Newspaper Page Text
TUESDAY, APRIL 7.
IIS FDR THE
RESERVEBOfIRD
President Considering Well the
Men He Has in Mind to Run
Hew Money Eystom.
Washington, D. C.—By the time
filial Btrt.i* toward organizations of tha
twelve tideral reaervs hank* have
been taken —probably within another
month —President Wilson will send to
tho senate the name* of five men, who,
with the secretary of the treasury and
the ratnptroller of currency, will com
pose the federal reserve board and put
Into operation the nation's new cur
rency system. The president to date
has not determined on a single name.
He has before him data concerning
many men who have been . recom
mended as worthy of places on the
board. Information about their quali
fications and personality has been
carefully prepared for the president
so that he can begin the sifting pro
cess practically without need of fur
ther inquiry
Some Big Men,
Few people know .lust what names
are before the president, but It is ttn
derstood that names of some of tha
biggest men in the country are on the
list. One of the reasons for extreme
secrecy is the uncertainty whether
those who eventually wIU be offered
places on the board will accept. Homo
of t!\e men being considered receive
salaries of $25,000 and $20,000 a year
in their present positions and would
have to make sacrifices to tako the
board salary of $12,000.
The president has not made up his
mind definitely on the character of
the personnel of the board, but there
Is reason to believe that two men
of banking experience, two business
men with a knowledge of finance and
an economist of recognized ability
will lie named.
Not in Politics.
It is said the men on the president’s
eligible list are not prominent in poli
tics Mr. Wilson has determined that
political considerations shall not
weigh in his selections.
The president realizes the difficulty
of his task and his friends are im
pressing upon him the necessity of
making the first federal reserve hoard
a standard for the future of the coun
try's financial system.
UGH PROPERTY
CHANGED RIDS
Today Was Public Sales Day
at the Court House and Much
Was Sold. Receiver of Irish
American Bank Sells Property
A considerable amount of property
changed hand* at the court house to-,
day this being public sales day.
Irvin Alexander, Esq., receiver of the
Irish-American Hank, sold the follow
ing property:
A lot 22 feet wide by 100 feet deep
on Ellis street to E. J. Brennan for
rso.
A lot on the northeast corner of
Jones and Fourteenth streets was sold
to IV K. McAnally for $1,025.
A lot fronting 40 feet on Walton
Way was sold to C. D. Carr for $220.
A lot fronting 41 feet on Fifth street
was sold to C. D. Carr for $550.
A lot 44 feet on Reynolds street, ex
tending back to the river, was bought
by the City Council of Augusta for
$1,850.
122 feet on “Small street" was
bought by I>. G. Fogarty for $l3O.
The Cassels Cement and Gravey
Company was sold to W. H. Barrett,
attorney, for $13,000. This was a
bankrupt sale pursuant to an order
by Referee in Bankruptcy Joseph Ga
ma hi.
Property of the estate of W. C.
Walker, consisting of 245 acres and a
fraction, was sold to Hamilton Phin-
Iz.v for $1,105.
Foreclosure on property owned by
Chas. Blanchard on the Mllledgeville
road resulted in it being sold to F.
Marshall for $025.
A 40-foot lot on the Mllledgeville
■oad, as oreclosure on N. F. Hay-good,
svas bought by S. F. Garlington sot
(900.
Foreclosure on a lot owned by B,
K. King on Turpin Hill resulted in it
icing sold. Bryson Crane purchased
t for *2OO.
An automobile sold on a foreclosure
igainst the Augusta Auto Sales Com
>any was bought by R. J. Bates for
;295.
A foreclosure on property owned by
lobt. Ray, located at 1735 or 1775
"hirteenth street, was made and the
jroperty was purchased by P. F. Mc
■inally for $520.
PLANNING FOG
INION MEETING
ft Session of Ministerial Al
liance Today Decided to Use
New C. & W.C Freight Depot
A meeting; of the Ministerial Ah
limce was held at 12:30 o’clock today
li the study of the pastor of Sr. John
15 E. Church and plans were dtscuss
p< for.>he union meeting of all the
Potestant Churches to be held dally
fnm April 22nd to May 10th.
[* was decided that the night meet
ings will be "held in the new freight
d<pot of the C. & W C. Railway, on
Rivnolds Street. It will serve as an
aiditortum, seating 2,500 people. Ar
raigements will also be made to cool
th) building in case it is found to be
toi warm.
The dav meetings will in all prob
ablitv be held at the St. John Metho
dic Church.
r lie services will be conducted by
R«v Mr Wright, who will bring to
Aignsta with him a corps of singers
ant other assistatns for the great
meting. ,
"he meeting adjourned subject to
cal at any time by the president.
Ret. R. E. 1,. Harris.
WORKS TWO WAYS.
I*, -Unselfish, self-sacrificing, women
_ tioeo nve the ones that make the heat
v*iv»s!
<4!«...}<0 doubt; and they also make
the worst husbands.—Judge.
Actress Predicts Fad For Chinese
Dress
yc i&'Qijfr ... J
MISS GRACE LA RUE.
The actress, as she appeared on her recent arrival in New York
from Paris, wearing the Mandarin hat and cape, said to be the latest in
Continental ultra-fashionable styles. Miss La Rue predicts that the Chi
nese modes will become popular.
PROTEST BLOCK
BY HOKE SMITH
New Orleans and Baltimore
Assail Selection of the Re
serve Bank Cities.
Washington.—Assailing selections
of the federal reserve cities as un
fair, Representative Dupre, of Louis
iana, in tlie house today registered
a protest for New Orleans and read
resolutions recently adopted at a
mass meeting there.
Republican leader Mann said a
large percentage of people believed
the federal reserve plan had been
worked out in a partisan way: "Any
body can see," he added, "that the
lines of trade were not followed in
the designation of the cities."
Baltimore's protest was voiced by
Representative Linthicum, who de
clared Baltimore naturally was in
closer touch with St. lAtuis, Chicago
and other great cities than any other
city on the Southern Atlantic coast.
Hoke Smith Objects.
Senator Ransdeli, oT Louisiana, en
deavored to have the New Orleans
mass meetings' resolutions criticising
the reserve hank locations read in
the senate. Senator Hoke Smith ob
jected and Senator Ransdeli gave up
the attempt.
Representative Mann declared Rep
resentative Glass of Virginia, chair
man of the house banking committee,
recently made a speech in Philadel
phia in which he said Richmond would
be named as one of the federal re
serve cities.
Hardwick Defends.
Mr. Glass replied that when he
made the speech he had hoped Rich- ,
mond would be named, that it was a
matter of state pride with him and
that Richmond established a better
claim for it than had other cities.
Representatives Tribble and Hard
wick of Georgia, defended the selec- i
tions.
———
FOR GAILLARD’S WIDOW.
Washington.—The senate canals;
committee today favorably reported a j
bill granting a year’s salary to the |
widow of Col. David Halliard a mem
ber of the Isthmian canal commission
at the time of hts death. Colonel
Galllard was a South Carolinian.
IN MEMORY OF YALE MAN.
New Haven. Cann.—ln memory of
Francis Gordon Brown, captain of j
Yale’s great football eleven of 1901, |
a fund of *5,000 has been provided by |
his class mates for an honor award. |
Each year a medal will be given to i
the Junior “who most closely ap
proaches the standards-w intellectual
ability, high manhood, capacity for
leadership and service to the T'nlver
sity set by Francis Gordon Brown.’’ I
5 000 RE6ISTER
UP UNTIL TWO
Tax Collector Bohler Says That
He Thinks the List Will
Reach Not Over 5,200 By
Closing Time.
A total registration up until 2
o"clock p. m., Tuesday was, in round
figures, 5,000. Tax Collector C. S.
Bohler said at that time that he did
not think It would go over 5,200 by
closing time this afternoon. There
were about 225 to register this morn
ing and there was a steady stream
from the time the office open up until
2 p. m., with the prospects for 200
more registering this afternoon. This
is the last day.
The registration four years ago
was 5,700.
“THE"INHERITANCE of
THE SAINTS,” THEME
Evangelist, Dr. Coman Used
This Subject in His Address
This A. M. at the Oreene St.
Presbyterian.
“The Inheritance of Saints" was
the subject of a beautiful message
this morning at the Greene Street
Presbyterian Church. The evangelist,
Dr. Coman, showed from the word of
God that the Christian has inherit
ance which is incorruptible, undefiled
and that fadeth not away. Such be
ing its nature only Christian people
would desire It. He showed that ills
inheritance is not salvation for Chris
tians have that now. Christ declared
that “the meek shall inherit the
earth,”
Apostle Peter.
When the Apostle Peter speaks of
the destruction of the present order
of things he says, “Nevedtheiess we,
according to His word look for new
heavens and a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. He showed
haw that Christian people shall re
ceive back the ownership and con
trol of a world which Adam and nia
natural descendants lost in sin—and
that this world is to be purified and
delivered from all its evils.
New Heaven.
John saw a new heaven and eartb
which Christ was going to give to hit
people. Dr. Coman concluded with
the admonition that if he look tot
such things we should be dilllgent to
make our lives pleasing unto Christ
At the evening service at g the sub
ject will be, "The Soliciting Christ."
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
LEVY'S 651 h ANNIVERSARY SALE
Wise Mothers Will Take
Advantage of
Levy’s Reductions on All
Boys’ Easter Suits
to Purchase Tomorrow
0$
Kahn-Made Cloths*
Cadet Wash Suits included in these reductions.
$
THE J. WILLIE LEVY CO.
WOMAN'S DEATH
BE LOOKED INTO
Lexington, Ky., Grand Jury
Decides to Investigate Cause
of Bullet Wound in Mrs.
Simpson’s Head.
Lexington, Ky.—With the meeting
of the grand jury here today it be
came known that one of its duties
would be to Investigate the death of
Mrs. Laura Wilder Simpson, who was
found dead with a bullet wound in
her head at her residence here on
February 23rd.
Two coroner’s juries rendered non
committal verdicts and recently after
the body of Mrs. Simpson had been
exhumed for the second time, a corps
of medical experts declared that while
there was no powder marks on the
outside of Mrs. Simpson’s head these
marks were found In the interior tis
sues, proving, according to the physi
cians, that the Bhot whlcl) killed her
was discharged at close range.
Her husband asked for a special
grand jury investigation to clear up
the case.
Mrs. Simpson was formerly Laura
Wilder and was prominent In Chicago
society.
While Judge Charles Kerr did not
specifically direct the grand jury to
investigate the Simpson case, he call
ed the attention of the body to It in
the following words:
“I was requested by Mr. Simpson
to call the special grand Jury to in
vestigate the death of his late wife.
I put myself to considerable pains to
ascertain what I cotild concerning
that unfortunate occurrence and from
no source could I ascertain sufficient
facts to warrant me in taking that
step.
"Since that request was made Dr.
W'. H. Wilder, of Chicago, father of
the young woman, had an Investiga
tion made by medical experts and ns
a result the father published an In
terview saying he was convinced ills
daughter came to her death from a
self-inflicted wound. Ail these facts
are accessible for such consideration
as you may think proper to give the
matter.”
WHEN MUSCLE WAS NEEDED
It was a beautiful New Year morn
ing In th» stone age,
"Hey, Strongman," said TTairyhead,
■bend me your crowbar, will you?”
“Whatty you want with it?” asked
Strongarm.
"I want to take It home,” Inform
ed Halryhead, “to turn over a new
leaf."—Youngstown Telegram.
BOILING THE KETTLE.
Mrs. Campbell had engaged a new
maid. "Martha,” said the mistress,
on the first morning, "be cartful al
ways to boll the teakettle before mak
ing the tea.”
Martha signified her willingness,
and after an absence in the kitchen,
returned to her mistress and said:
"Please, mum, there’s nothin’ big
enough to boll the lay-kettle In. ’less
’tin the wash boiler, sure.”—National
Monthly.
The famous “ KUHN
CLOTHES” for Boys and
Children will be featured in
tomorrow’s sale, and the
selections in Scotch and
English Fabrics in the new
est, snappiest models, is un
limited.
Our apologies to those
who did not receive our
usual service during the
tremendous rush of this
morning, but we promise
prompt service tomorrow
with additional salepeople.
%
Don’t delay. These dis
counts last for Easter week
only. They mean dollars
saved to you.
ALL DISCOUNTS CASH
REVENGE
“I’ll Give You Your Money, Yar Rascal,” He Gasped.
“Take it and Get Out of My Sight.”
Mr. I.abrum strolled inn Jestlcaily
down the main avenue of llrHton Hall,
lie had owned the ball six weeks, but
he walked us if pis ancestors had
owned it for six centuries. In dress,
too, and demeanor Mr. Lahruui was
such a marvelous imitation of a
country gentleman that no one would
guess (hat he had spent thirty indus
trious and profitable, ypars In tho
wholesale sausage business at South
wark,
At a respectful distance behind him
walked his steward. Mr. Lubrum
stopped and surveyed the great en
trance gates contemptuously.
"Simpson,” railed Mr. Labrum.
“Yes, sir," responded the steward,
"Make a note to get an estimate for
replacing this gate with something
showy in gilt displaying the Labrum
arms.”
"Certainly, sir,” responded the
steward, secretly wondering whnt the
arms of the Labrum farfHly were.
Mr. luthriim paused In his proprie
torial survey of 'the village, and ills
eye rested on a small collage and gen
eral shop exactly opposite the park
gates. A red flag waving outside bore
the legend, "Cyclists' Rest.”
"Simpson,” he said sharply, "I won
der you allow that. Go in and tell
that person to remove that flag in
stantly. Besides, I can't have a shop
just opposite the hall entrance. Give
the tenant notice to quit, and tell him
that lie can have a shop In one of the
side streets of the village, but not on
the main road. I cannot have tho
picturesqueness of the street spoiled
by a. 'Cyclists’ Rest.’ Get it done at
once. I can’t have that eyesore there ”
‘'Excuse me, sir, but that shop isn’t
your property. It’s Joseph Finch’s
own freehold. It’s the one lilt of vil
lage you don’t own."
"I’ll soon settle that. He’ll know his
own Interests better than to go setting
himself In opposition to tho Hah.”
Mr. Labrum strutted across the
road and entered the dark little shop.
A mixed odor of cheese, soap, red her
rings and bacon greeted him.
An elderly man who was sitting
on a box smoking a clay pipe rose
to his feet.
"1 have merely called,’’ said Mr La
brum in superior tones, "to tell you
that I cannot allow this sort of thing
You must take down that disgrace
ful flag at once, and this shop muiff
be discontinued. It Is Impossible that
retail trade should be carried on at
the very park gates, it’s not In keep
ing with the rest of the surround
ings.”
“I’ve got to get a livin’ sotne’ow,”
replied Joe Finch.
"I take a loftier view of my respon
sibilities as a landed proprietor." said
Mr. Labrum sternly. “I will buy this
place from you, and you tan carry on
your business In some quiet corner of
this village—not, of course, on the
main street. I cannot allow a ’ey
chats’ rest’ there, |-et me know which
house you would like, and I’ll see that
the tenant moves.”
"Don’t you trouble to turn nnyone
out for me, sir,” returned the old roan
•*j doe* very well r this shop, an’ I’m
not goln’ to move."
Tomorrow
Milady can have
her Easter outfit
from Levy’s magni
ficent stock of Coat
Suits made by the
famous New York
manufacturer and
importers ‘‘J. & F.
Goldstone Co.” and
“Jas. Jonasson Co.”
at . *
Tremendous
Reductions
No specials—Entire magnifi
cent stock of distinctive styles to
choose from. Don’t delay. Call
early and get the pick.
"But 1 tel you I’ll buy tha place.
What’s your price?” .
Mr. Finch scratched Ills head and
meditated. "Well, sir, ns It’s freo’old
an’ a rare stand for business i’ I in:
summer, I should lie rohhln’ myself If
I asked you four ’undred for It.’’
"Don’t talk nonsense,” replied tho
great man. "Four hundred pounds tor
a tumble-down cottage that will fall
In on you one of these days and a
tiny patch of land, i’ll give you a
hundred pounds for It and let you
have a shop somewhere else, and that’s
a very liberal offer.”
“No,” said Joe Finch, slinking his
head, "this shop’s nty livin’. Why, of
a Bank Ollerday I’ve sold as much as
two gross o' minerals to cyclists. It’s
cheap at four 'undred, sir. There’s
tho good will of the business, you
know.”
"Listen, my man," said Mr La
brum, ”1 waul none of your insolence
You can either accept a hundred
pounds stid have a check today, or
you can refpse and lake the conse
quences.”
"Have you settled with him, sir?”
asked the obsequious steward of Mr.
Labrum outside.
"Why didn’t you warn mo, Blmp
son,” suld the great inHn angrily,
"that he was a drunken and profligate
vagabond without the least respect for
authority ?”
"I big your pardon, sir, but as lie
whs not one of the tenants, I hud
little or nothing to do with him.”
"You ought to have known. I shall
not overlook another lapse like this,
fllmpaon. Now, you are to go at once
|to my tenants !ri the village and warn
them against doing business with that
disgusting person. 1 have n. duty to
my tenantry, lie shall not demoralize
them. Warn them that If they wish
to keep their cottages they must tie
very careful, and that If l see them
| doing business there tiiey will Incur
my very grave displeasure.”
XXX
HUH, six months passed away and
Mr. Finch was not yet starved out.
Rumors spread through tile village
that he was living entirely on his old
stock, and Mr. Istbrurn congratulated
himself that In a few weeks he would
bring the obstinate old man to his
knees. However, one morning Mr. La
brum rose In the highest spirits. It
had been arranged that the Karl of
Ardmore’s hounds were to meet at
tiie Hall. He eagerly anticipate!*
meeting half the county, and his hos
pitable preparations were on the larg
est scale. At an early hour he was
astir, and directly after breakfast he
walked around his grounds to see that
everything was to his satisfaction. He
strolled down to the main gate to sur
vey the effect of the I.abrum arms In
Kilt.
To his horror, tic noticed across the
way above the "Cyclists’ Rest" a huge
inscription: “Labrum’s sausages on
sale here. Cheapest and heat.”
He was standing half-paralyzed with
rage and anger when the vicar etme
up.
“Isiok there!” gasped the potentate.
“Dear me, dear me,” said the vicar,
’’lt must ho exceedingly annoying.”
ELEVEN
"The Earl of Ardmore hlinaelf is
coming,’’ gasped Mr. Labrum.
"Well, well, he’ll take it as a Joke.
He’s a very good fellow."
"Ask him to take it down,” said Mr-
I.abrum feebly. "I can’t face the meet
with thnl there.”
The vicar went across the road.
"Finch,” lie said severely, "you must
lake down that inscription at once.”
"Not me,” said the old man; "I’m
Just doin’ wtiat you advised us all to
do lent .Sunday evenin’, ’eapln’ coals o’
fire on ’ls ’cad. ’E’s been six months
• ryln’ to ruin my business. I’m ’pipin’
’ini in ’ls. What’s there wrong anout
that ? You buy some of ’is sausages
for yourself, vicar. They are good.
I’ve ’ad some for my breakfast. Huv
I II (tike that sign down for no man."
"He’s quite obstinate,” Haul the dear
when he returned to Mr. Labrum,
"hilt don’t you worry about It. I’ll ex
plain to everybody that It’s a bit of
revenge. They’ll just laugh at It and
forget all about It. Though, between
ourselves, you've been a little hard on
him.”
“I’ll never give him Ids price,”
shouted Mr. I.abrgin. "I'll see him—"
''Hush, my dear sir,” hastily Inter
posed the vicar!
"In Hanover ftFet,” continued Mr.
Labnim, as he tramped angrily back
to the Halt Tho meet was at 11
o’clock.. At 9 o'clocg Mr. I.abrum whs
striding angrily up and down hls
breakfast rntmi At half-past he s<>
Ills steward to offer Finch two hun
dred pounds down for Instant posses
sion of the premises. Very promptly
the man returned.
“There’s no moving him, sir. He
says you know Ids price.”
Till 111 o'clock Mr. 1-nbrum strug
gled with ids feelings. Then he tore
down the drive, check-hook In hand.
"I’ll give you your money, you ras
cal,” he gasped. "Take It and get out
of my sight.’’
"Four hundred pounds,”' said Joe
Finch, examining the check minutely.
"Well, I’ve cut all my stock except
six pounds o’ your sausages But I'll'
throw ’em In. I've always tried to he
a falr-dealln’ man. They’re good sau- 1
sages, sir: If I w-as you I'd he proud
of 'em. I’ll always cat 'em myself
now. Another week, an' I should ’ave
been starved out. But, you see, sire,
It pays, hk the ol<’ vicar says, to 'cap
coals o’ fire on your enemies’ ’eads.”
Made Commissioner of
N. Y. Police By Mayor
New York. Mayor Mitchell today
appointed Arthur H. Woods, one of his
aecretaries, as police commissioner.
Mr. Woods, a voting Harvard gradu
ate, former newspaper man, skilled
investigator and several years ago a
deputy police commissioner under
Commissioner Theodore Bingham, will
take office tomorrow,
BHOULD GIVE IT UP.
Hite bought a Rembrandt while away,
A portly dame vouchsafed to say
To hapless ,me.
I am an Idiotic cove;
I had to go and ask her of Its pedi
gree,
You see, I thought it was a pup;
The social game I'd best give up.
t try to please,
Hut I am sure to get In wrong
I thought Murillo was a song.
When it's a cl>e»se.
—Kansas City JournaL