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' 2 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. INDISTINCT PRINT