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The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
Frenchman Broke
Worlds Record

Mourmelon lie Grand, France Aug.
Roger Sommer, the French agia-
tor, today beat the worlds recotd for
a prolonged fight in an aeroplane.
His machine remained in the air
for two hours. twenty y-seven mirutos
and fifteen seconds.
Sommers started at 3.14 o'clock his
morning in bright moonlight. III
the beginning he travelled slowly near
the ground at elevations ,unning Groa
six to thirty yards. After the r.a
chine had become limbered NJ The
aviator increased his speed AMI The
coming Of daylight showed him
travelling and maneuvering very cas-
ily.
When it became evident that be
had beaten the duration record held
by Wilbur Wright the assembled
crowd cheered wildly, and as Som
rer came to the ground at 5-A! ne
was given An ovation ~ tse 1n.
lace.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
EXPECT HEAVY
LUMBER TRADE
RECORD so FAR THIS YEAR is
AHEAD OF LAST YEARS
SHIPMENT.

Unless the current is changed by
son39 radical move on the pa; of
other ports, Brunswick's lumber cx-
ports will take big squirt this fail
so that che years shipping will lead
the ports record. From Januar; |
to August 1 the Bee line, so rercrts
show, handled one thousand ana two
cars more than during the same ne
riod in 1908. Picture in your eye fifty
trains of twenty cars each and you
grasp the change which has come
at the South End terminals. EGory
ship going north is loaded dova ANA
so far during 1909 enc steamer ha.
been sent out every three days, giving
a monthly average of ten shi,'.
''The Bee Line" said an official yes
terday ito News man. nc iDGger
needs freight solicitor, Lark: ship
pers located at Savannah and lack
sCnviIle are having lumber forwarded
from Brunswick. There is nothing to
say except that our steamers han
died over a thousand cars more in
seven months than during the first
half of last year. That shows that
business must be looking up some
where.
I'VE are giving a lower rate and
quicker service and that means this
port will get more and more of the
lumber going north. In rates there
is a clear saving and when it comes
to handling, one of the Bee Line ships
tucks away million feet as easy as
can be. Lumber czn be handled
more economically here than in any
other port, hence Brunswick is bound
to get the shipping.
che outlook is bright and that
means larger payrolls at the South
End. This in turn will help Bruns-
wick
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
TWENTY SIX THOUSAND BAR
RELs SHIPPED FROM PORT
LAST WEEK.
This is a New and Splendid Record
for the Port-AII of 1t Was Shipped
by the Downing company-steady
Increase Now Expected in Naval
Stores Shipment.

Twenty-siX thousand barrels of
rosin in a single six days is Bruins
wick's new record for rosin shipments
and SO far as is known leads any 9TH
er of the several ports from which
naval stores are shipped.
The Downing company, Brunswick 5
sole naval stores concern, has won
many compliments for the fine rec
ord made by the rosin yards of the
company. 1t required several steam
ers to handle this big lot of rosin and
as fast as one passed out another
took her berth.
To give an idea of what handling
$4,000 barrels of rosin calls for one
had simply to visit the yards dur
ing the work hours. Scores of labor
ers on every side rolling barrels here
and there, picking out certain brands
and grades and sorting these to the
several matches. The payroll for labor
ran over one thousand dollars for the
week, making it the banner week for
labor on the rOsin docks. At one
time one of the Bee Line ships was
loading at three LatcHes and from,
lighters at the same tine.
Naval stores operators who nave
watched the loading say than Bru9s-
wick today outranks all other . crt=
in the matter of dispatch and err
nomical handling. Several close Oh
servers claim that it is but r.atl er
of short time when considerable
quantities now going to JacF s0nvillo
and Savannah will be diverted 10
Brunswick This in turn wouil mean
increased payrolls for TIL, rosin docks
besides an increase in tontagA fr The
Bee Line ships
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
Many Girls Had
Narrow Escape

New York, Aug. Two hundred
and fifty inmates of the House OF
the Good Shepherd, on East Nine
teenth street, east of the river, fled
from the main building to the court
yard at an early hour today whal a
fire burned out nearly all the roorls
on the second floor.
A passing policeman who discoy-
cred the blaze experienced great diff
ficulty in arousing the occupants
The gates Of the tall iron fence
were locked. and the policeman thrcv
stones at the heavily screened blinds
until the watchman was arouse2
A fire alarm was then sounded and
the girl inmates ran into the coat.
yard in their night clothing, but none
were injured.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
Old Blue Laws
Are Repealed

Hartford, Conn.,, Aug. Both
houses of the Connections legislature
today passed a bill repeating the blue
laws relating to Sunday observance,
which forbid almost every form q
recreation and secular activity. Th=
laws, which have been seldom en-
forced, are relics of acts of 1922.
One of the laws specifically repeal
ed is that which provides for hne
of $4 on each person who shall at
tend a concert or enter cainment On
the Lords Day.
The new Sunday bill is short. II
defines the Sunday, and prohibits al
sports and secular activities "exce Y
such as are demanded by necessity
and mercy and such as are for Tho
general welfare of the community
The penal section provides borL
fines and Imprisonment for violation
of these laws.
Under the words general welfale
of the community" Sunday baseball
is probably permitted and the adYo-
Gates of the bill admit that the
courts must interpret the wording IL
several places.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
THAW HEARING IS
NOW AT AN END
SPECTATORS WEPT AS ATToR.
NEY PLEAD FOR HIS RELEASE
IN MOTHERS BEHALF.

White Plains, N T., Aug. THE
closing arguments were heard by
Justice Mills today of the application
OF Harry X. Thaw for his release from
Matteawan insane asylum on habeas
corpus proceedings.
When the arguments were all COM
pleted, Justice Mills made short
statement, announcing that he would
hand down his decision in the case
next Thursday, sending it to the
court probably Thursday morning.
The arguments today lasted for
less than two hours. Each side was
limited to an hour, but neither Dis
trict Attorney Jerome nor Attorney
Morschauser, Thaws counsel. con-
sumed the full limit of the time.
The district attorney was the
first to speak He attacked the cred
liability of some of the aienists who
have testified during the hearing. He
also scored Evelyn Thaw, saying he
believed she lied on the stand and
that he would not believe her on her
oath. He argued that Thaw, if re-
leased from Matteawan, would be a
menace and said that the lives Of
many people would be in danger.
Words Brought Tears.
Attorney Morschauser followed him
in an eloquent and forecful argument
for the release of Thaw. He also
scored some Of the alienists and said
Evelyn Thaw lied when she stated ON
the stand that Harry Thaw had
threatened her life, declaring it moth
ing but deliberate lie.
Morschauser's closing appeal in the
behalf OF his client was eloquent.
When he appealed for the release of
Thaw, bringing in his aged mother.
who occupied seat in the court
room, tears came to the eyes of MANY
of the spectators.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
SAYS SUTTON WAS
BEATEN TO DEATH
BOARD OF INQUIRY IN SUTTON
CASE HELD SESSION BE-
HIND CLOSED DOORS.

Annapolis, Md, Aug. For four
hours, behind closed doors, the naval
board of inquiry which is investigat-
Ing into the death of Lieutenant
James Sutton, today heard the letters
OF Sutton's mother read in which
she charged that her son was beaten
to death before the shot was fired
INTO his brain by one of the other
cadets.
In one of her letters, written to Col
Justice Mills today on the application
rine school, who will b. court mar
tailed when the secret inquiry ends,
Mrs. Sutton said: "Yes, | wrote the
letters. | know my son was murder
ed. 1 would be no mother if | did
not see that his murderers were pun
ished."
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
THE WALL STREET MARKET.
Active Demand Yesterday Carried the
Prices Upward.

New York. Aug. 7.-Quite an act
i've demand for stocks today carried
the opening prices upward throughout
the list Ten thousand shares Of
United States Steel sold at rs 1-2
and 76 rs, and the price touched II
Immediately afterward
The market closed unsettled and
Irregular. Prices rose to new records
fer r1.tcd States Stccr. Trr:cn Pacific.
Reading, Atchiscn. and some others
less rrominent. Realizing sales made
- 'n~-ee7'on on prices in late deal
ings, Reading reacting q point.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
President Taft
AT Summer Home

Beverly, Mass, Aug President
Iaft today got down to the routine
Of his summer vacation by playing
his usual game of golf. making a
score of 92. He took a fifteen mile
drive in an automobile with his wife
this afternoon. He says this is about
his daily routine.
Mrs. Taft has entirely recovered her
health, but very few engagements
have been made during the remainder
of the summer.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
GOOD WORDS FOR ISLAND.
Soldiers Think 1t Besg Camping Place
in the State.

That ST. Simon is the best place in
the state for military encampments
has been demonstrated during the
past three weeks, when most of Geor-
gia's troops have been on the island
One of the officers of the Americas
company returned home Friday from
the island and on reporting his re-
turn the Americus Times Recorder Of
yesterday said among other things:
THE stay, says the officer, has been
exceedingly pleasant; far more so
than at Tybee during the last state
encampment There are no mosqui-
toes, and the bathing has been ex-
cellent. There is plenty Of work, but
the various troops did not mind
that"
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08

With the opening Of GIynn county's
new $4,000 high school on September
20, a new departure will be made
in the organization of the Mansfield
street grammar school which will put
Brunswick, it is believed. in the fore
front among Georgia cities in the mat
ter Of public schools. 1t is needless
to say that all of the educators OF
the state will keep an eye on Super
intendent Billiards. report for 1909
10. Scores of teachers are on the
lookout for better systems.
Briefly, the board of education has
adopted for this city the topical sys-
tenn instead of continuing the grad
ing system after the fourth year.
Under the topical system every pupil
in the entire school will recite his
or her arithmetic to the teacher of
that science. The success. of the sys-
tenn in the Glynn high school has
been so marked that the board con-
cluded some time ago to extend it
to embrace all classes above the
fourth. Each study will have a teach
er who will hear in turn the classes
from the various rooms. The study
hall used formerly by the high school
will be used for the same purpose
by the grammar school students. All
scholars in Purvis school above the
fourth class will be transferred to
Mansfield street school, thus leaving
Purvis as primary school, The
first four grades of Mansfield will be
continued as Mansfield street primary
school
Superintendent Ballard is now Wis
1ting a number of Georgia cities, it
is stated, for the purpose of gather
ing fresh data on schools so that
when the fall term opens Brunswick's S
schools may be brought up to the
highest standard. A close observer
and an accurate judge of practical
methods, superintendent Ballard has
in the past kept Brunswick's school
system equal to any in the state of
Georgia.
hC LCN uISu SCuOOl Will open WlCQ
127 pupils. To defray the extra ex-
pense of having a physical director
on the staff a tuition fee of $40 per
year will be charged, the first time
that a fee has been imposed in the
history OF the public schools of this
county. Practically every city in
the state imposes a similar or larger
fee.
The new physical director, who
will also teach mathmatics, vii. ar
rive in Brunswick about September Is.
Special attention will be given t j., ath-
letics and hustling teams will .ocn
be busy building up record for the
school. The opening or ''house-werm-
ing" for the high school about Sep
tember - promises to be red let
ter event not only for the pupils but
for the PARENTS and the public The
new furniture will be installed be-
fore the opening day and the building
put in shape for the inspection of
the public. No city in the south of
even 10000 population will be atle
to boast of finer and better equip
ped high school than Glynn county
a
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
CONGRESS PLACED DOUBLE
DUTIES IN ITS HURRY

Washington. Aug. 7-Congress, in
rapidly jamming through the concur
rent resolution reducing the duties
on the products of hides to placate
the western states, inserted one para
Sraph ~rt'irg dit, CT % per cent.
rn s2d 'es, e., onJ another Of 35
per cent.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
ROBERT BACON WILL
SUCCEED AMBASSADOR WHITE

Newport. r. T., Aug. 7.--Robert
Bacon, assistant secretary Of state
under President Roosevelt, will be
appointed ambassador to France, re-
firing Henry White, who returns to
this co trtrv.
Mr. W'-its wili he nsfa-ed some
Office prominent in civil life.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
NEW YORK AND CANADA
BROKE EVEN ~ REGATTA

Detroit Mich, Aug. New York
and Canada broke even today in the
regatta Of the American Association
of Amateur Oarsmen, each taking four
firsts. New York won the most spec
tacular event of the day, the senior
eieht-oared championship event.
Toronto drew a close second, being
defeated by only one-half a length.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
SEVEN PEOPLE WERE INJURED

New York, Aug. 7.-Eleven persons
were injured, three seriously, when
spreading rails caused crowded
trolley. car On the Grove street line,
in Jersey City. to drop into an ex-
cayation between the tracks today.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08

ON THE WAYS. - The steamer
Hessie of the Darien and Bruins wick
line, is on the marine railway of the
Parker Hensell Engineering company
undergoing few repairs. The work
will be completed within few days.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
FEW CHANGES
WILL BE MADE
At THE SCROOLS
WHICH WILL GIVE BRUNSWICK
A ONE OF THE BEST SYSTEMS
ii IN THE STATE.

New High School Will Open With 1923
PupiIs-smaIl Per Capita is to Be
Charged, as is the Case in All
Other Cities-some of the Changes
as Planned.
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08

The airships: they always seek re-
vis.on upward, D
The Brunswick news., 1909-08-08
The Grand-MOnda

The Mad Miner,
The Fan (Hand colored)
And 5 other brand new one
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
A NEW DISEASE.

The New York Post recognizes a new disease which it calls Japano- phobia, and intimates that it is as actual as tuberculosis or yellow fever. the principal difference being that 1t is mental ailment. It causes its victims to see bloody war every time they read or hear that Japan has built a fishing boat or tug boat. why asks an observing and sane contem- porary. cannot education, light and common sense be let in upon minds which are set in tremble by the vain imagination of minds which lose their balance every time. son of the flowery land appears? Apply modi- cum of calm reflection and some sober thinking to the subject and the jingo- ism will disappear
 Only a specialist who Is competent to minister to mind diseased" can give relief in such cases. It ought to be plain to any one who will take the trouble to think over the matter coolly that Japan is not in condition to enter into a war with any strong nation, and also that she doesn't want any war with this country. It is pos- sible that the anti-Japanese sentiment In some parts of the country may force trouble with the little nation. and if if eaYnas we nredicf that fha Iana will not be to blame. They are not going to be the aggressors, nor do we be- lieve that they will give the United States even a shadow of excuse for going to war with their country. But this Japanophobia has served as a rea- son and excuse for more big battle ships. and that is the object had in view by those who have the disease.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1sOO.
4DOwN SOUTH.

The truest and the best pictorial presentation of plantation scenes, ever iissued from any press is Rudolf Eick- smeyer's volume recently sent out by R. H. Russell under the title. Down Eouth." Mfr. Eickmeyers photographic Iworlk was so excellent that Joel Chan dIer Harris wrote the introduction for It
 The pictorial volume should have 8 special interest to the people of Mont gomery county, for the plantation scenes 1t represents are the plantation scenes in Montgomery county. Mir. Eickmeyer will be remembered by some of our people. He was a visitor here several years ago and he spent some weeks on the plantation of MT. Adoiph Dreysprings near Ware in the upper end of this county. The pie turesque scenes of plantation life ap- pealed to him and being an artist in photography he has enbaImed the scenes and incidents of plantation life in volume that will be priceless fifty years from now, for the thoughtful man realizes that the plantation life of Alabama of the present decade will 5 like slavery have passed away in the next half century.
 Speaking of this change Joel Chan dler Harris says in his preface to the iexeellent book:
 ''Meanwhile an artist of the camera has been looking about in the South for the picturesque and has succeeded in finding it in all sorts of the out of way places. He has found 1t in even what is homely and commonplace The most striking of the scenes he gives gives wide wings to the imagination, and the most familiar, such as the lonely path through the cotton patch. pos sess a charm that cannot be defined It is possible that the man behind the camera was both a poet and an artist"
 To the man reared in the South on , plantation the pictures have a com polling appeal, bringing as they do out of the lapse of years, the true planta- tion life and atmosphere. It is sur prising that a man of the North-Mr. Eickmeyer is from Yonkers, N. Y- should have been able to catch and re- tain in his photographic studies the soft, romatnic atmosphere that cIings about the Southern plantation.
 The book should find the ready ap- preciation which it deserves in the South. Certainly the plantation scenes of the South have never been present. ed more truthfully or more artistic ally.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02
Sitting for Her Photorraph.

NeW 1ofk world.
 A comparative study of the photographs ot thousand girls and young women in private life, as seen in the photographers' corrections or in portraits published, would reveal surprisingly large proportion who pose in stagy attitudes that do not show mem to advantage Is it the photogra- phers fault. If not what aiIs the girIs that they should turn their heads nearly to a profile and then launch a coQuettish side glance at the camera, or drop their cheeks on muffs or such inanimate objects and summon up a roguish smile. or lower the chin and do a soulfpliy earnest Cleo de Merode upward gaze? Why does a girl want to make her picture look like that of buriesque actress? Why Q couple of years ago, were all the pretty plump girls of five feet nothing raising naughty chins and striving to look like the seven-foot tall Gibson girl? Perhaps when these questions are answered we shall know why young men, to whom photography Is an occasion- al necessary bore get in one-tenth of the time better portraits than young women better in proportion; of course to their sienderer advantages. About the most an- moving tricks of men before the camera are to throw their heads back too far and to shut their lips with unnatural firmneBs like Kaiser Wilhelm. The anticipated jeers of their friends would prevent most men now from posing like the famous water melon portrait' of Robert Louis Stevenson, with one finger at the temples. Without the answer to impertinent questions. everyone already knows that a homely girl with large nose, who has never tried to look ktttenish because it's no use, often takes q finer-looking portrait than her more beau tiful but more self-conscious sister.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-02

points to Gatun, with anything like the bead that It shows at the latter point [. Furthermore, water conditions are practically similar at Gamboa and Bo- nio to those obtainable at Gefun, show ing that the hydraulic grade between those points is practically on level
 After having demonstrated to his own satisfaction that the water in the dam site Is of purely local origin, MT. Saviiie proceeds to show that such conditions are not at all unusual in the construc- ton of earth dams. He mentions many dams where such conditions have pre- vailed, and says that 1t involves no new or unusual construction principles to render local water harmless to dam site. He says that the driving of steel sheet piling down to impervfous mater ial under the dam will effectively stop any dangerous seepage. and win make the dam absolutely safe in this partic- tilar.
 He goes into detail as to the ability of the foundation to bear up the weight to be imposed upon it. He has prepared maps showing the strata underlying the site all the way down to the argilla- ceous sandstone upon which the weight Of the dam must rest. He has prepared as elaborate lot of tests to show the strength of this foundation as he did In determining the underground water conditions at the site. He makes no qualifications in saying that the mater iais will afferd ample strength to sup- port the dam
 As to the dam itself, he has already built two of them under working condi- tions. The material is to be pumped in in suspension. The water will then be allowed to drain of, leaving the earth bumped up a compact and Homogeneous mass. which. to borrow the language of former engineer Stevens. will make it as stable as any mountain of similar material ever reared by the hand of the Almighty" The dam will show a weight of sixty-three pounds for every pound of water pressure brought against 1t. The material will be so im- previous to water that 1t cannot get through three feet of it under a pres sure equivalent to a head of I25 feet of water, yet at the base there will be a head of only eighty-five feet in the deepest portion, while there will be nearly half mile of the material for It to set through. At the top of the water the dam will be nearly 500 feet through. and the dam will be fifty feet higher than the water is ever intended to so.
 On the whole, it is to be said that the doubt abo0t the Gatun dam does not exist in tho minds of those engineers who have followed the SavilIe inyes- tigations. The canal officials say it 4a perfecfiy safe, and that they have notfi- ing to fear from the engineers who nave gone to the Isthmus They are confident that the pnly result will be a further vindication of what has been done. eH Copyright. 1909. by Frederic T. Haskin.l
 
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