The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-21


to blame chiefly, as by reducing the iap-
orers' wages and cutting off former priv
ileges they have driven available workers
into the towns.
Pierre Lorillard is having built on the
Hudson the most luxuriously equipped
houseboat of its kind. 1t will not have to
depend on tows for its movements. as 1t
Is equipped with twin screws and can go
where its owner pleases.
1t is noted that at the celebration of
the Lords Supper at one of the Presby-
elements were passed 5yswo admirals
of the navy, a general of the army, two
justices of the Supreme Court and a for
mer secretary of state.
-One of the special bicycles built for
the use of the British troops In South
Africa, which went through the campaign
with Gen. Ian Hamilton's column, was
recently exhibited in London, where its
excellent condition, considering the
knocking about it had received. excited
general comment.
Peter Evans OF Auburn, Ind, was re-
Gently arrested on a charge of drunken
ness for the one hundred and sixty-ninth
time. In all but forty cases he was sent
to jail ito sober up" On the other oc-
casions he was given jail sentences. He
has cost the county nearly $700 and al
together has spent 1,429 days in prison.
Evans at one time was worth about $780,
900, but has lost it all through drink.
Canadian newspapers note with some
degree to concern that arrangements are
being made to devastate a vast forest in
the wild Lake st. John district north of
Montreal. A New York syndicate pro-
poses to spend $4,000 900 or S., 900, 0000 on the
project, having acquired from the provin-
cial government the necessary rights.
The largest pulp mill in the world will be
established ON the Upper Saguenay.
England still holds the first rank
among the nations of the world in the
building of commercial ships. 1t is shown
in Lloyds register of English and foreign
shipping that from the shipbuiiding yards
of the United Kingdom, 1,442471 tons of
ships were turned out last year, against
S61, 692 tons turned out by all the other ma
tions combined. If war vessels are add
ed the respective amounts are 1910, 1876 and
1,053,792
The Rochester Railway Company has
decided to equip its cars with fixed in
dividual straps for the benefit of stand
ing passengers. The almost universal
custom is to arrange the straps on a hort
zontal pole. 1t is argued that with a
fixed strap one passenger cannot monopo-
lie two straps, that the straps cannot
become punched and that the regular
distribution of the straps at fixed intervals
tends to distribute the crowd throughout
the car. In Rochester the straps are hung
about eighteen inches apart.
The United States are now patroniz-
ing the banana plantations of the West
Indies and of Central America to the
amount of about $4,000, 900 a year. The
island of Jamaica alone is sending to this
country over 100000 punches a year,
which means 81, 100000 to the producers
and shippers of the colony. The contribu-
tions of the tens of millions of punches
which this country consumes annually
come from Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Hon,
duras, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, JamaI-
ca and San Domingo.
In a case in Ohio, where there was
not enough property to go all round, the
court held that in a partition case the
payment of the costs was duty imposed
upon the person who filed the suit. The
first lien upon the property was the
taxes, the next the street assessments,
and fees of the county clerk and the
sheriff should come last. II there was
anything left after the payment of the
liens of the county treasurer for taxes
and the city for assessments it could be
credited on the court costs, but If not the
plaintiff would have to stand the charges.
-Pekin is rich in remarkable bells the
finest specimens being located in the bell
tower on the western side of the Tartar
Ia
the great bell, beyond the city wall. The
latter contains the great bell OF Pekin,
cast by order of the Emperor Yong 10
in 1415, and hung in the present tower
by the Emperor Waulch in 1873 This
gigantic object measures is feet in hight,
is inches thick and has circumference
of 81 feet at the rim. 1t weighs fifty
three and one-half tons and is covered
inside and out with inscriptions from the
Buddhist outras in Chinese characters.
How this huge piece of metal was raised
to its present position is a mystery which
has never been solved.
like that OF manual laborer than OF a
merchant-prince. says Leslie's Monthly.
She rises early in her cheap little nat in
Hoboken, N. j., spends a few minutes
upon light breakfast. and hurries to
the ferry. She is almost the first person
to arrive at her office In the Chemical
Bank, on Broadway. Here she labors I'M
til after dark. Her rise In the financial
world was very swift, and yet it did not
appear to attract public notice for several
years. Before the public was aware OF
the fact, she had become a banker, rail-
way director. stock operator. real estate
investor and capitalist. Her success led
many people to believe at first that she
was but a figurehead for a shrewd. I'M
known Spectator. Not until she had de-
feated many groups of hostile financiers
and predatory promoters d d the world re-
alize that she was a new and potent fac
tor in the banking community. Her great
est achievement so far as the public is
concerned took place in 1899, when she
lent over a million dollars in cash in
single operation The money market was
tight, the need of the borrower great,
and only one Wall street magnate Rus
sell Sage, was supposed to be in a po-
sition capable of furnishing the ready
money. Imagine, therefore. the general
surprise when the poorly-dressed Mrs.
Green came forward and took up the loan
with the quickness of an auctioneer seiz-
ing a half-heard bid.
The little mile-sauare City of Londan,
says correspondent OF Frank Lesle's
Popular Monthly. holds itself aloof from
and independent of the great metropolis
of which it is the heart. 1t is even in