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UPIIOLDS VERDICT President Sustains Findings of The Naval Court of InquiLy. BE CRITICiSES BOTl ADMIRALS. Censures Schley For His "Retrograde Movcment" and Sampson For Be ing Absent. Washington, Special.--The mem arandum of the President upon the appeal of Admiral Schley from the ver dict of the court of inquiry to examine into his conduct during the Spa;ish .American war, was given to tue press Wednesday. It says: "I have received the appeal of Ad miral Schley and the answer thereto from the Navy Departmer.t. I have ex amined both with the utsost care, as well as the preceding a;peal to the Secretary of the Navy. L have read through all the testimony taken before the court and the staternents of the counsel for Admirals Sampson and Schley; have examined ail the official reports of every kind in reference to the Santiago naval campaign ,copies of the logbooks and signacl books, and the testimony before the Court of Claims, and have also personally had before me the four surviving captain of the two admirals, which were ac tively engaged at Santiago. "It appears that the court of in quiry was unanimous in i:s findings of fact and unanimous in it; expressions of opinion on most of its findings of factk No appeal is made to me from the verdict o fthe court or these points where it was unanimous. I have, how ever, gone carefully over the evidence on these points also. I am satisfied that on the whole the c.)urt did sub stantial justice. It should have specifi sally condemned the failure to enforce an efficient night blockade at Santiago while Admiral Schley was in com mand. On the other hand, I feel that there is a~ reasonable doubt whether he did not move his squadron with sufficient expedition from port to port. The court is a unit in condemning Ad miral Schley's action on the point where it seems to me he most gravely erred; his 'retrograde movement' when he abandoned the blockade, and his disobedience of orders and mis statement of facts in relition thereto. It should be remembered, however, that the majority of these actions which the court censures occurred Sve weeks or more before the fight itself; and it certainly Eeems that if Admiral Schley's actions were cen surable he should not have been left as second in command under Admiral Sampson. His offenses were in effect condoned when he was not called to account for them. Admtal Sampson, after the fight, in an ggicial Deiscr to the Degntiment, alluded for rst time to Admirat Sohley's repr ensible conduct six weeks previously. If Ad mira.l Schley was guilty of reprehensi ble conduct of a kind which called for ch notice from Admiral Sampson, Admiral Sampson ought not to have left him as senior officer of the blockading squadron on the 3rd of July, when he, (Sampson) steamed away on his proper errand of com munication with General Shafter. "We can, therefore, for our present purposes dismiss consideration of so much of the appeal as relates to any thing except the battle. As regards this, the point raised in the appeal is between Admiral Sampson and Ad miral Schley, as to which was in com mand, and as to which was entitled to the credit, if either of them was really entitled to any unusual and pre eminent credit by any special exhibi tion of genius, skill, and courage. The court could have considered both of these questions, but as a matter of fact it unanimously excluded evidence offered upon them, and through Its president announced its; refusal to hear Admiral Sampson's; side at all; and in view of such exclusion the ma jority of the court acted with entire propriety in not expressing -any opin ton on these points. The matter has, however, been raised by the presid.ent of the court. MoreSver. It is the point upon which Admiral Schxley in his ap peal lays most stres,. and which he especially asks me to consider. I hnave therefore carefully investigated this matter also, and h ave Informed myself upon it from the best sources of information at my ccmmand. -Tne appeal or Aamiral seniey to me Is not, as to this, the chIef point he raises, really an appeal fr-om the decision of the court of inquiry. Five sixths of the appeal is ..evoted to this question of command ar.d credit; that Is, to matter which the court of in qilry did nob consider. It is in effect an appeal from the action of President McKinley three years ago, when he sent in the recommendations for pro rootion with the Santiago squadron, basing these recommen dations upon his estimate of the credit to which the officers were respectively entitled. What I have to decide, therefore, Is whether or not President McKiuley 4.id injustice in the matter. This neces sarily involves a comparison of the ac tions of the different commanders en gaged. The exhaustive official reports of the action leave little to be brought out anew; but as the question of Ad mniral Sampson's right to be considered In chief command, which was deter mined in his favor by President Mc Kinley, and later by the Court of Claims, has never hitherto been offi clally raised, I deemed It best to se cure statements of the commanders of the five ships (other than the Brook lyn and New York, the flagships of the two admirals) which were actively engaged in the fight." The President then quotes from a magazine article written by the late Admiral Philip and the statements by Capt. Clark and Admirals Evans and] Taylor and Commander Wainwright and reviews the damage to the Spanish ships by the guns of the American fleet and continues: "From the statements of the cap. tains above, from the official reports, and from the testimony before the court of inquiry, the fight can be plotted with absolute certainty in its Important outlines, though there is, conflict as to minor points. When the four Spanish cruisers came out of the tion in the blockading line or 45 minutes before. She had hoi ed the signal 'Disregard the movements of the commander-in-chief," but had )atft hoisted the signal to the second in command to take charge, which, as appears by the signal book, was some times but not always used when the command was transferred. As soon as the engagement began the New York turned and steamed back hoisting a signal to close in, which however, none of the squadvon saw. She was in plain sight, and not very much farther from the easternmost blocka'l Ing ships than the latter were from the Brooklyn, which was the westernmost of the line. As soon as the Spanish ships appeared the five big American )lockaders started toward them in ac ,ordance with the standing orders of dmiral Sampson. After this first nove each acted purely on his own nitiative. For some minutes the Spanish and American vessels stead ly approached one another, and the ighting was at the hottest. Then the tlready damaged Spanish ships turned so the westvard, while at the same time the western most American ves iel, the Brooklyn, which was nearest the Spanish line, turned to the east jiard, making a loop or three-quarter aircle, at the end of which she again headed westward, farther off from. mnd farther behind the Spanish ves tels than before the loop had begun, aut sti aneau or any or tne Am-encan iessels, although farther outside. Tho l'exas, the next ship to the Brooklyn, either was or conceived herselr to be put in such jeopardy by the hMrooklyn's turn toward her that she backed her sngines, coming almost or quite to a standstill; so that both the Oregon i.nd the Iowa, which were originally to the eastward of her, passed her, .nd it was some time after she again started before she regained her form sr position relatively to the Spanish vessels. The Spanish vessels had straightened out in column for the west the Colon going- inside of the others and graduaily rorging ahead of them without suffering much damage. The two torpedo boats, which had fol owed them out of the harbor, were now destroyed by the fire of the near most of the American big vessels and of the Gloucester, which headed straight in for them, paying no more heed to their quick-fire guns than to the heavy artillery of the forts, to which she was also exposed. "In the running fight which followed until the Teresa, Oquendo and Vis caya were destroyed, the Indiana gradually dropped behind, although she continued to fire until the last of the three vessels went ashore. The Brooklyn was ahead of any of the other American vessels on a course outside theirs; she was nearly broad side on to the Spaniards. The Oregon, towa and Texas were all close together and actively engaged throughout this running fight. The Brooklyn and Ore gon, followed at some distance by the Texas, then continued in the chase of the Colon, which went nearly thirty miles farther before she also went ashore. puring this chase of the Colon there was practically no fighting. abo n thes talus, and elsewhere in their official reports and testlmony. They leave no room for doubt on any important point. "The question of command is in this case nominal and 'technical. Ad miral Sampson's ship, the New York, was seen at the outset of the fight from all the other ships except the Brooklyn. Four of these five ship cap tans have testified that they regarded him as present and in command. He signaled 'Cloh In' to the fleet s soon as the first Spanish ship appeared, but his signal was not seen by any American vessel. He was actually un der fire from the forts, and himself fired a couple, of shots, at the close 01 the action di the torpedo boats, ;D addItion to signaling the Indiana just at the close of the action. But during the action not a single order from hirm was received by any of the ships that 'were actively engaged. "Admir;;1 Schley at the outset o1 the action hoisted the two signals of 'Clear ship' and 'Close in,' which was simply carrying out the standing or ders of Admiral Sampson as to what should be done If the enemy's ships attempted to break out of the harbor. Until after the close of the first par tion of the fight at the mouth of the harbor, andI until after he had made his loop and the Spanish ships werE leeing to the westward, not anothe: American ship noticed a signal from him. When the western pursuit had be gun the Oregon, and the Oregon only, noticed and repeated one of his signale of command. The captain of the Ore gon then regarded him as in com mand ,but did not In any shape or way execute any movement or any actioin of any kind whatsoever In accordance with any order from him. "In short, the question as to which of the two men, Admiral Sampson or Admiral Schley, was at the time ir. command, is of merely nominal char acter. Technically Sampson corn manded the fleet, and Schley, as usual, the western division. The actual fact, the Important fact, is that after the battle was joined not a helm was snifted, not a gun was fired, not i pound of steam was put on in the en gine room abroad any ship actively engaged, in obedience to the order of either Sarapson or Sehley, save on their owa two vessels. It was a cap tai's fight. "Therefore the credit to which each of the two Is entitled rests on mattere apart from the claim of norminal command over the squadron; for sc far as the actual fight was concerned neither one nor the other In fact ex ercised any command. Sampson was hardly more than technically in the fight. His real claim for credit upon' his work as commander-in-chief; upor the excellence of the blockade; upot the preparedness of the squadron: upon the arrangement of the ships head-on in a semi-cirlee around the harbor; and the standing orders ir: accordanoe with which they Instantly moved to the attack of the Spaniards when the latter appeared. For all these things the credit is his. "Admiral Schley is rightly entitled as is Captain Cook-to the credit of what the Brooklyn did in the fight. Or the whole she did well; but I agree with the unanimous finding of thi three admirals who composed the court of Inquiry as to the loop.' 11 seriously marred the Brooklyn's other wise excellent record, being In facd the one grave mistake made by any American ship that day. Had the Brooklyn turned to the westward, thai Ii in th ame direction that the Spanish ships were gomg, insteaa o in the contrary direction, she would undoubtedly have been in more 'dan gerous proximity' to them. But ii would have been more dangerous foi themn as well as for her! This kind o1 danger must not be too nicel) weighed by those whose trade it is to dare greatly for the honor of the flag. Moreover the danger was cer tainly not as great as that which. ir the self-same moment menaced Wain wright's fragile craft as he drove for ward against the foe. It was not is my judgment as great as the dangel to which the Texas was exposed by the turn as actually made. It certainl3 caused both the B:ooklyn and the Texas materially to loee position com pared to the fleeing Spanish vessels But after the loop had once been taker Admiral Schley handle3 the Brooklvr manfully and well. She and the Ore gon were henceforth and headmost of the American vessels-though tht Iowa certainly, and seemingly the Texas also did as much in hammering to a standstill the Viscaya, Oquendo and Teresa while the Indiana did al her eastward position and chipped machinery permitted. In the chase of the Colon the Brooklyn and Orego; share the credit between them. "Under such circumstances it seems tr.me that the recommendations of President McKinley. were eminently proper, and that so far as Admiral Sampson and Schley were concerned it would have been unjust for him to have made other recommendations. Personally I feel that in view of Cap lain Clark's lon-g voyage in the Oregon tnd the condition in which he brought her to the scene of service, as well as the way in which he actually managed ier before and during the fight, it w,odld have been well to have given fim the same advancement that was riven Wainwright. But waiving this, .t is evident that Wainwright was en :itled to receive more than any of the ther commanders; and that it was just to Admiral Sampson that he ihould receive a greater advance in iumbers than Admiral Schley-there was nothing done In the battle that warranted any unusual reward for el ther. In short, as regards Admirals 3ampson and Schley, I find that Presi lent McKinley did substantial justice, tnd that there would be no warrant ior reversing his action. "Both Admiral Sampson and Ad niral Schley are now on the retired list. In concluding their report tho members of the court of inquiry, Ad imiral Dewey Benham and Ramsay, mnite In stating that they recommend that no further action be had in the matter. With this recommendation I ciost hea-tily concur. There is no ex :use whatever from either side for any further agitation of this unhappy con troversy. To keep it alive would merely do damage to the navy and to the tountry." Government For Philippines. Washington, Special. - Senator Ba con gave- notice of his intention tion of ,the United States when or shall 1*restored in the Philippines, t allow the formation of a governeut for and by the Philippine people andI to guarantee to them the same libert' and Independence that this country hasi pledged to the Cuban people. ; i Kreuger May Come.7 -Brujssels, By Cable.-It is said in Boor circles that if Messrs. Wilmarans and Wessels, after Investigating the situation In the United States, advise Mr. Kruger that a tour of the United States would be beneficial to the Boer cause, the Boer President will over come his aversion to a long trip and undc'-take the journey. Mr. Kruger is In excellent physical condition, and his physicians advise him that 'he could safely go to A.merica at the prop- I er seas.on. Messrs. Wolmarans and- 1 Wessels will spend a month in the United States. Sub-Treasury For the South. Washingt'on, Special.-The need ot a sub-Treasury in the South was prc sented to the ways and means comm it tee by Mayor Myers and a delegationc f business men of Savannah. pho 1 sked for the establishment o* such a T'reasury branch at that city. It was stated that such a branch would be of material aid in financial dealIngs in *,he South, particularly at the time wheny the cotton crop and other Southern 1 taples are being moved. Montague's Mes"age. Richmond, Special.-Governor Mon-a tague, in his message transmitted to the Virginia Assembly, endorses roadl improvement, recommends the creation f a highway commission, to have .u harge of that work; favors an em- . ployer's liability bill, and the engraft ng of some form of industrial educa-j tion on the public school system, lHe would have short term prisoners in the penitentiary work on the public 1 roads. Goes to War Department. Washington, Specal.-By direction I of the President the care and control of the statute of liberty, on Bedloe Is!-. and. N. Y., has been transfered from a the lighthouse board under the jurns. I diction of the Treasury Department toa the War Department. The transfer will i take effect March 1, when the beacon s light will be discontinued and the See- a retary of War sent instructions to Gen- ~ eral Brooke, commanding the Depart. ment of the East. to designate an offi ee of his comand to whom the Tress ur'y Department could turn over the statute and adjacent land. The Pope's Anniversary. t Rome, By Cable.--The Pope Thurs-( day entered on the twenty-fifth year b of his pontificate. Although the main C elebration of the jubilee is postponed y until March 3rd, when the combined I festivals of the jubilee and coronation r will be observed. The day was marked r by the singing of a te deum In St. k eter's, and other observances. The ' Pontiff was the recipient of congratu- C mina from all side. OLD HOCK'S' STORY Bil Arp Writes About The Gcod ft Englishman. HOW lHE SAILED TO AMERICi Left -ils Sweetheart and Shipped A: a Stowaway-Girl Found Him Sooi Afterwards. Of course-of course it was To' Soore. How came I to say that Burn wrote that pretty baiiad - beginnin; "And I know by the smoke that s< 5recfully curled?" I knew better an( three letters and a postal kindly cor he knew better, too. What is an edito 'or it he does not correct a "lapsa! pennae" like that? But I am glad made the mstake for it has brought m three lett::rs and a postol kindly cor .ecting me, and proves that the peopl who read the old-time authors are no all dead. The last line of that verse.al ways reminds me of a good old man, ?omrade, Captain John Hockenhull, at Englishman by birtn, but a Georia reb l who used to recite poetry for u! around the camp fire in 1862 and 18'23 We called him "Old Hock" and every body loved him for he was a cockne: and dropped the h's where he shoul not, and vice versa. There is always ,harm in broken English and to mur der the king's English is no great of ense. "Old Hock" knew a good dea >f Tom Moore and Burns and Hood an( Campbell and it was a treat to hea lim say: "The 'eart that is 'umble might 'op for it 'ere." He knew that other sweet ballad o Anne Crawford: 'Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawi is breaking, The horn of the hunter Is heard on the hill." And he always said "The 'orn of th' unter is 'eard on the 'ill." The "Exile >f Erin," which he called the "Hexilt if Herin." was another of his favor. tes. He learned these poems from hi: weetheart while he was an apprentic< n London- an orphan boy bound foi seven years to hard masters, a brewer and his daily service was to carry the lars of malt from the cellar up a flighi )f stone steps to the door above. HE iever had a kind word from his master ind one day be tripped and fell ane iroke a jar and was bitterly abused fo1 t. and told that he had forfeited the ?2that he was to get when his' term was out. He was then 18 and had yel hree years to toil at his hard, mo otonous work. That night he poured ut,his hea,rt to the girl he loved and eft the port. That he would make iome moeny here and send It to her ii he would promise to come to him, and~ hen they would marry and be so hap ny-and she promised. Within a wee) :he opportunity came. He told one 01 he sailors his sad dftory and the sallor old the mate, and they took him iboard by night and hid him down i11 he hold of the vessel until the good hip had weighed anchor and was fat ,ut to sea. "Old Hoc'k" told It all to t' ne cold night at Manassas and how~ ad and sweet was his last kiss, his ast embrace. his last good bye. He hoked up sometimes and the tears 'listned in his eyes, but It was a pret y story and Dickens could have b-uilt ipon it and made a tender romance, rhis was away back in the forties when ,ur State was building the Western Lnd Atlantic railroad and wanted la o'ers and had sent a man to Newt (ork to hire Immigrants as they landed ut Castile Garden. "Old Hock" did not iave to wait a day, but was hired and hipped to Atlanta and from there to ~llatoona, where he did his first work. l said he did not feel safe upon the icean voyage or in New York harbor, or he feared he might In some way be 'aught as a fugitive and taken back, nt when he got to Allatoona and saw he woods all around him and the high tills and deep ravines and mingled vlth good kind-hearted men and vomen, he felt safe and free. "I never :new w'at freedom was before, and 'ou Hamericans 'av no nades. 'at a lessing it Is. The good woman w'ere boarded and her daughter were so :ind and gentle to me that I would 'av egged them if I dared, but I thought 1 of the time of the girl I had left ehind me and It nerved me to good. mnest work and the contractor soon aised my wages, and In six months I d a 'undred dollars in bank and got good man to send it to another goo.d san in New York, and he found the ame captain I came hover with tend ete ook It to my sweetheart, and snie ame back with him, and while i was very day looking for a letter she took e by surprise one morning and rought the letter with her, and we ust fell In to heach hother's harms k-ike~k-lke-major hexcuse me w. I must go and look hafter '1y ins." He had named his fine mare. mmma, so that he could call her Hem a. I reckon. But we made him finish he story afterwards and tell how one ood friend voluteered to go after the ense, ar.d another after the preacher. nd his landlady and her daughter aked some cake and got us a hextra upper and they were married that iht at her 'ouse, and all he remem ers about what the preacher said wras: Whom God 'ath joined together, let no ian put hasunder." "Old sock" was a atriot a good. honest and true mau. [is neighbors at his home in Dawsoa ounty all loved and honored him. and here was not a man In his regiment the Eleventh Georgia) more beloved ythe men that he fed, for he was hosen their commissary early in the ar, and you know It is so natural to v those who feed yon well. When atlons were short he would travel all Iht to secure supplies and the boys new that If "Old Hock" couldn't get hat they wanted nobody could. But in wanted to go home. Other officers nad rot furloudhs. but he Lad never asked for one. Ie want to bed and sent for me, and told me he was sick and if he didn't get a furlough he believed he would get sicker and perhaps die away from 'ome. I suspected that he was i-omesick, but he looked sick and I sent up his application. 'he army had been for some days sweltering in the hot summer's sun not far from Richmond. The application was referred to nead quarters at Richmond ,and I took it in to the proper official, who glanced at it ansl said' "Imoprtant movements are da!ly expecteci. and all furloughs to go home are strictly orohibited. The best I can do is to send the captain to Farmville for thirty days." There was an army hospital at Farmville, which was only 30 miles south of Richmond, where sick officers were sent to rest and be treated for their ailments. And so he indorsed upon it Farmville, and In the next blan,k said thirty days. Suddenly a thought came over me that I could not resist. I knew that "Old Hock's" postoffice in Georgia was named Farmville. I stepped into the hotel and took a pen and quickly ad ded "Ga," to the word. I knew that it was risky and rascally, but I did it, and took it to "Old Hock" and told him to get ready to leave next morn ing. low quickly he brightened up and how thankful he was to me. He went home on the pass and came back in due time, renewed and recovered. lie said the conductor looked 'ard at him and at the pass, but let him go by the hospital and then he felt safe. I knew if I had told him what I had done he couldn't face the music and tell a lie. After the war his people sent him to the legislature and my people sent me there. too. and we rejoiced to get to gether again every night and rehearse the soul-stirring times that we had in old Virginia. From time to time I receive good, earnest letters from the young folks girls and boys-asking what books to read and where to get them. One came today from a young miss who is teach ing a country school. She says she can not go to college, for she is too poor. but manages to save a little money and wants to know what books to buy to improve her mind. Well, if I was too poor to buy some good encyclopedia, I would buy a Shakespeare, Macaulay, Goldsmith, Tom Moore, Burns, Pope Gray, Cowper, Campbell, Tom Hood, Caldridge, Wordsworth and some of Scott's novels such as "Ivanhoe," "Kenilworth" and "Anne of Guern stein." Buy some of Dickens' works, as "Dombey and Son" and "David Copper- i field." Then there is "John Halifax," by Mrs. Muloch, and "Ten Thousand a Year." by Warren. Buy "The Vicar of Wakefield" for the sake of the hermit. i Of course our own authors should not I be neglected, such as some of Irvings' < works and Hawthorne and Longfellow c and Bryant. Buy Halleck for his f "Marco Bozaris" If nothing else. There I are two text-books by Miss Rutherford, of Athens, Ga., the cultured principal tof Lucy Cubb institute, that should be in every respectable household. One Is English authors and the other is Amer- I Ican authors. Both together make a good library and are always ready for I reference. I had rather give up any 4 two other books than those. "The t Fisherman's Prayer," by Jean Ingelow, In the first named, Is worth twice the cost of the book. Now most of thesec books can be bought nicely bound at I prices from 50 cents to $1. But there are hundreds of good books by such an- I thors as Mrs. Austin and Charlotte I Bronte and Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Sigour- I ney and others. I name only a few to fit the slender purse of our young peo ple. You can now buy the plays of 1 Shakespeare separately for a small cost, I and so I would get "Hamlet," "Mac beth,'' "Romeo and Juliet" and "Mer chant of Venice." When Tou are able by all means get a Cyclopedia of b!o graphy, so that you can t.urn to the in teresting sketches of any great man or woman, such as Gallileo, Mozart. Han del, Raphael. Beethoven. Audubon, Linnaeus and hundreds of others. But don't crowd your youthful mind with mode-n novels. They are made to sell -that's all.-BIll Arp in Atlanta eon- ' sttutilon. L.ABOR WORLD.' Marine firemen of the Atlantie coast are organizing. It Is estimated that New England ~ turns out 3G0,000 pairs of union-made j shoes each day. Stevedores of Honolulu, Hawaii, have organized to secure protection against Asiatic labor. . The elevator men and porters in downtown office buildings in New York City have formed a union. The Barbers' Union of San Fran-e cisco has more than 1000 members. It I is the largest barbers' union in Amer-t ica. - - - In Japan 100') hands are required for a spinning mill of 10,000 spindles. In America about 200 men do the same work. The San Francisco Labor Council. from April 23 to November 30 of lastc year. donated $41,217.19 to aid the strikers in that city. The membership of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen has doubled since 1894, being now 40,728, against fewer than 21,000 In 1894.1 The American Bicycle Company. has discharged 700) men at its Toledo (Obio) plant since January 1, owing to the falling off in the demand for goods. Italy's Cabinet propcses to make a . strike on the railways In that country 4 a strenuous undertaking by classingt such an action as a strike of public servants, punishable under the penal c code. The switchmcn's strike on the North ern Pacific has been settled by the ac-A ceptance of every condition named by I the strikers. The men discharged are il reinstated and full pay for time lcst Is -A allowed. English shepherds' wages for 1902, as settled at the annual hiring fair. t Hawick, averaged about $200 for the 1l year, with a cow, three boIls of meal ~ I got fifty sheep. In your patience ye are stronlg.-Mrs. Ie L B. Browning.4 SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL New Enterprises That Are Enriching Our Favored Section. Million Dollar Cement Plant. Negotiations have been pending for some time relative to the utilization of the slate refuse and lime rock forma tions near Rockmart, Ga., in the man ufacture of Portland cement, now so extensively used for dams, bu:ding 'oundations and masonry work In gen eral. During the week it has been aa nounced that the Southern States Ce aounced that the Southern States Poet Land Cement Company will be organ ized, with a capital of $1,000,000, to build a large cement plant in the see tion referred to. It is said that the Peninsular Portland Cement Company Df Cement City, Mish., will be interest :d to a large extent financially. and that W. F. Cowham (general manager )f the Michigan company) will be president, and H. F. Vandeventer, of Knoxville, Tenn., manager of tae ur. 3eorgia corporation. Industrial Items. Mr. Tom Richardson, who has just become the manager of the Progres live Union of New Orleans, has al ready begun active work for the pro notion of the city's welfare. He con elders that the constitutional pro vision exempting from taxation for een years from January 1, 1900, of aew manufacturing plants may be nade splendid use of in building up he city, and he sugests that every )usines letter-head and business en relope sent from New Orleans should )ear a statement of that act upon it. For the banquet las,t week celebrat, ng the establishment of the New 3rleans naval dry-dock, Mr. Fred fuller, secretary of the New Orleans Karitime and Merchants' Exchange, Amited, prepared a statement, into which he condensed a mass of value )le statistical Information regarding he commercial importance of that ity. This has been published in )amphlet form, and is being circu atedfor the good of the city. When the Good Roads Special of he Southern Railway reached Ral ,igh, N. C., this week it found the ,round well prepared for it. The vews and Observer of that city, with lotable enterprise, hac published on 3unday a special good roads edition, :ontaining, in addition to general arti :les on -highway improvement, re ports from many parts of the State howing what is already being accom pished in that direction. Cincinnati Is giving - an illustration >f what a wide-awake city will do for tself in a handsome invitation sent. >roadcast, on the part of the citizens if Cincinnati, 'to the formal opening if the Cincinnati building at the 3outh Carolina, Interstate and Wet ndian Exposition at Charleston 'ebruary 15. The Atlanta \Manufacturers' Asso cation, which p es to hold an ex tibit of articles ufactured in At anta., has elected rs. J. K. Orr,. >resident; R. T. Co y and Samuel ). Jones, vice-presid ; Walter O-. 3ooper, secretary, and . T. Inam reasurer. Northern and Western sxpected, will undertake the thorough ievelopment of the well-known Tallu ah Falls at Tallulah Falls, Ga.. W. L. Charters, representing capitalists rom the sections referred to above, Las purchased one-half the falls and. 00 acres of land contiguous border ng on the river for about a mile. It is stated that arrangements have ieen made to develop the kaolin de iosits near Oak Level, near Martins ille, Va., and the work will begin at ~n early date. The product will be hipped from Alumine, on the No'rfolk SWestern Railway, to East Liver iool, Ohio, to be manufactured into hina. During the past calendar.:year 22, 21 head of cattle and between 6000 nd 7000 sheep were exported through ~ewport News and Norfolk. Nell P. Anderson of Fort Worth is hipping through Galveston cattle for he Liverpool market. Textile Notes. John Marsh of North Adams, Mass.,. s reported as h!aving decided to lo ate a ~otton mill at Charlote, N. C. le 1az been In the city named during be wek Investigating with a view of ullding there. nlumooiat trenn.) cotton Minls is a the market for the machinery oted lateiy as to be installed to in 'rease equipment. The machinery ranted Includes 40-inch finishing lap er, five 40-in.ch cards, revolving top at; three drawing frames, si: dellv 'ries each; slubber, forty spindles; ntermediate, seventy-two spindles; wo speeders, 120 spindles each; four pinning frames, 240 spindles each; pooler, eighty spindles, and fifty 36 nch looms. Rt. A. Schoolfield, treasurer of the )an River Power & Manufacturing ~o. of Danville, Va., writes that his ompany lhas not yet formulated do nite plans for the development of, its rater power property and the erec iori of the large sotton factory cen emplated, reference to which enter rise was made last week. The work s urfler advisement by the directors, ut no details have been determined. Messrs. John Rudisili and asso lates at Lincointon, N. C., have in orporated the John Rudisill Mann acturing Co., with capital stock of 75,000, for the manufacture of cot inn and woolen goods. The charter 'ermits beginning busines when $15, 00 has been subscribed. Specific de ails have not been ascot-tained yet. Benjamin Russell, of Alexaadria, Lia., has purchased the equipment of L. A. Almand's knItting mill at Wash agtn. Ca., and will remove same to lexandria. Twenty machines are In hee equipmenDt. Mayfield Woolen Mills Co. of May .cid, Ky., will remove its equipment, acluding forty four broad looms and 50 Dewing machines, to its Louisville lant. This addition will give 'the .ouisville plant a total og eighty-eight road icoms, which will greatly in rease its productive capacity. The mployes will Increase from 150 to 00.