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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16

mothers. the mothers and the children
of all ages, with a sprinkling of those
men of the families who could spare
a day from their work.
A bureau of information was OPEN
ed in the church shortly after the first
news of the catastrophe was received.
and ever since there has been a con-
slant stream of agoniZed men, women
and children climbing the steps to ask
for news of their relatives or friends.
AS soon as news is received as to sur
vivors or victims, 1t is posted outside
and the information soon speeds
! throughout the neighborhood.
Pastor Saved, His Wife Lost.
Rev. ]. G. Schultz. the assistant pas
tor of the church, called at the tenn
porary morgue tonight and identified
| the body of Mrs. Anna Haas the wife
of the pastor of the church. The coro-
ner gave permission for the body to
| be removed to the residence of DR..
Haas.
! DR., Haas is among the rescued. He,
his wife and daughter, got outside the
! rail of the Slocum before the steamer
| beached. He cannot say whether they
| jumped or fell or were pushed into the
water. He sank and when he rose he
found scores about him fighting for
! life. He failed to find his wife and
| daughter. With great effort he kept
| afloat and was about to give up in
| despair, when man on one of the
tugs picked him up.
Assistant District Attorney Garvin
was at the scene of the wreck for some
hours. He said that he would sub
poena the entire crew and as many
of the survivors as possible and would
make every effort to fix the RESPONSE
bility for the catastrophe.
But One of the Crew Lost.
So far as known tonight only one
| of the crew of the General Slocum
lost his life. This was Michael Nc
| Grath, steward of the steamer, whose
body has been recovered. When he
| jumped overheard he had with him,
according to Captain Van Schaick,
three or four hundred dollars. The
| money could not be found when his
| clothing was searched.
Regarding the work of the crew
| during the disaster, John HolthuSen,
sexton of St, Marks, said:
The crew appeared to be undisci-
| plned and unfamiliar with the work
| ing of the life RATS and life boats. l
was standing beside the pastor nearly
all the time. He did everything in
his power to save people. l placed my
/ two daughters, Nina, aged II. and
Clara, aged 10, on top of the paddle
box and kept them there until tug
| boat by the name of Sumner picked
| all of US up
The members of the crew of the burn
ed steamer who are under arrest are
being held simply as witnesses. They
are Capt. w. II. Van Schaick, Pilot
Edward Van Wart, Second Pilot. Ed
ward n. Weaver, w. w Trembly a
deck hand; Henry Garfield, a cook;
Edward Robinson, a cook, and James
| Woods, a cook.
All of these men had been overheard
J and were suffering from exposure and
| in some cases from burns.
Coroner Berry had them all sent to
Lebanon Hospital, with the exception
| of Pilot Van Wart, who was paroled.
sympathy of President.
The following telegraphic message
| from President Roosevelt has been re-
| ceived by Pastor Haas:
Accept my profound sympathy for
yourself. your church and your con-
| gregation.
(Signed.) Theodore Roosevelt"
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CAPT. VAN SCHAICK GIVES
STORY OF THE DISASTER.
said the Crew of the steamer
Fought the Flames.


New York, June 15.-Capt. Van
Schaick Of the Slocum, who is at the
Alexander avenue police station, said;
1.-THE Slocum left the foot of East
Twenty-third street at $3.50 o'clock this
morning. There had been collected
from those on board 9S2 tickets. The
boat passed slowly up the river,
through Hell Gate and over toward
Sunken Meadows, where the Cawana
was burned in rs. When close to the
Meadows, an alarm of fire was given.
IAN that time / was in the pilot
house. / jumped down to the deck ana
gave immediate orders for fighting the
fire. The fire drill was sounded and
the crew of the boat, numbering twen-
ty-three men, worked to get water
onto the part of the boat which was
burning.
THE fire was under the forward boil
ers on the port side, as / made 1t out
in the excitement. My men were ex-
erting their efforts toward keeping the
passengers from jumping. The fire was
gaining every instant, and the 'crles OF
the people, burning to death, could ne
heard above every discordant SOUND.
| got the boat under way direct TOT
North Brother Island, which was the
safest place to attempt to land.
THE boat was driven on under full
speed, and pulled up sideways to the
shore of the island. Many had jumped
prior to this. Many were jumping ev-
cry instant My pilots, Edward Van
Wart and Edward NJ. Weaver, were do
ing everything to get safely toward
shore, and Engineer i. F. Conklin
stuck in the hold.
Mate Edward Flanagan had charge
of the fire brigade, but when the fire
spread over all, we had to get off the
boat. MY hat was burning when ]
Jumped, and / was pulled out of the
water and hauled up on shore under
a tree before / remembered what had
happened"
shriven by Priests.
One of the first TO go TO the work OF
rescue was Rev. Father Donlon, of st.
Jerome's Roman Catholic Church. on
hearing the news of the disaster, Father
Donlon gathered other priests and start
ed for the water front. Although they
knew II was a Lutheran picnic, the
priests felt that it was their duty to
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16
GOVERNMENT BEGINS
AN INVESTIGATION
what Capt. Van schaicI Told One of
His Directors.

Charles Hill, a director of the Knick-
erbocker Steamboat Company, visited
the Lebanon Hospital to-day, to see
Capt VanSchaick, the commander Of
the General Slocum, who had been
taken there earlier in the day under
arrest. After a talk with him Mr.. Hill
said that the captain did not know the
cause of the fire.
THE cause of the fire is not known"
said he. Il know that an investiga-
ton has been begun. The government
has already begun an investigation.
The captain is under arrest and 1t
would be unadvisable for him to make
any statement at present, but he told
me that he and the first and second
pilots, Edward Van Wart and f. M.
Weaver, were In the pilot house until
the Slocum was beached. Then they
jumped directly from the pilot house
into the water. The captain hurt his
leg and may require an operation.
The two pilots were practically unin-
jured, and assisted i'm saving life. They
were all I'm the wheel house until the
last"
WAS the boat under steam all the
time?" Mr. Hill was asked.
1T has been said that the pilot house
with the tide until she ran aground"
THE steam was on until the boat
struck. The engineer, Frank Conlin.
told me that he was in the engine
room until the boat struck. The cur
rent was on the flood and could not
have carried the boat to the beach. II
would not have been possible to have
beached the boat earlier, for there is
no shallow water nearer than North
Brother Island.
IF the boat had been run alongside
the piers or pushed on the rocks on the
mainland she might have sunk, as the
water is deep along there and more
lives would have been lost. The cap
tain said that the first he knew of the
fire was when he was told of Il through
the tube by some one below. The Slo-
cum was then of the Sunken Meadow.
He took the boat to the nearest place
where she could be beached."
WAS anything done towards fighting
the fire."
THE mate had charge OF the fire
fightinR. and we don't know where ne
is. The pumps were going and there
was IRE fighting"
WAS there panic among the crew.
Il have heard OF no panic There were
IN the neiEhbOrhood OF 5000 life pre-
servers on board.
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give religious consolation to all whom
they encountered. Father Donlon gave
religious consolation to forty-five per-
sons forty-three of whom died:
Edward VanWart, the pilot of the
General Slocum, said tonight:
when / first discovered the presence
of fire on the steamer, decided to
make for the first dock that l could
find, but in n moment 1 was informed
that all the ropes by which we usually
tied up, had been burned. / then de-
cided TO make for the first point Of
land where there were no rocks and
beach the vessel, and this / did. The
presence of rocks all along the shore
made 1t impossible for me to beach
the vessel any sooner than did
VanWart was taken before Coroner
Berry and was paroled in the custody
of his counsel
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16
Catarrh of the Stomach Is Generally
Called Dyspepsia-Somethin
to Produce Artificial Diges- ~
ton Is Generally Taken. ~
Hence, Pepsin, Pancreatin and Host
of Other Digestive Remedies
Has Been Invented.
These Remedies Do Not Reach the
:. Seat of the DiAiculty, Which
Is Really Catarrh. "

Tx. U. s. Senator NJ. C. Butler from
South Carolina, was Senator from
that state for two terms. In re-
cent letter to The Peruna Medicine
Co., from Washington, d. c., says:
II can recommend Peruna for dys-
pepsia and stomach trouble. l have
been using your medicine for a short
period and I feel very much relieved.
II is indeed a wonderful medicine be-
sides IL good tonic. M. G. Butler.
The only rational way to cure dys-
pepsia is to remove the catarrh. Pc
runa cures catarrh. Peruna does not
produce artificial digestion. 1t cures
catarrh and leaves the stomach u
perform digestion in natural way.
This is vastly better and safer than
resorting to artificial methods.
Peruna has cured more cases of dys-
pepsia than all other remedies COM
bined, simply because 1t cures ca
tarrh wherever located. If catarrh Is
located in the head, Peruna cures it
If catarrh has fastened itself in this
throat or bronchial tubes, Peruoa
cures it, When catarrh becomes set
tied in the stomach, Peruna cures 1t,
as we'll in this location as in any other.
Peruna is not simply remedy for
dyspepsia. Peruna is a catarrh RENEE
DIV. Peruna cures dyspepsia because 1T
is generally dependent upon catarrn.
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TOTAL OF BODIES HAS
GROWN TO 485.

New York. June 16.-At 2 o'clock this
morning the coroner announced that
was 4S5.
Before leaving North Brother Island
about that time, Coroner Darlington
said there were probably hundreds OF
corpses still in the wrecked hull of
the General Slocum.
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make you not afraid, for it will lure
virtue and goodness to your side, and
virtue is bold and goodness never
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will safeguard liberty; it will illumine
the dark places and make easy the
hard places throughout the journey of
life, and when that journey is about to
be ended it will brighten and make
plain the pathway that leads to life
eternal"
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KEEP YOUR FEET COOL


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disagreeabe
Royal Wash
chahng
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received o ndeed
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nsh found beach Beach
gives lasting W. BLAN-
cHARD. 1908 r. Church Street Jacksonville, Fla
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E[alk lIelR['S b[llGl Store.

Thirty-ninth and Lincoln streets-fine,
tender juicy beef. veal. lamb and
pork, calf livers and spring chickens.
Phone me your orders.
Ga. Phone 1915.
Market Phone $40.
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WEAK STOMACH

Hot, sultry weather is especially apt
to upset the stomach unless the sys-
tenn Is Kept constantly toned up and
healthy, and digestion assisted, by
taking
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16

If you do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DIR. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,O o.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16

The first Japanese to receive the
degree of doctor of medicine from
Washington University, st. Louis. is
Noakazu Fujimori, who graduated last
week. He is also a graduate OF the
Toxic Saisel Medical College and the
New York State University.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16
GOLD BRACELET FOUND
IN A cows STOMACH.

Columbia, S. c., June 15.-while
butchering at Aiken butcher found
a lady's 1s-carat gold bracelet in the
stomach of COW. Where the jewel
came from is not known. The COW
was one of a Western shipment
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16
Loans and discounts. rs
Overdrafts, secured and

Loans and discounts. IS sS5,759 ga
oV ,tpeacnred 'eu' ''.... 81 IT
- Citation p, pIr,u' - &c., 100000 90
T. . d eoGeH ~ 'e $4,000 90
Bonds, securities, etc. 2Z'OS4 'S
na tIiTe and "f fixtures. .... $4,000 90
% mot re reserve ,sisv agents.. :. 1864 SO
and BANKERS ....... 967 Il
Due from approved re-
serve agents ........ 6l,1oS W
f41 house .. 40 1876 81
banks ............. 5000 90
Fractional paper curren-
c CENTS "'ei ,....... 900 80
Lawful Money Reserve
in Bank, viz:
Specie .$1S,634 90
Legal ten
Redemption fund with
u. s. Treasurer Is per
cent of circulation) 5000 90
Due from u. S. Treas
urer, other than per
cent redemption fund so
Total ..............$1,SO3,S6 $50 SO
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Merchants National Bank Of Savannah,
LIABILITIES.
RESOURCES.

savannah in the state 1901
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STATE OF GEORGIA., COUNTY
WANT, Cashier of the above-named b
above statement is true to the best
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of June, 1904.
TRACY G.. HUNTER,
Notary Public.
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u
capitaI stock maid in. s 100000 90
Surplus fund ...... 100000 90
Undivided profits, less
peid e"'e M 34,s2s AS
Na stenSin es'N no'e. V 100000 90
Due to other national
banks ............ DOW q
OT BANKERS ,H Ss"'e Jams 1878 90
Due to trust companies
and savings banks. :. I'oVV 10
Individual deposits sub ~
ject to check .....,.. zol'I!V y
Certified checks ..... 1lo 90
United States deposits. 7l,o44 %
'e ,pg otf &c "...... 55,156 so
Bills payable, including
certificates of deposit
for money borrowed. l1o,zo4 %
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"It Il the power that we to-day in
woke In defense OF virtue and In de-
Tense OF liberty and OF representa-
tive government. Great a. have been
the lnrnads made upon these priceless
things. they are not too great. for rev.
erence 10 hea and repair them. Take
this jewel Of reverence and guard u a.
your most sacred possession. u VIII
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05

To mention the big things OF the
Worlds Fair of 1904 would be to give
a catalogue of the greatest achieve
ments of man in many lines of en-
deavor. For example: We shall see
the largest locomotive ever built,
weighing ninety-fve tons and having
twelve driving wheels. We shall hear
the largest organ in the world in the
most beautiful festival hall ever built.
We shall see some of the greatest sea-
coast defense guns manufactured for
the United States government. In the
Government Building, which is the
largest exhibit building ever erected
by federal authority at an Exposition
there will be a model of half of a
battleship for the Navy display. The
United States Government has also
erected a bird cage SO large that tall
trees grow within the Enclosure, in
which will be held captive during the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05
Alfalfa Glover.

For years the editor has been urging
farmers to sow Alfalfa Glover. and
glad he is that thousands of wide
awake farmers scattered all over Amer
lea. are doing this now, to their great
benefit and satisfaction.
A. Walford, Westlore Farms, Pa.
writes: II have 60 acres in Salzer's AL
fe ia Glover. 1t is immense l cut
three crops this season and have lots
of pasture besides
Hon. H. F. Hunter. s. D., says, Sal
GERS Northern Grown Alfalfa clover
cannot be beat. I have solved the
question of stock raising here Salzer' 8
Alfalfa is good for rousing crops OF
hay, Salzer's Speltz for 90 blu. of grain
and tons of hay, Salzer's Macaroni
Wheat for SIS blu. best hog fattening
wheat, and Salzer's Hanna Barley, for
arid, dry land, is good for 20 blu per
acre. These are all great hog, sheep
and cattle fatteners. and last but not
and Salzer's Teosinte, good for 80 tons
Billion Dollar Grass Bromus Inermis
things make 1t possible for me to grow
live stock by the thousands.
Have you heard of Earliest cane?
Gives six mowings a year. and Teo-
sinte the 80 ton per acre fodder wonder
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 1Oc IN
STAMPS
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse Wis, and receive their big cat
alog and lots of farm seed samples
free. CIV. N ID
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05

Exposition season, thousands Of birds
The largest hotel ever built, contain
ing 1890 rooms, is within the Worlds
Fair grounds. The largest statue ever
cast will stand in the Palace OF Mines
and Metallurgy as the exhibit of the
Iron Industries of Birmingham, Ala.
Twelve acres are devoted to a mining
gulch containing all manner of mining
machinery and exhibits. A floral clock.
112 feet in diameter, the hands OF
which weigh more than ton each,
will tell the time of day upon the slope
north of the Palace of Agriculture. A
map of the United States, six acres In
extent, planted with cereals and other
plants common to the various states.
is an interesting display by the United
States Bureau of Plant Industry.
Forty acres are devoted to the Phil
ippine exhibit and thirty acres are de-
voted to the Indian display. Six acres
are devoted to the garden of roses.
Twenty acres are set apart for the &C
commodation of airships, which will
participate in the contests for prizes
amounting to 100000 The Quadren-
NAL Olympic games will be held dur
ing the Worlds Fair upon the athletic
field of the Exposition Grounds. An
intra-mural railway, having fourteen
miles of track will convey the visitors
to any part of the Exposition. Some
forty restaurants will feed the multi
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05

at the eel grass required for the sea
cows food, sometimes through ice ten
inches in thickness and often through
ice of five or six inches.
Sometimes when the ice had moved
out with a shift of the wind. leaving
open spaces. access to the eel grass
would be easy, but frequently the ice
would have closed in, and then it
would be necessary to cut holes in it
to get at the eel grass below.
So the work of supplying the sea
cows table has been SO far this win
ter attended by more or less difficulty.
but there has never been a day on
which the sea COW has had to go hun
gry-New York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05
MARKETING FOR THE SEA COW.
Il Is Necessary Now to Cut Through

H Is Necessary Now to Cut Through
Ice to Get at the Eel Grass
: The man who does the marketing
for the Aquarium's sea cow has had to
do some lively hustling this winter to
keep that big animal supplied with
food.
The sea COW is eight foot long.
weighs 500 pounds, and has healthy
appetite. In the first eighteen weeks
after its arrival here from Florida, on
Sept. 8 last, it ate ninety bushels OF
eel grass, six bushels of fennel-leafed
pond weed and two bushels of ulva,
or sea lettuce, making ninety-eight
bushels of aquatic plants in all in
eighteen weeks, or an average OF
about five and one-half bushels
week. which is about it's present rate
of consumption.
The eel grass and other things for
the sea cows table are gathered in
Grayesend Bay or the waters there
with connected. Baymen say that the
present has been the hardest winter
hereabouts on the water in twenty-five
wears. On many days it has been nee
essary to cut through the ice to get
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05

cent though they be, are but the set
ting for far more interesting display.
In all the buildings the best products
that the world can offer will be arrang-
ed in the most attractive order and
will convey to the mind better idea
of what the wide world is doing than
would years of study and inquiry.
Fifty-one nations of the world and all
of the states of the American Union
will be represented in this extensive
portrayal of the worlds present-day
effort.
Those who are familiar with the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago have
often asked if the louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition would equal in ex-
tent or grandeur the celebrated Elk
position of 1898. When told hat it
would be twice as large in extent of
grounds and so per cent larger in
exhibit space in buildings, they have
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-03-05
IN A PRAIRIE LAND.
Editorial Correspondence
Moose Jaw, Assiniboia

moose Jaw, ASSlnlOOl1-
Farmers Review,
Chicago, July %, 1903.
Most of the prairies in the United
States have ceased to exist. Man has
broken them up with orchards, for
ests and farm buildings. But in
Western Canada the prairies still
stretch grandly from horizon to hori-
zon as yet unmarried by the hand of
man, save where the iron road has
been laid. To city man there is
something de1iciously restful about
the vast grassy solitudes-
Numerous clumps of trees mark the
course of the Assiniboine river, which
keeps in sight of the railroad for some
distance.
"Gra5s is one of the notable things
about all the landscape of Western
Canada 1t is a remarkable fact that
the entire length of the Canadian Pa
nus to the Rocky Mountains is over
plains where grass grows. The sage
brush appears at some points. but
never to the exclusion of grass. There
is thus not a mile of this country that
cannot be used for some agricultural
purpose-either for tilling or ranct
ing.
Moose Jaw is a town of over 1000
inhabitants, and one of the most i'm
portant places in Assiniboia, being the
center of q very good farming coun-
try and a great grain and stock ship
ping point.
Near Moose Jaw agriculture and
ranching go hand in hand; for near
the town was seen a herd of beef
cattle several hundred in number. On
another side was seen a good sized
herd of dairy cows, the property of
the citizens in the town.
"In riding over the prairies we saw
many good fields of alfalfa. The great
need of the country is timber, which
grows readily where planted, as was
demonstrated by the shelter belts On
some of the farms, and the trees on
the residence lots in the town.
Stories were told the writer of
men who last year cleared from their
wheat crop more than the land on
which it was grown originally cost
them. This is easy to believe, in view
of the large crop and high price for
wheat last year."-Henry F. Thurston.
By sending your address to any
agent of the Canadian Government
you will have mailed to you a copy of
ar atlas, railway rates, etc, giving
fullest information regarding Western
Canada.