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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Morgan ’Phones Oheer
A long distance telephone message
received early this afternoon from J.
Pierpont Morgan and sent to a Rich
mond banker, announced that the
worst is about over on the New York
stock market now, and that things
are adjusting themselves in a manner
which seems quite satisfactory.
This information, coming from ons
so closely in touch with the situation,
which for the last few hours has been
regarded as very critical, is most re
assuring.
Colonel Charles E. Wingo, who
keeps thoroughly posted on the finan
cial situation, informed a Journal re
porter this afternoon that despite the
anxiety in New York, the Richmond
banks were in fine shape. He de
clared that everything here was most
satisfactory and that the newspapers
should be careful not to produce
alarming impressions. Richmond
Journal.
Sec. Dover Objected to Friday, 13th.
The real story of how December
7 came to be selected as the date
for the meeting of the Republican
National Committee came out re
cently. When Harry C. New, acting
ehairman of the committee, and El
mer Dover, committee’s secretary,
were here Saturday to get ready to
issue the call for the meeting Mr.
New expressed a preference for De
cember 13 as the date.
“Holy smoke!” cried Dover, “that
day is Friday 1”
“What of that!” asked New.
“Why, man,” said oDver, “we’d
be queered forever if we started the
next campaign on Friday, the 13th.
You wouldn’t get half the members
of the committee here, and the whole
thing would be a fizzle.”
Mr. New gave in somewhat reluct
antly, and agreed to fix a week earlier
as the time for the committee to as
semble. —Washington Herald.
They Caught Baby Oysters.
W. MacDonald Lee, chairman of the
State Board of Fisheries, has notified
the Richmond members of the body
that within the last week the Virgin
ia gunboats, The Maury and The Rap
pahannock, have overhauled a number
of vessels dredging in the Potomac
and collected nearly SI,OOO in fines
for offenses against the oyster and
fishing laws.
Tn all half a hundred craft were
halted for disregarding the culling
laws or operating without licenses.
The gunboats, in their journey to
the Potomac, saw over 2,000 vessels
engaged in pursuit of the phlegmatic
oyster. Most of the men arrested
were engaged in catching mollusks be
low the prescribed size.
Mr. Lee further says in his com
munication that the Potomac oysters
this season are the finest he has seen
in years.
• A meeting of the State Board of
Fisheries will be held at the Atlantic
Hotel in Norfolk on October 30.—'
Richmond Journal.
Uncle Sam After Tobacco Trust.
A shipment of cigarettes and leaf
tobacco is being held by the customs
authorities in Norfolk, Va. Anti
trust laws violated,
Y. M. C. A. Desires Training School.
At the Georgia Y. M. C. A. Secre
taries’ conference, held several days
ago at Macon, Ga., the advisability
of establishing a southern training
school for association secretaries
was thoroughly discussed, and as an
outcome of this discussion, Mr. Ed
win Hill, of the local Y. M. C. A.,
announces that one may be estab
lished in the near future. The in
ception of the movement began in
the right place, and as the territory
is so large, there will be no difficulty
in securing all the financial assist
ance wanted. The men who discussed
and favorably considered the matter
were the best informed men as to
the needs of the associations in the
organization. Every separate man
at the conference represented a large
body, and, consequently, every indi
vidual man represented a city or
town.
Should the training school be es
tablished, its location will be of in
terest to thousands of association
members throughout the South.
While it is not known as to what ef
fort the local association will make
to have the large school established
in Augusta, it is known that the en
terprise would be welcomed with
open arms by the leading citizens of
Augusta. The local association,
■while not the strongest in the state,
is one of the largest and best
equipped.
The need of a training school is
obvious. So wide in its scope has
become the Y. M. C. A. that none
but especially trained men can suc
cessfully manage any department.
There are several of these schools in
the North, and all of them have sev
eral years’ course to offer prospect
ive students. —Augusta Herald.
Chanler in Atlanta.
Lieutenant Governor Chanler of
New York made a speech at the state
fair grounds. He was introduced by
Col. H. H. Cabaniss and Senator
Clay. He was closely followed and
loudly applauded by a large audience
composed of people from all parts of
Georgia.
To Tour State in College on Wheels.
Professor A. M. Soule, president
of the State College of Agriculture,
of Athens, has recently planned a
college on wheels, in which he and
others will probably tour the State,
address the farmers and make practi
cal exhibits.
This will be a unique and novel
trip and is looked forward to with
interest hy farmers and planters
throughout Georgia.
Concetming this trip Professor
Soule a few days ago gave out the
following statement:
“We have made a requisition for
a special train to be composed of an
engine, a baggage car for exhibits
and two day coaches to be used as
lecture rooms. In order to get over
the State we can’t afford to lose so
much time as would be required to
go from our train to the town hall,
deliver these lectures on practical
agriculture and get off again. We
hope to make an extended tour of
thirty days sad within this time to
WATSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
compass nearly the whole of Geor
gia. The college believes that such
an advertisement would be both prac
tical and profitable. We are unde
cided as yet whether to make the
tour in December, before the college
opens in January, or in February of
next yeas, just before the planting
season. Until we hear from the rail
roads we cannot decide definitely.”
—Griffin News.
Seab Wright in Alabama.
Seab Wright, the well known
Georgian and noted temperence lec
turer, made two speeches in Etowah
county Sunday, one at Atalla in the
morning and one at Gadsden in the
afternoon at the courthouse, in favor
of prohibition in the stae of Ala
bama.
Pennsylvania Farmers want Teddy.
Farmers living in the vicinity ,of
Buckhorn mountain, near Williams
port, Pennsylvania, have sent an in
vitation 'to President Roosevelt to
hunt for bears in their county, and
assist them in exterminating the pest
is destroying corn.
Many farmers are obliged to
guard their fields at night. The farm
ers of this section have issued pub
lic invitations for the hunting of
bear in their lands.
Rockefeller on Witness Stand.
William G. Rockefeller, treasurer
of the Standard Oil Company of
New York, was the star witness last
week in the government’s investiga
tion of the oil trust, before Commis
sioner Ferris.
Rockefeller made two most impor
tant admissions. One was that the
Standard Oil Co. made an enormous
loan to Wall street houses and the
other was that the company had
made big loans to supposedly inde
pendent oil concerns, and gained con
trol of them.
Canal Locks Wider.
H. H. Rosseau, naval member of
the Isthmian Canal Commission and
civil engineer, has the opinion that
the locks of the projected Panama
Canal must be made wider than they
were originally planned. Giant
ships cannot pass through the canal.
Progress in ship-building demands a
change in the plans of the canal com
mission, which will take time and
millions more of money.
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE
The Citizen has always given Hon.
Thomas E. Watson credit for getting
the first appropriation for the devel
opment of the rural free delivery
system. This is simple justice, and
we could not be honest and fail to do
this. The Congressional Record
plainly gives Mr. Watson credit for
beginning the work that is proving
such a blessing to the rural popula
tion of America.
Last week, when the national con
vention of rural free delivery carri
ers was in session in Atlanta, Mr.
Watson was conspicuous by his ab
sence. We do not know why an in-*
vi tat ion' was not extended the bril
liant Georgian whoi was the founder
of the system, but we know that the
slight was great and keenly felt by
Mr. Watson. He should have been
invited.
We do not agree with Mr. Watson
at all when it comes to politics. As
a statesman he is destructive, but as
a man and a historical writer we have
great respect for him. He advocates
many things which will come to pass
that are good and of great benefit to
the people. His fight for the parcels
post has done much good, and The
Citizen has frequently quoted from
him, and just recently, too. The par
cels post is going to be established,
in spite of the express companies and
the catalog houses, and when it shall
come Mr. Watson will again have
cause for much rejoicing.
Qur prejudice, if such we have, has
never yet kept us from saying what
we believe is right; it has never kept
us from quoting those with whom we
radically disagree, if what they say
is in line with our policies, and it
has never caused us to fail to give to
those the honor that justly belongs
to them. And we hope it never will.
Mr. Watson may not like ns or our
policies. We are sure he does not,
but at the same time, when we see
anything that we believe to be good
from him, and it is not nailed down,
we will use it and properly credit it.
And when we see the rural free de
livery boxes along the country roads,
as sentinels of a progressive people,
and knowing who is responsible for
their being there, we will certainly
place the credit where it belongs.
Mr. Watson should have been invit
ed to the rural free delivery conven
tion, for if there had been no Con
gressman Watson, there would not
likely have been the rural free de
livery convention. —North Georgia
Citizen, Dalton, Ga.
COL. BROWNLOW.
Col. John B. Brownlow, of Knox
ville, has been suggested for the Re
publican nomination for governor.
Col. Brownlow ought to make a strong
candidate. The Republicans have no
body who has more sense, and he is a
first-class gentleman. He was a fed
eral officer during the war, and his
title is not bogus, or the result of
cheap vanity, and Confederates who
met him then respect him now. He is
a son of William Ganaway Brown
low, once governor and afterwards
senator, and one of the most stren”-
ous partisans of his time. Col. John
Brownlow was for many years in the
service of the post office department,
but his honesty, independence and
courage is refusing to sancton certain
wrongs in the department, and in re
fusing to bow the knee to the pecu
liar Payne, and the imperious Roose
velt, caused him to retire from the
sendee. He does not need to depend
on office for a living. Another writ"
suggests G. N. Tillman, Esq., of
Nashville, for Republican candidate
for governor. The Republicans could
hardly nominate a stronger man, or
one who would threaten more danger
to Democrats. He would doubtless be
acceptable to the Brownlow faction,
but the Evansites would probably op
pose him, though he is allied with
neither faction.—Naahville American.