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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1011.
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FURNITURE
Fbr Your
Christmas Gift
ttggparmms
Morris Chairs—
$6.00 to $35.00
Ladies’ Desks—
$6.00 to $50.00
Chifforobes—
• $20.00 to $100.00
Brass Beds—
$9.50 to $100.00
Music Cabinets—
$15.00. to $35.00
Cellarettes—
\ $15.00 to $45.00
Pictures—
49c to $10.00
Davenports—
$24.75 to $100.00
Couches—
$12.50 to $60.00
Parlor Suits— •
$29.75 to $175.00
Doll Carts—
$1.50 to $7.50
Children’s Rockers—
$1.50 to $6.50
Dressing Tables—
$12.50 to $50.00
Hall Trees— '
$2.50 to $10.00
Comfort Rockers—
$3.00 to $40.00
Wicker Rockers—
$2.50 to $10.00
Library Tables—
$8.50 to $60.00
Center Tables—
$1.50 to $15.00
Lace Curtains—
$1.50 to $15.00
9x12 Rugs—
$12.50' to $60.00
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Holiday
Chairs
Furniture
Goldsmith-Acton-Witherspoon Co.
FORMERLY AMERICAN FURNITURE CO.
62 Peachtree—“LIFETIME FURNITURE”—61N. Broad
Auto Black Marla Very Popular
Vehicle—It Has Saved $841
During Past Two Years.
Macon, Ga, D«c. 20.—The auto patrol
"agon purchased by the city two yeaia
ago haa proven to be a paying institu
Hon for the city. According to report
■n the actual expense of the wagon
submitted by Chief of Police Chapman,
the wagon has saved the city the exact
*um of (841 and at this rate tor two
wore years will have paid for Itself.
ports show that the wagon answered
Mos police calls and 444 hospital calls,
•overlng the distance of 7,177 miles.
Every police court defendant Is charged
the sum of 75 cents tor his ride upon
being arraigned before the recorder.
Negress Would Not Resurrect.
Macon, Ga„ Dec. 20.—One of the most
"tlque meetings ever held In Macon
one held yesterday by a local rellg.
lous sect known ae Holy Rollers, when
'hey held services over the body of
EHsa Thorpe, a negress who had com-
"lltted suicide, for the purpose of re-
•torlng her life. The aervlces over the
dead body lasted four hours. Altho
they failed to restore her to life again,
one of the membera of this religion
stated they did not feel the least disau.
pointed, as they only went thru the
eervlce for the purpose of being Instru.
mental of a higher force and being.
Stockade For Loafers.
Macon, Ga., Dac, 20.—“Straight to the
stockade all you loafers must go" Is
the song that Is being aung by Chief of
Police Chapman, with the entire police
force joining In on the chorus. It ta
the intention of the city officers to put
to rout all stragglers and street
"Johnnies" who expect to spend the
holidays looting about the busy streets
of Macon. Already a number of ne
groes have been given stockade sen
tences by the recorder.
East Macon to Havs Bank.
Macon, Ga, Dec. 20.—The cltlxens of
East Macon are to have a bank of their
own. A meeting of a number of the
most prominent buatness men of this
section of the city was held recently,
when plans ware perfected for the or
ganization of. a bank known,as the
Bank of East Macon. The capital stock
will be (50,000, which has already been
paid In. This Is ths fourth community
bank organised In Macon within the
past year.
OPERA GLASSES
The gift any member of the . family
will appreciate. Let us show you. Jno.
L. Moore £ Sons. 4! N. Broad-st.
On account of the large home circula
tion of The Georgian, Its.wsnt ads attract
greater attention end bring more results.
Blood 'Poison, Cancer, Pellagra
Cured by Raney’s Blood Remedy
•een. Will net hesitate te reeemmepd te eny ene that has bleed trouble*.
Respectfully, .. t. W. KENDLET,
» Dodd*ave. Conductor Georgia Railw*y and Electric Cemptny.
g’vg’V DEUfdDn f°r ease of specific blood trouble we rell
IlLff Mfll# to core. Ark about our cum of rheu
matism, cancer, pellagra, chronic sores, etc. Price, $2.00 per bottle.
JNO. S. DOBBS. Agent
Office Hour?., s to 6 dally; Sunday. 9 to 12 513 Austell Bldg. All. phone 614.
GLIDEROtES
ATLANTA’S DEATH RATE
IS SLOWLY CREEPING UP
Just Received Fifty by
Express Today.
Regular $5.00 Value at
$3.75 Each
Just the thing for the
children.
—FOR SALE—
3 Glass Show Cases
worth $35 at
$25 Each •
Large stock of Chicago
Wood Air Rifles at
55c
Regular 75c value.
King Hdw. Co.
63 Peachtree 87 Whitehall
Tuberculosis,, Dread White Plague, Advancing Among Ne
groes, Is Menace to White Families Where They.Work.
Citizens Must Awake to Realization of the Problem.
Santa Claus In Asylum.
The Georgia prison commission will
tooson up most gloriously during the
Yule-tide and* the Inmates of 'the state
reformatories at Mllledgevllle will be
the benefactors of their largess.
Commissioner Wiley Williams said
Wednesday, morning that the commis
sion was preparing a big surprise for
the juvenile and female and hospital
prisoners at Mllledgevllle, aside even
Tom the regulation Christmas extras.
It Is understood that the ■comYnleslon
expects to pub on a real Christmas din
ner at Mllledgevllle, not a prison Christ
mas dinner, but a real one.
Real estate of all kinds can be disposed
of thru The Georgian. The Georgian real
estate columns can be profitably used by
people who wish to sell, rent or exchango
property of any kind.
Ths estimated death rate In Atlanta
for .1911 shows an Increase of 1.04 per
thousand people over that of 1910. In
the previous year the death rate per
1,000 was 17.71. an$ during 1911 It nai
gone up to 1,8.76.
Thu estimate on the death rate for
1911 was obtained by L. Thornton,
chief clerk In tho board of health office,
by taking the full report of deaths In
Atlanta for the first eleven months and
adding one-twelfth to them to repre
sent ths deaths for December.
A comparison of deaths among the
white and negro population of the city
shows a very small Increase of deaths
among the white people, ,and a much
larger Increase among the negroes.
During the first eleven months of the
year there were 1.881 deaths among the
white.residents, and 1,3(9 deaths among
tho negro citizens. Adding one-twelfth
of their respective number to each
gives an estimate of 1,507 deaths among
the white people for 1911 and 1,498
deaths among the negroes' for the full
year, a total of 3,000 deaths In Atlanta
during tho year.
On a given population of 160,000 the
deabh rate would be 18.76 depths for
the year In each 1.000 people. Taking
this white people ns being 60'per cent
of the population, or numbering 96,000
people In all, the Ueath rate among
white people In Atlanta for the entire
year would be 16.69, and on the same
basis, estimating 64,000 negroos in At
lanta, the negro death rate amounts
to 23.33 deaths to the 1,000 people.
For the previous year, on an estl-
mated population of 165.000, the total
death rate was 17.71. which was 15.46
for the whites and 21.13 per 1,000 pop
ulation for the negroes.
A glance at the figures shows that
the white death rate per 1,000 people
has Increased only .26 for each 1,000
people, and the negro death rate' has
Increased .32 per 1,000 people.
males were reported as being born and
913 white females, giving nn estimated
total of 916 males and 996 females for
the full twelve months, 'or a total of
1,911 white births for the year of 1911.
On the some basis of figuring the
total births among the negro popu
lation for the full year amount .to 761.
According to the officials of the board
of health, ths figures for the negro
birth rate can not be relied upon, as
a much larger percentage of births
among the negroes are never repotted.
For the entire year several checks on
the physician’s reports have been
added, and It Is believed that a much
nearer perfect report on births will
be received In the office next year. All
births—still, alive, legitimate and Ille
gitimate—must be reported according to
law, but tho figures on the birth rate
are based only on the reports of chil
dren born alive.
Whits Plague Growing.
An alarming feature of the 1911
death rate Is the Increase of deaths
rculosls.
While the death rate has
small Increase during .ths year, the
birth rate has ah own a-handsome one
that Is very pleasing to tho board of
health. The estimated birth rato
among the white- people In Atlanta Is
0 per cent of the population, the best
hat the board of health has ever been
able to ehow. The negro birth rate,
the same basis, Is 12 per cent.
Up to Decemher 1. 1911, 859 white
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature o:
The Atlanta Georgian
Has Made Arrangements With the Management of
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
For the Purchase of
500—Orchestra Seats—500
For
Tuesday, December 26
For Wm, A. Brady’s Successful Play,
i £ j^^jj CJTf" H IE ^ *
And will distribute them as a Christmas present to
the Subscribers of THE GEORGIAN.
How to get THE GEORGIAN
Free Theater Tickets
For “Mother” at the Grand Opera House: The
Georgian’s free ticket automobile will tour Atlanta
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and our repre
sentative will stop haphazard at homes, taking a
different district each day. He will ask if you are
a reader of The
ATLANTA GEORGIAN
And if you can produce a copy of THE ATLAN
TA GEORGIAN of the previous day’s issue, he
will hand you without question an Orchestra Ticket
to the Grand Opera House to see the great home
play “Mother.”
Be wise and have your copy ready, with your name
and address upon it, and get an
ORCHESTRA SEAT FOR A 2c NEWSPAPER
WATCH FOR THE GEORGIAN
FLANDERS “20” .Automobile
from tuberculosis, and particularly
among the negro population. Up to
December 1 of this year one-eighth
of the deaths among the negroes came
from the dread white plague. ~
Based on the same estimate a« pre
vlously used, the deaths from tuber,
culosls for 1911 will reach 142 among
tho whites and 186 among the negroes.
In 1910 there were 135 deaths among
the white people and 155 among the ne
groes from the same cause. In 1909 the
tuberculosis deaths among the whites
amounted to 117 and among tho negroes
to 115.
Each year has shown an alarming
Increase, and especially among ths ne
gro population.
In speaking of the prevalency of tu
berculosis among tho negroes, Dr.
Claude A. Smith, one of the city physi
cians, who has been greatly interested
In the matter for a number of years,
says that tt Is a menace to-the health
of the entire city, and cited an Instance
to show his reason .for that belief.
Ths Menace of ths Negro.
"A large percentage of the negroes,
sold Dr. Smith, "work In tho homes of
white people, prepare their food and
care for their children, and when they
have tuberculosis or cpme In contact
with It In their own homes or In the
homes of their friends, they spread ths
disease among their white employers.
“Only last summer,” he continued, “X
came across a case that I would like to
cite as being a good example. I was
called to a negro house In a centra
tlon of the city. A negro woman
40 years old was In the last stages of
tuberculosis. The house she lived In
was a one-room affair with two beds
In It. She lay on her bed too weak
to ralso herself when I first found her
and she was so far gone with the dls
ease that she died within a month.
"I won’t begin to tell you for publl
cation the nastiness and filth I found
In that room. One feature of It will
give a good Idea. A pan lay on Ahe
All Toys and Dolls
Have Been Reduced
half of hor sputum had missed the
pan and was on the bed and floor, dry
ing there and filling the air with the
bacilli of tuberculosis.
’Lota of people sympathize with the
poor darky, but don’t think that It
means any particular danger for their
own families unless they happen to
live In that vicinity. I made an In
vestigation and. found that a family of
four, the father, mother and two daugh
ters, lived and cooked In that one room.
One of the daughters worked In a
down-town restaurant, ths other cooked
for white people and the father of the
family was a janitor at the capitol.
Something to Think Over.
It’s unnecessary to tell anyone
how these three people coming every
morning from such surroundings would
fill the homes, or offices, of their em
ployer* with the germs of tuberculosis.
And I will leave the matter to be
thought about by the white Citizens of
Atlanta, with just the statement that
(this la quite a common case and one
of hundreds I meet with from time to
time.”
A strong fight will be made to prevent
the spread of tuberculosis among the
negroes next year. On the 37-acre plot
whore the Battle Hill sanitarium for
cooes of tuberculosis among the whites
are treated, Is a large house to which
council has appropriated 32,500 for put
ting In good repair. It Is situated on
the other end of the large tract from
the hospital for whites and will make
on Ideal hospital where negroes can bo
given free treatment for the dread dls
Council has promised a full appro
priation for the coming year to equip
this hospital, and Dr. Smith and a spe
cial committee are now figuring on the
cost.
Dr. Bmlth stated that as noon as the
money Is appropriated work will bo
started and that within a month or no
It will be possible to take 60 or 100 ne
groes from such homes as the one de
scribed above and put them where tbey
will bo treated and well cared for. In
cases that have just started the patients
may be cured entirely, but at the worst
they will be better |
they would be In the] _
the terrible danger of their affecting
others, whites and blacks, will be ellm
fnated.
ONEFOURTH
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BUY QUICK FOR XMAS
SEAT SALE THURSDAY
Fop Dec. 25. 26. 27.
Matinees Christmas Day and Wed*
nesday.
HENRY B. HARRIS presents
The Country Boy
A REAL PICTURE Or THE GREAT WHITE WAT
Prices: 25c. 50c. 75c. 91.00 and 11.60.
TODAY
And All Week—Matinees Dally.
“DANTE’S INFERNO"
World’s Most Wonderful Moving
Picture.
Four Shows Dally: Mat. 2:30 to 5:30.
Nights. 7:30 to 10:30.
PRICES, 25c.
CHRISTMAS
Except Wed. and 8at. Nights. Mati
nees Dally
William A. Brady'* Production of
“MOTHER”
CORSYTH l
8 Mlinta’i Easiest Theatre j Tonight l:S0
EIGHT FORENTINE SINGERS
Marion LltUtfMd’a Vocal Treat and
Success.
Will Roger., tho Oklahoma Cowboy.
N.llle A Bud Helm— Clemen.o Oroj.
Vau dettE
Program of First Run Exclusive Li
censed Pictures For Thursday,
“BROWN OF HARVARD"
(Dramatic)
“THE MISSION FATHER”
(Dramatic)
OTHER FINE PICTURES.
MIS3 LEOTA GLIMPSE,
Doublo-Voiced Vocalist,
MR. JOSEPH M’ANALLY,
Irish Tenor.
ADMISSION 5C.
TfV/\MERICAN
ANOTHER GOOD MU8ICAL COMED
. NEXT WEEK.
BY THE CELEBRATED
HILL dL EDMONDS CO.
Entitled
“LOVE AND WAR”
• 18-PEOPLE—16
MOSTLY GIRL8.
AFTERNOONS SC.
EVENINGS 10C
mansEBEk
CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE
From Noon to 10:30 p. M
BIG chief os-ko-man.
A Full Blood Sioux Indian.
KRETORE,
Wizard of Mualo.
ORACLE ALLEN,
BUSTER CRAN^’jtND SISTER
T ^^R Fr f!i^ ? r n c <1 o m 8 . , d , l u . , ; d ”’
DOYL AND FIELDS. Com.dy, singing I
and Dancing. "
AND A FINE SET OF PICTURE PLAYS.
The greatest danger from Influenza Is
of Its resulting In pneumonia. This
can be obviated by using Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy, at it not only cures
Influenza, but counteracts any tenden
cy of the disease toward pneumo
nla. Sold by all druggists.
MAKE HIM HAPPY
With a Fountain Pen. Indispensable
for the business man. teacher or stu
dent They are non-leaking and self-
filling. You should see the gold-mount
ed ones. Let us show you. John L.
Moore & Sons, 42 North Broad-st.
f
trated books, latest fiction,
boys’ and girls’ books, cal
endars, Xmas letters, espe
cially the Atlanta souvenir
letter, Xmas cards, etc.,
from Miller’s Book Store,
39 Marietta-st.
Pianos, Organs, Sheet
Music, Violins, Guitars.
Catalogue free on applica
tion.
CABLE PIANO GO.,
84 North Broad St.
LYRIC
this„^
WEEK
Matlnaes Taos., Thurt. and Sat.
AROUNOTHEGLOCK
Introducing
BILLIE RITCHIE
The Man That Makes the World Laugh
Dancing tonight Atlanta,
Dancing Academy, corner
Mitchell and Forsyth-sts.
New management. Mathies-
sen’s orchestra. Admission
50 cents.
COL. WAHERSON’S VISIT
WILL BE MADE NOTABLE
Maybe You Didn’t Know That
Marse Henry Once Ran a
Newspaper at Marietta.
Ths committee of arrangements for
the peace maze meeting to be Acid Sun
day In tbe Auditorium In the Interest
he ratification of the proposed arbi
tration treaty between the United
States end Great Britain, met at (
o’clock Wednesday afternoon to com
plete the arrangements for the great
demonstration In honor of "Marse Hen
ry" Watterson, tbe veteran editor of
The Louisville Courier-Journal, who
will be the orator at the mass meeting.
A motion wae submitted at the meet,
fng and carried that the preee be urged
to take an active part In the occasion,
as Mr. Watterson Is ons of the great
editors of ths country, who has bean a
historic figure since the times of Horace
Orcely, Charles A. Danna, George W.
Childs and other great editors, whs
made the pages of the great dallies
blase, with, brilliancy In the sixties, sev.
entlee and eighties.
Watterson Is still a great power and
one of the most picturesque In Ameri
can politic*. As a raconteur he has few
equal! and wherever he goes there Is a
| crowd around him as there used to be
|about General Toombs and other uota-
MR. TOM HOLLAND
A "Wt^a^aE'"-^*
A
IN THE CAST.
ELEGANT COSTUMES
BEAUTIFUL 80NGS
TOMHOLLAND JOKES
ADMISSION 10C.
AFTERNOON8 AND EVENINGS
SPECIAL HOLIDAY PICTURES
All the Week there will be presented ole
tures with especial reference to the
ChHetmse Holiday, and with a de-
elded ChrMaiM Spirit running thru
tna subject*. •
.. DON’T MISS THESE.
MISS JUNE M'EACHRON,
Soprano,
ADMISSION SC.
On account of the large home clrcula-
„on of The Georgian, Its want ads attract
greater attention and bring more result!.
blcs In reconstruction times. Mr. Wat
terson. however, does not hark hack to
the past, but Is abreast of the most
progressive movements of the time*
and a great l-ad.-r In Him work for
International arbitration.
It Is not generally known that Mr
'attmaon ran a dally paper at Marl-
etta In 1162 and that tho flies of that
paper are non- In this city. In posses
sion of Ben Loo Crew, who Is co-oper-
atlng with the committee ott arrange
ments. The committee on arrange-
mentB haa determined to leave no stone
unturned to make the occasion of Mr.
Watterson'* appearance "ne long to b»
remembered. They will ask a full rep
resentation to the press on the stag..
and members of the press will take an
active part In the arrangements.
The City Federation of Women's
Clubs will be asked to lend their pres
ence to tho occasion and presidents "f
the clubs will be Invited to sit on tlm
Mage, with members of the press, ih.i
mayor and council, directors of the
Chamber of Commerce, officers of th-.
Georgia Foace aocl.ty, ministers of the
Atlanta churches, president and officer,
of th* bit stsoclatlon. Judges of the
state and Federal courts and other
dlenllorie,.
Interesting details will be worked "ui
Wednesday afternoon by the committee
on arrangements.
CHENEY’S
EXPECTORANT
CURES COUGH* AND OOLM