The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-06
Advertiser Bureau.
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| ber of his department during yester- ] day and last night. In the police 9e' | partment the same report was made. This Is conceded a record for Fourth | of July in Mobile County.
 l Only one accident occurred, result ing in the death of young white man. This happened on the Whistler exten- sion of the Mobile Light and Railroad Company near Prichard Station. About II, o'clock last night Motorman Burli- son struck an object on the track Stopping his car and going back he found a white man beside the track, dead.
 Justice Seabury of Whistler. was mo- tified, went to the scene and found the man dressed in blue overaIls and striped shirt. He was identined as Grace Davis. a carpenter in the em- ploy of the Barker cotton mills. The man had been completely scalped, ms neck and spine broken and his race cut. It was learned he had been in the city and boarded the preceding Whist. Ter car at Hamilton Street. He asked to be put off at Prtchard, but failed 10 get off when notified.
 The car made the round and, on the return he was put off.
 Davis was intoxicated when he left the car and the theory accepted by the jury was that he lay down on the track in a dark place. was struck and Killed No arrest was recommended. The Commercial Club met tonight with a large attendance to discuss the l quarantine situation with reference to | alleged discrimination of regulations at Galveston and New Orleans as against Mobile. and thseats of certain local im- porters to transfer their business 10 l other ports After considerable dis- 1 cussion, President Max Hamburger. Jr, announced that the dissatisfied import CTS would hold a conference with the quarantine board tomorrow. It was | the sense of the board that hopes De expressed to the conference of an ami- cable adjustment of the regulations. | Judge H. Austill offered the followins' which was adopted:
 l Resolved, That the members of the Mobile Commercial Club are greatly | pleased to learn that contract has | been let by the United States Chief of Engineers to the Southern Dredging l Company to dredge the outer bar of | Mobile Bay, pursuant to appropriation by the last United States Congress of $5o,o00 for that purpose. and whereas. there Is q greater depth of water in | lower Mobile Bay, inside of said har- bor than there is in any other port of l the Gulf, and whereas, the further ex- | penditure of about s.0O,000 would give depth of thirty-five feet across said | bar, with q width of 1000 feet, there - stage or tide, or weather, to ships of the United States Navy or the largest commercial vessels, to a safe anchorage in Mobile Bay.
 | Resolved, That the State. Committee On the outer bar of Mobile Bay, organ l ized pursuant to the initiative of this | club, be and is hereby requested to send a delegation to Washington when the next Congress meets, to urge upon the l Rivers and Harbors Committee of the l House the importance of making an up- propriation sufficient to deeuen said bar to thirty-flve feet with a width of 1000 feet
 l Mayor Pat J. Lyons expressed sent | iment favoring the United States Ma tional Quarantine Board taking charge of the Mobile Fay plant. The senti- | ment met with much approval by mem- bers of the Club.
 Mobile lovers of baseball are antici- pating good sport tomorrow after noon. After a lapse of several years the fans and rooters will have an op- portunity to see ball playing by semi- professionals. The Cotton States League has entered here and Mobile and Greenville will cross issues.
 This morning the Mobile and Ohio train brought from Meridian seven players and President Briggs.
 | The players were Baker, Hall and Breitans, pitchers; Mier, catcher: De Costa, catcher and first base; Rankin, left fielder, and Gettineer, all round player. President Briggs gave out the information that Manager Kelly was expected to reach here with two players. but, in event he failed to ar rive "Scrappy" Martin. a local player. A- A
 Matt Kelly and Dummy" Parker, two well known local ball players, have been signed and will reach here tomorrow morning. Matt Kelly will play ofr third base and Parker in the short inheld. Lee Vernenille, Il player of this city, who has made a good rec ord as pitcher. has been signed and is he reaches in time he will go in the box.
 The members of the Mobile team went out to the park this afternoon and had a short practise.
 The new bay steamer Pleasure Bay
 recently purchased by Mobilians ir New York, arrived in port today, after | long voyage. The boat is 150 fec
 long, Al feet beam, draft feet
 inches aft and has three decks Sh,
 is equipped with 800 excursion chairs Is licensed to carry 800 and has beer
 given permission on special occasion tt 1 carry 800 passengers. Her speed 1, l about eleven miles an hour
 The Pleasure Bay will make her de
 but In the trade Saturday evening ant | will be in command of the followins
 officers: Buck Curran, master; Tone. Marceline. clerk; Gerome Durant. en
 gineer; Harry Murray. first officer After an illness extending over fou
 years, Mrs. Caroline Augusta Barn
 well died at Il o'clock today at th
 home of her daughter. Mrs. Henr. Tonsmeire, on Government Street. De
 ceased was the wife of Henry Barnw el and noble Christian woman, a con
 sistent member of Christ Episcopa
 Church and known and loved by host
 of friends here. Two daughters. Mrs
 Henry Tonsmeire and Mrs. J. Carte
 Wright, with the husband, grieve owe
 their loss and have the sympathy 0
 many friends.
 After a long illness, Mrs. Clara A.
 wife of Alza w. Moore died today a
 her home here She was a lovabl
 young Christian woman. a lfe-lon,
 member of the German Lutheran
 Church. Two sisters. Mesdames Pric
 and Gosser and two brothers, Philil
 and Theodore Leipf, all of Whistler
 with the husband. mourn her death. | William Harvey Youille, proprieto
 of the Builders Supply Company an } prominent young Mobilian. being
 member of several social and mysti | ~t..,t ItAa 1.I,