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THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 49. RIFLEMEN’S FAIR OPENS-MONDAY ■ EVENING / ^ — It Promises to Bea Very Successful and Bril liant Affair MANY ATTRACTIVE FEATURES During the Entire Week Each Night Will be Given Over to a Special Occasion—Those in Charge of the Booths. Tomorrow night the Riflemens’ fair will open under the most flattering auspices and with every prospect that it will be the most brilliant and suc cessful fairs ever given here. Tne ladies in charge have been hard ftt work for several days decorating the booths and the armory already presents a beautiful appearance. To morrow the finishing touches will be put on and the booths stocked with the quantities otf beautiful articles that, have been bought for or donated to them. Tomorrow evening the fair wil open with a grand military prize drill, fine music and dancing. Mr. Constant Miller has generously undertaken to furnish the mimic for the fair and has organized an orchestra composed of the beet talent in* Brunswick, aided by spendid talent from Savannah. Mr. Miller is the pianist, and this fact, added to his ability as director, in sures the best of music. Tuesday evening there will be a grand concert, participated in by the best talent in this city, under the able direction of Mins Helen O’Connor. Admission will be free and visitors to 'the fair will hear a first class con cert to add to the pleasure of the gySifeg-. _ k military night and thSTprecence of the Way cross Rifles will add greatly to the occasion, the company having ac cepted the Riflemens’ invitation to at tend. The company will go through a prize drill, the winner to receive a pair of handsome diamond cull but -olns' i I .l^;A,sz. Thursday evening will be secret order night, when the Elks, Knighta of Pythias, and other orders will at tend. Friday evening there will be a cake walk, taken part in by a number of graceful little people, who will con test for a prize cake. There will also be a spelling bee in which a number of prominent gentl men will demonstrate their proficiency in orthograpny, the most successful to receive a prize. Saturday aiternoon the baby show will be the attraction, -and all the pretty and handsome babies of the city will be on dress parade to await the judges’’ decision afs to which of them shall win the three handsome prizes offered. After the baby show the little folks will enjoy a masquer ade ball and every child in 'Bruns wick is invited to attend in costume or not, but the ladies hope many will be in costume as a prize will be given for the best costume. The following is a list of the chair men of the various booths with their assistants; Ladies Home Journal Booth, Miss Boyle, chairman; assisted by Mrs. A. 0. Blanks and Miss Lula Burdett. Fancy Booth, Mrs, J, B. Davis, chairman; assisted by Mrs. C. G. Bradley, Mrs. W. H .Bowen, Mrs. Kate McKinnon, Mrs. J. B. Wright, Mrs J. A. Montgomery, Mrs. M. E. Ball, Misses Armee Girvin, Maud Gir vin, Ida Borchardt, Irene Wood. Doll Booth, Miss Susie Lamar, chair man; assisted by Mrs. I. N. Bishop, Mrs. C. H. Jewett, Mrs. Ralph Tup per, Misses Rebecca Brown, Estelle Brown, Marie DeVoe, Maud Nighten- Bl®( i ' „ , Household Booth, Mrs. J. D. Sparks chairman; assisted by Mrs. R. R. Hop- Kins. Mrs. J. A. Butts, Mrs. J. J. T.ia-raer, Mrs. W. H. Wood, Mrs. W, rf, LeVoe, Misses Bessie Symmes, Lucii.o nutts, Kita McKinnon, Les lie Butts. iJ-' Flower Booth, Miss Sadie Dart, chairman; assisted by Mrs. J. F. Baya, Misses Ella Burdett, Susie Kais ton, Genevieve Ralston, Susie Gale, Mamie Burroughs, Minnie Gray. Huyler’s Candy Booth, Mrs. J. A, Montgomery, chairman; assisted by Mrs. U H. Haym, Mrs. H. W. Gale, Misses Clara Lamar, Margaret Young, Mynue Marks, Ethel Elliott. Gypsy Tent, Mrs. 3, B. Dart, Supper room, Mrs, H. L, Mine, A BIG EDUCATIONAL MEETING. Many Educators Will be in Atlanta Next Week. One of the most important educa tional meetings ever held in the south will be the fourtenth annual session of the Southern Educational Association to be held in Atlanta on December 30 and 31 and January 1. A program, covering almost every phase of educational wark has been prepared and those who will deliver addresses and read papers are among the leading educators in the United States. Among these will be repre sentatives of the Peabody and South ern educational boards, who will ad dress the convention on the work of their respective bodies. There are fifteen states covered by the association and one feature of the 'convention discussions will be the needs of these states and the meth ods of advancing their educational in terests. This will be accomplished by a’general exchange of ideas as well as special addresses. A great deal of interest in the com ing convention has been awakened ail over the south and in Atlanta those lterested in education are busy propar ing for the advent of the visitors. The headquarters of the convention will be at the" Piedmont hotel and the details of the convention are now being ar ranged by committees in Atlanta] Travel Heavy. The travel in this section of the country is fast growing heavy, as the northern tourists are daily seeking warmer climates. During the past week quite a number of northern peo ple have arrived here, while the dif ferent Florida resorts are expecting the largest crowd that has ever come south. CROSS TIES ARE TIED IP —♦ — A Whole Cargo of Them In the Courts Just Now entire cargo of crosß ties were ?Hzed yesterday by officers of Justice Lambright’s cdurt to satisfy a suit brought in that court by the Mallard Forwarding Company, of this city, against the Howard Supply Company, a corporation having a local repre sentatie in Brunswick. In the suit filed yesterday, which is made returnable to the May term ot the Glynn superior 'court, it is alleged by the plaintiffs, the Mallard Fordwarding Company, that the de fendants, the Howard Supply Com, pany, is indebted to them in the sum of $1,300, which is due and unpaid. The cargo ot'ties, which are now on the wharves ready for shipment, have beentaken; in charge bthe court and will be held until some adjust ment ot the matter lsfhad or until the case goes to trial on its merit. The Mallard Forwarding Company is represented hy Krauss & Sheperd. NiEW RULES 1 FOR DELIVERY. Railroad Commission Fixes a Scale for Livery Boys. The railroad commission has estab lished rules fixing a scale for the delivery of telegraph messages in ci ties. These rules are as follows: “In cities or towns having less thn 5,000 inhabitants, according to the most recent census, no extra charge shall be made for the delivery of tele graph messages to the addresses there within a radius of oine-halt' mile of the office of the delivering telegraph company, “In cities or towns having 5,000 in habitants or more, according to the most recent published national cen sus, no extra charge shall be made for delivering such messages within a radius of one mile from the office of the delivering telegraph company. For delivering one or more messages by one messenger to one address be yond the limits mentioned, the deliv ering company may charge 15 cents for the first mile or fraction thereof beyond such limits, and 10 cents for each subsequent mile or fraction thereof beyond such limits. Wherev er practicable, bucli telegraph com pany may deliver messages by tele phone upon written request of the sender or the addressee thereof.” chairman; assisted by Mesdamef, F. j D, Aiken, M. C. Rowe, J. J. Wimber ly, G. O. Wilder, C. Symmes, L. Hurst, Horace Dart, C. L. Elliott, H. S, McCrary, E, C. Peerson, M. Kaiser, I J, A. Smith, J. E. Ross; Misses Leola Calvin, Ada Cook, Kathleen Norris, Slinor Norota, BRUNSWICK KEEPS ■ UP GREAT PACE She Outclasses Many Ri vals in the Shipping Industry AND MAKES A GREAT RECORD The Manufacturers’ Record of Balti more Presents Facts That Should Appeal strongly to the People of Brunswick j Baltimore, November 28. —A sug gestive reflection of the generally re cognized importance of southern ports in American commerce is given in a sturdy of this week’s issue of the Manufacturers’ Record of the imports and exports at those ports, together with the figure of their respecive pop ulations, in comparison with similar facts about other ports of the coun try, although it embraces but about 30 per cent of the total area of the country and contains lesß than one third of the population. During the pjpst fiscal year, too, southern ports handled mare than 35 per cent of the total exports of the country, while of the 538,418,613 in crease in the value of exports over the preceding year $35,342,395 was at southern ports. It is thus seen that the south is doing much more per capita in the production of material foil- American commerce and in the handling of it than the rest of the country. When comparison is made of individual ports upon a similar basis using the latest figures available of population, those of 1900, and of com merce, those of 1903, the striking ex hibit of southern ports in comparison with those of the rest of the coun try is made. Of the seventeen typical ports, Gal veston has the heaviest commerce per each of its inhabitants, $2,795, follow ed by Newport News, Savan nah, $1,017, Brunawick, $948, Pensa cola, $832, Wilmington, $727, and New, Orleans $Ol9. New York, with $327, is less than all of these aud also less than tobile, 438, and Portland, Me., $378, San Francisco, with $204, is clone to Norfolk’s S2OO and less than Tampa's $248 and Baltimore’s slls. Of the selected ports, Charleston has the least weight in the south per iy habitant, $124, and Philadelphia the *east in the west of the country $lO3, while Boston's $3lO is lea* than Hie weight of eight sutnera ports. To he sure, when it iB borne in mind that comparatively littli of the commerce actually originates in the ports which handle it, tins per capita idea is merely suggestive How sug gestive it is, though, is apparent when it is realized that Savannah, w th 54, 000 inhabitants, has a commerce an nually of $55,000,000, while Bortland, Me., with 50,000 inhabitants, has a commerce of $18,000,000; that New Orleans, with 287,000 Inhabitants, has a commerce of $177,000,000, while Bos ton, with 460,000 inhabitants, has $3,000,000 less. That many of these southern ports are destined to be far greater impor tance is shown by the figures of their commerce during the past twenty years compared with those for othei ports. L . i ... Between .1883 and 1903 the value ot the exports and imports increase! from $1,547,020,316 to $2,445,889,552, or $898,869,236, equal to 58 per cent. This rate fo increase was exceeded by Newport News, which had an advance ot 1350 per cent; Pensacola, 605 per cent; Brunswick, 452 per cent; Mobile 422 per cent; Galveston, 239 per cent; Wilmington, 207 per cent; Savannah, 136 per cent, and New Orleans, 69 per cent, o£ the southern ports, Tampa making an advance in tea years of 677 per cent, and by two oi the other ports—-Philadelphia, whicu had an ad vance ot 85 per cent, ot Portland, 238 per cent. The rate ot New Yoik, which handled 55 pet cent ot the to tal commerce in 1883 and 16 per cent in 1903, was 31 per cent, which was exceeded by Baltimore’s 57 per cent, and was slighly greater than Bos ton’s 29 per cent. Two ports on the Atlantic coast and one on the Pacific, Charleston, Norfolk and San Fran cisco, showed a rate of decrease of 70, 49 and 22 per cent, respecively. Will Meet Tuesday. The commissioners of roads and revenues of Glynn county will hold their regular monthly meeting at the court hourt* Tuesday. Only routine natters are scheduled to com* up. BRUNSWICK, GA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1903. IFIVEMILES MORE IRON FOR B, & 8, ■ 4 This Amount was Ordered By the Management * Yesterdty IT WILL ARRIVE SPEEDILY The New Material is to be Used on Construction Beyond Ocilla—Gen eral Situation Is More Cheer ful Than Before. The fact that the Brunswick and Birmingham is to be pushed on its westerly course iji-the face of state ments to the contrary, is best evi denced by an occurrence, which hap pened yesterday, when General Man ager Berry, of that line, placed an or der for five miles of iron to be de livered at once and to he used on thi I construction of the line west of Ocilia. The News also has it that like or ders have meen placed with the man ufacturers for delivery, at such ,stated periods, as will best meet the de mands of the construction of the iim Conning at this time, when the an has been rife with all sorts ofru rnors as to the fate of the road, tilth should be very gratifying news to the friends of the line and to those who realize its great importance to the city of Brunswick. These orders, it is understood, were at the direct instance Chairman Hyde, of the board of directors, whom, it will be remembered, was in the city p week or two ago and looked very Closely Into the general condition of the B. & B. from every point. Along with this announcement also comes the one that the freight and passenger business of the line is on the increase and that all trains are better managed and are making the schedule in a more satisfactory man ner than has been the case in a very long time. All in all the outlook for thU prop erty seems to bA In a move cheerful ’cnf.dlrton at it his saett sinco the actual operation of the road was begun. IS LAID IN RUINS Fernandina Visited By a Serious Fire Yes terday Information was received in the city last night of a very serious confla gration which visited Fernandina yes terday and destroyed property in the businesss section of the city to the amount of $50,000. An effort was made on tliu part of The News to get the particulars of the fire, but the first news of it was received here so late that it was al most impossible tot get anything spe cific on the subject. It is understood, however, that the blaze originated in the large McNair mill and ior awhile had full sway and on the whole destroyed property in the amount stated above. The report is that the most serious damage sutained by the property own ers was among those located along the river front. Who Will be Chief? New York, November 28. —Monday there will be held an examination for an eligible lint for chief of the fire de partment of the city. The examination will be held under the auspices of the municipal civil service commission and all the deputy chiefs will try, as none else is eligible. The eiegible list will be ready in December so that in case Chief Hurray, resigns, as it is not expectfed he will. Commissioner Sturgin can name his successor. In Holiday Attire. Many of the Brunswick stores al ready present a holiday attire, and many Christmas goods are on exhi bition. Our merchans have all se lect ’ full lines this year, and they expect to enjoy a good busines, Riflemen's Prize Drill. Considerable interest in being mani fested in the Riflemen’s prize drill which will occur tomorrow night in their armory at the opening of the fair. The best drilled man will b presented with * medal, - TINT! MS FOR A KILLING * Judge Parker Sends Young White Man Up for That Period CASE WAS A VERY BAD ONE H. C. Joiner, Who Murdered Agent of the Southern at Odum, Reaps the Harvest of His Heinous Crime in th e Courts. In Wayne superior court yesterday morning, H, C. Joiner was convicted of murder, with a recommendation tq the mercy of the court, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a period cf twenty-years, the full limit of the law unde- the circumstances. Solicitor General Bennett was dis qualified in the case and the prosecu tion was conducted by Judge J. W. Bennet, of this city, and W. W. Os borne, solicitor of t e Savannah cir cuit. The. defense vas represented hy Attorney E. D. G: ham and a num ber of Jesup attorno s. The crime for v lich Joiner will serve twenty years will be remem bered by readers of The News as hi ing a very heinous one. Joiner, in a half intoxicated condition, assault ed D. V. Kennon, She agent of the Southern railawy at Odum, and with out the slightest provfacation, suc ceeded in cutting him to death with a pocket knife. Kennon was one-armed and had but one leg, and, it seems, had two al tercations with Joiner, both provoked by the later. In the first one he was armed and could have killed Joiner, but for the fact that the latter's wife appeared on the scene and begged for mercy, finally taking her husband away. Joiner, later in the day, returned and made another assault and alter a desperate battle with the deformed man, succeeded in fairly cutting him to death. .The case lias - been on trial i'* ( last Wednesday ami met ing has been injected into it. The murdered man was highly es teemed aud the drunken condition of the defendant ad the suffering oi the wife seem to have been mitigating cir cumstances with the jury. MR, WLSON GOES TO CHICAGO. 9t. Simon Hotel Man Left Laet Night But Will Return Shortly. G. W. Wilson, who, with his asso ciates, is to erect the new hotel at St. Simon, and bring a large colony to Frederica, left for Chicago last night, where he goes on some urgent busi ness matters which will detain him for awhile, W. T. Taller, who is interested with Mr. Wilson, and who also comqs from Chicago, will remain in the city and will devote his time to a general su pervision of the improvements that] are to be made both at Frederica and at the site for the construction of the hotel. Both of these gentlemen are clever, affable ones and have made a host of, friends in Brunswick who will wish them the very fullest, measure of suc cess in their enterprise. Mr. Toiler will for the present de cide his time between the Island and the city. PATTEHbON FIGHTS SLAVERY. Tennessit- Senator Introduces Bill Against Servitude. Washington. November 28.—Repre sentative Patterson, of Tennessee, has Introduced a bill to abolish .slavery in the Philippines and to abrogate the treaty between the United States and the sultan of Sula. Representative Hepburn introduc ed a 1>i)l known a the “pure food l,:il,” being the san measure which •a as reported last engross by the committee on inter ate and foreign commerce. Representative 5 iter, of New Jer sey, introduced a V to provide fr a utional military i ark commission. The bill abolishes he present perk commission after .1 ily 1, 1905. flio new commission is i.o consist of five members to be app nt.ed by the i res ident from civil war veterans ami two of them from the confederate army. A salary of $3,000 for each commis sioner Is provided. He also introduc ed a bill restoring the army canteen. The bill provides that fermented malt beverages and light wines, but no ar dent spirits, may be sold in post ex changes and no transports under reg ulation* to b* prescribed by the sec retary of war, WRECK YESTERDAY ON A. & B. Passenger Train Daehee Into Open Switch at Chatterton. Information was received in the city last night of quite a serious wreck on the Atlantic & Birmingham railroad at Chatterton, a small station about seven miles from Nicholls. It seems that a passenger train, run ning at the usual speed, dashed into an open switch at that point, but, very 'fortunately, the engineer seems to have used good sense and applied all of the remedies in such cases, the result being that the affair was less serious than would have been the case otherwise. As it was, it is understood that the train was badly demolished and that a number of persons were more or less seriously injured. LOCAL LODGE TO OBSERVE DAY. Brunswick Elks Will Hold Memorial Services Next Sunday. On Sunlay hext, the lodge of Elks of this city, in common with all lodges of the state, will celebrate the me morial mortal day of the ordar. This is a day set apart hy the grand lodge for the observance of a general memorial of all members of the order who have died during the current year. The lodge in this city has ar ranged ai very appropriate program, a number otf prominent members of the order will make addresses and the affair promises to be both instruct ive and interesting to the members of the lodge and their friends, who Will be invited on this occasion. The exercises will be held In the Grand opera house. FIGHT FOR THE MONEY —f —• Capt. Carter is Now to Seek the Long “Mazuma” Captain O. M. Carter, well known by many people of this city, for during his official life, in charge of the de -„rr-of the engineers at Bavan eat a* as a frequent visitor to Bruns - m had "many friends here, yes terday finished a five years' sentence in the federal prison at Leaven worth, and is now a free man. With Carter’s release there begins doubtless what will be a long legal light for the possession of cash se- curities amounting to more than a hall' million dollars, the money he was convicted of having obtained by conspiracy with Benjamin D. Ureene and John F. Gaynor, from the govern ment which gave him his education and a position of honor and compe tence during his life of guod beha vior. f, Tile actual amount of Carter? * share in these ill-gotten gains hap be%t found to be some $722,(100, of wbieli he spent $150,000 in his defense be fore the cuurtmartial that convicted him. The government is in possess ion! by seizure of about $500,000, lo cated and attached by District Attor ney Marion Erwin, of the southern district of Georgia, now also assistant to the attorney general for the pur poses of this litigation, while some $70,000 still remains hidden, and with which Carter will, no doubt, make his fight for the half million, if he can lay hands on it without discovery by the United States officials. It will bo .seen, therefore, that Car ter’s release from prison by no means terminates the case which has be come as famous in this country as that of Captain Dreylus in France, though from entirely different causes. The burden of proof is on the government, it is true, to show that the property seized is that which Carter acquired as the proceeds of his conspiracy to defraud the government; but Mr. Er win says he has followed the cash and securities so seized step by step, and is able tet present conclusive proof that .they represent money which came direct from the United States treas ury, or, to be more accurate, from the United Stales subtreaqury in New York city, since that is where Car ter's checks wore payable. But thoqe whoi know Carter know that he is a man of determination, a a fighter, who will seek in the liti gation now to eome not alone the re covery of the fortune to which the government has set up claim, but vindication. During his trial, extend ing practically ovetl twenve months, and hts imprisonment of more than four years, not once has he wavered in his assertions of innocence. “It is persecution,” he remarked frequently during the course of his trial and following. 'lt i* another case of Captain Dreyfu*,’’ PRICE—FIVE CENTS. .CITIZENS’ CLUB TO NOMINATE A .. ran —♦ — A Mass Meeting of Regis* tered Voters Called for Wednesday Night 10 CONSIDER THE MAI TtK Several Names Have Been Mentioned, BUt it Cannot be Stated Who Will be Placed on the Ticket The members, friends and sup porters of the Citizens’ club wilt hold a big mass meeting at the city hall on Wednesday evening, De cember 2. for the purpose of nominat ing an aldermanio ticket to be pre sented to the people of the city ot Brunswick at the election to be held on December 8. All registered voters of the city am cordially invited to attend this meet ing aud participate in the delibera tions. Who will be selected at the gath ering to make the race loir the lour vacant places in council, oi course cannot be said. However, a mini her of well known business men o£ the icity have been mentioned in con nection with the plates and it is saia to say that four good men will be placed in the field. . The meeting in question, while in ai fashion, is called under the auspice. 1 * of the Citizens’’club, will, in no sense, be a factional affair, and all registered voters ot toe ciij ol Urunnwicit, with out respect to past or present polit ical affiliation, me invited' to attend tne meeting, which promises to bq a very large and thoroughly represent ative one. During the course o£ the evening, in addition toi toe routine work of nominating a ticket, a, number ol_ ad dresses will be mane by ■ prominent, tn-uuswicfcians and the issues <jf tu*. campaign will be discussed in a man straightforward aud business-likq fashion, WILL OPEN IN A FEW DAYS. Hunter's Pharmacy Will Resume Again at Same Old Stand. R. E. Hunter, of the Hunter Phar macy, requests The News to say that his lirm will announce ready for bus iness again in the course of a fowl days, and will be in position to serve his old patrons. 5- In the meantime the concern is now. ready to refill all prescriptions that need to be duplicated. The friends of tile concern will bd pleased to know that they ure about ta arrange their financial matters to the satisfaction ol ail parties at In terest. SOME SPECIAL SERMONS. Rev. Wyllys Rede to Introduce a Ser ies at St. Mark’s Church, During the present winter, Rev, Wyllys Rede, of St. Mark's church, is to deliver a series of plain sermons* treating on the questions of practi cal religion. Theso sermons are to be delivered each Sunday night an<i they will be ushered in this evening, when Dr. Rede will speak from thq text, “What is Jesus Christ to Me?" Dr. Rede has had a great experience of this clas.s of special work and ha has found it to be very successful and beleives it will be so in this city. .Ml are cordially invited to hear tiiead sermons. _ TO HONOR M’CARREN, Great New York Leader Will bn Feasted in New York New York, November 28. —- Mon day night at the great, dinner to Sen ator McCarren will take pUce in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. It is said upon lb'- best authority that neither Hugh McLaughlin nor any of his lieutenants will be pres ent They realize that, it will be dis tinctly a McCarren function at which the crown of leadership well be placed on the senator and it would ie rather embarrassing for them. The veteran leader, Hugh McLaugh lin, still has it in for the Tammany, on this side of the bridge and it is not h o late yet for him to give them some unpleasnat surprises, hIA adherents state. The Weather, Forecast for today in Georgia: Fair arid probably warmer,