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10 GAVE ELKS A DIG SAM JONES HAD ANOTHER SAT ABOUT THE B. P. O. Em. THEY RUIN BOYS, HE SAID. A SERMON TO YOl XG MEN OX CHAR ACTER AND ASSOCIATION'. An EIU AN ho Doesn't Drink, Mr. .lone* Said. I, Tike a Fool In (lie Baptist Church Who Doesn't Be lieve In Immersion—He Deeinr*s That He Is Now on to the Elks. Evils of Exil Associations—Su, no li aii anil the Whisky Tralllc. Gainbliug Scored, and Policy Heiil Up to tlie Colored People os Some- thins to Be Shunned. The rain did not keep the people away from the Park Tabernacle last night- Though the storm came Just before the Lour for the meeting, the crowd was there in spite of it, and the Tabernacle was filled and the usual fringe was tn the outside. After the song service had proceeded for half an hour, Rev. John D. Jordan suggested to the congregation that it show a little more liberality when the collection was taken. Dr. Jordan seemed to have found the evangelistic manner contagious, for he delivered himself about like this: "I shall ask all the ladies In the Taber nacle, for the convenience of those who sit behind them, to pull off their hats, that is, if they are not bald-headed.” That got nearly every woman's hat off in double time, and the speaker continued: "Do you know you have been giving at the rate of about one-half a cent aoicce. I know there are some in this congrcga t.ori who have given $5 or $lO toward the erection of the Tabernacle, but the col lections at the night services, the only ones when they are taken up, have been poor. They don't average more than a half-cent apiece for the crowds. Give in proportion to your means and to your meanness, end you will give largely." It would seem from this that the meet ings are not very profitable to Mr. Jones and Mr. Stuart. The plan is to pay the incidental expense for the conduct of the Tabernacle and the meetings from the collections, the evangelists getting the balance. The night congregations have probably averaged 5.0(a) people, and the money the evangelists have received, aft er deduction of expenses, has been about S4O each night. Mr. Charles D. Tillman. Mr. Jones' mu ale conductor, sang the solo "Sometime, Somewhere.” his own composition, being among the collections in The Revival, the book of religious songs that he has com piled. Mr. Jones opened with an announce ment of the services for to-day. "There'll be the regular service to-morrow morn ing at 10:30 o’clock," he said, "but there will be none to-morrow afternoon. To morrow night, though, we will be in bus iness at the same old stand. Saturday night is the devil's own night, and I want to set up with him. Sunday morning all the pastors In the city will conduct ser vices at their own churches, and 1 hope every church will be crowded. Sunday afternoon there will be a service here in the Tabernacle, and Sunday night I’m goin’ to entertain a stag party. Then there'll be blood and hair smeared about and the ground'll be tore up. That's go in' to be a meetln' for men only. I want to see 5,000 men change their lives on Sunday night, and I want every good ■woman in this congregation to pray that they will do so.” Mr. Jones said that he wanted partic ularly to talk to the young men in the congregation, but that he wanted the old er men to listen, too, for what he had to say was intended for their good and for the good of their boys. "Associa tions,” he declared, "fix the character cf a man. and his character fixes his des tiny. There is a sermon in that very sentence. I want to preach especially to you ytung men, and may God sanctify eveiy word I utter for the good of young man and old. "Heredity is a well-established princi ple. Traits of character that are shown i*y the parents can be transmitted to th*> childrui. Not only the good traits, but. the bad, can be so transmitted, and that such is the ease is the saddest fact In this life. Al! would like to transmit their virtues to their children, but who would want to transmit their vices? The boy of the diunkard is half a drunkard when born. If his mother is a drunkard, then he is a whole drunkard when horn. It is as tiue that children inherit the vices cf jrelr parents as it Is that they Inherit their features. A lying woman ne and not be suiprised a’t the vice when it exhibits itself in her son, and a drunken father may ixpect to see the love of drink develop in his offspring." "I declare that 1 think it no shame to Inherit the sin of lying Bnd stealing. The sin is not yours; it belongs to your fore bears. You come by it honestly, and I do not see the sin In It for you. But there Is a place where patrimony ends and vo lition begins. I'll give you an illustration of what I mean. An illustration is easier for most people. It'll take, and be under stood where an argument will fall flat. Suppose, when my father died, he left me a saloon. He didn't, 1 want you to under atand, but for the sake of the illustration, we will suppose that he did. I have traced the Jones family all the way back to Adam, but I've never yet found a record of one that kept a saloon. There have been plenty of them mean enough to drink liquor, but there's never been a single one low enough to sell it. Suppose, as 1 was saying, that my father had left me that •aloon. That would have been an inherit ed sin. But I wouldn’t have had to run It, would I? If I had, that would have been voluntary, and 1 would have been low and mean enough. The thing for me to have done would have been to roll every barrel of liquor out of the Joint and smash It in the street. Then I might have opend up a dry goods store." "I've got no patience with people who are always laying the blame on their progenitors. It's like some saintly old creature getting up in church and saying that 'lt wasn’t me that sinned, but the flesh.’ Suppose some chap should go be fore a judge with any such story us that when lie he.l been hauled befotc him for •nuider. ’lt wasn't me that kill'd m. Lut tlie flesn.’ Why, the Judge would say; 'Here, Mr. Sheriff, take this flesh out doors and hang It.’ It is no: the flesh, anyway. There is no meaner, lower or mete detwuved class or inen in the world Ihunsodters und sailors Whis ky k:>lcd more American soldiers '■ m Spanish bullets or Cuban fevers. That was a war with old John Hurleycorn. in stead of a war with Spain. The closer you put a fellow to the flesh, the bet ter he is. The good wife, the good mother and the good children are what make a man good. You can't offer a man a higher motive than the flesh. How can a man with a wife and children ever be come a bloated, whisky-drinking sot?" "Heredity or environment, which Is worse? I’d rather risk my hoy, with his heredity, in good company, than an angel from heaven among some associations. I’ll give you an Illustration again. This XConttaued on Seventh Page.} NOT WORTH HALF A MILLION. *nui Jones Pays Ills Respects to the Newspaper Man Who Said So. Since the arrival of Rev. Sam Jones in Savannah; in fact, long before he came he was the subject of much curios ity and speculation, but neither his per sonality, original though It be. nor his methods, peculiar unto themselves, ex cited any more interest than was dis played in the subject of his reputed wealth, which has been variously esti mated from $30,000 to $500,000. Mr. Jones and his three daugh ters are at the De Soto, where Mr. Jones has been since he ar rived in the city. A Morning News re ported asked him yesterday whether he considered great wealth and true Chris tianity compatible. "On that question,” said Mr. Jones. "I agree with Andrew Carnegie. I hold that the man who dies rich Is disgraced here, and damned hereafter. I could have been worth $500,000 if I had wanted to be, but I’ve been mixed up enough with rich folks to know that wealth doesn't bring happiness or content." In a recent letter by W. E. Curtis In the Chicago Record-Herald, it was stated that Mr. Jones’ wealth is rated at SSOO, 000, invested in plantations and stocks, bonds and other securities, that he has recently erected for himself a hand some residence costing, with its furniture, between $50,000 and SOO,OOO, and that he makes not less than SI,OOO a week from his evangelistic labors. This statement relative to the evan gelist’s wealth was preceded by another that Mr. Jones had compared Savannah to Sodom and Gomorrah, and had declar ed that the Almighty had appointed him to conduct a crusade against it, and re move it farther than half a mile from hell, the distance that he estimates now separates the two places. At the same time Mr. Curtis said “Savannah has always been regarded as one of the most moral communities in the country. No city in the world of the same size is so free from vice and crime and so given to religious and charitable work." Another statement that “Jones was Invited here by the Ministerial Association, but that since the churches have divided, the Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians and one of the Raptist Churches having withdrawn; that the Methodists are still supporting Jones, although some of the most prominent members of that church are denouncing him as a mountebank," has caused some talk. ”1 say that W. E. Curtis is the most monumental liar that this century has produced," was Mr. Jones' comment on the newspaper man, after he had read his letter, "if this is a sample of his exhumations. I don’t see a thing that is not a lie from start to finish. They may not be his lies, but, if not, then he has been wallowing around with the liars of Savannah.” Mr. Jones took up the statements seria tem. ‘ Die No. 1," he said, “is that I compared Savannah to Sodom and Gomor rah. “Die No. 2 is that no city in the world of the same size Is so free from vice and crime. "Die No. 3 is in reference to the minis ters’ association, for he lied like two dogs when he said that any minister or church had withdrawn its co-operation. "I’ll tie the blue ribbon on him for his lie about the cost of my house at Car tersville. He says it cost between $50,000 and $60,000. In his first guess he missed the real cost $42,000; and in his second attempt $52,000. He missed my wealth, when he put it at $500,000, about $480,000 or $485,000. “I understand," continued Mr. Jones, "that the average newspaper correspond ent tells one lie a day. but 1 didn't know it was necessary to tell one hundred. One good thing about the newspapers, though, is that nobody is ignorant enough to be lieve everything they say unless it's some Ignorant alderman of Savannah." In discussing the present series of meetings Mr. Jones said that they began well, that they have deepened and broadened in influence and promise more results than have any similar meetings that he has conducted in ten years. The meetings here, he said, will be the last that he will conduct this summer. When they are closed he will begin his lecture tour, which will embrace some forty-five Chautauqua engagements. To this lecture work, he says, he now de votes half of his time, as his ill health makes It impossible to carry on as much evangelistic work as he used- to do. "I am going to preach to men only Sunday night,” said Mr. Jones. "Come out, if you want to see blood and hair, and the ground tore up right.” Thursday night’s sermon being quite the warmest that Mr. Jones has delivered in Savannah, some of the ministers inter ested in the meetings were asked yester day if they had any criticism to make of the utterances of the night before. Rev. W. A. Nisbet of the Second Presbyterian Church, said, "I have neither excuse nor apology to make for Rev. Mr. Jones, and I am quite satisfied with the results of the meetings." Rev. Bascom Anthony of Trinity Church, said, "I am quite satisfied; I knew what to expect and am right in line with him. Dast night’s talk was warm, but I expert something warmer before he gets through." Rev. Ed. F. Cook of Wesley Monument al Church said: “I stand where I've al ways stood; I’m glad he came." PARADED IN RAIN. Navannnh Cadets Made n Fine Shew ing Despite* the Weather. The Savannah Cadets celebrated their fortieth anniversary yesterday afternoon with a street parade in a driving rain. Capt. J. T. West was in command. There were slxty-tw'o officers and men In line. It was raining hard at 6:30 o'clock when the company left the armory of the First Georgia Regiment, but the men did not falter and tramped through the muddy streets like veterans. The fatigue uni forms were worn with ponchos and the soldiers did not appear to mind the rain beating in their faces. Mr. W. B. Puder, a war member of the command, marched with the hoys to the "music of the band." After the jiaiade refreshments were serv ed at the company's room and many glasses were drained to the health of the organization. DID NOT W 4NY TO IIBPI.Y. Mayor and Aldermen Had Nothing to Say to XVlmt Mr. Jones Sold. The Mayor Hnd aldermen are not in clined to discuss what Rev. Sam Jones says about them. At least, what he had to say night before last, as reported by the Morning News, did not result In elic iting any rejoinder from them. The Mayor and severul of the aldermen were asked If they had anything to say. but they re plied In the negative. They are not in clined to take any notice of whut the evangelist says. Keep .Cool. Japanese Folding Fans to De Given Away Friday and Saturday. We will present to each and every pur chaser of 25c worth of tea or coffee on Friday and Saturday a beautiful deco rated Japanese folding fan The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, l(w Broughton street, west. Telephone sl6. 1,11. T. Wilson, manager.—si THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1901. ARE READY TO DIE SCHEA'EX COUNTY MURDERED* YVJLL BE REsEXTEXCED. SHERIFF THOMPSON HERE. CAXIE WITH THE SUPPOSED LEAD ER OF THE BAND. Prisoner NA as Arrested in Tallahas see, Fla., and la Sold to Be Mathew McKinney—The Five Condemned Men Know the Fnnious Desperado llot Say That the Man Under Ar rest Is the AA rong One—They Are Anxious for the Capture of MeKin eny and Charge That He Is Re sponsible for Their Conditon—De clare That He Forced Them to Take Part In the Ambushing ot OlHcers Harrington and Mears. Man Supposed to Be McKinney AVIII Be Token to Sylvanla With Condemned .Men This Morning. Sheriff Thompson of Screven coirhty ar rived in Savannah last night with a ne gro supposed to be Mathew McKinney, the famous desperado and murderer, for whom there is a large standing reward. The man was arrested about a week ago In Tallahassee, Fla., and will be taken to Sylvanla on this morning's train. Sheriff Thompson secured requisition papers be fore attempting to bring the negro to Georgia. The prisoner could not be seen last night, but It is understood that he denies that he is the man wanted. He bears a very close resemblance to the murderer, but the other Screven county murderers with the death sentence over their heads, and no hope for a longer lease on lire, say that he Is not McKinney. They saw him when he was brought In by the sheriff. Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis, Rich ard Sanders, William Hudson and Sim Baldwin, whom the Supreme Court says must hang for the murder of Harrington and Means, and who have spent the great er part of their confinement in Chatham county jail, continue to declare that Mc- Kinney led the negroes on the night that the Screven county officers wese ambush ed and riddled with bullets. They say that McKinney was the leader in every sense of the word, and forced them at the point of-the rifle to remain on the scene of the murder. They charge that they were forced to shoot by the desperado, although they still insist that thetr guns were pointed in the air. The men say that they would be only too glad to know that McKinney has been arrested for the reason that they would now be at liberty, but for the force he used on the night of the shooting. The negroes realize that the end is near and profess to be ready. They have spent most of their time for the last few weeks in singing and praying. Their families have moved to Savannah and are per mitted to see them two days during the week. When Sheriff Thompson leaves for Sylvanla this morning with the supposed McKinney, the five other men will be taken too. They will have to be resen tenced and this will be done Monday when court convenes. After the negroes have been sentenced for the second time, they will be most likely returned to the jail In this city until the day before ex ecution. The whites In the county appear perfectly willing to let the law take its course, now that the men have no eliapce of getting anew trial. No trouble is an ticipated and the five men will be hanged on the same gallows, probably without the presence of troops. DR. O'NEIL EXPLAINS. He Says He Does Not Owe Dr. Wil liam* a Cent. The attachment sued out in Justice Naughtin's court against Dr. H. Gibson O’Neil for SI,OOO. in favor of Dr. Williams of Richmond, was dissolved yesterday morning and the garnishments issued are no longer in force. The amount of the claim was not paid because Dr. O'Neil says that he does not owe it. He furnish ed bond In the sum named and the case will be heard in the courts, unless the plaintiff sees fit to let the matter dro-p. Dr. O'Neil says that Dr. Williams' attor ney stated a willingness to compromise for S2OO. but that he does not propose to pay one cent for the reason that he does not owe It. Considerable has been written about the issuing of the attachments against the violet ray treatment. Dr. O'Neil was seen at the De Soto last night by a represen tative of the Morning News and talked freely about the cases against him. He was not pleased at what he considered unnecessary notoriety and said that he does not owe any one a cent, and that at all times he is able to pay his bills promptly. Dr. O'Neil explained the small amount claimed by a Thomasville concern, which he has paid. He had stood as security, he said, for a friend who evidently for got to pay the amount. Dr. O'Neil had not suspected that this would be the case and when he returned to the city from the North and found what had hap pened he paid the claim. He says he went to New York to ob tain some special apparatus and that he was dumbfounded when he returned to the city and discovered what had trans pired. As soon as he saw the Thomas ville claim he paid it in full, but refus ed to consider the one taken out by the Richmond doctor. Dr. O'Neil awaited the return of his attorney. Col. A. R. Lawton, who ar rived in Savannah yesterday morning, and explained to him that he did not owe the claim of Dr. Williams, and was ad vised that the best thing to do would be to furnish ball In the sum mimed in the attachment. The violet ray doctor Is an interesting talker, and the Impression that he makes on one is quite favorable. He appeared to regret the turn matters have taken during his absence from the city. Since his stay in Savannah he has made quite a number of substantial friends in promi nent and influential families. Quite a number of people have come to Savannah from adjacent cities to be treated. Dr. O'Neil says he is In need of n rest, and will leave Savannah for Saratoga übout June 1. He will remain at the De Soto until his departure for the North. YYILL HAVE A NEW WALK. Con t ruet for One for the Savnnnuli Yacht Club lias llren Let. The Savannah Y'aoht Club has let n con tract for an artificial stone walk, lead ing from the streetcar station to the club house. The walk will be 633 feet long It will terminate In stone step* leading down the incline to the club house. The walk will be six feet and the steps ten feet wide. The contract wm let by Mr. James M. Dixon, chairman of the Im provements Committee. Work will com mence at once. When completed, the walk will he a decided improvement. Eye* tested free of charge by graduate optician, at Sternberg A Cos., No. 117 A’eat Broughton street.-ad. WAS DROWNED ACCIDENTALLY The Coroner'a Verdict Oonrernlnjc the Death of Henry Jnehter. Coroner Keller held an investigation last right into the drowning of Henry Juehter in Adams Creek Sunday morn ing. Several witnesses were examined. The story of the fatal accident was told fully in the Morning News Monday, and the inquest did not develop anything new. The men on the tug "Jennie E.” when Mr. Juehter fell In the water, stated that he had not been drinking, and that he must have lost his balance and fallen from the narrotv deck. The witnesses also stated that Mr. Juehter could not have been saved even had there been no accidents after he was discovered in the water. He was several hundred yards from the boat and sank before a boat could have reached him, even though it had been promptly and successfully launched. The Jury returned a verdict that he had been accidentally drowned by falling off the tug. Mr. Juehter was buried yesterday morn ing In Bonaventu-re Cemetery, and the funeral was largely attended. Services were conducted at the family residence. No. 209 Waldburg street, west, and at tne grave, by Rev. M. J. Eptlng, pastor ot St. Paul’s Lutheran Churcn. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. COMMISSIONERS CAN'T TELL. Whether Tax Rate for Next Year AA’ill Be Increased or Not. The County Commissioners are not pre pared to say that the increase made by the grand jury, in the appropriation for public education, will necessarily mean an increased rate of taxation. "I can't tell,’* said Chairman Dale, yes terday. “This will have to be determined when we see what the values of property assessed for taxation amount to in the aggregate. If there is no increase in values and the full amount appropriated for county purposes in the budget is ex pended, why then we shall have to in crease the rate. If the values increase sufficiently or we are able to cut down expenditures for other purposes, the rate may remain where it is. We won't be able to say positively until next August.” “It’s all a very simple question.” sail Vice Chairman Moore. "We must have more property assessed for taxation, spend less than we have estimated to other purposes than education or raise the rate. Certainly we can’t tell yet what will be the outcome.” MUSIC AND BATHING. Hotel Tybee Opens for the Season To-morroa. Mr. Chas. F. Graham announces that he will open Hotel Tybee for the season to-morrow. There will be music and danc ing. The cafe will be a feature of the hotel this season, and guests will be served 1 meals at any hour. Visitors to Tybee this summer will oh. serve very pleasing improvements that have been made in and around Hotel Ty bee. Chief among these, probably, 4s one that the eye will appreciate. Mr. Gra ham haa secured fourteen carloads of rich earth from Savannah, and had It spread over a tvlde area surrounding the hotel. To prevent the encroachment of the run ning sands, Mr. Graham had a retaining wail built for the area that he purposed improving, and It wjil be but a short time before the sandy surroundings of the hotel will have been replaced by lawns. Palmetto trees have also been set out, and the attraction of the hotel will be much greater when jhey and the grass have grown. Tybee visitors have Jong wanted a cafe conducted in connection with the hotel. This year they will have one. The hotel has already opened fpr the season, and so has the cafe, which Is In the two rooms that served formerly as parlors, opening upon the veranda on the front of the building. Orders may be given by guests in the cafe at any time. The hotel and cottages have been ren ovated. and Mr. Graham is having anew cottage constructed for the help. This will also be used as a laundry. Just in front of the smaller of the two Hotel Tybee pavilions have been constructed seven small summer houses, with roofs thatched with palmetto leaves. Thougn he is in the hotel and cafe business, Mr. Graham tvelcotpes picnic parties to the smaller of his pavilions. They may also have the use of the summer houses. On the whole, visitors will find the hotel much more attractive than last season. HUSSARS GO TO TYBEE. Picnic and Drill at tlie Nexv Pnx'illon To-day. The prize drill and picnic of the Geor gia Hussars will be held to-day at Ty bee. Many will go to the Island on the early trains, but the larger part of the crowd that is expected will go by the afternoon trains. The drill will be held early during the evening in the new Central Railroad Pavilion. The drill will be with sabers, and First Lieutenant C. A. L. Cunningham will be In command of the troop. The medal, which falls to tbe enlisted man whom the drill may show most proficient in the manual, was won last year by Trooper Stein Bryan. Con siderable interest tn the contest has been been aroused and it is expected that the troopers will be put to a good drill. An event that has not been announced pub licly Is also to be a pleasing feature of the evening. Dancing will be indulged In, and it is expected that all who attend will find the occasion very pleasant. CAR OF FISH ON THE WAY. . Flnritln'* Klnli Commissioner Still Waiting for It. Mr. J. Y. Detwiler, fish commissioner for tlie state of Florida, received a tele gram yesterday from Mr. George M. Bowers, United States commissioner of fisheries, stating that a car of shad fry will leave Washington this morning, con signed to Mr. Detwiler. The fry will be distributed in the rivers and lak'es in the western purt of the state, the car follow ing and stopping at points along the West Coast division of the Plant System. Mr. Detwiler has been waiting In Savan nah several days for the arrival of this car. HO expects it to reach here some time to-morrow and he will follow It on its trip south. YYHSLEY’S SUNDAY-SCHOOL. Will Hold Anniversary and Chil dren'* Dn> Exercise*. The anniversary of Wesley Monumental Sunday-school and “Children's day" will be celebrated to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. The exercises will be of special interest and profit. The Sunday-school orchestra and choir will lead the singing. Reports of officers and each department of the school will be made, and the pas tor, Rev. Ed. F. Cook, will deliver a short sermon to the children. The school will make It* annual offering for the Heme Mission work of the Sunday-school board. Lord Coleridge wrote: "Send me fifteen dozen Ceiok's Imperial Extra Dry Wine. 1 tried tt while here and find it upe tior.”—ad FAIR PORTO RICO UNEXAMPLED PROSPERITY HAS MADE THE ISLAND RICH AND HAPPY. THE PEOPLE ARE CONTENT. CAPT. W. R. WILLIAMS TALKS IN TERESTINGLY OF CONDITIONS THERE. Former Commander of Transport Chester Interested In Works of Improvement at uuil Near San Juan Scheme tn Dam the Rio Plata and Supply Electricity to City anti Suburb*—Agriculture tn Islund in Flue Shape—Fruit Grow ers From Florida Tench Scientific Methods People Now Pleased With American Sovereignty. Capt. W. R. Williams, formerly in com mand of the government transport Chester, which made trips between Sa vannah and Cuba during the period just following the Spanish-American War, came recently to Savannah on another mission. Capt. Williams is looking into the lum ber market in Savannah, with a view to making large purchases of poles and ties for the construction of an extensive trol ley system in and around San Juan, Por to Rico, where he is interested in a cor poration that has secured large and val uable concessions from the insular gov ernment. Capt. Williams talked interest ingly at the De Soto last night, of the conditions that prevail in the island and of its future prospects. The company which he represents on his present mission has secured a fran chise to dam the Rio Plata, the princi pal river in the island, for the purpose of providing power for the operation of trol ley systems and to supply the city of San Juan and its very extensive suburbs with electric power and lights. "San Juan,” said Capt. Williams, “is a walled city, situated on an island. It has itself about 35,000 inhabitants, but very many of those whose business is in the city live in the pleasant suburbs that surround it. The places of business of these suburbanites are closed at noon and the proprietors go back to their country hemes for breakfast. "Two old steam roads have been secured and these will be enlarged, re-equipped and fitted for operation by electricity. The company will secure, by damming the Rio Plata, about 2,000 horse power, which will be converted into electricity and supplied to the trolley, lighting and mechanical power systems of San Juan and the sub burbs by an overhead pole line about twenty-two miles in length. The popula tion which we will supply with electrical power and with transportation numbers about 100.000.” Capt. Williams is in Savannah to see af ter the purchase of poles and ties for the trolley systems and other lines convey ing the power from the point of its man ufacture to the points of delivery. He thinks It not improbable that he will make the needed purchases here and that Savannah will be se lected as the point of shipment. In the warm and damp climate of Porto Rico lumber rots rapidly, and it Is something of a problem to secure lumber that will resist successfully the inroads of the cor roding seasons. It is this problem that, in selecting poles and ties, he is trying to solve. Capt. Williams is firmly of the opinion that the future of the island is bright, and that there are splendid opportuni ties there for young men, provided with even small capital and a reasonable amount of diligence and intelligence. He does not think it is a good place for me chanics or unskilled laborers, who find it impossible to compete with the labor ofi the Island, which Is at once cheap and abundant. “For the last six months, especially," said Capt. Williams, “the island has been Undergoing a period of unexampled pros perity. Merchants and planters alike have been making more money than they ever have before, and the people, per haps, in consequence of this fact, are contented and happy. ‘'Agriculture of every description is. in fine shape. This year 100,000 tons of sugar will be marketed and perhaps one-third of the island’s normal output of coffee The coffee plantations were terribly dam aged by the hurricane and have never re covered. but a beginning has been made and the superior sqiiality of the coffee is coming to be recognized. “Fruit is beginning to be grown on scientific principles. It grows luxuriant ly, and when the cultivation and market ing of the crops are directed- by men who understand the business, it is very profit able. Many orange growers from Flor ida. disgusted with the destruction or the trees in that state by the cold snaps or the past decade, have gone to Porto Rico, and are building up their shattered fortunes in the island, and in a business which they thoroughly understand. "But from an agricultural standpoint, the cultivation of tobbacco is the Indus try that promises most. The tobacco of Porto Rico is as fine as is grown any where in the world, and- before the war, large quantities of it were shipped to Havana. and there manufactured into cigars, which subsequently found their way into the American markets, end were sold as Havanas. Now the f’or to Ricans are manufacturing their own tobacco. The duty is but fifteen per cent, of that on tobacco from Cuba, and the Porto Rican cigars, which are of equally fine quality as those from Havana, can be delivered to consumers in the states for a very much smaller price, and yet lrermit a very handsome profit to the manufacturer. "The cultivation of tobacco, as the fact that it Is profitable dawns more and more nearly upon the people, is Increasing very rapidly. The place of the coffee planta tions, destroyed by the hurricanes, is be ing taken by fields of tobacco, a crop which matures in one year, while coffee requires five or more. Tobacco planta tions and fruit orchards and even sugar plantations are to be had on easy terms and with small capital, and enterprising men from the states are taking prompt advantage of tl.e golden opportunities thus afforded. "This condition of prosperity has had its effect on the people. A year ago. if a vote had been taken for or against an nexation by the United States, there would have been a heavy majority in fa vor of a return to the rule of Spain. The people had been discouraged, dishearten ed and embittered by the failure of Con gress to give them free trade irnd to rec ognize their needs. But all this has been changed and the feeling of the people has changed with the conditions. The change In sentiment began with the ad vent of Gov. Allen. "Now, a Just and equitable system of taxation has been adopted, the public school system has been extended, and Is in successful operation in every town in the Island, the courts, modeled on those of this country, dispense a wise code of laws, two regiments of native troops, offi cered principally by Americans, have been organised and are doing efficient work, re placing the garrisons of United States troops, and an Insular legislature has met and enacted much-needed laws; all these have had their effect upon the people. Extensive public works are also being built and large private corporations are turning their money loose on the island. It is estimated that the exports for this year alone will bring ten millions of dollars to Porto Rico. For all these reasons, the people are beginning to understand that American sovereignty is a good thing for their island and them selves.” Capt. Williams believes that there will be reactionary results from this condition of prosperity in Porto Rico, and that from these Savannah and other South At lantic ports will largely benefit. The isl and, he says, has no lumber worth men tioning, and for thq extensive works of improvement now in progress and soon to be inaugurated the lumber must be brought from the states. It can be shipped from Savannah to as great advantage as from any other port. The vessels that carry it to San Juan clan bring back to bacco, coffee, sugar and fruits. A party of New York capitalists are now building a modern tourist hotel, to cost when completed half a million of dollars, at San Juan. It is to stand upon the hights near Fort Cristobal Colon, over looking the sea. Capt. Williams spoke with enthusiasm of the native beauties and attractive fea tures of the island. The drive from San Juan to Ponce, on the other side of the island, is along the military road, built by the Spaniards and one of the finest highways anywhere in existence. The road Is eighty-five miles long and with ponies can even now be traversed In nine or ten hours. At its highest point the road reaches an elevation of 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. "What a trip it would be on an auto mobile;” exclaimed Capt. Williams, "but as yet,” he adde, regretfully, “there is none on the island.” GASTON STREET PAY'ING. Tlie Xlayor la Still Considering tlie Ordinance. The Mayor has not decided Just what his course relative to the Gaston street paving ordinance will be. He still has four days in which to consider the meas ure. Aldermen Dixon, Watson and Horrlgan denied the story that appeared in the Morning News yesterday of the talk that was made the aldermen by the Mayor ih caucus, regarding the report that some ten of them had pledged themselves to support the ordinance. The story was told the representative of the Morning News by one who was present at the caucus. The aldermen mentioned said that the only discussion about the ordinance in caucus was as to whether the gentlemen to appear before Council should be heard In caucus or in open meeting. The Mayor wanted it in open meeting, but Alderman Dixon said that such had not been the usual proceeding, and he could not see the reason for it in that case. LOW RATES TO BUFFALO. Pan-American Exposition via Cen tral of Georgia Railway. Tickets now on sale, via the Dookout Mountain and Mammoth Cave route, through Cincinnati, O. Ticket office 107 Bull street and Central passenger station, —ad. Tn Monntain and Sea Shore Reaorta Via Senhonrd Air I.ine Railway. Before completing arrangements for your summer trips or deciding upon places at which to spend the summer, you should call on ticket agents and passenger rep resentatives of the Seaboard Air Dine Railway. They are specially prepared to furnish information as to lowest rates, quickest and most attractive routes to the mountain resorts in West ern North Carolina and Southwest Vir ginia, also to the seashore resorts of Ocean View, Virginia Beach, 6ld Point Comfort, the great Eastern resorts along the Jersey coast and other popular places reached via the Seaboard Air Dine Rail way. This company is offering lower rates than ever with perfect train service and fast, through schedules. It will in terest and benefit you to call on Seaboard Air Dine Railway agents. Attention ! Confederate Veteran*. For a comfortable trip to Memphis to attend the reunion of Confederate Veter ans use the Plant System. Call on the ticket agent for full particulars.—ad. Seliednle of &nnday Excnrslon Train* to Charleston. Train for Charleston Sunday, via the Plant System will leave at 7:15 a. m., Central time, and arrive Charleston at 12:15 p. m. Returning, train will leave Charleston at 7:45 p. m., and arrive in Sa yannah at 10:45 p. m. Quicker time than ever before, rate same as ever, SI.OO for the round trip.—ad. Savannah to Brunswick and return, SI.OO. Sundays only. Via Plant System. Commencing Sunday, May 12. Quick and convenient schedule. For further infor mation call on ticket agent at the De Soto Hotel or Plant System depot.—ad. $37.10 to Buffalo Via Seaboard Air Line Railway, tickets now on sale, with final limit Sept. 30th. Choice of several routes offered, with double daily trains. Coll on ticket agents for information and descriptive matter.— ad. The Beautiful ••l.aml of the Sky.” The Southern Railway offers the best service ever afforded to Asheville. Hender sonville, Waynesville, Hot Springs. N. C., and the Sapphire country. Through Pull man sleeping cars and convenient sched ules. For further information apply to James Freeman, C. P. and T. A., Hi Bull street. 'Phones 850.—ad. SI.OO Savannah to Charleston and re turn, Sundays only, via Plant System. Commencing Sunday, May 12, convenient and quick schedule. Call on ticket office at the De Soto Hctel or Plant System depot for further Information —ad. The Correct I.lne to l*e to Ttnffalo, hi. V. If you are thinking of going to the Pan- American Exposition at Buffalo call at the Plant System Ticket Office, where you will get all the necessary information for making a quick and comfortable trip.—ad. Attractive Hound Trip Hnte* to Old Point Comfort, Va. The Seaboard Air Line Railway an nounces the low rate of $23.90, Savannah to Old Point Comfort and return, tickets to be sold daily to May Slut, with final limit six months from date of sale. Double dally trains with through Pull man service. Call on S. A. L. Ry. ticket agent or write to Wm. But'.er, Jr., Divis ion Passenger Agent. Savannah, Ga.—ad. Savannah'* Only Dining Car*. Elegant new dining car* on all South ern Railway trains into and out of Sa vannah. No other line can offer similar Inducement.—ad. Jtew Nnpluhii Lnnnrhe* $27.3 Here In Savannah. Why send off and buy a naphtha launch that you cannot see until you have paid for It. when you can pick one out right here In Savannah for the same money and will be Instructed In Its use free of charge, and can test and try It before you pay for It? Call on Llrpman Bros, for full partic ulars.—ad. “Get It at Bowlinski’s” Everybody knows about Witch Hazel. Well, we have just se cured *a special lot from the heart of tbe Witch Hazel dis trict. It’s pure, it's strong, dis tilled with extreme care and has just the proper amount of pure grain alcohol, and just now we want to say beware of cheap Witch Hazels, for they invaria bly contain the poisonous wood alcohoj. WE GUARANTEE OURS. Try it, compare it, for it’s one of the things we have better than most drug stores. DARGE •BOTTLES, 25c. KOWLINSKI, Pharmacist, Broughton and Drayton streets. Either Telephone 465. -Cl’T RATE PATENT MEDICINES— MSI. Of BOPt R’f AD and X J Rf SCUEOULii. For Isle of Hope, Montgomery, Thunder bolt. Cattle Park and West End. Daily except Sundays. Subject It change without notice. ISLE OF HOPE. Lv. City tor 1. ot H.i Lv. Isle of Hope." 6 30 am from 40th 6 00 am for Bolton 7 30 am from 40th 6 00 am for 40th 8 $0 am from 40th 7 00 am for 40th 9 18 am from Bolton 8 00 am for 40th 10 30 am from 40th 10 00 am for 40th 12 00 n'n from 40th 11 00 am for Boltoo 1 lo pm from Bolton 11 30 am for 40th 2 30 pm from 40th 2 00 pm for 40th 330 pm from 40th 240 pm for Bolton 4 30 pm from 4oth 3 00 pm for 40th 615 pm from Bolton 4 00 pm for 4oth 5 SO pm from 40th 6 00 pm for 40th 630 pm from 40th 700 pm for 40th 7 30 pm from 40th 8 00 pm for 40th 830 pm from 40th 900 pm for 40th 930 pm from 49th JO 00 pm for 40th 10 30 pm from 40th 11 00 pm for 40th MONTGOMERY. Lv. city fer Mong’y.| Lv. Montgomery. 830 am from 40th | 7 15 am for 40th 230 pm from 40th j 1 15 pm for 40th 630 pm from 40th | 600 pm for 40tb CATTLE PARK. Lv city for C..Park~ Lv. Cattle Park. 6 30 am from Bolton; 7 oo am for Bolton 7 30 am from Bolton| 8 00 am for Bolton 1 00 pm from Bo.ton| 1 30 pm for Bolton 2 30 pm from Boltonj 3 00 pm for Bolton 7 00 pm from Bolton[ 7 30 pm for Bolton 8 00 pm from Bolton; 8 30 pm for Bolton THUNDERBOLT. Car leaves Bolton street Junction 5:30 a m. end every thirty minutes thereafter until 11:30 p. m. Car leaves Thunderbolt at 6:00 a. m. and every thirty minutes thereafter until 12:00 midnight, for Bolton street junc tion. FREIGT AND PARCEL CAR. This car carries trailer for passengers on all trips and leaves east side of city market for Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt and all intermediate points at 9:00 a. m. 1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m. Leaves Isle of Hope for Thunderbolt. City Market and all intermediate points at 6:00 a. m.. 11:00 a. m.. 2:40 p. m. WEST END CAR. Car leaves west side of City Market for West End 6:00 a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter during the day iuitll 11:30 p. m. Leaves West End at 6:20 a. m. and ev ery 40 minutes thereafter during the day until 12:00 o’clock midnight. LUCIEN Mclntyre. Gen. Manager. A CARLOAD OF JUST RECEIVED. EDM LOVELL’S SIS, 113 Broughton Street, West. Brennan Bros. —WHOLESALE— Fruit, Produce, Grain, etc., 122 BAY STREET, WEST. Telephone && OUR^d IS A GREAT MILK PRODUCER. Sales doubled in last few months. That shows MERIT. W. D. SIMKINS & CO. Direct Route to Gln*oiv Exhibition ANCHOR LINE. Strain. hip. from Mew York Weekly For GLASGOW via LONDONDERRY, Saloon. *SO and up. Second Cobin, *52.50 and up. Third Class. *26 .nd upwards. For Uustrated folder and Information, npplv to HENDERSON BROTHERS,N Y. Or HENRY SOLOMON & SON. 186 to I** Bay street. Savannah. Ga. HEADQUARTERS FOR Dll IGS AMD SEEDS. Mali order, solicited. Donnelly Drug Cos W. ROSS GRAVENER, Manufacturer’s Agent, RAILWAY AMD MILL SUPPLIES, Provident Bulldinz, Savannah. Ga. M Morphine and Whiskrv hab its treated without pain or