About Twice-a-week telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1899-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1907)
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH TUESDAY. MAY 14, 190T. THE MARVELOUS CAREER OF E MAN OF THETWELFTH OF MAY’ it’ COL. O. N. SAUSSY The 25th of May will witness an Im posing function in Atlanta in the un- a-et nr and best xrlng upon the State of .. - : i th- equestrian statue of her b»rn-*">n. Lleuf.-Gen. John Brown Bl-hm md ha* the (treat Virginian In t moddle and on the JOth of Mny t . n )onj of unveiling the oror.ze • Mioferi art her other ica! ant cavalier, • ;•■' J<*b" Stuart. will occur. Colum- 1 a > plan'd nr th» State Gapltol • unda the mouited siml.itude c,f Carolina m gallant eon. Wade Iik’m ten: Memnhia has placed on ri.'i'l ver ier d*M!ny "the Wizard of ■ m Saddle” |n enduring bronz”. and t u follower* of 'I.ittle .Toe" hope to *• e -i same patriotic spirit shown Augusta. the birthplace and former T >r e of Lleut.-Gen. Josenh Wheeler. T’ rrl»nt and succes.-'nl effort of Hen. Wheeler with anljr 2.ft00 m»n at Wat ni to In thwarting the plan of Sherman when h<> *ent the Fourteenth Arm.' fnrp* anti Kilpatrick’s Corps d'Armv '.t Federal horse to seize that city, pee vented A Jgustn being captured an 1 much rt h loot to the enemy, turvIvors of Wheeler’s Cavalry are ready to aid Augusta In erecting an eqije-trlan hr. r.ze -o "Little ,Tn»." Tie above two paragraphs ar» diversions from t e of this arti cle. vet arc : ime'v. showing the feel ings of . nr people In appreriatlon of the services of the Pouch's heroic sens. The unve'linc of 'he Cord n statue hrl igs tin rr.emorl s of the enldler- ptalwnvin, espo lallv that parr of his career where. Iik>- Bartow, he went “to Illustrate hi native State" Few offi cers were so uniformly successful as Gorl'i). Entering the service as a capta'n. In lilt e more than a year we find him < om>- andln-r a brigade. Hs Gordon cams upon the form of a wounded Federal general lying prone In the hoc July sun. He had him moved, gave him water out of his own canteen, trade a memorandum o? hi* name and rank. That night Gen Gor don. through a flag of truce, advised this officer's wife of his cond'tion and offe-*d h»r saf- conduct to her hus band's side. In the s'renuoue days that followed the Is* of July. Gen Gor- 1 don forgot the incident except to be- lleve the wni|cd in the Federal g n- j era] must hare been fatal. Fifteen years later at a dinner In ' Wa*Mngton. Gcr Gcrdon we* Intro- : ony reports, placed Lee's army at “5! 626 of all arms.” Thu* stood the combatants who for three years bad faced each other and had often struggled in the deadly em brace of battle. Let the student of his tory sit end calmlv analyze the condi tion In Virginia the 1st of May. 1R64. and his final conclusion must result In utm-.*' astonishment at the audacity ] of Gen. Lee. As was the disparity In I forces. In the same proportions were resources. But the Army of Northern Virginia under its peer>** commander never faltered one moment. When Gen. Grant passed the river, and his huge army was well meshed in the den-e net of "the Wilderness” the . genius of Lee grasped t te situation I' was !mpo**ible for the enorm-’us Army of *he P-unmae to maneuver in that fe»rfu! tangle, and Gen. Lee rec ognized the opportunity and at on-e bo'dly attacked *h? mar<-h:ng column. Let the reader remember that up to this time Grant had never me->*ur“d j'words with the great Virginian: 1 there!: re when the attack began he liven, "that attack Is diversion by a small force In duced to a Gen. Barlow. Naturally he 1 tond -d ortv to d«ta n ”* while Le asked (f the^present genera! was re- with his rra'n armv is hurrying to the North Anna to take up a new line of latefl to a Fed“ral genera! who was killed st Gettysburg. To his surprise, F-en. Barlow said: "I am the Gen. Rar’ow that fell at Gettvsbur. Are vou related to the Getl. J. B. Gordon wv> killed me’”’ ‘I am the men sir.” an swered Gen. Gordon. There was a Gen. James B Gordon, of North Caro lina, a gallant envalry leader, who had been killed In ar-tlon. and Gen. Barlow defense." How little he knew of the lion in his path. It did nor take long to convince Meade that the movement we5 some'hing stronger than a "diver sion." Ver we mu*t characterize Gen. Lee's attack a* an act of great audac ity. for he en,*re,d "the Wilderness” fight wl:h but Hill’s and Ewe’l's corns , . that gave him but 28.000 muskets. He The supposed it was Georg a's hero-Foi. I w«s in no w av ignorant of Gen. Grant's Apparently minor incidents often- ; tremendous odds. Perhaos no mere times became the most potent factors forc'ble and laconie expression ever in deriding the result on tie field of . fitted an eeeasion than that us“d hv battle. History is replete with then . 1 president Davis when he called this The general eemmanding cannot s*e , rrion • „ battle of m'nd against rtmt- who!r* battle so that muoh 1 tAj*" But details cannot be eu’arer^d of the details fall upon subordinate ! j n tvs sker. h of "the Man of the t?rh officers Gordcr. with the genius of j of yr-, v " j, jjes to do mninlv wi'h a general, saw the *ituatlo n of affairs I <qen. Oord n’s immed'ate connection at the first day at Gettysburg and was , w |»h the strenuous affairs then cul- wlth enthu*!"sm pressing the flank at- j minating. "T ie night ot the 5th of tack his troop had made. Hear nls May was far soent when m.v command »>wn words: "On the first day ne|t ~er Gen. Early no- Gen Ewell could possl- h|v have been fully cognizant of the -lfuatlon at the time I was ordered to halt. The whole of that part of the Department In hi* Seven Pines and Days' Battles we troops faking con fix Justified the W advancement, j Richmond's S- v find him and h splcuous p.'.rt In those bloody dramas. Second M.anss r as testified to the werk of his command, while fiharns- burg Is :aioed with the glorj of Gor don and his brigade As*lgn»d by Gen. Lee to hold the center at all haz ard. Gordon construed that order to mean as long a- a man could load and fire a rifle. His own share of that hazard was In five de»perate wounds. Tut he he'd the line as he promised tin'll sundown, but the price was a fearful cost In gallant men. An Inci dent of that battle was the piercing of his cap Just abo 'e his brow. Labm n Federal bullet smashed through his fare and threw him prone upon the field The General relates hot for that ho’e In hi* cap by the Federal bullet, he must have strangled in his The*e men of the Lone Star State ! Dunn, eoualfv determined to die In could not be convinced-that the grav- j the harness which he kgs worn since lty of the situation required so great a 1S39. has borrowed a uniform and ac- sacr’.flce. ‘Go back. Gen. Leo. go cep'ed the transfer without a murmur, back!" excla med the Texans. Then a i In one Eddie Lewis, hitherto un- tall lank form clad In ragged grey * known to fame. Wall street has a bud- kindly but firmly took "Traveler" by j ding financier whose business acumen the bridle and led him and his precious may one day fill the breacit which wi’l burden to the rear. Bowing to the j he left by the retirement of John W. storm of bullets that beat pUtbess’y j Gates. At present "Eddie" is only a upon them, (the gallant Texans telegraph messenger w*ho*e frequent smashed in Hancock’s front, then with j trips to the vicinity of Wall street and Tige Anderson, Lion Benning and ; Exchange Place have given him un- Law's Alabamians they bum the blue j limited opportunities to observe things cordon and threw Hancock back to his j while "ragging” the humble venders own entrenchments. j of lunch commodities who cater to the So .it Spottsylvar.la anoth»r act in | modest appetites of the erub brokers the bloody drama brought Gen. Gor- and their messengers. For a long time don and his Georgians conspicuously : Eddie's on!v dally sandwich and glass on the s'age. “Alleghany" Johnson oc- j of nrlk were purchased at a certain cupkd the salient jus: in front of Gen. ; popular stand until he noticed that the Gordon’s position. A bold and sudden ; taste' of the brokers ran particularly to irruption of Hancock's powerful Sec- i sardine sandwiches, and that the stock ond corps tf*amn Old 1 ffghsney." I waa never sufficient to meet the in- capturing 4.00b of his men and taking sis*enf demmds. The next day was his w rks, began to p^ur through the ptt”ed off the only successful corner ur.ture r.ght ^r:d let' . | Wall street has seen since the famous X w was the e—t= s of ;hn evistonoe Northern Pacific coup. Before the of the Army of Northern Virginia and , lunch hour arrived. Edd'e made his no man realized that more than the appearance with five of his comrades great Vlrg'nlan who had so ofteen led in uniform, and together they pur It to victory. In this grave crisis Gen. ' - — Lee proposed to lead the troops to re- w . cover the works. Let Gen. G'raon tell brokers appeared, hunprv for sardine the story: "The bulk of the Confeder- sandwiches. Eddie and his confeder ate armv was In such imminent peril ates stood on the s'dewalk and offered that nothing could rescue It except a to dispose of their holdings at dniblc ■BLBonmiPMn® By BRIDGES SMITH. fc4—H—;-H—;„M„j,M~l 1 f i-f* i tm: counter movement. Quick. Impetuous n^d derisive. Lee resolved to save It. and if noefi be save it at the sacrifice of his own life. With perfect seif- polse he rode to the margin of that tlorr were ranld bttr hls career Federal artry in my front was In in- J r 0 * t },^| reached its destination on the extreme Gonfederate left. The men were di rected to steen on their arms during the remain'ntr hours of darkness. Scouts were at once sent to the front extrlcable confusion and flight. Thev were necessarily in flis-ht for my tro^ns were upon the flank and rnp'dly sweeping down th» 'ine*. The firing upon my men had almost ceased. Large bodies of the Federal troops were throwing down their arms and sur rendering. because In di-organized and confused masses thev are wholly pow erless either to check the movement or return the fire As far down the lire as mv avp con'd reach, tbc Fed** *'! troops were in full retreat. Those at a d's'.anee were sti'l re*I**lng. but giv ing ground, and it was or.lv necessary for me In press forward In order to ; Insure the same resu'ts which Inv.a- ! rlahlv follow such flank movements. In le*s than an hour my troons would I have swept tin end over th s* hills, the i possession of which was of such mo- j mentnus conseouerce. It is not sur- wav through the thicket* breach and appeared up' t the scene j n dreaming of what thev would do just as I had completed the alignment with a corner If they cauld get one. of my troops and was In the act of ; Among the p'eturesoue but unprof- movlng in that crucial counter-charge | itehle possessions of Father Knicker- upon which so much depended. bocker which are passing away before "As te rode majesFca ly in front of j the march n T progress are the various my line of battle, with uncovered head public markets owned by the city. Five and mounted on 'Old Traveler.' Lee years ago there were ten of these ex- looked a very god of war. Calmly and pensive relics of an earlier day. nine grandly he rode to a point near the i n Manhattan and one in Brooklvn. center of my line and turned his wtihln that time, however/ three of horse's head to th" front, evidently re- them have beep forced to give place to solved to |esd in re-son the desperate ! other and greater needs of the city, eharg* and drive Hancock back or per- - the old Cenire Market becoming the lsh In the effort. I knew what he meant, and although tha passing mo ments were of priceless value. I re solved to arrest him in his effort and thus save to the Confederacy the life Instead of delving deep into the past, let u? take a rapid transit trip, as be becomes these progressive times. t< some point in the future. • • • Has the reader ever thought what Macon xsatM- be some of these days? Let us set the date at 192o—that's not so very far away—and yet there are I lot* of us who will not be here then I Time flies fast, and 1925 Is not long I in the coming And this reminds me. 1 • * « | One of the greatest disappointments in the life of the brll'lant Henry Grady grew out of an attempt on bis part to tell of Atlanta's future. It was. I I think. In TR75. Grady was the bright chased lift snrd're ~ sandwiches—The ■ on t hf> Constitution, and the idea ire stock of Ae place. When the occurred to him to draw a picture of Atlanta as she would appear in 1900. At that time 1900 looked a long way off, a mere speck in the distance. So he railed together, as was his custom, the editorin', staff and the foreman and had a conference. He told them that on a certain day of the following week the Constitution would be dated 190ft. and that the foreman must see to It that by no oversight was any other date to appear In the paper of that day. Every reporter was assigned a task of writing an article just as though he was living In the year 1900. Mention was made of ail sky-scrapers to occupy certain old corners and places; mimmoth factories were to be mentioned as being in operation: must speak of the Capitol and other public buildings just a* though they existed: to spread out the city limits until they almost touched the boundary lines of adjoining counties, and to refer to the population as being one hundred thousand souls. the usual price. In exactly fiiteen minutes they had e'eared up their "corner" at a tidy profit snatched from under the very noses of the wise gen tlemen who spend their waking hours and ascertain, if nosslb'e. where the extreme rieht of Grant's line rested. At eariv dawn these trus-ed men re ported that the'- bad fnurd It: that It rested in the woods onlv a short dis tance In our front, and that It was wholly unprotected, and that the Con federate line stretched a eo*»sidera''le dl-dence beyond the Federal right. ovee'anp'nT it.” , This Information wa Imnorfapce that G»n rtordo-. scouts to examine and report. These ■' verified the statemerUs of the fleet j" scouts Gen. Gordon commun'eated th's important information to h's di vision. a'so corns commanders. Eariv Insisted the* Rurnside r.-as in the rear site of the new p'liee headquarters building and the Clinton Market a storage ground for the street cleaning department. The old Catherine Mar ket was abandoned. Five of the re- of lt« great leader. I was at the center | m-'int-'T marke* ■ o,-,-ur- .-nr-«vi-''~’-i.> of the Ure when Gen. Lee rode to it. I structures in which stalls are rented With uncovered head he turned his ! out to hundreds of individual dealers face toward Hancock’s advancing eol- ; | n produce of every sort, and tlie sixth, umn. I instantly spurred my horse Ganseveort Market, Is simply a vacant across 'Old Traveler’s' front and space occupying an ent're block in one grasped the bridle. Then, in a voice i of the citv’s busiest districts, whore which I hoped might reach my own the small truck farmers who cross the men and command their attention. I ti-n- fee— p the ng*" hen-e . ea’.'ed out: ‘Gen. Lee you shall not of the morning with wagons piled high | "'ft* as ^rady had planned. Not lead mv men in this charge. No man with vegetables pay a fe° of *5 cents a ,1 * nt ^ lla ^ escaped from those of so much can that eir Another is here for a day for each wagon. The ten acres who were ,n the secret - Th<> datp 1 that purpose. These men behind you of land now oecup'od by tbpen markets of the P a Per had been changed, the are Georgians, Virginians and Caro- I are valued at something like $5.0ft0 OftO articles had been written and put in linians. They have never failed you. Thev provide positi-ns and salaries for i tv be. and Grady was in the best of hu- Tney will not fall you here; will you, a small army of politicians, but the [ mni \ chuckling over the trick he was ho'-*c" The reonopse came I V* a , revenue which thev produce in the • Pl®5'ing on the public, and bappv in mighty anthem that must have stirred way of rentals and fees dwindles to an ; tha exploitation of a new Idea in Jour Wonderful prophecy! • « • The editorial writers were instructed to write on subjects that related to the proeress and growth of Atlanta since 1876, and Grady himself wrote a mas terly editorial on the wonderful strides Atlanta had made since that year. * • • On the night before the morning this curious paper was to appear, every prising, w'rh the full realization f the j sm » rf i„ n 0 f Bed—vlcV S rear and th ron«equepc»s of a halt, that I shoti d total lack of rar» and prepara'lon es own blt»*d, as he fell with hi* face in ; have refused to obey the order. Not : wr ]’ as absence of reserves e r suonort hi* cap which would have filled with , until the third or fourth order of a ' o,-, e^nbat'e was hnitnu* "Old .Tube's” hls bio d and suffocated him but for ; most peremptory character reached m* 1 insistence that Gen Om-finn wa* in ♦ he vent left In the.cap by the Yankee d'd I oV*y. I think I should have error that Lieu*-Gen Ewell accented '«“< risked the conseqeunces of dlsohedl- p*., v i„ n ., 0e n Gordon chafed at Then came a battle royal between j ence even then, but that the order to I t v, ta ratal bltinde- and de’av H°re lav the grim monster^ and Gordon's won- ; halt was accompanied with the ex- j Fv ,.eU-s corps inactive whl’e Hill and planptlan tbs' Gen. Lee. who was sev- I Tj -,nestrrer were rec eiving the t*rr|Me ernl m'le* away, did not wl*h to give 0 r ereaOv -nnerior femes. As battle at Gettysburg. It is stated on caged Ton chafes so Gordon fn*ned the highest authorlfv that Ge n . L*e „ enforced inaction Nine fata! said that If Jackson had been there he J hour; „. prF „. a «*ed when Gen would have won 1n this battle a great ' m e fo th e left c» Ms line to n sce*tain snd possiblv a decisive victory ” The ) fhp r „„„ inaction while Lonesdreet hls emotions as no other music could ln*lgn fleant sum after the expenses and siipnnrtlne Sedgewick^ and^Gor- | have dr)ne Although the answer to have been deducted. Now a move- these three words, *\5 i.l you boys?* ment ! s under way. backed by a num- oame in the monosyllables, No. no. no, . her of TVest Side business men in the we'll not fail him!' yet doubt’ess to . vicinity of Vesev and Washington him they were more eloquent because streets, where the largest and most of their simplicity and momentous objectionable of these mttrke's is lo ! Now there Is not a frame house on th* entire street, which is lined on both sides with brick and stone business buildings. « • • Our old friend Mal'.orv Taylor says he can remember when there was no thought of Fourth street ever being a business street. It is now one of th* most Important business streets of til* city, filled from Mulberry to Boundary with stores and business houses. • • • The new directory for 1925 is Just out. Ir shows Macon's population to be S3.295. or mere than double th* population of twenty years ago, before ill the suburbs were annexed. • • » Another lion has been added to th* den of lions in the Zoo at Central Park. The white swans In the lake continue to attract attention. • • • Two hundred and ten trains now run into the terminal station daily. Visitors to Macon never fail to sing the praises of this depot. There are many who remember it as the old union passenger shed, as it was called many years ago. It i« longer by 10(1 feet than the old structure, the Ffth street subway allowing the extra length. The station is also much wider, taking up what was formerly a yard, and the site of the old Schofield foundry. • • • Think of the growth of the publio school system! This Is best shown by the amount appropriated to it from the county. In 1877 this was J10.000; in 1906 it was $70,ft00. and in 1925 it is *100.000. • • • At the last meeting of Council a res olution was adopted unanimously to * pay a handsome pension to former Fir* Chief L. M. Jones, who ha* retired on account of old age. This is In recog nition of his long and efficient service. • • • Strangers in the city never fall to visit the cemetery and are often heard to sav that it Is the most beautiful In the South Before the merger of Riverside and Rose Hill, the latter was con'idered a lovely spot, but with the addition of the former, and the conversion of the old hill tit front of the Rose Hill entrance Into a park. It deserves all the fine things being said about it. * • * The trustees of Wesleyan never did wiser thing than when they took nalsm. Everybody around- him shared down the fence around Wesleyan Park flon would in turn be outflanked and overwhe'med. Gen G rdon gave Early th» tr>f--mat<on of bis n*rsont' !n- his good humor. * • » Those were the days of tramp print ers. before the use of the typesetting machines, and this class of shiftless printers, good, care-free fellows they rated, for the'r complete abolition or ! w( ‘ re as a rul< ‘' 1 traveled all over the drrful vltal'ly. The «o f| d nutsing of «l*on Gordon, of whim, when Gen. Gordon later in life was asked to name the greatest citizen of Georgia, prompi v answered. ".Mrs. John B Gordon" Five wounds in one battle is greatly above t'e average, and Gor don's battle for life was as heroic as hls baft e to hold I/ee's center at F a arpsbiirg Nearlj seven months Gordon nursed thn*e five wounds. On his return to the front he was r*sis-ned to a Goo-, gla brigade Quoting hls own word meaning. "I s'-outed to him, "You must go to sale to orivato intere-ts which will the rear.’ The echo. *Gen. Lee to the ma ke them a credit instead of a dls- rear, Gen. L»e to the rear!’ rolled back , gr-i-e to the ottv. with tremendous emphasis." That a universltv Is not a series of The pledge had been cl'-en: its re- 1 bui'ding*. but a collection of teacher* domption meant liberal libations of he- nnd scholar*, has been demonstrated In the remarkable work of the free public lecture '■■ystem of the New York City Roard of ago. in i long onotsV-n from Gen. Gordon , shows h’s ideas were verified by re- I. suit* and is hut another Illustration of the potential power of the little ro : c blood, and as Gordon gave the command “Forward!” or.wa*d the line swept, and like the resistless storm waves of the ocean the three skeleton L”” j brldages threw themselves with savage Impetuosity upon Hancock. The gal Joint 1 —oops of Ranneeur and poficM country, from city to city, sometimes by train, but generally on foot, never failed to drop in on Atlanta. It was very late that night when one of these old printers dragged himself up the long *talrs of the Constitution office into the composing room. He had just walkpd In town, and wanted the price Education. Nineteen 1 a and and a drink, first *ese'on. the ' c "’ u, d t if - frnm * h ft b,1v <' in the rear of that grand old building. * • * Crowds continue to visit Tattnall Square. In the evenings there are flocks of'children on the green sward listening to the band, and the lake with its rustice bridges and tiny boats is a never-ending source of delight. This square, with Its hundreds of shade trees, paved walks and grassy lawns, is Macon's summer breathing spot. The new directory shows that Macon has 116 factories making almost every thing useful from wood, from clothes- If he 1 pins to refrigerators; ton cigar facto- Rut the I rles; six broom factories, thirteen nrrry. It was of course a trying mo ment to mv sen^'bllities when the time j came for m’ parting with my old com- . mand. with which I had passed through *o many hitter trla’s: but i thCM." men were destined t" come back j 1 i me attain. It is trite bur worth the ”d H'lt v-od h»«n so in'*n«»!v enr ,| t»'l.. came as a timely assistance and Han- TV* was ‘ate in fh* afternoon. Ea-lv j c <?ck was crushed back to his own en- a»»'n insis'ed unen his be’ief of the ! trp”eh”'ents. . -- _ - , , , Fefl»r«i situation. Then Gen fiord”**. ! Further details would tax The Tch»- word If. If Gen. Gordon had dis- j „ ith nlI t v, p for „„ * aT1 o.,h P oh*ved these nrd"r and continued the ( maced v. ntan before Gen pursuit, there Is every indication that | T T W master m'nd at o~re grq.n"d I crucial paint ox me war. jt is true , fo BttflpV 0 e n . Gordon, be if Oen. Lee could not have compelled hprM thro „ rh „eonts hv "No more superb material ever- filled I Gettysburg would not have been the the se the ranks of *nv command in any j crucial print of the war. It is true | * tt Meade to fight at Gettvshurg. for that caution* commander had slreadv c-n- temnlnted the defensive line of Pipe creek, where he u-ou'd await attack from the Armv of Northern V'rglnla. Ft'll the moral effect tinon tha' mrt r- petition to say there ere few ties > of the Potomac army would have been stronger or more sacred than those j l*>teps*lv de-r»'c'ng and by ♦h*> hurv- wh'eh bind together in immortal fel- ting up :f reinforcements, who at th’s ion ship, men who with unfaltt ring ! date is prepared to solve that problem faith In each other, have passed 1 then !n Its formative state? through suc.i scenos of terror and j Meade’s army was stretched out for blood." thirty trl'e* and In that cond'tion the When Gordon a*stim»d command of j mighty genius of T>>e would have put Ms Georgia brigade. “Fiflgbting Joe" | In operation the Napoleonic p’8n of ■was n anning that campaign that re- j crushing in de'all the long-drawn-out suited In hnw dlscomfl'ttrp," and that | Armv -f the P-tomc. shed the brightest Ittsfre unon the | No general can plan aeeuratelr the n ime and fame of the great Virginian de*a!!» of a battle: he mu*t act as c'r- Fo sure was HooVer of ultimate sue- ( cumsta’'res demand and .are thrust res* after announcing "the finest army i upon Mm. From the knowledge , V e on the planet." wa» about ta a«*um* have of Gen. L»e and his general grasp personal Inspection, had unveiled t*m Federo' situation eariv in the day. The uobe’Ief end obstinacy of hls sune- r*/a-' p ff Ippc * 1 cs el *- r>p*i t -o j ? ** o LIq - I s " • ♦ and It was almost S’mdown when Gen. Lee h'mee'f orfler-'d the assault as p)*nn»l hv Gen Gwdon. Sweeping * round the Federal right, there burst from *h» throats of Gor. don'* Georgians that florae ve 1 that no man ever yot heard unmoved unon t*-e fletd of hatrle Bo imo»tuous was the assault that S , 'd«-e-e' 1 ck’s vete-ans broke in wild confusion and as th” fire front and flank r'l’ed upon them the*’ w»re thrown into utmost demor alization. As M'ellin gt on at V"aterion nra'-ed graph beyond proper limit. The splen- called. gave 186 lecture? before 22.149 auditors. In the season which closed with a banquet of the free lecture co ps at the H A tel Astor a few evenings ago. more than fifty men and women— hers of col'ere fortuities and pres dor of that campaign can be*t be found in Gen. Gordon's "Reminiscences of the Civil War,” beginning with chap ter xviii. Nowhere in the annals of the world [ every subject that can arouse human is there chronicled more superb evl- I interest is treated upon in these ]cc- denecs of patriotic heroism than we tores. Art and music, first aid to the find in the conduct of the Tpxans at "the Wilderness" and Gordon's skele tons at Snottsvlvania. A devotion su perb. unapproachable. Men who in devotion to pr’neiplc and love for their "Peonle's Fniverslty." ns it has been h<1 Vs were too intent on getting nut a foundry ar.d machine stops, two sus- -- - - ' ’ ” ' wonderful paper to pay him much at- j pender and one corset factories, two tentlon, so he loafed around to wait I tanneries an<l eight shop factories, until the work was done for the night. I There are twelve cotton mills, six ho- * * • ! sier.v and ur.derwrear mills, and any Following the habit of printers, he ! number of small manufactories that do _ leaned over the type that made up the 1 not use motive power. One reason for idents of universities as well a's 'spe- paper, and which he could read as well . the location of so many of these faeto- clolists in many of the practical Walks a * Print, and his eye eaught the fig- . ries and mills in Macon is the low cost of Jife—delivered 3.450 lectures in 160 ' ureas 1900 in the date line. Knowing 1 -' * “-*-*■ ‘ different places, before nearly a mirion nothing, of course, of the reasons why and a quirter attendants. Almost ,!,e date should read 190ft. he took it for granted It was an error, and he quietly picked out the figures wherever they appeared and substituted 1876. believing In his soul that he had saved ; for Macon. One can leave the station the paper from appearing next day ion Poplar street and take his choice eluded in the scheme, and discussed with a glaring error in its date line. | of a trip to Albany, Columbus. .Atlanta, as thoroughly as in any university When the werk of the night was done. Valdosta. Hawklnsville, Dublin, Sa- the boys chipped in and gave him the price of a bed. and nerhaps a drink. injured, philosophy, practical science, poetry, travel, civics; all these are in- of electric current which is generatede by water power. * * * • The schedules of the Interurban rail way lines are vastly improved The*e Injprurhan lines heve done a great deni The next morning the Constitution appeared as usual, the date all right. nor tail out of the reading matter. course. The immigrant who has Just great commander cheerfully and en- lended can. on the very evening of hls thusiastic-’lv w”Pt to fi-ith j a.-rK-il hr oondvote'* fo a lo. ; — hell "And so laid down | where in his own tongue he will he The cross for glory's crown given the first lessons in American c't- *■ 1 noklv di*d fy Div=>" Izenship. The tired worker in office That heroic enisode that spring or factory whose limited mean.* has mcrr*ng inspired the muse of th» gal- denied him the advantages of a college Young men of the city were alluded to lant R bert Falligant and In cheering education, finds in them an opportunity a * venerable citizens; there was men- sonr he recounts "The Man of the to make his little Visure profitable, tlon of beautiful buildings on vacant Twelfth of May." while the student who wishes to pur- corners; a handsome terminal station Then on down the bloody corridor of sue more extensively a given topic bad taken the place of the old car Crn night would come, so Gordon be- j time Gordon and hls gallant command finds In long courses in electricity or shed, and It was located in another —m *ho -vw o* Jf*"' I naarked epochs in the career of the literature, or modern European his- and more suitable part of town; there n'Ght stop the sun in orfier to com 1 ' — ' ' ' *-* L ' **— Savannah. Athens or Augu*ta, and leave any hour of the day. A sleeper has beep put on the Macon and Sa vannah line. The cost of a berth Is one dollar, and this with two dollars but the readers could not/ make head 1 fare, makes a night trip to Savannah just three dollars. Col. .Iordan Mas- see, president of 'the United roads, is contemplating extending the Atlanta line to Chattanooga. the nggre.**1ve, he did pot believe he bad an attack of excggerated ego when be dlsnntcbed Hill "The rebel army Is now the legitimate property of the Army of the Potomac.” Cordon's port 'n those wonderful battle* of Chance ’-rsville was on the C mfedernte extreme right. where Early with 9 ftftft mtiske's withstood Fedgewlt k with 4ft.ftftft blue so’dier*. Overpowered. Enr’y yielded Marie's Hill to Sec'gewlck. but later Gordon ■v*s orde-ed to assault and retake the Ml'. Aga'n 1 quote Gen. Gordon: "When we were und^r full headway prd under fire from the he'ghts I re- 1 reived an o*der fa halt, but the or*er . cine toe late Mv men were n'resdv tinder heavy Are and were nearing the tort T'-ev were ni*8'rz uno '* with tremend'u* Imnetuosltv. I replied to the order that It was too la‘e to bait ♦ hen and that a few moments more w"Uld decide the re*u’t of the charre.” . On *we*'t the rn’endld "Cracker” brig- , jtde »rd so in the works were rewon. ■ the Star-cro'sed Mnuer of th plans waving back *he glad assurance , of Northern Virginia that "from the nettle danger valo* h-.d ; rji-r*in'," cot "t-dad of situations. 'Vo know if he had been nresent and fu’lv aware of the bene fits of G/>n. Go-don’s flank attack, t'-ere would have been no bait order. It Is but an apt illustration, however, of Now and then, for we know now he solution of the nrohlem. then In its format’ve condition. Etirther detail-- of Gettysburg are not neces«*rv: ir only remain* to add. with Gettysburg the fortunes of the Confed eracy v ee*n to wane. Again the line of the Rapnahannoek and the Ranidon historic of Chnnre!- lorsvil'e and Erede-lcksburg, boxo-re the temporary quarters of Lee's elastic *rrnv An abortive movement of Meade's known ns "the Mine Run flnsoo." where the Potomac army "marched up the hill and then married down again.” ind the effort of G*n. X,ee bv the long »we“p of n left flank movement to enve'ooe Mend, resulting in Meade's ha=ry withdrawal as far as Centerville without Oen. Lee’s ahl'ltjr to bring him to a general ereagem ?nt aid known in the annals of the Army "the Brlstoe operations nlete the grandest r I ever offered a com—'an ne fbe great Wir B rt t 1 Tn the brief hn'f four nnortun'tv that d'ng officer dur- v"cn the States, if fiti*k he scat tered ftr-T permitted 's r>br. and if he had been ; scene Atlanta Is growing more jealous of Macon every day. With the exception _ of the old Gate City, Macon has ad- Armv of Northern Virginia. For ten tory. lt mav be. the equivalent of a was a big marble Canitol building that , vanced more than any city In th* months 'onger them veterans g?ve ter- eol'ege course they knew did not exist: the city was : South Every street within the old r'b> evidences of devotion to duty The strange looking, near-white 1 the biggest tn the South, and its popu- j limits has been paved. She owns her nmmlnertlv nroones these the storm- bird, with long, sharp beak and claws lotion was referred to as being one own waterworks and light plant. There ing of Fort Steadman, and the last and curiously marked with tiger-like hundred thousand. People stopped ‘ are trunk lines of storm sewers all to »ke tbe a**ault two or " i plucked the flower sa'etv" for Ear'v. j in V'rglnla for the year 1R6S. Gen. Eariv remarked after tbe re- i M»nv commanders are the re*u’ m”re hour* enrl’rr wbo is prepared to pre'Slet the fri'lt* of ylotorv? Judging the then present bv the past. tb —e wOU'fi *— U ffo- T -- o v’otory sttrDass'ng Gbanoellorsvil'e. We-.r Go-don - E" dv in his book state* that Geo. Fwell s*ri«ii with h'm a« to t'e Imno'icv o' moving j the momlne- Sink st'eck wh|oh I earnest’v urged. A!'*! he did: the 1‘ght of reye'ati'ns subseo made bv Fedem' officers, no gent military cr'tfe. I think, will fall ! tn sympathize w'th mv lament wb'oh i was even more hitter th»n at Ge'tvs- hurg. o'-e- tbe irre—orablo loa* of .7•»ev- son But for mv firm f.a'th In God’s Erovidenoe and WIs control o' ’be des tinies of this rer.uV'e. I should be temnted to imitate the confident ex clamation made to tbe Master bv Mary and Martha: 'Hadst *hou been here our brother had not died ’ and na-.i- nhraslng the quotation. ‘Had Jackson ».mn the la*t act of the bloody Appomattox. While these incidents are excitingly interesting, they w'll exact too much snace f ir re cite] bere. Tbe Telegrc.nh ha* been ge-e-nus in giving so much space to , -lines. i nuzzle to ornotholoadata i each other on the street and asked , over the city, and her system of sanl- generrilly, which for tbe past week or ! what It meant, and If Grady had gone j tary sewers has been extended so a* two has been hovering over that por- j crazy. to reach every_ section j>f the city. tion of the city which lies between the City Hall and the Tammany wigwam, has at last been identified as the bird Then Grady saw the paper, and has tily, without thinking of the date line, ran over the editorials and local artb from Crump's Park to Tenth street, and from Fort Hawkins to Newburg. of Ma> more. it would be a trespass to as!: of capture of the fort that success had saved Gordon fp m being court-mar- tla'ed fo- dl*obedience of orders. A brief *fi*en of rest after Chan- ci lorsville. ;ben Gen. Lee sot the Army ,.c No-tlie-n Vi-eiiyn in motion for the Potomac and be\"nd. Tax'd bv th * bru'n'lty cf the enemy, tbe men in grav felt that the ironv of f acc'dent*. Recent!' - tbe question has been debated "Was Grant an acci dent?" and the decision Is yet pend ing. Anyhow, his successes in the West b-ourbt him promotion and the rank of reutenant-reneral was be stowed upon him and the com—and of all the Federal armies In the fl*’d put under hls immediate control. This was pl.ai ed In their hands I a sMtpend'US proposition, the method of war. the | Th NEW YORK, May 11.—These sorrowful days for New York’s police force, fer since the passage of his bill Commiss'oner Bingham has been busily engaged In attempting to secure there the Confederacy had not ! detectives who can detect and patrot- dlcd.' ” i men who patrol. Political power and is recital of "The Man of the Twelfth of political peace, somewhat the worse cIes - which read Just as he wanted Macon'* four tourist hotels ar* for wear. Ex-Judge Morgan J. O’Brien, i them to read. He enjoyed hls late J *“ ““ "'Big Tim” Sullivan ->nd Corporation : breakfast and walked down town with Counsel Ellison are endeavoring to lure a h?ht heart. He had prophesied At- lt from the skv to a nest in Citv Hall lanta's future, and believed in it. Then Park with a new k'nd of bird food in ! he met a friend who was puzzled, the form of an agreement between i Like many others, he couldn't under- Mayor McClellan and Boss Murphy : stand It. Grady was constrained to which contains t'e apparent!' - irreepn- Pity The poor man. but several others cilable elements that the former is to rnet him and asked the meaning of it remain unhampered in all the appoint- all. "Look at the date line, he said , far into Monroe County on the left, ments and policies of his off'ce while to them. They looked, but there was The Oemulgee, on "’bat^ was formerly refraining from such as would indi- nothing the matter with the date line. 1 * ~~ ^ ~ 1 Then Grady looked at the date line for the first time! StM POLICE FORGE SEW YORK’S HOPE now closing doors for the season, which has been a remarkably succe?*- ful one. each hotel being crowded to Its capacity. F?- m the veranda of the Aragon on Megrnth’s Hill one has a view of the country for miles around. The city lies below, but beyond one can see Brown's mound on the right, the old red hills of Jones in front, and , cate antagonism to the Tammany or are ganlzation. The police commissioner's baton, it is said, has been named as the price of peace; for, say “practical men.” what is the use of peace with- When the indignation meeting that was scon thereafter held in the edlto- out perquis'tes, the espeefa! food of ! rooms was at white heat, when the the svrchol c bird. And ti“rm>islt''s : foreman swore that he had attended have been mighty *carce and poor In i to the date lines himself and knew ! known as Oemulgee Park, has the ad vantage of ample ground, though th* Westminster in North Macon disputes the claim. The Cherokee at Summer- field has a first-class golfing ground and other attractions. • • • The County Commissioners hav* done wonderfully well In making bou- fiavor since the Bingham police bill they were all right, and every printer 1 levards of the public roads of the Failure was written on Grant’s ban- 1 graft It is hoped will at last be sue- ( was signed. The commissioner, how- j had sworn by ail that was typograph- | count}-. A few years ago when the i-s t* this M« firs* -"r*mil Minur’*- 1 reeded by efficiency. Of al! the shifts or'inue* rn wield the refnr-n are ical that he had nothing to do with , county did not owe a dollar of debt. anen. . . _ . _ _ with Lee's army. Bwlnton sAs great and changes which have marked the j with a vigor which contains no hint of changing the date, the old tramp | they issued_ bonds to the extent^ of many fajlures ajid^ defeats of Potomac army was impressed that It ) village of Canarsie. Dunn is 75 years had .aga'n met reverse* a*>d must re- \ old. fifty-one years of which he has own pos'tion, and his corporation treat. But Grant could not pla-e such spent on th» po'ice force. Thirty j-ears counsel. "Peace with honor,” he reit- ar.d more in Wall street, and before ! erates while Tammany sits tight and that a sleuth connected with the main says nothing, detective bureau at 300 Mulberry had be< end it that grand, g-s’d woman. Fanny Har- ! the Potomac army had depleted Its lev tailonis should now permit tbe j rrore!e. Failures had In .a measure de- people of Pennsylvania to taste some I pressed the rark and file; therefore ■>" "the bitter lee* of life." But Gen. i Gen Grant devoted hls energies to the Lee anticipated any such feeling or ' building up of It* phvsica! and moral pr-mpting. tini issued imperative or- ! gcructure Thenceforth "the hammer” d'es .iraip-t any retaliate the part of hls troop. Human nature , po*omac army. never maneuver!” m his attempt cried >ut for redress hut the God-like ' Wintering at and around Culpenner ' flank Lee by a night nature of Robert Edward Lee most forcibly forbade It. Gordon and his brigade were eon- -pictous actors In the bloody drama of Gettysburg While In York, for his courteous tr<-*r«trtent of its cit zens. Gen. Gordon was presented by a little ] upon and fastened deer* fang maiden with a fine bouquet of flowers. ' ‘ ‘ " ' " ' ~ discouragement came unon th* Pmo- : recent shake-up in the police depart- mac army and the belief prevailed. 1 ment. but one may be said to have rank and fl’e. that the army would re- | caused general and disinterested regret, tire the n'gbt of the th’rd day’s batt’e , That was the transfer of Lieutenant to the nether bank of the Rnnidan. j John J. Dunn from the head of the The experience of previous eamnnigris I Wall street branch of the detective came up as the ghe*t o' years and th“ : bureau to de*k duty in the little flsh ng wanirg power, and "Big Tim,” who printer, who was still loafing around | 1500,000, and today the roads of Bibb always nlays the game both ways from ■ waling for a Job, overheard something i County are better than the streets of the middle. Is industriously saving about charging a date line. He put f more than half the towns of Georgia. which hls head In the door and told with Not only has the trade from the out- othing. Fo most of the talking, which j has a war-iike sound, strangely remi niscent of Mr. Carnegie’s famous gathering, is left to the mayor, who reasserts the unalterableness of his cloud upon his reputation, and while >ao v»o fight It out on this 'ine If It takes all _ , summer.” end had In discussing the i street, he is one of New York’s most Secretary Cook Appointed Delegate, action on ; was the control.ing influence of the campaign with FmlnMn stated. “Oh. I famous personalities. Great secrets of is attempt to tva!! street are hidden in the brain of _ march unon with p'ckets up to the Rapld.an. Gen. Spottsvlvenis. proved both hls sta*e- Grant utilized the time of Inaction !n I men's not we>! grounded. Putting his strengthening and re-eauipping the huge blue columns In motion. h msss’.ve Army of the Potomac. j sought to take Le° in reverse by w? ATLANTA. May 11.—Secretary of , "old Johnny Dunn.” as he is familiarly ? rate Phn Cook was toda >' a PP°!"ted ' ca'ted He knew Jav Cooke. W. H. Gov - Terrell as a delegate from ... Vanderbilt, Jay Gould ar.d Jim Fiske , Georgia to a convention which will be te I intimately In their day. and among the he’d at the Bureau of Standards in , . - . _ _jv * Dr^sent generation of Wall street Washington on May 16, at 10 o'clock a. Across the yellow Rapidttn lav the c f bis fLee's) r ght flank. When th» i financiers whom he counts as friends, m - ‘be purpose of taking Into con- chart l'c-1 that had so often sprung morrine's sun of the 8th of Mav sflided ! are J. Pierpont Morgan. Edward H. sideration the question of securing a and the treetops and the moving blue line j Harriman. H. H. Rogers. Thomas F. i uniform law relating to standards of j weights and measures. The appointment was made at the 1 request of the ttnited States Depart- 1 widen with a fine bouquet of flowers, claws Into the body of tbe Potomac chanced from column into line and j Ryan. James R. Keene. John W x :-’inlng the gi.t. he discovered a j army. Gaunt from lack of supplies, marched upon the key point, Fpott- Gates and many others. For years hid ro:c. unsigned, but which gave him th” c!d fires of rotriotism burred ami j ev’vapia. Lee's veterans rose up and j office has been in the old and new r'ain information. It accurately de- j glowed In an abiding faith in Its j delivered a terr'fle volley In the face scribed a ravine by which the bridge I leader and the righteousness of its ; c f the advancing foe. For days the over the Susquehanna could be safely | cause. demon of war raged upon the'battle approached and which Gordon used. [ AYhen spring again threw her ban- ii nes of the contending armies here at banking the Free defending and send- 1 ner of blooms and leaves to the breeze j Spottsylvania Inc them in rapid retreat to the nether i each soldier knew the time for action ; " At "the Wilderness” at the crucial ba-k of t ie Susquehanna. j was again upon them. Gen. Grant. ; moment when it looked like Grant's Returning front the Susquehanna. ! through Secretary Stanton, reported —eat masses must *weep the field of Gordon was thrown squarely upon the ; to Congress the Armv of the P'tomar j Hill’s and Eewe!”s ' men. Longstre*t'.« right flank of Meade's advance. With j bow numbered 149 164 present and i eo- ps came un-n the field.' Heading Mvldlng r'ver ! the First cc now numbered .a ringing yell, the Impetuous Georgians I eouinoed. Beyond the Iflung themselves uron the Federal right flank, thus lifting the heavy rressure on the Confederate left, and drlv’ng Howard's Eleventh corps In c infusion through and beyond Geltys- hu-g. It was at this Juncture that Gen. lav the gaunt Army of Northern Vir gin's with but few accessions to re place the losses of the pas? campaign. Wi'lism Sw'n*on. the rrsphie his- ♦-'-*'o e* the P'tn""ir »rrrv who had chronicled all Us battles and cam paign. ca.refu.ly analyzing all official the First corps came Gregg's Texans, heroes of Ccld Harbor. F*eond Manas sas. Sharpsburg. Gettysburg and Chickamauga. Brurring “Traveler” to a position on their marching flank. Gen. Lee greeted them as old and tried companions and stated that he would personally lead them in the charge. buildings of the Stock Exchange, j ment of Commerce and Labor, which whence he has directed the activities j has requested the appointemnt of one of the Wall street squad against the hordes of crooks and cranks who ven ture to cross the “dead line” to prey upon the financial district either by force or cunning. Once before, when McAdoo was commissioner of police, was •* *>13*1 o*a fo"»t to forr* Dunn to resign: but the big men in delegate from each State. Secretary Cook announced that he would attend as the representative from Georgia. One of the chief defects in the pres ent laws with which this convention will deal is the variation in State laws regarding the number of pounds of various products which constitute Wall street whom he knew intimately bushel. A bushel of corn in Georgia organized a parade and threatened to j for instance is 56 pounds and in Ala- march upon headquarters in a body bama 58. These differences are found and demand hl« retention, if less sn”c- ! in the laws of the various States on taoular means were not effective. This j this subject. An effort will be made *:me however Co-Tir"iss’o T 'er Bingham j to prepare a uniform law on this sub ha s firmly decided that the time has j Ject to be submitted to the various come for him to retire. But old Johnny I States for enactment. pride how he had corrected the error! It .was one of the sweetest traits of Grady's character to forgive, and as th* humor of the situation struck him, with that chuckling, musical laugh of hls, he forgave, and forgave freely. * • • Despite the failure of the paper of that day in 1S76 to bear the proper date, nearly every prophesy in it came true In 1900. Now. let us see, and I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet, what Macon may be in 1925. * * • "William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, is a guest of the Hotel Georgia. Mr. Bryan was a candidate for the Presidency some twenty years ago. On his last visit to Macon the corner on which the beautiful Hotel Georgia now stands was occupied as a shoe store by our venerable friend. E. B. Harris. * * « A runaway took place yesterday on the viaduct on Walnut street leading to Central Park. A horse became frightened at the noise of an electric motor attached to a passenger train from Savannah passing underneath. • * » The excursion seamer Dixie is tied up at her wharf at the foot of Seventh street. The freighter Central City will leave the wharf for Brunswick tomor row with a full cargo. ♦ • • There is not a vacant store on Third street from Mulberry to Oglethorpe. Twenty years ago there was but one ■tore on this street from Poplar out. lving country and surrounding coun ties been vastly improved, but the roads are the delight of automoblUsts and those who sti’l love the horse. One can start from the beautiful monument to the W-men of the South In front of the auditorium, and take a ten- mile trip in any direction on paved street? or macadamized roads, and re turn without a trace of mud on th* wheels. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. ATLANTA. Ga.. Mav 11.—Defeating a motion for a half holiday, the broth erhood of railway tralnment today de voted both sessions to further consid eration of the report of the commis sion on insurance claims. The dele gates were entertained tonight at a ball given by the local tra'nmen and to morrow will be devoted to street car rides to various parts of the city and the surrounding country. ONE BUSINE8S BLOCK WAS BURNED AT BOCA3 DELTORO. MOBILE. Ala.. May 11.—Advices re garding the Bocas Deltoro fire Indicate that one business block was burned, and it included some of the largest mercantile houses in Bocas. The suf ferers Include Wm. Thiemann & Co., general merchants, loss total, with In surance of *100,000. The total loss is estimated at *200,- 000. The fire broke out in the stor* of Abrams A Co., on the morning of May 4. INDISTINCT PRINT
