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WORK CUT OUT
FOR CORTELYOU
Secretary of the New Department Has Plenty of
It Before Him.
By R. M. Lamer.
Washington, Feb. 24.—For the thir£
time since the foundation of this
government anew executive depart
ment, its head having a seat in the
President's cabinet, is being inaugu
rated. Congress has always been ex
ceedingly conservative about the es
tablishment of new departments and
the graveyard of legislation at the
Capital contains many bills to that
end, which have been consigned to
oblivion.
But in the midst of what has been
a most marvellous period of indus
trial activity and industrial advance
the Senate and House have agreed
upon the new Department of Com
merce and Labor, President Roosevelt
has signed the bill, thereby giving it
the full effect of law of the land, and
immediately thereafter named Hon.
George B. Cortelyou, of New York, as
the secretary thereof. A few days
later James R. Garfield, like Mr.
Cortelyou a young man, was named as
commissioner of the Bureau of Cor
porations next to the secretaryship
probably the most important of all the
offices in the new department. He is
a son of the late President James A.
Garfield and, in common with Mr.
Cortelyou although undoubtedly to a
less degree, enjoys the high esteem
of Mr. Roosevelt.
The new Secretary of Commerce first |
met with the cabinet last Friday, his j
place, as the head of the last depart
ment organized, being at the foot of !
the list and next to the Secretary of j
Agriculture, whose department was j
created as such Feb. 9, 1889, and second
from the Secretary of the Interior,
whose department was created March
3. 1849. There are tremendous possi
bilities ahead of Mr. Cortelyou in or
ganizing this new department, but he
is proceeding slowly and cautiously
in his work so that he may avoid any
false starts and it will be weeks, prob
ably months before much In the way
of executing plans and policies for
the immediate benefit of domestic and
foreign commerce can be undertaken.
Asa matter of fact none of the
several bureaus to be transferred from
other departments to the new depart
ment will come under Mr. Cortelyou’s
jurisdiction till July 1, when the
government's new fiscal year begins.
No other officers have yet been ap
pointed, but Mr. Cortelyou is daily ap
proaching the tasks before him. In
the President's executive offices, just
east of the Navy Department, he has
been assigned rooms, where he has had
the superintendence of a vast amount
of congratulatory correspondence, fol
lowed immediately by supplications for
office. Senators and members, especial
ly those who were instrumental in
forcing the bill to its passage, have
been passing through the glass portals :
and along the little corridor to the left j
of the vestibule to where Mr. Cortelyou
sits, asking places for their constitu
ents. But some time has been found,
aside from attention to the matters
mentioned, to consult with Mr. Gar
field, the commissioner of the bureau
of corporations, with Mr. Sergent, Mr.
Austin, chief of the bureau of statis
tics, both commissioner of the bureau
of immigration, now under the Treasury
Department, and with numerous other
chiefs of bureaus, now or prospectively
under the new department, as to plans.
The comprehensive duties of the Sec
retary of commerce are indicated some
what by an enumeration of the bureaus
and divisions of activity which will j
come under his direction. From the
Treasury Department, besides the great I
bureau of immigration, just mentioned, !
and the bureau of statistics, which in
the last four years especially has as
sumed no small importance because of j
the volume of statistics of trade and
commerce which it has prepared in pop
ular form for publication In news- |
papers, the following additional bureaus |
will come under the new department:
the Light House Board, which has
charge of millions upon millions of
dollars worth of property along both
the Atlantic and Pacific coast, the light
house establishment, the steamboat
inspection service, the Bureau of Navi
gation, the United States Shipping
Commissioners, who are stationed in
every important port, the National Bu
reau of Standards, for which the
government is soon to erect a fine new
building here at a cost of several hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, which Is
nccorded the finest bureau of scientists
on those subjects in the world. Nearly
all these bureaus, not only have a vast
amount of routine work pertaining to
their fields, but also from time to time
initiate and put into execution impor
tant innovations calculated to serve the
public interests.
Then from the Interior Department
will he transferred the Census Bureau,
which has only been organized about
nine months as a permanent bureau.
Hitherto forces for the taking of the
decennial census, required by the con
stitution. have been organized a year
or two in advance, but m(uch of the
work of such a temporary force has
proved valueless, and the government
for the first time in history has en
tered seriously upon census taking
that will subserve commercial and
business interests by affording quick
and accurate returns. There alone i^,
THE POSTMASTER,
Shook Off Coffee and Go, Well.
It's so easy to shake off coffee and
aeoffee diseases when well made Pos
tum Cereal Food Coffee is served in its
place that it doesn't take long to tell
the tale.
The Postmaster of a flourishing’ town
In Dinwiddle county, Va„ writes: "Up
to a short time ago eoffee had me a
great sufferer from constipation, nerv
ousness and indigestion. About the
middle of last July I quit coffee and
began using Postum, and ever since I
have been improving. My troubles
have now' quite disappeared.
“I attribute my recovery to Postum
end induced several of my friends to
try it. Tou are at liberty to use this.”
Name given by Postum Cereal Cos.,
Ud., Battle Creek. Mich.
There is a reason. Coffee Is a defi
nite poison to many persons and dis
ease sets in if the use of even one cup
a day is continued.
When the poison is withdrawn and a
Pure food beverage like Postum Food
Coffee used the return to health is
natural and prompt If the disease is
not too advanced, and many, very
many old chronic diseases disappear
when the coffee is abandoned and
Postum used in its stead. Many of
these old disease* are hidden nervous
disorders, that Is coffee Keeps the
nerves poisoned and that condition
creates and hold* disease In some or
gan of the body. Take away the cause
nd give a true, natural nerve re
builder like Postum, and the change is
°tten miraculous
a wide field of activity for the new
secretary. Then from the State De
partment will be transferred to the
new department the Bureau of For
eign Commerce, which has rapidly be
come a most valuable adjunct to busi
ness men by furnishing consular and
other reports about industrial progress
and opportunities in foreign lands.
The State Department is now issuing
daily bulletins, almost as large as a
small newspaper, regarding business
conditions in foreign lands all over the
world. The consular reports, ftom
which this • information is culled will
necessarily still continue to be made
to the State Department but the new
Secretary of Commerce will be fur
nished with all the available informa
tion for the issuance of these bulletins.
Furthermore the new secretary will
have charge of several other bureaus,
which have hitherto been independent
of any department of the government.
Perhaps the most important of these
independent bureaus is the Depart
ment of Labor, so called, which in
reality is only a bureau, although call
ed a department. The efficient head of
the labor work for some years has
been Hon. Carroll D. Wright, whose
fame as an economist and thinker on
sociological questions has become al
most international. While not a large
bureau in the number of people em
ployed, it has accomplished a grevt
deal of wide interest and importance
to the laboring and the industrial
world. The experts of this bureau
have been constantly collecting infor
mation about the condition of em
ployes. legislation of different states,
and on scores of allied subjects, which
are published from time to time as bul
letins. The direction of this impor
tant work, now' regarded as indispen
sable, will come under Secretary Cor
telyou. Mr. Wright has accepted the
presidency of an Eastern college and
in the course of some months will quit
the bureau, which he has been very
largely instrumental in upbuilding.
Still another important independent
bureau to come under the new depart
ment is that of the Fish Commission
and the office of the commissioner of
fish and fisheries. Scattered over
the country are numerous fish hatch
eries, W'here the government encour
ages the propagation and distribution
of different species of fresh and salt
W'ater fishes. Millions of these fishes
are planted annually in brooks,
streams, and lakes under government
supervision, sometimes in co-operation
of the state fish commissions. An ap
propriation of $20,000 has just been
completed for building a lobster hatch
ery on the coast of Maine and that
will in due season be increased so
to authorize the hatching of cod
there. This work has grown to great
magnitude, so that every senator and
member of Congress has a quota of
little fish to distribute annually among
his constituents. The commission has
a small fleet of vessels, fitted for its
peculiar work and the government
funds expended by it annually total
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In that connection there is an inter
esting paragraph in the new' law, by
which the Department of Commerce is
given "jurisdiction, supervision and
control, now possessed and exercised
by the Department of the Treasury,
over the fur seal, salmon, and other
fisheries of Alaska, and over the im
migration of aliens into the United
States, its waters, territories and any
place subject to the jurisdiction there
of." The fur seals of Alaska and the
salmon fisheries of that territory have
been subjects of frequent annoyance
here in Washington and many efforts
at legislation have been made. The
problems incident to those questions
now pass to the new' secretary.
Incident to immigration the new de
partment will have jurisdiction over
the enforcement of the Chinese exclu
sion laws. These duties have hither
to rested with one of the assistant sec
retaries of the treasury. They are ardu
ous in many particulars, for the laws
now on the statute books are of a very
rigid character, as enacted by the last
session of Congress and provide for the
registration of every Chinaman now in
the country. Public sentiment in some
sections and the labor organizations in
nearly all sections demand the vigorous
enforcement of this law against the
constant efforts to smuggle, Chinamen
into the United States.
Still another troublesome question
for the new' secretary to unravel will
be a business-like arrangement of the
statistical bureaus of the government.
At present different departments, or
some of them, have acquired bureaus
of their own for the collection of dif
ferent statistics. In very many in
stances the work has been duplicated
and not infrequently the work has been
performed in such a manner as to be
of no practical value. Thus there has
been a large waste of public money
and the outcries on the part of Con
gress have been often very pronounced,
although efforts to correct the evils
have, for different reasons, been diffi
cult. The organic act for the new De
partment of Commerce contemplates
placing much of this statistical work oij
a more systematic and economic basis.
Necessarily much of the work of the
department in promoting commerce
must be in the collection of data and
the expectation is that experts of the
highest efficiency will soon have charge
of such work and that the results they
work out will be of such a thorough
character as to be regarded authorita
tive. However, the Department of Ag
riculture is allowed for the present to
retain -its statistical work, particularly
regarding certain crops, because its fig
ures have gained a wide reputation for
accuracy and because a tremendous
quarrel arose between the Department
arrd the Census Office some months
ago. in which the department got lire
best of it. The President is also au
thorized from time to time, as he sees
fit, to transfer from other departments
to the new department different bu
reaus on statistical and scientific sub
jects.
On maritime matters the new' sec
retary will have the supervision of
much work. Duties relating to. mer
chant vessels or yachts, their meas
uresment, numbers, names, register's,
enrollments, licenses, commissions, rec
ords. mortgages, bills of sale, trans
fers, entry, clearance, movements and
transportation of their cargoes and
passengers, owners, officers, seamen,
passengers, fees, inspection, equipment
for the better security of life, matters
relating to tohnage tax, boilers on
steam vessels, the carrying of inflam
mable, explosive or dangerous cargo
on vessels, the use of petroleum or oth
er substances to produce motive power
and a lot of kindred subjects become
part of the business of the new de
partment.
Very little has thus far been said
here about the work of the new de
partment in promoting foreign com
merce. It was not discussed much in
either house of Congress, because of a
fear that the ship' subsidy bill might
be dragged into the debate, and as
there is supposed to be a majority hos
tile to ship subsidies in the House
there was no disiiosltion to have it
debated In such a connection. The
idea of the department is undoubtedly
for the protection of domestic com
merce and for the Increase of our ex
port trade at every avail.ihle opportu
nity. The fact that nearly every oth
er government of the world of any
rank, has a bureau or a department,
devoted to interests of domestic and
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1903.
foreign commerce was much dwelt up
on in the debates over the bill; also
the importance at this time when the
I’nited States is trying to conquer the
markets of the world, of having a de
partment that would assist in that
consummation by every honorable
method.
The bureau of manufactures will
have direct charge of this subject of
domestic and foreign commerce. This
is one of the new bureaus of tjje de
partment, but it has not yet been or
ganized, nor has its chief, who is to
have a salary of $4,000 a year been
appointed. The duties prescribed for
this bureau are, "under the direction
of the secretary, to foster, promote and
develop the various manufacturing in
dustries of the United States and mar
kets for the same at home and abroad,
domestic and foreign by gathering,
compiling, publishing, and supplying
all available and useful information
concerning such industries and such
markets and by such other methods
and means as may be prescribed by
the secretary and provided by law.”
All consular oftkers are required by
the same organic act to gather and
compile from time to time useful and
material information and statistics to
such an end.
The wide scope of the new depart
ment is further emphasized by pro
visions for fostering and developing,
not only foreign and domestic com
merce, manufacturing and fisheries,
but mining, shipping, labor and trans
portation facilities. But as to land
transportation the department has
been curtailed by the elimination of
the Interstate Commerce Bureau from
its jurisdiction. That bureau, having
jurisdiction over railroads within the
provisions of laws of Congress, was
placed in the department by the .House,
but such a protest arose from the rail
roads themselves that the bureau was
allowed to remain independent.
But of superlative interest in the
United States just at present is the
work before the Bureau of Corpora
tions, because it is authorized to deal
with one phase of the trust question.
The new commissioner of that bureau,
Mr. Garfield, is a man of ability, but
he is a young man and untried in such
fields of activity. Large powers are
invested in him, and, of course, more
so in the secretary, who is his imme
diate chief. The commissioner is given
power and authority to make, under
direction of the Secretary of Com
merce, “diligent investigation into the
organization, conduct and management
of the business of any corporation or
joint stock company or corporate com
bination engaged in commerce among
the several states and with foreign na
tions, and to gather such information
and data as will enable the President
of the United States to make recom
mendations to Congress for legislation
for the regulation of such commerce.”
Authority is also conferred to inquire
into divers question*; affecting the
operations of corporations doing inter
state or foreign business but the in
formation acquired shall be made pub
lic or not as the President may direct.
These provisions are the so-called pub
licity provisions agrinst trusts, of
which much has been* heard here in
the last few r months. By some law
makers they are declared colorless but
it 1s probably true that under a vigor
ous and aggressive Secretary of Com
rherce much could be done under this
law to make the trusts tremble. In
his duties as secretary to the Presi
dent, Mr. Cortelyou carried himself so
as to convince many people that he.
will make just that kind of a Secretary
of Commerce. He is level-headed and
careful and will hardly make any rad
ical moves till he is sure of his ground.
Of course this kind of work is very
largely new to him, for he has not had
a business training. But he has an op
portunity ahead of him, as secretary
of the new department, beyond the op
portunities ot' any other officer of the
Cabinet, for the new department is
possible of many important things.
In weak hands the department would
accomplish little but the country and
the President have great confidence in
Mr. Cortelyou and there is no reason
to believe they will be disappointed.
HIS CONDI CT STR ANGE.
Y'ontig Mnn Took the Sent of the
Speaker's Messenger.
Washington, Feb. 24.—A young man
giving the name of W. L. Clark gained
admission to the floor of the House to
day and seated himself in the chair of
the Speaker's messenger, near the
Speaker’s desk, where he sat idly
twirling a white hat with a red band.
Assistant Doorkeeper Kennedy es
corted him and .urned him over to the
Capitol police, who took him to the
guard room, where he was recognized
as the same young man who was es
corted from the Capitol building Sun
day because of his strange conduct.
He was sent to police headquarters in
this city.
MORGAN A CO. WON'T SAY.
Not Discussing the Reported 'Frisco
Deal.
New’ York, Feb. 24. —The recent ac
tivity in St. Louis and San Francisco
shares caused a general belief that
control of the road has changed hands
and the opinion in Wall street was that
J. P. Morgan & Cos. were the new own
ers. No official confirmation of these
reports was obtainable, however, at
the banking house of J. P. Morgan &
Cos.
INVESTORS Aiy-i PARTNERS.
Suit Against Tnrf Companies Was
Dismissed.
St. Louis, Feb. 24. —On the plea that
the tuff co-operative investment com
panies are simply gambling schemes,
and that all investors are partners in
the business and must have known the
nature of the business, the first at
tachment suit of the many filed
against John J. Ryan & Cos., was dis
missed by Justice Kleiber to-day. ' The
suit was to recover money invested.
Itching Skin
Warm batlis with Cuticuka Soap
and gentle applications of Cuticura
Ointment, purest of emollients and
greatest of skin cures, constitute the
purest, sweetest, most speedy and
economical treatment for torturing,
disfiguring, burning, bleeding,
scaly, crusted, and pimply skin arid
scalp humours of infants and children
yet compounded,
bold throughout the world.
INTERESTING, IF TRUE.
Yon Can Try It For Youmrlf and
Prove It.
One grain of the active principle In
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets will digest
3.000 grains of meat, eggs or other
wholesome food, and this claim has
been proven by actual experiment,
which any one can perform himself In
the following manner: Cut hard boiled
eggs into very small pieces, as it would
be if masticated, place the egg and two
ur three of the tablets in a bottle or
jar containing warm water heated to 9S
degrees (the temperature of the body),
and keep it at this temperature for
three and one-half hours, at the end of
which time the egg will be as complete
ly digested as it would have been in the
healthy stomach of a hungry boy.
The point of this experiment is that
w hat Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will do
to the egg in the bottle it w ill do to the
egg or meat in the stomach, and noth
ing else wifi rest and invigorate the
stomach so safely and effectually. Even
a little child can take Stuart's Tablets
with safety and benefit if its digestion
is weak and the thousands of cures ac
complished by their regular daily use
are easily explained when it is under
stood that they are composed of vege
table essences, aseptic pepsin, diastase
and Golden Seal, which mingles with
the food and digest it thoroughly, giv
ing the overworked stomach a chance
to recuperate.
Dieting never cures dyspepsia*neither
do pills and cathartic medicines, which
simply irritate and inflame the intes
tines.
When enough food is eaten and
promptly digested there will be no con
stipation, nor in fact will there will be
disease of any kind, because good di
gestion rneajis good health in every or
gan.
The merit and success of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets are world.wide and
they are sold at the moderate price of
30 cents for full sized package in every
drug store ir. the I’nited States and
Canada, as well as in Europe.
COMUS AT NEW ORLEANS.
I.omi Brilliant Festivity of the Mnr.li
<4 ran.
New Orleans, Feb. 24.—The carnival
closed to-night in a blaze of glory. In
point <>f attendance of strangers it has
been the most successful ever held,
while the pageants have been, on a
scale of great artistic splendor. The
parade to-night was by the Mystic
Krewe of Comus. Its title wad "A
Leaf From the Mahabharata," and it
illustrated in twenty superb floats the
great epic poem of the Hindus.
The culminating society event of the
season was the ball of Comus at the
French opera. The curtain rose upon
a picturesque tableaux, revealing Co
mus on a throne of light, and the
masked Krewe grouped on either side.
Comus chose for his queen Miss Myr
tle Stauffer. Miss Alice Roosevelt was
present and was the object of special
attention.
Admiral and Mrs. Schley and Gen.
Joseph Wheeler and his daughters
were among the guests.
Rex held his ball, which partook of
the nature of a democratic reception,
in Washington Artillery Hall, tempor
arily converted into a carnival palace
There was a great crush of subjects of
the King. Miss Ingersoll Minge was
chosen Queen of the Carnival, and
eight society girls served as her at
tendants. After midnight there was
an exchange of visits between Comus
and Rex and their jeourts.
To-morrow comes the “period of
sackcloth and ( ashes.” There will be a
great exodus of visitors and the rail
roads have made special preparations
to handle the heavy travel out of New
Orleans during the next few days.
The French cruiser Tage. which lias
been here for several weeks, will leave
to-morrow for Jamaica, going thence
to Martinique. Admiral Rivet and his
officers were attendants at the Comus
ball to-night.
The battleship Texas, which was
brilliantly Illuminated to-night in hon
or of the king, is also expected to sail
this week.
Admiral Schley. Col. A. K. McClure
and their party expect to resume their
journey westward on Thursday.
MAHDI GRAN AT PARIS.
Great Crowds Joined In the Lively
Celebration,
Paris. Feb. 24.—Parisians celebrated
Mardi Gras with the usual enthu
siasm. Early in the afteYnoon the
boulevards were thronged with merry
makers, engaging with much zest in
the sport of confetti throwing, while
all the windows were filled with spec
tators watching the gay scene. The
weather was bright and sunny, though
a bleak blustering wind prevail'd,
which blew the confetti through the
air in clouds of varied hues.
The crowd was so dense after dark
that vehicular traffic became impos
sible along the boulevards, and was
diverted to parallel thoroughfares. The
boulevards were given Up to pedes
trians, many of whom were masked
and attired in grotesque costumes.
PAH A DIOS AT PENSACOLA.
Celebration of <lie Mni-<ll Gras
Bronght <o a Close.
Mobile, Ala., Feb. 24.—The celebra
tion of Mardi Gras in Mobile closed
to-night with street parades of the In
fant Mystics, subject "Gems of Litera
ture,” and Order of Myths, "Flowers
and Song,” both very brilliant. The
attendance this year was unprece
dented-
The day parade of the Knights of
Revelry was entitled "The Virtues.”
The Comic Cowboys paraded with a
caricature of a street fair.
WORK OK THE SENATE.
Rill for Safe Keeping of Public
Money Considered.
Washington, Feb. 24. —During the
morning Jiours in the Senate several
bills and resolutions were passed and
consideration was given the bill to fur
ther provide for the safekeeping of
public money on deposit in national
hanks. The agricultural appropriation
bill was also considered, and the com
mittee amendments Agreed to, exc?pt
the statehood rider, which wait parsed
over.
The Senate adjourned to meet to
morrow at 11 o’clock, which, until
otherwise ordered, will be the hour for
convening hereafter.
HAVE RIGHT OK WAV.
Apiiroprlslion Rills Get Precedence.
Statehood Rider Off.
Washington, Feb. 24. —The order of
business in the Senate for the re
mainder of the session ha* been quite
definitely decided on for the remainder
of the session. Appropriation bills
will be given the right of way, and the
Panama canal treaty will be consider
ed while the appropriation bill* are In
conference. There will be an effort
made to get through other bills. In
cluding Senator Aldrich's bond deposit
bill.
Notice 4>f the withdrawal of the
statehood rider from the appropriation
Mil* wtii be given to-morrow.
BRODRICK IS UPHELD
COMMONS REJECTED THE 1 EXSO
RIOI S AMENDMENT.
GOVERNMENT VOTE STRONG.
EXPECTED DEFECTION OF l NION
-ISTS NOT SEEN.
Vote Against the Amendment to the
Address 2(11 to 1 4.N-—Nutlonul Ist s
Did Not Vote Bnlfonr Declared
tlte Fleet to lie First in Import
nnee. hot Troop* are Needed—ln
the Event of War With llussill
Thi. Need Would he Shown—Criti
cism. of Broilrick's Plans.
London, Feb. 24.—The House of Com
mons to-day rejeetea, by 261 votes to
14f>, Mr. Beckett's amendment to the
address, the terms of which were tanta
mount to a censure on the war sec
retary, Mr. Brodrtck.
Henry White, secretary of the United
States embassy, and several peers again
listened to the continuation of the army
debate to-day. The division revealed
fewer defections in the Unionist ranks
than had been expected, only about a
dozen Unionists voting against the gov
ernment, while the Nationalisrts abstain
ed, walking out in a body when the
division was called.
In the course of the debate the Lib
eral leader. Mr. Asquith, expressed the
general feeling when he remarked that
the debate was of greater significance
than the division on it, and would be
remembered long after the six artny
corps had vanished into thin air.
Premier in Winding up the
debate for the government, compliment
ed Mr. Asquith on going to the heart
of the question, namely, whether the
army was too large and costly for the
empire’s need. Of course, he said, the
fleet stood first, but there were limits
to the uses of a fleet. It was impossi
ble to bring a war to an end with a
fleet, which could not even strike a
heavy blow at most enemies with which
Great Britain might be engaged with
out a strong attacking force of sol
diers, and it would be folly to deprive
the country of a means of offensive ac
tion In the event of an emergency. Mr.
Balfour contended that three army
■ •orps were necessary for work outside
the empire. They had to consider the
defense of India.
"In the improbable and unhappy
event of a war with Russia, w r e should
require not only all the available forces
in India, but all the forces that Mr.
Brodrirk's scheme places at the dis
posal of the crown.”
Winston Spencer Churchill, Con
servative, earlier in the debate de
clared Mr. Brodrick's expectations had
only been realized in two directions,
namely, in the decrease in the num
ber of volunteers and in the increase
of expenditure. He asked where the
government expected the three army
corps intended for foreign service to
operate. Thev certainly could not
contemplate the three army corps
operating in Canada, for the United
States were no more prepared to in
vade Canada than Great Britain was
prepared to invade the United States.
Mr. Churchill added, amidst cheers:
‘‘And long may that salutary neglect
continue.”
LIKE 11ER DANCING.
Grrninns Will Give Miss Dnnenn n
Theater.
Berlin, Feb. 24.—Isadora Duncan,
the California dancer, has been sup
plied with $250,000 by subscription
from her admirers with which to build
a theater to be called by her name.
Externally it will be in the style of a
Greek temple, and the interior will be
Greek. The theater will be devoted
occasionally to Miss Duncan's dancing,
and at other times to the reproduction
of Greek plays and to concerts. The
dancing Duncan has so at
tracted the Berlin public that prices
charged for admission to perform
ances are as high as those of Ooquelin
and Mme. Bernhardt. The academi
cians have .arranged for reduced prices
to art students. Herr von Werner,
president of the Berlin Artists Society,
has written a letter refusing to ac
cept such privileges and alleging that
he is not willing to “encourage im
morality.”
MONEY FOR DEFENSE.
\ irginfn Will Fight (he Null* of (lie
Negroes.
Richmond, Va„ Feb. 24.—The State
Senate to-day passed a bill prepared at
the suggestion of the Attorney General
and the Governor, providing for an In
crease of the appropriation to defend
the suits brought by negroes to test the
validity of the constitution. The bill
amends the bill passed last December
and increases the amount from $5,000 to
SIO,OOO.
His Leg Was Broken.
Brunswick, Oa., Feb. 24. Ar
nold Flint, a member of the Bloom
er Girls' Baseball Club, which play
ed here to-day, met with quite a pain
ful accident In the first inning. Flint
was playing second base for the girls
and in a collision with Pitcher Walker,
of the locals, his right leg was broken
Just below the knee. He was brought
to his room in the city and the wound
was dressed.. The game continued, the
locals defeating the girls by a score of
11 to 7.
Confirmed us Postmaster.
Washington. Feb. 24.—The Senate to
day confirmed the nomination of Hattie
F. Gilmer as postmaster at Toccoa, Ga.
Hutvoji Wants Statehood.
Honolulu, Feb. 24.—A joint resolution
has been Introduced in the territorial
legislature, petitioning for statehood.
CONSTIPATION
“For over nine year* I Buffered with chronic con
stipation and during thia time I had to take an
lujaction of warm water once every S? 4 honr before
I could have an action on my bowels. Happily I
tried Caxcarets, and today I am a well man.
During the nine yeara before I used (,'ascarets I
suffered untold misery with Internal pile*. Thanks
to you 1 am free from all that this morning. You
can use this iu behalf of suffering humanity.”
B. F. Fisher, Roanoke, lU.
T**® bowels
fcwcaigto
CANDY CATHARTIC
Pleasant. Palatable, Potent Teat* Good. Do Good,
Never Weak#* or Gripe. Wc. tSc.tte. Merer
aoid in bulk Tha genuine tablet stamped OUC*
titter an toed to cure or your money beck.
Sterling Remedy Cos., Chicogo or N.V. 603
ANNUAL SALE. TEN MILLION BOXE*
ShaU We Build You a Home?
The Old Reliable Home Company,
The Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company,
Owns twelve lots on Thirty-fourth street, between
Price and Plant streets.
These lots front north and south with lanes in the
rear, and are convenient to the water mains and to the new
house drainage system.
The company has determined to improve these lots
with medium priced homes, making this street one of the
most desirable in that section.
Each house will be Finished with patent pavements
and grass plats.
It is preferred to build for parties on plans of their
own selection, rather than on plans selected by our com
mittee.
Home seekers can secure a home at prices to suit
their incomes. ,
Call at our office, No. 14 Bryan street, east.
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Cos.
(Established I88S.)
OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY.
J. H. ESTILL, President.
F. W. Garden, Secretary and Treasurer.
DIRECTORS.
C. H. DORSETT, Vice President. H. C. CUNNINGHAM.
Wm. kehoe, President pro tem. J. Randolph Anderson.
H. P. Smart. Lee Roy Myers. j. r. Eason.
D, A. R.’S MAKE THEIR
CONGRESS WARM
Opening Guns of the Fight for the Presidency
General.
By R. M. Larner.
Washington, Feb. 24. —Georgia and
South Carolina are well represented at
the Congress of the D. A. R., now in
session in this city. The attendance
is the largest In the history of this
ifistinguished organization, and the
Daughters are fairly dividing public
attention with the national legislature
at the Capitol.
•Mrs. 8. C. B. Morgan of .Savannah
is In the advance guard of a large
Savannah delegation, which is due here
to-morrow morning. Mrs. It. E.
Parks, state regent of Georgia, and
her successor as state regent, Mrs. Ira
Yale Sage, with Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb,
Mrs. S. J. Simmons, Mrs. F. A. Healy,
Mrs. E. W. Blomfleld of Atlanta and
Mrs. F M. Fredericks, and Miss A. C.
Blnnings of Columbus, are at Georgia
headquarters at the Ebbltt House, but
one block away from the convention
hall.
The South Carolina delegation makes
its headquarters at the same hotel,
and those registered there are as fol
lows: Mrs. Clark Waring, vice gen
eral; Mrs. Minnie Blrnie, Columbia
Chapter; Mrs. Frances M. Jones, Mrs.'
Frances F. Nash, Mrs. H. H. Sasseer,
Charleston Chapter; Mrs. George
Nichols, Mrs. Jones. Miss Dean, Spar
tanburg Chapter; Mrs. McGee, Mrs.
Brown, Tateechee Chapter; Mrs. Brat
ton, Kings Mountain Chapter.
When not attending the meetings of
the congres, the Southern delegates are
the recipients of many social courte
sies at the residence of Mrs. Fairbanks
and othpr social leaders, who make
their homes In Washington. The fes
tivities are so numerous that the
Daughters are seldom found at their
hotels.
Storied (lie Flgllt.
The first skirmish in the campaign
for president-general began at the out
set df to-day’s session.
Immediately after the conclusion of
routine business, the proposed amend
ments to the constitution were taken
up. The first amendment proposed
was that of Mrs. Katharine R. Wolcott
Verplanck, state regent of New York,
to add to Article 4, Section 1. the
words, “except the president-general,
who shall not hold the same office for
more than two terms successively."
This amendment was designed to make
Mrs. Fairbanks, the president-general
at present, eligible for re-election.
Mrs. Donald McLean of New York,
who has been a conspicuous figure in
OBITUARY.
A. R. Pacettl.
Mr. A. B. Pacettl died suddenly
Monday at West Palm Beach. Fla.,
from heart failure. He was a native
of St. Augustine and was 30 years old.
He leaves a wife and two children. Mr.
Pacetti was a painter in the employ
of the Flagler hotels. His remains
were brought to Savannah and the
funeral will take place from the resi
dence, 617 Price street, at 4 o'clock
this afternoon. The interment will
be In the Cathedral Cemetery.
Charles V. Cantwell.
Mr. Charles V. Cantwell died at
midnight last night at Bt. Joseph's
Hospital, after a short illness. The de
ceased was unmarried and leaves a
brother and two sisters. His funeral
will take place from No. 305 Liberty
street, east, probably to-morrow.
Charles Williams. Kemancllna.
Fernandina, Fla.. Feb. 23.—Charles
Williams for many years superintend
ent of the city water works and
electric light plant died Saturday and
was buried to-day at Boscabella Ceme
tery, from the Catholic Church the Rev.
Father Foley officiating. Mr. Williams
came to Florida in 1880. He was born
In Buffalo, N. Y., and was 59 years of
age at time of his death.
Thomas Fleming. Athens.
Athens. Ga.. Feb. 24.—Thomas Flem
ing, father of Postmaster William
Fleming of this city, died suddenly
this morning from an attack of heart
failure. Mr. Fleming was 81 years of
age and was one of Athens’ oldest and
best known citizens. His remains will
be Interred Thursday at Maxeytt, Ga.
He was the father of Mrs. R. H. Corn
well of Bavannah.
George n. Roundtree, Mwalasboro.
Swainsboro. (la., Feb. 24.—Senator
Geo. K. Roundtree died here at 1
o'clock this afternoon and the town 1*
In sorrow. The funeral will take place
here to-morrow.
the fight over the president-general
ship, was recognised.
“I desire to go on record,” she de
clared, "that 1 do not intend to op
pose the original amendment.”
The original amendment of Mrs.
Verplanck was amended In several
particulars and pa.sc.sd by a vote of -143
to 6S. It reads:
“No person shall hold office more
than two terms successively, and no
one shall be eligible to hold office in
the national society until she has b.-en
a member of the national society two
years, except the president-general,
who shall he eligible to the office for
two consecutive terms, regardless of
her previous services in other offices
on the national board.”
Then the lighting began anew. A
number of delegates claimed that the
amendment was subject to miscon
struction, and that it established a
dangerous precedent.
"If* Kcnlly Too Bad."
Mrs. McLean, who had not taken
any part In the vote on the amendment
regarding the president-geuei al, rose
to a question of personal privilege.
“I desire to announce," she said,
“that I did not vote on either side, be
cause, In accordance with my previous
statement, 1 felt I must not oppose the
original amendment, unit because I
could not vote for the substitute for
constitutional reasons.”
The congress then took up the second
amendment, which also excepted the
treasurer-general from the inhibition
of holding the same office for more
than two successive terms. Mrs. Don
ald McLean protested against the con
sideration of persons Instead of the
constitution. She said It marked a de
generation In methods of the con
gress. The amendment was tabled on
a rising vote.
Mrs. McLean protested that the neg
ative side of the question had not been
counted. Some of those who had been
standing in front of her, she said, had
been counted in the affirmative, but
they did not know what they were
voting for.
“It’s really too bad," replied Mrs.
Fairbanks.
The remainder of the day was occu
pied in discussing limitations upon the
selection of vice president-general. A
provision that only one vice president
general shall be chosen from each state
was finally adopted.
The consideration of proposed amend
ments to the constitution took up the
time of the congress at its night ses
sion. Only one of these received fav
orable action, that proposed by Oer
trude B. parwin, the treasurer-gen
eral, which provided that the incum
bent of that position shall hold office
until her successor has secured bonds
men who had been duly accepted by
the National Board of Management.
SON SUCCEEDS FATHER.
Ersklne Henltt on the Lehigh Com
pany’s Run rd.
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.—The annual
meeting of the Lehigh Coal and Navi
gation Company was held here to-day.
The annual report was approved and
the old board of directors re-elected,
with the exception of Krskine Hewitt,
who was chosen to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his father, the
late Abram S. Hewitt, of New York.
The eighty-second annual report
showed the receipts to be $2,353,099. ex
penses $1,625,789, leaving a surplus of
$727,310. The gross receipts of the
Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, the
Navigation Company's greatest source
of revenue were $1,745,861. a decrease
of $1,010,170, compared with 1901. The
decrease was the result of the anthra
cite coal strike.
Cl HA LIKE CELEBRATES.
Observe* Hie Anniversary of tile
Uprising.
Havana, Feb. 24.—The eighth anni
versary of the uprising at the Balre,
which was the beginning of the Cu
ban revolution against Spanish rul,
which finally resulted In Cuba's free
dom. was gaily celebrated in Havana
to-day.
This afternoon & lengthy procession of
vehicles wound around the Prado and
Central Park, carrying revellers, mask
ed and otherwise, belonging to all
grades of society, who pelted one an
other with serpentines until the horses
and vehicles, the fronts of the clubs
and hotels and some residences were
a mass of multi-colored streamers. The
sport continued until late to-night.
Maine at Newport News.
Newport News. Vu.. Feb. 24.—Th*
United Htates battleship Maine arrived
here to-day. Bhe will be In port sev
era! days, during which time she will
be coaled and provisioned, preparatory
to sailing for West Indian waters,
where she will join the North Atlantic
squadron,