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DEMOCRATS CRIED FOR HARMONY
THEY NEEDED IT AND COULD HAVE COT IT AT
LUDDEN & BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE.
There There’s Everything That’s Musical From the Cheapest That’s Good to the Best That’s Made.
buy a piano or an organ now,
AND MAYBE YOU WON'T HAVE
TO PAY FOR IT.
We have a guessing contest on. All you have to
do is to make the nearest guess to the number of sales
of pianos and organs made by us in 1904 and the in
strument you agree to buy becomes yours for noth
ing. Asa guide, we tell you we sold 228 last May.
GUESS; IT MAY MEAN THE GIFT OF
A PIANO OR AN ORGAN.
Get in the Guessing Contest. Think of it! A chance for a Piano or an Organ as a gift! We allow any of our customers who have bought Pianos or Organs, and whose
aCC ° Unt Ludden & Bates Southern Music House has been long established. It has but one price and its offers are always made good. Take advantage of these we give you now.
You will never find any better.
LUDDEN & BATES SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA. TAMPA, FLA. VALDOSTA, GA. (Carter & Dorough ). TIFTON, GA. (Carter & Dorough. ) -
SAFETY IN TRAVEL
ON RAILWAYS
IN THIS COUNTRY AND ABROAD.
AUTOMATIC MACHINERY WHICH
AIDS THE MAY IN THE TOWER.
I’Mienicera an Well Guarded on
American Line* a. Anywhere In
the World— Modern Construction
Methods and Signal Systems—Mns
slve Lifts Have Taken the Place
of the Working Typo of Draw
Bridges. .
New York, Nov. 12. —▲ series of de
plorable accidents on railways run
ning through sparsely settled portions
cf the United Sttates has recently
caused a good deal of discussion of
American railway management and
unfavorable comparisons between
methods employed here and abroad,
especially in England. Nevertheless
the achievements of American railway
builders and managers rank among
the most important in the industrial
world and it is a fact that many
American railroads are gradually be
ing brought to a state of perfection
in the matter of safety which equals
and perhaps exceeds the English
standard often called the highest In
the world. English and Continental
railways were built In countries al
ready densely populated where a large
volume of traffic was assured from the
start. American railroads on the
ether hand were often constructed in
sections which were at the time of
their building practically uninhabited.
Had it been necessary at the start to
construct railways here as they were
constructed abroad it is safe to say
that the lines would never have been
built at all.
Perfection in Safety.
In the thickly settled portion* of the
3'nlted States such railroads as the
Pennsylvania, the New Tork Central,
the Now York, New Haven and Hart
ford and the leading lines of the Mid
dle West have practically attained the
BlnKlish standard In respect to safety,
v hilo to American minds the luxury of
travel in this country has been car
ried to a point unknown anywhere else.
3 ; et ween New York and Boston, for ex
®"U'K where there Is probably as
roush travel as between any two places
•dually far apart In the world, the
•\ew York. New Haven and Hartford
Hull road has now built up a line of 233
r i es which compiles with all the re
quirements for safoty which American
experience has found of practical value.
i he comer stone of safe railroading
rrnm an American standpoint Is an ad
equate ami absolutely reliable system
signals. Recent aooldents have
■own that. In the language of one
r.illwny official, the brains of the most
• ®d mil ""ay men sometimes
4 .2 * *° *'ork” and for this reason
ieie has been constant effort to pro-
,om * mechanical substitute for
~T hl* ha# b n successful as
„,, “ 11 *• desirable to succeed, for
seddinta ** not a,way * ,mmune t 0
lh ' Modern Block System.
.l^s*i„? ntr * 1 f * a,,,r * of the modern
rosa . f ,y * t,m •* the division of a
y nri * nto "hort sections technically
euuloLT* I b ' o< ' ,, ■' • a <h of which Is
hutomsn W ii' h "‘* nal# operated In part
vZr"? '* an ’ l lB * rt by ila
-1 hmuo*. * Jon * th * track,
ti fi h var,ou * * ta *** of development
/ fnal systems have been so per
i w hlle a madman in a tower
, *vi ■'“'need In tying up all traffic he
•>’Xup aV * ,limcul ‘y " causing a
to ever, thro, Urn*.
there is an operating tower in which
tone or more men are continually on ,
duty.' A train, for example, at sixty
miles an hour, enters a block, com
pletes an electrical connection and au
tomatically the semaphore rises to dan
ger. While the train is on that block
the towerrrfan is powerless to change
the signal. Only when the train has
passed Into the second block and
the next semaphore Is set at dan
ger, can the operator pull the first
signal down and allow a following train
to proceed. Before the train cfan
pass the third signal and enter the
stretch between two groups of blocks,
the first towerman must signal to the
man controlling the next group for the
“unlock.” This he does by a code of
bells, the towerman ahead pulls the
lever controlling the third semaphore,
and the train rushes on toward the
next group of blocks, to go through the
same process there. It is impossible
for a signal guarding a block to be
altered while a train is on that block
and even when the track is clear the
operator’s assistance is necessary to
Indicate the fact to the engineer. The
I normal condition of a semaphore is
danger and were the numerous devices
which constitute a signal system to be
come deranged each semaphore would
remain immovable at danger. The pas-
A MEDIAEVAL IDEA MODERNISED.
91a..1v* Lift Bridge. Have Taken
the Place of the Revolving Type.
sengers ‘on the train would in all
probability be a little Irritated at the
defay, but there would be no collision.
The Track Walker.
That there is no delay, that the sig
nals respond at all times to the move
ments of the trains and the tower
men’s levers, are the results of cease
less inspection of the track. Twice a
day, early in the morning and late in
the afternoon, each section Is patroll
ed by the track-walkers, men trained
to see the little break In the signal
wires which may block a whole road
or the loose rail which may hurl a
crowded train down an embankment.
On a four-track division each track
walker patrols two miles; on single
track lines the sections vary from six
to seven miles. Armed with a track
wrench and spike maul with which to
remedy any little fault, which left to
itself might in time prove dangerous,
and the necessary flags to warn a
train of any present danger, the track
walker does what no machinery can
do, makes certain that the road-bed Is
In perfect condition for the next train
to pass over It.
In the road-bed Itself the American
railroads have shown how continuous
are their efforts to ensure absolute
safety. Where a road was built hasti
ly through anew country, light rails,
light ties and any kind of ballast that
was convenient were employed. Now
■peed, economy and safety all demand
a permanent, solid road-bed. Ten
yards long, six Inches high and weigh
ing 100 pounde a yard, each rail Is 1,-
000 pounds In a eight—a bit of Iron not
; easily forced from Its position by any
pressure and not given to wearing out
1 very quickly, tilde-by-side with the
I work of making more solid the road-
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1904.
beds has gone the task of removing as
far as possible all dangerous curves
and heavy grades.
New Type* of Bridge*.
Perhaps, however, American railroad
engineers have been most successful In
developing new types of bridges. The
old draw bridge which revolved on a
fixed pivot in the center has to a con
siderable extent been superseded by a
modern application of the principle of
the mediaeval draw bridge across
which lay the road to the castle gate.
But between the few planks crossing a
narrow moat and hoisted by chains
and windlasses turned by hand and a
great steel structure carrying four
tracks, whose tons of metal are raised
by some of the most elaborate ma
chinery we have, there Is little resem
blance. The ohief advantage which
this complex creation has over the
older revolving draw bridge Is the
greater exactness and solidity with
which, when down, the tracks upon it
are jointed with those on the fixed
spans, thus removing one more possi
bility of disaster. The roller lift, the
type of bridge, in which one end is
raised upon the rolling axis of the
other, is being built on many roads.
On these bridges a train can run over
a bed as firm as that which led it
to them. Even did an engineer pass
the warning signals when the bridge
was raised, his train would not plunge
Into the water. Derailing switches
woud turn the train from the track
and thus bring It to a stop.
The safeguarding of the public on the
thoroughly equipped modern railway
Is not confined to that portion of the
people who ride upon the trains. The
deadly grade crossing is gradually be
ing eliminated.
Over modern road beds, guarded by
modern signal systems, the traveler on
the older American railroads has no
cause to envy the European.
Attention.
Watch Oar Weekly Lists of
New Subscribers, Pub
lished Every Sunday.
THE SOUTHERN BELL TELE
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH COM
PANY has installed since last Sun
day, Nov. 5, 11*04,
30 New Subscribers.
BUSINESS.
2356 —Anderson, Taz L., Druggist.
2316 —Beckmann's Cafe.
1160—Fisher, W. H., Wood Yard.
1021—Qerst’s Ladles' Hair Dressing
Parlor.
389—KrouskofI Bros. & Cos., Millinery.
2351—Inglesby, J. K., Warehouse.
494—Oemler Oyster Canneries, The.
1253 —Suvannah Furniture Company.
1012—Seabrook, W. 8., Real Estate.
RESIDENCE.
2344 Allen. A. R„ Dr.
2317—Brewer, W. TANARUS., Mrs.
2345 Beatch, H.
2333—McCuen, Elwood.
2347—Chisholm, F. M.
2816— D'Oyley, H. 8.. Mrs.
2342 — Finn, J. R.
1018 —Hawkins, O. Mrs.
2340—Holmes, J. R. ,
2339—Jordan, A. M.. Mrs.
2855—Kenny, W. J. /
2343 Lee, J. N. /
2329—Lark, M. J.. Mrs.
2359 —Lang, J. W. n
2336-—Mcßride. J. C. .
2332—O’Connor, Minnie, Mrs.
; 2300—Olinstead, C. H.. Mrs.
! 585—Schuler, J. C.
2331—Slhler, L. M.. Miss.
' 2313-Thomas, William. *
' 2820— Wolf, L, Mrs. _
TO THE VOTERS 4TH G. M. DIUT.
C. C.
I am a candidate for re-election to
the office of Justice of the peace
i Fourth district, G. M. district, and re
* sportfully ask your support and voles.
Election held Dec. 8, 1904. at 10 Aber
oern street. Respectfully
t SAMl'liiL IUEYNOUHI.
Ml who take advantage of the offer we have
made of a $25 coupon get a guess on the number
of sales. If you buy a piano now we give you $25.
The following coupon tells the story:
CUT THIS OUT.
This Is Good for $25 on the Purchase
of a Piano.
This Is good for $25 on the
Purchase of a Piano.
Mall This to
LUDDEN 6 BATES,
Savannah, Ga.; Tampa, Fla.: Valdosta,
Gtu (Carter & Borough): Tlfton, Ga.
(Carter & Borough), or deliver It to
one of our representatives, llllliig in
the following blanks:
Name
Address
Date
The Offer Is Good Up to
December 1.
$1,000,000 FOR
RIFLE RANGES
WILL BE ASKED OF CONGRESS.
SAVANNAH WANTS ONE OP THE
RANGES.
The Plan Arranged by tlie National
Board for the Promotion of Rifle
Practice—The Larger title* to be
Given Range* First and Then the
Various Section* of the Country
Outside of the Hadtn* of the Big
Cities Will be Looked After.
By R. M. Lamer.
Washington, Nov. 12.—The fact that
the National Board for the Promotion
of Rifle Practice will ask Congress
at its coming session to appropriate
one million dollars annually for the
next few years, to be devoted to the
establishment and equipment of suit
able rifle ranges In the vicinity of the
larger cities, and to the issuing of
arms and ammunition under certain
restrictions, the offering of small
prizes, etc., has awakened a great deal
of Interest throughout the country, and
applications are pouring In for the
location of these ranges.
It Is contemplated that ranges shall
be established In the vicinity of Bos
ton, New York. Chicago, St. Louis,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans,
Denver, San Francisco, Salt Lake and
Los Angeles.
Savannah Wants to Be In It.
While the selection of these cities
would naturally be gratifying to the
residents who would like to engage In
rifle practice for the exercise and
pleasure connected therewith, the ri
flemen in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Louis
ville, Indianapolis, Mobile, Savannah,
Buffalo and other cities feel that they
arc quit* as much Interested In the
proposition, and feel as much entitled
to recognition as the riflemen of the
other cities mentioned.
New York has an excellent range at
Creedmoor, and the range at Sea Girt,
N. J., Is accessible to riflemen of the
Eastern states. It is, therefore, rep
resented that when the national board
secures the Initial appropriation It
should set about establishing ranges
In states which are not so favored. In
the case of Indianapolis, a fort has
been recently established there. Fort
Harrison, which offers an excellent lo
cation for a range, which could be used
by riflemen within a radius of fifty
miles of Indianapolis for practice on
Saturday afternoons and holidays, and
for those from Cincinnati, Louisville,
and Chicago, who desire to spend sev
eral days on the range.
There is a strong Influence being ex
erted to secure one of the ranges for
Indianapolis. The question of prop
erty value In and about New York
will doubtless be a source of concern
when allowances are made for range#
In the vicinity of Greater New York.
It requires quite a stretch of territory
as ranges of at least 1.000 yards are
BELL PHONE 217} BOARD ('TRADE BLOB.
EXACT AWARDS IN THE PIANO
CONTEST.
There was a close contest over the musical instruments, entered
at the State Pair, for the premiums offered by the Association. The
judges showed extreme care and patience. The official record, duly
signed and attested, is as follows:
No. 273—Best Parlor Grand Piano, Ludden 6
Bates, on Chickering.
No. 277— Best Upright Piano, Ludden & Bates,
on Mathushek.
No. 278 — Best Reed Organ, Irvine’s Georgia Music House.
No. 279—Best Pipe Organ, Cable Company.
No. 280 —Best Display Organs and Melodeons, Cable Company.
No. 281—Best Display Pianos (not less than ten), Irvine’s Geor
gia Music House.
MARGARET GAFFNEY, Chm’n Com. Judges.
Approved: W. D. HANCOCK, Supt. Dept. “G.”
This Is Good for $25 on the
Purchase of a Piano.
desired, and property of such an ex
tent within easy trolley distance of
New York is quite valuable.
Larger Cities Come First.
There has been some discussion aa
to the method of procedure In acquir
ing and locating these ranges. On the
one hand it Ib thought that the na
tional board should first provide for
the establishment of ranges in the vi
cinity of the larger cities, beginning
with New York. Chicago, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Boston, St. Louis and so
on down the list. On the other hand,
it is contended that under sudh pro
cedure states like Indiana with approx
imately 1,000,000 men eligible for serv
ice in time of war would be one of
the later states where ranges would
be established, as Indianapolis is quite
far down the list of cities aocordlng tc
its population.
The same Is especially true of the
Houthern states where the population
is largely rural, and It is contended
that it would be very unfair to Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi. Florida and
other Southern states if the plan should
be adopted of establishing ranges in
states according to the population of
their cities. A proposition to establish
these ranges in the states according to
the quota of their National Guard is
also being considered, but the plan of
establishing one range In each state be
fore other states shall be allowed more
than one range is receiving favorable
consideration.
The national board consists of twen
ty-on members. Including offi
cers of the army and navy
and militia officers, trustees of
the National Rifle Association and ci
vilians, from all parts of the country,
so that whatever plan of procedure Is
adopted It is safe to assume it will be
one which will be fair to all the states
desiring the establishment of such
ranges.
MORGAN HAS PRESENTED
COPE TO ITALY.
Eeelesinstteel Garment Which Hne
Been the Cause of So Mach Talk.
New York, Nov. 12.—A1l a peculation
as to what would be done with the
cope of Aacoll Is ended by J. Plerpont
Morgan Himself, who has presented It
to Italy through Baron Bdmondo dee
PUndhes, ambassador to the United
States.
This ecclesiastical garment, em
broidered with gold and studded with
precious stones, was given to the Ca
thedral of Aeooll in 1288 by Pope Nich
olas IV. It remained there until two
years ago, when it was taken away
and sold to Mr. Morgan, who believed
the person from whom he purchased It
had the right to make the sale. The
amount which he paid for It was never
announced, but the value of the gar
ment Is said to be not far from 860,000.
Mr. Morgan lent the cope for ex
hibition purposes to the Victoria and
Albert museum, in South Kensington.
England, where it is at present. Al
though there have been Intimations In
the last two months that he was to
send back the cope his decision was not
reached until this month. He presents
the oope unconditionally to Italy, al
though an offer was made to meet any
condition he choae to name and a pop
ular subscription had been started In
Italy to reimburse him.
PEARY’S NEW SHIP
FOR FROZEN SEAS
TO SAIL THROUGH ICE
IS BEING BUILT IN OLD-TIME
SHIPPING TOWN.
Craft In Which the Intrepid Ameri
can Explorer Will Voyage to the
Far North In Order That He Mny
Make Another Dash for the Pole,
la the Resnlt of Long Experience
la Navigating the lee Covered
Sea. of the Arctic.
Bucksport, Me., Nov. 12.—T0 the
people of this village there Is a re
minder of old times In the merry
changor of saw and hammer echoing
from the shipyard om the river bank,
but while this renewal of activity re
calls the days when Bucksport ships
sailed all the seas know to merchant
captains, the vessel which Is being
built In the old yard upon Verona Is
land Is not destined for purposes of
trade.
She is to force her way as far as
possible into the Ice covered seas of
_______—________________
TO SAIL ARCTIC SBAS.
The Ship In Which Lieut. Command.
nr Peary Will Start On HU Hunt
for the Pole.
the Far North, carrying Lieutenant
Commander Peary In order that be
may make another daeh for the Pole.
Nothing Is to be allowed to delay
the work of construction, if human
foresight and Ingenuity can prevent It.
A house has been erected over the
stocks and work upon the vessel will
go steadily on during the coming
winter no matter how severe may be
the storm sweeping down the valley
of the Penobscot.
When a naval architect designs a
ship for Arctic exploration his first
care Is to so model tho hull that when
caught lti the Ice floes the craft will
be forced upward, but the mere form
of the hull Is not enough to ensure
safety. It must be made as strong
as material and skill permit. To se
cure this result, only the toughest of
wood is used. In the Peary ship,
the stern, stern-post, keels, keelson
end frames are of carefully selected
white oak.
The massive frames will be
only two feet apart from center
to center, and they will be
enclosed In a cage of steel made of
diagonal straps and covering the In
ner fabric of the ship from stem to
■tern. Over the strap* will bes double
course of flve-Inch planking of yellow
pine and white oak, and between these
two courses will be tarred hemp or
tarred canvas.
A guard strake of white oak sur
round the vessel at the level of the
mala dealt, projecting outward for each
a distance that when the ice presses
against her sides and Is forced upward
by the resistance, the ship will actual
ly rest upon the guard strake. More
than that, should she be frozen in, It
would be possible to break the grip of
the Ice by the use of hydraulic Jacks
placed under the strake. Naturally, so
Important a part of the vessel's pre •
tectlon Is securely fastened to the h 1
and In addition It Is strengthened b>'
an angle bar of steel on Its under side.
Equally foreign to the method of
constructing a vessel of ordinary model
Is the system by which the hull Is to
be further strengthened. The interior
of the ship will he almost completely
filled with heavy timbers. Starting a.t
the center of the decks, these braces
will extend diagonally downwards and
outwards, the lower ends resting
against the frames and helping them
to withstand the pressure of the ice.
With a hull thus filled with timbers,
provision must be made for living
quarters above decks and here there
will be two houses, so constructed that
they may be removed and set up on
shore. For the rest, the vessel will be
rigged as a three-masted schooner with
an exceptionally large spread of can
vas and will also be provided with
steam power. She will be of about
1,600 tons and will be ready for serv
ice oarly next summer. It is the ex
plorer's plan to go In the vessel to
the northern shcre of Orant land, win
ter there and make his dash for this
pole during the following summer.
—Mrs. Clarence Mackay, wife of the
young California millionaire, is an om
nlverous reader and persistently turns
a deaf .ar to social demands that In
terfere with her dally period of de
votion to books, (the is an Ideal hos
tess and a merry guest, but read sha
will so many hours In every twenty
four, and all her arrangements are
framed to fit that requirement. The
young matron nevertheless finds plenty
of time for other pleasures, because she
economizes the moments most women
waste.
—‘‘l advertised in your paper last
week for 'a half-grown girl; good
wages to the right party, etc.,' and I
didn't get a single reply,” complained
the man. "No?" replied the country
editor. "Perhaps—er—the right party
wasn't quite half-grown last week.
Try It again this week.”—Philadelphia
Press.
WHAT THE MINISTER SAVS
Is Most Convincing.
"I thought I would write you what
Pyramid Pile Cure has done for m*. I
had a most aggravated case of bleed
ing piles; Indeed 1 dreaded when I
had to go to stool. One flfty cent box
cured me. I feel like anew man.
have recommended It to others aa be
ing the most wonderful remedy
known. It Is indeed a great blessing
to suffering humanity. You are at lib
erty to use this for all It is worth, and
I hope It may do good.” Rev. W. E.
Carr, No. 356 Holbrook St., Danville,
Va.
Clergymen (like all professional
men who lead sedentary lives) are
especially addicted to piles, In various
forms, and are continually on the
lookout for n remedy which will give
relief, with little or no idea of obtain
ing a cure.
Recognizing this fact, Rev. Mr. Carr
consents to the use of his name In or
der ihat other sufferers may know
there Is a cure called Pyramid Pile
Cure, which Is sold by druggists every
where for the low price of flfty cents
a package, and which will bring about
for everv one afflicted with piles, the
same beneficial results as In his own
case. Be careful to accept no substi
tutes. and remember that there la no
remedy ’Just aa good."
A little book describing the oauses
and cur# of plies is published by Pyra
mid Drug Cos., Marshall, Mich., and
will be sent free for the asking. All
sufferers ar* advised to writ* for It, *s
It contain* valuable information on
the subject of piles.
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