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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
SOME SIDE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK LIFE Jerome May be Forced Into the
 Race for Mayor ROCkEFELLER'S BAD YEAR Gifts May overbaIanoe Ills Income. Chorus Girls Fortune-Boys
 Running a City of
 Their Own.
 
ROCKEffLLER'S BAD YEAR

New York, August 19-(Specal.) )-Dis- trict Attorney William Travers Jerome always one of the interesting political figures of the city is now the most in- teresting. Here is the odd situation which conlronts him:
 If MT. Jerome persists in his deter imitation to run for his present office he will offend the Citizens Union, which has been his friend through thick and thin and which wants to nominate him for mayor; on the other hand if he should run for mayor he is not at all sure Of election and at the same time he would give Tammany a chance to i'll the dis- trict attorneys office, an opportunity which would be very pleasing to that organization. Next to the mayoralty Tam many would consider the district attor- neyship the most valuable asset in the way of office. If MT Jerome adheres to his announced declaration to run for no office except district attorney he will un- doubtedly receive the indorsement or the Citizens Union with tn support Of ram many hall possibility. Tammany would never indorse him from choice but may finc that good politics demands it.
 Ii is easy to see that II NIT. JeIohlo wants to play a certainty he will not allow himself to be lured from the strict ly Independent camp. gn for reelection he has already started. But it Is doubt 1ul if he can escape the Citizens Union nomination for mayor without giving b.unt refusal which nc would be reluctant to do. In discussing the matter R. Fulton Cutting, the boss of the Citizens Union eff a reform organization can have a -.boss,o said:
 Speaking as an individual. am of rhe opinion that the union will offer the nomination to MT. Jerome know that he has said that he preferred to run for district attorney again, but MT. Jerome :s the kind of man who will always re- spond to a call to public duty, even at the cost of personal sacrifice. l think. If it could be shown to MT. Jerome that uhe-e was a public demand for him to take a mayoralty nomination he would GO so."
 About the time MT. Cutting was mak- ing this declaration Big Tom Foley, one ot the influential Fanny leaders, was Ting on Leader Charles F. Murphy to urge the advisabilt.- of indorsng MT Jerome. And some of MT Murphy's inti-
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ences of myself and my fellow officers has been glorious one. The continuous grumbling and kicking has ceased.
 ''The Chinamen work hard and never murmur. They are quiet order loving crowd, and a better lot of sailors never walked the decks.
 "The time will come when they will be found on every ship. When they reach a port they do not rush ashore and get drunk and then come aboard and begin to abuse every one.''
 The chinamen are satisfied to take a short shore leave only. They do not
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there was trouble. and 1t lasted all the time we. were at soa. and when we got into part the men got drink.
 "This has been my experience with crews for years, but determined to make a change. I had seen ships with Chinese sailors and heard the captains tell of their good qualities, and finally I deter mined to try them.
 At Singapore I fired my New York crew and replaced 1t with Chinese. paid the fares of the New York sailors to their home ports and was glad to got rid of them. Since that day the experi-
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quarrel. they do not drink to excess. They are placid and docile and are not in- cined to mutiny.
 American captains on foreign voyages are, from present indications, likely to have much to do with Chinese sailors in the future. The maritime business of tho Philippines is largely in the hands of Chinese sailors In Philippine ports come from Hongkong.
 There is a large Chinese population in Hawaii. too and many sailors shipped In Hawaii for voyages to America are Chnamen.
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sIa rIm,s Expenses sso,ooo a Week.

Big Tim Sullivan is home from his trip abroad and the Bowery is proud of what he did while away to give the folks in the old country the proper idea of what Tammany leader should be. Tim must have startled Londoners with his gener- osity for on the Bowery they are telling how his last week over there cost him ssO .OOO Some of this went for tips. more on the races and large percentage to pay the passage home of lot of persons who had wandered to far away from the Bowery and found themselves stranded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
A Juvenile Municipality.

Park Commissioner Pallas in trying 8 rovel experiment on the Eastside. The other day the boys, more than 1000, who live in the immediate vicinity of Hamil- ton Fish park held an election for mayor and aldermen and other city officers. The idea is to make the children self-govern- ing. For weeks the electioneerlng had been hot between the two parties, Politi- cal Purity and Anti-Corruption, and on the day of election things were at fever heat. even though 1t was rainy and only oee votes out of a total registration of 1900 were cast The election was car
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cHlNFcE SAILORS.
Praise for Them From shipmaster
 Who Has Tried Them.

From the New York Sun.
 Chinese sailors have not heretofore been highly regarded as rule. but a ship master who has made a tour of the world and recently landed in Boston is authority for the statement that Chinamen make the best of sailors. He had command of a crew of forty-two officers and men, of whom thirty-four were Chinese. In speak of his crew he said:
 ''I left New York in December for Aus tralia and New Zealand ports with crew of Americans and Englishmen. l had no more than got out of the harbor before
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Notions and Toilet Article.

Woodland Violet Tacum Powder, better than oher'makes
 at g cents .l0c Armors Witch Hazel Soap regular price l9c SC Cogates Floating Bath Soap, dozen cakes and two
 boxes TaIcum, Powder for. or...................50 soc Try Rum and Quinine for hair, 75c bottles .50c Elastic good quality, all colors per yard Sc Machine Thread per dozen soc Gotham Hose Supporters, 25c kind. d.......... ...I9c Nail Brushes special 5c Hat Pins, dog 5c Household Amona, per bottle e....-...............0 0e Steel Scissors, good quality and 9lnch per pair 22c
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BiA BarAains In Laces and

Wide, flat, Val match sets 200 quality y.........4 4( Heavy canbric edge nine inches wide. special 25t Corset embroidery with beading. 29c Val Lace and Insertions worth 10c and 12 12c 7c
 Union Linen Torchon from to l2 inches wide per yard Sc
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Chorus Girl Rolls In Wealth.

A few years ago Goldie Mohr was a chorus girl at Weber & Fields at salary
 of S15 week. She was pretty and soon
 she was getting $25. Then she retired and vas seen no more in the restaurants and cafes where she was formerly well
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ried out on lines almort identical with 8 city election and as the closing of the polls 1t was found that political purity had bested anti-eorru. .'tlon by bb votes.
 The day after the election the mayor appointed commissioner of police who will appoint twenty cops to police the park on play days. It goes without say ing that there was great competition for the job of police commissioner. little later there win be a street cleaning de- pertinent to help the park laborers keep the playground clean, and also eommis- sioners of athletics, gymnastics, games and finance How very new are the Amer jeans of this newest municipality Is shown by the names on this. the successful ticket:
 Mayor-Nathan Kase
 President of council-Enanuel Schifr- man.
 omptroller-Morris streussand.
 Captain of Teams-Benjamin Fassler, baseball team: Isidor Streussand, basket ball team Myer Solomon, track team; Samuel Schindler. games; Joseph Roth, gymnastic team,
 Members O. Council Isidor Faust Bar ney Sedransky, Harry Brill, Frederick Schmerz. Joseph Jurawner, Harry Mes singer, Samuel Friedman. Jacob Silver stein, Benjamin Newstrdt William Haus- man. Samuel Jeff, Louis Egerts, Moey Glech. Samuel Bisgeler. Isidor Hausman, Samuel Spanier, Isdor Stelnherg, John Friedman. Morris Bernstein, Max Geiger.
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Rockefeller in Danger of Poverty.

If John D. Rockefeller makes the SoO, GOO, 900 gift to the Chicago university which he has been considering. he will for the first time In his life find himself poorer at this years end than he was at the beginning.
 The Standard oil company has just de- clared a beggarly dividend of $6 share. This amounts to distribution of s6,00O,- eco. of which MT. Rockefeler's portion wil be a miserly s2,4'p,000. He won't get the money until September 15, either.
 The last dividend of the Standard Oil was declared In May. It is a matter of cole fact that since May MT. Rockefeller has given away very much more than the g., 400, 900 he will receive next month from the Standard oil company.
 On June 29 last MT. Rockefeller gave Sl 100000 to Yale university as perma- nent endowment fund.
 On June 90. the next day, NIT. Rocke- feller gave s10,00000O to the general edu- cation board.
 He has made number of sm Her gifts of sums ranging from s1ooO to s1o,OO0 since last May, which aggregate more than $500 000 This in spite of the difficulty of getting rid of tainted money.
 In the past three months he has given away at least $11.5OO,000, or s9,000,000 more than he will receive from Standard OIL. He is also considering a $50,0o00o0 gift to tke Chicago university, if he has not al- ready decided upon tho gift.
 Of course, Standard oil Is not MT. Rockefelers only wealth producer. He Is believed to have at lea st s250,000.0O0 stow ed away in other investments, which yield him about per cent, or S10,000,0o0 a year.
 In all MT. hockefele- will probably re- ceive SIG. GOO, GOO this yec. as his share of Standard Oil. If his other investments yie.d him s1oOOO,0OO. his total income will be $2e. DOC. .0O0.
 Within three months he has given away sl1 BOO GOO. In the preceding five months he gave away about $2,5O0.000, or total of s14,OO0.000, so far n 1905. If he makes the $50 100000 gift to the Chicago univer- sity the total will be s64 LOGO at least for the year, or about two and half times his income
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
Linen and White Goods

Embroidered Flannel worth o0c ....... 4gc Embroidered Flannel worth 8Sc 69c 40-nch Sheer Taffeta Lawn l-Zc 3Z-1nCh Sheer lnQla LlnOn II l.EC 3O-inch Sheer Embroidered Swiss 25c quality. l5c Terry Cloth Bath Sheets, per pair ..425 Embrodered Waist Patterns $l5O values ....... .49c 3o-inch Clover Gobelin SiIl<olne. e..............5c Sc 36-inch Cretonne 20c-qualy l2 l-Zc Extra large heavy Crochet Spreads, Marselles patterns
 $125 values ........................ .98c Extra large, hemmed and fringe (cut corners) spreads,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20

mates say they would not be surprised If he needed the advice. Said one of these:
 "Mr. Murphy can be depended upon to do anything that will help McClelian's 8 chances, and if he thinks that Jerome would be a help. Jerome will be indorsed Do you remember how, two years ago, Murphy turned a great trick on the fusionists by robbing them of Grout and Fornes? Well. thero are many more un- likely things than that Tammany will indorse Jerome'
 A Tammany indorsement of Jerome would deserve to be called one of the freaks of politics. Les5 than month ago the district attorney through the press denounced Charles F. Murphy as an ex- bartender and deelares that many of the men appointed to office by Mayor McClel- Ian were unfit and were selected purely for political consid ations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-20
New York Without a Mayor.

For twenty-four hours one day this
 week New York was without a mayor.
 Mayor Mcclellan Is away on his vaca-
 ton and the president of the city coun- ell, Charles V. Fornes, is the acting
 mayor. The day preceding the twenty
 four hours when the cit.' was mayorless
 the fact became public and Mrs Fornes
 had sued her husband for divorce in Yer
 mont, their former home, and forthwith
 the acting mayor was besieged by swarms
 Of newspaper reporters. To escape he fled
 the oity leaving the government to run itself without head. But there was no harm done. The next day he returned. gave out a statement containing his side
 Of the matrimonial troubles and resumed the helm. Mr. and Mrs. Fornes have not agreed for several years but their diff ferences have been kept from the public until the disclosure the suit for divorce which was brought in last December MT. Fornes declares that the suit is an at tempt at blackmail and that 1t was made public at this time in the hore of in- turing his political prospects. He was first elected to his present office on the fusion ticket and last year when he was a candidate for reelection he was also endorsed by Tamman.- along with Comp troller Grout.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
New Astronomical Map.

Leon Barritt, the newspaper ar
tist, has combined his artistic ability
with a taste for astronomy, in the pro-
duction Of a, remarkably ingenious
and practical. revolving disk map for
locating the fixed stars and the plan
cts at any hour Of the day Or night,
for any period Of years ahead that
may be desired, without referring to
a nautical almanac or consultation
with an astronomer. It is pronounced
by astronomers as one Of the most
practical steps toward popularizing
the study Of astronomy that has eve,
been devised.
With this map the student or lay
man can have the pleasure Of locat-
ing, at any time, those magnificent
travellers through the field of fixed
stars, the planets, the most beauti-
ful stars visible to the naked eye, up
on their periodical visits something
which has never before been deemed
practical, because the stars are fixed
and the planets move.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
The White House Whiskey.

Good judges of liquor agree that
White House whiskey during the
Roosevelt residence there has been Of
uniformly good quality. Tradition has
it that James Buchanan kept the best
LIQUOR ever seen in the executive man
sion. It is said that he had in his
cellar at Wheatland enrmous guam
titles of the best rye whiskey in the
world when he died. 1t is said, and
the story used to be told with the pre-
cision and circumstantiaiity that gave
it the impress Of truth, that whiskey
that is, good whiskey as he drank
had no other intoxicant effect on
James Buchanan than a gentle exhll-
aration and tina. he could drink a bal
Ion Of it day without perceptible ef-
feet on his physique or the slightest
disorder of his mind.-Kansas City
Journal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01

sical and moral growth We do not
allow women to labor at the expense
of future generations. We study pau
perism, and must do SO more care
fully as population becomes more
dense. We watch with anxiety statis-
tics bearing on the cost Of living. All
this has to do with the welfare Of the
classes which most need help,
and all this is as worthy
a task as there is for men
to do; but nothing has a. more direct
bearing on the welfare Of the strugS
Cling many than honesty in politics
and honesty in finance. The injury to
the fairly prosperous is considerable
when self-seeking and dishonesty be-
come enthroned in great storehouses
of the peoples wealth. The injury to
those for whom mere existence means
a struggle is many, many times more
great
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
EMPLOYING PRINTERS.
The Proprietors of Newspapers and
Job Officers Organize.

Columbia, October 24.-The en-
ploying printers of the State held a
meeting at the Chamber Of Commerce
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, r.
L. Freeman of the Pee Dee Advocate
was elected chairman and Evan j.
Lide of the Carolina SPARTAN secre-
tary.
Various questions pertaining to the
work of the proposed organization
were discussed at length. It was final
ly decided to hold another meeting
at the Chamber of Commerce at 10
o'clock this morning to complete the
organization of the Employing Print
e. Association of South Carolina.
The chairman appointed A. E. Con
zales Of the State, Ed. H. DeCamp Of
the Gaffney Ledger, R. Lewis Berry
of the Crangeburg Evening News and
J.. G. Rogers Of the Hartsville Mes
seager a committee to draft consti~
tuition and by laws to be submitted to
the meeting this morning.
Every employing printer in the
State, whether publisher of a news
paper or proprietor Of a job Office. IS
invited to be present and participate
in the meeting this morning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
Patenting Inventions in Japan.

The British Trade Journal, in re-
cent editorial, directed attention &c
the importance Of patenting foreign
inventions in Japan. Among other
things the article pointed out that
Europeans as we'll as Americans gen.
orally are not fully alive to the I'M
portance of patenting their inventions
in Japan, one reason being that most
of their inventions have not as yet
much to do with the trade Of the Ear
East. But, if acting under this idea,
inventors still continue Indifferent and
omit to patent their future inven-
tions in Japan, they will be necessarl-
ly deprived in the near future Of the
privileges of japanese patent law.
There have been in Japan several in
stances OF limitations Of foreign inven-
tions not patented there, and it is
probable that great many more such
instances will take place. Inventions
QlCQ0ClO IGSdlQSo as 1ioFlllS 1AO NAA ~
bearing on the trade of the Far East
will turn out to have much to do with
that trade, and unless the inventors
patent their inventions as soon as pos
sible, they will find it too late to Sc
cure their privileges when they are
awakened to the actual necessity OF
having their inventions patented, be-
cause by that time the official patent
gazette of the foreign country con-
tanning the description of an original
invention will have been placed III
the library of the Japanese Patent
Bureau for public inspection, and the
inventions referred TO will be unpat-
entable and come under the clause
publicly known as per article of
the Japanese patent law. Thus 1t is
most advisable for foreign inventors
especially for British American in
ventors who are most closely interest
ed in the Far Eastern trade, to protect
their inventions in Japan prior to the
publicity givsn to their Inventions
. f5i4..-..
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
WEATHER AND CROPS.
Weekly Report of the Weather Bu'
reau i'm Washington.

Washington, October 24.-Ths.U Unt-
ted States weather bureau today Is
sued its weekly cotton crop report as
follows:
In the cotton belt the forepart Of
the week ending October %, was un-
seasonably warm. and the latter part
Of the week decidedly cool, with frosts
more OF less damaging in every state.
Heavy rains were detrimental over an
area extending from South Central
Texas to Western Tennessee, while no
appreciable amount Of rain fell in
western Texas and over large part
Of the East Gulf and South Atlantic
districts.
In the eastern portions Of the belt
cotton picking has progressed uninter-
ruptedly; it is finished in Southern
Georgia and nearly so in Louisiana
and Alabama, except in the northern
portion Of the last named State; it is
also nearly completed in Southern
Texas and with the exception of the
sea island crop, in South Carolina.
In Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklaho-
ma and Indian Territory picking is
from one-half to two-thrids COM
pleted. Heavy rains interrupted pick
ing and caused considerable damage
to open cotton in central and North
eastern Texas, portions Of Oklahoma
and Indian Territories, Arkansas,
Western Tennessee and extreme
Northern Mississippi. Boil weevils
continued numerous in Texas and the
western parishes of Louisiana.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
RAILROAD RATE LEGISLATION.
The Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce to Meet November Fl.

Washington, October 24.-Notices
were sent out this morning for the
first meeting of the senate committee
on interstate commerce, to consider
railroad rate legislation, for Novem-
Der 21. It is not expected that there
will be any further hearing on the
subject the committee deeming that
sufficient testimony has already been
taken.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
QUARANTINE RAISED.
Through Railway Service to New Or
leans Resumed.

New York, October 25.-The South
ern Railway announces that llsquar-
antine restrictions in the South have
been raised and that through sleeping
car service from New York to New
Orleans, Shreveport and Memphis
has been resumed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01

Secretary Wilson announces that
November cotton report will be issued
by the department of agriculture,
probably early in the month, but the
exact date has not been decided. This
is departure from the custom Of the
department, no reports having been
issued in the month Of November
heretofore.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
$1OO,0OO.O0 Capital.
THE FIRST NATIONAL nl.x
of Sumter, s. G.

THE Com mptroller of the Currency ie7-
ing approved the increase Of the CaT.ita5
of this Bank to $10O,000.O0, depositors
now have as security for their deposits
Capital, $1oG,o09 CO
stockholders Individual La
bility, >oo,o03 %
Surplus and Undivided Prot
it's, 25,2N %
Total Security for Depositors, S225.ooo GO,
ONLY NATlopLA BANK IN CITY OF SUMTER.
Largest Capital of any Bank n this
section of South Carolina.
Strongest Bank in Eastern par! OF this
State.
Interest allowed on deposits to : limited
amount.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
A. j. CHINA, President.
NELL O'DONNELL, Vice President.
e. D. BARNETT, R. D. LEE,
G. A. LENNON, JOHN REID.
E. P. RICKER.
r. L. ErMUNDS, Cashier.
3. D. LEE, Solicitor.
BOOKKEEPERS.
j. L. McCsllum, D. j. VIM, Jr4-
Oliver L. Yates.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
How They Stop the CRATER in the

The blowing is from the bylaws
of Western association:
Members shall not pay money to
advertising schemes such as directo-
ries,. programmes. souvenirs, pam
phlets, bulletins and other publica-
ton of e temporary character and
doubtful value, nor shall they adver-
tise in any directories Except the city
and telephone directories), pro-
grammes, souvenirs or other publica
tons that are distributed in whole or
in part. voluntarily. or which are not
regularly issued, nor any pamphlets,
bulletins or publications of any kind
issued by trade associations o. unions.
or make any donations, or buy any
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
The Murderers of Julian Wilson to
Be Given a Speedy Trial.

Columbia, October 25.-After a
conference this morning with Solicitor
Wilson, Governor Hayward decided to
call an extra term of court for Kings
tree for December 5th, for the trial
of the three alleged negro murderers
of Mr.. Julian Wilson Of Indiantown
few days ago. The regular term is in
March. This acton was considered
necessary to prevent lynching.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-11-01
Every Facility

For the TRANSACTION Of business if aSo-d.
ed those who deposit their money vish
The Sumter Savings Bsnke
Important pspers can be drawn ap and
signed in private room set aside fcr use,
of our clients and any information &c.
sired will be cheerfully furnished ~ :he,
management.
Savings deposited here draw interest az
the rate of per cent per annur1. Slo3
will open an account and secure & 5s1S
book.