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LEAGUE PRESIDENT WILL BE
ELECTED ON JAN. 10
MOrT THE OUT BISIVEBS LEM
TO BE TRANSACTED.
MEETING OF DIRECTORS
WILL BE HELO HERE.
JACKMHITIU.E HAS ALREADY EN
DORSED GRANTLAND RICE.
Elfotion Wan Deferred At the Last
Meeting With the Statement That
There Wn* Not Available Material
In the Eield—Bayer It Willing to
Accept Presidency Again—No Ar
rangements Have Been Made tor a
Park in Savannah.
At the meeting of the directors of
the South Atlantic League, which will
be held here on Jan, 10, the most Im
portant matter to come up will be that
of electing a president for the ensuing
year.
Just why the chief executive of the
league was not elected at the time
specified in the constitution and by
laws has never yet been made ap
parent, but It Is a safe guess that
President Charles Boyer knew what he
■was doing when he advocated, with
several others, the postponement of
the election of a president until the
January meeting.
When the meeting was held, right
after the close of the season, Mr. Boyer
was not a hot favorite with certain
members of the board of directors.
None knew this better than Mr. Boyer
himself. He stated that he wan not
again a candidate for election, and the
excuse given for the failure to elect a
president was that there was not a
candidate in the Held on whom the di
rectors could agree. There are no more
in the field now than there were then,
and so far as any suggestions have
been made none will offer.
Grantlnnd Rice Endorsed.
At a meeting recently held the di
rectors of the Jacksonville club in
dorsed Mr. Grantland Rice of the At
lanta Journal. The directors of the
Jacksonville club are Mr. W. C. West,
Col. Max Mverson and Mr. J. B. Lucy.
Mr. Chase and Mr. Dozier, former part
owners of the club, sold their Interest
before the closing of the season.
Immediately following Mr. Boyer's
announcement that he would not again
■be a candidate for election the Morn
ing News suggested Mr. Rice for the
nitty HICKS HAS RETIRED
FROM THE FOOTBALL TEAM
OBJECTED TO UEISIU SI BSTITI TED
AT FESTER AT PRACTICE.
MILD STIR IN RANKS
OF THE BLUE AND WHITE.
PRACTICES ARE SOW HEIM; II Ki ll
MUHTI.V IN ARMORY YARD. •
Advance Sale oj Seals for Clirlnlmns
Ossie InOirnlra Thai All Former
Records In Attendance Will Be
llrokru—Large Crowd of Jay Root
rr Eigecl to AI lend the Usmr
and file Contest Itself Will Be One
of the Hardest llanght Played
This Season.
A mild stir was created in local foot
ball circles last night when Right
Guard Billy Hicks became offended
and left the practice grounds after
stating the cause for his refusal to
play substitute center at practice.
Everything was progressing smooth
ly at practice when the little scene
between Capt. Cope and the veteran
guard took place. Futch, the regular
center, was absent, and in the signal
practice Hicks was asked to take his
Place at center. Johnson and Black
were at guards. After snapping the
bail two or three times Hicks sudden
ly came to the conclusion that he did
not want to play at center, and calm
ly walked out of line and donned his
sweater. Capt. <"ope called to him to
come back, not knowing what was the
matter.
Hicks replied that he didn’t come out
to practice to piay all the positions on
the team, and did not want to act as
substitute for everybody. He was ask
ed to turn in his uniform, but this is
his personal property.
Hides' Retirement Rea relied.
While Hicks’ retirement is generally
regretted, the fault is all his own.
No one will underestim'ate his value
to the team and hie hard, conscientious
work, but now is not. the time to ask
questions and balk at any work that is
asked.
There must be one in absolute au
thority In every game of sport, as well
as in every business, and the fact thiat
he was asked to pass the ball while
the men were being put through signal
practice was in no Wise a reflection on
„his ability as an athlete, or his stand
ing on the team. It is hoped that the
little difference can be patched up—if
for nothing more than the regard that
all Savannah has for every man who
has fought ao valiantly for the Blue
and White.
Prom now until the very eve of the
Christmas game, practices will be held
on every available night. Within the
last ten days there has been a wonder
ful improvement in the physical condi
tion of the inen. The cool weather
has permitted of the hard training
necessary to get each muscle to the
highest tension and endurance keyed
to the highest notch.
face Fast and Kraular.
Two weeks ago the run from the
Turkish bath to the armory was slow,
and there were many stragglers. Now
the pate is fast and regular, and not
a man lugs by the wayside.
The game Christmas Bay is a dan
gerous one for Hsvannah In ths tens
of the game which means so much
to the Blue and White. Bwal en
thusiasts would prefer seeing Jack
sonville win by an overwhelming more
than to ess Charleston even wig on
g fluke. With the Charleston geme,
hut seven days off the man will hard
ly have time to get the soreness and
suffuse. out.
for this raasog It Is tuoie than pooh
kCgddka&at hey, hag.
position of president, but objections
were interposed for several reasons,
none of them, however, in any way
reflecting on Mr. Rice’s abiHty to ad
minister the affairs of the league.
Since the meeting held here in Sep
tember offers have been made to Boyer
for the sale of the Savan
nah franchise and a contingency under
which he agreed to sell the Savannah
franchise was that he was to have a
written guarantee from all of the
clubs that he would be president of
the league so long as it should last.
From this it would seem that Mr.
Boyer would not be averse to again
accepting the position, and if he does
make an effort to get it there is prom
ise of some lively times at the Janu
ary meeting.
Clubs Haven’t Decided.
So far Jacksonville is the only club
to openly avow Itself for a candidate.
Augusta favors an older man than Mr.
Rice. Just how Ashenback stands Is
not known. He made a statement here
during the last meeting that he did
not care much who was president if he
understood the management and se
lection of umpires. Felix Kohler, of
the Macon team, has announced no
choice.
Savannah Is th.e keystone to the lea
gue, and without Savannah as a play
ing town the league cannot exist, flight
.here there is a problem which the lea
gue directors should do well to look
into. There has as yet been no ar
rangements for a park for the coming
year.
Mr. Boyer stated when he left Sa
vannah in September that he would
return In November and make arrange
ments for a park. So far he has failed
to show up here, and so far as can be
learned no one has heard from him.
The Bolton street grounds will not be
available next year, and the establish
ment of a park any distance from the
city might seriously affect the attend
ance.
PHILLIES WILL NOT
TRAIN IN SAVANNAH.
Dnfly Relieves His Team Wns Huo-
Doe<l Here I.ast Year.
Hugh Duffy has made arrangements
for the cellar champions of the Na
tional League to take up their spring
practice near New Orleans, away from
the eyes of all critical observers. Duf
fy had to do something by way of a
change. He couldn't do It when the
Phillies were losing.
Manager McGraw, of the Giants has
not yet stated whether he will come
to Savannah for spring practice, but it
is highly probable he will not. as there
are no grounds available for practice.
able that every substitute on the team
will be used Christmas, especially if
Savannah gets any kind of a lead.
Already' several hundred septs have
been reserved at Israel's pool room.
Manager Melntire requests all who
intend attending the game to get their
seats in advance. This will not only
help the management In handling the
crowd, but will also enable those who
attend the game to get in promptly
and get their seats.
With the substitution of Frank Me-
Intire at fullback and Johnson at
guard the line up for Christmas seems
to have worked its own solution. Just
where the weak spots will be in a
game cannot be told now, and it is
for this reason more than anything
else, that the calling off of the game
by Fort Screven was disappointing.
JACKSONVILLE GUARDS
WILL PLAY CHRISTMAS.
Guine of Foolbnll Has Been Arrang
ed With Ocala Train.
In the absence of Jacksonville's first
team Christmas the home guard will
play a team from Ocala, and from all
indications the fact that all home tal
ent is on the team which will play
there Christmas excites even more in
terest in this contest than in the one
which will be played in Savannah.
There are conflicting statements as
to who will be on the Jacksonville
line up when the team comes here for
the holiday game. Kirby Smith has
stated emphatically that he would not
play against his old brother in arms.
Harris Cope and Council, of Virginia,
has written a letter to a friend In Sa
vannah in which he stated that he
did not expect to play here Christ
mas.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Dec. 16.—J. W. O’Neill
was the only beaten favorite to-day
and the fact that the colt showed sore
ness going to the post and that Gan
non took him through the worst of the
going accounted satisfactorily for his
defeat. Summaries:
First Race—Seven furlongs. King’s
Trophy, 9 to 10, won, with Ranger, 7
to 2. second, and Tom Shelley, 8 to 1,
third. Time 1:38.
Second Race—Six furlongs. Marco,
3 to 1, won, with Chamblee, 12 to 1,
second, and Miladi Love, 8 to 1, third.
Time 1:17 1-5.
Third Race—Mile and an eighth, sell
ing. Aladdin, 9 to 10, won. with Home
stead, 2 to 1, second, and Barkelmore.
17 to 1, third. Time 2:00 3-5.
Fourth Race—Handicap, six fur
longs. Astartta, 6 to 5. won, with
High Wind, 40 to 1, second, and Jake
Greenberg, 13 to 1, third. Time 1:15
4-5.
Fifth Race—One and a quarter miles.
Lady Fonse. 8 to 5, won, with George
Vivian. 5 to 1, second, and Semper
Vivax, sto 2. third. Time 2:14 1-5.
Sixth Race—Six furlongs. Janeta, 9
to 10, won, with Kitty Platt, 9 to 2,
second, and Fruit, 18 to 6, third. Time
1:16.
HOBSON HAMII ETTBD AT MACON.
Mr Coleg** Fraternity After His I-ee
lre at Wesleyan.
Macon, Gj., Dec. 16.—Wesleyan
Chapel wus scarcely ably lo contain
the audience which thronged It to
night to hear the brilliant lecture of
Cxpt. Richard Pearson Hobson on
"America's Mighty Mianioi.” On the
stage were representatives of Macou
military. Col, K, I), Huguemn, of the
Second Georgfs Regiment , Capt. pol
hill Wheeler, of the Macon Hussars;
Capt. W'. A Starr, of the Floyd
Kibes, and Capt. Robert <*, Haselburst,
of the Macon Volunteers.
After the lecture the members of the
local Chaptet of the Kappa Alpha Fra
ternity. Including the alumni, and ttia
members of the Men o < ‘hap*ei, tend
ered Capt. Hobson x banquet, he hav
ing Jollied the organisation while be
was at college in Alabama,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1904.
Values
Extraordinary
To-day.
Former sl4. 9J5 and sl6 Suits,
fashionably made of fashion
able fabrics, at the net price of
$9.00
Top Coats and Long and Me.
dium Overcoats, late patterns
and stylishly shaped, full sls
values, at the net price of
SIO.OO
Don't Miss this opportunity
of giving yourself a Christmas
Gift.
AMERICANS WILL
LOP OFF SALARIES
GREAT SCALING OF PRICES.
THOSE WHO JUMPED FROM NAT
IONAL ARE NOW KICKING.
American League Was looked on na
Rooster of Salaries—Announced
That National League Will Raise
Prices Coining Senson—Claimed
That High Salaries Paid Players,
and Luxury Which They Demand
ed Will on the Rond Ate lip All the
Profits of the Lame.
Not since the American League hag
been in existence has there been such
a scaling of salaries as this year.
Some of the players caught a. shrink
age of their incomes before 1904, but
nothing like the extent to which it
has been suggested this year by the
owners of the teams, says a special
from New York.
The players, of course, who are hit
are making quite an ado about the
matter. They have been taught to be
lieve that the American League is the
great original booster of salaries, and
they do not quite relish the notion of
losing any part of their pay through
action taken by those who induced
them to jump their first contracts with
the National League.
That such would be the eventful out
come was repeatedly pointed out to the
players, but with their usual accept
ance of the theory that it is better to
live in the present than to think of the
future, they made the leap, and now
are in a position where they have no
power to help themselveß If they had
the inclination.
In the meantime, strange as it may
appear, and to some extent not the re
sult of philanthropy, but of business
rivalry, the National League will pay
more liberal salaries this year in many
instances where there are conflicting
clubs in the same city. This is where
the player In the American League
feels that the boot is pinching his foot
particularly hard.
It is partly the outcome of long time
contracts, which were signed in order
to retain National League players, and
there has beeu no effort to reduce the
salaries, nor is there likely to be.
.That the American League would
some time have to put a cold com
press on war time pay was long ago
conceded. Flayers were eating up all
the receipts of the game, and owners
were being left with not enough to pay
their ground rent.
When the suggestion of cutting sal
aries was first made there were some
players who asked that they be re
leased outright, as they wanted to re
turn to the National League, but the
American League owners, after the
hard fight they had made to get the
men, could not see it that way, and
could not be blamed for their stand.
There has been no favoritism in the
matter of salary cutting. Even the
champions in Boston have heard the
sad news, although there is none of the
Boston men who will be unable to
provide himself with bread and butter
next summer by the hard-heartedness
of Mr. Taylor, the owner of the club.
All will draw liberal salaries In spite
of the fact that they are not quite so
high as they were when the American
and National Leagues snorted fire
whenever they talked about another.
It is a well known fact that the Chi
cago Hnd Philadelphia American
League clubs are not high salaried at
the best, and there isn't very much
probability that the players In those
organizations have been asked to ac
cept very much lesa. unless it be some
man who has not lived up to the terms
of his contract or has fallen ofT so in
play that ho Is no longer considered so
valuable to the team.
Macon Car anal Ughtlug Cos. Friends
Again.
Macon, Dec. 16.—The trouble between
the Macon Railway and Light Com
pany and the Macon Gas Light and
Water Company, with regard to the
disturbance of a water main by the
former which caused the water com
pany to secure a temporary injunction
against the laying of double tracks by
the street car company, haa been set
tled.
"ijoea your annual salary never dis
turb you?” asked the conscientious
ellltwn. "Do you feel that you are giv
ing the voters anything for your mon
ey?” “I confess." said Menator Borg
ham. "that 1 never thought about It
In that light I have been Interested
In seeing whether the Voters i ouid be
persuaded to give me anything for irty
money.”- Washington Blai.
——— —* a i—- *■ - “ Good-night."
“Good-night." said Mr, Btaylate,
finally breaking away, “f'va enjoyed
myself Immensely Now. neat Bungay
night, I ■*! espe-c to pass you# bouse
and —* "That will be nice, flood -
night?" said sin end shut the gout. -
Philagaljdtia Ledger.
URGED THE RATIFICATION
OF THE ARBITRATION TREATIES
Prominent Men Spoke at a Mass Meeting Held in
Carnegie Hall.
New York, Dec. 16.—A mass meeting,
called to urge the prompt ratification
of the arbitration treaties recently
signed by the iState Department with
several of the leading foreign Powers,
was held to-night at Carnegie Hall
under the auspices of the New York
Executive Committee of the American
Conference on International Arbitra
tion.
John Crossby Brown, In an opening
address, expressed regret at the ab
sence of Andrew Carnegie, who was
to have opened the meeting, but who,
he said, could not be present.
Mayor George B. McClellan presided
and was the first speaker. He was fol
lowed by M. Linn Bruce and Arch
bishop Ireland. While the Archbishop
was speaking he was interrupted by
a man who cried: ‘‘Give somebody
else a chance."
The Archbishop immediately sat
down. The audience hooted the man
who had shouted and ushers tried to
find him. but failed. Then the audi
ence applauded until Archbishop Ire
land resumed his speech. He said, In
part:
"A great nation it is—this America
of ours. The three millions who
watched over her in her infancy are
now the eighty millions. The latent
opulence of her soil and climate blos
soms forth in richest profusion, and
pours into her bosom unrivalled fruit
age. The native ingenuity of her sons,
quickened into feverish activity by
magnificent opportunities, makes her
the unchallenged queen of industry
and enterprise. Her commerce moves
triumphant across all oceans, over all
continents. And her power of self-as
sertion is mighty; defiant ever of sub
jugation, fitted ever for the aureole of
victory, however potent the opposition.
"And now America is conscious of
the greatness into which she has
grown. So rapidly had she been grow
ing, so earnest had she been in effort
and life that no pause would she make
to measure her stature and for long
she knew not the hights to which she
had been soaring. But the revelation
of herself at last came to her. The
Spanish - A merican War was the occa
sion; America wait thrilled with the
sense of her mightiness; she heard the
returning' echoes of her world-embrac
ing prestige and influence; she under
stood that great she is at home, that
great she is abroad; she understood
that no Atlantic, no Pacific coast sets
limit to her name or to her work; and
that to be truthful to herself and
truthful to humanity she must, wills
she it or wills she it not, hold herself
to be great and resolutely assume and
play amid earth's nations the role of
greatness.
America, a leader of Autinno.
By the very force of her greatness
a leadership in the affairs of human
ity is assigned to America: she can
not refuse herself,; to it. What shall
that leadership be? Be it worthy, we
pray, of America! Be it such, we
pray, that humanity must bless the
day. When the republic of the West
rose into dignity ’And power and was
enthroned as queen amid the world's
most queenly nations.
“What shall thef-lbadership of Amer
ica be? The President of the republic
and his Secretary of .State have spoken,
and their words .have reached the ut
termost bounds of the earth. ’ Address
ing the diplomatic officer?..of the United
States accredited to the governments
signatories to ThA Hague convention.
Secretary Hay wrote: ‘The President
has charged me to„intruct you to as
certain whether the government to
which you are accredited is willing to
conclude with the government of the
United States an arbitration treaty of
like tenor to the arrangements, con
cluded between Prance and Great
Britain on Oct. 14, 1903. * The leader
ship of, America, if our chieftains in
terpret aright the thought of the
American people, is the leadership of
peace and good will, the leadership of
Justice and righteousness; and the ad
vent of America Into greatness betok
ens nought but love and joyousnees
amid the nations of earth.
What It Might llnvr Been.
“It, might have been the leadership
of strength. Intoxicated with the pride
of mightiness America might have al
lowed herself to be, as of yore the
Greece of Alexander, or the Rome of
Caesar, a bold, ambitious power, mak
ing her sole appeal to her trusted
sword. Anew menace were she to
peoples and to trihes, anew peril to
the weak and unoffending, one more
disturbing element in the family of
mankind, and naught else, should her
standard have symbolized but the Irre
sponsible prowess, the brute force,
which has so often already crimsoned
deely with human hecatombs the
pages of the world’s history. No; such
be not, .America, thy ambition and tliy
glory: rather be thy message to the
world that of the Saviour: 'Peace to
men of good will;’ by thy reign anew
era in the life of nations—the era of
love to all, the era of justice to all.’’
A Plea for Peace.
Throughout, his address, which was
lengthy, was an appeal for a universal
peace. In conclusion, he said: “Amer
ica may strive for the best: but un
til the best is secured beyond peril,
she must be ready for the worst; and
so long as war is still possible, so long
as it remains the sole arbitrament
in defense of vital interests, so long
must America put faith in her army
and navy.
“The army and the naval! We hon
or them, we praise them. Their
prowess was ever heroic, when in the
past America needed their service; it
will ever be heroic, should America
need it in the future. But. becuuse we
honor them, we wish that seldom in
the future need shall be that Amer
ica bid them to the fray. The army
and the navy! glorious they are when
justice and righteousness Invoke their
sword. Glorious they are, when in
their aim Is peace and honor. Peace
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and honor 1a the sole justification of
war, and only until peace and honor
cannot otherwise be secured, should
the soldier unsheathe his sword. The
home ever of the brave, may America
be no less the home ever of justice
and of peace—a blessing to her peo
ple, a blessing to all other people—
the realization upon earth, of the reign
bf Him at whose coming angels sang
—"Glory to God On High, and On
Earth, Peace to Men of Good Will.”
Letters from Grover Cleveland, Carl
Schurz and John Mitchell were read.
. I.etter from Carl Srhor*.
The following, in part, was the letter
from Hon. Carl Schurz: I am very sorry
X cannot comply with your kind invita
tion summoning me to speak at tne
meeting to ‘be held in behalf of inter
national arbitration. The appeals of
that cause to the intelligence and mor
al sense of mankind have of late been
so effectual as to put to shame the
dreary pessimism which had so long
stood in its way. For what else is it
than downright pessimism, dull, dismal
and mischievous pessimism, which,
having no faith in the elevating influ
ences of progressive civilization, In
sists that there always will and must
be wars, and plenty of them, to satis
fy the combative and brutish impulses
of human nature, or to keep up the
virility of the human race; pessimism,
which with a cynical affectation of su
perior wisdom, sneers at the advocates
of peace as sentimental and weak
minded dreamers; which not many
years ago 'belittled international arbi
tration as a feeble contrivance applica
ble only to petty bickerings about
trifles, but not to really dangerous dis
putes among nations; which scoffer at
the idea of a permanent international
peace tribunal as a “barren ideality,"
because it would have no power be
hind it to enforce its decisions or
awards, and which incessantly con
jures up imaginary dangers to our
safety, to prove the necessity of con
stant preparation for war, and of keep
ing up, to this end, vast and costly
armaments, even in time of peace.
The Decrease la Wars.
How does this pessimism stand in
the light of day? It is true, war has
not yet been abolished. But who will
deny that the number of "wars has
grow less from century to century,
and that many and many troubles
whidh at earlier periods would surely
have led to war, have been peaceably
'composed? Who will deny that the ab
horrence of war as the cruel scourge
of mankind and as an odious relic of
barbarism is growing more universal
in civilized society every day, and that
the terrible conflict now going on in
the Far East, has immensely intensi
fied that abhorrence and hids fair to
serve as a tremendous warning exam
ple for all time?
And now behold international arbi
tration, not many decades ago rarely
resorted to as a doubtful experiment,
become practically the “fashion” of
the time, as an English statesman re
cently expressed it.
The Hngn Court.
Behold The Hague Court of Peace,
suddenly risen into practical activity
as by enchantment, and turning the
ridicule upon those super-wise pessi
mists who buy yesterday, as it were,
pronounced such a permanent interna
tional tribunal an impossiblity dreamed
of only by fantastic visionaries!
1 Behold the prompt reference to that
tribunal s>t such case as the bloody
attack by Russian warships upon Brit
ish fishermen, which at a time not long
past would have been very likely to
set the guns of the interested powers
booming against each other without
muoh eeremony—a case which even at
this day some sincere friends of peace
would have hesitated to class among
those clearly fit for arbitration!
Truly, the pessimists who believe in
warships and heavy battalions and not
in the moral force, as the most poten
tial factors in human affairs, have
been strikingly belied by palpable
events. The cause of peace has in its
progress outstripped the forecast even
of some of its leaders. We may well
have faith in the enlightened intelli
gence and the moral sense of man
kind, and in the ennobling tendencies
of advancing civilization.
•A Plea for Arbitration.
Indeed, there should be no doubt—
and I trust there is none—of the
speedy confirmation by the United
States Senate of the arbitrable u trea
ties between this republic and various
powers which are now pending before
that body. There should be oo doubt
of it even If those treaties were less
timidly bmited In scope than they are.
Let us, have faith then—as we well
may—that the day will come, and that
our children, if not we ourselves, will
see it. when the reference of any in
ternational dispute to The Hague
Tribunal will seem as natural, as
much a matter of course, as in pri
vate life the reference of a dispute
about property to a court justice is
now.
. The Spectacle of “Armed Pence."
When any nation going to war with
out the extremest necessity generally
recognized, will stand dishonored In
the estimation of civilized mankind,
and when the spectacle of so-called
"armed peace"—a spectacle which
would seem ludicrous, were it not so
sorrowful—each government watching
with nervous anxiety every other gov
ernment that may add another bat
tleship or battalion to its armed force,
then following suit with hysterical
haste, thus continuing and stimulat
ing the ruinous competition and heap
ing (burden after burden upon the
nocks of suffering peoples will be a
thing of the past to be looked back
upon by a wiser generation with cu
rious wonder at the sort of statesman
ship which carried on and encouraged
so wasteful and oppressive a policy,
and at the patience of the peoples that
so long tolerated it.
Let us hope that this republic which,
as its history proves, is so singularly
blessed with entire exemption from
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danger of attack or hostile Interfer
ence, and. therefore, peculiarly fitted
for leadership in this movement to
wards a higher civilization, will never
be unmindful of the duty imposed
upon it by this glorious mission.
TREASURE HIEST.
Explorer Will Visit a Rrmnrkable
Island in Srarrli of n Fortune.
From the London Express.
A trim little vessel, which is now
lying off Greenhithe, will soon set out
on one of those "Treasure Island”
quests that send a thrill through the
heart of the explorer.
The auxiliary steam yacht Pandora,
owned by Mr. T. C. Kerry, is a stoutly
built vessel of 424 tons Thames regis
ter, barkentine rigged, and not unlike
the famous Discovery.
Originally a British gunboat, she
passed into the hands of Sir Allen
Young, and about Nov. 15 she will sail
to the Atlantic on a double mission.
The Pandora’s first objective is the
island of Tristan da Cunha, the lone
liest Islam} in the Atlantic, situated
nearly midway between Cape Horn
and the Cape of Good Hope.
Here Mr. Kerry will assist the Colo
nial office by distributing parcels and
mails to the islanders, who seldom re
ceive more than one visit a year from
any vessel. It is generally a British
warship that makes the call. The In
habitants, who number about 70, are all
descendants of castaways—soldiers,
sailors and women, mosi'y of British
blood.
But the Pandora has another mission
to perform. Mr. Kerry has acquired
from the government three islands, in
each of which he believes there is a
fortune to be found—not In gold, sil
ver or copper, but in that valuable
commodity, guano.
Mr. Kerry has had a remarkable ca
iy.gr as an explorer. He has crossed
the “untrodden paths” in every quar
ter of the globe, come unscathed
through countless adventures, and was
one of the pioneers of New Guinea.
Interviewed by an Express represen
tative yesterday, he gave gome inter
esting details of his coming journey to
the Atlantic.
"We shall probably remain about a
week at Tristan de Cunha,” he said.
"When I visited Tristan about twelve
years ago 1 found the Inhabitants per
fectly hHPpy and contented. At that
time a sailor called Green was looked
upon as the lending man.
"The island Is about forty square
miles In extent, and Is very fertile. No
money la circulated among the Inhabi
tants, sheep and cattle being the me
dium of exchange. The grass, though
ralher coarse, makes excellent pasture
for bullocks, and the Islanders raise
potatoes and even cultivate grapes.
“They are coarse-skinned, strange
looklug people, but extremely hospita
ble and peaceable. Every child born
on the island has a place of ground
allot led to It. Intermarriage and Iso
lation have not Improved tbe Intellects
of this strangs colony of castaways,
and they are very childish In their
manner.
"About IM miles sway from Tristan
are the Islands which I have taken
from the government an a twenty-one
years’ lasse. They sre nsnied Gough,
iMM-eceetble and Nlgtitlngsle
”f am not exaggerating when | say
that there are trite of niilltnns of Vitro*
on Hirer islands One cannot plat's
one's test down tssebst* on Lit eg
at Bis or High (Inga is island without
stepping on them. They look llko
massed regiments,
“The birds which contribute the best
guano deposits are the penguins, but
there, are 'also stormy petrels, boat
swain birds, Moley hawks and Cape
pigeons.
“If the discoveries prove as valuable
as I anticipate I shall bring the Pan
dora back to England at once. I shall
take several of the Tristan de Cunha
people with me on the yacht to assist In
the work on iny islands. They are
strong people physically, and wonder
ful boatmen. The government has pre
sented them with a fine canvas boat,
which they use almost daily.
“With the Tristan people, the scien
tist accompanying me, and my crew of
thirty, I shall have all the assistance
I require.
“The islands are surrounded for a
mile out to sea toy an extraordinary
growth of seaweed, which serves to
break the force of the ocean, but makes
navigation in small boats very diffi
cult.”
—Larry—"When th’ doctor came to
raocinata yez did yes roll up yea
slave?” Denny—“Shure. Oi pulled up
bith av thim awn dared him to come
outside.”—Chicago Daily News.
—Excited Committeeman “My!
You’re here at last! I thought you
were going to disappoint us.” Lectur
er—“l am. Just watch the audience
while I'm talking.’’—Baltimore Ameri
can.
TECH OPENS JAN. 2.
Second Terra Promises Many New
Students.
Entrance examinations for the sec
ond lerm of the Georgia School of
Technology will begin on Jon. 2. The
requirements for entrance to tile low
est or sub-apprentice class at that
lime are as follows:
Algebra; Hall's, 13fi pages.
Plane Geometry: Milne’s 135 pages.
English Grammar: Milne's.
Classics; Legend of Sleepy Hollow
and itlp Van Winkle.
The above work constitutes the
progress of the sub-apprentice class
since Sept. 28.
For entranee lo the apprentice
class I'nll Information will be given on
application. .All applicants should
bo present by a. m. on Jan. 2.
For catalogue mid particulars ad
dress LYMAN HALL, Prcg.
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