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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 / ’I/ ■ - ' 311. I yrV, TIRkl 7//O /X/ ■ ///// ; 1 ///j ; / I*- yfr-y //# W M V ■ ' ■ y - J SiF IH=P xwf'ir nMfAH ////I li uWE * W ■ Jjj 1 , V J ■..BfS. P O J; ■ L, pf x T /» > WIWMIMMBSgsS 'nly —'l« iB WlwHwMy-' ■ ' J. 1 iiiMM S|fr3||l 111 Vv ' 1 '! jll i lit. 1 COPYRttfrtT wa 1. J ’ -—t S'* THF- sr*<_ 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 I 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. [FOB! INW 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. ewm'Lmr Brother* for | 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 t 10 WIWWAU. «T ■■•Rlih Ost rx; . Her 5