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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1906.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS PREPARES FOR BIG CAMPMEETING
—a————a——M——i
Among the Oaks at Fentress Camp Meeting on the San Marcos River.
SAN MARCOS, Tex., .Tune 110.—Col. Ed. J. L. Green, president of the San Marcos River Camp Meeting As-
sociation made the following statement, regarding the camp meeting which begins at Fentress on July 6:
"We have twenty-five acres ot' land there, of which ten acres are sodded with Bermuda grass, fronting
on the Si' Marcos River, while large oak and elm trees are scattered over the grounds, furnishing ample shade
lor all purposes."
The Fentress camp meeting promises to he very largely attended this year and all denominations are
welcome to go there and camp during tho progress of the meeting. On the grounds will lie a livery stable, res-
taurant, barber shop, a daily newspaper, and all the conveniences of a regular city.
The pavilion is a large one, 102x120 feet, open on alt sides and seated with high back seats. It will seat.
ilOOO people and cost about $5000. This is perhaps the finest camp ground in the State under the exclusive
control of a religious organization.
Drift of Things in North Carolina.
Here we como again, after being ab
Kent for quite a while, but i < \ - not 1 • ii<*«
to sec what others ar«' saying in 111 • • Ob-
server.
rial writes: "Where are w° at?"
II looks like, as the saying g<
are at the head of "konudd,
there are forty devils ami no <i"i
it is beginning to look 11k« I
more than forty in Washingt«m.
Since Sunday afternoon Wf ! i\«
nothing said, because of dry w •
Payetteville Observer.
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where
. And
(The highest honor)
Awarded to
SI UiSTICS OF
Jx
ARE ISSUED
Census Bureau Issues Bulletin o
Considerable Interest as (o Civic
Features of Small Cities.
«9.
ia
SOCIAL CONDITION
ARE ALSO SHOWN
Al the
ST. LOUIS
EXP0SJT30N.
For sate by a!! reprcscntalivo sroecrs.
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of the
45, pri
in the
1 : June no.—The Bureau
ensus has just published Bulletin
nting statistics of the rifif) cities
nihil States having a population
of S'*m> to L.'.VOO. rThis is in the nature of
a. supplement to Bulletin 20, issued
August, Iff i, which gave similar statistics
for cities having a population of over
two bulletins together con-
1' cennial report of the Census
ta list its of cities.
•aflier publication, this 1 >u11 • -
)ntains comparatively few statistics
ng to the population living in the
The greater part of the data, in-
i relates to municipal finance, com-
prising tabulated statements of the re-
ceipts. payments, public debt, and funds
of each city. My reference to these tables
one may readily compare the cost of
government and of the several depart-
1,000. The
ltuto tho
ureau on
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cities
•hide
To Shoot Big Game
with a Kodak
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and we will convince you
of Siow much pleasure a
kodak will add to it.
The kodak and Art Store
Kodak Pictures Finished Every Da
nient.-
The <
mi: .-e
most
tli
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government
subject covered
laneous in eharactei
part constitute an
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We have cured hun-
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hopeless cases of can-
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timonials.
Drs. J. W. Harwell & Andersen
Room 7, Router Building,
San Antonio, Texas.
different cit
I are somewhat.
, but for the
inventory of
municipal property, resounv and equip-
ment, They include statistical data in
rcgayd to the police and fire depart merits,
public schools and labraries. alms houses
and hospitals, municipal waterworks, gas
and electric light plants, paved streets,
street lighting, street railways, public
parks, building permits, street cleaning,
sanitary inspection and sewers and liquor
saloons and licenses.
Police and Fire Departments.
The statistics of arrests present some
interesting data. It is noticeable that
drunkenness appears as the most fre-
quent cause of arrest in ::10 out of the 367
cities which furnished reports: disturb-
ance of the peace, in .'!7; vagrancy, in 32;
assault and battery, in 7; and larceny,
in I. Arrests for homicide w?-e reported
by 135 cities, more than a third of the
total number.
Sixteen cities reported more than 100
retail liquor saloons each. In 51 cities,
nearly one-seventh of the total, there
weer no liquor saloons that obtained
official recognition. In oti others the
license was $1000 or more. The highest
amounts paid for licenses were in
Carthage, Mo.. $2100; Moberly. Mo., $2250.
and Springfield, Mo., and Chieopee and
Webster, Mass., JjilNO.).
The statistics relating to firemen and
fire equipment show that 63, or about one-
sixth of the total number of cities in-
cluded in the report, had no regular fire-
men; and in 11 the dependence was* en-
tirely on the volunteers.
Schools anc! Libraries.
Public kindergartens were maintained
by 110, or not far from one-third of the
cites; and night schools by 72, about one-
fifth. There were n widen maintained no
high schools, and !>"», no public labraries.
Northampton. Mass., had the largest
number of volumes in public libraries,
1 UN, 403.' lirookiine, Mass., stood second,
with fiS.H.'lO, and Bangor, Maine, third,
with 5r», 1"!. Five other cities, all but one
in New Kngland, reports >\ over 40,000 vol-
ume:-;. There were L2 reporting between
and 10,000; :;l\ between L'O.ftOO and
30,000; w;, between 10,000 and 20,000. and
131, under 10,000. The greatest city of
readers appears from the statistics to
have been Rraddock, Pa., where the cir-
culation for the year was 187,03.x, North-
ampton, Mass., first in number of vol-
umes, stood second in circulation, report-
ing !<;:>,<>3v Elgin. III., followed, with
1 -i".'HiO, and r.rookline, Mas*., with 137,111.
A elrc-r ition of over 100,000 was reported
in c l g h. other cities.
A maj :ity of ilie municipalities report
public park areas, and in 13 eases the
amount is 100 acres or more. San Diego,
('al., reports the largest park area for
the minor cities, 1103 acres, and Winona,
Minn., stands second, with 837. The
waterworks are public property in 189, or
about halt* the cities. Only s own gas
plants, while 39 own « lectrie light plants,
in 10 there is no system of sewerage.
Expenses.
The total payment for expenses of the
3(iii cities for the fiscal year 1903 was
$"i4.'Jl'r>.3^2, a trifle more than one-seventh
of the tot a I expenditures of the 173 cities
of over 25,000 inhabitants, and a trifle
less than one-tenth of the annual ex-
penditures of the United States Govern-
ment. There was paid for salaries and
w.i^es $i's,7.*9,63S, and for miscellaneous
objects, $25,445,704.
Of these expenditures. 92.4 per cent was
for general and municipal service ex-
penses, including general administration,
courts, police and fire, protection, health
department, charities and corrections,
highways and sanitation, education, re-
creation and interest on the public debt,
and V.ti per cent was for municipal indus-
trial expenses. About two-thirds of the
latter was for the operation of water-
works, and one-third for public markets
and scales, cemeteries, crematories,
wharves and electric light plants.
It is a noteworthy fact that of the total
expenses, nearly one-third, 31 per cent,
went for schools. General administration
of the municipalities, the executive and
legislative branches of the Government,
took only 6.2 per cent of the budget; and
the maintenance ot the city courts only
one-half of I per cent. The percents of
the total formed by the other principal
items of expenditure were as follows:
Interest on public debt, 12; highways,
ot In r than for cleaning and lighting, 8.5;
tire department, 8.1; police department,
6.2; street lighting, ti.2; charities, 3; street
cleaning and refuse disposal, 2; health
department, 1.5; libraries, museums, etc.,
1.2: sewers and sewage disposal, 1; parks
and gardens, one-half of 1 per cent; and
prisons, only one-fifth of 1 per cent.
There is a striking difference between
the cities under 25,000 population and
those over 25,000 in the expenditures for
police and fire protection, in the former,
file protection costs on the average
about one-third more than police protec-
tion. In the latter, police protection costs
two-filths more than fire protection. The.
cost ot the schools in the smaller cities
was proportionately greater than in the
larg. r. being ::i per cent of the total ex-
penditure, to 2.").i per cent for the larger
cities, h is surprising to note that t he
total payment for general and municipal
service expenses for the :!•;:» minor cities
included in the report, embracing a total
population of 5,241,732, amounted to less
than five-eighths of those for the single
city of New York, which, in I UK:, had an i
estimated population of 3,716,i::o.
Debts and Taxes.
In the fiscal year 1003 the total
received by the 369 cities on ace
delit obligations issued to the public was
$28,750,413, and the total amount paid
the public for the liquidation of the prin-
imount.
ount of
cipal i a municipal debt we.
Thus the receipts exceeded th
by $.',630,370. Of the 360 cities :
from the public more than
thus increasing their indebt
$21,120,04:1
■ payments
204 received
they paid,
diiess, and
: ived, thus
while the
other two
163 paid more than
reducing their indebtedness,
payments and receipts of the
ba lanced.
A study of the report indicates that as a
rule the minor cities are very conserva-
tive with reference to their 'methods of
paying for permanent improvements. The
improvements paid for by these cities in
the fiscal year i903 had a value of $21,492,-
348; the net increase in the debt of the
same cities was $7,630,70, or only 35.5 per
cent of the value of the improvements.
Hence these cities, as a wohle, paid for
64.5 per cent of their permanent improve-
ments from their annual revenues.
Direct taxes levied upon property in
general were the most important source
of revenue of the minor cities, constitu-
ting 76.4 per cent of the total. Special
property and business taxes, such as
bank taxes, mortgage taxes, etc.. were
reported principally by Massachusetts
and New York cities, and constituted 2.6
per cent of the total. Poll taxes were
levied in 150 cities, but constituted less
than 1 per cent of the aggregate revenue
for the minor cities. The cities of Massa-
chusetts contributed 39.1 per cent to the
total poll tax reported by the 369 cities.
Liquor licenses brought in 7.5 per cent of
the total revenues; other licenses and
permits, 2 per cent; and fines and for-
feits, 1.6 per cent. Cities in the Southern
States r-ported the largest collections,
relatively, from licenses other than liquor
licenses.
The aggregate debt obligations of the
369 Cities ill i!•');: was $155,267,214: ami the
debt less sinking fund assets. $115,056,is 1,
or m.7.70 per capita. The largest debt 'per
capita. $107.15, was owed by Mount Ver-
non, X. V. Portsmouth, I. II.. stood next,
with a per capita debt of $93.71: Wake-
field, Mass.. followed, with $K8.2I; and
New Uochelle, N. V., with $86.83. Though
these figures are alarmingly high, thev
are not as high as in the case of two of
the great cities of the country. Boston
in 1903 had a per capita debt of $lts.25,
and New York, one of $143.42. Six cities
reported debts between $:<» ;,nd $>0 per
capita; 11. between $60 and $70, and 16,
bet ween $50 and $60. Only 1 city. Morris-
town, N. J., was free from debt, and in
the case of 48 cities, the debt was less
than $1" per capita.
A copy of the bulletin mav be obtained
upon application to the Director of the
Census.
Boy Locked in a Car Seven Days.
Omaha Hollow-eyed from thirst and
hunger, Klmer Faure, a Parisian, was
pulled out of a refrigerator car in the
Union, Pacific yards today after a ride
of seven®days from Burlington, Iowa.
1' a lire, who had nothing on his person
except a package; of letter from Paris,
said lie crawled into the car to tako a
short nan.
When he awoke the ear was moving,
lie tried the doors, but they were locked,
lie kept up an incessant yelling for hours,
but tailed to attract attention until
Onmha was reached. The car was side-
Hacked for several days before reaching
Omaha.
'I lie lad, who was well-dressed, was
K jVVI! a which he was turned
adrift.—New York World.
ANTICIPATE
MEETING OF
THE CONGRESS
Bexar County Farmers' Institute
Elects Delegates to
at College St.
TALK OF CROPS Ai\u
DRY LAND FARMING
An animated meeting of the Bexar
County Farmers' Institute took place
yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the
San Antonio Business Men's Club.
The chief topic of discussion was the
Farmers' Congress which meets at Col-
lege Station next week. The congress
was spoken of with anticipation and
much interest was awakened when it be-
came generally known that there was a
limited number of tree passes to be dis-
tributed among tlie San Antonki delega-
tion.
The thin-rined watermelon proposition
as alluded to some time ago was tabooed
by the institute.
"Why everybody knows," said one of
the farmers, "that the tiling we have
been trying to do is to raise the tliick-
rined melons."
At this juncture' some one suggested
the thin-rined melon might diminish the
market price of tHo thicker and therefore
might prove detrimental to the interests
of the farmers who had not learm d to
grown tlie thin-rined variety.
The institute gave its official disap-
proval to issuing transportation to the
Farmers' Congress to anyone except
bona fide farmers. Much discussion en-
sued concerning the history of former
delegations that had utilized the trans-
portation for pleasure trips, spending but
several hours at the convention place,
some even failing to report at the as-
sembly at all.
Delegates to
Farmers' Congress.
I he matter was finally adjudicated and
a delegation selected as follows:
Gus Huebner, rural route No. 6; F. P.
He ad ley. No. 7; Tom I). Shields, No.
Sam Rogers, 216 lTpson Street; Roy Bar-
neburg, No. 6; Henry Pfeiffer, San An-
tonio; Jack Schlathen, No. 6; Gideon
Meier, San Antonio; William Miller. 820
Mason St rent, and CJ. W. Foor, 334 East
Commerce Street.
Of thi.s number there were but. two
delegates and two alternates selected to
represent the Bexar County institute.
The others we. i- nppointed to keep cer-
tain traiisporiiition from Reins- to waste
whirl] is controlled by one of their num-
ber and which was issued for the use of
dairymen. Th< party suKKiist'd that it
might he well to appoint as many farm-
ers that "kept cows" as was possible.
After disposing ot the pressing" busi-
ness, I lie select inn of the delegation and
the exhaustion of the. free pass topic
the institute turned its attention to a
discussion of the crop situation.
From the reports given yesterday the
corn crop is nearly a failure, the cotton
will make a bale to the- ten acres if it
rains in time, and the fruit has been
practically devoured by rapacious birds
About the only product that showed up
well in this section was the onion.
The cotton raisers declare that if suf-
ficient. rain comes in the next few days
It will enable them to make what used
to be called a fall crop.
Crops Are
Not So Promising.
It was admitted this is the worst year
for several years. A recent hail succeed-
ed in destroying a good part of tie corn
and cotton that had remained unaffected
by the diy weather. One ot the farmers
declared that if it had "hailed fifteen
minutes instead of half a minute there
would not have been any crop at ;dl."
The boll weevil is beginning to make
his appearance but with little strength
He is still a youngster and the farmers
are about to get vengeance for a grudge
of longstanding by starving him to death
this year.
Leaving the condition of the crops the
farmers discussed the fruit growing in-
dustry. A number of talks from success-
ful fruit growers were made that were
both entertaining and instructive.
"The planting of peas in the orchard,"
said one of the farmers, "is an essential
part of fruit cultivation. The ordinary
pea vine is one of the best fertilizers
known. The pea vine takes in the nitro-
gen from the air which is one of the fer-
tilizers best adapted to successful fruit
growing. This nitrogen collects largely
in the nodules that torn. the roots
and is disseminated through the soil by
tin m. When the peas have ripraicd let
the vines remain. They will die and
mulch. The next year plow them into
the ground.''
The institute entered into a brief dis-
cussion of the evil of planting Bermuda
grass in an orchard, and reached aimbst
the unanimous decision that Bermuda
grass would kill anything, to say nothing
of fruit.
An interesting talk was made by G. W.
Foor of C;r!ifornia, who has recently
moved to San Antonio. He is an orchard
mat) and is thoroughly familiar with his
business.
He said it is an established fact that
continued cultivation retains the moist-
ure in the soil and that it should be used
in the fruit growing Industry. Ife also
asserted that he uses peas in his or-
chards, only he does not wait for them
to die before turning them under the soil.
When tHe vine is still green, after bear-
ing the pea, it is turned under the soil
and there acts as it fertilizer by trans-
mitting the needed nitrogen to the soil.
Mr. Foor also emphasized the necessity
of keeping an orchard free of trasli,
weeds and other harmful growths.
Following Mr. Foor'*. remarks the dis-
cussion became gemeral on the subject
of agriculture and many of its branches.
On the suggestion of one of the mem-
bers a. committee of three was apointed
to select a subject for discussion at the
next meeting. The committee, consisting
of S. II. limn, F. B. Headley, F. F.
Collins, retired for a brief time, return-
ing with "The Proper Mode of Cultiva-
tion and Dust Mulch," as the subject for
the next regular meeting, and F. B.
Headley was appointed by President
Meier to read a papt r pertaining to the
subject.
Not to Meet
on Election Day.
As the next regular meeting day of the
institute falls on primary election day,
the meeting is announced to take .'place
on A he third Saturday in July.
Among those present were; Alexander
Sinclair. F. F. Collins. G. C. Peck; W.
Kdwards. Kmil Rips, G. W. Foor, Sani
Rogers. Dr. William Meier. S. 11. Lann,
Roy Barneburg, H. C. Pfeiffer, S. h,'
Kearney, T. P. Dashiell, Gus HuebEipr,
W. F. Miller, F. B. Headley and others.
Before adjournment the institute (Ex-
pressed a sentiment favorable to the e|c-
t« nsion of warehouses throughout tl
Southwest.
We Have Extended Through Monday
This Great Suit Special,
Wilt You Profit By St?
There have been no such suit
values offered in San Antonio for
many days, as those represented
in this lot—and we offer you this
last opportunity to derive the
benefit from these great values.
For Suits Worth Every
Cent of 12.>o, LmO
and 1 > .00.
The Styles Shown
In this Great Special are strictly up to the linleh
in every detail. Carefully tailored from the smart-
est, spring suitings—lhey possess the character
and individuality which characterizes only high-
class tailoring.
Three-Button Sack Suits in checks, stripes and
plaids. The coat, is cut in single and doubli
breasted, medium and extra length, side and cen-
ter vents; beautifully tailored; at
$10.00
WORTH $12.50, $13.50 AND $15.00.
Fine Worsteds, in gray and fancy mixtures. Sin-
gle and double breasted, long wide lapels; skill-
ful in design and superior workmanship; at
$10.00
WORTH $12,50, $13.50 AND $15.00.
Soft Blue Serges in single and double breasted.
Broad, beautifully sloping shoulders, fitting snug-
ly to the figure and slightly flaring at. the hips—
a genteel, elegant suit at
$ 10.00
WORTH $12.50, $13.50 AMD $15.00.
Boys' Shoe Special
A Washer Shoe at regular price is
A Washer Shoe at these reductions is
tnd wo urge the mothers to see the
Values.
Shoes worth $2.00, Special
Shoes worth $2.25, Special
Shoes worth $2.50, Special
Shoes worth $3.00, Special
Shoes worth $3.50, Special
FATENT LEATHERS, GUN METALS
Manhattan Shirts, Washer's Special,
$1.50 to $3.50 $1.00 *7, $3.50
Men's Custom Made Oxfords
Either in extreme or more conservative
lasts. Gun Metal, Vicis and Patents,
$3.50 to $6.00
All Boys' &
Children's
Wash Suits 25%
Suits worth i.^o.... I.S5
Suits worth 2.00.... 1.50
Suits worth 2.50 i.QO
r':'v *; v
!
' tl'-:-•-Y.fVi'.VNii
Regular
Prices
a bargain.
doubly so,
ae Special
$1.65
$1.85
$1.95
$2.45
$2.95
& VICIS
Suits worth }.oo... .2.25
Suits worth ?.oo... 3.75
16 years.
ROTH
WILL QUIT TIPPING.
Members of U. T. C. and T. P.
Have Decided to Stop the
Practice.
elini? men. and it Is possible that such
will result from the concerted action or
tho organizations if their members
strictly adhere to the resolutions of the
various conventions.
The Travelers' Protective Association
and the United Commercial Travelers
have given their official disapproval to
the prevalent custom of tipping waiters
of hotels, restaurants, dining cars and
the like, by taking adverse action on the
subject at their local, State and National
conventions.
The members of theso two organiza-
tions believe that the best way to sup-
press this growing evil is for the hotel
itnd restaurant proprietors and dining car
officials to declare it an offense against
the rules of the place for guests to tip
the waiters, and to post In conspicuous
places signs giving such warning.
The associations will aid the suppres-
sion of this practice by strictly living up
to their convictions in the matter and
abstaining on > 11 occasions from tipping
servants for the attentions for which
they are duly paid by their employers.
No tips must go is the sentiment of
these two influential associations of trav- 1
BEES QUICKLY CLEAR STREET.
Twelve Thousand Started in to Sting
Everybody in Three Blocks.
Cortland Slreot was thronged with
commuters 011 their way to the ferries
when H'.OuO b-es suddenly spread through
tin- street and started in to sting every
man, woman and child in sight. In less
than three minutes not one person w.u,
to be seen in tiireo blocks, but everv
sure and saloon 011 both sides of the
f.ireut Ads jammed with the pedestrians,
wl-.o had sought cover from the enemy.
'I lie bees were part of a consignment
from Jamaica, L. I., to the Bellows &
Myers Company, 64 Courtland street. In
..11 there were ten hives, each contain-
ing 12,000 honey makers. Nine of thes >
hiv»is had been safely carried into the
building from a truck, and the driver
and Jus helpers were ci.ieking jokes
ah.if would happen if the bees got
loose Wiiti. . y picked up the lust of the
hivesi
The men had tho case off the truck
v\ hen the clamps holding its sides to-
gether suddenly gave way and in an in-
stant the 12.000 bees poured out. Begin-
ning with the workmen who had been
c;.trying them, the bees stung everybody
out of doors. If the reports of the vic-
tims can be believed, not one bee except
the queen failed to sting at least one
ntrson. from which it is figured that at
least 11,990 persons suffered.
In the excitement some one sent in a
hurry call for the police, and several
vere sent on the run from the Church
Street station, only to meet the same fat<>
as the commuters.
"When the street had been cleared and
nc more victims appeared, the bees
swarmed on a chimney and expert beo
handlers hived them again.—New York
IOvuning Telegram.
O,
Reflections of a Bachelor.
A man with an automobile doesn't have
to I"- a bachelor unless he wants to.
Young people come home from school
for their vacation so as to go away again
somewhere else for it.
There's no use telling a girl she is
pretty; to do the work you must tell her
she is the prettiest one you ever saw.
A man can get a good deal more ex-
cited over a muffed fly at a baseball*
game than having his neighbor's house
burn down.
When, you see a woman painting up ati
ol i chair it's just as likely as not it i|
for the lawn, so that she can speak
It as the summer house.—New Y01
Press.
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