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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 271. VETERANS WELCOMED TO ATHENS OK SPEECHES, SONCS AND POSTER Host of Survivors Crowd Bunting Bedecked City For Eleventh Georgia State Reunion of Vet erans. THE WHOLE CITY JOINED PROGRAM School Children, Daugh ters and Sons of Vet erans, College Students and Citizens Help Make the Old Soldiers Feel At Home. Special to The Herald. ATHENS, Ga.—The eleventh re union of the Confederate Veterans of the state of Georgia opened Tues day morning at 9:30 o’clock. The veterans assembled in front of their headquarters, the Georgian Hotel and escorted by the faculty and students of the University of Georgia inarched to the chapel on the campus, where the exercises were opened. There are fifteen hundred veterans :n the city, and the city is predominant with red and white. City Decorated. Every building is gaily decorated in honor of the heroes of ’6l and from private residences and stores throughout the city Confederate flags hang. Most of the veterans arrived in the city Monday night, and early Tuesday morning. Others arrived lite Tuesday afternoon. Gen. Lous G. Yeung, of Savannah, and staff arrived in the city Tuesday morning and Gen. Young presided at ‘he opening exercises. The program opened with a song by the students of the State Normal, school. There was seventy-five voices in the chorus, and the girls sang the old patriotic songs that brought old memories back to the veterans. After the opening song. Col. M. J. Gofer, division chaplain lead in pray er. Rev. Mr. Cofer offered a prayer to th e Delivertr thanking him for al lowing the veterans, who were on the decline in the walk of time, to once again gather to celebrate the time when they, fought, for what they be lieved 1 to be right, and to allow them to renew the friendships of many years standing. Gov. Brown Spoke. Gov. Jos. M. Brown delievered a welcome address for the state. Gov. Brown spoke on the pleasure it gave him personally to welcome the vet erans, and also the pleasure it gave the state to again see the veterans gathered again in council. Got. Brown spoke for several moments on the veterans, the work they had ac complished, the reverence in which they were held by the people of the touth, and of how their appearance in the gray uniforms was always an inspiring sight. Gov. Brown ended his talk by prais ing the veterans, and welcoming them to Athens in the name of the state of Georgia. Hon. Win, F. Dorsey, mayor of Athens followed Gov. Brown and he delivered an address of welcome in the name of *the “City of Athens.” Mr. Dorsey spoke of the pleasure and gratification it gave the people of Athens to welcome the veterans to their city. He dwelt at length on the historic associations of Athens and of the part she and the men from Athens played during the war, and he made this an opportunity to show the feelings with which the citizens viewed the coming of the veterans. Miss Rutheford Spoke. Miss M. Rutherford delivered an address “The Daughters of the Con federacy.” The address was one of welcome to the veterans, and Miss Rutherford also told of the work of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Their work, and their aims, and for several moments she spoke of the relations between the veterans and the Daughters. . Miss Rutherford’s talk was a very enjoyable one, and it brought gladness to the hearts of the veterans. Mr. T. W. Reed spoke on the “Sons of the Confederacy,’ and his talk was much enjoyed. He was followed by Capt. T. H. Dozier, who spoke on the “Cobb-De loney Camp, U. C. V., Capt. Dozier spoke of the services performed by the members of the camp during the war, their honorable service, and of the aftermath, that came during tha days of the re-construction. His talk warmed the hearts of the vet erans to the days gone by, and tha eyes of many were filled with tears, when he spoke of the suffering of tha veterans during the war, and of the days or horror that followed. His address was a very interesting one, and It was followed attentively by the entire audience during its entire length. Prof. E. C. Branson, president of the State Normal school delivered an address of welcome in the name of the Normal school. He spoke for several minutes on the pleasure it gave him to see the veterans and he welcomed them in the name of the school. Chancellor Barrow. Chancellor David C. Barrow, of the Unlveafty of Georgia delivered an addreK of welcome In the name of ► THE WEATHER ► Conditions favor fair and con ► tlnued cool weather in this sec ► tion tonight and Wednesday. t WHILE 00010 MEAL VALDOSTA WOIANBORIED Mrs. G. R. Hale’s Clothes Caught Fire From a, Stave When She Was Prepar ing Breakfast. RAN INTO THE STREETS ALIVE It Is Not Thought That She W ill Ever Recover From the Burns Re ceived. Special to The Herald. VALDOSTA, Ga.—Mrs. G. R. Hale, of Valdosta was fatally burned while cooking breakfast. Her clothing caught fire from the stove. She dashed out into the street alive, but her recovery is despaired of. mil! broke a n Special to The Herald. HELENA, Ga.—-Eh in Yawn, a farm er living bet we 1 1 Helena and Chauncey, was found dead, Ling beside a road about dusk Sunday. He was returning from Chauncey, when he was thrown by a mule, breaking his neck and bruising his skull against a rock as he fell to the ground. He leaves a wife and sev er."* children. SEABOARD TRAIN RAN OVER NEGRO It Was Thought That Man Was Asleep on Track When He Met Death. Special to The Herald. ATHENS, Ga.—Hollins, Wedd a negro, was run over and instantly kiled by the Seaboard train early Monday morning, a few hundred yards from the Seaboard depot. It was thought that the negro was asleep on the track. The train rounded the curve and ran on to the trestle. The negro was on the middle of the trestle, but the engineer saw him too late to stop. GOVERNOR BROWN FAIR DINNER GUEST (Herald Bureau, Candler Building.) ATLANTA, Ga. —Governor Joseph M. Brown will be the guest of honor at a luncheon to be given at Carroll ton October 5, by the Agricultural and Mechanical school of that city. Many persons over tne state have been in vited. The luncheon will be given during the fair which is to be held under the auspices of the school. LINCOLNTON MAN SERIOUSLY HURT Special to The Herald. LINCOLNTON, Ga.—John C. Hollens head was seriously injured Monday morn, ing, when the mule he was riding fell, throwing him to the ground. “GUESTS” STEAL SIO,OOO. NOLA.—Thieves, masking under under the guise of guests, entered the castle of the Prince of Soragna, making away wth jewels and money to the value of SIO,OOO. the faculty and students of the Uni versity. He spoke for several mo ments mi that strain, telling the vet erans to make free use of the cam pus and University building and he poke of the pleasure it gave him for the veterans to use the cnapel for their jneeting room. The students of the State Normal chool then rendered a song. Rev. W. A. Parks delivered a re sponse to the addresses of welcome. He thanked the governor, the mayor, the Daughters of Confederacy, the Sons of the Confederacy and the State,Normal, the University of Geor gia and the people of Athens for the welcome given them. He spoke with feeling of the love of the veterans for the different organizations, schools and the people of Athens His address was a masterful one, and it was heard with Interest by the large concourse of people who packed the chapel to the doors. Veterans Sang. This was followed by the eong, "We are Old Time Confederates,” lead by the author, Comrade W. H. Harrison. The song was inspiring and the voices of the veterans rose loud and strong. At 3 o’clock the veterans went Into business session. They ad journed at 6 o’clock, and at 8 o’clock j they met on the city hall grounds, where they were the guests of the J Daughters of the Confederacy for j the evening. 1 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1909. Cook's Latest Photograph Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Pole finder, ns shown by his latest photograph, bears a striking resemb lance to the German emperor. All that is necossnry to bring out this resemblance is to give his mus tache an upward twist, as has been done in the case of this photograph, which in all other respects is a genuine photograph of Dr. Cook, as he looks to day. FIOSTS PUGE NEW YORKSIREETS Different Periods in Am erican History Are Rep resented By Displays in Parade. NEW YORK.—The center o£ the Hudson-Fulton festivities Tuesday was the route chosen for the histori cal pageant of the commemorative floats. it comprises Central park, West and Fifth avenue, extending from 110th street to the foot of Wash ington square. The celebration com mittee has attempted to illustrate the periods of American history made fa mous by the achievements of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. PEARY’S ATTENDANT TO VISIT CHARLESTON Negroes of Carolina City Will Probably Honor Hansen. Special to The Herald. CHARLESTON, S. C.—lt is said that Henson, Peary’s negro attendant is coming to Charleston. The news of his coming has stirred considerable interest among the negroes and they will probably arrange a big celebra tion in his honor. As far as known, Henson, has made no announcement of his Intention to visit Charleston and it is not known what, authority the colored people have for their talk that he is coming to Charles'on. They are 'alking, however, of his coming and they are quite excited over the matter. AMEROUS TO RESIGN ATLANTA OFFICES Herald Bureau, Candler Building. ATLANTA, Ga. —Martin F. Amerous, capitalist, lumberman, representative in the general council in the Sixth Ward and chairman of the council finance committee, will soon tender his resignation. He has acquired bus iness Interests in North Carolina and Virginia which require nearly his en tire time. Mr. Amerous who is pres ident of the Union-Pinopolls saw mills, proprietor of the Martinique apartment house and many other pieces of At lanta property will not remove his residence from this cit#, SIX MEN KILEEB IN TIN MEEK CHICAGO—Six men were killed and a dozen seriously Injured early Tues day, when the outbound Pan Handle passenger train crashed Into the rear end of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul stock train. The victims were stockmen, many of whom were sleeping in the caboose of the stock train and members of the stock train crew. No persons on the passenger train were injured. The wreckage of the freight train caught fire adding to the terror and greatly hampering the work of res cue. MAY USE NEW FORM PASSENGER TICKET Is in the Form of a Check, and Was Invented By a Georgia Man. Herald Bureau, Candler Building. ATLANTA, Ga.—President Charles A. Wlckersham, of the Atlanta and West Point railroad, has submitted to the railroad commission for approval a new form of passenger tickets, which Is In the nature of a check of all business done on the trip. This is the Travis Safety Ticket, the invention of a Georgia man, and qonsists of a stuli with each ticker purchased which stub is to be held by the pas senger and produced on demand of an auditor during the journey. The question involved Is whether or not. R would be a reasonable demand on the passenger to require the bedding of this stub to be produced on de mand. MAN SHOT ANOTHER IN COURT SESSION Mountain Fend. Waa Re vived in Arkansas When McDaniels Shot Walker. HOT SPRINGS, Ark. —A mountain feud was revived in the court room Monday when Will Mac Daniels shot E. L. Walker In the presence of Judge Evans, while the latter was instruct ing the newiy empaneled grand Jury. Walker’s condition ia not serious. MIS HOMS BROKEN, TEETH KNOCKED Otll Three Were Thrown From Buggy When Horse Be came Frightened At Au tomobile Near Depot. MAN UNCONSCIOUS FOR LONG TIME Womrii Uns Keen Carried To Her Home. Little Boy Was Seriously In jured. Special to The Herald. SAXDMKSVILLh Ga. —After leav ing home to driv c to Tennilh . Cool ey, his daughter, Mrs, Mary Alverett and her little son were thrown from a buggy and seriously injured. On reaching the Augusta Southern depot the horse became frightened at an automobile standing near, and became unmarageable and dashed into the depot steps throwing the oc cupan s to the ground. Several of Mrs. Aiverett's teem were knocked out and her arms brok en. Her little son, 3 years of age, was thrown- front the buggy and in jured. Mr. Cooley was more seriously in jured, and it was several hours before he regained consciousness. He was struck on the head, and is at Raw ling’s sanitarium, where both of them were carried immediately after the accident as he is 100 ill to be remov ed. Mrs. Alverett was carried to her home after a few hours. 0U11T0! ill SPELL OFILEKE Famous Prisoner Got Angry Sunday and Abused Jailor Plunkett and a Trusty—Was Locked in Cell. For the part few days R. E. Dun ning! on the young man who was brought’ from Atlanta to answer the charge of assault with intent to mur der and is confined in the county jail has ceased to be the model prisoner as slated several days ago in The Herald, and Sunday according to the jailor he was very troublesome, and at one time appeared to be crazy. The career of Dunnlngton is an interest ing on e for there is a difference of opinion among Augustans as lo whether or ot he is insane. Ac cording to Jailor Plunkett, who is in a position to know, the man has periods in which he is like a maf* man, and at these times he considers him a dangerous character. The trouble last Sunday waa caused by the jailor taking a chair away from Dunnlngton. It appears that at no jail in the country are prisoners allowed chairs in their cel) for the sifple reason that they can break then up, and they could also use, them as a weapon. Benches are provided for the prisoners, lint In the case of white prisoners like Dunning ton Mr. Plunkett allows them to make use of the chairs In the hall way which are to be used by com pany. Dunnington was sitting in one of these chairs, when two law yers and several visitors came up to see parties at the jail, and it was found that there were not suftielenr. chßirs for the guests, and Mr. Plun kett sent one of the prisoners to gather up the chairs being used by the prsioners, and then Dunnlngton become mad. He raved, and cursed and made a general disorder and ran back and forth Into his cell. When Mr. Plunkett went to ascertain what was troubling him he replied he did “not intend to be bossed by a pris oner,” Mr, Plunkett stated that he had sent for the chair, and then Dun nlngton asked who owned the chair. Plunkett replied that, he did. "No,” quickly answered Dunning ton “Richmond county owns them. Mr. Plunkett left Dunnington alone until the latter stated that he want ed to see him. “I don't want that fellow Dinkins coming into my cell. (Dinkins and Dunnlngton were, and now are good friends) and If he does n’t quit 1 am going to fix him,” saf<l Dunnington. Mr. Plunkett told Dunnington that he would have the cel) door locked. The prisoner replied, “Yes, that’s Just the way, you keep me locked up ana let the others walk around.” <which Is alfiolutoly untrue.) He also told Mr. Plunkett that he had treated him alright when he brought bint from At lanta and 'he Jailor stated that he was treated alright ever since he has had the man in custody. Tuesday Mr. Plunkett stated that he had seen enough of the prisoner to realize that he was a dangerous man and he has no doubts as to his being out of his mind at times. Monday Dunnlngton requested a dose of medicine, which was given to him. While the keeper of the medicine chest was atisent, the pris oner stole Into the room where It was kept and took three giant doses 01 the powerful drug. According to Dun nington, he is suffering with high ne. vousness hut those at the jail say dif ferent,. Yesterday he was resting quietly in his cell, and had given no trouble to his keeper*. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. Periods In American History In Visible Porm Were Witnessed By Millions on New York Streets I NEW YORK —American History in '.visible form passed in review Tuesday ; b fore tlu- eyes of more than a million ( speeators that lined the route of the hist Hudson-Fulton : lid pageant front 'the upper end of Central Park to Washington Square. Thousands of dollars and months of effort were spent to make this parade of 34 floats an accurate reproduction of the life in New York state from legendary Ind’an times that preceded the first i tttlenienl, to the first voyage of the Clermont i tl 1807. Line of Parade. The lino of parade had to be select ed with great rare because of the great size of the floats, which art said to be tin l largest and most elab orate ever exhibited. They vary in dimension.; from 20 to 40 feet high, 3:.’ feet long and fourteen feet. wide. They could not pass under the elevat ed railroad, rod eve,, the electric dec orations ot th- Court of Honor and reviewing stand on Fifth Avenue, op postte the new public library, had to be changeu at the last moment to ac commodate them. - he four main divisions stmimarlz ed the history of tho country. First came the Indian Period, with floats depicting the Five Nations, with their totems, the legend of Hiawatha, the first isaclum of the Iroquois, clothed in hissing snakes, and then a succes sion of allegories. Dutch Period. . floats representing the discovery of tlie Hudson river; the fate of Henry Hudson, who was set adrift by his mutinous crew In Hudson's Bay, In PACKAGE OF LOVE LETTERS BOUGHT AT “OLD HOSS SALE” I COLUMBIA, S. C.—A lot of college and other young men about town are I having a lot of fun Tuesday as they j regard it, with a big bundle of love | letters bought at the Express Old Hobs sale here. The bundle being returned to a girl who did not claim It. There were about a thousand ot them some forty and fifty pages long and full of love, mush phrases, start | ing off “My Precious Darling.” SERIES OF ADDRESSES ARRANGED FOR Y. M. C. A. An exceedingly interesting course of Sunday afternoon addresses has been arranged by Secretary Hill of I the Y. M. C, A. These talks will be ! gin next Sunday afternoon at four | o’clock and will he for men only. The meetings will be open to ail men and several very interesting speakers will be heard. The program for the month is as follows: Oc ober 3 —Dr. W. Ashby Jones, pas tor of the First Baptist church. October 10- Evangelist Eraser, will speak, his topic being “What Is your [ Weight,” which is taken from the I Scripture tory of the handwriting on the wall. October 17 —Judge E. H. Callaway will speak. October 24 —Rev. William Johnson, of the Church of the Good Shepherd will speak. October 31—Rev. Howard T. Cree, TALKS ON ADVERTISING NO. THREE MR. HARRY JONES MAKES SOME INTERESTING SUGGESTIONS. Mr. Harry H. Jones is one of the proprietors of the Jones Fur niture company. He lias charge of the office affairs and is also the advertising manager of the con cern. When asked for his views on the subject of advertising he said: We do all kinds of advertising —newspapers, dodgers, booklets, hill board, street car, but we get t.ho best results from newspapers. We do not use all of these med iums at the same time for ours Is a conservative firm, and we try to husband our advertising ap propriations. As you know the only adver tising we are doing just at the present time Is in the Augusta Herald, and we are getting the usual good results from it. We have been running good size ads In the Sunday Herald for a month or more, and this plan will he followed for some time to come. Our first ad of the present cam paign was Inserted in the Herald of Sunday, September sth. It. war, a picture puzzle contest for children, and was run in the in terest of Buck's stoves and ranges of which we are the agents. Simi lar ads were run on the two fol lowing Sundays find they crowd ed our store with anxious chil dren. The prize offered is a small Bnck stove that. Is practi cal, and useful, and the children are still coming to our store for the booklets. This contest will end on October 2nd, and we are sure many more children will gladden us with their presence before that time. Our ad. in last Sunday’s Herald was a 60-lnch display that, has caused much favorable comment. The design wag beautiful, the copy web convincing, and our sales on the following day, in 1611, and never recovered; the recep tion to Peter Stuyvesant, most famous of the Dutch governors general; the first ship built on Manhattan Island, and other matters of like typical sig nificance. All impersonations in this division are by the United Holland Societies. The third division, colonial, was treated with greater amplitude tha® any of the others. Twenty-one float* depicted as many scenes and legends, from the reception of Schuyler’s In dians to the pursuit ot tchabad Cranw by the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Impersonations and escorts were by the English societies, repre senting British rule, at the front. The Society of the Colonial Wars; The - Junior Order of American Mechanics; the Patriotic Order of Sons of Amer ica; tne United Irish Societies; the Sons of thp Revolution; the American Continentals; lineal descendants of Paulding and Van Wart. the captors ot Andre; the Order of the Cincinnati, and a host of lesser organizations. Modern Period. Last cante the modern period, led by the title car "United States"; but even here the general tone was retro spective. A float representing tha first Erie Canal bout, a reproductlo* of a hand engine in use before tha introduction of Croton water, and an othpr of ap old Broadway sleigh, be fore the days of subways, trolleys, ele vated U or even horse cars, wore typi cal. The historical parade will be re peated ip Brooklyn on Friday, Octo ber 1. MUCH MDMETTO BE M TO CUM Special to The Herald. COLUMBIA, S. C.—Further inquiry into the fact, as anounced by the at torney General Tuesday night that the Bernheini distilling Company of Louis ville had made a rosituution to the state in the sum of thirty thousand dollars “overcharges” through the ef forts of Felder’s law firm in Atlanta developes that there was further im portant work to be done along this line to get other concern to disgorge. it is difficult t 0 estimate how much is coming back to the state from these concerns whom the courts will be ask ed to force to come across, if they decline to do so peaceably, but it looks as if the total might run up to a mil lion dollars or more. Tim Commission Is making prepara tions to press these claims with great vigor by bringing suits wherever nec essary. of the Firth. Christian Church will speak on the topic, “The Power of So cial Contagion.” The Atnphion Male Quartette will sing at the meeting next Sunday and there will he special music at each meeting. The services will last about an hour and will he bright and attractive, af fording great Interest, thought and In struction. direct response to that ad, far ex ceeded our expectations. We were more than pleased. Now, while we give much credit to the Sunday Herald for this, we want to emphasize the excellence of that ad. It is worth looking at arid studying, and the others that are to folow it are equally as good. These ads were designed for us by a firm of advertising ex perts in St. Louis, und cost con siderable money but they are worth it. I think many of our local merchants do not get all the good they could from their ad vertising in the newspapers by not (laying much attention to copy, cuts, designs and the follow up aids. It is money weil spent to pay a good sum to a good ad vertising agency to prepare your advertising. I wish there were one or two independent adver tising experts, or ad-writers. In Augusta. We certainly would patronize them, and I think other firms would do so too. But such ad-writers must be first-class in every particular. Tint, to revert once more to our nd. in last Sundays Herald. Wo were offering a "home outfit sale’’ for S9B, and made many such sales, and got Inquiries from many sources that will result in additional sales. Then, too, wa were very much pleased with the complimentary things that were said to us about the neatness and attractiveness of that ad. And you can say that, our ads that, are to follow will be just as good as those that we have run, and will lx interesting to your general line of readers, whether they are in a furniture buying mood or not. Yes, wc have a follow-up sys tem. and all inquiries that we have received from your out-of town subscribers will receive from ub suitable literature.
