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THE WEATHER.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Rain
tonight and probably Wednes
day.
The Atlanta Georgian
AND NEWS
SPOT COTTON.
Liverpool, osnler, 6.21; Atlanta, quiet,
11 Vi: New Orleans, quiet, 11%: New
York, steady, 11.90; Savannah, quiet and
steady, 11%; Augusta, steady, 11%; Mo
bile, steady, 11* i; Charleston, steady, U.
VOL. VI. NO. 115.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17,1907.
DPTm?, m Atlanta..TWO CENTS.
On Train*..FIVE CENTS.
HOW’D YOU LIKE TO HAVE A BABY FOR YOUR XMAS PRESENT?
THE FIVE ELDER CHILDREN ARE AT THE DECATUR METHODIST ORPHANS’ HOME. THE TWO LITTLE ONES AT THE HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS. VISITORS MAY SEE THEM BY CALLING AT ANY TIME.
SUSIE (TINY) HAYES,
A 3-year-old girl with auburn
hair and gray eyes.
DAVIE R. MITCHELL.
A 4-year-old blonde with brown
eyes.
FRANCIS TAYLO.R.
A 2-inonths-old boy with blonde
complexion.
WILLIE LIGHTFOOT.
A 3-year-old youngster with
brown eyes and rosy cheeks.
MARGARET MITCHELL.
One-year-old and a pretty bru
nette.
LIZZIE BRYANT.
A 4-year-old with brown eyes
and olive complexion.
GERTRUDE CLINE.
A 4-year-old girl with red hair
and hazel eyes.
* , Don't you want a baby for your Christmas present? ^
The Methodist Orphanage at Decatur lias four, and the Home of the Friendless two fine-looking youngsters to give away. _
Don’t you want a baby—a baby with red cheeks mid a wee bit of a pink mouth—a baby that laughs when you make faces at it and cries when it s hungry—a baby that will be a joy during the day and keep you awake at night,
sometimes? Don’t you think it would fhake you happy to hear little feet coming down'the-hall as you walked up on the front porch, and then feel a pair of soft arms around your neek?
Do you envy the man who is at present slipping in the back way fet nights to keep the kids from seeing what Santa Claus is sending them? Don’t you ever wish you could-bore your - friends with stories of what the kids do, which,
after all, are not half so boring as some other things? .
There are six little ones who ma}*be adopted by responsible people. The world has not been very good to them so far, for much of their short lives has been spent in an orphanage, a mighty tine place but not as good lor
children as a home. Except for the loss of their parents, the children are just the same as other children. They are of varying ages and colors of hair and eyes. As to their’character—the heads of the institutions can tell you about that.
Isn’t a baby the most precious thing in the world? Then wouldn’t it make a good Christmas present?
Identification of Man
gled Forms Very
Difficult.
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MAY REACH 60
Women .and Children Gath
er About Mine to Seek
For Lost Relatives.
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Yolande, Ala., Dec. 17.—Thirty-eight
bodies, many of which are horribly
mutilated, have been taken from the
Ill-fated mine here of the Yolande Coal
and Coke Company. Not since the ter
rible disaster at Virginia mine. Just
north of here, four years, ago, has
there occurred such a death-dealing ca
tastrophe as that which took place in
Mine No. 1. of the company, at 10:25
o'clock yesterday morning. Of the
seventy-odd men who entered the mine
at 7 o'clock. It Is believed that threo
score have met an awful death In the
mine. This morning tho following
dead, as nearly as 'possible that could
be Identified, had been taken from the
mine. White:
LUM WRIGHT,
BOB ARNOLD mine foreman.
MIKE MEYERS.
WILL tore
ARTHUR SNE1DLEY.
NEIL RIDER, engineer.
TOM NEWELL.
CHARLES SATTERFIELD.
JOE MADISON.
ANTHONY STOKER
MATTHEW STOKES.
JOHN M. TUCKER.
D. H. MORRISON.
So far. the negro dead number four
teen and It has been practically Im
possible to Identify these because of the
wild excitement that prevails among
the negroes of the mining settlement.
All last night the work of recoveMng
dead bodies was continued and at 10
o'clock this morning It Is believed that
all the corpses will have been taken out
bJ It nl |* ht now estimated that flfty-flve
men entered the mine Monday morn
ing. As nearly every miner employs a
helper or assistant, whom he pays, it Is
believed that seventy men were In the
mine at the time of the accident. Of
these twenty-three are thought to bay;
.scaped, nearly all being accounted for.
' Opinion differs as to cause of the
disaster. Superintendent Huckabee
says he thought the mine was In ex
cellent condition and does not believe
that there was any great amount of
gas in the stope or entrance.
state Mine Inspector Gray .«> «
»h.» actne a few hour* after the ex-
IVon He decline* to raafce any
statement pending hi* oinclal report to
the governor.
FLEET IS NOW OFF
CAROLINA COAST
1
Wireless Operators Kept
Busy in Exchange of
. Salutations.
Norfolk, Va. t Dec. 17.—Wireless ex
change of messages between land wire
less stations here and the big bat'
tleshlp fleet was rapid and continuous
until almost midnight. President
Roosevelt was the. flrst to use this
means of communicating with the fleet
from the Mayflower, standing off Cape
HeijOLFfter Jhe-shlps had passed to the
southward.
The wireless telegraph station at
Charleston, as the fleet approached tho
South Carolina coast toward midnight,
sent a message in Admiral Evans ex
pressing congratulations and best
wishes'for officers and men., The ad
miral was quick to send an apprecia
tive acknowledgment.
The fleet today Is off the Carolina
coast.
JAPAN TO RESTRICT
ARMAMENT, SAYS WRITER.
London, Dec. 17.—The Toklo corre
spondent of The Telegraph cites as an
Indication of Japan's peaceful policy tho
riibinotv decision' to restrict arma
ments, reducing annually for the next
six years the combined naval and mill-
tary expenditure by 40,000,000 yen.
SPREAD EAGLE TALK
DENOUNCED IN LONDON.
London, Dec. 17.—The morning pa
pers give prominence to long cable dls.
patches telling of the sailing of the
fleet. The radical antl-Imperlallst Dally
News, after denouncing the spread
eagle talk of some of the American
newspapers, says:
"This American fleet would crumble
up and disappear before the forces of
the nation which hitherto have never
thought it necessary to declare war be
fore commencing hosltllltles."
ROOSEVELTS AGAIN
AT WHITE HOUSE.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Tho Mayflow
er, with President and Mrs. Roosevelt
aboard, reached Washington navy yard
at 8:16 o’clock today. 'The president
was at once driven to tho white house.
The run from Hampton Roads was
without Incident.
JAPAN HAS TAKEN HAWAII,
8AYS RICHMOND P. HOBSON.
Washington, Doc. 17.—Congressman
Richmond Pearson Hobson, of Alabama,
In a lecture before the University Club
last night, said:
"Japan has taken the Hawaiian Is
lands. Every Japanese immigrant In
that Island Is a trained soldier. At
present there are about 100,000 armed
Japanese In that American possession.
That they propose doing tho samo thing
In the Philippines Is evident. Japan,
France, Germany and England are
united In an alliance to drive the com
merce of the United States from the
Oriental seas.”
Race Results.
NEW ORLEANS.
First Race—Mr. Peabody, 25 to 1.
won; Constantly 3 to I and 4 to 6, sec
ond; May Rowe, 13, 7 and 4 to 1, third.
Time 1:13 3-6.
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TOWN HEALTHY!
CITY’S DEATH ROLL
SHOWSADEEREASE
Fewer Deaths in 1907 Than
1906, Though City
Larger.
.»Despite « great Increase In population this
year, a* shown In the city directory. At
lanta's death list will be smaller In 1907
than It was In 1906.
In 1906. fur the flrst eleven months’ of the
year, 2,560 person* died. For the first
eleven months of this year only 2,369 |i
died. In other words, 191 fewer died this
year than last year, nmi thrrs are morn
people la Atlanta this'year by. several thou-
Mind than were hero Inst year.
Last year the.total number of deaths was
2.7^!. It la exported that th* 1 total this
y»’iir will In* «t least l' 1 "' less.
» unly 23 people died of accident or vlo-
"pip In the first eleven months this year as
against ICS for the (first eleven months of
last year.
People of the following nationalities died
In Atlanta during the year: Ireland, Ger
many, Switzerland, Russia. Canada. Cuba,
N’t if way. riilnii. Sweden, I'riui.f. Austria.
Italy. Greece, Knglnnd, Scotland and Syria.
The death rate last year wax IW The
death rato for white people was 14.77. This
Is considered very low. The rote this year
will he nhnut one full point less, or about
17.S8. This is figured on the thousand.
3,500 JEHUS QUIT
CABS PEW YORK
They Warit 12-Hour Day
and 10 Per Cent
. Increase.
New York. Dec. 17.—Thlrly-flve
hundred cabmen went on strike this
morning, tying up the service of all the
hotels, restaurants, stables and cab
stands In the city. Tbs men have been
working 14 hours a day for ten years.
They want twelve hours and an .in
crease of 10 per cent In wages.
John Naughton, the millionaire pro
prietor of the Astor stables, mounted
the box of a cab today and answered
calls.
PROF. GRIFFIN ELECTED
MAYOR OF STONE MOUNTAIN.
Stone Mountain, Ga., Dee. 17.—The
annual election for mayor and council
of Stone Mountain was held yesterday.
Professor J. H. Griffin was elected
mayor by a large vote, and the follow
ing councllmen were elected: T. N.
Nash; L. F. McClelland, J. A. McCurdy,
W. P. Humphries, J. I. Nash and A. B.
F. Ceal. w. E. Tuggle was elected on
the board of education to succeed J. L.
Pounds, deceased. .
Revised Plans Sub
mitted to Philadel
phia Firm.
M’CAUL COMPANY •
TO ERECT BUILDING
Will Be Required to Execute
Bond For Half of Con
tract Amount.
Washington. Dec. 17.—Tho supervis
ing architect of the treasury completed
the revision of the original six bids for
tho construction of the new Atlanta
postoffice today, and a revised plan lias
been submitted to the lowest bidder,
th'a Charles McCaul Company, of Phil
adelphia. The McCaul Company's bid
was os follows:
Marbls construction, 3869,590; gran
ite construction, 3838,590; limestone
construction, 3784,590. The revised
plans call for a granite construction
Instead of marble, as originally con
templated by the treasury.
It Is almost certain that the McCaul
Company will accept the treasury's re
vised estimates for the granite con
struction and the contract will proba
bly be awarded to them; A week or
ten days will elapse before the plans
are returned to the treasury by the com
pany, and If everything Is satisfactory
the contract will be Immediately
nwarded to them. They will be re
quired to execute a bond for half of
the whole amount of their contract. ,
Atlantans can, therefore, expect to
see work start on the superstructure
of thefr new Federal building within
the next month.
CRIMINAL MARKET
SLUMPS ON TUESDAY
The criminal market showed n de
cided slump Tuesday morning at the
opening.
Following the big rush In police court
Monday, trading was slow and dull.
The offering of drunks by Clerk Pres
ton was Irregular. These were taken
by Recorder Broyles, however, at par—
33.75.
Disorders showed a decided falling
oft and the morning market witnessed
an unsteady close. Indications point to
a slight rally In the afternoon trading.
The market for the whole day will
not rise above fifty cases. 11 slumped
off from 213 Monday.
COL. H. W, J,
DIES AT GAINESVILLE
OF M TROUBLE
While Lecturing in the West
Attacked With
Asthma.
Special to The Georgian.
Gainesville, Oa.. Dec. 17.—Colonel II.
W. J. Ham died at hlft home at East
Highlands at 12:15 o'clock this morn
ing of heart trouble. Ha was one of
the best known men In Georgia, and
had long been.prominent*ln public life
A few weeks ago he came Home from
the TVeat, where he was lecturing, hav
ing suffered a severe attack of asthnm
and heart trouble. He was taken III on
tho train. Under treatment of his lo
cal physician he rallied somewhat from
the. attack und for the last few days
he was considered much better. Early
this morning ho hod another severe
attack and died In a few momenta.
Colonel Ham was 56 years of age,
having been born July 3. 1851, In Burko
county. He was married to Miss Ma
mie E. Cook, of Burko county, Novem
ber 18. 1873. Four children, Mrs. IL J.
Hughes, of Montgomery. Ala.; Mrs.
A. C. Bridgman, of Columbia, S. C.:
Lamar Ham, of .Mansfield, Ga., and
Walter C. Ham, of Gainesville, survive
him.
The funeral services will be con
ducted from tho First Baptist church
In Gainesville tomororw afternoon at 3
o'clock by Revs. O.'J. Copeland, B. F.
Frazer and Evangelist George R. .Stu
art, Colonel's Ham’s close friend and
platform co-laborer.
Colonel Ham served Hall county In
the general assembly, and was at one
time senator from the Thirty-third dla.
trlct. For a number of years he edited
the Gainesville Eagle and Gainesville
News of this city, and was connected
later with some governmental depart
ments at Washington.
After going upon the platform, Colo
nel Ham had delivered his popular lect
ure, “The Rein of the 8nollygoster," to
hundreds of audiences In many states
and was always heard by large audi
ences.
YOUTH KILLS GIRL
AND SELF IN AUTO;
HE VMS.JEALOUS
Double Tragedy Recalls the
Famous Nan Patter
son Case.
/
SAYS CONDUCTOR
HAD INSULTED HER
pr and IiIh sist
their Brooklyn
17.—With his moth-
lying near death In
no, Bernard J.'Wal-
ho Ralph police sta
tion, sell’ slain, and beside him the
body of Miss Elsie H. Tuileln, aged 22.
who, rnaddfjjed by jealousy, be. killed
while rlrifhg In a cab on the Eastern
Parkway, Brooklyn.
The young woman was a stenogra
pher In a local court, while the young
man was an employee of tho Commer
cial Cable Company. The cab was hired
In front of the Hotel Knickerbocker,
and the chauffeur was instructed to
drive to Brooklyn. After tho pistol
shots the chauffeur stopped and found
the dead bodies of his fares. The trag
edy recalls the death of Caesar Younir.
who lost l)is life In a cab with Nan
Patterson some years ago.
y
Tells Employers That
Labor Is Not Re
sponsible For Flurry.
GEORGIANS PUT
Senators Bacon and Clay
Have Enough to Keep
Them Busy.
Attune and the humiliation reaultlng
from the Insinuation by a atreet car
bonductor that shp had told a false
hood wan the baste of an action for
32,000 brought against tho Georgia
Railway and Electric Company Tues
day by Mrs. H. M. Carllngton.
Mrs. Carllngton alleges thai she ten
dered th(^ conductor 50 cents for two
fares. The conductor contended that
she had only given him 25 Cents, and.
although he Anally gave her the change
demanded, continued lo discuss the
matter with passengers on the car, in
sinuating that the plaintiff had mis
represented the facte. It la alleged fur
ther thnt he remarked to the plain
tiff, "If I did business Jlke you I
would not have to he a street car con
ductor."
Attorneys Hanson Jones and Walter
McElreath represent the petitioner.
STILL GROWING— 28 Pages Today
This issue of The Georgian marks another milestone in our record-breaking career.
V/e print todav nearly 3,000 inches of the advertieementf of our friends, setting forth the best that le to be
found in Atlanta’e stores. We believe thie it more then has ever been published in a regular daily issue of an
Atlanta paper.
Then, too, we offer the advertiser more paid subscribers than ever before, having added 1,500 in the past four
weeks. And, taking the matter as a whole, the confidence in The Georgian expressed by the advertiser in hie
liberal patronage, and the appreciation shown by our readers by their continued frlendehip and patronage, we
feel that our policy of independence and of serving the intereete of the people regardless of political or other as
pects, is welcomed by thoee whom we strive to serve.
More readere.
More advertiiing,
Mora popularity.
More determination.
A plain newspaper for the cool*.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Senator Bacon,
of Georgia, was yesterday named an
chairman of the cdmmlttee of engrossed
bills. He waa also made a member of
committees on foreign relatione, Judi
ciary, railroads, rules and Indian depre.
datlons.
Senator Clay was made chairman of
the committee on woman's suffrage.
He was also made a 'member of com
mittees on appropriations, postoffices
and post roads, manufactures, public
buildings and grounds, coast defenses,
Insular surveys and University of the
United States.
Representative Livingston was made
ranking Democrat on the committee of
appropriations. One Democrat will be
added to all the committees.. Lee, of
Georgia, has a strong backing for the
committee on rivers and harbors.,
The Democratic eteerlng committee
has completed Its list of Democratic as
signments to committees. Senator
Foster ie honored with the place va
cant on the ways and meane committee.
LABOR BOYCOTTLIST
Washington. Dec. 17.—A temporary
restraining order was granted today by
Justice Gould against the further pub
lication by the American Federation of
Labor of Its "we don’t patronize Hit,”
in so far as it affects the Buck stove
and Range Company, of St. Louis.
Justice Gould held that the inter
ference of the officers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor Is nn unlaw
ful Invasion of the rights of the plain
tiff.
MEASURED BANKER
AND MADE PHOTO;
SLEUTH IS IN JAIL
New York, Dec. 17.—For falling to
obey a writ of habeas corpus which
directed him not to have Frank Jen
kins, the banker, photographed and
measured, Chief of Brooklyn Detectives
Kuhne was sentenced to thirty daye In
ijsll and fined $250 by Supreme Court
Justice Burr for contempt of court.
A - J
WILL FIGHT ALL
ATTEMPTS TO CUT
Workers Must Not Be Made
Sufferers of Artificial
Panic.
New York, Dec. 17.—Samuel Oom-
pers. president of tho American Fed
eration of Igpbor, has served notice
upon employers that attempts to re
duce wages at this time will be fought
to the utmost. Ho delivered the ulti
matum In an address at a dinner of
the Civic Federation, attended by 800
person at the Hotel Aator.
“I say to the employers—to the bank
ers, the lawyers, the manufacturers, the
mine operators, to all employers—that
If they now attempt to reduce the
wages they are not going to have the
easy nailing they had a few years ago.
for the American workingman ha*
come to the conclusion that If for any
reason the financial situation Is &s it
Is—and I shall not suggest any reason
—It waa not, at any rate, due to any
fault on the part of the working people.
They have made up their minds that
they are not going to be the chief suf
ferers because of an artificial panic or
a flurry, caused by the blunders
of those-In charge of the finances of
the country.”
Among the speakers were August
Belmont, Andrew Carnegie, General F.
D. Grant, President Eliot, of Harvard;
Postmaster General Meyer, former Gov
ernor Herrick, of Ohio; Alfred Crosier,
of Wilmington, and others.
Gompers and White in Tilt.
There was n shorn tilt between Howe
White and Samuel Gompers at the secoud
ilny’s semloq of fhe National Civic Federa
tion today, Mr. Gompers welkin* to the
platform nmi shaking his Anger In Mr.
White’s face In vigorous opposition to n
resolution on the currency reform which
it* lielng read by the latter.
In the midst of the lively s.*t-to the Rev.
Dr. BUcer had the resolution tabled.
The resolutions advlssd making hank
eredlt available In times of stringency in
the form of circulating notes, capable of
expamdi>n and contraction nnd to be taxed
highly •nd retired ns soon ns the need for
them wna orer. >
Mr. Gompers mUI he did not believe the
Federation should commit Itself on the cur
rency question and declared that the reso
lution which bad been presented wo* not a
report hr the committee.of which he an«l
fifir. White were members.
DON’T FORGET NAME
ON XMAS PACKAGE
Tht Atlanta postoffice la now feeling
the effects of the Christmas rush and
within a few day*, the scenes In this
business barometer will be busy ones.
Postmaster Blodgett reports that the
office Is feeling the effects of outgoing
/mail and extra clerks are being em
ployed to take care of the business.
Before the rush Is well started, sixty
extra clerks will be -at work taking
care of the business. Half of this force
will be at work In the registry depart
ment.
It Is here that most of the rush win
take place nnd Postmaster Blodgett
asks the public to co-operate with him
In taking care of the heavy business.
This can be done by mailing registered
Christmas presents before the last min
ute. Some people even go so far as to
send them early and mark on the pack,
te when It Is to be opened.
Hut shove all things. Post masts,
Blodgett asks that senders of parcel,
be sure and place their names In th#
corner of the package, so the postoffle,
thorltles will know who semis It. Thl,
often necessary and awids consida
viable trouble and delay.