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BRANCH, CORNER MITCHELL AND FORSYTH STREETS
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TOWN HOISTS FIRST FLAG
SINCE WAR.
Man Who Hauled Down Stars and
Stripes at Liberty, Mo., Raises
Them Over Courthouse.
From St. Louis Republic.
Liberty, Mo., Nov. 9.—After fifty
years, Clay County, Missouri, has come
back into the Union. For the first time
in fifty-one years the American flag is
flying over the Courthouse here, and
South and North are one again. The
same man who pulled the Stars and
Stripes down from the flagstaff in 1861
raised them again in 1912, and the war
is over.
In the first year of the Civil War
John W. Hall, a soldier in Gen. Sterling
Price’s brigade, hoisted a Confederate
flag over the Courthouse at Liberty. Lib
erty, while north of the Missouri River,
was in Clay County, settled largely by
Kentuckians and named for Henry Clay.
The people were intensely Southern in
their sympathies, and hundreds of them
enlisted in the Southern armies. They
were too far North, however, and too
close to Kansas and Fort Leavenworth
to be allowed to secede from the Union,
and shortly after the Confederate flag
was raised a body of Federal troops
swooped down upon the town and drove
the rebels out.
The Stars and Stripes again were
hoisted on the Courthouse and flew there
until the Federal troops departed. Then
the flag was hauled down, and from that
time until now never was raised again.
The old flagstaff weathered the storm of
many years. The halyards rotted away
and fell and was not replaced.
Recently the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution in Liberty, nearly all of
them members of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, noted the absence of the
flag from the Courthouse and took up
the matter with the County Court. They
persuaded the officials to purchase a new
flagstaff and buy a new flag.
An old-time flag-raising was planned
and the event was made a holiday for
Liberty. John W. Hall, who hauled down
the first flag, still lives in Liberty, and
now is State Commander of the United
Confederate Veterans. To him was dele
gated the honor of raising the new flag,
and as he slowly hauled up the fine new
ensign the laudest cheer that Liberty
has heard since the days when the rebel
yell re-echoed through Liberty’s streets
rent the air.
Gen. Hall’s eyes filled with tears as
the red-and-blue folds of the flag swung
out in the autumn breeze and there were
plenty of other eyes that moistened as
the crowd, among which were many gray
haired veterans of the North and South,
sang the “Star-Spangled Banner” in a
bass that broke often into the same treble
that came from the school children gath
ered around.
“Glory to Godl Liberty’s come back
into the Union 1 ’ ’ shouted an old Union
veteran, and a chorus of “Amens” came
from the former Confederates.
The best thing that hearts that are
thankful can do
Is this: to make thankful some oth6r
hearts, too.' ‘ '
POSTAL TELEGRAPH CO.
Move to New Offices—Big Improvements and
Better Business
The Atlanta office of the Postal Tele
graph Cable Company has been moved to
new quarters in the Grant Building, in
order that it may be nearer its increas
ing list of patrons in the office building
section, of which the Grant Building is
the center.
The patrons south of the viaduct will
generally be served from a branch office
in the Atlanta National Bank Building
which has been established for that pur
pose.
The work of fitting up the new main
office has cost nearly $10,000, and re
quired four months of labor by a corps
of trained wiremen under the personal
supervision of the Division Electrical En
gineer, Mr. J. F. Heard, assisted by
Chief Operator, H. P. Thornton, of the
numbers the telegram, runs it through a
press, taking an impression copy and
passes it to an “address clerk” who
turns it over to a uniformed messenger
for delivery. Under this system the tele
gram hardly pauses in its movement from
the wire to the hands of the addressee.
Among the electrical equipment of note
is the company’s new “high efficiency”
Quadruplex by means of which four mes
sages may be simultaneously transmit
ted over the same wire, with a greater
speed and accuracy than has heretofore
been possible with such apparatus.
The switch board is fireproof, being
mounted on iron and slate. The dyna
mos furnishing current for the wires are
located in the basement but are controll
ed by switches in the operating room.
The New Offices of the Postal Telegraph Company in the Grant
Building.
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Atlanta office. While the floor space oc
cupied in the new quarters is not as good
as in the old, the adoption of the latest
ideas in electrical and mechanical de
vices affords an increase in the working
capacity of over fifty per cent. The
more condensed arrangement also per
mits a movement of the large volumn of
business handled, with the very minimum
of lost motion, insuring an even quicker
service, if possible, than heretofore.
Among the devices provided to “clip
the seconds” in the transit of telegrams
is a unique system of message carriers.
A central station is located in the middle
of the operating room, to which tele
grams filed at the counter are mechanical
ly carried, and are instantly given to the
sending operator on the proper wire, by
an attending clerk. From this station
two other carriers go to the delivery de
partment. One of these is automatic,
taking a telegram for delivery to the de
livery desk, depositing it in a basket,
and automatically returning to its sta
tion, the round trip requiring less than
•t-wn-seconds re time. Upon its arrival at
’osk, a “copy u«qy” at once
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In the basement are also located the
files, supply and stationery rooms, the
linemen’s room, and a dressing room
for messengers, a tailor shop in which
messenger uniforms are kept in order,
and also a uniform stock room with
enough uniforms to Btart a small clothing
store.
Returning to the main floor, we find a
branch telephone exchange connecting the
various departments and four trunk lines
to the city exchanges, with trained at
tendants for receiving messages by tele
phone.
The private office of Manager Beatty
is located on the messanine floor, where
he lives a strenuous business life, when
he is not out hustling for more customers.
The personnel of the official staff is as
follows:
A. M. Beatty, manager.
G. W. Oliver, cashier.
H. P. Thornton, chief operator.
W. W. Hoskins, night chief operator.
J. L. Puckett, city foreman.
E. S. Reeves, repeater chief.
J. E. Arnold, chief delivery clerk.
0. E. Hickman, assistant delivery clerk.