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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-06-21
new UNION.

Western Union employees are form
ing a: union. Their union was DESTROYED
in 1883. The company Is exacting more
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
REPORT OF r. G. DUN & CO..
Commercial Prospects Have Been
Greatly Improved.

New York. Aug. 15-R. @. Dun & Co 8
weekly review of trade tomorrow Will
through the adjustment of numerous
labor controversies, yet the anthracite
coal strike situation is unchanged and
supplies are nearing depletion.
The statistics of pig iron production on
August /, according to The Iron Age,
are more satisfactory than might nave
been expected in view of the great Scarcl-
ty of fuel. A weekly capacity OF $500, :
456 tons is 1889 tons less than the nlgn
record of May /, it is true, but compares
favorably with all earlier dates ana SHOWS
an increase of 80, 61S tons over the output
a year ago. These figures emphasize the
abnormal condition Of demand which mas
such a heavy yield inadequate. Southern
furnaces have contracted so far in ad-
vance that they have practically WITH
drawn from the market and dates for de,
hveries are remoe Pressure LOT steer
is undiminished and the urgency OF 90,
nestle consumers is shown by additional
imports of large size. structural mate
rial is sought by car shops ana orloge
builders, while many steel structures are
planned. Coke production in the Con
nellsville region exceeds 100000 tons week
ly and outside ovens are also SURPRISING
all records of activity. Yet shipments
are unsatisfactory. Shoe manufacturers
at the east have received practically all
the fall orders that will be placed and
new business is now restricted to Sample
orders in spring lines.
Leather has again risen In price ana
sales were heavy during the past week,
not only for insole, but also upper stock
and betting butts. Recent violent ad-
vances in hides have been fully maintain
ed and large transactions occurred. "nlle
heavy Texas steers reported a new
record price Foreign dry hides nomi-
nally advanced. without actual trading.
Despite the very favorable reports from
dry goods jobbers regarding the volume
of business transacted, conditions in the
primary market and at the mills are
devoid of incident. Buyers are still gov
erned by the impression that large cot
Ton cron is assured and the resulting
lower prices for raw material will bring
better terms for goods. Holders thus
far have made few concessions ana con
seouently trading is dull. Considering the
oftiscial report of cereal crop conditions,
the firmness of quotations during the
past week has been somewhat eurpris,,
ing. Failures for the week nu M ,rst
ia In the United States, against l6S last
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
BRADsTRFET's REVIEW.
Need for Money to Move Crops is
Appreciated.

New York, Aug. 15-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Weather conditions have been favora-
BILE, and the country is week nearer
to realizing the largest harvest in its his
tory The need of larger than usual guam
titles of money to move the crops is APP
preciated and confidence In the work Of
handling the crops with minimum of
friction is widely expressed, though a
further seasonable tightening of the stu
alton is looked for The physical hand
Gents a problem which must also he met
and the possibility of a car shortage
financing of the movement itself.
The favorable trade features noted this
week are the expansion in the fall de-
nand for dry goods hardware. groceries,
shoes and millinery at leading markets
North, West East and Northwest. the
more optimistic views expressed as to the
large size Of the Southern cotton crop
and its effect on future business the
strength of IRON and steel, caused by the
curtailment of production in July as
result of shortages in fuel supplies que
to the strikes and car shortages, the
hrmness In lumber and the continuance
of the export demand for cereals, partlcu-
larly wheat. The less favorable features
noted are the restrictions of trade IN
summer goods. caused by the cool wealth
er, the continuance Of the deadlock at the
anthracite coal mines, with the growing
nervousness as to supplies and prices If
the strike continues until cool weather,
and the unfav0rable. figures of July eX-
port trade, caused by the projection Of
last years conditions into the preseslt
season. Collections as a whole are class
ed as seasonable. Pig iron production is
still restricted by scarcity of cars affect
ing coke supplies and the anthracite
strike. Demand is no less active, South
ern pig selling heavily. Foundry iron is
active for near by and next year deliv-
erv at 81 advance on Bcssemer iron
premiums for spot iron at Chicago are
high and it is very scarce al Pitssburg
There is plenty of foreign steel offered
hut business is not active at the prices
demanded Eastern iron furnaces are
buytng coke for next year at $2.15 at fur
mace Plates and structural materials are
largely sold ahead, and Western rail
mills are refusing orders. Sheets. tin
niate and wire are drag Nothing
boz the present activity in hardware is
Secalied All markets report activity. and
Chicago notes large sales for spring de-
livery. Tin is weaker on lower foreign
markets and copper is nearly a half
cent lower on full offerings at conces-
sions Cottons retains ah the strength
noted toward the close last Week, some
cotton goods are rather easier IN tone
print cloths. while held at Fan River at
Be-. are ofew ed at , rs cents at other
markets. inghams are. however, strong
and some advances are announced Wool
"a goods for mems wear (spring) are
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
NEW HOTEL
IN PROSPECT
Mi. Handley, Philadelphia
Capitalist, Interested.
BUILDING TOCoST $3.50, 900
A Modern Hosiery Promised
Within Twelve Months.
Chairman George W. Jones Of Bush
ness Mems Committee Declares
It will Be in Operation
Within a Year.

Chairman George w. Jones of the New
Hote, Committee of the Commercial ana
Industrial Association expressed yester-
day his firm conviction that Montgomery
would have within the next WE'VE
months a modern hotel costing $3oo,ooo.
Mr.. Jones's conviction was not suddenly
formed and he gives his reasons Tor tine
faith that is in him. The New Hotel Com
nittee has been one of the most active
and energetic subordinate bodies of the
Commercial and Industrial Association
for the past year. Mr.. Jones ana ms CO.
workers on the committee have laporeo
unremittingly to secure for montgomery
a hotel in keeping with the Importance
of the city.
The splendid opportunity which the city
presents for a paying modern hotel have
been forcibly presented In the quarters
from which most could be expected.
The labors of the committe have not
been without results. An active interest
has been awakened and the committee
feels highly elated over the prospects for
a new hotel
Mr.. G.. w. Handley, a well known capt.
talist has become deeply interested in the
project for a new hotel Mr.. Handley Is
expected in Montgomery on the first of
September to look over the field.
Mr. Jones said yesterday that he had
been in correspondence with Mr.. Hand
ley with a view of interesting him In
the building of a new hotel.
Mr.. Handley. said Mr. Jones, mas
become so thoroughly convinced that a
good hotel would pay him immensely in
Montgomery that he will come to the
city on September / and will take a thor
ough look over the ground. Mr. Handley
is one of the best known capitalists In
Pennsylvania and we consider ourselves
fortunate in getting him interested in the
hotel question.
las soon as we opened our correspond
ence with him. he consulted travelling
man, one of his personal friends, who
often passes through Montgomery, and
was informed by him that the investment
would pay immensely. Mr.. Handley has
also written many prominent citizens of
Montgomery asking their candid opinion
as to whether the hotel would pay or not
and the replies have all been so favor
able that he decided to pay Montgomery
a visit. Besides having Mr.. Handley in
terested the committee Is in correspond
ence with other Northern capitalists and
have received replies from all of them.
/ think that in all probability Montgom-
cry will have a $350,0Oo hotel this time
next year. If the negotiations with these
| capitalists fall through, have the assur-
| ance that a number of citizens of Mont
gomery will take the matter in hand and
push it to a fnish.''
Among the we'll known citizens of
Montgomery to whom Mr.. Handley wrote
letters of enquiry was E. j. Meyer Mr..
Meyer responded in a communication CIV
ing him the facts and figures about
Montgomery with a description of the
hotel situation as 1t Is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

Mont. which may interest electricians
who are seeking meth DDS of drawing on
electricity from the atmosphere for stor-
age and use. 1t is said that the heavens
were a continuous sheet of flame for near
ly an hour without moments intermis-
sion and nearly everything became more
or less charged with electricity" Even
some hours after the storm people were
injured by coming into contact with
wires. iron poles. etc, while one man
was killed by touching pile of dressed
meat in O. refrigerator car, and another
shocked into Inconsistencies. The car
cases, which must have been hanging in
some insulated manner, had evidently per-
formed the functions of the desired stor-
age battery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
WILL DRAW THE PLANS
IMPROVEMENT OF MoNTGoM-
cry FEDERAL BUILDING.
Congressman Wiley Advised That
Matter Will Be Taken Up at
once-Hopeful Work Will
Begin Soon.

Congressman A. A. Wiley was advised
yesterday by letter from ]. X. Taylor,
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Department, that the drawings for the
extension of the Montgomery government
building would be Immediately taken up
by the Treasury Department.
At the last session Of Congress. Colonel
= Wiley. secured an appropriation of $75.-
600 for the enlargement of the government
building at Montgomery. sufficient to meet
the requirements and necessities of the big
public business now being done therein.
Since the adjournment of Congress, Colo
mel Wiley has been interesting himself
to get the work of construction begun at
an early date
Information has been received from the
department that 1t Is impossible to state
the exact time when the drawings can
be completed and the work placed in
after the approval of the sketch plans
and estimates must be prepared and pre-
scented to the Cabinet Board for formal
approval as required by law, before the
working drawings can be commenced.
1t will require at least three months
after the approval of the skeach plans
to complete the drawing work, after
which the work will be placed upon the
market and publicly advertised for bids.
The letter to Colonel Wiley is as fol-
lows:
washington, Aug. IS. 1902.
''Hon A A. Wiley NJ. c., Montgom-
cry, Ala:
"Sir-The receipt of your letter of the
9TH instant addressed to the Honorable
the Secretary of the Treasury relative to
the proposed extension to the United
States court house and postoffice build
ing, Montgomery. Ala, is hereby &C
knowIedged, and in reply you are advised
that the drawings for said extension will
be Immediately taken up.
ut is impossible, however, at the pre-
sent time to state when the actual work
ing drawings can be completed and the
work placed upon the market, as sketch
plans and estimates must be prepared and
submitted to the Cabinet Board for for
NAL approval, as required by law. be-
fore the working drawings can be com
menced. 1t will require at least three
months after the approval of the sketch
plans to complete the working drawings.
after which the work will be placed upon
the market and publicly advertised for
proposals. Respectfully
y. X. Taylor,
{. "Supervising Architect"
Colonel Wiley is hopeful that the work
Of improving the federal building will be-
gin before a new year comes around.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
EXPERT IS PROMISED.
Will Investigate Tree Blight at
MAYORS Request.

Mayor E B. Joseph has been promised
the service of an expert biologist from
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute to To-
cs to and eradicate the blight that is de-
strcying the shade trees, which are under
the care and protection of the city of
Montgomery.
Several days ago Mayo Joseph. on in
vcs tigating the condition Of the trees of
Highland Park and Montgomery, noticed
that a number of the finest trees in ard
around town were dying from blight
and if 1t was not attended t. a once
some of the most valuable shade trees
that belong to Montgomery would be kill
ed outright
Becoming alarmed he wrote President
Thach and requested him to send biol
ogist to Montgomery to prevent. the
blight from doing any more harm. Yes
terday he received the following reply;
Auburn. Ala. August IA.
Hon f. B. Joseph. Montgomery. Ala:
Dear Sr-Your letter to Mr.. Scroggs
requesting that DR.. Wilcox visit your
city to investigate the blight to your
shade trees has been duly received, l
regret to say that DR.. Wilcox is at pres
ent absent on his vacation. but your let
ter has been forwarded to him and he
will doubtless stop over TO see you on
his return home. | do not know the eX-
act nature of the blight which has at
tackled your trees in Montgomery, but l
know that the trees have died in large
numbers throughout the entire State. We
ourselves have lost large number in
town and on the campus, and have
thought that the trouble was the extreme
drought All this however, is of course,
mere conjecture. If I do not hear from
DR.. Wilcox at once l shall notify other
pI ofessors. I am.
Very sincerely
&C. c. Thach."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
EXPERIENCE WITH A SHARK
Judge Semmes of Mobile and
Negro.

Mobile, Aug. 15.-On Wednesday Hon
O. j. Semmes, Judge of the City Court
of Mobile, who is spending the summer
at Coden, had quite an experience with
man-ea ting shark about twelve feet long.
The Judge was fishing for tarpon in a
boat with Peter Rabby, Jr.. near the can
merry of the Bayou LIE Batre Canning
Company, in Mississippi Sound, when he
hooked the man-eating shark. The shark
carried the Judge and his companion
about six miles down the sound in an
open boat. A negro wood chopper on one
of the islands, seeing the dilemma of the
Judge, went to his assistance and they
succeeded in getting the shark up to the
boat when the negro struck him blow
with an axe
With a rush the shark turned on his
side and attacked the boat. The negro
again hit him with the axe, this time
burying it in the sharks head. when he
was pulled out of the boat by the fish
before he could let go his hold on the
axe. The Judge and his companion pull
ed the negro back into the boat and the
shark disappeared with the negros axe.
1t was d close call. but all escaped with
out injury from the enraged fish.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
CANCELLED BROWNS BOND.
Mobile Council Decides That Council
man Was Right.

Mobile. Aug. 15.-(SpeciaD-The General
Council tonight passed a resolution of
fered by Councilman Craft to cancel the
STAY bond of Councilman Brown.
About thirty days ago Councilman
Brown was arrested ,arraigned in the Re
corder's Court and fined 80 for tamper-
ing with the police boxes He contended
that as a member of the City Council he
had the right to inspect any department
Of the city and that under sections of
the charter he was clothed with this au-
thoritv. The court will not take that view
of II and the Councilman was fined.
He gave a stay bond for the fine and
tonight the Council ordered the stay
bond cancelled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
A Valuable Cradle.

King Oscar of Sweden has offered s.. 500
to the finder of a cradle with a curious
history In 1720 a German Prince sent to
Queen ulrica Elenora of Sweden a cradle
of solid gold as a christening present for
her child. The ship containing the pres
ent was driven by a terrible gale on the
shores Of the island of Torn, where 1t be-
came total wreck.
The inhabitants of the island massa-
cred the shipwrecked mariners and pill
LACED the ship, but the cradle, by a curl
Gus chain of circumstances, was saved
and now lies buried in a lonely part of
the island. The king is now offering the
aforesaid reward.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

steady at the advance of and 10 cents
noted Wool is Arm as is raw silk.
Boots and shoes show more activity at
Eastern manufac ,uring centers and ship
ments for the week are per cent larger
than last week
Sugar is firm and large business Is IN
progress. Produce Is lower on larger re-
ceipts. Canned goods are firm despite
bountiful crops.
Wheat, including -four, exports for the
week ending August IA, aggregate 4,59l,
sos bushels. against 2,244.3b3 last week
Exports wheat since July l, aggregate
rs, 800 O0s bushels, against Ho71,99S last
season.
Corn exports aggregate 93,423 bushels
against 70,611 last week. For the fiscal
year corn exports are 651,S4i bushels
against 9,227, 16S last season.
Business failures for the week ending
August IA number 15l as against 1863 last
week and ITS in this week last year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
Armless Midgets Marry.

Cupid sometimes moves in a mysterious
way his purposes TO perform; At Bor-
deauX. France. an armless athlete VINO
stands two feet six inches in his stocking
feet is TO we'd an armless lady only four
inches taller. She is. however progresses
ing, enjoys robust health. is said 10 he
an excellent housckeeper and can write,
sew and knit with her feet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
PASSING THRONG.

C, f. Bryan has gone to Columbus. Ga.
to join his family where they have been
visiting friends and relatives for two
weeks. They will return home in a few
days.
Mr., Walter Williams of Sellers, beat Is.
in this county. is highly pleased with the
crop prospect in that section. He says
the crops are better than they have been
since 1897.
1t was reported last night that the con-
dition Of the Hon. Tennent Lomax is still
unchanged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
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JOHNSTON IN MADISON.
Spoke to a Mixed Crowd in Hunts
Vile,

Huntsville, Aug. 15.-(SpeciaI)-Ex-Go
ernor Johnston spoke here tonight in the
presence of a large mixed crowd. He
claimed that he was making the race for
the common people and said that his last
administration had cost the State just
500, 900 less than that of Governor jerks.
He has offered he said, to pay the ex-
penses of Governor Jelks on joint debat-
ing tour and the offer has been refused.
Considering its size, the crowd was not
demOnStratiVe
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

LEN NOBLE and Annie Porter, ne
groes. charged with taking cheroots from
Venable's store in North Montgomery,
were bound over to the grand jury yes
terday by Acting Recorder Roeder. Their
bonds were fixed at $500 each.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16
NEWS In BRIEF

THE FOLLOWING appointments were
announced yesterday from the State Ex-
ecutive Department: Lily Hatchett. No
tary Public Montgomery; Philip H. stern.
Notary Public, Montgomery; r. B. High
tower, Notary Public and Justice of the
Peace Sumter County; Roland t. Shu-
CART, Notary Public, Birmingham: j. E.
Strong, Notary Public, Jefferson County.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

REV. A. L. ANDREWS preached a
strong sermon to large congregation at
the West End Fifth Avenue Methodist
Church last night. The religious revival
in progress there will continue through
out next week.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

ALDERMAN PAUL RoEDER made his
debut as a Judge yesterday afternoon and
for the first time presided over the Re-
corder's Court In the absence of Re-
corder Arlington at Blount Springs the
Aldermen are alternating in holding the
court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

Peculiar Electric Storm.
A peculiar storm is reported from Butte,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-16

publican Clubs
This letter was not received until after
the Montgomery meeting had been held
Thursday. The President of the National
League. as shown by the letter is Isaac
Millery Hamilton of Chicago. 1t was
said that the resolutions passed by the
Glenmore Hotel conference endorsed this
ORGANIZATION
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-11

to cotton, and the duty placed thereon is
absolutely prohibitive. In the depressed
state of the cotton industry in the South, we
have looked longingly to the Orient a
market for our surplus product. We have
..,'. '',t,ing Japan and China and build
ing Va. 90 an active demand for our raw
s.. .,rI the possibility of furnishing the
raw material with which to clo,he the mil
lions of the Orient has been favorite
theme with our statesmen and economists.
In the Philippines an opportunity was opened
to the cotton producers of Louisiana and the
Sonth, and yet we find four out of six of
our congressman voting voluntarily to abso
lutely shut our cotton out of these markets.
Cotton is by far the most important single
item composing the trade of New Orleans.
1t furnishes practically the sole means of
subsistence to at least three-fourths of the
agricultural and business elements of LouisI-
ana, and yet in their mistaken zeal for sugar
our own congressman slam the door of hope
| in the faces of those interested in the pro-
duction and handling of cotton in Louisiana.
| Is this Democratic? Is it to the interests of
Louisiana?
The States fully appreciates the import
ance of the sugar industry of Louisiana,
| and it earnestly adheres TO the good old
Democratic theory that it is the ideal reve-
nue. producer, and that in any Democratic
tariff scheme a reasonable tariff duty on
! sugar is not only legitimate and defensble,
but absolutely unavoidable. To frame a
revenue tariff bill and leave sugar, the best
revenue producer, off the schedule, would
violate fundamental principle of econom-
| les, we'll as constitute a departure from
| Democratic principle and tradition, and the
States IS heartily in accord with this view OF
the case. But we cannot agree to any prop
osition that will place sugar upon a pedestal
and make fealty to it, even at the sacrifice
of every other principle or interest of the
State, a public duty. We not willing
that sugar should be advanced over the
wreck of every other material interest of the
State, and while willing to accord to the
sugar industry all that it is entitled to, we
cannot admit it to he 'the whole thing in
so far as domestic industry and domestic
politics are concerned. The cotton indus
try and the sugar industry of this State are
not antagonistic in the slightest sense, hence
it was entirely grat"itous to strike a blow at
cotton in the mistaken notion that the in.
terests of sugar will be advanced thereby.
Such ill considered action the votes Of
the four congressman under discussion must.
in the nature of things, tend to create an
tagonisms where all should be peace, har
mony and cooperation. The cotton plant
ers, and the commercial interests based
upon the cotton industry in this State, car
stand a good deal. but submit that it is
asking too much of them demand tha
their interests be sacrificed even for good
a cause as that of sugar.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-01-11
The Poll Tax.

The fact that failure 10 pay the
poll tax takes from the citizen the
right OF suffrage, does not seem to
have increased the collections from
that source. During the year 1901,
Io2o persons paid the p, tax and
last year, ending Dec. 81, 1901,
2ol4 polls were collected. 1t was
belle we'd that in order to be quail
fed to exercise the franchise at the
next congressional election the
voters would pay the tax in largely
creased numbers, but the results
tell different story. Perhaps due
t.. the existence of only one party in
this section or to indifference to ma
tional politics. many people in this
parish have made it clear that they
do not care to vote. While we do moi
like the poll tax qualification, be
cause it places an added impede
ment in the voters way, we are
candidly of the opinion that The
man who knowingly disfranchise!
himself by refusing to pay one dol
lar to support the public schools, Il
at best a very poor citizen and will
serve his county better by no
voting