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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1907)
TITAN STEAMER REACHES PORT Lusitania Sets Time Between New York and Europe* BREAKS THE RECORD Makes the Trip From Queenstown in Fivt Days, One Hour and Thirty- Five Minutes. A new steamboat record between a European port and New York was made by the Cunard line’s new giant turbine ship, the Lusitania, which arrived In New Y T ork Friday morn ing. The Lusitania left Queenstown, the nearest trans-Atlantic port to New York at 12:10 a. in., Sunday, and arrived at the Sandy Hook lightship at 8:05 a. m. Friday, making the time for the trip five days, one hour and thirty-three minutes. This is five hours and fifty minutes better than the previous Queenstown- New York record of five days, seven hours and twenty-three minutes, held by the Lucania of the same line. While the Lusitania has made a new record for the time, a passenger is actually on board ship, she has not beaten the average speed per hour recorded by the Kaiser Wilhelm 11, which has made 23.58 knots per hour frcrn New York to Plymouth, and the Deutchland, with a record of 23.51 knots per hour to Plymouth, having made the latter time. The Lusitania’s tpeed per hour on her maiden voy age is estimated at 23.01 knots per hour. The new ship was decked with flags and bunting when she made her ap pearance off Sandy Hook Friday auorning, her four big red funnels lend ing color to the picture which was marred by the prevailing haze. A good sight of the beautiful vessel was had from shore for only a short while. Her passengers lined the rail ings and crowded the different decks •of the large vessel, waving handker chiefs and American and British flags. The marine observatory stations on shore dipped their flags in salute, other vessels in the lower bay blew their whistles in greeting, and the Lusitania’s blue ensign was constantly lowered and raised again in acknowl edgment of the reception given her. She steamed slowly up the bay for the new Ambrose channel, dug espec ially for vessels of great draft, and v.hich she will be the first to use in entering the port of New York. While the giant Cunarder swept up the bay, she was given a clamorous greeting by an immense fleet of steam crafts, which had congregated off the quarantine station to await her arrival. Nearly every one of the yachts, tow boats and other steamers was crowded with passengers, well supplied with horns and other noise making devices, and at times even the steamships were almost drowned by the toots and cheers. The Lusitania presented a magnifi cent picture as she slowly drew up at the quarantine. Her keen, high bow, beautifully sym metrical lines and finely modeled stern, marked her a truly grey hound. The first sight of New York which the passengers on the big steamer gained was one of welcome. From the highest point of the towering Singer building on Broadway, the tallest building on Broadway, there had been strung a series of signal flags which in the marine code spelled “welcome.’’ The fluttering greeting was 600 feet above Manhattan’s greater thoreugh fare and could be seen far down the bay. For the past three years every one interested in shipping has been watching the express steamers build ing for the Cunard Line. Ever since the pioneer “Brittania," with her 1,154 tons and a speed of 8 1-2 knots, made her initial voyage in 1840, this com pany has gone steadily forward, each new conception outdoing the previous one, until in the Lusitania, launched June 7, 1906, the very acme of marine architecture was reached. The dimensions of this mammoth ship convey but vaguely her size— the figures are as follows: Length, 790 feet; breadth, 6S feet; depth (moulded). 60 feet; gross tonnage, 32,- 500 tons; displacement tonnage, 45,- 000 tons, load draught, 37 feet 6 inches; height of funnels, 24 feet; height of masts, 216 feet. UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES Enrage Women of Paris, Who Give Vent to Their Feelings in Great Street Demonstration. The rising indignation of the French masses against the escape from the guillotine of Soleillant, known as the “monstrous violator and murderer,” whose sentence to death for the atrocious murderer of a 12-year-old girl, was commuted last week by President Fallieres to life imprisonment, was expressed in Paris Sunday in a series of the most cu rious public manifestations that have occurred in France for a long time. The demonstration, despite the fact that several arrests were made, wag almost entirely orderely. Many women participated. The protest was organ ized not so much against Soleillant as to express the voice of the populace against the wave of unspeakable crimes committed on little girls which lately has increased to an alarming degree and which, it is feared, tha commutation of the sentence of Sole illant will only stimulate. Several thousand persons were en gaged in demonstrations at various points of the city and especially large was the crowd in the Place Saint Ambroise, near which lived little Mar tha Eberding, the victim of Solell lant. The rage of the women of the district has been great since Presi dent Fallieres showed clemency to Soleillant. They assembled Sunday afternoon with their husbands and other of the sympathizers and were augmented In numbers by crowds of curious persons. Their orderly cries for justice were quickly changed to ertea of “death to Soleillant," and “down with Failures,” as the proces sion, led by a woman, who carried a little girl on her shoulders, with the purpose of indicating the object of manifestation, moved toward the Place de la Republique. Soon the streets were choked by a vast mob and the police reserves were called out to dis perse it. The paarde, however, as sembled again, and several of the more violent demonstrators were ar rested The newspapers of Paris are devot ing great space to the Soleillant case. Many of them loudly condemn ths failure of President Faillieres to per mit the law to take its course, and all of them agree that the commute tation of this sentence signifies the passing for ever of the guillotine from France. Some of the journals ex press the opinion that the escape of Soleillant from the guillotine only places a premium on crime. The entire question of crime will be taken up at the approaching ses sion of parliament, especially as Paris and other large cities are becoming alarmingly infested with another type of criminal known as “the apache,” who in the secluded sections, almost daily maim and rob and sometimes murder their vicitlms. Their weapons always are knives, and, gathering in bands, they often wantonly stab pedes trians and frequently policemen mere ly for the sake of stabbing. M. Touny, director of the Paris po lice, declared that his force was en tirely Insufficient to cope with the situation. He recommended the adop tion of corporal punishment for law*- breakers as an offset to comfortable and inviting prisons. GETTING READY FOR IMMIGRANTS. City Council of Savannah to Watch After New Comers from Austria. A committee from the Savannah city council is busily engaged in mak ing preparations for the immigrants that are expected to reach the city next month from Trieste, Austria. There will be about 170 in the party. They will be distributed throughout Georgia. Many of them, it is thought, will elect to go to the plantations, as they are of a class that has been largely devoted to agriculture. WOMAN KILLS ASSAILANT- Defends Honor by Shooting Man Who At tempted to Assault Her. News reached Woodville, Miss., Fri day of the fatal shooting of Nicholas Messenger by Mrs. Amanda Hum phreys in the country about four miles northeast of the town. Mrs. Humphreys used a revolver, Messenger dying al most immediately. Mrs. Humphreys appeared before a magistrate and was released on bail. It is understood she will plead the unwritten law, claimiug that Messen ger attempted to asault her. MANY MANGLED IN RAIL CRASH Fast Trains Come Together Dealing Grim Death and Destruction. 24 DEAD AND 27 HURT Horror Occurred on Boston & Maine Rail way and Was Result of Mistaken Or ders —Seene Was Frightful. A fearful head-on collision between the southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight train on the Con cord division of the Boston and Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canaan station, Vermont, early Sun day, due to a mistake in train dis patchers’ orders, and from a demolish ed passenger coach there were taken twenty-four dead and dying and twen ty-seven other passengers, most of them seriously wounded. Nearly all of those who were in the death car were returning from a fair at Sher brook, Quebec, 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight was given to understand that he had plen ty of time to reach a shling by the night operator at Canaan station, re ceiving, according to the superintend ent of the division ,a copy of the tel egram order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the train number 30 and 34. The wreck oc- curred just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track, but, owing to the early morn ing mist neither engineer saw the other's headlight until it was too late. The southbound train was made up at Sherbrook, where it picked up two sleepers from Quebec and two more on the way down. It consisted of the baggage car, passenger coach and smoking car in that order, with the sleepers in the rear. The train left White River June tiou, Vt., at 3:50 Sunday morning, for ty minutes late, and followed twenty minutes later by the Montreal Hx press over the Central Vermont. The Quebec express train is known as No. 30 and the Montreal train as No. 34. Meantime a northbound freight train known as No. 267 had arrived at Canaan, 18 miles down the road, at 4:10 a. m., on time. According to W. R. Ray, Jr., division superintendent, J. R. Crowley, the night train dis patcher at Concord, sent a dispatch to John Greeley, the night operator at Canaan, that No. 34 was one hour and ten minutes late. The order which Conductor Lawrence of the freight train showed after the accident dis tinctly states that No. 30 instead of No. 34 was an hour and ten min utes late. Conductor Lawrence, be lieving that he had sufficient time in the hour and ten minutes to reach the sidetrack at West Canaan, four miles beyond, before No. 30 reached it, ordered his train ahead. The su perintendent declared that the acci dent was due to the mistake in plac ing a cipher after the three in the number of the train instead of & four. One of those who escaped said that as the train was rounding a curve some one in front of the car began to sing so that nearly every one was awake when the crash came. Those who were in the other cars recovered their dazed senses, jumped out to the side of the track and hurried to the demolished passenger coach, where groaus, cries and shrieks were rend ing the air. Fortunately, with the engines off to one side, the wreckage did not take fire and add horror to the al ready dreadful scene. The train hands, ably seconded by the passengers from the sleeping cars, groped their way among the ruins and began the work of rescue. EXHIBIT BY GEORGIA MILLS To Be Made on Extensive Scale at Stats Fair in Atlanta. One of the features of the Georgia state fair will be a comprehensive ex hibit by the various Georgia mills, members of the Georgia Industrial As sociation. Letters have been sent out from tha Atlanta offices of the association to the 153 mills in the state which com prise the membership, requesting the owners of the mills to make their ox taibits at tke fair. ' THIEF COMES TO GRIEF Embezzler Letten Arrested While Contem plating Suicide—Spent Stolen Money On Negro Woman. Charles E. Letten, chief clerk in the office of the first district tax collec tor in New Orleans, who disappeared a few days ago, leaving a shortage of over one hundred thousand dollars, was discovered and arrested Thursday afternoon while standing on the bank of the Mississippi river attempting to summon up courage enough to jump in the water and commit suicide. He said he had started toward the water several times, but each time his cour age failed him. He made a full con fession. Letten said, when carried before the inspector of police and the grand jury, that he had spent the greater part of the money he had taken on a negro woman, who lives in a hand somely furnished house in the old French quarter of the city, and who is said to have bought considerable quantities of real estate. Letten says the greater part of the money he had given her had been invested in realty, only a comparatively small amount being devoted to her living expenses, and keeping up the house in which she lived. According to latest estimate made as tto Letten’s shortage, he was about $107,000 short in his accounts when he disappeared. In the meantime he said he had been hiding in the weeds along the river while the police of half a dozen southern cities were care fully watching every train and steam boat. Virginia Reed, the negress in the case, was at once arrested and held as a witness. An attempt will be made to indict her as a principal in the defalcation. Her will, a copy of which was obtained, showed that she had made provision to give much of the stolen money to a church and to an orphanage. Letten had only 83 cents in his possession when arrested. MILLIONAIRE GOURDAIN INSANE- Goes Daft in Atlanta Pen and is Sent to Asylum in Washington. Louis A. Gourdain, the millionaire, who lived for a while in New Orleans and. then in Chicago, but more, recent ly an inmate of the federal prison in Atlanta, was sent from the latter in stitution Thursday to the government asylum for the insane in Washing ton. Accompanying Gourdain was John Peterson, who also became in sane while in the Atlanta federal pris on. Peterson was serving a sentence for robbing the United States mails. They made the trip to Washington under the guard of a company of fed eral oAiders, headed by Deputy Mar shal Rinard. Louis A. Gourdain was a few years ago tried on the charge of using the United States mails for fraudulent pur poses. While his case was hanging fire he came into sudden fame by his dec laration that he would use a part of his great wealth in the erection of a private prison if the United States did not provide him with one. A short time afterwards he was sen tenced and sent to prison a few months ago, being transferred to the Atlanta federal prhon. JTAXABLE VALUE OF SOUTHERN In State of Georgia Fixed By Arbitration Board at $18,539,336. The value of the Southern system hi Georgia has been placed at $18,539,- 336 by the board of arbitration, com posed of Hon. Roland Ellis, represent ing the road; Commissioner Stevens, representing the state, and Judge Mil ler, as umpire. From this award Commissioner Ste vens dissented, claiming that it was too low. The figures were $3,655,383 over the returns of the company, and $7,960,664 under what the comptroller general had assessed the property. AID ASKED FOR STRIKERS. President Gompers Issues Assistance Call in Behalf of Telegraphers. As a result of a recent conference President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor will issue an ap peal for aid for the striking telegraph operators. “It will be,” said Mr. Gom per, “a general request to organized labor for assistance both financial and moral, in accordance with the pledge made at the recent meeting of the ex ecutive council of the federation.” THE SUNDAY SCHOOL international lesson com. MKXTS FOR SEPT. 22 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Death of Mopes, Dent. 34:M2 —Golden Text, Psalm 3—Memory Verses, 10-1«! —Commentary. One of the most pathetic events in the history of Israel is the death of Moses. For forty years he had watched, as a mother watches over her children, over the people of God. For forty years he had planned and hoped and prayed for the salvation of Israel. For forty years, the most conspicuous man of his day, he had led the people toward the land of promise. For forty weary, heavy laden, grievous years he had endured suspicion and calumny and cursing that he might guarantee the blessings promised of God to his people and to their children’s children. For forty years he had faced privation and suffering and sorrow for them and with them. Nurtured in a palace he had been conspicuously a man of God. With the entree to the court? of Egypt he had preferred to be a man of the people—his people. And yet after the bitterness and the buf feting and the deprivation he was denied entrance into the land of promise. Pisgah and no further. Its pathos is sublime. And yet, sad as the situation must have been, there could have been naught but joy in the soul of Moses. God called him to his reward after He had granted him the vision of the promised land as from Pisgah it stretched northward and southward, and westward to the sea. But He did not summon him until He had given him the vision. Moses died secure in the confidence that his effort had been availing. He must have died with a song of rejoicing upon his lips and a psalm of thanksgiving in his heart. It could not have been other wise. God took him to a larger re ward full of years and honors. Centuries had passed aw r ay since God first made the promise to Abra ham. Israel had suffered tortures under Pharaohs and hardship under the leadership of Moses. They had been tutored for Canaan in the hard schools of penury and want and toil. But they were about to enter into the realization and fulfillment of the promises of God and the dreams of their mighty leaders. God’s patience endured. The goal was at hand. The word of the Lord to their fathers was about to become effective And so it is ever with the promises of God. They are infallible. They never de lude. They are always profitable for encouragement and comfort. They never fail. Regardless of their mag nitude, their extent or their seeming impossibility, God always is able to fulfill them. He has given the world in Jesus Christ a wider and a grander promise than He gave to Israel through Abram. But He is able and willing to fulfill it so soon as human ity desires it to become effective and active. There is nothing impossible with God. Qod took Moses to Himself when Moses’ work was finished. God has a strange way of doing that with men of peculiar genius. He sent Moses to Israel w T hen Israel needed a Moses. He took Moses away from Israel when Israel needed a Joshua more than a Moses. Moses was blessed of God in his death as in his life. Many a man has attained to great success only to lose his lustre in his declining years. Moses was fortunate. He died at the zenith of his power. He is remembered as a man of pre-eminent ability. His re nown is as glorious as it is imperish able. Moses’ death marked the opening of a great epoch in the history of Israel. It emphasized the fact that many are prone to forget, now and then, that no man is so supremely valuable to the world that his place cannot be filled. Joshua was not Moses, but he was competent to carry on the mighty work to which Moses had dedicated his life. When Moses died God consecrated Joshua to do the work that was yet unfinished. And Joshua did it well. He was as much of a genius in his w r ay as Moses was in his way. And his capabilities came seasonably. God has a fashion of calling men seasonably. The great men of history have been the men who came in the fullness of time. Each fitted into the niche which God needed to be filled. A genius out of time, it would seem, is an impossi bility. For every mighty genius has performed a labor for God and hu manity that has wrought itself indel ibly into the fabric of the world’s life. The seventh verse tells us that Moses died in the pink of manly perfection at the age of 120 years. The lesson is obvious. Moses lived near to God. He kept faith in Him. He got his peace from Him. He obeyed the laws of God. Sickness is ancient, but it is not really neces sary. It can all be traced to viola tions of natural laws that, if obeyed, would insure us all a ripe old age. If a man can live without a day of seri ous illness for fifty years, as many men have, then by the same token a man can retain his health until he goes home to God simply from phys ical fatigue. Constitutional and in herited illnesses may be traced to an tecedent violations of natural law. The need is that humanity shall obey the will ol God. We were created for health and happiness. We were not born to sickness. God means chat we shall be able to enjoy life and Him. Only a well man can really ; »njoy life. We could all live in the i health of Moses if we lived according | to the mandates of the God of Moses.
