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THE
LY TELEGRAPH
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, GEORGIA TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1.1888—TWELVE PAGES.
VOL. LXIll.NO. 22.
HER DOORS OPEN.
Atlanta Offers to Receive
Refugees.
SEA BEACH.
AN EXTRA TRAIN ASKED FOR.
ending at 6 o’clock p. m., Sept. 1st is: New ' TAT T TT
cases, 23; death, 2; total number of deaths to “ X
j date, 32.
The deaths are: Wm.J. Merritt, formerly ; A Letter Frfttn flip Rev T
n Pullman car conductor and Mrs. II. Il i I -' euer rrom tne A •
Hopkins. Re Witt Taliuage, D, D.
the new cases are: Mary Brewster, Mury ° ’
Roberts, Miss Myrtle Hopkins. P. A. Lor-!
riper, Pope Holland, Lizzie Rainey (colored),
Linnie Turner (colored), Frank L. Solleee,
Jr., Mamie Pennar, John Conifl, Rosa Coniff,
Twenty-Threo New Cn*e« and Two lVsiths
—Meeting of the Association—Notes
from the Sick-Heel—llamiltem
in lfis Own Defense.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 1.—[Special.]—The
THE RAPTURES OF BATHING,
mark, W. J. Merritt, J. E. Smith, Mist
O’Uouke. Frances Robinson (oolored), M. C.
Stephens, John Carroll, Rosa Washington,
Mrs. Cone Williams.
a Those discharged are: Rob Grace, Mrs.
executive committee of the auxiliary assocta" | ochumway, Davis Lloyd, Mrs. Rosenwanger.
tion held their meeting at 10 o’clock io-u»y, r-'o pptfe’nts arc in a critical condition yet.
P. MeQuard vice-president presiding. J. M. hundreds of comfortable rough houses
Schumacher, on behalf of the finance com
mittee, reported the following contributions:
F. B. Pspy, $25; Geo. A. Dccottel, $10.50;
Martin Barly, $5; Robert B. Waisey of
Bsytonia, Fla.,310; J. D. Witchen, $25; M.
C. Ri**> $25; Wilson & Hunting, $100; Rev.
Junes Cadwalader, $10; Judge Jas. M. Baker,
$100; Leroy Myers, $50; L. Stein, $10; E. M.
Randall, $25; William James, $5; J. W.
Dorr, $25.
Mr. Schumacher said that a notice had
been inserted in the paper asking citizens to
enroll their names in the membership list,
and urged the committee to express their
desire for a large membership, especially in
view of the fact that this is a permanent
organization. Mr. Schumacher and the sec-
re aiy read several letters of sympathy and
others of assistance.
UAUILTON’8 MEANING.
Inquiry was made as to what the surgeon-
general meant by his dispatch promising a
special train to Murphy, N. C., and a discus
sion ensued aa to the heat way of obtaining
more information with a view to other places
offering refuge. After ihe matter bad been
referred to the executive committee, with
power to act, acting mayor Archibald re
ceived a telegram from the mayor of Atlanta
offering that place as a refuge, and the pre
vious action was reconsidered and the exec
utive committee waa directed to wire Sur
geon-General Hamilton this fact, and request
that a special train be immediately ordered
to give transportation to our people desiring
to go to Atlanta.
Chairman Loton M. Jones stated the posi
tion of his relief committee io regard to the
J ellow flags, but os the entire matter had
cen referred to the hoard of health hereto
fore, no action was taken.
Judge Jones, on behalf of the board of
health, stated that it was expedient to re
lieve the county jail of as many prisoners as
possible, mi l lie nail sentenced some thirty-
tire or forty prisoners to bard labor, but
that the sheriff has stated that Dr. Henry
Robinson, chairman of the board of board of
county commissioners, hod refused to allow
them to be worked on the hoot recently
Sued up for the chain gau£.
Upon motion, Judge Jones wo. requested
to interview Dr. Robinson and asoertuin if
an arrangement could not be made to work
these men in some way.
D. W. Onley, on beha’f of the colored
auxiliary bureau, recently organis'd slated
the objtri of the bureau lo lie to ass.ii t!
organization ill their work of relief ami
the employment of laborers.
After a few words of appreciation by the
vice-president, J. M, Schumacher moved
that this executive committee accept the aid
tendered by the colored auxiliary bureau
with their thunks, aud that this committee
will consider the practical mode of co-opera
tion, which motion was adopted.
DISPATCH FROU OOF. PRRRY.
The following telegram to CoL Daniel
from Gov. Perry at Tallahassee was then
read: “Surgeon-General Hamilton wires me
general regulations. No quarantine reatrict
tons would spread the yellow lever every
where. He assures me that excur ion trains
will be provided for, persona giving parole
going to definite points in the mountains,
and will co-operate in establishing the new
camp nesr Jacksonville for the poor daises,
ordered for them by the local authorities
Avail yourselves of state aid and United
States aid to relieve the city of Its suscepti
ble population.”
A dispatch waa also read from D. E. Max
well, general superintendent of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company, to the
effect that the bridge over Trout creek near
this city wav out of repair, but that he would
assist In establishing a camp on the western
division of his road, six miles from Jackson
ville. He also asked that the mill men he
solicted to donate lumber and the road will
t>*ni|iort it free of charge. Colonel Max-
w . el ! “J* be will do all he can for the relief
of the afflicted.
Over 160 names have been filed with See-
jctsry Fairlie, and so the prospect is good
for s full train ont to morrow. This whole
■utter has kept our people in a panic for
tbe last week and is to blame for the panicky
feeling that prevails. Many will go to-mor
row who at first intended to remain and
nght it out All this stir, fuss and worry has
completely changed their minds.
Hopkins it quite ill to-day
thief Jones reports all the firemen doing
■ell. Mrs. I. Engle and Mrs. L. T. Fleming
are convalescent. Several bonfires blaxetl
“** night In the northwestern portion ot the
cl % the first for a week.
B. Owen is rendering valuable serviee
here in aiding the relief committees and vis
iting the sick.
tour guards were sent out to the Monerief
bP.""? teingee camp yesterday to keep away
intruders who stroll about there. Mounted
***™o and surburban citizens are on the
■Meh for all persons attempting to enter the
city that have no business here.
RICK-BID NOTES.
It is bop.a itjst p r . iv. L. Baldwin’: Hines
■ill be brief. He Is too valuable as a citizen
(ronM!* ** * pbyaiclan to be absent
bev.y. H. Sharpe reports only twenty-
two of hts members sitk, and all doing well.
. J?”?? of *be prominent Muons were pros-
“ated by fever yesterdsv.
A message from Col. J. J. Daniel’s reii-
Ibis afternoon, reports tbe colcnel
»* ‘Offering from nervous prostration and
“if*™* fever. He is improving.
facetti reports the improved condi-
of editor Carter. He has been sick
•‘i.?* Wednesday last.
uif?®, eunrise until midnight Dr. Nenl
' , *111» receiving visitors at his door and
“iking his portin'. ear and mouth con-
“ally at the telephone. The doctor is one
Mrs. C. Hones, Louisa Hoyt, a colored nurse. . _
Prince Strobert (coloredt. nnrter at Rt | Mingling ot Many gounds—The Ludicrous
ltrcnklng Through tile Grand..-A
Tontc to Strengthen and nu
Anodyne to Soothe.
Prince Strobert (colored), porter nt St. i
Lake’s hospital; a child of L D. Vorder-1
will be erected at once for cities of refuge
for tbe poor a few miles from the city and
several thousand of people, principally col
ored, will Boon be removed. Two camps are
now inhabited and one will be established
six miles north near, Trout creek.
Col. J. J. Daniel, president of the sanitary
association, is resting easily to-de.y. It is
hoped he will soon be convalescent.
The total number of cases reported to date
231; deaths, 32; now under treatment, 1C2.
HAMILTON'S DEFENSE.
He Esplalns the Nature of and the Neces
sity far Hls Quarantine Regulations.
Washington, Sept. 1.—Surgeon General
Hamilton furnishes the following for publi
cation:
To the pnblic: Certain criticisms, mainly
based on misinformation concerning the
present sanitary regulations,'have appeared
in the daily press, and as these criticisms
have a tendency to weaken the hands of the
officers engaged in the prevention of the
spread ot yellow fever, and to induce laxity
in the -maintainaneg of quarantine and
thereby greatly increase the danger to the
whole country, I have thought it expedient
to make a general statement of the condition
of affairs.
The United States government, acting
through its m trine hosspital service, is en
gaged in helping the people of Florida, not
in injuring them, and in particular the
stricken city of Jacksonville has been
treated with the kindly consideration suited
to the calamity which bos befallen it. They
were permitted to go anywhere they desired
to long os tbe disease was confined to cir-
cum-,,-nlii-il nr.-Hs hi tli.- . itv, lint uli.-n tin-
city became generally infected, then tbe ne
cessity of placing certain lestrictions upon
the movements of outgoing persons was ap-
] tarent, and in restricting promiscuous travel
:'rom Jacksonville the bureau Is looking to
the security oi the country.
The dreadful record of the ravages of yel
low fever along the railroad lines leading
out of New Orleans in 1878, where there
were over 13,000 persons affected with yel
low fever, of whom nearly 7,000 died, is too
fresh in memory lo risk its repi-titimi along
the Atlantic seaboard. The extension of tbe
disease to Memphis in 1273, whore nearly
3,000 persons died of yellow- fnver, might
have been prevented lind there been any
thority to restrirt travel by proper quar
antine. It maybe a (earful alternative to
pel persons from .la- k-'mville to remain
within it camp of refuge for a period of tell
lays before nllowed to go at will, but that
alternative is humane in comparison with
the results which would follow the ad
mission of the contagion into all the sea]mrts
and southern cities, each of which in a short
time would itself lieeciiiie n new centre of
infection. The government has not nt any
time established a strict cordon sauitaire
all nit tin- city of .hn-h-onvilli-, lull lias
opened a camp of refuge In a high locality
and furnished free rations to those who are
detained. It also authorized, at a large ex
pense, the building of 200 pine cabins to
shelter those poor people who are drlveu
out of the Infected localities, nnd it is willing
to provide for the further relief of Jackson
ville by furnishing transportation by special
excursion trains to any definite point that
is eafe and hts opened its doors, but there
sre few places willing to receivt large
iiiinil" r- of refugee'. While it i» probably
true that the body of a healthy person does
not carry the contagion, bis clothes do carry
it, and baggage packed in an infected house
is dangerous in the extreme. Fumigation
stations have been established at proper
points, aud all baggage will be fumigated
whiclt comes from uny infected city. I do
not think, therefore, that there cun he nny
reasonable ground of complaint.
John B. Hamilton.
TUB HATH COMMITTEE.
No Action Taken on Ihe Grinin and Melon
Grower's Demauit.
Atlanta, Aug. 30.—The rate commit
tee of the Southern Railway and Steam
ship Association which has been in session
for two days concluded its labors this after
noon and adjourned. No definite action
was taken upon the request of the board of
trade of Griffin for the same rates from
westero points as are given Macon, or
upon the petition from the melon growers
ol Georgia asking for better facilities for
handling the melon crop ol next year. All
of this matter had to be left open until the
next meeting of the committee so that cer
tain lines outside of the association could
be conferred with.
As is well known in railroad and com
mercial circles, the Louisville and Nish
ville, the Cincinnati Southern, the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rmilrosda,
at a meeting of the association held in
New York a short time ago, refused to
sign the new agreement and become mem
bers of good standing in the association.
These lines are still on tbe outside, and as
they will have to be parties to snything
that is dune in connection with either the
request of the Griffin board of trade or of
the Georgia melon grosers, they will have
to be consulted and a satisfactory agree-
m»nt reached between than and the asso
ciation before answers can be given tbe pe
titioners.
As to what will be the result of the re
quest made by Griffin, none ot the mem
bers of the association seem to know. With
reference to • the petition of tbe melon
growers the popular opinion seems to be
that their demands will be complied with
and that among thi other requests made
The*Rev. T. De AVitt Talmage, D. D.,
of Brooklyn substitutes a vacation letter
on “The Jolly Sea Beach” for his inter
mitted talk of this week.
Shakespeare has been fiercely mauled by
the critics for confusion of metaphor in
speaking of taking up “arms against a sea
oi troubles.” The smart fellows say, how
could a man take up “arsis against a
In other words, it is not possible to shoot
the Pacific ocean. But what Shakespeare
suggcstsjisj’this jocuud’mornmg, beingdone
all around the coast from Florida to N<
found land, especial regiments going out
from Cape May, Long Branch, East Ham;
ton, Newport and Nahnnt; ten thousand
bathers, with ltand^ thrown into the air,
“taking np arms against the sea.” But
the old giant has only to roll over once
on his bed of seaweed and all this attacking
host are flung prostrate upon the beach
The sensation of sea bathing is about
the same everywhere. First jyou have th
work of putting on the appropriate dress
sometimes wet and chill from the previous
bathing. You get into the garments cau
tiously, touching them at asi.fgw points as
possible,your face askew, af tljfritlt a swift
draft of breath through yrvicee^ont teeth,
punctuating the final looaster cltof each
sleeve and fold with a sp..smileu “Olt!’
Then having placed your wayck where no
villainous straggler may he Induced to ex
amine it to see whether lie (can get to th
depot in time for the next train, you isstt
forth ingloriously, your head down in
consciousness that you are catting a very
sorry figure oefore the world. Barefoot as
a mendicant, your hair disheveled in the
wind, the stripes on Tour clothes strongly
suggestive of Sing Stng, your appearance,
a caricature of humankind, you wander
up and down the beach a creature that the
THE CHINESE TREATY.
No Oftl'-lal Notice of Its Rejection Received
Mt Ihe State tlenartnient.
Washington, Sept 1.—No official iufor-
atiou ot the rejection of the Chinese treaty
has t >een received at the state department
tnd nothing beyond the press dispatch ca-
bled last night from London and published
this morning is known on the subject.
Friends of the administration say the treaty
contained arrangements with China which
the British government was inoRt anxious to
Bake for itself and British intiueuce, to the
axtent of the power of that government) to
•ecu re the rejection of the treaty by China
his been apprehended by them. For this
reason the amendments to the treaty after it
.had received the deliberate approval of
China through its minister here, although
regarded as entirely unnecessary and use
less, were yet believed to lie dangerous and
mischievous and to imperil the great objects
fought to be obtained upon our side in the
pong pending negotiations to settle an im
portant question.
When President Cleveland came into
power a very excited and unsatisfactory
state of things existed on the Pacific coast
regarding the Chinese question, and one of
the earliest important tasks which Secretary
Buvard set for himself upon assuming the
duties‘of his present oflice was to secure the
negotiation ot a new treaty.
After months of negotiation the result
^ as one which was believed by the negotia
tors on both sides to meet the substantial
requirements of the governments they
represented. The treaty was at once tram*
muted to China for approval (in March last),
and nothing was heard from that govern
ment to indicate any lack of entire approval.
Fiity-seven days af>er the Senate received
the ’ treaty it was ratified, but with
mendments which the friends of the admin-
{ration regard as superfluous. The Secretary
Of* State reopened negotiations and sue
* ceded, after some correspondence, in secur
lug from the Chinese miuister his assent to
tin Senate amendment, his assent being in
the form of an exchange of notes which em-
b<> tied, in substance, an acknowledgment
that the amendments did not alter the text
of die treaty as it had beeu originally signed.
There seemed to be however, in the
mirnl of the minister an impression
that China had been trifled with, and
when the amendments were sent out to
China, the proceeding was not understood
by the high authorities of that government
who, by e ible, asked if power still remained
with the Senate to amend tbe treaty, the
Chinese authorities wishing to know if tliey
Were dealing with fin-iliiy. To this the
Secretary <•! State replied in once that the
ould not not be further amended.
THE BAGGING TRUST.
How it was Formed to Gouge
tlie Planters,
GRATZ TELLS ALL ABOUT IT.
Number of MH1<t Included in the Combine
and Their Productive Capacity— How
Priest Were Advanced—The
Trust's Contract.
Al . , .. Nothing further has been heard on the sub-
'.u«.vT „Vr _ j but it is thought by the friends of the
jmuv. .>.cr.t.T *77*25 -C c.:r..:c r... ^^wsaministration that to tot natural course of
the sei is unwilling to take. Blit you are jgvenu the stringent measures introdued into
consoled by the fact that all the rest are as congress designed to carry into effect, by re
mean and forlorn looking as yourself; and ciprocatiom the provLious of the treaty
so you wade in, over loot top, unto the have been brought to the attention of the
knee, and waist deep. The water is icy Chins • government ami it has beeu apple-
colci, so that your teeth chatter ami vour heaHcfi that these steps respecting
frame quakes, until you make a bold diyyrf* treaty not yet formally agreed to and eon-
Rev. Wnt. ij. Dodge say. he ha. no eick
hie ebarch folk.. '
Bubop Moore came lo the fit, Uat night
■l**" 1 * 0 work aroontf the Catholic tick.
sgaivitiSt.'Srft^a^K’s
f»I\k 7 • letter complimenting the eilixena
, j, T r **i«tanee to yellow fever ami offers
■“nation of ten cawe of milk, lo —*
fee* of all expen.e.,
OFFICIAL III 1.I.KTIN.
r *-»tJ.Three N.w Cm... ,
tTleU.torN.v. c,,..
.i >c «mtlUA, NepLl
■*! bulletin lor the I
, ml Two O.alh.-
-IllKluriMl.
— >p-t 14I. —'1 he
wenty four hours
jj^commeiidail'jog'iri. patience* mid for* reduction ol 33j per cent, will be allowed
33$ pet
in the rate, end that in comideration of
thi. all freight, will either lie prepaid or
do*oi iwrv«, *.avs served to a
£ further ombaraaNinents and led to further
^ vdoubt* on t>arl of the Chinese authorities
ami in a moment the tea and
friends and you are not certain wh ;l . rjhloubU on p
u have surrendered to the octyn/i-r. o«hj- , 1U -ultimate )»u n
eatt has surrendered to you. yt-r, V a* .ought witli HecreUry
At thia point begin the rupture* "-'--1 , jfyaradtht. morning on til.- auhjeet, hut tin
tug. You have left tbe world on -retary declined to express himself fo
beach, ami you are naught up in the nriil’ r .’ tldieution, beyond stating that no iufornm
of experience that you never feel on land. Vtion has been received on the subject by the
If voa are far enough out tbs hreaklu - d» n *rtn!i!it. “it St Sr true that Uklna ha:
valle
you *
wave curves over yon like a roof inlaid
and prismatic, bending down on the other
side of you ip layers of chalk and drifts
sf snow, and the lightning flash of the
foam ends in the thunder of the falling
wave. You fling aside front your arm* as
worthless amethyst, emerald and chryso-
prose. ‘Youtfears are tilled with the haloof
sporting elements, and your eyes with all
tints and tinges and double dyes and liquid
emblazonment. Y’ou leap and shout and
clap your hands and tell the billows to
come on, and in {excess of glee greet per-
sons you never saw before and never will
again and never want to, nnd act eo wildly
that others would think you demented
but that they also are si fully let loose, so
that ii there be one imbecile there is a
whole asylum of lunatics.
It is astonishing bow many sounds min
gle in the water; the faint squall of the
affrighted child, the shrill shriek of the
lady just introduced to the uproarious
hilarities, the casouse ot the diver, the
snort of the half strangled, the clear gig
gle of maidens, the hoarse bellow of
swamped obesity, the whine of the cottva-
l.scent invalid, the yell of unmixed de
light, the te-hce and squeak of the city
exquisite learning how tut laugh out loud,
the splash of the brine, the cachinnation
of a hand of harmless savages, the stun of
the .urge on your right ear, the hiss of the
surf, the saturnalia of the elements; while
overpowering all other sounds are the
orchestral harmonies of the sea, which
roll on through tbe ages, all shells, all
winds, all caverns, ill billows heard in
the oratorio of the creation.”
But while bathirg the ludicrous will
often break through the grand. Swept
hither and thither, you find moving in reel
and cotillon, saraband and rigadoon and
hornpipe, Quakers and Presbyterian, who
are down on the dance. Your sparse cloth-
in,; t.els the stm* of the wives amt you
think what an awful thing it would be if
the girdle should burst or a button break
and >ou should have, ont of respect to tlie
feeling, of others, to go up Ihe beach side
wise or backward or on your hands and
knees.
Close betide you in the surf is a judge
ef th: court sf appeal:, with a garment
on that looks like bis grandmother’s night
gown just lifted from the wash tnb and not
yet wrung ont. On the other side is a
maiden with a twenty-five cent straw hat
an a hea 1 that ordinarily supports a hun
dred dollars’ worth of ntilinery. Yonder
is a doctor of divinitr with hi* head in
tbe sand and his feet beating tbe air, trav
eling heavenward, while his right hand
clutches his wife’s foot, as much as to sty:
“My feet are useless in this emergency;
give me the benefit of yours.”
“Now a stronger wave, :or which none
are reader, dashes in, and ’with it tumble
ashore, in one great wreck of hnmanitv, I te
small craft and large, stout hnlk and swift [ co
clipper, helm first, topsail down, fori -tay j
sail in utters, keel np, everything gone to I P’
pieces in the swash of-he-itrg< . |
Ob, the glee of sea bathing! It
tail the treaty,’* the Secretary added,
Why, we have the former treaty .till in
(oree, with the restrictive legislation now on
tatute books.”
HOT SPRINGS DELUGED.
A Witter Spout Strike, tlie City Csuilng
Death anil Destruction of Property.
Hot Si-kings, Ark., Aug. 31.—To-day is
an epoch in the history of Hot Springs. The
city i. gutted. Ruin and wreck meet the
vision everywhere and nothing like it hat
been known to coraparj with the results ot
storm, which occurred last night too latq to
he telegraph. It was a water apoutandthe
swept with a mighty tidal wave.
The loss to property is fearful, while th-
tacrifii-e of human life is, under the circuuie
.tanre., appalling.
Swift and terrible was the visitation.
Without warning the peoule were awakened
from alumber to find themselves threatened
with destruction by mad waves. Strange to
relate, few people were conscious of
the terrible disaiter till they woke
to look upon the desolate scene tnii morn
ing and drug the drowned from the waters.
The storm struck the town about It o’clock
last night front a northwesterly direction. It
was accompanied by a stiff cool wind, though
not strong enough to produce damage.
Haiti fell in torrents from 11 to
1 o'clock without cessation. Indeed, those
who witnessed the awful scene describe it
ns one never before aeen by them. Vivid
Hashes of lightning diapiayeJ, os it were,
great sheets of falling water.
TROPIC PRUtr TRUST.
The Story ot a Rig Corner From Atlanta,
via Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 31.—A special from
Atlanta, Ga., sayi: Tropical fruit men have
combined and coniutuert will be unable to
get a single banana, wive through the coun<
try of the trust which waa organized in New
Orleans thi* week.
A few days ago a circular wai *ent to
all fruit men in the country calling
lh e ® to a secret conference
lo New Orleans. It was signed by six of the
largest frait houses in that city. There a
trust was formed representing combined
capitul of $19,000,000. It will purchase the
»iT* “T*! 4 " 55 -rtciscrr. °iz
million dollars has been adranced bj Lon
don capitalists to bnild railroads in llondu-
rat ann elsewhere 10 as to concentrate the
fruit market at certain select shipping
points.
hnb straw iiAuuuro.
The New Substitute for Jute Bagging
Busses all tlie Teste Successfully.
Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 31.—A bale of
cotton lias been received here covered with
pine straw bagging manufactured by a man-
ay of this city
It at
*dg
It passed all
rily, Including that of the
J, it s believed, will answer all
of jute bagging at much lower
guaranteed by the shippers. The Win-
tion, through some of iu leading members, the apathetic. It pseU t e
say that the melon grower- U.ve tattle out «•* P r ** m ‘ t,c * L “ “ b » UM "
an exceedingly strong ease, and that they
should be allowed the relief asked for.
You Will He t
From the Chloco Her
“Eightv-four dai
v>... n.-iiiinati-il at.-!
lance,” sight
or»y Vou Spoke,
ltd.
- -ince Mr. CUveltn
-till nil letter iif aii'j
*an of IlnrriM.u. Yl
letter of
hen the President')
i. written the republicans will
hxil neter been written at all.
<ve fits nee
•h that it
pragmatical. It la balsamic fur
tat wounds. It ia a tonic fur tin
need ilrenclh ami an anodyne i
w i.rc-, ire -- ttbing,and a fehri
th e who want their blood cooled;
up for mind- pumped dry. n brei
tlie su;>enititiou-*, with endlcM roa
id to the cb
and :
ilious
who
those
Huil tor I.t
B. Litcht
it K t, ijz tit -i
He
lilt*- him
remind.
Mttri I.
i*eat K
ere the morning run gild, t
eater-, and there i- iiiread before him
« of glam mingled with tire.' "Thy
■nt, i.- in lite rea, and thy jiuth in I and I
>f M .in.-, wh
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Washington, Aug. 31.—Anderson Gratz
of St. Louis, Mo., was called as the first wit
ness before House committee on manufac
tures to-day in its inquiry into the alleged
cotton bagging trust.
He said he was engaged in the bagging
stuff business in St. Lonis as a member of
tha firm of Warren, Jones & Gratz. The
business included the making of cotton ties
for binding cotton. He Baid he was also a
member of two corporations engaged in the
same business, one located in Muncie, Ind.,
and the other at Champaign, Ills. Cotton
bagging, lie said, was manufactured out of
the jute stalk. The number of firms in the
country engaged in tbe business at present
is eight, as against fifteen at the same time
last year.
IIAGOING PRODUCTION.
The entire production of cotton bagging in
1887 was abopt 45,000,000 yards. Warren
Grady & Co. of St. Lonis were agents in
that city of the Southern Mills, a bugging
company, and the Stamlard Mills Co. of the
same city. It had no interest in these firms
beyond acting as egents.
The variation in prices of two pound bag
ging from 1877 to 1887 has been front 10$(
cents per yard iu 1877 to 11)4 cents in 1880
and 7K in 1837. The price of jnte butts has
been lower this August than any August
price for the last ten years.
VARIATION OF PRICE,
The price of cotton bagging during Au-
gust has varied from It cents to 12)4 cents
per yard. Witness estimated that the cot
ton crop of this year would require about
450,500,000 yards of cotton bagging, nnd it
was expected that the total output ot all
mills now running, up to the time when they
stop in November next, would he over
50,000,000 yards. Gratz said that the pro
ductive capacity of the cotton bagging mills
in tlie west was 25 per cent, greater titan the
mills in the cast.
TRe employes in the west were mostly of
Bohemian paientage, and were paid slightly
inure titan those in tlie east.
The witness said there were considerable
quantities of cotton bagging coining to this
country, hut he did not think the foreign
mill, would in- able to bring Hifih-ieut cotton
bagging to this country this year to prevent
tlie nnlc of tiiMk neiu Here. Ciilliruciurs
abroad bad their hands full. There were
twenty-four jute mills in 1 ml ia, having 8,337
loams on Jan. t, 1887, which could produce
ten nr fifteen times the amount ot cotton
hugging needed for the cotton crop of the
United States.
THE COM [UN K CONTRACT*.
The number of contracts be tv, cell the u
of Warren, Jones and Gratz, ns agents of
other firms and other cotton bagging firms in
the United States, were produced with a
view to having the step taken by the several
cotton bagging manufacturing firms to con
trol their productions nnd to provide for its
sales at stipulated prices.
Tlie object of the agreement was to enable
tbe parties to it to obtain control of the cot
ton bagging produced in this country for
the present season. The trust has secured
control of about two thirds of the cotton
bagging in the country, the remaining third
—16,000,000 yards—being produced hr per
sons who are not in any wny connected with
tbe trust. The contracts show that the
agreement is between the firm of L. Water-
bury <Sc Jo., of New Yotk city, party of the
first part, and the Charleston Bagging Man
ufacturing Company, Nevins A Co., of Box-
Inn, Mu--.; New Ymt Ragging Company,
the Eagle Mills, Southern Mills Bagging
Cuutpuuy, Muncie Bagging Manufacturing
Company and the Empire IiaggiugCompany,
parties of the second part.
TUB AGREEMENT.
The parties of the second part agreed to
sell and deliver to L. Waterbury A Co. all
their bagging then on hand, as well as such
as might thereafter be acquired nr manufac
tured by them respectively during the re
mainder of the year 1888. The firm of L.
Waterbury A Co. acts at the center of cor
respondence, through which proposed in
crease and redaction ia price is brought
about. It is agreed that profits and loss of
parties of tlie several parts shall he shared
In proportion. The sales ami prices of cot
ton bagging are determined by a majority of
the members of the second [.art. The agree
ment went into efiect on April 16
last. Since then two mills
signing th* agreement have failed
to start suit probably a dozen or more out
side ot tbe trust closed down previously and
•ince the agreement was consummated. The
first set price of cctton bagging was made in
New York bv the trust about tbe tbe middle
of July, at the propositi A of the witness.
Niue and a halt cents was then fixed as tbe
price. On Jan. 1, last, the productive ca
pacity of Warren, Jones A Gratz, in con
junction with the several firms which they
represented, was two-thirds of all the pro
ductive cepacity of the sontb, but they
actually produced seven-eighths of all that
was producod in tbe south.
TUB LATH ADVANCES.
Since the price fixed in July members of
tbe trust hid advauced the price of cotton
bagging in this country three cents higher
than thst at which foreign manufactured
production could be brought here, Inclnsive
of freight charges. This, lie said, was due to
the fact that th* production of material in
this country was confined to a few firms,
l’robably 60 per cent, of this year’s cotton
bagging product was in the hands of retail
dealers and the other 40 per cenL in the
hands of manufacturers. If the duty on cot
ton bagging and jnte were not changed, the
witness was satisfied that the trust would go
out of existence, and if these article
were admitted free the firm-
wonld doubtless run a corner
every other year. The needs of the pla
were absolute and Imperative and lie must
htx - e bagging, tn> matter what thecostwn- to
him. During the last three
was little cotton bagging imported, tli
CHAT WITH .IXV GOULD.
He Ilelieve* in Honem Newspaper Crttii turn
end ta Free Wcot.
From the New York World.
“I intend to play much more and to
work much less in the future than I have
in tlie past,” said Jay Gould to the World’s
representative last evening. “The onlv
business to which I ant now giving atten
tion,” he continued, “is the business of
gelling well. I do not object to newspa
per criticism that has about it the
semblance of fairness. Indeed, I’m
not sure but that what the papers
have said against me hax done me mere
food than the praises they have at times
jestowed. You see,” he continued, smiling
pleasantly, “a man who becomes rich anil
successful in life needs to be taken down a
little occasionally. If he received only
praise Iti- bend m : ght get too big- lie
might think himself a great man. So, on
the whole, I think criticisms have been of
more real belefit tome than praise.”
I apprehend no serious injury to tho
business interests of the country, no
matter which political party wins,” was
Mr. Gould’s answer to a question on that
point. “It is always claimed in every
political campaign by each party that
the success of the opposition means
destruction to the industries of the
counlrv, but I notice thst after election
every tiling goes on nicely. Now, I believe,
for instance, that ‘free wool’ will benefit
rather than injure our manufacturers
engaged in that branch of industry,
for it will give them, free of duty, the raw
material from England nnd Australia,
where the quality is very fine, to'mix with
the commoner grade grown here. If the
wool imported were of equal grade with
ours the efiect might be different; but it is
much superior. Yes, I think everything
will go along prosperously after the first
week of next November.”
The Imluntrlal Outlook.
From the Hallway Review.
The volume of businebs in iron, steel,
machinery, boilers, engine?, electrical ap
pliances, and building materials of ail
kinds, as well as the demand for heavy
tools for ininii g and manufacturing pur-
pcbcs, has increased within the labt week
very greatly in e aft tern and western manu
facturing centers. The southern manufact
urers are in a better condition than they
have been since the industrial activity set
in in the soutb.*There is a large amount of
manufacturing done in the far west, and
the capacity of the newly-established con
cern# there is pretty well taxed for mate
rial**, aud supplies and equipments for the
winter. The pioneeni in tho pjttnblifihmentnf
industries in the far west have been much
encouraged during the last three months
by the amount of orders received for im
mediate execution. Throughout the New
England and middle (date* there is a con-
siderable activity in the btnaller manu
facturing establishment*, and in a smaller
jmrceiklftgo of ihe higer. iu ihe rail mills
there is hut little work accumulated. Iu
most of the rolling mills throughout the
east there is but little work on hand. In
h good many large establishments manu
facturers are waiting for orders nnd mak
ing up stock. Tlie pig-iron production is
now 118,000 tons per week throughout the
COQ!Ur v . Imnnrfntinnj nf foreign Iron
steel material nre insignificant. Ameri
can billets are iu active demand for an
increasing variety of purposes. The gen
eral trade conditions favorable and the
volume of business is increasing percepti
bly. Kail road earnings show a mini! in-
creafe over last year. The volunrj of * *-
exchanges, it is believed, will increase
steadily from now on. The trade and
financial conditions generally are on a
solid foundation. Gross earnings for July
were fur from unsatisfactory, although not
showing gains that might have been
wished for. The aggregate gains of the
reporting roads were less than a million
dollars, but this gain was made upon the
figures of July, 1887, which were more
than two millions ahead of the earnings of
July, 1887, and the earnings of July, 18SG,
showed gains over the earnings of the
same mouth of 1885 of more than
three millions. We can, accordingly, find
considerable satisfaction in the July gains
of thi> year, based as they are upon such
fine showings of previous years. The 102
roads reporting for July of this year earned
altogether, according to the* figures of
the Financial Chronicle, a total of
•' I- 1. Hgain»t 17‘i, dio* ing a
gain of $840,003. This gain is not quite a.s
well distributed as might be wished for:
fully a third of the 102 roads reported
decreased earnings. The showing alto
gether is, however, pleasing, made as it is
upon very heavy totals oi previous [July;
moreover, as the Chronicle 8ays, “the
roads did not have tbe advan
tage of a very active stale of geu-
eral trade—that is to say, things
were rather quiet, with little special ac
tivity. though the volume of business must
have been large, for the heavy railroad
earnings are a proof o! that, especially
when a representative road like the New
York Central is able to show improvement
on last year.” July’s figures enable totals
for the first seven months of the year to be
made up. The 100 road* reporting for this
period earned $109,*588,427, against $1G2,»
557,279 during the corresponding period of
1887, showing an increase of $7,029,148.
This is not large, and it should be stated
that nearly 40 per cen . of the 100 roads
re-i.t .rt.-tl .l.-t-r.- - Hut tin* «/, n**r*l r.imli.
lions have been so far from unfavorable
that the showiug is quite gratifying.
Immigration ThU Tear.
From tbe Philadelphia Record.
The number of immigrants arrived at
the principal ports of the United Slates
during this year up to July 21 was357,125.
Of these 113,899 were from Great Britain,
67,832 from Germany, 55,526 from Austro-
II:,! . tv. lr< in Sweden and Nor
way, and 38,740 from Italy. The remain
der were from various countries. O.it of
the admixture of races which is a-»ured to
ibis country by this variegated stream we
may hope in the end, under the benign in
fluence of liberal government, to raiup
t!.<- ;jr«Mt Ar:u-rit :tn rare, a people tit for
the commanding place they occupy * n t!.e
earth, in whose veins meet and mix th'
blood of all tin
! tii
•tic supply being equal to tlii
Charles A. Pearce of*:.
»h»- t -i.trd oi direutorti of thr
B«ir.riiig Co., 'mr of the ooucerm
in the tru*t, fttibacrihed get:trail
leuuind. I his*to
dominant peopl
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A Otfemt«r of Trunta.
biUdclphla Record,
r York Hun is a consistent ad-
I to-ate of a protective tariff. Like Mr.
i Blaine. *t» ing that trusts are thw natural
| othpring of protection, it defends them,
spank it Karel ! Hing given >belter to the* mother i>ear
: I the Mernphu AvaUache. f it i.*» not mean enough to deny the cubs. In
..rite- of the cotton planter*, i f n-rth I this respect the Hun shines bright indeed
>rgia are wrapping their cotton in pine I by cutupariaon with it* protectionist- con-
rd». Anything to spank the pool. | temporaries.