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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1906-03-14
Ns!saklIllPIRSTACIONES s!sl Y DE- R0BERY0 H. TODD
AlCALOE De SAN JUAN. PUERTO RlC0
Ante la Comision de Asuntos
Insulares de la Camara de
Representatives.

ning1n conseio tenga el derecho de
conceder franquicias de tranVias, gas,
luz electrical cualquiera otra iran
quieia municipal que tenga en- su
esencia un monopolio, sin antes So
meter la franquicia d los electores y
aceptada por ellos.
Todd. La dilcultad en- Puerto Ri
co es que no tenemos voz en- las pO-
blaciones. Las franqulcias las con-
cede el Conseio Executive sin consul
tar al pueblo de las municipa lidades
para yer 10 que tengan que declr res
pecto elias
Es cierto que recibimos una parte
dc las contribucioneS impueStaS so
bre franquicias. pero creemos cue de
berfamos tener Voz al concederlaS.
Presidente: Dice usted que el
Conseio Executive en- la prdctica ha
demostrado disposition negarse 4
DIR 4 los habitantcs de un municipio
cuando Sc trata de conceder una fran
quicia?
Todd No digo que hayan rehusa-
do hacerlo, pero ellos dicen que los
municipios no tiencn derechO 4 me-
terse en- asuntos dc franquicias La
ciudad de San Juan tiene una Inca
dc trolley en- sus GALES Y cuando la
compai1ia quiere hacer IN cambio,
una installation Il otra cosa parecida,
en- lugar de dirigirse al CGncej0 Mu-
nicipal de san Juan sc dirije al Con
seio Eiecutivo, Y el Concejo Muni-
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10 tl:a1',.;,.o -, ,.sa a,,tor;Tad2 Do Ia
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to-,nos de nosotros no nos gusta
: 4i,39 i-;ni,'os - todo h nosib1E ',.(-, n11,
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80 49, li,rade con los otros AIun;ci-
- - - Ia ia
P'2s 1Toad. ~ " 8 senior. he b3b7ado de
caa In I,,,n como nucstra Conozco
a.~a r',u caS" '.'''- ON Ponce Sc concedi6 ma
franouicia 4 otra compadia de trolley
sG de cicrto que cl Conscio Muni-
cinal de Ponce Sc opuso 1 algunas
concesiones para cruzar ciertas ca
lies. pero sin resultado, sin niugdn
resultado.
Gilbert: Han cjercido Ia misma
autoridad con otras frauquicjas, H.
meas telef6nicas. p6r eiemplo2
Todd: Lincas tclcf6nicas. 81, Sc
nor.
Gilbert: Interviewer en- el name
10 de asunto4 municipales ezcePto de
ID de franquicias2 Por ejemplo: 81 SC
onisiera instalar una carnicerfa en-
San Juan Sc diriqirfa Ia solicitud a
las autoridades municjpales, por ST.
Duesto, porque esa no seria Tranquil
cia.
Presidentc: Para benefcio de los
nuevos miembros de esta Comisi6n
vov 4 1eer la secci6n 81 de Ia ley or
ganica de Puerto Rico. y la lee).
Hubbard: Interpreta listed ESQ Sc
nor Presidente como applicable 4 fran
onicias para undergraduates?
Hubbard: ST. seiior.
pmon;aon+a. Fs+a secci6n de IA lev
IL p,,erto r leo deiando entero con
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

the A. B. & A. r. r. Co. asked
for the privilege of double track
ing Ocmulgee street, from the
passenger station west to Cor
don street where the road cur
YES to the northwest. The
matter will have to be treated
with an ordinance which was
prepared and put on its first
reading. The members of the
council present expressed them
selves as favorable to granting
the request, but asked Mr..
Bowen to suggest TO Vice Presl-
dent Wadley that the people
along said street have already
made considerable sacrifice for
the railroad company and re-
quest him to grade the street
including sidewalks, i. e., broa-
den the present grading the full
width Of the street.
Supt. Pollitzer presented a new
schedule for water and light rents
In a statement before the council
he said that there were serious
inequalities in the matter of wa
ter aud light rents under the re.
cent system. One drug store
was paying $500 per quarter for
the same privilege that another
drug store was paying $500 per
month; that a saloon had forbid
his installing a meter although it
was using the current for which
no charge is being made. The
matter was referred to ommlt-
tee composed of the water and
light CON mittee and the Superin-
tendent.
VIM. Mccormick asked for ad-
ditional help at the cemetery to
prepare for Memorial Day exer-
cises, and was authorized to hire
man eight days.
The Mayor and Treasurer
were authorized to borrow money
for immediate necessities.
Adjourned.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15
The Leg Of a Turkey.

No less an authority than the
Hon. Grover Cleveland, for two
terms President of the United
State and all his life a sportsman
with rod and gun, has told us
that the stories of fishermen
ought to be believed, because
nine times ia ten they are true.
They may sound Incredible to
the uninitiated, but that is be
cause the doubling listener
doesn't know a great deal about
the habits of fish and their re-
marka BILE intel1i gence. Likewise
the stories of hunters are worthy
of belief, in the main, because
they are more than apt to be
true, unless perchance the hunt
er is "stringing" his audience,
as hunters and fishermen will
sometimes do for amusement.
The stories that are told for the
fun of the thing nearly always
have their eark-marks, but none
of them is more wonderful than
the true absolutely true, stories
of wild life that come under the
observation of fishermen aud
hunters from time to time.
There are persons, for instance
who no not believe that the
squirrels have a system of iuris-
prudence, and practice both
surgery and dentistry. There
are others who do not believe
that snakes help each other, to
shed their skins. Another fall
lacious idea, which the Washing
ton Post has been trying for
some time to disprove, is that
the rabbit is a timid creature
that won't fight even when corn
cred. We have had occasion to
to pu blish a story showing how
a rabbit whipped a rattlesnake
in fair fight, and the Post has
told hOwa bunny whipped big
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15
WITH THE PROCESSION
MRS. NETTIE Q. HALL,
(MoTaMR ENrERPRISE)
NEWS EDITOR.

/ Flush all the water mains
often this bot weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Mathews
arrived today from New Orleaus,
La, where they have visited
ever since the Confederate re-
union.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. c.. Brown,
took their departure today for
their old home in Newark, N j.,
where they will spend the hot
months.
Frank Hagar will leave the
uorth side of the city near the
school house in a good shape
with twelve inch thing. He also
expects to place thing ca all
street crossings in the city.
On last Saturday Mrs, W. G.
Beasley, OF Cordele, returned to
her home from Ocilla, accompa-
MED by DR.. J. E. Cooley, of that
city, who was in attendance upon
Mrs. Beasley's eleven month s
child which was very i'll.
Miss Della Majors, took her
departure for Terre Haute, Ind,
and will later on 60 from there
to Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Maj
ors will remain here, as they ex-
pect to build and make this
their home.
A very pretty sentiment was
expressed on Memorial Day at
Arlington-on -the-Potomac, by
sending adrift a boatload of
flowers down the river, as all
offering to the sailors who died
at sea during the war of the
sixties.
Rev. Turner, pastor OF the
Episcopal church of this city, is
one Of the busiest men IN God s
vineyard and yet he never re-
fuses to visit the lowly, the dis
tressed or the unfortunate in
Jail or out of it. Today be
starts for Columbus where he
will attend a church convention
and then pass thro this his home
town on his way to Douglas on
Saturday ready for his services
lin that city.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15
QUINN SAYS AID IS
NEEDED FOR INDUSTRIAL HOME

Rev. ]. r. Gum, General Man
ager of the Georgia Industrial
Home, has issued statement to
the public in which he says the
Home is very much in need OF
aid. His statement is as follows;
To the Public:
Again I must appeal to the
humanity loving people of our
State in behalf of the Georgia
Industrial Home, and this appeal
is made because of a most ur-
gent necessity.
This is the season of the year
when our contributions usually
drop off. Perhaps the reason
for this is money is not as plen-
tiful as at other times, and be-
sides, people generally begin
making preparations for their
Summer vacation. This year
there has been greater reason
than the above. The San Fran
cisco disaster brought upon us
an additional obligation. We all
felt called upon to contribute
towards the relief of the suffer
ing people of that stricken city.
For these reasons, which are
good, our contributions recently
have been very slim and as re-
suit we have fallen behind with
our current expenses.
Therefore, I am forced to is
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15

hound and has made it run away
yelping with pain. Then we
have heard innumerable stories
of the intelligence and cunning of
foxes, and the impossiblity of
catching a weasel or mink
asleep.
Added evidence that all of these
cries, and countless others of
their kind, are worthy of belief
is found in the account from
Virginia of the hunter who the
other day killed wild turkey
that had a wooden leg. That
the Virginia hunter in question
is a man of probity in every re-
spect is vouched for by ali his
neighbors. He wouldn't tell an
untruth for anything magma
BILE; and Why should he tell what
wasn't true about a turkeys leg1
The turkey was a big gobbler.
The hunter had been following
and batting it for some weeks.
He had used all of his wiles to
get shot, but the gobbler wise
old bird, had managed always I'M
til the fatal morning to keep out
of range. The hunter had mark
ed popularity in the gait of the
turkey, but he didn't suspect the
real cause. When he had got
his 1ong sought lucky shot the
hunter was amazed to find the
gobbler had been going on one
leg and a peg. The peg was
rudely adjusted and rudely Sc
cured to the stump of the leg
that had in some manner been
am putated, but it was service
able. 1t possibly fell short in
the process of roosting and
scratching, but it served to keep
| it's wearer's equilibrium, which
is about the best that any wood
en- leg can do. The killing of
wild turkey with a wooden leg
goes to show that wild turkeys,
as we'll as squirrels, are adopts
in surgery. And we take pleas
ure in recording the fact.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15

| sue this appeal, the urgency of
which calls for an immediate and
liberal response. Remember
there are $50 children under our
care who must be provided for
and remem Der they are depend
ent upon your voluntary, free
will offerings. In this hour of
need and financial struggle ap-
peal to our friends throughout the
State for aid and will appreciate
any amount that may be sent us.
Let no one cast aside, thinking
there will be plenty others to re-
spond and your contribution will
not be needed. Your contribu-
ton is needed and will be missed,
if you do not send it. most
earnestly urge everyone who
reads this to send us something.
Much or little, it will be CRATE
fully received. 1t will certainly
come at time when it is greatly
needed and will cheer our hearts
in this work for humanity. Don't
put it off, but send your contrl-
buttons right along now before
you forget it.
Praying Gods richest bless
ings upon every one who will aid
us in this worthy cause, and
thanking each and all in advance,
I am, Yours for Huma nifty,
J. r. Gum, Gen. Mgr.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15

The city council of Wheeling,
w. Va. invited the village c1erg-
man to offer prayer which he did
and the first business taken up
by the council was granting a
license to a saloon. Not very
strange after all when we remem-
Der that ministers and saloon
men vote the same ticket.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15


purpose of considering the ex-
tension of the western limits of
the city, so as to include five,
five acre tracts imediately west
of the Pryor home tract and
tract No. 479 at the western end
of Central avenue.
The mayor and all of the alder
men were present except Knapp.
The clerk read the call for the
special session just before eight
o'clock, and pending the arrival
of interested parties other BUSH
ness was taken up and the fol-
lowing resolution offered by the
Mayor was unanimously adopted:
RESOLUTION
Be It Resolved, By the City
Council that r. C. Butler be and
he is hereby appointed Sanitary
Inspector for the City of Fitz-
gerald, during the pleasure of
the Council. The compensation
of said Inspector shall be Forty
($4O.O0) Dollars a month. pay
able monthly.
It shall be the duty of the SAM
tary Inspector to rigidly enforce
all sanitary rules, regulations
and ordinances which are now,
or may be in force at any time
during his term of Office: to car
nv out all instructions given him
by the Mayor; to examine at
least once every twenty-four
hours back yards and alleys in
the territory known as the FIRE
limits. said territory being bound
ed on the north by Oconee Street,
on the East by Sheridan Street,
on the South by Jessamine Street,
and on the west by Lee Street.
1t shall be the duty of the In
spector to examine into the con-
dition of the yards and alleys in
all other parts of the city at
least once week. Whenever
the Inspector shall find any yard
in filthy condition. not up to
the standard Of cleanliness re.
CURED by the Sanitary Commit
tee, it shall be the duty of the In
spector to notify the owner or
person in sharge of said premi-
ses to put the same in repair in
conformity with the regulations
of the sanitary laws of the city;
and if said. owner of occupant so
notified fails to comply with the
regulations of said notice for the
period of twenty four hours, it
shall DE the duty of the Inspect
or to make complaint to the per-
son so offending, and bring the
offender to trial forthwith in the
municipal court.
The Mayor ir hereby given
authority, and it shall be his du-
ty TO promulgate such new rules
regulations as may be necessary
in order to preserve the public
health and keep the entire city in
good sanitary condition.
Upon failure by the Inspector
to carry out and faithfully per-
form the duties of his Office, it
shall be the duty of the Mayor to
summarily discharge him and
appoint substitute to act until
the next meeting of the council
when the vacancy shall be filled
by the council.
Said Inspector shall be ex-
officio a policeman, and shall po'
sess all the powers of the regu-
lar policeman of the city.
The petition of the Glenn
Development Co, was then taken
up asking for the opening OF
streets and proposing to be III
corporated into the city which
was referred to a special com
mittee of five composed of Alder
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15
THE IMPORTED -
GERMAN COACH HORSE
RE.NECKe, No. 2979
vii be at stud at GRAY'S STABLES, FITZGERALD, Cas- for
the season, Beginning APRIL 10.

This horse Stock Company at Tfton that was
of improving the live stock OF this secto
finest horse that has been seen 70
to this country in October Come and bring
your stock and have good stock sell instead q
sending sections orsock not good you
much less This horse is under the
management Jay, Jr and will be handled by Mr. ~
M, Monk. who an expert
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
Legislative Diligence.

The members of the Legislature have
set an excellent pace in their work
Speaker Cheney appointed the House
committees with commendable prompt
ness and the Senate committees have
been completed in good time. The law
makers have also done nobly in begin.
ming the session by the passage of an
important bill and it is understood that
a number of measures of concern are so
far along in the process of preparation
that they will be introduced at an early
day.
The legislators as well as the State
and the people thereof are to be con-
graduated on the indications that i'm
portant measures are not to be left as
is ordinarily the case to late day in
the session resulting in hastily consider
ed legislation and defective laws.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
MAIL DEVICE TESTED.
High Postal Officials Inspect New
invention

On Friday the Security Mail and Par
Gel device that has been under test at
East Montpelier by its inventors for many
months was formally inspected and test
ed by a commission of officials of the
United States post Office department
The report of this commission will deter
mine whether or not the government
will accept the device.
No one but the members of the COM
mission and those directly interested in
the device were permitted to witness the
official tests. For over two hours the
catcher was subjected to various stunts
in snatchinH mail pouches from flying
cars.
The two principal owners of the device,
F. A. Smith and T. II. Casey of Boston,
conducted the tests under the orders of
the commissioners.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
vermontsrs to Visit Native Stat.

Boston, Oct. ia trip to Montpelier
is planned by the Vermont Association
at Boston. The purpose of the visit to
the capital of the Green Mountain State
Legislature and to attend the annual
meeting of the Vermont Historical So
ciety on Nov ember 8. The party will
leave on special cars at eleven o'clock
November 8, and the arrangements for
the trip are in the hands of a committee
comprising Charles a Bradley, Giles w.
Bryant, Arthur l.. r binson, Everett G.
Benton, Charles X. Daring and William
Craig.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
atured Alcohol.

The first denatured alcohol plant in the
country is about to be erected in Los
Angeles at a cost of several hundred
thousand dollars. Buildings are to be
erected at once at a cost of 100000.
The sources from which alcohol can be
distilled are almost numberless. Califor-
MIA has products available for this use at
all times of the year. Potatoes, beets,
corn-both stalk and grain-make good
sources, but the best is the waste product
of the sugar refneries. Secretary Will
son has made the statement that an acre
of ground can be made to produce 900
gallons of absolute alcohol, and if planted
to corn the refuse after the crop is
gathered will produce 200 gallons of
commercial alcohol.
The Los Angeles company, which is
called the California Distilling company,
is capitalized at $500, 900, has leased nine
acres of ground. The result of It's oper-
atoms will be awaited with interest.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
THOMPSON COMMITS
SUICIDE
Was Former Resident of Vermont
Became Dissipsted and Drank
Poison

San Diego, CAL, Oct. 15.-Philip S.
Thompson, who came from Lyndon, VT,
several years ago committed suicide at
Los Angeles sometime during the past
three days by drinking a mixture Of
cyanide of potassium and sulphurc acid.
Thompson's parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Jnmes Thompson of Lyndon Center
Thompson's dead body was not found
until this evening but he probably swal-
lowed poison as long ago as Friday.
He had been hard drinker for many
years and had lost several good positions.
He was for some time credit man for F.
w. Braun & Co., wholesale druggists at
Los Angeles and later bookkeeper for
the Title Insurance and Trust company
of the same city.
He married eight years ago but his
wife secured divorce last year on ac-
count of his drinking. Thompson has a
brother named Nathan, at Everett,
Wash. He was a 80 degree Free Mason
He left $500 insurance policy for the
benefit of his for wife Thompson was
only 81 years old. The burial will be by
the Masons at Los Angeles.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
Bryan and His FoIIies.

In ideas there is enough of Bryan and
his follies in the speech to give trouble
to its author and to his party. He says
"the Tariff question is very closely allied
to the trust question" but he forgot to
mention that England, which has no
Tariff for Protection, has almost as
many trusts as there are in the United
States. He condemned trusts, and de-
the use of trust money in cam
paigns, while beside him while he was
talkingIwas the head of the one of the
biggest trusts in the country, Lewis
Nixon, who was Bryan's host from the
time when he reached this side of the
Atlantic till he went to Madison Square
Garden. The "tainted money" which
he condemned was put up very literally
by Belmont, Nixon, Sheehan and others
of his new supporters to hire the hall
in which he spoke, and the same sort of
with the same kind of men back
of it, will finance his campaign if he
should be nominated in 1909.-St. Louis
"Globe- Democrat"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19

The average prices for 19011904 were
far greater than for 1995.1S99. Corn
mot counting the extraordinary price
of 60.5 cents in 1901 was 14.2 cents
higher; wheat. sc higher; oats, 1912
higher; potates, 1876 higher; horses
800 "a higher: mules, S22.63 higher !;
mich cows, $500 higher; other cattle,
S1.63 higher; sheep, 10 cents higher;
swine, Sl.99 higher. In 1905 prices are
still higher than the average for 1900
1904 for large number of farm arti-
Giles, including corn, wheat, rye, potatoes,
tobacco, Gotten, cottonseed, meal, eggs,
horses, mules and sheep.
Farmers have reason to stand with
the Republican party, the party of Pro-
lection and prosperity. At the rate of a
dollar a reason, they have about 90
600 900, 900 reasons for refusing to stand
with the FreeTrade party, the party of
adversely and ruin.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
One Cold and An0tbeT

The seasons first cold
may be slight-may yield
to early treatment, but the
next cold will hang on
longer; it will be more
troublesome, too. u n
necessary to take chances
on that second one. SCOTS
Emulsion is a preventive
as well as a cure. Take
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-10-19
Goinq to Lunch.

How man goes: Chances at the
clock, drop his pen, jumps from his
chair, grabs his hat, bolts for the door,
says briefly, "Gong to lunch," and is
gone. Time, one-half minute.
How a woman goes Chances at the
clock. Wipes her pen carefully and
places it in the pen tray. Arranges
papers neatly on her desk. Goes to the
mirror. Removes four or five combs,
as many pins and possibly unties bow
from her hair. Combs up her pompa-
dour, puffs out the sides, combs up the
struggling locks, replaces bow, pins and
combs, then surveys result with hand
mirror. Washes her hands and cleans
her nails. Dabs the powder rag over
her face to remove "that shiny look"
Applies whisk broom to dress. Puts on
hat and thrusts into it five long hat
pins. Consults hand mirror again. Puts
on veil. Uses hand mirror once more.
Investigates sundry fancy pins at back
of neck and belt. Pulls on gloves. Gets
her parasol Gives one more look in
the mirror and goes. Time-depends on
the woman and the length OF her gloves,
but anywhere from twenty minutes to
half an hour.