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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
BUSINESS LOCALS,

Edward ]. Kennedy, the high art
merchant tailor and importer. The
finest wooden suitings; for swell dress
ers and business and professional men.
Bull street.
Edward Lovelrs Sons are showing a
fine line of mechanics tools Get prices
on shelf hardware and implements. You
can save nice per cent. lis Brough-
ton.
John F. May. the hustllng grocer.
will supply you with select groceries
and choice meats. Its a pleasure to
trade at this reliable grocery and meat
market. Corner Oglethorpe and JEFF
ferson.
Best bargains in city property by W.
j. Miscally, Jr., 20 Bryan street You
will consult your own interest by see
ing him for full particulars.
]. L. Morrison & Co.. old establish
ed, thoroughly reliable dry goods store.
is the place you can't afford to miss.
Money saved on every article.
]. L. Morrison & Co.. leaders of low
prices on dry goods and notions. Read
the business locals In the News for spe-
cial bargains. % Broughton street.
Metzgcr & Brunson are agents for
the celebrated Lion Brand yarns, supe-
rior in weight. quality and coloring;
try them and you win always buy
them.
Don't miss getting some Of those ALL
silk taffetas that Metzger & Brunson
are selling at 39c yard; black, white and
all the leading colors.
A. S. Nichols, the reliable shoe deal
er, sells the kind of shoes that fit well,
wear WELL and give you solid comfort.
Recommended by the people.
The Jeaness Miller shoes for ladies.
and Turner shoes for men, handled only
by A. s. Nichols. the reliable shoe
dealer. Broughton street, west.
Up-to-date footwear at lowest prices
ever heard of at z. 7. Okarma. Don't
fail to examine our $3.50 and $50
shoes. Ill Broughton.
Bargains for this week: Gas
NANTES, 10c each; 4-strtng brooms
at l5c: table tumbles. &c each; cast
steel hammers, 25c: nails. &c pound
copper bottomed coffee pots isc. ga-
vannah crockery and Hardware Com
pany. Ses proughton, west.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

birth, at all, having been born in
Great Britain, where he learned and
practiced the blacksmith's trade long
before he started for the New World.
Like the German American editor,
mentioned earlier in the letter, DR..
Collyer is full of devotion to the land
of his birth, yet like him, too, the doc
tor is a loyal American in every pos
sible sense of the term, and his affec-
ton for both the great American cities
in which he has passed the majority
of his manhood years is genuine and
almost pathetic.
Nearly all the strong men in New
York journalism, medicine, law, bust
ness and finance, who were born out
side, retain the liveliest interest in
the interior locations whence they
came and take their home papers" in
order to keep posted on what is hap
pening where they came from. 1t is
not at all unusual for such men to
know more about what may be going
on in the way of repairing Main street,
Penn Yam Qor example), than in the
repairing of Broadway, and there are
thousands of these strangers, no
doubt, who would vote and exercise
every privilege of citizenship were
they to return to their old homes, yet
here in New York both profess and
practice the utmost indifference to To-
cal government, even going to the ex-
IRENE of never voting. Many of them,
indeed, have not the faintest notion
as to the districts in which they
dwell, or where they could find booths
on election day were they to deter
mine suddenly that they ought to pay
some attention to the local political
situation.
1t is the lack of interest in local af-
fairs on the part of the strangers who
make up the majority of it's citizens
that has given the big town the name
of being relatively without local pride.
reputation which is both deserved
and undeserved, and It is this, also,
that makes IL possible for Tammany
to control the town most OF the time.
Yet there are instances of outsiders
coming into local power. There are
the two Sheehans. William and John,
from Buffalo (both Tammany men, by
the way); there was John r. Fellows,
from the South land Tammany mani,
who was district attorney for some
years; and there are, and have been.
others from the outside, though decid-
eddy In the minority, who have become
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

est hotel in the world. The Southern
Society also is a regular club, with
regular headquarters, and there are
others, but the majority of them are
content merely to maintain an organ
ization, the chief object of which is
the giving of an annual dinner.
Examples are the dinners of the
Georgia Society and the Society of the
Genesee, at each of which, given only
recently, important statements were
given to the public by the speakers.
Thus, at the Georgia dinner the
Governor of the state represented told
the world some things about the negro
and the South, while at the Genesee
dinner the editor of the most impor-
tant German newspaper published out
side of Germany took occasion to as
sure Americans that, while the Ger
man-Americans love their fatherland,
as all men should, they are Americans
first, land that to the death" if need
be, should occasion arise for them to
show their preference. Very frequent
use has been made of the dinners
given by the societies made up of the
foreign-born to get the ear of the
American public through the reports
sure to be printed of the speeches
made.
There are scores of these societies
all told, some Of them eventually to
emulate the Ohio and Southern So
cieties and become full-fedged clubs;
others destined to remain always mere
dinner clubs" and still others to die
out altogether, sooner or later. Just
at present they are a prominent fea-
ture of metropolitan evolution, with
the strong probability that their prom
inence will increase rather than other
wise with the lapse of time.
The societies of the foreign-born are
of greater age than most of the 9th
ers, and also of much more complex
ity and defniteness of purpose. Nearly
every one of them has what may be
termed an organized department of
charity charged with the assistance of
stray and needy fellow countrymen;
some of them also maintain schools
and even hospitals, and thus have
come to be considered among the
city's solid institutions.
This sort of activity IS not main
tanned by the societies named after
states, sections or cities in our own
land, though more than one young
Southerner, broke" I'm this cosmo-
politan metropolis on the edge Of the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

original Yankee land, has been set up
on his feet again through the agency
of the Southern Society, and many a
genuine Yankee has been able to re-
begin life's battles because the New
England Society has taken up his case.
1t is commonly believed that virtually
none of the men prominent in New
York are natives of the town. This
is not true, nor is it as nearly true as
might be expected when it is remem-
bered that the percentage of the
native-born among its citizens is
smaller than in any other city of it's
age. Very few of the Tammany pub
lie men are anything save New York
ers by birth, while the present anti
Tammany Mayor, Seth Low, and many
of his officials, are also natives, and
the same is true of a great many
bankers, merchants, professional men
and the like. Yet it is surprising, on
attending the dinner of any one of
the locality clubs" to note the dis
tinguished New York names to be
found on the membership rolls.
Thus, the vice president of the
worlds greatest telegraph company Is
a member of the society of the Cen
esee, and was born in Rochester; the
general manager of the worlds great
est newsgathering corporation is q
member of the Chicago Society, and
has spent the majority of his active
years in the city by the lake; scores
of prominent professional and finan-
cial men are members of the New
England Society, and were born In one
or other OF the little states that hud-
die together on the northeast corner
of Uncle Sans farm, and so on.
A curious thing about these societies
and the localities they represent is
found in the circumstance that they
are specialists in their production Of
men, so to speak.
Thus Chicago has given New York
seventeen of its most notable pull
piteers Not all of them were born In
Chicago-indeed, I'm not sure that
solitary mothers son of them was
native there-but all of the seventeen
either began there are else passed
through his period of greatest devel-
opment while living in that city. The
Rev. Newell Dwight Hilhs, pastor of
Plymouth (Beecher's old church IN
Brooklyn), and the Rev. Robert
Collyer lead the list.
Mr.. Collyer Is not an American BY
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Heidi Pillow Company still takes the
lead with farm machinery, horseshoe
ing and blacksmithing. Always the
best and always the cheapest. AZ West
Broad street.
Haslam & Co., merchant tailors, are
the peoples choice for full dress suits.
Our Prince Alberts and Tuxedo suits
can not be excelled. Bull street.
James ]. Joyce, corner Liberty and
Abercorn streets, fish, Saratoga chips,
tobasco sauce. Roquefort cheese, after
cheese. Franco-American soups, finest
homemade sausage.
James J. Joyce, grocery and meat
market. still takes the lead. It will
pay any person 10 visit this reliable
store and market. It's fine.
Photography in all it's beauty Of style
and finish at Launey's gallery.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
new YORK TOPICS
DRIFTS AND UNDERCURRENTs OF
THE METROPOLIS.

"The Town of the Strangers" and
It's Many Social Organizations in
Memory of Their Members Old
Homes--A Few, Like the Ohio and
Southern Societies, Are Full
Pledged Clubs With Permanent
Headquarters and All the Attri-
butes of the Regular Clubs, but
Most of Them Exist Mainly for the
Giving of Annual Dinners-This is
the Season for Festivities of This
SOrt-At Some of Them the After
Dinner Addresses Convey Import
amt Messages to the Public.
New York, Feb. 14.-Nothing shows
so conclusively that New York is the
town of the strangers" as the great
number of social organizations whose
members are natives Of more or less
remote parts, who have come here to
dwell. Some of these societies stand
lor foreign countries, others for groups
OF states in the federal union, others
Tor single states, others for chosen
sections, and still others for single
cities.
Thus, there are the st. Andrews So
cety (Scottish), and the Sons Of st.
George (English), the New England
society, and the Southern Society; the
ONO Society and the Society of Penn
sylvania; the Society of the Genesee
meaning the Genesee valley, which
includes the four or five richest and
most prosperous New York state agri-
cultural counties in the country, the
Ohieago Society and SO on.
Some few Of these. like the Ohio So
Getty are fulI-hedged clubs. It oc-
'upies the equivalent Of a club house
Al The shape Of one floor OF the swell
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

Cheviot and Tibet Dress and Walking Skirts,
seven gore flaring bottom, some finished with
tailored straps of self MATERIAL others with diamond
shaped designs of Taffeta Silk,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

Dress Skirts of Cheviots and Mixed Materials
and Etamine. trimmed with tabs and tiny buttons,
some with Taffeta Silk designs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29

sudden shock and spread them gradually
over long period OF time. This useiui
function Is performed, Of course, by the
produce exchanges, and the warning
which they thus give tho world OF over
production and over-oonsumption, or
under-production and under-consump.
ton, Of the great staples OF food ana
clothing Is an unmixed blessing. Prod
uoe exchanges also afford q form OF
insurance. A man who has contracts
in the future which he must execute Is
unable to protect himself by buying and
selling futures against fluctuations
in values which might render the per-
Torrance Of his contract matter OF
heavy financial loss to him. Likewise
the existence Of great market in which
the securities Of country may be dealt
in serves to regulate In the most direct
and powerful way the money market
Of the country. By means OF the facili-
ties Of the stock market for placing
money on call or for long periods OF
time at the command Of this or that
borrower, contraction and expansion in
the rate for loans 60 on in . fixed and
regular way and are not often subject
to wide fiuctuation. Without these IA
cilities the commercial borrower would
find himself now paying 4, now 8, now Q,
now 10, per cent. for the funds he desired
to use.
Finally, the stock market, to use Mr..
CONANT's very clear words, determines
the direction Of production In the only
way in which 1t can be safely determined
under the modern industrial system OF
division Of labor and production in an
ticipation Of demand II is only
through the mechanism Of the money
market and the stock exchange together
that any real clue is afforded OF the need
for capital, either territorially or in diff
ferent industries. The markets de-
termine just how much Is needed OF
every commodity that is bought and sold
and what the chances Of success are OF
new commercial enterprises. Some Of
the most talked Of modern theories for
doing away with the evils Of the world
are those Of socialism; yet how superior
is the stock market for all the purposes
that have just been mentioned to any
system OF socialism that could be de-
vised! Could any board Of a hundred or
a thousand men determine these great
questions Of production and consump-
ton better than the automatic play OF
self-interest as il takes place on the
stock or produce exchanges?
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Of judicial rents Is only eight years
ahead. f'
An objection sometimes raised against
any scheme OF state-aided land purchase
is that the agrarian revolution contem-
plated win only get rid Of ono race Of land
lords to create another and worse class.
Such result might we'll be apprehended,
unless the principle involved in the revo-
luton were that Of occupying ownership.
Mr.. T. W. RUSSELL has admitted that no
sane person would desire the compulsory
abolition OF Irish landlordism II he felt
assured that the relation Of landlord and
tenant would again grow up. He held
that purchaser should, II he desired TO
leave, enjoy the right Of selling his inter-
est; but the incoming purchaser in such
case should be compelled to occupy and
cultivate the land. Subdivision or sub
letting. 1t 10 conceded, would DO intoler-
able. The Bright clauses Of the Land
Act Of 1870 contain prohibitions Of such
proceedings, and succeeding purchase
acts have taken precautions against sub
division or subletting during the period
OF repayment Of the loan. We find that
safeguards against revival OF the ILL
omened relation OF landlord and tenant
are contained in the Wyndham bill, which
provides that II peasant proprietor
subjects or subdivides his land, becomes
bankrupt, dies, or leaves his land to more
than one person, the Land Commission
NAV order the whole of the land to be
sold to an occupying purchaser.
We observe in conclusion that pains
have been taken to minimize the legal costs
OF transfer in the interest Of the peasant
purchaser. No stamps are to be required
for conveyances, no registration fees to
be charged, and the legal business con-
nected with the proof Of title is to be car
ried on by a cheaper process than that
which now obtains.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29
Church and TAX.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-S1: Mr.
Hverett's proposed act TO exempt the real
estate Of religious corporations In the city Of
New York, as now constituted. from sssees-
ments for public improvements" may not
assert any new principle, but 10 sufnciently
serious extension Of sectarian privilege to
merit attention. I do not say OF taxpayers
but of the students Of political history. While
the Church-and- State unions OF Europe have
lone BEEN marked by the steady decline Of
TAXATION for the support Of rel gion, here the
Scotland State union Ii growing and expand
Ing IN that direction;
10 obtain all temporal ADVANTAGES without
payment, while suficiently separate from the
STATE to BE- 20 vb Detailed ID
yantlges distinctiyely American The Eng.
lish Church In In this sense not establtahed
q ell It's property does not D Dei9lns 20
e 9naiers Jews Catholic in1dsis nothing.r
fans, 40. ss much as TO communicate OF the
SSSfs csss E. % IL. puS for
are open TO disssnters. The Church is 10 die.
s cSuIh aW courts Il is 81 ject to Psriis-
ment which may control it's ritual. change It's
crseds secrlarize its endowrnents.
have been estsbiishsd- genuinely, For
while their exemption from taxation adds %
the burden Of every taspSyer tsus - s' bs. ny
lint to any Vote or voice in determining The
use to which his money shall be put Inc Inc
no ight In his behalf or in its own to enter into
the plous conclsye and influence OF even NOV
the disposal Of funds thus raised q. ,dx,,.
CORPORATIONS from whose administration the
public Is erciuded IL q harrant example OF
tsSation Without representation.
ia ara ;orWl Ie reuV Yes, her Majesty the
Majority. 90 wiilsit. II 10 one prtvileged power
conferrinR privilege on smother For inc
birth as much a. Kinss and Lords But the
majority 10 no exception to the law that only
they govern wisely Who can govern mem.
Nrw YoRE. March a.
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II correspondent who wrote to us some
time ago Is to be taken as a representa-
tive Of their desire, their favorite for dean
Is one Of the Extreme Ritualist rectors
Of New York; but. probably. no such
selection will be made. The recent vote
in the British Parliament on the Church
Discipline bill indicates that there Is
strong and even intense Protestant re-
action in England. brought about by
the extremes to which sacerdotalism and
recommendation have been carried in
the Anglican Church, and there are
signs that the same spirit 10 aroused and
Is active in the Episcopal Church OF
America. II the election OF q dean
OF the General Theological Seminary,
which il to take place in the coming
Easter week, had taken place five or ten
years ago 1t would have passed, proba-
bly,, without creating much Of a stir,
even IL the traditional policy Of putting
in dean representative Of the High :
party. Of the strictest medieval school
had been pursued; but now Protestant
ism and the party Of the modern the
ology are deeply aroused and are TAX
ing the lead In the discussion.
It il true that this election will be
Of great importance as indicative Of the
spirit Of the Episcopal Church at this
time. The seminary is not diocesan, not
representative Of any single ecclesiasti-
cal party, but Of the whole Church
throughout the United States. Every
party in theology and Guardianship
is concerned in it and in the influence
eIerted by it on the clergy and, through
them, on the laity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29
The New Building Scheme.

Mayor Lows plan for new municipal
building should not be rejected because
OF its eccentricity. but should be con-
sidered without prejudice. Briefly, 1t Is
to take three detached. irregular and by
themselves comparatively useless patches
OF ground lying between Centre street,
Duane street and Park row as founda-
ton plots for one great building which for
any other owner in the city would be
impossible of construction. No other
landlord, Of course, would be permitted
to build over the intersecting streets, as 1t
ID intended doing in this case, and 1t ID
this building over the street that 10 the
key to the whole scheme. Nothing else
could make these detached cuts Of land
available for the purpose in hand.
Ten million dollars would do the job
here, whereas S25, OOO, 900 would be re-
quired for a municipal building on the
Stewart block north Of Chambers street
along the City Hall Park.
At the point under consideration, also,
there would meet the subway tracks now
provided, the proposed tunnel connect
ing the Williamsburg Bridge with the
Maiden lane tunnel, the Centre street cars
and the Park row cars, surface and ele-
waited, the tracks OF the latter turning
into the new building at their present
levels, so that they might both run onto
the present Brooklyn Bridge.
A scheme so complicated and irr egu-
lar can scarcely be grandiose in its eff
feet, but, IL city building plans are to be
considered at all, this is certainly worthy
Of consideration. Indirectly it would
have an effect that would not be unwel-
come. With a municipal building 30
deeply stamped with the mark Of utilita-
rianism and, 80 to speak. tucked away to
one side. the old City Hall would be freed
Of the danger Of being subordinated to q
rival more ambitious In site and char
acter, and regain forever the civic and
architectural importance that u rightly
its due.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29
A CHsss Players wife Approves.

To rus EprroH or TINE sus-.sir! ! notice an
article In the second section Of your sunday edition
for yesterday, March a. on page o. giving the views
Of -Ons Woman" on ehess. Ny view Is quite df
Serens concerning ohess. Ny husband plays chess
and en- proud Of thai fact. fos when he Is 81 the
ehesp tAble he "a In our own home instead OF beng
N the billiard parior. pool rooms and other resorts
which ali card playing leads 70 ~ rule. hsd =
shis u the nrst time that have ever heard OF gam
bling soins on 81 the chess table. and think that
u ,sls woman would % sbou, ., IN The nshl Nay
sAs could seoa esfsusds her husband TO give W
ASd, 80 iai e yhs moral par ls soneernsd. ! con
sdsF tks game elsyatns and not drmotalLlnr
nesi6sl ny husband has etcelient mAnneis
and ! csar remember Of . single Instance wherein
be hAS ever been impelite 20 ans one
When ] wAs Married ] knew nothing OF chsN
Whatever and my husband asked me 20 isAiA
which I I'D rather against my own inellhs'lohs
bui en- tntsss~iy lEtsrested In lhr ssms nov
mveh 70 ny husbsAds delight, and We spene NAM
. pissAAat sysqing over the chess table Ny a.
,ss would be that this woman learn 20 play chss,
and pAy with her husband, snd ~ doing 40 sLs
uonA 81 sbls 70 ook fors aTd 70 evening" Of Aslie
lssls4d 81 = noe, spendns them 10 The duli n'sh
Will ,hlak iEsi slis should no, e.Pss, ,h'
Ssl ny husbAsd u always villas 70 eohpll VIZ
~ Msklssl vlsb sbsihsI 81 ,hs chess lsbls ~
noi. Me-, W Iyr buhhouoss
kouyu OsAsos. n !. March -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29
The Fate Of the Stage Irishman.

The members OF the Gamma Gael and
the Ancient Order Of Hibernians who
egged the actors appearing in McFad-
denis Row OF Flats in characters that
caricatured the Irish race have set
precedent Of deep concern to all play
Roes. The Irish are by no means the
only folks whose distinctive features
have been utilized for fun-making on the
stage in the exaggerated shapes re-
auired for dramatic effect.
The German dialect Of the theatre
world In at least as old al the Irish brogue.
The Swedish dialect put into the mouths
of serving maids and sailor men makes
a long chapter Of stage lingo. Italian
hand-organ men are famous butts.
Who has not seen the overdrawn stage
Frenchman-the 'frog-eater - In how
many plays have the Yankees been held
ND TO ridiculeg What Of the thick and
drawing Englishman who stalks a. the
chief form OF humor on many histrionic
boardsf The Southern Brigsdiers' The
negro minstrelsi The Jswsf The typss
which have suffered In this manner at
the hands Of the comedy writer's almost
OIL the catalogue Of humanity.
With the Irish prscstsnt 10 guide
than, tbs oariostured races may he 81
peasd 10 rise in rebsllion. The hired
men u An hundred New England hills
may bs looked To fur IN sSoursIon 10 tbs
town hall OF tbs op'ry houss and an assault
upon tl.sir mimic. This pushaaEt psdisp
OF I'll ths East hide wiil invade DAvE
wARviEI.Ds playhouse and rush him
from tbs sosns. Visiting bntons vili
league tl,smsslvss 70 mob the local stage
Lord. We sHpsot ~ rssd that oil ths
pollos dssscsives In tbs community have
egssd that rsmsrksbIs s,Ase rsprsssnis-
,ion Of oDs of tAsir numbss vho sppasp
nightly In Mr. Auoussvs rsosAs's cur.
reni play. wEsEa and FiELDs will b.
svsps from tbs boards BY ths osrman
Isxioas who msrched bsfors Primo
Hxssy. WIN ~ vsalahy u ~ aassss