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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RBCORDER. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1907
The Things to Be Seen at
PINKSTON CO’S.
New wool gocds, fancy weaves and plain effects.
As a leader, all wool Panama and coating serge at
30c yard. AH colors.
New sllkfc. in rich plaid effects, Persian stripes
and all the staple colors.
Best yard wide black taffeta at $1.00 yard.
New embroideries, real values that will surely
tempt you if you see them. \
New belts, collars, neckwear, ribbons, percales,
gjlngham, etc.
t Our ladies read-to-wear department is open and
leady for a visit from you. Ladjes suits, wraps,
ikirts, waists, kimona’s. This department beggars
Jesci^ption. You will have to see them. You will
sot see any thing to compare with it in this section.
You must not fail to see our men’s ready made
slothing this fall. Men’s suits, youths’ suits, boys (
and childrens’ suits, shoes for every member of the
ibmily, shirts, underwear hosiery, etc.
Art squares, rugs, portierres, lace curtains, etc
We Offer You as Special:
An 8 wire tapestry Brussel art square at $11.00
A 3 yard Irish point lace curtain at $2,50 pair.
And many other good things as good. We Insist
an your giving us a call, we are open for business,
and challenge comparisons and prices.
PINKSTON CO.
“He” Gee. D. Wheatley, Stare.
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A Word to Housefumishers.
■ No matter where you live, It will pay you to come and seo our great
showing of new Carpets, Rugs, Mattings and Curtains. We bought
very largely and having secured special reductions which enable us to
quote surprisingly low prices. We carry only the beet grade of goods—
Carpets are all hand made, Laid and Lined with mothproof paper and a
perfect lit guaranteed. We are also Bhowlng the largest and prettiest
assortment of muslin rufllled and lace curtains, Portieres and Couch
oarers ever brought south at lowest prices.
A COST OF OVERS 12.500.000
New York’s Most Gorgeous Hotel The Plaza, Will Open
Next Monday.
NEW YORK, Sept 19.—(Special.)—
The new Piaza Hotel, the latest addi
tion to New York's long list of pala
tial hostelerles, is to be formally
opened next Monday morning. The
builders of the Plaza claim that it. Is
the costliest and finest hotel in the
world. An Idea of the enormous sum
of money spent in the erection of the
Plaza may be bad from the mere state
ment that its cost was more than
double that of the magnificent Hotel
Astor which was completed only two
years ago.
New York not only contains the
largest and most luxurious hotels of
any city In the world, but also more
of them, ranging in cost from $1,000,-
000 to $12,500,000, which latter fig
ure represents the cost of the new
Plaza. It is to be further remarked
in the same connection that the most
luxurious hotels are by far the most
prosperous. The present effort is
not to build economically, but expen
sively—to crowd as much luxury as
possible into hotel building for the
rich New Yorker can be counted on
to make the most lavish expenditure
a profitable Investment. Counting per
manent and transient guests, the five
score liigh-class hotels In the city of
New York take care of about 50,000
people a day. The lowest estimate
places the average price paid for
rooms and board at $0.25 a day. At
that rate the receipts are $312,500 a
day, or $114,002,500 a year.
Cost Exceeds Waldorf.Astorlu.
The actual cost of the new Plaza is
said to be slightly in excess of that of
the Waldorf-Astoria, heretofore con
sidered the largest and most luxuri
ous hotel In the world. When the
Waldorf-Astoria was projected, al
most every one said it could not be
made to pay. Yet today it is a very
profitable property. It Is hard to
imagine a house with 40 magnificent
public rooms, more than 1,300 guests’
rooms, and accomodations for be
tween 1,400 and 1,500 people, being
practically filled all the time, but
these figures represent the Waldorf-
Astoria's accomodations, and it is
constantly crowded.
The new Plaza occupies the site of
the old hotel of the same name at the
corner of Fifty-ninth street and Fifth
avenue, opposite the entrance to tho
Central Park and directly across from
the Savoy and Majestic hotels. The
builders figured at the beginning to
spend about $8,500,000 on the struct
ure, but later it was found that in
order to place the hotel in that state
of perfection which the management
claims cannot be reached by any
other hostelry in the world. It would
benecessary to add $4,000,000 to the
original estimate cost of the struct
ure. And this additional sum was
added without the slightest hesita
tion.
A Suit of Rooms at $500 a Day.
Already, the management of the
Plaza announce, a large percentage
of the suits have been leased. The
hostelry will have as Its permanent
guests some well-known people,
among whom are John W. Gates, Mrs.
James Henry Smith, Alfred G. Van
derbilt, George J. Gould, C. K. J.
Billings, Mrs.. Oliver Harrlman, Jul
ius Fleischmann, John A. Drake,
Mrs. Wallace Shillito, A. H. Moore,
Richard Brewster, Jackson Gourand,
and Mrs. Young Hayworth.
Some of these will pay $75 to $100
a day for their rooms, exclusive of
meals. For the famous royal suites
$500 a day will probably be asked for
short periods. Though these rates
seem enormous to the majority of
people the price paid in reality is not
In excess of what it would cost to
maintain a Fifth avenue home, while
the worries are less and tho accomo
dations better. It goes without say
ing that the Plaza will be essentially
n home for the rich. It marks the
topmost notch in tho luxury of metro-
politan life for men and women with
large incomes who do not care to un
dertake the responsibility of keeping
a city house of their own.
Will Have 1,500 Servants
As may readily be Imagined the
payroll at the Plaza will be im
mense. The general staff sixty cooks,
GO chambermaids and nn equal num
ber of housemaids, forty floor girls,
sixty bell boys, 200 waiters, seventy-
five laundresses; twenty-five porters,
twenty bartenders, ten wine cellar
men, fifteen barbers and about 150
women of all work in the kitchen and
elsewhere, who may be said to look
after the Immediate personal com
fort of the guests. The chief engineer
and his assistants, electric light men,
elevator men, plumbers, locksmiths
and general repair men wil easily
number 250 more. Then there will be
the office staff and the accountants'
department, making all in all very
nearly If not quite 1,500 men and wo
men to be paid off every week or
every month, as the case may be,
aside from the private servants en
gaged by the guests and who work
under the general direction of the
hotel.
LADIES
omiBMHBan
Ready-to-Wear
Garments.
This department now removed to first floor and Is beautifully equipped
for the comfort and convenience of the ladles as well as for the handlin'-
of the business by us.
Prices were never so low, styles never so attractive, stock never so
large and varied, prospects for a most enormous and successful season
so bright. We cordially invite you.
4_ TheESwellest Line
CITY TAXESITO BE HIGHER
Council Levies a Rate of $14.50 per Thousand for All
Purposes This Year.
The Most Beautiful Voile
AND PANAMA SKIRTS.
Superb Line the Season’s Best Styles Skirts.^;
Enormous Line Silk and Heather-Bloom Petticoats
It will be our pleasure to have you call and allow us to show you the
many points of Interest wherein it will pay you to do your business with
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT
Magnificent values in
new style plaid waist-
ing silks.
Grandest line Chiffon
Taffetas ever shown
in Americus.
Beautiful Broadcloths in all the papular shades and grades-
Chiffon Panamas, Blacks and Colors,
Cheap. Medium, Fine,
Table Linens.
If you are posted on market conditions you know bow much table
likens have advanced in price in the last few months and will thoroughly
appreciate this special offering. Every thread pure linen, heavy and very
■ervlceable, a snow-white Damask of superior grade, 72 Indies wide, better
than Damask, selling elsewhere at $1.00. Specially priced at 85c.
Napkins.
50 doz. % size cream damask nap
kins, all pure linen, worth $1.00 doz.,
special for this week at 75c.
Spreads.
T-4 size white crocket bed spreads
za handsome Marseilles patterns,
heavy quality, worth $1.75, Special
*1.25.
Towels.
100 doz. extra heavy Huck towels,
large size, red and white borders,
Hemmed ends, worth 15c, special at
, 10c. Also H. S. Linen lluch towels
at 25c, worth 35c.
Fancy Linens.
| In hemstitched trays, cloths, scarfs,
table covers, center pieces, squares,
. also hand embroidered doylies from
| 25c up to $3.00 each.
Lace Curtains.
A very extensive and pleasing gathering of the newest curtains of
^foreign and fine domestic make. Another thing, the values. Some of
flbe choicest of the new curtains are often remarkably lo wpriced, because
of lucky purchases. They represent the novelty net curtains of foreign
and domestic make, Arabian color and two-tones from the simple dainty
affects at $2.50 to the most elaborate and handsome creations at $7.50 pair.
Also the Bonnie Femme in white and Arabian color at $4.50 and $5.50.
No matter what prices are quoted you. we will
always be lower.
SEO. D. WHEATLEY.
Americus, Ga.
The City Council has levied the
tax rate for the current year, and
the property owners will pay $14.50
upon each $1,000 of property re
turned. This rate is but a slight in
crease over that of last year, and the
average citizen will not feel the dif
ference.
The rate this year is 1.45 per cent
against 1.25 last year, a difference of
less than a fourth of one per cent.
Here is the assessment:
For general expenses of the city,
one half of one per cent; for the bond
fund, one half of one per cent, and
for the support of the city schools,
45-100 of one per cent.
Tho fact that the voters of Americus
at the recent election authorized an
Issue of bonds to the amount of $75,-
000 t<jr public improvements Is, to an
extenit, responsible for the slightly
increased rate this year over that of
last year.
There has been a very gratifying
Increase In property values in Ameri
cus this year, as evidenced by the
tax returns, and a rate of 1.45 will
be sufficient for ail purposes.
Aside from this, the city has been
most liberal this year in public Im
provements, entailing the expendi
ture of large sums of money as* a
permanent Investment for Americus.
Street work and the boring of ano
ther artesian well cost considerable.
The city rate this year Is exactly
that of the Btate and county combined
—1.45; and citizens of Americus own
ing property will pay a total tax rate
of 2.90 or $29 per $1,000.
GOVERNOR MAKES A DENIAL
Linens and White Goods in the Greatest Prolusion-
Notion Departmet.
This department Is filled to overflowing with:
New ‘Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Ribbons, Belts, Purses, Hand-Bags,
American Lady Corsets for which we are sole agents, Clemlntlna 12 and 1$
button Kid Gloves, Bhort kid gloves, Fabric Gloves, Underwear, etc, etc.
Carpet, Rugs and Matting Department,
The removal of our ladles ready to wear department to the first floor
enables us to give more space to tho above lines than ever and we are now
beginning to receive some very de- Birablc things in Art Squares, Rugs.
Mattings, Curtains, Window Shades, etc., ail of which we are able to show
In the most ample space. We are making low prices a strong feature
with us and you will readily realize the many other advantages we have to
offer you here.
Of Intent to “Bear” the Cotton Market by Painting
Roseate
ATLANTA, Sept. 19.—(Special.)—
Gov. Hoke Smith Is out in a state
ment today In which he replies to
criticisms upon a recent interview,
wherein he dwelt graphically upon
the Immense cotton crop of Georgia
this year as the solid background of
gorgeous picture of prosperity held
up to the public. Gov. 8mlth then de
clared that Georgia would, make two
million bales of cotton this year, des
pite the fact that Commissioner of
Agriculture Tom Hudson only three
weeks ago had asserted that the crop
would be less than one and one-half
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millions. The New York cotton
‘‘bears" seized upon Gov. Smith's big
crop estimate as a fine maul with
which to hammer down values re
cently, os evidenced in the decline
of two cents per pound. The Farm
ers' Union and other representative
bodies are now adopting resolutions
decrying tbe Governor's declaration
of splendid crop conditions, and he
thus hastens to explain that bla
statement had nothing to do with tho
recent price depression, and that he
bad no Intention of bearing tbe mark
et, whatever.
A large and polite corps of employes ever ready and anxious to
serve you as follows:
Mr. H. Clcve Davis, Mr. J. C. Pope, Mr. G. Lester Williams, Ur.
Walter C. Page, Mr. Willie H. Hill, Mr. Seymour Catchlngs, Sir. U> a
Compton, Mr. Eustace Ansley, Miss Leila Carter, Miss Mattie Oliver,
Miss Johanna Schroeder, Mrs. Minnie Kemph.
We all cordially invite you to make us a visit
We All Cordially Invite You to MaRe Its a Visit.
Chas. L. Ansley
Successor to WHEATLEY & ANSLEY.
Agents: * Butterick Patterns and American Lady Corsets.