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VOLUME XIX, No. 123.
Judge Nat E. Harris,
Prominent Macon Man,
Announces For Governor
Macon, Ga.— Judge Nat E. Harris,
one of Hie most prominent lawyers
of Macon, lias formally announced his
candidacy for governor. Judge Har
ris has many friends and acquaint
ances all over the state and has re
ceived many assurances of strong sup
port from ifiany sections.
Judge Harris’ Announcement.
To the People of Georgia:
It is doubtless known to many of
you that my name has been mention
ed in connection with the race for
governor at the approaching primary.
I have received warm commendations
from persons living in most of the
counties of the state, and with the
lights before me, I have determined to
enter the race.
While most of my life has been
■siient in the center of the state, yet
the geographical argument, though a
strong one, is not controlling. I would
prefer to make the race for all Geor
gia—not for any particular division
or locality. I yield to no one in my
lovo for South Georgia; it is a grow
ing empire, and Macon, my home,
claims to he a part of it. If a line
be drawn through the state from east
to west, and from north to south,
Macon would be found near the cross
ing. She stands alike for all Georgia,
and that is what 1 would prefer to
stand for in a race like the one in
question. Dade or Charlton, on the
border, is as much entitled to the
Too Much Warm Weather and Too
Little Rain in Month Just Past
Mercury on April 29th Went to 90, Just Three Degrees Under
Highest Ever Recorded Here at This Season of the Year.
Only 1.59 Inches of Rain, 1.91 Inches Below Normal.
The average daily, excess in tem
perature above the normal for* tho
month just past, according to inform
ation furnished by the monthly mete
orological summary just issued by
Local Forecaster E. D. Emigh, is 2.2
degrees. The average daily normal
, temperature for April in Augusta is
63.2 degrees, and last month the daily
mean temperature was 65.
The mont'i began with a mean daily
temperature of 59 and ended up with
a mean daily temperature of 76 de
grees. The mercury column on tlje
29th of j the month reached 90, the
highe. 1 i'ecorded. Tt has never been
over 9..' degrees here in April.- nor
lower than two - degrees below freez
ing. The minimum temperature last
month was 40 degrees. With all the
warm weather Augusta had this April
the/pecorda show that still there is ,a
deficiency of 28 degrees accumulated
since the first of the year.
While April was slightly ahead in
Engineers Fighting the Culebra Cut Slides
Now Have Less Fears That Canal
Won't Open on Time
Panama.—Rock and dirt are still
moving down the Cucaracha Slide in
to the Culebra Cut. but the engineers
who have been fighting the treacherous
slides in this vicinity are at last gain
ing upon nature. Fears that the open
ing of the canal, set for January, 1915,
would have to be postponed indefinite
ly, have been growing less each day.
for the dredges and steam shovels have
been taking out the dirt and rock much
faster than it slid into the canal.
The Culebra Slide, just to the 'south
of the Cucaracha trouble, is entirely
at rest and it is hoped it will remain
so. but the canal engineers will watch
this treacherous hillside with some an
xiety as the "rainy season approaches.
Breaks already are showing far back
from the canal prisim and these may
indicate a movement which might any
day precipitate tons of crushed rock
and dirt into the canal for the tireless
dredges and steam shovels to remove.
The coming wet season will be likely
to loosen anything ready to slide.
Dredging and hydraulic pumps are
washing away vast Quantities of loose
soil, greatly relieving the pressure
which has forced so much of the dirt
innto the canal prism. At the toe of
the slide the dredges have been busi
ly engaged in removing the dirt out of
the channel itself while far up the
side of the slide other hydraulic opera
tions are tearing at the very heart of
the hill.
Within a short time two new large
dipper dredges will be engaged. These
are the largest yet built of this type.
One already has been received on the
isthmus and is almost ready for oper
ation. At the same time the dredge
'Vorozal” will begin deepening the
channel which now averages about 25
feet, to the required 45 feet.
This deepening of thfe channel, the
engineers believe will be, a tedious oper
ation. for the weight o's the hillsides
at Gold, Culebra and Contractors hills Is
constantly forcing the bottom of the
canal upward. It la anticipated that
this will continue until the weight on
the hillsides has been sufficiently les
sened.
According to figures just compiled
there have been removed from the
canal prism between Gamboa and Pe
dro Miguel, which Includes the entire
Culebra f'ut area, a total of 27,000,000
cubic yards If dirt with a probable
6.000,000 cubic yards remaining to be
excavated.
• ——
The recent announcement of Col
George W. Goethals. governor of the
Panama Canal Zone, that there would
be no immediate reduction of the
wage scale, averyti what threatened
tp become a seisous labor difficulty.
The unions represented on the isth
mus met and formed the Metal Trades
Council and obtained strike sanction
from their parent bodies to be prepar
ed for any emergency that might arise.
No further action, however, is con
templated by the unions. It Is general
!, believed.
'Vork lias begun on landscape gar
< ning in the vicinity of Gatun Lock*
end Dam The top of the darn Is being
graded for tropical plants. The work
is being done by H. H. Re*,|, super
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
protection and encouragement of the
executive as Fulton or Bibb, near the
center.
Will Be Faithful to Trust.
If the people will honor me with
the office I will try to administer it
faithfully, honestly and efficiently.
I believe in the honesty of the pv
pie and I know they are entitled to
an honest and economical administra
tion of their affairs. As the issues
of the campaign develop 1 shall deal
with each one as it comes to the
front, in fair and frank expression,
that all the people may know exactly
where I stand.
The people are better than they arc
represented and honesty is the best
policy to follow in dealing with them.
So I have been taught—so 1 have al
ways believed. The state is so large,
and the inhabitants so numerous that
I cannot get to look all of them in the
face and talk to them as 1 would wish
to do, but my record is before you.
Whatever it is, whether it is much or
little, it is written in the history of
yOur state.
I put my cause in your hands, peo
ple of Georgia. If you honor me with
your suffrage, by giving me the office,
I will endeavor to be the governor of
the whole state .and to carry out your
will as the platform discloses it to me
—with honesty, devotion and an eye
single ift all times to the best inter
ests of the commonwealth.
NAT E. HARRIS.
Macon, Ga., May 1, 1914.
the matter of warm weather, it was
sadly deficient in rainfall. During the
entire thirty days only 1.59 inches of
any one day was but .87 of an inch,
rain fell, and the most recorded on
on the 14tli. April last year was als<*
“badly off" with respect to rainfall,
the total being only 1.92 inches. The
average rainfall in this ection for
April is three and a half inches.
It mqy be interesting to know that
since January Ist, this year, the ac
cumulated deficiency in precipitation
is nearly six inches. The farmers are
hoping for rain; they say their crops
need 1t; that the soil fs dry and dusty,
and that to furnish the proper amount
of moisture to supply the undersoil,
for the benefit of corn and cotton
especially, p. heavy rain is needed ev
erywhere in this section.
Jrfist month was the time for "April
showers,” but they were few, the only
thunderstorms occurring on the Bth
and 12th.
visor of the Fourth Division It is
planned to beautify the grounds sur
rounding all the locks just as fast as
the construction work has been com
pleted. .
The navigable reaches of the canal
will be aiowed to grow up in their
natural tropical verdures, confined
within certain limits. Already in
many places the canal looks more like
a natural water course than one con
structed by the hands of men.
At Cristobel it is proposed to build
a tropical park along the land ends of
the wharves of the Panama Railway.
Discarded canal machinery is being
sold to several private corporations in
South and Central America. Venezue
la has had a commission on the Isth
mus which purchased considerable
dredging machinery with which to
deepen several harbors. A number of
the large dredges that dug their way
through Culebra Cut have been sent to
Porto Rico where they are soon to be
engaged in harbor work. Many of the
locomotives that hauled the spoil cars
out of the cut have been sold to South
American concerns. Because of their
wide gauge they are not suitable for
railways in the United States.
BIND CONCERT
LUKE VIEW TOfliy
Augusta Military Band, Under
the Leadership of Mr. C. C.
Howard, Will Give Concert
From 4 to 6.
There will be a splendid concert at
Lake View this afternoon beginning at
4 o’clock by the Augusta Military hand
under tl*e competent leadership of Mr.
C. C. Howard. These hand concerts
are enjoyed by many hundreds of peo
ple, who go to the lake and get a
tooling off on the benches under the
Hhadn trees and within a few fee? of
the lake Itself.
The following is the program for
this afternoon:
1. March (Hall) —The Commander.
2 .Selection (Cohan) —On Broadway.
3. Hong (Fisher J —Peg o' My Heart.
4. Overture (Fllmore)—Joy to tljq
World.
6. March (Carlari—-Tleschlc.
Intermission.
6. National March (Lumpe)—Daugh
ters of America.
7. Indian Intermezzo (Murzlan).
8. llTravatore: Anvil Chorus (VerdJ).
9. overture (Rockwell) - Fires <>(
'Gold. '
Ift. Star Spangled Banner (Brooks).
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1914.
Our House furnishing
Club Plan
Is a dignified and convenient
one. It enables one to buy the same
as for cash, and pay monthly. The
small fee for carrying is almost en
tirely offset by the Purple Stamps
which we give on monthly pay
ments. Let us explain it to you.
Imported Novelties in Reed
For the sun parlor, breakfast room or porch no more beautiful dec
orated effects or practical usefulness can be obtained in light, grace
ful, reed furniture than the imported novelties that we have recent
ly received direct from the makers. Pliant of construction yet
very strong—it will live with you and yield faithful service down
through the years.
The whole arrangement of our Summer Furniture Section is, we
are told, as restful and harmonious as we intended it to be.
SIO.OO Reed upholstered Rockers ancK Chairs for $7.98
$13.50 Reed upholstered Rockers and Chairs with large
pocket on side $10.95
SIO.OO Seagrass large arm Rockers and Chairs, for.. $7.98
$15.00 Rattan Lounging Chairs, for .. $12.49
$12.50 Rattan Reclining Chairs with pocket amis, for. . $9.98
$2.50 Matting Covered Utility, Boxes $1.98
$25.00 genuine Red Cedar Chest, with tray, for $21.95
$20.00 genuine Red Cedar Chest, with tray, for '517.95
SIB.OO genuine Red Cedar Chest, with trays, for $15.95
$4.00 Jumbo Porch Rockers, made of solid oak with double
cane seats, in green or golden oak. Special $2.98
$2.50 Porch Rockers with double rattan seats, in green or
natural .. ... $1.75
$5.00 solid oak Mission Porch Swing hung in vour. porch
for *.. $3.49
An Opportunity To Brighten Up Your Floors With New Beautiful
Floor Coverings. Rugs of Thoroughly Reliable Qualities at
Jy Spring Wool Suits, Half Price ¥ ml
n * Weres23.9s to $45. Now sl2 to $22.50 \ T *
Black and Colored Silk
Dresses Greatly Reduced
Weft* $19.95 to $35, now sls to $25
ANDREWS BROS. CO.
870 BROAD STREET
A WELL FURNISHED HOME-.
Complete, Cozy, Beautiful.
Greatly Reduced Prices.
$60.00 Wilton Rugs,
sizes 9x12, for .. . $49.98
$50.00 Wilton Rugs,
size 9x12, for.. .. $35.00
$35.00 Seamless Axminsters
size 9x12, for . . . $27.50
$16.50 Seamless Brussels,
size 9x12, for .. sl3 50
SIO.OO Crass Rugs,
sizes 9x12, for $7.98
Sport Coats in Wool Greatly Reduced
Were $15.00 to $27.50, now $9.95 to $15.75
New arrivals in Taffeta and Moire Coats .. sl2 50 to $1.5.00
All that your heart desires should he yours now.
For highest grade “Quality” Furniture at Andrews—
Artistic, Correct, in the latest style—is now priced at
surprising reductions. Substantially less than usual.
$15(100 Dining Room Suite in Ma
hogany or Oak, Reduced to $119.00
This is one of our best selling suites and is built to last a lifetime. It
consists of eight pieces. A 60-inch s ideboard with large bevel mirro.*;
large China closet with mirror back, and bent glass doors on sides; a 42-
inch Hcrving table with drawer for linen; a 54-inch roung dining table,
extending to seven feet and six inches when open; and four genuine,
leather seated chairs; all for .... ..... SI 10 00
$35.00 Three Piece Mission Library
or Hall Set Reduced to $21.50
This suite is well finished and is upholstered in genuine Spanish leather.
A 54-inch settee, large arm chair and roomy rocker; special ... -827-50
Straw Mattings, measured Tor, nnd laid 25*' to 400 per yard
Estimates for Window Shades furnished cheerfully. Phone 2971.
Bamboo Porch Shades at 81 98 to 8298 Hung free of charge.
The Fight
—tor clean, salutary pillows is on. We have just received a shipment
of new sanitary, dustless, odorless, germles* Emmerich Pillows.
—"ihe kind that coax contented sleep. Your bedroom may be ever
no beautifully furnished but—if you are still using the same old pillows
you are neglecting one of the most important comforts and luxuries
of the home. We have a pillow that will meet both your wants
end your purse. Come in and make your selection early.
8 Cool Dainty Waists ,
Worthup t 051.50,0Q 0
to Close for wuu
Of whit* voile, trimmed in
. finny lace, embroidered de
signs, crochet buttons and
\((fa Vil * Square neck or
mad<} high with net yoke
» / Waists, high neck or with
* collars Half Price
y Were SI.OO to $2.98,
now to $1.50
$6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY.
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Double Purple
Trading Stamps
Before Noon
$1.50 Ginghams
Mouse Dresses,
for SI.OO
$1.50 Empire style
in Crepe
Kimonos.. SI.OO
Remnants of Em
broideries at Half
Price.
Closed summer knit
Union Suits SI.OO
50c Crepe Kniek*
erbocker Drawers,
the pair 39^