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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-03

clared, with admiration, that it is the
first of its class i'm the world" Unlike
most other military schools. West
Point has no aristocratic class of
cadets. Gen. u. 5. Grants son and
Gen. Phil Sheridan's son, and Lieut..
Gen. Chaffee's son. all were placed on
the same footing with the poorest and
humblest mans son who was in their
class. From the day the student en-
ters, his social past becomes blank"
says the writer above quoted. And
THIS rule applies as well to the cadet
who has had no social life" but has
been a poor boy in an humble home.
Gen. Phil Fl. Sheridan, full general
and commander of the u. S. A.. was
such boy, and Lieut.. Gen. Thomas ].
C'StonewalID Jackson, c. S. A., was
another, in fact so poor that he had
to walk to Washington, d. c.. from his
humble home in Virginia, where, being
an orphan, he was working for his un-
Gle. President John Tyler was moved
by the poor boys earnest appeal and
gave him a cadetship.
This is the season for a big crop ~
degrees from colleges and the M. A.
and 3. A. and ID. ID. and LII. d. are
CONSPICUOUS in newspapers. notice.
however that the common error l.. l..
ID. prevails, like attorney generals.
The Rev. Alexander w. Bealer of
Townsville, an old newspaper man.
has given this matter Of titles a ~red
hot roast" 1t is true, as he claims
that they are not only "overworked."
but degraded to a low level" espe-
cially the titles of professor captain
and colonel. OF the Governors small
army of colonel he has some very sharp
things to say and he says them bold
~ without fear or favor. No wonder
some men refuse the title of d. d. and
LII. d.. while others decline to use
the prefix OF Prof. or Col. The world
is full of little men with big titles and
big men without titles. An old Metho-
dist preacher In New York state a
friend Of mine, faithful, earnest and
beloved, was made a u. d.. although
sadly uneducated. II made him a
subject of ridicule. and he told me,
with tears i'm his eyes, what an in
jury 1t had done him. His title Of
Father" Fillmore was deserved and
appropriate, but as Or" Fillmore he
was a "pious fraud" 1 know some
thing about titles. as | have ten dis
tinct and bona fide titles, in addition to
some thirty commissions as colonel and
several as brigadier and major gem
eral. And yet / prefer the humber
and more select title Of major The IL
ties Of captain and colonel have become
ridiculous, and now President Roose-
welt has turned loose some 200 new
yenerals-more than were ever COM
missioned by all the Presidents COM
bined, Of the United States. that have
preceded him. That title, as Rev
Alexander W. Bealer says. Is in dan
ger Of being "overworked" like the
others. Sidney Herbert,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-03

Der 1 wanted a shine on my shoes as
we'll as shave on my face; also
that / wanted a manicure. AS is Gus
tomary in New York, the barber set
shoeshiner at my shoes while was
in the BARRIERS chair being lathered. A
moment later, though, when a mani
cure girl sat down by the side of the
chair and began to work away at my
left hand 1 was startled; we have never
rushed things that way in little old
New York. I didn't say a word, of
course, it wouldn't do to let on that l
was amazed, but when another man.
icure girl began at the other hand |
had to speak. Four people were max
ing me clean and beautiful at once
one barber, one shoe-polisher and two
manicures. The barber assured me
that in Chicago, where folks were real
ly in the habit of rushing things, the
quadruplex operations which l was un-
dergoing were by no means out Of the
ordinary" Duane.
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Schley, of Savannah, of the Engineer
Corps, is promoted to a first lieutenancy.
This is rapid promotion for a graduate
of only last year. Capt j. r.
Lindsey of the Fifteenth, u S. Cavai-
ry at Fort Ethan Allen, Va, is with
his bride on a two months leave, at the
Windsor Hotel in the Adirondacks. He
is son of Georgias Pension Commits
sioner. First Lieutenant Earl L
Brown (Georgian) is relieved from
duty under Col. Stickney and ordered
TO Washington Barracks to the COM
mand of the Second Battalion of En-
gineers Second Lieutenant Troup
I Miller (of Macon), Seventh Cavalry
has a months leave of absence.
Maj j. b. Erwin (of Savannah), Ninth
Cavalry, also has a months leave Of
absence with probable extension of a
month. Second Lieutenant Ran
dolph Ridgely, Jr., of the Revenue
Service, is ordered to the Cutter Rush.
Applicants to the number of 32S
have been examined for admission TO
the U. S. Naval Academy during the
past ten days.
1.-THE Story OF the Declaration Of In
dependence" by Henry Mann, and
The History Of Our Flag" by John
Quincy Adams, of Philadelphia, is
very handsome souvenir booklet sent
out by the Christian Herald of New
York. 1t contains a facsimile of the
Declaration as at first prepared by
Jefferson, which shows the many
changes made in the document before
its final adoption. Nor was that ac-
tion unanimous, as on July /, 1776, only /
nine colonies voted to adopt it, and !
on the next day, New York was ST.
lent when the final vote was taken, ION |
account of the absence of instruc- /
tions." Pennsylvania stood four against |
and three for Independence, but two |
delegates absented themselves, so the /
vote stood three for independence and |
two against IL. Delaware stood a /
tie I'm the absence Of Gen. Rodney, who |
got there by a famous ride and voted .
with Mexican for the Declaration. !
while Read voted against it. as did
delegates from other colonies, who did |
not think the time had fully arrived
for separation from the mother coun-
try. Excellent pictures are given of |
the signers, including Hall, Walton and
Gwinnett, OF Georgia. The COPY en-
crossed on parchment was signed on
Aug. 2, but Matthew Thornton, newly
elected delegate from New Hampshire,
was permitted to add his signature as
late as November.
Having often referred to West Point
Military Academy as the best regulated
In the word, and at turning out the
most completely trained and educated
soldiers, let me add the testimony OF
a recent magazine writer. who says:
AS a military college Il is unique
among its kind, and all experts. includ-
ing officers representing the English,
French and German armies, have de-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-03
A Paradise for Mnnicurists.

But the greatest amount of admira-
ton is bestowed upon Chicago by New
Workers with reference to its manicur-
ing methods.
You should understand" says
New Yorker who was in Chicago con-
vention week, that it is so Internally
smudgy and dirty in Chicago that you
can keep your hands in presentable
shape there only by washing them ev-
cry half hour or by wearing glove all
the time. And, of course, you can't
wear gloves on a hot day and be COM
Portable. The result is not only that
your hands are grimy good part of
each day, but your finger nails are
sure to be in mourning at least half
the time unless you patroniZe the
manicures extensively, which means
extensively, of course.
owing to this circumstance Chicago
is a paradise for manicures. Almost
every barber shop has one, and in
some shops there are three or four or
half a dozen, and they are busy con-
stantly. l get my hands fixed up by
a professional only once week in
New York; l can keep my nails in
good shape myself the rest of the time.
In Chicago, though, 1 had to be mani
cured often as I was shaved.
MY first manicuring experience in
Chicago was a sumner. l told the bar
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-03

Confederate generals were present at
the Nashville reunion. Lieut. Gen. S.
d. Lee was COMMUNICATIVE chief and
Brig. Gems. Evans and Cabell COM
manded two departments, and Maj.
Gen. Churchill and Brig. Gems. G. w.
Gordon and Harrison commanded di-
Visions while Brig. Gen. II. r. Lyon
commanded a detachment of Forrest s.
cavalry. Lieut.. Gems. Stewart, Buck
ner and Wheeler and Maj. Gen. Fitz
Lee were expected as honored guests,
but failed to show up. Stewart was
sick and Wheeler and Lee busy, but
Buckner and wife started, and may
have gotten there, but / have seen no
notice of their arrival. Maj. Gen. S.
G. French, G. S. A., only distinguished
survivor of Gen. Grants class of 1843,
at West Point, was there from Pensa-
cola, Fla. Also Brig. Gen. Gabriel c.
Wharton of Virginia. When Hon. John
ii. Reagan, eX-Postmaster General Of
the Confederacy, who has had a good
public office for years past, says he
was too poor to go to Nashville, 1t
is easy to excuse many old Confeder-
ate generals, less fortunate, on the
same ground.
notice of the new Life and Times
OF Andrew Jackson" by Col. A. s.
Colyar Of Nashville, Tenn. calls it the
best Since the eulogistic effort of
Thomas Eaton. in 1915" / never heard
of this book before, but / have a copy
of The Life of Maj. Gen. Andrew
Jackson" etc, by United States Sena-
tor John Henry Eaton, and published
in 1928. Nothing could be more "eulo-
CYSTIC" than Gen. Eatons biography,
which covers the Seminole War I'm
Florida and Jackson's part i'm the "ces-
sion and government Of Florida"
/ have several letters this
week that must be held over, one from
Col w. p. Price of Dahlonega, Ga,
who shot my horse from under me at
Bull Run, after having been In the
night against me at Blackburn's
Ford. on July 1S 1851, where I was
wounded for life. And now he wants
me to go to Manassas with him and
help show Gen. Corbin how we aft
and fought" there over forty years
ago. l would like to go and take Col
j. II. Estill and J. J. Griffin along to
show me how they skipped" away
from me at Bull Run when / had them
as prisoners. But poor Griffin Is dead,
ana ] am not able TO make the trip.
All! what sad memories Col. Prices
letter calls up. And what wonderful
changes-Price and Estlll among my
dearest friends for thirty years past.
The American Boy OF Detroit Mich,
TOT July r. a splendid Issue and con-
tains No Of the series OF illustrated
articles on Camps and Campaigns OF
Washington" and a spirited sketch of
Gen. Caesar Rodney's famous ride to
Philadelphia 10 vote for and sign the
Declaration OF Independence. AZ two
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SUMMER LIFE IN THE
GREAT METROPOLIS
New Workers. Preparing for Record Breaking
Celebration of the Fourth"

New York. July 2.-If the advertise
ments in the daily papers and the
stocks that are carried in all the am
munttion stores are any indication New
York is preparing for a riot of fire
works. The police have "loosened up"
and firecrackers have been banging
away for ten days past. All the news
papers are carrying big two-column
advertisements of sporting goods
houses, headed with invitations like
Bang Away! Bang Away" and the
leading items in all these advertise
ments are not sky rockets and paper
torpedoes, but big 30 and 3S calibre re-
volvers and cannons to hold ten and
twelve-gauge shells.
Some ingenious encourager of mu-
tilation and sudden death has thrown
huge stocks of old cartridges fitted for
the ancient Burnside and Spencer car
bines of the Civil War, at the low cost
of 1 cent per cartridge. The windows
are full of shotguns cut down from
old carbines and warranted to Stay.
1t looks as if peace-loving and timid
citizens would better escape to the
mountains or get out to sea beyond the
three-mile zone.
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New York is talking a good bit
about the dangers of excursion boats
just now, but in all other fields it con-
tinues as cheerfully reckless as ever.
The big suspension bridge continues
to carry over-loads, and nobody who
crosses it gives the matter a thought.
The most remarkable instances of
reckIessness may be sen on Sunday
on the water around New York. From
the Spuyten DuyviI Creek to Sandy
Hook, more than a hundred square
miles of water are covered on that day
with amateur sailors, who go out in
everything from d home made canvas
canoe to a siXty-foot schooner. Not
one out of a dozen of them knows
anything about handling a boat either
under oars or sail. Not more than four
out of d dozen, according to the fig
ures given to me by a life-saver, know
how to swim.
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seasbore Hotels Hard Hit.

The cool weather has hit the big sea-
shore hotels hard. At this time of the
year it usually is a case of buying the
waiter" at such hotels as the Manhat-
tan Beach, the Brighton or others near
the city. Often there will not be a
table without a party of people who
stand near it waiting for their turn to
sit down. But during the past two
weeks the process of dining at any of
these places was a luxury that made
many an old New Yorker hug himself
with a new delight; the walters huT-
ried to serve one, and the dinner ar
rived in double-quick time after it
was order. Guests were spied afar
off and treated to an almost fearful
welcome.
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he rises far beyond the "slings and
arrows" of such editors as the Miner
class is known to be.
Some months ago. retired captain
Of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry of
Savannah gave me up the country"
because l referred to the Oglethorpe
Light Infantry OF Augusta, the right
name OF which is simply the "Ogle-
thorpe Infantry" Later on l gave sew
eral instances where the Augusta pa
pers had misled me. Now, on June %,
the present month, the Augusta
Chronicle copies an item from the
Charleston News and Courier about
the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Au-
gusta's crack military organization"
Like Lees sword and the Appomattox
apple tree, this error seems to possess
perpetual motion, as 1t keeps a-going
When Conkling nominated Grant for
President he said he hailed from APP
pomattox and the famous apple tree.
And yet. Grant never saw the apple
tree. Lee sat under its shade awhile.
and when he left IL TO meet Grant at
the Mclean house. so Gen. r. p. Alex
ander says, the Confederates cut that
tree up and carried the pieces OFF as
souvenirs so quick that he was never
able 70 get piece as big as a pipe
stem.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-03
Marine Accidents Litt1e Noticed.

Capesizings and other marine acct
dents are so common that the news
papers of the town do not bother to
print them unless there is a loss of
life, and then the stories get only a
paragraph if there are no unusual"
circumstances surrounding them.
Last Sunday l saw five men and a
boy in a flat-bottomed skiff that was
built to hold three in calm water, try
ing to land on the shore beyond the
Manhattan Beach Hotel. A smart
surf was summing, and number of
baymen started toward the scene ex-
pecting to be needed for rescue. The
skiff came in over the outer rollers,
waved and tumbled about. The oars
men ceased rowing and let her drift
broadside on, and everybody cried
There she goes!" But she didn't GO
Dumb luck sighed a bayman when
the skiff tumbled safe and sound into
the peach, splitting her occupants into a
spot where the water only soused
them.
IF professionals in a lifeboat had
tried to run that surf that way" said
the Disguised caretaker of the life
saving station, they would have been
captized like a shot. But let fool
try it and he gets away with it,"
The five men and the boy didn't
even know that anything out of the
ordinary had happened.
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of the Delaware delegates were a tie,
in his absence it was necessary for him
to git thar" as Sam Jones says, and
break the tie in favor of independence
Rodney's ride of over eighty miles
forms companion picture for that of
Paul Revere, although the latter is
better known and more famous. >
The United Confederate Veterans
convention at Nashville sat down"
with bang on any attempt TO shelve
the old negro song of Dixie" in favor
of any new version, however patriotic
and refined. But Rev. DIR. NJ. b.
Wharton of Eufaula, Ala, my old
Baptist friend, has since launched a
modern version which he thinks much
more appropriate He says of Dixie"
as Dan Emmett wrote it and the South
sings it: "Of all silly, meaningless
inappropriate words for national air
there can be nothing worse" Well,
well, my dear doctor, when you per-
suade the people to abandon Home,
Sweet Home" and my Country It's
of Thee" and Yankee Doodle" and
Dixie" because they have no merit
at literary productions, the sun will
shine at night and the moon by day,
and water run up hill
Miss Helen Miller Gould last Sat
urday afternoon, gave a lawn fete at
Lyndhurst, her beautiful country seat
on the Hudson river which was at
tended by some two or more thousands
of visitors, including many Of New
York's -Four Hundred" Mrs. Russell
Sage and other prominent ladies assist
ed Miss Gould in receiving. Gen. Joe
Wheeler, u. S. A. (retlred), and Rear
Admiral Frederick Rodgers. u. S. N,
were specially invited guests. The
fete was for the benefit of the Y NJ
G. A. work in the army and navy,
and "A large sum was taken in for that
noble purpose Soldiers and sailors,
as we'll as officers, were in attendance
from the Brooklyn navy yard and
from Governors Island and Forts Slo-
cum and Schuyler the marine band fur
nlshing the music. While her sister
Anna, the Countess, is wasting her
wealth on a trifiing husband In France,
Miss Helen Gould is constantly engage
ed I'm some noble scheme to relieve
human suffering cheer the respondent,
and help on some worthy moral, reli-
gious, patriotic or benevolent enter
prise. All ages. all classes. all colors.
all sects are objects of her unselfish
and unwearied labors. There Is no
woman living, ! think. who makes so
many homes and hearts happier.
The assignments OF this years gradu-
ates az West Point have been made.
A
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The Chicagoan Something of
TaII<er.

For instance when the New Yorker
in Chicago begins to talk big words
about the $50,00O,000 or $50, 100000
through with such infinite labor and
trouble the Chicago man, sometimes
with an air of great superiority and
sometimes in mock humility, will eX-
plain that he has heard all about the
New York subway, and thinks it one
of the wonders of the age and the
world.
But, he will ask. has the New York
man ever heard about the subways
of Chicago? No, the New Yorker
never has. Then the Chicago man
will weave the most remarkable I'M
derground railroad romance that NOR
tai ears We're ever treated to. He will
tell of eighteen miles of completed
subway, ramfying under many of the
city's most important streets; all built
without disturbing a foot of street
surface, and, indeed, actually without
the knowledge of either the people or
the Mayor of the city until more than
ten miles of the subways were COM
pleted.
If the New Yorker is skeptical, it
is easy for the Chicago man to prove
his story by showing the subways and
the files of the Chicago papers. That
the subways are for freight traffic
only, and not for passenger trains
detracts not at all from the wonder
of their secret construction, and the
New Yorker always has to yield the
point of admiration after he has view
ed them.
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There Is one full general three lieu
tenant generals and a car load OF major
and brigadier generals officially cor
nected with the United Confederate
Veterans, and yet less than a dozen
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several hundred men are earning a
fine living out of them.
The New Workers. Idea of Chicago.
A few of the New Workers who
went to Chicago to attend the Nation
al Republican Convention were back
in town Il week ago, but most of them
were not to be seen in the places which
they generally frequent until the early
days of this week. Since then some
of them have had a good deal to say
of their experiences in the big middle
West metropolis.
1t is a curious characteristic of "the
real New Yorker" who has never been
in Chicago or has not visited it lately,
that he expects to see there exactly
those things that cannot be found
within its borders. He knows it is a
big city, but he doesn't really and
truly sense the truth" in the least, and
the town itself. when he gets there,
simply stuns him.
He has heard New York abused be-
cause of its Astounding and diversified
noises, so long that his ear expects to
hear a mass of comparative silence"
wherever else he may go. When he
gets to Chicago he finds that it pos
sesses sounds in quite as great diver
sity and of quite as much intensity as
those which torture the atmosphere
and the ear in New York itself.
He has somehow come to believe that
in style and dash and intelligence the
women to be seen in New York sur
pass the women of all other parts of
the United States. When he gets TO
Chicago he discovers that he has been
thinking not of the New York woman,
but of the women of the whole coun-
try; at all events. he finds in Chicago
all the types which have been familiar
to him here.
Whether a lifelong resident here or
an immigrant of more or less standing,
the New Yorker is pretty sure to be-
lieVe that New Workers really do hus-
tie harder than the people of any other
town. When he gets to Chicago he
finds that something's dom " there
fully as often as in this town.
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New YorI<'s Crowded Harbor.

1t is a pity to have to say it, but
the time is coming when it will be al
most impossible to do any pleasure
sailing, except on craft of some size,
In the immediate harbor of New York
at all.
1t is probable indeed that the lower
pay will never become quite so crowd
ed as to drive the small boats off its
surface, but the upper bay is bound to
become more and more dangerous ev-
cry year The North river is already
almost out of it below Forty-second
street especially by reason of the con-
stantly passing and repassing ferry
ooats, while the East river is so
damned full of all sorts of steam craft
that the pleasure navigator simply
taxes his life in his hand when he
guides his frail craft over it's waters.
Besides the waters of the East river
are becoming unbearably foul. and the
combination of filth and crowdedness
must soon drive away even the rowing
crows that go out to practice in shells.
everything considered, the greatest
problem in the way with which this
city is confronted just now is the
amusement of its people. Yet owing
10 its unique surroundings the problem
mere is less complicated than in any
other city of this country.
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Dull Days for Brokers.


Wall street broker told me yes
terday that for FIVE solid days he had
not sold or bought a single share of
STOCK We are turning the corner
l mink he said. but it's a mighty
Dad corner l don't know where all
me money is. but it's somewhere for
l can lind all my one-time customers
whenever ] want them, and can see
tnelr money. They are at the race
RACKS and the sums they wager are
JUST about as big as the sums they
generally put up with my house for
idhsrglns IN better days can't un-
uerstand st."
POOR man! didn't tell him that
5St,opably the speculative public had
discovered that there was as much
, SNOW for them. and more fun in
Guessing at flesh and blood horses as
p".rs Is In guessing at paper stocks.
PSs there Is no doubt that this is SO.
~, downtown Office buildings are
tt.,. OF Offices whose doors bear the
~ cue OF News Distributing Agency"
concerning similar. These Offices are
r,,tIiPled by race track specialists who
s1ollsh daily dope" sheets. There are
.,,o,'ets OF these. and all OF them have
0usn adherents TO sell well. so that
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The assignments OF this years gradu-
ates az West Point have been made.
Albert Courtney Wimberly, Of Geor-
gia (No. so, made a good record that
put him IN the cavalry. while Joseph
Alexander Atkins. OF Atlanta. No n,
10 whom referred in previous letters.
goes TO the Sixteenth Infantry
Second Lieutenant Julian Larcomb
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several hundred men are earning a
fine living out of them.