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Tuesday, April «, 1907. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH 3 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. I OF MQHT 10 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 U II auuOH m 151 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*