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THE WEATHER.
F»lr Saturday nignt, and Sunday
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m Si degree*; 12 noon, 86 degrees;
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TOL. X. NO. 50.
HOME(4th) edition
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1911.
HOME(4TH) EDITION PRIOR: SttSKSJKSSIB®.
mTHREATENSEUROPE
turkey begins warfare
ON GREECE, SAYS REPORT
Paris, Sept. 30.—It Is seml-offlclally; The spirit shewn by Germany as In
erted that Turkey opened hostilities | dleated by the German press, together
, ,,,in5t Greece today by beginning the with Italy's reported action in sending
t«<lon of Thessaly. f troops to the Austrian line. Is accepted
I i u lv is reported to bo ntohlllslng i here as foreshadowing the end of the
L..-S along the Austrian frontier. triple alliance.
Two Prominent Politicians De
clare Princetonian Is the
State’s Choice.
A Topeka special to The Kansas City
I ljbout 5 :5 Kansas Democrats—rcpre-
I (cDi&tlves, State senators and chairmen
I a/ county central committees—had a
I conference here today and talked state
I mu national politics. Every man at
V. ((inference reported that his home
PI.,. (.. were unanimously In favor of
its'ulrow Wilson for president.
J "We came here to talk about presl
I fcnev and governshlp chiefly and that
I tu ai; tve discussed,” said Fred Rob-
I c-ison. “It was the belief that every
1 s-mocrat In Kansas was for Wilson.”
A special to The Star from Atchison
-If Woodrotv Wilson and President
heft are the nominees of their respect,
be parties In 1*12 Mr. Wilson will car.
Kansas by a good majority." James
„■ f;rs. Democratic representative from
je ldson county, said this morning.
•The sentiment for Wilson Is almost
nunlmoua among the Kansas Demo-
mi:s and the Kansas delegation to the
t htlonal convention will be solid for the
[ Jew Jersey governor.
The Democrats are going to put up
»;rong fight In Kansas next year,”
_r. Oit said. “There will be caidl-
i'hlti galore for every ofllce from gov-
[ feur down to coroner.”
Bulgaria and Other Balkan
States Are Now Under the
Closest Scrutiny.
Ottoman Government Will Pre
sent Its Case to Powers of
the World.
City Has Spent Ail Its Oil Ap
propriation, But Will Try to
Stop the Pests.
Tew crops or garden* are suffering
I mm ths long hot drouth Atlanta Is
■ring, but. according to the city health
•Seers, It Is the reason mosquitoes are
•nedlng by the billions, And At.
lutsns who live In the outlying see.
dons and In the residential parks are
mitering from these Insects as they
Jars nerer before.
■Cootrary to the general opinion, hot.
try weather In the late summer and
I mrly fall Is much more favorable to
aosqulto breeding than wet weather,”
1 *»y» Dr. J. p. Kennedy, city health of-
Je»r. "Heavy rains wash out the
winches, the ditches, the aewer* and
I Wher nesting .place* of the mosquito
5J carry away the eggs and wlggle-
JSa But In hot, dry weather the pools
n branches, catch basins and other
nnpucles of stagnant water ora Ideal
Jtoces for ths mosquito during H»*even
| «rs formatlvo period."
Oiling Force Too 8mall.
Altho the health department has four
atn continually engaged In sprinkling
"A over breeding places. Dr. Kennedy
*»r« twice this force Is needed, snd
w«n then there would be mosquitoes.
The sewer outflows ■ ore possibly the
neatest hatcheries. The water flows
enough to wash sway the oil In a #hort
“»e, and yet It Is stagnant enough to
Mtch billions of mosquitoes. And an
»re,ligation of the condition! ahowa
•Mt almost every backyard has some
weeding place. A tin can Is left stand-
J* , h *lf full of water, and In about a
I **** enough mosquitoes will come
Continued on Page Twelve.
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Constantinopls, SJJ>t. _ 30.—Mahmoud
Shefket Pasha, TurkltTi minister of war,
and a number of other ministers called
upon Sultan Mohammed Rechad at the
YUdlz Kiosk today to map out a dell
nlte plan of campaign of resistance to
Italy's encroachment on Turkish ter
ritory. It was decided to concentrate
forces In Albania. It this Is carried
out,' It will result In the war being
fought out to a conclusion In the Bal
kans and. foreign dtsplomata declare,
will menace the peace of all Europe.
Turkey, while realising that her
plight Is desperate, has not yet aban
doned all hope, altho her steps planned
for tho future are In the nature of
grasping at a straw. The Turkish min
istry la playing Its trump card. Inci
dentally Its last,
An Invitation io all the foreign diplo
mats In Constantinople to attend a
conference at the Tlldls Kiosk, when
Turkey will again present her. entire
case before them and make a final plea
for Intervention, was decided at today's
council.
Every Influence to Bear.
Every Influence at tbe command of
the Ottoman government Is being
brought to bear. Turkey plans at the
general conference to present her case
ag&lnst Italy in Its entirety and appeal
to the Justice of the powers to Inter
cede. Falling In this, she feci* that she
will have placed her case to the world
and will have Justified any means she
may resort to preserve her national in
tegrity.
i The new Turkish ministry, headed by
Said Pasha, officially took hold of the
reigns of government today, New’ blood
was Injected Into the cabinet and before
It had been In power 24 hours It was
making Its Influence felt In all quar
ters. Ths government has comman
deered all telegraph wires for sending
military dispatches and a strict censor
ship has been, established over dis
patches to foreign news bureauat,
Appeals are being made to the savage
and semi-savage frlbeamen Inhabiting
portions of Turkey's domain to fight
under the Turkish arms. All arrange
ments of the nation are being over
hauled.
Turkey has only 26 ships of war
against the powerful fleet of 178 vessels
making up the Italian navy.
Turkey'* Navy Weak.
Whereas Turkey has only one battle
ship of the style pattern, Italy has
seven modern battleships. Turkey evsn-
tually can muster 2,000,000 soldiers
againft Italy’s maximum quota
1,120,000, but hundreds of thousands of
these troops would have to remain Idle
In the Interior for the lack of means of
transportation to the seat of war.
Hakkl Bey, the deposed grand vlsler,
today plnced his possession* at the dls.
posal of his government. This action
SECOND NAPOLEONIC WAR?
Ottoman Empire Greatly En
rages Greece by Sending
Troops Into Thessaly.
was considered strange In view of the
fiery speeches which were delivered
against him at his lest cabinet meeting
when Young Turks accused hint of
treason for favoring peace with Italy.
The last meeting of the old cabinet
was followed Immediately by a new-
cabinet, which lasted until early today.
Dramatic scenes marked both sessions.
Passionate utterances against Italy
and In favor of war showed ths temper
of the Young Turk statesmen. In the
midst of the deliberations one Young
Turk leaped to hts feet, shouting:
"I resolutely oppose the proposition
that our country should be sold. Let us
fight.”
London, Sept. 30.—The eyes of alt
the world are anxiously turned today
toward the theater of Turko-Itallan
hostilities In anxious fear that .some
untoward move will hurl the firebrand
of general war Into the armed camps of
the continent.
Bulgaria Is being watched wlth Jeal
ous eyes and all the other Balkan states
are under the closest scrutiny. Should
any one of these endeavor to take ad
vantage of the plight of Turkey, It Is
feared that It might eventually lead to
the greatest general conflict since the
Napoleonic wars.
Turkey stands Isolated In her ex
tremity and In savage desperation Is
determined to make Europe pay a
heavy toll In blood and treasure If hqr
national Integrity Is assailed.
A report from Parts says that the
first step toward extending hostilities
beyond Turkey and Italy was taken by
the Ottoman empire today when 1'
opened hostilities against Greece, al
Icglng as Its pretext Greece's claims
to Crete, and hurled a force of troops
Into Thessaly. Italy, the same report
stated, had shown her belief that the
theater of war wa» to be materially
widened by mobilising troops along the
Austrian frontier.
Reports from Constantinople and
Rome state that the Unltrd States hni
been, asked’ to safeguard Turkish sub
Jects In Italy,-and that Germany has
notified the ports that It would protect
Italy's 80,000 subjects In Turkey.
Reports-from Tripoli came by round
about means and were exceedingly
vogue. Apparently no Italian troops
had been landed there up to noon to
day nor had .the Italian warships
opened Are on the city. Practically all
of the foreign residents had departed
and ondltlons within .the city-were re
ported as comparatively quiet.
The actual fighting, If the Turks de-
What Doctor Says is Brutal
Lashing of Donald Ober-
dorfer Stirs Feeling.
DR. VAN DYKE WILL ACT
Stoddard to Include in Cam
paign Platform the End of
Corporal Punishment.
clde to offer armed resistance, will come
when the flrat Italian expeditionary
force, constating of 28,000 men, under
command of General Cajtevn, arrives
from Italy and attempts to land under
the guns of the fleet. Meantime an
Iron-clad blockade along the coasts of
Tripoli and Cyrenalca Is being main
tained by the Italian war fleet. The
Turkish transport Derna was seized by
Italian warships In the Tripoli harbor
yesterday Immediately following the
declaration of war. but not until after
she had discharged her cargo of 12,000
Mausrr rifles and 20,000 tons of ammu
nltlon.
Italian warships today opened fire on
the city of Prevasn, according to ad
vices from Paris. Several public build
ings were demolishes by the wnr craft's
shells and a Turkish torpedo boat In
the harbor was sunk, according to the
report.
The Duke of the Abruxst, In a dls
patch to Rome today, tells of the de
strurtlon of a Turkish torpedo boat
when It tried to run the blockade estab
lished by the flotilla of torpedo boat
destroyers under his command at Pre-
vasa. The Turkish vessel grounded,
caught fire, probably from the shells of
the Italian destroyer, and was burned
to the water 1 * edge. A second Turkish
torpedo boat was driven back Into the
harbor. This Is believed to be the ves
sel that was sunk In today's bombard
ment.
Keen Interest was shown In dlplo
matlc circle* hers today when new*
came from Cardiff. Wales, that France
had sent a> rush order for 256,000 tons
of coal. At the same time an enormous
order was placed by the Italian gov
ernment and every available ship was
chartered to rush the coal to Italian
naval bases.
Scene of the Conflict
To abolish corporal punishment In tho
public schools a resolution will be In-,
troilured In council Monday afternoon
by Alderman A. H. Van Dyke.
While this feature of tho conduct of
the schools Is In the hands of the board
of education, the board Is under council
and should the resolution be adopted
the board would almost certainly com
ply.
And this Idea of an advanced system
of controlling school children Is being
met with a definite response. W. J.
Stoddard, who has yielded to ths re
quest of a number of citizens of the
Eighth ward to run for council, an
nounces that a plank In his platform
Will be to abolish corporal punishment
In the schools.
How Sentiment Started.
Eugene Oberdorfer, a well known In
surance man ilvlng In West yburteenth-
st„ has a son, Donald, who was whipped
by Miss Elllo Dunlap, principal of the
Tenth-st. school. A doctor’s certificate
shows the child to have been severely
whipped. And, making no specific com
plaint In his personal ease, Mr. Ober
dorfer has written a letter to Super
intendent W. M. Slaton urging that cor
poral punishment In the schools should
be abolished.
Mr. Slaton say* he will refer the ease
of Mr. Oberdorfer to the board of edu
cation'at once. And he adds that hav
ing a specific case of corporal punish
ment before him, ho can give no state
ment of h|s views of corporal punish
ment In general.
An effnri was made to reach Miss
Dunlap by telephone for a statement
regarding the case of Donald Ober
dorfer. 1 S^it could not be reached.
When seen Mr. Oberdorfer gave to
The Georgian copies of tbs letter.he hud
written to Mr. Slaton and the certificate
of Dr. Walpole Brewer In regard to the
condition of ths child ' after It wak
whipped. II# la making no personal at
tack on superintendent. or teacher, but
merely against ths system now In
vogue.
III* lottets ore here given:
Mr. Oberdorfer'* Letter.
Professor William M. Slaton, Superin
tendent, Atlanta Public Schools,
city:
"Kind Friend—I Idcloze herewith
doctor's certificate, only for the purposo
of an Incident likely among many, that
ordinarily would not be brought to
your attention.
'in the beginning, I do not want to
be misunderstood as preferring charges
or llradlng the city school system. Ev
ery reasonable person knows that ad
vancement and Improvement In every
organization can be made. Civilization
and advanced educational methods In
the larger cities have discontinued cor
poral punishment. I feel confident that
you will Join me, as hundred* har* In
ths few hour* since l hare enlisted my
energies In this cause. The mother
hood, the pulpit and the press respond
Instantly as does every person revolt
at ths following facts that can’ and
have happened:
“Whipping afflicted upon ths Inno
cent, whipping given without causo
known to the little martyr, whipping
given without Inquiry «» to the physi
cal slat* of the chid'* condition that
day, a mother's certificate can be on
file showing medicine has been taken
that morning,‘and to a feeble child,
such a shock to Its system may be at'
rious.
"Parents should first be advised be
fore final punishment Is given and no
tified that the climax had been reached.
"I hare merely outlined that corporal
punishment will be abandoned; It will
not be an Issue unless It Is forced; It
appeals to humanity; It* usefulness Is
vagus; exceptional Incidents do not
warrant It* existence. It Is antiquated
and cruel, and I have the proof that
stockade prisoners could receive no less
severs punishment snd that little chil
dren. for possibly mischievous Inatten
tiveness and playfulness, are subjected
to such brutal treatment.
“1 sm making no charge against the
administration of any teacher, but am
after the abandonment of whipping It#
"You must act quickly to be In line
for this movement and understand It Is
a reform to be adopted that appeals to
the advancement of our schools ss oth
er good things which you have adopted
recently.
"Hoping that your usefulness In the
great work may continue and with as
surance* of my friendship, I am. Sin
cerely yours,
"EUGENE OBERDORFER.
'Atlanta, Gs., Sept. 20, 1111.”
The Doctor’s Statement.
Hr. Eugene Oberdorfer. City:
"My Dear Mr. Oberdorfer-I have ex
amined Donald as per your request snd
find that h* Is suffering from numerous
contusions or bruises on his left hip,
left thigh and right thigh.
“The extent and character of these
bruises show very clearly that very
severe force must have been used in
administering punishment; In fact,
such lashing of a child Is. In my opin
ion, nothing more or less than brutal.
“Donald was whipped three days sgo
and the nine marked discolorations that
still persist are muta evidence of ths
severity of the lashing he received.
"With many kind regards, I am. Very
truly your*.
(Signed)
"WALPOLE BREWER, JL D.
"September 22, 1I1L”
GREAT I.C.STRIKE IS ON
Greatest Shop Strike in History
of Railroading Began at 10
O’clock Saturday.
28,700 MEN ARE INVOLVED
4,000 STRIKERS WALK OUT
FROM BURNSIDE SHOPS
Chicago, 8apt. 30*—Four thousand terdajr by tho unions In the Illinois
employees of the Illinois Central rail
road, employed at the Burnside shop®,
struck today. The men went out as
directed by a strike order issued yea-
Central system federation of shop em
ployees. The mnchlnJatff did „ not gc
out with the others. They are waiting
telegraphic Instructions from their
president.
Officials of Railroads Are Opti
mistic—Have Men to Take
Striker? Places.
ROADS AFFECTED.
*
4
4
4 Tbs following roads are affected 1
4 by the strike of ths federation of '
4 shop employees; •••..’
+ Union Pacific railroad,
+ Southern Pacific railroad.
4 Illinois Central railroad.
4 Following are the unions and'*
4 number of men Involved on nil 1
4- lines;
+ Car men .. ; . . . . ..
* Machinist.. .. .. .. ..
i- Boilermakers
4 Blacksmiths V, jSf...
4 Sheyt metal workers ,.
4 Total ." ..... .. .iluoo
4 Following are tho number of 4
men ordered out In Jhe bigger 4
4 cities:
4 Chicago (Burnside shops)
4 Los Angeles .. .. .. ..
4 Sacramento
4 Kansas City
4 Denver ..
4
.4
■..4,006 4
..2,060 4
..3,000 4
..1,066 4
..1,000 j
Chicago, Sspt, 30.—Tjventy-flve thou
sand men today obeyed the strike order
Issued at the behest of the system fed- . r
er.itlon of shop men on’ the Hdrrimnn f otherwise; that he ran no! appro
lines’ and the Illinois Central railroad
and left their places In the shop.. From
New Orleans to Chicago and from St.
I/oola to tho Parlflc coast the shops
were left standing Idle. Tho reports
ffom the Pacific coast earns in slowly,
officers at’the headquarter, of the v«-
rl"i(« union, affected nssi-rti-d Hint
practically all tho mon In their federa
tion had gone opt and that the tight for
the recognition of tho federation had
begun In earnest. a
Both the railroads and the men made
grim preparations for the struggle.
Railroad official* are preparing to rush
strike-breakers snd special 1 guard* to
various points President Markham, of
the Illinois Central, asserted that his
road had arranged with a detective
agency and w|th an'employment con
cern to furnish guards and skilled me
chanics. He refused to dlnenss the
strike In detail. In some of the shops
the orflfr to strike was delayed. In
Chicago tho machinist* were the Inst to
leave the four-acre lnclosure at Bum-
side. At many points the strike order
wne not received until noon. - In Omaha
the men walked out of the shops of the
Union Pacific In a downpour of rain. In
ths Illinois Central shops there the
machinists wet's first to leave. Reports
from’ Denver and Cheyenne say the
strike In Colorado and Wyoming le
general.
In Chicago the police are ready to aid
Ith# railroads, should rioting occur. Two’
thousand reserves are being held In
readiness, should they be needed, to
suppress disorder.
Every detail of the strike, long ego
carefully worked out, wse done over
today. Meetings of union officials lest,
ed practically all night and ths heed
quarters were opened early this morn
ing while Instructions were telegraph*,
to the waiting locate. Each union sen
similar Instructions to Its men. Ths
men were told to report for duty this
morning as usual, but at 10 o’clock to
lay down their tools and walk out
With the walkout the fight for the rec
ognition of the new system federation
of shop employees was under way. Tks
strike order Itself blames Julh
Kruttschnltt. operating officer of the
Harriman lines, for the strike.
“Kruttschnltt refuses," ths order
read, “all efforts have failed. All crafts
strike Saturday at 10 a. m. Letters of
Instruction follow. Let every man do
his duty."
The order was signed by President
J. W. Kline, of the blacksmith*.
On ths Illinois Central preperatlon*
for. the strike, made three weeks sgo
when It was thought negotiations would
be broken off, were put Into effect.
Strike headquarters then selected were
used, and officers of the unions were
told to follow the Instructions then Is
sued.
■ En Route to Atlanta.
President Kline, of the blacksmiths,
end Secretary William F. Kramer are
today on their way to Atlanta, Os.,
where the convention of their order
opens Monday. Orders for the black
smiths will be lesued from the Southern
city.
President J. A. Franklin, of the boiler,
makers, snd President M. F. Ryan, of
the carmen, now In Kansas City, sent
orders to their men, supplementing
Kline's Instructions.
Before leering Chicago, Kline geve
out a statement, saying the etnke was
bound to win.
"We can not low," he said. "We
have struck at an advantageous time,
and we will win. Just as we did In our
struggles with the Rio Grande and the
Missouri Pacific roods
"I fall to see how tbe three lines af
fected can operate without us or how
those connecting with them can escape
traffic congestion."
Railroad officials today did not ap
pear greatly troubled over the situa
tion. President C. K. Markham, of the
Illinois Central, said the traveling pub
lic need feel no alarm. He asserted
the work of the road would be carried
on as usual, and said the officials had
n planning how to meet the-statua-
tlon for months.
"There are ten men applying for
every place vacated by strikers." he
(aid, "am we will have the men to
President Is the “Big Exhibit”
at the State Fair in Sedalia
on Saiurday. /
Ottumwa, lows, Sept. SO.—President
Taft le In .Missouri today, following a
two days trip thru Iowa, that began and
ended with a speech on the tariff. Tho
president’s train left for MoWly. th
first scheduled stop. The principal fea
ture In today's program was the visit
of the president to the state ffe.lr at Se-
dallo. •
13 OUT TO EXPLAIN
WHY HE IS RIGHT
Setfalia, Mo., 8«pt. 30.—President Tntt
visited the Missouri State fair here’to
day. -That he Isiout on this 12,000-tpllp
Jaunt to the coast,’ not to talk parti
sanship. but (o acquaint the peopl* In
a purely ’educative way with the Issues
of government, yeas hi* statement to
the chowd that greeted him here.
"There are things th* people want
to know," he srtlcj. "The question of
going about the country Is one that
has not received complete approval.
.Many people think that It Is more dig
nified- for the presldbnf to stay Th
Wnshlngton nnd to alldse his oeis and
his administration- to stand upon the
record as It-Is made; In the press and
FREIGHT RATE WAR
DECLARE!) BY CITY
Bureau Opens Fire on Discrim
ination in Favor of Birm
ingham Business.
In the light of a partisan before the
pcoplo. and therefor* thst he ought tint
to easts etU-al alL. If. you ora In offing,
If you have been trying to do mines
that you deem.to be right, and If you
think you can add a little light to show
Why they are right, you desire lo make
that expression.
"1 don't want to offend Democrats
In what I sdy or to offend Republicans
or to seem-to speak In a partisan
tone."-
Typhoid Cases Jn Woodruff's
Family Started Him on a
$500,000 Investment.
Three ease* of typhoid fever In 1210
In the family of Ernest Woodruff, pres
ident of the Atlantic lee and Cosl Cor
poration, hkve led him to make Inves
tigations at to the scientific handling of
milk and water that will result In the
company establishing the greatest sys
tem of stniury, modern dairy outfit* In
th* South.
These scientific dairies, to be estab
lished In connection with the compands
plants at Atlanta, Jacksonville, Macori,
Augusta and Chattanooga, will Involve
an outlay of 1800,000. 0
A Chicago expert wns employed by
th* company some weeks ago tn make
a report on tho cotta nnd possibilities
of these additional plants He lies al
ready visited Atlanta and two of the
other cities nnd Is sill! pursuing his
work.
Th* company realises thst as cities
grow In population the demand for tho
purest milk nnd distilled water In
creases. In establishing the most mod.
em sanitary , plants to .purvey these es
sential necessities (o the public, the
company expects to do humanitarian
work as well am reap commercial profit*.
In connection with each dairy plant, Iro
cream manufacturing outfits will also
be Installed.
The plan le to employ a chemist to
have charge of each dairy, and all the
up-to-date sterilizing and pasteurizing
methods will be adopted.
President Woodruff was asked about
the project and admitted thst the plans
were now being matured for the modern
system of dairies. He Is heart and
soul Interested In th* matter, and ex
pects It to be worked out . In the near
future. ,
TWO OKLAHOMA BANKS
CL0S ED_BY_THE STATE
B.°nTO'»on^M^\. C «
with deposits of 1(0.000. and the Flrjt
Bute Bank of Bhattuek. capitalized st
125.000 and with deposits of 378,040. were
closed today by ths hsnktnc department
of th* suts.
operate our shops. Ths strike will not
affect the operation of train* on our
* 5 * Optimistic Sentiment.
At the headquarters here of the Har
riman lines s similar optlmlstle senti
ment was expressed. Julius Krutts-
chnltt Is hurrying to Chicago today
from New York. Meesagcs received
Mb him by officer* of the Harriman
lines here were reassuring.
The railroad has made special ar
rangements to protect Its property
should rioting occur. Hundreds of
la, ollce have been sworn in, and
It har 1- n arranged to^aend others to
Continued on Pag* Twelve.
Papers In the most Important suit
ever filed by the Atlanta Freight Bu
reau to correct discriminations In rail
road freight rates against Atlanta, In
favor of other cities and sections, have
been forwarded to Washington to be
filed before the Interstate commerce
commlselon.
It Is a. complaint of tho Atlanta
Freight Bureau, acting in behalf of the
business men of Afanta and the public,
agalnrt the Nashville, Chattanooga and
Bt. Louis railway, as lessee of the West
ern and Atlantic; the Cincinnati, New
Orleans and Texas Pnclflc; Louisville
and Nsshviils; tho Southern Railway
Company, and the AInbsma Great
Southern.
The particular object of the com-
plslnt'ls to correct tho unjust discrim
ination ,of freight rotes from Cincin
nati against Atlanta In favor-of Bir
mingham.
matter of fact, Atlanta Is seven
loser to Cincinnati by the Cin
cinnati, New. Orleans nnd Texas Pacific
1 the Wertem and Atlantic than Is
Birmingham by the Cincinnati, New
Orleans nnd Texns Pacific and the Als-
bnmd Great Southern. It Is 21 miles
nearer Cincinnati by the Loulsvlllo and
Nashville than Is Birmingham; yet in
the Southern classification governing
th* six classes of frolght rate* Bir
mingham enjoys from 6 to 10 cents per
hundred pounds cheaper freight rates
than Atlanta, especially on meats, flour,
grain products, corn, hay. liquors etc.
. .Atlanta should, by reason of the
Shorter distance, enjoy better rates
limn Birmingham, but Is the victim of
gross discrimination, It Is alleged.
, The officers end directors of the At
lanta Freight Bureau, at a meeting, de
rided (hat If Atlanta Is to mnlntaln
its prestige and progress n* a whole
sale and Jobbing center It must hnve
equal rates with all competitive points,
nnd reasonably low rates on raw ma
terials.
This I* the opening gun of a battle
for better freight rate* fired by tho
Atlanta freight bureau, v lih-h has em
ployed W. A. Wlmblsh as general coun
sel. snd Harry T. Moorr. the tn.itt-
manager, I* concentrating a:I hts re
source* on the assembly of Informa
tion snd data for other suits on out
bound freight rates and express rates
that will come to Issue later on.
The complaint la filed by Rolling If.
Jones, chairman; W. A. Parker, n. H.
Whitcomb,H. T. Moore, D. II. Klrklnnd,
Gordon Kiser, Louis Goldstln, George
King, E. C. Callaway, A. W. Ilodnett.
E. >1. Hudson. E. R. DuBose. J. R.
Mobley, C. II. Kelley, M. R. Wilkinson.
E. L. Rhodes. R. Rosenbaum, W. A.
Parker, I. A. Hlrahburg, R. 8. Weasels.
H. B. Wey end D. R. Strauss, officers
snd director* of the Atlanta Freight
Bureau.
The Freight Bureau officers say that
In (he aggregate the discriminations In
favor of Birmingham amount to some
hundreds of thousands of dollars per
aanuhv The complaint us file,; i, 2"
printed pages full of data and official
facts. After citing the charges com
plainant prays;
“That the defendant herein named,
and each of them, bs required to sat
isfy nnd answer this romplnlnt. and
to csss* and desist from each of the
said violations of the set to regulate
commerce, os hereinabove shown:
"Thst the discrimination against At
lanta In the rate* on the numbered
classes and on tho other classes and
commodities as shown In Exhibit A
hereto, be declared to be unjust: and
that th* corresponding preference ac
corded Birmingham ns declared to bo
indue, and that Hie defendants he nr-
dsred snd required to charge and ex
act no more on said classes and com
modities from Cincinnati to Atlanta
than are contemporaneously charged
and exacted on said classes and com
modities, respectively, from Cincinnati
to Birmingham.
"That the schedule of rates on tho
numbered classes between ■ Cincinnati
and Atlanta as prescribed by this hon
orable commission. In the cose of th-
Cincinnati Freight Bureau versus the
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pa.
elite Railway Company et aL, 6 I. C. R.
108, authorized In 1894, be declared to
be Just and reasonable, and that the
defendants and each of them, be or
dered and required to observe sut h
schedule ss the mnxlmum to be here
after charged on said classes.
"Thst sll lettered class and com
modity rates be proportionately re-
dured, and that In no event shall nnj
of the commodity rates from Clnclnnst
to Atlanta exceed the class rates.
’That the whole subject of tho rstei
between Cincinnati and Atlanta be In
vestlgated and considered, and an ordc
entered by this honorable commission
prescribing what shall be Just am
reasonable rates on all commoditlc
and classes of traffic from Cinclnnat
to Atlanta, to be charged in the futur<
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