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ftp* Ini to Th« GrorgUn. Coluinbua. Go.. Oct. 21.—Th* twvnty^tli Annual rotTMtkm of the Wornat)'* Civ#-*- vlnii Temperance Vnion of tleorgl" con veuc«l at St. Luxes church, lu this city. last night at 7:5>) o’clock, nud the gathering teas A representative one, both front the riff ami the state. Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, of Kastman, called the meeting to order and presided during the session, which was a ’’Welcome Night” one. and a cordial wel come tea* extended the delegate* by tlte members of the union in Columbus. The meeting tva* opened by Ringing “Ail ITnll the Power of Jems' Name, nud an anthem by the convention choir. The aertptore lesson was resd by hr. M. Ash by Jones, of the Baptist church, followed by prayer tr»- Rev. hr. McKerrcn. of Ht. I.ukes. Addresses o* welcome were made j l*y I>r. I. 8. McEIroy, Judge A. W. Court ; nud others, sad responses were made by Mrs. Allvcrt Russell, of Bshtbrldge. Miss Julia Goodnll, of March. rcndrVI THE MAJESTIC HOTEL. Tbo annual report of the recording ■we* tary was read by Miss I. M. Theresa Grif fin, nud the treasurer, Mrs. L. t. L.. Har ris. of Sparta. _ The meeting then took a recess until 2 o’clock. THE AfcAGON HOTEL. TWO OF ATLANTA’S LEADING HOTELS NOW CONTROLLED BY J. LEE BARNES NEW YORKER’S VISIT TO BE CELEBRATED (Contlnusd from first pagt.) country would be heard with more In terest and received with more warmth. That he le a looming noselblllty for the Democratic nbmfnatfon for the presidency la becoming very apparent, and hla vlelt to Atlanta may be of pe culiar political significance and cer tainly will be a topic of converaatlon of considerable Interest In the political circles of the country. The program for the reception and entertainment Is hoof practically com plete. Ex-Senator E. w. Carmack, of Tenneesee. will not apeak at the dollar dinner Friday night, as originally an nounced. Hon. John Temple Graves, editor of The Georgian; Aldlna Cham bers. president of tho Young Men's Democratic League; H. H. Cabanlss. president of the fair association; For rest Adair and Major J. C. C. Black, with a possibility of one or two others, will make short addresses on this occa sion. Governor Chattier arrives over the Southern railway at the Terminal sta tion at 6:15 o'clock, and the following committee will meet him; Reception Committee, If. II. Cabanlse, Forrest Adair, James R. Qray. John E: Murphy, Eugene R. mack, Joseph Johnson, Jr., Charles I. Ryan, F. L. Seely, J. P. Rhode*. Aldlne Chambers. Frank! Weldon, Wlnshlp Nunmilly, Shelby BOtith, H. Y. McCord, John W. Grant, W. d\ Andrews, T, II. Fchlcr, W. R, ‘Joyntr. John Temple Graves. J. H. Nunnally, Clark Howell, W. H. Klaer, F. J. Paxon. Thomas Eg gleston. C. Mi Roberts, J. K. tittlny; Joseph A. McCord. John J, Woodaicfe, J. |f. McEachern. H. M. AtKlnson, R. F. Maddox and R. F. Shedden. The banquet committee, of which Eu gene R. Slack la chairman, announces that the ticket* for the dollar dinner at the New Kimball ara rapidly being disposed of. The dining room can not seat comfortably more than 600 people, and the probabilities are that this many ticket* will be aold by Thursday even ing. The dinner will be one of the moat largely attended ever held In Georgia. Ticket* to Dinner. Ticket* are on sale at the buelnee* office* of The Constitution, The Geor gian and The Journal, the Kimball House office and the Peachtree and Decatur stores c* the Goodrum Tobacco Company, or may ho purchased from the following members of the general J. Lee Barnes, manager of the Aragon, has leased tho Majestic and will conduct both hotels, assisted by Assist ant Manager Jesse N, Couch. (Continued from first page.) of abeolutely flre-pi tlon, and I, considered one of the moat modem hotel buildings In tbs city. It contains ninety guest rooms, and Its situation, between the business and residence sections of Peachtree street. Is hn especially desirable one. It will be given a thorough overhauling by Its new managers and will be conducted as a lilgh-clase general hotel. Mr. Barnes managed the Majestic until about four year* ago, when he sold hla lease to the Majestic com pany, ‘ which afterward transferred the property to Mr. Van Landlngham. He will continue to operate both houses, retaining charge of the Ara gon. while Mr. Couch will conduct the Majestic, the two houaee being man aged separately. He has no Intention of giving up the Aragon. At the Aragop, Mr. Barnes will be assisted by his brother, J. D, Barnes, and Clerks Sam Pegram and O. E, Daniels, ft Is the Intention of Man ager Crouch to retain the old office force at the Majestic. Than Messrs. Barnes and Couch, few men are more popular In Atlanta. Mr. Barnes came to tho city from Decatur, Ala., fifteen years ago, and since then has been cloaely Identified with the buslneea progreas of the city. He has been foremost In public movement* and has probably served actively on more committees for the entertainment of prominent visitors to Atlanta than any other cltlsen. Mr. Couch, who la hla brother-in-law, came tp Atlanta from Decatur, Ala,, about nlno year* ago. and has been asalatant manager of the Aragon alnce that time. He la on* of the most popular young men In Atlanta, and has o wide acquaintance, not only with the people of the city but with tho traveling public. Hla ability as a hotel man has been con spicuously displayed In the manage- munt of the Aragon, than which there I* no more popular howtalry In the Boutn. “RUNS” ARE MADE ON N. Y. BANKS (Continued from first page.)' * committee on arrangement: H. H. Cabanls*. John E. Murphy, John WV Grant, Charles M. Roberts, Eugene R. Black. John 8. Cohen, Thom, as B. Felder. Shelby Smith, Jacob Haas. Jamas R. Nutting. Joseph E. Maddox, Alfred C. Newell. Lauren Foreman, Jo. seph H. Johnson, Jr., of Nsw York, and Harvey Johnson. . . Special Invitations havs bssn extend ed the member* of the Georgia leglfm ture, the Judicial officers of the state and the members of congress. The main address of tne day wilt be that of Lieutenant Governor Chanler at noon at the grandstand at the fair grounds. Boys’Clothes Have you bought the hoy’s new fall suit! If you haven’t, come in here and see our showing of America’s best clothes for boys. Made by Rogers, Peet & Co. and Ederheimer, Stein & Co. 3puno We can fit any boy who comes—from the wee tot of 2 1-2 years to the big fellow of 17. Suits are $4 to $15. Daniel Bros. Co. L. J. DANIEL, President. ‘45-47-49 Peachtree St. rted along. That the Knickerbocker Trust Com pany will not open Its doors—that this giant bank wittl deposit* amounting to nearly (70,000,000, most of It tho money of men and women out of business, at least tn Its present form, was admitted by a director of the company, who said after the meeting that lasted until early today: Knickerbocker Won't Reopen. "There Is no' chance that the Knick erbocker Trust Company will reopen (n lu old form. I* can say nothing more now." Attorney General Jackson, after a conference with Acting Superintendent of Banks Skinner that lasted long after midnight, made the announcement that he would take no step to close the Knickerbocker Trust Company today, even If It did not resume payments. Mr, Jackson said: At a conference between Secretary Cortelyou, who came from Washing ton on a hurry call, and the bankers of the city headed by J. P. Morgan, at the Hotel Manhattan, U was finally decided that the point needing but tressing now Is the Trust Company of America, the third largest Institution of Its kind In the city, and of which Osklelgh Thome Is president. Enmest attention was given to this new problem and the result was the formation of a powerful syndicate to stand by the company at Its opening today. Where rumors new so thick tn the financial -district*, sparing not even the soundest Institutions, It was not surprising that the name of Ryan was mentioned. Reports were abroad that the big financiers of the city at the trust company meetlnge had decided that the effacement of Mr. Ryan from the directorates of other financial In stitutions was necessary to restore con fidence. Holds Rooetveit Responsible, William Turnbull, fourth vice presi dent of the company, told the reporters what In his bsllef was the underlying explanation for the break In credit that appeared on Wall etreet yesterday. blocks of Illinois Central which Stuy- vesnru Kish inis i.«vn trying to wrest out of the Harrlman control In the last few days, and that his brokers have also been active in gobbling up every share of Union Faelflc that has been offered. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE IS NARROW AND NERVOUS. London, Oct, 23.—2:20 p. m.—Tho stock exchange markets are narrow and nervous as a result of the Influence of the sensational situation In New York. ROTH8CHILOS STOPPED PANIC ON THE B0UR8E. Paris, Oct. 22.—Precautions by the Rothschilds and other leading bankers, foreseeing New York's financial trou ble, and Who strengthened the market, prevented a panic at the opening of the Bourso today. Large French banks wero unaffected by the New York trouble, but smallor ones may feel It. PITTSBURG STOCK EXCHANGE DID NOT OPEN WEDNESDAY. Pittsburg, Oct. 23.—The stock ex change did not open this morning, at tho request of the clearing house, The secretary of the exchange mado the fol. lowing statement: "The stock exchango has closed for the day, at the request of the Pittsburg clearing house. The board of directors of the exchange, acting upon this re quest, ht* ordered the exchange closed." Counsel for the Westlnghouse Inter est* say that application for receiver* for the We*tlnghou»e Electric nnd Manufacturing Company, the Westing- house Machinery Company, the Ernst Lamp Company and the Security In vestment Company, the last-named be ing a purely Westlnghouse corporation, will probably be made In the United States district court In this city this afternoon. Beyond this the attorneys would say nothing. The names of the receiver or receivers are already known In certain quarters In this city. SITUATION WELL IN HAND, Cleveland. 0„ Oct. 23.—What will re sult In a triple tragedy was enacted In a house mi Buckeye Road last night. Two men ore dead and a woman, the wife of one of the men. Is fatally wounded. One of the dead Is the triple slayer, Michael Bzeckely, aged 24. The assassin committed the deed after the woman had refused to leave her husband and elope with him. The woman. Mrs. Erman Burray, told the police that she had eloped with Bzeckely some time ago, but had de serted him to return to live with her husband. CITY CROWD FILLS FAIR WEDNESDAY (Continued from first paps.) lUAIIun ncLb iis nnuo, SAYS U. 8. TREASURY OFFICIAL. Washington, Oct. II.—At 10:10 a. m. Comptroller of the Treasury Rldgely, after being In telephonlo communica tion with New York, told the Hears! News Service he was advised that the situation In New York was well In hand, and now will be better. He con- ...... tlnued: Thl. Is the inevitable end of what N of attraction for a large part of those visiting the fair Wednesday, and the tent where this Interesting exhibition was given was crowded with specta tors. and It was necessary to give a continuous performance In order to ac- commodate the crowd*. The wild west show also gave two performances Wednesday ns a special Inducement. The first was given In the forenoon and the second early In the afternoon. Both these performances were free and a second exhibition will be given Wednesday night, at which the regular price of admission will he charged. Georgia Derby Feature, Great Interest Is centered In the Georgia Derby, which will be run Juet before the regular races Wednesday afternoon, and this interesting event will draw hundred* of people to the race course. There wilt be seven or eight entries and th* distance will he one and a quarter miles for a purse of 1500. Following the Georgia Derby the reg ular running races will be held. There are four races of this kind each day. On Thursday two days Will be crowd ed Into one. T/?»e will be "Bulloch County Day” and "Singing Day." The all-day singing promises to be one of the most Interesting and suc cessful features of the fair. Singers wilt be present from every section of the stato and several hundred Voices will assist In waking the echoes and other things In the neighborhood of Piedmont park. Professor A. J. Showalter, of Dalton, one of the finest singers In the coun try, with a corps of able assistants, will have charge of the singing. Bulloch County Day. Bulloch county day" will also be the occasion for a large gathering of peo ple, especially from Bulloch county, which Is one of the moat prosperous tn th* tsate. The feature of the Bulloch county exhibition will be nn old-fashioned country dinner, the kind you don’t get anywhere except down on the farm. The dinner will be In charge of J. R. Miller, editor o( the Statesboro News, who Is alto In charge of the Bulloch county exhibit. The dinner will be given by the Statesboro chamber of commerce and a number of prominent cltlxen* o' Bulloch county. Invitation* to be pres, ent have been sent the members of the house and senate, congressmen, members of the Atlanta city govern ment, the chamber of commerce, mem. bers of the fair association, the state Agricultural Society and other prom Inent citizens of the state. AMERICA HAS CHANCE OF WINNING (Continued from first page.) has been In progress for months. There Is n man high In authority In this country who has dons all he could to destroy this delicate thing. If on* wants to learn the cause of the trou ble, let him go back of the six months and read the speeches of this man." "Says Gambler* Must Go.” William A. Nash, prssldent of the New York Clearing House and the Corn Exchange Bank, today said: "Business has been carrlsd on with too little regard for the safety of th* depositors and with too great atten tion to the profits of the men at the head of these Institutions. "We need a higher degree of honesty In the offices of many of our Institu tions. The time has come when the gambler and so-called 'high financier' must go. What 1 say applies Just as much to one kind of banking Institution aa another." Edward C. Benedict was today ap pointed receiver for the brokerage firm of Mayer & Co., which failed yesterday for (6.000,000. MORGAN’S ATTITUDE PUZZLES WALL STREET New York, Oct. IS.—J. Plerpont Mor gan's attitude tn the present crisis Is a pussle to Wall street. After making a tacit pledge that he would provide (6,040,000 to aid the Knickerbocker Trust Company In Its extremity, tt la asserted that ha failed to make the promise good and It was largely due to hla failure to do so that the company had to close Its door*. ' The Morgan firm was driven out of the open use of the vast funds of the New York Life Insurance Company by the Investigation that was brought out through the Harrlman use of the Equitable Company's funds and Walt street has a story that Morgan Is about to take advantage of the present oppor tunity to even th# account with Harrl man arid the Standard OU crowd. Whatever may be his purpose It Is known that he has been buying vast of trouble anywhere else In the coun try." PRESIDENT EULOGIZES OLD HICKORY JACKSON. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 21.—In the course of his address at the Hermitage yesterday President Roosevelt said: "And I believe that at need, the American people would do well now In war, because I believe that we have among us men who would be borne up by the same spirit to which Andrew Jackson was able successfully to ap peal on that misty January morning when the fog lifting showed th* scar let ranks of the gallant British regu lars advancing, to die tn the assault on the breastworks at New Orleans. 3o It was true of you men of the great war (speaking to the old Confederate* standing In front of the stand), you fought with the muzzle-loader. Some of them were flint lock*. I guess. Now we have the high power small caliber rifle. Rides that were new In your dny >r unknown tn our day, are antiquated now. Th* tactics change. They wear khaki Instead of. either blue or gray, but It ever the crisis comes our men :an only win If they show that they have now ths same spirit that sent on to battle the men In blue and the men In gray In the dark years from '61 to 66. "The spirit does not change, and It Is the spirit of the man that counts as the ultimate and decisive factor In bat tle. We need organisation, we need reneralshlp, but organisation and gen- ralshlp can not avail unless the pri nt* soldier In the ranks, unless the iverage man with a musket has got the right stuff In him, for If he has not got the right stuff In him, you can not get It out of him. "I should not say that Old Hickory waa faultless, but Andrew Jfckaon wns is upright a patriot, as honest a man, is fearless a gentleman aa ever any nation had In public or private life. HI* memory will remain forever a precious national heritage and his public career should be studied nnd assimilated by vvery nubile man who desires to be. In good faith, the servant of the whole people of the United State*." Ing of ths Alleghany mountains. The balloon which landed at LittI# Creek, near here, at 10:30 this morning, waa the Dusseldorf, one of the German entries. Captain Abercon and hla aid are safe. They said they enjoyed ths trip. They traveled approximately 771 miles. Frightened Woman. Professor H. H. Clayton, who accom panied Oscar Erbsloch In the German balloon Pommern, said that ths voyage from St. Louis had taken exactly forty hours, leas five minutes, according to the time they had recorded. "A funny Incident occurred near Eos ton. W# were very uncertain ns to our whereabouts and wanted to find out our exact position. Sq we descended to about 600 feet from the ground, and seeing a woman standing In fcont of a farm house, shouted to her, asking what place It was. The woman gave one startled look Into the air and then, with a shriek, rushed Into the house and slammed the door bohtnd her.” MAJ. HER6EY LAND8 AFTER COVERING JUST 650 MILES. St. Louis, Oct. 26.—The first aeronaut to land was Major Hersey, of ths weather bureau, who brought his mam moth airship, the United States, to the ground near Hamilton, Ont., after a flight of more than 660 miles across Il linois and Lake Michigan. The appar ent leader In the race, however, Is an unidentified balloon that waa sighted passing over Alpsna, Mich., on the western shore of Lake Huron, 717 miles from the starting point. The American balloon St. Louis, with Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, landed at 6:40 a. m. st Westminster, Md. Pilot Hawley sent a dispatch to the Hearst New* Service that both were well after a moat successful voyage. Proximity of the ocean and Chesapeake bay caused them to descend. But the distance of the Pommern, roughly fig ured at 1,046 miles In a straight line, exceed! that of the St. Lout* and Is th* greatest distance ever made In a bal loon contest. The Lotus II, the British contestant; the America, the Dusseldorf. the St. No. 523 Stetson Button Gun Metal and Patent Colt $5.00 and $6.00 No. 415 Law’s Special Patent Colt, Gun Metal and Tan $3.50 Here are two stylish and snappy lasts, and they are just as good to wear as they are to look at. Louts and the AbeCcron, Paul Meckle's little craft, form the eecond flight of the racers. The America with McCoy and Chandler la traveling low. A message dropped at Zanesville, Ohio, today signed by McCoy reads: "We are passing town at 16:16 a. m. Due east at rate of twenty-five miles an hour at an altitude of 1,200 test. Notify prens," Zanesville Is approximately 450 miles from St. Louis and a considerable dis tance from Lake Erie. FRENCH BALLOONI8T8 LAND NEAR RICHMOND, Richmond, Va., Oct, 26.—The French balloon Anjou landed two miles from Armsnus mines, about 700 mile* from St, Louis, In an air lino, today. The navigators claim they traveled 1,200 miles. Another balloon, yellow in color, was seen at Nokesvllle, Va., fifty miles from where the French balloon was sighted, at th* same hour. Philadelphia, Oet. 21.—The English balloon Lotus n. was sighted passing over Crtam Ridge, 26 miles southwsst of hers, at 0 o'clock. The course was northeasterly. Wheeling, W. VaToet. 21.—At 12:05 o'clock this morning on* of the racing balloons from St. Louis passed over Martin* Ferry, Ohio, crossing th* Ohio river and passed dlreotly over the northern portion of this city. It Is re ported also that a second balloon has passed ovsr the southern part of the town. Msetinpt Scheduled. A meeting of the water board and ths special council committee Is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, this being the day set for th* opening of bids for the new filter plant, but tt I* hardly proba ble that a quorum will be present. Thl* I* Atlanta day at the feilr and the city hall closed at noon. CLOTHING ON CREDIT FOR MEN AND WOMEN. SPARE 11.00 A WEEK. WE WILL KEEP (OU WELL-DRESSED. , THE FAIR 93 WHITEHALL 8TREET. EARLY GILLESPIE Formerly Hee.-Trcn*. Carter & Gillespie Co. Gas Fixtures, Electrical Supplies. tt fl. Broad fit.. Atlanta, Un. FRANCIS JOSEPH IS MUCH BETTER Vfattfia. Oet. 23.—Btnperor Fmnels Joneph continues to Improve, althouRli he In trou bled at night by coughing. He persists lu rising between 4 nnd 5 o’clock each morning In spite of the wishes of his doctors. "STUDIO SCENE” WAS DUPLICATED Chicago, Oct. " St.—Jame* R. Tal- madge Mershon, a wealthy'broker, ar rested recently on a serious charge preferred by Mlaa Agda Broberg, has been sued for divorce by Florence M. Mershon. The story told by the young woman In Judge Maxwell’s court was almost Identical with Evelyn Nesblt Thaw’s description of the studio scene In the Stanford White murder trial. 1 DEAD, 22 HURT IN BIG WRECK Marlon, Ohio, Oet. 21.—In a collision between a passenger train and a freight on the Erie railroad, near here, ono person was killed and 22 Injured. This is the Season of New Books For these long evenings what is more delightful than a good story? ALL of the following titles are GOOD Love of Life, by Jack London. Alice for Short, by wil Shepherd of Ut# HUIsT by H- B. Wright. Th* Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Empire Builders, by Francis Lynde. Car of Destiny, by C, N. and A. M. Williamson, Light-fingered Gentry, by David Graham Phillips. Batan Sanderson, by Halite Ermlnle Rives. Th* Best Man, By Harold Macgrath. The Daughter of Anderson Crow, by George Barr McCutcheon. John vM. Miller Co. 39 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. 11 Million Pounds of Paper —have been printed into Georgians in twelve months, carrying messages of hope and sunshine into the homes of legions of our people. But not an unclean' ad vertisement have we placed before you in all that time. The Georgian and News is a clean, plain newspaper.