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THE. WEATHER. For Atlanta aVid Vicinity—Rain tonight; clearing and colder Sun day. The Atlanta Georgian and NEWS SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, steady; 6.12. Atlanta, steady; lie. New York, steady; 11.SO. New Or leans, quiet; 11H. Savannah, steady; 10915. Augusta, qnlet; 11 M«. VOL. VL NO. 125. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2;,1907. 5 PRTPTC• ,n Atlanta..TWO CENTS. a AVAV-zU. On Trains..FIVE CENTS. Atlanta’s Progress Is Shown by Old Directories. MARTHASVILLE HAD 350 PERSONS IN ’47 City and Suburbs Grow to More Than 160,000 in 1907. If Han. John C. Calhoun were alive today he would see that a prophecy he made when passing thru Atlanta many, many years ago to the Memphis con vention had been fulfilled. An old directory on flic In the office of Joseph-W. Hill, publisher of the At. lanta directory, recites the fact that the famous statesman said’ Atlanta would some day be a big city. At the time this directory was pub lished, ‘Atlanta had Jaken on the grow. Ing habtr, but It was then what Atlanta folks today would call a village. Mr. Hlll haa these directories In nn unbroken Una for .ten years or more, (ind he has others as'fyr back as 1850. A comparison of these and the esti mates, to be made from them as to the population of Atlanta shows wonderful changes. In a Vllrtfctory published In 1859 It Is declared In a historical sketch that At lanta, then Marthasvllld, had 350 pop ulation In 1847. The directory for 1908 estimates the population at more than 160,000. . The figures are taken from the dlrec. torlea published for the years named end are based on estimates made from the number of, n»mes In. the hooka. The oldest directory Mr. Hill has on tile Is about the slio of a New Testament, while the now directory for 1908 re srmbles a dictionary. With the exception of the first year mentioned; the figures all represent the population In Atlanta and the suburbs. In 1900 an official census was taken by the government, and this gave Atlanta Inside the corporate limits, 89,872, but the estimate of the entire population of the city and suburbs .was In the neighborhood of 120,000. Mikado Urges More Cordiality; Jap Diet Opens Toklo, Dec. 28.—Stress Is laid by the mikado in a speech before the house of peers at the Japanese diet opening to day, on increasing the country's cor diality in foreign relations. *The two houses will reply briefly and then ad journ. HOW ATLANTA STEADILY GREW The story of Atlanta’s growth from the village of Marthasville in 1847 to the teeming city of 1907 is shown at a glance in the black lines, drawn from careful calculations of the population in succeeding years as gathered from old directories and histories. The dates given are those of the directories from which the statistics are gathered. «. 360 in 1847 " ■ , 20,288 in 1806 —' " 36,003 in 1880 43,463 in 1881 — 88,939 in 1890 - , 120,000 in 1900 .i ' ..... 127,846 in 1901 i - 129,712 in 1902 - 139,980 in 1903 ... 145,682 in 1904 i—i i — 147,909 in 1905 ' , , . 160,250 in 1906 158,026 in 1907 '. 160,633 in 1908 IS EMUS EOF Identified by Owner Jof Mont Clair, N.J., Help Agency. WANTED WORK AS HOUSEKEEPER BY ms UNCLE IN James Humphrey, of Atlan ta, Killed While On Vacation Trip. ' Police Believe She Was poi soned On Board Passaic Boat. TAFT CUTS LOOSE FROM ROOSEVELT IN SPEECH fiO000000000000000000GQ0000 0 THUNDER STORM VISITS 0 O ATLANTA SATURDAY. O O Atlanta wax visited by a heavy 0 0 thundar itorm early Saturday O O morning. Many people were O O aroused from eleep by the terrific O 0 peale of thunder. The lightning O O flashes were very vivid. A clear 0 O and colder Sabbath la predicted. O v Forecaat: *7 2 "Rain Saturday night; clearing O 2 and colder Sunday.” ■ O Saturday temperaturea: O 2 7 o'clock n. m. 2 8 o’clock a. m. 2 9 o'clock a. m. . 2 19 o'clock-a m. . 2 11 o'clock a. m. . 2 12 o'clock noon . l o'clock p. m. . 66 degrees ....66 degrees 0 .... 56, degrees P .57 degrees P .... 58 degrees p .... 69 degrees P ..60 degrees p Boston, Dec, 28,—Word from Arthur I. Vorys, manager of the Taft presi dential boom, that .the secretary of war In his speech here next week will cut loose from President Roosevelt, has caused a tremendous rush for tickets to the dinner of the Merchants! Asso ciation, at which he will be the princi pal speaker. Having secured Taft for the guest of honor this year, the association Is pre paring for a record-breaking event on Monday night. It Is the secretary's present Inten tion to'leave Washington Sunday even ing and arrive In Boston early Monday. He will make three speeches In Bos ton kionday. Tuesday he goes to Mill- bury, where his' mother died. TAFT WILL SPEAK AT M'KINLEV DAY BANQUET Cleveland, Ohio, Ded. 28.—Secretary Taft will be the chief speaker at the McKinley day banquet of the Tippe canoe club here January 2. The Invita tion to Secretary Taft was cabled to him while he Was abroad. The secre tary's acceptance was not made pub lic until today. ' The banquet will be preceded by a -reception to Secretary. Taft t . . -«v —i . A MISSING WEDDING RING; A TALE OF A NEAR-TRAGEDY Says Another Man Gave It to Her and He Didn’t Like It. This, then, Is the singular story enti tled "The Missing Wedding Ring," or "The Troubles of a Prospective Bride groom." Gariy on Christmas morn J. A. Rents, of Ocala, Fla. and his friend and best man, E. E. Robinson, arrived In Atlanta and registered at the Pied mont. Mr. Rents came to Atlanta,to get married. The young lady lived be tween Atlanta and Decatur. December 28 was the wedding day. In the morning Mr. Rents and hla best man Journeyed to a Jeweler and bought a wedding ring. It was ordered sent to Mr. Robinson, at the Piedmont. It was sent. The ting was placed In a small, nest box and this was placed In an enve lope. It was addressed to Just plain ack- Mr. Robinson, at the Piedmont. Charles E. Jenkins received the age and signed for It. It looked like medicine to him, so he put It In .the box of Dr. W. C. Robinson, who boards at the hotel. Shortly afterwards Mr. Jenkins went olf duty. The marriage was scheduled for 6 o'clock. Before 5 o’clock the best man asked for the ring. A search, another search and then the Information that there was nothing doing. A hasty call-to the Jewelry firm fol lowed. Yes. the ring had been sent anti Clerk Jenkins signed for It. Jenkins? Gone off duty. No, thay didn't know where he was. Clerk Jimmy Jones was Interviewed, No, he hadn't seen any package. And he wouldn't know a wedding ring If he saw one. B. M. Bradatreet, the other clerk then on duty, knew nothing about any weddliig ring. The groom was ready to Journey to the bride's house. Th ebest man was ready except for the ring. The hands on the clock crawled toward the hour of 8. Another trip was made down town and another ring secured from the Jewelry store. Just as the best man and, the groom were leaving the hotel for the scene of the wedding, Mr. Brajlstreet put his hand In box 612. It belonged to Dr. Robinson. He pulled put the key and an envelope. The best man grabbed It and with the groom he Jumped In a waiting automobile. "Throw her wide open,” said the groom. . i’l pay the fine,” said the best man. "She's wide open and going some, said the chauffeur. < And the wedding bells rang out. FLOWERS’ FRAGRANCE SMOTHER LOVERS IN ROME CONSERVATORY ^0000000000000000000000000 Rome. Dec. 28.—The beautiful Mar chioness Cugllelmettl. daughter of one of the wealthiest aristocrats In Rome, and her wooer. Signor SpolletU, a tenor engaged to appear next aeason at the Metropolitan Opera House, were found dead today In a conaervatop' on the outskirts of the city. The tragedy Is probably due to parental opposition to the couple's courtship. The police believe they were suffo cated by the Intense fragrance of Mag nolia and tube roses In the cldaely-ehut conservatory and suspect some one dosed and locked the door upon them. This theory led to the areat of the marquis’ wife. Want Ads Free— cnS wS,dl, th* they Ml be t0 SeU TeMOftiwMande of working people want and need such things, and in timesSMTSSSftSSSfor jus P t such articles « yonihajTVeljpjto bring the two together thru our free Want Ads, and m addition to the little good we may do, The Georgian will be a better paper for it. bar. th«m? If you fail to get answerTtheVst time, bring or send your ^ujiUtbovmtissaUdlod.^ Any legitimate local advertisement of a personal nature, unaer tne 101 lowing heads: WANTED ROOMS, WANTED SITUATIONS, WANTED HELP, FOR EXCHANGE, FOR RENT ROOMS, LOST AND FOUND, FOlt SALE MISCELLANEOUS. Charging that her husband, Joseph E. Burkett, who resides near Lake- wood, has mistreated her and that she fears for bar life, Mrs. Burkett, a bride of less than three months, Friday aft ernoon swore out two warrants before jqatlco of the Peace Dodgen against her husband, one being a peace warrant and tho other charging him with as sault and battery. Burkett was later agrested and locked In the Tower In default- of bond. Jus tice Dodgen fixed a bond of 1200 each In the two cases. The preliminary hearing la scheduled for Saturday aft ernoon. Burkett, when eecn In the Tower Saturday morning, declared that tho whole trouble had been brought on by hie brlda. In receiving the attentions of another man. The husband 1h accused of striking Mrs.' Burkett Thursday, the day after Christmas, but this he de nies. "I will admit one thing." enld ho, "and that Is that I took a gold watch, that hail been given my wife for a Christmas present by this other man, and smashed It Into a thousand pieces on the floor. This man has been Inter-- ferlng with my home, nnd I would cer tainly not permit him to give my wife a Christmas present." He denied he had threatened the life of his wife. WITNESSES MIXED IN TESTIMONY IN TRIAL OF POWERS Georgetown, Ky., Dec. 28.—In the Caleb Powers trial the entire forenoon today warn taken up with reading from the official records of this and former trials for the purpose of citing alleged contradictions In the testimony of nu merous witnesses. For this purpose Official Stenographer Walker was put on the stand nnd kept there two hours and a half. New York, Dec. 28.—The name of the good-looking young woman victim of the Jersey swamp mystery, whose nude body was found In a pond In Ilarflson, N. J., was Annie Evans, ac cording to a positive Identification made this afternoon by Mrs. Margaret Wright, of Mont Clair. . Mrs. Wright called at the morgue, In Harrison, this afternoon and viewed the body of tho slain girl after careful ly Inspecting thi clothing. She was positive in her identification. She Is the owner of an employment agency at Mont-Clair. She said today: "This woman camo to see me Decem ber. 17, about 2 o’clock In the afternoon. She was dressed In the clothes I have just examined and wore a black hat with, a-white feather. She filed an ap plication with me for u position as housekeeper, and snid she would pre fer to keep house for a bachelor. She said her name was Mrs. Annie Evans. 'Tasked for her address. 8he would not give m*- une, but said slu* would keep In touch with me. She said sho had kept house for two families In Brooklyn and had friends in Newark with whom she was staying. T did not see her ;again, nor frdm her, but I am positive this Is the woman. These are the clothes she wore when she came to see mo." Circumstances developed by the po lleo today pointed strongly to the fact that the woman wan poisoned on board a Passaic boat not far from tho pond in which her body %vns found. JAMES I. HUMPHREY. 11-year-old Atlanta boy who was shot by accident in South Card* llna. NEW TRIAL DENIED NEGRO JOHNSON A motion for a now trial In the cnae of Andrew Johnson, the negro convict ed and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Officer J. A. Manler, was de nied by Judge Roan of the criminal di vision of the superior court Haturday morning. Judge W. R. Hammond, counsel for Johnson, stated that he would carry the case to the supreme court end a stay of execution will be secured. Judge Hammond based his motion for a new trial upon certain exceptions which he took to Judge Roan's charge to the Jury and upon the ground that tlje verdict of the Jury was not Justified by the evidence. Judge Roan held that the verdict of the Jury was In accordance with the evidence and overruled the objections made by Judge Hammond to his charge. Johnson was sentenced to hang on January 2. but his execution will be de. layed until the higher court takes ac tion In the case. L...„ IMHIIHINMI 220 BODIES TAKEN FROM PARR MINE Jacobs Creek, Pa., Dec.28.—The num bers of bodies recovered from the Darr mine up to today Is 220. It Is believed many workers, however, are yet to be found under the piles of slate and earth, which fell at various points. , Yilman Maffet't. Tllman Maffett, aged. *' years, died at the residence of hts parents, Mr. and Mrs. it W. MsITett, 47 Oak Hlll-ave- near Bonnie Brae, Saturday morning at 10:20 o'clock, after an Illness of two weeks with pneumonia. The body will .. be sent to Buford. Oa., Sunday morn- ‘ ! | Jng at 7 o'cloclf for funeral and Inter- „„i menu U.S.ToBack Bank Issues In All Crises Washington, Dec. 29.—The senatorial triumvirate of the finance cortmltteo, consisting of Senators Aldrich, Allison and Hale, assigned to .the task of pre paring flnanclnl legislation with a view to preventing a recurrence of the re cent money stringency, have almost completed the work. ' Th** Ilian provides for additional banking currency of some form as Is now in circulation and backed by the* United States government’s guarantee. What limitation la to be placed on the amount Issued by each bank Is not de termined. A provision will be made for the fund to be raised by a small tax Imposition on K" v«'i ament or i-xtatliig < In u hit I* *n. which will guarantee the United States from loss. - WOMAN ENDS LIFE AT ARMY HALL Special to The Georgian. Savannah, Go.. Dec. 28.—Mrs. S. E. Ellis, a-woman over 60 years of age, en route to Mlllen, Go., from Furman. 8. C„ It Is thought committed suicide- at the Salvation Army hall last night. She was found dead Inher room this morn ing. : NEGRoTs KILLED; SLAYER ESCAPES Jlpi Parker, a negro-fireman for the Seaboard Air Line railroad, was shot three times and Instantly killed Sat urday shortly before- noon by an un known negro In the railroad yards just beyond Howell Station. The slayer made hts escape and started to-the city. The cause of the killing Is not known. The two men are said to have been walking along the railroad track when the slayer suddenly pulled a pis tol and shot Parker three times. Merry Elected Mayor. Pelham, Go.. Dec. 28.—H. H. Merry was elected mayor by a unanimous vote. J. L. Hand. C. R. Nesmith. H. B. Tucker add W. 8. Hill, were elected councilman at yesterday's election. 0000^000000000000000000QOO o o O HE GOT FOUR ACES O O AND DROPPED DEAD. O Christmas vacation ended tragic ally Friday for James I. Humphrey, tho 11-ycnr-old son of Charles Humphrey, of 272 Courtland-st. While out hunting near* Aiken, S. C., ho was accidentally shot and Instantly killed, by his uncle, B. F. Tyler. So shocked and grieved was the lad’s un cle that he is'said to have'attempted to tcommlt sulddo after the tragedy. News of the boy’s death was received In Atlanta Friday afternoon by tha fa ther nnd ho left on tho next train for AJken. Mr* Humphrey 1h bookkeeper for the Trultt-Sllvey Hat Company and he sent Mrs. Humphrey and his chil dren, two boys anil a girl, to Aiken to visit Mrs. Humphrey's family. The visit had tang Leon looked for ward to by the children, nnd young James bud planned over and over ngaln what he would do when he got to his uncle’s home. Mr. Tyler Is Mrs. Humphrey's broth er, arid .Friday he went «»tit In a field to shoot' doves, and James wen him. Jttat how the accident or has not yet been learned, but It is sup posed that the hid Wiih assisting In the dove drive -witch he was shot. Tho charge tore off the top of the lad’s head and he died Instantly. After he realized uUat he had done Mr. Tyler tried to kill himself, and It was with-difficulty that he was pre vented., Together, with MC9- Humphrey and other members or the family he la prostrated with grief. The boy nttonded * the Ivy-st School and was one of .the brightest pupils In the fifth grade, and was pop ular with, the children In the school. The funeral will probably . beJield In Aiken, where Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey lived before coming to Atlanta. DESERTED IS ATLANTA BETRAYS ClERKTOSLEUTH * Believed To Be Thief Who Took $l,061*From Ex press Co. Cleveland. Ohio. Dee. 28.—Over- O O come by the fascinating excite- O of a poker game, Thomas O clear out when O 0 ment of a poker O Bach's heart gave O he was dealt four aces In a frleifd- 0 New York, Dec. 28—His whereabouts betrayed 'to the prfltce. by a companion whom he had deserted' In Atlanta. Go., a man believed to bo L. Clarence Zelg- ler, formerly a receiving clerk of the Long leland Exprees Company, who disappeared November 21. last, at the name time a package -containing 21.- 081.44 waa missed,, was arrested today In San Francisco. Detectives from Ihlo city are on their Way to San Francisco to Identify the man wh# gave his name ae Fells. Detective Dell*, who waa aaelgned to the case, traced Zelgler from this city to Boston nnd then Iff, Atlanta. He met a man who said he had been traveling with Zelg- ler nnd a woplan companion. The man said Zelgler on reaching Atlanta gave him 225 nnd then left ihlm. The man betrayed Zelgler to the police. .v MONEY CRISIS IN NEW YORK _HAS PASSED New York. Dec. 28.—Facte that in dicate the passing of the recent money crisis are brought out In that pre miums’ <Jn currency have dropped from 1 per cent to 1-4 of 1 per cent. This decline has lessened demand for for eign gold.-as It Is no longer profitable to Import It. EVELYN THAW STILL QUITE ILL O ence road, and the player pitched O O from his chair and was picked up O O n corpse. There waa only 28.75 In 0 O the pot. O O ' O O0000000O000000OV0000QO000 . New York, Dec. 28.—Evelyn Nesblt O ly game at a resort on fndopend- O Thaw Is still quite III. She has be come extremely nervous and the small est thing!* are said to annoy her. She has beer, so HI during the fall and win ter that she missed many visits to her husband In the Tombs. IBs trial Is set for January 6. KEEPS OLD “Horns Others Off,” Says Dr. W. S. Kendrick. ROTATION SYSTEM MAY BE ADOPTED Disagreement Over Medical College Teaching Brings ’ On Discussion. practically unanimous sentiment prevails among the physicians of At lanta In favor of the proposition ad vanced by Dr. W. 8. Kendrick that the members of ihe medical board of Grady Hospital be elected for a speci fied term of years under the rotation system, and not be*ellg!blo for re- election. Dr, Kendrick’s suggestion grew out qf tho recent dissension ’among mem bers of the board upon the-proposition to allow students of medical colleges access to the charity wards of the hos pital. Ho has been a member of the medical board for about fifteen years, but declares that he believes the rota tion system should be adopted and that no physician, regardless of his qualifi cation or ability, should be given a life tenure. In speaking of the proposition Dr. Kendrick said: "Under present conditions members of the board are elected by the board of trustees of the hospital for a term of one year theoretically, but as a mat ter of fact they are elected to this position *year after year, and there Is never a vacancy unless somebody re- sfgns or a death occurs. I am a mem ber of the board myself, and have been for seventeen years, but I am Just as heartily In favor of the rotation system ,b I would be had I never served, nor xpccted to serve, in this capacity. Other Doctors Birred. "For many years the medical board of Grady Hospital has been a close corporation, horning off everybody else and conducting affairs to suit Itself. There are three hundred physicians In* Atlanta, practically every* one of them capable of holding a position on this board, and they should not be barred • from nerving on It because of a foolish custom of keeping Its members In of- flee f* I' Hf“.” Dr. Kondrick’s suggestion Is that the board should be composed of fifteen members; that they should he elected for a term of three years, and that at th** ♦ii*l of «M.li year five members should be rotated out of office and their Continued on Page Three* CRAWLS UNDER BED ID SHOOT SELF Body Found Saturday at Home Nine Milos From Atlanta. John Kennedy, a farmer, waa found dead under hla bed In hla room at th* family home on Sandtown road, about miles from Atlanta. Saturday, death resulting from n bullet wound. It la believed that he rolled under the bed nnd there ahot himself. He was a farmer about 40 year, of age and single. He had been In III health several months. It Is stated. His brother found the body. INGE WILL ISSUE STATEMENT MONDAY Mobile, Ala.. Dec. 28.—Df. H. T. Inge, president of the Mobile baseball club, who Is still very III at the Inge Bondu- rant Sanitarium from the effects of an operation performed five weeks ago, said today that everything pointed to a satisfactory settlement of the dispute between the Cotton States League and the Mobile clum. Dr. Inge expects to have an official statement of Mobile’s formal entry Intp the ranks of the Southern League ready on Monday. EDITOR COLLIER HURT IN IRELAND Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 28.—P. F. Col- Ifer, of Now York, was painfully hurt while riding at Dowdatown with the Meath hounds today. His horse rear ed and fell backward upon him. Race Results. j ‘ NEW ORLEANS. First Bate—Apache, 9 to 2, won; Dew of Dawn. 10 to I and 9 to 2. sec- 1, 6 to 2. 9 to U6