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GAS MEN OF 11. S.
GATHERING FDR
CONVENTION
Feature of Big Meeting Will Be
Exhibition of Appliances
at Auditorium.
The men who have done more, per
haps, to throw light on various sub
jects throughout the United States.
Canada and Mexico than any other
group of Americans, are arriving in
Atlanta today for their national con
vention. which opens at the Auditorium
next Monday and lasts all the week.
They are the gas makers of the coun
try, the men who put hall bearings in
the meters, the folk to whom living is a
pipe. They are coming from ns far
West as San Francisco and as far East
as Boston to discuss ways and means
for inducing consumers to cook with
gas. warm by gas, read by it, sleep by
it, have teeth pulled bylt.
They are bitter rivals of the electric
companies, it may be said, notwith
standing the fact that 99 per cent of
them also are the main works in their
home electric plants. They expect to
get together on a campaign which will
make them rich as gas producers and
break them as electricity makers,
thereby preserving the balance and re
maining in comfortable circumstances.
To Show Appliances.
The convention is that of the Na
tional Association of Commercial Gas
Companies. Almost every city where
there is a gas plant and a meter reader
lias a member. They come armed with
papers on chemistry, metallurgy and
engineering, besides several reports on
the psychology of knowing how long to
■wait before cutting off the gas of a de
linquent consumer.
But ft won't be all convention. The
biggest thing of the week to the aver
age man or woman is the exposition of
gas appliances which hundreds of man
ufacturers will have at the Auditorium.
The exhibits have been coming in by
the carload for the past week and are
being installed in the Auditorium and
connected to the miles of gas pipe which
the local company put in to furnish the
Juice for the show.
There are gas stoves just the size for
a one-egg breakfast and on through the
’ ordinary small family size up to a range
which would furnish food for the con
vention. There are gas irons, ready to
press hubby's trousers while lie waits
in the bath room. There are gas heat
-*rs for the bath, warranted to produce
a tubful of boiling water while you dis
robe. There are gas heaters which stay
down in the basement and send up hot
water through pipes when you turn the
spigot and wait awhile.
Also Some Lamps.
There are gas lamps with 756 kinds of
j incandescent mantles, each better than
the other. There are gas lamps which
stand straight up. upside down and
sidewise. And —these are for manufac
turers’ interest only—there are gas me
ters of a hundred types, all high-geared
and well oiled, guaranteed to work day
and night, whether in a union house
hold or the home of a plutocrat. There
are quarter-in-the-slot meters ingeni
ously devised to shut off the gas just
when the visitor in the household has
drawn his fourth ace and is ready to
rake in the pot. For details of exhibit
see catalogue.
Officials of the Atlanta Gas Eight
Company are hosts to the convention,
and this company alone is spending
thousands of its hard-earned dollars on
entertainment and other expenses. Big
pipes have been run above ground from
the mains to the Auditorium, which
formerly was lighted by electricity
alone, and smaller pipes lead to every
square yard in the great building,
. ready to be tapped for various appa
ratus. The amount of gas used next
, week will keep the company hustling,
for the exposition will use as much as
i all the hotels, restaurants and public
buildings combined. The local com
pany and its officials plan a dozen din
ners and a theater party at the Grand
when the whole house will bo reserved
for the visitors. More than 1.500 dele
gates are expected to be present by
. Monday.
K The exposition will not be open to
k the public every day. There will be
f days when only the manufacturers and
| dealers in gas fixtures and appliances
will be admitted. For it is to them,
rather than to the public, that the uian
' ufaeturers of appliances appeal. Nearly
’ every gas company in the country sells
, fittings and appliances in order to en
s. courage heavier consumption of gas.
BOILER OF GRIST MILL
EXPLODES:THREE KILLED
HILI.. KT, Nov. 30. Robert
Hedge, BobJiaker antha young son of
Robert Erwin w< re killed. William
Knipp, Willard Erwin. Matthis Janies
and Enley Owney were painfully hurt
\ late yesterday afternoon, when a grist
I mill boiler exploded.
1 SIBTER OF DECATUR MAN DIES.
■ GREENSBORO, GA.. Nov. 3u The
E funeral of Miss Loa Mitchell, of Union
f Point, was conducted at B< thesiia
f church, Rev. J. 8. Callaway, of Penfield,
f officiating. The deceased Is survived
by two brothers, Pope and W. o. Miteh
" ell. of Deeatui.
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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B . NEVIN.
The < ..mpilaiion of the national pies
idential vote is approximately complete,
and the results are most interesting.
•
F ■
and will settle a
few Georgia bets
still unadjusted,
even if it is spe
cifically and em
phatically against
the law to bet on
elections In Geor
gia.
As indicated
several weeks ago.
the chief i<oint of
Interest in the re
turns is the falling
off -the astonish
ing falling off—-of
the vote this year
as compared with
the vote of sou
years ago.
Wilson did not
poll the Democratic Brvan vote of 1908,
and the total Republican vote of Roose
velt and Taft fell even shorter of the
vote cast for Taft when Bryan and
Taft were pitted against each other.
Wilson’s total in the nation is 6,156,-
784, as against 6,393,182 for Bryan last
time, which indicates that Bryan had
236,434 votes margin in 1908 over the
total Democratic vote this year.
Roosevelt and Taft together this year
got 7.304,562, Which is 333,1 14 less than
Taft got last time.
These figures show a total decrease
in the vote this year of 569,584 In the
two old parties!
In the split of the Republican vote
Roosevelt got 3,928,140. as against Taft’s
3,376,422, which shows a difference of
521,718 in Roosevelt's favor —much less
than many persons thought the differ
ence would be.
Roosevelt and Taft together totalled
1,147,814 over Wilson, and that is about
100,000 less than Taft beat Bryan in
1908.
Chafin, the Prohibitionist, got just
about the same vote nationally that he
got last time, but Debs nearly doubled
his vote—running this time interest
ingly close to a round million in all!
The figures carry various meanings,
of course, as politicians analyze them
according to their various shades of
opinion. .
The strangest thing about it all is
that tile total vote, which should have
run nearly 1,500,000 more tills time than
it did last—by reason of increased pop
ulation —actually fell off half a million!
When on January 1 Joe S. Reynolds,
solicitor general qf the Augusta cir
cuit superior court, retires, one of the
most popular as well as most efficient
prosecuting attorneys in Georgia will
have finished a fine term of service.
Mr. Reynolds has been solicitor for
twelve years—three full terms. Antici
pating his retirement, the grand juries
In every county in his circuit have
passed highly complimentary resolu
tions concerning him and the excellent
work he has done as solicitor.
Mr. Reynolds retired voluntarily, as
it is agreed in Augusta that he might
have had the office again for the ask
ing.
Ho will be succeeded by A. L. Frank
lin, who won out, after a hard fight,
over I. S. Peebles and Wallace B.
Pierce, both good men and amply quali
fied for the office.
Mr. Franklin is one of the younger
members of the Augusta bar and has
m;|de a splendid record in the practice
of his profession.
M. L. Brittain, state superintendent
of schools, is undertaking to standard
ize the county schools in Georgia.
This is a work of a highly construc
tive nature, and its consummation is
very dear to the heart of the state
school head.
In a circular letter which lie is send
ing out, Mr. Brittain provides for both
parents and school officials a test by
which they can know whether their
schools are doing the work which they
and the state authorities have the right
to expect for the money expended.
Congressman-elect Charles R. Crisp
passed through Atlanta toda\ on his
way to Washington and the opening of
the short session of the present con
gress.
Mr. Crisp will not take his seat in the
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEVVb.SAI I IWAY, NUV EMBER 30, 1912.
house until .March 1. but i .om this time
until then, he will continue bis duties
as house parliamentarian.
Mr. Crisp, like most Democratic con
gressmen nowadays, is very optimistic
with respect to the outlook. He be
lieves that the Democrats, by proceed
ing sensibly, may hold the fort for
many years to come; and he believes,
moreover, that they will proc-ed sanely.
If there is any one thing that bothers
Mr. Crisp at all, it is the narrow margin
of control by which the Democrats will
prevail In the senate.
"If we might transfer a portion of
our big house majority—which really is
bigger than it need be —to the senate,
we should then be absolutely assured of
working a Democratic administration
all the way through,” said Mr. Crisp.
"As it is, however, we shall, in all prob
ability, be all right in the senate!’’
The Cordele Rambler lias despaired,
in a measure, of electing “a south Geor
gia man” to the governorship and has
transferred its hope to middle Georgia
and Colonel Charles R. Pendleton.
Significantly enough, The Rambler
says:
It seems next to impossible to
elect a man from south Georgia
for governor. We would suggest
that next we put a candidate in the
field from Macon, which, though, in
middle Georgia is really headquar
ters for our section of the state.
We believe Colonel Pendleton,
editor of The Macon Telegraph, to
be one of the very ablest men in
the state. He has experience and
learning—is both theoretical and
practical; £ane and conservative,
while at the same time is progres
sive and constructive.
He is a man of whom we would
all be proud to acknowledge as our
governor. Colonel Pendleton has
not sought office and is not a poli
tician. but wouldn’t it be real re
freshing to go out of the ranks of
politicians and select a real fine
character like Colonel Pendleton
for our standard-bearer? He is
south Georgia's hope.
It likely would be impossible to get
Colonel Pendleton into a race for gov
ernor, but if he would agree to run, he
would, indeed, make an ideal candidate.
Not only would south Georgia rally
splendidly to him, but it is as sure as
anything can be that a large part of
north Georgia would be equally as en
thusiastic.
He has fought the battles of Democ
racy—standing straight up all the time,
too—irr season and out, in good fortune
and bad. and there is nothing he could
accept that he would not richly deserve.
But when it comes to getting him to
run —if The Rambler can put that over,
its proposition will have been solved in
its most difficult aspect.
PAROLED CONVICT FINDS
HIMSELF WORTH $30,000
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Nov. 30.
After 23 years in the Alabama peni
tentiary. Albert Kelley, an aged Col
bert county negro convict, who was pa
roled as a Thanksgiving gift by Gov
ernor O’Neal because of his . faithful
service to the state, finds himself a rich
man.
Kelley was given a life sentence for
murder. When he left his home for the
penitentiary he possessed a small piece
of land in what is now the city of Bir
mingham. It was then worth a nominal
sum, SIOO to S2OO. After Kelley was
liberated Thursday he found that the
land has increased to a value of fully
$30,000.
J. W. MASSEY DIES AT JESUP.
JESUP, GA., Nov. 30.—J. W. Massey,
of this city, died yesterday at his home
here. Air. Massey was formerly ticket
agent at the Union depot, but for a
year had been In ill health. The funeral
will be held from his home on Plum
street tomorrow morning and interment
will be at the Jesup cemetery.
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SLATING SOWED
BY CURIOSITY OF
LANDLADY
Robert Sloan Tells of Killing of
Aged Peddler. Implicating
"Shot” Risley.
Declaring that had it not been for a
woman’s curiosity he never would have
beep arrested. Robert Lee Sloan, held
in the police station, confessed today
that he was present at the murder of
William Franklin, an aged miser, and
named Frank Risley as the actual slay
er. Risley, also held as a suspfect. de
nies any knowledge of the crime, and
says he can establish an alibi.
It was Mrs. Gwen Webb, of 106 Gil
mer street, who found Sloan's blood
stained clothing in his room and told
the police of this clew. Mrs. Webb is
the former Ruby Gaither, the woman
whose ihcarceratlon in the city stock
ade a few years ago led to a crusade
which brought about reform in that in
stitution. It was Ruby Gaither who
was “strung up” by her thumbs to a
hook in the wall and left hanging there.
“If I hadn’t been fool enough to leave
those clothes in her house I’d never
have been arrested,” said Sloan. "Trust
a woman for getting a man into trou
ble.”
Risley, a young teamster, known to
his acquaintances as “Shot,” declared
Sloan’s statement a “frame-up.’.’ He
denied any knowledge of the erime.
“I was at the house of L. P. Gibson, a
dairyman, In East Atlanta. Saturday
night at the time this murder was done,”
he said. “I can prove that.”
The two will be arraigned before Re
corder Broyles next Tuesday.
Sloan’s confession was, in substance,
as follows:
“I was standing near Pratt street
(only a few yards from No. 224) when
old man Franklin passed and went into
224. ‘Shot’ Risley came along a few
feet behind, and asked me to step in
with him to buy some apples from the
peddler. I walked in with him. There
was not a hint of robbery or murder,
and I went with Risley merely to buy
the fruit.
“We walked into the old man’s room.
There wasn’t any light except two can
dles burning on a cigar box. ‘Shot’ told
the peddler he wanted to buy a dime’s
worth of apples. Franklin stooped over
his fruit box and selected four apples.
‘Shot’ told li#in he wanted six for a
dime, and that he could get them at
that price in the Decatur street fruit
stands.
“They had a few words, to the best
of my recollection, and while the old
man was still stooping over the fruit
box ‘Shot’ picked up a window weight
lying nearby, striking the old peddler
over the head. The old man dropped
to the floor without saying a word. I
couldn’t stand the sight of blood, and 1
stepped outside the door. Presently
‘Shot’ came out. He told me not to
say anything about ivhat I had seen,
and he would divide with me. He
poured a handful of gold coins into my
hand. It was a little more than SIOO.
He went home, and I went to my board
ing place on Gilmer street. That was
the last I've seen of Risley until I saw
him in prison.”
ADVERTISING JESUP.
JESUP, GA., Nov. 30. —The Jesup
Board of Trade is beginning a cam
paign of advertising for this city and
county. A descriptive booklet is to be
published. The board now has a paid
secretary-treasurer to answer all in
quiries concerning this section.
TO DEDICATE TEMPLE DEC. 5.
DALTON, GA., Nov. 30. —Arrange-
ments have been completed for the
dedication of the handsome Masonic
temple here on the evening of Decem
ber 5.
TRADE BOARD OF
DECATUR TO SEEK
100 NEW MEMBERS
The committee on membership of the
Decatur Board of Trade will meet at the
council chamber in Decatur tonight at
8 o’clock to plan a short campaign for
new members.
The organization now has more than
200 members, and it is expected that this
campaign will increase the number to 300.
The i>lan is to complete the work by
Thursday night of next week. Each
member of the committee will be allotted
several names and he will see those per
sons.
The committee is as follows: George
R. Jones, chairman; Frank W. Ansley, A.
K. Almon, J. E. Bodenhamer, A. L.
Brooks, Brooks G. Brown, G. Scott Can
dler, P. F. Callahan, J. A'. Dunlap, J.
Taylor Green, John F. Green, W. H. S.
Hamilton, G. C. Jossey, D. F. Kirkpatrick,
It. B. Knox, J. A. Montgomery, Charles
A. Matthews, Charles D. McKinney,
George Al. Napier, AV. A. Ozmer, W. J-
Dabney, R. C. W. Rarnspeck, J. J. Scott,
J. C. Thompson and P. L. AA'eekes.
DR. DUNBAR OGDEN TO
PREACH ON SIN’S WAGES
Contrasting the different promises of
reward held out to man. Dr. Dunbar
Ogden will preach Sunday morning at
the Central Presbyterian church on
“The AVages of Sin vs. the Gift of
God.” He has just returned from Jack
sonville, Fla., where he spoke before a
union gathering of all the Protestant
churches of Jacksonville.
“The wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life,” is the fa
mous quotation from Romans on which
the message will be founded. At the
evening hour, Ji o’clock, Dr. Ogden will
speak on "A Vision of Victory in the
Hour of Conflict.”
EXPLODING GAS KILLS
TWO DRILLING WELL
WHEELING, AV. VA., Nov. 30.—While
drilling for oil last night on the Robert
Fiffin farm, a mile above Martins Ferry,
Ohio, two men .were killed and a third
seriously injured as a result of a terrific
gas explosion. •
Today a flame of fire is spouting 50
feet up in the air, and the well will
probably be a complete ruin before the
fire is checked.
DR. J. WADE CONKLING
TALKS OF FIRE WORSHIP
The Cole men’s class will hear a lec
ture tomorrow morning at the Unitarian
church at 10 o’clock, on the subject of
“Fire Worship,” by Dr. J. Wade Conk
ling. This is the fourth lecture in a
series by various speakers who will pre
sent the historical and philosophical
points of old religions.
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