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The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21
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Copyright, 1901. by Robert Howard
Russell.
Once there was a Family that lived
right up in the City where they try TO
put two Houses on one Lot.
The~Name of the Thoroughfare was
Kidd Street. 1t was in the Eighth
Ward. just off Cinders avenue. There
was a swell View of the Gas House
and the Residents might have seen the
Bottling Works and the Dump if it
hadn't been for the Foundries in be-
tween.
All the People along Kidd Street were
in Humble Circumstances. That is
why they Married so early. They want
ed to cut down Expenses.
The Name of this Family in Kidd
Street was Monaghan. Mr. Monaghan
worked in a Blast Furnace where they
did not provide Electric Fans for the
Help. When Summer came he never
had to worry about his Automobile,
and the Problem of getting good But
Ter for the Country House did not give
him a moments Uneasiness. Mr.. Mon
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Partner will never be happy until she
gets that Ride to the Country. Next
Sunday the Steam Filters Protective
Association gives a Dollar Excursion. L
think it will help some if you give her
enough Recuperation in one Day to
last her all Summer"
Mr.. Monaghan acted on the Tip. His
Wife was tickled to know that they
were going. She loaded a Basket with
Lunch and laid out her best Things.
On Sunday Morning the Monnyhans
put on their heavy Clothing and start
ed for the Station. The Sun had got
an Early Start. 1t was hot, gummy
Day-just the kind for an Excursion.
On the Railway PLATFORM stood
about One Thousand in their Sunday
Best, slowly Cooking. The Monnyhans
worked their way into the Pack. Every
Person in that Crowd seemed to be
radiating Heat like a Parlor Stove,
1t was a sure enough Sunday Bunch.
There was Hiney Blotz with the Badge
and the Pale Cigar. He was putting
Finger Marks on the dove colored
Basque of Jimpsy, the pail Mechanic
of the Commercial Hotel. Also there
was Mike the Bite, with his regular
Rollopozarium, who was Calcimined to
a creamy white and chewing Pepsin
Gum in two-four Time. And the
Queen with the Satin Slippers and the
gold Bridge Work in her Teeth. Was
she on hand with Clarence and his Par
ent feathers?
Mrs. Monaghan was looking for So
ciety, and she got her Dollars Worth
right on the Jump
She was right next to a Stout Lady
in white, who carried a Small Child,
probably FIVE weeks old. A very young
Baby that is brokn out with the Heat
loves to get away on Sunday and have
a Time with the Steam-Fitters. On the
other side was a Gay Dog with Red
Handkerchief around his Neck and
japanese Fan in his upper Coat Pocket.
No Sunday Excursion is complete
without this Boy.
The Cars had been standing in the
Yards since AGO. soaking up Heat.
There were not enough Seats for all.
so Mr.. Monaghan put the two Children
in the Coat Box, while he and the
Pleasure Seeker sat behind a Couple
that talked Baby Talk. The Woman
had artificial Cherries on her Hat and
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21
BY r. p. dunno.

fissor. Since the Lord stint you an me
to bless this gran country he says,
there niver was seen such fine day
as to-morrah will be-. he says TIL
sun will shine in tn boochus sky he
says, an tn bur-rds will carol firm
tn three he says Twill be a glory
Gus day an yen be glad, he says,
that We give me tn job he says. Well,
sir, Clancy come in to see me that
night, groanin' with pain. What ails
YEP says 1. Me leg says he. TIL
weathers got into it, he says. It's go
in to rain a diluge,' he says. But
says /, TIL arya iv low barometer is
station'ry over Texas an tn Rrya Nv
high barometer is tearin round in tn
neighborhood Nv Goshen, lnjianny, l
says. How can it rain?' says 1. L
don't care says he. IT'S goin' to RAIN
he says. Wei. sir. dye raymimber,
Mack had to put on a life preserver
befure he got half way through tellin'
what he'd done FIR us. Twas a great
Victhry f'r Clancy's leg. / don't know
what III pro .fssor said about It. May
be he blamed II onto tn popylists. But
anyhow. he whit back 10 his wurruk
an begun TO believe in him again. FIR
tn weather got good. Ye always
thrust a weather prophet in good wealth
er an that's because We don't raymim-
sor'd be wan iv tn mos popular men
I'm tn country II nawthin' liver hap
pened. But along in April afther tn
grass had begun 10 come out, Clancy
dhropped in on me. carryin' n sthick.
'Yed betther put In some coal says
he ia betther be putin In Ice says
/, fr twas as warrum AS summer.
Me leg is snowin'.' says he.
Let's look AZ what IN pro- fissor
says says l. Here Il Is. An arya ~
high pressure is circulatin' In tn up
per lake region. pursooed he an arya
~ low pressure. Tn weather will CON
, tinue warrum an cozy' with snow
says Clancy. hohbln' away. We'll. sir.
that night I woke M with o chill an
they was an inch w snow on IN side
walk. Another triumph fr Clancy's
leg.
LAS week ye raymlmhor how hot
~ was. J fried ivrything J touched. 7
was that warrum TN pro. nFfer took
"a aqulnt at co. weather map an az
teHrr gathered in h's egDa BE Fumeun'
country says he = can't ~ th' NE
lv mo pee o. brrenk in fh Dot rHfe.f
be- says 'Tlf murdherln' an' hlafin'
hest ar far aH ! can l00h' De- faye
Twill 30 firm bad f0 Norre d. fayr.
Wen be baked ~ dsy, rfeWeg tg-m0r-
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nyhan was one of the Plain People.
He wiped his Mouth on the Back of
his Hand, and when he saw Man in
Duck Trousers he had Murder in his
Heart.
Shortly after the Whistle blew, Mr..
Monaghan would show up in Kidd
Street. dragging one Foot after the
other, the Prosperity Dinner Pail in
one horny Mitt and his Coat over his
Arm. He would collapse on the Step
with a Moan of Relief. Then he would
call for his Evening Paper and read
about Summer Styles for Well-Dressed
Men.
After Supper he and the other Toll
ers along the Row would come out to
the Front Stops and peel off until
they were comfortable, no matter what
the Ladies' Home Journal said. The
Children playing in the Street wore Ra-
tional Costumes. Sometimes a For
eigner came along and played Rag
Time on a Street Piano. The German
at the Corner did a great Bucket Trade.
After Mr.. Monaghan and his Neigh
bors had Rolled the Rock and Chased
the Duck and Hurried the Can for sew
eral Pints of the White Suds they
would feel almost as well off as the
Rich.
Mrs. Monaghan had a Grudge against
Kidd Street. She had doped herself on
Weekly. Story Papers and the Society
Column until she was full of pipey Am
billions that did not fit in with Pa
pas Saturday Night Envelope. When
she read about some New York Fam
lily going away on a Yacht and taking
$4,000 worth of Ice along, she would
feel Envious. The Monnyhans got
most of their Ice in the Winter Time.
Sometimes she would look out at the
two lonesome Trees in Kidd street and
wish that her Husband was an unpop-
ular Stock Jobber instead of an Hon
est Workingman. Mrs. Monaghan
loved to read about who was Enter
tanning at Newport and what to wear
at the Races. She used to figure out
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21

what kind of speckled Horses she
would drive to her Private Hack, If
she should go out in the Alley some
day and pick up a Million Dollar Bill.
She spent a lot of Money in this way.
Nj Monaghan was a Home Body. He
asked nothing better than an Al Fres-
co Evening on the Stoop, putting his
little Henry Clay and now and then
burying his Face in the Growler
But Mrs, Monaghan had the Travel
Microbe in her System. She wanted
to take a Trip into the Country. Her
Husband advised her to go over to the
Park if she wanted to see some Grass.
but she said that a real outing meant
at last forty Miles on the Steam Cars.
And she kept nagging Monaghan.
One night the Good Fairy of the
Eighth Ward came and perched on the
Instalment Bedstead and Spoke to
Monaghan as follows: Your Side
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21
BY F. P. Dunno.
Copyrighted, 1901, by Robert Howard
Russell

Copyrighted, 1901, by Robert Howard
Russell
I'm goin' TO make me apologies to
Clancys leg" said Mr.. Dooley.
Why's that?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
We'll" said Mr. Dooley. i've done
it an injustice. I've spoke i'll Nv it as a
weather prophet. FIR years that rhoom-
attic prop has been indicatin' tn wealth
er. If Clancy was seen walkin' brisk
ly down tn sthreet ivrybody up an
down tn road made plans FIR a buggy
ride. If Clancy come along leanin' on
a shtick, they begun to keep their eye
on their umbrellies. liver since l was
a young man. Clancy's leg has tipped
off rain storms befure they got as far
as tn Rocky Mountains an nanny a
bark has it previnted firm goin' out
on tn canal whn tn sky was clear
overhead but a twisht in tn knee told
Clancy a hurricane was brewin' down
below Lemont. That leg dealt in amy
kind iv weather, hot or cold, wet or
dhry. Clancy used to make a verse
about IL: What says he, is tn use
~ rapynin," he says. 'Dhrive care an
sorrow away. To-morrah. he says, tn
leg may be aisy, although 1t is he
says. 'achin' to-day People bought
their coal an ice be Clancy's leg ar
ranged their parties an mended their
roofs II predicted tn hard frost Nv
sivinty-nine an tn hot spell ~ eighty
eight Tn night befure h. big wind
come that blew down tn steeple ~ IN
church. ye cud hear Clancy howlin'
like a wolf an befure IN heavy floods
two years ago. he had 90 be wheeled
around In a chair fr a week. ! used 10
laugh al m people that watched thai
oil peg but mind ye, n ! WAS Mack,
ia have M weather bureau take OBJ
Eervations on Clancys leg an issue
bulletins Clancy in Er-rea AK ny
Look out fr storms on an lakes or:
CLANCY Yint 20 dance last night
C0ntlnyued fair an clear. with light
houfhWefteriy breeze ] uud ~.
Las Fourth ~ March MACK Hini
81 fh ln-ad that r-runa th' weather
bureau an' says be- Pro. fHF0rt says
DO what Kind iv weather are BE- go
81 ~ rive un to-m0ushf be- naya Can
me pIug hafr naYH b. - cud
f' BOO tHaf pa-apsG hpys al pro-
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MONTGOMERY.
THuNDERBoLr SCHEDULE.

Commencing at 100 a. m. car leaves
Bolton street junction every % minules
until 200 .. m. after which time c''
leaves every 10 minutes.
Commencing al 7O a. m. car leaves
Thundsrbolt for Bolton street june Won
every 20 minutes until 28 .. m. ail.f
which time car leaves every 10 MI.
The i0-minuts schedule is inaintalnrA %
long as travel warrants a.
WEST END
The nrfi car leaves Tor West tn1 p
IDA m. and every ~ minutes fhefeaifHf
unul m ~ . M after which r. car W..
Do sach direction every q minutea Pn'N
midnlrhL LuclhN NciNTfhh
General Mansgef'
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21

ried on at that easy and profitable rate.
If, however, three-fifths of the bill is
sent in, enough of it is in our hands
TO satisfy all demands of the Treasury
and the public service. All fragments
are carefully registered with their es
sential marks of Identification. The
remaining fragments may come in lat
er; but as soon as their identification
with the three-fifths portion has been
established, they are thrown out as
worthless"
Mrs. Brown picked up charred mass
OF money, black as charcoal which
seemed just ready to fall apart by its
own weight, like the last remnants of
burned paper often seen in the CRATE
fire. With the point of a paper cut
ter she deftly separated it. bit by bit,
and finally succeeded in peeling off
fragment on which could dinly be seen
the impressions of the printing plate in
the center design. This was a ten-dol-
lar note, as was shown by comparing
the center design of the charred frag
ment with new bill which Mrs. Brown
placed beside it. She said: THE fig
ures giving the amount of the bill are
obliterated, principally by the break in
the charred fragment, where it is sep
arated from the rest of the bill; but
piece are apparent to the naked eye and
still more clearly brought out by the
magnifying glass. This is undoubtedly
a true United States treasury bill, and
will be redeemed. OF course, there are
not three-fifths of the original BILL but
the center design is here and enough
to identify it beyond question. When
we have a mass of mutilated money all
stuck together like this, il is necessary
to use the utmost nicely in separating
the layers, in order to see how many
separate bills there were in the roll be-
fore it was charred. Frequently it is
possible to positively identify some of
the bills, but not ALL and unless great
care is exercised injustice may be done
to the owner The treasury always
stands ready to redeem any money that
can possibly be identified, and to give
the owners all reasonable benefit of the
doubt a."
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21
The CHATHAM BANK
SAVANNAH 'Ah
LEOPOLD ADLER, President
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JOHN r. DILLON, Cashier
BARRON CARTER. Assistant Casb,a.
oohclts the accounts of indivtd,Ia,.
tons. w Pora-
Liberal favors extended to corresno,,
ing oanks, as our unsurpassed faciI5tta-
Ior correcting insure prompt returns
BUYS AND SELLS FORFIcN
CHANGE, WRITES LETTERS n
CREDIT AND ISSUES BANK MoN,GF.
OF EUROPE. AK IL
interest compounded ouarterIv
posts IN the SAVINGS DEPARTNrniT
SAFETY Deposit Boxes and Vault. -
rent Tor
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21

The redemption division is subject to
continual attacks by sWindlers, but
Mr. Relyea, its chief, is up" to most
of the tricks they practice. He says
that one of the most remarkable at
tempts to swindle within his expert
ence was that of a man who sent in
three apparently half burned notes
from Kansas, with an affidavit telling
minutely how he had hung his waist
coat on fence and prairie fire came
along and caught the fence and the
money was partly consumed. He was
a director of the bank through which
he sent these notes to the treasury for
redemption. When the treasury refus-
ed to pay them and accused him of
fraud, he waxed indignant and threat
ened to bring suit against the govern
ment. The matter was put into the
hands of the district attorney, and the
man in time pleaded guilty to fraud.
1t happend that in the files of the
treasury were the identical other halves
of the three bills sent in by the Kansas
farmer. They had come in from
New York man, with a plausible story
and had been redeemed; but as there
seemed a slight irregularity about
them, they were not sent to the mace
rator, but kept for future reference.
1t is probable that the other halves OF
the notes were sent to the Westerner
in the course of green goods game,
and he could not resist the temptation
to try to work them off on the govern
ment. One might fill every page of
the Morning News with similar stories
of one years experience in the re-
demption bureau.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-21


Last year the authorities of the
Treasury Department destroyed pre-
cisely 1899, $4,000 in paper currency
withdrawn from circulation. Since the
department began to collect statistics
systematically, in 1866, there has been
destroyed about seven billions three
hundred millions of dollars in paper
currency. In the regular course or
each days business at the Treasury
Department, great deal of paper is
received. This is sorted, and the torn
and dirty pieces sent to the redemption
division. Every day million dollars
worth of money is handled in this d.
vision. 1t is carefully assorted, ac-
cording to denominations and issue,
and entered in the treasury records.
After classification, the notes for re-
demption are made into bundles,
each fastened with paper
straps, one at each end and one down
the middle. The straps are Endorsed
to show the contents of the package.
There is a big knife in the redemption
bureau. It is hinged to an iron frame
and works in a groove! The bundles
of money are put under this knife; and
by electric power, a colored employe
sends the keen blade through them,
dividing each package into two pack
ages. One of these contains the up
per halves of the notes, the other the
lower halves. One goes to the regis
ter's office and one to the office of the
treasurer. In each of these offices,
clerks check up the contents of the
packages. If the contents do not agree
with the label, the other package of
halves is looked up for comparison. If
a counterfeit is found, it is traced to
the clerk who accepted 1t, and he has
to make its value good. In some cases
this seems a severe punishment for ig-
norance or carelessness; but 1t is OBJ
viously necessary. After the money
has been duly checked up in both the
offices above named, 1t is taken to the
macerator, in charge of a committee.
This committee is composed of one
clerk from the secretarys office, one
clerk from the treasurers office, one
clerk from the registers Office, and one
outsider. The first three have keys.
Each key fits a different lock on the
macerator. This macerator is a, steel
cylinder, in which a set of steel knives
is made to revolve. The three clerks
open the macerator, the packages of
mutilated money are placed within, the
cylinder is closed and the machine
started. Presently it is nothing but
dirty grey pulp. This pulp sells for
four dollars the hundredweight. and is
turned into images of the Washington
Monument, Mount Vernon. the Capitol,
etc. for sale by dealers in souvenirs.
Each of these crude images is labeled
as representing a million dollars OF
paper currency" or some other large
sum which is wholly a matter OF guess
work; and they sell readily to the army
or tourists that are always proving
about the national capital.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-11
JONES oBsEQUIEs.

Last Sad Rites Performed for the
Aged Couple Yesterday Afternoon.
Many Friends Pay Their Respect
to the Dead.
Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock oc-
Cured the funeral of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Jones, from their late resi-
dence, No. 1906 Jacob street. Mr.. Jones
died on Wednesday in his 91st year,
and his wife passed away on Thurs
day in her 18th year.
The funeral service was conducted
by the. Rev. r. R. Bigger, pastor Of
the Third Presbyterian church. and
was very largely attended by relatives
and friends of the deceased. The pail
bearers for Mr.. Jones were selected
from the Franklin Lodge, l. o. o. F.,
which body was in attendance. They
were: C. X. Smith, John Batchelor.
Samuel WEIGH, Robert Johnson, George
Rail and John H. Stamp.
The pail bearers for Mrs. Jones were:
w. A. Sunderman, Anderson Sutton,
James Noise, w. e. Anderson, w. A.
Simpson and Edward Steele. The inter-
ment was at Peninsula cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-11
WILL Go ON YOUR BOND.
City officials ear have their bonds
To-day delay.
AMERICAN BONDING & TRUST CO.,
q City Bank Building.
HAIL STORM LAST NIGHT.
Thunder, Lightning and Rain Made
Up an Interesting Early Spring

Thunder, Lightning and Rain Made
Up an Interesting Early Spring
Evening.
The weather man spread himself yes
terday and last night.
The rain of Saturday night ceased
early yesterday morning, and after day.
light the weather conditions were pass
ing fair, with a warm temperature.
In the early afternoon, however, the
sky clouded up again, and about half
past two there was a sharp down-pour
of rain that continued for an hour or
more, preceded, however, by an occa-
sional appearance of the sur.
After dark there was a slight tend
ency to cooler weather, and at eight
o'clock there We're frequent flashes Of
lightning on the west and southwestern
horizons, although the sky overhead
was clear and the stars shining. The
lightning continued, being reinforced
by very audible thunder about a quar-
ter of ten, and at 1915 p. m. there was
a sudden burst of rain, accompanied by
a lively downpour of hail of the aver
age size of peas. The storm continued
for but a few minutes, but was lively
while it lasted. The local outburst
was followed by very vivid lightning
east of the city, out the valley of
Wheeling creek, accompanied by much
thunder. and thereafter there were
local showers. At times during the
evening the wind was high, but no
damage from that cause was reported.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-11
GREAT POPULAR TRIBUTE
Paid to the Late Hon. C. L.. Magee
Y~eSterday.

Paid to the Late Hon. C. l.. Magee.
Yesterday.
PITTSBURG, March 10.-Fully 90. 900
persons paid tribute to the late State
Senator c. l.. Magee to-day by viewing
his remains as they lay in state at his
late palatial home. The Naples, be-
tween the hours of l and 6 p. m. To-
morrow the public will have another
opportunity to take a last look at
the remains, after which none but
close friends and relatives will be ad-
mitted to the house. The funeral ar
rangements have been completed. and
on Tuesday. at 2;30 p. m, public
services will be held at Trinity church
conducted by Bishop Whitehead. In
terment will be private, and immedi-
ately after the services at the church
the body will be buried in the Magee
family plot in Allegheny cemetery.
There will be twenty-five honorary
pail bearers, selected from among
Senator Magee's intimate friends and
business associates. The ten active
pail bearers have been chosen from
among the old volunteer tiremen, all
of whom are at present members Of
the paid department.
The honorary pail bearers at the flu
neral of the late Hon. C. l.. Magee will
be: P. A. B. Widener, of Philadelphia;
Robert Pitcairn; former Judge ]. H.
Reed, Judge Jones, former Mayor Ber-
nard McKenna, Senator William Finn,
Judge T. III. Collier, Judge r. S. Fra
ger, Judge John NJ. Kennedy, Joshua
Rhodes, George M. Won Bonhorst.
John A. Bell. T. Hart Given. w. G..
McCandless, George Westinghouse. NJ.
X. McMullin, George A. HUM, Edward
Dudley, John Paul, James P. Speer,
Congressman John Dalzell. Col. Henry
Hall, George Washington Moore. Will
liam l.. Elkins and William II. Self.
: The active pail bearers will be: AS
sistant Chiefs John Steel, James Stew
art and Michael Hannigan: Captains
Philip Mcguire, John Wrigley and
Louis Kemmler; Engineers George w.
Gardner and Joseph Busha; Hosemen
Charles Hart and Thomas Boviard.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-11

New Yorw World. Feb. y mn
California Is. naturally, the richest
State In the Union From the Land Of
Gold 1t has become the Land OF Oil,
and that means the same thing-wealth
Tor the finder. wealth for the investor.
From the Kern River district comes
news of wonderful oil strikes and,
while all that giitters may mo- be gold,
all that bubbles is oil. Men who own
ed the poor acres in Kern County,, near
Rakerfield, could not sell them a little
lore than a year ago for s. an acre.
Now, dotted with oil wells, these same
lands are selling at from $500 to $11,-
coo per acre. with wells producing from
fifty to two hundred barrels daily.
One of the best located companies in
the Kern River district is the Eastern
Star Oil Company. This concern has
as its president, Mr.. p. v. Schelmer-
horn, a member Of the old KEicker-
booker family Of New York City. MI.
Schermerhorn is one of the best prac-
teal Gil men in the country.
This is the third company to be de-
veloped by Mr. Scheranerhorn. He
started the Diamond Star first, saw it
succeed and increase in value, then
turned his attention to the Central Star
with simnar success. Now he consid-
ers the Eastern Star the best of the
three, and so sure is he of its future
that he determined tx offer some of its
stock to the people living in the city
OF his forefathers, and in the East, gem
orally.
The capital stock of this company is
s2. 600, the par value of shares being
81. They are Worcestershire. In these
days of overcapitalization the Eastern
Ssar Oil Company is a notable excep-
ton.
To assure investors against every
emergency. even an earthquake, the fol-
lowing guarantee is given:-
IF parties purchasing stock at
% cents per share shall request the
same, the sale will be made on written
condition that the stock will. at the
option of the purchaser, at the end OF
one year, be received back and pur-
chase money will be refunded on thirty
days notice, with interest thereon at
the rate OF s per cent. per annum, less
dividend paid on same. This is meant
as a guarantee of the investment.
Eastern Star Oil Company, 406 and 407
Evening Star Building, Washington,
d. C..