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0 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.” y ..... 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 6 CHRISTMAS Shop Early and Avoid the Crush ■■i HI