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SUNDAY, MARCH 30.
Bijou Tickets Will Be Dropped
From a Moisant Aeroplane Here
Manager R. B. Tant, of the Bijou
theatre, is to provide something by
way of excitement for Augustans
this week.
At the request of Manager Tant,
Chief Pilot S. S. Jerwan, of the Moi
sant Aviation School has consented to
fly over Augusta dropping 4,000
tickets announcing the attractions at
the Bijou for some time to come.
Augustans will do well to look after
these tickets as they fall. One hun
dred of them, printed on blue paper,
Augusta Next To Leaders in the
Y. M. C A. IVsembership Campaign
Augusta has a good start in the big
inter-city Y. M. C. A. membership
campaign which vras begun at 7 a.
m. Saturday in fifteen of the largest
Southern cities.
The local Y. M. C. A. finds itself
next to head on the score board which
attracted the crowd’s attention Sat
urday night on the corner of Broad
and Jackson streets.
The standing of the Y. M. C. A.’s
after the first day’s work, as was
given on the bulletin beard Saturday
night is>:
Jacksonville—63S points.
Augusta—629 points.
Nashville—ss7 points.
Columbia—442 points.
Charlotte —300 points.
Tampa—2ss points.
Greenville—22s points.
"Winston-Salem—2ol points.
Charleston —132 points.
Cclumbus—l3o points.
Greensboro—Bs’ points.
No P.eports.
Memphis, Mobile, Savannah and
Macon.
The fol lowing members of the Y r .
M. C. A. are the local leaders and
they are all striving to keep Augusta
toward the top of the list.
The leaders are:
Dr. W. E. Clark.
Will Love.
J. H. Fly the,
Inman Curry.
What Happens To Intrenched Privilege
When Public Opinion Gets Aroused
The Story of Thompson—Duk e of Gronchester, N. J. Who
Invented Planked Shad—Made Millions With His Race
Track and Owned a State L ekislature.
About twenty years ago a man liv
ing in Gloucester, N. J., made a name
end a fortune by developing a popu
lar summer resort in that unlikely
spot. He was a promoter and de
veloper with genius and daring. Be
cause the’ transportation facilities
were inadequate, he established his
own ferries from Philadelphia, built
his own trolley lines across the bar
rens to populous towns. He ab
sorbed the Delaware shery and made
it prosper. He built a great hotel,
surrounded it with countless means
of recreation, entertained tns of
thousands of plasure-seekers. When
we say that he also invented planked
shad, it will be seen that we speak
of a public benefactor.
William J. Th pson became a
man of note. Gloucester paid him
feudal honors; all southern Jersey
hailed him as great. He became a
political power. His public influ
ence was such that only a title could
express it. By common consent, he
was created ‘‘Duke of Gloucester,”
and half a state was his domain.
There came to him the great idea
of a race track, and he built it. There
were murmurs of illegality; but what
were these against the ducal decree?
Besides, he was meeting a public de
mand, serving a public necessity.
The average attendance was 6,000
daily, but 100,000 more followed the
reports in other cities. It was a.stu
pendous enterprise. Bookmakers —
scores of them —paid from $75 to S2OO
a day each for the privilege of tak
ing bets. A telegraph company paid
$3,000 daily for the privilege of send
ing the quotations and results to
brokerage offices —no, no, we mean
poolrooms—throughout the country.
Restaurants, side shews, saloons and
other enterprises fostered by the
track paid heavy tribute. Low gam
bling joints and dives sprang up
round about —a sort of “curb market”
to the big, dignified "exchange” with
in the fence.
Gloucester liked the excitement
FAIR PLAY FOR HOKE SMITH
(Atlanta Georgian.)
Casual reading of Washington dispatches to the newspapers of Geor
gia makes it pretty clear that there is an effort being made to p'lace upon
the broad shoulders of Senator Hoke Smith the entire blame for failure
of disappointed office-seekers in Washington to get as much political pie
as they expected.
Hoke Smith is big of brain as well as physique. He has been a hard
political fighter. He has taken the blows that were rained upon him
without a murmur. And he has returned them wherever he could with
tenfold power.
Naturally, he has his likes and dislikes, as all strong-minded men
have. He is not "all things to all men." There is no .doubt he is try
ing to play fair with the Georgia candidates for office, and the implica
tion so freely made that he is responsible for the failure of this, that, or
the other person to secure preferment is probably without foundation.
From his own statement, it is perfectly clear Hoke Smith was not a
party to the demotion of Senator Bacon. Bacon was the victim of
Bryan’s seniority fight, and it seems quite likely that other senators will
fall by the wayside as Bacon did.
The relations that exist between Smith and Bacon, it is satisfactory
to know, are of a cordial character, and Bacon himself absolves Smith of
all blame for his recent defeat.
It would be well for office-seekers to remember that Hoke Smith was
not sent to Washington by the people of Georgia for the purpose of se
curing offices. He was sent there to help in constructive legislation for
the benefit of all the people of the statek. Undoubtedly he is doing ail
he can for those Georgians seeking offices, but he can not obtain offices
for everybody, and there are bound to be disappointed aspirants for
places, who will naturally lay the blame of their failure upon Smith’s
shoulders.
Bryan’s seniority fight will continue and Wilson will cut the pie into
quarters, eighths, sixteenths or twenty-fourths, as he pleases Failure
to secure pieces of this pie should not be blamed .upon Senator Smith.
We counsel patience on the part of office-seekers and hope fgr fair
play for Senator Smith.
will be good as admission tickets to
the Bijou. One cf them printe3 on
white paper will mean a season pass
to the popular little house, and this,
by the way* is some concession.
It is expected as these tickets fall
from the 2,000 or 3,000 ft. mark, Au
gustans 'will be standing with their
mouths open awaiting the landing.
Much interest is felt in the flight of
Mr. Jerwan,’ and a more definite an
nouncement of the day of the flight
will be made later.
W. C. Lyeth,
T. M. Campbell,
O. D. Yopp,
George Hains.
The first day found considerable
rivalry among the various teams. Dr.
W. E. Clark got away to a good start
with a long lead over the others, hut
will have to hustle to keep it for
they are after him.
Will Love, T. M. Campbell and
George Hains have an equal claim for
the last place, but another day will
find them somewhere up the list.
Yopp, Lyeth and Curry had a
scramble for second place.
Altogether the first day of the cam
paign w-as most satisfactory and the
number of points scored in total near
ly equals the first three days’ work
of last year. The first day of last
year showed a total of 198 points as
against 629 for this year. The men
of the teams say that they will beat
the record by at hundred
per cent.
Standing of Teams for First Day.
Clark 237
Yopp 95
Lyeth 91
Curry 86
Flythe 45
Love f 25
Campbell 25
Hains 25
Total 629
and the profit. Its citizens venerated
their Duke as a generous patron and
his race track as a public benefac
tion! much as thoughtless and ill-in
formed New Yorkers regard Wall
street. Citizens who complained that
the resort was illegal, immoral and
degrading got scant sympathy. Grand
juries regarded bills of indictment
with contempt.
But the Duke undertook to fore
stall more dangerous attacks. To se
cure his power and .protect his invet
ment he elected a governor of his
own, took a legislative seat for him
self, and named one of his race track
starters as speaker of the house. A
bill legalizing betting on the races
was promptly passed. True, the Duke”'
governor so far forgot the respect
due to his patron as to veto the meas
sk; but it was swiftly passed over
his veto. This was in 1892. The Glou
cester race track and its disreputable
traffic were more lawful than the
stock exchange and its respectable
operations.
Will it be believed that a twelve
month later the whole beneficient en
terprise was a ruin? Such was the
lamentable end of the ducal ambition
Public opinion simply elected some
new legislators and instructed the
old ones, and, lo! the race track bill
was repealed, and a provision made
against a repetition of the scandal. On
Thanksgiving day, 1893, the last race
was run, the last bet won and lost
and the gates closed.
Today any explorer from Wall
street with a philosophic turn of
mind can find over in Gloucester a
scene pregnant with moral lessons.
The grand stand is a moleding ruin,
the paddock a waste of weeds, the
ptables, which once sheltered 2,000
horses, a refuge for bats. All that
stupendous investment has sunk into
irretrievable wreck. And when the
heartless public thinks of it at all,
it is merely to wonder that such a
plague spot ever was endured.
IHE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSiA, UA-
Monument To Four Southern Poets Which Mrs .
Cole Will Present To City of Augusta
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Chancellor Kirkland, of Vanderbilt,
Will Present the Cole Monument
Exercises That Will Be Held Expected to Be Very Impressive.
April 28th Next is the Date Set For the Presentation.
The Herald presents today the like
ness of the monument to the four
southern poets, Sidney Lanier, Paul
Hamilton Hayne, Jas. R. Randall and
Father Ryan, which Mrs. E. W. Cole,
of Nashville, Tenn., will give to the
city of Augusta on April 28th next.
The monument as the cut shows, will
be a handsome one and a location for
it has been selected on Greene street
in front of St. John Methodist church.
Mrs. Cole is presenting this monu
ment to Augusta in memory of her
father, Mayor Russell, who was chief
executive of this city many years
ago. Mayor Russell was also the
father of Mrs. Jahn J. Cohen and
PARTRIDGE INN, THRONGED WITH A
MERRY CROVt/D, NEARS END SEASON
Dinner After Dinner Being Given—Departure of Mr. Taft
Causes Stir—Polo Luncheon at Aiken By Mrs. Harry
Harkness—Those Who Have Arrived During Past Week.
Unlike any other winter resort. In the
south, the gay 4ife in Augusta will not
end with the passing of the Easter hoi
idays on the contrary for the next few
weeks this place will be the busiest lit
tle city on the map, and the great Influx
of northerners from the far southern
resorts stopping at Partridge Inn keep
the hotel filled.
Added to all this are the farewell din
ners, suppers and teas to the Taft partv
who expect to leave Augusta today, for
New Haven, and the hostesses of th.s
charming southern city are vying will
each other In their endeavors to enter
tain the Taft party, and consequently
the week has been a round of gaiety
both in the home's and at the Country
Club, where every morning the ex
president manages to have his daily
game of golf, followed always by a
Jarge gallery, who have watched the
marked Improvement In the distinguish
ed player’s game.
A large party of Augusta people
watched an Interesting golf match be
tween the Hon. William H. Taft and
Miss Augusta Wight of New York, and,
although the ex-president won, Ml s
Wight put up a hard game and was
roundly cheered by the spectators wh j
had followed the. exciting match. Miss
Wight has been spending the winter in
Augusta accompanied by Mrs. Slay back
of New York.
A number of Northern guests sojourn
ing at Partridge Inn were entertained
a* the Eater dinner dance given Easter
Monday at the Country Club. Many
private dinners were given, the Hon.
William H. Taft and Mrs. Taft being
guests of honor at the one given by Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas W. Loyless, the table
and Mrs. Geo. W. Hammell, of Au
gusta.
The ceremony of presentation will
take 'place in the afternoon about
5:30 o'clock and will be given to the
city in behalf of Mrs. Cole by Chan
cellor James Kirkland, L. L. D., of
Vanderbilt University. It will be ac
cepted in behalf of the city by Mayor
Hayne or some one whom the mayor
designates. The ceremony 1b expects
ed to be impressive. Appropriate
music will be rendered and the school
children of Augusta will doubtless
sing "Maryland, My Maryland."
The monument is expected to ar
rive here within a short time and a
cement foundation is now being pre
pared for it.
being beautifully decorated with great
bouquets of spring flowers.
The presence In Augusta of Dr.
Henry A. Tupper, epeclal commlssoner
of the International Peace Forum was
followed by a short lonferenco with Mr.
Taft, which was more of a friendly visit
than a political one, the call being made
while en route to Washington, where
Mr. Tupper went to see President Wil
son, with whom he had an engage
ment.
A gold knife Is one of the aouvenlers
Mr. Taft will carry away with him from
Augusta, for he was proudly presented
with the gift from the boy scouts of this
city with whom be shook hands and ex
pressed the wish to see them when next
winter he pays his annual visit to this
city.
Guests of Partridge Inn have been
participating In a merry whirl of din
ners, luncheons, and club suppers dur
ing the week, a most delightful dinner
party being given Tuesday night at the
Country Club by Mr. and Mrs. Paul A.
Korg of New York, who have been so
journing at the Inn the greater part of
the season. Those present were Mr. and
Mrs, M. W. Partridge Mr. arid’ Mrs.
Harry Harkness, New York; Miss Kuth
Martin, Pittsburg, and G. L. McHose,
New York.
A polo luncheon at Wilcox Hotel in
Aiken was given Friday by Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Harkness of New York, the
gueits motoring over there from Part
ridge Inn, and after luncheon those In
the party watched the exciting * polo
game on the Whitney field. Mr. and
Mrs. Harkness entertained Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. Partridge, Miss Ruth Martin,
Mr. arid Mrs. Paul A. Sorg, New Pork,
and G. L. Mellose.
At tho Country Club Friday, Mr. anil
Mrs. Harry Harkness entertained at din
ner, great bouquets of Kllarney roses
forming the centerpiece, while very
dainty souvnniors wore given to each
women present. Those at the dinner
were Mr. and Mrs. C. F. To turn, New
York; Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Sorg, Mr.
and Mrs. M. W. Partridge Miss Itlitli
Martin, Pittsburg and G. L. Me Hose.
A farewell dinner In honor of the de
parture of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Sorg,
and Mr. and Mo. Hurry Harkness will
be given Monday night by Mr. and Mrs.
M. W. Partridge at the Inn. It will also
be the celebration of tho birthday of
tho hostess. Covers will be }ald for
ten guests.
Guests who have registered at this Inn
recently are as follow*:
New York—A. D. Porter, Mr. and Mrs.
H. S. Harkness and maid, Mrs. A. D.
Porter, Miss Ethel Porter, It. C. Martin.
Irvington, N. Y.—Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Elsworth, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Elsworth,
Miss Erickson.
New Rochelle—Mr and Mrs. William
G. Tucker.
Lancaster, Pa.—Andrews J. Stelnman,
James Hale Ktelnrnan, Mrs. Andrew J.
Stelnman, Miss Stelnman, Miss Caro
lina Morgan Hale Stelnman.
Worcester, Mas.'.—H. Paul Ruskng
ham.
Garfletd i Mass.—Mr. and Mrs. L. Nlnls
Ballna, Kas.—Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Staples.
Dayton, O.—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. R
Edgar.
Boston —Mr. and Mrs Wiley B. Ed
monds, Mr. and Mr*. J. B. Phlppes.
Glean, N. Y.—Mrs. F. W. Kruse, Mrs.
George Larkin.
Chicago —Department store girl em
ployes of Chicago today began the
work or organizing a union to be com
posed of thousands efployed In State
street establishments.
Increased wages and better work
ing (jonditlons aro the objects Bought.
The girls will depend upon public
timent to hack them. They believe
the stir created by the Illinois Sen
ate White Slave Committee, when it
quizzed big department store heads
about wages paid girls, will give im
petus to the new movement.
Miss Mary McDowell, head of the
University of Chicago Settlement,
and Miss Mary O'Rellley, a school
teacher, are prime movers in the
work of unionizing the store em
ployes.
Philadelphia— John P. White, Inter
national president of the United
Mine Workers of America, announced
here Saturday night that a basis of
settlement satisfactory to the miners
has been reached with representa
tives of the Paint Creek Collieries
Company, whose miners in West
Virginia have ben on strike for about
ten months.
There are nearly 100,000 men on
strike in the West Virginia fields and
the expected settlement affects abbut
4,000 of them, according to Mr.
White. The strike of the miners of
the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal
Mining Company continues.
FRANCE EAGER TO JUMP AHEAD
GERMANY AS EUROPEAN POWER
Thousands of Men Already Working Strengthening All Forts
Along the German Frontiers. To Be Provisioned and Sup
plied to Stand Siege of Year if Necessary. Germany,
However, Will Soon Have To Give Up Struggle For
Supremacy, Say French, or She Will Go Bankrupt.
France Ready To Meet Any Move.
(By George Dufresne.)
Paris.—ln spite of* the feeble efforts
of some of the socialist leaders to
stem the tide there cannot be the
slightest doubt that the whole country
Is behind the government which is
determined to give an effective reply
to whatever move Germany may make
to strengthen her land forces.
Even In the dirigibles Germany will
not be permitted to remain ahead of
France. For an addition to the seven
large airships of 20,000 cubic metres
each, which wore ordered some weeks
ago, the war department is contem
plating placing an order with a French
firm, probably Clement Bnyard, for
10 even larger dirigibles with a car
rying capacity of 30 tons each and a
speed of about 60 miles an hour and
able to remain afloat at full speed for
two days without replenishing their
supply of petrol.
Thousands of men are already work
ing strengthening all forts along the
German frontiers and the men In
charge of tills work are all officers
who have followed the artillery duels
of the Balkan war at close range. All
fortresses are also to he provisioned
and supplied witli enough shells and
ammunition to stand a siego of a year
if necessary.
Give Up Struggle.
The people of France are not only
prompted by their patriotism, a feel
ing which IS no less strong among the
socialists than among the more con
servative parties, but also by the
knowledge thta the day Is not far off
when Germany will have to give up
the struggle for supremacy because
she will either have to do that or go
bankrupt abd In the meantime France
Is rich enough to spend two millions
to every one spent by Germany.
Of course the kaiser ami his advis
ers are fully as well nwnre of tills
fact as we are In France, and what
makes the present moment mi ex
ccedingly critical one Is that Germany
may risk everything on one card and(
attack this country with all her
strength before the Inevitable moment
comes when she will have lo cut down
her military expenses from lark of
money. A war Indemnity from con
quered France, this time not a paltry
five millions but of 25 or perhaps
even 50 millions of dollars would he
a God-send to Germany now and would
enable her to control the destinies of
Europe.
In spite of all the kaiser’s beautiful
I words about his love of peace, the
people of France distrust him and
their apprehensions are strengthened
by the unusual activity of German
spies In tin- neighborhood of the fori -
resses of Verdun and Nancy. All the
news which Is received here from re
liable soitrces In the lost provinces
of Alsace nnd Lorraine also confirm
that things nro much blacker than
anybody Is permitted to know.
The whole French people heartily
endorse the words pronounced In a
speech the other day by M. Mllierand,
the former socialist minister of war.
"It Is a question of life and death,"
he said. "Our military power Is tho
first elementary condition of our ac
tion In the world. What would our
diplomacy be worth If It were riot
supported by an army and navy ca
pable of meeting any eventuality?"
Increased Weight.
"What lends increased weight to M.
Mlllerand's words Is the fact that
even his bitterest opponents cannot
honestly accuse him of being a mili
tarist or a Jingo. Everybody knows
that he Is as sincere In bis belief In
socialism as ever, but he Is first of
all a Frenchman and a patriot, and
the apparent change In his attitude 's
merely caused by the fact that he was
temporarily placed in a position which
gave him an opportunity to see things
which are not to the ordinary
citizen. As he said himself: "Things
look different when you look at them
from the top from what they appear
to he, seen from below.”
France will go ahead strengthening
her military and naval forces, first,
because she feels It to be her dut)*,
and, second, because she feels that Just
as the kaiser wfts forced to give up
his battle with England for naval
supremacy, the day will shortly come
when he will throw up the sponge In
face of a determined French nation
and when that day comes we shall
have a mighty stride towards the es
tablishment of universal peace.
At a time when we had begun to
believe that Franco was at any time
ready to meet a sudden ■ hostile attack
a sensational revelation has been
made in a Paris paper, which fame as
a surprise to everybody and b"lng
well supported by figures It has proved
a most excellent argument In favor of
a stronger army.
Leavo the Color*.
The paper pointed out that a French
company of Infantry has 1l r > men at
the most. For various causes last year
the number was brought down to 109
men, and as th?t year wore on the
number was reduced to such an ex
tent that If war had broken out be
tween September 26 and January 1
each infantry company wopld have
only 16 men. This state of things.
It If! argued, will still exist when the
time comes round for men who have
put In their military service to leavo
the colors.
The doctrine of pacificism does not
find many supporters at the present
moment, when Germany is giving all
the emphasis she can to the teaching
of Trettsoheke, who believes that an
army Is the natural expression of a
country’s power and resources and
THREE
that in proportion as they increase so
must tlie army increase. An instance
of the temper of the young men In
the country has occurred at Bordeaux.
M. Ruysscn, professor of philosophy,
gave a lecture of pacificism at Stras
bourg under the patronage of a Ger
man society. A number of students
belonging to the "Action Frnncatse
organized a demonstration against the
professor. For two hours the demon
stration ißsted. The professor had to
be protected by police on leaving tho
university.
MS BF WENS
Social News and l ems of Personal
Interest
Athens. Ga.—phi Kappa Literary *o
held its regular meeting on Wed
nesday night. The subject for debatQ
'vna Resolved: That Unltd States sena
tors should be elected by a direct vote
of the people. After n .plriied debate
the decision was rendered In favor of
tho negative.
The contestants on the University de
bating teams which wi 11 represent .Geor
gia against Tulane and Washington and
Lee will he required to blind their pap
ers in by midnight of April 3rd. There
aro more than twenty men trying for
the four places.
The Senior Round Table was enter
tained on Thusday evening by Mr.
George William . After a lengthy and
Interesting literary pWgram delightful
refreshments were served. The work
of the Round Table which Is the local
chapter -cf the Sigma Upsllon national
fraternity has been consistently of a
high order during the year.
The University Glee and Mandolin
club gave Its Initial perdurmanc® on
Friday evening at Htono Stovall Chapell
at Lucy Cobb Institute. The occasion
was a brilliant social event and the per
formance was the most creditable that
tho University representatives havo
given In several years.
The Thallaas, the Unlveraliy Dra
matic club, Is w 1 t'klng on a play by Ber
nard Shaw. They will present It In Ath
ens In a short while, after which they
will make a short trip over the state.
For several weeks It was thought that
the cadent encampment would be clone
away with this year, It Is now rumored
that the regiment will go to Glnesvllle,
about the Inal week In April. The camp
was held In Augusta last year nut due
to the fact that Augusta did not submit
a high enough bid It was decided to go
to Gnlne vllle.
Mr. Edgar Band has returned to col
lege after a short visit to his parents
In Augusta.
Mr. Henry McGowan has returned to
the University afier a short stay with
his parents In Augusta.
Mr. Theodore Vontprecken has return
ed to college. He has been In Augusta
for several Weeks due to trouble with
his eyes.
Mr. John Rhency, of Augusta, w as In
the city lust week.
Akron, Ohio. Tile ranks of tho
striking rubber workers of this city
remain unbroken and the workers ap
pear to be more determined than
ever to end the miserable conditions
under which they have lived and to
inaugurate at least a living existence
for themselves and their families.
The manufacturers have seen to it
that for the past six years every ef
fort to organize tho rubber workers
of Akron was quashed. Now a spon
taneous revolt of all the rubber work
ers has accomplished what years of
individual attempts have failed to
achieve.
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Wouldn't It be nice within a week or
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