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VOL. V. NO. 227.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1907.
PPIPT?. In Atlanta: TWO CENTS.
riUL/JL: on Trains: FIVE CENTS.
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HAJJRY KENDALL THAW.
Say Impossible to Live
Up to New Or
dinance.
Doe, the new pure milk ordinance,
which went Into effect Monday morn
ing, prevent the legal sale of milk In
Atlanta?
This Is the contention of the Puro
Milk and Food Company, one of the
largest concerns selling milk In Atlan
ta, and on the strength of It the com
pany hafc gone temporarily out of the
business.
The officials of the company claim
positively that It Is a practical Impos
sibility to live up to all the require
ments of the law, and accordingly have
censed selling milk. They say also thnt
It Is equally ns Impossible for nny
other concern to sell milk In Atlanta
and comply with the law.
To.8top Business.
The following notice has been sent
out to all the patrons of the Pure Milk
and Food Company:
'‘Atlanta, Ga., March 25, 1907.
"All Patrons:
"Under the new milk ordinance ef
fective today, ye, as every other dairy
man, ran not sell any more milk In
Atlanta and comply with tho law, and
as honorable men conducting a legiti
mate business we can not afford to do
business In violation of the law; there
fore, we will discontinue tho sale of
sweet milk after today.
“Wo will continue the sale of sweet
cream and Ice cream and will be glad
to supply your wnnts In this line.
"Yours truly.
"PURE MILK AND FOOD CO.”
All the other dairymen, it Is under
stood, are still selling milk and are do
ing their utmost to live up to tho re
quirements. Many nre raising stren
uous objections, though, to some of the
restrictions.
The particular clause In the new or
dinances to which the Pure Milk and
Food Company raise especial objection
Is this:
Objsctionable Clause.
"goctlpp..25. . AJl.iuilk. brought .into
the city or s'6ld or -offered for sale In
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You Can Lead a Horse to “WATER," But—You Can’t Make Him Drink.
SOUTH UNAFRAID
AT WALL-ST. SLUMP
“Rich Man’s Panic,”
Says Asa G.
Candler.
SAY IT TROUBLES
SPECULATORS ONLY
COMPETING LIGHT PLANT
READY IN SIXTY DAYS;
CURRENT 1-3 CHEAPER
Capt. Janies W. English
Takes Pessimistic A T ie\v
of Conditions.
"•1 rich man's panic." Is what Asa
<'andler, president of the Central
ham, and Trust Company, character
lz *s the stir on Wall street of Satur
da > and Monday.
''onservBtlve banking Interesta of
■'tlanta, the best and safest barometers
"< business and outward' Influences, are
n "t In the least apprehensive over the
dtnation In New York. Only one bank-
er Interviewed was Inclined to take a
klootny viewpoint—Captain James W.
English, president of the Fourth Na-
'!'>nnl Bank.
•'"a O. Candler, of the Central Bank
r - n 1 Trust Company, and Captain Rob-
tP J- l.owry, president of the Lowry
jjatl.inal Rank, are both optimistic,
-tth believe the trouble local to Walt
Mn[ t_ * n fact> largely a speculators’
S! r ''andler and Colonel Lowry do
nut apprehend that trouble will extend
•"uthwqrd, and that It will largely be
coffined to Wall street and the men
" l lunge there.
Colonel Lowry Not Apprehensive.
1 "lonel Lowry, when seen In his of-
8 " Tuesday morning, said:
I do not In the least apprehend
tha* the trouble In New York will
bother us. I am of the opinion tlgR
“ a speculative panic, which wlu
ot'iw over shortly. I can see no sIqis
,; n ’he local horizon that should give
Ui , uiieasIntM.
'"e are going forward, prospering
industrially and commercially. The
{fath Is feeling a marvelous growth.
** In no sense abnormal or from un-
, 1 causes. It Is natural grmvlh on
" u - natural resources. It would be a
mnt nlty for anything to happen to
.'.‘I' 1 ,,ur expansion.
i here Is danger, of course, of car-
l>>'tg the prosecution of corporate In-
-fesis to persecution. U would seem
bat ju*t now railroads and other
“re" Interests nr* more or less appre-
Continued on Page Four.
"In sixty days the North Georgia
Electric Company will be an active
competitor of the Atlanta Gas and
Electric Light Company."
So states C. J. Simmons, president
of the Atlanta Telephone and Tele
graph Company, who Is also prominent
ly Identified with the North Georgia
Electric Company.
“Everything Is practically In readi
ness. The dam on tho Chattahoochee
near Oalnesvllle'is working splcnd'"
and Is ready to furnVh all necessary
power. All the machinery Is Installed,
and It only remains for conduits ulong
two blocks to be fltted out."
The North Georgia Electric Company
was granted a franchise to furnish
light, Itcut ijnd power In Atlanta on
December 22, 1905, Mnyor Woodward
approving the ordlnahce granting the
same on December 26, 1905.
With the coming In of a competitive
company will also come a material re
duction In rales, which will average, It
Is said, 33 1-3 per cent.
The following extract from the fran.
clitse explains the reduction In rates:
Reduction of Rates.
"It Is further agreed, as an additional
stipulation especially agreed to by the
company, that It undertakes and con
tracts, by the acceptance of grants
hereunder, to furnish electric current
for the purpose of light and heat to In
dtviduals, firms and corporations with
•n 'he city for a sum not exceeding 10
cents per kilowatt hour, and to fur
nish electric current for the purpose of
power to Individual Arms and corpora
tions within the city at a sum not ex
ceeding 6 cents per kilowatt hour, the
lores ling payments to be reduced each
-month by a sum equal to 10 per centum
of the monthly charges, provided the
payments therefor are made by the
tenth of the current month."
This maximum flxed by the city Is
lower than the present rate. The North
Georgia Company Intends, however, to
make the rates even lower than tills.
There will be a sliding scale of rates,
the maximum being 10 cents, with n 10
net- cent reduction, and a decrease In
rates all along and up the line, aecotd-
Ing to the amount used. The scale will
.average about a one-third reduction in
the present rate. It Is said.
Two Yoara Work.
The company, which Is headed Ity
General A. J. Warner, the well-known
Gainesville capitalist, has been work
ing assiduously for two years getting
things In readiness for the furnishing
of power for light and heat In Atlanta.
A magnificent plant has been esiab-
llshcd on the Chattahoochee, near
Gainesville, and the lines have- been
run Into Atlanta. The Atlanta termi
nus on Edgewood avenue la practically
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completed, and as soon as the conduits
are extended from there to the plant of
the Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph
‘Company, a distance of about two
blocks, the company will be about nstdy
to do business.
The franchise permits the company
to use the conduits, manholes, poles
and construction of the Atlanta Tele
phone und Telegraph Company, an
agreement having been arranged by
the telephone company with the elec
tric company.
The North Georgia Electric Company
also agrees, tinder the terms of the
franchise, to furnish lights to the city
at a considerable less cost than lights
are now being furnished.
For City Lights.
Under the present contract with the
Atlanta Gas and Electric Light Com
pany the city pays »75 per a year for
each are light of 1,2no-eandle power,
und 133.75 for series or Incandescent
lights of 75-candle power.
The North Georgia Electric Company
agrees to furnish current for each arc
light of 2,000-candle power for one
year for not more than $65 per year
and for incandescent or series lights
for not more than $28.
The franchise provides that there Is
to be no merging, consolidating or com
munity of Interests established between
the North Georgia Electric Company
id any other lighting plant.
Competition by this new concern,
with Its reduction of rates, will mean
the saving of hundreds of thousands of
dollars to the city und to the people
annually.
the city muet not contain more than
lon.noo bacteria per cubic centimeter.”
Dairymen contend that It Is practi
cally a physical Impossibility to get
milk with that little bacteria, and that
milk containing as much as 500,000
bacteria can not be considered Impure.
The ordinance further provides this:
"Section 31. All milk kept for sale
r offered for sale In milk depots, ho
tels. restaurants. lunch rooms. Ice
cream factories, etc., shall be kept at
a temperature below 50 degrees Fah
renheit and must not contain more
than 100,000 bacteria per cubic centi
meter.”
It Is probable that dairymen will ap
pear before council next Monday and
appeal for a change In these two sec
tions.
The new ordinance governing the
sale of milk and regulating the sani
tary condition of dairies and milk de
pots In Atlanta was Introduced toy
Councllman Mangum, chairman of the
sanitary committee and ex-ofllclo mem
ber of the board of health, on Febru
ary 4.
It wns referred to the ordinance com
mittee, which made a few changes a\d
then reported favorably. Council
adopted the ordinance at the last ses
sion on Monday of last week, and It
went Into effect on Monday of this
week.
The Pure Milk and Food Company
was established here about a year ago.
the cost of the plant approximating, it
Is said, $50,000.
Tho main plant Is at 66-68 Ivy street,
several branches being operated In oth
er sections of the city.
ELECTflic COMP'Y
to annuzxnu
Two Million to Stockholders
and Half Million in
Treasury.
At a meeting of stockholders of the
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Tuesday morning, an Issue of $2,500,600
of stork was made.
Of this, $2,000,000 was divided among
the stockholders of the company, and
Increased their holdings about one-
third. The Issue was looked upon In
the nature of a dividend. The remain
der. $500,000, was held In the treasury
to be distributed according to the re
quirements of the company.
President' Arkwright stated that the
new stock was given the stockholder.'
Instead of a dividend upon the earnings,
which had been withheld ami devoted
to Improvements In the company*-*
properties. It amounted practically to
dividend of thirty-three .mil one-
third per cent. No actual sales were
caused by the new Issue, the eloek br
ing held by the former stockholders In
proportion to their holdings.
The Increase was from $4,000,000 to
$$,500,000
INSANITY BOARD
TO EXAMINE THA W
Slayer to Submit
Cheerfully to Legiti
mate Test.
HE WON’T STAND
FOR FOOLISHNESS
Lawyers for Prisoner Say
They Welcome, Instead
of Fear, tlile Exami
nation.
CORTELYOU GIVES AID
TO THE MONEY MARKET
Washington, March 26.—Secretary r,f
the Treasury Cortelyou today directed
the deposit of customs receipts In the
national bank depositories of New York
city. This is an enlargement of the
order recently Issued by him. It will
Increase public deposits In that city
about $15,000,000.
. Another statement was Isucd antici
pating tho interest on 2 per cent con
sols of 1030, und the 4 per cent loan
of 1907, due April 1, so as to make It
puyable immediately.
Briefly put, the known -relief to the
-money market will be this:
Immediate deposits of accumulated
customs receipts In public depositories.
$15,000,000; dally additions hereafter,
11,000,000; anticipated Interest -on
bonds, $2,000,000.
The secretary's formal announce
ment concludes:
"Thle action Is taken with a view to
facilitate the redemption of 4 per cent
bonds of 1907 and also'to render avail
able additional funds for tpe usual dis
bursements occurring at the first of the
now month."
New York. March 26.—Acom-
misaiqn in lunacy haw been ap
pointed to determine the present
mental .condition of Harry K.
Thaw*.
Here is the makc-np of the com
mission :
Former Justice Morgan J.
O’Brien will be the lawyer.
l'cter B. Oinev, the layman.
The doctor is Dr. Leopold l’ut-
zcil.
Justice Fitzgerald announced
his intention to nppoint a commis
sion to the lawyers of the defense,
the district attorney and mem
bers of the Thaw family this af
ternoon in star chamber proceed- j
ings. conducted in his private
rooms nt the criminal eourts build j
ing. The public was barred.
Harry Thaw will he his own most
Important witness at the Inquiry Into
his mental condition. His mother, Mrs.
William Thaw, will also be a vital wit
ness in his behalf.
On arriving at the criminal courts
building today Justice Fitzgerald, who
was not expected until tomorrow, sum
moned by messengers all persons di
rectly Interested In the ease. When all
were In the room, the doors were locked
against reporters and the public.
Young Mrs. Thaw Dazed.
When It whs announced that Justice
Fitzgerald had Informed the principals
that he had decided to appoint a com
mission to determine That’s mental |
condition, a C4>urt officer sx|fi'that the
on Pass Fou*
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian records hero each day some
economic fart In reference to tbs onward
march of the South.
DY
JOSEPH 0. LIVELY.
Though retrenchment Is being discussed In some parts of tho coun-
' try, several railroad projects In the South of more than ordinary Im
portance arc noted by The Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore. One
of the most notable of these looks to the expenditure of about $5,000,000
upon a union station and terminals at Memphis, Tenn., by a company-In
which are represented the Iron Mountain, the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, the 8t. Louis and Han Francisco, the St. Louis Southwestern, the
Yazoo anil Mississippi Valley, the Illinois Central, the Louisville and
Nashville, the Southern und the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroads. The new station, which will be reached by elevated tracks,
will cost about $3,000,000 and other terminals about $2,000,000.
Another million dollars will be spent for buildings and equipment of
machinery’ for the new shops of ihe Central of Georgia railroad at Ma
con, Ga. The directors of the cpmpany have decided to enlarge the pres
ent plant. Increasing the acreage covered by buildings, roundhouse and
trackage, for which plans have already been prepared.
Contract has been awanled for the dredging to be done In preparation
for the construction of the first of :ue big coat piers which the Tidewater
railway is to build at Its terminals near Norfolk, und also the contract for
the substructural work. The pier, which will be 1,000 feet long, 60 feet
wide and 65 feet high, will cost between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Other
railroad improvements und extensions reported include the building by the
Kansas City Southern railroad of a line from Crowley, La., to connect
with the New Orleans. Crowley and Western; of a second track on the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley line f jv 90 miles, between Baton Rouge and
New Orleuns; a 125-mile extension of the PeQueen and Eastern railway
from DeQueen to Hot Springs. Ark., ihe building of a low-grade line
for the Illinois Central between Birmingham and Jasper, Ala.; a six-mil*
extension of the State railroad connecting Rusk and Gallatin. Texas, and
the building at Marttnsburg, W. V«., of yarda to be used Jointly by the
Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Western Maryland rail
roads.
This month the contract will be let for th<* car repair shops at Oden-
ton. Md„ of the Washington. Baltimore and Annupoli? Electric Rallre.ul
Company. This Is one of the Intcrurban electric lines to which the
South Is giving attention. Another project of the kind for which rights of
way and franchises are now being secured Is to Connect the more impor
tant towns In northwestern Arkansas. Survey has begun for a line con
necting Dallas and Greenville. Texas, and a company Is organizing to
construct a line to serve OIney, Onuncock, Tnsley. Accomae. LocustrUle
and Wachaprague on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Street railway com
panies at Atlanta. Ga.. Louisville. Ky.. Huntsville, Ala., Lexington. Ky.,
and Jackson, Miss., are also contemplating improvements of ot Lind and
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