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THE ATLANT1AN
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Fourth National Bank
INVITES YOUR ACCOUNT
The service rendered its depositors by this bank
is thoroly accurate, competent and satisfactory.
Small accounts, as well as large ones, are given
careful and considerate attention.
Every department of banking is maintained
here, Commercial Accounts, Savings Accounts,
Foreign and Domestic Exchange, Safe Deposit
Vaults and Boxes, a Department exclusively for
Women.
CAPITAL .... $600,000.00
SURPLUS .... $780,000.00
We invite you to make the FOURTH
your banking home
JAMES W. ENGLISH, President.
JOHN K. OTTLEY, Vice-Pres. W. T. PERKERSON, Asst. Cashier
CHARLES I. RYAN, Cashier JAS. M. THOMAS, Asst. Cashier
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
railroad, built out from the mainland,
for 130 miles, through the waters of
the Atlantic ocean to Key West, by
means of a series of massive pier-and-
arch viaducts, constructed of re-en
forced concrete, rising thirty feet
above mean water level. The road
will link together the keys or islands,
some thirty in number, by means of
this series of colossal viaducts, some
of which are three to four miles in
length, and all of them over water
varying from three to thirty feet in
depth, thereby making Key West the
commercial outpost • of the country,
commanding the entrance to the Gulf
of Mexico, bringing Cuba within nine
ty miles of the great railway system
of 'the continent, and, in effect, pro-
jecting our entire railway system hun
dreds of miles nearer to the Panama
canal than any railway now existing.
The advantages which this marvelous
ocean highway is destined to afford
our commerce with Cuba and the
West Indies, as well as with Central
and South America, and (on the com
pletion of the Panama canal) with
that of the countries of the Orient, are
incalculable. In time of war, its
strategical importance as an army and
navy base, and its value as a base of
supplies, it would be difficult to exag
gerate.
In no other country would such a
project ever be thought of except as a
national undertaking. Nowhere does
history show a parallel to it as an in-
dividual enterprise. Only a country’s
strongest, most resolute men are ever
identified with great and difficult phys
ical undertakings of this character.
Unless a public benefactor like this is
for inscrutable reasons to be excluded
from consideration as unworthy of
recognition for this honor, I submit
that it is just that Henry M. Flagler's
name should be accorded its rightful
place in the galaxy of the “ten great
est Americans now living.”
T. P. HALLAND,
Manager Owls Club Ball.
AMERICANS IN THE MAK
ING?
Sceptical persons in the suburbs,
owners of property which depreciates
in value with every alien invasion,
who have been heard to wonder
whether Americans would ever assim
ilate, will feel a great weight lifted
when they read of a social event that
took place on Sunday in the Brighton
district. As the tale is briefly told,
| Mr. Sarkrysian invited a number of
t fellow-countrymen to dinner. Later
in the afternoon Mr. Brahmian, a
| guest, who had come all the way from
Watertown, requested a boy who was
W. W. ORR,
Secretary and Treasurer George
Muse Co., and One of Labor’s
Staunch Friends.
present to write a letter for him, and
proceeded to dictate assertions of his
own affluence and to cap them with
reflections on the financial standing
of certain other members of the race.
Evidently Mr. Brahmian had some par
ticular person in mind. Mr. Iscailian,
the boy’s father, felt sure of it, con
cluded that he was the person, and,
by way of upholding the honor of the
family, displayed a roll of bills. It
was, we infer, a substantial roll. Mr.
Brahmian, worsted in the argument,
picked up a chair and put it where
he thought it would do the most good.
Mr. Iscailian retorted with a knife.
The men were separated by police
men, probably singing, “My Country,
’Tis of Thee,” and a police surgeon
saved them to ornament our citizen
ship by dressing the scalp wounds of
one and the cuts of another.
Students of social economy will hail
this narrative with joy and thanksgiv
ing, since it proves that Mr. Brahmian
and his associates have already grasp
ed a great American principle, to wit,
that one should continually show his
roll, or at least proclaim it. The rule
underlies our whole social structure.
We obey it when we flaunt our neigh
bors with diamonds, automobiles, fine
houses, troops of servants, or almost
anything that we may have and they
are liable not to have—since of course
the essence of the whole performance
is the pleasure derived from odious
comparisons. It is not to Mr. Iscaili-
an’s discredit that he plays the game
clumsily, since he has not been long
in the country. Presently he will learn
that it is a little crude to exhibit one's
purse, and then he will content him
self with putting forward the things
that money can buy. But Mr. Bramian
has, it may be, already mastered the
moves. Apparently, he did not show
any money. He merely said he had
money. Great numbers of ingenious
persons live in luxury by pursuing
this method, which answers the main
purpose as well as any other method,
since it helps them to provoke the
envy of other persons—who have not
so much money, because they use it
to pay their bills. The display is the
essential thing. If one can secure it,
or even supplement it, by a “bluff,”
one is competent to teach American
ism to aliens who use the crude, com
plimentary weapons of knives and
kitchen chairs.
ROMAN CATHOLICS TOTAL
ONE-SIXTH OF U. S.
POPULATION.
Official Directory Shows 14,618,-
761 Enrolled in the Various
Churches in America.
According to the Wiltzius official
Catholic directory, which is in press
here, there are 14,618,761 Roman Cath
olics in the United States enrolled in
the various churches. This is practi
cally one-sixth of the total population
of continental United States.
According to the directory there are
17-084 Catholic priests and 13,461 par
ishes; 4,972 parochial schools have an
attendance of 1,270,131.
The Catholic population by States,
where the number is about 100,000 or
greater:
New York, 2,758,171; Pennsylvania,
1,527,239; Illinois, 1,446,400; Massachu
setts, 1,380,921; Ohio, 1,694,271; Louis-
ana, 557,431; Wisconsin, 540,956; Mich
igan, 536,107; New Jersey, 495,000;
Missouri, 452,703; Minnesota, 441,081;
California, 391,500; Connecticut, 378,-
854; Texas, 296,917; Maryland, 260,000;
Rhode Island, 251,000; Indiana, 223,-
978; Kentucky, 147,607; Iowa, 242,109;
New Mexico, 127,000; New Hampshire,
126,034; Maine, 123,547; Nebraska,
122,510; Kansas, 110,108; Colorado,
99,485.
This does not include the Catholics
in any of the island possessions.
W. A. WOODDALL,
Chief Conductor, Georgia Divi
sion, '457, O. R. C.