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Official Organ Ben H?!l County.
Sixteen Million wen
Harnessed at Niagara
Power Greater Than
Combined Strength
All People In The
United States
Nisgara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 31.—
The average man is apt to speak
very glibly of so many hundred
thousand horsepower harnessed at
Niagara Falls, but it is doubtful if
one person in a hundred begins to
understand the tremendous conser¬
vation of natural resources affect¬
ed at the Falls without interfering
with the grandeur of the spectacle.
The 373,800 horsepower now
developed at the Falls is the equiva¬
lent of 16,776,000 man-power
working an eight-hour day, or
wore than the combined strength
of all ablebodied mep in the Unit-
ed States. j
Under the American-Canadian
treaty, promulgated by the two
nations to guard the scenic beauty
of the Falls for all time, only 56,-
000 cubic feet of water per second,
out of a total flow of 240,000 cubic
feet may be diverted from the
Niagara river for power purposes.
But even with this restriction,
when the treaty goes into effect
the force conserved by falling
water will be the equi"a!ent of
35,559,000 men working the aver¬
age eight-hour day.
Stupendous although this saving
is, it is nothing compared to the
full strength of the Falls. The
volume of water that will be per-
mitted to run, so as to
the beauty of the Fails, is
ed to represent 118.680,000 eight-
hour man-power or about 18,000,
,900 more man power than there
are men, women and children in
Abe United States and ull its pos-
sessions.
First M. K Church
Services next Sunday will he ns
follows: Sabbath School at 9:30 a.
m. Morning preaching at 10:45.
Sermon, ’ “The Touch of Faith.’
Children’s t class at 2:30 p. in.
Epworth League at 6.30 p. m.
Eveuiug preaching at i.30.
mon, “The Struggle of Self.”
, There will be good music at all
services; special music at
iug service. Orchestra at nigrlit.
The general pubiic, especially
strangers, will find a cordial
«nme at every service.
L. J. Hammond, Pastor,
I' n 19A9 the telegraph and tele-
phone companies, together with
similar concerns that use electric!
wires in this country, expended
over $7,000,000 in the purchase!
i‘ v .es.
HERE’S Hart Schaffrver & Marx S\iits and Overcoats | | vasa
Entire Line Men’s Odd Paints - - - - it
A Great f Your At reason-Present the Reach o\ir own of Tailor regular All. fit America’s better prices REST Clearance than Tailors CAN these WE CAN in this PRODUCE ?xre prices FAMOUS Cheap nothing pl<vcethem MAKE. 1 more enough worthy—nor within in can your all
Chance you
r SATURDAY Men's Suits and Overcoats \ Off, .now $.0.75
Men’s 520.00 Suits and Overcoats %; Off, now $15.00
to Save TUESDAY MONDAY - 6th 5tK Men Men’s s $15.00 ? ,80 ° suits Suits and and Overcoats Overcoats % % Off, “ ..now$ now $13.50 11.25
- Aten’s $12.50 Suits and Overcoats j * it ..now$ 9.38
Men HAWES The Spring Hats Gome in and $3 look them ERi»*E over—-fry on a Coat or two-See what these prices mean. W. R. BO^EN, I President
new Derbys
The new Soft Shapes J. \. MU3.PHY, Manager.
SE!Vfl-Wr.EKi .V
The Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD , j&EJV iv/LL COUNTY GEORGIA , FEBRUARY, 2, 1912.
A Trip To The East.
(Continued)
By Percy Ford Clark
But to reach the East! The
East! That magic word that sug¬
gests Oriental splendors and Ara¬
bian pageants; gorgeous temples
and magical arts! Not that East,
but a greater one! No antique re¬
minders of medieval splendor, no
glimpses of architectural deseu-
tude, but new ana beautiful monu¬
ments to onr own American skill
and genius!
New York! The metropolis of
the United States! I left Balti¬
more covered in a sdowy mantel
but New York nad cleaned house
before daylight and there was no
vestige of the flaky shower that
had fallen the night before. The
sun came out in brilliant splendor
and illumined the face ofthe earth,
I had been to New York before
and spent several wee. ;ts, but on
my recent trip, was more en¬
tranced and bewildered than ever
I stood at the dock at the foot of
Liberty Street for a few minutes
to take in the situation. I drew
one long deep breath, almost a
gasp as I began to count the sto¬
ries in the piles ot magnificent
buildings that greeted my eyes
Where does all the wealth come
from* It took money to build
these architectural montrosilies,
labor had to be paid, material sure¬
ly was not furnished gratis and
real estate in New York is of fab-
ulous price. You are overpower¬
ed with wonder at the prodigal
display of wealth that greets you
on every hand.
Going out to Broadway and down
that world renowned thorough¬
fare, I tooK in my mental vision
the wonderful Banks, Insurance
buildings and John D. Rockefel-
knv’s Standard Oil office. Yv ent
into a barbershop to groom my¬
self and found the appointments
palatial. While sitting in the bar¬
ber’s chair I noticed a beautiful
woman manicuring a gentleman’s
hands. Now I have never had my
hands manicured but I promise
you, had I ibe time to spare, would
have willingly and gladly broken
m y ru i e< Not that I am over-par-
ticular in regard to ray hands or
their celluloid tips, but—, well
y 0U understand, there are cases
w here we suddenly decide to be
u j ce an d ladylike.
j paid nay respects to our bank
ers aiic ( W as glad to learn that they
viewed the coming year with great
f avor an ,i anticipation. Ope of
the largest banks in New York
City, reported that not a Southern
bank had f aiie( j t0 |)fcy the r obii-
gations this past season. In the
face of the recent financial depres-
in this immediate section and
ArS SOUthera
Women
Mrs. Longstreet Writes
Ringing Appeal To
People of Georgia
Gainesville, Gn., Januray 29.—
To the Women of America: There
was a day when all the big guns
of the union army were powe. less
to frighten southern women. There
was a day when the fighting blood
of southern man was afraid of only
one thing, of not fighting and not
dying, if need be, for the right, as
God gave them the wisdom to
kn>w the right. In the half cen¬
tury after the civil war we of the
south are not writing the history
of the degenerate descendants of
1 heioic sires. As a peoole, we have
not sunk so low from an aesthetic
standpoint as to permit the brand
of commerce to be placed upon the
greatest natural moLument be¬
tween the Potomac and the Rio
Grande.
Today commercial vandals seek
I to destroy one of the richest natu-
ral assets of the western hemis-
phere, Tallulah Falls, m the moun¬
tains of northeast Georgia.
The loyalty and pride of country
of every patriotic American is ap
peah d to in the interest of
ing scenery grander than that over
which the flag of any other govern¬
ment floats, scenery which belongs
ml aione to Georgia and this gene¬
ration, but to the A me. lean naiion.
and lo all mankind to the end ol
time. there is no need of humani-
ty which calls for the destruction
of Tallulah Falls. There is ample
. the streams . of en Georgia ■ .
power in
turn all the mills and light all the
towns and pull all the trolleys of
the south, for u thousand .’- ears to
come. Corporation greed seel s
the destruction of Taliul ih that
gold may be piled into the
of :i few whose corporate wealth
already menaces our free iastitu-
lions.
Every southern worai n in whose
veins courses cue biood of the men
who followed Lee and his great
lieutenants over the battlefields of
the eivii war, who cannot be in¬
timidated, scared or silenced by
the loud talk of “big business,”
with its millions with which to
desolate and destroy the scenic
beauty of our land, is requested to
send mo her name immediately,
There was a day when the
and loyalty ofthe women of the
north braced the soul’s armor
their best beloved and sent them
to di3 on a hundred brilliant fields,
that all men might be free.
Every American woman who
loves the repu olic whose fl s -s
Cjlrunt and his miuhty armies kept
the skies, who believes it to be
J. L. McCarty
From tastern
Markets
Mr. JamesL. McCarty returned
Eastern Wednesday morning from the
Markets where he spent a
fortnight purchasing the opening
stock for the McCartv-Johnstone
Company, who are preparing to
open within a few days.
Thesle popular young men have
numerous friends am*ng the peo¬
ple of this city and adjoining ter¬
ritory who will beglad to Gontinu*
their business and social relations
with them, inasmuch as they
served them so well in their for¬
mer situations.
More Room For
The Empire Store
The Empire Mercantile Com¬
pany, one of the largest depart¬
ment stores in this and adjoining
counties, is preparing to make
1012 the most successful year of
their history, and to accomplish
this end they are enlarging the in¬
terior of their place of business.
The room which formerly has been
used for the grocery department
; will be added to the dry goods
and notions department making it
just twice its present size, and the
partition between the two rooms
is now being taken out, or rather
an arc:>way is being effected to
connect the
The grocery department has
been move! into the store room
just east of its former location,
and an arch way has been cut in
the new room connecting it with
the main body of the store. These
changes are much needed, for
without them, the Empire would
iJt; unable to get their large stock
.of spring and summer goods in
I the house, and they are now begin-
! [ be lin completed F to arrive. about The changes will
[ 1 in a week or
i such a matter.
j the duty of a Christian nation to
,
| preserve the natural resources of
the land for all the people, to
transmit equal conditions to the
future, to protect against commer
ciui vandalism the beauties of
wood and stream and waterfall,
created by Almighty (fed tor aii
mankind, is requested to communi¬
cate with me immediately.
There was a day when the men
who followed Grant and Sherman,
Sheridan and Sickles under the
ioar of tnis nation’s heavy artillery,
would have gathered about spots
like Niagara and Tallulah, and the
mints of the world couldn’t have
enough money to buy one
of their waters. Men of
America, sons of what deserves
■ the namo of the great American
repubblic, what of your manhood?
The fighting quality did not die in
vour veins with the last swerd
that wis sheathed in the gloom
and glory of Appomattox,
Helen D. Longstreet.
President Tallulah Falls Conserva¬
tion Association.
Eject
Albany, Jan. 31.—The first an¬
nual meeting' of the Woman’s Mis¬
sionary Society of the South Geor¬
gia Conference, Methodist Episco¬
pal church, south, came to an end
last night, after having been in
session since last Friday night.
The convention concluded with
the election of officers yesterday
afternoon and an address by Miss
Mattie Perry, of North Carolina
last night. Columbus was chosen
for the next meeting, to b« held
probably next May.
The following officers were elect¬
ed for the ensuing year:
President—Mrs. G. W. Mat¬
thews, of Thomasville.
First Vice President — Mrs.
Claudia McKennon, Eastman.
Second Vice. President—Mrs. J.
M. Fagan, Savannah.
Thiid Vice President—Mrs. II.
M. Moody, Valdosta.
Fourth Vice President—Mrs. S,
L. High. Brunswick.
Corresponding secretary, Home
Department—Mrs. E. J, Peacock,
Macon- -■
Corresponding Secretary, For¬
eign Department—Mrs. S. W.
Hitch, Waycross.
Treasurer, Foreign Department
— Mrs. H. W- Pittman, Macon,
Treasurer, Home Department -
Mrs. H, E. Wilson, Savannah.
Recording Secretaries — Miss
Eunice Whitehead, Macon: Mrs.
.J. S. Betts, Ashburn.
Superintendent Press and Editor
Advocate Column— Mrs. \Y. D.
Sandwich, Albany.
Superintendent Literature—Mrs.
F. C. Mcllee, Valdosta.
Superintendent Suppli s—Mrs.
A. ,). Shearhouse, Savannah.
District Secretaries—Americu s,
Mrs. N. A. Kay, Americas; Col¬
umbus, Mrs. Dan Huff, Columbus;
Cordelc, Mrs. I 1 '. M. MuUino,
Vtontezuma; Dublin, Mrs. D. G.
Blount, Wrights! iile; Macon, Mrs.
George Watson, M»con; McRae,
Mrs. Hal Lawson, McRae; Savan¬
nah, Mrs. Geoige Kilpatrick,
Waynesboro; Thomasville, Mrs.
W. E Gannaway, Albany; Val¬
dosta, Mrs. Joseph Mabbett, Quit-
man; Wavcross, Mrs. Oliver Mur¬
phy, Waycross.
The meeting here was largely
attended, 150 delegates represent¬
ing ail the districts and most of
the important churches in the dis-
tfict being present.
Missionary Meeting.
There will be a devotional meet¬
ing of the Woman’s Missionary
Society of Central Methodist
Church next Monday afternoon at
3 o’clock. The meeting will be, at
the church and a good attendaece
is earnestly requested.
Official Organ of Ben
Hit: Couniv. 51.59
a Year.
VOL. XVII. NO. 7
Excavations Are
Now Completed
For Stooge and Floor
Of New Opera House
Work on the Miller & Ricker
Opera House is progressing at a
lively clip, and now that the six
foot excavation for the stage has
been completed and brick masons
have Ixsgun laying the foundation,
interest in the new opera house
will coutinue to increase until it is
finished which will be about the
first of April.
From the present outlook Fitz¬
gerald is to have an opera house
and auditorium large enough to
accommodate the larger shows
that come this wav and next sea-
son the theatre goers of the city
will have a better opportunity than
ever of seeing good plays without
the expense of taking a trip to At¬
lanta or Macon.
The stage ot the new opera
house will be 26 feet deep and will
have a curtain width of JO feet,
and the first floor will have a seat¬
ing capacity of 1)00, besides a gal-
lory that will seat 250 people.
The "Twins” Gale
On Pine Street.
Up-to-data Restaurant
Has Been Opened
By the Hogsed
Twins
The‘Twins’Cafe has been o-
pened at 217 East Pine street,
three doors east of the Aldine
Hotel, and is unquestionably the
m jst up-to-date restaurant that
has ever been opened in Fitzger¬
ald-
Messrs E- L- and E. S. Ilogi-td,
the prop) ietor.3, are gentlemen
who have had years of experience
in the catering business and are
without a doubt on to (heir job.
The “Twins’ Cafe” is equipped
with brand new furnishings,
which includes one of the hand¬
somest marble soda founts in the
city, and the whole presents a
spotless appearance- It is indeed
the acme of neatness and clean¬
liness, and there i3 no reason
why the “Twins” shouldn't do
an extensive business. Those
who patronize the “Twins” will
find them most courteous gentle¬
men to deal with, and the service
which they give will be as good
as the best.
Mr. H. G. Powell has purchased
the Dixon Warehouse on Central
Avenue.