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SOUTH WARES)
FOR PROSPERITY
HIGH TIDE
Business Men and Industrial
Plants Flooded With Orders
Despite Election Year.
This is the story of t he story the
reporter didn’t get.
He was sent out for interviews with
business men on what they think about
the Democratic victory. He dfdn t get
them.
“Sorry, but I haven't time now,” said
the first merchant he saw. "I’m Just
rushing a bunch of buyers to the New
York market for the biggest lot of or
ders my house has ever placed. Then
I’ve got to hurry down to the bank and
arrange for a big loan for enough to
discount my bills, and then I've a cus
tomer to see about a large-sized prop
osition. I really haven’t, had time to
bother about politics.”
That's the way it went all up and
down the street. Everybody was glad
Wilson had won, but gladder still that
the election was over and everybody
was back at business. If any of them
anticipated the country was bound for
the bow-wows, they didn't show it.
Election Had No Effect.
"The best forecast of big business j
arid general prosperity I have seen is
the scarcity of political talk for the past
three months,” said Forrest Adair.
"No: it wasn't apathy. The big vote
proves that. It was just that the peo
ple have outgrown the idea that a
presidential year means a general tear
ing up of business. Why, the fact that
this was election year didn’t cause any
trouble at all. The people thought
things over, made up their minds and
voted when the time came, but they
didn't let It interfere with business.”
One of the leading cotton mill owners
was asked for his opinion of the ef
fect of Wilson’s election.
"The output of our mill for 1913 Is
almost completely sold In advance,” he
replied. "It was sold before anybody
knew who would be elected, and the
buyers figured that prices were going
up no matter who won out. You can
ask all the other mill men and they'll
tell you the same thing. We shall hard
ly be in position to fill any new orders
for many, many months. * It looks like
a big year all round."
Bradstreet’s Sees Great Year.
"Money won’t be extra plentiful
among Georgia planters,” said a cotton
buyer. "Cotton has reached sls a bale
more than last year at this time, and
that’s good for thoee who have it, but
there was hardly more than half a crop.
Os course, that's one reason the price
is good. But still I look for a good
year all over the state.”
-J. E. C. Pedder, division superin
tendent of the Bradstreet company,
keeps in touch with business condi
tions all over the South. In sizing up
the general situation, he said:
"We find our manufacturers loaded
down with orders, and some, notably
in iron and cotton lines, have enough
business sold ahead to keep them going
for months to com,-. In wholesale and
lobbing lines we find practically the
same condition —liberal orders and more
of them than for the same season for
.rears past.
"For the past three years there has
been a very unsettled feeling. Orders
were scaled down to the minimum, the
retail trade simply living from hand to
mouth, being willing apparently to
send tilling in' orders when actually
needing necessities instead of carrying
their usual stocks. The natural result
of this repression is that now that the
demand has arrived, they are making
such liberal ordefs that manufacturers,
wholesalers and jobbers are being
faxed to their utmost to keep up with
them.
Auto Trade Never Better.
"The South today, as a whole, 1 con
sider Is in the best possible shape to
'ake advantage of the prosperity that
is already upon us. She is improving
all along the line—every hamlet, vil
lage, town and city is building up rap
idly and forging ahead, and her prog
ress is the envy and marvel of the civ
ilized world.”
The Atlanta Steel Company, it is re
ported, has sold its output far ahead,
and this Indicates a great deal of Con
struction work for the future, as one
of the company’s principal outputs is
steel nails and railroad material.
Automobile dealers say their busi
ness never was better, and that the
• oinlng automobile show will bring a
'laiwest of orders for 1913 models.
They say that the craze for auto
mobiles has ruined the jewelry trade.”
’emarked one jeweler. "Well, our busi
ness in diamonds and expensive silver
ib twenty per cent ahead of this time
last year.”
M curm THER A - MANGUM,
SHERIFF’S AUNT. IS DEAD
'‘ , ' c Esther Ann Mangum, aged 91
who had lived In Atlanta forty
vears. died last night at 6 o’clock, at
he home of her niece, Mrs. M. b Berg
«r°m M Zschry rtreet por
* ted at Mount Zion, near College
Park. •
survived by thirteen nephews
and nieces. They .re C. Wheeler Man-
Bum. sheriff of Fulton county: Mrs. M.
- lores, Mrs M. M. Bergstrom, J. ,T.
arnes. Sr., and Henry Barnes, of At
lanta; Wylie T. and Robert Mangum, of
Mary ‘ D ° Mangum and Mrs.
K ne * ldy ' of South Dakota; C. I*
Mangum, of Grants Pass, Arlz , Mrs Vio
«um ng '.f f M Jt m? ROCk ’ Ark ' : M,llard Man-
Bandv ’ , p° b *' Ala •• “nd Mrs. E. A.
C<»PPer Hill, Tenn. The funeral
•rrangem.Dta wW t>e announced later.
HERE’S TO YOU, WOODROW; NOW SHOW US WHAT YOU’VE GOT»-By Bud Fisher
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CHAMBER ffi
ON PISTOL TOTER
Directors Would Make It Nec
essary to Get Police Permit
to Carry Gun.
The Atlanta Chamber of I'ommerce
Mill recommend to council that all per
sons desiring io purchase a revolver
must first get a permit from t hies of
Police J. 1,. Beavers. This was decided
at the regular monthly meeting of the
board of directors, held yesterday aft
ernoon.
The directors almost unanimously
adopted the measure passed by the
committee on public safety, and the
resolution from Ute chamber will be
presented to the city council at their
next meeting. If the rneasun is passed
by council, no illiterate negro or vicious
white man will bo allowed to purchase
a pistol, and the reign of the “gun
toter” in Atlanta will be over.
A "permanent exposition” of Atlanta
made goods was also discussed by the
directors, and It was decided to ap
point a small committee of directors
and manufacturers to consider the best
mode of advancing the project to a .suc
cessful completion
The plans of the Chamber of Com
merce are to build a structure costing
between $160,(100 and ?*no,ooo. and to
keep all kinds of tnanufa, tured Atlanta
products there constant 1' It is said
that the “exposition building” will be
connected with the new Chamber of
Commerce building and that il will be
tour atoriee in height. The exhibits
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1912.
Republicans, Facing
PARTY DEAD
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Georgia Republicans of four years ago
"laid down” on Taft in this year's
presidential election. This is shown by
an analysis of the vote cast Tuesday
and that of 1908.
Four years ago there were approxi
mately 133,000 votes east in Georgia.
This year the number was, in round fig
ures, 120.000. This shows a slump of
13,000. when growth in population
would have warranted an increase of at
least 2,000.
The Democrats in Georgia last Tues
day polled approximately 93.000 for Wil
son, against 73.000 for Bryan in 1908.
This is a Democratic gain of 20.000.
It is probable that 10,000 of these were
among the 17,000 who voted t'lfi Wat
son on the Populist ticket four years
ago. The Democrats accordingly brought
out enough of the stay-at-bome voters
of past years and won back enough of
the Democrats who before voted for
Taft to increase their vote 10,000, thus
producing the 20,000 gain. There is no
doubt that several thousand wtto had
failed to vote in 1908 were drawn to
the polls' last Tuesday by the strenu
wtll be modeled after those shown at
the "manufacturers exposition" held at
the Auditorium-Armory several months
ago.
In order to get the use of the cots
and blankets* used by the soldiers of
the Fifth regiment for the 1,000 corn
club boys expected in Atlanta, the
chamber requested Governor Brown to
telegraph the secretary of war and ask
that the boys might use the cots and
blankets. A telegram from the secre
tary of war at Washington was read
during the meeting. It granted com
plete penuission to use everything nec
essary for t!he comfort of the boys.
Defeat, Desert Taft
IN GEORGIA
ous efforts of the party leaders in tlte
state to roll up a big party vote for
Wilson.
Roosevelt polled approximately 21,-
000 votes in Georgia on Tuesday. When
Watson bolted to him he carried at
least a third of this number—his re
maining 7,000 of four years ago. The
other 14.U00 were Taft Republicans and
Democrats in 1908.
The Socialists and Prohibitionists
polled about 1.000 votes on Tuesday.
Taft, four years ago, received in
round numbers 42,000 votes in this
state. This year lie went but little
bettbr than 5,000 —a loss of 37,000.
Roosevelt got 14.000 of that 37,000. Wil
son got probably 3.000, There is left
20.000 unaccounted for. These 20,000
are the ones who “laid down” on the
Republican party when defeat seemed
certain and the end of Republican pat
ronage apparent.
It is evident that the Republican par
ty In Georgia—Republican largely "for
revenue only”, has gone to smash, and
it seems that the negro has been suc
cesstullj eliminated from the politics of
this state.
ELKS TO ATTEND CHURCH
IN BODY SUNDAY MORNING
Atlanta Elks will turn from theatricals
to religion next Sunday morning. They
will arise after the last night of the
Klrmess, meet at the clubhouse at 10:45
o'clock, and march In a body to the I'ni
versallst church, where Rev. E. Dean El
lenwood will deliver a special sermon.
Mr. Ellenwood is a loyal Elk, one of
several Atlanta ministers who are mem
bers of the order. The Elks plan to
hear serfnons by other brother ministers
on rfundayit to come.
FIREMENINJURED
IN MACON BLAZE
Three Members of Department
in Hospital Seriously Hurt.
Loss Reaches SIOO,OOO.
■ MACON. GA Nov. 8. Three firemen
were seriously injured under falling walls
in a tire at 4 o'clock this morning that
destroyed the Heard Bros, warehouse, on
Sixth street, with a loss of SIOO,OOO.
More than 400 bates of cotton and guano
) and phosphate worth $50,000 was burned.
The three firemen, .1. R. Jordan, Cap
tain C. L. Collins and C. V. Shepard,
are in the hospital, and the first, two
are In a serious condition The building
was already a mass of flames when the
) alarm was given and the firemen only
I sought to save the adjoining structures.
I SEABOARD TRAINS CHANGE
TO AID ATLANTA TRADERS
Effective November 17, trains No. 57
land 58 on the Seaboard Air Line, now
i running between Athens and Atlanta,
will be extended to Abbeville. S. C.
| Jjcaving Atlanta at 4 p. m., as a.t pres
ent, this train will arrive at Abbeville
at 9:45 p. tn. eastern time, ft will leave
Abbeville at 5 a. m. and arrive in At
lanta at 8:50 a. m. This additional
service is established through the in
terest of Vice President C. R. Capps, of
the Seaboard Air Line, with headquar
ters at Portsmouth, Va. It will extend
Atlanta's trading radius and bring a
large number of additional shoppers to
tbh oily,
EMITS OF CORN
TD NUMBER 3, DOO
Girls Canning Clubs Will Have
Displays in Addition at the
Maize Show.
With reports corning in to the Cham
i ber of Commerce from all of the Geor
i gia corn club districts. It was estimated
I today that about 3,000 individual exhib
! its will be placed in the state capitol
for the Georgia Corn show. December
3 to 6, inclusive. This will be more
than double the number of last year.
The southwestern district has prom
ised 700 exhibits. Most of these are on
display at the Tifton fair now. There
will be 500 from the Augusta district
and 427 from the northwestern district.
These figures already are known. It is
estimated [hat the Atlanta, district will
have 500, the Savannah district 300 and
the Columbus district 300. This makes
a total of 2,727. and does not take into
account at all the exhibits of the girls
canning clubs, which will be an ex
tensive and important feature of the
show.
G. E. Rice, agent for the corn clubs
iin the Augusta district, has written
I positively that he would send here 500
j exhibits from that section. Mr. Rice
says he has some very strong exhibits,
with a iiigh average, the maximum for
the district bemg 161.8 bushels raised at
a cost of sixteen cents per bushel. This
is a pretty good record and there will
be very few to surpass it in the entire
state.
Augusta Boys Can’t Come.
.Mr. Rice expresses deep regret that
the dates for the Augusta Corn festival,
which were fixed in advance of those of
the Georgia Corn show, should conflict,
because, he says, he will be unable on
this account to bring the corn club
boys from that district to Atlanta. De
cember 4 is boys corn club day in Au
gusta. the same day on which tile
Chamber of Commerce will tendci a
dinner to the corn club boys here.
Dr. William Bradford, of Cedartown,
corn club agent in the northwestern
di drift, lias written a letter promising
definitely 427 exhibits from his district.
The number of exhibits from those
counties where local contes’s have al
ready been held will be as follows:
Bartow county, 50: Chattooga. 50;
Whitfield, 40: Gordop, 40; Polk, 30;
Walker, 15: Dade, <i; Catoosa, 6,
The number of exhibits from the fol
| lowing counties is estimated by Dr.
■ Bradford as follows: Haralson, 25;
Paulding, 30: Floyd, 30; Murray. 10;
Gilmer, 20; Pickens, 50; Cherokee, 25.
With averages like these maintained
■ by the other counties of the state, the
total is bound to go somewhere around
3,000, in addition to the Girls Canning
club exiiibits.
PHOTOS AT LIBRARY
OF SCENES FAMILIAR
TO SCOTT READERS
Lovers of Sir Walter Scott are having
: a treat this week in the exhibit at Car
j negie libray, which shows thirty-nine
I views illustrating localities familiar to
, readers of Scott
The illustrations are from an edition
de luxe of Scott's works, which has been
put out by a well known publishing house.
Before publishing the edition, represer
, tatives were sent to the scenes of the
i novels, to investigate first hand all the
I localities referred to by the author. Pho
i tographs were obtained to represent the
! scenes very much as Scott saw them,
i The natural scenery and the ruins of an
) cient castles and abbeys were found to
I correspond closelj with Scott’s descrip
tion of them.
The scenes cover nearly every county
of Scotland.
IMPORTANT CASES SET
FOR TRIAL IN MUSCOGEE
COLUMBUS, GA., Nov. B.—The cases of
A B. Land, R. E. L. Land, W. L. Land
and Lee Lynn, indicted for lynching a
negro, and those of Dr. W. F. Whitehead,
Tom Pace and William Jenkins, on
charges, of assault w ith intent to mur-
I der in performing an operation on a wom
an. will be tried within the next two
weeks.
C. B. Gullatt. who was indieted along
with the latter three, lias not been seen
in Phenix City, Ala., where he Is mayor,
since Monday night. Sheriff Beard, of
.Muscogee county, has placed a warrant
I lor his arrest in the hands of officials
in Alabama.
The calendar for the criminal docket
of superior court has just been set to be
gin next week.
DOCTOR BRINGS NURSE
TO GEORGIA AS BRIDE
RICHMOND, VA.. Nov. B.—Due to
arrive today in Savannah, where he hae
accepted a position as surgeon for tile
Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company, Dr. M.
J. Alexander, resident physician of the
Johnston-Willis sanitarium in this city,
was married here Wednesday night to
Miss Margaret Palmer, of Winglna, Va.,
a pupil nurse in the same Institution.
He left for Savannah soon afterward
with his bride.
The wedding was quite a surprise,
as Miss Palmer was expected to remain
at the hospital until her graduation
next Muy.
Dr. Alexander is from Darlington,
S. C.
DR. S. R. ROBERTS HOST TO
GRANITE CLUB AT SUPPER
Dr. Stuart R. Roberts will entertain
the Granite club, a social and literary
organization, at the University club, on
Peachtree street, tonight. After supper.
A. D. Thomson will read a paper on “The
Modern Newspaper."
Dr. Roberts' guests will be Wightman
Bowden, Dr. M. L. Boyd. Thomas W.
Connally, fl. F. Hentz, Harold Hlrsch. 1.
S. Hopkins, Jr. W. C. Jones, R. K. Ram
bo, Charles B. Shelton, A. B. Simms, G.
H. Solomon, A. D. Thomson, W. D. Thom
son, Philip Weltner and E Lee Worsham.
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REVIE'JV THHILLER
i Governor and Staff, Witness
ing Turn-Out of Troops. See
Soldier Chase Horse.
Orderlj - John Hoffman, of Coinpany
D. Seventeenth infantry. Foil McPher
son. is receiving congratulations from
bis army comrades on the capture of
an officer's horse which dashed away
yesterday on the parade grounds at the
fort following Governor Brown’s re
view of tlie infantrymen.
A steed tethered at the end of the
I grounds just opposite the t r end of the
j officer.-’ quarters broke his bridle and
I raced toward the corral several hun
dred yards to the south. Another horse
which an officer had just dismounted
at d turned over to Orderly John Hoff
man, of Compant D, to lead away,
tore the lines from th' Orderly’s hands
and wt nt down tit.- lit Id niter the other.
I hen Hoffman dug his mr. into his
own mount ami went after tile second
speeding animal. Hollman hails from
Indiana, where he learned to ride, and
he is an excellent horsetn; n With
I every hap he gained on the steed and.
’earnt up with it at the eorne ■ of Com
; panj B's quarters. The onlookers
Iga-p'd as horses ami rider grazed an,
I "al. tree that stood in the path. Baek
lof the men's quarters Orderly Hoffman
i t abbed the horse and tu net! it into tlio *
corral.
Governor Brown and his staff re
vie "ed the troops and exp - •■-ed satis
faction to Ma jor Edu ai d N. Jones, the
commander, on the showing made. The)
' line included the companies ailing a
; machine gun platoon, mount 1 gun de- j
I tachment. etc.
I Governor B own was gi nt tin gov- ,
jernoi’s salute of seventeen guns and he
fnd his staff and his son. Joseph M. 1
■ Blown, Jr., later were entertained at ■
tea by Major Jones. Lieutenant E. N. '
Burdett, U. S. A., .as governor’s aid;
for the occasion, and the governor's
staff included Colonel F. J. Paxon. chief'
of staff: Lieutenant Colonel Joseph
, Vanliolt Nash. Lieutenant Colonel Joe
Brown Connally, Lieutenant Asa G. )
Candler. Adjutant Genera! W. G. Obear,
Lieutenant Colonel Steve ft. Johnston
am' Major Jesse <l. Perry, the govern
or's secretary.
FAIR HEADQUARTERS MOVED.
<'OLl MBUS, GA., Nov. 8. -The head
quarters of the Georgia-Alabama Fair
association have been moved from the
I heart of the city to the fair grounds, into
a building recently erected for offices.
The fair officials have been notified by
the city that it will appropriate $2,500
to help promote the fair. The officials
have begun to make arrangements for
placing exhibits in the buildings.
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Everything
; Men Wear at
i Work or Play
i
''Back on the job”—
cold weather —and it’s
probably here to stay.
The proverbial "ounce
of prevention" counsel*
winter “tog” readiness—
it’s better to be ready
than cold. Our stock is
•o large and varied that
we can give you "what
you want when you
went it.
The Hats
Style and Quality—a
maximum of both in our
broad stock of Hats—
derbies, alpines.
cloth hate, eto.. at from
12.00 to $5.00.
The Shoes
I
You oan expect greet
values in this Shoe de
partment of ours —/e’ve
aimed to give them and
we’ve succeeded. And
you oan expect consci
entious and careful fit
ting—the kind that
means comfort. Hun
dreds of stylos at $3.50
to $6.00. We are sol*
Atlanta agents for
"Stetson" fine Shoes for
men.
The Tailoring
A virgin-pure wool
tailored Suit at $25.00
that is a wonder at the
price.
We can recommend
thia Suit, regardless of
the prioe you’ve been in
the habit of paying.
Sults and Overcoats tai
lored to order at from
$25.00 to M 5.00
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