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SIDNEY HERBERT’S LETTER.
THE GROIND OF THE COMPLAINT
AGAINST SAMPSON.
Somr Promotion* of Atlnntn Men In
tlie Xv>-A AVet Point Cla That
Put n Number of General* In tlie
Confederate Service—The First to
lise the Title. “Ilnncliter* of tlie
Confederacy”—The Author of the
Fainon* Hymn "Hattie Above the
Cloud*”—One of n Sei le* of “One
Rullet Trnu edie*”—Other Matter*
of General Interest.
Tine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla.. Aug.
S.—l have never censured the naval
authorities for recognizing Rear Ad
miral Sampson as the commander of
the naval forces at Santiago. It is
a rule in both the army nnd navy to
give such credit as was awarded him
to the ranking commander. A similar
case occurred here in Florida, during
the Civil War, at the battle of Olustee
or Ocean Fond. Gen. Joseph Finegan,
C. S. A., was in comand of the forces,
but not on the field, ns I understand.
Gen. A. Hi Colquitt and Col. George
P. Harrison, Jr., were the heroes of
the batle, and yet the Confederate
States Congress passed a resolution
awarding all the credit to Gen. Fine
gan. The blame that rests on Samp
son lies in the fact that he, being ab
sent. did not give- due credit to Schley,
next in rank, who was present and an
active participant in the battle.
An Atlanta paper is father Jubilant
over some promotions of naval offi
cers from that city. These promotions
are neither "fresh” nor "high,” as
gunners rank with, but next to, en
signs. The promotions came In regular
course a few weeks ago and are in no
sense remarkable. As I have before
written, Georgia has a fine representa
tion in the navy, and several of the
younger officers have won deserved
commendation. The highest Georgia of
ficer is Commander Richard G. Daven
port, in charge of the training ship
Essex, and the lowest is Boatswain Lee
R. Boland, commanding the tug Ac
tive at Mare Island, Cal., navy yard.
* • * It is a singular fact that the
class of 1854 from West Point Milita
ry Academy, with Cadet George Wash
ington Custis Lee, son of Gen. Robert
E. Lee, at the head, put a big squad
of generals into the Confederate army.
Beside Lee there were James Peshler,
Ala.; John Pegram of Virginia; J. E.
B. Stuart of Virginia, Archibald Gra
de of New York; Stpehen D. Lee of
South Carolina; William D. Pender of
North Carolina; John B. Villepigue of
South Carolina; and John T. Mercer
of Georgia, who would have been a
general had he not fallen In battle.
Abner Smead of Georgia was also In
this class. Gen. O. O. Howard, U. S.
A., was No. 4 in the class.
Mrs. L. H. Raines of Savannah, very
kindly informs me that Mrs. Cassidy,
to whom I referred last Sunday, only
claims to be the first to use the name
“Daughters of the Confederacy” for a
local society in St. Louis. The question
as to who brought such local societies
Into the United Daughters of the Con
federacy, ns one grand organization,
she says is still undecided. A commit
tee, with no Georgian or Tennesseean
on It, is now at work investigating the
claims of Mrs. Goodlett of Tennessee,
and Mrs. Raines of Georgia, and will
report in November to the next gen
eral convention of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, to be held at
Wilmington, N. C. As I understand It,
In the first organization, Mrs. Raines'
claim was so far recognized as to make
her vice president next to Mrs. Good
lett, chosen president. The final decis
ion will be awaited with deep interest
by the friends of both these patriotic
and zealous workers in the cause.
Col. Bevereley W. W r renn of the Plant
System, who was a Confederate boy
hero at the Battle of Lookout Moun
tain, says Maj. Gen. M. C. Meigs, tT.
S. A. (born in Augusta, Ga., but of
Northern parents), was the author of
the familiar phrase, "Battle above the
clouds.” Two days after the battle he
reported, as quartermaster gem Mal, to
Secretary Stanton, of the operations
around Chattanooga, and thus referred
to the Lookout Mountain fight of Nov.
24: “The day had been one of driving
mists and rains, and much of Hooker’s
battle was fought above the clouds,
which concealed him from cur view,
but from which his musketry was
heard. • • • A brigade sent from
Chattanooga crossed Chattanooga
creek and opened compiunlcations with
Hooker soon after nightfall. • *
At daylight on Nov. 25 the Stars and
Stripes were discerned on the peak of
Lookout. The confederates had evacu
ated the mountain.” Hooker had scal
ed the slopes of the mountain from
Lookout creek and driven the Confed
erates around the Point, where he
made a stand high up the mountain
in full view of Chattanooga.
It was not my intention to again
mention Gov. Candler’s female aide,
but some person—evidently a female—
has sent me from Washington, D. C„
a page of the Morning News of July
21, and marked a paragraph headed
"Our Lady Military Men,” in the Geor
gia news column. On the margin she
writes: “Who's wrong, or who's do
ing this?” As to who is wrong I can
only say that I am not the man. After
Adjutant General Robertson said there
were no female aides the Governor did
admit that Miss Maymie was a sort of
social aide. Then, after Mrs. Bowles
was reported as a major general, he
frankly confessed that under the Geor
gia military laws he could not issue
any such commissions. He said he
simply wrote a letter to Miss Maymie,
who now signs herself "Lieut' Colonel
and Aide to Gov. Candler” (although
residing in another state) that she
might be a sort of outside honorary
appendage to his masculine staff of
aides. As to “Who is doing this?” I
cannot reply. But "Yankee Adams,”
the comedian, used to say: "Such
things have been done and others are
doing.”
It seems very proper that Secretary
Long should stop all discussion on the
Sohley-Sampson matter by naval of
ficers. Too much has already been
published from that source, and I re
gret to see that of Admiral Schley’s
son. an officer In the regular army,
has-had the had taste to inject some
very spicy charges into public print.
My sympathies are till with Schley,
who has been, for some reason, very
badly treated, but the whole case Is
now in the hands of a court of in
quiry and should be left there until a
verdict is rendered. The rumor that
a court has been "fixed to convict’’
does not surprise me. The same tactics
were played in the Fitz John Porter
case (as I recently stated, having at
tended that court-martial seml-offi
cinlly), >'.nd he was convicted before a
tangle witness Wad testified. Oapt.
Schley. U. S. A., asks a pertinent
question, however, when he suggests
the inquiry. "In case of defeat would
Sampson have claimed what he now
assumes?” I think not.
Tn the list of cadets Just admitted to
West Point Military Academy, in the
Morning News of Tuesday. I see the
once famliar name of “Charles L
Scott of Alabama.” I hope he is the
son of my dear old friend ex-Congress
mnn MaJ. Charles L. Bcott, "a fine old
Virginia gentleman," residing In Wil
cox county. Alabama, and whom I
knew aus an able and accomplished edi
tor while I was a member of the Ala
trass Association, During my
residence In Atlanta, in 1878, I edited
a military department in the Savan
nah Weekly News, and the death of a
rarely gifted son of Maj. Scott was no
ticed by me in that department, the
father having been a brave Confeder
ate soldier, and crippled for life at the
| first Bull Run or Manassas. There lies
I before me as I now write a faded let
j ter written to me over twenty years
| ago by that grief-stricken father, full
of "deep and heartfelt thanks’ tor my
kindly tribute to his “dear boy,” gone
forever from earth. As 1 read the ten
der words of this distinguished oi l sol
dier and brother journalise, I realize
that "kind words are more than coro
nets,” and that the "bravest are the
tenderest.” If Cadet Scott is the son
of this Maj. Scott he ought to make a
soldier of the highest type of excel
lence.
Several times I have mentioned "One
Bullet Tragedies,” in which generals
or other prominent officers were killed
on the battlefield by a single bullet
from a sharpshooter's rifle, the case
of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton, IT. S.
V., in the Philippines being one of the
latest and saddest cases. And yet, in
battle, it takes a big lot of lead to
kill a soldier sometimes. Col. G. N.
Saussy, quartermaster general of the
Florida Division, U. C. V., in a recent
letter to me, touches interestingly upon
this subject in a comparison of our
present improved firearms with those in
use during the Civil War. "On my
trip to the Memphis Confederate re
union,” he says, “my seat mate from
Balnbridge to Montgomery, Ala., was
a Capt. Stuart of Thomasville. He man
aged during the Confederate war to
stop seven bullets (except one didn’t
stop, but went clear through his chest
and lung). Mr. Harris of Nashville, my
seat mate between Tupelo and Mem
phis, must have been a champion ball
player, he ‘caught out'nine balls —(one
for each inning of a modern baseball
game). A Mr. Berry of Alabama, a
seat mate on my return trip from Mem
phis, was also a prize winner, he catch
ing nine bullets. Yet all these lived to
see thirty-six years of peace after their
numerous woundings.” And yet a |
dozen heroic generals like James B. i
McPherson, U. S. A., and William
Henry T. Walker, C. S. A., fell by a
sharpshooter’s single well-aimed bul
let.
The Atlanta papers are saying some
nice things about "O. M. Mitchell Post,
G. A. R.,” of that city, for its very lib
eral donation of SIOO to furnish a room
in the Confederate Soldiers' Home of
Georgia. The name “Mitchell,” how
ever, is not correct. Gen. Ormsby M.
Mitchel, a West Pointer and an emi
nent astronomer, as well as noted sol
dier, had only one 1 in his name. But
the Atlanta Post is not first in this
generous work of reconciliation. O. M.
Mitchel Post, G. A. R., of Jacksonville,
Fla., several years ago, contributed to
fit up a room in the Florida Confeder
ate Soldiers’ Home, and also attended
in a body tire opening dedicatory ser
vices. There are some bitter-hearted
men still rampant in the G. A. R. and
the U. C. V., but as a rule I think the
war is over with the veterans of both
organizations, Confederate soldiers
Patronize Home industry
MAGNOLIA SOAP,
THE SOAP THAT CLEANS.
WHERE IT CAN BE HAD:
THOMAS West Broad and River streets.
J. F. ENTEL.MAN, 818 Liberty street, east.
FRANCIS HARTE, Jefferson and St. Julian streets,
HOTCHKISS & NEVILL, Jefferson and Broughton streets.
L. B. GREER, Whitaker and Park avenue.
McGRATH & RANSFORD, Whitaker street.
NICHOLAS LANG, Barnard street.
J. T. EVANS & CO., Barnard and Congress streets.
BENJ. GAILS, Duffey and Jefferson streets.
JOHN STAMMER, Bryan and Ann streets.
. P. MEYER, Farm and Bryan streets.
GOODMAN BROS., 43 Farm street.
F. H. JACHKNS, Ann and Pine streets.
HARRY STEFFENS, East Broad and Oglethorpe avenue.
DRAYTON GROCERY CO.. 110 Whitaker street. - j
HENRY SCHRODER, Broughton and Habersham streets.
S. F. SMITH & CO.,' 345 Abercorn street.
HARPEE & MARSHALL, Gaston and Drayton streets.
JOHN LYONS & CO., Lyons Block.
S. W. BRANCH CO., Broughlon and Whitaker streets.
THOMAS HICKS, Montgomery and Henry streets.
GEO. W r . LEE, Ninth and Burroughs streets.
NORTON & RYAN, Price and Broughton streets.
JNO. D. BRODMAN, Bolton and Burroughs street*.
D. GEFFKEN, Waldburg and Burroughs streets.
ALBERT GRIMM. Second and West Broad streets.
W. R. FULTON, Duffy lane and West Broad street. L
JOHN LYNCH, Taylor and Whitaker streets.
R. H. GRIFFITH, Gaston and Jefferson streets.
J. H. LANKENAIT, Berrien and Jefferson streets.
JAMES O'BYIINE, Montgomery and Bay streets.
D. GAMBITTIE, Indian and Farm streets.
HENRY FEHRENCAMP, West Boundary and Bay.
W. O. CLARY, Pine and Farm s. sets.
H. H. BUNGER, Ogeechee road.
H. H. GEFFKEN, Price and Broughton streets. ’
J. C. SCHUMAN, East Boundary and Broughton streets.
M. A. CLANTON, Harrison and Farm streets.
C. H. HEITMAN, President and East Broad streets.
PETER ORSINI & BRO., Bay and Houston streets.
JOHN GRIMM, Drayton and State streets.
RUBEN HORROVITZ, Bryan and Montgomery streets
M. EGAN, Huntingdon and East Broad streets.
J H. WILDER, Park avenue and Lincoln street.
SAM. JENKINS, Price and Gaston streets.
ABRAM WAINER, Purse and S’ is streets.
A. P. OANNADY, Gucrrard and Sims streets.
H. J. BCHNAARS, Wilson and Jones street
JOHN D. SIEM. Jones and Purse streets.
JOHN T. KAISER, Pull and First streets.
SOUTH SIDE CASH GROCERY, Habershrm and Anderson streets.
HFNRY GERKIN, Whenton and Liberty streets.
ANDREW GASPERNICH, Perry lane and Barnaid Street,
ROBERT REMLER. Liberty and Drayton streets.
B F, MORSE, Ogeechee road. i
HERMAN GHOTHKKR, Park avenue and Cuyler street ;
J G. PARDUE, Russell and Cemetery streets.
JAMES J. JOYCE, I.tberty and Abercorn.
JAMES J JOYCE, East Broad and Oglethorpe avenu*
A M&c. W. WEBT, Liberty and Whitaker.
C A. MUNSTER. Duffy and Drayton.
JOHN SULLIVAN. 15 Congress street, west.
MRS. H. SALOSHIN. corner Bay and Habershai
K A HARMS. 444 TaltnalU street.
GEORGE DERST, 7< West Broad street.
S A CRAIG, Bull and Anderson streets,
o E STIVARIUS. 2420 Bull street.
MBS GEO. CBANE, Toll Gate. White Bluff road,
F H. QBANTE, Best and Montgomery streets. '
j. J. BAN NON, 2319 Montgomery street.
O W. LEE, Thirty-ninth, west, and Burroughs.
KNIGHT & 00., 219 Henry street, east.
GEO. H. ELLIS A CO.. Lincoln and Duffy streets.
JOHN D. HARMS, 621 Bolton street, cast,
P SANDERS, Bull and Forty-second streets. 1
MRS. M. C BENNETT, corner Sims and Lumber streets.
W. P. PENNINGTON, Orange street, corner St. Gaul.
A. WAINER, Sims and Purse streets.
MR£ KATE FOLEY, comer Lorch and Montgomery street*.
L BCHINE, Farm and William streets.
BEN REMLER. Waters Road and Thunderbolt Road
WERNTZ BROTHERS, Huntingdon and Barnard attest*
JOHN MEYER, Lovers Lane.
JOHN F. MAY, Oglethorpe and Jefferson.
(C. A. O BRIEN, -387 West Broad Street,
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 4. IDOL
have been buried by G. A. R. veterans,
and Union soldiers by Confederate vet
erans, with full military honors. On
Decoration Day and Memorial Day
these veterans decorate alike the
graves of the Blue and the Gray with
beautiful fragrant flowers.
Mr. T. F. Warrick of Claxton, In
Tattnall county, Ga., writes me as fol
lows: "1 read with interest your his
torical letters in the Morning News,
and on reading your account of the
death of Gen. Polk at Lost Mountain,
I have taken the liberty to write a few
lines of what I saw of his funeral in
Atlanta. I was a lad there from the
commencement of the war until Gen.
Sherman came in and forced us all to
leave.” Mr. Warrick goes on to tell
of the humble little Episcopal Church
on Walton street, near Forsyth, where
the funeral services were held. “The
body,” he writes, “came in an army
ambulance and was attended by a
guard of honor.” Young Warrick
passed through the church and viewed
the body in an open coffin, dressed in
full uniform and wrapped In a Con
federate flag. “I did not remain
through the funeral services. It was a
sad time then, for we could plainly
hear the boom of cannon on Lost
Mountain.” Mr. W. says there was a
large cross of white flowers on the
general's breast and the body did not
seem disfigured. It was, however bad
ly mutiiiated, but this did not show in
the coffin. “I do not know,” he adds,
“where the burial was.” It was, I
think, at old St. Paul's Church in Au
gusta, where Mrs. Polk is also buried.
The humble little church on Walton
street became historic through a very
tender war story written by the late
Bi.ihop (’has. T. Quintard of Tennessee,
entitled "Nellie's Handkerchief,” the
principal character b. ing Miss Nellie
Peters, now the widow of ex-Congress
man George U. Black. I republished
the story, with comments, in the Sun
day Telegram, of Savannah, some
years ago. Before the death of Bishop
Beckwith, this little church, so full
of war memories of a tender charac
ter, became, through the zealous and
generous labors of Col. Z. D. Harrison
and Col. B. W. Wrenn, the very promi
nent St. Luke’s Cathedral of that
later day on Peachtree street. But to
the actors in the "Nellie's Handker
chief” touching narrative, and to many
other bereaved hearts that were strick
en with sore distress In those perilous
war times, that dear little old church,
so humble and so long gone, will con
tinue to hold a dearer and more sacred
place than any grand cathedral in all
the wide world. And I write this with
eyes blinded with tears of sympathy
for those stricken ones.
Sidney Herbert.
IHU.OO
Savannah to Jacksonville
anil Itetnrn.
Via Seaboard Air Line Railway, Mon
day. Aug. 5. Tickets on sale for special
train leaving Central depot at 8 a. m.,
railroad time, and good to return on
any regular train up to and including
Aug. 8. Separate coaches for white
and colored passengers.—ad.
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An Unparalleled Bargain Opportunity
ALL PROFITS AND SOME OF THE COST TAKEN OFF.
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10,000 Yards White and Colored Lawns, Dimities, Batiste, Pique Madras Cloth, Figured
Swisses and Imported Ginghams sold all season at 15c, 20c and 25c yard, i
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Closing’ out 50c Ladies’
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Closing out sl, $1.50 and $2 La
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Closing out Ladies’ Fine Waists
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Closing out one lot Ladies’ Muslin
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Closing out SI.OO Ladies’ Lawn
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BURMAH’S AMERICAN BRIDGE.
THIRTY-FIVE YAKKERS WENT
HALF WAY AROIND THE
WORLD TO BIILD IT.
It Crosae* the CoUteik Gorjte find Is
the Lonjseiit Rnilrond Bridge In
Existence and One of the Hifhet.
Venomous Snakes*. Polnoiioun Veg
etation* Feverou* Mist* and a
Rainy Svnuon That Turned the
Solid Earth Into Liquid Mod, Were
Some of the Diftiniltien That Beset
the Bnilriern, bnt They Completed
the Work in Eighth Month*—All
the Material Sent Piecemeal in
Three Ship* From Thin ConntVy.
Biuuput Traveler Ever Made l*ed
In the CoiiMtruction.
New York, Aug. 2.—A steamship re
cently arrived at New York with a lit
tle group of men browned to a copper
color by exposure to the tropical sun.
As they reached the dock, a number
of people watting to meet them gave
each a hearty handshake and extended
congratulations. In the engineering
world, this group will be long remem
bered as the men who put up the great
est railroad bridge in the world In a
country none of them had ever seen,
amid trials and troubles which might
be expected to discourage any one but
a Yankee engineer.
Two or three years ago the survey
ors of a railroad line In Burmah came
to a hole In the .ground which was so
deep that it seemed as if a balloon
would be the only way to cross It. This
was the Gokteik Gorge. Two go around
it would require twenty or thirty miles
more of track, and the question arose
whether it could be spanned by a
bridge. The general officials of the
company thought It could if the right
men could be found to undertake the
work. Several American firms were In
vited to put in bids, and one of them,
teh Pennsylvania Steel Company, se
cured the job. It was a case of hurry
from start to finish, for the work must
be done within a year from the time
the contract was let. The steel for
the towers, girders and other work had
to be turned out at the works, shipped
to New York, loaded on board vessels,
carried to Rangoon, loaded on cars and
then transported 450 miles to this hole
in the ground. Special machinery had
to be built to put the bridge together
and to raise the different pieces and
ho and them in position. In all, about
5 000 tons of meal alone were required
for the work, the bridge itself taking
4,852 tons alone.
From one side of the valley to the
other was nearly half a mile. For two
thirds of this distance the railroad
track had to be laid at hights ranging
from 100 to 250 feet above the ground.
Then came a drop of 320 feet to the
top of a bridge nature had thrown
across one of the mountain rivers of
Southern Asia. Upon this natural
bride, just wide enough to form a safe
support, heavy steel towers were riv
eted together to such a hight that the
men working upon them at the top
looked like insects to the observer from
below.
As soon as the cablegram came from
the Burmah Railway Company ac
cepting the American hid a special
force of workmen was selected to turn
out the material as rapidly as possible,
and the bridge department worked day
and night As fast as the columns and
girders came from the shops, they
were piled In the railroad yards and
painted to prevent rusting. Ordinarily
when a bridge is transported in sec
tions each part Is lettered and num
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Towels at 8c
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Fringed Doylies at 50c
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at ..49c
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Closing out 85c Black Taffeta Silk
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Foulards at 69c
Closing out SI.OO White Crochet
Quilts at 69c
Closing out $1.50 White Ouilts.
Marseilles patterns, at .'.97c
bered to indicate Its part and position
in the structure.
But it was borne In upon the com
pany that it would have to depend for
its labor upon the East Indian coolies,
who knew nothing of American letters
and numbers—nor probably, of any
other kind. But even a coolie can tell
colors, so the trusses, girders and col
umns were painted in one color, and
the pieces used to join them were
striped, while the metal work for the
bridge construction machinery was
painted dead black. Subsequently some
trouble developed because two of the
native firemen were color-blind, but in
general the scheme worked well. To
move the mass of material required
three different steamships.
When the construction gang reached
the spot, the first thing they had to
encounter was the rainy season. The
locality is in the mountains 4,000 feet
above sea level, where it is so cold at
night that a man shivers under heavy
blankets and so hot at mid-day that
no man with a white skin can live in
the sun-glare. During the rainy season
the clouds seem to literally open in
this part of the country and the water
comes down in torrents from sunrise
until afternon, drenching and soaking
everything, so that it is impossible to
do anything but remain indoors and
wait until the rain stops.
The work, particularly in its initial
stages, was performed amidst various
perils. In the depths of the gorge,
matted with underbrush and scattered
with huge rocks, lurked the deadly
snakes of India. Some of the coolies
were bitten and died. Poisonous vege
tation also affected the men, and va
pors arising from the depths of the
ravine bred low fever In American
bones. There were beasts of prey, too,
but although they were seen and
heard prowling about the camp at
night, the bridge builders suffered
nothing from their depredations ex
cept the loss of some live stock. The
incessant rains turned the ground Into
liquid mud, and the masons laying the
stone foundations for the towers were
held back ten weeks. At last these
were completed, and then the “trav
eler” was put in position.
This was a mechanical giant, the
largest by far ever used in bridge con
structions. It lifted and lowered the
tons of steel and held them in its grip
while the men fastened them into
place. Although In the photographs of
the work the traveler looks to be only
20 or 30 feet in length and to weigh
perhaps four or five tons. It extended
from Its support on the end of the
railroad track a distance of 165 feet
over the gorge and contained 00 tons
of metal alone. The beams or trusses
which formed its lower portion were
219 feet in length, and from its top to
the railroad track was 40 feet. To
keep this immense weight from top
pling over, a counter-weight of 75 tons
was loaded upon the rear portion,
which was mounted on wheeled trucks
so that it could be rolled along as the
bridge was erected.
The little band of thirty-five Ameri
cans put the mammoth bridge together
from side to side of the gorge in a lit
tle over eight months after the work
was commenced. The bridge is so
strongly built that it will support a
train of loaded freight cars reaching
its entire length, in addition to four
locomotives weighing 54 tons each.
Owing to Its great hight, it must be
strongly braced to withstand the force
of the gnles which sweep down the
valley at a velocity of 60 to 70 miles
an hour. The engineers had to cal
culate upon these and other delicate
points, but tests made after comple
tion show' that they calculated to a
nicety. It was expected In building
the bridge to have the aid of com
pressed air in boring holes through the
steel and fastening the rivets, but
when the 500 natives who were em
ployed as laborers heard the hissing
and noted ths effect* of the unseen
fores, they believed It to t>s something
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Closing out 39c Ladies’ Sommer
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Heamsdorf dye, 3 pairs for 50c
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Embroidered Handkerchiefs at.. 5c
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supernatural and not one of them could
be induced to touch the compressed
air tools. Asa result, all of the bolts
and rivets, nearly 200,000, were fasten
ed in the old-fashioned way by hand
hammers. This delayed the work about
one month.
The Gokteik Viaduct, as it is known
in Asia, is located upon the principal
railway between Rangoon and the Chi
nese frontier. It is the highest bridge
in the world, with tw r o exceptions—the
Pecos Viaduct in Texas and the Loa
Bridge in South America. It is 100 feet
longer than any other railroad bridge
in the world and contains 1,500 tons of
metal more than any other, the next
largest being the new bridge across tlje
Kinzua valley in Pennsylvania. The
Kinzua is but 2,053 feet in length and
is 19 feet lower than the Gokteik. The
natural bridge upon which the Gokteik
structure rests is one of the wonders
of Asia, being an arch 200 feet in thick
ness and about 500 feet long. Ages ago
the river which flows beneath W'orked
its way through the barrier. Photo
graphs taken from the bed of the
stream when the traveler was complet
ing the last towers showed the columns
and girders in the bridge structure like
delicate lace work, so small did they
appear, while the top portion of the
traveler was actually Invisible.
The work was done under the super
vision of J. C. Turk of New York, as
engineer for the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, under the general direction
of Mr. J. V. W. Reynders, general su
perintendent of the bridge department,
who prepared the drawings for the
structure. The bridge cost $700,000 or
$3lO a foot. Of the little band of Amer
icans w'ho went half W'ay around the
world to do this work, every man came
back alive and hearty, but with the
memory of one of the most trying tasks
ever completed by Yankee pluck and
ingenuity.
Plant System Mileage Book*.
Travelers, before taking a trip. It
would be well to call on the Plant Sys
tem ticket agents for Information as
to the use of 1,000-mile books. These
books are good from Tampa to Wash
ington, also to Montgomery, and will
be accepted for passage on all points
reached by the Atlantic Coast Line.
The Plant System reaches all Import
ant points in th 2 state of Florida.
Books sold at $26 VO. Call on ticket
agents at De Soto Hotel or Plant Sys
tem Depot. —ad.
Mileage Bonks
by the Seaboard Air Line Railway are
good Into Washington and also over
the Bay Line from Norfolk to Bal
timore. They will save you money on
your trip North. Ticket office, corner
Bull and Bryan streets. ’Phones No.
28. —ad
Sommer Rates.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway is
offering very attractive round-trip
rates from all points to Old Point Com
fort, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth,
Washington, Baltimore and New York.
If you contemplate a trip to any point
this summer it will be to your advan
tage to call at the Seaboard Air Line
Railway ticket office, corner Bull and
Bryan streets, ’phone No. 28, for full
Information.—ad.
To the North and Fast.
Two handsomely equipped trains
daily via the Southern Railway to
Washington, New York and beyond,
each carrying through Pullman sleep
ers and dining cars. Excellent service,
quick time, convenient schedules. For
information, apply to E. G. Thomson.
C. P. and T. A., 141 Bull street. Phone
860.— *d.
Closing out 10c plain and fancy
White Goods at 5c
Closing out 10c Dress Ginghams
and Madras Cloth at 6^c
Closing out 7c Soft Bleached Shirt
ing at 4^c
Closing out Genuine Lonsdale Cam
bric at 9c
Closing out 20c 10-4 Sheeting
at 14c
Closing out 20c White India Linen
at 12^c
Closing out 10 yards Bird-Eye
Cotton Diaper, worth 50c, at. .39c
Closing out 60c lull size ready
made sheets at 43c
Closing out 25c Table Oil Cloth,
best quality, at 15c
THE AMATEUR MAGICIAN.
Two Clever Tricks by Which a Boy
May Surprise a Company.
Tie a piece of cotton thread to the
stem of a pear, and by this means sus
pend the pear from the chandelier. The
thread should nbt be more than four
or five inches in lengA, as the pear
should hang as high as possible. Un
der it place an uncovered table. Fill a
glass with water, and move it careful
ly and gently up under the pear until
the latter is Immersed. Be sure that
you do not touch the pear with the
side of the glass, for It Is necessary
that is should hang perfectly motion
less.
Having thus immersed the pear, gent
ly take away the glass, when the water
that clung to the pear will fall to
the table in a few drops. These drops
will be In a straight line from the cen
ter of the pear, and that is the point
that you want.
Having <\one all this in secret, and
put the glass out of sight, call the com
pany forward, and tell them that >ou
are going to hold a table knife in your
hand, and make the pear fall on it in
such a way that it will be cut exactly
into halves. This will seem to them
impossible, for they do not know that
the drops of water have marked the
place where you are to hold the knife
blade. When you are ready, get some
one to apply a lighted match to the
thread above the pear, and the latter
will fall squarely on the knife.
You may divide the pear into quar
ters by holding two knife blades, cross
ed at right angles, over the spot
marked by the drop of water. Sharp
steel knives are the best to use.
Driving a Needle Through a Coin.
If you had to drive a fine needle
through a nickel or a quarter-dollar,
perhaps you would not know how to ro
about It. Let us tell you. Thrust the
needle through the middle of a cork
so that its point can barely be felt at
the other end. If part of It projects at
the upper end of the cork, clip it oft
flush by means of a pair of shears.
Now place a nickel or a silver quar
ter on two blocks of wood with a little
space between them, put the cork on
the coin so that the needle point will
be over the space, strike the cork a
sharp blow with a heavy hammer, and
the thing is done.
The cork keeps the needle from bend
ing, and as it is harder than the metal
in the coin, and is bound to move when
struck, it will go right through the
coin.
Change of Sunday Excursion Train
Schedule.
On and after Sunday, June 2, the
Charleston excursion train will leave
Savannah at 7 a. m. railroad time.
Tickets SI.OO for the round trip. For
further Information call on ticket
agents. —ad. _
An Excellent Trip.
Is via the Seaboard Air Line Railway
to Norfolk, thence Norfolk and Wash
ington Steamboat Company to Wash
ington or the Old Bay Line to Balti
more. Call at ticket office, corner Bull
and and Bryan streets, and get those
round trip rates before deciding on
your route. —ad.
fS.OO
Savannah to Tninpa. Fla.,
and Retorn.
Via Seaboard Air Line Railway, Mon
day, Aug. 5. Tickets on sale for special
train leaving Central depot at 8 a. m.,
Railroad time, and good to return on
any regular train up to and including
Aug. 8. Separate coaches for wmte
•nd colored passengers.—ad.