Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 15

AUSTK DAILY STATESMAN. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1899. 1ft RAIL COMMISSION ON THE SITUATION AT THE DAM. conditions of the wind, it has been found to reduce the water in the lake as much as three-fourths of an inch per twenty-four hours in the last heated term. This would represent cubic feet or a twenty-four hour O.

W. LITTLBFIELD, President, JOHN H. HOUGHTON, Vice President W. HAMBT, Cashier. development or Z.a horse power, or THINGS OF INTEREST GLEANED IN THE WORLD OF GLISTEN.

INO RAILS. twice as much the leak. It has been stated that 1000 cubic feet per second of now in the river has depended entirely on the height of I THE 1 flmciican Oaiionai in water in the river, and has varied between 6,000,000 and 14,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. HIPPE sion of Texas will, on Wednesday, October 11, 1S99 at its office in Austin, take up and consider the matter of a necessity for revising the existing class and commodity rates applying from Houston and Galveston to points in Texas, and between points in Texas, arising from the effects of low rates which are In force from St. Louis, New Orleans and other points to Texarkana.

It will be proposed to adjust the maximum rates from Galveston and Houston to points in common point territory to the basis of rates applying from St. Louis, New Orleans, New York and other points to Texarkana embraced In tfte current freight The revision will embrace the carload as" well as loss than nents in all cases where necessary on account c- this no tice if Who This leak would repr uous twenty-four hour the water was passin wheels, of from fifry t. er, and when the public our average twenty-four opment when operating Among the Men and the Pc Patronize the Great Link of This Countrv- -and General Notes. 9 hour full is I CAPITAL, $200,000. SURPLUS, $60,000.

The following communication from the water and light commission self-explanatory: So much has been said about the-present condition of the dam and water that the water and light commissioners have thought it advisable to make a statement as to what has brought about the present scarcity of water. The commission respects any article or writer who advocates over his own signature his ideas of improving our present, condition, but a great many articles have appeared which can have no other effect than to damage the situation, and prove detrimental to the interest of the town, and any amount of such articles could not change our present condition. The existing troubles were inherited by the commission, but they have atttempted to eliminate these troubles as fast as our financial con The annual report of the Cotton Belt Railroad received by the railroad commission yesterday shows the following for the year ending June 30, 1S99: Gross earnings from operation Operating expenses 5,250 AUSTIN, TEXAS. Income from operation $2,250 Interest on bills payable could be expected under the worst condition. This was found to be an error, as during the construction of the dam measurements were taken whbn showed only 125 cubic feet; and measurements taken last winter at the head of the lake.

Marble Fallii and igsland, showed an average flow of ie feet per second; nd sj it jestion as to how much of this reaches the dam after flowing i- miles with the excessive evaporation and seepages. It will therefore be seen ttm storage capacity cuts a very important figure, and this storage capacity is very much decreased on account of tbe present location of the penstocks, which should have been at least thirty feet below the crest of the dam. This would have necessitated the carrying of the headgate masonry to the present depth of the dam, insieai of twenty-two feet, thereby making the structure very much stronger and giving rs a very much larger supply of water. The remedy for these ills is a question to be seriously considered. The most feasible plan, however, that recommends itself would be tne of a large steam plant, drawings and specifications for which are being prepared, which would allow us to bridge over any low water condition, and maintain our 'business, and make such corrrections to ihe plant afier-wards, without a complete shutdown, as might be deemed advisable.

The expense of making an installation large enough to handle part of our business would be approximately $75,000, and would take in the neigh No account too small to receive out prompt and are Net income for the year $3,048 ention THE RATE WAR. dition would admit, and" everything: that has been done has been an im-1 provement. Statements bave appeared relative i The Commission is in a Bad Fix to It will aim; be proposed to adopt sucu lorary or permanent rates on carload shipments of certain commodities, particularly those of sugar, molasses, rice, coffee and packing house products to apply from Texarkana to Paris, and other points in Texas found to be affected by conditions similar to those prevailing at Paris, which will have the effect of correcting, at least in part, the disadvantages to which the business of such points Is now directly subjected by the inequalities in the freight rates hereinbefore noted. The consideration of the above mentioned matters will continue from day to day until they are finally disposed of. All persons interested in such matters are requested to present to the commission their views In regard to same on or before- the day of Help the Situation Any.

ln the opinion of the railroad com Tf ttlKH mission the Texarkana rate situation is the hardest proposition it has yet gone up against. It is acknowledged 8 that the promulgation of emergency rates would not help the situation as they would not effect the Pee Gee, Jas. H.Raymond&Co which is responsible therefor, and would only punish Texas lines which have done their best to prevent the complications which have arisen. The horse power, and at in the evening develop nearly 3000 horse power, the actual loss of this water would not warrant any great expenditure to stop. We estimate there --re many sources to this leak, a great many of which were stopped last whuer, which would have the effect of Increasing the flow through the remaining places, and would not materially change the flow through the pipe.

The public was somewhat startled by the announcement that a new place had broken through, and had without d-Ribt increased the flow of the leak. This new place which developed in the last twelve months was doubtleas the result of the high rise, and had the effect of breaking through the crust of clay which offered a more direct passage for the water to discharge. The flow in the leak when this was dis-covered was 11,154,427 gallons per twenty-four hours, or a continuous development of 103 horse power. A cofferdam was placed around this new inlet and the water successfully stopped with the introduction of sacks of concrete and clay. This reduced the flow to 6,408,000 gallons per twenty-four hours, or a continuous development of fifty-nine horse power, or a flow of 593 cubic feet of water per flute, and when considered that we develop 1000 horse power continuously for twenty-four hours, if the leak was entirely stopped, it would run the plant only fiftecr minutes per flay.

Our present low water condition, therefore, does not arise from troubles of this character, but rather from the additional consumption of water by increase of business, excessive evaporation and the fact that it was necessary to run two pumps to supply the town with wter for drinking jur-poses. This did not occur last winter when we had a similar experience, on4 pump being sufficient to supply the town, and evaporation very much less, due to lower temperature. In regard to evaporation, which materially increased by increase of temperature of the water and different commission la of the opinion, however, that it has a remedy for the trouble, STILL ANOTHER HEARING. It is ordered that notice be and the same is hereby given to all persons interested that the railroad commission of Texas will, on Tuesday, October 10, 1899, at Its office in Austin, take up end consider the matter of a revision of section 3 of commodity tariff No. borhood of eight months to install.

i BANKERS The time of delivery being long on ac but has not disclosed what that remedy is. A hearing is to be had, though, at which the matter is to be openly considered, and at which the commission will doubtless make known what it count of the rushed condition of north to a leak in the dam, while in reality there has never been a leak in the dam to any extent. The so-called leak has existed in the headgate masonry, and the discovery of this so-called spring was looked upon as a blessing instead of, as at present, a curse. Elaborate drawings were prepared and $7000 were spent in the purchase of pumping apparatus to pump the same water as was being pumped by the Stilwell-Bierce. pumps on the upper floor.

Exaggerated statements have been made to the public by Inexperienced people relative to the flow of the spring, which naturallly increases and decreases with the changeable condition of the river. The location of this leak in the headgates we think is situated about twenty-two to twenty-five feet below the crest of the dam, and in under the first two penstocks, masonry for which was never removed after the break in the headgates. The causes for this leak were undoubtedly the inaivis-ability of blasting in such close proximity to tljese beadgates. Some strata of rock was shaken up and was not discovered and taken out, leaving a seam through which the water has run. The water runs on the inside of the retaining wall "between the head-gate masonry and the power house, and comes up to a sufficient height in the power house to discbarge through a 12-inch pipe, which is located five feet from zero.

The flow of this leak ern manufactories, and on account of their prosperous condition no Jong-time contracts as to payment can be made. The subject of paying for this instal 2-A, together with all items in section 5 of the same tariff, under which dif proposes to do in the premises. From the present appearance of things the lation is the only thing that prevent Established 1860, Pee Gee seems to have the upper hand. In pursuit of a plan to make Texarkana a distributing point for the state it has put in rates to the Arkansas por ed the commission from making con tract and installing it, after their ex perience of a year ago. tion of that city which certainly gives Among other things we attribute our it a cinch on the situation.

To put in special low rates from Tex present low water condition to tec fact that there has leen less rainfall arkana to every distributing point in All Lines of the Banking Business Promptly At on the water shed of the Colorado than in previous years, an 3 what rain- fail has come has been in the nature ferential rates and Increased rates In other forms are provided for lines of railroad situated In common point territory, It will be proposed to so amend commodity tariff No. 2-A that the differential rates on the articles embraced in it will be confined in their application to shipments moved from or to points in the differential territory described in section 2 of general tariff of class fates No. 2, and that Increased rates irx other forms provided in section of the tariff will be either canceled or modified as existing conditions may require. 'J1-" consideration of the above men-tion. natters mill continue from day to day until completed.

All persons interested in such matters are requested to present to the commission their views in regard to same on or before the day of the hearing. of cloudbursts, and Imm-ilUteiy by without doing us much good. This tended to. will be borne out by the fact that the average rainfall the last ninj years at Burnet, which is on the water shed of the Colorado, has been 27 32-100 4H.HH-H 4--i -i 444 inches per year, and the rainfall the last fifteen months has been 24 3-4 Texas, as was done for Clarksviile, might help said distributing points, but it would also help the Pee Gee, which is responsible for the trouble, unless like special low rates are put in from every state line crossing, because a special low tariff applying from Texarkana alone would stimulate the shipment of freight into the state via the Texarkana crossing to the advantage" of the Pee Gee. In this connection it may be well to remember that Col.

Fordyce, who is now one of the receivers of the Pee Gee, once, while In control of the Cotton Belt, had a scheme to bring about a condition of affairs similar to the one now prevailing. He had In mind the organization of a syndicate to erect large compresses and cotton Seed oil mills, and to go into the jobbing busi fj. irches, and the greater portion of this coming in the early pai of the year. It will be seen thit our relief will ifA n. nAMt PAUL F.TL:Q-'N-T!).t, come from long, continuous, PiCw rain, which will saturate the ground, and start the springs to running, THE COUNT SCHOOLS.

V1C6 A. P. WOOLDRIDGE, President. JASPER WOOLDRiDUE, Ciwhler. hi it nil iinnn niiiiu which will have the eft of maintain- Superintendent Shelton Has a Word to Say Thereon.

A. W. WILKERSCN, Assistant ing a continuous flow in the rlv(r after several months of drouJ.i. WATER AND LIGHT COMMISSION. THE- ness on an extensive scale Just across SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO CITY the Texas state line in Texarkana, Ark County Superintendent Shelton makes the following announcements concerning the Travis county schools: The public schools at the following places will begin the term of 1899 and 1000 on Monday, October 2, 1899.

Miss Eugenia Studer will teach at Cypress, Mr. W. P. Brady at Sprinkle, Installed at that point, the syndicate A. LEITNAKER, President.

D. Vv'. DOOM, W. B. WOBTHAM, GKO.

FIEGEL, JOHN D. M'CALL, ex-officio. Commissioners. City National Bank could have shipped cotton flat to their plant and handled it irrespective of the railroad commission's compress regula-t ions. Cotton seed could have been moved and crushed, and jobbing could It is worth thousands of have been carried on at rates that the commission could not have controlled.

Altogether, the scheme was a beautiful dollars to know Spanish, yet CAIPTAL STOCK, $150,000. you can learn it for $30. Taught by Prof. Velasquez, Mrs. Hila Spann, at Pecan Springs, Mr.

J. I). Hood at Govalle, Mr. George Deciierd at Garfield, Mr. G.

O. Burdett at Devotion, Mr. 1. M. Bogle at St.

L'heo, Miss Maud Stanley at Eanes, Mr. W. H. Bishop at Cedar Valley, Miss Annie Killian at Bee Cave, Miss Eula Killian at Anderson's Bend, Miss Mollie Caplinger at Dunlap. The majority of the country schools will iegln by the middle of October, asHhe cotton crop will almost all be gathered at that time.

Th-? for a good attend-? nee one, and the only reason it was not carried out was that Fordyce was removed from the head of the Cotton Criffitts' College. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, STORYETTES. 4 4 ft Secretary Frederick Holls of the Belt. Now, however, he Is back in a place similar to the one he occupied with the Cotton Belt, and has evidently started In to work out his former plana at Texarkana in so far as the Jobbing business at' that point is concerned. Furthermore, he has a stronger motive at this time for caus R.

L. BROWN, J. B. POPE, E. M.

SCARBROUGH, WOOLDRIDGE. THOMAS D. WOOTEN, PAUL F. THORNTON, FRANCIS FISCHER, A. P.

peace conference at The Hague Is a lawyer when at home in New York On one occasion, in the courtroom, Mr. on all the leading countries ot the for rent at $2.50 to $10.00 per year. Exchange bought and sold world. Safe deposit vaults Holls was interrupted with the ques la very flattering, as the attendance is always much larger when the cotton eiop Is small. The flirt teachers' lnntltne will be held on Saturday, October 14, 1899, and nil of the leathers are urged to attend.

ing a rate disturbance than formerly. His removal from the Cotton Belt was not affected altogether with his consent and he has not been in the best of humor over it since, henee it can be readily understood that now that an opportunity to get even has corne his way he has cheerfully taken advantage thereof, especially as in doing so he Is making plenty of trouble for the Gould lines. Fi DOLUS 4.44.4.44.44- 4.44J44JM BUYERS AND THE GEN. ERAL PUBLIC. BOYS' CLOTHING.

Boys' two-piece all wool black suits, double breasted, custom made; sizes 6 to 16, $2.50 Boys' two-piece all wool cassimere suits, black ground with small colored figure, very neat and dressy suit; best custom make, real $5.00 value. Ages 6 to 16, at $3.00 Boys' two-piece all wool fancy black suits; one of the best makes. Special low figure at $1-60 Boys' two-piece English weave black cassimere with invisible blue check; strictly custom work throughout; grand thing at 5.00 All the above suits are double breasted, have extra good linings and extra well made. Other boys' and youths' suits at competition prices. Hosiery Direct From the Mills.

Boys' bicycle hose, best there is going; extra heavy ribbed; warranted good colors; real worth 25c, go at 20c, or 3 pairs for 50c Boys' black heavy ribbed double knee strong made and fast colors, at 12 l-2c Others at 5c and 10c Misses heavy ribbed hose; perfect form, all sizes, at 10c and 12 l-2c. Also at 20c, 25c and 35c Ladies' black and colored hose at 5c, 10c, 12 l-2c to best going. Ladies Belts, Just Arrived. Special low prices and real novel styles, at 15c, 25c and Special. Boys' Hats.

The right kind and the style is ail it should be. Prices, 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $125 Boys' Pants. We know what it takes for the boys. Best boys' pants, extra strong Jane Hopkins patent, ages from 5 to 17, at $100 And 128 others at 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c and 75c Special Price on Standard Percales. ONE CASE 26-in.

FALL STYLES AT 5c PER YARD. On our second floor we are showing some real bargains in ladies and misses capes, and also a special Job lot of ladies' and misses' extra fine tailored jackets, at low prices. Low Prices on Everything in our line, at KEY'S Cast Store. The Leaders of Low Prices. tion: "Suppose there was three defendants" "That, my dear sir, retorted Holls, "is a question of grammar and not of law." The good advice of the laird of Wat-erton, in Aberdeenshire, to a sheep stealer, reads like a very practical Joke.

He had himself sent the man to jail; and in those days nheep stealing was a capital offense. Visiting the prisoner the night before the trial, he asked hi mwhat he meant to do, to which the prisoner replied that he intended to confess and pray for mercy. "Confess!" said Waterton; "what, man, will ye confess and. be hanged? Na, na! deny it to my face." He did so and was acquitted. EXCURSION RATES VIA R.

J. BRACKENRIDGE, Vice President. H. PFAEFFLIN, Assistant Cashier. JAMES R.

JOHNSON, President. W. B. WORTHAM, Cashier, COMMISSION CIRCULAR. The following circular was issued yesterday by the railroad commission: It Is hereby ordered that commodity tariff No.

Id, issued by this commission to apply on shipments of cotton In bales, transported by railroads between FKOM points in Texas, and effective March 10, First National Bank MI LA NO About the middle of the civil war a freshly appointed colonel, with a newly enlisted regiment, joined the union forces in the far south. One bright October morning word was re-celvad that a small detachment of Gen. Wheeler's cavalrymen were on the other side of the hill and a force OF W) 18S9, be amended by cancelling special authorities Nos. 12 and 14 of section 4, as established by circulars Nos. 777 of March 33, and 806 of April 5, 1899, which empower the International and Great Northern Railroad company to concentrate, at Austin, cotton originating at Georgetown and Intermediate points, and to concentrate at Mineola, cotton originating at points on the International and Great Northern railroad north of Tyler.

The matters embraced in circular No. 949 are held under consideration by the commission for such further action as the conditions may AUSTIN, TEX. started out in pursuit. The next day the confederates were reported miles distant in the opposite direction. The third day the new colonel and a veteran brigadier started out for a pleasure drive.

A mile from camp they rode into the fugitive confederates. Directors; ARE AS FOLLWS: .30. Tickets on Kale September i and 29, and each Saturday and Sun-Jay thereafter, te and Including Sunday, October 22, 1W9. Tickets sold September 27, 28, and 29 will be limited to return leaving Dnl-last September SO, Tickets sold on Saturdays are good to return Sunday following. Tickets sold on Sunday are limited to date of Issue only.

$4.95. Tickets on sale dally, Sept. 27th to October 22nd Inclusive, limited to return one day' following date of ale. .80. Tickets on sale dally, Septembei ieth to October 22nd inclusive, limited to October 23rd, 1S99.

Call on Santa Fe Ticket Agent foi Train Schedules. W. S. KEEN AN. General Pass.

Agent. who hail been encircling the camp for a week. It was a narrow escape, but they gst away unharmed. After it was over the general saw to the colonel require. This order shall take effect "Well, what ao you minK or war now?" "Is Whler in this neighbor October 20, 1899.

hood much of tne time?" reolied tht; R. BRACKENRIDGE, B. VORTA AM, LAWLESS, J.S. MYRICK. JAS.

R. JOHNSON. colonel, evasively. "All the time. He is here, there, everywhere.

What do aft 217 East 6th St. Austin. A HATE WAR HEARING. The commifffion yesterday imu- the following important hearing: It is ordered thet notice be and the you think of the prospect?" "Well answered the coionei, reflect velv wonder wnetner mere un some way same is hereby given to all persons ss3 can ne compro- hi. infernal mined." interested that the railroad eommis.