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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
RAYNER ELECTED.

Annapolis. Md, February g.
Eighty-nine of the ninety dem
: ocratic members of the Maryland
; general assembly met in caucus to-
night and after parleying for more
than three hours selected lsidor
: Rayner for the United States SEN
, atorship to succeed Senator Louis
z. Comas, the present incumbent.
: At noon tomorrow Mr.. Rayner,
; well-known Baltimore city lawyer.
; who achieved an international repu-
; tation as the leading counsel for
) Admiral Schley during the naval
; court of inquiry. will be elected by
; the members OF the assem-
) bly, in Joint session ited
; States senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
Died In Texas.

Tuscaloosa, February 3.-(Special 1.-THE
many Tuscaloosa friends OF the Rev. Will
liam L. Kennedy will be panied to learn
of his death at Beaumont, Texas Mr..
Kennedy was graduated from the Uni
versity of Alabama in 1855 and was pas
tor of the Tuscaloosa Presbyterian church
from 1863 to 1870, going from here to Bir-
mingham. He has been a resident of
Texas for the past thirty years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04

to Japan. she has made all the conces-
sions compatible with dignity
Russia will declare therein, the paper
continues, that her interests in connec-
tion with the railroads, are too great
for her not to insist upon occupying a
position that will enable her to place this
costly enterprise. but she recognizes also
the right of Japan to develop, extend and
create outlets in Manchuria, as well as in
Korea
Revue Russo AYERS, are known in Toxic.
where they have created most favora-
BILE impression.
In any case. the paper concludes, Rus
sia mas decided not TO engage Japan un-
less she Is directly attacked.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
Committee Called to Meet.

Huntsville, February S.-(specia1. )-The
Eight district democratic congressional
committee has been called to meet in De-
catur on February 10 to issue call for a
congressional primary and attend to other
business The primary will be held April
II, 1t is said, on the date of the general
state primary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
FACULTY CAN MAKE
CRITICISMS WARM
Chicago Professors Allowed TO
Jump Rockefeller.
WILL NOT BE DISMISSED
President Harper Replies to Inquiries,
Saying That Members of the
Faculty Can Say What
They Please.
WILL NOT BE DISMISSED

Chicago, February 3.-Members of the
University of Chicago faculty may criti-
else at will, favorably or otherwise the ac-
tions of John d. Rockefeller, the institu-
tions most liberal benefactor, without
fear of dismissal. This announcement was
made by President Harper to the senior
class at the university today in response
to a question.
1t was asked by one student:
"Wouid any professor be dismissed for
criticising John d. Rockefeller in relation
to the Standard OH company and papio
affaiFef1
President Harper replied;
Say What They Please.
"The members of the faculty have a
right to say what they please. The uni
versity stands for free speech. No pro-
fessor has ever been dismissed for ex-
pressing his opinion on any subject When
DR.. Won Hoist was here the university
received numerous letters from all pats
of the country insisting on his dismissal
accusing him of utterng seditious senti-
ments.'
At that time the university issued a
statement that every man was entitled to
free speech. The university is above such
things as interfering with a mans right
of speech"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT.

; Chester, Pa, February 3.--An un.
; successful attempt was made to
, launch today the Savannah line
|. steamship City of Columbus at
; Roach's ship yard. The vessel
; moved eighteen inches and then
, stuck. Frosted tallow. 1t is be-
. lieved. Is responsible for the failure
; of the steamship to leave the ways.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
Sentenced to Serve Three Years.

Cleveland, O., February 3.-George
A. Ross, late cashier of the Produce
Exchange bank, who recently confessed
to embezzling 1870 OF the banks
funds, was today sentenced to serve
ten years in the penitentiary by Judge
Dissette in the criminal court.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
ENTIRE TRAIN ROLLS
DOWN EMBANKMENT
Pullman Turns Over Twice in
Its Descent.
ALL PASSENGERS INJURED
One Person Instantly Killed and Three
Fatally Injured In Disastrous
Accident on Nova Scotia
Railway.
ALL PASSENGERS INJURED

Halifax, N. S., February 3.-Two dead,
and two fatally hurt and twenty-five In
jured, is the revised casualty list in the
wreck of the Inter-Colonial express train
the five cars of which left the rails at
at Hunters Crossing, forty miles west of
this city today. and plunged down thir-
ty-foot embankment into the Spubena-
cadie river while every one of the thirty
passengers suffered more or less serious
injuries, as did the ten members of the
train crew.
The dead: Conductor Robert Duncan.
Mrs. John GlasseM TTalifax
Fatally injured: Baggagemaster ]. l..
Blair, Halifax; Armenian peddlar, un-
known.
Rolled Down Embankment.
The train was travelling forty miles an
hour. AS the curve at Hunters crossing
was reached Engineer Ross felt jolt
and looking back saw the baggage car
swerve from the rails, followed by the
coaches, and mail cars. The five cars
went over the embankment and rolled
down the river which skirts the roadbed
at this point
The Pullman turned over twice One
OF the coaches struck tree and was rip
ped open from end to end. The other
cars landed bottom up in the water.
which, fortunately, was less than two
feet.
Woman Instantly Killed.
Mrs. Classy was hurled across the
coach and instantly killed, her skull be-
ing crushed. Conductor Duncan. who
was in the baggage car, was buried under
a pile of trunks. His head was crushed,
mis- legs broken and his body cut and
bruised. Baggeman Blair had his scalp
torn off and is bleeding to death
The Armenian peddler who was riding
in one of the LAY cars, had nearly every
bone In his body broken. Car inspector
Hudd was pinned beneath the wreckage
and was only released with the aid of
jackscrews an hour after the accident of
the seriously injured, many had broken
limbs, but 1t is believed that none but
the three mentioned will die.
The accident is supposed to have re-
suited from some defect in the wheels of
one of the cars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-04
Awful Winter Conditions.

St Petersburg, February 4.-The Novce
Vremya's correspondent, who has just ar
rived at Port Arthur, telegraphs an IN
teresting description of his journey and
the awful winter conditions in Manchuria,
including AZ degrees of frost, little snow.
ar whlrlwinds sweeping clouds OF dust
aeross the yellow treeless wastes. He
says:
Crowds of wrinkled. filthy Cinnamon
assembled at the stations and among
them, like young oaks, lowered the stall
wart Russian frontier guards with pale,
energetic faces and wearing sheepskin
hats"
The correspondent found that Harbin
extended over an area as large as st.
Petersburg and hummed with life. He
expected to find busy war preparations
at Port Arthur, but instead there was NO
fever no loud talks, no hurried move
ments. but majestic Russia attending to
her sovereign's work in calm confidence
Secret Enemy Urges Japan.
The conviction prevailing was that
there would be no war which was not de-
sired, although there was ''undeniable ev-
idence that secret enemy was systemat-
ically endeavoring to hurry Japan into
hostilities.
The correspondent also says
sIf there is war. the opinion prevails
at Port Arthur that the United States,
which for years has been preparing to
monopolize the trade of the far east, will
be the gamer. The Japanese will be
food for power. Over their PROSTATE bod
les America will get foothold on the
Asiatic continent, and eventually her
millionaires will get the Chinese viceroys
under their thumbs and American ma
chinery will convert Asia into a factory
which will swamp the west with the pro-
ducts of Chinese cheap labor and be a
generator of vampire socialism"
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Take your eREAkFAsT with US.
GELpEHs, 10 10th Street.
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Continued on sixthi
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
A. C. LIS GIFT TO FATHER
OF L. A. MURRAY.
President Eryvin's Letter Commend
ing the Young Section Foreman.

The Morning News recently an
nounced the payment of $1,000 by the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
to the father of Leland A. Murray the
section master who was shot and kill
ed at Liberty City last February dur
ing the section hand strikes, as a
recognition of young Murray's faith
full services to the company
The following is the letter received
by Mr.. Murray from President Erwin.
Mr.. F. M. Murray Walthourville,
Liberty County, Georgia. Dear Sir: I
wrote you on the oath of February last
expressing sympathy with yourself and
family in the sad aff1iction which had
visited you through the death of your
son, Leland A. Murray, who was killed
on the 23rd of February. l informed
you at the same time that l would
call to the attention of our directors
at their next meeting the death of your
son, and that / was satisfied they
would, through our pension depart
ment, make an appropriation for your
benefit as a recognition of our appre-
citation of his faithfulness.
The next meeting of our board of
directors after the date of my letter to
v,
May 10, and on that occasion l inform
ed our board fully as to the circum-
stances attending the death of your
son, 1t was found that the rules of
our pension department would not adj
init of putting you on the pension roll,
and would not permit us to make the
payment of sum of money commen-
surate with the feeling of the board.
and l was, therefore, authorized and
empowered by the board to pay YOU
the sum of $1,000 as a voluntary con-
tribution of the part of this company,
and as it's expression of appreciation
of the faithfulness of your son, Leland
A. Murray.
1t gives me pleasure to hand you
with this check for $5,000 and to express
to you, in behalf Of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad Company, its feeling of
sympathy with you and your family.
and its appreciation of the faithfulness
of Leland A. Murray, who remained
steadfast at his post of duty as a sec
ton foreman during the recent strike
of some of the roadway force of our
company. Yours very truly,
r. c. Erwin. President.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
PARK AVAILABLE
FOR AUDITORIUM
THE OLD CITY POUND SITE
CAN BE USED WITHOUT ANY TROU-
BILE, SAYS THE MAYOR.

1t Was This Section of Colonial Park
That Mayor Myers Suggested
Might he Used for the Proposed
AuditOrium-Stray Animals Form
erIy ImpOunded There and II Was
Not Part of Ground Secured by
City from Christ Church Trustees.
In the opinion of Mayor Herman Ny
ers and City Attorney Garrard the city
can allow the use of the southwestern
portion of Colonial Park for an audi
forum, or for any other public pur-
pose.
There is a clause in the park con-
tract, very carefully drawn, Col. Gar
rard says, which gives the city this
right. There has never been any doubt
about the matter since the Mayor first
suggested the site. That portion of the
park was never used as a cemetery,
so far as any one now living knows.
1t was the old city lot where stray
horses and cattle were impounded
Mayor Myers, in suggesting the site,
did not intend to try to get the audi
forum put there. He was simply try
ing to help the city to get the audi
forum. He does not care whether the
auditorium goes there or somewhere
else. He simply thought that it would
be good place for it and that it could
be secured without cost, he says.
He believes the city would give the
lot, though he has no authority to say
absolutely that it would. In making
the suggestion and offering to use his
influence to get Council to allow the
use of the lot he was simply working
for the auditorium, he says.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
BROKE THE RECORD
Largest Train Ever Sent to Tybee
Pulled BY Two Engines.


Surprising by a considerable mar
gin all previous records in the picnic
line at Tybee the Knights of Columbus
yesterday had an attendance of over
$500.
The longest train ever taken to Ty-
bee went out al 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, composed of seventeen coaches, al
filled to the limit. Two engines were
required for the train. 1t is estimat-
ed that there were l, 100 persons aboard
More than 200 went out on mixed
train, which left at 1 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Two sections of the $3.50 o'clock train
were run, the first leaving at 2:15 and
carrying 500 people, and the second
carrying 700. At o'clock and o'clock
in the evening about 300 passengers
were carried. Had it not been for
the threatening weather it is estimated
that from 300 to 500 more would have
gone out in the afternoon.
Many of those who went, carried din
ner baskets, and took supper at Tybee
on the grounds. Late in the afternoon
and at night the crowds returned. the
last train leaving Tybee at midnight.
The proceeds from the sale of tickets
to the picnic. and refreshments will
go to the Orphanage of st. Mary s
Home. Last year the knights of Amer
lea cleared $500 for the same purpose
and from appearances yesterday the
Home will be benefited in larger sum
this time. 1t will be several days be-
fore the exact amount will be known.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
SLIM ATTENDANCE
CAUSED DISAPPOINTMENT.
Chairman Gardner VIII Make One
More Effort for Auditorium.

ChuiEnHh OaTuher VIII make One
More Effort for Auditorium.
Owing to the threatening weather
there was very limited attendance
yesterday afternoon at the meeting of
the Committee on Public Interest at
the Chamber of Commerce, called to
consider the question of building an au-
ditorium.
Chairman Gardner did not attempt to
hold meeting of the committee, but
stated that he would again send out
notices to the members for another
date yet to be selected. He was plain
ly disappointed at the slim attendance,
and the apparent lack of interest so
plainly evidenced by some of the men,
bers of his committee.
Il will make one more effort to get
then committee together" said Mr..
Gardner, land unless more interest is
takeh in the project 1 shall resign my
place. 1 had arranged to devote con-
siderable time to the matter this after
noon.
"Of course 1 cannot get along with
out the cooperation of the other mem
bers of the committee. l still believe
the building of the auditorium good
thing, and think I have a plan by
which it can be done, but 1 can't work
it by myself. 1 hope that l will have
a better response to the next notices
l send out"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
HOW TO GET RICH.
Lesson 3. Chapter L.

In the last chapter was told what
women had done in real estate, but all
was not told. On Thirty blank street
there are two nice houses. They are
the property of a wife of a citizen who
is fairly well-to-do in life, but he didn't
give them to her, or build them for her.
They represent her savings. When he
married, he, like all sensible husbands
should, gave his wife a weekly allow
ance for the house and her personal
expenses, and of course all she could
save was hers for keeps" He isn't
one of those fellows who makes his
wife feel mean by having to beg for
every quarter she receives from him,
and who often goes for days without a
cent of change because she is too proud
to ask for what should be hers with
out the asking. The last mentioned
facts are given parenthetically so to
better understand the subject. Doubt
less all this will be incomprehensible
to those fellows who are reasonably
just and liberal to everybody, except
their wives.
However, to resume the story: The
wife in question bought one lot and
paid part in cash and the balance in
monthly installments. Then she
thought she would like to own the ad-
joining lot and she bought that the
same way. In due time she had the
lots paid for; it then occurred to her
that it was ridiculous, IL not lunatic,
to pay taxes for the sake of owning
two vacant lots. So she plunged IN
debt again and built two houses, and
then with her savings from her house
money and personal allowance, and the
rents coming in from tenants, 1t was
not a great while before the lots and
houses were free from debt. How Is
that for a wife who is still in the bloom
o. youth?
To work out this problem It is first
necessary to have a husband who is a
lover and partner, but if she
did not draw that kind Of
a husband in the matrimonial
to try to change the "affliction" and
make him something better than he is
by nature! Try to stop the money
that goes into all sorts of useless
things, including those incident to bad
habits, and get control of some of
the husbands earnings. OF course
it is not proposed to give a recipe for
changing some bipeds in pants into
good husbands, but it is possible to
improve them and smart woman
may manage so that in course of time
she will be able to buy a lot on Thirty
ninth street. east, with money that is
now going to waste like the water of a
mill race. If these lots don't please
you, get one on another street. II,
good wife, you can't get that lot, do
try to get your husband to give you a
weekly allowance. TO cover house and
personal expenses. Your life and his
will be happier, and he and you will be
richer in the end, If not in money at
least in the better things that make
up our lives.-ad.
(To be continued).
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
LONG CAUCUS BUT
SHORT OPEN SESSION.
Council Had Many Matters Under
Confederation.

Alderman McKenna was the only
member of Council absent at the meet
ing yesterday afternoon. though AL
derman Davant was excused immedi-
ately after the caucus. The caucus
was a long one but the open session
was rather short and devoid of inter
est.
Accounts against the city amounting
to s32,797.79 were approved and ordered
paid.
w. and H. H. baltimore were given
permission to erect the forty-one one
story frame houses on Cohen street,
that were some time ago mentioned in
the Morning News. The present line
of the street is to be changed so as to
make it straight. The baltimore
houses will be placed on line with
the other houses along the street and
the city will give a strip of land in
front along the street for similar
strip in the rear to make an alley.
st. Patricks Church petitioned to be
relieved from paying for the paving
on West Broad street in front of the
church.
The petition from the Building
Trades Council, asking that all work
done for the city be advertised and
awarded to the lowest bidder was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Savannah Contracting Company
petitioned to be allowed to erect
a. fence around the City Hall
now in process of construction. The
petition was referred to the Committee
on Streets and Lanes, with power to
act.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
ALDERMEN SOLD
VALUABLE LAND
CITY WILL RECEIVE S1125o.
DISPOSED OF LARGE PART or
WATERWORKs TRACT.

Part of Wright Street Was Also Sold
to the Gas Company and There
Was a Petition from Henry Sem
ken to Purchase the Rest of 1t
The Gas Company Entered Pro-
test, However, and the Petition
Was Referred TO Committee.
City Council sold over $1,000 worth
of property at its meeting yesterday
afternoon.
Nineteen and a half acres of the ole
waterworks tract were sold and also a
portion of Wright street.
The city has been trying to sell the
water works tract for some time, but
not until now have parties been found
who were willing to pay what the al
dermen thought the land was worth.
The portion of Wright street sold was
purchased by the Savannah Gas Com
pany, which has been trying for some
time to buy it.
The largest tract sold was to the
Mutual Fertilizer Company, which
bought 1874 acress of lots and 5, at
$500 per acre, making the total price
Sc, 700. 1t also provided in the resolu-
ton authorizing the sale that right
of way be given the company from
the land to the river front.
1t is left with the Mayor and the
Committee on City Lots and Opening
, Streets to make such agreement In
regard to the right of way as they may
deem proper. The company will also
be allowed to use the water front for
rfrrht aF he
river is to be east of Stiles avenue.
Cotton Oil Company Bought.
To the Southern Cotton Oil Company
81 acres of lot No. are sold The
price for this is also $500 an acre, maxi
a right of way. twenty-six feet in
width, on the western end of the lot
and east of Stiles avenue for it's own
purposes and for such use as il shall
see fit to permit on and along it," The
right of way iss of course, being re-
served for the Mutual Fertilizer Com
pany, the purchaser of the other por-
ton of the land
In both of these sales the city re-
serves the title of all the artesian wells,
pipings and connections. 1t is provid-
ed that the city shall have access to
the land to repair the pipes or for other
purposes at any time.
City viii Cancel Lease.
The Mayor was empowered to cancel
a lease which the J NJ. Duffy Petrol
cum Company held on five acres of this
land. The company will be allowed
sixty days in which to remove it's eff
fects from the land.
portion of Wright street next to
the gas company was sold to that
company for $1.500. A petition was re-
ceived from Henry Semken asking to
buy the remaining portion of Wright
street, and a protest from the grant
ing of the same was read from the
gas company. The petition was refer
red to a committee.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
ANOTHER BIG FACTORY
FOR SAVANNAH
Mutual Fertilizer Co. to Erect Plant
on Waterworks Tract.

Mutual Fertilizer Co. to Erect Plant
on Waterworks Tract.
The sale of a portion of the water
works tract to the Mutual Fertilizer
Company means another big factory
for Savannah.
The company will erect a fertilizer
plant there as soon as plans can be
formulated.
For some time the company has been
trying to buy the land from the city,
but heretofore the parties have not
been able to agree upon a price
The Mutual Fertilizer Company has
only been Incorporated for short time.
Among the Savannahians in the COM
pany are Charles Ellis, w. f. McCau-
ley and Charles G.. Bell. They are
stockholders in the Georgia Fertilizer
and Oil Company, which has a plant
in Savannah.
The Mutual Company is really an
outcome of the Georgia Company
With the increase in business Ii be-
came necessary to get to a city with
better shipping facilities. The old COM
pany will become a part of the new
No definate plans for the plant have
vet been made, except that 1t will be
a large and modern one.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-09
CLAIMS THAT PROMISE
ANNULLED BANKRUPTCY.
MistriaI Resulted on Question in
City Court.

MistriRI Resulted on Question in
City Court.
In the City Court yesterday, a case
Of somewhat unusual interest occupied
the attention of a jury.
The case was a suit on note for $500,
brought by F. S. Van Giesen, against
F. B. Robertson. Mr.. Jacob Gazan
appeared for the plaintiff and G'arrard
& Meldrim and Mr.. w. r. Hewlett
for the defendant.
The circumstances surrounding the
case are rather unusual. Robertson
recently took out bankruptcy papers
in the United States courts and among
his liabilities was the note due Van
Giesen. When the bankruptcy was
taken out, Robertson went to Van
Giesen and told him that he did not in
tend to beat him out" of the money,
but that he had put the note in the
schedule of liabilities because the law
required it. He said, so it was alleged,
that he would pay the note.
This the plaintiff claims annulled the
bankruptcy, or at least renewed the
note. The defendant admitted owing
the note, but maintained that he was
freed from his obligation to pay when
he took out the bankruptcy papers.
The case went to the jury at noon. No
agreement could be reached and late
last night a mistrial was declared.