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JOINT UK FOR
FACTORY HEADS
JONES' AIM
Stove Works President Would
Have All Manufacturers' Of
fices in One Building.
Tlie erection of a modern office build
ing. semi-centrally located, where all !
of Atlanta's manufacturers could have I
their offices and with a large show place I
for displays, is strongly urged by Sam
D. Jones, president of the Atlanta Stove
Works.
Mr. Jones has always urged that At
lanta manufacturers should do more to
advertise their goods, and several years I
ago. when president of the Chamber of |
Commerce, he advocated such an ex- I
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 in Atlanta and I
800 of them are of sufficient impor- !
tance to warrant sample rooms and the 1
of a sales manager. If we |
bed 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 w’ho 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
eould 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 all of the At
lanta concern's line of goods, he will
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
tak?s 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 combs 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 probabilitj 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 <harge*of two or three
officers, one looking after the actual
manufacturing, one the bookkeeping
and general office force anil another the
sales department. The latter two could I
he transferred to this semi-centra.!
building and the officer in charge of the
plant could remain as at present. The
only added expense to the new plan
would be tin- rent of the offices and the
sample spa. ■
"In many cities the manufacturers
have already made such arrangements
to handle their goods. In as small a
city as Evansville, Ind., with 3(1,000 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 max inspect, purchase and
return to their homes within a few
hours.
"it would no; b- ov rs: a t ing th
facts, in nu opinion, to that such
an arrangement, if given hearty co
operation of al! the local manufactur
ers, would pla- tieally double sales of
our home manufactured products and;
put us in a position to comp-I the at
tention of till buyers within reach of I
this city.
"■-’his plan which 1 have outlined is
no new idea. It was discussed a num- I
he of years ago. At that time there |
were so many difficulties in the way
that the pro.) ci fell thiough,
"We have man; big men in the man
ufacturing business in Atlanta, and 1
want to give them full credit for build
ing up large plants forth" manufacture
of .1,,: \ an 1 important ;-rt I- 1-. but
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SENATE DOOMS
FEEHEPORTBILL
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 he 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 I 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
I of the furniture trade.
"Such business as this Is unfair to
the people of the South, and it’s doing
■ i groat deal to hold back our develop
in'nt Perhaps the manufacturers
themselves are in part to blame for this
by 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
_o th< i to develop their city, state and
i iihi.
i'i i tain it is that Atlanta pepole.
whenever in justice to themselves they
| can do so, ought to buy Atlanta-made
! goods. The same thing applies to
Georgians in regtird to Georgia prod
puts 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 than our own
neighbors and home people. Such a
movement will mean the greatest up
building that the South can know."
\ manufacturers building. Mr. Jones
I believes, would not have to be con
trail' located, but ought to be within
one or two block's of Peachtree or
'Whitehall streets and <lose enough in
to be i asily reached on foot, lb states
that lie has no doubt but that local cap
ital could be induced to erect the build
ing. provided tit" manufacturers would
get together and promise to occupy it.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 6. 1912.
Dflß R D W WOULD
PLEAD OWN CASE
t 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.
r 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
, ficlal 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 t h ’ft dictograph evidence, his rebut
i tai wnl 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-
i tion of tlie <ii<-t ogr ph conversations
will require a day or two additional.
ARTIST CHRISTY AND WIFE
ARE NEAR UNION AGAIN
ZANESVILLE oil In. Aug. 6. It is
learned that Mrs. Howard t'handler
' t’hristy is visiting h< : daughter, Nata
lie, and het forme: husband, the artist.
' at Duncans Falls this week, and fur
ther reports say that preliminary ar
rangements have been perfected for a
reconciliation.
■ Mr. t'hristy let it be known today
that he and his former wife had ac-
j • pled invitations to be present at the
• house party that 1s to be given by Mrs
: Mail Robert Rinehart, the writer, at
Ha Ha lin Sewickley, next week.
COW GIVES 696 POUNDS
MILK IN 17 DAYS; RECORD
FINDERNE, N. J , Aug. 6.—Valdesse
i Scott 11. a cow owned by Bernard
Meyer, of this place, has just broken
the world's record. In 17 days she pro
i duced 695.9 pounds of milk. 33.50 pounds
lof butter tat and 41.87 pounds of but-
LA GRANGE VALUES INCREASE.
LA GRANGE, GA . Aug. 6.—Taxable
valuations in LaGrange have been
raise,, neatly $250,000. according to the
1912 appraisement of property. Many
1 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. > 'ordele w ill
have a modern gas plant to be con
i -trueted, owned and operated by the
J. B. McCrary Company of Atlanta. A
. franchise was granted by the t itycoun- i
eji in June and now announcement is
| made that work is to start immediately. I
I YOUNGSTERS RACE IN
CAR RETURNING FROM
PARTY;TWO 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 w omen 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-pick. r. appeared with j
her at the clerk of court's office today
apd gave his consent to a divorce so
she might marry a younger man. who
could support her. He pledged that in:
loved her anil that because he loved
her he was seeking to find away to
provide for her.
Mrs. Koppel thought she could get
tile 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
* ORDELE. GA., Aug 6. A great
deal of interest is being felt among the
voters of Cordele in a bill expected to
or introduced in the Georgia legislature
during the present week by Represen
tative O. T Gower, which, according to
tlie 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 Si ptember 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 sl,soii 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 idling will be
shipped from the Camden county port.
The contract, together with one made
recently, calls for nearly 1,000,000 lineal
feet of material.
DARIEN BIG LUMBER PORT.
BRUNSWICK, GA., Aug. 6. The
month of July was one of the busiest
of tWe year in shipments of timber from
the port of Darien. The shipments
made to both leastwise and foreign
i ports totaled 2.600,000 feet of sawn and
h’ewn timber, the total value of which
I was $42,000.
STATE TO SUE TO
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
lognition 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 slate was preposterous. Two
governors and two attorneys general,
he said, had turned down the Tallulah
claims as mere conversational conten
tions. with no ban;.- 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. 6. -H. H
. Perry, of Gainesville, spoke at the Mus.
I 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 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 Handill Walk'r. who
are contenting for a -eat in congress
from the Seventh district, to succeed
Congn sstnau W. G. Brantley, who will
retire.
FIRST VICTIM OF
ELECTRIC CHJIH
Condemned Negro Pays Pen
alty by Electrocution in S.
Carolina Penitentiary.
COLUMBIA. S. C.. Aug. 6.—The first
legal electrocution in this state took
place today at the state penitentiary,
w here William Reed, a negro, convicted
of a felony, paid the penalty of his
cri me.
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.
Tlie 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 ho 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 ease 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., which was sent
to the president two weeks ago.
The president deferred action in the
case 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. I"ft Atlanta today for Johns Hop
kin- hospital at Baltimoie, where he
will undergo an operation. Mr. Hum
phrey -aid he ■ xpected to be away from
Atlanta for a month.
MERCHANTSiIE
ATLANTA; HIT
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 todaj; 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 metropolis.
The hundreds of delegates, and their
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 any
more to perceive the advancement oft
the South—and particularly of Geor-,
gia.’’ the governor said. "Already we
have taken our place securely In the
forefront of the country’s progress. TVe
are advancing faster proportionately!
than oven our fondest dreams led us to
predict.
"It is because you merchants of th«,
South have stood at the foundation off
that advancement and are now press-'
ing it forward with splendid impetus
that I am proud to welcome you Ln be-,
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.”
The governor's speech of welcome
brought most of the delegates to their
feet with enthusiastic cheers and they
applauded vociferously again when 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, tha
convention got down to tlie 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.
fl. 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 bad debts is the persistency!
of the farmer In sticking to the cotton
crop as his solfe resource and
Adams said he knew of a number off
cases where merchants had advised!
their failing debtors to Shange from;
cotton to corn as a means of recouping/
their losses. He said that in not one
case had this system failed to pay off?
the debts.
W L Dorris, of Douglas, declared!
that the paid up customer is the mer-i
chant’s greatest asset and W. C. Chap
man urged merchants to train them-i
selves and their sons so that they will
make as much of a profession of their
business as do doctors and get re-i
muneration accordingly He declarer#
also against the "cutting of prices" by
the untrained storekeepers “doiniff
business upon a shoestring.”
A. J. Gillen, of Maxeys, Ge.., said!
that 25 years' experience had taught
him that no merchant eould afford not
to advertise in the newspapers. H<»
declared newspaper advertising the
best asset of the merchant outside of
his clean stock of goods, and he de
clared that he had rfrver known a good
newspaper advertising merchant to fail.
After his speech numerous delegates
discussed the credit question and then
adjournment was taken for lunch. Thii
afternoon the convention will attend
the baseball game as guests of the
club 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
visitor-, and festive plans are laid for
the four-day convention. Cards to prac
tically every club in tow n are theirs for
the asking, the merchants have deco
rated their stores with gay bunting and
flags, goods are piled higli on counters
and shelves, and in many cases spe
cially low prices have been made for
the week.
There i- no chance that any of tho
visitors will fail to have tlie 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 theV
are all in Atlanta armed with carte
blanch- from their employers to treat
the guests in the proper way, and all tho
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 them
to participate in the many features ol
entertainment planned for the conven
tion.
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