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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, WOT,
STATE FARMERS WANT
LOWER RAILROAD FARE
NEW INDUSTRIES
LAUNCHED IN THE SOUTH
XTLANTA. March 2.—While the | that the reduction will be from 3
proposition has not been put up to the . 2 Vi cents than to 2 cents
State Railroad Commission, there ap- ' *"*■- ' '** *“
pears to be a pretty well defined be
lief that It will uke seme action In the
matter of reducing: the pamenger fare
In Georgia, at least within the next
two «r three months. The commission
has ample authority to take the matter
up on Its own motion, should it see fit
to do so. but an It has been announced
tha: a petition Is to be file! in behalf
of the Georgia Farmer-’ Union on this
subject. It is not expected that it will
take this course.
Judge Janies K. Hines, of Atlanta,
will fepresent the Farmers’ Union In
the matter. According to a recent In- : earnings of the passenger departments. . companie:
terriew Judge Hines proposes not
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. March 1.—
In the accompanying list will be seen
the important new industries estab
lished In the {South during the week
ending today as reported to the
Tradesman through reliable sources of
information. There is a predominance
of saw mills, lumber companies and
woodworking plants In West Virginia.
A $450,000 car wheel factory appears
In the list from Virginia. The State
of Texas leads In the number of diver
sity of new industries. there being
twenty-four • Important ones in the
week’s report Two canning factories
are included in the Tennessee list, and
two telephone companies in Oklahoma.
North Carolina presents, amonr her
The Railroad Commission, some time
1 ago, after a full hearing in this mat
ter declined to reduce the rate to 2
: cents. The only difference in the cosn-
i position of the commission then and
! now Is that Hon. J. Pope Brown, who
1 was then a member of It and who voted
for the 2-cent proposition, which was j new lnduatriees three lumber compa-
! hi-- own. has rtlred and Hon. O. B. nles and a planing mill: Missouri, sev-
| Stevens has taken his place. j eral heavily capitalized mining com-
There are many who do not believe
that the travel In Georgia, while it has
increased enormously within the last
few vears. is yet sufficient to Justify
eduction of 33 1-3 per cent In the
LEADING INDUSTRIES HAVE OR
DERS COVERING MANY
' MONTHS IN AD
VANCE.
NEW YORK, March 1.—R. G. Dun
& Co.’s weekly review of trade tomor
row will say: Jobbing trade in dry-
goods and millinery for spring distribu
tion continues the most active commer
cial feature, a large attendance of
country buyers placing liberal orders
WILL HISATE
n
WASHINGTON, March
cordance with the House
2.—In ac-
resolution,
: That is what a reduction from 3 to 2
ask for a flat 2-c«»t rate, but for a re- * cents per mile would amount to. A
ductlon of tb- passenger fare in Geor- . reduction of 16 2-3 per cent is looked
gla. The Railroads in the Slate now : upon a- more reasonable and more
sell mileage books at a 2>4-cent rate j likely. It would not, by any means,
good on practically nny railroad In the b» surprising. If that should be the ae-
gtAte Th<- members of the Farmers’ j tion taken by the commission when
TJnlon contend chat thay should not be | the matter comes to a test,
charged mor>- than this, and they are There Is considerable interest in the
panics: Louisiana, a canning factory
Kentucky', a warehouse company and
flouring mill: Floridn, a 3125,000 ice
factory; Arkansas, mining and lumber
companies, and Alabama three mining
The complete list as au-
the Tradesman is as fol-
not able, they s-’.ate. as a rule to pur
chase i.000 miles of transportation at
one time.
The matter of passenger samlngs In
Georgia and the status of all the rail
roads In the State has been worked
up in statistical form for presentation
to the commission, and comparisons
are made with the conditions In other
States.
The reduced passenger fare move
ment has. of late, been sweeping the
country. Home ten States have re
duced "the fare most of them tp 2 cents
a mi>. In Missouri whore the rate has
been made 2 cents, the railroads have
announced that they will fight It. Thor#
appeared
coming Inspection of the property of
the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company by the Railroad Commission,
In which all the members of that body
will participate as the result of certain
changes and complaints made by Bow-
dre Phlnlay, of Augusta.
The commission will leave Atlanta at
7:45 o’clock next Wednesday morning
and proceed to Covington, where the
first stop will be etude. I: is proposed
to make a thorough inspection at all
points design?.!ert by Mr. Phinizy, or
wlrieh may' hereafter be pointed out;
also of the rolling stock.
The law gives the commission au-
thirity to require any railroad In the
Slate to be put in thoroughly safe con
dition, and to this end provides that
the commission shall make an inspec-
thorized by
lows:
Alabama.
Birmingham—$19.o#0 land company:
$28,000 c:al and coke company: con
tracting company.
Bessemer—Electrical supply com
pany: $10,000 buggy company.
Tuscaloosa—$10 POO land company.
Jasper—515,000 mining company.
Russellville—$5,000 warehouse com-
pany.
Arkansas.
Rogers—Canning factory.
Fort Smith—$25,000 contracting com
pany; $60,000 mining company'.
Fisher—$25,000 development com
pany'.
Little Rock—$100,000 Investment
company.
Walnut Lake—$70,000 lumber com-
$6,500 manufacturing
In no fight on it no far as has
In Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Alabama and one or two other Stfttea
have adopted a 254-cent rate. In Mis- I fion, either itself, or by an agent, but
frfsnlpp! a flat rate of 2 cents a mile I it makes no provision for the remuner-
has been adopted for 1,009 mile books ! ation of sueh agent or expert. There
on ]y. is nothing left for the commission to
A general belief has been expressed ! do. therefore, but to make the Inspec-
arou-nd the Capitol I hat unless the t’ion itself.
Railroad Commission *ots In this mat- I The Railroad Commissioners realize
ter between now and June, the Legls- J that a thorough inspection of a railroad
lature will take It up and pass an act ! cannot be made without a careful ex
on the subject.
While there 1s nothing definite on
which to base the statement, for the
Railroad Commissioners refuse to talk
of it in advance of action. Indication
point to the fact that a reduction in
the rate of fare In Georgia will be
forthcoming before many weeks have i
passed. It Is more likely, however,
amina-tion of every' foot of It. To make
such an examination it would be nec-
cessary for them to walk over the road.
pany.
Jonesboro
company.
Pine Bluff—Waterworks.
Eureka Springs—$1,000,000 building
and loan company.
Florida.
Tampa—$125 000 ice factory.
Grand Ridge—Syrup mill.
Jacksonville—$20,000 lumber com
pany.
Boca Grande—Development com
pany.
Georgia.
Albany—$50,000 brick and tile works.
FlovHla—Light and power plant.
Kentucky.
Greensburg—$15,000 turnpike com-
__ providing for an investigation of the
at the "leading centers, and it is the ex- j business methods of cotton exchanges
ception when transactions are not equal . dealing In futures, the bureau of cor-
' ’ porations of the Department of Com
merce and Labor will begin a general
inquiry into cotton dealing imme
diately after Congress adjourns.
Representative Livingston, of Geor
gia, who has been active for months
in the agitation for reformation In the
methods of cotton exchanges, said to
day- that he expects to appear before
the bureau on March 5 and at that
time will present much data which he
has collected on the methods of cot
ton dealers.
The department has been supplied
by Mr. Livingston with the names of
many witnesses whom he wishes to
have called and additional lists will
be furnished by representatives of cot
ton exchanges and other persons in
terested in the investigation. As the
resolution was amended by the House
committee on Interstate and foreign
commerce It does not provide for an
investigation of any particular ex
change, but Is believed by members
of Congress interested in the matter
to be broad enough to extend the in
quiry to New York, New Orleans and
Memphis cotton exchanges.
to those of a year ago. while substan
tial gains are often recorded.
Leading industries have orders cov
ering full production many months in
advance. The only adverse feature In
the outlook is the discussion of wage
scales that usually appear about this
season, but no extensive struggle is
imminent. Steadiness is the dominant
feature of the markets for Iron and
steel. More advances In prices of cot
ton goods in the primary markets tes
tify to the inability of the mills to
handle the business in sight, and the
urgency of the demand from second
hands that were not prepared for the
needs of distributors. The slight rise
in cost of raw material had no bearing
on the situation, no attention having
been paid to that factor for some time
past. Progress is slow in woolens,
most buyers in the men’s wear market
have returned home after placing Ini
tial orders that do not establish a defi
nite position. New business at New
England footwear factories la chiefly
limited to supplementary' orders from
East and jobbers for late spring and
early summer delivery.'
Weekly Bank Statement.
NEW YORK, March 2.—The statement
of the clearing-house banks for the week
shows that the banks hold $3,353,650 mora
than the legal reserve requirements. This
is a decrease of $4j0,925 as compared with
last week. The statement follows:
Decrease.
Loans ....$1,709,185,600 $4,271,800
Deposits 1,034.431.800 6.539.900
Circulation 52.827.200
Legal tenders 74.401.400
BIRINS IN MID-AIR
NEW YORK’:
but this the commission does not pro- i pa ”L’. ^ - , , .
to do. It will, however. Inspect Mn^n-Cross-arms and pin factory.
Cynthiana—Cigar factory: $20,000
pose to do. It will, however, inspect
carefully all points on the Hne brought
into question.
The result of this Investigation will
be awaited with no small interest.
MOVEMENT TO SETTLE
RACE PROBLEM BALKEO
ATLANTA, March 8.—The movement
looking to the appointment of a com
mission. members of which are to be
named by- the Governors of the South
ern States, for the purpose, of settling
the race problem, does not appear to
have met with hearty and favorable
response on behalf of the appointing
powers, and up to the present time
there have been several refusals.
Correspondence regarding the matter
has been conducted by Rev. John E.
White, pastor of the Second Baptist
Church of this city, who has written
every Southern Governor and confer
red personally with m&ny of them re
garding the matter.
It is said Dr. White is acting upon
the suggestion and at the Instance of
George Foster Peabody, of Now York,
a former Georgian, and a well-known
educational philanthropist, though Mr.
Peabody has not been known in con
nection with the negotiations. A num
ber of well-known Georgians and
prominent citizens of other States are
also backing Dr. White In the move
ment. Including Gov. Terrell, Judge
Beverly D. Evans, of the Gcorlga Su
preme Court, G. Gunby Jordan, of Co
lumbus, T. G. Bush. Capt. Frank
White nnd Dr. A. J. Duckerson, of
Birmingham. Dr. Edwin A. Alderman,
president of the University of Virginia;
Drs. S. C. Mitchell nnd R. H. Pitt,
of Richmond, Va.. J. W. Bailey. Edwin
Mims, W. L. Potent. R. B. White and
others of North Carolina.
The object of thew gentlemen has
been to secure the appointment by
each Southern Governor of two or
three members from each State of a
commission which shall discuss the re
lations of the two races and submit
propositions looking to the establish
ment of permanent peace and good or
der.
There nppenrs. however, to be a gen
eral feeling that no real good could
be accomplished by- the appointment of
such a commission, but. on the other
hand, that It might rather endanger
the attainment of the objects for the
accomplishment of which It wu de-
y vised.
" Gov. Claude A. Swanson, of Virginia,
was Ihe first to decline to take any
part in the selection of such a com
mission. and he based his refusal very
much upon this ground. Gov. Swanson
declared that peace and harmony now
prevail in Virginia as between the
races and said such a commission
would only serve to stir things up.
The most Interesting and important
suggestion contained In his letter will,
perhaps, be found in the following
paragraph:
“It
for the South to pursue is for the local
authorities in each Stale to meet this
problem with Justice, fairness nnd
firmness, and settle It In a way that
tends to the progress nnd prosperity
of each State and to the advancement
of Its civilization.”
It has long been recognized by stu
dents of the situation that this prob
lem Is largely a local one. It i-s a
question which present* numerous
phases nnd conditions, and each of
these must be met and dealt with as
better relations between the races and
promoting an understanding that will
make for peace and harmony, and
above all an abiding respect for the
law. As his work progresses, It Is felt
there is no doubt that the good re
sults will be seen. Following his work
in Georgia he proposes to take it up
also in other States.
DELEGATES NAMED TO
TUBERCULOSIS LEAGUE
ATLANTA, Ga., Maroh 2.—Following
are the delegates appointed by Gov. Ter
rell to the Anti-Tuberculosis League,
which will meet at Atlantic City. N. J.,
June 1-4. 1907:
Dr. Henry H. Battey.' chairman, Rome;
DT. L H. Hardman. Commerce; Dr. W.
J. Rryant, Summerville: Dr. Jeff Davis,
Toccoa; Dr. M. F. Harris, Atlanta: Dr. L.
F. West. Atlanta; I)r. E. C. Thrash. At
lanta; Dr. J. H. Thomas. Griffin. Dr.
R. B. Barron, Macon; Dr. J. W. Palmer,
Alley; Dr. J. H. Latimer, Wayeross: Dr.
J. F. Atkinson. Milledgeville: Dr. T R.
Wright. Augusta; Dr. J. P. Prescott. Lake
Park: Dr. J. B. Rudolph. Gainesville; Dr.
J. K. Burns. Clarkes ville; Dr. W. J.
Green. Clayton: Dr. W. T. Gautief, Co
lumbus: pr. C. P. McLain. Calhoun: Dr.
W. B. TUcker. Chipley; Dr. Gordon Cha-
son. Jr.. Bainbridge: Dr. T. B. Davis
Newne.n: Dr. J. W. Pinkston, Grcenvl’le;
Dr. W. H. Alexander, Blakely; Dr. J. W.
Hogg, Senoia.
Specie
Reserve
Reserve required..
Surplus
Ex-U. S. deposits..
199.QS5.200
263.46S.690
259.607.950
3.838.650
7.446,875
217.300
1.017,800
1.080.600
2.099.400
1.647,473
430.930
451,850
World’s Visible Supply.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1.—Secretary
Hester’s statement the -world’s vlsiblo-
supply of cotton, issued today, shows the
total visible to be 5.504.46S against 6,583.-
$39 last -week and 5.146.123 last year. Of
this the total of American cotton is
4.!‘3R,46S against 4,270.389 last week and
3.606,123 last year, and of all other kinds,
including Egypt, Brazil, India, etc..
1,266.000 against 1,315,000 last week and
1,340.000 last vear.
Of th"e world’s visible supply of cotton
there is now afloat and held in Great
Britain and continental Europe 3.093.000
against 2.54S.0P0 last year; in Egypt 232.-
009 against 189.900 last year; in India,
618.000 against 967.090 last year, and in
the United States 1,646,000 against 1,442,-
000 last year.
Senator Tillman, Asks That
President throw Light on
Canal Bids.
Weekly Interior Cotton Towns.
NEW YORK. March 1.—The following
is the movement of spot cotton at the
weekly Interior cotton towns for the w’eek
ending Friday, March 1:
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DEATH IN EXPLOSION
OF CAN OF KEROSENE
NEW YORK. March 2.—Mrs. Benj.
P. O’Connell, 42 years old, was prob
ably fatally Injured, her husband,
aged 42, seriously injured and seven
of their ten children painfully injured
by an explosion of a can of ’kerosene
oil at their home In Brooklyn tonight.
The explosion of the can caused a
lamp to explode also. The mother,
father and children suffered burns as
they ran through the flames to the
street.
Albany. . . .
281 116
2638
Athens . . . .
933 1549
7C
13677
Atlanta . . .
10 13-16
231011838
12922
Brenham . .
61| 318
2247
Charlotte . .
319! 319
Columbia . .
157811478
16100
Colum., Ga...
4711 867
867
17033
Colum., Miss..
43511244
623G
Dallas . . . .
6671 943
2313
Eufaula . . .
....1 247
....
2403
■Greenville . .
119411135
6531
Greenwood ..
591! 475
die
3382
Helena . . . .
233111712
15489
Little Rock..
io?a
7761:8461
4236.8
Macon ....
u
70! 932
4836
Meridian. . .
104V2994I....
11847
Montgomery llfl'i I
276S : 3034’3034
19473
Nashville .. .
10%
4SS ! 418!....
622
Natclies . . .
768113741....
9628
Newberry • ...
600 690'....
1007
Raleigh . . .
io?i
275 139j....
1195
Rome ....
$021 S83|....
4494
Selma ....
7741 5S4|....
3173
Shreveport ..
10 1-16
2691'3039ll6B9
16805
Vicksburg . .
R?uitn*3i ..
23792
Yazoo City ..
........
iZi, j....
10697
McLEAN THREATENED
REPORTERS WITH COWHIDE
RALEIGH. N. C., March 2.—Rising
to a question of personal privilege in
the State Senate today. Senator Mc
Lean. of Robeson County, characteriz
ed as untrue certain statements con
cerning bills he had introduced and
published in a morning paper here.
Turning to the reporters’ table he
said:
“I want the reporters to take this
statement: Unless the policy of slan
dering me stops. I will take the matter
in my own hands and apply the cow-
eems to me that the best course j hide to the man who does it.”
COMPANIES OFFER TO DUPLI
CATE ANY AMOUNT CONTRIB
UTED BY MEN TO FORM AC
CIDENT INSURANCE
FUND.
SCRANTON. Pa., Feb. 28.—To pro
vide quick and adequate relief for
men injured in the mines two of the
largest coal companies In the Wyom
ing Valley have formulated a plan
. for an accident insurance fund. The
Itsjawn peculjor circumstances require. | miners are to give one day’s pay, and
„ .. . ' and the total amount so contributed
will he doubled by the employers. Ou
Cotton Receipts.
NEW YORK. March 1.—The following
am the total net receipts of coton at all
ports since September 1: Bales.
Gnlveston 3.260.143
New Orleans 1,923.581
Mobile 227,175
Savannah 1,233.401
Charleston 137.447
WllmtnfttOn 297.063
Norfolk 473 509
Baltimore 45.033
New York 13. r -61
Boston 51,275
Newport News 28,444
Philadelphia 4.772
Pan Francisco ’ 54.940
Brunswick 134.899
Port Townsend 74,606
Following Gov. Swanson comes G
Blanchard, of Louisiana, who likewise
declines to participate in the selection
of such a commission, on very much
the same grounds. Other Southern
Governor* have been -heard from indi
rectly to the same tenor, though their
letter* have not been made public.
There are numerous Indications
however, that the proposition Is suf
fering somewhat from a dose of cold
■water. With a commission composed
of delegates from onlv two or three
States. It Is evident little could be ac
complished. though possibly somo in
teresting suggestions might be offered
appertaining particularly to those
States Interested.
It had not been Intended to make
any announcement a the matter for
the present, and not until the plans
were definitely completed and the com
mission was about to be appointed, but
Gov. Sw*TT»on’s letter was given out
for publication In Virginia, and that
has started the discussion of it.
It appears to be the general opinion
that more good can be accomplished
bv the quiet work that former Gov.
W. J. Northen Is doing in behalf of
th« Atlanta Business Men’s Gospel
Union and the Civic League which was
the outcome of the former movement.
Gov. Northen 1* at present engaged
In *he work of orrsntxing such civic
leagues in communities all over Geor
gia, solely with a view to establishing
of this fund accident Insurance of $1
! a day will be paid to those sustaining
I injuries which incapacitate them for
| work. In case of accidental death,
! funeral expenses are provided for and
j the widow of the miner is guaranteed
$3 a week for one year and $1 addi-
! tional for each chil l under fourteen
| years of age.
I The relief fund is to be managed by
j the men themselves, the outside and
I inside foremen and three other em- j
j ployes selected by the contributing i
I members of the fund forming the j
I comittees. Payments are to be made
by the companies upon orders from
J this board, and a statement is to be i
- posted annually of all receipts and :
1 disbursements. When the fund is ex- !
j hausted it will be renewed in the way ,
I it started—by the companies dupli- j
; eating the total of all individual pay- i
1 ments.
Some yars ago the Lehigh Valley *
: started a relief fund along these lines
for its miners, but ii: was abandoned
owing to the fact that the men stopped
contributing. Now that the relief fund
plan has been so thoroughly tried ou; j
by the railroads and the anthracite
miners are so much more prosperous j
than formerly the relief fund is ex- j
peoted to be more successful and ;t« ;
ultimate adoption throughout the hard i plant,
coal region is probable. Romney—$10,000
.tobacco company.
Owensboro — $50,000 manufacturing
company'.
Danville—$15,000 amusement com
pany.
Warsaw—Warehouse company.
Glasgow—Flouring mill.
Louisville—$20,000 coal tar products
company.
Louisiana.
New Orleans—$50,000 land company;
$5,000 laundry, cigar box factory;
laundry-.
Abbeville — $20,000 manufacturings
company.
Hopedale—$40,000 land company.
Shreveport—$50,000 oil expeller com
pany.
Iowa—Telephone company.
Independence—$20,000 canning fac
tory.
Missouri.
St. Louis—$14,000 manufacturing
company; $5,000 leather company;
$100,000 roof tiling company: $25,000
kaliedoscope top company: $200,000
mining company; $50 000 mining com
pany; $250,000 manufacturing com
pany; $210,000 lumber company.
Carthage—$50,000 mining company.
Kansas City—$25,000 lumber com
pany: $10,000 construction company:
$60,000 mining company.
Neosho—$150,000 foundry and plow
works.
Joplin—$50,000 lead and zinc com
pany.
Hannibal—$30,000 Ice and cold stor
age plant.
North Carolina.
Charlotte—$10,000 motor car com
pany: $100,00p trust company.
Saginaw—Lumber company.
Thomasville—$20,000 planing mill.
Cid—$10,000 saw mill company.
Greensboro—-$10,000 lumber com
pany.
Mebane—$50,000 lumber company*:
$50,000 Iron bed factory; hardware
company.
Oxford—$50,000 telephone system.
Oklahoma.'
El Reno—$10,000 construction com
pany: $30,000 land company.
Oklahoma City—$50,000 development
company.
Saddle Mountain—$10,000 gin and
mill company'.
Cashion—Telephone system.
Delhi—$4,997.50 telephone system.
South Carolina.
Charleston—Bottling works.
Tennessae.
Johnson City—$8,000 bottling works.
Brownsville—Canning factory.
Chattanooga—$50,000 candy com
pany'.
Nashville—-Phosphate and quarrying
company.
Knoxville—$50,000 powder company'.
Calhoun—Paint factory.
Memphis—$25,000 sanitary company;
$20,000 frog and switch company'.
Ethridge—Canning factory.
Rock-wood—Investment company.
Texas.
Beaumont—$10,000 rice mill.
Weaver—Telephone system.
Fort Worth—$250,000 pumping com
pany; $10,000 investment company.
Azle—Telephone system.
Houston—Lumber company.
El Paso—$100,000 electrical supply
company; $10,000 development com
pany.
Comanche—$25,000 cotton gin.
Whltewright—$15,000 hardware com
pany.
Kennedy—Lumber company.
Dallas—Amusement company; $50,-
000 land company.
Snn Antonio—$60,000 vending match
company.
Caldwell—$30,000 warehouse com
pany.
Nacogdoches—$50,000 lumber com
pany'.
Hamlin—Railway shops.
Pittsburg—Railway shops.
Pittsburg—'20.ooq lumber company. |
Sherman—$$o nnn medicine factory'.
Hereford—$ 16.QQQ telephone system.
Snyder—$40 oo^fcand company.
Ballinger—$25,000 ice and fuel com
pany'.
Mexia—$5,000 laundry.
Virginia.
Williamsburg—$14,000 gas plant’.
Norfolk—$50,000 investment com-
panv; $10,000 land company; $150,090 !}__„_>„ rt.—j j.’ in , ,
brick works: $59 000 investment com- | BS-COn S Cl SdSTltlilS PrSSSntfld
122.603
119.112
7.147
494
7.608
Pensacola _______
Port Arthur and Sabine Pas3.
Jacksonville. Fla
Laredo, Texas
Minor ports
Total 8,271,868
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK. March 1.—The following
is the comparative statement of cotton
for the week ending Fridny. March 1:
1097. 1906.
Net port receiDts 192.152 111.690
Rects. since Sent. 1 S.271.S63 6,254.636
Exports for week 216.297 130 637
Exp. since Sept. 1 6.292.668 4.594.780
Ptock all U. S. ports.... 1.064 687 810.688
Stock at int. towns 567.514 616.486
Stock at Liverpool 1,110 090
Amn. afloat fo r G. B.... 198.000
New Yor k Cotton Exchanqe Statistics.
LEW YOHIC. March 1.—The following
statistics on the movement of cotton
for the week ending Friday. March 1,
were compiled by the New York Cotton
Exchange:
Weekly Movement.
This
_ . . , year.
Port receipts 18S.187
To mills and Canada 29.005
Sou.mill takings, est 54 noo
Stock gain int. towns.... 5.319
Into sight for week 276.511 161.933
Total Crop Movement.
Port receipts s 27s 670
To mil’s and Canada.. 928,390
Sou. mill takings, est.. 1 519 010
stek ex. Sept. 1.. 440 - .439
WASHINGTON, March 3.—A reso
lution was presented by Senator Till
man today calling on the President to
send to the Senate, “if in his judg
ment not incompatible with the pub
lic interest, all papers of information
In his possession In regard to the pro
posed letting of the contract for the
construction of the Panama canal,
which was bid for by W. J. Oliver,
and others, and to state the existing
status."
In a speech supporting the resolu
tion. Mr. Tillman said the whole coun
try wanted the canal constructed with
as little scandal as possible.
"There have been some remarkable
occurrences in connection with this
work," ho continued. Reference was
then made to the resignation of Mr.
Wallace, who, he said, was' berated
and abused by the Secretary of War.
“Then came the information fhat
Chairman Shon-ts was retaining his
railroad business: that the canal work
was insufficient to occupy his entire
time, and then the statement that he
was going out. And then came Mr.
Stevens’ resignation. Now comes the
matter of Mr. Oliver’s bid for the
work;”
Mr. Oliver, he said, was an efficient
and able contractor, and his bid was
the lowest. “But at once hocuspocus
came Into the game. As I understand
it, Mr. Oliver has complied with every
requirement. I may be a little sus
picious, but there has appeared to me
a disposition to let in the bidders who
were a little too greedy in their first
bids. Now Oliver has disappeared
and the army engineers are said to be
put on the job. I want a little infor
mation,” concluded Mr. Tillman.
Senator Carmack said he had pre
pared an identical resolution to that
introduced by' Mr. Tillman. It seems
to him that Mr. Oliver had received
very bad treatment. He had spent
$30,000 or $40,000 of his own money
in complying with the requirements
of the Government and had made the
lowest bid.
Because of objections the resolution
went over for further action under
the rules.
NEW YORK. March 3.—“What will
Coney do next?” Is the perennial ques
tion with which New Tork’s summer
visitors greet some new marvel at that
world-famous resort by the sea. And
It always is a marvel. Dreamland and
Luna Park have passed their first
freshness, but this year the marvel
will be there just the same. It will be
a globular tower, the biggest building
In the world, for which the first piece
of steel was set in place- a few days
ago. The new building will be 700 feet
high and 900 feet in circumference—
bigger than the Hippodrome, Madison
Square Garden, the Academy of Music,
the Metropol’tan Opera House and the
New York Theatre combined. Beside
it the Washington Monument the
Bunker Hill -monument, the Philadel
phia City Hall, the Park Row Building,
and the Masonic Temple in Chicago
will look like toys. It will have 11
floors and 600.000 square feet of floor
space, .and on every floor will be all
sorts of things to amuse the millions
who survive the crush incident to a 5-
cent fare to the inland. The ground
floor will be an automobile garage, to
gether with various small concessions.
Just 150 feet above the ground will be
the pedestal roof garden, a popular-
priced restaurant, vaudevill and roller
skating rink. At 250 feet will he the
aerial hippodrome with a continuous
four-ring circus, end a miniature rail
road running around the circumference
of the tower. But the greatest feature
of all will be the revolving resturnrt
and cafe 300 feet in the air. which
the leather-lunged barkers will pro
claim the only one of the kind in the
world. It' will be 25 feet wide, with
500 tables and a seating capacity; for
2,500 at one time. In it one may' cat
and drink and watch the grand pano
rama of harbor and city and she back
ground of wooded hi'ls drift slowly be
fore hi' vision in the 30 minutes it will
take the cafe to complete Its revolution,
then pursue his way upward to the
grand ballroom, the scenic railway and
other novelties at the 350-foot level,
the observatory platform fitted with
telescope', at 500 feet, and the United
States Weather B’ureau-and w’reles
dishes of the fatherland, but for the
1 men and women who were born and
brought up in the United States, there
is no place where they may expect to
find, and recognize the toothsome
dishes of New England and the old
South, or even the plain, substantial
fare upon which the West grew to
lusty manhood. In this respect, per
haps more than in any other, New
York has censed to be an American
city.
New York has ever a warm welcome
for the stranger within her gates.
Hence when Charley Jackson, of Bil
lings, Montana, came to town about
three weeks ago, with $300 in his
pocket and a desire to see what might
be done with It. he was promptly
taken in hand and shown a few things
which could not fail to Interest, how
ever little they may have pleased him.
Before he left for home one day last
week, he had accumulated the finest
stock of experience that ever went
West In a cattle train for lack of a
Pullman ticket. Charley’s first night
was spent at a hotel to which a friend
ly policeman referred him, where he
awoke the next morning to find him
self without even the price of an early-
morning cocktail. After kindly har
boring him for three whole days in the
hope that something might turn up,
the management suggested that lie
move—without baggage which they
offered to retain until his bill was paid.
Deeming it essential to eat, even if it
should be found necessary' to walk
back to Montana, Charley sougnt hon
est employment, which he found at the
business end of a long-handled shovel
clearing -the streets of snow. At the
end of the eleventh hour -he was re
warded with a ticket calling for $2.20.
The ticket lacked the appearance of
satisfying meal, however, so he parted
with it to a kind-hearted speculator
for $1.50, with which he made for a
famous East Side hostelry. In his
confiding Western way, Jackson pulled
his shoes off before going to bed that
night, which accounted for his appear
ance the next morning at the office of
a charity organization in the second
best rair of a friendly' tramp. Here ho
• ana w-reiess ; : - . ....
telegraph station at 600 feet. There, exchanged a peaigree reaching all tha
if he have any' breath left, he may look ; wa Y from New York to Montana and
at the stars and stripes floating an- I* 1 ? , , , . way back to Adam for a
othrr hundred feet above and exclaim;
“What will Coney do next?”
Crooks in New York.
Coleridge said: “When I think that
lot of false hopes of employment. His
next landing place was In a Front
street office where three days* assid
uous application netted him an even
81 35. Then a coal yard soaked him
every morning in Paris alone 30.000 i 40 cents for a shovel and kindlv of
fellows wake un and rise with the fixed
and settled idea of a.onropr’ating other
people’s money' it ! is with renewed
wonder that every' night when I go
home I find my purse still in my
pocket.” That, to be sure, was long
fored him an opportunity to use it If
he would furnish a bond not to steal
the coal. Finally Jackson got a chance
to convoy a lot of draught horses out
to Montana and tok it quick. He say r s
'he has had a lot of fun here, but it
GEORGIA ROAD CAR WORKERS
IN AUGUSTA ON STRIKE
AUGUSTA. Ga., March 2.—All the car
workers on the Georgia Railroad, who
recently returned to work after being on
strike three weeks for an Increase of
wages, quit work again today, alleging
that the company has violated the arti
cles of agreement.
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enough ago to give the world a chance | will be a long time before he comes
for improvement, but here is still again,
room for the disquieting statement of
Chief of Detective McLaughlin that
there are no less than 10,000 crooks
and 'uspicious characters in the streets
of New York. Every night the Detec
tive Bureau -brings In from 40 to 100
of these men who have police records,
and the next morning the magistrates
set most of them free because there is
no way in which they may he detained
under the law. Pickpockets are the
most prevalent type. Most of them
are young men. many of them fairly
well educated and of good appearance,
and all of them of the hardened sort,
and it is freely tjharged that certain
detective sergeants are giving immun
ity' to well known rogues -Hjho.se name?
have recently graced the columns of
the daily papers in connection with the
charges. The New York pickpocket of
the present day is credited with being
about the slickest human being in the
thieving fraterritv. Diamonds
MODERN HCS^ai-RTE* MUST COM
BINE SAFETY AND LUXURY.
OWNERS ADVERTISE "ABSO
LUTELY FIREPROOF.”
IMMIGRATION STATION
AT SOUTHERN PORTS.
WASHINGTON. March 3—By unani
mous consent the House tonight passed
bills establishing immigration stations
at Charleston, S. C., New Orleans, La.,
and Galveston, Texas.
NEW YORK. March 2.—Absolutely
fireproof” are the significant words to
be seen on some of the latest and most
up-to-date skyscraper hotels and apart
ments In this city. Owners of these big
buildings have awakened to the fact that
guests demand safety- from fire as the
. first requisite. The result Is that most
and | of the new hotels and big apartment
watches are religiously eschewed by houses are now not only- pal'-c-’s of lux-
the experts of the profession because ury and comfort, but also models of un-
of the risk of identification, but money : burnable construction, with the addition -
is not so easily traced. Detective Ser- ■ precaution of elaborate fire-fight.ug
geant Bher’dan. who has been in j ^wtt;; its architectural featu res and
cnarare or rne record room at police ' complex interior arrangements, the mod-
headquarters for many years, says that em hotel has ail the characteristics which
the thoroughly uo-to-date picknociret • have made the skyscraper ofZizc buildings
has become so cautious and skillful ln the fin'mcial district the safest .ar.d
that he always makes a practice of re- ? 10st enduring structures eter put up.
Chicago Republican Ticket.
CinCACTO March. 2.—At the Renublican
city convention today the following nom
inations were made with opposition: For
Mayor. Frederick A. Busse; city treasur
er. Edward C. Young; city clerk. John R.
McCabe.
The platform adopted is based largely
upon the traction proposition nnd favors
the ordinances passed by the City Coun
cil several weeks ago over the Mayor’s
veto.
M. J. DOYLE, OF
SAVANNAH, DEAD
Int.
6,284.014
678.583
1.406.999
447.861
Into sight fo r season. .11,161.499 S,S1G.43S
12.907 bales deducted from the over
land movement for the season.
Liverpool Cotton Statistics,
LIVERPOOL. March 2.—Following are
weekly cotton st-tlstics:
Total sales of all kinds
Total sales of American
English spinners’ takincs....
Total exports 1
Imports of all kinds !..
Imports of m»rlcan
Stock of all k!-ds
Stock of American
Quantity afloat of all kinds
Q’.’anlty Pfioat of Amenean 371.999
Total sales on sacculation 1.290
Total sales to exporters 1,000
Bales,
63.999
42.090
38.909
7.090
jna.noo
173.
....1.03?,000
995,000
...431.000
SAVANNAH. March 2.—M. J.
Doyle, one of the most prominent Re
publicans of Georgia, died tonight at
his home in this city' of pneumonia.
He was 74 years old and had been in
the grocery business here longer than
any other man in this city.
Mr. Doyle was a delegate to the Re
publican national conventions that
nominated Benjamin Harrison and
William McKinley. He leaves a
widow, three sons, and three daugh
ters. One of the sons is deputy- United
States Marshal Jos. D. Doyle, former
ly postmaster at Savannah.
pany: $25,000 land company; $50,000
amusement company.
Alexandria—$459,090 car wheel fac
tor-.-; $169,090 storage company.
Suffolk—$100,000 timber company.
Winchester—$100,000 safe company.
Richmond—$5 000 bottling works;
$100,000 hardware company.
Portsmouth—$50,090 land company.
West Virginia.
Hinton—Power plant.
Richwood—$10,000 hardware com
pany.
Clarksburg—$25,090 casket factory.
Moore—$200,000 lumber company.
Belington—Lumber mills.
Jacksonburg—Sew mills.
Wheeling—$25,000 amusement com
pany; $25,000 lumber company.
Glen Jean—$25,000 telephone system.
Grafton — $100,000 woodworking
lumber company
WASHINGTON. D. C.. March 2.—The
credentials of Senator A. O. Bacon, of
; Georgia, reappointed by the Governor of
j $he State, for the interim, between March
when the Senator's present term ex
pire?. and the election of his successor
by the Legislature, which meets in June
next, were oresented to the Senate today
The appointment will make Senator Ba-
! w'e t'-rm continuous, whereas, if the
Governor had awaited for the Legislature
; to elect there would have b n hiatus
j of about four months. There are five pre-
i ccd-n.ts for the nnpointment.
| The first was that of Senator Bell, of
, New Hampshire, appointed In 1879 and
a contest was made .against it. After
. a hard fight. Ser.’for Bell w.a s held to
j have been constitutionally elected, dcsolte
I the f-et that a Legislature to name a
j Senator had h-pr eier-ci nrior to March
■ 4. 1879. when Senator Bell's term exnlred.
i The other precedents were Senators Blair.
| o* New Hampshire In Pasco' of
Flc.-ida. In 1893; Mallory, of Florida* in
19na and Taliaferro, of Florida. i n l'?05.
| In a’’ of these, cases the ruling in Sena-
ior Bell’s case was held to apply.
WAS IT H. V. JOHNSON?
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
When I was a young man I heard
many of the older citizens of Putnam
County speak of a joint political dis
cussion that occurred same time prior
to 1850 between A. H. Stephens and
Herschel V. Johnson in the old Union
church in Eatonton. a capacious build
ing in which all Protestant denomina
tions of Christians then worshiped and
which on this occasion was u?ed for a
political meeting. Putnam, in those
days, was very nearly equally divided
between the Whigs and Democrats,
and partisan spirit was intense. I
have heard many people say that John
son, always severely caustic In polit
ical debate, said of Stephens in the
course of his speech, "I could grease
him and swallow him,” and that Ste
phens immediately retorted: “You
would then have more brains in your
belly than you have In your head.”
From the number and character of the
people of both parties I have heard
narrate the incident I have no doubt j
that it occurred just as reported above, j
They were also accustomed to speak j
cf another sharp encounter in the same
debate. Stephens, referring to John- ‘
son’s alertness and versatility, said ;
that when you put your finger on him !
he isn’t there.” To this thrust John- i
son replied with great emphas "When
I put my finger on this flea (indicating j character: Pedro’s is clo:
Steohensl I’ve got him.”
This debate occurred more than sixty
years ago and I doubt whether any one
who witnessed It i3 now living. The
two gentlemen, especially Johnson,
were reported to have been very bitter
in their comments upon the qpnosite
party and upon the present attitude
and antecedents of his antagonist 'r.
the debate, and that on account of ill-
feeling thus engenedered Stephens
soon thereafter challenged Johnson to
a duel, which he declined.
Does this he!r> to elucidate your in- j and insolent service. In the various
quiry? THOS. G. LAWSON. I foreign quarters of the city there are
Eatonton, Ga., March 1. restaurants which provide the favorite
turning a rifled poeketbook to the vie
tim’s clothes, usually stuffed to its
former proportions with paper.
Trained as Street Gamins.
Most of these light-fingered gentry
received their training as street gam
ins. so Father Knickerbocker has come
to the conclusion that the way to make
good citizens is to catch ’em while
they’re very young, and start develop
ment in the right direction by sur
rounding the children of the city with
better moral and nhi-sicol conditions,
more practical training and the op
portunity to live healthy and cleanly
lives without resort to the street? ;Vr
exercise and amusement. “What the
City Owes to Its Boys” was the topic
discussed at a recent meeting under
the auspices of the Board of Education,
at which George H. Martin. State sec
retary of educat'on for Massachusetts,
and Dr. Luther H. Gulliek, director of
physical training in the New York
schools maintained the chief debt to
be suitable and ample playgrounds and
a hotter sanitary system in school
buildings, conditions which were real
ized long ago by the New York Juve
nile Asylum and put into practice when
that institution was removed from the
city to Dobbs Ferry, where an admir
able system of cottage homes and
grounds aggregating several hundred
acres in extent for work and play have
been productive of results which have
attracted marked attention from char
itable and reform institutions all over
the country. A Chicago student of re
form statistics has recently found that
the average value to the community
of 65 per cent of the hoys paroled to
that from the State Reformatory is
$500 p°r year each, at wages ranging
from $20 to $100 per month, figures
which have strongly sngge-ted to local
authorities the advisability of saving
the other 35 per cent by adequate pre»-
ventive measures.
Where Shall We Eat?
It seems incredible that New York
ers at home, tvith money in their pock
ets, should ever find more than a pass
ing difficulty in answering the ques
tion, Where shall we eat? For home
less bachelors, however, such of them
at least as like good substantial Amer
ican dishes, the problem is fast be
coming a serious one. Time was, and
not so long ago. when the answer to
the question might have been found at
a dozen different chop houses and res
taurants where fond had a homelike
taste and the proprietor took some per
sonal interest in his guests. Now En
gel’s. the last one of them, has bean
sold to make way for a bank. Martin,
the best known of them all. failed but
a short time ago, and a "to let” s'gn
In the windows is one of the mournful
sights of Broadway t-odav. Old Tom’s
has given way to an office building:
Seighartnor moved away from La
fayette Place years ago and died:
Browne's moved away and changed its
d: Le Blanc’s
has given way to a building devoted
to millinery. Even the middle class
hotel has become almost extinct, borne
down before the advance of trade. The
New York Hotel the old Metropolitan,
and the St. Nicholas have gone, and the
Sinclair is doomed soon to follow, leav
ing the field with practically no middle
ground between the cheap lunch rooms
on the one hand and the ornate lobster
palaces in which tiresome music and
menus printed in unintelligible French
are the apology for exorbitant charge
The frame work is of steel protected from
fire and corrosion by hollow-tMe hrlclcs
with floors, ceilings and partitions of
porous terra cotta. This combination of
steel and holow-tile has heen the stamf-
ard of fireproof construction In America
ever since the Chicago and Boston confla
grations. Its supremacy was more firmly
established by the disaster of Pan Fran
cisco. where buildings of this kind stood
against both fire and earthquake.
Owners of the hotels and big .apartment
houses now under construction here are
meeting the public demand for absolutely
fireproof buildings.
More than 500.000 square feet of hollow-
tile have been put into one of the big
hotels now nearing completion on Fifth
avenue, opnosite Central Park. Over on
the West Side an apartment house cov
ering a sounre block is equally well pro
vide^ with the fireproofing material In
foot, there is no big hotel or apartment
house now going up in this or nny other
large city in which fireproofing is not
being made the mo't important feature.
The importance of building fireproof ho
tels can be better realized when it Is
called to mind that 26 hotels and 6 apart
ment houses are desfro-ed by fire every
week ln the United States.
"WHAT AM I?”
Macon. Ga.. Jan. 13. 1907.
What am I? A sensate body of desires?
Forever tortured by the scorching fires
Of Greed and Lust and all their hungry
brood
Of ITarcles. drinking of my heart’s blood?
My b-rin says, "No! There is a higher
plane.
Where intellect serene can live and reign
Combining, with thoughts of other men.
Ideas, that will pulse from tongue and
pen.
Unseen, unfelt, bv all the mental blind!”
And then to die? To die and learn no
more
Of Nature’s vast. Illimitable lore?
Of why the birds sing to the rising sun?
And wherefore all the rivers joyous run.
By shady glades and past the meadows^
green,
Caressed and wooed fairy elves unseen.
To cool the thirsty pains by heat op
pressed.
And lose themselves at last In ocean’s
breast?
Or why the flowers shed perfumes rich
and rare?
Or children’s voices sing so sweet and
clear?
For though the mind be starr’d with mar*;’
a gem.
This knowledge does not deck its dia
dem!
What then am I? The question will not
down.
The sated senses answer with a frown.
And the Veen mind, leaping from thought
to thought.
Comes humbled back and answers "I
know not.”
But deep within my heart a little voice
Sings soft and sweet, “Despair not, but
rejoice.
That eyrs. once veiled by earth born mind
and sense.
See, through the scum of shame and false
pretense.
The light that shines around the secret
shrine.
Where dwells, Immersed ln darkness, the
divine.”
And in that voice I recognize jjy Self—
T'n 1 '--:nper.-ri by the gre^s.-r fonv. ?-■!:—-
Waiting until the sacrificial fire.
Shall have consumed each lower-mind de-
A pa
ee reared to the Lord-Christ Him-
Of whom X am the c?=ense. uncreate
Immorial. owing naught to chance or
Fate!
J. S. MILNER.
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