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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

Boston. March 24, 19os.--It is proba- ble not inaccurate to say that this month marks the fftieth anniversary of the beginning of modern street rail- roading. On March 26. 1856. a horse railroad was opened TOT traffic between Bowdoin Square, Boston, and Harvard Square. Cambridge-not indeed, abso- lutely the first of Its kind. but the frs. to be continuously successful. making a start in the direction of its logical successor. the most complete and com prehensIve rapid transit system in the world
 Many .ears before 1856. New York City had seen the advent of a lumber ing omnibus car known as the John Mason" which horses drew over strap rails laid on stone ties but this was hardly a street railway in the modern sense of the word nor did 1t lead to similar enterprises in other cities. The metropolis also saw attempts at con- structing other horse railroads. about the middle of the nineteenth century but the credit of establishing the first commercial street railway line with a continuous record belongs to Boston. Just as soon as its success was demon- strated similar roads began to he started all over the country, and the half-century work of improving and re-adapting was on In earnest. With in so brief time American enterprise has created an industry involving, at the time of the issuance of the special report of the Census Office on street and electric railways in 1902. the lay ing of 22.576 miles of track. on which ply 60,290 passenger cars, carrying
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

cling public must pay the tax. Street railways of Massachusetts actually pay in taxes 6.3 per cent. of their gross revenue; In other words, each pas senger as he hands in a nickel to the conductor is in reality contributing nearly half a cent to the public cof- fers Tn the main, however. the form of public control under ,7hich the Boston Elevated Railway has been ena- bled to build up satisfactory service has been repeatedly declared by eco- homie writers to be preferable to the types of municipal ownership which some European cities. such as Glas- gow, have established.
 A remarkable feature of the fifty years development of street railroad ing is that 1t has so largely been brought about by Americans. Some thing of the credit for the third rail system is due to Dr. Werner Siemens of Berlin and his associates, and very lately the German government and a syndicate of manufacturers have been carrying on experiments on the Zossen Military Railroad near Berlin in the utilization of train speeds and high treasures of current. For the mos part. although every civilized nation has been quick to adopt American street railroad devices. none has sensi- bly improved upon them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

cludes the denizens of rural comnuni- ties, many of whom do not ride at all from years end to years end. The everyday city man. who in 1890 treat ed himself to ninety eight rides. was twelve years later contributing 16S nickels annually. The average New Englander, country and city, rides more frequently than any other Ameri- can. for the reason that there are more lines and cars in his section than any where else. He actually gets on to the car 124 times year. The New Eng land city man rides on an average 192 times. If he happens to live in the greater Boston he does better still In the territory covered by the Boston Elevated Company. representing pop ulation of about 1,200, 900. the average number of rides per individual Is fin the neighborhood of 210.
 In one other respect the Bostonian likes to believe that his city, which first got into the rapid transit process sion fifty years ago, is still at it's head. The relations of the public ser- vice corporation to the State have been established in Massachusetts up- on a basis which has often been held up as a model of the relationship that should prevail everywhere. The whole tendency Is to give both public and the street railway company a fair show and to leave disputed questions to the judgment of an expert tribunal. the railroad commissioners of the "~lrnon- wealth. Certain tendencies there have been in the past to overtax street rail- ways, but that perhaps has been due to ignorance of the fact that the trav-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Cbc Cbeatres
Miss CahiII in "MoIIy MoOnshine." l"

Miss CahiII in "MoIIy MOOnshine."
 The secret of Marie Cahilrs success lies in the fact that she gives her au- dience the impression of getting just as much fun out of her work on the stage as do the people out in front. She joins them in the fun. She gets over the footlights and mingles and mixes with the audience. She does it in such a clever, refined and unobtrusive man ner that one shakes hands with her, congratulates her and goes home prais- ing her entertainment.
 When Miss Cahill had sung ''Looking for My Ten" and George Beban had delivered himself of Napoleon Bona
 parte,' the man who is writing, the man who has seen nearly everything
 worth while at the Montgomery Thea
 tre this season, felt glad that he had
 not missed Molly Moonshine." He was
 glad because these two songs alone
 would have repaid him If Molly Moon
 shine had been a trifie mediocre which
 1t was not. Looking for My Ten" is
 a coon song; not the usual driVel, but d
 song with d point. @ song that IS funny
 and sung by woman who knows how
 to make 1t even funnier than the man
 who wrote it suspected. The Bona
 parte" song is stirring march melody
 and 1t was sung in spirited style by MT Beban. who is one of the truest comedians on our stage.
 Molly MOonShine" is a more pretcn- sious musical play than it's title sug gests. The story Is pitched at a eoun- try estate on the Thames just prior to the outbreak of hostiiities between | Russia and Japan. and has to do with the strained relations between theSc 1 two countries. the machinations Of an uuscrupulous Frenchman who desires to
 make capital out Of diplomatic reports
 the interpretation of an American secreI service woman and incidentally two O. l three love affairs.
 The play = the work Of Messrs~ Ho- bart and Hein. The first named Is on of our foremost humorists and the mu- sic of the piece indicates that the las n lmcd is to be better known for his scores
 Miss Cahill Is cast as the American secret service woman. ard, if such play are to be regard ai seriously, we mig say a caricature of an American wo- man. As Miss Moonshiue from Amer ica, sine showed the foreigners tha' American girls arc slarGy, vulgar anc | habitues of the racetrack. Maybe they 1 are mp in the Eastern country. N'
 might say in all sincerity that som, @ | of them are because we have knoWI some of them. Perhaps MT Hobart ,sX' peeted Miss Cahill to present als'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
MUST PAY POLICE
JUDGE CARRIERS DECISION AS TO
 HARBOR PATROL.
Pilot Commissioners Have Right ts Contract Expenses to Be Paid Out
 of General Fumd of County.

Pensacola, March 2s.-tspeciall-- Judge Francis B. Garter, of the Cir@ cult Court. today rendered a most ims portant decision relative to the polic- ing of the harbor of Pensacola. The case was wherein the Board of Pilot Commissioners had employed police and contracted expenses, sending the bills to the County Commissioners to DC paid The latter board refused to audit and pay the bills. whereupon manda- mus proceedings were brought to com pei the payment of same. Judge Car ter in his ruling stated that 1t was clearly within the province of the Pilot Commissioners to employ harbor police and contract other expenses in the proper policing of the harbor, the same to be paid for out of the general fund of the county.
 For years the harbor was policed under the above conditions. but the County Commissioners finally decided that the expense should be borne by the city or by the Pilot Commission CTS. so refused to pay any more sala- ries or expenses, Recently, however the abuse to the harbor has been so great that the Pilot Commissioners placed men on duty. and carried the case to the court to compel the pay ment of the expenses. Without harbor police vessels at anchor in the harbor throw ashes. ballast ana rubbish over board during the night, to save the ex- pense of lightering it ashore, and the harbor has been badly injured by this 'practice
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

tinet type which is not representative. And she does t and does 1t well.
 It is said that comparisons are odious and we know they are especially so to actors, but comparisons are also com prehensive and so t is worth while to say that Miss Cahilf is so superior to Mario Dressler, as sure enough come dian, that 1t seems Ii shame to couple the two of them in the same column. We are not the enemy of Miss Dresslcr, and hec name is used because a cer- tain class of writers have exhausted so much space in praising her meth ods. Beside Miss Cahill she appears ckeqp. coarse, dncouth and vulgar This is the difference between them-Miss Dressler makes use of her gigantic frame and ugly face and lack of intel lectuality to draw screams from gallery gods Miss Cahill is intelligent, under stands a subtly funny line and empha- sizes it. The one is broadside music hall performer; the other is an artist.
 The large audience at the Montgom- cry Theatre last night could not get enough of the fun brought to them by Miss Cahill. Time and again she was recalled and she responded with suen n good nature that she made triends with everybody Her songs Robinson Crusoe," Don't Be What You Aint, Hooking for My Ten and the bur lesdues, They Never Do That in our Set and ''Foolish," which was indeed foolish, were sung in great style ana elicited the warmest enthusiasm.
 But Miss Cahill was not the whole show. Indeed she is supported by some of the ablest musical comedy peo- ple we have seen in this extraordtnar- ily good season of musical entertain ments It is too late to attempt 70 de- scribe the whimsicalities of MoIiy Moonshine" or to point to the meIt of the many good actors. It does seem a shame to pass lightly over sueh S5II- Sap- able comedians as Roy Atweli, DICK Temple George Beban, and Guy Woodward. One could write many paragraphs about the charms of Clara Palmer, Gladys Claire, Elizabeth Good- all, a statuesque brunette. Sadie liar ris and all of the other clever persons accompanying Miss Cahill.
 Mir Steadman and MT. Hackey, play ing General Moroff and Baron Hosakl, respectively, stage editions of Wltte and Komura were fine caTlcatures; MI Hackey made an especially fine Japa-
 The chorus of men and women was large and well selected. The glris were pretty and the men were mana, some. They sang in good voice ana pieasing features of the entertainment
 Aside from the song numbers or MISS Cahill. those of Miss Palmer ana MT. AtweIl were enjoyed greatly. They are happily remembered here for the ex- ceIlent impression they made carrier and 1t is pleasant to see such clever nersons advanced into better things
 Miss CahiIl is the wi'e of Daniel ". Arthur her manager. ana NIT. ArtnuI has given her fine settings for thls latest vehicle. The two scenes WeIe shown by the last act being especially artistiic and effective. 4.
 Modjeska comes to the theatre to- night in Macbeth"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Piles Cured
 Quickly at Home
Without Pain, Cutting or Surgery.
 Instant Relief.

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 Seven people out of ten are said to have Piles. Not one man in a million need have them and we are proving 1t every day at our own expense. We send a sample package of the wonder fuI Pyramid Pile Cure to an person absolutely free.
 We don't do this as matter of amusement or phllanthrophy, but be- cause it is to our interest to do SO, We know that the sufferer from piles, tormented and driven almost crazy by this wretched trouble. will find such immediate relief that he will go at once to his druggist and buy a box and get well.
 We know that we have got the greatest remedy in the world for piles, and We are ready and willing to
 stand or fall by the verdict of those who make the trial We have been
 doing this for some years now and we never yet have had occasion to re- gret it.
 And the remedy at the drug store is just as good as the sample we send
 out. As for instance, here is a man who got such immediate relief from the sample that he at once bought a box. Was it just as good? Undoubt- edly, since it cured him after all sorts and kinds of things had failed. And 1t wasn't one of those simple eases of few years standing-it had existed for fifty years.
 Here is a sample of the kind of let
 ters we get every day and we don't have to ask for them:
 Friend. I write to tell you what good your Pyramid Pile Cure has done
 for me I used your sample, and tt did me so much good I went and got | two boxes, and l used one and I an another man altogether. I have nc 1 pain no piles, and I have been trou- bled with them for over fifty years and could find no relief till now thanks to your timely cure. Use my name if it will do you any good
 Isaac Smith. Wharton, New York Pyramid Pile Cure is for sale al | every druggists at 90 cents box or
 if you would like to try a sample l first, you will receive one by return
 mail by sending your name and ad
 dress to The Pyramid Drug Company
 126 Pyramid Building, Marshall. Mich
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
YOUNG MAN KILLS SELF.

Daybreak FertiliEers, land and labor -biU crops. Marks & Gayle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
HIS LIFE THREATENED.
Notices of Warning to Dr. Stone POste
 By Unknown Persons.

By Unknown Persons.
 Demopolis, March 26.-(Special)- News has just been received here from a reliable source. of a regretable state of affairs at Gates, eighteen miles south of this city on the Selma and MyrUewood branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
 According to the report, a few days ago notices were posted on Dr. A. R. Stones residence at Gates in which dire threats were made. The follow ing is said to be the exact wording of the notice placed on Dr. Stones front door :
 ''Dr. Stone youse must leave this hear place in ten days If youse stays any longer youse will be Kill and youse put in a box coffin.
 Hoo Hoo" The notice on the rear door read: 'Dr. A. B. Stone youse leave Gates in ten days If youse don't youse will be kill and sent to hell.
 Hoo Hoo" The report says that some time ago Dr. A. B. Stone entered into con- tract to do certain practice at Gates, where a large lumber company, under the management of J. R. Meyers, is being operated, and that recently some friction appears to have arisen be- tween the contracting parties. It ap- peared possible that this friction may have had something to do with the posting of the notices on pr. Stones S door, and upon learning of these threats, some of Dr. Stones friends went to Gates last Thursday. and it Is learned. quietly visited MT. Meyers and informed him that should any injury occur to Dr. Stone he would be held personally responsible for it. It is said that Mir. Meyers informed the gentle men who visited him that he knew nothing of the notices. and would give them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Omcers Are Disappointed.

Another disappointment was in store for Sheriff Van Pelt and Deputy San ders when the arrived at Florala yes- terday expecting to find Jim Ardis, the murderer of Police Officer Burnham. The officers there had arrested the wrong man. and the local officers re- turned home at midnight, greatly dis appointed in not finding Ardis This i3 the third time within the past week that negroes have been arrested at va- rious places who were supposed to be Ardis. but in each instance they prov ed to be other than the murderer The negro arrested at Florala bore a close resemblance to Ardis. even to the clothing worn by the latter when he was last seen. The officers are of tho opinion that the negro is in the vicinity of Pensacola and that he Is being se- creted by his friends. He is in with a gang of tough negroes, who frequent the outskirts of the city. and who give the officers much trouble. and 1t is ex- pected that some of these are assisting him in keeping out of the way of the officials
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

well. Put what's the use? The history of the ~anama Canal is one long track and trail of scandal There has been scandal in the remote past, in the re- cent past; there is some now. and we much fear there will be more in the future. There is some reason to be- lieve that fat American profits were realized out of the payment to the Frenchmen. But all that is little bet ter than ancient history. How will the tort0ring of Cromwell aid Con- gress and the President in the great Undertaking before them?
 The first and imperative duty of Congress is the determining whether canal shall be attempted. The testi- mony of Professor Burr, of William Barclay Parsons. and ex-Chief Engin- ger Wallace has not paSsed unheeded in Washington. There is a good deal more openness of mind with reoard to the sea-level type of canal. Senators and members of the House are begin ming to $lave their doubts about build ing dams for which no rock founda- tion can be found, and about the risk of continually passing ships of the largest type. through locks that would be destroyed by the accidental impact putting the canal out of commission for years. Given the time and the money, a Sea-leVel canal can beyond doubt be built and operated. Experts of highest authority are by no means agreed that as much can be said of a lock canal. In aa undertaking of this magnitude Congress must make sure that t IS right before 1t goes ahead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
William Davison, Jr., of Milton, Fla
 Commits Suicide.

William DavisOn, Jr., of Milton, Fla,
 Commits Suicide.
 Milton, Fla. March 26.-(Special)- William Dayison. Jr.. the only son of MT. and Mrs. William Davison. com mitted suicide at the Louisville and Nashville station yesterday evening as the six o'clock train was pulling out. He walked over to the rear coach and as the train started to pull out calmly took off his hat and kneeling down. put his head under the rear truck. The wheels passed over his neck caus- ing instant death; his chin and side of the face was bruised by the wheels but otherwise there were no disfguring in- juries save the crushing of his neck.
 Young Davison has been possessed of the suicidal mania for several year and has been a source of deep and con stant anxiety to parents. relatives and friends All day yesterday he suffered from the depression due 70 the suicidal tendency and from two o'clock in the afternoon until after six when the train pulled out he walked up and down the track, presumably awaiting the arrival of the train to carry out the terrible plan he had conceived.
 Besides parents and sisters he leaves a young wife, who was at the home of his parents when the tragedy occurred
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

great fan to embrace district peopled by considerably more than a million inhabitants. Out of the little single track line three miles and half long, over which Lowel and Longfellow and other scholars and literal of the aca- demic town used to make their jour neys "in town" with their feet on cold winter days buried deep in straw, there has grown a network of nearly 450 miles of track, on which about 250,000,- 900 revenue passengers travel every year
 The statistics of che use of the cars of this earliest developed of rapid transit systems prove at once it's necessity and its popularity. Riding in the street cars has become something of national passion; nowhere. probably, to the same extent as in Boston. The average Amer ican in 1890 rode thirtytwo times, while at the time of the issuing of the last census report in 1902 he rode six ty-three times. This estimate inr
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
At Sen Level.

New York Times.
 Senator Morgan would. of course, find an unholy joy in the further bad gering of MT. William Nelson Crom-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
How to Catch Him.

Fort Payne Journal
 If the process servers really want to find John D. Rockefeller; they ought to try cornering tho kerosene market.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

TO draw the fire out of a burn. heal a cut without leaving a scar, or to cure boils, sores, letter. eczema and all skin and scalp diseases use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. A specific for piles. Get the genuine. No remedy causes such speedy relief. Ask for DeWitt's--the genuine.
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-28
FIGHT THE TRUST.
GAIL HAGENBEck SHOWS IN BAT
TIE FOR SUPREMACY WITH
BIG clRcusEs
Representative of Famous Trained
Animal Show and Circus Tells OF
Warfare With the Trust-A New
Feature.

Fighting three circuses single hand
ed and besting them at every turn IS
the record this season Of the Carl
Hagenbeck Greater Shows which IS
billed to exhibit in Ottumwa Wednes-
day. July ii. The battle for supre-
macy commenced April in Cincinna-
ii and since that date the Hagenbeck
organization has been in the thick OF
the fray.
The circus trust composed of Bar:
mum and Bailey, Ringing Bros. ana
the Forepaugh-S Bros. protested
when Mr.. HagenbeclS transformed MS
famous trained wild animal show into
n circus They fought the German
educator of beasts last year but 1t was
an intermittent sort of battle. AT the
opening of the present season, how
ever, when Mr.. Hagenbeck came out
with a sixty car circus, the trust sat
up and took notice.
Fight Helps Haeenbeck.
1--WE don't mind the fight in the
least" said Herbert S. Maddy, OF the
Hagenbeck show today. sit has maze
business exceptionally good for us. In
Bpite of the trust cfrcuses advertising
against us we have made more money
than we expected and will close the
season with a we'll filed treasury.
every method known to circus war
! fare has been brought into play
against us but still we have been VIC
1 torious. Down east we forced the
fight and in Baltimore, Washington,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg,. and other
cities we were unable to accommo-
date the people in our large tents.
eve have modern three-ring cir
Gus this year with two stages, big
steel arena and hippodrome racing
track. Featured with the famous
Hagenbeck animals are three hundred
arenic stars and one hundred genuine
Hindoo men, women and children in a
new conception called an East India
Perahera."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-28
Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago. June 27.-wheat, No. 2 red,
S7@8S; No. 3 red, S3@S6; No. 2 hard,
"a; No. 8 hard, 7s@S2; July, S3ss; Sep
TENDER opened, s3s@831z; highest.
S37s; lowest, 83@S3B; closing, S3%.
Corn-No. 2, 52M 953; No. 3, 521b a
52a; No. 2 white, 531s @53s4; No. Q
yellow, 5S@53A; No. 8 yellow, 52M a
SO; July 521a; September opened, $40
52B; highest, 527s; lowest, 52ss @521a;
closing, SPY.
oats-No. 2, 371s; No. 8, 81; No. 2
white. 40@4OA; No. 8 white, 3SA q
391a; July, 1915; September opened
35h@35&; highest, 36A lowest, 35k
$685. closing, 36@361s.
Pork-July, S1a2O; September,
s16.75.
Lard-July, ss.77; September $685.
Ribs-July, 1882; September, 1925
Rye-Cash 62@64.
Clover-$11
Barley-42@54
Timothy September, $3.50.
Chicago Butter and Egg Market.
Chicago June 27.-Butter steady
eameries, 1890; diaries, 141aI@1S.
EeSes a4Aadu. 12nn1E-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-28
MARKETS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago Tive Stock.

Chicago, June 27-Cattle receipts,
$4,000. best steady, others ten lower,
beeves, $4.o0@6.10; cows and heifers,
5$1.25@5.O0; stockers and feeders $3.50
@4.40; Texans, s3.60@4.35.
Hog receipts $4,000; active, five high
er; mixed butchers, s6.35@6.7O; good
heavy, s6.57@6.72; rough, s6.3O@645;
light, s6.35@6.7O: bulk sales, $4,000
go.
Sheep receipts $4,000; strong, $4,000
$50; lambs, $5.90@S.OO.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-28
ToDAY's MARKET.

This market is furnished by the Cas-
sidy Commission Company members
Chicago Board of Trade. Local office,
rooms and 20, Holman block q.