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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1909)
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M. 22 Atlanta .... 6 00 10 Atlanta . . . . 6.30 15 Brunswick . . . 6.55 29 Columbus ... 9.30 b—Nos. 13 and 14 stop on signal to receive or discharge passengers to or from points beyond Jesup and Chattanooga. ■ ' " "4 ~~~ ———. Nos. 7 and 10 handle through Pullman drawing-room sleeper between Macon and New York. Nos. 13 ard 14 handle through Pullman drawing-room sleepers between Jacksonville, Cincinnati and Chicago, and between Brunswick and Colorado Springs. Nos. 15 and 16 liandlo through sleeper between Macon and Asheville, N. C. G. R. PETTIT, T. P. A., Macon, Ga. C. H. ACKERT, S. 11. HARDWICK, V.-P. and G. M. P. T. M. Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. V H. F. CARY, J. L. MEEK, G. P. A. A. G. P. A. Washington, D. C. Atlanta. Ga. NORMAN BUGGIES. Our motto for 14 years has been—not how cheap but how good our Vehicles are built for the man who believes the best is the cheapest, in the long run experience teaches that cheap buggies are the most If you agre&witli us on this point ask your dealer to show you a NORMAN. We believe today we build the best buggy in Georgia, and want you to know it. Built on correct propor tions of best material, beautifully designed and finely finished. Top Bnggies, Runabouts and Stanhopes. If your local dealer cannot sup ply you, write direct to MORGAN BUGGY CO., Inc., Grffin, Ca 3TGCKBRIDGE WAREHOUSE CO. Will store your Cotton FREE for 30 Days. Insurance Rates : 10c. per month.] Storage after 30 Days 25c. per month for foui months; Balance of the Year FREE! P iW'SEHD US YOUR COTTON! No. Departs To A, M, 14 Jacksonville . . b 12.20 13 Cincinnati . . . b 4.30 30 Columbus . . . 6.10 16 Brunswick . . . 8.46 7 Atlanta .... 9.38 21 Atlanta .... 10.-00 P. M. 22 Col. &Ft Yal. . . 6.00 10 Macon ..... 6.30 15 Atlanta . . . . 6.55 29 Atlanta .... 9.30 FINANCES INVESTIGATED State Confronted by Estimated Deficit of $728,565. NEW FISCAL SYSTEM NEEDED Appropriations Are Made Year or More Ahead, While Money Is Collected a Year Late. Atlanta, Ga.—The expert account ants employed by Governor Brown io look Into the state's financial af fairs have madeth eir report. This fairs have made their report. Tins gia is steadily running behind in its finances. The relation of outgo to in come is far from being accurately ad justed. Unless its fiscal operations are speedily reformed, the state will get deeper and deeper in the hole. The estimated deficit on January 1, 1910, according to this report, will be $728,560.50. The bulk of the state’s revenue does not begin to come in until the fall of each year. The tax books close on De cember 20, but tax collectors have from then until April 20 following to make their returns to the state treas ury. Some counties invariably hold back remittances utnil even a later date. Tnis means that the state requires from twelve to sixteen months from January 1 of each year to collect the money to run the government during the year. The amount of kiting which the state must do to meet this situa tion would shame an impoverished bank clerk. in an effort <o get all the light,pos sible on the situation, Governor Brown recently ordered a detailed invest! a tion into the state’s financial affairs. The contract was given to one of the leading firms of accountants in the south. After a thorough investigation of the state’s fiscal operations and system of bookkeeping, they have made a report which Governor Brown has given out. This report shows that for the year 1908 the state spent the sum of $Bl,- 878.68 in excess of its income for that year. For the present year tl« excess of appropriations over-estimated rev enue* is put at $232,21)8.14. In other words, ihe state treasury is now out $314,086.18. The reason for this deficit grows out of the fact that, appropriations are made in advance and on the basis of estimated revenue. The legislature usually counts on a certain increase in tax receipts growing out of the in creased valuation of property. Some times the general assembly overshoots the mark. Then a deficit results. As a matter of fact, the income re ceived from the rental of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, from inspection of oil and fertilizers, and from special taxes, furnished enough to keep up the legislative, executive and judicial establishments. Then the governor is authorized to borrow $200,000 to meet casual deficiencies. But there is never enough money in hand to pay the teachers of the state their salaries when due. As usual, they must wait until the tax returns begin to come in during December. To cor rect this situation, Governor Brown would have the constitution of the state amended so as to permit an is sue of $600,000 of bonds to put the state on its feet. RATE INCREASE ON liEOROI AROAD. After Nov. 1, Passenger Fares Will Be at Rate of 2 1-2 Cents. Atlanta, Ga. —The Georgia Railroad will, beginning November 1 next, charge 2 1-2 cents per mile for trans portation of passengers over its line instead o fthe 2 1-4-cent rate, hereto fore charged. Authority for this increase was granted by the railroad commission of Georgia by a unanimous vote. The Georgia Railroad has made several attempts to have the railroad commission grant it authority' to charge a 2 1-2-cent rate, but has here tofore been unsuccessful. In its pe tition it sets forth that a rate of 2 M cents was unreasonably low, and not fairly compensatory; that the Central of Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line and other roads serving the same territory were allowed to charge the higher rate. Mr. Candler in his decision dismiss es the claim of discrimination grow ing out of the lower rate which the Georgia Railroad is now permitted to charge, as compared with other roads in that territory. He holds the argu ment untenable and sets forth that the commission fixes rates on “each road” in the state. He shows that different freight tariffs are charged and no claim of discrimination is made on that account. REMEDY FOR SAN JOSE SCALE. Black Fungus is Said to Be Enemy of Dreaded Pest. Atlanta, Ga. —In the accidental dis covery of the black fungus, peach growers believe they have at last found a successful remedy for the San Jose scale, one of the worst foes of the orchard. This fungus was first discovered in Florida, where orange growers used it in combating a certain infection in their groves. It grows on the limns of trees, and produces a light feathery growth which the wind blows to other trees. . This growth, 'bus blown by the wind, lands on th< scale-infected trees and kills the scale. Hitherto orchardmen have depended on spray's to kill the scale. This method is not infallible, and is very expensive. The fungus eliminates ex pense and works its own cure with out aid. . MW —Cartoon by G. W illiams, in the Indianapolis News. ELECTRICAL SHOCKS TO DESTROY EVERY WARSHIP AFLOAT Lewis Nixon Says Currents Flashed Through Air is Battle Method of Futurc-No Danger From Airships—Destruction So Terrible That Nations Will Re Forced to International Peace. New York City. Lewis Nixon, shipbuilder, graduate of the United States Naval Academy and for several years one of the chief constructors of the American navy, flouts the theory that the airship in any of its forms will become a formidable war ma chine. Instead, Mr. Nixon believes that the death-dealing terror of the war of the future will be the electric shock. This conclusion has been forced upon his judgment by a careful study of the subject of new war a s encies and by closely watching the manoeu vres of the Wright, aeroplane as it sailed up the Hudson and circled the representatives of the world's great est. navies. In Mr. Nixon’s opinion warships can guard against the danger of ex plosives that might be dropped upon them by airships by specially pre pared armor. He believes, though, that sooner or later there will be per fected a gun or some other piece of mechanism for hurling a thunderbolt that will shock to death every man aboaid a warship, irrespective of its protection. “I am convinced,” said Mr. Nixon to a reporter, “that the thing could be done now, but the mechanism is so crude that the thunderbolt, or elec tric impulse, would kill the man who should release it. as well as the en emy. It is possible, of course, that some foreign nation already has per fected the .necessary machine with which to hurl this deadly bolt. I hope, however, that it has not been done.. When the principle is mast ered the result will make war so hor ribly destructive that the human race, through the sheer force of nature’s first law self-preservation will abolish war. “The aeroplane is mainly interest ing now on account, of the fact of what may grow from it. Possibly we shall see them like swarms of giant locusts flying over and beyond armies, to occupy positions and to cut off Communications. “For purposes of observation they will be of great use. The helicopter, owing to its smaller dimensions, seems best adapted to such uses, especially to he carried on men-of-war. “Insofar as I can see, the dirigible, which will combine much that the aeroplane is now proving out, is the ship of the future. “Count Zeppelinhasalready crossed STARVING ESKIMO SEAYS HIS CHIED. St. John’s, N. F.—Tragedy in the Icy wastes of the Far North formed the burden of t.he news brought to this port by the Hudson Bay Com pany's steamer Adventure, which ar rived with the crew of the lost Dun dee whaler Paradox, in the story of an Eskimo, driven to cannibalism by starvation, who ate his child and shot several neighbors who attempted sum mary punishment. The Paradox, one of the fleet of Dundee whalers, met the fate of her companion ship, the Snowdrop, which was crunched in the merciless jaws of the ice floes off Baffin Land early in August a year ago. The crew, with scanty provisions, made their perilous way over the broken Ice toward the mainland and were picked up by the EXPERTS TO AaIVJ.SE PITTSBIKG. Pittsburg. The Pittsburg Civic Commission, fathered by Andrew Car negie and H. C. Frick, announces that soon there will arrive in Pittsburg one of the most important and high priced trio of experts to be had in the coun try for the purpose of giving advice on Pittsburg's had street car system, her river front and on plans for lay ing out the $500,000 park which Frick has given the city of Pittsburg through his daughter Helen. Those who have been employed to come at a salary of SBOO a day ago are Bion J. Arnold, of Chicago; James R. Free man, of Providence, and Frederick Law Olmstead, of Boston. Mr. Arnold, who is an expert on street railways, will do his best to the Alps and made long voyages against adverse conditions in all sorts of weather. His airship is larger than the steamship of thirty years ago and more speedy than those that are now crossing the ocean in record breaking time. I look to see airships of the Zeppelin type half a mile in length. They will not come down to the earth any more than the Mauretania will anchor in a shallow stream, hut will he anchored up in the air, possibly a thousand feet or more. “Explosives will not be dropped down, as you could not hit a tug with an apple from the Brooklyn Bridge, which is only 130 feet high. Electri cal guns will he used, of course, and heavy ones like our present powder guns. “Ships at anchor will send up bal loons or kites to carry special illum inants, and in time of war the heavens all around will he brilliantly lighted with special forms of rockets. “Men-of-war will be protected best by special armament for attacking air craft. The airship, however, will rap idly develop as a peaceful device and will soon he as much a necessity of modern civilization as the automobile. “The attraction of gravitation, be ing a condition of matter, may soon be comprehended in such a way that the repulsion which some way or some how balances attraction may be utilized to miifl's advantage. “The gas engine lias made the air ship possible. Years ago the French found that each horse power could lift thirty-two pounds, so as much as we develop our horse power below this weight so much net lifting power shall we gain. “But you asked me as to the mili tary possibilities,” continued Mr. Nixon. “We are on the eve of a tre mendous and far-reaching change in warfare. As long ago as 1900 I pointed out that soon thunderbolts would be thrown. The significance of a news item published about a year ago of a man receiving a shock which nearly proved fatal while talking over a wireless telephone was not then fully appreciated. It would be possi ble at the present day to shock to death every man on a vessel at five miles distance, but so far the impulse cannot be projected at any one mark. But direction and aiming will be mas tered after a while, and then thun derbolts will be thrown just as shells are thrown now.” Hudson Bay Company’s steamer Peli can, which took them to Fort Church ill, where they remained until the ar rival of the Adventure on her regular fall trip. The Adventure also brought several missionaries, surveyors and prospectors from the Northwest coun try. The Adventure’s report of the can nibalism says the Eskimo’s fishing and hunting season had been a fail ure, and. driven mad by hunger, he cut the throat cf one of his children and then ate the litcle victim. When the man's neighbors learned of the crime they attacked him, according to the primitive law of their race. The outcast hast off all assaults, shot sev eral of the attacking party and es caped into the wilderness Of ice. I figure out a way in which the trans | portation facilities of Fittsburg can I he bettered, it is conceded that the j street car service is about the worst lin the country. Mr. Freeman is the hydraulic engineer who n President | Taft is said to have paid SSOO daily for making the trip to Panama, and he will take up the matter of Pitts burg's water frontage and suggest ways and means of saving the city ' millions yearly lost through the riv i ors' overflow. Mr. Olmstead will tell the people of Pittsburg how they can best beautify the park land giren them by Frick. It is understoed that Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Frick share caually the SSOO a day paid to this ' trio of experts.
