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The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22

that the first South American hats of
the Alpine shape were made. Before
1897 all of these hats were Iof the
shapeless sombrero shape, with a
crease across the top of the crown.
The shape has been improved, but the
method of making the hats is the same
as 1t was many years ago, when they
received the name Panama" because
they came by way of that place to
the United States and other distant
countries. The material used in the
making of Panama hats is the screw
palm, called by naturalists Carludovica
palmata. II is of the palm family,
and is described by Charles r. Dodge,
expert for the United States on f1bers,
as follows:
'It is a stemless species, common
in shady places all over Panama and
along the coast of New Granada and
Ecuador. The leaves, pleated like a
fan, are borne on three cornered
stalks, six to fourteen feet high. They
are about four feet in diameter and
deeply cut into four or five divisions,
each of which is again cut. The
leaves are gathered while young and
stiff, and the parallel veins are re-
moved, after which they are split into
shreds, but not separated at the stalk
end, and immersed in boiling water for
a short time and bleached in the
SUM-"
These strands are about yard long
and about a half inch wide Before
they are ready for the braider they are
rolled from either edge and become
round. and then they are again pressed
fiat and are ready for the weaver.
In order to work the material it must
be dipped into water every few min
utes. If this is not done the strands
become brittle and break. A hat to
command a high price must be per-
feet, and in order that it may be so.
and have no loose strand. no broken
part, the weavers never work in the
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22

sacred till then to Mahdist raids and
retaliatory expeditions by British SOL
diers that were little more effective
than raids.
There were to be no raids with Kitch-
ener. He meant to take no army out
and bring a cut-up, starving, panic
stricken remnant back. He meant to
send no columns winding for miles
through gorges, while at their rear the
shouting followers of the Prophet were
cutting out the wagon trains of sup
plies and ammunition. He meant to
have no rushed camps. no sniping, no
desultory. hart-breaking fighting.
The march began. Day after day.
week after week, month after month.
the slow progress went on. Men work
ed all day TO move trains and barges,
they slept all night as securely as if
they were in the heart of friendly
country. To a world waiting for glori-
Gus deeds this was gall and worm
wood. Kitchener became a by-word
for something that defied patience
This was not war. This was shopkeep-
ing, farming, land measuring, anything
but war. And Kitchener. the unlovely,
who they say never looked at woman
with tenderness or sentiment, heard
the talk of the world as it drifted to
hini in his Nile camps. He listened to
1t with that level unspeaking glance,
and sent war correspondents back
home with scant courtesy and less
waste of time. That was his answer.
In ii no word was wasted.
And the Omdurman.
And one morning, on September.
1895, something happened in far place
called Omdurman, where there were
gathered great hosts of brave Emirs
and tall desert fighters and women of
the harem and much treasure. And
when the something had done happen
ing the field was white with tibbah
clad ccrpses, like a meadow dotted with
snowdrifts." Khalifa Abdullah, who
had boosted that morning that Kitch-
eners head should roll before night
where the brave Gordon's had rolled.
was hiding. The fierce Osman Digna.
the Sword of the Soudan. was fleeing
with handful of survivors. Along the
river mounted British troops were can
tering and spearing the Dervishes
who had escaped the bath of fire. The
despised Egyptian troops, those same
men who once had been sheep before
the Dervish wolves. were guarding ff-
teen thousand sullen desert dwelllers,
whose deserts were never TO know
their fierce forays sgian
And that night Sirdar Kitchener rode
through the camp and he looked
around him as he had looked around
hin at drill many years before. In
that hard. unmoyed face was sign OF
neither triumph or citation or relief
or WEAKNESS. His men cheered when
they saw him, but even as the cheers
rang out they would die away. fOr
this grim. changeless. passiOnless
creature was not one 10 arouse wild
outburstF.
And 10 he passed through the crowds
~ England when he returned home
he had aged q bit Twenty-Five years
ln Egypt, beaten BY sands that eut
mo faces u the pyTaWias. viii mark
even the face Of q Kitchener Bur
iD all else. in expression. in manner
in 8tthufe he was the Kitchener who
81 subalfern. sef forth 40 measure
ne iane - Cunaan. anf b. ffceige1
me Plan1itf o. a nefioa 80 ~ might
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22

hot hours of the day, and many Of
them do their weaving only at nIght
by candle light.
A first-class hat, one Of the kind Of.
fered in this city at the present time
for SIS, usually takes about six months
to make, and when it comes here It Il
,shapeless, dirty and unsightly Here
1t is cleaned and pressed into shape
The expert can tell by the button"
the central point of the crown Of the
hat, where the weaver begins the work
in which part of the country the hat
was made. Every country as its pc.
culiar style, which is taught to the
children when they begin to work
They practice on low-grade material
for years. and when they have &C
quired sufficient skill they begin work
with the better material, but II mat
ters not what grade of hat they make,
the button" is always made in the
same way.
One of the famous Panama hats was
the one which was worn by Louis Ma
poleon some time in the f1fties. 1t had
a great breadth of brim, was firm in
texture as silk, pliable and exceeding
ly light. The hat was valued at $780,
1t took long time in those days to
order merchandise from South Amer
lea, and the Emperor had the salts
faction of possessing the only hat Of
the kind in Paris. But the next sea-
son the broad-brimmed Panama hats
were popular with persons who could
afford to pay high prices for the lux
ury, and the same thing happened IN
Paris that has taken place here-straV
hat makers put imitation hats on tn'
market, and the original article SUI
fered in popularity. The hat MAKER
in Southern France and italy flooded
the country with Panama" hats, AM
Napoleon III gave the fashion its deatl
stroke by presenting his famous spec,
men to the head gardener OF the Iull
cries.
New Orleans was the American head
quarters for Panama hats before tn
Civil War, and the place where they
were sold largely was the French mar
ket. In those days ice was sent L
Havana in casks padded and packet
with straw. The empty casks wer
returned to New Orleans, and usuaI.
contained. besides the refuse straw
bundles of Panama hats, the proht
in which were divided between tn
shipper and the skipper who smugge
them into port.
One of the finest specimens that eve
came to New York was owned by
man who was one of the America
agents of the Havana lottery.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22
THE POPULAR PANAMA.
How the Present Hat Habit Grew

How the Present Hat Habit Grew
Up.
From the New York Tribune.
The moth-eaten and threadbare Jokes
about the expensive hats for women in
comparison with the democratic head
gear of the men of a family must be
laid away for while. For many years
there has been little change in the
prices of mems straw hats. The regu-
lar article ranged from 81 so to S.. with
bargain counter variations. The man
who waits for bargains until the sea-
son Is well advanced is rewarded by
securing a "first-class article" from a.
buckster's wagon at so cents.
But this summer has brought a new,
straw hat condition. because OF the
popularity Of the Panama. In discuss
ing the matter hat dealer said that the
Panama hat habit was an outRrowtb
0f expansion. our people have been
going 10 the tropical possessions on
late" he said. and the big. light straw
hats, which are called Panama be-
cause they come from almost any old
place down south except Panama. are
among the souvenirs which they bring
Dack with them. one person IN q fam
iy having one ~ these hats made me
others want fbe fan me kind. and in that
way little orders became large ones
hats were made in large quantities foT
le.hkes Hadf' and she Panama hat
habit became eefa bilFheG
To ehief shipDinf point ~ Pans.
ulf hftf ~ tNaNaQui, anc if vas 81
ne order " a merchant az thaf point
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22

The great bearded Emirs and the saw
age, hairy, fighting men laughed
through their teeth when they saw him
come. They had made the poor rice
eaters of Egypt run too often to dream
of anything else except an easy
slaughter But this time the men
whom KITCHENER had found in the fell
laheen were behind those brown skins,
in which once there had been room
for nothing but quaking hearts. And
Emirs and hairy fighting men snapped
their teeth in the dust in dying and
spearmen fell to rise no more.
The troops were beaten off at last,
but Kitchener, although defeated in
this his first real battle, had broken
his Egyptian soldiery to fighting and
killing as sportsmen blood" a deer
hound He got bullet in the face as
a souvenir of the occasion. A few
years ago. while he was eating at ia
| BILE, the bullet suddenly worked it's way
| out and fell into his plate He lifted
it out with his fork, stared in disap-
prevail at his servant. who had too
lively an expression of surprise on his
face, and went on eating without say
ing a word
Revenge for HANDFUL.
Within a year after HANDFUL he led
! brigade of Soudanese over the
over Osman's men who had incautious-
ly occupied them. In 1889 he agian
commanded a brigade. All this time
he was gazing at the Soudan, studying
1t, laying his plans to subdue it, He
had prohted by all the experiences of
others. AS intelligence officer with
Stewards ill-starred desert column, he
had noted for future use the break
down of the system of communica tons
the korosko desert and in less than
three weeks came out not only alive
(then feat in itself, but with the in
| formation that he had succeeded in es-
] tablishing chain of outposts extend
ing to the Red Sea and guarded by q
600 friendly Arabs.
1t was Kitchener whose native cav
airy sent the Dervisbes in rout across
the desert and stopped all Arab inva-
sion for a year.
And 1t was Kitchener, who, in 1890
was appointed Sirdar
And in 1898 the Soudan was con-
quered
Before he could move TO conquer the
Soudan he had TO conquer the Khedive.
He did. The Khedive said something
insulting about British officers. Kitten
ener rode up close to him and-the
khedive issued a General Order prals-
ing the army and particularly it's Brit
ish officers. Queen Victoria made
Kitchener a X c. NJ. G. that time
Then began the game of war. I'm
passive, passionless. uncommunicatiye.
drillmaster. farrier. commissary and
railroad engineer by turns. the silent
man made plans and laid them 10 con-
verge on one point Many thousand
instruments. bent by his supreme viii.
toiled biindly Cor him. not knowing
Mhethcr they were working for "a hope
iessly stupid victim Of dull red tape or
"a man with a colossal scheme. and.
what Is inore, not daring 20 try 10
know.
year passed by and SIN the army
aiillca aud the engineers planned. and
instead Of gun hrne and sword clash.
lnb thf blows of pickaNcE and the
tffbpins ~ spades made monofon0us
music d9y after day Foot 81 foot.
mile ty mile. q railroad began ~ crawl
away h0m camp ipto tbs dlm desert
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22

Sunday Excursion to Brunswick, Ga'
Effective Sunday, May II, and eacH
Sunday thereafter the Plant system
will sell round trip tickets to Bruins,
wick. Ga, on Sundays, limited to oa.s .
of sale, at $1.00. For information SEQ
ticket agents.-ad.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22
White Stone Lifhid Water

Is the hghtest mineral water on the market,
ana retains its gases longer than any other
This is claiming great deal, but if you will
open bottle of White Stone Lithia Carbon
ated and at the same time open bottle of
any other, and you will be surprised how
much longer White Stone will retain its
gasses than the other Another test is that
White Stone Lithia does not burn the tongue
or stomach when drinking it as other waters
90. The hotel will open for guests on July
!: IT is the largest brick hotel in South and
north Carolina or Georgia, covering more
than one acre of land with all modern inn
Proyements for summer and winter Rich
hill on the Southern Railroad is the station
ior the spring only ten minutes ride 10 no.
tsL IBIS water is for sale in Savannah by
the Masonic Temple Pharmacy.
'hllt SlOAE LlIHIA WATER COMPAN
WHITE stone SPRINGS. S. G
The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22
$2S.4O Savannah to washington and
Return.

Return.
Tickets on sale via Southern Railway
daily through Sept. 80. good to return
up to and including Oct. 81. Leave
Savannah lis noon and 1926 mid
night. Through Pullman sleepers ana
dining cars on all trains. City TICKET
Office. 141 Bull street.-ad.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
GALLANT LITTLE HORSE
Dan Patch Clips Few Seconds
From His Record.

Providence, r. l., Aug. 3l.-The
grand circuit meeting at Narragansett
Park was brought to close iii the
afternoon in blaze of glory. Dan
Patch, the unbeaten son of Joe Patchen,
paced an exhibition mile in $50 1-2,
reducing his record from 200 Ia
The mile was within a quarter of a
second of the world s record of 80 IA,
made by Star Pointer at Readville,
five years ago. This is the fastest mile
in harness in half decade, and Dan
Patch is the second horse to beat two
minutes. No other horse except Star
Pointer ever went so fast, and he did 1T
only once. Star Pointer alss went once
in :59A so this is the third time
horse ever lowered two minutes. My
ron McHenry drove the famous brown
stallion, and his owner, NJ. f. Sturges,
of New York, watched the performance
from a box in the grand stand.
An immense throng saw the exhibit
ton. The track was lightning fast.
The trial was made about o'clock.
A light breeze was blowing up the
home stretch. but the stallion finished
strong. The fastest quarter was the
second. in 80 seconds fiat. The first
half was in 591a seconds, and the last
in one minute. The middle half was
made in SO IA seconds. Dan Patch
was paced by runner. and scored down
twice before Myron McHenry nodded
for the word The horse was going fast
in long stride, and a thousand watches
snapped when he passed under the
wire.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
PACIFIC CABLE.
Conditions Uuder Which II Will Be
Constructed Finally Made
Public.

New York Sept. 2.-The great strug-
gle which has been going on in congress
over the question of building cable
over, and the work will Immediately be
proceeded with by the Commercial
Cable Company.
The result of the agreement entered
into between the Commercial Cable
Company is the elimination of years of
effort on the part of the late John W.
Mackay, who has along wanted to build
it. The only reason why he was not
given the opportunity to do so before
was that number of members of con-
gress were anxious to see the cable
built by the United States government.
There has been further delay caused by
the discussion as to whether the Com
mercial Gable Company should be per-
mitted to use the soundings made by
the United States office during the lay
ing of the military cables. That point
will now be granted to Mr.. Mackay's
company, which will proceed at once to
!av the cable on the following condi-
tons:
The government shall have at all
time priority in the use of the cable.
Government dispatches shall go ahead
of all dispatches sent by private in
dividual or by other governments.
The postmaster general shall have
the right to fix the rates at which gov
eminent matter shall pass over the
wires.
In time of war the cable shall pass
absolutely under government control.
The government shall have the right
to take over the cable at any time at
fixed price by board of arbitrators Sc
lected in the usual manner.
The Gable Construction Company
shall have the right to use the sound
ings made by the government, with
view to constructing the cable.
The present concession being for
line from San Francisco to Honolulu,
to Guam and subsequently to China,
where it will connect with the British
line from Hongkong to Manila, 1t is
stipulated that the company will, as
soon as it is practicable, construct Jan
independent line from the Chinese
coast to Manila, so that the line from
San Francisco to Manila shall be
altogether an American owned line.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
FILES ANSWER.
Northern Securities Company States
It's Defense.

st. Paul, Sept. 2.-The answer OF the
Northern Securities Company and Pres
ident J. j. Hill, in the suit in the Unit
ed States court to prevent the consolida-
ton of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern Railways, was filed in this
city during the afternoon. 1t is gen.
eral denial of the complaint.
This is the suit brought by Attorney
General W. B. Douglass in the name OF
the state of Minnesota. The princl-
pal answers are those of the Securities
Company and of President j. j. Hill,
but answers were also filed by attorneys
OF the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern Companies, these latter differ
ing very little from the main answers,
which follow the general lines of ans
Wer in the suit brought by the federal
government, although differing on some
important points.
Defendants deny that the Northern
securities Company has ever conducted
any business in Minnesota or Lad any
place of business or owned any property
IN the state and the railroads OF the
property of the Eastern Railway Com
pany of Minnesota are operated by vir-
Tue OF lease to the Great Northern
hallway Company.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
NIPs A SCHEME.
Commissioners Jones illustrates At
tempted Frauds

Washington, Sept William A.
Jones. commissioner of Indian affairs,
thinks he has nipped in the bud
scheme that promised to develop a
steal of $4,000, 900 or $20.000O00 worth
of Indian lands and cause one of the
worst scandals the interior department
has had to deal with. Commissioner
the Indians to be robbed by the insti-
gators of the scheme, but says he will
do everything in his power to prevent
it.
Many large syndicates have been or
ganized throughout the west to pur-
chase the lands formerly owned by In
dams, which are now in the hands of
the government; that is they cannot be
disposed of without the approval of
the interior department. Many thou
sands of acres are valued at from 81 to
$50 an acre.
In many instances attempts have
been made by these syndicates to in
duce the Indian agent at the reserva-
ton to furnish them with all the de-
scriptions and also the names of the
heirs.
A big firm in Nebraska, in which a
number of prominent public men are
interested, made an attempt to secure
from the agent at the reservation near
Omaha the description of 10000 acres
and the names of the heirs of the dead
allottees.
The syndicate contemplated purchas-
ing the land for about one-tenth of it's
value and selling it to settlers on the
mortgage plan for about $50 an acre.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
TORNADO AND TRAIN.
Former Causes Disastrous wreck
i'm Minnesota.


Waseca. Mimi, Sept IA tornado
hurled train No. Z of the chicago &
Northwestern railway down An en-
bankment two miles west OF Meridian
this afternoon, killing two persons out
right, fatally injuring three others and
INJECTING wounds of varying serious
ness on a score more.
An engine, a baggage car ana TWO
Messenger coaches containing sixty per-
sons composed the train, which was
running westward at rate OF forty
miles an hour.
A brakeman was lighting the lamps
at the time. and when the cycionic
wind sent the coaches hurting eighteen
feet down the embankment to the righS
of way fence. the oil from one OF th@
lamps caught fire, but the names were
soon extinguished by the reseners'
The dead and injured were taken 70
a farm house and then were brought
here in groups. Two relief trains hur-
ried to the scene from Waseca. Engi-
neer Mitchell ran to Meridian ana teie-
graphed for aid.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
IMPEACH PALMA.
Cuban President Grants An Unpop-
ular Concession.

Havana, Aug. 30.-President Palma
finds himself today without the support
of single newspaper controlled by
Cubans. The editorials published in
the Cuban press are, considered col
lectively, remarkable for their bitter
ness and outspoken opposition of the
chief executive. The only paper which
supports the president is tie Diaro de
La Marina, formerly the organ of the
Spanish government and at present
representing the Spanish colony in
Cuba.
One of the principal causes for the
opposition to President Palma seems to
arise from the fact that he granted the
Castanda concession for the establish
ment of an electric light plant at Hava-
ma. This concession has been the sub
iect of bitter discussion in the house of
representatives and some members are
demanding Senior Palma's impeach-
ment unless the concession is rescinded.
The impeachment matter has been
upon the table for the past week. Both
houses of congress have become badly
disorganized over this question and the
result has been strong anti-Palma
feeling.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
Cargo of SeaIskins.

San Francisco, Aug. 29.-The little
steamer Brunswick, v hich arrived from
Dutch Harbor, Kadiak. and the Seal
islands of st. George and St. Paul,
bought in her hold the seasons catch
OF seaiskins. Strong of odor, and not
particularly beautiful in appearance,
the furs represent the outside coverings
OF 22,243 seals, and on the markets of
the world, odoriferous and unsightly as
they are, they will bring in the neigh
borhood OF 100000. The Brunswick 6
cargo represents the seasons work of
seal slaughter on and around st. George
and st. Paul islands.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
OBSTACLE REMOVED.
Death of Mackey May Mean a Tele-
graph Combine.

New York. Aug. 30. - Something
more than short covering in Western
Union is believed to be at the bottom
of the extraordinary activity and
strength which it has been showing all
the week. Accumulation of the stock
is thought to be in progress by powerful
interests. The ousting of the Western
Union from the Pennsylvania railroad
lines in favor of the Postal Telegraph,
it is said, has caused new efforts to be
made to unite the two companies. On
previous occasions this plan found an
insuperable obstacle in John w. Mack
ey. Other Postal Telegraph interests
are said to be favorable to the consoli-
dation idea, and so it would not be sur
prising if it should be carried out at
last. its chief. if not it's sole opponent
in the past, namely, Mr.. Mackey, hav-
ing died.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-09-04
Big Parade.

San Francisco, Cal. Sept. Lime
greatest parade in the history OF union
ism CIR this coast took place in this city
To-Day Fully 10000 men were in line.
ror the first time since the labor or
sanitation movement started here all
Tue unions presented united 'front.'
Tue rival central governing bodies-the
building trades council. the labor coun-
vi, and the city water front federation
Joining hands in observation OF the
day.