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4 gfc jfarfnittg gsetoj. Morn lac >• BuUdWx. SiK"***. 0 SATURDAY, DECEMBER SI, I*o4. Registered at Postoffice In Savannah. THE MORNING NEWS la published every day In the year, and served to subscriber* in the city, or sent by mall, on# week, 18 cents; on* month, TO cents; three months, 12.00; six months, 14.04, one year. 18.00. THE MORNING NEWS by mail, six time a week (without Sunday issue), one month, 50 cents; three months, 11.50; six months, 13.00; one year. 16.00. THE WEEKLY NEWS, two issues a week (Monday and Thursday), by mad, one year, 11.00. Subscriptions payable in advance. Remit by money order, check or reg istered letter. Currency sent by mail at risk of sender. Transient advertisements, other than local or reading notices, amusements and classified column. 10 cents a line. Fourteen lines of agate type—equal to one Inch In depth—ls the standard of measurement. Classified column ad vertisements, 1 cent a word each inser tion. 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Business Notices—lt Doesn't Cost Mutfh, A. M. & C. W. West; Visitors to Savannah, Sommers’ Cafe; Second hand Bicycles. G. M. Thomas; Na tional Bicycles, Oakman & O’Neil. Investment Securities For Sale—John W. Dickey. Hides, Wax, Etc.—A. Ehrlich & Bro. How Much Water —Lattimore's. Cough and Cold Mixture—The Solo mons Cos. A Good Toilet Soap—Henry Solomon & Son. Red Cross Coffee—Henry Solomon & Son. Whisky—Lewis’ 66 Rye. Keep Warm—Edward Lovell’s Sons. Tetterlne Soap—J. T. Shuptrine. Hot Water Bottles—Rowlinski. Drug gist. Wines for New Year’s Dinner—The Deimonico Cos. Here It Goes— B. H. Levy, Bro. & Cos. Savannah Theater—To-day Matinee, ‘Edith’s Burglar” and “Pecks Bad Boy and His Chum;* Night, ’The Sleeping City;’’ Monday. Matinee and Night, "The County Chairman.” Saturday Specials—Estate Daniel ‘ Hogan. Cheap Column Advertisements—Help Wanted, Employment Wanted. For Rent. For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis cellaneous. The Weather. The indications for Georgia and Eastern Florida for to-day are for fair weather, with light variable winds. Among the good resolutions for the new year should be this: “To hustle and root for Savannah all the time.” Simon Sain, ex-President of Haiti, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for floating worthless bonds. Sam made the mistake of operating in the wrong place. He should have chosen Wall street. personal appearances are often dreadfully misleading. A case in point: Mr. Beckwith, the Oberlln, 0., banker, who gave Mrs. Chadwick all of his bank’s money, is said to closely re semble Russell Sage. Chicago is wearing a rose In her hair, even in these December days. Her court records show that there has not been a divorce case in the courts for thirty days. And Chicago thinks that is something to be proud of. Assuming for the sake of making the point that Mrs. Chadwick is In sane, as Is now being asserted, what Is to be said of those eminent and re spectable bankers from whom she got the money? What Is their mental condition? Prof. O. A. Crook of Chicago has dropped back Into the ranks of ordi nary men. He sprang Into fame some few months ago, along with “aiad” Dowle, as a man who had never been kissed. But Prof. Crook got married a few day* ago. And that leaves "Glad" In a class by .Himself. To-morrow the water wagon will start on Its annual excursion, with a large crowd on board. HtIII (here Is always room for another. And there Is no bstter time than right now to get on the water wagon. Make the effort to ding on. To have tried and failed Is better than not to have tried a) alt. The Jvmdon Chronicle says lhat In the luh language the equivalent for "automobile" la "am- ll |arddoosoomleei. •porsf|iitiDali||ign|," The very Idea of setting a pretty girl to go out riding In a thing wHk a name lib* that' And m woo dee (he ssiaswUh t#4f Mi 11 ><baod la wishing such lit*, its bedwajr' THE NORTH-Bt’RLKSO* CORRE SPOXOEVCg. It is up to the cotton farmers to say ■ whether or not they want the govern ment to continue to collect and publish the cotton statistics it ob tains from the ginners. If they don't want them it is an easy mat ter for them to have the publication of them stopped. It Is costing the gov ernment $125,000 a year to publish them, and it is certain the government isn’t anxious to continue the work if the cotton farmers are not benefited by it. It w ill be recalled that the work was undertaken at their request. A condition of affairs existed that was almost intolerable. Agents of the great English cotton firms were scat tered all over the cotton belt, and their reports were of a character to create the impression that the crop was larger than it really was. There isn't a cotton farmer of Intelligence who doesn't remember the outcry there was against the reports of the condi tion of the cotton crop that Mr. Neill sent broadcast over the world every fall. If we are not mistaken they were almost invariably in favor of the spinner and against the farmer. It was because of these reports, and others of a similar character, that an appeal was made to the government to undertake the work of collecting and publishing statistics relating to the cotton crop. L'ntll this year the reports were sat isfactory. The reason they are not popular this season is that they have caused a slump in the price of cotton, but it is not asserted that they are not true. It is a fact, of course, that the claim has been set up that the ginners’ reports are not always to be relied up on. and that when published by the gov ernment they give too great a jog to the cotton market. There may be some truth in this, but, as a matter of fact, is it not in the power of the cotton farmers to have them about as correct as it Is possible to have such statis tics? In some localities there may be ginners who give out false reports sim ply because of business rivalry among themselves, but if the cotton farmers let it be understood that they want only correct Information published the ginners will respond to their wish in the matter. It is to the Interest of ginners to be in harmony with the farmers. There is no reason, other than the foregoing one. why the gin ners should give out false information. What would happen if the govern ment should abandon the work? The agents of th§ spinners—the foreign spinners as a rule—would come into the field again and their reports would dominate the cotton market, just as they did before the present system was inaugurated. Now the farmers get pretty near the truth and the market is influenced by the reports which the government sends out. When the indications are that the crop will be a big one the market goes down, and when, as was the case last year, they indicate the crop will be a small one, the market advances, but it is worthy of notice that the information is of a character to enable the farmers bo act before the market is very seriously disturb ed. This year, for instance, the far mers were able to see for themselves that the crop was likely to be a big one, and a big percentage of them heeded the warning and Bold their cotton. Others thought that the market would stand a much larger crop than that of last year, and so held on to at least a part of their crop. It was impossible for them to forsee. it was impossible for anybody to forsee, that the season was going to be a phenomenal one in respect to weather, permitting picking to go on every day from Sept. 1 to Christmas. But the farmers had warning in time to dispose of their crop at a price that would yield a good profit. AA’hat will happen if the proposed Cotton Ginners' Association is formed and information given out only to gin ners and farmers? Will the informa tion go to all the farmers at once, as it does under the present system, or will it get into a few hands and be used for speculative purposes? That is a question which the farmers can an swer as well as others. As far as we are able to see the present system is the best one that has yet been devised for the interests of the farmers. They get the in formation as soon as the speculators, and It is in their power, as we have pointed out, to make it sufficiently ac curate for their purposes. Still, as Director North intimates, if they don’t want it they are not obliged to have it. If they encourage the ginners to withhold the information Director North will be out of business, but would their interests be better served then? If, for Instance, the crop next year should be a short one, wouldn’t the government report be helpful to them? ARMOR PLATE CHARGES. Is It not a fact that the government pays about two prices for armor plate? There has always been a sus picion in the minds of many people who have given the subject attention that it does. This question comes to the front at this time because on the 12th of next month bids will be open ed by the Department of the Navy lor armor plates for the battleship New Hampshire and two cruisers. There will be two bidders, or rather three, but it is the understanding that the Carnegie and Bethlehem plants bid us one. The competition therefore will be between them and the Midvale Hteel Company of Philadelphia. Ktach con cern will of course try to get the big gest price It can and at the same time get the contract. The price at present la about $420 a ton. It wouldn't l> surprising, how ever, If the Midvale Company should bid considerably below that price. Ex perts In the making of steel are of the opinion that'a good profit could be made on armor plat* at a much leas plies, Jn fact, some years ago the Illinois Steel works offered to make aJI the sissir plate the government want ed * I*4o pet ton tf given (he contract for making all of tie armor plate for twenty years. It aeeo*a the govern ment woe prevented fnan acceptm* this sflsr have urn the plant of the cum SAVAXSAH MORNTVG XEWS: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31. IWf. pany was too small. Couldn't the plant have been made larger? At that time Mr. Carnegie had a grtflat deal of in fluence with the government, particu larly with the Republican party, and it isn't improbable that it was inclined to favor him. There would be surprise in several quarters if the Midvale Company should greatly outbid the Carnegie and Bethlehem companies. It would be a source of great satisfaction to the coun try if it should. If It were not for the fact that the party in power con siders it advisable to yield to labor's demand it would pay the government to own its own plant for making ar mor plate, but labor costs it so much more than it costs private steel manu facturers that armor plate made In government mills would probably cost more than It does now. It is a fact that thoroughly equipped as our navy yards are, battleships and cruisers can be built for less by shipbuilders than by the government. THE LYNCHING OF KING COTTON. Neither frenzied finance nor frenzied journalism ever experienced a keener thrill than was given both on Wednes day by the report that King Cotton had been lynched in Georgia—cremated, ala Reed and Cato—for no crime of his own, save that he had overgrown himself. But, as much as King Cot ton had expanded, it was nothing to compare with the manner in which the story of his lynching expanded. At lanta had the sending end of the wires. The stories that were put ‘on them melted the transmitting instruments and sent the operators to bed with nervous prostration. It was too shock ing even for Atlanta nerves, as wit ness the fact that even the Atlanta papers did not print the stories that were sown broadcast through the press of the United States under Atlanta date lines. New York and New Orleans and Liverpool and Fall River nearly had fits when the Atlanta dispatches tell ing of the lynching began to come in. Not even Thomas W. Lawson could have “thrown such a scare into” the markets and men interested in cotton. Governors of states held their breath momentarily, and than said sage things about the sin and folly of burning cotton. Commissioners of argriculture wagged their wise heads and reluctant ly submitted to be interviewed on the horrors of the situation. The New York Times printed a dis patch of several hundred words, under an Atlanta date line, in which it was stated as a fact that "more than 3,000 bales of cotton” had been burned at Fort Gaines, and that several thousand other bales were “now blazing in the Southern section of the state.” The veracious chronicler for the Times es timated that “more than SIOO,OOO worth of cotton” had already been destroyed, and said there was no telling where the movement would stop. The im pression sought to be conveyed was that the whole state of Georgia was pretty well lighted up with bonfires made of cotton; that the people had gone daft and were burning up their money. The Louisville Courier-Journal printed a dispatch, from Atlanta, simi lar in tone to that of the Times, but it placed the number of bales burned at Fort Gaines at 300. The Philadel phia Record’s story said several bales were burned. Various New York and other Northern papers, evidently afraid of the heavy figures of the Atlanta story, declined to be specific and left the extent of the Incineration in doubt. Reliable reports received from Fort Gaines are to the effect that one bale was burned. It seems that certain merchants and farmers agreed that they would be willing to burn “their share of 2,000,000 bales” In order to boost the price. Calculating upon the census figures, Fort Gaines’ "share” of 2,000,000 bales of 500 pounds each for the whole cotton belt would be some thing like 100 pounds of cotton. On that basis, it seems that more than Fort Gaines' “share” was burned. Meanwhile we are sure that the gen tlemen who made Mole St Nicholas, Shanghai and Cheefoo famous must feel envious that their laurels have been so ruthlessly plucked by Atlanta. in view of the Bilbo canal contro versy, some experiments conducted re cently by scientists of Wisconsin and Illinois are of local interest. The ex periments were for the purpose of test ing the longevity of typhoid bacilli in water. The conclusion reached seems to be that typhoid germs live longer in pure water than in water contami nated by sewage, and longer in winter than in summer. Soil bacteria quickly destroy the ty phoid bacteria, tout the bacteria in uncontaminated water seem to have no such power of destruction on the disease germs. At the temperature of the ice chest the typhoid germ grows in the by-products of other germs which at a higher temperature are fa tal to it. In sterilized Lake Michigan water the typhoid germ lives fifteen to twenty-five days, while in unster ilized water it lives but five to eight days. Under certain conditions the germs may retain life for months and even years. In all the talk there has been with respect to the New York senatorship. It Is to be observed that no attention whatever has been paid to the Legis lature, which is supposed to be the electing body. All of the talk has been as to what Platt would do, what Odell would do, and what one or two other bosses would do. And now that Odell has consented for Depew to suc ceed himself, it seems the whole thing Is settled. Neither ithe people nor their representatives have had or will have any voice In the matter. Such a boss-ridden condition of politics would be well nigh impossible In the Mouth. Oddly enongh. Gov. Vardanian, of MlxHlseli.pl. is coming Into demand as a lecture tar for Northern cities. Let a man become notorio js for anything "frenzied” -politic*, finance or what not —and he la Immediately wanted a* g lecturer, A* an example, there la our highly esteemed friend. Senator Tillman, of Moutli Carolina The N.otli didn’t ni# to hear him until it had gol Ihe idea that hr *s< perfectly horrid, grtd how it iwonot get enough of Mm The Philadelphia Ledger thinks this Is a joke: “Suggestion for making a fortune—Take some corn meal, give it a good name, and then, by advertising, sell it at three times its value as a new health food.” But there is no joke about it It is one of the most serious propositions imaginable. And not only is it serious but feasible. Moreover. It has been worked time and again successfully, and will be work ed many other times. But there is one thing to which objection may legitimately be made, namely; those who work the scheme do not always stick to clean, wholesome, nutritious, delightful com meal. Asa matter of fact, corn meal would be worth three times its market price to some people if they would only eat it, and the per son who can induce them to eat it— even under another name—is a real benefactor. There are fortunes, also, for those shrewd persons who wil! teach a very much larger proportion of the people to eat rice, even if they have to call the rice by some fancy and copy righted name. The health food graft is one of the “greatest ever,” but it is capable of accomplishing much real good. A dispatch from Seoul, Korea, says the Japanese have been obliged to abandon their attempts to raise and repair the sunken Russian warship, Variag. The Variag was built in Phil adelphia. It is one of those marvelous \ essels told of in the dispatches, sunk one day, fighting the next, blown up the next, sailing out to meet the enemy the next, and so on. The Variag has been “destroyed” at least half a dozen times since the beginning of the war. The Japanese may have given up ail hopes of raising her, but it remains to be seen if the war correspondents will abandon her to Davy Jones’ locker. The Chicago Record-Herald expresses surprise that a man of the name of Ananias Baker could have been elect ed to the Legislature, even in Indiana. Our contemporary should bear in mind that there were two Ananiases. One of them became the world’s most fa mous liar, but the other was a godly man who was honored of the Lord. Mr. Baker of Indiana was named after the other Ananias. The joint convention of the South ern Educational Association and the Florida State Teachers’ Association, in Jacksonville, cannot fail to be produc tive of much good. It is attended by leading educators of the South, and their interchange of experiences and opinions will be beneficial to all who are so fortunate as to be able to at tend the sessions. It is estimated that 200,000 qualified Democratic voters in Texas failed to vote last election day. Will the Platts, Crumpackers and Morrells in Congress want to have their representation cut out on that account? No restriction is placed on the colored vote in Geor gia, yet Senator Platt’s bill contem plates cutting down Georgia’s represen tation. PERSONAL. —A pension has just been granted Pierre Ibsen, a brother of the wealthy author, by the Swedish government. He is at present engaged as a light house keeper. —Henry McHarg, Jr., son of the New Yorlc millionaire and a graduate of Harvard, who started in as a puddler in the mills of the Virginia Coal and Iron Company. Radford, Va., has been promoted to be superintendent. BRIGHT HITS. —"H’ave you read Alfred Austin's last poem?” "No such luck.”—Cleve land Leader. “The abnormal development of this bump betokens a most remarkable veneration for old age. You are doubt less an archaeologist.” “No. I’m the editor of the comic supplement of the •.unday Talk.—Town and Country. —Flatbush— “Have you any hedge hogs in your vicinity?’ Bensonhurst ’2, h ' yes; £?* ° ne for a neighbor. We’ve got a party hedge between our lots and he makes me do all the trim ming. —Yonkers Statesman. CURRENT COMMENT. The Philadelphia Record (Dem.) says: “Mr. Griggs, who was Attorney General In the McKinley cabinet, says that the federal control of corpora tions would be usurpation; ’this would be imperialism worth talking about— even resisting.’ All the Democratic party needs is to have the Republican leaders—emboldened by a minconstrue '.? ® f . toe rec,- nt election—go ahead with their preposterous schemes of federal aggrandizement, and to have the trusts, at their own wish, emanci pated from subjection to state legisla tion. Constitutionalism is a living force in this country, and when men aced it will rally the voters around the standard of Democracy.” The Wilmington (N. C.) Messenger (Dem.) says: “The Stars and Stripes now flies over one Dominican cus toms house. That flag will | n all prob ability soon be raised over others. When those flags are once raised who is going to pull them down? Mind you wc do not say they should not be pull ed down. We are not hankering after the annexation of the Dominican re public. Wc do not think the United States has any use for it but 'all the same,' we have an idea that if our government once gets a foothold on this Island It witl eventually be an nexed. This land-grabbing fa a very Insidious disease, it develops rapidly and is an incurable malady.” “The Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.) says: "The Attorney General's office has nothing to do with legislation, but If It secures a conviction of the Gen eral Paper Company under the Sher man uct on the ground of epoortlon ment of territory and customers, the arbitrary fixing of prices and the con trol of the output for Illegal purpose*, the facts elicited will servo as a con venient guide and hint for action by Congress. The tariff duties on print paper were raised from $3 to $4 a ton for the sole benefit of the trusts, in order that they might have, undei the shelter of tin Dingley bill, an op|M>r tunlty to hold the American buyers by the throat, just as they ar* charged with doing In the allegations made be fore the House eoinmlttee and In this l>< tit lot i filed by the Attorney General at W. Paul. This tariff tax la not a • revenue produeer. but a prohibitive | device, framed for the purpose of per | milling trusts to flay the consumer. • rid wnett tit* Attorney General gets j through • lib Ihe combination marry Ipaotl* will hove new Ught oa lUa tariff problem ” Married Mans Trembles. I%ere is no story in this, and there | is nothing funny in k. says the Mexi ! can Herald. It is merely the earnest j searching of a mere man for the truth. It occurred at nn informal confession I held one afternoon last week after i business hours. The seeker bad not • been married iong and was trying to learn the system of the others who ! sat about the flat-topped, bottle-be ! decked shrine. They had been married | considerably longer. "Now, I want to know,” said he. “what the limit Is. I mean the limit of talk I must make to make home | happy. My wife likes to have me tell ' her the things that happen at the of • fice during the day. She wants me j to tell her about the people I’ve met i during the day. In other words, she • wants me to be sociable when I come home. Well, now, that’s all right. I can understand that. She gets lone | some, and it is a fact I’ve got a habit I°f not talking much. Am inclined to be rather quiet, and sometimes she takes that for grouchiness. That’s natural, too. Can't blame her for that. Then seme days I go to the office and make up my mind I’ll load up my mind with the interesting things I’m going to talk about when I go home. I suc ceed and reach home with enough stuff in my head to fill a newspaper and begin to unload. Then my wife takes a long look at me and gets busy with something or other in another part of the house. I go look her up and con tinue mv line of talk. Of course, she can’t say I am grouchy, but she does what's worse. With what she intends to be her most withering tone, she suggests that I 'must have had a drink this afternoon.’ Then I admit I took one just after I left the office. She begins to look amused and says she is quite sure I never stopped at one, or I wouldn’t be so talkative. Now. what am I to do?” The other men merely shook their heads, sighed, and then in chorus told him it was a disease they would both outgrow. Things That Went Wrong. Dripping with wet. Mr. Horace P. Shrvke, a south side business man. stepped into a downtown store yester day morning and bought a $5 umbrella, says the Chicago Tribune. When he went out into the open air again with his purchase the rain was still descending in torrents. The wife of Mr. William R. Glossop, Jr., a prosperous citizen of Rogers Park, had given him a Christmas pres ent of a box of plain, ordinary looking cigars. “Bless her heart!” he exclaimed, as he sat down to try one of them. “She means well, but what do women know about buying these things? I wouldn't be afraid to bet a $lO bill that these are the vilest and rankest things a man ever smoked.” They were. Yesterday morning an elderly man of clerical aspect slipped while crossing State street, near Lake, and sat down in the mud. “Bet you a dollar he swears when he gets up,” said a bystander. "Done!" said another 'bystander. They went out into the street and assisted the fallen man to rise. Then he turned to them, pointed to his mouth, and made a few rapid signs with his fingers. But as neither of them understood the deaf and dumb alphabet the wager was declared off. Not Enough to Hnrt. Dr. Wallace Wood of the University of New York was talking about the love of beauty, says the New York Tribune. "The love of beauty,” he said, “is not so firmly planted in the people's minds as it should be. Things only 'that are useful are considered valu able; beautiful things too often are regarded as unimportant. “This popular idea of the useful’s unspeakable superiority over the mere ly beautiful may be illustrated by a happening in a barber shop. “A barber, in cutting a young man’s hair, snipped off a piece of his ear. ’The young man leaped from the chair. He cried in anguish and hor ror: “ ‘Oh! you have cut a piece of my ear off!’ "But the barber answered in a pat ronizing, soothing way, as one speaks to a. child " ‘Sbo! Don't carry on so. boss. ’Tain’t ’nuff to affect yo’ hearin’.” Tlie Making of a Beggar, “Money should never be given to street beggars," says Theodore Waters in “Six Weeks in Beggardom,” in Ev erybody’s Magazine for January. “The danger of giving the unfortu nate money offhand is that you may force him into the ranks of profes sional beggardom. I know of one man who until a year ago owned a profita ble little fruit shop In a side street far down town. One night, having locked up the shop and being ready to start home, he found himself by ac cident without money to pay his car fare. “He stopped a man on the street and asked him for 5 cents. He got it so easily that he determined next day to tell the story often and get many nickels. He did so and the practice became so remunerative that despite his wife’s pleadings and protests he sold the little shop and became a reg ular beggar.” Just a Virginian. Two men in a yellow car on Penn sylvania avenue were disputing about the proper method to find the cube root of a certain number, says the New York World. One held to one plan and one to another, and they be came earnest. Senator Daniel of Virginia, sat across the aisle, engrossed In his own thoughts. He was staring straight out of the window when one of the dispu tants leaned over and touched the sen ator on the knee, laying, "Excuse me, sir. but are you a mathematician?” The senator came out of his reverie with a start. "No, sir,” he replied with dignity; “I am not; I am a Virginian.” Got the Hninrk. Denman Thompson Is beloved by the young members of his company, es pecially the lltle tots that figure in the scenes of “The Old Home stead." During a recent New York engage ment he wanted to compliment a little fairy on her work and said: "You’ve done so woll I'd like to give you a big kiss.” “Oh, Mr. Thompson.” answered the fairy, horrified, "you mustn't, really. Aunty doesn’t believe In kissing." “Never mind, dear,” replied Mr. Thompson, “I'm not kissing aunty.*' And the little fairy got the ama k. A Ileal I ally, A London cahinun had brought suit i egslntt a woman for not paying he • legal fare, and his constant remark was. "Mhe ain’t a lady," says the N*w ! York Tribune. “Do you know • lady when you e . one?” asked the Judge, • "I do. yer Honor. Lust Week a lady ! gave fn* a sovr'n Instead of a shillin' and I called H*g pardon, madam. |’v# I got a sovr'n Instead of a shillin’, and She Shouts | .rfc 'trail, you old far, l, JM •.bangs and gat drunk with Kt* Thai t wad I calls g lady” ] Peculiar To Itself In what it is an/. what it docs—con taining the best blood-purifying, alterative and tonic substances and effecting the most radical and per manent cures of all humor? and all •ruptions, relieving weak, tired, languid feelings, and building up the whole system—is true only of Hood’s Sarsaparilla No other medicine acts like it; no other medicine has done so much reel, substantial good, no other medicine has restored health and strength at so little cost. "I was troubled with scrofula and came sear losing my eyesight. For four months 1 eould not see to do anything. After taking two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla I could see to walk, and when 1 had taken eight bottles I eon la see as well as ever.” Scat* A. Hair* *c::. Withers. N. C. Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises t* sure an* <••>-•* rh promise. Every family uses salt. Every lady likes rings. Buy a five-cent Round Carton of Crystaline Salt and read carefully the Ring List inside. SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO. WINTER WEEK DAY SCHEDULE, SUBURBAN LINES. Effective Dec. 6. 1904. „ ISLE OF HOPE LINE. Between Isle of Hope and 40th Street. Lv. 40th st. Lv. Isle of Hope. A - M. P. m. , A. M. P. M. ® 30 6:00 1:00 J 3 0 1:30 7:00 2:00 830 2:30 8:00 3:00 • : 5? 9:00 J® 30 3:30 10 00 4:00 11:30 11:00 •••••, 11:3 0 1 *11:45 * • la Montgomery to city. Between Isle p f Hope & Thunderbolt Lv. Isle of Hope. Lv. Thunderbolt A. M. P. M. a. M. P. M. *3:00 *1:50 1 00 4:00 *7:22 *6:50 . 3:00 §8:22 6:38 11:00 *9:50 7:38 512-mlnute wait at Sandfly. *Parcel car, passenger trailer. MONTGOMERY SCHEDULE. Between Montgomery and 4Cth Street. Lv. Montgomery. Lv. 40th St A- M. p. m. A. M. P. M. f 1:3 ° A 8:30 1:30 >6:50 §2:30 10:30 2:30 t7:53 t3:05 3-30 9:50 tS:SO 6:36 ♦Connects with parcel car for city. • Through to Thunderbolt §lB-minute wait at Sandfly going to city. Between Montgomery & hundebolL A- M- P. m 7 A. M. p7m7 6:o0 3:05 7:22 3:38 753 5:50 S:3S 6:38 MILL-HAVEN SCHEDULE. Leave Whitaker ar.d Bay Streets. A - A- M. P. M. P. M. 6:20 10:00 12:40 5:20 6:40 10:40 1:20 6:00 7:00 11:20 2:00 6:40 720 12:00 2:40 7:20 3:00 8:20 8:00 3: *° 4:00 8:40 9:20 4;40 t 9:20 tlO :00 (Saturday night only. Leave Mill-Haven. A. M. A. M. p. mV P M 1100 12(20 5:40 7:00 11:40 1-00 6:05 I;?° I:4° ”6:40 000 3:40 8:20 i®;2o ::::: . 9 ; 00 tl 1:00 tSaturday night only. Hermitage one-Jialf mile from terminus of Mill-Haven Line. THUNDERBOLT LINE.~ City Market to Casino and Thunder bolt via Bolton Street Junction. Beginning at 5:30 a. m. cars leave City Market for Casino at Thunder bolt every half hour until 11:30 p. m. Cars leave Bolton street junction 15 minutes after leaving time at City Market Beginning at o:u3 a. m. cars leave Live Oak Station for city every half hour until 12-08 midnight COLLINSVILLE LINE. Beginning at 5-50 a. m. cars leave Waters road and Esttll avenue every 30 minutes until 11:50 p. m. Beginning at 6:15 a. m. ears leave City Market for Waters road and Estill avenue every 30 minutes until 1215 midnight. Through cars are operated between Market and Thunderbolt via Collins ville and Dale avenue as follows- Lv. Market Lv. Thunderbolt 8:45 A. M. 7:30 A. M. P M. 7:30 P. m! WI ST END LINE. Car leaves West side of City Mar ket 6 a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter until 10:40 p. m. Lust car at 11:30. Car leaves Lincoln Park for Mar ket 8 20 a. m. and every 40 minutes thereafter until 11:00 p. m. Last car 12 midnight rKKIGIir AMD PA RCKL CAR ',’**• eat side of City Market for Thunder boL-c*ttle Pari:. Ssndflv. Isle of Mope and all k-'Ofmediatr point*-#:!* . m „ lslw m.TII Leaves tale of Hope for Sandfly. Cauls Park rsirsiTriKTr* 1 * e* 3 * Freight ear leaves Montgomery at 1M a and ! * p m-. connecting at Sandfly with re* elar parcel car f<fi rlty. ' Parrel ear from the city carries freight ts Montgomery on each trip Leguiar parcel ear carries trailer on each trip for accommodation of parsengeia. Any further Infortuatlon regarding passenger and freight schedule can be had by applying to L. R. NASH, Mgr. JOHN C. BUTLER Sash, Blindt, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lime, Oments, Plaster, soCefiffflM itiMt, W*t. OFFICIAL. ~ City of Savannah. Office Clerk of Council. Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 26, 1904 — The following applications to’ retail liquor during the year 1905 were read at meeting of Council Dec. 21. lso4 and referred to the Committee of th Whole. J. ROBERT CREAMER Clerk of Council Est. Geo. Beckmann, 112 Whitake* street: L. Berman, 334 W’hitaker street- W. J. Britt, York and Price street l J. O. Be wan, Bull and Best streets’ Gad. D. Bryan. Jr., 30 Bryan, east : Otto I>. Brodman, Oglethorpe and Randolph street; J. D. Brodrrfan, 709 West Broad street; H. Brodman, Hab ersham and Jones streets; H. C. Brink man, 226 St. Julian street, west; H A. Champion, northeast corner Taylor and West Broad streets; John Cotting ham, southeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets; John Cottingham 208 Broughton street. west; N. Comate Bryan and Barnard streets, "Planters' Hotel;” Cox & Langley, 330 West Broad street; J. A. Daily, southwest corner Mill and Farm streets; M J Doyle, northeast corner Barnard 'and St. Julian streets; J. F. Entelman 614 Liberty, east; M. Freidelson, Bay and AVest Boundary streets; Forest City Liquor Cos., 403 Broughton street west- Thos. Golden, 625 Bay street, west- c' F. Graham, Pulaski House, Bull and Bay street lane; Neil Gildtfa, lo Broughton street, east; Neil Gilde’a, 34 Bull street; 1. Gottlieb, Bryan and Montgomery streets; M. Gainey, 128 Bryan street, west; R. Geffken, south west corner V ldburg and Burroughs streets; J. A. Galina, 9 Drayton street; H. H. Geffken, northwest corner Broughton and Price streets; AA'. H. Gartelman, southwest corner West Broad and Thirty-second streets; Al bert Grimm, 1827 Ogeechee road; S. S. Handrino, 218 Bryan street, west; J. Jl. Haar, East Broad and Chariton streets; A. H. Hitchman. 319 AVest Broad street; F. H. Jachens, 533 Con gress street, west; C. H. Koneman & Cos., southwest corner Oglethorpe and Farm street; Herman Kiene, 25 Farm street; Aug. Kirsten, 1511 Bull street; H. F. Kuck, Abercorn and Anderson streets; A. Klugman, 225 West Broad street; P, Kutsures, 101 East Broad street; Cord Kracken, northwest cor ner Bay and AVest Broad streets; R. E. Lipsltz, 43 Farm street; Harry Lang & Cos., 413 West Broad street; T. F. McDonald, Indian and Ann streets; B. E. Morse, northwest corner Liberty and East Broad streets; John Meyer, Randolph and Anderson streets; P. J. Ott, 21 Broughton street, east; John Ohsick, northeast corner Bay and AA'est Broad streets; M. Rauzin, north east corner Congress and AA’est Broad streets; Robert Rentier, southeast cor ner Liberty and Drayton streets; F. AA’. H. Raintz, 601 Indian street; Philip Sanders, Bull and Best streets; J. AA’. Seay, 339 AVest Broad street; H. AV. Suiter, 438 Price street; J. H. Scherer, 127 AA’est Broad street; D. Schwartz, 406 Broughton street, west; Geo. C. Schwartz, southwest corner AA’hitaker and Congress streets. Geo. H. Thalken, 1718 East Broad street; A. Vasile, Duf fy and Railroad streets; Wallace & Sutker, 506 Stewart street; Henry AA'oeltjen, Ogeechee refad and C. and S crossing; B. AVeitz, 420 AVest Broad street. SPECIAL NOTICE. City of Savannah. Office, Clerk ol Council, Dec. 17, 1904.—The following ordinances are published *for the in formation of all concerned. J. ROBT. CREAMER, Clerk of Council. FIREAVORKS. An ordinance to permit the firing of firecrackers and fireworks during the Christmas holidays as herein provided. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Sa vannah, Ir. Council assembled, that the firing of firecrackers and fireworks is hereby permitted in the city of Savan nah on Liberty street and south ol Liberty street, (except on Bull street, north of the parade ground), from Dec. 24 to Jan. 1, both inclusive, and the ordinance heretofore passed on this subject is amended accordingly. Ex- I cept as herein provided, firing of fire crackers and fireworks in the city ol Savannah is forbidden under penalties of existing ordinance. Sec. 2. The firing of firecrackers or fireworks in front or into Forsyth Park is hereby forbidden under the said penalties. Sec. 3. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed Dec. 15, 1897. BONFIRES. An ordinance to permit bonfires In the Park Extension or parade ground during the Christmas holiday. Section I. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city ol ; Savannah, in Council assembled, that • the building of bonfires in the Park Extension or parade ground, from Dec. ! 24 to Jan. 1, both inclusive, is hereby allowed. Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Ordinance passed Dec. 15, 1897. RIDS WANTED. Office Director of Public Works, Dec. 23, 1304.—Bids will be received at this office until Friday, Dec. 30, 1904. at 12 o’clock noon, city time, by the Streets and Lanes Committee, for furnishing feed as follows; No. 1 Timothy Hay, per 100 pounds. No. 2 Timothy Hay, per 100 pounds. Best quality Mixed Oats. All to be weighed at City Lot. En velopes to be marked. “Bids for Feed.” The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Perferenoe given to party who can deliver feed from one location. Bids to be opened in pres ence of bidder. PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES. Sealed projiosals will be received at this office until Friday, Dec. 30, 1904, at 12 o'clock noon, city time, by the Streets and Lanes Committee, for furnishing the city with supplies to be purchased during the month of January, 1905, such as Harness, Oils. Paints, Iron, Lime. Cement, Brick, Hardware, Tools, Lumber and such other materials as is used by this department. All proposals must be made on offi cial forms, which can be had at this office on or after this date. Envelope*) to be marked. “Proposals for Supplies.’ The city reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids. Bids to be opened in the pres ence of bidder. GEO M. GADSDEN, Director of Public Works. ARTIFICIAL STONE SIDEWALK. Office Director of Public Works, Sa vannah. Ga.. Dee. 23, 1904.—Bids will be received at this office by the Streets and Lanes Committee until Saturday, Jan. 7. 1905, at 12 o’clock, city time, for laying artificial stone sidewalk on WhitTker street between Anderson and Fortieth streets. In places where sidewalks hae not been laid. Bids to state price per square yard laid. Specification* furnished on appli cation. A certified check for SIOO to accom pany all bids. GEO. M. GADSDEN. Director <>f Work* NOTH l. City of Savannah, Office Clerk of Council, Savannah, Ga., Nov. 15. 1904. Parties desiring to retail liquor dur ing year 190$ will file Ihelr applica tion* at once, so that aatne can be read before Council In accordance with city ordinance. J. ROBERT CREAMER. Clerk of Connell- BOiLERTUBES b a WEED * CO)