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THE WEATHER.
Fair Saturday night and Sunday:
colder. Temperatures Saturday (taken
at A. K. Hawke* Co.’s store): S a. m.,
,5 degrees; to a. m.. 57 degrees: 12
noon, 6« degrees; 2 p. m., 56 degrees.
The Atlanta Georgian
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN”
AND NEWS
"Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN
SPOT COTTON
Atlanta^ quiet; 8 13-16. Liverpool, steady;
6.05. New York, quiet;
quiet; 8%. Augusta, steady; 0 I-
veston, steady; 9**. Norfolk,
VOL. X. XO. 117.
HOMEI4TH) EDITION
\TLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 16, 1911. HOMEK4TH) EDITION PRICE:
Authorizes Power Company to
Issue Stocks and Bonds to
Extent of $47,000,000.
The Message of the Star
HERBERT KAUFMAN, in the Christmas Collier's.
BRIGADE, U. S. A.,
FOR FORT M’PHERSON
RATES NOT MENTIONED;
NO PRICE GUARANTEED
Ownership of Tallulah Falls Is
Left to the Courts—No Rea
son Given for Reduction.
Preferred stock to the amount of !2,
000,0if0: common stock In the sum of
(15,000,000, and bonds of 230,000,000,
mav be Issued by the Georgia Railway
and Power Company under authority'
of the state railroad commission grant
ed on Saturday. This Is a reduction
of 110.000.000 In the stack Issues as
proposed by the company; It having pe
titioned for authority to Issue $27,000,-
000 of stock Instead of the $17,000,000
authorised.
By this action of the railroad com
mission the company can now proceed
toward perfecting Its consolidation of
uater power and electric properties In
th Georgia, Including the. Tallulah
[Falls, Gainesville and Bull Sluice
hydro-electric power plants, ondt the
Operations by lease of the Georgia
Railway and Electric Company, which
supplies street railway, electric light.'
electric power and steam heat service
un Atlanta, and suburbs.
No Guarantee of Rates.
At no point In the orders handed
down by the commission is reference
made as to what rates for electric,
power or current the company will be
permitted to charge. That question Is
nut ruled on.
The railroad commission tva 3 In ex
ecutive session considering this stock
snd bond matter about eight hours on
Friday. The decision was drawn Sat
urday morning.
Several weeks ago tho Georgia Rail
way and Power Company filed applica
tion with the railroad commission for
authority to Issue $ri7,000.000 of stocks
and IKinds. A public hearing was held
In .November, when King & Spalding,
counsel for the company, presented oral
argument, written briefs, maps, surveys
and voluminous exhibits In support of
the application. Practically no opposi
tion appeared at that time. Later the
Tallulah Falls Preservation association
petitioned that the case bo reopened,
because there was some question as to
the ownership of the property at Tal
lulah falls, where one of the power
plants Is under construction, and be
cause the association considered tho
proposed capitalisation excessive. The
commission then gave the association
i hearing to present Its case, but de
clined to reopen the general hearing.
No Contest by Ststs.
On Friday morning the commission
appeared before Governor John M. Sla.
ton to nsrrrtnin • whr>thrr op not th<
1 RUSSIA SHOWS FIGHT
Ambassador Bakhmetieff Gives
Warning to America of His
Government’s Position.
GUESTS OF ATLANTA
RELATIONS ARE STRAINED
Taft, Frightened by Gathering
War Cloud, Appeals to Sen
ate to Modify Measure.
Washington, Doc. 16.—The faot cams
out at the white house toduy from ths
highest authority that Russia has notl-
S ed the United States, thru Ambassa-
nr Bakhmetieff, that the exor regards
the Sulser resolution abrogating the
treaty of 1832 as an Insult.
As a result of this most Important
development. President Taft is working
desperately today to have tho resolu
tion either killed entirely in the senate
or else amend It so as to remove the
cause of the Russian protest.
Russia Is In earnest about the pro
posed abrogation and will not accept
tbo notion carried fn the Sulxer resolu
tion with equanimity.
I No direct threats have been mode to
this government, but the meaning of
Continued on Page Twslvs,
ton to ascertain' whether or not the
■tatc was. contesting the ownership of
Hie Tallulah Falls property. Tho gov
ernor Informed the board that he had
Instituted no such contest, altho Gov
ernor Hoke Smith had ordered a sur
vey of the property. Following this
conference tjie commission went Into
Its executive-session, which did not ad-
lorn, except for lunch, until nearly 7
o'clock Friday night. While this ap
plication was pending, hut before It had
been taken up by the whole commis
sion, Chairman C. Murphy Candler
made a critical study of the evidence
»nd arguments submitted.
Ttvo orders were handed down by
tho commission, one authorizing the
•lock and bond issues, and the other
relating to the Tallulah Falls land title
Question.
No Ruling on Titlss.
As to the land title matter the com
mission rules:
"The commission Is of the opinion
'hat it is not authorised or empowered
to decline to approve said Issue of
rt°ek and bonds contemplated In this
case on this ground. The commission
Continued on Page Twelve.
G [ o TO THE WINDOW tonight and look out upon
• the city, yonder where the barracks of Want huddle
in the shadows, and tenements stand bleak against
the sky; whet e pitiable, cowed children of privation, ‘
wistful arid wan, vein-hungry 'and heart-hungry,
lie-in <the-cbld<and dream*Christmas dreams * that can never
come true—dreams such as you dreamed hack in the long ago,
golden dreams spangled with Hope, dreams thaC will lose their
way and fall, broken-winged, to earth.
Once, upon the pinions of Fancy, you sped into the mystic
dawns; once, you and Faith in magic argosies set brave sails
for cloudland’s purple zones.
And now,- Youth is dead and memory is stained with tears.’
And your ships have come home and they ride at anchor.
Wise Man, what cargo did you bring in their holds?
, _ How did you barter with Life? Did you trade well?
Are you content?
Where is your myrrh and where your frankincense?
Where is happiness and where peace and where is the glory of
mercy and the joy of giving and the strength that comes with
the lifting of burdens? - f»
Look up, behold-the Star of Bethlehem. Held the message.
A thousand gray-souled women sit tonight with the ghosts
of Yesterday.
Women,/tagged by toil, gaunt aiid bruised; women with
empty Pockets and empty pantries and empty stoves; women
face to fact with the dreariest tragedy in all motherhood, the
explanation of the empty Christmas stocking.
And the Star of Bethlehem keeps calling to you: "Wise
Man, Wise Man! Gather your gifts and go forth in the name
of the Lord to the manger wheresoever the Child awaits your
coming.”
MW LIFE CO.
L,
Most Everybody Who Is Any
body Paid Us a Visit Some \
Time During 1911.
Three Regiments of Regulars
Instead of One Now Sta
tioned at the Post
BIG BOOST FOR GATE CITY
President ahd Predecessor and
Two “Perhapses” Among
Those Present.
WOOD AND GRANT COMING;
Congressman Howard and thei
Army Men Have Been Work
ing on Plans Long Time.
Atlanta's role of notable visitors dur
Ing 1911 swelled larger than possibly
ever before, and contained the names
of many of the most prominent figures
In the national affairs of the country.
Tho president of the United States,
the only living ex-president, and two
men whose names figure prominently
before the Democratic party as presi
dential candidates, besides several
United States senators and leRers In
great movements, were some of those
who spent a day or more In the South's
metropolis.
If the figures could be obtained as to
the amount of news sent over tho wires
to tho rest of ths.qountry the year of
1911 would probably ehow larger than
urn pn-vl.m- year. U'-i-l-- :lm fact
Continued on Page Twslvs.
FRESH MEAT PRICES
Fort McPherson os a brigade post for)
the accommodation of three full reel-,
ments of Infantry of about 1,000 men
euch, or a (total of 3,000—that Is what I
Atlanta may boast of within another-
year or so,
The United States war department;
contemplates the establishment of a i
brigade post within the territory of the
Department of the Gulf, as a result of
a general policy In mind to abandon
small Isolated battalion.and regimental
posts that have sprung up from time'
to time to meet the army’s needs In
the old Indian war days, and to con
centrate its forces at large posts located
near large cities and of easy access to
several Hines of railroad. Such condi
tions exist in Atlanta. Real estate
men, acting for the government, have 1
secured options on large tracts of land
adjoining Fort McPherson and the tvnr
department has at its disposal tho
Georgia National Guard rifle range and
camp ground udjolnlng the fort and on
which tho state has. made no permanent
Improvements tor its militia.
Tests of the water supply and other
health conditions In and around Fort
McPherson have been made by tho
government and permanent construc
tion work for water and sewer systems
has been authorised. Indicating that the
. Indicating I
plans extensive enlarge-
Bt. '
Stockholders Ask for Receiver
and Recite Story of Walling
ford Financing.
$1,800 LEFT OF $11,000
I government
I ments of the pos
I Grant and Wood Coming.
Great Britain’s Attitude Toward %££&
Inspection of the Fort McPherson res-
United States Beef Trust
Will Cause a Big Drop.
CHEAPER THAN IN YEARS
Chartered Last April, Its Sales
men Sold Stock at Two Hun
dred Dollars a Share.
SAVED TO THE CITY
iou nave got to go to market with
“ 1 j'OUr 11'Q POS nn ,l ..a.d „„,l ka.l/ (»
wares and stand and bark It,
r.M- t0 know,If that’s the case—
g-. -i **.* Pa *‘‘ Is your market place.
^P«ce an Ad or two today and while
vertlae.
Prodt reallxn that It Is wise to ad-
U8E GEORGIAN WANT ADS.
Whow(fig that half a million dollar*
more work will be done with the $3.r
000,000 bond Issue than was contem
plated. the report of F. A. Qultllsn.
chairman of the bond commission, was
pretented to Mayor Winn as a Christ
inas message Saturday morning.
Only a little mors than one-halt- of
the money has been spent, $1,100,000
remaining In cash and bonds.
And It Is expected that the amount of
extra work to be done will be In
creased by the time all this money Is
spent.
The principal cause for this showing
is that the county commissioners have
agreed to do the work of extending all
the trunk -ewers to the city limits, tho.
Continued on Pago Twslvs.
For fhe Empty
Stocking
The following subscriptions to the
Empty Stocking fund were received
Saturday by The Georgian:
Previously acknowledged $125.15
John
Evelyn Halle...
Myrtle Wood, Haralson
Nell, Sister and Brother.
Sign, Abbeville. 8. C.
William and Calhoun Weathers.
Rose and Grace Gardner,. Kirk
wood
Mrs, G. W. Gross, Gertrude Hin
kle, Ida Msc Smith, C. A. Sow
ell. O. L. Mills, F. B. Conner,
W. F. Barnett, Jennie Follette,
Oliver, as.
Misses Glenn. The Virginian ..
Rhodes-Wood Furniture Co. ..
Mary Reece. 51 Currier-st
Virginia and Mary Dell Carson.
Maggie and Herman Croker ....
•'.Mother.” Decatur ...
Brown ..
.50
3.500 IHJINS
London, Doe. 16.—H.vTrowing details
of a massacre of Armenian Christians
by Turks in Anatolia were received
here today Jn letters sent to the Ar
menian Teller society. , They stated
that more than 3.500 have been slaugh
tered, the victims Including men, wom
en and children.
Martin A. Luther »s
John E. Coble
W. A. Holliday 50
Henry Simona -5
Curtis Cooper -5
A. K. Hawkea 10.00
A typographical error prevented the
proper credit the other day of a $1 con
tribution from Darwin Sutherland
Bates, age three weeks) Cleveland, In
Charging fraud In the manner In
which the organisation of the company
was conducted, fourteen stockholders of
the Piedmont Life Insuranco Company,
chartered last April, have petitioned su
perior court for a receiver. Judge Pen
dleton Saturday morning granted the
stockholders a temporary restraining
order against the officers of tho compa
ny and set the hearing for January 9,
1912.
The petition Is ah outgrowth of what
is said to have been the tactics of B.
M. Wood, Dan G. Pleasants, W. N.
Edenrteld, H. G. Lee and K. L. Pleas
ants, officers and stock salesmen of
the company. eTho petition reads like
an excerpt from tho adventures of Wal
lingford, In which all but $1,800 from
a total of $11,000 received from the
sale of stock went to the promoters
and salesmen for salaries and traveling
expenses. It is alleged.
The charges made by the stockhold
era are serious. In appropriating the
assets of the company, which was to
have been a ''legal reserve” corporation.
It Is alleged that the officers directly
violated their trust and the' affairs of
the company were conducted eo.aa to
make the notion of the promoters
fraudulent and therefore render them
liable under the law Individually to
stockholders and creditors. ’ ‘
W. N. Edenflcld, vice president and
medical director of the company. It Is
nsserted, has admitted that the assets
or the company at the present time con
sist of one $1,000 bond with a small
premium, some $180 In rash and $184.50
worth of furniture. This Is the remains
of the $11,000 capital stock, paid up by
the 48 stockholders at the rate of $200
a share.
Ths Story of tho Company,
According to the allegations set forth
In tho i-etltlon, the long story of the
short life of the Piedmont Lire Insur
ance Company Is:
The company was organised by B. M.
Wood, H. C. Wood, W. N. Edenfleld, H.
Wilson and T. P. Holliday and char,
tered by the secretary of state April
12, 1011. The authorized capital stock
was $100,000.
Following the election of officers, Dan
G. Pleasants, of Jacksonville, former
president of the Atlantic Coast General
Agency Croporatlon, and R. L. Pleas
ants and H. G. Lee were. employed to
promote the company’s organisation
thru the sale of stock.
One thousand shares of stock were
put on the market at $200 a share, or
double the par value.
It was said by the salesmen that only
■me share would b** sold to one person
and the doubling of the par value- was
for the purpose of accumulating a-re
serve fund, as the comp-.iy was to be
an "old-line legal reserve company.”
Eleven thousand dollars worth of
stock was subscribed at $200 a share by
some 48 persons, the majority paid
ash and tho remainder 'la notes
Continued on Page Twelve.
No Market for $15,000,000
Worth of Beef Which Sup
plied England’s Soldiers.
Chicago, Dec. 16.—Prices of fresh
meat are expected to begin falling
within two weeks and quickly go to tho
lowest level known In years, as the re
sult of Great Britain's refusal to per
mit ths millionaire Chicago packers to
bid for contracts for supplying the
British nrmy and navy with $15,000,000
worth of fresh meats during the next
year. The benf barons announced yes
terday that the packers would not be
permitted to offer tilde while they were
under Indictment In the United Stales
for criminal violation of the Sherman
anti-trust law.
Unless the packers, who have been
supplying the British war forces with
meats for years, And a means to sell
their product to other parties they to
day admitted that there will be a large
over-supply of fresh meat In the United
States. The over-supply will necessi
tate quick and heavy cuts In prices.
The packers continued preparations to.
day to carry to The Hague Interna
tional court. If necessary, their demand
that Great- Britain remove tho barrier
which It has placed against their bids
for the big contracts.
“Please Close Saloons So He
Can Come Home,” States
Letter to Mayor Winn.
Mayor Winn sets many letters from
children to which he can not give the de
sired answers and he hears many re
quests from ths little ones that he can
not grant, but hs received,a.letter from
a little girl Saturday morning which he
says Is about'the moet appealing thing
that Jias -come before him sines he has
been the city's official head; an ‘ '
that if the little alri who wrote
MMntn
, , If the little girt who wrote It will let
him know her name and address he will
do his best to ess that-she spends a
y Christmas.
Is the tetter:
"Dear Mr. Mayor: My papa told me
the other day that he would have to work
wouldn’t seem like Christmas
to work, snd I know t would not have a
good time. I know your little girl
wouldn't have *
had to work on
TTlth many thank*
H > D TKXDER‘S
illKMB.”
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good time either If you
ervatlon and adjacent territory by Ma
jor General Frederick Dent Grant,
commander of the eastern division of
the nrmy, with headquarters at Gov
ernors Island, New York. General
Grant will be In Atlanta for this pur
pose on or about January 1. Lieutenant
General Leonard Wood, active head of
tho United States”army. Is also -x-
pected to come here and make an In
spection at an early date.
To Congressman William Schley
Howard Is due much of the credit fop
bringing about this contemplated en
largement of Fort McPherson. Since
he bus been In congress he hus worked
unceasingly in the Interest of the cn-'
largemcnt of Fort McPherson to a bri
gade post. \
If the project becomes a reality. It.
will mean the permanent location h.-re
of three regiments, adding about 3,00o
people to tho business population of tho'
city and suburbs, and will mean the-
return of the full headquarters of tho
department of the gulf, which was re--'
duced last summer, making Atlanta this
groat military center of the South. .
Upon the occasion of the visits of.
General Grant and General Wood, ih»
Chamber of Commerce and local inlit-1
tary organisations' will doubtless ]>lan|
elaborately to entertain publicly thw
distinguished military visitors.
.1
Coroner's Inquests for the -present
year have already exceeded the limit
for which fees are allowed by law—i 50
—that' Is, Coroner Paul Donehoo has'
already held nine more -ipquests thin
he receives pay for. This makes thw-
total to date 150.
As the coroner expresses It himself:
“I am paying myselfTor the Inquests
I hold now until the first of the year.”
The county won’t pay for any mor-g
The Inquests for last year exceeded
the limit by only three.
Ante Bellum Negro Burned.
Shreveport, Le„ Dec. 16.—Unde
Maxey. an ante beltum negro, ror 20
a servant tor Ex-Councilman U'lliiai
gersoll, was burned .to death e.irlv
morning In a tire which destroyed th
gersoll servants' quarters.
Notices of Sunday Ser
vices In Atlanta churches
appear on page 20.
LITTLE GIRL
Business Days
Before
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CHRISTMAS
Shop Early and
Avoid the Crush
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