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HEAVY SELLING
LOWERS COTTON
New Orleans and Liverpool
Open, Other Exchanges Sus
pended for Holiday.
This being Columbus day. a legal holi
day, the New York cotton and stock ex
changes, Including all prodine exchanges
and the New York .-..free exchange and
the Chicago Board of Trade « II be closed
The New Orleans cotton exchange re
mained open for its usual business also
the Liverpool cotton rxrhangi All mar
kets w ill reopen Monday.
Liverpool cable s were due io tome <• . ;
to points decline but the markets
opened steady with juices a net decline <■( '
8 to 9 points below the pre\ ions close ,
At the close the market was stead.' with |
a net decline of 6 io 7' 2 points from the
final quotation- of Friday Spot eottoi
easier at a decline of 7 points middling
6.23 d: stiles .‘»,l' :c roceip - 3.01'0
Because of weakness in Liverpool ca
bles and absence . f support from N> w
York, trading in th« Nt" ' 'cleans cotton
market was dull with limited ranges in
prices tl roughout the day. At the close
the market was stead? with prices a net
decline of 6 to io points front the final
quotations of Friday
RANGE IN NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
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j u i k in i § c
i r ■ ® u<l " iFy
O i Si rM Isjto ! G
Oct. 10.81 10 88 10 81 17> xTTiTi’S To S4~v.
Nov. 10 73-75 10 80-82 1
Dec. 10.71'10'- 1" 7.10 71 10.7:: 71 10.80-M j
■Tan 10.80110 84 10 70 10 70 10.70-77 10.83-81
Feb 10.78-so 10.81-S'
Mar. 10.00 11 |0 In 92 10 93 10.02-I'3 11.01-02 j
Ap, • t • • | t 00
Max 11.07 I■■ 10 11.04 11.01 ii .05-0 ; 11.14-151
June 11 "7 OH 11.17-In i
.Lily 11.04 11.1 1. IS 11. LOT 1. IS In 11.27 j
Closed .stead?.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Opening Previous
Range Close. Close.
Futures opened Hleud'.
Oct .0.00 0.02 0.08
Oct.-Nov .5. Itii -6.00 5.99 6.05
Nov.-Dec...90 ii.Ni 5 99
Dec.-.Tan5,91 -5.90 5,9.3 O.oo'j
Jen.-Feb . -5 "4 .. 5.94'- 6,0| >..
Feb.-Mar s.:>S' a 5.96 «.02> ■
JU fir.. Apr ~ 5 97'., '. 02',j.
Apr.-Ma' .5 9' -5 97'.. 5.99 6.05
May-June . • •.: 7 -5'J6 1 - 600 '..0il
June-July 5.97 -5 96'- 600 6.0il
Jul? -Aug 5.9, -5.9:'6 00 11.06
Closed steady.
Following is the Liverpool cotton state
ment for the week ending Frida . ttcio
her 11:
‘ 1012. ” ITTi . !_J9ia_ |
Week's sales tIi.OOO .76,0"0 ,o.oOtt
Os which American 44,000 <4,000 56,000
For export.. 1.100 2.100 2.000
For speculation... 1.900 it.iioo; 3.100
Forwarded . 75,000 8.3,000' 74,000
Os which American 64,000
Total stocks . 48'.',000'.''lO.Ono 9.9.000
Os which American.,347,ooo 153.000,204,000
Actual exports 1,000 ll.oon 3,000
Week's receipts. 80.000 102.000 65.000
lif which Ameri an. 72.00" UH ,000 63.000
Since Sept. 1 205 000 32 290.000
Os which American. 227.000 281.000 241 ."00
Stocks afloat ;418,000i459 t 000|430,000
Os w hich American. .368.000 432.000d1110.000
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
CHICAGO. Oct. 12 Hoge Receipts
7.500: market 5c higher, mixed and butch
ers $8.75479 40: good heavy so. 15® 9.45.
rough hear y $8.50® 9.101 light $8.90® 9.35:
pigs $6.00® 8.25; bulk $9.10.,9.3".
Cattle Receipts 800; market steady;
beeves $5.75®i1.00; cows and heifers $3 25
(88.50; Stockers and feeder $1"" n 7.50.
Texans $4 5017 9.00; calves $5.5010.25
Sheep Receipts 1.500; market stead?
native and Western $3.00® 1.40; lamin
$4.50® 6.85
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• WEEKLY COTTON .STATISTICS.*
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Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans
cotton exchange statement, issued hefort
the close of business Frida? hows a de
crease in tlte movement Into sight com
pared with the seven da? 1 ending ibis
date last year in round figures 12,000.
an increase over th' -.inn days year be
fore last of 65,000 and a decrease under
the same time in 190:' of 32.000
For the eleven days of October the 10
tai an increa e over last year of
3.000, an increase over the sanu period
year before last of 1'2.000. and an increase
over the same time in 1909 of :"',OOO.
For the forty-one days of tie season
that have elapsed the aggregate is behind
the forty-on< days of Inst year 17'1.000.
■head of ,he sai: e days year before last
894.000. and ahead of 1909 by 105.000
The amount brought into sight during
the past week lias been 561.000 bales,
■gainst 577.071 for the !.»-? en nays end
ing this date last year. 49,871. year be
for< lust and 5'6.847 same time in 11'09.
and fcr the eleven days of October It
lies been '33.691 , against :'.".i',ss • last year.
791.822 year before last and !•' >.OOB same
tin., in 19(-
The movement since September I shows
receipt'- at nil United States ports 1.
821,013, aymr.-t 1,927 865 last year, 1.501.-
872 same time in 1909. "verland across
the Mississippi. <'hio and Potomac rivers
to Northern mills and Canada 20.134.
■gains: 35.164 hist year. 2' . year be-
fore last and 35.223 same time in 1909;
interim stocks it, excess <1 held
at the close of 1 inmi icial v.-itr 221.-
865. aga.i.st .7-. ... .1 r. t' .5b , .1
before last ami 100,311 same litm 11 |
190'. Southern .. ~l's' takings 293,000.
■ga.il ,052 ? ear be
fore las: and 267.v.2 u,. .. ) n 1:09
These make the total movement for ti e
fort?--or. days of tht Sep
tetnber 1 to da' 2,;;59,m; ..loiusi ;• 5:1.
lay! ?ear. 1.964.51’7 ?ear b,i,,re last and
2.253.858 same time it, 1909
Northern ninis taxings am I’m ,|p .
lug the past ■' • n days show
of 29,269. as compared " It ' e , ."it
spending perino las, year. ~: , |
takings since Septembei 1 havt decreased
64,020. Tl total takings x ■■••••.,t.
mills. Nortl , South and Cant
for the sea or. 1 ave l" tr • '2.5: : igainst '
462.311 last year TP, jn< ' 1; jin
b?' Northern -mi.:, rs. agu.%- t:*,..::0
St'H-ks at the seaboard ami the twenty
nine leading s .uthern it ter ~r 1 enters
have increased durlt c Hie week 200.031
bales, against an itu i. as during tht
corresp. nd,ng. pet., .: t of 20',.
099 and ar, now 100.6'7 less than at tills
date in 1911.
Including stock- left ovet ports and
interior towns from the last crop and the
number of bales brought nti sight thu
far from the new > "op. the supplv to
337 for the same period last v < . r
World’s Visible Supply.
Secretar? Hester's statement of the'
world's Vlsibh sunpl'’ of . i; . |
from special cable and t<.r , ~|‘. 1
vice® compares the sign- • tl w >■, 1
with last week, last yi ai nd :io 9 ~1
before. It'shows an
week just closed ol 874 8 agait
increase of 238.1.44 year b< r. 1
The total visible is 147 .-'.a'rs',
3,013,058 la-1 week 2.7t">.'' last '.a*
snd 2,386,385 year befon 1..--t lit -
the total of American i-ottoi 6.147
■ gainst 3,236.058 lust week, 2 • '.. ■
year and 1.844,385 yeat before
of all other kind* Inciw ng Kt Bi
ril. India, etc. 791.04X1. agains: 177,
last week. 537.000 last ? car and 54_"im
year bet ire last
The total world's visible supplv of cot
l"t :.s above show - nil increast ...mpat.. ■
with a t week of 374,089 an it er. a-' I
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[ATLANTA MARKETS’
EGGS Fresh cnuniry candled, 23%t.24c.
BUTTER Jersey and creamery. In 1 lb.
blocks, 25©27>ic; fresh country dull, 15(jj,
1 17Uc.
DRESSED POULTRY—Tirswn. head
■nd feet on. per pound: Hens. 17tU18c; I
fries, 2547 roosters. 8® 10c; turkeys,
owing to fatness, I
LIVE POULTRY Hens, 45<b50c; roost- 1
1 ers 25(h35<- fries, 25u35e; broilers, 20f« ,
25c: puddle ducks. 25y30c: f’ekin ducks.
35'• in.•: gees« 50<<i60c each; I urkeys. ow
ing to fatness. 15(9 18'‘.
FRUITS AND PRODUCE.
FRUIT AND \ LGETABLES- Lemons,
fancy, S7UB per box; California oranges,
$4.00'7 1.50 per box; bananas, .Tu3?k<' per'
pound; cabbage, 75(481 per nound: pea I
nuts, per pound, fancy Virginis 6' / j®7c, I
choice. 5': f (/6c; beans, round green. 7fco
SI pert-rate; squash, yellow, 6-basket crt. ;
$10041125; lettuce, fancy, $1.75412.00,1
choice $L25®1.50 per crate, beets, $1 50® '
2 per baTrl. cucumbers. Tocttii per crate; '
Irish potatoes per barrel, $2.50®3.00; old
Irish potatoes, $1,00®1.16.
'gg plants. s2®2 s't pe crate; pepper,
$1(1 ','s per cratr : tomatoes, fancy, six- 1
basket crates $1 00®’ 25; choice i<v
toe ,seVsloo. pineapples. S 2 ‘Ki®2.2s per I
I crate, onions. 75< 4/41*'0 per bushel; sweet
potato' -, pumpkin ?am. 754i86c per bush
-1 el; watermelons, slo® 15 r>er hundred; I
cantaloupes, per crate. $2 754'r 3 00.
PROVISION MARKET
(Corrected by White Provision Company.) 1
Cornfield hams, 10 to 12 pounds average ,
11'g'.
Cornfield hams 12 to 14 pounds average,
17Uc
Cornfield skinned hams. 16 to 18 pounds
average. 18c.
Cornfield pickled pig's feet, 15-pound
kits. $1.25.
Cornfield jellied meat in 10-lb. dinner I
pail. 12' 2 e.
Cornfield picnic hams, B to 8 pounds
average. I - 4 c
Cornfield breakfast bacon, 24c.
Grocer style bacon (wide or narrow),
18 Uc.
Cornfield fresh, f ork sausage (link or '
bulk 1 25-pound buckets. 12*ic.
Cornfield franl;furters, 10 pound buck
lets. average 12c.
Cornfield nologna sausage, 25-pound
: boxes. 10.
Cornfield luncheon hams. 25-pound
I boxes, 13c
Cornfield smoked link sausage, 25-
[ pound boxes, 9c.
Cornfield smoked link sausage In pickle,
50-pound inns. $4.75.
Comfit Id frankfurters In pickle, 15-
I pound kits, $1.65.
c.irnfield pute lard, tierce basis, 13', 4 c.
i Country style pure lard. bO-oound tint
i only 12%c.
Compound lard (tierce basis), 9',4c.
I'. S. extra ribs. 12 a «c.
11 S. rib bellies, medium average. 13' 4 e.
D S. rib bellies, light average, 13'Ac.
FLOUR AND GRAIN
FLOUR I’osfcn s Elegant, $7.25: Ome
ga. $7.50; Gloria 'self rising'. $6.35; Vic
tory (finest patent). $6 35; Diamond
(patent), >6.25. Monogram, *5.8.1; Golden
( rain, $5 10; I-a nil less, (inert. >6.25: Home
Queen (highest patent), $5.75; Puritan I
(highest p.-ifentL $5.75 Paragon (highest
patent), $5.75; Sun Rise (half patent),
$5.25: White Cloud (highest patent),
ent 1. $5.60; White Lily thigh patent),
$5.60: White Daisy, $5.60; Sunbeam, $5.35;
Southern Star 'patent >. $5.25; Ocean
Spta' Ip.-ifel.ll. $5.25: Tulip (straight),
1 $4.25: King Cotton (half patent). $5.00.
' ('ORN White, rod cob. $105; Np. 2
white. $1,08; eracked, $1.05; yellow. $l.00;
t'dxerl. 98e.
.MEAL Plain 144-pound sacks, 96c; 96-
pound sacks. 97c; 48-jvound sacks, 99c;
24-pound sacks, $1.01; 12-pound sacks,
$1.03.
OATS Fancy clipped, 52c; No. 2 clipped
51c; fancy white, 50c; No, 2 white. 49c;
No. 2, mixed. 48c; Texas rust proof, 65c;
Oklahoma rust proof, 58c; appior, 85c
COTTON SEED MEAL Harper. $28.00.
COTTON SEED HULLS Square sacks,
$lO 00 per ton. Oat straw. 65c per bale.
SEEDS (Sacked): Wheat Tennessee
blue stem, $1.(15; Gorman millet, $1 65;
ember cane seed. $1.55: cane seen, orange,
$1,50; rye (Tonne, eoi. || 25; red top cane
seed, $1.35: rye (Georgia). $1.35; red rust
prof oats. 72c; Bort oats, 75c; winter graz
ing. 70c; blue seed oats. 50c. barley. $1.25.
HAY I’et hundredweight: Timothy,
choice large bales. <1 40; No. I small,
$1 25.: No. 2 small, $1.20; clover hay, $1.50;
alfalfa bay, chonco 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, SI.OO.
FEEDSTUFF
SHuRTS ■White 100-lb. sacks, $2; Dan
dy middling. 100-lb sacks, $1.95; fancy
7.1 lb. sack, $1 99; 1' W.. 75-lb. sacks. $1.75
brown, 100-lb. sacks. $1.70: Georgia feed,
75-lb sacks, $1.75; bran. 75-lb. sacks, $1.10;
100-lb. sacks. $1.40; Homecloine, $1.75;
Germ imal Hotneco, $1 70; sugar beet
pulp, 100-lb. sacks, $1.50; 75-lb sacks.
$1.50.
CHICKEN EEED Beef scraps, 50-lb.
sacks. $3.50; 100-lb sacks. $3.25; Victory
pigeon feed. $2.35; 50-lb. sacks, $2.25; Pu
rina scratch, 100-lb. sacks, $2.10; Purina
pigeon feed. 45: Purina baby chick,
$2.30; Purina chowder, do::, lb. packages.
$2,45: Purina chowder. 100-lb. sacks. $2.25;
Success baby chick. $3.10; Eggo, $2.15;
Victory baby chick. $2 30; Victory scr-i'ch,
100-lb. sacks. 82.10; Victory scratch. 50-lb.
sacks. $2.20; Superior scratch. $2.10;
Chicken Sibiess baby chick, $2.10; wheaL
2-bushel bags, per bushel, $1.40; oyster
shell. 80c
r THE WEATHER”!
Conditions.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 There will be
ram tonight m the lower Lake regions,
the middle Atlantic slab s ami New Eng
land. followed by fair weather Sundae,
except 111 northern New England. Else
where east of the Mississippi river the
" "'her will be fair tonight and Sunday
except in Florida, where there will be
showers.
It will be colder tonight and Sunday
from the Luke region southward in the
interior of the Southern stales and colder
Sunday in western New England.
Storm warnings are <lisplaye<l on the
Great latkes, except western superior
General Forecast
I allowing is the general foreeast until
| 7 p. tn. Sunday :
Georgia laical showers tonight or Sun
day in northern: generally fair in south
ern tiortmn: colder tonight in northwest
portion; slightly colder Sunday in the
northern portion.
Virginia Showers tonight or Sunday;
■ elder tonight in northern portion: colder
Sundav
. .North Carollnii Clear In eastern, show
ers in western portion tonight or Sunday;
slightly ce'der Sunday in western anil
central portions.
South Carolina Fair in eastern and
si'Uthern: showers in northwest portion
lon.ght or Sunday: colder Sunday in
northwest portion.
Florida Local showet s tonight or Sun
day. except fair in northwest jjortion.
Ah.bama Generally fair tonight and
Sunday . colder tonight in northern por
tion
Mississippi Generally faT tonight and
Sunday ; colder tonight.
c' tni ired with last y ear of 6.'4,068. and I
an ‘ iiv •i;■ -e i ompared w th vi ur before
last of 1.000,762
t'f tlie world's visible supply of cot
te” .is above there is now afloat and held
hn Great Britain and I'ontlnental Europe
h , agairst 1.38;;,t4>" last year and
i I..'A.tn 1 " yiar befor< last in Egypt 1’".- '
000, againsl 54,000 last year and 82.0001
1 year beto-e last: in Indi:'. 398,000. against I
; ,a.iiei year and 232.1'00 year befote
last, ’!> the I’nited States 1.752,000, •
.gainst 1.0 la-t year ami 804 000 year
l vt.it e last
Worlo's Sp linens' Takings
Sectetary llestci gives the taking
I Imeiman cotton b. j inm is throughout
the world as follow. n round numbers
'flits wiik 11> .■ . ,oCi' this year.
>g.limit 2 .."CO last year and 2541,000 year
lefofe !a-
Tot.il sn.. . s, pt, mt.et I .his yeat <a ' I
1 115.00". ie-t i. 1 .con last tear and
•55.000 th< • ear before
'•f H■- \ i .ii pinners and Canada
' ■ tl s ••." aea.t.st 196,-
i'.' " I•‘'t vat i t f 0 ("to Hie year be-
'• ' • ' " '' ■'■t i■ ■ it'" "0". agu in.-t I
2'.'..0’ ■ >-■ yen- 241.000 -he year be I
I tel' .l l (..leigll -I'llit'i I ' 673.000. eg., eat ,
ill ..in last t-.tr .nd 504,000 the year
'a t It • hi. s 'lull. • i..t pip. . orre on I
I ',041a Vtan.-., t'aer mm - > "00 It Hl I
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•JBE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEff a SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1012.
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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 14,000 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 tor 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 tvrelve 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.
ThecontractsforbuildingSewers, 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 super vised 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; that is, 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 lias been done
and is being done as fast as men and money can do it economically, and the money is not being vzasted, and has not been wasted
We appeal to the judgment of all fair-minded citizens and especially experts in the lines mentioned in’support 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, A. J. JOHNSON, J. J GREER. I jj RAGSDALF
Ex-Mayor J. J WEST. H. H. HICKS, JOMN w G p
COURTLAND S. WINN, C. D. KNIGHT, R. A HEMPHILL. 1
Mayor. J. N HARRIS J R. NUTTTNG JOHN S. CAISDLER.
F A. QUILLIAN. • JAMES E. WARREN. R. L. AV ARY. ’ JOEL HURT
Chairman Bond Commisison. C. E. MURPHEY, F. J. SPRATLING. W. E WILLINGHAM
W H TERRELL. C. J. VAUGHN, CRAIG COFIELD, JULE SKINNER.