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ulie Weather: Atlanta * ,; 'l Mclnlty: partly cloudy and ».miewlu»t wn rmer to- iilfjbt and Wednesdoy. Atlanta Georgian (and news) N. o.. Ann, n 1M6. Houston! quiet, lJ 13-16. VOL. V. NO. 227. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1907. PPIPT?. In Atlanta: TWO CENTS. riUL/JL: on Trains: FIVE CENTS. mm SI HAJJRY KENDALL THAW. Say Impossible to Live Up to New Or dinance. Doe, the new pure milk ordinance, which went Into effect Monday morn ing, prevent the legal sale of milk In Atlanta? This Is the contention of the Puro Milk and Food Company, one of the largest concerns selling milk In Atlan ta, and on the strength of It the com pany hafc gone temporarily out of the business. The officials of the company claim positively that It Is a practical Impos sibility to live up to all the require ments of the law, and accordingly have censed selling milk. They say also thnt It Is equally ns Impossible for nny other concern to sell milk In Atlanta and comply with the law. To.8top Business. The following notice has been sent out to all the patrons of the Pure Milk and Food Company: '‘Atlanta, Ga., March 25, 1907. "All Patrons: "Under the new milk ordinance ef fective today, ye, as every other dairy man, ran not sell any more milk In Atlanta and comply with tho law, and as honorable men conducting a legiti mate business we can not afford to do business In violation of the law; there fore, we will discontinue tho sale of sweet milk after today. “Wo will continue the sale of sweet cream and Ice cream and will be glad to supply your wnnts In this line. "Yours truly. "PURE MILK AND FOOD CO.” All the other dairymen, it Is under stood, are still selling milk and are do ing their utmost to live up to tho re quirements. Many nre raising stren uous objections, though, to some of the restrictions. The particular clause In the new or dinances to which the Pure Milk and Food Company raise especial objection Is this: Objsctionable Clause. "goctlpp..25. . AJl.iuilk. brought .into the city or s'6ld or -offered for sale In // l / /'s' <'T You Can Lead a Horse to “WATER," But—You Can’t Make Him Drink. SOUTH UNAFRAID AT WALL-ST. SLUMP “Rich Man’s Panic,” Says Asa G. Candler. SAY IT TROUBLES SPECULATORS ONLY COMPETING LIGHT PLANT READY IN SIXTY DAYS; CURRENT 1-3 CHEAPER Capt. Janies W. English Takes Pessimistic A T ie\v of Conditions. "•1 rich man's panic." Is what Asa <'andler, president of the Central ham, and Trust Company, character lz *s the stir on Wall street of Satur da > and Monday. ''onservBtlve banking Interesta of ■'tlanta, the best and safest barometers "< business and outward' Influences, are n "t In the least apprehensive over the dtnation In New York. Only one bank- er Interviewed was Inclined to take a klootny viewpoint—Captain James W. English, president of the Fourth Na- '!'>nnl Bank. •'"a O. Candler, of the Central Bank r - n 1 Trust Company, and Captain Rob- tP J- l.owry, president of the Lowry jjatl.inal Rank, are both optimistic, -tth believe the trouble local to Walt Mn[ t_ * n fact> largely a speculators’ S! r ''andler and Colonel Lowry do nut apprehend that trouble will extend •"uthwqrd, and that It will largely be coffined to Wall street and the men " l lunge there. Colonel Lowry Not Apprehensive. 1 "lonel Lowry, when seen In his of- 8 " Tuesday morning, said: I do not In the least apprehend tha* the trouble In New York will bother us. I am of the opinion tlgR “ a speculative panic, which wlu ot'iw over shortly. I can see no sIqis ,; n ’he local horizon that should give Ui , uiieasIntM. '"e are going forward, prospering industrially and commercially. The {fath Is feeling a marvelous growth. ** In no sense abnormal or from un- , 1 causes. It Is natural grmvlh on " u - natural resources. It would be a mnt nlty for anything to happen to .'.‘I' 1 ,,ur expansion. i here Is danger, of course, of car- l>>'tg the prosecution of corporate In- -fesis to persecution. U would seem bat ju*t now railroads and other “re" Interests nr* more or less appre- Continued on Page Four. "In sixty days the North Georgia Electric Company will be an active competitor of the Atlanta Gas and Electric Light Company." So states C. J. Simmons, president of the Atlanta Telephone and Tele graph Company, who Is also prominent ly Identified with the North Georgia Electric Company. “Everything Is practically In readi ness. The dam on tho Chattahoochee near Oalnesvllle'is working splcnd'" and Is ready to furnVh all necessary power. All the machinery Is Installed, and It only remains for conduits ulong two blocks to be fltted out." The North Georgia Electric Company was granted a franchise to furnish light, Itcut ijnd power In Atlanta on December 22, 1905, Mnyor Woodward approving the ordlnahce granting the same on December 26, 1905. With the coming In of a competitive company will also come a material re duction In rales, which will average, It Is said, 33 1-3 per cent. The following extract from the fran. clitse explains the reduction In rates: Reduction of Rates. "It Is further agreed, as an additional stipulation especially agreed to by the company, that It undertakes and con tracts, by the acceptance of grants hereunder, to furnish electric current for the purpose of light and heat to In dtviduals, firms and corporations with •n 'he city for a sum not exceeding 10 cents per kilowatt hour, and to fur nish electric current for the purpose of power to Individual Arms and corpora tions within the city at a sum not ex ceeding 6 cents per kilowatt hour, the lores ling payments to be reduced each -month by a sum equal to 10 per centum of the monthly charges, provided the payments therefor are made by the tenth of the current month." This maximum flxed by the city Is lower than the present rate. The North Georgia Company Intends, however, to make the rates even lower than tills. There will be a sliding scale of rates, the maximum being 10 cents, with n 10 net- cent reduction, and a decrease In rates all along and up the line, aecotd- Ing to the amount used. The scale will .average about a one-third reduction in the present rate. It Is said. Two Yoara Work. The company, which Is headed Ity General A. J. Warner, the well-known Gainesville capitalist, has been work ing assiduously for two years getting things In readiness for the furnishing of power for light and heat In Atlanta. A magnificent plant has been esiab- llshcd on the Chattahoochee, near Gainesville, and the lines have- been run Into Atlanta. The Atlanta termi nus on Edgewood avenue la practically 0000000000000000000O0000OO O O O PRE-EASTER COOLNESS 0 0 ARRIVED ON TUESDAY. O 0 o O A bit of coolness stole Into the Q O town Monday night, taking the 0 0 sting out of the July-like weather O 0 of the past several days. 0 O Another delayed shipment of O 0 last summer's calcrlc due, though. 0 0 Instance: O 0 "Partly cloudy and somewhat 0 0 warmer Tuesday night and Wed- 0 0 nesiiay.” 0 0 Tuesday'* temperatures: 0 0 7 a. m 55 degrees 0 0 8 a. m 67 degrees 0 0 9 a. m 58 degrees 0 0 111 a. 6o degrees 0 0 11 a. m r. ,.63 degree* O 0 12 noon. ,\ ..<6 degrees 0 0 1 p. m ,<..68 degrees 0 0 2 p. in 70 degrees 0 OO00000000000000000000000O completed, and as soon as the conduits are extended from there to the plant of the Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph ‘Company, a distance of about two blocks, the company will be about nstdy to do business. The franchise permits the company to use the conduits, manholes, poles and construction of the Atlanta Tele phone und Telegraph Company, an agreement having been arranged by the telephone company with the elec tric company. The North Georgia Electric Company also agrees, tinder the terms of the franchise, to furnish lights to the city at a considerable less cost than lights are now being furnished. For City Lights. Under the present contract with the Atlanta Gas and Electric Light Com pany the city pays »75 per a year for each are light of 1,2no-eandle power, und 133.75 for series or Incandescent lights of 75-candle power. The North Georgia Electric Company agrees to furnish current for each arc light of 2,000-candle power for one year for not more than $65 per year and for incandescent or series lights for not more than $28. The franchise provides that there Is to be no merging, consolidating or com munity of Interests established between the North Georgia Electric Company id any other lighting plant. Competition by this new concern, with Its reduction of rates, will mean the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city und to the people annually. the city muet not contain more than lon.noo bacteria per cubic centimeter.” Dairymen contend that It Is practi cally a physical Impossibility to get milk with that little bacteria, and that milk containing as much as 500,000 bacteria can not be considered Impure. The ordinance further provides this: "Section 31. All milk kept for sale r offered for sale In milk depots, ho tels. restaurants. lunch rooms. Ice cream factories, etc., shall be kept at a temperature below 50 degrees Fah renheit and must not contain more than 100,000 bacteria per cubic centi meter.” It Is probable that dairymen will ap pear before council next Monday and appeal for a change In these two sec tions. The new ordinance governing the sale of milk and regulating the sani tary condition of dairies and milk de pots In Atlanta was Introduced toy Councllman Mangum, chairman of the sanitary committee and ex-ofllclo mem ber of the board of health, on Febru ary 4. It wns referred to the ordinance com mittee, which made a few changes a\d then reported favorably. Council adopted the ordinance at the last ses sion on Monday of last week, and It went Into effect on Monday of this week. The Pure Milk and Food Company was established here about a year ago. the cost of the plant approximating, it Is said, $50,000. Tho main plant Is at 66-68 Ivy street, several branches being operated In oth er sections of the city. ELECTflic COMP'Y to annuzxnu Two Million to Stockholders and Half Million in Treasury. At a meeting of stockholders of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company Tuesday morning, an Issue of $2,500,600 of stork was made. Of this, $2,000,000 was divided among the stockholders of the company, and Increased their holdings about one- third. The Issue was looked upon In the nature of a dividend. The remain der. $500,000, was held In the treasury to be distributed according to the re quirements of the company. President' Arkwright stated that the new stock was given the stockholder.' Instead of a dividend upon the earnings, which had been withheld ami devoted to Improvements In the company*-* properties. It amounted practically to dividend of thirty-three .mil one- third per cent. No actual sales were caused by the new Issue, the eloek br ing held by the former stockholders In proportion to their holdings. The Increase was from $4,000,000 to $$,500,000 INSANITY BOARD TO EXAMINE THA W Slayer to Submit Cheerfully to Legiti mate Test. HE WON’T STAND FOR FOOLISHNESS Lawyers for Prisoner Say They Welcome, Instead of Fear, tlile Exami nation. CORTELYOU GIVES AID TO THE MONEY MARKET Washington, March 26.—Secretary r,f the Treasury Cortelyou today directed the deposit of customs receipts In the national bank depositories of New York city. This is an enlargement of the order recently Issued by him. It will Increase public deposits In that city about $15,000,000. . Another statement was Isucd antici pating tho interest on 2 per cent con sols of 1030, und the 4 per cent loan of 1907, due April 1, so as to make It puyable immediately. Briefly put, the known -relief to the -money market will be this: Immediate deposits of accumulated customs receipts In public depositories. $15,000,000; dally additions hereafter, 11,000,000; anticipated Interest -on bonds, $2,000,000. The secretary's formal announce ment concludes: "Thle action Is taken with a view to facilitate the redemption of 4 per cent bonds of 1907 and also'to render avail able additional funds for tpe usual dis bursements occurring at the first of the now month." New York. March 26.—Acom- misaiqn in lunacy haw been ap pointed to determine the present mental .condition of Harry K. Thaw*. Here is the makc-np of the com mission : Former Justice Morgan J. O’Brien will be the lawyer. l'cter B. Oinev, the layman. The doctor is Dr. Leopold l’ut- zcil. Justice Fitzgerald announced his intention to nppoint a commis sion to the lawyers of the defense, the district attorney and mem bers of the Thaw family this af ternoon in star chamber proceed- j ings. conducted in his private rooms nt the criminal eourts build j ing. The public was barred. Harry Thaw will he his own most Important witness at the Inquiry Into his mental condition. His mother, Mrs. William Thaw, will also be a vital wit ness in his behalf. On arriving at the criminal courts building today Justice Fitzgerald, who was not expected until tomorrow, sum moned by messengers all persons di rectly Interested In the ease. When all were In the room, the doors were locked against reporters and the public. Young Mrs. Thaw Dazed. When It whs announced that Justice Fitzgerald had Informed the principals that he had decided to appoint a com mission to determine That’s mental | condition, a C4>urt officer sx|fi'that the on Pass Fou* Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian records hero each day some economic fart In reference to tbs onward march of the South. DY JOSEPH 0. LIVELY. Though retrenchment Is being discussed In some parts of tho coun- ' try, several railroad projects In the South of more than ordinary Im portance arc noted by The Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore. One of the most notable of these looks to the expenditure of about $5,000,000 upon a union station and terminals at Memphis, Tenn., by a company-In which are represented the Iron Mountain, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the 8t. Louis and Han Francisco, the St. Louis Southwestern, the Yazoo anil Mississippi Valley, the Illinois Central, the Louisville and Nashville, the Southern und the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroads. The new station, which will be reached by elevated tracks, will cost about $3,000,000 and other terminals about $2,000,000. Another million dollars will be spent for buildings and equipment of machinery’ for the new shops of ihe Central of Georgia railroad at Ma con, Ga. The directors of the cpmpany have decided to enlarge the pres ent plant. Increasing the acreage covered by buildings, roundhouse and trackage, for which plans have already been prepared. Contract has been awanled for the dredging to be done In preparation for the construction of the first of :ue big coat piers which the Tidewater railway is to build at Its terminals near Norfolk, und also the contract for the substructural work. The pier, which will be 1,000 feet long, 60 feet wide and 65 feet high, will cost between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Other railroad improvements und extensions reported include the building by the Kansas City Southern railroad of a line from Crowley, La., to connect with the New Orleans. Crowley and Western; of a second track on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley line f jv 90 miles, between Baton Rouge and New Orleuns; a 125-mile extension of the PeQueen and Eastern railway from DeQueen to Hot Springs. Ark., ihe building of a low-grade line for the Illinois Central between Birmingham and Jasper, Ala.; a six-mil* extension of the State railroad connecting Rusk and Gallatin. Texas, and the building at Marttnsburg, W. V«., of yarda to be used Jointly by the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Western Maryland rail roads. This month the contract will be let for th<* car repair shops at Oden- ton. Md„ of the Washington. Baltimore and Annupoli? Electric Rallre.ul Company. This Is one of the Intcrurban electric lines to which the South Is giving attention. Another project of the kind for which rights of way and franchises are now being secured Is to Connect the more impor tant towns In northwestern Arkansas. Survey has begun for a line con necting Dallas and Greenville. Texas, and a company Is organizing to construct a line to serve OIney, Onuncock, Tnsley. Accomae. LocustrUle and Wachaprague on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Street railway com panies at Atlanta. Ga.. Louisville. Ky.. Huntsville, Ala., Lexington. Ky., and Jackson, Miss., are also contemplating improvements of ot Lind and another. 4