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THE ATLANTI AN fr =^v CENTRAL BANK AND TRUST CORPORATION Candler Building Capital, One Million Dollars. Deposits Three Million and Five Hundred Thousand Dollars •*. •% .*• A STRONG, WELL EQUIPPED, CON SERVATIVELY MANAGED BANK 4* on Savings Deposits .Your Account is Invited. BRANCH, CORNER MITCHELL AND FORSYTH STREETS Asa G. Candler, President 5^ 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. J 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 k % 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.