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TOM HUDSON WAS
BETWEEN TWO'
MILLSTONES
Both Watson and Smith Indif
ferent, and Lacking Money,
He Quit Governor’s Race.
The sudden and spectacular with
drawal of Thomas G. Hudson from the
gubernatorial race yesterday is the sole
and absorbing topic of comment among
Georgia politicians today.
The absolute frankness and candor of
Mr. Hudson’s statement of withdrawal
has amazed many old-timers, and not a
few-’of them declare that nothing like it
is of record in Georgia political history.
While some evade the use off Thomas
E. Watson's name entirely in their po
litical discussions, while others handle
the “red-headed person" gingerly and
as if they were afraid the handling
might burn their Angers, even as they
pray devoutly it will not, and while
still others really regard and speak of
Mr. Watson as a forceful and worthy
leader in the militant Democracy of
Georgia, it remained for Mr. Hudson to
pay Watson the highest tribute he ever
has received at anybody’s hands.
Sought Watson’s Support.
, Mr. Hudson admits unqualifiedly that
he sought Mr. Watson’s support dili
gently, because he assumed it to be
completely necessary to Hudson's suc
cess; that he failed to get it, and that
he withdraws because he realizes the
utter futility of proceeding without it!
Mr. Hudson believes that Mr. Wat
son has held the whip hand in Georgia
politics for a number of years, and he
considers him the balance of power in
the state, without doubt.
Hudson’s coming right out Into the
sunshine, Into the middle of the big
road, and admitting all of this, without
quibble or hesitation, has astonished
the politicians almost beyond the point
A of coherent comment and discussion.
Some Inside History.
It Is known to Mr. Hudson’s Inti
mates that he first began to doubt when
he failed of Watson’s support.
He called upon Mr. Watson at the
instigation of a man high in the con
fidence of Senator Hoke Smith and
who usually speaks by the card for Mr.
Smith. Whether Mr. Smith had actual
knowledge of Hudson's impending vlb
> it to Watson, Hudson does not know,
but, being advised to call on Watson
by the certain tnan who did advise it,
i Hudson undoubtedly felt that his sup
posed backers knew what they were
doing. And, as a visit to Mr. Watson
and the seeking of his support seemed
to Mr. Hudson the fit and proper things
to do, he went to Thomson and talked
things over with the “red-headed one.”
This visit brought Hudson no com
for,.
Jir. Watson frankly told him that he
eould not, and would not, support him
if he was to be the candidate of Sen
ator Smith, even if he had no other
reason tp be against him.
Mr. Hudson did not then fee! at 11b
e-ty to say that he was not to have
ye cordial backing of Senator Smith
snd his faction, because he did believe
hat he would get it. He, therefore, left
dr. Watson, feeling that he would not
jet Watson's support.
Hudson Awaited Developments.
Notwithstanding Mr. Watson's re
buff, Mr. Hudson did not immediately
coislder quitting the race for governor.
• le felt Mr. Watson had little against
Htdson. He believed Watson was
m<re against Hudson because Smith
wa for him.
1 the Underwood fight Mr. Hudson
wa personally for the Alabama man.
Hedid not make a fight on Wilson, but
heild not hesitate to let it be known
ths he would cast an Underwood vote.
br this Underwood attitude, Mr.
Htlson was taken severely to task by
ceiain parties of the Smith faction.
Htstood pat, however, for he felt that
th disapproval of the Smith faction in
th Underwood matter might yet win
hh. if not Mr. Watson’s support, at
lest his passive opposition.
Hudson's Hopes Fail.
It was not long after the close of the
jderwood-Wilson fight before Hud
m found that he was being ground to
pwder between two millstones—the
oposition of Tom Watson on the one
had and the indifference and growing
edness of the Hoke Smith faction on
til other.
le called upon those friends in the
I Slth line-up who had, early in the
gne, promised him financial backing.
Viat he got was nothing—worse than
rthing.
rie was advised to “raise the wind”
frnself, as best he might—to mortgage
h farm, and keep things going as
Itg as he could, and see it anything
gned up.
Then Hudson determined to throw
» the sponge. He realized, with some
tterness, that his supposed friends
ad thrown him down, and that the
fiends he had attempted to cultivate
ad repelled him.
With no money and no Tom Watson,
lespair seized upon Tom Hudson, and
le quit.
A Pathetic Story.
The foregoing is the loosely running
story of the rise and fall of the
campaign in Georgia. It does.not make
happy reading. Interwoven in the
warp and woof of it is much of the
pathetic and the depressing.
The charge that Hudson's primary
mistake was deserting his former Ter
rell (Brown) friends to Hoik with Ter
rell's dearest foe; the investigation of
the workings of the agricultural de
partment when Hudson was commlit-
Bioner; the alleged improper use of the
patronage of his office—these things
were minor incidents In bringing about,
the retirement of Hudson.
Hudson x quit because of the lack of
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
Right after the state convention met
and “fit, and bled, and died,” it was
urged in some quarters that it had per
formed a monstrously irregular service
to the people when it named certain
prominent citizens presidential electors.
One excited partisan of the Wilson
persuasion—and, by the way, those
Wilson people do seem to be more than
moderately bad losers —expressed a fear
that these electors, having been chosen
“from the known friends of Under
wood,” might, in the event that some
one other than Underwood is elected
next November, refuse to vote in the
electoral college for the person named
at Baltimore, and—well, one forgets all
the grand, gloomy and peculiar things
scheduled as likely to happen, in some
folks’ imagination, unless something
could be done, pretty quick, too, to
straighten things out!
A little calm thought and investiga
tion discloses the fact, however, that
the state convention, in naming elec
tors. merely followed an ancient and
unbroken custom in that matter.
It has been the invariable rule for
the convention that names delegates to
the national convention also to name
electors. These electors always vote in
the electoral college for the person win
ning in the party naming them.
Discussing this matter, The Macon
Telegraph points out that there w'as an
elector once upon a time who violated
his instructions in this matter and
voted in the electoral college for some
candidate whose cause failed in the
elector’s state. The Telegraph excuses
the man upon the ground that he was
crazy, and committed BUlcide shortly
after putting over his remarkable and
unheard of stunt.
A whole lot of people have got
back to where they prefer reading
of Ty Cobb’s doings, rather than of
the late state convention.
George Ade says his guberna
torial boom is a joke. It is rather
painful to note that George has
reached the point where he consid
ers it necessary to explain that his
jokes are jokes.
Congratulations, good wfishes, and
“many happy returns of the day” came
in clusters and festoons to former Gov
ernor and United States Senator Jo
seph M. Terrell yesterday.
Senator Terrell was 52 years old on
Thursday, June 6.
Senator Terrell’s thousands of friends
throughout Georgia will rejoice to
know that his fifty-second birthday
found him well along the road to re
covery from the unfortunate and se-
PAGEANT EXPERT
TO TALHABADE
Thomas Woods Stevens, of the Chicago
Art institute, is in Atlanta to lecture be
fore the Atlanta Art institute and to make
tentative plans for the great pageant
which will be given next fall under the
auspices of the local institution in com
memoration of Georgia’s history
Though nothing definite has been de
cided it virtually is agreed the pageant
will revolve around the principal events
in the history of Georgia. Mr. Stevens
said this morning that about 800 persons
would be used in nine scenes and that
the costuming would be In keeping with
the scenes.
The first scene, for instance, will repre
sent life among the Indians before the
coming of the white man. Then the ar
rival of Governor Oglethorpe will be
shown and so on up to modern times.
The last scene probably will be taken
from the Civil war.
The play for the most part will be spo
ken. The whole piece will be presented
out of doors.
Mr. Stevens himself will write the play
and he will get such data as is necessary
from histories arid research among old
inhabitants.
money and the fear of Tom Watson’s
opposition.
That’s all —but it was enough.
Hudson Not Disgruntled.
Mr. Hudson, who will be in At
lanta a day or so before going
to his home In Sumter county, spent
the greater part 6f today in the Kimball
house lobby, conversing genially with
friends and acquaintances upon sub
jects political and otherwise.
Mr. Hudson was in a particularly
happy frame of mind, and if he Is sore
or disgruntled it was not at all ap
parent in his talk.
"I feel that a tremendous burden hag
been lifted from me,” he said. “I told
the story in my card. I have nothing
to add to it nor take from it.
"I feel that I have just cause of com
plaint because of some treatment I re
ceived, but I am going to stay in Geor
gia, run my farm the best I know how,
keep in touch with my friends, and—
well, of course, there are a few people
I shall not forget. Some of those I
shall not forget are my friends, who
stood by me. Some others I shall not
forget are not my friends.
“I knew I was being ground to pieces
between two millstones I could not get
away from. I am glad I had common
sense enough to know when I was head,
ed straight for defeat. I believe I
might have won—would have won—had
things gone as I at first thougt they
would go, and as I believe they should
have gone. But they didn’t, and I shall
not fret my life away because of hope,
gone wrong and plays destroyed.
"Whatever Tom Hudson may or may
not be. he is not a, sorehead nor a
grouch.”
Ask any business man and he will tell
you The Georgian Want Ad columns
reach more people and bring better results
that could not be obtained in any other
-■edium In this section.
By JAMES B, NEVIN.
rious illness which came so suddenly
upon him in Washington about a year
ago. It now looks as if the senator is
to become eventually his former physi
cal self.
He tvas in a very happy frame of
mind today, and keenly relished yes
terday's numerous hearty messages of
good will and friendship.
Many hats are oft and elevated at
arm’s length above many heads in
Georgia today to Colonel Randolph
Anderson, of Savannah. The gen
eral opinion is that any future
Democratic president finding him
self in need of a diplomat guaran
teed to dip, will do well to consider
Colonel Anderson for the job!
How will Tom Felder get to Bal
timore? Nobody knows but Mr.
Felder—and he declines to say.
Colonel Neyle Colquitt, of Savananh,
who served the cause of Underwood so
gallantly in the late state presidential
primary, is rejoicing in the assurance
from Mr. Underwood that congress will
pass at its present session an appro
priation of SIO,OOO for the erection of a
monument to the memory of Generals
Screven and Stewart in Midway ceme
tery, Liberty county.
This has been a pet project wit I
Colonel Colquitt for eight years.
Congress passed this appropriation
two years of more ago, but there was a
flaw In the framing of the act, and it
must be passed again. The contract al
ready has been awarded and the monu
ment will soon be up.
Two counties in Georgia were named
for these two Revolutionary heroes, and
the Savannah man thinks it all wrong
that their names have never yet been
glorified tn marble or bronze.
Those people who are figuring the
gubernatorial Aght without talcing
carefully into consignation the name
of the Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, ar*
making a mighty big mistake.
Mr. Hall says so himself—and h*
should know.
Without any campaign committee or
manager, other than himself, with no
publicity bureau or agents, Mr. Hall is
getting in close touch with hundreds
of voters throughout the state and ob
taining from many of them cordial
pledges of support.
Already the Macon statesman has
visited 31 counties, and he says he real
ly has not started his actual fighting.
Yesterday he addressed a large gather
ing in Vienna,
Mr. Han is actively advocating a
"package house law,” in lieu of the
present etate-wfide prohibition statute,
and he says the suggestion is being en
thusiastically received everywhere.
Si4O,DOOFIREAT
WNESBORO.GA
WAYNESBORO, GA., June 7.—Fire
of unknown origin here today caused a
loss of $140,000, when the general store
of the R. C. Neely Company was Je-.
stroyed. The stock of goods was val
ued at SIOO,OOO, fully covered by insur
ance. The loss on the building amounts
to $40,000, only partially insured. The
building was owned by the company
occupying it.
The Needy Company will reopen for
business in another building next door
to the one burned as soon as a new'
stock of goods can be secured. The
burned structure will be rebuilt as soon
as possible. The Neely Company is one
of the largest mercantile concerns in
this section.
Lack of fire-fighting facilities pre
vented volunteer workers from saving
the building
COLCORD AND HUMPHREY
IN RACE FOR COUNCIL
At the solicitation of many promi
nent citizens of the Seventh ward, A.
R. Colcord today formally entered the
race for council from that ward
against J. H. Andrews.
W. G. Humphrev has announced for
re-election from the Eighth ward.
Mr. Colcord is president of the Col
cord Lumber Company. Mr. Humphrey
is a member of the bond brokerage firm
of Robinson, Humphrey & Wardlaw.
They are two of the most prominent of
the younger business men of Atlanta, a
type continuously appealed to to take
an active part in municipal affairs.
BUNGLERS LEFTDYN A MITE
UNEXPLODED UNDER SAFE
Bungling by amateur cracksmen at an
early hour today saved the building at
142 Decatur street from being wrecked.
Several sticks of dynamite had been
planted under the big iron safe of S.
Boorsteln, who has a furniture store in
the building. The cracksmen lighted a
fuse connecting with the dynamite, but
the cap failed to explode.
Detectives are satisfied rank amateurs
handled the job. Mud was daubed into
some of the cracks in the safe, but no
effort was made to use nitroglycerin. The
sticks of dynamite were taken to the
police station by detectives and carefully
locked In the big safe in the detectives’
office.
unite d’cig arstores
WILL BE REORGANIZED
NEW YORK. June 7.—Unofficial an
nouncement has been made that the
United Cigar Stores is to be reorgan
ized.
The terms are not announced, but it
will mean an issue of additional stock.
The company will buy a large cigarette
manufactory to make supplies for Its
own use.
It is reported that the new trade
contracts made by the Cigar Stores
since the dissolution of the Tobacco
trust resulted In a saving of five per
cent in the cost of all products han
dled.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1912.
SLATON AND DALL
TO FIGHT IT OUT
FOR GOVERNOR
Dark Horses Rumored, But the
Real Race Is Between At
lantan and Bibb Man.
The collapse of the Hudson campaign
for governor and Hudson’s formal
withdrawal from the contest yesterday
leaves John M. Slaton, of Atlanta, and
Joe Hill Hall, of Macon, the only two
avowed candidates in the field.
Speculation a* to other probable can
didates is widespread and general. It
lacks much of the definite and authori
tative, however.
There is the remotest possible chance
that Railroad Commissioner Murphey
Candler may get into the race. There
is a shade more probability that At
torney General ’Thomas S. Felder may
throw' his hat into the ring. That
Congressman Hardwick will have a try
for the governorship is a bet just a lit
tle bit more promising than either one
of the other two.
And the best bet of any appears to
be that Slaton and Hall will be left to
fight it out between themselves.
Tree* Full of "Obtervera."
To a political observer up a tree—
and the trees are ful of political ob
servers right now—it looks as if John
M. Slaton has the governorship race
"sewed up in a bag,” as the irreverent
ones put it
Mr. Hall is a Btrong man, has hosts
of friends throughout the state and la
a good fighter. He is actively cam
paigning, and has promulgated a plat
form that appeals to many. He will
get a good, big vote, but few think he
will come into the home stretch a win
ner against Blaton.
Slaton has a fine organization, a well
equipped campaign machine, the pres
tige of two terms in the speakership
and in the presidency of the senate and
a two months term in the governorship.
Besides that, he is popular, and knows
the game. He has the backing of
Thomae E. Watson and the nomlnant
Brown faction in Georgia politics.
Can Hall beat it? Maybe, but not a
great many people seem to think so, if
one inquires around the hotel lobbies,
not only of the politicians who drift in
and out of Atlanta, but of laymen as
well.
Nothing Certain, of Course.
Lightning changes in the complexion
of things political in Georgia are by no
means unusual, and the Slaton cam
pagn may be up to its neck in trouble
before the week is out.
That Mr. Slaton is not unmindful of
this is evident from the fact that he
has determined to push his fight more
vigorously now than ever before. He
believes he ha* the situation well in
hand, and that It will not likely get
away from him.
Georgia has an uncomfortable way of
jumping hither and yon politically, and
nothing is guaranteed under the politi
cal pure food laws, anyway, and all
schedules are subject to change with
out notice, and so forth and so on, and
—well, Mr. Slaton has no idea of not
keeping right busy on the job!
And always there is Mr. Joe HUI
Hall, of Bibb!
He says Hudson’s withdrawal makes
it easy for Hall to defeat Slaton—and
even if the betting is not that way,
many a horse with the odds against him
has come tinder the wire a winner.
Thon, too, to get back to the begin
ning, in Georgia one never can tell!
N. C. for Wilson After
All-Night Session
RALEIGH. N. G.. June 7.—The state
Democratic convention, after indorsing
Woodrow' Wilson for present and elect
ing eight delegatee-at-large favorable
to him, adjourned at 8:30 o'clock this
morning, after an almost continuous
session since noon yesterday.
E, L. Travis and George P. Pell were
nominated for corporation commission
ers, and E. L. Daughtridge for lieu
tenant governor.
A resolution indorsing the records of
the ten congressmen and two senators
and the state administration was car
ried by a large majority on a strictly
Simmons-Kltchfn lineup.
Minnesota Sends
24 Wilson Delegates
DULUTH, MINN., June 7.—Resisting
all efforts to create a stampede in favor
of William J. Bryan, the state Demo
cratic convention yesterday voted to
send a complete delegation of 24 men
to the Baltimore convention, and in
structed them to vote for Woodrow
Wilson for the nomination for presi
dent. The vote may be transferred to
another candidate whenever, in the
opinion of two-thirds of the delegates,
Wilson’s nomination becomes impossi
ble.
SCHOOL LOT PURCHASED.
COLUMBUS, GA., June 7. —The city
of Columbus has purchased an addi
tional lot adjacent to the Secondary i
Industrial school, for which $5,000 will |
be paid. The industrial school prop- |
erty is valued at $75,000, and it is th* |
intention of the city at some time to
make it a great Industrial institution
— ——
FARMERS MEET JULY 11.
AUGUSTA, GA.. June 7. —The execu
tive committee of the Savannah Valley
Associated Farmers Clubs has named I
July 11 as the date for the annual meet
ing. It will be held with the Bennett
Springs, S. C., club. A special train
will carry Augustans to the meeting.
HALF A MILLION TO SEE
COLUMBUS UNVEILING
WASHINGTON, June 7. —Knights of
Columbus, representatives from Amer
ica’s Catholic cardinalate and thou
sands of visitors are here to attend the
unveiling of the SIOO,OOO memorial and
statue of Christopher Columbus In this
city tomorrow. Secretary Knox will
preside at the unveiling ceremonies,
which, besides a demonstration by the
Knights of Columbus, will include a
pageant in which 10,000 soldiers, sailors
and marines will take part. President
Taft and other prominent government
officials are among the speakers of the
day. On Sunday the ceremonies will
terminate with a military field mass by
the Spanish war veterans, which will
be attended by nearly half a million
people.
The memorial, a semi-circular foun
tain, adorned with a white marble
statue of Columbus, has a shaft 40 feet
high in the background, which is sur
mounted by a globe representing the
world.
Faces Union Station.
Just below the statue of Columbus is
the figure head of a ship, a female fig
ure of great beauty, typifying the spirit
of discovery. The great basin of th»
fountain will be directly beneath this
figure.
On the other side of the shaft are
massive figures portraying the sculp
tor’s ideas of the new and old worlds.
The new' W'orld is represented by the
figure of an Indian reaching over bls
shoulder to take an arrow from his
quiver. The old world is represented
ATLANTAN SOUTHERN
V.P.OFNEW NATIONAL
COMMERCE CHAMBER
Sam D. Jones, of Atlanta, has been
elected as vice president of the Nation
al Chamber of Commerce for the South
ern states. A telegram to this effect
to Secretary W. G. Cooper from Charles
G. Craddock, of Lynchburg, Va., one
of the national directors, was received
today, and members of the local cham
ber are highly pleased with the honor
conferred upon their former president.
The National Chamber of Commerce
was organized in Washington several
months ago by representatives of trade
bodies in 60 of the principal American
cities and hopes to follow the example
of the German organization of a simi
lar name which has done much to in
crease Germany's trade with foreign
peoples.
The local chamber has already taken
steps to promote trade with South
America, and St. Elmo Massengale,
chairman of the committee on foreign
trade, has asked that the chamber call
a general conference in Atlanta this
fall of all Southern trade bodies to de
vise means to obtain better trade rela
tions w'ith our South American neigh
bors.
urday, Another Sale For Men f
in Rich’s Economy Basement <
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2* Here are the genuine Girard union suits with \ *£>
athletic sleeve, elastic shoulder and waist and the / i I C
knee length drawers. They are made of checked >
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quality, Saturday for «... ) JJ?
i Men’s 50c Night Shirts for Sc
Identically the same night shirt that sells day in \ ■»
and day out at 50c, on sale tomorrow for 39c. These / JP gg 1h
2* night shirts are made of a good quality white cam- >
'jn brie, either plain or finished with collars. All sizes I 2l
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- More Coat Shirts for Men 5r
Positively the lowest price ever quoted on coat \ jjp
shirts of equal style and quality. And we have an / *-
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chambray, percale and madras, in stripes, checks and /
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others with attached. Tomorrow, Saturday/ JJp
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Hundreds of dozens of these all linen collars for \ SE
<=J men at 39c dozen or 3 dozen for sl—the lowest / 5p
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These are 4-ply linen colars in turndown and in 2
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by the figure of a patriarchal Caucas
ian of heroic proportions and thought
ful mien.
The monument, w'hich was designed
by Daniel H. Burnham, architect, and
sculptured by Lorado Taft, both of Chi
cago. is placed directly in front of the
union station at Washington, the gate
way to the national capital and facing
the capitol, which is only a few blocks
distant.
The unveiling of this memorial to the
famous Italian takes place 425 years
after he discovered America. The agi
tation for its erection was set afoot by
the Catholic order of the Knights of
Columbus Several years ago. The sub
scriptions started by this order practi
cally assured the success of the project
and was later made secure by an ap
propriation by congress.
DECATUR, GEORGIA
ANOTHER REASON WHY IT DESERVES ITS REPUTATION!OF*
THE IDEAL RESIDENCE TOWN'/
Deqatur** reputation «« an aduoational canter la thoroughly eetabiiahed.
it la alao generally accepted that from the standpoint of equipment
with such modem improvements as WATERWORKS, a modem SEW
ERAGE SYSTEM, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TILE SIDEWALKS end MA a
CADAM STREETS, DECATUR la in a class all by itself, but th* advan
tages of Decatur a*
A BUSINESS CENTER
may not be so well unde retoed. Bet It ehoutd be remembered that i
DECATUR ie the COUNTY SEAT OF DEKALB COUNTY, one of th* '
RICHEST and MOST FLOURISHING COUNTIES IN GEbRG4A. Its/
handsome new Courthouse, built of Stone Mountain granite, bee at>
traoted favorable attention from all over the South. Not only ano all -if
the County Offices located here, but the town beasts of other aaph
besineee facilities as
TWO OF THE BEST BANKS WN GEORGIA, WELL EQVIF?*D
DRUG STORES, HARDWARE STORES, DRY GOODS aTCURfft
GENERAL MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS, LIVERY BTA i
BLEB, GARAGES, BARBER SHOPS and ail the other oonvewaenoaa4>
of a modem town.
The Pae* that It has ouch oonvenleneee oorwtttvtea another |*«d:rtM*B(
why Decatur to justly entitled to Ho reputation as «
THE IDEAL RESIDENCE TOWN
For further hnfermertien about Decatur and D*Kafb Oteunty. ■ :
for Booklet. n ?
DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE
DECATUR, GEORGIA
PLANS LAID TO HOLD
$1,000,000 EXPOSITION
AT LAKEWOOD IN 1914
A joint committee of the city council,
the county commission and the Cham
ber of Commerce has agreed upon plans
to raise $1,000,000 to make Lakewood
park a permanent fair ground and! to cel
ebrate with an exposition In 1914 the
jubilee of Atlanta’s rebuilding from the
ashes in which it was laid by Sherman.
The committee, W. L Peel, Council
man Aldine Chambers, County Commis
sioner S. B. Turman, I. E. Allen and W.
G. Cooper, agreed upon the plans yes
terday afternoon.
They propose to deed the park to a
company of citizens, issue bonds for Cunds
and have a good part of the work done
by county convicts.
The recommendation of the committee
will be presented to city council, the
Chamber of Commerce and the county
commission.