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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
OUR CITY TAX RATE.

The Constitution Of Atlanta is call
ing attention to the low rate of tax
alton in that city as an inducement to
the establishment of manufactures
within her limits. In the course of its
article the Constitution says: "Our
tax rate is lower than that Of Savan-
nah, Norfolk, Charleston, Dallas,
Houston. New Orleans. Richmond,
Louisville or any other important city
of the South"
We have one great advantage over
Atlanta, namely, our cheap water
transporta ton for the distribution of
manufactured products and for the inn
portation of such raw material, not OBJ
tainable from the interior, as may be
needed in manufacturing, but that is
no reason why we should not have as
low a tax rate as she has. AS far as
we can see there is no good reason
why our tax rate should not be reduced
very considerably. We have no impor-
tant work on hand now that requires
a large annual outlay. We have built
an expensive water supply plant and
put in a system of house drainage
without increasing the public debt, and
the burden of maintaining a sea quar-
antine has been removed. At the same
time there has been a marked increase
in the total valuation of property for
taxation. 1t would seem therefore
that the time has come for cutting
down the rate of taxation.
1t is of the highest Importance that
we should have an increase of small
industries. If our city is to grow we
must have the means by which an in
crease of population can be supported.
1t is true of course that our commerce
is steadily increasing. but it affords but
little additional employment for white
people. The negroes have practically
monopoly of the work that is done on
the wharves.
We need more fields of employment
for white people, and one of the best
inducements to new industries is a low
rate of taxation.
This is a matter that ought to have
the careful attention not only of the
City Council. but also of every citizen
who is interested in the building of
the city.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meeting-Alpha Lodge No. 1, A. & A.
S. r.; Confederate Veterans Associa-
ton; Union Clubs Meeting; DeKalb
Lodge No. 9, l. %. o. F.; Savannah
Lodge No 1873. B. p o. Elks.
Special Notices-Notice, Lemuel As
pinwall; Ship Notice, Paterson Down
ing Co., Consignees; Notice to Bond
holders. Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of Savannah; Ship Notice,
Williamson & Rauers, Agents; Ship
Notice, Chr. G. Dahl & Co, Consignees;
Ship Notice, Strachan & Co, Con-
signees.
Business Notices-Spratt's Dog
Cakes. A M. & C. w. West.
Summer Resorts-Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
Proposals-For Heating and Double
Barracks, One Single Barracks, Etc, at
Fort Getty. S. C.
Well Drilling-Hughes' Speciality
Well Drilling Company, Atlanta, Ga.
Legal Notices-Notices of Commits
sioner's Sales in Equity.
Page Woven Wire Fencing-C. w.
Deming, Brunswick, Ga.
Races-Seven Races May 8, Grand
Opening of the New Coliseum Race
Track.
Laundry-E- & w. Laundry.
Sheet Music-McArthur G. Sons. Co.
Salmon-at MINISTER'S.
Grape-Nuts Food-Postum Cereal
Company.
Steamship Schedule-Ocean Steam
ship Company.
Waltham Watches.
Whiskeys-Murray Hill Club Whis-
key.
Mineral Water-Hunyadi Janos.
Medical-Lydia Pfnkham Vegetable
Pills; Syrup Of Figs; Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters; S. S. S.; DIR. Hathaway
Company; TUFTS Pills; Blood Wine;
Cuticura Remedies; Paines Celery
Compound; DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root;
Dead Shot Vernifuge.
Cheap Column Adverusements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

A day laborer of the name of Minkie-
winez, living at Asheville. N. c., has
fallen heir to $2,O0OO 900 by the death of
a relative in Germany. 1t is said that
he has taken an option on one of the
most beautiful tracts of land near
Asheville and declares 1t to be his pur-
pose to erect a palace that will rival
that OF George Vanderbilt at Biltmore.
He will probably not have much of his
100000 left when he has built some-
thing that will compare with the Van
derbilt place
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

81 congratulate you on the fine recep-
ton which I heard you were honored
with out in Indiana" some one yester-
DAY remarked to Senator Fairbanks,
who has just returned from the Repub-
iican convention in Indianapolis, says
the Washington Post.
THAT reminds me-" said the Senator,
"of an old but always good story. In
a sleeping car a man was snoring most
loudly and nobody else in the car could
sleep. Finally it was decided to awaken
him and compel him to quit snoring or
stay awake. So, after much difficulty,
he was aroused.
whats the trouble?" he asked.
Your snoring keeps everybody in the
car awake and it has got to stop"
How do you know l snored?" Dues
toned the disturber of the peace.
1--WE heard you" was the reply.
WELL" said the man who snored, as
he turned over to go to sleep again,
Don't believe all you hear"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
Personal.

Sir George T. Goldie says it is his
ambition to establish at Kano, in the
center of Hossaland, college for ma
tive boys similar to that founded by
Lord Kitchener in Khartoum,
William X. Vanderbilt, who has
very extensive racing interests in
France and has won several good races
on the Paris tracks, is said to have
offered first $125,0O0 and then 5000, 900
for Sceptre, the remarkable English
FLY owned by r. S. Sievier She is re-
garded as the fastest horse that Eng
land has produced in years. A three
year-old, she has already won the Two
Thousand Guinea and One Thousand
Guinea stakes, and her owner has an
nounced his willingness to race her
against any horse in the world, weight
for age, for $4,000 a side. Mr.. Wander
bits offers were refused
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

She is a most diguified and staid ma
iron, and her husband is deacon in a
Maiden Congregation Church, says
the Boston Record. She was passing
along a side street in the Back Bay
when well-dressed man suddenly
stopped and addressed her:
Madam, do 1 look tight?"
"What?"
do 1 look tight?"
mo. No"
You're sure don't. I've been drink
ing, and l don't feel sure
Yes"
Il want ito make a call, but was
afraid that looked Off I'll do?'
Yes"
You're quite sure I can make the
call and not look wrong?"
"Yes?"
Madam, am very greatly indebted
to you
And he went on his way, evidently
rejoicing while she pondered on the
strange ways of men.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The next meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science occurs at Pittsburg, June %
to July 3. of this year. The order of
the week, says Science, will be short
crisp, pithy papers for the morning
sessions and carefully planned educa-
t1onal excursions, under competent
local leadership. for the afternoons. 1t
is expected that arrangements will be
made for opening to the inspection of
the visiting scientists the various Car
negie and Westinghouse establish
ments and numerous others of espe-
cial interest to engineers, although ad-
mission to some of these plants is. UNI
derry ordinary circumstances, difficult
to secure.
"A dispatch to the New York Her
aid from Montevideo says that news
has been received from the Swedish
Antarctic expedition under Dr. Otto
Nordenskjoed. The expedition has
diembarked at Snow Hill, Louis Phil
ippe Land, accompanied by the sur
geon, DR.. Ekslof, the Argentine Lieu
tenant Sobral and two sailors. one of
whom was a member of the Duke of
AbruZzi's Arctic expedition. From
Cape Horn DR.. Nordenskjoeld's vessel
the Antarctic, tried to sail directly
SOulH, Dul IL encountered too manV
icebergs, and there was danger of the
ship being imprisoned in the ice for
long time. DR.. Nordenskjoeld then de-
cided to change his course. His expedi-
ton will remain at Snow Hill until
next summer.
At the last general meeting of the
Boston Society of Natural History Mr.
George B. Gordon spoke of Recent
Explorations by the Peabody Museum
in Guatemala and Honduras" A con-
siderable amount of work has been
done by the museum in uncovering
and investigating the vast ruins of the
Mayas, buried in the depths of the
tropical forests of this region. The
city of Copau. which has been to
great extent uncovered, appears to be
the oldest of these ancient commune
ties. A number of lantern slides was
exhibited, illustrating the types of
monoliths, affairs and temples. Mr..
Gordon also gave an account of an
exploration OF a large limestone cave.
in which was found a very deep pit.
With some difficulty the explorer was
lowered into the pit and found the
floor covered with fragments of human
bones. He suggested as a possible ex-
PLANTATION OF this fact that the cavern
was used as a temple by the ancient
tribes, and the bones were those Of
victims sacrificed 70 the Cave God,
by being buried into this ehasm.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

One of the many people who has been
loroughly cured of catarrh, and owes il
BLOOD Wine" is Mr.. NJ. Curtis, a
rominent manufacturer and contractor
Boston, who lives on Waters Avenue.
.verett, Mass. and he says:
II have been completely cured of ca
arrh. This is an awful climate for it:
most everyone is affected by it more OF
ess, and l had it for years. 1t grew on
ne and was plainly running my health.
making me thin, nervous, sleepless an6
with no appetite. l tried BLOOD Wine
because its theory of treating catarrE
seemed feasible. One bottle improved
me, and four more bottles cured me. /
still keep it in the house and wouldn't
do without it,
"Blood Wine" costs fifty cents bottle,
but you can sample it free of charge at
Lippman Bros drug store.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

Grape lovers may now go ahead and
indulge in their favorite fruit, as in
the days of happy and ignorant child
hood, without fear of resulting ap-
pendicitis. According to the Philadel-
now reached the conclusion that the
disease is caused by a specific microbe,
and not by grape seed. or playing golf
or riding in the street cars. Study has
shown that persons who reject grape
seeds and never play golf or ride in
street cars are subject to appendicitis
the same as those who disregard the
rule Of don't" previously promulgated
with respect to those things,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
RATES ARE AS FOLLOWS ,
SHIP YOUR GOODS
ar THE
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY

which operates on $1,000 miles of frst-cls.
railroads, with connections with other com,
panies, to all points accessible by express
Money Orders are sold at the South.
ern Express Office, Il Bull street and
Livingston's De Soto Pharmacy, 500
Bull street.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

Not in ten years has there been such
q rush of immigrants into this country
as that shown during the first three
months of the current year. Each
month has shown a large increase
over the corresponding month of last
year, the aggregate for the quarter
approximating 10000 more immigrants
than landed last year. These new
corners. having heard Of the prosper
ity In the United States. have nocked
over TO participate in It,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
The weather.

The indications for Georgia to-day
are fair weather, showers and cooler
at night in west portion; light to
fresh south winds; and for Eastern
Florida, generally fair weather, light
to fresh east winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

In March of last year Congress pass
ed an act requiring interstate railroads
to report monthly to the Interstate
Commerce Commission all accidents
and casualties on their lines, the same
to be tabulated and published by the
commission. The first report under the
new law has just been made public
It covers the three months ending Sep
tember so, 1901, and shows that during
that period there were collisions and
other train accidents causing the death
of 240 persons and the injury of 1922
persons. Accidents of all other kinds,
including those sustained by employees
while at work and by passengers get
ting on or off cars, increased the total
number of casualties to 725 killed and
10. 1877 injured. Out of this grand total
passengers suffered to the extent of
10 killed and 2126 injured. When it is
remembered that the railroads carry
millions OF passengers every month it
will be seen that the per centage of
chances for a passenger to be killed or
injured on the railroad is quite low.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

In Kent England, the other day,
Miss Robinson was married to Mr..
Cruso. The curious conjunction of
names has resulted in innumerable
jokes of the British sort.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

A recent edition of the Educational
Review contains testimony from
number of librarians to the eff
feet that young people these days do
not recall the sequence of the let
tiers of the alphabet sufficiently to use
card catalogus or even dictionaries
with facility. This is said to be due
to the modern system of teaching
children to read at once without going
through the routine of learning the
3 C's.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

Herr BALM. director of the Ham
burg American line, is said to have de-
clined an offer of s1,0OO0OO a year from
]. p. Morgan to manage the shipping
combine.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

1t is the understanding in Philadel-
phia that Senator Quay has slated
Judge Samuel w. Pennypacker of that
city for the Republican nomination
for the governorship. Judge Penny
packer is a nephew of Senator Quay.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

That Philippine water cure" is not
precisely the thing the temperance
workers had in mind when they were
agitating for the abolition of the army
canteen.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

The season of the year is now at
hand when, in all probability, we shall
have a revival of the shirt waist prob
lem. Already there has been a pre-
lude to it in New York where a per-
spring young man was elected from a
restaurant because he removed his
collar while waiting to be served with
a meal. 1t seems a hard matter to
adjust decorum and comfort.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

The report that Secretary of War
Root will retire from the Cabinet short
ly has been revived by the fact that
he has given up the lease on his Wash
ington residence. But isn't Secretary
Root still under fre?" The Schley
and Miles matters have dropped out of
sight practically, but now there has
arisen a question of responsibility for
the cruelties in the Philippines. Some
of Mr.. Roots friends were quoted not
long ago as saying that he wouldn't
retire under fire"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
COMPLICATIONS OF THE PLANT
ESTATE.

1t is probable that the movement of
the Hoadley brothers of Waterbury,
Conn.,, to prevent the estate of the late
Henry B. Plant, amounting to between
$4,000. 900 and $4,000. 900, from being re-
moved from Connecticut to New York
was wholly unexpected by either the
trustees of MIR. Plants will or by his
son and widow 1t seems that the
ground on which the removal is op-
posed is that Mr.. Plant was a half
brother of their father, and that If
the estate is removed to New York it
will be distributed between the son
and widow, and the chance of the
forever. If it can be retained in Con-
necticut, and the will sustained, the
millions may ultimately come to them
or their heirs.
According to the terms of the will
the estate was to be held in trust until
a great grandson of the late Mr.. Plant
came of age, if such grandson should
be born. The Hoadleys take the ground
there may never be such an heir as is
contemplated by the will, and that, in
that event, they would get the prop
erty.
There does not seem to be very good
ground for their contention. Still,
queer things are done in the name of
law all the while. 1t is hardly prob
able that the Hoadley suit will have
any effect on the sale of the Plant Sys-
tenn properties to the Atlantic Coast
Line. Wo do not understand that the
suit has any bearing upon that sale.
If the Plant estate gets tied up in
the courts 1t may stay there for years
and afford a number of lawyers good
incomes for the balance of their lives.
Evidently the possibility of such a
thing as that did not cross the late Mr.
Plants mental vision. If it had, he
would doubtless have arranged his af-
fairs a long time before symptoms of
illness warned him that the end of his
earthly career was approaching.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

ing in regard to the attack the gov
eminent has made on it they doubtless
will be glad if the government is sue
cessful
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
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An ideal home for permanent families or
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Transient rates IS per day.
RICHARD MEARES.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

Opie Reed, the novelist, is the de-
PENDANT in a Chicago court to explain
why he has refused or neglected TO live
up to his contract with a publishing
firm to grind out for it two novels per
year for a period Of six years. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. Reed was to receive $40
per week while turning out the grist
Of words, and in addition 10 per cent.
royalty on the sale of the books. He
ground out two books in contract time,
and then his genius refused to work on
the factory basis. For the past year
or two he has been able to make no
more than one novel year with some
short stories between times. The firm
alleged that Reed is in debt to it 5000
for money advanced, and it desires the
court to require him to live up to the
contract. Reed is supersensitive with
respect TO the character Of his work,
if he expects to do business with pub
fishers on the basis of quantity of copy
turned out. He should study the style
Of "Old Sleuth." Any man with we'll
oiled typewriter and a fairly large vo-
cabulary can turn out 10000 to 10000
words of that sort of stuff between
breakfast and supper; and it seems to
be Reeds name rather than good writ
ing that the publishers are after.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

FORT DESOTO, FLA, May 8, 1902
Sealed proposals in triplicate will be
received here until IL m. May %, 1902
for constructing water system Fort
DeSoto. Fla, consisting of 1 pump
and boiler house, pumping machinery
wooden tank and trestle, distributing
system and we'll system and suction
pipes. u. S. reserves right to reject
or accept any or all proposals or any
part thereof. Information furnished
on application. Proposals will be in
dorsed Proposals for Water System"
addressed FRANK s. LONG, A. Q. NJ.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

1t is being predicted that the reign
of young Alfonso of Spain, which be-
gins in about ten days time, will be-
come notable as one of great prosperity
in his country. Plans are in progress
for extensive railway building and the
development of mineral deposits that
have heretofore been neglected. Having
been deprived of her colonies, Spain is
now giving attention to the develop
ment of her home resources. She is
finding herself to be much better off
than was ever before suspected.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
PROPOSALS WANTED.
113 BROUGHTON ST., WEST.

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FORT GETTY, S. c., MAY s, 1902
Sealed proposals in triplicate will be
1902, for heating l double barracks, 1
single barracks, 1 commanding Off
GERS quarters, 5 captains quarters.
and lieutenauts' quarters by hot air
system and heating of hospital by hot
water system, all at this post. Infor-
nation furnished on application. U. S.
reserves right to accept or reject any
or all proposals or any part thereof
Envelopes containing proposals should
be marked Proposals for Construc-
tion," addressed David Price, @. NJ.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06

An American theatrical manager, it
is stated, has engaged the Italian BAN
dit Musolino for a tour of the United
States. Is it to be in a drama illus
trating the capture of Miss Stone? Or
is the bandit to sing, or do a monologue
reciting his bloody deeds? Whatever
may be his speciality, it is quite certain
that the bandit cannot do much worse
for the stage than Sullivan, Corbett,
Mccoy and others of that class who
have been elevating the histrionic art
for us during the past season or two.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-06
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