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$4,000 Savannah to New York and
Return via SeabOnrd Air Line
Railway
In connection with Old Dominion
Steamship Company. through Norfolk.
Steamers leave Norfolk daily except
Sunday. Full information at city tick
ct office, No. Bull street. phone 2s.-
ad
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
-, AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

..o, Men Look for the Staple
.,ou, Middle of September, When
,r steamers Will Appear.
CON about Two TO Three Weeks
,...-Of Interest to Shippers.
p.asant indications point to the NOV
~ the cotton tramp steamer fleet
~, Sept. Is. The general under
D.ordfng is that the crop is from two
+bree weeks late. and those interest
IN handling it calculate that cotton
.y he expected at Savannah in fair
, .,,r,a about the middle of September.
shipping men believe that Savannah
,,.u get its share of the crop, and
..ards a good chance of repeating the
sood comparative showing made so far
This season.
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Vessels Arrived Y~.terdny.

~ ~ VNU NN-NNENHtys
Steamship Itasca, Foster, Baltimore.
Steamship Tallahassee, Johnson, New
York.
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Lingo Dan" novel. by PercivaI
Pollard. Cloth; price, 81. The Neale
Publishing Company, 431 Eleventh
street, Washington, D. c. 1t would be,
probably, an injustice to Mr.. Pollard's
hero" for whom the book is named
to say that he suggests Hornung's
"Raffies, yet there is, a faint resem-
blarfce, in so far as both are educated
men and talk delightfully."- while plot
ting their Idscality. Both are rascaIs
of the first water Yet they are alto
gether unlike in character Lingo Dan
is murderer as well as a thief and
all-round villain, while Raff1es is mere
~ an artistic thief Again, Raff1es
always reasons correctly and brings off
his little affairs with the highest de-
gree of success. Lingo Dan reasons
wrongly, and there is some gratifica-
ton at the end of each chapter, which
details separate adventure, to lind
that he has worked his keen wits for
absolutely no profit. To read of viii
lains, especially accomplished villains.
is nearly always fascinating. Mr.. Pol
lard has pictured two of the most pre-
cious rascals that ever went unhung,
even in fiction.
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BOOK NOTICES.

1.-THE Mettle of the Pasture" by
James Lane Allen. The Macmillan
Company &c Fifth avenue, New York
city, publishers. Cloth 81 so.
1t has been said that James Lane AL
len is sure of a certain number of
readers whatever he may write-that
is, he has admirers, thousands of them,
who bay every book he writes without
waiting to hear what the critics say
about it, They will be pleased with
this volume. 1t is not too much to say
that it is his best work. 1t has char
acteristics that hold the attention, that
touch the sympathies and makes JUS
see things, we know about, but to
which we haven't given much thought.
The heroine is presented to us on
the evening when, having received her
sweethearts letter avowing his love,
she awaits his coming, prepared to be-
stow upon him her heart and hand
without reserve. They have loved each
other long, and this is the natural and
expected elimination of their years OF
mutual devotion. He tells her present.
~ that there is something in his past
life which he must avow. After a
struggle with himself to discover which
is the more wrong-to tell her, which
means to hurt her, or to keep his
guilty secret-he tells her. She shrinks
from him and escapes to her room.
Rowan's secret is not at the time
revealed to the reader who thereafter
follows first the sad experience of Isa-
bel. She feels that she has been fear
fully wronged, and she resolves to cut
Rowan from the list of her friends.
even from that of her acquaintances.
OF the many difficulties involved, the
fact that their marriage has been look
ed upon by all the branches of both
families as natural and inevitable is
one of the least
Isabel is an orphan who has been
brought up by her grandmother. The
projected marriage is the dearest wish
OF this grandmOther's heart. The con-
f1tct between the two souls in regard
to the matter, the secret of which Isa-
bel VIII not reveal to her INSCRIPTIONS
relation, is wonderfully described.
This is only the beginning of the
story, which thereafter involves more
and more people-including old Judge
Morris, into the creation of whose per
sonality the author has poured all the
love and passion of his nature. In the
manner of its writing the story shows
Mr.. Allen at his very best. All the fine
and delicate traits of his earlier books
are brought into better relief by the in
termingling of stronger and more virile
| qualities.
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vessels Sold.


steamer Whitney, 76s tons, built in
Wilmington. Del, in 1871. Sold for
soutb American account, p. t.
british steamer Allendale, 1857 tons,
trIt Sunderland, Eng, in 1889. Sold
for local account, p. t.
park Tillie Baker, 6S3 tons, built In
harrington Me-, in 1876. Sold for Phil
kadelphia account at $4,000.
on the seaboard eighteen ocean steel
steamers of 101,471 gross tons, were
bliIt in 1902, the largest output of this
tvpe in our history. The large vessels
Of This type. contra cited for in 1900, are
now completed or will be, completed,
barring strikes or unforeseen delays, in
+ha early spring and summer. No new
contracts for this type have been made
IN two years. The years additions were
the Finland. of 1890 tons-the largest
vessel built in the United States this
year-and the Mississippi, Maine and
. Massachusetts, each of 1913 tons-all
four for the international Mercantile
Marine Company the Siberia, 11,2S4
IONS. for the Hawaiian Asiatic trade of
the Pacific Mail and the Arizonian and
Texan. over $500 tons each, for the
American- Hawaiian Company. Other
steamers are for the coasting trade, of
which four steamers OF 1854 tons, car
rying oil in bulk, are noteworthy.
4 The market for sail tonnage retains
generally quiet appearance. Case oil
4 shippers, however, are disposed to con-
slider additional vessels to far East
s ern ports, but suitable vessels are
scarce. Lumber tonnage to South
9 America is in fair demand with full
recent rates bid. West India tonnage
is wanted from the South, but offer
ings are light. Coastwise lumber rates
are well sustained, with the demand
for tonnage moderate. Eastern coal
4 freights are quiet. There is yet a pause
in shipments of grain by steamer to
Europe. There is no demand for either
Atlantic or Gulf loading. and in the
absence of business rates may be re-
& garded as nominal. General cargo
8 freights are also scare. Timber and
deal tonnage continues in moderate de-
mand at full previous rates West In
dia frelghts are slow.-New York Jour-
nal of Commerce.
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Southern
Railway.

Trains arrive and depart Savannah
by S0th meridian time-one hour slow
er than city time.
Schedule effective June II, 1908.
TO THE NORTH AND EAST
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Capt. Campbell of the schooner Jen-
,io Thomas. is reported i'll at Balti-
rore. The Thomas will come to Sa-
|~arnah in command Of a new captain
..bis VOYAGE.
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Prudence Pratt" a novel, by Mrs.
Dore Lyon. Cloth; Slips. George "
Blackburne & Co., publishers, New
York. The author says of her story
that it is a focusing Of impressions
gathered during an observant career,
most of them jotted down in railway
cars, ferry boats and hotel piazzas
where the presence of the crowd left
the writer entirely alone" The only
atmosphere which encompassed the
storys formation was filed with
noisy pulsating, human life and in
terest" The narrative partakes Of the
atmosphere which surrounded it's Lu-
thor. 1t is full of life and interest 1t
is a live story, of course, and the lead
ing people in it are good to know. For
vacation reading the story is well suit
ed, 1t is illustrated with pen and ink
drawings above the average in merit
"A Guide Book for Boston, by Ed
win M. Bacon. prepared for the Ma
tional Educational Association which
met in Baston on July 6, and remained
in session until July 10.-Ginn & Co.,
publishers. 20 Beacon street, Boston.
Cloth, 90 cents. To a stranger visit
ing Boston, and wishing to see the
city thoroughly, this volume is inval-
liable. Indeed, it is probable that 1t
contains a great deal of information
that is new to a large majority of the
residents of that city. The volume
contains a great deal of valuable in
formation in its 100 pages.
"A Victim of Conscience" by Milton
Goldsmith. Henry T. Coates & Co,
Philadelphia, publishers. Cloth, $3.50.
This is a strongly written and finely
illustrated novel. The aim of the au-
thor is apparently to emphasize the
fact that Conscience does make cow
ards of US ALL" The leading character
of the story is Isaac Schwartz. He is a
weak man. a man who is unfortunate
in all of his ventures, but extremely
pious He has a family a wife ana
son. and he finally reaches a point in
his career where he feels he will have
to beg or see those dear to him strave.
He decides to go TO California and try
his fortunes in the gold diggings, and
some of his Jewish friends contribute
the money necessary for the journey.
He falls In with a rough lot Of men
and has some severe experiences. Be-
Tag a pious man he insists upon per-
forming his religious duties with great
punctuality. This brings upon him the
ridicule of his companions. Finally one
of them, when in a drunken condition.
threatens TO kill him, and actually
makes the attempt to do so. Isaac
turns upon him and strikes him
death blow with a miners pick, not
intending, however, to Kiln him. He IL
alone with the miner at the time and
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Atlantic CoastLine Railroad Co.

EFFECTIVE MAY "a, 1903
Trains Operated by me-one Slower
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happen only about once in every six months,
but he'd been gradually cutting the inter-
walls down until he got into he way of light
Ing IN n; his battle pipe and pickine up The tema-
too high an elderly party for me ever to
have be nerve to close in with on tho sub
Ject of the meaning Of the frs; bail to him
when he came in after d few weeks absence
and asked for his brand. but all the same
! often felt like humming a chord or tw"
into his ear about how near he'd be getting
to the Rest wreaths and immortelle stuff
II he didn't lop of his habit of sailing close
TO the Jameses every month, or So.
And, 10 get off the track and hump on
the rails for minute. I never could get
next to ii why man of that age could stand
for dozen such hot lambastings per annum
as these getting-over-i, games sure are.
Well little less than two months ago
he came in with that I-wart-it pailor of the
dips on his face that I knew SO we'll. Right
know-they.re two of the best flies for one
OF the well-known detective agencies.
and pair who always work together,
nodded to them ! didn't think they
had any connection with the visit TO my
periodical rum ache.
Il was behind the bar. and changed the
time Of day with him.
My usual brand he said then. and
put the glass out and the bottle beside II.
o.c VI NItt lHNdte gum Eliu ttloIlg~
side in flash and picked up the bottle.
The other grabbed the elderly party.
Not to-day. sir. he said politely.
The wealthy dip was a lion in half
second. of course. and demanded of them
what they meant
we are going UP town with you to
your home. air. said the detective who had
taken hold of the elderly gentlemsn's arm,
and the two Of them simply walked him
out OF the door-he was 20 weakened with
dissipation that he could put up no re-
sistance-and stuffed him into n carriage
He hasn't been in here since, for the very
reason that they've got him put away
somewhere, as saw in tho paper few days
after the thing happened in herc-his wife
and children applied for a t,v,steeship on
his estate, or come old legal thing like that.
and they edged him into a sanitarium for
treatment. The signal for this was his
taking his first drink. and the private sleuths
were along with him--as they had been for
a week. without his knowing IL. they told
melrter--to catch that spinal
There are quite a number Of pin-hcadcd
young dps-whelps that are not genuine
periodical tanks at all, bun that go on thu
;"ts because they think it's corky and
e'ite--who are tagged about all the time
ny. private flies, and know tina; they've
being tagged about. to see that they don't
connect with the crimson eve. ] think
they ought to be sent to North Brother
Island or have a two-inch hose turned on
them twenty-five hours a day
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the property. Sometimes farmers horse
Is captured and 'snipe" Is pasted across
the animals ribs. Then while the horse
roams about eating grass folks In the pass
Ing railway trains get glimpse OF an ad-
vertisement such as -Use killem's Whis-
key." Fat Cracked Ice" or Hobo Soap
Beats the Dirt
In one instance two New York billpostors
visited a Westminster churchyard at night
and pasted bills on forty headstones. 1t
took the sexton week TO clear the bills
from the tombstones, and then he lost his
job on the complaint OF woman who
charged him with scrnping her grand
mothers name from, the headstone.
Another instance is recorded OF bill
poster who pasted the paper OF a burlesuue
show on the doors and on the walls OF a
country church. On the following morn
ing, when the members of the church at
tended service, they were shocked TO see
Autographs of girls in tights all over the
building II got into the local papers and
so advertised the show that, instead OF
playing a one-night stand, business was
so good It remained over for week. The
billposter was rewarded with 500 over and
above his salary.
Frequently the bill poster who under
takes daring jobs is rewarded by getting
Such case was hat of an old-timer known
as Cob. Cob was known to take all sorts
of chances. Once he climbed TO tho top
of church steeple at midnight and pasted
a large poster Of theatrical show in
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buildings lease their temporary fences to
one bilposting concern, while the agent
or owner of the property makes lease
to another billposting concern. Now and
then the men fight with their brushes and
pals instead of using their fists. and It is
not unusual to see blood shed in these
battles.
AS a rule the billposters OF Manhattan
work az far as White Plains, although they
do not intrude on the territory Of the Brook
Ign billposters. Likewise the Brooklyn
men do no work whatever on this side OF
the river. In Westchester county the
men make Use of any old thing that is big
enough to hold poster. Rocks, fences,
barn doors, roofs of farmhouses and big
trees are plastered with bills, although
the bllposter may not have permission
from the property owner to make use of
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place where it could not DO reached The
pastor tried to get some one to volunt Ger
to take the poster down. but it remained
there for three days. Then he offered a
reward of $50 10 anybody who would volun-
teer to tear the poster from the steeple.
Cob appeared then and earned the reward
by climbing 10 the steeple and tearing
down the poster. He lost no time in get
ting out Of the town afterward.
Each Of The big bill posting concerns
employs men to go about town securing
new stands or wall privileges. In addition
to these there are roundsmen who make
trips about town seeing that the working
bill poster does his work properly. Where
in the old days the boss bill poster had but
few dollars invested in his business, to-
day there are millions invested in 1t right
here in New York.
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There is very little use nowadays for the
time worn sign Post No Bills. for property
owners are protected against attacks from
the army Of snipers by Sections 643 and GA
of the Penal Code, which provide for the
punishment by fine and imprisonment OF
any person .who affiXns an advertisement
to anothers property without leave
The old-time billposters cared nothing
for the law, but wero in the habit Of taking
chances by plastering bills on any old thing
or in any old place even without stopping
10 ask the owners permission. But there are
very few of the old-tiyue billpostersdeft now.
The few that are left are employed by thea
trical manager about town, and the only
work they do Is that known as "sniping,
that is. pasting the small bills known as
"snipes" on barrels. boxes and curbstones
about town. They are considered by up
to-date biposters as inferior beings who
know very little about posting bills as bills
are posted nowadays.
The up-to-date fellows consider them
selves artists and refer to billposting as an
art. Most of them are in the employ Of
big concerns which own large fence and
wall privileges about town. Instead Of
walking around in the old style. carrying
FASTING brush and pail they travel in
fancy wagons. especially equipped with
paste barrels, brush racks, pail swings and
poster closets, They are paid by the week
instead of by piecework, as in the old way.
and each man does more work in day than
twenty men did under the old system. In
the old days the hardest task consisted Of
papering high board fence. Now, most
of the advertising notices are posted on
xya1s and roofs nf be hiu SkIysrra
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THE SUBTERRANEAN CITY.
NEW YORK rs GROWING DOM
WARD As WELL As IN TIE AIR.
Increasing demand for Underground
Chambers and rassa brings
a Considerable sum In Rentals-SOnle
Big Ones Existing and Planned.

| The remark was made recently by q
! citizen prophet of this town tha; New York
was fast approac hing the time when here
i would be two cities here, one above the
| surface and the other. smaller one. below
| The prophecy was suggest ed by the stu
/ pendous tunnelling schemes which have
given an idea not only of how the city will
be catacombed in ilne, but also of the value
that it will give TO parts Of underground
New York adjacent to these roads,
A map Of underground New York, how
ever, as it exists to-day, even before the
, completion of any of these tunnelling
schemes. would show that possession has
, already been taken of this underground
New York. in way tina, would surprise
the average citizen acquainted only with
ia learn that the city, owning as II docs,
| the right 10 all land underneath the street s
between the building lines, is already de-
irving large income from small tunnels
connecting buildings on. di;feren, sides
of streets, private pipe lines and vaults
and big sub,crranean chambers used for
storage purposes
An examination Of the plans filed vii hin
the last few years for private tunnels and
vaults under the surface of this small
island iustifies the prophecy that before
he city is much older there will exist.
possibly. quite q network Of these pas
sageways connecting buildings and vaults
in crowded sections Of the city and forming
with the railroad tunnels that indirectly
of which prediction has been made
That the buildings of the future. towering
twenty or thirty stories in the air. will eX-
tend underground beyond the, building
lines, IL shown in the plans made recently
for an Underground chamber in connoc-
ton with TIN. twent v-story hotel now going
up at Forty-second street and Park ave
nuc. This .lo,ol. when finished will enjoy
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THE FIRST DRINK THAT COSTS,
SOME MEN APPROACH 4 JAG
WITH DIFFIDENCE,
Others RuS! Boldly Mt U-Stin Others
Dali! with Chance on the SubJect--NIen
Prot Get ed From Their Thirst by Pri, ate
Oetectiycs--A SaiOOnkeeper's Studies

Some of these dips-I believe they're
called dipsomaniacs by the people with
the whskers and the god-topped pre-.
scription pencils-are queer bugs to study.
said the manager of a drinking place stu
ated IN the midst of many high-class &c.
tivities. Il am acquainted with a good
many of the periodical drinkers. who, be.
cause the place is near to their business
have the habit of breaking out in here when
they're tuned up for their toots. and I've
got pretty fair mental line as to when they
are scheduled for their DRINKS.
But / don't have to be acquainted with
dip to know that he belongs to the peri
odical Injun MISREPRESENTATION bunch. !
can spot one with half minutes sizing up.
There is generally something nervous.
challsy. undecided about the most of them
when they're about TO embark on a whoop-
erlno and haven't yet taken the first one
that's unmistakable
There was ono of them in here only yes
terday Afternoon. He was lniddle-aged
stout well dressed gray-haired and a
locker
He pushed through the swing doors in a
slow kind Of way, and then walked TO one
Of the front windows and gazed out blanky,
gnawing first his nails and then his mus
tache 1t wasn't hard for me to zee that
the e hadn't been a trickling warmer be-
meath that mans waistband for quite a
few lunars and that he was one of the kind
who when he did go against it got hurt and
burt bad. l don't mind saying that I'd
rather not zee people like this start to do
their pouring.
Well. several times he began to sort Of
edge IN the direction OF tho bar and then
he'd edge back slowly to his place in front
OF the window and gaze out. thoughtfully.
some more. He was having his little old
rassle and thinking Of the gray aftermath.
But the old stuff finally won outfits
Ito 10 shot, according TO my experience. that
II generally does with the periodicals. The
last time he started to edge to the left he
got all the way TO the bar. He looked up at
me WIN pale, pleasant smile. and said:
i think III try dry Martini
Now, I'm not slammer-in nor anything
like one. but this man had pretty good
map on him. So just leaned over to him
and took chance.
Dye think you'd better, Judee?' I
asked him. You'll excuse my rubberins.
but you seemed to be wondering lot over
u and sou suppose you figured it out that
one would mean a good many, eh? No
offence. sir
He flushed. and then smiled, and I knew
that I'd won out
Your guess is correct he said. TIA
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cities, where they settle with their fami-
lies and work year after year for one par
ticular firm
The third class IL the "snpers" Most Of
them find employment with the theatres
about town
Tn big concerns, OF which there are
few in each large city, are members Of an
international association which regulates the
business. 30 that the firms in a particular
city get all of the big jobs to be done in that
town, even though the contract for the
work is given out TO firm in another town.
Thus is competition avoided The sys-
TEN also prevents many of the quarrels
which naturally occur between rival bill
posters.
Most OF the battles fought here are due
to the fact that contractors erecting large
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This city. Of course. leads all Others In
the sum Of bill posting done and the amount
Of money invest ed In wall leases Chicago
comes next In line and then Boston. But
among bill posters New York Is said to have
more Jumbo daubs7 than any other city
In the United States. Jumbo daub'
is a four-decker billboard. big enough to
hold an advertisement forty feet high.
Probably the expert who handles more
Jumbo daubs than any other bill poster
in town is Fred Bliss. He may he seen
almost any day In the vicinity of the Brook
Ign Bridge, either In swinging seat scaf'old
or on the top of a three deck ladder. plaster
ing big wall, working hundred feet or
more from the ground.
Bliss considers bill posting All art. He