Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 265, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1909 Page: 8 of 16
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START THE MONTH RIGHT
2 for
25c
1-lb. cans, 2 for.. 15c
Delicatessen
25c
75c
40c
15c
45c
70c
10c
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20c
25c
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Sunbeam Tomato
Catsup, pint
20c
quarts
Dundee Cream,
Sur Extra Mush-
Rolled Herring,
15c
5c
2 cans.
each
25c
Celery,
Zu Zus, 6 pkgs
25c
25c
4 bunches.
25c
35c
35c
cans.
• 20c
20c cans Stringless
Boneless
Beans, 2 cans...25c
15c
60c
25c
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THE LEGEND OF
THE LIGHTHOUSE
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“PONY” MOORE DIES.
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TRIBUNE “Want” ads bring result^
Lake Smoked
Whitefish, lb....30c
Fresh Smoked
Salmon, lb..
St. Charles Family
Cream, 2 cans... 15c
35c Club House
Salad Dressing.. 25c
Maraschino Cherries,
55c
Hyman's Chow Chow,
quarts; 2 jars..45c
TOMORROW'S
PRICES
Chow Chow,
3 bottles. .
Moss Tabasco
Pepper Sauce 30c
He Was Founder of Moore and Burgess
Minstrels.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 1.—George Washington
Moore, founder of the Moore and Bur-
gess Minstrels, and known in sporting
circles as “Pony” Moore, died here this
morning.
Potato Chips,
lb
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R. & H. Apricots or
Plums, 3 cans... .40c
Good Prunes,
4 lbs
Heinz Apple Butter,
cans j. 15c
3Oc
15c
rooms, 3 cans. $1.00
‘Hotel Mushrooms,
2
TUSSUP’S
PHONES 12 AND 422
TUSSUP’S
22d AND POSTOFFICE
?Oc
Santos Parched
Coffee, lb..
Green Coffee, Rio,
11 lbs $1.00
Clipper. String Beans,
4 cans... 25c
C. H. Asparagus,
2 cans
Clippei’ Corn,
6 cans
Tomato Pulp,
6 cans
Magic City Pickles,
3 bottles 25c
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Entrust your patronage where you are assured of excellent, unsurpassed service, personal,
courteous attention and lowest prices consistent with highest quality obtainable.
. TRY TUSSUP’S THIS MONTH " ' , '' '
4 lbs. Red Kidney
Beans ........
Domino Sugar,
5-lb. box 40c
Flour, 6 lbs ...25c
Ice Cream Salt, lb...lc
Table Salt, 3 for.... 10c
Blueing, 3 bottles.. 10c
Searchlight Matches,
3, boxes 10c
Chase & Sanborn No.
2 Tea, %-lb. can..25c
Parched Coffee,
2 lbs.
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Club House Lima
Beans, 15c cans. .10c
25c
Pink Beans, 4 lbs.. 15c
California Potatoes,
peck 30c
BLOODHOUNDS FAIL.
They Cannot Follow Trail Along Well
Oiled Sreets.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Oct. 1.—The
hunting fugitives with
when the trails of those
across the modern oiled thoroughfares
was demonstrated in Oak Park yester-
day.
Recent wholesale robberies in that
suburb resulted in two being brought
from Hammond, Ind.
The dogs were successful except on
the oiled streets.
Fulda Head Cheese,
lb 30c
Liver Sausage, lb.35c
Pigs’ Feet, split and
spiced, 2 lbs.... 15c
Ham baked in
Sherry, lb.....'.. 50c
Potato Salad,
pint
Kosher Sausage,
lb
Fruits
Tokay or Black
Prince Grapes,
basket
Bananas,
dozen . .'
Fancy Apples,
peck ,
Fancy Peaches,
dozen ......*
Plums, dozen....
Bartlett Pears,
dozen..25c and 50c
futility of
bloodhounds
sought lead
Club House
Codfish,
3-lb. box..
ily inquire what rate of taxation will
be required to support the entire out-
standing bonds of the city. With a net
bonded debt of $4,300,00, which will be
augmented by $100;000 for a duplicate
water main, and the $250,000 herein
mentioned, the total amount necessary
to pay interest and sinking fund' on
the total bonded debt would aggregate
(figuring that only about 80 per cent of
the taxes are collected each year an-
nually as they accrue a total tax rate
of $1.50 for bond purposes. There is
required for general purposes of run-
ning the city a tax of 70c, required for
school purposes a tax of 20c, making a
total of $2.40.
I do not think the city can afford
under any circumstances to ask for any
issue of bonds that would carry a pos-
sible tax rate above $2.40, or within 10c
on the $100 of the maximum that can
be levied. As a matter of fact, the to-
tal city tax rate will not actually be
anything like $2.40, because of me op-
eration of the state tax donation act
in paying interest and sinking fund on
the grade raising bonds, but in author-
izing bond issues the attorney general
will hardly figure that interest and
sinking fund can be paid from any
other sources than taxation, and to ask
for a larger issue of bonds for this
purpose would jeopardize any further
bond issues that the growth or progress
of the city might demand.
Another reason why we should not
figure on a greater amount than $200,-
000 foi- this work is that <xS the county,
as well as the city, wotuld be anxious
to start the work at onc'e, we should
have to depend upon the contractors
taking part of the bonds in payment
for thue work and floating some of the
balance locally. I am inclined to be-
lieve that for the greater portion of
the city’s work we can get the con-
racors to accept bonds in part pay-
ment of the work, but they will also
require some portion of cash from the
city. I believe it possible among our
banks here to raise $75,000 in cash
subscriptions to these bonds. I do not
believe that it is safe to count on any
more, and failure to promptly float the
bonds as soon as they are approved
by the attorney general would mean
to delay the work, a contingency that
would work a great inconvenience and
damage to both the city and county in-
The county’s cost of the work set
Crosse & Blackwell’s
White Pepper,
bottle
Soul thrilling tragedy set amid
the most beautiful surroundings
imaginable on the wild coast
of Italy and a funny farce comedy
Dropped From the Clouds
To complete the bill together with
“ GRATITUDE ”
the big success of Thursday makes one
of the finest programs ever offered
Club House Baked
Beans, 2-lb. cans;
here, as the contract called for, ho
would send a 90-horsepower design.
This change in the order was brought
about by the fact that the department
has borne patiently with the successive
delays.
5 lbs. Japan Rice...25c
3 lbs. Head Rice...25c
4 lbs. Lima Beans..25c
5 lbs. White Beans.25c
5 lbs. Green Peas..25c
4 lbs. Black Eyed
Peas
Bakery
Hot Rolls, dozen.. 10c
Cream Bread,
3 for 10c
Cup Cakes, dozen.3Oc
Jelly Roll, cut.,..15e
Coffee Cake, cut.. 10c
Round Pound Cakes,
each 15c
Fresh Apple
Pie.... 10c and 20c
Fresh Peach
Pies....10c and 20c
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PRICES
Farm Products
Young Ducks,
each ... 50c
Young Chickens,
each....-4£>c to 65c
Hen Chickens,
each 50c to 70c
Kansas Eggs, guar-
anteed; dozen... 3Oc
Beechwood Butter,
3 lbs $1.00
Fox River Butter,
lb 40c
REPORT ON BEACH
IMPROVEMENTS
Commissioner Kempner Ex-
plains Costand Financial
Outlook.
At the weekly meeting of the city
commission last night the following
report relative to the cost and financ-
ing of the proposed improvements
along the gulf front back of the sea
wall was submitted by Commissioner
Kempner:
Hon. Board of Commissioners, City
of Galveston—Gentlemen; Referring
to the matter of the beach front im-
provements and the recommendation of
the honorable mayor in connection
therewith, which was referred to the
city attorney and myself, I beg to ad-
vise that the city attorney will re-
port to you his views as to the legal
points involved by separate communi-
cation, and I beg to herewith hand you
my report on the matter of finances
involved which of course are, to a large
extent, circumscribed and aitected by
the city’s legal right to contract in-
debtedness or issue evidences of in-
debtedness.
I believe it is within the legal pow-
er and financial ability of the city of
Galveston to join the county of Galves-
ton in the protection work along the
beach front to the extent hereinafter
indicated. Y
The total cost of the city’s portion
of filling (as per estimate of A. T.
Dickey, city engineer, under date of
Sept. 23, 1909, based approximately up-
on the original plans furnished by
Messrs. Noble, Robert and Ripley) is,
in round figures, $266,000, of which $50,-
000 ic for brick gutters, box drains
and mudshell, leaving for filling prop-
er. $216,000.
The county’s portion of filling, as per
estimate given me by Mr. F. C. Pabst,
chairman of the finance committee, is
$20,000.
In order to carry out the proposed
work it will be necessary for the coun-
ty to take up and relay the entire
pavement and sidewalk of the Boule-
vard west of 22d street, which will
cost, as per memorandum furnished me
by Mr. F. C. Pabst, $2500 per block;
total, $42,500. A total of $278,500.
I respectfully recommend that the
city agree with the county to pay one-
half of this expense, or a total of ap-
proximately $140,000.
In addition to this the city will have
to pay (as per Mr. Dickey’s estimate)
for brick gutters, box drains and mud-
shell, $50,000. Total, $190,000.
The county’s cost, as above given,
will be $140,000, in addition to which
they will pay the cost of the Heffron
conract, which is outside of the sea-
wall and which is an expense that they
have already incurred; they will have
to pay for the paving of the Boulevard
east of 22d street, which is an expense
that they have always contemplated.
I am advised by such excellent legal
authority as our city attorney and our
mayor that there is no doubt of the
right of the county to expend money
in filling private property for the pur-
pose of protecting the county’s proper-
ty, such as the seawall, boulevard, etc.
Aside from the equities of the situa-
tion, under which the county will un-
doubtedly be willing to pay half the
cost, the city cannot, even if it were
so inclined, undertake to expend m-uch
more than $200,000. It is reasonable
to suppose that extras and contingen-
cies under the very best of manage-
ment will run this expense up to $250,-
000.
Before the attorney general will ap-
prov« ftny. bond issue he will necessar-
Dr.
TWO ARE HANGED.
White Man and Negro Pay Death Pen-
alty in Tennessee.
By Associated Press.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 1.—At sunrise
today in a small inclosure immediately
without the walls of the state prison,
near this city, William Mitchell, a
white man, convicted of the murder
of Squire Hindman in Rutherford coun-
ty, and Cecil Palmer, a negro, sen-
tenced to death for criminally assault-
ing a woman near Lebanon, Tenn., paid
the penalty for their crimes on the gal-
lows. These were the first executions
under the new law, which provides
that all executions in this state be held
at the state prison. Both Mitchell and
Balmer had been respited twice and
every effort had been made to save
their necks.
his class, asked th’eir help in making
further examinations, and found eight
cases among his eighty-six medical
students. All of these young meh
were residents of Texas.
“The parasites were hookworms— but
what hookworms?—Dubinis of St.
Gotthard fame? Dr. Smith did not
know. Dr. Stiles, having seen the ac-
count of the first case, wrote request-
ing samples, which Dr. Smith forward-
ed; then he took all his specimens and
his German treatises and. his micro-
scope and went off on a vacation to
work out the question of their species.
“Dr, Stiles, who was in Washing-
ton, was asking the same question: Is
it Dubini’s hookworm? He had, how-
ever, samples from three localities to
work on—three .sides to his triangle—•
those from Porto Rico, those from Vir-
ginia and the ones .from Texas sent
him by. Dr. Smith.
“Dr. Smith presently discovered that
his hookworm was not Dubini’s, but a
new American species never before de-
scribed. While he was writing his pa-
per on it, the mall one day brought
him a little two-page pamphlet, dated
May 10, 1902, signed ‘Stiles,’ announ-
cing the new American hookworm.
Stiles had won the priority claim for
the discovery.
“It was one of the closest runs for
priority on big game in the history of
zoology.
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WHY BLOOD LOSS SO GREAT.
“It was jn connection with this dis-
parity between the severity of the dis-
ease and the apparent smallness of the
infection in certain cases that Dr.
Smith performed a brilliant bit of re-
search. It is evident that actual blood
loss through twenty or thirty worms
the size of the hookworm can hardly
be a serious matter to a healthy per-
son—’We lose as much every time we
prick a finger as they would eat in a
day; but the leaking of blood into the
intestine through holes bitten in the
mucous membrane is a serious matter.
“Dr. Smith and Dr. Loeb (then as-
sistant in pathology in the University
of Pennsylvania) undertook experi-
ments on the hookworm found in dogs,
which closely resembles Necator Amer-
icanus. The doctors obtained a number
of living specimens and cut off their
heads, then mashed the heads and
the tails separately with ground glass
and normal salt solution (distilled wa-
ter with salt equal to the salt in the
blood). The ground glass was used to
lacerate the microscopic glands, par-
ticularly the long sac at the base of
the ‘fang,’ and release their contents.
This done, fresh blood was drawn from
the femoral artery of a dog; one cubic
centimeter of it was mixed with the
normal salt solution as a control,' and
a cubic centimeter each, with the head
and tail solutions. The control mix-
tures coagulated in from five to nine
minutes; the mixtures with the head
solutions in from, four to eight hours.
The tail solutions had very little ef-
fect on coagulation. Dr. Loeb showed
by further experiments that the coagu-
lation time varied with the strength of
the hookworm solution and the amount
of the blood, it being possible to keep
blood fluid for over twenty-four
hours.’
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Late Professor in State Medical
University Here Made Im-
portant Discoveries.
DR. ALLEN J. SMITH
AND THE HOOKWORM
Under title “The Vampire of the
Fouth,” Marion Hamilton Carter con-
tributes to October McClures Magazine
an exhaustive article on the hookworm.
It will be remembered that a few years
ago an avalanche of ridicule was pro-
voked by a proposition advanced by
Dr. Stiles that this parasite was re-
sponsible for the anemic condition of
the thousands of people living in
Southern states, a condition which ab-
solutely precluded the possibility of
their doing ordinary labor—hence was
given as a substitute name of the par-
asite, instead of hookworm, that of
lazy bug and the newly bestowed title
added largely to the paragrapher’s
stock of more or less witty jokes.
After describing previous efforts
made to discover the reason for the
anemic condition, which appeared to
be epidemic in certain localities, the
author of the articles pays tribute to
Dr. Allen J. Smith, then a member of
the medical branch of the Texas Uni-
versity, located at Galveston. The ar-
ticle reads:
“Nobody, however, ’ had suspected
that America boasted a hookworm of
her own, as indigenous to the country
as the bison or the red Indian. And
then, in 1901, the right case fell into
the hands of the right man—Dr. Allen
J. Smith of Texas—and the account
of it was published by Dr. M. Charlotte
Schaeffer in the Texas Medical News.
*****
AMERICAN MURDERER-
“Meanwhile, out in Galveston, the
net was drawing about the ‘American
murderer,’ as Dr. Stiles now calls the
hookworm. In 1895, two years before
Dr. Stiles began predicting the hook-
worm, Dr. Smith, who was then pro-
fessor in the medical school, now pro-
fessor of pathology in the University
of Pennsylvania, had found in a speci-
men from an unknown person parasite
ova resembling those of Dubinis hook-
worm. For six years he had been on
the lookout for another' case, and on
Dec. 21 his case was admitted to the
Marine Hospital.
“The man was a sailor, born of
American parents in Australia. During
his seafaring life he had always been
healthy In the preceding August he
had accepted a position as overseer on
a plantation in Chiapas, in Southern
Mexico. The food there he described
as pretty fair, but the water as horri-
ble—greenish and nauseating—and to
it he attributed his sickness. ’He stated
that two days after his arrival a col-
ony of Russian peasants came to work
on the estate. Wlithin sixty-five days
378 of them had mysteriously sickened
and died, and those that remained were
emaciated, Philip often dropsical.
This and his own sicKness proved too
much for the new overseer. He left at
the end of ten weeks, made his way to
the coast, and finally reached Galves-
ton and the hospital.
“His symptoms, which included con-
siderable changes of temperature, were
so suggestive of malaria that he was
treated for this at first, and it was
not until the 17th of February that Dr.
Schaeffer, on making a microscopical
examination, discovered quantities of
parasite ova which Dr. Smith identified
as being those of a hookworm. Dr.
Keiller, the physician in charge of the
hospital, administered thymol, and 200
hookworms were the result.
“Dr. Smith had waited six years for
these specimens. He presented them to
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OCTOBER 1,
1909.
GAIaVESTON TRIBUNE: FRIDAY,
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LYRIC
THE WEEK’S BIG-
GEST SENSATION
the
AUTO FIRE ENGINE.
out above is only $140,000, which in-
cludes the entire reconstruction of the
Boulevard pavement west of 22d street.
The estimate of Gen. Robert provided
the work be done exclusively on the
county’s property at a cost of $480,000,
independent of any repairs to the
Boulevard pavement, so that by this
plan the county, at the very lowest
possible esimate, effects a saving of
$350,000, secures much more thorough
protection in every way to the seawall,
the Boulevard and the thirty-foot strip,
and gives greater protection to all the
county’s assessed values within
limits of the city of Galveston.
In these estimates it is true that I
have not included anything for con-
crete work under the Boulevard pav-
ing, but I am informed through the
city engineer that the concrete work
under the paving will not be necessary
if the 200-foot fill plan is adopted, and
it is reported to me, though not of-
ficially, that the United States war de-
partment does not contemplate putting
concrete under its paving west of 39th
street, for the reason, no doub, that
they do not regard it as necessary.
Submitting the foregoi-rrg as the re-
sult of several conferences with every
member of the board, to be taken in
connection and conjunction with the re-
port of the city attorney on the legal-
ity of any bond issue, I beg to remain,
gentlemen, very truly yours,
I. H. KEMPNER.
A 90-Horsepower Fire Engine Is Soon
to Arrive.
Mr. L. M. Howe of Indianapolis ar-
rived in the city yesterday afternoon
and spent two hours with Chief Ger-
nand of the Galveston fire department.
Mr. Howe is a member of the firm of
Howe Bros., who will place the auto-
mobile fire-fighting aparatus in the
department in this city within two or
three weeks. The visitor stated he
was en route to San Francisco, where
he will install and test a new auto en-
gine in that city.
The new engine was to have arrived
here last month, but on account of a
few unavoidable delays it was impos-
sible to have the engine shipped on
time. Mr. Howe stated to Chief Ger-
nand that instead of placing a 75-
horsepower engine in the department
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