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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD READERS AND ADVERTISERS ALIKE GET BEST RESULTS OUT OF THE AFTERNOON PAPERS OF THE COUNTRY- THE HERALD IS A STRIKING EXAMPLE. VOLUME XIV., No. 70. LEVEE IMPRACTICAL, SAYS COMMISSIONER WINGFIELD Report Shows That Cost of Levee Would be About Three Mil lion Dollars OTHER DIFFICULTIES Would Cost Six Hundred Thousand For Property Before Work Could Be Commenced. Could* Better Strengthen River Banks. Mr. Nesbit Wingfield, commission er of public works, says that to build a levee around Augusta for protection against tlood . damage is impractical, as it would necessitate the expendi ture of a stupendous sum of money, perhaps not less than three million dollars. A report, on the levee, which Com missioner Wingfield has been prepar ing for a week or ten days, is now about ready for the flood commission, and ,if it goes into detail as far as they desire, the commission will prob ably be called together at once. Mr. Wingfield says: “A levee like the one recommended by Col. King man and Major Harrod is, ii> my opin ion, impractical, as it would cost too much. It would be necessary for the city to purchase real estate to the value of six hundred thousand dol lars, before work could even be start ed on the levee itself. It is no small task to raise between two and three million dollars.” REMODEL RIVER FRONT. To make room for a levee, contin ued Mr. Wingfield, it would be neces sary to remodel everything along the river front, from Hawk’s Gully to Washington street. "The most logi cal route of a levee,” said he, “above McKinne street, would be the route taken by the tracks of the Charles ton and Western Carolina railroad. To eo outside of that would be to build a levee right in the river, and that is practically out of the question. And below McKinne. street a levee would come in contact with every bufclding on the river bank, compress es, Riverside Mills, cotton warehouses and everything else. It would, there fore, be necessary ■to set them all back to make room for the levee.” The construction of the levee from Center street to the mouth of Butler’s creek would not involve any property cf exceeding high value, said Commis sioner Wingfield. TWO PLANS FOR PROTECTING CITY. Leaving a levee out of corjsidera tion as impractical Commissioner Wingfield has two plans for protect ing the city from flood. One is to elevate the canal banks from the locks to the upper cotton mill dis trict and pave Hawk’s Gully; while the other is to strengthen the bank of the river for several miles ana build flood walls across the end of every street In the city that term inates at the river. "I think when that is done, Au gusta will have gone as far as she can toward protecting herself from floods,” said he. ‘‘ln either instance, it would be of the utmost importance to provide better drainage to the south of the city.” FIFTEEN INJURED IN BIG COLLISION Pennsylvania Locomotive and Street Car Ran To gether in Fort Wayne. FORT WAYNE, Ind.—ln a collision of a Pennsylvania locomotive and a street car fifteen passengers were In jured, one seriously. The street car was demolished. FIVE MEN BURIED IN SEWER CAVE-IN HAMILTON. O.—Five men were buried Thursday in a sewer cavp-in. The contractor says probably all of them are dead. SALESMAN COMMITTED SUICIDE. NEW YORK. —After addressing a note to a friend which said he was tired of life, Leonard J. Wallace, a pitsburg salesman, committed suicide Thursday morning with gas. THE WEATHER. For v Augusta and vicinity: CloutrJ.onight. Friday rain. For South Carolina: Fair to night; fair in east, rain in west portion Friday. For Georgia: Fair in east, rain and warmer in west portion to night. Friday rain. FEWER PEDPLE AT COOPER TIL Robin Cooper’s Sister Again in Court To Hear Washington’s Argument. Mrs. Carmack Too 111 To Appear. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The attend ance at the Cooper-Sharp trial showed a decrease at the opening hour, and when General Washington resumed his argument for the defense there were many vacant seats. These filled up, however, as the day advanced. Mrs. Lucius Burch, Robin Cooper's sister, who collapsed yesterday, was in court today, bravely attempting to cheer and encourage her brother. Mrs. Carmack did not appear. She was too ill to leave her room. “When court adjourned Wednesday,” said General Washington, “we had reached the point when Carmack had become editor. The position of editor is an important one, and it rises with the ability and importance of the man. If he be incompetent, people content themselves with reading the news and advertisements and care nothing for the editorials. But when a man of national reputation emblazons his name at the head of a paper, then people do read and believe. COOPER NOT A CANDIDATE. “The campaign came on. Colonel Cooper was not a candidate for any office. Governor Patterson was.” General Washington came to the ed itorials of October 21. He admitted that Carmack had the right to write an editorial about public men. “But, when he stepped over the bounds,” saTd General Washington, “and began an attack upon a private citizen, he exceeded his rights. The state would have you believe that these editorials were harmless. Oh, yes, it is all right to put John or Bill Jones or Sam Brown’s name into the paper on the same page with the name of a horse thief or convict, and its all right. But when they put your name in that position, why it does make a difference, and if you have any red blood in your veins you are going to r'-sent it. It makes' all, the difference iu the world whose ox is gored.” DENOUNCED EDITORIALS. General Washington devoted nearly an hour to a bitter denunciation of Carmack’s editorial of October 21. This editorial calls attention to the statement in the American from Rip ley, which said that Patterson men were advocating trading Bryan for Patterson votes. Then the editorial called “the attention of Hon. Ban Mur ray, Hon. Dune Cooper, Hon. Max Hartman, and Hon. Sol Cohen,” to this report. Washington vigorously explained that two of the honorables named ' were disreputables and that when Carmack associated Colonel Cooper’s name with theirs he committed the gravest offense a man could commit and affronted and insulted Cooper be yond endurance. “But the state says no editorials ever written jsutifies the killing of a man. We agree that this is true. We are only trying to show how they aroused Colonel Cooper’s anger and to explain his mental con dition. HAD RIGHT TO STOP EDITORIALS. "We contend, gentlemen, that Col onel Cooper had as much right on Seventh avenue that day as Carmack had. And Colonel Cooper had a right to go up to Carmack and de mand that these filthy attacks upon him be stopped, just as r believe any man on this jury would have done. “But Colonel Cooper said nothing until the election was over. He thought when Patterson was elected assaults and mud slinging would cease. But on Sunday, November 8 there appeared a n edtiorial 'Across the Muddy Chasm’ that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. You can pile things o n a bridge, you know, until finally the last article breaks it down. RIDICULE PUNISHABLE. “The state says this Is only a ridi culing editorial. Well, what of It? You can drive a man insane with ridicule. You can send a man’s son Into frenzy by ridicule and ridicule Is libelous and punishable with impris onment.” General Washington read "Across the Mudy Chasm” editorial, and laid special stress upon the frequent use of the word "Major” instead of "Col onel," and called the Jurors’ attention to it. “He used Colonel Coopers name several times in this editorial, gentle- ATJGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 11, 1909. EDWARD H. HARRIMAN v i \ J i I* f ’ 5 - § x l \ I 1v * I JLi B&jrlly iBI v, & IfiU I n fir | VV 1 Snapshot of Edward H. Karrintan, the noted railroad man and financier. It was taken at Mr. Harriman’s camp in Texas. He gained seven pounds the first week he was in the camp. men,” the speaker shouted. “Four times in black type. The Colonel was angry. He had a right to be. His family were ashamed, his friends an noyed, his name was bandied over the state. “This man was wild with anger over the insults. He wanted to do something, he knew not what. But that man is no murderer, you Ifnow it. Murder does not run in that breed, that aristocratic old blue blooded family. He has an engage ment with Craig about a debt he owes Craig. He tells Craig he has not the money just now. Then know ing Craig is a friend of Carmack he tells Craig of the insult and he uses violent language. So would you, any one of you. HAD RIGHT TO TELL CRAIG. “Gentlemen, I tell you, you will not put a noose around the heck of any man for doing what you would have done under similar circum stances. No jury, thank God, ever did, and no one ever will. Now maybe Colonel Cooper did say to Craig, ‘lf my name appears again in the Tennesseean, one of us must die,’ or 'The town will not he big enough for both of us.’ I do not care which yon select. They both mean the same. “But, Craig comes back and says, ‘Colonel, I can do nothing.’ He may or may not have said, ‘Carmack is in an ugly humor.’ Colonei Cooper says he did and I believe he did. But if he did not, silence after that phrase of the Colonel, I can do nothings told more than all words in the world.” CARMACK DECLARED WAR. “But what does Carmack do? he arms himself. He fears the note Colonel Cooper threatened to send will not come.’ lam going to make him send me that note.’ So he wrote in his last editorial, ‘The diploma! of the Zwoibund.’ ’He continued, ’Well, Carmack wrote ’The Diplomat of the Zweibund’ and thus declared opened war. He did it to declare open war and to compel Colonel Cooper cither to let him alone or to approach him upon the street. He knew that with those crumbled fingers Colonel Cooper could not pull a trigger, he knew he was safe.” NEGRO KNOCKED ANOTHER’S EYE OUT • Tom Rfale, a negro Friday assault ed Alfred Blair, a negro at Mr. Tom Layton’s store about five miles out on the Louisville road. The negro was beaten with a loaded stick. He was carried to the Lamar hospital, where his right eye was taken out. The end of the stick had penetrated the eye, and the sight was goire. Blair is resting easy at present. Up to the present time Beale has not been located Blair was lying at full length on a bench at the time he was struck- Hi SUFFRAGE KILLED II IOWA ' DES MOINES, lowa.—Equal suf frage met defeat in the state senate thus disposing of the woman suffrage movement at this session. CITIZENS BANK TO MOVE DOWN TOWN It is learned that at a recent meet ing of the board of directors of the Citizens Bank it was definitely de , elded to move the headquarters of . that institution further down town, probably to one of ttvi buildings on the seven hundred block of Broad street. The exact location is not known. When asked about the reported change, Mr. p. S. North, president of ithe Citizens Bank, and Mr. C. E. [ Dowling, cashier, virtually admitted It | was to be made, although they stated | that final steps would probably not Ibe taken in the matter for a week or so. It Is thought that as soon l as satisfactory arrangements can be j made, the bank will move Us offices down to the heart of the city, in the | center of the banking district. Although the youngest bank in the city, the Citizens has pushed rapidly to the front. Its growth in the past year has been remarkable, and the (act that a change of location Is contemplated shows that its Increase in business has been substantial and profitable. ’ EARLY MORNING FIRE AT DAVIDSON TODAY The house' on the old Davidson homestead at Davidson’s formerly known as Davidson’s Crossing burnt to tho ground at an oarly hour Thurs day morning. The fire wns from soma unknown cause, and burned fiercely until the house was destroyed. The total loss was about $2,000. The house was occupied by Mr. Lu ther Miller. He lost all his house hold effects. They were valued at several hundreds of dollars. The house was the old Davidson home place and has been used by different members of the family for many years. The house was built out of the finest timber, and although the fire burned fiercely it took a long time to destroy the timbers. The house was valued at $2,000. TWENTY AUTOS IN ENDURANCE RUN NEW YORK. —Twenty automobiles started ai six-thirty Thursday morn ing for an endurance run to Boston. The first car Is due to arrive there at elx-thirty nine p. m. STRONG KICK IS MADE ON TAK ON COFFEE Republicans Declare That if the Breakfast Table is Taxed They Cannot Carry Their Districts Next Election. WASHINGTON. No legislative measure has been so carefully guard ed as the tariff revision bill, now practically ready for introduction on the first day of the extra session. The proposition which has given the committee most concern and which has been most difficult to determine, is apian to tax coffee. Some repub licans declare that t/xing of the break fast table would make it impossible for the republicans to carry their dis tricts in the next election. The National Coffee and Tea asso ciation, in a communication to the committee, wrote that a tax on coffee or tea “would be unjust to the con sumer, detrimental to trade, irritating to the masses, and finally, will fall to produce any material /evepue to the government for nearly two years.” “A duty of five cent's upon coffee would mean an immediate profit of at. least 56.50 per bag upon every hag iu United States to the owners there of,” is the claim made in brief. “There being nearly 4,000,000 bags at present held here by individuals, corporations, and Wall street specu lative Interests, such a duty would mean a profit of $20,000,000 to the owners and holders thereof. But il would not mean one dollar paid into the United States treasury,” MOTION FOR NEW mi m mil A motion for a new trial in the case of J. J. Dunn, who waa recem iy found guilty of violation of the pro hibition law was filed by Attorney Austin Branch Thursday. The mo tion sets forth statutory grounds, while the bill of exceptions sets forth the exact cause. The bill of excep tions has been approved by Judge Eve. The date for the hearing has not been set. Mr. Dunn claims that the jurors or the panel of jurors, twenty-four, were put on their voire dire over his objection. Further than that when put on their voire dire, the voire dire oath was not administered to them. He claims further that when the Jury to serve on the case wa3 picked, he objected to being tried by that jury, on the grounds above stated, and that, the trial proceeded over his objec tion . Judge Eve approved of the bill of exceptions and ordered that it. Be en tered on the minutes of the court. He has not set a date for the hearing of the motion. Mr. Dunn was lined $750. WILL RAISE OLD CONFEDERATE BOAT Plans Being Made To Have Relic Placed on Lawn of Confederate Home At New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS.—Thai arrange ments have been completed to raise the first torpedo boat, of the Confeder acy from the bottom of Lake Pont chartrain, was announced at a meet ing of the old Confederates here Wed nesday night. The boat Is lying near a Spanish fort, where It went down years ago. It Is proposed to place this vessel on the lawn of the Con federate Soldiers’ Home in New Or leans. LIBERIA COMMISSION IS NOT YET FORMED Not Known Whether Booker T. Washington, Ogen and Hollander Will Act or Not. WASHINGTON. —It Ib not known at the state department whether Booker Washington, Robert C. Og den and Jaeob H. Hollander will ac cept the appointments on the com mission created by congress to In vestigate conditions in Liberia. As goon as definite Information is re celved from each of these proposed members final appointments will be made. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. BOYCOTT DELI ILLEGAL M COURT Opinion Against Goinpers Modified By District Court of Appeals, but Re striction Against “We Don’t Patronize’’ List Stands. WASHINGTON. The court of ap peals of the District of Columbia lias modified and affirmed ttie opinion of Justice Gould, of the supreme court of the District, enjoining the Airier ican Federation of I .aher, Samuel Gompers and other defendants, from publishing in the “We Don’t Patron Ize” list the name of the Bucks Stove and Range company of St. Louts. The opinion holds that the decree of Judge Gould should be modified to the extent that, there should he elim inated from the decree the restric tion of the labor organization and oth er defendants from “mentioning, writ ing, or referring” to the business of the Bucks Stove and Range company or its customers. Otherwise tho de cree is affirmed. The court holds that a “combina tion” and a boycott in furtherance thereof and tho publication ip “Wo Don’t Patronize” in aid of the boycott is illegal. SAYS CHLOROFORM HEATH SEITEICE PRISONERS ATLANTA, Ga.~General U ?(J. A. Evans, commander in chief of tho United Confederate Veterans, and chairman of the prison commission of Georgia adoeat.es choloformlng crim inals who have received the death sentence. Gen. Evans hail already qualified his statement on the subject by de claring himself opposed to capital punishment for any crime save that of attack upon women. A. I. E. E. BANQUET. NEW YORK.—A brilliant banquet is on the tapis Thursday night at the Hotel Astor, the occasion being the anniversary of the American insti tute of Electrical Engineers. The society which embraces the most noted electrical engineers in Up country, was founded in 1884. its first, quarter century has been very successful. The engineers will bo accompanied by their ladles. A telephone call sent to fire head quarters at f 1.55 o'clock Thursday morning called the engines to No. 1242 Campbell street. Tho fire was caused by spnrkH failing on the roof. The damage was sl. The house was owned by W. M. Williams, colored. Wrote Suspected Assassin’s Name on Floor With Blood MEMPHIS.- Because she suspected who assassinated her husband and feared he would return to kill her, thus removing the only witness, Mrs. Ghannell, whose husband, a prominent farmer, who was shot through a window while at ills suppor table a few nights ago, dipped her fingers in her dead husband’s blood and wrote on the floor, “Ernest illli,” then fled In terror to her neighbors for assistance. The widow claims that a quarrel between the men over a farm Im plement furnished the motive for tho killing. Hill Is under urrost and emphatically denies the charge. MARY OARDEN-THE BEAUTIFUL AND HONEST. “Too much Is hidden.” says Mary Garden —and It Is an appeal for honesty. The advertising world has gone far to establishing the cus tom of honest openness. The tilings of darkness are not advertised. Advertising means publicity, and publicity means openness to tho sunshine of public opinion, which kills germs. Advertising makes for honesty, and the advertiser who does not understand this fact does not stay long In business. It. is this honesty that makes the advertisroents in The Herald today so Interesting and valuable to Herald readers. It Is this open ness, coupled with honesty that makes modern merchandising possi ble. Whether you are merchant or tho public, you wouldn’t go back to the old way of doing business If you could. Buyer and Seller now meet in the open sunlight and do business. They talk business each afternoon and evening ip the columns of The Herald -they chat and chaffer and consider and decide around the family fireside. Theyi consult with fami and friends and many of tomorrow’s purchases will be decided by this evening’s conference over The Herald’s store news bargains. Try It In Your Shopping. Ask For Advertised Things. Say “/ Saw It In The Herald." TO SELECT SITE Fill TIE WIRZ MONUMENT Georgia Division of U. D. C. Meet in Special Ses sion To Definitely Settle Matter of Locating Shaft ATLANTA, On. —The Georgia di vision of t lie United Daughters of the Confederacy met In special session in Allantu Thursday morning for the purpose of definitely disposing of the question of the locution of the monu ment to Captain Wirz, the command ant of the Andersonville prison dur ing the Civil War. At the last an nua! meeting of tho division in Sa vannah, the monument was tendered to Richmond, Va., and accepted, but a strong protest followed this action, many of the daughters urging that the monument should be located with in tho slate, preferably at Anderson vllle, the special session of tho state division being called in response to these numerous demands for a re consideration. The citizens of Anderson ville, through the mayor and prominent of ficials, Thursday appealed to the Daughters to reconsider their former action and locate the monument to Captain Wirz at that plnco. A site for tho shaft was offered and the assurance given that the people of Andersonvllle will welcome tho erec tion there. PINSON ON TRIAL FOR KILLING FIND LAURENS, S. C.—With the prose cution claiming the tragedy was due to jealousy, inflamed by drink, fol lowing tho girl’s refusal to go into supper with Pinson and the defense contending the shooting was acci dental, the trial Thursday of Cothran IPnHon for killing of his friend, Thornwell Boyce, attracted great In terest. The (rial is being hold in the court of general sessions und Miss Evelyn Brown, the girl in the case, who had taken supper with Boyce Instead of Pinson and was in the buggy with both men when the shooting oc curred, wns among the witnesses. She testified that Pinson was drunk, and boisterous, that he pulled his pis tol out and said: “I am going to shoot like hell.” He shot twice to tho right, of the buggy, then held the pis tol against his breast and shot, the ball entering hack of tho head of Boyce, wlio wns sitting on Pinson’s lap. Boyce did not tako his pistol from Ills pocket.
