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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. lATUItDAY, PEPTKMBKR 22. HOC. OF SAYS ONE IN JAIL IS NOT ASSAILANT PEOPLE RALLY TO A r.egro, who on Thunday morning worked (or about two hours on the home of Frasier Morgan, In Oakland City. I* now being sought (or as the man who assaulted Mrs. John A. Kim ball later that same day. He asked Mr. Morgan for work about 3 o'clock In the morning and was put to split ting stovewood. After working about sn hour he quit and left without ask Ing for pay or anything to eat, going In the direction of the Kimball home. Charlie Clayton was released from the Tower Friday evening. He had been held since Friday night, but Mrs. Kimball said after one look at him that he was not the right man. The man who had been working for Mr. Morgan Is believed to have come to his place for the same purpose which he afterwards accomplished at the Kimball home. On account of, the presence of a negro woman servant In the house and a negro man working for A. P. Morgan In the yard next door he realised, however, that he had no op portunlty for the crime and left He was dressed just as described by Mrs. Kimball In blue army trousers and a khaki coat was very black and had his hair closely clipped. This Is ex- sctly the description furnished by the victim of the assault. It Is said that the same negro was recently on the chalngang for several months. For the last week or two he has been hanging around Oakland City and vicinity, part of the time being en gaged In helping haul wood from the woods near the Kimball home. The county police are Dretty certain they have this man located and hope to arrest him within a few hours. Judge Andy Calhoun Is doing his part toward getting .rid of the Idle class to whom these crimes are at tributed by sending every person, white and black, on whom a vagrancy charge Is proved, to the chalngang for twelve months, without the option of paylnr a fine. During the past week severa have gone to the gang on this charge each day. TILLMAN IS ASKED TO AT BIG CONVENTION It Is probable that Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, will be one of the speakers at the banquet to be given October 35 In honor of the Carriage Builders' Association. Com munications urging the acceptance of the Invitation have been sent the dis tinguished South Carolinian by Gov ernor Terrell and Mayor Woodward. The banquet will be one of the larg' ost affairs. If not the largest, ever given In Atlanta oa there will be 3,000 dele Kates ,tp th,e Joint convention of the Carriage'' Builders' National Associa tion. A. G. Brunsender, of Cincinnati, president of the Southern Vehicle As sociation; Lucius Gregory, of Chase City, Va., president, and the National Farm W>gon Association; Max Robin son, of Marllngsburg, West Va, presl dent. The other speakers who have been Invited to address the association on the evening of the 16th are Hoke Smith, John Temple Graves and Lucius Gregory. Secretary Elliott Dunn, of the At lanta Vehicle Club, who has worked unceasingly for the past two months In arranging ths big convention has com pleted the program. It Is at follows: October 33, 10:30 A. M.—Meeting called to order In agricultural building, riedmont park. Address of welcome by Governor Terrell and reply by Sam D. Jones, on behalf of the Atlanta Ve hicle Club. In the afternoon, 4:30 o'clock. Joint meeting of the three as sociations. In the evening, 3:30 o’clock reception at the Kimball House In hon or of the three presidents and their wives. October 34, 10:30—Business meeting. At the same hour there will be a trol lev ride for the ladles and escorts. A 4:30 a reception on roof of the Candler building. In the evening, 8:30, grounds nt Piedmont Park will be opened and the public Invited to Inspect the ex hibits of the associations and to par ticipate In the music and other features furnished. October 35, 10:30 o'clock—Business meeting. 1:30, barbecue at Piedmont Park. 8, theater party to the ladles land escorts. Banquet at the Kimball. The banquet will he the annual affair "f the kind, and If It la found Impossi ble to arrange for sufficient seating ca pacity at the Kimball, will he given at the skating rink at Ponce DeLeon. October 36—Trip to Palmetto, where the cotton fields will be shown to the delegates and where refreshments will be served! AND NOT PARDON .Ww York, Sept. 22.—The American print* an Interview with Albert T Patrick, condemned to death a* the ,la ><r of Millionaire William Rice, in J'hlch the prisoner Intimates that he J ,,<s n*t care for a pardon, but wants Vindication. Patrlfck says he would t-itiKr rite in the electric chair than l, rve a term under sentence. T Hon Int, ( >noiulu, Hppt. 22.—Three hundred ; ,n d dollars Is the amount demand- ! *»y the Pacific Commercial Cable because Its steamer, the Re ed the disabled Manchuria i"ft. An attachment was taken j OPLIGHTING PLANTS Continusd from Pegs One. ‘‘Work For This Movemsnt.' Judge George Hillysr, ths pioneer mu nicipal ownership advocate In Atlanta, said: * '•I made a carefully prepared addrese before the chamber of commerce In a debate specially called and held to dis cuss municipal ownership about eight years ago. If I do sajr It myself, the ar gument has never been answered and never can be. This I am proud to say was, as l think, the pioneer movement In favor of municipal ownership In our city. Experience justifies the remark that the argument never has been answered and never can be success fully. ''I have repeated fhe argument on various occasions, notably at Mercer University and again before the Na tional Municipal League In Detroit. There is great comfort to all people who love our, city In the belief that these opinions now almost universally prevail. “Our city once voted In a primary by over 5,000 majority In favor of Atlanta erecting and operating an electric light plant of her own; but such were the adverse Influences that nothing came of It. "It Is greatly to be hoped that the movement In favor of both an electric light plant and a gas plant owned by the city has now received such over whelming favor that nothing can stop "Let everybody put personal ambi tion to the rear and right-minded men come to the front on the basis of an honest desire to benefit, not themselves, but the public and give this additional priceless heritage to our children and our children's children. Let us love this good work because It Is good, and because It Is good work for It. If It needs be make sacrifices for It, not for any offices we are going to get or any rewards we may hope for only that of an approving conscience and the Just approval of upright and honorable men. These rewards are worth more than diamonds or gold and nowhere In our times have they come In sight more plainly than now held out In this Is- suo for attainment by men who love their city and state. Yes, I am In favor of forming a mu- Ipal ownership league and will glad- joln such an organisation when properly set on foot and organised on the basts proposed os I understand It.” From COURTLAND 8. WINN. "The city of Atlanta can, and should, own and operate Its own gas and elec trie lighting plant. The city should ap point a commission composed of mem bers qt the general council, charged with the duty of Investigating thor oughly the practicability of installing and operating these plants. The com mission should employ a practical ex pert engineer, who should report to this commission plans and cost of construc tion. From Information acquired as member of the general council of the years 1902-'08, and as a member of the electric -lighting committee for said years, I am convinced that the city should build these plants, even If to do so should require a bond Issue to raise the money necessary to equip and operate such plants. I believe n close, careful Investigation of the matter will demonstrate that It will be good busi ness policy and a matter of genuine economy to Issue bonds to raise funds for this purpose, and that the saving In the cost of municipal lighting alone, until the maturity of the bonds, will bo a sum sufficient to go a long way to ward, If not completely, paying the bonds at maturity. A great many of the needs for operating such plants are already In the city's possession and control—conduits are now In the streets and controlled by the city. The city owns the Lakewood or old water works property, where there Is already a water power that could be utilised to generate electricity. If this should not be sufficient, the power at the present 'waterworks station on the Chattahoochee could be used for this purpose. The time seems auspicious :'or municipal ownership of gus and electric lighting plants In Atlanta and I believe the general council will find the way to put It In practical opera tion.” Will Give Tim* and Money, T am glad The Georgian has taken up this fight. It Is something that must come. We must have It. I am with the movement and the league heart and soul, and will give both my time and money toward It." This coming from L. J. Daniel, presl dent of Daniel Brothers' Company, 45 Peachtree street, and one of the most prominent merchants In Atlanta, sounded encouraging, but not half as encouraging as the rest of what Mr. Daniel had to say on the subject. I am not carried sway by munici pal ownership through any sudden de cision,’ said Mr. Daniel, "but have ad vocated It for years. I have attempted to get two other papers In the city to take the matter up. but because of their policy they have hung back. "I am not against capital. I am not In politics, and don’t aspire to office, so I have no axe to grind, but let me say that this matter of paying an enormous per cent on etock, watered all out of proportion, Is something we should not stand for. It Is all right to pay a reas onable per cent on the capital Invested, but so long as public utilities are In the hands of private concerns we will never do this. I do not criticize the men who gave away the franchises to They gave these so-called perpetual franchises many years ago. It was necessary then, but now that the com panies have made money on their In vestment and have had everything their way for years, Atlanta should again take In her hands what Is her own.' I am sure a Just and equitable arrange ment can be found for the taking over not only of the gas and electric light plants but the street railway system as well. I see no reason for halting at this last proposition, nt Atlanta’s great resources and brilliant future abund antly Justify her In doing so. "I wish I had lime right now to go Into the discussion of the matter but I have not. I feel the need of municipal owner ship so strongly and have felt it for years that I am willing to help In ev ery manner I can. and If any money Is needed for printing or anything like that I am ready to give |100 right now to start on." Press Huddleston Talks. Press Huddldstnn. councilman-elect from the Second ward, said he was for municipal ownership and believed It should be put to a vote. I am somewhat of the opinion that ■'« nnd the vessel Is being held by an "• ® m somewhat el me opinion mm Auurican officer. * lit Is a matter which ought to be sub- B B=, & U '<$ TT This is what Great- Great Grandpa used. When going to bed at night. And Great Granaiather, he used this And thought ’twas some thing tight. Grandfather had an old gas jet, And said it was out of sight. Inverted light Never Vexes you. Every cept Refunded To you when Ever it Disappoints you. Lindsay Inverted Gas light; Here Tis. MANUFACTURING AGENTS. We Make a Specialty of Repairing all Kinds of GAS LIGHTS. The electric current gavei out on Pa And left him in a deuce of aj plight. T W E & Now there is nothing so bright, or pretty or neat As the Lindsay Inverted Gas Light. WELSBAGH-LINDSAY, INVERTED GAS LIGHT, LIGHTING SUPPLIES, ETC. Atlanta Phone 609. Bell Phone 1327. 26 So'ith Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. Phone Message Brings Our Repair Man. mlttted to the people themselves. They can generally be trusted on any prop osition of this kind,” said Mr. Hud dleston. "Personally I favor municipal ownership of such utilities as gns and electric light plants. If they are good Investments for private parties. It cer tainly seems a good business proposi tion for the city to own Its own plants, and save to the taxpayers the proflt It surely pays to private companies. S< far as Atlanta Is concerned It seems u question of how and when. I believe, though, that that question can be easily solved. I think some practical, feasible jdnn^should be figured out by the city council, acting perhaps with a commit tee of some of our best cltlxens, In which the cost to the taxpayers should be made clear, and then submit the mattter to the voters. 'So far as I am concerned I fnvor municipal ownership, but 1 would like to hear from the voters on the question, as the city council Is there to serve the people." "In the Interest of <h* People.' Thomas H. Goodwin said: "There will be no trouble In getting several thousand strong men as mem bers of the League—men who will tuke an active part In tt\e fight for mu nicipal ownership which The Georgian has taken up. “In my opinion and In the opinion of many other attorneys, the Atlanta Gaa Light t'ompany'a franchise has explr- The first move which should be made Is to Investigate this franchise through the courts. The company Is worth $2,600,000. The actual Invest ment Is worth less than 1600,000 and the remaining 12,000,000 stands for the franchise. If this portion belongs to the peqple of Atlanta they should take '* "If the company really owns Its fran chise why should It be afraid of a legal Inquiry Into the matter? if It does not then let the public have that which would ensue If the city authorities were vested with the power to grant or with hold this franchise. "I do not think this Is a time for asking concessions; hut It Is a time to exnmlne Into the status and the right of all parties. It would be a distinct absence of dignity on the part of At lanta to regulate a corporation which, perhaps, has no right of operation. •'For the last ten years the Georgia Bailway and Electric Company has put men In the field and tried to elect thetr men by contributing campaign funds. For the past four years the company has taken a decided stand to elect men looking after the Interests of the com- nany. Now the time ha* come to put an end to this and let tho city be run In the Interest of the people. The Mu nicipal Ownership League will make this possible, so let us have It. Join the Municipal Ownership League. Enroll yourself as one of those who want to help the city. Your name added to the list will Influence some one else to Join. Take up your duty of citizenship. CUp out the blank and send to The Georgian. BRING HEAVY FINE FOR NEGRO YOUTH Was Heard to Make Insult ing Remarks About Young Lady. On the charge of making Insulting remarks about a young lady. Will Wil son, a negro youth employed In a bar ber shop at 160 Peters street, was Sat urday morning fined $25.76 each In two cases by Recorder Broyles. Witnesses, white men, testified they had heard the negro on two occasions talking disrespectfully of.the young lady as she passed the barber shop en route to her work. The negro denied he was guilty. John Goss, another negro, was lined $25.75 for cursing a small white boy. A negro woman wns one of the chief witnesses against Goss, testifying he used vile langusge toward the white boy. The arresting officer also slated he found an open knife In Goss' pocket. NSANITY EXPERTS EXAMINED T AMUSEMENTS \GRAND MATINEE TODAY—TONIGHT. THE AL G. FIELD GREATER MINSTRELS. «5 : PEOPLE 65 Ths Great Army of Funmaker* headed by PRE8S ELDRIDGE. Night, 25c to fl.OO. Matinee 25c to 75c. Sale now open. BIJOU TONIGHT — MATINEE TODAY. SPENCER & ACORN'S GREAT EMOtlONAL DRAMA, “A WIFE’S SECRET.” Nsxt Weak: ■HOW BAXTER BUTTED IN." “JAP-A-LAC.’ “Liquid Veneer,” ' cue” at the GEORGIA PAINT GLASS CO., *0 Peachtree. Wax- AND New York, Bept. 22.—Harry K. Thaw yielded to the entreatlea of his mother and the advice of his counsel today and submitted to bolng examined hy three alienists, who subjected him'to a va riety of tests for the purpose of de termining his sanity. District attorney will resist an at tempt to transfer the Thaw case to the supreme coprt. GUEST OF VARDAMAN Special tn The Georghra. Jackson, Miss, Bept. 22.—W. J, Bry an arrived In Jackson this morning at 6 o'clock and was met by a fair sized crowd at the union depot, who greeted him as he alighted from the train. He was taken tn charge hy a committee and escorted to the govern or's mansion, and will be the guest of Governor and Mrs. Vardaman while here. There are several thousand pen- pie In the city to hear him speak Jhls afternoon. He delivers his lecture, the ••Prince of Peace,” here tomorrow after noon at 4 o’clock. CASINO Special Attraction One Week, Starting Monday, 8spt. 24. HAMNET’S TRAINED BIRDS,'GEESE AND DOGS Every afternoon and night. Children 15c. Adulto 25c. THE GRAND Monday, Sept. 24 Sole t| VICTOR HERBERT 2 With Matinee Tuesday The Important Event JULIAN MITCHELL’S MAGNIFICENT . PRODUCTION From the Majestic Theater New YORK “WONDER LAND” 1 Book by GLEN MacD0N0U6H Authors of “BABES IN TOYLAND” BRILLIANT CAST OF SEVENTY HEADED BY LITTLE CHIP and MARY MARBLE EIGHT MARVELOU8 8TAQE PICTURE8. FIFTEEN MU8ICAL NUMBERS r CHALLENGE BEAUTY CHORU8 Prices: Matinee 25c to $1.00; Night 25c to $1.50. SALE NOW OPEN. VANDERBILT DATE FOR COMING WEEK Kpeclnl to Tho Ooorgfnn. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 22.—Vander bilt play* tho University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on November 3. The Commodore* succeeded In getting Wa bash to cancel the date they had with Vanderbilt for that Haturday. October 16 1* still open, but It looks ns though Mississippi will be here to play on the state fair grounds on that Haturday. CITY OF DECATUR, GA. $44,000.00 5 Per Cent Bonds. Ssal.d bids invited for part or all of issuo aggregating 544,000.00 of thirty yoor municipal goid bonds, validatod and incontootablo, denomination 5100.00, annual intarast 5 par cant, payable •smi-snnually. Certified chock payabls to tho under signed for 5 par cant of bid must as reserved to rsjoet any and all bids. B received up to noon, October 15, 1906, at tho Mayor's office. Information cheerfully furnished, Mark bids PROPOSAL FOR BONOS. J. A. MONTGOMERY. Mayor Decatur, Ga. WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, SEPT 26-27—MATINEE THURSDAY, A NOTABLE EVENT. JANE KENNARK IN CLYDE FITCH’8 MASTERPIECE, THE TOAST OF THE TOWN VIOLA ALLEN'S GREAT SUCCESS. A GREAT CA8T, INCLUDING CARL ANTHONY, LILLA VANE AND OTHERS. NIGHT, 25c TO 51.50; MATINEE, 25c TO $1.00 SALE OPENS MONDAY. * NEXT WEEK —Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday— VANCE A. SULLIVAN CO. Present tho Magnotio Young Star, SYDNEY TOLER AS BILLY BAXTER In the Massive and Most Pretentious Melo-Dramatic Comedy. HOW BAXTER BUTTED IN NEW IN THEME—INTENSELY INTERESTING ANO TRUE TO LIFE AND CHARACTERIZATION.