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the weather.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair
tonight; Friday Increasing cloudi
ness; warmer.
VOL. VI. NO. 123.
OVER FACES
„ D ast Year Was Kind
to Atlanta Busi
ness Men.
BIG CHRISTMAS
TRADE REPORTED
Spirit of Optimism Pervades
Uptown District After
Holidays.
Satisfaction at the business of the
past, optimism for the year to come—
that Is the spirit of Atlanta's mer
chants. They had an opportunity to
•top and breathe a bit on the day after
Christmas, and as they surveyed the
wreckage after the storm o fahoppers
of the past few weeks, they smiled a
smile which looked satisfying to the
soul. For they prospered In Anno
Domini 1907, and look for even more
of the good things of earth In 1908.
If anybody has thought of “hard
times" or "financial depression" or any
of those mysterious conditions which
so many have talked about, but which
nobody confessed to feeling, he didn’t
say anything about It Thursday. At
lanta merchants look happy and well
content with their year’s business, and
there Is nothing but good cheer and
optimism In the retail district.
The close of the year 1907 will mark
one of the most successful periods thru
which business houses of Atlanta have
ever passed. Business throughout the
year has been good, In many Instances
overtopping that of 1901, and the
Christmas trade this year has been ero
inently satisfactory.
In Interviews, with a number of well
known up-town business men Thurs
«l*y many encouraging statements were
made regarding the generally prosper
ous condition of the country as lndl
rated by the amount of business done
during the year.
What Merchants 8ay.
IV. R. McClellan, manager of the J,
M. High Company, said: “This has been
the most successful year that we have
had since we have been In the street.
The trade during the year’ has been
better than It was In 1908 and the
Christmas trade was equal to that of
last Christmas. There has been as
much cash In evidence as could have
reasonably been expected.”
E. R. DuBoae, of the Chamberlin-
Johnson-DuBose Company: "Business
during the year has been a little ahead
of last year, which Is to say, unusually
(o»d. Last year was one of the most
successful years we ever had and It
was hard to beat It. The Christmas
trade has also been good."
John Morris, of the Keely Company:
Continued on Page Three.
IS NOW ON TRIALS
169 Members Expect Im
prisonment For Signing
Viborg Manifesto.
SI. Petersburg, Dec. 28.—That (fie
"hole Russian nation la stirred by the
trial of the 189 members of the douma
was manifested today when at the
°Penlng of the second session of the
c °utt that Is hearing the case repre
•entatlves of all classes crowded the
c °urt room.
The charge against the members of
the first constitutional assembly Is that
"t signing the Viborg manifesto they
committed treason.
The accused include Professor Mur.
ointreff, who was president of the first
«ouma; Prince Dolgorukoff, the vice
president: Prince Obolensky, Prince
ohakhovsky and lawyers who are Iden-
t*ned with the constitutional agreement.
The maximum penalty for their of
fense Is three years Imprisonment and
loss of their civil rights.
Most of them expect that they will
?* found guilty and sentenced from
jour months to a year's Imprisonment
m a fortress and to deprivation of their
Ovu rights.
After the dissolution of the first dou.
ma In July. 1908. Its ex-members as
sembled at Viborg, In Finland, and Is
sued a manifesto which was signed by
over 200 of their number, urging the
People to stand up for the trampled
n *hts of the popular representation.'
man seized negro
who entered room
but intruder fled
home. Ga.. Bee. 28.-I)lrk Johnston ills-
t“ferwj a negro matt In the room where
Johtuton nnd wife were sleeping Wed ties
night. Johnston rclxe.1 the negro, hut
toll «"*• 1” h“hl him. slnl lie escaped.
»"?* were put on the trail, lint no fsr here
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The Atlanta Georgian
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AND NEWS
SPOT COTTON.
Cotton markets all closed on Th
Will open Friday morning.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1907.
PPTPF. ,n Atlanta..TWO CENTS.
riUVBj. On Trains..FIVE CENTS.
SOON GOES UP FOR
CABLEj’IANO CO,
Tearing Down Old Broad-St,
Stores For Five-Story
Building. ‘
Workmen begsn testing down, the old
two-story building nt <2 North Broad,,.,
Juit opposlts the Engllsb-American build
ing, Thursday, preparatory to the erection
of s 900,003 building on the elte by Dr. A.
\V. Calhoun. Work of conetruction will
commence within e week or more nnd the
building will be complete by July.
The Cable Piano Company la to be the
occupant of the new building, which will
be erected eipreeely with s view to hom
ing a large music house. The Atlanta Con-
eerrstory of Muelc will stso be located In
the building.
The new bnlldlng, which will overlook
the Intersection of Luckle, Peecbtree nnd
Uroad-eta., will be lire stories In height
end will have In addition a Urge basement.
It will be of preesed brich anil thoroughly
modem throughout. The frontage of the
lot le 60 feet with 100 feet depth.
On the Brat floor will be located the
Dlann showrooms, offices and sitisll goods
departments. In the basement will he the
Itlnnn repairing end toning deportments,
the storage end packing rooms. On the
second floor will be n epncloos ciueert lotiI.
In which a pipe organ will lie Installed, on
the third floor will be the piano parlors.
The fourth floor will be occupied by the
Atlanta Conservatory of Mnslc. The lenoe
on the fifth floor bee not as yet been
eloeed. The building was planned by
Harry Leslie Wslker, srchlteet, and will
he built by W. V. Griffin.
CENTRAL BANK CO,
GIVES $500,000
BONDASRECEIVER
Guarantees Administration
of Affairs of Neal
Bank.
AT SHOOTING MATCH
MAN SHOT TO DEATH
Hartwell. (Je.. Dec. 28.—Will Askoa
shot Gene Howell yesterday at a shoot
ing match. Full particulars are not
obtainable, but It is stated that the
tragedy was the result of a mlsunder-
rlanding between the parties. Both are
"rife shooting occurred four miles
from hire. -- —.
For tbs feltbful discharge of Its duty and
the proper handling of the affairs of the
Neel Bank the Central Bank end Trust
Corporation Thursday tiled with Clerk Ar-
Hold Broyles, of the enperlor court, a lioud
for 9500,000. The United States Fldelty and
Guaranty Company, of Baltimore, le surety
for the company.
The bond wee elgned by A. P. Coles, cash
ier of the Central Bank and Trust Corpora
tion, nml Attorney'Frnnk H. Beynolde, rep.
resenting the bonding company. t
The Central Bank and Trnet Corporation
wae appointed recelrer for the Neel Bank
by Judge Pendleton, of the superior court,
last Tuesday*end as such was required to
glre Iwntl In the eum mentioned.
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O prior to Christmas. O
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O Thursday temperatures: O
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O 8 o’clock a. m it degrees 0
O 9 o’clock a. m.. ..SO degrees.
0 10 o’clock
O 11 o’clock a. m..
O 12 o'clock noon..
0 1 o’clock p. m..
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..58 degrees.
San Francisco, Dec. 28.—Fire early
this morning destroyed almost ths en
tire block bounded by Jesse, Mission
and Flrst-sts. The burned district Is
in ths business section of the city and
It la estimated the loss will reach 92,-
900,000.
Magrum A Otter, pumps and hard
ware: the Noodtn A Littell Implement
Company, and Juatmaln. Cayo A Co.,
scientific Instruments and mine sup-
Itllee, were the principal losers.
The firemen's battle was not enm-
letely won until Just before dawn. The
ulldlngs were mostly temporary struc
tures In the heart of the district burn
ed to the ground after the earthquake.
They were of frame and highly Inflam
mable.
The flames spread with Incredible
swiftness and at the end of the first
hour It was feared they would get be-
yond the block. But the firemen, work'
ing like mad men, finally won. The
cause of the fire Is unknown.
FIRE AT REGISTER
WIPES OUT STORE
Roosevelt Incensed
Because Brownson
Quit Job.
HE RESIGNED
UNDER FIRE
Rixey Started Row by
Attack On Chief of
Navigation,
Washington, Dec. 28.—With our bat
tleships not yet much below the shore
line of the eastern coast of the United
States, the troubles In the administra
tion of the navy have broken out be
yond the power of anybody to suppress
the facts. Senators and representa
tives are receiving Information every
day from men of high rank In the
navy.
The resignation of Rear Admiral
Brownson has made It Impossible now
to hide whatever defects there may bo
In the administration of the navy, and
the attack upon Brownson by Surgeon
General Blxey has accentuated the dlf.
ferencss that exist. It Is known that
Rixey had the O. K. of the white house
before he made his statement.
President Roosevelt Is Incensed that
the head of the bureau of navigation
should resign while the fleet Is upon Its
famous voyage and under attack by
competent critics. He feels ns If his
political enemies In congress will use
every protext to make things look
blacker than they are. '
Surgeon General Rixey opened the
war by the publication of a long etate-
ment, showing that there was friction
between tho bureau of navigation and
tho bureau of medicine.
Rixey maintains that hospital' ships
always have been commanded by medi
cal officers with a civilian master nnd
crew for purposes of navigation. Thla
particular vessel, he says, formsrly be
longed to the army nnd always was
commanded by a medical officer when
used tut a hospital ship.
In attempting to unify the modlcal
forces of the army and navy, he says
olnt army and nnvy board of medico'
cars, which' was convened by execu
live order more than a year ago, rec
ommended that hospital ships should
be commanded by medical officers, and
that the recommendation was approved
by the secretary of war and the secre.
tsry of the navy In general orders.
He maintained that It has always
been a question whether Tho Hague
and Genera agreements could guar-
antes the neutrality at these ships I;
combatant (line) officers were used on
hospital ships.
£££KJIHR1IB
At Goldfield
Goldfleld. Nev„ Dec. 28.—Great un-
earineas was caused In Goldfleld today
by the filing of a suit against the Gold,
field miners, the Western Federation of
Miners and Charles A. MacKinnon, as
well ns nineteen other officers, by the
Consolidated Mine Company.
The papers alleged that the Western
Federation Is voluntarily unincorpo
rated and was organised for the pur
pose of destroying property, disorder,
bloodshed and rioting. An Injunction
against picketing and Interference and
tho final dissolution of the Goldfield un
ion Is asked. This action has greatly
Inflamed the miners.
It Is further alleged that the union
In a criminal aoclety. The court Is
asked to prohibit any more meetings
of the union. One effect of the suit, It
In said, may be to Induce President
Roosevelt to maintain part of the Fed
eral troops at Goldfleld.
CHRISTMAS DOCKET
AT POLICE STATION
Judge Broyles' Mill Grinds
Late and Fine
Thursday.
Tragic Suicide of E. G.
Stedman, N. Y.
Lawyer.
$2,000,000 FIRE
IN SAN ERANCISI
SWEEPSBIG BLOCK
Firemen Work Like Mad
men and Control Flames
at Dawn.
ATLOCALBREWERVi
PLANS FOR FUTURE
Announcement Will Be
Made Later, Says Albert
Steiner.
Register. Ga.. Dec. 28.—The store of
the Register Trading Company was con
sumed by fire this morning. The flret
notice of the lire was at 9 o’clock. A
small grocery department belonging to
8. Corrie. which was attached to the
main building, wax destroyed. The
stock of the Register Trading Company
wax valued at 915,000 and covered by
97,000 Insurance. Corrie had no Insur
ance at all.
It was only by very hard work of the
bucket hrtgnle that the handsome
dwelling of K. P. Register was saved;
also the Knights of Pythlaa and Ma-
_ O ttonlc lodges, and the drug stor* of Dr.
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There Is something brewing at the
plant of the Atlanta Brewing and Ice
Company and It Isn't all beer.
Plans are being made for the period
after January 1. when the prohibition
law goes Into effect. But so far not a
word ns to these plans has been given
out by the brewery officials.
The brewing of new beer stopped at
the brewery some time ago. This was
necessitated by reason of ths fact that
beer Is not rsady for the market until
about three months after the brewing
le first commenced.
President Albert Steiner of the brew.
Ing company, while admitting that the
prohibition lew stopped the making of
beer some time before the law really
went Into effect, would not eay Thure-
day Just what plane had been made by
the company.
"We will have something to an
nounce," said Mr. Steiner, "but at pree-
ent things are not In shape to do thle.
There are some details which still have
to be worked out, but after the first of
the year I will be In a position to make
a statement.”
It Is generally believed In the neigh
borhood of the brewery, where many of
the employees live, that some sort of
a soft drink will be manufactured In
addition to the manufacture of Ice.
Work Is now being finished on en ad
dition to the brewery on the East Ba-
ker-st. side of the extensive property
owned by the company, end It Is said
that this addition will be for the manu
facture of Ice.
It Is known that breweries ovsr the
ale have been experimenting with a
Jagless beer end a dispatch from Sa
vannah announce,, that the Savannah
Brewing Company Is going to manu
facture this sort of beverage. An
nouncement has already been made
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O JUDGE BROYE8’ RATE8 0
0 FOR CHRISTMAS “FUN." O
O The following Is the official O
O schedule of prices being assessed O
0 Thursday by Recorder Broyles In O
O police court: O
O Plain drunk, 99.75. O
0 Drunk, with a few fancy frills, 0
O 56.76. O
0 Drunk and disorderly, regulated O
0 by the gravity of the disorder, 0
O 610.76 up. 9
O Discharging pistols nml guns, O
O ho reduction for blank cartridges, O
0 525.75. 0
O Shooting cannon crackers. 510.76 O
O to 615.75. O
O Shooting ordinary small fire- O
O works In the streets, gauged main- O
0 Ij> by the amount. 61.75 to 65.75. O
O Carrying a concealed pistol. O
0 whether empty or loaded with O
0 bullets or blank cartridges, held O
O for the state courts In bond of O
O 5200. O
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"The biggest police court we have
ever had."
This was the comment of Recorder
Broyles Thursday morning when he
began the post-Christmas grind, and
found himself confronted with a dock
et containing 300 cases.
This enormous number of cases,
which smashes previous records for
one day. represents the work of the
police department from the adjourn
ment of polloe court Tuesday afternoon
until Thursday. There were few se
rious offenses on the docket, however,
and the holiday pnssed without crime.
The cases embrace practically every
common offense on calendar, the
great majority being traceable to whlf-
ky. Nearly all of the disorders during
Christmas were due to drunkenness.
The morning session commenced at
9:30 o'clock Thursday and was ad
journed by Clerk Preston at 10:10. at
which time about 75 cases had been
disposed of. Judge Broyles then pro
ceeded to Inaugurate an entirely new
stunt, something never before known In
police court, and which was rendered
necessary by the tremendous amount
of business. The recorder announced
recess for fifteen minutes nnd at
were set for the
• A large number of these cases were
disposed of and this relieved the aft
ernoon docket considerably. This ex
tra run of the mill of Justice makes
three sessions of court for one day and
establishes a brand-new record.
"We would have been here until 10
o'clock tonight If It hsd not been for
this extra session." remarked the re
corder, as he adjourned court again
about noon and hurried out for hla
lunch.
As It Is. the afternoon session will
continue far Into the night, as there
are more than 208 cases set for trial.
At Capitol-ave. Church.
Od Thursday night st 7:85 o'clock at the
t'apltnl-sre. Baptist church the Junior II. V,
I*. II. will'present one of the Itest programs
of the aeoeon. A chorus of lion end girls,
letl by one of their number, will render spe-
ffsl selected songs.
Race Results.
NEW ORLEANS,
Firm Race—-Variety, 11 to 10, won;
Mae Fletcher, 8 to 1 and 5 to 2, second;
Marla, 9, 3 and 8 to 6, third. Time,
: 02 2-5.
HIS FIRM IS IN
RECEIVER’S HANDS
Women Crowded On Plat
form Horrified at Act
of Millionaire.
New York, Dec. 26.—E. O. Stedman,
a prominent lawyer ot 138 Broadway,
ran« away from among a crowd of worn*
en on the uptown platform ot the sub-
wuy at Fourteenth-st. and leaped to
the tracks In front ot & fast moving
local train and was ground to death.
Ho Is rated to be worth In excess
$7,000,000 and a cousin of Edmund
Clarence Stedman. the poet-banker.
The J. C. Lyon Building and Operat
ing Company, ot which he waa rice
president, treasurer and director, failed
for several millions of dollars last Fri
day when receivers were appointed.
Financial troubles are believed to be
the chief cause of the suicide.
Mr. Stedman was president of the
American Cushion Elbow Company,
treasurer of the Raritan River Clay
Company, a member of several promi
nent clubs and bad oflWM *»n Kroad-
way, where he was a member of the
law firm of Stc«fman 4& Larkin.
The suicide could not have selected
a spot where his death would have cre
ated a greater sensation. The uptown
platform ot the subway at Fourteerith-
us crowded with persons, mostly
women, waiting for trains.
c cars of the train passed over the
lawyer's body before the train was
stopped, nnd by that time the body
had been terribly mangled. In the
meantime the men on the platform had
become panic-stricken. Women who
had seen the man leap to death fainted
or collnpsed. nnd for several minutes In
the wild excitement they lay about the
platform unattended,
Mrs. Stedman was driving in Central
Park when her husband killed himself,
and she knew' nothing of tho tragedy
until she returned home. She was
completely overcome and physicians
were called.
Mr. Stedman was a brother of the
famous general Griffith Stedman, who
was shot and killed at Fort Stedman.
before Petersburg. His wife was a
Miss Massey, a sister of the late Gen
eral McClellan and aunt of tho present
mayor of New York.
Edmund Clarence Stedman said to
day:
“My cousin had a large private for
tune which I understand was not af
fected by the failure of his firm a few
days ago. In any caso he was a man
of very level head ond I do not think
he would allow financial reverses to
unsettle him to tho extent that he
would commit suicide." .
WATER WAGON SAFE
Notwithstanding the rough road.
Probation Officer Coogler’s water wag
on (ravelad thru Christmas without on
accident.
Altho the wagon waa considerably
Jolted by the many temptations In It.
path. In the shape of egg-nogg and
holiday drinks, not one of the thirty-
three passengers fell off.
As a reault. Probation Officer Coog-
ler and Recorder Broyles, are all smiles.
Christmas was regarded aa the teat
for the new probation system, and the
fact that not one of the probationers
fell demonstrates Its worth. Out of
tbe total of thlrtythree, only eight
probationers have fallen since the sys
tem was Inaugurated nearly two
months ago.
As a precautionary measure. Officer
Coogler assembled his class at the po
lice station last Sunday afternoon and
made a talk on the temptations of the
holidays, warning the men to remain
firm In their determination not to drink.
As a further safeguard he then In
structed the probationers to report to
him at the police station at 9:30 o’clock
Christmas day. And when they re
ported they were all sober.
ATLANTA NATIONAL
Negotiations for the 3340,000 Inereas*
In circulation of the Atlanta National
Bank have been concluded and 990,000
of ertep new currency hae already been
received by the bank.
The remainder le now In the hands of
the printer, and will probably reach
here next week.
The circulation of the Atlanta Na-
that a non-alcoholic beverage win bellional baa been 5200,000. With thle In-
made by the Acme Brewing Company I crease of 9300,000 the circulation wlU
of Macon. *y» *'00,000, r.
S BEING VOTED OUT
Raleigh, N. C„ Dec. 26.—-The munici
pal election here today Is on the prop
osition to abolish the municipal dispen
sary. The prospects at 2 o’clock are
that It will carry.
The sentiment here, while over
whelmingly against the saloon method
of nelling whisky, is not so strong
against the dispensary for financial
reasons. The dispensary will unques
tionably be voted out. The majority
will represent about two-thirds of the
registered vote.