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SUNDAY MORNING-, MAY 24, 1903
THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH:
UMBRELLA CANOPIES I WAGON AND BUGGY
For Open Buggies and Surries. UMBRELLAS.
Best orade. 48x48 $10 00'Best grade $2.75
Second grade. 48x48 $7.50 ' Almost best grade $2 50
I bird grade, round $5.00 Third grade S1.75
Surrey sizes $15.00 to $25.00 I Advertising Umbrella $1.25
DUPLEX BOLSTER SPRINGS
(' Horse, 1,000 lbs. ca-
; .£§SsaEl&fi*-' pa city, per set $6.00
.. —.... K w Two ho.-se, 2.o00 fbs. ca-
pacity, per set $7.50
Two horse, 3,000 lbs. ca-
^ pacity. per set $9.00
ECONOMY BOLSTER SPRINGS
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Farm Wagon Bows, per set. $1.25.
Covers for peach wagons. 8 oz. duck. 12x16 ft., $5.00.
One horse, 1,500
lbs. capacity, grad
uated, per set, $4.00.
Two horse, 2,500
lbs. capacity, grad
uated, per set, $500
In ordering Bol
ster Springs give
distance between
standards.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
WAS A TURFMAN
OLD RECORDS SHOW THAT THE
FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY FOL
LOWED THE GAME WHICH IS
with which he was to change the map
of Europe whenever he felt that he
needed exercise. Chicago was a trad
ing post on the southwestern shores
of Lake Michigan, where Sac. Fox,
NOW SO MUCH DENOUNCED- i « e h '™- ^/'“nerat^Tlini Indian
RECORD OF A RACE HE WON AT ^^“IronUe™. notMng^like
CHARLESTON.
s. S. PARMELEE CO.
VEHICLES, HARNESS, BICYCLES
MACON, GA.
COME AND INSPECT
The magnificent Burglar Proof Safety
Deposit Boxes in the new Steel and Fire
Proof Vault just put m hy the
American National Bank
Spacious boxes from $3.50 to $20 per an-
fum. Your deeds, Bonds and valuable
apers will he safe m them.
. J. TAYLOR. President
R W. JOHNSTON, Vice Pres.
L. P. HILLYER. Vice President
OSCAR E. DOOLY. Cashier
Directors—R. J. Taylor, W. M. Jo linston, R. W. Johnston. B. P. O'Neal,
T. N. Baker, S. Popper, B T. Adams, O. A. Park and A. E. Chappell.
“MOKON”
The fast registered trotting stallion. A beautiful horse; sired by Moko (sire
of Fereno 2.05 K and 30 others}, dam by AUerton 2.09U (sire of Locanda 2.02 and
175 others). Service tee. $25.60 to insure.
Branan’s Stable Poplar Street
George Washington was not only
"first in war. first in peace and-first in
the hearts of his countrymen;” he was
also first at the good old game of
horse racing.
There was good red blood in the
country gentleman of Revolutionary
days. Washington loved a horse, and
he knew the points of a dainty bit of
racing flesh. His own stud, was one
of the best in his day. He was a con
sistent patron of the race track, and
not infrequently carried off the purna.
The following excerpt from the City
Gazette and Daily Advertiser, pub
lished in Charleston. S. C., tells its own
story. The paper from which It is
taken is the property of L. Z. Phillips,
of this city, says the Boston Herald.
The printing, in the original, is of
the quaint old English style, in which
the letter ”s” was barely to be dis
tinguished from the letter "f,” and in
which black type shouldered italics in
a way which would shock the modern
printer’s idea of conventionality. The
letter reads:
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
Washington Course.
Yesterday the first Jockey Club purse
was run for, over this course, four-
mile heats:
General Washington’s horse
Shark 1 1
Mr. Singleton’s mare Grey
hound
Col. Hampton’s gelding Harpoon.3
The following horses are entered to
start for the second purse this day.
three-mile heats:
Major McPherson's Merry Andrew,
4 years old. to carry 106 pounds. Dress.
Straw color and red cap.
Mr. Nisbet’s mare Alorack, 6 years
o’d. to *csrry 126 pounds. Dress:
Plaid and huff.
Mr. Singleton’s gelding Highlander,
6 years old. to carry 80 pounds. Dress:
Blue and pink cap.
Mr. Bellinger's horse Mogul. 5 years
old, to carry 120 pounds. Dress: Pur
ple.
General Washington was not without
honor in his own country, as may be
learned from the following excerpt
from another issue of the same paper:
Alexandria. October 20. 1700.
Lieutenant General George Washing
ton haa returned to the peaceful shades
of :,!t. Vernon. He was met at a little
distance from the town by the differ
ent militia companies, who saluted him
passed and afterward <.’'od a
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voi'ey.
As almost even- one knows. Wash
ington died In December 1700. less
than two months after this race at
Alexandria was run. of pneumonia,
brought on by a cold contracted bv
exposure in rainy weather. And there
was a vast difference between the
American of 1700 and the American of
today. Washington was generally con
ceded to be the wealthiest American
citizen, and his wealth consisted chief
ly of land and live stock There were
no railroads, no telegraphs, no pool
rooms, no reformers and few cranks.
The great Napo’eon had just suc-
as important as either Mjchllimackinac
or Detroit. San Francisco was a lone-
lv Catholic mission, and Fulton's
steamboat was of as little practical use
as is the airship of today. Pittsburg
was still called Fort Pitt by Ameri
cans and English and Fort Duquesne
by Canadians. Cincinnati was just be
ginning to rear her comely head on the
banks of the limpid Ohio, and St. Louis
was a trading post, flaunting the flag
of the degenerate Spanish Bourbons.
Denver. Kansas City. St. Paul. Minne
apolis. Seattle and Portland were un
dreamed of.
Virginia was the most populous of
the entire English colonies, which
twelve years before, after having
waged a successful war for separation
from Great Britain, adopted a federal
constitution that to this day is pretty
generally regarded the “grandest edi
fice to human liberty ever erected by
the genius of man,” if we may be per
mitted to borrow a rather ornate
phrase from one of the late Charles
James Fox's ^rations.
There is nothing In that constitution
against horse racing—by the way Gen
eral Washington raised his thorough
breds on his farm in Westmoreland
County. Va., just below Washington.
-Westmoreland afforded better pastur-
aeg in those days than it does today.
Large tracts of its sod had not been
disturbed by the plow. The grasses
grew naturally and were succulent to
a degree.
To get from Virginia to Charleston in
Washington's days was a tedious and ex
pensive undertaking. The horses were
led over dirt roads and as meetings were
brief and purses small the Father of His
Country never passed up the chances of
winning the expenses of the trip by means
of betting when he thought he had a
chance good enough to win.
In the good old days of Washington,
when his former vice president, John
Adams, sat in his capacious chair.
Charleston was one of the considerable
cities of the Atlantic seaboard. Philadel
phia was the metropolis and New York
was in second place, with Boston and Bal
timore well up. Charleston pressed Bos
ton and Baltimore closely in competition
for trade and population, and its people
were well-to-do lovers of outdoor sport.
Everybody that was anybody attended
the races and any person who had sug
gested that the- be prevented by statute
from btting would have been considered
a fit subject for the bughouse, although
they did not call it bughouse in those
days. Bughouse is a modern vulgarism.
Immediately before the Civil War
Charleston was still a great racing cen
ter. But the war impoverished the peo
ple of South Carolina and Charleston fell
from her high estate. Charleston has
grown little in pontilation since the war.
Other towns of the South, which were
mere villages when it was a metropolis,
have stridden past her In material prog
ress.
But Charleston is regaining her wealth,
and with returning opulence the ingrained
liking for racing Is reviving in the peo
ple. It is not surprising, therefore, that
certain enterprising citizens are just now
making an effort to establish a track for
first-class winter racing.
The promoters of this enterprise
lieve it to be a reasonable one Really
there is no reason why racing at the big
gest town of South Carolina, where
freezing weather Is a novelty even when
the winters are most severe, should not
pay. especially if the Legislature of Vir
ginia authorizes sport in the Old Domin-
ceeded in marshaling the brilliant sol- I lor | ? n< J Charleston becomes one racing
1 ’ pMnt of a circuit including: such cities as
(Jlprv rlr>fn n/'f Frenpl, Ul ^ i ircuil inuiuning 5511011 CHIOS aS
fntn the r, T Republic I Richmond Lynchburg. Norfolk, Wilming-
in *_2 irresistible fighting masses ton, Savannah and Augusta.
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(STORAGE BATTERY)
systems installed for
residential and iso
lated lighting plants.
W. H. Singleton
Something About Good Roads
‘‘Exilic’’ Sparking Battery. Phone 1234. 219 Third Street.
Do You Use Light or Power?
Yes? Then you surely need our
superior Electric Light and Power
Service.
Its advantages are so many; its de
fects—if any—so slight that in the
interest of efficiency and convenience
you owe It to yourself to get our free
estimate this very day. Special price
made on power for day load consum
ers. We are manufacturers’ agents
and sell motors for all purposes.
Macon
Railway & Light Co.
From the Metropolitan Magazine.
In many sections of this country there I
is stiil need of aggressive .work on I
the pert of those who know how to i
arouse enthusiasm. In other words,
the primary move in road reform, as I
we'l a:< in all great movements, is the |
agitation which awakens individuals I
from a state of lethargy and puts their!
minds into a rereptive mood, and thus !
insures the lodgment of seed in fertile
soil.
The old pathmaster who has never i
had any practical experience with the
construction and maintenance of ma
cadam roads naturally leans to the,
opinion that what was good enough
for his father and grandfather must :
of necessity be all right for him. He
looks upon the first cost of proper
highways as excessive, as increasing I
his taxes without giving in return rea- 1
sonnble benefits. Such an one needs
enlightenment. He is at sea and with
out a compass.
How often have we seen a country
dirt road “repaired” by simply plow
ing out the gutters and dumping the
matter into the middle of the highway,
securing for a time at least better
drainage and a more even surface, but)
resulting in no permanent improve
ment. as the same work, both in kind
and amount, is done each succeeding
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D. F. & C. P. LONG
P. 0. Box No. 506,
Jacksonville, Fla.
—SOLE AGENTS—
KINSEY PURE RYE WHISKEY.
BOTTLED IN BOND.
Distilled in year 1903; bottled 1908.
Each bottle bears the wording according to decision
rendered by United States Attorney General as being a
pure rye whiskey.
Sealed with United States revenue stamp, which sig
nifies the age.
The above absolutely guarantees the purity of this goods.
Full quarts $ 1.00
Twelve full quarts $11.00
We wish to call vour special attention to the express rates, as fol- jr
lows, these rates applying only only when amount of express is re- J
mitted with order, so charges may be nrepaid from this point: Four X
to eight quarts, 60c.; twelve quarts, 90c. J,
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It would prove of great interest to
the inhabitants of any farming district
to study in tabulated form—arranged
for quick comprehension—the value of
the labor expended each year in their
town by those who "work out” their
road taxes. We all are quick enough
in seeing the difference between pro
ductive and non-prorluctlve labor, and
experience has proved that when farm
ers sense the amount of loss which
goes with the old methods, they are
not only ready but eager for a change.
When the agitator has caught the at
tention of the community and carried
conviction with his arguments and illus
trations. he. or his co-laborer, must be
in a position to propose available meth
ods and practical means of attaining
the desired results. It is a psychological
problem, and the sequence must he skil
fully arranged. There is no use in for
bidding a drinker to enter saloons. Go
at it in *a radically different way and
give him something that will take the
place of and supplant the bar. and he
will be started in the better direction.
The initiative steps in the solution of
any practical problem cost high In en-
ergv. and call for a peculiar kind of
ability; but it is not difficult at this
stage of the game to secure forceful,
interesting speakers, well equipped with
the right data, for the successful w'ork
of agitators.
The county fair offers a peculiarly
good opening for starting road reform.
Here are gathered the brain and sinew
of the community—intent, it is true, on
diversion and recreation, but equally
alive to the material benefits to be de
rived from the numerous meetings where
a free interchange of ideas Ls insured.
Secure some good speakers: make it
known by circular or through the col
umns of the county and town papers
that the good roads problem at the next
county fair is to l*e discussed by local
talent, and bv men trained in the actual
Held work of this important business.
There will be no difficulty in securing
interested audiences, and it will be the
exception if results are not manifested,
either in the change of feeling or in the
organization of n reform movement,
j Meetings of boards of trade, granges both
State and local, educational conventions,
chambers of commerce, and such func
tions ^re also good starting points for
effective work in the good reads move
ment.
In this connection it should be kept in
mind that the leading educational insti
tutions of the country, like the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology. the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard
University, ris well as the agricultural
colleges throughout the country have
taken up In a scientific way the study of
roads and road materials, and in many
instances have f>rtablished deprtments in
highwy engineering. They are turning
out each year a number of bright, force
ful young men whose education, both
practical and in theory, has fitted them
to become expert workers in this reform,
a movement of as much importance as
river and harbor improvements, tho pre
servation of our forests, or the artificial
irrigation of the arid regions of the West.
The good oads orator of today shows
his audience the many advantages, pe
cuniary and otherwise, of the modern
method of procedure. He emphasizes by
illustrations the great enhancement of
land values in regions where passable
highways are maintained throughout the
year. He touches a responsive chord
when be forces home the fact that the
conditions of the highways in many cases
is the direct cause of profit or loss In the
agricultural districts.
It is not so many years ago that the
farmers in the West burned corn on the
cob as fuel, simply because it could not
be transported at a profit to the nearest
shipping centers. No man who has once
I^st a chance to sell his produce at a fine
figure can fail to remember that com
modities can be sold to the best advan
tage when the market is ready, not when
he is ready. It is fair to add that, as a
rule, the highest prices prevail -when the
farmer is hampered by impassable roads,
so that, he must haul wh e n he can. not
when he wants to. and this means that a
middleman carries the produce and reaps
a material benefit except, of course, in
the case of perishables. It is true that.
«ther thing* filing equal, there would not
be so much of a fluctuation in prices if
all road** were good roads. But the gen
eral benefit to the community at large,
and to the farmer in particular, would
not bo lessened.
After the ball has once started rolling
in the right direction it is not a difficult
matter to turn local activity toward the
formulation and completion of plans.
It mav be said with emphasis that the
best method is to appoint a State High
way Commission, and to give to such
commission the entire supervision of the
expenditures of all moneys appropriated
by the Legislature, either for the build
ing of new State roads or for taking
over old ways and maintaining them as
State thoroughfares. Skilled supervision
both in construction and maintenance is
the key to success. It should be added
that the work ought to be so carried on
as to interest and employ local talent,
to train town and county employes in
the best methods of road-making and up
keep. so that carried to its ultimatum
the reform would be educational as well
as practical, and result in a wide dis
semination of the best knowledge on the
subject.
As soon as enough local interest has
been aroused, the matter should be made
a political issue, and representatives to
the Legislature urged, if not! nstrueted.
to frame such an enactment as would
insure a skilful and proper handling of
the question throughout the State, and
road commissioners of both counties and
States should keep in touch and co-oper
ate with such men as Hon. Walter E.
Page, who is at present in charge of the
office of rosd inouirv. department of ag
riculture. Washington. D. C.. because
that bureau of the United States is con
stantly collecting and publishing ex
tremely valuable information about the
United States roads, road materials and
the best ways of building and keeping
up proper highways.
The present property owners are quite
richt in their position that the entire ex
pense of road reform should not be
shouldered by them, because the greater
benefit will accrue to posterit. The
State of New York has handled this
Phase of the question in an ethical fash
ion. in that the legislative enactment
provided for the issuance of $50,000,000
of road bonds so arranged in the matter
of payments of interest, etc. that a re
tiring fund is created, and at the end of
the period of issuance, both the principal
and the interest will have been liqui
dated. This means of course that the
inheritors of a few* years to come will
enjoy the benefits and pay part of the
expense of the good roads built in New
York State during the next few vears.
To sum up: Seek first the proper agi
tation locally: then a State law to secure
skill in nil branches of the work, and
an equitable financing of the entire
scheme.
Pedestrian Rights.
The right of the pedestrian to the road
is gradually being wrested from him. and
certainly most motor drivers have little
respect for him. This right must not be
yielded and the conductors of motor traf
fic on the roads must be made to learn
that pedestrians have as much claim to
the use of the road as thev have. What
we think should be done now that the
old relatively slow horse traffic is being
so rapidly ousted by motor vehicles is
that more “islands” should be placed in
the main streets.—Lancet
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from their efforts during the short season in
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IT SELLS ON SIGHT.
GRAHAM NOVELTY GO.,
P.O.Box 887
ATLANTA, GA.
NEW FRUIT LINE
The Cuban Commercial Company, with a capital of $3,000,000. shares $10.00 each, transporting passen
gers and freight, and dealing in the products of Cuba and Porto Rico Is to be inaugurated at once.
Since the close of the Spanish war immigration to those Islands has been going on at a wonderful rate,
hundreds of Florida orange and fruit growers have transferred their interests to Cuba, where they have no
frosts and thousands of others have followed suit. „ ...
The marketing of the products of these growers constitutes the greater part of the business of th.s com-
P 5 With the installation of a regular line of steamships plying between the smaller as well as_ the larger
ports of Cuba and Savannah, Ga. these products will be marketed in Chicago in 72 hours and at other Central
Western points in corresponding time. . . .
Fruits and vegetables will be purchased by the Company’s agents; taken upon consignment or- transport-
ed for planters and growers at satisfactory rates of freight. ...
There is a great demand for this service by the small growers and the Company’s agents at every port
will have no difficulty in securing plenty of freight every trip , „ ,
Connecting traffic arrangements will be made with the Southern Railway and the Louisville and Nashville
R. R. at Savannah for points north and west, and similar arrangements with the Cuba Railroad at Antilla for
all interior Cuban points. A large winter passenger traffic can be depended upon.
Two refrigerator steamships with ample capacity for passengers and freight have been placed at the
Company’s option for this service.
The company has under option a tract of 5.000 acres of land in Cuba, upon which will be founded an Amer
ican Colony, and this land will soon toe thrown open to the public for this purpose.
Management.
The affairs of the Company are in the hands of an Executive Committee composed of experienced and
capable business men of great enterprise and energy.
Each ship will carry a representative with full power to enter into and carry out contracts, and personally
supervise the service extended to passengers, thus assuring both safety and comfort, and as the winter travel
will be considerable the income from this source alone will more than pay expenses.
Stockholders will naturally be considered where positions are created or vacancies occur.
Your Opportunity.
To enable the management to carry out these plans as above outlined the full paid and non-assessable
Treasurv Stock of the Company is now offered for public subscription as follows:
10,000 OF THESE $10.00 SHARES WILL BE SOLD AT
$2.00 PER SHARE—GOOD UNTIL JUNE 1st. ONLY.
(Note—This advertisement appears this week in all the Middle Western States; there will be a general rush
for the stock at this price.)
AFTER JUNE 1st. 10,000 SHARES WILL BE OFFERED AT $3.00 PER SHARE—GOOD ONLY UNTIL
AUGUST 1st, at which time the price will be advanced to $4.00 per share; and as fast as the money can be judi
ciously invested further offerings will be made, but always at an advance of One Dollar per share over the pre
vious offering, up to $10.00 per share. .....
This stock will eventually be listed upon the different exchanges, but not until It sells at $10.00 per share,
which will probably be within one year.;
500 Per Cent. Advance
Original purchasers of the stook at $2.00 per share will be able to secure 500 per cent profit on their in
vestment when the stock sells at par ($10.00 per share), hut as the company will earn and pay dividends of 25
per cent or more at that time, it is doubtful if the owners of the stock will care to sell even though It will toe a
satisfaction to know they can sell at that figure if they choose.
June 1st.
The stock will positively advance in price to $3.00.
Unless purchasers get their orders in early the Company cannot guarantee that they will get any at $2.00
as only 10,000 shares will toe sold at that figure and as this offer Is made to the entire Middle Western States
it will not last long. . . , , . . .. . , . ..
(Note—This stock offering is made to the Middle West because the principal part of the business In the
United States will be done in that territory and the Company believes it good policy to confine the sale of
Stock to the territory in which the business is to be done.) • . ., . . , . _ ,
Special inducements will be offered to people engaged in the Fruit or Vegetable business as also to Colon
ists and Planters In Cuba and Porto Rico. .... . . _ .
No enterprise of modern times presents such an opportunity for specu’qtive investment. The Company has
a great future and to far-seeing business men and women the present prie„ of $2.00 per share for this Stock
should look like a rare bargain.
Do It Now!
Fill out the attached coupon at once and mall with P. O. money order, express money order, registered let
ter or bank draft payable to the order of
Massachusetts Loan & Guarantee Co,
Registrars and Transfer Agents.
Journal Building. Boston, Mass.
CUBAN COMMERCIAL CO.
262 Washington Street
Boston, Mass.
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Boston, Mass.
Gentlemen:—Enclosed find
for which please send me...
able stock of your Company.
Name
Address ....
dollar*
’ shares of the full paid and non-assess-
(N. B.—The above proposition sho uld appea Istrongly to the public spirl t of the citizens of Savannah and the
State of Georgia generally.
Do You Want
To get your new house ready hy October first, which is moving time?
Do you want to get the benefit of present ridiculously low prices of building
material?
Then it behooves you to get a move on quick.
Bottom has been reached and passed.
Demand among large buyers is increasing.
Prices are already hardening.
Delay will be expensive.
Take our word for it and get busy before it is too late.
Of course you will get best material from
Massee & Felton Lumber Co.
PHONE No. 1840
MACON, GA.
In some Viennese schools a phono
graph which repeats speeches as re
cited by eminent actors has 'been in
troduced In order to teach the pupils
declamation.
The President has nominated Chas.
A. McAllister to be engineer-in-chief
and Worth G. Ross to be captain com
mandant in the Revenue Cutter Serv
ice. .
The Government of British India is se
curing the views of chambers of com
merce and other public bodies in that
country relative to tts railways along
the line of extension and general Im
provements.
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