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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: • tfi c TOWNS— C *3 2 § c. V V c s £ £ w (0 V rt in X o o r D 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per, It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew fGr the year 1907. 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells bow you stand oft the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907.