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xxiE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1W7.
NEILL AND SMALL
HAVE A CONFERENCI
OVERJIG STRIKE
Lengthy Discussion Takes
Place at Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
New York, Sept 7.—United States
Commissioner of Labor Charles J.
Nelli and President Sylvester J. Small,
of the Comemrclal Telegraphers’ U" on,
were In conference several hours to
day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was
understood that Mr. Neill had Infor
mation of Importance concerning the
strike of the telegraph operators and
hod called In Mr. Small to discuss the
matter.
COAL HAS TAKEN
IL
"BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE 60 S”
of * n *L < ' F S UP / J ear# ^ Capitals” talks first to The Georgian about hia current social history
d h j rr li Confederacy. Very many noted Georgians appear in It. Stephens, Hill, Toombs, Gordon,
Campbell, Randall, Augusta Evans, John Forsyth and others among the number.
The same thin* hap
pened last year, and the prediction Is
It will be repeated In 1908;
Some of the new prlcea per ton are:
Anthracite $9.00
Furnace coke 7.00
Monterallo
Blue Gem..
Bine
Jellu
co
0.60
100
6.60
... » 6.00
Alabama coala, about 6.00
Vartona cauaea, not the leaat of which la a
desire ou the part of the mtnee to make
more proflta, are bettered to be responsible
for the Increase In the coet of fuel. At the
mines the price Is shout 75 cents higher
than last year, but the retail dealera state
that ther made only a 60-cent advance.
labor. Increased demand, de-
In coal aunply with corresponding In
in tho difficulty of mining. shorts*!
i and fi*hta among the railroads arc
crease
crease
of cars
omong the reasons given as to why cool has
fare of the Loulsv:
coal
:hlng 1
to th<
o retailer. The Southern owoa
while the Louisville nnd Nashville holds a
similar position In Louisville. The Lonlavllle
and Nashville refuses to switch competing
freight In Loulavllle and the Southeru
charges 36 cents per ton for switching from
Ix>u!svllie and Nashville tracks in Atlanta,
while for other roads the cost Is only )2 per
car. The dealers who buy coal from mines
located on the Louisville and Nashville but
have their Atlanta yards on the Southern
must pay 3S cents per ton for switching or
about $15 per car.
Generally when corporation! fight the
omer, wuue mu pn
and In the middle.
STRIKE BREAKERS
Pittsburg, PA, Sept. 7.—“Every per
son In the Western Union Telegraph
Company’s building will have to submit
to vaccination If they have not under
gone euch an operation recently,’’ said
Superintendent Edwards, of the bu
reau of health, this morning.
The order was Issued as the result of
a case of smallpox being discovered laet
night, the victim being Lyelo Morris, a
line repairer who worked In the main
office.
Superintendent Edwards decided to
vaccinate every person In the building
who needed such an operation as a
preventive to the spread of the dis
ease. The building will be fumigated,
but not quarantined. Morris Is said to
have a mild ease.
STEVE ADAMS’ TRIAL
IS UP NEXT WEEK
Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 7.—The trial of
Steve Adam* for the murder of Fred
Taylor will probably begin thle com
ing week. Clarence Darrow, accom
panied by Charlea H. Moyer, president
of the Western Federation of Miners,
I. In town preparing for Adams’ de
fense. The last trial resulted In an
equally divided Jury.
By JANE MEADE LEWI8.
‘i, 1,3' c * DeLeon, the author of some
wwll-known histories nnd romances of
the Confederate past, has been gpend-
.»• aummer In the hidden recesses
°f * ho Cumberland plateau, reading
proof and putting final revision to his
"Belles, Beaux and Brains
of the 60s."
, *£• , De Pl?. n ha * be * n Peculiarly ret
icent In telling the press anything of
his plans or Intent In writing the book
during the eight years since he first
blocked It out In Atlanta. When living
in Atlanta then he mentioned the Idea
to General Gordon, Miss Wallace. Gen
eral Walker. Major Charles W. Hubner
and a few close friends, and he now
says It was mapped out. arid his first
real work begun In the Young Men’s
Library and In his "den” opposite, at
11 Cone street. Since then, fieetlng
paragraphs have traveled that the busy
author had gone totally blind, had ed
ucated himself to mastery of the type-
writer, and that he was giving every
hour left by his current magazine and
Journalistic work to a "now novel" of
Southern life In war days.
This was all, until Town Topics an
nounced on August 1 that It had se
cured the advance serial tights o
“Belles, Beaux and Brains of the ’60’s.‘
From that announcement It proved
what “novel” the work was; but only
in the sense of newness of theme and
treatment of so much of the Confeder
ate social story as “Four Years In
Rebel Capitals" had left untold. Se
quel to that well-remembered book, It
Is not, but It treats of persons and
their actions—their society and social
Impress upon the time; their descend
ants, and their social, literary* and
public status, as no other book yet at
tempted by any pen has done.
Still there was no advance noticing
of this book. Mr. DeLeon positively
declined to be Interviewed about It, and
only now hae The Georgian been enabled
to give Its readers everywhere the
raison d'etre and scope of the new
Southern book, and especially some
what of Its mention of noted people of
our state, living and dead.
What the Blind Author 8ayt.
“No, I have not been Interviewed
about the book. I preferred to let It
Interview the public for Itself. The
author who speaks prematurely of his
work Is apt to sow dragon's teeth of
expectancy which spring up Into a
dangerous crop of armed criticisms.
The story of Cadmus Is philosophy:
not fable.”
Thus spoke Mr. DeLeon when asked
If he had given out anything for print
regarding hie work.
"Any book that can not tell the
reader all about Itself, as he runs, is a
waste of paper and Ink to print; and It
Is wiser to tell the runner, as he reads,
than to stand at the cross roads of
business and leisure nnd hulloo to him
to stop running and read. Hence, I
have not borrowed the horns of Jericho
to blow down the walla about the ’gen
eral reader.’ I Infinitely prefer the par
ticular one. who gets over the wall for
himself and reads In preference to be
ing told what Is written for him.
’Now, however, that the book Is ap
pearing In precedent serial form, It Is
ileasant to talk to The Georgian about
t, for several reasons. First, It was
blocked out In Atlanta, when I lived
there In 1397-'99, Just before the attack
of nervous prostration that lost me my
sight, and nearly my life. Then I
spoke to some old friends, who felt
kindly to 'Four Years', of an Idea that
had been In my mind for many years. I
had almost said ’always;' certainly ever
since I wrote the former book In 1865-
66, and printed It serially, In The
Mobile Sunday Times In the latter
year.
• • •
An Unfinished Picture.
“That book endeavored to picture the
results of the war, ft» It progressed,
upon the temper and characters of the
massed population; of their reaction
upon events, In the descensus Avernl
of high hope and confidence to the
Acheron pit of desolation and moaning.
In that book was neither room nnr
place for personal actions or Impresses
of them upon the time, save In typical
and essential coses. So the ‘Four Years'
left a blank In the picture os to the
social side of Dixie; Its beautiful and
Immortal feminine heroes and Its gal
lant and dashing knights and lovers—
as much at home In the drawing room
and the dance as In the Bring line, or
the charge.
“Rightfully or not, I believed I could
All this gap, somewhat adequately. I
noted the Idea to General Gordon, Gen
eral WllllAm S. Walker, Miss Anne
Wallace, gallant and tender Charles
Hubner, Wallace Reed and a few oth
ers. Their approval encouraged me to
block out the plan and scope of the
work. In the winter of 1898-69, when
working ‘day nnd night shifts' upon
the ’ll font blen' of the average Amer
ican scribbler.
“Then comes the collapse that comes
from burning my candle at both ends,
while trying to light It In the middle;
CHAUFFEUR LOSES
LICENSEJ COURT
Tracy Eining Appears Li
Police Court For
Third Time.
T. C. DELEON.
Author of “Belles, Beaux and Brains of the ’60’s.’'
Hasty
Nervous
Chewing
of Food
the Cause of
Dy
spepsia
If your teeth are fit, chew,
chew’, chew, until the food is
liquid and insists on being
swallowed.
If teeth are faulty, soften
Grape-Nuts with cream or
hot or cold milk and allow to
stand a minute soaking.
“There’s a reason” as fol
lows:
Grape-Nuts food is in the
form of hard and crisp gran
ules, intended to be ground
up by the teeth. That work
not only preserves the teeth
but brings down the saliva,
so necessary in the primary
work of. digestion.
Many people say (and it is
true) that when they eat
Grape-Nuts they seem able
to digest not only the food
but other kinds which for
merly made trouble when
eaten without Grape-Nuts.
Chew!!
“There’s a reason” for
but the work wae really blocked out
and aomc of It written from memory
aolely In the Young Mep’a Library on
Cone etreet, and In my den at Mrs.
Phillips’ hospitable home, Just oppo
site.
In Five Years’ of Blindness.
"The toll, anoyance and InAnlte cor
respondence Involved In Its completion,
since I lost my sight and had to be
re-educated Into life In the night, need
not bore your readers. The elder
D’lsraelll wrote ’Calamities of Authors.’
On our cIs-Atlantlc side, experience
tells me, these are an InAnlte bore to
everybody, save the calamities them
selves. Suffice It that, after Ave years
of pretty steady labor. In the course
of which 1 bored some thousand of
friends for data, biography, lineage,
experience and portraits,.I have verl-
Aed the dictum of our magnanimous
victor and ’have robbed the cradle and
the grave’ of aoclal, helpful and offi
cial Dixie of a few new things, and
have tried to tell them simply and hon
estly. I have not alined to write a
‘great work.’ The subjects were, very
often, so much greater than the han
dler that he. has felt himself over
weighted and they have been left to
tell their own story by Its bare re
cital.
“On the other hand, I have not failed
to Introduce a few new fac's of then
current hl tory, When It had been dis
torted by Intent or haste. I have also
made possible some deduction from the
acts of men and women who, In some
sort, held the Confederacy In the hol
lows of their hands. I have—without
endeavoring to do so, but In ‘my stride’
as It were—corrected some error* of
lineage, personality, action and result
which had crept Into some precedent
books, somewhat along the lines of
"Belles and Beaux,’ though nowise like
It In Intent.
Georgians Mentioned.
You ask If I mention any Georgians,
a book touching any side of the
Confederacy's life omission of them had
been to leave the dismal prince out of
the Swan's ’Hamlet.' The Empire State
of the Confederacy was as potent a
factor In all three components of my
book—belleshlp, beaudoin and brain—
aa waa even the presidential mother
herself. The ’Cracker’ giants, who
stalk across the page of carmine, silver
and black, on which Is written the story
of the war, loom grand and glgnn-
teaque agalnat Its now gray back
ground. And—happily, or otherwise—I
was reared, educated nnd cut my ger-
man-leadlng teeth In days of early
dudedom at Washington city. That
waa at a time when the sections were
iry throes of the earth
quake that soon rent them asunder.
My brother, Hon. Edwin DeLeon, edit
ed The Southern Press, In partnership
with Ellwood Fisher, nnd It was the
official mouthpiece of the Southern sen
ators, at the moment when Roger A.
Pryor launched The Herald and Bev
erly Tucker The Sentinel. There I
rsonal knowl-
The Register and The Sunday Times,
In the latter of which the "Four Years”
ran for many months In the Sunday
edition.
Now, over four decades later, the
same publisher, In a far different en
tourage, has secured the sole serial
right to the cognate work* of the now
matured and blind author.
JANE MEADE LEWIS.
Monteagle, Tenn., Sept. S, 1907.
For the third time In a little over two
months Tracey L. Eining. living at 220
Lee street, was In the recorder’s court
Saturday, charged with violating the
automobile ordinance. This time he
was charged with reckless driving on
Whitehall and Decatur streets, and he
was Ancd $25.75 and hia license revoked
for sixty days.
Patrolman Sweeney told the court
that on Friday Eining, who drives a
big touring car, passed the corner
where he Is stationed at least ten times,
always at n rate of speed which the
officer deemed dangerous. He esti
mated the speed at from 15 to 25 miles
an hour.
"Several times I lifted my stick to
warn him to go slower, but he paid no
attention to me. and once he nearly ran
me down when I stepped In front of
his machine," said the officer. "He
would come whirling down from the via
duct nnd around the corner without any
whistle or gong. The last time before I
served hint with a subpena he certain
ly was going over 20 miles an hour. I
shouted at him a* he went by and he
turned around and smiled at me."
Eining denied that he was going over
eight miles nn hour at any time, and
said he always slowed down In going
around the eomer In question. Dr.
Baskin, acting recorder, asked him
lot of technical questions regarding
the horse power, gears and speed
clutches on the car, much to the
amusement of some of the policemen.
At the conclusion of his examination,
Dr. Bsskln assessed the Ane and revok
ed Elnlng'a license for two months.
A few weeks ago Eining w*as charged
with not having the proper lights on
his machine and was Aned. On July 8
he ran down an old man and hurt him
seriously. This case Is still pending
against him.
A Pitiful Sight.
TV L - -- -
Morbus, end Dysentery, Flux. etc.
Hold by all Druggists, 25 and 60c bottle.
NEW ANDREWS BUILDING
A MODEL OF ITS KIND
COLONEL WALTER ANDREW8’*NEW BUILDING.
Established
1865
Eiseman Bros.
The Old Reliable
Manufacturing Clothiers
STORE WILL
BE CLOSED
MONDAY, SEPT
9th, ACCOUNT
HOLIDA Y
HE opportunity to buy excel
lent School Shoes at Bar
gain Prices will be continued next
week,
These medium-weight suits are
splendid values, and particularly adapt
able to very late Fall wear.
Eiseman Bros.
11-13-15-17 Whitehall Street
ATLANTA
Baltimore, Md. Washington, D. C.
happened to gain personal know
THREE—BELLES AND BEAUX—
PROOF TO GOODWIN
edge of the time's giants—and person
ally to meaaure some of Its pigmies.
There I Bret saw and heard Toombs,
Hill, Colquitt and many another. Dur
ing the war—from the night of Lin
coln's Inauguration, when I bore the
Grape-Nuts
ter, through the viler struggle of
reconstruction. I was the colleague at
the editorial desk of The Register of
another great Georgian, John Forsyth.
From childhood I hod known Intimate
ly the family of another grand son
Georgia loaned to Louisiana and the
world. Justice John A. Campbell. Vice
President Stephens had noticed me In
boyhood and not forgotten me In Dixie,
and gallant Pierce Young’s Intimacy at
Montgomery and until his death gave
me Ideas of the Southern hero of ‘Cre
ole and Puritan.’ Of each and all of
these and many another my running
atory speaks, and If John B. Gordon
shines meteor-llke across my page,
above some others—well, there was and
Is glory enough for all. The ladles—
bless them!—well, they are never cu
rlous and can read for themselves.’’
To Appear in Beok Form.
Aaked when the "Belles and Beaux"
would appear ae a book. Its author
said that men who crossed bridges be
fore reaching them sometimes remain
ed on the hither side permanently. The
serial will run In Town Topics about
the holidays, and will then go forth In
a handsome volume. He would not
•ay who would publish that, as there
were several offers pending, and there
wae ample time to decide.
Mr. DeLeon noted the curious coin
cidence that "Four Years In Rebel Cap
itals" had Arst been printed In a paper
owned by Colonel W. D. Mann, now
owner and editor of Town Topics. That
retired Federal colonel had moved to
Mobile, bought much property and
The day of the sweat shop In Atlanta
Is past If a few more Atlantans Invest
their money In the same manner as
Colonel Walter P. Andrews.
While many have been spending
thousands upon thousands upon apart,
ment houses for residences, Colonel
Andrews has invested a fortune In nn
apartment house for manufactnrers.
And as a result Atlanta now has a
building that Is the only one of Its kind
In Atlanta and one of the few in the
entire South.
This new building has Just been com
pleted at the corner of Marietta and
West Cain streets and It Is one of the
most substantial In the country. Not
only Is It built In a manner pleasing to
the eye, but In It are the beat of mate
rials and no expense has been spared
to make It ao as to take care of heavy
loads on eaeh Aoor.
The building Is one of the Inrgest In
Atlanta and each Boor Is a factory In
Itself. Firmness and Strength Is every
where apparent. Heavy beams and
girders there ay In abundance, and
these are able to ably support an)
weight which will be put upon them.
The front of the building la of pressed
brick and the front walls are two and
one-half feet thick with walls of twen-
ty-Ave Inches on the sides.
Instead of letting out the contract for
the building, Colonel Andrews decided
to build It himself. The plans and
speclAeatlons were made by Architect
John C. Battle. Then Colonel An
drews engaged Charles W. Barnhardt,
an expert builder and president of the
Atlanta Federation of Trades, as su
perintendent of construction. Union
labor was employed throughout In the
construction of the building and no ex.
Such buildings are common In New ron*e was spared to make It the best
York, but in Atlanta the Idea Is new. and most substantial that money
The building Is four stories high with
basement, and each Aoor Is so ar
ranged as to be a complete shop In It
self for a light manufacturer.
The building extends back to Wal
ton street and Is surrounded on all
Bides by windows, an alley being on
the east side. On the Arst Boor there
are Ave stores In front with glass en
trances equal to any on Peachtree
street. Each store is 19 by 80 feet and
Is equipped In the most modern man
ner.
Back of the stores on the Arst Aoor
there Is still left for manufacturing
purposes 7,060 square feet. The base
ment and the other three Aoor* each
have 16.500 square feet of space.
Each Aoor Is entirely separate from
the others, the same as an'apartmen 1
In a dwelling, and Is so arranged that
employees or visitors to one will not
Interfere with the others
There Is an entrance at the front of
the building In Marietta street where
visitors may take a passenger elevator
to any of the Boors. Each of tile Aoor*
Is equlppped with a vestibule where
passengers may alight.
In the rear there Is another entrance
where employees may enter, and still
another leading to n freight elevator
where goods may be received and ship
ped. Those on the top Aoor have things
Just as convenient as those In the base
ment, which Is on a level with Walton
street.
Fresh Air and Light
There Is no lack of windows In the
building and such Is the ventilation
that there Is always an abundance of
fresh air and always a breeze. It Iz
possible to rend a newspaper any time
during the day In any part of any Aoor.
Off from the basement In a Are-proof
room Is the boiler which will furnish
heat for the building.
Each Aoor has Its separate wash and
toilet rooms and these are of the most
modem pattern. Every convenience Is
provided for employees who wilt work
could construct.
While such a building Is new to At
lanta, there Is every Indication that It
will prove popular as It has done In
New York. Employers realise that
while they are getting every conven
Irnce, their employees do better work
and keep In better health In a building
with such sanitary conditions.
MEXICO TO CELEBRATE
AT JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
Special to The Georgian.
Jamestown Exposition, Va.. Sept. 7.—
On the 16th day of September the Re
public of Mexico will celebrate the an
niversary of her Independence by a
grand celebration at the Jamestown
Exposition, and this event gives prom
ise of being a moat elaborate affair.
The Mexican military commission,
Mexican military band. President
Tucker and exposition officials will
greet Mr. I'reel, the Mexican ambas
sador, upon the latter’s arrival at Dis
covery Landing on September 16.
MOURNED FOR DEAD
HUSBAND RETURNS;
SUES FOR DIVORCE
among its parts the two newspapers, In the building, both male and female. Haggard.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 7.—Like
Enoch Arden It the story of one James
Quarles, who returned after an ab
sence of yean to And hie wife had
married again and was living happily
with another man. But unlike Arden,
Quarles, Instead of going quietly away,
proceeded to make his presence known
and have a stormy Interview with his
wife. Then he proceeded to chancery
court to seek advice. The couple were
married In South Pittsburg, Tenn., In
1991. A few months later Quarles went
West to seek a fortune. In 1904 his
wife heard that he had been killed In
Oklahoma and she married one O. W.
WEST POINT JOINS
IN FIGHT ON RATE
The Atlanta and West Point railroad
through Its attorneys, Dorsey, Brew
ster, Howell ft lleyman, has Joined the
ranks of the roads seeking to have the
recent circular of the railroad commis
sion reducing passenger rates annulled,
The petition was Bled Friday after
noon In the Federal court and a similar
petition was Bled with the clerk of the
Fulton county superior court.
The petition recites the history of the
road and said that when the I-cent
rate woe put In force It wee unreason
able, but admits that Increased traffic
and population made the rate proAt-
able, but not too high. It Is declared
that most of the proAt arising from In.
creased business was swallowed In In
creased coat of transportation. It le
also pointed out that antiquated
coachee have been supplanted by pala
tial care and that the railroad commis
sion has Insisted on the purchase of
costly and Improved equipment.
It Is declared that tho tax valuation
of the road as Axed by the board of
arbitration for 1907 le $8,679,619 and
that the net revenue received by the
rood for last year of $212,006.81 Is less
than 6 per rent on that Investment. It
le alleged that If the 2-cent rate Is al
lowed to stand the road will lose $87,-
971.90 this year and that the net reve
nue wlH not net 3 1-8 per cent on the
tax valuation aa placed by the board of
arbitration. The petition further elates
that there will be a deAcIt Instead of
any earnings on the Intra-atate busi
ness.
An Injunction restraining the railroad
commission from enforcing the circular
Is asked. The petition was Bled In the
Federal court, as It waa claimed the
rate was In violation of the constitution
of the United Btatee, In that It was
contlscatory.
ATLANTA'S OLDEST
SAVINGS BANK.
OLD SHAKER TOWN
FUEL FOR FLAMES
Tilton, N. H. t Sept. 7.—The Shaker
settlement, which was established here
over a hundred years ago, la burning.
Help hae been eummoned from a num.
bar of placet but there la little hope of
saving the village.
NOW IN ITS NINTH YEAR,
The Georgia Ravings Bank nnd
Truet Compnny passed Into Its ninth
year on September I, and It Is with
pleasure that we call attention to tho
accelerated growth of the * bank With
each succeeding year. We .desire to.
cordially thank our mnny depositor;
for their accounts and for the many
? ood things they have said to their
rlends about us. Our oAlcers and di
rectors have worked untiringly along
conservative lines to make tills one of
the safest and best banks In the state,
and we have aided hundreds of people
to save their money that have hereto
fore spent It. We had on deposit
September 3. 1900 $ 43.894.20
September 8. 1901 75.628.50
September 2, 1902 101.023.36
September 3, 1902 150.8)7.31
September 3. 1904 215.967.34
September 3, 1906.. 246.05s.:,,
September t. 1906 285.243.48
September 3, 1907 336.854.30
These deposits come from all classes
—from mechanics, brickmasons, car
penters. mailmen, street car men, rail
road men, bookkeepers, stenographers,
business men, manufacturers, capital
ists and from every known vocation. It
Is, Indeed, a busy sceno to see the
working people line up on Saturday
afternoons from 4 to 6 o’clock to de
posit a portion of their week’s earn
ings. It only takes tl to open an ac
count and 4 per cent per annum inter
est Is paid and compounded January
and July. You have see nthe sign In
large golden letters. SAVINGS BANK,
on corner Broad and Alabama streets.
Out of town depositors can remit by
mall. Call or write for a circular.
JAPAN SHY OF WAR,
SAYS CHINESE EDITOR
Washington, SepS. 7.—That Japan
will not make war upon the* United
States Is the opinion of Stsao, editor
of the South China Dally Journal.
He said;
"Japanese statesmen are quite clever
end they know Japan could not carry
on a struggle with the American na
tion. Japan Is fL poverty-stricken
country as compared with the United
Btatee. She might seise the Philip
pines In a hasty struggle, but In the
end there would be but one outcome,
victory for the United States."
4%
Interest Compounded, Allowed In Our
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
On and After January 1,1907
TH E NEAL BANK
E. H. THORNTON, President.
W. F. MANRY, H. 0. CALDWELL, F. M. BERRY,
Vice President Oubier. Ais’t Owhier.