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VOL. X NO. 116.
HOME(4th) EDITION
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1911.
HOME(4TH) edition
On Trains, FIVE CENTS.
Georgia at Chicago LaYid Show
Proposed Merger Gives Atlanta
Opportunity to Insist -on
Reductions.
WILL MEET ON FRIDAY
Competitive Corporation Also
Promises Chance to Cut the
Rates on Light and Power. .
Getting cheaper electric lighting and
I potrer rate# for Atlanta la now the
I matter of first consideration with a.
number of tho more prominent mom- (
bers Of council; and their plans will 1
take mare definite shape at the meeting
of the comifiittee on electrfcai affairs
Friday afternoon'.
The proposition to get a, cheaper rate
J for municipal buildings In Atlanta has
I ipread into a fight for; a general re-
I auction of rates. Says Councilman
I jtldlne Chambers:
"It is my opinion that light and pow-
I er rates in Atlanta should.be lowered
f so per cent. We know that It costs
less than one cent per kilowatt hour
to produce electric power by water and
the other expenses will not exceed this
rest, making the cost of electrical pow
er less than two cents per kilowatt
hour. A most reasonable profit would
be one cent per kilowatt hour. Our
maxlmoin rate for lights Is ten cents,
with a discount of, ten per cent, and
the maximum power rate is six cents,
with a discount of ten per cent.”
To Go to Commission.
At the meeting of the committee TTi
day afternoon tho time when a sub
committee will go before the railroad
commission will be > determined. This
sub-committee Is composed of Mr.
chambers. Councilman John E. Mc
Clelland and City Attorney Mayson,
They will ask the commission If the
city Is entitled to a-special wholesale
rate for all Its buildings; and they will
urge a cheaper rate on certain contracts
for new schools and tho Grady hospi
sal, the ruling on. which will hayo
general apppltcatlon.
The ofnctals are collecting all sorts
of data on the cost of production of
electrical power. They aro haring es
timated the cost to tho city of building
Its own distributing system and pur-
I chasing power at wholesale rates,
May Have Competition.
Especially Is this last Idea appealing,
In view of the proposal of officials of
the Central Georgia Power Company of
I .Macon. W, J. Massee, president of this
[ company, has offered to give a contract
and make bond to furnish power at tho
edge of tho city for one nnd one-'
-half
cents per kilowatt hour, and less If
sufficient quantities ore used. Another
conference has been hold with offi
cials of tho company and tlffey Insist
they mean business.
. Several members of council say they
ire determined to have the "rates In
j Atlanta materially lowered and that
| ttcv.are going to light for tho best
Feans toward that end.
Within a few days the committee
will he In possession of sufficient data
to speak definitely and to demand defl-
nite answers. And It Is tho general
impression that cheaper rates will be
the result.
No Help in Merger.
As to the 157,000,000 merger of the
Heetrieal companies, council has stated
I its position to the railroad commission,
j Hut it Is the opinion of the members of
council that this merger won't tend
toward a reduction of rates,
’ The members of the committee on
electrical affairs are McClelland, War-
; nook. VanDyke' and Chamber!.
While practically all the members of
council say that the city le morally
hound to carry out a contract with the
1 rgia Hallway and Electric Com
pany. which does not expire until
March, IPia, It is tho Intention of thd
leaders In this matter to get things
adjusted now while the merger la pend-
i lag and a new company Is preparing
to enter the field. Tho new contract
ean go Into effect, then, when the pres
ent one expires.
Merger Hearing Begun,
Consideration of the evidence heard
and exhibits flier] upon the application
Continued on Lett Page,
FrrTil e c' lue * ,,on ot labor for you or your
eighbor ehould be of much Interest to
or ® Mike, for wages or hours may
hi* the powers to make you stop
• n * calling a strike. When su-.h
, "‘ns happens and you need work bad
m»s** . BO B *° oafrgulng or getting
-igst look thru our Want Page
i sonfc Male Help Ad will give you
yji '/i* where a Job can he had.
U SE GEORGIAN WANT ADS.
BIG AUTOMOBILE SHOW
IS SET FOR FEBRUARY
All Cars Represented In Atlanta
Will Be Displayed for Week
In Auditorium-Armory.
TWO OF LIVE WIRES
IN AUTO SHOW PLANS
A.glimpse of Georgia’s exhibit at,the Chicago Land show.
Hafer, Georgia made ae finest showing as any of the states.
Under the direction of W. H. Leahy end Ed, M,
With Crowbars, Politicians of
Denver; Colo., March on
County Official.
AT OUTS WITH MACHINE
Clash Between the State Militia
and City Police Force Was
Narrowly Averted.
Denver, Colo, Deo. 15^-A battle be
tween the state militia and 100 armed
policemen, plain clothes men, detec
tives and "gun totefs” was narrowly
averted at 1 o'clock this morning at tho
Denver county court house as, the re
sult of forcible ejection from his ofljee
of County Assessor Henry J. Arnold,
on orders frfom Mayor Robert W. Speer,
Governor Shafroth, who had been ap
pealed to for assistance by Assessor
Arnold, had ordered General John Chaee
to mobilise the Denver companies of
state militia ready to march to the court
house under arms. Before -these In
structions could be carried out, the city
hall gang, headed by the police with
crowbars and ramming appliances, had
shattered the doors of the assessor's of
fice and threw Arnold and several of
his deputies Into the street.
State Senator Hiram E. Hilts, who
also occupies the office of election com
missioner, a henchman of Mayor Speer
and acknowledged representative of the
Denver skyscraper trust, then took pos
session of the assessor's office. Hllte
■was appointed assessor by the board of
supervisors n't an adjourned session late
last night. District Judge Harry E.
Riddle, another member of the Speer
faction, was waiting In his chambers
to swear In Hilts.
Hilts and a doxen "gun totere" then
proceeded to the court house, where
they encountered Arnold, who had
been advised of the move against him.!
Arnold refused to surrender his.office,
and when Hilts learned that Governor
Shafroth had ordered the troops he
summoned a big detachmeht of police,
thru Chief Armstrong, and assaulted
the office. Assessor Arnold today will
begin legal action to recover his office.
Both Arnold and Speer are Democrat!
and the former was named for the of
fice of county assessor by the Denver
city hall machine, which Mayor Speer
controls. .
After being elected Arnold refused
to do the bidding of the machine. When
the supreme court of Colorado recently
decided that tho consolidation of two
;,-ears .ago, combining the city and coun
ty governments of Denver, was legal,
Arnold refused to give up his office and
took the matter into the courts, alleg
ing that his office was exempt from the
consolidation order until his term ex
pired next spring. '
The enmity toward Arnold by. the
city hall machine reached lta most bit
ter point yesterday when the assessor
bluntly announced that unless he was
ordered to do so by the courts he would
not extend the tax assessment for 1912
from fifteen to more than nineteen
mills, on the ground that the city char
ter expressly forbade such an extension.
235,000 BALES HANDLED
AT PORT OF BRUNSWICK
For the Empty
Stocking
Tlje 'time is short—the oppor
tunity great.
Help the Empty Stocking fund.
It is used to make Christmas a
happy day for the little orphans
instead of a, day of disappoint
ment. •
Only a few days are left. Send'
in a contribution. ’
Here is tho subscription list
Previously acknowledged .. ..2110.25
Irby Hill and Louise Shouts,
Kingston 25
A friend .. 20
Eula and Roslyn Wheelor. Car-
tersvillo • ,20
Finnic McMillan, Regal, N. C. ,. f.00
Fred Cook 1.00
"Qordon-st„" West End ., .. 1.00
Worfh, Eugene and Mac Coving
ton, Linden, N. C. >0
C. W. Gee, Crawfordvlllb 1.00
Margaret Katherine Smith, Mon-
tlcello, Fla. 1.00
Martin .May 5.00
Mary Garrison, 140 Crew-st. ., .25
Dorothea Stanley, Marietta 25
Lou Ella and Ruth Eaxterlln, j
Marietta 50
Ruth Hill, 135 Oakland-ave 25
Mary T. Nowsom and - Guthrie
M. Boydston, South Houston,
Texas ..
George A. Speer .. 2,00
Charles, Grace and Ethel Smith,
Dewy Rose 50
BRIBERY OF JURORS
Government. Increases Guard
Around Grand Jury Investi-
• gating Dynamiting.
ALL M0VEMENTS.IN SECRET
Names and Identification of the
Jurymen and Witnesses
Held From the Public.
BIDSOFPACKERS
Indicted Chicago Millionaires
Lose $15,000,000 Annually
From British Government.
Chicago, Dec. 15,—Fifteen million
dollars a year-went glimmering for the
Chicago packing companies today
when official'advices from the-British
government were received In the offices
of all the packing companies whose
heads have been Indicted by the gov
ernment for conspiracy Jn restraint of
trade announcing that the companies
Would not be permitted to aubmlt bide
for the supply of the British navy and
army pending settlement of the gov
ernment suits.
The total Business of the British
government with Chicago meat pack
ers Is estimated at something like
323,000.000 a year. Armour & Co. do
$750,000 a year In one class of supplies
alone, and the total Armour business
with the British authorities Is 'said to
be far In excess of this figure.
ROOSEVELT TIES SHOT
New York, Dec. 15.—Declaring that the
plea for sympathy for- the MNamara
brothers was "monstrous In Its folly and
wickedness." Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
reviews the famous case In an editorial
captioned: “Murder la Murder," In the
current Issue qf The Outlook.
In part the editorial says:
"Not only laboring men, but businees
men. capltalleta, have at times shown the
worst form of class consciousness—that
Brunswick, Ga., Dec. 15.—That nil
previous' cotton records at this port
will bo broken during the present sea
son Is borne out by tho fact that up to
the present time almost as many bales
have been shipped from Brunswick this
season as In any previous year. Unof
ficial figures obtained show- that ap
proximately 235,000 bales have already
been shipped to foreign and domestic
ports, handled by the steamers of the
t Is conservatively estimated lipv/arrt murderous violence* me iw« vueiMWP — a
f 325,000 bales will'he shipped, which stand on a par from the standpoint of who have had a part In the Ran-
will surpass all records for this port. damage to the- community.” ea* City Job.
. >
they were of their own class. This has
been done by capitalists In the case of
capitalists who have been guilty of bracta
Indianapolis, Ind„ Deo. 15.—That tho
Federal authorities fear attempts to
bribe members of the Federal grand
Jury, which opened tho second day of
lta McNamara Investigation in Indian
apolls at 9 a, in. today, and that that
is the reason for armed guards and
extraordinary secrecy In a square all
directions from tho grand Jury room. Is
the belief current about the Federal
building.
At first it was the expressed bellof of
newspaper mon that the extreme secre
cy was employed to prevent the publi
cation of facts concmtng the grand
Jury investigation, but that now Is be
lieved to be a secondary object. Fed
eral authorities have not been so sccre
tlve thru fear that newspapers would
publish Information ooncemlng persons
who may be Indicted In the Investiga
tion, becauso the authorities know that
many of tho larger newspapers and
several of the nows services of the
United States have In-their possession
lists of persons who may be Indicted.
The authorities did not furnish tho
publications wtlh'the Information and
the newspapers could not be. prevented
from making public the facts In their
possession. However,. It Is known that
the Infromatton'held by.the newspapers
and. the news bureaus .will not bo pub
lished until such time as such publica
tion no longer will interfere with or
' iple the governmental investigation,
'acts which tend to strengthen tho
tmpreslson that attempts at bribery of
the grand Jurors is feared are,these:
Such attempts were made during the
McNamara trials In Los AngelcB and
Indictments have been returned there
against at least one detective said to
have offered bribe money to a trial
Juror. There are almost twice as many
Jurors In the Federal grand Jury a
there were in the trial jury In Call
fornla. The names, addressee and oc
cupations of the Federal grand Jurors
have been kept secret by the United
States marshal.
"Probably there will be a halt dozen
witnesses examined by the grand Jury
today,” said District Attorney Charles
W. Miller before he entered the grand
Jury room at 9 o'clock this forenoon.
The identity of witnesses also Is be
ing kept secret ae far as possible.. Most
of the witnesses are out-of-town per
sons with whom few persons - In In
dianapolis arc acquainted except by
name or reputation. These witnesses
step Into the elevators In the Federal
building and are taken to .the, third
floor.
Several young women whose Identity
could not be ascertained wore present
at tbe Federal building. In Mr. Miller's
office and In the witness’room.
Among the half dozen of witnesses
spoken of by Mr. Miller are A. E. Grif
fin, chief of police at Kansas City,
Mo., and Daniel Danclger, a hotel man
from the same city. These two men. It
Is understood, his Information concern
ing the dynamiting of some McCIIntlc-
Marshill construction work the night
of August 23 In Kansas City, rn con
fessing to tbis Job McManigal stated
that John J. McNamara was In Kan-
sas City at the time of the explosion,
and It Is thought there were others
ildc from McNamara and McManigal
Under the auspices* of tho Atlanta
Automobile and Accessory association
an automobile show will bo held in the
Auditorium, beginning February 10 and
continuing a week. The plans were
definitely decided after soma weeks
consideration at a meeting In tho
Transportation club rooms Thursday
afternoon. Leading automobile manu
facturers all over the country and the
civic bodies of Atlanta have already
strongly Indorsed the project and ex
pect to make It the greatest automo
bile display ever hold In the South.
The date of the show Is a time when
all manufacturers will bo ablo to ex
hibit thotr 1912 models, and It --follows
the great Chicago show Just soon
enough to allow all dealers to ship
their displays direct to Atlanta,
Two years ago a moat successful
show was held In the Auditorium. The
members of the Atlanta association de
cided It was time for tho South to be
given another opportunity to Inspect
the many makes of machines and to bo
shown the many Improvements that
have been made. A oommlttee wns ap
pointed to Investigate the probabilities
of the success of such an event. This
committee was enthusiastic In Its re
port that an automobile show should be
held.
The show 1b to catdr to the whole
South, but only those manufacturers
who have legitimate official represen
tatives In Atlanta will be allowed to
exhibit. Blnce Atlanta has becomo the
Southern distributing point for practi
cally. all the big manufacturers, tho ex
hibit will be quite complete. But it was
doclded that no outsider who Is not
represented In Atlanta 1 should bo al
lowed to enjoy tho benefits of tho work
"f tho local agents.
Special rates will be secured on tho
railroads. There will bo everything In
the Auditorium to delight an enthusi
astic autolst. Tho building will bo
beautifully decorated and besides the
many ears there will be exhibits Of all
accessories an<l nv-r.- Information about
machines than any man. tho ho bo an
experienced driver, could hope to re
tain.
President G. W. Hanson, of the
E-M-F Atlanta company, appointed the
following committee of eight to have
charge of the event:
H. G. Moore, of tho Velio Motor Ve
hicle Company, chairman; Frank P.
Dny, of the Locomobile Company;
Charles L. Elyea, of the Elyea-Austell
Company; Frank J. Long, of the Cole
Motor Car Company of Georgia; W. D.
Alexander, of tho. Alexnnder-Sewald
Company; Wylie West, of the Firestone
Tire Company; John IJ. Smith, of the
John M. Smith Company, and D. T.
Hussey, of the Georgia Motor Car Com
pany.
This committee meet* Friday after
noon to begin Its work of preparation
for the show.
1912
RUNS T0 157,835;
INCREASEOF 2,365
New Directory Shows Big Gain
in Atlanta Over Figures of
One Year Ago.
214,419 PERSONS LIVE
IN TROLLEY DISTRICT
Most Complete Directory Ever
Issued in America to Reach
Subscribers Next Week.
WYLIE F. WEST,
SCHOOL FUND APPORTIONED
AMONG GEORGIA COUNTIES
Atlanta and Vicinity Will Get
$125,000—Complete Sums
Announced.
Atlanta and the territory Immediately
contiguous will get In excels of $125,000
from the elate of Georgia for the main
tenance of public schools In 1912, ac
cording to present Indications. In any
event, tho total will be close to that
eum. Apportionment of next year's
school funds has been made by Pro
fessor M. L. Brittain, stats superin
tendent of schools, on the basil of $3.42
r capita of school age. Thle per cap-
ta will apply, provided the contingent
appropriation of $60,000 additional au
thorized by the legislature last summer
can bo- secured. However, the state
treasury may not be ablo to meet* this
$50,000 until 1913, In which event tho
>er capita will be $3.38 or five cents
ess. w
The apportionment, based on $2.43
per capita, gives the city of Atlanta
197,430.02; rural schools In Fulton coun
ty, $22,188.87;. city schools of East
Point, 83,569.07; Decatur city schools,
$2,013.41, and Kirkwood city schools,
$781.48, a total of $124,992.53. College
Park and Hapevllle city echools are
Included In the Fulton county allow
ance. Those of East Lake and Oak-
hurst corporations are Included In the
$13,680.09 set apart for DeKalb county
rural schools. The apportionment by
counties for the entire state and for
those cities and towns that maintain
separate school systems follow:
TO COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Appling $ 11,617.70
Baker 7,618.55
Baldwin .. 16,605.50
Banks 11,109.77
Bartow 24,610.26
Ben Hill 6,304.34
Berrien .. 18,289.01
Bibb 66,766.21
Brooks 20,688.70
Bryan 6,914.88
Bulloch 22,878.10
Burke 38,396.97
Butts 12,715.01
Calhoun 11,792.14
Camden 6.»J4.25
Campbell .. •• 11,977.56
Carroll 80,528.84
Catoosa .. 6,116.69
Charlton • •• .. 4,441.85
Chatham 72.787.45
Chattahoochee .. .. .. .. 6,098.54
Early ..
Echols .
Effingham
Elbert .• t
Emanuel
14,543.20
2,090.90
0,185.64
10,585.80
25,448.74
Fannin /. .. .. 12,089.41
Fayetto 10,842.23
Floyd 23,372.02
Forsyth 11,720.31
Franklin ,
Fulton ... .
Gilmer
Glascock ...
Glynn
Gordon ....
Grady .. .,
Greene
Gwinnett ...
Habersham
Hall
Hancock ..
Haralson ..
Harris .....
Hart
Heard .....
Henry ...
Houston ...
13,058.01
22,188.07
9,283-44
'4,600.10
12,917.38
15.150.31
17,424.40
19,009,06
26,421.29
9,449.05
20.310.32
34,390.73
14,327.11
19.678.44
13.747.44
12,210.80
20,768.85
23,708.16
Chattooga .. .. 12,649.14
Cheroke 18,810.43
Clarke - 8.458.38
Clay 9.710.33
Clayton Il.2l4.47
Clinch .. 6,966.32
Cobb 20,048.35
CofTee ., 16,555.05
Colquitt 14.320.25
Columbia 11,336.15
Coweta .. 24,565.66
Crawford 10,224.83
Crisp 10,403.19
Dade 4,160.69
Dawson 4,863.74
Decatur 25.335.43
DeKalb 16,680.09
Dodge 19,887.14
Dooly 19,194.28
Dougherty 13,654.83
_ uglas 9,902.41
Irwin
t
8,743.10
Jackson
.... .
26,088.58
Jasper
... f .
,'i . «
15,253.21
Jeff Davis
... t
V Ft* •
4,654.61
Jefferson
21.785.91
Jenkins
11,274.41
Johnson
..
13,781.74
Jones
. ....
....
18;391.97
Laurens
29,100.98
Lee
.. *. f .
9,494.24
Liberty
12,763.74
Lincoln .
. . r ..
8,596.68
Lowndes
... ...
23,567.63
Lumpkin ....
ee #•
......
4.028.38
Macon ... *•• .
13,623.90
Madison t.
• e #v r
. ...
16,244.48
Marion
9,833.81
McDuffie
11.963.55
McIntosh
,. t
6,997.20
Meriwether.. ..
30,938.60
.Milton
... .
.. ..
7,261.31
Mitchell
20,669.18
Monroe
21,139.09
Montgomery ..
. , V*.
19,876.86
Morgan
17.482.71
Slurray
9,912.70
Muscogee
13,733.72
Newton
. .. ..
18,326.49
Oconee
10,430.63
Oglethorpe . . .
18,840.99
Paulding
12,948.26
Pickens
. , . . ,
7,940.45
Pierce
10,125.36
Pike
.....
18,844.42
Polk
..
20,230.14
Pulaski
18,919.88 I
Putnam
15,222.34 1
Quitman
.. ,,
4.747.12
Randolph
•9 ..
20,840.68
Richmond .. ..
59,487.03
Rockdale
6,345.50
Schley
5,G3.*i.49
Screven
20,881.8 t
Spalding .. ..
12,684.14
Stephens
6,009.36
Stewart
16,669.80
Sumter
20.391.35
Talbot
12,.'.2:i.79
Taliaferro
7,974.75
Tattnall
. e ..
19,125.68
Taylor
11.421.90
Telfair
12,0*10.13
Terrell
.. . .
18,028.'{7
Thomas .. ..
..
21,276.29
Tift
7,185.85
Toombs
10,801.07
Towns
4.108.32
Troup
• -
Turner
7.844.41
Continued on Last Page.
Atlanta's 1912 city directory popula
tion Is 167,835, an Increase of 2,365 over
191L
Tho Atlanta' district, a section ISO
square miles, that suburban section
Easily accessible by street cars, has a
population of 214,419, an Increase of
5,417 over 1911.
In reaching these figures, Joseph W,
Hill, mnnager of tho Atlanta City Di
rectory Company, used a multiple be
tween 2 1-4 and 3 1-2.
Tho new 1912 directory, which Is the
most complete ever Issued In Its 36
years’ history, will bo ready for delivery
on Monday, December 18. In announc
ing the population tho directory profane
says;
Tho Population Estimate,
“Wo estimate tho population as cov
ered by tho directory canvass, which
Includes practically all that territory
reached by .the etreet cor tines, to bo
214,419, and within tho corporate limits
of Atlanta to bs 167,885.”
In tho 1911 directory Issued In De
cember, 1910, the population of Atlanta
was 155,470, and that of tho Atlanta
district was 209,002.
Tho now directory contains about
6 additional streets and avenues,
mainly those opened by subdivisions
and extensions by the city to accom
modate tho rapidly spreading popula
tion.
Mr. Hill began tho collection of tlio
names of tho residents of Atlanta and
tho Atlanta territory on September 7,
with a staff of 64 name collectors. The
census takers. In tho beginning, rode
to tho ends of the various street car
lines, except tho Marietta Dm-, and
walked back, collecting names nnd
data. They obtained all names ns with
a drag net. They secured tho names
at the residence, and then downtown,
and at all places of occupation. Some
names were obtained a dozen times,
men like Robert F. Maddox, Colonel
Robert J. Lowry and others who aro
stockholders or directors In a dozen dlf.
ferent enterprises.
Tho work of finishing the new direc
tory was comploted at 9 o'clock Thurs
day night and Manager Hill drew a
long breath ot relief. The last proof, ns
corrected, was hurried to the printer
nnd Friday morning tho big directory
staff was discharged,
"H” Leeds the Llet.
Names beginning with tho letter H
aro in tho majority In the new direc
tory. Then come tho S folks, M.
and B.
"This Is my thirteenth year as di
rectory publisher in Atlanta,” said Mr.
H1U, "and I positively affirm that this
Is the most complete published in
America. Thera 1n the rack are tho
latest directories of about 200 Ameri
can cities. The Atlanta directory ts
tho only one that gives five distinct
facts—the name, wife’s name, what ho
does, where he does it and tho resi
dence.
"On Monday the full edition of 1,600
copies will bo ready for distribution at
$7 per volumo. Thla is even oheaper
than the dtrectoriea of such towns as
Savannah and Montgomery.
"Our system of distribution Is to
notify all subscribers, by postal enrds
mailed Sunday night, and they send
for them at once. The advertising pat
ronage Is far heavier than last year.
This morning’s mall brought advertise
ments, but the volume was closed.
"Next week I begin to plan for tho
1913 directory."
There are several hundred residents
of Atlanta, In sympathy with union
labor, who refused to give their names.
How Poultry Ads
PAY
le answer received st.it.
aw my ad In The Georgia
m Inclosing ad
twice, Place
rill bring tho results. Yours v.-r
ruly, W. J. FRASER.
Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1911.
Business Days
Before
CHRISTMAS
Shop Early and
Avoid the Crush