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■Tuesday, march i», nor.
THE TWICE- A -WEEK TELEGKAPB
Hinkle Writes an j recourse left but to accept this new
"*" vo | American Declaration of Independence.
Sr. A. B
Interesting Letter to a
Macon Friend.
The following letter from Dr. A. B.
Hinkle to a fro nd In Macon will doubt
less be read with Inter.at by his and
Mrs. Hinki.-'s many friends In this
city. In company wish several hundred
American- they are on :
European tour:
ON S. S. ARABIC, Keb. 24.
My Dear Friend: Accor
promise, I will write you a fe
as I feel our .Macon friends will
jo hear that Mrs. Hinkle and my
are well and < nj .yiiROur trip to the ut- hv
mosi ex - , ni speeding along: n the development o.
great and palatial -alp "Arabic," with j tonight by u . u
four months
1007.
glac
I We are now on our way to Valetta,
on the Island of Malta: then to Athens,
j Greece, etc. We are both enjoying the
be?; of health and happy. With kind
regard* to all friends and best wishes
for yourself, I an yours sincerely.
DR. A. B. HINKLE.
Mrs. Valeria Lamar Harriss
Writes Interesting Letter
From Famous Resort.
Development of South Depends
on Extension of Railroad
Facilities
NEW ORLEANS, La.. March 15.—
An appeal to all Southerners to stand
; railroads for
600 lively
sen liny thirty
ion. and quite
Southland,
through the
Sea. with Id.-
serene sea a
Terpsichore
mgers on board, repre- I
leven State- in the En
large number fro in our
e arc now steaming
-uitlful Mediterranean
weather and calm and |
1 lovely moonlight nights. .
igns .supreme on th
decks to the strains of lovely mu
anri lectures by ti.e most cultured ..f
our land ir. the largo forward dining
room enlightening us on the places of
Interest to be visited passes away our
time on board In a moot pleasant man
ner. This is a great and glorious trip
! Mrs. Valeria Lamar Harriss. who Is
i spending a brief season at Atlantic
1 City, writes an interesting description
i of the gavety of the season at that fa-
; mous resort. Mrs. Harriss is one of
! Georgia's gifted women, having con-
I tributed much to literature in neivs-
• papers as well as being author of a
very interesting novel.
| Following is a letter to The Tele-
1 graph, written in Marlborougn-Blen-
heim Hotel, where she has apartments:
Atlantic City. R- L, March 13.
i I came down here to avoid the slush
1 and slime of New York and witnessed
; a fearful snowstorm. The salted
! breath of old Xeptur.e, however, ha3
j melted it from view. I am glad to say.
j I awoke up on Sunday morning to
Hook and Ladder. No. 1.—Jo'an C.
Deitz, foreman: C. W. Newton, secre
tary: A. McCailie. treasurer: E. J.
erty in Macon in 1S77. thirty years ago.
By BRIDGES SMITH.
of these. Here, without a cent of
cost other than that for text books,
anyone capable of passing the en-
iWJ™-snntst sssa -sss
Of the Board of Health there is not
. one living today: C. Masterson. R. J.
I gave the names o. Reddy. John G. Deitz. W. F. Brown.
Treat Hines. James Madison Jones.
Green J. Blake, W. D. Williams and W.
P. Goodall.
Last Sunday
the business houses that were In ex
istence In Macon thirty years ago, and
ihe very few remaining business men.
To those readers who can look back to
that time, it was evident that almost,
an entire generation of people had
beerfr wiped out. The perusal of the
names so familiar then, but long since
forgotten, called up memories of those
days when Macon was young and we
were In our prime. Another thing,
it caused us to think, to compare the
old with the new Macon. In fancy _wc
run over the old houses and vacant
lots and to note with what they have
been replaced and improved. How-
many will remember the old Hayden
flv
:es visited and
have passed
and it will bo impoxslb
you an outline of the pis
panoramic scenes wc
through.
We left Macon in a'pouring rain Jan
uary 31, encountering heavy snow In
New York. On the 7th >f February we
boarded the "Arabic," one of the largest
and best equipped English ships of the
White Star Lin*- atloat. and with every
Imaginable convenience po-dole. Leav
ing the snowclnd and icy blasts of New
York for the balmy and sunny climes
of Funchal, the capital city of the Ma
deira Islands, full of verdure and cov
ered with the most luxuriant flowers
and tropical plant3. filling the very air
with fragrance to this lovely spot.
We landed on February 16, after ten
days' voyage across the grand old At
lantic, with some ruffling of our feel
ings. causing about 500 on board to
lose their appetites for two or three
days. It was a seasickness that made
many yearn for terra flrma once more.
I could hear peculiar noises as passen
gers leaned over the rails, looking over
into the sea. some praying, same'
whooping, and one newspaper man re
citing the following paraphrase:
"My country 'tis of thee—■
fitoaming across the sea.
For thee I sigh.
Jgind of the solid ground.
Land where no smells abound,
Land where no twin screws pound.
For thee I die.
How enn they cheerfully smile,
How can they time beguile.
Would I were home.
What are their Joys to me-r
Riearning along the sea.
Woeful as I can be?
Why did X come?
Well, after two days’ storm old Nep
tune was satisfied and all has since
moved along smoothly. Those who lost
are now gaining. The menu, good
cooking and dolieions fruit Is the very
best and all the most aesthetic could
desire. After visiting Funchal, with its
round pebbled, steep and narrow
streets, riding in bullock sleds, sliding
down the sleep mountain sides, we
loathed to leave this beautiful and ro
mantic spot, but pulled anchor on
ihe 16th for a 600-miie run to the fam
ous seaport from which Columbus set
out on his momentous voyage of dis
covery—Cadiz, Spain—often called the
"Spanish Venico—Its high wails and
fortifications, its white houses and
splendid parks, and the wonderful sea
view from tho public watch-tower, all
tend to give the tourist a feeling of
being in dreamland.
From there we visited Seville by rail
road ninety-five miles by special train
in tho quaint and peculiar compart
ment and omnibus-like cars, and vis
ited many places of rare interest. In
cluding the Cathedral, one of the hand
somest and largest and richest in
Christendom; the Alcazar, the former
palace of the Moorish kings; the Gi-
ralda, originally a prayer to%ver, tho
bull ring. etc. The proud Sevillians
seem to have a right ro think their
city to be more favorably located than
any other in Spain, calling the country
round about the "Land of Holy Mary."
We were given a three hours' carriage
drive through and around the city and
dined at the "Hotel de Madrid”—a most
sumptuous dinner—arriving back at
Cadiz at midnight.
Our next place of interest was "The
Solid Rock of Gibraltar,” but it might
be dubbed now, the "Honeycombed
Rock of Gibraltar*. - ’ with its 1 innumera
ble tunnels cut through the solid rock
and around in Its fortifications, for
out of Its hundreds of port holes in the
rock a large cannon pokes its nose,
ready to belch forth Its deathly rain of
balls upon an approaching foe. The
Srltish have certainly not spared
or labor to make “this the
sgest fort in existence. The beau-
»! city of Gibraltar Is situated on the
item side at the foot of the rock,
^tending up its side has one long
»ln street, where we spent some time
'■hopping, dealing principally with the
Bombay Indians, who are quite shrewd
In selling their silk shawls. Maltese
lace. etc. We drove several very good
bargains. We left there at midnight,
entering the beautiful and emerald-
greon Mediterranean Sea for Algiers,
the Capital of Algeria, on the northern
coast of Africa, a quaint old Moorish
city, where are seen the beautiful
specimens of Moorish and Byzantine
architecture. This city now belongs to
France and has a mixed population of
French. Arabs. Turks, Moors. Bedouins,
negroes and Maltese, making most pic
turesque and queer sights in its nar
row streets. Its harbor is large, spa
cious and well fortified, the white city
rising from the water's edge in a
crescent shape up the mountain side,
backed by still more lofty snow-capped
mountain ranges In the rear makes a
scene never to be forgotten, and the
bay. I imagine, resembles that of Na
ples. We were given a throe hours'
carriage drive over this city, passing
through the most wonderful palm gar
den I ever dreamed of. Imagine 175
carriages carrying 600-odd people.
winding around the mountains over
probably the best macadamized roads
In existence, probably made by the
enslaved Christians years ago. and you
can get an idea of what an imposing
sight and long procession it was.
The M oors a century ago were very
progressive and aggressive—a terror t’>
the maritime world and holding full
sway over the sea. Tho ghastly extent
of Algerian ptracy will tie best under
stood by the statement that altogether
3 000 vessels fell into the hands of these
sake of the
South was made
inley, president of
outhern Railway, at a business
banquet tendered him here. He said
In part:
“If the railways of the South are ! the eart jj j<ke Heaven—spotless - , .
to be brought up to the standard re- and uncon taminated as the breath of & Goolsby stable that stood where the
quired by the expanding business of j an ange ,. The snou . king had gone j opera house now stands? That was
Southern communities the people j the very foot of the sce and | p^t)re thiin thirty years^fl£TO,^ but if that
me i the South must be actuated by the t even kissed the waves with its icy lips,
sic I f amo spirit of co-operation they showed j but the ebbing tide said “nay" and the
' j ni the early days of railway building, • v -hite caress melted in the throbbing
vhen communities vied with each oth- | waves 0 f the ocean. It was such a se
ductive sight, as I saw it from my win
dow overlooking the sea, that I cannot
desist telling it to you with some de
gree of poetical fervor.
Such a gay place this is! It’s the
er in offering inducements for con
struction. The day for governmental
and municipal financial aid for railway
lines has passed, and the many mil
lions of dollars that will be required
for additional trade capacity and ter
minal facilities must be obtained from
private investors. The greater part of
the money must be borrowed.
"Identified during most of my busi
ness career with railways of the
South. I know the resources of Its rail
ways will be taxed to the utmost to
provide the additional facilities that
will be required. The provision of
these facilities at the earliest possible
date is of incalculably more Import
ance to the South than any possible
rate reduction or any proposition to
penalize roads for failure to perform
services which are beyond their pres
ent capacity.
“I believe that it is to the Interest
of the railways and the people that a
spirit of harmony and Just dealing be
fostered.”
REBATIi OF
is too long ago for an illustration take
the old Seymour. Tinsley & Co. store
on the corner of Third and Cherry,
where the American National Bank
now stands. How many will remem
ber the old white store that stood
there?
The fire department was made up of
volunteer companies then, and was of
ficered as folows:
Chief. J. W. Truman: assistant chief,
C. Machold; second assistant chief. J.
A. Rohr: treasurer. E. P. Strong; sec
retary, George P. Cornell.
Freeman, engineer.
Protection, No. 1—J. D. Holt, presi
dent; TV. F. Grace, foreman: A. J. Orr.
secretary: John C. Curd, treasurer; A.
W. Gibson, engineer.
Ocmulgee. No. 2 H. Spahr, presi
dent; L. Vannueci. foreman: F. A.
Schoneman. secretary: John Valentino,
treasurer; Charles DeBeruff. Jr., engi
neer.
Young America. No. 3—Robert A.
Morris, foreman: V. A. Menard, secre
tary; Charles Drevfous, treasurer: G.
S. Westcott. engineer.
Mechanics’. No. 4—A. McKenna, pres
ident: L. E. Crockett, foreman; James
Warren, secretary: W. V. Davis, treas
urer; H. Faulk, engineer.
Defiance, No. 5 R. M. Rogers, pres-
the sun and get a degree for his pains,
and the institute points with justi
fiable pride to many graduates of no
table prominence in the business and
professional world of today. Among
them is the president of one of the
biggest engineering and contracting
firms in the city. Dr. George F. Kunze
the gem expert, and. perhaps the most
famous of all, the late George Wash
ington Roebling. who designed and
built the Brooklyn bridge. At the Now
York Trade School, for a merely nom
inal fee it is possible to learn almost
any one of the practical trades, in
cluding house painting, bricklaying
plumbing, plastering, tile laying, fres
coing, blacksmithing, printing sign
painting, cornice work and carpentry;
while the various branches of the Y.
M. C. A. Include classes in languages:
stenography, mathematics and busine'^
training, importing and exporting. m< ►
tor boating, real estate, investmerv/s
and automobiling.
Burning - cf Almah Hall Recalls
Incident of Forty
Years Ago.
GRIFFIN. Ga.. March 14.—The top
story of Almah Hall, which was built
a few years prior to the Civil War,
was completely wrecked by fire yes
terday before the flames could be sub
dued. The building has been used for
almost every purpose known to man.
showed that.
ss £1!,“ . o, tm5 •ss ! jk? ssra vs&k'bsjsr-
ATLANTA, March 16.—The progress
In registration of corporations with the
Secretary of State under the new law.
has not been as satisfactory as Secre
tary Cook and Governor Terrell had
hoped for, and the indications are that
the law will have to be amended in
some respects in order to increase its
effectiveness.
Less than 3.500 corporations filed
their registration last year, although
the indications are there are 10,000 to
12,000 of them doing business in the
State. Tho progress of registrations
for this year has been extremely slow,
but there have been some few coming
In for last year as well as this.
In order to ascertain tho number
and names of the various Georgia cor
porations—that is, those to which
charters have been granted by the
Superior Courts of tho State, Secretary
Cook some two months ago addressed
letters to each clerk of the Superior
Court, along with a list of the corpor
ations from his county which had reg
istered. asking that a list of all those
who had not complied with the law in
accordance with this list, be sent to
him.
•Up to the present time replies have
been received from only sixty of the
clerks, leaving eighty-six others to be
heard from. Out of these sixty heard
from only two have refused to comply
with the request, the Fulton and BTbb
County clerks. The Fulton County
clerk stated that it would be impossible
to furnish the list asked for. while the
Bibb County clerk stated that it would
require the services of a capable man
for about two weeks to compile the
information asked for, and wanted to
know if there were any funds available
with which to pay the expense incurred.
On the other hand. Clerk Walker of
Richmond Superior Court promptly
complied with tho request, sending
Secretary Cook a list of about 150
Georgia corporations in that county
which have not complied with the reg
istration laws. It is said there are some
3.000 corporations doing business In
Fulton County, only about 500 of them
being registered.
It is regarded as necessary that some
arrangement bo made by which the
required information can be obtained.
Of course clerks of Superior Courts
can furnish only the names of Geor
gia corporations: those of foreign cor
porations must be otherwise obtained.
It is probable that some amendment
will be made to the law at the coming
session of the Legislature providing
methods for securing this very neces
sary information.
Up to the present time Secretary
Cook has not enforced the penalty
against any corporations, and it is
probable he' will only do so at present
in cases whero corporations wilfully
and knowingly ignore and violate the
law. Plenty of time will be given all
Interested to thoroughly familiarize
themselves with its terms, and once a
record of all the corporations In the
State is secured, there will be no dif
ficulty in securing subsequent registra
tions.
the Marlborough-Blenheim, two blend
ed into one. It is built like a Moorish
castle, tho coloring of that Camelian
green, and looks as if it had grown
mossy under the touch of time: though
it is fresh from the hands of the archi
tect.
Radical Change in Style.
The toilets here for dinner are more
like Palm Beach, or that still more
fashionable haunt—Aix les Bains,
France. The style of dress for this
spring, as I am closely observing, has
undergone a radical change. Short
how many are in the flesh today.
Many of these officials were young
men then, some were in middle life,
but there were very few who were
known as old men. And yet the thirty
years that has elapsed leave but a few
to be reminded by this of the old days,
and only one holding the same office
he held then. May he be spared to
hold It many years more.
Freeman, now with Parmalee: Andrew
.T. Orr. now in insurance husinosr-
AY. Gibson, now at the G. S. & F. R. R.
shops; H. Spahr. now in South Caro
lina; Robt. A. Morris, now in "Way-
cross; V. A. Menard, now deputy sher-
Of the countv officials, six are living iff; G. S. Westcott, ex-sheriff; R. M.
today. Judge Barnard Hill was judge | Rogers, now in New York; Geo. T. Har-
of the Superior Court. He was the I Hs, who visits Macon occasionally, and
father of the late Walter B. Hill, i A. H. Stephens, now fanning.
Of the living there are: J. A. Rohr,
now living in Washington; George P. „ _
Cornelly, .now at Indain Spring; E. .T. ^ >e 7
that within three months King Ste
phan has taken the »aths of office as
ruler of Servia. and that his claims
to the blood-stained throne of Alex
ander have been reviewed and sanc
tioned by ecclesiastical authorities in
Servia. It is further said that the
Government of the United Stales and
is'entfrely'out of vogue. ~ The"hats are j who very much resembled his father, j There were four railroads thirty years | ® l » ? a T*
, ■ — — 1 Judge Hill died manv years ago. ’ The Central, tho Macon and | hf d their official attention called to
Congressman Charles L. Bartlett j Brunswick, the Macon and Augusta. ‘ he f j* ct , that Stephan Dusanovic
was the Solicitor-General, and was I and the Southwestern. There are eight 1! 7 h ® on J* lawful ruler of Servia. and
ciuite a younr man then. i railroads today. James Hoge was a*?ent j favorable answers have been re-
Albert B. Ross was clerk of the i of the Macon and Augusta: Dr. E. A. | oelved from some of the European
-i ! Flewellen was manager of the Macon I Governments which have
All the lesser titles of nobility: have
become so common in New York that
even a royal duke excises little more
than passing comment: but a real, live,
truly sworn and duly authenticated
king, living in New Jersey and doing
business in an office on Broadway, is
a good deal more interesting. This is
King Stephan Dusanovic. scion of the
house of Dusan. who during the past
two years has organized about him a i T t.,
junta of Servians, with a smattering Prn.vnaser consult rahlj. Ho
of Americans, which, with New York the ° hnniw
as a headquarters, has been working | ? e Vje People were hung,
actively for the overthrow of King Pe- .
ter while awaiting a favorable moment thought‘that
to return to Servia and claim his own. H ° wever ’ confoIed by . t ( he , l , hat
It is stated by certain Servians here ! a t0 ' vn never appreciated its own taU
j When the Civil War ended there was
a New York regiment camped in East
! Macon. These soldiers had enlisted
! for the war, and when the official
news of the surrender came they were
free. A sutler in that regiment, named
j Lee. had organized a minstrel company
j for the enlivenment of camp life, and
. when all washover some of them want-
j ed to become professionals. They had
| tasted minstrel life and liked it.
| A Macon man secured them, added
! some local talent, and then started out
I to rake in the harvest, it being the
j first company to begin business after
■ the great struggle, it was given tho
name of Mess & Warren's Combination
Opera Troupe.
The first performance was given in
May, lSGo, at Concert Hall, oyer
George Payne's drug store, now King
and Oliphant's, to a slim audience. This
sleeves are passed, and the short skirt chancellor of the State University, and i
trimmed and twirled, turned and twist
ed and look like very ornate straw
flower-baskets, filled with the blossoms
of spring time.
This is a blue season. I notice tho
deep shades predominate almost as
much as the faintest and most deli
cate. A rich golden brown comes next,
and is generally made up in voile or
ent no way, the company went to At
lanta and performed at what was then
known as Davis Hall, and the only
hall of the kind in that city. There
was another slim audience.
This caused a halt. It had been
planned to go on to Chattanooga.
Nashville, and beyond, make barrels '
of money and come back wearing dia
monds. But a second slim audience
was not on the. program, so a meeting
of the company was held In the par
lor of the old Trout House. The up
shot of the meeting was that there was
not enough money in the treasury to
Superior Court, and was one of the flewellen was manager of the Macon* ^veinmems wn oh have never recog- North and Just enough to go back
most accommodating officials of the and B n ™»eyw*s : > South as far as Griffin, The majority
county.
Geo. W. Sims was the deputy clerk.
some other sheer fabric. The skirts ! He is now living, but an old man. All
are elaborately trimmed, and the waist ! his life he wrote a good hand, and be-
are of the same color, though lightened : Ing a printer, correct in spelling and
greatly by the use of white. In fact. 1 punctuation. The county records in
they are made of white all over lace ^ his handwriting are models,
and trimmed with the same fabric of ! Judge Thaddeus G. Holt was judge
the skirt. The much exaggerated long- ! of the County Court. He was
waisted corset has been abolished, tho
short waist effect Is in decided evi
dence. The Josephine style of dress is
more popular than ever. It is grace
ful and gives a certain indefinable
charm to the figure, maybe this style
Is so closely connected in our minds
with that womanly empress, and her
strong personality was gentleness and
refinement.
Elderly Women in Majority.
What strikes me forcibly is the dis
tinctive beauty of the elderly woman,
who. by the way, is certainly in ma
jority at this resort. She comes for
the healing and bracing atmosphere of
the ocean, but to go back to her ap
pearance—her snow white hair and her
few wrinkles in her pink and white
features, is the only Indication of her
age. she Is, In pet parlance, well-
groomed from her fluffy white pompa
dour and crown of artificial puffs, to
her high-heeled white slippers, step
ping so sprightly under her much be-
ruffled petticoat. She is dainty—(and
if not too em-bon-point), delicate as a
perfumed flower.
She reminds me of some of the ex
quisite confections created on the Rue-
de-la-Paix and perfumed as if they
were just culled from the garden of
the Tuileries. You see I do not liken
her to the real flower!
Nothing in the way of perfect beauty
of physical charm can exist unless
fresh from the hands of our Great
Creator. This grand dame has lost, I
affirm, some of her softer and more
revered claims to our admiration. She,
The street railway, running from \ during .the past week by the presence j fonav the wav home so to Griffin they
Tattnall square to Mulberrv, was owned j here of two noteworthy representa- | > . *-
by James A. Hill & Co. Byes of that country. One of these is ; " This Almah Hall had been used as
* * * ! Alexis Aladyin, who was leader of the j aw A man Man naa neen iisea as
„„ |L .. Goodness, gracious! What a differ- peasants or the "group of toll” in the I T4At|ne"no t hin? 0 el , 8e^tod 1 ^
courtly gentleman, and in his prime ence thirty years can make. | th ^ r R ^ n ln ’%"" ^ I’thS company ^^d'Tn^Lnd 'feaned^
I ^JohnVMcManus was ordinary. He Trusting to a memory not always I from securing financial support from j Three^days' 1 afi 3 tht iots h^been°re-
1 was the father of T, McManus For : reliable, mistakes occur in this column, other nations until it inaugurates in- I TyT,..,, '‘ iv ,e i, n ii n -n«enVahio
! many years he was city clerk, and in I was reminded Of one yesterday. Of ; ^ te^na t hmal" Crease re* % t0P * by i A stage was constructed and then came
-- the cigarmakers thirty years ago, I i international pressure to the torture I irinoii,-
mentioned that Mr. A. Mantoue was I of political prisoners in the Russian * be it t frol tiokota io 'horr^v
dead. I learned from Mr. Chas. L. ! jails. The other distinguished visitor ” s L Snh n P1 r
Moses, his nephew, that Mr. Mantoue is 1 is Nicholas Shiskoff. an aristocrat and ' th benches frorn a church neailj
in Europe, and that he left Macon in ■ & representative of the zemstvos, who
v ,, 1878. Jaques & Johnson, wholesale ! came here to solicit support for the
tn h’u rinses* friends ! grocers in 1877. were accidentally omit- | starving Russian peasants. According
- - ted. Mr. Newton Johnson was known ; to Mr. Shiskoff, practically the entire
to the writer as a man who did more j population of a section of Russia half
his day no man had more friends.
Henry J. Peter was tax collector.
He is farming In Florida now. and no
one would suspect how oid he is.
Capt. R. J. Anderson was tax re
ceiver. as he is today. It was always
a mystery, even
how such a quiet man as he is could
h °L R‘chapman* was coroner. For | charity without letting anybody | as ferge as the whole United States
veers and veara this o1d-leeg"fl vet- kn °w it. than any men he ever knew, is without food and dependent on
eran' was staMo’n sergeant He has i JIr - Jaques is still living and engaged j outside support from now until the
been dead a number of irears in the wholesale grocery business as He next harvest. He adds, however, that
George F ChTrrv was the sheriff waR then ‘ The ty Pes twisted the ini- five dollars will keep a child alive
He was in his prime thenono of the i tinIs of E " is & Gutter, th" lumber deal- until then and eight dollars a man
I” f ™ P Yn xTsrnn anrl one of I ers - The fir m was composed of J. E. i or woman. The Russian famine relief
handsomest men in Macon, and one of — A Ar „ ,, , .v. ,
the most popular.
William Foster was deputy sheriff
and jailor. He was one of the gamest,
though a small man. He died many
years ago.
The county commissioners were:
William Hazlehurst, A. R. Tinsley,
James Holmes. John B. Giles and
Christopher Burke. Walter G. Smith
was clerk.
* * *
Of all these, there are now living:
Judge Bartlett. George Sims. Henry
Peter. Bob Anderson, A. R. Tinsley and
Walter Smith.
Ellis and M. H. Cutter, and both are
living and in good health.
notice"to subscribers.
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committee has been organized here
with headquarters at 135 East Fif
teenth street and contributions are
already coming in. one of the first be
ing a cheek for $100 received from
President Roosevelt. Bishop Potter is
president of the committee and the
Rev. Samuel J. Barrows is secretary.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
NEW YORK: March 16.—"Every
year.” says Signor Nitti. a deputy in
the Italian Senate, "an Italian province
There are
Ten Thousand Asked for Al
leged Defamation of Char
acter
One more landmark of old New
York has disappeared before the
march of progress. This time it Is the
Hotel Griffou, in West Ninth street,
which has fallen upon evil days. In a
generation when Fifth avenue and
Ninth street was not too far down
town, the Hotel Griffou was a famous
resort for Cuban patriots, painters,
writers and sculptors, and it is safe
to say that no other hostelry in the
city has numbered among its guests
proportion of well known
people. The walls of the office and
But death resiDed a greater harvest
among the city officials.
Col. W. A. Huff was Mayor. Thirty
, . I years ago Col. Huff was in the full flush is transferred to America. ......... ..... , rlr ,. n
possessing all of this beauty and : manhood. Active, aggressive, ‘ pub- | more Italians in the'pity today’than a _ ]ar
tenacity of youth, lacks what we love lie-spirited, a tireless worker, he is a there- are in all of Venice. Most c.f j n 1
memory, the grandma of our , ij v j ng illustration of the saying that these immigrants rench' the country ; corridors Vro crowded thick^Yth iu7, U
childhood. Maybe. I am dwelling too j hard work never kills. Of all the city : through tho port of New York. As a Ssof 1 ™
long in delineation of the fashion- officials of- thirty years ago. except al- : matter of figure, the number is some- j wero honored e-n^tVin^ thn
able patroness of society. I have tokl . de rmen, he is the only one living. ! thing like half a million annually. Most davs of n .,„ t
you of her claims to admiration, but I Capt . chas. J. Williamson was treas- | of them come from the impoverished tonio M-moo pLJ™ Mm vn^"
am not unmindful of the loa elines^ . urer I,ike*#iapt. Bob Anderson, he was southern provinces and settle ip flu ' Aime nl ' c ^ ™, T .‘’ MI J?'
of the sprightly girl of this healthy one -armed. but he had no equal as a j larger cities, notably Boston. New 1
century. In truth I can scarcely desig- bookkeeper. He held his office a long ! York, Washington. New Orleans and ^ £“7° '
nate the maid from the matron—so j tJrne .. ci,i..— — .-. I «ecKwltti. and Guy Wetmore Carry!.
similar are they In appearance and ap
parel.
Easter tide is near at hand! Balti
more. Philadelphia. Washington, Rich
mond and New York itself empty their
society—at least those who are not
down at Palm Beach—at this resort.
It is full. I think. I told you. even now
to suffication—I don’t wonder at it—
the air is so bracing—the shops so
seductive—the boardwalk such a
promenade of peacocks—the restless
sea sobbing-and sighing and wafting
its sweet zephyrs into our faces.
This is the most delicious spot in
this cold climate. It is said to be the
most genial north of Virginia—in
spite of the same claims made by
Lakewood thirty miles north of this.
The gulf stream is not far away from
and we know that Its warmth can
Walter T. Ross was
records at tho City Hall give evidence
of his beautiful writing.
Robert W. .Temison was city attor
ney. He was the father of our Bob
Jemlson. and was one of the old school
of southern gentlemen.
Capt. J. C. Wheeler was city engi
neer. He was one of the most court
eous officials at the City Hall. He was
the father of Capt. Pohill Wheeler.
W. D. Williams was chairman of the
board of health. For years and years
i Chicago, where many of them seem to j w - ,. T . J ,
.9* 1 Prosper exceedingly well. Their prop- | wa3 long aji, a freouen ^ „ P f atr }^
erty holdings in this city alone are
valued at S60.000.000. More than $15,000.-
000 of this aount consists- of deposits
in the savings banks of Manhattan.
They own 10,000 stores, 4,000 pieces of
real estate, and send more money home
as long' ago a frequenter of the
house, and Edmund Clarence Stedmnn
and Charles G. D. Roberts, and Bliss
Carman,. and Josiah Flynt, until he
died: and more than once the place
has figured in the tales of Thomas
Janvier. But Mme. Marie Griffon
for the Blind. He was the father of j kidnapings and other outrages of the i
Dr. Howard J. Williams, who for years
has been a member of the Board of
Health, of which his father was so long
the chairman.
Capt. O. F. Adams was chief of po
lice. No man In Macon was better
than any other class of adopted Amer- i "V . W,U ” M
leans. Last year the sum amounted to to
$13,000,000, most of which went to ■ If 7 d< ; ln a °- I ? e
Italian savings banks for deposit. The | S *112?P, **1 ° c 5° ber ^f stencd Its
race is also credited, or discredited, j d d f 7* Oliver Her-
with the largest share of the more vio- i Fjj* ‘-P* e ft 0 °£
But it was all
without avail, and a week ago the
place was closed through the attempt
of the State Board of Excise to collect
the license fee.
LlUdlU IICtH4.il, A Vi J tUio t* mi •» j 4Y1C11 lilC biial C U1 UIC IIl’JIC VIVA— . j l » |i ..
he was tho principal of the Academy j lent crimes, such as murder, stabbintrs, j P f fellow artists
temper the wind of this bleak coast, j known than Obe Adams, as he was fa
though not quite genial enough to ; miliarly known. He was afterward City
bring the roses into blossom or open Treasurer, holding that office when he
the eyes of the daffodils. I must | died.
think of them blooming In the garden j Sol R. Johnston was street over-
of my Vineville home. ! seer. He was perhaps the oldest man
Before I leave this fashionable : holding office at that time. His was a
throng. I must tell you that their J rugged character, but no man ever had
former keeping of Lent is in deca- j a truer friend.
dence. | Hyde A. Harman was city sexton.
The opera Is, and has been, in full ! His father. Alex Harman, held the of-
blast ever since Ash Wednesday, and [ flee before him.
black hand variety. This, according to
Signor Conte, r.nti] recently secretarv
of the Italian consulate in this city and
now the newly appointed Consular
Agent at Milwaukee, is directly due io
the influence of factory life and the
unnatural conditions to which Italians
are subjected in the larger cities. Hence
the organization of an Italian agricul
tural colonization ««cneme througa ■ . , , r , .
which it is proposed to relieve the con- tll6 DOOKS. 1JU6 irOIH (tclt© OH
gested districts and distribute Italian 4.u p lahpl in rTnpg nnrl
immigrants to farm colonies throughout tne laDel - oena ln aa eS ana
the South and West.
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: also renew for tbe year 1907.
Father Knickerbocker has just bo- ; HOT SPRINGS-MEMPHIS flyer ran
come the proud possessor of a family INTO OPEN SWITCH,
of nine golden eagles, which have been [ LITTLE ROCK. 'Ark.. March 16.—East
cruel ruffians. In six years England
bast 350 ships and 6.000 subjects en
slaved in 1703: 115 Americans were en
slaved in 1S12. This country was pay
ing J22.000 a year tribute to Algiers
until in 1816 Pur brave Commodore I
Uecatur appeared before the city and
(rave the Pey official notice that ran- !
soms and tributes in future would h« :
Alleging in a petition filed ln the
Superior Court yesterday, that J. B.
Reeves, a conductor on the Southwest
ern division of tho Central of Geor-
Railroad. was the author of a
:e slanderous, outrageous and ma
licious defamation of his character,
thereby holding him up before the
public in a manner calculated to bring
upon him the public hatred, contempt
and ridicule. .Tames L. Mathis, a flag
man In the employ of the same com
pany. is seeking $10,000 damages from
the former.
Mathis specifically avers ln his pe
tition that February 23 he was on duty
on the same train with Reeves: that
when the train stopped at Amerlcus
there boarded a passenger. WilHs Rut
land who had in his possession a nair
of shoes which he was conveying to
his home in Leesburg; that when Rut
land got ready to leave the train he
found It impossible to locate his box
of shoes: that upon the request of
Rutland, he (Mathis), began to search
the devotee to fashion Is as much to i William L. Johnson was keeper of ! added to his net stock and poultry farm j bound Rock Island passenger train No.
be seen there as she is in her pew at ! the Powder Magazine. In those days in Central Park. Kansas has so long 1 known as the Hot Springs-Memphis
St. Thomas'. She partakes of the ' this was an important office. It was ; been credited with the ability to rais" j OT^ked'at Cuneo 38* miles east of T i'tiL
same rich viands at Sherrys: and she j before the days of shells and cartridges, i almost anything from grasshoppers and Ror ,f.' ] ato today. Engineer Killoyne and
nibbles her same little vices as of ! and powder was as staple as flour. I cyclones to record-breaking crops of j Fireman Currier, both of Argentina. Ark.,
yore. She does not even make a pre- • H. S. Holder was superintendent of wheat and corn, that it is not surnris- were killed, and two mail clerks, an ex
tense of a disguise. “It is a custom. : Pumps. This was before the days of
(Lent. I mean, with her) more in the •' water works, and the city was filled
breach than observance.”
VALERIA LAMAR HARRISS.
stopped and that he must immediately i
rclease all Americans held in slavery. t y,,
The crafty Dey. Impressed by the reso- i , v j
lution of the admiral, and recognizing ' r ,-.,
that Algiers lav at the mercy of the i Vir
American fleet, acceded to fhe demands I t a,
but asked that in order that he might
not lose prestige with the other na
tions. the United States should merely
continue a nominal arnual gift cf some
powder. But the sturdy commodore
grimly declared that “if ihe Dey took
the powder he must take the balls
also.” and the unwilling D«y. no( rel
ishing the implied suggestion, had no
j for the shoes and located them wedged
in between the casing and the seat.
I and placed them in his satchel pre-
| paratory to delivering them to the own-
j er upon the return trin of the train.
I Mathis further alleges that Reevts
took possession of the satchel contain
ing the shoes, .and brought them to
Macon, where he went to the office of
IV. Boulineau. the trainmaster pf
road .and charged the petitioner
h. being a common thief: that as a
jit he was discharged from the =er-
? of the railroad, hut upon proving
alleged falsitv of the charge he
: reinstated to his old place.
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LYNCHING OF TWO NEGROES
CALLS FOR PROMPT INQUEST.
BATON ROUGE. La.. March 17.—
The lynching of two negroes early Fri
day morning at Monroe. La., caused
Gov. Blanchard to call upon District
Judge Madison, of Monroe today to
make a special investigation, in a
letter to the Sheriff of Monroe the
Governor said:
“Lynchings do not prevent crime.
One wholesome hanging by law is
more effective than several lynnhingfs.
We cannot hone to have capital and
immigration continue to come to our
State with such acts of lawlessness
every now and then.”
with street pumps. The keeping them
in order was Important.
Dr. T. W. Mason was the city phy
sician: He was one of the leading phy
sicians of that time.
The Board of Aldermen was com
posed of:
ing to learn that the new acquisition
came from the Sunflower State. The
birds in question had constituted one of
the many forms of trouble with which
a farmer in the western part of Kan
sas had to contend, and were seri
ously interfering with the prosecution
of farm work through the necessity of
watching the henhouse with a shotgun, j
tho negro porter
car waiters were in
press messensrer.
four negro dinin,
jured.
At the Rock Island general offices In
this city, it Is stated that the wreck was
without doubt the work of a train wreck
er. There was a number of passengers
on the train, but beyond a few cuts,
none of them were injured.
First Ward—Granville C. Conner, I Finally, by, the lebiral application of
Edward O’Connell. James A. Nelson.
Second Ward—William F. Grace, C.
C. Wilder. John Knight.
Third Ward—W. C. Singleton, Ed
ward J. Johnston, Roland B. Hall.
Fourth Ward—M. R- Rogers, Albert
G. Butts. Sylvester B. Price.
Of this board W. C. Singleton and
Roland B. Hall are tile only survivors.
nf the police department. O. F.
Adams, was chief. John Hurley first
lieutenant, and Henry Taylor, second
salt to their tail feathers, or some other
equally effective means, they were cap
tured in good condition. Finding live
eagles with healthy appetites a good
deal more of a nuisance in captivity
than when at large. It occurred to their i "of "the‘"hou
captor that New York is so full of ! day .
COUNCIL BITTERLY CRITICISED THE
SPEAKER. AND LEGISLATURE
WROUGHT UP.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. March 16.—The
Lower House Of the Tennessee Legisla
ture today ordered the arrest of the May
or and City Council of Nashville, and re
quiring that the members be brought be-
‘ next Mon
trouble anyway that a little more or
less would scarcely count. Accordingly
he wrote to Director Smith of the
Central Park menagerie, who justified
his hopes by eagerly accepting the prof-
lieutenanL with the following constitut- erred shipment, and the birds have
ing the police force. ' just arrived. The park authorities have
Chas. M. Wood. Patrick Murphy, : had a great deal of trouble In keeping
Patrick McCafferty, Henry Abel. E. J. i this species of eagle ln captivity, until
The Council Is charged with contempt,
the members having recently adopted a
resolution bitterly criticising Speaker
Cunningham for a speech he made on the
floor of the House in which he is alleged
to have said the Councilmen were con
trolled by a local telephone company.
PITTSBURG VISITED
BY A $?00.000 FIRE
PITTSBURG. Pa.. March V.,—In a fi-e
that threatened the entire Mr. Washing
ton so :i -»n o' 'he ,-itv hu-'T-es* st-uct-
urec and dwellings were destreved or
datr°*red 'oday. causing a loss estimated
YOUNG PLANTER SHOT
SWEETHEART AND SELF.
: NEW ORLEANS I.a.. March 16.—
j Accosting Miss Dudez Dobson, his 17-
year-old sweetheart, on the Main street
of Pointe Lahache. La., last evening,
i Whintve Moliere. a young planter,
asked her to marry him. Upon being
j refused Moliere shot and killed the girl
and himself. Miss Dobson was the
| daughter of Ernest Dobson, a promi
nent planter of Plaquemine Parish.
Kimbrew, J. A. Simpson. Geo. D. Law
rence. L. C. Ricks, Henry Garfield, T. I
B. Grace.
Think of it! Thirteen m&n made up
the entire police force thirty years ago. .
There are now fifty-eight.
• * *
Lieut. Murphy is the only man now an education
on the force who was on it then, and he : charge or at i
looks good for thirty years more. With ! whether it be
him are living todav: Patrick McCaf
ferty. Capt. J. A. Simpson and L. C.
Ricks, oniv four of the thirteen!
was discovered recently that a cer-
rnile out of town, and having no money
with which to pay for the hauling, tho
boys toted those heavy benches all
that distance.
One of the company was a printer,
and as he had done some little work
for Uncle Sandy Murray, who was
printing a paper called The American,
he was allowed to strike off a lot of
bills free. In this way the show was
advertised far and near.
At last the night came on which
the money was to pour in. The hall
looked all right. Mr. Logan, who was
depot agent at that time, had loaned
the big fly a tent, and this had beex
made into h'drop curtain, and on which
the artist of the company had painted
a big red eagle fit was the only color
of paint he could get), and a big red
flag. Candles were up all over the hall,
with a row of them on the stage for
footlights.
The members of the company had
given out quite a number of comlpl-
mentarles in exchange for courtesies,
such as drinks and tobacco, etc., hay-’
ing no money, and It seems that thrso
tickets had fallen into the hands of
young fellows who were lust Hue
enough to be pulled for soldiers when
1 the war ended, and as they couldn’t
! get into the war they concluded to
have as much fun ns possible In Almah
Hall that night. They had raided a
ten-pin alley, and as they filed past
the doorkeeper each had ten-pin con
cealed beneath his coat.
The hall was on the second floor,
and the doorkeeper was at the ’ big
front door down stairs. He noted with
pain the enormous number of fpeo
tickets, but as the audience would cer
tainly not he slim an in the other
towns, ho was satisfied.
By S o'clock the hall was packed,
and the total receipts in the hands of
the doorkeeper was fourteen dollars.
Suddenly there were screams of
women and children. The man at the
door looked up the flight of stairs and
saw the lights go out. He rushed up
stairs to ascertain the cause of tho
commotion, and as he reached the ton
step some miscreant struck him about
the waistband with one of those ten
pins. Down the steps he roiled, with
that awful crowd running, falling over
him.
These things do not last always,
and when all were out, the doorkeeper
picked up his bruised frame and
crawled to the top of the stairs. There
had been a fight between one of the
company and one of the town hoys,
and the fight had become general in
character. The wreckage over tho hall
Then while this explanation was be
ing made to the doorkeeper, who was
likewise the manager, a big man. with
a big hat and a big stick, and a hig
voice, stalked up and asked for the
license. Of course nobody had thought
of a license being necessary. The war
had just ended, and order and law had
not been restored, but all the same he
wanted the license, which was $25. And
there were only fourteen dollars In the >
treasury.
This sheriff, or town marshal, no
matter which, could not be reasoned
with. There were two dancing girls
in the company, and they tried their
hand, or rather their face, for aever
did they smile sweeter. But it was no
go. He flatly, cruelly, refused, and
said he would see the company in the
morning. Then he deliberately walked
down stairs, locked the big front door
and carried away the key.
There was a consultation ' by the
light of the one candle that had escap
ed destruction. And it was a weird
scene. The boys in their black faces,
showing furrows made by perspiration,
were a sight to behold. They discuss
ed the painful situation. They were
sixty miles from Macon, twenty-one
men and two ladles, with fourteen
dollars to pay board bills, hall rent,
license, and other Incidentals, to :ny
nothing of railroad fare, and locked up
in a two-story building, and r.o moans
of escape.
Finally one of the company discov
ered. In looking out of t:’° r"ar win
dow. that some painters had left a
ladder leaning against the wall. It
was a dangerous and difficult thing,
but in a short time every member f
the company had gone down ;hat lad
der. ladies, big bass fiddle, and all.
the ladies.
The City Assessors were: M. R. Free
man. F. M. H°ath and H. R. Brown.
And right here is another illustration of
how the oitv has grown. The valuation
placed on the real and personal prop- ]
ALABAMA MAN APPOINTED
ON BOARD WITH SETH LOW
WASHINGTON. March 16.—The
tain proportion of fish was necessary j president todav appointed Seth Low,
to their diet: but the new arrivals are i 0 f xew York, and Thomas G: Bush,
expected to remain for manv years, a , 0 f Birmingham, Ala., as representatives
sort of living monument to Kansan en- ! 0 f the general public under the act of ! The money was given
terprise. Comrress of March 2 last and being ' vho ' vere s ? nt to the hoi*-’ 1 - . Then
1 a foundation for industrial peace, the ! balance of the eompanv
One can acquire almost any kind of j basis of which is the
recently awarded the __
Norwegian Storthing, thus completing | halting.
the composition of the administrative Y hen the tram for V ,r °n
board. along the manager traded ■ t.i
icai Instruments to the conduc
WIFE DRIVEN TO SUICIDE passage to Ma n.
BY LONG SUFFERING 1 There are some of the m-:■
itself plays but a small oart: for bv ATLANTA. Ga.. March 16.—Mrs. Minnie I ing todav. Th" mention of th*
far the greater amount of free hlghe- . £>nck. ^Sieide^'tonight ""by j
education is that gi\en lu endowed ; qjooting herself through the ahdomen tP,f? horrible ox- ■■.-■• l e * 1
school? which are entirely free or The wound is probably fatal. She told I ln 65 vividly to m:n.*. '.
nearly so. Cooper Union is the largest j her husband she was tired of suffering. ^ doorkeeper will remmeber it w
New York free of
merely nominal cost. ,
i four-years’ college
course of a year's training at the
plumbing trade. There is probably no :
other. city In the world so free with \
Its educational gifts, in which the citv '
nausiriai reace. tae ; ■■ • ■■■
he Nobel prize fucA I town to the railroad and followi d the
he President by the i track to the station this side before
,11.