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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12.
THE TWTCE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
CARS USED FOR STORAGE
IN PLACE OF STORES
it Sunday,
’’ He ai
iging to.
man
l eish
Archhl
pendent
ra, anno
would bfi
marriage
would tx
re ejected
•e of impeding
>p YHatte, head of the iride-
tholle movement In Amerl-
'ed that a-priest hereafter
ady to officiate at baptisms,
jnd deaths and that mass
elcbrattd dally.
'UANTA. Feb. 10.—In almost any
r you pick up these days you will
lumbermen, owners of mines, man-
lurers. and in fact, every • other
of shippers complaining that the
>ads will not furnish them with a
-lent number of cars to keep their
ral enterprises going, and that in
^a7s n mon^H- ar Th°se n peo^°e U ^Ver
to see where the trouble Is, and
the roads are slow in furnishing
but plunge right into the subject,
roast the roads fore and aft for
meeting the demands of the shlp-
and meeting them as promptly as
are made with any kind of equlp-
The common carriers are expected
o be. on top to answer all demands at
panions. I a moment’s notice and if not the man-
Young ! agement is rotten and should be
irrested | changed at once, even If Government
> r ;v of i ownership has to be resorted to. :
I Well, it doea not cost much to abuse
the roads, and as it seems popular, the
newspapers very generally are glad to
have stuff of that kind to publish as
It makes them solid with the "down on
the corporation element."'
Now if tho people who are complain
ing of not being supplied with enough
ears to handle their business will come
lanfa and investigate the cause of
f will find at least one
why the roads are short
icri-
impossible to handle it. IVe do not
think the press should indulge in harsh
Or unjust criticisms, unless they point
out where improvements can be made.
The road is being double tracked as
fast as labor can do it. Cara are being
put into service as fast as they can be
turned out of the shops.
“To reduce the possibility of acci
dents like the unfortccate one at
Lawyers, the Southern Is putting on a
system of block house inspection. Mr.
Finley is a man who keeps an eye on
the minutest .details, and ho is work
ing hard to secure and maintain a
good condition on the system. It.'can
not he done at once, and the public
can rest assured that it Will be done
as fast as men and -means can do it.
IVe were fifteen hours late this morn
ing: nothing but exceptionally heavy
traffic caused it. The country is very
prosperous: that is the main cause."
5^ f*, * r to Atlanta and in
fi! I i - 1 the trouble, they
fr E t ^ f good reason why
I» 8 I 3 ■ J ; of cars.
IIUIIL. Cars Use
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 10.—
Advices received here, are to the efTect
that it was President Bonilla, of Hon
duras, who broke the treaty of Corlrt-
to (which provides for the arbitration
of questions in dispute between the
Central American republics) and that
as a result -of this tho tribunal which
was sitting at San Salvador in art .en
deavor to settle the differences be
tween Nicaragua and Honduras was
dissolved.
PANAMA, Feb. 10.—Francisco J.
Herbosa. Chilean minister to the Cen
tral American republics, who is in this
city on his way to Valparaiso, said to
(he Associated Press today:
"Before my departure from Costa
311 ca last Wednesday. I offered my
eervioes to arbitrate the questions in
dispute between Honduras and Nica
ragua in case the San Salvador tribu
nal could not reach an acceptable de
cision, Both President Bonilla, of Hon
duras, and President Zelaya, of Nica
ragua, wired me such conciliatory mes
sages that I left believing firmly* that
war. between the two republics would
not result.”
• CHATTANOOGA. Feb. 10.—A mass
theetlng of women was held at the
First Baptist Church this afternoon Toy
the purpose of protesting against the
printing In the daily papers of the re
volting details in the Thaw murder
case and all other criminal court pro
ceedings of like nature. The audito
rium of the church was filled with
women, .while only a few men were
present. A sh’rt address was made by
Mayor W. L. Frlersen.
The protest. It was stated, was made
"in the interest of the sanctity of our
homes and the purity of our children
and to protest against the minute and
detailed account given in the daily pa
pers of the sensational and scandalous
proceedings of the criminal court."
Mayor Frlersen in his address
stated that the reports of the Thaw
trial were disgusting and disgraceful
In their detail. He said some of the
news agencies had gone too far in their
accounts.
Tho : meeting today followed a preli
minary meeting Friday when two
prominent club women were appointed
to draw up formal protest to be pre
sented at today’s meeting.
ed for Storage.
Just come to Atlanta, and visit the
I new freight .yards of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad on
Hunter street almost directly in front
of the State house, and there you will
| find a dozen or more tracks covered
I With hundreds of box and flat cars,
that have been converted Into wore-
I houses, and wholesale and retail stores.
| These cars are loaded with coal, wood,
lumber, apples, cabbages, turnips.
• onions, and almost every other class of
freight, and some of them are held by*
the consignees and used as warehouses
and. stores until .their contents are dis
posed of. . •
I Under the demurrage rules of th:
commission, a consignee is allowed tae
free use of a can* for two days, after
he is . served with notice that the car
has arrived. The two days are allow
ed for unloading them. Then a demur
rage charge of one dollar a day can be
collected by the roads and at this rate
the consignee can keep the car for a
month if he wants to. All of this time
the roads are out of‘the use of their
equipment, and the shippers are heap-,
ing all kinds of abuse Upon their heads,
charging the management with incom
petency and oft times criminal negli
gence.
Serve Customers from Cars.
An investigation of the manner In
which the consignees, who have
freight turned over to them in the
Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis
freight yards, will show that the coal,
wood and lumber dealers fill the or
ders -of their customers, direct from the
cars, and hold the cars until they have
disposed of the entire shipment. They
argue that it is cheaper to them to
pay a dollar a day for demurrage than
it would be to dray the .stuff to their
vards, and then haul it a second time
when it is sold, and believing this all
of them have practically adopted this
system of doing'business.
The consignees, who receive ship
ments of apples, potatoes, cabbages,
turnips arid other such freights con
duct their business in pretty much the
same plan. The only exception is that
they hang about their cars, ready to
sell their stock In any desired quan
tlty to consumers, peddlers, or mer
chants. You can buy five cents worth
of apples from them, or you can buy
them in quantities of a peck, bushel
or barrel, just any old yyiy, so • long
as the apples go. and the money is
paid over for them. Such stock as ap
ples. cabbages, potatoes, turnips, etc.,
comes In.bulk, and.they are if so de
sired by the purchaserssacked, crated
or packed in barrels, arty quantity.
During the day. if the weather is
warm or spring-like, they can be seen
seated in front of their warehouses
on wheels, basking in the sun, waiting
for customers, .and In winter when, it
Is cold, some of them build fires in
front of their cars so as to’keep com
fortable while -vyaitlng for trade,
Use Cars for Eecf Rooms.
It Is even said* that some of these
traders sleep in their cars at night, so
as to. be there at an early hour in
the, morning, and probably also
a matter of economy. The.se cars are
all of the places of business they have,
and they are dirt cheap at a dollar
a day., as compared with the rent of
a store, where gas and electric light
bills. Insurance and dozens of other
item; of expense have to be met.
And while this thing is going on
in, Atlanta and other big cities all
over the country the mill men, mine
owners and large shippers are roast
ing the railroads for not furnishing
them cars. The roads would doubtless
be glqd to furnish the cars if they
could, as by keeping them moving with
freight they can make much more’ than
one dollar a day. the amount they are
erifltiefl to as a charge for demurrage.
There are, of course, other reasons
I for thfp -scarcity Of ca-rs. given out by
the. people who are closely connected
• with transportation lines, or who are
in close touch with almost every
movement that they make.
1 H. C. Prlebe.. of Chicago, president
I of a large equipment company In that
I city, who was In Atlanta a short time
ago. In discussing one of the principal
causes of the shortage of rolling stock,
said: .
Freight Cars in Chicago.
“In the Chicago yards alone." said
he. "there are some 30,000 freight cars
rendered unfit for service on account
qtdiugeut nMiMASipr
ulninutiil unuiiiflBbt
fiuAlRuT
leading linrs in that country he found HISTORY OF FRENCH
1
By BRIDGES SMITH.
I am a bit puzzled this Mnorplng.
Some lady, probably the mqther tof a
hoy just arrived at the forks of. the
road, writes me:
the roadbed so bad that the rolling
and tossing of the cars racked them to
I pieces, and one day he and his com-
I panions shifted from the PullniRii to
! the day coach and back again for fear
j that the cars would turn over.
; Alongside the tracks were new rails
I and new ties. but.the officers toid them
j that labor was so sc tree that they had
• found it impossible to lay the new ma-
i terials. Some days ago a Moditer-
■ ranean fruit importer told me that his
not one bit better than the boy of my , a Events in Turkey had written him
day. After all, it is all in the boy, no , that there was a scarcity of labor and
matter how many temptations for evil* j that wages were so much higher than
EPISCOPATE ADDRESS
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FAKTP, Feb. in.- The Temps today
prims what it declares in bn the true
history of the address of the French
Episcopate proposing model contracts.
for churches. According to this ac
count. which heirs internal evidence of
being authentic, the TJltra-Montaines.
who arc In the majority in the Episco
pate. favored the maintenance of the
status quo. but agreed to submit to
no mutter how pie
, . ... , - — - —■ , the Vatican the question of contracts
. ... - iru :lnrt 1110 ; formerly in that country that it was which the Moderates proposed in the
Do you think the boys, oftoday are } home influence is, no matter how poor j thls year difficult to secure sufficient j belief that it would not be acceptable
labor, to pack figs. In South America } there. Mpnslgnor Pad- :•-. archbishop
Bishop Touchet took the
worse than the boys of your day,
do you think they are better?"
and humble or how miserable the
■ home Is. That parent who has a bad ; t f, e c ame conditions are existing, and j of Dijon, an
| boy is unfortunate and deserves sym- j chill and other countries are making minutes to
good
An off-hand answer would be that ! pa thy. That parent who has
the boys of today are better, because I boy is fortunate, indeed,
there rises up plainly lu view the fact ! • • •
that the world has advanced very Fop the parent who has a weak boy,
much since I. was- a-thoy. that edude- : just arrived at the forks of the road,
tionai advantages have multiplied' an ready to go to the right or to the left,
hundredfold, and in fact every' other but leaning to the left. I would, were
enlightening, civilizing, refining infiu- : It in my power, for that parent’s sake,
ence has enlarged arid grown greater. : remove every possible temptation, and
And yet when I look around me and ! wipe it from the face of the earth.
see so many good citizens and so few i
bad ones who were boys- with me. and
memory brings up days and nights of
devilment of the old times, and with
it all so little crime. 1 am not so sure
that the modern boy is better.
WAYCROSS. Ga.. Feb. 10.—The city
council last night passed an ordinance
which will probably put a stop to the
retailing of “juipe” in this city in the
future. The ordinance is about as
strong as could be mapped out by City
Attorney Leon A. Wilson and gives
the police force authority to enter any
store suspected of selling thi3 so-
called beverage and destroying same,
should any of it be found on the
place.
Several alleged “juice” sellers who
were closed up by order of Mayor
Knightr last week were granted Ucetjse
again this- morning upon the promise
that they would not in future handle
any of the stuff.
great efforts to secure sufficient la
borers from elsewhere to early on the
wok of development under way. T-*e
work of development under way. The
workers In dqing the work 1 actually
needed op the farm. In the factory arid j from the Episcopate, as he could not
R-mo and Cardinal Merry
Del Val. papal secretary -f stare, told
them the Pope was willing to accept
: he principle of the contracts if abso
lute solidarity was shown, but that
this decision must come ostensibly
When you talk about. boys being
good or bad, you general y consider
the temptations that beset him. But,
the real truth of the matter Is. when
you come right down to business, it j The following letter to President W.
is not so much temptation, not so ; w. Finley of the Southern Railway
much home influence or training, that :
has to do with the averag. boy turn- V'° mpanj from thc ed,tor of the Manu ’
ing out good or bad. Of course some , lecturers’ Record was called forth by
boys are weaker than others. Some the former’s recent clear statement as
can resist tempt
mine and on railroad construction.
Under these conditions it behooves
the whole -country to recognize that
this is not a time for.’ antagonism
against railroads. It is not a time to
denounce them and their officers. The
time hqs passed for destructive criti
cism. and now construction work
should be the order of the day. -o.r
else, just as sure as is the certainf/.*
that tomorrow's.sun will rise, we shad
see a breaking down of out- railroad
interests and a general collapse of
'■business iri the not very distant-fu-
, ture. Then when a million or more
I men are walking the streets vainly
| looking for work, and when prosperity
j has fled and poverty rules the iand, we
i shall bemoan our fatal blunder: but
] it will be too late. Such a breakdown
in business would cost us more bll-
THOMA SVTLLE. Ga., Feb.. 10.—
Judge Augustin H. Hansell died in
this city* today at the age of eighty-
nine years. His death was due to a
fall he received several days ago.
Judge Hansell was born in Milledge-
ville, Ga., August 26, 1817. He was
the oldest member of the order of
Masons in Georgia. He was admitted
to the bar in 1838 in Macon. Ga., was
elected solicitor general of. the South
ern circuit in 1S47. and judge of that
.circuit in 1849, a position he served
in with the exception of the period
from 1853 to 1859, when he declined,
appointment, until 1902, .when he de
clined to serve. He was a veteran of
the Creek war.
The funeral of Judge Hansell .will
take place here tomorrow, six of his
grandsons acting as pallbearers.
TOKIO. Feb. 10.—(Afternoon) The Ji rendered unfit for se
in ., lending editorial anent the San I of accidents of more or less impor-
Ji. in a leading editorial anent thc Sa ......
Francisco incident, expresses disbelief | tance. Ths repair facilities seem utter-
in tho possibility of tho adoption of a i demand,
new treaty mutually restricting -labor : Unfits are reported faster than they
immigration as a solution of the public | cor* I** placed in condition. Repair
school controversy. The JI Ji declares shops have more than they can do.
that it la aware that a large number of j The Rock Island road Is compelled to
Japanese are going to San Francisco ! send ears 500 miles for repairs. The
from Hawaii and that this immigration ; Illinois Central scatters such work
. i< causing jealousy on the part of the t throughout the country and even at
white labor, but it contends that this » that time repair companies are receiv-
is due to the imperfect provision of the ! in? a premium of 15 per cent over the
existing law. which might be rented- ‘ actual cost of the work so urgent is
led by an agreement on the part of ■ the demand.”
both governments, but which should , Out of total number of nearly two
constitute an entirely separate sub- j million freight cars in the United
ject of discussion as not concerning the ; States. Mr. Priebe estimates. that an
present San Franrisco dispute, *” ■ "
VALUE OF EXPORTS
FROM THE SOOTH
Feb. 10.—In its issue
Manufacturers' Record
BALTIMORE,
this week the
says:
"During the 12 months.of 1906 the value
of exports from the 25 customs districts
of the South amounted in value to $678.-
402.796 and at the 60 other ciistOms dis
tricts of the country ’ to $1,119,147.
The increase in the value of exports at
all the districts in tiie country in X906
over 1905 was from $1,626,990,795 to $1.-
70S.247.943. or $171,257,146. equal to 10.5
per cent.; at the GO districts, not in
cluding the South, from $1,033,219,293 to
$1,119,845,147. or by SS6.625.854. equal to
8.4.per cent, and at the 25 Southern dis
tricts from $593,771,502 to $678,402,796, or
by $84,631,294. equal to 14.2 per cent.
Comparison of individual Southern ports
may be made from thc following table:
Districts 1905 1906
Baltlmer Md $103,607,135 $107,979,104
Beaufort. S. C.. .. - S1.7S0 S7.300
Brunswick. Ga. .. 10.619,55S 11,172,304
Charleston. S. C. 1.080,862 1.171.407
G,443.427 8.223,295
34.213 34.937
17.748.271 18.700.389
unpUiion. arid some can- to the affairs of the railroads of the lions than are needed for railroad de-
not. If you will study the subject a i country: | velopment to prevent such a collapse,
little, you wil: perhaps eall to mind : BALTIMORE, Jan. IS. 1907.—W. 5V. i Unwise agitation against railroads,
bad boys of your own acquaintance ' Finley. President Southern Railway J whether from ignorance or from per-
who had the best of homes, and some Company. Washington, D. C.—Dear j verted demagogues seeking the favor
good ones who had the most miserable ! Mr. Finley: I am giad that you have of the public, mav ruin the railroads,
of homes. You can sometimes make a | so Nearly set forth in your letter to j but, like the temple of old, as they go
good boy bad, but you have got a job ! public the true conditions of the 1 down business interests without this
on your hands when you try to make j railroad situation, for we have come • pillar of support will crumble in the
a bad b'oy good. • | upon a time when ah understanding wreck. - - ' -
* * * - • | of the whole matter is essential to the j Let us look ahead and see the to’,-
But there are people who helieve ' welfare of the country. Never before 1 ume of trade which transportation in-
that a.-l boys, whether weak or strong, - have we faced stfch an acute condition t'terests must undertake to-care for. Our
full of fun or serious, ore made h*/! i that which now confronts us. and i population is increasing at. the rate of
simply because of temptation, and that ; every word 'of explanation. such-.*as j about 25 per cent every ten years, but
the star temptation is the saloon. For you have made, which helps to clear lour railhead freight increased from SS.-
the benefit of these, let us note the j trie atmosphere, is fraught with great i 50n.0nn.000 tons in 1895. to 187.300.000 -
difference between the saloon of today i importance. j ooo tons in 1905. a gain of 111 per cent,
and the saloon of forty or fifty years] The present railroad situation is of , Our iron output increased 86 per cent,
ago. The modern saloon is described j mere importance to the court try itself j and our coal production 57 per cent,
as a gilded palace, and made so that ; than it is to even railroad owners and '“
it may attract our boys. Now, wheti I i managers. Business has far outgrown
speak of boys, remember that I speak f the transportation facilities: of- tlie
of young men because to parents I country. Almost without warning the
boys are always boys. j world suddenly leaped into business
* * * [ activity greater than had ever been
Leaving out the brilliant effects pro- I seen in human history. In seven
duced by e.-ectric lights, then un- j years from 1900 to 1906. the' value of
known, the old saloon—I don’t mean i farm property in the United States
the ordinary bar—was fully as glit- ! rose from $20,400,000 to 828.000.000, a
tering. fully as attractive, the furnish-1 sain of 57,600,000.000. This gain is
ings and fixtures costing small for- * nearly ten times as great as the ag-
tunes, and was equally as attractive i gregate capital of all the national'
to the boy as the finest saloon of today. I hanks in the United States.- It is more
This being true, so far as the saloon j than one-half as much as the total in
is concerned, it is no greater tempta- | vestment in manufactures in the coun-
tion today than it was forty or fi.'ty j tr -V- The value of our farm products
years ago. I increased from $4,717,000,000 in 1899
’ • * * ] « $5,917,000,000 in 1903, and in the
There were other temptations, more ! Pest three years was as follows:
of them, that surVdunded the bov of | •• *'• •• ..$6,139,000,000
my dajr. ' AmO’rig them' were gambling j 1906 ... 6,415,000.000
houses'as open arid : as easy of access j 1906 ...' .. ., 6.794.000.000
as -'riy store in Macon. There were } Look at the situation iri the South,
keno rooms, numbers of them. In one J In , these: seven years the commercial
place,
publicly Intervene. Thereupon, the
Temps says, the address was drawn
up and submitted to the Pope who.
with his own hand, supplemented the
clause specifying that the contract
must be accepted everywhere, with "or
we do not wish it anywhere.” The
document, the paper says, was then
brought to Paris and issued in the
name of the entire Episcopate, al
though many of the bishops never saw
it until it was published. ,
I remember, on Poplar street, value of the cotton crop, not including
a gambling wheel of fortune was run j seed, has aggregated $3,686,000,000.
in full view ’of -people as they passed
by on the sidewalk. Boys frequented
the keno rooms, and there never was.
arid probably never will be, a more
fascinating game of chance for boys
than keno. now an obsolete game so
far as I kriow. How many boys were
ruined, or how many hearts were bro
ken by this game,' I cannot say. I
mention gambling 'as I do saloons.
against $2,107,000,000 for the preceding
seven years. Here is a gain of $1,579.-
000,000. Advance in diversified devel
opment is illustrated in the fact that
the South’s corn crop of 1906 was 729,-
000.000 bushels, -against '476,000.000
bushels in 1900, and the value of farm
products in the South was $2,000,000,
000 in 1906. aginst 81.272,000,000. in
1900. ■ In the Same' time the assessed
merely as being among the greater , value of property has grown $2,490,000,
Fernandia, Fla
Georgetown. S. C.
Newport News,..
Norfolk and *
Portsmouth. Va
Richmond. Va....
St. Johns, Fla...
Savannah. Ga....
Wilmington. N. C.
Apalachicola- Fla
Galveston. Tex... 150.112.542
Kev West. Fla... 717,485
Mobile. Ala 20.445,030
New Orleans. La. 144.352.004
Pearl HIv..'Miss 4.S91.983
Pensacola. Fla...
St. Marks. Fla. ..
Tampa. Fla. ■ ....
Brazos de San
tiago. Tex 318.889
Corpus Christi. .. 9.952.016
Paso del Norte..; T.795 768
Saluria. Tex. .... 4.357.618
8.080,381
5.400
329,265
62.546,068
19.631.276
242,126
16,305,730
1,822,503
2.257,242
11,678.005
21.600
495,370
59.295.705
17.454.289
206,150
196.843.998
994.928
22,377.888
167.988.257
7.512,953
19A39;351
1,613.150
i 2,785.786
180.121
14.950.199
11.231.458
5.764,352
which latter Japan stands on her
treaty rights;
The Ji Ji. judging by statements at
tributed to both governments, draws
ihe conclusion that if a satisfactory
adjustment of the difficulty is reach"!
tho credit will be solely due to the ad
mirable- efforts put forth by president
Roosevelt.
NECK BROKEN BY BLOW
average of one-fifth, or in round num
bers. 400.006, are daily unfit for ser
vice.
"Taking 36 feet as the average length
of a car." he -continued, “this would
make over four solid trainloads of un
fits reaching all the way from Atlanta
to Washington.
“The total amount of capital thus
nr>r -rcr.tlv wasted must aggregate in
the neighborhood of $240,000,000.“
Mr. Priebe Is of the opinion that the
number of accidents is due in a large
measure to the fact that the improve-
raent in the draft rigging and draw-
beads generally used has not kept pace
with the increased size and weight of
cars, the average capacity of which
has been doubled several-times ta re*
Total .$ 593.771.502 $ ,678.402.796
AI! Dist 1.626.990,793 1.798,247.943
“Of the 85 districts from which there
were exports in ono or in. both of tho
years, 26 exported less in 3906 than in
1905. Of these 26. five were Southern
ports, viz: Savannah, - Ga.; Wilmington,
N. C.t Apalachicola. Fla.: St. Marks.
Fla.: and Itrasos de Santiago. Texas,
their aggregate decrease being $5,811,447.
hardly comparable with the decrease of
$13,526,097 at Puget Sound alone. Gal
veston led in the increases In values at
Southern-ports, advancing from $150,112.=.
542 to $186,843,998. or $26,731,456. being
second only to New York among ail the
ports of the country not only as to this
increase, but also as to the, value of ex
ports In 1906. The Increase at New York,
$62,747,137. was 73 per cent of the Ini
crease at all districts outside the South,
while the increase at Galveston was 42
per cent, of the aggregate increase at all
Southern ports. In value of exports in
1906 New Orleans ranked third. Balti
more fourth,
phia sixth."
temptations.
• * *
There were ohickeil fights, dog fights,
and other like forbidden sports of daily
occurrence, and there was no apparent
attempt to keep the boy's away from
them. To' a' boy, ' if you know boys
as well 'as I do. .this must have been
something of a temptation. And there
were others. I do not care to mention,
many of them several times greater
than they are today.
* *" *
In these modern . days the list of
temptations along the lines I have
mentioned is a short one. On the
other hand, there are so many places
of innocent pleasure and amusement
that the boy of /it,h,e,r days never had.
There were no stich things as a Y. M.
C. A. building with its baths, gymna
siums, etc. There were no free libra
ries.. The soda fount ' was a little
goose-neck affair dispensing soda only
to little children. The theater was
closed nine months in the year. There
Were no moving picture shows. There
were no recration 'clubs. There were
no street railways to carry the boys
on outings. There were no baseball
games to amount to anything, and
tennis and golf were not then invent
ed.. Really, there was precious little
amusement for the boy. except a swim
in the river under the old sugarberry
trees near the Cemtery.
000.- compared with .$755,600,000 for the
preceding ten years. . In the past sev
en years the South’s coal production
has risen from'49,000,000 tons to 83 ; -
000.000 tons.
Turn to the country at large, and
we see that pig iron production has
grown from 13.789.000 tons in 1900 to
about' 25.400.000 :.tons . .in 1906. TYe
nearly doubled our Iron production in
that time, while heretofore it has gen
erally taken ten years to double our
iron output. In 1900 our coal mines
yielded 270,000,000 tons. Portland ce
ment grew from 8.000.000 barrels— in
1900 to 40.000.000 barrels in 1906. Sev
en years ago any thoughtful man could
have foreseen something of this won
derful growth, but it was hardly with
in human power to realize in advance
the magnitude of what we are now do
ing.
Under these conditions it is hardlv
surprising that the railroads have not
kept pace: in fact, this development
would have been far greater but for
the lack of transportation facilities,
and thus broad activity in railroad
building would have resulted in still
more activity in industrial develop
ment. It is indeed, true that we need
to spend 85,000,900,000 in the next five
years to enable our railroads to ex
pand sufficiently, to meet the actual
needs of the country. This was fully
known long before President Hill late-
... . fishing In j
Tracy Lake, or committing mischievous i ly emphasized it. He was but stating
pranks after supper-. ' j what others had seen and. cleariy point-
* » "• i ed out.
There were no cigarettes in those ! What of the future, and how can this
days. It wasn’t one boy in a hundred j money be provided, are questions to
who smoked a cigar, and none smoked j which the American people.. from the
pipes. And, thinking it ail over, these | highest to the lowest, must give tm-
after-supper pranks were about the j mediate and -most profound considera-
worst things the boys did. and there ! tion. It matters not what may-have
was much more mischief than evil in been thfe shortcomings-of the railroads
all-or them. The boys would take a j heretofore. Abuse now only makes
gate off its hinges .in one part of. the j worsfe'the situation and .only makes it
town arid carry It , to another. They } dtffiti<. if not impossible, for them • to.
would stretch ropes across the side- • raise the money essential for proper
walk and trip up pedestrians. They i development: for-wliq is going to make
MEMPHIS. Fob. 10.—Ml*. More-
Don >.•!■., wife of an officer c:' Mo
•!..s fir,- dep.Lrtir.,*:i;, ; d\- a".
• . %-sailant last Irish: -\ hi
« i 1 broke her r.-.-ok w: '. .--turn
from a chopping tour, accompanied
^•'.vera', children 'Ike at:,irk o, ur
Mrs. Donovan's ;. ; -
■Op u lot
•ithin
iort time
fter bi
!.
<-,l today,. Robbery
been Die object.
thought to ' ha-
•Any weakness in the construction of
'_ j a car is liable to effect the traffic of a
,1 i road In that a small accident will
* sometimes block any number of trains.
Sam Hardwick on Shortage.
Our own San: Hardwick, general
iv passenger agent of the Southern rail
'd way. who was here recently, in dis-
t! j cussing the same subject, said:
:: “We are doing everything within our
• means to better these conditions."’ said
e I Mr Har.jv. ■ k. “but the traffic our
V#ystun is so Heavy that ii, almost
WITH THROAT CUT
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Feb. 10.—
The body of John A. Finley,, a well-
known young man. of Montgomery,
twenty-four years old and, unmarried,
was found early today in a lonely spot
in the southwestern edge of the city.
His throat . was cut and there tvere
forty-five gashes in the face and neck.
Robbery is believed to have been the
motive for the crime, as Finley’s pock
ets had been emptied. Five negroes
are being held by the police as sus
pects.
would poke rocks down the throats of
the town pumps. They would ,cry out
an occasional false alarm of fire. They
would exchange horses left hitched in
front of houses, and they would do lots
of things of this kind, but they were in
bed and asleep when the house was
closed up for the night.
large Investments in railroad develop
ment when agitation against the. roads
makes their future -uncertain? With
continued denunciation and hostility in
every direction, such as we have seen
during the last, year or two, the rail
roads will not be able to finance in or
der to carry on the vast improvements
and extensions needed, and everything
that tends to make' this difficult ’inten
sifies the present conditions. Whatever
may lie the views of the people and the
press about railroad management in
the past, self-preservation now de-
, Now. mind you, I do not say there
were not bad boys in those days, be
cause there .were, just as bad as they
are now. There were hoys who were
profane and who did awfully wicked
things^ but as n general'thing, these 1 mands that both press and people
hoys were a class to themselves. I j stand by the railroads and aid and on-
have iri mind one gang, and if they J courage them in every way possible to
had had the modern facilities, especial- f> n( l trie money needed for building
1)’ that of smoking cigarettes and • many thousands of miles of new track,
Boston fifth and Philadel- reading dime novels, they would have I f° r double-tracking single lines and for
been terrors indeed: but the average j ordering cars and locomotives so far
boy shunned them, and many a time
would run blocks to keep away from
them.
In cement the gain was 376 per cent,
and In thc value of agricultural prod
ucts there was a gain of from $4,717.-
000.000 in 1899 to $6,794:000.000. in 1906,
or 44 per cent. By reason of man's in
creased productive power through the
utilization of labor saving machinery,
business develops much more rapidly
than population.
In ten years-we will ,add about 21.000,000
to our present population or 85-000.000. a
gain of 25 ner cent, but'the potentiality
of the people as producers and consum
ers will be so much ereatlr tlwt the 106.-
000.000 people of 1017 will doubtless equal
in business potentiality wlmt 150.000.000
could do today. Our . freight traffic,
which made a gain o? 1J1 per cent, would,
if it continues at the same rate, be 349.-
000,000.000 tons in 1917. but allowing for
the possibility of some dectines in' the rate
of increase, we must as a minimum me-
nnre to handle ten years hence 300.000.-
000 090 to 25n.000.000.000 tons In that
period, considering the increasing per
capita consumption, our iron production
should grow from 25.400.000 tons in 1906
to over SO.OOO nno tons, and our co->l out
put from 42J.000.000 tons to over 900;000.-
000 tons. So marvelous lias been tile ad
vance in cement that it is not safe to at
tempt a prediction as to that.
A studv of this situation should awaken
the neopie of the whole country to a real
ization of the fact that the quickest' and
broadest development possible' of tho
transportation interests of the whole
country, into which billions must' he
poured, is the only means for the mainte
nance of our present business nrnsperity.
Self-preservation demands that tho peo
ple of the country shall understand the
perils which we face. For these reasons I
am glad that-you have put the case so
stronglv before the public, and trust that
the railroads and the people may soon
come to know each other better arid rec
ognize that there is a mutiny of interest
in the present and for the future, what
ever may have been the conditions of
the past, arid through this understanding
make possible the raising.of the new cap
ital essentia! not only to the railroads,
but just as essential, if we are to enjoy
eontlnued activity on the farm an,d in in
dustrial fines, to the whole country. Wo
are at a crucial period demanding the lay
ing aside of all passion and hostility arid
meeting on the common ground of self-in
terest. -Unless ive do this I njn afraid
that a few years hence Vp shall have, an
abundance of time, on account of business
depression, to lament our mistake. Very
truly yours.
RICHARD H. EDMONDS.
Editor and General Manager.
HOUSE LISTENS TO
EULOGIES OF ITS DEAD
WASHINGTON. Feb. 10.—The House
today listened to eulogies on ihe life
and character and public services qf
thc late ' Representatives Rock-wood
Hoar, of Massachusetts, and Rufus E.
Lester, of Georgia, both of whom died
during the past summer. The eulogies
on Mr. Lester were participated .in .by
Messrs'. Overstreet. Bartlett, Living
ston. Adamson, Hardwick. .Lee, Bell
and Brantley, of Georgia, and BUr=o(i.
of Ohio; Burgess, of Texas: Davidson,
of Wisconsin: Small and Thomasii of
North Carolina: Hermann, ' Oregon:
Gouiden, of New York; Sparkman, of
Florida, and Lacey, of Iowa. Mrs.
Lester, widow of the representative
from the First Georgia district, was
in- the members' gallery.' Mr. .Over-
street presided. Upon the completion
of the eulogies, the House adjourned
until tomorrow.
Alleged Offensive Terms Used
to German Minister by
Hayti.
And there were boys who ran away
from home, just as boys do now. I
have always contended in that day and
this, that whenever a boy gets to
thinking he knows, moje' than his
ahead as to make certain that new lo
comotives and car works will be estab
lished to meet this demand. The
critics of the railroads say “improve
the roadbeds, buy more cars and loco
motives, and thus do away with the
present congestion.” overlooking the
fact that every locomotive and car
building plant in the country.is sold
daddy, and that he can make his own j far ahead, and that new locomotives
way in the world, then that boy ought i and cars for early delivery could not
to he allowed to run away that he may j be had at any price. Moreover, even if
find out sooner or later.’as he always j capital could be had for building new
will, that he doesn't know as ntu-h as * car and locomotive works immediate-
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he thought he did. Good, boys get the
running away idea in : their heads
sometimes, and make the trip. Nine
times out of ten they come back, and
it makes good men out of them. I
know cases of this kind.
* * *
So. summing it all up. running over
and comparing the list of temptations
of that day and this. looking up toe
good citizens who were boys of my
day. and noting how few turned out
bad men. viewing with pride and pleas-
pure the present increased facilities for
securing an education, and knowing
the many places where a young man
can find innocent pleasure and amuse
ment, and-then judging of the young
man. as I know him to^lay, .it Is my
conclusion that'the-boy of today is
ly. it is exceedingly difficult to buy the
necessary equipment, since machine
and tool builders are also sold far
ahead. A wave of the hand will not
produce new rolling stock. There is no j
magic wand known to modern finance )
which can create new railroads and j
new locomotive works. It should also j
be borne in mind that the scarcity of i
labor from which we arc suffering :n
this country and the activity in busi
ness which we are enjoying here are
both world-wide. The iron and steel I
interests of Europe are almost as busv
and prosperous as those of America.
In England and on the continent are
seen some of the conditions which pre
vail with us. A few weeks ago a Ba!
imore banker made a trip to^M*iXico.
PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Feb. 10.—
The relations between the Govern
ments of Hayti and Germany are
strained owing to the refusal of Ger
man bankers, Hermann & Co., by di
rection of the courts at Port Au Prince,
to return to the Haytian Government
large sums of money alleged to have
been obtained fraudulently. Among the
alleged transactions of Hermann &
Go., with the Haytian Government was
one which is said to have proved fa
vorable to the Government. This was
concluded by the Haytian minister of
finance, the German legation and Her
mann & Co. The German minister de
manded that this transaction, as well
as others, be annulled but the Haytian
Government, in terms that the Ger
man minister deemed offensive, re
fused to acquiesce. The German min
ister at the same time demanded the
withdrawal of the phrase objected to.
This also was refused. Fears are en
tertained here of grave complications
ensuing.
The Official Monitor recently pub
lished notice of the expulsion cf Mr.
Mnnsnur, an American citizen, but Mr.
Furniss, the American minister, be
lieving the call for the man’s expul
sion unjustified, asked for the with
drawal of the order. This, however,
was refused, and Mansour has left for
New York. The seal of the American
legation has been placed on his shop.
Two Centuries of Great Britain.
New York Tribune.
Little attention has been paid to the
recent passing of a 200th anniversary
of picturesque and romantic interest
and of the greatest historic interest —
to wit. the practical creation of the
Kingdom of Grea Britain. The persona'
and dynastic union of England and
Scotland had been effected more that
a century beforo, and It was not unit,
some months later, on May 1. 1707,
that the legislative union was formally-
proclaimed ar.d put into effect. But
the crux of the problem was solved
and the fact of union was practically
accomplished on January 16, 1707.
when, after a prolonged and embittered
struggle, both senatorial and popular,
the act of legislative union was finally
carried through the Ccottish Parl’.a
fnent. The contort had lasted un
broken since the beginning of October
The Unionist cause had been chntn
pioned by a group of the ablest parl'n-
ment aria ns fn Scottish history Incluri-,
ing Stair, Queer,sbury, Seaiield, Rot:-
burg and Argyll, while apposed to the"’
were the “spellbinding" Belhaven. th
studious Fletcher and the brilliant but
erratic Hamilton (of “Esmond’’). Inc:
dentally, there were mobs In the street:
of Edinburgh, with some broken head*
and many broken windows, and brick
bats flung at the coach of Argyll. Stair
killed himself with his superhuman ex
ertions in debate, falling in the very
moment when victor)- was assured, and
a little later Defoe, tho unmatch.■ i
chronicler of the campaign, wrote: I
have now. I hope, the satisfaction of
seeing the fruit of all this, mischief,
the effect of ail the laboring, mobbing:,
etc., viz., union."
It was high time for the union to be
made. Indeed, it was far past the litre
when It should have been made, and it
was too late-to .save the realm from at
least one irreparable loss—a loss tho
exasperating realization of which di 1
much to bring about tho locking of tho
stable' door after the horse had been
stolen. It was only a few years before,
in 1694. that the genius of William
Paterson conceived the scheme of mak
ing the Isthmus of Darien a British
colony, of constructing there an inter-
oceanic canal, arid thus of securing for
Britain “the keys o' the universe, thus
enabling their possessors to give laws
to both oceans and to become thc ar
biters of the civilized world." It was
fn. 1698 that he actually planted a col
ony on the isthmus, and it was in 1700
that the enterprise finally failed and
was abandoned. The reason of its
failure was nothing more n-or less than
the absence of legislative union be
tween England and. Scotland. - In such
lack of union his venture was a purely
Scottish one, and was not only not
aided but actively opposed by Eng
land. .with all possible political and
commercial influence. That was why
it came to grief. Had the union been
effected a few years earlier, or had
Paterson delayed his venture until a
few years 1 later, his colony and canal
might .easily have been as successful
as was his Bank of England, for neariv
two centuries past (here might have
been an isthmian canal under the
British flag, and the history and geog
raphy of the world might have been ,
far different from what they are. But
In 1707 "New Edinburgh" and “New .->t.
Andrews” were dead beyond revival,
and today only a few names on :he
map of a neglected shore—Puerto Es-
coces, Paterson’s Hill and Caledonian
Bay—remain as memorials of one nf
the most ambitious -schemes in the
story of that land of schemes.
It was this, together with other and
lesser incidents to . the .same purport,
which abore a!) convinced t'nr most
thoughtful statesmen of Scotland of
the necessity of either union or sepa
ration. The mere link of the crown
was not sufficient. It was either too
little or loo much. The kingdoms
must be united in legislation and ad
ministration for the common good, or
they must- be entirely separated, so
that each might pursue its' owr. way.
They finaly chose wisely, for complete
union, and that union has now endured
for two centuries, to the unquestioned
profit of both. AVithin the last ?ew
years we hav- seen a .precisely similar
problem decided in the opposite man
ner, in the case of Sweden and Nor
way. ihrough entire separation, while
yet another, that nf Austria and Hun
gary. remains unsolved, incessantly
exatious and ominously menacing. In
the case of Great Britain and Ireland,
both' solutions have been tried without
complete success, and the final deter
mination nf the problem is still In the
lap- of; the gnds. But the reflective
historian will find a fruitful field for
investigation and speculation in the
circumstances that while two centuries
of union of Great Britain have been a
time of practically unbroken peace and
mutual profit, a concurrent century of
union of Great Britain and Ireland has
been chiefly an era of disturbance, dis
satisfaction and disaster.
MAYOR OF KINGSTON DEAD
OF EARTH QUAKE INJURIES.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 10.—
Charles Tail, mayor of this city, died
this afternoon at the public hospital
as a result of injuries sustained at
the time of the earthquake. He was
then conducting a meeting of the coun
cil and the building collapsed. Mayor
Tail was sixty-eight years of age, and
of Scottish descent.
EXPORT OF IRON AND STEEL
r>30,000,000 OVER LAST YEAR.
TVAiHI NGTON, Feb. 10.—The ex
portation of iron and steel manufac
tures reached their highest record dur-
the past year, according to figures
Death of-Mrs. Carrie Evans Davis.
BOLING BROKE, Feb. 10.—Mrs.
Carrie Evans Da%"is. wife of Mr. W. ^
B. Davis, died suddenly at her home,
near here, today, at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs.
Davis has.been in declining health for ■
some months, but was well as usual—*
today, and had performed her routine
of household duties. While sitting in
a chair conversing she expired of
heart failure. Mrs. Davis was a highly
esteemed Christian woman, and will be
greatly missed.
STRIKE IN MEXICO
REPORTED TO BE SETTLED.
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 10.—The strike
of machinists in the shops of the Mexi
can Central railway at Nuevo Laredo.
Mexico, which has been on for several
compiled by the bureau of statistics | months,
of the Department of Commerce and
Labbr. The total of these products
exported in the calendar year 1906 ag-
__ _ gr^gated $172.500.000. an,■ increase .of
in a two days’- journey on one of the f $30,096r!>00 over the preceding year.
and the strike of cotton mil
workers at Queretaro. have been settled,
it was reported today.
In the former case all the demands of
the workmen were granted except lecog
nition of thp union. In the latter, th*
strikers surrendered unconditionally.