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WEATHER FORECAST FOR QEOROlAi SUNDAY FAIR, COLDER IN EAST PORTION; MONDAY INCREAS.
ING CLOUDINESS WITH RAIN IN NORTHWEST PORT'ON, LIGHT TO FRESH NORTHWEST WINDS
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ESTABLISHED IN 1828.
MACON, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER l\, 1904.
0AILY--«7.00 A YEAR
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= Grand
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Holiday S
hoppi
mg Opportunities =
‘ OUT-OF-TOWN CUSTOMERS wilt find
our mail order department a profitable and
satisfactory medium through which to do
their Christmas shopping. Express prepaid
on all orders amounting to as much as $5.00
Appropriate and Useful Christmas Gifts “SEEdS? and ve "ive
something that will serve for more than the mere idea of a present.
MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT, under
perfect management. Our mail order de
partment offers exceptional advantage.- to
ont-of-iown customers. Free delivery of
all orders amounting to as much as $5.00.
GVvnsftmas
Always Appropriate
• Always Useful, 9
Always Acceptable.
We place out for special selling tomor
row morning 250 high grade Umbrellas,
for men and women ; made up expressly for
us. 26 inch frames, steel rod, paragon
frames, with patent runners; mounted with
natural, Sterling or Gold handles. It is an
offering of Holiday Umbrellas at clearance
sale prices—an offering quite extraordinary
at this stage of the holiday campaign. It
comes about through special purchase of
Umbrella handles—the sample line of one
of the largest manufacturers. There are
250 new designs and practically all differ
ent. We had them fitted to umbrellas made
according to our own specifications—built
with Paragon frames and covered with
various grades of silk in keeping with the
grade of handles. That the handles are so
widely varied" it is manifestly impossible to
give details. Price detail is’ the more im
portant :
$10.00 value, pure silk Taffeta, (h / QQ
tape edge 4)tT»OQ
$7.50 value, pure silk. Taffeta <FQ /Q
tape edge 4)0.40
$5.00 value, pure silk, Taffeta QQ /Q
tape edge 4)&<40
$1.50 value, Gloria or Corola $1.00
The most exclusive line of high grade
Bags ever shown in this market arc now
op display and priced especially for Christ
mas buying—all the finest leathers, repre
senting the best style ideals of modern
manufacturers arc included from QQC
50 cents each up to 4)mQ
too ‘Bags of good quality leather;
braided or strap leather handles; browns,
tans and blacks; 75 cents C A
values for » DUG
$1.25 values, good quality leather; black,
brown and tan braided leather or QQ _
strap handles, each sJOC
Exclusive novelties designed for the
holiday trade, all colors and various designs
finest grade leather, $1.50 each, *
up to '
$25
Another Wonderful Sale Ladies Suits
WITH STYLE LEADERSHIP UNQUESTIONED
WE OFFER THE GREATEST VALUES
In fact the most attractive winter garment
proposition of the season is now before you.
150 Tailored Suits representing’ the newest
and best styles ideas of America’s foremost
manfacturers will he placed on sale tomorrow,
including* 27 inch tight fitting*, seini-tig*ht,
loose back and 22 inch blouse effects in colors
most sought for. These garments are splend
idly man tailored of fine Cheviots, Broadcloths
and stylish mixtures and by honest comparison
surpass all former values however great they
might have been. These have been divided
into four lots at the following* prices:
$8.98
Values Up to $15.
$12.50
Values up to $20
$17-50
Values up to $30
$25.00
$25.00
Values upto $37.50
Imported and Domestic Novelties.
This is a holiday showing made in our
Belt department—a display of bells that will
not come amiss to those who would include
such articles among their gits—all good
colors mid desirable styles are included and
prices range from 25 cents cathtfjQ £ A
up to 4)0. QU
TioWs
Our special sale of Dolls for next week
will be a feature that every mother and child
in Macon will he interested in. Dolls with
kid bodies and Bisque heads, QT C A
closing eyes, 25 cents each to. ..4) l.uil
Woolen Dress Goods Remnants in black , > Vas '» b ' e 1 Dress Good, in lengths suit-
able and styles desirable for women s waists,
and all colors; lengths suitable and styles kinionas and children’s dresses. Percales,
desirable for skirts, waists and children’s Outings, white goods and cotton suitings
, . . , ... , , thrown on the bargain counter to be sold
dresses at a saving of from one-third to at a sacrifice . Bargains can be had if early
one-half on, original price. selections are made.
Wonderful Values in Fine Furs
FURS, like jewelry, are useful, ornamental and lasting—and
like jewelry, should be Imught from only reputable dealers upon
whose guarantee you can implicitly rely. For there is no article
of merchandise that the average trade know less almut. Our
■collection includes only the best and most reliable kinds-in shapes,
most sought for this season. Smal neck pieces up to the long
scarfs in Isabella, Sable Fox, Black Fox and I.ynx. t Wvf\ DO
Muffs to match, $2.50 each up to
Trasses CA\MTeA\'s CVoaks
More than a hundred new and stylish Coats for misses ami
children in sizes from 4 to 14 years in fine Kerseys, fine Chevi'.s
and stylish mixtures; attractively trimmed and elegantly tailored.
$5-00
Values up to
§7.50
$8.50
Values up to
§12.50
$10.00
Values up to
§15.00
Gloves as Christmas presents arc always
acceptable and shows good judgment and
taste on the part of the giver. Only reput
able makes arc represented in our depart
ment, each and every pair carrying with
it a guarantee that insures the wearer
against dissatisfaction.
S1.00 per pair. $1.50 per pair.
FOSTER LACE FOSTF.R LACING
One Clasp Pique Two Clasp Trcfousc.
*K&\x> SvVks
Silks that are right in style and quality
at a popular price, always find ready buyers,
new additions to our line enable us to offer
the best values obtainable at the price quot
ed. Popular browns, blues, garnets, gun-
mteal and black, in small, neat effects, for
waists and shirt wdists suits; for
next week’s selling, per yard
^&xvAkerc\\ve^s
The space given over to our Holiday
Handkerchief business is four times the size
of our regular Handkerchief department.
Our aim in quadrupling the selling space is
to establish a new high record for Xmas
business — conditions could not be more
favorable. The assortment includes men's,
ladies' and children’s Handkerchiefs; plain
white, colored bordered and embroidered
from S cents each up to
each
Children’s colored bordered or plain white I
Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, /C A _ j
5 cents eacit to IUC
Children’s colored bordered or white
Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, neatly Qf" „
boxed, at per box fcixlC
Ladies’ Embroidered Handkcr- Jrt
chiefs, assorted styles, each I UC
Ladies’ Hemstitched Embroidered A C
Handkerchiefs, all linen I
Ladies' Hand Embroidered Hand;
kerchiefs, I Icnistitchcd borders.
Ladies' Hand Embroidered Handker
chiefs, hemstitched Imrdcrs^lcgrmt CA
designs, all pure liijcir, each OUC
Ladies' ajJWitTcn Embroidered Handkei
chiefs, laefborders, 50C
Ladies’ very sheer hand embroidr
Handkerchiefs, hemstitched bord<
ers, each 75c, $1.00 to
Men's piain hemstitched Hand- A A
kerchiefs, full size, each I UC
Men’s all linen hemstitched At\ 1/
handkerchiefs, each it* /2C.
Men's fine, all-linen hemstitched PA
Handkerchiefs, each 25c, 55c, up to OUC
125c
:$i.50
\Los\.e,r\j Sa\e
.me
Ribbed
15c
45c
nty-fivc 1
Cheviot,
ixtures that wc
12.50
Seventy-five new and stylish Suits of
Pebble Cheviot, plain Cheviot, Broadcloth
and Mannish Mixtures that were formerly
$18.50; to close next week
at
Children’s Fast niack Ribbed I h
worth 19 cents per pair; sizr.s
6 to 7 l /t; to close out at ..'..'...
Boys' and Misses' Fast Black Ribbed
Hose; sizes fi to 7^ ; worth
25 cents per pair, to close at
Ladies' Fast Black Lisle Thread QP
Hose, line gauze, all sizes per pair. xOC
Ladies' fine galtzc cotton or Lisle Thread
Hose, put up in neat boxes, 3 <£4 A A
pair to the box, for 4H.UU
Ladies’ fine Lisle Thread and Silk Hose,
lace effects and embroidered, QQ AA
50 cents per pair to 4)0. UU
Itmas H&cVm&r
The latest and best style creations of the
most reputable makers are here in wonder
ful variety and represent the colors most in
demand: Embroidered Turnovers, Em
broidered Stocks, Flain Four-in-hands
Lace and Chiffon Jabots, Tailor-Made
Stocks and Windsors, 25 cents
cacti, tip. to
$2.50
FIGHTING FLAMES
IN FIREPROOF BUILDING
Means Taken to Make Safety Absolute
—Automatic Watchmen in Hotel
Rooms—Fire Doors Which May be
Closed by Turning of a Distant
Crank—A Hots’. Firs Department
With a Private Elevator.
NEW YORK. Dec. 10.—To provide
the means of fighting fire In fireproof
buildings seems like carrying coals to
Newcastle y*t architects, engineers
and Inventors are uniting In the work
of safeguarding the non-inflammable
structure from the danger of the
flames. These elaborate precautions
are taken because, while the building
Itself will not burn, draperies and fur
niture are combustible and. therefore,
lire may originate even in the‘fire
proof building. On the other hand,
modern methods of construction and
the use of many wonderful devices for
giving an alarm can be so employed as
to make it practically impossible for a
Are In a towering office building or
grest hotel to gain any headway be
fore ft is extinguished. In fact as
theatres may be so constructed as to
render a repetition of the Iroquota dis
aster impossible, hotels may also be so
built that there can occur In them no
such Are as that which several years
ago cost a number of lives In a New
York hotel which was. so far as the
building Itself was concerned, practi
cally fireproof.
The $7,000,000 Hotel Astor. as it is
the latest addition to this city's great
hotels. Is peihaps the best example of
twentieth century means of prevenfng
and fighting fire. In the planning of
such a building, the arrangtment
staircases and exits is as carefully
considered with reference to fire si
the building Itself was composed
Inflammable material. In this case, the
architects. Clinton St Russell. Intro
duced some novel ideas, as the result
of which the hotel may In one way be
compared to a vessel. The battleship
or ocean liner Is divided Into a great
number of wnter-tlght compartments
and In case of danger a single man by
moving a lever Is able to close all the
doors between the compartments.
In this building there Is a somewhat
similar system. Staircases are shut In
by walls and the long corridors are di
vided Into sections by doors. Ordi
narily. the doors giving actesa to the
stairways* and those In the corridors
are open, but should the fire alarm
give its warning In the office on the
street floor, the clerk by the tu^n of a
crank, cauaes nil the doors to swing
■hut. They do not lock; people can
push them open and pass through, but
the doors left to themselves immedi
ately close again. As a result. In case
of fire, the smoke which Is more to be
i dreaded than the flame, is kept from
spreading through the building. An
other evidence of the rare architects
nowadays bestow upon details Is shown
by the location of the paint and car
penter shops In the Astor. They are
In what are practlcal’y separate build
ings on the roof and their contents
might bum up without damage to the
hotel Itself.
One of the greatest safeguards
against the spread of fir* is the placing
of a watchman In every room—a
watchman on duty every hour of the
twenty-four and one who never sleeps.
Suppose a guest’ carelssly allows
lighted cigarette to irop on the floor
as he U leaving his room. He lock
the door and goes his way while a puff
of flames turns into tongues of fire
licking at the draperies and spreading
to the other Inflammable content
the apartment. Before the smoke in
the corridors or the crackling of the
flames is heard, the watchman has
given the alarm and the fire fighting
appliances are brougnt into action.
The watchman Is in automatic fire
detector. It consists of a thermostat,
with an attachment known as an hid*
ivumzla diaphragm about the slxc cf a
flve-oent piece, airtight and Ailed'with
ammonia. A thermostat In located in
the ceiling rt each room and Is con
nected by w*re» wf»!i on annunciator
In the hotel office. Should a fire-break
out in any room, the arrmonfa in the
diaphragm begins to boll as soon an
the heat reaches a temperature of ISO
degrees, expanding th^ diaphragm and
closing an electrical circuit; thus au
tomatically an instant alarm Is given
and a red light glows In a tiny bulb
In the annunciator corresponding to
the number, of the'room.
Directly this alarm is given, the
hotel clerk, by merely moving a lever,
closes every door leading to the stairs
and elevator enclosures, and thus pre
vents draughts from carrying the
smoke and flaihes to any other part of
the building. The boiling if the am
monia in the thermostat noi only In
dicates Jhe whereabouts of the fire on
the signal board In the main office,
but it also rings a gong In an elevator
In the engine room. This elevator is
used to carry a corps of ten specially
drilled fire employes to the floor from
which the alarm comes. As the ap
paratus stands always ready ror In
stant use In one of the city's fire en
gine houses, so this elevator is always
nt the disposition of the fire squad.
Its use for any purpose except the
answering of alarms of fire Is forbid
den. The men who rush to It when the
gdng rings are all employed in the
engine room und take their orders from
4 Are captain. They are provided, of
course, with Are extinguishers, axe
and hooks. Coupled to the standpipes
on every floor are the lines of hose
ready for use. and here a new wrinkle
Is found. The hos# Is no longer wound
upon reels but Is lopped from a rod In
such a manner that it may he brought
■'Into play in the quickest possible time.
Beside that. It is kept In better condi
tion hanging loosely from the iron bar
than would be the case if it was
bound tightly on a reel.
While the elevator Is earning the
hotel firemen to answer an alarm, bells
are ringing In the hallways and ser
vants' quarters on the floor where.the
fire has broken out. Just ns the engine
room men are trained to extinguish
tires, so every other employe learn*
| the part he or she la to play in an em-
| ergency.. Thug the chambermaids are
I instructed •© »tand near stairways and
J elevators In ease of an alarm to In
form, the guests as to the quickest way
I out; but the maids are taught more
than this and each be-capped and
white-aproned young woman knows
how to handle a fire extinguisher. Fire
drills are held every other week and
are conducted by an expart In the busi
ness of fighting fire, these drills being
as thorough and exacting as any held
on warship or liner.. It Is by their
means that discipline Is maintained and
the knowledge necessary to the prompt
and skilful use of the apparatus Is ob
tained..
Twice a month, the drill Is held ro-
gardlesi of the fact that the danger of
fire actually breaking out In the build
ing Is extremely slight. It Is very like
ly that the fire squad wlllnever be
called upon to cope with an actual
blase but the men are always ready
and the special elevator Is always wait
ing. What is done In this New York
hotel In typical of the precautions tak**n
In many others of the great city build
ings and those in a position to know
■ay that similar measures of protection
are destined to become more and more
nearly universal, so that In modern
buildings the danger of serious fire will
be practically overcome.
SCIONS OF HOUSE
OF ROTHSCHILD
8eiona of the House of Rothschilds.
Baron Alphonse and Baron Louts
Rothschild, who are due in New York
today from Europe/ are the sons of
Baron Albert Rothschild, head of the
Austrian branch of the International
banking house of that name. Both of
them are officera of the Khcth Dragoon
Regiment, one of the crack corps of
cavalry of the Austrian army. Their
father's position, and In a lesser their
own. are altogether exceptional In VI
ennese society. Baron Albert belongs
to the Austrian grest world. The em
peror. as a mark of special favor, con
ferred upon him some years ago, an'
upon his elder and unmarried brother
Nathaniel, popularly known aa "Nath,
patent* of "IlofTachlgkelt,* which en
dowed them with the «An.*» status and
prerogatives at court as If they pos
sessed sixteen nobiliary quartering*
and were descendfrom ti . Cruw'i-
em. The Austria,* Kr*-«t world bad.
however, previous to the grant Of these
altogether exceptional patents accept- '
ed the two barons In their midst. This
wan due largely to the now widowed
Princess Pauline Mutternlch Bander,
who, for the last thirty-four years, has
been the most powerful figure of the
Vienna grand monde. During the ten
years that she had spent as ambassa
dress at Paris when Napoleon III was
on the throne, she saw a great deal of
the French Rothschilds, and lost all
her prejudices with regard to U>e Jew
ish race. Baron Alphonse Rothschild
was Austrian conaul general, and
therefore brought constantly Into offi
cial contact wllh her husband, the
Austrian ambaaaador. The princes*
found In Baroness Alphonse, sister of
Lord Rothschild, a cultured, beautiful
woman of the most supreme elegance,
who wan a great favorite at the court
of the Tulierle*. They became warm
friend*, and It Is rumored thnt the
RothM-hHdr. by taking charge of the
financial affairs of the prince and prln-
a moment when they were sad
ly involved, owing to the frightful ex
travagance which prevailed at the
•urt of Napoleon III, saved them from
that ruin which has now overtaken the
ambassador's younger brother and
heir, Prince Paul Mettemich.
Four or five years after the return of
the Richard Metternleh* to Vienna,
Baron Albert, of the Austrian branch
of the Rothschild family, married his
cousin Bettlna. daughter of the Al
phonse Rothschilds, at Paris. Jrlncess
Pauline 5(etternich, who had known
Bettlna Rothschild from a child at
Paris, and who had alwaya been very
fond of her. took charge of her when
she came to Vieanna as a bride, both
for her own sake and for the sake of
her old friend, Barones* Alphonse
Rothschild, Introduced her everywhere,
chaperoned her, and Induced all the
members of the great aristocracy to
receive her. At first the great world
did this for the sake of Princess' Met-
ternfrh, but noon It developed a pro
nounced liking for the charming little
Fnrlslenne baroness, and she whs not
allowed to experience any f.f ihft pr
nounced prejudice which i
trlan nobility had until then manifest
ed towards the member* of her
The grand monde found in $
Baron Albert Rothschild a very charm
ing man, who, with hla long. fair, aide
whlskera and silky mustache, hair
parted In.the middle, and well-bred
manner*, looked much more of the typ
ical Austrlnn grand seigneur than the
financier, and when, about twelve
a ago, Buroneaa Bettlna died
rather auddenly, leaving a family of
six children, ahe was sincerely mourn
ed by that moat exclusive society of all
Europe, of which ahe had become so
general a favorite.
Princes* P«uline Mettemich was
very kind to the motherless children.
It. Is thunks to her that the boys were
able to secure commissions In erneg
cavalry regiments, and It Is under her
chaperonage that Baroness Bettlna’*
only daughter, the new eighteen-year
old Valentine Rothschild, Is about to
make her debut In society.
Incidentally, Princess Pauline team
ed to know Baron Albert’s elder
brother, Nathaniel, very well Indeed.
As the princess was always getting up
charitable entertainments, and Inau
gurating philanthropic enterprises,
Baron Nathaniel, who la a bachelor,
was able to render himself of the ut
most assistance to her.
Indeed, he becam* so Indispensable a
member of her entourage that she was
•ront to laughingly describe him aa her
••Hausjud*,'' all the members of fhe
aristocracy In Austrian Poland having
a Jewish factor, who attends
purchases necessary for the household,
and who Is always at hand to obtain
everything that la wanted. It was,
thanks to her Influence, that he found
ed so many splendid charitable Inst!
tutlons In Austria, and until he be
came an Invalid a year or so ago. and
was obliged to withdraw altogether
from society, she was wont to do the
honors for him at the euperb enter
tainments for which he was so cele
brated. The home of Baron Rothschild
la one of the most* beautiful palaces in
Vltnns, on the Heugasse.
Fellow-pa»*engem of the two young
Rothschilds on board th«* Kaiser Wil
helm II. are Baron Podewlla and his
wife. The baron Is the son of tl
prime minister of the kingdom of
Bagrfa who spent many years at
Vienna as Bavarian envoy, being cele
brated In the Austrian Capita! fof his
I fuigine and for hts « no*. It w.i* at
Vienna where his sons spent
youth, that they became acqun
with the two younf Rothschilds,
ore friends of their boyhood.
Empress Eugenie has bepn d
affected by the death of Paul d«
sagnac, and the beautiful wreat
flowers by which she was repreh
at his funeral served to recall hi
long devotion to the? Imperi.il lad:
was aa a young man of 70 that h
madly In love with her. She v.
the time at the very dim <x <-i
beauty, and. even though h** h i
hopes that hla love would ever h
turned, yet he determined to d
both hla pen and his sword to her
vice, somewhat after the fashlc
the knights of old. Everything
she disliked he .atneked with
everything that she favored he c
’I •: -
Empr
of this Hpc
certain. He wns but 22 when he en
deavored to get himself crushed by
the wheel* of her n.l would
probably have Accomplished bh ob
ject hud Mhe not quickly for. *-1 him
aside, fmllingly. with her parasol.
Innumerable •• • r.* tie duels whl«h
he fought In her def. — with thou.*
who hitd spoken Hightlngl *>f h*- arid
they were many, for she was not pop
ular. It •• • • her hatred of her hus
band's c.r Prince Jerome Bona
parte, that led de Cassagnac to i ursuo
him with each relentless animosity. It
was the empr*-* herself who, when
Paul w;im but 25 years of se. ur.nl
for him from the emperor the Croxn
of the I.. Kior of Honor !t was again
n., ms,, she disliked M. OHlvler that h*>
[assailed the latter so vigorously. When
{ h- w*T.» »n l».e * ir :n 1*0 . It wan b--
I • i • ' -T. . that he felt
it hi* duty to execute in so f , r.is lay
Nh
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