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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
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whom the canal enterprise has been in- trusted. to come forward with itemized statements of expenditures and full ex- plantations as to the personnel and the qualifications of the canal stan.
 The significance of the Senate's action lies in this-that the movement did not come from Democrats or from a few Republicans. but was taken unanimous ly. Moreover, as to the Senate's gem eral protest, this is openly voiced by such conspicuous Republicans as Spoon CT of wisconsin, Hale of Maine and Kittredge of South Dakota, the best posted men in the Senate on isthmian subjects. Spooner already this session has begun making speeches on "execu- tive usurpations." Hale. whose rugged independence Is rapidly establishing for him @ place of infinite respect in the Senate as the legitimate successor of the late Senator Hoar. is a persistent critic of the White House. Another equally conspicuous Republican Sem ator after the executive session today expressed his mind by declaring that the President can't dig the canal by reciting the Ten Commandments.
 Senators quite willingly admit that interference by Congress in canal ad- ministration may possibly delay the en- terprise, but they also say that there is such thing as too much haste, es- pecialIy in a Government undertaking They say that 1t will be enough If the nation stays true to the old adage that the Government builds slow but builds we'll
 The situation now goes over until af- ter the holidays. Meantime there will be conferences on program among the Senators and between them and the President. When the Senate meets again the canal Investigation will be promptly begun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
DEATHS AND BIRTHS.
Weeks Record of Vital Statistics in M0ntgUmery.

Weeks Record of Vital Statistics in
 Montgomery. The following deaths were reported to the office of the Sanitary Department during the week ending yesterday:
 December 16, Mrs. Annie E. Gray. age GA years. tuberculosis; body ship ped to Inverness.
 December IF. Louis D. Morgan. age 30 years. acute gastritis; body shipped to Augusta, Ga.
 December 17. Mrs. Caroline Steiner. age 7s years, lagrippe.
 December IT, Mrs. V. A. Hawes, age e7 years, nephritis.
 December 20. Mrs.Annie W. Merri- weather, age 23 years, consumption; body shipped to Verbena.
 December 20. James P. Armstrong. age 52 years. typhoid fever.
 December 21, infant of J. A. Single terry.
 December 21. W. E. williams. age 57 years, Brights disease; heart failure
 December g, J. W. Still, age 20 years. railroad injuries: body shipped to Wetumpka.
 December Is, Essie E. Duncan. age 20 years. bronchitis.
 December IT, infant of Elmore Jones years, nephritis.
 December IS. Clem Lewis, age 25 years, small pox-pneumonia. December 19, Mary Belle Jones, age s3 years, rupture of uterus, body ship ped to Lowndesboro.
 December 19, Archie Reese, age 73 years. old age; body inferred in Bibb's
 December ei. child of Isaac Green, age 5 days, croup; body inferred in westcott's cemetery. j- December 22, child of Rev. E. P. Mayo.
 December 22 Harriett Shores, age s5 years, paralysis. December 23, Isaac Fuller, age 30 years. gunshot wound. Record of Births. The following births were recorded during the past week: To Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Sherwood, a girl.
 TO Mir. and Mrs. c. c. Wilson, a boy. To MT. and Mrs. B. F. Boyd. a boy. To Mir. and Mrs. Beach, a girl. To MT. and Mrs. Elijah Champion, a girl.
 To Mir. and Mrs. James A Murray. a boy.
 To Mir. and Mrs. Emanuel Markakis.
 TO MT. and Mrs. Thomas Williams, boy ..
 To MT. and Mrs. J.\w. Boyd. boy. To Mir. and Mrs. Charles Darnell. a boy. TO MT. and Mrs. Mack Sykes. a boy. To MT. and Mrs. Pink Stoddard, a girl. To MT. and Mrs. Oscar L. Dabney, a girl.
 To Mir. and Mrs. Edmond Hastings, girl. | Negroes. To W. R. and Rosa Jackson, boy. l To Nelson and Annie Townsend. a girl.
 TO Frank and Dump Hill, boy. l To Alma Murphy. boy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
DYING,

Whenever a garment Is faded or bad ly stained. 1t should be dyed, for clean ing cannot restore faded colors. and bleaching to remove stains may also remove the original color.
 We also recommend dyeing to the man who dislikes 10 wear the same suit two seasons. If the old grey, or brown or blue or green of last year. is not too badly worn, we can easily make it pass for a new black suit.
 Black is the only color we dye nsen' s clothes, becadse the effects of ,expos- ure make 1t almost impossible to pro- duce a uniform shade in any other color. We guarantee colors on all wool goods perpetuaiIy--if they ever stain or fade. we will redye free of charge. Goods containing cotton, lin- en or silk. are not guaranteed. and we prefer not to handle them at all. r As dyeing nearly afways shrinks cloth more or less. every close fitting garment should have at least one out let seam ripped open, for if opened af- ter dyeing, a streak will show.
 Time required: to 10 days.
 Prices-Coat $1.5o, Vest 75c. Pants $L00.
 (Extract from Holts Dye Works, catalogue.) adv
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
The self-Relinnt Nrnn.

Philadelphia Ledger.
 The man who wins his way has the ultimate advantage over the other whose path is cleared for him and whose rapid progress along it Is an ex. cursion personally conducted by a cape tain of industry At least he under stands the value of that which he haR attained, and while more deserving of laudation than the easy winner Is too busy to dwell upon this circumstances to waste time in pleased contemplati0n of himself. And such greatness as his is not misfit.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
And the Best Singing Organization tn Musical Comedy.

just entered through the side door of the establishment when he discovered that his money was absent. He looked for his currency but looked in vain Later he found out that negro by the name of George had found his money just outside the entrance, had Jumped in a dray with another negro and the last he heard of his money the two negroes were seated on the vehicle joyfully counting and dividing their find.
 Jim Davenport, the driver of the dray, was arrested later on a charge of suspicion by Patrolmen Jordan and Mosely. The police are in search of George.
 Smithers is willing to give his last cent to have his guilty brethren prose- cuted to the fullest extent of the law.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
MRS. JENKINs'S THRILL ING ADVENTURES
With a Burglar at Hammer Hall Friday
 Night.

With a Burglar at Hammer Hall Friday Night.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 When I moved to Hammer Hall, with ages and stairways, 1t was always on my mind that at night some door or window would be overlooked and not way in the middle of the hali that leads down into the big cellars. In rainy weather I go down that way to attend to my flowers that I keep in the cellar windows
 We have a negro boy who comes off and on-mostly "on' though--to bring in coal, etc. Sometimes let him use bolted hard and fast. for any tramp or burglar could easily have access to the whole house by going In the outside cellar doors and coming up those steps.
 Last night. just as was dropping off to sleep, I wondered If that trlfilng Bill had bolted the door when he However I was so sleepy I concluded no one would come on such a dismal, rainy night. and went off to sleep.
 heard the clock in the hall strike 3. and some one coming np the cellar steps! I sat up in bed and listened. Yes. they were slow noiseless steps, moving cautiously, but occasionally the heels of their shoes, which seemed to have tacks in them, clicked against the steps. I got up. threw long cloak around me and cautiously opened my door, l went LO the pslck or the steps and looked down. It occurred to me that as it was, Christmas time Bill had concluded to come fore day" and get in his coal, and I was just getting ready to scold him when I saw it was a big, heavy-set man. His back was | to me but could see he carried a dark ] lantern in one hand and long knife in | the other, that made the cold chills Pun up and down my back. crouched ] low behind the banisters, so paralyzed I could not scream or move. When he lreached the hall door he stopped. lock-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
THE CROSSES OF CROSS
GIVEN FREEDOM, COT DRUNK AND
 BACK TO PRISON.
White Man Among City Prisoners Re- leased by Mayor Teague for
 Holiday Gift Soon Returns to q Cell.

Having been released from police headquarters as Christmas present. without a cent of money. E. H. cross, a white man, yesterday performed the remarkable feat of getting on hilar- ious drunk within three hours and fif- teen minutes, and reaching the city prison again in the custody of Patrol man John McDade with 35 cents on his person.
 How he managed to get enough whis- key to become intoxicated, and with all that to have some extra change on hand, is a problem to the police.
 Cross was convicted of violating the revenue laws of the city and ne had nearly served out his sentence. Mayor Teague, in pursuance of past customs, placed the name of Cross among those eighteen prisoners who were yesterday morning awarded their freedom. Cross was released about 6:45 o'clock yester- day morning. At 10 o'clock he was found drunk at the corner of Mont gomery and Lee Streets by Patroiman McDade. Cross reached the station again at 1O:15 o'clock and there charge of disorderly conduct. drunk, was placed oposite his name on the police blotter. Cross, when he sobered I'D, did not seem to regret his early jnebriety.
 At e:45 o't ek yesterday morning Day Sergeant Miles Smith. acting upon instructions from Mayor Teague, re- leased eighteen prisoners from head quarters. Each transgressor of the law was called to the sergeants desk, told of the order for his release, and each ohe gieeful1y tripped down the stair way of the station, once again to breathe the free ozone of December day. Gratitdue filled the hearts of ev- eryone of the eighteen as they in turn AL nayy E- men and were given what few belong inEs they had left with the Sergeant when arrested.
 The full list of those who were re- leased is as follows:
 Lester Yates. violating Section 1928 City Code.
 Jim Lewis. violating Section 1928 City Code.
 E. C. Cross (white). violating reve- nue laws. "- :e.@-.-..
 Otis James. false pretense.
 Nose Smith, embezzlement.
 William Simmons (white). violating Section 1162 City Code.
 Eugene She'll. resisting officer.
 William Mcdonald. disorderly con- duct.
 Mark Jackson, disorderly conduct.
 Joe Moore, disorderly conduct.
 Will Ferguson, violating Section 1162 City Code.
 Horace Thomas, assault and battery
 Will Jones. disorderly conduct.
 G. W Smith (white), disorderly con duct.
 Eugene Smith, larceny
 Robert Fitzpatrick, disorderly con- duct.
 Charles Lamb. violating Section 1147 City Code. -H
 J. King (white). disorderly conduct drunk.
 The turning loose of eighteen prison CTS left twenty-t two prisoners still con- fined at the police station.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
STRUCK BY 4 WAGON.
Mrs. F. l.. Johnson Injured While ShOp-
 ping.


 Mrs F. L. Johnson. an elderly wo- man, was injured about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon while crossing the street at the intersection of Montgom- cry Street and Court Square
 A two-muled coal delivery wagon, driven by Harry Watson, negro. struck Mrs. Johnson in the side and the edge of the vehicle grazed little child who was with Mrs. Johnson. She sank to the ground and was quickly carried in a carriage to the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. Candy, at 322 Cleveland Ave- nue, where a physician was summoned. The child's injuries were not serious enough to require medical attention.
 Harry Watson, the negro driver, was arrested shortly after the accident by PatroIman Loe. Watson Is held at police headquarters on q charge of vio- Iating Section 1854 of the City Code, which applies to collisions.
 The injuries of Mrs. Johnson were regarded as so serious last night that Watson was denied bond pending de- velopments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
CoUNTRYMAN LOST MONEY.
Negro From Mt. MeieS Tells Tale 0

Woe.
 The losing of $11o in cold hard cash was the source Of lots of trouble to Jim Smithers, a country negro of Mount Meigs, who visited Montgomery yesterday to buy Christmas presents for his family.
 The old darkey was penniless. Not a cent was left for him and 1t was a sad prelude to the holidays for the ne- gro who had worked all the year and finally saved up enough to make merry. to have all his fortune take wings and fly away in less than five minutes.
 Smithers had been purchasing a few articles in a wholesale grocery store on Commerce street and he went to another store of the same character in the rear of the union station. He had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
BOOKS OF CRENsHAw.
Examiner Flies Report on County Of-
 neinIa.


 nclnIa.
 Hon. John T. German, State Exam iner of Public Accounts, yesterday re- ported to the Governor on the condi- ton of the books of Crenshaw County officers. No essential criticism was of- fered. there being found an error of few dollars and cents in one or two officers accounts. Remittance to the State was forthcoming on the officers attention being called to the mistakes. The books of Tax Assessor J. J. Walker of Crenshaw County exhibited that there has been an increase in the assessments of $112,120 over the values taxed during 1904.
 The other officers and ex-oficers whose books. accounts and vouchers were examined by MT. German were: (. M. Sharp, Superintendent O. Educa- tion; W. L. Tatum, Sheriff; J. N Pol lard. ex-clerk of the Circuit Court; J. M Horn. Tax Collector; F. M T. Tank ersley. Judge of Probate; J. F. Walker, ex-Judge of Probate; M. L. Black, ex- clerk of the Circuit Court.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Llncoln'n CIone.t rrlend

Alexander Campbell, who had just died at La Sale, IL. was at one time Abraham Lincoln's closest friend. It was said of him in 1S6O that he fur nished Lincoln more financial aid m his race for the Presidency than any other one man. Campbell was one of the first to suggest that treasury notes be issued by the government
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
THE SENATE PROTEST.

RakIng Up of the old Feud Between
 the Senate and White House. Washington special to N. O. Times
 Democrat.
 The Senate's sudden revolt yesterday in executive session on Panama Canal affairs creates the first open rupture in this Congress in the old feud between the White House and the Senate-a feud that already has had several acute chapters under President Roosevelt.
 All along the plea of the President has. been that building the canal Is an executive job. and that the Congress should keep hands off. The Senate has served notice on the President that il means to take the reins and drive foi a while. The President is required through his various auboEdinsteE te
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

With the closing of business yester- day afternoon there will be a virtual holiday in the local railroad world until Tuesday morning Sunday, of course. is a holiday anyway with the local rs llroads. the uptown passenger and freight offices closing all day, while only a necessary working force is kept in the traffic departments and the dif- ferent shops. Monday (Christmas day) the up-town offices will be closed all day, while only working force will be kept in the traffic departments and the different shops. aH other employees be- ing given a full holiday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

IF compound locomotives. The total number of locomotives built this year exceeds the total number for any pre- vious year yet reported The nearest number to it was in 1903. when there were 5.152 locomotives built.
 Tn analyzing the above reports. 1t is Interesting to note what the totals really mean by calculating the expen- allure involved. At the average cost per freight car of s1,000. the total spent for freight cars would be s165,455. 900. at an average cost per passenger car of s7,ooo, the total spent for passenger cars would be S17.s57.ooo, and at an average cost per locomotive of s14.ooo, the total spent for locomotives would be s76.s74.o00. Adding these totals shows that the total amount spent by the railroads in 1905 for motive power and the rolling stock approximates the enormous sum of $26o,1S6,000.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
BIG RAILROAD TRAVEL
ALL TRAINMEN KEPT BUSY DUR ING HOLIDAYS.
Cars in Every Direction Crowded With Passengers--0ther Gossip
 of the Rail-
 roads.

Last night the holiday rush of ru- ral travel stepped temporarily and a tired set of men it was at the Union station from the station master to tho car cleaners.
 The holiday rush has caught about the heaviest holiday travel known. and yesterday was the heaviest day. the number of trains passing through the local car shed equalling mardt gras rush. The heavy rush started early in the morning when No. due from New Orleans at 6:30 a. m. came up in the two sections. the heavy hoi- iday travel from Texas causing 1t. Then the suburban trains began to come in. every one of them had extra coaches and every coach was packed.
 A conductor of one of the local trains said that when he stepped at q station not far from Montgomery on his road something like forty people scrambled on. The train was crowded, and with this unexpected rush there was a congestion of space, the extra passengers standing in the aisles. The conductor was utterly unable to get through his train before 1t reached Montgomery and about twelve of the forty tickets was the best that he could get.
 The Louisville and Nashville train No. l due from the north at 11:00 a. m. came down in two sections. The first section was a tourist train from the West enroute to Cuba. the second being the regular train. Going out of Montgomery three sections ofN that train were run to New Orleans the third section being the New York con- nection brought In by the Western Railway train which came in i've hours late. About 4 o'clock in the after noon another Louisville and Nashville passenger train came in from the north. It was made up of passenger coaches but was run as the third sec ton of freight train No. 73.-
 Yesterday morning when the regular No. came out of Birmingham 1t was who wanted to get on in Birmingham had to be left. A lot of passenger coaches were hurriedly gotten together and an extra train was made up which brought the belated passengers :o Montgomery. Both the third section of No. l and the GreenviIle-accom modation were held until the arrival of this train, a number of passengers being on 1t for each train.
 Last night train No. due from New Orleans at 6:20 p. m. came up in two sections. both several hours late. These trains represented the last of the rush from Texas to the East. About the latter part of this week and all of next week the Texas rush will begin to flow southward, but it will be mo- thing like as heavy as it was coming East for the Texans will go home ai different times and not all at once as has been the case for the past few days. At the same time the other holi- day travel-school teachers, students and the general public--swill begin to flow in opposite directions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
LlneuIntI. pnrrot.

parrot which can talk in two Ian guages and which has seventeen phrases has been added to the Lonooh Northern India,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Electric Car service.

Details regarding the identification of a portion of the Pennsylvania system between Camden and Atlantic City have been announced. The contract calls for the completion of the road July l, 1906. to take care of the heavy sum- mer traffic. The cost will be ss,000,00o. The equipment will be furnished by the General Electric Company.
 A three-car train every fifteen min utes, making the sixty miles in eighty minutes. without stop. Is scheduled l. Current will be furnished by the third rail system, except on a small portion of the road, where there will be an overhead trolley.
 The powerhouse will be located at Camden. There will be seven sub stations. The transmitting potential will be 33,0o0 volts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

Whether or not you wish to insure, It will give us grent pleasure to show you The Travellers New Life Policy.
 Phone IS7. R. J. Well 4 Co. If
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Railroad statistics.

Statistics compiled by The Railroad Gazette show that 16S,006 cars were built during the year 1905, including cars for use on subway and elevated railroads, but exclusive of street and suburban electric cars. These figures do not include cars built by railroads in their own shops. of which an ex- ceptionally large number have been built this year. Of the total, 165, ,455 are for freight service and 2,551 are for passenger service. 162,701 are for do- mestic use, and 5,305 are for export.
 This is the largest car output In any one year yet reported. and is consid- erably more than double the total out put for last year, which was 62,950. The next largest output for any one year was in 1902, when total of 162.- 547 cars were built. During the past three months the car, companies have booked some record breaking orders. The majority of these are for 1907 de- livery and among them are orders from two of the leading railroads which alone amount to almost as many cars as the total car output in 1904 :. During the year 2,164 care were built by firms in Canada, an increase of 222 cars over the number built in 1904.
 Ohicial returns from all of the Ioco- motive builders in the United States and Canada show that there were 5,491 new locomotives built in 1905, as against $40 built in 1904. Like the car total this does not include locomo- lives built by railroads in their own shops. nor orders given for repairs or rebuilding. Of the total number of locomotives reported built. 140 were electrio locomotives. as against 95 electric locomotives for last year. Of the total number, 5S3 were for export and 1896 for domestic use. including
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
The Tourist Business.

Travelling Paaenger Agent J. c. Lord of the Atlantic Coast Line who has been in New York and Canada for the past month returned to Montgomery yesterday morning. He leaves again for New York tonight. He says that the indications are that the Florida business from the East and North over the Coast Line will break all records this season, and that the chances are that Montgomery will get a good slicc of it when the tourists begin to return home in February.
 He says that he had a talk with the managers of the new hotel and tha; they have fixed on January 18th as tho date for the opening of the New Ex- change hotel. The advertising matter for the hotel will all he scattered around Florida before the tourists begin to come East and Montgomery should get a lot of business out of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Professional Riyalrx.

First Reporter-What the deuce are you got up in a dress suit for?
 Seco Id Ditto--I am going to big banquet.
 So? Where did you learn to wait at table?'-Translated for Tales from Die Lustige Blatter."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

Engineer Claud Donaldson and wife of Pensacola are spending the holidays with Engineer L. M Dolosier on North McDonough Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Pension for RsiIroaders.

At meetings recently of the Boards of Directors of the New York Central the Lake Shore and Michigan South ern,, the Michigan Central and the Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis, each of these companies decided to establish a pension bureau to take care of faithful employees who have been in the service of the company for a great number of years and arc no longer fitted for active duty.
 To carry out this plan, vice-Presf- dents Brown and Christensen, General Managers Marshall, Smith. Schaff and L'Hommedieu, and Superintendent of Mechanical Department Deems were appointed a committee. to be known as the Board of Pensions, for the estab- lishment of rules and regulations for operation of>the pension fund and the conditions under which allowances therefor may inure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
FOR SALE

At a Sacrifice when comparisons are
 made, the elegant residence, cormeR GOIdthwaite and Mildred streets. B0 quick or lose a bargain. Chandler and Douglass.