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W SELLING
lowerscotton
New Orleans and Liverpool
Open, Other Exchanges Sus
pended for Holiday.
Tills being Columbus day. a legal holi
day. the New York cotton and stock ex
changes. Including all produce exchanges
and the New York coffee exchange and
the Chicago Board of Trade will be closed
The New Orleans cotton exchange re
mained open for its usual business, also
the Liverpool cotton exchange. All mar
kets will reopen Monday.
Liverpool cables were due.to come 6'-
to B’x points decline, hut the markets
opened steady with prices a net decline if
8 to 9 points below the previous <los>-
At the close the market was steady with
a net decline of 6 to 78* points from the
final quotations of Friday. Spot cotton
easier at a decline of 7 points middling
6.23 d; sales 5,000; receipts 3.000.
Because of weakness in Liverpool ca
bles and absence of support from New
York, trading In th« New Orleans cotton
market was dull with limited ranges in
prices throughout the day. At the close
the market was steady with prices a net
decline of 6 to 10 points from the final
quotations of Friday
RANGE IN NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
I I U » 1 R i ® I
o| S u I I o |
bet IC.BI 10.88 10.81 10.83 10.78 10
Nov. 10.78 75 10 80 82
Dee. ,10.7! 10 80 1”.73 10.7 I 10.73-74 1 0.80-81
Jan. 10.80’10.84,10.76 10.76 10.76-77110.83-84
Feb. 1... 10
Mar. 10. 961 1.10 10.92 10.93 10.92-93 11.01-02
Apr 10 94-96 1 I 04-06
May (11.07 11.10 11.04 11 04 11.05-06 11.14-15
June |ll 07-09 Fl 17-19
Ju1y.11.04 11 24 11 18 11 20 11.18-19 n 27-29
Closed steady.
LIVFRPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Opening Previous
Range. Close. Close.
Futures opened steady.
0ct6.00 6.02 6.08
Oct.-N0v5.96 -6,00 5.99 6.05
Nov.-Decs 90 5.93 5.99
Dec.-Jan 5.91 -5 90 593 6.00’4
Jan.-Feb. 5.9; -5.94’? 5.94 b. 60l '-?
Feb.-Mar ...5 93’4 5.96 6.02 L.
Mar.-Apr5.94 597 >4 6 .02*4
Apr.-May 596 -5.97 U 5.9!) 6.05
May-June 5.97 -5.96'? 6.00 t. o 1
June-July 5.97 -6.96’ 6.00 6.06
July-Aug 5.97 -5.99’4 6.00 6.06
Closed steady
Following is the Liverpool cotton state
ment for the week ending Friday, Octo
ber 11:
IJ 912. *l9ll |J 9JO._
Week's salesl 6LOOO 7.6,.(0i1) 709000
Os which American. 44,000 44.000, 56,000
For exportl 1,100 2.400 2.000
For speculation 1,900 3,6001 3.400
Forwarded 75,000 83,000; 74.000
Os which American 64,000
Total stocks ... 489.000 260,000 26!>,000
Os which American. 847,000 153.000:204.000
Actual exp'orts 4,000 3,000’; 3,000
Week's receipt, 80,005,000
Os which American. 72,000 101.000 63,000
Since Sept. 1 295.000 324,000:290.000
Os which American. 237,000 281.000'341.000
Stocks afloat 418.000 159,000 130,000
Os which American. "68,u0i> 1
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO. Oct 12 Hoge Receipts
7,500; market 5c higher; mixed and butch
ers 88.7541 9.10. good heavy 15® 9.4.,:
rough heavy $8.50«9.10; light $8.90® 9.35.
pigs $6.00®8.25, bulk $9.10® 9.30
Cattle Receipts 800; market steady;
beeves $5.75® 11.00; cows and heifers 33 25
@8.80; stockers and feeders $4.00467.50;
Texans 34 50® 9 00; calves $5.50® 10.25
Sheep—Receipts 1,500; market steady:
native and Western $3.00® 4 40, lambu
14.504/6.85.
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• WEEKLY COTTON STATISTICS. •
• •
•••••••- •c••ce a®•••••••
Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans
cotton exchange statement. Issued before
The close of business Friday shows a de
crease in the movement into sight com
pared with the seven days ending this
date last year In round figures 12,000.
an Increase over the same days year be
fore last of 65.000 and a decrease under
the same time in 1909 of 32.000
For the eleven days of October the to
tai ißow an Increase over last year of
3,000. an increase < ver the same period
year before last of 142,000, ttnd an increase
over the same time in 11'09 of 29,000.
For the forty-one days of the season
that have elapsed the aggregate is behind
the forty-one day’s of last year 173,000,
•head of the same di,y:- year before lust
894.000. and ahead of 11'09 by 105,000
The amount brought into sig! t during
the past week lias been 564,000 bales,
against 577,071 for the seven days end
ing this /late last year, 4!',876 year be
fore last and 596,847 same time tn 1909,
and for the eleven dkys of October It
has been 933.696. against 930,889 last year,
791,822 year before last and 905,008 same
time In 1909
The movement since September 1 shows
receipts at all United States ports 1,-
821,013, against 1,927 865 last y ear, 1,501,-
872 same time In 1909. overland across
the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers
to Northern mills and Canada 20.134,
against 35.164 last year, 2: year be-
fore last and 35.223 same time in 1909.
Interior stocks in excess of those held
at the close of the comtnen-tal y c.r 224,-
86i.
before last ami "0.311 same time in
1909. Southern mills takings 293.000.
against 261,573 last ya ar. 234.052 yeat be
fore last ami 26-7.452 same time in 11'09
These make the total movement for the
forty-one days >f th< season from Sep
tember 1 to date 2,359,012. against 2.51’2.363
last year, 1,964,51'7 year before last and
2,253.858 same time in 190!’
Northern mms takings and Canada dur
ing the past seven davs shew a de,: asc
of 29.26"
spending period last year, ami t! • ir total
takings since September 1 hav, ■ crease.;
54,020. The total takings of Amcritan
mills. North, South and Cana,m Hm i.i
for the season have been 642.539. against
462.311 las’ year Them
by Northern spinners, against 196.
Stocks at tlie seaboard and the twenty
nine leading Southern Interior centers
have increase, during the week 200.o:'.1
bales, against an Increase during tin
corresponding peri- • las’ season of 206.-
099 and are now 100,617 less than at this
date in 1911
Including stocks left over at ports and
Interior towns fr ir. the last crop and ti e
number of bales brought into sight thus
far from the new crop, the supply to
337 for the same period last year
World's Visible Supply.
Secretary Hester's statement of tin
world’s vlsibh aupply of cotton m.ob up
from special cable and telegraphic ad
vices compares tin figun - ■■( t i> w. < k
with last week, last year and tie y<
before It shows an Imrea- f. th.
week just • L.s. ~f 874.68? aga.m't at
Increast of 388.644 Mar !>• re last
The total visible >s 8,387.147 against
3."i3.(i58 last wees ..76"."7 ■ J llb . ...
•nd 2.386.385 year before last • • ..-
the total of American >ton > 2 6.147.
•gainst 2,236,058 la-t week. .... , usl
year and 1344,888 yeat baton
of all other kinds inch, it:? i t H-
Cil, India, etc . 791.000. against 777
last week. -37.000 last year ~/•
year before last
The total world s visible -uppl; of- <>t
tori as above shows an Increase . .. ..pat .;
with last week of 374.0 X? an ir
American Telephone &, Telegraph Co.
A dividend of Two r*o!hirs per share
Will bi paid < n Tu» Mdrt> <i. »b< i 1 i' i j
KtiM'lcholderM of at the ■ !*»•*• <»f
. «■ I>l s■• ti: U» i ;•
WILLIAM IL I’lllVLlt. Ttvasurer
| ATLANTA MARKETS)
EGGS—Fresh country candled, 23® 24c. :
BUTTER—Jersey and creamery. In 1 lb.
blocks, 25®27’4c; fresh country dull, IG@
17Uc.
DRESSED POULTRY—Drawn, head
•nd feet on. per pound; Hens. 17®18c;
fries, 25®.27M;c; roosters. 8® 10c; turkeys,
owing to fatness, 20®22Hc.
LIVE POULTRY Ib ns, 45®50c; roost
ers 25® 35c; fries. 25® 35c; broilers, 20®
25c: puddle ducks. 35® 30c: Pekin ducks,
35®40c; gees* sea6oe each; turkeys, ow
ing to fatness, 15® 18c
FRUITS AND PRODUCE.
FRUIT ANT? VEGETABLES Lemons,
fancy, s7® 8 per box; California oranges.
$4.00® 4.50 per box; bananas, 3®3Hc per
pound; cabbage. 75®$1 per pound, pea I
nuts, per pound, fancy Virginia 684®7c,
choice. 6%®6c: beans, round green. 7sc® '
$1 per crate; squash, yellow, 6-basket crt.,
sl.oo® 1.25; lettuce, fancy, $1.75® 2 00; i
choice $1.25® 1.50 per crate; beets, slso®'
2 per ba’-rrl. cucumbers. 75c® ii per crate: |
Irish potatoes, per barrel, $2.50®3.00; old
Irish potatoes, $1.00®1.16.
Egg plants. s2®2.s<i per crate; pepper, >
$1®125 pe- crate: tomatoes, fancy, six-i
basket crates sl.oo® 125; choice toma
toes 75c®51.00; pineapples, $~.00®2.25 per
crate: onions, 75c®51.00 per bushel; sweet
potatoes, pumpkin yam, 75®85c per bush- I
el. watermelons. slo® 15 per hundred; I
cantaloupes, per crate, $2 75® 3 00.
PROVISION MARKET
(Corrected by White Provision Company.) j
Cornfield l ams, 10 to 12 pounds average i
17%e.
_Corn field hams. 12 to 14 pounds average, ;
17y4c. t
t'ornficld skinned hams, 16 to 18 pounds I
average, 18c.
Cornfield pickled pig's feet, 15-pound
kits. $1.25.
Cornfield jellied meat in 10-lb. dinner
pall. 1214 c.
Cornfield picnic hams. B to 8 pounds
average, 13%c
Cornfield breakfast bacon, 24c.
Grocer style bacon (wide or narrow),
18Uc.
Cornfield fresh pork sausage (link or
bulk) 25 pound buckets, 12'4<:.
Cornfield frankfurters. 10 pound buck
ets. average 12c.
Cornfield bologna sausage. 25-pound
boxes, 10c.
Cornfield luncheon hams, 25-pound
boxes, 13c.
Cornfield smoked link sausage. 25-
pound boxes, 9c.
Cornfield smoksd link sausage in pickle,
50-pound cans, $4.75.
Cornfield frankfurters In pickle. 15-
pound kits. $1.65.
Cornfield pure lard, tierce basis, 1314 c.
Country style pure lard. 50-pound tins
only 12'4e.
Compound lard (tierce basis), 9Vic.
I). S. extra ribs, 1.2V,c.
D. S. rib bellies, medium average, 13',,<*.
D 8. rib bellies, light average. 13'/.c.
FLOUR AND GRAIN
FIaIUR- I'osteiis Eiegalit, $7.25; Ome
ga, $7.50; Gloria (self rising), $6.35; Vic
tory (finest patent), $6 35; Diamond
(patent), $6.25: Monogram, $5.80; Golden
Crain, $5.40: Faultless, finest. 86.25; Home
Queen (highest pa'ent), $5.75; Puritan
(highest patent). $5.75; Paragon (highest
patent). $1>.75; Sun Rise (half patent),
*5.25; White Cloud (highest patent),
ent), $5.60; White Lily (high patent),
$5.60; White Daisy, $5.60; Sunbeam, $5.35;
Southern Star (patent), $5.25; Ocean
Spray (patent), $5.25; Tulip (straight),
$4.25: King Cotton (half patent). $5.00.
CORN White, red cob. $1.05; Np. 2
white. $1.08; cracked. $1.05; yellow, $1.00;
mixed. 98c.
MEAL Plain'l44-pound sacks. 96c; 96-
pound sack;, 97c; 48-pound sacks, 99c;
24-pound sacks. $1.01; 12-pound sacks,
$1.03.
OATSFancy clipped. 52c; No. 2 clipped
Bic; fancy white, 50c; No. 2 w’hite, 49c;
No. 2. mixed, 48c; Texas rust proof. 65c;
Oklahoma rust proof, 58c; appler, 85c.
COTTON SEED MEAL Harper, S2B 00.
COTTON SEED HULLS Square sacks,
$lO 00 per ton. Oat straw, 65c per bale.
SEEDS (Sacked): Wheat, Tennessee
blue stem. $1.6.5; German millet, $1.65;
amber cane seed. $1.55; cane seecr, orange,
$1.50; rye (Tennessee), $1.25: red top cane
seed. $1 35; rye (Georgia), $1.35; red rust
prof oats, 72c; Bert oats, 75c; winter graz
ing, 70c; blue seed oats, 50c; barley, $1.25.
HAY Per hundredweight: Timothy,
choice; largo bales, $1.40; No. 1 small,
$1.25;; No. 2 small, $1.20; clover hay, $1.50;
alfalfa hay. chonce peagreen. $1.30; alfal
fa No. 1. $1 25; alfalfa No. 3. $1.10; pea
vine hay, $1.20; shucks, 70c; wheat straw,
70c; Bermuda. $1 00.
FEEDSTUFF.
SHORTS— White 100-lb. sacks, $2; Dan
dy middling, 100-lb. sacks, $195; fancy
75-ib. sack, $1.90, P W , 75-lb. sacks. $1 75
brown, 100-lb. sacks, $1.70; Georgia feed,
75-lb sacks. $1.75; bran, 75-lb. sacks, $1.40;
100-lb. sacks, $1.40; Homecloine, $1.75;
Germ meal Homeco, $1.70; sugar beet
pulp, 100-)b. sacks, $1.50; 75-lb sacks.
$1.50.
CHICKEN FEED Reef scraps. 50-lb.
sacks, $3.50; 100-lb. sacks. $3.25; Victory
pigeon feed, $2.35, 50-lb. sacks, 82.25; Pu
rina scratch, 100-lb. sacks, $2.10; Purina
pigeon feed, $2.45; Purina baby chick,
J 2.30; Purina chowder, doz. lb. packages.
$2 45; Purina chowder, 100-lb sacks, $2 25;
Suuoess baby chick. $4 10; Eggo. $246;
Victory baby chick, $2.30; Victory scratch,
100-lb. sacks. $2.10; Victory scratch, 50-lb.
sacks, $2.20; Superior scratch. $2.10;
Chicken Success baby chick, $2.10; wheat,
2 bushel bags, per bushel, $1.40; oyster
shell, 80c.
r "the weather - !
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Conditions.
WASHINGTON, oct. 12. There will he
rain tonight in the lower Lake regions,
the middle Atlantic states and New Eng
land. followed by fair weather Sunday,
except in northern New England. Else
where east of the Mississippi river the
leather will be fair tonight and Suntlav
except in Florida, where there will be
showers.
It will be colder tonight and Sunday
from the Lake region southward in the
interior of the Southern states and colder
Sunday in western New England.
Storm warnings arc displayed on the
Great Ijflkes, except western superior.
General Forecast.
Following is the general forecast until
7 p. tn. Sunday:
Georgia laical showers tonight or Sun
da) in northern, generally fair in south
ern portion; colder tonight in northwest
portion; slightly colder Sunday In the
northern portion.
Virginia Showers tonight or Sunday;
colder tonight in northern portion; colder
Sunday.
North Carolina Clear in eastern, show
ers in western portion tonight or Sunday;
slightlj colder Sunday in western and
central portions.
South Carolina Fair in eastern ami
southern: showers in northwest portion
tonight or Sunday; colder Sunda) in
northwest port ion.
Florida Local showers tonight or Sun
daj. except fair in northwest portion.
\lahama Generally fair tonight ami
Sunday; colder tonight in northern por
tion.
Mississippi Generally fair tonight and
Sunday; colder tonight
compared with lust year of 624.068. and
an increase compared with year before
last of L0W.762
Os the world s visible su|iply of cot
ton as above there is now afloat and held
in Gt, it Britain and Continental Europe
'.".'7,ei. against 1 :;83.e4bi last year and
11.-•'8.00" nar before last; In Egypt 110,-
I o.c. ag < rst 54.000 last ieur and 82.000
m ~r b< nee last. In India. T’R.OOO. against
| 73.000 !h>'. year and -32.000 yeur before
! last. .Old in the United States 1.762.000.
.gm st 1 '.. :.oe ) la.-1 > ent and 804.000 \ ear
i I'l-f.ire last
Worlo's Spinners' Takings
Secretary Hester gives (lie taking
American cotton bv srinners throughout
the world as follow, in round numbers
This w * k >b ’.!'! .01'0 this year,
against 2 -.000 last year and 250.000 year
: before last
Total Sim- Septeniiier 1. this year (a)
1 1.115,0(01 iguit.st 1’;:t.000 last year and
I ;>55.000 the y» ar betm<
(«f this N !tl..r; spinners and Cutiada
■k li hubs tl i- xear against 196.-
»o last ar an.l 2'0.000 the year be
lt.-r. . S...jth, rn s|.iiin. rs liOO.OOo, nguitist
| .00') List year and 241,000 the yeur be
for. ati.l t. le.gt -|.||;m I > 673.0 W against
•■, "..i • ■ . . „
(a) Includes Galveston plus correction '
'.OOO Vransat i'uss mini* 5.000 Huh
sin.-.- September I. mailing net plus 4')()('
Li Nvl imludmg phi* lurtvetiuu of
| 4.000.
THE ATTANTA GEORGIAN AND NEW& SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1912.
THE TRUTH
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Atlanta, Ga., October 10,1912.
The charge made by Mr. Woodward and his campaign committee that one-half of the Bond money, that is to say, $1,500,000,
has been wasted, is so serious, especially coming from a man, and his committee, who has received the indorsement of more than
4,200 of the voters of the City for Mayor, that it seems to us to merit a careful and detailed reply. This we hope to do in the fol
lowing article:
This article is addressed to the unprejudiced and fair-minded Public of this City. If there are those who are so biased that
they are not willing to receive the truth, then this article is not addressed to them.
We will take up the Waterworks as being the first in order. The first purchase of water pipe was made under the administra
tion of ex Mayor Maddox, and amounts to 14,C00 tons of pipe. This pipe was of various sizes, and the price paid was $20.56 per
ton. Some were purchased afterward below $lB per ton. When we contrast this price with that paid by the Druid Hills Land
Company, only a short time before, and remember that that Company paid $22.50 per ton, it will readily appear that there was no
waste in our purchase of pipe. Mr. A. G. Candler is the principal owner of the Druid Hills Land Company, and in addition to be
ing one of the ablest and most careful business men of the South, he is not giving any money to pipe manufacturers if he knows it.
The City had been for some twenty-odd years buying filters from the Continental Jewell Filtration Company, after a stand
ard set of plans and specifications paying different prices, running as high as $4,666 per 500,000 gallons unit, which was the price
paid for the last filters purchased prior to the Bond Issue. The Bond Commission and Water Board bought, under competition,
from the same Company which had furnished the others, and to be built according to the same plans and specifications, twenty
units of 5,000 gallons each, at $1,512 per unit, a saving of $3,154 per unit, or a total saving compared with former purchases of
$63,0800n this purchase, which is some saving instead of a waste. $50,000 was provided in the Bond Ordinance for the installation
of the new filters, with the expectation of adding twelve to sixteen additional units. We added twenty units and had over $5,000
left, and so we might go on through the whole list, but we content ourselves with saying that purchases were made and contracts
let in this Department to the lowest bidder in every instance.
SEWERS. ’ •-
The contracts for building Sewers, except where built by the County, have been let to the lowest Bidder in each instance,
after keen competition from the Contractors all over the Country. This is all that could be done by anybody. On these contracts
there have been large savings from the estimates made by our Engineers. For instance, we cite $20,000 saved on the Loyd Street
Relief Sewer, and enough saved on Proctor Creek Sewer to pay the cost of making that sewer a main trunk, full size, from its
present terminus above Ashby Street to the A., B. & A. R. R. The County is doing its part of the work for nothing, the City fur
nishing the material.
In this connection, the Bond Commission and Sewer Committee bought from the R. 0. Campbell Coal Company 200,000 bar
rels of cement at 98c per barrel, this cement to be used by the County in the construction of the Proctor Creek Sewer and other
trunk sewers. At the time this contract for cement was made the City was paying for cement on its regular sewer work, not done
with Bond money, $1.15 per barrel. All this cement has not been delivered and the price is now and has been for some time $1.40
per barrel. Not much waste in this, was there?
SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANTS.
The Sewage Disposal Plants are built, and being built, under the Imhoff patents. Mr. Imhoff is a celebrated German Sani
tary Engineer. His plans were adopted on the recommendation of Mr. Rudolph Herring, of New York, himself a celebrated Engi
neer in this and other lines. It may be said further that Mr. Imhoff is the most famous sanitary Engineer in the world, and his
patent and plans, which we have adopted, are being used with the greatest success in Europe. He gave his plans to the City of
Atlanta without charge of royalty, and these are his latest designs for Sewage Disposal work. The building of these works was
left to the lowest bidder under the keenest competition open to all the world. What more could have been done? As to their effi
ciency only one plant is completed, Proctor Creek, and it is doing all that is claimed for it. What more could you ask?
SCHOOLS.
Architects for the schools were selected under competition, and with the advice of Mr. Morgan, of Morgan & Dillon, who was
not a Competitor, and who is one of the leading Architects of this City, as the many buildings supervised by him will testify—the
Third National Bank being his latest creation. The Architects selected drew the plans for the various buildings, which, by the
way, are equal to any in the Country, and the contracts were let to the lowest bidder in each instance, except where even the low
est bid was cut in order to get within the amount appropriated, which was done in many cases. The City’s money was spent for
lots and buildings and not for grading and beautifying lots or building retaining walls or buying furniture. If the lots are unsight
ly, it is not the fault of the Bond Commission or the School Board; if the Auditoriums are not furnished, it is not the fault of
either of these Bodies. There was no Bond money provided for beautifying the lots or furnishing the buildings.
There were some slight defects in some parts of the buildings. These have been remedied by the Contractors, where they were
to blame, and without cost to the City, except in the case of Walker Street; here the penalty imposed on the Contractor was suffi
cient to cover these defects, and besides we expect to recover from the Bond Company the cost of these defects.
Now, as to whether the buildings are worth the money. Every Contractor and Architect knows that buildings are estimated
as to their cost and value by the cost per cubic foot of contents and in no other way. Estimated on this basis, Walker Street
School cost 7.3 c per foot, Lee Street 7.5 c per cubic foot, and the others a little more, ranging up to 9.5 c per cubic foot.
School buildings of the same design and plan have recently been built in Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, St. Louis and
other Cities, the cost ranging from 15c to 22c per cubic foot; they range in cost from SIOO,OOO for an eight-grade school to
$150,000 for a school the size of Walker and Lee Street Schools; whereas, ours cost from $40,000 for an eight-grade to $50,000 for
a twelve-grade, like Walker and Lee. Was there any waste here? The Bond Companies who signed the Bonds of these Contrac
tors, stated that they would not make 5 per cent on their contracts and that the City of Atlanta was getting this class of work
cheaper than any city in the country. A part of the difference in the cost of these buildings and buildings in other Cities may be
accounted for by differences in wages, or in the fact that some of these buildings are fire-proof, while ours are not.
• GRADY HOSPITAL.
The Grady Hospital Annex was designed by the same men who designed Ashby Street School, Hill Street School, Georgia
Avenue School and Yonge Street Negro School, and built by the same Contractors who built Lee Street and English Avenue
Schools. It is about the size of an eight-room School, but it is fire-proof, is as fine as a fiddle on the inside, and cost a little over
SIOO,OOO. We had the money to build it that way. We had only enough money to build the kind of schools which we have. That
is all there is to it.
CREMATORY.
We bought a large tract of land adjacent to Intrenchment Creek Disposal Plant, near Constitution, Ga., for a Crematory
Site, 247 acres, paying $15,000 therefor. It has not been used. The City can sell it any day for the money. One member of the Bond
Commission is willing, if the City will let him, to pay the City its money with legal interest and take the land. Is there any waste
here? J
DEPOSITS OF BOND MONEY.
Although it would have been perfectly legal to have done so, not one penny of the Bond Money was deposited in the Amer
ican National Bank, while Mr. Maddox was Mayor.
There may have been some waste. It would be remarkable if there was none, for waste will happen in the best regulated bus
iness, but any waste of Bond money has been more than counterbalanced by the careful manner in which all of the contracts have
been let and by savings on such contracts and in other ways.
In conclusion, the Bond Ordinance specified just how the bond money in each department should be expended. This Ordi
nance has been followed in every particular, and there has been no diversion of the money from one Department to another or
from one piece of work to another. This statement can be verified by the Comptroller’s books and the Bond Ordinance. These
will show the amount of the appropriation for each piece of work and the money expended thereon. This work has been done,
and is being done as fast as men and money can do it economically, and the money is not being wasted, and has not been wasted’
We appeal to the judgment of all fair-minded citizens and especially experts in the lines mentioned of this statement.
The expenditure of this money is being carefully supervised and honestly managed. There has been no graft in connection with
it, and will be none.
R. F. MADDOX,
Ex-Mayor.
COURTLAND S. WINN,
Mayor.
F A QUILLIAN.
Chairman Bond Commisison.
W H. TERRELL,
A. J. JOHNSON,
J. J. WEST,
C. D. KNIGHT,
J. N. HARRIS.
JAMES E. WARREN.
C. E. MURPHEY,
C. J. VAUGHN,
J. J. GREER.
H. H. HICKS.
R. A. HEMPHILL.
J. R. NUTTING,
R. L. AV ARY.
F J. SPRATLING.
CRAIG COFIELD,
I. N. RAGSDALE,
JOHN W. GRANT,
JOHN S. CANDLER.
JOEL HURT,
W. B WILLINGHAM,
JULE SKINNER.