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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-20


"A great expense to its military and
citizens, a rifle range at Avondale, rec
ognized by all authorities as second TO
none in the state or the South, and in
every way suited for a camp Of in
struction in rife practice for large
bodies of troops and
Whereas. the state Of Georgia will
hold camp of this nature during the
summer of 1903, for the instruction of
its military forces; therefore. be 1t
Resolved, by the Mayor and AL
dermen of the city of Savannah, in
Council assembled. that the Governor
be requested to designate Avondale
range as the place for the said camp
of instruction in rifle practice for the
present year, and that a committee of
three, of which the Mayor shall be
chairman, be appointed by the Mayor
to see the Governor. on his approach
ing visit to this city, and lay the mat
ter before him. Adopted. His honor,
the Mayor, appointed Aldermen Cold
ing and Grayson.
BY Alderman Garfunkel-
Resolved, That the Committee on
Water be and they are hereby author
lied to make an expenditure of $9,55000
for the laying of 16-inch water main
on Abercorn street from Anderson to
Estill avenue. Adopted.
BY Alderman Grayson-
heSOlNeQ, IHdI the AJOf1IfllLLeG OH 70
lice be, and they are hereby authorized,
to make an expenditure of seven hum
dred dollars for the purchase of four
ca horses for the use of the depart
ment Adopted.
Resolution by Alderman Dixon
Whereas. Maj. G. S. Hardee with this
meeting of Council completes his TWEEN
tieth year of service as city treasurer
OF the city of Savannah, and
WherenS Tlurft10 his long farm If Of
fice he has conducted the important
business intrusted to him with an eye
single to the interests of the munich
pality, ever seeking to promote the
efficiency of his department of the
government and displaying exception
al ability and the most sterling prob
ity in the execution of the trust plac-
ed in his hands, therefore be 1t
Resolved. By the Mayor and alder
men Of the city of Savannah in Coun-
ell assem- Died, that we hereby express
the satisfaction we feel as the repre-
sentatives of the taxpayers and citf-
zens Of Savannah i'm the conduct of the
office of city treasurer during the two
decades he has occupied IL, extend our
congratulations to him on his long
tenure of Office and convey to him the
hope that he will be long spared to
serve the people OF Savannah faith
fully and well. Adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS
Communication from Capt. w. w.
Gordon Jr., Of the Georgia Hussars,
extending an invitation to the Mayor
ard aldermen to visit their bazaar and
be their guests on the evening Of the
18th instant. after the adjournment OF
the meeting Of Council, was read and
accepted.
There being 10 further business
Council iaUk recess subject 10 the
call OF the Mayor.
WM. p BAILEY.
Clerk OF Council.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-20
OFFICIAL.

of abuses. which 1t is claimed exists at
the city dispensary, beg to deny that
any such abuses exists, and report ad-
versely thereto.
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need was noted while the orchestra played
and the dancers glided over the smoothly
polished floor. The college girls showed
the advantage of higher culture In the
supper room,which to the invading guests
displayed a prior occupation by g. small
army Of mice emulating the dancers below
stairs.
"What are theyi' asked one Barnard girl.
curiously.
at them through her glasses. Can you SEQ
II the vertebr are gelatinous Or
Have you clocks on your stockingsF
broke in a Westerner, with apparent 'r-
relevance.
-Clocks-on our stockings" repeated Por-
tia, as If doubtful whether the remark wero
improper or simply Western alma mater
having taught her that etiquette in CONVEX
sation is simply matter Of locality.
YES" answered the Westerner, casting
looks Of disapprobation at the only other
man in the room who had italian sun.
Sc. hair besides himself you know the old
saying Hickory dickory dock, the mouse
ran up the clock ,"
"Oh, they are mice" said the Barnard
girl, slowly. Il am not at all afraid The
only way to conquer a wild animal is TO
look fearlessly in its eye. If you will hold
one, will look at it.
-You never looked me in the eye said
the Westerner, slightly aggrieved.
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At Colunbia's Glass Day.
"A 5oi1es 10, me 7bss 7h~s- II
A. One ScseiAio, SatD N, FDn


rotihcrd ~ rslobrr'eH iirNr' nvfulnf
4, rrfv incdirofe rtnIda'r ~ no rtesl.
Iencf. ftst hr v1s tho sfss's~' s's'es'
nan no sfen'rst orsipf nri fhe greatest
nnarrlef that the nrod States had "tef
knovn
apfov. ~ shouted the sr-r'ir-
Prove 49, answered The sresh"' Y
dan have 80. he admits !,
"a tniumhips scntot rlasa admitted
iheif avn 'up-fiofNy 20 ~ o'hrr clsss~e
ih.i vero ~ hat afo to bc aud there IL
~ tiu,r tps,y
Perhaps n IL wcli that rlsss dsy hss
eth conservative" customs that me- Upheaval
- rilways ~ other ways ran jar little,
when the longing for something cool and
green "isoa YOU IN IN" June days, when
he landlord threatens To fotclo-" ~
natter how charming you hay" l~en. when
locality h"gins 10 mean nothing and friends
n SO away because your Newport cottage
IL closed for repairs during the summer
when YOU have tho feeling ~ eternal unrest
take a trolley and sp"nd tn" afternoon
~ Columbia class dlv. You viii ind
that II offers soacc for tho most jaded.
II II like tree in uIicksand.
Columbia c'a-s day IL Just the same
IA class day has been for ages. You are
not startled by any inuoya' ions. IL In
the expected that happens. II Ia like a
play that vou have been TO see a dozen
times. II doesn't even tax your memory.
There Il the same wild, enthusiastic
hand-clapping by muscular flats ut tho
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even know the little shops Of the region.
Everything we needed, save green groceries
and meats. we bought in great shops fif-
teen miles away. We had to wait for most
things twelve or even twenty-four hours.
and if an article was urgently needed Wa
had to make journey of something like
thirty miles to get it,
THAT seemed to the old gentleman an
excellent joke on suburban life. His own
village is about as far from the only neigh
boring considerable city as our suburb
is from the heart of New York. and be tried
to imagine what he would do If he had to
buy his shoestrings and get shaved in that
city fifteen miles from his door. 1t was
plain enough that he thought we had re-
turned to something like the conditions
Of the frontier.
He was evidently comparing the incon-
veniences of our situation with the copdi-
ton of his farmer friends few miles from
his village. He had always been sorry
for them; he was just as sorry for us. Look
ing round upon the dense shrubbery near
the house and the wall Of woodland only q
few yards away, and shifting the cool air
of a damp June morning he said, with a
kind Of shiver, No doubt this is lovely
place in midsummer, but it must be rather
cold in winter
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and once more / brought out that list OF
applicants names and wired for another Of
them to report at my Office on Friday MORN
ing, ready for duty.
This one was a staid-looking man of
thirty-five or so. who knew his business all
right, and we pitched In without any pariey
as soon az he'd hung his hat up, and did a
fierce mornings work in the way OF giving
and taking dictation.
an the afternoon ! had the satisfaction
Of seeing that staid-looking man begin
to pile the sheets into the typewriter as If
it was hopper, and the work that he turned
out was clean and letter-perfect.
@He was Just getting into the swing o! it
and was perhaps half done with his book
full Of notes. when nice-looking, but timid
little girl. about 10 years old. appeared in
the doorway Of my Office and beckop I'd to
my new shorthand man, calling him papa
her, and when he returned to tie Office
about a minute later he ~as loc.ing sheep
ish and hustered.
Guess I'll have to be trotting along
home and stay there for day or 30, he said
to me.
"'That's gloomy news for me. the way
the work Ia piled up around this plant,
said to him. What's the trouble?
"'Oh, no trouble he replied, looking
still more flustered a. he went for his hat
'Er-,-I've got three little girls now, and I'm
Il paid him for his days work. and away
he went" concluded the red-faced business
man. What dye think Of it-have got
Crouch coming or not?"
The manager Of the shorthand employ
ment bureau smiled, but his reply was nom
colnmittal. He IL a stenographer himself,
or was, and stenographers are clannish.
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play OF Hamlet without Hamlet might
be more pleasing, but It would be untrue
to tradition and, like Hamlet class day
valedictories must not deviate from routine:
Then when the f1rst man of his time had
ended his valedictory to his mates, when
the last dropped head had been raised.
when the sonorous accents had died away,
began the exit into the open, to witness
the one picturesque feature Of the days
exercises, the planting OF the yew tree.
Notwithstanding the gentle rain which
fell upon grad and undergrad as we'll, the
sight was well worth a visit to Morningside.
for the gray walls. the soft greens Of the
new vegetation, the classic gowns. the
bright faces of the spectators made pict-
ure long to be remembered.
About the tiny yew tree, which some day
will perhaps shelter the generations who
will point to it with pride as possessing
ancestral interest, the class men of 1908,
with the long pipes of peace sat on the,
ground and listened, while on the platform,
draped with the blue and white Of Columbia
the orator--a proxy for the occasion-de-
livered short Grafton.
A little way from the group Of men stood
the Barnard girls in dainty white robes,
covered with the gowns OF their alma mater
and with mortarboards on their blonde
or brunette curls. The Columbia men
had passed them in review and had been
in turn reviewed as they took their stations.
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CALL FOR OLD.STYLE CLOCKS.
A German Cabinetmaker Doing Well In
Reproducing Ancient T1mepieces.


An old German cabinetmaker, noting
the craze for the old-fashioned tall clocks.
began making them two or three years
ago, and since then has done little else.
His little shop uptown Is scarcely wider
than the height Of the clocks he builds.
There he works all day long without help.
A kitchen stove close beside his workbench
serves to heat his glue pot. The rear OF
the shop Is filled with finished clock cases
awaiting their works.
II is his fancy to make his clocks unusually
tall, fully eight and a half feet, and he has
made one case considerably shorter, just
by way Of showing what is the style OF
ordinary clockmakers. His material %
usually new mahogany. sometimes veneered,
sometimes solid, often inlaid and carved.
The price Of his clocks varies with the style
OF caae and the quality Of the works.
1t is the old mans patriotic German
belief that the best works for such clocks
come from Germany. and accordingly
made to accomplish. The most expensive
are made to indicate not only hours: minutes
and seconds, but the phases of the moon
and the day of the month. clock con-
sisting OF the best works in mahogany
case Of the best workmanship that the old
man can turn out fetches $50. OtheIs
cost from $25 to $40 less.
The old cahinetmaker's customers are
shops and private persons. with orders
from one or the other he is busy most OF
the time He has several clocks making
at once, 40 that he does not lose time IN
Ssns f ps san are ar m @ s and '
new clocks when finished and set going
look ANA zingly like those Of q century ~
. half ago.
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1t GLASS day-fails to come, no matter
what the source Of its inspiration.
Some time, when We have gone back to
the Greeks for the inspiration Of literary
method as we'll as at hletics and under the
guidance of the leader in q new school Of
philosophy, the peripat etic band Of en-
thusiastic pupils follows its teacher through
peristyle, porticos and athenRum, stop
ping at shrine after shrine. the longest
pause and the deepest reverence will doubt
less be made at that dedicated to the God
of Modesty. For surely, if Columbia
established mythology Jupiter would be
ousted from place.
Tho editorial "we" was omnipresent.
PWe,' announces the president Of the class
coyly as in classic gown and coquettish
cap he rises and establishes the bond Of
sympathy between those who are going
and the coming classes, "are the finest
class that has ever graduated at Columbia,
Not only have we the handsomest men,
the most intellectual, the best athletes,
the most eloquent orators the finest dancers,
but we can. without arrogating to ourselves
too much, claim justly to be the standard
for all other classes and colleges or words
to TINT effect.
There ia no small boy who takes licking
% philosophically a. the small boy who
has "a still smaller brother. So, in the
chances Of appreciation, from junior, soph
and freshman, zone who cared could
easily forecast the eloquence of future
class days
There is story told Of man who an
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a somewhat seedy appearing chap, with
puffy face and pouchy eyes, but soon
found that he knew how to write Shorthand
all right. l was determined not to get
stuck with another notebook full OF use-
less notes, and so, after I'd dictated about
three long letters to the puffy-faced young
man, asked him to read them over to me.
He ratified them off as if he was reading
long primer type.
Il re-dictated most of the letters that the
girl who couldn't read her pot-hooks had
left on my hands, besides big pile OF Mon
day morning mail, and from the scientinc
way that my pouchy-eyed boy siung nus
pencil, reading his notes out-oh hand no
matter how often tested him, l figured
that I'd at length got in right as to stenog-
raphher' , 49,. -, ,,,,o, .. h.,,n.st :,
but before no went he brsced me for some
lunch money said that he'd been out OF
work for some weeks and was shy on change.
l handed him a dollar.
He got back to the Office at quarter
Of 2, with vacant look on his face: He
sat down at the machine. and began hitting
three keys at once He had just one dollar
worth Of rum in him, and was dollar 8
worth drunk, which was plenty.
Il gave him the sudden sack, OF course,
and there was three business days corre-
spondence tied up in shorthand notebooks.
with no visible chance Of ever getting the
notes Interpreted.
Il telegraphed to another Of the candi-
dates whose names and addresses l had
written down. just took the list In rota-
ton, and this time 1t was young woman.
Then had to take off my coat and vest
and jump into that correspondence with
a pen again, and put In another afternoe n
of drLdgery getting of replies to those
of my letters that required immediate
attention.
aThe girl I'd wired for arrived about
half an hour after business began on
but she didn't look well. There was a
panied look on her face, with circles beneath
her eyes.
.she explained the hardness Of her ar
rival by saying that she had had violent
headache all the morning. ! toid he 81,
days work. but she assured me that abe
would be-that she was subject to head
aches and never stopped work on account
Of them. / wasn't part icularly confident
however, when asked her.to get her note
book ready.
First handed her the notebook Of
the young man who had got jagged on my
hands on the day before, and asked her IL
she could read the notes. / entertained
a sort of wistful hope, you see, that per-
haps she might be able to transcr!be that
big bunch Of notes and save me the measy
job Of debating them all over again. But
that was a sad pipe dream on my part.
The notes We're quite uninteligible TO her,
and she said it was an eEt rely different
short hand system from hers.
well, that girl all right and could
read her notes after taking them. but just
when was coming down the homestretch
on the dictat ion, shortly before noon, she
collapsed and tainted. had to hustle to
the Office next door. to get the girl stenog-
rapher there to come and attend to the
young woman. and / was barred out Of
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steshef and asain tho rslls ~ fhr h,u'dtns
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shuuii evoke tho sllI erlturs ~ a'"rp'h9
smini, bat ihT, 10 Annth~f frr hpnofrr
c,isio,r ~ ei,ss inv ftvct w hrtnsTd
Tho DREAMER could lr,ssn" dln'"rhs
sone'hins llh~ ihlf
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my office for about half an hour while the
young woman was coming round.
Il told her that didn't think she was
strong enough to work for while. and sent
looking as pale as sheet. That meant
another nifty afternoon of penmanship
for me, and again l got home to dinner
so late, as had been. for the two days pre-
vious, that my wife looked me over out
OF the tail of her eye and made sarcastic
business seemed to be picking up, seeing
that il kept me at the Office uni II all hours
Of the night, and other irritating stuff OF
that sort.
young woman had been carried away, TOR
the next applicant on my little list this
time it was a man. He sailed along on
time on Thursday morning, and at last I
thought had picked a winner.
-He was an athletic-looking, young fellow.
we'll set up with no rum marks about him
and the way he could write shorthand
was a caution. talked at him just AZ fast
as ] could think in getting through my
letters-some of which ! was debating for
the fourth time-but he could just let his
out half trying.
1T looked too easy to be true, but when
called upon him to read his notes he ratified
EN- on as II they'd been printed matter on
three-sheet posters.
money shortly than told him I'd pay him,
l said to myself. as l raced through that
accumulated stack Of correspondence,
He's stake class, and won't be able to hold
him II don't hunch the wages along q
little
my athletic-looking stenographer. started
on the same Grand When came hurrying
into the office building, about half an hour
later, l saw that there was something doing
in the scrap line In front of the elevation.
II got to the elevators just in time to see
my new shorthand man engaged in punch.
ing the noses OF OF the countenances OF
three elevator men. One Of the elevator
men. 1t seems, had tried TO slam the door
In the face OF the young fellow just as he
was stepping on board the car. and he
wouldn't stand for It. :,
"He yanked the elevator door open, and
then the elevator man inside made the
mistake of trying to land one on him. He
didn't get away with It.. my. young man
being cracka jack with his mitts and then
Of their cars and butted into the melee.
my young man was pasting them right
and left and easily holding the three Of
them-he certainly was sparkling boy
a-coming. A cop ran in from the street
and pinched him.
Il couldn't 60 tagging OF to the police
station to secure the release on collateral
of a stenographer I'd only employed that
morning, and knew If I did that he'd
be in hot water with the elevator man and
the rest Of the ianitor's force Nil the time.
SO there I was, on Thursday afternoon,
with nearly weeks business just stopped
over and only half attended to. and four
shorthand notebooks filled to the covers
that were Of no more use to me than
motorman's glove.
Again l had to dig out the important
letters and reply to them in longhAnd,
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WANTED-A STENOGRAPHER.
TYPEWRITER QUESTION FROM AN
EMPLOYERS STANDPOINT.
Weeks Experience OF o Business Man with
Applicants for Vacant Piace-SOme
OF the Girls Couldn't Read Their Own
! Notes-AssOrted Troubles Of the Others

: A red-faced and wrathful- looking bust
hess man stormed into the office of an en-
ploylnent bureau for shorthand writers on
Saturday afternoon last. His voice was
hoarse, his hair tousled, and his frame
was shaking with an emotion that was OBJ
viously not of the tender sort.
Say" he broke out. herding the manager
Of the employment concern into a corner
of the office, can you furnish me- next
Monday morning, with pot-hook rassler
that's guaranteed to know how to read his
or her own shorthand notes after taking
EN- down, that won't be seized with the
pip or the tizzy-wizzy and have to 60 home
TO treat it after couple Of hours work.
that won't get googe-eyed when it goes
out to lunch, that won't get into scraps
with the hired men around the Office build
ing, and that won't-er-have to knock
OF work on account of contemplating
events in its family?'
The. manager of the stenographers
employment bureau thought that he would
be able to send such a shorthand writer to
the business man,
Man or woman?" he inquired
(which ever you've got said the red
faced business man, hopping his fore
head. "It's a stand-off with me. Hike
along any kind that you think III he able
20 GIG little work out Of I've had fun
a-plen,y this week with both kinds. Now
/ want to transact little business. 1need
the money
yours. put in the manager Of the en-
p)oyment concern, seems TO be a sad, sad
story. Got time to let me in on it?'
Il haven't got time, hpt I'll take it; it'll
give you a line on the shorthand game
from the busy business mans point Of view
that perhaps you haven't picked up" and
the red-faced man pumped himself YEARLY
into chair. A week ago last Thursday
/ had to fire my regular photographer
good man when he'd work-for sneaking
away from the Office couple of hours every
afternoon 10 play the horses in a poolroom.
put an adj. in Fridays papers for stem
ographer and typewriter. Didn't specify
whether l wanted a man or woman
just stenographcr and typewriter.
Il took on the first one that came along
on Friday forenoon manufacturing girl
with myopic eyes; but was too busy to do
any spioking and choosing, and when she
assured me that she could do the work