The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, August 13, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 225. m MEETING IF PROTEST 111 IST EBB Trustees Were Asked To Assist Citizens in Re taining Prof. Osborne at Milledge School. TRUSTEES REPLY NOT SATISFACTORY General Meeting of City Conference Board Will Be Held. May Assume Political Significance. Thre was a well attended meeting held at the home of Mr. J. W. Thurman in West End Thursday night, 'to pro test against against the removal to an other school of Mr. T. M. Osborne, prin cipal of the John Milledge school. The trustees of the school, Messrs. B. W. Barrow, W. R. McElveen and E. E. Jackson, were present by request. The leaders of the meeting went over the ground of their protest with the trustees and presented them with a copy of the long petition which had been to Superintendent Evans askfng that Mr. Osborne be left at the school. Mr. Evans refused to grant the petition when It was presented to him. In ad dition, there was presented to the trustees a memorial asking that they take steps to have the decision of Su perintendent Evans set aside, and Mr. Osborne left at the school. The response of the trustees was any thing but favorable to the wishes of those who attended the meeting. Messrs. Barrow and McElveen declared they had agreed with Mr. Evans about changing Professor Osborne some time ago, and therefore did not feel as if they could now oppose the change. Mr. Jackson who had not pledged Mr.'Evans in the matter, said that he did not feel like go ing contrary to the action of the other two trustees. It was agreed, however f to call a gen »*: i. meeting of the city conference w'a.rd, and lay the matter before them, at which time a committee from the West End will appear and state their side of the case. The committee will ue composed of Messrs. J. W. Thurman, E. E. Vaughn arid Dr. J. P. Smith. The matter is one ot Intense interest in the West End and while it has not yet assumed the completion of a politi cal fight, it. is stated that the matter will probably play a big part in the next election for trustees It is claimed by those who got up the petition for Mr. Osborne’s retention that an overwhelm ing majority of the patrons of the school signed it. SWING PRINTER KILLED TWO STRIKE-BREftKERS FRIDAY BISBEE, Arizona. —William Pfan kuch, a striking printer, shot and in stantly killed Asa A. Hoy, former business manager of the Review, the morning paper of this city, and Wil liam Bockhoiz, of Covington, Ky„ early Friday. The union printers on The Review struck several days ago and Hoy and Bockhoiz were operat ing linotype machines in their places. STATE WILL BUY J. L. HOPKINS CODE ATLANTA, Ga. —Both house and senate passed the bill to buy the code for the state of Georgia, offered by Judge John L. Hopkins. It was agreed that the state should pay $6,- 000 for this code, provided that after an examination by a commission the code should be found satisfactory. The commission, to consist of five members, three from the house and two from the senate, was appointed as follows: From the house, Brown, of Carroll; Jones, of Merrlwether, and Lawrence, of Chatham.. From the senate, Burweil, of the Twentieth, and Mathews, of the Twenty-third. WAYNESBORO’S FIRST BALE WAYNESBORO, Ga, —The first new bale of cotton of the season was brought to the city today by Ttlson Gllstrap, a negro farmer on the Carswell place and was auctioned off before the court house door teday. It classed as strict middling and was bought in by Mr. J. H. White head for lt'frc. The bale weighed 502 pounds. BUSINESS HOUSES CLOSE DURING HOURB OF WORSHIP. ADEL Ga.—ln a revival meeting at the Adel Baptist church the pastor, Rev. A. C. Pyle, is assisted by Rev. J. W. Winchester, of Atlanta. The business men, almost without exception, close their places of busi ness for the services. The Weather Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday. For Georgia and South Carolina: Partly Cloudy with lAcal showers to night or Saturday. Lig powers have fallen In all districts of the Cottfln Belt with a local fall of 1.02 inches at Little Rock. There is still an extensive area of lew pressure be'cween the Rockies and the Mississippi river and light rains were confined to portion* of Minneso ta, lowa, Ohio, Michigan, Wyoming, New Mexico and the Dakotas. Tt is somewhat warmer over the lower Lakes, Ohio Valley, Texas and generally over the Rocky mountain districts. AIKEN PEOPLE HOT WORRIED OVER CAR LINE Don’t Think Business In terests Will Let Trolley Company Leave City Off New Route. VAUCLUSE WON’T USE MORE POWER Has Excellent Water-Head and Will Not Give it Up For the Electric Power. Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. C. —To business inter ests of Aiken it seeius almost im possible that the Augusta-Aiken Elec tric Railway company will leave that city out on the proposed line from Augusta to Columbia. It is proposed that Vaucluse be included instead of Aiken, claiming that the Vaucluse cot ton mill will use more electric pow er than Aiken will use. This is im probable as the Vaucluse mill has the best head of water in the Horse Creek valley and is not likely to give this up for electricity. Aiken people attri bute this proposed change in the route to spite work on the part of the trolley company, who are suppos ed to be at outs with the city over the recent extension controversy. As the trolley company is in busi ness for money not much concern is felt, as Aiken, in the winter, an enormous tourist population and has herself a population of about five thousand people. Vaucluse, on the other hand, has only about four hun dred population and is only a mill village. Aiken people would like to see the extension made, even if they are left off the route. FUST BRINSON ■ TRAIN fiiji mm ii mm Train Came Through Thursday Afternoon. The Whole Section Greatly Benefited. Special to The Herald. SAVANNAH, Ga. —Savannah came into closer touch with the town of Sylvania and other points in Screven county Thursday afternoon when the first Brinson railway train was run di rectly between these points. Mr. George M. Brinson recently bought | the Savannah Valley railroad which ran into Sylvania and connected it ! up with his line between Savannah and Springfield. The result is that 1 Savannah is given another trading - feeder in a rich ootton producing country and Sylvania is given another 1 opening to the third largest cotton port and the largest naval stores port j in the world. WILLARD MAKES CROSS-COUNTRY RECORD IN AEROPLANE FLIGHT Record is Shorter Than the Trips Made Abroad. Wright’s Circular Flights Longer. MINEOLA, N. Y.—What is said to' be the record for a cross-country dis tance flight for the aeroplane in this country was made by C. Foster Wil lard, in the Golden Flyer, Friday, when he covered twelve miles in 9 1-2 minutes. This exceeds the ten-j mile flight made by the Wright broth-1 ers aeroplane from Fort Meyers toi Alexandria and back several weeks ago. Much longer flights within a short circle, however, have been made by the Wrights, and longer cross- 1 country flights have been made | abroad. CHANG-YIN-TANG NEW i CHINESE MINISTER Will Succeed Wu-Ting- Fang in Office at National Capital. PEKING.—China Friday notified the American legation here of the op pointment of Chang-Yin-Tang to suc ceed Wu-Ting-Fang as minister at Washington. This appointment has been pending since lakt fall of Yuan Shai Kai, and Tang Shai Yi, but it was postponed when Chun Mon-Yew was said to have been selected for the post. MINNEAPOLIS CHOSEN BY UNION PRINTERS ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—Minneapolis was selected by the International Typographical Union convention Thursday as its meeting place next year. A strong fight for the 1910 gather ing was made by Salt Lake City and by Atlanta, and the ballot resulted: Minneapolis, 129; Salt Lake City, 16; Atlanta, 80.' NEW GOLD DISCOVERY. BULAWAYO, South Africa.—Glow ing reports were received here today of the discovery in the Abercorn dis trict of British Central Africa of gold deposits, similar to the Rand forma tion, which are said to extend over an area of six miles. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 13, 1909, The Marquise and Marquis Edouard de Reymonte, who were Jield at Ellis Island, New York’s emigrant station, for several days owing to a mistake of the emigrant officials. The Marquise very indignant describes life at Ellis Island as a horrible nightmare. THAiIVGOES BACK TO ASYLUMWEDNESDAY Noted Prisoner Will Be Allowed Privileges He Enjoyed When First At Matteawan. MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.—Harry K. Thaw will go back to Matteawan Wednesday Justice Mills signed the j formal order recommitting him to the asylum on that date. The justice’s recommendation that Thaw be granted the privileges he en joyed during the first three months at the institution was made manda tory and a part of the order. FIRE DESTROYED DELAWARE TOWN Wreck on Railroad Caused Delay of Help and Flames Did Damaging Work. MILTON, Del.—Almost, the entire town of Milton was destroyed by fire early Friday. Nearly one hundred houses, lumber yard and the bank building were destroyed. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Several hundred persons were made homeless by the fire. Aid was sum moned from surrounding points, but owing to a wreck on the Delaware railroad the fire apparatus could not be brought to Milton in time. Only 12 houses escaped flames. The town has a population of about one thou sand. Sunday’s Herald 3,324 Copies. Be Sure and Ask for Sunday's Herald. If You Want The News You Need Sunday's Herald. SI.OO a Year. SI.OO a Year-Augusta's Best Sunday Newspaper. French Nobles Held At Ellis Island AUGUSTANS PLEASE AID MOTHER AND CHILD IN NEED. A most pathetic case of need, was reported to The Herald this morning. Julia Bardlet who had been in the hospital for about four months and who afterwards went to the county home and stayed four weeks, is out of work and with her little son, a few months oid, has no place to live, nothing to eat and no work to do. The woman seems worthy and is looking for a position. She says her household goods, what little she possesses, are in a room held for rent. She has made arrangements to have her child taken care of by the nur series at the cotton mills and in the meantime will look for work. Sh" is a mill hand. Her husband is dead and she has no means of support. Any one contributing some thing to help this poor woman and child until she can get work will be doing charity that wlli be appreciated. The IL-nid will receive subscriptions addressed to “Mother and Child Fund,’’ care Herald. LYNCHBURG HUE FLIIII UK LYNCHBURG, Va.—The fire started Wednesday in the Sonthern railway tunnel here is still raging unchecked and at 11 o’clock Friday more than one-third of the 1300 foot tunnel was doomed. Fully 250 feet had already fallen, including the en tire width of Hiverrnont avenue, car rying with It street car tracks, water and gas mains, and telephone and electric light poles. A hole is being drilled into the top of the tun nel through which an effort will he made to extinguish the blaz< ; with steam. If that fails dynamite will be used in hope of saving part, of th-j tunnel. CONCLUDING INVESTIGATION INTO LIEUT. SUTTON'S DEATH ANNAPOLIS, Md. —The sessions of the court of inquiry Investigating the death of Lieut. Sutton, U. S. A., reach ed the concluding stage Friday when Henry E. Davis, tne counsel tor Mrs. Sutton, the mother of Lieut. Sutton summed up his ca aft. miss Min MSS PASSED AWAY Revered Teacher and Good Woman Goes To Her Re ward After Short Illness. Mlbh J|iuo McDonnuld died shortly b<- fore noon Friday at. the residence of h<u sister, Mrs. Patrick Walsh, on upper Broad street. For some time Miss Me- Donnald had been In failing health, but had been confined to bed only about ten days. Her advanced age, 85, militated against h<T and she gradually succumb ed to the weight of years. Miss McDonnald is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Walsh, Miss Georgia Me- Donnald arid Mrs. K. <'. Smith, besides several nephews, nieces and grand nephews and grand-nieces. The funeral services will be hjld at the ehuron of the Sacred Heart Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The interment will bo In the t city cemetery. Miss M< Donna Id's death removes one I of the fine figures of Augusta's life. She truly deserves the title of “ft good wo man.” Her life was one of strict up rightness, deep Christian feeling, sym pathy and kindliness. She was one of the oldest Catholics in the city, having been baptized by Bishop England when Georgia and South Carolina were in one dicosc. Her religion was of the prac tical kind. Hers was not a Up service, but her daily life breathed the spirit of the Master. Herenly and calmly she fought the good fight, and she went down into the valley of the Great Shadow an she had lived. She feared not death be cause she knew that before her w/ts the promise of life given the good and faith ful servant. Mins McDonnald's death is not mere ly a family sorrow; It Is a city's loss. Thousands knew and revered ner. For twenty-flve years she was a teacher at the Houghton Institute and today the In fluence of her clear Intellect, her firm, yet kindly discipline Is felt In hundreds of households, tne mothers of which were scholars of Miss Jane’s. To all these and others who came within the sphere of her Influence and who there fore revered hr-r, her death is a profound sorrow. SPANISH NAVY TO GATHER AT MELLILA MADRID.—AII vessels of the Span ish navy have received ordertt to con centrate at Mellila, Morocco, where the Spanish force of some 38,000 men is confronted bv a strong gathering I of Moors who resent Spain’s punitive [ expedition for the murder of Moors 1 of eight Spanish laborers. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. DISPENSARY ELECTIOi ILL II OB; INJUNCTION DENIED MR.LORELUIESTO BIS m IIITO fire ippmutus Jai.»os M. Bong, the lvgultir driver at the Chemical Co., loft the city Thurs day at 11:30 o’clock for Vincennes, lnd , where he will spend two w<•« ks, learning to run the two new uutomobih fire ap paratus that are coming to Augusta Mr. Eorjg will accompany the machines back to Augusta, arriving here about Hept 3rd. The day the machines are tested will he a big llremati’s day in Augusta. Several fire chiefs have signified their intention of coming to Augusta to sec the engines tested. Two chairmen of lire committees have also signified their intention of coming. The machines will be tThoroughly tested. Chief Reynolds on his return from the chief’s convention on Sept. lst ( will prepare the program. There will be a race between the au tomobile apparatus and the horse ap paratus, to sue how much time Is sav eu. The automobile engine and a steam er will be placed side by side on Broad St., and streams will he thrown over the monument, to see which has the must power. The engine will then lie taken to the canal, where the engine has to draw the water to test the rela tive effleienty of the pumps on the en gines. The combination chemical and hose wagon will go through the same tests against the chemical engine. The com bination wagon will he placed at No. 1 Engine Co. The engine will be station ed tft No. 3 Engine house. Mr. Eong without saying anything to Chief Reynolds, when Ills vacation came, took a week’s Instruction In how to run an automobile. lie spent, every apart minute as a garage, and when thA time came to pick a man, he was naturally the one chosen. Ills expenses and in come are paid by Webb Motor Co., as part of the contract when the machines were ordered. Mr. Eong is considered one of the best men on the department and Is a. care ful driver. Ills work at all times has been through, and repeatedly he has won the praise of his officers. Mr. Long on his return will instruct every man at No. 3 and No. 4 how to handle the ma chines, and the one out of l*iem who proves to be the most capable will be given the other machine regularly. M SPANISH ARTILLERY BOMBARDING MOORS Using French Guns, But Have Difficulty in Mani pulating Them. MELILLA, Morocco - The Spanish artillery continues to bombard Mount Guruga, the headquarters of the Moor- 1 lull positions. Several modern guns of French construction have arrived here, but the Spanish artillerymen are having considerable difficulty In learn-1 Ing how to manipulate them. It is i explained that General Marina’s ad vance has been delayed in order to permit of complete orgnization of the commissry department. NEGRO MASS MEETING AT BETHEL CHURCH There will be a great educational mass meeting for the negroes at Bethe> A, M. E. church Sunday, at 3 o’clock. Judge Wm. F. Eve will pre side. The speakers of the occasion will be Major Jos. I! Gumming, who will speak on "The Right of the Ne gro to Labor in Industrial Pursuits.” Major J. G. G. Black, who will speak on “What, Should Be the Relation of the White People of the South to the Practical Education of the Negroes of the South.” Several well known ne groes will make addresses. It is ex pected that a large crowd will attend tlie meeting. These stories hav e been accept ed by the readers of The Augusta Herald as truthful Illustrations of advertising successes—which they are—because AugustH Herald readers know that truthful news and truthful advertising, and clean news and clean advertising, are printed In the columns of their favorite home paper. It, is undoubtedly true that the readers of this paper are more interested in the advertising Ap pearing in the paper than are the readers of any other news paper, largely because they have faith In the paper and somewhat because of the interest that lias been aroused In advertising by the printing of these first page stories. Any advrtlser using the col umns of ibis newspaper Is reas onably certain that nearly every reader, If not all of our readers, religiously reads the advertising that appears every day. Which Is another reason why the Au gusta Hersid is one of the most desirable advertising mediums in Georgia. Isn’t It better to have your ad vertising accepted by all of the readers as being truthful and hbnest than It is to spread your aovertlsing before a number of people who do not believe either “One paper in the home is worth a thousand on the highway Petition For Injunction From Charleston was Re fused by the Supreme Court in Columbia. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF LAW ATTACKED Court Will Later Hand Down Reasons For the Rejection of the Peti tions. COLUMBIA. S. C.—The state su preme court met in special session Thursday to consideT 'the petition from Charleston to enjoin the elec tion on the dispensary question. The matter was presented to Chief Jus tice Jones at Lancaster and be call ed the entire coufit to hear the mat ter . The petitioner, T. M. Jellico, a rail road conductor, whs represented by J. P. Grace and W. A. Holman. The county board of election commisiscm ers wns represented by Senator Hu ger Hinkler. Gov. Ansel designated Hon. M. L. Smith, of Camden to rep resent the Slate of South Carolina. Attorney General Lyon hud declined to have anything to do with the case, as it was not a part of his duties, and furthermore he is a member of the stake board of canvassers. The pelt loners alleged that the prohibition law of 1909 Is inopera tive because it is special legislation and also because It Is unconstitution al in that the title does not set forth the entire scope of the act. They alleged, therefore, that all except that part, expressed in the title was void and nugatory. Had the court sustained this vies*, there would be irrohtbltion In lho slate from now until the general as sembly meets, for the tile of the act says nothing about dispensaries, local option elections, or anything else. But the court did not take this view. No opinion was tiled yesterday, the rea sons will he published later. But the court made an announcement that its decision was that the petition be dis missed. One point at issue was that this was special legislation, taking the taxes or property of the people of the whole state to pay the expenses of the election in 21 counties. Senator Slnk lqr replied forcibly to this argument declaring that no appropriation for this specific purpose had been raacV but that the expenses would he pa!/! out of taxes already Impounded. Mr. Smith replied especially to flic argument, with reference td the sec-, tlon of the complaint that the title does not conform to the body of the act. 110 showed very skilfully that the local option portion of the act, while not in itself an ironclad prohi bit lon statute, gives the. possiblliy of prohibition In those counties in which there had been legal sale of liquor, and therefore is in effect a prohTHllon feature. Mr. Holman argued very earnestly that ’the act of 1909 Is pedal legisla tion In that it allows some counties bo settle the liquor question, while other counties which have already voted out i the dispensary can vote again when j (heir four years of probation shall be expired. The arguments of the plaintiff’s at torneys were adroit and sklful, but the decisions of other courts cited by Messrs. Slnkler and Smith seemed to be convincing that the act Is not spe cial legislation, nor does It conflict with the constitutional requirements as to titles conforming to the body of the uct. ATLANTA WOMAN TOOK OUNCE ARSENIC ATLANTA, Ga.—Because she was angry on account of some family dif ficulties and with the evident inten tion of self-destruction, Mrs. A. Gil bert, of 71 South Forsythe street. In the present of her husband, at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning, swallowed about an ounce solution of arsenic She haa been carried to the hospital and may recover. In tho advertising or In the news that appears In some newspaper*. A reliable newspaper that prints only reliable advertising Is the better medium, and adver tisers are beginning to realize this fact- which accounts for the growing volume of business at growing rates In the Augusta Herald. This newspaper proposes to continue Its policy of printing only clean news and clean adver tisements at a fair rate, and be cause of this fact advertising In the columns of this paper Is more valuable proportionately per thou sand of circulation than It Is In most newspapers. The Increase of business In The Augusta Herald for the last six months has been 12,770 Inches of local advertising and 4,856 Inches of foreign—making a total of 17,025 Inches. it looks now as though it will Increase a great deal more, the Fall months being considered more productive of advertising copy than the Spring months, and and all of this has been brought about because advertisers have faith In tho policy and In the in tegrity of the Augusta Herald and faith In the buying ability of lta readers.