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The Looking Glass’series of Exposition
illustrations is attracting general attention
all over the country. It is the most extensive
and satisfactory pictorial enterprise ever
undertaken by a southern journal, and in
point of artistic merit, is fully equal to any
thing done in the great northern cities.
The elaborate center-page plates, the
fourth of which appears in this issue, are the
largest half-tones ever made in the south.
They are engraved from photographs taken
by our special photographer, Mr. Howe,
formerly of the New York Graphic, and
from week to week will reproduce with
unequalled fidelity and picturesqueness the
salient features of the great fair. Those
already printed, including the current issue,
are as follows: ist. Views of the Grounds.
2nd. The Terra Cotta Sculpture of the
Exposition, 3. Officers at Work at the Head
quarters, 4th. Atlanta’s Hotel Accommo
dations.
To produce plates of this size, direct from
life, is no easy task, especially here in the
south where such work is in its infancy.
They are all from new and original negatives,
and in numerous instances were made by
flash light. In pursuing the series it is the
intention of The Looking Glass to present
to its readers a continual panorama of every
thing of interest connected with the Expo
sition. It will include, among other things,
many views of the midway, with interiors of
the most striking and novel of the shows;
scenes attending the installation of the
exhibits; groups of the most famous artists
to be seen at the theatres; snap shots of the
crowds, inside and out; night effect showing
the illumination of the grounds and the
wonderful electric fountain, and scores of
other things that in after years will form
invaluable souvenirs of the great southern
fair. Every regular reader of The Looking
Glass should preserve a file of the copies
of the next four months. They will make a
volume of the deepest interest for future
reference.
“O wad some pow'r
the giftie gie us,
To see our sei's as
ithers see us."
Published Weekly
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No. 8 South Broad St.
ATLANTA, GA.
Nobody familiar with the extreme timidity
of our city fathers, when the interests of Mr.
Joel Hurt are at issue, will be surprised at
the absence of definite action in reference to
the proposed ten cent fare extortion.
It is pretty plain that council proposes
to allow this outrage to be perpetrated
unchecked.
City Attorney Anderson has given it as his
opinion that the council has “no jurisdiction”
in the matter of regulating fares. This may
be good law but it is not good sense, by a
jug-full. All the rights the Consolidated
now possess have been granted with the
express proviso that the road is to be con
ducted in accordance with the ordinances now
in force and those Hereinafter Enacted.
If this means anything at all it means that
council can pass an ordinance fixing the fare
at 5 cents—where it ought to be. The prin
ciple is exactly the same as the fixing of rail
road mileage by the legislature.
But the j udge said no, and council straddled
the question by referring it to a committee.
This, it is safe to say, will be the last of it.
Thus can a street car monopoly saddle an
imposition on the public over the protest of
every citizen in Atlanta, not personally
benefited by the gouge.
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In the name of decency, dignity and
ordinary humanity the petition requesting
the appointment of a matron for duty at
police headquarters should be favorably
acted upon by the common council. The
absence of such an official is a disgrace to a
great city and an enlightened community.
As matters now stand female prisoners are
frequently brought to the station in a condi
tion that demands the immediate attention
of some member of their own sex. It is
brutal, disgusting, and in no strained sense
immoral to leave such prisoners to the care
of men in charge of other departments of
the city lock-up. If it were necessary to
particularize to sustain the point, cases
might be cited without number that would
deeply shock and revolt any person of ordi
narily refined sensibilities. This is a matter,
however, in which sentimentality cuts no
figure. The appointment of a matron is not
designed to investigate the punishment of
offenders or to make the lot of jail birds
especially pleasant or comfortable. It is a
step in the interests of decency and pro
priety, and for the good name and repute of
the city of Atlanta. The care of female
prisoners by male turnkeys is a piece of
barbarity that smacks strongly of the back
woods and the frontier. It is entirely out
of place in the official machinery of a great
center of civilization.
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The analysis in another column of the
circumstances attending the tragic death of
Baker A. Bass, will convince any intelligent
person, not hopelessly biased, that this was
beyond all shadow of doubt a plain and
palpable case of murder.
The suicide theory, which has secured an
astonishing number of partizans unfamiliar
with the exact facts, crumbles and disappears
before rigid scrutiny. There is absolutely
nothing in the case to sustain it, and at least
a dozen reasons, each of itself conclusive,
prove that this ill fated man could not
possibly have taken his own life.
It is well to say that enough has been
already developed to make it highly proba
ble that a searching inquiry would result in
discoveries peculiarly painful to the friends
and family of the dead merchant. This is
an unfortunate circumstance, but should not
be allowed to deter a thorough and honest
investigation. It would be a shocking com-
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mentary on the safeguards of a civilized com
munity if such a crime went undetected in
the very heart of our city.
In all human probability Baker Bass was
killed because he knew too much. He held
the safety and good name of far too many
men in the hollow of his hand to be allowed
to continue his known negotiations with the
detective department, and therein, without
doubt, lies the solution of the mystery, which
is not nearly as profound or as unfathomable
as it appears to be upon its surface.
There is only one suggestion to be offered,
and that is that all efforts to establish the
untenable theory of suicide be dropped at
once, and the best energies of the police
department directed to the apprehension of
the murderer.
HOT! WELL, KINDER.
A WATERING PLACE CONVULSED
BY A SCANDAL OF STATE
PROPORTIONS.
A Judge, a Stenographer and the
Pretty Daughter of a Carpenter
Play the Leading Roles-The
Gay Jurist Obliged to Skip
to Avoid a Beating.
But for the intervention of powerful
friends, it is quite possible that by this
time one of the most prominent members
of the judiciary of Georgia would have
been under arrest in the circuit adjoining
his own charged with making an indecent
proposal to a young girl with whom he
became casually acquainted during a visit
to her home.
The gentleman in question comes from
the southern part of the state where he
holds a superior judgeship. About three
weeks ago he floated into a celebrated
watering place and summer resort accom
panied by a handsome woman of thirty or
thereabouts, who was understood to be
his stenographer. The acquaintances of
hizonner smiled a knowing smile and the
public generally received the story with
several barrels of salt.
The woman stopped at one hotel and
the judge at another. The latter’s host
soon saw the drift of things and on the
second day of the visit told the jurist that
his room was wanted. In response to an
indignant protest he was told that certain
of the guests and the servants had seen
the two coming out of his room, and that
while their relations may have been the
most circumspect in the world, the hotel
could not afford to run any risk of a
scandal.
“You are entirely wrong about the
matter,” said the judge. “We were over
taken by a storm and I asked my stenog
rapher into the hotel as a place of tempo
rary shelter. I was showing her about
the place and as I passed my room I
pushed the door open to show her my
quarters. She stepped in to survey the
place and dropped into a seat by the door.
I immediately foresaw a possibility of the
situation being misconstrued should we be
seen, and said ‘we will continue our walk,’
which we did.”
After some talk he was allowed to
remain, but there was a great deal of
comment at the resort relative to an
employer’s duty towards his stenographer,
and as to whether it included long strolls
in unfrequented portions ot the place by
daylight, moonlight and darkness. Gossip
was by no means quelled when it was
discovered that the woman was the wife
of a man now under indictment in the
judge’s court for manslaughter, and who
was recently released on $5,000 bail, but
another and vastly more startling episode
soon turned talk in a different direction.
It seems that during his stay the jolly
judge made the acquaintance of the
pretty daughter of a local carpenter, and
a young lady who was temporarily stop
ping at her home as a guest. One after
noon the judge encountered the two girls,
and after chatting for some time suggested
that they meet him the following day.
According to their account he added that
he “had some money to spend.”-
The girls took umbrage not only at
what he said, but the way that he said it,
and returned to their home. A little later
the judge called at their house, but nobody
appeared, and after lingering on the
porch for an hour he took his departure.
About that time the father came home
and was told the story. He promptly
armed himself with a hickory bludgeon
and rushed over to the hotel—making no
secret of his intention of attacking the
judge on sight. All the guests united in
keeping the men apart, and unable to find
his victim the carpenter reluctantly left
declaring that if he could not have per
sonal satisfaction he would lay the matter
before the grand jury and have it aired in
the courts. This thoroughly alarmed the
gay jurist, who left the next morning for
Atlanta. For three days he remained in
this city, and during that time some of
the most prominent politicians of the
state were laboring with the father to
settle the matter without publicity. One
was a brother judge, another a state sen
ator from one of the southern counties,
still a third was one of the leading politi
cians of south Georgia, and there were
others not so prominently before the
public eye.
The judge himself sent an explanation
of his remark and claimed that he meant
nothing improper, but that the fun alluded
to was to be rolling ten pins, playing pool,
drinking lemonade and otherwise making
time pass pleasantly and agreeably for
the girls. This view of the matter was
presented by his friends who pointed out
that with such an explanation an indict
ment would not stand and only give unnec
essary publicity to a matter best allowed
to rest. The matter was finally compro
mised, though on what basis is not known
outside the peace-makers and the prin
cipals.
On the following Sunday the judge
returned from Atlanta, but the frost he
received from the other guests caused him
to depart next morning. The affair has
created a tremendous sensation at the
watering place and is generally known
among the politicians of the state.
That it will effect the future public career
of the party most interested is freely
surmised. ♦
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