Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, December 30, 1911, Image 1

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THE WEATHER. Rain Saturday night and Sunday; Birmer Saturday night. Tempera ture* Saturday (taken at A. K. Hawkes Co't store): 8 a. in., 44 degrees; 10 a m., 47 degrees; 15 noon. 49 degrees; »'p. m., B2 degrees. i The Atlanta Georgian ’*Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN' AND NEWS * Noshing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN” 8POT COTTON. All cotton markets closed Saturday. VOL. X. NO. 129: HOME(4TH) EDITION ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1911. HOME(4TH) EDITION PRICE: [AFT P1AI£ FOUCIES AGAIN SLAPPEO BY ELOPED WITH AN HEIRESS FROM OLD PHILADELPHIA Theodore Roosevelt Is the Au thor of Another Furious As sault on Chief Executive. CORRESPONDENCE IS OUT Secretary Bloomer, on Demand of Ex-President, Makes Pub lic Peace Dinner Letters. New York, Dec. 30.—Former Presl- Jent Theodore Roosevelt Is the author of another furious assault upon the pol ities of- President Taft in correspond ence which passed between Roosevelt ind the promoters of the peace dinner in this city and which was made public today. In this the former president be came more personal than at any time previous, declaring that the very men who back the arbitration treaties so enthusiastically would be the* first to repudiate them the minute that some thing for which they care was Involved In dispute. In Mr. Roosevelt’s first letter he ex plains to Millard J. Bloomer, secretary of the executive committee of the New York Peace society, why he could not attend the banquet at the Waldorf- Astoria hotel In this city tonight, at which President Taft will be the guest of honor, and attacks President Taft’s abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with Russia and the pending arbitration treaties. All the correspondence that passed between Mr. Roosevelt and the promoters of the peace dinner was made public at the demand of the for mer to show why he refused to attend the dinner. It was at first reported that the letters would* be read at the banquet, but In the Interest of har mony thla plan wag changed and the letters were given out by Mr. Bloomer. Mors War Than Peace. "It looks more like war than peace,' was Mr. Bloomer's comment when he gave out tho correspondence. He then commented at some length on the fric tion within the pface committeo Itself, likening the members to two packs of wolves warily watching each other and fearing what the other might do. There ore two distinct factions within It, ho said, one being led by Andrew Carnegie. According to his version, the Carne gle element fear the springing of i political boom by the other side at the banquet tonight, while.the other fac tion would not be surprised by any at tempts by the opponents of the com mittee to give a strong Indorsement of President Taft, his 'treaties, and his policies In general. What Roosevelt Says. In setting forth his position on tho peace question, Mr. Roosevelt Says un dcr date of December 6: "For Instance. If you people propose to support the arbitration treaties un amended, Why, I think you' are not merely wrong, but that you are engaged In what Is essentially an unworthy and however unconsciously a hypocritical move against the Interest of peace and against the honor and Interest of the t'nlted States nnd of civilization. "Upholders of the unamended treaties have occupied two positions utterly un- compatlble. They first of all announced that we would arbitrate everything, -von questions of national honor and national Interest; then Immediately when a political question came up they announced that they did not Intend to arbitrate such matters as the Monroe doctrine principle or the Immigration of Asiatics or the validity of bonds and so forth. "Hypocrisy never pays and to .an nounce In the treaties that we Intend to arbitrate everything when no human being that has sense Imagines that this, country would arbitrate everything. Is lo put us In a position of revolting duplicity. "If we mean what Is now said, for in stance, by supporters of the unamended treaties, namely, that we do not Intend 'o arbitrate the Monroe doctrine and similar questions of government policy, 'hen we should make the assertion dearly in the treaty and not put on an appearance of shuffling and double- dealing. As a nation we should not make a promise which wc have not the ►lightest Intention of keeping. "If we do not mean what we say In ’no unamended treaty, then It ought mit to be ratified. But If .we do mean " hat we say, then still less ought It to >>e ratified.” The colonel goes on to explain that ”* l« against President Taft’s arbitra t'd! plan because It would put him In a rendition of "hypocritical Insincerity.” Attacks New York Times. Mr. Roosevelt then attacks The New York Times, declaring that It showed 'ts Insincerity by supporting both the arbitration trestles and the abrogation “‘the Russo-American treaty of 1832. Now, If you do not believe the quea- JJJhs I have named (the Monroe doc trine, Russian passports, immigration and the validity of state bonds),’’ con- 'tnued Colonel Roosevelt, "Should be arbitrated, then you occupy an Improp er, and from a national standpoint, a dishonorable position if you desire to “C" these treaties ratified without be ing amended. On the other, hand. If Jmi believe In arbitrating all questions n ‘ national honor and interest. Includ es the Monroe doctrine, the Jewish nassport question, the immigration of Asiatics and .the question of state minds, then you are justified in wishing ’> bass the treaties as they atand; altho m such s case I think that you occupy v »ry foolish and dishonorable pool- NEAR CLUTCHES OF Police to Demand of Carter Tate Prosecutions of Out-of State Whisky Shippers, HUGH ROBINSON. Former Atlantan whose elopement this week with Miss Margaret Brown, a Philadelphia heiress, was exclusively related by The Georgian Friday. He Is a brother of Roby Robinson and has hundreds of friends In Atlanta. $78,965,000 GAIN'IS MADE IN CLEARINGS Remarkable Activity of Atlanta Business During 1911 Is Shown in Figures. The remarkable progress of Atlanta during the year just ending may be well seen In the Atlanta clearing house receipts for the year, 3853,130,420.85, an Increase of 378,8(5,603.58 over last year, when the receipts were 3574,164,918.77. The receipts for each month in 1911 have been greater than those of the same month in 1910. The December, 1911. receipts announced Saturday are 374,067,416.01, a targe Increase over De cember, 1910, when the receipts were 369,014,657.18. The clearing house receipts for the present week have been 312,962,978.73. The receipts- for the same week last year were 112.013,085.22. ' * Dividends Paid Next Week. Distribution of approximately 31,000,- 000 In dividends by Atlanta corporations will be the New Year presents for the' stockholders of the big companies here, and tho great majority of them have enjoyed a most prosperous year. During the week the seven banks composing the Atlanta Clearing House association alone have-declared divi dends aggregating 3231,000, which are to be distributed next week. Six per cent dividends have been the order with them. Scores of smaller corporations, ... eluding the other banks not in the clearing house association, will hand out earnings to their stockholders, Atlanta banks have enjoyed a pros perous year. Their deposits and loans are much heavier than this time last year, and all have enjoyed Increased business. Several new banks have been organized nnd placed In the field. They will have their annual meetings the second week In January, and It Is tipped that In several lnatances there are to be aubztantlal Increases In capi tal stock and surplus fund. < . GRIFFIN MILL SPINDLES TO WHIRL AGAIN SOON SAY “DUMMIES” GET IT Detectives State That Revenue Collector Won’t Let Them See Record of Licenses. Police officials started a movement Saturday morning, following the trial In police court Friday afternoon of Dan Shaw, "the blind tiger king," which will probably result in wholesale In dictments by the Federal grand jury against big liquor houses In Chatta nooga, Jacksonville and other placee that ship liquor into Atlanta. This ac tion Is based on the declaration that the United States liquor laws are being vlo. luted by the consignment of whisky to fictitious clubs and fictitious persons. Recorder Broyles held a conference Saturday morning with Chief Lanford of the detective department, advising him to take up the matter at once with City Attorney Mayson and United States District Attorney Carter Tate, with the view of interesting the govern ment authorities In the blind tiger sit uatlon In Atlanta and obtaining Fed eral action. Judge Broyles suggests that the "United States authorities should take a hand, as he la satisfied the Federal laws are being flagrantly violated. The stopping of this shipment of wholesale quantities of liquor to fake clubs and fictitious persons would be a stunning blow to the blind tiger busi ness,” says Judge Broyles. "If the Federal laws are being violated, tho Continued on Pago Ton. "Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the Christian. Just chosen as president of the new republlo of China, Is the most remarkable character today In all the world, and the movement In China to freedom is the most remarkable the earth has ever known since the days of tho apos tles,” said Dr. Den G. Broughton Sat urday. Ho ts to dis cuss this vital man and his revolution ary work at the Baptist Tabernacle on Sunday night. “While In Eng land I was given opportunity to leant tho history of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and this fact stands out most Interestingly: That back In tho nineties while work ing with heart and soul to stir up this revolution, he was kidnaped In London, at the Instance of the Chinese legation. ‘For a number of day* he disap peared as If the earth had swallowed him up. Nothing was heard of him. One day Just as the Chinese govern ment agents were getting ready to send him back to China so as to obtain the 360,000 reward the government had offered for his head, the miraculous happened, "A servant entered the room, where he was confined to obtain a coal scuttle that contained waste paper. Dr. Sun Yat Sen dropped a note into tho coal scuttle addressed to the public, telling of hts capture, confinement and the purposes of hla captors. He waa pos sessed with the desperate hope that some one might find the note. And when the servant emptied the waste Continued on Page Ten, Creditors Who Bought Them in Are Organizing Company to Start Up Operations. When Mr. Bloomer noticed. In look- ,n g at the list of the peace dinner com mute, as It stood on December 1, that the name of Colonel Rooeeveit Was hilsslng. he wrote to the latter and «k»d whether the ex-president was .'"ling to be a member of the commit tee If he sb. asked. The lengthy let- Continued on Page Ten. Forty-six creditors of the three cot ton mills at Griffin, recently purchased by them at bankrupt sale for 3168,000, are now reorganizing the trio of milln Into the Georgia Manufacturing Com pany-, and will operate them. A meeting of the syndicate of cred itors, many of them representing At lanta Interests, will be held here about the middle of next week to complete the organization. The mills at Griffin are known Indi vidually as the Spalding. Boyd and Mangham, and Central mills. Since their purchase, the Atlanta creditors In charge have employ ed an expert who carefully Inspected the mills, placed a valuation on them and made a detailed report bb to the amount of money necessary for their repair and Improve ment. It Is believed that they will be started up within the nest 60 .days. At present the three mills have 33,000 spindles, valued at 322 per spindle, tho entire property being worth about 3700,000. BANKS AND INSURANCE BREAK YEAR’S RECORD During 1911, 90 banks were chartered In Georgia, against 62 in 1911. a gaini of 28 for the year. The majority of the banks chartered were In country towns and ranged from 325.000 to 350.000 lu capital, the lower predominating. Fifteen Insurance companies, equally divided between the old line and the mutual type, were chartered,by the sec- retan' of atate and approved by the comptroller general durintlOll. This is four more than were orftinlzed dur ing 1910. The Insurance companies were: National Home Fire, Middle Georgia Live Stock, Empire Life, Put nam County .Mutual, Piedmont Life, Dallas Mutual, Oglethorpe Fire, Stand ard Life, Untied Homes, National As surance, 8avannah'Fire, Inter-South ern, American Life and Annuity, Cot ton States and Georgia Fire. So Reports Chamber of Com merce After Investigation of Atlanta Postoffice.' SERVICE NOT PERFECT ONE Recommended That Officials Put in Improvements and the Public Try to Help. Without condemning or exonerating the service at the local postoffice the committee appointed by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to Investigate the alleged deficiencies In mall service at the Atlanta postofflee says the blame of the present postal conditions to the campaign of economy now being waged by the ] postofflee department. Thla economy, they say In their report, haa gone td the extent of crippling the service in some cases and Is the real cause of delay to mall transmission In thla section of the country- The committee has divided the report into two principal subdivisions—the handling of the inatl locally after tt reaches the postofflee, and, secondly, the transportation or the mails to and from the city thru what ts known as the railway mall service. The committee finds that 330,000 pieces of mall matter reach the post- office dally thru carrier collections and drop letters at the building. Probably 70 to 85 per cent of this Is received be tween 6 p. m. and 9 p. m., the bulk around 7. p. m. This practice' of ac cumulating mall that Is written during the day and posting It at the end of the day’s work, causes a tremendous con gestion of mall matter, which brings about mare or less delay In the expedi tion of same. For'this reason the committee sug gests that if possible there should be a greater concentration of clerical force on the sorting of mall during tills period of grdat congestion. They ulso suggest that the business people of the city who produce a great amount of mall during the day should make from two to four “clean-ups” of their moil matter during the day and get as much as possible Into the postofflee by 4 o’clock. . ... Back-Stamping Urged. The committee made personal Inves tigations of the service, at the local postofflee, disregarding outside com plaints of service. Many delays of mall were noted, and after due considera tion the opinion has been reached that the only way to fix the responsibility for these delays Is to resort to back- stamping the letters. The committee found that Postmaster McKee had Inaugurated mall service in many parts of the city which he Is not compelled to do under regulations of the department. The attention of the Atlanta city council Is called to streets which arc given service, despite the fact that sidewalks are not laid. Thru Investigation of postofflee con ditions In Nashville. Birmingham and Indianapolis, the committee has come to the conclusion that the Atlanta post- office Is better equipped to serve the people than are those of the cities men. tinned. . " ' The committee recommends that con cerns who produce a great amount of mall during the day place stamps In the right-ham! corner and tie mall In bundles ami deliver in that manner to Continued on P*g« Ten. AWAKENING OF YOUNG CHINA SPRINGS THREE STORIES HERE Kidnaping of Sun Yat Told by Lee Hand Goes Back to See Dr. Broughton. New Republic. Atlanta ChineseGive Funds to Pay For Liberty. Few Americans who have read the press reports of the awakening of China, and the establishment of a re public there to replace the Manchu dynasty, which has oppressed the native Chlneee for the past 267 years, realise how much the Chlneee of this country have had to do with the success of that movement. The Chlneee who have staid at home Continued on Page Ten. FROM “LITTLE MISSY’S” GRAVE OLD “AUNTIE” GOES TO DEATH Annie Manley, Servant to Dozen Governors and Afterward a Maid to Mrs. Draper, Falls Dead After Putting Her Last Flowers Upon the Tomb of Her Beloved Mistress. Lee Hand, well educated Chi. noman, who has frequently been Interviewed for Atlanta papers, left on Tuesday to go back to Can- ton, China, and marry the wife bis father picked out for him. Lee's return to China may be taken SB a good basis of what Amorfcan Chlneee think of the eta- bllity of the new government. A Bhort time ago, when Leo was telling a Georgian representative hla proposed trip to China to get his bride, he said positively that he would not go back until things be. came settled the empire. Now the fact that he has gone In the belief that China Is ready to sottle down at peace, with no more fighting, coroborates what local Chinese have to say about their belief In the new re public. Lee Hand Is an American bom China man and only as a little boy spent sev eral years In China. He was educated In the public schools of New York city and speaks and writes English as flu ently as a native. His father, who lived here many years, went back ten years ago to become a professor In the Unl- veraltyof Canton, and recently wrote hie son that he had (elected a wife for him and that he must come over and marry her. Lee expected when ho loft here to spend at least two yean getting acquainted with bis relatives In China and at the end of that time, as he Is an American bora citizen, will bring hla wife back to Atlanta with him. TAX TO ATLANTA IS Value of Franchise, a Gift From the City, Is Deducted From Income Tax. GROWS LESS EACH YEAR Statistics Collected by Council Members, Who Will Try to Find a Remedy. Tottering home after pla/lng, flowers on the grave of "Little Missy,” • upon the first anniversary of her death, An nie Manley, an old colored woman who, from the time of Governor McDaniel until the flrBt administration of Gov ernor Smith, had been a maid at the governor’s mansion, dropped dead Fri day afternoon as she entered the home of Jesse and Wallace Draper, 24 Cone at, where she had been employed since the ending of her duties at the govern, oris mansion. Wltn the death of the old woman one more of the good ante-bellum darkles has vantshed. “Little Missy” was the late Mrs. Emma Draper, and the old negro woman had known and watched over her since she was a child. Tee alius got ter be lookin' arter dese here governors,” she would tell Mrs. Draper, "but If eber deah can do wld out me, I’se cornin’ right to you.” But Annie never had the chance to come until the election of Governor Smith. With each succeeding governor she had been passed over as part atftl parcel of the governor’s mansion. Gov ernor Smith, however, brought with him hts own household servants, nnd Annie, finding herself for tho first time out of employment, turned ■ to Mrs. Draper. To her Mrs. Draper was always “Lit tle Missy,’’ and Mrs. Draper's two sons ere always "de chlllen.” A Promise to “Little Missy.” Just before Mrs. Draper died, old An nie came to her and, with tears run ning down her cheeks, promised always to take care of ”de chlllen." "Dey’s never goln' ter need fer any thing, ‘Little Missy,’” she said. “Jos doan you worry, l’se goln’ ter take care ub dem.” Then Mrs. Draper died, and old An nie fulfilled her pledge. She would mend their clothing and elt up and wait far them when they were out at night. She felt that she must take “Little Missy's” place and ”de chlllen" wore always uppermost In her thoughts. But she didn't forget vuttle Missy.' Once a week she would go to the ceme tery where Mrs. Draper was burled ami would place flowers on the grave and see that It was kept In good condition and green. . Friday was the first anniversary of Mrs. Draper's death. Altho the weatli. er was very cold and Annie had been sickly of late, she Insisted that she must go to the cemetery. "rise Jes’ got ter go,” she sold, and with a basket of flower* under her arm she departed. She returned In the afternoon. None saw her'us she climbed the porch steps, but a thud ns she fell brought another servant rushing. to her side. Medical attention was;hurriedly.summoned,..but the old negro woman waa dead before aid could reach her. -It Is believed that ahe died of apo plexy, brought on by the exertion which she subjected herself to In going to the cemetery. She will be buried In Cuth- belt, Ga.,' where relatives live. PINK EYE SETS ATLANTANS TO WEEPING PAINFUL TEARS Atlanta Company Encroached Upon Nashville Ground First. Now It's War to Finish. WOODRUFF DISCUSSES IT The Georgian’s Exclusive Story Causes the Public to Hope for Price Competition. Atlanta Is In the grip of the Koch Weeks bacillus, whose manifestation Is commonly known as "pink eye," a smarting. Irritating, linbeautlful, ca tarrhal affection of the eye. Eye specialists *ntl over the town have been busy for the past two weeks tending the Inflamed lamps of Atlan tans, high and low, who are victims of the epidemic which began with the re cent damp, warm weather and Is now raging vigorously. “Pink eye” Is catching, to uso the street term so frowned on by physi cians It has In several cases been known to have closed schools and put serious crimps in church attendance. Not more than twelve months, ago the Virginia Military institute, that famoua Institu tion of learning In classic Lexington, closed Its portals because “pink eye got the better of a large number of the students. „ , . While no city Is ever free from pink eye,” the Koeh-Weeks bacillus, the germ of the disease; named In honor of two New York phyelillane who have made a careful study of the disease, Is most prevalent in damp.'wsrm weath er. The stuff that has had .Atlanta by the throat for the past two weeks and Is called weather for.cqnventlon’s sake, or for wapt of a better name, is just the atmosphere that the "pink eye” germ delights in. Everybody knows what “pink eye”. Is and few there are who have not had it or will not If the present epidemic keeps up. “Pink ■ eye," according to the best physician*, is a misnomer. It Ih really a catarrhal- affection of the eye. The eye smarts and has a tenden cy to close, with matter at the edges of the lids. The disease usually lasts about a week or ten days and ts not considered serious hy physicians. That It ts Ir ritating and decidedly unsightly many Atlantans, especially feminine Atlan tans, can testify. PANAMA CANAL TO OPEN FOR TRAFFIC JUNE, 1913 S. C.. Dec. SO.—The housk. port canal affair* In fine shape with ev- , ‘EL*7‘iV„* nf:!h , . 0r rmm Pam ?hlp I^Kne. j! Charleston, mere* arrived' here" last night from Psa erne on the Cristobal. . Chairman VI. C. Adamson, of Georgia. Judge Gilbert end Congressman Hardwick left the party last night, going to August*. Tho house member* went to Inspect canal work for legislative action later. According to Congressman Hamlin, water III flood Culehra cut In two or three months. He believe* toll should he charg ed at the rate of 31 a ton for foreign ship* at least. The caul commission is age Inal allowing resident* between the lock* «»- eeptlng employees. The congressmen re* This commission will recommend legislation and haa made Aaal inspection Notices of Sunday Ser vices in Atlanta churches appear on page 17. The latest news developments In the entrance of the 35,000,000 Southern Ice Company into Atlanta and the territory of the Atlantic Ice and Coal Corpora tion Is that it is a retaliatory move ment on the part of the Nashville cor poration, because of the announcement made by the Atlanta company three months ago that It proposed to build a plant In Nashville and enter the field there. And tt ts asserted as a matter of fact by Atlanta capitalists that tho Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation Is the aggressor, the other company being strictly on the defensive. The Georgian’s exclusive story Fri day of the purchase of the three At lanta plants by the Southern Ice Com pany was the chief matter of comment In financial circles. The remarkable stride forward of the Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation dur ing the past year under the aggressive management of President Ernest Woodruff has been the wonder of fin anciers in the South. In his. plans for enlargements and improvements he an nounced in The Georgian last fall that his corporation would go Into the Nashville field. When asked Saturday as to the meaning of the Southern Ice Company’s entrance Into this territory, Mr. Woodruff deprecated the rumors of a battle for supremacy between the two corporations. He said; “So far as I know, there will be no battle for supremacy, and I hope there will not be. The customers Of our com pany understand and appreciate the fact that the Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation has served them Ice at about 26 per cent less in price than the Eastern cities enjoy. “I am not advised of any intention toward an Ice war, but if it should come, the Atlantic Ice and Coal Cor poration will meet any competition.” It is announced that the Southern Ice Company is going Into Chattanooga, Montgomery, Columbus, Pensacola and Knoxville, besides the Nashville and Atlanta fields. It only meets the At lanta company at Atlanta, Chattanooga and at Columbus, If the latter deal eventuates. SHUSTER HAS PROMISED EXPOSE OF TREATMENT Tsharan, Persia, Dee. 30.—W. Morgan Shuster, the young American, whose ap pointment as treasurer general of Per sia ha* brought about the disruption of the nation hy Russia and Great Britain, today promised a complete expose of the treatment accorded this country by those two powers. Mr. Khuater declared that there Is no hope for the future end he charged Great Britain with secretly fos tering the attacks made by Russia. Statistics collected by clerks In the tax office for certain members of coun cil show that the Georgia Railway and Electric Company pays a smaller gross Income tax, a tax that the city prides Itself on, than It did five years ago, tho the gross Income of tho company has greatly Increased nnd the city Is still supposed to get two per cent of It as a special tax. Tho largest amount received by the city from this source was In 1906, and was 330,984.46. In 1907 the city re ceived only 320,076.06; in 1908. 319,- 881.28; In 1909, 325,002.93. and-In 1910, 328,247.83. The amount for 1911 will not be determined until February. Thla Is due to the fact that a state law provides that all franchise taxes shall bo deducted from gross Income taxes. While the gross Income of the company has greatly Increased, the value of franchises—given by the city— has Increased at a more rapid rate. The one and one-quarter mills tax on the valuation of franchises being de ducted from tho two per cent tax on the gross Income, the city thus has Its Income materially reduced, and It la pointed out by members of council that conditions might arise wnere the fran chise taxes would exceed tho income tax and the city would thus get no In come tax. Council has protested against this condition In .the past and members of council, who say they do not wish to he quoted until the new council commit tees have been nppolntcd and they know Just what their official duties wi'1 be, say they will make a vigorous flg.it to have the law changed or set aside by the,, courts next year. Made Contract With City. It was under a contract with the cltv when the street railways were consoli dated that the Georgia Railway and Electric Company agroed to pay, a gross Income tax, one per cent for th'o first two years, two per cent for the noxt twenty years and so on In a grad uated scale. The company was to also pay all ad valorem taxes, bridge rent als and paving assessments. Only .spe cific occupation, license, excise ami spe cial franchise taxes were to no deducted from tho grata Income tax. Members of council say that the valuation of the company'a street franchises Is an ad valorem tax. But after this contract wae made, the general assembly passed a law, known as the "Simmons bill,’’ Which requires that all franchise taxes be subtracted from the gross Income taxes. This takes more than one-hnlf of the special revenue from the city which It was expected would be secured when the Georgia Railway and Electrlo Company was granted Its franchises its a merged corporation. A Club Over the City. The project of the city building its own electric power plant Is now gen erally discussed among members of council. But this same contract with tho Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany provides that should the city ever bund a plant In competition with the Georgia Rullway and Electric Com pany, It will lose all of the gross Income tax. Certain members of council h;t\» begun an Investigation of the gross In come tax. and they say, as It stands now. Its loss would be Inconsiderable should the city decide to build Its own plant. But should the city make no such move, members of council stato that It Is a grave Injustice for the city not to receive the amount of taxes originally contemplated In the contract with the Georgia Railway and Electric Company. In 1906 the 2 per cent gross Income tax amounted to 346,436.32. Tho oc cupation tax and sanitary taxes amounted to 3498.80, being practically the same every year. The franchise taxeB collected amounted to 314.953.16. The last two added together amount to 315,4(1.96. Subtracted from the gross Income tax, leaves 330,984.36 as the amount received by the city. In 1907 tho 2 per cent would have amount ed to 353,177.45. but the 333,101.39 de ductions left only 320,076. In 1908 the 2 per cent tax would have amounted to 153,560.82, but the deductions pulled t down to 319,861.28. In 1909 the 2 per cent tax would have amounted to : 169,099.08, but the city only collected 326,000. In 1910 the gross Income tax' would hove reached 365,000. but the city only got 328,000. But the valuation of franchises has Increased from 3793,700 In 1903 to 33,- 132,350 In 1911. It ts obvious that every dollar of In crease in franchise taxes reduces the Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany's Income tax one dollar. If the two taxes Increased at the same ratio, the city's Income from the income tax would never Increase, no matter how large the gross Income became. FEWER ARRESTS MADE BY POLICE THIS YEAR Up to noon Saturday, with still one day and a half to go. the city caset made by the police for this year wen 810 less than the total number for last, year. The number that will be made t< .Sunday midnight Is not expected to ex. ceed 100. The total will show a hi; decrease In fuvor of thla year. The cases to noon totaled 14,96' The grand total for last year was 15, 771 The state cases n will also run conslde year.