The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 01, 1903, Image 3
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BLACK’S WAR RECORD.! HAS A " ST ^ KING ” R00M BIG ORE LAND DEAL.
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Army Commander.
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An Kxhibltlon of Heroism Which
Endears Him to the Veterans of
the Civil War, Who Now Confer
Their Iliichost Honor Upon Him.
General Black. In Civil Life.
General John C. Black, who has been
chosen commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, was a student in Wa
bash (1ml.) college when the civil war
began and upon the opening of hostili
ties enlisted as a private in the Mont
gomery guards, which was mustered
into service as Company I of the Elev
enth Indiana zouaves, commanded by
Lew Wallace. This regiment served
three months in West Virginia and the
Shenandoah valley. Returning home
at the expiration of the term of his
enlistment, he recruited a company for
the Thirty-seventh Illinois regiment of
volunteers, of which regiment he be
came major. lie was promoted for dis
tinguished services successively to lieu
tenant colonel, colonel and brevet brig
adier general of United States volun
teers. General Black was twice seri
ously wounded and has almost wholly
lest the use of his left arm.
General Black's most conspicuous
service was at Prairie Grove in 1802,
when with Colonel McNulta, in com
mand of an Illinois regiment, he was
commanded to take a strong position
held by the enemy. Black was then a
captain, but in the absence of the colo
nel he was in command of the regi
ment. Both he and McNulta knew that
the order meant business. They got
their men into shape and started on the
perilous march into the face of death,
says a veteran who was in the engage
ment.
They began to see the signs of the
enemy at the end of the third day.
They were still forty miles from the
scene of the probable fight. The men
were spurred on to exertions which
seem almost superhuman. They plod
ded for twenty-four straight hours,
with only two hours for sleep on the
open ground. Their only food was cof
fee. They walked thirty miles at the
last stretch, part of the time at double
quick. The enemy met them on the
way. and at daylight, two miles from
Prairie Grove, the first firing started.
There were many dead soldiers left at
the roadside. The column forged ahead,
its legs weary, its eyes wild from loss
of sleep, and its life all gone save the
life which comes under extraordinary
excitement. Black held the center of
the line. The commander sent word
for him to march straight ahead, to
take the top of the hill and to hold it.
This sent his regiment into the very
front—into the middle of the enemy's
range of guns. There was an Indiana
regiment on one side. Colonel McNul-
ta’s was on the other. It was a most
perilous sally—one of the most fright
fully murderous undertakings of all the
war.
The lino moved up the hill. It was
met at the brow by a force which out-
numboml it five to one. The Confeder
ates came from the woods in swarms,
beating down upon the Union forces
with fearful effect. The Indiana men
held their ground until the Confeder
ates came so close that the explosion
of the rifles spattered the uniforms
with powder stains. The Confederate
commander sent Lis host pellmell into
the lone regiment at Black's left. The
men in gray began to beat the Indian-
ians down the hillside. It was greater
odds than the best of bravery could
meet, and the Union soldiers retreated.
Colonel Black had the command next
In the line of battle. He was on the
crest of the hill with his regiment The
rebels came at him as they came at
the Indiana men. They might as well
have come against a stone wall. The
commander, with his long hair in the
wind and his voice ringing clear and
shrill above the din, held his men to
their work. He had few words. They
were to the point, and they simply ad
vised the men to stick close to the
ground and shoot mighty low. He
alone was the target for the thousands
on the other side. One hall brought
his horse to its knees. The men brought
him another. Another ball tore through
his left arm. It fell limp. He picked
it up with his other hand and hung it
In the front of his coat. The blood
was streaming from the little hole, but
there was no time for bandage or
thought of pain.
At the close of the war General
Black located at Danville, 111., where
he studied law and was admitted to
the bar. Ho never held political office
until he was appointed commissioner
of pensions, though he twice ran for
congress, once for lieutenant governor
of the state and In 1878 received the
vote of uis party in the legislature for
the United States senate. In his race
for congress in the fall of 1884 he led
his ticket by nearly 2,800 votes, his
Republican opponent, J. Cameron, be
ing elected by less than 500 votes In a
district that had given in presidential
years from 2,500 to 4,(XX) Republican
majority.
When Grover Cleveland became pres
ident in 1885 the first nomination he
sent to the senate was that of General
Black as commissioner of pensions.
During the Democratic convention
held at St. Louis in 1888 the vice presi
dency was the only feature of interest
touched upon, as It was Inevitable that
Mr. Cleveland should receive the presi
dential nomination. General Black’s
name came prominently forward at one
time for the former nomination.
He has served In congress as repre
sentative at large from Illinois. Dur
ing recent years he has practiced law
In Chicago.
Unique Apartment a linnemi CUT
Hunk Provide* For Women.
Ail banks of any size in cities have
“stock” rooms. These are of two
classes, one being where bonds and
stocks are examined by their owners
and the other where the stock station
ery and the like are kept. But only one
bank on earth has a “stocking” room,
and that bank is in Kansas City, says
the Journal of that city.
The “stocking” room in the National
Bank of Commerce Is for the exclusive
use of women, of whom the bank has
4,000 as customers. It is one of a suit
of four devoted to their uses, the oth
ers being a reception room, a writing
room and a lavatory, the last being
sound proof, walled in white marble
and wholly a gem. But these rooms,
though fitted up in mahogany and
panels of brocaded satin, are secondary
to the “stocking” room, to which they
are merely adjuncts after all.
In a word, the “stocking” room Is the
apartment into which women go to
take the money they wish to deposit in
the bank from their stockings. Now. it
Is a jest and a byword among men
that woman carries her fortune in her
hose, but not many of them believe that
this is true. Experience taught the
bank officials that it was the ease, for
many and oft was the query made,
“Where can we go to take out our
money?” Hence, when the bank was
enlarged recently a room was provided
just for this purpose. It is extremely
private and !s equipped with chairs
and with little foot rests about the
wall at convenient height, so that a
woman may put her foot on a rest and
secure the funds wherewith to make
her deposit. Although not finished as
yet, the room has already proved its
right to be and is in constant use.
The bank officials do not look upon
the “stocking” room as a joke by any
means, but are perfectly sincere in
opening it. They have found it to be
a public necessity, so far as their wom
en customers are concerned. But it
doubtless is the only room of the sort
in the world.
Steel Combine Buys Last Great
Tract In Mesaba Range.
BIG FISHING EXPEDITION
Party of Experts to Explore
Alaskan Waters.
NOW HAS PRACTICAL MONOPOLY, pjgg 0 F ARCTIOS TO BE STUDIED.
KISSING IN A CANOE.
That In AYhat CnnHed Arrent of
Waltham (Ma*n.) Couple.
Canoeing on Charles river has lost
its charm, says a Waltham (Mass.) dis
patch to tin* New York World. No
longer will the young man with the
white ducks and the canvas shoes be
permitted to hold the paddle with one
hand and the waist of his best girl
with the other. The Metropolitan Park
commissioners have shut down upon
the practice, and because in the quiet
shade of a giant tree as their canoe
floated slowly in the water Matthew
Petersen of Dorchester improved the
occasion to plant a kiss upon the lips
of Miss Flora Smith of New York the
couple was arrested.
Recently the park commissioners de
cided that an arm around the waist of
a girl, a kiss stolen on the sly or a
parasol so held that those near by could
not see the faces of the occupants con
stituted an offense punishable by a fine.
To support this decision a corps of
detectives was sent forth in canoes.
The detectives have plied the lake with
muffled oars, and Miss Smith and Mr.
Petersen are the first to feel the stern
hand of the water sleuth.
There was a long, loud cry for help
along the Charles, and soon canoeists,
seeing the very principle of the sport in
danger, came to the rescue. The arrest
was denounced on all sides. If a man
can’t kiss his girl when in his canoe,
when can he kiss her? is now the burn
ing question of Boston.
Parohanc of tli« C'hemunK Iron Com-
pany’n Holdings Adda 70,000,000
Ton* to the United State* Steel
Corporation’* Supply—I.Ittle Avail
able Ore Left In Meaalm District.
Officials of the United States Steel
corporation have announced the pur
chase of extensive ore lands in Mesaba
range, says the New York Herald.
This purchase gives the steel trust con- ;
trol of the last large tract of Mesaba
ore land that has been for sale and
adds at least 70,000,0(X) tons of ore to
the corporation's supply.
The acquisition Includes the entire
holdings of the Chemung Iron com
pany of Duluth, and is independent of
the purchase of Mesaba ore land from
James J. Hill. It is understood that
the purchase from Mr. Hill, negotia
tions for which were pending for
weeks, was completed several months
ago on condition that ore tonnage from
the district should be routed over the
Hill railroad system as far ns possible.
One of the best judges of the iron
ore situation in the United States said
that the significance of the purchase
of the Chemung holdings lies in the
fact that it takes from the market the
last large single block of Mesaba ore
and materially diminishes the possibil
ity of any extensive competition to the
steel corporation.
The Chemung Iron company’s hold
ings, which have been transferred to
the United States Steel corporation, in
clude eleven unmined tracts, the pos
sibilities of which have been fully de
veloped. The lands were nearly all
held by the Chemung company under
lease, on the basis of 25 cents a ton
royalty, and it is on these terms that
they have been transferred to the Steel
corporation. It is stated that some of
the deposits in the recently acquired
Mesaba tract average up to l>2 and 68
per cent iron and down to .035 per
cent phosphorus.
The Chemung Iron company is owned
by Henry \Y. Oliver of Pittsburg and
Chester A. Congdon of Duluth. Af
filiated with the company in making
the transfer to the Steel corporation are
the Monroe Iron company of Duluth,
R. H. Palmer, the Niles Land company,
the Minnesota Commercial Loan com
pany, Pillsbury, Bennett & Longyear,
D. T. Adams and C. M. Hill Lumber
company.
It is estimated that in the whole
Mesaba district there now remain in
the market not more than 20,000,000
tons of ore that is for sale. These de
posits are very much scattered. The
pioperty acquired is compact and Is
said to contain vast quantities of high
grade bessemer which can be easily
mined.
The newly acquired ore is without
restriction as to traffic, which was one
of the points most emphasized in the
Hill deal. The purchase price is with
held.
Steps have already been taken for
opening one of the new mines.
THREE PAIRS OF TWINS.
Indiana Man Keportn to Governor
Arrival of Third BracM*.
Governor I mrbin has received a tele
gram from Stephen A. Reeves of New
Albany announcing that Reeves is the
father of a third pair of twins, says an
Indianapolis special.
“They arrived this morning and are
the third consecutive brace. The moth
er and twins are doing well.” wired the
joyful father.
The governor ordered Secretary Lock-
wood to inclose the communication
from Reeves in n letter to President
Roosevelt. The governor’s letter to the
president called attention to the dis
patch from Reeves and said that it
furnished one more striking instance of
how strenuously opposed to “race sui
cide” are the good Indiana people.
MASCOT FOR SHAMROCK.
A lloMton Friend of Sir Thomu*
Send* Him an Kutcle.
An American eagle, a present from i
Frank Fuller of Boston to Sir Thomas
Upton, will be a mascot on board
Shamrock III. in her races for the
America’s cup against the American
yacht Reliance, says a Boston dLpatch.
Frank Fuller, who sends the eagle to
Sir Thomas, is a close friend of the
famous yachtsman, and two years ago
sent Sir Thomas a bulldog as a mascot.
The eagle is eighteen months old. It
was captured In the Rocky mountains
when only four months old, and has
been trained during Its fourteen
months’ captivity so that It Is now as
gentle as a kitten. The bird measures
eleven feet from wing tip to tip.
Carried IN.ftOO.OOO Through Street*.
Known only to a few persons $8,500,-
000 passed through the streets of Pitts
burg the other day after banking
hours, says a Pittsburg dispatch. The
money comprised the contents of the
vaults of the Tradesmen’s and Colum
bia national banks, which were moving
from their former locations to the new
Farmers' Bank building. The treasure
was made up of spede, securities and
the contents of the safe deposit vaults.
It was all placed In huge sacks. In
some Instances two men were required
to lift a sack.
SCHWAB PLAYS CHECKERS.
Speedily VanquiNlie* the Champion
of I’emiNylvaniu.
“Do 3’ou mind playing a game?”
asked one of a group of spectators at
the chess and checker games in a pier
reading room of George 11. Kearns, the
champion checker expert of Pennsyl
vania, says the Atlantic City corre
spondent of the New York Herald.
Kearns assented, and the couple
were quickly seated. The stranger
took the first game easily. “Have an
other?” he suggested. Kearns was
willing, and the second game was
fought out. Again Kearns was van
quished. In the third he rallied and
carried off the honors.
“That’s enough,” said his opponent.
“You’re on to my play.”
The man handed a twenty dollar bill
to the attendant, waved away a proffer
of change and strolled out.
“That was Charles M. Schwab,” said
some one who recognized him to
Ken rns.
“He’s a good player,” replied Kearns.
“Judging from what I have read of
him his checker playing furnished a
true indication of Ids characteristics.
His game was marked by a blending
of natural skill, audacity and venture-
Homen ss, but he never neglected to
leave a loophole through which to re
tire when pressed too hard. He sot
the rules of the game at defiance and
by this audacity beat me before I
measured him accurately.”
Mode In*ane hr Crasy Club.
Professor Jabcz Burkes, who In a
moment of eccentricity and out of a
spirit of fun started a “crazy society’’
at Pottsvillo, Pa., says a dispatch from
that place, has become unbalanced by
the success of the venture. Burkes ad
vertised bis scheme extensively In
newspapers and received many appli
cations for membership. The wide no
toriety he attained in a few weeks com
pletely turned his head, and he Insisted
on making speeches, singing songs and
dancing at Inopportune times and
places. Owing to these peculiar eccen
tricities the police have been obliged to
arrest him, and he Is now in the county
jail.
Antomoblle For Sahara Draert.
Tourists In Egypt will soon be able
to cross the Sahara desert In n four
mile an hour automobile specially con
structed for traveling over sandy
wastes. The vehicle Is to accommodate
forty passengers. While the speed
seems slow It is great r than tha« of
canal transportation.
Habit* of Different Varletle* Will
Be Obaerved to Increawe the Catch
and Save Specie* of Northern Food
Fishes—Nnmber of Sciential* Are
Crnlninf? In Northern Water* on
Steamer Albatron*.
Somewhere in the frozen latitudes of
the Pacific the fish commission steam
er Albatross is making its way north
with the big party of scientists on
board who are to spend the summer
exploring the waters of Alaska and the
arctic and studying the finny inhabit
ants of the bays, rivers and lakes of
the regions, with the view of Increas
ing the number of fish there for the
benefit of man. says a Washington spe
cial dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
The expedition will return to the Unit
ed States in the latter part of October.
The Albatross, which had been thor
oughly overhauled at the Mare island
navy yard at San Francisco and fitted
with all modern appliances for under
sea exploration, In addition to the usual
provisions and outfit of the arctic ex
ploring vessels, arrived at Seattle, the
place of meeting of the various parties
of experts, scientists, fishermen and
college professors, a few days ago.
Here it had to wait for members of
the expedition to gather. The major
ity were from the Leland Stanford uni
versity. The remainder came from all
ever the United States, including Wash
ington. Dr. Barton W. Everman and
several assistants from the fish com
mission being among the latter. Com
missioner George Bowers, who arrang
ed the final details of the trip, was the
last to reach Seattle, waiting until all
were on the scene, so that he could in
spect the whole expedition.
That there will be some interesting
reports is certain, as the vessel is to
cover a distance of 10.000 and more
miles in waters little known, especially
below the surface, and in which there
are hundreds of species of fish which
have never been classified and of which
only a few facts are known.
The exploration will be conducted in
the feeding grounds of the salmon. It
Is the intention of Commissioner Bow
ers to have the party study every
habit of the succulent red fish of the
north, Including his food, his various
homes after he leaves the spawning
rivers, the diseases that kill him off.
his enemies of the sea and land, and,
in fact, every move he makes from
birth to death, various specimens of
various ages, of course, being observed
for that purpose.
While this is going on a big land
party is to go to work eonstrueting
stations where the eggs of the north
ern fish are to be hatched as are those
of the southern climes. Oommissioner
Bowers expects to have these in readi
ness for operation when the spawning
season begins next spring. According
to the plans of the commissioner, about
twenty of these stations are to he built,
one on each of the big bays and har
bors and others on the rivers, includ
ing the Yukon.
So far it is known that the food fish
of the far northern Pacific consists,
first, of salmon, fluke and a large sort
of shad, which seems crossed with
the voracious muskellunge of the Alas
kan fresh waters and which is as gamy
as the great tarpon of sunny Florida.
This individual grows to a large size,
frequently weighing fifteen pounds.
Ills flesh is fine eating, but one has to
go to the northern waters after him,
because he won’t “pack”—that is, he
loses all flavor and becomes “mushy”
when parboiled and put in cans like
his neighbor, the red salmon.
In the family of the northern flukes
are the flounders, the halibut and simi
lar creatures whose anatomy seems to
be all on one side, but whose flavor is
much improved because of the prox
imity of the icebergs and the strenu
ous life they lead in the struggle for
food. There is also a codfish, a sort
of a second cousin to that of the New
England banks, but also larger and
harder to catch; a mysterious red fish,
whose brilliant scales and piratical and
cannibalistic habits have made him
as much of a terror In the far north
as the “snapper” of the Florida banks,
and a fine kind of sea trout, speckled
and burnished, which grow to be three
times the size of the “weak” fish, or
so called sea trout of the Atlantic wa
ters. In addition to these principal in
habitants of the waters to be explored
there are myriads of smaller tinny
specimens which look like herring,
mackerel and perch, and which are
good to eat; outlaws like the dogfish
and small sharks In the Atlantic and
crabs and lobsters and oysters, all of
which are as yet little known.
The oysters are said to be finer than
many obtained In the United States,
being always In cold water, while the
crabs grow to such size that one of
them is enough to make u meal for
two people, yet the flavor Is fine.
As to the lobster. It is one of the
special duties of the expedition to try
and locate new fishing grounds. The
culture of the lobster is one of the
problems which the commission has not
yet solved successfully, and its tribe
Is growing smaller despite the laws
restricting fishing. Commissioner Bow
ers has Instructed the haulers of the
party to obtain all of the data pos
sible, and it is on this that the work
of collecting eggs for the stations
which are now being constructed is to
be conducted.
Oysters are to be planted and ponds
are to be filled with the fry of the
fish selected as being the best for
hatchery purposes. But what is to be
done with the lobster has not yet been
decided. The experts under Commis
sioner Bowers can easily hatch the
eggs, but experiments have proved
that the young lobster, even from the
time he crawls out of the shell of his
maternal egg. is a cannibal of the
most terrifying sort. The first thing
he does when he opens his, eyes is to
seize one of his brothers and make a
meal of him, provided the brother Is
not the larger and stronger, when, If
this proves to be the case, the would
be eater is eaten.
Various schemes and mechanical de
vices have been tried to prevent this
awful slaughter, but without much
success, as the lobster is a cannibal
nil of his life, the stronger invariably
eating the weaker. Commissioner
Bowers has, however, under considera
tion centrifugal pots, which spin
around with such s’ ^ed during the
hatching process that the young can
not get time to seize and devour each
other. This pot, If successful, is to
be adopted at the new stations as well
as on the New England coast, and
then the supply of lobsters. It is
hoped, will soon be increased.
NEW RATION FOR SOLDIERS.
Iteuriy Cooked “Roast Beef Hash”
For U*e la the Philippine*.
The war department has undertaken
a new venture in the matter of a field
ration, writes the Philadelphia Ledg
er’s Washington correspondent.
The trial of a new ration called roast
beef hash seems now likely to solve
some of the problems of subsistence
for men in the field. This is a canned
beef that has been thoroughly cooked
and mixed with chopped potatoes and
onions. It will keep indefinitely and is
said to be most appetizing. The men
like it, and the first trial has proved so
successful that a larger amount will
be shipped.
It is packed in boxes and can be
transported readily and served out to
each mess quickly, supplying on occa
sion a complete meal ready cooked. On
forced marches or in a country where a
j fire is not desirable it is a very conven
ient food. It is adapted to rapid march
ing, where it is impracticable to take
along a supply train, pack animals be
ing able to carry a considerable amount,
and In case of necessity each man can
put a day’s supply in his haversack.
No Time to Stop Ailvertlnlng.
Almost any reader who keeps a
st re and has goods for sale will in
form you, says the Bangor News, that
August is a “dull month,” a time
when most every one who has money
to spend goes out of town for a longer
or a shorter period and when most
all the peonle are quiet and co nob
(•are to make purchases.
If any reader of newspapers will
glance through the different editions
of the New York Boston and Chicago
dailies he can be convinced at once
that the traders in those big cities
believe in August advertising and
put nut their money freely for the
publicity which they get through the
papers.
He Would Not.
“Would you die for me?” she asked
sentimentally.
“Now, look here!” he returned, in his
matter of fact way. "Are we supposed
to be planning a cheap novel or a wed
ding?”
A New Jersey firm is to make the
medals for the coronation exercises.
This is another good one for Johnny
Bull.
The Beef trust has at last been put
to the inconvenience and expense of
hiring a lawyer.
BE IN THE SWIM
Give me your clothes to clean, press or
dye and you will always look nice and
stylish. Old suits made to look like new.
Experienced workmen and prompt ser
vice rendered.
W. H. ROBINSON, Tailor.
Over W. U. Telegraph Office.
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The most brilliant gem that was ever
takes from the earth would not
amount to much if there were no peo
ple to appreciate its beauty and to vie
with each other for its possession.
The most spacious store,
the most carefully selected
stock of goods, the clever
est corps of clerks will not
avail unless people know
about them.
Knowledge of such
things is spread in various
ways. A passerby may
drop in and be impressed.
Ho may tell his neighbor,
and he in turn may tell
somebody else.
That is one way, and
there are some merchants
who today think it is good
enough. Modern develop
ment, however, has sup
plied in newspapers the best
means. They go into ev
ery home in the land, how
ever humble, however mag
nificent. Through them all
of the information can be
supplied, not to one, but
to thousands.
Are you using this paper I*
the best advantage?
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