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lEfiCHTREE HOME
huiLDERS DEFY
business tide
Encroachment of Stores and
Auto Shops Fails to Halt
Fine Residences.
■ U'antans to whom the name of
■ A ~.r still bears a charm have
J the encroachment of gas-
' rubber to keep them from
homes on the famous avenue
■ . -anging so rapidly from a
■ yard to a business street.
■ c p . is almost an unbroken suc-
■ H and automobile shops
. r't to Ponce DeLeon now,
*’• ,-tute
■’ ' ,<• be left this side of Four-
Bf within five years, but this
B , ~t, rred the well-to-do from
2 an d handsome homes just
® reported "danger line.”
c A. Bancker Building.
, ’ Dr. Floyd W. Mcßae,
■ ' \ 'I. Tb.ward. John H. Mecaslin.
B*°'J L ■ Hunnicutt, Mell R. Wil-
■ 7.'., \\ jam L. Porter, Samuel Car-
H . ■ \icßurney, Frank Inman.
BiL'T- J Avery, Mrs. Fannie B.
A. Nicolson, Miss Sally
■ -i I’.iro dußignon, D. N.
■ , ll( | Wallace M. Kirkpat-
■ • will be dislodged like
■ .r.il'- neighbors closer in.
H \ i ■ ■ r. Jr., assistant cashier
■ v.,| ionol bank, is building
B . palatial homes. His
■ . , two-story brick affair.
■ „,f. and its number will be
Gude & Co. are the
B ■ -1.,.-ruble building on va-
■ . outside the path o’
8...’, , .g, s. Dr. J. Cheston King
B. -..mpleted a house on the
■ ... ~f \\ . si Peachtree street 80
B. , ~f Twelfth street.
B , . r ., ; ,s..t ■ Senator J. W. Mayson
■ ; , v . away from Decatur after 21
■ . ; ,:,r,-e and will hereafter
K ~ i at 25" Prado. Ansley
■ 'ace is just west of the
■ me of William Hurd Hill-
B, -ilia two miles of where Dr.
Be ,cm • ...other was born and lived 78
■ ~ v ,o use is of brick veneer
■ ii'e roof. It is on a lot
Gentry to Build For Son.
B uirv has bought two lots,
B; s :>u h, |'oil; lane. Ansley Park, and
B'-i bill!.; ! lions?.? for his son. Tom
Br for his daughter. Mrs.
By These lots cost $2,000
■ 843 a front foot. Hardy
■p. : ... tin remaining third of
B itn-fom parcel, and it is said he will
■w this for investment.
■ .ii. ~ i-' I’d, mi is building" a handsome
■ . ' W> stminster drive, Ansley
B'' ' - marly finished and ready
H Dr. v . Norcross Is buflding at the
■> r m Springdale and Fairview
BtoaJ-. !‘>:aid Hills.
■ < .'art farther out there is con-
■ i' ictivity in building. Mrs. C.
■ a l.'l’.ru •• recently completed a hand-
H" ..sta nce on the east side of
■l‘ •■ ■■■.■ near the country estate
■ ‘ •'••h.ne-l Walter P. Andrews and ad-
■ .'■iiitr,'.' !i,-r place to the south is the
Btr.f.. 'iuisiied place of D. E. Giffen.
B l ' 'll. - places are of brick and are
B 1; i;i design. E. R. Kirk Is build-
■ .c , .’..!uri hoifle on Andrews avenue
B from Peachtree road, and J.
s moving to Atlanta from St.
'a,--.. ,md will erect a handsome
.•ii Wesley avenue.
d.i< . <uim road has just been An
ti i a.lam and with water, sew
■;r lights; and modern improve
'-t ' ■ "i: >■ in plated along Telalee. lane,
avenue and other thorough
" y "S sect ion are expected to
!l u: many opportunities for home-
SCf’Kt TS,
i-OCK GIRLS IN MAD
CELL AT AN INITIATION
' 'TIEI.D. Dec. 9.—With
in the tiers shrieking and
Hint. >ix society girls of this city
itmted into the “Entre Nous"
hehiy blindfolded and led to the
jail and incarcerated In the pad
where maniacs and violent
are confined. Sheriff Law
. permitted the initiation at
-•‘cured the assistance of the
b'>n..rs. making the scene as weird
Tile girls remold the
"i' - m i found themselves in
Ti
• aey tried to escape, but only
into the padded walls and iron
the door. When released they
? hysterical with fright.
a ßgravate catarrhal colds I
a nd bronchial disorders,
and if neglected often lead
to pneumonia or con
sumption,
SCOTTS EMULSION
an< f comets brmefnal
| t heals
,r affected membranes. It
healthy flesh, rich
’ d and strengthens weak
un 8». Nothing is so good
ns cott s Emulsion for
“übborn coughs and colds,
on SOO IT'S.
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Girl Sleuth, Trailing Shoplifter, Finds Husband\
LOVE DEFEATS AMBITION
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Mrs. Minnie Leo Lane Freeman, girl detective, who forsook
career to become a bride.
Atlanta Woman Detective Chief
Sighs as Cupid Depeites
Her Force.
• -
When a fatal love dart plowed its
way into the heart of Miss Minnie Lee
Lane, girl detective, it killed the lure
of sleuthing, causing her at the cru
cial moment to abandon a spectacular
pursuit of a woman shoplifter and al
low the quarry to escape.
But today Miss Lane doesn’t care the
snap, of a linger if she did, for the girl
detective was wedded last night to W.
F. Freeman, bookkeeper in the offices
of the Southern railway—the man who
came between her and her chosen life
profession. She has entered into the
game of matrimony with greater en
thusiasm than she ever experienced in
tracking evil doers.
“The call of the heart is stronger
than the fascination of sleuthing, and
I’ve quit for good and all—the quiet
homelife and the frying pan appeal to
me now as never before,” laughingly re
marked the bride today.
Charm of Chase Eclipsed.
Miss Lane and Mr, Freeman met a
short time ago in a nearby town, while
the gijl detective was “shadowing” a
woman shoplifter, and it was a severe
and incurable attack of love at first
sight. The charm of the chase imme
diately vanished, and a new vision
opened before the “shadower” —love de
throned her professional ambition.
Packing her suitcase, Miss Lane
abandoned the trdil of the shoplifter,
and boardeji a fast train for Atlanta.
She at once reported to Mrs. Hattie
Barnett, Atlanta’s woman detective, un
der whom she has been in training, that
she was in love, that the “jig was up.”
and that, instead of-seeking shoplift
ers and crooks, she intended to enjoy
a new happiness of heart.
That she. meant just what she said
was demonstrated last night when, just
at the close of the evening service, Miss
Lane and Mr. Freeman stood before the
altar in the Central Baptist church and
were married by Rev. Richard A. For
est, superintendent of the Toccoa Falls
institute, who is filling the pulpit in the
absence of the pastor, Dr. Ridley.
‘‘Life Shadow” Now.
As the wedding party left the church,
the bride smiled on the bridegroom and
said:
"I've got someone else to watch now.
I guess I've become a life shadow."
"That’s right, I’ll have an eagle eye
on me all the time now," chuckled the
bridegroom, "but I think 111 like the
sensation.”
Mrs. Barnett. Miss Lane's tutor, is
the only one of her friends who feels a
pang of regret at the marriage.
“Love is the arch enemy of the wom
an detective business.” remarked Mrs.
Barnett disconsolately. "Whenever love
crosses the path of a womafi detective
it's all off. Business goes to the winds.
That’s why there are no more women
detectives. They can’t resist the plead
ings of the heart.”
AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE
OF INDIANA MINERS $11.85
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9.—Eleven dol
lars and eighty-five cents was the av
erage weekly wage of the 21,230 coal
miners in Indiana last year, according
to the annual report of Frank I. Pearce,
state mine Inspector.
Thirty-seven miners were killed dur
ing the year, an unusually small num
ber compared with other years.
I DIES SAYING PRAYER IN
THANKS FOR LONG LIFE
LONDON, Dee. 9. Kneeling in pray
' er to give thanks for his long life, H< r
-1 bert Salisbury, 78, 'lied of a stroke of
1 paralysis in Lehigh Baptist church.
THE ATT,ANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. MONDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1912.
Up and Down
Peachtree
Leaves His Coin Where
Slot Machine Used To Be.
“ ’T was a chilly wintry evening and a
goodly throng was there”—just add the
rest of the stanza of ‘‘The Face on the
Bar Room Floor” and you’ll have the
scene fairly accurately, from the sand on
the floor to the white-aproned person be
fore the mirror.
And, true to form, the stranger en
tered. Here you'll have to desert the
tragic epic of paint and nose paint. The
stranger made no dramatic appeal for
grog nor was he greeted with hideous
hoots by the merrymakers.
He merely meandered back to the place
where a few brief days ago persons
played slot machines and slot machines
played on them. The machines were
missing
He turned to the bartender. He said
no word, but his eyes asked his ques
tion eloquently. The bartender shook his
head. “Gone, gone,” he muttered. "The
council’s put ’em out of business.”
No word of complaint was uttered by
the stranger, but digging deep into his
pocket he produced a nickel. He placed
the coin where the machine should, or
rather, should not, have been, and once
more turned to the door.
“Want a beer?” asked the beer man.
The stranger shook his head and con
tinued his progress to the sidewalk.
“That’s all right, as far as it goes,”
said a patron. “He didn’t go far enough
though. If he wanted to run true to
form he ought to have left at least a dol
lar and a half.”
20.000 NAVY YARD MEN
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. —President
Taft has signed a proclamation plac
ing 20,090 skilled employees in the
United States navy yards under civil
service.
Employees will not be entitled to
classification unless they prove their
efficiency or have been examined by
the navy yard labor board and have
been recommended for classification by
the commanding officer. Existing eligi
bility lists will not be used after June
30, 1913. New regulations will go into
effect at that time. The request for
civil service regulations came from the
employees themselves.
BURY BANDIT’S MOTHER
WHERE MOB KILLED SON
STARKVILLE, MISS., Dec. 9.—Mrs.
Martha Burrows, aged mother of Rube
Burrows, notorious train robber, who
‘errorized the South for years, w>as
buried in a plain pine box across the
Alabama line beside the grave of her
son. where he fell riddled by a mob’s
bullets. She had wont a death shroud
ten years. She paid for the funeral ten
years ago. The epitaph 'over the dou
ble grave reads. “Mother has gone to
her Rube in Heaven.” Mrs. Burrows
was 86 years old.
ASSERTS FLOWERS THINK:
DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT LOVE
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Albert F. Shore
told the Phllomathic society flowers
were endowed with powers of thought.
He didn’t know whether or not they
could fall in love.
K. P. CONVENTION AT V/AYCROSS.
WAY<’R<)SS, GA., Dec. 9.—-Tomorrow
the Waycross district, Knights of
Pythias, will hold the annual conven
tion In this city. Twenty lodges of
southeast Georgia will have delegates
attending. Grand Chancellor Austin, of
Atlanta, and other grand officers will
take
FREES CHURCH DE
DEBT. THEN DIES
Dr. J. W. Millard, Baptist Pas
tor, Fatally Stricken Few
Hours After Sermon.
Dr. Junius AV. Millard, pastor of the
Jackson Hill Baptist church and for
mer pastor of the Ponce DeLeon Avenue
Baptist church, died suddenly at his
home on the Oakdale road last night
from an apoplectic stroke. 9
After preaching a short sermon to
the Jackson Hill congregation Sunday
morning and raising $3.000 to pay off
the church debt, Dr. Millard went to
his home. He complained of feeling
unwell. At 3 o’clock he was stricken
with apoplexy and died at midnight.
Dr. Millard's active church work in
Atlanta extended over a period of eight
years. He was called to the Ponce De-
Leon Baptist church when that insti
tution was organized and remained at
its he id for five years.
Failing health caused him to, resign
his charge and he spent a year in
Europe and the Holy Land, returning
refreshed. After a year here, part of
which he spent as supply minister, he
assumed the pastorate of the Jackson
Mill church. Which he held up to the
time of his death.
Dr. Millard's sermon Sunday will not
be forgotten by the members of the
Jackson Hill congregation. He spoke
to them briefly and in closing urged the
church to remove its debt and start the
New Year with a clean slate. He sud
denly announced that he was going to
take up a collection to obtain $2,400,
the amount of the debt. The congrega
tion, under the spell of his sermon,
raised $3,000.
Dr. Millard was born in Goldsboro,
N. C., 44 years ago. He was graduated
from Wake Forest college and took his
doctor’s degree at the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary. His first impor
tant charge was the Utaw Place Bap
tist church in Baltimore. He left Bal
timore to come to Atlanta.
He is survived by his wife, two chil
dren, J. W, Millard. Jr., and Miss Laura
Millard; one brother, Dr. David P.
Millard, and five sisters, none of whom
lives in Atlanta.
The funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
NATION CAN’T EXIST
WITHOUT CHRISTIAN
SPIRIT, SAYS HILL
WARREN, MINN., Dec. 9.—“ No na
tion can exist without true Christian
spirit behind it,” declared James J. Hill,
the pioneer railway magnate of the
Northwest, in a speech delivered at the
dedication of the new $50,000 building
for North Star college.
A large crowd was present for the
exercises, which took place last night,
and Mr. Hill delivered the principal ad
dress, which partook of the nature of a
sermon.
He told the story of the creation, and
delivered strong arguments in favor of
Christianity. Mr. Hill concluded by de
claring that laws which forbid the
teaching of Christianity in schools are
the weakest things in our government
He declared he hoped to live to see
the decalogue in every school room.
WEALTHY VICTIMS OF
BOOK FRAUDS TO TELL
OF SWINDLE IN COURT
BOSTON, Dec. 9.—Rich victims of
de luxe book and art w’orks frauds,
which are being investigated by the
Netv England and Federal authorities,
will have to appear before a Federal
judge and tell how easily they were
swindled. Further investigation today
revealed that the art shapers secured
$806,000 from 21 known victims. Os
these, thirteen were women, who lost
$400,000, and the other eight were men
w’ho W’ere mulcted of $406,000, the in
vestigation showing apparently that
the men were more gullible than the
women.
DECATUR TRADE BOARD
SIGNS 15NEW MEMBERS
In spite of the bad w eather last week,
the membership committee of the De
catur Board of Trade obtained fif
teen new members.
The new members are C. G. Bradley,
A. Shelverton, C. E. Rogers, J. T. Stew
art, J. M. Boykin. J. G. Clarke, C. A.
Blackstock, F. M. Rogers, R. P, Mc-
Larty, J. A. Hall, Eddie Kerr, F. L.
Smith, C. R. Clark, Jr., J. L. Bond,
K. P. McKlung, W. E. Beall and W. J.
Massey.
The campaign will continue for sev
eral days, and it is expected that the
membership committee will add many
others.
COURT DECLARES RICH
MAN IS LEGALLY DEAD
KENOSHA, WXS„ Dec. 9.—-John
Lynch, son of the late William Lynch,
a wealthy pioneer of Kenosha, who dis
appeared twenty years ago, has been
declared "legally” dead, but the court
here has named an administrator for
his estate
ASKS U.S. TO PURCHASE
BIRTHPLACE OF LINCOLN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Represen
tative Johnson, of Kentucky, has In
troduced a bill In the house for the ac
quisition by the government of the farm
and the log cabin in Kentucky In which
Abraham Lincoln was born Johnson
proposes the homestead be kept as a
national park.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Jacksonville, the very wettest oasis
in the prohibition South, has accumu
lated a large and rampant grouch on
JHI
Savannah.
Jacksonville is
likewise mighty
solicitous for Sa
vannah’s moral
welfare, not to
mention its ram
pant anxiety that
Savannah shall be
a law-abiding mu
nicipality and ut
terly free from
guile.
The Florida city,
which boasts four
times as many In
habitants in win
ter as it admits in
summer, has heard
that Savannah
pays powerful lit-
tle attention to the prohibition laws of
Georgia, and that shipments of "booze
from that city to other points in crea
tion are not infrequent, and around
and about Christmas times some ship
ments, at that!
The effect of this revelation on Jack
sonville has been marked —in two di
rections. It rages that Savannah is
cutting into Jacksonville’s business in
that fashion, and it grieves that Savan
nah is not a law-abiding town!
Wherefore divers and sundry citizens
of Jacksonville have petitioned the
Federal authorities —or say they are
going to petition them —to make Sa
vannah behave herself, both in her
loose methods of competition in the
“booze” business and in her morals.
The Savannah News, regarding Jack
sonville’s attitude more or less face
tiously, says:
If the petition of the Jackson
ville dealers to stop shipments of
liquor from points in Georgia
should be granted perhaps this in
turn might be followed by Federal
legislation prohibiting shipments
of intoxicating liquor into Georgia.
Then if the legislature should re
peal the near-beer law this good
old state-would be squarely on the
water wagon. And the season for
cane and persimmon’beer will soon
be over.
Jacksonville’s deep solicitude for Sa
vannah is touching enough, to be sure—
even if Savannah does effect to “smile,
and smile, and be a villain still.”
It is doubtful, however, whether the
Georgia legislature will accept Savan
nah’s half whimsical, half bantering,
hint, contained in next to the last sen
tence of The News’ paragraph quoted.
Robert M. Hitch, of the Second con
gressional district, has let it be known
to numerous friends that he will be an
applicant for the position of United
States district attorney for south Geor
gia before President Woodrow Wilson.
Mr. Hitch was chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee for
two years, presidential elector four
years ago. and is now chairman of the
Second district executive committee.
He will have strong and Influential
AUTO WRECKED AS
TEAM RUNS AWAY
WITH HEAVY TRUCK
Mrs. Henry Schaul, of 5 East Four
teenth street, and several friends with
her on an early shopping expedition
today, had a narrow’ escape from acci
dent when a heavy wagon crashed into
their motor car in Whitehall street.
The party had just left the car, which
was standing at the curb with a ne
gro chauffeur at the yheel, when a
teain attached to a heavy lithia water
wagon became frightened and ran away
k from the driver, who was inside a drug
store.
The wagon struck the fender of the
car, cutting the steel in two and bat
tering the car. The pole and gear were
torn from under the wagon by the
shock.
Nobody was injured.
SHOWS PHOTOS OF MEN
OF 15,000.000 YEARS AGO
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 9.—Dr. Samuel
Wendell Williston, professor of paleon
thology of the University of Chicago,
startled an audience that packed the
assembly room of the Second Baptist
church by displaying photographs pur
porting to show our pre-historic an
cestors of 15,000,000 years ago.
Dr. Williston not only exhibited pic
tures of actual skeletons, but also
showed representations of the animals
in life.
‘■JOY TRAIN” ON ROAD.
WAYCROSS, GA., Dec. 9.—Running
a day late, because the regular Way
cross pay day was yesterday, the At
lantic Coast Line’s “joy train” reached
the city todaj- with $130,000 for the
shopmen of this city. The train will be
in south Georgia for several days.
30 INDICTMENTS IN WEEK.
WAYCROSS, GA.. Dec. 9.—With-a
record of 30 indictments for the first
week's session the grand jury recon
vened today for a second week of busi
ness. Two of the 30 indictments re
turned charge murder.
A Des Moines man had an attack of
muscular rheumatism in his shoulder.
A friend advised hint to go to Hor
Springs. That meant an expense of
$150.00 or more. He sought for a quick
er and cheaper way to cure It and
found it in Chamberlain's Liniment.
Three days after the first application
of this liniment he was well. For sale
by all dealers. (Advt.)
FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS.
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree.
MdvertlaeiminL)
backing for the job, which is now held
by Walter Akerman, of Macon.
Some statesmen in Georgia are be
ginning to think that instead of creat
ing new counties in this state here
after, the legislature might better com
bine some of the smaller ones, and thus
reduce the total number, rather than
enlarge it, as has been the custom of
lute years.
There are in Georgia fifteen counties
of less than 209 square miles in area.
Four of these actually are under 150
square miles. Glascock, the smallest
county In the state, is less than 100.
Alabama limits the size of its coun
tles—and there, no matter how few
counties the state may contain, it can
never run over a fixed maximum.
A great many citizens think a small
er, and not a larger, legislature would
work to this state’s very material bene
fit.
Judge W. M. Henry, of Rome, former
representative in the legislature and
judge of the superior court, is an At
lanta visitor.
"Twenty-six years ago last Friday,”
said the judge, "Georgia saw the big
gest snow storm anybody now living
can remember. I was in Atlanta when
the snow came, and I tried to get to my
home, which then was in Summerville,
in Chattooga county. The snow was so
heavy on the W. & A. tracks that soon
after reaching Kennesaw—then known
as Big Shanty—we had to get another
engine. And when we got to Kingston
and I tried to change cars for Rome I
found the old Rome railroad completely
out of business—it actually was burled
beneath twenty Inches of snow!
"That seems Incredible, but it is ab
solute true. There never was such
a snow storm in this country. I had to
come back to Atlanta, after proceeding
to Kingston at a snail’s pace—and I
was prett}’ sore, and mad. and cold, and
I guess I used some rather obstreperous
language. For a week following that
'white Friday’ in December. 1886, this
section was buried beneath twp feet of
snow, and some of it remained on the
ground, in partially protected drifts,
until well up Into April.”
Judge Henry is practicing law now
adays, and has retired from politics.
Colonel O. B, Stevens, former com
missioner of agriculture, who has been
reported a candidate against Commis
sioner J. J. Conner for director of the
Georgia experiment station in Griffin,
which highly desirable job is to be va
cated by Hon. Martin V. Calvin next
summer, does not say that he would
not take the office If it were tendered
him, but he does say that he is not a
candidate for the place, and has not
authorized the use of his name in that
connection.
”1 am of the opinion,” says Colonel
Stevens, “that the board of directors of
the experiment station Is competent to
select a successor to Mr. Calvin, with
out advice or suggestion from me. And,
so far as I am concerned, this shall be
permitted to do so. It is peculiarly not
a place that should be juggled for, or
that any man should be log-rolled
into.”
The scintillating highbrow who pre
sides over this department of uplift in
The Georgian has been watching and
waiting, more or less in vain, these
many days, for somebody to say some
thing pleasant about his new picture,
the which adorns—or something—the
getaway of this column daily, but for
the most part disappointment has been
his bitter portion.
However, from out numerous frater
nal suggestions, anent the likeness
aforesaid, he has selected the folio-wing
from The Dalton Citizen, as the nearest
approach to approval and compliment
the divers and sundry exhibits afford:
His profile picture now appearing
in hfs “Searching Sidelights” makes
him look like Champ Clark.
One might look (and perform) very
much worse than Mr. Champ Clark!
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SENT ANYWHERE
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Every one who wants a diamond can buy one who has a
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Some may hesitate, thinking that should they find it not
convenient to continue the payments they lose what they have
paid.
Our business plans aje made absolutely fair and our guar
antee to buy back any time within a year for 90 per cent of cash
price is given with each sale.
We take pleasure in shipping selection packages of our
diamonds anywhere. If those who can not visit our offices will
write us about the size diamond they want, we will send a pack
age for examination, express prepaid.
Each stone will be marked in plain figures with its weight,
grade and cash price. The one you select can be settled for on
partial payments if you wish, by paying one-fifth down and the
balance in monthly notes, bearing a small interest account, or
you can remit all cash, as you may desire.
Should there be nothing to suit you or you have decided
not to buy, return to us, express collect. We would still feel
that we were under obligations for the pleasure of showing you
our diamonds.
We will be glad to mail you our Diamond Book No. 20.
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Diamond Merchants and Mfg. Jewelers,
208-9-10 Candler Bldg. Atlanta, Ga.
PUN PERM
BOARD ON CANAL
Trade Committee Would Con-;
serve Common Interests of
South and Latin Republics.
According to plans outlined today*
the Panama Canal conference, which is
to meet here tomorrow and Wednesday l
of this week, under the auspices of th®;
Chamber of Commerce, will establish a.!
permanent executive committee or.
board to watch <nd conserve the inter
ests of Southern trade with South
American and Central American repub
lics and other foreign nations, follow
ing the completion of the canal.
Extensive preparations will be essen
tial to get ready for the upbuilding of
Southern commerce. It will be a work
which the conference, in its brief ses
sions, scarcely can undertake.
But a capable executive committee to'
devise ways and means and plan toi
meet future growth when the time ar
rives fer it may be appointed.
To Be Notable Gathering.
Bringing to Atlanta, as it will, nine
ministers plenipotentiary from Central
and South American republics, fifteen
railroad and steamship presidents, th®
leading manufacturers from all parts
of the South, including about twenty
prominent cotton mill men, and among
others Admiral C. M. Chester and Com
mander Victor Blue, of the United
States navy; United States Senator
Duncan U, Fletcher, of Florida; Direc
tor John Barrett, of the Bureau of
American Republics, and other men of
prominence, the conference will be one
of the most notable commercial gath
erings held in the South in years.
The assembly hall In the Piedmont
hotel and the banquet hall at the Pied
mont Driving club both will be deco
rated In flags of all nations, two sets of
which have been sent by express by
General R. K. Evans, of the Department
of the Gulf.
There will be approximately 100 visi
tors, every one of them distinguished
in some particular line, and provision
has been made for 200 guests at the
banquet Tuesday evening.
Head of Southern to Preside.
The foreign trade committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, in charge of
Chairman St. Elmo Massengale, has
made splendid headway with the ar
rangements for the meeting, and the
program now virtually Is complete.
President W. W. Finley, of the
Southern railway, will preside at Wed
nesday’s sessions of the conference,
■when the railroad and steamship dele
gates, especially, will participate. Pres
ident Finley, while here, also will de
liver an address at the Tech.
All the manufacturers, wholesale mer
chants. bankers and others of Atlanta
and Georgia interested in the exten
sion of the South’s foreign trade are In
vited to attend the sessions of this
conference Tuesday and Wednesday.
‘‘BLINDTIGER” ’ LIQUOR
FOR ZOO INEBRIATES
RICHMOND, IND., Dec. 9.—Park Su
perintendent Hoilarn has asked the po
lice to turn over to the zoo whisky ob
tained in “blind tiger” raids to be given
to the monkeys which are accustomed
to a “nip” every other day during the
winter.
SLAYS FATHER-IN-LAW
AND SELF: SON WOUNDED
HOLLAND. TEXAS. Dec. 9—Mat
Armstrong, formerly auditor of the
Texas Pacific railway at Dallas, today
shot and killed Sam P. Williams, his
father-in-law; mortally wounded his
son, Rex Williams, and then ended his
own life. Family troubles were the
cause.
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