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A Great Mid-Summer Carnival
In the coolest spot in the city is now being held. The past week was a record breaker with as for this sweltering season of the year, and just as
sure as wa eir wi seek its Jfvel, so, too, will people find oat the pleasantest place at which they can get the best valaes for their money. And thas
tr pas wee a the “AG STORE has been a veritable carnival of pleased and basy shoppers. Oar dictam that it is the cheapest and pleasantest
ur:Dcnm c *ke vo * ce the majority makes the verdict in this coantry, and the demonstrable fact is very patent herethat
THE PEOPLE, THE WHOLE PEOPLE, are *ith as. We don’t claim to be “THE PEOPLE," bat we do try to serve them anselfishly.
MEN’S VICIAI CtlF SHOES, GRAND VALUESTOf tiso. “8 Bf (1,98
Gloves, Belts, Vests and H’dk'fs.
ladies - Kayser Silk Gloves, with double tipped fingers, with Mack or self-stitch
ing, In tho most 6tylish colors, pair „
patent Leather Pulley Belts
ore lot of Bolts, In tan and black leather, crash adit silk, to ba closed out at 100
Colored and Black Japanese Fans and up
ladies' Fine Lisle Vests, low neck and no sleeves, with silk tape, 50c quality, to
sell 3 for si .oo
Shield Shape Silk Vests, Jersey ribbed veesta
Jersey Ribbed Vests, In white, pink and bluo
ladies’ Hemstitched Linen Handkerchiefs
linen Handkerchiefs, with fancy lace edges
Ladies’Patent Tip Oxford Ties, 50c; Misses’ Button and Lace Shoes, K H 89c
HAMMOCKS.
$l.OO Hammocks at.... $ .50
2.00 Hammocks at.... - 1.50
3.00 Hammocks at 2.19
4.00 Hammocks at 2.98
5.00 Hammocks at 3-98
We guarantee every price we make. If you can buy
the same for less money we will refund you yours.
Japanese Paper Napkins, fancy rose
borders, 10c per 100.
Do You Want to Keep Cool?
Then go to the North Pole, or get one of these
fill A ItlplE I $3.98
(They are worth $6.00.)
LUXURY IN MODERN
FLOATING PALACES.
American Steam Yachts Are the Most Ex
pensive and Handsomest in All the World.
American Yachts ami Their Owner*—The Magarß, Owned by Howard
Could roat $700,000 and Mr*. Robert Goelet'** lVahnia, SOOO,OOO.
Leading Marine Architect* in New York City Estimate T.hnt
9-11,3,15,1100 I* Invested by American Citizens In
Steam Yacht*.
York, June 29—According to care
estimates made by the leading marine
architects in New York city, the vast sum
cf C;,:B5,000 Is invested in steam yachts by
citizens of the United States.
Steam yachting- is necessarily a mil
lionaire's pastime, a luxury, which none
but the very wealthy may enjoy. Not li
lts proclaims more emphatically that this
1* * land of millionaires and multi-million
'ires than the fact that In round numbers
1® steam yachts ore owned by American
citizens. More than a score of them
£* liiryn’Sen'esii’—i ■ ““
' 90
On board the Idalia. .
't; far more than any one save n man
*? r, 'a many millions could afford to pay.
The**, vessels may be properly descrlb
only by the oft-used simile, "floa Int
(•laces.” Palaces they ore, Indeed; mag
i' 1 ' r.t marine residences—as expensively
•tc'ir.ted as the millionaire owners' city
™ ,r xlone—huge vessels in which their
owt. r s may cross oceans, may traverse
waters of foreign pools, and yet al
’ be m home. .
Not only are more steam yachts owned
v Amerteans than by the citizens a* l !’
country, but American steam yachts
Jiatomnal) Morning
exceed all others in luxuribusness. On
forty-nine of the largest and most ex
pensive ones the least costly of which
cost $300.0X1, $10,830,000 has been spent .while
the cost of ninety-eight others, less valu
able, swells the total invested in this lux
ury to the sum stated above. A statis
tical table is sometimes an encumbrance,
but the one given below cannot fail io be
of interest Just at this season, when so
many of tliese palatial floating homes are
being got ready for summer cruising:
American Steam Yacht* and Their
Owner*.
Niagara, owned by Howard
=— , . ... $700,000
Nahma, owned by Mrs. Bob
ert Goelet 600 '*°
Josephine, owned by P. A. u.
v ajiant owned by " *; m m
Vanderbilt 475.000
J. Dexel '
vnruna. owned by Eugene
Margarita, owned’ by Anthony
Corsair, owned by J. Flerpont
Morgan * •■••• •
Gentlemen, for Your Comfort!
MEN'S fine PERCALE NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, collars and cuffs attached,
guaranteed fast colors, perfect fitting, worth $l.OO, at 49a
MEN S FINE SILK-BOSOM NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, bosom made from genuine
wash silk, with fine cool cambric bodies. In blues and pinks, former price
$l.OO. at 590
. MEN’S FINE CAMBRIC NTGHT SHIRTS, with fancy trimmed front*, full
length and full bodies, worth 75c, at 390
For this week we will sell genuine MADRAS PAJAMAS, worth $1.50, at 98c
MEN'S GENUINE PEPPERELL JEANS DRAWERS (B. V. D. pattern),
with string ot elastic bottoms, all waist measurements and lengths, worth
500 at 380
A big lot of Men's Washable String and Band Bows, worth 25c each, at 10c,
3 for j. 2Sc
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1900.
ENTICING FIGURES IN WASH GOODS.
Yard-wide Bleached Shirting, regu- Ca
ular price 6 1 4 c- Ju
Yard-wide Fruit of Loom Shirting, Q3a
regular price U4u
Printed Challies, ) 03#*
Shirting Calicoes, V Regular price sc,
30-in. White India Lawn ) , U4U
Solid Color Black Lawn , . "t
Solid Color Blue Lawn I lZ _
Solid Color Nile Green . , • -
Solid Color Crepons . . • \
Solid Color Challies . . . .
40-inch White Victoria Lawns, f
Regular Price 12*40 . / 2v
& B ULL ST Si
Aphrodite, owned by Oliver H.
Payne 360,000
Namouna, owned by James Gor
don Bennett 325,000
Nourmahal, owned by John
Jacob Astor 300,000
Conqueror, owned by F. W.
Vanderbilt '300,000
Atalanta, owned by George J.
Gould 275,000
Eleanor, owned by Mrs. C. D.
M. Cardeza 275,000
American, owned by Archibald
Watts 250,000
Alcedo, owned by George W. C.
Drexel 260,000
Kanawha, owned by John P.
Duncan 250,000
May, owned by Alexander Vin
11 Jll l ■ dn J tooa r <l Howard Guold’s Niagara.
Rensselaer 260.000
Narada, owned by Henry Wal
ters 225,000
Columbia, owned by J. Harvey
luadew >.*"
Außevotr, owned by William Du
pont 200,000
Utowana, owned by Allison V.
Armour •••••" 30n ' 00 °
Sapphire, owned by Amil L.
Barber
Virginia, owned by Isaac Stern. 170,000
Dreamer, owned by Thomas W.
Lawson •••••• 160.000
Colonla, owned by C. A. Post
°ey . 150,000
Hiawatha, owned by Charles
Flelschmann •••••••• 1 50000
Flertric, owned by Elbriage T.
Gerry
Sultana, owned by ■William H.
Langley 150.000
Intrepid, owned by Lloyd
Phoenix 120,000
Buccaneer, onwed by William
r Hearst 126,000
Susquehanna, owned by Joseph
Stiekney 125,000
Idalia, owned by Eugene Tomp
kins 125,000
Sheer White India Lawn, regular (Qa
price 15c lUu
White MdM L,Twn“ Satin Stripe.!! f Re K aUr Price l*c, 0C
Large Size Turkish Bath Towels, Ifln
15c value | (j \j
54-inch Half-Bleached All Linen QCa
Damask, 50c value UUU
5-8 Damask Napkins, QKfl
$1.25 value, dozen Uuu
Men Must Be Clad, Even in Summer
Men’s White Duck Pants, the Si.oo kind, at 49c.
Men’s Crash Suits, at $3.00 a Suit. *
Men’s Black Alpaca Coats, worth $5.00, at $2.75 a coat.
Men’s Black Serge Suits at $5.00.
Children’s Blouse Wash Suits, worth 75c and $l, at 49c.
Children’s White Duck Pants, all sizes, at 23c.
Boys’ Linen Crash Suits, double-breasted coat, with knee
pants, at 98c.
Boys’ Straw Hats at 39c.
Sagamore, owned by John H.
Hanan 126,000
Anita, owned by John H.
Flagler , ' 115,000
Eugenia, owned by Mrs. A. S.
VanWickle 110,000
Elreba, owned by Henry Dari
ington 105,000
Felecia, owned by E. W. Bliss.. 106,000
Wadena, owned by J. H. Wade. 106,000
Marietta, owned by Harrison B.
Moore 100,000
Vergana, owned by Frederick H.
Benedict 100,000
Satanella, owned by Perry Bel
mont 101,000
Kisment, owned by J. Rogers
Maxwell 100,000
'Aileen, owned by D. Willis and
A. Curtis James 100,000
Andrla, owned by John E.
Brooks 100.000
Clermont, owned by A. Van-
Santvoord 100.000
Ituna. owned by Albert S. Big
elow 100,000
Embla, owned by John T. Wil
liams 100,000
Elfrlda. owned by Dr. W. Seward
Webb 100.000
Total ....... 110,830,000
Cost of 398 other steam yachts
in the United States valued
at less than SIOO,OOO each 112,505,000
Grand total 123,336,000
This sum Just about equals the total
amount of pensions paid by the,govern
ment last year In Maine, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hamp
shire. Vermont, Minneeo a, North and
South Dakota, Wtaccnsln and the Pacino
States, the aggregate disbursements for
all of these states being $23 883,831. The
$23,336,000 Invested by our rich men in
steam yac/its would cancel the combined
net public debts of Chicago, Albany. N.
Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Bridgeport, Cons.;
Charleston, S. C., and Denver, with a few
dollars to spare ,It would build a fleet
of eight battleships, each costing as much
as the battleship Maine, with enough left
over to construct a first-class gunboat.
Howard Gonld’fl Niagara.
A number of the finer boats In the
above list w, re built abroad, but the very
finest of them all have been built In
American shipyards, American designers
and builders are coming to be recognized
as the equals, If not the superiors, of any
in ihe world.
Howard Gould's magnificent Niagara Is
one of these. Plans were submitted to
Mr. Gould by European experts, but in
fair competition the American designs
won. The Niagara is not only of Ameri
can design and build, but it is construct
ed entirely of American material. This
most expensive private yacht In the world
Is a thoroughly seaworthy vessel. She Is
272 feet long over all. and Is of the twin
screw type. The house on the spar deck.
110 feet long and 16 feet wide, Is of steel,
covered with mahogany. In the forward
end is the owner's navigation room and
nautical library. Just back of this Is the
captain's room, which Is of easy access to
the bridge.
Then comes the great social hall, thirty
two by sixteen feet in size. It la finished
In massively carved American' mahog
any and Is upholsiered in green. A large
orchestrion Is built Into one end of the
room. Ample provision for music Is made
on the Niagara, for, besides this orches
trion, there is a beautiful specially made
piano in the main saloon. Around the
skylight In the celling of the social hall
are arranged growing foliage and running
plants In such a manner as to give a con
servatory effect.
From the social hall a passageway leads
to the smoking room, rtiirteen by eighteen
feet, finished In old oak and decorated
with delft plaques of a quaint old Dutch
pattern. Beyond this Is the owner's office
and deck bedroom. In East Indian ma
hogany, which opens into an observation
room occupying the extreme end of the
deck house.
Avery beautiful broad stairway leads
from the social hall on the spar deck to
the library on the main deck. This room
Is 22 by 12 feet, Is finished In hand-carved
American walnut and contains a library
numbering hundreds of volumes. The af
ter end is fitted up as an armory. Open
ing oft the library Is a dainty ladles’ bou
doir. Forward of the library Is the din
ing room. 24 by .16 feet, finish’ll In hand
carved quartered oak and rennalssance
tapestry. At one end Is a beautiful onyx
fireplace and at the other the magnificent
piano with hand-carved case. An electric
elevator communicates with the smoking
room above. The pantry, opening into the
dining room Is fitted with every accessory.
The owner's kitchen. Just beyond the pan
try, Is provided with doal and electric
heaters and ranges and all the latest de
vices for perfect cooking The kitchen
for the officers and crew Is back of this
and is managed by a separate staff of
chefs.
On the starboard tide of the main deck
Is the owner’s suite of apartments, con
sisting of a bedroom sixteen feet square,
a dressing rom and a tiled bath room.,
The woodwork Is natural birefi. Directly
opposite Is Mrs. Gould's luxurious suite,
consisting of a bedroom of sinii.ar size, a
Cool, Pretty Ladies’ Shirt Waists.
White Lawn, Percale and Pique Shirt Waists 50c
(Embroidered Collars and Cuffs, worth $1.00.)
White and Colored Lawn and Percale Waists with Insertions DSc
Whit© Duck Skirts , deep hem. felled seams (worth $2.00) 750
All our $5 and $0 White Plqu© and Crash skirts, flounced $3.75
Ladles' White Muslin Underskirts $l.OO
(These arc ruffled and embroidered and worth $1.50.) .
300 slightly soiled Gowns, Skirts, Chemise and Drawers 750
(These are all worth $1.50.)
Loilles’ White Muslin Skirts (embroidered and tucks ) Me
Children's Muslin Drawers (hem and 'i tucks) 100
LADIES' CORSET COVERS 15c
Nothing More Need Be Said!
It Is worth 20c, and you can get it for
10c.
And it is a good Matting, too !
dressing room, boudoir and bath roomi
This suite, more gorgeous perhaps thin
any of equal size to be found In any man
sion. is finished In Ivory, gold an 1 rose
of the Louis XVI period. Forward of
these two suites are four guest rooms
eleven feet wide by twelve long, each pro
vided with its own bath room and each
finished In a different kind of wood. One
is In curly maple, another in sycamore,
the third Is a photograph room, a linen
locker, a room for oilskins and fishing
tackle and a brushing room for the use of
maids and valets, fitted with smoothing
irons and other serviceable devices.
A stairway from the main deck leads to
another social hall eighteen feet square on
the lower deck. Opening on this hall are
three additional guest room* of the same
size aB those on the deck atove and pro
vided with private bath rooms. One Is fin
ished in figured ash, the second In satin
wood and the third In bol* d'arc. Beyond
these are the rooms of the ship's physi
cian. Mr. Gould's private secretary and
the maids and valets. Luxury is csrrlei
to the extreme In the Niagara. Her
small boats, even, are made of mahogany.
Mr Lawson’* Dreamer.
This has been one of the busiest seasons
the yacht designers and builders of this
country have ever had. Of all the new
yachts recently finished, the most luxu
rious In the Dreamer, the 150,000 yacht
which has Just been completed for Thom
as W. Lawson, the Boston multi-million
aire. She is the most gorgeous boat of
her size in the world.
The accomodations of the Dreamer
were designed with a view to the secur
ing of the maximum amount of comfort
in our hot American summers. There
is a long deck-house, In the forward part
of which is the large dining room, finished
In natural oak. and capable of seating
twenty people. The galley Is on the deck,
thus being cooler for the cooks, while
not heating the interior of the yacht as
would a galley below decks. At the foot
of the main companionway Is the owner's
private suite, comprising two large bed
rooms and a bathroom. The bedrooms are
finished In white enameled pine In panels.
In Mrs. Lawson's room the furniture Is
white enamel and the upper panels of
the walls are filled with pink creton,
probably in remembrance of the famous
Lawson pink named for her. for which
her husband paid $30,000. In the other bed
room the furniture Is of old mohogany.
■nd the carpets and curtains throughout
are of the richest modern manufacture
that money could buy. Bath rooms with
rubber tiling and the most modern open
plumbing connect with each bedroom.
Forward of the owner's suite are five
very large staterooms and a bath room.
One of these staterooms is fitted with a
sewing table. There Is running hot and
cold water In each room. Plenty
of ventilation has been the keynote
throughout, with ample provision for put
ting away clothes In drawers, closets
and bureaus.
Forward of the stateroom* is a com
modious forecastle where eighteen men
are easily accommodated In the after
part of the deck house there Is a ladies'
boudoir, a chart room and a vestibule,
with a companionway to the bachelors'
quarters. These contain a library, two
large bedrooms and a bath room. Tbe
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SUMMER DRESS GOODS
36-inch Black Mohair Brilliantine,
special for bathing suits and sKirtS /Jj(j
All-wool Black Challie 36c
36-in-all-wool Black Albatross.. P A
36-in. all-wool Nuns Veiling.... II IT
36-in. all-wool Tamise ill I
36-in. all-wool Henrietta U V U
Special 45-in. silk and wool Gloria 50c
All thin summer weights.
library Is finished In paneled quartered
oak, r.chly carved. There is also a piano
In the bachelors’ quarters and a grate
for an open fire In one corner. Still aft
are the officers' quarters, comprising
eight separate sleeping rooms and an
officers' mess room.
Of nearly equal magnificence is Dr. W.
S ward Webb's new yacht, recently com
pleted, to take the place of his Elfrlda,
which he s Id to the government during
the late war. Nearly all of the rich yachts
men who sold their boats to the govern
ment at that time have had, or are hav
ing, equally ep naive yachts built to taka
their places. The Idalia. belonging to Eu
gene Tompkins of Boston Is one of the
new onta.
Mr. Tompkins’ Idalia.
No expense was spared In finishing the
Idalia. All the rooms are of hard wood,
the mahogany finished dining-room and
deck saloon being especially beautiful
The decorations for the most part are of
the Louis XV and Empire styles. Tha
bath rooms are finished In tinted tiling,
with onyx and marble washstands.
1o describe In detail the many luxuries
crowded into American yachts of the half
million, dollar class, such as the Nabma.
306 feet long, owned by Mrs. Robert Goe-
J °** ph1 "*' 247 owned br
P. A. B. Wldener of Philadelphia; the Val
iant, 332 feet long, owned by W K Vap
■ derblll; the Vanina, 304 feet long, ownal
by Eugene Higgins; the Margarita ’’73 6
feet long, owned by Anthony Drexel of
Philadelphia, and J. Pierrpont Morgan's
Corsair, 304 feet long, is simply lm,possi
ble. Suffice to say that our mi'llon
aires consider nothing too expensive for
their floating homes. They are the crown
ing glories of America's manifestations of
luxury.
The sums of money that our wealthy cll|.
sens annually devote to yachting are al
most incomprehensible. Roughly speak
ing, the actual cost of running a stram
yacht each season of from three to five
months is about one-sixth of the original
cost of the boat. Howard Gould spend*
about $125,000 a year on the Niagara Mr.
Goelet and W. K. Vanderbilt each spends
a like sum, and James Gordon Bennett as
much If not more. Of fully a score of the
forty-nine most magnificent American
yachts It may be said that each coxa
Its owner more each season
It is estimated that the cc*t of main
tainin* a large yacht Is about *I,OOO for
each member of the crew, counting coal
provisions, repairs, etc. The Niagara s
crew numbers eighty men, the Valiant's
eighty, the Nahma's eighty, the Vanina's
seventy, the Josephine's sixty, etc. But
the sl.X> per man does rot take into ac
count the owner's princely entertainment*
on board, his champagne bills and other
forma of extravagance, and, It Is often the
case that entertainments on yachts arw
more lavish than on land.
As determined by careful estimates, the
annual cost of maintain,lng America's fleet
of 440 odd steam yachts is *4.8i>.000, a turn
which exceed* the total United States gov
ernment, slate and municipal, approprl
atlone to all of the colleges and uni.enti
tle* In the country by more than J 5 0 000.
William Wesley Young.
—The Journalists' Club of London, has
started to raise funds for a monument to
Archibald Forbafc