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PASSENGER RATE IN I MINORITY SPLIT
NORTH CAROLINA
Gov. Glenn Thinks Settle
ment Will Aid Road
and State.
Raleigh, N. C.. Dec. 20.—Every rnll-
roa'* In North Carolina, announced
, Governor Glenn today, has agreed to
the 21-2-cent proposition, except the
Atlantic Coaat Line. Even It this road
will not accept the proposition which
calls for a 21-2-cent flat rate: on
mileage books ranging In price from
21-4 to 2 cents, an extra, session of
the legislature will probably be called
between January 5 and 15. Governor
Glenn will uso his Influence to have
the proposition accepte|l. The cqnfer-
. once In Atlanta now seems to linva
borne fruit, fur South Carolina, Geor
gia and Alabama, Governor Glenn Is
Informed, have agreed to the terms and
Virginia has the matter under consid
eration. When Tennessee and Virginia
come In, the governor will suilmlt the
proposition to the Xorth Carolina leg
islature In speelal session.
"I am confluent." said Governor
i Glenn, to a representative of the Hearst
News Service, "that the terms will tie
: better for both the rattroarts and the
state. Ex-Governor Aycock thinks so,
and I shall uso my Influence.with the
'legislature.'
New Orleans, La., Dec. 20.—Henry
G. Hester, secretary of the New Or
leans cotton exchange, Was run down
nnd badly bruised by an automobile
mL Inst night. Mr. Hester was attended by
The governor says the present light •„ phyalcion, but his Injuries are not be.
’ before the supreme court will nnl , V,* llrved to he serious. He Is nearly* 70
years old and Is known throughout the
Peacemakers Attempt to
Settle Williams-DeAr-
mond Scrap.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Intermedia
ries are today attempting to smooth
down the rumpled feathers of John
Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader,
and Judge DeAsmond, of Missouri.
Neither man today shows any III ef-
fects'from the fist fight In which they'
Indulged on the Ifoor of the house yes
terday, when IJcArmond passed the He
In a discussion about committee ap
pointments, and Williams 'took It up."
Williams has a scratch on his fore
head and under one eye. The Missou
rian has a few particles of skin miss
ing from the bridge of his nose. Had
blood >has been existing for some time
between the two, and unless volunteer
peacemakers exert their profession a
serious split In the minority ranka may
develop.
HENRY G. HESTER
HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
AND BADLY BRUISED
jttrfrrt* with fh*» a«rc#*m«*nt, fIucc both
h«* and the railroads have agreed to let
! the matter be settled by the court for
all time, so that the roads nnd the state
mill hereafter know what rights they.
. p<-Metis.
The terms of the Agreement provide for
.the xnie of both luter mid Intrn-stnle tick
ets ni 2tt cents. The sale of 2.000-mlle mile-
• ace iMieks for familli** und linns five of
Whom enn use same. The sale of l.tMO-mlle
financial world.
BRYAN TO SPEAK
IN CHATTANOOGA
/
Special to Tbs Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenu., Dso. 20.—Wll-
h ; ,t!i Inter mhI IntrsHUntirnnd (hterclianKi’fi; Horn Jennings Bryan Is coming to Chat.
‘ ’ * tanooga. Just when he will come has
not been decided^ but It Is quite proba
ble that ho will visit this city Imme
diately after filling an appointment to
speak In Nashville on January 22.
George W. Chamlee, city attorney, Is
the authority for the statement that
the Nebraskan will visit. Chattanooga.
Deaths and Funerals
Mrs. M. L. Beck.
* Mrs. M. L. Beck, aged SO. mother of
AV. A. Heck and Dr, J. F. Heck, of At
lanta, died at her residence, 35 llnilcy-
*t.. Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. Beck aleo leaves two daughters,
Mrs. J. C. White nnd Sirs. B. A. Camp.
The funeral ceremonlee were conducted
at the residence Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock.' The Interment followed at
Weatvlew cemetery. Her grandedns
:«cted as poll-bearers.
Mrs. Nancy E. Roberts.
Sirs. Nancy E. Roberts, aged SC, died
at her residence, 24 KUa-st., Thursday
night at I o'clock. The funeral serv
ices will bo conducted at the residence
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The
Interment will be at Westvlew ceme
tery.
. Receivers Appointed.
New York. Dec. 20.—-Judge Howe, in
the United States district court today
nppolnted Samuel Goldstelker nnd K.
■ Rltxenna de Grove as receivers for the
‘J. O. Lyons Building’ and Opsratlng
Company. Tlio receivers are required
to give a joint bond of 2100,000.
MARBUT-TURNER
CASE IS DECIDED
Upon the ground (hat an individual atock-
bolder could not mnka him n party to the
•ult nnd that such action could only be
taken by the receiver appointed to take
charge of the company*! affairs. Judge Pen
dleton Friday austalncd a demurrer filed by
M. M. Turner, former secretary of the Geor
gia Redemption and Loan Company, In the
suit filed against him by A. O. Marbut, a
stockholder In the company.
During the hearing of the cate Friday
something like 600 checks were offered In
evidence br the plaintiff. These chocks
wore signed by Turner nnd covered a total
of about 6311,000. 690,000 of which wan mado
payable to cash.. Judge Pendleton ruled
out all the checks, except those payable to
cash, upon the ground that they were Irrele
vant. but heln that Turner should show
what became of the funds pnynblo to cash.
* Attorney T. J. Ripley represented tlie
plaintiff. wWlf Mttojney Owen* Johnson ap-
pen red for the defendant. No further ne
11 on will bo taken In the case until the
plaintiff can confer.with the receiver.
MANY BIG BUILDINGS ERECTED
IN ATLANTA DURING YEAR CLOSING
MAGNIFICENT NEW ATLANTA POSTOFFICE, TO BE COMPLETED IN 1908.
Records Broken For
I
Important New
Buildings.
In the number, also and cost of buildings
begun and buildings completed the year 1907
has been a record-breaker for Atlanta, which
means a record-breaker for tho entire South.
Tho four most Important buildings are the
61,000,000 postoffice, tho 6200,000 urmory-nuUI-
torium, the 6176,000 Masonic temple nud the
6401X000 Louisville and Nashville freight
depot. In addition to these nre about n
dozen structures costing between 6100,000
nnd 660,000, while those costing between $10,-
000 and 660,000 way he reckoned by tho
score. /
In a short while work will be rccommeuc-
_ >n the iK>stofflco, the foundation of
which has been complete for several
months. .The structure will be the finest
federal Inilbllng in the bouth, with the
possible except Ion of that In New Orleans,
which Is ulso In course of construction. The
Atlanta poatofflce will probably bo built
of granite with inarhlr * “ * “*
block bounded by
rftories In height, covering the entire
pMMf Forsyth. Walton, I'oplHt*
and Fnlrile-ata. In It will be located nil
city,
' Hlld t
$ BASKETS
■; Work-taskets,. Scrap-baskets,
1 Baby-b askets, Trmket-baskets,
■ Candy-baskets, Clotbes-baskets,
Flower-baskets,—baskets for a
| score of pretty holiday and all-
ftke-time uses.
Importer s samples these are—
/ no trashy stuff. "We bought the
j entire lot very, very cheap. We
i pass them on to you the same
way. Beginning tomorrow every
[Basket m the lot reduced because
we want to close them out swift-
V
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tin* Department
cr bureau.
Excavation Is wall under way on the site
of the armory-auditorium at Gilmer "and
Coiirtlnnd' ; Ma„ nnd nctusl oonutruetlou will
Ik* begun within (lie next month of so. Tho
hulldfug will without doubt be the finest
public auditorium In the Houth, nnd will bo
well ndsptcd for great conventions, horse
shows, ehuutnuquns, and largo meetings of
nil kinds. The committee In charge or tho
“ ‘ fuiory-auditorium ho|H*s to
Ih th« cost of Us construe-
nut of tho recent decrease In
the price of building materials. This will
Ih* enough to furnish It and Install a 610,060
pipe organ.
Grsat Masonic Ttmpls.
The Masonic temple at tho corner.of Gain
st. and I’enchtrec-st., which Is non ring com
pletion, Is the result of years of labor by
Atlanta Mastitis. When finished It will be
one of the handsomest fraternal order homes
In all the country, and certainly tho finest
anywhere In this part of the world. It will
contain everything that could possibly be
desired in n building of this character.
What Is said to be the largest concrete
building In the United States Is the Louis
ville aud Nashville freight depot. It Is two
blocks long—so long that a freight train of
twenty ears may bo rnn Into It nnd unload-
cd—If there are men enough—ns quickly ns
on# car could be bandied. The depot was
liegun In 1906 and completed Jn the early
part of 1W7. *
Among the secondary buildings either be
gun or completed during tin* past year,
which, however, nro of great Importune.) In
commercial ways, arc the big, Atlanta cotp-
press near tho Kdgewo4H|-ave. bridge, cost
ing 610),ODD; the Atlanta Coal and Ico plant,
at the ‘eorner of rieduiont-ave. and tho
Georgia railway, which cost 61O1.000; the
Hoke Mrnlth building, nt the corner of
Pryor-st. ami Auburn uve* which cost 6*16, •
000; the 650,000 apartments erected by J. II.
Smith nt K» l'eachtreest.; the hamtanne
apartments belug built by S. II. Phelan In
Pcachtree-at. nt a C4>st of 670,000: the nihil-
thin to the War«*-llnti*hcr Furniture Co.'s
plant in Menus-tt.. npou which |fi6,ooo is lie-
lug expended, ami the splendid building of
the A, It. and A. railway In Wnlton-st.
Many New Churches.
It has been a good yegr In the building of
religious and philanthropic structures. The
congregation of the Rcth-Isrnel synagogue
has erected a handsome temple at 225 Wash-
lngton-st., which cost $18,000. St. Johns
Methodist church U building an edifice at
ntml-Ave.
Tho Bap-
-..bernacle la prcpurlug to build the
nurses' home lu Lucklo-st., the first of four
buildings which will form u part of the
first Targe Inslltutlonal church in the South.
The Rchl-st. Rnptlst church, colored, In
building a 626,000 church at the corner of
Crumley-st. nud Fraser-st., which will Ih*
r trobably ns baiulNonm a church ns Is owned
ly negroes lu the South. The addition of a
nurses* home to the Wesley Memorial hon-
‘tal ho* l»ecu a notable improvement In
nit Hue.
Aside from the completion of the Wash-
‘ ‘ —hlch la
beauties. S
econc
y-
Xkey are
Floor.
Chamberlin-J onnson-
DuBose Gmpany.
Ingl
bull
ton-st. viaduct,
not properly n
, lll.ltH *4" ♦G-.'AA',
engine hoUKO ut 24
'orth-ave.. Is nearly complete.
The number of business buildings costing
between 636,000 and 610,which nre twin*
constructed In every sectioh of the city,
shows that Attnutaus have turned their ef
forts toward making the city more compact
by filling In tho unused places. Among
these are:
The 620,000 building at 14 aud Id Auburn-
nvp.. being.constructed by John E. Murphy;
the 635,000 row of business bulbilngs of S. M.
Iniunn, In Nelson-nt.: tho enlargement of
the Athletic Club In Auhum-nve.. at n cost
build 11
ling nt 59 Ivy-
of 617.Q**: the Nunnnlly I
L. Which w '
Atlantans
lug hat
fin past. . _ „
built by Ilagh T. Inman lu Feachtree-st., at
a probable expenditure of 621.000. and the
handsomest of tlie year.
Swear in Polictman.
The twenty-five extra policemen phi.
vlded for at the last meeting of the
police board will be sworn In at the
station Friday afternoon, and will go
on duty Saturday morning. They wilt
remain on duty until after the holidays.
ATLANTA’S SPLENDID NE\V MASONIC TEMPLE.
MUST PAT RENT
OR VACATE HOMES;
FAMILIES OUSTED
—
Naples, Doc. 20.—Troops have begun
tho eviction ot nearly 5,000 families
from working-clan dwellings belong^
Tng to the Hocleta Del Rlsanomento.
Between fifty and aixty thousand
Neapolitans have mid no rent for *lx
months In compliance with a general
agreement among workingmen to re
els t the recent heavy Increase In rent.
It Is toured disorders will follow evic
tions.
LAST TOWN IN DISTRICT
VOTES WHISKY OUT.
NO LIVES LOST IN
CANADIAN WRECK
pttawa, Ont., Dec. 20.—There was no
Ions of life In the smash-up this morn
ing on the Canadian Pnciflc. Traffic
was not delayed seriously,
HARVARD SOPHAND
MISS POTTER WED
New York. Dec. 20.—Ensconced In a
bridal suite at the Leralne Hotel In
Boston, where they refuse to answer
any messages today, are \V. G. Gordon
Cugan, Harvard sophomore, *on ot
James J. Cugan, first vice president of
the borough of Manhattan, and Ills
Special to The Georgian. bride, who was Miss Dorothy Potter,
Koanoke, Va.. Dec. 20.—Pocahontaa, great-niece of Bishop Potter, society
. belle, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
a mining town and the only point In the E(lward Clarkson Potter, of Westches-
nlnth congressional district of Virginia -
where whisky Is legally told, voted out
the saloon In a local option election
by a majority of 10 votes. Women pa
raded the streets and .ptoaded with
voters to cost their ballolB for the “dry"
ticket. —'
WOKE PARK UP
TO PAY TAXES
At 1^) o'clock Friday morning State
Treasurer Park was routed out of a warm
be4t to answer an Inulstent call at his door.
He found there a messenger with a spo-
tal delivery letter. On .opening It he found
* check for 692.«96.«9, the 1907 taxes due the
state by the Southern railway. Time limit
for payment expired Friday, and the South
ern was evidently anxious to Ih* on time.
Georgia Northern (electric line to Marietta)
62.600, Southern railway 69£*&89, Atlanta
Terminal Co. 65,000, Dullsville and Nash
ville 611.70. Georgia, Florida and Alabama
$3,5*49, Georgia Southern anti Florida 60*728,
Macon and Birmingham 62»307, Bibb county
614,000.
MAURETANIA MADE
GOOD TIME ON TRIP
New York, Dtc. 20.—The Cunard
steamship Mauretania, the bigger sis
ter ship of the Lusitania, docked to
day after almost equaling the record-
breaking trip of the latter, having trav
eled the 2,710 miles in live days nnd 55
minutes. Her average spec! was 23
knots.
All Kinds ot Game at Wholesale
wfi i i
Cash With Order or C. 0. D.
Bell Phone 5187
ter.
They eloped Wednesday, were mar
ried by Rev. Rlchnrd Hughes, of St.
Patricks Cathedral, and linvo just been
located by their relatives. Both'bride
and bridegroom are well known nnd
populnr In the younger set of New York
society. They are each about nineteen
years old.
NELSON-M’FARLAND .
PURSE HUNG UP
Chicago, Dec. 2-).—That 6500 forfeit to
bind the proposed match Imtwreen Pgcky
McFarland nnd Battling Nelson recently
taken down by Joe Gan* was potted last
night by Harry Gilmore, Jr., the former's
manager. Gilmore things the 131 pounds
at a o'clock coudltlon to Ih* aa favorable as
the lightweight limit at the ringside.
JOHN MITCHELlTlS
ILL AT HIS HOTEL
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 20.—John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, who was reported
to be seriously 111, was taken sick about
hoon. He Is now confined to his room
at the Claypool Hotel, where It Is sold
his condition la Improved.
TEACHERS’ SALARY
SENT OUT FRIDAY
Teachers In every county In the state
will get Christmas money Saturday and
Monday, .
Friday, the state school commission
er’s office Is mailing out checks for
1231,459.42, all of which goes to the
country schools. The local or city
schools got I100.M0 early In the week.
With this distribution of funds, the
•cbools will have received SO per cent
•coaat due them this y<
i an unusually good record.
SEE THE
$1,000
IN GOLD
IN THE WINDOW OF
Eugene Vo Haynes" Co.’s
Jewelry Store on
Whitehall St.
It’s going to be given away
to the candidate who re
ceives the largest number of
votes in The Georgian’s
great popular voting con-,
test.
The Prizes Are:
$1,000 in gold.
A $2,000 Touring Car.
One $750 Grand Piano.
Onb $650 Runabout.
Ten Kingsbury Pianos
from Cable Piano Co.
Twenty free trips to Cuba.
Fifteen ^Diamond Rings,
from Eugene V. Haynes Co.
Fifteen Gold Watches,
from Charles W. Crankshaw
Twenty scholarships from
Dixie Business College.
Five scholarships in Cox
College.
Fiye scholarships in the
Klindworth Conservatory of
Music.
$15,000 in prizes to be
awarded February 1, 1908.
MORE EXTRA PRIZES
Another special offer is in vogue, whereby
you can win one of the following prizes: $75 or
$50, or $25. Here is the offer: To the.candidate
who secures the largest number of new three-
months’ subscriptions between the dates of De
cember 18th and Saturday, January 4th, at 8
o’clock, p. m., we will give $75 in gold, and the
one securing the second largest number will re
ceive $50 in gold. The third will receive $25 in
gold. This gives three cash prizes. Besides the
cash awards, we will give you three hundred
extra votes on each and every six months’ sub
scription which you bring or send in, and six
hundred extra votes on each and every one of
the new yearly subscriptions which you bring
or send to the contest department of The Geor
gian. Here is a chance to get extra prizes and
extra votes, ^ake advantage of it. A new year
ly subscription counts the same as four for
three months, and a six months’ subscription
counts same a§ two for three months.
20 TRIPS TO .CUBA
Why don’t you get in
the race and win one
of the free trips to
Cuba. Be one of the
Georgian’s party. It
is free and you can
not be a member of
this party unless you
win one of the trips.
How would you like .
to see Cuba and not
have to spend one
cent for the entire
trip? Do not overlook
the fact .that you do
not have to spend one
cent to winl this trip,
as The Georgian pays
the expenses.