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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. i/rsTO-F Dead MAY REACH 60 Women .and Children Gath er About Mine to Seek For Lost Relatives. 0000000 000000000000000000a o o 0 FIRE DAMP IN MINE) 0 0 BEC0ME8 A FURNACE. 0 O O 0 Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 17.—All 0 0 hope of rescuing the thirty or O G more miners believed to bo In the 0 0 Yolando mines, was given up this 0 0 morning when the rescuers were O 0 driven back by dro which Is burn- 0 O Ing far down In the mines. Thlr- O O ty-elght bodies have been re- 0 0 moved and twenty-six Injured 0 0 men taken out Among the In- 0 0 jured Is C. C. Huckabee. supsrln- 0 0 tendent. who was overcome by flro 0 0 damp before It had been dlscov- 0 0 cred, and In five minutes It had 0 0 become a roaring furnace. 0 O O 00000000000000000000000000 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. 000O0000000000000000000000 O 0 0 8NOW IN MANY PLACES: O O RAIN DUE TONIGHT. 0 O • —' 0 0 Snow In Kansas. Missouri. Ne- 0 0 here it will turn to rain before ar- O O rival, and it Is due to arrive Tues- O 0 day night. Forecast: - O 0 "Rain Tuesday night and prob- 0 0 ably Wednesday." O 0 Tuesday temperatures: 0 o 7 a. m ...15 degrees 0 O 8 a. in 33 degrees 0 0 9 a. in 37 degrees 0 0 10 a. m 31 degrees 0 0 It a in 40 decrees 0 O 13 r.oon 43 degrees 0 0 I p. 44 degrees 0 0 2 p. m 45 degrees O O O 'O0OOOOO000OO000000OO0000O0 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.