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of Blakely, of Decatur. of Bainbridge, or
Stewart of Marlborough and of Perry
and doubt that the nation could furnish
their like today. Time mellows the view.
A century hence writer's now unborn Will
throw around the great characters OF the
civil war all the glamour with which we
now ciothe the brilliant actors of our
earlier struggles. And when they come
70 write about the Spanish war they will
not lack material either, for into the few
months of that clashing of forces there
was crowded as much of daring. mag
1ificent courage and remarkable exploit
70 rhaps as can be found in any other
rage of the worlds history. 1t all is too
rev today too fresh in the minds Of the
public to be judged in its proper pro-
u ortion but century will give the right
perspective.
Net Roosevelt or Hobson or Sampson
Or Schley is likely to be classed as the
most picturesque figure of that war. The
chances are that it will be Wainwright
Wainwright of the Gloucester. There is
nothing in sea warfare to surpass his
achievement on that July day when Ger
vera made his dash out Of the harbor of
Santiago.
Richard Wainwright is an admiral now.
but he only was lieutenant commander
then He comes of a race OF sea fighters
1Iis father was the Commander Richard
wainwright who was captain OF Farragut's
flagship. the Hartford. and who died in
the Mississippi in g.
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respond. Several times crews of Spanish
gunners were killed as they were about
to fire. The Pluton waveTed first. The
Gloucester forced her further and further
in shore, and after one desperate effort to
swing about the Pluton suddenly was
turned landward and was sent crashing
into the rocks. Then the Gloucester con-
centrated her fire on the Furor Vainly
the Spaniards fought back. One shot
wrecked the Jurors steering gear and
the destroyer, becoming unmanageable.
began to turn In odd sorts Of ways. Next
she caught fire. From her deck an off1cer
waved a towel in token of surrender.
About the same moment that the Furor
there was an explosion on
the Pluton. She. too. was afire and one
of her magazines had exploded.
Rescue crews were hurried from the
Gloucester to the two vessels. The Furor
was burning so rapidly that many Of her
crew jumped into the sea to escape the
flames. From the water and from the
bow, where the other survivors were
crowded. the men In the Gloucester's
men. Soon after they were put aboard
the Gloucester boats there We're several
explosions on the Furor and the destroyer
in the sea.
From the Pluton the Gloucester rescued
twenty-six men.
But while the men In the boats were
busy at the work of rescung the sur
vivors of the Pluton and the Furor, VAIN
wright was in pursuit of the Spanish
Around point of land near
ly two miles west of where the Pluton
and Furor had been wounded to death
were the Maria Teresa and Oquendo
ashore and burning fiercely. Boats were
sent to the nearest battleship, the Teresa.
A Id be
landed them ON the beach through the
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and the yacht closed in with the rest of
the fleet. The great guns Of the battle
ships were beginning to boom, and the
Oregon, Iowa, Texas, Brooklyn and 1ndi-
ana were bending every energy to get
abreast Of and keep up with the fleeing
fleet.
The Gloucester. nearer the Spaniards
than any of the battleships, was not long
getting into the range Of fire. Before
either the Pluton or the Furor had come
out, the Gloucester. at 5000 yards range,
was firing at the big Spanish ships with
her starboard guns. They were not heavy
enough to do serious harm, but they
added their mite. Then the Gloucester
was slowed down to await the destroyers
but all the while the gunners kept up
an incessant fire on the Spanish cruisers
The forts were blazing away at the Amer
lean vessels, but their fire amounted to
little.
When the four big warships were all
turned west the Pluton and Furor came
dashing after them. The Gloucester, now
under full speed, opened on them at
$500 yards range. Just at this moment
the Indiana signaled 'Gunboats will adj
vance" To the men on the Gloucester
this meant, SO far as the Pluton and
Furor were concerned. 1t was the Glouces-
ter's fight alone. for no other American
gunboats were near enough to get into
action with them. Thereupon the fight
between the yacht and the two Spaniards
became battle altogether apart from the
main action in which the battleships were
engaged. Straight abreast Of the Destroy
ers went the Gloucester. She blazed away
at them as If she had the battery Of
battleship. The starboard forward guns
were trained on the Pluton and the star
board after and stern guns on the F'uror.
So tremendous was the fire Of the
Gloucester and SO accurate was 1t that
the Spaniards had little opportunity to
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the Gloucester had been executive Off
Ger OF the battleship Maine and was on
that vessel when she was destroyed in
Havana harbor. February Is. 1898. If
any man had reason to feel bitterly to
ward Spain he certainly had. There
was no berth on any Of the battleships
for him when war was declared, but
he was placed in command of J. Pier
pont MOrgan's yacht Corsair, which
the government had acquired and
which had been converted into a gun
boat and christened the Gloucester. The
yacht was fast. but was unprotected
One shot from big gun would sink
her. Fast-fring guns of light caliber
had been put upon her and she had
been sent to join SIMPSONS fleet in
Cuban waters.
In the long. tedious days and nights
of the blockade of Santiago the Gloucester
patch purposes as anything else. On
shore Shafter was trying to smash the
Spanish lines and was finding the task
a difficult one. Within the harbor were
the Spanish battleships and torpedo
boat destroyers. safe behind the frown ;,
ing hills and well protected by the
guns Of MORO Castle.
In the daytime the American fleet
held position well off shore. At night
the feet closed in and the searchlights
played on the narrow channel Shafter
hoped to carry the forts from the land
side. but found the job harder than he
mao supposed. That tho Spanish fleet
would dash out at night, taking adj.
vantage of a storm or fog. was expect
ed. To maintain the Gordon, to be ever
prepared for battle, was the task Of
the blockading force.
Cervera had little doubt what the re-
suit would be il he gave battle to
Sampson. The Spanish battleships were
OF greater speed than those Of the
blockaders. but man for man and boat
for boat the Spaniard never was a
match for the American. Day after day
the dreary game of watching and wait
ing was played by the two command
ers. Then there came to Cervera an
order which he must obey Captain
General Blanco directed him to leave
Santiago and proceed to Havana. That
Santiago would fall the captain gener al
felt certain. With the fleet in Havana
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the various vaults and jumps
Most alluring of all spring signs In
Washington is the sweet girl graduate
An unusual number Of girls schools are
located here and all through the spring
there Is the keenest excitement anent
commandments, and flowers and grad
uating presents. In every shop are goods
absolutely essential to them and they
themselves are much In evidence in the
stores.
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A PalpabIe Hit.

e, ENATOR LA TOILETTE said of
~ notorious f1nancier the other day:
He got rather a setback in talk he
had last session with one of our men.
Money" he said. Bah. There are
thousands OF ways of making money
Yes, but only one honest way, our
man remarked.
What ways that?
81 thought you wouldn't know it,.
was the reply"
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the spring. Hotels and boarding houses
are filled week after week with berib-
boned and badged visitors
Washington is particularly to the front
in amateur athletics and this is the glad
time when ambitious young fellows go
into training for outdoor meets. One
passes them in the park running with
determination that Is to make them win
ners ere long; in every available gym
nasium they are perfecting themselves in
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T is the custom to
think of men who
played heroic roles
in a former day as
of stronger fiber
and more rugged
mold than those OF
today. Many Amer
leans believe the
sea fighters Of the
war Of 1912 never
have been eQualed.
They read Of Hull,
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Nnecdotes Concerning
We'll Known People.

ing.
Veil was the reply. i half engaged
a stranger for twenty-one lire-three
IRE Jay. But you are friend. Santa
Maria. you shall have five lire q day,
my honest Giovanni
Giovanni meditated
See here he said, give me fourteen
lire down and let the stranger have his
end"
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toilet or motor car, and note the horses
whose owners love the spring because it
is the ideal weather for trying OUT
their blooded stock without danger of
Hordes of excursionists annually choose
the first days of spring as the time to
visit Washington. They are to be seen
everywhere. And, probably, no other city
is SO popular for conventions as Wash
ington, or any. time so propitious as
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PRING in Washing
ton is essentially a
spring of blossom
and bloom. of green
sward and glad
new raiment, of
splendid sunset eff
fects and the most
delicious perfumes
Dame Nature can
distill in a tenn
perate cline. Trav-
elers compare the
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Once.

From Brooklyn Life.
stranger-Did you ever reveal your ash.
ing hole to a friend?
Angier-Once I did to a friend ON hSs
deathbed.
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Chance plays large part in the lives
Of men. The Richard Wainwright of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
BODY OF MRS. PARKER
CARRIED TO HER HOME
funeral Party Took Re-
mains to Carolina.

Accompanied by the grief-stricken
husband, her sister-in-law, Miss Par
ker, of Americus, and DR.. Gyles, ths
Blackville S. c., physician brough.
here to attend her, the remains of
Mrs. A c. Parker, the unfortunate
lady who took her own life here Fri
day morning, was carried yesterda.
to the s9ddened home in Blackyille.
S. c., for interment today The tragte
death of this beautiful, cultured ana
beloved lady was one of the saddes{
occasions ever known in Americus
and deepest sympathy of friends here
was extended the bereaved ones. Mrs.
Parker was thirty-three years of age
and was, until recently, the picture OF
health and feminine loveliness, tle
centre of a wide circle GG friends In
the litt:e Carolina city in which she
resided.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
DISPLAY OF ART SQUARES
AND RUGS IS SUPERB
Attractive Window at the Allison Fur.
niture Co.

Lovers of the beautiful and artists
will be impressed today with the su-
perb window display of handsome arr
squares and rugs made by the Allison
Furniture Co. These windows, the
largest in Americus or any South Geof
gia city, are rendered indeed mos;
attractive. Great art squares in hand
some designs fill the centre of the
east window, While displayed about
it are rugs calculated to elicit the
admiration of all passers by. This en-
terprising company makes a special
week of some line carried, and this
week it has sperad for the public a
yeritable feast in handsome rugs and
art squares which add SO much to the
adornment ana context Of every home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
liking THE SLATE FOR
CAMP PAI6N OF 1912.
Edwards Will Be Doomed
For Governor.
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

.
Atlanta, Ga, September 3.-Barly
in the game as it may seem, with the
cheering of the 1910 stale convention
still ringing in the public's ears, spec
ulation is rife on the political situa-
ton two years from now. Charles G
Edwards, congressman from the First
district, isrconsidering the advisability
of becoming a candidate for governor
and his friends have launched move
ment in his interest.
The announcement is particularly
interesting in view Of the fact that
Hoka Smith has practically announced
that he will under no circumstances b..
candidate to succeed himself, this
however, being a foregone conclusion,
according to precedent, for this makes
Hoke Smiths second term.
1t has already developed that Con
gressman William Schley Howard, who
beat Lon Livingston in the Fifth dis
trict, will have opposition in the next
I two years, regardless of the record Lt
makes for himself in the national as
sembly, John NJ. SIaton, who succeeds
himself as president of the senate, is
considered the most probable cand
date, though he has authorized no an
nouncement.
And while the president of the sen,
:
not be political surprise if JOHN y.
Holder, of Jackson county, reelected
to the house and candidate for speaker
to succeed himself, might be found III
the running for congress in his dis
trict at the same time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
BIG ARMY OF STRIKERS
TO RETURN TO WORK.
Nearly $4,000 TaiIors In
vOlved Therein.
- ~ 81
Strike of Cloak Makers
is Settled After Hav-
ing Cost a Hundred
Million Dollars.
Especial to Times-Recorder.


New York, September 3.-The cloak
makers strike one of the greatest in
dustrial disturbances in the history Of
American labor, was settled last nighe
and seventy thousand employees will
return to work. Ten thousand of them
and those who depend upon them, 5,,
600 in all, were on the point of evic-
ton, it is said
The industrial loss to employers and
employees has run high into the mil
lions.
In loss of wages alone the total has
been estimated at more than ten mil
lions, while the loss to manufactur-
ers, jobbers and retailers the country
over has been computed at ten times
tAat amount.
Iii spite of the stupendous read
jCstment involved the strike has been
in the main notable for it's peaceful
ness.
julius Henry Cohen, counsel for tho
Manufacturers Association, describes
the agreement signed by him anl rep
resrntatiVes of the strikers in this
sentence
no principle has been surrendered
by tie manufacturers, yet the union
may truly claim they have won
great victory for the people. The, man
ufacturers believe in the union and
the principle that all who desire its
benefits should share in it's burdens"
One essential of this victorv. and
one important not only to the strikers
bu- to the nation at large which wears
tleir output, is the abolition of all
contract work at home. Hereafter
garments made in New York will be
manufactured under sanitary condi-
ticns. There will be no mora sweat
shops !"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
PULLED GUN ON NEGRO
But FAILED TO FIRE
Stole Gum Register From
Bottoms Store.

Hugging to his breast a chewine
gum register anu sprinting for his
life, country negro made a Mara
thon race course of the Lamar street
pavement west of Bolton Bros. yes,
terday. And right in the walks of the
fleeing gum snatcher came Alderman
Bolton in high gear, brandishing :.
revolver of the vintage of 112 and call
ing upon the black delegate to halt
and deliver the goods. Down td9
street the pair of sprinters speeded,
but at the alley near the Howell drus
store the frightened darkey dropped
his burden of chewing gum and few
stray nickels and kicked out of sight
in tie rear of the buildings there. Had
that pistol been of the brew of recent
years is is quite likely that cuffs
tire would have sustained a blow
out, with guneral trimmings.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
CONTEST IN YIELD OF
CORN IN SUMTER.
Enormous Yield in Bushels
For Prizes.

The Times-Recorder has added other
names to the long list of Sumter couA-
ty farmers who are contesting for the
5000 in prizes offered by Americus
business houses for the greatest corn
yield per acre tEis year. and the result
will surprise those not acquainted
with the productiveness of Sumtere
soil
Mr.. J..W. Hightower is looking after
the contest and reports greatest inter
est therein. A committee of judges u
be selected by the contestants, will
award the prizes.
Another good thing about the pres
ent corn crop is that there is more
planted tits year than has been IN
many years. This will largely increase
the yield, to say nothing OF the crop be-
ing better than usual
The crop being better and more of ii
makes it certain that there will be less
western corn shipped to this section
this year than there has been possibly
for twenty years.
lii is pointed out by those who dis
cuss the matter, that the big corn croG
will put the farmers in better condition
financially, for they will not only have
enough to feed their stock. but enough
to raise hogs to furni8h meat to dc
hem.
The farmers throughout this section
are feeling optimistic over the situation
and if there is no drawback between
this and gathering time they viii reap
abundantly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
FILLED TO THE DOORS
YET OTHERS TO COME
Attendance at School the
Greatest Ever.

With 14O pupils already enrolled,
the Third District Agricultural School
in Americas opens its doors tomorrow
morning under the brightest auspices.
the attendance being far greater than
at any period since the school was
established three years ago
Twenty counties are represented
there by boarding pupils, while there
are some from Alabama and Florila
among the early arrivals.
Every dormitory room, both in the
girls and boys dormitories are filed
to capacity, while trunks lining the
Railways indicate the demand for
more room
The examinations and assignments
of pupils has been going on during tho
past three days, and the college viii
open for business in fact tomorrow
Supt Collum has thus been overwhen3-
ed with work, but all pupils will be
taken care of some way.
Another dormitory, Supt Collum
says could easily be filled with pu-
pills from other counties, as he had
letters yesterday from many others
en- route here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
REMAINS OF MISS MILLER
TAKEN TO ATLANT 4
Father fastening Home, Does Nos
Know of Daughters Death.

Atlanta. September 3.-The body of
Miss Marjorie Miller, of New Orleans,
who was drowned in TaIlu'ah river
last Monday arrived in Atlanta this
morning at o'clock. 1t was taken
to the establishment of Greenberg,
Bond & Bloomfield. The funeral was
conducted from their chapel this az
ternoon at 4 o'clock. The body will
be put in a vault at Oakland and later
sent to New Orleans. Come home at
once" J" was the cablegram sent Pro-
fessor Miller, dean of Tulane Univer-
sity, father of the young lady II
was deemed best by the members OF
the family 10 keep the sad news OF
his daughters tragic death from him
until his arrival
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
SESSION OF COURT TO
BEGIN ON MONDAY.
Special Term is Convened
For Week.

Judge z. A. Littlejohn will preside
tomorrow at the special term of Sum-
ter Superior court convened for the
purpose of trying the unusually large
number of negro prisoners in the
county jail, fifteen or twenty being
confined there upon felony charges.
Among these criminals are three or
four held for murder, while assault,
robbery and rape cases figure upon
the docket as we'll The specially
drawn grand jury meets tomorrow
morning at 8 o'clock, while the trial Ct
cases will be entered upon Tuesday
morning at that hour. Owing to this
unexpectedly heavy docket the couct
may be thus engaged the greater por-
tion of the week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
ROLLER PLAN TRIED is
APPLAUDED BY BOSSES
Echoes of the Convention
Last Week.
Men Behind the Ma
chine Attempt to Ex-
plain Away Tamma-
ny Methods.
Special to Times-Recorder.


Atlanta, Ga, September 4.-Argl.
ment, pro and con, in regard to the
propriety and expediency of the appli-
cation Of the "steam-roJler" to the
very large Brown minority in the
state democratic convention Thursday
representing as they did SO 900 Georgia
voters, continues to be the one topic
of conversation in political circle
here, AS throughout the state.
The Brown people declare that while
the very speakers of the Smith side
We're delivering addresses and formu
lating a platform which was a denun
citation of Tanmany Hall and the
stand-patters and advocates of Cannon
ssm in the national parties, they them
selves were guilty of a piece of high,
handed tyranny which Joe Cannon nor
the Tammany Hall leaders would moi
have dared
They declare tlat democratic con-
yention at which the minority has alb,
solutely no voice is an anomoly, ana
That according to all rules of the
democratic party and of parliamentary
procedure they had right to be heard
and right to be represented on the
platform committee and state execu,
tive committee.
TIE Smith people who ran the con-
vention machine say the Brown pep
de came to the convention TO make
trouble, AND that if they had ever been
given voice in the conention it would
nave been wraggling for days.
They pretend that if the Brown del
egates had been given a voice in the
platform committee, they would have
some in with minority report ana
3eries OF amendments on which the
argument would have been intermina-
Bile. They say it was "a case of ma
jority rule, that the convention only
ratified the VIII of the people already
expressed at the polls.
The steam roller, the bosses in-
sist. was tie easy method by whioa
he Brown voice in Georgia was ST.
'enced and the representatives of go
300 people who voted for him was thus
stified,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-04
TOM WATSON IN WRATH
CALLS A NEW TICKET.
Declares His Opposition to
HOke Smith.
Wants a Candidate to
Oppose Nominee and
He is Also Against
Hardwick.
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

-
Atlanta, Ca September 3-fTher,
will be an Independent candidate n
the race for election TO the office q
governor in the general election this
fall Hoke Smith. who was nominated
IN the primary election, will have op-
position That is certain"
WitA this emphatic statement made
last night after his unsuccessful af
fort to deliver a speech in the nes
auditorium armory, Thomas e. Wat
son threw down the gauntlet to those
wno have opposed him politically il
the past.
1 do not know who tie candidat-
for governor viii be- continued Nj
Watson Il will use all my infueney
to secure the consent of GovernU
Brown to make the race. Should b.
refuse. there is Pope Brown or Judg
Dick Russell
If none of these viii make the
race, there viii be a candidate in tht
field against Mr.. Smith anyhow
There will also be a candidat,
against Thomas w Hardwck, whe
was nominated for congress from tn,
Tenth district.
Money and bribery will not keep q
good man out of office SO long as 1 car
raise my voice on my influence anc
Bill' Fleming is the man who wiz
beat Hardwick out of his Job in tn,
Tenth"
MIR. Watson declared that under ~
will he make tle racg
for governor. He declared he wi,
never be a candidate for any Office, bu,
that he is going to make a hg1G f.;
Old Man Peepul as a soldier in the
ranks.