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WAN 1S the only gambler.
%voVl WIMAI.S HE AI-OXE IUSK*
\I L ON GAMES OF CHANCE.
j u \|| Aye" He Hh Played for
Sinke Both Great and Small—< hi. |
nt>Jlt Were the First Gamesters of
Historic Heio%vn—Condon Society j
\ Vn * Completely Given Over to
ilaiila 1" Early Hays.
prom the New York Press.
\ party of humorists, in trying to hit i
upo , distinctive title for man (in con
padisfinction to the other forms of an- ;
in , life) decided that he migljt be called j
a _ mbling animal.” A ‘cooking ani- 1
had been proposed, but then some- 4
oPP suggested that the monkey was
. v . d .r;ng chestnuts when he had occasion
tn u >p the cat's paw. It would not do |
to call him a ’ laughing animal/' because* ,
ri p cna would come in for his share j
of thf honor. In considering Franklin’s j
r i, a “tool-using animal,” one of the
pointed out that the Baltimore oriole
and the Indian tailor-bird sew with their
which are Cheir most appropriate
needles.• But a “gambling animal”—yes.
man . ertainly is that! The folly of Ven
ning his own property on the chance of
winning that of another is peculiar to Pla
to's : at her less biped.
The most sheepish of sheep will not
draw lots for choice of pasturage, nor will
r silliest cur l>e tempted to risk his din
ner at “odd and even.” Even the learned
pit that suburban miracle which tells
people their fortune- the cards, has
r .,ver learned the vale , a trump. Man
is iho unique animal content to stake his
money end happiness on the treacherous
cum of a die, or the chance deal of a pack
of cards.
Gu mI)lorn In All
Now. gambling is a fashion by no means
new Cains Caligula once converted bis
munificent palace into a gambling house,
rhere, the chroniclers tell us, he fleeced
the young nobility of h'.e times. If one
may credit Horace, they could cog a die
in the Augustan age as excellently as in
English Georgian. The Emperor
■ radius, who was “so exceeding prodigal
in his play that he adventured 400,000 ses
terces on the cast of a dice.” wrote a trea
tise upon gaming In those hours which he
•pared from the pursuit itself; for which
fact Seneca, in his sarcastic relation of
t c Emperor’s apotheosis, fetches him,
af:er many adventures, to hell, where in
is condemned to play with a bottomless
direbdx without any cessation; in this
way his hopes werv to be fed continually,
but never satisfied.
Ti is well known that Nero was the
most infatuated gambler of his days.
Plutarch records that the Romans match
ed quails for wagers and describes Antony
lamenting before the battle of Actium. al
though his genius cowered before that of
hi? adversary, that the quail of Augustus
were superior to his. Sophocles says of
Palamedes that he invented dice to serve
in Head of dinner, “which office they ful
fil to this day for many a man whom they
have robbed of the means of paying for
hi? dinner.” The convulsion of nature
which destroyed Pompeii, surprised a
party of men at the hazard table, where
they were discovered 2.000 years later with
the dice firmly clinched in their fists.
<’ar<ts. which were brought into Europe
about the middle part of the fourteenth
• ntury. had not been introduced long be
fore gambling with them became the
rspe. At the beginning of the fifteenth
century we read that this potion was so
prevalent in France that persons who
were addicted to it endeavored to restrain
and guard themselves f>y voluntary pledg
es, with the difference, however, that
there was n penalty for breaking the
pledge. Illustrated manuscripts of th.it
period show not only that women played,
but that the players stood and did not sit
around the tables.
Gfcmet*rs of Olden Days.
The Chinese. who are reckless gamblers,
have several kind? of cards. The general
name for them, how'ever. is che-pae, or
paper tickets, and the kind mo?i common-
Iv used are called tseen-*wan-che-pae—"a
thousand times ten thousand cards.”
This pack has thirty cards; three suits
of nine each and three independent cards,
which ore superior to the rewt. The cards
are two inches and a half in length and
about a half inch in width. The suits
are named respectively “nine myriads of
?:rings of beads,” “nine units of cakes”
and “nine units of chains.” The Chinese
have several queer namee! for their other
varieties of gambling cards; one is cale-l
“the hundred boys’ cards,” another
"chariots, horses and guns.” and a third,
curiously devised on the principle of som
of our historical cards, is caked “a thou
sand times ten thousand men’s names
cards.” *
In an old life of the Duke of Es per non
i* is related that in 1603 a famous Italian
gamester. Pimentel, “hearing what a
humor of play reigned at the French
court.” caused a great number of false
dice to be made and secretly conveyed
them to Paris, he only knowing the se
cret. He, therefore, by means of emissi
ries, bought up all the dice in the market
and supplied his own in their stead. Thin
done, lie obtained an introduction at court
and gambled to so good a purpose that
be cleaned out a great part of the nobil
ity's pockets. Playing with the Duke of
Espernon, lie “got oil his ready money
end many of his jewels and after this,
won of him a piece of ambergris valued
a* 20,000 crowns, the greatest that ever
was seen in Europe.” This piece W3?
afterward sold to the Republic of Venice.
Famed FiikHhli Ghincnter*.
But it was not the French court alone
that was possessed of the “gambling
rag<“ In England as early as the reign
of John Lackland the chances of the dice
constituted the chief amusement of th* 3
great. Matthew Paris reproached the
barons who wrested Magna Chart a from
King John with spending their time in
luxury and Rambling with dice when thei**
ptcsence was required in the field. Later
the merry monarch gambled notoriously
with his courtiers. “I will bet my soul
to an orange on the game!” called His
Majesty to Rochester. Which brought
out cool rejoinder: “If Your Majes
ty will bet odds I will take them.”
Henry Cheney, created by the virgin
Queen Baron of Tudllngton. played at
dice once with Henry II of France; and
won from him a diamond of great price
• t one cast. When the King asked him
what he (would have done had he lost, he
replied With true British brpg: “I have
• beeps’ tail* enough in Kent, with their
wool, to buy a better diamond than this!”
Later the young Englishmen of. fashion
were in the habit of losing £5,000, £IO,OOO
or £15.00 an evening at Almaek's. Lord
Stavordafe, not yet of age, lost £II.OOO In
one night, but won it oil back at one
throw of the dice. He thereupon swore
a great oath; “Now, if I had been play
ing deep 1 might have won millions!”
And one evening the Marquis of Hertford
said to the croupier at White’s: “Pay
£1,500 to Lord •—.” This was the loss
on one rubber at whltd.
Women Interested in Games.
Toward the close of the eighteenth cen
tury, it became the fashion in England
for tfcled ladies to have shares in the
principal gaming tables and faro banks
In London. The grandsons of the Duch
ess of Marlborough had a rule “never
to dirty their lingers with silver.” and
when they went to the gaming clubs were
in the habit of throwing a guinea to the
chairmen who carried them. The chair
men generally fought for this remunera
tive honor, it goes without saying. j
getting was the prime amusement of air
classes, from king to beggar. Nothing
was too trivial or ridiculous to bet upon
For Instance. the utmost excitement
would prevail and ruinous sums were
staked on which of two drops of rain
courfltng down the window pane would
soon cat reach the bottom, or which of
two maggot* would achieve in a certain
time the greatest distance across the
cheese board, or which of two beggars
would pull the longest straw from the
rick. . “What will you lay?” was the
question in everybody’s mouth and a bet
settled every dispute.
On Jan. 9, 1755, Lord Orford, Informing
Horace Walpole of the suicide of a com
mon friend, write*: “He himself, with aii
his judgment in bets, would- have betted
any man in England Against himself for
self-murder.” Walpole, in turn, records
a clever story of cynical George Selwyn.
Once, when a waiter at Arthur’s club
house was committed to Newgate for
robbery, Selwyn exclaimed; “What a hor
rid idea he w}ll give of us to the people '
in Newgate!”'
It is said of George Fox that he once
played twenty-two consecutive hodrs at
faro, losing at the rate of £SOO an hour,
and it is known of Lord Lauderdale that
he once staked £5,000 upon a single card.
Maj. Aubrey’s favorite toast was: “Play,
like the air we breathe, if we nave it not
we die.’’ One Matthias O’Byrne, an Irish
adventurer, having won in one night £IOO.- 1
000 of a person whom he well knew could j
not pay so large a sum. shrewdly permit
ted his friend to win back all but SIO,OOO,
which, being within the loser’s compass,
was p’aid. From this bit of strategy he
received from Hare the name of “Xeno
phon O’Byrne,” *o commemorate hit? mas
terly retreat with the 10,000.
Carried \iva> I>> tin* Mania.
Toward the close of the eighteenth cen
tury the gaming houses of London —known
to the general public as clubs and to the
gamesters as “hells”—were fitted up in
most extraordinary style. Fishmongers’
Hall cost $200,000 merely to furnish. The
expense, however, does not seem so great
when it is. known that the proprietor
netted the first year $750,000. The law
prohibited the opening of such house*,
but the proprietor of Fishmongers' is
recorded to have boasted that he was in
no danger, inasmuch as he counted among
his members the majority of those who
made the laws.
The passion for frequenting these houses
brought about some singular social anom
alies in England. A nobleman. ' the head
of a highly popular whig family in the
west of England, originally of immense
wealth, died in 1839 In a wretched garret
in an obscure quarter of London, having
many years previously lost all faro.
In 1840 one of the oldest baronets in Eng
land, having lost his fortune in a similar
way, was making his living by driving a
stage coach. Finally Lord De Ros, one
of the most respectable of the gaming
nobility, was accused of practicing n
certain trick at whist. When, in 1837. the
matter came up for trial, it was proved
that he cheated habitually, end that some
of his noble associates, knowing this,
prudently played with him rather than
against him.
The noble lord did not long survive his
disgrace. After his death Theodore Hook
proposed as his epitaph: “Here lies Eng
land’s premier baron, patiently awaiting
the last trump.”
\LL % TELEGRAPHERS AM STAKE.
But it Milwaukee Judge Stopped a
II ii it on a (‘onntry lliiuk.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
This is a story of how a bank was
saved through the mistake of a telegraph
operator, a mistake that was not discov
ered for several months. The bank is the
Bank of 'Cumberland. The hero was
Judge Pereles. Therefore the story is
true.
li was. during the panicky days of that
memorable period in 1893, when the bank,
without a run on it. was the exception.
Cumberland is a small town and the Bank
of Cumberland a small bank. Judge Per
eles and several other Milwaukeeans have
interests at Cumberland, and so one day
he was nor surprised to receive a mes
sage bidding him send from SIOO to sson to
the cashier without There was ex
citement in the town, for there was a
run on the bank.
With that ca.m, judicial deliberation
that, lias marked his career upon the
bench Judge Pereles reasoned that 0
would uot go very far toward staying a
run, and so he drew hi* check for triple
the amount, forwarded the money by ex
press and then dispatched a telegram to
the cashier, telling him that $1,500 was on
ihe way to help relieve the pressure.
There was more excitement in Cumber
land when tha message was received than
on the day when the express wagon tore
up Second street with the box of gold
that came from Chicago to the relief of
the Plunkinton Bank. The eyes of the
populace nearly popped out of the popu
lace’s head when they rested on the tele
gram so conspicuously pdsted on the win
dow in front cf the bank. Thus read
the telegram:
! “Have just sent you $15,000 to help you
out. If you need mor** wire at once.
James Madison Pereles.”
It is suspected that the sudden change
in the direction, and the remarkable in
crease in the velocity of the wind on that
particular day, was due to the vacuum
c. raised bv the gasp of astonishment that
the populace gave wheji n saw the fig
ures. The amount was probably greater
than the entire capital of any concern
in Cumberland, and there was the Invi
tation to send for more to this Milwaukee
Croesus, if necessary. But it did the
business. The run on the bank was ti
thing of 'he past. Once while in ’New
York, Judge Pereles told the story and
foi Home months the tale of how $1,500
save ) i bank was the joke of New York
banking circles.
In times of great excitement the credul
ity of the public generally seems to be In
creased in proportion as pulses quicken
and trivial incidents go far toward reliev
ing pressure upon banks. Thi? is true
ir,nk story No. 2, w’ith the scene slightly
shifted. Judge Pereles still remains the
hero, while the bank is the Merchants’
Exchange.
One of the timid clients of Nathan
Pereles & Rons became infected with the
panic germ and insisted upon the firm
storing for him $5,009 in gold that he had
hft with it on investment. It was a case
where argument failed entirely, and so
w : th much trepidation. Judge Pereles was
obliged to seek the bank where th*- money
was deposited, and make the demand for
$5,000 in gold. There were execration*
when the bank officials learned of. the
demand. They could not be conspicuous,
for it was an era of suspicion. Finally
the money came forth.
Two messengers! accompanied Judge
Pereles. then just in ordinary lawyer,
ns he walked off with the pile of gold.
1: seemed as if every eye was on that in
nocent looking satchel and it seemed an
awful.y long way to the office. Finally
i< was reached.
Then the Pereles brothers held a con
m Itation. There was the liability of bur
glars. and it was decided to rent n safef\
deposit vault and store the gold. The
two brothers posted off with the gold be
tween them, heading for the Merchants’
Exchange Bank. It wasn’t very far, but
the gold seemed awfully heavy.
“There’s a run on Nunnemachor s
Bank,” said one as they passed across
Wisconsin street.
The statement was true. There was an
excited crowd outside the tellers window,
anxious to withdraw deposits. In through
the front door went the Pereles brothers.
The late Bradley Schley was there and
he espied the brother*.
“Hello, what have you got there, u
satchel full of gold?”
“Yes.” replied Judge Pereles with a
smile, raking up the sally.
“Well.” replied Schley, this bank’s
all right, with the Pereles brothers bring
ing gold Into It.”
The statement was loud enough for
nearly everyone to hear. There was a
sudden check in/ the rush for the teller’s
window. People in the crowd paused,
and then noticing the bag’of gold, disap
pear into the private offices, hesitated,
then turned away.
snugly stored away In a safety deposit
box. where no depositor could have got
it with a crowbar.
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111 R LEI I FROM HER THRONE.
Pitinlila Life Romance of Once
lten.ntlful < Irons Rider,
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Blind, miserably poor and neglected, the
Barone?? Jenny von Rahden lies dying in
Nizza, France. Once she was admired,
courted and flattered, and men fought to
the death for the honor of her smile; to
day there are none so poor to do her rev
erence. The ‘beautiful eyes th.it a few
years ago flashed like gem? from a rav
ishingly handsome face are now covered
with an. impenetrable veil—a veil of char
ity, perhaps, to hide from her the commis
erating glances of (hope about her.
Jenny Weiss was one of the most dar
ing and ,beautiful of Europe’s equestri
ennes. She owned a stud of the finest
trained hor.-es on the continent, and every
where she Nvent excited admiration mid
applause. One of the most ardent and
persistent % of her suhors was a rich and
handsome Russian. Baron von Ralvden.
He was dashing and prodigal, and it was
no wonder that, dazzled by the magnifi
cence he displayed, the young woman
should fall madly In love with him. He
showered money and jewels upon her with
a lavish hand and watched lur every
movement with lynxlike pertinacity.
After the marriage of Jenny with the
Baron misfortune came. All his vast
wealth waft swept away in a night, and he
faced life as a beggar. Unfitted for work,
he struggled bitterly, until sheer necessity
forced him to let his wife return to the
circus arena with her horses. Faithfully
she labored for him and herself, and her
work was rewarded excellently with boih
fame and money. But the life was mortil
agony for the Russian. Night after nicht
he stood where his fierce eyes could watch
the audience, and every glance that seem
ed to lack respect, every word that seemed
to imply admiration, even the applause
that was lavished on her, bit into him as
acid into <\ wound.
Scon Vienna whs startled that a duel had
been fought between him and on officer of
high rank, and that his opponent had been
killed at the first fire. It was proved
that the dead officer had attempted to
force his attentions on the equestrienne,
and the baron was not prosecuted.
ThV tragic affair coded neither the
Baron's blood nor thnt of the admirers of
the Baroness. A second duel in the
south of Europe soon followed the first,
and another dead officer was left on the
field, to testify to the prowess, this time,
of the Baron’s sword.
Again, in France, a civilian, one of the
richest men cf the day and a notorious
roue, tried to send a note 10 the Baron
ess. The Baron Intercepted it, and the
next morning It became known In the
town thnt the Baron's deadly record had
been increased by another victim.
This third duel sufficed to frighten .the
most daring and for a considerable time
even the insanely jealous man found
something like peace, for there was no
man in any of the crowds that watched
the beautiful woman riie who did not
keep himself in rein, we’d knowing that the
Russian’s sharp eyes were roving over
each faef in turn wdth fierce watchfulness
in every glance. But finally in the circus
In Clermont-Ferrand, in France, during
the French, engagement, a Danish naval
officer became infatuate k with the grace
ful rider. Perhaps he was reckless; per
haps he did not know the record of her
husband. At any rate, he took no pains
to hide his admiration of tlie Baroness
Jenny. His remarks were loud and his
actions challenging. He sat through two
performances on the first day and reap
peared on the second day, showing his
feeling sill! - more openly. His friends
hastened then 10 acquaint him with the
truth. ' They told him that the Baroness
was uq3pproachaWe; that she jived only
for her handsome lover-husband, and that
he in turn carried death in his hand for nil
who passed the line between being ad
miring spectators and anything else.
The Danish officer laughed. It w’as a
pretty romance and amused him. He re
ceived a warning Indirectly from the
Baron* He listened to it with open con
tempt. When the Baroness reappeared he
stared at her with open Insolence. Ijoud’.v
he uttered something that' was even more
openly insolent. In the next instant a
great form towered over him, a voice
thick tvith r.ge addressed him, and he
fell, shot dead.
As this killing was not in a duel the
Baron was arrested and tried. The end
wa* that he was acquitted.
There followed a few years of compara
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tively serene life. Through It all ran ihe
strain of a perfect love between these
two. And then the Baron died.
That wab two years and a hslf ago. In
that time the Baroness appeared with few
interruptions, and won the admiration of
all. no less for her skill than for her faith
fulness. Last January ?he appeared in
Nizza. For some time before that she had
suffered sadly from pain in the spine, but
she insisted on appearing. She rode all
evening, and her acts were even more
brilliant than usual. But even while the
applause was ringing through the place
she fainted and slid helplessly to the
ground. She was carried to the hotel
burning with fever. When she awoke the
next morning she begged her attendants
to open the shutters. But the shuttere .il
ready were wide open. She was blind.
Physicians consulted and consulted, to ar
rive only at the ?ame verdict—hopeless.
The circus folks did what they could tint it
the show hud to depart from Nizza. They
left her behind them in the hotel, and the
hotel people cared for her until In March.
Then, after her beloved horses had ol!
been eold and no money remained, she was
taken to the Asyle Evangelique, where
she 4s dying now.
Tlielr Foxier Mother Wan a I'ig.
From ihe Chicago Inier Ocean.
On the farm of Thomas Callahan, a few
mi'e seast of East Alton, 111., among
other live stork, is a large sow of the
Berkshire variety, which has by her ac
tions aroused considerable curiosity, cre
ated a great deal of talk and put her
self without the pale of other more ex
clusive pig society.
She recently brought into this world a
litter of ten pigs, and about the same
time a shepherd dog on the farm gave
birth to several puppies The mother of
the puppies was noi a devoted molher—
she was ; gad-about and didn’t like do
mestic duties, or the Job of nursing the
little ones, and they were often hun
gry and neglected tn consequence.
Just how they introduced themselves
to th ‘ Berkshire sow or what tempted
her to adopt the strange-looking piggies
will never br known, hut she did adopt
them, hed them following her around
with her own brood and she nursed them
often when the pigs were not present.
Moreover, she appeared to be proud of
them, and would fight for them, as was
evidenced each time a puppy was cought
to be taken to anew home.
Th ‘ mother of the pups Wols agreeable
to the change, but showed as plainly as
mute looks and actions can that she
could not understand the mix-up any
more than any one else, but as the pup
pies preferred their foster mother, and
as the latter was a vicious customer
when aroused, the real mother let the
matter go by default.
Two Head Shots Meet.
From the Galveston Dally News.
Delftna, Tex . May 25.—One of the most
serious tragedies in fhe history of Hidalgo
county was enacted last Sunday at the
Lucero ranch, in the northern part of the
county. The aJiors w’ere Emmett Coy,
who has for some years been In the em
ploy of Guenther A Jones as ranch super
intendent, and Bonifacio Peres, a merchant
of Lucero.
It teem* that bad blood had existed
for a long time between Coy and Peres,
and both of them being men who were
always ready to act on the offensive or
defensive, s the case might be, it was
only’ a question of when and where they
would meet face to fat e that one or both
of them would be killed Last Hundav
they both came to the ranch, each on his
own business. They passed but a word
or two. when Coy kicked at Peres. That
was the signal for the duel which follow
ed. Both men drew pistols simultaneous
ly, and the two shots which followed
sounded like one. and two dead men fell
to the ground. Both were shot through
the heart and death was instantaneous.
Coy was unmarried, but leaves a large
number of relatives In this section of th*
state. Peres leaves a wife and two small
children.
CASTOR IA
For Infanta and Children.
Tiie Kind You Have Always Bought
Bear, the
Signature ol
OFFICIAL.
Report of Special Committee on A'ew
Cemetery.
City of Savannah.
Office Clerk of Council. June 1. 1900
The following report of the Special ;
Committee appointed by His .Honor the
Mayer, to consider the matter oC anew
cemetery is herewith published for in
formation, in accordance with action of
Council.
Savannah. Ga . May 30. 19.0.—T0 the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Sa
vannah:
The Special Committee to which was re
ferred the matter of anew cemetery, and
the offers made by various parties of land
for the same, begs leave to report,
’'’test. That the following pacels of land
have been offered, viz:
1. Dr. James B. Read offeis "Bramp
ton Plantation.’’ on the Augusta Road
about two miles from the city. 640 acres
at SOO per acre This land 11 s on the Sa
vannah river. Total price. $64,000.
2. The heirs of Dr. James P. Screven
offer 152 acres on Causton's Bluff Road,
a rart of “Bruton Hill Plantation,” for
the sum of $25,000.
3. The Tremont Land Company, through I
Mr. C. H. Dorset*, offers 500 acres on
the Ogeechee Road, adjoining the Gar- }
raid land, and lying on both sides of
said road, between the Girrard tract and
the city, being about one mile from the j
city limits, at $l5O per acre. Total price.
$75.0 0.
4. The Warfield land Is offered by Mr
C. H. Dorsett, 20) acres, at s‘o per acre,
near the Junction of Waters' Road and
Montgomery Cross Road. about four
miles from the city limits. Total price.
$9,000.
R. Battery Park tract Is offered by Mr.
C. H. Dorsett. which tract adjoins Laurel
Grove Total price $7,500.
6. Mr. George W. Lamar offers 300
acres, located on the Savannah. Florida
and Western Railway, Just beyond
Bouthover Junction, one mile and a half
from the city limits at S4O per acre.
Terms, one-third cash balance on time.
Total price. $12.000.
7. Messrs Youmans A Dtmmon offer
lands embracing 368 acres, adjacent to the
Ryals farm, and adjoining Laurel Grove
Cemetery, at $10) per acre. Total price.
$’6,800.
8. Mr. J. Palmer Brown through
Messrs. Youmans A Demmond, offers 130
acres, at slls per acre, lying between the
White Bluff Road ahd the Waters Road;
also land of Mr. C. T Cooper adjoln
ir g. 200 to 400 acres, at sllO prr acre, mak
ing a total of 530 acres. Total price,
s£B.fso
9. Evergreen Cemetery Company offers
“Bonadventure.” containing 80 acres,
more or less, on which it is stated there
are over 40 lo’s held by residents of
the city, upon terms $20,000 cash, with
an agreement by the city to care for cer
tain lots in perpetuity, specified in the
offer.
To this is attached an offer of the Mer
chants and Mechanics’ Land Company,
of 14 adjoining acres, at s2*jo per acre,
and about 27 acres more, belonging to
various parties, making 41 acres to be
added to “Bonaventure.” or In all, 121
acre*, including ‘Boraventure,” at $260,
an average of $2. l 0 per acre
10 Mr. William Garrard offers his body
of land, fronting on the Ogeechee Road,
where the Florida Central and Peninsu
lar Railroad crosses )he same, one and
seven-eighths miles from the city limits,
and extending across to the Savannah.
Florida and Western Railway, being
1.060 acre*, more or less, for the sum of
$15,003, to l>e paid in ten years time, in
equal intalments, with Interest at 5 per
centum, payable semi-annually, interest
not to begin, however, until January 1,
1901.
Second—ln considering these offers, this
committee having in view that Laurel
Grove Cemetery has been condemned by
the health officers for years past, as a
"menace to the public health.” could not
entertain offer* of lands adjacent to the
same, such as offers numbered 5 and 7.
The offer of “Bonaventure” Cemetery,
and lands adjoining, could not be ac
cepted by this committee, because the
price was too high, not enough land was
offe cd. and beyond all this. “Bonaven
ture” is, and has been, a cemetery since
1819. and it would be bad policy for the
ci'y lo acquire the remainder of the land
rot already used by graves, for the pub
lic cemetery of the future.
When Laurel Grove was laid out, less
(ban fifty years ago. it contained 117.9
acres, when the population of Savannah
wa* about one-fifth of what it is now. so
that if a cemetery should be acquired to
be laid out with narrow driveways and
small lots, as ihe present one is. and to
last less than half a century, about SOO
acres would be required.
The cemetery of the future should be
modern and handsome, with broad drive
ways, larger lots, and with land enough
to supply the needs of our people for
more than half a century.
It should also be so located as not to
be in the line of probable city extension,
and yet near enough; and it* drainage
should be in a direction from, and not
towards the city, nor shou'd it be into
the Bavannah river.
Third—After careful consideration of
the lands offered, and of ti# necessary
requisites of anew cemetery, the com
mittee has sele ed the Garrard tract.
This tract, as offe ed, embraces 1,081%
acres, extending from the Ogeechee Road
to the Bavannah, Florida and Western
Railway, but of which the owner has
given to the < ounty a public road through
same, and also a sufficient amount of
land for Buckhalter canal and Its later
als. leaving of this tract 1 030 acres, more
or less, which is offered at $45 000. to be
paid for In ten yfars. in equal instal
ments, with inter* sf at 5 per centum, pay
able semi-annually, Interest not to begin,
however, until Jan. 1, 1901.
This tract Is a handsome one. well
wooded. In the right direction, southwest
from the city, to he accessible and yet
not in the line of the city's growth, and
is on a water-shed, the drainage of which
is carried off into the river.
Buckhalter canal is at the foot of this
water-shed, with laterals being dug by
the county, and the committee has the
statement of the drainage engineer of
fhe county, that the laterals now being
dug in this tract will lower the plane of
natural water level between four and
seven feet
The elevation of 'his tract, at and near
the Ogeechee Hoad, is higher than I.*au
rel Grove, being about 37 feet, as
on the topographical county map. with a
gradual slope towards the Buckhalter
canal, near the Havanah, Florida and
Western Railway.
Fourth—The committee therefore rec
ommend, that the tract offered by Mr.
William Garrard, hereinbefore described,
and for the price and upon the terms nam
ed. be accepted and that upon the exam
ination of titles by the city attorney, and
his acceptance of the same. Mayor’s
rotes be issued in the usual form, upon
the delivery of aatlsfartory deed.
This committee further recommend, that
the owners of lots in Laurel Grove
Cemetery shall not be deprived of the use
of their lots for burial purposes, but
that the sale of lots in that cemetery
snail be discontinued as soon as may be
practical. Respectfully submitted,
ISAAC G. HAAB.
JAMES M. DIXON.
JOSEPH O. JARRELL.
JOHN fif’UWARZ,
Committee.
While agreeing to the report In the
main, as to the desirability of the pur
chase of the Garrard tract, at the price
named, yet owing to its Inaccessibility,
not being within easy reach of iwrsous
not keeping private conveyances. I think
some means of easy access should b
assured before definite action Is taken
GEORGE J. MILLS.
SCHOOL* AID COLLEGES.
A Summsr School, In which boy* will
hs prpra<! for Hl.h School*. Collegs*. or
Universities, will b„ opened at Woodbury
Forem Ht*h School on July 13. ItWY The*®
who desire *en*ral Instruction In the Aca
demic branches, or "coaching" In special
•übjecta will And th* school adopted to
their wants A completely fitted chemical
laboratory will be accessible to the puplle.
The session will continue during six
ed by th* course pursued. Address conn
I municatlon. u> the Principal, Orange, Va.
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