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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Fill DAT, APRIL 26, 1907.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMHI.E GRAVES, Editor.
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OUR*PLATFORM: The Georgian
and News stands for Atlanta's owning
Its own gaa nnd electric light plants,
as it now owns Its water works. Other
cities do this and get gaa as low as 5)
rents, with a profit to the city. This
should be done at once. The Georgian
and News bcltaves that If street rail
ways can he operated successfully by
European cities, as they are, there le
bo good reason why they can not he to
operated here. Rut wo do not believe
this can be done now, nnd It may be
soma years before we are ready for so •
big an undertaking. Htlll Atlanta
should set Its face In that direction
The Immigration Iisue Again.
Convention, and conference, to fos
ter Immigration and to bring desirable
aliens Southward aro all ve/y well In
their way. A. moulders of public opln
Ion they carry weight, but they do
little of a practical kind to afford
the immediate relief we so sadly stand
in need of, declares The American
Cotton Manufacturer. Bounded as we
are by the Federal legal restrictions,
our energies must run la certain chan
nels which are well defined; and* be
ing hampered by this multitude of lim
itations we must use such tools os
we have at command In the most effec
tive way, and In the task neither cost
nor sacrlDce may bo taken into ac
count. A niggardly hand doling out
odd dollars may Just as well be kept In
the pocket. We are face to face wltb
an annual Influx of over a million for
eigners. Taking the country as a
whole, only five ppr cent or so of
them reach the South and most of this
meagre percentage finally settle In the
Southwest, remote from tho growing
Southern Industrial area. The other
95 per cent go to Northern, Western
and Middle states, whose advantages
have been exploited all over Europe
tor generations. Yet the advantages
of which tho settler may avail himself
are nowhere equal to those which the
South dumbly holds out, beyond sight
of those to whom she would appeal.
Wo have Industrial construction
manufacturing and town occupatlous
drawing help from the farms. New
cotton mills going up by the score,
hydroelectric developments under
way, which will soon be offering pow
er enough to run every splndlo from
Virginia to Texas, If the spindles
could be reached profitably, but as
many of the existing cotton mills and
other power users are outside the
commercial electrical area, the erec
tion of new mills will be fostered and
encouraged within the electrical zone
and the help paucity be thus aggra
vated to such an acute atago that dis
aster will faco the weaker corpora
tions.
This is all os distressing os It Is
amazing that the business men of the
affected region have not long to come
together, check book In hand, to make
known In Europe what they have to
offer to the laborer, mill worker, farm
band, capitalist and manufacturer.
Intelligently, systematically, persist
ently and generously at the large Im
migration stations In New York, Bos
ton and Philadelphia, to direct such
desirable aliens as have not decided,
before dlsembarcatlon, upon a loca
tion, toward the South which needs
them most and will treat them best.
This will not be an altogether easy
tank for every section of this great
country from Canada to Mexico; At
lantic to Pacific; village, town, city
and country, are all crying for human
Intelligence, muscle and brawn, and
they are catching the many stragglers
at the entry-ports.
The South Is softly calling against
the brass bands of the rest of the
co mi try, but she must play her time
Just as loudly and attractively to lure
her fair share of tho flood of people
ever flowing from Eastern to Western
hemisphere. Otherwise, confusion
will be most confounded and present
worry will be turned Into Industrial
dementia.
We have the remedy In our own
hands, but individual oflort, while
commendable, must be supplemented
by a gigantic and well supported
movement to turn the selected tide In
this direction and once turned It will
Nothing less than sustained South
ern activity will prevail against the
everlasting pegging away of other
sufferers from labor hunger.
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAYS MAY INSPIRE NATIONAL
PATRIOTISM.
I (This Is In part the Memorial speech delivered today at Greensboro and
Washington by tho editor of Tho Georgian.)
For fifty years England has borne the heroic horsemen of Balaklava
In- her heart For throe decades France has remembered tho brave but
unfortunate soldiers of Sedan. And when an hundred years have rolled
away these April flowers shall find us here among them seeking their fra
grant hearts and crimson colors to voice a deathless devotion to the Con
federate dead.
/ In riper witness I have como to know that we love these brave men
better because they failed. If they had won, If they had been victorious.
If they had died upon successful battlefields; If they had como home
crowned with lAurels and comforted with tho pensions of a triumphant
Government, we might have left them more to the measure of their fanle
nnd to tha splendor of their victories.
But the furled flag that falls across these silent mounds has draped
deafh In the dignity of tragedy. It has lifted the halo of martyrdom
above tho convictions that pledged their honesty In blood; and in the
unspenkable sympathy which works fellowship In sorrow, suffering and
dofeat, we have locked these martys In our hearts forever.
I do not think that men, If left to themselves, would have bo long
sustained the glory of this Memorial Day, The love and the loyalty that
weeps over the Lost Cause finds Its noblest shrine In woman. In wo
men's hearts sentiment never dies and heroic memories make no sur
render.
The daughter of Dixie Is the' preserver of the faith. She has bullded
a well In the wilderness of commerce. She has made an oasis In the
desert of trade and here In this saered ceremony she has preserved one
last and lingering altar of sentiment In thp cold but splendid temple dedi
cated to mammon and material gala.
Men may die and systems change, but the woman of the 8outh holds
an unshaken faith through passing years. She gave her heart and her
hope In 1861 to tho cause that "rose without shame and fell without dis
honor." And for forty-two years she has fed the fires of this altar, pure
as a vestal virgin and loyal as the priestess who In the failure of a sac
rifice, offered herself upon the altsr of her love. Serving without seek
ing. lovlug without leaving, remembering without lining, baptized In tra
dition, consccrkted through suffering,,perfect In faith and glorious In good
works, she Is today as she wss in the beginning, unchanged and unchang
ing, loving and loyal, unfeigned and unfearlng, unawed and unrepentant
—and please God—"uKreconstmeted" forever!
With a reverence that can find no volco In words, wo saluto the con
stancy wltb which Southern woman keep watch above the graves of
these Confederate dead. And with pit our hearts, with all our traditions,
with all our tender memories, with all our overflowing love, we Join
them In this bivouac which their deathless devotion makes on this conse
crated ground. The faith Is worthy of the royal and tho priestess Is not
less noble than her shrine.
Tho South today from Richmond to the Rio Grpnde Is studded with
theso graves of soldiers. They fell on fields of battle fighting for the
principles and convictions of the soil from which they came. We love
them. We honor them. We call them heroes, because they are dead—
because they died for us. And we love, honor and praise them Justly.
They did gallant deeds. They reflected the luster of Southern heroism
through all ages and Into every land. They Illustrated the courage and
chivalry of the South In blood drops that have empurpled every field from
Austin to Appomattox. They fought llko lions; they endured like martyrs,
and they boro the tattered flag of the sovereign states through gloom and
Joy, through sunshine and through storm with an heroic faith, a match
less patience and a splendid patriotism that will live as-long as the fame
bt Jackson and tho name of Led.
1 have not one heart throb that does not do them honor. There Is
no act of homage that I would not esteem It a privilege to offer to the
soldiers and the leaders of this Illustrious company.
If I held tho keys of the now world's Westminster I would build a
stately mausoleum where, freo from criticism and secure from blame,
might repose the ashes of that stainless Gentleman who lived and died,
the first and last President of the Confederate States.
ft I could rob Nature of the richest floral crown she wears 1 would lay
the fragrant emblem, upon the glorious dead who fell on old Manassas’
plain.
If I could weave a diadem of atars, I would crown the martyred war
riors of Gettysburg.
If, reaching to theso shadowy clouds, I could catch a whispering
wind and sootho lfs murmur to music sweet, I would mingle with the
ssd echoes of Chancellorsvllle a miserere that would wing its way to
Jackson’s soul In heaven.
If I could sweep the harp strings of my Jarring spirit with master
hand, and tune Its discord to dlvlneat melody. I would chant seraphic
requiem above tho Innumerable undlstlngulshable host of Southern dead;
and—
Ah. If In song or speech,
In major or minor key,
I could to tho onds of ages reach,
I would whisper the name of Lee.
Ladles aud gentlemen, there must be no word of politics spoken In
the city of the dead. But the plea of patriotism may rise appropriate
above these gallant graves.
In all the world there la no nobler place than this to pledge anew
our loyalty and devotion to our country and Its laws. It this Is not our
country, we have no country; and If It Is our country It Is treason not to
love It and to love It all. I bear witness that traveling 30,000 miles a year
for IS yearn through Northern and Western states, I found my first and
heartiest welcome In the fact that I was the son of a Confederate soldier.
I bear you witness hero today, not from theory, but experience, that tho
whole mass of the Northern people are pulsing with fraternity for tho
people of tho South. Shall the sons and daughters of Confederate heroes
be unresponsive to the sentiment?
Tho men who sleep bare are In our Judgment ths beet and the brav
est Americans that ever lived. They did not fight in bitterness. They
did not die in hate. War is tho conflict of Ideas and not of Individuals.
The things that frown at each other across the embattled lines are Issues,
not men, and the death grapple of the battle Held, la never In these mod
ern times an expression of personal malice but the fierce assertion of op
posite and antagonistic conviction.
Foolish, therefore, uncivilized and Inhuman, to perpetuate for a day In
peace the bitterness that sped the bullets In battle. It Is tho mark of a
small soul and bt a narrow mind to carry Into tho calm ot Industry the
fierceness of faction that was once expressed In strife.
And the gallant Americans who fought for tho flag of the Union or
followed the fortunes of Lee shot out all their bitterness under smoke of
thMr lifted guns. Tbe bases of peace pulsed In their hearts after every
battlofleld that they baptized with their patriot blood; and the platform
ot reunion was written in these patriot bosoms long before the boom
of the cannon had died upon tho last expression of strike.
The cause for which these gray immortals fought was not lost and Is
not dead.
Mark you. It was not slavery. Slavery was but the Irritant that net
these antagonistic forces at each others' throats.
The cause for the war—born with the constitution and flourishing
amid factions which Interpreted It—the rsnkling Idea that fretted for a
century was the nature of the government framed by the fathers—con
solidation against the federal Idea; centralized government against the
Idea of local independence; the central and Indissoluble union against tbe
sovereign and Indestructible states.
With tbe argument on this Issue exhausted by Webster and Calhoun,
tbe appeal was to arms. The Issue insoluble In reason had to be tested
In blood. One million ot Americans died upon the altar of division, and
113,600,000,000 of money was sacrificed to tbe experiment ot the sword.
Numbers and numbers only could decide a battle royal of American
valor.
In the providence of God and by the weight ot numbera the decision
fell In favor ot the federal Idea. But the foreman of tbe martial Jury that
rendered the verdict was an heroic soldier, and the verdict that Ulysses
Grant returned at the point ot hie eword actually preserved the rights of
the sutee.
Strange and beautiful paradox of revolution—that a verdict rendered
hero who, in the express terms of surrender, wrote with his sword a final
verdict for an Indissoluble union of indestructible states.
We have today a reunited country not because of the forgiven sins
of either section, but because both sections have long since recognized
the right and the Justice of the others' contention, and that both conten
tions were necessary for the preservation of our Institutions; that the
states must ho protected In their rights, and the federal government re
spected In Its constitutional sphere.
So that this great conflict—the tragedy of nations—with Its blood. Its
travail and Its tears, has, In the providence of God worked out the final
evolution of a political and constitutional problem. It has consummated
/ a certain and definite sphere for the state and the federal government
The question of destroying the states or of dissolving the government can
never rlBe again! Bull Run and Gettysburg, Manassas and Appomattox
have bullded In blood a monument to this perpetual compact.
Tho doctrine of the indestructibility of the states Is as sacred now In
the firesides of Massachusetts as to tho sons of South Carolina. And
Georgia will henceforth honor and adore as loyally as New England the
starry flag that stands for a fixed and Indissoluble union.
As’we.were divided by ono war we were united by another. It has
been worth tho war with Spain for you and I, veterans and sons and
daughters of veterans, to have witnessed the complete and practical uni
fication of our country. Not In sixty years, not in seventy years—scarcely
since the constitution-was born In that primal wrangle—bare we been as
united and as harmonious as we are today.
Beautiful are the scenes of unity which the Spanlsh-American war
painted upon the canvas of our country’s history: Sons of Confederate
veterans, and sons of Union soldiers marching with locked step against a
common enemy whllff the brass bands of Union regiments blow their
breath In Joyous currents through the martial strains of “Dixie,” Battle
fields In foreign countries baptized with the blood of the blue nnd the
blood of the gray shed In crimson sacrifice to the sentiment of our national
honor. Old Joe Wheeler, that brave - old Confederate horseman, fairly
blazing In bine as ho led the Uulon cavalry down the crimson slope of
San Juan; a grandson of Lincoln and a grandson of Grant serving gal
lantly and gladly upon the staff of tho Virginia gentleman who In 1865
wore the uniform of a Confederate general and the historic name of Fltz-
hugh Lee. Hobson and Bagley and Winshlp and Blue, of the best blood
of the' old South glorifying by their courage and daring, and two of them
by their patriot deaths the hero traditions of the new republic While
everywhere the flower and chivalry'of the new South wrapping In the
folds of tho spangled Banner tho Faded Jacket of Gray which was their
heritage of heroism, and bearing In their records the last expression of
a loyal faith, have come with confident lips and beating hearts to say:
"Here! If our fathers sought with glorious honesty to dissolve the
union, wo have fought with not less signal courage to maintain the honor
of our country’s flag."
Surely, my countrymen, In the midst of scenes like these wo do not
need to bo told that this Is Indeed one country—our country—looking
through eyes of common faith and hope to the splendors of a surpass
ing future.
Ladles and gentlemen, as I sink into silence with the setting sun, let
me salute tho colors that surround me:
First that dear old flag of tender memories, battle-scarred and grimed
with glory, consecrated in heroic convictions and furled forever upon
a bitterness never to be reborn.-*.
And tben In the spirit of this noble day, let us salute that other flag
which carries all the glory of the present and all the hope and promise
of tbe future—the flag of our country, the flag of our fathers, and now,
please God, our flag forever.
It Is the symbol of liberty, the emblem of progress, and wherever It
streams men must and shall see daybreak bursting on the world.
Not another flag In history has such a mission as ours or goes forth
to carry such tidings upon land and sea. It Is tho banner of dawn, the flag
of morning, the emblem of peace, the symbol of liberty—the unbought, iin-
shamed, unconquered—glorious—over all victorious—may God save It in
honor—our Star Spangled Flag of the Free!
And aB we behold It streaming here—we who are veterans and the
sons ot veterans—we who are American citizens, too—with our blood puls
ing In veins unclotted by a single bitter memory—can take It to our
hearts and lift It high above our heads and thank God that it waves at
last above a reunited country, with its white stripe breathing peace, Its
red stripe pulsing kindred, and the azure radiant with stars which speak
the Providence that makes us now andeforever, one people In this great
est republics of the world.
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The Orator of Today.
John T. Bolfeulllet, of Macon, has
won by worthy years a welcome to the
capital and to any city of the state.
He Is a Georgian of tho most repre
sentative type. A man of strenuous
Industry and of unswerving loyalty to
friends and to the state, bo Is also a
publicist of unlmpeached Integrity, an
official without blame and one of tho
established orators of the state.
There is scarcely a richer fund of
reminiscence In Georgia than that
which unfolds day by day in The Ma
con Telegraph from the (ten of John T.
Bolfeulllet. He has enriched all the
fields of endeavor in which'ho has
striven among his fellows, and he has
established a character which will be
tho crown of glory of his declining
years.
For whether he stands In tbe capitol
as legislator or secretary, as officer in
tho realm of order, as politician In the
fierce contentions of the ballot, as
writer In tho greater scope of Journal
ism, or as ho comes today, the orator
upon the noblest and tenderest of
all the occasions which assemble the
heroic South, John Bolfeulllet Is a
brave, generous, loyal and eloquent
gentleman—enjoying and deserving
the love of hjs friends, and the un
qualified respect of the few enemies
that ho has made.
We welcome this gallant Georgian
to the noblest platform which Atlanta
can offer to a citizen of Georgia.
THE PEOPLE APPROVE.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Allow me to congratulate you for the
manhood displayed when you offered
to Bryan the suggestion that he nomi
nate Roosevelt for the next president.
When ,we consider that even your
financial business, your paper, was at
stake: when we consider that your
■octal and political life was at slake,
our admiration enlarges till It becomes
akin to love.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
Higgston, Ga.
WOULD RAISE HIM ABOVE
THE PRESIDENT,
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Permit me to Indorse your Chattanoo
ga suggestion for William J. Bryan to
nominate Theodore Roosevelt for presl.
dent in 1*08.
Mr. Bryan is now a statesman of
national renown and to nominate
Roosevelt for president under the cir
cumstances as now exist would make
a patriot ot world-wide renown. This
would forever make him an Idol of
America. 1 had rather be such a patriot
l>y tbe victor ahould conserve the contention of the vanquished; and that L h *? “ ** president of the United
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an Issue unsolved by reason' and unsettled by arms was healed by a
ON OLD REBEL SOLDIER.
AS YOU MAY SEE IT.
Hon. John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga.
Your Iroquois speech was a "thriller,"
but was it anything more?
The parallel between Roosevelt and
Bryun, Is It not artificial, unnatural,
vain?
The one Is a successful leader; the
other is fortunate In having friends who
say, though he Is wrong, he Is sincere!
The one deals In facts; the other In
platitudes to persuade the unthinking
or the Idle thinking.
The one Is a man of deeds; theothdr
of words—words only.
The one said that he who speaks
softly and carries a big stick will go
far; the other said, on his first visit to
Connecticut: In 1906, that the people of
that state have a reputation for mak
ing and vending wooden nutmegs.
(They have not. The Joke originated
In Pennaylvania when Simon Snyder,
the Pennsylvania Dutchman, who, by
■ome chance, had become governor,
suggested at a conference of his pnrty
leaders, excluding Connecticut peddlers
from the state because, he said, they
were selling nutmegs made of bass
wood, when everybody knows they
ought to be made of sassafras!) But.
added your antithetical "statesman," I
want to say to you that the man wbo
sells wooden nutmegs as the genuine
article Is an honest man compared with
the man who owes a debt and pays it In
gold dollars! And when a voice In
quired why, this "boy” orator said be
cause a gold dollar grgwa fatter and
fatter all the time, and that Is not an
honest dollar! *
If I can prove that this “boy,” who
had reached the mature age of ;;ti,
made that foolish speech (and I can),
will you still Insist that he ought fairly
to take rank with the other, who, when
only six years older, was president of
the United States, and, three years
later, was elected to succeed hlmsalf by
a plurality of the popular vote about
equal to the aum of all the pluralities
of his twenty-four predecessors '
distinguished office?
For publication or for politics, one
might make such a claim, but you
would not do so at the sincere moment
when, at the family altar, you take
your cause to Him who searcheth u'l
hearts, and who tmputeth not vain
words for righteousness.
Yours truly,
M. v. ZIMMERMAN.
349 Grant street. New York, April 21.
OFFICIALS OF THE Y. W. C. A.
GRATEFUL TO THE GEORGIAN.
To the Editor of Tbe Georgian:
For the splendid work done bv y
per In tx-hnlf of the Young Women r
tlsn Association, I desire to express the
deepest gratitude and thanks on liebtlf of
tbe state committee, as well ns on liehalf
of tbe Atlanta rtty association, lioth arti
cles on tbe editorial page, as well ns on
tbe woman's page, were In every way most
splendidly written, and put tbe matter be-
fore tbe public In last tbe way desfrad.
Again thanking you, I am gratefully
yours,
MRS, A. M'D. WILSON.
To tbe Editor of Tbe neorglnn:
In behalf of tbe Is I d of the Toting
Women's Christian Association, heartfelt
thanks ore tendered mu for tbe Interest
taken In »nr work nt this time, and for tbe
splendid way In which It was brought be
fore tbe pridic. Very reonectfutlr.
MIIM. W. 11/ PATTKUMO.V.
storrees-omllna M, -tetm-r »
To the Editor of Tho Georgian:
Would It not be' Judicious, on the
part of Atlanta, to add to her at
tractiveness by the betterment of cer
tain unfavorable conditions. In he;
present fair domain, before enlarging
her borders, into a Greater Atlanta?
What think you, Atlanta, for In
stance, of the uncleanllness of your
streets and the wild disorder of the
majority of your “back yards?"
Let those, among your mighty ones,
In whom are vested the power nnd
wealth that accomplish things; those,
whoa wisdom “uttereth her voice In
the streets,” step down for a moment
from their spotless and luxurious
equipages, their swiftly rolling coupes,
their madly rushing autos, that the
sirocco of wind and dust. In their wake
(nay somewhat subside, that the atmos
phere ipay be cleared to the extent of
their halt, and that their eyes may
behold with less obscured vision
whence come these swirling clouds of
germ-laden dust, that Inflames the
eyes, offends the nostrils and Irritates
the throats rfnd lungs of your citizens,
who, either may not, or prefer not, to
ride In such swift transports and so
run ahead of the dust, raised by these
autocrats of the streets.
Let these look up and down tho
thoroughfares of their city and there
see the dirt apd trash and papers—
papers, trash and dirt—that blaze the
.lines of their city's, streets.
Let them look over tho fences onto
the rear grounds of many otherwise
attractive places and see for themselves
the rubbish, the piles of ashes and the
scraps of paper, all In one grand melee
of confusion. ' _
' Let them see the discarded con-
Constltutlons, Journals and Georgians
—some with a sense of duty done, and
well done, nre resting from their labors,
und are gossiping amicably In the fence
corners, while others, their ruling
spirit still strong within them, are
racing precipitately across the cam-
mi* Im felAmlli* nmnlollnn tr% "trAt.fhfirn"
ill.:* New Tork store, a London sho D '
or a "magnasln” de Paris!
Chicago, In proportion to her greater
Size and more numerous manufacturing
plants, with tneir monster chimnles
raining down upon tho city perpetual
showers of Inky soot and grimy smoke
Is worse off than Atlanta, for ahe Is
never without the smoky clouds that
darken nnd pollute her atmosphere, ex
cept after the midnight hour of Satur-
d..v lias put i's wet blank't
Innumerable smoking chlmnies, and
thus gives the poor Chlcagotms a Sun
day glimpse of a sky, as "deeply
darkly, beautily blue" as ever glowed
In the fairest of Italian skies.
But, for all this downfall of soot and
cinders, tho streets of Chicago are
swept and sprinkled at a proper time
and In u methodical (banner until It Is
a perfect pleasure to walk or drive
along her cleanly boulevards.
Jn Paris the beautiful, the "blue
blouses" are astir betimes, and with
the aid of their brooms and shovels
and carts the city la soon resplendent
In her customary Immaculate cleanli
ness and. beauty, all ready for the
dainty boot of la belle Francalae or
la belle Amerlcalne, as she hjaunttly
sets forth to “do the stores,” or "make
the promenade." And all this process
of “cleaning up" does not offend ths
eyes and nostrils of the elite, for It Is
all accomplished before they have
opened their aristocratic eyes upon the
outer world, or have Inhaled anything
less gratifying than their morning
coffee.
In New York city during the regime
of Colonel Waring It was made u
finable offense to throw bits of paper,
or any other disfiguring rubbish, upon
the streets, and the children of the
city were formed Into a detective and
preventive organization, whose duty It
was to see that this law was com
piled with.
The children were put upon their
honor to keep this law themselves and
were empowered to take the name and
address of any one whom they found
breaking this law and of reporting the ■
same to a punitive board, who should
Impose a fine. In accordance w ith the
degree of the misdemeanor.
Now, why could not some such law
be enacted In Atlanta, and her children ,
become the active, ready arms to reach
out after and to bring to speedy Jus
tice her offending citizens.
It Is In the minds of the rising gen
eration that sentiments of orderliness
and cleanliness must be Instilled, or the
same undesirable conditions will con
tinue to offend the nice sense of those
to whom "order Is heaven's first law,"
and to whom "cleanliness Is next to
Godliness."
The month of October, so Ideal In
other places, and In other cities, Is
marred In Atlanta by the even more
than usual clouds of choking dust that
follow the passing of every street car
und carriage and auto whenever the
high winds prevail, which they do al
most unceasingly durlrtg this most
beautiful month, when one would en
joy so keenly a brisk walk In the cool
air, especially after the enforced In
activity of the long summer.
But this may not be for all the pleas
ure Is taken out of such a walk by
this most disagreeable feature.
Now, here la where the water cart
might be used to advantage by sprink
ling our streets and laying the dust,
thus giving us aa Ideal a month ns
could bo found anywhere. Indeed, our
streets) when not watered from the
clouds, should be sprinkled all through
the year.
Please notice, however, that we menn
sprinkling, and not deluging the streets
so that one Is obliged to wade through
mud after the water cart has gone by.
Let the mechanism regulating the flow
of water bo adjusted so that the dust
may be sprinkled lightly and not
soaked. This manner of watering tho
streets would, of course, necessitate a
more frequent application of the water.
But the Increased expense Incurred to
do this would bo a trivial Item for At
lanta to meet and would not be con
sidered by her If only thereby she
might render herself more agreeable
and attractive Ho her own good people,
as well as to the strangers within her
gates.
KATHERINE E. SCOFIELD.
Atlanta, April 23.
pus In friendly emulation to "get-there'
that Indefinite gotu of ambitious activ
ity. ^Let them see the respectable ef
forts to sweep or rako together the ob.
ojctlonablo trash Into heaps that It may
be carried away by the sanitary wagon.
Let them also notice the fact that tho
coming of the sanitary wagon is not
an every day event, and that frequent
ly before It does arrive a disorderly
and unfriendly wind has played havoc
with the heaps, and has scattered the
rubbish to the fourcorners, thus wast
ing both time nnd money, taken to ac
complish tho raking together. Let
them also mark this little Item, that
housekeepers are obliged at times to
offer Inducements In the way of gifts
of east-off clothing, etc., to the drivers
of these wagons In order to get them
to come at all.
Let them seo the perpetual effort to
"clean up,” which seems as futile as
though nothing had been attempted In
that direction.
Let them see the Inevitable broom
In almost constant evidence, and let
them realize that no matter what time
of day they might saunter out for a
promenade, they would encounter the
sweeping that Is always going for
ward.
Out from the grounds of residences,
across the slde-wnlks: out, from every
conceivable alley and passage, come
the never-falling sweepings, with pres
ently more to follow.
Now, citizens of Atlanta, you have
made your tour of Inspection. Your
eyes, If closed before, are now opened
to the erratic, irregular and unsystema
tic ways and means that prevail In your
city.
Can you designate the cause ot this
endless sweeping, and tho likewise end
less need of the same? If you cannot
we can, although we hesitate to name
the word that explains It all In a nut
shell. One must needs be bravo to write
it down In black and white, and In this
presence, but here It is—shlftlcssness.
That one word covers all the ground a
lack of expediency to have a place for
everything und to have everything In
that place.
Let "those who have raked together
the trash updo their premises have a
covered receptacle to put It into. Let
every' householder be obliged, by law',
to own Huch a receptacle. Then will
the tidy housekeeper be helped, nnd the
untidy one, be forced Into the adoption
of orderly ways.
Let the various accumulations on
the streets be provided for In the same
manner. When the sweepers have done
their part of the work. let the wagons
take up the heaps immediately, so
that the wind may not scatter them
again.
it is not only upon our streets that
this same Inexpediency obtains. On day,
In particular, but which was by no
means an anomalous Instance, while
examining a beautiful display of hand-
embroidered nnd lace-trlmmed linens
that were spread out before us on a
counter in ono of our leading stores, we
were compelled to step aside In order
that a dusky broom-propeller might
proceed with his dust-raising per
formance. Thereafter, we did not
wonder nt she frequent, bargain sales
finest accession to the stores of our
exquisite workmanship. But. really
how, would you not prefer to pur
chase those pieces, In their primal
freshness and purity, at their first
value?
Only the other day. In the latest and
finlest accession to the atores of our
city, both ourselves and the young
woman who was waiting upon us were
forced to move far out Into the pas
sage-way so as to prevent the dust and
trash that a porter was pushing along
In front of a big broom from being
swept over our skirts and shoes.
The question Is, where came all that
litter, that required to be swept up dur
ing the hours, when ladles were In
those Btores attending to their shop
ping.
Certainly the ladles could not shave
brought It with them. So the fact Is
evident that the debris must have been
the inevitable accumulation resulting
from the discarding, by the clerks, of
various wrappings, etc., about tho,
goods which they had been handling.
Ergo, the remedy Is obvious—scrap-
baskets. at Intervals, \ behind the
counters. Into which may be thrown
these odds and ends, and which may
readily be picked up and emptied
whenever necessary without creating
either dust or confusion.
Picture. If you can, this pestilential
besom, that walketh at noon-day, or .
any other old time In Atlanta, doing ’tPZr£, .”tT»«ur L
artlr<* —d;?Hr5 cVipp'njc hour* „ „f r |
Army-Navy Orders
—and—
MOVEMENT OF VESSELS.
Washington, April 26.—The following
orders have been Issued:
Army Order*.
First Lieutenant Samuel W. Noyes,
Thirtieth Infantry, before retiring
board at Fort Sam Houston for exam
ination. „
■Captain Earl Brown, corps of engi
neers, Second battalion of engineers,_to
Wilmington. N. C„ relieving Major Jo
seph E. Kuphn. corps of engineers.
Naval Orders.
Surgeon F. O. Field, detached marine
recruiting party, Dallas, to marine re
cruiting party, Houston. May 12.
Gunner W. Carroll, retired, from Nor
folk to home. *
Warrant Machinist C. M. Wingate*
detached duly, St. Louis to Indiana.
Movsment of Vessels.
ARRIVED—April 23. Yorktown. at
Amapala. April 24, Morris, at naW
yard, Now York; Marcellus, at New
port News; Galveston, at Amoy. April
25, Strlngham, Wilkes, DeLong. Blake
ly and Stockton, at Hampton Roads.
. SAILED—April 23, Chicago, from
Amapala for Acujutla and Acapulco.
Boston, from Amapala for Corlnto and
Acapulco. April 34, Prairie, from Ha
vana for Clenfuegoa; Marcellus, from
Hampton Roads for Newport News,
Iroquois, from Mare Island for Honolu
lu. April 35, Strlngham, Wilkes. De-
Lang, Blakely and Stockton, from Nor
folk for Hampton Roads.
The countess of Warwtek. who has,done
so hinrh lownrd gaining better condition*
||j me? iiiiiiwiiiai *t*w ••• - -
»*1. hne Jtwt *#nt to New York
centre from tho Women Worker* I•
... threat Britain and Ireland, to study labor
conditions In this country as far as tier
concert! women.
Helen Gottld pays the salary sndM*
pensrs of an Indian natnrallst and !»■ tnrer
on birda, lie trarela all orer the country
rtoflrertag free lectures In Tillages *•>;' '3
country school honsea on the JesriU «
birds to croon. He ha?second the po**’"