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The Weather: 3 Fair tonight and Ttiuri- dij-; slowly rising tern- ATLANTA GEORGIAN (And News) I Spot Cotton •V ,w Vork, quiet: lie. N. Orl'im, stea.lv; 10 9 16c. KavunnuU. atea.lv; loUc. VOL. V. NO. 240. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10,1907. PRICE: i JEROME DEMANDS THAT THAW BE DECLARED GUILTY OF MURDER Prosecutor Weeps While Making De fense of White. DECLARES EVELYN TOLD AN UNTRUTH J Court Room Densely Pack ed at Afternoon Session of the Trial. New York, April 10.—The address of District Attorney Jerome to the Jury today was a terrific attack on Harry K. Thaw. His bitter arraignment of the pris oner embodied all the Invective the prosecutor could muster up. Almost Ignoring Evelyn Nesblt Thaw and be littling the tragic story she told, he was determined to devote most of the time allotted to him In prejudicing the Jurv personally against Thaw. The defense has prepared eighty re quests for the embodiment of certain material in Justice Fitzgerald's charge to the jury. Forty-eight of these re quests bear on Insanity. The ifreatost disorder prevailed in side the court room for more than an hour before the district attorney be gan his address. Despite the efforts of the officers Inside the room, the • spectators who succeeded In fighting their way through the crowd outside battled for the best seats. Most of the lucky ones had been invited by persons high up In the court building and they took the rough handling to which they were subjected with no good grace. The Thaw family arrived at 11:20 n. in. Sirs. George Carnegie and Mrs. Edward Thaw sat with George L. Cars ncgle In the first row, while the Coun tess of Yarmouth, Mrs. William Thaw and Mrs. Evqlyn Thaw sat In the row behind. s Court opened at 11:32 a. m., and Jerome began his sunfmlng up In a few minutes later. Jerome Begins Speech. Mr. Jerome said: "I do not purpose to give you an oratorical treat. I have not that gift. Hut I have tried as honest as I knew how to study out the effect of the evi dence and to see whether you can ren der a verdict upon it. I assure you that on the evldenco, and on that alone, the evidence given before you under the sanctity of an oath, you are to try this case. and. as your oath says, a true verdict give. I shall endeavor to show you the evidence In this cass plainly manifest, that what this defendant did was neither justifiable nor excusable. "I nm going to show you that the de fondant was neither Justified nor should he be excused for hts act—that for the protection of the community, the de fendant should bo lawfully punished Let me endeavor to stick to my argu ment and to direct my nrgument step by step as It presents itself to me. First, we arc here to try an accusation by the grand Jury. They, on their oaths, have sold that the evidence un explained has satisfied them of the guilt of the defendant. “Not Self-Defense." “This accusation means just what the law says, that the killing of a human being, unless excusable or justifiable, is murder in the first degree, If delibera tion can be shown. Where there Is a killing with deliberate, premeditated design, to effect death, the person do- QUICK VERDIC'I EXPECTED IN TRIAL OF HARR i THA W New York, April 10.—Before District Attorney Jerome began his ad dress today to the Jury which will decide the fate of Harry K. Thaw, It was announced that the speech would be finished In less than three hoifrs. Justice Fitzgerald Is said to be ready to deliver his charge as soon as the district attorney Is through, so that the case may go to the Jury before night. A quick verdict is expected, so that Thaw’s fate may be decided before tomorrow. CITY TO Oil! Propose to Take Money From Sink ing Fund. DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME. L LIGHTS Expert’s Report Is Consid ered Before Ad journment. The sinking fund commission ot rtty will probably buy the entire Issue of $330,000 of bonds authorized by the people at the polls Tnesdoy. This la lielug seriously considered liy the commission, and h.v the fliinnee com mittee and water hoard, and ateps will probably be tnken looking to this. The bnylng of the bonds by the commis sion will mean a saving to the city of “ per cent eneh yoar—17,000 a year, and 9140, 000 during the life of the bouda, providing that the total he Issued at once. The bonds would be put on the market and the sinking fund commission would til.) anil he awarded them. The commis sion would jiay out $350,000/ on which II la now getting 2 per cent, and would take the bonila, which would pny 4 per cent. Instead of the city borrowing 9X0,000 from a bonding company and paying 4 r cent, she would borrow the same nmou from her sinking fund commission ut per cent, and on this amount the sinking fund eomiulsslou Is now drawing only 2 per eent. There la In the neighborhood of $700, ,J0 now In the alnklng fund. Of this 000 la water worka bunds. “It Is perfectly legnl," said City Attor ney Mayson Wednesday morning, “for the alnklng fund coinmlaalon to buy ont Issue of bonds. It Is here for the pur of caring for the debt* ot the city." the flrat degree, unless It can be shown that he was Insane at the time. "Justifiable here does not mean de mentia nmericana. Justifiable means 'In self-defense,’ and when a man sits quietly at a table and another pomes and shoots him down, without warning, nobody east of the Mississippi would •ay that such an act was done In self- defense. "It Wasn't Excusable.” "That It waa excusable Is absurd. There can be logically but one of four verdicts—murder In the flrat degree, murder in the second degree, delibera tion being absent; manslaughter be cause of passion, or not guilty because of Insanity. You, under our system, are the sole judges of the facts. Noth ing that counsel eays, except in eo far ax It Is supported by testimony, should Iniluence you. The law you must toko from the judge. You were ewom not to he awayed by sympathy. "Mr. Delmas has satd you are hu man and can not lay aside your In- aiinrts, you can not but show sym pathy. On the one hand you have the wife of the defendant: on the other you • have the noble boy who testified as my first witness (Lawrence White), and the widow who remains silently in Cambridge. I say If we are going Into sympathy, let It be brought to play from both sides. But I say no. Don’t allow that sympathy to affect you. "Yet. you can not have listened to the horrid story of the shooting with but having the bitterest passion •roused. On the other hand, If you be- heve the girl’e story. If you believe her story of renunciation, you can not •ut he aroused. I say there Is every element to arouse passion. But when retire you can ! lay it aside and J'dgh this as an intellectual problem. ■ on swore that you would accept the court's ruling on what constituted a reasonable doubt." Jerome then went over the questions m- had put to the Jurymen when they " 're examined. Discusses “Unwritten Lew.” ‘ hen. In regard to Insanity. Each 01 k°u remember that when you were *«om that you knew that you were to take ns the only form of Insanity ex- 1 using crime that form which the law expresgly defines. YOU were asked ki°?t ’dementia Americana'—this higher law—and you swore there was no law you would consider higher than the law of our state. Dementia Americana, which exists ■rain the Canadian border to the gulf and to Texas, particularly to the gulf— ■t waits three long years nnd glares at Dl * enemy. It waits three years until The report of the electrical engineers employed to ascertain the feasibility of the city awning her own electric light ing plant was taken up by the munici pal ownership committee of oouncll on Wednesday morning and every effort to break It down proved futile. President Arkwright, president of the Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany: W. L. Cosgrove, president of the Atlanta Gns Light Company, and George W. Brine, vice president of the Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany, were In attendance at the meet ing. question after question was fired at the engineers, Messrs. Hall and Illges, both by members of the committee and by the officials of the lighting company, but practically no errors were found In It. The report demonstrated that the city could erect a plant at a cost of $271,000 and could pay for It in six years by Just furnishing her own Btreet lights. Asked by Alderman Key. chairman of the committee, how much it should cost fu bring current from any suitable water power In a radius of thirty miles Into the city, the engineers replied that ono cent 'per kilowatt hour approxi mately would cover it. Allowing for all expenses, they said It could be brought to the lamp for one and a half cents per kilowatt hour. The prekent company, the engineers stated, charges from 7 to 12 cents. The engineers gave figures and cited reasons why the city could furnish cur rent for her street lights at $30. The present price Is $76. , President Arkwright stated that Ills company paid higher wages to linemen and other laborers than the price fig ured on by the engineers. In their re port. On the other hand, Councilman Han cock brought out the fact that the re port allowed $2.76 a ton for coal de livered. whereas the city had to pay ° n presfdent Arkwright said the depre ciation In machinery averaged 7 1-2 per cent, whereas the engineers had figured on 6 per cent. Upon learning that the depreciation figured on con sisted only of wear, he admitted that 6 pet cent was a large enough figure. The committee ndjourned at noon, to meet again at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The members of the com mittee wish to make a report to coun cil Monday on the electric light propo- sltlon, In order that theresolutlon by Councilman Longlno, calling for a bond election for *300,000 may be acted upon ** l The gas report will be taken up later. Continued on Page Seven. OPENSJXCHANGE Inauguration of Business Marked by Large Attendance. COURT’S RULING HELPS OIL TRUST Chicago, April 10.—A ruling tanta mount to winning the case by the Standard Oil Company was made by Judge Landis today. The court held the company knew It was accepting re bates against the law. but he leaves It to jury to decide Intent In accepting them and allows the company to pre sent evidence on this point. MAN AND WIFE ADJUDGED INSANE Ed S. Bobo nnd wife, Mrs. Willie Bobo, both victims of the "dope habit, were adjudged Insane by a jury In the ordinary's court Wednesday morning. It appeared from the evidence «l»t Mr*. Bobo had become addicted to the habit of using morphine while taking the drug to allay pain caused from an operation some time ago. Her husband was formerly capable of earning a good salary as a stenographer, but hod The actual buying and selling of grain was Inaugurated at the Chamber of Commerce commercial exchange on Wednesday between noon and 1 o'clock, when 10,000 bushels of grain were bought and sold within 16 minutes. The grain dealers and brokers will meet at the exchange every day for a week to trade. If everything proves successful, the practice will be contin ued. No dealing In futures will be al lowed under any circumstances. The Inauguration of the custom was marked by a splendid luncheon at the exchange, attended by many visitors and distinguished guests. The following were among those present: Mayor Joyner, President Pope, Vice’Presidents Woodward. Poxon and Foreman. Mr. Cassidy, of Montgomery; Mr. Haskell, of Columbia: Mr. FItxger- aid, of New York, and Mr. Bliss, of Ban Francisco formerly, now of Atlanta, and Messrs. Harry Schleslnger, R. J, Orme, Louis Gholstln, A. P. Morgan, W. L. Fain, W. S. Duncan, Edward E. Smith, Joseph Gregg, J. W. Stauflacher, F. R. Logan, A. C. Woolley, A. D. Adair, w. L. Peel, T. D. Meador and others. The exchange Is now being conduct ed in splendid style, and the occasion was pronounced a most pleasant and successful one. BITE OF PET DOG KILLED LITTLE GIRL After suffering two weeks at the Pasteur Institute with hydrophobia, lit. tie Lucy Hutchinson, the 28 months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hutchinson, of Rembert, 8. C., died Tuesday afternoon. About three weeks ago the little girl wss bitten above the eye by a family pet dog. at the family residence In iembert. After a week had passed her condition became worse and the family became alarmed and brought the little one to the Pasteur Institute. All attention was given the child, but the Infection liad gone too far, and it was too late to save her. The body was removed to the undertaking estab lishment of Barclay and Brandon and was sent to Rembert, 8. C.. Wednesday morning. The funeral services will be conducted there. 8TATE CAN NOT COLLECT FEES FROM BATTLESHIPS. Washington, April 10.—The secretary of the navy has been notified by the comptroller ot the treasury that pay ments made to state quarantine officers arc Illegal. Tile question was present ed by the Inspection of the battleship Iowa by Quarantine Officer Creasy, of ET 1 hi« "reason~fiom an excessive uso' Virginia, and a collection fee of $7 from of the drug. Paymaater Spear. Mayor, Gen. Manager Woodward and Pres Rice Say So. SENT MESSAGES OVER THE SOUTHERN BELL “I want to give The Georgian the credit for its splendid work on behalf of tho water bond olection. There . no doubt that the work of The Geor gian contributed largely to tho sue cessful result of tho election. As mayor of Atlanta I wish to extend the thanks of the city to Tho Georgian for its splendid services."—W. R. JOYNER, Mayor. “The Georgian did tho work, Tho election looked lost until Ths Geor gian's splendid services of Tuesday afternoon. After that, things took on a different hue.’’—COLONEL FRANK P. RICE, President of the Board of Wator Commissioners. . “There Is no doubt in my mind that the election would have been a failure if The Georgian had not urged the voter* out Tuesday afternoon by tele phone. “At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, just three hours before the polls closed, it seemed that we would meet with cer tain failure. The voting had been light and it teemed that we would not got two-thirds of the registered vote in a single ward. 'After that the voters began to come in largo numbers—ballots for the bonds went in thick and fast. I could not un derstand what had caused this chan* until I learned The Georgian had mat. arrangements with the Southern Bell to notifv every single voter in every ward who had not already come out that we needed his vote. “It was a splendid Idea and a patri otie ono. Tho victory it yours, as well as it is mine, for my efforts and the efforts of tho water board would havo been of no avail without your voluntary assistance Tuesday afternoon.”—PARK WOODWARD, General Manager. A modern newspaper's enterprise and a great telephone company’s ready aid carried the election for the water bonds Tuesday, after defeat seemed certain. It was an example of what quick thought and prompt execution can ac complish. Late In the day Tuesday the returns from the eight wards showed that the election would bo lost unless those voters who had registered carried out their first Intention and xvent to the polls. A large share of these, citizens who favored the bond Issue, had let business or pleasure keep them from the polls. At 4 o’clock there were 700 votes lacking to carry the election. The Georglun realized the necessity of prompt action, of reaching the voters Individually and making a personal ap peal to each. The Southern Bell Tele phone Company was asked for arsis tonco and W. T. Gentry, vice president and general manager, and W. B. Rob ertjq local manager and assistant au perlntendent, readily co-operated with The Georgian's plan. All the facilities of the great Bystem of the company were tendered In order that the election might be won and Atlanta given a bet ter waterworks system. >How it Was Done. The Georgian at once obtained copies of the registration lists of the various wards, the waterworks board assisting In preparing these. Reporters were sent to each polling place with Instruc tions to check off the names ot those who had already voted. The lists show ing those registered, but who had not voted, were at once dispatched to the offices of the Southern Bell Telephone Company. Here the telephone system began Its work. The telephone numbers of every voter were looked up and distributed among the operators. As far as con nections were made this message waa sent over the wires Into the ear of the voter himself—a direct appeal for him to remember to go to the polls: “The Atlanta Georgian says the wa ter bonds are 700 votes behind at < o'clock, and askt that you go at once and vote.'' Effective Service Rendered, The rapidity with which a modern telephone exchange Is operated shown by the fact that before 6:30 o'clock, half an hour before the close of the polls, 724 voters on the list had been reached and the message de livered. When the last count xvas made. It was found that the vote had grown from 1,150 at 3 o'clock, to 2,190. The necessary two-thirds of the 3,201 registered was 2,134. Only 26 votes were against the bonds. The effect of the direct appeal to voters was shown by the costing of 1,040 votes between o'clock and the hour of closing, most these coming In after The Georgian had begun Its work. This work was carried to a successful conclusion by the Southern Bell Tele phone Company without Interfering with the regular service and without causing any Inconvenience In the oper ating rooms. The long list of numbers was distributed among the many oper ators, so that each might carry on her regular duties without her customers knowing that anything unusual was going on. That the service of the Bell Tele phone Company was prompt and ef fective in carrying The Georgian's warning and appeal direct to the vot ers Is best shown by the fact that many were found today who stated that they were reached. The follow ing serve tq ttlustrate that the service carried: G. T. R. FRAZIER, 795 Piedmont avenue.—"I had intended to vote some time during the day, but put the mat ter oil until late In the afternoon. When I received the message from The Georgian saying the bonds were tn dan ger of being defeated fur lack of votes. GE 7 THE GREEN EXTRA FOR FULL ST OR YOF GA ME The Georgian's GREEN EXTRA Wednesday afternoon will contain a complete and graphic story of .the Atlanta-Montgomery game, the first contest of the Southern League baseball season to be played In Atlanta. The account will be accompanied by an accurate box score, recording every play that counts. The GREEN EXTRA will be on the streets imme diately after the final play. Buy it. Take It home. Nothing but live news In It. MRS. MURPHYS BRACELET AND ITS MYSTERIOUS LOSS The singular mystery surrounding the disappearance of the $1,200 dia mond bracelet and the veiled woman figuring In the plot to extort money from John E. Murphy when he adver tised for the return of the sparks, was recalled Wednesday when Pa‘. Hogerty was placed on trial In the Federal court before Judge Newman charged with UBlng the malls for fraudulent pur poses. Hagerty was convicted and sentenced to six months In prison and to pay a fine of $100. s IS 80 PER CENT, SAYS_ EXPER Expert Makes Report on Georgia Rail road. Boirdre Phlnlzy's Indictment agalnnt the Georgia railroad, at to tinmife condition of roadlxMl and Inadequate rolling stock, Is not upheld by the renort of the expert, .Tiifkson, chief fusncctor of rallwa Ohio. In his report submitted to the Georgia railroad commission late Tuesday nfternoon, Mr. Jackson declares the road would be rated at 80 per cent of perfection, as com pared with the roads which ho has dealt In the past six years. He says: "I have no hesitancy lu pronouncing this road safe to that degree, nud do so without fear of successful contradiction." The report Indicates that repairs are needed at certain points, but that the man agement seems to l»e doing all In Its power to put everything In good condition. The commission will adopt this report ns com pleting tho case. Commissioner O. B. Stevens accompanied Mr. Jackson on the Inspection tour. J*~ Plilnlzy did not make the trip. ACQUITTAL VERDICT IN PEONAGE CASES Jury Out Fifteen Minutos and Clears Defen dants. After a trial lasting several days, a verdict of not guilty was returned late Tuesday afternoon In the federal court In the cases against M. F. Cole, Guy Cole, Stewart Cole, H. L. Zelgler, Louis It. Robinson and J. W. Brewster. It required just about fifteen min utes for the Jury to decide upon a ver dict and outside of the government's attorneys, there were few to whom tho verdict was a surprise. PHONE! MONEY GETS HAYNES IN TROUBLE Charged with passing two raised twenty-dollar bills, George T. Haynes, of Hall county, was placed on trial In the federal court on Wednesday. It Is charged by the government's attorneys that Haynes attempted to pass one of the bills on a Marietta street barber. It Is claimed by the defense that the money was paid Haynes by his em ployer In Oklahoma and that ho tried to spend the money In good faith, not knowing It was raised. The trial was still on when court adjourned for the day at.2 o'clock and will be continued on Thursday morning. Haynes Is be ing defended by Attorney Rube Arnold and Attorney Ed Quilllan. Frank Townsend. Frank Townsend, aged 21 years, died at bis residence In East Point, Ga. Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The fu neral services will be conducted Thurs day morning at 11 o’clock at the resi dence. The interment will be In South Bend cemetery. Carriages will leave the undertaking establishment of Hil- burn & Holland at 9 o’clock. lot. 1 hurried to the polls and cost my bal- water bonds.' I am sure the election waa carried a result of the telephone messages sent to the voters of the city by The Georgian." T. A. HAMMOND, 059 Piedmont ave nue.—“I got The Georgian's message all right, and I think that move by The Georgian played an Important part In carrying the election In favor of the water bonds ” A. V. GOODE.—"I was one of those reached by The Georgian’s message notifying the voters that the water bonds were in danger of being defeat ed were no doubt a great factor In car rying the election.” LOWRY ARNOLD, solicitor criminal division of the city court: “I received The Georgian's message and I am of the opinion that the result of the wa ter bond election is due to the efforts The Georgian In sending telephone messages to the voters of the city Tuesday afternoon, urging them to come out and vote for the bonds. It was a great thing for the city, and I have heard many favorable comments upon the active Interest taken by The Georgian In the bond election.” ROBERT L. WINSLOW, 45 Shelton avenue—"I did not vote until after 1 received the message from The Geor gian saying the bonds were in danger of being defeated for lack of votes. I then went to the polls and carried with me two young men whom I met on the way. All three of ua voted fur the S SAY DETECTIVE Peonage Case Verdict Brings on Sen sation. IS EINED $16,000 BY FEOERAL JUDGE Paper Printed Unclean Ads in Famous Personal Column. New York, April 10.—After a plea of guilty to the charge of printing obscene matter and sending It through the malls had been made today In the court, fines totalling $16,000 were as sessed against James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald Company. Fines of $1,000 were entered against M. W. Glllam, manager of the Herald; $6,000 against the Herald corporation and $10,000 against James Gordon Ben nett were paid In the court room. The cases were outgrowth of the famous "personal" and red-light column which was a feature of The Herald for years. AT Lee J. Brannon Fell Under Heavy Wheels Wed nesday. Lee J. Brannon, of 721 Marietta street, s driver for the Standard Oil Company, fell from hla wagon nt IS Augusta avenue, In man Park, Wednesday morning anil re. ectreil Injuries from which be died short ly afterwards. Brannon fell from his wagon, which ran over him. lie was hurried to Grady hos pital, nnd found to bo liilfcrlng from two 00000000000000000000000000 0 WINTER JUST LINGERS; u WEARS OUT WELCOME, O Considerable delay In Issuing O ’sklddoo" orders to winter. Hhows 0 0 a disposition to Unger hereabouts 0 0 beyond all reasonable period of 0 O welcome. Temperature will not go O O below 40 Wednesday night. ■ O 0 Miss Elberta has had a narrow 0 0 escape—If she has escaped alto- O 0 gather. Forecast: 0 O "Fair Wednesday night nnd O 0 Thursday; slowly rising tempera- 0 0 ture." o 7 u. m 41 degrees 0 8 a, m. 43 degrees 0 9 a. m. 45 degrees 0 0 10 a. m 47 degrees O O 11 a. m 48 degrees O 0 13 noon 60 degrees 0 p. m 52 degrees 0 p. m 63 degrees 0 000000000000000043000000000 APPEAL TO JUDGE BY THE JURORS An alleged attempt on the part of a government secret service man to talcs members of the Jury In the peonage cases to task for acquitting tho de fendants, was the cause of a sensation on Wednesday, and of a hurried con ference between four of tho Jury in volved, Judge Newman, District Attor ney Sheppard and Assistant District Attorney Henley. Ae a result of this conference. It Is said that District Attorney Sheppard will remove the government secret service agent from the city and away from the case. Great secrecy surrounded the con ference, and District Attorney Shep pard Is said to have urged upon the Jurors concerned to refrain from giving: any publicity whatever to tho matter, i The secret service man Involved Is, declared by one of the Jurors to bal Detective Klinky, who worked up the' cases against the Coles, H. L. Ziegler,; Louis R. Robinson, J. W. Brewster and others. Met Juror* In Elevator. It Is said that while four members of the Jury that acquitted the defendants late Tuesday afternoon were going down on the elevator Klinky started a conversation concerning the verdict nnd made some remarks not to the lik ing of the Jurors. "You fellows made up your mind In a mighty short time,” the officer Is said to have remarked. "Yes,” replied one of tho four jurors, wo made our verdict according to tlm evidence nnd Hint was such ns nut tn requlro much deliberation." With most people tills would have terminated tile conversation, blit It is -aid that Klinky continued, anil de clared the Jury had everything “framed up" before It retired- He Is further al leged to have remarked that bad th« ease been tried before a Now York jury the defendants would have been convicted. "A Jury Down Hire.” "Wo didn't expect anything else from a Jury down here,” It Is said that Kiln- . ky declared, "but we could have sent them up In New York." One of the four Jurors replied to Klinky nnd attempted to defend him-. self nml tho other members of tho Jury from tho Insinuations, and It Is said that Klinky showed a disposition to get Into a difficulty with this member cf the jury. When tho elevator reached the first floor and the four Jurors left the secret' servlco man. ono of them declared: I don’t like the way In which that man Klinky talked." It was then that the other members of the party of four knew the Identity of tho man who had opened such an Indelicate discussion. The result was that this one of th« four Jurors declared his Intention ot reporting tho matter to Judge Newman. This was done nnd on Wednesday morning Judge Newman suspended tho hearing In n cosn he was trying, and. summoning District Attornoy Sheppard nnd Assistant District Attorney Henley, went to his chambers and held a con ference with tho Jurors. There the facts In the case were re cited to him. and It Is said that Judge Newman declared the conduct of Klin ky had been a grave case of eontenipt of court. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian records here etch day some BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY. The fiscal year 1906-’«7 is setting a new high record mnrk In com mercial statistics at the port of Galveston. Already the value of foreign exports for the first eight months of the year has passed by many mil lions of dollars the highest ambitions of friends of the port five years ago. The one hundred million mnrk was the pinnacle of ambition live yesrs ago. An enormous sum, but In the minds of those who had some faint Idea of the development of Texas and the Southwest. It was nut too much to expect of the port of Galveston, the great ocean deep water port for the West. Four year* ago the hundred million mark was passed and the one hundred and fifty mil lion mark set as a standard to work for. but this was not high, for that niark was easily passed during the fiscal year 1905-'06 when the port of Galveston took rank next to New York In the value of Its for eign exports. Work for two hundred millions was the slogan, but again the mark was set too low, for the present fiscal year will go over 1200,- 000,000 by a wide margin. The statistics of the port for Hie month of February, the eighth month of the fiscal yoar, bring the total value of foreign exports credited by the government to the putt of Galveston to $182,965,442, or $17,944,556 under $200,000,000. The $200,000,000 mark will be passed before tile end of March, leaving three months of the year still unaccounted for. Steam ship agents claim to have made heavy bookings for April and Jiay ship ments and are looking forward to o very heavy summer business. In the table of statistics given below, it will be noted that export values for the month of December amounted to $36,138,346. This w hs the record month of the port, and from the fact that nine years ngo the toial value of foreign exportn from the port of Galveston for a full year was but a little more than $36,000,009, the development of the Southwest, particularly Texas, Is shown to have been most remarkable. Following is a statement n< foreign export values credited to Galves ton for the first eight months of the present fiscal year: Month. Value. July $ 3,127,62$ August - 6,673,002 September is, 944,901 October 29,821,833 November 29.913.862 December 36.838.346 January i 81.99s,is.; February 24.737.737 Total, eight months .$182,035,442