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4 , ____ VOL. XXVI. «. P. RANKIN. President, C. N. EVANS, Vlee-Preeldeet, A. O. MYBR9. Cashier. THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK Of Gastonia, N. C. CAPITAL ..... $50,000.00 Absolute security is the best thing wc have to oiler intending de poiitofi. OTHER INDUCEMENTS—exceptional facilities, careful, painstak ing attention to details, and a progressive policy, while valuable of themselves, are of secondary importance. Upon this basis we solicit your patronage. DIRECTORS: R. P. RANKIN. Sec. ft Tress. Ourlc Mills. C. N. EVANS, Cashier Merchants tt Fanners National Rank Charlotte. 3. II. 8LOAN, Physician. ..... ROBERT A. IjOVt Treasurer, Daniel Manufacturing Co.. Avon Mills, Gastonia Cotton Manufacturing Co., Love Trust Co. J. A. GLENN. President the 3. A. Glean Co., Wholesale Grocers EDGAR LOVE, Vice-President ft General Manugcr, Daniel Man ufacturing Co. R. R. HAYNES Tress. CliHsidc Mills, Promoter and Capitalist. I A weird Memorial Service. Cbirlutls Chnmklc, About tbe first showman who died in this part of the country is buried in the old Presbyterian graveyard in Concord. It was the custom when tbe circus would honor that town with its presence—it seems to have given it the go-by in recent years—for all tbe ladies and gentlemen to visit the graveyard and plan flowers on tbe circus man’s grave, while tbe band would play a funeral dirge such os only circus bands can play. In Elm wood Cemetery, in this city, is buried s circus man named King, who was killed by an elephant named Chief. His grave is marked by a monument on which is carved the figure of an ele phant. Every time a circus comes to Charlotte, the circus people get up a funeral proces sion to King’s grave, aud take the elephants along with them. This custom of honoring the dead is one of the strong char acteristics of the circns people aud the most striking evidence of it was seen on the Pennsyl vania Railroad, recently. The performance occurred at 2 o’clock at night. At that hour, a dispatch in The Baltimore Sun tells ns, the trains of the John Robinson Show were stopped at the foot of the Allegheny Moun tains on the spot where the Wal ter I*. Main Show was wrecked about 12 years ago sad there, under the starlight, memorial services in honor of those killed in the wreck were held. The 1,000 persons connected with the show, beaded by six bands, marched to tbe spot and partici pated in tbe services. Rev. Mr. Sheak made a touching address, after which tbe mountain side was banked with two carloads of flowers purchased jointly by tbe John Robinson Show and tbe Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny. During tbe services the _>|J_t_a sea .a a wiiuauiwwo WWiKU UJ II1C SUOW created an unearthly din with their shrieka and cries, and thsse were anawered by tbe strange animals on the mount ain. It is thought these last mentioned may still be some of those that escaped when the Main Show was wrecked. Tbe circus people are great on me morial exercises, but this latest incident caps the climax. Con sidering the hour at which it took place, it negatives tbe idea that these performances are purely for advertising effect. Hat • Host Law. SotrtTiU* f.wlnirt. The last Legislature made it unlawful for newspapers to pnb llsh tbe names of persons who return incomes for taxation. The Monroe Enquirer thinks it hardly proper to publish the nstnaa—as many newspapers have done—but the BnquireT doubts if the law prohibiting publication will stand, as tbe tax books are public property and tbe newspapers have a right to publish matters of pub lic record. The Enquirer's point is well taken, while we realise the force of tbe objection to publi cations concerning private af fairs, we happen to-know that such publications have materi ally increased the a timber of men who return incomes. Looked at from Ibe standpoint of forcing meu to list all their fffrVi forMuff£hihn £ rttttrn inould bt pnoiiiwd, tor the publicity will expose many who are shirking and will in this way fotoe them to come up and bear their share of the pub lic hardens. Wr believe that uudtt the new rmlatioa then will b« • big falling off in in COM4 tnNtttmI, for men who evade this tax will ns longer be la daw of extHtnn. Subscribe to Tax Oassttx. Tha Saddast Nets. •Viluta JguiiL "The saddest note for St. Pe tersburg was struck by the de struction of the battleship Alex ander III. which was manned by sailors of the guard and officered exclusively by men prominent in society and at court. Her crew served during the winter time as s regiment of tbe guards of which tbe dowager empress was honorary commander."—St. Petersburg dispatch. So this is tbe saddest note, ii it? St. Petersburg's peacock set has lost some ofits bestrutting, most gorgeously-hued peacocks. At last some things besides mere people have encountered slaughter, and even into tbe ex clusive salons and boudoirs of the honses of tbe nobles them selves goes the conviction that "war is hell." The blood-soaked plsius of Manchuria are dotted with hun dreds of thousands of graves of slain Russian soldiers. The waters of the eastern seas and straits are dyed and clogged with the blood and bodies of thousands of Russian soldiers. The homes of Russia have been turned into honses of mourning and tbe wsiliug and moaning of widows and orphans penetrates all the world except the thick walla and the bard hearts of tbe bureaucrats of Russia’s own cap ital. These are sad notes,' but the saddest. Ob. no; the saddest is that a few perfumed and bc frilled dandles got in the way of the impartial shot of the Jap.' One of the world’s greatest navies has been annihilated; one of the world’s greatest armies baa been shattered; one of tbe world’s greatest nations has been bronght close to ruin. But tbe tad thing is that the houses of the Russian nobles have at last suffered a personal loss and social events at St. __ill » . .. . • wtai iVl WUIIC UC lew ornamental than heretofore. For a year, the lifeblood of the Russian empire has been gush ing in a stream and ita bone and sinew bave been crunching un der tbeiuggernaut of a hope leas war. The nation's money has been spent sad its credit rained, its industry paralysed and the spirits of its people deadened. But the saddest note was struck when that shipload of worthless nobles eras spilled in the Korean strait I ■tease Deers lor the Capitol at • Cost el MM*. Wuh lactam DUpatcfc. The bronse doors for tbe east front of the capita! at Washing ton, designed in 1898, bave been completed by Melsar H. Mot mas at his works in Chicopee, Mass. Not until 1902 did Con gress appropriate the $40,000 necessary for the work, which hat occupied two years. Tbe doors weigh two tons each, but they swing easily and almost noiselessly. There are four panels in relief in each door. The panels of the left hand door represent the massacre at Wyoming, the bat tle of Lexington, the. presenta tion of a flag to Colon si Mont trie* of South Carolina, and the death of General Montgomery at Quebec. The historical scenes depicted oo the panels of tbs right-hand door are the reading of tha Declaration of Independ ence, the signing of the treaty of peace at Paris, Washington's farewell to his generals and Benjamin Prtaklio in his study. The hacks of tbe maseive doors are plsin bronse. The doors are 14 1-2 feet high and bave a total width of 61-2 feet. They will be pieced In position this summer. Subscribe for Tint Oaproiru Oanrrn, $LS0 s year. TU SPLEN0OBS OF NLTMOIE. —BY JO.\B— Not many radons ago tbe writer was invited to visit tbe palatial borne of one George W. Vanderbilt, Esq., residing and being in tbe county of Buncombe and town of Biltmorc. Ob, Yea I George invited me. Of course be did. He invites everybody, three times each week to come and see all that he bath—to en joy tbe hospitalities of bis mag nificient estate. However, "George" is out for the "dust" and on tbe way to the "Big Gate” that guards tbe entrance to his castle, yon incidentally stop at tbe office sad render to tbe man behind tbe wicket, a few of yonr good sbeckels which will go to help replinUh the de pleted exchequer of Mr. Van derbilt. Got your tickets? yes. How muck did they cost? Obi well, never mind wbat tbey cost. Perhaps the equivalent would buy a seat to tbe matinee, if the "show" was popular prices. Aa vou Dili in at tne I-odo-e. a verv pompous individual who very much smacks of Baalish, holds out his podgy hand for your passport—yonr check—which is the oaly sbibolcth, the only vis iting card that is required to en ter the domicile of the "Master of Biltmore." After passing through the magic gat* one is at once struck by the rustic sur roundings—the uniqueness and the beauties of the place. To the right the rippling Swanna nos harries -on its tireless jour ney, while on the left one is greeted by myriads of evergreens and countless specimens of in numerable trees, ferns, garlands, sod flowers—the most oi which have been transplanted within the past few years. From the entrance to the Mansion, the distance is s little leas than three miles. The road is of the finest macadam, said to cost ten thousand dollars per mile io the constructing. The highway winds arouud and over the bills in a serpeutine like track; ooc is struck with the fact that grades are scarcely noticeable— aone of which are over five per cent. As you sight the "house" in •he distance, the driver tells yon .hat you cannot go up to the house because Mr. Vanderbilt is at home. Funny isn’t it. When he is away you may go up to the house and drive all arouud it—see all the beauties of the spacious front yards. Bat as the Lord of the Manor was at home—and yet "not at home” —we did not go nearer than the hack wall of the mansion, but drove toward the beautiful French Broad whose waters could be seen shimmering in the distance some two miles away. The macadam runs directly parallel with the Broad for nearly three miles, whea it ■beers ofi to the Tight leading to the hog farm; and where the finest breeds of hogdoni will be found. From the hog farm we went to the dairy. Here the Jersey, Holstein, Albany and other varieties of the cow family wilt be found in their highest •taie ot existence, in con nection with the dairy there is an ice-cream parlor where visitors are seryed ice-cream at the nominal sum oi twenty cents ner plate. Carnations will be given all those who desire them at just five cents a dosea. If is very nice delicious cream, but really it isn't worth twenty cents —its a case of bold up though. What is a fellow going to do— be bss already ordered for the patty—wants to do the hand some thing you know—wall one has to rengu himself to his fate and "cough up* that la the only thing to ao and I did so. took my medicine without a whimper. Prom the dairy we went on to the poultry farm where hundreds oi little chicks, docks, turkays, goalins, etc., were to be seen in all aiaes from little “peepers” to frying sice. At tverv tarn one Is impressed with the one fact and that is, that no amount of money has bseu spared to make Biltmore Estate an ideal one. Everything smacks ol modern, up-to-date farming, landscaping ate. The vast fields the bottom lands are all as level as cap be. Not a stone nor stump ia all of the en tire bottom. If one desires to see the Sheep Farm, be must cross Ike river (French Broad) on a ferry—one of the old kind, tbii being the only antiquated piece of machinery about the place. Some tea miles or so from the ferry is located the Sheep Farm where it is said hundreds oi the innocent aad playfal little lambs may be seen gamboling over the grassy hillsides aad hollows. Leaving the poultry farm tbs visitor is piloted through Antlai Drive. Aatler Drive is a very delightful, cool, cbeerv, rustic, almost silent place, hemmed in on all sides by what seems to be a virgin forest of hickory, dog wood, oak, chestnut, . maple, poplar, and numerons other trees, all of which are preserved and no one is allowed to cat a twig off this tract of woodland. Emerging from Ibis charming Spot, the tourist is again brought in view of the winding Swan* nano where its waters ere seen bounding and splashing over the rocks, ever in a harry ns U afraid of being late at their journeys’ end; again we are insight of Biltmore—the spotless town-aad again at another gate, another sentinel guards the outer gate, where in order to get out you are compelled to surrender the other half of the ticket which was purchased on entering. One involuntarily remarks as he is leaving this garden spot. Ob! what a glorious place. Could mental man wish for more. Is he happy? 1 wonder if he is. But there is no welcoming an* swer. Only echo answers back. There is nothing that equals the treat estate. Tbe unlimited amount of money that baa been lavished on it has made it what it is. the grandest, most splendid estate of any one maa in tba United States, perhaps ia the world. Thirsty tar Notoriety. Ailikiahan^. Professional men of America arc cultivating a strange thirst. Like the liquor habit, it spreads. It is almost a disease, it is con tagious and in tbe past decade has tonched with its blight every professional vocation. A desire for public acclaim has taken possession of maay men ia inrdical, ministerial and legal walks of life ia great num bers. This thirst has undoubtedly led men to the expression for publication of* opinions they cannot honestly bold, thongs striving to convince themselves they believe what they don't. Members of the faculty of a well known western university atarted the fad, asserting the truth of tbe erildcst vagaries of the imagination. There have been many imitators. A doctor declares hie can be created, and his name is tacked to the dis covery. Another has a drop of wondrous liquid that will make four barrels of beer. A society woman would kill off all ugly children, while a prominent divine refutes the story of the flood by inquiring bow God could drown the fishes. An at torney labors months in a sen sations! trial aud an non nee a he trill take no fee Irons bis client. A clergyman declares all danc ing women bad, while a surgeon discovers germs in stouca, germs in running brooks and germs in everything. Oh, wad the gods tbe gifte gie someone to discover an anti notoriety toxin. The Old Way and (ha Haw. Vmra* Mmlm. A few days ago we warn ap proached by a large strapping boy, who is strong enough to kiu lota of grass, wbo wanted a dona tion to a base-ball club for Mon roe. He didn’t get it from this shop. Uaed to be that a boy took tl.. I___L. __.1 led it, wrapped the thread around a smooth pebble, a marble or piece of rubber, took a needle and thread and sewed around tbe ball, got ^ piece of thick board and with a jack knife whittled out a bat and then he was ready to play ball and he bad more fna playing ball for an hour at noon, one gallus and barefooted as be was, than does your town young man of leisure dressed out in his Chinese shoes, qnilted belly and calf mauls. We have no objection to tbe boys pitying ball, bat fora gnat lusty fellow to go out begging for money to buy base ball toggery, that’s disgusting. Many a man wbo toils down tbe furrow these hot dnys, not for exercise alone, would have *<*>rued tbe idea when be was a boy of going out of the family to ask for a sickle to buy a ball._ '’Kicks*” by s Flow. Mr. W. H. Barker, of I/>wee vil k, Gaston County, In a terrible as* most oansnsl manner met bis death Friday of lest weak. Mr. Barker was a Confederate vateraa. He was in bia ield ploughing Pri day when the stonrk struck a root or rock and "kicked" Mr. Barker in tbe stomach. He was knocked unconscious and bad to bo takes to bis home. After regmiofng cornedousaeee be continued to suffer excrutistlng paint until death relieved him of his ssflsd logs. m MWEWbL1C SENTIMENT I Within the past few day tbingt have been done In Phfla dclphia that should inspire th bosotn of every honest am Ktriotic man in America wit] pc ol the future. Never any wbrra since the tongue of JDn mostbenes stirred Athena to d< battle for faith and freedom hat the invincible poster of pnbUi opinion been aeon forcibly -e more obvionslr UUnatraUd that when tbs insolent ring that hst so long fattened on the gsibag. of corrupt city admioiatrailmiti Philadelphia smrrendated a discretion to an indignso citizenship resolved to coctcc abuses. Philadelphia has done tin country an incalculable service She has shown that there ii nothing ao powerful as tin awakened pabUc sentiment of i virtuous community, and to borrow the rhetoric of a great English orator of jest a centarj ago. let ns hope that Pkflo dclphia, having saved herself by bar valor, may save others by ber example. - What she hn none every oincr coauuity fa America, urban or rvral. can do. When lire intrepid Gen. Hood, of Confederate fame, area asked if cavalry would chary* on In fantry with fined bayonet*, hi bluntly answered. “Yes. if you will cat the bridle reins." And ■o nay community suffering Iron corrupt administration, in nil this land, can defeat the graft era if the honest electorate will only resolve on reform and press forward over all opposition to it. There is a well-defined belie! that the sorest place os the body politic is municipal gov ernment in the United States. The practical and the moat energetic people in the world. Americans have allowed party politics to control in city elec tions. Party spirit runs high is oor conntry. Perhaps there arc 50,000 voters ia Philadelphia, virtuous men. church members taxpayers, good citizens, whe religiously believe that a Kcpub ncan thief ia fitter for office that any honest man who adheres U Ihe Democratic party. That ii the- spirit that has intrenched ewsry etty ring ia America whether the city be Democratic or Republican. It ia the fanati dam of politics, the weakness o human nature, the blindness o prejudice. Bat Philadelphia has shows that a city ring may play on thii suing too long. Greed hsi overleaped it sell. I*t otbei cities learn a lesson from the fine old Quakeress on the Dels ware and go and do likewise. The Cast aiVar. H«it RMiari. Give toe the money that ha been spent in war, and I wil purchase every foot of land open the globe. I will clothe ever] man, woman and child la an at tire of which kings and queen would be proud. I will build i school-house on every billaidi ami in every valley over tin whole earth; I will build ai academy In every town, and cu aow w; s college in every sute and fill it with able profeseora t will crown every hill with i place of worship, consecrated k the promulgation of the goepa of peace: 1 will support in ever pulpit an able teacher erf .dm eouMMaa. so that on Sabbat! moraine the chime on one hH ■hoald answer to the chime « another round the earth’s wtdi circa inference; and the voice a prayer and the song of pcaia shoal d ascend like a a pi versa chorus to Heaven. Canary Birin an a fmt at th Chnrch Saraiea. WHnirarton Sth. An innovation eras introduce* into religious worship her* Sun day morning at Children’a Do exercises when cages cootsinini singing canary birds warn hunt from the chandeliers and othe parte of the chnrch. and durtai the exercises the birds poor* forth a continuous flood of aom and kept np a ceaseless cbirg law. which were mingle with the singing and recitation of the children. There were time* when th birds created ae much noise ■ the little children who wc> taking part la tht program aw and the efiect waa both pleat lag and unique. The board of aldermen < Shelby will cslt an election fa the issuing of JS0.000 worth c bonds, payable Iff thirty yean for potting in a system of «rat« wens CMcMsCfcfamc*!! ^ There we certain nrrin of docks tkst are give* the credit by naturalists of being the fleet est of winged creature*. Re cently. however, it has been as certained that the learned men WCR in error, aad theatawk la foaad to outstrip by far aU deni seas of the air ta speed After r an exhaartrre survey of the flaM It la aow declared that no living thief, not eves a scared Jack rabttt, can travel with the spaed displayed by such bfrds as the atoek tad the Noethers bias throsi. Not only do these birds fly with a speed that can bard" be cooeeived. bat they keep up their rapid flight lor 1,000c* 2,. 000 miles at a stretch without appAYenuv tiriaf. baa ten collected i w**eb *kows that tbe 1 bluethroat flies from central Af I i wwtynapwa Blftat. The Moths which spend their . somajera is Austria-Hungary [ and their winters la India and . *«t«l Afrioa an also marvel ons travelers sad make their twice a year is as [ hwJwttWthteach rime. Pram Ruria-Fettn, in Hungary, to L+ l hore, in India, is 2,400 miles in , an air ltae, and the storks snake . the journey in tweaty-foar boars, , that (raveling at the rata of 100 I miles aa hoar for Urn whole din-1 i toacc. The stork which spends | the answer hi central Europe f *t»d winter la oeatral Afrioa trav | el with the sense rapidity. L *-r*?— riraf Catlsa Hearn. . YwUteis wi latewi.' Mr. H. C. Polk of Bemherg county, reported the first cotton 1 bloom of tbe asesoa last - Wednesday. Mr. PMk bea led r the state with tbe ftrat Moons for r several years past r
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