The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, January 24, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE AUGUSTA SUNDAY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 24. BURTON-TAYLOR-WISE CO., if- Monday Morning Starts Another Record Breaking. Week of Low Prices. With New, Fresh Merchandise Rapidly Arriving, Which Have Been Bought Through Careful Study and a Close Watch Over the Market. Many Have Been Secured Under the Market Value of To=Day. Orders Have Been Placed On Many of Them for Some Time Past and You Can Readily See From the Following Quotations That Prices Are Below Actual Value; There Are Some Limited in Quantity. Take Advantage of It Early A Few Specials Broken lots of Men’s 50c Heavy Fleece Lined Drawers, at ...... ... i... ... ..' • 25 per cent off on our entire stock of Blankets and comforts. Entire stock of lace curtains reduced to Half Price. One lot of C. B. Corsets, worth from SI.OO to $3.00 reduced to Half Price. Not soiled, fresh and in the boxes. Sheets, Sheeting and Spreads 72-inch good weight smooth unbleached Sheetings, jg^ 72x90-inch good smooth Bleached Sheets, (seamless) 49c Extra size, heavy spreads, $1.25 value, Qg g 36-inch good heavy Sea Island, gp See the Fine Display of New Muslin Underwear, all displayed o n the Center Tables, Marked in Plain Figures. Commencing with Children’s Pants, 2 to 12 years in. old, at • lUk Ladies’ Corset Covers and Pants, large lot to select nr from, at • ...... . . . Zwu Also fine line beautifully made and trimmed, jj Nice line of Ladies’ Tucked Skirts, 49c MR. B. H. HARRIMAN WILL BE GUEST OF COUNTRY CLUB Great Railroad Magnate and Financier Will Re turn To Augusta Monday. Mr. E. H. Harriman if New York, president of the Union Pacific railroad, pre-eminently the world’s greatest rail road magnate and captain of industry, has accepted an invitation to attend a reception that will be given in his hon-, or at the Country Club next Monday night, under the auspices of the club. Mr. Harriman leaves Augusta at 2:45 o’clock Sunday afternoon on a special train for Savannah, where he will re main over night. He leaves there early Monday morning for Atlanta, whither he travels over ti»e main line of the Central railroad, in a special train. He will return to Augusta Monday after noon, for the sole purpose of attend ing the reception. President L. C. Hayne, of the Cham ber of Commerce, has In hand the mat ter of arranging all details for the oc oaslon, which have not been as yet been completed, as Mr. Harrlman's accept ance was only secured Saturday night. It is safe to say, however, that the event will bring together a splendid gathering of Augusta's most represen tative and prominent citizens. Mr. Har rlman's acceptance of the Invitation is regarded as especially significant of the fact that he is deeply concerned in Augusta's material and her permanent development. During me course of the evening, he will probably be called upon to make an address In which It may be expected that he will dwell at length upon the future of the south commer cially, and of the part this section Is to play in the development of the resource and industries of the world's greatest nation. Mr. Harrlman's visit to Aiken and Au gusts, while brief, has been altogether pleasant and the reception In his honor Monday night will be a fitting recog nition gy Augusta's social and commer cial organisations of America's most powerful giant of clmmsrce. Augusta's climate has delighted Mr. Harriman. and It Is deemed a tribute to the city that he accepted an invita tion which in a measure Interfered with plans previously arranged. Mr. Harriman entertained twenty friends at luncheon at the Hampton Terrace hotel Saturday, among whom were a party from Aiken, where he is A Beautiful Lot of New Ruchings, New Neckwear, New Beltings, New Gloves, New Hosiery. widely acquainted among the colony of winter visitors, and where several rel*> atives reside during the tourist season. Major Mason, president of the Central of Georgia, railway, was in the city al so to attehd. HARRIMAN HAS TIEDEMAN NONPLUSSED Will Mayor Take Oath of Office or Will He Enter tain Financier ? SAVANNAH, Ga. —The acceptance of an invitation of the mayor and aldermen of Savannah by Edward H. Harriman, to come to Savannah, has caused an unusual tangle. Mr. Harri man wired that he would be glad to come and would be in Savannah from 12 to 2 on Monday. At that time Mayor Tiedeman will be taking the oath of office and begin his new ad ministration as mayor. He faceß tho dilemma—shall he entertain Harri man or take the oath of office? HIIIIII NOT HPT TO GET MONETEHGK WASHINGTON—That President P.oose velt's recommendation for an appropria tion to reimburse E. H. Harriman for the expenditures of about $2,000,000 by the Southern Pacific railway company to control the overflow of the Colorado river into Salton Sink a few years ago will be disregarded by congress now ap pears probable. Hearings on this rec ommendation have been conducted by a sub-committee of the senate committee on claims. The President's message is before the sub-committee. Considerable opposition to making the appropriation was raised by Senatot Smoot on tha. ground that the southern Pacific railway company spent most of the amount claimed in protecting its own property and the property of the California development company In Southern California, which is said to be controlled by the Harriman interests. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1909. New Fresh, Crisp Wash Goods At Astonishingly Low Prices. 36-inch New Motor Suitings, in both stripes and solids, the very thing for an early Spring wash suit, line line of | e ~ 36-inch 15c and 19c colored Madras, for shirts, shirt waists, boy's waists and children’s dresses. lQc 36-inch 12y>c Percales, I Or' clt ". , * Remnants of 12y 2 c 36-inch Percales, 7^c Entire Stock of New Standard Spring Calicoes, r at • Prices On White Goods That Cannot Be Bought Ordinarily, and To Be Secured Must Be Taken Advantage of At Once at IOC 36-inch 1214 c White Pajama Checks, soft and nice, |rk elegant for children’s wear, at IUC 40-inch White Lawns (limited), _ at .. .. White Check Nainsook, -* fl / at OY2C 34-inch Fine Sheer White Persian Lawns, special |a lot while they last, at k . * lUC 36-inch 25c Soft White Nainsook. This is a rare AAn opportunity, at • ... I T'C 36-inch Sheer Fine White Linen Lawns, in this sale at ZOC VETERAN DIES AFTER NECK WAS BROKEN SECOND TIME. Special to The Herald. ATLANTA, Ga.—After living 17 years wittr a broken neck Frank Carter, a former Union soldier 60 years of age, accident ally fell in his room at 120V4 Whitehall street, Friday night shortly after seven o’clock and for the second time broke his neck, which proved fatal.. Car ter broke his neck the first time in an accidental fall in the north west, in 1892. He lay for a long while in a nervous and serious condition. Finally he recovered. The accident left him deformed. In the fall Friday night he struck his head against a chair and it is supposed the old wound gave away. FIVE MEN INJURED IN AN AUTO WRECK Special to The Herald. MARIETTA, Ga.—While near here Saturday afternoon the steering gear of Joe Session's automobile refused to work and the car was thrown into a deep ditch. The following were injured: Henry Bishop, three ribs broken. Northcutt, broken collar bone. Sessions two flingers broken. Esmo Ward and William Cooper were bruised. Tlie car was demolished. HUNDRED THOUSAND FOR GREAT AUDITORIUM WASHINGTON.—NearIy one hun dred thous and dollars was subscrib ed at a public meeting here Saturday towards the erection in this city of a great auditorium building, one of the objects of which is to accommo date the numerous conventions of na tional and International character which meet annually in the national capital. Secretary of State Root, Assistant Secretary Bacon and other public men participated. Fifty well known business men have signed articles of incorporation for the proposed build ing under the title of the National Auditorium Company of Washington. DR. HEIDT DIED SUDDENLY IN ATEip Presiding Elder of This District Passed Away Suddenly on Saturday Afternoon. Rev. J. W. Heidt, D.D., Presiding Elder of the Augusta district, of the North Georgia Conference, of the Methodist. Episcopal Church, South, died suddenly Saturday afternoon, while talking to his wife at his home in Atlanta. Dr. Heidt had been sick for two weeks, but he was thought to be rapidly improving and was sitting up Saturday when the it'd came. Dr. Heidt was 66 yea\s old and well preserved. He was me of the best known ministers in the state and was high in the councils of the church. Dr. Heidt is survived by a wife, five sons and one daughter. Four of his sons are officers in the U. S. regular army. Funeral ar rangements will not be made until they are heard from. His daughter is the wife of Judge Calhoun of At lanta. Dr. Heidt had been secretary of the North Georgia Conference for 37 years. His death will cast a gloom over the Methodists of the state. He was once president of the La Grang? Female college and president of the Georgetown, Texas college. He was a delegate for many years to the General Southern Methodist confer ence. He had held the most Im portant pastorates In the slate and at the time of his death held one of the secretaries of the General con ference and would have In all prob ability been re-elected to the position this year. Dr. Heidt wan bom In Macon. In the year 1841. He entered Emory College while a young man and after graduat ing IXSB, took a course in law at tho University of Georgia graduating with the class of 1880. Admitted to the bar, he was made solicitor of the Savannah circuit but gave up law a short while CHAS.P.TAFT TALKS ABOUTUBEL CASE Says He Did Not Start or is Not Pushing Panama Canal Libel Case Against Papers. SAVANNAH, Ga. —“l have had no hand in the prosecution of the alleg ed panama canal libel case," said Charles P. Taft, brother of the presi dent. elect who with the brother In law of president Roosevelt was re ferred to in a pointed way in regard to the sale of the canal to the United States. “I simply was subpoenaed and I testified before the grand jury, buit I did not start and am not. push ing the case, though the publications were certainly libelous.” Mr. Taft with his wife and daugh ter are here guests of Mr. and Mrs George J, Baldwin and are on their way to Cuba. “My brother has had the time of his life In Georgia,” ho said. LOSS AT PRINCETON $70,000 PRINCETON, N. J.—Revised esti mates of the loss caused by the fire here early today places the figures be tween $60,000 and $75,000. The ten buildings destroyed were small frame affairs. and Joined the Georgia Conference. Jn 1886 he went with the North Georgia Dl vialon of the Conference when the North an South Conference separated. In 1880 Dr. Heidt wan choeen presl dent of the CaGrange Female College at LaGrange, which poaltlon he held for five years. Me then accepted the posi tion of regent of the Southwestern Uni versity at Georgetown, Texas. From 1877 1889 he was pastor of Trinity Church. Returning from Texas he again filled this pastorate for a year. In 1894 he went as delegate to the General Conference at Memphis and was secretary of the conference. In 1902 he went In the same capacity to Dallas and In 1906 to Birmingham, at both places acting as secretary. Dr. Heidt was president of the boar,. of trustees of Rhlnehnrdt Normal :V bool at Wnleskn, Gn., ivtd contributed mueh to the growth of the school. He was also a trustee of Wesleyan Female Col lege at Macon. THE SATISFACTORY STORE. New Embroideries We feel perfectly safe when we say that we think we are show ing the best line for the prices that has ever been shown in Au gusta, and the following prices, if once examined will speak for themselves: 15c 20c and 25c Pine Dainty Match Sets in both Swiss, ia Nainsook and Cambric, at one price IUC 6 to 10-inch Swiss and Cambric Edges and Insertions, ia. Avorth up to 20c and 25c, at • IUC 50c and 75c Wide Swiss Edges and Bands, nn. in one lot, at • Z Ju SI.OO to $1.25 All Over Shirt Waist Embroideries, gg^. Fine Showings in the Ready-To-Wear Department. Beautiful New Waists, in Linen and Lingerie, some plain and some embroidered. See our display before buying. We can save you big money. New Crisp Voile skirts, large assortment, beautifully trimmed, in the lot are a few more of those Manufacturers* Samples, all fresh and up to date, regular price $12.50 ff»-r nn and $15.00, our sale price is only p 1 .30 New Silk Petticoats, just, arrived, good heavy Rustling nn Taffeta, $5.00 values, in black and colors, at mJiJO Broken lot of Fancy Panama Skirts, just the thing for early Spring, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 and SIO.OO values, Qn at one price, to close SHIP FLORIDA COLLIDED WITH LINER REPUBLIC Passengers taken Off. Both Vessels Badly Damaged by Collision. The Repub lic Was Abandoned At Sea. NEW YORK.—Grave anxiety pre vailed here Saturday and Saturday night, as the result of the thrilling maritime drama being enacted off Nantucket, on the coast, of New Eng land, following the ramming early Saturday of the big White Star line:- Republic with 761 souls aboard, by the steamer Florida of the Lloyd— Italian line. The wireless telegraph plays an Important part, in the grave Incidents happening at sea, far from the shore and proved its utility as it had never done before. Bit by bit it told the tale, first an nouncing the news of the collision and the plight, of the liner, which news came direct fro mthe Injured ship Itself. Then It told of the res cue of the Republic's passengers, the condition from time to time of the sinking ship and finally summoned from the adjacent seas the White Star liner Baltic, the French steam er La Lorraine, the Cunarder Luca nla, and the revenue cutters Acush net and Gresham. Saturday night at 8 o’clock the wire less brought reassuring news from Captain Ransom of the steamer Bal tic. He said that the Republic was still affoat; that the Florida, with her own people and most of those from the Republic 'aboard, close to 2,000 souls In all, was nearby, and that the Baltic was near the scene, standing by, ready to lend aid. The Hteamprs La Ixirralne and Lucanla, Captain Rnnsont said, were also In the vicinity and the Republic, through her wireless outfit, was directing the movements of the ships of rescue. It. is presumed here that the great load of human freight aboard the Florida will be transferred during the night, weather permitting, to the three staunch liners, and that all the ships will stand together until reve nue cutters and wrecking vessels, wnlch have been despatched, can reach the scene The Florida has her bow crushed in, wireless message stated tonight, whlcn would Indicate that she was the vessel that crashed DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. into the Republic early this morn ing in the thick fog, and caused the latter’s plight. The fog Is still heavy Saturday all along the coast, but the weather Is mild, and there is comparatively light wind and sea, a blessing in the face of the serious situation. A harbor steamer, the Gen. Putnam, has been chartered, and is awaiting at the White Star pier ready to steam to sea to meet the Florida or any other vessel that may bring the rescued passengers to port. The idea is to have the steamer meet the rescue ves sels in the lower bay, take off the shipwrecked passengers and bring them to the city where they will re ceive every care. The White Star offices will remain open through the night and all of Sunday for the purpose of expediting relief matters and keeping the public informed of the situation. Among those on the Republic were James B. Connolly, the writer of sea tales; and Alexander S. Bell AUTOMOBILE FACTORIES RUNNING TO CAPACITY CLEVELAND, Ohio.— In marked contrast with the business depression which prevailed a year ago the au tomobile factories In this city are now being operated to their full ca pacity. In some Instances plants are being worked overtime. At the pres ent rate of output It is estimated that fully $21,500,000 worth of automobiles w,.i be turned out by Cleveland man ufacturers during the present year. More than 5,000 men are now em ployed In the automobile factories here. DR. BULL WILL LEASE LATE J. H- ESTILL HOME SAVANNAH, Ga.—A telegram clos es the lease for Dr, W. T. Bull, the famous cancer specialist, who Is him self 111 with that disease, of "Wym berly," the beautiful country home at Isle of Hope of the late Colonel J, H. Estlll. Dr. Bull will leave New York on January 30, and will remain here for two months. He will be brought down fro mthe North In a private car and special arrangements will b« made here for his reception.