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‘LAD WANTED TO SEE
TRAIN WRECK. SO HE
THREW SWITCH OPEN
AURORA, ILL. Vug I.' Lawrence
Gilman, aged eleven, h . ; lived boide
the Chicago and No: tI." • -•■ in -aiiroad
for nearly a year and did not si e an
accident. H. nad about fliem and was
curious So he threw switch, then
aat in his moth<
and watched a pass. train crash
into a string of fre ght
Th.l is -th< t was told
to th< offi I ' ■ rai oad today.
The boy confessed to the polict after a
vain effort n th<
ties to discover rhe ‘’ansi of the acci
dent, in which a numhir of people were
Shaken and jolted and
severely hurt
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y
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Supervisor of Agents
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VETERANS MEET ON SPOT
WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR
ROME. GA Aug. 15.—0 n the same
spot where they gathered 52 years ago
t-> tight for the Stars and Bars, the
surviving members of Company G,
Twenty-second infantry, met today for
a feast and speeehmaklng
There ar<- 25 members of Company G
left One of them is Policeman Jo
seph Sharp, of Rome. He is the chief
spirit of the annual reunions
The survivors of this old company
meet each yehr at Silver Creek, on the
spot where they organized. August 15.
IS6I. and talk of war times and eat
barbecue The spot where Company G
was organized is marked The chief
addresses today were made bv Colonel
W. S. McHenry and Judge \V. H.
Henry.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912.
SMALL MODESTY
IN TAFT CLAIMS
i
Hilles Says the President Will
Carry 34 States- Concedes
Wilson 10. T. R. None.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—f'barles D.
Hilles, chairman of the Republican na
tional committee, here to arrange for
the opening of the campaign, has issued
his first statement. He "claims” the
ejection of William Howard Taft by a
vote of 384 in the electoral college,
which this year will have 532 votes.
One hundred and fourteen of these
votes. Hlllr-s asserts, will go to Wilson.
Thirty-four are doubtful. In his esti
mate, the Progressive party is blandly
disregarded.
Taft, according to Hilles, will carry
34 states. Wilson is conceded ten. All
Southern and four Western states are
listed as doubtful.
The states given Wilson are Ala
bama. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, North and South
Carolina. Texas and Virginia! The
doubtful ones, according to the Hilles
prophecy, are Arizona, California, Okla
homa and Nebraska. All the rest, in
cluding Kansas, where the Taft men
have not yet figured out the way to get
Taft electors on the Republican ticket,
are claimed for the president.
Hilles’ disregard of the Progressive ,
ticket Is based on the belief that it will
draw about evenly from the two old
parties, not materially affecting the re
sult.
MANY FIRMS
INCREASE
ATLANTA PHONE
SERVICE
In preparation for the big
increase in fall trade, many
Atlanta houses are now or
dering more trunk lines.
The truly phenomenal
growth of our traffic and
i subscribers and the present
efficiency of our competitive
service has occasioned care
ful investigation and then
additional trunk lines.
Modern and progressive,
the Atlanta Phone service
is typical of the “Atlanta
' Spirit."
Atlanta Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
A. B. CONKLIN, lien. Mgr.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
; For a time last night the atmosphere of
I the Georgia general assembly fairly
| reeked with sentiment.
In the senate, along about midnight,
Senator Roberts, on behalf of the entire
membership, presented President Slaton
with a beautiful loving cup. •
Senator Roberts made a great presenta
tion speech, too. It took Mr Slaton off
his feet, and he experienced considerable
difficulty, despite the traditional senato
rial dignity theoretically attaching to him,
in getting his response of thanks and ap
preciation out,of his system.
Finally he did get It out. however, and
when lie sat down the senate was thor
oughly convinced that it loved old Jack
Slaton to a fare-you-well, and that old
Jack returned the sentiment beyond the
sha.low of a doubt!
Apparently it was just between Jack
and the senate—right in the family—and
if anybody there thought of the fact that
the presiding officer is more than ordinar
ily sure to be the next governor, why—
well, that idea likely didn't cross any sen
atorial mind at all!
It was a happy occasion and a pretty
incident, and well worth sitting through
a lot of preliminary legislating to witness.
But the sentimental business in the
senate had nothing whatever on the sen
timental 'business in the house.
Over the,re Hooper Alexander, Joe Hill
Hall, George Brown, et a!., were garland
ing rainbows all around and about the
place, and forgiving and forgetting Was
running wild and riot!
, George Brown presented, on behalf of
the house, a lovely—that’s what Mrs.
Holder called ft—silver bouillon set —
that's also what Mrs. Holder called it—to
the speaker.
And Dr. Brown certainly • used up a
picturesque lot of language handing John
Holder that silver thing!
The gentleman from Fulton soared aloft
and snatched a handful of stars from the
vaulted dome of azure blue—or words to
that effect—and then he dived to the
dark, unfathomed caves of the ocean to
see what was doing there tn the way of
beauty and gems of purest ray serene.
He wandered by the wayside looking for
flowers that might there be blushing all
unseen, and such things as he gathered
he laid a willing tribute at the speaker’s
feet!
That was some speech old Doc Brown
delivered last night, and It will go down
in Georgia legislative history as easily
■ !8-carat fine' •
Mr Holder’s response Was all it should
have been. He declared, in the words of
one of the "latest and most popular songs
of the day.” that all he wanted was love,
sweet love!
And he said he felt satisfied that he had
it —great gobs and festoons of it—all
wrapped up In the bouillon thing, the
which he expe.cted to hand down in the
Holder family for the next 2,000 or 3,000
years, he didn't know which, and didn't
care particularly; it was all so delightful
and generous, and so forth and so on.
And then Carl Vinson, the speaker pro
tem. got his. and John T. Boifeuillet and
Matchless McClatchey and Bismarck
Moore got theirs, and "Bob" Hardeman,
the chairman of the pestiferous commit
tee on rules, got his, and there was some
eloquence and near-weeping and no wail
ing and gnashing of teeth, and—oh. it was
a great, little old night, gentle reader!
And. oh yes. the “young gentlemen of
the press,” who sit away down front, at
INVALID WHO SHOT
HIMSELF TO RID HIS
WIFE OF CARE DIES
McGhee Ferguson, former Southern
railway conductor, who shot himself at
his home, 165 West Pine street, Mon
day morning because he felt that he
was a burden to his family, died today.
His body is at Bloomfield's chapel
awaiting funeral arrangements.
Monday morning, when alone in a
room, seated in an invalid's roller
chair. Ferguson wheeled himself to a
dresser, took out his revolver and fii»-d
a bullet through his head. He had been
despondent because of two years of
confinement by a broken back. He was
injured by a fall from a car when on
duty in the Atlanta yards.
Four children, the oldest thirteen, the
youngest two years old. and a widow
survive him. The Atlanta lodge of Ma
sons No. 59 is arranging for his burial.
He also was a member of the B. of
R. T.
YOUNG "BOB” TAFT’S CUB
IS RESCUED BY OLD BEAR
BENTON, MONT.. Aug. 15.—What to
do with the cub bear presented to Rob
ert Taft, son of the president, by a
Blackfoot chief on his arrival in Glacier
National park, has been solved.
An old bear, hearing the wails of the
cub. made her way last night into the
Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and
gnawed through the rope that tethered
the cub to a tree. Then she retreated
up the mountainside. Guides started
in pursuit, but young Taft shouted:
It's probably her cub, and there is
no room in the white house anyway.
Let her go.”
The Trials of a Traveler.
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MISFIT PRESSING CLUB
MAKES GREAT HIT AT
THE.BONITA THEATER
One of the funniest and most <>nter
taining bills that has been presented at
a popular priced theater in Atlanta sot
many months is ' The Misfit Pressing
Club" at the Bonita Theater, 32 Peach
tree street.
The King - Murray - Jones Musica
Comedy Company is one of the bes l
tha. has been seen here this season
and “The Pretty Girl Chorus." com
posed of Misses Dorothy Vernon. Viola
King. Adella Anderson. Iva Genette, Joy
Filmore. Corinne King and Midge West
is well worth double the price of ad
mission
Continuous performance* every aft'
ernoon and evenings accompanied by
motion pictures. Children sc, adults in
the speaker's right hand, got theirs, too!
Last right was the first time that no
ble hand—without whom the legislature
would be a vast and howling wilderness,
indeed:—ever was remembered by the
end-uf-the-se«sion Santa Claus, and it'
was accordingly appreciative and happy .
Having been furnished with advance
programs of what was to happen, the
press gang was in blissful ignorance of
the big show about to be pulled off when,
at 11:42. George Brown started the flow
of joy that eventually all but swamped
the establishment.
Not knowing what was in the wind, the
prefcs gang had selected Angus Perkerson.
of The Atlanta Journal, to make the re
sponse to the speech of presentation.
"Perk" readily—not to say greedily—
grasped the opportunity to shine, but, un
fortunately, when the limelight was
switched in bis direction fye was deeply
absorbed in a high brow magazine arti
cle. and the speech of acceptance was
never delivered
Mr. Perkerson distributed typewritten
copies of his speech-that-was-to-be-deliv
ered-but-wasn’t to his colleagues of the
press, and it was a crackerjack, if only
"Perk" had not been asleep at the switch!
According to Mr. Perkerson, if he had
spoken, this is what he would have said in
the get-away:
, Gentlemen of the General Assembly:
We. the representatives of the Fourth
Estate—whatever that is—thank you
most cordially for this manifestation
of your high esteem and generous
consideration. (Applause.) There
have been some fine stories floating
around this house now and then,
which after having had them carefully
explained to me by my fellow-mem
bers of the press, I have cheerfully
carried in the columns of my newspa
per. (Applause.) I, we, ail hope to
see you back next year I find the
house of representatives a fine place
for catching up on my magazine
reading, and I like this assignment.
(Great and prolonged applause.) Gen
tlemen, we thank you for these tie
holders, and I say blessed be the tie
that binds. (Great, wild, long and
tumultuous applause).
It would have been a nifty little speech
had not "Perk” become so absorbed in
that article on the "Whfchness and the
Whatness of the Whence” that he forgot
to speak it!
Still, in spite of all that, the custom of
distributing legislative largess at the end
of the session is a very pretty custom,
and —long may it wave!
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