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E INSIDE OF ATLANTA. THB STATE TO BOOSTJ THE ATLANTA BOOM ? ATLANTA amo r That * HIS P»'e» »«■ Bran raid tb« Technological School Site tuxta, February 20.-It »u repotted ■ ra*/that the Peters Park Improve- tfloitpany had made 01,er b J deed to commiaaion on the School ol Technology ,.Iea of land in addition to the tract la'ed by the company as* a site for the '".i that the consideration was $9,000 iS hard cash. The afternoon papers ied a very brief notice of the convey- It the (Jonatitntion had any refer- tbe transaction ot each importance i been overlooked. Finding it difficult dittbe report that the commission bad aoy snch move, yonr correspondent an effort to interview Mr. S. M. la tte resident commissioner, on the it, Int found that be was ont of the The presumption was when the com- ;ion decided upon and accepted the site d by the Peters’ Pork Improvement „any that it was in every respoct auita- or the purpose for whioh it was to be i. No intimation wa9 published at the t that the site bad not a sufficient area ibe selection of that location would seitate the purchase of additional land tl enormous cost, for that locality, of ,1* $3,<SJ0 per acre. The reasonable and prKunipUon is that there is some mis- i iu the report. Otherwise the impress- ,„ia be crested that while the Peters Improvement Company had nominally ted»site for the school the gift was in ..ysfljKU, as the State had finally to ,'tery liberal price for it. It is not, ■tly speakiDg, a part of the duties of tho ml,sion to boom the property of the rs Perk Improvement Company at the DM of the State, nor to give State aid be .Visits t o nil which latterly is beiug ndutriosly and assiduously nnrsed. snr, tho commission is made cf gentlemen of high chnrac. and superior business capac.tji this item is given msret.v as a part of the sun cf o i| itol gossip, without vouching it or entirely crediting it. is the design of the commission, so far in be gathered, to begins work just as n tbs plans and specifications for the tieg bare been acoeptcd. WAR ON THB WINE ROOMS*.' " Kmt.dl House Bar Closed—Tub Wise Sellers Hold a Meeting. IOTA, February 19.—When I walked the Kimball Hongs this morning, the tiing noticeable was tho smile of Ed svay, the clerk, which was at half-mast ism able brow. Before I could ask cense of gloom be waived his hand in dinciion of the wine room. It was si d inquiry, it was learned that tho pro tors had resolved to close the wiue u to avoid trouble. They do not like idei of being taken hold of by the grand »nd fiord $1,000 by Judge Van Epps •llwicg wines, etc., to be drank on the dies. So there will be no more selling i* Kimball House by the drink. •u st first rumored that Chief Connolly iisurd an order closing all the wine ■\ but of course such was not the ease, it developed that he had advised sev- <iu roouists that it would be unsafe th;m to continue to sell by the drink. It i: vis ascertained that a secret meet- of a majority of tho wine roomista was 1 this morning, at whioh it was agreed to more drinks would be sold over the dsr, bat in future they will sell by the l sed not allow any drinking on the lilts. Tneso gentlemen are certainly iu taking tine by the forelock before jrandjaty have a chance to take them ihs forelock. "Be wise in time, 'lia t to defer." 5«r» Abbott and Moncrief ran in 0. P. ason who inns a wino room at 50 Decv itntt, and he was booked for keeping "'•“viul sale spiritnous, malt and for- id liquors. MB DODD’S VIEWS, Own T. Dodd caught me by the 11 Was nasaino hia at, rn thlu Binmtnn camps of tho convicts t nn» T J* inity i. , of tte county on the At!nni* D ° W .?*™ orb * n Ibis railroad.* 1 The pbvsi»£n * D , d Hawkin.vill« John Nelms Sen/e^o the^, 1 ? 18 Dr ' AN sass’Tsi's^Br sorted tl,„ "uphatlcally as- lyone : Captain English mode bis apologies ard withdrew. Colonel Towers fhe run?* kseper ’ who waa present, says nDed hnf f, Iagg u ra ^ 8 what rea »y ‘»ns. unto Jh?* * prob8b ly substantially repre- rd t8 Ca W p h .ain P ^?ish betWeen ‘ h8 L '° Lt Ho (Iambics Away .Honey that Doeiu't Ha- long to Uira-Tne FoliUr-IInrt Case at Amerlcna Hettlrd-From Other Towns—The Press. The Onitip itaid. Atlanta, February 18, —The revenue offi- cers who have been raiding in Spalding for 'be last two days returned to the c ty this afternoon. Special Deputy Chis olm and Special Agent Colquitt, who made up the Party, report the seizure within five miles of Gnffin of two copper stills, caps and worms, which were destroyed. They arrested David Aiken, os owner of the stills, and carried him before United States Com missioner Mills, who placed him under bond. Ihej also seized a yoke of steers and a wagon. This was yesterday's haul. To- dry Special Deputy Chisholm eiezed, near Hampton, the mule nnd horse whioh carried away the three barrels of stolen whisky from the warehouse of I. D. Crawford. Tina whisky was already seized by the gov ernment. The mule was the properly of Owon,Simmons and the horse belonged to Lu. Oobb. Mr. Chisolm also reports that his visit to tho neighborhood resnlted in accumulating evidence connecting Crawford with the breaking open of the warehouse and the re moval of the whisky. AN INTEItKHTIN’G CASK. In Which a Macon Lady Sacs for Firteen Thousand Dollars. The Savannah Times has this: The case of Ellen E. J. Dettre vs. Isaac Beckott, which came np in the City Court yesterday, was not concluded. Arguments were heard on a demurrer, and this morning when the case was recalled the court overruled the plea. The further consideration of the matter will be held on Monday morning next at 10 o'clock. The cause is an interesting one in many respects. The plaintiff sued the defendant for the recovery of oertain city of Savannah five per cent bonds, amounting, with inter est, to fifteen thousand dollars. She alleges in her petition that on the 4th day of .Janu ary, 1889, at the request of defendant, she delivered to him for his nse and benefit twelve thousand dollars' worth of city of Savannah fire per cent bonds with coupons thereon, due No ember 1st, 1881, and hub- seqnently, until maturity said ora- pons being payable quarterly. The defendant then, she stated, under took and promised petitioner in considera tion of the loan and delivery to him that he wonid return the same as soon os he could and pay interest from time to time until the bonds should be returned and in terest paid in fall. She farther alleged that the detendant has failed to pay the interest or return the bonds, and that the interest on the latter now amounts to $2,400, mak< lug bit indebtedness to her $15,000, . The defendant in his answer denies the indebtedness whioh the plaintiff alleges againat him and says that the instrument sned on was not exeonted by him or any authorized agent ot bis as the instruments originally made by him was changed inten tionally, materially and frandnlently by erasing certain words without his knowl edge or consent. He fnrther said that the instrument sued on was partly voluntary on the petitioner’s part and without any consideration to support it and that it is “.{ was passing his Here this morning nude pact and not binding in law. "I learn to-day that Van Eppa He also states that the bonds were given that he can pat a man in the penlten- ' .... lor from one to two years for break- ile prohibition law. I am glad to hear l Hunk he'll have to put one of these ‘ room men in the penitentiary for at '*o years before we can break this I I hope that he will do it.” belongs to that dyed-in-tbe- jlMof prohibitionists who believe it “■at to look at a oow and demijohn at asms t, me ^ tome p tegt0 veto i« process the result will be an im- ■Hi Bulk punch. 0‘oaral Drputjr Chisolm Resigns. j 1 *? 1 *. February 19.—This afternoon ■ bhiaolm, g-neral deputy lor tho • un,i t r Collector Crenshaw, tendered “btnation ol that offico. The resigns- ..«*- < l nc ® *°®*P'ed. The following iuSr 8u cort6l *poudenoe between the “Huen on the subject: '"ania, Febrmuy l'J.-Sir: I hero- my resignation as general dap- collector of internal revenue for your «oV° Uk * eff#ct 1,0 m thU Jut •• Ke ta'-i’S atlotM > Deputy Collector. «,n rV- Crenshaw, Collector Internal mua District of Georgia." i itu*’ F " h,n »»y 19—T O. Cren- Internal Revenue District Y-ll'T.. In tendering my resigns- •towith enclosed, notaithsUuuing dwlamuons that you bad no com- a‘° “* k f »B»init my official conduct, oo£H! i *° “J“' f to »*»'• ‘ h »t by i 1 daslre to eliminate at onoe, Btl'h. oontro '»»y between Hsvenne jv r.» pm w “ d » onn »»W. »ny reference »Mem 0 Tri( romomee 0 f which inten- to |2?w P**' 1 have received due notice; . him and the Dp ? n . 'beir real merita, be- ^n P ° b ! i °- ,lad . tb » general gove-nment. fa.ts . ^ wh leh yon have endeavored «*aTw» .V 6 pu . bUo mind *• Diet my re- troTB«T h -v, ,oU of tb « existing hut"/« J° a well aware it the m?tti^ C d j n u ro ixaoteljr connected ■»iib th*i^*^i *“* nothing to iifftrlnL » ■ od , mQ r« serious matters P n b'i<i lnterfat which exbt “ yourselves. BespecUnlly, C. 8 i«—_ "J. P. CniHOLM." >u t ,' b *v»»ci, Coluutob's ruarv in ®r Gcoboia, Atlanta, -S7; p ■ t i b ‘ 8 f"“' >. ~-T* i 0 *' received your reeigna- i* 8ut». l , d8p ? ly collector for tbs *t from ihie “me, to take •^Cf Sw^L*^ rwcancy Mr. L. T. ** Meweeeee’S OflUs. ^“Uiln thrjK^T® 0 ^ 0 " 01 * • vurreat on is. T ™ 01 ^* 0 ®°* to-day CTenioe. ''-C4*j 0n .a . - -^a-1 mil OTIOUC. ,Jn g the t' iS*'* lb<1 rrecutive ord-r .... i*rge of Peni- 1 two and tnree to re- him by the petitioner, to be used and employed by the defendant in baying Cen tral railroad stock upon margins, and specu lating and betting on fntnres, on joint aooonnt of plaintiff and defendant as part ners in tne venture. He says that the bonds were lost in the speculation, and that the contract was a gaming one, and void in law, upon which no action coaid be brought. The detendant further in hit plea eays that It was understood at the time the transsc. lion took plaoe between him and plaintiff that the latter, ont of eympatby for plaintiff, would return her other oity ot Bavanoali bonds cf equal value ot the onee loot in ■peculation aa soon ss be was financially able and wonid have the means to pnrehaae snch other bonde, bat he has never been able since the execution of the instrument to purchase any bonds whatever. He fur tber saye that the eause of aotlon le barred by the statutes of limitation. M ACON HEAL tSTATE. The Prices Picking np and Heme Heavy Transactions Doing Dn, The real eetate men of the city say there has not been snob good feeling in the real estate market aa now in monthe pact. They are busy all day with offering* and options, and is esc efflee y««t»nUy thr agent had scarcely time to eat dinner. There are no transfers to be recorded, though several sales have been effected, and as soon as the titles are passed will be reported. Negotiations are going on for several transfers, some of which cannot be consnmmated until next week and they will startle the people when made known. Many options are being bonght ami these ■bow the state of the market to a oertain extent. A day or two ago Mr. John U. Ellis paid $50 for an option on some East 'Macon property, and in twelve boors thereafter ■old the option for $150. Ten dollar* per day vu related for ten-day option on B. L. Henry's Troop Hill nnrsery property, offered at $6,000 with eighteen lots sold from the property M originally inbdifidede Three weeks ago Mr. Elliott Estes, of Hnguenin A Estee. placed a piece of prop erty, 75x900 feet, near Tatnafl Square, on the market. It bae been sold to Mr. Geo. T. Harris for $1,060, and soon after the transfer Mr. Hams was offered $250 profit ““aMI on Cherry street, between Fonrth and Fifth, is to be cold soon. It coat a few years ago $2,600. It la eoon to be sold at public outcry, and Mr. 8. Waxelbanm guar antees that it srill bring $5,200. It <a said that thera will be several heavy transfers doting the coming week and next The grand jury of sooner county baa failid, after a thorough investigation, to return a true bill sgalnet Annie Moore, ins pected of the murder cf Erakine. Iu u.w Sf this fact. Judge Fort has. «Jn«»d h.r bail from $l,'.".0 to $2,000, which will prob ably be given. i': • **- 1 ■ ■ i • ; ' • *. '** 1- 1 - Oil S'*—d ■ 1 — AUGUSTA MERCHANT GETS HIMSELF IN A BAD FIX. Augusta, February 18.—A quite inter- rating ease was brought up lu the City °“® Tt . ‘“-day. which is as .follows: >me days ago Robert Tarver, a young merchant of thia oity, played against the faro bank rnn by James Miller and John p V *r r .* D l ,n< ? oUim ' l0Bt “bon' $1,200. Eight hundred and fifty dollars of this money had been entrnstei to him by bis father, Mr. Roberson Tarver, to pay a note due in bank for that amount. The pro- EOT&&*?.** olaimed that ho only lost $Ki5, and furthermore that he has been a constant frequenter of gambling houses for years, and has been lncky enough to win on almost every occasion be has plxved. Whon Tarver notified his father of the loss of the money entrusted to him, they together immediately seenred the legal eer- vices of Messrs. Tntt and Lockhart, who filed asnit of bail trover against Messrs. Miller and Warren to recover Mr. Roberson Tarver s $8o0. The parties were arrested and have been under charge of a special bailiff for the past five days. Their attor- D ', T * ri »'« 9 * “PPiilod to day for their release from custody, on the grounds that the money had been lost and they were unable to give bond for the pay- mentofiL Judge Eve stated after hearing the oaso that a decision wonid be rendered next Wednesday. The oaee will not be heard until the June term of the court. At the conclusion of the evidence Jndge Eve ordered the sheriff to take in custody Miller and Warren for running a gaming house and Tarver for ilayiog in the same. Tarver will probably be indicted for larceny after trust, as he acknowledged the game. Thus it will be seen that larver is losing at his own game of squealing. He,will most probably not recover a cent of hia money. There is no sympathy for him; in fact he is roundly de nounced. A squad of five policemen raided a lottery raab y George Hancock and others on low er Broad street this afternoon at 6:30, and captured Hancock and eight participants in “* A drawing was being oonduoted at the time the police entered the plaoe. The wheel and other effects were captured at the time and carried to the oonrt house. Hancock preached at a Salvation Army meeting on Sunday afternoon. The cap tured parties will have a hearing before the recorder in tho morning. AftlKKICUtl Ntfra Criminals Dot L .n* S»ntancss-Ths Faidtr-llnrt case Nettled. Auinious, February 18.—The Superior Court this week fits been engaged entirely on criminal business. Bot few oases have been tried. Reese Welker, colored, was convicted of asssnlt with intent to murder and sentenced to eight yean service in the lenltentUry. Two years ago he sssanlted bis wife in this city with an axe, outting her badly about the head and neck. Ho fled to Florida, whoro ho waa captured a few montha ago. Charley Wiliiama, colored, wai convicted of mnrder and reoomniended to merey, whioh Bondu him np for life. He killed hit father-in-law, Henry Carmao, near Botta- ford, in thia county, only a abort while •go. ,. I “‘ b ? °“® Annie Moore, ebarged with the killing of Pat Erskine, no true bill had been found up to last night, though the grand jury had been diligently investiga the matter. The oase against Hon. J. B. Feldor, charged with assanlt with intent to murder for etahoing Dr. Burt last August, was set tled yesterday. Dr. Burt declined to prose- eute, aud nineteen members of the grand jury and a Urge number of our brat citizens >etitioned Judge Fort to allow tne oase to >e settled. Mr. Felder, in his petition to the oonrt, stated that the assanlt was made upon the impulse of the moment aud that he was willing to pay all damages sustained by Dr. Burt, doctors’ bills, lawyers' fees and rims lost in reoover njfrom injuries received. The damages have been paid and general satisfaction U expressed that the esse has been settled. Mr. fieith Rogon, one of the oldest citl- xens of theoonuty, died yesterday of dropsy. *“ Utber of Mr. 8. D. Rogon, of Pony, Mr. Ed Rogers, of Brunswick, and Mrs. L. U. Baswortb, of thU city. Tha Cohm stock of dry goods was sold a receiver's sale yesterday. It vu invoioed at nearly $7,000, bot sold for $900. It was bought by Mr. J. B. Hbaw, but the Impres sion U that he io not the real pnrohaser. Home say Messrs. Wheatly A Dudley bought the stock, as they bad a mortgage on it Forjjth-A Small Cutton Fire. Fobstth, February 19,-Miss Webster, a charming young lady of Atlanta, who has been the guest of Mrs. J. R. Parker, returned W.“d. t ^h:C. U h.r d e MP r6gret °' th “ mauy ThU morning fire was discovered among a number of bales of cotton in Mobley's warehouse. Only two bales, however, were burning, and they had evidently been on fire for hours, nnd were almost entirely oonsumed. The cotton belonged to W T Maynard and was insured. The Gaorzla Press, $2^00000** n UaConconnl 7 11 “sussed a t The Clipper reports a great deal of sick ness at Warrentoo, Mr. Jack Walton, one of the best citizens of Haralson oounty, has beoorne insane. E. W. Glenn, who was tried at Griffin last week for the murder of Couch, was ao- quitted. Many burglaries are reported by the county papers. In most instances the amennt stolen waa small. George Stallings, an Augusts boy, has been signed by the Philadelphia League baseball club as one ol its catchers for this season. Ha ”y Palmer, a deputy United States marshal, is m tronbls for tuviog extorted money under oolor of hU office from a man Darned 8oailett« in Camden county. W. T. Childs, a snccessfnl farmer of Macon oonnty, recently killed a hog that when drissed, weighed 380 pounds, and saved from it eleven gallone of lard. Dr. W. H. Thompson, a yonng man who was raised at Dawsonvilie, this State, was shot nnd killed at Waoo, Texas, Sunday. No parUoulais of ihs tragedy have been re ceived. Tho insurance companies have settled with Mr. Coskery, one of the prinoipal lOBera by the Angaeta lire, and he is taking steps tobuild anew 160-room hotel on the site of the old Globe. When the old town oonnoll of Valdosta turned over affairs to its successors the other dey it wss able to make a fine show ing of its administration. There are no debts ■gainst the town and $1,900 in tho treasury. The Fort Valley Mirror is urging Hons, ton county farmers to make an effort to oaptnre the $1,000 pnze at the 8tate fair next fall. There is no oonot in the State to whioh Maoon people would .ether see the big plnm go. A huge torpedo, one of those placed in the river below Savannah by the Confeder ates to keep ont yankee ships dnriog the war, was drawn up by the finks of a schoon er s anchor one day last week. It was in good condition apparently. Bishop Beekei-bu issued an order as to marriages, whioh is ot importance to Catho lics. In no case will marriage ceremonies be allowed to be performed after dirk, and ministers are warned not to make arrange ments for or perform marri.'ges after night fall Mr. R. A. Tilghmnn, of Fayette counfr, hsa a yearling calf that is a curiosity. It has no tail, and never bad one. It resem bles a oow in nothing but its head and feel On one side of ib back is a large hump like a eamel's. It baa a long mane like a lion's, and long hair atl over its body. The ani mal is healthy and active. The oalf has several other peculiarities. Dublin was much excited Thursday b' SOME PACTS NOT TOLD BY THE REAL ESTATE BOOMERS. A Soil Snaked TUI It Is Flabby With Flllli— A llnlldloK Ilooin That Makes No Nlfa—Xhe Workingman's bufferings. DAWSUN. Dawson, February 19.—A mass meeting of onr citizens was held here on Friday evening last at 3 o'clock. Rev. B. W. Da vis was called to the chair. CspL John A Fulton acted as secretary. The object of the meeting was to appoint delegates to go to Colnmbna on next Tuesday, 22d instant, to confer with the executive oemmittee ol the Columbm Southern Railroad Company In regard to extending the road to Albany vie Deeeou. The following named parties were appointed: B. IL Hood, J. W. F. Low- cry, John L. Parrott, O. B. Btevens, W. R. Baldwin, R. L. Melton and J. R. Mercer. We had a very bard rain here yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, accompanied with very high wind. There was a good deal of damage done near the depot. The large water tank at Sharp A Baldwin’s mill was blown down, besides several nnoccnpied build!ups. The fencing on Ur. K : nnedy's plaoe, about a mite from town, near the railroad, waa completely destroyed. M'hak. Petal Aeeldtiit to the Foreman of a Bow-mUL McRae, February 20.-At 3 o'clock yes terday evening at Psxion'a saw-mill near here, Mr. Joel W. Graham, foreman, while stepping over some Urge cogs connected with the machinery, waa caught by them and had ona leg jost above the aokte crushed and ground to a jelly. Dra. 8wtn- ney and Blanton, aaeiatad by other physi cians, amputated the leg at !i o'clock last night, bnt the shock and loss of blood'was »o Rreat that he died soon after the ampn- U I?* ^ r ,' Qraham leaves a wife, several •mall children and a large number of fnenaf to mourn Lis saddan and untimely IJAWKlKhVlLLl- The Advent of Prol —A Fir Moves Hawxin-.vii.le, February 18.—At o'clock last night prohibition went into o°'V kl cou “ ty - Mr J - l: - Daidl . i<. 1. - ! 1> ir ! tri.e-, r* rM(.de<l th»* %<» 1 !IU 12 o'clock th»t DO n in Poluiki county hi MiMn. W ill b< y Home, asuuiiu whs wucy excited iDoriday by from jail the eight before of /. M. Wesver, a young white man convioteil of burglary and sentenoed to the peniten tiary for fifteen yean. He had been fnr- nUhed by some outside person with a Urge anger and a revolver, lie was acoompanied in hU flight by Jim Reynolds, a negro charged with rioting on a train a lew days ago. Hamilton Journal: Thursday of last week "Squire Morgan WbiUen, in Whittaker's district, nntted in the bond* of matrimony the oldest conpleever married, perhaps. In this State. The bridegroom, Mr. Samuel Truett, wu 87 In December last, and his bride, Mrs. Anne Holing, is sweet 70. They are both highly respected citizens of UiU county, both hale, hearty and healthy, with a prospect of many yean yet of a useful life before them. Uillen lie scon: Mrs. & A. Brinson's lit tle boy, abont seven or eight years old after having bean wLlpped st school yester- day, went to D. A (J. Parker's, where bit mother had been in the habit of sendiog him for money whenever she needed it, and asked for $10 In ohanga. Mrs, Brinson has not since heard from him, and it is sup posed ha mut have gone off on theeara Some time ago he told his brothel be would do that it be was ever whipped at school Carteravillo Courant-American: A moat distressing accident occurred on the Burnt Hickory roed, in Paulding county, abont ten milca from Oarterevilie, Monday morn ing, in which a lady suffered injuries that will in ail probability cost her life. Mrs Calvin Cochran, at the time mentioned, wu buy working with a sewing michlnein front of the fire place, when her drau oaoght fire. The flames spread rapidly to other portions of her body, she beoame panic-stricken and ran out into the yard, where she met a stepson who threw a quilt over her. The fire soon oonsumed the quilt and the poor unfortunate then ran to a tnb of water and threw herulf in, thu extinguishing the flames that ban almost eoutuned enery thing that could be. Doctors were summoned st cnee, end It was plain that the bums were fatal Her back from the crown of her bead to her feat wu one charred mass, while her front wu ter ribly burnt The sight wu siokenlDg. The lady was a daughter or niece of thel ate Mr. Hiram Goodwin, of Kingston, and waa a good, Christian lady. This la a very sad occurrence, made more so by the fast that three little children will in probability lose a noble and good mother. Oglethorpe Ocho: We have it from good suthority that several yean ago a promi nent dliitn ot thia oonnty wu tricked in tha most brazen way imtgioabla. This e ntleman had a gin houe abont a mile >m town In whioh wu atored a couple of bales of cotton. This cotton bad no mark by which they coold be distinguished from other baits. Ha also owned a small one- boru wagon. Ona dav a colored man by the name ot Jack earn# into the gentleman's •tore and uked him for the loan of his wagon, aa he had a couple of bales of cot- ton ha wanted to haul to town the next day. The gen tie a an obliged the darkey, who start doff with the wagon. The next day, bright and early, here ume Jack with two huge balsa of cotton in the one-horse wagon- Driving np to tho ger.tLiu m's “® M fc*d him tobuytlim. They y * Agreed on a price, the gi-ntLmtn p , ? J- ,b ® m <> nt y for the oottoti, and told him to drive the wig.n on to lis bonre, leavlog the cotton on it. J.ck ri.l ao, and then pnt out. Inter in the day the gentleman discovered that Us pin h.,n-s hnil Wn broken into ind hi*i cotton Mtolcn. lnve-'ipsijon developed the fact list tie two uales which hehal brnplt from J«ek in tie morning wu the identic*! cotton. The gentleman had loacad the tlieft.L l*.t wagon to ste*] In own . ,tt n, ku 1 had [>»id ont S good round sum in cn.n for wh.t rtr-j | whA fclrwulj hi* own I'ropcrty. If«w York Timet. BiBsiihoiiAM, Ala , February 10.—Having gained some idea of the vast extent of the mineral reaonrcea of this region—too vaat for ftill information; having notedB:rming- ham’a proximity to coal and iron ore and limestone, all the needed ingredients for rig iron making; having aeon not only the , nxtai osltlon and the abundance of thiB raw ■uaterial, hot the substantial richness of it also; having followed the plaus aud the wonderful financial realization of the syndi cate that seooped in these original aores and convened barrenness into "choice building sites," let na glanoe now at what Birming ham u a oity—as a plaoe to live in—hu oome to be. To tell the truth of Birming ham town won’t beall oneatrlngof dittery. Unvarnished fact, howevor, isn't a drug on the Birmingham market just yet. The map, all gaudily oolored; the pamphlet proepectn* with its wealth tf superlatives ana sky-high adjectives; the abundant real estate agent, liutlng in declamation and deep-luuged lies; the syndicate man, the apoetleof a hundred interests— the boomer universal; these are the deecribers of Birmingham that Birming ham herself provides. The man who be lieves ail they say, nr the half of what they uy, ought to get a guardian at ouce; the man who pats cat money on their say-so merely, that man was made to monru; it were base fl ittery to call him an ata; he'll always be lonesome outside of a lunatic u.vlum. Yet there are such men, hosts of them, with never so much u a thought of in vestigation, with apparently no ears what ever as to the sense or the nonsense of the stories they hear, who are sending or bringing thousands and huudreda of thousands of dollars here daily for "in vestment." If signs do not fail they'll find all the judgment dey they want in this world without waiting for tho next. Now, here is a good, straiglituut, honest statement to begin with: Birmingham is not a safe plaoe to live in. "Birmingham is sitmted in a valley nndnlstory and naturally drained." That is what tlie prospectus says. Well, there is no ertifl. oust drainage, that is sure. And it the lack of sewers, the atisenoa even of rude gutters to dispose ot slops and filth, the utter care lessness ot every sanitary need—if tais means "natural drainsge" then natural drainage is just what Birmingham has and has abundantly. There is no river, big or •mall, no water course here at mlL Simply de-mibed, Birmingham town Is just one flat stretch of god hemmed in by mountain tidra suddenly rising from her limits. The mountains drain on Birmingham; Birming ham drains on herself. Were there even eu insignificant oreek at hand sanitarv necessi ties could be readily attended. As natural conditions do not exist in this fist territory anything akin to a satisfactory sewerage system will require the expenditure of im mense sums ol money. One or two pnny, oheap aud abortive schemes have railod. Birmingham ao far has been too muoh on the rash, too muoh given over to booming, to ttiiok or oare apparently for tiival things like this of making her homes habitable. The reenlt is that to-day when an observ. er goes through the streets he is largely ob livious to everything save that he has • nose. Pools of green and slimy water, nastiness trickling from back yard to bask yard, Urge tanning loose in every partot the town (all unsuspicious that they are not in a fit and appropriate city,) streets that are only stretches of miry olsy, unsafe for light wagons, unfit for heavy ones—stoneh, stench, stench! on the ground, in the air- stench everywhere, stench eternal I Thirty thousand people massed In one topsy-tnrvy community; 99,000 people with no running water within miles, with no sewerage sys tem, with a soil soaked till it is ff .bby with filth, with nastiness accumulated and aeon mutating in very lakes. This means end can mean but one thing; end that one thing is that Birmingham bide dsfianoe to the sternest of all natural laws, courts disease, tempts epldemio. The cholera that nipped the first yaerof her existence, when bnt 2,000 or 3,000 people were here, taught its terrible lesson in vain. Men tali by scores in her very streets then, unwarned of their danger; bat with all that deadly experience than is no "'ore security against the same epldemio now than there was then, nor so muoh, for where there yvas a little comma- pity at that time, there is at present ■ driv- ing city of 30,000 eonle. Men overtaxed by excitement and wearied by trying schemes of money-making crowd here now, sensitive to disesM, almost nervously prostrate the halt of them. And how do theaa 30,000 Uve? Badly enongb. New York’* tenement system is possibly a trifle worse. With her boast ot 30,000 population— and I entertain no donht that 30,000 is a fair estimate—Birmingham has not honse room for 15,000. By home room I mean an aoeommodation safe from •health point of view. If I meant comfort able bonse room I would have to eat down the estimate at least 60 percent fnrther. There are mighty few habitations here that may in any sense Uy claim to mention as homes. Yet, there are some handsome res idences; the prospectus tells yon quite all •bout them; they are few; It won't tire yon to remember the separate description ot each nnd everyone st them, end yen esa remember, too, that they have sewers of a sort, spilling slops on tbs rent of the tow*. But tho houses where they live who are not land company princes or financial mag nates, those houses are not altogether de scribed aa they might be in the prospec tus. They are smell, they aro un wholesome in appeal ones, they are rede. No; possibly this is not fit reason forspe- ciai denunciation here. In other towns the same condition obtains. Birmingham stands as no exoeption to the rale of poor houses forthe poor men. In the pig iron town of Pittebnrgend in FennsylvenU miniogtowne it U no worse. What is eompxratively new here U dilapidated there. But hero every honse, however much e hat it mty be, is t hotel There U scarcely a room in the piece that U not crammed, rammed, jammed to overflowing. And dey by day this unwholesome condition grows more offensive. Bo much has real eetate specula tion monopolized every affair that Birming ham remains acity without houses. Though budding lots sell at New York city prioes and higher, Birmingham is still for the *tr greeter part e barren field. Buildings ere - Ottered aroiiL.I, but the "choice building rites'' it ,i have been built upon ere mighty f-jw compared with those that have not been buili opon. A good deal is heard about a building boon.. Several oiriimiujc gentlemen havo assum'd me tb-t that particnUr loom is ttlrcaly assuming blgproportions. Perhaps it 1-. tut if it i. I'd like to congratulate the hponnuni for it upon the exceedingly thor. oiwh A ay in which it maneges to escaped*. t< uon. PcrhsDS ■ pretty lair example of tL* hvicpif this building boom i bad ■■■■ » I list Stare -it. „t n t’.nt ; rpspertoa ann-h my friend s enough to give DA This particular page Lai the cat ot a building on it. There something exceedingly magnificent about that building; it is big, it is ornate. "The Caldwell Hotel." That is what its append ed line of tjpe has to say of it. Descrip tion in words would fall short cf justice. The engraver’s lines best hint at the glory of it* Add Borne fcftlcoLio°, a parapet or if?i ®?d terraoea—odd these to New York's rifth Avenue H'>t«-l and make the Fifth ay- ecus anmawhat bigger, then you have un idea, inadequate, perhaps, but still “ii tv®* ’ ,hat " Tao Cald- well IIo ol" is like-in tha pros- leotna picture before ini. Ah, tho lirmtnghun of It! "The Caldwell Hotol" IB yet a mere hole iu the ground. There are a few stones in the hole and a little mor tar holds the atxnes together. “We’ve got tho foundation atl laid already," said a boomer of this vpioial Birmingham eoter- pri,e. "How long havo you been building tbas frti f' I u^ked. “Sioct* 1 HpriLtr." ho told me, adding: "We would have had it all done and running by this time, only tho bnllders could not get matorial fas’, enough.” I ventured to suggest that they liidn’t seemed to want things very fast, and tho gentiemun looked as if he pitied mo. Ho to d me that the Caldwell Hotel was a good thing for the city, even if it were never built; the more di^inRof that hole iu tho ground had «ant up property ail around it over 60 per cent. Probably my ability at figuring is muoh cramped. Anyhow note is a problem that I cannot make como ont as Birmingham seems able to multo it oomo l®i> , " takes from 31 ij to February to build the foundation of one home, how long is it going to take to build a whole city? The right answer—so Birmingham building or no bullish g, the real estate boom goes merrily on. It is claimed, and with app-rtnt jastioe, that the oity gained 1U.0U0 in population in the twelve months just ended Where •re those 19.000 people living? There are few more houses here now than there were “8°. A building boom that booms, that ih what Ilirminqbam Deeds moat, next to a system of drainage that shu 1 empty her yards and her streets of nastiness and ■tenohes. And the need is almost aa urgent on the same score of health’s demands. People are cooped up here aa no people can stay oonped np and stay free of disease. Not in the prospectus? No; but it is true, never theless. "Real estate speculators havo ran the prioe of property up so high," said an in telligent oitiz >n to me the other day, "unit a poor nun can’t afford to have auything like a ceceut bouse unless be lives so far outof town that he has to ride two mnlcs to death to get to his work.” I reposted thia to one ol the controllers of tho land company and ho pooh-poohed it. I urg*d him then to give me some figures that would show Just what a working man could got a home for. Ho did. Tne illust ration he offered was more than ordinarially favor able; he said as much; indeed tho p!;;n ho described, so he told me, was really tlyo out come of speoial generosity upon the land oompany' ■ part, aiming to help tbo work ing peopio along. His own figures I will repeat, and so far as I can, hi.s own words. "We originally laid off oar building bus in that part of the oity snitnblo for work ingmen's homes," be ■ dd, "in plotiof 10O feet by 192 lest. Bat land has gono up so fast that now such • lot, even iu a c jm- psratlvely undesirable pxrt of tho city, will bring $3,000 or $4,000. [ The laud company paid $25 an acre lor it ] Suoh a price, of oonne, puts it beyond tne reaob of tho poor man, for it is nnlhiproved snd ho would have to pay a pretty steep price to built a house upon it. The land company has solved tho problem, thongb, and wo are preparing to build a large uumberof houses which wo propose to soil—lot, building and all—to tbo working people at a very email price and on ooay terms." "What prioe? What terms?" "We will soil a honse and lot together for $1,200 and^give the buyer four years to nay for it in." • r 1 “What sort of a honse?" "W® propose to lake somo of onr lota UiAt are 100 bj 192 feet And ont them up into five smaller lots, each 100 feet deep and about 38 f«et wide. On each small tot we will build a bouse, and the wholo tiling, b ?""®»ad lot eomplete, we will sell for *i| »Wi "How big will the honse be?" “It will have three rooms in it." "How mneb does it cost to bnild such a non*i«d ? „ Vl MI abls to pnt them up very cheap: th ?7 will cost US about $300 apiece/ This u counted generons in Birmingham. More than one man insisted on that Lit os analyx# U n little. The house coats M00; with the lot it oosta $1,200; the ground IteelfUpat in for $900 Aa there are five of these smaller lots mode out of the origt- “ .ai ot '- t ! , !L ori « in,J lot, 100x190 feet, is ■old for $4,000. it doesn’t damage tho land company much to he gentrona, does it? The terms on whioh it is proposod to sell these boaiee provido that $25 must be paid monthly on the cost, and that 8 per cent, interest shall be paid regularly on the debt due to the land company. When 1 looked around Birmingham and saw some of these narrow, mean-looking, three-rcom "ont- I thanked kind heaven that I waa not deptndent on Uirraingham “generosity.** Think of it here and hereabout in limitless scree of land ULimproved, where compare lively there are no nousesand no immediate prospect of booses, here it U deemed big-’ bearudocss to crowd and cram five make- believe homes Into one wee bit of a lot, less than 100x200 feet in extent Yes, and tig- hrarted. too. to charge $1,200 for three low. email, cramped rooms. "We have very peaceful, law abiding workingmen here/’ volunteered the same gentleman, who illustrated this bit of land oompany liberality. "They du not worry us with grievances, and I reckon they are pretty well satisfied" With duo respect, I mast differ a little with him; it was my teak to go in among the workers; I saw them at their work and I sa *r them at their homes. There U going to be a row down hero one of these days if affairs go on as now. Every man now earns a dollar and spends it in Birmingham to-day is paying tribute to the real estate boSmer,‘whose levy of tax is chiefly upon the man who *•“* ran afford to pay it—no who gets but $1 or iu lor a whole day's work. It would be the servioe of x philanthropist to twh every one of these boomers ont b. yond the city limits; their presence here is a throat lhat deserves rank with other evils thtt I'to told about- But of labor, labor's recom- Ptnse, of that mors • little later. A Treasured Bible. The fint Bible used in the Fir-1 Presby terian church in 31 icon was laid upon the pulpit in tece. It hr. me to well worn that uuhm MW 1ms elMiot tMba$h had it rebound, and yt-.ter.Uy it was used iu th- »-rvi • .dm h.g oi US new. The volume is highly tr. aoured by the congre- g&tioa. An Inventor's Advice. Oeora* Slr.-nson whvn tdvLIns younf man how t..,-ton ». .; i noi.il hr —ju.* ■ i... in*,* • t r nru-1. )-*rs t.s plodJad MeblUtf touch** to i b«for« ni\ 11 iO*ott»*. 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