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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 9.
NAVAL STORES FIRMS
FORMED THE COMBINE
1 ll Sger
1
JACKSONVILLE WILL BE THE
OF THE BIG
MONOPOLY.
DOWNING COMPANY REMAIN
While the Brunswick Concern Will
Have Stock in the Consolidated
Company it Will Not Leave
the City.
Tint imtnence amalgamation ol
naval feti res interests, of winch the
News Inis previous!}' referred to, is
about to lane place, and as has been
re|M if J_.Au tnose columns, the Down
tu-, Company, of this city, will not
lose its identity in the matter, but
at the same time, will be among these
which is in he known as the Consoli
dated Naval Stores Company.
In tin., connection it will lie a source
of pleasure to Ihc people of this city
to know that the Downing Company
will not remove its business from
Brunswick, but will continue lu the
future, as in the past., to conduct its
business from this port.
In reporting the <a. o in its issue
of yesterday, the Savannah News
bays:
The Consolidated Naval Stores Com
pany, with a capital stock of probably
s2,Mm.i)oo, will be informally organ
ised In Jacksonville tomorrow. Ap
plication jor charter for tao new com
pany, which will take over the bust
ness of seven of the largest naval
stores lacpini: o concerns lyi the coun
try, will be made at once to the secre
tary of the slat of Florida, and on
November 1. it. i expected, the com
pany will be in a position to begin
opera .oils.
The consolidation of the naval stores
inti o is announced in the Morning
News three weeks ago has in tne in
tervening period approached rapi
consummation, and yesterday Mr. W.
C. Dowell, president of the Southern
NavafvStorcs Company, and the gen
erA#y accepted head of the new enter
prise, gave to the Morning News a
rtetinite and authoritative stat yieut
of i lie plans and purposes of the'‘con
solidation, more complete, extended
and spccino than as.y that has been
published.
The general feature of the organi
zation have become known through ar
tides published from time to time
in the daily and trade papers. Trust
general features included the names
of the constituent companies, the ap
proximate amount of capitalization
and tjie location of the headquarters,
other offices and shipping points of
the new company, but much of its
more intimate plans has hitherto re
mained locked in the breasts of tne
bold and skiHful business men who
have engineered We deal.
Companies in the Deal.
There are two Savannah companies
to be merged in the combine, the
Southern Naval Stores Company and
tne liilis-Youug Company. The other
constituent companies are the Down
ing Company, of Brunswick, the Mu
tual Naval Stores Company, of Jack
sonville, the Florida Naval Stores
and Commission Company, of Jackson
ville. the Gulf Naval Stores Company,
of Tampa and the Pensacola, the
West Coast Naval Stores Company,
of Pensacola. These companies rep
resent a present total capitalization
of about $1,250,000. ~
Five of the companies have already
catered into formal agreement to
cany out the combination and the two
remaining concerns, the Ellis-Young
Company, of Savannah, and the West
Coast Naval Stores company,’ of
Pensacola, are less intimately con
cerned in the deal in the matter of
formalities only. The consi nt of
their controlling spirits to the com
bination has already been secured,
and Iheir agreement to enter it made.
Tne consolidation will mark the re
tirement from business of.all the con
stituent companies save one. Six oi
the companies will go into voluntary
liquidation, their affairs will be wound
1 up and they will go out of business,
transferring their assets and good w ill
at an agreed valuation, to the now
concern and taking stock in it in pro-j
potion to the value of their present j
holdings. This stock, however, will i
not be held by the old companies,
which will be dead in law and fact,
but by their present shareholders.
Downing Cos. Not to Die.
The exception t:o the general rule of
liquidation will bo afforded by th<
Downing Company, of Brunswick,
which will not go entirely out of busi
ness. This company will take stock
in the new enterprise in propotion to,
the amount of Florida business it can
contribute, while it continues it own.
11s entrance into- the Consolidated
Naval Stores Company will mean a
reduction of about S3 per cent, of tin
business of the Downing Company.
The, headquarters ot the company
will be in Jacksonville and cilices will
be maintained Hi addition in Savan
nah, Pensacola, and Furnandina.
"The Consolidated Naval Stores
Company." said Mr. Powell, will
probably have a capital stock of $2,-
SUU,UUO. The capital was hxed origi
nally at s2,uuu,buo, and thus it stands
at present, but sbbo,ooo will, in ail
likelihood, be added to care tor the
business offered by- the Ellis-Young
Company and the West Coast Naval
Stores Company, which nave become
prospective menibci’M cl tile eoiieolida
lion since tne original agretintit was
i cached.'',.
Railroads are Responsible.
“Unquestionably,” tie said. “The
lirst year the company does business
it will divert from Savannah ldO.Obu
casks of turpentine and 350,01 >0 bar
rels of rosin."
"T'nat seems rather a pity,' it was
suggested.
"Why, yes," said Mr. Powell, “but
the conditions which made the tins
ter of head era to Jacksonville
imperative vn • rot of our creation.
.Nobody in < . oil stor s business
hero wanted to move, nor would we
nave dim. so it not boon lor the
actions of the railroads. When we
showed them the conditions taut ex
listed and asked tor better rates, so
as to lie aide to compete with otliei
ports, they made the charges for vari
mis services of transportation and
storage still more onerous; when wt
askeit tor bread, they gave us a stone.
At their door the responsibility loi
the removal of business from a long
stretch of their lines, us w 1J as from
this port, must lie. \
“In Florida an opposite policy has
been adopted. The present differen
tial against Savannah, and in favor
of Jacksonville and Fe.rnaud.ua lrom
points in Florida, is ten cent., a bar
ivl on rosin and twenty cents a cask
on turpentine. 1 have been informed
that when the new railroad commi.i
sion goes Into office in January the (lit
ferentlal will be increased to twenty
cents a barrel on rosin and forty cents
on turpentine, i have this from the
chairman of the commission himself.
"The commission ..as declared that
Florida products so far as practicable,
must b marketed in Florida port .
and it is taking uu 'effective method
of carrying tais policy out; ( ..cap
rates make the markets, and it wo
would do the basin' iTf- ■ > mn.it in
w here it is being liandb d.”
Major Downing, of the D; w.clue
Company, was not in the city yes
terday, he being in attendance a.t Un
meeting in Jacksonville, and therc-
could bt- bbtam'-d lrom
him m; the . >iu j - - : .
previously stated in tin :-<• columns.
Mr. Downing has admitted that ht>
company w.,1 be in the combine.
When seen by a News reporter some
time ago on this subject, Mr. Down
ing stated that while the Brunswick
the combine, it would not lose ii id'Ti
tity in Brunswick and would continue
to do business here, it is not known
whether or not the business here wilt
be decreased as stated in the. above
article;.
Glger Given Leadership.
Detroit, Mich, September 30. Gen
eral R. A. Alger, former secretary of
war, today formally accepted Gover
nor Rllk.s' tender of the adiriferitn ap
pointment as United States senator,
and Governor Bliss tonight signed
General Alger's commission as seua
itor.
BRUNSWICK. GAp WEDNESDAY, MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1902.
FUEL FAMINE
II MEW YORK
PEOPLE OF THAT CITY TRY TO
PURCHASE COAL FROM BRUNS
WICK DEALERS.
NOTHING DOING, HOWEVER
While the People in the East Are!
Paying §2O Per Ton for Coal
We Get it At The Same
Price as Last Year.
j The New York Journal says:
Hard coal at S2O a ton, soft coal at.
sl2 a ton.
That is the situation faced by the
people, v" Ii fail here and winter com
ing on.
The coal truth tins a monopoly, and.
like every other trust that has a mo
nopoly, it shows no regard whatever
for tile public's right. Bather than
grant a small advance In wages to its
underpaid workmen, it inflicts a fuel
famine upon the country.
Every home in the community suf
fers from this famine, the well-to-do,
is laying in their winter s supply of
coal, and the price quadrupled, and
this article scarce at that.
'The poor cauuut buy in quantity at
all at present rates. Coal at a cent a
pound is a luxury which povety must
deny itself, except by the infrequent
pailtull when absolute necessity force
ihc purchase.
Because oi' the famiuo prices at
which coal is solo, house rent lias
gime up. Bo lias loom ii.nl.. So has
board. Bo have ail things to which
the advantage can be shilled. The
consumers pay.
Schools and hospitals arc short ot
fuel. Factories arc embarrassed and
-ashy may nave to clone, throwing
men workmen out. oi employment.
The- whole business world is disturbed.
Capital is being pirn-in and, and when
capital is injured laonr is sure to ieci
Uio effect npcedly. 11<>1 <- 1b are curtail
ing their cape: and waiters find
t.icinsctvcH out of worn. Washwomen
piled tears as they re-1 use to take
clothes to launder at the accustomed
price, the cost of fuci leaving them
no profit, from their hard toll. Htgn
and low, everybody complains of the
astounding and sustained robbery,
l.et a spoil of coin weather conic,
as it nmy any day now, and there will
be torrent, despair and rage In count
ies:, humble homes.
There is a difference in Bruuswic.,
a great difference. One to one only
coal n fm, Coney & Barker.
Tin y are selling coal to the peo
ple of Brunswick al the same price
as last year; hard coal $7,60 pertou,
soft cod $6 per ton. But the prices
are good only to the people ot this
city.
Coney & Barker were offered by a
New York party over double these
prit ca yesterday, but They refused
to roll, preferring to serve the peo
ple of tills community.
MR. JONES IS IMPROVING.
Bruriswickiau Who Fell From Window
In Savannah Out of Danger.
George F. .lone::, the well known mill
man of Us city, who met with such
a serious accident, in Savannah Satur
day by falling from the second story
window of a hotel, was reported m lieu
better yesterday and is now thought
to be out of danger.
J. M. lilood worth, the business
partner of Mr. Jones, returned from
Savannah yesterday, where he has
been some Sunday, and says that Mr.
Jones is getting on nicely and will
recover. Mr. Blood worth says that
the Brunswickian receiver, severe in
juries, his nobu was broken, bis head
crusncd in several places and was
otherwise hurt. Me is now in a hos
pital in Savannah and everything pos
sible is being done for him.
Mrs. Jones is at the bedside of her
husband.
Court Pianist Dead.
El Paso, Tex., September 30.—Gil
laume Sauvlet, who played before no
bility on the European continent and
was at one lime court pianist to the
mikado of .Japan, is dead in El Paso,
where he came for his health. He
toured the United States with Eduoard
Remenyl.
LINEMEN JOIN
IN TOE STRIKE
+
TIE UP OF STREET CARS AT NEW
ORLEANS IS NOW ABOUT
COMPLEE.
ONLY MAIL CARS NOW RUN
Citizens Compelled to Ride in Vel
hides, Which Are in Great De
mand City May be
Placed in Darkness.
New Orleans, September 30. — The
strike of street car men, which took
place at daylight Sunday morning, con
tinues without a break. Three mail
cars ivere tlie only cars moved by
the railway company today. In the
absence of cars vehicles of all shapes,
sizes and styles were brought into
play and have done a thriving busi
ness.
The linemen of tne New Orleans
and Carrollton Light and Bower Com
pany, and also the linemen employ
ed by the New Orleans railway com
panies, all members of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, were ordered ouut on strike this at
ternoon.
The linemen have gone out in sym
pathy with t'ne street car men's un
ion. About seventy-live or eighty men
are affected by the now strike. The
New Orleans Hallways Company has
iiolliied the mayor that the strike of
their linemen will seriously Interfere
with the lighting of the city after
tonight.
It. may be stated that no breaks that
ruaj occur in any of the overhead elec
tric lighting wires or in any of the
trolley wires can be lixed. The trim
mer; ol the electric light, department
ran still Continue at their work, hut
these cannot mend the wires accord
ing to the laws ot their respective un
ions.
BEGAN TO LOVE IN GEORGIA.
Miss Ruth Hanna and Mr. McCormick
Plighted Troth at Thomasville.
Chicago, September 30.—Miss ltuth
Hanna, daughter of Senator Mark
Manna, hello of two Washington sea
zoms, despair of diplomats, foreign
envoys and titled notilemen and her
oine of half a dozen rumored engage
ments, is engaged to Joseph Medill
McCormick, of Chicago, son of Rob
ert S. McCormick, former ambassador
to the court of St. Petersburg, and
grand,-ibn of the late Joseph Medill,
founder of The Chicago Tribune.
The announcement was made to the
friends and acquaintances ol the
young pi ople today. The uate for
I the wedding was not made public.
The engagement of Mr. McCormick
and Miss Hanna is the outgrowth of a
charming romance extending over sev
en years. It bagen wben tbe young
couple met in Thomasville, Ga.
Miss Manna was a mere slip of a
miss of 1.4 and Mr. McCormick was
there with his grandfather, Mr. Mo
bil), and Miss Hanna with her father
while he was engaged in making his
first, round-up of the southern republi
can delegates just before Mr. McKin
leys first presidential campaign.
Among the poetic and romantic sur
roundings of the piney woods of Geor
gia their friendship ripened.
When the summer in the piney
woods came to an end Mr. McCormick
went to Yale and Miss Hanna to
Dobbs Ferry, but the memory of the
rides through the murmuring trees
did not fade from their fancies.
ALPHONSO iS ANGRY.
Discovered That His Mother Has Been
Secretly Married.
Madrid, September oo.—All Madrid
is astir today over the sensational
scandal which is reported to the ef
fect that the king has made the dis
covery of his mother’s marriage to
her master of horse, Count Esousura,
which is reported to have occurreu
some time ago, when the queen visi
ted Austria.
It is a well known fact that years
ago the queen plighted troth to the
count, but was compelled to marry
Alphonse’s father for state reasons.
Alphonso is wild over the matter,
and has had some very severe words
with his mother. He has ordered her
to go abroad with her husband, which
she Indignantly refused to do.
TARIEF AND TRUSTS
TO BE THE ISSUES
SPECIAL JEWISH SERVICES.
New Year and Yom Kippur to be
Celebrated Here.
Tbe Jewish holiday begin today,
and many of the stores will be closed
tomorrow, their New Year, will be
observed generally by all of the Jews.
Services during the holidays will be
held In the synagogue on Monk street.
Tonight at 8 o’coek the Roslt Hash
anah service will occur, Rabbi War
saw officiating. He will take as his
subject “Permancy of the Jew."
Another service will be held Thurs
day morning, which is the Jewish
New Year day. These services are
very interesting and our Jewish citi
zens extend an invitation to all to
attend.
HAD A HEAVY GALE.
Everybody Really Thought a Storm
Was Coming.
“There's a storm a-coming up.”
That was the general expression of
Brunswick people generally yesterday
about 1 o’clock when a heavy wind
came up, and for several minutes it
blew at a terrific velocity.
The wind did not last long enough
to do any damage in tne city, as it
only lasted for a tew minutes. The
large sign over the freight office of
the Sou.-.era railway was blown down,
several fences were damaged and a
few trees blown down, otherwise there
was no damage.
The people were looking for a storm
as the weatner tor the past few weeks
has been very tbreatmng. Just be
fore the gale It was unusually 'not
for this season of uie year and
everybody expected something from
tlie weather man.
A REGULAR HOLIDAY.
All Saloons and Jewish Stores of the
City Will be Closed.
This will be somewhat of a general
holiday in Brunswick and a majority
of the business 'houses will be closed.
On account of the election for state
and county officers all the saloons
will be closed for the day and this
being the beginning of the Jewish
holidays, all stores owned by the Jew
ish citizens will be closed, and the
city will have rather a quiet appear
ance.
BLOODY RIOT IN NEW YORK.
Factions From the Ghetto and Chb
nese Quarter Clash.
New York, September . —A stand
ing feud between two rival factions,
one living in the Ghetto and the other
near the Chinese quarters in this
city, came to an open battle tonight.
Nearly 200 people were engaged in a
riot, which became so fierce tnat the
police reserves wore ealld out. Clubs,
revolvers, kniyes, bricks and stones
were used by the rioters, and many
of the fighters were hurt. Thirteen
arrests were made. During the fight
the residents of many blocks were in
a state of terror and it was mree hour*
before quiet was restored.
The immediate cause of the fight
-was the beating of Mike Dove, be
longing to one of the factions. He
was so badly hurt Sunday night last
that he diyd, and his associates to
night determined to avenge his death.
The locality will be patrolled until
daylight t prevent a recurrence of
the outbreak.
MAKES THE GROWERS UNEASY.
Tobacco Combine May Cause Them to
Lose Money.
Raleigh, N. C., September 30.—The
combination, trusty If one may so
term it, formed by the mills of the
American and Imperial tobacco com
panies Is giving me ware houses and
the tobacco growers in North Carolina
no little concern. They tear that the.
| cutting off of competition will result
in a noatbly large decline in prices,
even though this decline may not be
-1 gin at once. The only hope is that
the great scarcity of the old crop
of tobacco may keep prices up. Then
| too, the trust will have to pay enough
j for leaf to make it an object to the
.farmers to grow it. A few years ago
prices were forced to so .uw a point
that, hundreds of farmers abandoned
tobacco. This year there was a large
increase in acreage, and prices have
been extremely remunerative.
Expected Today.
1 The Mallory steamer, due Monday,
is expected to arrive today. The
steamer Is late on account of the had
weather, and did not leave New York
on Lme. _
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DEMOCRATS IlfiE
HARDITWORK
ON THESE TWO LEADING ISSUES
THEY EXPECT TO WIN IN
COMING ELECTION,
OTHERS ARE RELEGATED
It is Believed That all Elements of
the Party Can Get Together on
Platform and That it
Will Win.
Washington, September 30. —In the
opinion o£ the managers o£ the demo
cratic congressional campaign there
is now but one Issue, and that is
rather a double-joined affair, taking
in both the trusts and the tariff.
The managers are giving all their
attention to the development of this
issue, and have abandoned tne other
questions which a month or so ago
were deemed of sufficient importance
as to occupy prominent places in the
democratic textbook.
The attacks of Senators Carmack
and Patterson on the administration's
colonial policy, delivered during tue
debate on the Pniiipplne government
bill at the last congress, the bitter
talk about imperialism and the pam
phlets against ship subsidies and the
so-called scandals of the present ad
ministration, nave all been tossed
aside at me committee headquarters
from which there is now being issued
only anti-trust and tariff revision do
cuments. Even the old dyed-in-the
wool silver democrats are warming up
to tiie new situation, and seem in
clined to forget their idol of 1890 and
1900 in the prospect of anew and
victorious issue, a. democrat who
was prominently identified with the
Bryan free silver movement said today
that he saw no reason way ail the
members of tae party should not unite
on the common platform of anti-trusts
and tariff revision. Chairman Griggs
is following up the advantage gaineu
in the Speaker Henderson episode and
is losing no opportunity to press it.
The democrats are pounding i.he pre
sent high tariff rates all along the
line, but especially where uiey give
excessive protection to trust-made ar
ticles. The duty on steel and iron
and products of these materials and
on plate glass are conspicuous ob
jects of attack, probably jjfeause of
the fact that powerful trusts control
the great bulk of these articles. Since
tne talk of President Roosevelt favor
ing the appointment of a tariff com
mission to consider revision of the
schedules, there is no longer any
doubt that it is only a matter of time
before the Dingley law will be amend
ed.
tt is likely that the United States
Steel corporation will be directly ef
fected as muuch as any other com
pany by the tariff pruning. Recent
statements from the officers of this
powerful trust show that they appre
ciate the situation, and may offer no
objection to reductions in tne duties.
Atlanta Is In It.
Official announcement has been
made by the Southern Railway of the
removal of its General Freight Depart
ment from Washington to Atlanta, Ga.
on October Ist, 1903. The general
freignt agent, Mr. E. A. Nlel, and
Assistant general freight agent, Mr.
E. Green, and their forces, left Wash
ington on September 27th and these
officials announce that communications
intended for them should hereafter be
addressed care of the Equitable bldg.,
Atlanta, Ga.
New Millinery Store.
Attention is directed to the ad. of
the Kenner Millinery Company else
where in this issye. This new firm
will open for business today at 310
Newcastle street, with a full line o£
everything in the millinery line. The
store is filled with all the latest styles
of hats and is in charge of people
who have had many years experience
in the business.