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THE GLAD HAND AND A HEARTY HOW D'YE DO
Were Given Railroad King When
He Arrived in Georgia.
BE 600 D TO HIM, SAID GUYT
He Was Wined and Dined and Made
Much of in the Big Cities of the
State. Says He May Spend Ten
Million Dollars Improving the Cen
tral Railroad, and May Also l)('-(
cide to Add the Seaboard to His
Collection.
Edward H. Harriman, the great
railroad king of the world and owner
of the Central of Georgia railway,
spent several days in Georgia last
week, visiting Augusta, Savannah,
Macon and Atlanta.
At all of these places he was en
thusiastically received and lavishly
entertained. Even the state govern
ment, which would have had a half
dozen duck fits and very likely called
out the militia to eject him from the
confines of the commonwealth had
he ventured down here two or three
Years ago, extended the glad hand.
Hon. Guyt. McLendon, who was once
alert in beating the tom-tom and
raising the cry of alarm whenever a
railroad Octupus was about (and
often when one wasn't), and the
representative of the administration
in matters pertaining to railroads and
railroad high-muck-a-mucks, gave
onut a statement to the press urging
and advising the people to receive
Mr. Harriman as a great man should
be received.
Behold! the Conquering Hero Comes.
Mr. McLendon, who is chairman
of the Georgia railroad commission,
proclaimed to the people that the
great railroad magnate is not dan
gerous, and not to mind about his
being a violator of the anti-trust law.
The woods are full of them. Two
men cannot agree on forming a part
nership without violating the ‘‘re
straint of trade’ provision, and the
thing is antiquated anvhow. Look
to the achievements of the great rail
road trusts, he said. Look at the
Pennsy]vani;'x railroad. It swallowed
up 150 corporations. Did it hurt
them? They are not complaining of
the fact if it did. Did it hurt the
boaconstrictor that deglutonized
them? It is a quarter of a century
since the “Penny” complained of
any pain or feeling of goneness in
its internals. It is feeling pretty
well now, thank vyou. Destoyed
competition? Oh, yes; it destroyed
some little competitors and created
some big ones. And then Mr. Mec-
Lendon quotes what the Inter-State
Railroad Commission said about this
man who swallows railroads at a
meal and yet will say nothing as to
how the trick is done:
“It has been, however, no part
of the Harriman policy to per
mit the properties which were
brought under the Union Pa
cific control to degenerate and
decline; as railroads they are
better property today, with low
er grades, straighter tracks, and
more ample equipment than
they were when they came un
der that control. Large sums
have been generously expending
in the carrying on of engineering
works and betterments, which
make for the improvement of
the service and the permanent
value of the property.”
And so the barriers fall. And the
conquering hero comes, and marches
through Georgia, not like Sherman,
with fire and sword, but with no
weapons but a smile backed by mil
lions. And everything and every
body capitulates before him.
Will Spend Millions If—
In Augusta at a banquet given in
his honor by the chamber of com
merce of that city Mr. Harriman |
outlined the policy of hisg I'aill'oadsi
in the state of Georgia, and in con- |
densed form they are as follows: 1
“If the people of the state will
cease to be antagonistic to the mil-?;
road interest he will spend ten mil-}
lion dollars on the Central of Geor
gia, of which road he is the controll
ing factor, and that if he improves
his property the other roads will have
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enjoy a drive in the open every
day and see how much sweeter your
wife's temper will be. Keeping in
doors too much makes one morbid,
and brings on “‘all the ills flesh is
heir to.” We have a superb stock
of up-to-date carriages for speedy
driving in style, or for family driv
ing, at prices that will prove at
tractive, Don't fail to see our line
before buying.
E. B. Durham & Co.
DAWSON, : GHEORGIA,
ito do likewise. His address was im
promptu, and he took up statements
}m" the leading speakers of the even
|ing and defined his future attitude
ifn this state.”
| Goo-Goo Eyes at the Seaboard.
|
{ The Washington Post says it is
iundm-st(md in financial circles of
{ Washington and DBaltimore that a
'scrious contest for control of the
| Seaboard Air Line has been entered
upon by the Williams family of Bal
timore on the one hand and E. H.
Harriman and ‘thomas F. Ryan on
the other. For some vears the con
trol of the road is supposed to have
lain between the Williams people and
Mr. Ryan, although the actual opera
tion of the property has been con
ducted by receivers.
Despite the differences which rose
between Ryan and Harriman over
the former's acquisition of the
Equitable Insurance Company it is
believed thev are working together.
Mr. Harriman is anxious for an out
let from wue central west to the At
ll:mtic seaboard. Besides the Illinois
Central the wizzard controls the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad, and it is
understood has acquired the street
railway of Augusta and Aiken.
The Seaboard will give him
through lines to New York, Phila
delphia and Baltimore, over the
Pennsylvania and Norfolk, and Sa
vannah and Jacksonville over his
own lines.
The Post says while in Georgia he
was quietly looking into the railroad
gituation of the south. |
MANY THOUSAND PACKAGES
UNCLE SAM'S WASTE BASKET
GETS A STRANGE COLLEC
TION IN A YEAR.
About 7,000,000 letters go astray
in the mails in the course of a twelve
month, and every one of them has to
be opened and examined, a task that
furnishes occupation for a big room
ful of clerks. Not a few of them owe
their fate to illegible addresses, and
these, if exceptionally hard to de
cipher, are handed over to a woman
employe who is famous for her skil
as a ‘‘blind reader.” Some of he:
performances in this line are nothins
short of marvelous. Once in a whil«
it happens that somebody mails a
cryptogram for a joke, affording a
problem of much difficulty. Care
lessness is responsible for a great
majority of the accidents. In the
course of a year about 30,000 let
ters containing money find their way
to the dead letter office, and it is
astonishing how many packages and
letters are posted without any ad
dress at all on envelope or cover,
writes Rene Bache.
It happens occasionally that peo
ple refuse to receive letters or par
cels addressed to them, and such ar
ticles eventually reach Uncle Sam's
capacious waste basket.
When it is considered that more'
than 100,000 packages of merchan
dise find their way to the dead let
ter cffice in the course of a year, it is
not surprising that many of the ar-|
ticles are strange and curious. Ap-l
parently there is nothing small
cnough to do up in a parcel that
people will not send through the
mails—not even high explosives, rep
tiles bottled in alcohol, or live ani
mals. All such things, as well as
fluids and “‘pointed instruments,’”’ are
classed as unmailable, and when rec
ognized are promptly confiscated.
As for live animals, only one kind
‘s allowed in the mail; namely, bees.
In these days a great many of the
little honey getters, mostly queens—
though sometimes the female is ac
companied by half a dozen work
ers—are shipped by post in small
wooden boxes of prescribed pattern,
a special indulgence in regard to
them being granted by law. They
are intended for breeding purposes:
and, quite naturally, consignments
of them turn up now and then at
the dead letter office.
Centipedes, tarantulas and horned
toads, both living and dead, are fre
quently received at the dead letter
office. People who visit Arizona us
‘ually consider it the proper thing to
send home a few horned toads, these
being regarded as a typical 10(-al‘
product, and now . and then they|
forward a Gila monster or two at
second class rates. A living rattlerfl
with nine rattles, which went astrayl
in the post, now reposes in a glass |
jar of alcohol, labeled “‘From Flori- |
da.” But the most alarming parcel
to date proved to contain 17 small
snakes, all squirming and = riggly.
Among the odds and ends in the
I(-()He('ti()n of curiosities are false
whiskers, brass knuckles, coffin
plates, wigs, poker chips, rat traps,
pocket cook stoves, dental instru
ments, pipes and tobacco, opium
pipes and packages of opium, corn
husking gloves, Kkitchen utensils,
musical instruments, spirit photo
graphs, starfish, petrified frogs, idols
from Mexico, silkworm cocoons and
baby alligators from Florida.
A relic somewhat out of the or
dinary is a revolver which was sent
in a package, at full cock, to a wo
man in Springfield, Ohio. All of its
six chambers were loaded, and that
it did not go off is a wonder. An
-lother oddity was a lock of hair for
-Iwarded by Charles Guiteau, the as
| sassin of Garfield, to a woman in
Cincinnati-——it was his own hair, by
'|the way—with a request that she
| contribute a thousand dollars for his
(defense,
Notwithstanding the regulation
forbidding the transmission of ex
plosives by mail large quantities of
j firecrackers and torpedoes, thus dis
lpatched, are confiscated. Most peo-
'QIL SUIT HAS BEEN COSTLY
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' Uncle Sam Spent Four Million Dol
' lars Trying to Kill Oil Trust,
{ But It Still Lives.
i An unprecedented record of cost
iin a single suit and a record of
{words of testimony never before ap
proached in a case prosecuted by the
}yfvdeml government were revealed
‘when the case the object of which
‘was to dissolve the Standard Oil
Company in New Jersey ended.
The testimony taken filled twenty
two printed books. The Standard
oil Company spent more than $4,000-
000 to defend itself and the federal
government spent about the same
amount in prosecuting. Sixty-nine
companies declared to be subsidiary
to the Standard Oil were involved in
the suit.
Exactly 192 witnesses were called
by the government and 140 by the
defendant. The testimony consists
of 4,500,000 words, a greater num
ber perhaps than any ever taken in
a trial by the United States govern
ment or any individual or corpora
tion. The Bible contains only 773,-
746 words.
If the tables of the government
and the Standard Oil be added to
the figures mentioned the addition
would be about 10,000,000 words,
submitted in print but unspoken. If
all the testimony were printed and
bound the volumes would be more
than seven feet high. The maps sub
mitted by the company are in four
colors, thus entailing great expense.
ple seem to think that it is the busi
ness of the postoffice department to
carry everything. One of the let
ters preserved is written on the jaw
bone of a dog, with a stamp affixed.
Likewise carefully preserved for
curiosity’s sake are packages of dried
herbs which were found to contain
dutiable articles. Smuggling through
the mails is frequently atempted, but
does not often succeed, because the
postal authorities co-operate with the
customs service in watching every
letter or bundle that can reasonably
be suspected of containing anything
contraband.
Nor Possum Supper Will Occur at Joe
Brown’s Inaugural. Democratic
Simplicity Will Be the Thing.
The Hon. Joseph M. Brown insists
upon an inaugural which will be
Jeffersonian in its simplicity.
Mr. Brown was nominated at the
Grand theater in Atlanta, and there
was a blare of trumpets and waving
of banners, but his inaugural will
not be dramatic. There will be no
spot light or red fire. The other
day Governor Ansell’s inauguration
in Columbia, S. C., took just thirty
minutes. Governor Brown proposes
to walk to the state capitol, take the
oath of office, make a short address
and enter the executive chamber
without more ado.
This will be disappointing to At
lanta. There may or may not be an
inaugural ball. There will be no
‘pbossum supper nor coon songs by the
clergy, nor interludes with “Georgia
Campmeeting.”” There will just be a
return to Jeffersonian simplicity and,
Joseph E. Brown’s judgment. Joe
Brown has been shaking the hand
of the yeomanry this week all the
way from Wilkes to St. Mary's. He
is making friends, and his demo
cratic programme for next June will
not make him any enemies.
Meanwhile he'has a big pointer for
Judge Taft. Since congress has cut
out the appropriation for automo
biles he can walk up Pennsylvania
avenue and be inaugurated on his
way to the golf links.—Savannah
Press.
CROWDING DOWN UPON HIM. \
Man Was Re-arrested as He Finished
a Term of Five Years.
“To hell with everything and
everybody,” yelled William Cox, who
was released the other day after serv
ing a five-year sentence from the fed
eral penitentiary near Atlanta, and
was immediately re-arrested to stand
trial at Columbus, Miss., and Savan
nah.
The exclamation was called forth,
by the fact of Cox’s having thought
that all the charges against him had
been grouped in the first trial, and
he had hoped to go forth and be a
better man.
When he came to the federal pris
on in Georgia he was a hardened
criminal. He thought the future con
tained no hope. But he came in con
tact with books and he conversed
‘with the chaplain. Both taught him
‘that his view of life was false —that
there was Yet a chance for the man
who wanted to do right. He was
convinced.
Then his release came, and as he
expected to begin the new life offi
cers re-arrested him.
Several charges of forging money,
orders exist against him in other
cities. He will be held for further
trials.
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Hexamethylenetetramine.
The above is the name of a German
chemical, which is one of the many
valuable ingrediente of Foley's Kid
ney Remedy. Hexamethylenetetra
mine is recognized by medical text
books and authorities as a uric acid
solvent and antiseptic for the urine.
Take Foley’s Kidney Remedy as soon
4s you notice any irregularities, and
tavoid a serious malady, Dawson
1I)I-ug Co. and People’s Drug Store.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
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“ Legal Notices. I
i In the District Court
!Of the United States for the North
| ern District of Georgia, West
| ern Division.
In the Matter of .J. T. Williams,
I Bankrupt, in Bankruptey.
|TO the Creditors of J. T. Williams of
' Dawson, in the County of Terrell
and district aforesaid, a Bankrupt:
' You are hereby notified that on the
?QSth day of January, A. D., 1909, the
'said J. T. Williams was duly ad
judged bankrupt, and that the first
‘meeting of his creditors will be held
in the court house in Dawson on the
110th day of February, A. D., 1909,
at the hour of 1 o’clock in the after
noon, at which time the said creditors
may attend, prove their claims, ap
point a trustee, examine the Bank
rupt, and transact such other busi
ness as may come before said meet
ing. B. T, CASTELLOW:
Referee in Bankruptcy.
For Administration.
Georgia, Terrell County.—To All
Whom It May Concern: B. F. Mel-=
ton having in proper form applied
to me for permanent letters of ad
ministration on the estate of Mrs.
Florella Cobb Turner, late of ‘said
county, this is to cite all and singu
lar the creditors and next of kin of
Mrs. Florella Cobb Turner to be and
appear at my office within the time
allowed by law, and show cause, if
any they can, why permanent admin
istration should not be granted to
B. F. Melton on Mrs. Florella Cobb
Turner’'s estate. Witness my hand
and official signature, this 16th day
of January, 1909.
W. B. CHEATHAM, Ordinary.
Notice of Local Legislation,
Notice is hereby given that at the
next session of the General Assembly
of Georgia an act will be introduced
to abolish the City Court of Dawson,
in Terrell County Georgia, said act
to be entitled: ‘“An Act to repal an
act of the General Assembly of
Georgia, approved Dec. 25, 1898, es
tablishing the City Court of Dawson
in and for the county of Terrell. And
to provide for the transfer of all
cases pending in said City Court,
when abolished, to such court in Ter
rell county having jurisdiction to
dispose of the same.”
“And further providing that the
said Act abolishing the said City
Court of Dawson shall not go jnto
effect and become operative when
passed until after an election has
been held by the people of Terrell
County, and a major'ty of the quali
fied voters of said county shall have
voted to abolish the same.”
““And further to provide the time
of calling said election and the man
ner of holding the same.”
Notice of Local Legislation.
Notice is hereby given that at the
next session of the General Assembly
of Georgia an Act wil be introduced
to abolish the City Court of Dawson,
in Terrell County, Georgia, said
Act 1o be entifled: *“‘An B¢t to re
peal an Act of the General Assembly
of Gergia, approved Dec. 25, 1898,
establishing the City Court of Daw
son in and for the county of Terrell.
“And to provide for the transfer
of all cases pending in said City
Court, when abolished, to such court,
in Terrell county having jurisdiction
to dispose of the same.”
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Notice of Dissolution,
Notice is hereby given that the
firm of J. C. Dozier, heretofore en
gaged in the livery business in Daw
son, Ga., and composed of J. C. Do
zier and C. C. Lundy, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, C. C. Lun
dy retiring. The business will be
continued at the same place by J. C.
Dozier, who will settle all firm lia
bilities and receipt for all debts due
the firm. This sth day of January,
1909. O, C.. LUNDY.
J:. C. DOZIER.
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Mules and Horses for Sale.
I also have for sale a carload of some of the best Horses
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Something Else, Too
In addition to the above I will keep on hand a plenty of (.
ton Seed Meal and Hulls, and will be glad to supply your needs
I will pay the highest market price for cotton seed.
J. Z. TUR.NER., A 4 Parrott, Ga.
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