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tOITS'rWWB LIMES STEADILY
ADDIXG TO TONXAGE.
providence boat to come.
M & M. T. CO. TO GET IT OX THE
SAVANNAH LINE.
4: l,titlonnl Boat Will Bp Sent Here
When the New One Now Under
Construction at Cramp’s is Fin
ished— Fleet of Vessels in Port.
The Lninher Trade—Weather for
Interest to Shippers.
Savannah's coastwise steamship lines
compare favorably in their steadily in
creasing tonnage to those entering any
other Atlantic port. With the comple
tion of the new steamer at Cramps'
yards for the Merchants and Miners'
line to go on the Baltimore and Provi
dence line, and the steamer displaced
by the new boat put on the Savannah
line, a much needed facility from a
local standpoint will be supplied.
Agent J. W. Smith discussed the
prospective new facilities yesterday,
which will be an acceptable addition to
the fleet. What boat Savannah will
get has not been determined, but it will
be one of the fast Providence liners.
It is not the policy of the Merchants
and Miners’ Company to build big car
riers, and unless a change of mind
comes the future will not witness any
unusually large boats on their line.
The company sticks to the plan of me
dium sized boats that admit of quick
loading and discharging. The boat Just
ordered is 3,250 tons gross registry. It
ie said the limit is about 3,000 tons, and
that the new boat is an exception in
tended especially for the Providence
service.
"Since we introduced the donkey
engines on the docks here the handling
of Merchants and Miners' boats has
been greatly facilitated,” said Agent
Smith. "We now put In an average of
150 tons an hour, and the steady efforts
to expedite this feature of handling
freight will be continued.”
The donkeys make an Interesting
scene at the wharves, and incidentally
create a lively racket. Danger from
fire is entirely eliminated, as the steam
is supplied by pipes from the steam
ship boilers, so that no shore firing is
done.
Schooner* and Lumber Trade.
Mr. Harvey Granger, of the Granger-
Stubbs Lumber Company, does not
Phare the view of some that temporary
Inactivity in the harbor should be re
garded as significant of quiet in trade
circles. "On the contrary." said he,
"conditions have changed so that ves
sels come more in fleets than they have
been doing heretofore. One week we
find the harbor filled with schooners
loading lumber, and the next an exo
dus follows. This is simple. The fleet
clears exporters of port stocks, and by
the time there is another accumulation
the fleet to carry it is forthcoming."
The Granger-Stubbs Company is soon
to load the big tramp steamer Nyassa.
The schooner Margaret A. May, which
arrived yesterday, will be loaded by
this company.
.Inly Forecast at Sea.
The pilot chart for July has been re
ceived at the Savannah branch Hydro
graphic office for distribution among
the observers for the bureau. The fol
lowing forecast for weather for the
month at sea is given, along with other
valuable information for mariners:
Summer conditions prevail over the
entire ocean. Along the transatlantic
routes fair dry weather with light
winds and smooth sea. Westerly
(South-NN W.) winds as follows: West
of 45 degrees, 67 per cent. (44 per cent,
from the SW. quadrant): 45 degrees-30
degrees, 74 per cent. (41 per cent, from
the SW. quadrant); east of 30 degrees,
iO per cent. (32 per cent, from the SW.
quadrant). Gales (see sub-chart) rare,
not exceeding 9 per cent. Region of
maximum frequency 45 degrees-60 de
grees N., 20 degrees-45 degrees W.
South of latitude 30 degrees the ocean
is practically exempt from heavy
weather.
Along the American coast from Sandy
Hook to about 30 degrees N. the 6>re
vailing winds are southwesterly (52
per cent.); along east coast of Florida,
southeasterly (43 per cent.).
Throughout the West Indies and the
Gulf of Mexico light trades from ESE.
to SE. will prevail. Mariners may now
expect hurricanes in this region.
Fog very widespread, the highest
percentage being 18. Regions of maxi
mum frequency southeast of Nantuck
et and south and east of Cape Race.
Several bergs as far south as lati
tude 4t degrees 7 minutes, longitude
49 degrees 35 minutes, but with this
exception the transatlantic routes are
unobstructed; bergs still to some ex
tent off the east coast of Newfoundland
and off Cape Race. Icebergs will prob
ably be met throughout July in the vi
cinity of Cape Race'and the Straits of
Belle Isle.
Snvnnfiali Almnnnc, sth Meridian
Savannali City Time.
Sun rises at 5:24 a. m. and sets 7:32
p. m.
High water at Tybee to-day at 4:21
a. m. and 4:47 p. m. High water at
Savannah one hour later.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Venael* Artrved Yenterday
Steamship Lexington, Kirwan, Balti
more.— J. W. Smith, agent.
Schooner Lizzie E. Dennison, Thomp
son, New York, cement. —Hirsch & Cos.
Schooner Henry Llppett. Dunton,
Baltimore, coal.—Master.
Schooner Margaret A. May, .Tarvls,
Philadelphia, coal. Granger-Stubbs
Lumber Company.
Veaaela Sailed Vealerd ay.
Steamship Alleghany, Capt. Chase,
Philadelphia.
Steamship Itasca, Capt. Foster, Bal
timore.
Steamship City of Augusta, Capt.
Berg, New York.
Steamship Altamira (Span), Bilboa,
Fernandina.
Shipping Memnrnnda.
Philadelphia, July 4, —Arrived, steam
er D. H. Miller. Savannah.
Baltimore, July 4.—Arrived, steamer
Lexington, Savannah. Sailed, steam
er New Orleans, Savannah.
Liverpool, July 3.—Arrived, Ingrid
Horn, Charleston.
Trieste. June 2S.— Arrived, Trcsa,
Savannah, via Barcelona and Genoa.
Fernandina. Fla., July 4.—Arrived,
Steamer Altemera (Span) Feragoza,
Savannah; schooner Luther T. Garret
son, Williams, Boston; Mary A. Hall,
Waller. New York.
Charleston, July 4. —Arrived, steamer
Silesia (Ger) Behle, Hamburg, via
Newport News; Iroquois, Watson,
Jacksonville and Brunswick, and pro
ceeded for Boston; Algonquin, Hale.
Boston and New York, and proceeded
for Jacksonville.
Georgetown, S. C„ July 4. —Sailed,
schooner Mary A. Fisher, Lemon, Bal
tlmorc. •
Port Tampa, Fla.. July 4.—Arrived,
•teamar Frieda (Br), Parday, Havana.
A. B. BAXTER & CO., INC.,
Successors to Murphy A Cos.,
Board of Trade Building. Savannah.
v **v v *J® leased wires direct to New
Y &J 2? ica *° an< * Mew Orleans.
COTTON, STOCKS AND GRAIN.
New York office. No. 61 Broadway.
Offices in principal cities throughout
the South. Write for our market man
ual ana book containing instruction
for traders.
W. 0. TYSON.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT,
Board of Trade Building, Savannah, Ga.
Notice to Captains of Vessels.
Vessels arrivng at night will be
reported by the Morning News in its
dispatches without charge if captains
will confirm reports of their arrival
to No. 241. either telephone.
Notice to Mariners.
Pilot charts and hydrographic in
formation will be furnished masters of
vessels free of charge In the United
States hydrographic office, in Custom
House. Captains are requested to call
at the office. Reports of wrecks and
derelicts received.
This office operates a time ball on
the roof of the Cotton Exchange, drop
ped dally at 12h. 00m. 00s.. (Sundays
and holidays excepted! 75th meridian
time. In case of failure the ball is
lowered slowly 5 minutes after 12.
Coastwise Exports.
Per steamship City of Augusta to
New York, July 4.—100 barrels naval
stores, 23 tons pig iron, 373,387 feet lum
ber, 5,530 packages general merchan
dise.
Per steamship Alleghany for Phila
delphia, July 4.-1,550 bales cotton. 2,-
619 barrels rosin. 23 barrels turpentine,
100,901 feet lumber, 259 packages fruit,
6 packages vegetables, 202 packages
yarns, 392 packages mdse.
Per steamship Itasca for Baltimore,
July 4.—100 bales cotton, 360 barrels
rosin, 60 barrels turpentine, 17,713 feet
lumber, 444 packages fruit, 43 packages
vegetables, 45 packages yarns, 371 pack
ages hides, 29 packages wool, 1,295
packages mdse.
TEMPLES UNEARTHED
IN MESOPOTAMIA.
Prof. Hilprecht’s AVorU at Xippur
Declared Highly Successful.
Correspondence London Times.
Although Prof. Hilprecht has been
actually on the site of Nippur for a
comparatively short time only, the sci
entific success of the Mesopotamian
expedition which the University of
Pennsylvania supports there is due al
most entirely to his work. His inter
pretation of the tablets and other an
tiquities obtained from the mounds has
rendered intelligible the results of the
diggers of the field; his services at the
Imperial Museum in Constantinople
have gained great favor for the Ameri
can expedition; and finally his study
of the architectural problems presented
at the mounds themselves, during his
presence at the close of the latest cam
paign, has served to put this side of
the work upon a sound footing. It is
no exaggeration to say that previous
to his arrival at Nippur nobody really
knew exactly what results in this
branch of the excavations had been
atfained, and no proper survey of many
of the important buildings excavated
had been made. He was able to de
termine' the age and characteristics of
all the structures discovered, gnd, con
sequently, the outlook for the work In
the future is more hopeful than it has
ever been.
Already sufficient work has been done
upon the great Temple of Bel to show
that previous conceptions of a Baby
lonian temple will have to be modi
fied considerably; and important light
has been thrown upon the different pe
riods of building—from pre-Sargonic
times to early Arabic days—represent
ed in the Nippur mounds.
One of the most interesting struc
tures, and one which has been most
most thoroughly excavated, is a small
Parthian palace, which lay on the
southwest side of the Shatt en-Nil, the
old canal which divided the ancient
city into two pearly equal portions.
Dr. Peters, the director of the first two
excavations, partly cleared this build
ing; and Mr. Haynes, his successor,
made a more thorough examination
of it; but it remained for Hilprecht to
complete the work and determine the
age and other particulars of the struc
ture. Peters believed that the build
ing was “erected somewhere between
1450 and 1250 B. C.” Hilprecht has
shown conclusively that it was built
a thousand years later.
Structure of the Pulace.
Roughly speaking, the palace is
square on plan, each side being about
170 feet long. In its construction large
(12 inch by 12 inch by 7% inch) un
baked bricks were mostly used, but In
some portions baked bricks had a
place. The walls varied in thickness
from 3 feet in the partition walls to 8
feet 6 Inches In the exterior ones. Ex
ternally the building was remarkably
plain; the surfaces of three of the
walls were broken by shallow buttress
es, but the fourth, which faced the
canal, was quite bare. There was but
one entrance, which was placed nearly
in the center of the northwest facade.
This doorway showed evidence of con
siderable skill and some taste on the
part of its builders. It was construct
ed in baked brick and stuccoed with
white plaster. On either side stood a
pedestal, rising from an ornamental
base and decorated with small pedi
ments. The junction of the crude brick
with the baked was concealed by plas
ter moldings, and faint traces of flut
ing were visible on the pedestals.
Internally, the building was divided
into two parts, one of which served for
the men’s quarters and public apart
ments, the other for the servants’
quarters and the domestic portion of
the houseb •> --corresponding to the
harem buildings of the present day. By
an ingenious arrangement of lobbies
and narrow passages, the "harem"
apartments and servants' rooms were
completely cut off from the rest of the
building. They comprised a kitchen,
several store chambers, a bathroom—
which was provided with a bitumen
covered pavement sloping toward a
drain in its center—and sleeping apart-
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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JULY 5. 1903.
Savannah Bank
and Trust Go,
Capital, $350,000.
JOSEPH D. WEED, President.
JOHN C. HOWLAND, Vice President.
Wj *. P• McCAU'LEY, Cuuhter.
SA.ML. L. CLAY, Assistant Cashier.
A general banking and exchange
business transacted.
Savings Department, interest
computed quarterly.
Accounts of merchants, banka
and corporations solicited.
American xpress Company’s let
ters of credit Issued available In all
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Collection, carefully made and
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Safety Deposit Boxes and Storage
Vaults for rent.
Correspondence invited.
merits, in which were raised platforms
(or beds) of brickwork.
The most ambitious feature of the
plan was an open court with a colon
nade, which was reached from the en
trance through a couple of ante-rooms.
From this court a number of small
rooms open off, and opposite the por
tico are the two largest apartments in
the palace. A smaller court stood be
tween the servants’ quarters and the
superior rooms of the “harem.” In
both these courts were columns of
burned brick, stuccoed with fine plas
ter. In the principal one were four cir
cular columns on each side, with a
square one at each angle, all built up
on foundations of burned brick, while
the court itself was paved with crude
brick. The columns were plainly “Ba-.
bylonian imitations of Doric columns,”
and, in fact, the characteristics of the
building throughout are, as Prof. Hil
precht points out, entirely un-Baby
lonian nnd much more like the fea
tures “of the ancient Greek houses on
Delos." The balanced plan, the treat
ment of the entrance, the columns
themselves, are ail plain evidence of
the correctness of Hilprecht's dating of
the building.
Use of Stucco.
In view of their very limited choice
of material, the builders may be par
doned for using stucco; and the In
genuity they displayed in constructing
the tapering columns with specially
molded bricks and in building up the
capitals with two distinct patterns of
moldings is far ahead of the work of
the earlier builders at Nippur.
At many widely separated points of
the site interesting buildings were dis
covered, including the now famous “Li
brary,” but it is impossible to give any
description of all of them, owing to
lack of space. All that can be at
tempted is to deal with the mound un
der which lay the remains of the great
temple and ziggurat of Bel.
To the presence of this edifice an
cient Nippur owed its sanctity and
fame, if not its very existence; and to
the unearthing of the temple and the
attempt to restore its plan much of the
energy of each of the American expedi
tions has been devoted. Owing to the
unscientific methods of excavating fol
lowed by the early diggers, the task
has been much complicated; and before
an entirely trustworthy plan of the
earliest buildings can be secured many
of the dump-heaps deposited on and
close to the mounds which cover the
ziggurat and its inclosures will have to
be removed. The particular mound
which marks the position of the zig
gurat is the highest point at Nippur,
and it forms an important landmark
for many miles in the flats of Lower
Mesopotamia. About a third of its ex
tent has been explored so far; and as
a result of his personal study of the
remains and the reports of the archi
tects attached to the last expedition.
Hilprecht is able to put forward a clear
picture of the place at different stages
of its history.
The upper strata of the mound con
tained the remains of a huge fortified
building, grouped around a citadel
which covered the ziggurat of the early,
temple. Hilprecht proves that this
building belonged to the Parthian pe
riod (thus disposing of Peter’s theo
ries as to its very much earlier con
struction); and he regards it as the
palace of a Prince or Governor. Orig
inally, he believes, this fortress "con
sisted of two courts. ** * which did
not communicate with one another, ex
cept perhaps by means of a large stair
case." The outer court has not yet
been fully uncovered; but the other
contained domestic quarters, barracks,
store rooms, and offices in one quarter,
in another part finely built rooms,
which were in some cases constructed
with double walls for the sake of cool
ness, and would, therefore, appear to
be the apartments of the Prince and
his chief officers; and in a third sec
tion, which is only partially excavated,
stood the “harem" buildings. The cita
del was an immense platform, cruci
form on plan, which rose about thirty
feet above the surrounding buildings of
the fortress and had yet a second stage,
not lower than twenty feet, rising from
its center. A well —the only one In con
nection with this structure discovered
in the whole inclosure —was carried
down from the citadel through the core
of the ziggurat to water level, thus
assuring a supply of water in case of
the most stubborn siege. Indeed, this
fortified palace must have been well
nigh impregnable; for all the buildings
mentioned were Inclosed by yet another
strong wall, which, “when excavated,
still rose to a hight of over sixty feet
* * • was more than thirty feet thick
at its top • • • almost forty feet at its
base ** * and was strengthened by
huge buttresses at its corners and * * •
smaller ones erected at equal distances
between them.”
An Earlier Building Below.
Below this building were the remains
of an earlier one, of a very similar
character, of the Seleucidan period, of
which, however, the excavators dis
covered only the most fragmentary
traces, so that it appears the later
builders demolished the earlier work.
Lower still were the remains of the
old temple.
When it is remembered that the
temple site was occupied over 4,000
years and that the building under
went many alterations, enlargements,
and patching at the hands of succes
sive Kings and Governors, who fre
quently paid scant attention to the
work of their predecessors, tearing
down walls and leveling buildings
Just as best suited their own schemes,
it will be readily understood that the
task of attempting a restoration of
any particular period Is no easy one.
At present nothing in the nature of a
final decision upon many points can
be attempted. All that can be done
is to present some general idea of the
place. Fortunately in its main fea
tures the temple remained much the
same through a period of some 2,000
years, as the excavations suffice to
show.
By the discovery of a plan of the
old city on a tablet which was dis
covered during the excavations in the
"Library,” the task of restoration
was greatly facilitated; and Hil
preeht's theories are supported not
only by the evidence of the trenches
and actual remains, but by a number
of references contained in the cunei
form documents of the place which
he has studied. He is, therefore, able
to give an interesting sketch of the
Temple of Bel.
The building, then, with its an
nexes, formed quite a town, which
was inclosed by a strong wall and a
moat on the northeast and northwest;
while on the southwest the Shatt en-,
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Schedule Effective June 28, 1903.
Trains arrive and depart from Cen
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90th Meridian Time —One hour slower
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Lv. Savannah daily ex. 5un...4 00pm
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Nil probably formed sufficient protec
tion. On the southeast their lay a
branch of the canal, 'but it seems cer
tain that there was also a wall upon
this side of the sacred area. In the
northwest half of this area was a
large open court, where stood shops
and booths, bath houses, magazines,
servants' quarters, and possibly (Hil
precht is led to believe) the palace
of the patesls of Nippur. In the
southwest half stood the temple build
ings proper. From traces of a build
ing uncovered by Dr. Peters (but now
buried beneath a dump, heap!) it
seems that on the banks of the
branch canal there was a quay, or
landing of the outer court of the tem
ple. Each side of this outer court
was about 260 feet long. Within Its
area Peters had discovered a small
chapel dedicated to Bel; and Hil
precht believes that the "houses" of
the other gods—at least twenty-four
in number—who were worshipped at
Nippur also stood there. But this
r,— of the ground has still to be
cleared.
The Inner Court.
Opposite the gate of the outer in
closure stood a second one leading to
the inner court. The exact dimensions
of this court cannot be given until
the upper stratas of the mound are re
moved; but on plan the two inclos
ures formed a T. of which the outer one
may be called the foot and the inner
one the head. The inclosing wall was
built of unbaked bricks, and its face
was broken up by shallow buttresses
placed at regular intervals along it.
The gateway projected considerably on
both sides of the wall; Its faces were
decorated with narrow panels; and it
had the stepped recesses characteristic
of Babylonftin buildings. A similar
gate was discovered behind the zlg
gurat opposite the one between the
two courts.
Within the second inclosure stood
the famous xiggurat Itself. From evi
dence which need not be set out in
detail, Hilprecht is led to the conclu
sion that it consisted of a tower of
five stages, on the uppermost of which
rested the shrine of Bel. It did not
stand in the center of the inclosure,
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via Jesup, 11:59 p. m.
All trains arrive and depart from
the Union Depot.
Trains 29 and SO. THE WASHING
TON AND FLORIDA LIMITED.
Vestibuled limited trains, carrying
Puiiman Drawing-room Sleeping Cars
between Savannah and New York.
Dining Cars serve all meals en route.
Also Pullman Drawing-room Sleeping
Cars between Savannah and Cincin
nati, through Asheville and "The Land
of the Sky."
For information as to rates, sched
ules, etc., apply to
C. H. ACKERT. G. M., Washington,
D. C.
S. H. HARDWICK, G. P. A., Wash
ington, D. C.
W. H. TAYLOE, A. G. P. A., Atlan
ta, Ga.
R. C. BLATTNER, Depot Ticket
Agent, Union Depot, Savannah, Ga,
E. G. THOMSON. C. P. & T. A.. Sa
vannah, Ga., 141 Bull street. 'Phones
860.
but on the southwest sfde, and the as
cent to the tower was not opposite
the gateway, but somewhat to the left
(west). It was lnrgest in the ttfne of
Ashurbanapal, when It "covered an
area forming a rectangular parallelo
gram, the two sides of which measured
190 and 128 feet, respectively.” At
that time it was lncnsed with burnt
bricks, and on three sides at least Its
faces were decorated with panels, or
shallow buttresses. Then also the
courtyard was paved with baked bricks
throughout, and the whole of the tem
ple buildings seem to have been in ex
cellent order. In pre-Shrgdnic days the
ziggurat was much smaller, but suc
cessive builders, notabzly Naratn-Sln
and Ur Gur, enlarged and improved
it, gradually substituting baked bricks
for unbaked; and the whole temple
naturally kept on being improved in a
like manner.
On the northeast side of the court
stood a small building, which was
used as a store house for offerings,
"the house for honey, cream and wine.”
Behind that, in the north angle of the
court, was the “House of Bel,” where
"the household of the god and his con
sort was established. * * • sacrifices
were offered and the most valuable
votive offerings of the greatest Baby
lonian monarchs deposited. In other
words, it was the ftimous Temple of
Bel, which, together with the stage
tower, formed an organic whole in
closed by a common wall, and was gen
erally known under the name of Eltur,
House of the Mountain." A com
plete Investigation of this building has
not yet been made. In fact, beyond
ascertaining that it was ineffised by a
finely built whll of baked brick, with
a panelled face, which enclosed an area
of about 150 feet by 116 feet, and was
pierced by a couple of doorways (one
over 10 feet wide, the other 5 feet),
and that Its interior was occupied by
chambers of various sizes partitioned
off with unbaked bricks, practically
nothing of its phtn is known. As Prof.
Hilprecht says, he "decided not to ruin
this important section of the temple
area” by adopting the hasty and unsci
entific methods of his predecessors, but
to “leave its interior as far as possible
untouched," in order that the next ex
pedition may make careful clearance
of the superincumbent rubbish and so
be in a position to study carefully the
rerrrtiins.
BUSINESS LOCALS.
George Wagner’s Son, florist; never
before in the history of Savannah have
the people had the opportunity of get
ting such beautiful cut flowers. Bull
street.
The Ryan Business College is now
open. New students are arriving
daily. Every young man and woman
can't afford to miss the valuable in
struction.
The Savannah District Messenger
Company will make you special rates
on drayage, messenger service, furni
ture and pianos moved and stored. 32
Montgomery street.
Modern flats for rent,, Thirty-sixth
and Habersham. Apply C. F. Fulton.
Photography in all its beauty of style
and finish at Launey’s gallery.
Extra size Turkish bath towels,
bleached or unbleached, extra quality;
special during cut price sale 11.00 per
dozen. Big Bargain Basement, J. T.
Cohen’s Sons, 215 Broughton street,
west.
The Georgia Steam Laundry: Your
shirts, collars and cuffs laundrled to
perfection. The business men, the com
mercial and professional men praise it.
Congress street.
Furnaces— We are agents for the
Peck Williamson Co.'s under-feed hot
air furnaces. Send for circulars or al
low us to explain the great saving in
fuel over other kinds. Cornwell A
Chiwnan. .
Visit Daniel Hogan’s this week and
secure some of those rare bargains In
white goods, linens. All kinds wash
fabrics.
The Richmond Business College Is
daily receiving pupils from North and
South Carolina* Florida, Alabama and
from all over the state of Georgia.
Thoroughness is our motto.
Palmer Hardware. Company, whole
sale and retail store. Is an excellent
place to trade. They sell everything
kept in a first-class hardware store.
1000 dozen fruit Jars, pints, quarts
and half gallons, at very low price;
we give tickets for the automobile.
Savannah Crockery Company. 803
Broughton, west.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Cos.
EFFECTIVE MAY 24. 1903.
Trains Operated by 90th Meridian Tl me—One Hour Slower Than City Tima,
822 *B2 |~t44~ T *4O j 82(T | 819 '39~i~3S t45~ JWL~
7 lOp 12 50p 5 35a 1 36a 7 lOajLv ..Savannah.. Arlll 35a 3 OOal 8 30a 6 30p 11 lOp
12 35a 4 60p 10 40a 6 25a 12 30p Ar .Charleston.. I.v: 8 00a 11 35p 6 25a 315 p 7 45p
...... 11 20p 1 40p Ar .Wilmington. Lv, 345 p .
...... 7 30a 11 46p Ar .Washington Lv 410a S4sp
143 p 7 16a Ar ..New York.. Lv[...... | 9 26p| 9 30a ■■
67 21 |3s| 39 | SOUTH. ! 58 132f22 j4O
6 45p 3 20p| 8 40a 3~3oa|Lv Savannah Ar 9 46a12 40p 9 30p 115a
8 30p| 9 10a[Ar ..Brunswick Lv 7 30a 330 p
9 50p 6 20p 11 30a 6 20a'Ar Waycross Lv 6 30a 10 05a 6 35p 10 15p
105a 320 pll 00a Ar Thomasville Lv 3 25a 6 30a 2 30p 2 30p
* 00a 6 20p Ar ........Montgomery Lv 7 45p 7 00a 7 00a
2 20a 4 35p 12 04p Ar Balnbrldge Lv 160a 5 15a 1 OOp 1 OOp
8 28a 11 05p Ar Port Tampa Lv 7 30p 7 00a
1 50a| |Ar Punta Oorda I.v 4 06p
NORTH. WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
57 Via Jesup. |SB | 23 67 | Via M’tg’ry |6Bj 22
* 30p Ar. Jesup. Lv 7 50a 6 20p 8 05a Ar M’tg’ry Lvj 7 45p| 7 00a
8 00a Ar Macon Lv 1 00a 3 20a 7 06p Ar N’villa Lv 9 00a 2 21a
- 6 20a Ar Atlanta Lv 10 45p 8 20p 2 30a Ar L’ville Lv 3 00a 9 12p
1 SOP Ar L’sville Lv 7 45a 7 50p 7 20a Ar S. L'uls Lv 2 55p 8 23p
- 1 30pAr Cln’n’tl Lv[ 8 30a L. and N.
I 01a Ar St. Lo sLv 9 15p 7 32a Ar S. Lo’ls Lv 323 p
0 20a Lv Atlanta Ar 10 45p 9 lßp 9 15a Ar Chlc’go Lv 7 OOp 7 OOp
8 05p Ar Me'phis Lv 8 15a 2 66a 4 15p Ar Mobile Lv 12 30p 12 30p
- > <a|Ar K. City Lv) jjlOp ....... 7 25a 8 25p|Ar N Orl’s Lv_B OOp 8 OOp
•Daily. ISunday only. tDally except Sunday.
Trains Into and out of Charleston are operated by Eastern time.
Floria° U * h J?uUman Siee l>lng Car Ser vice to North. East and West and to
joining cars on trains 32 and 35 between Savannah and New York.
Train 32 connects at Washington with Colonial Express for Boston and
New England points, also with Northern Central train for Pennsylvania and
Western New York points.
...i Conn * c l |onß made ac Port Tampa with U. 8, mall steamship of the Ponln
suiar and Occidental Steamship Line, 1 eaving Port Tampa Sundays, Tues
days and Thursdays at 11:30 p. m.
H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manage r, Wilmington, TT. C.
060,1 PaM Agent, Wilmington, N. C.
,• LEAHY. Division Pas*. Agent, Savannah, Ga.
i 5- SHELLMAN. Trav. Pass. Agent. De Soto Hotel. ’Phones 73.
£*• “TjATTNER, Union Ticket Agent. Bell ’phone 235. Georgia 91L
I. C. SAPP, Ticket Agent. De Boto Hotel. 'Phones 73.
S EABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY.
Schedule Effective June 28, 1908—90th Meridian Time—One hour slower than
Tlme. south_of_Oolumbiu; Eastern Time north of Columbia. _____
READ DOWN. j ~ ~ j READ UP.
N0.27 1 N0.31 |No2-27! NORTH AND~~BOUTff. JNo2-34 r N0.34 1 N0.86
12 10am 12 56pm .j Lv .'... NKW YOHK Arll 4 lßpmJ I 13am
7 20am 329 pm Lv Philadelphia Ar | 1 36pm 2 86am
# 84am 5 45pm Lv Baltimore Ar jl2 25am:1l 25pm
10 46am 7 00pm Lv Washington Ar jVO 10am| 8 36pm
2 15pm 10 35pm Lv Richmond Ar I 6 36am! 4 56pm
9 25am 9 05p'"i Lv Portsmouth... Ar ( 8 00am| 5 35pm
7 30pm| 3 65am| Lv Raleigh Ar | 1 25amjll 50am
3 30pm| Lv Wilmington.. Arl. I ...jt2 46pm
12 62am| 9 54am Lv Camden Arj j 7 30pm! 6 30am
12 55am{ 10 00am 6 00a Lv Columbia Ar il 30pj 5 30pm 4 25am
5 10am| 2 25pm 10 20a|Lv SAVASSAII Lv! 7 OOp 1 15pm!12 10am
8 02am[ 5 15pm ....... Ar Darien Lv| |lO ooam|
7 66ain| 5 30pm Ar Brunswick Lv) 10 05am! 9 00pm
10 05am| 6 45pm Ar Fernundina. Lv 8 50am| 7 50pm
9 15am 6 50pm Ac JACKSONVILLE Lv 8 45am] 7 50pm
'l6Bpm LBOam Ar Ocala Lv 2 35am 12 41pm
6 00pm 6 45am ....... Ar Tampa Lvl 9 00pm| 8 50am
NoTfifNolnJ Naj'jko.ttj'?fo.Wj ~WEBT. No. 90 N'o.BB!No.72|NoT4
4 30pl 7 00a i 4 OOpI 6 50pl 6 30plLv ,SA’VA NSA H, Arl 9 15af 8 25a| 8 30p|10 00a
.......110 00a| 6 15pl 9 00p| (Ar Statesbord ... Lv! 7 00a 6 10a 400 p
7 18p| 9 48a| | | 9 18p|Ar .Lyons Lv 6 01p| 7 07a
1 20p : Ar Macon Lv 2 80p
8 46p1l 20a}.....' 10 45p|Ar ..Helena Lv Tjjdp ooa
8 00a 4 20p| 12 35a|Ar ..Fitsgerald .... Lv 9 45a 4 00a
6 51a 1 25pj Ar ..Cordele Lv 2 05p 5 55p
7 58a 3 03p| Ar ..Albany Lv 12 05p 7 OOp
7 37a 312 pl Ar Americus Lv 12 35p 4 50p
10 25a 5 15p| Ar .Columbus Lv| ~..(10 15a 2 15p
|7 65p[ Ar ■ MOW TfiOMl'lHlf LV| | | 8 00a|
NOTE—Trains Nos. 2d-27, 2d-34, 89. 90 and 93 will be operated on SUN
DAYS ONLY. No. 74 on Sundays will start from Fitzgerald Instead of Hel
ena. Trains Nos. 73, 87 and 88 daily except Sunday.
Nos. 31 and 34 SEABOARD EXPRESS, solid vestlbuled train. Through
Pullman sleeping curs to New York. Cafe dining cars.
Noe. 27 and 66, SEABOARD MAIL, through vestlbuled trains. Pullman
bullet sleeping ears to and from New York.
Nos. 71 and 72, WESTERN EXPRESS, close connection at Montgomery
for Mobile, New Orleans and Southwestern points. Through cars between
Savannah and Macon.
Full Information at City Ticket Ofllee, No. 7 Bull St. Telephone No. 28.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. of SAVANNAH
For New York, Boston and the East.
tfaeurpaased cabin accommodations. All ths comforts of a modern hotel.
Electric lights. Unexcelled table. Ticket s Include meals and berths aboard ship.
PASSENGER FARES FROM SAVANNAH.
TO NEW YORK—First Cabin, <2O; First Cabin, round trip, <22; Intermedia
ate Cabin, <l6; Intermediate Cabin, round trip, <24; Steerage, <lO,
TO BOSTON— First Cabin, <22; First Cabin, round trip, <36; Intermediate
Cabin, <l7; Intermediate Cabin, round trip, <23; Steerage, $11.75.
The Steamships of this line are appointed to salt from Savannah, Centra]
(90th meridian) time;
' FOR NEW YORKi
CITY OF MEMPHIS, Capt. Savage, CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Burg, F’RI
MONDAY, July 6, 2:30 p. in. DAY, July 17, 10 a. m.
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Flshar, CITY OF MEMPHIS. Capt. Savage,
WEDNESDAY, July 8. 4 p. m. SATURDAY, July 18, 11 a. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Dry- CITY OF MACON, Capt. Fisher, MON
er, FRIDAY, July 10, 5 p. m. DAY, July 20, 1 p. m.
CITY OF SAVANNAH. Capt. Daggett, CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Dryer,
MONDAY, July 13, 8 a. m. WEDNESDAY, July 22, 3 p. m.
TALLAHASEE. Capt. Johnson, WED-CITY OF SAVANNAH, Capt. Daggett,
NESDAY, July 16, 8 a. m. FRIDAY, July 24, 4:30 p. m.
’Steamships City of Memphis, City of Macon, Tallahassee and Chattanoo
chee carry first cabin passengers only.
tCity of Savannah will not carry intermediate passengers.
Sailings from New York for Savannah at 3 p. m. on June 25, 26, 27. SO:
July 2,4, 7, 9. 10, 11. 14, 16, 18. 21. 23. 24, 26. 28, 80.
The Chattahoochee, Capt. Lewis, leaves New York for Boston Saturday*
at 4 p. m., excepting first sailing for July, which will be on Friday.
Leaves Boston for New York Wednesdays at 3 p. m.
This company reserves the right to change its sailings without notice and
without liability or accountability therefor.
L. M. ERSKINK. L. R.VANDIVIHRB. W. G. BREWER,
Agt O. 8. S. Cos., wharves. Com. Agt. 17 East Bay. C. T. AP. A.. 107 Bull.
SAVA.* NAH, GA.
W. H. PLEASANTS) C, B. WALWORTH.
Vice President A Gen'l. Mgr. Gen. Pass. Agt.
Pier 35 North R lver. New York
Comnilimloner Ware (lets a Lincoln
Autograph Cheap.
From the Kansas City Journal.
In December last the Pension Bu
reau received an application for a pen
sion from David Levy. In looking up
the records in tho Adjutant General’s
ottice It was discovered that David
Levy was carried with the word "de
serter" opposite his name. He was
informed by the pension officials that
pensions were not for deserters. He
replied that it was true that he had
been a deserter, but that he had been
pardoned by the President and had
served faithfully until the end of the
war. The pension authorities answered
in turn that if he had a pardon he
must produce it, as the records bore
no evidence of the existence of such
a document. And thereupon Levy sent
the pardon, Just as whitten by the
President, together with the statement
that he had kept it safe all these
years.
The pardon is written on a piece of
pasteboard about he aise of an ordinary
visiting card. The writing, though
HOOD COALglg
M l**e*f•• Coal o„ Hrm+m.Ak.*
dimmed by age, is clearly legible, and
would be recognized at once by those
familiar with the angular hand of the
martyred President. There is no cir
cumlocution, or legal verbiage about
it. It goes straight to the point as
follows:
If David Levy shall enlist and serve
faithfully for one year, or until other
wise honorably discharged, I will par
don him for the past.
Jan. 12, 1555. A. Lincoln.
It will be observed that technically
considered this Is not a pardon, but
only the promise of a* pardon. How
ever, David Levy was able to show that
h had faithfully carried out the con
ditions fixed by the President, and the
Pension Department corrected the rec
ords and granted him a pension.
The matter was brought to the per
sonal attention of Mr. Ware for decis
ion. He became much interested in the
case, and when the pension had been
granted he wrote to Levy asking him
if he could be induced to part with the
Lincoln document. Levy answered that
he would sell it for 5, and it was
purchased by Mr. Ware at the price
named.
—"lt will be seen from the proceed
ings at Harvard that summa has cum.”
—Boston Herald. "Summa cum! laude,
is that so?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer,
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