The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
FOR THE ST. LOUIS BUILDING
THE COMMISSIONERS HAVE
AWARDED THE CONTRACT.

The Cost of the Georgia Building mt
the Exposition, 1t Is Estimated,
VIII Be About 17,5OO-The Conn
missiOners Have Raised $4,000.
Politicians Are beginning to
Gather for the Meeting of the Ex-
ecutiVe Committee.
Atlanta, Feb. 27.-After spending
the entire day in going over plans and
estimates, the Georgia Commission for
the st. Louis Exposition tonight
awarded the building contract to
James L. Brown & Co. of ST. Louis.
Under the agreement the building is to
be constructed entirely of Georgia ma
terial, and is to be ready by April 80
for the opening of the exposition The
cost of the building, including the ma
terial and furnishings. it is estimated,
will be about $175OO of which the COM
mission has succeeded in raising $15,-
900. The building will be a repro
duction Of Sutherland" the home of
the late Gen. John B. Gordon, and will
be on the same scale.
Are to Boom Hearst.
Already the clans are gathering for
the meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee at the Piedmont
Hotel here Monday morning. Several
Georgia politicians are here talking
things over, and others are on the
way.
All indications point to an early pri-
mary the latter part of April or the
first. Of May and a convention early in
June. Everybody seems to want an
early primary, and there is little
doubt that it will be set earlier than
ever before. Candidates for several
positions have already arrived, and po-
litical small talk fills the air.
Congressman Griggs will be here to-
morrow, accompanied by Max Ihmsen,
William r. Hearst's manager, and it
is said they are going to give the
Hearst boom a shove along. Hon. O.
B. Stevens, Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, is devoting himself earnestly to
the cause of Mr.. Hearst, and it is said
an effort is being made to send to st.
Louis delegates with strong Hearst
sympathies.
Looks for a Fine Peach Crop.
Former State Entomologist w. M.
Scott was in the city to-day, having
just returned from the Fort Valley
peach district. AS the representative
of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture,
Mr.. Scott is in Georgia, studying the
brown rot and other diseases of
peaches. Speaking of the peach crop,
he said:
THE liberia buds are just beginning
to open, showing now a little of the
pink. Frost would not hurt them, but
a heavy freeze would. The present
weather is calculated to hold back the
crop, and with favorable weather from
now on there is every indication that
Georgia will have a magnificent crop
of peaches"
GOree Backs Out.
c. P. Goree, a lawyer of this city
and a well-known Republican, has
written a letter to Chairman H. d.
Bush of the Republican Executive
Committee of the Fifth Congressional
district, declining to make the race for
Congress against Congressman L. F.
Livingston. His action comes as a sur
prise, and the committee is in a guam
dairy as to what to do. 1t is not
thought another candidate will be put
out.
From Philippines to Wed.
DR.. Isadore Mack Unger of the
United States army arrived here yes
terday from the Philippines for the
purpose of wedding this morning Miss
Helen G. Bennett of Harrisburg, Pa,
a celebrated violinist, who had an en-
gagement to play here. The wedding
took place at II o'clock. 1t was the
elimination of a love affair that began
years ago at Wellboro, Pa, when the
two were playmates together. They
had been separated more than four
until xypGfnrdaU