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CHANLER DAY AT STATE FAIR Was a Magic Drawing Card For Host of Georgians at Atlanta, GIVEN WARM WELCOME lieutenant Governor of New York De livered Notable Speech Pleading for Separation of Tariff and Politics. In a thity-minute speech before an audience of two thousand Georgians lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant -Chanler of New York Friday at the state fair in Atlanta delivered an ad dress which was afterward referred' to as “the essence of common sense." No better descriptive term than that "was coined throughout the day. While Governor Chanler declared that his visit to the south wa3 devoid of any political significance, yet he made it clear to all who heard him that he has views, good views, and de cided views on all the great national questions of the day and that, further than this he knows how to express them. • - Not only does he state that there is an evil in the present situation of things, but there is a remedy and he points out this remedy by calling for the appointment of a national com mission to be composed of senators, representatives, merchants, farmers, members of labor organizations and, in fact, a representative body of those affected by the tariff who shall con aider all evidence, pro and con, on this great and muchly mooted ques tion and shall make recommendations to congress and then congress shall act in accordance. He held that this was the only so lution of this great problem and that •during a political campaign was no time to study it and come to a con clusion. Eliminate the tariff question from politics, was his cry, and withdraw it from its present position, that of a foot ball, which is being kicked about from one political party to another. There was a conviction in his speech that was appealing; there wa3 in his .manner of delivery that which was peculiar, at first, but which grew upon his audience and w'armed them up to him just as he was made to warm up to his subject until the last five min utes of his speech marked him indeli bly as a statesman and a democrat from the east who is to be reckoned with in the immediate future. He received an enthusiastic ovation -such as a man older in years, better known throughout the south and of a much greater experience in national politics might be glad to receive. What will long be remembered by Mr. Chanler, and his party, consisting of Frank P. Morgan, the veteran news paper writer of New York and Wash ington, and Julius Chambers, the Brooklyn Eagle special writer, as one of the most pleasant incidents of the -day, was the luncheon tendered them at the Piedmont Driving club by the directors of the Atlanta Fair Associa tion. At the democratic dinner in the l New Kimball Friday night assembled over 300 Georgians to meet and hear a final address from Mr. Chanler. The main dining room was Allied with improvised tables, placed at right angles to the speaker’s table, which ran the entire length of the room. At the right of Governor Chanler was Forrest Adair, the toastmaster of the ivening. At his left was Senator A. 1. Clay. Ranged on each side were he other speakers and the members f the reception committee, who had large of the entertainment of Mr. lanler during the day. H. H. Cabaniss declared the day had en the occasion of a reunion between orgia and New York. He said the ith and the state of New York could ttish a president of the United •tes, and he looked for the time when i/ould again be true. ILLETTE GIVEN SIX MONTHS. Fer Vice President of Insurance Com pany is Sentenced for Perjury. entence of six months in the peni le rj; was imposed by Justice Bow lint New York Monday upon Dr. We E. Gillette, former vice presi ded the Mutual Life Insurance com panwho was convicted of perjurj. Dr. lette first denied and then ad mittto a grand jury that he nad deped s',ooo in a bank to be used in isneing legislation affecting in sura companies. EVERYBODY GUESSING s to Who Now Owns the Central of Geor gia—“Situation Unchanged,” Y/ires Thorne. A special from Richmond, Va., says: According to information obtained from high authority the Central of Georgia railroad has been sold to the Norfolk and Southern, Oakleigh Thorne, one of the owners of the for mer property, admitting, in New York, on Tuesday, that it had been sold, but declining to give the names of the pur chasers. Marsden Perry, part owner with Thorne, is chairman of the board of directors of the Norfolk and South ern railway company, which controls practically all of the network of the lines in eastern North Carolina, with Norfolk as the main port of entry. Local railroad men consulted did not seem able to comprehend the report at first or to explain the reason why the Norfolk and Southern should ac quire possession -of a system with which it had no connecting link. From Raleigh, N. C., to which .point the line has just been opened, there are projected roads to Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S. C., the ownership of which has been somewhat in dispute. The general idea, however, is that the Norfolk and Southern will get control of the road from the capital of North Carolina to Augusta, there to connect with the tracks of the Central of Geor gia. In the event of this the parent road would touch Norfolk and Savan nah on the ocean, extending to Chat tanooga, Birmingham and Montgomery and reaching Atlanta, Macon and prac tically the entire business heart of Georgia. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Norfolk and Southern, the ac tion of the directors in voting an is sue of bonds, amounting to $23,000,000 for the purchase of rolling stock and other equipment was approved. There are two opinions, especially in North Carolina, as tc- the real owner ship of the company, one being that the Southern railway is backing it and the other that the Standard Oil com pany holds the controlling interest. Railroad men do not clearly under stand why it should invest so heavily and issue large' bond obligations if it was to confine its territory to the eastern part of Carolina, in which there were no extarordinarly large shipping centers. With a link, however, to Au gusta and connection there with the Central of Georgia, and its 2,000 miles of track, the reorganization concern woulfl be one of the strongest in the south, behind which there would be un limited financial backing. President J. F. Hanson of the Cen tral of Georgia wired from Macon, Ga., Thursday to Oakleigh Thorne of New York, asking'for information of the re ported sale of the controlling stock of the Central of Georgia. He received a reply by wire, signed Oakleigh Thorne, saying: ’Absolutely no change in situation.” GIRL CHARGED WITH MURDER. Sixteen-Year-Old Miss Jailed as an Al leged Highwayman. The sheriff of Caldwell county, N. C., has taken to jail at Lenoir, N. C., a 16-year-old girl, Maggie Lewis, who is charged with being implicated in a highway robbery and a murder in that county last spring. For this crime two men were tried last summer at Lenoir, were convicted, and were sen tenced each to the penitentiary for twenty years. ANOTHER RECORD FOR LUSITANIA- Queen oi the Ocean Reduces Her Previous Time About Six Hours. The Cunard liner Lusitania arrived at Queenstow n from New York at 0:30 Thursfday evening. She has broken the best previous eastern record; her time of passage being 4 days 22 hours and 46 minutes. The best previous record from New York to Queenstown was a days 4 hours and 10 minutes. This is the time the Lusitania made herself on her last run from New York. PRESIDENT IN WASHINGTON. Expressed Great Delight at Being in the White House Again. President Roosevelt reached the white house from his southern trip on Wednesday afternoon. To those who met him at the station it was noted that he had added several deeper shades to the bronze of countenance acquired during the summer months at Oyster Bay. The president took no pains to con ceal his delight at getting home, and was markedly cordial in his greeting to those who had gathered in the train shed to meet him. GERMANS WIN BALLOON RACE Kaiser Gets First Honor in Great International Contest. FRENCH WERE CLOSE UP United States in Fourth and Fifth Place. Winners Sailed a Distance of 880 • Miles in Forty-I-our Hours. Proclaimed as the most remarkable ballooning contest in the history of world aeronautics with all racing rec ords broken, the second international cup competition, which started from St. Louis on Monday, ended Wednes day, with Germany accorded the win ning laurels. The finish of the race was the clos est and most exciting the followers of the sport have ever known, the victorious German balloon, the Pom mern, which lauded at Asbury Park, Wednesday morning, having but slight ly more than five miles the advantage of the French contestant, L'lsle de France, second in the race, which desceudod during the afternoon at Herbertsville, N. J., a few miles from the Atlantic coast and slightly north west of Point Pleasant. Another German balloon, the Dus seldorf, stands third in the r’-e, Amer ican entries are fourth and fifth, a third German team is sixth, a French team seventh, American eighth, and English ninth. The unofficial estimated airline flight of the Ponnnern In 880 miles and that of the L’lsle de France is 875. The Dusseldorf, third, landed near Dover, Delaware, is estimated to have cover ed 700 miles. The official measurements will be computed at the geological survey of the United States govern ment at Washington. Only the prox imity of the Atlantic* ocean stopped the wonderful flight of the Ponnnern. The balloon could have remained in the air many hours longer and un doubtedly would have added several hundred miles to her record but for the expanse of water ahead. While losing the distance record and possession of the cup, the French team sailing L’lsle de France gained the world’s record for duration of flight. Starting from St. Louis at 4:10 p. in., central time, they landed Wednesday at 1:10 p. m„ eastern time, making their time in the air just forty-four hours. The previous record was forty-one hours and five minutes, held by Count de la Vauex of France. The record of the international race set by the bal loon, United States, in the flight from Paris last year, was 402 miles. This was more than doubled by Pomrneru and the French balloon, which threat ened the winner. In fact, but one of the nine contestants In this year’s race failed to exceed the 1906 record. The result of this race, the first of Its character ever held in this coun try, has qualified the United States in .the opinion of all of the ballooning ex ports gathered in St. Louis as the most favorable aeronautic ground in the world. Every detail of the race was man aged with eonsunanate skill and many regrets were expressed that the race of next year could not be fought out over the same territory. Germany having won possession of the silver trophy presented by James Gordon Bennett, the race next year will be in the home of the German Aero Club. Final possession of the trophy rests with the club which wins it three times. The balloon United States, which finished eighth in this year’s contest, was the winner in 1906, gain ing a leg on the cup for the Aero Club of America, the newest reermt in the aeronautic confederation of the world. Aside from possession of the cup, the Germans won a cash prize of $2,500 also offered by Mr. Bennett MORE RAILROAD SHOPS CLOSE. Mechanic* of the Coast Line are Laid Off. Three Hundred Affected. The Montgomery shops of the At lantic Coast Line, employing 300 men, and with a monthly payroll of $16,- 000, have been closed down. Master Mechanic Pearsall announced that a few of the men would be retained after November 1. and the company would operate small repair shops. Mr. Pearsall said this order was due to adverse legislation and a d create in the business of the com pany. DAY OF THANKSGIVING 6tt for Thursday, November 28, By Presi dent in Proclamation to People of United States. Pesident Roosevelt Saturday issued his Thanksgiving Day proclamation, through the secretary of state, naming the last Thursday In November, the 28th. The proclamation follows: “Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom ot our forefathers for gen erations past, the president appoints a day as the especial occasion for all our people to give praise and thauks 1 giving to God. "During the past year we have beeij free from famine, from pestilence, from war. We are at peace with all the rest of mankiud. Our natural resources are at least as great as those of any other nation. We believe that in abil ity to develop aud take advantage of these resources the average man of this nation stands at least as high as the average man of any other. No where else in the world is there such an opportunity for a free people to de velop to the fullest extent all its pow ers of body, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind— character. “Much has been given us from on high, aud much will be rightly expected of us in return. Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them nor yet if we hide them in a napkin, for they must be fruitful in our hands. Ever through out the ages, at all times and among all peoples, prosperity lias been fraught with danger, and it behooves us to be seech the Giver of All Things that we may not fall into love of ease and of luxury; that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility; that we may not forget our duty to God and to our neighbor. “A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of the ordinary citizen there dwells a keen sense of righteous ness and justice. We should earnestly pray that this spirit of righteousness and justice may grow ever greater in the hearts of all of us, that our souls may be inclined ever more both toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and tenderness, for loving kindness and for bearance on one another, and to ward those no less necessary virtues that make for manliness and rugged hardihood —for without these dualities neithee nation or individual can rise to the level of greatness. “Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose velt, president of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work, and, in their homes, or in their clutches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have re ceived in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a con tinuation of these blessings in the fu ture. “In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. f “Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and thirty-second. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “By the President: “ELIHU ROOT, “Secretary of State.” PRESIDENT IS NOW FORTY-NINE. • * Birthday Celebrated Quietly and in Receiv ing Congratulation*. President Roosevelt was 49 years old Sunday. Besides a quiet family re- Jolcing at the white house fireside, the president received the congratulations of the members of the Hungarian club of New York, thus continuing a cus tom instituted by the members of the club several years ago. COPPER COMPANY GETS MORE TIME Final Decree In Verdict Given the State of Georgia is Postponed. A Washington dispatch says; The time for the entry of the final decree of the supreme court of the United States in the case of the state of Geor gia vs. the Tennessee Copper company ami the Ducktown Sulphur company, was posli>oned Monday by that court until such time as the state may ask for it. Georgia will allow the company am pb- time in which to test their scheme before taking final action with refer ence to the decree. ATLANTA THE WINNER Of Next Meeting of Georgia W. C. T. V. Jubilee Just Closed at Columbus an Interesting Event. The jubilee conventiou of tns Geor gia Woman’s Christian Temperance Union came to an end at Columbus, Friday evening, the closing feature be ing a contest in which Georgia gicls competed In a declamation contest lor a gold medal, the winner golug to Nashville to represent the state In the diamond medal contest before the national convention of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Maine, the national president, and Miss Anna Adams Gordon of Boston, national vice president, took a very active part in th proceedings. A feature of the farewell service to them was the pre sentation of n" beautiful loving cup to each the distinguished visitors. The cup to Mrs. Stevens was presented by the Georgia W. C. T. U., and that to Miss Gordon by the Loyal Tem perance Legion, the children’s organ ization of the order. A feature of the service that came as a surprise was when a long string of one dollar bills was thrown over Miss Gordon and was wrapped about her, ford’ upon fold. There were 210 of the bills, and they were all pinned together. This was Georgia's contri bution to the Crusader Monthly, tha temperance publication for little folks. The subscription is but 25 cents per annum, and so this splendid contri bution will pay for 840 subscription*. Miss Gordon, who Is a world’s secre tary of the Loyal Temperance Legion, was greatly touched by this novel and very generous subscription and re sponded In a happy talk. Another pleasing incident was the presentation to Miss Gordon of a neck lace by Mrs. Jennie Hart Sibley. The necklace comes from the Holy Land and thus bus a sentimental as well nu Intrinsic value. A striking variation to the now fa miliar air, "Georgia Has Gone Dry,” was sung by the convention, and it made a great hit with the Alabama prohibitionists who were present. Tha words “Alabama’s Going Dry” were substituted. A great deal of business was crowd ed into the closing day of the session. During the morning a memorial serv ice was held. A feature of the after noon scission consisted of reports from the county presidents. The old officers of the Georgia Wo man’s’ Christian Temperance Union were re-elected. STRIKE LASTED ONLY FOUR HOURS. Men at New Orleans Quit Work Again But are Soon Pacified. Ton thousand cotton and freight handlers went on a strike which last ed four and a half hours at New Or leans Friday. They were the men who returned to work after nearly a month long sympathetic strike against local steamship interests. Friday’s strike was also sympathetic, called because part of the returning men refused to sign a three-year contract with the Illinois Central railroad. The strike was set tled by the railroad withdrawing its demand, at the solicitation of Mayor Behrman. The disputes which caused the strikes will now be settled by an in vestigation of port conditions. JAPS OPPOSED TO SOVEREIGNTY. Count Okuma Says United States Are Run on Wrong Policy. Dr. Louis L. Seaman of New York, nx-surgeou major, U. S. A., who waa with the Japanese forces, both naval and military, during the Russo-Japan ese war, has received a letter from Count Okuma, the Japanese progres sive leader, in which the count writes: “1 think that the trouble In the United States is due to the state sov ereignty principle. The power of the United States is too great. They are too independent. The sending of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific is not good diplomacy.” NO MORE LOANS ON COTTON. President of Farmers' Union Warehouse Company So Notifies Growers. E. A. Calvin, president of the Farm ers’ Union Warehouse company, has is sued an official notice, saying that the company will not loan any more money I ou cotton. There are about 275 ware houses in Texas and about 200,000 bales are held. ‘ Farmers have been shipping to the warehouse in such quantity that the company was unable to k/eep up with it. Tightness oi money -/* giver, as rea son for the refusal to M?nd more money*