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OCILLA WATCH.
0(1 MX 7 GEORGIA.
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HEIS'DEltXON & HANLON, Publishers.
The Pope has told the Boimm
Nobles that they must mend their
morals. If the aristocracy is to have
no privileges, what is the use of be¬
ing an aristocrat?
It looks as though the United
Stales was no longer a debtor nation.
Her capitalists are now financeering
many of the heavy affairs of Europe.
Think of it, and we not yet one-fousth
through our second century.
Queen Victoria appears to have
made, by proxy, a good schoolmis¬
tress, as well as a sovereign, judging
from the fact that when she ascended
the throne, more than fifty per cent,
of the Brisish people could not write
their names, while now only seven
, per cent, are in that lamentable con¬
dition of illiteracy.
A sympatJietic critic ot our literature
has said that the people of the United
States have had to act their Iliad and
have not had time to sing it. They
have passed through several stages of
political progress culminating in the
position of a colonizing power,and the
intervals between their crises of growth
have not been long enough for the set¬
tlement of literary canons nor promo¬
tive of general literary culture. Until
recently the territorial sections in
which certain economical and political
doctrines were more or less powerful,
represented the antagonism ot feelings
and ideas which pr evented unity of
national aspiration. Since the Civil
War the country has been developing
industrial business by means of the
railroad systems which have promoted
the largest domestic trade in the
world; and now, for the first time in i
its history, it has become politically !
one by reason of a war which has
brought together North and South, as
well as East and West, in an intimacy
'of national relation which did not ex¬
ist a year ago, observes the New York
Commercial Advertiser,
I While the dress goods industry of
L this country is iu a somewhat unsatis¬
factory condition, that of France ap¬
pears to be far worse situated, ob¬
serves the Dry Goods Economist.
Manufacturers in Bonbaix report a
very unprofitable business, and though
their confreres in Germany and Eng¬
land have also suffered from bad trade,
• the latter were undoubtedly better off
than the Frenchmen, Want of
adaptation to modern requirements is
the cause ascribed by the Economiste
Francaise. While there are establish¬
ments in France as well equipped as
in Alsace or Saxony, on the whole a
much larger proportion of the looms
in Germany are of the best and most
receut construction. This is largely
because the German woolen manufac¬
ture is of more recent growth than that
of France. It is also claimed by the
Economiste that, because of the com¬
bination of spinning and weaving in
the same mills, France cannot pro¬
duce the immense variety of fabrics
now required so economically as is
done in Germany and England, where
spinning aud weaving are to a very
large extent separate industries. This
is a matter which has recently begun
to receive attention from American
manufacturers.
The multiplication of locomotive
agencies goes on apace, aud is realiz¬
ing such a forecast with a rapidity
never before known. Canal, steam
engine, electric and cable cars, bicycle
and automobile have not only com¬
bined against our four-footed friends
for competition in long and short dis¬
tances, but are competing among
themselves for the largest shave iu
the victory. In the most highly
civilized countries the beast of burden
for long distances has been eliminated
by the railway, and for short distances
the process will be practically com¬
pleted by the street car and the
automobile. * The great trunk lines
across this country, the Canadian
Pacific Railway across Canada, the
traus Siberian line in Asia, the com¬
ing railway from Cairo to Cape Town
and other great lines yet to be built
in Asia and Africa, portend the final
displacement of the nomad life which
originally gave animals their chief
value. The work of elimination is
thus being sketched on broad lines by
eolonizing necessities, and the filling-
in process will go on with the develop¬
ment of trade and civilization. Minor
details will be adjusted by local con¬
ditions, and the same principle that
calls for great continental highways of
steel will be operative in smaller areas
wherever commerce is established.
THE PRETTY AH FONG GIRLS OF HONOLHLH.
A Truly Wonderful Story That is Unparalleled Even in
the World of Fiction.
THIRTEEN CnAUMINO SISTEKS WHOM WE ABE RAPIDLY ANNEXING.
On Bo a hi) Steameb Oceanic, I
Off Honolulu, Hawaii.
January, 1899.
WONDER if you
mm ever hear of the
5 pretty Ah Fong
S' ,v girls of Hono-
Cs Sell 1 u 1 u—thirteen
5*101 oharming
daughters of a
treme ndously
SI man wealthy and a China¬ Kan¬
aka woman,
each with a
dowry of $350,-
000 ?
It is a truly wonderful story and en¬
tirely unparalleled even in the world
of fiction. For no cause other than a
Chinaman’s ceaseless longing for re¬
turn to his native country the father
abandoned his wife and family aud his
millions and lives in seclusion in
Pekin. His Sandwich Island wife
lives in magnificent style in the sump¬
tuous home which he built in Hono¬
lulu, and his numerous daughters are
iu the swellest society the islands
afford and are plainly enough deter¬
mined upon marriage alliances with
the best of the white men who come
their way.
Recent tidings from Honolulu give
currency to a report that another
daughter of Wing Ah Fong is to marry
in that city a young American resi¬
dent. The prospective bride’s mother
already has the dowry of $350,000 in
cash, real estate and securities ready
for the marriage day.
This time the bride will be Miss
Jessie Ah Fong, and her choice is
settled upon Howard G. Morton, a
young newspaper editor who has lived
iu Honolulu for several years, He is
a distant relative of ex-Secretary of
Agriculture Sterling G. Morton, of
Nebraska, and a first cousin on his
paternal side of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
He was a student at Cornell Univer¬
sity, aud later at Stanford University,
at Palo Alto, Cal. He inherited a
small fortune when he was twenty-five,
and, abandoning reportorial work in
San Francisco, sailed ou a journey
around the world. He never got any
further than Honolulu. There, be¬
coming infatuated with the climate
aud the easy life under the tropics,
he decided to remain always. He
bought stock in a local newspaper, in¬
vested in sugar company stock, and
fell in love with Miss Jessie Ah Fong.
The mairiage, it is said, will take
place shortly.
Story of tlie Ah Fung Girls.
The Ah Fong (written Afong since
the family became leaders of fashion
in Honolulu) group of thirteen g;irls
is very interesting from several points
of view. Everybody who has been in
Hawaii, no matter for how brief a
time, in the last decade has heard
much about the Ah Fong family, and
how it has borne the brunt of hospita¬
ble entertainment of all visiting naval
craft in tho harbor of Honolulu.
Early in the sixties a young Chinaman
named Wing Ah Eong settled in Hon¬
olulu. He was an unusually intelli¬
gent and genial Chinaman, and with a
little capital he soon built up a pros¬
perous business in Chinese pottery,
silks and bric-o-brac. He learned the
Kanaka aud English tongues readily,
aud before anyone knew it he was the
leading merchant in Honolulu. He
spent money freely and was well
liked by whites and blacks in the
quaint old town. He married ayoung
girl of uncertain Portuguese and Kan¬
aka ancestry, but with a dash of Eng¬
lish blood somewhere back in her con¬
fused pedigree. She was' an attrac¬
tive, energetic and ambitious person
for that land of languor and siesta, and
the young couple prospered. Ah
Eong invested in sugar cane planta¬
tions, and in tho old times, when
sugar plantation stock paid thirty and
forty per cent, dividends a year he
grew very rich. In ten years Ah Fong
was worth over $300,000 and was add¬
ing $35,000 a year to it annually. Mr.
Ah Fong was a careful, prudent busi¬
ness man, and while his business as¬
sociates were content to drowse and
take no heed of the morrow he was
watching chances to buy plantation
land cheap from the improvident who
abounded in Hawaii.
Swellest Home In Honolulu.
In time the Ah Fong family num¬
bered seventeen—the parent, two
boys and thirteen girls. People who
used to visit Honolulu ten and fifteen
years ago say that it was a memorable
sight to see bowling along any of the
lava-made roads in Honolulu Papa Ah
Fong with his white duck Buit aud
his long cue dangling down his back,
driving the horses that drew his com¬
plete family circle. The girls always
dressed in elaborate gowns of maroons,
magentas and scarlet reds, and the
wagon load of childish feminine loveli¬
ness of every hue in the rainbow made
a charming spectacle.
Mr. Ah Fong built the most unique
residence in Hawaii. It stands in the
western suburbs of Honolulu on a
sightly knoll. It is an enormous
pagoda, with the oddest sort of piaz¬
za's about it, There are sixteen of the
piazzas, and they are all over twenty
feet wide. Envious parents of other
pretty Honolulu and marriageable daughters in
say that the Ah Fong par¬
ents had these many separate and dis-
tiuct piazzas built in this fashion pur¬
posely to let each daughter in the
family have a piazza solely to herself
aud her particular young men callers
of an evening. Be the charge true or
false, it is a fact that all the Ah Fong
piazzas— so famous in Honolulu—are
filled 350 evenings in the year with
companies of young men callers, and
there are impromptu concerts with man¬
dolins, banjos and a dozen reed instru¬
ments not known outside the tropics
on the piazzas almost every evening.
Mr. Ah Fong, true to the character¬
istics of his race, never abandoned his
Chinese mede of life. His wife and
his fast increasing family might think
and do as they liked, for he was an in-
dulgont father, but he never gave up
his chop-Bticks and his wooden shoes
aud flowing garments of gaudy silks.
Occasionally when this wagon load of
gayly gowned femininity drove down
to the Honolulu wharf to give a wel¬
coming hand to people from the
steamer or man-of-war he would please
his daughters by putting his long
black cue under his derby hat. He
was the soul of hospitality, and he
loved to give big spreads at. home.
All Font; Sails Away.
In the spring of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong
planned a visit to China with his
eldest son, about seventeen years old.
The man had become very wealthy—
in fact, one of the four richest men in
the Hawaiian Islands. His invest¬
ments in stock in the sugar companies
had paid themselves out six and seven
times over. He made over $300,000
in one deal in sugar stock to Claus
Spreckels, of San Francisco. Hun¬
dreds of acres of land on the Island of
Maui that had cost him a few thou¬
sand dollars had become worth many
times more. He was popularly rated
at about $4,000,000, with an income of
over $70,000 a year, and the estimate
seems to have been just.
In the summer of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong
had so arranged his business that he
and his son sailed away for Hong
Kong. When six months had passed
and the rich Chinaman had not re¬
turned there was some comment. But
when a year went by aud he wa" (till
absent all Honolulu was interested.
Mrs. Ah Fong and her lovely daugh¬
ters never spoke on the subject—at
least, to outsiders. Then the Chinese
in Honolulu began to get news from
relatives and friends in China, and the
information became general in the city
that Ah Fong had gone to visit in
Pekin, and that by the laws of China
he came very near going to prison for
a long term for going to a foreign
land. The gossip had it also that Mr.
Ah Fong had paid a fine of many thou¬
sands of dollars and had settled down
with a good-sized fortune to live all
his days in Pekin, How much of
this is mere gossip and how much his¬
tory no one can say confidently. At
any rate the Ah Fong family in Hono¬
lulu believes the story as to the fate
that befell Papa Ah Fong in Pekin.
Moreover, the Honolulu and San
Francisco newspapers published the
gossip about Mr. Ah Fong aud no one
has yet contradicted them.
Mrs. Ah Fong and her children
have gone right along, apparently
heedless of the absence of the hus¬
band and father. The estate is well
managed and-is in such shape that it
earns its dividends with little personal
care of the family. When the first
daughter was married to Captain
Whiting it was decided that each girl
should have her share of the family
patrimony when she married. Mrs.
Whiting got $100,000 in cash and
$250,000 in property and securities.
So it was then settled also that the
dowries were to consist of money and
property or securities to the value of
$350,000 each.
Girls All Winsome, Some Beautiful.
Eight of the thirteen girls are un¬
usually attractive and would be much
observed in any general assemblage
of young women the world over. All
the Ah Fong girls are petite and have
peculiarly graceful ways, winning
voices and a certain vivacity that has
no comparable counterpart in Ameri¬
can life. They range in height from
five feet two to five feet seven, with
the average at about five feet five.
All the Ah Fong girts are good sing¬
ers, aud have the love of the Ha-
waiians for string music. For years
the girls have been famous for their
waltzing. Many a naval officei^has
sailed away from Honolulu harbor
with fond remembrance of his first ap¬
preciation of the soulfulness and
beauty of Strauss’ waltzes after a
party at the Ah Fong house. Five of
the girls are unusually handsome and
would win attention for that reason
alone in any society. Two or three of
the girls have the Chinese almond-
shaped eyes quite marked, and they
feel dreadfully about it. But they
are the very jolliest of the Ah Fongs,
and by the graces and accomplish¬
ments that they have evidently studied
to overcome any facial defect, they
are particularly popular. Two more
have a faint suggestion of slanting
eyes, but their superb complexions
and limpid dark eyes make them par¬
ticularly prepossessing.
All the Ah Fong girls nave dark
hair. Four have deep olive com¬
plexions, five are as dark as American
brunettes and four have light com¬
plexions. They all have small hands
and feet. One or two of them are
what would be called fairly fat, but
none of the others can weigh over 130
pounds.
Stylish and Picturesque.
But it is the manner of dress and
the chic style of the Ah Fong girls
that make them such attractions to
naval officers and prominent resident
Americans in Honolulu. Possessed
of great wealth and a natural genius
for color effects, the Ah Fong girls
have from the time the eldest first
went out to dancing parties till the
youngest a year ago made her debut
in Honolulu society at the age of
fifteen worn somff of the most heart¬
crushing gowns man ever looked
s
family. Once every two years slie
goes to San Franoisco, thence across
the continent to New York, thence to
Paris, where she spends some thou¬
sands of the Ah Fong fortune in great
boxes and cases of the latest Parisian
feminine vanities and conceits.
Cultivated and Up to Dale.
Unlike all other young women in
Honolulu, the Ah Fong girls have
cultivated the ways of the Americans
and English. That is a characteristic
they have inherited from their Mon-
golion ancestors—the knack of know-
in g what will please the Oausasian
race and then setting about to accoin-
plish it. The Ah Fong girls have be-
British navy know what good tenuis
players the Ah Fongs are, and a man-
of-war no sooner touches Honolulu
than the yotfng men aboard who have
been there before begin plans for get-
ting early to the hospitable Ah Fong
home.
The Ah Fongs’ social position in
Honoluln has been assured for ten
years, and since the father went to
China never to return to Honolulu the
position of the girls has been settled
beyond argument. The marked at-
tention the naval officers have shown
the girls has given them a prestige
that their money could not buy even
in mercenary Honolulu. The agree-
ability of Mme. Ah Fong, and her
smiles of happiness upon all her
daughters’ attendants have been po-
tential in making the Ah Fongs the
favorites they are. The pagoda man- i
sion has always been kept open to the
girls’ friends.
railfaln w „... All” . _
Miss Henrietta J Pmo- °’ vhr mar ml
vied ewain whiHn 17 q w n! ;
now uadno^k t 1Z i L
M
charming- charming in in tli» the family. fainilv Kim She is 1
is a
reade^ among the 8 girlsl 8 White all°tbe i
h l "it Ta^ nevertheless^ 1
naval » offic«s fHoToSrn;
-
San Francisco when the announcement
was
to wed Miss Ah Form To be sure i
she she was was veiy verv brisht blight and siid pietty m-ettv and and
would adorn any home, and—and she ;
had an absolutely sure dowry of $350,-
000, and may get more. But then
there is the persistent thought that
possibly old Papa Ah Fong and his
queue and his clattering wooden shoes
may come out of China one day on a
visit to his daughters. Then, too, one
cannot suppress the wonder whether
any of Mamma Ah Fong’s Kanaka |
blood will ever assert itself in future ;
generations. The naval officers, even
those who had repeatedly been guests
at the Ah Fong mansion, shook their
heads and talked in whispers among
themselves.
But the marriage, which took place
in May, ’ 1894, has proved a perfect
union. Captain Whiting and his wife
have a beautiful home among the
cocoanut trees of Honolulu, and their
devotion to each other is only marred
by their common devotion to their
three-year-old girl. Mrs. Whiting is |
one of the most beautifully gowned
women among the naval circles any-
Three Other ^Tarried Sisters.
Miss Alice Ah Fong, who married
Arthur M. Johnstone (formerly a re-
porter in St. Louis), the Associated
Press representative at Honolulu, is
the tallest aud most dignified of the '
girls—that is, if one may speak of dig-
nity in connection with these jolly,
singing bits of femininity of the tropics, j
Mrs. Johnstone owns a great block of
stock in the Hawaiian Sugar Company,
and the annual income from that alone
is over $22,000. Besides, her dowry
included a coffee plantation and busi-
ness real estate in Honolulu. Mrs. J.
Alfred Morgan, wife of a prosperous
lawyer in Honolulu, who came from
Leavenworth, Kan., was Miss Jenny
Ah Fong until her marriage last Janu-
ary. Her dowry consisted of cash, a
block of stock in the Maul Comrner-
cial Sugar Company and real estate at
Waikiki, near Honolulu. Miss Helen
Ah Fong married a young San Fran-
cisco lawyer named George Stewart in
August, 1897, and went on a tour of
the world with him. They will be
back in Honolulu next spring. Mean-
whilo a very haudsomo home for the
young couple is building in San Fran¬
cisco.
But there are nine other Ah Fong
girls to gladden the hearts and homes
of youth and chivalry. Moreover,
there is a vast amount of stock in sugar
companies, interests in cocoanut
groves, thousands of acres of fertile
soil on the islands of Hilo and Maui,
stock in Hawaiian steamboat lines and
Honolulu real estate to be given in
dowry to the girls as fast as they choose
their husbands. And above all old
Papa Ah Fong has recently sent word
from Pekin that he will probably
never leave there again, and Mamma
Ah Fong is not at all likely to so much
as sail out of Honolulu harbor.
Laying; the Atlantic Cable.
The Atlantic telegraph-cable was
safely laid, and was put in successful
operation in the month of July, I860.
The work was begun on the 6th by
landing the shore end at Valencia, in
Ireland. On the 13th the deep-sea
line was spliced to the shore end, and
the Great Eastern, with the cable on
board, accompanied by three consorts,
set out on the voyage. Not a single
misadventure occurred, aud on the
28th the vessels reached Newfound¬
land. Tho whole distance sailed by
the fleet was 1686 nautical miles, and
the length of cable paid out 1868
miles. The rate of sailing was singu¬
larly uniform, and the least distance
was made in a single day being 105
miles, the greatest 128.
AMERICANS TAKE
thf, lllli city will of V/l A pasig xiwiw
Desperate Fighting and Rebels
Put To Flight
THREE AMERICA NS KILLED
Th .0 Filipinos* ... Losses Reported
To Be Very Severe.
A Manila special General ~ ,
says:
Wheaton attacked and captured the
ci fy 0 f p asi g, east of Manila, Monday
for -"t an honr > The bllt ““T at tbe ”“ end d ; \t; ot that
time was forced to retreat.
At daylight General Wheaton’s di-
v j s i 01 , a i brigade °. ’ consisting of the
m Twentletb United States infantry, . , the ,,
Twenty-second infantry, eight com-
panies of the Washington volunteers,
8even companies of the Oregon volun-
tbre ,, e troops . of . * . ie „ ou ? ,, }
F"l ted States , cavalary and a mounted
battery of the Sixth artillery, was
d J aw “ up °° a ridge behind San Pedro ,
Maeati, a mile south of the town. Lhe
advance vias sounded at (5.30 a. m.,
^ ie oava * r y ' e< * ^b e column, at a smart
* r0 *’ across the open to the right,
eventually reaching a clump command-
* n 8 * be rear Guadalupe.
Supported by the Oregon volunteers
^ be a< ^ Ta,| ce force opened a heavy fire
on the rebels.
The response was feeble and desul-
tory, apparently coming from hands-
ful of men in every covert. While the
right colnmn was swinging toward the
town of Pa8ig > the Ieft advanced aml
P°™ d ™ lle y s iuto tb « b « ab '
A small body of rebels made ado-
;ermined stand at Gandalupe church,
” nable to witbstaud the as- j
At 7:3 ° a river gunboat sta L ted
r* mi ,r:
)e near G , ladalupe pourld . Steaming slowly, fr/rn |
|he gunboat a terrific fire
ber gatlmg 8 1lns mt ° the brush. For
ab °^ al1 bonr tbe whirring of the rapid
fire guI)8 alternated with the booming
of the heavier pieces on board.
The artillery moved to a ridge com- j
manding Pasig and Parteros. By this
time the enemy was in full flight along
a line over a mile long and the tiring
was discontinued temporarily in order
to give the troops a rest before making
an attack on Pasig.
At this stage of the engagement it
... heavily, and , after ,, a short ,
was ralnrn £
refi attack L General. 1 asig. Wheaton resumed the
on
I he first shot shot from the Ameri-
^ a ^ tiM't pieces at 1,200 yards range
dislodged a gun of the enemy at Pasig.
After the town had been shelled,the
Twentieth regiment lined up on the
bluff and the Twenty-second took up a
position on the left of the place, with
the cavalry in ihe center, whereupon
tbe enemy retreated to the town.
^ be rebels were met opposite Pate-
ros . bnt tb e enemy bolted and the city
' was captured,
Thirty of the rebels were killed and
sixteen were taken prisoners and the
Americans lost three men killed and
fourteen wounded.
A public demonstration was made
a* Havana Monday morning in honor
Gomez. When Federico Mora,
ci'’il governor of Havana, learned of
the preparations he directed the police ^
to prevent the parade. They tried to
do so, but utterly failed.
W hen near Quinta de los Molinas
the demonstrators began to shove the
policemen, pulling their coats and at-
tempting to take away their clubs, j
There were more than a hundred police
within ten blocks, but they did not
as “ together. Indeed, they were
thoroughly scared, and one policemen
ran to Central park, where the Tenth
regulars were camped.
The Twentieth regulars, who were
sent, at double-quick with fixed bayo- j
nets to protect the policemen, charged :
down upon a crowd of a thousand.
Everybody ran, including the police
and men, women and children turn- |
bled over each other in the rush. Two !
minutes later the avenue was cleared
for blocks, but not a person was hurt
by the regulars,
EDITORS TO VISIT CUBA. !
Georgia Press Association Will Make
a Trip To the Island.
Mr. H. H. Cabaniss, president of \
the Georgia Press association, is ar-
ranging to take that body of editors
on a trip to Cuba. The trip will be a
short one and at moderate cost. It is
estimated that the expense will be
from $60 to $75 for each person.
It is the intention of President
Cabaniss „ , to , cull a meeting of the
Georgia Press association at Tampa
for Friday morning, the 24th of March.
It must be distinct y understood
hat no one can enjoy the privilege of
taking this trip except the editor, pro-
pnetor or publisher o a Georgia
newspaper. One lady will be allowed
to accompany each gentleman bu she
must be a member of the family of
such editor, proprietor or publisher.
NUNS ORDERED FROM CUBA.
Papal Delegate .Expels Five Sisters
of American Order.
A Baltimore dispatch says: Five
sisters of the American Order of Sacred
Heart, have, according to a dispatch
received from Pinar del Rio, been or¬
dered away from Cuba by Archbishop
Chappelle, the papal delegate recently
appointed to investigate the affairs of
the Catholio church in that island.
IN BEHALF OP^H
An Appeal to the People '
States Is Issued.
A Boston, Mass., dispatchf^^l
An appeal to tlio people of the United
States urging all “lovers of freedom”
to co-operate with them in an attempt-
* nduce the government to suspendJ
in the,Philippines and con-
view to preventing further bloodshed
^ recognizing their independence
upon the guarantee of protection to
property, by the natives, has beerl
issued over the signature of more than
a 8 f ore °( prominent men.
I lie preamble describes the attitudJ
of McKinley this government toward the and Filipinos of PresidenJ| f>®
* s ~
°P alists in ' on and, ou tbe on the part contrary, of the anti-impj® every*®
? 80n Ramst , for a th ® continuance B P lrR of militarism of the pr^H
force, eratiou and the they therefore urge co-o{®
to following ends:
First—That our government shall
take immediate steps toward a suspen-
8 * on of ha ®^ lities .j?- tbo I ’ 1 dH Ppine8
an< ‘ conference f with the Philippine > ]
leaders, with a view to preventing
f„ rt her bloodshed upon the basis of
recognition of their freedom and inde¬
p en dence as soon as proper guarantee
can be had of order and protection to
property.
Second—That the government of the
United States shall tender an official
aR8Urance to the inhabitants of the
Philippine islands that they will en-|
courage and assist in the organization
0 f BUC h a government in the islands as
the people thereof shall prefer, and
that upon its organization in stab
manner the United States in prescrl aecoJ
a nce with its tradition and reel
t ive policy in such cases, will Phill
nize the independence of the natioi
pines and its equality among
and gradually withdraw all naval at
military forces. - i
The signers are ex-Governor Geo*
^nator GeoLge° F. Edmunds! oi’vM
Louisiana! W Bourke SSSM Codn a^H
New York; William Johnson,t| H.
Georgia; Henry U.
diana; Samuel Federation Gompers, presic
the American of La
Felix Adler, of New York; UniversjJ DavidV
Jordan, president Stanford MassachuseJ
Winslow Warren, of
Herbert Welsh, of Pennsylvania; Connecticut® Ld
ard Wolsey Bain, of San®
p. Adams, of Massachusetts;
Bowles, of Massachusetts; I. EdwaJ J. MI
Gmty, of Cornell university;
Atkinson, of Massachusetts; CiS
Scliurz, of New York; Reverd
Johnson, of Maryland; Herman
t on Holst, of Chicago universitlB
Moorfield Storey, of Massachusetts
Patrick A. Collins, of Massachusetts
L. Cuyler, of New Massac^W
’Ihomas W. Higginson, of
setts; Andrew Carnegie, of New York;
York; ex-Senator Charles John E. G. Norton, Carlisle, of Har«® of NmJ
university; W. G. Sumner, of ^
college; ltey. Dr. C. H. Parkhurs
New York,
ATLANTA’S NEW DEPOT?
-
Railroads Ask For More Time to
sider the Matter.
ijq 1B new union depot for Atla
Gn., is as far from realization as c
railraads interested dec‘1
Tuesday afternoon before the rail
commission that it was out of*
guestion to figure on a depot witJ
using elevated tracks, and the eleq
tracks could not be a success
qqg c ;ty granted permission tJl
p resa Whitehall, Prycr Jfi ai
streets. thnlfl
And s till further
WO uld not consent to erecrai unless!
and expensive station
would, by its lease, warral
penditure of the money, and i
fl y would depend'upon the
stockholders of the roads,
PUTNAM IS LIBRARIAN?
President Gives a Snug Berth
Prominent Boston flan.
A Washington dispatch says: I
ident McKinley has appointed Her
Putnam of Boston librarian of congi
Mr. Putnam was born in New
City iu 1801. He is the son of
P. Putnam, founder of the publi
house of Geo. Putnam & Sons
was qt one time librarian of the B
public library.
.DETAINED BY QUARANTINE
Being fl _
Government Transport is
Below Savannah, Ga. A
Tbe detel)tion of the transport J
! bel . gan ° w Savannab the ^ G , eorg,a ___• 18 g ^«g . state , , the ,f a jl |
’
partment P some concern. The Cu* sl M
} revente d from returning to JoB
. . , .
^ wbioh will occur ^ the M
wi „ t , hiuder the jl
‘ to this country. The troops! w
is t too co!d to br i J a g the
cl ’ a th
landed at south ern r 0 Ms durj
, ..
' pl 1 '
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS
Reassemble At Nashville and Agaii
Take Up Their Labors.
A Nashville special says: The leg* wil
tare mot again Tuesday morning
thirty-seven days of the session, 11
eluding Sundays, remaining for worl
All the committee reports are pracB
cally complete. cal® A
A delegation of labor men
on Governor MeMillin and urged lH
to veto the bill making the garni*
ment law more stringent. A