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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-22

The railroad commissioners have or
Tered hearing on the applicat ton of
he Eustis Railroad Co. for approval
If articles of association. The hearing
will occur at the commissioners Office
n this city, Wednesday, April 20, at 10
\. M.
The commissioners have approved the
location of the Biddeford Pool Electric
railroad. The company proposes to be-
gin operations at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19
GOSSIP FROM NEW YORK
 Aa Iosde V;euu of the Steel Cornoration,s Conn<
BY JOHN MARTHOL,

His knowledge Is of enormous value to the corporation which must retain its prestige in the iron and steel industry by its output and make It's showing of net profits by able. economical and con servative management. In this labor he has the support of the executive com mittee. The showing made in the annual report of net earnings is an endorsement of MT. Schwab's ability as a manufactu- Ter and of the wisdom, prudence and foresight of Judge Garry, chairman of the executive committee.
 From the earnings through the finance committee which is controlled by J. P. Morgan & Co., dividends of per cent have been apportioned on the preferred stock and per cent. on the common and a handsome surplus is carried on the books. But while the preferred stock shows an per cent investment and the common an Ii per cent on shares at the market price. the general public is not falling over itself to purchase them Early in the year the finance committee sought to acquire stockholders for its preferred stock among its employees The scheme was devised by George w. Perkins, a talented young man who worked his way up in the New York Life Insurance Company from agent to vice-president, and who MT. Morgan has been endeavoring to transform into a financer. The scheme, so to speak, was a modification of plan adopted by the insurance company to save for itself re- newal commissions to It's agents and to keep them in its service for long, con- tinuous period by holding over them a forfeiture of a prospective bonus" should they leave the company. Adopted by the finance committee, 1t was announced broadcast as a profit sharing plan" It
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THE FERD MARX STORE.

other interests in United States steel
 Now 1t seems that George Washington Perkins fancied the position held by Charles M. Schwab and while he would push the stel kings crown away with one hand, he would do 1t after the fashion of Caesar, each time more gently than the other. And so the rumor went abroad that Schwab would be deposed. It Is re- membered that at the beginning Morgan did not want Schwab. But Andy said: "It must be Schwabl' and 1t was Schwab. Again Andy has spoken, and the words are "Schwab 1t must beV And Schwab 1t is. for when the Laird speaks, he means business
 It is generally believed that MT. Mor- gan, who in spite of his brusqueness Is clever in diplomacy and always willing to stay in the background until he can declare himself with the winner, has thrown his influence in the scales with Schwab. He has been compelled to ad- init the brilliancy of the young Pitts burger who took up his work with a score of jealous, secret enemies working against him. Spies dogged Schwab's footsteps and purposely misconstrued every act His enemies sought to place him in a false and ridiculous light. l repeatedly denied the malicious stories sent from Europe. But the enemies persisted in re- wiling him. his ability was attacked, his health misrepresented. Envy. jeal- ousy and cupidity stopped at nothing False friends never ceased to cable and energy never Jagged, but the stout heart of Andrew Carnegie never faltered. He never blanched at the heat of his own forges and he never turned cold in his friendship for his young protege. Schwab deserved a stout friend and Carnegie rang true of his own steel.
 The seven millions left by Charles L. Fair of San Francisco. the brother of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., of New York has be- come in this city an object of interest in view of the legal proceedings now be- ing conducted here. Everybody knows that if Mrs. Fair survived her husband even for few moments she inherited from him, and that her heirs would possess these millions. Two FrenchmeP.
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New York April 1S.-In a corporation as large as the United States Steel Trust .the outsiders" are not long in learning what "the insiders" are thinking about as well as doing For a year or more one active faction has been covertly desirous of busting Charles M. schwab from the presidency. Reports industriously cir culated as to the health of the young steel nagnate were followed with rumors that his resignation would follow. But MT. Schwab, robust and cheery after a long vacation, is back at his desk deter mined to perform the duty of his great office.
 During his absence many changes In management. have been wrought. They are wise changes in view of the enor- nous details which management of so many plants involves. Two large com mittees divide the work, one the finance committee, the other the executive. MT. Morgan's partner, George w. Perkins, Is the chairman of the former. Judge Gar ", of the latter. Responsibility for cor porate acts rests either with one or both of these committees. MT. Schwab Is a broad minded man, and he surprised his opponents by heartily approving the plan inaugurated during his absence. He found that 1t relieved his office of work and responsibility and brought to the affairs of the company the best mem tai effort of it's most competent mana gers.
 Mir. Schwsb is essentially a practical manufacturer. He represents the manu- featuring element in the consolidation
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was described as benevolent" "philan- thropic." It aimed at making employees shareholders of preferred stock on the in- stalment plan. The announcement was made that it was eminently successful. Perhaps 1t wa. Every share allotted may have been sold to the workmen as stated. I doubt it. l am told, and 1 may be misinformed, that the workmen refused to subscribe and that the cleri- cal force declined Both preferred to be humble toilers at a stated stipend. In view of this and the market values of the shares, 1t would seem to the lay mind that the finance committee has not scored heavily during its first year.
 Behind the manufacturing interests are the hard-headed men who had made themselves rich. respected and powerful as kings of iron and steel; as independ- ent masters of forge and shop. Behind the stock interests are group of finan- ciers, who with capital. lawyers and printing press. work feats of magic with mergers and combinations, etc At the head of the former set is one An drew Carnegie. a hard headed Scot who knows "a hawk from a hand-saw"; at the head of the other is George w. Per kins, late insurance agent, present finan- cier and would be future steel king, swinging the Standard Oil interests and
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Why do people who have no money themselves, or only a moderate amount of 1t, worry themselves almost unceas- ingly with respect to the personal con- cerns of the possessors Of great wealth? It is nearly impossible to take up a pub lication of the day without finding in it something or other about the misuse of great fortunes, the extravaganza, luxu- ry incidence, love of pleasure and so on, of the extremely rich. A Mississip- pi of ink printers and otherwise, must be expended every year in dilating upon the subject in all it's manifold phases, and apparently the theme is inexhausti- ble. Ill-paid clergymen are constantly
 Illuminating about it in the pulplts Fa- nous and obscure novelists make ther characters discourse about it in their romances. The modern playwright would have to give up his trade were ne debarred from all recourse to 1t. With a very large number of politicians 1t IS the main reliance to catch the votes or credulous constituencies on which to mount to power and acquire the very pelf they pretend to reprobate. IL IS the sole capital of an army or re1ormers, whose zeal for the public wel1are IS nearly always rooted in private aggran- dizement. To advise the rich, to enlight- en them as to how they should spend their surplus means, to warn them of the perils they are certain to place them selves in unless they bow to the superior wisdom of the penniless philanthropists, who have taken them and their affairs in charge, has in fact become fad
 As one of the class whom it is so per- sistently sought to reform, this interest in our behalf is to my mind exceedingly amusing. In the first place, I do not think the very great majority of us are in need of any reformation at all. Take religion for instance. Are we not as
 regular churchgoers as our poorer breth- ren? As to the devotional spirit that animates us, and the aeceptability of our prayers and petitions to the Supreme Ruler of the poor and rich alike, it is for Him, not us to decide In the matter of charity I should like to ask if the rich people of today, are, as class, in- different to the appeals made to them? do not think that 1t can be truthfully answered that they are Well-bred men and women are not ostentatious in their benefactions to the distressed, and am, think, within the strict line of truth,
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From the New York Herald.
 Southern people love New York, and New York, from all indications, loves southern people. For years the trysting place has been Narragansett. There Is usually a marriage in year after the first meeting when the beautiful southern girl merges herself into a young southern matron living in New York. Among the southern belles who have ben captured by northern men are, par excellence, the Misses Wilson-May, now Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Grace now Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was so hardly won that scarcely a village in the world does not know the romantic story. The Misses Smith-Mrs. Ava Belmont and Mrs. George Tiffany; Mrs. Norman White house, who was Miss Vera Boardman the Misses Langhorne-Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mrs. Robert Shaw and Mrs. Reg inald Brooks-are others.
 Another belle about to be transplanted is Elsie Castleman of Louisville, Ky, who is to marry a relative of Philip Hone, one-time mayor of New York. But the most prominent and best known ot the captured southern belles is Mrs. Don-
 
 Maryland and is now queen regent of the New York chapter, D. A. R., and whom Chauncey Depew pronounced the great est of female orators,' yet always fem mine and charming
 Among others are the well-known and hospitable Mrs. Pembroke Jones, who was Miss Sadie Green; Mrs. Robert l.. Cut ting and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, the beautiful Miss Moale of Baltimore; the Roger Pryors, the W. T. Trenholms, whose famous home in West Seventy third street has been noted for its enter tainments; the J. S. Barclays (Mrs. Bar clay was the beautiful Miss Mamie Old clay of Baltimore); the Joseph l.. Robert sons, the Hugh s. Gardens probably the most exclusive of the southern colony. Captain Garden was one of the early presidents of the Southern club, contri- outing to it S5000 for a library of southern writers. which, at the breaking up of the club was given to Columbia college. Mrs. Algernon s. Sullivan one of Virginia's fairest daughters, was Miss Millie Ham, mond. MT. Sullivan, who died many years ago, was one of the founders of the Southern club, and 1t is said he was enough like Hawthorne to have been taken for a brother.
 Then other names equally well-known Incorporated into this great New York are Colonel and Mrs. Andrew Dickinson, Mrs. Dickinson being a granddaughter of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19
REFORMATION OF THE RICH
'-s-s-s-s-s-s-s. .s-.-s-s-s"s-s-s-s
BY A MILLIONAIRE.

when I say that the money given away anonymously by the wealthy men ana women of the United States, Is Tar lar ger than has ever been given by the .'pIutoerats," as we are affectionateiy called. in any nation that exists or has ever existed. As to the ''royal" and imperial" gifts, to employ the horid phraseology of some of your contempo- raries. which are made from time to tine to institutions of benevolence, science, art and education, the donors are not responsible for the notoriety that follows them. It is not easy, nay 1t is next to impossible, to give away mill lion dollars, or even one-tenth of the amount, without making very many per- sons sharers in the secret. But even if the praise of their fellow citizens were the only end in view of these generous rich men, are they not in this respect following one of the supreme instincts of our common human nature, namely, so to act as to merit the appreciation of their generation? But 1t must be appar- ent to anyone who will stop to think about it. that love of applause Is not the object of many of the largest contribu- tors to worthy objects, for the more they give, the more they are denounced. But still they keep on giving, and know they do not care one rap for the praise or the abuse.
 As for the dislntereSted persons, men and women, who it would seem, are de- voting their genius, time and labor, pen labor and mouth-labor, to advising and reforming "plutocrats' with all their works and pomps," does it ever occur to them that the objects of their tender so- licitude may be less in need of monition and reform than they themselves are? From whom do they get their commits sions to tell us what we shall or shall not do? What do they know anyway? Are they better educated than We are? Have they been more carefully trained in the way we all should go? Are their lives models of all the virtues? Are they exemplars of all the proprieties and con- ventionalities of civilization? Are they our superiors In the world of business? What has education or nature given to them that has not been given to us? To ask the question is to answer it. The rich men of America are the best ad- vised class in the world for the simple reason that they pay for the very best advice when they need 1t. What cu- rious world it Is anywayl The majority who are not rich think the minority who are so, are mostly fools. Well, 1t does not appear to hurt the minority very much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19

Monsieur Mas and Monsieur Moranne. had the fortune or misfortune to be on the road near Trouvelle, France, at the time of the automobile accident. Mas has testified that Mrs. Fair was breath- ing when Fair had ceased to breathe Counsel for Mesdames Oelriehs and Van derbilt proceeded at once to make it pleasant or unpleasant for Monsieur Mas. They wanted to know where he had been the night previous This question revealed another parsonage, a lady Her name? Alas, 1t would tend to degrade, to implicate. etc." And now the curtain is rung up on French gallantry. In dull court room in the city of New York American lawyers seek to secure from a French Monsieur" the name of the Ju- liet with whom, on that eventful night he listened to the nightingale. Loves sweet secret at the bar and seven mill of fiction? To them l give theme. Violal
 Slowly, steadily advancing, Henry S. Redmond, of the firm of Redmond and Kerr, is now recognized throughout the United States as an expert authority on railroad bonds. He began his career in Wall street some twenty years ago.
 
 selling bonds. Bearing in mind the enor- nous number of bonds of different issues, railroads have put upon the market an intimate knowledge of them cannot be acquired in years study. The cus- toners of Mir. Redmond are located all over the country. and they are known by him to be investors. He has gained their confidence and respect. It is now said that MT. Redmond can underwrite an en- tire issue of bonds and dispose of them within fortnight. by simply recom- mending them This is more than any other banker can do. not excepting Mir. Morgan On the other hand a financier said: Tt is about as difficult to get Redmond to endorse a bond issue as to sell them, for If he will endorse the issue they are about the same as sold" This Is a pretty strong recommendation for a man, who under forty-fiye. began life with small capital and has become a mll- lionaire by sheer pluck and industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19
HOuSefurniShin0S
Some Specials gleaned for next weeks selling:

special, the dozen, $1.49
 Twilled Cotton Crash, bleaehed, 25-yard bolts; regularly sold for Dc the yard; special, the bolt, ssc
 30-ineh Hemstitched Linen Squares, for pillow shams, etc.; regularly sold for 65c; special, 49c
 Extra Absorbent Knit Wash Rags, silk trimmed; regularly sold for Sc; special, 5c
 36-inch Fancy Silkolines, 90 diff ferent colorings and designs; reg ularly sold for 15c; special, the yard, 12Tac
 36-ineh Herringbone Feather Ticking, neat stripes; regularly sold for S5c; special, the yard, 25c
 36-inch Lunch Cloths of Satin Damask, two rows of openwork; regularly sold for S250; special, each, $1.9S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19

19x40 Huckaback Towels, hem med; extra absorbent; regularly sold for 121ac each; special the dozen, ,98c
 Marseilles design Bed Spreads, pearl hemmed. We guarantee them to fit; regularly sold for $1.75; special, sec
 72-inch Bleached Irish Table Da- mask, very tightly woven, satin finished; regularly sold for $1.00; special, the yard, 7sc
 42x36-inch hemmed Pillow Cases of good Muslin; regularly sold for lie; special, Sc
 S1x90-inch torn, ironed and hem med Sheets; good Muslin; regular ly sold for 59c; special, 45c
 1S-inch hemmed German Linen Napkins, soft finished; contains no starch; regularly sold for S200;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19
Onr Big Perfume and Toilet Dept.
"Se11s If for Less."

This Department is the first cut-rate department of its kind in our city-and is known everywhere as having every thing that is popular in its line and selling it for less." Here are some special prices that will prevail Monday:
 Colgate's Violet Toilet Water 3 oz., 3e; oz., 49c; 8 oz., 75c
 Hudnut's Violet Sec. Toilet Wa ter, 75c
 Crown Crabapple Toilet Wa ter, S9o
 Crown Bouquet Versailles Toilet Water, s9c
 Rogers 6 Gallet's Triple Ex- tracts In bulk-Violette, White Rose, Helio-per ounce, 59c
 Ombre Rose, Violette Mer- yeilee, per ounce, $1.50
 Grown Crabapple, Carnation, per ounce, 59c
 My Lady Peggy, per ounce, Soc
 HouDlcantS Ideal, per ounce, $1.5g
 Rogers & Gallet's Rice Pow Ger, 19c
 Ben Levy's LaBlache Pow der, 33c
 Bradley's Woodland Violet Pow der, Soc
 Lyons Tooth Powder, 19c
 Hoyt's Rubifoam, 19e
 Pray's Nail Enamel, 22c
 Pray's Ongaline, 39c
 Violet Sea Salt, 25c
 Violet Ammonia, 15c
 Woodland Violet Talcum, 15c
 Colgate's Talcum, 15c
 Mennens Talcum, lie
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These unexpected cold spells would not cause half the inconvenience if your house was connected with the steam pipes. B. R., l.. & F. Go.
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Will cleanse your blood of disease, ban ish misery from your life and bring you the sunshine of health and happiness. s756,0O0 cases of Constipation, Rheuma- tism, Poisoned Blood, Catarrh. Nervous ness, Kidney and Liver Troubles and Malaria were treated last year. and 80 per cent were cured All Druggists.
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s24.5o, WORTH $s2.5o.
 Suit of light weight Scotch Homespun, gray and white mix lures, military collar and front, long postillion back, new cuff, front finished with graduated straps, skirt stylish and flared
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beautifully trimmed with stitched bands of taffeta, tucked, tunic ef- feet, full flare.
 $22.50-A Ladies Man-Tailored Skirt of Black Imported Voile, trimmed with six cloth and silk folds, beautiful shirred fiounce.
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ONE FARE RATE
To Anniston, Ala, and Return Via
 Southern Railway.

Account Anniston Chatauqua assembly Southern railway will sell round-trip tick cts to Anniston April IS to 24. inclusive; final limit April 26, 4yo6, at rate of one fare. Four trains daily each way.
 J. c. LUSK, 4-10-26t District Passenger Agent.
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Special Sale of 2OOO Yards of
 BrOChe de SOie, Worth soc a Yard-At 10C.

Our Mr. Marx bought this entire lot of Broche de Soie beautiful sheer wash material of half silk and half cotton White grounds with beautiful floral designs o all coors and black. beautiful abrc It sells elsewhere at soc a yard. MONDAYS PRICE, 1oc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19
Have You Seen the New Laced Front Corset?

Specially made for stout people-gives them the pretty military front and beautiful 6gure-combned with every fort. Let our expert filter tell you of it's merits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-19

Now Is the time to use MAGIC CITY FLOOR FINISH
 (Made to Walk On). & WALTER PAINT co
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Have you a f1lterP ? I have them to sell from sl.OO up.
 s. SPIRO.
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Batiste, S3-inch, sheer, pretty de- signs, fast colorings, 1oc
 Lawns, 45-inch, solid colors, ex- cellent for Innings, 15c
 Lace or Satin Striped Novelties, very sheer and pretty, 200
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The only fixture factory in the South. United Electric Co.
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$12.5o for Ladies Man-Tailored Skirt of Black Imported Voile, panel front with small ruffles, over hips taffeta fold trimmed, 3 bands around bottom of skirt, small silk buttons and flare.
 $17.5o-A Ladies Man-Tailored Skirt of Black Imported Voile,
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Heavy Nottingham Lace Cur tains, 39s yards long; double threads; regularly sold for $2.00; the pair, $1.49
 Bobinet Ruffled Curtains, 31h yards long; good mesh; taped hems; regularly sold for $200; the pair, $1.69
 Ruffled Bobinet Curtains, BE
 yards long, with insertion borders; regularly sold for $2.50; the
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Big Reductions on Ladies' Tailor Suits.

Reductions of one-third Ladies Tailor Suits all the smarest styles of this All priced proportion to the two quoted below:
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pair, $1.eS
 Ruffled Bobinet Curtains, trim med with lace; pretty designs; regularly sold for $3.50, $2.e8
 Ruffled Arabian Curtains of Bobi- net, 31a yards long, lace trimmed; regularly sold for $3.50, S2.e5
 Irish Point Curtains, 31s yards long, heavily appliqued; beautiful patterns; regularly sold for $750; the D air, S5.e5
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Silk Shirt Waist
 Suits At Very Prices.

S15.oo, WORTH s22.5o-Shirt Waist Suit made of elegant qual- fly of all silk Foulard, black or navy grounds, polka dots or small figures or white; waist tucked and fsggotting, lace turnover collar; skirt full flare, tucked over hips, panel front, trimmed with faggot- lae; very stylish.
 $17.5o, WORTH s25.oo-Same quality as above, but beautifully trimmed in heavy linen lace, both waist and skirt.
 Others at $22.50 to S37.5o.
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$1s.75, WORTH s25.oo.

$1s.75, WORTH $25.oo.
 Suit of Unfinished Worsted, light weight; color, black or navy; collarless coat, postillion back, blouse front, silk lapel finished with silk braids, skirt trimmed with taffeta silk folds and new flare.
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Three New Skirts
 at Special Prices

Very styles, entirely and exclusive to our Skirt Department.
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Our Curtain Offer...
 Second Week.

Poles and Fixtures with every pair Lace Curtains
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36-ineh, wear guaranteed, ssc
 Fancy Taffeta Silks, for shirt waist suits, soft finish, 20-inch, new styles, $1.0o Fancy Taffetas, 27-lnch, new de- signs, soft; will not crush, $1.25.
 Grenadines 45-inch, black, all
 silk, fine meshes, $1.oo
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New Belts.

Pretty and exclusive styles, just received, elegant and refined styles, 25c to $4. 50 each.
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4S-ineh; soc quality, 39e
 Wash Chiffon, extra sheer, 48- inch 45c quality, 35c
 Plain Swiss Mulls, 40-inch; 55c quality, 2oe
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India Linon, very sheer; 12kc quality, 1oc
 Persian Lawn, extra sheer; 200 quality, 15c
 French Nainsook, extra sheer,