Daily press. [volume], December 12, 1906, Page 3, Image 3

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MOVEMENT TOWARD !
OPENING-DP LAUNCHED
Council Petitioned to Repeat Or?
dinance Requiring Early
Closing of Saloons.
HUNDRED AND SEVEH1Y NAMES
List of Singers Includes Majority of
Merchants and Business Men of
City?Matter is Referred to Ordi?
nance and Police Committee With?
out Comment.
A movement looking toward the
"opening-up" of the city, which has
been on foot for months, was publicly
launched last night, when a petition
ashing that the ordinance requiring
saloons to close at 11:30 o'clock at
night be repealed was presented to
the hoard of aldermen. The petition
was signed by 170 Individuals and
firms, including a majority of all the
merchants and business'men. |
The petition itself is contained In
a few type-written lines and simply
prays for the council to repeal the or?
dinance In question.
There was no discussion when the
matter was brought up by Clerk Hud
glns, In whose hands the petition had
been placed. The names of the sign?
ers were not read and the matter was
referred to the committee on ordi?
nance and police without comment.
When the ordinance and police com?
mittee holds Its next meeting there
will 1)0 an interesting time. The An
11 saloon league will have representa?
tives present to malte a strenuous
fight against the granting of the pe?
tition. n,nd the signers of the petition
will be represented.
Members of the council seem to be
waiting for an expression of public
sentiment on the subject. Very few
of them are having anything to say
In regard to the petition at this time.
GOVERNOR WILL NOT COME.
Congressman Maginnis to Represent
Montana at the Launching. |
Governor Toole. of Montana, will
not be here Saturday to witness the
launching of the great armored cruis?
er which is to bear the name of his
State. Hon. Martin Maginnis, of He- |
lenu. will bo the official representa?
tive of Montana. I
The sponsor. Miss Minnie Conrad,
left Great Fails on December fi with
her father and should arrive here Fri?
day. Miss Conrad's father is a native
of Virginia.
Dolstad Leaves Yard Today.
The Norwegian steamer iiols al.
which arrived here last week from
Paramaribo and Curacao with throe
blades of her propeller mlssi it.. clear?
ed yesterday for New York. A new
wheel has been installed on the ves?
sel in dry dock No. 2, ut the shipyard,
and she will leave the basin tol.iy.
Enjoyable Entertainment.
An enjoyable entertainment was '
given at Petzold's hall last night by
the Virgil Piano School for the bene?
fit of the Grace Episcopal church.
The feature of a very attractive pro?
gram was the playing of Master Ber-!
nnrd Booker, who has been a pupil of
the school for just ten months.
Look out. for our Christmas guess?
ing contest. Three beautiful prizes.
ABRITT & CO. It.
No question about it. "Waseo"
Flour makes whiter nnd sweeter
bread, rolls and biscuits. Insist on
getting "Waseo." 11-20-tf
Our store will be open evenings
from now until Christmas. BUXTON
& PARKER. It.
I hau a pair uf comfortable
house slipper for Christmas. 5
They're always appreciated. S
Many different styles und n
kinds. <
m
J Ladles and Mens. $1 to $2.50. 5
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WE FIT FEET.
I EISEN MAN'S |
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Tuesday, December 11, 1906.
Arrived.
Steamer Sunnier. (U. S. Transport),!
Seott. Havana?to United Stales
Quartermaster Department in ballast. |
Steamer Boscohtbe (Hr.). Vtzagap-j
ntani?to C. it. Amnl for bunker
coal.
Steamer North walle (Hr.). Stave
ley. Gulvesloii?to linker. Whttely &
Company for bunker coal,
i Steamer Bendli (Br.). Millson. Gal
veBton?to Chesapeake & Ohio Coal j
Agency Company for bunker coal.
Steamer Nantucket. Niekerson, Bal?
timore? (o Merchants and Minors)
Transportation Company with pas-,
songers and merchandise.
Schooner Mary F. Barrett, Sar- \
Scant. Fort land?to While (Jnk Coal
Company in ballast.
I Barge town from Providence?to
Chesapeake & Ohio Coal Agency Com
! puny in ballast.
Barge Lancaster from Providence?
to C. H. Ariial in ballast,
i Barge Havana from Boston?to
New River Consolidated Coal Com?
pany in ballast.
I Barge Winthrop from Boston?to
I New River Consolidated Coal Com?
pany in ballast.
Barge W. D. Becker from Provi?
dence?to C. H. A mill in ballast.
Barge Rockland from Boslon?to
i Berwlnd-Whitd Coal Company in bal?
last.
Cleared.
I Steamers Solslad (Nor.) Thorsen.
New York; Boscombe (Br.). Balti?
more; Northwaite (Br.). Staveley,
Antwerp.
I Sailed.
' Steamers Bcndu (Br.), Millson,
Liverpool; Bay View, Cummings, Fall
River; Nantucket. Niekerson, Nor?
folk and Boslon.
Calendar For This Day.
Sun rises. 7:08 a. m.
Sun sets. 4:50 p. m.
High water_0:20 a. m., 0:48 p. m.
Low water. 0:52 p. m.
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Gets Six Months in Jail.
Carl Thomasson. the seanitin who
was arrested Monday for stealing a
lot of table ware and other articles
! from (he Norwegian steamer Condor.
: was given sixty days in Jail by Jus?
tice Brown in the police court.
"Oil," sobbed the young w'l>.
"George doesn't love me as he did."
"Nonsense," replied her mother,
"Only this morning I heard him call
you the dearst gin in the world."
'Yes. but he used to call me tbo
dearest, girl that ever lived."?Phil?
adelphia Public Ledger.
Capital Dry Goods House.
-WASHINGTON AVENUE AT 30TH STREET?asa
The Store That Saves You Money.
Make elegant gilts?a handsome Muff or Scarf, or a matched sot ?
would be sure to please and would he a lasting reminder of" the
g'ivor. We are this season al le? to offer the greatest bargains in
fine and medium grade Furs ever known in this city.
Advantageous purchases of manufacturers' samples makes
it possible to sell you Furs much below their real value, Don't buy
a Fur of any kind until you have seen our line. We can save you
money.
TODAY WE OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS IN WOMEN'S FASH
ionnbic Long Coats?$10.00 for Coats worth (12.50 and Up to
$15.00.
TODAY WE WILL SELL A
lot of new stylish leather
Hand Bag; regular QQ?
$1,50 kind, for . UUO
ELEGANT FANCY HANDLE
Umbrellas; handsome styles
for gifts, Q1 HO
euch . $ I iUU
Our store will remain open every night until Christmas.
HESTIA BREAKS HER
? MAIN SHAFT At SEA
Donaldson Liner Towed Into Port at
Shannon?Bound for New?
port News.
The British Steamer Hostln, Captain
Ferguson, of the Donaldson Line,
which sailed from Glasgow on Dueem
!ber l. direct Tor Newport News, was
towed into port at Shannon. Ireland,
Sunday with her main shaft broken.
The accident occurred off the went
cost or Ireland ubout 30 miles west
or Slyno Head. The m earner sent up
distress signals and a tng^was sent to
her rescue from Shuunon. The vessel
will repair at that port and then pro?
ceed to Newpqr{ News. She linn
aboard several hundred toim of im?
ports consigned to the United States
Shipping company.
This is the second ucident that 1i?h
befallen the llestln during the past
eighteen mouths. IjisI winter the
Hestla struck a submerged wreck off
the Canadian coast while hound from
Glasgow for St. .Johns. N. B.. Balti?
more. Newport News and Norfolk. A
great hole was torn in her hull and
she was temporarily repaired and
lowed to St. John's, where repairs
were mrtde. As a result of the Keel'
dent she was out of commission for
several months.
ARMY OFFICERS INCENSED
BY COLLECTORS' ACTION
Capt. Stuart Didn't Make Friends
With Passengers on the Kll
patrick.
Collector of Customs .1. 10. B. Stunrt.
is not a popular man among the army
officers who were passengers on the
transport Kilpatrick. in fact, some or
the things said about the collector by
the passengers would not look well in
print:
Prom all accounts the customs reg?
ulations were carried out to the very
letter by the collector in regard to the
army officers. It is said that rour
boxes, containing an aggregate of
about forty cigarette's were taken j
from an army officer who attempted .
to bring them ashore rrom the Kll
halrick. Between rirteen und twenty
boxes or Manila cigars were seize"! j
from other officers and they and the
cigarettes are now being held by the
collector and unless the officers pay
tin? duty on them they will be sold n't
public auction.
Under the custom law every pan
seiiKer on 'he transport was allowed
to bring fifty cigars ashore and from
all accounts the customs Inspectors
did not let any of the officers bring
ashore a cigar or cigarette over the I
limit fixed by the law.
The officers were familiar with the
law. but owing to the fact that most
of the boxes of Manila cigars contain?
ed ]no eignrs they expected to he al?
lowed to bring n box apiece1 ushore.
Collector Stuart couldn't see it that
way. however, and instead of nllow
lug the ofBcers to take their cigars
he declared them forfeited to the gov?
ernment.
Pay Car Comes.
The Chesapeake & Ohio "pay car"
paid Its monthly visits to this city
yesterday and the employes of the
company received their November
salaries,
School Book Investigation.
RICHMOND. Vn.. Dec. H.?The in?
vestigation into the school hook epies
tion will begin tomorrow. The peo?
ple irtay expect startling happenings,
and a clenr depiction of events, that,
while prohnbly following the letter of
the law. are violating Its spirit, may
also be expected.
'Frisco to Have World's Fair.
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO. CAU. Dec. 11.?
San Francisco proposes to have a
world's fair in 1913. Fifteen concerns
have formed a corporation to be
known as the Pacific Ocean Exposi?
tion com ban y, which plans to give a
mammouth fair In 1913 to commemo?
rate the 40th anniversary en* the dis?
covery of the Pnclfic by Balboa and
the completion of (he Panama canal.
Irrenularities in Norfolk Accounts..
NORFOLK, Dec. 11.?The renort
of an auditing company presented to
the hoard of control yesterday shows
that certain alleged irregularities
exist in the management of that In?
stitution, but declares that the errors
discovered were no doubt caused by
ca relensness.
Indicted; Ends His Life.
(By Associated Press.)
SIOUX CITY. IOWA. Dec. 11.?
Mat Priestlv, one of the county sup?
ervisors recently Indicted at Rock
Rapids, for misappropriation of funds,
committed suicide today by cuttlne
bis throat: His wife round him dead
in a hay mow with a knife clnsned in
his hand. He was 05 years old.
Kilpatrick for Cuban Service. |
(Rv Associated Press ) ,
WASHINGTON. I). C. Dec. 11?
The annv transport Kilpatrick
will be pnl In the Cuban transport
Fe'rvlrc in place of the Snniner. This
action was determined bv the army
bureau because the Kilpatrick is it
more, commodious vessel than either,
the Sunnier or the iMeade. The two
latter vessels will be put out of com?
mission.
Tea Raising in iaouth Carotlni.
fRv Associated Press*
CHARLESTON. S. C. Deo.. II.
Mnrketlng was begun today of the
first crop of Amorlom t"i grown on
a commercial scale, twelve .iiou&and
pounds have been raised on a planta?
tion in Colletoij county, i few miles
Ircm Charleston.
An average of.three thousand per?
sons land In New York city from
ocean going vessels each day.
There are six foreign born per?
sons arrested in New York city to
each five native born.
Christmas
The Diamond is the Gift of Gifts
Aside from their beauty and deserved popularity they
are 1he most profitable irwestment you can make for
adornment. What else can you buy. wear a ye^r or two,
then be worth just about the same you put in it ?
Don't put it off. COME AND SEE what stunning gifts
we can show you in this line for your money.
It Is generally acknowledged that for good reliable
goods, PAL VAE RS1 IS THE PLACE and it is a pleasure and
satisfaction to own the kind of JEWELRY we handle.
We have :
Diamond Rings from . $3.00 to $400
Diamond Brooches from $5.00 to $350
Diamond Lockets from . $5.00 to $75
Diamond Bracelets from $6.00 to $70
Diamond Cuff Buttons from $5.00 to $25
Diamond Scarf Pins . ?3.50 to $150
W" Guarantee every thing wc sell to be just as
represented by us, and our prices are the
lowest possible for good honest goods
/. J. Palmer's Sons,
The Leading Jewelers,
Established 1892. 2606 Washington Avenue.
NEITHER POOR NOR RICH
Parents of Gillette Living Modestly
In Denver.
Tlio parents of Chester Gillette
live in Denver In un unpretentious
apartment. They uro in very modest
circumstances. Eleven, years ago
both were officers In the Salvation
Army and worked In different eitles
along the Pacific toast, it was thine
that young Chester was brought up. |
Later they left the Salvation Army |
and Joined the Doweltes lit Zlou '
City. 111. Before that, however, theyj
made a trip to Honolulu, sending
Chester in the meantime to Oder
liu, Ohio, whero be had two years
at college. When Dowle and Voll
va clashed, the Glllettos leR Zlon
City and went West.
Mm. Gillette seems to direct the
affairs of the household, while her
husband, a quiet and gentle person?
ality, appenrs to depend upon her for
advice. She Is of medium height
stout. 47 years old, und slightly
gray-haired.
There are three other children?
Paul, Hazel and Lucelle, nil younger
than Chester. Paul und Hazel are
in school in Denver, and Lucolle is
doing what the Gillettes believe to
be a good work In Zlon City.
The Gillettes are not wealthy, nei?
ther are they poor. They have been
put to considerable expense by their
life work and the traveling iucldont
to It. They were willing to help
thoir son, but the brother of Mr.
I Gillette, with whom Chester was .?
favorite, volunteered to assume the
j whole burden.?Donver , Col., DIs
i patch in New York Wjorld.
Unheard Of Profits In Apples. |
It Is said among apple-growers that
the habit of careful grading and the
classifying -of fruit?separating "fan?
cy" from ordinary market apples,
again dividing the ovuporntor sup?
ply from the eider-mill apples?
! has added unheard-of profits to cer?
tain orchard sections. Tbl? year
Northwestern New York including
the Monroe and Orleans county sect
Ions, whero farmers have long prac
ItUed the mire careful methods of
j fruit selection, resided from 25 to
40.cents a hundred for lower grades
I of apples for which Northwestern
I Pennsylvania, with its old-fashioned
and wasteful treatment of its or
I chord products, received only I'o
|cc!it3 n hundred. As a striking ex
ample of the two methods of fruit
raising and fruit-handling, these two
eimiliy fertile regions supply object
lessons To the better and up-to-date
methods the rewards of agriculture
surely go In this country in Increas?
ing abundance,?'New York Commer?
cial;
, If you want to see the only sam?
ple of Italian Gothic architecture
In public building In New York city
go to Sixth avenue and West Tenth
street and look at Jefferson Market
Court.
We make a specialty of fine old
straight Wblskks. Imported und Do?
mestic Sherries and Ports. NEW?
PORT NEWS WINK & LIQUOR CO..
Corner Twenty-fifth street and Wash?
ington avenue.. Both phones. 12-12-lm
Tlie Record Omelot.
Thb chef lighted a cigarette.
"A good omelet, was It not?" ho
?nid. "Now I will toll you of the
record omelet of the world.
"When 1 s.oldlorod In Tunisia, our;
company wns nont out at tho far-'
mcr's request, to annihilate the spar
rows which destroyed., the ojops. We
brought bnck? It Is Incredible?
6,000 sparrows' eggs. Think of It!
"Out of the 6,000 spurrowH" eggs
we ninde nil omelet. It was H
feel long, 12 feet wide, and 1 foot j
thick. And light! Llghtor.my . friend
than a feather.
"It was tlu> record omelet of the j
world, and I have a photograph of .
In my strong hox."?New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Face valno of the annual exchange
la the New York City Clearing
House is twice as much as that of j
all the other clearing houses in the.
United States combined
Ixiok out for our Christmas guess?
ing contest. Three beautiful prlzoH.'
AR RITT &. CO. . It. I
HICKS'
CAPUDINE
fHMuunrtLV cubii
HEADACHES
Britb up COLDS
la 6 to 13 Hours
TrWfcisklJ* Aielftem
A Few Suggestions
For Holiday Buyers:
DIAMOND RINGS?
$7.00 TO $450.00
DIAMOND BROOCHES?
$6.00 TO $358.00
DIAMOND PENDANTS?
$5.00 TO $1,250.00
DIAMOND CUFF LINKS?
$5.03 TO $25.00
Solid GOLD WATCHE8, Elgin
movements.$20 to $100.00
Filled GOLD WATCHES, Elgin
movements . $10 to $35.00
STERLING SILVEjdRomb, Brush
and Mirror Sets. $f$7.5Q to $30.00
PLATED Comb, Brush and Mirror
Sets. $4.00 to $7.50
UMBRELLAS.$3.75 to $25.00
This is only a partial list. We
have everything in our line suita?
ble for Chri6tmas Gifts.
Arritt&Gomp'ny
JEWELERS,
2909 Washington Avenue.
otel _
Warwick
laundry*
A trial will convince you that,]
wo Hirn out nothing but J
Strictly High
Grade Work
Drop us a postal or phone us.
to call for your package tliiB
week. i{
PHONE8, NO. 10.
T. R. WOLPOLK
MANAGER.
Whipped
Cream
Pastries.
Health
Bakery.
BANKERS and BROKgR^i^
20: Broad Strdefc ' ' ?ttb#i-;&t%3?k$.
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