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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIV., No. 248.
UNION MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES OBSERVE LABOR DAY AT PLATZ
THOUSANDS
HE ASSEMBLED
IN BY MOOD
Hon. Madison Beil, In
troduced By Mayor Dun
bar, Delivered Hinging
Address.
BARBECUE DINNER
FOLLOWED BY SPORTS
Varied Program Arranged
For Afternoon. Dancing
in Evening. Central
Trades Council in Charge
Monday practically every mill, factory,
machine shop and large business houses
In Augusta closed in observance of Labor
Day. Kearly in the morning members
of the many different labor organiza
tions in Augusta began to gather at the >.
Bchuetsen Platz where the day’s festiv
ities are in progress.
The program for the celebration was |
arranged by the Central Trades Council 1
It consists of speeches, a big barbecue
dinner, athletic contests and a dance
as the grand finale.
HON. MADISON BELL
MADE ADDRESS.
At 10 o’clock fully two thousand peo
ple were gathered at the Platz and the
day’s celebration was begun. The first
number on the program was the speech
of the Honorable Madison Bell, of Atlan
ta. He was Introduced by Mayor Dun
bar. Mr. Bell’s speech was a gem in
oratory, in well select- words he paid
a glowing tribute to the laborers and
his cause. He closed his speech amidst
a storm of applause, receiving a grand
ovation from the large numbfer of peo.
pie who were interested listeners to his
speech.
Following the speech of Mr. Bell the
barbecue dinner was served. It was the
most sumptuous repast that has ever
been given at the Platz. Fully five hun
dred people partook of the dinner. Dur
ing dinner those around the festive board
were beguiled with short humorous
speeches, Jests and Jolly raillery lndubsr
ed In by the men.
ATHLETIC
CONTESTS.
After dinner the athletic contests were
entered into with a snap and every event
is being very closely contested. Hand
some prizes have been offered for the
winner In each eevnt and a large number
of would-be and crack athlete are en
tered for every contest.
The following is the list of the dif
ferent events:
100-yard dash—free for all.
100-yard dash—for men over 30.
50-yard dash—for boys under 15.
Broad jump—for men over 40.
Broad jump—for men under 25.
Three-legged race.
Sack race.
Greasy pole climbing.
Cracker atoing contest, free for all.
Immediately following the athletic con
tests the dance will begin. One of the
best orchestras in Augusta has been se
cured for the occasion and the daltce
committee has spared no expense to
make the affair a perfect success.
The day has been the most thoroughly
enjoyed Labor Day in the history of
Augusta. The committee In charge de.
elded that the men could enjoy them
selves more at the Platz than by the dif
ferent organizations participating In a
street parade as has been the custom.
Every organization in Augusta Is well
represented and there are also a large
number of the friends of the union men
present.
Among the different trade unions that
were represented at the celebration at
the Platz were the Machinists, members
of the Typographical Union, boiler
makers, blacksmiths, carpenters and
joiners, car workers, plumbers, railway
clerks, tailors, painters, musicians, rail
way engineers and firemen.
VIOLA IS LEADING
HIT AND WIN FUND
The Tourists did little to fatten
their averages in the Hit and Win
contest, as the team only secured six
hits in eleven innings. Castro and
Hohnhorst led, each securing five
points by a sacrifice. The following
is how they stand;
Viola 109 points
Castro 100 points
Bierkotte 76 points
Hohnhorst 69 points
McMahon 47 points
Riggs 34 points
Coles 28 points
Carson 20 points
Woodward 14 points
Griffin 2 points
Wagner 2 points
INQUEST HELD MONDAY.
Ooronr Ramsey conduced an in
quest at 11 a. m. Monday over the
remains of Barker Shannon, a negro
75 years of age, who died at his home
on the Savannah road Sunday night
After hearing the testimony of the
witnesses the jury brought in a ver
dict of death from natural causes.
INDIAN HARBOR, N. F.—PEARY REPORTS
THAT THE “STARS AND STRIPES HAVE BEEN
NAILED TO THE NORTH POLE’’
TOURISTS WON ELEVEN INNING GAME FROM THE INDIANS;
LEAD FOR SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON CINCHED
Contest Was Pitchers’
Battle, and Resulted in
Narrow Victory For Hard
Working and Elated
Tourists. Game in Doubt
Until East Minute.
The Tourists and the Indians battled
tn a pitched duel at Warren Park
Monday morning for eleven innings,
and Augusta won out by the score of
1 to 0. Both Demaree for Savannah
and Griffin for Augusta received mag
nificent support. Demaree held the
Tourists to five hits, while Griffin only
gave up six. Both men struck out
several. With one out in the eleventh
McMahon walked. Y iola hit to left
and McMahon went to third. Riggs
hit a fly to H. Schultz, who was play
ing center, and he dropped it, Mc-
Mahon scoring on the throw in.
Griffin was rather wild for the first
three innings and several men were
left on bases. He settled down after
the fourth, and pitched magnificently.
Demaree pitched one of the best
games he ever pitched. He had mag
nificent control, and although the team
behind him w T as crippled, he made a
magnificent showing.
Indians Had Chance.
In the second inning the Indians
had a good chance to score, but on
account of the poor base running of
H. Schultz, he failed to score. Howard
first up, hit jy second. Flowers hit
to second, ue failed to score. Howard
was forced. H. Schultz hit to sec
ond and Flowers was forced. A.
Schultz hit to left field for a single,
h. Schultz stopped to look at the
ball when he reached third, and
Viola threw him out at the plate.
In the third inning, with two down
and a man on third. Murch hit a hot
one ti Bierkotte, he threw to Hohn
horst, and Hohnie had to lay fiat on
the ground to get the ball. Wester
velt called Murch out, on a close de
cision, and the Savannah team protest
ed. Petit, an extra catcher protest
ed so loudly that It was necessary to
send him back to the hotel with the
company of an officer as far as the
gate.
In th-j fifth inning, Griffin fanned
the Schultz brothers and Demaree,
one to Bierkotte, he threw to Hohn
not to be qutdone, fanned Bierkotte,
McMahon and Viola in the sixth.
McMahon fanned four out of five
times up, and the fifth time he walked
Demaree struck out one man prac
tically every inning.
Augusta had a magnificent chance
to score in the fifth, but they failed to
put a man across the plate on account
of Demaree’s magnificent work. Hohn
horst first man up hit a fly to left.,
and Flowers dropped it. Coles hit by
second for a single. Cargon was hit
by a pitched ball, filling the bases.
Castro fouled out to I-.au zon. Griffin
hit a drive to Demaree, and Hohnhorst
was doubled at third.
Spectators on Nerves.
The game rocked along, keeping the
nerves of every spectator on edge, as
practically every inning men got on
bases with none or one out, and sev
eral times a lucky bingle would have
broken the game up.
The following is the box score:
Augusta AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
Bierkotte, ss 5 0 0 2 4 0
McMahon, 3b 4 1 0 0 2 0
Viola. If 5 0 2 2 1 0
Riggs, cf 5 0 1 5 0 0
Hohnhorst, lb . . .3 0 1 9 0 0
Coles, rs 4 0 1 2 0 0
Carson, c 1 0 1 10 1 0
Castro, 2b ...,,.3 0 0 3 1 1
Griffin, p 4 0 0 0 3 0
Totals 34 1 6 33 12 1
Savannah AB. R. H. PO. A. E.
Wagnon, lb 5 0 0 4 0 0
Huber, ss 5 0 1 0 1 0
Murch, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0
Lauzon, c 5 0 112 1 0
Howard, 2b 4 0 2 4 2 0
Flowers, rs 4 0 0 1 0 0
H. Schultz( cf . . .4 0 0 0 0 1
A, Schultp, rs . . .4 0 2 1 0 0
Demaree, p 4 0 1 1 2 0
Totals „ ... .89 0 7 31 7 1
Score by innings: It.
Augusta 000 000 000 01 —1
Savannah 000 000 000 00 —0
Summary: Three-base hits Huber.
Stolen bases A. Schultz, Murch. Left,
on bases Augusta 7, Savannah 6. Base
on balls Griffin 1, Demaree 3. Struck
out Griffin 10, Demaree 10. Hit by
pitcher, Carson. Sacrifice bits, Hohn
horst a*nd Castro. Double plays De
maree to Mureh. Time of game 1:55.
Umpire Westervelt.
ANSEL REFUSED PARDON
COLUMBIA, S. C. —Governor Ansel
Saturday refused to pardon to Kelly
Curry of Spartanburg, serving three
years for disposing of property under
lien.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 6, 1909.
For Trying to Pass An OldC. C. & A. Bill
W. K. O'Conner Bound Over For Trial
Charged with cheating and swind
ling, it being alleged that he had at
tempted to pass an old railroad bill
for currency of the value of $5, W. K.
O’Conner was hound over in the re
corders court Monday, by Judge Pic
quet to the city court.
The case against O’Connor is an in
teresting' one f<*t the reason that it
brings to light a curious old relic of
the past, which in the days of the op
eration of the old Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta railway, was as good as
money. It is alleged that O’Connor
had the old bill in his possession
Sunday at noon, when he went into
an establishment run by Henry and
William Head at the corner of Jones
and Marbury streets and after pur
chasing a quarters worth of refresh
ment he presented the “phony” bill
as a genuine “live spots,” and this
resulted in his arrest by Patrolman
Cauley. In a statement made to a
reporter for The Herald Monday,
O’Connor said that he had previously
received the bill as part of some
betiiil mm
TO MEET HOWARD
Association Met Monday
and Resolved To Follow
Cut in Prices.
Following- Mr. C. IT. Howard’s an
nouncement! in the papers of a cut of
twenty-five per cent on all lines of drugs
in her store. The retail druggists asso
ciation hold a called meeting Monday
morning to take steps to meet the com
petition.
Dr. Green the president of t.he Asso
ciation presided at the meeting and stat
ed that active steps would bo taken by
the retail druggists to froce Mr. Howard
to raise his line of drugs to the former
scale of prices. Along what lino The
druggists will act has not yet been de
cided. A meeting will be called Monday
evening at w r hich definite steps will be
taken to carry on the “rate war.”
Mr. Howard at his drug #tore carries
a very complete line of drugs and patent
medicines. Realizing the need that Au
gusta as for a “cut rate” drug store
and desiring that his store should be
the one to make the cut In me present
• *ces he announced that he would in
augurate a 25 per cent cut on his en
tire line of drugs. The announcement
has created no little Interest.
This is the first attempt of an Augus
ta druggist to cut tne prices on drugs,
and while the announcement has been
welcome news to Augustans other drug
gists In Augusta are up In arms and
state that they will fight any reduction
that Mr. Howard makes.
►STANDING OF CLUBS
SALLY W. L. Pet.
Augusta 33 14 .702
Chattanooga ..36 19 .665
Columbus ..... ..32 22 .593
Savannah 31 23 - .674
Knoxville 23 31 ,426
Macon ..20 30 .400
Jacksonville .. .. ..16 31 .340
Columbia 18 36 .333
SOUTHERN. W. L. P. G
Atlanta 79 44 .642
Nashville 74 49 .602
New Orleans 67 60 .527
Montgomery 62 58 .617
Mobile 62 61 .504
Little Rock 56 69 .448
Birmingham ... .53 74 .417
Memphis 44 81 .352
AMERICAN W. L. P. G
Detroit 80 4;, .640
Philadelphia 76 48 .613
Boston 73 53 .579
Cleveland 66 62 .516
Chicaago 63 63 .500
New York 52 66 .441
St. Louis 52 71 .423
Washington .39 92 .298
NATIONAL. W. I* P. G
Pittsburg 89 33 .729
Chicago 82 40 .672
New York 72 47 .605
Cincinna'l 63 60 .512
Philadelphia 52 66 .468
St. Louis 47 75 .385
Brooklyn 43 74 .368
Boston .. 33 88 .273
change from the Heads and bad gone
back into their place to recover its
alleged value in genuine currency.
The "phony” money, could readily
pass as a five dollar hill in a hurry,
as it corresponds in color, size and de
sign to many of the treasury’s issue.
On either of the upper corners appears
the large 0. under one is placed “fare”
and “ticket” is printed beneath the
other. In the center is n fine picture
of a fast railroad train of the vintge
of the early ’7os. the engine of which
is equipped with the Merry Widow
style of funnel used by on the wood
burning locomotives of those days.
Written below this cut is “Columbia,
S. C., October Ist, 1873, good for the
passage of one person, five hundred
miles,” and the signature of the of
ficers. On -ue back is a conventional
design surrounding a large figure 5.
Several Augustans when asked yes
terday stated that they had seen many
of these bi. s, but all agreed that
they were of value only to numismat
ists.
TIIWS EM
FOR TEE IIS
UNO ICE Eli
Miss Loise Biggar, the district
nurse, has rendered her report for
the monui of August. In it will be
found particular mention of the milk
and Ice fund, and the use to which
the fund was put during the month.
The fund has now been wound up,
the last, contribtion which will be de
livered to Miss Biggar being the sum
of fourteen dollars, received as gate
receipts for the game between the
police and the street car men Friday
aftmoon.
Miss Biggar desires to thank heart
ily all those who have in any man
ner contributed to the fund and to
say that the money given for the al
leviation of the sufferings of the sick
babies of the city during the sum
mer, has been of inestimable benefit.
Many little ones tossing with fever,
bad to depend entirely on the milk
and ice fund for relief, and there is
no doubt but that many a little life
was saved during the hot summer by
the application of the money which
was contributed to the fund. This
money came in various ways, much of
it from the amateur bail games. The
sum of $155.80 was the total amount
contributed.
The following is the report of Mrs.
Biggar:
Number of visits made 90
Applications at office 50
Minor dressings at office 16
Baths given 4
Reports Made.
To Associated Charities 0
Cases sent to the camp 1
Cases sent, to city hospital .... 1
Money Expended.
.For eggs and beef $ 5.75
For drugs 2.00
For cleaning and washing .. .. 2.00
For telephone rent 3.00
For groceries 3.50
For wood 2.00
Eggs for special case 3.00
Extras 3.00
Totals $24.25
From Children's Hospital Fund
(Special)—
Transportation of mother and
child to country $ 4.00 1
Removing of child to T. B. camp 2.00
Clot.hec furnished same child . . 3.00
For special foods furnished pre
viously 2.60
Total $11.60
Bpecial Fund For Milk and Ice.
For milk ... $18.50 1
For ice (special cases) 3.75,
For ice 13.001
For distribution of milk and
ice 8.00 i
|
Total ... $38.25;
Cases Treated at Clinic.
By Dr. Moore 24 ‘
By Dr. Milligan 21
By Dr. Bryans, minor operation
(child) l
Special adult cases 4
* D D BIGGAR, R. N.
CENTENARIAN’S BIRTHDAY.
NORTH NEWPORT, N. H.—James
Bellows McGregor celebrated bis
108th birthday at his home here Mon
day. He has been a free Mason since I
1827.
Samuel Gompers
President of the American
Federation of Labor
Unions.
DR.COOK SPENT
QUIET MONDAY
Great, Explorer was With
out Official Engagement
But Visited “Uncle of
Reigning Houses.”
COPENHAGEN. —Being without of
ficial engagements Monday, Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook mapped out a quiet
day for himself. In the course of the
morning he visited old Prince Hans,
who Is known as “be uncle of the
reigning houses of Europe,” and later
he received a deputation of students
who hailed him as a hero. He then
tok a drive with Maurice F. Egan, the
American minister, and had lunch
privately with th minister in the conn
try his purpose being to escape the
applauding crowds.
Pope Belives Cook.
ROME. —The Pope is keenly Inter
ested In the story of Dr. Cook’s
achievement and is following the
newspaper accounts of tils expedition
with Interest. He expressed the opin
ion Monday that one must believe In
the truthfulness of man whose char
acter had been tried by such perils
and who had faced death alone.
Geographers Recognize Discovery.
BERLIN. Two of the leading so
cleites of German geographers, Ber
lin and Hamburg associations, have
congra ulated I>r. Crxjk on It is discov
ery of the North Pole. The rriauag-i
lug committees of each society met.
and decided duly upon this recogni
tion. The Berlin committee ex
pressed the opinion that, it had no
right, to withhold its acknowledgement I
from an honorable and experienced
explorer such as Dr. Cook, and it. sent;
lt.B congratulations giadiy. In doing
this, however, the committee does not
consider that, it formally accepts
every statement, of fact made by Dr.
Cook; it simply gives a general rec
ognition to his line achievement.
WHY DOUBT COOK?
WASHINGTON. —"ft Is not fair to
doubt Dr. Cook’s word in absence of '
arty evidenct whatever against him." 1
This statement was made by Cap- 1
tain Winterhalter of the navy, chief I
of the hydrographic office here, In j
speaking of the doubt that had been
expressed In some quarters as to I
whether Dr Cook actually reached
the North Pole. "Not one time in a
hundred thousand,” he said, "would
Dr. Cook be able successfuly to fako
ast mom leal observations.”
America Congratulated.
WASHINGTON.—The King of Swe
den officially has recognized Dr. Cook
as the discoverer of the North Polo.
Minister Egan at Copenhagen has
informed the state department in ef
fect that the king congratulated the
United States on he occasion of Dr.
Cok’s discovery.
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
In Glowing Words of Praise
Hon. Madison Bell Spoke At Platz
I am deeply sensible of the honor
that has been conferred ou mo by the
members of the Augusta Federation of
Trades in choosing me as their spokes
man on this occasion. Having served
as chairman of the committee on lab
or, in the general assembly of Geor
gia, for four years, I have become
familiar with many of the measures
pro and con, that vilally affect you
While 1 acknowledge a profound grat
iiude for the manifestation of good
will which you have so freely and so
frequently extended to me in re-
I spouse to my legislative efforts in
your behalf, yet 1 take this opportun
ity of saying that I championed those
measures which inured to your wel
fare, not because of a desire to win
your favor, but. because 1 believed in
the merit of your claims; because i
thought you were right.
ALE CLASSES
JOIN HANDS.
Speaking from the depths of my
heart, 1 rejoice with you in the mag
nificent success of tills, your festive
anniversary. This day is being uni
versally celebrated in every state in
tills union. It was a wide and proper
action when the legislative branches of
our government placed upon the
statue hooks a law setting aside one
day in the year, which should he
consecrated to the honor and dig
nity of labor. It Is, indeed, commend
able in the nature of all our people,
regardless of conditions in life, that
they should annually join hands with
those who toil, and in every way en
deavor to make this day one of suc
cors and benefit. It is generally eon
reded that of all these days that have
been set aside as a time of general
rejoicing, none exceeds in manifesta
tions of enthusiasm and display, tho
one we celebrate on this occasion. II
is striking and inspiring to see I*
reality the manifold wheels of in ir.
try cease their efforts to produce gain
in order to permit homage to be paid
to labor and toil. When we realize the
condition of the toilers in the past we
are impressed with the spirit of prog
ress that closes the doors of the great
financial institutions throughout the
length ami breadth of this republic
and decks their windows in flags and
bunting in honor of the day we cede
hrate.
The student who has studied the
evolutionary process from which the
present day artisan has emerged Is
amazed at the Wonderful strides by
which he has advnueod. From a posi
tion which evoked only rebuff and dis
dain, the toiler, through ages of strife
and bloodsned, has at last come into
his own, and today recognition of his
true worth and appreciation of his real
importance In life Is eagerly manifest
ed by grateful people of every land.
It Is invariably true that those of
our citizens with well meaning Intent,
who hav> Impartially and conscient
iously observed the real conditions
under which the laboring man works
and tho true environment in wtileh he
lives, have the largest, sympathy and
the greatest amount of encouragement
for him. It. is the selfish, the Ignorant,
the ungrateful who denounce the
cause of labor and the demands of
laborers and who 1 deny the respectful
< onolderutlon to their petitions for re
lief.
LABORERS ARE
STRONGEST CLASS.
There was a Irne In Ragland, a lit
tle over a century ago, when a lab
orer's right, and liberty were so hamp
ered by iniquitous statutory enact
ments that, ho dared not. appeal for
redress to his employer for fear of
being fined, or, harder still, im pris
oned—yea. branded with red-hot
Irons, But., thank God, today no such
law is tolerated Iri any civilized coun
try In the world. The laboring man
is recognized now in all enlightened
lands ns the very strongest and best
factor of civilization and is accorded
the very highest consideration in the
law making bodies of the world. In
deed, today in England, where he was
plundered and profaned for five cen
turies, the organized laborer holds the
balance of power and compels that
respect and justice so long contempt
uously denied him. As the political
government under whieh we exist has
expanded and developed, so also the
system under which our Industrial
classes have been governed, has
slowly progressed.
From the rule of the tyrant, who
knew no mercy, who recognized no
MANY an advertiser, who la
bors to pierce , only bores.
Wordpainting, prose-poems, rhe
torical pin-wheels and jaunty jin
gles have no selling force. Adver
tising is news.
superior power to his own whose sub
jects were but serfs to do his bidding,
there has evolved on this hemisphere
a new form of government where the
people are the rulers and where life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness is
guaranteed to every one.
GOVERNMENT FOR
THE WORKING MAN.
This great declaration of Thomas
Jefferson 1b the foundation upon which
our republic was erected. The realiza
tion of these principles has been the
cherished dream of American toilers
tor decades, and they are awakening
to see the final accomplishment of that
great end which the founders of our
government granted to us. After years
lof oppression, after years of trials
and conflict, alter years of defeat,
and when hope seemed all but gone,
a system has been evolved. Though
thrown to the ground and unmercWi
fully trampled upon by gigantic or
gan iza I tons of wealth time after time,
undaunted the working people like the
Roman of old, came up from disaster,
stronger from each defeat. From
• heir struggles and their sufferings
there developed a fellow feeling
among tip* toilers resulting in a prac
tical co-operation that lias done more
to right the wrong and alleviate the
hardships of our oppressed work
men than any other movement ever
inaugurated by man.
Today, with the highest sense of
admiration, I congratulate those win
toil upon the magnificent and for
midable organization which exists
throughout this republic, and which,
under the banner of Trade Unionism
puts capital on notice that those who
earn their bread by dhe sweat of their
brow are brothers in fact and in spirit
and that they stand shoulder to
shoulder In the defense of their com
mon cause.
IN UNITY
IS STRENGTH.
"In unity there Is strength.” “a
house divided against, itself cannot
stands.” People whose conditions In
life are similar; whose occupations
are the same; whose aims and pur
poses are in common, whose needs and
wants arc alike, cannot, expect relief
from oppression unless there exists a
brotherhood which musters them un
der one banner to which they all
must render allegiance and respect.
The trade union movement which
binds men of toil together as one,
sprang from a condition of affairs in
tho industrial world that, made such
an organization absolutely necessary.
Capital, which is but tho fruit of la
bor, developed in th<* last century and
increased in tills day, such a mania
for its own development that no plan
too severe could bo applied for the
accomplishment of its own selfish pur
pose. Not satisfied with its Individual
power and Influence, corporate wealth
inaugurated a system of aggrandize
ment wlile.ii hah brought together di
versified millions from innumerable
sources. This massing of the great
aggregations of monetary Influence
has constituted a bulwark of capital
to stem the advancing tide of labor.
Ah an Individual, tho working man
was denied an audience with his em
ployer, his applications were not
heeded, I tie murmurs of his discon
tent. were drowned iiy the roar of the
wheels of industry, moved by his own
unceasing toll.
CAPITAL AND 1
LABOR BENEFITED.
As combined capital Increased In
length by the furtherance of its or
ganized system, Just so Increased the
suffering of labor under the unjust
and cruel methods which were used
In this expansion, until from its bed
of pain labor brought forth the first
great, principle which lias effected its
deliverance. if capital Is benefited
by a unity policy, which enlisted the
captains of commerce side by side in
a conflict against the demands of
those who toiled, why should there
not, be concerted action, a common
purpose, a unity policy among those
who had been so often defeatod by
the well drilled and well organized
army composed of soldiers of wealth?
Thus, from such an emergency, from
such a onesided contest, sprang or
ganized labor's hosts, which, inspired
by a sense of justice, have righte
ously determined to obtain a fair
wage, reasonable hours and suitable
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