
homes. They must
power to protect the
hey are, to a degree sel
ler realized by the av-
1, the guardians of pub-
private morals. They
iven every means to ful-
nction. Their principal
are those interests
ive upon a low state of
id private morals-the
ers and dealers and the
lts of natural wealth,
the hosts of the ignor-
lave not yet gained an
understanding of the
ming of Americanism.
;ht it be said, paraphra-
iral Bragg’s eulogy of
■cveland, “We love their
the enemies it has made.”
Mcllroy in April Nation-
trial spin of the Sham-
■he new Cup challenger
lomas Lipton, all who
the maneuvers declare
'ew boat is the fastest of
P challengers. The de-
shortening her keel made
JE much better than thd
Mr. Marconi Rivalled.
Dr. Lee DeForest an American
and a graduate of Yale University
has succeeded in convincing the
United States Government that he
has a system of wireless telegra
phy that far excels Marconi’s in
efficiency. A few days ago Dr.
DeForest sent a wireless message
from Annapolis to Washington to
the president in which he stated
that he hoped to be able to send
similar greetings from the Phillis
pine Islands to Washington with
in eighteen months. The plans
are now maturing for the con
struction of trans Pacific stations.
There will be stations in Hawaii
and southern Calitornia and in
Manila. A station will later be
placed at Hong Kong, The
stretch of water between Manila
and Hawaii is the longest in the
world. The steel masts at these
two stations will have to be 250
feet high. The one at California
will be 210 and in Hong Kong 175
feet. The cost of establishing the
system will be in the neighbor
hood of $182, 000.00. The inven
tor hopes to be able to send mes
sages at the rate of 28 words a
miiftte. Dr. DeForest is only 29
years old and worked his way
through college taking the degree
of doctor of Philosophy.
The American Fuel Com
pany.
Judge Spence held a special
session of court this week to grant
two charters one of which was to
the American Fuel Company.
This is one of the largest corpora
tions that has evef received a
charter in Decatur County. The
paid in capital is $100,000.00 with
the privilege of increasing it to
one million. We are informed
that the full amount of the capital
allowed will be subscribed within
the next few months. The presi
dent is Mr. William Morrison a
wealthy brush manufacturer of
Troy N. Y. *Mr. R. G. Hartsfield
of this city is the Secretary and
general counsel.
Mr. Morrison is the inventor of
the process of manufacturing the
fuel. He came south three years
ago and was impressed with the
amount of waste material around
the turpentine stills. With true
inventive intuition he took a sup
ply of this refuse to his northern
home where he went through a
number of tests and experiments
in his laboratory until he found
ingredients that would combine
with this refuse and the energy
that has been useless in the
smoke and drippings from the re
fuse will now be made into the
most perfect fuel known, By
means of this process the compa
ny will be able to manufacture a
fuel that will be much less expen
sive than coal, will be more easily
transported as it will be made in
regulation size blocks and will
give forth just as much hd&t and
burn equally as long as anthracite.
The manufacturing plant will be
placed in Savannah and the order
for the machinery has been placed
with a company in Saginaw Mich.
The plant will be able to begin
operations within the next sixty
days, The General Offices will be
located here and will be under the
supervision cf Mr. Hartsfield.
The Company will be a splen
did thing for every one, as the
turpentine operators will be able
to get a good price for a by-prod
uct that was formerly considered
absolutely worthless If the great
expectatations fructify there will
never be any dread of a coal fam
ine in the south. Our only regret
is that the company was not in
duced to locate its factory here.
The freight rates were not low
enough however though Mr.
Hartsfield exerted consideiable
effort to get the plant for our
city.
McClure’s For April.
McClure’s for April is a most
attractive magazine. The cover
design is by Frank Vincent Du-
mond and is appropriate for the
Easter month. The illustrations
in this number are above (he aver
age and the short stories are very
pleasing. Stewart Edward White
has a Blazed Trail Story in this is
sue. There is a very excellent ar
ticle by John LaFarge on Hogarth
the great English artist. The
reproductions pf some of his fa
mous paintings are especially pleas
ing. In this number Miss Ida M.
Tarbell c ntinues her history of
the Standard Oil Trust.
Baseball Prospects For Bainbridge.
The new management of the Baseball Association of Bainbridge
is rapidly organizing for the coming season which is to commence in
the early part of May.
There will be a:: endeavor to raise $500 00 from the public-spirited
citizens of Bainbridge to secure the most brilliant series of games in
the history of this city. A subscription list will be circulated in a few
days. Bainbridge wishes to put a team in commission that will cope
with the teams o f other cities of the State and to far eclipse last year’s
showing.
The management is now trying to secure a large tract of land
known as the Jackson vacant lot on West St. Mr, L. O. Jackson
with his usual public spirit, is considering leasing these grounds to
the Association, so that the baseball park will then be more accessible
to the city.
Dr. Toole has accepted the appointment as official umpire for the
Association, and the management is trying to secure such brilliant,
players as Will Soloman of Macon, Daniels of Ala,, Chet Clarke of
Albany, Capt. Dickinson of the U. of Ga, and other members of the
University Team who desire to spend the entire summer in Bain
bridge.
There will be notably among the last year’s team Capt. Hunter,
Fred Goodwin, Jack Bower, Wade Gaulding, Norman Gauldmg, Rol
and Bower, Warren Waters, James and Blanchard Huff of Columbus,
Oscar Groover of Thomasville, and other players.
Maj. T. S. Hawes has been appointed official scorer.
Arrangements are being made with the 4th Regiment Band - to
furnish music af each game. A Band Pavilion will be constructed
next to the grand stand.
This year at every game Bainbridge will have fair sponsors.
With the new park, new players, new uniforms, and brilliant
games, Bainbridge will have a baseball season of which the Bainbridge
citizens will be proud. t
Election of Captain is advertised for the first of May,
Manager, 1903.
A New Road.
Forty of our leading citizens
met at the Court House on Thurs
day evening and a most enthusias
tic body of men it was. The mat
ter for general discussion was the
possibility of getting the Hawkins-
ville and Florida Southern to ex
tend its railway line to this place.
We are as enthusiastic over the
prospects as any one can be.
there are untold possibilities for
Bainbridge and this is especially
true if we become a railroad cen
ter. The President and the Gen
eral Superintendent of the H & F
S were here at the meeting and
they assure us that if Bainbridge
will raise $15,000.00 and give ter
minal facilities, the work of grad
ing will begin at this end of the
line within thirty days. This is
the greatest thing for Bainbridge
since work on the G F & A began.
If our citizens appreciate the ex
cellent opportunity they will waste
no time in subscribing the sum
needed. The H F & S c£ji do
more for us in the way of lower
ing freight rates than almost any
road in the country for it crosses
five trunk lines and it will there
fore give us unlimited competi
tion in rates. The lines that the
proposed road crosses are the
Southern, Central of Ga , Sea
board, Atlantic Coast Line, and
the Brunswick and Birmingham.
Now is the time for Bainbridge to
wake up and if we don’t then we
will sleep in obscurity for many a
weary year and some other town
that realizes the opportunity will
grasp it. On Tuesday night there
will be another meeting of the cit
izens to discuss ways and means
Meaning OF Education.
"Education means the free right
training of every child in the com
monwealth; but it means a great
deal more than this. It means th(
assertion of the community against
the lawless individual—the com
munity’s authority against individ
ual authority. The state must tax;
it must educate.
"An aristocracy in a democracv
means a group of privileged per-
sons; outside this group, the bully;
behind the bully an ignorant popus
lace that will elect the bully to of
fice, will hold him in honor and
will acquit him of crime.”—Wal
ter H. Page.
Miss Abbot’s Perfor
mance.
The performance of Miss Annie
May Abbott at the Opera House
Tuesday and Wednesday nights
elicited much praise and com*
raent for the fair little lady.
Tnere was no chi;anery about
the performance. We will not go
into detail as those who were not
there would not believe our story
and we have no explanation to of
fer for her wonderful power. It
is truly a mystery and the power
which she has is appalling.
of raising the required sum ar
every citizen of the community
urgently requested to atten
Don’t suppose that this cs
means any one more than it do
you. Every one should be vital
interested. We are informed th
when the road is in running ordi
it will be able to put us in Atlan
three hours sooner than any oth
route.