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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
YACHT CLUES OFFICERS.
Commodore a. s. Bacon Unanimous
~ Neglected..

~ Ae-cleGNeu.
The annual meeting of the Savannah
Yacht Club" was held al the club house at
Thunderbolt yesterday afternoon. The at
tendance was barge.
Commodore A. S. Bacon presided. and his
administration was Endorsed by his re-elec-
ton for another year. Under a suspension
of the rules and by a unanimous rising
vote all the officers of the club last year
were reelected without opposition.
The financial condition of the club is a
subject of congratulation to the members.
The treasurer's report shows a net addi-
ton to the credit side of profit and loss
of s., 1854
Vice Commodore w. w Starr, in behalf
of Mr. Isaac Beckett, presented to the
club book containing the names of every
person connected with 1t since ii organiza-
ton and a fun record of the club history
of each of them, giving date of election,
withdrawal and the offices held if any
The officers reelected are as follows:
Commodore-A. s. Bacon.
Vice Commodore-W. w. Starr.
Rear Commodore--J. A. G.. Carson.
Secretary and Treasurer-W. H. Crane.
Board of Stewards-H. A. Palmer, chair
man: Hal II. Bacon, George j. Baldwin.
Isaac Beckett. w. M, Bent, T. j. Davis,
James NJ. Dixon, f. f. Jones. Julian
Schley, John Screven, Jr., w. d. Simkins
and Albert Wylly.
The following designations were tender
ed: Capt. o. NJ. Carter, John Nicolson,
Jr., e. Fabarius, C. II. Rivers, Jr., James
II. Hunter and W. S. Tfson.
Messrs. G. E. Dickinson and c. F.
Moses were elected to membership. and
eight others will be eligible for election in
a few days. The present membership is
1892 of whom seven are honorary, viz: Col.
George A. Mercer, Jno. w. Anderson.
George L. Appleton, T.. L. Kinsey, NJ. Y.
Henderson. r. S. Lathrop and M A. Co
hen. 1t is believed that the membership
will reach 400 before the next annual meet
ing
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
WHITAKER ST. LINE FINISHED
New Car Line System to BE in Opera
ton in a Few Days.


ton in a Few Days.
The new track on the Whitaker street
car line was finished last night. The belt
has been extended out to Tenth street,
and that, too. is finished, the only links
yet TO be made being the connections on
one side of Second street and Abercorn,
and Barnard and Anderson on the other.
Vice President Johnston says that
in few days the line will be in operation
in it's entirety. The Whitaker street track
is probably good as any in the country
used for street railway purposes. The rail
is finch high T." sometimes called a
Shanghai Tee" weighing seventy-five
pounds to the yard, laid on the largest
and best of cypress ties, with the latest
style of angle bars and braces and dou-
bic bonded. The entire work on the Whit
aker street line, from the Bay to Ander-
son street, was accomplished in 1715 work
ing days.
In this connection it will be interesting
to note the history of the Whitaker street
line. The contract for the construction of
a street railway line on Whitaker street,
from the City Exchange to Anderson
street. was signed by Messrs. Bradley &
Callahan, Dec. Z, 1868, for The sum of $751;
$50, and work was commenced Immediately
and was to be finished in three months.
"A part of the line was turned over to the
board of directory (the report says March
q, 1863, in an unfinished condition" The
iron rail was groved rail, crescent pattern,
inverted, nailed to a stringer especially
prepared for it, and weighed sixteen
pounds to the yard.
The next re-railing of the Whitaker
street line was in the winter of 1856.
The light crescent rail was replaced by a
center bearing steel rail weighing AZ
pounds to the yard, laid on stringers,
which was the most approved style of rail
in that day for street cars drawn by
horses. Although good track for carS
weighing $500 pounds, it proved unsuita-
BILE for cars, trucks and motors combined
weighing 5000 to 5000 pounds. 1t is
worthy of note that with but few excep
tons the cypress stringers and cross ties,
although laid twelve years ago, are in
very fair state of preservation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
DIFFER AS TO BUILDING LINES
Mayor MeIdrim Says the City Has No
Right To Regulate Them.

Mayor MeIdrim Says the City Has No
Right To Regulate Them.
Mayor Meldrim differs with Col. Mercer
In the opinion expressed by the latter that
the city has the right TO adopt ordinances
regulating or prescribing the lines upon
which lot owners shall build
II would like TO know the authority up
on which Col. Mercer bases his opinion, >"
said Mayor Meldrim. Il am not acquaint-
ed with any authority which supports this
view
Mayor Meldrlm says he does not know Of
any city in this section of the country at
least, which prescribes building lines for
lot owners "You can regulate the hight
20 which q man may build his house" said
he con the ground that extreme hight is
a menace to public safety, but you cannot
prevent a man, SO far as / am aware.
from building on any part or all Of his lot
n he sees fit TO do so"
The lot owners, especially those who
have butt in the newer portions of the
city. would like to see this question set
lied In the affirma tive Many of them
have 5uilt handsome homes, whose appear-
ance Is considerably enhanced by the fact
that the houses sit back some distance
from the street. Should adjoining lot own
ers choose to build squarly up to the prop
erty line the effect would be considerably
marred
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
HIS ORDINANCE A DEAD LETTER.
Alderman KrousISOfI's Sidewalk Law
Not Being Observed.

Alderman Krouskoff's paving ordi-
nance appears 10 be dead
letter. The ordinance, as adopt
ed some three months ago. provides that
no sidewalk pavement of material other
than artificial ~stone shall be laid within
the limits included between the river.
Abercorn, Liberty and West Broad streets
The ordinance also provides for the APP
poinlment of a sidewalk inspector whose
duty Il should be to give his attention
constantly TO the sidewalks and to make
repairs needed at the expense of the own
ers of the property abutting on the side
walk.
Council, at a subsequent meeting, how
ever. refused to elect an inspector, leav-
ing these duties TO be discharged by the
city marshal as formerly. The ordinance
prescribing the area in which only artifi-
cial stone sidewalks shall be laid is still
In force however 1t is not being en-
forced. however, as brick sidewalks are
being laid within the area named.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
TO REBUILD THE ORPHANAGE.
savannah Lumbermen Contribute
Nearly 800 TO st. JOseph's school.

savannah LumDermch NOutFtDute
Nearly 800 to st. JOseph's school.
Mr.. j. j. McDonough secured subscrip-
tons amounting to $685. yesterday for the
Catholic orphanage at Washington. Mr..
McDonough received a letter from Father
O'Brien, who is in charge of the orphan
age, requesting him to solicit subscrip-
tions for lumber for rebuilding the boys
orphanage, which was recently destroyed
by fire, among the lumbermen of Savan-
nah.
Mr.. McDonough was 10th to undertake
the work on account of the numerous de-
mands now being made upon the business
men Of Savannah for the rebuilding of the
Cathedral and other purposes. He mus
tered UP courage yesterday morning, how
ever, and in an hour secured the follow
ing contributions: Dale, Dixon & Co., $50;
Georgia Lumber Company, $50; Z. b.
Hunting & CO., $50; Cooney, Eckstein &
Co, $S5; George NJ. Crimson, $50; Southern
Pine Company, $3.50; J. j. McDonough,
$3.50; c. d. Baldwin, $40. The last sub
scriptlon was in cash. the others being
in lumber.
The railroads have agreed to donate the
freight on shipments of lumber for this
purpose. which is quite a considerable
item. The shipments win be made i'm
mediately. Mr.. McDonough was naturally
very well pleased with the success of
his hours work
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
NOT BOILING OVER TO FIGHT.
MIR. Edward Lyles' Washington story
Lacks hacking.

The interview with Edward Lyles. re-
ported to be Savannah man in Washing
ton on business with the treasury depart
ment, in yesterdays dispatches. attracted
some attention. People who read the dis
patch wondered who Mr.. Lyles was. No
body could be found who knew anything
about him. and his names is not in the city
directory.
Mr.. Lyles' talk about the young men of
the South boiling over with eagerness to
fight the Spaniards, and what they would
DO II one mar of Gen. Fitzhugh Lees head
should be harmed, excited only amusa-
ment
If there should be any necessity for
fighting, Gen. Lee could probably get more
volunteers in Savannah in a shorter time
than any place of its size in the country.
put the young men are not tearing their
shirts with wild desire to shed Snanisb
gore.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
BETTER QUARANTINE FACILITIES.
Cotton Exchanges Recommendation
to the City.

10 tne Olty.
AT a special meeting of the Cotton Ex-
change yesterday, a resolution was passed
urging the City Council to appropriate
such an amount as may be necessary to
carry out the quarantine regulations
adopted last June.
The proposed regulations were to furnish
the quarantine station with wharf room,
hosting engine and mooring posts to ac-
commodate all vessels detained for dis
charging ballast and disinfection, without
the loss of time; to provide a tug of suf-
fcient powers for handling all vessels sub
ject TO quarantine at the station or TNy-
bee roads. and floating plant containing
all the necessary apparatus for rapidly and
thoroughly dlsnfecting vessels.
The attention of the City Council viii be
called TO the fact that Savannah's sum
mer commerce with South America and
the West Indies has been ruined by the
restrictions and unnecessarily long deten-
ton to which vessels bound for this
port have been subjected at the quaran-
tine station.
The Council will be further urged that,
IL is imperative that every effort should
be made to recover the commerce, and TO
foster commercial relations with foreign
and domestic ports by improving the wa
ter ways. diminishing expenses of towage
and pilotage, and giving facilities at the
quarantine station, which will allow the
shipping to come to this city with the
least detention consistent with public
safety.
1t is the sense of the exchange that no
money be spared in placing the quarantine
station in the best possible condition for
practical, efficient and rapid work, and
that every EFFORT should be made to have
1t ready by May l.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
big DUKEr WILL STAY.
Effort to Do Away with the old
Alarm Bell Unsuccessful.


Mr.. A. c. Ferrand, expert electrician Of
the Gamewell system, who has been in
the city several days, looking into the con-
d!tion of the fire alarm boxes, left last
night
Whi,e here he did valuable work straight
ening out the mechanism, and especially
that connected with the ringing of The
tower bell, which had been working very
unsatisfactory to the Fire Commissioners.
Only a few boxes were examined during
the day. from which alarms were sent in
as tests.
The opinion has been expressed that
there Is no use having the tower bell, as
il only creates excitement. and serves no
good purpose. The commissioners are of a
different opinion, however, and have many
supporters in the stand they take. One
of the main objects of the bell is to at
once acqualnt property owners with the
location of fires, which is considered a
matter of Importance 10 them when FIRE
is raging in the vicinity of houses they
own.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
JUGGLING WITH SPIRITS.
TurpentIne Went Up to 36 Cents n
Gallon Yesterday.


The holders Of the big stocks of spirits
turpentine advanced the price again yes
terday, and those who were obliged to
make purchases to fill urgent orders had
60 pay SO cents a gallon.
The last time that the price of spirits
turpentine reached SO cents was in May,
1891 During that month the highest price
paid was 1854 cents while the lowest price
of the mouth was S5A cents In March
of the same year the price reached S7s4
cents.
In November, 1890, the highest price for
some lime previous was reached, sales be-
ing made for few days at S9ls cents
The lowest price during that month was
SO cents.
Unless the receipts should materially in
crease. it Is expected that the advance in
the price viii continue until those in need
of supplies have filled their orders. In the
meantime the exporters who hold the
stock of the country, will reap a handsome
profit The producers receive but little
benefit from the present high prices.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
Eorrht Win KNIVES.

George Heyliger of Germany, and W. e.
Mitchell, a dairyman in the employ of Mr..
S. p. Goodwin were arrested yesterday
by Policeman Thorpe of the Central Rail-
road force, charged with slashing each
other with knives. They were taken to
the police barracks, and later bonded out
by Mr.. Goodwin. The men did not succeed
in producing any serious results from
their encounter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
Death of wen Known 8coIored Nan

James Watson, a well-known colored
man, died a few days ago at his farm on
the Augusta road, near the four-mile post.
He was for many years porter in. the
drug store Of Solomons & Co, but for the
last " enty was engaged IN farming. He
=.as 81 years of age.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
DEATH OF MAS. l.. c. DUER.
Died After n Long Illness From
Consumption.

Mrs. l.. c. Duer died at the home Of
her sister, Mrs. J. j. WEIGH, No. 513 Con-
gress street. east, last night after a long
illness from consumption.
Mrs. Duer was daughter of the late
j. C. Hanley, and was sister of Mr..
Lawrence Hanley, the actor.
Mrs. Duer was 30 years old. She leaves
a husband and one child, mother and
three sisters, Mrs. j. j. WEIGH Mrs. ] j.
Sullivan and Miss Annie Hanley.
Her funeral will probably take place to-
morrow
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
walsh & Meyer.

In our store this week we have ar
ranged to serve our lady patrons with a
nice light luncheon, gratis, so that The
fatigue of shopping may be relieved
Luncheon from II to i a m. and 10 3
p. m. A skilled attendant will he IN
charge, and will give culinary hints Of a.
terest and value 70 all lovers of good cool.
ing. Don't forget 10 inspect our snring
stock OF organdies lawns and wash fab
RIGS. Special designs in our sllk.-ad
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03

For Coughs and Throat Troubles use
Browns Bronchial Troches. They relieve
all Throat irritations caused bv Cold or
use Of the voice.-ad.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03

If you are not feeling wal WHY don't
you take Hoods Sarsaparilla? II win nur-
ify and enrich your blood and do You won
derful good.-ad. s
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03

-George Frederlck Watts colossal
equestrian statue of Force" will be cast
in bronze at the expense of the Rritisn
government and set up in Hyde Park On
She terrace at the end of the Serpentine
The age-herald., 1898-05-29

gan course of instruction under his brother, Professor w. I. Gibson, a graduate of the University of Virginia, in the mean time teaching school during his vacation and engaging in other busness to procure means to pay his expenses at college.
 At the University of Virginia he spent one year in the literary schools and an- other in the law school. There he made quite a reputation as a debater.
 Mr. Gibson was admitted to the bar at Corinth Miss, in the summer of 1887, and the following November moved to Brming- ham, intending to practice his profession. Incidentally he became interested in the business of contracting and building, which he has successfully pursued ever since. He has been chairman of the finance committee of the city council of Woodlawn two years.
 In 1884 he was elected by the county con- vention a member of the executive commit tee, and so continued until the recent pri- mary, when he decided to go before the county convention for nomination for the legislature. He won easily.
 MT. Gibson has always been loyal dem- ocrat and an ardent advocate of the prin- ciples of the party as declared by the na- tional convention in 1896. As thoroughly competent and reliable business man, he is held in high esteem wherever he is known, and the business interests of Jefferson county will be ably and honestly repre- sented by him in the general assembly or Alabama.
The age-herald., 1898-05-29

Below are given the portraits with short sketches of the lives of Jefferson county's six democratic nominees for the iegis- iature: the men who will represent this county in the next general assembly.
 These gentlemen were nominated by the county democratic convention held in Bir- mingham on April 13. from among the twenty odd candidates who were offered. The method of selecting them was per- fectly fair. and no hard feeling was en- gendered by the results.
 There are no great orators in the sex tette, nor are there any great political leaders; but they are all men of good, hard common sense, and men who have made eminent successes in their various call ings Two of them are farmers, two of them contractors, and the other two law yers. They have the entire confidence of the democratic party and wll receive it's unanimous support next August regard less of other tickets that may be in the field. .lsaaas. -
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large extent his opportunity for an edu- cation, but at spare times he prepared him. self for teaching. During his career as a teacher he read law. Being admitted to the bar in 1887, he began practice at War rior, in this county, and since that lime he has been very successful. He is law yer of ability and good practice.
 Mir Davidson is and always has been a thorough democrat. He is in complete &C., cord with the Chicago platform. He was a candidate for the legislature before the democratic primaries in 1896, but owing to the large number of free silver candidates who were opposed by only five gold men Mir. Davidson was defeated. Warrior has had no representative on the legislative ticket for twenty years and takes a just pride in the nomination of one of its prom inent citizens.
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county near to the place where he now resides in Jonesboro. just below Bessemer. He is farmer by profession, but has devoted great deal of his time to mer- cantile and contracting business.
 MT. Houston has held two public offices previous to this time. Tn 1887 he was elect ed justice of the peace, which place he still holds. Ten years ago under the first Cleveland administration, he was appoint ed postmaster at Jonesboro, which posi- ton he held through Harrlson's and Cleve- lands second administration. But under the Mckinley regime he was busted for the prominent part he played in the democratic campaign of 1896. He hung pictures of Bryan up in the postoffice and did many other things for the democratic party that didn't tend to make him very popu- lar with the republican leaders
 Everybody in that section of the county and indeed everybody who knows him has the greatest respect for Dan Houston. They say he is an upright man in every respect, good citizen and loyal demo-
The age-herald., 1898-05-29
|BOOkS That Hr6 Read

It does not seem to be an unusually diffi- in hand and write as the inspirat on dic- tates; waiting, perchance, now and then for the completion or formation of an idea or thought; but that writer should in- variably dictate his work to a secretary must require talent of the very highest der, combined with a ready imagination. A recent New York paper gives an interest ing interview with Frank R. Stockton, the popular humorist and novel writer.
 It is more than propable that this re- markable magnetic man stands alone in his methods of work. Without mak-
 note, without a scrap of guiding synopsis, he carries his new novels in his head, 1t Is said, allowing oftentimes the story to build itself up there over period of years. Mir. Stockton dislikes the clicking of the type writer, and so the secretary is banished with the machine to little sky-parlor in the top of the house. She only trips down with notebook in hand when MT. Stockton ensconces himself in a hammock swung across his study, or in the easiest of chairs preparatory for work. Sometimes the si- Ience remains unbroken, but usually from the hammock's depths or from the recesses of one of the great chairs. a measured, vi- brating voice will speak out, and down in the notebook will go the first draft of the latest of the thousand and one curious tales with which Stockton has been deighting America and England, the Continent, the colonies and even the tropics, for at least a quarter of century, for the author is now over 60 years of age
 The delightful home of MT Stockton is on the uplands of Jersey, some thirty miles from New York, situated between the towns of Madison and Morristown. Here in the romantic valley of the Loanika, one of the most beautiful regions near New York and revolutionary ground, lives Stockton. No wonder that with such stretch of Jersey upland, such sweep of hill and valley, the author whose most pronounced characteristic is his supreme simplicity, does not need books for his imaginings, his fantasies and his charac- ter meanings. He can draw them out of the heart of nature itself fresh and unde- filed. My year." said MT. Stockton, lis eight months long on the average l am just back at Convent Station here, after having been in New York, Boston and Washington for some months. All my extended work is done in this study, though I frequently write short stories and do other immediate work during the winter" Of the winsome personality of the man 1t is said: "It is small man that sits before you, keen-eyed man, whose eyes you know miss nothing; O man whose mustache is iron gray and whose hair is almost white. His photographs give no hint of the man; they do not even mirror his per-
The age-herald., 1898-05-29
John McOuaen

John Mcqueen, one of the most success ful young members of the Birmingham bar, is descended from one of the most arlsto- cratic South Carolina families. He was born in the Palmetto State, February g, 1863, and was brought by his. mother to Ala bama in 1S70 settling in Eutaw, Greene county. He attended the common schools at Eutaw for few years and in 1SS2-s3 he entered the law department of the State university at Tuscaloosa. from which he graduated with first honors.
 Upon leaving college he was elected so-
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s. C. Davidson

s. c. Davidson is a Georgian, having been born in that state on July 30, 1851. The re- moval of his fathers family to DeKalb county, Alabama, in 1857, made an Alabam- ian of young Davidson, and he has been a true son of the state ever since.
 The best part of his youth and young manhood was spent in Blount county, where his father took up his residence in 1867. At the age of 20 MT. Davidson became To- cal preacher of the Methodist church, and has been at all times a man of religious habits and training. The war cut off to a
The age-herald., 1898-05-29

Entire new show at East Lake. commence ing May 30. Some of. the highest salaried artists in the theatrical business among them. MT. McClain, a sweet voiced tenor, late of Primrose & Vests minstrels. All lovers of good singing should hear him. Milton & Daniels knockabout, fun pro- vokers. St. Clair and Loreno have been retained to present their society satire,
 Mistaken Identity The moving pict- ure machine is the best made; every pict- ure is distinct and many views will be shown that have never before been seen in Birmingham. This should be a gala week at East Lake. There will be a mati- nee every afternoon for ladies and chil- dren. Admission Dc. Take East Lake cars.