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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09

ways for the conditions of ten years or a
quarter of a century hence. Few things
happen IN his territory that he has not
foreseen and prepared fer, and with it all
and with the added cares Of a multimil-
~lionaire OF New York he is one of tho
kindliest and most approachable of men.
Mr.. Plant is q grandson of Sarah Fris-
bee, o descendant Of the Hugucnot Rich
ard Frisbec who settled in Virginia in
1919 and whose son Edward was driven
out Of that state in 1913 on account of his
Puritanism. Edward Frisbec removed to
Branford, Conn, and for many genera
lions the Frisbees were BranfoTd, and
Branford was the Frisbees. In the same
town Mr.. Plant was born IN 1919, and
after finishing his education he entered at
once into the business for which nature
had expressly nodded him and to which he
has devoted his entire life. At IS years
old he had charge of the express business
between New York and New Haven, and
when that business ripened into the
Adams Express company, in 1854, he was
appointed superintendent of the southern
division of the company. At the opening
Of the civil war, in 1861, he formed and
became president of the Southern Express
company and has been its president con-
t~inuously since that time. For the last 81
years he has also been president of the
Texas Express company.
These presidescics, however, are mere
items in the long list of Mr.. Plants bust
ness interests. In 1889 he organized and
was made president Of the Plant Invest
ment company, in which among his asso-
riates were Henry NJ. Flagler, Morris <.
Jesup, Henry Sanford, II. p. Hoadlcy and
g. Fl. Tilley. 1t is over one of this COM
pany's railway lines, reaching from
Charleston to Tampa, that the troops for
the capture of Cuba and Porto Rico are
carried. A mere list of the IS railway
lines, extending several thousand miles,
Of the nine steamship and steamboat lines.
reaching from Cape Breton to Jamaica,
and of the six large hotels, owned and
operated By the company under tho gem
sral title Of the Plant system, " reads like
. Travellers guide.
Though on the verge of his eightieth
year, Mr.. Plant spends a large part Of his
limo in his private car, No. 100, that
is known and welcomed all over the south
srn states. Today he is in Tampa, to-
morrow in jamaica, a little later in New
York, in Boston, in Halifax. His Office
goes with him everywhere by day or
night. In The midst of the pine woods
No. 100 draws up in front Of a shanty
telegraph station, and in ten minutes he
knows the entire days business Of the
whole systematic car derailed in Ala
bama, the wharf lnended in Halifax, the
steamers anchor foulcd in Jamaica, as
well as the nasae and business of every
visitor to his New York Office that day.
Every detail Of each OF his great enter
~f-ises is familiar to him, and he Keeps
,,osely in touch with current affairs Of
general interest. ssuch is the man whom
soIne call tho king of Florida.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09
PLANT or FLORIDA
Ne is The KING or THE PENINsuLAR
STATE.

He Owns the Railroads., teamboa Lines,
Hotels and Much Of the Land-why He
Is Pleased That We Are at War With
Spain.
When the government began to send its
troops by the thousands down into Flori-
la, so as to have them handy whom the
time came for shipping them to Cuba, the
officials found many evidences Of tho exist
nice Of q man Of whose financial greatness
many Of them had never heard before.
That mar was Henry 3. Plant.
Not only government agents, but army
officers and privatcs began to learn Of Mr..
Plant. When troops were to be moved to
Key West and Tampa, it was found that
Ill the railroads were owned by Plant
When supplies were to be sent by water,
it was found that Plant owned the steam
ship lines. When the officers arrived at
the big camps and concluded that it was
foolish to sleep in tents when fine big ho-
tells were so handy, they discovered that
Plant owned the hotels also. They then
became aware that much of the land, in
GLIDING pine woods and beaches, many 81
the stores and d lot Of ether things were
all part Of Plants property.
Weeks ago it dawnod upon q lot Of
Americans that Florida instead of being
an ordinary commonwealth was virtually
a little kingdom and that Henry B. Plant
was it's king. BIr. Plant may almost be
said to haye an honest right to the title.
BY his money, enterprise ande energy he has
made Florida what it Is today. When he
first visited the state in 1858, Jacksonville
was the only accessible point. He wanted
to go to st. Augustine. The trip had to
be made In d dugou5 a1oe and in en-
deayoring to thread the wilderness Of wa
tcrways tho guido himself lost his bear
ings, and tho future ruler Of the state
spent d night in the open.
Since then Mr.. Plant has done much for
Florida and incidentally for himself. He
has built railroads, established steamboat
lines and built up thriving winter resorts
around his big hotels. He has introduced
to the citizens of the northern states the
beauties OF the winter climate Of Florida,
end they rave paid him back by settling
big hotel bills and paying humping big
transportation fares. Now Uncle Sam is
| handing over to Mr.. Plant o big Slice of
the war appropriations, and the railroads,
steamers ard hotels which were meant to
furnish dividends only In winter are regu-
lar summer gold mines.
Although well Oh in his s~eventy-ninth
year, Mr.. Plant IS still one of the busiest
men in this country-untiring, seldom
finding or needing time for rest, full Of the
business OF today and the requirements Of
tomorrow, but planning and preparing al
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09

correspondent. Wounded as he was, his
muscles convulsed with pain, he called for
a cigarette, and then, his head and shout
ders supported by q comrade, he coolly
dictated a story of the fight to be sent to
his paper. The work was interrupted by
occasional periods of inconsistencies, and
only when it was done did the nervy cor
respondent consent to be taken in a litter
to the'rear.
Mr.. Marshall is barely 81 years of age,
but he has already held some of the most
important and responsible positions which
the Now York -wspap lave to offer.
He was born in Enfield Center, N. Y, and
was christened Davis Edward Marshall.
Early in his newspaper career he dropped
the Davis and for at least a dozen years
has signed himself simply Edward Mar
shall.
His first newspaper work was done In
Rochester, but when barely out of his
teens he went to New York city and Joined
the staff Of the American Press Associa-
ton. After several years of creditable
work there he became Sunday editor of
the New York Press.
In 1898, while editor of The Sunday
Press, hi became secretary Of the New
York tenement house commission and per-
formed the arduous duties of both posi-
tions with case and success and yet found
time to write plays and stories, to make
considerable money in the real estate bush
ness and to prepare a notable series of in
tervievys with men of mark in America.
He then went abroad in the interests of a
syndicate, and his brilliant interviews
with many of the greatest living French
men and Englishmen were published in
the leading newspapers of the United
States.
When William R. Hearst bought the
New York journal, he engaged MI. Mar
shall and soon advanced him to the very
important position of Sunday editor at a
large salary. The New York World next
secured his services as London correspond
ent, and while in the British metropolis
he covered the queens jubilee, procured
an interview with the governor of the
Bank Of England on gold exports to the
United States and did a vast quantity of
very creditable work. He returned to
America to become managing editor of
Tho Sunday World, but when war was de-
clared he went to the FRONT as chief of the
New York Journals staff of var writers.
His brother, I. D. Marshall, is a we'll
known New York journalist.
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FEnvANpINA wATERwoRKs.

rarade or drill ground. The beach is over
is miles long and is one of the finest on
the south Atlantic coast. The bathing is
superb.
The water supply is abundant, dfrom
ANALYSIS it has been found to be wholesome
and good. II is secured from several ar
tcsian wells, the same as at Jacksonville,
good water being found ct a depth OF 500
to 1900 feet. The water is being piped to
the camp site now. Eightinch mains arc
used to carry the water to the camp site
and 6 inch pipes to carry it through the
company streets, giving each company as
many plugs or hydrants as may be needed.
This will prove Of great advantage TO the
troops, giving them an ample supply of
water at their tent doors. The tents will
be from a quarter to half a mile from the
shore of the bay.
There are ample facilities for securing
good and large warehouses for ~storehouses
for the commissary and auarter1naster's
departments. On the piers there are sew
eral where the trains can be unloaded di-
rectly. Near by in the town are several
others that can be secured, so that the IA
~cilities in this line are all that could be
desired.
Liz Ncttlbu VI eAC Pl0So 10 WYNN Gas
question. The reports Of the city health
officers prove that the health OF Fernan-
dina summer or winter is phenomenal. It
has q low death rate, and the utter absence
of malaria makes it a great summer resort
for people from the interior. In this re-
spect it has no equal in the state, except
perhaps Jacksonville.
Fernandina is an old town with many
marks of antiquity about her. Tse one
main street runs east and west leading
out from tho station direct to the beach.
From this radiate many smaller thorough
fares, many Of them lined with cozy homes
and handsome mansions. 1t has a history
and in wartimes was an important point.
1t has a large shipping trade now, and it
is a lively place in that line. 1t is q quiet,
moral town, and the soldiers will not have
the bad influences to contend with that
they have had at Chattanooga and other
larger cities. 1t will tend to make the
camps much easier to control and aid in
establishing a better morale for the SOL
diprS.
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with 1ney wero riddled. You have seen
the pictures of Maximilian's execution.
That was the way most Of them went, and
they died brayely, but like dumb beasts
led to slaughter.
asBnt the worst sight and the ono that
terrified us most was tho death inflicted
upon General Lopez. He was garroted. 1t
was ono Of those slow processes in which
the garroter. who caa dispatch q man by a
turn of the scregy, prolongs the agony for
hours. It was terrible. It makes my
blood freeze when l recall the scene His
last words were, Il die for my Cuba.
After passing through this theater of hor-
rors I can appreciate to a slight degree at
least the horror of Spanish rule, vanity
and cruelty.
1T was the morning before our trial.
Tho turnkey of our division was a very
old Spapiard, and / often tried to engage
him in q conversation in different a
guages, but he would shake his head.
I asked him If there was . German consul
in Havana, but he only repeated, Consul,
consul, and shook his head. | have d lit
tie German blood in my veins, and, though
it is covered with the American, it served
me well in that incident. Then / said to
him, ambassador Prussia, and he nod
ded his head. Every morning at about s
O'Clock he would bring us q loaf of dark
bread. It looked IS il it were made out
of oats, and we found cat chatf in it. He
usually opened our cell door and handed
us a Jug of water md threw us in our
loaf.
but this morning he brought our bread
wrapped in paper. l told Weathers they
-ou <-o++;v,1x c+1.1ich ~. corv-Sz1n broad with
paper on it. BY that time Weathers had
torn off a piece of the bread and put it in
his mouth. He ripped out o big oath and
said, Yes, the ~scoundrels want to feed US
on nails now I told him he was getting
crazy. Why, look here he said, and he
handed me q piece OF wood about an inch
and a half long. I went to the keyholo in
the door, which was tho only light we
had, and, 10 and behold, I held a piece Of
lead pencil in my handl 1t then began to
dawn on me what that paper meant that
was wrapped around the bread. / took it
ard tore off a piece and wrote a note to
the Prussian consul. I cannot recollect
what it was low, but you can we'll sur
misc the purport. The turnkey returned
that afternoon, and / wanted to give tho
note to him, but he wouldn't take it. My
heart sank, and I never felt SO forlorn. I
tried to press it on him, but to no avail,
and at last in an agony of mind | UNI
thinkingly crumpled and threw it into his
basket and then sank down on the straw
and cried like q child.
THAT evening at the usual time for the
turnkey I heard a strange noise in the
gangway, which was laid with stone flag
ging. 1t sounded like metal striking the
,cob niNo,-1u tho I-ovr +t.upoJ in tho refi
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der the delay, and the Cubans became rest
less, but wait the army did until the heavy
cannon could be landed from the transports
and hauled, with almost superhuman eff
fort, through the dense, roadless forests.
The use of siege guns at Santiago is the
first occasion in many years when this
particular arm Of the service has played
such a prominent part in warfare. In the
old days of walled cities siege guns figured
conspicuously. The most recent instance
of their use wat when at Vicksburg they
Numbered for days on end battering down
the Notifications.
A siege gun is not o distinct species Of
ordnance except al to it's weight. 1t is a
big cannon, heavier than those with which
the light artillery is equipped and lighter
than those mounted in forts for seacoast
defenses.
The province of the siege gun is to ham,
mer down Notifications and scatter the de-
tenders. 1t throws bursting projectiles
charged with small missiles and high ex-
p1osives. 1t is unwieldy and cumbersome,
therefore it is only when an army is halted
before a fortified camp or city that it can
be used. Only under the most favorable
conditions can siege guns keep up with an
army on the march. Generally, as was
the case in Cuba, roads have to be built
before the big cannon can catch up, but
when they do arrive they clear away OBJ
stacles In the most amazing fashion.
Field Notifications have improved only
slightly in the last quarter of a century.
Masonry is out Of the game as a r~esister OF
the modern projectiles. Earthworks, and
thick at that, still offer the best protection.
With General Skaters corps went four
light batteries of field artillery and a for
midable siege train. To aid in serving
the guns two companies of artillerymen
accompanied the train. These batterymen
are called in this country heavy artillery
men because they man the heavy guns in
the seacoast forts. With the re-enforce-
ments went four more heavy batteries.
The siege train consisted of four 5 inch
cannon, four z inch howitzers and six z
inch mortars. All of these guns OF
course were riied and b-reechloading.
They were of the newest pattern.
The 5 inch guns weigh 5000 pounds,
are 10 feet long and throw a As pound
projectile. The howitzers weigh 8, T50
pounds, are So feet long and throw a los
pound projectile. These guns, at a range
of 8, 500 yards or two miles, will pierce 2L
inches of steel. All the guns are mounted
on steel carriages, which, with their 5 foot
wheels, look monstrous beside the car
riages of the light artillery The car
riages for the siege guns were drawn by
eight horses. Both guns fire either shell
or Shrapnel.
The charge of the 8 inch siege gun is
1917 pounds of ~hexagonal powder, for
the z inch howitzer the charge is l0pounds
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09

DEADLY SEAWEED SEA-
Four Centuries Of Ship
wreck in Grim
Sargasso.
TRAGIC FATE or THE BARK NARKA
Tossed About the Sea For
six Months = Ghost1y
Derelicts.
TRAGIC FATE or THE BARK NARKA

When Columbus, with his little fleet OF
three small ships, was making his way
westward four centuries ago, he ran into
q seaweed sea. His crews feared rocks and
shoals, for they had always associated
such vegetation with the coast. No man
before the coming of the daring adyentur-
Ell had cyer seen masses Of scasveed 50
many miles from any shore. As tho little
fleet plunged IN the captains and crews
rose in lnutiny, fearing their own and
their ships destruction in an unknown
and u~nfriondly sea. Tropical storms add
ed to tho terrors of superstition and ig-
norance. Tho admiral was impiored to
turn back-hc was threatcned-but with
the constancy of purpose which formed
his chief attribute he held steadily On his
course.
For several days the feet made its diff
cult wa through those masses. Them as
suddenly as they had entered, their prows
cut the western border and once moro
sailed in an open sea, still remote from
land. Then, after days Of sailing and anx-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09
DRIVEN LIKE BEASTS.
Uprising Against a Barbarous Custom In
Northwestern Hungary.

Throughout the northwest of Hungary
the noble landowners are in the habit of
demanding so days work in the year from
each laborcr or peasant on the estate with
out any remuneration whatsoever. To
such an extent is this tyranny carried that
many of the landowners are accustomed
to use their peasants as beasts of burden.
Harvesting four men to q plow instead OF
O. pair of horses or d yoke Of oxen. When
the landlord has any work to be done, he
sends a drummer through the village, and
every male inhabitant is compelled by law
to obey tho summons. The lord then Sc
1ects as many men as he requires and sends
the rest home.
The spread of education among the
masses has ended by awakening them to a
sense of the indignity and injustice Of this
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09
THE NEW ARMY CAMP
FERNANDiNA, FOR WHICH TAMPAANo
KEY WEST MAY BE DESERTED.

1t IL a Quaint Old Florida Seaport, With
a Fine Camp Site. Plenty of Good Wa
ter and Ample Accommodations For
Londirg Transports.
Fernandina, which has been selected for
the new army camp, is an old Florida sea
port IS miles northeast Of Jacksonville.
The principal points of advantage which
Fcrnandina has over Key West. Tampa
and other Florida portsss from q military
view. arc the pure and abundant, water,
the deep water of the harbor, furnishing
good facilities for loading troops the case
OF access of the camp site Tor loading and
e~n.barking troops, the magnificent sea
bathing for the men, the cool breezes from
the ocean and the excellent drainage facil-
tiles. All these combine to make it one of
tho best points for a large amp In tho
south.
The land is furnished free, and the wa
ter is served to the camps at no cost to the
goyernmcnt or men. Both these consid-
eratiolls, so utterly different from the con-
ditions prevailing at Tampa, somewhat
astonished the officers sent to inspect the
sites offered.
The city is located on & fine landlocked
bay, tho st. Mary's river, q large fresh
water stream elnptying n its upper end.
The bay is possibly four or fve miles long
by a mile or " miles wide. 1t has deep
water along tho water front and in the
parts adjacent, so that ample Dom could
be had for a feet Of 20 or more large trans
ports at q time. On the bar at present
there is 21 feet at high tide. The opera
lions now going on aJ the south ~jetties,
according to Colonel Benyaurd, United
States officer in charge OF the coastwise
work, is likely to give % feet soon. This
will give ample room on the bar for the
largest transports to 90 out fully laden.
The dockage facilities are excellent.
For years past the phosphate II lumber
interests have been increasing. and the
piers have been arranged and rebuilt with
a view to the quick loading of o number
Of vessels at once. Several transports can
lie alongside the wharfs at a time and the
supplies and troops be put on board with
out loss of time and with use.
Tho town lies on rolling land and is
about two miles from the seacoast. The
land between the town and coast is high
rolling pine land, wooded with giant
dwarf and water oaks. Tho soil is hard,
there being a noticeable absence of the
shifting sand found at the other camps.
Northeast of the city and beginning near
old Fort Clinch there is q tract Of 100
acres that has been selected as the camp
site. It is a beautiful location. Tho land
is high, some distance above the sea level,
and it can be easily drained. The trees
give abundant shade, while not too thick
to prevent the free passage of the winds to
cool the air among the tents. To n side
there Is q large tract free Of underbrush or
trees which can be used for drilling large
bodies of troops. At low tide the sand
beach. hard and dry, affords a magnificent
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-07-09
pRorEsson JAMES TAFT HATFIELD.

student Of Sanskrit, Canning college,
Lucknow, India, 1884; professor in Rust
university, Mississippi; principal McCor-
mick school, De Funiak, Fla, 1886; grad
uate student and fellow of Johns Hopkins
University. 1887 80; student universities
Of Bonn and Munich, 1890; professor of
German language and literature in North
western university, 1891 From June !,
1896, to the autumn of 1897 he attended
lectures IN the universities of Berlin, Got
tingcn, Leipsic, Jena, Geissen, Tubingen
and Oxford.
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A LEARNED JACKIE.
Professor Hatfield Now One of the Crew
of the Cruiser Yale.

of the Cruiser 4a1e.
In the forecastle OF the auxiliary cruiser
Yale is a college professor. He is James
Taft Hatfield. At present he is just a
common blueiacket, scrubbing decks,
heaving coal bags, polishing brass work,
learning gun drills and messing with men
many of whom can barely read and write.
When the war is over, he will return to
the Northwest university, Chicago, and
resume the chair of professor of the Ger
mar language and literature, a post from
which he was recently given leave of abb
sence in order that he might enter the
navy.
Tho academic history of Professor Hat
field is a remarkable one, especially when
it is borne in mind that he has not yet
reached his thirty-ninth year. 1t is as fol-
lows:
A. B., Northwestern university, 1883;
a. NJ, Northwestern university, 1886;
Ph. D., Johns Hopkins university, 1890;
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Taking Him Seriously.

fare you actively engaged in politics."
asked the maj who had just gone into the
insurance business.
"Yos; but | don't see what that has to
do with taking out O policy"
well, 1 guess I'd better report the fact
to the company anyhow. There seems to
be something about politics that breaks a
mans health down, so that he's always
thinking Of retiring to private life, and OF
course there's no telling how far the mall
ady may go, "-Washington Star.
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FIVE inch SIEGE GUN ON SERVICE CARRIAGE.
of ~hexagona1 powder. and for the z inch
breechloading mortars 5M pounds of pow
der is used.
These guns may be fired about one round
q minute, and their power of destruction
Is almost inconceivable. From tests made
by army officers it has been proved that q
shrapnel shell fired from 5 incl gun Will
burst with terrific force in about 500 fraR-
ments. A 7 inch shrapnel shell will dis
tribute 700 bullets and fragments over a
distance 800 yards long and half as broad
These siege guns are for transportation
attached each to a timber and hauled by
horses or mules. From three to five miles
Is the most effective range OF the s inch
rifle. The mortars and hoyvitzers may DO
fired at an angle of As degrees, or even
more, and can be used either close to tho
objective or at q considerable distance.
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A HEROIC WAR WRITER.
Seriously wounded, Hc Dictated a story
on the Battlefield.

on the EattIefeld.
Along with Russell and Forbes, the
noted war correspondents Of the Crinaca,
will hereafter be recalled the namo Of Ed
ward Marshall. Mr.. Marshall Is the dar-
ing Kew York journalist who accompanied
the rough riders i'll their dash upon the
Spanish forces before Santiago and who
was SO seriously injured in that engage
nient.
Mr.. Marshall has added a new and pic
turesque anecdote to the annals Of the war