The morning news., 1897-06-18
other Towns as Hot as This.

other Towns as Hot as This.
When the sun is ablaze,
| With it's torturesome rays,
And you feel that it's needless to dress up;
! Don't worry and fret
At the weather we get,
| But think what they suffer in Jesup.
When the glare from the sky,
| And the dust in your eye
Make you long for a big linen duster;
| Don't feel much concerned,
For, surely you've learned
| That the sand is knee-deep in Augusta.
When the heat is intense,
And you haven't five cents
| For ice to prevent you from bakin';
Just think then and there
With a pitiful prayer
! OF the people who stifie in Macon.
The thermometer bobbed up serenely
again yesterday, and the heat was severe.
Mercury climbed to 80 degrees without
trying. Many parties were off for Ty-
bee in the afternoon, and others fed to
the suburban retreats to spend the aft
ernoon and night. Already there have
been many families to leave the city for
| the summer on short notice, due to the
recent warm wave that has befallen this
region of the SOUTH and many more Sa-
vannah people viii be off during the COM
ing week. Those, who have summer cot
| tages at Tybee have taken up their
dwelling place there, and others are at
the hotels. Several families have gone
to Asheville and other mountain resorts,
and many yet have gone down to
White Bluff, Thunderbot, Isle of Hope,
and other neighboring summering places,
such as Wilmington, Warsaw and
| Montgomery.
''The truth of the matter about going
| off for the summer" said a stay-at-home,
| 'is that 1 have always found 1t just as
hot where 1 went to get cool as l had
left it in Savannah. In the middle of the
| day 1t is very apt to be as hot at a noun
tain top resort as 1t is in Savannah at
! the same hour of the day. and so Is it
| apt to be warm at a seaside resort. In
| the afternoon and night it gets cooler.
/ But at the same time one must consider
| that it likewise gets cool in Savannah in
| the afternoon, and particularly at night.
| 1 have spent several summers at home,
| and 1 have rarely been uncomfortable at
night here. 1t is very rare that the heat
| is such at night as to prevent one from
| sleeping"
And this is about the truth of the mat
| ter.
I'VE are going to try to get up some
| fine yacht races for the Fourth of july
said Mr.. Julian Schley yesterday, chatting
| with some of the yachtsmen who were in
terested in the recent regatta of the Sa-
vannah Yacht Club. at is our purpose to
| get as many of the half raters' in as
! possible and have a special race for this
| class of boats"
Mr.. Schley and several other owners of
| boats were discussing the proposition dur
ing the forenoon, and it will be gratifying
to the many enthusiasts in Savannah to
| know that the chances are good for some
splendid races on Thunderbolt river on the
! glorious Fourth. The members of the yacht
| club who will have the affair in hand are
| among the leaders of the boating interests
! and they have some of the neatest, trim
NEST and swiftest boats to be found in
| Savannah waters. If they succeed in get
ting a sufficient number of yachts entered
to make it interesting, and there seems
no good reason why they should not, they
| will all pull together to make the event
one of the most exciting races ever wit
messed from the yacht club, for they will
have the best of boats and will have them
in the best of condition and mastered by
the best of crews.
In this connection it may be interesting
| to say that the Fourth of July race will be
| strictly for the half raters', which means
such boats as are twenty feet and under.
This class of boats passed in the regatta
| as second class. The race of the second
| class boats in the regatta was one of the
most exciting of them all. 1t was thrill
| ing scene when the Lilee, Mr.. Schleys
| boat ran in ahead of the others this boat
| being new in the waters, and having been
constructed by Mr.. Schley and the others
| at interest by plans of their own. She made
| ola Frhnndprhnlf he
day of the races and led everything, but
owing to the time allowances she was not
the winner.
'It would be a pleasing turn in the tide
| of state politics if South Georgia should
name the next governor" remarked a well
known citizen of Savannah. 1T certainly
has been a long time since this part of the
state was represented in the executive
chair, and 1t certainly would be nothing
but fair for the state to acquiesce in the
wishes of the people of the southern sec
ton of the state this time"
Savannah was the first capital of the
state of Georgia. IT was on the 18th day
of January, 1851, that the first general as
sembly of the state was held here. Francis
Harris was speaker of the assembly. and
the following districts were represented;
Savannah, Augusta, Ebenezer, Abercorn,
Goshen, Josephs Town, Vernonburg, Ac-
ton. Little ogeechee, skidawaY. Midway
and Darien.
1t may be interesting to observe in this
connection how the list OF governors or
chief rulers Of Georgia run up from the
old colonial days TO the present time. The
governors Of Georgia have been as fol-
lows: James Oglethorpe, 1872; William
Stephens 1913: Henry Parker, 175l; John
Reynolds, 175i; Henry Ellis, 1857; James
Wright. 1760 James Habersham, iii;
William Erwin, 1775; Archibald Bullock,
1776; Button Gwinnett. 1T77; John A. Treu-
itlen, III; John Houston, IT'S John Ver-
ratt. i17S; George Walton, f77g; Richard
Howloy. 1850; Stephen Heard, 1881: Nathan
Brownson 1881; John Martin, 17S2; LYMAN
Hail. 1885, John Houston. 1854; Samuel Ell
bert, 1855; Edward Telfair 1886: George
Mathews, 1913; Jared Irwin. 1876; James
Jackson. 1895; David Emanuel 1901; Jo-
slah Tattnall, 1901 John Milledge. 1902;
Jared Irwin, 1906; David y. Mitchell, 1909.