The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-28
SCHOONER Is LAUNCHED
THE LARGEST EVER BUILT ON THE
GULF COAST.
The General whiting" Slips Into the
Waters and Marks New Era
I'm the Development of Ala
bama's Sea Port.
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau,
Mobile, July q.
Promptly at 3 o'clock this afternoon,
when whistles were blowing and flags
flying, an event took place at Pinto
Island. across the river from Mobile. |
indicative of a new era in this. city.
A schooner, the largest sailing vessel
ever built on the gulf coast. was
launched and as the shapely hull slid
down the ways into the water, charm
ing Miss Newberry, daughterSof well
known sea captain, broke the CUSTOM
airy bottle of wine over the Prov and
christened the new craft General
Whiting" after one of Mobiles most |
popular citizens and bank presidents. |
On the deck We're many prominent |
Mobilians, including a number OF Ia |
dies.
The schooner. which is the largest |
sailing craft ever built in this port, is |
the work of the Olilnger- Bruce Com |
pany. The vessel is being built for the
Mahogany Lumber and Transportation
Company of Mobile. Her measure
ments are 157 feet inches over all,
80 feet 8 inches breadth of BEAM and
10 feet l inch depth of hold.
Her tonnage. when completed, will
be registered 500 on 10 IL feet of wa
ter. The vessel is to be equipped with
hogany logs, lumber and freight She
will enter the Mexican trade.
Sheriff Powers this. morning conferr-
ed a great favor on the many county
officials in issuing certain order.
The mandate was that ali buns" and
| "panhandlers" who, heretofore. have
| been lying around the county court
| house. making life, to some, a burden,
/
arrested for vagrancy. The gang of
/ hangers-on have been making the
| court house their quarters for holding
| up politicians and others for small
| change and some of them growing
weary, appealed to the sheriff for re-
| lief. The relief has come, and the
hangers-on will have to look further.
Joel White Woodruff of Montgomery,
is shaking hands with friends in Mo-
| bile today.
George w. Ely, Travelling Passen-
ger Agent of the Southern Pacific, with
| headquarters in Atlanta and Mont
| somery, is in the city today, working
| up business for the grand assembly of
! Knights Templar in San Francisco.
Dave p. Burns. the local baseball
| idh' WIN Is IldTd DIT WOFk seeking
secure for Mobile place in the South
ern League the coming year, this morn
ing received a letter from w. II. Rag
land, owner of the Montgomery fran
chise. acknowledging the offer of Mr.
Burns to turn over to the Montgomery
team the ball grounds at Monroe Park
for use until the present litigation in
Montgomery is brought to an end.
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph G.. Tyrrel, died at noon today at
the family home northeast corner
| Jackson and Manassas streets.
While unloading the banana cargo
| from the steamship Gyller this after
| noon. a tarantula measuring twelve
| inches in circumference was found and
| captured. This specimen of South
American spider is more deadly than
the American RATHER.
f. l.. Russell, proprietor of a livery
| stable at Merrill. Miss, arrived in Mo-
| bile this afternoon and went at once to
police headquarters where he stated
| that two white men had bound and
| gagged him last night in his stable
and robbed him of nearly $500. The
money was in a belt around his waist
|
the men, who tallies with a man who
| committed a similar hold up in Mon
| roe county short time ago, and who
| succeeded in getting away from his
captor The two are being looked for
| here.
The death warrant for Ed Hudson,
the negro sentenced to hang Septem-
Der s, by Judge Semmes, was issued to-
| day.
At a meeting in Pythian Hall to-
night bids were opened for the con-
struction of the new temple on st.
| Francis street opposite Bienville
Square. Bidders and amounts were
Jett Brothers, $lS,57S; John McAdory,
$14,550; S. +. Dupree & Company $13,-
$40; f. E. Ward. $13,5O0. The contract
will be awarded at meeting next
week by the committee for the Pyth-
| ian Hall Association
At a meeting of the Central Trades
Council tonight officers Were elected as
follows: A. c. Shaffer (stonecutter).
| President; j. NJ. Sconyers (electricaD,
Vice-P President; NJ. H. Burlson drew
cry workers., Financial Secretary; l..
ID. Jones (pressmen's union), Conduc-
tor: Eli PASSOVER (cigar makers), war
den; ]. l.. Allabaugh { International
| Typographical Uuton), Press Reporter.
o. II. Taylor, representing the West
ern Federation from Cripple Creek was
with the Council and addressed it in
behalf of the strikers.
Mobile Society News.
The third and last bowling contest
of the Heron prize was the occasion
of an unusually enjoyable gathering at
the Country Club this evening. Eleven
contestants entered the race, spurred
on to their best endeavors by the pres
ence of a group of pretty summer girls
| who were equally lavish with their en-