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THE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, ^DECEMBER 8, 1907.
UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT
BY HON. JOS. M. BROWN
Shows How the Administration in This State Promised
One Thing and Gave the People Another. The
Ridiculous Attitude of Gov. Smith and His
Railroad Commission on Freight Rates.
whom 347 are ladies, 124 estates and
23 educational, charltable-and reli
gious Institutions.
The Southern Railway’s line* have
as stockholders 318 Georgians, of
whom 88 are ladles and 7 estates
with minor children.
So I note 318 stockholders of the
Georgia Southern ami Florida Rail
way, of whom 126 are ladies, 38 es
tates and 4 educational, charitable
and religious institutions.
1 have no detailed statistics of the
other large lines, but on a few of
the smaller lines I note as stockhold
ers 14 Georgia ladies. 26 estates and
i college.
To the People of Georgia: On Oc
tober 22. in a letter published ill The
Macon Telegraph I showed that Gov
ernor Smith's war, nominally upon
“the railroads,” is really upon the
owners of the railroads, and that
among tint owners of several of tit' 1
railroads which 1 named are hun
dreds of Georgia ladies, besides var
ious educational, charitable and reli
gious organizations. 1 referred tu
Governor Smith's campaign promises
IO reduce the freight rates in Geor
gia to the extent of Si.""'). an
nually. and showed that althougl
ihe Terrell administration had re.in
red the freight rates $2.Odd.000 ""
anally HEI'OltE CANDIDATE IIOM
SMITH HKGAN HIS CAMPAIGN
FOR TIIK NOMINATION: yet
masses of the 1-eopli- had receiver
share of that reduction. The t
ernor's organ has disputed my si
incut, tun has produced no P
tions in Georgia, the following out
side of our state own stock in the
chief railroads in Georgia:
Hampden-Sidney college, Hamp-
den-Sidney, Va.
Methodist Episcopal church, south.
Spring Hill. Ala.
New York Postgraduate Medical
school and Hospital, Now York, N.
Y.
of
Presbyterian ministers' fund
Philadelphia, Pa.
Protestant Episcopal Church
St. John, Phelps, N. A'.
South Port Congregational church
South Port. Conn.
Theological seminary, Columbia.
Somewhat more than half of thejs. C.
It
the fact
; m
red m—
tit.
lion named or tl
ers and jobbers have raised t
ces of all goods shipped to th
delears. and that the latter.
I,,. : themselves, have-absorl
made in tile freigl
it it fa i
d Georgia. Yet, 1 shall show that
his statement as to the geography of
the ownership is not correct.
Hut let ns read front Candidate
Hoke Smith's speech at Hogansville,
August .A, 1905, reported in Tit
ianta Journal by Ralph Smith:
e|t is a matter ol easy ilenniiistru-
lion that the railroad* ill Georgia
collect out Of the people of Georgia
FOIl Itl SI NESS GONE EXCLU
SIVELY IN GEORGIA SI,000.000 A
VI .AH in excess ol 5 per cent on tile
money invested in Georgia railroads
This being true, do not the railroads
lax tlie people unjustly more than
the entire taxes collected hy the stall
from the people? Foul million dol
lars; enough to run the nll'air* of
-laic. FOI'lt Mild.ION IHH,I,A IIS
1 N.IFSTl.Y PI.At 'Ell AS A TAX II*-
t>N nil: PFOPI.E OF GEORGIA IIV
nil: RAILROAD COMPANIES. This
docs not cover . amount' unjustly
-hargrd Hie people of the stale •>>
railroads oiitsitle tin- stale for good*
railroads in Georgia show as stock-]
holds in Georgia 1.336 ladles. 506
estates and 52 educational andl
eleemosynary institutions. And, at
the risk of lteing tedious, I will name|
Cnion Prtiiestant infirmary, Balti
more. Mil.
Vestry of St. John's church. Balti
more, Md.
And the above are not 11k
The Preachers’ Aid Society of the! tries.”
South Georgia conference.
Memorial Association.
Zerubliabel lodge. No. 15.
Besides the above, I note a num-
With the governor's organ entirely
overlooking the rights of the con
sumers, with its constant iteration otf
his open and conscienceless declara-
her of corporations already named! tion that these women, schools col
as owners of stocks in other rail-1 leges, hospitals and orphan asylums
roads in Georgia. Among them are I must not be allowed a living Income
the following, with the amounts of! on tlieir property, l ask: Who will
third-income bonds of the Central! he tlieir champion? These assured-
of Georgia railway which were allot-1 ]y need a champion, for the admin-
;ed to them in the reorganization:
Ladies’ Educational and Benevo
lent Society. Columbus, $6,100; Hi-1
hernia Society. Savannah. $5,000;
Pulaski Council 163, R. A., $2,400;
Savannah Female Asylum. $4,700;
Savannah Hospital, $19,400; L'nion|
istrution's attack, while nominally
upon "the railroads,” is really upon
tlie very social fabric of the state of
Georgia, an attack by the brutal, the
reckless and the grasping upon the
weak alike with the worthy, upon
the wards of the very conscience of
Society of Savanahx $11,400; Ger-|our civilization.
onh
latter, because there can be not ones who suffer from this war upon
striking object lesson of th
v h-ked 1 had almost said infamous
- warfare which the governor or
Jeorgia has organized than the pub-
"the railroads.” Statistics show
that in 1906 there were 26.300 rail
road employees in Georgia. Reduce
to a poor-house basis tlie income ol
lication of the names of these own- the stockholders and ihe wage
ers of stork in the chief railroads of | the employes must be reduced. Mali
• church.
red m
on the good* ■
and that thy-
ed none of it.
Further"""'
vile
up;
1 1<
hauled into tIn
sl:it<
THE l'H
ha
km
; n v
red u<
an of 8 1.
be fulfilled. 1"
dou 1
■ha!
t he $4."00.""
freight rat"-,
ihe railroad i
valuations of
taxes and for
respectively.
1 front and
" did not :
MILLION DOI.ARS I AVI IIISCFS-
slNG IS ANNUALLY TAKEN FROM
rill-: PEOPLE OF GEORGIA I'OI
rfsiness inside of the stati
on the xaim
Georgia. Here is the list
Aneien: Landmark lodge £81, Sa- ( the rolls,
annuli (115 members).
Augusta free school, (127 benell-
iaries i.
Augusta Orphan asylum, (S3 or
phans i.
Benevolent Missionary
pith. Ga.
Bishop Elliott Society of Christ
nieh. Savannah. (50 beneficiaries).
Baptist State Mission Board of
orgia. Atlanta.
Cintden County Academy. St.
Marys. Ga. ( I* teachers and schol-
irs l.
(Vmetery fund (ordinary of Mor-
;nn county, trustees), Madison, Ga.
Christ ehurcli. Savannah, (Mi
of these men must lie dropped from
pel
I tlie properly."
Minting t" $K
if freight
i anini
aid:
!.<
give tin
sion credit
i lie best
T
Candidal
Hi
L.-
man Lutheran Congregation of Ef
fingham County. $10,200; Savannah
Female Asylum, $S,100; Louise Por
ter Home for the Friendless, $1
"(Ml. Telfair Hospital for Females;
$19.00": Savannah Widows’ Society.
$13,300; Trustees of Mercer Vniver-
sitv. $l".r>iiii, and others with vary
imounts
To the foregoing
And now, in conclusion, let fe
make this declaration: I know that
the administration has one ever-
readv answer to any utterance by me,
viz; that I am a "card-writer.” But
it is not unite so ready with answers
to the exposures made in the "cards.”
ain. Candidate Smith said, in his
tech at Rome, that I met his ar-
au be added the| guments with personal abuse,” and
of the South at Sewanee,I his organ has recently made the same ~
ihei
•liuivh of the Good Shepherd. An-
i:: i r
f the Confederacy, Sa-
memhers).
Now. let me add the fiiliowiii
After the old Central Railroad and
Banking Company was bankrupted,
Mr. H. AI. Comer was made receiver.
As the result of Mr. Comer’s arguing
pleading and almost fighting, those
who controlled the reorganization at
length agreed to give tlie old minor
ity stockholders in satisfaction of
their claims third-income bonds.
These bonds, therefore, were tlieir
salvage from the wreck. They were
not only NOT WATER, lmt emphat
ically were the solid salt with tin-
water boiled out. THEY ARE WHAT
THE GEORGIANS NOW OWN OI
THE ASSETS OF THE 01,11 FEN
THAI, RAILROAD. Surely, it would
seem that the "reformers." wli
chief ill his speech at Camilla
1905. demanded the confiscation
al! the income above 5 per cent
Tell']
Lttdi
i $511
i $8001, the Mount Vernon [ general charge against those who
Association
St. I.tike's
of the Union 1 criticise the administration for prom-
Kvorgr
(Vine
.Company of those railroad stockholders
WIKI
Kni"
tlie stump in 11*"'.-"",
us first take his speech a' Douglas-
ville. July 4. 1905, reported for The
Atlanta Journal by Hilt Saul. Can
didate Smith then and there said:
••I believe that with a proper g"' ■
ernor and a railroad commission that
Js mu hound to tl ad*. AT
LEAST THREE MILLION TO FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS will lie saved
for the iMK-kols of the plain |ile."
ilc furthermore said:
••I declare to you that if I an
elected governor I WILL lUIIN't
THESE RAILROAD RATES DOWN
OK YOU WILL HEAR FROM Ml
IN NO I XI ERTAIN TERMS."
Let us next read from his speech a:
Camilla. July 25. 19"5. reporled f<"
The Atlanta Journal by T. .1. Sim
uions, Jr. Candidate Smith said:
"Five per cent is a handsome re
turn on money invested in largi
quantities.” Ho tiien made an esti
mate of railroad values and an esli
mate of net profits of the railroad
In Georgia, covering 19"4. and said
"Concede that their lax returns wer
too low, still we would have froi
three to five million dollars colli de
hy the railroad companies from tin
people of tin- state annually in ex
cess of fair charges. I am not upper
l>osed to railroads. 1 realize theii
g eat value. They are necessary to
the development of the state. But
it is not an attack upon property
rights to demand that THE FIVE
GREAT RAILROAD COMPANIES OF
GEORGIA, OWNED AS THEY ARE
BY STOCKHOLDERS LIVING OCT
SIDE THE STATE, SHOULD CRASH
LEVYING A TAX UPON THE PEO
PLE OK THE STATE OF FROM
THREE TO FIVE . MILLION
DOLAKS YEARLY IN EXCESS OF
WH AT WOULD FAIRLY COM PEN
SATE THE RAILROADS FOR THE
WORK DONE. The withdrawal an
nually of from three to five million
of dollars BY UNJUST CHARGES in
jurcs all the people of Georgia. EX
CESSIVE FREIGHT BATES lessen
the valqe of our lands and lessen the
chances of prosperity on the part of
the people."
Note hisdeclaration limltln
owners of railroad property to
cent as “a handsome return" on tlieir
investment, although the legal rate
of interest in Georgia Is authorized to
be 8 per cent. Note, also, that he
Ignores the fact that some of -these
railroads are owned by hundreds of
people, many of whom hold less than
five shares each. Note, also, his de
claration that this reduction of from
three to five million dollars aimually
IN THE FREIGHT RATES OX FIVE
RAILROADS is justifiable BECAUSE
THEY ARE OWNED BY STOCK
HOLDERS OUTSIDE THE STATE.
I blush to say that the author of this
the
per
mum
er this work. We wait
irmly for a further reduction
oJMKMKIO covering the bulimi-t-
III: Sl.mm.ooo OF IN.11ST
HEIGHT RATES to which I have
rimed."
It will he noted that tlie $4,000.-
mu were “UNJUST FREIGHT
5ATF.S" -not a word said about
-a-sengcr ran-s— -that the amount
va * Id he deducted from the earn-
ngs of liv-'railroads, and that it did
in include the earnings on inter-
,tute business, lmt linn U was on
•business done exclusively in Geor
gia." Surely, we seem to la- reading
ill- sleiKigrnphically reported ravings
if a crazy man’
I could quote from other speeches
Ilia le by Candidate Hoke Smith, hut
iin -- • are enough to prove that lie
pill lied his campaign u|miii the prom-
sr to make A REDUCTION OFriM,-
000.1100 ANNUALLY IN TIIE.
I'KEIgIiT RATES on business ban
dit d exclusively in Georgia, i. e.: th
intrastate rates.
It is needless to add that some of
us -old tlie people of Georgia that
lie could not do this. He denounced
us as "tools of the railroads” be
cause we said it. It is needless to
add that tin- people are now convin
ced that i ids was a campaign prom
ise made only to catch their votes.
But tilers -r. a more serious ques-
ion confronting us than that as to
bother or not Governor Smith de-
berately deceived the people of
eorgia in his promises as to what
he would do with the railroad rates.
That question is. "Who owns the
railroads of Georgia ”
From statistics furnished me wiih-
n the past few weeks I am in posl-
to state that fully 75 per cent
of the stock of the smaller roads in
Georgia is owned by Georgians. Bt
he governor will say, "I am not
fighting the ‘smaller roads." Yet.
how can ills railroad commission re
duce the classification of a single item
of freight for the larger roads and net
make the smaller roads haul it at
lower rate applying to the reduced
classification? And how can a de
murrage rule lie made which will
fine a large road and not fine a small
road for the same act? And how
can a rate’between two points be re
duced on a large road without forc
ing a small road, competing with it
to likewise reduce the rate?
But let us see who are the owners
of some of the main lines; The At
ianta and West Point Railroad has
349 stockholders living in Georgia.
Of these 210 are ladles, 26 are es
tates (widows and minor children)
and 7 are educational, charitable and
religious institutions.
The lilies leased to or with a ma
jority of their stock owned by the
Central of Georgia Railway hare
1,313 stockholders living in Georgia.
Of these 551 are ladies, 278 are es
tates and 48 are educational) chari
table and religious institutions.'*
"living outside of tlie state.” would
(261 pro-1 lie willing to let the Georgians bay
a fair chance at a living income. But
Soei-|let iis see what the otfic-ial organ
'reformers." viz: Tile Atlanta
the Blind,| Journal, has to say. in its issue o
August 30. 1907, we read:
"11 is a simple statement of th
truth that they (these bonds) should
never have been issued at all. and if
the interest had not been paid last
year on the third-income issue the
holders of them would not now feel
that they have something of which
to complain. Those third-income
Lutheran congregation, I bonds are known to be pure water.
iiiuri-. Savannah..
ry College, Oxford
:sors and students).
Female Orphan Benevolent
Savannah.
Georgia Academy
icon, < l "2 beneficiaries).
Georgia Historical Society, Savan-
Honie for Con-1 ising goods it cannot deliver. I plead,
scents. Boston. ($8,800). andl not guilty to the charge. What use
ligious organizations outside] is throe for personal abuse when In
the facts is found the most wlther-
lady stockholders or| ing condemnation of the daministra-
tion? Again, it will be said that I
am soured by being displaced from
>f Georgia
mu includi
Ihe funds of estates which were
ested in the old Central Railroad
ml Banking Company,
have given (he foregoing names of
portion of these holders or third
the office of railroad commissioner.
In saying that this, also, is not -true,
let me with emphasis make this de-
in-imit-
mds that the people may I claration:
indurstand the animus of "tlie re-1
formers" when their official organ]
n tlie same issue (August 30, 1907).
Iti
i coldly and justly considered,
ufair to the people of Georgia
lies** securities should consti-
ii interest-hearing charge on
ruing capacity of the road,
ix•- given it also for the pur-
enabling the people of Geor-
THE STATE OF GEORGLA CAN
AFFORD TO IK) WITHOUT ME AS
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER: BUT
SHE CAN’T AFFORD TO “DO
WITHOUT” THE REUTATION FOR
GUARDING WITH HONOR AND
WITH JEALOUS CARE THE EQUAL-
RIGHTS OF THOSE OF HER OWN
CITIZENS AND OF CITIZENS OF
si.STEK STATES WHO -PLACE
THEIR INVESTMENTS UNDER
easnre at Us true
vorth the THE AEGIS OF HER LAWS. She
follov
emit!
The K
ing extract from an editorial
-d "The Crisis of Reform,
iend. John Temple Grave
lling Echo, dull'd Octotier 1
1 9i
Georgia Baptist Association, execu
tive committee, Bbenezer.
Georgia Domestic Missionary' So
ciety, Alliens. !**%*■ \
German Friendly Society. Savan
nah, (200 members).
German
vannab.
German
»enezcr.
Lutheran congregation.
Hebrjew Benevolent Society. Sa
vannah, (200 beneficiaries).
Hibernian Society, Savannah, ( 100
members).
Home Mission Board. Southern
Baptist convention.
Knights of Honor, Alliance lodge,
586, Savannah, 121 members).
Ladies Education and Benevolent
Society. Columbus.
Ladies Episcopal Missionary As
sociation of Christ church. Savan
nah.
Louise Porter Home for the
Friendless. Savannah. (100 benefi
ciaries I.
Methodist church. Madison.
Mercer university, Macon. (313
professors and students).
Oglethorpe Club. Savannah, (200
members).
Orphans' Home of the Protestant
Episcopal church. Savannah, (40
beneficiaries.)
Prayer Book Society, Savannah.
Public cemetery, Summerville.
Augusta.
Richmond countiv board of educa-
Tluiy were given us a Ivon us to t he
holders of tlie stock of the Central
of Georgia railway. They do not
represent one cent of honest invest
ment. ... it naturally arouses con
flicting emotions when it is realized
that some of these income bonds arc
held by people here in the state of
Georgia. One can understand how
they feel. But the fact remains that
they have received these third-in-
come bonds as a gracious gift -as a
bonus representing nothing."
Hence, The Atlanta Journal ar
gues that the holders of these third-
income bonds should be allowed NO
INTEREST AT ALL on them. Let
us see who some of them are. A
partial list follows:
Chatham county academy, ( 501
scholars).
Clinton lodge No. 54. A. )'. M.
Episcopal Missionary Society o
Savannah.
Grace church. Clarkesville.
First New church, south. Savau
nail.
Permanent fund Hebrew emigre
gatlon, Mtekva Israel. (400 lienefi
claries).
Protestant Episcopal church of the
tion, Houghton fund. Augusta, (4 94 diocese of Georgia in trust for aged
beneficiaries).
Royal Arcanum, Pulaski council.
Savannah, (183 members).
| and Infirm clergymen of said diocese
Protestant Episcopal church of the
I diocese of Georgia, in trust for dio
Savannah Benevolent Association, | eesau missions.
Savannah, (500 beneficiaries).
Savanah hospital. Savannah. (S00
patients annually).
Savannah Female Asylum. Savan
nah, (50 beneficiaries).
Special relief fund, South Georgia
conference, Valdosta.
St. Joseph’s Male Orphanage, Sa
vannah.
Summerville Academy. Summer
ville, Augusta. (119 beneficiaries).
St. John's parsonage, trustees. Au
gusta.
Telfair Hospital for Females, Sa
vannah, (50 beneficiaries).
Trinity church, south. Savannah.
Treasurer of North Georgia con
ference Methodist Episcopal church,
south.
Treasurer of South Georgia con-
The Needlewonlen's Society.
The Church Wardens and Vestry
men of Christ church, in Savanna
for the widows and orphans of the
Episcopal clergy of Gergia.
Trustees of Elam Baptist church
Orphan fund, Christ church, Sa
vanah.
Bark Camp church.
Baptist convention, state of Geor
gia. ($4,300).
Cuthhert chapter No. 31, ($100)
Georgia Council No. 2. R and
M. ($300).
Jasper Monumental Association
($500).
Lawtonville church, ($800).
Ladies' Auxiliary Port Society
(100 beneficiaries, $600).
Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Socie
ference Methodist Episcopal church,! ty ($400).
south. t
Union Society, Savannah, (100
beneficiaries).
Trustees of Presbyterian church,
Athens.
Trustees ot Boggs' chapel. Athens.
Live Oak lodge. No. 137, F. and
A. M., Darien, ($400).
Georgia chapter. No. 3, ($1,500)
Needlewomen’s Friend Society
($1,600).
Savannah Cadets, (100 members
Trustees of Reid Memorial church, $400).
Summerville, Augusta.
St. Patrick's Total Abstinence Be-
Widows’Society of Savannah, (lOOl nevolent Society ($500).
beneficiaries).
me tum reusiviw - Wesleyan Female college, Macon,
The Georgia Railroad has t 776J. (439 professors and students).
tlntner In U* n/xriri O /I# I TlnoMoa 4ka famirnlnn Awrmnlvo.
Volunteers (100
declaration is the present governor stockholders living in Georgia, of l Besides the foregoing organiza-
The German
"members). „
The Porter Aid Society ($10,000
100 beneficiaries)'
Thoughtful men everywher
huiking with grave apprehension
upon the possibility, not the proba
bility, that this great reform move
mem may he stayed What a
tragedy, civic and economic, it would
be if tbe great, victorious movement
should die in tlie apathy of those
who led and won it! It would be
•rime against government and
ne against the people,
fear in nTiiul now that a stov
Tory in Atlanta made in 1906
>r $17."(I" of profits <
tnn'tit. as sworn to for taxation,
$ 16,475. and that Governor Smith
ndered its president the position of J ♦
I dead commissioner despite the
t that the legislature had disqtial-|*
d him because lie belonged to an
iOci itioii which raised tlie price of
yes on tlie consumer. Bear in
ml that a spring bed factory in
ianta made in 1906 a profit of
l.iiiKi on an investment, as sworn
for taxation of $30,000, and that
veriuir Smith appointed its presi-
iit a member of his staff. Bear In
ind that he apointed to the posi-
iop of railroad commissioner an
tin' gentleman who was Ihe lead-
g spirit in building and operating
cotton factory in I-aGrange which,
four years on an investment of
>51."U". made $370,000. Bear in
ind that a great portion of the
rofii* of the. above three factories
•e secured by raising the prices
their products after the freight
•s were reduced. And then read
again Candidate Hoke Smith's de
viation that “5 per cent is a hand
some return" for those who invest
heir money in railroad stocks and
bonds and that if he were elected
tovernor he would bring down the
railroad rates sufficiently to place
the income of railroad stockholders
on tlie 5 i>er cent basis.
Then read again "Reformer"
Iraves' declaration that "it would lit
rime" if the “heform" which re
wards these manufacturers for mak
ing from 40 to 135 per cent per an
num by raising tlie prices of neces
saries upon the poor sotild be stay
ed from its announced intent to keep
within 5 per cent those blind chil
dren, those orphans, those widows
those seamstresses, those superannu
ated ministers, those sick and maim
ed men and women in the hospotals.
those funds for feeding the starving,
whether in the church society or the
Masonic lodge, those colleges and
schools, those missionaries who are
preaching the glorious gospel of God.
and even those who woth reverent
hands are keeping green th© graves
of our dead! A crime! Great God!
A crime—and I, thank God. am one
of the criminals!
And, besides, the governor, there
is another ever present “reformer'
who Ignores the price-crushed people
In its defense of the price-raising
manufacturers. This is the govern
or’s organ which, when The Atlanta
Constitution criticises the increased
prices ot stoves, straightway raised
a yell about “war on home indus-
annot afford to rob the weak that
she may build up the strong. She
•annot afford to attempt to supplant
the truth by a lie. And If the rail
road commission is under bonds to
are| carry out tbe governor's promise of
war ujion the helpless which I have
herein copied. I have not the slight-
desire to be a member of that
mmission. Very respectfully,
JOSEPH M. BROWN,
Marietta. Ga.. Dec. 555555555555
Marietta, Ga. Dec. 5, 1907.
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Monday. ♦
Six day bicycle race in Madi- F
on Square Garden. F
♦ National Motor Boat Show in F
♦ Grand Central Palace, New York. F
F Opening of automobile shows F
♦ in Detroit and San Francisco. F
Tuesday.
F Annual meeting of the Na- F
F tional League of Baseball Clubs F
F m New York. F
F Johnny Murphy vs. Johnny F
F Favne, 30 rounds, at Colma, Cal. ♦
F F
F Wednesday. F
Annual meeting of
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F Chicago .
American F
Clubs at F
Thursday.
F Joe Thomas vs. Young Ketchell ♦
F 20 rounds, at San Francisco. F
- “Muggsy” Shoels vs. Frank F
Carsev, 15 rounds, ct Pueblo, ♦
F Cal. *
Friday.
F Annual meeting of the South-
F ern Intercollegiate Atheletic As-
F social ion at Clomson College.
Saturday.
F Opening of annual automobile F
F show at St Louis. ♦
F Annual meeting of the South- F
F ern Baseball League, at Atlanta. F
F Bill Papke vs. Hugo Kelley. 10 F
F rounds, at Milwaukee. _ ♦
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