The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ory of the famous Indian Governor,
who. on Feb. IL, 1910, in command OF
a fleet of twenty ships of the line,
with 1,200 fighting men, captured the
city of Goa, and so laid the foundations
of Portuguese rule in India. The mon
ument, apart from the statue, is Says
the London Standard correspondent a
magnificent structure in white marble
designed in the styles of the period
of King Emmanuel the Fortunate, and
is. erected on d spot opposite the
Royal Palace and facing the Tagus
The members of the royal family, the
Ministers of State, the civic authori-
ties and many thousands OF spectators
were present at the ceremony.
In the subbasement of one of our
big life insurance companies is a safe
so large that q theatrical company
might perform therein, says the New
York Press. There are three doors, the
combinations of whose locks are con-
trolled by ten men. Each man, a high
official of the company, is an integral
part of the integral, whole. In instance:
Five men are required to open the
cutter door, each knowing a fifth part
of the entire combination and no more
A having set the gratings in his COM
bination, is followed in turn by B. c.
ID and E, when the bolt may be moved
In the same manner the second door is
opened by three men in combination,
and the third by two, in the latter case
each being in combination with one or
more of the other eight on the outer
and second doors. The safe is regarded
as safe.
Here in Boston we have the largest
registration in our history. says the
Boston Post. Last year, which was the
record at that date. there were 107,542
qualified voters at the municipal cleo
ton. This year the possible vote of
Boston at the state election is 112,252
If the registered voters of last Decefn-
Der gave a majority for Mayor Collins
approaching 10000. what may we ex-
pect for CASTOR for Governor this
year? outside of Boston the regfstra-
ton for this election shows a gain
everywhere in the cities. The people
seem to have walked up to a realiza-
ton of the Importance of the issues at
stake and to have prepared themselves.
The vote of the state will probably be
the largest ever cast. And when the
vote of Massachusetts Is largest the
Democracy reaches its highest poll. To
elect Gov. CASTOR and to Increase our
Democratic representation in Congress,
this great registered vote must be
brought out. If this is done. we have
no doubt of the results.
-Hoopeston, Ill, probably pays less
for its city government than any town
in this country, if not in the world,
says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. The Mayor received so cents a
\ year, or 81 for his term of two years.
The eight aldermen each receive 25
cents year. or so cents for their term
of office. Hoopeston has $500 inhabi-
tants, and the duties of it's Mayor and
Aldermen are quite as large as those
of any other town of it's size. The Gus
tom of allowing almost the smallest
salaries possible to the Mayor and Al
dermen without rendering them invalid
under the statutes of the state was
established by Jacob S. McFerren.
Hoopeston's first MAYOR. who was
elected on the temperance ticket in
April, 1877, Immediately following the
Incorporation of the town. Prior to the
incorporation of the town the village
board granted licenses to saloons. but
ne officially announced that the sala-
ries of the Mayor and Aldermen should
be fixed as low as possible, and that
the members of the council would do
nate their salaries and all the time
and energy at their command to stafnp
out the saloons. improve the streets.
and build up the town without the aid
OF 81 derived from the cursed 1iotIor
traffic.
Elijah II, otherwise John Alexander
Dowie of Zion. ILL.,, has emerged from
another trial in triumph, says an ex-
change. A few days ago 1t was re-
ported that he was very short of cash
and was asking his disciples to give
MIN money, mo matter. how small the
amount so long as it was cash. If
was Immediately believed that the long
prophesied crash had come. A COM
mittee Of his creditors went to work on
the books and the report made by them
shows that the prophet is decidedly
solvent. Dowie placed his liabilities AT
s11S6,690 and his assets at Az, a2S 1eA
valuing his land at 81, 900 an acre
which was generous, to say the least
His creditors increased his liabilities
TO $1,594S202 and cut down his assets
to less than a tenth of his estimate
They placed the value of the land Al
$500 an acre instead of $4,000, and cut
his valuation of his rr1antfacttIrine
plant in half. The total assets, accord.
ing to their estimate, which is regarded
as a.! most conservative, are $2,37095s.
This leaves surplus to his credit of
$776,667. AS Dowie paid $3.50 an acre
for his land and as the value of this
has increased largely since he bought
1t. the estimate of his assets by his
creditors is exceedingly conservative
Zion is on a fairly firm financial basis
The London County Council has
begun to widen London bridge by add
ing footway to each side of it. The
bridge is now SO feet wide and with
the two footpaths it win be S. feet. The
work presents no very great problems
ana VIII cost in the neighborhood Of
100000. The bridge was begun in 1924
ana was seven years in building. Soon
after it's completion, when the piles
around the foundation were withdrawn.
1t began to settle, but the movement
was so slight that no harm was done.
Its total cost up to date has been
about s10,00O,000.
"A Chicago trust promoter has had
dream which lacks only the element
of practicability to make 1t a national
nightmare, says Harper's weekly. He
has incorporated company in South
Dakota with an authorized capital
stock of $4,000 900, with no less a mr.
pose than to control and monopoIize
the selling and distribution of ali fhe
products of all the farms in the Unit
ed States. And that is only his start
ing point. Once the farmers trust ia
well under way in this country. South
America will be invaded, and before
long every man who anywhere tickIes
square foot of the earth's surface
is expected to become a. stockholrer in
an 1ntercOntinentAl anla reray,oay,t - AZ.