THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XV., No. 26.
MAKE FIGHT ON WESTERN MEATS FOR SO DAYS
INSTEAD OF THIRTY, WRITES ONE AUGUSTAN
’People Express Opinion
That Something Must Be
Done To Curb Rapacity
of Beef Trust.
A NATIONAL PROTEST
If Nothing Else is Accom
plished By Present Agita
tion Whole Country Will
Be Aroused to Knowledge
of Trust Aggression.
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♦ WHAT MEATS BRING NOW. 4
4 The following retail prices were 4
4 furnished bv a local dealer: 4
♦ Round steak 12% to 15c 4
♦ Rib roast 18 to 20c 4
♦ Rump Roast 12 to 15c ♦
♦ Plates 7% to 8c 4
♦ Chuck 8 to 10c 4
4 Flank '.5 4
♦ Pork sausage 25 4
♦ Spare ribs 20 4
fff Chops 17% 4
4 Lamp chops.. .... ..25 4
♦ Rib chops 25 4
♦ Mutton 20 4
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A Serious Situation.
The high price of provisions and
food stuffs and of both fresh and
cured meats has for many months
been recognized as a most serious sit
uation confronting the working man
and the average American citizen and
housekeeper.
Whether this is due to the Taft tar
iff, as many claim, inasmuch as Amer
ican meats and provisions are sold
cheaper to foreign countries than they
are here at home, whether It is the
Beef Trust and combinations that are
Responsible, whether it is due to the
cheapening of gold, whatever the cause
the fact remains that the same dollar
today buys less and less of the ne
cessities, of living at the present stand
ard in America- Compare your pur
chases of foodstuffs today with 3,5,
or 10 years ago and your old books
and accounts and receipts will show
a steady rise and increase In price
until the present high level is reached.
The warning cry has been sounded
all over this country by the protests
•f the people, by the study of the
problem by such men as Cardinal
Gibbons, by James J. Hill, by the work
of government experts. Something
must be done either to reduce the cost
of foodstuffs to the people of this
country or to increase the rate of
wages.
If the present agitation which has
become national does nothing else, it
will record one of the most important
and far-reacHffig national protests that
the people have ever made against the
Beef Trust and the high cost of living
in this country.
Have you signed the coupon in The
Herald showing your interest and
views in the situation?
There is the greatest Interest mani
fested in the matter here in Augusta
and a great many individuals are not
waiting for formal protest to be made
but are going ahead on their own
hook.
Among some of the suggestions re
ceived by The Herald in the present
situation are the following:
"I have advocated this movement
for the past 12 months as the only
means to break down the high prices
and if 30 days don't accomplish it
make it 90 days.”
(Continued on Pago 5.)
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To the Meat Editor COUPON. Date, Jan. —, <9lO.
of The Herald.
I will be glad to join a movement here in Augusta to cut out meat eating for the next 30 days—
with the hope that concerted action on the part of all th e people in the U. 8. will be effective in forcing
the Beef Trust to reduce the price of meat to the people of this city.
Name
Address
My suggestions for the success of such a movement and its necessity are as follows:
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If this space is too small, paste coupon on suggestions, etc.
Augusta's Position in the Fight Against the Beef
Trust-Well Supplied With Local Meats—ls You
Must Eat Meat, Cut Out Beef Trust Products
Lower in Augusta.
Mr. W. H. Carey, who conducts
a grocery store on the 1200 block
of D’Antfgnac street, was quoted
a price by Swift & Co. Wednes
day morning on western D. S.
Ribs that was a quarter of a cent
lower than the price quoted the
day previous.
The following figures are given by
the Augusta Abattoir Co., which un
der government inspection does the
killing for local butchers:
For the months of October, Novem
ber and December, there was slaugh-
What Other Cities Are Doing
In the Fight Against the Beef Trust
CLEVELAND, Ohio, reports whole- 1
sale price on beef dropped 15 cents
a 100 pounds and 20 cents reduction
on pigs; 125,000 people have joined
the anti-meat eating crusade.
Co-operative Meat Market.
DES MOINES, lowa, will establish
a co-operative meat market for the
poor.
Sharp Drop in Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, Pa., reports sharp j
drop in price of cattle from 25 to 40 ;
cents. There are some 140,000 people
joined in the crusade.
Fight in Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Term.—Trades and
labor councils will join in the move
ment to force lower prices for meat
from the beef trust.
Trades Council Leads.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala—The Trades
Council has inaugurated a movement
against beef combine and is asking
help and aid from Farmers’ Co-opera
tive and Educational Union and all
affiliated bodies.
Market Dead in New York.
NEW YORK.—“The market is
dead; agitation against high prices
did it,” was the declaration Wednes
day of a wholesale meat dealer.
The action of the local markets,
both wholesale and retail, confirmed
the dealers’ assertion. Lamb dropped
a cent wholesale, pork loin two cents
and some dealers in beef cut prices
a cent or more a pound. It was said
WRECK OH MEN
LINE WEDNESDAY
Understood That Con
ductor Howard Had His
Leg Broken. Details of
Accident Meagre.
News was received at the street
railway office at 3 o’clock of a col
lision at a point about four and one
half miles beyond Augusta of an ex
press car and the passenger car
bound for Belvedere. No details of
the wreck could be ascertained, but
it was said that Conductor Howard
had broken his leg and that there
were some other injuries. A relief
car was sent out in charge of Dr.
Wade.
Conductor Whitiaw is badly
and his condition cannot be learned
at present. The front end of the pas
senger car was splintered and the
express car was not badly damaged.
The ambulance of W. E. Platt was
sent out to the scene, going at a swift
gallop. • •
KENTUCKY QUAIL ARE
FROZEN TO DEATH
I LOUISVILLE, Ky—Whatever source
’of reliance the "Bob White” popula
tion of Kentucky may have found in
the statutes, it has none in the weath
er. Sportsmen have received reports
j from various parts of the state to
jthe effect that fully 30 per cent of
; the quail were frozen or starved to
I death in the recent snow. In Barber
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26, 1910.
tered for local butchers 1,986 heard
of cattle, 600 calves, 3,212 hogs and
165 sheep, a total of 5,963 head.
i wenty thousand head of live stock
a year are killed at this plant.
It is estimated that within easy
reach of Augusta, and in touch with
this market, there are 7,000 head of
cattle being fed and prepared for the
local market.
So it seems that Augusta is pretty
well entrenched for the campaign
against the Beef Trust. If you just
must eat meat, eat native home killed
stuff and see that you get it. Ask
your butcher if he handles native or
Beef Trust meat.
today that wholesale dealers were
stocked with thousands of unsold cuts !
of dressed beef with supplies still j
steadily flowing in.
“Beef will be cheaper by the end j
of the week than it has been in
years,’’ said another wholesaler. “Af
ter that the price won't go yJ' for
the supply will he cut down.”
All this is laid to the widespread
agitation against the use of food pro
ducts considered to be over-priced.
Force of public sentiment is shown in
the price drop, the dealers admit.
Grand jury investigation of food
combines, particularly of the alleged
milk trust, continued Wednesday. Dis
trict Attorney Whitman continued to
look into the cold storage situation
on complaints that the system is
largely responsible for the ability of
food dealers artificially to sustain
prices in and out of season.
Ten-Cent Meat.
LOUISVILLE.—A sign reading
“Beef steak and pork chops 10 cents
a pound” attracted so much atten
tion to a Porter street butcher shop
here Tuesday that two policemen
were necessary to control the eager
buyers: The fame of the "ten-cent
meat” spread throughout Louisville
and even to towns across the Ohio
river, ihe owner of the shop snys
he will continue to sell at the low
rate.
“I have r*3 telephone,’’ he says, "pay
small rent, slaughter my own cattle
and hogs and give my customers the
benefit of all this.”
CUNTINUE SESSION
BOUNDS 1 TRADE
National Body Take Up
Questions of Postal Sav
ings Banks, Currency
Reform, Ship Subsidy
and Conservation.
WASHINGTON—When the national
Board of Trade convened Wednes
day, it began taking up resolutions
as they were reported by various
committees. Several organizations
represented have submitted unquali
fied endorsements of a ship subsidy
support a merchant marine and this
subject in all likelihood will be un
animously endorsed.
Postal savings banks, currency re
form and conservation, it was expect
ed, would be reported favorably dur
ing the day by the committees which
had them in charge, the only debate
likely to ocur being on the form in
which the national body shall give
its, approval.
It also was expected that during the
day President LaLanne would appoint
the special committee of five to In
vestigate the causes of the present
high cost of living.
county hundreds of the birds were
killed by "pot hunters.” It is estimat
ed that 45 per cent of the quail were
wiped out during the regular hunting
season.
R.L. EfILLEKTiNE, FORMER POSTAL HONEY ORDER CLERK,
FILES CHARGES AGAINST POSTHASTES VAUGHN
Alleges in Effect Miscon
duct of Governmental
Affairs
Recites Case of Negro
Messenger Burnley. Says
Promotion Made By In
, fluence of A. W. Wim
berly, Colored.
Charges against Postmaster S. B.
Vaughn have been filed with the de
partment at Washington by R. L Bal
lentine, formerly money order clerk
here. The charges were filed early in
November with the first assistant
postmaster general, and their receipt
acknowledged, but with the privacy
that guards almost everything con
nected with governmental affairs, only
within the past few days has the fact
leaked out.
In addition the fact of the charges
lias been brought to the attention of
United States Senator Clay and Con
gressman T. W. Hardwick. The lat
ter, it is known, lias promised to take
up the matter with the department in
the effort to bring about an investi
gationof their truth or falsity.
Mr. Ballentine, who brings the
charges, states that he does so in the
interest of the patrons of the office
and not for any personal reason, inas
much as he resigned front the service
Dec. 31, 1903, after having been in
the postal department for sixteen
years. He is a well known Augustan
who is now running a large farm in
Columbia county.
The Charges.
.’ollowing is a copy of the charges.
The newspaper clipping referred to in
the last paragraph is not obtainable: ■
EVANS, —.umbia County, Georgia.
November 11, 1909.
Hon. First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Division of Appointments,
Washington, D. C.
sir: 'The term of the present post
master at Augusta, Ga„ will expire
early next year, and as you wiil soon
no doubt have to act upon applica
tions for appointment to that posi
tion, I desire to call to your attention
certain irregularities in the conduct
of that office which came under my
observation during my connection
with the service there in the capacity
of money order clerk.
In the spring of 1908, Paul Heymann
presented for mailing at the Augusta
postoffice, a large number.. ofpiece*
of circular mail (several (mailings of
2,000 or more pieces in each mailing)
with postage paid at the third-class
rate, the matter being accepted un
der the special permit without the
stamps affixed. The circulars con
tained two or more, in some instances
seven addressed return envelopes.
These mailings were accepted by the
postmaster, with the surplus envelopes
enclosed, over the protest of the su
perintendent In the office, who called
the attention of both the postmaster
and his assistant to the law, viz.: that
the enclosure of more than one print
ed envelope In a piece of circular mall
changes the classification thereof from
a lower to a higher class and, conse
quently, subjects such matter to a
rate of one cent an ounce or frac
tion, etc. Amended Sec. 474, Postal
Laws and Regulations.
As these circulars were mailed un
der the law permitting the mailing of
such matter without stamps affixed,
If presented In quantities of 2,000 or
more identical pieces, the postage be
ing paid in money, the number of
pieces mailed and the amount of rev
enue lost to the department can be
shown by the records of the office and
by the report made to the third as
sistant postmaster general at the end
of that fiscal year.
Mr. Heymann, the mailer In this
case, being one of the postmaster’s
principal bondsmen, suggests the ex
planation of this violation of the law.
The Case of Burney.
During the latter part of October,
1908, L. D. Burney, a negro special I
deli vary messenger in the Augusta
postoffice, suddenly disappeared from
that office and, although diligent ef
fort was made to locate hirn, no trace
of him could be found until he re
turned to the office after the expira
tion of several weeks. In the meantime
he had been dropped from the regis
ter as messenger, but was re-appoint
ed to that position by the postmaster
on December 20, 1908, in violation of
the postmaster general’s order No.
1,127, dated February 29, 1908. This
order and its applicability to this case
was pointed out to the postmaster, as
well as the Inadvisability of reap
pointing a messenger who had so con
clusively shown his untrustworthiness.
Lost Mail Bag.
During the Christmas holidays (1908)
this messenger returned to the post
office one night with a highly improb
able story of having lost a satchel
containing ten or twelve specials,
among which were three registered
pieces. His story was improbable, be
cause it was Impossible for him to
have dropped the satchel off his wheel
without his knowing It, as he claimed
to have done. He stated that he had
the strap of the satchel wrapped
around the handle bars of his bicy
cle and that he kept his hands on the
strap all the time. He reported at
the office at the usual time on the
following day and was allowed to re
sume his duties in spite of the im
possible explanation of the previous
night’s incident. The satchel, I was
informed, was found the next morning
in the passageway next th<* mall trans
fer room at the union depot. It was
impossible to escape the conclusion
that Burney became frightened and
put the satchel where he knew It
Mayor Gaynor Lives Strenuously
Mayor Gaynor, the energetic ch tef executive of New York, who Is an
advocate of the strenuous life in so far aft it related to walking In the
physical sense. Every day since his induction into office the mayor has
walked from his home In Brooklyn to his official office in olty hall,
Manhattan 1 . He has pfcached the doctrine of pedestrtanism. But the
recent blizzard in New York made him look Ihe same as the ordinary
citizen who has declared himself about the time or the New Year. The
mayor pounded It down hard that he would walk to and fro his honie
and office. He did. Then ho tried it to his suburban home, called
St. James -quite some distance out. lie lost lilh way in the blizzard, had
to be taken in charge by a neighbor who always wears ills collar open »t
the throat during the winter—and finally was put to bed waiting for
the local doctor's opinion.
Business Licenses Increased $17,000;
Prosperity Is Here, Says H. H. Morris
Ts that wave of prosperity here?
Is the city on flic boom?
Collector and Treasurer Harry Mor
ris thinks so. He had Just added a
long column of figures when the re
porter entered his office Wednesday
morning and he njade a statement that
quiets the talk about the town being
slow, about it not growing.
would be found and turned over to the
postoffice, thus giving color to his
story about losing it, although his
route that night never took him with
in several blocks of the depot. Bo
far as is known, the postmaster made
no effort to investigate Burney’s story
and allowed him to remain at work,
when he ought to have had him ar
rested and held for investigation ami
action by a postoffice Inspector. For
your Information, I will state that Bur
ls the son of a negro politician, a
member of the local political faction
dominated by A. W. Wimberly,. col
ored, and the faction to which the
postmaster owes allegiance, and the
presumption is that, the postmaster
could not afford to offend his political
allies by discharging the messenger
or taking action against him in any
manner.
“The Power Behind the Throne.*
’On October Ist, 1907, John Allen
Mette, a clerk in the S6OO grade, failed
to secure promotion, the postmaster
having certified to the department
that his record was unsatisfactory,
this being necessary to prevent his
receiving the promotion, It being oth
erwise automatic. Mette, sharing the
common belief of the employee of the
office, as well as of the public gen
erally, believing that A. W. Wimber
ly, deputy revenue collector, is the
power behind the throne in the Augus
ta office, called on Wimberly and ask
ed his alii in securing the promotion.
Mette afterwards stated to several of
the olerks In the postoffice that Wim
berly had told him ho thought he
(Mette) was entitled to the promotion
and that h<* would take the matter up
and have him promoted. Mette was
promoted to the SBOO grade on April
1, 1908, although, I understand, his ef
ficiency record did not authorize it.
It was the general opinion in the of
fice, and is now, that to “stand In”
with the postmaster, or a "pull” with
Wirnlu-rly is much more valuable than
a good efficiency record in the mat
ter of winning a promotion under the
present administration of the office.
Read the Newspapers.
During the month of ffetober, 1908,
the assistant postmaster was observed
a number of times by the clerks in the
offic e to take a copy of the Baltimore
Bun addressed to a patron of the office
and keep the same on his desk for a
period of from two to six hours for
the purpose of reading It. On one oc
casion, after retaining this paper in
his possession for practically one-half
day, the assistant postmaster took the
same to the private office of the post
master, who read it and thereby fur
ther delayed the delivery thereof him
self. The subscriber to whom this
was addressed, I understand, had on
several occasions complained to the
office of numerous delays in the re
ceipt of this particular paper.
The cases here cited are only a few
DAILY AND SUNDAY, SB.OO PER YEAR.
“Do you know,” he said, “that the
amount paid for business licenses this
year is in round numbers just $17,000
more than it was for.the same period
last year and that they are still com
ing in. This Is the place in which tin?
business growth of the city can be
best observed and I am glad to an
nounce It has been increased largely
during the year.”
of those which can be brought out in
the proper investigation of the office
by representatives of the department
and thoroughly substantiated by re
liable testimony. I feel no hesitancy
in saying that Postmaster 8. B.
Vaughn is absolutely unfit for the po
sition which he occupies, ami that the
deplorable manner irt which lie has
conducted the affairs of his office Is
a. disgrace to the public service. Ho
never had the confidence or the re
spect of the public in the beginning
of his term and his administration of
the office has not been such as to gain
it.
I desire to say In this connection
that 1 have no ill will toward the post
master at Augusta personally, and I
am submitting tills complaint to you
merely on behalf of the patrons of
the service hi Augusta.
On January, Ist, 1909, I retired from
the postoffice service to engage in
farming. As evidence of my record for
efficiency and faithfulness while in
that service, and that the severance of
my connection therefrom was volun
tary, I submit the attached newspa
per clipping, which speaks for itself
Very respectfully,
k. 1 4. baVlicntink.
OHIO JUDGE DIES
FROM PNEUMONIA
CINCINNATI, p.~Jutfen Albert, 0,
Thompson, of Iho United Slate* court
for the Southern district of Ohio, died
early Wednesday. Crip affected an
old bullet wound In the lung received
In the civil war at the battle or Bull
l Hun, which finally developed into
prnftinionla.
.fudge Thompson was born In 1842
at firookvllle, Pa While residing In
Portsmouth, 0., he served three terms
In congress.
A KEEN observer of business
conditions says: “The Amer
ican people are advertising-mad.”
They’re buying by ihe mark.
Do they know yours ?
kuidheds die
IS FLOODS THAI
SWEEP FRANCE
Situation is Appalling at
Cliareuton. Ivry and Al
fortvilla Five Feet Under
Water.
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4 Ready for Death. 4
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4 Hundreds of persons have per- 4
4 lshed in the Valley of the Doubs. 4
4 A whole family was rescued by 4
4 rescuers in an auto boat after 4
4 tile members had been swept 4
4 from a raft and the father, hold- 4
4 ing a revolver above the flood 4
4 was about to shoot the others 4
4 and kill himself. 4
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4 Situation Appalling. 4
4 CH A RENTON, France.—The 4
4 Hood situation here is appalling. 4
<► Ivry and Alfortville are especially 4
4 afflicted, their streets being un- 4
4 der live feet of water. Sixteen 4
4 thousand of the residents there 4
4 have been rescued, but 23,000 4
4 still remain helpless in the house- 4
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PARIS-The flood situation grows
worse hourly. At Pont Royal Wednes
day morning the raging torrent of the
Seine was 27 feet K Inches above low
water mark and was rising at. the rate
of nearly an inch an hour aguinHt an
hourly rise of less than half an inch
Tuesday.
Although tlm River Marne was re
ported stationary at Fretesous, to thn
east of Paris, the Fluvial Navigation
Department declares that the column
of water rushing down from Vonne
and other affluents of the Set no above
(Gontlnued on page three).
U. S. GOVERNMENT
STOPS SOIT i TOE
HEW YORK WORLD
NEW YORK.—The Federal govern
ment’s prosecution of the publishers
of the New York World was stopped
uy the Federal court here Wednes
day, Judge Hough in Ihe United
States circuil court quashing the in
dictment against the Press Publish
ing company, publishers of the World,
for alleged libel in connection with
the publications concerning tho Pan
ama canal purchase.
The Indictment waH thrown out on
the ground of lack of Jurisdiction of
Ihe court and for other reusons which
Judge Hough announced would ho
stated In a memorandum to he filed
later,
OFFICER BOYER SHOT
BY CAR THIEVES
Two Negroes Being Chased
by Bloodhounds Through
Congaree Swamps As Sus
pects.
COLUMBIA, 9. C.—Special Officer
9. H. Boyer was shot and dangerous
ly wounded in the Royster yards of
the Southern railway before dawn
Wednesday by two negro ear thieves
whom he surprised at work.
The negroes attacked the officer,
wrested his revolver from his hand
and turned it. upon him, then escaped.
Bloodhounds from the state penitenti
ary here are being used In tho chase
which has led into tho dense swamps
of Ihe Congaree.
BRITISH NAVAL ESTIMATES.
PORTSMOUTH, Eng.—ln well in
formed naval circles It is understood
that the ncxl British naval estimates
will provide for four Dreadnoughts,
two armored cruisers, eight, small
cruisers, twenly-four torpedo bqnt de
stroyers, ten submarines and 5,000 ad
ditional men.
