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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
LOCAL Personal.

Miss Gertrude Jones of Thomson is Wis
iting friends at POI Bolton street. east
Mr.. j. r. Cooper, Jr., of Ogeechee is in
the city, registered at the Pulaski House
Mr.. J. S. Bailey was registered at the
Screven House yesterday from Waycross.
Mr. l.. johnson was among the Way
cross visitors who spent yesterday In the
city
Mr.. w. e. Higgins of Oliver spent yes
terday in the city, guest OF the Planters
Hotel.
Mr.. R. B. Wood of Hubert was in the
city yesterday, registered al the Screven
House
Mr.. J. c. Scott of Sylvania was among
the guests registered yesterday at the
Planters Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w Hood of Sumter s
c.. are among the guests stopping at The
Screven House.
Mr.. j. c. Cassidy of Albany was among
the arrivals registered at the Pulaski
House yesterday.
Mr.. Sydney Ryals leaves to-day for At
lanta TO resume his studies at the State
School of Technology
Mr.. F. A. Rayland of Atlanta was among
the visitors in the city yesterday, a guest
of the Planters Hotel
Mr.. G. w. Deem came up yesterday from
Waycross and is among the guests stop-
ping at the Pulaski House
Mr.. J. T. Evans has returned from An
gusta, where he spent a few DAYS with
friends. Mrs. Evans is stild in Augusta on
visit
Miss Mary Wayne and Miss Kline have
returned to Miss Gerrlsh's school at En-
glewood, ". j., after a pleasant holiday
visit to their homes.
DR.. w. b. Crawford, who has been
spending the holidays with relatives here
has returned TO New York TO resume bis
studies at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, from which he Will gradual
this summer
Mr. Nat l.. Solomons the well-known
pianist OF the Woodward Warren Com
pany, now performing at the theater. is a
son of Mr.. NJ. j. Solomons of this cit,-
He still claims Savannah as his home
and his many relatives and friends are elad
TO have him with them, If it is only for
a few days
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Burns are IN tbo
city on their way to Havana. where A.
Burns has arranged to enter business MIR
Burns was for a number of years con-
nected with the Ocean Steamship Com
pany, and has hosts of friends in Sav3n-
nah, who wish him success wherever he
may locate.
The Atlanta Constitution saws that
blshOp becker, VINO mas been so seriously
I'll at the Catholic parsonage on Hunter
street. in Atlanta, IS now reported oui of
danger and slowly, but steadily GONZALES
cling He was stricken down while on
visit to Atlanta from his home in Snvan-
nah. The Illness was diagnosed as acute
malarial poisoning. 1t rapidly grew very
serious and at one time but small hone
of the recovery of the eminent divine was
Mentertained. No opinion is ventured as
N p when the bishop viii probably be able to
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
THEY WANT A CANDIDATE.
I'd cling Pulses and Working to Get
Mr.. Myers TO Run.

I'd cling Pulses and working to Get
MIR. Myers TO Run.
Nothing further was heard from Mr.
Herman Myers yesterday, and it is the
impression that matters will remain quiz
escent, SO far as he is concerned, until
after his return 10 the city at the close
of The week. In the meantime, those VINO
are anxious to get him into the race are
preparing to besiege him when he returns
and force him into the field as mayoralty
candidate, if in any way possible. They
all practically admit that unless Mr.
Myers runs there will be no opposition to
Mr.. McDonough.
There is some disposition among nun-
Der of politicians in opposition 10 the adj
ministration to ask MIR. Myers to with
hold any positive public announcement as
to what he Will do until after the city Of
ficers' election on Jan. Il, next Wednes4
day night They profess to believe that
after that election, and not until Them
viii politics show any signs of hummlng'
and not until then will it really be possible
to tell just where some parties stand.
Between now and the return Of MT.
Myers there will be some feeling Of pulses
to find where different parties would stand
in the coming contest, If there is to be
any anu IL - ilOpNO " IAt9Ctlt NAAi''6-
Mr.. Myers in such a light that he will re-
consider his statement TO friends betor9
leaving that he did not contemplate Pc
coming a candidate, and his subsequent
reported declaration from New York tha'
he would not run.
DR. LeHardy is still confined to his honls
by Illness, though he is considerably mn
proved. He is a candidate for reelection
as health officer and believes that he VIA
tGas@H= MI
been mentioned as an applicant for the
Office is not in the race. DR.. Crowther re-
Gently returned to Savannah after year
or more of study and practice in inc
Johns Hopkins University medical depart
ment, and viii devote his entire time 70
his private practice. DR.. Crowthers qual,,
iications for health officer were recognizes
by his friends, who were anxious for NM
to become a candidate, but he has declined
to do so.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
Their Taxes Are Heavy This Year,
However.

Their Taxes Are Heavy This Year,
However.
The liquor taxes for 1899 are coming in
rapidly. The liquor dealers are required TO
pay their taxes in advance to the state as
well as to the city, and to the federal gov
eminent also for that matter. This means
that every liquor dealer must put up Sl25
in taxes if he has not already done so
1t as quite a tax on many of the small
dealers to get 50 much money together at
one time, but most of them seem 10 be
managing to do So
A Morning News reporter who went into
the tax collectors Office yesterday saw a
1arge amount of bills which were being
counted cut and sorted into packages. He
was informed that this was money which
had been paid an during the day by liquor
dealers in payment of the state tax for
1899
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

make it bright at night, the waves would
flash white over the rough coral below and
sea and sky would give one mass of bril-
liant, blue color. If such an enterprise
were started by the municipality or the
state, private enterprise would seize up me
tumble-down barracks that now face the
future driveway and this property would
be improved and all would be in keeping.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

Of the rules. only thus can they be handled
and effectively taught 1t will be useless
and farcical to attempt TO force them to
live properly without giving them the
means so to do
Situation in u Nutshell
The situation can be summed up thus
shortly: The city to-day is overcroWded,
there is not sufficient water ana what
there is is bad; the soil is impregnated
and poisoned with the accumulatons OF
years and centuries, and there are no san
itary arran gements such as sewers and
drains. The question can be handled rad
icaIly and straight out from the shoulder
In which case the population of the tene-
ments will have to be thinned out. or
the matter can be temporized.
The cleaning of the city is now in the
hands of the City Council. Since the Amer
lean occupation they have been attempt
ing TO do something in the matter, but they
clearly Tack the ability to grasp and ham
die the question. They have no idea as to
what a clean city, according to our Amer
lean ideas, should be- None Of them has
ever been intimately acquainted with one
AT a meeting of the council when this
subject came up for discussion one MEM
her pompously remarked: Let us show
these Americans that We can keep this
city clean as we'll as they can" Insomuch
as we have DeLOre US the result Ot sever di
centuries of their effort in this direction
the remark appears ridiculous.
The matter of the sanitation of this city
needs American handling. 1t calls for a
North American to run it. 1t is the puG-
pose of the present American military au-
thorities TO arlow the Porto Ricans 10 ad-
minister, within certain limitations, their
own affairs. Well and good, but this mat
ter OF health, which effects every Ameri-
can resident in the capital, should be ener-
getically administered by an American. It
is manifest that a Porto Rican cannot do
it as it should be done.
The Picturesque Part.
On the northern ridge of the city of San
Juan is a long line of old Spanish foruAca-
lions There are walls many feet thick
broken by embrasures for cannon and old
sentry boxes. In picturesque irreguarty
they stretch along above the breakers
from Moro Castle on the western end to
the old fortress of San Cristobal on the
ether This part of San Juan is the most
attractive; it is exposed to the persistent
trade winds and the ground is the highest
in town. 1t Is clearly the best location in
the city, but, unfortunately. il is now oc.
Cupled by san Juans worst and dirticst
inhabitants.
The old walls and the broad street be-
hind them lend themselves to a most at
tractive scheme of city Improvement.
With grading and leveling there could be
built here the most attractive driveway in
the West indies. The old walls would
nod it up from the sea, Moro would mark
one end, San Cristo0al the other: there
would be the cool trades 90 rattle the palm
leaves planted to give shade, lights would
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

Cincinnati, Jan. Al. L. L.sle. secretary
and w. S. Osborne, director of the Tobac-
co Growers Union, were here to-day TO
confer with warehouse men with a view
to securing their cooperation in protest
ing against the tobacco trust fixing arbi-
trary prices for their product. They re-
port Tie informal conference satisfactory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
WEATHER FORECAST

UnHl midnight Jan. 3, 1s99-Rain, fol-
lowed by fair and colder Friday
Washington forecast for Thursday:
For Georgia: Rain, clearing In northern
portion; colder in the interior; fresh south
erly winds becoming northwestcrly; fair
ana colder Friday
For Eastern Florida Rain; fresh east TO
northeast winds.
For Western Florida: Rain; followed by
clearing and much colder Thursday after
noon or night fresh southerly winds, be-
coming norlhwesterIy
For South Carolina: Rain, probably
clearing in western portions; colder in the
interior; fair and colder Friday; fresh
southerly winds, becoming westerly.
General conditions: Clear skies are noted
over Eastern Georgia, the Carolina coast,
Florida, Chicago, and the Northwest.
Partly cloudy to cloudy weather prevails
over all other sections.
The cold wave in the Northwest now COW
ers the lakes, Upper Misslssippi and Mis-
souri, valleys and Oklahoma. over all 9th
er sections, except Florida, temperatures
are higher.
Light TO brisk southeriy winds prevail
along the Atlantic coast.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature .......... 70 degrees
Minimum temperature ...........50 degrees
Mean temperature ................ go degrees
Normal temperature commenced degrees
Excess of temperature ...........12 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
Rainfall 49,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

Two Letters.-"Dear Vaseline: A per
son named Sarah Boyle has applied for
the position Of cook with me. She refers
to you. Ought 1 10 take her? with kin1
regards, yours ever, Mauye."
Dear Mauye: 1t Is quite true that I
gave Sarah permission to refer to me She
was with me last Lent, and I found her
invaluable as a spiritual discipline. Yours
always. Naseline. brooklyn Life
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
University RcceivcS slOa. ooo.

Chicago. Jan. 4.-Presldent Harper of
Chicago University announced tonight. at
the siNty-seveuth convocation of the uni
versity, that gifts asgtegaung $4030OO had
been made to the ms utution. Hon. Carl
Schurz delivered the convocation address
his subject being American Imperialism +"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
RESOURCES.

1NEoOOINAI-J.
Notes and bills discounted. .....$ 635 49, %
Demand loans secured. .......... $3.50 So
Overdrafts secured .............. 737
Bonds, stocks and other securi-
ties property of bank. ........ $3.50 Il
Banking house Observation-Disclosures. 900 90
Furniture and fixtures. 1892 IS
Real estate (other than banking
hOuSe) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1i,0U0 90
Due from banks and bankers On
this state) ...................~. $3.50 IS
Due from banks and bankers Gin
other states) .................. 126,54S SO
Cash on Hand
Currency ...............$6S,29 4 90
GOlu ........-........... 900 W
Silver Including nick
els and pennies) ....... S,1S1 20
Uncollected checks and
cash items ............ 517 AZ
Due by clearing house 1916 1S- S2,S7S 80
$1,9SS, 1876 &c
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

The Savage Bachelor-"Men." said the
Dear Girl, have as much idle curiosity as
women"
More" said the Savage Bachelor VIC
mems curiosity is always active "-C"'
cinnati Enquirer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
UnspcakabIe Alleys.

Alleyways halls and crowded rooms are
forever hung with damp clothing; dirty
water stands in foul tubs and so emptied
into drains that probably do not drain.
The houses are crowded with naked chill
dren; food is cooked over charcoal fires
in any corner, and all water comes from
underground reservoirs in the yards that
catch The rain from the roofs All the
water that the city has to-day is cistern
water. The mal-odors from these many
tenemeuts blow out into the streets and
rise 10 the people who live above 1t is
almost impossible to find to-day in San
Juan a second story for living purposes
under which there do not reside several
families with habits such as is here de-
scribed,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
LIKE A WHITED SEPULCHRE.
SAN JUAN DE Porto RICO LOOKS
CLEAN OUTWARDLY.

But Within II Is Full of Dead
Mems BOnes''-AlIeys and First
stories of Houses Very Dirty.
Sanitary RefOrm-Cfty without
Adequate Water suppIy-PIctur-
csaue Features of the old City.
Correspondence OF the Associated Press)
San Juan. Porto Rico Dec 25.-In the
matter of cleanliness this city is deceptive.
If one comes from other island towns TO
San Juan, or better yet, if one comes from
the average West Indian port TO San Juan,
San Juan VIII a first seem clean in com
par.son. This is because the streets Of
Porto Ricos capital are for the most part
very wen paved and are kept actually
fairly clean. A comparison can be made
to a shiny. steel-tjre on a very muddy
wagon wheel The city streets are for the
most part clean, but the houses and the
numberiess interior courts and connect
ing alleyways are indescribably dirty. If
you ask what should be done for the san
itauon of the city you will very likely be
answered everything" There is no doubt
but that the question needs very thor
ough handling, and one can well say that
everything must be done, for nothing TO
speak Of has been done in the past. and of
their own viii The people will do nothing
to-day
San Juan city IS built on the western end
of long and narrow island that runs al
most due east and west across the north
ern side of San Juan harbor The north
ern side of this island is the highest be-
ing sixty or seventy feet above sea level,
and from this ridge the land slopes evenly
to The south or harbor sde of The island.
The harbor is large and has an eastern
and western entrance; the western en-
trance only can be used by ships, the east
ern entrance is shallow. But there Is a
fair current of water through the harbor
with each slight rise and fail of the tide
The prevailing winds are from the north.
First Step to Sanitation.
A noticeable feature of the city streets
is that the first floors, in cases where the
houses have two stories, are either given
over to offices and warehouses, or are in
hablted by the poorer classes. Every one
knows that it is healthier to live above the
ground floor, consequently all those who
this city, man who has studied the ques-
ton of the city's health has declared that
in order TO make the city stay clean and
healthy, these poorer classes, mostly COM
posed of negroes, should be driven away
to the country. This action he considers
imperative for the lasting success of any
measures toward city sanitation. AS one
walks through the streets one catches
glimpses of interior courts that seem alive
It no. "a
are impressed with the great number of
people who live in small spaces and de-
prvod of air and light Americans have
wondeted how this city could house the
10000 inhabitants attributed to it, a visit
to the interiors, of the houses would
quickly inform them. In these tene-
ments sanitary arrangements are practi-
cally nil. There are no public lavatories
in town and the vast amount of clothes
that is weekly washed in this, as in all
Central American cities, is done in these
houses.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid up............$ $4,000 70
Surplus fund Observation-Disclosures 5000 10
Undivided profits not carried to
surplus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 81
Due banks and bankers in this
state ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S2907 q
Due banks and bankers not in
this state Observation-Disclosures. $500 a
Due unpaid dividends. .......... 1904 %
Due depostors, viz
Subject to check.................. S0O965 q
Bills payable ...................... 1900 %
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
The Same Everywhere.

Whether these people can be driven to
the country is a question. The negro
would prefer to live on eight square feet
of dirt in the capital than in the fresh
air of the country, and such tenement
property is highly profitable to the owner
here, as elsewhere. You cannot drive the
negro 20 the open fields unless YOU there
provide shelter for him, and even if you
tod him he must move within three or six
months he would make no effort to find
himself quarters elsewhere. 1t would be
necessary to build houses for him in the
country, and there make him remain ANY
such movement would be strongly opposed
by the property owner.
While theoretically this action would
bring the best lasting results. its practical
application viii be found difficult. In case
il cannot be done, the cleansing of, the
city must be considered with these people
sHll in their homes. The natural condi-
tons of the town make a good drainage
system possible. There is ample fan from
all points into the harbor. Whether there
is sufficient harbor flow to carry away
the matter thus drained has never been
determined. If there is not, the eastern
entrance might be sufficiently enlarged to
bring this about.
Rotten Contracts, Rotten Pines.
The SpanlafdS long ago started work on
a system of water supply to be brought
from the country through aqueducts. and
this system was very nearly COMPLETED
when The war came on. Unfortunately
the Spaniards obtained for their auueduct
condemned pipes from Demerara. and to
supply the amount of water needed for
San Juan these pipes should stand a pres
sure of $50 pounds They have never been
tested for more than seventy-five pounds
and 1t is probable that the higher pressure
would prove the pipes to be valueless and
necessitate new ones. However this NAV
be, much has already been done toward
getting ample and good water to this CITY
and this matter is of first importance 10
the citys health.
If the undesirable first-hoor negro is to
stay in town he must first be taught how
to live properly and then made to do SO
1t is not sufficient to post instructions on
tenement house doors; sewers must be
built aud until that time all washing of
clothes should be done in proper public
lavatories; there must be ample and good
water; proper ana hygienic living must be
made possible and then the people must
be severely punished for each infraction
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05
LIQUOR DEALERS PAYING UP.

= t, temperature; az. velocity of wind.
II. b. Boyer, Observer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-05

of the rules; only thus can they be handled
and effectively taught. 1t will be useless
and farcical to attempt TO force them to
live properly without giving them the
means CD n do
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-19

ported last year, through the efforts o.
Inspector Putnam. That is fair sam
pie of the work he has done during his
service here. His district stretched
as far north as San Louis Obispo and
included the big Chinese colonies in
Fresno and Bakersfield, as well as all
| of Southern California, with the ex-
ception of the San Diego district. Un-
der his inspection there was Chinese
population of not less than Il, 900 men.
| women aud children.
"PeOple who know little about the
Chinese said Inspector Pullman yes
terday, "often say that one Chinaman
meet Chinamau L can tell whether or
not 1 have ever seen him before, and If
so, where. 1 never forget any Chin a
mans face. 1t is very easy to detect a
newcomer-a Chinaman who has come
unlawfully into the country, in viola
tion of the exclusion act. His walk,
his gestures, his manner, all make it
as easy to find him out as
it is to tell q white man from a negro.
Cinnamon row aud then come into the
country from Mexico, walking across
the border without hindrance. As soon
as they reach Los Angeles they are
picked up and deported, for their char
ac,eristics quickly betray that they
are newcomers. Many used to come
into the country by way of the Canad-
ian border. a northern collector OF the
port was brought before the grand jury
on a charge of coDuiving at the SNUG
gliog in of Cinnamon. and since then
f yer have come that way. One ruse
was the bringing of q lar&e party of
Cinnamon into the country under the
pretext that they were for the Chinese
village at the Atlanta exposition.
After the exposition they scattered
like mice, instead of leaving the coun-
try. Twen ty-four of them were at
different times afterward captured here
in Los Angeles and deported. My re-
lations with the Chinamen have been
pleasant. They have given me both
friendship and respect"
NOT YET ARRIVED.
When seen this morning by HER
AID reporter and asked when Putnam
would arrive, Captain Nose Dillon said
nat he did rot know but that the in
spector bad been ordered to report to
him some time ago, before Mehan ar
rived, but he had not yet put in an ap-
pearauce.
"Heaven knows, we need him bad
said Captain Dillon, and then
be told of the % Cinnamon who went
through Ell Paso few days ago desert
i g the train at Juarez.
Il have no doubt" said he, "but