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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Fortune is the only knocker
that man likes to see at his door
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Satan is always in sympathy
with the self-satisfied man.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

Men who imagine the world
owes them living try to collect
it a loaf at time.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11
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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-08-11

The world needs friend more
than a figure in history.
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
SUMMONING WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
By JOHN ]. CANAVAN

had been trying for weeks to serve
n summons and complaint on Commo-
dore Archibald Watt in suit for di-
vorce brought by his wife"
Whenever I went after him he sue
ceeded in avoiding me. and l could
never get near enough to him to serve
the papers. All that was necessary
was that / should place them in his
hands, or if he refused to take them,
touch him with them and drop them at
his feet.
do not know whether he was trying
to avoid me- but he succeeded very
well. whether he was or not. AT last
1 found that he was living aboard his
yacht. the America, in the North River
opposite Fort Lee, and after trying to
catch him as he came ashore, 1 one
night hired a rowboat, disguised myself
as a mechanic, and rowed out to the
ship in a thunder storm. He was not
on deck. and as 1 tied the boat up at
the gilded steps Of the beautiful craft
the watch on deck demanded sharply
what ! wanted. / told the man that
Mr.. Watts had forgotten some of his
papers at the office and that I had been
hired to bring them over.
The man told me to get away, but I
calmly climbed on deck, though the
water was running so fast about the
rowboat that 1 expected the little shell
would be swamped at any moment. The
sailors crowded around me and made so
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sort and backed away from him. The
audience held its breath
Running up TO Mrs. Carter in the
most impressive line in her role, he
thrust the paper into her unresisting
hand, and, turning, leaped over the
heads Of the orchestra into the pit
Two years ago Albert KOepping.
now in the Death House at Sing Sing
under sentence of death for the murder
Of man to whose wife he was atten-
tive, was living at Port Jervis, n. Y,
where he had successfully hid from his
young and beautiful wife. Mrs. Keep
ping had brought a suit against him
TO compel him to support her, and had
obtained a judgment against him. After
several trips in the dead OF winter /
at last located him in a boarding house.
He was working in a brewery, and as
1 did not want to hang around till day
light 1 went boldly to the house,
He sat up as 1 awoke him and
handed him the paper. He tried to
throw a lamp at me. but escaped. A
few days later he was arrested for the
murder Of the husband of his boarding
mistress.
In a suit brought against Richard
Mansfield. the actor, by the firm OF
Howe 4 Hummel, Mr. Kurtz, of that
firm 3 STAFF of servers, tried in every
way 10 reach the famous man. He sue
cessfUlly avoided him by going out the
front way with the crowd from the
Montauk Theater. by sending out some
one else disguised as himself, and by
running like the wind from the stage
entrance to the waiting carriage again
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Mr.. Mansfield was appearing as
Brutus in Julius Caesar. and as a last
resort Mr. Kurtz applied at the theater
as a super and secured a position to
appear in the rabble about the Roman
Senate. The young man could not get
serve the paper.
In the great scene where the states
men crowd around Caesar in the Sen
ate, stabbing him, the last to thrust at
him is Brutus. Mansfeld-B rutus had
barred his arm for the fatal thrust when
kurtz, despairing OF getting a better
chance, pulled the paper from his
breast, rushed into the Senate, and as
Caesar turned rcprOachfully TO Brutus.
after the latter had stabbed him and
said, Thou, too. Brutus2" Kurtz thrust
the paper into the hand of Mansfield and
fed across the stage. For a second
Brutus looked stunned. and Caesar re-
peated the exclamation by way of re-
minding him
At another time Kurtz had tried in
vain TO serve Mrs. Culver. daughter of
United States Senator Clark of Monta-
ma in the Vlasto divorce suit He could
not catch Mrs. Culver on the street, and
could not get into the house here in New
York where she was known to be stay
ing Mrs Culver gave a reception at
her home one night, and KurtZ, wearing
an immaculate dress suit and with
fs lse mdstache that disguised him and
made him look like French count. rode
up in an automobile and announced him
self as one of the guests. He was shown
in with a great deal of ceremony and
distinction. ushered into the drawing
room and presented to Mrs. Culver, upon
whom he Immediately served the pa
pers-
In the Lansdorf-Olds breach Of prom
Use suit now being fought in the United
States Court the defendant had kept
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

much noise that Commodore Watt came
up to see what it was all about And
before he could turn and go down the
companiOnway again had tapped him
on the arm with the paper. turned and
jumped over the gunwaIe into my boat
Probably my most sensational in
stance was the service made in the case
of Mrs. Leslie Carter, while she was
playing in the city of New York The
suit was brought to restrain further
performances of the play in which she
was appearing. She had successfully
evaded service Of the papers in spite Of
the heroic efforts that half a dozen
young men were making to serve her.
They had followed her carriage.
waited for her at her home and at the
theater, and had even forced their way
into her apartments, only to find that
she was not there. At last Irving Kurtz,
Of this office, a student of the New York
Law School went TO the theater and
paid an admission. In one of the boxes
near the stage sat Oscar Hammerstein.
watching the play. The box was seven
feet from the stage.
'Kurtz edged his way to the entrance
of the box, watched until Mrs. Carter
appeared upon the stage, and then
dashed in, pushed Mr.. Hammerstein
aside and vaulted over the rail to the
stage, seven feet away Mrs. Carter
looked astonished as she saw him, but
thought that ne was crank of some
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
ExGitimS Experiences Of Men Who
Try to Reach Well KNOWN People
With tine Dreaded Papers That
Hale Them to Court q q %

your business, just hustle around to the
back side Of the hotel and you'll see
your man climb down me fire escape
presently. He has been leaving the hotel
that way for days"
The deputy marshal ran around and
arrived just in time to see Mr.. Heinze,
the millionaire, who is well known in
New York and Boston, make a flying
leap from the ladder 20 a coach which
stood in the yard. The coach dashed
away and a colored servant drew up the
ladder which had extended to the ground
from the end Of a fire escape.
The deputy marshal foamed. He
caught his man that night, however,
when Mr.. Heinze, supposing that he
would be watching the fre-escape, tried
to enter the front door of the hotel.
For days up TO the eth Of February,
the tenants of the aristocratic Hamp-
ton apartment house at y East Thirty
first street were kept in a state of ter
ror over the efforts of process servers
to reach the apartments of Mrs. Fran
ces Maxwell, a handsome young woman
whose husband, Charles NJ. Maxwell
was suing her for divorce. Mrs. Max
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

himself out of reach of the process
server for some time. But the young
man, learning that he was to be mar
ried on a certain evening and securing
house and was admitted as one of the
guests.
The ceremony was passing of mar
mOniously and the minister had reached
the point where he asked il there was
any one present who knew aught why
in holy Wedlock, when kurtz stepped
forward dramatically and exclaimed
Yves. I do and presented the paper
to the groom, who was the defendant
in the breach Of promise case.
In one instance where 1 had to serve
papers the defendant had absented
himself from the State. He was at last
located IN Massachusetts, and it was
through the State OF New York.
I boarded the same train that ne did
in Boston and when he had crossed the
New York line endeavOred to serve the
paper. He saw me coming TO him
through the train, and suspecting my
life through the train, with me after
him. He. was heading for the baggage
car and as I nearly caught up with
him a brakeman slammed the door in
my face, and the man reached the car
ahead, where he wildly yanked the sig
nal rope and the train stopped.
was locked out OF the baggage car,
but hung from the steps of the car be-
hind, and when the man jumped l
jumped too, and landed almost on top
of him. Whacking him over the head
with the paper I told him that he was
the train amid the violent expostula-
tiOnS of the trainmen, who couldn Z
make up their minds who was to blame
for the hold-up Of the train.
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

well had made up her mind that she
would not be served with the papers.
and had barricaded her apartments and
laid in a store Of canned eatables.
Every day young men with the papers
made their way into the house and
pounded on the doors of the different
apartments, demanding to know where
Mrs. Maxwell was.
But on February her store of food
gave out. All day the sixth she went
without food. but at dinner time on the
seventh she became so hungry that she
The Washington times., 1904-04-10

ventured out to get her dinner, and was
Immediately surrounded by the process
servers and accepted service gracefully.
Now that is over" she said joyful
ly as she took the papers, 81 am going
over to Broadway and buy the best din
ner that New York can afford. Ny, but
I'm hungry
One Of the most successful process
servers in New York. and a young man
who has had some thrilling experiences
in the line Of his duty, is Lawyer John J.
Canavan, an associate in the office of
Howe & Hummel Of 364 Broadway.
The Washington times., 1904-04-10
THE most exciting profession Of

-HE most exciting profession Of
to-day is that Of the process
server. Beside it the calling Of
the detective, the cowboy, the
border sheriff and the lion hun
ter dwindles into insignihcance. Before
the august person Of the process server
millionaires. fire eaters, dead shots and
al sorts Of valorous persons cover and
hide away.
on March 5, for instance, a United
States Deputy Marshal. who had papers
TO serve on T. Augustus Heinze. the
copper king ana millionaire at Butte,
Mon, had stood for hours in front of
the hotel where Mr.. Heinze has apart
ments.
As Mr.. Heinze did not appear the
deputy marshal supposed he was hid
ing in his rooms. A policeman, seeing
the sentry in front of the hotel, order
cd him away.
you can't drive me away" said the
deputy. I am q process server and
have papers to serve on Mr.. Heinze
in an order from the United States Cir
cult Court Of Appeals. adjudging him
guilty Of contempt of court"
oh said the policeman, IF that is
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02

Especial to Tile Tlmes-D ispatcho
" NEWPORT NEWS. EA.,@F Feb. 1.-As-
tsislant Engineer Richardson, of.the big
Poetic Mall steamship. Mongolia, died
Richardson was stricken with Appended
tbs during the recent trial run Of the big
al.ntrs down tho coast. Upon his arrival
MT Old Point an operation was, performed,
bus it was too late to save his life.
SORFOLI<. VA.--Rev. lJr.5N W. NJ. vines
Church, the richest Baptist congregation
here when Rev pr, ]. J. Taylor leaves
I for Kentucky. 1t is understood that ne
u I,iyTENsB G'RG, vA.--rhe city engineer
Tonight called the attention. Of tho Coun-
to impound a vast body Of water above
the city. The matter was referred to the
Street Committee.
ROANOKE. VA.-Norfolk and Western
afternoon from the ters and was, was badly y
Dq hL Wfyo g RibG ;E'sn'SS A1Warrep the
srWclve-year-old son Of Thomas Giles, had
his foot severed by a frelght train here
thtse morning.
AORFOL LIZ, yA.-Norfolk merchants
may enterSthe lighting business. The Re-
tail Association has appointed a commit
TED to Investigate the matter or cost, and
IL rates Of existing companies are deemed
Pa9t y IF s. GiS
bons Camp Confederate Veterans met to-
day and passed suitable resolutions on
tito deaths OF Generals Longstreet and
Gordon. The sodlerly qualities OF each
were laudcd by the resolutions and ~
4 NGtjRFoLK VA.~The Norfolk Medical
Society has started criminal proceedings
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02
The BRIDES } / / !. /: : J:
QUITE. YOUNG ] \ \. G.
Two Couples From lDa an &.
Seek Gretna Green at P7'cl--4i
ham and Arc Married.
DRIVE THE WHOLE & D STAN :E5.
Early Start Made and I,oon11esi
Was Reached lin Time for n. n
Wedding Dinner. s3ss5
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Especial to The Times Dis patcl1 .)
DANvILLE, VA, Feb. 1.-Two rom ans
tic marriages we're solon,nlzedH at tho /
Pelham Gretna Green yesterday N ornln 81
Tic ntrncting parties In both ins tanc ssa
being Danvllle people. ~ s3 b q Sy VA
Miss Monte NIyas,s daughter Of A IA na Y
Mrs. William NJ vas, became Tho o. de Of A
Mr.. Nathaniel Travis, and Miss Lucy
rarpley, daughter Of MI. and NJ rs.5s@NYiill
liam Tarplcy, OF Vance. va ma rrls tsij l
to Mi. Elisha Day. r. he rides who az are 4
quite young, are said to have been forced (
to run away to be married on account or Y
PARENTAL objections. The young people
a lett the city in buggies, travelling across
tho country In very cold weat her. They
arrived at their destination and weia (
married in$the morning, returning TO the ll.
city In time for dinner whic wa s. served
at the Myas home. NJ gs} n Z. i3sS a .$
Tie Tobacco Board OF Trade has issued ~ /
4 q call for meeting Of the merchant 60
fand business men OF the city to he h 'Islt
$in5 the library room at thes Mas onic Tenn
#plc to -morrow d fternoon. Il Is IN derstcld3g
that The object OF the meeting Is to diss1
c,lssi a proposition looking to the devol.&
opment and business interest Of tho g ty..s
and particularly to the question OF rellev ~,
\ ing the situation. on Che tobacco market
which has been fostered and superlndulce g g J
Il by tho prevailing low prices Of tho S&Weeue.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02
TANGLED GAME OF FATE.
The Faculty at Hollins Give
Their Annual PLAY. 553.
Especial to The Tlmes-Dispatc

HoLLINs, VA, Fob. An event in
the Hollins life, always looked forward
to with great interest, is the Faculty
Play This play took place to- night$ln
the Institute Chapel. ls'..k Tangled Game
,of Fa to-. {adapted) comedy. in five acts.
Ii The leading roles were retained by
Prof. Mack, Mr.. u a. Turner Prot. Bruno
Miclnaelis Prof. f. a. Cummings. Miss
Mary Williamson. Miss Elizabeth II.
Frost and Miss Alice B. Dagger.
Mr.. Turner and Miss Frost in this his
scene, as well as all through. the play y
acted their parts most admirably Mr.:
Turner and Prof. Mack have delighted
Holllns audiences before on the boards r.
and were at their best tonight. MISS
Williamson and Miss Frost and Miss pa "a =
ger thoroughly succeeded in captivating
the audience by the spirited and clever
way in which they sustained tne.r, ~ re-
snectlye roles. Prof. Cummings appear.
ed last night on the boards for the h NJ 81
time. but no one would have guessed 7s h,hl
~. +.Iant All the other actors did well.
a most enjoyable evening was had.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02
q Danville Tobacco Sales.
ffSnecial ia 3'rlc 4Times- cfl

Especial to The Times-Dispatch)
HI GRANVILLE. vA..S Feb 1.--1nsspite OF
thesvery roug h weather tho tobacco tsa les
drlIng the pas week were VERY: lnrg g ~,
tho local market, Indeed.@t are re
ported to have been larger than at any
The offerings have consisted OF old belt
tobacco, brought to the city BY wagons.
The quality Of the offerings is fairly good,
Bit Is 1t mostly OF medium grades How
up. Wrappers. which are slow@to show
up. arc In good demand. his Is espe cial-
lystrue of2the hrights and dark mahoga-
ana mort grades show an increase over
last weeks prices. Tho heavy storm OF
this week is expected to curtail the re-
ccipts considerably during The one coming,
but as soon as the weather opens and is
suitable for the proper handling of the
weea continued large sales are expected.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02

&&,ihless II Should melt by tomorrow the
only thing that Will save many Of the
yblrds Will be for the farmers stqsf ICED g
them i&ss.i X, 81 !, r. i. 4,
FSsLucNly. the snow can,c late:5il1 tho
month as Quantities Of game would have Y
been Killed by pot-bunters y they could t'Llt
have sosl them Il, I. Il u Il
a The snow ID not without It's pleasures
TO Tho country peopr. however, and
sleigh bells can be heard Oh all sl Z. :
Eas tho gay riders 20 3nierrly by Inc The
cold weather will cause the % r1 1.: TO
hold bac OK much Of their tobacco, the
tnnost of which. has is.en taken down VI aud
stripped. NearlYalso f the liIg hest prices
paid for sunt,ired tobacco on, the leich.
6mond 9 market have Y beer received q ny
Hanover farmers who are hlg hly. r li4 r..
and next spring tlsoy will not fall TO 4i,nd
3titne 10 burn tfnir, plant beds or!nnothcr
mr. i5
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02

; ~
came right up the coast at full speed,
despite storms and fogs, ind while she
found the weather off Cape IIAtteras
very disagreeable, h she succeeded In maxi
lng port without danger ajs N; ~
,hdAYFLOWEIs IN STORM. .f
The DIayflower Is Just from Colon, Pan
anna, where she has been protecting
American interests. She acted as the
flagship OF the Caribbean Sea Squadron,
3mander-in-chlef, until tho arrival at
Colon OF the cruiser Olympia, the reg-j
ular flagship OF sthe squadron. .s.
" ORTOLK5 COUNTY CIRCUIT.
B The first term ofathe Norfolk County
Circuit Court, now a part OF the First
Judicial District, was convened by. Judge
William N. Portlock this morning.
Various attorneys at law qualified
10 practice. Tho judge announced that
June, October and December as the times
for holding the quarterly sessions Of
the court. & IA yf
Tho first important case to be tried
By the new court was that OF c. g.;
Walker. charged with the murder OF
John G. Bland, on & August 9th. last
This Is one Of the indictment It's carried
over from the County Court
The libel suit for $1,000. brought by
Colonel $AleSandert Al. tftlBSiIS, scoiiliEdlIu-
Ing officer OF the Seventy-first Virginia
Regiment. rea; estate dealer and mems
ber Of the Council, against the Virginian-
Pilot publishing Company, was begun to-
day in the Court Of Law and Chancery.
He claims to have been prosecuted for
his action in police matters as a mem
Der OF the Council. 81 II s35a5
The newspaper claimed hat she re-
ceIve money and contraot from the
city while a coun cilman contrary to
law .iss
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-02
HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY
ALL OVER VIRGINIA

AGAINST .'ouaclss,' and 1.-Two OF them were
indicted by the grand july ms au sq n.
n,s,ritIi TO secure convictions ~
'l law EAThs ,,nd Sss
tcr,u of BRUNSWICK C9u adtyne Goe snturday,
W XVI and Roger Gillian, colored. we're
sentenced to the penitantiary for thre re-,
years each. The first ;srnl Of TIE new lew
ccSri Y! esEln q tae tTssd us
out from Roanoke SATURDAY a I pu pnes,a
in this paper was exactly the opposdl as
Of truth. Judge Robert g. jackson aenle is1
~, PEOPLES murder case, and thus refused
t. hear argument on q motion for a new
trail for the condemned man. ,,.,...
RocY o noUNr VA g. Morgan on Wss
t Grown from his buggy ana seriously
injured near here Saturday while return,
iins IRON, a business trip through the
''' KoA ssstli; -John a. MeNu tt
down by n shifting engine IN tAe 51ue-
reid yards late Saturday night ana IN,
staatly killed, He was vas Y years old ana
WIS WIN | HEsTDR. v.A,--At Berryvllle Sat
uray afternoon the board OF county su-
pe,yisors awarded the contract for me
auross the Shenandoah River to- the
Nelson & Buchanan Company, Or tSnam-
borsburg, Pa, The bid was $4,000 for the
Two bridges. sE
raEeous cases OF shangnalng, which has
cone 10 the Federal authorities IN many
yfars is that OF Clarence Walton, u
ii,ysar-old eololed boy, who has !, !. been e.
Isnced at Odessa. Russia, by the British
steamship Straits of Dover Walton was
nj, ashore without q, cent and told ms
wages had been paid here. Walton came
from North Carolina to work after the
death of his father. 1t Ia said he was
met met here BY a runner for q sailors board ard
Ing house and promised a Job on q river
STEAMER. lnstead the boy was put on the
Sttuits of Dover, and Is now frlendless
and penilcss across the sea,
NORFOLk yA,-The tug Nettie OF the
Lamb Transportation Company, has mr.
rlvec. here With the barge sallie, loaded
with $1,000 pounds of government poWder.
Lhc expedition had thrilling time IN
the ice In the Potoniac and IN Ehesa-
peake Bay. The government. tugs had to
Gu. d way for the barge IN the MattaWo.
man Greek. where the powder was loaded
al The MAYA! proving grounds, All down
tina river and bay the tug and barge
encountered tina ice, aud no 1arr'rig the
barge receiHei, made the trip q hazardous
one. Wit such 9 iargo quantity of 5e1plo.
size apoH1 X ..5 S. i8ss u