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H. B. PLANT DIES SUDDENLY
The Great Railway and Steamship Magnate
Succumbs To Heart Failure.
DEATH OCCURS IN NEW YORK AND WAS UNEXPECTED
Accomplished a Great Work For the South, Wherein
He Found a New and Large Field.
Henry B. Plant, president of the
famous Plant system of railways,
steamships and hotels, and of the
Southern Express Company, died Fri
day afternoon at his home on Fifth
avenue, New York, at 2:45 o’clock.
The immediate cause of his doath was
heart failure, brought on by a general
state of debility. No one was with
him at the last hour but his wife and
family physician.
Mr. Plant had complained of feeling
ill the day before, but went to his
office at 12 West Twenty-third street,
and attended to business with his ac
customed interest and alertness. In
the evening several friends called on
him and he chatted with them in his
usual good-humored way. During the
night, however, he was taken sick and
his physician was called. Dr. Durant
staid with him to the end, Friday af
ternoon, as did also Mr. G. 11. Tilley,
secretary and treasurer of the South
ern Express Company. His only child,
Mr. Morgan F. Plant, was not present,
being on a pleasure trip on his private
yacht off the coast of New Jersey.
HENRY 11. PLANT,
Head of tlio Great Sywlem of llntlroa<ln
Wlilch Hear Ilia Name, Who Dlori
Suddenly In New York.
Mr. Plant had not been sick since
Inst November, when, on returning
from a trip from Florida, he was sud
denly seized in his private car in the
Jersey City railway station at which
time his life was depaired of, but
he revived and went back to Florida,
where he has been able to attend to
bis various business interests during
the winter season. His death wah so
sudden ns to have surprised even
those closest to him.
Brief Sketch of Ilia Life.
Mr. Plant was a native of Connecti
cut, and was born ut. Branford on
October 27th, 181'J. He came of n
long line of Puritan ancestors, and
among the forefathers were men who
fought for the independence of the
country in which they all became fac
tors more or less prominent during
their days.
His ancestry came from England in
1689, and nearly everyone ooeupied
some position of honor and trust. On
his grandmother’s side he was descend
ed from Joseph Frisbee, wno was a
major in Washington’s army, the same
family that gave Harvard its profes
sor, Levi Frisbee. Through the Fris
bees he was related to Sir William Pep
perell, Bart, and the same strain gave
him a kinship with the late Sen
ator Hoar, whose middle name was
Frisbee. Like the maternal side of!
bis house, Mr. Plant’s paternal ances- j
try figured prominently wherever they
were known.
For over two hundred years the
Plants resided at Branford, and on the
lands which were given them by the
crown their descendants still reside,
•ud all, lika the late railroad king, are
men prominent in the section of the
country in which they reside. . Mr.
Plaut's father died while he was quite
young, and at the time of that death
Mr. Plant wa,s himself quite ill, so ill
that he was not informed of his father's
death until several days after it oc
curred.
Why 11. Cam* South.
In 1853 Mrs. Plant was seized with
congestion of the lungs, and the fami
ly physiciaus ordered that she be taken
to Florida; and this was the inception
of Mr. Plant's connection with the
south and the work he has accomplish
ed in this section. In March, 1853,he
left New York with his invalid wife on
a steamer, and after touching at Char
leston and Savannah, lauded at Jack- :
stmville. At that time the Florida
metropolis was made up of a dozen
TROOPS READY TO EMBARK.
England Still Kntcrtaln* l*ropect of War
Id South Africa.
A cable dispatch from London says :
The Shropshire regiment has been or
dered to hold itself in readiness for
immediate embarkation for Capetown.
The order, which was given Friday
afternoon, creates the most intense ex
citement, and the talk of war with the
Transvaal is now absorbing all atten
tion.
huts, and Mr. Plant found it hard
work to secure accommodations for
Mrs. Plant. •
The day after reaching Jacksonville
Mr. Plant secured a home with a Flor
idian six miles from Jacksonville, and
during the winter Mrs. Plant’s health
improved so much that he was able to
return north with her the next spring.
But during that time Mr. Plant had
found the great health-giving qualities
there were in the climate of the Pe
ninsula State, and within less than a
year he had again invaded the state
and made some investments, which
later turned out to have been judi
cious.
About this time the Adams Express
company was more fully organized
in the east, with some of the leading
capitalists of that section as stock
holders, and Mr. Plant lind a connec
tion with the company. On his trips
south he found anew and large field
for the work of the company, and in a
short time had extended the business
over the lines into many southern
cities, where nn express company’s
work had never been heard of. The
leading citieH of the south were brought
into the territory of the Adams Ex
press company, and no more profitable
territory was to be found than that
discovered by Mr. Plant.
The entire southern field was under
his direction, and when the civil war
came on the directors of tne company
decided to dispose of the southern ter
ritory, believing that the work of
transmitting valuables and paeknges
could not be carried on with safety.
Then it was that. Mr. Plant showed his
great and unlimited faith in this sec
tion and the people of it. He knew
the character of the people among
whom he had cast his lot, and as soon
as the old company was out of the way
he organized the Southern Express
Company and was elected its first
president.
During his residence in the south he
had won the confidence, esteem and
respect of all, and none were slow to
come to his support in the new enter
prise, notwithstanding the fact that
it was generally known thatMr.Plant’s
sympathies were against secession. In
a short time after the new company
was formed the seat of the Confederate
government was at Montgomery, and
there President Davis and his cabinet
were located. M. Plant was always
open and frank. There was nothing
of the deceptive nature him, and be
fore entering upon the duties of a pub
lic carrier in the new government he
decided to let the head of that govern
ment and his advisers know just where
he stood.
By an attorney he presented his
views and ideas to President Davis in
the presence of the entire Confederate
cabinet. Mr. Plant was known to
each of the gentlemen personally or
by reputation, and when his position
had been defined he was told to go
ahead with the work, and that the
government hud every confidence in
his honesty and integrity.'
After the war Mr. Plant continued
the express company and was again
and again elected its president, never
being out of that office from the time
of its creation up to the time of his
death.
In the later seventies and early
eighties Mr. Plant' made two or three
trips to Europe, and it was while on
one of these trips that he conceived
the idea of building palace steamers
for his lines. How he carried out
those plans the thousands who have
ridden *on his steamers know well
enough.
Along with his steamboat lines, Mr.
Plant projected a system of railroads
whoih today reach far and wide. All
Florida is touched by some of his
lines, either a breach or a main stem
tapping sections of the entire state.
Few roads are better equipped and
few employes find themselves so well
cared for as those ou the Plant system.
It was not until 1879 that Mr. Plant
became interested in Florida railroads
aud laid the foundation of the great
system hearing his name. The first
railroads purchased by him were the
Atlantic A Gulf, now known as the
Savannah, Florida and Western, and
the Charleston and Savannah.
Since then many lines have been ac
quired and numerous connecting links
constructed, now all embraced in the
corporation chartered by the leg
islature of Connecticut ns the Plant In
vestment Company. Supplementing
the railroad properties are several
steamship lines, the most important of
which is that running from Tampa and
Key West to Havana, which has been
in operation since 1884.
ROOSEVELT IS PATRIOTIC.
He 1* Aniiouk to FurnUh All Volunteer*
That May Be Needed.
Governor Roosevelt, of New York,
telegraphed President McKinley Fri
day, informing him that in the event
of a call for volunteers being made
New York was prepared to furnish all
the men the government might ask
for, and asked that an opportunity be
given New York state to 3o so.
II IP’S Ml! urn
BARTOW PHILOSOPHER HAS SOME
THING TO SAY ABOUT TRUSTS.
BE DEPLORES THEIR EXISTENCE.
“Trout In The Lord and IJo Good” In the
Only Truat That William Commends
to Ilia Fellow Mortal*
David saitb “Put not your trust in
princes,” and if he had lived in our
day he would have added nor iu mil
lionaires or oil trusts or sugar or
whisky or tobacco or even in chewing
gum trusts. “Trust in the Lord and
do good” is the only trust he com
mended. I wonder why the combines
are called trusts. I reckon it is be
cause the combiners know it is a rascal
ly business and they will have to trust
one another to tote fair and divide
square, for they can’t enforce it by law.
These trusts seem to he a modern in
vention—a North American idea—an
idea of our northren brethren to make
the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The consumers of oil and sugar and
such things are not complaining of the
price—nor would they complain if
they got them for nothing, but these
combines are founded on selfishness
and greed.
They disturb the general welfare,
destroy the equilibrium and put the
public in constant peril. They can
raise the price when they wish to and
there is no competition to keep it
down. If competition dares to build
up against them they can destroy it in
a week of a month. They ha've no
heart or pity or kind consideration for
their employees, but can reduce their
wages or discharge them at their
pleasure. They defy the law and
bri,l>e courts aud lawmakers. Now, it
may be possible that the oil trust or
the sugar trust sell us those commodi
ties as cheap or cheaper than if there
were no trusts, but we would rather
pay more and have a free fight, it is
all a one-sided business and the old
maxim that “competition is the life of
trade” has been virtually destroyed.
We old men have not ceased to la
ment the destruction of the hundreds
of small industries that before the war
enriched our state aud made the peo
ple happy and contented. The time
was when there was a wagon shop aud
a blacksmith shop at every cross roads
—a hatter’s shop and two or three
shoeshops in every village—a tanyard
in every settlement and little mills on
every creek. But big fish have swal
lowed up the little ones. Their pro
ducts may be cheaper now, but the
producers have had to move away or
go to planting cotton. Northern cap
ital takes our iron and timber and
hides and wool aud after paying
freight both ways sells back to us what
we had been making at home. Time
was when I wore shoes that were made
in our village—made from leather that
was tauned not far away.
Time was when I was proud of the
wool hat that Ben South made—made
while I was looking on. I remember
that the whipping post was planted
not far from the hatter’s shop and
how 1 ran home on one occasion to
keep from seeing a white man whip
ped. “I will meet you at the hatter’s,”
was a time-honored maxim, but is not
now. Time was when once a week I
rode the little bay mare to mill three
miles away and left my grist so as to
have a race back with some other boy.
And there was a country school on the
road and the boys waylaid us because
we had dared to cry “school butter.”
This reminds me to say in passing I re
ceived a letter the other day from some
Alabama school boys wautiug to know
the origin and meaning of “school
butter."
My father was an oldtimo school
teacher and said that in his boyhood
the expression was “school better”
and signified that “our school is bet
ter than your school,” and it always
provoked a collision. Some very huu
gry boys corrupted it into “school
butter.” But the town boys never go
to mill nowadays; the mill eomes to
them. Home-made shoes and hats are
things of the past—everything eomes
from the north, and is now made by a
trust—and on almost everything we
use or consume there is a duty or tariff,
aud we pay our part of it to kesp up
the government expenses aud pay the
pensions and fight the Filipinos. Talk
about the trusts —that pension trust is
is the biggest trust of all, and the
most corrupt. How the north stands
it I cannot understand. Over $2,000,-
000,000 have already gone that way,
and John Brown’s soul keeps march
ing on.
Ohio gets $13,000,000 this year, and
Georgia has to pay her quota of the
$160,000,000 and gets nothing. Yes,
Georgia pays about $6,000,000 annual
ly through the operations of the tariff.
I bought a pocket knife today for 50
cents that I could have bought in
London for half the money. Just
think of it, my brethren, $6,000,000
in tariff taxes annually to support a
million pensioners, oue-tenth of whom
are entitled to it under the law and
line-tenths are frauds. This scanda
lous trust is backed by the G. A. Rs.,
and they are backed by the republican
party, and that party is backed by the
cohesive power of public pluuder. If
this was all that Georgia paid we
would be happy, but our state haR to
pay her part of $800,000,000 toiore than
it takes to run the national machine.
Altogether we pay not less thai,\s4oA
000,000 annually for the
remaining in the union How
for oppression? I tell you.
ii- an.ounr of patriotism
ern man to love his eovt'.' ,l flH|S
fight for it. The only Av to be a
patriot is to shut one’s ey/s and go it
blind. It would not do to think about
our grievances, for they interfere with
•our digestion.
Besides all these troubles there is a
long, dry drought upon us, and our
gardens have dried up and the money
has given out, and the cook is sick,
and I have to hunt up kindling wood
and lire up the stove before sun-up
and go to market, and there is a picnic
on hand tomorrow and one of the little
grandchildren got hurt on the jogging
head. It tore li e fie-ui from her
ukle, and T almost cried; and out
log and another dog cot to figlitina
right over another little one and
knocked her down and scared her
into fits, and I couldn’t run to her as
fast as I wanted to, for my corporosity
interferes with my alacrity. • Besides
all this, the town is kept in commotion
about the jug business, and it has got
into the courts and into the churches,
and folks have taken sides and friends
are alienated, and a man don’t dare to
go to town hardly for fear of being
drawn into it,
‘ ‘A soft answer turneth away wrath, ”
but they are not soft in these parts.
“When a man’s ways please the Lord
He maketh even his enemies to be at
peace with him,” but his ways don’t
seem to please the Lord in Cartersville,
for his enemies are not at peace with
him. The great question here is not
about drinking or selling whisky, but
is about the right of a man to order a
bottle or a jug from Atlanta for his
private use or for medicinal purposes;
and its agitation and denunciation has
made as much talk as the magna char
ta, and both sides declare they will
take it to the supreme court of the
United States of North America and
the Philippines.
Then, again, Hon. Pope Brown, the
zealous president of the State Agricul
tural society, says the state will not
prosper any more until the negroeß are
sent away or colonized; but if they
won’t go, what is to be done about it?
He says that education has ruined the
negro as a laborer, but how is it to be
stopped? The rich fools at the north
keep ou dying and leaving money to
negro schools, and our law-makers
keep on making appropriations for
them and taxing us to educate them to
oppose our people and to take sides
with our political enemies, who are
killing negroes in Indiana because
they want work.
And .now the war party want ne
groes to go to the Philippines and
fight other negroes. That would be a
good deliverance all around, but I
don’t believe they will go to any ex
tent. The negro is in the wood pile,
and he is here to stay. Let him stay
as long as he behaves, and if they
won’t behave and be good citizens they
will suffer in the flesh. Our people
are tired fooling with them, and are
desperately in earnest. I reckon we
can get up excursions and take all the
bad ones to Indiana and drop them.
They will go on an excursion.— Bill
Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
If you have something to sell, let
the people know it. An advertise
ment in this paper will do the work.
WOMAN CONTRADICTS HERSELF.
Mrs. Graves Is Welding: Strong Chain of
Evidence.
Each day the evidence against Mrs.
Graves, in jail at Valdosta, Ga.,
charged with the murder of her hus
band in Echols county, seems to grow
stronger aud the woman herself is
welding the chain. Her first story was
to the effect that it was a case of sui
cide.
The inquest disproved the suicide
theory, the physician stating that the
wound could never have been inflicted
by his own hand.
Seeing the fallacy of her suicide
statement, it is said, Mrs. Graves then
changed her statement at the prelimi
nary hearing to about as follows:
“I was in the kitchen and Mr.
Graves ou the porch just outside. We
were talking and I had my hand on
the coffee mill. I turned my head aud
as I did so I heard a pistol shot, and
turning saw my husband fall, but do
not know who fired the shot.”
INCREASE STANDING ARMY.
Orders Given For Enlistment of Volun
teers For Philippines.
Asa result of a conference between
the president and Secretary Alger
Tuesday evening, it is announced that
it has been decided to begin the en
listment of volunteers for two years’
service in the Philippines. Orders to
recruiting officers to this effect are to
be sent out immediately.
It is proposed to arm and equip at
once three brigades, or about 10,000
men, and then to continue the work
until the whole 35,000 authorized by
the law are secured. There will be no
call upon the states. The regiments
will be organized as United States vol
unteers. Officers will be appointed
by the president and assigned to regi
ments without regard to state lines.
JUGGLED OYER DEPOT.
Railroads Granted Further Time In Re
gards to Atlauta’e Car Shed.
Representatives of the railroads, the
city of Atlanta and the state of Geor
gia met in joint session before the
state railroad commission Tuesday
morning, juggled with the depot ques
tion for two hours and a half, declared
everybody interested was in earnest,
reiterated the story of old, made new
promises and then the roads asked for
further time.
The discussion was interesting and
H times rather spicy, and it looked at
H'eral times that the city rymld score,
Hit the commission adjourned after
Hving the roads until August Ist to
Hport back in writing just what they
Hrnld do.
MINERS BATTLE
IN ALABAMA
Three Negroes are Shot Down
By Whites.
RACE WAR OCCURS AT CARDIFF
Negro flinersWere Attempting to
Prevent Capture of a Member
Of Their Band.
A special from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: Three negroes dead aud one
not expected to live, is the result of a
riot between the white and negro mi
ners at the ore mines near Cardiff, in
Jefferson county Tuesday.
The dead are: Ed Ellis, Jim Dill,
Adam Samuels.
Seriously wounded—Rudolph Wil
liams, George Thomas.
The two races came to a clash late
in the afternoon in Glasgow Hollow,
where the negroes had congregated,
armed with winchesters.
A white man passing along the road
was held up and besides being abused,
was roughly handled. This news soon
spread and an armed body of white
miners moved toward the hollow. It
is supposed that they went around by
a circuitous route in the mountains
and came upon the negroes unexpect
edly.
Ringleader First to Fall.
Ed Ellis, the ringleader, armed with
a rifle and Colt’s revolver, fell at the
first volley. A rifle bullet did the
work. There was another volley and
four of the other negroes fell. Jim
Dill and Adam Samuels died a few
minutes later after being removed to a
negro house. George Thomas was shot
through the abdomen with a Winches
ter bullet. is not expected to re
cover. Rudolf Williams will live.
The trouble started Monday when
it was thought that John Shepherd,
who last week assaulted Mrs. Monroe
Jones near Corona, was in that com
munity. The negroes armed themselves
to prevent his capture. Both sides
were aroused and only the timely ar
rival of a sheriff’s posse prevented an
outbreak.
Tuesday morning the negro miners
held a mass meeting and refused to go
work. They all belong to a secret or
ganization known as the “Knights of
Africa” or the “Mysterious Ten.”
They keep rifles and ammunition on
hand at all times. It was in the after
noon that they gathered in Glasgow
Hollow, although with what intention
is not known.
Influential citizens say that the ring
leaders are now out of the way, and
they hope to manage the other ne
groes. Ed Ellis, the head of the
band, and holding the chief office in
the secret organization, made a speech
to the negroes just before his death,
telling them not to believe what the
white officers had- told them, and
swearing that he for one would get
even with Sheriff O’Brien, who on
Monday at the point of a shotgun or
dered him to disperse his gang.
Shortly after the riot Sheriff
O’Brien left Birmingham with a hun
dred armed men.
Late reports say that the situation
is extremely critical, and that the ne
groes are talking of avenging the death
of their leaders.
Sheriff OBrien, who was at Bloss
burg, received a message from Adams
ville, three miles from that place, ask
ing for protection. The message
stated that an armed body of negroes
were gathered in the mountains threat
ening to make a descent upon the min
ing camp in the valley. He dispatch
ed all the deputies he could spare
across the country.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries Established the
Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
are a $60,000 brick-making plant in
Florida; coal mines in Kentucky; three
cotton mills in Georgia and one each
in North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia; cottonseed oil mills in North
Carolina and Texas; electric light
and power companies in Alabama,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia; a fertilizer factory
in Georgia; flouring mills in Arkansas
and Tennessee; gas works in North
Carolina and West Virginia; graphite
mines in Alabama; ice factories in
Alabama and North Carolina; an iron
bedstead factory in Tennessee; lime
kilns in West Virginia; lumber mills
in Georgia, Kentucky and South Car
olina; planing mills in Florida and
Georgia; a rice mill in Louisiana; a
rope and yarn mill in South Carolina;
a sash, door and blind factory in
Georgia; a telephone company in
North Carolina; a tobacco stemmery
in Virginia.—Tradesman, (Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.)
POSTMASTER ARRESTED
As Result of Examination of the Key West
Office.
As the result of an examination of
postoffice affairs at Key West, Fla.,
Louis Otto, the postmaster, was ar
rested Tuesday on charges preferred
by Postoffice Inspector Rosson, and
taken before United States Commis
sioner Crain, who placed Otto under
$2,000 bond to appear before him for
a hearing.
GOEBEL m mill
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS FINALLY
AGREE UPON A CANDIDATE.
CLIMAX OF 11 LONG WRANGLE
Senator Won Victory On the Twenty-Sixth
Eiallot— Harmony Completely
Restored.
The wind-up of the most sensational
convention in the history of Kentucky
was reached at twenty-five minutes
past 10 o’clock Tuesday night, when
State Senator William Goebel was de
clared the democratic nominee for
governor.
After one week’s continuous session,
marked at times by outbreaks, whose
intensity seemed to augur riots in the
immediate present and the split up of
the party as a natural consequence,
the nomination of Goebel was finally
accomjflished with harmony and the
best of good feeling prevailing.
Goebel has won through splendid
generalship. He came to Louisville
with but a few more
votes, but by clever manipulation, by
brave, courageous fighting, by his
manly attitude throughout the con
test, he has impressed his personality
so strongly upon the convention that
all the manipulations of the shrewdest
politicians of the state could not pre
vent his ultimate nomination.
His victory is due to his own gener
ship and good sense. Twice before
the final coup he held the nomination
within his grasp. One was that open
ing ballot, when his Louisville leader
made the mistake of breaking the
agreement with the Stone people, and
then again, when the skeleton ballot
of Monday, when he had a majority of
the quorum voting.
Had Goebel been the kind of a poli
tician some of his enemies pictured
him, he would have demanded the
nomination on that vote and would
have had plenty of preliminary expe
rience to sustain his demands. But
instead, he sent Chairman Redwine
word that he would not have a nomi
nation by less than a majority of the
full vote of the convention. This won
him friends, for it showed his fair
ness, and in the end it was a factor in
bringing his nomination.
The twenty-second ballot was most
peacefully taken. After the result had
been announced, one of the Goebel
leaders introduced a resolution provid
ing that on the twenty-fifth ballot the
the lowest man be dropped. There
was another hard fight over this, an
effort being made by the Hardin-Stone
managers to array those forces against
the resolution. But the delegates had
grown tired of the ceaseless ■ struggle,
and the vote was finally completed,and
stood 571 in favor of the resolution
and 519 against it.
The end was now in sight. Two
ballots were to be taken before the
test ballot, which was to determine
which man was to be dropped, and
the two who would have to fight it
out. The twenty-third aud twenty
fourth ballots were without incident,
the only diversion being the injection
of several dark horses.
It was 9 o’clock before the fatal
twenty-fifth ballot was taken. The
result was . Goebel, 383; Hardin, 377 J,
and Stone, 330*.
Accordingly the chair announced
that the name of Stone would be
dropped and the desks were cleared
for the twenty-sixth ballot, which was
to nominate William Goebel.
CfYDE STEAMER BURNS.
The Pawnee Totally Destroyed, But All
On Board Were Saved.
The steamer City of Macon, which
arrived at New York Tuesday from Sa
vannah, reported that on Monday she
passed the burning wreck of the Clyde
line steamer Pawnee forty miles from
Cape Henry. •
The crew of 21 men was picked up
by the George W. Clyde. All hands
jvere saved.
The Pawnee left Brunswick on Fri
day aud Charleston on Saturday for
Boston, laden with a valuable cargo,
consisting of 400,000 feet of lumber,
11,500 crossties, 527 bales of hay, six
carloads of watermelons and 456 bales
of cotton She carried no passengers.
The vessel was valued at SIOO,OOO,
fully insured.
PRESIDENT RETURNS HOME.
Mrs. McKinley Became 111 and Outing
Was Cut Short.
The President and Mrs. McKinley
with the other members of the presi
dential party arrived in Washington
at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, an A were
driven immediately to the whit^iuse.
Mrs. McKinley, whose illdH cut
short the president’s stay
Mass., stood the joimu^M|^^H' W ell
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