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Tuesday, April «, 1907.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
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NVILLE, Fla., April
yt-r, of the nation are turned haps impresses them most of all Is that
ama and the great work In it is the work solely of one man's for-
JACJCSf
While the
toward Pa
progress on the isthmus, there is going
steadily forward In Florida an enter
prise which, in the opinion of experts,
offers many valuable suggestions to
. the men who are solving canal prob-
kms. The building of such a railroad
ns that now under construction be
tween Miami and Key West, over the
long line of the Florida keys, necessi
tates the employment of thousands of
men. the handling or vast quantities of
material and supplies and the over
coming of many difficulties due to cli
mate and topography. Especially In
the Way in which thousands of work-
mon are enlisted and managed without
the intervention of contractors Is there
fold to be an object lesson, ns to the
method by which the ditch might beat
be dug.
•The points of likeness are many, de-
snlte the apparent differences between
the two enterprises, one of which Is
designed to enable steamships to un
dertake the feat of mountain climbing:
ihe other to send a railroad train to
sea. Fcr all practical purposes. Key
■West Is as far from any considerable
base of supplies as Is the Isthmus of
Panama. The climate, although in
Winter delightful. In almost tropical in
summer. Laborers, as well as main
tenance and construction supplies,
must be brought from a distance, many
of them from as far north as Phila
delphia and New York, and are, there
fore, unnecltmated. Even the water
supply for both men find machinery
must bo transported.*much of It more
than 100 miles, in tank ■ cars and
v steamers.
There's perhaps an argument in fa
vor of the Government's digging the
cannl on its own initiative in the great
undertaking of Henry M. Flagler’s. Hot
n contractor has been employed during
the whole course of the work. Both
the operation of the main line of the
road and the construction of the ex
tension are being carried on by the
company itself under the immediate
direction of Mr.-iTv R. Parrot, the vice-
.•■presldcntr of the eotijpifny, and Mr.
I t. rler's rlght-hfintf man in all his en
terprises fn Florida.
Natiirallv, one of the most Important
Items in the problem was an adequate
snnplv of competent labor. From the
first It was recognized that only under
the best of conditions would men of
Ihe clas* required endure tho isolation
from tow.ri life and the natural hard
ships or the work. The fact that 20
per cent of the men now epgaged upon
the. work are old hands who were there
year, went North again to escape
last summer’s heat and mosquito sea
son. and at the beginning of winter
returned, goes far to prove that the
construction camps along the Florida
keys are models of their kind, and that
it Is not necessary to sub-divide the
work among contractors.
At the Longe Ky. viladuet camn.adl-
vls'on of 500 men are quartered who
work In day arid night shifts This is
one of the points of permanent occupa
tion: tho buildings are of wood. Each
laborer has a good clean "hunk.’’ a
mattress filled with cut sponge, which
make” an Ideal bed. and n mosquito
bar In addition to the wire netting
with wh'eh the doors and windows of
the house are covered. There I; a'to a
barber shop where charges are low and
tips are rare, and in a separate build
ing a free library well stocked with ne
pers and magazines and hooks. The
field hospital maintained at this camp
is In the care nf a competent surgeon,
end is supported in part by the $1.50
charged each man for transportation
on the company’s boats hack to Miami.
Th" add'tional expense is borne by the
company.
A general hospital for the workmen
is located at Miami. From $30,000 to
$ (5.000 Is spent every year on medical
attendance and supplies for the men
employed at the various camps, an
item of expense sufficiently large to
make It a matter of self-tntercsLfor the
company to see that wholesome food
and sanitary quarters keep It at a min
imum.
On some of the work It lias been
necessary to house the workmen In
float 'ng dormitories or house-boats,
which are towed along ns the work
progresses. The larger Islands have
permanent settlements with substan-
tl— I frame buildings which probably
will remain In use after the road is
completed. At other places tents are
pitched at high points on the rocky
little islets, and the construction pre
sents the appearance of a veritable
army with its neat rows of white can
vas tents. Its well-kept temporary
streets, and Its general air of mentlal
splck-nnd-spanness.
At each camp there is a commissary
where supplies of the best grade can
be had nt prlers corresponding to
those prevailing in New York city.
Many yachtsmen cruising among the
keys purchase supplies of the railway
company’s commissariat. Gen. Shat-
tuc, who was one of these recent pur
chasers. announces that the rations of
the railway workmen are better than
those furnshed to the regular army,
and that the laborers are fully as well
housed and cared for as are Uncle
Sam’s troopers.
Under sucb circumstances it ts not
remarkable that the gigantic task of
building th’s seagoing railroad pro
ceeds ranldly and efficiently. Enor
mous engineering difficulties have been
encountered and overcome. Many
m’les of swamp and low ground have
had to be filled In with reek and sand
in order to secure a firm roadbed. The
embankment across ev'ery one of the
thirty or more keys which the railroad
will cross Is built up entirely of eoral-
1"»' limestone, the material of which
the islands are formed. After leaving
the mainland, dredges were forced fair
ly to eat their way through nearly
twenty miles of tangled mangrove
swamp, a dredge proreed'ng slowly
down each side of the embankment
with the material excavated. Two arms
of Jewflsh creek, which separates Key
J. Tgo from mainland, were filled in
this way and the third has been
*1 .inneil by a steel drawbridge, which
Is now In operation.
across the keys to Key "West that per-
tune.
come.
Every dollar has come, and will
presumably, from Henry M.
Flagler’s pocket. An average cost of
$100,000 a mile for building the ICO
miles of railway Is a very conservative
estimate, to say nothing of the further
expense of the Improvements at Key
West where It Is proposed to fill in 174
acres of land now under water and to
build extensive docks and terminals, as
well as dry docks and wharves, each
800 feet long and 100 feet wide. Then
there must be established a car ferry
service which will transpbrt trains of
30 cars each from Key West to the
Cuban Capital in from four to four
and one-half hours. Perhaps $30,000,-
000 will see the enterprise complete to
the last detail. But there will be
neither bonds nor stock to harass the
public with the fear of possible loss,
for it is a strictly one-man undertak
ing. "I try, ’’said Mr. Flagler on one
occasion, "to real'ze the responsibility
of great riches.’’ This realization led
to the Initial construction of the Flori
da East Coast Railway and Its at
tendant chain of winter tourist hotels,
which have advanced down the entire
length of the coast together, adding
300,000 to Florida’s winter populat on
and contributing millions to the pros
perity of the State. Today the exten
sion of this system Is, like the work
on the Panama Canal, giving the world
an exhibition of the possibility of car
rying on in the tropics vast industrial
projects without extravagance and
without scandal or reproach.
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BRADSTREETS SAYS TRADE AND
MANUFACTURING CONDI
TIONS ARE FAVORABLE
XET YORK. April 12.—Bradstreets
tomorrow will say:
year and of all other kinds including
j Egypt, Brazil, India etc.. 1.476,000
| against 1.432.000 last week apd 1,584 -
j 000 last year.
( Of the world’s visible supply of cot
ton there is now afloat and held
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HAOOE TRIBUNAL
PITTSBURG, April 13.—At the close
of an address by Wm. T. Stead, editor
of the Review of Reviews, London,
England, at the re-deication ceremonies
of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg
late today in which the speaker an
nounced a plan to raise $100,000 neces
sary to conduct the Pilgrimage from all
countries to the Hague conference, ad
vocated in a recent New York address
unbounded enthusiasm took possession
of the large audience and money was
thrown to the floor and the stage.
Probably never has a public speaker
been given such an ovation In this city.
The lightning like rapidity with which
Mr. Stead's plan to finance the pil
grimage begun almost took the breath
of the distinguished foreign and Amer
ican guests attending the meeting. Mr.
Stead after explaining tho purpose of
the next pilgrimage to the Hague con
ference estimated that it would take
at least $1Q0;000 to finance the plan.
To raise the sum he proposed that
every boy and girl in the colleges and
universities throughout the United
States donated 50c toward the fund
needed. He said the lesson furnished
to Europe by such a movement would
be an influential factor in the quest of
international peace. The suggestion
came at the end of his address and he
sat down amid loud applause. For
fully five minutes the clapping and
cheering was prolonged and after this
the speaker again arose and said thpt
probably the audience would like to
contribute to the fund. Immediately a
shower of silver money landed on the
stage coming from ail parts of the
music hall. Among the invited guests
on the .stage were many presidents of
universities and colleges and at the
close of the meeting the institutions
through their heads decided to con
tribute to the fund.
Knox college, Galesburg. Ills. Dr.
Thos. McClelland, president: Allegheny
College, Meadville, Pa., Dr. Wm. H.
Crawford, president; Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala-
Booker T. Washington, president; Ge
neva College, iBeaver Fal.s. Dr. Johr-
ston, president. It Is expected tonight
that other colleges will announce their
intention to contribute shortly. The
Pittsburg branch of the National peace
society has taken up the matter and
the grand army posts have presented
Mr. Stead with a resolution of thanks
for his speech.
The banquet given by the board of
trustees of the Carnegie Institute in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Car
negie the founder, was held tonight
at the Hotel Shenley. Mr. Carnegie
made his appearance at this function
after being absent all day. due. it was
stated, -to fatigue occasioned by ‘yes
’s 'ceremonies. The banquet
was the most brilliant ever held in the
city. The foreign and American
guests attended.
The exercises today were slightly
handicapped by Inclement weather.
Three large chests of books were pre
sented to' the Institute by Emperor
William through his personal repre
sentative Lieut.-Gen. Alfred F. J. L.
Von Loewenfeld. The books are hand
somely bound and treat of the German
empire and army.
Many messages were received today
from all parts of the world, congrat
ulating Mr. Carnegie and Pittsburg in
possessing the great institute.
Among ihe speakers today were Sir
William Henry Breece London: Ernst
Vonlhne, Berlin: Robert S. Ball. Lon
don: Lieut.-Gen. VonLoewenfeld, Ber
lin. and Leon Bendlct Paris.
Tomorrow the Western University
of Pennsylvania will confer honorary
degrees on the foreign and American
guests and ip the afternoon the party
will go by boat to the mill district of ;
the city, where they will be given an i
opportunity to see the great steel mills
in operation.
WASHINGTON, April 13.—President
Roosevelt made a speech in which he
touched mainly on patriotism and good
citizenship at the dedication today of
the monument erected to the memory
of First Cavalry' United States Volun
teers—the "Rough Riders”—of tho
Spanisb-American war, in the national
cemetery at Arlington. Mrs. Allyn K.
Capron the widow of Capt. Capron.
of the Rough Rider Regiment, who fell
at Las Guasimas, pulled the cord hold
ing the American flag that covered the
monument. Rev. Dr. D. J. Stafford,
of St. Patrick’s Church, this city made
the dedication address, and Chaplain
H. A. Brown. U. S. A., pronounced
the benediction.
Regular troops and part of the na
tlonal guard of the District of Colum
bla participated in the exercises In
cident to the dedication. They includ
ed four troops of the Thirteenth Cav
airy a battalion of field artillery four
companies of the District National
Guard and a portion of the district
Naval Reserves.
The President, accompanied from
the White House by Lieut.-Gen. S. B.
M. Young, retired, and, Maj. Frank B.
McCoy, his naval aid were met at Ft
Myer by Capt. Preston’s troops of the
Thirteenth Cavalry and escorted to
the cemetery gates, where they were
joined by the remainder of the mill
tary aid naval contingent In the
inarch to the monument.
A distinguished company assembled
on the stand from which the Fresi
dent delivered his address. A number
of former members of the Rough Rid
ers Regiment are in the city and were
invited to take seats on the stand
The monument is the design of Mrs.
Capron and stands in a good location
in the reservation. It is a monolith,
the largest of Its kind in Arlington. It
is made of Vermont granite, stands
fourteen feet high on a base six by six
feet. The memorial bears the names
of more than one hundred former
members of the regiment who died
either in Cuba or after the return of
the regiment to the United States.
The main decoration is a bronze tablet
bearing the regimental device, the
cross. Sabres, and a medallion, with
.the names of the three battles in
which the organization participated.
Guasimas SanJuan and Santiago. Be
neath the device Is the inscription:
"First United States Volunteer Cavalry,
in memory of the deceased members of
the First United Statbs'Tolunteer Cav
alry. Spantsfi-American War. Erected by
members of the regiment, 1S06.”
Above the tabi-t in raised letters are
the words, "Rough Riders.”
President Roosevelt was the colonel of
the Rough Risers during most of its ex
istence. and he spoke today trith a P'0-
sonal reeling. He referred to the peculiar
gratification of all the memhers of the
regiment In .seeing this memorial erected
to the memory of their dead comrades,
and snoke of the funeral services that
Chaplain Brown held over those killed
In the Guasimas fight—"the first light
that we saw. the fight in which We served
for the first time under the lieutenant
general of the United States army, who
is here with us today. Gen. Young.”
Gen. Young had promised that if the
regiment got into bis brigade he would
see that it got into the first fight, and,
said the President to Gen. Young, "you
kept your word.” Tho President said tho
paramount reason why our people should
look back to the Spanish-American War
with pride and satisfaction was that “it
marW'd In very truth the complete re
union of our country.” lie said sons of
men who had worn tho blue arid sons of
those who had worn the gray fought to
gether and side by sld» with Young and
Chaffee and Lawton, and had served un
der Wheeie r an< j Fltzhugh Lee; -they
"stood shoulder to shoulder, knit together
by the closest of ties, and acknowledged
with respect to one another only that
generous jealousy of each to try to be
first to do all that in power lay for the
honor and the Interest of the flag that
covered the reunited country.”
"Trade and manufacturing condi- 1 Gre Jt Britain and Continent Europe
tlons are In high degree favorable S.04S.0C0. against 2,163.000 last year:
j-— - , _ in Egypt 1ST 000 r-alro! 1-1 non l-ct
despite the lull in demand usual
this stage of the season. Some odd-
cross-currents are visible because of
the scarcity of stocks In so many lines,
necessitating buying In oth'r markets
to eke out supplies sold ahead some
time ago. In retail trade, cold weath
in Egypt 1ST 000 against 151,000 last
year; In India 744.000 against 102S.-
000 last year and in the United States
1,347.000 against 1.1S4.000 last year.
NEW YORK, April 12.—Secretary
Hester’s weekly cotton .statement is-
er and bad country roads are a bar to j s “ e< * t0 . t ! ay sll0 ' n ' s for the twelve days
'f
RECENT INVESTMENTS IN GEOR
GIA AND ALABAMA FARM
AND MINERAL TRACTS
fullest activity, but the volume of
business as a whole exceeds the corre
sponldng period in other years. The
favorable feature deserving attention
is thy renewal of buying of Bessemer
pig iron on a very large scale for sec
ond half delivery at prices represent
ing a compromise between buyers
and sellers. The labor situation, de
spite local disturbances, is'very good
and wages In many lines have been
advanced. Wool Is. quiet East and
West. Something like a lull in de
mand for cotton goods Is being taken
advantage of by manufacturers by-
wholesalers and jobbers to catch up
with backward deliveries. Cotton
yarns are active, though irregular in
price. Narrow print cloths are high
er. Export .cottons are quiet. Silk
goods are very active and raw silk
is strong. In dress goods business is
satisfactory, though some concessions
are claimed to be obtainable for late
fall delivery. Millinery is active and
knit goods manufacturers have all the
business they can handle for late fall
and winter.” »v
Weekly Bank ^Statement.
NEW YORK. April 13.—The statement
of the clearing-house banks fo r the week
shows that the banks hold $15,852,925
more than the legal reserve requirements.
This is a decrease of S3.5S8.300 as com
pared with last week. The statement fol
lows: Increace
Loans $1,099 6->5,100 $36,963,300
Deposits 1,081.661.900 44.94S SOO
Circulation 50.23S.600
Legal tenders.... 73.502.100
Specie 12.967,500
Reserve 286.26S.400
Reserve required. 270.415.475
Surplus .......... 15.852.925
Ex-U. S. deposits. 23,692.075
*160,200
1.640,600
6 008,300
7.64S.900
11.237.200
•3.5SS 000
*3.346,575
•Decrease.
The increase In loans Is the largest
on record for any one week.
Weekly Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK. April 12.—The total bank
clearings in the United States for the
week were $3,053,457,000 aeainst 83.066.-
957 000 last week and $3,17S,51S,000 last
year.
The following is a statement of tho
clearings in Southern cities:
Richmond ..
Savannah ..
Atlanta ....
Norfolk ....
Augusta ...
Knoxville ..
Charleston
Jacksonville
Macon
Inc.
Dec.
$6,382,000.
..14.2
3.190.000..
22.6
4.983.000..
5.6
2.650.000..
..15.8
1.474.000..
30.0
1.45S 000..
* *13.0
1,472 009..
..22.9
1,703.009..
..27.0
644.000..
..16.4
—
Liverpool Cotton Statistics.
LIVERPOOL. April 13.—Following are
the weekly cotton statistics: Bales
Total sa’es of all kinds 69 000
Total sales of American 61.000
English sninners’ takings 94 000
Total exports 20 000
Imports of all kinds... 85 000
Imports of American. 77 042
Stock of all kinds:?;,.., 1,229 000
Stock of American?..... 1 IT 000
Quantity afloat, of all kind3 202 000
Quantity afloat of American..... 216 000
Total sales on speculation 6.600
Total sales to exporters LJ00
SEA ISLAND COTTON.
CHARLESTON. April 12— Sea Island
cotton market for week: Receipts 3; ex
ports 52; sales 62; stock 26. Quotations
omitted.
SAVANNAH. Ga., April 12.—Sea island
cotton quotations: Fancy Florida's and
Georvias. 36; extra choice Georgias and
Florldas, S3a34: choice Georgias and
Fioridas. 31a32; extra fine Georgias and
Floridas. 29a3fl: fine; Georgias and Fiori
das. 26a 27: common Georgias and Fior
idas. 24a25. 11
of April an Increase over last year
of 55,000 and a decrease under * the
same period year before last of 127,-
000. For the 224 days of the season
that have elapsed the aggregate is
ahead of the same days of last year 2,-
632,000 and a head of the same days
year before last 1.257,000.
The amount brought into sight during
the past week has been 155.611 bales,
aginst 143,277 for the same seven days
last year and 247.239 year before last.
The movement since September 1st
shows receipts at all United States
ports 9.171.4S4 against 6.S9S.807 last
year; ‘ overland across the Mississippi,
'Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern
mills and Canada 1.046.628 against 814.-
422 last year: interior stocks in excess
of those held at the close of the com
mercial year 337,204 against 314.381 last
year; Southern mills takings 1,749.000
against 1,644,285 last year. These make
the total movement since September
1st, 12,304,316 against 9,671,855 last
year.
Foreign exports for the week have
been 148,559 against 75,957 last vear,
making the total thus far for the sea
son 7,364.550 against 5.2S0.7S2 last year.
The total takings of American mills.
North, South and Canada thus far for
the season have been 4,006,983 against
3,673.330 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the twen
ty-nine leading Southern interior cen
ters have decreased during the week
74,009 bales against a decrease during
the corresponding period last season
of 11,870. Including stocks left over
at ports and interior towns from the
last crop and the number of bales
brought into sight thus far from the
new crop, the supply to date is 12,602,-
0S6 against 10.116,426 for the same per
iod last year.
mlsrioner Stevens said, “that there are
115 loaded cars of granite on the side
tracks at Lithonia alone. These have
been accumulatiM? there all the way
from about March 20 up to date. The
railroad company moved ijorty cars
day before yesterday, I was Informed,
but there are still 115 at this point
waiting to be tnoyed. The granite peo
ple down there told me all they wanted
was a chance to do business, and they
could not do It unless their stuff was
handled more promptly. The Georgia
Railroad trainmaster said the reason
the granite had not been moved more
promptly was that they could not get
It out of Atlanta on account of conges
tion. in the yards here.
”1 informed them that the commis
sion would insist on a prompt handling
of this traffic, and that all of these
cars must be moved within ten days.
I think likely it will be done, but 'If
not we will know the reason why.”
No Abatement
of Activities
Cotton Receipts.
NEW YORK, April 12.—-The following
are the total net receipts of cotton at
Well within thr island of Largo, and
apapletely obstructing the lire of
■■ 1 t: inlin.i i'ki- v-s e::.'nur9
h:ch had not boon disclosed bv the
-elimlnary survey. The bottom of
■•••' like, which was half a mile wide
n<l a! • six re : of water, was
imposed entirely of peat. To remove
•is peat and c ecure a firm
NO RECOVERY INSURANCE
PERSON EXECUTED FOR MURDER
CHICAGO. April 12.—The Appelau'
Court declared today that public policy
forbids the recovery of insurance on a
prr c .n executed for murder. Robert
Kilpatrick, who was executed In Penn-
svlvanla for murdering his housekeeper,
E’ir." both Pear more, at Chester. Penn..
F-'hru.try II If"'2. Injured hi? jf' be-
founda- | fore committing the murder Follow-
dredg-es j lag his execution the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company was asked to make
rg' tnd Plantation I payment on the policy. Suit way sab
er Creak is anothe- j sequently brought in Chicago to recov
er inerete piers and I er. The lower court here decided ad
versely. and this decision was today
of i affirmed by the Appellate Court.
s the most interesting pa:
d
NO SUNDAY EXCURSIONS
Of A • I ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY
.It igether | LYNCHBURG. Va.. April 12.—At a
this kind t conference here today between repre-
>f nltera- i 5. ntatives if the Norfolk and Western,
~.r. ! | c’-esareake and Ohio, .nr..! ?otfh.*.r:i
'•t’s and | F...:!'.v -y with nr interden-'miun;i
length church coirunia-'on. the railway people
and I agreed to the discontinuance of Sun-
s. v v ox.-vrs:'V rates in. the future A
s. s the I sub-committee was named to formulate
will con- Mil to go to the next Legislature
I ’a v ! r.g to the prevention of cheap ratty
- 1 pt;-j ; on Sunday and to give the State t orpor
's to the Istlon commission authority to indicate
irn with j what are passeng-r and
gressmen freight t-uu-s : be operated m Sun
's ut j day. Another conference "dll be held
beat the 1 here when the bill is ready for con-
Railway * sideration.
COLUMBUS. Ga.. April 12—The
Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index
will say tomorrow in Its regular week
ly Issue:
"Conincident with the increasing es
tablishment of new industrial enter
prises and the upbuilding of towns and
cities in Georgia and Alabama is a
substantial increase in the values of
and steady demand for lands of all
kinds in the two States. Capital Is
interested in this section as never be
fore. It is being attracted more and
more by the mineral treasures here;
thousands of dollars are being devot
ed to developing the unmeasured
wealth, of timber lands, and mam’
thousands more are to come: the worth
of fruit lands is increasing and the
values of farm lands are growing as
more railroads bring the markets to
the farmer's gat". This condition will
be intensified with the building of in-
terurban electric railways. Telephone
lines are being strung in many coun
try sections, rural mail delivery per
fected and other things accomplished
to the end that life on the farm is
made more desirable and lands more
valuable. More factories and larger
cities increase the demand for farm
products and the ‘plantations’ must
give way soon in many sections to the
smeller farms. Even the old, waste
sand-beds in the creek bottoms are
furnishing valuable articles of . com
merce that go into the erection of
stately and ornate structures. In an
Alabama section Philadelphia capital
ists have purchased 15,000 acres of
gold lands. In another section a large
tract of mica-bearing land has been
bought and will be developed. Near
Tuscaloosa Ala., a tract of land has
been bought by Ohio capitalists and
will be subdivided and sold to Ohio
people: a 50-acre suburban tract has
been bought near a Georgia city; at
Talladega Ala., a $200,090 mining
company has been organized by Mary
land capitalists; a 200-acre Georgia
peach orchard has been sold for $10.-
000 and in a Georgia county a 1,200.-
acre farm brought $36 000 at public
sale.”
Among other things reported by The
Index this week are: $200,000 coton
mill, Tallapoosa. Ga.: capacities of
cotton mills at Cedarrown. Ga., and
Dallas. Ga. to be doubled; sash, door
and blind factory Montgomery Ala.;
j Woodworking plant Cedartown. Ga.;
| gas plant, Bessemer, Ala.; vehicle
j body factory. Valdosta. Ga.; two gin-
i neri--s; three electric light, plants;
clothing factory; ten-story office
building. Augusta. Ga.; five-story ho
tel and three-story business nuiiding.
Montgomery. Ala.; $25.0''"') business
building, Brewron. Ala.; brick business
blocks at Marietta, Ga. and Nashville.
Ga.; eight school buildings: two
churches; theater; two court houses: :
two waterworks systems; paving
; plans in four cities: sewer plans in !
J four cities and four municipal bond :
: Issues. Among the contract awards ;
are: $750,000 cotton mill addAion.
I Jacksonville, Ala.: $32,000 college
| building. Clarkesvllle Ga.. and $19,500
, school building. Mobile Ala.
all ports since September 1:
Galveston ...
New Orleans
Mobile
Savannah . .
Charleston ..
Wilmington .
Norfolk 520!60.
55.495
Bales.
...3.651.966
...2,122 466
... 241,646
...1,373.717
... 144,057
311.574
Baltimore
New York ”. .
Boston .
Newport News .M
Philadelphia .......to.’.’.
San Francisco
Brunswick "’’’
Port Townsend ’.
Pensacola
Portland. Ore.
Fort Arthur and Sabine Pass'. ""
Jacksonville. Fla.
T,n redo. Texas
Minor ports -
18.013
68.256
33,142
6.559
73 795
14S.227
114.913
137.078
400
128.70S
7,440
494
12.315
Batch of Current
Gate City News
ATLANTA. April 12.—Scarcely with
in the history of the prison commis
sion has such an appeal been made
for executive clemency, as that pre
sented today by Judge Frank Park of
the City Court of Sylvester. Worth
County, in behalf of an aged Confed
erate veteran who is serving >a six
months sentence on the chaingang for
selling liquor illegally.
The man in question, J. J. Ford, of
Worth County, was convicted in Jan
uary and has served about two months
of his sentence on the chaingang there.
It is said the chaingang sentence was
imposed because he had been several
times before the court on the same
charge. But Judge Park has done
some excellent and strenuous work In
his behalf. Besides appearing before
the commission and presenting his
case, he prepared a long written ap
peal, going into all the details of the
aged man’s condition, and especially
setting forth his services in tho Con
federate army in the Civil War. Ford
was one of six members of a company
who were ieft after the seven days
fighting around Richmond. The others
were all killed in battle. He fought
under Gen. Ed. Thomas and in Stone
wall Jackson’s corps.
The prison commission has the mat
ter under consideration but has not yet
taken any action in the case It is
case that'naturally appeals to them as
it would to a.tvone, and the only dif
Acuity involved is said to be simila
offenses uron which he has bee
brought bifore the courts.
ROCKEFELLER LAUDS
“ANDY” CARNEGIE’S EFFORTS
PITTSBURG. Pn.. April 12.—John D.
Rockefeller, in a letter to Andrew Car
negie. today congratulated the donor of
the Carnegie Institute, upon the dedica
tion.
Tho letter follows:
"Lakewood. N. J.. April 12.
"To Andrew Carnegie. Pittsburg. Pa.:
•'Please accept my hearty congratula
tions on your great and good speeeh on
the dedication of the Carnegie Institute
in your old home city of Pittsburg. It ha
the right ring—I am with you. You have
my best wishes for the "success of
your grand efforts to help your fellovf
men. I hope and trust that our prosper
ous men in the country over will be stim
ulated to emulate your noble example.
I believe that untold good would result
therefrom.
“JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.”
PRESBYTERY OF NORFOLK
VOTED AGAINST UNION
NORFOLK. April 12.—Tho Presbv-
tery of Norfolk, which has been in ses
sion at Wachaprague on the eastern
shore of Viriginia, voted against the
proposed federation of the Presbyterian
bodies in this country, the vote stand
ing 10 to 17. The opposition in tho
South to the federation proposition Is
on race and theological questions.
DEATH OF MR. J BAGLEY WELL
KNOWN CITIZEN OF PUTNAM.
EATONTON. Ga., April 12.—Mr. John
W. Bagley, one of Putnam’s best known
citizens, died here last night after a
long illness. The remains were interred
today in the family burial ground at
Ararat church. Mr. Bagley was a brave
Confederate veteran, a loyal Mason, his
funeral services being conducted by the
Eatonton lodge. For twenty years he
has been agent of the Central Railway
at Dennis Station. He is survived by
widow and several children, all
grown.
Killed Crazy Negro.
Mr. Charles Mitchem and brother
were in Eatonton this week looking for
a runaway negro tenant. From them
was gathered the information of on
unfortunate homicide near tho Putnam
and Morgan County line Tuesday In
which Mr. Mitehem’s younger brother
was forced to kill a crazy negro.
It seems that the. negro killed had
gone crazy on the subject of religion.
He went to Mr Mitehem’s home as he
said to pray with him. The young man
seeing, him coming in a wild and vio
lent manner with a large stick in his
hand, fearing bodily harm, shot him to
death as he was entering his home.
The unfortunate affair is deeply re
gretted by the young man. and the
whole neighborhood. The runaway
tenant who had been bonded out of
jail, became frightened at the killing
and left the country-
Total
9.I7I.4S4
-Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK, April 12.—The following
is. the comparative statement of cotton
for the week ending Fridav. April 12-
- 4907. 1906
Act port receipts 102.263 115.599
Reels, since Sept. 1... .9.171.484 6,923.949
Kxports for week 143,868 78 190
Exports since Sept. $..7,318,903 5,220|57I
Stock all U S ports.... 778.177 716.180
Smck at int. towns 447.123 445 348
Stock at Liverpool.^.... — j j0 68 000
139.000
Amn. afloat for G. B..
■33.
TOWNS—
s
•H
c
*3
c
-a
O ■
£
£5
m
m
Weekly Interior Cotton Towns
NEW YORK. April 12._The following
ifoi ,e movement of spot cotton at the
leading interior pntton towns for the week
enoing Friday. April 12:
Albany . . . .
lliT 07
Athens . . . .
........
114: 1761 27“ 8023
A tjanta . . .
10 11-1G
261:1393:1936
9611
Brenham ....
25! 31
1703
Charlotte . .
11
173I 173
Columbia . .
2152'1252
17200
Wnm.. Ga...
10%
390! 545
545
12403
Colum.. Miss.
150/ 272
5009
•Dallas - . . .
........
....! 93
4G0
Eufaula . . .
1205
Greenville . .
104! 11S
3154
Greenwood . .
10S1! 1
179
1623
Helena . . .
218'1697
8245
Little Rook..
10% !13I2;335S
34030
Mpmn . . .
iio?i
471 507
10*7
Meridian . .
113401 676
6954
Montgomery
s?::: 604
604
13562
Nashville . .
iog
1260! 915
1197
Natchez . .
1271 411
8244
Nc\Yb?rrv . .
9! 23
S97
Raleigh . . .
11
312 22-
.i
7S'3
Rome ....
o35! 64G
....
4142
Selma ....
122! 330
....
16-16
Fhrevecort ..
io
34T HOT 1 1280
10529
Vicksburg . .
1317x341
....! 17548
Yazoo City...
40; 204
....!
6252
Short Peach Crop.
ATLANTA April 12—Commissioner
of Agriculture T G. Hudson since
talking with a number G f interested
parties from the various peach grow
ing sections of the State, is inclined to
the opinion that: there will be a very,
short crop of the luscious fruit in
Georgia this year..
‘All the information I have receiv
ed.’’ he said, "indicates that the dam
age to the peach erop has been exten
sive and general. The second cold
snap coming so close upon the first,
and especially the extreme and con
tinued cold winds hsfve. I think, so in
jured the peaches that th|s year’s crop
will be quite a short one. The young
fruit has been chilled and in some in
stances frozen, and the peaches are
falling off the trees in great numbers.
It 13 difficult as yet to get at anything
like an accurate estimate of the ex
tent of the damage, but there is no
doubt that it will be great. The indi
cations now seem to be that we will
not have over 25 to 40 per cent of an
average crop of this fruit.”
MORE "SPORTING” MEN
INDICTED IN CHATHAM
SAVANNAH, Ga., April 12.—The
prospects of the chaingang looms
ominously before another bunch of
"sporting men” whom the grand jury
this afternoon indicted for maintain
ing a gambling house, gambling or
vagrancy. Several days ago Frank
Butler and C. A. Edwards were given
seven months chaingang sentences on
conviction, without being , permitted
the alternative of paying a. fine. This
was the first time within the memory
of the gambling fraternity here that
the court j had taken such an action.
Judge Seabrooke announced then that
this wo aid be his course, being de
termined to stop gambling in Savan
nah by backing up the police depart
ment.
This afternoon Enoch and Val H.
Dohn were indicted for keeping -a
gambling room and for vagrancy.
William Getsinger. Booker Hill, col
ored and Frank E. Fulton were indict
ed for keeping a gambling room:
Frank Bibb and F. R. Cooper were
indicted for vagranpy.
No bill was returned against George
Schwarz, charged with renting rooms
to be used for gambling purposes.
BALTIMORE. April 12.—There seems
to be no marked inclination toward
retrenchment in productive activities
in ihe South, according to this week's
issue of the Manufacturers’ Record,
nor in undertakings naturally mani
festing the increase cf wealth in that
section Few, if any cities there show
any relaxation in budding operations
which have for months been a marked
feature of Southern development. Dur
ing the past month, for instance, per
mits representing $395,189, of which
$376,964 were for new structures were
granted for new buildings and im
provements at Birmingham. Ala., and
similar undertakings represented $l.-
179,717 at Washington. D. C.; $363.S57
at Louisville Ivy.; J247.S35 at Dpllas.
Tex.: 5215.S41 at Nashville. Tenn ;
$331,311 at Memphis, Tenn.: $98,160 at
Chattanooga Tenn., and $74 175 at
Knoxville, Tenn.
Another sign of these times, when
there is so much talk of a limitation
of railroad energies, is the fact that a
car-works in the South, which has
just about completed a contract for
855 cars for New Orleans and Norht
western Railway, has been given .or
ders for 1800 cars, including 500 dump
cars for coal and ore for the Illinois.
Central Railroad and 500 flat cars for
the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. A 11
order of 100 box cars for the Texas
Central Railway, one for 200 stock cars
for the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mex
ican railroad and one for 5 000 tons of
steel rails for teh Norfolk and Western
Railway are among other reported pro
visions for the future.
Equally hopeful are plans for new
railroads in the South. Among thes'\
as indicated by charter movements are
tho Savannah and Southwestern rail
road, to build about 250 miles from Sa
vannah, Ga., to Apalachicola. Fla., and
the Gulf; the Kentucky Highlands
Railroad to build a. line about 30 miles
long from Frankfort to Versailles arid
Lexington. Ky.; a hundred-mile exten
sion of Velasco. Brazos and Northern
Railway from Anchor to llempstea<:,
Texas, with a 20-mile branch to Hous
ton; the Panhandle Short Line Rail
road to build 270 miles from Hereford
to Stanton, Texas; the Kansas City.
Oklahoma and Gulf railway to build 110
miles from the northern boundry of
Texas to Athens, in that State, and ul
timately to Galveston; the Brandon and
Laurel Railway to build 65 miles from
Brandon to Laurel, Miss.; the New
Iberia St Martins and Northern rail
road to build 35 miles from New Tberia
to Port Bavre, La ; tho Macon. Amerl-
cus and Albany Electric railway to op
erate a line 100 miles long connecting
the three Georgia cities named, an
electric railway looking to connecting
Washington. D. C„ with Frederick. Md..
and Gcttlesburg. Pa., and two exten
sions of railroads in West Virginia.
Tho g/owth of financial institutions in
the South shows no abatement. Dur
ing the past four weeks 171 new banks
or trust companies have been orgsn-
ized there. Th.s is an average of more
than forty each week, and it shows
that the remarkable development of a)
lines of Industry in the South is com
pelling provision for banking facilities
at many interior points, some of
which have never before enjoyed them.
A large number of these banks are in
stitutions of smal capital, which fact
demonstrates that people are becoming
used to avail themselves of banking
accommodation and to appreciate the
convenience and security of the finan
cial institutions.
DISPUTE AS TO ORIGIN
OF NAME OF ATLANTA
ATLANTA, April 13.—It so-'ms
strange that so simple an historic"!
proposition as the naming of a city
should be involved In any grave doubt,
especially a city of as recent birth as
Atlanta, and yet there has been In
progress during the week a rather
spirited contest as to the origin of the
name which Georgia’s capital city now
bears.
It has been contended by Mrs.
Martha Atalanta Lumpkin Compter
daughter of Gov. Wilson Lumpkin, war.
is now living at Athens, and by her
friends that Atlanta was twice namo.l
after her. There is no doubt tho city
was given its earlier name of Marthaa-
ville in her'honor. The name Atalanta
was subsequently bestowed upon her
by her father, it is stated prior to the
change from Marthasville to Atlanta,
and she had always supposed that the
city’s present name was also taken
from hers.
The assertion that this was a faci
brought forth a card from Mrs. Nellie
Peter Black, daughter "of the late
Richard Peters, who quoted from 1b»
recollections of her father that
fHJf^^OVERRAND KILLED. ! narne lmcl been given ihe city as the
Bartow Not “Dry” County.
ATLANTA, April 12—Bartow County
is not a “dry” county in the local op
tion sense of the term, although there
is not a drop of liquor legally sold there,
according to a decision of the State
Court of Appeals rendered today.
The case in question was that of the
R. M. Rose Co., and Randolph Rose, of
Atlanta, against the State. They were
convicted in Bartow County of solicit
ing orders for the sale of liquors in a
dry county, and a $1,000 fine was im
posed, in each case, or a total of $2,000.
They appealed the case on the ground
that Bartow is not a prohibition coun
ty, and therefore it is no violation of
the law to solicit therein orders for
ilquors. The Court of Appeals sustains
this contention and reverses the find
ings of the lower court where tho fines
were imposed.
The peculiar situation arises by rea
son of the fact that no local option
election has ever been held in Bartow
County, and the county is dry only by
reason of the fact that the county com
missioners have never granted a license
permitting the sale. It is said, in fact,
that no application has been made to
the board for such license, and the
county is Just dry through the senti-
P. Leach, a life insurance solicitor, was
rim over by the Central train in New-
nan last night and fatally crushed
Leach left Greenville las! night on the
o’clock train for’ Atlanta. A tele
phone message received here last night
seeking a clue to his identity, stated
that he was unconscious and that one
leg had been cut off by the train.
FAMILY CREA1ATED
NEAR GUNTER, TEX,
DENISON. Tex.. April 13.—Eight per
sons were burned to death early today
near Gunter, Texas The dead: J. C.
! Price. Bell. Anne. Homer. Elmer and a
boy, name not learned, all children of
J. C. Price; Lottie Byers, step-daugh
ter. and Church, a nephew of Price. El
mer tried to start a Are with kerosene
when an exnlosion occurred. The victims
were burned beyond recognition.
COUPLE LOST BIG FORTUNE
AMD SUICIDED TOGETHER
NEW YORK, April 14.—The dead
bodies of John Perrault and his wife
were found today in their apartment at
Madison avenue and.One Hundred and
Sixteenth street. Gas was pouring
from an open fixture. Beside the bed
on which the bodies lay was an empty
choloform bottle. A handkerchief which
had been saturated with chloroform
covered the man’s face. His wife lay
beside him. The police expressed the
belief that the case was one of sui
cide. Perrault and his wife came
Edgar Thomson, chief engineer of
Georgia Railroad and afterwards pres
ident of the Pennsylvania system. Mr.
Thomson derived the name from th«
last word of the name of the Stite
road Western and Atlantic, by a pro
cess nf reasoning which made Atlanta
the femlrlne of Atlantic. Following
this suggestion a charter for the city
was procured and the name Atlanta
bestowed.
Maj. Sidney Herbert, of Maitland.
Fla., who lived in Atlanta in its ear
liest days, confirms this story of the
i origin of the name ir. a letter in th“
Savannah Morning News. Maj. Her-
I bert knew all the parties connected
! with the matter, as did Mr. Peters.
I The evidence on th's point therefore.
I seems to be cdnclusive.
PEACH CROP IN HOUSTON
DAMAGED BY COLD SPELL
FT. VALLEY, April 13.—The oest
information obtainable from the peach
crop Is that it is considerably damaged
by the recent cold spell. It appears
that in some orchards there is so f u-
little or no damage while in others the
injury is serious, depending on the lo
cation of the trees. The orchards
which are high and exposed to the
strong winds are not hurl to much ex
tent, while the orchards that are in
low places are seriously damaged.
Some gardens escaped injury from
the cold while others were seriously
damaged.
this country several years ago, with a
menV of *theTieopie and* no? by reasen *of I fortune of $1004)00 With his son. Mar-
ever having declared itself so at the
polls.
The Rose Company was convict eij of
«... v„-i- ^ -- . - soliciting orders in B’artow County, at
NEW YORK Aprlf ll^The blowing I Cartersvllle, but the rales made upon
-o-4i— — -i~~ - .: ■ such orders werp made at their place
of business in Atlanta.
statistics on the movem nt of cotton
for the week ending Friday. April 12.
were compiled by the New York Cotton
Exchange:
Weekly Movement.
This Last
veer. ve->-.
Port receipts ifin /I'm jjs r76
To mi!l= and Canada ID 522
Sou. mill takings, est 42.0IW
Loss s-toe-k int. towns.... 14 rps
eelle, as an assistant, he conducted a
restaurant under the apartment where
he lived. The young man explained Vi
the police that much of .his father’s
fortune had been lost in various ven
tures.
JOHN HALL BOUND OVER
FOR OPERATING DISTILLERY
ALBANY. Ga., April 13.—John Hal!
Obc Stevens Will Know Why. j
ATLANTA. April 12.—’Tl! have the _ , .
situation at Lithonia cleared up within j a white citizen of .Colquitt Coun-y. was
, , ten days or I’ll know the reason why.” ; yesterday bound over to the unite:.
557 said Railroad Commissioner O. B. Stev- i States Court on a charge of operatic-
38 009
sap: 4
Into sight for week 150.220 143.313
Tctzl Crop Movement.
Port r-celnts 9.173.981
To mill- and Canada.. l.eie.546 8114.
Fou. roiil takings, est.. 1.891.009 1.652.990
MUTINY OF PRISONERS
AND SEVEN WERE SLAIN
RIGA. Russia. April U.—There was a
matin:. -
thr
in
son
ay.
the
tes .attacked and over-
iperintendent .and the wardens
Int. stock ex. Sent. 1..
331.:
ens as he returned this morning from
that point where he went to Investigate
the charges that many carloads of
granite had been allowed to accumu
late without the Georgia Railroad mrk-
19.515 | ing any apparent effort to remove them
or forward them to the ! r destination
Commissioner Stevens went to Li-
an illicit distillery at his home a few
miles from Docrun. The evidence
showed that Hall had been disposing
of some of the fruits of his distillery
to a neighbor, who became so crazed
PERSONNEL OF DELEGATES
TO HAGUE CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, April 13.—At the
conclusion of the cabinet meeting to
day the personnel of the delegates fn
the Hague conference was announced
as follows:
Joseph H. Choate former ambassa
dor to Great Britain; Gen. Horace Por
ter, f-.rmer ambassador to France; 17.
yt. Rose, of Arkansas former presi
dent of tho American Bar Associa
tion: Davis Javne Hill. American min
ister to the N< therlands; Brig.-Gen.
George B. Davis judge advocate gen
eral United States Army; Rear Ad
miral Char. S. Sperry, United States
Navy; Wm. I. Buchannon formerly
minister to Argentine Republic and to
Panama: Secretary Changer Hale, of
Maine, former secretary of tho Ameri-
therefrom that he beat unmercifully can embassay at Vienna, expert in in-
several of his ehildrrn. Other neigh- ! ternatior.al law; Jas. Brown Scott, so-
286,892 : thonla as the result of a complaint
bpi
still
learning of the existence of the j Heitor
informed revenue officers
Into sight for season..12 37
Add 126 helf
bales to overland
son.
eason. .12.354 923 9.691195 which was made against the Georeia : placed HalJ under arrest and destroyed
s to recfVpts” and 651 : Railroad by Hooper Alexander, member : his still. Tho eas' was heard before
1 movement for the sea- 1 of the Leniriature from DeKaib County. United States Commission R. J. Ba-
Wcrld’s Visible Supply.
Mr. Alexander complained that some
200 cars had been allowed to aceumu-
la.te at Lithonia and at other quarry
NEW ORLEANS April 12.—Secre- j points in DeKaib County, and that the
cam
of the establishme
summoned and th<
of the mutineers and wounding
sC iir-rr. sustained wounds in tl
which lasted or.e hour. The superintend
ent of the prison was badly beaten.
The Troops wer.
Ired. killing seven
Nine
tary Hester’s statement of the world’s
visible supply of cotton issued today
shows the total visible, to be 5.225.S63
against 5 315.215 las’ week, and 4 526.-
025 iast year. Of this ;h? total of
American cotton is 3.749.863 against
3.SS3.216 last week and 2,962.025 last
i’road seem to b» making no effort to
relieve the jian’!’.”. The -esuit was
that the business of the granite quar
ries was practically paralyzed, an! it
looked as if many men might be thrown
out of work.
“My investigations showed,” Com- ,
Promotions in Griffin.
GRIFFIN, Ga.. April 13.—C. E. Mc-
iK’ofcen. who for the past few years has
b en baggage agent .at the union pas
senger station in this city, was suc
ceeded Friday by. John M. Matthews,
who was promoted from the position
of telegraph operator at the yard of
fice.
the Department of State, ex-
who j pert attache; Charles Henry Butler, re-
‘ porter of the United States Supreme
Court.
Cliftor.-Boen,
WAYCROSS. Ga.. April 13.—Mr. H.
H. Clifton a ad Miss L >ie Boien wero
married Wednesday night at t.ie home
o'i.ride’s r a rents. Mr and Mrs. H.
3. ISolen, on Mary street. The cere-
rj'onv' was tiorfcrniod by Judge V . A.
M’-Donald in th- presence of a large
number of the friends of the contract-
ing parties. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton will
make their hom© in Waycross*