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The Atlanta Georgian
'*Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN'
AND NEWS
'Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
Merry Xmas
VOL. X. NO. 124.
HOME EDITION.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1911.
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Erectors Will Spend $300,000
in Building New Furnace
and Equipment.
HAD REMARKABLE SUCCESS
Business of Big Local Manu
factory Built Up Entirely by
Southern Trade.
Atlanta’s stocking bulges with great
Industrial presents for 1912. Santa
Plans has busied himself to’ give the
city the most promising prospects for
mighty financial and commercial tie
torment next year.
A Christmas tip that Is to develop
Into a New Year’s announcement Is
that the Atlanta Steel Company's board
of directors Is preparing to spend
1300,009 to double the else and capacity
of the plant. Another big furnace Is to
le erected and extensive enlargements
made to take care of the rapidly In
creasing business and provldo for fu
ture requirements.
It's pay roll Is to be around 910,000
per week.
The plan has been considered for
several months past and full details
will be ready early In January.
This heavy Investment to double the
Atlanta Steel Company’s plant Is per
haps the most remarkable exemplifi
cation of what Industrial captains like
Thomas K. Glenn can accomplish,
klght on the edge of the colossal Ala
bama Iron field, with its mammoth
steel plants, the Atlanta Steel Com
pany’s success has been such that It’s
slant must be doubled to accommodate
Is growing market.
And that market Is a local one In
Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolines and
other Southeastern states, built up by
business men who years ago foresaw
that Atlanta could reach over to Bir
mingham, bring Its Iron here, manu
facture It Into steel products and pros
per Just as well as plants located In
the fields.
a recent paper, George Gordon
rawford, president of the Tennessee
foal, Iron and Railroad Company, the
Southern subsidiary of the United
States Steel Company, said that the
future of Iron and steel companies of
the South depended upon the develop
ment of tho South ttielf as a eteel-
nsumlng market, upon tho opening
tut 11 nmum ~uuuuuou 1 uw-MORr
South America as Its especial trade
field.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company Is not a money-maker.
It Is a borrower always from Its parent
company. Elvery once In so often at
the meeting of the subsidiary execu
tives In New York, the president of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company appears to negotiate funds
for tho maintenance and operation of
that vast company.
Thia fact Is quoted to show ho
markably successful the Atlanta Steel
Company Is, In doubling Its plant, as
compared with the monarch company
of the Alabama Iron field.
A Full Stocking Now
Indications Now Point Toward
Finest Poultry Exfilbit Ever
Given in Southern States.
MANY CUPS ARE OFFERED
Southern Poultry Fanciers Are
Rushing in Their Lists of
Fine Competing Birds.
POPE IS 100 FEEBLE
FI
Physicians Refuse to Allow
Him Personally to Conduct
Fatiguing Ceremony.
NEW CARDINALS OFFICIATE
Peter’s Pence Fund of $27,000
From an American Is the
Most Notable Gift.
Rome, Dec. 25.—Anxiety over the
condition of Pope Pius was renewed
today when It became known that his
Musicians flatly forbade him to carry
"itt his cherished plan of ushering In
f'hrlstmas day by personally celebrat-
tng midnight mass at the Vatican. He
"ml personally Invited every member
of the sacred college to be present and
teas keenly disappointed when his med
ical ndvlsers told him that the strain of
'ho ceremony would be a tax greater
than his health could safely meet
"hrlstmas was celebrated by the two
American cardinals reading mass In
>ho titular church, after which they
"ere the guests of Mgr. Kennedy, of
the American college. Cardinal O'Con-
o* II spent the remainder of tho day In
making hts farewell preparatory to
'caving for Naples tomorrow.
foremost among the Christmas of-
r ‘ rings to the Vatican was the presen
tation of a Peter’s pence fund of 927,827
made by Mgr. Kennedy on behalf of
Rev. Edmund P. Prendcrgast, of
Philadelphia.
following a long conference between
‘ ordinal Palconlo and Papal Secretary
f State Merry Del Val, It 1s said today
hat either Mgr. Stagnl. apostolic dele
gate to Canada, or Mgr. Aversa, apos-
'"Ilc delegate to Cuba and Brazil, will
h" appointed to the post at Washlng-
made vacant by the elevation of
‘ ! Kr. Palconlo.
Entries for the great poultry show
the South, the show backed by all the
leading poultry breeders of Georgia and
patronized by the most prominent
breeders all over the country, will clqse
at midnight on December 27.
On account of its past successful
record the annual show held under tho
auspices of tho Georgia Poultry asso
clalton has come to be known ss the
Great Central Show of the South,
had Its origin among ths more aggres
slvs poultrymen of Georgia to display
annually the best fowls that can be bred
and Its motives have always been sin
cers—to forward ths Interests of pout
try raising In the South.
The show of this year, to be held the
week beginning January 9. promises to
surpass the brilliant success of the
show held last year. Entries are al
ready coming In rapidly and they are
from the most famous breeders of every
sort of poultry In the state and In many
other states. Lost year 96 states were
represented and this record will bo sur.
passed this season. But what the ofil
clals of the Georgia Poultry associa
tlon are taking most pride In Is the In
terest of noted breeders and ths an
surance that the birds displayed will be
the finest In the land.
Handsome new Empire coops have
been secured for the displays. These
are tho best coops made and they will
give an added capacity for the display
of 1,000 birds in the Auditorium.
Besides many alluring cash prizes,
the following cups and special prizes,
donated by different firms and Individ
uals, will be given:
Cups and Prizes.
Eugene V. Haynes Company, cup for
best pen Barred Rocks. . ,
IV. J. Stoddard, cup for b«*t > pen
Butt Rocks. * • • ••y
J. M. High, cup for best pen Buff
Cochin Batams.
D. A. Tobias, cup for best pen B. B.
Red Bantams.
Pratt Food Company, cup for best
cock (bantam).
Elseman Bros., cup for best hen
(bantam).
George Muse Clothing Company, cup
for best cockerel (bantam).
Georgia Paint and Glass Company,
cup for best pullet (bantam).
E. Rivers Realty Company, cup for
best pen (bantam).
Southern Rurallst, cup for best dls
play (bantam).
Tumlin Bros., cup for best pen Rhode
Island Reds,
McMillan Seed Company, cup for
best pen White AVyandottes.
Dobbs & Wey Company, cup for best
pen Columbian Wyandottes.
Malcr & Berkele, cup for best pen
Buff Orpingtons.
Davis & Freeman, cup for best pen
Black Orpingtons.
A. Holzman, cup for best pen White
Orpingtons.
Eubanks Mantel Company, cup for
best pen Brown Leghorns.
Hon. William Schley Howard, cup for
best pen White Leghorns.
Davlson-Paxon-Stokes Co., cup
for best pen Black Mlnorcos.
King Hardware Company, cup fo
best pen Cornish Indian Games.
Reliable Incubator Company, incu
hator for best pen Rosecomb Reds.
A. C. Woolley Company, Incubator
for best pen Partridge Rocks.
Pittsburg Steel Company, two rolls
wire for best pen Anconas.
Columbian Book Company, three vol
umes poultry works for best pen black
Langshans.
J. P. Allen Company, cup for best
turkey.
Burnett Wall Paper Company, cup
for best display Indian Runner ducks.
J. E. Hunnicutt Company cup for
best display Indian Runner ducks.
M. Rich & Bros. Co., cup for best
display pigeons.
Children of S. B. Turman, lot valued
at 9160 for best pen, any variety, shown
by a child under fifteen years of age.
Spalding Returns From New
York—Holidays Prevented
Meeting of Promoters.
They’re Welcome This Time,
for They’re Now Purchasing
Fine Farm Lands.
LARGE CROPS ARE AHEAD
Tide of Homeseekers Turns
from Northwest to Neglected
Opportunity in Dixie.
That within the next few years ths
best of Georgia land that Is now for
sale will be owned by Northern peo
ple Is the consensus of opinion among
local real estate and railroad people.
There nrc Indications and reports that
much more land Is to bo sold in the
next three months to Northern farmers
than for any similar period In the his
tory of the state.
This forecast Is based upon hard,
substantial facts, an follows:
There has never been a lack of farm
land on the market In Georgia. This
Is due lo the fact that the state Is not
settled as thickly as It should be. Land
In south Georgia, and In fact In many
other sections of the state. Is ss good as
any Inthe world—the valley of the Nile
not excepted.
The demand for land In the South
by Northern farmers was first felt In
Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas and other
Southern states. More recently they
have begun to Investigate Georgia land
and are coming this way next. This
year has been an exceptionally good one
with the small farmers of Ohio, Illi
nois, Michigan, New York and other
Northern states. They have made
money and are looking toward ths
South and Georgia for Investment.
It is not only the fact that farm
lands are |n many instances much
cheaper In this territory than In the
more crowded agricultural districts of
the North that prompts the small farm
ers to come this way, but the matter
of climate and soil fertility Is even of
greater Importance.
They arc now raising one crop, but
by coming to Georgia and following the
instructions of the State Agricuiiin.il
college at Athens they can raise two
and three crops. Thief - specially true
as to food crops.-' The'ltmg summers,
mild spring and fall give them advan
tages they do not now enjoy.
The startling statement was recently
mado by an Atlanta commission mcr-
chant that 80 per cent of the vegeta■
bles consumed In Atlanta were shipped
In from other sections. This alone em
phasizes the chances here for hundreds
of good truck farmers from the Nqrth.
Every first and third Tuesday In Oc
tober, November and December has
brought hundreds of prospectors from
the North: but the local passenger
agents say they are advised that be
ginning In January there will be an ex
traordinary Influx of farmers Into Geor
gia—greater than ever In history.
SCYTEOFREAPER
CUT DEEP IN 1911
Roll of Atlanta’s Dead Includes
Names of Many Famous
Men and Women.
VETERANS PASSING AWAY
Clement A. Evans, M. R. Em
mons, and Daniel 0. Dough
erty Among the List.
To Resume Negotiations.
, Shanghai, Dec. 25.—Tang-Shao-Yi,
mi portal premier, and Wu Ttng-fang,
'•mn secretary In the revolutionary
Pine,, announced today that pence
1 ' initiations will be resumed tomorrow i - —
."'I both Intimate,| (hot their chief ,|l!«l stuck reduction will force the pm-
imr would he to find runic neons of ,.|.,|. t • make new plans, und he
'loving off U,e Ip,vaulted foreign In- : •- 1 11 ”111 cause the Canadian
‘“ventiuu. ' 'directors to abandon the project.
t . «
Promoters of the Georgia Railway
and Power Company- did not assemble
tn New York last week, as expected,
to determine definitely whether they
would accept the recent action of the
Georgia railroad commission In cut
ting off 910,000,000 of the company’s
proposed stock issue of 927,000,000.
J. J. Spalding, director and general
attorney of the company, has returned
from New York, and announced that
on account of the holiday season all
of the capitalists Interested In the com
pany could not he present, and the
meeting of directors will probably be
held In Jnnusry at some convenient
place.
Mr. Spalding states that It Is now ■
question of keeping the promoters to
gether.
riling to his viewpoint, the rap
In running over the list of n^tiriy
000 citizens of Atlanta who died In
1911, ninny names rise before the eye
worthy of far more than passing
mention—names of men and women
hose lives meant much to the city In
hlch they lived und to the South as
well.
The closing year has proved an era of
progress In hundreds of ways and dur
ing tho past twelve months men have
visited the city who are national and
world-wide figures, conventions have
brought thousands of people of lesser
fame here and advertised Atlanta far
and wide: her own citizens have gone
to other places and reflected credit upon
the South's metropolis, but while this
lias been going on. death has taken ad
vantage of his prerogative and removed
from the walks of life some of the
grandest and noblest names on tho
city's roster. Men and women who
were known and loved throughout the
South and others who were only known
In Atlanta, but who ware loved Just as
much here where they were known,
have followed the rt<1 er of the pale
horse on each successive visit.
Chief among the list of those who
passed away during the previous year
stands the name of General Clement A.
Evans, beloved soldier or the Lost Causo
and zealous minister of Christ.
Other Confederate veterans deserving
of more than mere mention are General
Alfred Iverson, known as the only Con
federate leader to capture- a Federal
general during the war; Dr. L. I. Woolf,
who was the first Confederate soldier
lo enter Fort Sumter after the Federate
were driven out. ami hundreds of other
Confederate soldiers who upheld the
honor of the South nr privates and as
iftVrrs,
Dalit"! it Dougherty and M. R. Em-
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IRE MADE FULL
Friends of The Atlanta Georgian
Made It a Happy Event
for the Orphans.
MORE THAN $600 RAISED
Fund Was Distributed Satur
day and Old Santa Claus
Did the Rest.
Great Audience at Auditorium-
Armory Pledges Itself to
Arbitration Treaty.
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
Former Follower of the Code
Duello Would Disarm Sol
diers of the World.
Standing forth as a disciple of Mars
converted to the greater and better
cause of peace, as a follower of the
code duello, brought at last to right
thinking, ’’Marse Henry” Watterson,
the fiery editor of The Louisville Cour-
News Is a Great Surprise to
Those Who’re Familiar With
Prisoner’s Condition.
Washington, Dec. 25.—President
Taft declined last night to grant a par
don to Charles W. Morse, now In the
post hospital at Fort McPherson, At
lanta. The report of the three physi
cians In Atlanta, detailed as a board of
medical examination by the govern
ment, was read, and the following
statement Issued:
”Tha president called Into considera
tion the surgeon general of ths army,
the surgeon general of the navy and
Major M. A. Delaney, medical corpe, U.
S. A., to consider the report of the
board of phystclane at Atlanta, as to
the physical condition of Charles W.
Morse. After full consideration of the
report, ns explained to him by them.
TRAIL OF BLOOD
Imperial Army Is Marching
Against Teheran on Christ
mas Day.
NO GUARD FOR SHUSTER
Persian Populace Is Enraged
With Government Because
of Its Non-Resistance.
Teheran, Dee. 25.—Tho Russian troops
are marching on this city today, leav
ing In their wake a trail of bloodshed
and desolation. Fierce fighting ,1s ex
pected when tho czar’s soldiers reach
ler-Journal, who wore the gray through- tho president was not satisfied that thl * city. The Persian* are preparing
out the thickest of the Civil war, stood
before an audience that packed the
main floor and balconies of the Audi
torium Sunday, and with hts massive
snow-crowned head turned tow’ard the
heavens, said, “Let us have peace.’’^H
It seemed that all Atlanta had forgot
ten Sunday dinners and had hurried to
hear the famous Kentuckian, for as
early as 1:30 o'clock, whun tho doors of
the Auditorium were opened, there was
a large crowd In front of the building.
By 1:45 o’clock the entire lower floor
was practically filled.
Atlanta’s Interest In the International
peace movement had lain dormant since
the address by Senator Burton on the
subject last spring, but all that was
wanting to awaken the Interest were
the words of Colonel Watterson. At the
conclusion of his address resolutions
Indorsing the ratification of the arbl
tratlon treaties with Great Britain and
France, now pending In the United
States senate, were Introduced, and en
thusiastically adopted by ail present.
Quite a disappointment wai caused
by the omitting of the announced organ
recital and singing of Christmas carols,
but it was found that the recent cold
weather had affected the pipes of the
organ so as to put the Instrument out
of commission. Professor Weldemey-
er's band, however, played popular and
patriotic airs during the Interval be
fore the arrival of Colonel Watterson.
The meeting was opened by Dr. H. C.
White, president of the Georgia Peaco
society. After a short address. In which
he thanked the Chamber of Commerce
and tho local newspaper* for their sup
port of the peace movement, he Intro
duced Clark Howell, who presented
Colonel Watterson.
Colonel Watterson’* Address.
"Let us have peace," began Mr. Wat.
tereon, " ’with malice toward nooe. with
charity for alb' said Lincoln. ‘Blessed
are the peacemakers, for they shall b«
called the people of God,’ said Jesus. It
would seem that a measure of such
public benefit a* the arbitration treaties
with England and France would call for
but little urging on any Intelligent or
patriotic American. In England or
France no dissent Is to be heard. Here,
however, owing to the perversity of
some, the Ignorance and difference of
opinion of many, a campaign of educa
tion and an appeal to reason seems
neceasai--- : intn" tin- simple tru-
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Immediate action waa necessary, hut
directed that he be kept fully advised
at frequent Intervals of any' changes.
The news that a pardon had been
refused brought Intense surprise to
those In Atlanta to whom the con
tents of the physicians* report had been
nude known. It Is stated that title re
port showed Morse to be in a critical
condition; that there had been no ex
aggeration of the seriousness of his
illness, and that he could not he ex
pected to recover tn confinement.
Those familiar with ths circumstances
could hardly believe that. If a pardon
depended upon this report. It would
not be forthcoming by Christmas
morning. It was a great shock to
Morse and to his wife, who has worked
so faithfully for her husband and who
was at his bedside nearly all day Sun
day and Christmas day.
WILL DINE ONTHURSDAY
Annual Banquet of M. and M.
Association Will Be Given at
the New Kimball.
One of the notable annual business
meetings scheduled for the week, where
congenial spirits will gather to discuss
pertinent commercial subjects, will be
the dinner of the Atlanta Merchants
and Manufacturers association, at tho
New Kimball hotel, Thursday evening
7 o’clock.
It I* one of the leading business or
ganizations of Atlanta, and It* mem
bership Is composed of the most prom
inent merchant.') and manufacturer*.
for battle, tho It Is expected that the
government troops will be inactive as a
result of the order from the cabinet.
The people are frenzied by reports that
500 men, women and children have been
butchered by coiaacka at Tabriz and
are calling upon the regent, Nazir El
Mulk, to realat the Invaders. Last night
a mob surrounded the palace and
threatened to kill the regent unleaa he
yielded to the general demand for re-
•1 stance.
The national council has refund to
accept the dissolution of the body and
today Issued a plea to the people to
support them. This was followed by a
demonstration about the residence of
W. Morgan Shuster, the American
treasurer general. Ile^was cheered for
half an hour, but did not appear before
the throng, wishing to avoid any charge
that he Is Inciting the Persians to vio
lence. The government guard about
Mr. Shuster's home has been with
drawn and his supporters declare that
thiz Is a perilous step to take at a time
when feeling is so high. .
The Russian troops have seized
northwestern Persia, now holding Ta
briz, Kasbln, Resht, Enzell and Bas-
mendj. Villages about these towns and
alohg the Kashin have been burned and
the merchants put to ths sword.
Ths last advices received here from
Tabriz stated that fighting was still go
ing on In that city and that the Rus
sians, after suffering heavy losses, have
been trapped in the government build
ing*. Reinforcements with artillery are
rushing from Ishpah&n to aid tbs Rus
sians. but may arrive too lsts.
Parte of the city of Tabrl* are said to
be burning. Communication with that
city was practically' severed at mid
night, before any reply had been re
ceived to Inquiries from foreign con
suls here ss to ths situation there.
LsQrsngs, Gs., Dec. 25.-
le usual custom at Christn
_■» of Unity Cotton mills, L
mills and Elm City Cotton i
of candy, fruit and nuts to the
operatives of the three mill* mentioned,
while ths superintendents, overseers and
operating official* as wen as general of-
— handsomely ran
You see, It’s the "Full Stocking" fund
now.
When The Georgian started telling th"
well-off little boys and girls about little
boy* and girls that were not eo well off
It was tho "Empty Stocking" fund.
Tho Georgian didn’t have so ■very
much to do with It. Just told Its Itttl"
reader* about boys and girls who didn’t
have any fathers or mothers, or whore
fathers and mothers were very poor, s»
that they hadn't enough to eat and wear,
and would have no Christmas at all.
Well, tho well-off little boys and girls
read about their little friends who vice-
not so well off. and they did Just what
The Georgian knew they would do.
They began sending In tnelr nickels
and dimes and their quarters to Th“
Georgian and with the nickels and dim--,
and quarters came the dearest little
note* yon ever saw. j
And all the nickels and dimes and
quartern went Into the "Empty,Stock
ing” Bind. And the little letters went Into
the hearts of older people, that get Just
a bit forgetful at times. And the older
peoplo began to get Interested In tho
fund that was to fill stockings that
otherwise must go empty.
So along with the nickels and dimes
and quarters began to come dollars and
five dollars—nil for the little empty
stockings of the children who wero not
well off.
The fund grew and grew, Just as
when you start a very small snow ball
and roll It. It waa fun—a nice cheerful
kind of fun—to watch It grow. It did
The Georgian good to watch It and it
did Gcorglnn readers good, to watch It,
and now that fund has done a whole lot
of little children good, which Is the best
of all.
For the fund grew considerably mor-
■than MOO. coming Into The Georgian In
perhnps a thousand separate gifts—a
thousand tokens of generosity and good
will and the Christmas spirit.
And now a great many little children
—little children with feeling and wishes
Just like other little children, tho with
out mothers and fathers like tho others
—now theso children have found full
stockings and the merriest kind of »
Christmas when they woko up and ran
to see If Santa Claus had passed them
by.
The fuhd was divided among Institu
tions that saw to It that every dolin'-
went where It would do the most goo-t
—to orphans homes and the Associate !
Charities and other organizations well
Informed as to tho needy little ones o’.
Atlanta. Mostly, it went for the toy .
that delight the heart of childhood. Tn
some cases portions wero spent on ne
cessities to relieve wont and suffering
It was all used wisely and well.
And you, little well-off children, wlm
have helped give your unknown friends
a merry Christmas and full stocking. It
Is quite possible you feel happier and
more grateful for the gifts sent than for
any of the fine things you received.
It Is nice for things to work out tha*.
way.
ATLANTA MAN IS kTlLED
IN A ROW IN TENNESSEE
Chattanooga’, Tenn„ Dec. 25.—WJ1I
Rutledge, of Atlanta, Ga., an employe.-
of the government at tho lock and dam
at Hales Bar, Tenn., was shut and
Instantly killed Bunday afternoon at
that place by Arthur Quinn. Tin-
shooting result ad from a drunken row
after a Christmas celebration. Jim
Hale, of Gallatin, Tsnn* was Instant!.
killed at ths lock and dam last night
as the result of being run over by an
N, C. & St. L. train.
If It amuse to read the news of dally
sport of every sort, you. too, should
know Just where to go In cose that you
should want to do the same as they
and learn to play: and you can get. If
neren oy me inmij - ismis in-1 th'tuv-."! nT*n. e '. I'' A Is*
terest*. which control these mills as locsl thing* you need to learn to play tho
capital In conjunction with J. H. Lane Ai
Co , of New York. > USE GEORGIAN WANT ADt.
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