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NAY, SAYS JOEL,
WHEN THE MOTORMEN ASK FOR
AN INCREASE OF PAY.
The Plea of Enormous Additional
Expense in Putting up Some
New Engines and Dynamos, for
Exposition Travel, Punctured
By An Expert-
In all of their numerous official state
ments to the public, Mr. Hurt and his
associates in the management of the Con
solidated Street Car Company have
strangely omitted to mention the fact that
something over a month ago their em
ployees petitioned for an audience to dis
cuss the question of wages.
This information was not obtained
from any of the directors of the Consoli
dated, but it is vouched for by all of the
motermen and conductors of the system.
As the story goes, about twenty of the
oldest employees of the company met at
the request of all of the men employed by
the Consolidated and drafted a respectful
petition for an audience. They did not
ask for a raise, but merely for an oppor
tunity to talk the matter over.
The men are now paid twelve cents an
hour, and they have all been given to
understand that the shifts will hereafter
be ten hours each in order to break in
the extra help which will be needed dur
ing the three months of the fair.
Pres. Hurt, so the men say, made short
work of the document. He sent back
word declining the audience on the
ground that an increase of wages was
utterly out of the question, and hence it
would be futile to discuss the point. The
reasons advanced in this connection were
about on the same line as the argument
for 10-cent fares—namely, the enormous
increase in expense in preparing for the
Exposition.
One of the points which has been
especially insisted on in this connection
is the purchase of additional dynamos to
increase the electric plant and furnish
more power to haul the enormous crowds.
A prominent electrician of Atlanta, in
conversation with The Looking Glass
this week, let in a flood of light on this
subject. “Although not generally known,”
he said, “it is nevertheless a fact, that the
larger portion of the current used for
propelling the Consolidated cars is not
even now generated by their own plant,
but is bought from the Georgia Electric
Company. All of the cars on the south
side of the city draw their motive power
from this latter source, and when the
Company’s plant breaks down, as is not
infrequently the the case, the entire sys
tem is run from the Georgia Company’s
power house.
“Therefore, the improvements on which
Mr. Hurt has laid so much stress, I mean
the new engines and dynamos, are far
from being merely for Exposition pur
poses, but are enlarged facilities that the
plant has needed since its erection. The
saving in money over what is now being
paid the Georgia Electric Company for
current used, would more than justify the
expense of installing the new machinery
outside of the prospective increase in
traffic. As a flat business proposition, it
would stand to reason that if the Georgia
Company are making money from their
dealings with the Consolidated, as they
undoubtly are, it would certainly pay the
street car people to increase their own
plant, and pay for its cost with the rental
previously paid the other Company.
“As far as the dynamos and engines are
concerned, the plea that they are merely
for temporary accommodations is silly
and preposterous. It is a thousand to
one that after the Exposition, Mr. Hurt
will not take out the new machinery and
return to purchasing his power from the
Electric Light Co.”
A COMPARISON.
Other Laundries, one shirt, ten washing.
Troy Laundry, one shirt, forty washing.
Same price per washing at all.
Moral: Have your washing done by
the Troy Laundry, cor. Forsyth and Wal
ton sts., and save 75 per cent in money
and gain treble wear from shirt.
A WELL DRESSED MAN.
Dress, its fit, its finish, its fabric, its
style are what go to mold public opinion,
and a favorable first impression is inval
uable to all men, therefore careful atten
tion should be paid to detail, it is what
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MISS LUZY-GARTRELL McCASLAN.
The Atlanta vocalist who will make her debut on the stage during Exposition.
differentuates the well dressed from the
man that is expensively clothed. A. H.
Cooper, the tailor, keeps these points
always in view, and when you wear one of
his suits (which cost vastly less than those
of other tailors) you are alwavs sure of
having everything just right. His rooms
are at N. Broad St.
THOSE SCHOOL SHOES.
Expressions of praise on all sides:
“Most elegant,” “Substantial and cheap,”
“Lovely,” “Best I’ve ever seen,” and
numerous others of like nature, are what
is heard regarding those school shoes sold
by the Bloodworth Shoe Co ,of 14 White
hall street. Send your child to us, we
will fit it as carefully as we would you;
also come yourself, we can suit you.
We have Gasoline, Kerosene, Naptha
line, Benzine, Coaline, Parafine and Ner
vine. Johnson & Brotherton, 40 S. Broad
St.
Callon M. A. Toote at 144 Marietta.
The Stock Exchange Saloon keeps the
best.
The Looking Glass
NO SASSIETY CIRCUS.
THE LADIES WOULDN’T WEAR
TIGHTS OR PEDDLE RED
LEMONADE.
So the Scheme Was Reluctantly
Abandoned-Atlanta Not Quite
Rapid Enough For an
Enterprise That Made a
Big Hit in Sister
Cities Up North.
Death notices are always sad. In the
very nature of the thing it could not be
otherwise, and it is one of the depressing
features of journalism, that these melan
choly souvenirs of mortality must inevit
ably claim a place amidst the bright and
cheerful chronicle of the passing show.
It is the painful duty of The Looking
Glass, today, to announce a demise that
will carry wide spread grief and lamenta-
tion to the fairest flowers of our own
400. The sassiety circus is no more. It
is dead, defunct, non est, kerflumixed and
aus ke-spielt. It has emulated the grace
ful woodbine and ascended the spout.
Indeed, this tender little protege of
Atlanta’s charmed and charming circle
may be said to have died a-borning.
Ten days ago grave fears were enter
tained that it would never survive the
cold, cold frost which it encountered from
a heartless and inappreciative public, and
this week it gasped its last gasp, rolled
up its little eyes and kicked the bucket.
No coroner’s jury was summoned to
investigate the sombre mystery of its
taking off, or to discover whether there
were powder burns in its back hair. The
fact is, it died of neglect. The debonair
financier who was to have acted as ring
master, countermanded his order for an
eighteen-foot whip and sent in his resig
nation, just after he saw his picture in
The Looking Glass of week-before-
last. He realized by his counterfeit pre
sentment that his presence would destroy
the vraisonblance of a circus and give the
affair the complexion of a beauty show,
so he begged to be declined, and many
of the more timid amateurs followed in
the wake of his deflection.
From that time on it became evident
that the circus was doomed. The
original intenrion was to have a bevy of
pretty girls dressed as vivandieres, who
would sell the red lemonade and peddle
prize packages among the audience.
They were relied upon as one of the main
attractions of the show, but when the 400
was polled for volunteers nobody res
ponded.
“Good gracious!” exclaimed one
debutante, holding up her hands in holy
horror, “Mercy on us ! Why, I wouldn’t
make such a guy of myself if the whole
exposition went to smash !”
This was the prevalent sentiment. In
Chicago, Buffalo, Los Angelos, Detroit,
and other places, society ladies not only
acted as “peanut butchers” but put on
tights and helped along the ring per
formance. No such devotion was dis
cernable in Atlanta, and while everybody
admitted that it was a splendid idea, and
ought to win a lot of money, nobody was
willing to jump through a hoop or ride a
bare-back horse. The consequence was
that the performance was restricted
actually to male performers, which, all
hands conceded, would not do at all.
Such was the result of a final meeting
this week of those interested in the
project, and by common consent the
circus was allowed to flicker out.
Thus ends the most spectacular of the
exposition schemes.
SENSIBLE LAD, THIS.
Small boy—Mama take me to Miss
Cogswell’s.
Indulgent Mama—What for, son ?
S. B.—l want my finger nails barbe
cued.
I.M. —You mean manacured, dear. You
may go, for Miss Cogswell does the best
work in the city.
DON’T BE WOOZY
but join the Atlanta Dressing Club, and
always look neat, tidy. 7% N. Broad St.
OSTRICH FEATHERS,
Cleaned, Curled and Dyed. Hats Dyed
and Re-shaped. Latest styles in Millinery.
Mrs. B. C. Frye, 116 Marietta st.
Sweet Water Park Hotel, Lithia
Springs, Ga., $lO to S2O per week.
Shortest distance. Less railroad fare.
Hungry man, in a hurry
Swift waiter, no flurry,
Good food, small bill audeaux,
Man satisfied at Vignaux.
Respess Co. Copper etchers, 2 S. Broad.
Cass
We place on sale to-day our entire
stock of Ladies’ Finest Vici Kid
Hand Sewed, Patent Leather
Trimmed Oxford Ties that have
sold freely all the Season at $2.00
to $3.00.
Last Call, $1.50 a Pair.
160 Men’s Finest black and brown
Derbys. Dunlap and Importei
English makes—worth $4.00.
Last Call, 98e Each.
TAYLOR & GALPHIN,
238 AND 240 MARIETTA ST.
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