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Newspaper Page Text4 ATLANTA IS GIVEN BOOST BY NOTED NEWSPAPER The Christian Science Monitor. Great Religious Daily. Calls This Leading Dixie City. Atlanta's progress anri the fuiure of the city fa the subject of a half-pege feature article in The Christian Science Monitor, of Boston the most widely circulated religious newspaper in the world. The article is illustrated with views of the downtown section of the city, showing the impressive skyline along Peachtree and Whitehall streets Here is the article "AU Americans are familiar with the name of Atlanta but comparatively few beyond the neighboring states realize what strides this city of widely diversi fied industries and interest is making and hes made during the last five years. "This city, the capital of Georgia, has a population of 175,000. an area of 26 2-3 Kfuare miles and an elevation of 1050 feet ibove sea level The city occupies a com mending site on the crest of the ridge that divides the watershed of the South itlantic coast from that of the Gulf of Mexico. Part of the waler that falls in the city limits flows into the Atlantic oceen The altitude gives Atlanta a brazing atmosphere and flne natural drainage "Atlanta's business edifices, it is claim ed. are the largest, stateliest and the moet substantial in the Southern slates. Atlanta is the great center of industry, railroads, finance, publication. Insurance and commerce for the Southern states Its municipal activities have spread over a territory of 26 2-3 square miels. It. has about 36.000 dwelling houses. 235 churches, 120 apartments houses, five theaters. 56 public schools, a great terminal station, a magnificent postoffice, built at a cost of 51,000,000. a beautiful and commodious state capitol. built between 1885 anri 1889, ala cost of $1,000,000, which. It is said, would now cost more than $2,000,000. a great auditorium, which will sea> 6.500 peoeple: 1* hotels. 14 great flreproof of fice buildings, with 4.000 rooms: a manu facturing Industry which turns out $50,- 000,000 worth of products per annum. In surance business which brings in $lO,- 000,000 worth of premiums to the general agencies of this city: bank clearings of more than $600,000,000 and poab'ffice re celpts greater than those of any other city in the Southern states, and the greatest and most influential newspapers 1n that region. "Atlantas manufacturing Industries, about 548 In number, turn out a very large variety of articles, something like 1,000 The great advantage in industry of such a varlett is shown by the high pro portion of increase in value added to the raw materia! by the process of manufac ture Strength as Market. “The last census shows that the added value, due to the process of manufacture tn Pulton county, Georgia, of which At lanta is the county seat, is 40 per cent. Another Southern city famous for Its manufactures, was only 21 per cent. The difference Is due to the great variety of high <lass articles made in Atlanta. ■'Atlanta's strength as a market is in dicated by the fact that of 312,000 mer chants doing business in the Southern states, quoted by Bradstreet's agency, more than 126,000 have bought goods in Atlanta during the past five tears, ac cording to the records of the Atlanta Credit Men's association Os 112,000 mer chants in the Southeastern states. 76.000 have bought goods in Atlanta during the last five teats There is hardly another Southern city that can make a statement showing such strength ax a market. "The productive power of Atlanta's ter ritory is increasing at a rapid rate. In 1810 the value of farm and factory prod ucts in Georgia was in round numbers $450,000,000 .1 Phil Campbell, state su- perintendent of the corn club work in Georgia, is authority for the statement that within the past three years the value of Georgia corn crops ha« increased by $30,000.000 The average yield par acre is increasing evert year and is now 60 per cent larger than it was five years ago Big Increase in Crops "Secretary .lames Wilson, of the t'nited States department of agriculture, stated to a committee from the Atlanta iTam het of Commerce tn October 1910, that there had been within five tears so in crease of 200,000,000 bushels in the corn crops of the Southern states Tills ha attrihted large), to the systematic and widespread agitation of improved meth ods of intensive farming This system employs methods known as farm and demonstration work and boys' corn club work and girls' clubs n now covers the entire Southern states from t trgtma to 1 exax and has the co-opera tion tn some states of the state depart ment of agriculture and in others of the state colleges of agriculture In Georgia there is active and very effective co-oper ation between the l'nite.l States depart ment of agriculture and the state college of agriculture, so that thi.fi state is lead ing the progress in improved agriculture. Leads in Building. Atlanta is leading the South in building The highest record from previous years is $7,500,000 during 1910: this record will be ex>ceded in 1912 and the permits will ag gregate between sß.ttoo,ooo and $9,000,000. September alone will show a total of $2. oiiO.OOO of budding permits issued Io the f, 1 > Ailanta. *i He two notable itetiiN in bep. ember permits are the >700.000 office r ‘ K , ' e kun bv Joel Hurt and the l»oo - 000 building begun bv W p ||,. a |, ■ these. It Is claimed, will he the tines' aid larges; buildings of their kind In the W Hit all of this Atlanta is a will . national center, wtth 24,vth> pupils en rolled tn the public scltools. and over 7 *»00 students In te< him a! and „n,. , tost tlom of various kinds Th,. Ge..'gi,. School of Technology. with a total enroll ment of more than 800 students «l<lered the greatest leclinieai school in the South, and its graduates fill ( .„ KIK ~f honor and usefulness in all parts of tie I nlted States. While some haw ,|i sli; . gtuahed themselves in foreign , ~j ril eM from Mexico to Japan One secret of Atlanta's remarkable growth Is to be found. In the tact mat the people pull together on all questions that affect the growth and prosperity ..r ' *.L -'tty Fhey have a splendid civil prl-b- Which is known as the "Vlaira spirit in great crises an appeal to >|- s j. neV( ,.. t-eard ,n vain The business an., protes donal men of Atlanta z-.- more ,'t me - me and mone- -. public work than tl <e Arnim °Thf r ' f’ther community >n the through the . Chamber Commerce tor all r'»*th J J > b u H4 l . n $ tne C,! V or mtvovemen' a 'YT bus mess in ’ ?'?. ' ' ,r '* '* rerr STzed as the teed 1 in m. progress of me <z n .,m START WORK FOR BIGCONVENTIONS Boosters to Seek More National Meetings for Atlanta—Hotel Men Lend Helping Hand. President Wilmer L. Moore, of the I Chamber of Commerce, today is busy appointing a committee of two business leaders from each local interest most vitally affected by conventions in At lanta, and the exhortation of the cham ber to the committee will be. “Go out and get conventions." Mr. Moore's ac tion follows the action of a represen tative body of citize .s lasi night at a dinner which the Atlanta Hotel Men’s association gave at the Piedmont hotel. Jim Williams made the motion which was necessary before t he chamber could proceed and it was carried unani mously. This committee w ill make a study of the convention system and the most important of the 4,000 conventions meeting annually throughout the United States, with the idea of bring ing as many as possible to Atlanta. This Is the first deflnite move in the proposed campaign to make Atlanta truly the "Convention City" of the Southeast. The committee will act temporarily, until more definite plans can be made for a convention bureau to be located In the new Chamber of Commerce building and to work in con nection with the chamber. “Atlanta is a good convention city, but is sleeping on Its arms." deviated President Moore at the banquet at whfeh Lee M. Jordan, attorney for the hotel men, presided. Secretary Cooper has done great work in his office, but the poin> has been reached where it is impossible for him to extend this im portant work. We must have more con ventions. and we must send home each delegate as a booster of Atlanta. "Charleston Spirit” Cited. "Put more money in your Chamber of Commerce." urged A W. MeKeand, secretary of the Charleston chamber of Commerce, and formerly a Valuable cit izen of Oklahoma City. "Charleston members are paying as much as Atlan tans. and recently a S trtanburg mer chant gave SI,OOO anri two Greenville men SSOO each. When you business men realize that visitors spend an average of $7.50 a day each, you will stand behind your commercial body in better fashion." Others who spoke were Lee Jordan, S. B Turman, for the tea! estate deal ers; E. L. Adams, for the wholesale grocers, and J. R. B. Hobson director of the Chamber of Commerce. The following hotel men were pres ent : H N. Dutton, president; Fred Hous er. secretary. R. F. Taylor, .1. Lee Barnts. George I* Lottgee. .1 !■'. Wil liams. George C. Kean, I.ee Jordan, J R. Watts, Harry Silverman. Ed Brown W W. Boyd, M A. Irwin and R. B Brittain The guests included. besides the speakers, V H. Kriegs ha bet, Walter G Cooper. Ivan Allen, W H Leahy, J A Hibblns, Brooks Morgan. Charles I' Glove, Lloyd Parks. It S Wessels, John Aldredge, W. F. Parkhurst and B A. Bake. TORNADO KILLS 400 NATIVE FILIPINOS; TWO ISLANDS SWEPT MANILA. P !.. Oct. 19.—United States soldiers are being dispatched for elief work into the typhoon-swept dis tricts of Cebu and Leyte islands, where mote than 400 natives were killed and $10,000,000 damage done. Over 2.500 buildings were blown down and crops were wiped out. Two government boats filled with foodstuffs, blankets and medical sup plies for the injured were sent today Although the storm struck Wednes day night and raged so 48 hours, de tails of the devastation were not re ceived until today. Twenty villages were destroyed. Scores of tithing boats were sunk. Thousands were made homeless by the storm and, as a result of the destruc tion of ciops. starvation will soon menace the inhabitants The sugar, cocoanut and hemp crops were almost wiped out. Cebu anri l-eyte is.ands He nea ly 300 miles southeast of this city. There are United States military depots on the islands Among the homeless are a numbe of American planters whose sugar and hemp ranches lay in the path of the tornado. Warwick barracks and the military hospital of the islands were damaged. HIGH SCHOOL SPOONERS MUST OBTAIN PERMITS BOSTON. Oct. 19.—Spooning in the (.>• idors of the Lynn High school must stop until spooners have permits from parents. Is the latest ruling of Principal Charles S Jackson whost previous in] ings abolished v-iga ettes and hobbit skirt i Saved By His Wife. She's a w ise woman who known lust what to do when m-r husbands it to is in Ganger, but Mis R j Blain ; tree. \ t is of that kind. “She insisted on my using Dr Kings New Discov ery." writes Mr. F. for a dreadful 1 o 'KT when I wa» so weak my friends ali thought I had only a short time to liie. and it completely cured me." A quick cure for coughs and colds it's the most safe and reliable medicine for many throat and lung troubles—grip, aronchitf croup, whooping rough quinsy tonsi'itis, hemorrhage; v trial wtil convince you 50 < ts. and $t 0 0 Guaranteed by all druggists (Advt.i ; Eugenie Blair in “Madame ,X." next week at the Lyric. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWSLSATT KDAY, OCTOBER 19. ISiz. SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS Since Jake Moore died there has been no Georgia politician of his persuasion so well Known in country singing cir clet as is the Hon '-' Xi, k jAHX-S ft SITVIN Green Berry Hol der, of Floyd county, sever il times a member o' the legislature, who is having a look in on things Atlanta w ise to day Mt Under ,tnd Mr. Mo 'e were boon companions, and although the firmer has for - ken man -of the paths poiit i'. .(l since his friend departed this earth, he still keeps up his at- tendance upon (ountry singings, and will walk miies any old day to get to one and participate in it. Mr Holder says this is the very best season of the year to attend all-day country singings. He asserts that the season not only is entirely propitious, but that the singers, with all of the summer’s practice behind them, are better- singers now than they possibly could have been before. Ul-day country singings are never used for political purposes, of course, so far as anybody will admit, right out in meeting. But they furnish a safe and sure, as well as pleasant, way to keep up political fences, nevertheless, and for that purpose they are employed incidentally by many wise ones with an eye foT getting there. The dav invariably is divided into two sections, and between them is served, generally, anyway, a fine basket dinner, consisting of fried chicken ga lore, many sorts of sandwiches, and al ways—and ever—lemon tarts! Besides being helpful to aspiring pol iticians, all-day singings are happy oc ca.-ions, and the man who attends them regulaily and particularly if he acts the part of "tune-highster." invariably is a man of standing and Influence—and frequently he gets elected to the leg islature. The Hon. Green Berry Holder has been elected to the legislature several times —and can get elected some more if he wishes! Governor Joseph M. Blown speaks in glow tug terms of the Georgia state fair, now in progress in Macon. The executive attended the fair on Thursday, and he says it is a distinct credit to the management, and is, in many resp , e best failr/by far. ht ever attended. The governot is something of a farmer himself, and prides himself upon his general information along agricultural lines, and more especially as a judge of live stock. He says there never has been shown anywhere, at any time, a finer exhibit of hogs than the one now to be seen at the state fair in Macon. Senator George W Deen, of Way cross. besides being one of the best politicians in his end of the state, is an enthusiast on the subject of pecan cul ture. When the senator 'first undertook to put over the pecan Idea in south Geor gia many people gave him the merry ha-ha and said nothing ever would come of it. save a Jot of wasted time and energy that might be put to better purposes. Nevertheless. Deen went right along with bis cranky pecan notions and re cently—they first began to call him a pecan crank some ten years ago—he gathered 58 pounds of the finest variety of papershell nuts from one tree and there are easily that many more on the same tree not yet ready for gathering. Deen thinks he has been going some in the pecan business of late, and his neighbors think so. too, nowadays. They no longer refer to him derisively as a "pecan crank," at least! As a result of former Representative Seaborn Wright's activities in Rome of late, that northwest Georgia municipal ity has the lid on just a little bit tighter perhaps, than any other town in Georgia ever knew it to be. Not only has every locket club in the city been closed upon motion of the famous prohibition leader but now about half the town has been indicted for pool playing on the loser-pay-for the-game plan, which is the way poo 1 has been played immemorlally in Geor gia. even if that is technically illegal The supreme court has held that a Checking Accounts Or Savings Whether you want a regular open account, subject to check, or a savings account earning in terest. we can afford you thoroughly desirable facilities. Aside from the very convenient location of this hank, and its excellent equipment, we be lieve you will like our methods of doing business. We have a Department exclusively for Women. Fourth National Bank By JAMES B. NEVIN. game of pool played on the loser-pay for-the-game plan is gambling—hence 23 indictments by the Floyd county grand jury against a number of the best young men in Rome. The Rome Tribune-Herald seems to have lost patience, more or less, too, with the crusade for righteousness now in progres in Rome, and says: "Going to extremes never before heard of in the state by indicting 23 young men, some of them among the most prominent and upright men of the city for playing pool, loser-pay-sot-the-game. the grand jury just adjourned enjoys the sat isfaction of having made Rome tne 'tightest' town in the state, if not in the United States. "Several niembets of the I.aw and Order league expressed regret that matters had been carried so far and did not hesitate to say so. “.Mr. Man with t family, who re members to have matched for a dope last summer, is spending the evenings with his wife, in constant fear that Sheriff Dunehoo’s shadow will darken his door at any mo ment. • "Just how long the present state of affairs will last can not be fore told, but the lid is on and ten thousand tons of lead are on top of it. "This is a law-abiding commu.- nity. Rome is one of the quietest and most orderly towns in any state at night. Many of its best citizens feel that this procedure is the limit." As president of the Law and Order league of Rome, former Representative Wright, who put prohibition on the statute books of Georgia, is going some in his home town, all right enough! Ed Wohlwender, of Muscogee, sev eral times a member of the house of representatives, and just re-elected to membership in the next, wijl be a can didate for speaker pro tern. This is an office of considerable dis tinction, and usually goes to some member popular with his associates and sufficiently informed in parliamentary law to hold things down in the speak er's absence. As Wohlwender fills both of these re quirements handsomely, he is apt to develop into a most formidable candi date for the honor he seeks. CHARGES AGAINST WINN REFERRED TO VETS’ HOME BOARD Governor Brown has referred to the board of trustees of the Confederate Soldiers Home the charges of miscon duct brought by Hugh Colquitt and Mrs, Clare,-head nurse, against Thomas E. Winn, one of the trustees. The trustees hesitated to consider these charges, because of the tact that Winn is a member of the board. The governor, however, has informed the board that that fact need cause them no hesitation whatever, as their au thority is ample. The governor desires the trustees to go thoroughly Into the charges, and set forth the exact truth of the dispute be tween Winn, on the one hand, and Col quitt and Mrs. Clare, on the other. No statement has been given out by Winn since the charges were lodged with the executive, but he is ex-pecte-d to defend himself vigorously. ROADSIo ~EXHiBff~AT GEORGIA-ALABAMA FAIR COLCMBUS, GA.. Oct. 19.—Secretary J. B. Banks has returned from Macon, where he had been attending the state fair in the Interest of the Georgia-Alabama fair in -,ris city November 27 to December 7. While in Macon he closed contracts with the Central of Georgia railroad and the Southern railway to bring their exhibits to the fair in this city. Each has five ears of exhibits consisting of agricultural, dairy and live stock exhibits. WANT HAIR GROWTH? 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GA, Oct. 19.—Augusta is herself once mote, after three weeks of martial law and 26 days df demor alization because of a strike on the city and Aiken divisions of the Augusta- Aiken Railway and Electric Corpora tion Shortly before midnight the strike was officially declared ended and the cars are being operated today with for mer union and non-union employees. All of the strikers have returned to work with the exception of 23, against whom the company preferred charges. It is that these men committed acts of violence against the property and employees of the company during the strike. Their cases will be arbi trated and if they are reinstated they will be paid for the lost time. The list of 23 includes the officers and commit teemen of the local union. The near-beer saloons have been re opened and martial Jaw is to be lifted during the day. The strike has cost four lives and thousands of dollars to the state and city, while the amounts that have been lost to local business people run Into hundreds of thousands. The car men won shorter hours and two cents per hour increase in wages, but lost the! contention for a "closed shop." U- . DI c ; dele gates named. R£herfGY(Fchipt£ sta"e e of this month. The delegates are .Mrs W. H. Tucker and Miss Anna Caroline Benning, while the alternates are Mrs Redd 1 Thweatt and Miss Mary Lewis Hete is a woman who speaks from personal knowledge and long expe rience, viz Mrs. P. H. Brogan, of Wil son. Pa., who says: “f know from ex perience that Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is far superior to any other. L° r c ™ up t , he £ e is nothing that excels it. For sale by all dealers. (Advt.) Hearst s Magazine FOR NOVEMBER ON ALL NEWS STANDS TODAY! 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