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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, s- ELECSIirafl building <>f ‘Jothit dt'ign. with its walls cjverou with ivy. It stood on Second street, where Smith & Watson, .John Wald am’, others now have places of business. December 31. is>>3. Stewart & Da vis warehouse. This stood where the temporary postofTice now stands. January 13, 1886. Ralston Hall. The intense cold of that morning made this fire a memorable one with uie volun teer firemen. C. Mac-hold was foreman until 1SS4. and again elected in 1' 13. The by-laws were changed, and he wus made presi dent. From 1850 to 1SS1 he was again foreman. •H. P. Westeott served from 1S64 to 1866. having previously served as sec retary from 185S. W. McGee succeeded Capt. Westeott DELIVERY OF COTTON CURRENT TOPICS OF B mo; THE NATION’S CAPITAL I have been k of one of the - fumes-. Oemulg' ■king over the records <1 volunteer fire com- Tho old books .ire A history « company, compo-wd - citizens Macon ever people, would be into complete would take fun The Telegraph a! only -kip over the page: and from here and thei which nria serve !ush<r ti-rest to t lit- I • of of them not having th of what a volunteer lit In the old days. gul tr treasure- lis oid reliable >me of the best . hard-working ut to be ► more space ws me. I can af the records, pick out that and be of ln- ils day. many faintest Idea company was stl The firs- meeting was held on the night of March 25. 1834. with B. F. Dense, who w.:s l .ndlord of Granite Hotel in t)io chair, and evidently in the hotel. The usual committee on b.v- iaws -,v,ts .t; j-,-#14,tcd. arid ti -- nrg-iiiizu- tion pertet ted. At that time Nos. 1 and 2 made up the entire fire depart ment. The udlform wis a red flannel shirt trimmed with white braid, three rows rtf buttons on breast, letter O. on cor ner of the collar. Hat New York style, but r. -cl'- of ,-!ntli instead of leather: t>k>ck patent leather bolt, brass buckle and figure 2 raised in center. The trim- Viing va - taken off in 2558. Tlie first officers were William T. Mi*, foreman: H. X. EH*, assistant foreman: S. D. Clarke. -,-fary, and R F. Dense treasurer. At the April meeting Mix resigned, and William Dibble was elected. At thl- meeting '.he first shirt was -made by Mrs. E. Isaacs, and was shown to the mem bers, so that till the. shirts could be made by its pattern. • • • Tt would take up too much room to cfve the names of all the members of this company, because the roll was added to at each meeting. I therefore select the earlier member--, many of whose d««cej>dants are still living In Mar on: E. Isaacs, Stephen D. Clarke, C. Ma ch old. B. T. English, B. .F. Dense. Richard 3. Freeman. T. J.' Dane, L. Munch. C. Munch, A. Munch. B. Walker. T. Goodyear. H. X. Ells. -R. : -7vnns. J. A. McManus. Jam'" H. Gil- Jon, X. L'inswnnger. G. Binswanger. M Fnutf hwanger. S. H. Washington. W. C. Kennedy. D. S. Little. Andrew Riddle. Hardin Keel. Job H. Cherry. J H. King. F. L. Henry. Eugene Jef fers. W. T. Xeleon. V. A. Menard. W. M. Gibson, IT. T. Fllnit, Asa Brantley. I' F). Williams, “Henry 3frover. Henry Hardeman. H. Abel. .T. II. Abel. Fred Abel. "William Abel. "H. Stein. B. A. Wise, I#. P. Geyer. George Smith. M. Lowe, A. Wanrfack. J. M. W. Christian. Herman Spahr. A. Waterman. William Schell, Andrew McKenna. P. Noorie. F. Reichert. A. F. Herzog, Julius .Taug- gtetter. John Valentino. P. W. Doyle, James “Harvey. Valentine Kahn. Jacob King. John Alley. A. Peyser. M. TJev - *er. M. Peyser. Sr.. B. Dub, Barney Rradv, Peter JTertel. Thomas Pierce. P. McKevitt. T. O’H.anlon. S. Ba- shlnskl, Loui* Vannucei. Virgil Van- nurei, Cornelius O’Connell. Walter Payne. Robert Faulkner, R. Waggen- -min, George Rau, II. P. Westeott. W. J, Starke. B. Lowenthal. S. Helfrlch. Phinip Bender, James Palentharpe. M. Foley, H. M fie hr, L. Gever. F. A. Kehoneman. C. H. Isaacs. Fred Walker, T. Guernsey. M. Nussbnum, Jacob Har- ,i“. Charles de Beruff. M. J. Edgerley. M. Ganshelmer. A. Stroemer. A. En- gelke, D. Wttkowskl. W. H. Rltten- oerry, “O. F. Lagerquist. E. J. Ruhl. W. H. Sohntzmnn. M. Abrams. Dr. George X. Holmes. John M. Daly, T. L, Sewell, Oftenr Heckel. These names are of those who ba ton red to the company In its earlier day*. On Apri! 13, 1854. the company turned out in full uniform to go to the Central depot in East Macon to receive .heir engine. That night the company slipped away and gave tho engine a private trial. On February 12. 1855. Mr. E. Isaacs, who. was then one of the most enthusi astic members, tried to resign, but the minutes show that the company would nol allow him. and forced him to re main. On June 11. 1855, the company met committees from Xo*. 1 and 3 fire com- llm-ville. was famous in that day for Its good beer and as a picnic ground. The chronicles say that the members of the company were presented some wine by George S. Obear, ctuei of the fire department. J. Monroe Og- den. Dr. Appleton Collins and Capt. Bralnard. and that there were eloquent speeches by Judge O. A. Lochrane and Thoma- Harden:an. On July 2. 1866. Chief Obear attended a meeting of the company, and made an address in which he urged the ne cessity of less talk and more work at fires. On March 21. 1867. the company de cided to forget the past, and go into the contest on the coming lath of April. In the contest their engine threw a stream of water 193 feet 6 inches and won the first prize, after I January, 1863. which they adjourned to the City Hall 1 ~ for refreshments. On Xovember 3. 1867. the company moved It* engine from the old quarters in the rear of The Telegraph building, which was then on the corner of Sec ond and Cherry, to the old Fiovd House building, preparatory to moving into their new building on Cotton Avenue, which vvas^done on February 11. 1868. On March) 1. 1869. the company de cided that they would be up-to-date. And would have a steamer, but this was not done until “73. when T. L. Sewell was elected as engineer. The steamer was named Simrl Rose, in honor of the veteran editor, and one of the most public-spirited men in Ma con. The new engine was tried, but did not come up to the contract, and was returned to the manufacturers with the demand that they send a steamer that would weigh not more than 5,000 pounds, and would throw a stream not less than 240. feet. The new steamer arrived on April 1st. 1874. and was tried and found to be all right. On April 21. 1870. the company re turned thanks to Hon. James Fitzpat- In 1866. A. F. Herzog was foreman from 1S67 to 1868. J. H. King was elected in 1868 and As an indication of how Macon has j served to 1669. and “gain from 1871 : ; i grown the number of fires and alarms J June. 1873. when he died- -ueceeded by I Compared with those of today is re- ( C. Macho -1 j markable. Until Capt. Westeott was i James O'Brien was then foreman to j elected secretary in 1S5S, no record of ! 1876. | fires were kept. He began the record j Herman Spahr served from 1876 to’ beginning of that year, and it j 1S7S. is elected in 1S78 when C. llachold non at the Laboratory building !n Vinevllle in which four negroes were killed. Some of the wooden buildings were destroyed, but being outside the city, the company did not attend. On May 30. 1866 there was a picnic at Rr.-sell’s Brewery, and the records | say the member* had a good time gen- ; was kppt up by the secretaries follow- j Louis Vannucc- orally. This brewery, located near Col- I i ng him. In the thirty years, that is. and served ’o * (from 1858 to 1S8S. when the company succeeded him. was again elected XEW YORK. Feb. 13.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow will sav: “ Despite holiday and weather inter ruptions the volume of business is well maintained. In most sections of the country the movement of merchandise has resumed normal proportions, snow blockades being removed, but tardy de liveries still cause much complaint, especially in regard to .grain. Retail stocks of winter goods were most sat isfactorily depleted during the period of common Georgias and Floridas WASHINGTON, D- C. Feb. 16—Th* spokesmen of the Administration express The World’s Visible Supply. I perfect confidence in tne ratification or XEW ORLEANS. Feb. 15.—Secretary | the n™ Santo Domingo today. txooouy Hester’s statement of the world’s visible j else does. supply of cotton, issued to “.ay, shows i The treaty is of financial impotran the total visible to be 5.579.759 against j to the people of the United State 5.493,181 last week and 5,359.207 last year, t is o:' importance, in that it may ublcs in the future but lead to disbanded, there were 473 fires, many ! in 1882 nrd served until '1885. 'hers j of them the burning out of chimneys, t John M. Daly was elected in 1SS3 with ! and some of them outside the city, in j and served until the company disband- that time there were 47 false alarms. [ ed in 18SS. La.st year, 1906. there were 213 alarms responded to. It is remarkable that -during the war. from .1860 to 1863. there were only 45 fires, and but one false alarm. In 1878, long after th'e war, there were 11 false alarms. The first foreman of the company was Willlarri T. Mix. who "was elected March 27. 1834. and resigned in the April following, when W. T. Dibble was elected. . H. X. Ells was elected foreman in January. 1853. and served as Such to When’the by-laws were changed pro viding for a president as well as fore man. C. Machold was the first to' hold the office and was president 1874. He was again president from 1S77 to 1S7S. and from 1SS1 to 1SS7. E. WUkowski was president from 1874 to 1875. Valentine Kahn served from 1S75 to 1877. Herman Spahr served from 1S78 to 1S81. Robert Faulkner wa/ elected in 1887 and served to the disbandment of the company in 1SSS. SAN FRANCISCO LAWYER CONDUCTS THAW DEFENCE XEW YORK. Feb. 16.—Whatever the final outcome of the Thaw trial may be. Delphln M. Delmas, of counsel for the defense, has made from it in a single a day a name and reputation that will endure long in the annals of criminal jurisprudence in Xew York. From the beginning the case, proba bly the most sensational ever tried at the Xew York bar, lias been rich in dramatic incident: but the climax came on the second morning of the defense, when District,Attorney Je rome found himself confronted by the shrewd, calm, keen-witted advocate from San Francisco, instead of the prominent attorney whom in a single total up to somethin, a sum which makes the $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 with which Ezra Cornell and Johns Hopkins founded the famous in stitutions which bear their names look like very small change: but Mr. Car negie’s gifts to the same cause, in cluding a few hundred libraries, amount to $150,000,000, and the fact that he Is a younger and more vigorous man is an additional advantage which it will be difficult for Mr. Rockefeller to overcome. Airship to Coney lefand. A trip of twenty miles by airship from Fort George to Coney Island is the tempting bait with which two well- low temperature and the new season will open under favorable auspices. "Wholesale and jobbing houses re port a liberal spring demand, particu larly in dry goods, while at the interior there is a vigorous movement of agri cultural -implements and other farm supplies. A gratifying feature oDmany reports is the greater promptness of until [ mercantile collections. Mills and fac tories have so much forward business that new - contracts are not taken ex cept at full figures and there is dis satisfaction because shipments are not more prompt. Wages have been ad vanced in several important concerns and there are no serious labor contro versies. Iron and steel producers are receiving much new business. Textile ; Amn. afloat for G. mills continue well employed, wijh ' especial pressure for prompt delivery of cotton goods. Prices are fully main tained. the moderate reaction being no more effective than the preceding ad vance. There is less indifference in the export division, manufacturers evinc ing a disposition to consider bids, and a few small sales to India and China were effected, while more business is __ ; expected after the Chinese new year | holiday. A further advance in ppices like $90.28S 000. j of outing cotton is noted and the rela tively greater strength of best grades . Of this the total of American cotton i i 4,337.759 against 4.320.181 last week and I 3.766.297 last year, and of all other kinds, including EgFpt. Brazil. India, etc.. 1.242.- I 000 against 1.173,000 last week and 1.593.- ; 000 last year. O r the world's visible supply of cotton, there is now afloat ami held In Gr at iBritaln and continental Europe 3,0S7.-eV) against 2.676.000 last year: In Egypt. 242,000 against 1S4.000 last year: in India 61.000 against 916.000 last year, anil in i. _ T-—: 4 „ J 1 CQT AG A 1 2*9 . rninfo like X the United States 1,693.000 against 1.3S3.- 000 last year. Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK. Feb. 15—The following is the comparative statement of cotton for the week ending Friday. February 13: 1907. 1996. Net port receipts 212.122 130.448 Rects. since Sept. 1 7.837.324 5.998,884 Exports for the week. 208..817 92.845 Exports since Sept. 1 _S 895.741 4.313.302 Stock all U. S. ports.. .171197.51" 90">,!89 Stock all interior towns.. 5S6.472 665.463 .... consider what the Santo Do- sltu.itIon lias been. The island, lost of the Spanish-American, or groied. communities in the tropics has been in a turmoil of revolution for a score of years. It has been governed much as our Southern State? were gov erned under the.carpet bag regime. Its rulers, who hold their places as a reward sometimes for successful revolu tion more often for cowardly assassina tion! have borrowed money abroad, issued bonds and enriched themselves by the proceeds. It is estimated now that about SIT 000,000 is owed by Santo Domingo to foreign countries. A traveler expe rienced in studying public works, a mem ber of the Geographical Society, told me within three days that there were not $7 COO,000 worth of public works in th* whole country. The other 810.000.000 has gone into the hands of successive preda tory presidents. Now. some two years ago. as these for- 1.1*5.000 ! cign creditors pressed Santo Domingo 140,000 day he had succeeded in reducing to - „ Bl .... such a state of hopeless confusion that j known amusement purveyors are pre- rlck for refreshments tendered them on j the friends of the accused were heart- I paring to separate next summer’s vis- the loth. Fitzpatrick was elected to . sick With apprehension and even the ] Itors from their money. The promo- interest of sensation-seeking specta- 1 tors was beginning to flag. But a change hud been made over night. Be fore an hour had passed, the light of hope had dawned again in the prison er’s eyes as he watched the skill with which the “country” lawyer handled his case. Before the day was over, the District Attorney’s somewhat con- of raw cotton has supporting influence I on the more expensive finished pro ducts. In the woolen goods section of textile markets there is no change to report.” • Weekly Bank Statement. NEW YORK. Feb. 16.—The statement of the clearing-house banks for the week (five days) shows that the banks hold $4,431,050 more than the legal reserve re quirements. This is an increase of $1,085.- 175 as compared with last week. The statement follows: Decrease Loans $1,092,061,000 $7,295,400 .Deposits 1,057.546.200 S.01G.300 Cotton Receipts. NEW YORK. Feb. 15.—The following are the total net, receipts of cotton at all norts since Sept. 1: Bales. Galveston 3.071.375 j Xew Orleans * OA ~ ‘ Mobile Savannah .. Charleston . Charleston .. Wilmington Xor'o'k .... Baltimore . Xew York . Boston Philadelphia San Frdnciseo . Brunswick .... Port Townsend Pensacola 109.392 Port Arthur and Sabin* Pas Jacksonville. Fla Laredo.' Texas Minor ports Total ...: Congress as a Republican, and atfer serving his term remained In Washing ton and is now there in one of the de partments. On October 50, 1870. the company won the prize for the greatest number of uniformed men at the semi-annual parade. In November they presented that prize to the Ladies' Memorial As soclatlon to aid in erecting the present temptuous references to his opponent’s Confederate monument. ’“inexperience in the practice of the On December 30. 1870. their foreman. . Xew York bar” had given place to re- H. X. Ells, wap drowned in the Oe- speetful. If not anxious, consideration mulgoe river while hunting. The en- } of his methods. Then the sensational glne house and all apparatus was ap- ! newspaper writers and artists sharpen- propriately draped on the day of his funeral. Some time later Mr. Charles A. Ells, brother of the dead foreman, presented the company with his broth er’s silver trumpet. On May 1, 1S74. the company ac cepted the Invitation of Father Ga- boury to attend the laying of the cor nerstone of Pio Nono University, now St. Stanislaus College. * * * On June 4, 1883, the company ehrls- promcr- ters of the schPnie professing to be lieve that the experimental st’age ’of the airship has passed, propose to es tablish a fleet for passenger service, each one capable of carrying three passengers, arid to run them on a reg ular schedule from Fort George, in the northern part'of the city, where a new amuseijienr'park to he called Vanity Circulation Legal tenders Specie Reserve Reserve required... Surplus Ex-U. S. deposits.. 53.194.3cin 120.500 76.630.100 2.704.300 192,107,500 *1.785.400 2CS.S17.600 918.900 264,386.550 2.004,075 4.431,050 *1,085.175 8,288,925 *1.093.475 ♦Increase. Weekly Bank Clearings. XEW YORK, Keb. 15.—Bank clearings for the week were $2,701,213,498, 18.7 “per cent under last week and 2 per cent below the same week last year. Outside of New York City. $1,050,159,363. 9 per _ . . cent below last week, but 6 per cent Fair will be the starting point, to Luna ■ over last year. Inc. Dec. Park. ' The route will be carefully'se- Richmond .... lected to avoid fouling sky-scrapers. Savannah .... The plans call for the erection of h . KvJrfnit starting platform at Fort George. 100 i Augusta !!!!.’! New York Stock Exchanoe Statistics. XEW YORK. Feb. 15.—The following statistics on the movement of cotton for the week ending Friday. Fehrii&rv 15. were compiled by the Xew York' Cotton Exchange: Weekly Movement. This year. Fort receipts 209 380 To mills and Canada 40.332 Sou. mill takings, est...... 58 Ofln Loss of stock-int. towns.. 10.216 Into sight for week 297.496 1S2.513 Crop Movement. ... payment, and threatened to enforce it with cannon, the United States stepped in. seized the custom houses, and collected the revenues of the country. It may be said in passing that there are no national revenues tliero except customs rov- nues. .. 1,807.270 i A M.ztter of Mere Force. -. 218 SOI | Neither from the Domingan Govern- ...... .1.248.726 : ment. nor from the Legislative branch ot 128.608 ; our own Government was there any au- 1SR.608 ) thorltv for this act. It was purely an 2.88,422 , executive order, an invasion of the soil. 542 315 ! a violation o' the sovereignty of a frleml- 40.023 ly power in order that foreign govern - 13.195 ments might bo paid their dues—real or 44.738 alleged. Fifty-five per cent of the cus- 25.914 toms collections goes into a fund for flic 4.457 foreign creditors. Forty-five per cent Is 51.613 : held for the maintenance of the Govern- 125.760 ment. and. incidentally, for the pay of an 66.108 i army of American tax-eaters, who man tlie custom houses. This situation has continued for two years, with absolutely no foundation in law. but backed by the guns of the American Navy. The revised treaty continued practically the present system. It sets a precedent by which tho United States shall become the debt collector for any European hank ing house that may buy the wild cat bonds of a West Indlnp republic at 30 cents on the dollar, and try to collect them at 100 cents. . It Indicates either that we are willing to hold ourselves responsible tfor tho. credit of all the republics south of uk. or else that we admit the right of Euro pean nations to enforce individual claims 130.602 j with warships. 32.902 j Neither Position Is Tenable. oJ’oo? Not many years ago several States of .1,991 this Union repudiated, and justly, fraud- " ulent debts incurred by dishonest and ir responsible “‘carpet bag" State: Govern- 114.754 6.618 : 494 i 13.70S j 7.827,324 T.ast vear. i ed their pencils afresh and the de serting army of curiosity seekers re turned. literally by thousands, to be siege with every sort of plea for ad- 1 mjttance the court room in which two perfectly matched masters of the legal profession were battling for a human life. Gotham Buried in Snow. When Father Knickerbocker wakes upon a. cold winter morning pnd finds tened the new hose reel Mamie after ! the digging of paths a necessary pre- fhe little daughter of Mr. A. Giblan. j limlnary to doing his chores, he is On this occasion there was . quite a confronted with an expensive job. The number of ladtee present, and speeches ’ snow slorm which recently swept over were made by Mamie Gibian and little the entire country left 10.7 inches of Mamie Vannucei, daughter of Foreman I snow in Xew York and it will cost Louis Vannucei. i something like $80,000 for every inch * * * 'Of depth to remove it from the 200 The chronicles of this company are miles of streets which must be clean- interesting throughout. They tell of ed and dump it into the East and the annual parade da vs. of excursions | North rivers. That makes a total of to other cities, and of the many inter- 1 *320,000 for the job, without eonsider- csting and enjoyable events in the life ,nR ttle Immense loss of business in- of rhe volunteer firemen, wholly un- I cident to impassable streets. Such a known to the members of the present ! storm means work for every available pand fire departments. ■ team and every idle man in the city • • • 1 who can wield a shovel. When several The last meeting of the company was I snow storms come in rapid succes- held February 13. 1888. The volunteer department had dissolved, and the paid department was formed. The company hold together as a social organization for several months, during which time sion. as they sometimes do. it means continuous work for weeks and a cost that frequently reaches half a million dollars or more. Ever, since the last snowfall, 8,000 men and 5,000 teams of paid all their debts, leaving in the . - ,, hands of the treasurer the sum of panics, the Floyd Rifles and Macon ] $1,1x0,61. On the roll at this time were seventeen members, as follows: Rob ert Faulkner, president: J. M. Daly, Volunteers and Fourth of July resolved to have celebration. The pa- they disposed of all their property and 1 <‘ V0 ry description have been working - - - at its removal. Sometimes the skies are kind and a heavy rain or a spell of warm weather rejoices the heart of lade grounds was then in front of the foreman; H . ’Behr. assistant foreman;’ l loyd House on the corner of Third p A . schonenum. secretary: Valentin; end Mulberry street*. The bills for p^hn. treasurer; William Schell, L. celebration, after considerable dis i usslon, were paid by the Mayor and Council. On April 15, 1856. the company pa raded and took part in the celebration f that day. There was a collation at Brown’s Hotel, and then also visited by invitation of Logon * Mearu. who so re then proprietors of tlie X-anier House, the new depot just completed. This is the present union depot. On May 11 1857. Mr. F. Isaacs strenuously objected to negroes work ing on the engine at fires, thus draw ing the first color line. On December 1. 1859. the company ♦urueil out to bury the ex-ehlef of the fire department. Robert Findlay, the ceremony taking place at the Baptist •hurch on Second street. Ex-Chief Findlay was Tho father of our Maj. C. D. Findlay and the founder of the Findlay Iron Work-. Vannucei. L. Merkel. W. H. Schatz- man. F. King. O. F. Lagerquist. John Valentino. Charles Waehtel. A. Abel, J. E. Ruhl. O. Heckel and John Hurley. The money' on hand was divided among the seventeen remaining mem- i begs, except $1.S0 per capital, which ! was retained and turned over to Mr. I Vannucei for the farewell supper on the next night. The secretary was in- ! structed to present the company’s ban- i ner to tlie Public Library. The min- I utes closed with this paragraph: \ "After passing several votes of j thanks to the officers of the company. the company was declared adjourned, : to meet no more. Goodbye. F. A. j Schoneman, secretary.” the street cleaning commissioner and effects a material saving in his ap propriations: but this time the weath er has held steadily cold and the de partment has had to do its work unaid ed by Providence. feet high, to the top of which pas sengers will be carried in elevators. A restaurant and palm room will make the platform an attractive place, and a stop of fifteen or twenty minutes at a half-way station to be. erected on i top of the low buildings at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth street will give passengers an opportunity to view the upper side of the tenderiofn. The first of the airships will be built in California, and is expected to be in .regular service by the middle of July. University Graduates at Banquet. “Our chief gift to the college con sists of what we are to the nation. Charleston Knoxville .. Jacksonville Macon $6,032 000....- 4.315.000.... 1.1 5.140,000.... 3.2 2,357.000... .25.5 1.998,000....35.1 1,292.000.... 6.7 1.6o7.000... 1.568.000... .22.3 732.000....32.3 1.6 HESTER’S WEEKLY THE UTILIZATIGf ELECTRICAL PROORES XEW ORLEANS. La., Secretary Hester's weekly cotton state- said President W. H. P. Faunce"at i went tesued; today shows: ^ For the fif- ! "“^Ving^hetesming'o? land 0 and sur? plus water at Lock Five, on the Green river, will electrically transmit power to Bowling Green, a distance of thir teen miles. At several dams on the Kentucky river power will be devel- the annual dinner of the Brown Uni- ! teen days of February an increase over versity Alumni, which was held in' the I last year of 280,000 and an increase : Hotel Astor -bust-Monday nl«ht: and over the same period year before last every one of the two hundred and fifty | of 406,000. , 1 graduates who-were present -modestly j For 168 days of the season that have • admitted that 1 the “Old Lady of Provi- ^ aand I oped for industrial plants at Lexington, i Senate, unless the names were sent In for dence” had reason to be proud of her same days of last year 2,122 000 and F ^ nkfort Paris> Richmond and other confirmation. sons. The presence of three Govern- ahead of the same days jear before j p0 - in j Si an< j ji le thirtl project looks tot With..such able canal experts aa Taft. the utilization of power in the Cum berland river for transmission to too. ; ments. No nation would have dared th-u „ _ Total Crop Movement. : to threaten ‘ their collection by force of Port Receipts. — 7.826.446 0.031.S16 ‘arms. No nation should be permit Tr 1 To mills and Canada... 8(0.224 606.023 now to threaten the collection of the Sou. null takings, est.. 1.409.909 1,310.000 Domingan debt in that’way. Int. stek ex. Sept. 1... 4e5.287 493.933 j Unc|e s , m as Constable. ’ Into sight for season.. .10.560.932 8,441,772 I The position of the United States should « not be to act as a receiver for a bank rupt, a constable with an attachment, but rather to take the part of the police men at the door of a broken bank, and ' see that no effort is made by creditors, however lust their claim, to collect other than by due process of law. Of course. Wall street figures in tho new treaty. Domingan bonds To the amount of $29,000,000 are tq be Issued, guaranteed ' by the United States, aim with that guarantee should be worth par. They are to be sold at 96. and the firm of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., has practically agreed to underwrite' them. That firm has had some experience in making, easy- money out of the United States Treasury and ought easily to make more than a million out of this deal.. A Panama Comedy. What threatened to be rather a serious blunder in Panama affairs bids fair to-be smoothed out by the general inclination of the Senate to throw no obstacles In the way of the President’s management of the canal. During the recess last sum me/ the President appointed the memtsa of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Un- ’ der the law these appointments ex/ilred ten days after the reassembling of the BALTIMORE. Feb. 15.—In this ' week's, issue the Manufacturers’ Rec- ■ ord notes that the movement for the | utilization in electric development of i water powers which has made such i headway in Virginia the Caroljnas, Fe j, 15 .' Georgia and other States is extending, and that three such enterprises are eY“$v Hut for Capt. H. P. Westeott. the j company would have disbanded on • April 18. 1959. There had been the regular 15th day of April eoiitest. and the members of the company thought that they had been cheated out of a ; prize. They marched to their engine j house then in the rear of Ciisby's shoe store, on Second street, and -icld a. indignation meeting. A resolution was! offered that for special reasons satis- j factory to themselves and well know:! community, which were unnee- | to submit to the public, the company disband and surrender every- I thing lit the way of engine, apparatus. ! etc. .to the Mayor arui Council: that i but chile the company disband, the itidl- j June 1 vidua! members would work as fire- Arch stree men to protect their beloved eitv. ! trlang After eloquent speeches, both pro and j house <•011. Capt. Westeott Introduced a res- 'Chav Rosin’ ohithin to the effect that while the 1 to it because company had been unjustly treated by the man who made the measurements i-f writer thrown, they would remain •ogether and be always ready to fight tire and do their duty whenever the call came, hut never again would they • ■ngnge in contests for prizes. This resolution was rarried. and' Capt. Westeott saved the day. Tetter on. in I860, s-- much of Thi' resolution as re- fe-red to never again engaging in con tests was ordered expunged from the minutes. Some of the .largest conflagrations that visited Macon during tho life of rhe company, as recorded briefly mentioned. The record wa kept to show what members were pres ent, and not as data for history. All of the fires, however, are within the recollection of the old citizens, and some of the missing details can be supplied. March 11. 1S61. Aderhold's stables on Plum street, opposite the. uniion de pot. These stsbles were entirely con- National Packers’ Exposition. Tt is a sorry day in the metropolis when some form of the question "what to eat and how to get it" is not being agitated by the overfed or the under fed. The latest phase of the subject to hold Gothamite attention is of really serious interest, for it has to do with the unwholesomeness of canned meat preducts, about which there was so much fuss, and occasionally feathers, during the agitation of the pure food bill. This question, like other ques tions nowadays, bids fair to be settled once for all by means of an exposi tion. to be called the National Packers’ Exposition, which will give the Mis souri Club, whfch has a strong mem bership in this city, a chance to “be shown” just what methods of canning ^5.? ver - v ; are sanitary and what ones are kinder to the animal In the tin than to the person who eats it. The exposition will open ill Chicago on May 1. and will come to Xew York some time ii the fall, after which, it is announced, it will make a tour of several of the larger cities in the East and Middli West. It is an encouraging symptom ors—Hughes, of Xew York: Higgins. , of Rhode Island, and Stokes, of Xew : Jersey—State Senator Everett Colby. 1 New Jersey's star reformer, and John j D. Rockefeller. Jr., who but a day or . two before banded the general educa- i tion board $32,000,00,0 from his . fath er's modest fortune to be devoted to the cause of higher education, all of them graduates of Brown, made the I occasion easily the most notable event 1 of the university dinner season in Xew ■ York, and lent much color of justifies- : tion to the enthusiastic “ki-yi-yis” with which the remark was received. Each Governor as he 'rose to speak was ; greeted with a special song composed in his honor. “After all.” said Gov ernor Hughes, who was the big artic- I uiar hero of the 'occas>jn. “Browsers ; fitted to make Governors.” (And the ] banquet hail rang again). "Tt is ,n ■ college which dominates the life of its ; students and graduates, and we can’t ! escape its influence. The great ques- ! tion of the future is not where shall we obtain the reserves to come to the sup port of the country in time of war, but where shall we obtain the honest men who will protect the country in time of peace. When you look for men who will not be seduced from the straight | son road by promises of preferment, you will find them in the graduates of the universities.” last 1.249,000. The amount brought into sight dur ing the past -week has been 296,451 , ™ T Kentuekv ba,e f;^asfvea; 650 ^ the 8ame ^ ! Uiere jras b^onsLmableTx’pans.ctt | technicalities, any nets done by ,h en ciajs last jear. _ _• 1 thi* 'rWnnth in develoning another I’’’Jan Canal Commission since th and such eminent attorneys as Root and Bonanarte in his advisory capinet. tho President forc'd to rend in the names. If any one were disnosed to Stand -10011 1 aajs jasc jeai. 'This month in developing another 1 mian Canal Commission since the 10th The movement since _September 1 ! “L o ” f 0n “, w n „i, <1 Th/atL import- of-December might be declared null and void, for since tnat. tlvre the commission shows receipts at all United States j SOI J rce ° f °H’ J 0 a e T’TiL nnvt- 7 °°4 njrainst 5 577 454 ! ^ recently started work is. tho year, overland across the Mississippi, j effort toward developlng a deep oil Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern ; sa nd in the southern part of the S < te, anrl Canada &6S 47° fieainst 618 - 1 altcfldy a.n excellent strike has 004 last year: interior stocks in exces’s j e f n n , 1 ^ l imn erIall<i County in a of those held at the close of the com- | mercial year, 465.171, against 514,726 last year: Southern mills’ takings, L- 357.000. against 1,285,354 last year. — These make the total movement since September 1 10,617.967. against 8,395,- 538 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 72,170, against 67,334 last year, making the total thus far for the season. 5,937.469. against. 4.35$,- 69S last year. The total takings of American mills. North. South and Can ada thus far for the season have been 3,203.028. against 2.932 481 last year. Stocks at the seaboard, and the twen ty-nine leading Southern interior cen ters have decreased during the week. 38.688 bales, againist a decrease dur ing the corresponding period last sea- of 15.962. Including stocks left Permits at Atlanta. Ga.. representing • $479,147, at Birmingham. Ala.. $77,565. ! at Chattanooga, Tenn., $94,015. at I Xa6hville. Tenn., $128,617. and at Lou- j isville, Ky.-. $177,602. indicate consid erable activity in building operations in i the South in January. This activity is ; emphasized by the fact that in Way- ! cross. Ga., with a population of 8.500 persons hundreds of dwellings are be- j ing built, additions are being made to i schools, the foundation of a $50,000 I Young Men's Christian Association has : just been laid, a $50,000 college is in j course of erection, ground has just I been broken for a $150,000 hotel, and j the roofs of several of the buildings ; o/ the railroad shops are nearing com pletion. At Tampa. Jacksonville and over at ports and interior towns from j Fernandi:na Fla and at Savannah. Ga the last crop and the number of bales ! between *2 00CbOOO f"? ».000.000 are brought into sight thus far from the ^ spent upon « « ! An English View of Lincoln. Vivid pen-pictures of the great ac tors in the Civil war are a feature of The Appeal to Arms, by James Ken dall Hosmer, LL.D. (Harpers)., In de scribing the appearance of Lincoln, lie quotes the striking description written by Russell, the famous correspondent of the London Times, after a visit to the White “House: “A figure entered with loose, shamb ling gait, tall, lank, with stooping shoulders and long, pendulous arms. tlie times that no one Is showing ! hands were of extraordinary size, more Interest in the event" than the ; tlie . ! ar??e !; * n his ill-fitting, manufacturers of bona fide canned | i' r inlvled black suit he looked like goods, who are welcoming the oppor tunity to demonstrate by actual timed, together with numbers of mules , l n and horses that became panic stricken ; goods, who are welcoming the oppor- i I^ndon undertaker s mute. A rope and ran into the flames. j tunity to demonstrate by actual ex- ?‘ IV a ? k . sl ,' lc surrounded his neck, April 18. 1861. Granite Hall, fills was J amples that the sensational charges of I iniotted in front into a bulb, with fly- a hot*] on Mulberry street, where the t uficleanliness and impurity which have j mg ends. The turned-down collar re- u at^r company now Jihs an office, rikI Dc^n brought forward from time to j ^ sinewy yellow neck, surmount- was kept by B. F. Dense. It was ! time do not apply to their products. In burned to the ground, leaving nothing this way the exposition will work jus- tho walls. j tice to the. packers who are genuinely s'. 1861. Methodist church on : trying to give the public a square deal This church occupied the j and will give the public a valuable les- n in what to avoid. new Ibrop, the supply to date is 10. 815.737. against 8,840,065 for the same j period last year. Liverpool Cotton Statistics LIVERPOOL. Feb. 15.—The following I are the weekly cotton statistics: Bales. I Total sales, all kinds 56.0QO “ Total sales of American 46,000 ] English spinners’ takings 82.000: Total exports 14.000! Imports of all kinds... 149.000 I Imports of American 12S.O0O Stock of all kinds Stock of American Quantity afloat of all kinds Quantity afloat of American.. Total sales on speculation.... Total sales to exporters Including the construction of elevators machine shops, fireproof warehouses and slips. Other Southern develop ments of the week Include the comple tion of an addition to a foundry plant at Knoxville, Tenn., doubling its ca pacity at a cost of $45 090 and enabling it to turn out ear wheels and ballast cars. In the same city there is under way at a cost of $50.000 an enlarge- ^ ment of wood mantel works, providing !!955." 1D0 I for a doubling of the output. A plant ...865.000 ...469.000 ..“.412.000 ... 2.400 ... 2.100 I b. tip August 6. 1860. the company took - the mirstion of changing the loon- ci of their engine house, and favored -“tor avenue, opposite the Park Ho lt: the center of the street, as the >• site. opposite the present engine j It was known as i hurch. a name given I the girls attending it ! i who chewed rosin in those day : of gum. After this church was burned J its congregation secured tlie site on I First street, where their handsome j building now stands. j December 25. 1871. Wannaok's store [ on Cherry street, near Wachiel’s. This ; store was filled with toys and flre- I works, and was kept by A. Wannack. ! a well known machinist. A crowd of j Christmas revelers were on the oppo- j sit'- side of the street and sent fhp : blazing contents of a Roman candle I ill the store, resulting in no; only the (Omn'.ete destruction of the store hut of those Of r>. Daly and E. IVitkowski. April 21. 16T>. Brown’s Hotel. This j fire got beyond the control of the fire- ! men. who worked hard and faithfullv ed by a strange, quaint face: this nestled in a mass of coarse, bristling black be.ard. stiff like mourning-piss. The head was thatched with wild re publican hair, which did not conceal large, widely projecting ears; the nose stood out prominent: the eyes, beneath shaggy brows, were deep-set. penetrat- ! ing. - almost tender: the mouth was j stern but amiable, the features gen- j erally full of kindliness, sagacity and ; awkward bon-homie." Weekly Interior Cotton Towns. weekly interior cotton towns for the week ending Friday, February 15: has had no legal standing. It is whispered about the Capitol that many Senators were aware of the onvs- sion. but being among those whose chief ambition is “to prj the President i j a hole.” kept quiet about it until near the end of the session. A reouest was =ent to him Wednesday to send in the names and to date the message bark to the firsf day of the session. This simple wnj- of overcoming a technicality recalls the an nual custom on the Inst night of the ses sion to turning hack the hands o' the Senate clock, as fast as they approach the hour of midnight. Aside, however, from th" opportunity given to some people in (Tie Senate to have a joke on Ml-. Roosevelt, there are no serious features. Xo contracts have been let. as thus far what work has hcmi done, and it’s mighty little.-has been done entirely by Government employes. California, Japan, ard Peace. So many unjust and untrue stories have been sent out of Washington, particuiarly to Pacific coast newspapers, concerning 4 the demeanor of the Ean Francisco dele- j gation here that it is fair to Correct-3* them. • I Mayor Schmitz is in Washington under . circumstances that would test any man’s > courage and dignity. He is under Indict ment in San Francisco for divers offense*, all grouped together under the name of "graft.” But so far in this eour.trv. while an indictment may he a misfortune, it is not necessarily a proof of guilt. The delegation have held together at all times. They have made several visits to the President, and have respected such confidences as he may repose In thorn. They are ready at all times to talk of the evils of the coast, which thev wish to correct, but are slow to say anything about the progress of their negotiations. They are really in a position of extrema delicacy. Back of them are two foi-c.-. s not wholly antagonistic, but with diffc I r- ent views. San Francisco wants the Jap anese school children segregated. All California wants the Jap coolies excluded. The Federal Government, or Mr. Roosc- on the river front at Xewbcrn. X. C. including a four-story 52x72-foot di gester building, a 36x225-foot paper machine building and a brick boiler own, ■ l 101156 with equipment of 400 horse- NEW YORK. Feb. 15.—The following j power, is preparing to begin the man- ort-JoJliSSi’ is the movement of spot cotton at tHe ! tfaT t VoXrn Pgilh "in 1 ^ll’ornin ato tho "Uo'Sb: of paper pulp for Northern mills. In- i though he has declared that lie would like tending to go Into the manufacture of to do so. He cannot promise the c-ili- writing paper later on. An expendi- fornlans the exclusion of the coolies, been authorized for I tho - ’ I tha TOWNS— Rockefeller Gives Away Wealth. Nowadays the struggle for life is a instead I commonplace affair beside the struggle ' to die poor, a field of endeavor in which competition has become so keen that the youth of the country no longer need fear a dearth of opportunity to acquire mental food, whatever the con dition may be in respect to plain bread and butler. Only a short time ago the widow of Russell Sage gave away sev eral mollions of the slender hoard so i . hardly won by flaying the tough hides.! and tolerant of all faith ademy. This center of the ademy street been entirely j for many long hours. (in Augti't S 1861. the company de- i March 30. 1979. old elded to drill the members In the scho.i; old building occupied t of the soldier, so as to he ready to flg.h' block through which t\'-e or the enemies of their country, now runs, and which h They were to dr!!! weekly, and have a i buitt up with homes. Before the war parade »*\er> month. j and afterward. W. c. Singleton taught On May IP. 1S66. the company at- ! the hig boys down stairs, and S. H. tended the funeral of Gen. E. D. Tracy. Singleton taught the small boys up edng to the depot to escort his re- stairs. - •it't'is from there to the cemetery. February 3, IsS::. First Baptist On May 21. 1866, there was an explo- church. This was a brick stuccoed Wall street bulls and bears. Now the struggle has cost John D. Roche- i Teller another $82,000,000 of hard-earned f wealth, and still the Standard Oil ma/- I nate according to the latest available statistics is several millions behind Andrew Carnegie in the race to pov erty. whatever their respective achieve- A Statesman of France. In writing of ‘“George Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France.” in the Febru ary Everybody's. William Morton Fuller ton says; “Anti-collectivist.. anti-“humanitarian- rlcal. but Socialist. Liberal. profoundly and patriotically French. M. Clemenceau Is to day one of the few practical statesmen f his day and generation: one of the few men who. knowing exactly what (ant. possess the intelligence ade- j quate to carry out their will. The un known quantit the hostlli: liamentary life, still continues, himself more ' the problem of factor of the personal ‘friends' in French Par- His reckless frankness He has thus X“r shown f « statesman than an [ ments at golf may be. The fact that j educational institutions are fnvariably the heneficiaries is evidence of a dis- | position to play the nP w game fairly, j Mr. Rockefeller’s latest donation to the [lost him the presidency of the" Chamber ; ( .vase makes a total of $43,000,000 | may still nlay him an even dirtier trig*-, which he has placed in the hands of j For he will not hold his tongue. He is jh« general educational board for ad- I incorrigible. He still remains.. to6 much ministration, while his gifts to Chicago University, aggregating $21,090,000. and trifling amounts to various other Albany . . . . 1 23' 3511 52 3237 Athens . . . . >1911'3106|.... 14618 ! Atlanta . . . . 10 9-1611831.2735! 12739 j Brenham . . . 508! 395!.... 2695 i Charlotte . . . 10H 1 265! 265!.... Columbia . . . |2295!2796!.... 15400 j Columbus. Ga. 10% 1 58712267!.... 16500 : Colum.. Miss.. {1672123701. 7306 | Dallas . . . . 112S2 1873!.... 3037 ! Eufaula . . . I....I 337!.... 2786 ! Greenville . . . |22SO!2005!.... 6898 | Greenwood . . 1 651 476! 175 4000 : ' Helena .... 1123811873!.... 15300 Little Rook.... 108J '6740 5751 .... 45693 Macon .... 10% ! 158' 142!.... 5986 • Meridian . . . 12133 3692'.... 14653 Montgomery .. 10H “3652I4773I4773 21798 ; Nashville . . . 10kf 1336 416:.... 631 Natchez . . . ' 969' 595' 376 10561 Newberry . . . ! 275 230!.... 2650 Raleigh . . . ! 340 375].... 1334 Rome . . . . 1 901“ 641L...' 4936 Selma .... ! 910 152.7“. .. . 3154 Shreveport . . 10 13938 6129 2373 17301 i Vicksburg . . . 1610' 788'.... 25443 ! Yazoo City....l 1106' 856!....' 12026 ture of $50,000 ha additions to a calico print works Wheeling, W. Va.. the capacity of a mill at Anniston. Ala., is to be quad rupled in the manufacture of cotton yarn, twine and rope, and a $100,000 company has been organized for the construction of a cotton mill, either at Brotvntvood or at Fort Worth, Tex. temples of learning brings the grand still roniaip; I the mere artist, the detached ! the admirer of Greek temples, and of Jap- j unese lacquer.. !!.■ treats politics a S a [ game, a noble ’one, but a game, and men as pawns.” SEA ISLAND COTTON. CHARLESTON. S. C.. Feb. 15.—Sea is land cotton, for week: Receipts 29; ex ports to continent 70; sales 542; stock 515. The quotations are: Fine. 34; fully fine, 38; extra fine. 40. SAVANNAH, Ga.. Feb. 15.—Sea island cotton quotations nominal: fancy Floridas 35a35H: fancy Georgias 35: extra choice Georgias and Floridas 32a33; chonce Geor gies and FJoridas 31: extra fine Georgias and Floridas 30; fine Georgias and Flori- The Labor Press. One hundred and eighty-five month- 364 publications, which number does not include Socialist periodicals reach a no inconsiderable portion of the la boring community and exercise an in fluence in it which is little suspected. There are in North America approxi mately two million five hundred thou sand working people organized into trades-unions, and each of them re ceives the official organ of the craft to which he or she belongs ard usually one or two other labor papers. Rut > of these journals extends beyond tne enrolled membership of es tablished organizations. The numbyr among their subscribers, many sym pathizers and non-union workmen; they are placed on the tables of reading rooms all over the country; and for every subscriber there are probably two readers. It is no exaggeration to say that they reac-h five million readers, perhaps half as- many more.—William though they have privately announced t they would swap the schools for that concession. The result is a deadlock. Some people think the Administration would no* he sorry to see it continue until Cor.gre= = adjourns, when executive action might ho taken without fear of trouble som V in vestigation. But there are still two weeks of Congress and the CaliforniansTare act ive and pertinacious. Representative Slayden’s rather humor ous speech concerning the noisiness of war talk Just about the time that the navy bill w:is un-dbr consideration in each Congress was not altogether without foundation. There Is more talk about War with Japan around the Navy Department and in the naval committee lust now- than there is at the white Hou=e o- among the members of the California de'- egation. i NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on ycur pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. IMMIGRATION COMMISSIONER WILL COME TO MACON. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Commis sioner of Immigration Frank P. Sar gent will leave Washington tomorr tv night for Macon, Ga.. wh are he 'will ... attend the meetings of the Georm.t Restelle. in The World Today, for Feb- | Immigration Association, to he h-j.d ruary. next Tuesday and Wednesday,