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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 Ifiwliiiil.Bl jjjjjj ~jjj~ l , - - : ■ -* \ ■ H K■ ' ’ v U‘UiHuSiHU!u?Ii! •• “■ ••*'* 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. $3.50 Free Receipt, For Weak Kidneys. 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