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Manila Hero Arrives at New York
Two Days Ahead of Time.
OLYMPIA ANCHORS INSIDE SANDY HOOK.
Flagship Is Greeted By Admiral's Salute and Demonstrations of
Welcome By Innumerable Small Craft—Dewey
and His Men Are Glad to Get Home.
A New York special says: Much to
the surprise of every one in the city
the Olympia, with Admiral Dewey on
board, arrived off the Sandy Hook
lightship at f:55 Tuesdny morning.
There was a heavy mist on the sea,
and at first the marine observers were
inclined to think the vessel sighted
might be Hear Admiral Howison’s
flagship, Ihe Chicago, hardly believ
ing Dewey would arrive two days
ahead of time.
The doubt was soon cleared away,
however, and as passing vessels rec
ognized the flagship from Manila bay
there was a continuous blowing of
whistles in salute.
The first shout of welcome was
from the pilots and crew of pilot boat
No. 7, fifteen miles south of tho Hook
lightship. It happened to be Pilot
John Peterson's turn, and at . r >:'j() a.
m. ho was put aboard the Olympia and
brought her around the Hook and into
the lower bay. The marine observers
along the roast had sighted the Olym
pia in the first light of morn.
The shore batteries of Fort Hancock
let loose seventeen guns. The flag
ship replied with twenty-one, and let
go her anchors not far from where the
cup challenger Shamrock in moored.
The admiral was in his country
again, after twenty-three months’ ab
sence. He had returned “great with
the arduous greatness of things done”
and he scarcely seemed to realizo it.
The pilot had brought aboard the
Sunday papers and a reporter of the
Associated Press wan received by the
admiral in a cabin littered by the
illustrated Dewey editions, which to
gether mado hundreds of pages in
black and white and in colors, all
concerning the great admiral and the
preparations made to receive him:
“It almost saddens me,” he said,“to
nee what, my people are doing for me.
The pride and gratification is immense
and 1 cannot express the appreciation
I feel. I did not know, I did not
really perceive, until this morning the
splendid welcome that my countrymen
are giving me.
“I am mighty glad to get home. It
is not good for a man to live on ship
board for twenty-three months.”
The admiral's manner is gentle and
kind, but he is exceedingly wary and
did not permit himself to wander off
into polities or to express those posi
tive views he no doubt holds about
the Philippines and American affairs
there.
His attention was brought to inter
views in which he is described ns go
ing rather fully into the character of
the Filipinos and their fitness for self
government, and said:
“1 cannot stand for any interviews
giving my opinion on political sub
jects and the Philippines. I disown
any views ascribed to me on those
subjects.”
The flagship came up to the lower
bay and anchored inside Sandy
Hook. As soon as the anchor was
dropped, an orderly was sent ashore
with dispatches from the admiral and
other officers.
The admiral’s early arrival was a
matter of great ooncern to the city au
thorities who were arranging for New
Fork’s welcome. Secretary Foster of
the reception committee went to the
WASHINGTON IN ATLANTA.
Cot. Candler Welcome* Noted Colored
Man On ltahalf of iirorgin-
Five hundred negroes heard Booker
T. Washington, president of Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial College for
Negroes at Tuskegee, Ala., deliver nn
address at Atlanta, Ga., Monday night
on “The Race Problem iu the Light
of European Travel.”
Prof. Washington has recently re
turned from a trip to Europe, aud it
was Inrgely upon his observations on
this trip that he spoke.
Among the other speakers was Gov.
Candler, who welcomed Prof. Wash
ington on behalf of the state.
NAYT WIRES DEWET.
Department Bend* Mnnit of Welcome
to Manila Hero.
The navy department sent the fol
lowing message of welcome to Admi
ral Dewey Tuesday morning:
“Navy Dkpabtuknt, Washington,
Sept. 26.—Admiral George Dewey.
Sandy Hook: The department is happy
to learn of yonr safe arrival, aud ex
tends to you aud your officers aud
crew the most cordial welcome.
(Signed) “John D. Long.”
city hall early and issue/1 a called for
a special meeting of the committee.
Mayor Van Wyck hurried to his of
fice, where he found the following tel
egram:
‘■Olympia arrived this morning. Will go
to Tompklnsville tomorrow.
(Signed) Gkoboh Dewet.”
The mayor advised tho calling to
gether of all the city’s committees
and telegrams were sent out calling on
the members of the plan and scope
committee and the various sub-com
mittees to meet as quickly as possible
at the city hall.
Alluding to his arrival two days
ahead of the time he was oxpected,
Admiral Dewey said:
‘‘l am sorry that I am ahead of the
schedule. The Olympia has been
steaming at the rate of ten knots an
hour since we left Gibraltar. Several
days ago we knew that we would arrive
before Thursday unless we moderated
our speed or went somewhere out of
our course. Captain Dumbarton,
Lieutenant Brumby and I held a con
sultation.
“The propriety of running in to
Hampton Hoads or some other port in
the south was spokeu of, but we con
cluded that we ought not to touch
land first anywhere eig'ept at New
York. It was suggested that we cruise
some distance outside New York har
bor until Thursday, but we knew that
if we did that we would be discovered
and reported. The weather looked a
little squally and it seemed better to
be inside the Hook than outside. But
the consideration that really decided
us to come into port was to give Cap
tain Lamberton a chance to clean up
tho ship before our voyage up the
harbor. Captain Lamberton and I
are very proud of the Olympia and we
wanted enough time at our anchorage
to rub her down and malffe her look
spick and span.”
The anchors were hardly down be
fore details of tho crow were washing
the ship’s white sides and touching up
the stains with paint.
The admiral’s first business was to
send an officer ashore with telegrams
for the navy department, Mayor Van
Wyck and General Butterfield, an
nouncing the arrival. He then spent
most of the morning looking over
newspapers and receiving reporters.
Dr. Sanborn, of the port physicians
staff, visited the Olympia and looked
at her papers. Eleven of the crew of
375 men have typhoid fever. Some of
the cases are convalescent and all of
them are of a mild type, according to
l)r. Percy, the ship’s surgeon. No
ono has died of the fever aud with this
exception, the sailors and marines are
well.
All day tugs, sailboats and excur
sion steamers cruised near the Olym
pia and took a look at her. Every
body who asked was permitted to go
on board. Some of the parties of
sightseers on launches and steamers
were invited by the officer of the deck
to come up the gnngwav.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Saale, outward bound, passed close to
the Olympia. The Wanle’s passengers
crowded to the rails. Admiral Dewey
responded to waving handkerchiefs
by lifting his cap several times. The
Scale's baud played the “Star Span
gled Banner” ami the Olympia dipped
her llag. The Gummier Urania pass
ed out half an hour afterwurd. She
fired seventeen signal bombs. Ad
miral Dewey directed the Olympia’s
band to play “God Save the Queen.”
ACTRESS’ HUSBAND FREED.
tlulia Morrison, Slnvt>r of Fitutk l.oldon.
Held Without Bond.
Julia Morrison, alias Janies, who
killed Actor Frank Leiden in the Chat
tanooga opera house, was turned over
to the jury of the circuit court Tuesday
by Police Recorder Cummings,
No evidence having beeu secured by
the police to implicate her husband,
F. H. James, the charge against him
was withdrawn and James was dis
charged.
The grand jury iu special session
will take up the case aud Miss Morri
son will probably be tried daring the
present term of court.
Wildcat Banker Sentenced.
Leonard B. Imboden, president of
tho Planters’ bauk, Kansas fcity, a
wildcat concern, suppressed by tho
state officials several months ago, was
found guilty Tuesday of forging a
draft for Slii.OOO and seutenoed to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Forty-Six New Cases at Key West.
Forty-six new cases of yellow fever
wero reported at Key West, Fla.,
| Tuesday, and two deaths.
mis where tub BAirhik.
Bill Takes rieasnre In Fnliglktalitff lipyt
and Girl* Who Art Seeking
Knowledge and Wlhloiii.
It is a hopeful sign that so many of
the young girls and hoys have a thirst
for knowledge. Tho youth’s depart
ment in the newspapers and magazines
is growing into importance and their
letters to the editors betoken studious
inquiring minds. The art of letter
writing is itself not only an aecom
[ plishrnent, but a good part of a polish
ed education. Letters indicate char
acter and good letters require thought.
The letters of notable men and women
are the best part of their biographies.
They are an index to the heart, the
emotions, the disposition. Time was
when but few could write at all, and
tho openiug of mail in a country town
was a small affair. I know from ex
perience, for when I was in my teens,
my father was the postmaster and I
had the work to do. There are now
at least ten letters per capita to where
there was one in those days. One
great drawback on letter writing then
was the cost of postage. A letter to a
place within the state was 12 j cents
and the postage had to be paid by the
person receiving it, and if it was a
poor letter he felt like he was cheated.
Many a letter was handed back to me
with such a remark as, “well, I reckon
it’s from Dick .Tones, over in Arkan
saw, and I han’t got the quarter. Just
put it back ontil I come ag’in.”
It keep* me busy now-a-days to an
swer all the letters I receive. My wife
and daughters help to keep up the cor
respondence with the far-away boys
and the other kindred, but god
friends who write kind letters to me
must be answered in person. Such
letters are a pleasure and a comfort.
Then, there are many letters asking
for charity or a little help for a church
that only reminds me how poor I am.
Bnt these letters from inquiring
minds who are in pursuit of knowledge
and perplexed about the mysteries of
nature always interest me, and I have
to pretend to be a wise man whether I
am or not.
Now, here is one from a pretty
school girl in her teens. I know that
she is pretty, because she writes a
pretty letter and there is not a blot
nor an erasure or a misspielled word.
She wants to know where the day be
gins and why, and where the naviga
tors first find a change. Of course
that is worth knowing, and I suppose
that veiy few outside of the colleges
and the continental travelers and the
sea faring men understand it.
Well, my dear girl, the day begins
just where man begun—in the garden
of Eden. If the Creator had chosen
New York or Charleston for that gar
den, the day would have begun over
here on this continent and extended
westward to California, as the people
multiplied and carried it there. Of
course tho day kept its name and its
dato around, and east of Palestine as
far as the sea, but “westward the tide
of empire takes its way,” and so did
tho tide of time. Columbus brought
the day with him to this continent.
From our eastern coast tho people
took it to California, aud from there
the missionaries took it to the Sand
wich islands, and it continued to fol
low the sun until tho navigators got
around to Bombay and Hong Koug
aud Cairo and found they had lost a
day and it was Monday instead of Sun
day. And those who sailed eastward
and traveled against the sun found
they had gained a day and it was Sat
urday instead of Sunday.
But it is not so now, for there is an
international line in midocean—a mon
dean that has been established by the
great powers and accepted by the nav
igators ot all nations ns tne etinnge or
date lino. This lino is 180 degrees
west of Greenwich ami runs from New
Zealand north to Bering straits nnd
goes not far from Samoa. It is just
half way round the world from Lou
don nnd is called the Antipode of
Greenwich. It is 1,300 miles west of
Hawaii aud 0,600 west of San Fran
cisco. This line is check-marked on
the up-to-date maps and Sunday is
printed on the west side and Monday
on the east. Navigators tell by their
log books and compass when they have
reached it, and the captain or the mate
announces with great ceremony: “Set
the day clock back twenty-tour hours.
We have crossed the line.” •
For many years our American rail
ways, as they pressed their way from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, fouud the
question of time very confusing, nnd
hence by consent of action they estab
lished four divisions of railway time
and marked longitnndinnl lines 1,000
miles apart to indicate them. When
the train crosses one of these lines the
passengers set their watches baik or
forward just one hour, for the sun
moves or seems to move jnst 1,000
miles an hour. These mondean lines
divide time into eastern, central, moun
tain and Pacific, amt they pass through
New York City, St. Louis, Denver and
Carson City, and therefore when it is
12 o’clock in New York City it is only
9 o'clock in California. The railroad
companies, however, could not cut
their lines ip two to suit these mon
deans and hence their railroad time is
a zig-zag crooked line to fit their ter
minal points, but it approximates the
mondean.
This is not all that could be written
about time and where the day begins,
but it is euough to satisfy the school
a telegraM’ nuMsri
noon it gets fins
morning. The a|k
fought on Bunday*k)i
news of it came on
fore. How is that?
Edgar ‘Poe wrote a pL..
called “Three
which he told about a yX
was adopted and reared*
i.e or uncle who hadEl
•tptain, and how the oldfl
eave his nephew a large fr~
behaved to suit him. T*
was cross and contrary anil
man was awfully uneasyS
would do something to dijS
At last ho fell in love, of 9
a very poor but prettjyjT
Kate. T’hey kept
and lived ori it for abonfl.
thought tho old captain d‘
it, but he did. So they
tret married, even tho’ it stw
the old man mad and he toll
them out of doors and not ld||
anything when he died. Solyl S
day morning Jack took KatesHße
hand and boldly they went is9|Me
old man’s presence and told hflpwU
about it, and that they had oom&fer
his consent and for him to fix the day
when they should be married. The
old fellow was really glad of it, for he
liked the girl, but he couldn’t help
being contrary and so he blustered
around and protended to be very mad,
and finally wound np by saying: “Yos,
yes, yon may get married, and I’ll say
when— yc.s, when. Well, you may
get married when there are three Sun
days in a week. Yes, then and not
before.”
This was awful and the sad young
couple were about to leave when there
was a knock at the door. When it was
opened two sailors, sea oaptains, too,
came rushing in and seized the old
man’s hands and hugged him, and ail
three got jolly, for they were old chums
and had not seen each other for a
year. The old nnela introduced them
to the young man and Kate and said
something nice about them. He soon
brought out soma fine old Madeira and
made everybody take a drink. After
while Captain Pratt said: “Well, now
I remember that the last time we were
together we had a royal game of cards.
Suppose we have another game as a
reminder.”
“Ob, no,” said tbeold uncle. “Good
friends,you forget that this is Sunday,
and true Englishmen never play cards
on Sunday.” “Sunday, indeed,” ex
claimed Captain Pratt, “It is Monday,
yesterday was Sunday, and I had
prayers on board ship as I always do.”
Captain Smithson by this time was ex
cited and exclaimed: “Why you both
are crazy. Today is Saturday and to
morrow will be Sunday. Didn’t I
make my sailors scrub ship this morn
ing before sunrise as we came into
port, and don’t wo always srcub ship
on Saturday? What are you thinking
about?”
Then the old uncle laughed and
chuckled and danced around tho room
in great glee, for the wine was doing
its work.
“Sunday—Sunday!” he exclaimed.
“Pratt savs that yesterday was Sun
day, Smithson swears that tomorrow
will Vie Sunday, and I swear that to
day is Sunday. Ha! lia! ha! I see
how it is. Pratt sailed west from Lon
don and Smithson sailed east and
have been round the world in oppo
site directions, and I have stayed at
home. Three Sundays in a week, by
Jupiter. Here, Jack, you young dog,
go after the preacher and yon aud
Kate get married today, for it will be
a long time before three Sundays come
together again.”
I haven’t told the story as Poe told
it, bnt that is the gist of it.—Bill
Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
COMPOSITORS WERE DISATISIFED.
Non-Union Typr-Sottera on Nmv York Sun
Claim Bad Treatment.
A New York dispatch ssys: A num
ber of the non-union compositors who
took the place of the locked
out printers of lhe Snn struck
Tuesday night. They complain that
they have been unjustly treated and
that the management has not kept the
agreement made with them.
According to their story they were
to receive 50 cents per 1,000 em,
which is the union wage scale. They
have received this, but from eight to
ten proof correctors have been em
ployed and their wages of 60 cents per
hour have been deducted from the
earnings of the compositors.
FRANTZ SUICIDED.
Collcfe Protestor Dil Not Die From Hein
urrhaßp Reported.
The news comes from Oxford,Ga.,that
the coroner's jury and later proceed
ings have developed that Professor
William A. Frantz, the man who was
to have taken charge of the English
department of Emory college at the
opening of school, did not come to
his death by a hemorrhage from his
lungs, as was first published, but that
it was a case of mysterious suciide.
This, however, was not publicly known
until after the coroner’s jury had made
their verdict to the effect that Profes
sor Frantz came to his death by the
use of a pocket knife in his own
hands. There were kn-ife
wounds on the body.
Aged Naval Officer Dead.
Captain Francis S. Haggerty, United
States navy, retired, died at New
York Monday, aged ninety years. His
last service was on the schooner Ex
periment, at Charleston, S. C., during
the nullification excitement of 1833.
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