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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,1910
PRICE
The Big Ditch Is Growing
The Atlanta Georgian
"Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
AND NEWS
"Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
SPOT COTTON.
Atlanta, nominal; 15’*, Liverpool,
8.08. New York, qo1*t; 14.8?. August*;
atoadj; 1SV4- Savannah, nominal; 14 15 16.
Norfolk, steady; 15c. Gaireatmi, quiet;
164. Mobile, eaay; 16 M«.
ERTOSUf
the weather.
Fnlr Wednesday night, changing
.. .iMt or snow Thursday; colder.
T.mneraturen Wednesday (taken
T \ K Hawkrs Co.'s store): 8
‘ ' 50 degrees; in a. m.. 58 de-
Les'; II noon. «4 degrees; 2 p. m.,
M degrees. .'
The leash at which Atlanta has been impatiently tugging for five years was broken
TueSd Full of the dynamic electricity of ambition and youth, Atlanta for years was held
w ithin a circumference pitifully narrow for its power.
Now it’s different.
The passage of the three-million-dollar bond issue gives the city what might be
called a proper working capital—capital to provide the necessary equipment for doing
business.
We won’t be tied to a post now by the thong of poverty. We have the chance to
grow in the measure of our power.
Sewers and water and schools will be installed in the suburbs—and the suburbs
will become part of the heart of the city.
Then vacant ground, farm lands, and red hills, will become suburbs, and on and on.
There’s no limit now.
Half-Million City WinsJ
t
Voters. Almost Unanimous For
$3,000,000 Bond Issue,
Carry the Day.
GREAT STEP FORWARD
FOR GREATER ATLANTA
Sewers, Water, Schools, Hos
pital and Crematory Bonds.
All Are Victorious—Every
Ward Gives a Majority.
. .8.474
..8.476
..8.474
..8.465
..8,465
Rallying to the call for a greater., a
r and a more healthful city, the
•tern of Atlanta Tuesday passed the
nd l«iu<* of $8,000,000 by 8,476 votes.
iero were only 66 votes cast against
t bonds.
Th* total registration was 10.568; the
necessary to carry any one of the
bonds was 7,046. The water bonds,
hlch received the largest vote. 8.475,
*rr carried by 1,428 more votes than
*re required under the law. The
were voted on separately and
tere very few scratches.
The total vote for each feature of the
rl Issue was as follows:
$1,866,066 of sewer bonds...
'T SMft.OAA-nf water bonds...
iMA.ono of school bonds...
'°r $!oo.nno for a new hospital.
|$o,aao of crematory bonds.
Vote by Wards.
The vote by wards was as follows:
First Ward—One box, 684 votes cast
of a registration of 792; votes
Inst the bonds, 8.
f^nnd Ward—Box A. 1.276; box B.
• fetal. 1.385, out of a registration
J 71A. against bonds. 14.
Third Ward—Box A. 1,098; box B.
3 total. 1.416. out of a registration
1 against bonds. 12.
Fourth Ward—One box, with a total
1A1S. out of a registration of 1,289;
■Inst bonds, 6. *
Fifth Ward—Box A. 309; box B, 153;
t»|. 462; registration, 639; against
>nd», 9
N*th Ward—Box A. 1.124; box B.
; total, 1.419; registration, 1.739:
Inst bonds, 8.
Seventh Ward—Box A. 601; box B.
’ 879; registration. 601; against
F>8hth Ward—One box, with total* of
{.registration, 979; against bonds. 4.
Mnth Ward—Box A, 505: box B, 97;
< ft 2; registration. 696; against
»nd». 2.
T'nth Vnr,l—Box A. 119: bo* B, 109;
228; registration, 2*9; against
Slfl,. 4.
"Ill h» seen from the figure, that
’l "ard In the city went safely .for
* n-ivN with more than enough vote.
Continued on Lett Page.
There I, to be no delay about put
ting Into operation the Improvement,
contemplated under the bond le,ue.
Following the pasaagdof the bonds In
the election of Tuesday Captain R. M.
Clayton, city engineer, began Wednes
day morning making survey, for the
small lateral sewers which are pro
vided for In the bond Issue.
At the meeting of council next Man-
day afternoon the bond Issue will be
ratified, the city attorney will prepare a'
hill whlqh will be presented to the su
perior court and which will conclude
the. necessary legal steps for making
the bends valid, the council will ad
vertise for bids for engraving the
bonds and then there will be nothin*
left to do but secure bids for the sale
of the bonda, aell them and get the
money.
"There ahould be no delay In start
ing the work contemplated under the
bond Issue,” stated F. A. Qullllan.
chairman of the bond commlsalon.
I will confer with the mayor Wed-
neaday nftemoon about a meeting of
the bond commission. , That meeting
will be held within the next few days
and the plans for making the sewer,
water, schools, hospital and crematory
Improvements will be mapped out.
"The bond commission will not have
charge of the expenditure of the money,
Its authority being limited to sugges
tions to council regarding what work
ahould be done first. I think the work
on, the new hospital ahould proceed at
once.”
Mr. Qullllan estimates that aoms of
the money from the bonds can be se
cured within the next 30 days. There
will be no trouble In dlsp^tslng of them
and the Improvements can go forward
without delay.
Rudolph Bering, the sanitary expert
of New Tork, who planned Atlanta's
sewer syitem, will arrive In a few days
and will go over th» details of the pro
posed extension with the city official!.
It Is planned to start work on the
Proctor-at. disposal plant first and the
other disposal plants provided for win
be put Into operation at the earliest
possible moment.
ATLANTA BREAKS RECORD
IN $3,000,000 BOND ISSUE
When the city of Atlanta voted Tuea.
day to Issue 18,000,000 worth of bonds
there was a great stride taken toward
reaching the coveted goal of Atlanta—
The Half-Million City.
It was the Brat time Atlanta had ever
dared Issue more than 1500,000 worth
of bonds at one time.
In 190* It was proposed to Issue *1,-
500.000 worth of bonds and by special
enactment of the legislature this au
thority was granted. Then, after all
the preliminary steps had been taken,
It waa found that a mistake had been
made and that the rate of Interest had
been put at * 1-2 per cent Instead of
4 1-2. The bonds could not hare been
sold at par, <a* the city charter rc-
Touching Scene Follows Meet
ing of Tots and Parent
in Columbia.
Columbia, 8. C„ Feb. 10.—The chil
dren of Mrs. B. R. Tillman, Jr., ar
rived In Columbia from Trenton In
charge of Mrs. B. R. Tillman, their
grandmother, this morning. A touch
ing scene occurred when the children
saw their mother at the home of Dr.
Butler.
quires, with that rata of Interest and
that bond Issue fall thru.
Then It was decided that another
bond Issue should be attempted and the
amount waa doubled. This time the
bonds were Issued under the general
state law which allows a municipality
to vote on the question of Issuing bonds
and there was no special enactment by
the legislature authorising It.
The fact that this bond Issue, large
as It waa when compared to other bond
ventures by the city, went thru with
such an overwhelming Indorsement by
the cenpls. Indicates that the optimistic
prediction of-Atlanta—The Half-Mil
lion City, Is considerably more than a
dream.
Noted Case of Samuel Loeb,
Sentenced to Stockade,
Is Decided.
Samuel Loeb, the Atlantan convicted
In the recorder's court under section 15*7
of the city code, of keeping Intoxicat
ing liquors on hand for unlawful sale
or barter, and sentenced to pay a.fine
of $500 and serve 20 days In the city
stockade, loses In the decision of the
supreme court of Georgia handed down
Tuesday morning.
Several questions Involving constitu
tional points figured In this case, and
It was given much prominence .when
tried In lower courts becaut.. of the
sensational arguments put forward by
Attorney Thomas B. Felder, of Ander
son, Felder, Rountree A Wilson, who
ably defended the case and who de
clares It w»l be carried to the highest
tribunal.
The principal questions were wheth
er the city was Authorised to pass such
an ordinance Involving the act of the
general assembly of 1874, amending the
city charter of Atlanta: whether sen-
Continued on Last Pags.
REPORTED HE WILL
BE CITY MARSHAL
Photos by Underwood A Underwood. New York.
PHOTOGRAPH8 JUST RECEIVED FROM CANAL ZONE.
The larger picture show* a most Interesting phase of the work at
Panama—the spillway to. the great Gatun dam, one section completed
and one section in construction with concrete forms In place. Forms are
set up with the aid cf a steam crane.
The other picture is of a train crowded with laborers coming from
the canal zone at the end of the day’s work.
Reported That City Council
Will Pass Resolution Raising
Councilmanic Salary.
MERELY “TO KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT.”
The < '.institution of Wednesday morning announces modestly as fol-
- ’ The Constitution was the first local newspaper to declare editorially
'hr present bond Issue, the first local newspaper to line up repreaenta-
Allantana behind It the first local newspaper to Indorse and support the
. ' 1 "un,liman T. D. Longino, who la universally conceded the father of
:\"d then. The Constitution goes further and says:
fit the interrsi* of exaelnoM and that the record In thl*
7 In Atlanta’d xtory may be kept ntralffht. here are dates and
"in the statement that The Constitution waa the pioneer In the field ror
nmnloipai bond Issue”
VJ'I t * 10 <-onstltutlon proceeds as follows;
E '‘bruary 18, 1908. Councilman Longino introduced a resolution in
’• il (or an amendment to the city charter that ahould permit Atlanta
*ue $1,000,000 in bonds for public Improvements ”
.., ow - this be understood clearly: . , , . . . mr%
In the Interests of exactness and that the record In this epochal chap-
r I n »> be kept straight." The Constitution recites the foregoing Interest-
* f-lt of history.
'utafefe of the fact that the original bond resolution w-aa not
** month of February or the year 1908; outside of the fact that Tne
•nhtitutlon did not editorially or otherwise Indorse this original resolution;
*V lM of lhe f»ct that The Constitution carried only one meager P*ra-
f M •’» an Inside page stating that such a resolution had been Intro-
,. d - not * ven mentioning the bond resolution in Its headlines; outside
«fi h * faet that council didn't even meet on February 18. 1908, on which
1 he <’.institution says the resolution was Introduced.
'•utside of these facts. The Constitution has been exceedingly accurate.
Tne truth Is, that the original bond resolution was Introduced on Janu-
• 1907, and not February 18, 1908. as The Const!tution'e outburst wouM
•»n#> to believe. , .
« Con *tltutlon announced the Introduction of the original bond JJJJ"
n In one paragraph at the bottom of the second page. The Georgian
n >iineed it on the front page with a headline running across Ita entire
^ ‘ oiumns, and In type about as large as the type foundries make.
r . P^Htlng on the front page a ropy of the bond resolution
Jj,, 1 * ,nt *^»tlng to note that the “original” bond resolution that The
toi, 1 .. UI,on ‘ndorsed was offered In 1908. a year after the real original bond
ititi.in WM introduced. It Is Interesting to note further that the ln-
mf,ni of the year-late Constitution wasn't of any bond resolution at
n, krfuj ih’ngju ,,#n * *“ tb * ln, * PeiU ot b “ ,,Id *° m * lrulJr
Has the city council designs on a
•alary raise?
Council ha*, according to rumor, and
It I* being currently reported that n
resolution providing for an Increase 'n
the stipend now paid the council mem
bers Is being considerably talked about
and may be flashed Into the limelight
at any session of the city fathers.
The Job of being a councilman or an
alderman pays 125 per month, to say
nothing of the honor and glory accru
ing therefrom.
This salary, say some council mem
bers, according to rumor. Is Insdequata.
This business of being a city father and
looking after the destiny of a great
city like Atlanta Is some Job. snd
should be recompensed with something
a little more substantial In the way of
this world's visible goods, say the
Continued on Last Pags.
J. M. FULLER.
Well known young Atlantan who j
said to be slated for the ofilce of city
marshal to succeed Robert 97. Riley,
whose term expires the first Monday In
January, 1911. Mr. Fuller Is said to
have a majority of the members of the
general council pledged to his support.
Paris Menaced by Third Flood,
More Damaging Than
Any Yet.
Paris, Feb. 1#.—Tempests today
•wept every part of France, doing tre
mendous havoc and cutting off many
parts of the country from communlca.
tlon with the world. The west, north
and south coasts .are being swept by
bllsxards and shlplpng has already suf
fered heavily. As a result of the
storms. Farts is threataned with a third
flood, which may. according to the es
timates of hydrographic experts, ex
ceed In seriousness the first disaster,
which did *204.909,000 damage.
Lyons and Jura are threatened with
Inundation, and a large part of those
cities Is under water, aa the result of
the flood of the River Baone, which has
•mashed thru . Its dikes. Inundating a
rich country.
The Marne la rising steadily.
In the department of Fharente the
country has been turned Into a lake for
miles. The rise of the Belne today re
sulted In the re flooding of Auteull and
troops drove out the Inhabitants.
Railroad traffic Is at a standstill on
the major part of the nation's trans-
Conti nusd on Last Pago.
EXCHARE
NECESSITIES,SAYS
DEALER NEVILLE
New
York Cotton Merchant
Defends the Present
System.
Some Papers Lay Stress on the Word “PAID” When Speaking
of Want Ads
Here Are Some Figures That May Interest You
For the week ending Saturday, February 12, 1910, a period of nix working day*—
The Georgian printed 1931 Paid Want Ads
The Journal printed '.1716 Want Ad*
The Constitution printed 1131 Want Ad*
DO GEORGIAN WANT ADS PAY ALL ADVERTISERS? WELL, YES
Tto Atlanta Georgia and Kewa:
I And The Georgian and New* to be • splendid adrer-
tlaiag medium. It has brought me fine orders. Ten ean
let mj advertisement ran until the list of April, then stop
MBS. H. U. UTLEY.
lettavilla, Tenn.
The Atlantn Georgian. Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen: Over 800 aubeerlptiona wera received dor*
ing tba first week of our ad In year want ad eolnmna.
The Georgian la eartainly all that la claimed for it aa
an advertising medium.
It brought results from Georgia, Alabama. Florida,
South Carolina and Tennessee. Yours very truly,
SOUTHERN POULTRY MAGAZINE
Per JOHN A. MLR KIN.
Nashville, Tenn.. Feb. 12. 1910.
Want Ad Baton,
| The GeorRtnn prints
|| The Most—So F
One Cant a word. To hslp thosa who arc out of a position or who desire a better one,
want ads under the classification. "Situation! Wanted.” free.
Read Them
The Best—So Use Them
Washington, Feb, He—George • TV.
Neville, of New York, today explained
the methods and principles of tha cot
ton exchange to the house agricultural
committee at Ita hearing on the anti
option bills. Mr. Neville has directed
the fight on the btlla. He was closely
examined by Representative Burleson,
of Texas, appearing for the cotton pro
ducers.
Mr. Neville said he nsi a merchant
engnged In buying and selling spot cot
ton and that he sold to spinners In all
parts of the world. He gave a brief
accouru of the old method of selling
cotton, when the planter had to pay a
commission for the selling and the mer
chants paid a commission for the buy
ing. The .Improvement In the cotton
business was due to the Increased
transportation facilities, he said.
"We are an exporting country tn
cotton and aell more abroad than
consumed at home,” he declared.
When aaked to explain fluctuations tn
cotton, he said It was due to the fact
that spinners wanted to buy cotton
when the famiera did not care to sell,
and that when the farmers were anx
ious to sell the spinners were not In the
market to buy.
.Merchants who sell cotton to spin-
ners, he said, buy from farmers and
then aell futures on that cotton as
"hedges.” Referring tn a question from
Representative Leever, of North Car
olina. a member of the committee, Mr.
Neville said he would not consider It
speculation to buy cotton without hav
ing orders for It. He knew there would
tie a demand tor It, that It waa a staple
ami so there was no risk.
Chairman Scott announced that the
hearings would close tomorrow, snd
that representatives of grain exchan
would be heard on Friday.
INVITATIONS SHOWERED
ON HON. HOKE SMITH
Former Governor Hoke Smith Is tn
demand as chief speaker and guast of
honor.
Within the past three daya he has
been Invited to be guest of honor at
the dinner of the National Democratic
club, of New York, Ih commemoration
of Orover Cleveland's birthday, March
II; at the Jeffersonian banquet of the
National Democratic League of Clubs,
at Indianapolis, April II, and at the
dinner of the Jelferson club, of Los An
geles, the same evening.
Mr. Smith fear* he will have to de
fine all except perhaps tha Loo An
geles invitation.
MAYOR WON’T RUN;
F. A. QUILLIAN WILL,
SO WILL POMEROY
Reported That He Has Secured
Pledges of Support From 19
Out of the 30 Members
of Council. , i
According to a report current Wedo.
nesday. J. M. Fuller, one of Atlanta'*
best known dtlsens and custodian of
the Masonic tempi*, will be elected city
marshtl tq succeed Robert E. Riley as
city marshal when tha election la held
by council.
Mr. Riley'a term of office expiree on
the first Monday In next January and
the election will probably be held at
the last December meeting of tha
council.
Regarding the election of Mr. Fuller,
was confidently stated Wednesday
by his friends and supporter* that ho
has 19 of the 10 members of the gen
eral council pledged to hla support and
that his election waa assured. Mr.
Fuller Is a prominent Mason and la
ell known throughout the city.
Mr. Riley ha* been marshal of tha
dly for the past ten years, having been
sleeted to that position in 1900. He Is
the only man who was ever elected to
that position twice.
WILL TELL ROOSEVELT
OF POLITICAL SITUATION
Washington, Feb. 15.—A story koIiu?
the rounds here today Is that anti-ad
ministration Republicans have dis
patched Gilson Gardner, a wall-known
newspaper writer, to meet Colonel
Roosevelt when he comes out of the
African Jungle and lay before him the
sntlre political situation aa It has de
veloped during hla absence. Mr. Gard-
ter la very close to the former pre.-i-
lent. He left Washlnitton quietly about
,wo weeks ago, and today It was learn
ed that he had gone to Egypt, .m l
vould meet the former president In
7a!ro when he comes down the Nile.
Editor Tbo Ovorgl&n: I mutt tell yon
bow raucb w* enjoy Tbo Qoorgtu.
I bavo Jui«t retqrnod front a trip to
fFY-ra' tcwiiA m Alabama *nd f*vfinn*h*r«
I went I h*trd a^veral person* »ay it waa
tbo best paper published in the United
SUtei. MRS. T. H FULLER
Decitar, Ga.
Maddox Announces Positively
He Will Not Be Candidate
\ For Re-election.
OTHERS ARE MENTIONED; '
WILL BE A LIVELY RACE
J. W. English, Carlos Mason
and James G. Woodward
Will Possibly Make Race.
Some Announcements. :
Mayor Robert F. Maddox will not b«
a candidate for mayor to succeed hlm-i
self In the next campaign.
F. A. Qullllan, chairman of the bond
commission and formerly member of
council from the Second ward, will be a
candidate for that office.
Colonel E. E. Pomeroy, mayor pro
tem and alderman from the Fourth
ward, will probably bo In the race.
Captain James w. English, president,
of the Fourth National bank and for-;
mer mayor of Atlanta. Is spoken of as a \
possible candidate and will probably*
enter the race.
Is Being Urged.
Carlos Mason, chairman of the pollen
commission, has been urged by many:
friends to make the race tor mayor and
may be a candidate.
James Q. Woodward, former mayor,
ot Atlanta and who was defeated by
Mayor Maddox In the laat campaign.,
will alio be a candidate for the office.
Such Is the dope Wednesday regard-1
Ing the mayoralty situation which con
stitutes the center of political,Interest
since the momentous question ot tha
bond election has been finally disposed
of.
"I will state positively that I wtU not
be a candidate for re-election." said
Mayor Maddox when approached Wed
nesday by a representative of Tha
Georgian.
"My heart Is wrapped up In Atlanta
and I would do anything I could to ad
vance her Interests, but I do not feel
that I can further sacrifice my time
and my own personal Interests to con
tinue at the head of the city govern
ment. I have still another year to de
vote to the city and I shall retire when
my term expires."
Qluulian Announces,
Neither Mr. Qullllan nor any of the
other prospective candidates for the
office of mayor, with the exception of
Mr. Woodward, would oppose the may
or. should he make the race for re-
election. But with the understanding
that the mayor would not be a candi
date, Mr. Qullllan authorised the state
ment Wednesday that he would he In
the race and will make hla formal an
nouncement later.
Colonel Pomeroy has stated that he
would make the race should the mayor
not run, so It Is practically certain
that he will be In the field.
ELECTION CARRIES;
8,541 VOTES CAST;
ONLY 66 AGAINST
WORK IS ALREADY BEGUN
ON CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS
City Engineer Begins Making Surveys Wednesday Morning.
New Hospital Will Be Started at Once—Bond Money
Can Be Had in 30 Days.
ULLER TO SUCCEED
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