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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
PLAGUE OF LUXURY.
How II Has Fallen Upon Us with
Prosperity.
John elmer Speed, in Ainslee's.

John Gimer Speed, in Ainslee's.
The growth of luxurious living in
America was very slow during the first
fifty years Of the republic Indeed. up
to the breaking out of our Civil War
the inequalities of fortune were not SO
marked as to make those who lived
supmtuously according to the stand
ards OF those days seem so far removed
from the merely well-to-do as to be
almost in another world. In the earlier
days, any Sober and Industrious man
could prosper, even though he did not
perform merely manual labor. There
was work for every one to do, and no
one was more in demand that Mr..
Jack of all-trades, who now walks su-
perfiuous in the dusty highway, with
no one to applaud his adaptabality,
none. to need his ingenious services.
Food was plenty, land was cheap, rents
were low. Be honest and you will be
happy, was not mere cant; ii was the
solemn and the grateful truth. Pretty
nearly every one lived well, but pretty
nearly all lived plainly. With better
houses. with better water supplies,
with improved lamps for illumination
and then with the introduction of
Illuminating gas, and most of all with
the greater wealth which came al the
Gnu VI the ClNl w al tue SIOWlii III
luxurious living began taking tremen-
dous strides. Luxury with poor light
after sunset luxury with few of the
means of personal cleanliness, does not
mean much to us nowadays. Why, a
man in a Harlem fiat at 600 a year
can command more of the kind Of lux
ury just mentioned than say the dis
solute Charles IL ever dreamed of. But
the wealth that comes with new for
tunes to new people was really what
begun the race which may be called
the Millionaire Stakes for all ages.
Before these stakes were opened
there We're few fortunes in this coun-
try. Some were made in the trade with
the East, some were made in strictly
domestic commerce, some were founded
in piracy and other adventures by sea,
but the greatest number and the most
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09

vestments in land which was enhanced
in value by the growth of cities. Even
up to the time that the Newly Rich
began to splurge. the owners of the
fortunes just mentioned were pretty
generally tolerably plain people, who
lived very quietly and looked upon
those who made unusual display as too
vulgar to come inside the sacred pale
which called itself society. In New
York, this class OF people at the time
mentioned lived in the neighborhood of
Washington Square; in Philadelphia.
toward the foot of Walnut street, and
in Boston, in that ever sacred Beacon
street. They were slow but sure. They
had no doubt about their position or
the propriety with which they main
tanned their dignity. They did what
they pleased, but they did not please
to be in the least fantastic, theatric
ostentatious or conspicuous. And un-
til the Newly Rich had arrived with
the manifest intention to stay perma-
nently, there were none with either the
ambition or the ability to dispute this
supremacy, which was maintained not
by an aggressiVeness, but by the pas
siVe power of inertia.
With the advent of the Newly Rich
tehre was great rafting of old. bones,
and to the cynical observer who merely
looked on without caring which side
won there was plenty or fun. one OF
the newcomers was an Hebraic banker,
who had the Oriental imagination of
his race and the brutal 2ugnacity char
acteristic of the men who compel ma
terial success. His luxurious living,
his novel methods of entertaining, his
Indifference to criticism and his enter
prise generally shocked the old-tinl-
ers quite out of their self-possession.
This man strengthened his position by
marrying one of the most beautiful
women of the day, a member also of a
family that was truly distinguished.
The success of this man was really
! the beginning of the end of that old
order in which display was shock to
gentility and luxury a mark of vul-
garity. The old-timers did not give
in without struggle, 1t may be be-
lieved. No. they never gave in; but
their followers, their heirs, their de-
scendants gave in without firing a
shot. Fighting was not in their line.
The primrose path of dalhance, was
much more to their taste, and so they
trod it gladly and proudly, locking
arms and keeping step with the Newly
Rich with such constancy that now,
after forty years of comradeship. there
is no telling the one from the other.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09

From the New York Press


1.-The first thing you know" said the
manager Of firm that builds refriger-
ating plants, we will be cooling Shoel
If the orthodox description of the do
main of His Satanic Majesty is correct
it is the intolerable heat that makes
hell an undesirable place of residence.
but with the progress that is being
made in producing artificial GOODNESS
we Will probably be setting up refrig-
Grating plants in the Internal regions,
if only we can locate the place and get
our machinery there.
DO you think l am joking? Oh. no,
not at all. Why. we have an order now
for a refrigerating plant that is to
make conditions tolerable somewhere
near the traditional site of Sheol and
don't see why it should be thought
unlikely that we should eventually go
a few thousand feet deeper and sup
ply grateful GOODNESS on the shores of
the lake of birthstone.
"In the gold mines in the Rand, IN
South Africa, the temperature becomes
higher as the shaft sinks, and at a
depth of 5000 or 5000 feet it is almost
intoierable, and we are now building a
plant to lower the mercury so that the
miners Will be able to work with conn
fort and to go down deeper.
1T is calculated that with this re-
frigerating apparatus the shafts can be
sunk to "A depth of from 1900 to 49,
600 feet. and if the prospective tenants
of the lower regions are enterprising
enough they will dig down until they
penetrate the Kingdom of Satan and
will commission US to install refriger-
ating plants which will rob hell of its
chief terror"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
CONFERRED WITH MIR. WRIGHT.
President and Commissioner Dis
cussed Coal Strike.

NuSSC0 COAA
Washington. June S.-The President
talked with Hon. Carroll D. Wright
the United States commissioner of la
Dor for some time to-day regarding the
situation in the anthracite coal region
Mr.. Wright came to Washington at
the request of the President to get his
views on the question and to discuss
what might be done under the law CIV
ing the commissioner of labor the
right to investigate affairs of this kind
and to collect information relating to
them which may be reported to the
President or Congress. The President
stands ready at any time to be of any
service possible to aid in effecting a
settlement of the differences existing
between the operators and the miners,
if this be possible. No statement was
obtainable at the White House to-
night as to the result of the conference
between the President and Mr..
Wright Later in the day the
latter left Washington for New
York, where he has several
days business demanding his atten-
ton Under the act creating the de-
partment of labor the commissioner is
empowered to investigate the causes
OF labor disputes that tend to inter
fere with the welfare of the people of
the different states and report the same
10 congress or to the President. Per-
sons familiar with the law, however,
question its utility, saying ample in
formation is already public property
though statements which have been
printed in the newspapers; and that no
one mas authority under the law to
Idhs any action ON the informa ton
Wnlch may be obtained.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
UNIVERSITIES DEFENDED.
No More Temptations There Than
the Young Man Would Meet Else
where. Says President Patton.


Princeton. N. j., June s.-The feature
of to-day's commencement programme
was the baccalaureate sermon preach
ed by President Patton. The process
sion of trustees, faculty and members
of the Senior class formed in front of
Nassau Hall and, led by President Pat
ton and ex-President Grover Cleveland
marched to Alexander Hall. Mrs.
Cleveland and Mrs. Patton were in the
audience
Among other things DIR. Patton said:
Sooner or later a man must be free /;
sooner or later he takes charge of his
own conscience. and university is one
of the best training places for this.
say this because an impression
abounds that university is place of
terrible temptation and mothers often
debate whether they should sacrifice
morals for intellect. They think it is
difficult for a man to acquire an edu-
cation except at a great risk and spea k
of the temptations of college life as
! If there We're no temptations in bust
ness, as If the banker and broker lived
in -holier atmosphere, as if the
apostles of Wall street were in closer
| touch with the ten commandments
than other men. / know of no place
where a man may be trusted to work
out the best in him so well as in a
Christian university. If you have
been faithful to the early training you
have received it has been helped by
coming here"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
epIIN LIKES OUR GOODS.
o,Ds NO PREJUDICE AGAINST us
IN TRADE.

,-ovorabIe Commercial Treaty
ded. HOwever-American Goods
re Met with. in Almost Every
o,r,er and of Every Description
r,om Agricultural Implements to
,rotoxraphs-ItaIy Is Also Favor
, hut Uses Many German Imita-
tons.
Wellington. June Spain holds no
si,dice against United States goods,
f.ording to an extract from the an
-, volume entitled Commercial Re
lions of the United States" which
~,s made public at the State Depart
emf to-day by Frederic Emory, chief
3 the Bureau of Foreign Commerce.
This extract gives the information
.or+ained in the annual reports of
rnited States consular officers in
c,sin and in Italy. Our trade with
cnsin it says, could be greatly en-
,'rged if a favorable commercial
.reatv were negotiated. United States
minister Storer. who is about to re-
,nrn TO Madrid, Will endeavor to ne
ootiate such a treaty.
The extract says:
american goods. according to Vice
consul Wood of Madrid, are to be met
With in the most unexpected places in
Snain. They consist of plows and
otber agricultural implements, pumps,
condensers, steel working machines,
hardware of all kinds, spouts, faucets,
mining machinery, bicycles, typewrit-
ers hairclipping machines, electric mo-
,ors and fans, firearms and cartridges,
dental goods, lumber, Photographs,
rinematographs, etc. There IS no pre-
hldice against United States goods, and
injuries are constantly received for
them.
consul Smith Of Leghorn, Italy,
saws that importations at that port
nom the United States doubled in
value last year, substantial advances
being made, among other items, is sui
nhate of copper (Which has isen from
100000 to S125,0 in three years. and
coal. which has been used in the navy
with satisfactory results.
consul Cramer of Florence also re-
ports the popularity of our coal, which
is employed by the Italian railway
4 companies and by factories. Our goods
are to be seen in shop windows, he
SAYS anu dlSO lilciilJ llllAlcttiOlAc VI ser
uine American products made in Ger
many Two Americans in the city are
about to begin the business of import
ing hardware, etc, from the United
States.
Consul Caughey of Messina says
that an American company is about to
build a hotel there.
Consul Johnson of Venice says that
American inventions have an establish
ed reputation for durability, and our
manufactured goods in general are
growing in favor"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
CATHOLICS MAKE PROTEST.

Federation Sends Resolution to
President in Regard to Philippine
school System.
Cleveland. o., June S.-The advisory
board of the Federation of American
Catholic Societies met here to-day.
Letters of commentator of the fed
eration's work were read from Bishop
Spalding of Peoria. Bishop Forrest of
San Antonio, Bishop Had of North
Carolina Bishop Conaty of the Cath
Ollie University and others.
resolution that was adopted to be
sent to the President at Washington
protests against the conduct of the
Philippine school system the claim
being made that it is a PROSECUTING
system which seeks to wean Catholic
children from their faith. The charge
is made that Catholicism is being
greatly Disseminated against in favor
of Professionalism, and that considering
the fact that the Filipinos are a Cath
Ollie people, but scant recognition has
been given that church in the appoint
ing of teachers and other methods
used in teaching the Filipinos.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
Mrs. W. A. McNciI, waycross. Ga.

Waycross, Ga, June S.-A telegram
was received here early this afternoon
announcing the death of Mrs. w A
Mcneil, which occurred in Savannah at
10 o'colck this morning. Mrs. Mcneil
was the wife of Postmaster Mcneil of
for several months past, and has been
treated at one of the Savannah hos
pitfalls. Mr. Mcneil accompanied by
his nephew, A. P. Penham, Jr., went to
Savannah at 6 o'clock this afternoon.
The funeral services will occur at
Quitman tomorrow afternoon. Mrs.
Mcneil leaves three children, w. D., CT
Savannah, H. P, of Jacksonville. and
Johnnie, who is with the United States
navy, and is stationed at present in the
Philippine Islands.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
MUTE SIGNALS.
system Used by stock Brokers While
Trading on Change.

Trading on Change.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
On the floor of the Stock Exchange
there has been in vogue for years and
Is still in use a mute system of lam
guage by which telegraph operators
convey orders to brokers whom they
represent 1t is done by movement OF
the fingers, and the purpose of 1t is to
hide the nature of orders from other
brokers. The plan is after this fash
len:
When a telegraph operator receives
an order to transmit to a broker he
will raise his index finger If the order
is to buy at an eighth: reverse it If
the order is to sell. Should the opera
tor want to indicate other fractions.
each additional finger raises the limit
an eighth. The fist clinched and thumb
uplifted tells the broker that three
quarters is meant. When it comes to
seven eighths that fraction is made by
forming a right angle with the thumb
and first finger. and, finally, if the even
figure is wanted, a waving movement
of the hand is used.
This is the system adopted by nearly
every active broker in making trans
actions, but to prevent others from fol-
lowing up their orders some have an
independent notation device. and will
communicate by signs which are known
only to the operator and the broker di
rectly concerned If you ever visit the
gallery of the Stock Exchange in the
Drexel building you will see on an ac-
tive day thousands of shares bought
and sold in this queer fashion.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09

Among the coronation peers will be
w. e. II. Lecl<y. the historian and
member of Parliament for Dublin Uni
versity, who will take his seat in the
House of Lords as Lord Lecky of
Carlow, where his landed property is
situated. Mr.. Lecky has always been
troubled with an extremely delicate
constitution, and it is rot generally
known that his inability to withstand
the physical strain of writing in the
ordinary way compelled him to adopt
the extraordinary method of lying on
his face on a bed with a blotting pad
on the pillow. and in that posture he
has written by far the greater part of
his historical works.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
WILL BE MUCH CANAL TALK.
The Southern Appalachian Park Bill
VIII Also Be Heard From in Sem

@S SoutheFH appalachian Park Bill
VIII Also Be Heard From in Sem
ate.
Washington, June S-The greater
part of the time of the Senate the pres
ent week will be given to the Inter-
Oceanic Canal bill. An effort will prob
ably be made by the supporters of the
Nicaragua route to secure an agree
ment to vote on the bill next Saturday,
but the probabilities are all against
success. Senator Harris of Kansas
VIII open the debate tomorrow in sup
port OF the Nicaragua route and he will
be followed by various other senator's
for and against the measure. Senator
Fairbanks has given formal notice of
a speech on Wednesday, He will sup
port the Spooner bill.
Tomorrow. in the morning hour,
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
will speak on the bill creating a ma
tional park in the Southern Appala-
chan mountains, and in accordance
with the agreement reached yesterday,
the morning hour of other days will
be devoted to consideration of Sena-
tor Nelson's bill for the abolition of
the London dock charges until a vote
shall be taken upon it.
Saturday at o'clock the Senate will
listen to eulOgies of the character of
the late Representative Stokes of South
Carolina. On Friday the nomination
of Gen. William Crozier to be chief of
the ordnance bureau will be considered
in executive session.
1t is probable that Senator Hale will
call up the naval appropriation bill
during the week, but he has given no
notice of such intention.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
OBITUARY.
William III. DOOner.

Mr.. William H. Dooner died yester-
day morning at his home, No. II Hen
ry street, east. from paralysis. He
had been in i'll health for a long time.
His funeral will take place from Sacred
Heart Church at o'clock this after
noon. Mr.. Dooner was a native of
Ireland. and was 6S years old. He
came to this country and to Savannah
when he was seventeen years old, and
had lived here ever since. He had
not been engaged in active business
for many years. He was a soldier in
the Civil War. and followed the Con-
federacy's faG from the beginning of
hostilities to the final surrender. He
was a member of the Irish Jasper
Greens, with which he served as a
lieutenant. He leaves a wife. two
sons, Mr. NJ. j. Dooner of San Antonio,
and Mr.. w. H. roone- of Savannah
and two daughters, Miss Nellie Dooner
and Mrs. !. A. Gallaher. who is now
in Colorado. Mr.. Dooner was a menu
Der of the Knights of Columbus.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
PACIFIC CABLE AND IRRIGATION.
House Will Discuss These Subjects
This Week.


Washington, June 8.-The House pro-
gramme for this week contemplates
consideration of the Pacific cable and
the Senate irrigation bills which the
rules committee is anxious to have
disposed of before the time set for talk
ing up the Philippine government bill
Special rules have been prepared for
consideration of both measures. The
cable bill will be given two and the
irrigation bill three days. The cable
bill provides for an American built and
an American-laid cable to connect our
insular possessions in the Pacific with
the Pacific coast. 1t carries d direct
appropriation out of the treasury for
this purpose. The prospects for it's
passage are not considered bright Mr.
CorliSs, the author of the bill processes
confidence that it will pass. The OPP
position to the measure believes the
cable to the Philippines should be laid
by private enterprise. Some of the
House leaders, including Mr.. Cannon,
chairman of the Appropriation Com
mittee, it is understood, will oppose the
irrigation BILL but the friends of the
measure are very hopeful of it's pas
sage.
Tomorrow is District of Columbia
day All the appropriation bills, except
the general deficiency, which will not
be ready until next week, have passed
the House.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
BEEF PACKERS DowNED.
Chicago stock Yards Company Sur
renders to It's Employees.

Chicago, June 8.-The threatened
strike tomorrow of all the allied
unions employed by the different meat
hacking concerns, was averted to-
NIGHT nv the stock yards company sur
wandering to the stock yards employees
union. All the demands of the union
were granted and the cattle drivers,
who were recently discharged after
forming a union, Will return to Work
tomorrow morning in their former
places,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
a broker who may represent half
dozen large houses.
As il Asking m Favor

a broker. who may represent half a
dozen large houses.
As il Asking a Favor.
The monopoly is absolute and com.
plete. A broker approaches the syn
dlcate, not as one comforting a favor,
but as one praying for it,
May ] venture to ask for sight of
your first shipment in May?" he writes.
trusting to receive a favorably reply,
! am, yours, ETC." If he is lucky
enough to receive satisfactory an
swer, he takes $685. 900 in his pocket and
buys as much stuff as he can get. 1t
IS not for him to ask prices. Those are
hxed by the syndicate. He pays his
money and takes his diamonds.
just before Kimberley was besleged
the syndicate had thirteen parcels to
sell There were ia applicants for a
sight of the goods. An English
broker went in first and bought four
parcels an American followed and
bought four, another American took
hVeTand the remaining Ill would be
purchasers went empty away.
America, being largely populated by
mllllonaires, takes two-thirds of the
diamond output of the world, and likes
quality as we'll as quantity. That is
why diamonds are dear. and likely to
remain so. "Oh, / can't sell diamonds
at the present price" says the English
Jeweler. De- Beers will have to come
back to the old price, and then l shall
do as much trade as ever"
He forgets that the Americans. who
are the best customers, do not grum-
Bile about the price. So long as they
do not the Englishman may grumble
from one Christmas to another VITA
out effect.
Why Prices Do Not Rise.
IF that is So" it may be inquired
why not double the price," For a
simple economic reason. The price is
just about what it was before South
African diamonds came on the market
some twenty-five years ago Put IL ur
to any considerable extent, and il
would pay to reopen the Brazilian and
Indian mines. which were not exha ust-
ed, but throttled by competition.
Above everything else this will be a
pearl year-partly because Of the
Queens fondness for the gem, partly
because it has been growing in popu-
larity for some time past. The de-
mand is out of all proportion to the
supply, and prices have reached a fig
ure never known before.
There is a necklace in London at
present priced at $4,000 and thc other
day a jeweler asked $5,375 for a pair
of pear-shaped pearl earrings of very
modest size.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
Mrs. Miriam Neuberger.

Mrs. Miriam Neuberger died last
night at 20 o'clock at her residence.
No, 107 Jones street, east The funeral
will take place this afternoon at 5
o'clock from the late residence.
Mrs. Neuberger was the widow of
the late Herman Neuberger. She
leaves three children, Mrs. Isaac S.
Levy, Mr.. Max H. Neuberger. and
Mr.. Louis Neuberger. who have the
sympathy. of many friends in their
loss. Mrs. Neuberger had resided all
her life in Savannah, and had many
friends and acquaintance.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
CREDIT MEN WILL MEET.
'helr seventh Annual Convention in
Louisville This Week

Louisville, June 9.-The seventh an
nuat convention of the National As
Soclation of Credit Men win be held
IN this city Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday of this week.
me association has a membership Of
ABOUT 1000 representing capital ag-
sregating $1,5OO,OO0,OOO, and it is ex-
pected that about 500 delegates will
Oe present at the meeting.
Inc members of the Louisville Com
nll'tee on Entertainment have pre-
p , an elaborate programme of en-
tIlalnment and much business of i'm
p p,na Will be transacted, based prin-
upaily upon the reports Of the Com
pp les on Membership, Legislative.
BUSINESS, Literature, Investigation and
o5 svSecutlon. Credit Department Meth
aus, and Improvement of Mercantile
agency Service.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-09
soIva BrintnuII, Chicago. iii.

Chicago, June s.--Solva Brintnall, one
of the early pioneers of Chicago, and
until two years ago president of the
DroVers' National Bank, died tonight
at the family residence in this city.
Mr.. Brintnall was IS years of age and
since his retirement from business two
years ago had been failing in health.