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r- TUESDAY, MACH 12, THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH HEW INDUSTRIAL hums south HALF MILLION PEOPLE LEAVE MANHATTAN. XE'.V TORK. March -Enough will mo BALTIMORE. Md„ March 8.— Though retrenchment Is being c. -- ctused In Botnc part* of the country, several railroad project* in the South of more than ordinary Importance arc noted In this week's is ufacturers' Record. One of the most notable of these looks to the expendi ture of about $5,000,000 upon a union depot and terminals at Memphis. Tenn., j ay In which are represented :ar to ms than or money. Then came a waiter and I bartender who had three times at- I tempted ?uicide by various means, and, ! driven to desperation by losses in rjice- ; track gambling, had tried to shoot a | h i' sd. Ar. 'th- r m.in confessed to be ing a criminal who had been indicted I forty times for larceny and was har- | rassed by the fear of a life sentence. The la't was a youth of 20, a victim ! of drugs, who stated that he had run | through 160.000 within a month, had ; forged his father's name to checks, and was ready to die unless the Army could : think- of something better. According ; to Captain French, who is In charge of I the work here, a similar bureau In Lon don, which was opened early in Janu- ! ary. received 300 Intending suicides i during the first eleven days. Including all classes and conditions of society. dozen new cities. Sites i score- of such towns have been mapped out along the rapid- transit subway lines which will be in operation next summer, and It is esti mated that 500,000 people will grasp the first available opportunity to desert the Alan- | Manhattan fiats for more comfortable and cheaper homos In outlying dis tricts. What Is known as the ''metro politan area” now extends well up into Connecticut, embraces all the accessi ble portions of M estchester County. J.from gentlemen In silk hats to Billing:, the nort 2; * be ® ta * e j gate crossing sweepers. Out of 600 ap plications. 300 had gone broke, about 0 were lonely. 150 couldn't get a Job, nd the balance wanted to commit sul- ide because of illness. • Sparkling Jewels. v, . a nd Nashville. the Southern and : I'lO.boo 'pTOple''''So‘ farTl‘a”ns"have ! More thail S«.000.000 " orth of pre- Ihc Nashville. Chattanooga and St i been fl i ed for additional structures to I cious stjnes entered the country Louis railroads. The new depot wmen , be completed this year at a cost of through the port of New York last year, will be reached by elevated tracks, will , sc'O.OOO.f-OO. Yet this huge outlay is the greatest In the history of the busi- cost about $3,000,000 and other term!- on ; y a part c » the billions which are ness, and this city is now regarded not being spent to prepare outlying dls- : only as the principal diamond market tricts for the spreading metropolis, a 1,°* tile world.,but also the chief depot work which will cover vears of the for cutting the nugh gems. A recent most Intense buildlne- activity. Three : news dispatch from London states hundred and thirty-eight thousand ' that workmen front the diamond fac- pcoplo, it is estimated, will be provided j torles of Antwerp are emigrating to with homes bv the building operations i the United States in large numbers. Mr. Theodore P. Shoots, ta whom the i attracted by the high wages offered in task of solving New York’s transports-. New York and Massachusetts, and that tlon nroblem has been delegated in h ! i ! local opinion is alarmed for the future capacity of president of the Interbor- I °f Antwerp’s ancient Industry. Since I nf nnllL. « Th « : ’ « f h A fl rat <rATR Wfl S AYTlOft P/1 fmTTl t flP United States court. Hearings were i had in the cases of the Central and : Southern, demurrers were sutained by Judge Newman and the roads nave | gone to the United States Court cf j Appeals at New Orleans. The Coast ; Line case has not yet been heard, but ' its outcome will depend on the final I decision In the others. In the meantime the Railroad com mission does not propose to await the { outcome of this litigation before pro- j •-•codings to inquire into the abil *y cf j th* other roads named to stand similar reductions, and It has taken this m li ter up on its own motion. The Two-Cer.t Passenger Rate. Following close upon these freight hearings, the commission will take up April 2, the question of reducing the rate of passenger fare in Georgia. ing their own passage would in no way affect Georgia. HARTFORD. Conn.. March 9.—The Supreme Court of the State has ju^t handed down a decision to the effect that barbers in the State need not shave colored men. The decision was reached on an appeal from a Superior CALL DR. COMMON SENSE AND ALSO DR. JUSTICE Savoyard, in Nashville Banner. WASHINGTON.—We have had Court decision in Bridgeport, by Henry ! scores of financial geniuses piling up H. Foulkuer, a colored man. who brought suit against Thomas Solazzi, a barber of that city. Solazzi refused to shave Foulkner. his defense being that his barber shon was not a place for public accommodation within the meaning of the law. The Supreme Court upholds that contention. SAN JUAN. P. R.. March 9.—The Porto Ricans are desirous of having a j native of the island appointed secre- j conic, and he fills a greater place in millions in our great country—Girard, Astor. Stewart, Blair. Gould. Vander bilt. Hill, Morgan, Field, Gates. Rocke feller, Carnegie, Ryan, Belmont, Sage, Clark, Hanna. Mills, Huntington, Ar mour, Fair. A Rickey, Drexel. Hunting- ton. Weightman, and many others; but this Edward H. Harriman is a demigod in comparison and the great est captain of Industry the world ever knew. His combinations are Napol- about $2,000,000. Another million -dollars will be spent for buildings and equipment of ma chinery for the new shops of the Cen tral of Georgia Railroad at Macon. Ga. The directors of the company have de cided to enlarge the present plant, in creasing the acreage covered by build ings. roundhouse and trackage, for which plans have already been pre pared. Contract has been awarded for the ough-Metrooolitan Raflwnv system has ! the first gem was exported from the dredging to be done in preparation for | ma( j e the interesting di'-covcry that ! Capt of Good Hope in 1868. the United the construction of the first of the big : passengers are being wedged into the < States has r i! pier- 1 which the Tidewater R:nl- j cars so compactly that It Is impossible 1 diamonds, way is to build at Its terminals upar .for them to gel their hands down Into ! cash whicl covery , , jms paid about $325,000,000 for I j or one-half of the amount or j -for them to get their hands down into ! cas ' 1 which South Africa has obtained Norfrkk and also th& contract for the their pockets, and that hence the com- ' flT its entire supply of precious stones substructural work. The pier, which pany t s losing more In fares than it i sold t0 nI1 P*** 8 of the world. These will be 1.000 feet long. GO feet wide and wou 'i d cost to furnish nnd ma ntain ad- j figure-', however, represent only what >st between ?',509,- f .,uinto facilities. This Is believed to be i the importers have paid, and authori- . _ nf thfi cnsuln „ year at a substantial re- i «** in the trade sav that the public auction In rents which now, for the i b 3 > s at least twice as much. Taking poorer classes, frequently average as i irto account- tola fact that the value of high as 36 or 40 per cent of th«lr In- l-diamonds has been going up steadily, comes because of the necessity for 'having advanced 200 per cent in the crowding within commuting distances of their employment. Transportation Problom. leant; a 125-mlle extension -of the De t an argument which will appeal to Mr. ^ Queen and Eastern Railway from De j Hyan and .dr. Belmont with some force of them ore in existence, as the per- Queen to Hot Springs. Ark.; the build- | inst as-soon ns Mr. Sbonts can prepare eentage of loss is so small as to be un- - — - — - 1 the necessary diagrams and drawings : jmnortarit. and a few reports to substantiate the j 1 statement. In the meantime figures ob tained by a sub-committee of the Re publican county committee, which has been investigating the matter, show that in the first nine months of 1906 the company took in 11,700.000 cash fares more than for the same period af 1905. They also show that while traffic was increasing at the rate of 1,300.000 pas feet high will cost 000 and $2,000,000. Other railroad im provements and extensions reported Include the building by the Kansas y City Southern Railroad of a line from Crowley, La. to connect with the New Orleans. Crowley and Western Rail road: of a second track on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley line for 00 miles between Baton Rouge and New Or- lng of a low grade line for the Illlnol Central between Birmingham and Jas per. Ala.; a six-mile extension of the State Railroad connecting Ru«k and Gallatin, Tex., and) the building at Martinsburg, W. V.. of yards to be used jointly by the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Western Maryland railroads. This month the contract will be let for the car repair shops at Odentort M<1.. of the Washington. Baltimore nnd Annapolis Electric Railroad Company. This is one of the inter-urban electric lines to which the South is giving at tention. Another project of the kind for which rights-of-way and franchises are now being secured Is to connect the more Important towns in northwestern Arkansas. Survey hu? begun for a line connecting Dallas and Greenville. Tex., nnd a company Is organizing to con struct a line to servo Onley, Onancock, Tasloy,. Aceomac. Looustvllle and Wachaprague on the eastern shore of Virginia. Street rnllc-'y companies at Atlanta. Ga.. Louisv.de. Ky., Hunts ville. Ala., Lexington, Ky.. and Jack- son. Miss., are also contemplating im provements of one kind and another. WHILE STOCKS FULL NEW YORK, March 8.—Bradstreets tomorrow will say: "Trade conditions continue to Im prove, 1he tendency In this respect being the direct antithesis of that dis played in the stock market. The country buyers are in the larger mar kers in goodly numbers and the vol ume of house business done Is of ex cellent proportions, exceeding In some lines even that of a year ago. when business was exceptionally brisk. Dry goods, millinery, hats and caps and in fact all wearing apparel being In the forefront as regards activity, an early Easter making for nn early opening of spring trade. In such lines as cotton goods, some of which tend to further advance, it is not a ques tion of proctirlng business, but rather one of making deliveries on orders booked months ago. As regards man ufacturing lines it Is the old story of heavily filled order books and cnpaclty being worked to the utmost, despite which deliveries are backward. Col lections though satisfactory in some lines, are on the whole very slow, the tightness of money and the enormous volume of business outstanding being the main factors. Business in pig iron, taking the country as a whole, Is of fair proportions, nevertheless the disposition of buyers is to await con cessions. Wheat, corn nnd oats, after- sagging off about 1 cent, strengthened slightly and practically the entire loas was recovered. The unprecedented demand for cotton goods, with the highest prices In a generation, are a stimulus to bullish feeling as regards the raw material off setting at pres ent the heavy receipts of old crops and the reports of a large acreage to be planted this spring. Business, failures In the United States for the week ending March 7 number 172 against 3!>4 ’.is: week and 177 in the like week of 1906. Canadian failures this week 21 against 42 last week, and .64 in this week a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week aggregated 2,251,303 bushels, against 2,857.430 last week and 2,563 - nS3 this week last year. For the past 36 weeks of the fiscal year the exports are 123,034,831 bushels against 97.- vi.- ■;•>,-> las; vim:-. Corn exports for the week are 2,631,532 bushels against 3,360.465 last week and 2.394,445 a year ago. For the fiscal year to date the exports of corn are 45,315,183 against 86,817,163 last year. last eight years, some dealers are of the oplni-en that the gems brought into this country from South Africa in these thirty-eight years must now be worth more than a billion dollars. Nearly all MARCH BUSY MONTH FOR RAILROAD COMMISSION Governor in succession to Beekman ; is master of the Union Pacific, the I Southern Pacific, tiv Oregon system, RIGA. Russia. March 9.—The re- the Alton, the Kansan city Southern markable case of Anton Lust, the j and the Illinois Central. He. is deep Esthenian revolutionists, who after • in Santa Fe, Baltimore and Ohio, Read- 1. is facing ins’. Deleware and Hudson. Norfo'k once being legally executed, is facing a second death sentence for pillaging an estate during the insurrection in the Baltic province, will be referred to the lower house of Parliament. There was a hearing on this question ; tary of Porto Rico to succeed Regis the -affairs of mankind than any nearly two years ago, and though the : Henri Post, who has been appointed crowned head in the entire world. He commission decided not to make any — reduction at that time, in its order It left the matter open so that it could without prejudice take it up at any time in the future. The hearing comes up this time up’an - petition filed by the Georgia Far mers’ Union in which it is said there are more thtm 60.000 members, and they will be represented by Judge J. K. Hines, of Atlanta. Considerable work has been done in the matter of get tin- up information relative to this subject for presenta tion to the commission when the hear ing is had, and it is asserted that in interesting showing will be made fro n the Farmers’ Union standpoint. It is said that the passenger earnings on some of the railroads -of Georgia are nearly doubel what they were two jr three years ago, and at the same time their business has grown rapidly along all lines. EL PASO, Texas. March 9.—Ad vices received from Chihuahua. Mexico, today, state that 35 men. women and children were killed at San Andoes, 20 leagues from there yesterday by the accidental explosion of a large quan tity of dynamite. SMITHVILLE, Ga., March 9.—Mrs. N. H. Olmstead, wife of the Methodist pastor here, returned last night from Cairo, Ga.. where she has been for Sime ten States have, within the ' four weeks in attendance upon the last few weeks either reduced the pis- j bedside of her brother-in-law, Rev. senger fare or have such action pend- ; Joseph Parker, who was slowly dying lng. Several of them have cut it to two | with tubercolosis of the throat. * He cents, a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent *n the passenger earnings cf the lines af fected. The Georgia Railroad Commission has had so much litigation to contend with that its present policy is to go slaw in the matter of making radical changes. The comfissioners Icel that when they do anything they want their action such as will be sustained in j.ny court which may review it. In view of all the facts it is doubtful if a reduction to two cents can be ex pected in this State. The more likely result is, from all Indications, that passed quietly away Wednesday NEW YORK, March 9.—An autopsy held today by Coroner’s Physician O’Hanlon disclosed, it was subsequent ly stated, that Leonidas Preston, a mil lionaire, who died suddenly yesterday at the Hotel Cumberland, had enough hydrocyanic poison in his stomach to kill six men. ATLANTA. March 9.—About the sengers a month, the number of cars busiest month of its existence, at least In service was reduced until In Decern- in recent months, lies before the State bei- but 1.775 cars were run ns against i Railroad Commission. 2.250 five years ago, when 309,304.273 j Reductions of freight rates, reduc- fewer passengers were carried than ; tion of passenger rates and the ques- l.ist year. In ten years the traffic of tion of the safety of the Georgia the elevated and surface lines in the i Railroad for travel, are t>? matters CLEVELAND, March 9.—Repulsed by tile woman with whom he was madly in love, Henry DeBurt, a prom- there will be a reduction to 214 cents. 1 inent contractor, fired a bullet into his Some have suggested that ‘Georgia ' head while standing in the doorway of railroads are in even a better position the woman’s home. 1416 Prospect ave- than those of North Carolina, and that nue one of Cleveland’s fashionable ] if that State can stand a reduction to residence streets this afternoon. De- 2% cents, that that would be a fair : Burt was removed to a hospital in a. rate for Georgia. The «2% cent prop- j dying condition. osition, however, seems to bo the one | i now most talked about. RICHMOND, Va., March 9.—At meeting here tonight of alumni of New York Cotton Exchange Statistics, j Washington and Lee University, mem ll’ Ilf D ATo m Vl X — T lx n fnI1nn*lM— I - , . - - , - bers of the faculty and trustees of that borough of Manhattan has increased from 490.152,790 cash fares in 1897 to 1.007,161,933 in 1906, and last year showed an Increase of approximately 14 per cent over 1905. Young Kiki. A little crude of method, perhaps, as might be expected of a novice, but dis playing promising signs of developing into a railroad magnate or tho presi dent of a life insurance company at the which it will have to consider within the next thirty days. Two of these matters are scheduled to come up for hearing orf Wednesday next. March 13. 'out it will require sev eral days to investigate and dispose of either one of them. The first of these interesting propo sitions confronting the commission is the physical condition of the road bed and rolling stock of the Georgia very least, the career of Kiki Peters i Railroad and Banking Company which has been cruelly nipped in the bud. j Bowdre Phinizy. of Augusta, says Kiki Is 13 years aid, which unfortunate i i n such condition of deterioration number may account for his bad luck. road is unsafe for public Until last Wednesday, when Justice Wyatt of tho Children’s -Court sen tenced him to two years in the New York Juvenile Asylum’s exclusive re sort for young men of tender years, Kiki was leader of the famous Whyo gang of youthful highwaymen who , , , , ... , ., haunt the East Sixty-fourth street i “/most less than nothing and his travel. It was first the intention of tho commission to inspect those places in the roadbed which Mr. Phinizy had specifically pointed out as unsafe, but upon Mr. Phlnlzy’s declaration that such an inspection would accomplish in fastnesses. Like a true disciple of Dick Turpin, he always led his trusty band to prey upon the wealthy. Once and again he led them in daring and suc cessful raids upon the gilded scions of the rich who go to school in the aristo cratic neighborhood of West End ave- sistence that careful inspection should be made by an expert, and also upon the request of the Georgia Railroad of ficials for an oral hearing, the com mission abandoned its first intention, and summoned General Manager T. K. Scott, the directors of the Georgia NEW YORK. March S.—The followin statistics on th« movement of cotton for the week ending Friday. March S. were compiled by the New York Cotton Exchange: Weekly Movement. This Last year. year. Port receipts 175.453 105.431 To mills and Canada..;... 21.236 22.106 Sou. mill takings, est. 52.000 45.000 Stock lost int. towns 29.328 14,660 Into sight for week 219,331 157.SS0 Total Crop Movement Port receipts 8.456.597 6.389.448 To mills and Canada.. 949.646 700.G39 Sou. mill takings, esti. 1.571,000 1.451.000 Int. stock ex. Sept. 1.. 411,111 433.201 Into sight for season.. .11.387.354 8.974,33S 96.47S bales added to the receipets for the season. nue, whence they returned bearing Railroad and Mr. Phinizy, the com much spoil In the way of skates, hockey J.. 1 ? iant ’ *° before it next sticks nnd red sleds, and leaving the ~ c I nes ,?, a Y a , n< ^ show cause, enemy dissolved in such tears as flood The State law requires that when- Wall street the morning after Mr. Har- : *l ver R ] . s disclosed to the Railroad rlman has acquired control of a few Commission that any railroad is un railroads. But the third time stem- saf ®, for public travel, the commission vlsaged Fate, in the guise of a fat cop, j sIla l ] make investigation either itself lay In wait for the daring band, and a an a * ent ’ Presumably an expert treacherous bit of ice precipitated the I r ai,roa d man, ana shall take such ac- plunder-laden Kiki into the arms of tion as may be deemed necessary to his pursuer. Kiki steadfastly refused require said railroad company to maae to tell the names of the lads who were sa *f: , . . . , . with him, nnd announced that even if ^ h ' ,e state d that the inspection he got a life sentence he wouldn’t , |? a >‘ b , e made ^ , an a ^ eat , or exp ? rt ’ squeal. When he heard his sentence : ‘ bcre ls no Provision made for paying he remarked: “Well, dis Is easy. I ! thp expenses of such an inspection, sure tinks I gits de ref., but I ain’t got i and the Railroad Commission conclud- no kick cornin’.” Judging by the rec- ! ed that if !t was to be done the y must orris of other East Side desperadoes ! da !t themselves. citizens, a large delegation -ot students them a considerable distance. He \vh) have been sent to the Juvenile) To make a complete and adequate from Brigham Young University, and • burned seven villages, killed twenty i_ - u ** *■ 1 a brass band were on hand to welcome the tribesmen and took ?. number of the Senator. The Senator and Airs, prisoners. Raisuli succeeded In escap- Smoot were taken to the university, in Sf before the engagement and look where an informal reception was held. ; refuge at Tazirout. isvlum, the chances are good that Kiki : inspection, it.™M almost be neces- - - - ' sarv to go carefully over every foot institution, prominent Confederate vet erans. and lady members of the Con federate Memorial Association and oth ers. a tentative organization wap formed with a view to raising a fund of $100,000 for the establishment of a memorial to Gen. R. E. Lee, In the shape of the endowment of a chair of American history at the university PARIS, March 9—A sudden virtual'y unanimous and unexpected strike on the part of practically all the electric ians of Paris at 5 o’clock this after noon, resulted in the almost complete paralyzation of the business of the city by the time night had fallen. FITZGERALD, Ga.. March 9.—Air. Henry Ingles died at noon today at his home in this city. He was one of Fitzgerald’s early settlers, coming here from Michigan in 1897. His wife. Mrs. Lillian Ingles, pre ceded him but a few months, having died last September while still actively engaged as a newspaper correspondent. SPARTANBURG,. S. C„ March 9.— Airs. Alary E. Littlejohn, seventy-nine; AIOSCOW, March 9.—The cashier of years old, was burned to death at 9 i the Bromley Manufacturing Company, o’clock tonight in her home at Caw- ! an English concern, was held up at the pens. S. C. Her clothing is believed i cit >' sates today by a band of robbers to have been ignited by the fire be- 1 ar ?d relieved of a wallet containing fore which she was sitting. She was ! 36,500 In cash. SACRAAIENTO. Cal., Alarch 9.—The Senate this afternoon unanimously adopted a joint resolution protesting against the naturalization of Jap anese, instructing the Senators nnd Congressman of California to combat News in Paragraphs a sister of Air. John T. Williams, sev enty-five years of age, who was burned to death today in his home near the Mary Louise cotton mills, six miles ft-Dm Cowpens. NEW YORK, Alarch 9.—The four- i story building occupied by William | such “Pernicious legislation” and to Green, a printer, from whose presses “Smart Set” and "Town Topics” are printed, was burned.tonight, causing a loss of about $300,000. Seventy-five girls were working in the place when the fire was discovered in the store keeping department on the fourth floor. All escaped without injury. PROVO. Utah, March 9—When Sen- work for the passage of an exclusive law to include Japanese. Koreans and all other Asiatics. The resolution is a substitute for one Introduced by Sen ator Sanford. TANGIER, Alarch 9.—The news that Raisuli once again has escaped his pur suers is confirmed. Kaid Mehalla, the representative of the minister of war, ator Reed Smooth and party arrived ^ as dislodged the Ben-Iarous tribes- here today from Washington, many men from their positions and driven will be turned to a more useful if less . nr v.io-1, l of the road, and the members of the ' commission are not Inclined to walk uaj n ‘ ' . . D . . - . lover the 300 odd miles which the High-Priced Pens.oners. Georgia Railroad operates in the The official report of the pdlice pen- | state, notwithstanding they stated sison fund for the year ended Decern- ber 31, 1906, which has just left the hands of tho printer, shows that sev eral of the higher-class pensioners, who. retired with the reputation of pos ing large fortunes, are still draw- i Ing large sums from the fund. In the RICHAIOND, Va., Alarch 9.—Arthur ! WASHINGTON, March 9.—President Davis, sometimes known as “Jack” I Roosevelt has decided to appoint Labor they would go fully into the matter, j Davis, the North Carolina negro con- ! Commissioner Chas. P. Neill and Prof. even if they had to walk over every j victed of the murder of J. F. Saleby, a tbe roadbed. i Syrian peddler of Petersburg, while The commission did not think it | the latter was at work at Dendron, would be proper either for It to ac- i Va.. on December 26. 1906, was hang- cept the private car and engine ten- rd j n the jail at Surrey court house to- dered by the directors of the Georgia long list of pensioners, which includes road for the purpose of making this a great number of widows, a score or inspection, nor to accept the proposi- more of children, and 305 retired mem- : tion of that road to pay the expenses bers of the force, there a few names 0 f such expert as the commission which were once a power in the city’s might employ to act In its stead. If affairs. Not only as to police matters the members^had to make the inspec- but in other directions as well. There tion personally, they determined they day. The execution was the first In the history of the county. BISMARCK, N. D.. Alarch 9.—The North Dakota Legislature adjourned today. The closing session saw the J. W. Jenks, of Cornell University, to be civilian members of the Immigration Commission, authorized by the last Congress. Another civilian member re mains to be chosen. The names of the three Senators and three members of the House who are to be on the Com mission have already been announced. and Western and St- Paul. The Hill sys tem. the Vanderbilt system, -and even the mighty Pennsylvania itself are «n such awe of him they dare not thwart his combinations. He is the master spirit of Wall street and can do any thing and everything that money can do. A great many good folk earnestly believe and some bad folks pretend -o believe that this man is a monster, a menace to the Government and an enemy of mankind. It is a great mis take. Sooner or later somebody-must gather all the railroads of this country Into one stupendous system, and the sooner the better. Harriman has more capacity in that line than any of his fellows, and it would be better if he were given full swing, so as to have it'over and be done with it. Of course, such talk as I am trying to make is treason, but it is either that or Govern ment ownership, which is much worse than treason. It is folly and it is ruin. Competition is at the bottom of all this railroad row. Rebates is but the child of competition. Rockefeller and Carnegie are but the children of re bate. A railroad has to work to exist, and it is one thing that had better work at a loss than not to work at all. A coal mine may be idle for years and get to be more valuable for each year. The same is true of a farm that is left to briars and weeds. The in crease of population will make, it more valuable by accretion nnd the annual decay cf vegetable growth will make it more fertile. Gold put in a stocking and buried in the earth will not lose Us value, but a railroad becomes ’a right of way and a streak of rust” if not operated. Therefore, the managers of our railroads, who are no fools, by sheer force of circumstances, bid against one another for business out of every great center in order to keep their properties from going to decay. They did not do this be cause they wished to do it, but because they had to do it. Their own safety made the grim demand. In the name of the people the demagogues heat the pool ing bill in Congress. That was ex actly what Rockefeller, Carnegie. Ar mour, Havermeyer and every other child of monopoly wanted. It added ur.told millions to the profits of the oil trust, the steel trust, the beef trust, the sugar trust, and scores of other trusts to the detriment of the very peo ple who paid the extortions and in whose name the pooling bill was slaughtered. If the Hon. Boutell cf Chicago did not have it copyrighted, I would be tempted right here to quote Oxenstein: “Behold, my son. with how little wisdom the world Is governed.” And so the railroads, having to carry goods from competitive points at rates fixed by their customers, were forced to carry merchandise from non-com petitive points at rates fixed by their agents. This was a skimming of the country for the town; but the roads had- to do it or go into bankruptcy. A railroad is out far business not for fun. A bankrupt railroad is a burden to society. Take the case of a bank in a rural town. Say it has $100,009 de posits and it fails. It is a calamity to that community and injures men who have no dealings with it. It throws everything into confusion and makes a day for general liquidation. Just as a railroad is bigger than a bank. Its bankruptcy is more calamitous than the bank’s failure can be. Therefore the skimming of non-competitive commu nities bv unjust rates is excusable, if not iustifiablc. The rural roosters saw that thev were skinned to save the roads from bankruptcy and set up a howl about ‘long and short haul” abuses. It was natural for them to do so; but it would have been better had they at-' tacked the cause—competition, at great centers. The pooling bill might have sufficed; hut it Is certain consolida tion would have done the. thing thor oughly and completely. Tf every rail road out of Chicago had been under a single management, the beef trust, comparative to the ruthless wild hog It Is become, would have been gen tle and as harmless as any lamb it ever slaughtered. The same is true of the other trusts, the spawn of re bate. am not saying the railroads are blameless: far from it. They have made bad things intolerable. In th wila scramble for gain, clean am dirty, they have been as great hog as anybody. The law was to them a the seven green withes were to Sam son. They were tyrannical and bru tal and made bankrupts where they might have, and should have, made quack, a charlatan, a humbug. But when he comes the American people will know him and follow him. It may be next year: It may be years and years in the future, but he will come as Alfred came, as Hampden came, as Washington came. And he will be a Democrat, an oM-fashioned Democrat —for States' rights, honest taxation, sound money, and justice to great and small alike. And here will be the solution of tha railroad problem. All of them will be gathered Into one gigantic corpora^on, under the management of wise, honest, and efficient men. It will serve every community alike. When the country is prosperous it will be prosperous, and unless the people are prosperous it can not bo prosperous. Its stocks and bonds will be in the billions and will afford opportunity for the investment of the people's savings. Fiduciaries will bo required to buy thorn for widows and orphans. Insurance companies will own theirs. They will serve for bases for national bank circulation. In time the masses of the people will ownt these securities, and thus we will have all the advantages of socialism without its virus. Rates will adjust themselves. Boards of Trade of our great marts will be represented in its directory, and, not unlikely, each State will have a representative acting as advisory di rector. Such a concern would have to be conservative and have to be just. The responsibility would be so great that it would force every director to bo just. * * * Your Harrimans, your Hills, your Morgans will prepare the way whan given liberty. Mr. Harriman may ac complish it in spite of the powers that be. This Is a dream, but it will be nn actuality some day. Then, and not till then, the railroad problem will be set tled. Roosevelt is treating symptoms; his remedy will not cure. Bryan pur poses to doctor symptoms: his remedy will kill. Bring in Dr. Common Sense, call in Dr. Justice as consulting , physician. •Thev will effect a cure. World's Visible Supply. NEW ORLEANS. March Secretary Hester’s statement of tile world’s visible supply of cotton, issued today, shows the total visible to be 5,457.682 against 5.504.- 468 last week nnd 5.094,907 Inst year. Of this the total of American cotton Is 1.128.. 682 against 4.23S.46S last week and 3.501.- 907 last year, and of all other kinds, in cluding Egypt. Brazil. India, etc., 1,329,000 against 1,266,000 last week and 1,593,000 last year. Of the world's visible supply of cotton, there is now afloat and held in Great Brit ain and continental Europe 2,987.000 against 2.543.000 last year: in Egvpt 227.- 090 against lSO.Oon last year; in India 642.000 against 9SG.OO0 last year, and in the United States 1,602,000 against 1.3SG,- 000 last year. NEW ORLEANS. Ln.. Alarch 8.— Secretary Hester's weekly statement issued today shows for the eight days of Alarch an increase over last year of 92,000 nnd an Increase over the same period year before last of 300. Fob the 1S9 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate ts ahead of the same days of last year 2,395,000 and ahead of year before last 1,467,- 000. Tho amount brought into sight during the past week has been 233,122 bales, against 170,626 for the same sev en days last year and 225,728 year before last. The movement since September 1st shows reecipts at all United States ports 8,450.321, against 6,347,136 last year; overland across the AIis»isslppi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern mills and Canada. 950,087, against 707,- 6SS last year: interior stocks in excess cf those held at the close of the com mercial year, 420.234, against 456,999 last year; Southern mills’ taking* 1,- 516.000, against 1,429939 last year. These make the total movement since September 1, 11.336,642, against 8,941,- 782 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 164.SID. against 129,527 last year, making the total thus far for the season 6,498,266.' against 4,770,- 123 last year. The total takings of American rni!W», North, South and Canada, thus far for the season have been 3,551,868. against 3,248 068 last year. Stocks at the sea board and the twenty-nine leading Southern interior centers have in creased during the week 40.238 bales, against a decrease during the corre sponding period last season of 56,717. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from ihe new crop, tho supply to date Is 11.C34.412. against 9.3SG.311 for tho same period last year. Sea Island Cotton, SAVANNAH. Ga.. Alarch 8.—S^a island cotton quotation*: Fancy Florida* 35a36: fancy Georgias 25n36; extra choice Geor gias and Florida® 33-i.li: choice Georgias nnd Floridas 31: extra fine Georgias olid Florid as 29a39; fine Georgias and Florl- (Jg g 25 CHARLESTON. Alarch 8.—Sea island cotton: Re'-eipts 17; exports 453: sales 342; stock 494. Fine, 34; fully fine. 33: extra fine. 40. Weekly Interior Cotton Towns NEW YORK. March S.—The following the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio have developed a state of things ! just as bad and as intolerable ns was Ch Weekly Bank Clearings 7 YORK Alarch 8.—Total bank r The week ending Thursday, • 7 show an aggregate of $3,451.- I4.0F-' against $8,564,007,000 last week S3 263 056.000 in the corresponding . .-k last vear. Inc. Dec. ....$6.440,000 2 5A29!000!I!!l7.5 • 873 oco....91.7 .'... 1,917.000....57.0 .... 1.481.000 8 .... 1.64< 000... .15.8 .. 1,828,000....15.2 .... 630.000....35.7 NEW Richmond Savannah Atlanta . Norfolk . Weekly Bank Statement. NEW YORK. March 9.—The statement >f tke clearing-house banks for the week a-- that tie banks hold 82.051.725 more .- the i«gai reserve requirements. This dee res se of $1,806,925 as compared The statement fol- Deerease. $1.066.9',6.900 $12,228,700 1 019.880. P0 is.542.700 . ' 52 -'81 300 503 900 1.1 Is. for example, former Inspector and ex-Chief Thomas Byrnes, who retired from the /orce when Theodore Roose velt was a commissioner, and who is credited with a large fortune accu mulated in Wail street under the tutel age of Jay Gould and other magnates of the street in bygone days, but still draws a pension of $3,000 a year. An other old-timer, long since forgotten by the public, Is William Alurray, who is said to be far beyond the reach of the gaunt and hungry wolf. John AIc- Cullagh, who is now in business in the city, is the th'rd member of the trio would get on the regular trains, pay their fare and go to as many places and sec as much of It as time would j permit. It is more than probable that some INDIANAPOLIS, Alarch O.-FThe In diana Legislature today adopted a passage in the Senate of the two and concurrent resolution accepting the _ one-haif cent railroad fare bill, and invitation of Virginia to participate ;n ! shown in the investigations of the jn- the anti-pass bill. These measures are the Jamestown Exposition and creat- j surance companies of New York. ing a commission of ten members to represent the State. now before the Governor. The House passed a Senate bill providing that the candidate for the United States Sen ate having 40 per cent or more There was rottenness everywhere and cleanliness nowhere. sort of inspection of the property will votes in the primary elections, shall be the party's candidate. a PIERRE, S. D.. Alarch 9.—The State Legislature adjourned sine die today. An uniuuai number of important the measures were enacted into law, among j them being prohibition of railway There Is hardly anything in recent ; passes and telegraph franks, provls- be made, but just how it will be don remains to be determined at next Wednesday’s hearing. The line-up will be complete, both sides will have their say and some sort of decision will have to be reached as to proper course to be pursued. HAVANA, March 10.—The Liberal mem- I And so our doctors of statecraft bo r s . tb £ executive committee, ap- | j. e ( about the regulation of our great poin.ed by Governor Mngoon to drow up : tvenonnrtotlen svs*-p*na For veers the eerie in r,<v>rte.i lew,- thmntnr, 1 transportation siPoij. i*or years ine railroad history in this State that who are drawing the irghe^t pensions attracted more attention than last w-ek. latlon •• -■i tenders .185.4' 2.834.100 3 608.500 6 '!■' 600 2 501.275 5.671.625 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on ycur pa- pes. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. on the list. Former Chief of Police Devery, after retiring, openly invested $395,000 in real estate, and among the present inspectors of the force. AIc- Cluskev, Cross Flool and Titus live in a style far beyond th? salary of a police inspector. So no one wonders at the opposition to the bill, now before the State Legislature, which is designed to give the commissioner such control over the force as to seriously menace, if not entirely destroy, the opportunity for accumulating vast private fortunes while serving as guardians of the city’s peace and wealth. The Anti-Suicide Bureau. The Anti-Suicide Bureau of the Sal vation Army which has just been opened in New York is expected to throw considerable light on the darker side of Ham’efs grim philosophy. From statistics collected by the Army, it seems that suicides ir. New York num ber" 22.7 p r 100 000. In cities like Ho boken and St. Louis the proportion Is 29.2. and the average of fifty cities throughout the country is 17.9. while San Francisco has the high average 'f 49.6. The opening day of the burpau was marked by the appearance of four men and one woman, all conspicuously well dressed. The first was a tall old Hebrew, who stated that he had lest The savings of a lifetime, some $40,000. j in Wail street, and could see nothing | ahead more attractive than death. Next j came a woman of 40 with a French ac- | cent, who stated that she had been j ndled in a bu-iness partnership and hi this Georgia Railroad investigation. Freight Rate Reductions. On the same day. Wednesday nerct. ! there is scheduled to be heard before the commission the matter of the re classification of the Seaboard Air Line and the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad ; Georgia Railroad case will necessitate : a brief delay in this, but it will be reached very shortly thereafter. On March 26 a similar hearing will be had upon the question of the re classification of the Atlanta. Birming ham and Atlantic. The two first named railroads are now in Class C. where they are per mitted to charge on local hauls 25 pc- cent in addition to the standard tar iff rates, while the Atlantic. Birming ham and Atlantic Is in Class D, where the percentage is even larger. The two former are railed on tD show cause why thev should not be placed in Class B and the latter why it should no: go to Class C. changes which, if made, would Involve a reduc tion of approximately 10 per cent in the local rates of freight which these railroads are allowed to charge. Upon hearings had iast year the Cen tra] of Georgia, and the Southern Railway were transferred from Class C to Class B. involving the reduction stated, and the Atlantic Coast Line was transferred from Class B to a class haif way between B. and A. All of these reductions in rates, for that hat thev amounted to. were ion for two and onc-half cent railroad fares wherever the State commiss'oner deems such reduction advisable amendment of divorce laws in the in terest of reform and a State wide pri mary election law. certain needed Cuban laws, threaten ... ; resign ln a body because the committee ; voted this afternoon to take unde- consid- I oration a proposal to give foreigners a vote in the munielne.l elections. This question was excitedly discussed in the Liberal Club tonight, and Liberal mem- ; hers of the committee have been ordered ; by the party leaders to attend a party conference next Monday prior to the next session of the committee. SAN FRANCISCO. March 9.—Abra ham Reuf was arrested tonight at a if mav be that the [ suburban resort by Elisor W. J. Big- erv. who was piloted to the place by Detective Burns. ieft alone in New York without friends ; joined by the roads in question in the .TANGIER. Alarch 9.—Raisuli is re ported to have escaoed from the strong hold of the Bcn-Iair:us tribe, where he had taken refuge, and to have gone to som n practically Inaccessible moun tains where he Is gathering a large following from the turbulent tribes. NEW YORK March 9.—A suit asking for $10,900,003. actual and $30,- 000.990 tentative damages was com menced today in the United States Circuit Court by the Pennsylvania . Sugar Refining Company, against the j American Sugar Refini”g C mmanv. ?1. O. Havemeyer. lt« president; J. C. My- , ers the -orn •rat'on’s general counsel and Gustave G. Kisel. Walter D.'Rob in-an. Georg" L. Trigg .and .Morris J. 1 Werner. The action grows out of tjie failure of Adolph Segal in Philadelphia, , ANNAPOLIS, Ind:. March 9.—Permis sion lias been granted the Rev. E. W. j ?.tatth?ws. secretary of the B-iflah ar.d | Foreign Sailors' Society, to address the midshipmen of the Naval Academy. The : date has not yet bee n p ..*, but the address ^.... „. - — Will he delivered shortly. On this ocoa- ’ against the Republican party sion there will be presented to the Acad- - cmy by A'r. Matthews a valuable memento from Nelson’s flagship “Victor:.'.'' This re’ic comes from the British Admiralty, and bears the Initials of King Edward. SPARTA. Ga.. March 9.—Hon. Janies M. Aloore died this afternoon at 1 o’clock at his home in Culverton, aged eighty years. He was Hancock's rep resentative in the Legislature a num ber of years. His long life was one of usefulness ar.d devotion to duty. His surviving children are Airs R. H. Lewis and Col. R. W. Aloore. of Spa:) a. Airs. R. A. Chapman', and Gordon Aloore, of ‘Washington, Airs. F. Wal ter .and E. V. AToore. of Culverton, nnd Airs. D. L. Brown, of Alacon. Air. Aloore lest his wife about a year ago. ! Dinglev law than there is in the Stand- I ard Oil Company or the beef trust. country has been in an agony over the thing, ar.d there .are more remedies than there are for influenza. Given a Rockefeller, and you have a Debs; given a beef trust, and you have a Populist pr.rtv. When rascally mil lions are piled up. the possessors of which are lenders of the financial, so cial *and political world, there is created a class that is the enemy nf all wealth, honest an well as knavish. We have nearly come to the point when to be prosperous is to be crimi nal. nnd we will re-?h it when the next bad crop comes. This is an indictment , that has betn in power so long and is the daddy of every vicious law on the statute books. A single example: The man who grows cotton is taxed 54.26 per cent to protect the man who spins and weaves ectton. That is but one ex ample of ten thousand. As long as the Government practices such perfidy as that, how can it rebuke the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for furnishing cars to haul A’s coal while refusing cars to haul B’s coal? For forty years the Republican party has been separating the people into tax-payers and tax- eaters. and why should it prescribe honesty in business until it practices honestv in Government? I beli'eve there is more graft in th Is tho movement of spot nn: ion at tho leading interior cotton towns for tli o week ending Friday. March S: th £ TOWNS— c. % j - p. o O S’, ■ 1 M Vj T e Albany . . . . 38 831 IS 15 Athens . . . . 1030 020 335 13452 Atlanta . . . ii 3-16 1491 1461 32952 Brcnham . . . 105 288 2064 Charlotte . . . li 75 1 Columbia . . . 2’ cn 15700 Columbus. Ga. io?; 5 77 850 s;>o 167 60 Colum.. Alim.. 500 c?r, 93 3 4 Dallas . . . . 394 10S3 1623 Eufaul.a . . . 13 1572 Greenville. . . 1273 121S 65*6 Greenwood . . 50" 3951 250 2962 Helena .... 107S 2*33 3471 4 Little Rock.... id 7 * 4738 72>2 39943 Macon .... 1114 J14 S3 i 4125 Meridian . • - 1183 2695 .9835 Montgomery .. 10K 1330 2122 2122 3 8690 Nashville . . . 207 394. Natch os .... 790 1512 1292 8912 Newberry . ■!.. .... 5 Ci 7 00 . . 1004 Raleigh . . .! 11 3 11 475 3051 Rome . . . . 1 616 839! 4201 .Selma 2^S i ns 2002 Shreveport . . [oy 2 i ■ II ‘201 565 13375 Vlcksbursr. . . j 211 1691 24813 Yazoo City 422 902 .. J 9217 Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK. M irch S.—The following is the comparative .‘ '..atement of cotton for the week ending Friday, March S: 1997. 1906. Net port receipts ITS.453 108.115 Receipts since Sept. 1. .8.450.321 6.3G2.771 Exports for week 166.841 119.728 I6xports since Sept. 1... .6.459.650 4.714.854 Stock all U. S. ports... .1.098.521 770.801 Stock ail int. towns 538.381 599.537 Stock at Liverpool 1,10.8.000 Amn. afloat for C. B.... 202,000 WASHINGTON, Alarch 9—Arrange ments have been completed for the 1 transfer of companies of coast artii- lery now stationed at Southern forts ; to Northern quarters, and nine com- The oleomargarine tax Is as exquisite a piece of rascality as ever Wall street invented. Some of these times the good genius the American people will bestir it panies of coast artillery now stationed : self and the good sense of the Ameri- in the North to Southern posts. This can people will correct the abuses that will eary out the plan of having an an- , have grown almost Intolerable. Some tation for the benefit [ great man will arise and lead the peo- of the artillerists. For effecting these ■ pie out of the dangers that now en- transfers the transport Kilpatrick :ih-- circle them. I do not know whom it ATLANTA. ATarch 9.—At a meeting of Atlanta citizens today nearly $4,000 was raised for immigration purposes. : nual change of Five thousand dollars is all Atlanta will he allowed to raise. Chairman Betjeman stated at the meeting that j been selected. The movements are to j will be: he ha? not yet discovered him decision in regard to immigrants pay- I begin not later than March 31. seif. He will not be an empiric, a Cotton Receipts. NEW YORK. Alarch S.—The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all ports since September 1: Eales Galveston ;....3.344.390 New Orleans 1.962.409 Mobile 229,904 Savannah 1.304.746 Charleston 139,007 Wilmington 299.854 Norfolk 483.572 Baltimore 46,610 New York 14.363 Boston 55,041 Newport News 29,101 Philadelphia 4.847 San Franrisco 54.940 Brunswick 138.696 Port Townsend 81,451 Pensacola 122,603 Portland. Ore 400 Port Arthur and Sabine Pass 123.764 Jacksonville, Fla 7.247 T.a redo, Texas 494 Alinor ports 6,STS Total .. .S.4550,221