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LAD WANTED TO SEE
TRAIN WRECK. SO HE
THREW SWITCH OPEN
AURORA. ILL.. Aug. 1' Lawrens
Gilman, aged elev< n. had lived beside
the Chicago an>. No: i A»—pr -a :rt».vi
for nearly a year and did not .«»e <n
accident He read about !'.»•! and v
curinuF So he threw a switch. then
*at in his mother’.* bed room window
and watched a passenger train crush
into a string of freight < < «
Th<. * is the lad’s story it was told
to the officials of the railroad today.
The box confessed to the police after a
vain effort on the part of the authori
ties to discover the cause «»f the acci
dent. in w hich a number of people were
• haken and jolted And a fireman was
severely hurt.
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Local Agents wanted in all territories
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VETERANS MEET ON SPOT
WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR
I ROME. GA Aug. 15. On the same
spot where they gathered 52 years ago
to fight for the Stars and Rars, the
surviving member* of Company G.
Tu ent y - second Infantry, met today for
a feast and apeec hmaking
There are 25 members of Company G
left Ont* • f them is Policeman Jo
seph Sharp of R une. He i s the chief
spirit of the annua! reunions.
The survivors of this old company
meet • o'h ear at Silver Creek, on the
spot where they organized. August 15.
1861. and talk of war limes and
barbecue The <pot where CoinpatiV G
was organized marked The chief
addresses today were made bv Colonel
\\ S M< Henry and Judge W. H
Henry
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912.
SMALL MODESTY
; IN TAFT GMS
Hilles Says the President Will
Carry 34 States—Concedes
Wilson 10. T. R. None.
t'HP'AGO. Aug 15. t'hatles D.
Hille.* chairman of the Republican na
tional committee, here to arrange for
the opening of the campaign, has issued
his first statement. He "claims" the
e|e< tion 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. Hilles assert:- will go to Wi son.
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 la based on the belief that it will
draw about evenly from the two old
parties, not materially affecting the re
sult.
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lii preparation for 1 li<* big
! increase in fall trade, many
Atlanta Imuses 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
I Spirit.”
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and Telegraph Co.
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SEARCHINGSIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
For a time last right the atmosphere of
th«* 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 < up
Senator Roberts made a great presenta
tion speech, too. It took Mr. Slaton off
his feet, ana 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 he sat down the senate was thor
oughly convinced that it loved <ld Jack
Slaton to a fare-you-well. and that old
Jack returned the beyond the
shadow 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
sena’e had nothing whatever on the sen
timental business in the house.
Over there Hooper Alexander. Joe Hill
Hall. George Brown, et al., 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 it silver bouillon set
tha*'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 in the way of
beauty and gems of purest ray serene.
He wandered by the wayside looking for
flowers that might there he 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
18-carat fine!
.Mr. Holder's response was all it should
have been. He declared, in the words of
one of thp “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
w’hich he expected 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
tern, 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 veg. tite “young gentlemen of
the press.' who sit away down from, ai
INVALID WHO SHOT
HIMSELF TO RID HIS
WIFE OF CARE DIES
McGhee bVrguson. former Southern
railway conductor, who shot himself at
h:s 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, whetl alone in a
room, seated in an invalid's roller
chair Eergnson wheeled himself to a
dresser, took out his revolver and fired
a bulJet 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.
Hour 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.. Vug. 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
tn pursuit, but young Taft shouted.
It's probable het cub. and there is
n<> toom in the white house anyway,
l.et her go."
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E. E. Youngs E. Berkshire. \'t . "and
was often troubled with constipation
and indigestion till I began to use Dr.
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MISFIT PRESSING CLUB
MAKES GREAT HIT AT
THE BONITA THEATER
One of the funniest and most rnter
taining bills that has been presented at
a popular priced theatei in Atlanta for
many months is "The Misfit Pressing
< Tub" at the Bonita Theater, 32 Peach
tree street.
Toe King- Murray - Jones Musical
Comedy Company is one of the bes'
that has been seen here this season,
and " The Pretty* Girl Chorus." com
posed of Misses Dorothy Vernon. V ola
King. Adella Anderson. Iva Genetti. Joy
Eilmore. Corinne King and Midge West,
is well worth double the price of ad
mission
Continuous performances every aft
ernoon and evening- accompanied by
motion pictures. Children sc, adults !•»<-
• • •
r j the speaker's right hand, got theirs, too! <
Last night was the first time that no-
' ble band —without whom the legislature
would be a vast and howling wilderness,
indeed'.—ever was remembered by th®
end-of-the-session Santa Claus. and it
i was accordingly appreciative and happy.
Having been furnished with advance I
pr« gtams 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 rhe wind, the
I press gang had selected Angus f’erkerson.
of The Atlanta Journal, to make the re-
. Sfx r.se io the speech of presentation.
I Perk” readily- not to say greedily—
grasped the opportunity to shine, but, un
fortunately, when the limelight was
switched in his direction he was deeply
I absorbed in a high-brow magazine arti
, cle, and Hie speech of acceptance was
never delivered.
Mr. f’erkerson 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
j “Perk” had not been asleep at the switch!
According to Mr. F’erkerson. if he had
spoken, this is w’hat he would have said in
> the get-away :
Gentlemen of the General Assembly:
We. the representatives of the Fourth
I 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
i around this house now and then,
which after having had them carefully'
explained to me by my fellow-mem
, hers of the press, I have cheerfully
carried in the columns of my newspa
i per. (Applause.) I. we, all hope to
i see you back next year. I find the
house of representatives a fine place
I 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
f that binds. (Great, wild, long and
tumultuous applause).
-• It would have been a nifty little speech
I had not “Perk" become so absorbed in
j that article on the “Whichness and the
a Whatness of the Whence” that he forgot
to speak it!
]
i Still, in spite of all that, the custom of
distributing legislative largess at the end
of the session is a very pretty custom,
j and long may it wave!
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