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Washington, D. C. ? President
I Roosevelt in a note to the Department
of Justice expressed the opinion
that John William January, of
Missouri, should have his sentence
commuted at once or he pardoned
outright. He wrote as foliows:
"Department of Justice:
"In view of the statements of the
judges, bank presidents and so forth,
"who know him, I think Anderson's
nine years of life as an honest citizen,
hard working and of good repute;>.
warrant us in commuting his
sentence at once or in pardoning him
^ outright.
"Which do you think ought to be
done? Are there sufficient reasons
for not doing either?
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
The whole State of Missouri has
risen up in appeal to President
Roosevelt for a pardon for this WestL
ern Jean Valjean, who has just been
recaptured in Kansas City after an
upright and prosperous life of nine
\ years, during which he had proved
himself one of the best citizens of the
place. Missouri is asking the Presii
dent to give the man a "square deal,"
: and there does not seem to he much
doubt that Missouri's request will be
l granted.
John William January, thirteen or
fourteen years ago, when he was just
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twenty-one years om, diokb iuiu
postofflce at Hennessey, Okla., for
the purpose of robbery. He got no
booty worth anything, but was
1 caught, tried In the Federal Court at
Guthri^, and sentenced to serve five
years in the penitentiary.
In prison January was a model of
good behavior. He was working for
the good conduct commutation, and
had come to within eight months of
the time when he would be liberated,
when he saw a chance to escape
h \ ? and took it. He worked his way
north, and after a time got work on
a railroad with a construction gang.
tf He saved his money, and finally had
enough to get to Kansas City. There,
under the name of Charles 'W. Anderson,
he got a job on a street rail7
way. He was steady and sober,
worked hard and saved his money.
Kansas City is a red-hot city politically,
and the fact that he never
could be induced to vote, even on
questions in which the street railroad
men were deeply interested, caused
some to marvel, but Anderson, aware
of his civil disability through his prison
sentence, held steadfastly aloof.
At length he saved enough money
to buy out a small restaurant near
the car barns of the street railroad.
His principal customers were his former
workmates. He stuck to his
restaurant as he had to his railroad
work, and as before he prospered.
'He had lived so long undetected that
.he began to believe he was safe, so
he married and had one child, a fiveyear-old
girl.
He made enough money to buy a
better business in a more thriving locality.
He sold his first place for a
good price, and was looking for a
new one when he was caught. It
happened that a man who had been
in the penitentiary at Leavenworth
?in. mar hinn the street and
Willi mm
recognized him. The ex-convict followed
Anderson and made himself
known. Anderson realized at once
that he was in the man's hands, and
lost if he chose to betray him. The
man proposed that they go "downtown
and have some fun."
"No," answered Anderson. "]
have quit all that. I am married and
have a family. I don't want to have
Stormy. Scene in Duma.
An attack on the army by a rudi
cal member of the Duma caused z
stormy scene, followed by an ultima
turn from the Cabinet that unless h<
member was suspended relation:
would be broken.
Fuel Future For Alcohol.
Secretary of Agriculture TViiso:
told the Americas Club, in Pittsburg
Pa., that coal, wood and oil woulc
some day be exhausted and alco'he
would take their places.
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FMISSOURI PLEADS
R CONVICT'S FREEDOH.
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f High and Low.
anything to do with you."
The convict knew there was a
i standing reward of $60 for informaj
tion that would lead to the recapture
j of escaped prisoners. He got in communication
with the prison authorities,
and promised, if the mon^ was
forthcoming, to reveal the whereabouts
of January.
The authorities promised, and the
information was given them, with the
lesult that the police of Kansas City
were requested to arrest Anderson.
Two policemen, hating their task,
took the man they knew to have been
a good citizen for nine years, and
'locked him up. Then it developed
that the convict who had betrayed
him could pot receive the reward after
all, because such money could be
paid only to citizens, and he was outside
the pale. So it was offered to
the two policemen who made the arrest.
Both spurned it.
There was nothing for the court'
to do but remand Anderson to prison.
He did not attempt to deny his identity
and went back to Leavenworth
to serve out the unexpired portion of
his full sentence, all his good conduct
commutation having been forfeited
by his escape. That was about a
week ago.
Kansas City rose up in his behalf,
and all Missouri followed the lead of
the city. The two policemen who
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ed it and turned it into the fund that
was raised to help obtain Anderson's
pardon. Everybody in Kansas City
lent a hand. Doctors, lawyers,
I judges, merchants, the Mothers and
Homemakers' Club, the Board of
Trade, the Chamber of Commerce,
labor organizations and private individuals,
either signed petitions or
j wrote directly to the President,
j The House of Representatives of
j the State Legislature, by formal reso'
lution, added its weight to the appeal
j to Mr. Roosevelt. The judge before
whom January had been tried wrote
j one of the strongest letters ever received
at the Department of Justice,
and the warden of the penitentiarymade
an appeal. Nothing, he said,
could better serve to convince the ;
prisoners now in the penitentiary of j
the relentless pursuit of wrongdoers j
by the Government than the manner
in which January had been brought j
back after nine years. But the mere J
bringing him back had served to en- j
force that lesson. Now there was
opportunity to add to it a lesson
equally'Striking, in the mercy as wfell
as the justice of the Government, by
giving the man who had proved his
reform a pardon for his old offense.
Neither the VThite House nor the
Department of Justice knew at first
what it was all about. By the time
j the slow-going official mail had
j brought the information there were
{thousands of unofficial appeals for
mercy for January. Then came a
! sworn certificate that apetition signed
| by 37,000 citizens of Kansas city was
, on its way. Senator Warner and
,! Representative Ellis took up the cas^.
; I Their constituents in solid mass dej
manded that they should act.
J The red tape of official methods
, compels a little delay. Usually it is
.; a great deal of delay. But in this
; j case the pardon attorney of the De(!
partment of Justice will have his
i opinion ready promptly after the offi:
1 cial application from Mrs. Anderson
. | for her husband's pardon is in his
! hands. Then it will go to Attorney[!
General Bonaparte for his recommen1
i dation, and thence to the President
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j Typhoid Kills Scranton Student.
. j Joseph Twiss, of Scranton, Pa., a
t : student of medicine at the Medico.
j Chirurgical College, died from tyj
i phoid fever, which he contracted a
? few days ago. The young man, he
; was only twenty-one years old, was a
i son of James Twiss, a well known ho{telkeeper,
of Scranton, and a former
Select Councilman.
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, j Kansas Wheat Ninety Average.
1 : Secretary Coburn, in his official re1
port, says the present average of the
j Kansas wheat crop is ninety per cent.
liLTED LOVER'S REVENGE [
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S&nt Infernal Machine to Sweetheart j
But Was Opened by Mother
With Disastrous Results.
An infernal machine, thought to j
have been sent by a jealous lover to j
.Miss Kate McCarthy, of 4-17 East |
Georgia avenue, Atlanta, exploded
when Mrs. Julia McCarthy, her mother,
tried to open it Wednesday night,
about 0 o clock, and the explosion was
so terrific that the house was nearly
demolished and Mrs. McCarthy paini'uiiy
and perhaps seriously injured.
w nuie sections 01 uie ijwi ?cic i
Lorn up, doors were thrown down, furniture
overturned, glasses smashed,
and the house wrecked, as if a cyclone
had struck it.
Plastering fell from all the walls, a i
wardrobe was thrown ten feet and fell !
across a bed, books were hurled from j
one room to another, crockery was j
shattered and a cook stove overturned.
Not only was the hall in which the
explosion took place completely
wrecked, but every room in the house
was partially demolished.
A section of the floor which had
been directly beneath the place where
the explosion took place was found on !
a lower floor. '
When the explosion occurred Mrs.
McCarthy was hurled across a hall, !
and fell staggering backwards into a
rear room. There she partially recovered,
and was enabled to make her \
way out of the house. j
The noise from the explosion was
heard for blocks around, and many j
houses were saaken. Near neighbors .
thought there was an earthquake, and .
ran frightened upon their rront
lurches to ascertain what it all ,
meant.
A crowd scon gathered .about the
home of Mrs. McCarthy, and the story i
of the frightful explosion was learned. ;
Near midnight detectives arrested '
Fred Bush, connected with a produce
firm of the city, on suspicion.
Bush was in bed when the detec- :
tives arrived. In his room, corner
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Whitehall and Mitchell streets, were j
found two big pistols. Asked at police
station about the explosion at the
McCarthy home, he said:
"I do not know a God's thing about
it except what Sergeant Lanford told
me." j
Miss Kate McCarthy, to whom the J
package was addressed, had gone to j
the theater in company with a man J
named Doolittle, the business partner j
of Bush.
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POLICE BALK STRIKERS.
Cars in 'Frisco Make Runs Without j
Much Difficulty.
A conference was held in San j
Francisco Wednesday a. rn. between j
Mayor Schmitz, patriCK uainoun, pres- |
ident of the United Railways, and j
Richard Cornelius, president of the j
Car Men's Union. The mayor proposed
that the case be submitted to a
committee of fifty citizens to be appointed
by him. President Calhoun
I did not accept the suggestion, but |
stated that he would see his colleagues
I in reference to the matter. President
Cornelius said that while he had no
objection to the appointment of such
a committee, he could not agree to
its acting as a board of arbitration.
The mayor then declared his intention
of appointing the committee regardless
of the opinion of either Cal- j
houn or Cornelius.
[ At 2:50 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
two cars, -manned by strike
breakers, left the car barns and made
one round trip without much difficulty.
At one point a man in a buggy
drew a pistol, but a dozen policemen
were after him before he had
time to shoot. The man dropped the
revolver and ran, but was soon caplured.
At another place a carpenter working
on a building threw a hatchet at
one of the cars. He was a prisoner 1
in less than a minute.
The temper of the police was radically
different from that of Tuesday.
They showed a disposition to watch
the cars and to prevent union men'
from throwing missiles.
SOUTHERN BALKS RATE CUV
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tion Commission of Virginia.
United States Circuit Judge Prit!
ihard, at Richmond, has granted an
l injunction and restraining order in the
i suit of the Southern Railway Com
j pany against the celrks and mem!
bers of the corporation commission of
Virginia, thereby preventing then:
from publishing their order putting
the two-cent passenger rate in ef
j iect.
The bill is made returnable in
| rille, X. C., on June 27.
CITY OFFICIAL A THIEF.
| Leading Republican of Seattle Steals
$9,000 and Skips to Honduras.
j John It. Riplinger of Seattle, Wash.,
j for four years city comptroller, Re!
publican candidate for mayor in the
| last election, is a defaulter in the sum
' of more than $9,000, it is alleged.
j Riplinger is now in Honduras, haw
j ing gone there from California more
than a month ago.
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CAKEANQ FLOWERS^i
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Showered by 'Frisco Women
on Strike-Breakers.
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KISSES ARE ALSO THROWN
Twenty Men Make Triumphant Trip
With Two Cars Through Residence
Section and Are
Treated as Heroes.
t>?=oo ar.d Mrnatinns. instead of i
brickbats and cobblestones, -were features
of Thursday's run of two cars of
the United Railroads in 'Frisco, manned
by twenty strike-breakers, from
the car barns at Oak and Broderick
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streets for a distance of three or four
miles through the business and residence
section of the western addition.
Stirred to admiration by the courage
of unarmed strike-breakers in operating
the two cars in the mobcrowded
thoroughfares, women along
the route stood on doorsteps or leaned
from windows and waived handerchiefs,
clapped their hands, cheered
and threw kisses at the non-unionists
as the police protected ears ran slowly
by.
On the return trip, on Sacramento
street, near Presidio avenue, a young
girl ran out from a florist s shop and
tossed a handful of bright red, longstemmed
carnations to the platform
of one of the cars. Lifting their caps
and smiling, several of the men lean*
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The cars were halted then, while
young women brought clusters of carnations
and roses f i the shops and
offered them to th<. men.
Soon every strikt -breaker had a
flower in his coat. The extra ones
they tossed to Assistant President
Mullaly, Superintendent Chapman,
Chief Surgeon Coffey, Assistant Purchasing
Agent Finnigan and other officials
of the company, who were keeping
pace in an automobile with the
cars. From a bakery shop in the
neighborhood a stout woman came
hurrying breathlessly, her hands full
of small cakes hot from the oven.
They were devoured in a twinkling
by the uniformed recipients, and she
ran back to her shop and brought
more.
But the afternoon's trip was not
all cake and flowers. A taunting,
jeering, howling crowd of more than
one thousand strikers and strike sym-.
pathizers jog-trotted fur blocks along
the sidewalks, reviling the car men,
yelling frenzied threats to "get them
yet," crying "murderers," "cowards"
and "scabs." Now and then a stone
or brick was thrown, but the guilty
man, or boy, hidden in the recesses
of the mob, escaped invariably.
INSURANCE CLERK "SQUEALS."
Teils of Crooked Work in Connection
With Election of Directors.
C. F. Carrington, a former employe
of the international policyholders'
committee, testified on the witness
stand in police court at New York
Friday that George R. Scrugham,
manager for the committee, instructed
him and other employes to alter defective
ballots sent to them in con- j
nection with the election of directors j
of the New York Tafe Insurance i
Company.
He declared also that Scrugham j
had not forwarded to the New York j
tellers so-called "administration ballots,"
which fell into the hands of
the policy-holders' committee.
"Scrugham told me that when any |
of the administration ballots fell into I
my hands there was no need of send- I
ing them to the company," testified J
Carrington, "and he added jocularly !
tnat I might send them upstairs to i
him, as he had some chloroform ior
them."
Carrington's testimony was given
after he had been promised by District
Attorney &rZth that anything he
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BIG BUILDING IS GUTTED.
Fire in Kansas City Causes Loss of J
Life and Heavy Property Damage.
Fire in Kansas City Wednesday afternoon
destroyed the five-stoiy University
building, causing a property
loss estimated at a quarter of a million
dollars. One life was lost, six
persons are missing, and may be
buried in the ruins, and fifteen persons
were more or less seriously inj
iured.
The building was occupied by Mont- j
! gomery Ward & Co., as offices, and by j
i numerous artists and. musicians, who
| lost everything.
HOLMES SOON TO BE TRIED.
,! Man Who Grew Rich on "Cotton
Leaks" to Answer for Crimes.
J The trial of Edwin S. Holmes, Jr.,
j one time assistant statistician of the
i department of agriculture and the
j man cnargeu v/nn me "cotton leans
! which enraged the cotion fanners and
| stirred up indignation against the department
of agriculture two years ago,
! will be entered upon at Washington
j in a few days.
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SPANISH HEIR IS BORN.
Tis a Boy and Cranky Dagoes Throw
Fits of Joy?Event Heralded
With Pomp and Ceremony.
A Madrid special says: The queen
of Spain Friday morning gave birth
to a son and heir to the Spanish
throne.
This is the first time in many generations
that the first child of a
king and queen of Spain has been
born a male.
The announcement from the imperial
palace that Queen Victoria had
presented her subjects with an heir
to the kingdom was hailed with great
enthusiasm by the thousands who
gathered about the palace after the
formal announcement had been made.
As soon as the sex of the child was
known, the waiting populace were notified
by a salute of 21 guns fired
from the palace grounds.
Next to the enthronement of a king
the birth of a son and heir to the
royal parents is the most important
ceremony at the Spanish court.
Following the custom of centuries,
the baby is placed on a huge gold
plate immediately after birth and presented
to its father. The king himself
accompanied by Queen Victoria's
Spanish and English physicians on
either side, walks down a long line of
functionaries, all of whom bow profoundly.
The king walks to where the prime
minister is standing. After determining
the sex of the child he announces:
"It is a prince. God bless the
prince."
This is the signal for prolonged applause.
Then the king still carrying
the prince, walks through a long line
of ambassadors and exhibits the baby
to each of them in turn. \
The next step in the unusual ceremony
is the taking of the infant to
the notary of the palace. He has a
book in which is recorded the sex of
the child, the date, hour and place of
birth. The book relates the ancestry
of the child for the last 500 years.
This task accomplished, the king
hands his son over to the mistress of
the robes. Then the little one is taken
to its magnificent layette and presented
to its mother.
As soon as she is able the queen
proceeds to the church of the Atocha,
where she gives thanks for the nirtn
of her child. Then follows the baptism,
which is accomplished with as
much pomp and ceremony.as the birth
of the child.
More than one hundred Spanish
women have been working for months
on the baby's wardrobe, lite christening
and presentation robes of the
new heir will be the same as those
worn by King Alfonso.
The advent of a royal babe at the
court of Spain is always regarded as
a matter of great import. At a time
when practically only one life stands
Detween me conuuueu yeace ouu
prosperity- of the country and the unleashing
of the dogs of war at the
bidding of Carlists, socialists or revolutionists,
it is fraught with especial
significance.
BIXBY QUITS GOOD JOB.
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Resigns as Commissioner of the Five
Civilized Indian Tribes.
'Tarns" Bixby, who has for many
years been the commissioner to the
five civilized tribes of Indians in Indian
Territory, at a salary of $5,000,
has sent his resignation to Secretary
Garfield to take effect June 30. An
attorney for some of the Indians, sevj
eral months ago, filed charges against
j Bixby. These were investigated, and
j Bixby exonerated.
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j TWELVE MONTHS FOR HUMMEL.
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New York Lawyer Must Go to Jail
I for Conspiracy.
One year in state prison and to pay
a fine of $500 was the sentence imposed
at New York Friday on Abrai
ham H. Hummel, the lawyer who was
| convicted of conspiracy in the famous
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| was convicted in the New York state
supreme court several months ago,
but appealed. The decision was affirmed
by the higher c^burt.
FAITH CURIST IS JAILED.
Osborne Allowed His Child to Die
Without Medical Attention.
On the charge of criminal neglecT,
which resulted in the death of his cnevear-old
chid, George Osborne, of
Philadelphia, a faith cure adherent,
was sent to prison Wednesday by the
coroner to await the action of the
grand jury.
It was testified that the child during
I its fatal illness was not given medical
aid and that the parents thought that
| by prayer alone the baby could be
! cured.
| WONT RECOGNIZE UNION.
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: Obstacle in Way of Settlement of
Strike in 'Frisco.
j Despite the efforts of the citizens'
| committee, the ' settlement of the
j street railroad strike in San Fran!
cisco seems as far off as ever. The
j United railroad officials decline posi
lively to recognize the Car Men's UnI
ion on the ground that it went out of
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existence when the company discharg"
ed its employes for disobeying the -order
to appear for work at the car
barns on the first day of the strike.
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Alleged Negro Murderer Captured. # 1
Wash Young, colcied, charged with.
the murder of an old negro, Dan Ful- |
ler, in Laurens county, three years
ago, has been captured by Sheriff ^jg
M. M. Buford of Xewberry county. - %
The murder of Fuller occurred in
Mcuntville, and was a most brutaL ~ \
Watery Grave for Cadet.
Pndpt W J Jackson of Winnsboro. ?.
a member of the fourth class South
Carolina Military Academy, was . '>.f
drowned off the Isle of Palms whHe
swimming beyond his dept?. '
The cadets were holding their annual
picnic aud the drowning occur- mm
red inr sight of hundreds o? young M
people. The body was soon recovered. >-??
The drowning was caused from ex- ' 'jig
haustion. t
Watson Failed to Appear. ; -Vm
The immigration commission met ia
Washington a few days ago, expecting
to hear a statement from Commissioner
of Immigration Watson; relative
to the methods of this state insecuring
immigration, but Mr. WTat- .
son failed to appear. No explanat'ioa
was made, and when the commission
adjourned, there was no announce- ~
ment as to whether a future oppor- 7; W
tunity would be given Mr. Watson to *;'-f
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Veteran Falls to Death.
While returning from the Confederate
reunion in Columbia, Jesse Pit- :f/M
man, a veteran, 60 years of age, fell ll|
from the train at Cheraw and crushed
his skull, killing him instantly. Hia .$3j
home was near Rub}*, in Chesterfield '?:-?U
county.
Mr. Pittman got up from his seat
when the train stopped at a crossing,
Thinking it was the depot he made his
way out the door of the car. As the? >. "vy
train started off he was thrown froni - v>f ^
the steps.
Machine Shops for Greenville.
The Southern railway has made. acontract
with the J. 1?\ Gailivan Construction
company for the building of
machine shops at Greenville. The
shops will be equipped with latest
designs in machinery for repairing of
locomotives and building of carp. Lo^y ^
cal oficials of the road say that the
necessity for, shops has become more jIB
pronounfced of late, owing to the heg.vy
traffic over the road. The contract:
calls for the completion of the shops./' Y?m
before fall. . , ;
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Negro Put "Out of the Way."
Lambhoid Carmichael, a Marion,
county negro, is supposed to ' have - .^-y-7^
been lynched by a mob, for an. at- x
tempted assault upon Tincey Sawyer, gjg
I the 12-year-old daughter of John Saw
yer, a well known farmer who lives -535?
near Mullins. The little girl's screams ' M
brought her father to her aid, and he / j$j
recognized the negro.
The alarm was immediately given, i||
and a posse started in pursuit. When ..^J
members of the crowd returned from
the chase they merely stated that the:-j /77
negro was "out of the way," and- that
"he could do no further harm."
Uncle Sam After Dispensary.
The government is after the state
dispensary with 'a bill for $33,000 :
for license fees. The revenue office ^0
served the papers on Dr. Murray, . "I
chairman of the new dispensary commission,
at Columbia a few days ago. 7'
The fees clainjed are on account of .
alleged wholesale dealing of beer dis- *!'j
pensaries, which had retailers'7 licenses,
but which are charged with - .-jf
having sold in excess 0? th^ 4 7-8 gal- . '
Ions limit. The retail fee is $25 and '
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the wholesale $125. Dr. Murray ac
cepted summons in the case of a
separate claim for $5,427, the amount ||||
of excess alleged to be due for the
past fifteen months. Summons for the ^
other was not accepted.
Ex-State dispensary officials deny .
that the limit was exceeded so far as .
they know. ,
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Novel Plan to Improve City. v
The municipal league of Greenville
has offered prizes aggregating $2&5 ^
for the most original papers on how
best to improve the city. These pa- zJz ;
pers are to be based on . the report .
recently submitted to the league by
Messrs. Kelsey and Guild, the landscape
architects of Boston, on beautifying
and improving Greenville.
The report submitted by the ar
chitects is quite an elaborate one,
published in brochure form. It is free- . '-V?
ly illustrated with mans and pictures
showing waste places as well as - ^
beauty spots in Greenville. The com- , ,
petition for the league's prizes promises
to be sharp, as many residents of
the city have announced their inten- >vv|j
tion of. competing.
Greenville 13 fast growing into a
splendid city and her progressive cit- r
| izens want it to be a beautiful aswdll .
as progressive one.