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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
TUESDAY, APRIL #, 1907.
RICH MEH
NEW TORN, Apr!! It takes
Jierchar:* a', <rg Fifth av>n-;e. tne
Hvely
;ist who live been
nts in Wall street,
ter is the best
■ •a* in the nc-
Jlvlng. These
shops say that
cet wh'ch oc-
Marcb and. the
■ted -slump of
lem $50,000,000
i the enforced
il'hy patrons.
: loss of trade
svelers, who have
est sufferers. but a
3 of $'.009,000 has left
paintings and art ob-
■ttcr off. Florists have
s of $500,000 In their
s, and automobile agents
Private build’ng plans
; to the exter t of JI0.0 1 fl ,000. so the arch
itects say, are held lit Abeyance, while
summer yachting plans and persona]
axpedltures iff various sorts account for
another 520,000.000, When thieves fall
rut. honest men come by their own.
Rhowever, and the .same thing might
Snow be said of Wall - t -ul.iiorn
I and the poor man; for while the
—*«"*••• e r Is f reel to J -
my. the man of modest sav-
vcstlng In securities at rock
Ices. The depositors in sav-
ATLAXTA. April 6.—The railroad
men who a’fcnded the recent hearing
Variously Priced Dinners. before the State Railroad Commission
If Thomas Jefferson had known what j on the subject of reduced passenger
fame the years were to bring to him : fares left that meeting with rather
n’ an exponent of the simple life. It if ' ffloomy forebodings as to the result,
probable that he would have left for i That they believe a reduction will be
the gu dan e of future generations ■ made and some of them fear It will go
some expression of opinion as to the as low as 2 cents a mile, is evidenced
true value of»a simple dinner. As It Is 1 by what they have said since the.dis-
he has left to his disciples simply a cuss.-.n before the commission,
bore of contention for every annual I “What's the use of putting in any
recurrence of his birthday. This year ? figures. It's going to be cut anyhow."
In New York they may sit down to any . was the remark overheard from one of
one of three feasts spread In honer of | the passenger men as they, descended
the event, each at a different price and : the capital* steps following the hear-
eaoh guaranteed to serve the only un- i ing.
adulterated brand of Jefferson ani*:n. j Since then half a dozen of the Atlan-
It 'ccts to have been unanimously ta passenger men nave expressed the
greed, however, that a defeated can- j fear that the rate was going to be re-
RAILROAD MEN OLOOMY
OVER RATE QUESTION
SHORTNESS OF LABOR
ALL OVER THE SOOTH
HE’S ONLY COFmON CLAY
99
BALTIMORE. April 6.—In spite of
the fact that during the past few
months plans have been made for the futures and Liberal trio
addition of Itvwce to the lev- „. ClU . rC ? alK t ■ L,!DeraI
and ihe
wealthy
tire econ
ings Is 1
'bottom I
Jncs hn:, ;
m this city. In the past few
c withdrawn $75,000,000 to
[11,000.000,000 which they have accu
mulcted In those institutions and con
verted it Into stocks, bands, mort
gages, and other giit-rdged invest
fnents at bargain prices.
Visitors to New York.
It would seem that all roads lead to
pfew York In the Easter holiday sea
son. No fewer than 100,000 strangers
from all parts of tho continent visited
Jthe metropolis this year to participate
Jn the week of festivity which began
wrlth the closing of the morn'ng ser
vices In the various churches on Easter
jftunday. They enrno from New Eng
land, from as far West ns Kansas City
end from as far South ns Now Or-
S lea ns. With Canadians this annual
pilgrimage has become a fixed instltu-
ii-tlon to which th»y look forward
[■through all the long Northern winter.
HOond Friday is a le~al ns well as a
[ religious holiday throughout the Do-
Ij min Ion, and for two days and nights
^following that day long sperinl tr.a’ns
Tcrawled Into New York over the North-
fern railway lines, bearing thousands of
[Canadians with their wives and fanul-
|l!os, who came to New York for their
[annual outing and a first glimpse of
[spring along Broadway while Canada
Is still locked fast in the grasps of
■winter. From all parts of tho north
they come—from Montreal. Three Riv
ers. Quebec, from Ottawa, Kingston.
Toronto, Hamilton. London, and many
psrflaller towns and villages In Ontario.
The army of spenders are out for .a
good time—and they pet It to the tune
of at least $1,000,000 for tho ten days
they are here. Nothing Is too good for
the Canadians. Something like 10.000
of them have snent the hol'days at the
very best hotels in Loneaere Square
and along Broadway and Fifth avenue.
$1 a Dozen For Goose Eggs.
From tho 50.000,000 or more eggs
■which are rushed Into New York to
meet the F~=:er demand to the lilies
nnd roses which are the other Indis
pensable adjuncts of the day, this has
been the dearest Fusty - In years. To
be sure, fresh hen’s eggs were to be
Shad at 2." cents a dozen, but the goose
I eggs which are largelv used for fancy
| decorations sold as high as a dollar a
] deren. Put when ll came to fresh
flowers, that was a different matter.
■ ( Easter lil'es were very scarce, owing
h to the delayed return of the steamer
fi «e»t to Bermuda for a cargo of the
l'; flowers symbolic of the close of Lent.
As a result, the supplv was very short
—not more than 100.000 blossoms
ara'pst iso.opo last year—and prices
ranged from 23 cents to 35 cents each
The new and popul ir "Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt” r-f - '"as so that the
price was anything that might be
asked. As to the flowers more com
mon for clfts and decorations, orchids
cost from two dollars apiece up to
much higher prices for the finer varie
ties American T>nutv resea were s?
nnd $2 ->n : eee t while violets e.as! from
$2 to f2 for .an ordinary bunch. At
these prices, rranv of the hi*. hotels
and cafes on Broadway and Fifth avo-
Tntp evo,. ; ’,1 as high as fail!) or
$5.eon fer ,■■■•- • ,-s ami other
flowers for de -orations.
abing Up Stairs.
•e estimates have It that
’ally aggregate of vertical
lent to the use of stairs
; 20.000 miles, consumes
years of time and Involves
Itnre of l.OOnpoo h"r-o-
thls is the fatal for but .a
in a year the el tv's res'-
i.”0 years in getting un
tint is. a vert Ira.] travel,
dim at least .5 602.000 st-ir
Ingle dig' -- each arc made
tot only Is this means of
vel ne e.- ary In homes.
“ huMdlngs. but
didatc for high office in the place of
honor is an Indispensable adjunct to
tho real thing. At the National Dem
ocratic Club’s $10 a plate dinner on the
evening of April 13. Alton B. Parker is
to bo the principal guest. William .T.
Bryan will as bravely assail his diges
tion with the three-dollar feast of the
Brooklyn Democratic Club on the l$th.
while Air. Hearst, willing to steer a
non-committal course between, wjn at
tend the flve-dollar dinner at his own
Independence League. When the after-
dinner smoke has cleared away, those
who survive may hope to have learned
something about the true value of a
Jeffersonian dinner.
THE V/ORLD’S PROGRESS
From the London Express.
A bird's eye view of the social
progress of the civilized word Is given _ ^ [
in a statistical abstract just issue in Journal, which so strongly supported
fnrm nf n MnaKnnl. __ _ . ... . .. .. ,
duced, and some think it will be put
down to the lowest opssible notch.
Notwithstanding this feeling tiu
railroad men are going ahead with
the preparation of facts and figures
to combat the reduction proposition
and these will be presented to * the
commission in volume and in num
ber at the meeting on April 23 when
it is proposed to conclude tho mat
ter.
Conservative views aro to tho effect
that the commission will, in all prob
ability, reduce the passenger fare on
th- large railroad systems and along
lines to 2% cents a mile leaving the
fare on the tliort independent lines at
3 cents as it stands today;
There is a disposition on the part of
some of the fri' nds of Gov.-elect Hoke
Smith to protest against the railroad
commission taking any action what
ever in this matter. The Atlanta
the form of a blueboo
The first fact that stands out promi
nently is that in tho last ten years
there has been a total increase in the
population of the principal countries
of the world of more than 63.000.000
persons. We find that the total popu-
* at ’P n , ha . s ..^ r 5 > ''' 1 }. fr b rn uOG,000,000 in j should make any reduction at
1S9;> to .->.0.000,000 last year. The time, it would be taking from
figures are as follows:
1905.
141.200.000
1805.
.125.000 000
. 63.031.000
. 52 279.000
42,271,000
Russia
Unit'd States
Germany ....
Japan
United Kingdom 30.221 000
Franco 3S.459.000
Italy 31 29G.OOO
Austria 24,971,000
Hungary 18.257 000
Spain IS,157,000
Smaller nations. 47 732,000
Mr. Smith, has editorially called on
the commission to go slow in the mat
ter of reducing the passenger fare.
Ono of the employes of that paper, a
strong friend of Mr. Smith's, is quoted
as having made the statement in con
versation that .if the commission
this
time, it would be taking from the
Governor-elect some of the credit to
which he is entitled for the reforms
, which were made tho basis of his
fjj'inr’nAA j platform.
‘ 5-'o--'nnn ! • Attention has been called to the fact
jJ’oii'nnn I that t "’° meir- bers of the present rail-
road commission voted against a re-
oz'cnl’nnA ! duction of the passenger fare to 2
33.604.0C0 [ cents a mile, when the question was
! U P two years ago. Tho present peti-
"2 , ril , ?29 ! tion from the Farmers’ Union does
18.900.000 j no t call for a reduction to 2 cents, but
54,160.000 j f or a reduction. A careful examina-
The most crowded civilized nation | t ion of tho opinions accompanying the
in the world is Belgium, while the : decisions of Commissioners Jos. M.
nation which has the most room for | Brown and H. W. Hill at that time,
expansion Is^tho^LnUed States ^of j discloses nothing which would bo in
consistent with a vote to reduce the
fare now, provided they are cont'lnced
from the showing made that a reduc
tion is justified.
It is said their decisions at that
time were largely due to the fact that
material reductions had been s'oured
In freight rates through the efforts of
the commission, and that to have re
duced the passenger rate at the same
time, would have been too great a
decrease in their income.
America. This will be seen in the
following series of figures:
Area Persons
in Square Per Square
Miles. Mile.
United States 3.567.371
Russia (in Europe).
Spain
Hungary
ranee
Austria
Germany 208,72
Japan
Un ted Kingdom 121,371
Holland
Belgium
If, however, a particular portion of a
country be taken, Germany easily holds
tho record, for the Hanse towns can
boast of a population which is crowded
to the extent of 3,327 persons to the
square mile.
Tho vital statistics of the various na
tions provide interesting reading. For
instance, we find that Russia has the
highest birthrate, the figures being 49
.567.371
21.4
,052.490
51 3
194,744
95.3
125.392
153.6
204.321
190.7
115.892
225.S
20S.727
230.4
147,476
316.9
121,371
341.6
12,559
406.4
11,370
5SS.7
Georgia Finances.
ATLANTA, April 6.—Some interest
ing information regarding Georgia’s
financial status has been furnished by
State Treasurer R. E. Park to the Ag
ricultural Department, to go upon the
back of the new map, showing both
Senatorial and Congressional districts,
soon to be issued by that department.
The statement furnished by Treasurer
Park is as follows:
Not one of the United States has
- _ . In her constitution a limit so low as
P"r 1.000 of the population. But against Georgia’s in levying taxes, five mills
this it has also the highest deathrate.
which stands at 31 per 1,000 of the
population.
The lowest birthrate is possessed by
Franco, tho births only average 21 per
1.000 of the population, and when tho
being the highest amount that can be
imposed, and 4.SO mills'being the very
low rate for 1907.
The total taxable values of Georgia
in 1S66 were in round numbers about
j $160,000,000, while in 1SG0 they reached
Cl
Conferva t
New York'-
travel Inrid
alone totals
nearly fi\
the expo
power.
Sin vie da v: in a
Wits rnend 1.750
d down—that
,t a minimum .a
rlns of a single
»i1'V far rot or
vert lea! t-nvel n
Stores end o’dor
Iso for rerebing
fact that its deathrate is as high ns , 672.000,(JoO. In 1907 the approximate
19.6 rcr 1,000 is considered, the small ; value will reach $650,000,000, or very
Increase In the total population shown • Pe a r the amount In 1SG0. • Export sta-
nbove is explained. ! tisticlans claim this is only about 33
Spain. Italy, Austria-Hungary and j per cent of the real amount of Geo’r-
•Tepnn all hove birth rates of more than : taxable values. This shows the
37 per l.nrn, hut their deathrates are | wonderful Increase in values In the
equally high, the lowest of the group i ] as t forty years.
being Japan, with a rate of 20 per 1,000 j n is65 there were no banks in Geor-
and tho highest Spain, with a rate of j B i ai j n jaco there were 140. in 1907 there
P er are 40S State banks and S3 national
The lowest deathrate Is that possess- banks, besides a number of private
ed by Denmark, where it stands at 13.9 banks. Six years ago the great banks
per l.oco. .vnd jis the Danes have a \ of Eastern cities had annual demands
birthrete of 28.5 per 1,000 their posi- ! made upon them to transport Georgia’s
tion is an enviable one. i wonderful stanle crop of cotton, but in
The United Kingdom is among tho 1907 the local hanks of the State arc
most favorable so far as deathrate is | fully able to supply all of the monor
concerned. 16.5 per 1.000. but its birth
rate has fteadily fallen to 27.6. Gener
ally speaking, it may be said that the
greatest vitality may be found in the
east of Europe.
needed for all of Georgia’s remarkable
crop
The increase in the cotton mills and
in tho consumption of Georg’a-raised
cotton has grown almost beyond com-
London is still the only city in the ’ putation, and annually, almost weekly,
world which enn boost of a population [ numerous cstton mills are added to
of more than 4,COO.000. New York j those already in active and successful
comer nearest, as the following table. | operation.
I efficient y.
|ter« In the ‘
I access to
[tun-e's The
| incllrel rlsre,
[the rens'o for
| to «ee. I' !s
I tics] travel k
In Assvpta bet
The ch'ef cr't!
conr.wMng it
J will take four
Lthe street Iev (
r o'ary stairs, t
| labor, ns yr.uM movirg "Mrways.
j Bryco’s Eold Chrl.
| James Bryce, tho :• ,v British nm-
I ba c sador. made a bold and nattering
[bid for the h’gh regard of Gothamites
! at his very first rublic apo a ranee in
j their city. when, in an address h for-
[the Chamber of Commerce a 'err days
[ago, he predicted that within thirty or
forty years New York will heoome "tile
largest aggregation of population upon
the earth,” just as It is now the great
est gateway for commerce. But Mr.
Bryce s-'oke ccnse-vativolv as become*
an Englishman. New York herself ex-
pcets to reach th-t particular spot in
the limelight within th- next dozen
years, when her papulation if the pres
ent rate of Increase is ma’ntained, will
be something light right millions' Ac
cording to the United States Census
Bulletin which has just arrived from.
■Washington, the popu!r.t : w of th-'
metropolis in 17C6 was 4 T73 rw.d. r>ut
even Uncle Fam <Vd net take cogni
sance of all the clement-- of our great
ness. There are a few other th ugs in
wh'ch the metropolis rn’m a remark,
able s’ ewlng also, e—o’-r them a fund
ed debt of $474.6S3.2 ft 5.12. which is
more than $115 per capita of popula
tion. Its budget of expe-j-es for the
past year was more th- - one-third
that of the National Government
*370.114.141.62. to be ermi. while the
gross receipts were S270."27.713. of
■which It spent ail but *13,273,093.46.
giving a list of the great cities of the
world with population of more than
1,000,000 shows:
Population
London 4 f7».7io
New York 8.437.000
Paris .' .2.714.900
F erlin ?.041.000
Tnbio 1.819.000
Chicago 1.699 poo
Philadelphia 1.294.000
ck. P-: -r burg 1.205 not)
Mo>cow 1.039 oon
The cost of running the world’s nrln-
c = - 1 vptiers varies grwtlv. m l -r ■-
vides some interesting facts,
debt owing by the nine mo*
tent C'vilized nations amounting to fh-
enonpous figure of over 4.000.009,0-9
pounds. The figures mev be seen in
detail In the following table:
m— -nditure Debt
The vast extension of railroads Is
keeping equal steps with the rapid
progress of the State in agriculture
and manufactures
Georgia's growth in her public
school system and in her h'gh schools
and colleges has attracted the atten
tion of the entire country. Indepen
dent of tho amounts devoted to local
systems of schools. Georgia is now ap
propriating $1,730,000 per annum to
ward her public schools, and there is
scarcely a square mile in the State
but its children are accessible to a
go-d school.
The above facts have recently been
h° total • widely published and have given a
im.por- great Impetus to imm’gration. both
foreign and domestic, into Georgia, and
all good citizens arc warmly welcomed
Georgia owe* a small bonded debt
of about *7.009.600. which Is being re
duced at the rate of SIOO.OOO per an-
747 .518 ei9 num. and the constitution prohibits the
Issuance of any more bonds.
796 736 on
l,n?<; ,1-9.099
1-6’.I'M 019
126
700
only con
’ng on i:
2 pound;
e; pend'turns
mres showing tk.e popula-
th- fact that Russia is the
■ which succeeds In enrry-
atieml duti-s at less p-m
or head, w'th the United
Kingdom, France .and Austri.a-Hl
as the ro't costly nations, their ex-
nendltu'-R reaching ■-ore than 3 pounds
per head of populalion.
WEBSTER F. PUTNAM A. CO..
OF BOSTON, HAVE FAILED.
BOSTON. April 6.—The failure of
Webster F. Putnam & Co. bankers
and brokers, of this citv. was an
nounced today on the Boston stork ex
change. The firm has been a member
rf the Boston stock cv-hanee s'nce
1519. but has n't ranked os r>r.c of
: s e large br'herngo house* of th- citv.
The suspension was caused by the re
cent stock market collapse.
HARD RAIN AND \V!»'D STORM
VISITED TERRELL COUNTY
The Anti-Saloon League.
ATLANTA April 6.—The Georgia
Anti-Saioon League proposes to pr-
sent to the Legislature at its comin
s-ssion a petition signed by some
thing like half a million names, call
ing on the General Assembly to pro
vide for a general eiction in Georgia
on thp question of State prohibition.
L'tters are being sent not only t
each member of the Gene-al Assembly
urging them to pass a law providin-
for such a prohibtion election, but
their constituents are being urged
get back of.them and derr.aftid that th-
people of th- State be given an opper-
tunity to say whether they want tho
State dry or wet.
In addition to this the league is
sending out a form of petition ad
dressed to the Gen-ral Assembly, to
ministers of the gosp-1 a.nd leagu-
workers throughout the State. Th**'
will be signed and returned to head
quarters so that when the General As
sembly m-ets a petition about a mil
Imz wil br ready to present to It.
Th- campaign is be‘ng conducted ver -
quietly but determinedly, and th-
league proposes to be h'ard from lr
no uncertain terms when the time
comes.
ram
DAWSON. Go.. April 6.—Terrell
'•unty had a very heavy downpour of !
last aigb.I and in the southern j
part of the county a bard windstorm, i
demolished the storehouse of Mr. L.
M. Leonard. Jr., and bl-w down one 1
tenant house ar.d siorkade and barns
on his farm.
Mr. Leopard had a large stack of
goods ar.d ;he Ins* will amount to sev- I
eral thousand dollars. No lives lost. I
TEN WORKMEN WERE SHOT
AND KILLED BY STRIKERS
LODZ. Russian Poland. April 6.—
Ten. workmen were shot and killed b -
strikers in the factory district her-
today becaus- they attempted to re
same work. The managers of th* fac
teries have he-un to re-engage men
but the Socialists are bitterly oppos
ing a resumption of work.
addition of 122,468 spindles to the tex
tile mill equipment of the South, i
Southern representative of a leading
New England textile machinery house
states that iid would guarantee to sell
500,000 spindles inside of a week if he
could guarantee to provide the labor
with which to operate the spindles.
Commenting on this statement in this
week's issue, the Manufacturers’ Rec
ord says:
‘‘This statement is a fair illustration
of the pressing demand throughout the
cotton mill interests, as well as in all
other business circles in the South, for
labor. The predominant topic through
out the whole central South is the
need of immigration. Men who cou>l
largely increase their business inter
ests find all of their efforts hampered
by their inability to secure labor, and
so there has suddenly sprung up among
those who a few years ago thought but
little .abcut the subject an earnest de
sire for a great influx of foreign im
migration. ' Under such conditions
there is danger that the South will be
misled and fai! to secure the best re
sults from its immigration work. It is
Important that immigration from
abroad should be vigorously sought,
but in doing this the South must not
lose sight of the equally im
portant point of striving to at
tract immigration from other
parts of the United States. This
section is already annually receiving
5 n the aggergate 200,000 or 300.000 of
the very best class of settlers from
the North and West Louiisiana and
Texas and Arkansas and Oklahoma are
being especially favored in this respect,
because these States and the railroads
operating in them have been broad-
gauged in their work of sowing the
seed for many years out of which they
are now beginning to reap a harvest.
The central South has advantages
matching those of the Southwest, and
the same broad, active spirit which is
carrying tens of thousands into the
central Eouth.
“And while such a campaign should
bo inaugurated, equal attention should
be given to bringing settlers in from
abroad. Every important Southern
port, such as Wilmington, Charleston
and Savannah, Brunswick and Mobile,
and New Orleans and Gilveston. should
be striving, backed by the heartiest co
operation of their own States, to secure
the establishment of direct steamship
lines to Europe. The tramp steamer
which takes cotton-and other freight
from the South to Europe is not adapt
ed to immigration work, nor is the
tramp steamer of much value to any
port in the development of importation
business. They are the great freight
seekers of the world, and whenever
freight in sufficient quantity is found
any Southern port the tramp
steamer can be ready to carry it
abroad. It is only, however, by the de
velopment of regular lines of steam
ers sailing on regular appoint
ed days, running boats fitted for immi
gration business nnd identified with the
immigration traffic, that the best re
sults can be obtained. Years ago the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, appre
ciating the importance of regular lines
of steamers for immigration and for
importation of merchandise, succeeded
in bringing about the establishment of
a line between Bremen and Baltimore.
The result has been a large develop
ment of immigration business through
this port. It was necessary for >he
railroad company to take an active
part in securing this line and in prac
tically guaranteeing return cargoes un
til the time when business would be so
well established as to take care of it
self.
"With the enormous exportation of
eotton and other merchandise from
Southern ports it ought to be easily
feasible to secure thfe establ'shment of
a line of immigration boats not simply
to one port, but to half a dozen ports.
And it would take half a dozen lines te
make any real impression In supplying
the great need for'enlarged population
in the South. Every Southern port
abl<* to supply outward cargoes should
undertake the development of regular
lines of sleimers. and out of this com
petition there will come the survival
of the fittest, whether It be due to nat
ural advantages or to the activity and
hustle of the people back of the enter
prise. It is not, of course, to be ex
pected that the people of different
Slates are going to concentrate their
energies upon any one line of steamers
or any om port. It would be a mistake
If thev did so. It would scarcely be
pos*ib!e for any one Southern port to
secure business sufficient to justify
more than two regular steamships a
month, and at best they coull not be
expected to handle more - than 500 to
l.COO immigrants each. Rut it at 1C00,
and this would give 2.000 a month, or
24.000 a year. This would scarcely be a
drop in the bucket Any one Southern
S'pte cruld absorb two or three times
that many foreigners every year for
the next, five years.
"Closely connected with the ouestion
of labor scarcity must be the develop
ment of improved machinery and
eo'iiprrcnt in order to do by machinery
what we are now doing hv hand-power,
Tn the iron regions of Alabama under
old system -of filling furnaces w'th
eokp and ore and limestone twenty-
five to thirtv men were needed at each
furnace to do the work which can now
be done at some furnaces by three men
Labor-saving machinery is doing the
or’ - , and the other twenty-four
twenty-five men are being utilized for
‘her things. This svstem. however,
does not prevail -it all Southern ftir-
I nice*. It eolv indicates one of the
ways in which In the Iron regions, as
w*ll ns in other lines of work, labor-
saving machinery must be utilized.’
NORFOLK, Va., April 6.—There are
more than one hundred buildings at the
Jamestown Exposition, not including
those of the “War Path.” and they
range in size from the smaller special
exhibit buildings to the mammoth
States' Exhibit Palace or the Mnnu-
structure.
The lofty columns of the Doric-Corin-
thlan combination of architecture pre
sent an aspect of stateliness and solid
ity, and form a beautiful picture of a
magnificent Colonial city.
The buildings of the exposition
proper consist of the Auditorium and
Administration, Manufactures and Lib
eral Arts, Machinery and Transporta
tion, Historic Arts. Education, Minos
and Metallurgy, Pure Food, States’ Ex
hibit Palace, Palaces of Commerce,
Agriculture and Horticulture. Marino
Appliance, Power and Alcohol, fire
proof historic relic bu'Iding, Graphic
Arts, Arts and Crafts village, and nu
merous other special buildings and pa
vilions, including an immense review
ing stand.
The Government structures include
the grand piers and their accompany
ing accessories; two large exhibit
buildings; Fisheries building; Smith
sonian Institute and National Museum:
Army and Navy Club House: Chib
House for enlisted men: Colonial build
ing. Negro building. Panama and Porto
Rico and L'fe-»iving Station. The
Government buildings occupv a prom
inent position on either side of Raleigh
Spuare and overlooked the great piers
and Hampton Roads.
The buildings of the several States
present a great variety, manv of them
representative of some historical hall
or the colonial idea prevails in the
stylo of architecture. Most qf the
State buildings are located on Wil
loughby Boulevard, fronting on Hamp
ton Roads and affording the best pos
sible points of vantage'from which to
view the harbor illuminations bv nights
eOSGA ID COFFEE
ADO TEA IMIS
WASHINGTON. April 6.—Cocoa
importations into the United States
are now averaging more than a mil
lion dollars a month, against an av
erage of a quarter of a million dollars
per month a decade ago. Meantime
importations of both coffee and tea
show a decline. esp r cially during the
last two years. Whether the taste of
the people of the United States in the
use of this class of the requirements
of the table Is actually changing can
perhaps scarcely be determined bv
the record of a single year or brief
term of years; but it is at least an in
terestlng fact that the value of cocoa
imported into the Unit'd States has
more than quadrupled in the last de
cade. while that of coffee hns actual
ly decreased during that time, and that
of tea Increased but about 10 per
cent. In quantity, however, the change
has been less strongly marked.
The figures of the Bureau of Statis
tics of tho Department of Commerce
and Labor show that the quantity of
cocoa imported in the eight months
ending with Fdi>*oiary, 1907. is about
three times as much as that of the
corresponding months of 1897, a de
cade ago: that the quantity of coffee
imported in the eight months of 1907
is more than one-third greater than
that for the corresponding months - of
1S97, and that the quantity of tea im
ported in the eight months of 1907 is
about 11 per cent iess than in the
corresponding months of 1S97. Thus
cocoa importations have increased
.practically 200 per cent, those of coffee
39 per cent, while those of t<;a have
decreased 14 per cent during the de
cade.
The total quantity of cocoa import
ed in the crude state in the eight
months ending with February' 1907. is
01,299.427 pounds, valu'd at $S,344,426
. ---against 20 730,059 pounds valued at
.SKji’W 4 by -. d ? V ' T he *1.930.831 in the corresponding months
of ?1 ! tb m0it 1<n **w «s j of 1S97. The total quantity of coffee
of all the Stale structures, presenting SRlportod | n the eight months of the
massive type of Colonial architec
ture in all its conventional dignity.
Georgia has reproduced “Bulloch Hall.”
the home of tho mother of President
fiscal year 1907 is 647,206,151 pounds,
valued at $51 869.152, against 466,-
204,372 pounds, valued at $53,332,608
in the eight months of 1S97; and the
^s S ra«roduee?Xe C ”b«^' * «««»!«* ^ ‘ea Imported In 'the eight
Carroll, of Carrollton: Pennsylvania
has a replica of Independence Hail:
New Jersey has a model of the old
State House at Boston:Connecticut has
the Col. Talmadeg homo at Litchfield:
Ohio has reproduced In cement block
a model of “Adena,” the first stone
house erected west of the Allegheny
Mountains, and u-eef as the executive
mansion of Ohio for a number of
years, while the Capital was at Chil-
licothe: Kentucky has a” representation
of Daniel Boone’s fort as it appeared
at 'Boonesboro over a hundred years
ago. Among the other States which
are represented by buildings are New
York, North Dakota. Delaware. Rhode
Island. Vermont, New -Hampshire,
West Virginia, North Carol’na, iillnois,
MIssourla. Louisiana, and others may
yet erect buildings.
Among the special exhibit buildings
erected by private concerns or -cities
WASHINGTON. April 6.—Every
thing has paled into Insignificance here
before the fury of the Rosevelt-Harri-
man battle. Such an affair was not al
together a surprise, for it has been
nearly five months now since Mr.
Roosevelt has called any man of any
prominence a liar. Never in the his
tory of the country have so many citi
zens been branded as falsifiers by the
White House. The present contro
versy has stirred up the most Intense
interest and it gives Judge Alton B.
Parker an opportunity to reiterate his
charges made during the last campaign
and which at that time were stigma
tized by Mr. Roosevelt as "unquali
fiedly and atrociously false." There is
some talk of founding a society to be
known as the Rcosevclt Liars’ Legion.
In addition to Mr. Harriman this as
sociation would include Mr. Whitney,
ot' Boston, former United States Sen
ator Chandler, Senators Bailey and
Tillman, former Ambassador Bellamy
Storer nnd a score of others less dis
tinguished. The President’s latest out
break recalls the humorous song sun
at the Gridiron dinner to the tune of
"Everybody Works but Father”:
Everybody lies but Roosevelt.
And he lies around all day:
They say he's made of iron,
But he’s only common clay.
(Chorus)
Tilhnnn-Bailey-Chnndler.
That’s how our idol fell:
But everybody lies but Roosevelt,
They do, like Oh. well.
In view of the present squabble, the
Gridiron Club’s verses are again en
joying popularity.
$U.G06,05S, against 81,220 S22 pounds,
valu'd at $10,247,506 in the corre
sponding months of 1S97. Taking the
value alone, there has been an in
crease of about six and a half million
dollars in the importations of cocoa, a
decrease of one and a half millions in
the importations of coffee^ and an in
crease of one and a third millions in
tea importations.
The average valuation of the cocoa
imported in the eight months ending
with February, 1907. is 13.6 cents per I There was a vast amount of hair
pound, against 9.3 cents in tho corre- 1 lost In the United States Senate on
sponding period of 1S97; that of tea, 16 March 4, when Clark, of Montana,
cents, against 12.6 cents a decade ago: Carmack, of Tennessee, and Spooner,
while coffee shows a fall, averaging 8 | of Wisconsin, retired to private life,
cents per pound in the eight months I As a result it Is likely that the Six-
of 1907. against 11.4 cents in the [ tieth Congress will be dominated, so
corresponding months of 1897. far as the Senate is concerned, by
It is only during the last decade that Kaidhoads. Senator Spooner's col-
cocoa has formed any considerable part league. La Foliette, will do much to
Word has been received here that a
contract has been let and actuai con
struction is to begin on the proposed
ship canal across Cape Cod. The work
will cost $11,990,600 and It is estimated
that two 5-ears and a half will be re
quired for the construction of the ditch,
which when completed will be about
nine miles long. The saving to coast
wise shipping in getting In and out of
Boston harbor will be enormous. Here
tofore. In order to avoid the dangerous
shoals and currents at Cape Cod ves-
els have been compelled to make a
detour of nearly 250 miles, and even
w'th this precaution the dreaded caps
has become known along the Atlantic
coast as the "graveyard of the Atlan
tic.” The construction of this canal
probably will stimulate In a great de
gree the establishment of a chain of
canals along the coast from Maine to
Louisiana. When this canal is con
structed vessels will be enabled to sail
out of Boston harbor and pursue their
course to New York fre> from tho
storms and angry waves of the ocean,
by bending their course down Nnrra-
vansetl B'a5' and through Long Island
Sound.
Works building; American Locomot*ve
Works; Travelers’ Protective Associa
tion; Larkin -Soap Companj-; Wood
men of the World: Leedv Cigar Fac
tory: American Hvdraulic 'Company
Palmer Concrete Works: John Deere
Plow Company: Daughter* of the Con
federacy: Columbia Woodmen: Dis
ciples of Christ; Old Virginia Corn
Mill; J. G. Wilson Manufacturin'*
Company: Baptists of America: The
“101 Ranch:” Daughters of American
Revolution: Presbyterians of America,
and numerous others.
Military Parade
Under den. Grant
MAYOR ENJOINED FROM
REVOKING LICENSE
SAVANNAH. Ga., April 6.—Mrs. M.
A. Farrell questions the right of the
Mayor to revoke her license to sell
liquor because she was convicted in
the police court of selling liquor on
Sunday. This conviction was follow
ed by Mayor Ticneman’s revocation
"■f her license. 'Holding that he acted
contrary to the law in taking this
step, she has secured a temporary in-
Junction in the Superior Court re
straining the Mayor and Council from
.aking such a step.
A hearing is to be he’d soon to de
termine wheth'r this injunction shall
be made permanent.
MA3LETCN. GA.. SCENE OF RAIL
WAY DISASTER
ATLANTA. Ga.. April 6.—A special
to the Constitution from Mableton
la., says a disastrous wreck occurred
n the South*rn Railway about one
and a haif m’ies from that place to-
bt in which eighteen or more ne-
es were killed and twelve or fifteen
injured, several probaly fatally.
At S o’clock eight bodl's have been
-ecovercd and It Is believed more are
:ndor the wrack. An open switch is j
"spirted to have caus'd the wreck, al-
jwing a west bound freight to crash
Into another freight train standing cn
the main track.
NORFOLK. Va., April 6.—President
Roosevelt is to be the feature of the
opening da>- of the Jamestown Ter
centennial Exposition the official
program of which was announced to
day. The opening exercises, which
will take place Friday April 26. will
begin at sunrise by a salute of three
hundred gunis by the Norfolk Light
Artiller5” Blues, commemorating the
three hundredth anniversary of tho
first English settlement of America.
The President will reach the exposi
tion grounds at 11:30, after passing
on the Mayflower through columns of
saluting foreign and American war
ships in Hampton Roads. He will be
escorted to the r'viewing stand on
Lee’s parade, in the rear of the audi
torium building. The speech-making
feature of the program will begin at
once and in the open air should the
woath'r permit An invocation by
the Rt. Rev. Alfred Magill Randolph,
bishop of the diocese of Southern
Virginia, and a brief Introductory ad
dress by Harry St. George Tucker,
president of th” exposition company,
will precede the President’s remarks.
When the President hns Concluded
he will press a gold button and Im
mediate!'' the machinery for the gr'at
show will be In motion, a thousand
flags will be unfurled on the exposi
tion buildings and a salute to the na
tion will be fired by the foreign and
American ships in the roads and b>-
the garrison at Ft. Monroe. At the
conclusion of th'salute the exposition
bands will play the "Star Spangled
Banner” the troops will "present
arms” and the concourse will stand
with uncovered heads.
The parade of soldiers and sailors
of the United States under Maj. Gen.
Frederick Grant will he the next fea
ture. The President will review the
pare.de from a grandstand, where also
will be gathered the honored guests of
the occasion. Including the diplomatic
corps, the official committees of the
Senate nncl House of Representatives
and the Governors of State*, twenty, of
whom have accepted invitations to be
present.
The day will close with a reception
to President Roosevelt between 5 and
6 o’clock.
a'little less than throe million dollars. I Senators who are apparently in
In 1907 the total will probably exceed danger of becoming bald may be men-
tweve milion dollars for tho full fiscal I Honed Allison nnd -DoHiver, of Iowa,
year, since the average for the eight ] Dick, of Ohio, and Beveridge, of Tn-
months, for which a record is already diqna. Senators Hemenway, of In-
made, is above one million dollars per dlana, and Foraker. of Ohio, are sec-
month, and in the single month of ond-rators in the baldheaded class.
February the total im-iortation was
one and one-fourth million dollars. Figures just issued by the Dcparl-
These figures do not Include prepared mont of Commerce and Libor show
or manufactured cocoa, of which tho | that the sales abroad of canned rr.*'<a‘3
Importations are comparatively small, | have fallen off enormousiv. During
amounting to less than one-half million the seven months ending February i
dollars annually. I the exports amounted to $4.$20.289,
A very arge proportion of the cocoa about 80 per cent less than during the
imported is drawn from American coun- j same neriod of the previous year. This
tries. Of the sixty-one.million pound* 's believed to be due largely to the
imported In the eight months ending I recent agitation, and the Government
with February. 1907. over fifteen million I is somewhat worried over this remark-
pounds was from Biszil. over thirteen able, falling off in, this especial branch
millions from the British West Indies, of its export trade. That the admin-
more than ten millions from other Istrntion believes that something
West Indian islands, about nine millions should be done to check this un-atis-
from South American countries other I factory condit'on abroad. >3 ev'denced
than Brazil, while the remainder came in the fact that President Ron.w-elt
chieflv from Europe, but was presum- has agreed to open the Packers’ Exno-
cblv shipped first from the South Amer- sition, which is to bo held at the Coli-
ican countries to European ports and seum in Chicago on May 1. Efforts
dealers and thence to the United States, are making to have practically all the
Brazil seems to be gaining in its contri- | foreign representatives here attend the
butions to both the cocoa and coffee | exposition to see for themselves the
consumption of the Un'ted States. A processes of meat packing and also tha
decade ago Brazil supplied but seven- nacking of other foods—da'r.v, creal,
tc-n per cent of the cocoa Imported into vegetable and fruit. The packers have
the United States, while in 1907 she reached the conclusion that the best
supplied about twenty-five per cent, way to meet the criticism Is to take
Of the coffee imported in 1897, Brazil the public into its confidence, and hv
supplied seventy-six per cent and in actual demonstration show that their
1907, elghhty-three per cent, these fig- methods now are beyond reproach. Not
ures being in all cases for the eight only packers and consumers will re
months ending with February. ceive the benefit of this publicit*-. but
In tea importations the decade also j the growers of beef, pork, vegetables,
shows a marked charge in the source 'ruit. grain, and the dairymen also wil 1
of supp!$\ In 1897 China supplied flf- 'hare in the good effects of the expo-
ty-fivo per cent of the tea imported: in I sition.
1917 but thirty-three per cent. Japan. |
which in 1897 supplied thirty-seven per The annual invasion of Washington
cent of the total, supplied in 1907 prac- I by "sweet girl graduates’’ is in full
ticelly fifty* per cent. The importation* I swing. All sections of the country are
of tea from the United Kingdom and represented, high school girls and hoys
the Fast Ind'es combined, which may from the West and South mirgling
with those from the East and North.
The South Atlantic States and the
m'ddle West are especially well repre-
nted. big delegations being here from
the graduating classes of the normal
ehools and seminaries of several
MILLS TO SHUT DOWN I States. The young students are mak-
TV/O WEEKS FOR REPAIRS ing a number of side trips, taking in
probaly be considered as representing
the East Indian tea imports, formed in
1897 about six per cent of the total and
In 1907 about fourteen per cent of the
total imports of this article.
EX=SENATOR CLARK
RECEIVES AN ICE BATH
LORATNE. O., April 6.—Notices
were pos'ed at the mills of the United
States Steel Corporation toda\* that
the plant would be shut down for two
weeks for repairs, beginning tonight
This will affect about 8 000 men.
It is said that most of the employes
of the great steel plant are union
men. The enforced idleness,
many men at this time will have effect
upon the strike at the shipyards. That
the city authorities think so. Is shown
by an ord'r of Mayor King to Capt.
Gove, of Company B. to keep his
company at the armor5" under arms
until further orders.
A crowd of strikers today attempted
to hold up a wagon canying a load of
bread to the shipyards. When the
driver refused to halt a volley of
stones and clubs was thrown at him.
The driver dr*w a revolver and the
strikers retreated.
( Arlington and Mount Vernon.
The treasure chest of Uncle Sam Is
filled to bursting. With three monthr
of the fiscal j - ear yet to come, there is
•a surplus of more than $51,000,000. The
lion’s share of the credit for this ,‘gjr-
plus goes to customs dutfes. for in the
nine months just ended tbej" increased
$230,000,000. against less than S22S.OOO,-
000 a year ago. The Increase from in
ternal revenue n’so was great, being
almost $202,000,000, against a trifle
over $187,000,000 a. year ago. The cir
culation outstanding today is $597,-
’12,063. an increase of $42,445,096 for
the \ - ear. and nr> increase of SS69.041 for
the month of March.
TRINIDAD, Col.. April 6.—While
former United States Senator William
A. Clark, of Montana, was crossing a
river twentj - miles west of Trinidad
yesterday his carriage broke through
the ice and was urset. The Senator
was plunged into the stream and was
rescued by other member* of the party
he was being washed under the ice.
The Senator was hurriedly taken to a,
ranch five miles away, and when he
arrived there his clothing had frozen
After being furnissd with dry clotti
ng the part5" proceeded to Weston,
e'ght miles distant, where the Senator’s
private car was waiting. The Senator,
who is accompan'ed by his wife and
daughter, wil! resume hi* trip to Los
Angeles this afternoon. Senator Clark
was on a tour of inspection of h!s
coal properties when the acc^ep’ hap
pened.
COST CRIPE CRISP CASH
TO RUN BLIND TIGER
FITZGERALD. Ga., Anri] 6.—L M.
Cripe, who was fined $400 In the City
Court last month for running a blind
tiger, was indicted by the grand jury
upon another charge, for the same
kind of offense. Indictments were
also found for misdemeanor in several
other cases and one for murder. The
murder trial of Arthur Mobley for
killing Bud Walsh will come off next
week.
Death of Mrs. J. H. Janes.
COLUMBUS. Ga.. April 6.—Mrs. J.
H. Jones, aged SS, died at her home
in Chattahoochee County, near Ctis-
seta, at 2 o’clock this morning of old
age. She had been in feeble health
for some time past. She was the
mother of a largo family, eight chil
dren surviving her. She had lived at
the family home for sixty-five years.
Her husband died two years ago. aged
91 years. She was of a prominent
family. The funeral will be conducted
Sunday at 10 a. m. at her late home.
Filipino students In this country, ac-
cord'ng to word received by tho War
Department, are exceeding all expecta
tions. The department has be'-n ad-
•Ised that Miguel Nlodao, a student at
the State Normal School at Normal,
Ill., has won the right to represent the
State of Illinois in an interstate ora
torical debate to be held soon at Em
poria, Kan. He defeated all contest
ants for the honor to be the Illinois
nre'entative. these contestants rep-
nting the leading debaters from all
the normal schools in Illinois. He now
has won the right to esntest with the
debaters of Wisconsin, Iowa. Kansas
and MltrourL At the normal school in
DiK.alb, III., the young Filipinos re-
r'-rdlv organiz'd a football team, which
defeat'd the faculty team. There are
1S2 Filipino students attending school
in this country ns the wards of the
Philippine Government, a maf rity of
them he’ng scattered among State in
stitutions in the middle WesL
BIDS FOR NEW JAIL
IN BEN HILL COUNTY
FtTZGERALD April 6.—County
Ordinary Wise is receiving bids for
the erection of a ne" - county jail, to
cost approximately $15,000. the site
for which was bought some time ago.
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