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JOINT HOME FOR ! FACTORY HEADS JONES'! Stove Works President Would Have All Manufacturers’ Of fices in One Building. The erection of a modern office build, ing, semi-centrally located, where all of Atlanta’s manufacturers could have ' their offices and with a large show place , for displays, is strongly urged by Sam 1 D. Jones, president of the Atlanta Stove i Works. Mr. Jones has always urged that At- I lanta manufacturers should do more to 1 advertise their goods, and several years ago. when president of the Chamber of j Commerce, he advocated such an ex position of Atlanta-made goods as Is now drawing thousands of persons to the Auditorium-Armory. The principal reasons for placing the manufacturing interests of the city in one building were outlined clearly in an interview with Mr. Jones. That the plan is thoroughly practicable and that nearly all of the manufacturers here would co-operate in the movement' Mr. Jones is positive. "Very few people realize it,” said Mr. Jones, “but there are today 400 kinds of articles manufactured tn Atlanta and 800 of them are of sufficient impor tance to warrant sample rooms and the emplafment of a sales manager. If we ha d a semi-centrally located building, capable of holding 300 or 400 offices, with an addition in the rear for sample rooms large enough to carry a full dis play, the manufacturers could have there the offices of their sales man agers. their bookkeeping department and their general officer who looks aft er the sales end of the business. Would Be Fine For Buyers. "We would have In one building an aggregation of men and Interests pro ducing $40,000,000 worth of goods each year. "The fact that the *buyer could visit all the various offices within a few hours and see full lines displayed would be such an attraction that he could not afford to ignore the induce ments offered. "As a consequence, I believe that ten times as many buyers would come to Atlanta in person three or four times a year to make their purchases as at present. Every sales manager knows how much easier it is to carry on busi ness with a merchant whom he knows personally, and such a plan would de velop the personal acquaintance be tween buyer and seller that would build up business, and it would give us a big advantage over the foreign producer. When the Albany or Americus mer chant has in his office drummers from St. Louis, New York and Atlanta and knows that in a day’s time he. can run up to this city and see al! of the At lanta concern's line of goods, he wifi naturally give his largest orders to the Atlanta man. "At present the offices of the sales managers of our factories and also the sample rooms and general offices are located at the plant, and the plant is usually In the suburbs. A trip out there takes the better part of the morning or afternoon and no buyer can personally Inspect the goods in sample rooms thus scattered, in less than several days. The average merchant hasn’t several days to spare where he could easily spare one day, and the result is he doesn’t at tempt to visit the sample rooms when he comes to Atlanta. Expense Wouldn't Be Heavy. “Taking our own case for an exam ple: We have some 1,500 customers on our books, and I am perfectly safe In saying that not ten per cent of them have ever been to our plant and sample room, or ever seen a full line of what we carry. Whereas, if we could have the manufacturers building, proposed. In all probability in a year or two more than half of these people would have inspected every article we man ufacture and have become personally acquainted with our sales manager. “To have manufacturers change their general offices to a new building would not necessarily be any great expense to them. At present nearly all of these plants are in charge of two or three officers, one looking after the actual manufacturing, one the bookkeeping and general office force and another the sales department. The latter two could be transferred to this semi-central building and the officer in charge of the plant could remain as at present. The only added expense to the new plan would be the rent of the offices and the sample space. “In many cities the manufacturers have already made such arrangements to handle their goods. In as small a city as Evansville. Ind., with 30,000 in habitants. a building was erected last year, and now has grouped in it the officers and managers and samples of all the city's manufactories. In Evans ville buyers may inspect, purchase and | return to their homes vvnhln a few i hours. “It would not be overstating the I \ facts, in my opinion, io sa\ that such I an arrangement, if given hearty co- i operation of all the local manufactur- I ers, would practically double sales of our home manufactured products and put us in a position to compel the at tention of all buyers within reach of this city. “This plan which 1 have outlined is no new idea. It was discussed a num ber of years ago. At that time there were so many difficulties, in the way that the project f- II through, "We have tn; ny big men in the man ufacturing business in Atlanta, anil I want to give them full credit for build ing up large plants for the manufacture of ai.it" and important artich a. but these men have not been big in all re- it YET IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE—Drawn by T, E, Powers | ; JGO AMD HAVE A LOHS FLESTj , iff’' Io AIHE SoH St R &E IbT" EEC REUL A r r* I ": ftHG IS You*} / M3M wWL ft $ zfif j ij r v\i \ M V AMP CABBAGE/ • V u _ J k AGAIN 7 ’ <—__X— DOLEkoF) <_ FURNIIURf. 1 I , ' I W O /B I iqMMM cjWBB I LAPfCuoaMJ MLtt Glooms SENATE DOOMS FEE REPORT BILL Harris - Sheppard Amendment to Fellow Servant Act Favor ably Considered. After passing the house by a narrow margin, the Spense bill, designed to give complete information into the working of the fee system as it ap plies to county officers, appears to be doomed in the senate. The general judiciary committee of the upper house will report the.measure unfavorably, and as it seems to have no champion in the senate, Its rejection is assured. The bill provides that all county offi cers be required to make a monthly statement of all fees received by them for 1913. The Harris-Sheppard amendment to the fellow servant act has received a fa vorable report from the senate commit tee. Its provisions will place the em ployees of all manufacturing concerns under the same statutes that now ap ply to railroad employees. spects. The matter of which 1 speak is one direction in which they have not turned their attention for upbuilding. Then. also, there is an unfortunate sentiment pervading not only our city and the South, but many other cities in other sections of the country, that our people prefer to buy goods made far away from here rather than the home-made article. "Some of our best and most progres sive merchants have seemingly found it necessary to operate on this idea, and 1 can point you right now to local jobbers who are selling Atlanta-made goods as if they were made thousands of miles away from here. A peculiar thing is that this is particularly true of the furniture trade. “Such business as this is unfair to the people of the South, and It’s doing I a great deal to hold back our develop- | inent. Perhaps the manufacturers I themselves are in part to blame for this hy not advertising their wares and de veloping the publicity end of their business so that people may know what their names stand for. “Manufacturers, merchants and cus tomers need to take a new view of this question and to work harmoniously to gether to develop their city, state and section. ■'Certain it is that Atlanta pepole, ■ whenever in justice to themselves they |ean do so, ought to buy Atlanta-made I goods. The same thing applies to | Georgians In regard to Georgia prod | nets and Southerners in regard to the I products of the South. We ought not to continue to perpetually empty our pockets into the coffers of people far richer and less needy titan our own neighbors and home people. Such a movement will mean the greatest up building that the South can know.” A manufacturers building. Mr. Jones believes, would not have to be cen trally located, but ought to be within one or two blocks of Peachtree or Whitehall streets and close enough in to be easily reached on foot. He states that he has no doubt hut that local cap. I ital could be induced to erect the build ing. provided the manufacturers would gel together and promise to occupy it. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A'ND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 6. 1912. DARROWWDIILO PLEAD OWN CASE Famous Bribery Trial Near Close—Last Defense Wit ness on Stand Today. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 6.—The closing arguments in the trial of Clarence S. Darrow for jury bribery probably will begin before the end of the week. Judge Hutton has intimated that each side will be given two days for argument. Assistant District Attorney Ford will open for the state. Attorney Rogers will follow for the defense, and then Dar row will make an argument and plea for his own vindication. District At torney Fredericks will close for the state. The defense put its last witness on the stand today in the person of an of ficial of the First National bank, to explain why an urgent demand was made on Job Harriman, an associate counsel of the McNamara case, to pay a certain note on November 28, the day that Bert Franklin was arrested. District Attorney Fredericks stated today that, with the possible exception of the dictograph evidence, his rebut tal will be very brief. Presumably the state will attempt to get the full dicto graph evidence in. and this will Involve another long argument. In case the prosecution should win the introduc tion of the dictograph conversations will require a day or two additional. ARTIST CHRISTY AND WIFE ARE NEAR UNION AGAIN ZANESVILLE OHIO. Aug. 6. it is learned that Mrs. Howard <'handler Christy is visiting her daughter. Nata lie, and her former husband, the artist, at Duncans Falls this week, and fur ther reports say that preliminary ar rangements have been perfected for a reconciliation. Mr. Christy let it be known today I that he and his former wife had ac | eepted invitations to be present at the imuse party that is to be given by Mrs. Mary Robert Rinehart, the writer, at Hare Hall in Sewickley, next week. COW GIVES 696 POUNDS MILK IN 17 DAYS: RECORD FINDERNE, N. J , Aug. 6.—Valdesse Scott 11, a cow owned by Bernard Meyer, of this place, has just broken the world’s record. In 17 days she pro duced 695.9 pounds of milk. 33.50 pounds of butter fat and 41.87 pounds of but ter. LA GRANGE VALUES INCREASE. LA GRANGE, GA., Aug. 6.—Taxable valuations in LaGrange have been raised nearly $250,000, according to the 1912 appraisement of property. Many new buildings have been figured into this valuation statement, and with the number of structures now being erect ed, the board of appraisers anticipates an equal increase next year. CORDELE TO HAVE GAS. CORDELE. GA., Aug. 6.—Cordele will have a modern gas plant to be con structed, owned and operated by the 1.1. B. McCrary Company of Atlanta. A franchise was granted by the city coun cil in June and now announcement is made that work is to start immediately. YOUNGSTERS RACE IN CAR RETURNING FROM PARTYjTWO ARE DEAD MADISON, WIS., Aug. 6.—Racing with another car at 60 miles an hour, an automobile containing a party of society young men and women struck a telephone pole early today, killing two and injuring another. Two other occu pants of the car were uninjured. The dead: Alice Mullin, aged 21: Ed. ward Alford, aged 19. son of Jabez Al ford, chairman of the state fish and game commission. The party was returning to this city from a party when the race started. As the car was going around a corner it skidded and crashed up against a tele phone pole, turning turtle and crum pling like a berry box. Frederick Walt, singer, who was driving, received in juries from which he is not expected to recover. ASKS DIVORCE FOR LOVE: CAN’T SUPPORT HIS WIFE MILWAUKEE. Aug. 6.—Admitting that he was unable properly to support his 50-year-old wife. Simon Koppel, 77 years old, a rag-picker, appeared with her at the clerk of court’s office today and gave his consent to a divorce so she might marry a younger man. who could support her. He pledged that, he loved her. and that because he loved her he was seeking to. find away to provide for her. Mrs. Koppel thought she could get the divorce at once, and both were dis appointed when they were informed that this could not be done They left arm-in-arm. after being advised to see a lawyer. CORDELE VOTERS TO ASK FOR A BOND COMMISSION CORDELE,' GA., Aug. 6.—A great deal of interest Is being felt among the voters of Cordele in a bill expected to be introduced in the Georgia legislature during the present week by Represen tative O. T. Gower, which, according to the caption notice published on June 19. will provide, by amendment to the city charter, for the creation of a per manent bond commission for Cordele to have complete charge of all bond moneys accruing from the sale of fu ture issues and the sinking fund for all outstanding bonds. UNCLE SAM WANTS’tO HIRE 3 BUTTER MAKERS Four examinations are announced by the civil service office for September 4. Three of them are for dairymen in the dairy farming, butter making and milk investigation department of the bureau of animal industry. The salaries range from $1,500 to $1,740 per year. The other examination is to fill the position of dental interne at S6OO per year in the government hospital at Washington. TO FURNISH CANAL PILING. BRUNSWICK, GA., Aug 6. A St. Marys firm has just received a large contract from the United States gov ernment to furnish piling'for the ca nal zone, and during the next two months four cargoes of piling will be shipped from the Camden county port. The contract, together with one made recently, calls for nearly 1,000,000 linea-t feet of material. DARIEN BIG LUMBER PORT. BRUNSWICK. GA., Aug. 6.—The month of July was one of the busiest of the year in shipments of timber from the port of Darien. The shipments made to both coastwise and foreign ports totaled 2,6u0,000 feet of sawn and hewn timber, the total value of which was $42,000. STATE TO SUE TD TEST FALLS TITLE Mrs. Helen Longstreet Is Victo rious When 112 Representa tives Go to Her Aid. After Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, lead? er of the fight to conserve Tallulah Falls. had been refused permis sion to speak from the floor of the house, 112 Georgia repre sentatives rallied to her support yes terday afternoon and passed the Shaw resolution authorizing the governor to bring suit against the Georgia Railway and Power Company. During the vote on the resolution Mrs. Longstreet sat in the gallery and watched her long battle to obtain rec ognition for the Tallulah claims draw to a close. Her successful fight in the legislature means that the governor will institute suit to test the land titles of the disputed area in the gorge of the Tallulah river in Rabun and Haber sham counties Os the nineteen members of the low er house who opposed the resolution, Representative Adams, of Hall, was the spokesman. He asserted that the claim of the state was preposterous. Two governors and two attorneys general, he said, had turned down the Tallulah claims as mere conversational conten tions, with no basis for litigation. To one person alone he attributed the Tal lulah fight. The people of Rabun, Hab ersham and Hall counties, he said, wanted the waterpower development. The supporters of the resolution were legion. Representatives White, of Screven, and Ellis, of Tift, who have worked hand in glove with Mrs. Long street’s association; Hobbs, of Hous ton and Westmoreland, of Fulton, all insisted that the state’s claim could be settled only by a court contest. CANDIDATE PERRY RAPS SENATOR BACON'S RECORD COLUMBUS, GA., Aug. H. H. Perry, of Gainesville, spoke at the Mus. cogee county court house last night in behalf of his candidacy for the seat of Senator A. O. Bacon. He had a fair sized audience and was listened to closely as he attacked the record of Senator Bacon, charging that the sen ator’s votes for the past few years have been in favor of the special interests and not the people. He stated that in the senator's eighteen years service he had initiated no movement in favor of the common people. BOTH GO TO HOSPITAL.' MACON, GA., Aug. 6. — A negro bit the thumb of a Macon policeman yes terday afternoon in an attempt to es cape arrest, and did not loose his grip until a bullet had been fired into his leg by the policeman, R. L. Thomas. The bullet shattered the bone In the negro's leg. Both were sent to the hospital in the same ambulance. BARBECUE AT NASHVILLE. NASHVILLE. GA., Aug 6.—The citi zens of Nashville will give a barbecue here next Friday. Among the attrac tions will be a brass band, a baseball game and a joint debate between Judge T. A. Parket and Randill Walker. who are contenting for a seat in congress from the Seventh district, to succeed Congressman W. G. Brantley, who will retire. FIRST VICTIM OF ELECTRIC CHAIR ■ Condemned Negro Pays Pen alty by Electrocution in S. Carolina Penitentiary. COLUMBIA. S. C.. Aug. 6.—The first 1 legal electrocution in this state took place today at the state penitentiary, where William Reed, a negro, convicted of a felony, paid the penalty of his crime. The bill providing for the installation of an electric chair was passed at the , last session of the legislature after a hard fight and received the signature of Governor Blease. The chair used for the execution is of the same make as the one in which Henry Clay Beattie, the Virginia wife slayer, was executed. The current was turned on a few minutes after 11 o'clock and 1,900 volts were sent through the body of the con demned man. For 30 seconds the cur rent was alternated between 1,900 and 2,000, and at the end of that time an examination\was made, which showed that the heart was still beating at long Intervals, and it was thought best to send more voltage through Reed’s body. For another 30 seconds the current played through his body and he was declared dead by the prison physicians. The execution was witnessed by 40 spectators. Reed was asked if he wished to make a statement and said: "No.” He had previously confessed. YOUTH WHO GOT SIO.OO BY FRAUD TELEGRAM PAYS UP AND IS FREED Chris Majors, an employee of the Western Union Telegraph Company, before Judge Calhoun in criminal court today for obtaining money by fake tele grams. repaid the amounts be got, and was given his freedom. Majors was held up and robbed of a small sum of the company’s money re cently. He called Eunice Burke, 25 Manhattan avenue, over the telephone and purported to hold a telegram from a distant friend asking for $lO. The woman told him to send for the money and she would remit it. Later another message asking for S2O came, and this she refused. Upon inquiry, the youth’s fraud was discovered. His mother told Judge Calhoun she would pay the $lO, and the case was dropped. HANFORD'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. -President Taft has accepted the resignation of United States Judge Cornelius Han ford, of Seattle, Wash., w hich was suit to the president two weeks ago. The president deferred action in the ease until the return of the congres sional investigating committee which went to Seattle to take testimony in the impeachment charges brought by Representative Victor Berger. HUMPHREY TO BE OPERATED ON. W. G. Humphrey, prominent bond broker and a member of the city coun cil. left Atlanta today for Johns Hop kins hospital, at Baltimore, where he will undergo an operation. Mr. Hum phrey said he expected t > be away from Atlanta for a month. iMERCHANTSW ATLANTA; FEST IS ON - 2.000 Convention Delegates Addressed by the Governor, Mayor and W. L. Moore. More than 950 merchants from Geor-, gia. Alabama. Mississippi and North Carolina heard Governor Brown open the Southern Merchants greatest an-' nual convention at Taft hall today with the declaration thAt the South is about to come Into her heritage as the great est mercantile and commercial strong hold of the United States—with At lanta as its manufacturing metro.polis. The hundreds of delegates and theii* wives filled the blue and white and flag draped hall to its utmost capacity and a long line of notables greeted them from seats upon the rostrum when President J. K. Orr at 10 o’clock intro duced the black frocked executive to welcome the mercantile invaders in be-, half of the state. Governor Praises Merchants. “We do not have to look ahead anxa more to perceive the advancement off the South—and particularly of Geor-i gia.” the governor said. “Already w<* have taken our place securely tn thai forefront of the country’s progress, Wei are advancing faster proportiontatelyl than even our fondest dreams led ms to! pi edict. "It is because you merchants of ths. South have stood at the foundation oil that advancement and are now press ing it forward with splendid Impetus that I am proud to welcome you in be-i half of the state. And we are as proud) to greet your wives whom you have brought with you because Southern womanhood has given the moral ground work for the whole uplift and progress of the South." Th? governor's speech of welcome brought most of the delegates to their feet with enthusiastic cheers and they applauded vociferously again whin Citv Attorney J. L. Mayson followed with a humorous address of welcome in behalf of Mayor Winn. Mr. Mayson told the visitors that they had come to the greatest "soda water” city in the world and he said that Atlanta's skyscrapers, already rearing higher than those of any other towns, save New York and Chicago, were a graphic symbol of the rising greatness of the South’s com ing metropolis which turned over its , city keys to the merchants of the state as representing the solid sub stantial growth of the Southland. Talk Business, Too. President Wilmer Moore, of the Chamber of Commerce, declared that the opening of the Panama canal would develop the South into the rich est section of the earth’s surface, and he also predicted that Atlanta would become the manufacturing center. Then with the welcomes over, tim convention got down to the real meat of its session and it very soon de veloped that most of its leading dele gates are out to devise a scheme for checking "credit” losses. G. C. Adams, of Mansfield. Ga., de clared that nine-tenths of the mercan tile failures in the South were due to the failure of the merchants to collect their bills. He said that one reason why so many stores hold hundreds of' dollars in had debts is the persistency) of the farmer in sticking to the cotton crop as his sole resource and revenue.! Adams said he knew of a number off* cases where merchants had advised' their failing debtors to change from; cotton to corn as a means of recouping their losses. He said that tn not on« case had this system failed to pay of® the debts. W. L. Dorris, of Douglas, declared that the paid up customer is the mer chant's greatest asset and W. C. Chap-ai man urged merchants to train theni-* 1 selves and their sons so that they will make as much of a profession of theiri business as do doctors and get re muneration accordingly. He deciaredr also against the "cutting of prices” by the untrained storekeepers business upon a shoestring." A. J. Gillen, of Maxeys. Ga., said that 25 years’ experience had taught him that no merchant could afford not to advertise in the newspapers. H>i declared newspaper advertising the best asset of the merchant outside of his clean stock of goods, and he de clared that he had never known a good newspaper advertising merchant to fail. After his speech numerous delegates discussed the credit question and then adjournment was taken for lunch. This afternoon the convention will attend the baseball game as guests of the (lub. Tomorrow will come the busi ness session. Everything Is "On the House.” Every place of amusement and inter est in the city today belongs to the visitors, and festive plans are laid for the four-day convention. Cards to prac tically every club in town are theirs for the asking, the merchants have, deco rated their stores with gay bunting and flags, goods are piled high on counters and shelves, and in many cases spe cially low prices have been made for the week. There is no chance that any of the visitors will fail to have the best tima of their lives, for there are plenty to show them around. Not an Atlanta wholesale firm has a traveling repre sentative on the road today, for they are all in Atlanta armed with carte blanche from their employers to treat the guests in the proper way, and all the treats are “on the house.” There are about 2.000 delegates in the city, and before the second day of the convention it is believed that more than 3.000 will have arrived. As fast as trains bring them they are met at the stations and taken to the conven tion hall, where they first register and receive a book of coupons entitling then: to participate in the many features ol entertainment planned for the conven tion. 5